Re: How to configure Mutt to ask before downloading attachments

[Freeman]

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 06:00:53PM +, Camale?n wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I usually use Mutt in Lenny with my Gmail account via IMAP.
> 
> It works nice but when people send me some big attachments (images or 
> media content) those files are also auto-downloaded in pager and it can 
> take some time to get the whole message open.
> 
> Is there any way I can instruct Mutt to automatically downloads the text 
> message (body) but ask me what to do with the attached files (get them, 
> view them, store them, leave them...)?
> 
> Greetings,
> 

I posted a mutt question here and got a good answer. 

Also, I was kindly reminded of mutt-us...@mutt.org , which is a great list.

Mutt-users really know their stuff and respond quickly because they don't
get enough traffic to keep them busy. 

Be kind to mutt-users. Send them posts. :)

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Re: Organize Debian mail lists page, please, thanks :)

[Freeman]

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 09:37:01PM -0800, giovanni_re wrote:
> Hi - thanks for your work on the debian mailing lists.  :)
> 
> I include some notes here about several improvements to the debian
> website, regarding mailing lists.  They 1) communicate more quickly the
> _most imortant_ information, & 2) enable people to find the relevant
> information more quickly.
> 
> == 1) Proper intro text
> On
> http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/
> the introduction text should have a link changed:  Keep the text the
> same, but:
> 
> "Introduction
> 
> Debian GNU/Linux is developed through distributed development all around
> the world. Therefore, e-mail is the preferred way to discuss various
> items. Much of the conversation between Debian developers and users is
> managed through several mailing lists."
> 
> That is all fine, but the link behind the last words should be to
> http://lists.debian.org/
> Not to "http://foldoc.org/mailing+list";, as it is now.
> 
> 
> == 2) Mail lists page should also list all the lists, grouped.
> 
> The page:
> http://lists.debian.org/
> has a great start - the grouping.
> 
> The important thing it is missing is a 2nd section, which would have
> each group section, & a link to the main page of each list, within that
> group.
> 
> Ex: for the "users" lists (& do this for each grouping), go to the
> http://lists.debian.org/users.html
> page, & extract all the list links, & put them on the lists.debian.org
> page.
> 
> == 3) Better: put that info on all at the bottom of the main page about
> lists:
> 
> Ie, put onto the page:
> http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/
> 
> all the info i described in part 2 above for the page:
> http://lists.debian.org/
> 
> That would make a smaller # of pages to click through to find the proper
> list.  Ie,
> 1st: Main debain page, with a link to:
> 2nd: The lists page, which has the categorized list of all mailing
> lists.
> 
> That would be a great, efficient design, help people find lists more
> quickly, & thus help people be more efficient. :)
> 
> ==
> Do you think you could get this done?  Any idea the time frame?  Thanks
> :)
> 

I can't cut it!

Thank you. I thought maybe I was missing something. :) (I'm never sure.)

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Re: Organize Debian mail lists page, please, thanks :)

[Mark]

>On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Arthur Machlas 
>wrote:

> >
> >
> >On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:37 PM, giovanni_re 
> >pontificated:
>
>> >Hi - thanks for your work on the debian mailing lists.  :)
>> >
>> >I include some notes here about several improvements to the debian
>> >website, regarding mailing lists.  They 1) communicate more quickly the
>> >_most imortant_ information, & 2) enable people to find the relevant
>> >information more quickly.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >==
>> >Do you think you could get this done?  Any idea the time frame?  Thanks
>> >:)
>> >
>> >
>>
> >
> >This reminds me of those letters from a nut books, by Ted L. Nancy.
> >Best,
> >Arthur
>

I needed a laugh tonight.  Thanks giovanni!

Mark

Re: Organize Debian mail lists page, please, thanks :)

[Arthur Machlas]

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:37 PM, giovanni_re pontificated:

> Hi - thanks for your work on the debian mailing lists.  :)
>
> I include some notes here about several improvements to the debian
> website, regarding mailing lists.  They 1) communicate more quickly the
> _most imortant_ information, & 2) enable people to find the relevant
> information more quickly.
>
> 
> ==
> Do you think you could get this done?  Any idea the time frame?  Thanks
> :)
>  
>
>
This reminds me of those letters from a nut books, by Ted L. Nancy.
Best,
Arthur

Re: Intel 2100 wireless firmware (ipw2100-1.3.fw) for Lenny installation

[Mark]

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 9:54 PM, Arthur Machlas wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 10:44 PM, Mark  wrote:
>
>> Oh, and if I boot to an Ubuntu Live 9.10 CD it connects no problem.  What
>> the what??
>>
>
> Hi, me again. You know, the guy who said it wasn't worth the trouble. That
> it's better to use aptitude after the fact. Yeah... hey.
>
> Good news is I eventually found a simple answer on google. Bad news is it
> was some time ago, don't remember how or where I found it. Essentially I had
> to clean out some config files that weren't set up properly by installing
> firmware during the before any parts of the system were actually installed.
>
> Best,
> Arthur
>

Aptitude it is.  I don't mind nuking the hdd and reinstalling Lenny from
scratch (I have the dvd .iso downloaded).  Lesson learned!  (Assuming
aptitude installation works!)

Mark

Re: Intel 2100 wireless firmware (ipw2100-1.3.fw) for Lenny installation

[Arthur Machlas]

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 10:44 PM, Mark  wrote:

> Oh, and if I boot to an Ubuntu Live 9.10 CD it connects no problem.  What
> the what??
>

Hi, me again. You know, the guy who said it wasn't worth the trouble. That
it's better to use aptitude after the fact. Yeah... hey.

Good news is I eventually found a simple answer on google. Bad news is it
was some time ago, don't remember how or where I found it. Essentially I had
to clean out some config files that weren't set up properly by installing
firmware during the before any parts of the system were actually installed.

Best,
Arthur

Organize Debian mail lists page, please, thanks :)

[giovanni_re]

Hi - thanks for your work on the debian mailing lists.  :)

I include some notes here about several improvements to the debian
website, regarding mailing lists.  They 1) communicate more quickly the
_most imortant_ information, & 2) enable people to find the relevant
information more quickly.

== 1) Proper intro text
On
http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/
the introduction text should have a link changed:  Keep the text the
same, but:

"Introduction

Debian GNU/Linux is developed through distributed development all around
the world. Therefore, e-mail is the preferred way to discuss various
items. Much of the conversation between Debian developers and users is
managed through several mailing lists."

That is all fine, but the link behind the last words should be to
http://lists.debian.org/
Not to "http://foldoc.org/mailing+list";, as it is now.


== 2) Mail lists page should also list all the lists, grouped.

The page:
http://lists.debian.org/
has a great start - the grouping.

The important thing it is missing is a 2nd section, which would have
each group section, & a link to the main page of each list, within that
group.

Ex: for the "users" lists (& do this for each grouping), go to the
http://lists.debian.org/users.html
page, & extract all the list links, & put them on the lists.debian.org
page.

== 3) Better: put that info on all at the bottom of the main page about
lists:

Ie, put onto the page:
http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/

all the info i described in part 2 above for the page:
http://lists.debian.org/

That would make a smaller # of pages to click through to find the proper
list.  Ie,
1st: Main debain page, with a link to:
2nd: The lists page, which has the categorized list of all mailing
lists.

That would be a great, efficient design, help people find lists more
quickly, & thus help people be more efficient. :)

==
Do you think you could get this done?  Any idea the time frame?  Thanks
:)


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Re: Intel 2100 wireless firmware (ipw2100-1.3.fw) for Lenny installation

[Mark]

Oh, and if I boot to an Ubuntu Live 9.10 CD it connects no problem.  What
the what??

Re: Intel 2100 wireless firmware (ipw2100-1.3.fw) for Lenny installation

[Mark]

Well, I got the .fw file to load and the wireless device appears loaded but
cannot connect to my WPA personal wireless network.  I am running another
Lenny laptop that connects fine, almost identical hardware except it has a
Broadcom wireless NIC.  All wireless networks are sniffed by the device,
which means the driver and firmware are both functioning correctly, right?
Here is my iwconfig and lspci -nn output, any ideas why it won't connect?

debian-latd800:/home/mark# iwconfig
lono wireless extensions.

eth0  no wireless extensions.

eth2  unassociated  ESSID:off/any  Nickname:"ipw2100"
  Mode:Managed  Channel=0  Access Point: Not-Associated
  Bit Rate:0 kb/s   Tx-Power:16 dBm
  Retry short limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
  Encryption key:off
  Power Management:off
  Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
  Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
  Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

debian-latd800:/home/mark# lspci -nn
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to I/O
Controller [8086:3340] (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to AGP
Controller [8086:3341] (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:24c2] (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:24c4] (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:24c7] (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M)
USB2 EHCI Controller [8086:24cd] (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge
[8086:2448] (rev 81)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface
Bridge [8086:24cc] (rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE
Controller [8086:24ca] (rev 01)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: Intel Corporation
82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller [8086:24c5] (rev
01)
00:1f.6 Modem [0703]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M)
AC'97 Modem Controller [8086:24c6] (rev 01)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation NV28 [GeForce4
Ti 4200 Go AGP 8x] [10de:0286] (rev a1)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5705M
Gigabit Ethernet [14e4:165d] (rev 01)
02:01.0 CardBus bridge [0607]: Texas Instruments PCI7510 PC card Cardbus
Controller [104c:ac47] (rev 01)
02:01.1 CardBus bridge [0607]: Texas Instruments PCI7510,7610 PC card
Cardbus Controller [104c:ac4a] (rev 01)
02:01.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: Texas Instruments PCI7410,7510,7610
OHCI-Lynx Controller [104c:802b]
02:01.3 System peripheral [0880]: Texas Instruments PCI7410,7510,7610 PCI
Firmware Loading Function [104c:8204]
02:03.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless LAN 2100
3B Mini PCI Adapter [8086:1043] (rev 04)


Thanks!
Mark

Re: Undefined video mode number: 314

[Stephen Powell]

Mr. Findeisen, I just realized something.

On 2010-01-13 at 11:57:48 -0500 Stephen Powell wrote:
> These days, many video chipsets and/or drivers don't support interlaced
> modes anymore.  They were a way to reduce flicker on monitors with low
> video bandwidth and they have largely outlived their usefulness.

Maybe I spoke too soon.  It's true that some video drivers and/or
chipsets no longer support interlaced modes.  But I'm not so sure that
they have "outlived their usefulness".  In fact, they may be
just the ticket in your situation.  You are bandwidth-constrained here,
not by the monitor's video bandwidth but by the video card's video
bandwidth.  You are currently operating your monitor at close to
your video card's maximum bandwidth (78.75 MHz vs. 80 MHz).
Yet you are operating at less than half of your monitor's maximum
vertical refresh rate (75 vs. 160).  This is exactly what interlaced
modes are designed for!

It appears from the Xorg.0.log file that your
video driver and chipset support interlacing.  I can't tell from
reading your monitor's manual whether it supports interlacing or not.
It doesn't say that it does, and it doesn't say that it doesn't.
The only way to find out is to try it.

Let's take a closer look at the modeline that your monitor is currently
operating under:

# 1024x768: 78.75 MHz, 60.0 kHz, 75.0 Hz
Modeline "1024x768" 78.75 1024 1040 1136 1312 768 769 772 800 +hsync +vsync

(You are not explicitly specifying this mode, it is being selected from
an internal table within the X server.)  We will make three minor changes
to it.  First, we will change the modeline name from "1024x768" to "custom".
Second, we will change the last number from 800 to 801 (interlaced modes
must have an odd vertical frame length).  Third, we add the interlace flag.
Your full xorg.conf file will now look something like this:

--

Section "Device"
Identifier  "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier  "Configured Monitor"
VendorName  "Samsung"
ModelName   "SyncMaster 550b"
HorizSync   30-70
VertRefresh 50-160
Option  "MaxClock"   "110"
# 1024x768: 78.75 MHz, 60.0 kHz, 150 Hz (interlaced).
Modeline"custom" 78.75 1024 1040 1136 1312 768 769 772 801 
+hsync +vsync Interlace
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier  "Default Screen"
Device  "Configured Video Device"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
DefaultDepth16
SubSection  "Display"
Depth   16
Modes   "custom" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier  "Default Layout"
Screen  "Default Screen"
EndSection

--

Note that the word "custom" appears in two places: once in the Modeline
line in the "Monitor" section and the second time in the Modes statement
in the "Screen" section.  This pretty much forces it to use your custom
mode.  (But if it doesn't work you still have 800x600 and 640x480 to
fall back on via Ctrl+Alt+NumPlus and Ctlr+Alt+NumMinus.)

If it works, you will operate your monitor at 150 Hz vertical refresh!
Of course, it's an interlaced mode.  It's not as good as 150 Hz vertical
refresh non-interlaced.  But it's far superior to 75 Hz non-interlaced,
at least in theory.  You might want to give it a try and see how you like
it.

Reducing flicker in a bandwidth-constrained environment is what interlaced
modes were created for in the first place.  And that is the situation that
you are in.

I just recently changed monitors, and I'm in a similar situation.
I'm operating a custom interlaced mode right now as I compose this e-mail.
The monitor I'm using has a video bandwidth of only 70 MHz.  The fastest
vertical refresh rate I can get at 1024x768 resolution using the standard
video modes is 60 Hz, and it runs at a dot clock of 65 MHz (close to the
maximum of 70 MHz).

# 1024x768: 65 MHz, 48.4 kHz, 60 Hz
Modeline "1024x768" 65 1024 1048 1184 1344 768 771 777 806 -hsync -vsync

But for me, 60 Hz produces noticeable flicker and eye strain.  Although
I'm close to the maximum video bandwidth, I've still got plenty of room
in the vertical refresh department.  My monitor has a maximum vertical
refresh rate of 100 Hz!  There is a standard interlaced mode which runs
at 87 Hz, but just for grins I thought I'd try a custom mode.  Here's
what I came up with:

# 1024x768: 54 MHz, 40.2 kHz, 99.6 Hz (interlaced)
Modeline "custom" 54 1024 1048 1184 1344 768 771 777 807 -hsync -vsync Interlace

This could probably be improved some more, but I just did a rough cut
using the one I started with as a template.  I changed 806 to 807 to
get an odd number, then reduced the dot clock rate proportionately to
get the vertical refresh rate at 100 Hz.  No more (perceived) flicker!
No tearing!  No eye strain!  It works great.


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Re: company management

[Nuno Magalhães]

Try searching for "open source ERP".

HTH,
Nuno

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Re: Decode unixtime

[Chris Davies]

On 20100115_051059, T o n g wrote:
> Which tool can help me decode the Unix time? E.g., strings like 
> 1257624539, 1258162046, 1257623988, 1257709563, etc. [...]

Alex Samad  wrote:
> I believe squid logs like that !

That's correct. The squid FAQ also gives a perl snippet to post-process
the logs, turning the number into a human readable date/time string.

Chris


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Re: How to configure Mutt to ask before downloading attachments

[Chris Jones]

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 01:00:53PM EST, Camaleón wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I usually use Mutt in Lenny with my Gmail account via IMAP.
> 
> It works nice but when people send me some big attachments (images or 
> media content) those files are also auto-downloaded in pager and it can 
> take some time to get the whole message open.
> 
> Is there any way I can instruct Mutt to automatically downloads the text 
> message (body) but ask me what to do with the attached files (get them, 
> view them, store them, leave them...)?

I download mail form Gmail accounts locally via POP3 + fetchmail, but I
thought IMAP only downloaded the header by default.

Anyway, did you try 'v' for view-attachments?

CJ


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Re: Re: Decode unixtime

[Clive Standbridge]

> Using Lenny? -- the '-I' will be gone soon. It is not even in Squeeze's 
> man page now.

Yes lenny, it's disappeared from the man page already, and in fact
it's not in etch's man page either.

I wasn't aware of this bug but it has been reported 4 years ago!
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=354799


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Re: lenny boot problem

[Christian Koerner]

On Tue, 19 Jan 2010, amka wrote:


Le mardi 19 janvier 2010 à 06:45 +, Christian Koerner a écrit :

On Mon, 18 Jan 2010, amka wrote:


Le dimanche 17 janvier 2010 à 00:11 +, Christian Koerner a écrit :

On Sun, 17 Jan 2010, amka wrote:



Le samedi 16 janvier 2010 à 21:37 +, Christian Koerner a écrit :

On Sat, 16 Jan 2010, amka wrote:

On boot :

ramdisk: couldn't find valid ram disk image starting at 0
list of all partitions:
... # I don't remember the line, and the last one is :

Kernel Panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root FS on unknown
block (8,33)


Looks like it can't find the initrd image.



How many HDDs have you in your system?

3 : sda, sdb (etch) and sdc (lenny)


Can you boot into Etch or does it fail too?

The boot of etch is OK (lilo).


What filesystem do you use for lenny?

ext3 :

1. it's visible on /etc/fstab , and


2. On etch, I mounted /dev/sdc1 (='/' lenny) on :
debian:~# stat -f /mnt/wd01/
 File: "/mnt/wd01/"
   ID: 0Namelen: 255 Type: ext2/ext3
Block size: 4096  Fundamental block size: 4096
Blocks: Total: 35325708   Free: 34536368   Available: 32741908
Inodes: Total: 8978432Free: 8879709


loader=chain-loader


I tried, see below (lenny lilo.conf ; no results...)


Do you use lilo also for etch? If so, can you send your lilo.conf from the etch 
installation.


etch lilo.conf :

 boot=/dev/sdb

 map=/boot/map
   prompt
   delay=100
   timeout=100

 default=Debian40

 image=/vmlinuz
   root=/dev/sdb2
   label=Debian40
   read-only
#   restricted
   initrd=/initrd.img

 other=/dev/sdc
   label=Debian50



Looks fine.



In your lilo.conf I would remove any options with "*bmp* and the "install" 
option.

Yes, and result : the boot problem subsists.


Had you a chance to disconnect drive sda & sdb as I would keep it as simple as 
possible. Hence remove also any options with bmp and the install option in your 
lilo configuration.

I did, and the problem subsists too (1 drive only and no bmp or install 
options).


When you tested with the Lenny HDD, did you change your lilo.conf before? So 
all /dev/sdc devices pointed to /dev/sda?


How I did :
1. I started my computer with the first lenny CD ;
  graphical rescue mode.
2. I mount /dev/sda1 for '/'
3. I went to shell (, got the mount and df results), and
  I changed my lilo.conf :

lenny lilo.conf (only 1 disk) :

 lba32
 boot=/dev/sda
 root=/dev/sda1
 prompt
 timeout=50
 map=/boot/map

 loader=chain-loader

 vga=normal
 image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-amd64
   label="lenny_1D"
   initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-2-amd64
   read-only


The result was the same when I started with "lenny_1D" : kernel panic.



The lilo.conf looks ok. Did you run the lilo command after you made the changes 
to the lilo.conf?
All entries pointing to /dev/sdc need to be changed to /dev/sda in the 
/etc/fstab too.

To be sure can you provide the output of: 
ls -la /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-amd64 
ls -la /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-2-amd64




And a strange thing :
- The rescue mode invited me to mount /dev/sda1 on '/' , normal, but...
- df prints /dev/sdc1/ (and not sda1) as '/'  ??
- Changing /etc/fstab or SATA connectors on my drive didn't change anything.


Can you please send the output of mount and df when you use one disk only.


Here you have them :

df:

Filesystem   1K-blocks  Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdc1141302832   3157216 130967776   3% /
tmpfs141302832   3157216 130967776   3% /lib/init/rw
udev514680   660514020   1% /dev
tmpfs   514680   660514020   1% /dev/shm
devpts  514680   660514020   1% /dev/pts


mount:

dev/sdc1   on / type ext3  (rw,errors=remount-ro)
tmpfs  on /lib/init/rw  type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
proc   on /proc type proc  (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
sysfs  on /sys  type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
procbususb on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
udev   on /dev  type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
tmpfs  on /dev/shm  type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=620)



Don't see any unusual there, apart from the point that you mount /dev/sda1 as 
"/" and it is not listed.
Can you please send also the output of: fdisk -l



On what HDD/partiton did you install lilo?

On sdc. I tried sda, but the problem subsist.


Do you boot directly into Lilo or do you use another bootloader that starts 
Lilo?


Lilo starts first.

Another thing I saw :
On boot, an error/warning occurs :
[  [0.260762  PCI ]  cannot alocate ressource region 0 for device
:00:00:0

I am not sure for the quite text (it goes fast, but :
- The first number is correct,
- 'region' is '0' and
- 'device' is "a lot of" 0.

debian:/home/amel# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8151 System
   Controller (rev 13)
00:01.0 PCI bridge

Re: problem whit optic fibre adapter (emulex LP952)

[Stan Hoeppner]

Can we get some relevant dmesg and /var/log/boot output?  Also, are you loading
libfc?  You'll need it in addition to lpfc.

Have you tried building a custom kernel with all the stuff built in, not as 
modules?

-- 
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Marco Vaschetto put forth on 1/19/2010 2:35 AM:
> Stan Hoeppner ha scritto:
>> Marco Vaschetto put forth on 1/16/2010 6:38 PM:
>>
>>  
>>> Jan 14 14:10:28 ssdsmb1tls kernel: lpfc :03:01.0: 0:0442 Adapter
>>> failed to init, mbxCmd x88 CONFIG_PORT, mbxStatus x12 Data: x0
>>> Jan 14 14:10:28 ssdsmb1tls kernel: lpfc :03:01.0: 0:0442 Adapter
>>> failed to init, mbxCmd x88 CONFIG_PORT, mbxStatus x12 Data: x0"
>>> 
>>
>> This could be caused by any number of things.  Send complete lspci (no
>> switches)
>> output and we'll go from there.
>>
>>   
> Hi,
> 
> this is the complite output of lspci -vv
> 
> 00:00.0 Host bridge: Broadcom GCNB-LE Host Bridge (rev 32)
>Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
> ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
>Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort-
> SERR- Kernel modules: sworks-agp
> 
> 00:00.1 Host bridge: Broadcom GCNB-LE Host Bridge
>Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
> ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
>Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort-
> SERR- Kernel modules: sworks-agp
> 
> 00:03.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL (rev 27)
> (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
>Subsystem: Compaq Computer Corporation Proliant Rage XL
>Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
> ParErr- Stepping+ SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
>Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
> SERR- Latency: 64 (2000ns min), Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
>Region 0: Memory at f600 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
>Region 1: I/O ports at 2400 [size=256]
>Region 2: Memory at f5ff (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
>[virtual] Expansion ROM at 9804 [disabled] [size=128K]
>Capabilities: [5c] Power Management version 2
>Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA
> PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
>Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
> 
> 00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5702X
> Gigabit Ethernet (rev 02)
>Subsystem: Compaq Computer Corporation NC7760 Gigabit Server
> Adapter (PCI-X, 10/100/1000-T)
>Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
> ParErr+ Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
>Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
> SERR- Latency: 64 (16000ns min), Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
>Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 19
>Region 0: Memory at f5fe (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
>[virtual] Expansion ROM at 9806 [disabled] [size=64K]
>Capabilities: [40] PCI-X non-bridge device
>Command: DPERE- ERO- RBC=512 OST=1
>Status: Dev=ff:1f.1 64bit+ 133MHz+ SCD- USC- DC=simple
> DMMRBC=2048 DMOST=1 DMCRS=16 RSCEM- 266MHz- 533MHz-
>Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2
>Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA
> PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+)
>Status: D0 PME-Enable+ DSel=0 DScale=1 PME-
>Capabilities: [50] Vital Product Data 
>Capabilities: [58] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+
> Queue=0/3 Enable-
>Address: 084280808000409c  Data: 14a6
>Kernel driver in use: tg3
>Kernel modules: tg3
> 
> 00:05.0 System peripheral: Compaq Computer Corporation Advanced System
> Management Controller
>Subsystem: Compaq Computer Corporation Device b0f3
>Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr+
> Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
>Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
> SERR- Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
>Region 0: I/O ports at 1800 [size=256]
>Region 1: Memory at f5fd (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
> 
> 00:06.0 RAID bus controller: Compaq Computer Corporation Smart Array
> 64xx (rev 01)
>Subsystem: Compaq Computer Corporation Smart Array 641
>Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr+
> Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
>Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
> SERR- Latency: 64, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
>Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 21
>Region 0: Memory at f5fc (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
>Region 2: I/O ports at 2800 [size=256]
>Region 3: Memory at f5f8 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K]
>[virtual] Expansion ROM at 9800 [disabled] [size=256K]
>Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2
>Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2- AuxCurrent=0mA
> PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
>Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 P

FW: [Xen-users] Freezing on certain HVM DomUs on Debain lenny Dom0

[Mike Viau]

According to http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenDom0Kernels

Debian Lenny's rebased Xen.org kernel is not officially supported. Therefor I 
was hoping someone on the Debian mailing list could take a look at my 
predicament below.

Thanks!
 

-M


From: vi...@sheridanc.on.ca
To: xen-us...@lists.xensource.com
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 09:20:05 -0500
Subject: [Xen-users] Freezing on certain HVM DomUs on Debain lenny Dom0










The actual problem:



As mentioned in the subject, certain HVM DomUs are freezing on the freshly 
setup Debain Lenny Dom0. I am not sure if the problem has something to do with 
the very recent hardware I am using (although it appears to be getting detected 
properly), the slightly older hyper-visor ( version 3.2-1 used vs 3.4 
released), or just something I am overlooking or doing wrong.

All the DomUs I have been testing with have been either Live or Installation 
Linux CD/DVDs. A project known as (http://www.zeroshell.net/eng/) ZeroShell 
(beta 12) worked perfectly with the HVM configuration. The Linux distribution 
started up, and I was able to connect to the vnc console with seamless 
operation as if it was installed natively. Also I think it is worth mentioning 
the networking worked seamlessly as well which lead me to believe my system 
proved capable of running HVM guests.

Next I tried both the Ubuntu server 9.10 amd64 installation disc and and the 
Ubuntu 9.10 alternative amd64 discs. This is when I started getting HVM DomUs 
locking up. On both cases I was able to connect into the vnc console in where 
the disc was loaded up and asking the user to selection options at the initial 
menu. Options such as install Ubuntu and check computer RAM are presented in a 
graphical form. When the installation option is selected, the DomU freezes, the 
vnc console goes blank (look like a text cursor is apparent on the upper left 
corner), and the DomU does nothing although according to the output of xm list 
on the Dom0, the DomU is still running. If the check RAM option is selected, a 
text-based instance of memtest fires up and starts check the DomU RAM. 

So I am a little confused on what the next step to take would be, I would 
appreciate anyones advice very much :)

Below are some details. I'd be happy to provided any more details upon request.


The Hardware:

# cat /proc/cpuinfo

(8 processors found numbered 0-7)
processor   : 0
vendor_id   : GenuineIntel
cpu family  : 6
model   : 30
model name  : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 860  @ 2.80GHz
stepping: 5
cpu MHz : 2800.154
cache size  : 8192 KB
physical id : 0
siblings: 1
core id : 0
cpu cores   : 1
apicid  : 0
initial apicid  : 0
fpu : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level : 11
wp  : yes
flags   : fpu de tsc msr pae cx8 apic sep mtrr cmov pat clflush acpi 
mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht syscall nx lm constant_tsc rep_good pni ssse3 cx16 sse4_
1 sse4_2 popcnt lahf_lm ida
bogomips: 5600.97
clflush size: 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

-

# xm dmesg | grep VMX

(XEN) HVM: VMX enabled

(How ever I did not see vmx on the cpuinfo, perhaps someone can explain?)


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VT-d enabled in BIOS,
also VT-d directed I/O was enabled too

The Software:

xen hyper-visor = version 3.2-1-amd64  
xen kernel = 2.6.26-2-xen-amd64

---

# xm info

host   : localhost
release: 2.6.26-2-xen-amd64
version: #1 SMP Thu Nov 5 04:27:12 UTC 2009
machine: x86_64
nr_cpus: 8
nr_nodes   : 1
cores_per_socket   : 4
threads_per_core   : 2
cpu_mhz: 2800
hw_caps: 
bfebfbff:28100800::0140:0098e3fd::0001
total_memory   : 8182
free_memory: 7010
node_to_cpu: node0:0-7
xen_major  : 3
xen_minor  : 2
xen_extra  : -1
xen_caps   : xen-3.0-x86_64 xen-3.0-x86_32p hvm-3.0-x86_32 
hvm-3.0-x86_32p hvm-3.0-x86_64 
xen_scheduler  : credit
xen_pagesize   : 4096
platform_params: virt_start=0x8000
xen_changeset  : unavailable
cc_compiler: gcc version 4.3.1 (Debian 4.3.1-2) 
cc_compile_by  : waldi
cc_compile_domain  : debian.org
cc_compile_date: Sat Jun 28 09:32:18 UTC 2008
xend_config_format : 4


DomU Configuration file (changing only the ISO path):

import os, re
arch = os.uname()[4]
if re.search('64', arch):
arch_libdir = 'lib64'
else:
arch_libdir = 'lib'

kernel = "/usr/" + arch_libdir + "/xen/boot/hvmloader"

builder='hvm'

memory = 512
shadow_memory = 8
name = "nas01"
#vif = [ 'type=ioemu, bridge=eth0' ]
vif = [ 'type=ioemu, bridge=eth1' ]

# *.img files created with dd if=/dev/zero of=*.img bs=1k seek=8192k count=1

disk = [ 'file:/root/XENSTORE/nas01/nas01.img,ioemu:xvda,

Re: kdm not working after upgrade from KDE 3.5 to 4.3.4

[Rémi Moyen]

Le 19 janvier 2010 11:09, Rémi Moyen  a écrit :

> I rebooted, got to the kdm welcome screen, obviously in KDE 4 style,
> and logged in... only to see kdm pop again! No error message.

OK, I've got a bit more news, and that's not good news...

First, about the missing files, I once more removed all KDE related
packages, this time with --purge, and reinstalled. I don't know why,
but this correctly unpacked all the files (in /etc/kde4/kdm). So at
least that's one point fixed. But that's the only one...

I tried to log in more than once (and more than twice, even!), it
still doesn't work. So I don't think I'm affected by the
afore-mentioned bug.

I tried installing consolekit/unstable (since Michael Biebl indicated
that the newest version fixes this bug), and I still have the problem.

I tried installing xdm to replace kdm, xdm has the same problem (with
both consolekit testing or unstable).

I installed another window manager (IceWM) and chose it in the kdm
options, still the same problem.

Finally, I managed to launch xinit + icewm manually, and this works fine.

I then tried, instead of launching icewm, to launch startkde (since it
seems that's what .xsession would launch normally). I get the
following messages:

Rate 50.0 Hz not available for this size
startkde: Starting up...
kdeinit4_wrapper: Warning:
connect(/home/remi/.kde/socket-laputa/kdeinit4__0) failed: :
Connection refused
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
startkde: Shutting down...
kdeinit4_wrapper: Warning:
connect(/home/remi/.kde/socket-laputa/kdeinit4__0) failed: :
Connection refused
Error: Can not contact kdeinit4!
startkde: Running shutdown scripts...
startkde: Done.

OK, I guess starting KDE requires more than calling startkde (but what
else?). I tried calling kdeinit, it finishes immediately (but that
could be normal if it's running as a daemon), and startkde still tells
me "Communication error with KInit" and then another message
"startkde: Could not start ksmserver. Check your installation.".
ksmserver core dumps when I try launching it manually (but again, at
that point, I'm not really expecting things to work manually).

So my X server is working fine, but there is a problem with kdm
(independently of the window manager I use), and there is a problem
with KDE itself (?).

Anyone got any clue as to what I could do?

(I'm also unfortunately stuck with KDE 4 now, because when I tried to
downgrade to kde/stable aptitude crashed, complaining about
kdelibs4c2a depending on libkrb53 that it couldn't find, and
downgrading manually libkrb53 seems to pull down an awful lot of
things -- at this rate, I'm better off reinstalling the system from
scratch, at least it would be clean...)
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Re: problems using wicd on WPA2 secured networks

[Paul Scott]

Arthur Machlas wrote:



On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 5:45 AM, Liam O'Toole > wrote:






To generate a PSK, you can use an online service like
https://www.grc.com/passwords.htm.
 
Not to belabour the obvious, but are you certain the passwords match? 
One time I generated a password on the router not realizing that my caps 
lock key was on.


Yes.  They are both visible to me at some point.

Thanks,

Paul




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Re: Decode unixtime

[John Hasler]

Tong writes:
> the '-I' will be gone soon. It is not even in Squeeze's man page now.

Still works in version 8.4 in Sid, though.
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Re: Fixing time zone

[Paul E Condon]

On 20100119_214515, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> Rodolfo wrote:
> 
...snip...
> 
> But suppose I want to adjust the minutes and seconds in the `date' field so to
> match exactly the `-800' time above: how could I do that?  Using the `date'
> command will not give an exact result.
> 
> Rodolfo

tz -800 is standard time on Pacific coast of USA. The minutes (and seconds) 
should be the same as in Rome. Does your computer clock display the wrong
minutes and seconds for Rome? Do you want that adjusted? If so, there are
a number of packages designed to keep your computer clock properly synchronized
with Internet time. I like 'chrony', but others like other packages. 

If you want to watch the time in two or more time zones concurrently look at
package tzwatch.

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Re: Problems with minus and plus signs in OO Calc

[Alex Samad]

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 09:35:25PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> Hi all.
> 
> My sister is experimenting problems when inserting numbers with a `minus' and 
> a
> comma, e.g.: `-9,13', within a Calc file.  Minus without comma or comma 
> without
> minus work fine.  Comma is necessary for the Italian notation of euros.
> 
> Does anybody know why the problem occurs and how to work it out?

have you set the right locale ?
> 
> Thanks for any help
> Rodolfo
> 
> 

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got these vampire-busting devices. A vampire is a -- a cell deal you can plug 
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Re: Intel 2100 wireless firmware (ipw2100-1.3.fw) for Lenny installation

[Mark]

>On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Marcelo Chiapparini <
marcelo.chia...@gmail.com> wrote:

> >Hi Mark,
> >In fact, I have the same problem as you in the past. And I received help
> from this list:
> >http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2008/01/msg02130.html
>
>
> >read this message, because it has important information about the
> installing of the firmware. It worked like a charm for me.
>

Thanks Marcelo, is it correct to assume the Debian Lenny installer places
the .fw files in /lib/firmware when it prompts for it during installation?
I downloaded the .fw files from your link and placed on the usb stick I
install from, so I will try tonight and report back results.  I know
aptitude can handle it after installing but this intrigues me - the less
work to do after installation, the better for me.

>On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Marco Vaschetto <
m.vasche...@snservice.net> wrote:
>Sorry, before I misunderstand you,
>if you want extract the firmware from the *.deb file do you can use
"dpkg-deb --extract name-package.deb /destination/folder"
>of course if you have another machine whit Linux , if is possible extract
the *.deb files under windows this I didn't know.
>If you need some body can extract for you and send by attachment whit
e-mail.

Thank you Marco.  I will attempt to use the .fw file downloaded by the link
Marcelo provided; if for some reason that does not work I will use your
suggestion.  I have several Lenny computers at home available to extract the
firmware per your suggestion.

Mark

Re: Decode unixtime

[T o n g]

On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 21:31:19 +, Clive Standbridge wrote:

> How about
> date -I
> date -Iseconds
> 
> Sortable, readable, parseable and standard to boot.

Using Lenny? -- the '-I' will be gone soon. It is not even in Squeeze's 
man page now.

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Re: Fixing time zone

[Rodolfo Medina]

Rodolfo wrote:

> Now I sent a test message to myself, and these are the headers:
>
>
> X-From-Line: rodolfo.med...@gmail.com  Tue Jan 19 20:16:54 2010
> Return-Path: 
> Received: from hda6-hyundai ([151.81.20.42])
> by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 13sm1649564bwz.10.2010.01.19.11.17.03
> (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5);
> Tue, 19 Jan 2010 11:17:04 -0800 (PST)
> From: Rodolfo Medina 
> To: rodolfo.med...@gmail.com
> Subject: test3
> Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:16:54 +0100
>
>
> Is the problem solved now?


Andrei Popescu  writes:

> Assuming 'date' shows the correct time, yes.


But suppose I want to adjust the minutes and seconds in the `date' field so to
match exactly the `-800' time above: how could I do that?  Using the `date'
command will not give an exact result.

Rodolfo


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Sandbox, chroot, makejail and application

[Arthur Machlas]

Greetings, I want to install and run SPSS for linux. It needs to be
installed by root, but run by a normal user. I want to install it such that
it has no access to my system as a whole. I believe the method to achieve
this is a chroot environment. From my readings so far I also need to look
into makejail.

I am looking for any tips / advice about the general approach, good reading
materials, etc. that the list may have to offer.

Many thanks,
Arthur

Problems with minus and plus signs in OO Calc

[Rodolfo Medina]

Hi all.

My sister is experimenting problems when inserting numbers with a `minus' and a
comma, e.g.: `-9,13', within a Calc file.  Minus without comma or comma without
minus work fine.  Comma is necessary for the Italian notation of euros.

Does anybody know why the problem occurs and how to work it out?

Thanks for any help
Rodolfo


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company management

[Marco Vaschetto]

Hi,

some body know a open-source project of software for company management 
like open-geco, what is important for me is have a central database,


like have a server side and client side.

tank's to all.


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[Fwd: Re: Intel 2100 wireless firmware (ipw2100-1.3.fw) for Lenny installation]

[Marco Vaschetto]

--- Begin Message ---

Andrei Popescu ha scritto:

On Tue,19.Jan.10, 11:00:33, Mark wrote:
  

Hello,

I am trying to install the firmware for an Intel ipw2100 wifi card on a Dell
Latitude D800 laptop (the driver is supported in the Lenny kernel, just not
the firmware).  According to this page http://wiki.debian.org/ipw2200 (note
bold text by Steve McIntyre) the Debian installer should be able to read the
tarball file during the installation; I tried last night but the installer
needs the .fw file not the tar.gz file.  Every link I've tried, including
this one http://packages.debian.org/lenny/firmware-ipw2x00 is either a
tar.gz or .deb file.  I can't seem to find a download for .fw...any ideas or
help out there?  I suppose I can install the firmware after getting Lenny
installed by adding "contrib non-free" to /apt/sources.list, but since the
installer prompts for "ipw2100-1.3.fw" file during installation, I'd like to
get it installed at that time.



Last time I tried this it was enough to have the .deb on some media (I 
used an USB stick).


Regards,
Andrei
  

Sorry, before I misunderstand you,

if you want extract the firmware from the *.deb file do you can use 
"dpkg-deb --extract name-package.deb /destination/folder"


of course if you have another machine whit Linux , if is possible 
extract the *.deb files under windows this I didn't know.


If you need some body can extract for you and send by attachment whit 
e-mail.


good by.

--- End Message ---

Re: Which virtualization is the best for Debian?

[Robert David]

Dne Út 19. ledna 2010 17:39:39 Sthu Deus napsal(a):
> Thank You for Your time and answer, Robert:
> >> Can You easily turn networked guests on/off? - Can others still function
> >> as before turning off of them?
> >
> >I dont know what you exactly mean, but you always can:
> >
> >vzctl stop xxx #this will stop virtual xxx and the others will remain
> > running
> 
> I'm speaking of networked guests: in vserver they do renumerate interfaces
>  that leads to problems.

I do not understand what you exactly mean by networked guests, but you do not 
need new interface for new guest, there is single interface specific for 
openvz and each guest comunicate to it and has its own network settings 
(ip,mask,gw,nameserver,...)

> 
> >Check the openvz.org for more info. It is well documented, just download
> > the manual pdf.
> 
> But people's opinion will be off the manual, - I guess.
> 
I agree, but sometimes is better to check the documentation for all the 
features.

I think, like there was said, it is important to specify why you need 
virtualized environment and than choose the appropriate. 

You need to chose if you want paravirtualization or full virtualization. Both 
are good for something else.

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Re: problems using wicd on WPA2 secured networks

[Freeman]

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 09:30:46AM -0700, Paul Scott wrote:
> Liam O'Toole wrote:
> >On 2010-01-19, Paul Scott  wrote:
> (...)
> 
> >>>
> >>>I'm using backported wicd 1.6.2.2 on lenny.
> 
> I believe I have made many attempts with 1.6.2.2 but I will try it again.
> 
> >I find that the terms "key", "password", and "passphrase" tend to be
> >used interchangeably in the literature. The important thing to remember
> >is that the key can be 8-63 printable ASCII characters or 64 hexadecimal
> >characters. Hence the conversion you mention above.
> >
> >To generate a PSK, you can use an online service like
> >https://www.grc.com/passwords.htm.
> 
> Ok.  I will try that on my home situation.
> 
> OTOH I need to connect at a coffee shop which uses a given "password"
> 
> Wicd just tells me that the connection is WPA2.  When I set Wicd
> properties for that connection either to
> 
> WPA 1/2 Passphrase
> or
> WPA 1/2 Preshared Key
> 
> I get the same bad password rejection from Wicd.
> 
> That was with 1.7.  I'm installing 1.6.2.2 right now.
> 

I had problems with the encrypted connection at my office starting with an
upgrade sometime back.  It is a WEP hexadecimal passphrase.

No rejection of the passphrase though. It claims failure finding the DNS
server.  Also an WRT54G and Wicd 1.6.2.2, on squeeze.

At first I thought it wasn't connecting. After playing with every setting
possible, I discovered it was timing out sometimes on the first try.  I
finally settled for 60 seconds of working off line while I wait, with an
occasional second try.

Instantly connects to everything else instantly, even the office occasionally. 

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Re: Fixing time zone

[Andrei Popescu]

On Tue,19.Jan.10, 20:27:10, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
 
> Is the problem solved now?

Assuming 'date' shows the correct time, yes.

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Re: question about sending mail and postfix - slightly OT question

[Adam Hardy]

Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. on 19/01/10 17:53, wrote:

On Tuesday 19 January 2010 04:54:57 Adam Hardy wrote:

Paul E Condon on 19/01/10 06:14, wrote:

On 20100118_133220, Adam Hardy wrote:

I have a new server online with lenny that I want to configure to
send all its mail for root to my email address, and that's all. I
don't want it to receive any email or relay or anything else.

I am running into the problem that the mail
command isn't installed. It obviously doesn't come with postfix and
there appears to be a huge choice of packages that I could choose
from in the debian repositories, but isn't there a default?


I don't think the end-user mail command is installed by default.  A fairly 
stripped-down Lenny would still include a sendmail work-alike, usually exim4-

daemon-light.

On my system, I am getting the mail command from the bsd-mailx package:
b...@rei:/etc/alternatives% ls -l $(which mail)
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 2009-02-15 17:41 /usr/bin/mail -> 
/etc/alternatives/mail

b...@rei:/etc/alternatives% ls -l /etc/alternatives/mail
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 2009-02-15 17:41 /etc/alternatives/mail -> 
/usr/bin/bsd-mailx

b...@rei:/etc/alternatives% ls -l /usr/bin/bsd-mailx
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 91192 2008-04-27 12:20 /usr/bin/bsd-mailx
b...@rei:/etc/alternatives% dpkg -S /usr/bin/bsd-mailx
bsd-mailx: /usr/bin/bsd-mailx

The "mail" utility has been marked as "LEGACY" in the UNIX standards for over 
a decade.  The documentation of the legacy command indicates that 
"Applications should migrate to the mailx utility".  IMO, Users should 
probably migrate to a better local mail agent, mutt is a start, but you should 
look at the packages to provide the "mail-reader" virtual.  Also, there's a 
"mailx" package in Lenny, but it is also provided by 3 other packages.  One of 
those is bsd-mailx, but the others might be just as capable.



In mailutils package, there are both mail and mailx.

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Adam


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Re: Intel 2100 wireless firmware (ipw2100-1.3.fw) for Lenny installation

[Marcelo Chiapparini]

Hi Mark,
In fact, I have the same problem as you in the past. And I received help
from this list:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2008/01/msg02130.html

read this message, because it has important information about the installing
of the firmware. It worked like a charm for me.

regards

Marcelo


2010/1/19 Mark 

> Awesome, thanks Marcelo!
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Marcelo Chiapparini <
> marcelo.chia...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> 2010/1/19 Mark 
>>
>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I am trying to install the firmware for an Intel ipw2100 wifi card on a
>>> Dell Latitude D800 laptop (the driver is supported in the Lenny kernel, just
>>> not the firmware).  According to this page
>>> http://wiki.debian.org/ipw2200 (note bold text by Steve McIntyre) the
>>> Debian installer should be able to read the tarball file during the
>>> installation; I tried last night but the installer needs the .fw file not
>>> the tar.gz file.  Every link I've tried, including this one
>>> http://packages.debian.org/lenny/firmware-ipw2x00 is either a tar.gz or
>>> .deb file.  I can't seem to find a download for .fw...any ideas or help out
>>> there?  I suppose I can install the firmware after getting Lenny installed
>>> by adding "contrib non-free" to /apt/sources.list, but since the installer
>>> prompts for "ipw2100-1.3.fw" file during installation, I'd like to get it
>>> installed at that time.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance for any ideas.
>>>
>>> Mark
>>>
>>
>> Hi Mark,
>>
>> I downloaded the firmware from this link:
>>
>> http://ipw2100.sourceforge.net/firmware.php
>>
>> regards
>>
>> Marcelo
>>
>>
>


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Re: Fixing time zone

[Rodolfo Medina]

Rodolfo Medina  writes:

> A friend of mine let me know that he receives my emails with a time stamp one
> hour into the future.  It seems my computer or my service that forwards to
> gmail is set to the wrong time or time zone.  From my header:
>
>   Received: from hda6-hyundai ([151.83.162.201])
>   by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 15sm1318852fxm.2.2010.01.16.09.20.40
>   (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5);
>   Sat, 16 Jan 2010 09:20:41 -0800 (PST)
>   From: Rodolfo Medina 
>   Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 18:21:18 +
>  ^^
> |
>
> this is wrong
>
> 09:20:41 -0800 equals 17:20:41 +, not 18:21:18 +.  The friend suggests
> that my time zone "+" should be "+0100" i.e.  CET.
>
> Can anybody suggest how I can recover this?



Andrei Popescu  writes:

> To set the timezone it should be enough to do
>
> dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
>
> ...but,
>
> - do you have Windows installed (and used) on the same computer?
> - is the BIOS clock set to UTC or local time?
> - what does you system think about it? (check UTC= setting in 
>   /etc/default/rcS)
>
> For a linux-only computer it is recommended you set UTC=yes, make sure 
> your BIOS clock is set to UTC and configure the timezone via the above 
> command.
>
> OTOH Windows expects the BIOS to be set to *local* time, so you would 
> want to set UTC=no, but you still have to set the correct timezone 
> because internally Linux is using UTC.
>
> If you make changes to the clock you might also experience issues on the 
> next (re)boot, because e2fsck doesn't like it if the last mount time of 
> a filesystem appears to be in the future. This is easily fixed with a
>
> fsck.ext3 /dev/sdXY
>
> from the "maintenance shell", but you should be prepared for it ;)



Thanks!

With `dpkg-reconfigure tzdata' it came out that my local time was London,
wheras it should be Rome.  I changed it.  I have also a Windows partition, so I
let UTC=no in /etc/default/rcS, as you suggested.  I rebooted and no problem
seemed to occur.

Now I sent a test message to myself, and these are the headers:


X-From-Line: rodolfo.med...@gmail.com  Tue Jan 19 20:16:54 2010
Return-Path: 
Received: from hda6-hyundai ([151.81.20.42])
by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 13sm1649564bwz.10.2010.01.19.11.17.03
(version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5);
Tue, 19 Jan 2010 11:17:04 -0800 (PST)
From: Rodolfo Medina 
To: rodolfo.med...@gmail.com
Subject: test3
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:16:54 +0100


Is the problem solved now?

Thanks,
Rodolfo


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Re: Intel 2100 wireless firmware (ipw2100-1.3.fw) for Lenny installation

[Andrei Popescu]

On Tue,19.Jan.10, 11:00:33, Mark wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to install the firmware for an Intel ipw2100 wifi card on a Dell
> Latitude D800 laptop (the driver is supported in the Lenny kernel, just not
> the firmware).  According to this page http://wiki.debian.org/ipw2200 (note
> bold text by Steve McIntyre) the Debian installer should be able to read the
> tarball file during the installation; I tried last night but the installer
> needs the .fw file not the tar.gz file.  Every link I've tried, including
> this one http://packages.debian.org/lenny/firmware-ipw2x00 is either a
> tar.gz or .deb file.  I can't seem to find a download for .fw...any ideas or
> help out there?  I suppose I can install the firmware after getting Lenny
> installed by adding "contrib non-free" to /apt/sources.list, but since the
> installer prompts for "ipw2100-1.3.fw" file during installation, I'd like to
> get it installed at that time.

Last time I tried this it was enough to have the .deb on some media (I 
used an USB stick).

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Re: Intel 2100 wireless firmware (ipw2100-1.3.fw) for Lenny installation

[Marcelo Chiapparini]

2010/1/19 Mark 

> Hello,
>
> I am trying to install the firmware for an Intel ipw2100 wifi card on a
> Dell Latitude D800 laptop (the driver is supported in the Lenny kernel, just
> not the firmware).  According to this page 
> http://wiki.debian.org/ipw2200(note bold text by Steve McIntyre) the Debian 
> installer should be able to
> read the tarball file during the installation; I tried last night but the
> installer needs the .fw file not the tar.gz file.  Every link I've tried,
> including this one http://packages.debian.org/lenny/firmware-ipw2x00 is
> either a tar.gz or .deb file.  I can't seem to find a download for .fw...any
> ideas or help out there?  I suppose I can install the firmware after getting
> Lenny installed by adding "contrib non-free" to /apt/sources.list, but since
> the installer prompts for "ipw2100-1.3.fw" file during installation, I'd
> like to get it installed at that time.
>
> Thanks in advance for any ideas.
>
> Mark
>


Hi Mark,

try this link:

http://ipw2100.sourceforge.net/firmware.php

regards
Marcelo

Re: Updating off-line computer

[Andrei Popescu]

On Tue,19.Jan.10, 18:32:02, Oscar Corte wrote:
> 
> There are no Internet connections of any kind and I’d like to keep the 
> O.S. up to date. I also tried to install samba but the packages 
> couldn’t off course be retrieved.
 
If this computer is not directly accessible from the internet keeping it 
updated is not such a big concern. Since you also want to install new 
packages on occasion it might be enough to have the full DVD set 
available (either locally or somewhere in your internal network) and 
just add the update CD at every point release.

> ¿Could somebody please tell me what methods are available to keep the 
> machine updated. (importing the updates from another internet PC os 
> so)?

If you have in the same network some Debian computers with internet 
access you could use apt-proxy.

Regards,
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[SOLEVD] Intel 2100 wireless firmware (ipw2100-1.3.fw) for Lenny installation

[Mark]

>On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Marco Vaschetto <
m.vasche...@snservice.net> wrote:
>do you have try to unpack the tar ball? you download?

[snip]

Thanks for the reply; I have looked at the .tar file and here are the
contents; all .deb files.

>On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:11 AM, Arthur Machlas 
>wrote:
>Actually, I've experienced problems with setting up wifi connnections after
installing the firmware during the installation phase. You're much better
off installing the firmware via aptitude after installing.

[snip]

A, good feedback.  This is how I've done it before, but since the
installer asked I figured it wanted it.  Will stick to aptitude
installation.

Thanks,
Mark

Re: Intel 2100 wireless firmware (ipw2100-1.3.fw) for Lenny installation

[Arthur Machlas]

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Mark  wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am trying to install the firmware for an Intel ipw2100 wifi card on a
> Dell Latitude D800 laptop (the driver is supported in the Lenny kernel, just
> not the firmware).  According to this page 
> http://wiki.debian.org/ipw2200(note bold text by Steve McIntyre) the Debian 
> installer should be able to
> read the tarball file during the installation; I tried last night but the
> installer needs the .fw file not the tar.gz file.  Every link I've tried,
> including this one http://packages.debian.org/lenny/firmware-ipw2x00 is
> either a tar.gz or .deb file.  I can't seem to find a download for .fw...any
> ideas or help out there?  I suppose I can install the firmware after getting
> Lenny installed by adding "contrib non-free" to /apt/sources.list, but since
> the installer prompts for "ipw2100-1.3.fw" file during installation, I'd
> like to get it installed at that time.
>
> Thanks in advance for any ideas.
>
> Mark
>

Actually, I've experienced problems with setting up wifi connnections after
installing the firmware during the installation phase. You're much better
off installing the firmware via aptitude after installing.

Arthur

Re: Intel 2100 wireless firmware (ipw2100-1.3.fw) for Lenny installation

[Marco Vaschetto]

Mark ha scritto:

Hello,

I am trying to install the firmware for an Intel ipw2100 wifi card on 
a Dell Latitude D800 laptop (the driver is supported in the Lenny 
kernel, just not the firmware).  According to this page 
http://wiki.debian.org/ipw2200 (note bold text by Steve McIntyre) the 
Debian installer should be able to read the tarball file during the 
installation; I tried last night but the installer needs the .fw file 
not the tar.gz file.  Every link I've tried, including this one 
http://packages.debian.org/lenny/firmware-ipw2x00 is either a tar.gz 
or .deb file.  I can't seem to find a download for .fw...any ideas or 
help out there?  I suppose I can install the firmware after getting 
Lenny installed by adding "contrib non-free" to /apt/sources.list, but 
since the installer prompts for "ipw2100-1.3.fw" file during 
installation, I'd like to get it installed at that time.


Thanks in advance for any ideas.

Mark

do you have try to unpack the tar ball? you download?

if you don't have any machine whit Linux you can use 7zip on windows

for unpack the package *.tar.gz if not finish the Lenny installation 
giust "apt-get install firmware-ipw2x00" and load the appropiate modules.


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Re: lenny boot problem

[amka]

Le mardi 19 janvier 2010 à 06:45 +, Christian Koerner a écrit :
> On Mon, 18 Jan 2010, amka wrote:
> 
> > Le dimanche 17 janvier 2010 à 00:11 +, Christian Koerner a écrit :
> >> On Sun, 17 Jan 2010, amka wrote:
> >
> >>> Le samedi 16 janvier 2010 à 21:37 +, Christian Koerner a écrit :
>  On Sat, 16 Jan 2010, amka wrote:
> > On boot :
> >
> > ramdisk: couldn't find valid ram disk image starting at 0
> > list of all partitions:
> > ... # I don't remember the line, and the last one is :
> >
> > Kernel Panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root FS on unknown
> > block (8,33)
> 
>  Looks like it can't find the initrd image.
> >>>
>  How many HDDs have you in your system?
> >>> 3 : sda, sdb (etch) and sdc (lenny)
> >>
> >> Can you boot into Etch or does it fail too?
> > The boot of etch is OK (lilo).
> >
> >> What filesystem do you use for lenny?
> > ext3 :
> >
> > 1. it's visible on /etc/fstab , and
> >
> >
> > 2. On etch, I mounted /dev/sdc1 (='/' lenny) on :
> > debian:~# stat -f /mnt/wd01/
> >  File: "/mnt/wd01/"
> >ID: 0Namelen: 255 Type: ext2/ext3
> > Block size: 4096  Fundamental block size: 4096
> > Blocks: Total: 35325708   Free: 34536368   Available: 32741908
> > Inodes: Total: 8978432Free: 8879709
> >
> loader=chain-loader

I tried, see below (lenny lilo.conf ; no results...)

> Do you use lilo also for etch? If so, can you send your lilo.conf from the 
> etch installation.

etch lilo.conf :

  boot=/dev/sdb

  map=/boot/map
prompt
delay=100
timeout=100

  default=Debian40

  image=/vmlinuz
root=/dev/sdb2
label=Debian40
read-only
#   restricted
initrd=/initrd.img

  other=/dev/sdc
label=Debian50


> >> In your lilo.conf I would remove any options with "*bmp* and the "install" 
> >> option.
> > Yes, and result : the boot problem subsists.
> >
> >> Had you a chance to disconnect drive sda & sdb as I would keep it as 
> >> simple as possible. Hence remove also any options with bmp and the install 
> >> option in your lilo configuration.
> > I did, and the problem subsists too (1 drive only and no bmp or install 
> > options).
> 
> When you tested with the Lenny HDD, did you change your lilo.conf before? So 
> all /dev/sdc devices pointed to /dev/sda?

How I did :
1. I started my computer with the first lenny CD ;
   graphical rescue mode.
2. I mount /dev/sda1 for '/'
3. I went to shell (, got the mount and df results), and
   I changed my lilo.conf :

lenny lilo.conf (only 1 disk) :

  lba32
  boot=/dev/sda
  root=/dev/sda1
  prompt
  timeout=50
  map=/boot/map

  loader=chain-loader

  vga=normal
  image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-amd64
label="lenny_1D"
initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-2-amd64
read-only


The result was the same when I started with "lenny_1D" : kernel panic.

> > And a strange thing :
> > - The rescue mode invited me to mount /dev/sda1 on '/' , normal, but...
> > - df prints /dev/sdc1/ (and not sda1) as '/'  ??
> > - Changing /etc/fstab or SATA connectors on my drive didn't change anything.
> 
> Can you please send the output of mount and df when you use one disk only.

Here you have them :

df:

Filesystem   1K-blocks  Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdc1141302832   3157216 130967776   3% /
tmpfs141302832   3157216 130967776   3% /lib/init/rw
udev514680   660514020   1% /dev
tmpfs   514680   660514020   1% /dev/shm
devpts  514680   660514020   1% /dev/pts


mount:

dev/sdc1   on / type ext3  (rw,errors=remount-ro)
tmpfs  on /lib/init/rw  type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
proc   on /proc type proc  (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
sysfs  on /sys  type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
procbususb on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
udev   on /dev  type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
tmpfs  on /dev/shm  type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=620)


>  On what HDD/partiton did you install lilo?
> >>> On sdc. I tried sda, but the problem subsist.
> >>>
> >> Do you boot directly into Lilo or do you use another bootloader that 
> >> starts Lilo?
> >
> > Lilo starts first.
> >
> > Another thing I saw :
> > On boot, an error/warning occurs :
> > [  [0.260762  PCI ]  cannot alocate ressource region 0 for device
> > :00:00:0
> >
> > I am not sure for the quite text (it goes fast, but :
> > - The first number is correct,
> > - 'region' is '0' and
> > - 'device' is "a lot of" 0.
> >
> > debian:/home/amel# lspci
> > 00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8151 System
> >Controller (rev 13)
> > 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8151 AGP Bridge
> >(rev 13)
> >
> > My TYAN Tiger K8W (S2875) mainboard seems to be supported.
> > http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/T

Re: problems using wicd on WPA2 secured networks

[Liam O'Toole]

On 2010-01-19, Paul Scott  wrote:

> Wicd just tells me that the connection is WPA2.  When I set Wicd 
> properties for that connection either to
>
> WPA 1/2 Passphrase
> or
> WPA 1/2 Preshared Key
>
> I get the same bad password rejection from Wicd.
>

When I select "WPA 1/2 (Preshared Key)" I use the hexadecimal
representation of the key. I didn't use a passphrase to
generate the key, so I don't use the other option.

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Re: Updating off-line computer

[Javier Barroso]

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 7:32 PM, Oscar Corte  wrote:
> Hi all:
>
> I recently arranged a Debian Lenny MySQL-Server at my job and is working
> amazingly fine; non-graphics, only command line and performed the
> installation at home while connected to Internet from CD 1.
>
> The office kind of depends of this server full time and network settings
> have been tuned according to the internal company policy, so I’d like to
> avoid taking it home for updates thus having to reconfigure networking (not
> an expert).
>
> There are no Internet connections of any kind and I’d like to keep the O.S.
> up to date. I also tried to install samba but the packages couldn’t off
> course be retrieved.
>
> ¿Could somebody please tell me what methods are available to keep the
> machine updated. (importing the updates from another internet PC os so)?
Take a look to apt-offline (or older apt-zip) package

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Intel 2100 wireless firmware (ipw2100-1.3.fw) for Lenny installation

[Mark]

Hello,

I am trying to install the firmware for an Intel ipw2100 wifi card on a Dell
Latitude D800 laptop (the driver is supported in the Lenny kernel, just not
the firmware).  According to this page http://wiki.debian.org/ipw2200 (note
bold text by Steve McIntyre) the Debian installer should be able to read the
tarball file during the installation; I tried last night but the installer
needs the .fw file not the tar.gz file.  Every link I've tried, including
this one http://packages.debian.org/lenny/firmware-ipw2x00 is either a
tar.gz or .deb file.  I can't seem to find a download for .fw...any ideas or
help out there?  I suppose I can install the firmware after getting Lenny
installed by adding "contrib non-free" to /apt/sources.list, but since the
installer prompts for "ipw2100-1.3.fw" file during installation, I'd like to
get it installed at that time.

Thanks in advance for any ideas.

Mark

Updating off-line computer

[Oscar Corte]

Hi all:


I recently arranged a Debian Lenny MySQL-Server at my job and is working 
amazingly fine; non-graphics, only command line and performed the installation 
at home while connected to Internet from CD 1.

 

The office kind of depends of this server full time and network settings have 
been tuned according to the internal company policy, so I’d like to avoid 
taking it home for updates thus having to reconfigure networking (not an 
expert).

 

There are no Internet connections of any kind and I’d like to keep the O.S. up 
to date. I also tried to install samba but the packages couldn’t off course be 
retrieved.

 

¿Could somebody please tell me what methods are available to keep the machine 
updated. (importing the updates from another internet PC os so)?

 

Is there a list of newer packages into machines connected to Internet where I 
can see them?

 

Thanks a los in advance for your help.

Regards
  
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Re: debian - joomla accesso ai file

[Aioanei Rares]

Carlo Langaro wrote:

Salve a tutti, sono nuovo di debian anche se da qualche anno lavoro con ubuntu.
Sto installando per una associazione no profit, di faccio parte, un sito con 
joomla.
L'associazione mi ha messo a disposizione un server dove ho installato debian
ho poi installato lamp e utilizzando il componente di restore kickstart 
ripristinando l sito che ho configurato sotto ubuntu.
Il sito gira senza problemi, ma quando vado a fare qualsiasi modifica mi da 
l'avviso che non può aprire il file configuration.php per la scrittura.
ho controllato i permessi del file da proprietà e sono ok ho anche aperto tutto dando 777 ma niente, non c'e verso di venirne a capo. 


Vi ringrazio fin d'ora per il prezioso aiuto che mi darete

grazie

carlo langaro
carlan...@gmail.com

  

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How to configure Mutt to ask before downloading attachments

[Camaleón]

Hello,

I usually use Mutt in Lenny with my Gmail account via IMAP.

It works nice but when people send me some big attachments (images or 
media content) those files are also auto-downloaded in pager and it can 
take some time to get the whole message open.

Is there any way I can instruct Mutt to automatically downloads the text 
message (body) but ask me what to do with the attached files (get them, 
view them, store them, leave them...)?

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Re: question about sending mail and postfix

[Adam Hardy]

Camaleón on 19/01/10 14:56, wrote:

On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:00:15 +, Adam Hardy wrote:
As you *explicitly* installed Postfix I thought you knew beforehand what 
you were doing and what you wanted to achieve.


I had to explicitly install most stuff because the hosting company who set up 
lenny for me only installed the absolute minimum to run ssh.



Postfix Standard Configuration Examples
http://www.postfix.org/STANDARD_CONFIGURATION_README.html


Yes, I read this several times but obviously it's one of those situations where 
it doesn't make sense until you know what you're doing, and as my situation 
isn't one of the explicitly described common situations, I think I'm doing OK so 
far.



mydomain = ecocore.org


What is this domain for? 


I want the email address from my machine to be r...@ecocore.org (which is my 
domain name). I can live without this.


Finally I just de-installed postfix and purged it and re-installed everything 
without the mydomain=ecocore.org and now everything works.


Jan 19 17:47:52 ecocore postfix/smtp[31979]: AE2122A81F3: 
to=, orig_to=, 
relay=mx2.athnic.net[10.198.195.31]:25, delay=0.23, delays=0/0.01/0.12/0.1, 
dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 2.0.0 Ok: queued as D3990328BCD)


So the reason why postfix was saying "ecocore.vs.athnic.net[10.153.118.230]:25: 
Connection refused" will never be known, beyond my simple ignorance :O


Thanks for your help,

Adam


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Re: question about sending mail and postfix - slightly OT question

[Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.]

On Tuesday 19 January 2010 04:54:57 Adam Hardy wrote:
> Paul E Condon on 19/01/10 06:14, wrote:
> > On 20100118_133220, Adam Hardy wrote:
> >> I have a new server online with lenny that I want to configure to
> >> send all its mail for root to my email address, and that's all. I
> >> don't want it to receive any email or relay or anything else.
> >>
> >> I am running into the problem that the mail
> >> command isn't installed. It obviously doesn't come with postfix and
> >> there appears to be a huge choice of packages that I could choose
> >> from in the debian repositories, but isn't there a default?

I don't think the end-user mail command is installed by default.  A fairly 
stripped-down Lenny would still include a sendmail work-alike, usually exim4-
daemon-light.

On my system, I am getting the mail command from the bsd-mailx package:
b...@rei:/etc/alternatives% ls -l $(which mail)
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 2009-02-15 17:41 /usr/bin/mail -> 
/etc/alternatives/mail
b...@rei:/etc/alternatives% ls -l /etc/alternatives/mail
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 2009-02-15 17:41 /etc/alternatives/mail -> 
/usr/bin/bsd-mailx
b...@rei:/etc/alternatives% ls -l /usr/bin/bsd-mailx
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 91192 2008-04-27 12:20 /usr/bin/bsd-mailx
b...@rei:/etc/alternatives% dpkg -S /usr/bin/bsd-mailx
bsd-mailx: /usr/bin/bsd-mailx

The "mail" utility has been marked as "LEGACY" in the UNIX standards for over 
a decade.  The documentation of the legacy command indicates that 
"Applications should migrate to the mailx utility".  IMO, Users should 
probably migrate to a better local mail agent, mutt is a start, but you should 
look at the packages to provide the "mail-reader" virtual.  Also, there's a 
"mailx" package in Lenny, but it is also provided by 3 other packages.  One of 
those is bsd-mailx, but the others might be just as capable.

> > Lenny netinstall puts exim4 on the computer as part of the base
> > system.  Why are you trying to get postfix working? You should have
> > exim4 from your first boot of Lenny. Did you try exim4 and find it
> > wanting?
> 
> I'm configuring a new vserver online with a hosting provider, and they
>  installed the bare minimum lenny with ssh, and that obviously didn't
>  include exim.

Are you *sure*?  It's hard to get a Debian installation going without some 
package that provides the virtual "mail-transport-agent", since cron needs it 
and cron is Priority: important in Debian.  For most packages the default 
"mail-transport-agent" is exim4-daemon-light.

>  I have no experience with exim, and although I had only very
>  little experience with postfix, I did have some before I started and now
>  I've got several hours of mucking around with postfix as investment in it.

As both have similar security records and feature lists, you should probably 
use postfix anyway.  Experience and patience counts for a lot in mail server 
configuration.

Postfix is usually only one command away from being installed: (aptitude 
install postfix).  Since postfix Conflicts with mail-transport-agent other 
packages that provide that virtual (e.g. exim) would be uninstalled.
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Re: problems using wicd on WPA2 secured networks

[Arthur Machlas]

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 5:45 AM, Liam O'Toole wrote:

>  On 2010-01-19, Paul Scott  wrote:
> > Liam O'Toole wrote:
> >> On 2010-01-19, Paul Scott  wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> Wicd is mostly not working for me on networks using WPA2 including a
> >>> Linksys WRT54G2 router I configured myself for WPA2.  Testing this
> >>> connection when encryption is disabled works fine.  When I set the
> >>> router to WPA2 Personal I currently get:
> >>> Connection failed: bad password
> >>>
> >> --SNIP--
> >>> 2010/01/19 01:45:13 :: wpa_supplicant authentication may have failed.
> >>> 2010/01/19 01:45:13 :: connect result is Failed
> >>> 2010/01/19 01:45:13 :: exiting connection thread
> >>> 2010/01/19 01:45:13 :: Sending connection attempt result bad_pass
> >> --SNIP--
> >>
> >> I'm using backported wicd 1.6.2.2 on lenny. It authenticates
> >> successfully using WPA2 with a WRT54G router. For encryption type I use
> >> "WPA 1/2 Preshared Key" and enter the key in hexadecimal. No trouble.
> >>
> >> How does that compare with your settings?
> >
> > This may lead me to ideas not made clear in docs I have read so far.
> >
> > I am using WPA2 Personal with a text based password which appears to be
> > converted to a key by wicd.
> >
> > How you create a Preshared Key?
> >
> > In terms of either wicd or the router what's the difference between a
> > key and a password?
> >
>
> I find that the terms "key", "password", and "passphrase" tend to be
> used interchangeably in the literature. The important thing to remember
> is that the key can be 8-63 printable ASCII characters or 64 hexadecimal
> characters. Hence the conversion you mention above.
>
> To generate a PSK, you can use an online service like
> https://www.grc.com/passwords.htm.
>
>
>

Not to belabour the obvious, but are you certain the passwords match? One
time I generated a password on the router not realizing that my caps lock
key was on.
Best,
Arthur

debian - joomla accesso ai file

[Carlo Langaro]

Salve a tutti, sono nuovo di debian anche se da qualche anno lavoro con ubuntu.
Sto installando per una associazione no profit, di faccio parte, un sito con 
joomla.
L'associazione mi ha messo a disposizione un server dove ho installato debian
ho poi installato lamp e utilizzando il componente di restore kickstart 
ripristinando l sito che ho configurato sotto ubuntu.
Il sito gira senza problemi, ma quando vado a fare qualsiasi modifica mi da 
l'avviso che non può aprire il file configuration.php per la scrittura.
ho controllato i permessi del file da proprietà e sono ok ho anche aperto tutto 
dando 777 ma niente, non c'e verso di venirne a capo. 

Vi ringrazio fin d'ora per il prezioso aiuto che mi darete

grazie

carlo langaro
carlan...@gmail.com

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Re: How to grab music from remote cdrom?

[Camaleón]

On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:22:45 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote:

> Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón:
> 
>>Export the CD share via samba or nfs and mount it locally into the
>>target machine where you are going to run the ripper. And let the
>>program doing its work.
> 
>>Whether it fails, you'll have to search another solution for your
>>problem.
> 
> Not sure about cdda2wav will be able to use the share. - As I understand
> it is a FS share? And not a /dev/hdc?

It's a share you can mount wherever you want into the client machine, 
i.e., under "/mnt/cdrom" and then point the "cdda2wav" utility to grab 
content from that source.

The only trouble you can encounter is the program does not like it, but 
that's all. In that event it just will fail with some error.

>>May I ask why can't you run the audio extractor in the host machine
>>where the CD unit is physically attached to? :-?
> 
> The machine has no such a device. :)

The host machine (remote CD-R) has to have a CD-ROM reader, at least X-)

So, why not extract the audio in that same computer? Then you can share 
the extracted content over the network, as usual...

Or you can buy an external 5¼ enclosure and put there a dvd (both items 
are nowadays very cheap) ;-)

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Re: Why is latexmk in Debian so old?

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> FYI:
>   http://www.phys.psu.edu/~collins/software/latexmk-jcc/
>   http://ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/support/latexmk/

It is orphaned and waits for someone stepping in to maintain it:

http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/latexmk.html
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=523193

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Re: 2.6.32-trunk-686 kernel (+some other upgrade?) can't see home file system

[green]

Paul Scott wrote at 2010-01-18 16:15 -0600:
> green wrote:
> >Have you checked "dmesg | tail" and compared after attempting the
> >mount with each kernel?
> 
> I have looked at dmesg and syslog.  I saw suspicious stuff but
> haven't made an exact comparison.
> 
> I may not be able to get back to this right away since classes start
> that I have to prepare for and at least I have a working system.

When you have time, let us see what the 'suspicious stuff' is.


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Re: Which virtualization is the best for Debian?

[Sthu Deus]

Thank You for Your time and answer, Robert:

>> Can You easily turn networked guests on/off? - Can others still function as
>>  before turning off of them?
>>   
>I dont know what you exactly mean, but you always can:
>
>vzctl stop xxx #this will stop virtual xxx and the others will remain running

I'm speaking of networked guests: in vserver they do renumerate interfaces that 
leads to problems.

>Check the openvz.org for more info. It is well documented, just download the 
>manual pdf.

But people's opinion will be off the manual, - I guess.


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Re: Which virtualization is the best for Debian?

[Sthu Deus]

Thank You for Your time and answer, randall:

>some do, but i always use the vserver patched kernel from the repos, it 
>never gave me any problems and i'm always assured of the security 
>updates, did not have any issue when upgrading from etch to lenny.
>
>The thing you heard was broken is the vserver-debiantools package which 
>apparently is in a bad state for years already ( have used these in the 
>past and still do, but i never experienced a problem myself ).
>But you simply do not need this package, just follow the directions on 
>the VServer wiki

Ok. Can I ask on which services did You run in vservers?

Did You experience problems w/: "at turning down one of the vservers there is a 
mess w/ network interfaces - they are just re-enumerated"?


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Re: problems using wicd on WPA2 secured networks

[Paul Scott]

Liam O'Toole wrote:

On 2010-01-19, Paul Scott  wrote:

(...)



I'm using backported wicd 1.6.2.2 on lenny.


I believe I have made many attempts with 1.6.2.2 but I will try it again.


I find that the terms "key", "password", and "passphrase" tend to be
used interchangeably in the literature. The important thing to remember
is that the key can be 8-63 printable ASCII characters or 64 hexadecimal
characters. Hence the conversion you mention above.

To generate a PSK, you can use an online service like
https://www.grc.com/passwords.htm.


Ok.  I will try that on my home situation.

OTOH I need to connect at a coffee shop which uses a given "password"

Wicd just tells me that the connection is WPA2.  When I set Wicd 
properties for that connection either to


WPA 1/2 Passphrase
or
WPA 1/2 Preshared Key

I get the same bad password rejection from Wicd.

That was with 1.7.  I'm installing 1.6.2.2 right now.

Thanks,

Paul




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Why is latexmk in Debian so old?

[Vincent Lefevre]

Hi,

The latexmk version in Debian is 3.07a, which was released in 2004.
Why hasn't it been updated?

FYI:
  http://www.phys.psu.edu/~collins/software/latexmk-jcc/
  http://ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/support/latexmk/

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Re: How to grab music from remote cdrom?

[Sthu Deus]

Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón:

>Export the CD share via samba or nfs and mount it locally into the target 
>machine where you are going to run the ripper. And let the program doing 
>its work. 

>Whether it fails, you'll have to search another solution for your problem.

Not sure about cdda2wav will be able to use the share. - As I understand it is 
a FS share? And not a /dev/hdc?

>May I ask why can't you run the audio extractor in the host machine where 
>the CD unit is physically attached to? :-?

The machine has no such a device. :)


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Re: Sid on PowerPC has broken xserver-xorg-core

[Rick Thomas]

On Jan 19, 2010, at 10:15 AM, Gerfried Fuchs wrote:


Just a special side note: When you use unstable you are expected to
figure out such things because that's what happens regularly in
unstable and you are expected to be able to track down the issue on  
your

own. Digging through the buildd logs isn't magic. ;)


Hi Rhonda,

We each do what we can.  I'm not a developer and much of the stuff  
developers do is greek to me -- though I'm willing to learn.  The  
pointers to the build logs will be helpful in that; thank you for them!


My contribution to the process, such as it is, is that I happen to  
have access to a lot of old Mac PowerPC hardware that still runs well,  
but nobody wants or needs it for production applications.  I use it in  
my spare time to test installation of Debian software (stable, testing  
and unstable) and report what I find.  As I gain experience I try to  
give useful advice to people who are newer in it than I, and take  
advice from those who are more knowledgeable in the process than I.   
That's how we learn.


Again, thanks for your help.

Rick


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Re: Fixing time zone

[Klistvud]

Dne, 19. 01. 2010 17:52:56 je Rodolfo Medina napisal(a):
09:20:41 -0800 equals 17:20:41 +, not 18:21:18 +.  The friend  
suggests

that my time zone "+" should be "+0100" i.e.  CET.


Your UTC setting may be wrong; if you're using Gnome, try fiddling with  
the clock applet on your panel, there should be a UTC setting  
somewhere, try toggling it.


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Re: Fixing time zone

[Andrei Popescu]

On Tue,19.Jan.10, 16:52:56, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
 
> 09:20:41 -0800 equals 17:20:41 +, not 18:21:18 +.  The friend suggests
> that my time zone "+" should be "+0100" i.e.  CET.
> 
> Can anybody suggest how I can recover this?

To set the timezone it should be enough to do

dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

...but,

- do you have Windows installed (and used) on the same computer?
- is the BIOS clock set to UTC or local time?
- what does you system think about it? (check UTC= setting in 
  /etc/default/rcS)

For a linux-only computer it is recommended you set UTC=yes, make sure 
your BIOS clock is set to UTC and configure the timezone via the above 
command.

OTOH Windows expects the BIOS to be set to *local* time, so you would 
want to set UTC=no, but you still have to set the correct timezone 
because internally Linux is using UTC.

If you make changes to the clock you might also experience issues on the 
next (re)boot, because e2fsck doesn't like it if the last mount time of 
a filesystem appears to be in the future. This is easily fixed with a

fsck.ext3 /dev/sdXY

from the "maintenance shell", but you should be prepared for it ;)

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Re: OT: Camcorder .VRO format

[Camaleón]

On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:45:22 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote:

I dont't think this is OT :-?

> I purchased a Cannon DC410 camcorder.  Took some very nice videos that
> totem can play but I can't edit the file which has the .VRO extension. A
> Google search turned up commercial packages to convert the file to a
> .VOB file and a note that this is really an mpeg-2 file which apps may
> play if the extension is changed to .mpg.  Totem plays it that way too
> but Cinelerra's viewer thinks either of these is an image file.  ffmpeg
> -format does not include the .VRO extension and has problems compressing
> the .mpg file.

What kind of problems? Any errors while processing the conversion or with 
the output file? It's a very nice tool :-)

> I have a yet unanswered post to the cinelerra mailing list regrading the
> .VRO extension.
> 
> If anyone has any experience with this format or suggestions of things
> to try I would really appreciate the help.

No experience with that concrete file type, but Avidemux tends to be very 
powerfull for these kind of conversion tasks.

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Warning: "Illegal" hostnames no longer work

[David Baron]

For ever, I was getting a bootup message that by hostname was illegal. After 
that, everything, I mean everything, worked with that hostname 100%

As of the latest upgrades off Sid, the illegal hostname is no longer accepted 
by the system and there is then no hostname and many things do not like that 
at all.

Edit /etc/hostname and /etc/hosts and reboot.


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Fixing time zone

[Rodolfo Medina]

Hi all.

A friend of mine let me know that he receives my emails with a time stamp one
hour into the future.  It seems my computer or my service that forwards to
gmail is set to the wrong time or time zone.  From my header:

  Received: from hda6-hyundai ([151.83.162.201])
  by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 15sm1318852fxm.2.2010.01.16.09.20.40
  (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5);
  Sat, 16 Jan 2010 09:20:41 -0800 (PST)
  From: Rodolfo Medina 
  Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 18:21:18 +
 ^^
|

this is wrong

09:20:41 -0800 equals 17:20:41 +, not 18:21:18 +.  The friend suggests
that my time zone "+" should be "+0100" i.e.  CET.

Can anybody suggest how I can recover this?

Thanks for any help
Rodolfo


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Re: kdm not working after upgrade from KDE 3.5 to 4.3.4

[Michael Biebl]

Thierry Chatelet wrote:

> This is a bug in kdm squeeze and sid. You have to log twice and it will work.
> Thierry

This was actually an issue with consolekit and fixed consolekit packages are in
unstable and will transition to testing in a few days.

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Re: Sid on PowerPC has broken xserver-xorg-core

[Gerfried Fuchs]

Hi!

* Rick Thomas  [2010-01-19 15:00:11 CET]:
> Interesting... The culprit turned out to be the xserver-xorg-input-wacom 
> driver.  At first I removed all the video drivers that weren't mentioned 
> in Xorg.0.log.  That didn't solve the problem, but made it clear that 
> there were still problems with the input drivers.  So I removed those I 
> knew I wasn't using and that solved the problem.  Then I re-installed 
> the video and input drivers I had removed - one by one, until I started 
> seeing conflicts again.  I was able to put back everything but the wacom 
> input driver.
> 
> Now, the question is: how do we get the wacom input driver fixed? 
> Should I submit a bug report against xserver-xorg-input-wacom?  What 
> should I say is the problem?

 I guess this just means the package hasn't got built yet:
 lists an older
version of the package for powerpc.

 The build logs for the package speak a clear picture:
 

It failed on quite some architectures. It might be that the
build-dependencies weren't set tight enough and it stumbled through that
into old versions or similar. I'd hope one of the buildd admins will try
a give-back at some point, or that the package maintainer (hi, Ron!)
would notice the build issues.

 Just a special side note: When you use unstable you are expected to
figure out such things because that's what happens regularly in
unstable and you are expected to be able to track down the issue on your
own. Digging through the buildd logs isn't magic. ;)  Actually, I would
guess ron is aware of the build problems, but the package hasn't
received a FTBFS yet - that would hint into that a build in a current
clean sid chroot might give a good chance; or maybe it just wasn't filed
yet.

 Hope that helps!
Rhonda


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Re: kdm not working after upgrade from KDE 3.5 to 4.3.4

[Jens Van Broeckhoven]

On Tuesday 19 January 2010 12:45:27 Thierry Chatelet wrote:
> On Tuesday 19 January 2010 12:09:47 Rémi Moyen wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > (this is my first post on this list, please excuse me if I make any
> >  mistakes...)
> >
> > I have a Debian testing system on which for a long time I kept old KDE
> > 3.5 packages because I didn't want KDE 4 (I tried it around 4.0,
> > didn't like), I figured it was time I gave it another try. So after an
> > aptitude update, I did an aptitude dist-upgrade (something I hadn't
> > done since at least 6-12 months -- I did a number of updates of
> > specific packages in the mean time, though).
> >
> > aptitude offered me a solution which required removing a lot of
> > packages (old KDE 3.5 ones), installing a lot of new ones, and
> > updating some. The install went fine, without any error messages. I
> > now have a bunch of KDE 4.3.1 packages (version 4:4.3.4-1, the latest
> > in squeeze).
> >
> > I rebooted, got to the kdm welcome screen, obviously in KDE 4 style,
> > and logged in... only to see kdm pop again! No error message. I'm not
> > on this computer right now, but there wasn't any error message (nor
> > anything that looked even remotely related) in /var/log/kdm.log. In
> > the console, though, I can see when launching kdm some messages (sorry
> > for not having copied down the exact formulation) along the line of
> > "cannot copy file /etc/kde4/kdm/Xsession".
> 
> This is a bug in kdm squeeze and sid. You have to log twice and it will
>  work. Thierry
> 
For me, KDE didn't boot using KDM at all (most likely a security setting).
However, KDM has an option to login without X and startx still works (no 
solution but good enough for me till everything is fixed).

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Re: rsync: different target size

[Johannes Wiedersich]

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>   I was thinking: if you don't trust rsync, then use something
> else to generate the checksums.  But if you trust rsync, why bother with
> double-checking in the first place?

Because it could be that rsync works fine, but there are some problems
with the hardware -- like bad blocks on the disk.

If you don't trust rsync you should use some other tool.

FWIW my 300GB take a few hours to check; on reasonably recent hardware
30 GB should take minutes, ie. less than an hour or so to verify.

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Re: question about sending mail and postfix

[Camaleón]

On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:00:15 +, Adam Hardy wrote:

> Camaleón on 19/01/10 07:47, wrote:

>> Explain a bit so we can get the whole scenario about your Postfix
>> setup.
> 
> All I need is for my system to send various administrative emails to my
> own personal email account (on this email's domain, completely different
> from the system). For instance, emails containing the results of nmap
> and netstat launched by crontab and other such security checks.
> 
> The system won't have any other users than root and adam so no local
> emails between accounts are needed. Everything should be directed to my
> personal email.
> 
> And the system shouldn't accept any external emails or allow any
> relaying. That was why I had the line about inet_interfaces = loopback.
> I thought that would secure it. I've taken the setting out of main.cf
> now.

O.k. I think all is more clear now :-)

You can leave that value if you are not going to use Postfix in an 
intranet environment neither you are going to use it as an external/
remote MTA.

So just restore back:

***
inet_interfaces = loopback-only
***

And run "etc/init.d/postfix restart" to activate it.

As you *explicitly* installed Postfix I thought you knew beforehand what 
you were doing and what you wanted to achieve.

As per your described setup, Postfix can do the job (sending e-mails to 
external hosts, which is usually named "using Postfix as client") with no 
problems at all, but you (being the administrator of the host) need to 
understand what type of configs are available in Postfix.

Postfix is very flexible and can be configure to manage not only local 
mails (let's say, between you and your own host) but also can be used to 
address thousand of e-mail domains (virtual domains), usually known as  
"running Postfix as server".

You can get an idea of the different setups you can get by reading this 
page:

Postfix Standard Configuration Examples
http://www.postfix.org/STANDARD_CONFIGURATION_README.html

So, it should just work "out-of-the-box" without tweaking anything, at 
least when installed from sources. Debian scpecific setup may vary, but 
should be quite the same.

> However postfix is still ignoring my attempts to alias "root" and
> "adam". My main.cf is quite slim:

O.k. Let's evaluate again your current setup.
 
> mydomain = ecocore.org

What is this domain for? 

I get:

s...@stt008:~$ host ecocore.org
ecocore.org has address 205.153.118.230
ecocore.org mail is handled by 10 mx2.athnic.net.

This host actually exists and is running a mail server. Is that your 
Postfix? I think not, I think this is your ISP address/domain name and 
should not be listed here.

Just leave the default value untouched (that is, #comment it).

# mydomain = ecocore.org

> myhostname = $mydomain
> myorigin = $mydomain

You can leave these ones:

> mynetworks_style = host
> append_dot_mydomain = no
> local_recipient_maps =
> relay_domains =

And then, restart Postfix and try to send an e-mail to "root". You can do 
it as follows:

***
telnet localhost 25
mail from:root
rcpt to:root
data
testing e-mail
.
quit
***

And just review (and report back) for any error or messages you got in 
the log ("/var/log/mail.log") :-)

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Re: question about sending mail and postfix

[Adam Hardy]

Jon Dowland on 19/01/10 11:08, wrote:

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 07:47:11AM +, Camaleón wrote:

On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:50:56 +, Adam Hardy wrote:

Jan 18
23:32:32 my-other-domain postfix/smtp[32633]: 11C082A8779:
to=, relay=none, delay=0.07,
delays=0.04/0.01/0.02/0, dsn=4.4.1, status=deferred (connect to
my-other-domain.vs.athnic.net[11.22.33.44]:25: Connection refused) (END)


This can be the cause. You (or your provider) are forcing Postfix to 
listen only in loopback interface (127.0.0.1) so you get a "connection 
refused" error when tries to connect to [11.22.33.44] (also, the "square 
brackets" means no name server resolution is done).


It seems your host is configured for local delivery only :-?


This is not how I read the logs.

He does not want the machine running postfix to accept mail
from the outside world, so he does want it to listen only on
127.0.0.1 -- this is by design.

The "connection refused" logs are the postfix daemon
attempting to connect outbound - this does not look to be a
postfix-specific issue.

Adam, can you connect outbound to your ISPs mail server on
port 25, by hand? Use netcat if you have it, or telnet if
you do not, to test:

$ nc my-other-domain.vs.athnic.net 25
220 

You should get a response line like the above. If it does
not appear after a few seconds, or you get a connection
refused message, then your local ISP is blocking port 25
outbound, which is nowadays fairly common.

The ISP for your domain, who run the SMTP server, may accept
mail on alternative ports. The "submission" port 587 is
commonly used for this purpose, and is less likely to be
blocked by your home-Internet-ISP:

$ nc my-other-domain.vs.athnic.net 587
220 

If that works, reconfigure postfix to use port 587 instead
of 25 for it's relay host / smart host.

If it doesn't, you may have to use your ISPs relay host for
outbound mail.


OK, thanks. I've resolved that confusion.

You're right, I just scanned the ports and without that config in there, port 25 
 is left open.


Regards
Adam


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Re: Sid on PowerPC has broken xserver-xorg-core

[Rick Thomas]

Michel Dänzer wrote:
On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 23:44 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: 
My question is:  How do I know which packages I'm likely to need, so I  
can remove the rest?


Something like

grep _drv /var/log/Xorg.0.log|grep -v input

should show you which video driver your X server is using.


Interesting... The culprit turned out to be the xserver-xorg-input-wacom 
driver.  At first I removed all the video drivers that weren't mentioned 
in Xorg.0.log.  That didn't solve the problem, but made it clear that 
there were still problems with the input drivers.  So I removed those I 
knew I wasn't using and that solved the problem.  Then I re-installed 
the video and input drivers I had removed - one by one, until I started 
seeing conflicts again.  I was able to put back everything but the wacom 
input driver.


Now, the question is: how do we get the wacom input driver fixed? 
Should I submit a bug report against xserver-xorg-input-wacom?  What 
should I say is the problem?


Thanks very much for your help!

Rick


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Re: rsync: different target size

[Rick Thomas]

On Jan 19, 2010, at 5:58 AM, Leonardo Canducci wrote:


( cd source ; find . -type f -print0 | sort -z | xargs ls -s ) >
/tmp/source-stuff
( cd target ; find . -type f -print0 | sort -z | xargs ls -s ) >
/tmp/target-stuff
diff /tmp/target-stuff /tmp/source-stuff

you can use something like "md5sum" in place of "ls -s" if you want  
a more

industrial strength check...


how does that compare to rsync -cn? Is it faster? safer?


It's probably about the same speed as "rsync -cn", but it doesn't  
depend on rsync.  I was thinking: if you don't trust rsync, then use  
something else to generate the checksums.  But if you trust rsync, why  
bother with double-checking in the first place?


Rick


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Re: kdm not working after upgrade from KDE 3.5 to 4.3.4

[Rémi Moyen]

2010/1/19 Pier Paolo :

>> > I rebooted, got to the kdm welcome screen, obviously in KDE 4 style,
>> > and logged in... only to see kdm pop again! No error message. I'm not
>> > on this computer right now, but there wasn't any error message (nor
>> > anything that looked even remotely related) in /var/log/kdm.log. In
>> > the console, though, I can see when launching kdm some messages (sorry
>> > for not having copied down the exact formulation) along the line of
>> > "cannot copy file /etc/kde4/kdm/Xsession".
>> >
>>
>> This is a bug in kdm squeeze and sid. You have to log twice and it will work.
>> Thierry
>>
>>
> It is a problem between kdm and policykit, there is a bug open, either
> in kde and debian i think, search kdm policykit.

Hmmm... thanks for the pointer, but again, I don't see any cases where
there are missing files from the package. There seem, however, to be
indeed a problem with kdm/policykit.

Well, I'll look into it, but if I don't find a solution, I guess I'll
have to downgrade to 3.5 again (stable should do the trick).
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Re: Sid on PowerPC has broken xserver-xorg-core

[Rick Thomas]

On Jan 19, 2010, at 4:36 AM, Michel Dänzer wrote:


On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 23:44 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote:


My question is:  How do I know which packages I'm likely to need,  
so I

can remove the rest?


Something like

grep _drv /var/log/Xorg.0.log|grep -v input

should show you which video driver your X server is using.


Thank you.  That was quite helpful.  But before I tear in and start  
deleting packages... are there any of the other xserver-xorg-video-*  
packages I'm likely to need for some reason?  I'm thinking about stuff  
with generic sounding names, e.g. -fbdev or -chips ?



Thanks!


Rick

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Re: question about sending mail and postfix

[Adam Hardy]

Camaleón on 19/01/10 07:47, wrote:

Then I ran mail and sent user 'adam' an email, checked in the log and
got this:




where vs.athnic.net is the sub-domain of the hosting service, and
my-other-domain is the new domain I'm setting up a webserver for.

How is your Postfix global configuration done? Is it directly delivering 
e-mails outside (Internet) or are you sending all the mail to your ISP 
host? Is is a multi-domain setup (virtual domains)? What is Postfix's 
next step, is attached to DSL line or any kind of gateway...?


Explain a bit so we can get the whole scenario about your Postfix setup.


All I need is for my system to send various administrative emails to my own 
personal email account (on this email's domain, completely different from the 
system). For instance, emails containing the results of nmap and netstat 
launched by crontab and other such security checks.


The system won't have any other users than root and adam so no local emails 
between accounts are needed. Everything should be directed to my personal email.


And the system shouldn't accept any external emails or allow any relaying. That 
was why I had the line about inet_interfaces = loopback. I thought that would 
secure it. I've taken the setting out of main.cf now.


However postfix is still ignoring my attempts to alias "root" and "adam". My 
main.cf is quite slim:


mydomain = ecocore.org
myhostname = $mydomain
myorigin = $mydomain
mynetworks_style = host
append_dot_mydomain = no
local_recipient_maps =
relay_domains =


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Re: graphviz hidden

[roberto]

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Jon Dowland  wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 07:51:53PM +, Camaleón wrote:
>> It seems the package itself installs various set of tools
>> located at the usual location:
>
> For reference, you can look at the list of files installed
> by a package with "dpkg -L ". I find "dpkg -L
>  | grep /bin" often to be useful.
>
>
> --

great,

thank you all for your help !
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Re: kdm not working after upgrade from KDE 3.5 to 4.3.4

[Pier Paolo]

Il giorno mar, 19/01/2010 alle 12.45 +0100, Thierry Chatelet ha scritto:
> On Tuesday 19 January 2010 12:09:47 Rémi Moyen wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > (this is my first post on this list, please excuse me if I make any
> >  mistakes...)
> > 
> > I have a Debian testing system on which for a long time I kept old KDE
> > 3.5 packages because I didn't want KDE 4 (I tried it around 4.0,
> > didn't like), I figured it was time I gave it another try. So after an
> > aptitude update, I did an aptitude dist-upgrade (something I hadn't
> > done since at least 6-12 months -- I did a number of updates of
> > specific packages in the mean time, though).
> > 
> > aptitude offered me a solution which required removing a lot of
> > packages (old KDE 3.5 ones), installing a lot of new ones, and
> > updating some. The install went fine, without any error messages. I
> > now have a bunch of KDE 4.3.1 packages (version 4:4.3.4-1, the latest
> > in squeeze).
> > 
> > I rebooted, got to the kdm welcome screen, obviously in KDE 4 style,
> > and logged in... only to see kdm pop again! No error message. I'm not
> > on this computer right now, but there wasn't any error message (nor
> > anything that looked even remotely related) in /var/log/kdm.log. In
> > the console, though, I can see when launching kdm some messages (sorry
> > for not having copied down the exact formulation) along the line of
> > "cannot copy file /etc/kde4/kdm/Xsession".
> > 
> 
> This is a bug in kdm squeeze and sid. You have to log twice and it will work.
> Thierry
> 
> 
It is a problem between kdm and policykit, there is a bug open, either
in kde and debian i think, search kdm policykit.
Now i am i lenny/gnome,kdm-double-login was just the last annoyance with
sid/kde-4.3.4. Actually looked for xdm, but it's an ugly workaround

Maybe the situation evolved in last month


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Re: kdm not working after upgrade from KDE 3.5 to 4.3.4

[Rémi Moyen]

2010/1/19 Thierry Chatelet :

>> I rebooted, got to the kdm welcome screen, obviously in KDE 4 style,
>> and logged in... only to see kdm pop again! No error message.

> This is a bug in kdm squeeze and sid. You have to log twice and it will work.

Yeah, I saw reports of that bug. However, I'm quite sure I tried a
number of times (in case I had mis-typed my password) and I get the
same behaviour again and again. Well, I'll try that again next time
I'm close to the computer, just to be sure.

Anyway, I didn't find on the web anything related to the missing files
in /etc/kde4/kdm (and perhaps in other places, I just happened to
notice these ones). So my guess is that something else is wrong. No?
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Re: kdm not working after upgrade from KDE 3.5 to 4.3.4

[Thierry Chatelet]

On Tuesday 19 January 2010 12:09:47 Rémi Moyen wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> (this is my first post on this list, please excuse me if I make any
>  mistakes...)
> 
> I have a Debian testing system on which for a long time I kept old KDE
> 3.5 packages because I didn't want KDE 4 (I tried it around 4.0,
> didn't like), I figured it was time I gave it another try. So after an
> aptitude update, I did an aptitude dist-upgrade (something I hadn't
> done since at least 6-12 months -- I did a number of updates of
> specific packages in the mean time, though).
> 
> aptitude offered me a solution which required removing a lot of
> packages (old KDE 3.5 ones), installing a lot of new ones, and
> updating some. The install went fine, without any error messages. I
> now have a bunch of KDE 4.3.1 packages (version 4:4.3.4-1, the latest
> in squeeze).
> 
> I rebooted, got to the kdm welcome screen, obviously in KDE 4 style,
> and logged in... only to see kdm pop again! No error message. I'm not
> on this computer right now, but there wasn't any error message (nor
> anything that looked even remotely related) in /var/log/kdm.log. In
> the console, though, I can see when launching kdm some messages (sorry
> for not having copied down the exact formulation) along the line of
> "cannot copy file /etc/kde4/kdm/Xsession".
> 

This is a bug in kdm squeeze and sid. You have to log twice and it will work.
Thierry


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Re: problems using wicd on WPA2 secured networks

[Liam O'Toole]

On 2010-01-19, Paul Scott  wrote:
> Liam O'Toole wrote:
>> On 2010-01-19, Paul Scott  wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Wicd is mostly not working for me on networks using WPA2 including a
>>> Linksys WRT54G2 router I configured myself for WPA2.  Testing this 
>>> connection when encryption is disabled works fine.  When I set the 
>>> router to WPA2 Personal I currently get:
>>> Connection failed: bad password
>>>
>> --SNIP--
>>> 2010/01/19 01:45:13 :: wpa_supplicant authentication may have failed.
>>> 2010/01/19 01:45:13 :: connect result is Failed
>>> 2010/01/19 01:45:13 :: exiting connection thread
>>> 2010/01/19 01:45:13 :: Sending connection attempt result bad_pass
>> --SNIP--
>> 
>> I'm using backported wicd 1.6.2.2 on lenny. It authenticates
>> successfully using WPA2 with a WRT54G router. For encryption type I use
>> "WPA 1/2 Preshared Key" and enter the key in hexadecimal. No trouble.
>> 
>> How does that compare with your settings?
>
> This may lead me to ideas not made clear in docs I have read so far.
>
> I am using WPA2 Personal with a text based password which appears to be 
> converted to a key by wicd.
>
> How you create a Preshared Key?
>
> In terms of either wicd or the router what's the difference between a 
> key and a password?
>

I find that the terms "key", "password", and "passphrase" tend to be
used interchangeably in the literature. The important thing to remember
is that the key can be 8-63 printable ASCII characters or 64 hexadecimal
characters. Hence the conversion you mention above.

To generate a PSK, you can use an online service like
https://www.grc.com/passwords.htm.

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Re: problems using wicd on WPA2 secured networks

[Bob Brewer]

Paul Scott wrote:

> How you create a Preshared Key?

I used https://www.grc.com/passwords.htm


Bob


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Re: rsync: different target size

[Jon Dowland]

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 06:20:27PM +0100, Leonardo Canducci
wrote:
> I'm using rsync -aHS to backup some stuff (mostly jpgs and
> docs from my home) to an external usb hard drive (same
> ext3 fs).
snip
> I've noticed some dir size doesn't match:
snip

Ext3 has a limitation in the way it stores directory
entries: the space allocated for a directories contents can
grow but not shrink. You can test this by creating a new
directory, adding a single file, checking the size of the
directory, then creating a large number of files ("for i in
`seq 1 1`; do mktemp --tmpdir=& done" or
similar): check the size again. Then remove all the files,
re-check.

Thus checking the size of the source and destination folders
is not useful if the rate of change/growth for the folders
will differ (which for an active partition and a relatively
inactive backup partition will always be the case). The most
reliable (imho) way to ensure that you have an accurate copy
is an rsync dry run:

rsync -van --delete ./src ./dest

(or similar). If it says it will make no changes, you're ok.


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kdm not working after upgrade from KDE 3.5 to 4.3.4

[Rémi Moyen]

Hi all,

(this is my first post on this list, please excuse me if I make any mistakes...)

I have a Debian testing system on which for a long time I kept old KDE
3.5 packages because I didn't want KDE 4 (I tried it around 4.0,
didn't like), I figured it was time I gave it another try. So after an
aptitude update, I did an aptitude dist-upgrade (something I hadn't
done since at least 6-12 months -- I did a number of updates of
specific packages in the mean time, though).

aptitude offered me a solution which required removing a lot of
packages (old KDE 3.5 ones), installing a lot of new ones, and
updating some. The install went fine, without any error messages. I
now have a bunch of KDE 4.3.1 packages (version 4:4.3.4-1, the latest
in squeeze).

I rebooted, got to the kdm welcome screen, obviously in KDE 4 style,
and logged in... only to see kdm pop again! No error message. I'm not
on this computer right now, but there wasn't any error message (nor
anything that looked even remotely related) in /var/log/kdm.log. In
the console, though, I can see when launching kdm some messages (sorry
for not having copied down the exact formulation) along the line of
"cannot copy file /etc/kde4/kdm/Xsession".

Now, I looked at the kdm package. dpkg -L told me that it provides a
number of files in /etc/kde4/kdm/ (including kdmrc, but also Xsession
and others). However, my /etc/kde4/kdm/ only contains kdmrc, no other
files. I tried aptitude reinstall kdm, deleting the .deb file in
/var/cache/apt/archives first to force a new download, I got the same
result. The .deb file apparently contains these files (at least I see
these files with a dpkg-deb -x), but for some reason they are not
extracted (and my disk is far from full)!

Just to try, I manually copied these files from the dpk-deb -x result
to /etc/kde4/kdm, but I still got exactly the same behaviour, so I
guess there is something more. Nonetheless, it shows that these files
really exist in the .deb, so why are they not extracted?

I also tried removing all packages in my system that seemed related to
KDE and re-installing kde-full (which dragged along all KDE, including
kdm), because it seemed I had a lot of old KDE 3 stuff hanging around
(and a lot of other junk I hadn't used for a long time, like compiz,
so a bit of house-cleaning was not useless...), but I still get the
same behaviour.

Does anybody have an idea of what's going on with this package, or of
any tests I could run to find the problem?

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Re: question about sending mail and postfix

[Jon Dowland]

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 07:47:11AM +, Camaleón wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:50:56 +, Adam Hardy wrote:
> > Jan 18
> > 23:32:32 my-other-domain postfix/smtp[32633]: 11C082A8779:
> > to=, relay=none, delay=0.07,
> > delays=0.04/0.01/0.02/0, dsn=4.4.1, status=deferred (connect to
> > my-other-domain.vs.athnic.net[11.22.33.44]:25: Connection refused) (END)

> This can be the cause. You (or your provider) are forcing Postfix to 
> listen only in loopback interface (127.0.0.1) so you get a "connection 
> refused" error when tries to connect to [11.22.33.44] (also, the "square 
> brackets" means no name server resolution is done).
> 
> It seems your host is configured for local delivery only :-?

This is not how I read the logs.

He does not want the machine running postfix to accept mail
from the outside world, so he does want it to listen only on
127.0.0.1 -- this is by design.

The "connection refused" logs are the postfix daemon
attempting to connect outbound - this does not look to be a
postfix-specific issue.

Adam, can you connect outbound to your ISPs mail server on
port 25, by hand? Use netcat if you have it, or telnet if
you do not, to test:

$ nc my-other-domain.vs.athnic.net 25
220 

You should get a response line like the above. If it does
not appear after a few seconds, or you get a connection
refused message, then your local ISP is blocking port 25
outbound, which is nowadays fairly common.

The ISP for your domain, who run the SMTP server, may accept
mail on alternative ports. The "submission" port 587 is
commonly used for this purpose, and is less likely to be
blocked by your home-Internet-ISP:

$ nc my-other-domain.vs.athnic.net 587
220 

If that works, reconfigure postfix to use port 587 instead
of 25 for it's relay host / smart host.

If it doesn't, you may have to use your ISPs relay host for
outbound mail.


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Re: question about sending mail and postfix

[Jon Dowland]

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 05:14:39PM +, Adam Hardy wrote:
> I don't have mail, definitely, but I am currently testing
> with sendmail, although postfix has only given me sendmail
> in /usr/sbin so I have to sudo to use it.

This is the normal location for the sendmail binary. All the
MTAs provide it there. You do not need to use sudo to reach
it - use the full path as a normal user, or add /usr/sbin to
your path temporarily:

$ /usr/sbin/sendmail

$ PATH=$PATH:/usr/sbin
$ export PATH
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Re: rsync: different target size

[Leonardo Canducci]

2010/1/19 Rick Thomas :
>
> On Jan 18, 2010, at 12:20 PM, Leonardo Canducci wrote:
>
>> I'm using rsync -aHS to backup some stuff (mostly jpgs and docs from
>> my home) to an external usb hard drive (same ext3 fs).
>> After a backup I ran du -s to get a fast check on size and found
>> source and target to be slightly different.
>> Even using du -cb or du-cbk size doesn't match. So what's wrong?!
>>
>> I've noticed some dir size doesn't match:
>> l...@zazzero:~$ ls -ld /media/toshiba-docs/foto/d50/
>> drwxr-xr-x 43 leo leo 4096  6 gen 11:17 /media/toshiba-docs/foto/d50/
>> l...@zazzero:~$ ls -ld /share/foto/d50/
>> drwxr-xr-x 43 leo leo 69632  6 gen 11:17 /share/foto/d50/
>>
>> I'd like the size of the backup to be exactly the same and check sync
>> result with du.
>>
>> BTW, is there some better fast check I could do to test rsync behavior?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> --
>> Leonardo Canducci
>
> Probably you have directories that have grown and shrunk on the source
> filesystem.  They will still have the space allocated (just the actual
> directory -- not the files in it) for the file-name entries that were
> deleted.  When you transfer them to the target (in this case the USB hard
> drive), the directories are rebuilt from scratch, so they don't have space
> allocated for the deleted file-names.

That's it!
>
> If you want to use file sizes as a check on the operation of rsync (not the
> best check, but it will catch some kinds of errors) you could do something
> like this
>
> ( cd source ; find . -type f -print0 | sort -z | xargs ls -s ) >
> /tmp/source-stuff
> ( cd target ; find . -type f -print0 | sort -z | xargs ls -s ) >
> /tmp/target-stuff
> diff /tmp/target-stuff /tmp/source-stuff
>
> you can use something like "md5sum" in place of "ls -s" if you want a more
> industrial strength check...

how does that compare to rsync -cn? Is it faster? safer?

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Re: rsync: different target size

[Leonardo Canducci]

2010/1/18 Johannes Wiedersich :
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> Hash: SHA1
>
> Leonardo Canducci wrote:
>> I'm using rsync -aHS to backup some stuff (mostly jpgs and docs from
>> my home) to an external usb hard drive (same ext3 fs).
>
> [snip]
>
>> I'd like the size of the backup to be exactly the same and check sync
>> result with du.
>>
>> BTW, is there some better fast check I could do to test rsync behavior?
>
> If your data and the backup are important to you, the question is not,
> whether your check is fast, but if it is accurate. I'd suggest you use
> the -cnv options of rsync to check for differences between source and
> target. It will display all different files (ie. files with different
> checksum) without modifying anything.

I just wanted to get a fast (not accurate) check with some other tool.
I knew about -c switch but I read it's really slow and my backup is
30Gb.
>
> FWIW, why do you use the -S option and are you aware of the consequences:
>
> /---man rsync---
>       -S, --sparse
>              Try to handle sparse files efficiently so they take up
>              less  space  on  the  destination.   Conflicts  with
>              --inplace because it’s not possible to overwrite data in a
>              sparse fashion.

I read the man page and I usually use plain rsync -a. I was told to
try -aHS on a chat after having the same problem with rsync -a.
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Re: question about sending mail and postfix - slightly OT question

[Adam Hardy]

Paul E Condon on 19/01/10 06:14, wrote:

On 20100118_133220, Adam Hardy wrote:

This is possibly an exceptionally easy question to answer because I
feel like all the documentation I've read about sending mail and
postfix starts at step 2, and step 1 is just common knowledge that I
somehow failed to pick up.

I have a new server online with lenny that I want to configure to
send all its mail for root to my email address, and that's all. I
don't want it to receive any email or relay or anything else.

I set this up a few years back with postfix and now trying to
recreate this setup, I am running into the problem that the mail
command isn't installed. It obviously doesn't come with postfix and
there appears to be a huge choice of packages that I could choose
from in the debian repositories, but isn't there a default? My guess
is that my hosting service installed such a stripped-down version of
lenny that I didn't get it.

Any enlightenment gratefully received,

Adam


Lenny netinstall puts exim4 on the computer as part of the base
system.  Why are you trying to get postfix working? You should have
exim4 from your first boot of Lenny. Did you try exim4 and find it
wanting? Reason?

Configuring exim4 to send local mail to an external 'smarthost' is a
bit of a trick, especially if the smarthost demands password
authentication. And even that is explained in some detail in the exim4
package docs. Are you sure you *don't* have exim4 installed, but
unconfigured?


I'm configuring a new vserver online with a hosting provider, and they installed 
the bare minimum lenny with ssh, and that obviously didn't include exim. I have 
no experience with exim, and although I had only very little experience with 
postfix, I did have some before I started and now I've got several hours of 
mucking around with postfix as investment in it.


I may have to move exim anyway if I can't sort postfix out, but it looks like 
I'm making progress.



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Re: problems using wicd on WPA2 secured networks

[Paul Scott]

Liam O'Toole wrote:

On 2010-01-19, Paul Scott  wrote:

Hi,

Wicd is mostly not working for me on networks using WPA2 including a
Linksys WRT54G2 router I configured myself for WPA2.  Testing this 
connection when encryption is disabled works fine.  When I set the 
router to WPA2 Personal I currently get:

Connection failed: bad password


--SNIP--

2010/01/19 01:45:13 :: wpa_supplicant authentication may have failed.
2010/01/19 01:45:13 :: connect result is Failed
2010/01/19 01:45:13 :: exiting connection thread
2010/01/19 01:45:13 :: Sending connection attempt result bad_pass

--SNIP--

I'm using backported wicd 1.6.2.2 on lenny. It authenticates
successfully using WPA2 with a WRT54G router. For encryption type I use
"WPA 1/2 Preshared Key" and enter the key in hexadecimal. No trouble.

How does that compare with your settings?


This may lead me to ideas not made clear in docs I have read so far.

I am using WPA2 Personal with a text based password which appears to be 
converted to a key by wicd.


How you create a Preshared Key?

In terms of either wicd or the router what's the difference between a 
key and a password?


Thanks,

Paul







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Re: problems using wicd on WPA2 secured networks

[Liam O'Toole]

On 2010-01-19, Paul Scott  wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Wicd is mostly not working for me on networks using WPA2 including a
> Linksys WRT54G2 router I configured myself for WPA2.  Testing this 
> connection when encryption is disabled works fine.  When I set the 
> router to WPA2 Personal I currently get:
> Connection failed: bad password
>
--SNIP--
> 2010/01/19 01:45:13 :: wpa_supplicant authentication may have failed.
> 2010/01/19 01:45:13 :: connect result is Failed
> 2010/01/19 01:45:13 :: exiting connection thread
> 2010/01/19 01:45:13 :: Sending connection attempt result bad_pass
--SNIP--

I'm using backported wicd 1.6.2.2 on lenny. It authenticates
successfully using WPA2 with a WRT54G router. For encryption type I use
"WPA 1/2 Preshared Key" and enter the key in hexadecimal. No trouble.

How does that compare with your settings?

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Re: Sid on PowerPC has broken xserver-xorg-core

[Michel Dänzer]

On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 23:44 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: 
> 
> My question is:  How do I know which packages I'm likely to need, so I  
> can remove the rest?

Something like

grep _drv /var/log/Xorg.0.log|grep -v input

should show you which video driver your X server is using.


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Re: dpkg --compare-versions vs. ls

[Jonathan Nieder]

jida...@jidanni.org wrote:

> Is there any case where
> $ cd /var/cache/apt/archives
> $ set -- $(ls -r some_package_*)
> $ dpkg --compare-versions $1 gt $2
> isn't true?

Yes.

 * dpkg --compare-versions uses ASCII to compare letters (so B < a).
   In non-C locales, ls does not.

 * dpkg --compare-versions treats ~ specially (so
   git-core_1%3a1.6.6~rc-1_i386.deb < git-core_1%3a1.6.6-1_i386.deb).
   Even in the C locale, ls does not.

 * dpkg --compare-versions compares the numeric part of a version
   numerically (so 1.2 < 1.11).
   ls does not.

On the other hand, 'ls -v' behaves like dpkg --compare-versions in
the respects described above.  But:

 * dpkg --compare-versions treats : specially (so 3 < 1:1).
   ls -v does not.

'ls -v' and 'dpkg --compare-versions' differ in plenty of other ways,
too.

To handle epochs correctly, you really need to be unescaping the
version number part of the filename.  If your application permits the
slowdown, I think it would be simpler to use

show_version() {
dpkg-deb --showformat='${Version}' --show "$1"
}
dpkg --compare-versions $(show_version "$1") gt $(show_version "$2")

See ,
.

Hope that helps,
Jonathan


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problems using wicd on WPA2 secured networks

[Paul Scott]

Hi,

Wicd is mostly not working for me on networks using WPA2 including a
Linksys WRT54G2 router I configured myself for WPA2.  Testing this 
connection when encryption is disabled works fine.  When I set the 
router to WPA2 Personal I currently get:

Connection failed: bad password

2010/01/19 01:44:32 :: Connecting to wireless network bliss
2010/01/19 01:44:32 :: iwconfig eth1
2010/01/19 01:44:32 :: /sbin/dhcpcd-bin -k eth1
2010/01/19 01:44:32 :: ifconfig eth1 0.0.0.0
2010/01/19 01:44:32 :: /sbin/ip route flush dev eth1
2010/01/19 01:44:32 :: ifconfig eth1 down
2010/01/19 01:44:32 :: ifconfig eth1 up
2010/01/19 01:44:32 :: wpa_cli -i eth1 terminate
2010/01/19 01:44:33 :: /sbin/dhcpcd-bin -k eth0
2010/01/19 01:44:33 :: ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0
2010/01/19 01:44:33 :: /sbin/ip route flush dev eth0
2010/01/19 01:44:33 :: ifconfig eth0 down
2010/01/19 01:44:33 :: ifconfig eth0 up
2010/01/19 01:44:33 :: Putting interface down
2010/01/19 01:44:33 :: ifconfig eth1 down
2010/01/19 01:44:33 :: Releasing DHCP leases...
2010/01/19 01:44:33 :: /sbin/dhcpcd-bin -k eth1
2010/01/19 01:44:33 :: Setting false IP...
2010/01/19 01:44:33 :: ifconfig eth1 0.0.0.0
2010/01/19 01:44:33 :: Stopping wpa_supplicant
2010/01/19 01:44:33 :: wpa_cli -i eth1 terminate
2010/01/19 01:44:34 :: Flushing the routing table...
2010/01/19 01:44:34 :: /sbin/ip route flush dev eth1
2010/01/19 01:44:34 :: iwconfig eth1 mode managed
2010/01/19 01:44:34 :: Putting interface up...
2010/01/19 01:44:34 :: ifconfig eth1 up
2010/01/19 01:44:34 :: iwconfig eth1
2010/01/19 01:44:36 :: enctype is wpa
2010/01/19 01:44:36 :: Generating psk...
2010/01/19 01:44:36 :: ['/usr/bin/wpa_passphrase', 'bliss', '']
2010/01/19 01:44:36 :: Attempting to authenticate...
2010/01/19 01:44:37 :: ['wpa_supplicant', '-B', '-i', 'eth1', '-c', 
'/var/lib/wicd/configurations/0023690f97d7', '-D', 'wext']

2010/01/19 01:44:37 :: ['iwconfig', 'eth1', 'essid', 'bliss']
2010/01/19 01:44:37 :: iwconfig eth1 channel 11
2010/01/19 01:44:37 :: iwconfig eth1 ap 00:23:69:0F:97:D7
2010/01/19 01:44:37 :: WPA_CLI RESULT IS ASSOCIATING
...
2010/01/19 01:45:13 :: wpa_supplicant authentication may have failed.
2010/01/19 01:45:13 :: connect result is Failed
2010/01/19 01:45:13 :: exiting connection thread
2010/01/19 01:45:13 :: Sending connection attempt result bad_pass
2010/01/19 01:45:13 :: ifconfig eth0
2010/01/19 01:45:13 :: ifconfig eth1
2010/01/19 01:45:13 :: Forced disconnect on
2010/01/19 01:45:13 :: iwconfig eth1
2010/01/19 01:45:13 :: /sbin/dhcpcd-bin -k eth1
2010/01/19 01:45:13 :: ifconfig eth1 0.0.0.0
2010/01/19 01:45:14 :: /sbin/ip route flush dev eth1
2010/01/19 01:45:14 :: ifconfig eth1 down
2010/01/19 01:45:14 :: ifconfig eth1 up
2010/01/19 01:45:14 :: wpa_cli -i eth1 terminate
2010/01/19 01:45:14 :: /sbin/dhcpcd-bin -k eth0
2010/01/19 01:45:14 :: ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0
2010/01/19 01:45:14 :: /sbin/ip route flush dev eth0

TIA for any ideas,

Paul Scott



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dpkg --compare-versions vs. ls

[jidanni]

Is there any case where
$ cd /var/cache/apt/archives
$ set -- $(ls -r some_package_*)
$ dpkg --compare-versions $1 gt $2
isn't true? Thus for my uses, I needn't worry about
dpkg --compare-versions and just use ls?


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Re: problem whit optic fibre adapter (emulex LP952)

[Marco Vaschetto]

Stan Hoeppner ha scritto:

Marco Vaschetto put forth on 1/16/2010 6:38 PM:

  

Jan 14 14:10:28 ssdsmb1tls kernel: lpfc :03:01.0: 0:0442 Adapter
failed to init, mbxCmd x88 CONFIG_PORT, mbxStatus x12 Data: x0
Jan 14 14:10:28 ssdsmb1tls kernel: lpfc :03:01.0: 0:0442 Adapter
failed to init, mbxCmd x88 CONFIG_PORT, mbxStatus x12 Data: x0"



This could be caused by any number of things.  Send complete lspci (no switches)
output and we'll go from there.

  

Hi,

this is the complite output of lspci -vv

00:00.0 Host bridge: Broadcom GCNB-LE Host Bridge (rev 32)
   Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- 
ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
   Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- 
SERR- 
   Kernel modules: sworks-agp

00:00.1 Host bridge: Broadcom GCNB-LE Host Bridge
   Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- 
ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
   Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- 
SERR- 
   Kernel modules: sworks-agp

00:03.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL (rev 27) 
(prog-if 00 [VGA controller])

   Subsystem: Compaq Computer Corporation Proliant Rage XL
   Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- 
ParErr- Stepping+ SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
   Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- 
SERR- 
   Latency: 64 (2000ns min), Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
   Region 0: Memory at f600 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
   Region 1: I/O ports at 2400 [size=256]
   Region 2: Memory at f5ff (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
   [virtual] Expansion ROM at 9804 [disabled] [size=128K]
   Capabilities: [5c] Power Management version 2
   Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA 
PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)

   Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-

00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5702X 
Gigabit Ethernet (rev 02)
   Subsystem: Compaq Computer Corporation NC7760 Gigabit Server 
Adapter (PCI-X, 10/100/1000-T)
   Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- 
ParErr+ Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
   Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- 
SERR- 
   Latency: 64 (16000ns min), Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
   Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 19
   Region 0: Memory at f5fe (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
   [virtual] Expansion ROM at 9806 [disabled] [size=64K]
   Capabilities: [40] PCI-X non-bridge device
   Command: DPERE- ERO- RBC=512 OST=1
   Status: Dev=ff:1f.1 64bit+ 133MHz+ SCD- USC- DC=simple 
DMMRBC=2048 DMOST=1 DMCRS=16 RSCEM- 266MHz- 533MHz-

   Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2
   Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA 
PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+)

   Status: D0 PME-Enable+ DSel=0 DScale=1 PME-
   Capabilities: [50] Vital Product Data 
   Capabilities: [58] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ 
Queue=0/3 Enable-

   Address: 084280808000409c  Data: 14a6
   Kernel driver in use: tg3
   Kernel modules: tg3

00:05.0 System peripheral: Compaq Computer Corporation Advanced System 
Management Controller

   Subsystem: Compaq Computer Corporation Device b0f3
   Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr+ 
Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
   Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- 
SERR- 
   Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
   Region 0: I/O ports at 1800 [size=256]
   Region 1: Memory at f5fd (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]

00:06.0 RAID bus controller: Compaq Computer Corporation Smart Array 
64xx (rev 01)

   Subsystem: Compaq Computer Corporation Smart Array 641
   Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr+ 
Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
   Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- 
SERR- 
   Latency: 64, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
   Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 21
   Region 0: Memory at f5fc (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
   Region 2: I/O ports at 2800 [size=256]
   Region 3: Memory at f5f8 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K]
   [virtual] Expansion ROM at 9800 [disabled] [size=256K]
   Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2
   Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2- AuxCurrent=0mA 
PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)

   Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
   Capabilities: [dc] PCI-X non-bridge device
   Command: DPERE- ERO+ RBC=2048 OST=8
   Status: Dev=fd:01.0 64bit+ 133MHz+ SCD- USC- DC=simple 
DMMRBC=2048 DMOST=8 DMCRS=128 RSCEM- 266MHz- 533MHz-

   Capabilities: [f0] Vital Product Data 
   Kernel driver in use: cciss
   Kernel modules: cciss

00:07.0 PCI bridge: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21154 (rev 05) 
(prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
   Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ Spec

Re: Any Linux CAD tools?

[Timo Boettcher]

Hi!

* Ogya Chief  wrote:
> I am looking for a CAD tool to draw among other things contours.
[...]
> What other options are available on the Linux platform?
There is a list on http://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience/Engineering

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Re: Help needed to find why mouse not working

[Alan Chandler]

Klistvud wrote:

Dne, 18. 01. 2010 19:39:01 je Alan Chandler napisal(a):

I would like to initially prove that when I move my hand on the 
touchpad it is sending information to the computer.  How can I see 
that something is being sent (which devices should be the mouse?)


By running xev from a terminal in X you should get some response when 
moving the mouse pointer across the xev window. That would be a start.




It didn't produce anything.  However, I have now tried it on a Windows 
Machine, and nothing there either.  My conclusion is that it is broken 
and I am sending it back



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