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apache configuration
I'm not sure what happened, but during one of the upgrades of the apache package gzipped files no longer were sent with the correct Content-Type anymore. My understanding is that (for instance) if you get NEWS.gz that it will be sent back with a Content-Type: of text/plain and a Content-Encoding: of x-gzip. Instead it seems that the content type is sent as application/x-gzip. See the example below. Anyone know what I have to do to get apache to send back the correct Content-Type again? Thanks, Behan -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-613-224-7547 http://www.verisim.com/ griffon:/tmp wget -Y off -S http://localhost/doc/wget/NEWS.gz --14:45:20-- http://localhost:80/doc/wget/NEWS.gz = `NEWS.gz' Connecting to localhost:80... connected! HTTP request sent, fetching headers... 1 HTTP/1.1 200 OK 2 Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 18:45:20 GMT 3 Server: Apache/1.3.1 (Unix) Debian/GNU PHP/3.0.3 4 Last-Modified: Fri, 07 Mar 1997 04:52:56 GMT 5 ETag: a7a1-8cf-331f9f28 6 Accept-Ranges: bytes 7 Content-Length: 2255 8 Connection: close 9 Content-Type: application/x-gzip 10 Content-Encoding: 0K - .. 14:45:20 (2.15 MB/s) - `NEWS.gz' saved [2255/2255] griffon:/tmp
dump again
I'm new to using restore(1), and can't quite figure out how to extract a single file from a dumped filesystem. I first restored the dump image from amanda onto an empty partition (the image is called dragon.hda2.19980523.0), then I tried to restore bcwhite/longtmp/testfuncs.cpp... I just can seem to get it to work. The following doesn't seem right. Have I missed something entirely? Thanks for any help... dragon:/home# restore -t -v -b 2 -f ~/prev/dragon.hda2.19980523.0 bcwhite/longtm p/testfuncs.cpp Verify tape and initialize maps Dump date: Sat May 23 03:44:19 1998 Dumped from: the epoch Level 0 dump of /home on dragon:/dev/hda2 Label: none Extract directories from tape Initialize symbol table. leaf 65822 ./bcwhite/longtmp/testfuncs.cpp dragon:/home# restore -x -v -b 2 -f ~/prev/dragon.hda2.19980523.0 bcwhite/longtm p/testfuncs.cpp Verify tape and initialize maps Dump date: Sat May 23 03:44:19 1998 Dumped from: the epoch Level 0 dump of /home on dragon:/dev/hda2 Label: none Extract directories from tape Initialize symbol table. bad name to addentry ./bcwhite/longtmp abort? [yn] n warning: ./bcwhite/longtmp: File exists bad name to addentry ./bcwhite/longtmp/testfuncs.cpp abort? [yn] n Extract requested files You have not read any tapes yet. Unless you know which volume your file(s) are on you should start with the last volume and work towards the first. Specify next volume #: restore interrupted, continue? [yn] n dragon:/home# -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-613-224-7547 http://www.verisim.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dump again
Gary L. Hennigan wrote: Behan Webster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | I'm new to using restore(1), and can't quite figure out how to extract a | single file from a dumped filesystem. | | I first restored the dump image from amanda onto an empty partition (the | image is called dragon.hda2.19980523.0), then I tried to restore | bcwhite/longtmp/testfuncs.cpp... | | I just can seem to get it to work. The following doesn't seem right. | Have I missed something entirely? Personally, if I were restoring a single file I'd use restore interactively. You get a restore prompt and you can traverse it just like a directory, i.e., with cd, ls, etc. Then you can mark the file(s)/directory you want to restore using add and then give the extract command to restore those files you've marked. I don't know for a fact that the linux version of restore supports the interactive mode but it's worth a shot. Just invoke restore with the -i argument. That's actually what I tried first. I get the same results with -i. dragon:~/tmp# restore -i -v -f ~/prev/dragon.hda2.19980523.0 Verify tape and initialize maps Tape block size is 32 Dump date: Sat May 23 03:44:19 1998 Dumped from: the epoch Level 0 dump of /home on dragon:/dev/hda2 Label: none Extract directories from tape Initialize symbol table. restore add bcwhite/longtmp/testfuncs.cpp bad name to addentry ./bcwhite/longtmp abort? [yn] n warning: ./bcwhite/longtmp: No such file or directory bad name to addentry ./bcwhite/longtmp/testfuncs.cpp abort? [yn] n restore extract Extract requested files You have not read any tapes yet. Unless you know which volume your file(s) are on you should start with the last volume and work towards the first. Specify next volume #: 1 You have read volumes: 1 Specify next volume #: 1 You have read volumes: 1 Specify next volume #: dragon:~/tmp# -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-613-224-7547 http://www.verisim.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dump again
Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: When it says 'Specify next volume' just enter 1. I'm afraid that didn't work. It just keeps on asking for the next volume. What I'm confused about is that doing a restore -i or restore -t and I seem to be able to find the file just fine. But when I do a restore -x (or an add inside restore -i) it always responds with bad name to addentry ./bcwhite/longtmp. I've highlighted the relevant bits below. I'm sure I'm just overlooking something stupid. Do you have to be on the machine from which the dump was originally done? If so do you have to restore that one file back to where it was originally read from? Argh. Behan Webster wrote: snip dragon:/home# restore -t -v -b 2 -f ~/prev/dragon.hda2.19980523.0 bcwhite/longtm p/testfuncs.cpp Verify tape and initialize maps Dump date: Sat May 23 03:44:19 1998 Dumped from: the epoch Level 0 dump of /home on dragon:/dev/hda2 Label: none Extract directories from tape Initialize symbol table. leaf 65822 ./bcwhite/longtmp/testfuncs.cpp ^^^ dragon:/home# restore -x -v -b 2 -f ~/prev/dragon.hda2.19980523.0 bcwhite/longtm p/testfuncs.cpp Verify tape and initialize maps Dump date: Sat May 23 03:44:19 1998 Dumped from: the epoch Level 0 dump of /home on dragon:/dev/hda2 Label: none Extract directories from tape Initialize symbol table. bad name to addentry ./bcwhite/longtmp ^^ abort? [yn] n warning: ./bcwhite/longtmp: File exists bad name to addentry ./bcwhite/longtmp/testfuncs.cpp abort? [yn] n Extract requested files You have not read any tapes yet. Unless you know which volume your file(s) are on you should start with the last volume and work towards the first. Specify next volume #: restore interrupted, continue? [yn] n dragon:/home# -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-613-224-7547 http://www.verisim.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dump again
Thanks to all who sent me advice. I'm afraid I had already tried all the things people had suggested, except trying to add the whole directory instead of just the file I wanted to restore. (Thanks to Gary Hennigan for suggesting that) That seemed to do the trick. dragon:~/tmp# restore -i -v -f ~/prev/dragon.hda2.19980523.0 Verify tape and initialize maps Tape block size is 32 Dump date: Sat May 23 03:44:19 1998 Dumped from: the epoch Level 0 dump of /home on dragon:/dev/hda2 Label: none Extract directories from tape Initialize symbol table. restore cd bcwhite restore add longtmp Make node ./bcwhite Make node ./bcwhite/longtmp Make node ./bcwhite/longtmp/heli_renders Make node ./bcwhite/longtmp/heli_renders/64 Make node ./bcwhite/longtmp/heli_renders/128 Make node ./bcwhite/longtmp/heli_renders/256 Make node ./bcwhite/longtmp/heli_renders/512 Make node ./bcwhite/longtmp/heli_renders/800 Make node ./bcwhite/longtmp/textures restore extract Extract requested files You have not read any tapes yet. Unless you know which volume your file(s) are on you should start with the last volume and work towards the first. Specify next volume #: 1 extract file ./bcwhite/longtmp/bug3847.html extract file ./bcwhite/longtmp/bugs-mail extract file ./bcwhite/longtmp/helicopter_info extract file ./bcwhite/longtmp/make-heli-renders extract file ./bcwhite/longtmp/testfuncs.cpp extract file ./bcwhite/longtmp/heli_renders/64/heli_0_0001.tif extract file ./bcwhite/longtmp/heli_renders/64/heli_0_.tif extract file ./bcwhite/longtmp/heli_renders/800/heli_270_0002.tif snip extract file ./bcwhite/longtmp/textures/MoonMap.tif extract file ./bcwhite/longtmp/textures/MoonMap.bmp extract file ./bcwhite/longtmp/textures/VenusMap.tif extract file ./bcwhite/longtmp/textures/VenusMap.bmp Create symbolic link ./bcwhite/longtmp/textures/sphere01.bmp-VenusMap.bmp Create symbolic link ./bcwhite/longtmp/textures/sphere02.bmp-MoonMap.bmp Add links Set directory mode, owner, and times. fopen: No such file or directory cannot open mode file /tmp//rstmode895909459 directory mode, owner, and times not set restore q dragon:~/tmp# I tried it also a second time, adding the whole directory and then removing the other files I didn't want to restore and it worked as well. I think there is a bug here somewhere, as it seems likely that restore should allow you to add a single file. Thanks again to all who sent advice! Behan -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-613-224-7547 http://www.verisim.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Fwd: LOCAL: Corel VNC/Open Source Public Announcement at OCLUG meeting]
Wow. Things seem to be spreading. 8) I'm definitely going to try to attend this meeting! Later, Behan -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-613-224-7547 http://www.verisim.com/ ---BeginMessage--- -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi Everyone, Our next regular OCLUG meeting is being pushed ahead one day to Thursday May 7th from 7-9pm. Location is still being worked out. I am pleased to report the reason for this schedule rearrangement is the public announcement that will deal with Corel's position on Open Source Software and the importance of this new paradigm to Corel Computer Corp. In attendance will be: Dr. Michael Cowpland: President and CEO, Corel Corporation. Chairman of Corel Computer Corp. Mr. Eid Eid, President of Corel Computer Corp. There will be possibly some officials from Netscape on hand also. Here is your chance to show support for the Open Source movement, Linux and to the future of truly having choice when it comes to a computing environment. I urge all members of OCLUG to come out to this and bring a friend along too. This night will be of historic importance along the lines of the Netscape announcement in February. The implications of showing your support by attending will have a big influence possibly on more of this happening within Corel and other companies. They need to know you care, let's show them we do! Thanks Dave Neil Your OCLUG Spokes-person - -- E-Mail: Dave Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 29-Apr-98 Time: 21:47:44 This message was sent by XFMail - -- - -- This article has been digitally signed by the moderator, using PGP. http://www.iki.fi/mjr/cola-public-key.asc has PGP key for validating signature. Send submissions for comp.os.linux.announce to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PLEASE remember a short description of the software and the LOCATION. This group is archived at http://www.iki.fi/mjr/linux/cola.html -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: latin1 iQCVAgUBNUg211rUI/eHXJZ5AQG5GwP/RojSMhWuRvUmp/SQIy6SeDZ82l3R9jFy E4qX/+6trSwtTKK2yaeGpH76xPY8qWlq+/lacHxqo35/+Z7FI1pTYOBQHH5cKNm2 CO6wCW1xcPjKjFNlnIrGo8tDmWiyABGB+QtPv+ZlbVzBMX5rW3BdP7axkI5DTFfC kxrlLMFAKjc= =7HbQ -END PGP SIGNATURE- ---End Message---
Re: the instructions for win95 under dosemu
Milan Zimmermann wrote: Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: I went and largely read the instructions. largely meaning that my spanish is very rusty, and this was in portugese :) Would it be possible for you to put together English translation or summary of that document? My Portugese and Spanish is at 0. [ I would not mind the CD not working as I would like to use it at work - sort of a coup to work on Linux in a Win95 shop :-) ] I read it with the help of the babelfish translation service from altavista. It has a Portugese to English translator that gets most of the point across. Check it out. http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/translate? (No, I have no relation to altavista, nor do I gain anything by promoting it. I just think it's a useful tool that's helped me out a couple of times). I'm still not confident enough to try running Win95 under dosemu yet though. 8) Behan -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-613-224-7547 http://www.verisim.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Apache
In updating apache from bo to hamm, we no longer can view compressed html files. With the bo version of apache, we were able to view *.html.gz files as if they were uncompressed. I uderstand that the AddEncodeing x-gzip gz directive in srm.conf was supposed to have enabled this, but I can't seem to get it to work. Ideas anyone? Thanks, Behan -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-613-224-7547 http://www.verisim.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
locale problems
Every time I run a perl program, I get the following message: perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LC_ALL = (unset), LANG = us are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale (C). Similarly, when I run xterm, I get the following message: Warning: locale not supported by C library, locale unchanged Anyone have any ideas what's wrong? Thanks, Behan -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-613-224-7547 http://www.verisim.com/ -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
xaw-wrappers
I've tried to use the xaw-wrappers program with xload using the
following entry in /etc/xaw-wrappers.conf:
/usr/bin/X11/xload,/usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw95
But all I get is:
griffon:~ echo $PATH
/home/verisim/usr/bin:/home/behanw/bin:/home/behanw/bin/share:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/local/games:/usr/games:/usr/share/bin:/usr/share/games:.
griffon:~ xload
Insecure $ENV{PATH} while running setuid at /usr/bin/X11/xload line 15.
griffon:~
Any ideas?
Behan
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Re: lynx play sound files
Brian White wrote: hello everyone, I was wondering how to get lynx to play sound files ie ..wav and .au? I know it can be done. I think it has to do with a ..mailcap file. but i'm not sure. Thanks in advance. Paul You have to install the mime-support package and of course some audio-player. There is a basic audio player included in the mime-support package. All it does is cat the data out to /dev/audio. In hamm, the sox package now provides the play(1) command that will play most sound formats (except midi). Install both sox and mime-support, and lynx will be able to play almost any kind of sound files. Later, Behan -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-613-224-7547 http://www.verisim.com/ -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: xaw-wrappers
Joey Hess wrote: Is your /usr/X11R6/bin/xload a symlink to /usr/lib/xaw-wrappers/wrapper ? Yes. I tried to reproduce this, and I can't -- I get another set of errors: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~xload ldd: can't open /usr/X11R6/bin/xload.real (Permission denied) xaw-wrappers: unable to determine libc version of /usr/X11R6/bin/xload.real. Hmmm. This is the error I get now too... What version of xaw-wrappers are you using? 0.19 Drat. Actually, I think it must have been 0.18 when I wrote that email. I upgraded xaw-wrappers around lunchtime today. This begs the question -- why on earth is xload suid on a debian system? It doesn't need to be! I think you can just remove the suid bit from xload and then it will work ok with xaw-wrappers. That's a good question. I haven't done this. This is basically a vanilla Debian system. I haven't touched the permissions on any file as of yet. 8( In fact: griffon:~ ls -l /usr/bin/X11/xload* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Mar 9 13:39 /usr/bin/X11/xload - /usr/lib/xaw-wrappers/wrapper -rws--x--x 1 root root 8656 Jan 12 01:55 /usr/bin/X11/xload.real griffon:~ Why is xload.real mode set to 4711? Weird. Behan -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-613-224-7547 http://www.verisim.com/ -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: xaw-wrappers
Another data point. If I chmod xload.real to 755, xload seems to run ok, although it still seems to come up with the xaw3d library instead of the xaw95 library... Hmmm... Behan -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-613-224-7547 http://www.verisim.com/ -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: xaw-wrappers
Behan Webster wrote: Another data point. If I chmod xload.real to 755, xload seems to run ok, although it still seems to come up with the xaw3d library instead of the xaw95 library... Oops. I misinterpreted the point of xaw-warappers package. I though it was to specify which xaw replacement to use. It seems it is used to list what xaw replacements not to use. My mistake. The only thing now is, how do I specify which xaw replacement I want to use if I have two such packages installed? 8) Behan -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-613-224-7547 http://www.verisim.com/ -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: xaw-wrappers
Joey Hess wrote: This tells xaw wrappers to do everything in it's power to prevent any libraires in /usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw95 to be linked with xload. Since that directory doesn't exist in the xaw95[g] packages, it's actually a no-op. If you change it to: Yes, I had just figured that out (as my just sent off email explains). 8) Then you will never see xload using xaw95. But I don't think that's what you wanted, was it? I was trying to get xload to not use the xaw3d replacement. I was trying to get it to use the xaw95 one instead. But even using the following line doesn't seem to work: /usr/bin/X11/xload,/usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw3d xload still seems to use the xaw3d xaw replacement library. 8( Behan -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-613-224-7547 http://www.verisim.com/ -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: A simple problem with dselect ...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 25 Feb, David Wright wrote: On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Nebu John Mathai wrote: I tried to remove a package and under Select... selected to remove the package. Then I went to Remove... and dselect removed almost every package I had installed since the beginning (including the one I had asked it for). I know I'm doing something stupid ... I just don't know what it is. Is it possible that you accidently pressed - or _ when one of the top few lines was highlighted: All Packages, or Up To Date Installed Packages etc. This should have a pretty dramatic effect! Hopefully in the new 'deity' project(the dselect replacment) something like this will have a confirmation on it, like ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO REMOVE *ALL* PACKAGES!!!. Currenlty dselect silently obeys and marks all packages under the heading, yikes! This is not yet (to my knowledge) implemented, but the UI design calls for a confirmation screen that will list all changes about to be done (a list of upgrades, a list of downgrades, a list of packages to remove, etc) to be confirmed by the user before anything is done. Later, Behan (Deity UI designer) -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-613-224-7547 http://www.verisim.com/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Where did /usr/tmp go?
Paul Rightley wrote: Last night, tripwire -initialize failed on me because I (suddenly?) had no /usr/tmp directory. I swear I had one before. I made a new one and chmod'ed it to 1777, but what happened to the old directory? Does anyone have any ideas? You never actually had a /usr/tmp. It was a link to /var/tmp. The latest base-files removed the link as it should no longer be necessary. That link was for compatibility with older packages. Packages that should have already been updated to use /var/tmp. I suspect you updated your packages to the latest available from hamm yesterday? I didn't make the change, I just watch the announcement on debian-devel. Behan -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-613-224-7547 http://www.verisim.com/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
fips and fat32
Anyone know where to find the latest fips.exe that can handle a fat32 partition? Thanks, Behan -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-613-224-7547 http://www.verisim.com/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Ordering LINUX
Spin wrote: Dear, We would like to start with LINUX Please can you tell us the right price and coordinates for ordering you package ? The following web page details sources for ordering Debian GNU/Linux. http://www.debian.org/vendors.html Behan -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-613-224-7547 http://www.verisim.com/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Compute Farm
Marcelo E. Magallón wrote: PPS: Since neither RH nor Debian actually have anything built-in for this task, Debian is still a better choice: several times ppl in the developer's list have expressed interest in further developing Deity into this direction. I know this doesn't buy you anything right now, but it may be worth mentioning. Plans have existed from the beginning to allow deity to work at administering several machine concurently. However, for complexity reasons, that part of the design was left on hold until a later revision of Deity. We are working towards a 1.0 version of deity. I wouldn't expect multi-machine capability until 3.0 or so. Behan -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-613-224-7547 http://www.verisim.com/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Compute Farm, Part II
Lindsay Allen wrote: Tim, IIRC Brian White has advocated cfengine for this task. If I may, he advocated it because we used it here at Verisim to manage our workstations and servers. Unfortunately we found although it did work, it was rather clumsy, and didn't scale well in our environment. I have written a script (called cfile) which has all the functionality of what we had cfengine doing for us before. It needs a bit of a work (since we've been using it for 4 months we've noticed some places it could be improved). All in all though, it seems to do the trick of managing a small network of near identical machines (hardware wise). It can also specially configure certain machines to provide services (dns, web, ftp, etc). I am confident that it would scale much larger. Tim, if you are interested in seeing my developement code let me know. It's implementation will be taking a big change, but it's basic working will be the same. (i.e. the current version of cfile will give you an idea of it's capabilities and features). I plan on making a debian package of it once I am done my overhaul and make it even more generic (I want to use this same tool on my home network, here at Verisim, and on several other friend's networks). Let me know. Behan -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-613-224-7547 http://www.verisim.com/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Dial Script
Tim Sailer wrote: I have a web page that people can use to page me on my numeric pager. It uses a very stupid program (npage) to dial the phone. I was wondering if someone has a better way, maybe perl, chat, a well written C program, etc. to do this. I don't know if this is exactly what you're looking for, but the hylafax program includes support for sending both faxes and pages. Hylafax is a very cool system once you get it working. It might be too much for your needs however. Behan -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-613-224-7547 http://www.verisim.com/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Compute Farm
Hunter H Marshall wrote: Tim Sailer wrote: They want to be able to configure 1 machine and mirror the setup to each machine See if the recent aricle in Linux Journal might be of help. The article concerned the use of 160 Alpha Linux boxes for graphics rendering. I belive it was the Jan '98 issue. http://www.ssc.com/lj/ Since Tim wants reason to use Debian instead of Redhat, and the article you suggest talks of using Redhat, that probably won't be very helpful. Behan -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-613-224-7547 http://www.verisim.com/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Script idea...
Ender Wigin wrote: Hi, I just (couple of weeks realy) upgraded to Hamm. After the upgrade I was left with a bunch of apps that core dumped ...(IE: ncftp) before I upgraded them to the libc6 version... So today in math class I thought up a neat script idea that could help others in my plight... (note extenuating curcumstances in my case) Basicly my idea is to run ldd * | grep 'libc.so.5' | tail libc5apps on the bin directorys ...now for the questions. one: I realy think that there is probaly a better way to do this ... (Ideas?) Two: I would like to somehow link this to the Contents file so that indivigual executibles are not listed as things to upgrade, but the packages ... IE step one get list of lib5 apps, two grep aginst contents to get a package name providing that app. only I don't know how to do step 2 execpt manualy ... any ideas here ... I figure one of you perl gurus would know how to do this ... ? Here is the script you are asking for. It is a variation on the one I posted before to find a.out binaries on an ELF system. Behan -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-613-224-7547 http://www.verisim.com/ #!/bin/sh # # findlibc5 - Find libc5 executables on a Debian system # # Written by: Behan Webster [EMAIL PROTECTED] # FILE=$HOME/libc5.txt DIRS=/ -xdev if [ $# -eq 1 ] ; then FILE=$1 elif [ $# -gt 1 ] ; then echo Usage: `basename $0` [filename] exit 1 fi if [ -f $FILE ] ; then echo Saving old $FILE files... savelog -c 8 -m 644 $FILE /dev/null fi echo Putting list of a.out packages in $FILE... ( for FILE in `nice -n +18 find $DIRS -type f -perm +111` ; do if [ `ldd $FILE | grep -c libc.so.5` -gt 0 ] ; then dpkg -S $FILE fi done ) 2/dev/null | cut -d: -f1 | sort -u $FILE echo Done. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Script idea...
Ender Wigin wrote: Hi, I just (couple of weeks realy) upgraded to Hamm. After the upgrade I was left with a bunch of apps that core dumped ...(IE: ncftp) before I upgraded them to the libc6 version... So today in math class I thought up a neat script idea that could help others in my plight... (note extenuating curcumstances in my case) Basicly my idea is to run ldd * | grep 'libc.so.5' | tail libc5apps on the bin directorys ...now for the questions. one: I realy think that there is probaly a better way to do this ... (Ideas?) Two: I would like to somehow link this to the Contents file so that indivigual executibles are not listed as things to upgrade, but the packages ... IE step one get list of lib5 apps, two grep aginst contents to get a package name providing that app. only I don't know how to do step 2 execpt manualy ... any ideas here ... I figure one of you perl gurus would know how to do this ... ? I did something similar when I was converting from a.out to an elf system. It would be a very simple matter to adapt this to searching for libc5 dependencies. Enjoy. --BEGIN #!/bin/sh # # findaout - Find a.out executables and libraries on a Debian system # # Written by: Behan Webster [EMAIL PROTECTED] # FILE=$HOME/aout.txt DIRS=/ -xdev if [ $# -eq 1 ] ; then FILE=$1 elif [ $# -gt 1 ] ; then echo Usage: `basename $0` [filename] exit 1 fi if [ -f $FILE ] ; then echo Saving old $FILE files... savelog -c 8 -m 644 $FILE /dev/null fi echo Putting list of a.out packages in $FILE... ( ( nice -n +18 find $DIRS -type f -perm +111 | xargs file ) | egrep 'Linux/i386.*MAGIC' | cut -d: -f1 | xargs dpkg -S ) | cut -d: -f1 | sort -u $FILE echo Done. ---END- -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-613-224-7547 http://www.verisim.com/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: [lesspipe]
Peter S Galbraith wrote: Craig Sanders wrote: lesspipe is in less version 332-2, at least. Perhaps it is only in hamm versions of less. yes, it is only in hammbut it will work fine with the bo version of less. i have attached a copy to this message. to install it, save it into /usr/bin. then edit /etc/profile or ~/.bashrc and add the following line: eval $(/usr/bin/lesspipe) I use tcsh, and if I use: In tcsh (or csh) just do a: eval `lesspipe` if you want to use the script posted from the hamm version of the less package. It will setup those environment variables automatically that way. Behan -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-613-224-7547 http://www.verisim.com/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: DNS Problem
Kevin Traas wrote: If you've got a suggestion, I'd love to hear it. I've just had a client contact me. Their getting the following in /var/log/messages: Dec 2 12:47:16 inetgw named[140]: axionet.com IN MX points to a CNAME (mail.axionet.com) Dec 2 12:47:16 inetgw named[140]: axionet.com IN MX points to a CNAME (smtp.axionet.com) It looks like the DNS MX record for axionet.com points to a CNAME record when technically MX records shoud always point to A records. If you control the DNS maps for axionet.com, I suggest you fix it. If you don't that I'm afraid you're SOL. Sorry. This is a pretty harmless problem (except for your logs being filled up), but is something you should try to fix if you can. I hope this helps. Behan -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-613-224-7547 http://www.verisim.com/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: squid
Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
Hey, that means you're still using an old /etc/init.d/squid, since the
new one prints totally different messages.
See for yourself...
giant:~# dpkg -l squid
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
|
Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
uppercase=bad)
||/ NameVersionDescription
+++-===-==-
ii squid 1.1.17-1 Internet Object Cache (WWW proxy
cache)
giant:~#
See if there's a /etc/init.d/squid.dpkg-dist file and copy that over
/etc/init.d/squid to see if it helps.
I'm afraid there isn't a /etc/init.d/squid.dpkg-dist. 8(
If it doesn't, do the following:
1. copy /etc/squid.conf somewhere safe
2. Rename /var/spool/squid to something else
3. dpkg --purge squid
4. dpkg -i squid_1.1.17-1.deb
5. /etc/init.d/squid stop
6. Copy your old squid.conf back and put back /var/spool/squid
7. /etc/init.d/squid start
That should give you a fresh installation
Done. (Done precisely as you specified above)
Reboot.
Fri Nov 28 10:48:20 EST 1997: Running: squid -D -s -f /etc/squid.conf
/var/log/squid/squid.out 21
/usr/lib/squid/RunCache: line 59:
289 IOT trap/Abort squid -D -s $conf $L 21
Fri Nov 28 10:48:31 EST 1997: Running: squid -D -s -f /etc/squid.conf
/var/log/squid/squid.out 21
/usr/lib/squid/RunCache: line 59: 310 IOT
trap/Abort
squid -D -s $conf $L 21
Fri Nov 28 10:48:42 EST 1997: Running: squid -D -s -f /etc/squid.conf
/var/log/squid/squid.out 21
/usr/lib/squid/RunCache: line 59: 331 IOT
trap/Abort
squid -D -s $conf $L 21
Fri Nov 28 10:48:53 EST 1997: Running: squid -D -s -f /etc/squid.conf
/var/log/squid/squid.out 21
/usr/lib/squid/RunCache: line 59: 352 IOT
trap/Abort
squid -D -s $conf $L 21
Fri Nov 28 10:49:04 EST 1997: Running: squid -D -s -f /etc/squid.conf
/var/log/squid/squid.out 21
/usr/lib/squid/RunCache: line 59: 373 IOT
trap/Abort
squid -D -s $conf $L 21
Fri Nov 28 10:49:04 EST 1997: RunCache: EXITING DUE TO REPEATED FREQUENT
FAILURES
Sorry.
I've included the /usr/lib/squid/RunCache program currently installed
below if that helps.
Thanks,
Behan
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#!/bin/sh
#
# $Id: RunCache.in,v 1.3.2.4 1996/05/24 06:40:39 wessels Exp $
prefix=/usr/lib/squid
exec_prefix=${prefix}
[ $logdir = ] logdir=$prefix
PIDFILE=/var/run/runcache.pid
PATH=${exec_prefix}:/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
export PATH
#
# Just to be sure, check if squid is not already running.
#
if [ -f /var/run/squid.pid ]
then
spid=`cat /var/run/squid.pid`
kill -CONT $spid 2/dev/null
if [ $? = 0 ]
then
#echo RunCache: squid is already running. 2
exit 0
fi
fi
rm -f $PIDFILE
echo $$ $PIDFILE
L=$logdir/squid.out
conf=
if test $1 ; then
conf=-f $1
shift
fi
failcount=0
while : ; do
echo `date`: Running: squid -D -s $conf $L 21 $L
if [ $failcount -gt 0 ]
then
echo `date`: Running: squid -D -s $conf $L 21
fi
start=`date '+%d%H%M%S'`
squid -D -s $conf $L 21
stop=`date '+%d%H%M%S'`
t=`expr $stop - $start`
if test 0 -le $t -a $t -lt 5 ; then
failcount=`expr $failcount + 1`
else
failcount=0
fi
if test $failcount -gt 5 ; then
echo `date`: RunCache: EXITING DUE TO REPEATED FREQUENT
FAILURES 2
echo `date`: RunCache: EXITING DUE TO REPEATED FREQUENT
FAILURES $L
exit 1
fi
sleep 10
done
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Re: Pentium II supported?
Richard L Shepherd wrote: This may be a dumb question, but here goes: Do Pentium II chip machines run Linux? For instance the kernel build procedure (e.g. make xconfig) only has options for up to Pemtium Pro machines, which may be just a case of someone not having got-around-to putting the options in yet, or is there a bigger reason like it doesn't go yet? The options in configuring your linux kernel just deal with processor specific optimizations. Effectively all they do is tell gcc what processor to optimize for. You could compile a 386 kernel to run on your Pentium pro, but it probably wouldn't gain you anything. In other words, the x86 line is backwards compatible. Linux should pretty much run on any 80x86 processor. However, if you need more proof that Linux runs on a Pentium II... I'm writing this on a Pentium II running Linux, so go for it! Behan -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-613-224-7547 http://www.verisim.com/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: squid
A thought. We run amd here which we use to remotely mount /usr/share (amongst others that probably don't make any difference to squid). Could that have anything to do with the problem we're experiencing with squid? (i.e. it fails to start at boottime but works fine if restarted by root from the commandline once the coputer is up) Since amd starts so late in the boot scripts, we've found at least one script (/etc/rc.boot/svgatextmode) that relies on files (/usr/share/consolefonts) which are on a filesystem that hasn't been mounted yet! This of course means that this script fails to run. Just an idea... Behan -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-613-224-7547 http://www.verisim.com/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
IP Masquerading and the IP Masquerading kernel
I just upgraded one of our servers from the 2.0 kernel to the 2.1.64 kernel. Unfortunately it wasn't as seemless an upgrade as I would have hoped for. The main problem being that IP Masquerading stopped working. I made no changes to any setup, just installed the new kernel. I've included the config file below. Does anyone know of any changes to the use of the IP Masquerading in the linux kernel? These are the ipfwadm rules I use: /sbin/ipfwadm -F -p deny /sbin/ipfwadm -F -a masquerade -S localnet/24 -D 0.0.0.0/0 Thanks, Behan -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-613-224-7547 http://www.verisim.com/ # # Automatically generated make config: don't edit # # # Code maturity level options # CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y # # Loadable module support # CONFIG_MODULES=y CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y CONFIG_KERNELD=y # # General setup # CONFIG_MATH_EMULATION=y CONFIG_NET=y # CONFIG_PCI is not set # CONFIG_MCA is not set CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y CONFIG_SYSCTL=y CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT=m CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC=y # CONFIG_BINFMT_JAVA is not set # CONFIG_M386 is not set CONFIG_M486=y # CONFIG_M586 is not set # CONFIG_M686 is not set CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y CONFIG_PARPORT=m CONFIG_PARPORT_PC=m # # Plug and Play support # # CONFIG_PNP is not set # # Floppy, IDE, and other block devices # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=m CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=m # # Please see Documentation/ide.txt for help/info on IDE drives # # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD_IDE is not set CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=m # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDETAPE is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEFLOPPY is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI is not set # # Additional Block Devices # # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MD is not set CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=m # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_XD is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_EZ is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD is not set # # Networking options # CONFIG_NETLINK=y CONFIG_RTNETLINK=y CONFIG_FIREWALL=y # CONFIG_NET_SECURITY is not set CONFIG_NET_ALIAS=y CONFIG_INET=y # CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST is not set CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL=y CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL_NETLINK=y CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL_VERBOSE=y CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE=y # # Protocol-specific masquerading support will be built as modules. # CONFIG_IP_TRANSPARENT_PROXY=y CONFIG_IP_ALWAYS_DEFRAG=y CONFIG_IP_ACCT=y # CONFIG_IP_ROUTER is not set # CONFIG_NET_IPIP is not set CONFIG_IP_ALIAS=m CONFIG_ARPD=y CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES=y # # (it is safe to leave these untouched) # # CONFIG_INET_PCTCP is not set CONFIG_INET_RARP=m CONFIG_PATH_MTU_DISCOVERY=y CONFIG_IP_NOSR=y CONFIG_SKB_LARGE=y # CONFIG_IPV6 is not set # # # # CONFIG_IPX is not set # CONFIG_ATALK is not set # CONFIG_AX25 is not set # CONFIG_X25 is not set # CONFIG_LAPB is not set # CONFIG_BRIDGE is not set # CONFIG_LLC is not set # CONFIG_WAN_ROUTER is not set # # SCSI support # CONFIG_SCSI=y # # SCSI support type (disk, tape, CD-ROM) # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y CONFIG_CHR_DEV_ST=m CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR=m CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR_VENDOR=y CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG=m # # Some SCSI devices (e.g. CD jukebox) support multiple LUNs # # CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN is not set CONFIG_SCSI_CONSTANTS=y # # SCSI low-level drivers # # CONFIG_SCSI_7000FASST is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_AHA152X is not set CONFIG_SCSI_AHA1542=y # CONFIG_SCSI_AHA1740 is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_AIC7XXX is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_ADVANSYS is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_IN2000 is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_AM53C974 is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_BUSLOGIC is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_DTC3280 is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_EATA_DMA is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_EATA_PIO is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_EATA is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_FUTURE_DOMAIN is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_GDTH is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_GENERIC_NCR5380 is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C406A is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_PPA is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_PAS16 is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_PCI2000 is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_PCI2220I is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_PSI240I is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_QLOGIC_FAS is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_SEAGATE is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_T128 is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_U14_34F is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_ULTRASTOR is not set # # Network device support # CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y # CONFIG_ARCNET is not set CONFIG_DUMMY=m # CONFIG_EQUALIZER is not set # CONFIG_ETHERTAP is not set CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET=y # CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_3COM is not set # CONFIG_LANCE is not set # CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_SMC is not set # CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_RACAL is not set CONFIG_NET_ISA=y # CONFIG_AT1700 is not set # CONFIG_E2100 is not set # CONFIG_DEPCA is not set # CONFIG_EWRK3 is not set # CONFIG_EEXPRESS is not set # CONFIG_EEXPRESS_PRO is not set # CONFIG_FMV18X is not set # CONFIG_HPLAN_PLUS is not set # CONFIG_HPLAN is not set # CONFIG_HP100 is not set # CONFIG_ETH16I is not set CONFIG_NE2000=m # CONFIG_SEEQ8005 is not set # CONFIG_SK_G16 is not set # CONFIG_NET_EISA is not set # CONFIG_NET_POCKET is not set # CONFIG_FDDI is not set # CONFIG_DLCI is not set # CONFIG_PLIP is not set CONFIG_PPP=m # # CCP compressors for PPP are only built as modules. # # CONFIG_NET_RADIO is not set CONFIG_SLIP=m CONFIG_SLIP_COMPRESSED=y # CONFIG_SLIP_SMART
Re: squid
Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: According to Behan Webster: Sun Nov 9 14:01:48 EST 1997: Running: squid -D -s -f /etc/squid.conf /var/log/squid/squid.out 21 /usr/lib/squid/RunCache: line 38: 337 IOT trap/Abort squid -D -s $conf 13 23 I was running the libc5 version from bo (1.1.1-1), but then I upgraded to the libc5 version in hamm (1.1.10-1). The same problems occurred with both versions. Really strange, I cannot reproduce this. Hmm. I just compiled squid_1.1.17 for libc5 and put it on ftp://ftp.cistron.nl/pub/people/miquels/debian/libc5-compiled/ I'll give it a shot. Just a thought, I'm wondering whether it has to do with the order in which the various daemons and services are started, but I can't think of what could be causing the problem. Perhaps you can try if that works better? As a bonus you'll be running a much more recent squid :) That would be great thanks! Out of curiousity, what are the other packages in your ftp directory? squid-cgi? squid-novm? squidclient? Sounds interesting! Thanks, Behan -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-613-224-7547 http://www.verisim.com/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: squid
Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: Neither can I, that's why I'd like you to try the latest version so that _if_ something is wrong I can base the fix also on that latest version.. Drat. Same problem using squid version 1.1.17-1. This is what I found on the console after rebooting. --- Running: squid -D -s -f /etc/squid.conf /var/log/squid/squid.out 21 /usr/lib/squid/RunCache: line 59: 291 IOT trap/Abort squid -D -s $conf $L 21 Fri Nov 14 13:34:05 EST 1997: Running: squid -D -s -f /etc/squid.conf /var/log/squid/squid.out 21 /usr/lib/squid/RunCache: line 59: 312 IOT trap/Abort squid -D -s $conf $L 21 Fri Nov 14 13:34:15 EST 1997: Running: squid -D -s -f /etc/squid.conf /var/log/squid/squid.out 21 /usr/lib/squid/RunCache: line 59: 333 IOT trap/Abort squid -D -s $conf $L 21 Fri Nov 14 13:34:26 EST 1997: Running: squid -D -s -f /etc/squid.conf /var/log/squid/squid.out 21 /usr/lib/squid/RunCache: line 59: 354 IOT trap/Abort squid -D -s $conf $L 21 Fri Nov 14 13:34:37 EST 1997: Running: squid -D -s -f /etc/squid.conf /var/log/squid/squid.out 21 /usr/lib/squid/RunCache: line 59: 375 IOT trap/Abort squid -D -s $conf $L 21 Fri Nov 14 13:34:38 EST 1997: RunCache: EXITING DUE TO REPEATED FREQUENT FAILURES --- Perhaps my suid.conf would help? Thanks, Behan -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-613-224-7547 http://www.verisim.com/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: MTA Suggestion
C'mon guys, leave it alone. This flamefest is getting us nowhere. Whether or not maildir or mbox is the way to go, the point is that qmail cannot be Debian's preferred MTA because Debian does not consider qmail to be DFSG free. This renders any fight over whether qmail is better than other MTA's moot. As far as Debian is concerned it is a non-free package and cannot be distributed with the main distribution. (Although it will be distributed from the Debian non-free directory by ftp) This is not my decision, nor necessarily my opinion. This is just the way it is according to current Debian policy vis'a'vis the current qmail license. Please take the advocacy and religious wars somewhere else. Thanks, Behan -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-613-224-7547 http://www.verisim.com/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: squid
Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: According to Behan Webster: I have squid installed, but something seems to be wrong as everytime the computer boots I get the following error messages: (In truth there are a dozen or so of the following line preceding the these error messages, but I cut them out for brevity as they all say the same thing, except for the number in front of the IOT keeps increasing. ) Sun Nov 9 14:01:48 EST 1997: Running: squid -D -s -f /etc/squid.conf /var/log/squid/squid.out 21 /usr/lib/squid/RunCache: line 38: 337 IOT trap/Abort squid -D -s $conf 13 23 Which version of squid are you running, and which libc[56] are you using? Squid-1.1.1 in stable is old and outdated, but otherwise it's somewhat OK. Alas it's very hard to get new releases into stable unless they fix serious bugs. This might just be such a bug :) I was running the libc5 version from bo (1.1.1-1), but then I upgraded to the libc5 version in hamm (1.1.10-1). The same problems occurred with both versions. The interesting thing is this only occurs when squid is started at boot time. Once I can login as root, I just do a /etc/init.d/squid start and everything is happy. Thanks, Behan -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-613-224-7547 http://www.verisim.com/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Opti-UPS anyone?
Dan Hugo wrote: Opti-UPS gets great reviews in the general press, but no connection (that I have found, HOWTO's or otherwise) between any Linux users and that brand of UPS. Does anyone know anything about the Opti-UPS's? I sent mail to their tech support today asking if they support Linux in any way, but I would like to know if anyone has any experience with them. About a year ago we converted an NT box to Linux (yippee!) but had to toss the Opti-UPS that was attached to it. Opti-UPS's only have a smart signalling mode. Most all linux ups software can only use the dumb signalling mode. This is of course because every company (stupidly IMHO) keeps the specs for their smart signalling modes proprietary. The only smart signalling mode linux ups monitoring daemon I know of is apcd (which is a debian package), but it only works with APC UPSs (but I think only with certain APCs). The smart signalling mode was reverse engineered by it's author. I've never used it so I can't vouch for it. All the computers here use APC UPS's (and the debian package genpower) and they work just great with Linux. APC UPS's are little more expensive, but IMO are worth it. Behan -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-613-224-7547 http://www.verisim.com/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
squid
I have squid installed, but something seems to be wrong as everytime the computer boots I get the following error messages: (In truth there are a dozen or so of the following line preceding the these error messages, but I cut them out for brevity as they all say the same thing, except for the number in front of the IOT keeps increasing. ) Sun Nov 9 14:01:48 EST 1997: Running: squid -D -s -f /etc/squid.conf /var/log/squid/squid.out 21 /usr/lib/squid/RunCache: line 38: 337 IOT trap/Abort squid -D -s $conf 13 23 Sun Nov 9 14:01:59 EST 1997: Running: squid -D -s -f /etc/squid.conf /var/log/squid/squid.out 21 /usr/lib/squid/RunCache: line 38: 358 IOT trap/Abort squid -D -s $conf 13 23 Sun Nov 9 14:02:09 EST 1997: Running: squid -D -s -f /etc/squid.conf /var/log/squid/squid.out 21 /usr/lib/squid/RunCache: line 38: 379 IOT trap/Abort squid -D -s $conf 13 23 Sun Nov 9 14:02:10 EST 1997: RunCache: EXITING DUE TO REPEATED FREQUENT FAILURES Has anyone seen this problem before? If so, what is wrong and how do I fix it? Thanks, Behan -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-613-224-7547 http://www.verisim.com/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: MTA Suggestion
Jason Costomiris wrote: exim runs out of inetd. This information is wrong. Exim can run out of inetd, but it most definitely runs as a standalone daemon too. We use exim as a daemon here just fine. We have an entire site using exim here, and it's very easy to use, fast, configurable, solid, and DFSG free. It also has support for all the latest relaying/spam controls. IMO, it's main developper is also both civil and approachable, and gladly gives advice and accepts patches. The only problem with exim is that it doesn't really support UUCP mail spools. You can get it to handle simple ones, but nothing very complex. This isn't really a problem if you don't serve any UUCP domains however. The biggest problem with qmail, as far as I can tell, is that it isn't DFSG free, and as a result cannot be Debian's prefered MTA. As far as I can tell, the only real candidates for the Debian prefered MTA (because they are DFSG free) are: sendmail, smail, and exim. This may not be an exhaustive list however. I've used all 3 and personally, as you can probably tell, I prefer exim. Later, Behan -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-613-224-7547 http://www.verisim.com/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: xlock
Paul Serice wrote: There is another solution, I think. I recently recompiled xlockmore from the Debian sources to enable bomb mode and the xmlock program (which is working well enough with lesstif). When I was reading the options, I ran across an option which lets their be an encrypted password in your home directory which xlock will check against instead of trying to use shadow passwords etc. Yes, that is another way of getting xlock to read _a_ password, but that still doesn't solve the problem of it not being able to read your _nis_ password (which is mangled). The option you speak of is a hack which is useful for people who don't have complete control over the machines or lan they are using. In our case (since we do have control over all the computers), we'd rather only have one password per user read from a single location (i.e. nis). The problem has now been settled. The new xlock will check if nis serves mangled passwords, and if it does, it will install xlock setuid root (an unfortunate solution, but the only viable one). Thanks anyways, Behan -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-613-224-7547 http://www.verisim.com/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: xlock
Martin Schulze wrote: Behan Webster writes: I have xlockmore installed on my system here with shadow turned on. I know it's supposed to work (because other machines on our localnet are configured seemingly exactly the same and xlock works there). griffon:~ ls -l /etc/passwd /etc/shadow /usr/bin/X11/xlock -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1220 Sep 29 09:32 /etc/passwd -rw-r- 1 root shadow797 Oct 2 09:37 /etc/shadow -rwxr-sr-x 1 root shadow 463376 May 31 21:27 /usr/bin/X11/xlock* griffon:~ xlock xlock: it looks like you have shadow passwording. Contact your administrator. griffon:~ What's wrong? What am I missing? Am I going insane? Try a shadowconfig off and then shadowconfig on afterwards. Maybe the package is slightly confused? No, shadow was definitely on and functioning fine. It is xlock itself who can't read the password despite being setgid shadow. The problem (which I finally figured out) is that the passwords are being served by nis. I have nis setup to mangle passwords for non root users, and since xlock doesn't run as root, there is no way for it to read the password from nis. (nis mangles the password by returning an x for the password field). The are only 2 ways of fixing the problem as far as I can tell. 1) don't have nis mangle the passwords. 2) set xlock to be setuid root. I've opted for the second solution. I've filed a bug report against the xlockmore package stating exactly the above, but I'm not sure what can be done. Perhaps the postinst can ask if nis is mangling passords, and if so, do you want xlock to be setuid root. Thanks anyways, Behan -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-613-224-7547 http://www.verisim.com/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
xlock
I have xlockmore installed on my system here with shadow turned on. I know it's supposed to work (because other machines on our localnet are configured seemingly exactly the same and xlock works there). griffon:~ ls -l /etc/passwd /etc/shadow /usr/bin/X11/xlock -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1220 Sep 29 09:32 /etc/passwd -rw-r- 1 root shadow797 Oct 2 09:37 /etc/shadow -rwxr-sr-x 1 root shadow 463376 May 31 21:27 /usr/bin/X11/xlock* griffon:~ xlock xlock: it looks like you have shadow passwording. Contact your administrator. griffon:~ What's wrong? What am I missing? Am I going insane? Thanks Behan -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-613-224-7547 http://www.verisim.com/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
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** The Debian GNU/Linux consultants list! ** Even though a Debian system can be supported quite well with a little time and by using the debian mailing lists, some people either don't have the time or have specialized needs and are willing to hire someone to either maintain or add additional functionality to their Debian system. The consultants in this list are available to fill such a need. Please note that some consultants donate a portion of their income (derived from Debian) to supporting Debian. This is up to each consultant or company. The Debian consultants list can be accessed from the Support section on www.debian.org (or any of it's mirrors), or can be accessed directly at: http://www.debian.org/consultants.html (As of the time of this mailing, this page contains listings for all consultants that have emailed me their details before October 2, 1997) To have yourself added to this page, or to make any changes to information about you on this page, please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] I would like to take this moment to thank Sue Campbell for helping set up these page and making sure all the web Mirrors pick up the latest version of the consultants pages. Cheers Sue! Thanks, Behan -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-613-224-7547 http://www.verisim.com/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: shadow and nis
Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: Behan Webster wrote: For the life of me I can not seem to get nis to work with shadow passwords. I can get each to work seperately, but not together. Can anyone with experience with using these two together please explain how to set it up properly? I'm stumped. Is your server really an NIS+ server? What do you get from ypwhich? What happens if you type 'ypcat passwd'? No we're just running the nis package from Debian. ypwhich properly lists the nis server that the machine is bound to (either our nis master or it's slave). ypcat brings up the password file, just no passwords. They're all just x. (i.e. the token saying to go look up the password in the shadow map). I've 2 nis servers (one master, one slave), both have ypserv.conf like this: # Host : Map : Security : Passwd_mangle # *: passwd.byname: port : yes *: passwd.byuid : port : yes *: *: none /var/yp/Makefile has been edited to build and distribute the shadow.byname map. All hosts on the net are linux boxes runing Debian 1.3 with the nis package, and shadowconfig on. But when you try to login, it says it has an invalid passwd. Doing a `ypmatch user passwd` as root brings up: user:x:123:123:comment:/home/user:/bin/sh It seems that it isn't properly looking up the shadow password. Any ideas? Thanks, Behan -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-613-224-7547 http://www.verisim.com/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: shadow and nis
Adriano Nagelschmidt Rodrigues wrote:
Yes, apparently the clients don't bother to look up the shadow map (or maybe
there's a protocol error), the error messages are something like user foo
doesn't have a password.
It sure seems that way to me too.
What I did was install shadow in _all_ machines. In the server, I put the
NIS source password group files in /var/etc (remember to turn off rx
permission for others in that dir and adjust /var/yp/Makefile).
Ouch. But I thought there was a way to get nis to work _with_ shadow.
I mean, the yp Makefile has support for distributing the shadow map.
There's got to be a way to do it.
* 'finger' appears not to like getting an 'x' instead of the encrypted
password ('finger -m foo' works, 'finger foo' only works if you're root).
* yppasswdd wasn't compiled with shadow support, so you can't use yppasswd to
change a user's password from your root shell (unless you recompile).
Perhaps these should be reported as bugs? My impression was that all
Debian packages were to be compiled or patched to work with shadow
passwords.
Thanks,
Behan
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Re: shadow and nis
Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: as the last line of /etc/passwd. Now, the Sun also has shadow passwords, and it's NIS (NIS+ actually) is set up to handle this. To get it to work I had to build the maps *with* passwd info included, like thus on the sun: /usr/lib/nis/nisaddent -p -f /etc/passwd.net passwd Hmm. That's an idea. I could run shadow and then build a non-shadow passwd file from which to update nis. That might work. How does one combine the passwords from /etc/shadow with the entries in /etc/passwd into a third file I wonder. This may be a job for a quick sh or perl script. I'll hack one together if no one has a better idea. with the '-p' telling it to go ahead and include the password field. I tried to use shadow in the maps, but no luck. NOTE: this matters little anyway since NIS (as opposed to NIS+) will give up *any* map to *anyone* who asks for it. Thus NIS exposes you to the same problems as non-shadow passwords. Ooops, I didn't mention it before but I *am* using shadow passwords on the debian box too. Not entirely true. If you set up /etc/ypserv.conf properly, normal users will get shadowed passwords from the ypcommands, but root will get the real entry. (There are comments in /etc/ypserv.conf on how to do it). Not quite completely secure, but better than nothing. e.g. root# ypmatch user passwd user:k9xUnxmXGdzGM:1000:100:Joe user:/home/user:/bin/sh root# su - user user% ypmatch user passwd user:x:1000:100:Joe user:/home/user:/bin/sh I guess we'll just have to wait for the nis+ support coming with glibc. Doh. I understand that someone is also working on an nis+ deiban package? I look forward to nis+ support in Debian too! Thanks! Behan -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-613-224-7547 http://www.verisim.com/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Show me the money Re: Donations to Debian
Dave Cinege wrote: On Wed, 20 Aug 1997 14:28:10 -0400, Eloy A. Paris wrote: my company uses Debian very seriously so I think is very fair to help the project with donations. I have just bought 2 Official Debian 1.3.1 CD's from LSL and I chose the product that includes a 5 dollar donation to the Debian project. And since I am in such a pissed off mood over these version number let's start on these donations. Where do they go and what are they used for? Personally, I'm glad to see Debian become a little more organized and getting incorporated. It means that Debian can start paying it's own bills instead of people like Bruce going out of pocket to pay for the internic domain fees. There are many little expenses that need to be paid, far more than either you or I can probably imagine. Organizing 200+ contributors is not an easy feat, especially with no budget. On top of that, not everyone can donate time or resourses, but they can contribute money. Why not allow them to do such? It is their choice. Debian is not asking for donations, yet people send donations anyways. Why do you feel that this way of contributing to the project should be stopped? Whether you're donating time, resources, or cash, it all boils down to contributing money. Personally I think you're blowing things way out of proportion simply because you can't have things your way. Venting this anger by trying to imply that donated money is somehow being mispent is just plain childish. Grow up. Behan -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-613-224-7547 http://www.verisim.com/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
shadow and nis
For the life of me I can not seem to get nis to work with shadow passwords. I can get each to work seperately, but not together. Can anyone with experience with using these two together please explain how to set it up properly? I'm stumped. Thanks in advance. Behan Webster -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-613-224-7547 http://www.verisim.com/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: telnet and ftp..
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not quite sure what I did.. but, somehow I managed to remove telnet and ftp from my Debian installation through dselect. Of course, this is rather inconvenient. Which package can I find these programs? Have the gift for understatement have we? Rather inconvenient? 8) Reinstalling the netstd package should do the trick. Later, Behan -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-613-224-7547 http://www.verisim.com/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Iomega Ditto 2GB (internal).
Felix Almeida wrote: I'm a sysadmin of a small network at my college and I'm going to buy a new tape drive in order to do the back-ups. Some friends told me that the Iomega Ditto 2GB (internal model) is a good choice. So, I'd like to know if this drive works fine under Linux. Are there any problems with it? Does the kernel recognizes it? Does anybody use it? Please, help me! ;-) If you get the SCSI ditto drive it will definitely work. I'm pretty sure the other verions will work too. However, before you just consider the one product, remember what that product was originally designed for. The ditto drive (and indeed other backup devices using Travan tapes) was designed for home system use and may not be as fast or as durable as you were hoping for. I recently had to buy new servers for work (which will run linux, of course 8) ) and I decided to see if I could get away with getting a travan tape drive instead of a DAT drive. Well, after searching the web I came to this web page. I definitely think it's worth reading before making up your mind. http://www.hp.com/tape/wppos.html We decided that DAT was the way to go in the end and that the extra price of the DAT drive would be more than compensated for in the cheapness of the tapes. (Travan tape drives are much cheaper than DAT, but the Travan tapes are more expensive than DAT tapes). I hope this helps, Behan -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-613-224-7547 http://www.verisim.com/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: [backup method] - what about TOB?
Dale Martin wrote: 1) It tars directly to a device - not to a filesystem. This means one backup (full, differential, or incremental) per disk, yes? I haven't looked too hard yet - hacking the script to tar to a filesystem can't be that hard, though. Nope. Tob allows you to put multiple backups on the same tape. It uses mt(1) to go to the right place on the tape (you must use the non rewinding tape device to get this to work however). I believe tob defaults to putting a full backup at the beginning of a tape, a diff is written in the second spot, and incrementals are appended to that. 2) It saves it's indexes and so forth in /var/something on the machine the backups run on. Umm, what if that's the disk that crashes?! I guess I could include this dir for every backup I've made, but then, it will back up it BEFORE the new index gets written? So, I'll need a separate script to backup the backup index?! The indexes are only needed for generating differential and incremental backups. A restore is accomplished by merely restoring all backups on a tape in order (full then diff then all incremtals). If you lose the disk (and therefore /var/lib/tob/*) you aren't likely to be doing a diff or incr backup, so whats the problem? If it helps, I use the following /etc/tob/tob.rc with a SCSI DAT drive (NOTE I have a link from /dev/ntape - /dev/nst0): -- # tob.rc --- resource file for the 'tob' script by Karel Kubat # # This file is sourced by /sbin/tob. # # Some site or hardware specific settings may have to be added locally. # See the manual page tob(1), the script /sbin/tob, the documentation # in /usr/doc/tob/tob.txt.gz or /usr/doc/tob/tob.ps.gz, and the examples # in /usr/doc/examples/tob for details. # # These are the settings I use. You might want to change them. # # Sat May 04 1996 Dirk Eddelbuettel [EMAIL PROTECTED] TOBHOME=/etc/tob # contains volumes directory VERBOSE='yes' # output device is the non-rewinding tape device BACKUPDEV=/dev/ntape # what backup are we performing? if [ $TYPE = full ] ; then # for full backups: start at beginning of tape echo Rewinding tape -- new info will be the first entry. mt -f $BACKUPDEV rewind elif [ $TYPE = diff ] ; then # skip first entry for differential backups echo First entry on tape skipped -- new info will be entry 2. mt -f $BACKUPDEV fsf 1 elif [ $TYPE = inc ] ; then echo All entries on tape skipped -- new info will be appended. mt -f $BACKUPDEV eom fi # if we're not doing a backup: ask user for position #if [ $TYPE = none ] ; then # # initially rewind tape # mt -f $BACKUPDEV rewind # echo No tape position known in advance. Position to what entry? # read $nr # mt -f $BACKUPDEV fsf $nr #fi --- Behan -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-613-224-7547 http://www.verisim.com/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Deity vs Diety
Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Wed, Aug 06, 1997 at 11:24:00AM -0400, Will Lowe wrote: My major interest in the -Desktop and Diety projects is the provision for This name is confusing me -- is it really Diety? Should be Deity, no? Very different! Deity \Dei*ty\, n.; pl. Deities. [OE. deite, F. d['e]it['e], 1. the state of being a god 2. a god or godess 3. Code name for the new debian package manager Diet \Diet\, n. 1. what a person or animal usually eats or drinks 2. a regimen of special or limited food and drink, as to lose weight Diety \Diety\, adj. 1. Similar to a diet 2. Somewhat not unlike a diet 3. a mispelling of deity. I hope this clears things up. 8) Behan -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-613-224-7547 http://www.verisim.com/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Debian-Desktop
Alec Clews wrote: If Deity supports profiles then the effort will be reduced to 1) Creating profiles 2) Creating tools to extract files required to install a specific profile. What exactly do you mean by #2 above? Anyone have an inside track on the Deity delivery schedule? We were hoping for Christmas. But it's difficult to make such promises considering this is a largish project, and people are doing this in their spare time. Behan -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-613-224-7547 http://www.verisim.com/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Debian-Desktop
Alec Clews wrote: 2) Creating tools to extract files required to install a specific profile. What exactly do you mean by #2 above? Well, I want to implment a system where by it is possible to extract a subset of the Official Debian distribution for a specific profile. It sounded like you were going to reinvent dpkg/deity, so I was just wondering. If you have read the deity UI spec, you will see that it is possible to exclude files and or directories of files while installing packages with deity. The idea is to make it possible to create small footprint file sets suitable for inclusion with other software e.g. on a magazine cover CD. I was aware of this. Because of my involvement with the deity project I've been reading all threads pertaining to package management and repackaging of debian packages. People may not always see those of us in the deity project, but we are listening. For Debian-Desktop the target is 98Mb - the size of a jazz drive. I think you mean Zip drive (100 MB). The Jazz drive is 1 GB. In addition to reduced size I want to be able to create file sets with 8.3 names if required - not all magazines can support RockRidge long file names. As you may already be aware, there are already 8.3 names for all packages in the ms-dos hierarchies. My understanding is that dselect reads the package name from the headers in the package, so it doesn't much matter what the file is called. Don't quote me on that though. 8) Anyone have an inside track on the Deity delivery schedule? We were hoping for Christmas. But it's difficult to make such promises considering this is a largish project, and people are doing this in their spare time. I guess that may be a little late. We could hack together some scripts before then as a bridge. That sounds reasonable. I would hope that once deity is available that it will suit your needs. Behan -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-613-224-7547 http://www.verisim.com/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: naming convention question
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wrote: But why is it good to choose names that don't reflect *anything*? Scott K. Ellis writes: They do, they are the codename for the version,... What secrets are being protected by this code? And since when does a name have to reflect anything? Does Rhapsody, Memphis or Warp say anything or mean anything about operating systems? Yet they are names used respectively by Apple, Microsoft and IBM to name releases of their respective operating systems. Are they hiding any secrets? No... They're just names of products. How about Taurus, Accord, or Jetta? Do they mean anything about cars? No... They're just names of products. It's the same for Debian. ...similar to the codenames that Microsoft... Oh. Well, if *Microsoft* does it, it *must* be a good idea. Not that this cheap shot needs a response, but since most of the software industry uses codenames for their projects and/or products, I'd say most people in the software world think it's a good idea. Obscure code names are ok in closed development where the only people who need to know the names deal with them all day every day and so will learn them quickly. In open development, they are confusing. And yet all the trade mags spout off about the internal code names of operating systems from other companies. I'd say people aren't too confused about that. Not to mention that the codenames used in Debian are supposed to keep people away from accessing the development distributions. There are obvious links to the released distribution, whether it's stable or Debian-1.3.1. The sequence (buzz, rex, bo, hamm) follows names of characters in the Pixar animated movie, Toy Story. Cartoon character names are somehow supposed to be mnemonics for Debian releases? Why not? The Engineering computers at my university were named after Mathematicians, the first year computer lab machines were named after star trek characters, our computers where I work are named after mythical characters? What's the difference? There was some brief discussion of calling Debian 2.0 woody, after the main character of the movie, but we quickly realized the possible unwanted confusion that would result. Doesn't seem any more or less confusing than bo, rex, etc. Think about it. In a lot of Western countries, (not to offend anyone, but) getting a woody has other conotations. Personally I think if Disney can use it, we can us it, but c'est la vie. I'll tell you what. Instead of complaining about the current system, why don't you propose a solution? Here are the design criteria: 1) Conceal development code from users and overzealous CD manufacturers. 2) Not cause undue stress on the mirrors (i.e. the directory in which a version is kept cannot change names) 3) Keep the design simple Behan -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-613-224-7547 http://www.verisim.com/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: checking that xfs is working
Jason Gunthorpe wrote: On Thu, 17 Jul 1997, Behan Webster wrote: in /etc/X11/XF86Config instead of using xfs. On most stand-alone machines, xfs is overkill, as far as I can tell. The nice people on #gimp told me that xfs makes things more responsive because the XServer does not block while it is rendering fonts. Ie xfs does that 'in parallel' with the X Server, so only the app that is using the font slows down. Perhaps using xfs should be made the default then. It should be just as simple to have either be used as long as all font packages register themselves with both /etc/X11/XF86Config and /etc/X11/xfs/config. Behan -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-613-224-7547 http://www.verisim.com/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: checking that xfs is working
Rick Hawkins wrote: judging by the staggering delays to load lyx, which brings x to a halt, i'd bet it isn't running. But how do i check, and how do i fix it? All the info you need is hiding in the man pages. You just need to figure out which ones. The following is what I found: % xset q snip Font Path: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/ snip % man xfs snip FONT SERVER NAMES One of the following forms can be used to name a font server that accepts TCP connections: tcp/hostname:port tcp/hostname:port/cataloguelist The hostname specifies the name (or decimal numeric address) of the machine on which the font server is run ning. The port is the decimal TCP port on which the font server is listening for connections. The cataloguelist specifies a list of catalogue names, with '+' as a separa tor. snip % man xset snip +fp or fp+ This +fp and fp+ options prepend and append ele ments to the current font path, respectively. They must be followed by a comma-separated list of entries. snip % xset fp+ tcp/fontserver:7100 % xset q snip Font Path: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,tcp/font1:7100 snip % Of course in the above example you should substitute the name of the host which runs xfs instead of fontserver. You can make this change permanent by putting the following line in your /etc/X11/XF86Config under the Section Files. FontPath tcp/font1:7100 This change will not take effect until you restart your x server which is why the above walk through used xset to change the font path in your running server. I hope this helps. Behan -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-613-224-7547 http://www.verisim.com/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: checking that xfs is working
Rick Hawkins wrote: I may be asking the wrong questino here :) Well, I may be the wrong person to answer, but I've tackled these same problems recently, so I feel I can help. 8) If I've stated something wrong, please, someone correct me. Before I reinstalled this week, xfs was always running. After reinstall, it isn't. But then, i also had xfree3.3 then, as well. I'm wondering if xfs *should* be running under a default setup. If it should, i need to fix, preferably to debian default. If not, it would seem that I need to make the adjustments to handle it (ulp :). My understanding is that xfs is not run by default on Debian. Although that is an assumption based on it not being started by default on any debian machine I've setup recently. You can have it started automatcally on a Debian system by adding start-xfs to /etc/X11/config. You must restart the x server to have this take effect or run /etc/init.d/xfs start. if I telnet to another machine, and launch an xapp on my display, shouldn't it be using the local font server, if any, unless told otherwise? X needs to know where to find fonts. It does this by looking at it's fontpath. The fontpath is setup in /etc/X11/XF86Config in the Section Files. A font server is not one of these defaults on a Debian system. You see, you can have the local X server read the fonts itself (from /usr/lib/X11/fonts/*) or have it talk to a fontserver. Debian defaults to having most font packages add themselves to the fontpath in /etc/X11/XF86Config instead of using xfs. On most stand-alone machines, xfs is overkill, as far as I can tell. Here where I work, we have several machines that have the 75dpi and misc fonts installed locally and get the rest from a font server. It seems to work quite well. I hope this helps. Behan -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-613-224-7547 http://www.verisim.com/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Diety contacts? (was Re: Dselect replacement?)
Does anyone know where I can get in contact with the people and/or the product of the Diety project? I checked www.debian.org's web site and didn't find anything, and am not going to even bother with an altavista web search for the word Diety. I know precisely how to contact them. 8) Since most of us on the deity team read debian-devel and/or debian-user, a post either place is fine. The reason there is no web page, is that the initial design docs are still being finished. They will be made available soon for the rest of the debian community to see and comment on. Behan Webster (UI designer for the deity project) -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-613-224-7547 http://www.verisim.com/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Dat vs. Travan
We're just looking at buying some tape backup drives for our servers. I've used DAT's before, but now there's Travan too. Can anyone explain the pros and cons of DAT versus Travan tape drives? Thanks, Behan -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-613-224-7547 http://www.verisim.com/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Dat vs. Travan
Behan Webster wrote: Can anyone explain the pros and cons of DAT versus Travan tape drives? I think I've answered my own question. For those interested, check out http://www.hp.com/tape/wppos.html Behan -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-613-224-7547 http://www.verisim.com/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Debian Consultants List
*** ** Announcing the Debian GNU/Linux consultants list! ** *** Even though a Debian system can be supported quite well with a little time and by using the debian mailing lists, some people either don't have the time or have specialized needs and are willing to hire someone to either maintain or add additional functionality to their Debian system. The consultants in this list are available to fill such a need. Please note that some consultants donate a portion of their income (derived from Debian) to supporting Debian. This is up to each consultant or company. The Debian consultants list can be accessed from the Support section on www.debian.org (or any of it's mirrors), or can be accessed directly at: http://www.debian.org/consultants.html To have yourself added to this page, or to make any changes to information about you on this page, please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] I would like to take this moment to thank Sue Campbell for helping set up these page and making sure all the web Mirrors _finally_ picked up the latest version of the consultants pages. Cheers Sue! Behan -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-613-224-7547 http://www.verisim.com/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: BIG NetScape Bug!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 (fwd)
Rick Hawkins wrote: already knows the names of these files. On a Debian 1.3 machine, which uses shadow passwords, essentially the only thing that would be of use for people would be files in your home directory. And since there are no predictable patterns for these files, it would be difficult to construct a web page that would cause serious harm. what about .login or .cshrc? these seem like prime candidates for mischief? How about ~/.ssh/identity? Of course security minded people will require a password to decrypt their personal ssh identity... And as far as ssh falling back to .rhosts or rlogin, sshd can be (and should be IMHO) configured to do neither. Behan -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-613-224-7547 http://www.verisim.com/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
A question
We use exim as our MTA. I've set envelope_to_remove = true at the beginning of exim.conf and I set envelope_to_add for the local delivery directives. This should delete any Envelope-to headers of received email and set it to the the envelope it came in on as it stores it locally (using the pipe transport). We use the Envelope-to: header with fetchmail to impliment a multidrop mailbox for our internal mail system. I've noticed though, that if mail is aliased or forwarded to another address which is local to exim, the Envelope-to header is not updated to reflect the new envelope recipient. Is there a way of doing this easily within exim? Except for this one thing, exim has been very easy to configure and has been able to be setup to do exactly what we've wanted. Thanks, Behan -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-613-224-7547 http://www.verisim.com/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: exim and virtual domains
Tim Sailer wrote: I know there are a few of you Debian users running exim for a MTA. I need some help in getting virtual domains running the way I want. What do I need to do to make the following alias file work? info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I set up the virtual stuff right out of the manual, but the mail dies with 'too many hops'.. Since the way in the manual didn't seem to address the particular needs of our site, I made up my own setup. Amongst other things it has an alias file per virtual domain and easily supports multidrop mailboxes which is what we needed. You are welcome to this setup if you wish. It currently uses procmail to deliver mail, but it can be easily changed to not use procmail if you wish. I also run exim as a daemon instead of out of inetd.conf. (Just edit /etc/init.d/exim to change this) In the following files, just change YOUR.DOMAIN in /etc/exim.conf to the real domain of your computer (what domain you want outgoing mail to come from) and then just edit /etc/mail/domains. For every domain you add to this file, make sure there is an alias file in /etc/mail/aliases of the same name as the domain. Make sure the alias file is readable by the userid under which exim runs. I hope this helps! Behan -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-613-224-7547 http://www.verisim.com/ begin 640 exim-conf.tgz M'XL(``=2CS,``^U:V_B2!+/O_A3E`+2)B,,`%R2R;1Y;,*-)-LB*,5JN; M7;;!#;36=OO:)@E?/K:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@C:U?9/1.#NG37HQ_E\A8/7AE0*-V [EMAIL PROTECTED]'4WPEJ`*V3QDFK63NMGVO7:N='D#SM0=F(814P`' M`SYA_L-VNGNN1B\?0QIG^#H?_XHO,I0^J-7TH';#5JB;_7O\NM9JGZ_YO M-EL'4'NE\20^E])3U']ZW^ORB*5A%Z$Q$?J()!X\)'R@@@`)C**14+Z M,!(NKR#M=00/+`2IQ%CXS'5G,.8^1R+NP`OQ-KS/E#0*F(I`C+5C+#-CP M#S;F*,18:3$8$I\#R*:P!4?.:CBG1`I'KGI4:8!'\C(T?^0#J+;!/VOAI MV-YZX']XX^G6N!GZ8B1B%G_28F.+(,[EMAIL PROTECTED]Q7G_/I`#^8A)X%U`)'`8W5B MJ%5/[EMAIL PROTECTED])2H0`/?*D\3215/)%[H:(I\19,N09F3I07Q`16,. MA[_?NE6KFX_7U[?')*RF9RJA)J(_X/,8C3KQRUP#AEZRY4XHJ0KQ#[]/)%A MU'9#SM1PE:EC,9NMYI067FFOO'[M3A?)9:\FH^JY`,S$W3$E]CBMA M'RVBJ(FRPL)V-(6S;3MUI@/9=@/6(3L-(O?CO[]6[G]ZYOCI,=G'L?FDFUQ M_YZ[,N#]2/[EMAIL PROTECTED]5!OQ1QKS83=I;\-7:[6+E.9B!`X? MM4/N$_5HZFK;P'RDI(?=:^V+9[F%PWUD/5JRZ8;%\6+QU?\:+;*L\RV\;4Q M/RP0668,R=(\4,)C:J9-3I;9,K2E/0(E(SF4+LQUS)7F3WI02T[482L#1' M[X68T'[EMAIL PROTECTED]Q-,H#S#9TJ9CFE^653C([EMAIL PROTECTED]/TG8/! [EMAIL PROTECTED]''VYO/EY_^M*][%W?WFPFAN*N1I/F!'?1KK61GLX [EMAIL PROTECTED](G3`G6S6,EIT$2]F5\]J1#$5QKM6KTJ-QZC,U4-`RG=.#M+ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:F]'XB`YY11`ZG)[EMAIL PROTECTED]'!*-CO.8[U!5*[EMAIL PROTECTED] M6D;'(7%0BJ89:B4K53]EV:5:^TF)?B%:7M3=U(.$HBV25FC]9I1;STCUS MIQR_,V/.#?K_$TNMS0TSD%A*^S\[*?W+;5Z4LJQ0-W+3:FD=2M25!$3[I M;M=WTYQM[C[W/L)TOBR0B\*[EMAIL PROTECTED]'%?A6/DS0;C!31E?EU\II$7Y.S M$@+'L;W!B=%R!`WZHN+6`)K./ISYAP7EZKK;^=[[Y[00EP;?8G3K( MAL+TY:YZBOG?.P*%J8N3CU$,:X[$C$CWHUE`O4DFK));4VJ?K0X-VXX* MW]3])`63;PD`5==5,U$;)8;)_,CI/[EMAIL PROTECTED]J8G9*S)=^);FBT2FN MK+M7J81F)DZ.5+,QX58Z=//*KETGR_['J;OVI^VD_?8[^,TKS.]647E5G MR7YBF/9N0F#-=O2`R\X#4WH=P9F2O4:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:293(1-*6K#8LD8]E M7X1G`0O#!ZRF-%A)JM`DVZR2FX#/$NV7R)[EMAIL PROTECTED]N(SL MBQTBL2KNATA]%?(5TEZ/@:!3)-[1R1ZDYFPL+$ES=W$P/JJ0MP M/F*XBX(,:%ORXH5]^LK1=[P:?.ZY9-]*KDGY)A$D+1NX=F'CSJ][B\O]-`N M?52$J_C^ED='*=SYDZ%QO`'S$$G?:[EMAIL PROTECTED]6]6;SN+/-'\OU2=ENF?P MJ6RW)OJITCS#]H93_L=D3U;_N7O=Z^P_,[EMAIL PROTECTED],^G?'A0([EMAIL PROTECTED],^%.\ MS^LX!W1,1!F4QO^F8@*N\.K^9!#HLM%+IXL-#[N%%KH#XZ++QRG\IH7 M0_*(XMZ\?U/0R!QQWR;8*'0T\/OX(E)CJSN0)C[;S^L]S=BYY!5W_;6ZK M_\4/:?WOY+1))%FL[;G^N_?M/[WY%#VCK2^O]+_-^HD__K=LOX?R]XXG_^ MR+S`Y2[U/%\_1_1J*_\;V,LVM1M/4__!(ER2X^.3/E4EV%H!_=;CL? M-ORW]ZACO\E_VLG2?[;)O_W`9/_?V^LE[!0\W\M^V3^N9\W^#SG]X`#3Y MOP\4X5]T%UU_:ZU?6-_I._,,F`_)[I!=)I+WT_K]XV'2?_Z.*CF=W%(_RUP MA+?QY1U[NPR\B#^M#K^+._6+XHOC['[EMAIL PROTECTED])'OS08R,=-0UH2G;[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[I [EMAIL PROTECTED]'7F$AA.R.X#KX18E*(#^F4$75M.=TDI_4.Y75CI71*\ MAMIZ!:C6\=2J6%B6E`[EMAIL PROTECTED]:%/[EMAIL PROTECTED](WSZ*:CJO MDH3TG%!/_;[EMAIL PROTECTED]:12BHWTK2\6I,+L*P8[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] @[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]!@;?A?\6^NOY0!0 ` end -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Consultants list for Debian GNU/Linux
I've just volunteered to maintain the list of consultants wanting to offer paid support to people running debian systems. I am unaware of anyone else currently doing so. If someone is already doing such, please contact me. Once this list is assembled, it will be put on both the debian web site and be added to the Debian 1.3 CD image that is to be distributed. If you wish to be listed as a Debian third-party consultant, please email me the following information: - Your name - Your address (city and country is all that's necessary) - Your email address - Your phone number (International phone number(1) please) - Your fax number (International phone number(1) please) - Url to your web page - Fees, charges, rates, terms, etc. (1) By International phone number, I mean a phone number that can be used to reach you from any country. For example, my phone number would be: +1-613-224-7547 Thanks, Behan Webster (Debian Consultant list maintainer) -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-613-224-7547 http://www.verisim.com/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: year-2000 testing
Michael Alan Dorman wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) writes: If you can do so, please try running your system with the date in the year 2000 for a while. Richard Stallman asked if we had tested that GNU software is free of year-2000 problems, and I think it's a good idea. Fortunately we don't have too many COBOL programs :-) . Seriously, someone grab a copy of the Packages file for the alpha dist---all of those programs have run with the year past 2000 for several weeks on my AXP box. It comprises almost all of the GNU utils---or most of the fairly mainstream ones. You see, the standard clock executable didn't know about the fact that the firmware kept the time based from 1980... I had a similar experience. About 4 months ago, the /sbin/clock program kept setting the date to 2038 on my development machine. Whenever I noticed it, I would fix it, but everytime I rebooted, it would reset to 2038. I'm still finding files and emails that were written by me in the year 2038. 8) (I'm just glad /sbin/clock was fixed in the next util-linux package!) All in all, in the 4+ weeks I ran in the year 2038, the only major problem I had was with make(1) not recompiling the proper C files (due to there being a ~40 year difference in age between a lot of the source files). 8) I'm not saying I've formally tested the 500+ debian packages on my machine for the year 2000 problem, but the ones I did use seemed to work just fine. Does that help? Behan -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (613) 224-7547http://www.verisim.com/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: DepenGNUian Logo
Have you ever seen Nick Park's claymation The Wrong Trousers? There's a really cute penguin in that short film. Someday I may render one. Cute? He scared me. As you probably remember, he was master-mind jewel thief who dressed as a chicken to commit crimes. He also drove poor Grommit away from Wallace. Poor Grommit. Still, a pair of those surplus NASA trousers would be handy sometimes... Behan 8) 8) 8) 8) -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (613) 224-7547http://www.verisim.com/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Tips
from a quick look, it seems that the format is pretty easy. There is a pair of files, the source where all fortunes are just separated by a % sign and a data file with the info for the files that is automatically created from the former by strfile(8). It seems to be pretty straightforward. (But this was just a quick look...) This is exactly how it works. I maintain a fortune file here at my company of funny things that people have said during our meetings over the years. Every day when people login, they get a random funny quote. Does this ever bring back memories (good ones that is) 8) The fortune program is great for this! Just to be really clear, here's an example of how to use fortune: bash$ cat foobar fortune 1 % fortune 2 % fortune 3 ^D bash$ /usr/sbin/strfile -rs foobar bash$ fortune foobar fortune 1 bash$ fortune foobar fortune 3 bash$ fortune . fortune 2 bash$ Note that you can give an explicit filename to fortune(1) or just give a directory that contains several fortune files. Alternatively you can put the file in /usr/share/games/fortunes which is the default place fortune(1) looks for fortune files. I hope this helps. Behan -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (613) 224-7547http://www.verisim.com/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: samba problems
Domain=[workgroup] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 1.9.15p4] I believe two or three loop bugs were found in the earlier releases of SAMBA. The current release is 1.9.16p2, you should probably install that release. I have been running it for a few weeks (on IRIX 5.3) and it seems quite stable (although there are a few browsing problems). This seems to be the case (i.e. there were bugs in version 1.9.16alpha10) as since I down graded all my hosts to using Samba 1.9.15p4 every thing is fine. I think I will wait for the debian package of samba 1.9.16p2 rather than installing it by hand. I'm in no hurry to upgrade samba as 1.6.15p4 works just fine. I would warn others from using Samba 1.9.16alpha10 and would go so far as to advise debian to remove 1.9.16alpha10 from rex and replace it with 1.9.15p4 from buzz pending the debian release of samba 1.9.16p2 (yes, that is how broken 1.9.16alpha10 is). In reading the samba news group (which I do now) I understand that the new version is quite stable. I would just like to finish by saying that this is the first major problem we have have had in the past year with an unstable version of debian. The completeness and robustness of the debian distribution (even in the, IMHO misnamed, unstable version) continues to astound me day after day. Debian truely is the best, most up-to-date, best supported, and easiest to use linux distribution that I know of on the market today. Thanks for everyone's help! Behan -- Behan Webster [EMAIL PROTECTED] (613) 224-7547 or page me at (613) 2~4-7547
Re: samba problems
Martin Budsj| wrote: My /var/log/nmb* log files are a mixture of the following lines: more than one master browser! connect error: Connection refused Domain=[workgroup] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 1.9.16alpha10] Domain=[workgroup] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 1.9.15p4] Looks like you are running both 1.9.15p4 AND 1.9.16alpha10. How many nmbd processes is there? Only one i hope... One of four machines in workgroup was sunning Samba 1.9.15p4 while the rest were running Samba 1.9.16alpha10. I recently upgraded that last machine to run Samba 1.9.16alpha10 as well, but it didn't help. Smbd processes are still chewing up tons of CPU on each samba host. There is only one nmbd process running on each host. Behan -- Behan Webster [EMAIL PROTECTED] (613) 224-7547 or page me at (613) 2~4-7547
samba problems
We've been using samba on our LAN to connect our Windows boxes to our debian hosts for quite some time now. Unfortunately, ever since we've upgraded to the latest version of samba (1.9.16alpha10-1) we've been experienced problems where smbd processes startup and use up significant amounts of CPU (keeping the load average above 10!) At any particular time we have between 4 and 8 smbd processes running, not apparently doing anything (just using up tons of CPU). About 90% of my /var/log/smb* log files are the line: Added interface ip=192.168.1.1 bcast=192.168.1.255 nmask=255.255.255.0 It seems that smbd prints this as it starts up. I just don't understand why it's being started, as the logs don't point to anything being done once the smbd interface is up! My /var/log/nmb* log files are a mixture of the following lines: more than one master browser! connect error: Connection refused Domain=[workgroup] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 1.9.16alpha10] Domain=[workgroup] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 1.9.15p4] The first two lines about seem to be errors, but I haven't been able to find any documentation of what they mean. btw, I have run through the samba diagnostics file in /usr/doc/samba and everything checks out. This problem has me stumped. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Behan Webster -- Behan Webster [EMAIL PROTECTED] (613) 224-7547 or page me at (613) 2~4-7547
Re: Mailagent package broken?
Mannually adding more rights seems to solve that, but the log file keeps complaining: mailagent[6]: starting SAVE /var/spool/mail/ben mailagent[6]: WARNING could not lock /var/spool/mail/ben mailagent[6]: WARNING was unable to get any lock on /var/spool /mail/ben mailagent[6]: ERROR could not save mail in /var/spool/mail/ben Are you running mailagent as a user? Because if you are it's probably a problem with the permissions on /var/spool/mail. Normal users shouldn't be able to create files in this directory (arguable security risk). Unfortunately to do mail file locking one must make a .lock file in the same directory as the mail file you are locking. This means having write access to /var/spool/mail. Currently in debian (if memory serves) only root and mail have write permission to this directory. If this is the problem, one fix (albeit one that causes an arguable security risk) is to do a: chmod o+w /var/spool/mail Hope this helps! Behan -- Behan Webster [EMAIL PROTECTED] (613) 224-7547
/sbin/clock
Has /sbin/clock stopped working properly? On at least 3 of the machines I manage clock -w is corrupting the cmos clock, and clock -r just hangs. Am I going crazy, or am I ignoring some fundamental change in using /sbin/clock that occurred recently? Behan Webster -- Behan Webster [EMAIL PROTECTED] (613) 224-7547
