Re: unable to install php with php support

[Ernst Plüss]

Thanks a lot. Adding the extension entry to php.ini did the job.Best ReardsErnst2006/9/29, S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 18:07 +0200, Ernst Plüss wrote:

Hi All

Im trying to install php with mysql support without success.

My configuration:
- Debian 3.1 stable
- php 4.4.2 testing
- mysql 4.1 testing

I cannot take php from stable since I must have php 4.4.

I have installed mysql, php4 and php4-mysql.
If I run phpinfo, mysql no information about mysql is available.

Any ideas what I'm missing. Addional stuff to install, configuration?



EDIT /etc/php4/apache/php.ini
search for "extension=mysql.so"
and uncomments it

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Re: Debian AMD64 boots only at random: how to use labels/fstab/grub

[Joost Kraaijeveld]

Hi Bob,

Thanks: it works as described. 

Just 1 other question: can I label my swap partition? 

If I try e2label /dev/sda5 /my_name it returns:

e2label: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sdb5
Couldn't find valid filesystem superblock.

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Re: spamcop

[s. keeling]

Cameron L. Spitzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>  [This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.]
>  In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, s. keeling wrote:
> > Mumia W.. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >>  On 09/28/2006 12:23 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> >> > [...]
> >> > also, threadjacking, but its spam related... is anyone else getting a
> >> > lot of these "bounced email" spam? I'm getting a TON of it lately. It
> >> > all has a .zip or .com binary attachment, so obviously its a virus or
> >> 
> >>  I've gotten a couple of such messages with the virus removed.
> >
> > Follow it up.  Complain to the bouncer that their SMTP is
> > misconfigured and they're sending bounce messages to innocent third
> > parties whose From: addresses were forged by spammers.
> 
>  My experience has been that anyone clueless enough in 2006
>  to run a broken server (Barracuda appliance, Qmail...), that
>  sends backscatter to random addresses supplied by spammers
>  and malware, is too clueless to understand a complaint
>  about it.  If you can even get a complaint through.

I feel your pain.

>  Look their domain up in whois -h whois.abuse.net.

Thanks.

>  postmaster (default, no info) every time.  Send mail to
>  [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED]  User unknown, or
>  sorry, your spam report triggered our spam filter.

Schmucks.

>  Not just clueless, clue resistant.  Clue repellent.
>  Report them to RFC-Ignorant.org when that happens.  
>  Then add them to your local DNSBL if you can get away with it.
>  Or your firewall.

ACK.  Thanks.


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Re: capturing terminal scrollback buffer?

[derek]

you can direct the output to a file,for examplelsmod > tmp.txtOn 9/29/06, Andrew Sackville-West <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:anybody know how to capture the contents of a terminal scrollback
buffer? i've got about 1000 lines of debug stuff from a networkproblem that I want to save, but its just sitting in the scroll backbuffer of an aterm. argh! how do I get it out of there withoutcopy/pasting it one screen at a time?
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Re: How does Debian load the kernel modules

[zhengda]

Hernán Freschi wrote:


Well I wouldn't worry too much about the number of loaded modules. That, 
of course, assuming you are running a "modern" machine with several 
hundreds megabytes of RAM. Modules use just a tiny fraction of RAM: 30, 
40k ... the largest one for me being Reiserfs with 200k. But assuming an 
average of 40k size, you'd be freeing up about 1MB of ram.


Of course if you're trying to run an embedded machine (for which you 
wouldn't be running debian) or an old machine with 24MB ram (the minimum 
for Debian), well in that case it would be an issue.


I wouldn't worry too much about it with a standard "modern" computer.

I wonder what happens to modules when the system needs RAM? I know 
Windows stupidly swaps the System memory by default (unless you enable 
the DisablePagingExecutive option in the registry). Does linux force the 
modules to stay in RAM or does it try to swap them when it's RAM-hungry?


Cheers,
Hernan

Yes, the space the modules use isn't an issue. But I hope my system can 
be started much faster (I think loading fewer modules makes the system 
starting faster)



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Re: spamcop

[Miles Bader]

"Seth Goodman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> You are responsible for everything that comes
> out of your server, intentional or not.

Sure, but sending a few pieces of mail to a spamtrap pretty clearly
isn't causing any actual harm.  Rather, it's being used as "evidence"
that the sender is a spammer, and cases such as Debian show that indeed,
such evidence is sometimes wrong.

So what exactly is the harm that debian is responsible for?  Does it
justify the reaction?

What if I dial a wrong-number which is an FBI trap for terrorists (or
whatever ;-), and the FBI subsequently throws me in jail for months
until I'm cleared.  I'm "responsible" for the mis-dial, but it's at
worst an utterly minor transgression.  The FBI, on the other hand, has
arguably done something much worse.  [We sometimes excuse police
agencies of such acts if the potential risk they are defending against
is _extremely_ grave, but I don't think it's reasonable to claim spam
falls into that category.]

> One can manipulate legitimate servers into abusing innocent third
> parties, or to falsely incriminating themselves as spammers.  When
> that happens, it is incumbent on the owner of the server to take
> action.  That's part of the responsibility of running an server on the
> net.

Indeed -- so what is the "action" that spamcop would like?

> Mistakes will occur from both ends and both parties have to cooperate.

>From reading this list, I can see there's a fairly clear set of things
debian would like spamcop to do (mainly have some sort of white list,
either for machines or pattern matching of messages reaching spamtraps).

I've never seen any indication that spamcop has said anything
constructive about the issue (maybe they have of course), and the
impression I've gotten is that they really don't want to enter a
dialogue at all, just prescribe standard generic solutions (which may
not apply).

> Thumbing our noses at a DNSBL that many people consider worthwhile is
> not good policy.

Probably not.

[Of course if the DNSBL proves itself to be a bunch of clueless bozos
who are completely unwilling to listen to outside criticism (and there
certainly are such), there may not be much choice...  Mind you, I have
no idea whether spamcop has reached this level.]

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capturing terminal scrollback buffer?

[Andrew Sackville-West]

anybody know how to capture the contents of a terminal scrollback
buffer? i've got about 1000 lines of debug stuff from a network
problem that I want to save, but its just sitting in the scroll back
buffer of an aterm. argh! how do I get it out of there without
copy/pasting it one screen at a time? 

thanks

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Re: MOBILE PHONES AT VERY LOW PRICE OFFER. (reporting list spam)

[David E. Fox]

On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 00:33:12 -0500
"Seth Goodman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>
> My point was that this law, sadly, establishes the principle that
> spamming is legal, as long as you abide by the rules.  There is no

In a way, yes. But it also can be viewed as "these types of spam are
wrong". Drinking is OK, so long as you don't drive while under the
influence, and you don't do it under 21, or you don't let other people
under 21 do it. Alcohol sellers are able to sell it under certain
provisions, but if they sell to minors, the feds'll come over and board
up the business, or at least they should.

> requirement to opt in and they can spam you until you opt out.  I
> believe you are right that most spam violates this law, but what good is

No opt-in requirement is of course a fatal flaw. With verifiable
opt-in of course, it is no longer spam and is now a mailing list.


> it if no one will enforce it?  Worse yet, spammers have the option to
> continue spamming legally.
> 
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Re: Custom package fails to install as a dependency, works otherwise

[Kevin Mark]

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> This turned out to be an issue with permissions, not quite sure in what
> way, but I chown'd all the package data for both packages and it installs
> fine now..
> 
> 
Hi Atle,
I remember seeming something in a debian package called 'statoverride'
that addresses setting permissions.
HTH
kev

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Problem with login/logout freezes (solved myself)

[Dave Witbrodt]

FYI,

  I run Debian Sarge on a P4 Dell Dimension 8400 workstation.  I use 
a self-compiled kernel and the proprietary ATI driver for my X300SE 
video card.  I also have an older machine (HP Pavilion 8766C) with 
proprietary NVidia drivers for the onboard Vanta dinosaur.
  On my older machine I had set up 2 user accounts, one for everyday 
usage and another for more serious work which I want to protect from 
loss in case of internet security problems.  This worked well, though 
creating the new account revealed a few problems with Debian I 
wouldn't have known about otherwise:  using the "Cursor" font in Sarge 
causes 'nautilus' to crash; and the 'esd' sound daemon randomly fails 
to shut down when logging out, preventing the next user from being 
able to use sound.  (The fixes are:  don't use the "Cursor" font with 
Sarge, and kill the 'esd' process and login again.)


  On my new machine today, I was setting up that second account and 
copying files via NFS so that I can reconfigure the old machine for 
other uses.  I discovered that switching between user accounts would 
cause Debian freeze during a logout -- the machine was unresponsive to 
the keyboard except for a Ctl-Alt-Delete shutdown.  (Several times 
even that failed, forcing me to use the dreaded power button, 
resulting in an 'fsck' cycle on reboot.)
  Googling for clues, I found references to a 'gdm' configuration 
option that forces the X server to shutdown and restart at a user 
logout, instead of reusing the same X server instance.  That has cured 
my problem:  I can now do as many logout/login cycles as I want 
without problems.
  I don't know what part of the system is failing -- my guess is that 
it is a problem with the proprietary video driver -- but because I'm 
using a tainted kernel there is no point in reporting this as a bug 
using the BTS.  If anyone out there ever has the same problem edit 
this file:


/etc/gdm/gdm.conf

and look for a setting called "AlwaysRestartServer" and set it to 
"true".  It helped in my case, but YMMV.  If you're having a similar 
problem it's worth a try, though.



HTH,
Dave W.


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Re: bash scripting q

[Kevin Mark]

On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 08:02:38AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Kevin Mark wrote:
> >On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 09:22:05PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> >>how about
> >>  b=`$a`
> >>  echo $b
> >
> >or 
> >echo $($a)
> 
> 
> Bingo!!! Thanks!
> Is that in the Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide?
> H
> 
Hi Hugo,
A is used for assignment of A
$A is to show the value of A
$($A) is to evaluate the command string that $A returns
`$A` is the old way and I think more compatible
cheers,
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Re: Debian AMD64 boots only at random: how to use labels/fstab/grub

[LI Daobing]

On 9/29/06, Joost Kraaijeveld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hi,

After an update of my kernel to 2.6.17 my machine only boots at random.
I have googled for a solution and it appears that it happens because of
the way the harddisks are found during startup . The solution described
involves using lables in fstab and grub (menu.lst).

But whatever I do, I cannot find a way to add labels in my fstab an grub
that actually work. Can anyone tell me what I have to do to make my
machine boot reliable using labels with fstab/grub? I have tried to add
labels to both fstab and menu.lst but a reboot failed miserably

Excerpt from my menu.lst

title   Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.17-2-amd64
root(hd0,0)
kernel  /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.17-2-amd64 root=/dev/sda1 ro
initrd  /boot/initrd.img-2.6.17-2-amd64
savedefault


My fstab:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
#
proc/proc   procdefaults0   0
/dev/sda1   /   ext3defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/sdb1   /varext3defaults0   2
/dev/sdc1   /home   xfs defaults0   2
/dev/sdc2   /pgdata xfs defaults0   2
/dev/sda5   noneswapsw  0   0
/dev/hdc/media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0   0
/dev/fd0/media/floppy0  autorw,user,noauto  0   0


I also meet this problem and I use another solution. in CMOS, I
disable the IT821x(?), then the disk number will not change again.

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Re: Custom package fails to install as a dependency, works otherwise

[Atle Veka]

This turned out to be an issue with permissions, not quite sure in what
way, but I chown'd all the package data for both packages and it installs
fine now..


Atle
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On Thu, 28 Sep 2006, Atle Veka wrote:

> I have a custom package that I use for new installs (base package) which
> has a couple of dependencies. One of these dependencies fails to install
> properly and I'm stumped.
>
> lintian report for the package listed as a dependency in the base package:
> # lintian binary/fci-software-3ware-tools_1.1-2_i386.deb
> E: fci-software-3ware-tools: no-copyright-file
> W: fci-software-3ware-tools:
> description-synopsis-might-not-be-phrased-properly
> W: fci-software-3ware-tools: binary-has-unneeded-section ./usr/sbin/tw_cli
> .comment
> E: fci-software-3ware-tools: statically-linked-binary ./usr/sbin/tw_cli
>
> fcs21:~# ls -l /usr/sbin/tw_cli
> ls: /usr/sbin/tw_cli: No such file or directory
> fcs21:~# dpkg -L fci-software-3ware-tools
> /.
> /usr
> /usr/sbin
> /usr/sbin/tw_cli
> /usr/sbin/tw_sched
> /usr/share
> /usr/share/man
> /usr/share/man/man8
> /usr/share/man/man8/tw_cli.8.gz
> /usr/share/man/man8/tw_sched.8.gz
>
>
> If I 'apt-get remove/install fci-software-3ware-tools', the package will
> install properly and the above files are present. Any ideas?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
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Re: Etch new install can´t see my serial mouse

[Evgeny M. Zubok]

I plug my old serial mouse with Microsoft protocol into COM1
(ttyS0). Here is my configuration:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier  "Mouse1"
Driver  "mouse"
Option "Protocol""Microsoft"
Option "Device"  "/dev/ttyS0"
Option "Emulate3Buttons"
Option "Emulate3Timeout""50"
EndSection

My serial mouse works fine in Debian Etch xorg!

$ lsmod | grep "8250"
8250_pnp8704  0 



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Re: spamcop

[Cameron L. Spitzer]

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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, s. keeling wrote:
> Mumia W.. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>>  On 09/28/2006 12:23 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
>> > [...]
>> > also, threadjacking, but its spam related... is anyone else getting a
>> > lot of these "bounced email" spam? I'm getting a TON of it lately. It
>> > all has a .zip or .com binary attachment, so obviously its a virus or
>> 
>>  I've gotten a couple of such messages with the virus removed.
>
> Follow it up.  Complain to the bouncer that their SMTP is
> misconfigured and they're sending bounce messages to innocent third
> parties whose From: addresses were forged by spammers.

My experience has been that anyone clueless enough in 2006
to run a broken server (Barracuda appliance, Qmail...), that
sends backscatter to random addresses supplied by spammers
and malware, is too clueless to understand a complaint
about it.  If you can even get a complaint through.

Look their domain up in whois -h whois.abuse.net.
postmaster (default, no info) every time.  Send mail to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED]  User unknown, or
sorry, your spam report triggered our spam filter.

Not just clueless, clue resistant.  Clue repellent.
Report them to RFC-Ignorant.org when that happens.  
Then add them to your local DNSBL if you can get away with it.
Or your firewall.


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Re: Etch new install can´t see my serial mouse

[Evgeny M. Zubok]

"Bruno Buys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Just installed a brand new etch on a athlon2400. Mouse is serial and xorg 
> won´t
> load complaining 'no core pointer'.
> I tried both imps2 and explore-something (the only 2 options), but no good.
> I also tried to locate my mouse, doing:
> cat /dev/input/mice (which is the suggested location, by dpkg-reconfigure
> xserver-xorg)
> cat /dev/ttyS0 (worked to me several times in the past)
> cat /dev/ttyS1
> cat /dev/ttyS2
> cat /dev/ttyS3
>
> None of them seem to have a mouse. ttyS0 when catted, throws a bunch of random
> unreadable chars in the screen without me even touching the mouse. When
> ctrl-c´ed, the prompt is left screwed. The other tty´s don´t cat anything at
> all.
>
>
> any ideas?
> thanks!

Look at lsmod output for 8250_pnp. If it there then the serial interface was
initialized. And show your xorg.conf, please. What the mouse you use?

Re: idsoftware games

[Sylvain Le Gall]

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Le 29-09-2006, Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hello All,
>
> I am trying to get sound working with quake 3 / doom 3 / RTCW from 
> idsoftware. 
> I don't have a sound card in this box. I just use whatever it is on the MB 
> and it has always worked well enough to make me happy.
>
>
> It looks like I am going to have to get a sound card to get sound working 
> with 
> these games. Anyone have these games working, can you tell me what king of 
> sound card you use and if you are happy with it?
>
>

Humm, your sound is maybe blocked by another application. If you use
Gnome or Kde, there is a sound daemon that prevents you to open the
sound device. 

If this is the case, you must turn off the sound daemon while you are
playing :
- - esdctl standby for Gnome (package esound-client),
- - something similar for ARTS/Kde (artsctl standby ???).

Then you should hear the sound with Quake 3.

You can test if you have a sound daemon with : "ps aux | grep esd" or
"ps aux | grep arts"

Kind regard
Sylvain Le Gall

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php5-mysqli - how come it's not available in sid?

[Tom Verbreyt]

Hey ho,

Much to my surprise, there's no php5-mysqli available in sid.
There is of course php5-mysql, but I'd like to stay in touch.

In the wishlist bug at [1], the maintainer says the package
has entered  unstable, but I can't find or install it, and
packages.debian.org doesn't seem to know about it either.

In pool/main/p/php5/, there is a php5-mysqli .deb for several
architectures, but not for i386... Does anybody know why the
package is missing for certain architectures?

Cheers,
Tom

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=320835

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Log out problem?

[Jonathan Roberts]

When I try to log out of debian (testing) it logs me out ok but rather than putting back up the log in screen i'm left with a blank pale blue screen with a white box (obviously where the text box would be). cursor still works etc but no controls. x won't shut down with ctrl-alt-backspace neither does ctrl-alt-f1 etc...any ideas?! Thanks, 
Oh, and also...besides this one problem I love debian! Would just like to say what a brilliant distribution it is! Thanks to all the developers and I hope some of my bug reports have helped in one way or another! 
-- Jon

Re: mail

[Wayne Topa]

Ron Johnson([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
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> On 09/29/06 15:37, Albert Dengg wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 07:54:58PM +0200, David C. Weichert wrote:
> >>> Am Freitag, den 29.09.2006, 23:02 +0600 schrieb S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu):
>  i cann't remember how, but i was able to send mail to any email
>  address from redhat useing "mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] "
>  how can i get this with debian ?
> >>> Do you mean something like this:
> >>>
> >>> echo "this is a test." | mail -s "test" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>>
> >>> You need to have a mail transfer agent (MTA) configured and running, if
> >>> this shall work. The default MTA with Debian is Exim.
> >>>
> >>> Which version of Debian (stable/testing/unstable) are you running? Is
> >>> Exim or another MTA (postfix) installed and configured on your system?
> > would not be ssmtp the simples choice for such an enviroment (if the OP
> > does not want to use fetchmail of course, otherwise it will create a
> > loop i belive)
> > 
> > it supports address rewriting, tls, smtp auth ... everything that is
> > needed for a simple envirement
> 
> It also does not support local email (like when dpkg sends emails
> with release notes).

As does exim4 since a recent upgrade.  Just noticed that yesterday and
have not found out why, yet.

Wayne

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Re: OT: database to manage real estate business?

[Joshua J. Kugler]

On Friday 29 September 2006 10:24, Richard Lyons wrote:
> Not a debian question, but someone here usually has done it before.
>
> Has anyone come across or created a system for managing real estate
> agency, from first viewing to sale, with an emphasis on the
> incorporation of the property description, survey photos and drawings,
> and perhaps a method to interface with web-pages?  The other side is the
> viewings, calendar, legal and sales stuff, which I am less concerned
> about at the moment, but of course they should be planned for.
>
> TIA for any ideas.

Hmm...try freshmeat:

http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=real+estate§ion=projects&Go.x=0&Go.y=0

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exim4 and mobile users

[Enrique Morfin]

Hi!

I have a mail server, using exim4, pop3s and a webmail
interface (using php).

I have some mobile users, using win xp and win 2000,
and they use outlook express, eudora and netscape
mail.

Inside the network everithing works fine.

The problem is when the users go out. They can get
their mail, but can't send mail. (And they refuse to
use the webmail (and they are the bosses))

The relay is closed (except my own network).

Is there a way to autenticate those users, so they can
send mail when they are out of our net?

Thanks.

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Re: Debian AMD64 boots only at random: how to use labels/fstab/grub

[Bob McGowan]

I'm only familiar with the ext[23]/xfs filesystem commands which is what 
you appear to be using.  Other FS's have similar tools, I expect.


First, you need to be sure your disks are labeled.  For ext[23], the 
command is 'e2label -L /dev/...' where ... would be sda4 or hdb2, or 
whatever else you have.  For xfs, the command is 'xfs_admin -l /dev/...'


If you have a disk with no label, you would need to add one.  The disks 
must be unmounted before you can make changes, so you'd need to boot 
from a CD as the quickest, easiest way to work with them.  For ext[23], 
the command is 'e2label -L label', for xfs it's 'xfs_admin -L label', 
where 'label' is any name you choose, within the size limits specified 
in the man page for the commands.  Note the lower/upper case option with 
the xfs command.


All recent Debian installs that I've done have created labels for the 
devices created during the install.  These are the name of the mount 
point.  So, if you have a disk that is mounted on '/var' (as you do), 
the default label will be '/var'.


The only issue I have with this is the label chosen for the 'root' 
device.  This is '/', which is not a legal name in the file system, so 
no link is made for the root device, to use with the mount command.  I 
changed the root label on my system from '/' to '/root', so a valid link 
is created.


Now that you have labels on all your disk drives, change the two files 
like this:


  menu.lst:
  from
kernel  /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.17-2-amd64 root=/dev/sda1 ro
  to
kernel  /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.17-2-amd64 root=LABEL=/root ro

  fstab (just one example, the rest are similar):
  from
/dev/sdb1  /var  ext3   defaults  0 2
  to
LABEL=/var /var  ext3   defaults  0 2

Reboot.

Bob

Joost Kraaijeveld wrote:

Hi,

After an update of my kernel to 2.6.17 my machine only boots at random.
I have googled for a solution and it appears that it happens because of
the way the harddisks are found during startup . The solution described
involves using lables in fstab and grub (menu.lst).

But whatever I do, I cannot find a way to add labels in my fstab an grub
that actually work. Can anyone tell me what I have to do to make my
machine boot reliable using labels with fstab/grub? I have tried to add
labels to both fstab and menu.lst but a reboot failed miserably

Excerpt from my menu.lst

title   Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.17-2-amd64
root(hd0,0)
kernel  /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.17-2-amd64 root=/dev/sda1 ro
initrd  /boot/initrd.img-2.6.17-2-amd64
savedefault


My fstab:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information. 
# 
# 
proc/proc   procdefaults0   0 
/dev/sda1   /   ext3defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 
/dev/sdb1   /varext3defaults0   2 
/dev/sdc1   /home   xfs defaults0   2 
/dev/sdc2   /pgdata xfs defaults0   2 
/dev/sda5   noneswapsw  0   0 
/dev/hdc/media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0   0 
/dev/fd0/media/floppy0  autorw,user,noauto  0   0 



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Re: mail

[Albert Dengg]

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On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 04:57:43PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
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> On 09/29/06 16:13, Albert Dengg wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 04:16:07PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> [snip]
>  would not be ssmtp the simples choice for such an
>  enviroment (if the OP does not want to use fetchmail of
>  course, otherwise it will create a loop i belive)
>  
>  it supports address rewriting, tls, smtp auth ...
>  everything that is needed for a simple envirement
> >>> It also does not support local email (like when dpkg sends
> >>> emails with release notes).
> > it does (i have it running in my chroot...) i don't know
> > though if it supports rewriting of destination addreses for users
> > with uid > 1000, that could lead to problems (it can rewrite
> > from: for all users), it has an option however for which address
> > mails for uid < 1000 should go to (which covers, for example, the
> > apt-lischanges mails)
> 
> The apt Description gives a different impression:
> 
> Description: extremely simple MTA to get mail off the system
>  to a mail hub
>  A secure, effective and simple way of getting mail off a
>  system to your mail hub. It contains no suid-binaries or
>  other dangerous things - no mail spool to poke around in,
>  and no daemons running in the background. Mail is simply
>  forwarded to the configured mailhost. Extremely easy
>  configuration.
and that does not collide with what i have said...
it delivers lokal mail...to your normal mail box so you can read it with
the rest of your mail in your favourite mua...

(of course some people like me do it the other way around most of the
time...use fetchmail to get your mail to the loakal spool and then
distribute it with procmail into a Maildir (with subfolders of course))

yous
albert

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Re: idsoftware games

[Alan Ianson]

On Fri September 29 2006 02:22 pm, Pollywog wrote:
> > Yep, those are all installed. Sound does work here but not with Q3 and
> > Doom 3. I'll check RTCW later today.
> >
> > I'm not certain but I think those games may need a sound card to work??
>
> I think I used this command to get sound to work in similar games:
>
> echo "et.x86 0 0 direct" > /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/oss

Thanks, I'll try that and see if that helps.. :)


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Re: idsoftware games

[Alan Ianson]

On Fri September 29 2006 02:08 pm, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> If you can get sound in SDL apps now, I would guess it would work with
> ioquake3 too. http://www.icculus.org/quake3/

Thanks for that link. ioquake3 runs great here. I was pleasantly surprised to 
see x86_64 as well as spark (IIRC) binaries selectable for install.

Getting Quake 3 running on the amd64 is more than I had hoped for.. :)

> There is a link to some Debian packages here:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=337937

I hope we'll see ioquake in the debian archive sometime soon.


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Re: mail

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On 09/29/06 16:13, Albert Dengg wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 04:16:07PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
[snip]
 would not be ssmtp the simples choice for such an
 enviroment (if the OP does not want to use fetchmail of
 course, otherwise it will create a loop i belive)
 
 it supports address rewriting, tls, smtp auth ...
 everything that is needed for a simple envirement
>>> It also does not support local email (like when dpkg sends
>>> emails with release notes).
> it does (i have it running in my chroot...) i don't know
> though if it supports rewriting of destination addreses for users
> with uid > 1000, that could lead to problems (it can rewrite
> from: for all users), it has an option however for which address
> mails for uid < 1000 should go to (which covers, for example, the
> apt-lischanges mails)

The apt Description gives a different impression:

Description: extremely simple MTA to get mail off the system
 to a mail hub
 A secure, effective and simple way of getting mail off a
 system to your mail hub. It contains no suid-binaries or
 other dangerous things - no mail spool to poke around in,
 and no daemons running in the background. Mail is simply
 forwarded to the configured mailhost. Extremely easy
 configuration.

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Re: spamcop

[Håkon Alstadheim]

s. keeling wrote:

Here's some
aliases to help you look up the originator's complaint address which
you can Cc: in the same mail to get the originator's account killed
(there may be others, and I'd appreciate hearing about them :-):

   afnic='whois -h whois.afrinic.net'
   apnic='whois -h whois.apnic.net'
   arin='whois -h whois.arin.net \+'
   brnic='whois -h whois.registro.br'
   jpnic='whois -h whois.nic.ad.jp'
   krnic='whois -h whois.krnic.net'
   lacnic='whois -h whois.lacnic.net'
   ripe='whois -h whois.ripe.net'

  

Check out the gwhois package in debian, the /etc/gwhois/pattern file.

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Re: eth0 (Realtek 8139) suddenly not working

[Russell L. Harris]

Andrew Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Hi
> On Sunday 17 September 2006 23:19, Peter Thomassen wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm still introducing a friend of mine to Linux by phone.
>>
>> Yesterday and the days before, his Realtek 8139 NCI worked out of the box
>> using DHCP. Today, no IP is received over DHCP; instead, the boot script
>> does several tries after different intervals and finally gives up.
>>
> [snip]
>> After the reboot, I noticed that 8139too wasn't loaded, so we modprobe'd
>> it; then ifdown eth0, ifup eth0. No success.
>>
>> Maybe it's useful to know that dmesg says that eth0 is a Realtek 8139. I
>> don't know what to do -- do you?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Peter
>
> I've had something similar happen with my desktop.  
>
> Similar hardware, realtek 8139 PCI ethernet card.
>
> If I hibernate the computer from windows (either 2000 or vista), windows 
> somehow disables the NIC.  The router no longer shows a connection.  
>
> Linux doesn't manage to enable the NIC during bootup, (the moduels are 
> loaded, it thinks the interface is up, but the router still shows no 
> connection) and I need to boot windows to fix things.  

After wasting many hours over the past several years trying to get a
Netgear card with the Realtek chip running reliably in various machines
running various releases of Debian, I finally got smart, took a pair of
pliers, and physically removed the PCI connector, by bending and
twisting.  A hammer and anvil repeatedly applied over the surface of the
card would have been quicker and just as effective, and likely would
have been more satisfying.

My conclusion is that life is too short to waste it messing around with
Netgear apparatus.

RLH


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Re: mail

[Albert Dengg]

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> On 09/29/06 15:37, Albert Dengg wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 07:54:58PM +0200, David C. Weichert wrote:
> >>> Am Freitag, den 29.09.2006, 23:02 +0600 schrieb S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu):
>  i cann't remember how, but i was able to send mail to any email
>  address from redhat useing "mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] "
>  how can i get this with debian ?
> >>> Do you mean something like this:
> >>>
> >>> echo "this is a test." | mail -s "test" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>>
> >>> You need to have a mail transfer agent (MTA) configured and running, if
> >>> this shall work. The default MTA with Debian is Exim.
> >>>
> >>> Which version of Debian (stable/testing/unstable) are you running? Is
> >>> Exim or another MTA (postfix) installed and configured on your system?
> > would not be ssmtp the simples choice for such an enviroment (if the OP
> > does not want to use fetchmail of course, otherwise it will create a
> > loop i belive)
> > 
> > it supports address rewriting, tls, smtp auth ... everything that is
> > needed for a simple envirement
> 
> It also does not support local email (like when dpkg sends emails
> with release notes).
it does
(i have it running in my chroot...)
i don't know though if it supports rewriting of destination addreses for users 
with
uid > 1000, that could lead to problems
(it can rewrite from: for all users), it has an option however for which
address mails for uid < 1000 should go to (which covers, for example,
the apt-lischanges mails)

yours
Albert
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Re: eth0 (Realtek 8139) suddenly not working

[Andrew Vaughan]

Hi
On Sunday 17 September 2006 23:19, Peter Thomassen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm still introducing a friend of mine to Linux by phone.
>
> Yesterday and the days before, his Realtek 8139 NCI worked out of the box
> using DHCP. Today, no IP is received over DHCP; instead, the boot script
> does several tries after different intervals and finally gives up.
>
[snip]
> After the reboot, I noticed that 8139too wasn't loaded, so we modprobe'd
> it; then ifdown eth0, ifup eth0. No success.
>
> Maybe it's useful to know that dmesg says that eth0 is a Realtek 8139. I
> don't know what to do -- do you?
>
> Thanks,
> Peter

I've had something similar happen with my desktop.  

Similar hardware, realtek 8139 PCI ethernet card.

If I hibernate the computer from windows (either 2000 or vista), windows 
somehow disables the NIC.  The router no longer shows a connection.  

Linux doesn't manage to enable the NIC during bootup, (the moduels are 
loaded, it thinks the interface is up, but the router still shows no 
connection) and I need to boot windows to fix things.  

Andrew V.


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Re: idsoftware games

[Pollywog]

On Friday 29 September 2006 19:18, Alan Ianson wrote:
> On Fri September 29 2006 12:00 pm, derek wrote:
> > Make sure you have alsa-base,alsa-oss,and alsa-utils installed,run
> > alsa-conf too.
>
> Yep, those are all installed. Sound does work here but not with Q3 and Doom
> 3. I'll check RTCW later today.
>
> I'm not certain but I think those games may need a sound card to work??

I think I used this command to get sound to work in similar games:

echo "et.x86 0 0 direct" > /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/oss


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Re: idsoftware games

[Pollywog]

On Friday 29 September 2006 19:18, Alan Ianson wrote:
> On Fri September 29 2006 12:00 pm, derek wrote:
> > Make sure you have alsa-base,alsa-oss,and alsa-utils installed,run
> > alsa-conf too.
>
> Yep, those are all installed. Sound does work here but not with Q3 and Doom
> 3. I'll check RTCW later today.
>
> I'm not certain but I think those games may need a sound card to work??

There is a command that you can use to get oss emulation to work.
I had similar problems with a game that was made from Wolfenstein and this 
command fixed the problem.  I will post it if I can find it.

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Re: How does Debian load the kernel modules

[Matus UHLAR - fantomas]

On 29.09.06 16:46, Hernán Freschi wrote:
> I wonder what happens to modules when the system needs RAM? I know 
> Windows stupidly swaps the System memory by default (unless you enable 
> the DisablePagingExecutive option in the registry). Does linux force the 
> modules to stay in RAM or does it try to swap them when it's RAM-hungry?

I think linux does not swap kernel memory due to its "monolitic kernel"
architecture. As long as windows have microkernel architecture, it allows to
swap even the kernel. 

Hard to say which is better. If the kernel space needs to be swapped,
something is very bad... but swapping out unused kernel code may make the
system go faster due to more memory available.
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Re: idsoftware games

[Alan Ianson]

On Fri September 29 2006 02:08 pm, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 11:04 -0700, Alan Ianson wrote:
> > I am trying to get sound working with quake 3 / doom 3 / RTCW from
> > idsoftware. I don't have a sound card in this box. I just use whatever it
> > is on the MB and it has always worked well enough to make me happy.
> >
> >
> > It looks like I am going to have to get a sound card to get sound working
> > with these games. Anyone have these games working, can you tell me what
> > king of sound card you use and if you are happy with it?
>
> Isn't there any useful error messages if you start these games from a
> terminal?

There is no error that I can see and nothing logged (unless I didn't see it 
yet). The games do run fine "n" dandy (except RTCW) but there is no sound.

> You might want to try ioquake3, this is the free version build from id
> software's GPL code. Among other things are these sound related
> features:
>
> * OpenAL is now used for sound. Surround sound supported.
> * SDL being used for input, OpenGL context management, and sound.
>
> If you can get sound in SDL apps now, I would guess it would work with
> ioquake3 too. http://www.icculus.org/quake3/

UT/2K3/2K4 use SDL and run fine and sound works.

> There is a link to some Debian packages here:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=337937

Thanks for the links, looks promising. I'll check into that.


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Re: mail

[Ron Johnson]

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On 09/29/06 15:37, Albert Dengg wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 07:54:58PM +0200, David C. Weichert wrote:
>>> Am Freitag, den 29.09.2006, 23:02 +0600 schrieb S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu):
 i cann't remember how, but i was able to send mail to any email
 address from redhat useing "mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] "
 how can i get this with debian ?
>>> Do you mean something like this:
>>>
>>> echo "this is a test." | mail -s "test" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>
>>> You need to have a mail transfer agent (MTA) configured and running, if
>>> this shall work. The default MTA with Debian is Exim.
>>>
>>> Which version of Debian (stable/testing/unstable) are you running? Is
>>> Exim or another MTA (postfix) installed and configured on your system?
> would not be ssmtp the simples choice for such an enviroment (if the OP
> does not want to use fetchmail of course, otherwise it will create a
> loop i belive)
> 
> it supports address rewriting, tls, smtp auth ... everything that is
> needed for a simple envirement

It also does not support local email (like when dpkg sends emails
with release notes).

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Re: idsoftware games

[Sven Arvidsson]

On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 11:04 -0700, Alan Ianson wrote:
> I am trying to get sound working with quake 3 / doom 3 / RTCW from 
> idsoftware. 
> I don't have a sound card in this box. I just use whatever it is on the MB 
> and it has always worked well enough to make me happy.
> 
> 
> It looks like I am going to have to get a sound card to get sound working 
> with 
> these games. Anyone have these games working, can you tell me what king of 
> sound card you use and if you are happy with it?

Isn't there any useful error messages if you start these games from a
terminal?

You might want to try ioquake3, this is the free version build from id
software's GPL code. Among other things are these sound related
features:

* OpenAL is now used for sound. Surround sound supported.
* SDL being used for input, OpenGL context management, and sound. 

If you can get sound in SDL apps now, I would guess it would work with ioquake3 
too.
http://www.icculus.org/quake3/

There is a link to some Debian packages here:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=337937

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On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 07:54:58PM +0200, David C. Weichert wrote:
> Am Freitag, den 29.09.2006, 23:02 +0600 schrieb S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu):
> > i cann't remember how, but i was able to send mail to any email
> > address from redhat useing "mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] "
> > how can i get this with debian ?
> 
> Do you mean something like this:
> 
> echo "this is a test." | mail -s "test" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> You need to have a mail transfer agent (MTA) configured and running, if
> this shall work. The default MTA with Debian is Exim.
> 
> Which version of Debian (stable/testing/unstable) are you running? Is
> Exim or another MTA (postfix) installed and configured on your system?
would not be ssmtp the simples choice for such an enviroment (if the OP
does not want to use fetchmail of course, otherwise it will create a
loop i belive)

it supports address rewriting, tls, smtp auth ... everything that is
needed for a simple envirement

yours
Albert

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Re: mail

[Clive Menzies]

On (29/09/06 14:43), Ron Johnson wrote:
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> 
> On 09/29/06 13:10, S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu) wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 19:54 +0200, David C. Weichert wrote:
> >> Am Freitag, den 29.09.2006, 23:02 +0600 schrieb S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu):
> >> > i cann't remember how, but i was able to send mail to any email
> >> > address from redhat useing "mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]  >> > PROTECTED]> "
> >> > how can i get this with debian ?
> >>
> >> Do you mean something like this:
> >>
> >> echo "this is a test." | mail -s "test" [EMAIL PROTECTED]  >> PROTECTED]>
> >>
> >> You need to have a mail transfer agent (MTA) configured and running, if
> >> this shall work. The default MTA with Debian is Exim.
> >>
> >> Which version of Debian (stable/testing/unstable) are you running? Is
> >> Exim or another MTA (postfix) installed and configured on your system?
> >>
> > i am using unstable. i tried exim. but after long time waiting, it's
> > give me a dalivery failure notice. then now testing send mail. useing
> > mail client with send mail. now i can send. but mail command is not
> > working any more (i removed exim4)
> 
> If you are a home user connecting thru a typical ISP, then you must
> configure exim as a smarthost.  "dpkg-reconfigure exim4" should
> point you in the right direction.

I believe that's 'dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config'

Regards

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Re: Problem installing xserver-xorg

[Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas]

On 9/29/06, Stephen Yorke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Does anyone know when the patch for this will be uploaded ?

-Original Message-
From: Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 11:38 AM
To: Stephen Yorke
Cc: David Goodenough; debian-user@lists.debian.org;
debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Problem installing xserver-xorg

On 9/25/06, Stephen Yorke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [...]
> -Stephen
> 
>
> From: David Goodenough [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Mon 9/25/2006 9:36 AM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Problem installing xserver-xorg
>
> [...]  When configuring
> xserver-xorg it asks if the PCI address for the video card is right
(it is),
> asks if I want to use a FrameBuffer device (I have tried both yes and
no)
> and then is comes up with a panel which says:-
>
> 
> Configuring xserver-org
>
> Empty value
>
> A null entry is not permitted for this value.
> 
>
> This is repeated in what appears to be quite a tight look ad-infinitum
> and it is quite difficult to break out of (but I did eventually).
>
> [...]
> David

This looks like addressed and worked around already (might be).  In
the archives you'll find this feedback:


Morten O. Hansen
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to debian-user
 More options Sep 24 (19 hours ago)
On Sat, 2006-09-23 at 14:49 -0700, RParr wrote:
> I am trying to add minimal X to a new installation and am getting a
> failure during xserver-xorg configuration.
>
> The console / curses display pop-up says "Null value not permitted"
OK?
>

http://bugs.debian.org/xserver-xorg
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=388568

Hope this helps.

With regards, Morten O. Hansen


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Search for xserver-xorg.postinst under /var.  I tried the suggested
fix and it works.  The file is installed with the package.  If you use
aptitude, install the package, and after several trials of the
installation, search for the postinst file.  Edit it and then continue
until the package get "C" indication.  Then you can dpkg-reconfigure
xserver-xorg.  So you don't need to wait until the bug is fixed...
The described procedure is the one I applied, and it worked pretty
good...

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RE: Problem installing xserver-xorg

[Stephen Yorke]

Does anyone know when the patch for this will be uploaded ?

-Original Message-
From: Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 11:38 AM
To: Stephen Yorke
Cc: David Goodenough; debian-user@lists.debian.org;
debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Problem installing xserver-xorg

On 9/25/06, Stephen Yorke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [...]
> -Stephen
> 
>
> From: David Goodenough [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Mon 9/25/2006 9:36 AM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Problem installing xserver-xorg
>
> [...]  When configuring
> xserver-xorg it asks if the PCI address for the video card is right
(it is),
> asks if I want to use a FrameBuffer device (I have tried both yes and
no)
> and then is comes up with a panel which says:-
>
> 
> Configuring xserver-org
>
> Empty value
>
> A null entry is not permitted for this value.
> 
>
> This is repeated in what appears to be quite a tight look ad-infinitum
> and it is quite difficult to break out of (but I did eventually).
>
> [...]
> David

This looks like addressed and worked around already (might be).  In
the archives you'll find this feedback:


Morten O. Hansen
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to debian-user
 More options Sep 24 (19 hours ago)
On Sat, 2006-09-23 at 14:49 -0700, RParr wrote:
> I am trying to add minimal X to a new installation and am getting a
> failure during xserver-xorg configuration.
>
> The console / curses display pop-up says "Null value not permitted"
OK?
>

http://bugs.debian.org/xserver-xorg
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=388568

Hope this helps.

With regards, Morten O. Hansen


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RE: Problem installing xserver-xorg

[Stephen Yorke]

It says...
"I have found the problem.  On line 966 of the postinst it says:"...

What file do I have to edit to make this work?  Doing a search for
postinst returns a sample only...

Sorry if I sound dumb but hey...I am...

-Stephen

-Original Message-
From: Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 11:38 AM
To: Stephen Yorke
Cc: David Goodenough; debian-user@lists.debian.org;
debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Problem installing xserver-xorg

On 9/25/06, Stephen Yorke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [...]
> -Stephen
> 
>
> From: David Goodenough [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Mon 9/25/2006 9:36 AM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Problem installing xserver-xorg
>
> [...]  When configuring
> xserver-xorg it asks if the PCI address for the video card is right
(it is),
> asks if I want to use a FrameBuffer device (I have tried both yes and
no)
> and then is comes up with a panel which says:-
>
> 
> Configuring xserver-org
>
> Empty value
>
> A null entry is not permitted for this value.
> 
>
> This is repeated in what appears to be quite a tight look ad-infinitum
> and it is quite difficult to break out of (but I did eventually).
>
> [...]
> David

This looks like addressed and worked around already (might be).  In
the archives you'll find this feedback:


Morten O. Hansen
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to debian-user
 More options Sep 24 (19 hours ago)
On Sat, 2006-09-23 at 14:49 -0700, RParr wrote:
> I am trying to add minimal X to a new installation and am getting a
> failure during xserver-xorg configuration.
>
> The console / curses display pop-up says "Null value not permitted"
OK?
>

http://bugs.debian.org/xserver-xorg
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=388568

Hope this helps.

With regards, Morten O. Hansen


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xserver-xorg install/configuration fails with "null value not
permitted".


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Re: idsoftware games

[Alan Ianson]

On Fri September 29 2006 12:49 pm, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 09/29/06 14:18, Alan Ianson wrote:
> > On Fri September 29 2006 12:00 pm, derek wrote:
> >> Make sure you have alsa-base,alsa-oss,and alsa-utils installed,run
> >> alsa-conf too.
> >
> > Yep, those are all installed. Sound does work here but not with Q3 and
> > Doom 3. I'll check RTCW later today.
> >
> > I'm not certain but I think those games may need a sound card to work??
> >
> > I'll have to dig a bit.
>
> It would be helpful to tell us what kind of sound chip is being used
> For example, on my system, it is:

My sarge/i386 lspci says: 
Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 00ea (rev a1)

> If Id programs *require* SoundBlaster cards, then I'd either Google
> on making AC97 emulate SB or finagling Doom to use AC97.

I don't think they require SoundBlaster cards, looks to me like they do need 
some kind of hardware though, something about writing directly to mmap() (I 
don't know what that is). Here's what I saw in the README-linux.txt for quake 
3...

[begin]

---
(3) SOUND SETUP
---
Q3A uses the /dev/dsp sound device for sound support under Linux. This 
is the default device provided by the sound drivers included with the Linux
kernel. Please note that at the time of this writing, PCI based sound cards
such as the SoundBlaster Live and Diamond Monster MX series were not
supported. They may be supported in the future. Check
   
  http://www.opensound.com/ 

for support in the future.

You should make sure that the permissions for the /dev/dsp device are read 
and write for your current user ID. Some systems re-assign the owner and
reset to 644 on login. A simple way to get access is to do

  "chmod o+rw /dev/dsp" 

as root. For the more security conscious, a special sound group could be 
created and Q3A could be made setgid to the sound group to access the 
device.

Q3A uses mmap() to map the sound buffers on /dev/dsp directly in order 
to provide responsive sound needs. Sound cards must be able to support this
feature in order to work. SoundBlaster 16, AWE32 and AWE64 cards are known
to work.

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Re: idsoftware games

[Ron Johnson]

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On 09/29/06 14:18, Alan Ianson wrote:
> On Fri September 29 2006 12:00 pm, derek wrote:
>> Make sure you have alsa-base,alsa-oss,and alsa-utils installed,run
>> alsa-conf too.
> 
> Yep, those are all installed. Sound does work here but not with Q3 and Doom 
> 3. 
> I'll check RTCW later today.
> 
> I'm not certain but I think those games may need a sound card to work??
> 
> I'll have to dig a bit.
> 
>> On 9/29/06, Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> Hello All,
>>>
>>> I am trying to get sound working with quake 3 / doom 3 / RTCW from
>>> idsoftware.
>>> I don't have a sound card in this box. I just use whatever it is on the
>>> MB and it has always worked well enough to make me happy.
>>>
>>>
>>> It looks like I am going to have to get a sound card to get sound working
>>> with
>>> these games. Anyone have these games working, can you tell me what king
>>> of sound card you use and if you are happy with it?

It would be helpful to tell us what kind of sound chip is being used
For example, on my system, it is:

  $ lspci | grep [Aa]udio
  00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc.
  VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60)

If Id programs *require* SoundBlaster cards, then I'd either Google
on making AC97 emulate SB or finagling Doom to use AC97.

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Is "common sense" really valid?
For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that
whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins
are mud people.
However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong.
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Re: How does Debian load the kernel modules

[Hernán Freschi]

zhengda wrote:


Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:


yes, probably so. most of kernels get loaded when (first) used, but not
unloaded. I guess hotplug scripts load modules for every existing 
piece of
hardware for the system to be able to use it. If you'd blacklist them, 
you

won't be able to use them, and some of your startup scripts may fail.

You can however check /etc/modules for modules you do not really need and
remove them.


I have removed the unnecessary modules listed in /etc/modules. But lsmod 
shows that there are 74 modules loaded, and 27 modules whose "used by" 
columns show 0.

So can I list all of these unused modules in /etc/hotplug/blacklist.d/?
By the way, does /etc/hotplug/blacklist have the same function of 
/etc/hotplug/blacklist.d/? In my system, there are both.




Well I wouldn't worry too much about the number of loaded modules. That, 
of course, assuming you are running a "modern" machine with several 
hundreds megabytes of RAM. Modules use just a tiny fraction of RAM: 30, 
40k ... the largest one for me being Reiserfs with 200k. But assuming an 
average of 40k size, you'd be freeing up about 1MB of ram.


Of course if you're trying to run an embedded machine (for which you 
wouldn't be running debian) or an old machine with 24MB ram (the minimum 
for Debian), well in that case it would be an issue.


I wouldn't worry too much about it with a standard "modern" computer.

I wonder what happens to modules when the system needs RAM? I know 
Windows stupidly swaps the System memory by default (unless you enable 
the DisablePagingExecutive option in the registry). Does linux force the 
modules to stay in RAM or does it try to swap them when it's RAM-hungry?


Cheers,
Hernan


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Re: mail

[Ron Johnson]

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On 09/29/06 13:10, S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu) wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 19:54 +0200, David C. Weichert wrote:
>> Am Freitag, den 29.09.2006, 23:02 +0600 schrieb S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu):
>> > i cann't remember how, but i was able to send mail to any email
>> > address from redhat useing "mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > PROTECTED]> "
>> > how can i get this with debian ?
>>
>> Do you mean something like this:
>>
>> echo "this is a test." | mail -s "test" [EMAIL PROTECTED] > PROTECTED]>
>>
>> You need to have a mail transfer agent (MTA) configured and running, if
>> this shall work. The default MTA with Debian is Exim.
>>
>> Which version of Debian (stable/testing/unstable) are you running? Is
>> Exim or another MTA (postfix) installed and configured on your system?
>>
> i am using unstable. i tried exim. but after long time waiting, it's
> give me a dalivery failure notice. then now testing send mail. useing
> mail client with send mail. now i can send. but mail command is not
> working any more (i removed exim4)

If you are a home user connecting thru a typical ISP, then you must
configure exim as a smarthost.  "dpkg-reconfigure exim4" should
point you in the right direction.

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Re: mail

[Christopher Richard Nelson]

On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 12:10:34AM +0600, S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu) wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 19:54 +0200, David C. Weichert wrote:
> 
> > Am Freitag, den 29.09.2006, 23:02 +0600 schrieb S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu):
> > > i cann't remember how, but i was able to send mail to any email
> > > address from redhat useing "mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] "
> > > how can i get this with debian ?
> > 
> > Do you mean something like this:
> > 
> > echo "this is a test." | mail -s "test" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > 
> > You need to have a mail transfer agent (MTA) configured and running, if
> > this shall work. The default MTA with Debian is Exim.
> > 
> > Which version of Debian (stable/testing/unstable) are you running? Is
> > Exim or another MTA (postfix) installed and configured on your system?
> > 
> 
> i am using unstable. i tried exim. but after long time waiting, it's
> give me a dalivery failure notice. then now testing send mail. useing
> mail client with send mail. now i can send. but mail command is not
> working any more (i removed exim4) 

How exactly is it not working?  Is it giving an error?  Silently
failing?  What do you see if you do a `mailq`?

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Re: NTP Daemon

[Rick Thomas]

On Sep 29, 2006, at 9:27 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote:

I'm looking for a simple NTP client daemon to synchronize the  
time on

my debian server. I'm testing openntpd but I've this error message:
adjtime failed: Invalid argument

Could someone help me or suggest something?
Thanks



"aptitude install ntp-server" and off you go.


I believe it's now called just `ntp'.


In etch/testing, yes, it's just "ntp".  In sarge/stable, there are a  
confusing array of ntp* packages.


In etch I recommend just "ntp".  Do not install "ntpdate" with "ntp"  
in etch unless you really know what you're doing.  The functionality  
that used to be offered by ntpdate[*] has been subsumed into the ntp  
package by adding the "-g" option to the ntpd daemon.  Adding ntpdate  
on top will just confuse things in obscure ways.


For sarge, I recommend installing both "ntpdate" and "ntp-simple".   
The ntpdate package will do a one-time adjustment at bootup, and the  
ntp-simple package (which depends on the "ntp-server" package which  
has the real meat) will keep the clock in sync on a long-term basis  
after bootup.


Either setup should "just work" right out of the box[**].

In both cases, it should be able to cope well with intermittent  
internet connectivity.


If you want to know more about the details, and there are *lots* of  
fascinating details, add the ntp-doc package.


Enjoy!

Rick


[*] the ntpdate program (and the "-g" option to etch's ntpd daemon)  
does a one-time adjustment of the system clock, usually at system  
startup --- that works regardless of how far off the system clock  
is.  This may possibly be needed due to an extended internet outage  
or power failure or a dying cmos battery.


[**] If you're interested in keeping your system clock synced with  
sub-millisecond accuracy, you'll need to tune the configuration file  
in /etc/ntp.conf.  Most people don't care, and can get by just fine  
with the default configuration.






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Re: idsoftware games

[Alan Ianson]

On Fri September 29 2006 12:00 pm, derek wrote:
> Make sure you have alsa-base,alsa-oss,and alsa-utils installed,run
> alsa-conf too.

Yep, those are all installed. Sound does work here but not with Q3 and Doom 3. 
I'll check RTCW later today.

I'm not certain but I think those games may need a sound card to work??

I'll have to dig a bit.

> On 9/29/06, Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hello All,
> >
> > I am trying to get sound working with quake 3 / doom 3 / RTCW from
> > idsoftware.
> > I don't have a sound card in this box. I just use whatever it is on the
> > MB and it has always worked well enough to make me happy.
> >
> >
> > It looks like I am going to have to get a sound card to get sound working
> > with
> > these games. Anyone have these games working, can you tell me what king
> > of sound card you use and if you are happy with it?
> >
> >
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Re: idsoftware games

[Paul Johnson]

On Friday 29 September 2006 11:04, Alan Ianson wrote:

> It looks like I am going to have to get a sound card to get sound working
> with these games. Anyone have these games working, can you tell me what
> king of sound card you use and if you are happy with it?

Creative SoundBlaster Pro 128 works wonderfully.

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Re: RewriteEngine not working in (my) apache2

[Jeff D]

Kaj Wiik wrote:

Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
  

Have you tried adding "RewriteBase /" in there?


Thanks for suggestion, I tried but still nothing to the log and no
redirection.

On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 17:20 -0700, Jeff D wrote:
  

this should do it:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/test/foo\.html  [NC]
RewriteRule foo(.*) /test/foo.html  [R,L]



This suggestion changed the behaviour, now I get an error message:
[Fri Sep 29 14:09:32 2006] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not
exist: /var/www/test.html/foop

instead of the previous:

[Fri Sep 29 14:09:10 2006] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not
exist: /var/www/foop

So some rewriting is happening, but why nothing is written in the log
even if I have
RewriteLogLevel 9
RewriteLog /tmp/rewrite.log
??

I also checked that there are no other Rewrite rules/directives in the
config files..

Thanks,

Kaj

  

here is how I have mine set up:

in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/00-default  after  I have :

RewriteEngine on
RewriteLogLevel 9
RewriteLog /tmp/rewrite
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/test/foo\.html  [NC]
RewriteRule foo(.*) /test/foo.html  [R,L]

in /var/www/ , there is no foo files at all
in /var/www/test/  i have foo.html

Id check to make sure your rewite rules are in your virtualhost 
directive though.




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Re: idsoftware games

[derek]

Make sure you have alsa-base,alsa-oss,and alsa-utils installed,run alsa-conf too.On 9/29/06, Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:Hello All,I am trying to get sound working with quake 3 / doom 3 / RTCW from idsoftware.
I don't have a sound card in this box. I just use whatever it is on the MBand it has always worked well enough to make me happy.It looks like I am going to have to get a sound card to get sound working with
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Re: Etch new install can?t see my serial mouse

[Kevin Mark]

On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 10:47:21AM -0300, Bruno Buys wrote:
> Just installed a brand new etch on a athlon2400. Mouse is serial and xorg 
> won?t
> load complaining 'no core pointer'.
> I tried both imps2 and explore-something (the only 2 options), but no good.
> I also tried to locate my mouse, doing:
> cat /dev/input/mice (which is the suggested location, by dpkg-reconfigure
> xserver-xorg)
> cat /dev/ttyS0 (worked to me several times in the past)
> cat /dev/ttyS1
> cat /dev/ttyS2
> cat /dev/ttyS3
> 
> None of them seem to have a mouse. ttyS0 when catted, throws a bunch of random
> unreadable chars in the screen without me even touching the mouse. When ctrl-
> c?ed, the prompt is left screwed. The other tty?s don?t cat anything at all.
> 
> 
> any ideas?
> thanks!
Maybe you need to load the kernel modules in /etc/modules as the kernel
and udev can not 'detect' a serial mouse being plugged in, at least that
is my understanding.  'sermouse' and 'mousedev' come to mind.
cheers,
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Re: Debian Love

[Richard Lyons]

On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 16:29 +0200, Frank Hart wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 11:08:23AM -0500, Jason Martens wrote:
> > It seems that morale is a bit low among the developers right now, so I

Well, I would like to add a huge thankyou.  I just got a recon box for
£99 (an old compaq with a 1.7 Intel cpu) and downloaded the testing
netist cd yesterday.  Just for a change I decided to try the gui install
and to use lvm (never used it before).  The install was perfect.  The
system just works.  Sweetest install I ever did of any OS.  

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OT: database to manage real estate business?

[Richard Lyons]

Not a debian question, but someone here usually has done it before.

Has anyone come across or created a system for managing real estate
agency, from first viewing to sale, with an emphasis on the
incorporation of the property description, survey photos and drawings,
and perhaps a method to interface with web-pages?  The other side is the
viewings, calendar, legal and sales stuff, which I am less concerned
about at the moment, but of course they should be planned for.

TIA for any ideas.

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Re: mail

[S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu)]

On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 19:54 +0200, David C. Weichert wrote:


Am Freitag, den 29.09.2006, 23:02 +0600 schrieb S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu):
> i cann't remember how, but i was able to send mail to any email
> address from redhat useing "mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] "
> how can i get this with debian ?

Do you mean something like this:

echo "this is a test." | mail -s "test" [EMAIL PROTECTED]

You need to have a mail transfer agent (MTA) configured and running, if
this shall work. The default MTA with Debian is Exim.

Which version of Debian (stable/testing/unstable) are you running? Is
Exim or another MTA (postfix) installed and configured on your system?



i am using unstable. i tried exim. but after long time waiting, it's give me a dalivery failure notice. then now testing send mail. useing mail client with send mail. now i can send. but mail command is not working any more (i removed exim4) 




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Re: Problem with soundcard

[Margiolas Christos]

I fixed my problem. I added the snd in the blacklist and I brang off to boot on debian. After I installed the last kernel image from unstable and I removed the snd from blacklist. After I boot with the new kernel and there wasn't any problem the soundcard also works vary good.
Christos

idsoftware games

[Alan Ianson]

Hello All,

I am trying to get sound working with quake 3 / doom 3 / RTCW from idsoftware. 
I don't have a sound card in this box. I just use whatever it is on the MB 
and it has always worked well enough to make me happy.


It looks like I am going to have to get a sound card to get sound working with 
these games. Anyone have these games working, can you tell me what king of 
sound card you use and if you are happy with it?


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Re: mail

[David C. Weichert]

Am Freitag, den 29.09.2006, 23:02 +0600 schrieb S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu):
> i cann't remember how, but i was able to send mail to any email
> address from redhat useing "mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] "
> how can i get this with debian ?

Do you mean something like this:

echo "this is a test." | mail -s "test" [EMAIL PROTECTED]

You need to have a mail transfer agent (MTA) configured and running, if
this shall work. The default MTA with Debian is Exim.

Which version of Debian (stable/testing/unstable) are you running? Is
Exim or another MTA (postfix) installed and configured on your system?


Kind regards
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Re: Bluefish docs? (WAS: Re: Debian apps for CSS editing)

[Marc Shapiro]

Bud Rogers wrote:


On Thursday 28 September 2006 16:59, Marc Shapiro wrote:

 


I decided to take a look at bluefish, but, after installing it, I can
not find the docs for it.  The manpage is just a single page saying
that it was created for Debian since there was no upstream manpage. 
There is no documentation in /usr/share/doc/bluefish, or

/usr/share/bluefish. The README says that there should be a manual in
the /doc subdirectory, but I can not find such a subdirectory, or
manual.  Is this one of those instances where the developers decided
that it was OK to have the app in Debian, but that the docs were not
acceptable?
   



http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/manual/

That took maybe 20 seconds on google.
 

Yes, and I already had found that from the Debian page for bluefish.  I 
was referring to documentation residing on my system, not online.  
Online documentation is a good thing, but if the upstream program is 
updated, and the documentation along with it, then the docs may no 
longer apply to the version of bluefish that I have on my system.  Since 
I track Stable it is quite likely that there could be several upstream 
revisions while I have and older version on my system.


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Re: mail

[Andrei Popescu]

"S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> i cann't remember how, but i was able to send mail to any email address
> from redhat useing "mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] "
> how can i get this with debian ?

What happens if you try the same?

Regards,
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Re: Postfix configuration (mail to root)

[Andrei Popescu]

Magnus Therning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> >This is how I've configured it:
> >
> > % cat /etc/mailname
> > my.remote.host

> > % hostname -f
> > my.local.host

Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems to me that /etc/mailname should also be
'my.local.host'

HTH
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mail

[S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu)]

i cann't remember how, but i was able to send mail to any email address from redhat useing "mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] "
how can i get this with debian ?





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Re: Debian Love

[Jeff Zhang]

Ottavio Caruso wrote:
> 
> I surely don't and advise anybody against doing that. I was referring
> to some who are both Ubuntu and Debian developers, who start eith the
> former and then send massive disruptive patches to Unstable.
> 
> Ottavio
> 

I'm agree with your points!
I very dislike those guys just to be negligent in doing one's work if
they only like/use ubuntu or some else, then they should just to enjoy
themselves and leave the work to be done by those wholehearted.


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Re: Dialog Example

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Rodrigo Tavares wrote:

Hello,

Where I can a code example of dialog, with intetion: 


Installing one package and happen a bar of progress
when in run this command :

/usr/local/pgsql/bin/createdb -E LATIN1 BD  &>
/dev/nul
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/psql -d DB -U xyzt -h localhost
-f script.sh &> /dev/null

Somebody can help me ?



/usr/share/doc/dialog/examples has 4 examples of "gauge", which is what 
you are looking for.


HTH
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Re: Postfix configuration (mail to root)

[Magnus Therning]

On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 15:23:25 +0100, Magnus Therning wrote:
>I'm having problems with sending emails to root on my machines at work.
>My mail setup is a little strange, I suppose, but not too weird, I think
>:-)
>
>I defer all sending of email.  Postfix uses a relayhost of
>localhost:2300 and my user has a cronjob that sets up an ssh tunnel to a
>remote host, my.remote.host, that I use to actually send the email.
>(This setup is to avoid the exchange mail server that is used at the
>office.  I've had A LOT of problems with it and its administrators.)
>The current setup works fine for sending to external addresses, but not
>for sending to local ones, e.g. to root.
>
> % /usr/lib/sendmail root << EOF
> Subject: hello
>
> hello
> EOF
> % mailq
> 2B62F4B9DD  335 Fri Sep 29 15:07:41  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>(deferred transport)
>  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>This is how I've configured it:
>
> % cat /etc/mailname
> my.remote.host
> % egrep '^root' /etc/aliases
> root: magnus
> % hostname -f
> my.local.host
>
>My /etc/postfix/main.cf contains the following:
>
> myhostname = my.local.host
> myorigin = /etc/mailname
> mydestination = my.local.host, localhost
>
>How do I configure this so that emails for root are sent to
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] rather than [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>And, why are mails sent by the user magnus recorded as sent from
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Oops, just realised that the [EMAIL PROTECTED] is what's stuck in
the From header (different from the From: header) and that this is what
I desire.  Since a lot of servers on the internet does a lookup on the
domain part I need my.remote.host there... so, just disregard the second
question.

/M

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Re: unable to install php with php support

[Esben Jensen]

On Friday 29 September 2006 18:07, Ernst Plüss wrote:
> Any ideas what I'm missing. Addional stuff to install, configuration?
>

You probaly need to add the line:
extension=mysql.so

to your php.ini file.

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Re: unable to install php with php support

[Stephen]

On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 06:07:11PM +0200 or thereabouts, Ernst Plüss wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> Im trying to install php with mysql support without success.
> 
> My configuration:
> - Debian 3.1 stable
> - php 4.4.2 testing
> - mysql 4.1 testing
> 
> I cannot take php from stable since I must have php 4.4.
> 
> I have installed mysql, php4 and php4-mysql.
> If I run phpinfo, mysql no information about mysql is available.

I would stick with Debian packages, assuming you haven't. Why not just
install php5 from backports ?  Then things should pretty much just work
out of the box.



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unable to install php with php support

[Ernst Plüss]

Hi All

Im trying to install php with mysql support without success.

My configuration:
- Debian 3.1 stable
- php 4.4.2 testing
- mysql 4.1 testing

I cannot take php from stable since I must have php 4.4.

I have installed mysql, php4 and php4-mysql.
If I run phpinfo, mysql no information about mysql is available.

Any ideas what I'm missing. Addional stuff to install, configuration?

Best Regards
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Re: Debian Love

[Ottavio Caruso]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>  Ottavio Caruso wrote:
> > > 
> > > How *do* you do that?  
> > 
> > What do you mean?
> 
> cross-compile for another distribution, with presumably
> an entirely different list of package-dependencies.

I surely don't and advise anybody against doing that. I was referring
to some who are both Ubuntu and Debian developers, who start eith the
former and then send massive disruptive patches to Unstable.

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Re: must run alsaconf alll the time for sound to work

[Pollywog]

On Friday 29 September 2006 15:34, Vegard L. Rekaa wrote:

> I'm sorry, but I since module-assistant has cganged its menus, I do not
> understand twat. With the list of sound modules given above, and including
> the fact that my soundcard uses 'snd_ens1371'. Which one can I remove?
>
> Cheers Vegard


If you know the chipset of your soundcard, you could Google and find out which 
drivers are needed.  That's what I did and I found that something was keeping 
my drivers from loading. 


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Re: bash scripting q

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:

Hi,

On my way to elapsed time in a bash script, I created the do_chrono 
command. It pumps the elapsed time to stdout.


So if I do:

a=do_chrono

and then:

$a

I get: 0:3:19.

Problem: I can't use that $a anywhere, e.g. if I say:

echo $a

I would expect to see 0:3:19 again, but I don't, it says

do_chrono


How do I use that $a in command parameters, like logger?



So this is the way it works now:

#!/bin/bash
a=do_chrono # elap to stdout
$($a) &> /dev/null  # Suppress output 1st call clears the chronometer(1)
sleep 1
logger -t do_hibernate_prep =before sleep 4 $($a) # elap since (1)(2)
sleep 4
logger -t do_hibernate_prep =after sleep 4 $($a) # elap since (2)
exit 0

Produces:

Sep 29 09:21:27 debian do_hibernate_prep: =do_hibernate_prep before 
sleep 4 0:0:1.30
Sep 29 09:21:31 debian do_hibernate_prep: =do_hibernate_prep after sleep 
4 0:0:4.30


There probably are better ways of doing it.
Thanks for the answers, couldn't find that in the guide...
H






















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Re: must run alsaconf alll the time for sound to work

[Vegard L. Rekaa]

On 28/09/06, Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tuesday 26 September 2006 18:48, Vegard L. Rekaa wrote:> debian:~# lsmod | grep snd> snd_ens1371226882> gameport137041   snd_ens1371> snd_rawmidi  223041   snd_ens1371
> snd_seq_device8460  1   snd_rawmidi> snd_ac97_codec   82848   1   snd_ens1371> snd_ac97_bus   2304 1   snd_ac97_codec> snd_pcm_oss43936   1
> snd_mixer_oss  15872   2   snd_pcm_oss> snd_pcm 74376   3> snd_ens1371,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss> snd_timer20484   1   snd_pcm
> snd46336   8> snd_ens1371,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer>_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer soundcore89283   snd> snd_page_alloc  99921   snd_pcm
> debian:~#>> Best regards from Vegard (who is getting quite confused of his audio> system...)Look here:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=405170IIRC I had a similar problem when I installed Debian on one machine and Ifixed it by using module-assistant and removing all the ALSA modules except
for the one needed by my mobo's sound card.Also check that the modules are not listed in any of the blacklists, if theabove does not resolve the problem.  I once found one of my ALSA moduleslisted in /etc/hotplug/blacklist and I had not put it there.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]I'm sorry, but I since module-assistant has cganged its menus, I do not
understand twat. With the list of sound modules given above, and
including the fact that my soundcard uses 'snd_ens1371'. Which one can
I remove?

Cheers Vegard

Re: NTP Daemon

[Marc Shapiro]

Michele Della Marina wrote:


I'm looking for a simple NTP client daemon to synchronize the time on
my debian server. I'm testing openntpd but I've this error message:
adjtime failed: Invalid argument

Could someone help me or suggest something?
Thanks


I have been using chrony for quite a while and am happy with it.  It has 
the advantage that, for boxes with an intermittant internet connection, 
it can track the rate of time differential between the local system and 
the ntp server and adjust the time incrementally while the box is not 
online, thus keeping the local time more accurate at such times.


:~$ apt-cache show chrony
Package: chrony
Priority: extra
Section: admin
Installed-Size: 796
Maintainer: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Architecture: i386
Version: 1.20-8
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-21), libncurses5 (>= 5.4-1), libreadline4 
(>= 4.3-1)

Conflicts: ntp, ntpsimple, ntprefclock
Filename: pool/main/c/chrony/chrony_1.20-8_i386.deb
Size: 323020
MD5sum: 715ca8920bbf1c55e13730ed6a7ee6d4
SHA1: 26ac59b4ef03ce024564df5e82d283f76ab56bbb
SHA256: 94a3a50c1d50a7dfea7274a7a78803946a602ef2132cfadcc220cfbd06e24dca
Description: Sets your computer's clock from time servers on the Net
It consists of a pair of programs :
`chronyd'.  This is a daemon which runs in background on the system.  It
obtains measurements (e.g. via the network) of the system's offset
relative to other systems, and adjusts the system time accordingly.  For
isolated systems, the user can periodically enter the correct time by hand
(using `chronyc').  In either case, `chronyd' determines the rate at which
the computer gains or loses time, and compensates for this.  Chronyd
implements the NTP protocol and can act as either a client or a server.
`chronyc'.  This is a command-line driven control and monitoring program.
An administrator can use this to fine-tune various parameters within the
daemon, add or delete servers etc whilst the daemon is running.

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Re: NTP Daemon

[Miles Fidelman]

Stefan Monnier wrote:

I'm looking for a simple NTP client daemon to synchronize the time on
my debian server. I'm testing openntpd but I've this error message:
adjtime failed: Invalid argument

Could someone help me or suggest something?
Thanks
  


  

"aptitude install ntp-server" and off you go.



I believe it's now called just `ntp'.

  

I know it's called a "server" and you want a "client" but there's not really
much difference with NTP and the default configuration should be exactly
what you want.



Indeed.  Incidentally `openntpd' is also both a client and a server.
Openntpd is OK but it seems that it was developped for a kernel whose
time-tracking facilities are not as sophisticated as Linux's (at least they
don't use them).
  

did the following on my recent Sarge install, works like a charm:
apt-get install ntp ntp-doc ntp-server ntpdate


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Re: NTP Daemon

[Stefan Monnier]

>> I'm looking for a simple NTP client daemon to synchronize the time on
>> my debian server. I'm testing openntpd but I've this error message:
>> adjtime failed: Invalid argument
>> 
>> Could someone help me or suggest something?
>> Thanks

> "aptitude install ntp-server" and off you go.

I believe it's now called just `ntp'.

> I know it's called a "server" and you want a "client" but there's not really
> much difference with NTP and the default configuration should be exactly
> what you want.

Indeed.  Incidentally `openntpd' is also both a client and a server.
Openntpd is OK but it seems that it was developped for a kernel whose
time-tracking facilities are not as sophisticated as Linux's (at least they
don't use them).


Stefan


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Re: bash scripting q

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Kevin Mark wrote:

On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 09:22:05PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:

how about
  b=`$a`
  echo $b


or 
echo $($a)



Bingo!!! Thanks!
Is that in the Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide?
H




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Postfix configuration (mail to root)

[Magnus Therning]

I'm having problems with sending emails to root on my machines at work.
My mail setup is a little strange, I suppose, but not too weird, I think
:-)

I defer all sending of email.  Postfix uses a relayhost of
localhost:2300 and my user has a cronjob that sets up an ssh tunnel to a
remote host, my.remote.host, that I use to actually send the email.
(This setup is to avoid the exchange mail server that is used at the
office.  I've had A LOT of problems with it and its administrators.)
The current setup works fine for sending to external addresses, but not
for sending to local ones, e.g. to root.

 % /usr/lib/sendmail root << EOF
 Subject: hello

 hello
 EOF
 % mailq
 2B62F4B9DD  335 Fri Sep 29 15:07:41  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(deferred transport)
  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

This is how I've configured it:

 % cat /etc/mailname
 my.remote.host
 % egrep '^root' /etc/aliases
 root: magnus
 % hostname -f
 my.local.host

My /etc/postfix/main.cf contains the following:

 myhostname = my.local.host
 myorigin = /etc/mailname
 mydestination = my.local.host, localhost

How do I configure this so that emails for root are sent to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] rather than [EMAIL PROTECTED]
And, why are mails sent by the user magnus recorded as sent from
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

/M

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Re: bash scripting q

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Atle Veka wrote:

In your example you are saying that $a is the function 'do_chrono', so
when you run $a, it runs the function and prints out the result. As
another poster indicated, you need to do it slightly differently:

# execute and store result in $a
a=$( do_chrono )

# print
echo $a




Yup, that too!

Thanks!
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Re: bash scripting q

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Ron Johnson wrote:

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Hash: SHA1

On 09/27/06 18:51, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:

Hi,

On my way to elapsed time in a bash script, I created the do_chrono
command. It pumps the elapsed time to stdout.

So if I do:

a=do_chrono

and then:

$a

I get: 0:3:19.

Problem: I can't use that $a anywhere, e.g. if I say:

echo $a

I would expect to see 0:3:19 again, but I don't, it says

do_chrono


How do I use that $a in command parameters, like logger?


how about
  b=`$a`
  echo $b




$a























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Re: Debian 2.4.3

[Chris Mattern]

So I guess these guys are  using a mythical version?




 myrddinbachto Wyatt
More options   Sep 14
Thanks for the info.

it doesn't specify which distro/version of linux though - theres only a few
hundred out there if not more.


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 You're welcome. :-)

We use Debian 2.4.3.

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On 9/28/06, Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:



This question should be on debian-user.

On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 09:04:57PM -0700, myrddinbach wrote:
> Ive searched around to no avail but Im actually interested in getting an
> i386 copy of Debian 2.4.3.

No such version exists.


Michael





No, they simply don't understand the difference between Debian (an
OS distribution, for which there is no version 2.4.3) and Linux
(an OS kernel, for which there is a version 2.4.3).

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Re: SATA and SoundBlaster clash ???

[Dominique Dumont]

Dominique Dumont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I'm wondering if other people have similar problem.

Let me rephrase: Does anyone have a similar setup and *cannot*
reproduce the problem ?

If yes, I may have a H/W problem...

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Re: Can only burn coasters now

[Roberto C. Sanchez]

On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 01:33:00PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 09:02:55PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> > Hello list members,
> [..] 
> > This brings me to my question.  Does anyone know of a way to get the
> > system to notify me of any changes to the DMA status of the drives?  On
> > looking back in the syslog, I see this entry:
> > 
> > Sep 24 17:38:16 miami vmunix: hdd: DMA disabled
> > 
> > However, I am wondering if anyone knows of something to monitor for
> > those sorts of changes and notify the user.  Something like a console
> > warning for programs that try to access the device, or a pop up window
> > if the user is logged in to an X session.  I can probably code something
> > up, but I also don't want to reinvent the wheel.
> 
> Would "logcheck" do what you want?
> 

Funny that you mention that.  I already use logcheck on all of my
machines.  However, when there is lots of noise in the log file, I tend
to miss something like that since it is only one line.

Regards,

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Re: How does Debian load the kernel modules

[zhengda]

Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:

yes, probably so. most of kernels get loaded when (first) used, but not
unloaded. I guess hotplug scripts load modules for every existing piece of
hardware for the system to be able to use it. If you'd blacklist them, you
won't be able to use them, and some of your startup scripts may fail.

You can however check /etc/modules for modules you do not really need and
remove them.
I have removed the unnecessary modules listed in /etc/modules. But lsmod 
shows that there are 74 modules loaded, and 27 modules whose "used by" 
columns show 0.

So can I list all of these unused modules in /etc/hotplug/blacklist.d/?
By the way, does /etc/hotplug/blacklist have the same function of 
/etc/hotplug/blacklist.d/? In my system, there are both.



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Etch new install can´t see my serial mouse

[Bruno Buys]

Just installed a brand new etch on a athlon2400. Mouse is serial and xorg won´t load complaining 'no core pointer'.I tried both imps2 and explore-something (the only 2 options), but no good.I also tried to locate my mouse, doing:
cat /dev/input/mice (which is the suggested location, by dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg)cat /dev/ttyS0 (worked to me several times in the past)cat /dev/ttyS1cat /dev/ttyS2cat /dev/ttyS3None of them seem to have a mouse. ttyS0 when catted, throws a bunch of random unreadable chars in the screen without me even touching the mouse. When ctrl-c´ed, the prompt is left screwed. The other tty´s don´t cat anything at all.
any ideas?thanks!

Re: NTP Daemon

[B_Kloss]

Am Freitag, 29. September 2006 12:33 schrieb CJ van den Berg:
> On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 12:21:20PM +0200, Michele Della Marina wrote:
> > I'm looking for a simple NTP client daemon to synchronize the time on
> > my debian server. I'm testing openntpd but I've this error message:
> > adjtime failed: Invalid argument
> >
> > Could someone help me or suggest something?
> > Thanks
>
> "aptitude install ntp-server" and off you go.
>
> I know it's called a "server" and you want a "client" but there's not
> really much difference with NTP and the default configuration should be
> exactly what you want.

Maybe you might install ntpdate in addition. I think this makes the adjustment 
of the clock quicker once the ntp-'server' has got the time.

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Re: Looking for simple, dynamically configurable HTTP proxy

[Aleksei Dzhulai]

actualy you can use squid : define cache parents and it will detect
working proxies

+ it is automatic
- it is not so lightweight

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>
> I frequently switch between different networks with different HTTP proxy 
> configuration.  Manually switching that configuration is a pain.  So what I 
> am looking for is a local HTTP (and HTTPS) proxy that, at runtime, may be 
> told to switch from proxy configuration A to proxy configuration B.  It 
> should be really nothing more than that, no caching, no filtering, etc.  And 
> configuration switching should be a light-weight process.
>
> Currently, I use good old junkbuster with an empty block file and an empty 
> cookie file.  However,  junkbuster needs to be restarted to properly connect 
> via a new proxy configuration.  And restart takes a relatively long time.
>
> For DNS I have found exactly what I need: pdnsd.  Is there "phttpd"?
>
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Re: Music lovers! Cakewalk?

[Chris Bannister]

On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 03:48:28AM +, s. keeling wrote:
> I've a co-worker I'm trying to convert to Linux.  He's a musician, and
> his primary app in $REDMOND is something called cakewalk.  I've no
> idea what that is (I'm not a musician).  Is there anything in the
> Linux/FOSS world that's equivalent/related/worth looking at?
> Suggestions welcome.  "apt-cache search cakewalk" turns up nothing
> useful (sarge).

Check out the "Debian Music Distribution", DeMudi.
Check the linux-audio-user mailing list for discussion on "cakewalk"

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Re: Rss solution

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On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 09:10:17PM +0200, T wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I'm currently view rss feeds by thunderbird, but I'm wondering if there is
> better solutions out there, because thunderbird can't
> 
> - auto/manual rss feed updates
> - able to handle/filter duplicates
> 
> All in all, please recommend a total rss update/reading solution. 

rawdog?

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Re: Can only burn coasters now

[Chris Bannister]

On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 09:02:55PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> Hello list members,
[..] 
> This brings me to my question.  Does anyone know of a way to get the
> system to notify me of any changes to the DMA status of the drives?  On
> looking back in the syslog, I see this entry:
> 
> Sep 24 17:38:16 miami vmunix: hdd: DMA disabled
> 
> However, I am wondering if anyone knows of something to monitor for
> those sorts of changes and notify the user.  Something like a console
> warning for programs that try to access the device, or a pop up window
> if the user is logged in to an X session.  I can probably code something
> up, but I also don't want to reinvent the wheel.

Would "logcheck" do what you want?


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Re: RewriteEngine not working in (my) apache2

[Kaj Wiik]

Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> Have you tried adding "RewriteBase /" in there?
Thanks for suggestion, I tried but still nothing to the log and no
redirection.

On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 17:20 -0700, Jeff D wrote:
> this should do it:
> RewriteEngine on
> RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/test/foo\.html  [NC]
> RewriteRule foo(.*) /test/foo.html  [R,L]

This suggestion changed the behaviour, now I get an error message:
[Fri Sep 29 14:09:32 2006] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not
exist: /var/www/test.html/foop

instead of the previous:

[Fri Sep 29 14:09:10 2006] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not
exist: /var/www/foop

So some rewriting is happening, but why nothing is written in the log
even if I have
RewriteLogLevel 9
RewriteLog /tmp/rewrite.log
??

I also checked that there are no other Rewrite rules/directives in the
config files..

Thanks,

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Re: NTP Daemon

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On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 12:21:20PM +0200, Michele Della Marina wrote:
> I'm looking for a simple NTP client daemon to synchronize the time on
> my debian server. I'm testing openntpd but I've this error message:
> adjtime failed: Invalid argument
> 
> Could someone help me or suggest something?
> Thanks

"aptitude install ntp-server" and off you go.

I know it's called a "server" and you want a "client" but there's not really
much difference with NTP and the default configuration should be exactly
what you want.

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NTP Daemon

[Michele Della Marina]

I'm looking for a simple NTP client daemon to synchronize the time on
my debian server. I'm testing openntpd but I've this error message:
adjtime failed: Invalid argument

Could someone help me or suggest something?
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Looking for simple, dynamically configurable HTTP proxy

[jens . schmidt35]

Hi.

I frequently switch between different networks with different HTTP proxy 
configuration.  Manually switching that configuration is a pain.  So what I am 
looking for is a local HTTP (and HTTPS) proxy that, at runtime, may be told to 
switch from proxy configuration A to proxy configuration B.  It should be 
really nothing more than that, no caching, no filtering, etc.  And 
configuration switching should be a light-weight process.

Currently, I use good old junkbuster with an empty block file and an empty 
cookie file.  However,  junkbuster needs to be restarted to properly connect 
via a new proxy configuration.  And restart takes a relatively long time.

For DNS I have found exactly what I need: pdnsd.  Is there "phttpd"?

Thanks and regards

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Re: closing mailing lists (was: spamcop)

[Stephen]

On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 07:59:57PM +0100 or thereabouts, Andrew Saunders wrote:
> On 9/26/06, Stephen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> >This appears only relevant to assets and The Debian project as a whole.
> 
> How so? Personally, I'd say that the listmasters are clearly
> "individual Developer(s) working on a particular task" who may "make
> any technical or nontechnical decision with regard to their own work"
> as defined in the Constitution.

Hi Andrew:

Well you pretty much answered the "how so" below. :)

> Just as background: there's a school of thought that holds that people
> in role positions (such as listmaster) ought to be made Delegates
> (whose powers are likewise defined in the Constitution) - see e.g.
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2006/02/msg00686.html for the
> current DPL's stance on that.

Interesting, and thanks for the URL. My position FWIW is that the
delegate idea merits consideration, for such an individual(s) in charge
of the Debian Project Web site, FTP, OR the e-mail lists. I don't think
accountability hinders, it helps with transparency.

I used "FWIW" as I'm not a Debian developer, merely a satisfied user.
That shouldn't matter though eh ? ;)


P.S. The delayed response is due to the org e-mail being stuck in my mailq
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Re: Does WD driver support MaxMultSect=16, and is it safe for a mysql server?

[Matus UHLAR - fantomas]

On 29.09.06 11:10, bbb wrote:
> Subject: Does WD driver support MaxMultSect=16, and is it safe for a mysql 
> server?

> My WD driver `hdparm -i` shows thatt it support multiple sector I/O
> and MaxMultSect=16. But the hdparm manual shows that the value can not
> be set too large especially for WD driver, or it will corrupt the file
> system.
> 
> Does your drivers set the hdparm -m16 to speed up driver r/w
> operations, especially when your driver is WD. Because I am running a
> mysql service, and database r/w ability is very important.

afaik multsect is only suported when DMA is not in use. DMA speeds up
transfers much mode, so you should focus on it.

> Some drives, however (most notably the WD Caviar series), seem to run
> slower with multiple mode enabled.  Your mileage may vary. Most drives
> support the minimum settings of 2, 4, 8, or 16 (sectors). Larger settings
> may also be possible, depending on the drive.  A setting of 16 or 32 seems
> optimal on many systems.  Western Dig- ital recommends lower settings of 4
> to 8 on many of their drives, due tiny (32kB) drive buffers and
> non-optimized buffer- ing algorithms.  The -i flag can be used to find the
> maximum setting supported by an installed drive (look for MaxMultSect in
> the output).  Some drives claim to support multiple mode, but lose data at
> some settings.  Under rare circumstances, such failures can result in
> massive filesystem corruption.

this is very old comment, (>5 years IIRC), and I'm not sure if it applies to
newer drives.
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Re: How does Debian load the kernel modules

[Matus UHLAR - fantomas]

> >zhengda wrote:
> >
> >>lsmod shows me many modules, and some of them aren't used.
> >>So how to prevent them being loaded?
> >>These modules aren't listed in /etc/modules

> Wackojacko wrote:
> >you can list these in /etc/hotplug/blacklist.d/ by creating a new file 
> >e.g. local.

On 29.09.06 10:44, zhengda wrote:
> Thank you. I still really wonder how Debian load the kernel modules.
> It seems Debian loads the modules automatically. And I didn't find the 
> process kerneld. So does it mean that Debian load the modules with the 
> kernel module loader?

yes, probably so. most of kernels get loaded when (first) used, but not
unloaded. I guess hotplug scripts load modules for every existing piece of
hardware for the system to be able to use it. If you'd blacklist them, you
won't be able to use them, and some of your startup scripts may fail.

You can however check /etc/modules for modules you do not really need and
remove them.
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Re: 2.6.18 and ipw3945

[Matus UHLAR - fantomas]

On 28.09.06 13:18, Matt Price wrote:
> now i'm running into something a little more complex.  the
> instructionsstate that I need to first build the ieee80211 module,
> available form the same place; i did that with no difficuty.  I do
> notice however that the debian kernel already seems to have the ieee
> modules integrated!  in any case I continued trying to build the
> ipw3945 modules but end up with this error message:
> 
> /bin/sh: Syntax error: "(" unexpected
> /bin/sh: Syntax error: "(" unexpected
> sed: can't read net/ieee80211.h: No such file or directory
> /bin/sh: [[: not found

That is bash script marked as /bin/sh not running under bash (you probably
have different shell as /bin/sh, which if correct). It is a bug of the
script, check if it was reported already. for now, you can edit the script
and change first line to:
#!/bin/bash

> if I try to set that variable, i get further error messages.  I take
> it there's some kind of mismatch between the versions of ieee80211 in
> the debian-standard kernel and the one I installed with the ieee
> module package I installed.  however removing the latter and
> reinstalling the original kernel gives the same result.  it seems to
> me that ipw3945 is asking me to have a kernel with a different version
> of ieee80211 installed in it -- but I don't see how that could
> possibly happen.
> 
> does this make any sense?  anyone else had this issue?

I wouldn't do anything before fixing the script, the shell incompatibility
may cause all those problems.
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Re: Difference between system time and kernel time ?

[Matus UHLAR - fantomas]

On 28.09.06 17:06, julien WICQUART wrote:
> before sending a bug report to Debian, i prefer ask you about this
> problem. I've got a difference between the system time and the kernel
> time. It can be a few minutes as it can be more than an hour.

> I'm using ntp too (version 4.2.0).

did your HW clock desync with actual time? Did you reboot last time?
what's in your /etc/adjtime ?

> node:~# date; ps faux | grep 'ps';date
> 
> Wed Aug 16 12:32:18 CEST 2006
> root 31129  0.0  0.0  2492  868 pts/0R+   12:14   0:00  |   | \_ ps 
> faux
> root 31130  0.0  0.0  2076  772 pts/0S+   12:14   0:00  |   | \_ grep 
> ps
> Wed Aug 16 12:32:18 CEST 2006
> 
> 
> ps show start times as if commands were launched 18 minutes earlier !?!

It may be caused by system clock desynced with current time and NTP fixing
the time. But I only guess
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Debian AMD64 boots only at random: how to use labels/fstab/grub

[Joost Kraaijeveld]

Hi,

After an update of my kernel to 2.6.17 my machine only boots at random.
I have googled for a solution and it appears that it happens because of
the way the harddisks are found during startup . The solution described
involves using lables in fstab and grub (menu.lst).

But whatever I do, I cannot find a way to add labels in my fstab an grub
that actually work. Can anyone tell me what I have to do to make my
machine boot reliable using labels with fstab/grub? I have tried to add
labels to both fstab and menu.lst but a reboot failed miserably

Excerpt from my menu.lst

title   Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.17-2-amd64
root(hd0,0)
kernel  /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.17-2-amd64 root=/dev/sda1 ro
initrd  /boot/initrd.img-2.6.17-2-amd64
savedefault


My fstab:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information. 
# 
# 
proc/proc   procdefaults0   0 
/dev/sda1   /   ext3defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 
/dev/sdb1   /varext3defaults0   2 
/dev/sdc1   /home   xfs defaults0   2 
/dev/sdc2   /pgdata xfs defaults0   2 
/dev/sda5   noneswapsw  0   0 
/dev/hdc/media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0   0 
/dev/fd0/media/floppy0  autorw,user,noauto  0   0 


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