Re: /etc/nsswitch.conf
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 09:50:21AM -0500, Mauricio wrote: Could anyone post/send me a copy of an umodified /etc/nsswitch.conf (as in you just finished the installation or has not touched it yet)? Thanks! # dpkg -S /etc/nsswitch.conf base-files: /etc/nsswitch.conf So you can download the package base-files and do: dpkg-deb --extract base-files.deb /tmp/myfiles Then copy the nsswitch.conf from /tmp/myfiles/etc/nsswitch.conf -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ WatchGuard - http://www.watchguard.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: en_CA? [was Re: www.gnu.org, glibcbug, bug@gnu.org, dpkg-reconfigure locales]
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 02:08:22PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 02:24:01PM -0700, s. keeling wrote: I don't know, no, no, and yes. US does mo/day/yr, we do day/mo/yr (when we're not doing -mm-dd (iso). Are spelling dictionaries affected by locale? Dunno. Oi, the date format is endlessly confusing if you're American and you happen to prefer the non-American way, *and* do computers enough to think in the iso way. My most recent rent check, which I wrote last week on the 3rd of January, I wrote 04 Jan 03, saw how messed up that was, and scribbled a litle 20 in front of the 04. My landlady came by and thought I'd written the year wrong :-) Can you guys take me off the Cc list? I haven't maintained glibc in over a year. Best bet is to carry this to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ WatchGuard - http://www.watchguard.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Package signatures tools
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 05:47:10PM +0200, J?rgen A.Erhard wrote: I'm releasing these things now... have them in development and use for a couple weeks/months now. A Python module for doing debsigs-type package signatures and verification thereof. Uses and included module for GnuPG file signatures and verification. It also includes a miniscript that, given a .changes file, signs the .deb, the .dsc and the .changes file (with the md5s in .changes adjusted). jerhard.org/files/python-debsigs-snapshot.tar.gz Is this based on debsigs and debsigs-verify? -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ Deqo - http://www.deqo.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Package signatures tools
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 05:47:10PM +0200, J?rgen A.Erhard wrote: I'm releasing these things now... have them in development and use for a couple weeks/months now. A Python module for doing debsigs-type package signatures and verification thereof. Uses and included module for GnuPG file signatures and verification. Also, I think using any scripted tool to do the verification is asking for security holes. It pulls in too many variables on which verification needs to depend. The debsigs-verify tool does the verification and xml parsing all in one C program. What did you find wrong with the current tools already available and documented? The only thing they need is policy to get them going. Dpkg can already call debsig-verify to validate a package. It just needs to be turned on. -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ Deqo - http://www.deqo.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: find utility gives segmentation fault
On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 09:06:53PM -0700, Larry Smith wrote: I've been having trouble with the find utility in Potato. Often, if I run find as root (so I can have permission to look in all directories), it will run awhile, then die with a segmentation fault. When this happens, I'm unable to do a normal shutdown, the system hangs during shutdown. I use the command: find -name filename Is there a known bug with find? If the system hangs, that's a kernel bug, not a find bug. Does this occur on a special filesystem, like NFS or /proc? -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://linux1394.sourceforge.net/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ Deqo - http://www.deqo.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux virgo wants USB rodent-support
On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 12:31:37AM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I just finished my first linux install with Debian 2.2r6 from CD.. It was pretty painful! I managed to do some mis-configurating and X win had to be reconfigured by hand 5-6 times before I got it up and running. Exciting! BUT - the mouse is not working! I have one logitech usb mouse (MouseMan Dual Optical) and one PS2 mouse (logitech marble fx). Neither of these work. Did you install the module for either of these? If not (lsmod will show you what modules are loaded), run modconf, and make sure all is installed. -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://linux1394.sourceforge.net/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ Deqo - http://www.deqo.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Connectix Virtual PC and the Tulip driver.
On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 04:10:26PM -0500, David Batey wrote: Hello I am trying to run Potato on my Win98se machine using Connectix Virtual PC and everything is working even X with one major exception. My network connection is not. Virtual PC uses emulated hardware. s3 trio 32/64 4m video sb16 sound DEC 21041 network card (supposedly at IRQ 1 but connectix says that it is PNP and has to use DHCP to get its address) my install says it is at addr 0108 and irq 11 but I still can not ping any addresses. It seems as if Connectix refers to Linux as RedHat and they site using the autoprobe to configure the driver. Do I need to force my install to use IRQ 1 and if so how the heck do I do that?..LOL Or am I using the wrong driver i.e. use the old_tulip? Anyone else run into this? I'm running Virtual PC under MacOS 9. My Debian install under that uses the same Tulip driver with the same chipset. However, it is showing up as PCI based (Not ISA PNP, which it sounds like you are). The driver autodetects it as IRQ 11, and it works fine. -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://linux1394.sourceforge.net/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ Deqo - http://www.deqo.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Netscape Browser Masquerade
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 09:05:45AM -0400, Arthur H. Johnson II wrote: My bank's online account program only works with netscape classic, but recently they decided to only allow Red Hat 6.1 machines to access the program because they can support that version of Linux. In other words, instead of supporting the browser, they support the OS they read from the broswer string. Stupid, I know, but is there a way to masquerade my Netscape Classic browser to look like its coming from a Red Hat 6.1 machine or better yet a Win95 machine? The account program only works with Netscape as well, not Mozilla or Opera, I already tried that. Not sure about netscape, but with mozilla you can set a fake browser string. I use it quite often (the info is in the doc directory when you install mozilla-browser). -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://linux1394.sourceforge.net/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ Deqo - http://www.deqo.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: what to install to get ldconfig..?
On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 07:57:20PM +0300, Tuomo Karhu wrote: (#:/work) dpkg -i libc6_2.1.3-20.deb dpkg: `ldconfig' not found on PATH. dpkg: 1 expected program(s) not found on PATH. NB: root's PATH should usually contain /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin and /sbin. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])(/dev/pts/4)(19:53:46)(Thu May 2)(6)(1) (#:/work) locate ldconfig doesn't find it. So, what do i have to install to get ldconfig.. Sorry for being such a newbie. Sounds to me like you upgraded to woody and then tried to go back. Download the ldso package from potato and do: dpkg --force-bad-path -i ldso.deb -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://linux1394.sourceforge.net/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ Deqo - http://www.deqo.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dpkg trouble again
On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 07:34:19PM +0200, Florian Struck wrote: Ok ill ask again like in my earlyer post where i didn't get any answer. Could someone be so kind and give me the list file for rcs? cause mine is empty due to a crash while updating with dselect on sid. And now the package rcs is blocking all installation processes. I cant remove rcs cause dpkg doesnt know where the components are that are included in that package, they are listed in the file: /var/lib/dpkg/info/rcs.list Its just a tiny text file so please someone send it to me or tell me how to solve that problem. Thanks Florian dpkg --contents rcs.deb /var/lib/dpkg/info/rcs.list Either download the .deb, or look in /var/cache/apt/archives/ -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://linux1394.sourceforge.net/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ Deqo - http://www.deqo.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: stoppling console logging
On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 08:32:33AM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: syslog keeps sending messages to whichever console I happen to be on, thus messing up the display. Recently I started getting these messages every couple of minutes because of mailman: PAM_unix[24436]: (cron) session opened for user list by (uid=0) PAM_unix[24436]: (cron) session closed for user list How can I stop the *console* logging or at least get the messages to all go to the same console (prfereably #8) instead of following me around? Restart cron in this case: /etc/init.d/cron restart -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://linux1394.sourceforge.net/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ Deqo - http://www.deqo.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X
On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 10:57:49PM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote: On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 05:36:27PM -0400, Aravind Vinnakota wrote: Hi all, Somehow I successfully installed Debian 2.2r6 on my Ultra 5 sparc. But I having trouble in using X. Whenever I use X, I get the following error Fatal server error: No valid modes found. The whole error can be seen at http://www.csee.wvu.edu/~aravind/error/X_error Have you run the command Xfree86 -configure? that should create a working XF86Config for you. No, actually copy the XFree86 config sample file from /usr/doc/xserver-mach64/ Ben -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://linux1394.sourceforge.net/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ Deqo - http://www.deqo.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Read: ????????:????
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 12:43:44PM -0700, Dave Scott wrote: Anyone know where these messages are coming from. I got a spam notice for sending 4 of these messages out last night. But I didn't send them, although the header says they came from my computer. Kinda lost here. I checked for Viruses but none found. Is Microsoft Outlook the Culprit here. Either outlook or exchange. I'd complain to your NT admin. There should be no notifications sent unless explicitly asked for. -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://linux1394.sourceforge.net/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ultra 5
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 09:25:57PM -0400, Aravind Vinnakota wrote: Hi all! I just started using Debian. I am trying to install debian on Sun Ultra 5 machine. I tried 3 different ways to install it but could'nt: 1) I downloaded the CD images. I tried to burn it on CDs but the images seem to be larger than the CD size. So, I could'nt burn the CDs. 2) Then I downloaded just the minimal CD image and burnt it on a CD. Then I inserted the CD into the CDROM drive and used the command $ boot cdrom to boot from the CD, but I am getting the error Bad magic number on disk label. So, I could'nt boot from the CDROM 3) Then I downloaded the floppy image (rescue.bin and driver-1.bin) and tried to copy them onto floppies. But again the same space problem. The files are larger than the floppy disk size. Also from the documentation, I could understand that we cant boot from floppy drive in case of Ultra sparcs. Any suggestions? I think many of you were able to burn it onto CDs and floppies? You wont be able to boot an Ultra5 using floppy. The OBP is buggy. Try these images: http://auric.debian.org/~bcollins/disks-sparc/current/ This will install woody. You'll have to read the docs on netbooting (pretty easy). -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://linux1394.sourceforge.net/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What does this mean?
On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 07:07:09PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: This is from /var/log/apache/error.log [Tue Apr 2 07:35:20 2002] [notice] SIGUSR1 received. Doing graceful restart [Tue Apr 2 07:35:23 2002] [notice] Apache/1.3.23 (Unix) Debian GNU/Linux mod_perl/1.26 configured -- resuming normal operations [Tue Apr 2 07:35:23 2002] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/lib/apache/suexec) [Tue Apr 2 07:35:23 2002] [notice] Accept mutex: sysvsem (Default: sysvsem) Means the apache daemon was restarted by a signal from the apachectl program. Most likely because you upgraded the apache package. -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://linux1394.sourceforge.net/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Vmware not running anymore after dist upgrade
On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 02:55:28AM +0200, CASASSOVICI Alexander wrote: Hi I had vmware running allright .. last week i had a dist-upgrade done ( it was kinda normal no kernel update nothing special) an .. i cannot power on vmware anymore here is what it says : VMware PANIC: (ide1:0) NOT_IMPLEMENTED F(831):692 VMware PANIC: (VMX) AIO: NOT_IMPLEMENTED F(831):692 Change in the nice() function API. VMware has fixed this and should be releasing (already released) an update for it soon. -- .--==-=====-=-. / Ben Collins--Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=-----==-===---=--=---' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CD Distro Creation
On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 11:42:11PM -0700, Troy Telford wrote: What programs (and documents) would I need to familiarize myself if I wish to create a custom install set of Debian (unstable)? Basically, I'd like to be able to take a snapshot of what packages my system currently has installed, and burn an installation set. Check the debian-cd package. -- .--==-=====-=-. / Ben Collins--Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=-----==-===---=--=---' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mozilla issues
On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 12:32:22PM -0800, curtis wrote: One problem that bothers me with mozilla is printing. I can't seem to figure out how to add a printer to Mozilla, which might resolve this situation. Otherwise, my default printer is listed as PostScript/default and the print command under properties is for lprng (I use cups). So, basically everytime I print I open the properties and enter just lp. Then I can print. There has to be a way to permanently edit the print command and to add printers. Could someone help me on this? Today, I noticed, however, that from some Internet sites it will print only the first page, while from others it prints all pages. Why would that be? Install the cupsys-bsd package, and tell Netscape to use the lp command. -- .--==-=====-=-. / Ben Collins--Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=-----==-===---=--=---' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Unresolved Symbols in .../binfmt_aout.o
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 05:17:43PM -0500, Michael Marziani wrote: Brand new 2.2r5 install. I get this error several times on bootup, and if I do a depmod -e, I get: depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.19/fs/binfmt_aout.o depmod: do_truncate Ignore it. I doubt you are using the aout binary format (nothing in Debian potato does, and no thirdpart software that I know of does either). It doesn't hurt a thing. You can always rm -f /lib/modules/2.2.19/fs/binfmt_aout.o if it bothers you though. -- .--===-=-==-=---==-=-. / Ben Collins--Debian GNU/Linux--WatchGuard.com \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: debianized vim
Conflicting code: augroup gzip Remove all gzip autocommands au! Remove all this junk, vim has this built-in now. -- .--===-=-==-=---==-=-. / Ben Collins--Debian GNU/Linux--WatchGuard.com \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 10:56:08PM -0600, Timothy R. Butler wrote: Howdy, I think it is unreasonable. That's like saying that the library has a right to burn books that it finds filthy or innappropriate. If you Perhaps, but please go into your library and tell me how many racist books are in there. I would be more than willing to bet that your average library does not go out of it's way to include offensive books. Tom Sawyer? modify source code simply to remove the authors remarks, your are censoring, and are no better than a book-burner. So, if someone creates a program that has a button that says Please Click Here, and that button initializes the hard disk, are we to assume the package maintainer is not to edit it so to avoid infringing on Upstream's rights (exactly how many rights they actually have when dealing with a private project is on shaky ground). You people have a hard time seperating technical and political aspects of things. I'll leave you all to fight about issues that are older than most nations. -- .--===-=-==-=---==-=-. / Ben Collins--Debian GNU/Linux--WatchGuard.com \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material
Again, there is no excuse for racism in Debian. Other packages have elided the inappropriate material in the past, as they should. An IRC client has no business being racist. Debian is a distribution that specifically caters to children; note the debian-junior project. As it stands, your package is inappropriate to be on the box my daughter uses. IMO, the correct decision would be for the Debian Jr. meta package to conflict with anything that may be offensive. We have things like the anarchy docs, bitchx, sex, etc. etc. etc. Don't start a trend that we cannot stick to. Unless you really feel like perusing the sources of everything (grep -ir fuck in the kernel source), you should drop this now. Yes it sucks. Yes, a lot of people disagree with such remarks, but freedom comes in many forms (including allowing people to speak such nasty remarks). Ben -- .--===-=-==-=---==-=-. / Ben Collins--Debian GNU/Linux--WatchGuard.com \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 03:25:45PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Don't start a trend that we cannot stick to. Unless you really feel like perusing the sources of everything (grep -ir fuck in the kernel source), you should drop this now. Yes it sucks. Yes, a lot of people disagree with such remarks, but freedom comes in many forms (including allowing people to speak such nasty remarks). I think it's reasonable for the Debian maintainer of the package to remove the comments from his version; it's really up to him (or a General Resolution or other override) to make that decision. I think it is unreasonable. That's like saying that the library has a right to burn books that it finds filthy or innappropriate. If you modify source code simply to remove the authors remarks, your are censoring, and are no better than a book-burner. Ben -- .--===-=-==-=---==-=-. / Ben Collins--Debian GNU/Linux--WatchGuard.com \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 03:42:16PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think it is unreasonable. That's like saying that the library has a right to burn books that it finds filthy or innappropriate. If you modify source code simply to remove the authors remarks, your are censoring, and are no better than a book-burner. Um, it's free software. When I package something, I get to warp it in whatever way I think is most suitable for Debian, and both my political judgment and my technical judgment are relevant there. You seem to be saying that we should treat *everything* as if it were an Invariant Section under the GFDL!? No, I'm saying that using your values as a measuring stick against whatever the author decided, is not proper. Technical bugs are rather black and white. Either it is broken, or not. You use your better judgement based on facts in the gray areas. Changing some working simply because you are offended by it is just plain wrong. You are making a decision based solely on your own personal criteria, rather than that of sound technical advice. IOW, you are comparing apples and oranges. -- .--===-=-==-=---==-=-. / Ben Collins--Debian GNU/Linux--WatchGuard.com \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 03:58:12PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Changing some working simply because you are offended by it is just plain wrong. You are making a decision based solely on your own personal criteria, rather than that of sound technical advice. I think a Debian developer has a perfectly legitimate right to do this. I'm certainly *not* saying he ought to in any particular case. There is no rule *anywhere* in Debian that one has some kind of obligation to give upstream authors an unlimited soapbox. Indeed, if an upstream author insisted on one, we would regard that as a requirement thoroughly incompatible with the DFSG. If an individual developer feels it's warranted, then by all means, they can do so. But making it a Debian motto to do such is a bad idea. Ben -- .--===-=-==-=---==-=-. / Ben Collins--Debian GNU/Linux--WatchGuard.com \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: CVS Server on SSL?
On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 09:48:01AM -0600, hanasaki wrote: I have heard that pserver is not secure. Is this due to plaintext passwd on the net or exploits? How can it be secured? How can the client and server be configured to run over SSL (Win and Lin)? It is because of plain text passwords. Anonymous CVS over pserver is perfectly fine though (unless of course the contents of your repo need to be secured against plain text transmission aswell). I strongly suggest using CVS over SSH. It's easy to setup. Just make sure the server that your CVS repo is on has sshd installed. Then on the client do: export CVS_RSH=ssh cvs -d :ext:username@cvs.server.com:/repo co myproj Then, you can work as you normally would, had you used pserver. If you want to avoid having to type your SSH passphrase for every access to the server, then I suggest using ssh-agent. -- .--===-=-==-=---==-=-. / Ben Collins--Debian GNU/Linux--WatchGuard.com \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: CVS Server on SSL?
On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 10:42:15AM -0600, hanasaki wrote: I think you are saying that nothing needs to be done, on the server side, to support ssh? Same port for tcp and ssh? Right. Server side doesn't need anything special. Is tehre a way to do SSH CVS from Win? WinCVS? Not sure. -- .--===-=-==-=---==-=-. / Ben Collins--Debian GNU/Linux--WatchGuard.com \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: CVS and SSH
On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 09:02:15PM +0100, Sven Gaerner wrote: Hi, I've got a (hopefully) little proble.m. I want to grant some people CVS access to my machine. They should connect by using SSH but I don't want to give them a shell. They should be able to use CVS with SSH but without logging in to my machine. Does anyone have an idea how to get this working? Please CC any answers to me because I'm not subscribed. You'll have to setup an account for them. However, there is a way to keep them from logging in (sourceforge does the same thing). Maybe someone willbe kind enough to share that tidbit (which I'm sure either has to do with setting a special shell for them, or setting up their .ssh/authorized_keys, or maybe both). Ben -- .--===-=-==-=---==-=-. / Ben Collins--Debian GNU/Linux--WatchGuard.com \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: /etc/passwd file, and USERSPEC.H
On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 11:10:40AM -0500, Mark Dascher wrote: OK. Do you know how I would switch from the /etc/shadow aging info to the /etc/password aging info? I already ran pwunconv, but it doesn't seem to unconv the aging information. It's not too big a deal if you don't know how; I'm just trying to see what I have to do to make it work like the man page says. :) We don't support the old password aging. Why would you even want to use un-shadowed passwords? You do realize it opens your system to brute force attacks agains the password hashes, right? -- .--===-=-==-=---==-=-. / Ben Collins--Debian GNU/Linux--WatchGuard.com \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: Woody: Relocation error when calling stat/fstat from shared library
On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 02:20:05PM +0100, Leif Thuresson wrote: I have come across a strange bug in woody when createing a shared library. If I make a shared library and calls the glibc functions stat() or fstat() from within my shared library I get a relocation error when I run a program using my library. If I don't call stat/fstat but only other glibc functions like open, close etc. the program runs fine When I first noticed this problem I only got the error when I linked the shared library with a version-script to only export the functions used by my program. I then upgraded binutils from binutils_2.11.92.0.12.3-3_i386.deb to binutils_2.11.92.0.12.3-6_i386.deb and now I get the error both with and without using the version-script !. I use gcc version 2.95.4 and glibc 2.2.4. I also tested and recompiled the shared library and program on a readhat 6.2 system at my work and there every thing ran without errors. I bet you are using ld to link the shared library, instead of gcc. That's bad, mainly because you miss the -lc and -lgcc links that gcc automatically adds in. Word to the wise, always use LD=gcc where gcc is available. Will make you life a lot easier. -- .--===-=-==-=---==-=-. / Ben Collins--Debian GNU/Linux--WatchGuard.com \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: upgrading to woody.
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 02:19:40PM +1100, Ross Tsolakidis wrote: newbie here... Just want to make sure I'm doing it the right way. If I want to upgrade to woody from potato... 1) Change the apt sources.list to point to woody. 2) dselect and just upgrade all the packages. Personally I prefer doing step 1, and then: apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade If dselect makes you feel more confortable, then stick with it. Your steps should get you there. -- .--===-=-==-=---==-=-. / Ben Collins--Debian GNU/Linux--WatchGuard.com \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: Strange E-mail Headers
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 07:03:49PM -0800, Tim Grogan wrote: Hi all, I've been paranoid after reading about people relaying through your e-mail server and spamming other systems. I've tried to lock down my system to keep that from happening. Today I got 2 email with these headers and I'm wondering if I didn't catch all the opennings. Tony Steidler-Dennison [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm using sendmail and my domain is grocomm.com. I also don't know Tony. A couple of times I've received messages with my domain appended to someone elses e-mail address. Any suggestions would be appreciated. This bounce header is created by our list software. The short answer is This helps us detect bounces. Not sure about the Tony header. Probably someone who didn't setup their from correctly, and your smtp server is rewriting it. Ben -- .--===-=-==-=---==-=-. / Ben Collins--Debian GNU/Linux--WatchGuard.com \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: /tmp size
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 07:36:24PM -0800, Richard Otte wrote: I recently discovered that /tmp on my machine is rather small, around 50mb. I was trying to use xcdroast, but was unable to extract an audio cd to /tmp because it wasn't big enough. This is strange, because I probably have 50gb empty on my hard drive. I'm wondering if /tmp is a separate partition (is this my swap partition?) or why it won't use up the empty disk space. I don't know how to find out the exact limits on /tmp, except by what xcdroast told me. df -h /tmp -- .--===-=-==-=---==-=-. / Ben Collins--Debian GNU/Linux--WatchGuard.com \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: openldap 2.0.23 not writing to replica log
On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 06:35:15PM -0800, nate wrote: I have a woody machine running openldap 2.0.23 with the replog directive set to /var/lib/ldap/replog if i delete the files replog and replog.lock(0 bytes each), start slapd, and modify a record, the files are re created, both with 0 bytes again. is there anything other then the replog directive that tells slapd to write to this file? Yeah, you need to define a replica. Slapd doesn't write anything to the replog that isn't going to be sent to a replica. -- .--===-=-==-=---==-=-. / Ben Collins--Debian GNU/Linux--WatchGuard.com \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: Help!
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 06:13:19PM +, Mark Sweeting wrote: Hi folks, I know this isn't the place to ask this, but I have been trying for 5 days to do this, and I am just having no luck what so ever. My question is, How do I unsubscribe from this list? A simple task you may think, but mailing the request email address and replying to the confirm email just tells me I am not subscribed!! Why then, do I get all the mail? Check the headers of the email you get from the list. You should see a line that looks something like this: From bounce-list-your email@lists.debian.org Using this you can deduce which email of yours is subscribed to the list. To remove your self, since the unsubscribe message, but add on the email address that is subscribed like: unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Also, make sure this email address is in your mailers From line when you send it (for the confirm aswell) just to be 100% sure. -- .--===-=-==-=---==-=-. / Ben Collins--Debian GNU/Linux--WatchGuard.com \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: ARUGENT HELP!!
On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 03:16:25PM -, kevincrookes wrote: Right i have got a big big big big big problem. I have install DEbain Linux onto the wrong computer. I currently have WInMe on hard drive (c:), and i now have got Debian Linux on hard drive (d:). Is there anyway that i can uninstall it?? If i cannot uninstall it, then how do i stop Linux from Booting up as the main OS? Please can you help. Thanks When you boot Linux, edit the file /etc/lilo.conf. At the end, add these lines: other=/dev/hda1 label=windows Now run the lilo program. Now, when you boot you should be able to select either Windows or Linux. -- .--===-=-==-=---==-=-. / Ben Collins--Debian GNU/Linux--WatchGuard.com \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: ext3 commit time
On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 04:38:09PM +0100, Daniel Faller wrote: Hi, I am running the ext3 filesystem on a laptop. The default value for the commit time of ext3 seems to be 30 sec, which is too short for the HD to spin down. How can I increase this timeout ? Use tune2fs (man tune2fs for usage). Has anyone experineces of bad impacts in increasing this timeout to several minutes ? I'd imagine the ill affects would be more likelyhood of losing data. You know if your hd spins down in 10 minutes, and you set the timeout to 15, it will be worse on the life of your drive, because of the constant spin up/down. Journaling filesystems really aren't all that great for laptops (maybe reiser or xfs have something to help this out, but I'm not sure). Ben -- .--===-=-==-=---==-=-. / Ben Collins--Debian GNU/Linux--WatchGuard.com \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: .deb packages from outside debian/dists/ ?
On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 08:31:50PM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote: I want to install some software that I downloaded as a .deb file, but it did not come from a Debian mirror. Instead it came from a ftp download from a developer's web site. The only way I have ever used dselect, dpkg, or apt-get have been to get stuff from a Debian mirror and then unpack and install it. This happened all automatically. Now I have a file in my home directory. Where do I put it? What commands and options do I use? dpkg -i blah.deb And most important - where are the answers to these questions in the documentation? dpkg --help man dpkg man deb Ben -- .--===-=-==-=---==-=-. / Ben Collins--Debian GNU/Linux--WatchGuard.com \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: file under /initrd/lib/modules doesn't exist for make-kpkg made kernel-- does not boot?
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 11:28:58AM -0500, Walter Tautz wrote: I can't get a make-kpkg kernel to boot. It can't mount the root fs. Note I am using initrd and compiled make-kpkg with --initrd. One difference I notice with the stock kernel and mine is: # locate ext3 /initrd/lib/modules/2.4.17-686/kernel/fs/ext3 /initrd/lib/modules/2.4.17-686/kernel/fs/ext3/ext3.o /lib/modules/2.4.17-686/kernel/fs/ext3 /lib/modules/2.4.17-686/kernel/fs/ext3/ext3.o /lib/modules/2.4.17mfcf/kernel/fs/ext3 /lib/modules/2.4.17mfcf/kernel/fs/ext3/ext3.o Perhaps this accounts for the difference in behaviour, i.e. 2.4.17-686 boots but mine 2.4.17mfcf does not? Gives a VHS kernel panic message to the effect it can't mount the root file system. Note I am using ext3 on the root in the fstab I put in ext3,ext2 for the type. Can it not mount the initrd root, or the main root? If it can't mount the initrd root, maybe you forgot ramdisk/initrd support. -- .--===-=-==-=---==-=-. / Ben Collins--Debian GNU/Linux--WatchGuard.com \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: file under /initrd/lib/modules doesn't exist for make-kpkg made kernel-- does not boot?
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 11:53:09AM -0500, Walter Tautz wrote: On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Ben Collins wrote: On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 11:28:58AM -0500, Walter Tautz wrote: I can't get a make-kpkg kernel to boot. It can't mount the root fs. Note I am using initrd and compiled make-kpkg with --initrd. One difference I notice with the stock kernel and mine is: # locate ext3 /initrd/lib/modules/2.4.17-686/kernel/fs/ext3 /initrd/lib/modules/2.4.17-686/kernel/fs/ext3/ext3.o /lib/modules/2.4.17-686/kernel/fs/ext3 /lib/modules/2.4.17-686/kernel/fs/ext3/ext3.o /lib/modules/2.4.17mfcf/kernel/fs/ext3 /lib/modules/2.4.17mfcf/kernel/fs/ext3/ext3.o Perhaps this accounts for the difference in behaviour, i.e. 2.4.17-686 boots but mine 2.4.17mfcf does not? Gives a VHS kernel panic message to the effect it can't mount the root file system. Note I am using ext3 on the root in the fstab I put in ext3,ext2 for the type. Can it not mount the initrd root, or the main root? If it can't mount the initrd root, maybe you forgot ramdisk/initrd support. # grep -i initrd config-2.* config-2.4.17-686:CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=y config-2.4.17mfcf:CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=y while running 2.4.17-686 cat /proc/mounts gives: # cat /proc/mounts /dev/root.old /initrd cramfs rw 0 0 /dev/root / ext2 rw 0 0 proc /proc proc rw 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0 /dev/hda8 /var ext3 rw 0 0 none /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs rw 0 0 /dev/hda7 /fsys1 ext3 rw 0 0 /dev/hdb5 /home ext3 rw 0 0 /dev/hdb6 /potato ext2 rw 0 0 Do you have cramfs built into the kernel? If so, then it sounds like mkinitrd is not copying the ext3.o module to the initrd image, which means it cannot mount the ext3 rootfs. Ben -- .--===-=-==-=---==-=-. / Ben Collins--Debian GNU/Linux--WatchGuard.com \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: user homedir chroot jail..
On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 04:37:01PM -0800, Petre Daniel wrote: how can i deny to a user with shell access the browsing of /home ? thanx chmod 711 /home So they can go into directories they know about, but they wont be able to do ls -l /home Ben -- .--===-=-==-=---==-=-. / Ben Collins--Debian GNU/Linux--WatchGuard.com \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: Enquiry for Sun Microsytem
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 12:10:27PM -0800, D'bon Office System wrote: Dear Sir/Miss, I do have two Sun system would like to upgrade to Linux enviroment..from the Magazine i found that the Debian is one of the web site that can be use the Sun microsystem.. so i would like to know more about this information and for my system is Sun system Ultra 1 Sun System Ultra enterprise A11-140 A11-170, and i do contact for Sun system Help line and then.. they ask me to request from your vender that are your can support for those above model ? and one more i would like to know possible that i use the debian linux OS and link to the Linux 7.2 for PC Thank you for you kindly reply. Please read the website (www.debian.org) under Ports. Also for installation instructions see: http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/disks-sparc/ (Look under the docs directory) Both your systems should be supported. -- .--===-=-==-=---==-=-. / Ben Collins--Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: Break-in? /usr/lib/telnetd, port 1037
On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 02:49:36PM -0600, Kent West wrote: I've got a Debian box (2.2.17, mostly woody) that I've just discovered has a more-or-less hidden telnetd running on port 1037 as well as the normal telnetd on port 23. I thought I had uninstalled telnetd (although it's possible I forgot to remove it). I'm thinking that somehow I've been broken into. I've got a pretty good Unix admin (not Debian) here helping to take a look at it, but so far she's not been able to learn anything definitive. One thing she thought odd was the existence of the directory /usr/lib/telnetd. And here's what one of the security gurus on one of her security mailing lists had to say about it: There should not be a /usr/lib/telnetd. You have been hacked. This is NOT normal behavior. exacutables should never be stored in /usr/lib thats for libraries. There should also NOT be a telnetd user in our password file. ftp maybe NOT telnetd. /etc/services is just for mapping ports to services. You could delete it and everything in inetd.conf would still work. You just wouldnt get a nice port to name mapping from netstat;-) /usr/lib/telnetd is where the wrapper is. That is supposed to be there. The wrapper is to help prevent certain kinds of attacks. Don't look at telnetd too closely. Most likely it is just a backdoor, and the real security hole (that they exploited) is somewhere else. Ben -- .--===-=-==-=---==-=-. / Ben Collins--Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: OT: Language War (Re: C Manual)
On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 09:44:17PM -0600, Richard Cobbe wrote: Lo, on Tuesday, January 1, Ben Collins did write: On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 10:12:09AM -0600, Richard Cobbe wrote: Secondly, you can make this mistake with any language that allows references (perl, python, and java all allow it). Just replace free() with some other assignment that changes what a is, and ultimately you change b, which referenced it, unintentionally. True. That, however, is not a type error of the sort that I'm describing. And, in any case, the behavior of the program in that situation is well-defined by the language specification. This is *not* the case with C or C++. Of course it is defined. It says that after you free() an allocation, that the memory the pointer references is gone and using the pointer afterwards is undefined. No, the program's behavior is *NOT* defined. If it were defined, you would be able to predict the exact output of the program. Saying that the standard specifically marks the program as having undefined behavior does not count as defining its behavior. Every programming language has behaviors that are undefined. Just because in C it can cause a segfault doesn't mean the other languages are any better. Show me one language that doesn't have some action that is classified as undefined. Documenting that something is undefined is called a specification. It is there so you know that you cannot rely on certain behavior. If you ignore that, then no language is going to help you. -- .--===-=-==-=---==-=-. / Ben Collins--Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: OT: Language War (Re: C Manual)
On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 09:15:26PM -0600, Richard Cobbe wrote: most of the segfaults are because of the resource allocation mistakes, not because of mistaken types... at last that's my impression. Resource allocation mistakes (at least, the kind that typically lead to seg faults) *are* type errors, from a certain point of view. Consider the following: char *a, *b; a = strdup(This is a sample string); b = a; free(a); /* Much code follows here, none of which modifies b. */ printf(%s\n, b); Uh, for one, this wont segfault. Secondly, you can make this mistake with any language that allows references (perl, python, and java all allow it). Just replace free() with some other assignment that changes what a is, and ultimately you change b, which referenced it, unintentionally. -- .--===-=-==-=---==-=-. / Ben Collins--Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: OT: Language War (Re: C Manual)
On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 03:46:38PM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote: Well, I dare you to remove 'ld' or 'libc.so' and see how many programs run ;-) I think it's fair to characterize required language libraries as part of the run time system. Whether or not a program is statically compiled is unimportant, as the language library still performs actions at runtime that your program depends on, and which your program could not function without. Among those things, might be checking array accesses and raising exceptions for range errors... I assume you mean ld.so. The fact is that the C library is not needed in order to use C (else libc.so would require itself in a neverending loop). You can easily write C programs that use nothing from libc.so/libc.a. You can't write java, perl and python that don't need their runtime. The Linux kernel is an excellent example of a C program that is self-contained. Think of libraries as conveniences, not requirements. I would also point out that java, python, php and perl runtime are written in _C_. It's easy to characterize an interpreted language by noting that it's runtime executable is written in a language other than itself. -- .--===-=-==-=---==-=-. / Ben Collins--Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: OT: Language War (Re: C Manual)
On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 10:12:09AM -0600, Richard Cobbe wrote: Secondly, you can make this mistake with any language that allows references (perl, python, and java all allow it). Just replace free() with some other assignment that changes what a is, and ultimately you change b, which referenced it, unintentionally. True. That, however, is not a type error of the sort that I'm describing. And, in any case, the behavior of the program in that situation is well-defined by the language specification. This is *not* the case with C or C++. Of course it is defined. It says that after you free() an allocation, that the memory the pointer references is gone and using the pointer afterwards is undefined. Saying it is undefined is as good as defining the behavior. Assuming anything after that point is broken. -- .--===-=-==-=---==-=-. / Ben Collins--Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: Virtual PC
On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 02:14:54PM -0800, nate wrote: quote who=David Edwards Hi I have installed Debian on my imac using Virtual PC, but I am having problems with X window. Do you know if Debian can run on VPC or will I have to change to redhat? what video chip does virtualPC emulate? i haven't used it myself. when using VMWare it uses it's own video chip which requires a special driver. XFree 4.1 includes support for the vmware virtual chipset, but without a driver on other systems only 16colors is allowed. It emulates an S3 Trio32 PCI card. Either the S3 Trio driver, or the SVGA driver should work. I have Debian running under Virtual PC, but haven't tried X11 under it. -- .--===-=-==-=---==-=-. / Ben Collins--Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: Top and PS stoped working
On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 10:31:30AM -0500, Matthew Kopishke wrote: A few weeks ago top and ps stoped working on one of our servers. We get the following errors when we try to run them: Jekyll:/mount_points/md0/home/kopishke# top top: error in loading shared libraries: top: undefined symbol: kb_main_free Jekyll:/mount_points/md0/home/kopishke# ps /lib/security/.config/bin/psr: error in loading shared libraries: /lib/security/.config/bin/psr: undefined symbol: kb_main_total Where did these binaries come from? If you put them there, then I say you need to recompile. If not, I'd say you've had a rootkit installed. In fact, I just did a search for that file on google, and it is a rootkit. Take precautionary measures, quick. -- .--===-=-==-=---==-=-. / Ben Collins--Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: why not put pine in non-free?
On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 04:00:58PM -0500, Alec wrote: Why not put pine in non-free? Other distributions ship with pine... PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE read the past threads on this. You cannot ship modified versions of pine binaries. Building pine without modification on Debian will leave it broken in some cases (depending on how you use it), so it is pointless to do so. Ben -- .--===-=-==-=---==-=-. / Ben Collins--Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: libc6 messed up, no success recovering
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 05:05:48PM +0100, Scott H. Hawley wrote: # dpkg --x /mnt/var/cache/apt/archives/libc6*deb /mnt /mnt/usr/bin/dpkg: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.2.3' not found (required by /mnt/usr/bin/dpkg) Make sure you are using a rescue disk that corresponds to your running system (e.g. potato for potato system). Ben -- .--===-=-==-=---==-=-. / Ben Collins--Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: Sparc Linux?
On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 01:37:35PM -0700, Robert L. Harris wrote: A couple of us are playing with Linux on Sparc. It's supposed to be rather nice. We're currently playing with the Suse version because the guy who started this heard the debian version doesn't work on anything better than a Clasic very well. Anyone running Potatoe or Woody on a 420/450 or something relatively new and powerful? I don't know where you heard that, because Debian's main archive server is an UltraSPARC 60 with 2 450Mhz CPU's and 1.5gigs of RAM. It handles several hundred megs of new packages a day, including maintaining the postgresql database of the archive layout and pushing the archive out to several mirrors (again, on a daily basis). I'd say that's a notch or two better than a classic. -- .--===-=-==-=---==-=-. / Ben Collins--Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: libc6 dlopen problem
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 03:37:40PM -0400, Andy Wingo wrote:
Greetings,
I've been having a number of issues this afternoon with the dlopen() facility
on
my debian unstable system. I didn't want to submit a bug report until I was
sure, so here it is:
$ cat test-dlopen.c
#include dlfcn.h
#include stdio.h
int main(int argc, char* argv[]) {
void *handle = dlopen(argv[1], RTLD_LAZY);
if (!handle)
puts(dlerror());
exit(0);
}
$ gcc -ldl -o test-dlopen test-dlopen.c ./test-dlopen ./libalsa.so
./libalsa.so: undefined symbol: gst_bytestream_peek_bytes
$
This is crazy irritating. With the .so I'm testing, I load another library
that
defines those symbols before they get a chance to be called. Isn't that what
RTLD_LAZY is supposed to do? This used to work, I'm thinking it's a libc6 bug.
Running this little test program on other machines works with the exact same
code that produced libalsa.so, so I don't think it's that issue. Please let me
know if this is my problem or someone else's, as I'm a bit frustrated right
now
:-\ BTW, the same thing occurs with gcc 2.95.4 and 3.0.2.
Seems to me that gst_bytestream_peek_bytes might be used as part of the
libraries _init code. Which means RTLD_LAZY wont help it.
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Re: pty-redir
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 12:26:13AM -0400, Adam John Henry wrote: pty-redir seems to be an essential program used to establish a VPN using SSH+PPP. However, it would appear that, for whatever reason(s), it has not been debianized. Unfortunately, I am unable to download it from its source: ftp://ftp.vein.hu/ssa/contrib/mag/pty-redir-0.1.tar.gz Could anyone please offer a solution to this? I read somewhere that this program must be compiled, but I don't completely understand why. Also, what is preventing it from being released as a dpkg? I would like to get it from a source I 'trust'... I have a Linux version here: ftp://marcus.debian.net/pub/pty-redir/ -- .--===-=-==-=---==-=-. / Ben Collins--Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: How do I find out what packages I have currently installed?
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 07:59:19PM +0200, Kai Sterker wrote: Hello everybody, I've got a question concerning Debian I found no answer for in the manuals; perhaps you can help me: Is it possible to see what packages I have installed, so I can (a) download all of them in one go and (b) reinstall exactly those package after erasing all of my HD For example, if I make dist-upgrade, I guess only those packages are downloaded that are no longer up-to-date on my box, which might not be all. Even if all packages would be downloaded, I wouldn't know how to make sure that all of them are installed when I do a fresh setup _without_ manually selecting every single package. For example, SuSE allows to save a package configuration (to a floppy disk among others). And when doing a new install, I can load that config from the disk, so I need not go through package selection again. Is something similar possible with Debian too? Thing is, I'll have to completely erase my HD, and I want to minimize the time to setup everything to my liking afterwards. dpkg --get-selections package.list Then, after you reinstall, you can do: dpkg --set-selections package.list apt-get dselect-upgrade That should do it for you. You may want to save some of your config files in /etc, if you have modified anything special. -- .--===-=-==-=---==-=-. / Ben Collins--Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: configuration of kernel-images
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 09:58:01PM -0400, tim wrote: How do I find out the compile configuration of a pre-compiled kernel-image? Such as kernel-image-2.4.10-k6. Look for the corresponding /boot/config-* file. -- .--===-=-==-=---==-=-. / Ben Collins--Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: package sig checking ?
On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 01:17:16PM +0200, christophe barb? wrote: le ven 05-10-2001 at 20:37 Colin Watson a ?crit : On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 04:15:00PM +0200, christophe barb? wrote: Is-it possible to configure apt-get to check package GPG signature before installing it ? You can install debsig-verify and change /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg to say 'debsig'. There are very few (none?) signed packages in Debian yet, though, and IIRC debsig-verify causes you trouble if you try to install unsigned packages. Is it planned to require from a package to be signed ? If it's not mandatory it looks useless. That's the plan, but we need a transition outline first. I've yet to complete one. -- .--===-=-==-=---==-=-. / Ben Collins--Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: SPARC Station 5: how to find out what's the HW configuration?
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 02:49:32PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: I have a SPARC Station 5 with debian installed. It works fairly well, the problem is I have no info about the HW configuration (I got it on sort of garage sale from company going out of business (or moving, I am not sure which)). as of now it is working, but I would like to build a new kernel (it has one of the 2.2 series) and the problem is that I have no idea how to configure it. The current kernel is configured properly (scsi works, metwork works, sound does not work) but it does not use any modules. Unless you know what you are doing, and are willing to expect some serious stability issues, you'll want to stick with 2.2.x on any sparc32 systems. 2.4.x doesn't work aswell as 2.2.x on this platforma yet. Ben -- .--===-=-==-=---==-=-. / Ben Collins--Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: crontab problems ...
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 06:03:27PM +0200, Bruno BEAUFILS wrote: I noticed a strange things in my /etc/crontab which seems to be installed by the cron and maybe modified by the anacron package. Here is my crontab : crontab-- # /etc/crontab: system-wide crontab # Unlike any other crontab you don't have to run the `crontab' # command to install the new version when you edit this file. # This file also has a username field, that none of the other crontabs do. SHELL=/bin/sh PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin # m h dom mon dow user command 25 2 * * * roottest -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily 47 2 * * 7 roottest -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report /etc/cron.weekly 52 2 1 * * roottest -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report /etc/cron.monthly # crontab-- What I think is a problem is the `||' if the file /usr/sbin/crontab exist the run-parts part will not be executed, and if it does not exist the run-parts can not be executed. I dont understand why the `||' are not replaced by `'. It's /usr/sbin/anacron. If anacron (the at package) exists, it let's anacron handle the execution of those parts. If it doesn't exist, (the logical or ||), then it executes run-parts directly, since anacron isn't installed to do it itself. It's correct. -- .--===-=-==-=---==-=-. / Ben Collins--Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: no single sid package updated in the last 3 days?
On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 04:00:28AM +0200, Mario J. Barch?in Molina wrote: Hi all. It seems that in the last 3 days no sid package has been updated. When I run apt-get update it just bypasses all the sources without retrienving any new Packages file. Does anybody why this is happening? Maybe a policy change or similar? Jusk wondering... It was usual to have new additions, updates everyday. The main archive has been down for an upgrade to the raid. Should be back up tomorrow. -- .--===-=-==-=---==-=-. / Ben Collins--Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: Debian and Kylix open edition
On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 03:48:04PM -0700, MRZ wrote: I wondered - has anyone has made any attempt at installing the freebie Kylix IDE? According to the PREINSTALL readme, all distro's should be able to run it though only a few specific ones are auto configured (patched?)- a feature not present for Debian. But then it says that A bug in some versions of the glibc loader can cause data corruption during the dynamic loading and unloading of shared objects..snipSystems which cannot upgrade to glibc 2.2 require a patched version of glibc 2.1.2 or later. According to the test script included, everything else required I need is present so I should be able to run Kylix if I get/apply the patch. Can someone please point me to what I need. For kylix, I would upgrade (atleast partially) to woody, mainly libc6. -- .--===-=-==-=---==-=-. / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: Framebuffer support in kernel
video=matrox:vesa:443 I think you need to add: append=video=matrox:vesa:443 -- .--===-=-==-=---==-=-. / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: How to upgrade stable - testing today, avoiding the libdb.so.3 bug.
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 01:40:48AM -0700, tluxt wrote: Err, I think I would rather have titled that message: How to accomplish a fresh install of today's Woody system. rather than How to upgrade ..., because I the procedure I gave there (and want) is about doing a fresh install. Of course, the answer is relevant to doing an upgrade of an existing system, nontheless, I suppose. Actually, to do a fresh install of woody, you download the woody boot-floppies, and install woody. That's pretty simple, right? :) I don't suggest upgrading to woody yet. Wait a day or two for the new glibc and libdb2 to make their way into testing. -- .--===-=-==-=---==-=-. / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: How to upgrade stable - testing today, avoiding the libdb.so.3 bug.
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 01:14:10PM -0700, tluxt wrote: Thanks Ben for your prompt reply! :) --- Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, to do a fresh install of woody, you download the woody boot-floppies, and install woody. That's pretty simple, right? :) I don't suggest upgrading to woody yet. Wait a day or two for the new glibc and libdb2 to make their way into testing. Yes, dl'ing and installing woody directly would be great, if it would work. In fact, that is what I tried about a week ago, but I found, IIamC, apparently, a crucial file was missing, and thus that option is not at all possible. Perhaps I am wrong about this, but it seems that the base file is not present on the ftp site, and that without that file it is impossible to do a direct installation of testing. You are wrong. Base is not needed for installs of testing (like it was for potato and prior). Check woody again. It is constantly updated from unstable. -- .--===-=-==-=---==-=-. / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: Why is Debian lagging so much behind Slackware?
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 12:13:51AM -0400, Gilles Pelletier wrote:
Tell me, is this what's preventing the team from offering boot diskettes
for Woody nearly six months after kernel 2.4 is out?
You are seriously ill informed, or you prefer to spread FUD. Boot disks
have been available for woody for quite some time. Checked...
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-{hppa,i386,ia64,m68k,powerpc,sparc}
...lately? The other architectures are about to have boot disks aswell.
We are freezing base very shortly, and this is the start of a release.
This isn't about releasing in 20 years or even 20 months, this is about
progressing now.
Ben
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Re: Why is Debian lagging so much behind Slackware?
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 12:43:48AM -0400, Gilles Pelletier wrote:
At 00:29 15-08-01 -0400, you wrote:
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 12:13:51AM -0400, Gilles Pelletier wrote:
Tell me, is this what's preventing the team from offering boot diskettes
for Woody nearly six months after kernel 2.4 is out?
You are seriously ill informed, or you prefer to spread FUD. Boot disks
have been available for woody for quite some time. Checked...
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-{hppa,i386,ia64,m68k,pow
erpc,sparc}
...lately? The other architectures are about to have boot disks aswell.
We are freezing base very shortly, and this is the start of a release.
This isn't about releasing in 20 years or even 20 months, this is about
progressing now.
That's what I said to the nut in our group who's making the tests when he
pretended some basedebs.tgz file was missing. I then made a search on
Google and it seems that's it. The boot diskettes for i386 don't boot.
There are no base.tgz's for woody boot floppies. Some simple checks in
the boot-floppies docs could have told them that. The reason is we don't
need them anymore. The system is installed completely from network or
CD, or from a file called basedebs.deb (or something similar). The disks
do boot. Think about it, why would we upload a set of boot disks that
don't boot?
Ben
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Re: Why is Debian lagging so much behind Slackware?
How the hell is Volkerding and his small pack managing to put out Slack 8 with XFree86 4.1.0, kernel 2.4.5, KDE 2.1.2, GNOME 1.4, glibc 2.2.3, Mozilla, Galeon, Nautilus, ProFTPD, OpenSSH, OpenSSL, mod_ssl, mod_php... and all the usual utilities, hardly 3 months after Mandrake rushed out their broken down distro? Has anybody heard that Slackware isn't safe : ) ? Does slackware have 5000 packages? Is it as well tested, and stable as a Debian release? Does slackware support 10 architectures (like woody will, and potato supported 6)? Can you upgrade a previous slackware distribution easily to the current system or do you hope and pray, or just wipe your system and install fresh? You are comparing apples and oranges. Just because other dists are releasing bleeding edge, doesn't make them any better (let's not forget RedHat 7 and it's pre-release glibc and canabalized gcc-2.96). We prefer to release stable systems, rather than try to flash version numbers of some high visibility software. Ben -- .--===-=-==-=---==-=-. / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
libc6 2.2.3-10 and atexit() problems, interim fix available
In about 20 minutes, you can download this package: http://auric.debian.org/~bcollins/libc6_2.2.3-10.0.1_i386.deb size: 3413348 md5sum: 7d4535a0bb44145b098751d6959c3679 It solves the problem with the missing atexit symbol. I'll be uploading a 2.2.3-11 soonish. Please refrain from filing further bugs :) -- .--===-=-==-=---==-=-. / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---' pgpp5CqsbkQiq.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: upgrade to testing (woody) -- failed
On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 01:28:28AM +, nestea wrote: hi all, tonight when i tried to upgrade a few boxes to woody, i received the following error message. any idea? --- perl: error while loading shared libraries: libdb.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory E: Write error - write (32 Broken pipe) E: Failure running script /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt --- It's fixed in unstable. -- .--===-=-==-=---==-=-. / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: ldconfig can't stat Xaw3d
On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 02:56:56PM -0700, Mike Pfleger wrote: Hello. While checking some things on my system, I noticed something odd in the o/p of ldconfig -v as follows: # ldconfig -v | grep aw ldconfig: Can't stat /usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw3d: No such file or directory libawe.so.0.4 - libawe.so.0.4.3 libXaw3d.so.6 - libXaw3d.so.6.1 libXaw.so.7 - libXaw.so.7.0 libXaw.so.6 - libXaw.so.6.1 Any ideas what's causing this? edit /etc/ld.so.conf and remove the reference to /usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw3d -- .--===-=-==-=---==-=-. / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: ldconfig
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 09:06:56PM +0100, john gennard wrote: I have dselect in somewhat of a mess, having a number of programs 'in limbo' (including libc6). Trying to downgrade libc6, I got the same error message to that below - (this actual error was obtained by trying to remove a program I don't need to see if there's an overall problem with ldconfig). The paths are in fact correct. -- # dpkg -r elvis-tiny dpkg: `ldconfig' not found on PATH. dpkg: 1 expected program(s) not found on PATH. NB: root's PATH should usually contain /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin -- I don't know which program provides the command 'ldconfig'. Can anyone enlighten me please. Sounds to me like you upgraded to libc6 2.2, and then tried to go back to 2.1.x. You need to reinstall ldso. Download it from potato, and do this: dpkg --force-bad-path -i ldso.deb That should fix your problem. -- .--===-=-==-=---==-=-. / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: error message with libdb.so.3
On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 11:55:56AM -0700, Changkil Lee wrote: Hi! I tried to install my printer epson stylus color 860 and I found that my system didn't have a printtool package. I installed an unstable printtool package which caused me to install lots of extras as follows. Later I found that there is a testing version of printtool. I am not sure if this package is the right one for me though. The following extra packages will be installed: binutils cpp cpp-2.95 g++ g++-2.95 gcc gcc-2.95 gobjc gobjc-2.95 libc6 libc6-dev libprinterconf0 libsnmpkit1 libstdc++2.10-dev libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 locales lpr-ppd pconf-detect Which version of libc6 do you now have installed? -- .--===-=-==-=---==-=-. / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: do I need kernel header 686
On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 09:17:46AM +0800, Tao Liu wrote: Hi, if I have a celeron cup, and want to compile the kernel, do I need kernel-headers-686? No, you only need the kernel source. Those headers are only useful if you are compiling modules seperate from the main kernel source. Ben -- .--===-=-==-=---==-=-. / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: How to setup 100Mb/sec full duplex networking on Ultra-80?
On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 02:53:08AM +0200, Guenter Millahn wrote: On Sun, 29 Jul 2001, Craig Ian Dewick wrote: On Sun, 29 Jul 2001, Guenter Millahn wrote: Hello community, I have an Sun SPARC Ultra-80 running Debian/woody together with an older switch (LattisSwitch 28115 by Bay Networks). The Workstation has a standard hme (happy meal) network card. Something with the autonegotiation doesn't work, probably because of the age of the switch. I have configured 100 Mb/sec full-duplex on the switch, but the Debian box falls back to 100 Mb/sec half-duplex. Another effect on this box: After a reboot of the switch the connection is down until I remove the plug from the switch and plug in it again. It also depends what you're connecting it to. If it's a network hub (without the intelligence of a switch) it'll always default to half-duplex. If it's connected to a switch (whether it be a level 2 or a level 3 switch) it should default to full-duplex. At least that's how it behaves with Solaris, and the limited experience I've had with Debian/Sparc shows the same result. The switch is a level 2, 100Mb/sec, with full-duplex capabilities from the early days of FastEthernet networking. But the main question for me is, how to force the debian woody box to go to 100 MBit full duplex mode? You have to use the ethtool program. If that doesn't work (as in it gives you some weird ioctl errors), I'll have to get you an updated version since that would mean you are using a 2.4.x kernel :) Ben -- .--===-=-==-=---==-=-. / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: SOLVED: How to setup 100Mb/sec full duplex networking on Ultra-80?
On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 05:32:20AM +0200, Guenter Millahn wrote: The switch is a level 2, 100Mb/sec, with full-duplex capabilities from the early days of FastEthernet networking. But the main question for me is, how to force the debian woody box to go to 100 MBit full duplex mode? You have to use the ethtool program. If that doesn't work (as in it gives you some weird ioctl errors), I'll have to get you an updated version since that would mean you are using a 2.4.x kernel :) That did the job! Thank you. Indeed I have the 2.4.5 kernel. I grabbed the current version from sourceforge and built it. Will make a source package and submit it to the maintainer. The current maintainer is quite busy, so I've been keeping the package up-to-date lately. So just send it to me :) What I'd like is a shell script wrapper that checks uname -r and chooses the old 2.2.x ethtool, or the new ethtool, depending. Ben -- .--===-=-==-=---==-=-. / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: Debian Issues!!
On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 03:51:14PM -0700, Jaimos F. Skriletz wrote: cash to spare) to begin this project, but little to my knowledge, I have spent the last three days reading though your FAQ's, readme files, etc trying to figure out how to get the image which should be a simple afair, yet failing miserabbaly and I have the following comments/complaints I hope you will at least consider about your system. I agree with you on this one. The maze of questions that you are forced to go through on the cdimage website is a royal pain in the ass. Now I can understand that some people may need to be guided, but some people just know they want the ISO, and don't care about trying to answer the questions in such a way as to actually find out how to do that. Maybe enough complaints will get this taken care of. I know that when I call a company and get one of those Push #1 for foo, I really like getting the option that just says Press 0 to speak with a real person. This is what we need for the cdimages, a direct link to the ISO's. Ben -- .--===-=-==-=---==-=-. / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: NO! chmod strikes!
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 02:01:53PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: So, does anyone have a way to recover using only shell builtins, for just in case there aren't any executable files left? The sash shell (in the sash package) has built-ins for most of these utilities (chmod, chown, ls, cp, mv and rm included). Ben -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: Getting more from the Sun4M ???
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 02:34:50AM +0200, Guenter Millahn wrote: On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Ken Seefried wrote: Guenter Millahn writes: 1) Is it possible to run the SCSI connection with a higher speed? There are SBus cards that can run faster. I've got an SBus FWD SCSI drive that makes a different. Ken Seefried, CISSP Sorry, Ken, for my unclear request: I wanted to know, if it is possible to use this old HW with 10 MBytes/sec both on SCSI controller and disk, e.g. by using a better SCSI driver in kernel. A better SCSI driver cannot overcome the limitations of the hardware. Ben -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: need man 5 regexp
On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 05:00:49PM +, Pollywog wrote: I need the man page for regexp but can't seem to locate it. Anyone know where I can obtain it? I searched the Packages page but could not find it there. You need regex(7), not regex(5) (section 5 is for config files et al). Regex(7) is in the manpages package. Ben -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: openldap
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 09:38:24PM -0400, Peter Kok wrote: Hi all Any one have experience to install and configure openldap in tarball? Why not just install the package? If you need help installing from tarball, then your best bet is one of the openldap mailing lists. -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: Triple Boot
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 12:16:46PM -0400, Skinner, Reed wrote: Does anyone have any experience with a Debian/Win2k/Solaris setup on the same system? I had WinNT/Solaris 2.6/Debian at one time. I used the WinNT boot loader though. When you install Solaris, you should choose to install the boot block on the same partition you installed it on. From there, you can boot it with LILO, just like you do for Windows partitions. Ben -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: I have instaledl too many packages
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 12:47:39AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi,all I am a debian newbie.I have installed too may packages. I want to use 'dselect' to delete some,but show many errors I want to use 'apt-get remove filename' but not know exactly the filename,and there are so many package to remove. How can I reinstall but keep the smallest base system so that I not need to reboot and can use apt-get,deselect,netconfig etc. I regularly do this: 1. dpkg -l package.list 2. less package.list (find packages you want to remove) 3. apt-get remove pkgs 4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 as needed (I usually just remove 4 or 5 packages at a time) -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: which gcc?
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 11:06:44PM +0930, David Purton wrote: just a quick question, but which gcc should I have installed? gcc gcc-2.95 gcc-3.00 gcc is a set of links to gcc-2.95. They are installed together currently. The gcc-3.0 package is only for testing. You have to call it like CC=gcc-3.0. It is not used by default. Some time when gcc-3.0 is stable, then gcc will be links to gcc-3.0 instead of gcc-2.95. Ben -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: glibc compatibility
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 06:20:02PM -0700, David Steinberg wrote: Hi debian-user readers, Something I've been wondering for a while, and now I really need to know: how do glibc versions relate? I'm running testing, which I believe is based on glibc2.2. Is this backwards compatible with glibc2.1? If a program says it requires 2.1, should I expect that it will work? Yes. Glibc is backward compatible. However, and app compiled against glibc 2.2.2 will not run on glibc 2.1.3 (and sometimes not even on 2.2.1). More generally, if I have multiple libc versions installed, how does the system know which one it should be calling from any given app? (I realize that this is probably a fairly big question; a pointer to a web reference would be appreciated if its easier than answering.) You cannot have more than one libc.so.6 installed at any given time. Fortunately, you don't need to, because of the backward compatibility. -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: /usr/src/redhat on Debian?
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 05:30:12PM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote: Hi, I was downloading the kernel source and found the following: ls /usr/src/redhat/ BUILD RPMS SOURCES SPECS SRPMS All the directories and sub-directories are empty. I'm using 2.2r3/potato upgraded from 2.2r0. Anybody know why the redhat directory is there? Because you have rpm installed, which may be because you installed alien. -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: undefined reference to `atexit'
On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 09:17:13PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: Can anyone offer a solution for this: gcc -pipe -L /home/olly/mypackages/eiflibs/eifpgsql/C -L /home/olly/mypackages/eiflibs/datetime/C edbgen1.o edbgen2.o edbgen3.o edbgen4.o -lgdk -lgtk -leifutils -leifpq -lpq /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.6: undefined reference to `atexit' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status The libssl (libcrypto) was compiled with a buggy version of gcc. It needs to be recompiled. The version in unstable and (afaik) woody, are ok (2.95.3-9 or later). -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: making gcc work
On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 11:46:13AM +1000, John Griffiths wrote: ok i get: hello.c:1: stdio.h: No such file or directory hello.c attached to check i didn't get it wrong Install the libc6-dev package. -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: RFC: Removing SVGA support from Ghostscript packages
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 02:47:16AM +0200, Torsten Landschoff wrote: Hi *, Just wanted to ask if anybody is still using the libsvga support of the Debian GS packages. I really would like to get rid of that ugly hack and if nobody speaks up one of the next uploads will have svga support removed. I think it'd be really nice if you could get framebuffer support, since svga doesn't even relate to most of my systems anyway :) Ben -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: login binary source
On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 07:20:59PM +1000, Langdon Green wrote: I am trying to create a boot disk from my debian 2.2r2 machine. I have a rootfs with all the basic binaries req, and another disk to boot from. It boots, Ok and loads the rootfs ok, Login prompt OK, When I type username and password, it comes up with pam errors (ie can't find username and password). I checked out the pam site and I believe that the problem is with the file /mnt/var/run/utmp (which i tried touch, cp dd to copy the file to the rootfs). Anyway, I have downloaded the source cd's for debian, and I was thinking of recompiling the login binary without pam. Where would I find the source for login (can't find it on the cd's) and is it possible to recompile without pam? Can anyone think of anything else that I can do? Sounds to me like you did not copy the /lib/security/ modules. You atleast need to copy pam_unix.so, and make sure you copied /etc/pam.d/login (and removed all lines that do not pertain to pam_unix.so). Or, you can just download the shadow source and recompile without PAM support. -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: Linux Virus
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 12:55:16PM +1000, Mark Devin wrote: Does anyone know anything further on this new W32.Winux virus. Check out this link: http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-5329436.html?tag=st.cn.1.lthd Surely this virus cannot overwrite executables that require root permission? Or can it? No, if this virus actually exists (and I doubt its true, or even particularly threatening), it can only affect your files. Unless you are in the bad habit of reading email as root, and executing random attachments manually. -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: Linux Virus
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 01:07:49PM +1000, John Griffiths wrote: At 10:00 PM 3/28/2001 -0500, Ben Collins wrote: On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 12:55:16PM +1000, Mark Devin wrote: Does anyone know anything further on this new W32.Winux virus. Check out this link: http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-5329436.html?tag=st.cn.1.lthd Surely this virus cannot overwrite executables that require root permission? Or can it? No, if this virus actually exists (and I doubt its true, or even particularly threatening), it can only affect your files. Unless you are in the bad habit of reading email as root, and executing random attachments manually. At this point the virus is just a proof of concept, no payload and no replication existing only on the author's HD and the copy he emailled to the anti-viral company. the proven concept may be used to do more interesting things. The concept is still dependent on the user executing an attachment (depending on their email client, which most Linux clients are smart), and it can still only affect user owned files, not root (unless said email is read, and attachment is executed, by root). Anyone can do that. I can write a C program and send it to you that emails me /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow. You still have to be dumb enough to execute it. That's not a virus, that's social trickery. Now, if it emails itself (and remember with Linux there are several dozen email programs, so finding the right address book format is pretty hard), then it is viral, sort of, since you still have to manually execute it. Yes, it is pretty nifty that it can run on i386-Linux and Windows using basic asm. However, that is a very limited thing, and for it to really do someting useful, it will need to do a lot more, and will most likely be less able to run on both Windows and Linux from one binary. IMO, this is nothing completely new or innovative. ASM has been around a long time, even before viruses. It all boils down to people being smart enough not to accept attachments form people they don't know, and especially don't execute programs sent to you randomly over the internet. -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: Linux Virus
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 01:26:39PM +1000, John Griffiths wrote: IMO, this is nothing completely new or innovative. ASM has been around a long time, even before viruses. It all boils down to people being smart enough not to accept attachments form people they don't know, and especially don't execute programs sent to you randomly over the internet. Agreed up to a point. But all you need is one person to open it blind and then the rest go out to the adsress book and appear (to the next recipients) to be someone they know. which alters the balance somewhat. Good point...kind of a the chain is only as strong as its weakest link scenario :) -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: md5 passwords
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 09:28:36PM -0600, John Patton wrote: Okay, I know how to tell pam to use md5 passwords, but has anybody actually done this after using regular crypt passwords? I have a number of accounts with existing passwords in /etc/shadow... what happens to them? I've been wanting to upgrade to md5 passwords for a while, but I'm afraid of totally hosing my system. Any input on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Existing passwords will continue to work. When someone changes their password, it will be encrypted with an md5 hash instead of DES. Nothing will get hosed. Ben -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: Linux Virus
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 01:33:30PM +1000, John Griffiths wrote: t 10:29 PM 3/28/2001 -0500, Ben Collins wrote: On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 01:26:39PM +1000, John Griffiths wrote: IMO, this is nothing completely new or innovative. ASM has been around a long time, even before viruses. It all boils down to people being smart enough not to accept attachments form people they don't know, and especially don't execute programs sent to you randomly over the internet. Agreed up to a point. But all you need is one person to open it blind and then the rest go out to the adsress book and appear (to the next recipients) to be someone they know. which alters the balance somewhat. Good point...kind of a the chain is only as strong as its weakest link scenario :) Also worth noting that the last few headline virusses on windows have done no more damage than a user-level virus operating on a unix machine. they have been notable in the denial of service aspects of their replication, and the cunning nature of their social engineering. Arguably, there is less of a chance of that under Linux. Most people who use Windows (like 99.9%) use either Outlook, Eudora or Netscape for email. On Linux, the numbers cannot be used against it. If you target a Linux virus for Pine, or whatever, chances are you wont propogate very far. Trying to write a virus that works on most Linux email clients is beyond the scope of a small viral program. -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
known libc6 2.2.2-2 install failure
Ok, it is now a known issue (since I've gotten 5 bug reports over the past 2 hours). Please refrain from sending more bug reports, and remove libc6-i586 or libc6-i686 to fix the problem, or don't upgrade until 2.2.2-3 is available sometime tomorrow. Thanks to all those that did send bug reports. Ben -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: duplad? help for sharing deb package!
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 08:43:17PM +0100, Stefano Peluchetti wrote: i have build a package for mplayer-0.11.pre24 that i think is in line with the debian policy. I simply can't figure out how to upload it! do i have to get a user/pswd account? Let's just ponder for a moment what would happen if we let anybody in the world upload packages to Debian's archive Now, let's review. Only Debian developers can place packages in the archive. There is information on the website for this. You can, however, simply post to -user with a URL for where people can get your package. -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: package
On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 03:10:26PM +0100, dko wrote: hello when i reinstall a package apt-get take configs i've made i'd like to reinstall a package with it's default config. how can i do that. i removed config files in /etc but it doesn't work. dpkg --purge pkg; apt-get install pkg Purge ensures that all config files are removed. -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: [q] apt-get source ..
On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 12:55:57PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
Andrea Vettorello [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Yes, two/three days ago, look in the mailing list of this week about
trouble compiling gs (ghostscript) from source. I've forced the
inclusion of the time.h header, and a couple of trivial change in
the stp driver itself about some incorrect inclusion path.
time.h you say? I had kaffe break on that recently after I upgraded
my system a bit. Same kaffe source, same configuration compiled fine
just a few days earlier. From my change-log, I installed perl-5.6 on
February 27 which upgrades libc6 and libc6-dev from unstable and then
upgraded from testing the next day.
I fixed it by adding a check for time.h in configure.in.
Any chance that this is a bug somewhere in libc or perhaps in autoconf
(don't know if that got upgraded :-{)
This is a bug in kaffe. Recent changes in libc6-dev were made (upstream)
to make the headers more standards compliant. This had the affect of
certain things that were implicitly defined when sys/time.h was
included, not being defined unless time.h was included. You need to make
this change.
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Re: upgrading libc6 from 2.1 to 2.2 - trouble brewing?
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 08:59:57PM -0500, Colin Cashman wrote: Tonight I tried to install the latest version of ssh onto my system, but I wasn't paying close enough attention to the dependencies. Ssh 2.5.1p1 requires libc-2.2.1-2 or higher, and potato uses libc6-2.1.3-15. I have a vague recollection of problems running apps using libc-2.1 with libc-2.2, so I thought I'd ask the list since I'm sure at least one person has tried it. :) Should I expect any trouble if I simply upgrade to libc-2.2? If so, what is the best strategy to resolve those problems? Upstream claims (and I agree from experience) that glibc 2.2.x is more stable than glibc 2.1.x. Ben -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: mutt editor
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 04:05:40PM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: Dear colleages of list, how can I change the default editor of MUTT. I want to change it from vi to ee. I looked in the man pages and it seems that exist an enviroment variable EDITOR for this, but I cannot find it. Ani help will be very welcome In ~/.muttrc put set editor=ee -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
