Re: Debin Help
Sam Rosenfeld wrote: I have a related problem which I have sidestepped by using xdm instead of startx. Although I have loaded Gnome, I rarely use it explicitly (don't particularly like KDE -- in fact, the same goes for Gnome). But I would like to return to some form of startx. On trying to initiate X by startx under root, the following error messages appear: Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key xinit: unable to connect to X server xinit: No such process (errno 3) server error Thanks for any help. sam As a general rule you don't want to run X as root. Does X start as a normal user? First thing I'd check is the allowed_users= line in /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config. If that's not it, I'd suspect .Xauthority in /root's home dir. Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: External serial modem advice ?
Be aware that although any serial modem will work with Linux, some serial modems don't work well for any system. I have a Hayes Accura 336/56k fax modem that mostly works well with Linux. But sometimes the modem becomes unresponsive and the only way I can get it to work again is to power cycle it. That happens regardless of the OS on the computer it's connected to. That's OK for the way I usually use it, but for an unattended server it would be a drag. I would like to be able to log into my office network while I'm traveling, but I can't really count on my modem working. It's really sad to see that from a Hayes product. I have also used a Hayes 1200 (that I bought for $700!) and a Hayes 28.8, and they were both rock-solid. Each gave years of performance without a hint of trouble. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cdrecord and BIG DISKS - Might help someone
Marc Wilson wrote: On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 10:43:35PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: Where did you get 900MiB CD-Rs? Buy them in a store. ^_^ You can get 90 minute and 99 minute discs now The 90's usually work in most drives that you can get to do overburn, but the 99's are VERY twitchy because not only do they use the run-out area, but the spiral is tighter So I bought 50 of the 99s a year ago, and read an article a week later which said they can damage the CDRW drive hardware, and I left them in a cupboard. Can I use them after all? Tim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
debian networking questions
i'm probably just looking for a faq/howto that i'm over looking. but here it goes anyways. what is 'the debian way' of: -changing a static ip on a machine? -changing the hostname? -changing from dynamic to static ip? -adding alias ips for the interface? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pppd on demand problems...
Vittorio wrote: thought:the simplest, the better! Therefore no diald by far more complicated than ppp on demand which I'd learned had been somewhat enhanced (it works fine at last, they say), pppoe, openssh, iptables, kernel 2.4.19, lynx, all for a mere 300 MB of disk space. Now the problem is that if I launch a lynx www.debian.org either from the server or from a client the ppp session starts immediatedly and all works fine. But, once closed lynx, ppp doesn't hang up but stays connected endlessly. well I can't tellyou for sure unless you send some more information ... but most likely you have called pppd with the demand option - so it connects as it is supposed to ... but you didn't set the idle time - to tell it when to disconnect try adding 'idle 120' (this should cause disconnect after 2 minutes) so the command should be like pppd call isp demand idle 120 you have to experiment to find the idle time that works for you - too low and the connection drops while browsing - too high and it can be expensive. note also that all sorts of things can trigger dial on demand see man pppd for more details -- Sean -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: find a command i have recently used in bash
* Jason Pepas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030129 10:33]: On Wednesday 29 January 2003 08:21 am, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: let us say, i have done ls -l , etc etc then i have done a few more commands at the prompt. now, i want to use that ls command again. is there a way inwhich i can reach it quickly? for instance, i type ls and some other key and bash completes from history? you can use the up arrow to reach previous commands. or you can grep your .bash_history, like grep ls ~/.bash_history The .bash_history is only written when bash is exiting, so it won't include commands you recently typed within the same session. That is to say, it won't have anything since you most recently logged in. It's also prone to missing some commands from previous sessions as well, in cases in which you had multiple sessions running concurrently. This is because bash reads ~/.bash_history when starting up, works with the history in memory, then writes ~/.bash_history when exiting. So let's say you're working in a few xterms. You start one, and go like this: ls cd ~/foo cat bar Then you start another xterm, with another bash, and do: vi asdf.txt cat aoeu.txt exit Then you go back and close the first xterm. your .bash_history file will not have the lines vi asdf.txt or cat aoeu.txt in it. There are some shell options to change the precise bahavior of the shell, but I believe I have illustrated the default behavior here. I think the best way to do what OP asked is control-R. man readline to learn more about how your command line is way more powerful than probably you previously imagined. good times, Vineet -- http://www.doorstop.net/ -- One nation, indivisible, with equality, liberty, and justice for all. msg27303/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Streaming server for linux
hi ya On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Aaron wrote: Shoutcast will stream mp3's, but you need to broadcast to it so it has something to stream. But it is available for *nix variants rest of the (free?) streaming servers .. http://www.Linux-Video.net/Video.Server.txt c ya alvin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: cu program?
On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 17:01, John Hasler wrote: Ron Johnson writes: Jeez, uucp is, like, /totally/ 80's! 70's, actually. However, it is still quite useful. Where? Seriously, look for diald, and put it on the modem-server. Just configure pppd for demand dialing. You can do so with pppconfig. Heck, that's too easy; not geeky enough. -- +---+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson | | | | Fear the Penguin!! | +---+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: External serial modem advice ?
On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Michael D. Crawford wrote: I have a Hayes Accura 336/56k fax modem that mostly works well with Linux. But sometimes the modem becomes unresponsive and the only way I can get it to work again is to power cycle it. That happens regardless of the OS on the computer it's connected to. We've got an internal Accura that we use for sync connections to EDI servers, and for the occasional async(normal) connection. Granted, this is on Windows though. I wanted to go with a Courier, EDI spec'd the Hayes. It works a lot more reliably than the $5000 2400 baud full length modem it replaced! It's really sad to see that from a Hayes product. I have also used a Hayes 1200 (that I bought for $700!) and a Hayes 28.8, and they were both rock-solid. Each gave years of performance without a hint of trouble. I've always liked USR, even with the Sportster 28.8 disaster of a few years ago. At home, I use a courier that was originally a 28.8, upgraded for free to 33.6, upgraded for free to x2, upgraded free to v.90, and I think it was upgraded for free to v.92 as well when that came out. There's a Courier HST sitting over on a cabinet here that I found in a drawer, it's the old 8x10 format. Believe it's a 16.8, and with a 100 dollar daughterboard, upgradable to v.92. USR really did make their Couriers the last modem you'll ever need. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-get upgrade
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 11:13:00PM +, Dave Selby wrote: I have hit a problem, I wanted to upgrade with bug and security fixes so I apt-get update apt-get upgrade Originally there were 88 upgrades, most went AOK but the last few will not load. Avoid updating around UTC (4PM American Pacific Standard Time). From what I can tell, things get updated to the mirrors around this time. -- .''`. Baloo [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' :proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than to fix a system msg27308/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: home lan, modem sharing, etc.
This one time, at band camp, Vikki Roemer said: Oh, ok. Now I just have to find out how to set up connection sharing. That does sound familiar, though. Hmm... Google is your friend - plenty of examples are out there. When you get stuck, write back. iptables in particular makes it easy. snip BTW, is there a way to get nmbd to listen on eth0 *only*? At the moment, it insists on listening on both eth0's address and on all interfaces. in smb.conf: [global] interfaces = eth1 192.168.0.1/24 bind interfaces only = Yes Usual manpages for details. You can specify IP (single or range) or interface. HTH, -- -- | Stephen Gran | I bet the human brain is a kludge. -- | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Marvin Minsky | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | | -- msg27309/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: AudioCD
The package is called cdtool, has a bunch of text based tols to interact with the CD cdtool (optional, sound) Sergey A. Ovchar wrote: On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 20:22:50 - bio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Use cdplay to play an audio CD Where can I find it ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: debian networking questions
This one time, at band camp, Ray said: i'm probably just looking for a faq/howto that i'm over looking. but here it goes anyways. what is 'the debian way' of: man interaces -changing a static ip on a machine? edit /etc/network/interfaces -changing the hostname? man hostname; use `hostname`; edit /etc/hostname -changing from dynamic to static ip? edit /etc/network/interfaces -adding alias ips for the interface? edit /etc/network/interfaces HTH, -- -- | Stephen Gran | As for the women, though we scorn and | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | flout 'em, We may live with, but cannot | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | live without 'em. -- Frederic | || Reynolds| -- msg27311/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: cdrecord exit status 254
You know that without knowing anything about your cdrecord (pts/8)jason@marsala:~$ dpkg -l | grep cdrecord ii cdrecord 1.10+11a34-1 A command line CD/DVD writing tool or Debian version (pts/8)jason@marsala:~$ cat /etc/debian_version testing/unstable without knowing what you are trying to do as mentioned previously, I am trying to use cdrecord from a makefile. and what cdrecord actually does as mentioned previously, it burns cd's correctly, but exits with status 254, causing make to beleive it failed when it acutally didn't. In this case I did not give a bunch of specifics, because I beleive everything is working correctly. That is, my question is a general one, not a question regarding my specific install. That question is, why would cdrecord exit 254 when it exits successfully? Since the cd's are fine, I assume cdrecord is working correctly, but has an odd policy of exit status? thanks for your reply, jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: find a command i have recently used in bash
The .bash_history is only written when bash is exiting, so it won't include commands you recently typed within the same session. That is to say, it won't have anything since you most recently logged in. It's also prone to missing some commands from previous sessions as well, in cases in which you had multiple sessions running concurrently. This is because bash reads ~/.bash_history when starting up, works with the history in memory, then writes ~/.bash_history when exiting. thanks. I had noticed odd behavior regarding bash_history before, now I know why. -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cdrecord and audio cd
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 12:21:36AM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: The first thing I do when I've got a weird/damaged/odd CD is let cdparanoia have a go at it. If it can't read it, you've got serious issues. Yes, cdparanoia has done that for me. That said, what do you mean it can't sense it? Does the aforementioned cdparanoia rip it? Can it detect it at least? After I drop in the cd and close it, the lights do come up for a couple of seconds. It happens even the 'cd' is just a piece of plastic. That is the end of it. gtcd/kcd/xmms/etc say that there is no cd in the drive. Same with cdparanoia. As mentioned in my first post, the same cd plays fine on standalone cd player. That leads me to suspect that there is something linux specific about this issue. Even after I made an audio cd using cdrecord, linux programs do not recognize this. I have done this before and never came across this problem. Regards, -- Sridhar M.A. : But for some things, Perl just isn't the optimal choice. (yet) :-) -- Larry Wall in [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Flickering
Hi folks, I have this problem of flickering when running running X session. I guess it is due to in appropriate refresh rate. I have a 15 moniter that comes as a part of dell dimension 4300 config. I am running session at 1024x768 resolution with hysnc and vsync to be 3-50 and 50-150 that I entered during xserver-xfree86 configuration. I have Ati 128 Rage card. The problem is I do not know how to fine tune to make the flickering go away. I would appreciate some suggestions on this. Thank you regards. Harshu = Never underestimate the predictibitly of stupidity! __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Oh no, what a really heavy bummer
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 03:22:44PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: Here's how I do it: # apt-get source gqview=1.0.2-1 # export CC=gcc-3.2 -Wall -O2 -mcpu=pentiumpro # apt-get --compile source gqview=1.0.2-1 # dpkg -i gqview.deb alternatively: # apt-get --compile source gqview=1.0.2-1 Hmm. Just tried this... The 'apt-get source' works fine, but the 'apt-get --compile' doesn't. It wants to download the whole lot again; it appears to have forgotten that it's just done that. (ie, it does what man apt-get seems to suggest it will do.) Does this mean that I have to put a deb-src file: line in sources.list, and cobble together a Packages file to sit in the download directory? I've tried this, creating the Packages file by cutting out the relevant package from the Debian Packages file and changing the package directory to the local one, and it appears to be working as I type, but is there a better way of doing it? Pigeon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Which version of X should I use?
I'm re-installing Debian on a system. I tried this last month and ran into trouble with the video card (ATI Radeon All-In-Wonder). It turns out the version of X in the current stable branch does not support my card well. The previous version supported it and 4.2 supports it. So am I better off going into testing and getting X 4.2, or going backward to 3.x (I can't remember the exact number of the last 3.x version)? Also, what are the consequences of this when I'm installing other packages? Last time around I had some failures when I tried using apt-get to install some packages (I forgot the error message). Does getting one (or a few) packages from testing cause problems with installing packages from stable later? Thanks! Hal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fun sound problem
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 01:59:32PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: Last weekend, I purchased a Soyo Dragon KT333 Lite motherboard. On board comes a C-Media CMI8738 sound card. I'm wondering if anybody's managed to get one of these to play more than one sound at the same time, rather than queueing subsequent sounds? Nice board, have you tried the alsa website for drivers? I have set up support for my multi-card system and found after ripping and tearing through getting alsa built and configured, (you'll most likely be doing this from source mind you), I had a great sounding workstation. I haven't booted up into it in a while now though, cause all my music apps are running under windoze =( -- Eric Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.megahosted.com/~en/ GPG-key: C4AB5707 Fingerprint: 9E50 D5C2 2B02 A944 1A28 5CA5 366A 0294 C4AB 5707 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gimp Print Problem
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 01:37:23PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: I ran the error_log as suggested. The first 'false' result occurred on line 285. I saved this and the following 10 lines but can't figure out how to use vi to insert them here. vi wont let me switch to the file I saved without exiting this message. Posting pertinent lines from error log to the list might help people on the list figure out what problem may be. You could always display the error_log in a different console or xterm window than one where vi is running, select the text you want to copy, switch back to window/console where vi is running, and press middle button of mouse to paste the text into vi if you have gpm or X running. Or attach an excerpt from the error_log to you email. At any rate, the line immediately following the 'false' result reads Error: /syntaxerrorin --%ztokenexec_continue-- and then, several lines later, Last OS error: 2 ESP Ghostscript 7.05.4: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1 If anyone can interprete this, I would appreciate advice as what to try to do to correct the problem. On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 10:44:36PM -0500, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 11:36:55AM -0500, Thomas H. George,,, wrote: Epson Stylus Color 860 on /dev/usblp0 installed with CUPS+GIMP-print_v4.2.2-pre2. Print Test Page prints a page with color hexagon but no test. From a command line escputil -s -u -r /dev/usblp0 returns printer status information. From a command line lp printtest results in request id is lp-81 but nothing is printed. From a command line lpr printtest prints nothing and the next command prompt is displayed. How do I get back to Band Camp? Maybe you can get more information on what the problem is by setting the LogLevel parameter in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf to debug and restart the cupsd process by running /etc/init.d/cupsys restart The /var/log/cups/error_log file will contain a detailed log of everything that is reported by the scheduler and print filters. -- Jerome msg27319/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Problem printing man pages
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 05:26:16PM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote:
I'm having a problem printing man pages. They print with a leading 1m
and other *m's and are really tough to read. I remember Colin
answered a question about this but, try as I might, I can't find the
original post or the answer.
I'll answer it again then. :-)
It appears that you didn't accept the changes to groff's conffiles.
/etc/groff/man.local and /etc/groff/mdoc.local should both contain the
following macros (there should be copies in /etc/groff/*.dpkg-dist as
well, I think):
.if n \{\
. \ Debian: Map \(oq to ' rather than ` in nroff mode for devices other
. \ than utf8.
. if !'\*[.T]'utf8' \
.tr \[oq]'
.
. \ Debian: Disable the use of SGR (ANSI colour) escape sequences by
. \ grotty.
. if '\V[GROFF_SGR]'' \
.output x X tty: sgr 0
.
. \ Debian: Map \- to the Unicode HYPHEN-MINUS character, to make
. \ searching in man pages easier.
. if '\*[.T]'utf8' \
.char \- \N'45'
.\}
There are other ways: setting GROFF_NO_SGR=1 in the environment is a
simple one, or causing your pager to accept ANSI SGR escapes (less will
do so if given the -R option, for instance). The above is probably the
best fix until everything that accepts groff output has been fixed,
though.
By the way, if you're actually printing man pages to paper (I'm not sure
from your post if you mean printing to screen or printing to paper),
consider using the -t option to man to generate PostScript output.
Cheers,
--
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Re: Packages for Debian 3.0 (Alpha 12)
On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 01:07:38 +0100 Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have prepared some packages that update some packages that are not or only in an older version in Debian 3.0r1. Please read [1] for more information (and read the FAQ before sending mails to me). * OpenOffice.org 1.0.2 I've got a feeling this has been asked before, but couldn't find it easily in the archive. Is there a way to add a source for apt that is only used for a specific package? For example, I would like to use Adrian's up to date OpenOffice.org, but I don't want my system automatically upgraded to everything else he has as well. Or do I just have to download the packages manually? Thanks, Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: exim and relaying -- for ONE user
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 03:59:40PM -0500, Jeremy Gaddis wrote: SMTP Authentication sounds like a prime candidate. well it sounds good. isn't that what exim already does? (i guess not. lead on, mcduff!) -- I use Debian/GNU Linux version 3.0; Linux server 2.4.20-k6 #1 Mon Jan 13 23:49:14 EST 2003 i586 unknown DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #52 from Will Trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Would you like to GET APACHE TO HIDE CERTAIN FILES? It's as easy as adding this to your /etc/apache/httpd.conf: PerlModule Apache::Constants FilesMatch \.hide$ SetHandler perl-script PerlInitHandler Apache::Constants::NOT_FOUND /FilesMatch Your scripts, behind the scenes, still have free access to everything; but web browsers will be told they don't exist! Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
kernel
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Nvidia corrupting kernel?
For some reason the nvidia module is not loading at startup. I had to reinstall my emu10k1 modules and my nvidia module after installing the kernel version 2.4.20 and now I have to manually kill gdm and modprobe nvidia...this works and gives me a thought as to what might be the problem. Aparently it gives the warning that it could/is corrupting the kernel when it loads. What is causing this? My only guess is that something for nvidia or a graphics driver is compiled into the kernel, but looking back through with menuconifg I could not find the module it might have been...any ideas or insight would be helpfull, thanks as always Jason Self -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CDRW UDF file system scripts
Greetings, I recently patched my kernel so that I could use a CDRW as a regular file system for backup purposes. Right know I manually run: pktsetup /dev/pktcdvd0 /dev/scd1 and then mount the drive with the following options in fstab: rw,user,noatime,noauto everything works well but if I shutdown and forget to manually unmount the cdrw the system hangs when trying to unmount the local filesystems. Which script(s) do I have to modify to run pktsetup on bootup automatically and also be able to shutdown properly. Thanks in advance Roy P. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: External serial modem advice ?
To deal with a modem for an unattended server, buy a clock-switch that is intended to turn on the lights at night to make your home appear occupied, but instead use it to cycle off your modem for 5 or 10 minutes at some time of day when you surely will not want to log in remotely. e.g. 0300 to 0315 local time. Paul Michael D. Crawford wrote: Be aware that although any serial modem will work with Linux, some serial modems don't work well for any system. I have a Hayes Accura 336/56k fax modem that mostly works well with Linux. But sometimes the modem becomes unresponsive and the only way I can get it to work again is to power cycle it. That happens regardless of the OS on the computer it's connected to. That's OK for the way I usually use it, but for an unattended server it would be a drag. I would like to be able to log into my office network while I'm traveling, but I can't really count on my modem working. It's really sad to see that from a Hayes product. I have also used a Hayes 1200 (that I bought for $700!) and a Hayes 28.8, and they were both rock-solid. Each gave years of performance without a hint of trouble. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to run KDM on VNC but not on console
Rich wrote: Howdy, I have a server on which I want to grant some users access via VNC. I the README.inetd file showed how to run KDM on VNC. It's pretty slick! But whenever I start kdm, it starts X and displays It's prompt on tty1. I don't want KDM to run on the console. This is a server, and I like the old fashioned text based login with no X. Is there a way I can limit KDM to only run on VNC sessions? I've looked through the files in /etc/kde2/kdm/ and tried a few things, but no luck. Any help is appreciated! It has been a while since I did this, so it is from memory, BUT the key is to stop the xserver from starting on the local machine when KDM is started...which is what you want. From what I recall, there was a file called Xservers (note the caps) in both XDM and KDM that controls this. On my current machine (KDE 2.2), the KDM files are located in /etc/kde2/kdm/Xservers. I also have the files for XDM located in /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers. The reason I am mentioning this is that I forget if you have to change BOTH or just the KDM file. Within the Xservers file there should be a line that says: :0 local@tty1 /usr/X11R6/bin/X -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp vt7 or something similar. Just comment out this line, and no local xserver will be started, but KDE will be started for use by remote computers. It this doesn't do the job, the try also commenting out the similar line in /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers and see what happens. As I said, this is from memory, and might be incomplete..dunno for sure. I am fairly certain that you must do this step at least. HTH, -Don Spoon- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: kernel
Bob Wheate wrote: why the 2.2.# kernel instead of the 2.4.# ? In what context? Do you mean why does Stable still have the 2.2 kernel? Or are you asking some other question? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Flickering
Harshu said: Hi folks, I have this problem of flickering when running running X session. I guess it is due to in appropriate refresh rate. I have a 15 moniter that comes as a part of dell dimension 4300 config. I am running session at 1024x768 resolution with hysnc and vsync to be 3-50 and 50-150 that I entered during xserver-xfree86 configuration. It could be a driver bug(depends on how bad the flickering is), but a hsync of 3-50 doesn't look right either. Perhaps you mean 30-50 ? I have 1 system with a 15 monitor(X 3.3.6), which has a Hsync of 31.5-48.5 and a Vrefresh of 55-90(Princeton E0500 is the monitor, but I also use it on a Gateway 15 with the same config). nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Nvidia corrupting kernel?
karrottop said: For some reason the nvidia module is not loading at startup. I had to reinstall my emu10k1 modules and my nvidia module after installing the kernel version 2.4.20 and now I have to manually kill gdm and modprobe nvidia...this works and gives me a thought as to what might be the problem. Aparently it gives the warning that it could/is corrupting the kernel when it loads. What is causing this? My only guess is that something for nvidia or a graphics driver is compiled into the kernel, but looking back through with menuconifg I could not find the module it might have been...any ideas or insight would be helpfull, thanks as always If you change kernel versions, the modules must always be compiled. and the message your seeing is related to the module license. It is the developer's way of telling you this driver is not fully open source and don't ask the kernel folks for help as they will ignore you. You have to ask the author of the driver for any assistance(in this case, nvidia). I haven't used nvidia'a kernel driver in 2.4.x but have used it quite a bit in 2.2.19 for the past year and a half(more or less) with near flawless results. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kernel
Bob Wheate said: why the 2.2.# kernel instead of the 2.4.# ? 2.4.x is available as well, if your using the debian CD, just type 'bf24' at the boot prompt. otherwise you can download the bf24 boot floppies from a debian mirror. 2.4.x wasn't mature enough when debian froze is the reason why it's not the default I suspect. I didn't start testing 2.4.x myself until about a month ago, wasn't stable enough for me either. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Nvidia problem ?
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 10:34:06PM +0100, w-cool wrote: I have the following problem, I have transmitted from Slackware to Debian. I have problem with quake 3, I have installed drivers nvidia everything works well but when I start quake I can see the game only in a small part no on a full screan.While trying to change resolution it is rejected ... - Initializing Renderer --- - R_Init - ...loading libGL.so.1: Initializing OpenGL display ...setting mode 4: 800 600 Using XFree86-VidModeExtension Version 2.1 XF86DGA Mouse (Version 2.0) initialized XFree86-VidModeExtension Activated at 1024x768 Using 4/4/4 Color bits, 16 depth, 0 stencil display. Received signal 11, exiting... DOUBLE SIGNAL FAULT: Received signal 11, exiting... Shutdown tty console This is caused by libc2.3, there are 2 things you can do either: 1) ID Software released a Quake3 1.32b point-release to fix this problem, you can get it at ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/quake3/linux 2) Quick hack - Edit the q3 launcher script(/usr/local/bin/quake3), and insert this anywhere before the ./quake3.x86 $* : export __GL_SINGLE_THREADED=y and the problem will be fixed msg27334/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Flickering
Harshu posts:
running session at 1024x768 resolution with hysnc and vsync to be
3-50 and 50-150 that I entered
How did you deduce this value ? Maybe the problem is due to this.
Can you change it to say 30-50??
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Re: kernel
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 09:43:43PM -0500, Bob Wheate wrote: why the 2.2.# kernel instead of the 2.4.# ? 2.4 is an option. Boot from CD 5, or type 'bf24' at the boot: prompt of CD 1. (This is documented in chapter 5.2 of the Installation Manual.) Basically, at the time woody was originally being prepared for freeze, 2.4 clearly wasn't ready to be the default. Things changed quite a bit over the duration of the freeze, which was rather longer than we expected, but a major thing like changing the default installation kernel just tends to push a freeze back further. Having it there as an option offered the best of both worlds. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kernel
Bob Wheate writes: why the 2.2.# kernel instead of the 2.4.# ? You mean the default kernel in Woody? Several 2.4 kernels are included. Install one. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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hi i have a sus a7v333 card with a c-media 8738 sound chip an i have debian woody running when i tri to install the sound drivers of alsa for mi card this happends: # modprobe snd-card-cmipci /lib/modules/2.2.20-idepci/misc/snd-timer.o: unresolved symbol waitqueue_lock /lib/modules/2.2.20-idepci/misc/snd-timer.o: Hint: You are trying to load a module without a GPL compatible license and it has unresolved symbols. Contact the module supplier for assistance, only they can help you. /lib/modules/2.2.20-idepci/misc/snd-timer.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.20-idepci/misc/snd-timer.o failed /lib/modules/2.2.20-idepci/misc/snd-timer.o: insmod snd-card-cmipci failed the same when i try with cmpci.o what is the problem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
freeze-ups
Hi, I recently installed Debian on my computer, but I have never used a Unix OS before. I installed version 3.0 rev 1 for i386. My computer is a Pentium II 400. Occasionally KDE totally freezes up on me, and frequently (a few times every day), certain applications, like text editors, will freeze when I click the Open button or Open on the File menu. When one text editor doesn't work, none of them will work. The Konqueror file manager also freezes up frequently. Also, a lot of time when I try to run an application, it will start loading, then just stop and disappear from the task bar, without giving me any kind of message. It seems that none of the files in /var/log are modified when any of these problems occur. I would greatly appreciate any help that anybody could give me. Thanks, Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Streaming server for linux
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 11:55:50AM -0800, faisal gillani wrote: | Does debian linux has a streaming server ? i mean like | win2000 has windows media server ? | so that i can broadcast my mp3,s video mpg,s on | networks with multicast enabled ? | also if it is available , is it stable ? easy to | configure ? present on any cd of debian ? I found gnump3d and libapache-mod-mp3 (I have a preference for the apache mod since it is one less daemon running and one less network port to open up). They can stream both MP3 and OGG files. They're both fairly easy to setup, if you follow the directions. I discovered, though, that WinAmp can't play a streamed ogg. XMMS has no trouble with it. (Also, 128Kbit upstream isn't really sufficient either, unless the audio file has a lower bitrate) HTH, -D -- The nice thing about windoze is - it does not just crash, it displays a dialog box and lets you press 'ok' first. http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/ msg27340/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: exim and relaying -- for ONE user
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 08:48:17PM -0600, will trillich wrote:
| On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 03:59:40PM -0500, Jeremy Gaddis wrote:
| SMTP Authentication sounds like a prime candidate.
|
| well it sounds good. isn't that what exim already does? (i guess
| not. lead on, mcduff!)
Yeah, once you configure it.
Are you still using exim 3? (probably, the DD is behind on the releases)
Something like this should work (for v3, untested but based on the
example config file) :
## exim.conf
plain:
driver = plaintext
public_name = PLAIN
server_condition = ${if
crypteq{$2}{${extract{1}{:}{${lookup{$1}lsearch{/etc/exim/passwd}{$value}{*:*}{1}{0}}
server_set_id = $1
First it allows exim to advertise AUTH PLAIN in response to an EHLO
command. Secondly, it takes the user/pass pair from the client and
looks it up in the file /etc/exim/passwd. The file should look like
user:crypted-password
Note, however, that AUTH PLAIN isn't very secure. You should only
allow it if the client has first initiated a TLS connection. That
requires first setting up TLS. I don't know if exim 3 can restrict it
to a TLS session only, or how to do it. Either read the docs or
upgrade to exim 4 (I know how to check that in exim4).
An alternative to using exim's own lookup and crypt capabilities is to
defer to pam. There are several advantages of this, for one you can
use any backend (flat file, system account, LDAP, SQL, etc.) that pam
supports. If you use shadow passwords for system accounts and want
exim to use the same for SMTP AUTH you'll have to either run exim as
the 'shadow' group, or make the shadow file readable by the exim
group. To configure this method :
## exim.conf
plain:
driver = plaintext
public_name = PLAIN
server_condition = ${if pam{$1:${sg{$2}{:}{::}}}{yes}{no}}
server_set_id = $1
Then configure pam in /etc/pam.d/exim. One way of doing that, to
duplicate the above authenticator, is like this :
## /etc/pam.d/exim
# Note: exim requires an account as well as auth!
account requiredpam_permit.so
authrequiredpam_pwdfile.so pwdfile /etc/exim/passwd
Another alternative is to use the CRAM-MD5 authentication method.
That, however, requires the password file to store the password in
plain text. (note: pam can't work with cram-md5 because pam doesn't
provide the cleartext password for use in generating the md5
challenge string)
cram_md5:
driver = cram_md5
public_name = CRAM-MD5
server_secret = ${lookup{$1}lsearch{/etc/exim/passwd}{$value}fail}
server_set_id = $1
The script below will generate a password file on stdout (once you
fill in the list of users and passwords) for use in the first
examples. It also has the framework for using md5 instead of crypt,
as long as you configure the software (exim or pam) to use md5 as
well.
#!/usr/bin/python2.2
DATA = (
('user1' , 'pass1') ,
('user2', 'pass2') ,
)
import crypt
#import md5
for user , pass_ in DATA :
salt =user[:2]
secret = crypt.crypt(pass_, salt)
# use md5
##phash = md5.new(pass_)
##secret = phash.hexdigest()
print %s:%s % (user, secret)
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Re: find a command i have recently used in bash
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 04:30:54PM +0100, Stephen Rueger wrote: On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 07:51:07PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: let us say, i have done ls -l , etc etc then i have done a few more commands at the prompt. now, i want to use that ls command again. is there a way inwhich i can reach it quickly? for instance, i type ls and some other key and bash completes from history? You can press ctrl-r to search backwards in your history or you can use thanx. this is perfect. just what i wanted csh-like history expansion with ! (read the HISTORY EXPANSION section in the bash man page) this is a bit tricky. lets say, it executes an unwanted delete command in a hurry! -- regards, sandip p deshmukh --*** We are experiencing system trouble -- do not adjust your terminal. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: find a command i have recently used in bash
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 10:28:11AM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote:
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 07:51:07PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote:
let us say, i have done ls -l , etc etc
then i have done a few more commands at the prompt.
now, i want to use that ls command again. is there a way inwhich i can
reach it quickly? for instance, i type ls and some other key and bash
completes from history?
You can also use the history command to view your history. Any
command in your history can be reused by prefixing its history number
with a bang ('!'). Thus if history says 422 ls -lAF /usr/local you
can type !422 at a prompt to issue that command again. history +
grep can be fun.
oh sure. this is also very useful.
Finally, (and perhaps most obvious) you can use ctrl-p and ctrl-n to
cycle backwards and forwards through your command history. For most
terminal types these sequences are mapped to the up-arrow and
down-arrow respectively.
sure i was doing this already. but it is only : sequential browsing.
does not help if the command you are looking for is 200 commands back!
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Re: find a command i have recently used in bash
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 11:31:54AM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: -- Sandip P Deshmukh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (on Wednesday, 29 January 2003, 07:51 PM +0530): let us say, i have done ls -l , etc etc then i have done a few more commands at the prompt. now, i want to use that ls command again. is there a way inwhich i can reach it quickly? for instance, i type ls and some other key and bash completes from history? I don't know about that, but if you hit your up-arrow, it will scroll backwards through the command history -- I do this a lot to save on keystrokes. i will recommend control r for you. very useful! try it, harness the power ;) -- regards, sandip p deshmukh --*** In a whiskey it's age, in a cigarette it's taste and in a sports car it's impossible. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fun sound problem
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 05:47:12PM -0800, Eric Nelson wrote: Nice board, have you tried the alsa website for drivers? Erf. I was hoping for the simplicity of using OSS. My understanding is that ALSA is Not Trivial to use, requiring ALSA aware programs; from a usability, it seems like the pain to install of any third-party kernel features, with the inconvienence similar to esound or arts requiring ALSA aware programs. I'll use it if I have to, but I consider it a last resort. I haven't booted up into it in a while now though, cause all my music apps are running under windoze =( Have you looked into Win4Lin, VMWare or plex86? -- .''`. Baloo [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' :proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than to fix a system msg27345/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Which version of X should I use?
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 08:32:06PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: So am I better off going into testing and getting X 4.2, or going backward to 3.x (I can't remember the exact number of the last 3.x version)? Forward, especially if you play things like UT or Quake3, etc, which I believe depend on XFree86 4.x. If it's a Mach64, I had better luck going back. Also, what are the consequences of this when I'm installing other packages? Apt will tell you. -- .''`. Baloo [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' :proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than to fix a system msg27346/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Flickering
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 05:42:29PM -0800, Harshu wrote: I am running session at 1024x768 resolution with hysnc and vsync to be 3-50 and 50-150 that I entered during xserver-xfree86 configuration. I have Ati 128 Rage card. Ok, but the important part when we're talking refresh rates is, What does your monitor manual tell you to use? Or, alternately, if your monitor manufacturer sucks and doesn't list the specs in the documentation, What does http://www.monitorworld.com/ tell you to use? -- .''`. Baloo [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' :proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than to fix a system msg27348/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Howto redirect output from a terminal
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exim does not work with ppp
hi there: I recently setup exim, to get rid of sending emails using SMTP. however, my exim is acting very stragely, when I come to office, and connect my notebook computer to our corporate LAN (using eth0) exim is able to send messages perfectly. but when I get home, and establish a ppp connection (using kppp) to my ISP, the messages just sit there, exim -bp shows me that the messages are still there, and even exim -qf isn't able to send them. It seems to me that exim can't underestand that I am connected to the internet, when I use ppp. Any ideas? -- Dismiss the weak and inferior, embrace the Evil and Possess your Box before the beast that has been unleashed upon you -UNDEAD EvilEntity Linux Aryan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Which version of X should I use?
Hal Vaughan wrote: I'm re-installing Debian on a system. I tried this last month and ran into trouble with the video card (ATI Radeon All-In-Wonder). It turns out the version of X in the current stable branch does not support my card well. The previous version supported it and 4.2 supports it. So am I better off going into testing and getting X 4.2, or going backward to 3.x (I can't remember the exact number of the last 3.x version)? [...] xfree86 v3 and v4 are separate packages, and both in Woody. Do apt-cache show xfree86-common for more info on v4. apt-cache show xfree86-common-v3 is about v3, duh. I recall that while in Potato (stable) I had to upgrade to Woody (testing) to get v4 for i810 video support. -- gt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, you order it from the 'Society of Hardware and Information Technology Helpers, Executive Administration Division' website - you're a member aren't you?--BOFH -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Add a printer to Mozilla?
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Packages for Debian 3.0 (Alpha 12)
I have prepared some packages that update some packages that are not or only in an older version in Debian 3.0r1. Please read [1] for more information (and read the FAQ before sending mails to me). I try my best to avoid problems with both installing these packages on Debian 3.0 and upgrading with these packages installed to Debian 3.1. spamc contains a fix for an exploit that might allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code by sending a specially crafted email. It's highly recommended that everyone using spamc = 2.40 updates this package immediately. Highlights * gcc 3.2.1 * GNU Ghostscript 7.05 * Kernel 2.4.20 * Lyx 1.2.3 * Mozilla 1.2.1 * OpenOffice.org 1.0.2 * SANE 1.0.9 * SpamAssassin 2.43 * Webmin 1.050 * Wine 20030115 * XFree86 4.2.1 Changelog + added: openoffice.org [contrib] Binary packages: o openoffice.org o openoffice.org-bin o openoffice.org-help-en o openoffice.org-l10n-ar o openoffice.org-l10n-da o openoffice.org-l10n-de o openoffice.org-l10n-el o openoffice.org-l10n-en o openoffice.org-l10n-es o openoffice.org-l10n-fr o openoffice.org-l10n-it o openoffice.org-l10n-ja o openoffice.org-l10n-ko o openoffice.org-l10n-nl o openoffice.org-l10n-pl o openoffice.org-l10n-pt o openoffice.org-l10n-ru o openoffice.org-l10n-sv o openoffice.org-l10n-tr o openoffice.org-l10n-zh-cn o openoffice.org-l10n-zh-tw + added: openoffice.org-debian-files [contrib] + added: openoffice.org-spellcheck-de [contrib] Binary packages: o openoffice.org-spellcheck-de-at o openoffice.org-spellcheck-de-ch o openoffice.org-spellcheck-de-de + updated: jigdo-file (0.6.8-1 - 0.6.9-2) + updated: lyx (1.2.2 - 1.2.3) + updated: mozilla-locale-zh-cn (1.2.1-2 - 1.2.1-3) + updated: mozilla-locale-zh-hk (1.2.1-2 - 1.2.1-3) + updated: mozilla-locale-zh-tw (1.2.1-2 - 1.2.1-3) + updated: spamassassin (2.43-1 - 2.43-1.1) + updated: wine (0.0.20021219-1 - 0.0.20030115-2) cu Adrian [1] http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/packages/ BTW: I'm not subscribed to debian-user. -- Is there not promise of rain? Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. Only a promise, Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
