Re: Beautyfuls OpenGL ScreenSavers

[Ron Johnson]

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On 07/19/07 00:51, Orestes Leal wrote:
> Hi, Folks,
> 
> I need a package  of ScreenSavers to use
> with my OpenGL Accelerated Drivers (ATI)
> that comes with beautyfuls screensavers,
> like The Matriz3D, Lights, Water, Sounds,
> etc, any answer? any site?
> 
> NOTE: Not only a package, separate files
> are accepted too, sources, packages,
> everything.

What's wrong with xscreensaver-gl?

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Re: raid 1

[Alex Samad]

On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 08:19:27AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.07.19.0126 +0200]:
> > > is it true that with software raid 1 that i cannot have the boot drive 
> > > protected?
> > 
> > no. raid 1 boots just fine. I do it on my server at home with a raid1
> > /boot partition and a raid5 / partition.
> 
> that's not true yet. grub2 supposedly supports RAID booting, but
> grub1 actually boots off one of the raid1 disks, not the raid1
> itself. Since booting is read-only, though, this is not a problem,
> but does require you to make sure your BIOS and grub configuration
> can and do fall back to the second component if the first fails. Not
> trivial.
Must have had this in my mind from the pre gub (lilo days), but as pointed out 
by a previous email grub-install on the other disk should do it or I am 
guessing dd in the mbr and dd out. 

Most of my machines allow for boot from the first drive or from the second 
drive.

> 
> >   and during the rebuild process, can the 
> > > rebuild be throttled such that the system remains usable while the 
> > > rebuild 
> > > occurs?
> > 
> > not sure. try man mdadm.
> 
> Yes, it can. /sys/block/md0/md/sync_speed_max .
never too old to learn something new :)
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Re: raid 1

[martin f krafft]

also sprach Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.07.19.0126 +0200]:
> > is it true that with software raid 1 that i cannot have the boot drive 
> > protected?
> 
> no. raid 1 boots just fine. I do it on my server at home with a raid1
> /boot partition and a raid5 / partition.

that's not true yet. grub2 supposedly supports RAID booting, but
grub1 actually boots off one of the raid1 disks, not the raid1
itself. Since booting is read-only, though, this is not a problem,
but does require you to make sure your BIOS and grub configuration
can and do fall back to the second component if the first fails. Not
trivial.

>   and during the rebuild process, can the 
> > rebuild be throttled such that the system remains usable while the rebuild 
> > occurs?
> 
> not sure. try man mdadm.

Yes, it can. /sys/block/md0/md/sync_speed_max .

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Re: Why this crontab does not work?

[Orestes Leal]

On Jue, 19 de Julio de 2007, 12:13 am, CaT dijo:
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 12:13:42PM +0800, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>I have a crontab like this:
>>
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] # crontab -l
>> # m h  dom mon dow   command
>> *   0,12*   *   *   root/root/update.sh
>
> If this is in roots personal crontab then you don't need to tell cron to
> run the script as root. It already knows.
>
Yeah, and this script it´s executable? (chmod +x script)

Regards.
Orestes

Beautyfuls OpenGL ScreenSavers

[Orestes Leal]

Hi, Folks,

I need a package  of ScreenSavers to use
with my OpenGL Accelerated Drivers (ATI)
that comes with beautyfuls screensavers,
like The Matriz3D, Lights, Water, Sounds,
etc, any answer? any site?

NOTE: Not only a package, separate files
are accepted too, sources, packages,
everything.

Best Regards,
Orestes.

Re: problem: SATA performance drop down

[Bob]

GUO Zhijun wrote:

Hi all,

It's a Tyan S2925 with single AMDx2 4800+, 4xWD2500YS, 4x1G DDR2 box.
Running etch 2.6.18-4-amd64, soft raid5 and soft raid 1.  It's serving
web request for static files and nfs export its storage to other
boxes.

 go here for thread
http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.user/browse_frm/thread/99dffc93e01af234/9ca08c7abe7c1949?lnk=gst&rnum=1#9ca08c7abe7c1949

Just spotted this searching for something else so I've CC'd the OP, 
sorry if you get it twice.


I had very similar problems with one of the 3 Seagate 500GB drives in my 
RAID5 array, it would happen every few weeks and I couldn't find the 
problem. The problem was power, the drive was the last of 4 hung off the 
same power cable, I moved 2 of the cable and onto another and bingo, 
problem solved.


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Re: FW: Sending Email from script

[Andrew Sackville-West]

whoops, sent this to Nathan personally instead of thelist. sorry...

On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 03:07:06PM -0400, Mace, Nathan wrote:
> I changed the IP to 127.0.0.1.  That sill didn't help.
> 
> Here are the contents of the log file:
> 
> student-test:/etc# more /var/log/exim4/mainlog
> 2007-07-18 08:12:42 exim 4.63 daemon started: pid=5024, -q30m, listening
> for SMTP on [127.0.0.1]:25
> 2007-07-18 08:12:42 Start queue run: pid=5025
> 2007-07-18 08:12:42 End queue run: pid=5025
> 2007-07-18 08:15:29 exim 4.63 daemon started: pid=5404, -q30m, listening
> for SMTP on [172.16.0.39]:25
> 2007-07-18 08:15:29 Start queue run: pid=5405
> 2007-07-18 08:15:29 End queue run: pid=5405
> 2007-07-18 08:15:52 1IB8Rc-0001Pd-KU <= [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> U=nathan P=local S=401
> 2007-07-18 08:15:52 1IB8Rc-0001Pd-KU ** [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Unrouteable
> address

well... I don't know what to tell you. Couple things you could
try. First, can you get to the net from this machine? I know its
basic, but sometimes...

Also, edit /etc/default/exim4 and put a QUEUERUNNEROPTION='-d' in
there, restart exim4 and look at all the pretty output and see if you
can see why its not routeing the address. 

also look at man exim as there are a number of options for running
exim in various debugging modes that might help. 

I've never had a problem with exim... it mostly just works for me in a
number of configurations, so without sitting down and seeing _exactly_
how its configured, I'm out of ideas. 

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Re: raid 1

[Andrew Sackville-West]

On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 04:47:23PM -0700, Mike Bird wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 July 2007 16:33, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > note the root line (hd0,0). that could just as easily be (hd1,0) or
> > (hd2,0) or (hd3,0). I know I tested it when I built the array, but now
> > you've got me worried that maybe it doesn't work. ack.
> >
> > my pertinent array looks like this:
> >
> >
> > md0 : active raid1 hda1[0] hde1[3] hdg1[2] hdc1[1]
> >   248896 blocks [4/4] []
> >
> > and is mounted on /boot.
> >
> > Am I missing something?
> 
> I was under the impression that grub didn't install an mbr
> to the mirror drives unless one did a grub-install to each.
> Typically I grub-install to each of the mirrors and then to
> the master.  I'd be very happy to be proved mistaken on this.


okay, no you're right... the booting is fine so long as you have an
mbr... its the mbr that's the trick. 

so to the OP, you have to get yourself into a bootloader somehow and
unless you actually install the bootloader onto each disk, then no,
you can't just boot up any one disk from a raid1 array. There are
other ways to get to a bootloader though: a grub floppy or cd for
example, or you can just manually install grub to each drive. 

thanks mike!

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Re: Why this crontab does not work?

[CaT]

On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 12:13:42PM +0800, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote:
> Dear all,
>I have a crontab like this:
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] # crontab -l
> # m h  dom mon dow   command
> *   0,12*   *   *   root/root/update.sh

If this is in roots personal crontab then you don't need to tell cron to
run the script as root. It already knows.

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Why this crontab does not work?

[Magicloud Magiclouds]

Dear all,
   I have a crontab like this:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] # crontab -l
# m h  dom mon dow   command
*   0,12*   *   *   root/root/update.sh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] # more /root/update.sh
#!/bin/bash
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade -d
apt-get autoclean
apt-get autoremove
touch /root/update.sh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] # ls -l /root/update.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 104 2007-07-19 09:01 /root/update.sh


   But it seems that the script have never been called.

Thanks.


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Re: gtablix

[Kumar Appaiah]

On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 09:54:01PM -0400, Mark Grieveson wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gtablix
> /home/mark/.gtablixrc: No such file or directory
> en_CA.utf8
> No such file or directory at /usr/lib/perl5/XML/LibXML.pm line 518.
>  at /usr/share/gtablix/modinfo.pm line 213

How about
export LC_ALL=C
gtablix

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Re: Security newbie?

[Martin Marcher]

On 7/18/07, Art Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

1. Are there repositories of offending IP addresses to block? Can/should
one contribute to these?


denyhosts does that for you
also have a look at fail2ban which can drop IPs for a certain amount
of time after a certain amount of certain logmessages, which are
certainly configurable and certainly i haven't written a sentence yet
that matches the substring  that often.


2. The attacks never use the same user name more than once. Is there a
way to block access, even temporarily, from an IP address after a set
number of attempts, even if the attempts use different user names?


fail2ban


3. Are there other obvious things I should be doing?


if it's ssh - it just obscurity but I found that 90% of the script
kiddies won't hit you if you move your port elsewhere

hth
martin


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gtablix

[Mark Grieveson]

Hello.  I tried to install and run gtablix, which, from what I gather,
is an application to assist in setting up schedules.  It had a
gazillion dependencies (some I had to install later), and it still
won't work for me.  Here's the printout when I try to run it:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gtablix
/home/mark/.gtablixrc: No such file or directory
en_CA.utf8
No such file or directory at /usr/lib/perl5/XML/LibXML.pm line 518.
 at /usr/share/gtablix/modinfo.pm line 213

I'm using Debian Etch.

Mark


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Re: raid 1

[Alex Samad]

On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 04:23:38PM -0700, Mike Bird wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 July 2007 15:50, besonen wrote:
> > is it true that with software raid 1 that i cannot have the boot drive
> > protected?
> 
> No.  However, getting the mirror of the boot drive to be bootable
> under grub in readiness for when the boot drive fails does not seem
> to me to be quite as easy/reliable as it was under LILO.  Maybe a
> grub expert can post a reliable recipe here.
I believe the newer grubs handle that - they write mbr to all drives in the 
raid set

> 
> > if this is the case what are some work-arounds besides using a 
> > 3ware controller for just the boot drive?
> 
> n/a
> 
> > can i take a single drive that was part of a mirrored array and attach it
> > to another computer and access the data?
> 
> With software RAID 1 yes.  (But not with other RAID levels.)
> 
> > if a hard drive in a mirrored array fails, and i replace the failed drive,
> > will the array auto-rebuild?
> 
> Software RAID usually mirrors partitions rather than whole drives.
> 
> You'll need to partition the new drive and add the new partititions to
> the RAIDs.  A couple of minutes work.  The mirrors will then rebuild.

You can have a spare drive sitting in the machine as a hot spare if you want 


> 
> > and during the rebuild process, can the 
> > rebuild be throttled such that the system remains usable while the rebuild
> > occurs?
> 
> Yes.  You can change the speedlimits by echoing integers into
> /proc/sys/dev/raid/speed_limit_{min,max}
> 
> --Mike Bird
> 
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Re: raid 1

[Alex Samad]

On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 12:50:45AM +0200, besonen wrote:
>
> i'm interested in learning what i need to know to stop using (or reduce my 
> dependence on) 3ware raid cards for mirroring.
>
> i would like to reduce my dependence on proprietary hardware.
>
>
> some questions to get started:
>
> is it true that with software raid 1 that i cannot have the boot drive 
> protected?  if this is the case what are some work-arounds besides using a 
> 3ware controller for just the boot drive?
this was the case hasn't been the case for a while, I believe the new (?) etch 
installer lets you install to raid boot/root.


My standard build setup now a days is 500m raid 1 parition on disk 1 and 2 for 
/boot, the rest of the drive for raid ( 1 or 5 - depending on how many drives I 
have) I then use this space and place lvm on top if it and go from there. a lv 
for /, for /var/log, for /tmp 


I don;t have to worry about dying controller cards and incompatibilities and I 
am in the early stages of growing my raid5 from 200G drives to 500G drives live 

>
> can i take a single drive that was part of a mirrored array and attach it 
> to another computer and access the data?
yep
>
> if a hard drive in a mirrored array fails, and i replace the failed drive, 
> will the array auto-rebuild?  and during the rebuild process, can the 
> rebuild be throttled such that the system remains usable while the rebuild 
> occurs?
You will have to type a few commands, 1 to add the drive to the array - I think 
the module is the place you do the throttling.

Plus best to raid partitions and not whole drives
>
>
> thanks,
> david
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Re: Sylpheed: staying in thread upon deletion

[Celejar]

On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 20:01:09 +0200
Sjoerd Hiemstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 10:07:21 -0400
> Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 11:26:41 +0200
> > Sjoerd Hiemstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 15:18:50 -0400 Celejar wrote:
> > > > I'm using thread view (...) and sorting by date.
> > > > When I delete a message, Sylpheed jumps to the next message by date,
> > > > not to what I want, the next message in the current thread.
> > > > Is there any way to change this?
> > > 
> > > Yes, sorting should be switched off:  View > Sort > Don't sort
> > > 
> > > If you ever want to sort the messages by date in the future, you can
> > > do so by clicking 'Date' in the Summary View, or with  View > Sort >
> > > by date, but immediately after that, again do a  View > Sort > Don't
> > > sort.
> > 
> > Thanks.  I mentioned in my original post that I realized that I could
> > keep toggling sorting, but that it's a rather awkward solution.
> > There's really no graceful way to do what I want? I'd have thought that
> > it would be a common thing to do.
> 
> Yes, there is - as I see it, you did not quite understand it.
> Simply do 'View > Sort > Don't sort' once, and Sylpheed does exactly what
> you want!!
> The threads will remain sorted by date anyway, since they are added at the
> end.

You're right; I didn't quite understand you.  I didn't realize that
keeping sorting off would work because of new messages being added at
the end.

> If, on rare occasions, old messages happen to get mixed up because of
> moving messages between folders, then if you re-sort them by date, this
> should be followed by a new 'Don't sort'.
> 
> Hoping I've made myself clearer now,

Thanks!
I'm still wondering, though, about the question I raised in my original
post; if 'Next' moves to the next message within the thread even when
sorting, shouldn't 'Delete' behave the same way?

> Regards,
> Sjoerd

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Re: raid 1

[Mike Bird]

On Wednesday 18 July 2007 16:33, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> note the root line (hd0,0). that could just as easily be (hd1,0) or
> (hd2,0) or (hd3,0). I know I tested it when I built the array, but now
> you've got me worried that maybe it doesn't work. ack.
>
> my pertinent array looks like this:
>
>
> md0 : active raid1 hda1[0] hde1[3] hdg1[2] hdc1[1]
>   248896 blocks [4/4] []
>
> and is mounted on /boot.
>
> Am I missing something?

I was under the impression that grub didn't install an mbr
to the mirror drives unless one did a grub-install to each.
Typically I grub-install to each of the mirrors and then to
the master.  I'd be very happy to be proved mistaken on this.

--Mike Bird


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Re: raid 1

[Andrew Sackville-West]

On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 04:23:38PM -0700, Mike Bird wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 July 2007 15:50, besonen wrote:
> > is it true that with software raid 1 that i cannot have the boot drive
> > protected?
> 
> No.  However, getting the mirror of the boot drive to be bootable
> under grub in readiness for when the boot drive fails does not seem
> to me to be quite as easy/reliable as it was under LILO.  Maybe a
> grub expert can post a reliable recipe here.

hmmm... my system boots from grub just fine with no magic. This is
using a raid1 /boot partition mirrored over 4 drives (for
convenience). I can manually edit the boot stanzas to boot from any of
the partitions in that array and it works fine. 

my grub stanza

title   Xen 3.0.3-1-i386 / Debian GNU/Linux, kernel
2.6.18-4-xen-686
root(hd0,0)
kernel  /xen-3.0.3-1-i386.gz
module  /vmlinuz-2.6.18-4-xen-686 root=/dev/md1 ro
console=tty0 pciback.hide=(:02:08.0)
module  /initrd.img-2.6.18-4-xen-686
savedefault

note the root line (hd0,0). that could just as easily be (hd1,0) or
(hd2,0) or (hd3,0). I know I tested it when I built the array, but now
you've got me worried that maybe it doesn't work. ack. 

my pertinent array looks like this:


md0 : active raid1 hda1[0] hde1[3] hdg1[2] hdc1[1]
  248896 blocks [4/4] []

and is mounted on /boot.

Am I missing something?

A


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Re: raid 1

[Andrew Sackville-West]

On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 12:50:45AM +0200, besonen wrote:
>
> i'm interested in learning what i need to know to stop using (or reduce my 
> dependence on) 3ware raid cards for mirroring.
>
> i would like to reduce my dependence on proprietary hardware.

good plan...

>
>
> some questions to get started:
>
> is it true that with software raid 1 that i cannot have the boot drive 
> protected?

no. raid 1 boots just fine. I do it on my server at home with a raid1
/boot partition and a raid5 / partition.

>
> can i take a single drive that was part of a mirrored array and attach it 
> to another computer and access the data?

so far as I know, yes, for a mirrored array. other configurations
cannot do this.

>
> if a hard drive in a mirrored array fails, and i replace the failed drive, 
> will the array auto-rebuild?

yes, once you add the partitions to the array, it will rebuild it.

  and during the rebuild process, can the 
> rebuild be throttled such that the system remains usable while the rebuild 
> occurs?

not sure. try man mdadm.


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Re: raid 1

[Mike Bird]

On Wednesday 18 July 2007 15:50, besonen wrote:
> is it true that with software raid 1 that i cannot have the boot drive
> protected?

No.  However, getting the mirror of the boot drive to be bootable
under grub in readiness for when the boot drive fails does not seem
to me to be quite as easy/reliable as it was under LILO.  Maybe a
grub expert can post a reliable recipe here.

> if this is the case what are some work-arounds besides using a 
> 3ware controller for just the boot drive?

n/a

> can i take a single drive that was part of a mirrored array and attach it
> to another computer and access the data?

With software RAID 1 yes.  (But not with other RAID levels.)

> if a hard drive in a mirrored array fails, and i replace the failed drive,
> will the array auto-rebuild?

Software RAID usually mirrors partitions rather than whole drives.

You'll need to partition the new drive and add the new partititions to
the RAIDs.  A couple of minutes work.  The mirrors will then rebuild.

> and during the rebuild process, can the 
> rebuild be throttled such that the system remains usable while the rebuild
> occurs?

Yes.  You can change the speedlimits by echoing integers into
/proc/sys/dev/raid/speed_limit_{min,max}

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Re: Benefits of using aptitude

[Andrei Popescu]

Stefan Monnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I actually keep wondering why apt-get and aptitude are not merged
> into one (it looks like it good almost be done by just renaming
> aptitude to apt-get).

See http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2007/06/msg00379.html and the
entire thread. Very interesting. Besides, aptitude does not implement
some of apt-get's functions (source, build-depends, ...).

In my understanding, the devs (of APT and aptitude) are
going towards moving all advanced functions into APT so all
frontends (synaptic, adept, ...) can take advantage of them.

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Re: Benefits of using aptitude

[Andrei Popescu]

Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> If one uses only aptitude, there is no problem, but if one mixes the
> two commands, then aptitude will eventually get confused and want to
> remove vital components.

As said before in the original thread, this problem should be solved by
now. If you still encounter problems please do file a bug. Daniel
Burrows (the maintainer) is very responsive AFAICT.

Regards,
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how to bypass multimedia keys in xscreensavers-lock-mode?

[Raphael Brunner]

Hi all

Does anyone know a solution to bypass some keys at xscreensaver's
locked-mode? If the screen is locked, and I press the key volume-up,
then the password-box appears and the volume doesn't change. 

Google show  many users with the same problem in older times... is there
now a solution for this problem/feature?

Thanks a lot!

greetings, raphael


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Re: openvpn in spite of firewalls

[Alex Samad]

On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 10:57:10AM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote:
>
> On Jul 18, 2007, at 10:15 AM, PETER EASTHOPE wrote:
>
>> Folk,
>>
>> I've installed openvpn on two systems and tried some
>> configurations including Example 2 from the man page.
>> Seems that firewalls block successfully (sarcasm).
>> Nevertheless, http, ssh, ftp and a few other protocols
>> work.
>
> If you control the firewalls, the obvious answer would be to open the port 
> that OpenVPN is using.  But I assume you'd have done that already if that 
> was the case.
>
> Ideally, you could find a port the firewall doesn't block that you're not 
> using for other purposes.  For example, many firewalls allow HTTPS on TCP 
> port 443, so you could try that one.  UDP port 53 is another possibility; 
> it's usually left open for DNS purposes.

The rfc that details proxy's (if you trying to get through a corporate firewall 
and they have a proxy), is to allow port 563 through as well as 443 (https).  
563 is nntps - strangely a lot of proxies are by default configured to let this 
through.


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Re: More fun (not!) with JRE

[andy]

Andrew Sackville-West wrote:

On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 06:59:22PM +0100, andy wrote:
  

Andrew Sackville-West wrote:

that doesn't mean you shouldn't try though...   
  
Oh I will, trust me!! ;-) Just as a point of fact however, Java is supposed 
to be OS independent isn't it. I'd look stoopid if I go spouting off on 
something that is untrue ... not good for my credibility



I guess its supposed to be, but how well that works is debatable. My
very rough understanding is that some of the stuff is _not_ platform
independent. just to refresh my memory, which JRE are you running? 


A
  

My version is sun-java6-jre (apparently arch independent).

I was able to capture some error code when accessing the site. This is 
the result of my attempt to call

javascript:parent.chat_applet_frame.document.chatapplet.openRoom1()

Error: node : TypeError: Value undefined (result of expression
parent.chat_applet_frame.document.chatapplet.openRoom1) is not an object.
Cannot be called.

I don't much about this kind of thing, but I'd say that this appears 
quite obvious that the fault is on the site side rather than on my side 
... except this is where I spoofed the user agent string, so don't know 
if that confused things a bit.


A

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Re: Automatic deployment and maintenance

[Mark Drago]

On 7/17/07, Sebastien JUST <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Ok I definitivly feels engaged in it. We'll talk about this off list.

I shall ask people also, if they are also interesting in such a tool, or
is somebody wanting to work on it too ?

Sebastien



Sebastien,

I feel like it's important that we at least discuss our ideas
somewhere soon so that we don't risk letting this slip out of sight.
I am wondering what our next action should be.  Should we set up a
mailing list and a one-page website?  Should we create a project on
source forge or somewhere else where we can at least discuss our ideas
in a mailing list?  I am able to host a mailing list so that we can
further discuss this idea if you think that would work out well.  I'm
pretty psyched about getting this started.

So, what do you think about me creating a mailing list for us to flesh
out our ideas?  This will also help us get this discussion off of
debian-user.  :o)

Mark.


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Re: which package can compress VCD file to a different format?

[Avi Rozen]

ffmpeg, mencoder, and transcode are obvious tools for this, but
getting nice enough results can be pretty tricky... lots of codecs,
lots of options... very little time...

avidemux is a very nice gui app that is meant to be "virtualdub for
linux" - but the first avi that I tried to compress from 2.1GB to
700MB, had playback problems due to bad handling of B-frames in the
original clip. YMMV.

I'm currently using ripmake - a perl script that generates a makefile
that runs transcode and other tools. It's rather easy to use, and it
can also generate a sample clip, so that you can tune the parameters
before running the complete job:

ripmake -c 1 clip.avi avi  # "-c 1" selects one cd target size
make -f clip-avi.mak rip

All tools courtesy of  the debian-mutimedia repo.

Have fun,
Avi.



Serena Cantor wrote:

> Thanks!
>
> I'm considering first convert it to AVI, then convert it to real media
> but converting avi take too much time and space,
> besides, real media is not open source
>
>
>
> 
> Take the Internet to Go: Yahoo!Go puts the Internet in your pocket: mail, 
> news, photos & more. 
> http://mobile.yahoo.com/go?refer=1GNXIC
>
>
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Re: Benefits of using aptitude

[Joe Hart]

On Wednesday 18 July 2007 21:31:28 Stefan Monnier wrote:
> >> Still, if you're used to apt-get, I don't really see a reason to switch.
> >> I always recommend aptitude, but never tell users to switch from apt-get
> >> on a running system. If I should, please let me know the reasons.
> >
> > The biggest benefit (at least until the new apt) would be the automatic
> > removal of dependencies. Otherwise the TUI is quite useful sometimes,
> > (especially when "browsing" for new packages), the search patterns, ...
>
> I actually keep wondering why apt-get and aptitude are not merged into one
> (it looks like it good almost be done by just renaming aptitude to
> apt-get).

No! Please don't recommend doing that.  While aptitude and apt-get are both 
front ends for dpkg, they are quite different in how they operate.  Sure, 
aptitude will accept many of the same paramaters as apt-get, but it's 
dependency handling is quite different.

If one uses only aptitude, there is no problem, but if one mixes the two 
commands, then aptitude will eventually get confused and want to remove vital 
components.

What is worse, is that when running Sid, aptitude gets confused on packages 
disappearing, or being renamed.  It's recoverable, but a royal PITA when 
having to deal with the problem.  This point is of course irrelavent if one 
is running Etch.  With Lenny, it's somewhat relavent.

Joe



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Re: Benefits of using aptitude

[Jim Crossley]

Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 07:10:17AM +, Silke Suck wrote:
>  
>> Still, if you're used to apt-get, I don't really see a reason to switch.
>> I always recommend aptitude, but never tell users to switch from apt-get
>> on a running system. If I should, please let me know the reasons.
>  
> The biggest benefit (at least until the new apt) would be the automatic 
> removal of dependencies. Otherwise the TUI is quite useful sometimes, 
> (especially when "browsing" for new packages), the search patterns, ...

I second the bigness of the removal of deps benefit.  I also like the
historical record in /var/log/aptitude, the integrated apt-cache
features, and the perhaps mistaken perception that aptitude seems to
be better able to resolve conflicts when they occur.  I also like that
it has two UI's: both are often handy.

Jim


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Re: apt-get install g++-3.4 problem

[Florian Kulzer]

On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 20:36:09 +0200, tomas DOT itsx AT centrum DOT cz wrote:
> 
>  Hi all :)
> 
>  I have this problem:
>  i try to install g++ but apt-get print this:
> 
> # apt-get -f install g++-3.4

[...]

> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>   g++-3.4: Depends: libstdc++6-dev (= 3.4.6-5) but it is not going to be 
> installed
> E: Broken packages
> 
> this is my source.list:
> 
>  deb http://ftp.cz.debian.org/debian/ etch main
>deb-src http://ftp.cz.debian.org/debian/ etch main

This mirror definitely has libstdc++6-dev available; see here:

http://ftp.cz.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gcc-3.4/

>#deb http://ftp.cz.debian.org/debian/ unstable main
>#deb  http://security.debian.org/  stable/updates main
>#deb http://ftp.cz.debian.org/debian/ testing main

You had some testing/unstable packages installed at some point? Maybe
you still have something on your system which blocks the "stable"
libstdc++6-dev package.

>deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib
>deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib
>  
>  please couldnt you suggest what goes wrong?

Please post the output of the following two commands:

apt-cache policy libstdc++6-dev

apt-get install -s libstdc++6-dev

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Re: Benefits of using aptitude

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Still, if you're used to apt-get, I don't really see a reason to switch.
>> I always recommend aptitude, but never tell users to switch from apt-get
>> on a running system. If I should, please let me know the reasons.
 
> The biggest benefit (at least until the new apt) would be the automatic 
> removal of dependencies. Otherwise the TUI is quite useful sometimes, 
> (especially when "browsing" for new packages), the search patterns, ...

I actually keep wondering why apt-get and aptitude are not merged into one
(it looks like it good almost be done by just renaming aptitude to apt-get).


Stefan


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RE: FW: Sending Email from script

[Mace, Nathan]

I changed the IP to 127.0.0.1.  That sill didn't help.

Here are the contents of the log file:

student-test:/etc# more /var/log/exim4/mainlog
2007-07-18 08:12:42 exim 4.63 daemon started: pid=5024, -q30m, listening
for SMTP on [127.0.0.1]:25
2007-07-18 08:12:42 Start queue run: pid=5025
2007-07-18 08:12:42 End queue run: pid=5025
2007-07-18 08:15:29 exim 4.63 daemon started: pid=5404, -q30m, listening
for SMTP on [172.16.0.39]:25
2007-07-18 08:15:29 Start queue run: pid=5405
2007-07-18 08:15:29 End queue run: pid=5405
2007-07-18 08:15:52 1IB8Rc-0001Pd-KU <= [EMAIL PROTECTED]
U=nathan P=local S=401
2007-07-18 08:15:52 1IB8Rc-0001Pd-KU ** [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Unrouteable
address
2007-07-18 08:15:52 1IB8Rc-0001Pf-OO <= <> R=1IB8Rc-0001Pd-KU
U=Debian-exim P=local S=1258
2007-07-18 08:15:52 1IB8Rc-0001Pd-KU Completed
2007-07-18 08:15:52 1IB8Rc-0001Pf-OO => nathan
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> R=local_user T=mail_spool
2007-07-18 08:15:52 1IB8Rc-0001Pf-OO Completed
2007-07-18 08:45:29 Start queue run: pid=6960
2007-07-18 08:45:29 End queue run: pid=6960
2007-07-18 09:02:02 1IB9AI-00022I-1B <= [EMAIL PROTECTED]
U=logcheck P=local S=1733
2007-07-18 09:02:02 1IB9AI-00022I-1B ** [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Unrouteable
address
2007-07-18 09:02:02 1IB9AI-00022Q-6G <= <> R=1IB9AI-00022I-1B
U=Debian-exim P=local S=2596
2007-07-18 09:02:02 1IB9AI-00022Q-6G ** [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Unrouteable address
2007-07-18 09:02:02 1IB9AI-00022Q-6G Frozen (delivery error message)
2007-07-18 09:02:02 1IB9AI-00022I-1B Completed
2007-07-18 09:15:29 Start queue run: pid=8486
2007-07-18 09:15:29 1IB9AI-00022Q-6G Message is frozen
2007-07-18 09:15:29 End queue run: pid=8486
2007-07-18 09:45:29 Start queue run: pid=10041
2007-07-18 09:45:29 1IB9AI-00022Q-6G Message is frozen
2007-07-18 09:45:29 End queue run: pid=10041
2007-07-18 09:54:15 exim 4.63 daemon started: pid=10644, -q30m,
listening for SMTP on [172.16.0.39]:25
2007-07-18 09:54:15 Start queue run: pid=10645
2007-07-18 09:54:15 1IB9AI-00022Q-6G Message is frozen
2007-07-18 09:54:15 End queue run: pid=10645
2007-07-18 10:02:02 1IBA6M-0002tm-2i <= [EMAIL PROTECTED]
U=logcheck P=local S=1524
2007-07-18 10:02:02 1IBA6M-0002tm-2i ** [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Unrouteable
address
2007-07-18 10:02:02 1IBA6M-0002tq-8O <= <> R=1IBA6M-0002tm-2i
U=Debian-exim P=local S=2387
2007-07-18 10:02:02 1IBA6M-0002tq-8O ** [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Unrouteable address
2007-07-18 10:02:02 1IBA6M-0002tq-8O Frozen (delivery error message)
2007-07-18 10:02:02 1IBA6M-0002tm-2i Completed
2007-07-18 10:05:31 1IBA9j-0002xi-RS <= [EMAIL PROTECTED]
U=nathan P=local S=401
2007-07-18 10:05:31 1IBA9j-0002xi-RS ** [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Unrouteable
address
2007-07-18 10:05:32 1IBA9j-0002xk-Uv <= <> R=1IBA9j-0002xi-RS
U=Debian-exim P=local S=1258
2007-07-18 10:05:32 1IBA9j-0002xi-RS Completed
2007-07-18 10:05:32 1IBA9j-0002xk-Uv => nathan
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> R=local_user T=mail_spool
2007-07-18 10:05:32 1IBA9j-0002xk-Uv Completed
2007-07-18 10:24:15 Start queue run: pid=12622
2007-07-18 10:24:15 1IB9AI-00022Q-6G Message is frozen
2007-07-18 10:24:15 1IBA6M-0002tq-8O Message is frozen
2007-07-18 10:24:15 End queue run: pid=12622
2007-07-18 10:54:15 Start queue run: pid=14237
2007-07-18 10:54:15 1IB9AI-00022Q-6G Message is frozen
2007-07-18 10:54:15 1IBA6M-0002tq-8O Message is frozen
2007-07-18 10:54:15 End queue run: pid=14237
2007-07-18 11:02:02 1IBB2Q-0003pm-Dp <= [EMAIL PROTECTED]
U=logcheck P=local S=13372
2007-07-18 11:02:02 1IBB2Q-0003pm-Dp ** [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Unrouteable
address
2007-07-18 11:02:02 1IBB2Q-0003pq-Ii <= <> R=1IBB2Q-0003pm-Dp
U=Debian-exim P=local S=14235
2007-07-18 11:02:02 1IBB2Q-0003pq-Ii ** [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Unrouteable address
2007-07-18 11:02:02 1IBB2Q-0003pq-Ii Frozen (delivery error message)
2007-07-18 11:02:02 1IBB2Q-0003pm-Dp Completed
2007-07-18 11:02:23 exim 4.63 daemon started: pid=14942, -q30m,
listening for SMTP on [127.0.0.1]:25
2007-07-18 11:02:23 Start queue run: pid=14943
2007-07-18 11:02:23 1IB9AI-00022Q-6G Message is frozen
2007-07-18 11:02:23 1IBA6M-0002tq-8O Message is frozen
2007-07-18 11:02:23 1IBB2Q-0003pq-Ii Message is frozen
2007-07-18 11:02:23 End queue run: pid=14943
2007-07-18 11:02:32 1IBB2u-0003tK-HX <= [EMAIL PROTECTED]
U=nathan P=local S=401
2007-07-18 11:02:32 1IBB2u-0003tK-HX ** [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Unrouteable
address
2007-07-18 11:02:32 1IBB2u-0003tM-L1 <= <> R=1IBB2u-0003tK-HX
U=Debian-exim P=local S=1258
2007-07-18 11:02:32 1IBB2u-0003tK-HX Completed
2007-07-18 11:02:32 1IBB2u-0003tM-L1 => nathan
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> R=local_user T=mail_spool
2007-07-18 11:02:32 1IBB2u-0003tM-L1 Completed 


Nathan


-Original Message-
From: Andrew Sackville-West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 2:54 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: FW: Sending Email from script

On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 01:56:30PM -0400, Mace, Nathan wrote:
> I re-ran it again with the following options:
> 
> Split config into small files?  

Re: OT: Cycling: [was: [OT] A significant negative impact on Linux's popularity?]

[Andrei Popescu]

On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 08:29:47AM +0200, Michael Dominok wrote:
 
> > As for dedicated bicycle lanes, I've been very impressed by the ones in 
> > Germany and Austria (usually half of the sidewalk).
> 
> Well, it depends. If there's enough space and budget and will there
> might be usable bicycle lanes. But the average bicycle lane (in germany,
> western part) is a holey, hunchbacked, worn-out and neglected strip of
> asphalt which looks like it had no maintainance since the romans build
> it...

I'll take that anytime instead of riding through the traffic in Romania.  
(and I do NOT live in Bucharest, b ...)

> ... unless you're living in a city dedicated to encouraging cycling.
> e.g. Münster, home of Linus Gerdeman, our man (who has been) in 
> yellow.
> 8-) 

I've heard stories that cyclists in Münster ride with stretched elbows 
(very unfortunate for pedestrians walking to close to the bicycle lane).
Is that true?

Regards,
Andrei
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Re: Drbd8

[Burkhard Ott]

Am Wed, 18 Jul 2007 19:00:13 +0200 schrieb Pierguido:

>   net {
> #allow-two-primaries;
> cram-hmac-alg "sha1";
> shared-secret "FooFunFactory";

Did you create the metafile?
What happens if you uncomment allow-two-primaries?


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Re: Aptitude losing "focus"

[Andrei Popescu]

On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 10:16:45AM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
> Hello:
>
> I know others have reported this, but aptitude (on my testing system) keeps
> losing the keyboard.  As someone else said, the keystrokes are going to the
> terminal from which it was started.  One suggestion was to remove
> libc6-i686.  Is that a safe thing to do?  And will it, if so, noticeably
> impair performance?

It seems that running kernel 2.6.21 will also help. At least it does for 
me.

Regards,
Andrei
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Benefits of using aptitude [Was: Re: how to shift from stable to testing]

[Andrei Popescu]

On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 07:10:17AM +, Silke Suck wrote:
 
> Still, if you're used to apt-get, I don't really see a reason to switch.
> I always recommend aptitude, but never tell users to switch from apt-get
> on a running system. If I should, please let me know the reasons.
 
The biggest benefit (at least until the new apt) would be the automatic 
removal of dependencies. Otherwise the TUI is quite useful sometimes, 
(especially when "browsing" for new packages), the search patterns, ...

Regards,
Andrei
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Re: Regex Question

[Bob McGowan]

Daniel Burrows wrote:

On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 09:43:32AM -0700, Bob McGowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was 
heard to say:
Next, grep supports what most would now call a subset of full regular 
expression syntax.  This does not include parenthesis or alternation. So 
when you put a backslash in front of the pipe symbol, 'grep' simply looks 
for the literal string 'in|hill', which does not exist in the file.  Add it 
and you'll see it work.


  Actually, grep will treat the pipe as alternation, if it's backslash
escaped:


Interesting, I was not aware of this.  So I checked the man page and 
found this:


---
grep understands three different versions of regular expression syntax: 
 “basic,” “extended,” and “perl.”  In GNU grep, there is no difference 
in  available functionality using either of the first two syntaxes.  In 
other implementations, basic regular expressions are less powerful.  The 
following description applies to extended regular expressions; 
differences for basic regular expressions are summarized afterwards.

---
and:
---
In basic regular expressions the metacharacters ?, +, {, |, (, and ) 
lose  their  special  meaning; instead use the backslashed versions \?, 
\+, \{, \|, \(, and \).

---

Just goes to show that reading the man page can often help ;) 
particularly when portability is an issue.




[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ echo -e 'in the grey morning\nwe climbed the hill.' | grep 
'in\|hill'
in the grey morning
we climbed the hill.

  Note that I had to double-escape the pipe: once using single-quotes to
hide it from the shell, and once with a backslash to tell grep it was
special.  I could have written:

grep in\\\|hill

  but that would have been gross and nasty. :)

  Daniel




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Re: More fun (not!) with JRE

[Andrew Sackville-West]

On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 06:59:22PM +0100, andy wrote:
> Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
>>
>> that doesn't mean you shouldn't try though...   
> Oh I will, trust me!! ;-) Just as a point of fact however, Java is supposed 
> to be OS independent isn't it. I'd look stoopid if I go spouting off on 
> something that is untrue ... not good for my credibility

I guess its supposed to be, but how well that works is debatable. My
very rough understanding is that some of the stuff is _not_ platform
independent. just to refresh my memory, which JRE are you running? 

A


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Re: FW: Sending Email from script

[Andrew Sackville-West]

On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 01:56:30PM -0400, Mace, Nathan wrote:
> I re-ran it again with the following options:
> 
> Split config into small files?   No
> General Type of Mail ConfigurationInternet site; mail is
> sent and received directly using SMTP
> System mail name: hostname.mydomain.edu
> IP Addresses for incoming SMTP172.16.0.39 (servers IP
> address)

I think you also need to specify 127.0.0.1 here

> Other destinations for which mail is accepted
> hostname.mydomain.edu
> Domains to relay mail for:<>   (could
> this be my problem?)

we're talking about exim on the machine that is trying to send the
mail, correct? in that case, no this is not the problem. relaying is
taking mail from one server and sending it to another, and you are not
doing that, unless I misunderstand.

> Machines to replay mail for:  <>
> Keep number of DNS-queries minimal?   No
> Delivery method for local mail:   Mbox
> 
> 
> Do I have something specified wrong?

other than possibly the 127.0.0.1 above, i don't think so. how about
providing the relevant snips from /var/log/exim4/mainlog when trying
to send this mail. 

A


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Re: Set up LAN DNS server

[David Brodbeck]

On Jul 18, 2007, at 11:32 AM, Mankuthimma wrote:

AFAIK, dnsmasq only provides DNS caching services. Whereas the OP  
is looking to host a local domain - mxdomain.in which can only be  
done in a full-fledged DNS system such as Bind.


Not true.  dnsmasq will read /etc/hosts (or another file with the  
same format, if you prefer) and serve both forward and reverse  
lookups from it.  It'll lookup and cache anything it can't resolve  
from local files.  I use it all the time for providing local DNS  
views on private networks.  It's a nice, lightweight solution.  It  
also comes with an integrated DHCP server.  It's a very handy thing  
to run on a box that's serving as a NAT gateway.

Re: openvpn in spite of firewalls

[David Brodbeck]

On Jul 18, 2007, at 10:15 AM, PETER EASTHOPE wrote:


Folk,

I've installed openvpn on two systems and tried some
configurations including Example 2 from the man page.
Seems that firewalls block successfully (sarcasm).
Nevertheless, http, ssh, ftp and a few other protocols
work.


If you control the firewalls, the obvious answer would be to open the  
port that OpenVPN is using.  But I assume you'd have done that  
already if that was the case.


Ideally, you could find a port the firewall doesn't block that you're  
not using for other purposes.  For example, many firewalls allow  
HTTPS on TCP port 443, so you could try that one.  UDP port 53 is  
another possibility; it's usually left open for DNS purposes.



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RE: FW: Sending Email from script

[Mace, Nathan]

I re-ran it again with the following options:

Split config into small files?   No
General Type of Mail Configuration  Internet site; mail is
sent and received directly using SMTP
System mail name:   hostname.mydomain.edu
IP Addresses for incoming SMTP  172.16.0.39 (servers IP
address)
Other destinations for which mail is accepted
hostname.mydomain.edu
Domains to relay mail for:  <>   (could
this be my problem?)
Machines to replay mail for:<>
Keep number of DNS-queries minimal? No
Delivery method for local mail: Mbox


Do I have something specified wrong?


Nathan


-Original Message-
From: Andrew Sackville-West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 1:00 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: FW: Sending Email from script

On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 12:25:52PM -0400, Mace, Nathan wrote:
>  I got the following email on the servers local mail system when I 
> tried to email myself using the command below.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 

[typical exim "can't deliver" messages]

> 
>   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Mailing to remote domains not supported

how is your mailer configured? looks to me like you need to re-run

dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config 

and pick an option that allows outgoing mail. 

what option did you pick in the reconfigure you mentioned previously?

A

apt-get install g++-3.4 problem

[tomas.itsx]

 Hi all :)

 I have this problem:
 i try to install g++ but apt-get print this:

# apt-get -f install g++-3.4
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation 
it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  g++-3.4: Depends: libstdc++6-dev (= 3.4.6-5) but it is not going to be 
installed
E: Broken packages

this is my source.list:

 deb http://ftp.cz.debian.org/debian/ etch main
   deb-src http://ftp.cz.debian.org/debian/ etch main
  
   #deb http://ftp.cz.debian.org/debian/ unstable main
   #deb  http://security.debian.org/  stable/updates main
   #deb http://ftp.cz.debian.org/debian/ testing main
 
   deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib
   deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib
 
 please couldnt you suggest what goes wrong?
 thanks 
 itsx


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Re: Set up LAN DNS server

[Mankuthimma]

On 7/18/07, David Brodbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:



I'm runing Debian etch with BIND9 on it. I'm following the
aboutdebian.com tutorial on DNS server. I'm intending to set up my
Desktop Debian box as the DNS server for the LAN  dns server and
Internet Name Resolution server(The IP address of the Desktop used in
preffered name server for each work station's TCP/IP configuration)


Just as an FYI, the "dnsmasq" package does a very good job of this and is
easier to set up.  Learning how to manage BIND is a worthy goal in its own
right, though.



AFAIK, dnsmasq only provides DNS caching services. Whereas the OP is looking
to host a local domain - mxdomain.in which can only be done in a
full-fledged DNS system such as Bind.

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Re: More fun (not!) with JRE

[andy]

Andrew Sackville-West wrote:

On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 06:15:11PM +0100, andy wrote:
  

Andrew Sackville-West wrote:


On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 05:22:31PM +0100, andy wrote:
  
  

Dear Debianistas

and it still doesn't work using an XP machine with IE6. 


If it doesn't work with XP and IE6 then what the heck does it work
with? 
  
  
Go figure! I have no idea, but judging from the discussion forum that is 
linked to the page, many people with Windows are reporting problems. The 
typical response so far seems to be upgrade (!) your browser and JRE. One 
suggestion which even I thought was particularly smart was for the user to 
turn off their firewall!!



nice. Maybe you could ask them all to kindly report their ip's so we
can verify that their firewalls are down? Holy crap that's just
ridiculous. 

I can't imagine that they would be too keen on doing that!!

What sort of operation are they running and what kind of
class are you taking? 
  
The course is an MSc in Environmental studies. The distance learning is 
an option for those who have to work and who cannot always make it 
on-site. It is just really a right royal PITA, and the course 
administrators don't seem to be able to offer any alternatives. As it is 
I had to spoof the user agent string on my browser in order to stop 
those annoying messages telling me that my browser is not supported.

The snarky response to them is that the class description didn't
specify that you need a particular OS and browser to take the class,
so maybe they'd be willing to refund the cost of such OS... 



  

Yep, I was thinking of something along those lines too :)
I am beginning to feel compelled to start an argument with the course 
admin about their reliance on this piece of software for their distance 
learning option,



There was a lengthy thread a few months ago about how to convince
professors to use non-windows-only formats for required reading
materials and class notes. I think the upshot was you can only be
courteous and hope to make an impression while preparing to be ignored...

In your case, you may not have much choice in that the professors may
not have a choice as to what they use. It may be dictated further up
the ladder. Certainly a polite conversation with the professor is in
order, but be prepared to be frustrated. Hopefully, they'll understand
you and maybe direct you to the right people to make a change. I think
you should expect a long battle though _and_ be prepared to offer a
viable alternative. That includes the possibility of setting up a
test installation to demonstrate your alternative (assuming you get
that far).   
  
I can understand that and although I have not researched the thread you 
note, I have a nasty suspicion that any discussion with profs or techs that 
I do have *will* end in frustration. I was under the impression that JRE 
was supposed to be platform independent. Perhaps I have gotten the wrong 
end of the stick?



that doesn't mean you shouldn't try though... 
  
Oh I will, trust me!! ;-) Just as a point of fact however, Java is 
supposed to be OS independent isn't it. I'd look stoopid if I go 
spouting off on something that is untrue ... not good for my credibility

good luck

A
  

Thanks ... I'll probably need it.

Cheers

Andy

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Re: Set up LAN DNS server

[David Brodbeck]

On Jul 18, 2007, at 12:23 AM, rocky wrote:


Hey,

I'm runing Debian etch with BIND9 on it. I'm following the
aboutdebian.com tutorial on DNS server. I'm intending to set up my
Desktop Debian box as the DNS server for the LAN  dns server and
Internet Name Resolution server(The IP address of the Desktop used in
preffered name server for each work station's TCP/IP configuration)


Just as an FYI, the "dnsmasq" package does a very good job of this  
and is easier to set up.  Learning how to manage BIND is a worthy  
goal in its own right, though.



David Brodbeck
Information Technology Specialist 3
Computational Linguistics
University of Washington

Re: (Etch) flash player md5 fail

[Manon Metten]

Hi time lord,

On 7/17/07, time lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hello, I have debian etch installed since yesterday (16-July-07).


I have used both synaptic and apt-get to install Bart Martens installer
package off of DVD1,
this process then fetches the flash player from adobe and the install
continues but it
fails at the end with: "Not Installed, md5 fail"  - from memory and indeed
when I try a vid on
you tube it complains about no flash.




To use flashplayer from the debian-multimedia repository, put the next line
in your /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch main


Then enter the following commands as root in a bash:

1.  apt-get install debian-multimedia-keyring
2.  ap-get update
3.  apt-get upgrade
4.  apt-get install flashplayer-mozilla

That's all.

Manon.

Re: which package can compress VCD file to a different format?

[David Brodbeck]

On Jul 17, 2007, at 5:08 PM, Serena Cantor wrote:


Thanks!

I'm considering first convert it to AVI, then convert it to real media
but converting avi take too much time and space,
besides, real media is not open source


Mencoder will do it.  If you look in the documentation for the  
section about two-pass MPEG4 ("Divx") encoding, that will probably do  
what you want.  One nice thing about Mencoder is it doesn't  
particularly care what the input format is -- if Mplayer can play it,  
Mencoder can re-encode it.

Re: More fun (not!) with JRE

[Andrew Sackville-West]

On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 06:15:11PM +0100, andy wrote:
> Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 05:22:31PM +0100, andy wrote:
>>   
>>> Dear Debianistas
>>>
>>> and it still doesn't work using an XP machine with IE6. 
>>
>> If it doesn't work with XP and IE6 then what the heck does it work
>> with? 
>>   
> Go figure! I have no idea, but judging from the discussion forum that is 
> linked to the page, many people with Windows are reporting problems. The 
> typical response so far seems to be upgrade (!) your browser and JRE. One 
> suggestion which even I thought was particularly smart was for the user to 
> turn off their firewall!!

nice. Maybe you could ask them all to kindly report their ip's so we
can verify that their firewalls are down? Holy crap that's just
ridiculous. What sort of operation are they running and what kind of
class are you taking? 

The snarky response to them is that the class description didn't
specify that you need a particular OS and browser to take the class,
so maybe they'd be willing to refund the cost of such OS... 



>>> I am beginning to feel compelled to start an argument with the course 
>>> admin about their reliance on this piece of software for their distance 
>>> learning option,
>>> 
>>
>> There was a lengthy thread a few months ago about how to convince
>> professors to use non-windows-only formats for required reading
>> materials and class notes. I think the upshot was you can only be
>> courteous and hope to make an impression while preparing to be ignored...
>>
>> In your case, you may not have much choice in that the professors may
>> not have a choice as to what they use. It may be dictated further up
>> the ladder. Certainly a polite conversation with the professor is in
>> order, but be prepared to be frustrated. Hopefully, they'll understand
>> you and maybe direct you to the right people to make a change. I think
>> you should expect a long battle though _and_ be prepared to offer a
>> viable alternative. That includes the possibility of setting up a
>> test installation to demonstrate your alternative (assuming you get
>> that far).   
> I can understand that and although I have not researched the thread you 
> note, I have a nasty suspicion that any discussion with profs or techs that 
> I do have *will* end in frustration. I was under the impression that JRE 
> was supposed to be platform independent. Perhaps I have gotten the wrong 
> end of the stick?

that doesn't mean you shouldn't try though... 

good luck

A


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Re: ETCH iso-with security updates

[Gilles Mocellin]

Le Wednesday 18 July 2007 16:34:37 Alan Ianson, vous avez écrit :
> On Wed July 18 2007 06:54, L.V.Gandhi wrote:
> > >From where can I get latest etch ISO image with latest security updates?
>
> I haven't seen any updates to the etch iso's yet. They are updated
> periodically, maybe once or twice a year. It's only been three months since
> etch was released so I think there will be a short wait for them but they
> will be updated in time.

When the ISOs are updated, the Debian release number is incremented.
We will have a Debian Etch 4.0r1 with all security update at that time.

Since then, you must update after or during installation.
By doing a network installation, you will have less to update after 
installation.

Perhaps you can build newer ISO with Jigdo ? I don't know.


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Re: Security newbie?

[Andrew Sackville-West]

On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 11:09:21AM -0600, Art Edwards wrote:
> I've been running debian @ home and @ work, for years, had no indication of 
> attacks. Over the last few days, my iptables firewall seemed simply to 
> stop. I checked my auth log file to find many, many attempts to break in. 
> My firewall was very simple. I have since added rules to drop packets from 
> offending IP addresses. So, I have a couple of very basic questions:
>
> 1. Are there repositories of offending IP addresses to block? Can/should 
> one contribute to these?
>
> 2. The attacks never use the same user name more than once. Is there a way 
> to block access, even temporarily, from an IP address after a set number of 
> attempts, even if the attempts use different user names?

fail2ban automatically bans ip's after a specified number of
failures. The ban only last 30minutes or so, but that should be enough
to deter most... and still let you in if you make a mistake.

>
> 3. Are there other obvious things I should be doing?

make sure you aren't running any services you don't need and keep your
firewall up-to-date. and make sure your services have sensible configs
in place, too... I'm guessing your looking at ssh attempts -- switch
to pubkey authentication if you can and turn off password/challenge-response.

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openvpn in spite of firewalls

[PETER EASTHOPE]

Folk,

I've installed openvpn on two systems and tried some 
configurations including Example 2 from the man page.
Seems that firewalls block successfully (sarcasm).  
Nevertheless, http, ssh, ftp and a few other protocols 
work.

Is there any chance of using one of the open ports for 
the tunnel between the two machines?  For example,
can the tunnel between 10.4.0.1 and 10.4.0.2 use port 
22 while ssh uses it for other connections?  

Can a proxy server solve this?  

Is there any other way to connect the tunnel in spite 
of the firewalls?

Thanks,  ... Peter E.




 http://carnot.pathology.ubc.ca/

Re: Problem after sata port went down

[Andrew Sackville-West]

On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 12:42:07PM +0200, Thierry Chatelet wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 July 2007 13:51, you wrote:
> > On Tuesday 17 July 2007 13:48, Thierry Chatelet wrote:
> > > The sata port on my MB went down and I had to run fsck on the hard-drive.
> > > I guess the /var directory was mangled. As a result, I cannot install,
> > > remove, upgrade any package. I get the following error ,essage fro, dpkg:
> > > dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `hpijs' missing,
> > > assuming package has no files currently installed.

[ many similar dpkg errors ]

> > > dpkg: error
> > > processing /var/cache/apt/archives/php5-mysql_5.2.0-8+etch7_amd64.deb
> > > (--unpack):
> > >  unable to open files list file for package `fontconfig-config': No such
> > > device or address
> > > Errors were encountered while processing:
> > >  /var/cache/apt/archives/php5-mysql_5.2.0-8+etch7_amd64.deb
> > > Processing was halted because there were too many errors.
> > > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> >
> > Oupss...
> > I must add: I tried all --force things I found in man dpkg

what exactly did you try here? I would try using dpkg directly to
manually install the debs that appear damaged. 

Also, do you have a backup of /var to use? 

hmmm... a little digging turns up this... 

there are .list files in /var/lib/dpkg/info for each
installed package. Maybe you could check on the status of those .list
files for each damaged package and possibly you could either extract
them from the deb or get a copy from someone.

A


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Re: More fun (not!) with JRE

[andy]

Andrew Sackville-West wrote:

On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 05:22:31PM +0100, andy wrote:
  

Dear Debianistas

and it still doesn't 
work using an XP machine with IE6. 



If it doesn't work with XP and IE6 then what the heck does it work
with? 

  
Go figure! I have no idea, but judging from the discussion forum that is 
linked to the page, many people with Windows are reporting problems. The 
typical response so far seems to be upgrade (!) your browser and JRE. 
One suggestion which even I thought was particularly smart was for the 
user to turn off their firewall!!
I am beginning to feel compelled to start an argument with the course admin 
about their reliance on this piece of software for their distance learning 
option,



There was a lengthy thread a few months ago about how to convince
professors to use non-windows-only formats for required reading
materials and class notes. I think the upshot was you can only be
courteous and hope to make an impression while preparing to be ignored...

In your case, you may not have much choice in that the professors may
not have a choice as to what they use. It may be dictated further up
the ladder. Certainly a polite conversation with the professor is in
order, but be prepared to be frustrated. Hopefully, they'll understand
you and maybe direct you to the right people to make a change. I think
you should expect a long battle though _and_ be prepared to offer a
viable alternative. That includes the possibility of setting up a
test installation to demonstrate your alternative (assuming you get
that far). 
  
I can understand that and although I have not researched the thread you 
note, I have a nasty suspicion that any discussion with profs or techs 
that I do have *will* end in frustration. I was under the impression 
that JRE was supposed to be platform independent. Perhaps I have gotten 
the wrong end of the stick?
  
Or, alternatively, is it 
just me and I'm merely being a trifle grumpy in my old(er) age?



there's always that... 


;)

  

Hmmm, thank you Andrew! :D

Andy

A
  



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Re: More fun (not!) with JRE

[Andrew Sackville-West]

On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 05:22:31PM +0100, andy wrote:
> Dear Debianistas
>
> and it still doesn't 
> work using an XP machine with IE6. 

If it doesn't work with XP and IE6 then what the heck does it work
with? 

> I am beginning to feel compelled to start an argument with the course admin 
> about their reliance on this piece of software for their distance learning 
> option,

There was a lengthy thread a few months ago about how to convince
professors to use non-windows-only formats for required reading
materials and class notes. I think the upshot was you can only be
courteous and hope to make an impression while preparing to be ignored...

In your case, you may not have much choice in that the professors may
not have a choice as to what they use. It may be dictated further up
the ladder. Certainly a polite conversation with the professor is in
order, but be prepared to be frustrated. Hopefully, they'll understand
you and maybe direct you to the right people to make a change. I think
you should expect a long battle though _and_ be prepared to offer a
viable alternative. That includes the possibility of setting up a
test installation to demonstrate your alternative (assuming you get
that far). 

> Or, alternatively, is it 
> just me and I'm merely being a trifle grumpy in my old(er) age?

there's always that... 

;)

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Security newbie?

[Art Edwards]

I've been running debian @ home and @ work, for years, had no indication 
of attacks. Over the last few days, my iptables firewall seemed simply 
to stop. I checked my auth log file to find many, many attempts to break 
in. My firewall was very simple. I have since added rules to drop 
packets from offending IP addresses. So, I have a couple of very basic 
questions:


1. Are there repositories of offending IP addresses to block? Can/should 
one contribute to these?


2. The attacks never use the same user name more than once. Is there a 
way to block access, even temporarily, from an IP address after a set 
number of attempts, even if the attempts use different user names?


3. Are there other obvious things I should be doing?

Art Edwards

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Re: FW: Sending Email from script

[Andrew Sackville-West]

On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 12:25:52PM -0400, Mace, Nathan wrote:
>  I got the following email on the servers local mail system when I tried
> to email myself using the command below.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 

[typical exim "can't deliver" messages]

> 
>   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Mailing to remote domains not supported

how is your mailer configured? looks to me like you need to re-run

dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config 

and pick an option that allows outgoing mail. 

what option did you pick in the reconfigure you mentioned previously?

A


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Re: Aptitude losing "focus"

[Patrick Wiseman]

On 7/18/07, Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


On Wed July 18 2007 07:16, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
> Hello:
>
> I know others have reported this, but aptitude (on my testing system)
keeps
> losing the keyboard.  As someone else said, the keystrokes are going to
the
> terminal from which it was started.  One suggestion was to remove
> libc6-i686.  Is that a safe thing to do?  And will it, if so, noticeably
> impair performance?

I did remove libc6-i686 from my box and it corrected the problem for me
without any negative affects that I could see.

If I'm not mistaken though that problem was corrected. My lenny box does
have
libc6-i686 now and I have no problems with aptitude. Is your mirror up to
date?



I assume that ftp.us.debian.org is up to date :)  I just updated yesterday
and aptitude kept becoming unresponsive.  I'll remove the library and see
what happens.

Patrick

Re: Drbd8

[Pierguido]

Sorry this is my drbd.conf


Pier

global {
usage-count yes;
}

resource r0 {

  protocol C;

  startup {
degr-wfc-timeout 120;# 2 minutes.
  }

  disk {
on-io-error   detach;
  }

  net {
#allow-two-primaries;
cram-hmac-alg "sha1";
shared-secret "FooFunFactory";
  }

  syncer {
rate 50M;
al-extents 257;
  }

  on cluster-1 {
device /dev/drbd0;
disk   /dev/internal_raid/mail;
address10.0.0.1:7788;
flexible-meta-disk  internal;
  }

  on cluster-2 {
device/dev/drbd0;
disk  /dev/internal_raid/mail;
address   10.0.0.2:7788;
meta-disk internal;
  }
}

FW: Sending Email from script

[Mace, Nathan]

 I got the following email on the servers local mail system when I tried
to email myself using the command below.

Any ideas?

Message 1:
>From MAILER-DAEMON Tue Jul 17 08:28:13 2007
Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Delivery-date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 08:28:13 -0400
X-Failed-Recipients: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
From: Mail Delivery System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 08:28:13 -0400

This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.

A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:

  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mailing to remote domains not supported

-- This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. --

Return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Received: from root by student-test.ucwv.edu with local (Exim 4.63)
(envelope-from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
id 1IAmA1-0005wB-GJ
for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 08:28:13 -0400
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Test email from linux
Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 08:28:13 -0400


Nathan


-Original Message-
From: Mace, Nathan 
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 12:21 PM
To: 'Jon Dowland'
Subject: RE: Sending Email from script

I've uninstalled Sendmail and installed Exim4 and reconfigured it.
After doing that, I still can't send email.  Doing a "date | mail -s
"testing" your.address" with my email address doesn't get me anything.

Any idea what I'm going wrong?


Nathan


-Original Message-
From: Jon Dowland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 11:51 AM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Sending Email from script

> I've installed sendmail, but I'm not having much luck getting it to 
> work.  When I attempt to send messages from the command line by doing 
> "sendmail [EMAIL PROTECTED]"
> it appears to go, but I never get the email.  Any help would be 
> appreciated.

Debian comes with exim4 by default. You will probably have had this
removed by installing sendmail. Unless you are already a sendmail guru,
I'd recommend reinstalling exim4.

You can reconfigure it using "dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config". Most of
the questions are straightforward.
There is additional information available at
.

Exim4 and most MTAs come with a "sendmail" binary that supports the same
options as the traditional sendmail does:
however, for command line mailing, "mail" or "mail x" are best.

Try:

date | mail -s "testing" your.address

And read /var/log/exim4/mainlog to see what happened.


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RE: Sending Email from script

[Mace, Nathan]

I didn't know about logcheck, I think it will do exactly what I need.  However 
I can't get it to send email either. 


Nathan


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From: Alex Samad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 1:13 AM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Sending Email from script

On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 12:34:32AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 02:54:09PM -0400, Mace, Nathan wrote:
> > I just installed Debian Etch (4.1.1) that I'm planning on using as a 
> > syslog server.  I've got syslog-ng up and running just fine.  And 
> > I've got a script that greps the logs nightly for error messages 
> > that I care about.  The problem is I can't get the results of the 
> > script to be emailed to me.

More fun (not!) with JRE

[andy]

Dear Debianistas

A wee while ago, some of you were kind and patient in helping me out in 
my efforts to access a website that relied on Java (JRE). Despite your 
best efforts, I am still unable to access the site in the way the 
developers (and the course administrators) expect me to. It is supposed 
to be a chat window of some sort, and I tested it from work today, and 
it still doesn't work using an XP machine with IE6. I don't know if I am 
the only one with these issues, and I'd love to point you in the 
direction of the site, but it is password protected and in good 
conscience, I cannot give out the logon details here.


I am beginning to feel compelled to start an argument with the course 
admin about their reliance on this piece of software for their distance 
learning option, and I was wondering if there are any developers/people 
in the know here who have any substantive arguments against the use of 
JRE? On the target web-page, they have a long list of error codes, etc. 
and ways of fixing these (allegedly) which amount to updating to the 
latest JRE, and this suggests that others have also found this to be buggy.


It is bad enough that so many training courses and universities still 
develop these distance learning courses with only Windows (or at most 
with Mac) in mind, but then to get stuck and excluded because of some 
crummy JRE applet not functioning as it should just really pisses me 
off. I'd like to raise this issue to the course admins awareness, and 
would appreciate any input if you feel you have a contribution to make. 
Or, alternatively, is it just me and I'm merely being a trifle grumpy in 
my old(er) age?


Thanks

Andy

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Drbd8

[Pierguido]

hi all.
I'm trying to set up a little cluster with 2 hosts
the final thing shlud be with drbd, heartbeat, ldirector, ocfs2 and
serving mails (postfix). The users mailbox are stored in the drbd+ofcs2
storage.
now i'm trying to setup drbd...i have installed the package from
unstable because i need drbd8 in a primary/primary configuration.
Now...i'm using also a lvm disk (/dev/internal_raid/mail on both the
hosts)...i made the drbd module, create the config (attachment) and
started drbd...then i always got this in teh log:

 Jul 18 12:00:01 cluster-1 kernel: drbd0: Found 6 transactions (324
active extents) in activity log.
Jul 18 12:00:01 cluster-1 kernel: drbd0: max_segment_size ( = BIO size )
= 32768
Jul 18 12:00:01 cluster-1 kernel: drbd0: drbd_bm_resize called with
capacity == 123728120
Jul 18 12:00:01 cluster-1 kernel: drbd0: resync bitmap: bits=15466015
words=483314
Jul 18 12:00:01 cluster-1 kernel: drbd0: size = 58 GB (61864060 KB)
Jul 18 12:00:01 cluster-1 kernel: drbd0: reading of bitmap took 8 jiffies
Jul 18 12:00:01 cluster-1 kernel: drbd0: recounting of set bits took
additional 1 jiffies
Jul 18 12:00:01 cluster-1 kernel: drbd0: 58 GB marked out-of-sync by on
disk bit-map.
Jul 18 12:00:01 cluster-1 kernel: drbd0: Marked additional 0 KB as
out-of-sync based on AL.
Jul 18 12:00:01 cluster-1 kernel: drbd0: disk( Attaching -> UpToDate )
Jul 18 12:00:01 cluster-1 kernel: drbd0: Writing meta data super block now.
Jul 18 12:00:01 cluster-1 kernel: drbd0: conn( StandAlone -> Unconnected )
Jul 18 12:00:01 cluster-1 kernel: drbd0: receiver (re)started
Jul 18 12:00:02 cluster-1 kernel: drbd0: conn( Unconnected ->
WFConnection )
Jul 18 12:00:02 cluster-1 kernel: drbd0: conn( WFConnection ->
WFReportParams )
Jul 18 12:00:02 cluster-1 kernel: drbd0: Handshake successful: DRBD
Network Protocol version 86
Jul 18 12:00:02 cluster-1 kernel: drbd0: Peer authenticated using 20
bytes of 'sha1' HMAC
Jul 18 12:00:02 cluster-1 kernel: drbd0: Split-Brain detected, dropping
connection!
Jul 18 12:00:02 cluster-1 kernel: drbd0: self
9A3B972673FCBE73:0004::
Jul 18 12:00:02 cluster-1 kernel: drbd0: peer
92BF0972AAB9120B:0004::
Jul 18 12:00:02 cluster-1 kernel: drbd0: conn( WFReportParams ->
Disconnecting )
Jul 18 12:00:02 cluster-1 kernel: drbd0: error receiving ReportState, l: 4!
Jul 18 12:00:02 cluster-1 kernel: drbd0: meta connection shut down by peer.
Jul 18 12:00:02 cluster-1 kernel: drbd0: asender terminated
Jul 18 12:00:02 cluster-1 kernel: drbd0: tl_clear()
Jul 18 12:00:02 cluster-1 kernel: drbd0: Connection closed
Jul 18 12:00:02 cluster-1 kernel: drbd0: conn( Disconnecting ->
StandAlone )
Jul 18 12:00:02 cluster-1 kernel: drbd0: receiver terminated


I think the problem is that "Split-Brain detected, dropping
connection!"...how can i avoid that error (or others if there are)?
Has someone succeffully installed drbd+ocfs2?
Thank you

Pier


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Re: Sending Email from script

[Jon Dowland]

> I've installed sendmail, but I'm not having much luck
> getting it to work.  When I attempt to send messages from
> the command line by doing "sendmail [EMAIL PROTECTED]"
> it appears to go, but I never get the email.  Any help
> would be appreciated.

Debian comes with exim4 by default. You will probably have
had this removed by installing sendmail. Unless you are
already a sendmail guru, I'd recommend reinstalling exim4.

You can reconfigure it using "dpkg-reconfigure
exim4-config". Most of the questions are straightforward.
There is additional information available at
.

Exim4 and most MTAs come with a "sendmail" binary that
supports the same options as the traditional sendmail does:
however, for command line mailing, "mail" or "mail x" are
best.

Try:

date | mail -s "testing" your.address

And read /var/log/exim4/mainlog to see what happened.


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Re: wodim records at 4x with a 32x capable recorder

[Jon Dowland]

> No matter if I run it as root or as normal user, and no
> matter which speed parameter I set to wodim, when
> recording a CD-RW it is always defaulting to 4x, even
> altough my recorder reports being able to do CD-RW at 32x.

What about the media: what speed is it rated for?


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Re: emacs on etch

[Matthias Pfeifer]

Hi again,

the "issue" is already solved... There was an ancient EMACSLOADPATH
variable in the environment. So emacs was not able to find his startup 
files...

matthias... 


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Re: ETCH iso-with security updates

[Mathias Brodala]

Hi.

L.V.Gandhi, 18.07.2007 16:51:
> On 7/18/07, Mathias Brodala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> L.V.Gandhi, 18.07.2007 15:54:
>> >> From where can I get latest etch ISO image with latest security
>> updates?
>>
>> From the official website[0]
>>
>>
>> Regards, Mathias
> Thanks. But are these isos  with latest security updates.

Since there are no newer ones anywhere: yes.


Regards, Mathias

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Re: ETCH iso-with security updates

[L . V . Gandhi]

On 7/18/07, Mathias Brodala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hi.

L.V.Gandhi, 18.07.2007 15:54:
>> From where can I get latest etch ISO image with latest security updates?

From the official website[0]


Regards, Mathias

Thanks. But are these isos  with latest security updates.


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Re: Aptitude losing "focus"

[Alan Ianson]

On Wed July 18 2007 07:16, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
> Hello:
>
> I know others have reported this, but aptitude (on my testing system) keeps
> losing the keyboard.  As someone else said, the keystrokes are going to the
> terminal from which it was started.  One suggestion was to remove
> libc6-i686.  Is that a safe thing to do?  And will it, if so, noticeably
> impair performance?

I did remove libc6-i686 from my box and it corrected the problem for me 
without any negative affects that I could see.

If I'm not mistaken though that problem was corrected. My lenny box does have 
libc6-i686 now and I have no problems with aptitude. Is your mirror up to 
date?


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Re: ETCH iso-with security updates

[Alan Ianson]

On Wed July 18 2007 06:54, L.V.Gandhi wrote:
> >From where can I get latest etch ISO image with latest security updates?

I haven't seen any updates to the etch iso's yet. They are updated 
periodically, maybe once or twice a year. It's only been three months since 
etch was released so I think there will be a short wait for them but they 
will be updated in time.


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Re: ETCH iso-with security updates

[Mathias Brodala]

Hi.

L.V.Gandhi, 18.07.2007 15:54:
>> From where can I get latest etch ISO image with latest security updates?

From the official website[0]


Regards, Mathias

[0] http://www.us.debian.org/CD/http-ftp/#stable

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Re: Regex Question

[Daniel Burrows]

On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 09:43:32AM -0700, Bob McGowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was 
heard to say:
> Next, grep supports what most would now call a subset of full regular 
> expression syntax.  This does not include parenthesis or alternation. So 
> when you put a backslash in front of the pipe symbol, 'grep' simply looks 
> for the literal string 'in|hill', which does not exist in the file.  Add it 
> and you'll see it work.

  Actually, grep will treat the pipe as alternation, if it's backslash
escaped:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ echo -e 'in the grey morning\nwe climbed the hill.' | grep 
'in\|hill'
in the grey morning
we climbed the hill.

  Note that I had to double-escape the pipe: once using single-quotes to
hide it from the shell, and once with a backslash to tell grep it was
special.  I could have written:

grep in\\\|hill

  but that would have been gross and nasty. :)

  Daniel


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Re: Set up LAN DNS server

[Mankuthimma]

Hi,

rockyLaptop  IN A   192.168.1.19

woody IN A   192.168.1.55
@ IN NS  woody



You've to have this as well to resolve the domain mxoffice.in as a host
@ IN  A   192.168.1.55

cheers,

- Shashishekhar S

Aptitude losing "focus"

[Patrick Wiseman]

Hello:

I know others have reported this, but aptitude (on my testing system) keeps
losing the keyboard.  As someone else said, the keystrokes are going to the
terminal from which it was started.  One suggestion was to remove
libc6-i686.  Is that a safe thing to do?  And will it, if so, noticeably
impair performance?

Patrick

ETCH iso-with security updates

[L . V . Gandhi]

From where can I get latest etch ISO image with latest security updates?


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Re: undeleteable file (SOLVED)

[Frank McCormick]

On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 08:38:12 -0400
Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 13:40:05 +1000
> Cameron Hutchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 

> > 
> > What is the output of "lsattr" ? It could be that it has the
> > immutable bit set. To fix this, use chattr(1):
> > 
> 
>Bingo. 
> 
> This is what lsattr said:
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/lost+found/#573699/drivers/i2c/busses$ lsattr
> --S--a-Ac-Z-Ej--T- ./i2c-nforce2.ko
> 
> And this allowed me to remove it:
> 
>  chattr -S -a -A -c  *
> 
> 
> Now to run another file system check.

Something else maybe equally as strange . If I run a file system
check while the partition is mounted but using the -n argument so no
changes will be made (the disk is mounted) I get all sorts of errors
being reported.  But if I bootup sysrescuecd, and run the same check,
both partitions get a clean bill of health. The only difference is the
kernel...2.6.21 , but 2.6.20 under sysrescuecd.
Is it possible the latest Kernel has some file system bugs?

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Debian 4.0 with Intel ISP-2150G + Adaptec RAID 2100S

[Linuks pytania]

Hi and hello!

I have a little problem with installation of Etch on Intel ISP-2150G rack 2U 
server with PCI Adaptec 2100S RAID controller (2 disks in raid-1 matrix). The 
installation was good to the first reboot (successful disk partitioning and 
creating /dev/sda). After reboot "Waiting for root partition" 
The kernel is checking I2O and failed. I try with acpi=off and also failed. I 
also try modprobe in BusyBox and failed. This hardware configuration works with 
Debian 3.1 kernel 2.4.27-686 and 2.6.8-686.


I2O subsystem v1.325
i2o: max drivers = 8
i2o: checking for PCI I2O controller...
ACPI: PCI Interrupt :02:04.1[A] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
iop0: Controller found (:02:04.1)
(..)
iop0: Installed at IRQ 169
i2o: iop0: Activating I2O controller...
i2o: iop0: This may take a few minutes if (...)
iop0: HRT has 1 entries of 16 bytes each.
Adapter 0012: TID :[HPC*]:PCI 1: Bus 1 Device 22 Function 0
i2o: iop0: Controller added
Loading Adaptec I2O RAID: version 2.4 Build 5go
Detecting Adaptec I2O RAID controllers...
PCI: Unable to reserve mem region #1:[EMAIL PROTECTED] for device :02:04.1
dpti: adpt_config_hba: pci request region failed
Could not Init an I2O RAID device
Will not try to detect others.
I2O Block Device OSM v1.325
i2o/hda: i2o/hda1 (...) hda10

...
?"Waiting for root partition"?
...


(initramfs) cat /proc/modules
i2o_block 0
i2o_core 1

(initramfs) modprobe dpt_i2o
It returns a message like "PCI: Unable to reserve ..."
*

Re: Problems regarding LDAP authentication & nss ...

[Mankuthimma]

Hi,

On 7/17/07, Jaime Ventura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


Im trying to configure my debian box to enable ldap authentication
It works fine, but in getting identical messages like those ones:

udevd[1082]: nss_ldap: reconnecting to LDAP server (sleeping 1 seconds)...
udevd[1082]: nss_ldap: could not search LDAP server - Can't contact LDAP
server
udevd[1082]: lookup_group: error resolving group 'scanner': Illegal seek

Try adding the group scanner


# addgroup --system scanner

What's happening is that udev is searching for a group called scanner and
since NSS is configured to search in LDAP, it's trying to resolve but
networking wouldn't have come up by then.

cheers,

Shashishekhar S

Re: undeleteable file

[Frank McCormick]

On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 13:40:05 +1000
Cameron Hutchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> >   This is the output of ls -l
> 
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/lost+found/#573699/drivers/i2c/busses$ ls -l *
> >---s---r-t 1 993200132 3086322235 0 1931-09-13 15:22 i2c-nforce2.ko
> 
> What is the output of "lsattr" ? It could be that it has the immutable
> bit set. To fix this, use chattr(1):
> 

   Bingo. 

This is what lsattr said:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/lost+found/#573699/drivers/i2c/busses$ lsattr
--S--a-Ac-Z-Ej--T- ./i2c-nforce2.ko

And this allowed me to remove it:

 chattr -S -a -A -c  *


Now to run another file system check.

Thanks and cheers!

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Re: undeleteable file

[Frank McCormick]

On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 21:37:38 -0600
Nate Duehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> On Jul 17, 2007, at 8:52 PM, Frank McCormick wrote:
> 
> >>
> >> Can't move it...can't chown it. It just tells me operation not
> >> permitted. The file is also dated 1931 !
> >>
> >
> >This is the output of ls -l
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/lost+found/#573699/drivers/i2c/busses$ ls -l *
> > ---s---r-t 1 993200132 3086322235 0 1931-09-13 15:22 i2c-nforce2.ko
> >
> > Weird huh!
> 
> Not really.
> 
> It has really strange permissions, and it's in lost+found, which is  
> an indication that you have already had some form of filesystem  
> damage that was probably "fixed" by an fsck.
> 
> You might want to give it normal permissions first before trying  
> other operations on it, and it still may be that you have other  
> filesystem damage to whatever kind of filesystem you're running
> there that wasn't truly fixed by the fsck.

I'll try  but every attempt to do anything to the file so far has been
greeted by "permission denied".



> 
> If you suspect the drive is dying, it's probably a very good time to  
> copy any data or files you need off of it, depending on the state of  
> the drive, it may already be too late.  Hopefully you have been  
> making proper backups all along.
> 

   That's not really a problem - I'm running Sid so there isn't much on
the partition that is irreplaceable :)

> 
> Welcome to the "I've had an important disk fail" merit badge club!   
> (GRIN)

Thanks...do I get a membership card ?


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Re: undeleteable file

[Frank McCormick]

On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 20:36:49 -0700
Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Tue July 17 2007 19:52, Frank McCormick wrote:
> > On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 22:36:19 -0400
> >
> > > > >
> > > > > Anybody have any ideas to get rid of it ?
> > > >
> > > > Try and mv the file else where then delete, or chown the file to
> > > > your user then try and delete.
> > >
> > > Can't move it...can't chown it. It just tells me operation not
> > > permitted. The file is also dated 1931 !
> >
> >This is the output of ls -l
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/lost+found/#573699/drivers/i2c/busses$ ls -l *
> > ---s---r-t 1 993200132 3086322235 0 1931-09-13 15:22 i2c-nforce2.ko
> 
> I'm not sure if this will work because I have never seen anything
> like that. Can you chown the file to root:root? Does rm -rdf not work?


Nope - permission denied.


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Re: Problems regarding LDAP authentication & nss ...

[Predrag Gavrilovic]

I believe that with
bind_policy soft
in libnss-ldap.conf
and
ldap [UNAVAIL=return]
entries in nsswitch.conf
you can save few seconds during boot, and safely ignore those messages.




2007/7/17, Jaime Ventura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

Just a few topis I forgot to tell.
Im using debian etch.
 Ive already search on google about this.
Found some info on a bug on libnss-ldap, but not on the version im using.
So I think this is a missconfiguration rather a bug.
Tanks
Jaime
Jaime Ventura wrote:
> Im trying to configure my debian box to enable ldap authentication
> It works fine, but in getting identical messages like those ones:
>
> udevd[1082]: nss_ldap: reconnecting to LDAP server (sleeping 1
> seconds)...
> udevd[1082]: nss_ldap: could not search LDAP server - Can't contact
> LDAP server
> udevd[1082]: lookup_group: error resolving group 'scanner': Illegal seek
>
>
> Those appear when udevd is loaded. The thing is, at that point none of
> the network interfaces is up, so there no way nss_ldap can contact the
> ldap server.
> Is there any way to solve this?
> Thanks.
> Jaime
>
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Logwatch's functionning

[nawshad hoossanbuksh]

hello everyone,

   i am currently using logwatch to monitor different logfiles. Actually i 
am trying to deal with a postfix logfile, but in vain. Logwatch does not 
seem to get any line in input for treatment. I try to do the following for 
debugging, but i get nothing in return:


in the file ../scripts/services/postfix i did

while (defined($ThisLine = )) {
  print "\n$ThisLine"; ##line added for debugging
  if (
 ( $ThisLine =~ m/^$re_MsgID: client=([^ ]*\[[^ ]*\])\s*$/ ) or
 ( $ThisLine =~ m/^$re_MsgID: message-id/ ) or
 
 

but i get nothing in return,except that.
- postfix Begin 

-- postfix End -


In my maillog, im sure i put the correct path to my logfile:

LogFile = /var/log/maya/postfix.log

It seems that the STDIN is empty, though for other services, such as qpopper 
or httpd, i get the usual stats from logwatch.


I think iv missed something in logwatch functionning. Can anyone help me 
please??

Thank you very much for any help.

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Re: Problem after sata port went down

[Thierry Chatelet]

On Tuesday 17 July 2007 13:51, you wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 July 2007 13:48, Thierry Chatelet wrote:
> > The sata port on my MB went down and I had to run fsck on the hard-drive.
> > I guess the /var directory was mangled. As a result, I cannot install,
> > remove, upgrade any package. I get the following error ,essage fro, dpkg:
> > dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `hpijs' missing,
> > assuming package has no files currently installed.
> >
> > dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `update-inetd'
> > missing, assuming package has no files currently installed.
> >
> > dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `libqt4-sql' missing,
> > assuming package has no files currently installed.
> >
> > dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `libsnmp9' missing,
> > assuming package has no files currently installed.
> >
> > dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `libmagic1' missing,
> > assuming package has no files currently installed.
> >
> > dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `libgnomecanvas2-0'
> > missing, assuming package has no files currently installed.
> >
> > dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `libglade2-0' missing,
> > assuming package has no files currently installed.
> >
> > dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `libgda2-common'
> > missing, assuming package has no files currently installed.
> >
> > dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `openbsd-inetd'
> > missing, assuming package has no files currently installed.
> >
> > dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `openoffice.org-math'
> > missing, assuming package has no files currently installed.
> >
> > dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `python-ipy' missing,
> > assuming package has no files currently installed.
> >
> > dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `python-cairo'
> > missing, assuming package has no files currently installed.
> >
> > dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `python-gtk2' missing,
> > assuming package has no files currently installed.
> >
> > dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `python-numeric'
> > missing, assuming package has no files currently installed.
> >
> > dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `libavformat0d'
> > missing, assuming package has no files currently installed.
> >
> > dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `libbonoboui2-common'
> > missing, assuming package has no files currently installed.
> >
> > dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `libxp6' missing,
> > assuming package has no files currently installed.
> > dpkg: error
> > processing /var/cache/apt/archives/php5-mysql_5.2.0-8+etch7_amd64.deb
> > (--unpack):
> >  unable to open files list file for package `fontconfig-config': No such
> > device or address
> > Errors were encountered while processing:
> >  /var/cache/apt/archives/php5-mysql_5.2.0-8+etch7_amd64.deb
> > Processing was halted because there were too many errors.
> > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> >
> > Any ideas?
> > Thank you
> > Thierry
>
> Oupss...
> I must add: I tried all --force things I found in man dpkg
> Thierry
>

Any one with an idea before I have to perform a reinstall ?
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Re: ssh issues

[BartlebyScrivener]

On Jul 17, 7:00 am, Rob Bochan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Monday 16 July 2007 08:02:44 pm Casey T. Deccio wrote:
>
> > Does /etc/hosts contain a valid entry for your hostname?
>
> > Casey
>

On Jul 17, 7:00 am, Rob Bochan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Monday 16 July 2007 08:02:44 pm Casey T. Deccio wrote:

> > Does /etc/hosts contain a valid entry for your hostname?
>
> - begin hosts --
> 127.0.0.1   localhost
> 127.0.1.1   hostname

Leave those as is.

then on the client do

$>sudo ifconfig

to get the ip address of the client; then log into the server and add
a line in
/etc/hosts with the client's ip address hostname and alias

http://www.faqs.org/docs/securing/chap9sec95.html

Also helps to check /etc/hosts.deny and /etc/hosts.allow to see if you
have blocked yourself somehow, e.g. if you do hosts.deny ALL then
nobody gets in without an entry in hosts.allow

Lots of documentation available on this as it's a security matter,
just google on /etc/hosts and hosts.allow

rd


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emacs on etch

[matthias]

Hi there,

i just installed debian/etch on my pc. I used the netinst-cd and than
added my local mirror to /etc/apt/source.list to get access to more 
packages. After installing xorg and emacs via dselect (got nor error

messages so i assume everything is fine) and doing startx, invking emacs
from my terminal results into:

[-> emacs
Cannot open load file: term/x-win

anybody knows and can help would be nice...

matthias


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Re: dual-homed ping

[koffiejunkie]

Daniel D Jones wrote:

On Sunday 15 July 2007 05:58, koffiejunkie wrote:
  

Daniel D Jones wrote:


On a dual-homed ping, is it possible to ping one IP address from the
other address and force the packet to go out the interface and travel
through the network?  Using -I to source the packet does not work, and
turning off ip_forward does not seem to make a difference.
  

http://lartc.org/lartc.html#LARTC.RPDB.MULTIPLE-LINKS



Thanks for the link but it isn't clear to me how this is relevant to what I'm 
attempting to do.  I have two interfaces:  eth1 172.16.100.101 and eth2 
172.16.200.101.


My apologies, I assumed you had two ISP connections.  I wrongly assumed 
ping would behave the same as traceroute.  I just checked on my desktop, 
which has two interfaces on different networks, eth0 on a 10.0.x.x 
network, and the eth1 being 192.168.0.1.


ping -I eth0 192.168.0.1 works

but

traceroute -i eth0 192.168.0.1 shows the traffic going out via my 
default route on the 10.0.x.x network.


I was sure I've done this with two ISP connections before, but seeing 
how ping behaves differently from traceroute, I'm now unsure.  What I do 
remember is doing a traceroute from the one interface to the other and 
seeing that it does in fact go out the one interface, all the way 
through the internet and back into the other.




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Re: [OT] smart reporting trouble

[Dominique Dumont]

André Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The number of unread and uncorrectable sectors seems to be constant
> over two weeks. I'm not sure if I have to replace the HDD?

They won't change unless you rewrite something on the bad
sectors. (which is easier said than done)

Check the doc on http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

HTH

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need, not what they want." Kurt Bittner

Re: [OT] Samsung-provided linux drivers could be dangerous

[Chris Lale]

Anson Gardner wrote:
> http://www.digg.com/linux_unix/Samsung_Linux_printer_driver_modifies_the_permissions_of_many_executables
> 
> I was going to recommend a Samsung Laser printer (like my ML-2250) on 
> the "Economic Printer" thread, but now maybe not.
> 
> Well, in fact I still recommend it, just not their driver CD. I wonder if my 
> CD (which is quite a bit older than the one mentioned in the article) has 
> that problem. I do remember being impressed that the driver CD supported 
> Debian.

I had an ML-1450 which worked brilliantly on CUPS (as an HP laserjet) straight
out of the box. I tried the Linux driver on the CD ("supported for Red Hat"). It
worked (after a little tweaking with symlinks, perhaps permissoins too) but was
not worth the effort.

I recently bought an ML-2570. The CD contains a ppd driver for CUPS. It works
well except for OOo, so I use the generic CUPS PostScript driver. I did report
this bug to Samsung, but I had no reply. The generic CUPS PostScript driver does
not provide a control for toner-save mode but otherwise works flawlessly. I
documented all this in the openprinting.org database [1].

I would suggest that you dig out the ppd driver from the Samsung CD (or CD
download from website) and try that with CUPS.

[1] http://openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Samsung-ML-2570

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Re: Notebook Battery

[koffiejunkie]

Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:

Batteries in a Portable World. A handbook on rechargeable batteries for
non-engineers
http://www.buchmann.ca/
  


Great link, thanks!


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Re: Notebook Battery

[koffiejunkie]

Stefan Monnier wrote:

Given the specs of your battery (10.8V 4.8Ah, i.e. 51Wh), an autonomy of one
hour means your laptop consumes around 50W, which is a hell of a lot for
a laptop, unless you keep it constantly in stress test (with full CPU and
disk, and graphics card load).
So I'd guess that your battery's original lifetime is a good bit longer (at
least 2h), and that when it lasted an hour, it was already on its death bed.
  
You are spot on.  The original life was about 3:30 in "normal" use, but 
the motherboard died and since I got it back from HP (actually, it was 
the "HP certified partner" who fixed it), it's been about an hour.  In 
hindsight they probably swopped out the battery, since the notebook was 
only two months old at the time.  Anyway,  after sending the original 
mail I tried running it down a few times (used memtest86 so there's no 
OS involved) and recharging it, and each time the recharge and discharge 
times were shorter.  After three times it died completely.




Get a new one, or try refilling this one.
  

New one on order...

Thanks


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Re: Lenny Install CD kernel version. [solved-sorta]

[koffiejunkie]

koffiejunkie wrote:

Jeff D wrote:

On Sun, 15 Jul 2007, koffiejunkie wrote:
When the installer came up, I hit Ctrl+Alt+F2 for a console, and did 
a uname -a.  It gave me 2.6.18.  This is what I want to check before 
downloading: which kernel the install CD uses, not which kernel it 
installs.


are you sure you have the right one?  The iso I downladed was built 
on the 10th. This is from the boot kernel of it:


No, mine was built today.  I'll look for that one and give it a try.

Thanks!


Ok, that (it's been replaced with 17 July though), does boot off the 
2.6.21, but as luck would have it my notebook died yesterday.  Sigh


Thanks


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Re: Problem with amixer or ...

[Florian Kulzer]

On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 10:16:01 +0100, annals wrote:
> I hope someone can point me in the right direction on this, as I
> can't be 100% sure I've not just overlooked something (I'm by no
> means an expert etc.).  I get errors with alsamixer/amixer that
> prevent sound from working on this machine:
> Linux boxname 2.6.18-4-amd64 #1 SMP [...] x86_64 GNU/Linux
> (Debian 2.6.18.dfsg.1-12etch2)
> 
>   When I run alsaconf, before 'Have a lot of fun!', I get: [...]
> Setting default volumes...
> amixer: Mixer default load error: Invalid argument
> Saving the mixer setup used for this in /var/lib/alsa/asound.state.
> /usr/sbin/alsactl: get_control:209: Cannot read control info '2,0,0,Capture 
> Volume,0': Invalid argument
> 
>   Accordingly, asound.state is not created (/var/lib/alsa/ is empty).
> 
>   Output of 'amixer controls |grep Capture' is:
> amixer: Control default snd_hctl_elem_info error: Invalid argument
> 
> numid=3,iface=MIXER,name='Capture Switch'

[...]

>   The only apparently relevant line from the usual logs is:
> hda_codec: num_steps = 0 for NID=0x17

[ snip: snd_hda_intel and the other modules seem to be loaded normally,
  /proc/asound/cards and /proc/asound/devices look OK, too. ]

> Here's the strace of 'amixer' :

[...]

> ioctl(3, USBDEVFS_CONNECTINFO, 0x7fffa9139770) = 0
> ioctl(3, USBDEVFS_IOCTL, 0x7fffa9138fd0) = 0
> ioctl(3, USBDEVFS_CONNECTINFO, 0x7fffa9139770) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)
> write(2, "amixer: ", 8amixer: ) = 8
> write(2, "Mixer default load error: Invali"..., 42Mixer default load error: 
> Invalid argument
> ) = 42
> write(2, "\n", 1
> )   = 1
> close(3)= 0
> exit_group(1)   = ?
> Process 7290 detached

Which sound card is this exactly? Please post the relevant part of your
"lspci" output; maybe somebody knows something about specific issues
with your card.

Maybe you simply need to upgrade to a newer kernel. You can check the
changelogs if there were any recent changes that might be important for
your card:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.22.y.git;a=tree;f=sound/pci/hda

(See the "history" links.)

www.backports.org has 2.6.21 kernel images for Etch.

It is also known that snd_hda_intel sometimes has to be loaded with
certain additional parameters set by the user; see here for a random
example:

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Clevo_M38AW#Audio_with_ALSA

You might have to google around for your card, or post your problem on
the alsa forums.

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Re: Problem with amixer or ...

[Chris Lale]

Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
[...]
> 
> check:
> 
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=406738
> 
> and this thread which deals with OSS, but may shed some light because
> it raises the alsaconf issue. 
> 
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/06/msg02587.html
> 

I have summarised the result of that thread at the end of the NewbieDOC sound
article [1]. If your problem is a result of ALSA incorrectly loading/unloading
kernel modules, Florian Kulzer suggests running "udevtrigger --verbose
--subsystem-match=sound" [2].

However, I don't think that this is your problem.

On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 10:16:01AM +0100, annals wrote:
> Accordingly, asound.state is not created (/var/lib/alsa/ is empty).

My /var/lib/alsa/asound.state is a 7.7kB text file (Etch,Stable).

>   Output of 'amixer controls |grep Capture' is:
> amixer: Control default snd_hctl_elem_info error: Invalid argument
> 
> numid=3,iface=MIXER,name='Capture Switch'

The result for me is
numid=26,iface=MIXER,name='Capture Source'
numid=27,iface=MIXER,name='Capture Switch'
numid=28,iface=MIXER,name='Capture Volume'

I think that the problem may lie with amixer. If I run "amixer scontrols", it
reports almost all my settings at zero!
Simple mixer control 'Master',0
Simple mixer control 'Master Mono',0
Simple mixer control 'Master Surround',0
Simple mixer control 'Headphone Jack Sense',0
Simple mixer control 'PCM',0
[...]

However, alsamixer, gnome etc all show that eg my master volume (Master) is set
at 77%.

Can you set a new sound level for Master in alsamixer? Is the new level 
persistent?

[1]
http://newbiedoc.berlios.de/wiki/Sound_in_Debian_GNU/Linux#Some_applications_.28OSS_applications.29_produce_no_sound_in_ALSA
[2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/07/msg01168.html

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Re: Notebook Battery

[Jörg-Volker Peetz]

M-L wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 July 2007 19:19, koffiejunkie shared this with us all:
>> --} Is there anything I can do to improve this, or this battery just on the
>> --} way out?  I'm just bothered by the suddeness of this drop in battery
>> --} life - it's been at about an hour for a good six months now, and stayed
>> --} pretty stable.  Unless some of the cells just died.
>> --}
>> --} Thanks
>
[...]
> I have always found that to get the most out of the life of a laptop battery, 
> you have to run it right out, something that, I think, the latest windows 
> won't allow, till it just drops right out. This way there is no memory built 
> up, but when the battery finally does (*) really die. It's dead for ever. As 
> well you have to have a good filesystem like ext3 on the lappy, that will 
> recover from this kind of crash, and of course, manually save everything for 
> the last 3 minutes or so of battery life, and just play a game or something 
> till it crashes, with everything else shut down. The battery will then last 
> for years, or does in my case. I have to use laptops because we have solar 
> power, and have to husband our power and use it frugally.

This applies only to NiMH or NiCd batteries which were used in older
notebooks, as far as I know. A good reference is

Batteries in a Portable World. A handbook on rechargeable batteries for
non-engineers
http://www.buchmann.ca/
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Set up LAN DNS server

[rocky]

Hey,

I'm runing Debian etch with BIND9 on it. I'm following the
aboutdebian.com tutorial on DNS server. I'm intending to set up my
Desktop Debian box as the DNS server for the LAN  dns server and
Internet Name Resolution server(The IP address of the Desktop used in
preffered name server for each work station's TCP/IP configuration)

1, To make is serve as the Internet Name Resolution I make the Debian
Desktop's /etc/resolv.conf only have one line "nameserver 127.0.0.1"
2 To make the Desktop server as LAN dns server I configure the
following files on the Desktop Debian box:
--db.mxoffice.in-begin--
LIJIANG:/etc/bind# more db.mxoffice.in
$TTL 86400
mxoffice.in.IN SOAwoody.mxoffice.in.
rocky.mxoffice.in. (
   2007071558 ; Serial no., based on date
21600 ; Refresh after 6 hours
 3600 ; Retry after 1 hour
   604800 ; Expire after 7 days
 3600 ; Minimum TTL of 1 hour
  )
rockyLaptop  IN A   192.168.1.19
woody IN A   192.168.1.55
@ IN NS  woody
;@ IN MX  10 woody
www   IN CNAME   woody
;ftp   IN CNAME   woody
woody IN CNAME   @
--db.mxoffice.in-end--
db.1.168.192begin$$$
LIJIANG:/etc/bind# more db.1.168.192
$TTL 86400
@ IN SOAwoody.mxoffice.in.
rocky.mxoffice.in. (
   2007071558 ; Serial no., based on date
21600 ; Refresh after 6 hours
 3600 ; Retry after 1 hour
   604800 ; Expire after 7 days
 3600 ; Minimum TTL of 1 hour
  )
19IN PTR rockyLaptop
55IN PTR woody
@ IN NS  woody
db.1.168.192end$$$
named.conf.localbegin--$$$
LIJIANG:/etc/bind# more named.conf.local
//
// Do any local configuration here
//

// Consider adding the 1918 zones here, if they are not used in your
// organization
//include "/etc/bind/zones.rfc1918";

zone "mxoffice.in" {
type master;
file "/etc/bind/db.mxoffice.in";
};

zone "1.168.192.in-addr.arpa" {
type master;
file "/etc/bind/db.1.168.192";
};
named.conf.localend--$$$

To test out I use my another Unbuntu laptop and changed the /etc/
resolv.conf read aa below:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ more /etc/resolv.conf
search mxoffice.in
nameserver 192.168.1.55

nslookup google.com on the ubuntu laptop gives me the right result but
use nslookup to test mxoffice.in gives me the following error:
4Error---begin$$$
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ nslookup mxoffice.in
Server: 192.168.1.55
Address:192.168.1.55#53

** server can't find mxoffice.in: SERVFAIL
$$$---errorend---

Did my LAN dns server set up correctly? Does the above nslookup right
way of testing that out? If any of you could give me some assistance,
I would really appreciate it?

Blessings,
Rocky


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Re: NTLM APS not working after upgrade of Testing

[David Watson]

Masatran, R. Deepak wrote:
> * Kumar Appaiah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2007-07-17
>> On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 04:00:53PM +0100, David Watson wrote:
>>> Can you confirm that ntlmaps is running using the following command:
>>>
>>> ps aux | grep ntlmaps
>>>
>>> if it is not running try running this command it should let you know if
>>> there is an error starting ntlmaps:
>>>
>>> python /usr/share/ntlmaps/main.py -c /etc/ntlmaps/server.cfg
>> Also, do check whether the server.cfg has not been replaced. There's a
>> high chance that this has happened, and in that case, the port would
>> have gone to 5865 (and you have to re-enter the username and password
>> as well).
> 
> Replacing server.cfg with a backup copy solved the problem.
> 
> Mr. David Watson: Could you make the package ask the user before replacing
> the configuration file? Thanks!
> 

If you still have the broken server.cfg could you check what was
different.  I'd like to find out if it was only one config value that
changed or if you were somehow given a default server.cfg.

The package install scripts for ntlmaps read your current configuration
and store values in debconf, so if there is a difference one of the
values may not be getting stored properly.


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Mismatch between UCD-SNMP-MIB and free

[George Chelidze]

Hello,

I am using up2date Debian etch with 2.6.21.5 kernel and snmpd 5.2.3-7. I 
am trying to monitor total free memory through snmp. Below is a simple 
output:


 CUT HERE 
# snmpwalk -c  -v 2c localhost memory && free
UCD-SNMP-MIB::memIndex.0 = INTEGER: 0
UCD-SNMP-MIB::memErrorName.0 = STRING: swap
UCD-SNMP-MIB::memTotalSwap.0 = INTEGER: 3903672
UCD-SNMP-MIB::memAvailSwap.0 = INTEGER: 3903624
UCD-SNMP-MIB::memTotalReal.0 = INTEGER: 2076132
UCD-SNMP-MIB::memAvailReal.0 = INTEGER: 91948
UCD-SNMP-MIB::memTotalFree.0 = INTEGER: 3995572
UCD-SNMP-MIB::memMinimumSwap.0 = INTEGER: 16000
UCD-SNMP-MIB::memShared.0 = INTEGER: 0
UCD-SNMP-MIB::memBuffer.0 = INTEGER: 207036
UCD-SNMP-MIB::memCached.0 = INTEGER: 1509916
UCD-SNMP-MIB::memSwapError.0 = INTEGER: 0
UCD-SNMP-MIB::memSwapErrorMsg.0 = STRING:
total   used   free sharedbuffers cached
Mem:   20761321984184  91948  0 2070361509916
-/+ buffers/cache: 2672321808900
Swap:  3903672 483903624
 CUT HERE 

As you can see UCD-SNMP-MIB::memTotalFree.0 is wrong. free reports 
correct values. Is it a known issue and if yes is there any known 
workaround? Is this _BUG_ related to snmpd or kernel? Any information is 
appreciated.


Thanks in advance,

George


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Re: how to shift from stable to testing

[Silke Suck]

Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb:
>> I would _not_ recommend switching to aptitude on a system on which you
>> have used apt-get until then, though. In most cases, this leads to
>> problems (e.g. aptitude trying to remove your complete graphical
>> environment). Not to unsolvable problems, but nevertheless - apt-get is
>> absolutely fine, so there's really no need to face these problems at
>> all.
>
> According to the maintainer of aptitude, these problems should have been=20
> solved, even before the release of etch. Even if not, one can still run=20
> 'aptitude keep-all' or use the "Cancel pending actions" from the=20
> "Actions" menu.

thanks for the info! I just don't switch between apt-get and aptitude
after having experienced problems a few times, so it never occured to me
those problems could have been solved in the meantime :-)

Still, if you're used to apt-get, I don't really see a reason to switch.
I always recommend aptitude, but never tell users to switch from apt-get
on a running system. If I should, please let me know the reasons.

Cheers,

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