Re: Debian Running Radius
On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 16:44:51 +0100 Jennie Kingsland jennie.kingsl...@sunderland.gov.uk wrote: Hi, Not sure if you can help with this one, I have searched Google and also your archives but cannot find an answer to my problem. If you are running Freeradius, the problem with the start-up script is the -X argument which should only be used for debugging. Also, your log directory should be specified in the config file, /usr/local/etc/raddb/radiusd.conf and not the command line. This would make your startup script command: /usr/local/sbin/radiusd -d /usr/local/etc/raddb/ The big question is why compile radius from source? If you use the Debian package for Freeradius, this is mostly done for you. -- Bill Thompson bi...@mahagonny.com signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Crashed dd, kill -9 doesn't even kill it.
On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:12:09 -0600 (CST) Timothy Legg debianu...@timothylegg.com wrote: Hello, I have got another interesting problem here. I found a way to crash dd so badly that even kill -9 `pidof dd` won't even phase it. The only way I have found to kill it effectively is to shut down the machine. Scenario: snippage I had the same thing happen recently. It is as if dd is hitting the end of the device and then locking up instead of stopping gracefully. I was able to duplicate the issue with several USB-sticks using both dd and dd_rescue. The solution was to tell dd where to stop coping the device. For a 1GB memory stick I used dd bs=1G count=1 or dd_rescue -m 1G -- Bill Thompson bi...@mahagonny.com signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Why did you chose Debian over CentOS?
On Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:33:16 -0800 Stephan g...@wickedclips.net wrote: Bill Thompson wrote:On Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:06:56 -0500 Joe McDonagh joseph.e.mcdon...@gmail.com wrote: And to the people who give a schpiel about what if RH shuts down tomorrow, not going to happen. Someone will buy RH before they get shut down. They are the single biggest kernel committers and their workforce is filled with some of the most talented engineers in the open source world. It may be true that RH is too big to disappear entirely, but what about the inconsistency of their company focus? Many companies (mine included) have already been burnt because of the way RH redefined their distribution model. First it was free with optional paid support, then they dropped the desktop, then they went with licensed Enterprise support only (which is the only reason CentOS exists in the first place, to provide community support for RHE) and now they are refocusing on virtualization and who knows what support they are going to offer. They may not shut down, but past history has shown that you can not rely on the availability and support the company will offer tomorrow. That was exactly my point. I'm not an open source fanboy mind you; without the corporate model, there wouldn't *be* any microcomputers. It simply important to remember that corporations rarely give products and services away out of charity, and ultimately revenue is easier to achieve by making increasing the quality of solutions to justify increasing the price tag, ultimately resulting in many products being sold on hype alone (coughcoughVista) and not their intrinsic value. So long as CentOS exists under the corporate guardianship as a stepchild of Red Hat, it's features and functionality will reflect the corporate goals of RH. That isn't necessarily a bad thing; but it is *some* thing to consider when making a final decision. Stephan You make a good point about supporting RH and their efforts to develop Linux. However, using CentOS does not support the company or their revenues. My understanding is that CentOS is an independent group and is not managed by RH directly. In fact, I believe that using CentOS in conjunction with a licensed RHE installation violates the terms of the RH support agreement. That was the case when I looked into this several years ago, but RH may have since changed that agreement. If you truly feel that RH should be given financial support for their efforts and you can base your IT infrastructure on their business decisions, you should license RHE directly and not use one of the unofficial RH derivatives. My company could not make that decision, so we opted for Debian. Since then I have not needed to review support contracts and licensees for our Linux installations or worry much about the future of the distribution. -- Bill Thompson bi...@mahagonny.com signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Why did you chose Debian over CentOS?
On Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:06:56 -0500 Joe McDonagh joseph.e.mcdon...@gmail.com wrote: And to the people who give a schpiel about what if RH shuts down tomorrow, not going to happen. Someone will buy RH before they get shut down. They are the single biggest kernel committers and their workforce is filled with some of the most talented engineers in the open source world. It may be true that RH is too big to disappear entirely, but what about the inconsistency of their company focus? Many companies (mine included) have already been burnt because of the way RH redefined their distribution model. First it was free with optional paid support, then they dropped the desktop, then they went with licensed Enterprise support only (which is the only reason CentOS exists in the first place, to provide community support for RHE) and now they are refocusing on virtualization and who knows what support they are going to offer. They may not shut down, but past history has shown that you can not rely on the availability and support the company will offer tomorrow. -- Bill Thompson bi...@mahagonny.com signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Why did you chose Debian over CentOS?
On Wed, 4 Mar 2009 17:10:41 -0800 (PST) Raleigh Guevarra death...@yahoo.com wrote: To All Web Hosting Providers, I need your help to prove and defend Debian to the CIO and a dozen of developers. Why did you chose Debian over CentOS to host dozens of websites? Both technical and logical inputs or explanation is greatly appreciated. Raleigh + Stability. Debian packages are tested through a unstable-testing-stable release cycle and are not dependent on a time-table for release. + Reliability. Debian is 100% community based and not reliant on a prominent North American Enterprise Linux vendor that may change their distribution or development strategy due to market forces. As long as there are developers interested in Debian, there will be a Debian system to use. +Package management and administration tools. Covered by Oliver Schneider +Reputation All the cool kids use Debian. Debian/rules ;) -- Bill Thompson bi...@mahagonny.com signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Lenny with Kernel 2.6.18?
Dear Lazyweb ;) I have a box running Etch with several Acceleport XP serial cards inside. It appears that Digi will not be supporting this hardware with a Kernel 2.6.26 compatible driver. Digi support claims that The tty layer is broke in the 2.6.26 kernels. They support older kernels and promise to have a 2.6.27 compatible driver in the near future. Any suggestions as to how to handle this? Should I upgrade to Lenny but keep the old Etch 2.6.18 kernel? If so, how can I keep up with security patches? Regards, -- Bill Thompson bi...@mahagonny.com signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Copying home movies in Unstable.
On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:34:04 -0400 Matt Gracie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a desktop machine running a reasonably up-to-date build of unstable. In that machine, I've got a DVD-ROM drive as well as a DVD-RW. Is there a simple way to use these drives to copy home movies, recorded onto DVD-R media with a VHS/DVD deck? Thanks for any insight, - --Matt Look into the KB3 program. It should have the ability copy disk-to-disk or rip the contents of the DVD to your hard drive. At least the one currently in stable does. -- Bill Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: mp3 file manager similar to midnight commander
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:19:33 -0500 Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 04:24:58PM -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote: I am in search of a file manager similar to midnight commander, but for use with mp3 files. The manager needs to be able to transfer files from one directory to another, and to display the ID3 tags (even as midnight commander displays the file content). I've never used MP3 files so I can't test it, but what about Konqueror? It seems to be able to do everything else. Doug. That would be my suggestion. If you are using Konqueror as a file browser, the View - Info List option will show you ID3 tags and Window - Split View Left/Right will give you a two column layout similar to MC. The only draw back is that it's not curses based. Is there anything Konqueror can't do? - -- Bill Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHj/G6uLPldPuWZnARArYdAKCEYvCCu/9Q4etlclKhdiLtkAMkeACg7sF5 bE8nnUJaIcetxR6UACJbWcI= =4+CS -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Etch ipw2200 dropping packets
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Has anybody had issues with the default kernel ipw2200 drivers that come with Etch dropping packets? Pinging different sites show a 20%-50% packet loss over different WiFi networks. Using a wired connection on the same Internet gateway show 0% packet loss. I would think that this was a hardware problem, but booting the same machine with an Ubuntu live-CD allows me to log onto the WiFi networks I used for testing with no trouble and no packet loss. The one difference I have found is that Etch has the driver version listed as 1.2.0mq and Ubuntu 7.10 lists the version as 1.2.0kmprq. The Intel Sourceforge site for the driver does not show mq and kmprq as version numbers, so I'm not sure where the real difference lies. Thanks, - -- Bill Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHjA2puLPldPuWZnARAlOaAJ9d8dV2d0VsBADjZ/t+3SXP9st0OQCg6Z2g zQaCH1fueeQsp6SVkhSx7EY= =Ao8p -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: rescue bootable cd ???
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 17:27:02 -0500 helices [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do you do? If you are looking at just recovering a system that won't boot, you don't need a specific Debian disk to do it. I usually carry a copy of the System Rescue CD (http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page). It has all of the tools I need to recover a downed system. If I need to work on the Debian system itself, I mount the drive and chroot into the partition. Once there I can su to root so that I am using the proper Debian environment, run apt-get to update software, and test the configuration of any of the installed services or utilities. Why re-invent the wheel? - -- Bill Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFG/YvGuLPldPuWZnARAu2mAJ4ubRbLKy+sN32woatF2hCK9Wd8JwCgh6LQ 18k/XCHuHsuaMYb8/+k9WVY= =3cWy -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: rescue bootable cd ???
On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 17:27:02 -0500 helices [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do you do? If you are looking at just recovering a system that won't boot, you don't need a specific Debian disk to do it. I usually carry a copy of the System Rescue CD (http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page). It has all of the tools I need to recover a downed system. If I need to work on the Debian system itself, I mount the drive and chroot into the partition. Once there I can su to root so that I am using the proper Debian environment, run apt-get to update software, and test the configuration of any of the installed services or utilities. Why re-invent the wheel? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Xen dom0 non-PAE kernel frustrations
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 22:40:26 +0200 Remco Bressers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Using apt-get to install a xen image and hypervisor won't work, so i tried compiling my own kernel. After a lot of hard work (i'm used to FreeBSD), i managed to compile my kernel but it's rather flaky. I have just started working on a Xen project myself. I was able to install a Xen kernel and hypervisor on Etch (stable) by installing the xen-linux-system-2.6.18-5-xen-686 package. Take a look at http://www.howtoforge.com/debian_etch_xen_from_debian_repository. Although this how-to does not cover the xen-linux-system package, it is a more up-to-date Debian how-to. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFG2I7/uLPldPuWZnARAv+UAKCB15iMuOABp/i40nvyGz/AECLbHgCeOAa4 l+ygMDySDUiv/X31f47C3qo= =7t34 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Sensible way to install packages from testing unstable?
On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:48:32 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I want to install the ntfs-3g driver, which I don't find in the Etch repositories. I read that I can add the testing and unstable distributions to my sources.list, make stable as the default in apt.conf and go for it. Is this perfectly all right or should I do something else? I remember somebody in this list recommending not to mix distributions at all under threat of death. Regards Jose Since the packages in a Debian system are interconnected, it is not wise to install packages directly from one distribution to another. Sometimes it works fine, but sometimes it will install dependent programs that conflict with other parts of the Debian stable. My advice would be to learn how to re-compile or backport a package from unstable to stable when necessary. You can get more information on backports here: http://wiki.debian.org/Backports?highlight=%28backport%29 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Best way to synchronize ?
On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 23:19:54 +0200 Bruno Costacurta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm using KDE and related kontact on two PC (desktop and laptop). What is the best way to synchronize both computers (especially for KAddressBook and KMail applications) ? Check out Unison http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ There is a Debian package available in the standard repo. As long as both machines are running the same version it will work just fine. -- Bill Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: lost default gw
On 15 May 2007 14:40:23 -0700 remigio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've installed Debian Etch (KDE) and I put in rc.local the command: ip route add via 192.168.10.254 for setting the default gw at startup. When the pc starts, using 'ip route' on a shell I can see the route is present, but if I wait for a minute the route disappear, likely something overwrote the network settings. What could be? Thanks Remigio Check your installation for the network-manager packager. This is a network configuration daemon that will change your network settings if they do not match what is configured in /etc/network/interfaces. You can either remove the package or put your gateway into the /etc/network/interfaces file. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Etch 32-bit system w/ AMD64 proc.
Hay all, So, I do a lot of multi-media work on my home workstation. The processor is an AMD64, but I don't want to hassle with a 32-bit chroot partition, so I just run the whole machine in 32-bit mode. The question I have is which Etch packaged kernel would you recommend for this situation? linux-image-2.6-486 or linux-image-2.6-k7? -- Bill Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Etch 32-bit system w/ AMD64 proc.
On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 21:13:23 +0200 Andreas Janssen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Etch/i386 also comes with an AMD64 kernel package. It should run fine with a 32 bit userspace environment. regards Andreas Janssen I was confused about that. I tried the Etch i386 linux-image-2.6-amd64 kernel last night, but ran into weird module problems. I wasn't sure of it was a bug or if I was using a 64-bit kernel on a 32-bit system. Running the system on linux-image-2.6-486 got rid of the module issues. Is the linux-image-2.6-amd64 package truly compiled for a 32-but user space? -- Bill Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Etch 32-bit system w/ AMD64 proc.
On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 20:30:03 -0400 Douglas Allan Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For what do you need the 32-bit chroot? Flash, Java, Mplayer w/ win32 codecs, audio drivers, etc. -- Bill Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [OT] Universities, Linux, M$, USA
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:10:48 -0400 Amy Templeton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: P.S.: They start the MS training early. When I was in high school, they offered classes on how to become Microsoft Office Certified or some such nonsense. This is because Microsoft donates millions of dollars to schools specifically to sponsor programs that encourage exclusive use of M$ software. At the University of Washington in Seattle (Microsoft's home town) BG and PA practically bought the UW computing program (http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=allen09date=20031009) subsequently, most of the Unix resources have been replaced by C++ courses and the labs with Windows systems. I am sure this is happening all over the US, just one of the benefits of living in a corporate run state. Don't worry EU, your next. -- Bill Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Replicate installed packages to new system
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:21:08 - McNamee, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been evaluating Etch for several months on a test machine, and now I'd like to install it on a production server. What's the best way to get the list of packages installed on the test system, and then re-install those packages on the new system? --John 1 On your test machine do: dpkg --get-selections * packages.dpkg. 2 Install a base system on the new machine and copy the packages.dpkg to it. 3 On the new machine run: dpkg --set-selections packages.dpkg. 4 On the new machine run: apt-get dselect-upgrade. Your package installation should now match. -- Bill Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: PGP signature
dazuko and linux-image.2.6
Is anyone using the ClamAV file scanner with dazuko? I can not get the dazuko module to compile with the Debian packaged kernels. The error I get is that the capabilities are built into the kernel which indicates that I need to rebuild the kernel to use Linux Default Capabilities support as a module and not built into the kernel itself. Has anyone found a work around that would allow the use of the packaged kernel with dazuko or do I just need to build one? -- Bill Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: dazuko and linux-image.2.6
On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 20:40:20 +0100 Jan Schledermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill Thompson wrote: capabilities are built into the kernel I use with Avira and it compiles fine with debian. Check this out: http://www.dazuko.de/tgen.shtml I tried the package shown on that page, but got the same error. Are you using linux-image-2.6.18-4? -- Bill Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Small Network Setup with Debian Router
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 23:25:18 +0100 Peter Teunissen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Best would be to have another NIC on the router for the WAP (or use a PCI WLAN card), so you can have stricter rules in the FW for wireless clients. For instance, allow only certain (DHCP per mac address assigned) IP's to access the LAN from the WLAN and let others only access the WAN. WLAN in inherently less secure than wired networking, so it'd be nice to keep them separated. I would second this suggestion. I have my Debian firewall (Sarge using the Shorewall package) configured this way and it has not caused me any problems. It allows me to open my wireless access for guests without exposing my wired file and print server for public access. -- Bill Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Is shorewall abandoned in sid?
On Thu, 5 Oct 2006 22:37:25 + Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nevermind I used the source from Sid and compiled it, even in Sarge. One thing to keep in mind about Shorewall. Since Shorewall development is much faster than the Debian release process and the author of Shorewall does not support old versions, you need to decide where you want to go for support. If you want to get help from the Shorewall mailing lists, you are probably better of using the latest version from the Shorewall site. If you are happy with getting support from Debian sources, you can stay with the Debian packages. Personally, I use Debian because of its stability. I don't like upgrading production software unless I have to. For me, the Debian support structure works fine and I use the Shorewall version in Sarge. Asking for help with a Debian packaged version of Shorewall on the Shorewall list will usually result in a tongue lashing from Tom Eastep ;) -- Bill Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Debian Love
On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 11:08:23 -0500 Jason Martens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems that morale is a bit low among the developers right now, so I thought it might be nice for all of us users to remind them why Debian is such an awesome project. I love Debian. I love how the system works. I love the quality of the packages. I love that it lets me do what I want to do, and does not try to dictate how to do things. To all of you Debian developers, thank you. I really appreciate the work you do. Keep it up! Jason Martens Debian Lover I'll second that motion! The work is definitely appreciated and I am sure that whatever internal issues may be going on, the Debian project will survive and thrive. -- Bill Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Have DVD burner, will backup!
On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 15:14:15 +0300 David Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 20 June 2006 02:19, David E. Fox wrote: All I could get out of darmonizer was waiting for the first volume and then it just stops. I got daromizer to produce and burn one (smaller) slice. Could not coax it into continuing from there. It took me awhile to resolve this, but I finally have a solution for both of these problems. First, daromizer needs to be run as a local script with the second script darmon located in the same directory. If you try to treat it as a standard program and copy the script to a /bin directory the script will hang at the waiting for the first volume prompt. The easiest thing to do is unpack the daromizer tarball, cd to the extracted directory and run ./daromizer. Second, there is a typo in the most recent daromizer release (daromizer81.tar.gz) that prevents the script from recognizing that there is a second dar slice to be burned. This is why the script is burning one disk and then exiting as if the backup is finished. To fix this issue, open the daromizer script with your favorite text editor and change line 303 which states: $slicefile = $temppath.$shortname.$slice.$ext; to read: $slicefile = $temppath.$shortname...$slice.$ext; This will correct the issue and let daromizer burn multiple disks as it should. I have notified the author of this issue, so hopefully a corrected script will be released on his site soon. -- Bill Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Have DVD burner, will backup!
On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 00:11:32 +0300 David Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, I'll try it all and let you know how it works out. The problem is that the partial burns are now useless except for scratch. Are you using DVD-RW disks? I did have a problem with daromizer the first time I used it because I was using regular DVD-R. The script is definitely written for use with DVD-RW disks. -- Bill Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Encoding avi's to DVD format
On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 09:09:50 +0200 John Oxley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a whole bunch of home movies which I'd like to encode into DVD format. I would like to do this with a selection screen as well. The command that I want to run in my mind is: encode --use-an-index mymovie1.avi mymovie2.avi mymovie3.avi --outfile dvd.iso Can anyone help me? I have been using tovid (http://tovid.berlios.de/en/index.html) with great success. If you add Marillat's deb archive (http://www.debian-multimedia.org) to your /etc/apt/sources.list you can install all of the required programs to make tovid run with aptitude. Julien Valroff has also make deb packages for Tovid available at http://packages.kirya.net however there is not currently a package available for Sarge so I can not vouch for it. Since Tovid is essentially a collection of perl scripts, it is very simple to install from source. -- Bill Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Have DVD burner, will backup!
On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 15:14:15 +0300 David Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 20 June 2006 02:19, David E. Fox wrote: On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 22:44:00 +0300 snip Incrementals are still going to take some time provided one has to load the backup media onto the system before proceeding, of course, which is something I'll need to do... I don't have a whole lot of space available. snip I have a feeling that having to load all three disks is part of dar's method. Mondo keeps a catalog so may be better and also does the whole job. DAR also has a catalog feature, but it is not automatically created as it is with Mondo. Read the MAN pages for dar_manager on how to create a DAR catalog and how to use the catalog for incremental backups. -- Bill Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Have DVD burner, will backup!
On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 16:19:36 -0700 David E. Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 22:44:00 +0300 David Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The other script (darmonizer) defaults its size to the full 4 gigs. All I could get out of darmonizer was waiting for the first volume and then it just stops. I have been having this problem as well. If you take a look at your processes, you will see that dar and darmon are still running but the command-line output has stopped. I haven't had any time to trouble shoot this, but I believe there is something in the daromizer script that is shutting off the local echo function of the terminal program. In other words, daromizer is waiting for a response from a prompt, but the prompt does not appear on the screen and the terminal program does not register any input. This is a wild guess of course. I hope to have some time to look into it further in the next few weeks. -- Bill Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Dapper Drake verdict: It sucks
On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 12:52:06 +0200 Johannes Wiedersich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, everyone knows that they should read the manual first, but who actually does? Especially, if one just wants to try a new release. And especially if the Distro you are using is meant to be User Friendly. I don't want to start a flame war, but I've been extremely disappointed with Kubuntu Dapper. The distro seems to be very buggy after the upgrade from Breezy, some prorams (k3b in particular) have reduced functionality from the previous version, and so far the Ubuntu team does not appear to be addressing bug reports submitted in their proprietary Launchpad service. This version should have kicked Ubuntu over the top as the premiere Linux distro for end users, but it seems to have fallen flat. -- Bill Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: upgrade only if installed
On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 16:00:19 -0400 Kamaraju Kusumanchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to upgrade a package only if it is installed. If the package is not already installed, I would not want it to be installed. Is this possible? Currently when I use apt-get install packagename apt-get does not distinguish between whether the package has already been installed or not. Is there any other program which distinguishes between the two? Unless I misunderstand your question, I believe you should be using upgrade and not install. apt-get install packagename will install a new package into your system. apt-get upgrade packagename will upgrade a package if it is already installed in your system and an upgrade is available. apt-get upgrade will upgrade all installed packages if an upgrade is available. In addition, the command aptitude is now recommended in place of apt-get. The aptitude program handles package dependencies better than the apt-get program. Good Luck, -- Bill Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: upgrade only if installed
On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 18:08:15 -0400 Stephen R Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm pretty certain that you can't do 'apt-get upgrade [package]'; you can only do 'apt-get upgrade' -- the latter of which upgrades *all* packages on your machine. See the manpage for apt-get(8): Whoops! You are correct Sir! I thought I had used apt-get upgrade package in the past, but I just tested it and I am mistaken. Thanks for the correction. (Wasn't I complaining earlier today that users shouldn't need to read the man page before upgrading in an Ubuntu thread? Note to self: Always always always read the fine man-pages) -- Bill Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: More X Problems Today
On Thu, 4 May 2006 15:37:58 +0100 Mark Crean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just my 2 cents but I am getting a little desperate at the number of bog ups in Unstable at the moment. I don't want to leave the platform but if things continue like this I will have to. Like many folks perhaps, I am completely baffled by Debian's reluctance to get together a desktop iternation that is more up to date than Stable. It doesn't have to be rock solid, but there must be a better way than this. It has been said many times; If you can not afford to deal with problem like this DO NOT use unstable. From the comments above I can only assume that you do not understand the Debian release method of stable, testing, and unstable. Please review http://www.debian.org/releases/. -- Bill Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: More X Problems Today
On Thu, 04 May 2006 12:41:11 -0300 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think we should blame all Debian developers. The only real problems I've had with sid were related to x-server; all other parts of Debian are rock solid. Maybe the x-server Debian maintainers are new/unexperienced in that task? The Debian X Strike Force are much older, crustier, and vastly more experienced than you or I. Please understand that the UNSTABLE release is meant to have issues like this and should not be used for production systems. I for one think that there has been much to much complaining about the recent x-org bugs, including insulting bug reports posted to the tracking system, than the X team deserves. Unstable is where new and untested packages enter the Debian release system. Occasionally an unstable bug is going to occur that will bring down a system. I think the X team has done a fine job of correcting the bugs and getting work around information to the Unstable users. -- Bill Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Have DVD burner, will backup!
On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 15:32:13 +0300 David Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This medium makes it practical. Which tools are best and simplest for this? I use DAR and a script called DARomizer which is designed to backup a hard drive to multi DVD-RW disks. DAR: http://dar.linux.free.fr/ DARomizer: http://www.catherders.com/tiki-list_file_gallery.php?galleryId=1 -- Bill Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Gnome/KDE resources
On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 13:16:16 +0100 Adam Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill Thompson on 25/04/06 23:43, wrote: I have also been playing with running openbox with Gnome and KDE components (for example, openbox using gnome-panel with kdesktop) which uses less resources than any of them, but still has that Desktop Environment convenience. Cool. Do you launch them just by kicking off kdesktop and gnome-panel somewhere in the openbox config? Right now I'm just testing, so I'm launching applications from the terminal. However, the Openbox FAQ discusses how to launch programs when you log in: http://icculus.org/openbox/faq.php -- Bill Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Gnome/KDE resources
On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 15:01:39 -0700 Curtis Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I remember sometime at the end of last year reading that KDE uses less resources than Gnome. After reading that I had to install linux on an older machine for someone, so I put KDE on it. It worked OK. Now I get the latest Linux Journal and they say in there than Gnome uses less resources. I tried to remember what it was that I had read about KDE and began to think, well maybe it wasn't that KDE used less resources overall but that it used less ROM or something. Doesn't matter. My question then is, given an older machine that KDE or Gnome can run on, which should I install to get better performance? I just switched to KDE from Gnome on Sid. In my subjective opinion, Gnome 2.14 runs much faster and with less resources than KDE 5.4. However, KDE appears to have more usage and configuration options which may make the resource use worthwhile to you. I have also been playing with running openbox with Gnome and KDE components (for example, openbox using gnome-panel with kdesktop) which uses less resources than any of them, but still has that Desktop Environment convenience. I can't say which is best. I've decided that all window managers suck and the trick is to find the one that sucks less for you. -- Bill Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: backup on DVD
On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 17:44:21 +0800 Jon Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know of any script that can backup to a DVD media? What I want to do is run a nightly backup of certain samba shares data M-F and rotate the disk either daily or weekly on the server. Furthermore, if possible have the backup report the amount of space used in an e-mail sent to the backup operator. Thanks I use DAR with a script called DARomizer to backup my system to DVD-RW. It's really designed to span a backup over several DVDs, so it may be more than you need, but it's worth taking a look at. DAR: http://dar.linux.free.fr/ DARomizer: http://www.catherders.com/tiki-list_file_gallery.php?galleryId=1 -- Bill Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: ipw2100 WEP with Debian Unstable
On Sun, 19 Mar 2006 13:49:11 -0500 Jesus Arocho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to get an Inspiron 6000's WIFI to work under Debian and am trying to compile the ieee and ipw2200 modules. Make complains of missing kernel files in /lib/modules.../build. I have an Ubuntu install. The install does not include the kernel sources or headers, 2.6.12-10, but when I try to do apt-get, apt-get returns packages not found. I cannot find 2.6.12-10 in debian or Ubuntu mirrors. I am new to debian installs, from Mandriva, and was somewhat surprised at what was not included in the basic install. In Ubuntu you need to install linux-headers-2.6.12 for your kernel as well as kernel-image-2.6.12. Then you can build modules against the Ubuntu packaged kernel. I am not at an Ubuntu machine right now, so I can't give you the exact package name, but you can find it with the command dpkg -l | grep headers. That being said, please keep in mind that Ubuntu may be based on Debian, but it is different than the official Debian distribution. You may get better information subscribing to the Ubuntu user mailing lists and asking your questions there. Good Luck, -- Bill Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: ipw2100 WEP with Debian Unstable
On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 11:17:10 -0800 Bill Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In Ubuntu you need to install linux-headers-2.6.12 for your kernel as well as kernel-image-2.6.12. Then you can build modules against the Ubuntu packaged kernel. I am not at an Ubuntu machine right now, so I can't give you the exact package name, but you can find it with the command dpkg -l | grep headers. Sorry, the command above is not correct. dpkg -l will list the packages already installed in your system. To find the name of the linux-header packages that are NOT already installed use: apt-cache search kernel-headers. -- Bill Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: ipw2100 WEP with Debian Unstable
On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 10:40:11 +1100 Paul Dwerryhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 03:20:23PM -0800, Bill Thompson wrote: I have tried the built-in kernel modules and the source packages for ieee80211-modules v.1.1.6-2 and ipw2100-modules v.1.1.3A. Has anyone been able to get WEP working with the Debian packaged ipw2100 driver? Yep, it works fine for me; it accepts the exact command that you specific without any errors: For the archives, I found where my problem was. An earlier version of the 2.6.15 kernel package had a problem with the ieee80211-module that prevented WEP use. As newer versions of the linux-image package were installed I forgot to move the module directory. Although I was running linux-image-2.6.15-1-686 v.2.6.15-8, the module directory I was using was from linux-image-2.6.15-1-686 v.2.6.15-2. Once I moved the module directory and reinstalled the kernal package WEP began working fine. The moral of the story is to ALWAYS move your module directory before upgrading the kernel. -- Bill Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: PGP signature
ipw2100 WEP with Debian Unstable
Hey all, I've been trying to get WEP working with an Intel Centrino ipw2100. I am using Sid with kernel 2.6.15-1-686. When I try to assign a WEP key with iwconfig I get the following: #sudo iwconfig eth1 key 123456 Error for wireless request Set Encode (8B2A) : SET failed on device eth1 ; Operation not supported. I have tried the built-in kernel modules and the source packages for ieee80211-modules v.1.1.6-2 and ipw2100-modules v.1.1.3. I would usually go ahead and build the latest modules from upstream, but there doesn't seem to be any bug reports about this issue for the Debian packages which makes me think I'm just missing something. Has anyone been able to get WEP working with the Debian packaged ipw2100 driver? Thanks, -- Bill Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: ipw2100 WEP with Debian Unstable
On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 10:40:11 +1100 Paul Dwerryhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 03:20:23PM -0800, Bill Thompson wrote: I have tried the built-in kernel modules and the source packages for ieee80211-modules v.1.1.6-2 and ipw2100-modules v.1.1.3A. Has anyone been able to get WEP working with the Debian packaged ipw2100 driver? Yep, it works fine for me; it accepts the exact command that you specific without any errors: # iwconfig eth1 key 123456 # iwconfig eth1 eth1 unassociated ESSID:test Nickname:ipw2100 Encryption key:1234-5600-00 Security mode:open I'm using linux-image-2.6.15-1-686, with the built-in ipw2100 module under Debian sid. This is my wireless card: :02:0b.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI Adapter (rev 04) (Oh, BTW, I presume you know that WEP is next to useless, right?) ;) Cheers, Paul. Weird. I guess it's back to the drawing board for me. And yes I know that WEP is next useless, but until I can get all of my equipment WPA compatible OR have time to build an IPsec gateway it's better than nothing. If I used unencrypted wireless at home it would feel like I was waling around the neighborhood with my pants around my ankles :) Thanks, -- Bill Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: VMPlayer installation problems
On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 13:03:51 -0800 Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to install the vmplayer. I DL'd the tarball from the vmware site and untarred it into my home directory. I then ran the install script which seemed to work fine until it needed to find a suitable vmmon... -- SNIP Your kernel was built with gcc version 3.3.4, while you are trying to use /usr/bin/gcc-3.3 version 3.3.5. This configuration is not recommended and VMware Player may crash if you'll continue. Please try to use exactly same compiler as one used for building your kernel. Do you want to go with compiler /usr/bin/gcc-3.3 version 3.3.5 anyway? [no] SNIP I am running a debian stock kernel-images-2.6.7-2-k7 under Sarge. Has anyone gotten vmplayer to install under Sarge? Using stock vmware modules? Using a stock debian kernel? Which kernel? I am running VMware on Sid at the moment, but I have installed and run it on Sarge in the past. The difference between GCC 3.3.4 and 3.3.5 is minor enough that you should be able to compile the needed module. Make sure you have kernel-headers-2.6.7-2-k7 installed. When that error warning comes up during the install type yes instead of the default no. Note that this would not be the case if your kernel was compiled with GCC 3.3.4 and you were trying to use GCC 4.0.3 to compile the module. -- Bill Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: VMPlayer installation problems
On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 13:34:14 -0800 Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The headers do not appear to be available in Sarge anymore. Do I need to upgrade to 2.6.8 and use the matching headers? I generally try not to change kernels unless there is a really good reason to do so. If I can find the headers for 2.6.7-2-k7 anywhere then I would not need to install a new kernel. Any ideas, anyone? Yep, it looks like Kernel 2.6.7 is no longer in Sarge. I would suggest installing kernel-image-2.6.8-2-k7 and kernel-headers-2.6.8-2-k7 so that you can take advantage of security updates. -- Bill Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: security issues
On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 00:05:39 + Adam Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think the attacker gained access, but I would like some sort of mechanism that would cause the OS to email me whenever someone logs in - which is going to be less than once a day. Take a look at the programs logwatch and logcheck. Both are available via apt and should do what you want. This is a fairly common SSH brute force attack. As long as you have secure usernames and passwords you are probably OK. However this attack IS annoying and it's not going to stop any time soon. You may want to look at authenticating SSH with shared keys and disable password authentication all together. If that is not an option, set up PAM and PAM_TALLY to temporarily disable accounts after a number of failed login attempts. Remember...we're all in this together. Good Luck, -- Bill Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgpxc8HOmBh6J.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: How to make a rescue disk ?
On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 06:14:01 + Bruno Costacurta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for procedure / howto about creating rescue CD disk. SNIP Thanks Alvin for all these details. I decided to 'keep it simple' and will try a Knoppix. Bye, Bruno If I may be so bold you may want to try a bootable disk specially designed for recovery, even if it is not Debian based. My all time favorite is LNX-BBC (http://www.lnx-bbc.org/) because it fits on a small CD that is easy to carry around. However, recently I have been using the System Rescue CD (http://www.sysresccd.org/). It has many more tools than Knoppix or LNX-BBC, including backup utilities and a bootable FreeDOS option. It is a very handy tool for recovering all types of x86 operating systems. Good Luck, -- Bill Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgpuVat2f2i4k.pgp Description: PGP signature
How do you load your Mp3 flash player?
Hey all, I'm looking for a good solution to load tunes into my new iAudio G3. The device mounts like any USB based storage device and I can copy files into it with no trouble, but I would like to find a GUI program that will let me make a playlist and then dump the files all at once in the proper order. The best I have found so far is gdiva (http://gdiva.sourceforge.net/) but it doesn't handle sub-folders and tends to crash a lot. I see some buzz about Rhythmbox supporting this in the future, but the current version doesn't seem to support standard USB devices. So.. How are you loading your Mp3 player? (iPod users need not apply...) -- Bill Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgpCscLeUCMXS.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: DELL Inspiron 6000 Disk Detection Wierdness
On Thu, 8 Sep 2005 22:08:40 +0100 jim biri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Wonder if anyone can help. I've got a new DELL Inspiron 6000 that I'd like to install SARGE 3.1 on. SARGE installer can't detect the h/d. If I recall, the Inspiron 6000 uses a SATA drive which the 2.6.8 kernel on the Sarge installer has trouble with. However, I have been able to get the 2.4 kernel in the installer to see some SATA drives. Which kernel are you using to install with? I think you will need to do a standard install with the 2.4 kernel and then build a custom 2.6.12 kernel. This isn't so bad, since you would need to build a newer 2.6 kernel to get ACPI and WiFi working anyway. -- Bill Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgplcIGr6jZnz.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: sarge: the worst distro?
On Fri, 09 Sep 2005 23:44:32 + a joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i don't use gnome or kde, i use twm and plan to use fvwm. i am happy with mozilla, i take no interest in firefox or others and they don't seem to support Java. i re-installed woody and use netscape which has java support Oh, Grandpayour so funny!! Can we stop feeding this top-posting Troll now? Thanks, -- Bill Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgpXyzu6AaODZ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: installation of a package requests removal of a lot of packages
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 14:24:58 +0100 Adam Funk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible or practical to revert from aptitude to apt-get if the user doesn't like aptitude? Since aptitude can be used on the command-line with the same flags as apt-get (aptitude update, aptitude upgrade, aptitude install pkg) and it is known to handle dependency problems better than apt-get, I would say it's possible, practical, and recommended. I've been using testing and unstable for a couple of years and I still have problems with this. What is the correct way to deal with this? To me, part of the fun in using testing and unstable is to work out what is causing these problems for myself and report them back to the Debian developers. Granted, I only run testing and unstable on machines that I can afford some downtime on. For servers and critical workstations I always use stable. The main thing to keep in mind is that aptitude upgrade will upgrade packages and hold back packages with dependency problems. The command aptitude dist-upgrade will upgrade packages and remove packages with dependency issues. Due to the GCC 4.0 upgrade (http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/07/msg1.html), the name of libaspell15 has been changed to libaspell15c2. Everything that depends on aspell needs to be repackaged to incorporate that name change. IMHO, the correct way to deal with this is to be patient and wait for the developers to upgrade their packages. Until that happens, use aptitude upgrade to keep your system up to date and hold off on any dist-upgrades until the packages you need no longer have dependency issues. Remember, we're all in this together. -- Bill Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgpsPR286Qck5.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: xorg and virtual terminals still
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 00:26:42 -0700 Paul Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess I don't really understand how this is working. I switched the video driver to VESA instead of s3/virge which is the correct one and the one I used with Xfree86. This did solve the VT problem. If this is what you me can you refer me to something to read to understand how this works? Since VESA is a generic frame buffer driver it will work with almost any card, although not usually as well as a specific driver. Perhaps the name of the driver for your card in X.org has changed from Xfree86? Check out http://wiki.x.org/wiki/VideoDrivers for a list of which chip-sets use which x.org drivers. I notice there are three different s3 drivers currently listed. Good luck, -- Bill Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgpPLTuF7Lt0J.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Xorg and switching VT
Thanks to everybody for the feedback. Today's update of xserver-xorg, xlibs, etc, to version 6.8.2.dfsg.1-2 seems to have fixed the issue. For those who are trying to fix this as well, I did run dpkg-reconfgure xserver-xorg after the update was complete. Thanks again, -- Bill Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgpqhb9Dd4r7Y.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: xorg and virtual terminals still
On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 17:54:22 -0700 Paul Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Starting a new thread which may or may not be the same problem as the others had with virtual terminals. On one of three machines that I switched to xorg when I go to a virtual terminal I get a text mode screen with various colored stripes and no readable characters. I can tell that the VT's are actually working. I can log in but the screen is unreadable (because of all the unwanted ANSI escape codes?). reset doesn't help. I am running the latest xorg packages and have done dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg Any ideas? It sounds more like a video driver issue that the XKB trouble we were discussing earlier. Have you tried using a frame buffer setting like VESA for your driver? -- Bill Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgpU6XYXjjl1v.pgp Description: PGP signature
Xorg and switching VT
Unstable IS Unstable ;) I just switched to the xserver-xorg package in Sid today. Everything came up all right except I can no longer use ctl-alt F1 to switch to a virtual terminal while X11 is active. Before I file a bug report, is anyone else having this problem? Thanx, -- Bill Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgpJNdq1MEPap.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: 2.6.11 kernel in sarge?
On Sat, 9 Jul 2005 17:00:34 +0100 Dave Ewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I needed a more recent stock version of the kernel myself when I wanted a Sarge system but my disk controller needed a newer kernel to avoid a critical bug. Given the choice of: A. Download the source for kernel.org and compile - No, kernel.org kernel source does not have Debian patches and as such may not behave as expected, and will need plenty of configuration; B. Download the most recent source package from Debian and build it using make-kpkg - No, unnecessary. And, in any case, you will probably need to go outside Sarge to get the source for the more recent kernel anyway! C. Get the Sid kernel; - Yes. Unlikely to break anything and it's quick and simple. If this method works for you, that's great. As I said before, at this junction with Unstable and Stable fairly close in architecture you can get by with using the pre-compiled kernel from Unstable. However I would be concerned with incompatibilities later in the Unstable/testing cycle, specifically with regards to GCC. Now that GCC-4 is moving into unstable, you could run into problems trying to compile modules with GCC-3 in stable on a kernel that has been compiled with GCC-4. IMHO it is better to add an apt-src entry in /etc/apt/sources-list for unstable, aptitude install the source for the Debian package you want, and use the Debian tools to back-port the kernel. Again, if you feel comfortable installing the pre-compiled kernel from unstable into stable you are free to do so, that's the advantage of using Debian and Free Software in general. Good Luck, -- Bill Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgpAkosGdOn9w.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: 2.6.11 kernel in sarge?
On Fri, 8 Jul 2005 19:20:17 +0100 Dave Ewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday, 08.07.2005 at 20:09 +0200, Mikael Backman wrote: Is there a way for me to download the debian 2.6.11 kernel and use it in sarge? Yes, but it's not technically part of Sarge. Easiest way to do this is to add 'unstable' to your sources.list, download the latest Sid kernel, install it and make sure it's working, then remove 'unstable' from your sources.list. Please, Please, DO NOT do this! It may work now since stable and unstable are not too far apart, but it could lead to disaster later down the road. I STRONGLY encourage you to learn how to use the Debian kernel tools like make-kpkg to compile custom kernels from the Debian or kernel.org sources. I found the following on a Google search, but there are plenty of other guides around: http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html Good Luck, -- Bill Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp22Np9xRvtL.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: 2.6.11 kernel in sarge?
On Fri, 08 Jul 2005 23:12:24 +0200 Matthijs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the APT-HowTo, I found a section on 'keeping a mixed system': http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-apt-get.en.html#s-default-version Would that be a good nice solution instead of compiling the kernel yourself? I tried to keep a mixed system when I first started using Debian, but ran into some ugly incompatibilities. One GCC upgrade in unstable can ruin your whole day if your running software from stable. I eventually settled on using unstable for my desktop and stable with back-ports and custom kernels where necessary for servers and client machines. I would not recommend a mixed system. It is really very easy to make kernel packages with the Debian tools. You should give it a try. -- Bill Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp72TipTp5d9.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: laptop and different networks
On Thu, 12 May 2005 12:37:54 -0400 H. S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am supposed to configure a laptop so that is can be connected to a CAT5 cable on either a home LAN or a university LAN. Currently, the laptop is configured as a dhcp client in the home network and has a fixed IP address in the university network. Since I need to constantly change my laptop to different networks, I use a script called Quickswitch to move my laptop to different LAN and WLAN connections. Quickswitch store each configuration in a profile that can be applied from the command line with sudo switchto profile. I have found Quickswitch to be more flexible and easier to use than any of the automatic or GUI tools currently available. Unfortunately, there is no Debian package for this but it is very easy to install. you can find it at http://muthanna.com/quickswitch. -- Bill Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgpCHeELJcKg7.pgp Description: PGP signature
Seahorse and Gedit
The new version of Seahorse appeared in Unstable today, but it does not seem to include the Seahorse/GPG plugin for Gedit. I can't seem to find any Debian references to the plugin to verify if it has been left out of the Seahorse package or not. Before I bother the maintainer directly, does anyone else have information on this? Thanx, -- Bill Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgpvCiMGwlTl5.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: looking for a corporate debian edition, with support
On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 13:16:03 -0500 xavier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm looking for support for debian, or for a debian-based distribution (more for server) Doesn't Progeny have Debian support available? http://www.progeny.com -- Bill Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgpnewTE4088o.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: compaq armada m700
On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 10:41:08 +0200 Eduard Pauna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi to all, from a little time a have the notebook from $subj. i installed on it debian but i think i am a little stucked - couldn't find with google or on the hp.com site the HorizSync VertRefresh for the display and i'm using those reported by knoppix but i'm not so sure they are the right one. Thanks for time, help or ideas -- Registered Linux User #302302 I am running this model with Debian Sarge. My settings are: HorizSync 28-49 VertRefresh 43-72 I do not know if these are optimal, but they work form me. Good Luck, -- Bill Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgpoHbpBcNkOT.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Is Linux Unix?
On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 12:50:45 -0700 William Ballard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An interesting question is What happens when Linux becomes Evil? Gates and Balmer will leave MS within 10-15 years. Linus will be an old man. The nature of things is to run downhill. Eventually, Linux will be The Problem. Ironically its growing success only cements this fate. Not really a problem...HURD will be ready for production right around that time. ;) -- Bill Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgpz3vrq0zed5.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Is Linux Unix?
On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 10:17:18 +0200 John L Fjellstad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering if Linux can be considered Unix? snip As others in this thread have stated: Linux Is Not UniX ;) \sorry, couldn't help myself -- Bill Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgpROGTKuaYns.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Helix install from *bin files
(top posting only to keep thread..top posting bad...) Hi guys, I had the same problem trying to get the helix installer to run on woody. Since woody uses an older version of GCC you need to download the legacy version of the installer: legacy-hxplay-0.4.0.187-linux-2.2-libc6-i386.bin. The same is true for the beta realplayer. Good Luck, On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 15:51:41 +1200 Adam Bogacki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think I may have a corrupted download. Tux:/home# chmod a+x hxplay* Tux:/home# ./hxplay* bash: ./hxplay-0.4.0.187-linux-2.2-libc6-gcc32-i586.bin: cannot execute binary file I'll try downloading again in the near future - does anyone have any better ideas ? Adam Bogacki, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ryan Gammon wrote: Hi Adam, You probably have to make that file executable first, eg: chmod a+x realplay-0.4.0.186-linux-2.2-libc6-gcc32-i586.bin Adam Bogacki wrote: Hi, I've just downloaded hxplay-0.4.0.187-linux-2.2-libc6-gcc32-i586.bin and realplay-0.4.0.186-linux-2.2-libc6-gcc32-i586.bin but I find this happening ... Tux:/home# ./realplay* bash: ./realplay-0.4.0.186-linux-2.2-libc6-gcc32-i586.bin: Permission denied Tux:/home# ./hxplay* bash: ./hxplay-0.4.0.187-linux-2.2-libc6-gcc32-i586.bin: Permission denied Tux:/home# I'm in my root account here. What am I missing ? [It's probably obvious but I've had a long day.] Sorry for bothering you guys. Adam Bogacki, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- *** * I Like Mike!Badnarik for President * * http://www.badnarik.orgVote Libertarian * *** Bill Thompson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgpFSwPISOjNK.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Debian menu in gnome
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 2 Jun 2004 07:10:24 -0400 (EDT) Scott Ware [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Is there an easy (or not) way to get rid of the Debian menu in the gnome main menu? Thanks! Even better, is there a way to get rid of the Gnome menu and replace it completely with the Debian menu? :) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAv15NuLPldPuWZnARAuC9AJ97/p9Pdpv0n9+8AGGrYyp3CpFxpACcDAYk FMLiw0ShhDFvd3QbXeraytA= =WTNG -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Anyone recommend a multi-serial card?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 2 Jun 2004 09:34:56 -0500 Freivald, Joseph A, GVSOL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone have great things to say about any particular Multi-Serial Card? I need to purchase a card with at least 16, preferably 32 RS-232 ports on a single PCI card under Linux. --JATF I've been using RocketPort cards from Comtrol (http:// www.comtrol.com) for years with no trouble. They have very good Linux support and, depending on the card you get, there may be a driver module already compiled in your kernel. Good Luck, - -BillT -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAvfwduLPldPuWZnARApD2AJ45PzClh5D73Db+b4ehX8CHXBJCxgCfWK07 kAtfeElFrtx5E5PbKjQOvzI= =SSFg -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to run GUI application by telnet ?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 16:29:42 +0800 LIU Ning __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am in Debian unstable and want to log in to a Sparc workstation with solaris to run some GUI applications. However, the workstation does not run SSH daemon and I have to log in it by telnet. Do you know how to run GUI by telnet login? Now I can only login by EXCEED under Windows to run GUI application of the workstation. Any suggestion will be appreciated. If it is a stock Solaris build, you can probably open up a remote X session to the workstation. On your Debian box run the following command as root or with sudo:X :tty8 -query HOSTNAME (replace HOSTNAME with the name of the Sparc workstation). This will bring up the X windows login screen for that server on tty8. Put in your username and password and your CDE desktop will be running remotely on your Debian box. You can switch between this session and your regular X11 session by switching consoles with ctl alt F7 or F8 respectively. This is still woefully insecure, but if your Solaris admin isn't running SSH, you must be in a trusted environment right? ;) Good Luck, - -BillT -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAiVh3uLPldPuWZnARAon1AKDiNCBYTrrTm9eByVVjFkANjbwksgCfWAXx 1PttaeTyptpFCuNMa5AMWRs= =MEK4 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: How to run GUI application by telnet ?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 10:55:03 -0700 Bill Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If it is a stock Solaris build, you can probably open up a remote X session to the workstation. On your Debian box run the following command as root or with sudo:X :tty8 -query HOSTNAME (replace HOSTNAME with the name of the Sparc workstation). Whoops, I made a typo on that command. The one above is what you would type if you wanted to run a single X session on tty8. To run your regular session on tty7 and a remote on tty8 run: X :2 -query HOSTNAME tty8 Later, - -BillT -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAiWAduLPldPuWZnARAnFlAJ41BPWsRjGHfvTG0OJ25UG/3dp7CwCgjfBR u1//vDV0F4QVGXx1qYLcKII= =DWye -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: help with a driver...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 17:55:15 EDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have a D-Link Ethernet card... It says B22A234113422 H/W: E1 on it, an I am haveing difficulties finding the driver. Any help?? Thanks, Jim You should try the HostAP drivers (http://hostap.epitest.fi). You will most likely need to compile the drivers for it, but do an apt-cache search to see what packages are available for your version of Debian. Good Luck, - -BillT -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAhbWEuLPldPuWZnARAhipAJkBCuBURYMMEjzC0VHgYkA2OLFpVgCfdham 4B0UTcUvnqX+YPxW9UTtqS0= =l+3Z -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrading 2.4 to 2.6 kernel problems
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 23:32:11 +0200 Jaap Haitsma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I upgraded my unstable system from kernel 2.4.25 to 2.6.4. I still have a couple of minor problems. snip 2. Just after loading all the modules the screen dims and characters turn from white to dark gray, which is very hard to read and all my virtual consoles are dimmed. Thanks Jaap For what it's worth, I have this VC problem on my SID box as well. It started after an apt-get dist-upgrade this weekend. However, before then I was running the system on 2.6 without this problem so it may not be related to the kernel. My suspicion is something in the ATI driver with Xfree86 4.3 is causing it but I have not had the chance to track it down far enough to make a bug report. Not much help, but at least your not alone ;). When and if I find a solution I'll post it to the list. - -BillT -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAayDKuLPldPuWZnARAkebAKDqJqcvtG6at3CeUkG270uXT7vEYACfapRg +ubsoC57MC/pDCQTPxdN56Q= =cYU+ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 'su by nobody' - should I be worried?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 22:55:29 +0200 Matthijs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since a few days, Logcheck reports a lot of messages like this: - Security Violations for su =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Mar 30 06:25:02 MyMail su[13083]: (pam_unix) session opened for user nobody by (uid=0) - I've had similar messages for various users for cron and sshd. Should I be worried? The only way I can read this messages is that user 'nobody' has done a 'su' - become root. I don't know what the 'pam_unix' part means. So: does this mean my server has been compromised? If not, what does it mean? If so, how? How can I find the hole - or should I re-install everything? Thanks, -- Matthijs [EMAIL PROTECTED] PAM_unix is your authentication daemon. I believe that you will see that entry as the last for that days log and the first for the next day will be (pam_unix) session closed for user nobody by (uid=0). This is the logrotate program, running as nobody and then becoming root to manipulate your logs. The rest of the entries will show different applications running in CRON or users starting a SSH session. As long as you recognize those SSH users or CRON jobs you should be fine. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAafYwuLPldPuWZnARAljmAKC0kzXUVgPABCgNAy2ZfRZN9mQRqgCgnwcz zxYrsClL1t6v/+20pLY6+GA= =0sh3 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Inline PGP signatures
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 13:17:14 -0600 Kirk Strauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 2004-03-26T16:52:55Z, Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Inline PGP is fading from popularity, broken clients be damned. The only reason I ever use inline signatures is that members of some newsgroups absolutely have a conniption when they see attachments. See this thread where otherwise presumably intelligent people fail to understand that a PGP signature is not a virus: I always use inline signatures for the same reason, many mailing lists and newsgroups frown on attachments of any kind. In addition many of the people I correspond with use M$ Outlook which not only doesn't understand PGP-MIME but hides the body of the message when PGP-MIME attachments are present. So my dilemma is that I want my messages PGP signed, but PGP-MIME prevents me from communicating with my business partners. So far, inline signatures are the only solution. Has anyone found a decent work around to this Outlook problem? (and don't tell me to get them to switch off of Outlook. like the proverbial blond, you can lead a die-hard M$ user to water, but you can't make them think.) - -BillT -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAZI5+uLPldPuWZnARAo8JAJ45rnyZZJjisMXNEctIhQFm0xzscQCeLbfQ 8szXBErnV27B0X+//1O+nL0= =eJzF -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Inline PGP signatures
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 19:42:20 + Pigeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 08:52:55AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: Andreas Janssen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: snip And some clients are so broken that they don't even show MIME messages correctly (OE...) It's worse than that (he's dead, Jim)... My godfather's OE claims that messages with attached signatures are unsafe, and blocks access to them entirely. It won't even let him read the text of the message. And today I received a bounce from someone's misconfigured Windoze system that they'd apparently been receiving debian-user mail on; Norton Antivirus had rejected one of my posts to the list because it had an unsafe attachment, ie. the PGP signature. I can't help wondering if this is some kind of conspiracy to deter people from using encryption-based systems... It's actually a mechanism to force people to use M$ approved S/MIME with 3rd party certificates. You can't let the end-user have control of their own encryption after all, how would you get them to pay the annual licence fees ;) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAZJMMuLPldPuWZnARAqVxAJwLhZOyfQfdlV7ETxc41kXD6XC+QgCfejd8 sQz2NGyg3v9Jb9P0NzIgvs4= =ZXn9 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] buying keyboards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 24 Mar 2004 23:57:00 -0500 Shaun ONeil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know it's wildly off-topic, but whatever I come across, someone here has beat me to it - and I can't for the life of my figure out how to query google to get specific results for such a generic question .. so: short story: I'm trying to find somewhere in the US (or canada) where I can purchase a keyboard with a UK keymap. Any suggestions? If you like the old IBM model M keyboards (which I do) you can buy them direct from the manufacture with different keymap and language choices including English UK. http://www.pckeyboard.com - -BillT -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAYyMJuLPldPuWZnARAgfiAJ9OnMGvvsnVsEY3Pp+VayklW6wkdgCgk9El aY13nWULnz9bST9z4wDVbAs= =e5oy -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Unofficial HP/Compaq Drivers/Config Utilities for Debian
On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 12:40:09 +0100, Peter A. Cole wrote: - Original Message - From: Nate Duehr [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian-User users [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 16, 2004 9:20 PM Subject: Re: Unofficial HP/Compaq Drivers/Config Utilities for Debian On Feb 16, 2004, at 3:17 AM, Peter A. Cole wrote: I was on a HP SAN course last week and was asking about support for Debian as opposed to Red Hat, and the answer was basically that it takes a long time to test Open Source operating systems and therefore the official support for any other distribution than Red Hat may happen at some stage, but not in the near future. Oh that's retarded. HP themselves *USE* Debian internally for a number of things, as it was announced that it was a company standard some time ago. The giant left hand doesn't know what the giant right hand is doing... If one frustrated user can make a usable Debian package for those systems in an evening or two, HP could certainly do a professional quality one in a week and test it in along with the testing of the RH RPM's. Their advanced Linux development group could whip up a proper .deb in their sleep, I'm sure. Nate Duehr, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I know what you mean. I also recall seeing on the Debian news site something about a Debian host being made available by HP for public use for testing of software etc. I raised this with my instructor, and he didn't know anything about it, although to give him some credit, he seems to have a fairly high interest in Linux but he also comes from the Compaq side of things pre-merger. Mind you, this was a very specific course aimed at entry-level SAN's (MSA1000), but there was no mention of support for anything but Red Hat in the higher spec SAN's either, and I still have yet to see a Debian Woody or any other distribution available on either the old HP NetServer Navigator CD's or the new SmartStart CD's as an O/S option. Pete I agree that the left hand does not know what the right is doing. After seeing the press releases that HP was expanding Debian support, I have been told by their Linux support desk that they Only support what is listed on the website which are EOL'd RedHat releases and UnitedLinux distros. The HP Engineers may use Debian, but for some reason they still do not have official support for their customers. -- Bill Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Key ID:0xFB966670 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wlan-ng kernel-image-2.4.24 advice needed
I have been trying to compile the wlan-ng 0.2.0 drivers for the stock Debian kernel-image-2.4.24-1-686.deb with no luck. I have tried the Debian way with make-kpkg, using apt-src --buildpackage, and the standard make config/make install. I have used the linux-wlan-ng source packages and the tarball from the upstream site. The closest I've gotten is with make-kpkg method, which was able to compile the modules, but when I load my card I get unresolved symbol errors with p80211.o Has anyone been able to do this successfully with the Deb packaged kernels? Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks, -- Bill Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Key ID:0xFB966670 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: KVM switch recomendation?
On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 15:20:14 +0100, Greg Norris wrote: Can anyone recommend a good 4-port (or thereabout) KVM switch? I need one which can handle USB keyboard and mouse inputs, and it would be a plus (but definitely not required) if it can accommodate both USB and PS/2 outputs. I recently tried a Belkin OmniView SOHO KVM (model no. F1DS104U), which claims to be Linux compatible, but it turned out to be rather flaky[1]. After waiting for 90 minutes on their tech support line, for a scripted-to-the-max session which I can only (charitably) describe as completely worthless, I think I'm inclined to avoid Belkin products at this point. [1] It mostly worked, but would frequently miss keystrokes (especially CTRL-whatever combinations), or act like a key was being held down. I did all of the usual troubleshooting (try a different keyboard, swap the cables, update the firmware, etc.), and am fairly confident that it's a firmware bug. I had the same trouble as well as mouse issues with the same Belkin Omniview SOHO going between a Woody server and Sid desktop. I replaced my KVM with a Avocent SwitchView and have had no further issues. You can get more info at: http://www.avocent.com -- Bill Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Key ID:0xFB966670 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: my treo won't sync
On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 05:30:10 +0200, Tom Vier wrote: i've tried both pilot-xfer (from pilot-link) and kpilot. neither recongizes it. my visor platinum works fine. there is the minor problem of the usb char dev not showing up til you hit the button. if i run pilot-xfer right after hitting the sync button, it works for the visor. treo just isn't seen. does anyone have any tips? this is a treo 90. -- Tom Vier [EMAIL PROTECTED] DSA Key ID 0xE6CB97DA When last I checked, the Treo90 and Treo300 did not work via USB with Linux. The USB ports on those models were redesigned and do not use the same driver as the rest of the Handspring models. I purchased a serial adapter for my Treo300 from the Handspring web site and have been able to use that to sync with Debian using pilot-xfer and jPilot. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - PGP KeyID#: 0xFB966670 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
