Re: Fetchmail and Gmail
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:44:33 +0300 Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: ... I admit this is uninformed, but it seems to me like fetchmail tries to be many things, but not particularly good at anything: - it has a daemon mode reported to hang Been using it for about 10 years now, on machines that stay up for months at a time, didn't hang yet. - retrieves mail via POP3 and IMAP only to inject it back to SMTP ? - ESR mentioned he wanted to make the configuration syntax easy. Apparently he made it so easy that a dedicated editor is needed Didn't know there was a dedicated editor. Made my config based solely on the man page, back when I was still coming to terms with basic Linux usage. -- Carlos Sousa -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: package version numbers
On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 09:42:26 -0500 Rick Pasotto r...@niof.net wrote: There are several packages that, when I try to upgrade them, aptitude tells me that doing so would break many other packages. For these other packages aptitude says: Depends: libglib1.2 (= 1.2.0) but it is not installable However, 'apt-cache policy libglib1.2' shows: libglib1.2: Installed: 1.2.10-17 Candidate: 1.2.10-17 Version table: *** 1.2.10-17 0 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status It is in stable as well. Don't you have stable in your sources.list? Package libglib1.2 appears to have been replaced by libglib1.2ldbl, and it shouldn't be depended upon by any package. The only exception seems to be the package xmovie, and I'd say it's a bug. So don't install xmovie for now. -- Carlos Sousa -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: package version numbers
On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 16:56:30 -0500 Rick Pasotto r...@niof.net wrote: On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 12:46:32PM -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 09:42:26AM -0500, Rick Pasotto r...@niof.net was heard to say: There are several packages that, when I try to upgrade them, aptitude tells me that doing so would break many other packages. For these other packages aptitude says: Depends: libglib1.2 (= 1.2.0) but it is not installable What this means is that the solution to your dependencies that aptitude calculated didn't leave libglib1.2 on your system. Probably the message should say it is not going to be installed, not it is not installable. In order to give you a more specific answer I'd need to know what you were trying to upgrade and ideally see all the output from aptitude. After reading Carlos Sousa's reply I was able to figure out a little more what's happening. I get hesitant when aptitude tells me it wants to remove programs that I use. Anyway, I see that xmms is replaced by xmms2 and that qiv will upgrade with libglib1.2ldbl. My only remaining problem is multi-gnome-terminal, which is not in lenny. Why not? There are several reasons I prefer multi-gnome-terminal to gnome-terminal: See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=460784 It apparently died upstream, and had to be removed from Debian due to dependency on incompatible (newer) Gnome libs. Cheers, -- Carlos Sousa -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: post-installation error
On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 10:18:43 -0200 Alejandro elcorreode...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/1/15 Carlos Sousa cso...@tele2.pt On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 11:41:53 -0200 (BRST) macdowell@dpf.gov.br wrote: ... Configurando linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64 (2.6.26-11) ... Running depmod. Running mkinitramfs-kpkg. Not updating initrd symbolic links since we are being updated/reinstalled (2.6.26-10 was configured last, according to dpkg) Not updating image symbolic links since we are being updated/reinstalled (2.6.26-10 was configured last, according to dpkg) Running postinst hook script update-grub. Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub User postinst hook script [update-grub] exited with value 1 This was the problem. Can't help you further as I don't use the grub bootloader... This happened to me when i switched from grub to lilo... which bootloader are you using? Been using lilo since Debian potato. After a little googling, this looks like bug #510223, and it appears to be a grub one. Perhaps the OP could comment out the postinst_hook = update-grub line in /etc/kernel-img.conf, retry the kernel installation (apt-get -f install), and run update-grub manually afterwards? -- Carlos Sousa -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: post-installation error
On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 11:41:53 -0200 (BRST) macdowell@dpf.gov.br wrote: ... Configurando linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64 (2.6.26-11) ... Running depmod. Running mkinitramfs-kpkg. Not updating initrd symbolic links since we are being updated/reinstalled (2.6.26-10 was configured last, according to dpkg) Not updating image symbolic links since we are being updated/reinstalled (2.6.26-10 was configured last, according to dpkg) Running postinst hook script update-grub. Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub User postinst hook script [update-grub] exited with value 1 This was the problem. Can't help you further as I don't use the grub bootloader... -- Carlos Sousa -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: SAMBA printer drivers?
On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 18:24:23 -0400 Robert Harris wrote: I've got a samba server up and sharing out my printer to my test windows machines. I just went to setup my printer on one of the windows boxes and it said the drivers aren't there for my HP 882C. Is there a place on my Samba server i can put the drivers so that the XP system will auto-install the printer drivers? Yes. Read the samba documentation (namely printing.html in the Samba-HOWTO-Collection, package samba-doc). Cheers, -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ I find gnome is far too susceptible to not working - J.D.H -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help! (corier-imap + webmail)
On Tue, 07 Sep 2004 12:25:46 +1000 Clement wrote: [...] And how can we give ISMail the imap capability required? As to ISMail, I never heard of it, but a few seconds googling turned up a bunch of links, like http://instantservers.com/plugin_ism/ismweb_faq.html I'm not interested in it right now, so I can't help you further. HTH, -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ I find gnome is far too susceptible to not working - J.D.H -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help! (corier-imap + webmail)
On Mon, 06 Sep 2004 12:25:52 +0100 Grant wrote: Hey, I've been trying to a while to get a Imap server running with webmail, I have installed courier-imap using apt-get and i have downloaded and extract/configured ISMail (http://www.insidesystems.net/projects.php) and i also installed exim4 using apt-get again. I have looked all over the internet and at the makers sites, but i cant find anything simple and basic. Correctly setting up mail servers isn't something I would call simple and basic. What i want to do is make this server handle mail for two domains. Problem is i cant find anything about just adding domains to courier-imap, also to make things worse i cant find anything simple to addusers to the server... I don't think courier-imap has any notion of domains. As far as I know, it just has to authenticate users connecting to it, then serve them their email from their assigned mail folders. I know i need to setup the domains before i can add users but i still cant find anything simple. The way I have this working is as follows: 1) My MTA (exim4 for you, sendmail for me) accepts/sends email for various domains. This is where your domains should be set, If I understand you correctly. Read the docs. 2) Courier-imap is configured to use userdb authentication, meaning all user info (username, password, mail folder, ...) is stored in a file. This allows for email users with no correspondence to system users. There are other authentication options, though. Once again, you'll have to go through the docs for the details. 3) The connection between the two is made through procmail. The MTA uses procmail as the local mailer, which distributes email among the various users' mail folders. This is done under a specific system user. 4) I also have Squirrelmail installed to provide a web interface to remote users (I'm using apache-ssl for secure connections). It connects to Courier-imap locally, configuration is pretty straightforward. Could someone give me some help on this... i really want to get up and running so i can turn my old mail server off... This is not that hard, and shouldn't take you long to set up to your liking, as long as you're prepared to do the required reading. Thinking simple and basic will probably take you longer... ;) HTH, -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ I find gnome is far too susceptible to not working - J.D.H -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help! (corier-imap + webmail)
On Mon, 6 Sep 2004 10:44:35 -0400 Johann Koenig wrote: On Tuesday September 7 at 12:39am Clement [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The FAQ says this is because my PHP does not support IMAP. My PHP is the stock Debian libapache2-mod-php4 v 4.3.4-4. I believe IMAP support is there. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache search php imap aeromail - Web-based e-mail client egroupware-email - eGroupWare E-mail client application imp3 - Web Based Mail Program php-auth - PHP PEAR modules for creating an authentication system php3-cgi-imap - IMAP module for PHP3 (use with php3-cgi) php3-imap - IMAP module for PHP3 (use with php3) php4-imap - IMAP module for php4 phpgroupware-felamimail - phpGroupWare felamimail (Squirrelmail) module squirrelmail - Webmail for nuts imp - Web Based IMAP Mail Program. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ Note the one about halfway down, php4-imap. Squirrelmail may implement the IMAP protocol itself, or operate directly on Maildirs (I don't personally know, thats just my guess) Actually, from: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache show squirrelmail snip It includes built-in pure PHP support for the IMAP and SMTP protocols /snip So thats why. 1) Squirrelmail *does* use the IMAP protocol (no direct file access to email); 2) I don't have php?-imap installed, so it must have inbuilt IMAP capabilities, 'cause it's working flawlessly. -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ I find gnome is far too susceptible to not working - J.D.H -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help! (corier-imap + webmail)
On Tue, 07 Sep 2004 00:39:43 +1000 Clement wrote: Carlos Sousa wrote: ... 2) Courier-imap is configured to use userdb authentication, meaning all user info (username, password, mail folder, ...) is stored in a file. This allows for email users with no correspondence to system users. There are other authentication options, though. Once again, you'll have to go through the docs for the details. From what I read, the Debian's Courier-imap package does not support userdb. Am I making a mistake here or is there a Debian package that supports userdb? Well, I'm using the Debian package, and it's using userdb, I configured the beast myself (about 2 years ago). Where did you read that? -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ I find gnome is far too susceptible to not working - J.D.H -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gnumeric or oocalc
On Mon, 6 Sep 2004 22:28:04 +0200 J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: [...] sendmail.cf does not resemble line noise. It resembles the result of somebody banging his head on the keyboard. Anybody who has worked with it will understand why. Seth Breidbart in [EMAIL PROTECTED] That's cool! I usualy use my knees, but I'll be sure to try it your way next time. Amazing what you can learn on this list... ;) -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ I find gnome is far too susceptible to not working - J.D.H -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sarge dist-upgrade Package is in a very bad inconsistent state
On Mon, 6 Sep 2004 23:18:25 +0200 Conrad Newton wrote: [...] It is not an answer to your question, and maybe it is not even relevant to your problem, but I am having similar problems here with tetex-base. When I try to correct the problem, I get a system crash or even trigger a reboot. The system is a mixture of testing and unstable (pinned to testing, but with several major applications upgraded). I have had numerous instabilities lately, and thought that I might improve the situation by upgrading to unstable (my unstable box works just fine), but instead things look worse than ever . . . For example, I was just going to try the following apt-get -f install dpkg --configure -a but already at the first step, I get a reboot!!!!!! What could be causing this? Sure smells a lot like hardware trouble (memory?). Better be ready with your backups... -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ I find gnome is far too susceptible to not working - J.D.H -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Configuring Courier
Please reply only to the list, as I'm subscribed and you'll probably get much better help than mine for your problem. I am *certainly* not an expert on this, I'm just trying to share my experience. On Thu, 02 Sep 2004 11:38:13 +0100 Upayavira wrote: Carlos Sousa wrote: On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 20:36:20 +0100 Upayavira wrote: [...] So, can anyone either (a) help me fix the above or (b) tell me where I can get help fixing the above or (c) recommend a SMTP/IMAP/Webmail setup that is relatively easy to configure, and that can be installed with apt-get from Sarge? (a) and (b) - No, sorry. Oh well. Can anyone else answer (a) or (b)? (c) My home machine hosts all mail under my care, and uses Sendmail as MTA, Courier-imap for both secure and unsecure IMAP connections (local or over the internet), Squirrelmail and Apache-ssl for secure remote mail retrievals with a web frontend. It's been working reliably with no maintenance for over a year, surviving all my daily apt-get dist-upgrades (Debian Testing). Great. So if you're using courier IMAP, you've got sendmail sending to Maildir folders? sendmail - procmail - Maildir folders I would imagine you could replace sendmail with any other MTA that can forward to procmail. The other bit I didn't mention is that I'll need to support mailing lists. I've installed courier-mlm, but haven't got near trying it. Sorry, never tried to set up mailing lists. The most difficult to set up was Courier-imap, mainly due to my newbieness. The provided documentation was enough, a fair amount of reading will get you through the whole setup. I hope it isn't just Courier in general that is hard to set up. What were the problems you had with Courier-imap? I never tried the whole Courier solution, I just use Courier-imap. My problems with it were mainly that the bits I needed to read were dispersed throughout the massive, scary-looking documentation provided. But it's all there. I went through this nearly two years ago, the documentation could be much better organized now, haven't checked. [...] But the idea of having my own server, handling my own mail, with webmail, IMAP, mailing lists, etc, and all under my control, is rather exciting. I know the feeling :) Best of luck, -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ I find gnome is far too susceptible to not working - J.D.H -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Testing mailing list....
On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 15:04:44 + Will Ness wrote: This is a test only, please ignore and do not reply. (Newbie at work). Very newbie, to use a mailing list for testing purposes... There are a few (alas fewer and fewer) mail echo addresses still available on the internet, that will automatically reply to your email with its full contents, just for this kind of test. Feel free to use mine: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ I find gnome is far too susceptible to not working - J.D.H -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Configuring Courier
On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 20:36:20 +0100 Upayavira wrote: I want to set up a Debian based mail server, with SMTP sending, IMAP and [...] maildir doesn't exist or has incorrect ownership or permissions. [...] So, can anyone either (a) help me fix the above or (b) tell me where I can get help fixing the above or (c) recommend a SMTP/IMAP/Webmail setup that is relatively easy to configure, and that can be installed with apt-get from Sarge? (a) and (b) - No, sorry. (c) My home machine hosts all mail under my care, and uses Sendmail as MTA, Courier-imap for both secure and unsecure IMAP connections (local or over the internet), Squirrelmail and Apache-ssl for secure remote mail retrievals with a web frontend. It's been working reliably with no maintenance for over a year, surviving all my daily apt-get dist-upgrades (Debian Testing). The most difficult to set up was Courier-imap, mainly due to my newbieness. The provided documentation was enough, a fair amount of reading will get you through the whole setup. In my experience, easy to configure in this kind of software usually translates into the maintainer or the software takes care of most configuration options, which also usually leads to the wrong end of the security/reliability path (cf. Windows). The time and effort you spend on learning the software will help you get more reliable/secure performance, more confidence on your system, and make you an expert on the matters at hand. Useless at parties, though ;) HTH -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ I find gnome is far too susceptible to not working - J.D.H -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kdeinit
On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 01:09:44 +0200 Osamu Aoki wrote: On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 02:25:20AM +0100, Carlos Sousa wrote: On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 00:55:07 +0200 Osamu Aoki wrote: I see funny heavy process. PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND 4240 osamu 25 0 23104 11m 21m R 98.4 2.3 25:28.06 kdeinit This seems to be something to do with konqueror but I only run blackbox so I did not need something like this. I think you'll get this when running KDE applications, not just konqueror. Problem is I did not run any KDE apps conciously But you have kdelibs-bin installed, so presumably you have, and possibly use, even if unwittingly, some kde application. Try running 'apt-get remove kdelibs-bin' and see what else apt-get wants to remove as well. -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problem installing Sendmail
On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 10:07:43 +0800 Shu Hung (Koala) wrote: Here is my sendmail.mc Is there any thing wrong? ... LOCAL_CONFIG FEATURE(`nullclient', NONE)dnl LOCAL_CONFIG ## Custom configurations below (will be preserved) This appears to be the configuration for local mail only. No wonder you couldn't send mail to the internet... Perhaps the best option would be to reconfigure sendmail from scratch. By looking at the scripts, it seems you can do that with the commands (as root): rm -f /etc/mail/sendmail.mc sendmailconfig and answer very carefully the questions that will appear, especially the one concerning the smarthost, which should be the hostname of your SMTP server, which will route mail to the outside world. If you expect to receive answers you will then have to configure it to rewrite the sender address with a publicly valid one, but that's another story. | It may be the case that you have to get information from the | network admin in order to get your sendmail to route mail properly | for your network environment. Sorry...I know it's stupid but...can you explain more? Well, if you're on a LAN, maybe one of the computers is already configured as a mail server that should be used as smarthost, and possibly handling the local address rewrites I mentioned. HTH, -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problem installing Sendmail
On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 10:07:43 +0800 Shu Hung (Koala) wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ... I've answered the config questions of course But I'm not sure if I answered it right... I think the Debian sendmail package maintainer has already contacted you about this matter. If anyone can sort you out, he's da man. -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problem installing Sendmail
On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 17:15:23 +0800 John Summerfield wrote: (replying manually to the list, as I suspect [EMAIL PROTECTED] won't be a good recipient for my purposes ;) I did try sendmail on woody, but discovered it's brken, and having heard good reports of Postfix, I tried that and that's what I use now. Good for you. But, just, for the record, I've been using sendmail since Debian Potato, and I haven't the faintest idea what breakage you're talking about. In all these years my sendmail has been performing securely and flawlessly. -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problem installing Sendmail
On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 23:23:57 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 23:52:17 -0600 s. keeling wrote: Very true, but it is your box. I imagine the sendmail package maintainer needs love just like the others. :-) Then again, maybe not. He may just be doing it so he doesn't have to run exim or postfix; I don't know. I don't know his reasons, but his package is one of the best maintained ones in the archives. He is very approachable, he acknowledges bugs very quickly and acts on them asap (the sendmail package in unstable has been updated 6 times this week). Talk about support... Hey, his pet may come back into vogue again, you never know. These things change with the breeze... What do you mean, may come back ... again? I believe sendmail is still the most widely used MTA on the Internet. It's never gone away. -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problem installing Sendmail
On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 11:18:54 +0100 Thomas Adam wrote: On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 06:15:35PM +0800, Shu Hung (Koala) wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- And I don't know how to config Sendmail in Debian, too. Let's see now you went against the grain as it were, and You mean, the OP decided for himself which MTA to use, instead of just accepting whatever MTA the current Debian Cabal chooses to shove down his throat? installed Sendmail, which you don't know, raher than using Exim? Interesting... any reason for this? How about: 1. The OP doesn't know Exim just as he doesn't know Sendmail. If he's going to learn the one, why not the other; 2. The OP wants a well-known MTA, in widest use, actively developed despite its very long existence, with the best probability of finding support when needed; 3. The OP wants an MTA that is easy to configure for the simplest cases, and that is possible to configure for whatever convoluted setups you may drop it into; I may have forgotten a few dozen reasons... -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problem installing Sendmail
On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 18:15:35 +0800 Shu Hung (Koala) wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Please try and supply the most information possible. After reading your mail I still haven't a clue where you're coming from. I installed a Sendmail to my Debian with apt-get install After a little bit setup (may be sth. went wrong here), I tried to The sendmail package asks you a few questions upon installation, so as to configure it properly for your machine. Don't you remember answering them? You really should take software installation a lot less lightly... send mail with mutt. It failed with a message with Host Unknown (Name server: none: host not found). The Name server bit seems to indicate a hostname/ip resolving problem. Can you browse the web from that machine? Did you have an MTA previously, and could you send mail then? Can you ping outside hosts? My Debian is connected to a LAN with a NAT router. I don't know it too well. And I don't know how to config Sendmail in Debian, too. It may be the case that you have to get information from the network admin in order to get your sendmail to route mail properly for your network environment. -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mail header/Amavis/Kmail
On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 16:47:14 + Vijaya S wrote: Hi all, When i receive a mail from this machine which has Debian and email client being Kmail. All mails are received perfectly excpet from one particular webform only to this machne it happens .. 1. Try another mail client (mutt, mail, sylpheed, ...) on the same message. 2. Make the message travel around Amavis (don't know it, may not be easy). 3. Is there something else in your incoming mail path that could be doing it? Procmail rules? Fetchmail? HTH, -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kdeinit
On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 00:55:07 +0200 Osamu Aoki wrote: I see funny heavy process. PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND 4240 osamu 25 0 23104 11m 21m R 98.4 2.3 25:28.06 kdeinit This seems to be something to do with konqueror but I only run blackbox so I did not need something like this. I think you'll get this when running KDE applications, not just konqueror. HTH -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Caching Apt Files
On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 22:17:36 -0500 Jacob S. wrote: I've been using apt-proxy, and see apt-cacher mentioned some as well. (I'm using apt-proxy 1.3.6 from Testing, not 1.9.5 from Unstable.) ... So, anyone with experience using apt-cacher, or better yet, both apt-cacher and apt-proxy? I would appreciate hearing other people's thoughts and experiences. I've been using apt-cacher for over 2 months now, and it serves its purpose well. I've upgraded it 5 times over this period, so it's not exactly unmaintained (this should allay your fears over lack of documentation ;) Once in a long while it chokes on a package (something about MD5sum mismatch), just delete it from the cache and it'll be refetched just fine. No experience with apt-proxy. HTH, -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Need an older version of Perl on Debian for WebCT
On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 14:21:03 +0200 Johann Spies wrote: ... That's it, I'm switching to Gentoo, or Mandrake. I can hold my own on the bleeding edge, but Debian is really becoming too much for any sane man to handle... ;) -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Samba as a PDC
On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 23:25:16 +1000 Clement wrote: On Tue, 27 Jul 2004, Clement wrote: [global] workgroup = WORKGROUP ... invalid users = root By the way, what is the DOMAIN name for the Windows clients? There is not DOMAIN name parameter in the samba configure file. Only the WORKGROUP! As stated in smb.conf(5), the parameter 'workgroup' is also used to specify the Windows/Samba domain name, so you should put it there. Is your domain name really WORKGROUP? Try changing it to PULLTHEOTHERONE ;) I'm a bit rusty on this Samba thing, and had experience only with pre-3 versions, but did you remember to add the Windows machine to the domain? In order to do that, IIRC, you have to enter root's credentials, and so your 'invalid users' line looks suspicious... HTH, -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: filename problem
On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 12:39:30 -0400 (EDT) Thomas Meggs wrote: ... File can't be mv'd (here it is quoted): # mv egotrippi_-_??l??_koskaan_ikin??.mp3 test.mp3 mv: cannot stat `egotrippi_-_?\346l?\346_koskaan_ikin?\346.mp3': No such file or directory ... I've also tried removing the file via midnight commander, I get the 'cannot stat' error message. This would be a first for me, mc not coping with strange filenames. Is the name really 'egotrippi_-_??l??_koskaan_ikin??.mp3' ? I just tried touch 'egotrippi_-_??l??_koskaan_ikin??.mp3' which worked. Then tried an 'ls', which also worked. Then tried rm egoTAB which autocompleted to rm egotrippi_-_\?\?l\?\?_koskaan_ikin\?\?.mp3 rm: remove regular empty file `egotrippi_-_??l??_koskaan_ikin??.mp3'? y which worked. Doing a rm ego* also works. So I would be inclined to say that, whatever the problem is, it's more than just a matter of strange characters. Sorry I can't be of any further help. -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Safely Upgrading Packages
On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 07:54:20 -0500 John Fleming wrote: ... Unpacking alsa-utils (from .../alsa-utils_1.0.5-3_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/alsa-utils_1.0.5-3_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/alsamixer', which is also in package knx-alsa ... Unpacking libntfs5 (from .../libntfs5_1.9.0-1_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libntfs5_1.9.0-1_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/libntfs.so.5.0.0', which is also in package ntfsprogs ... Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/alsa-utils_1.0.5-3_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/libntfs5_1.9.0-1_i386.deb Well, that's exactly what it appears to be, these 2 packages want to install files which are also in 2 other packages already on your system (knx-alsa and ntfsprogs). Since neither knx-alsa (a Knoppix-specific package IIRC) nor ntfsprogs are in the Debian archives, you appear to be mixing packages from different archive universes, and are thus experiencing the resulting namespace conflicts. I would advise you to strictly stick to the Debian archives or the Knoppix ones, but not both. That said, if you are willing to take your chances, you can always try 'dpkg -i --force-overwrite /path/to/package.deb'. -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SOLVED - Re: Safely Upgrading Packages
On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 18:23:23 -0500 John Fleming wrote: I just now ran apt-get update, then upgrade, and then dist-upgrade - no errors, but 6 packages were held back, e.g. pppconfig. Any idea why at this point? - John No idea. My records show I've upgraded to the latest pppconfig (2.3.4) in unstable last Friday, with no problems. It may be some conflict with a package already on your system, which may need to be removed first. You can use aptitude to root out the reasons for the package holds. Or (what I usually do), you can issue a 'apt-get install pppconfig' and analyse the information shown onscreen, eventually saying 'n' at the ensuing prompt. HTH, -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SOLVED - Re: Safely Upgrading Packages
Please don't email me directly, I'm subscribed to the list. I hope you don't mind me taking this back to the list, since others could provide better advice, or profit by our exchange. On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 20:10:23 -0500 John Fleming wrote: That said, if you are willing to take your chances, you can always try 'dpkg -i --force-overwrite /path/to/package.deb'. I can appreciate this may be an endless problem. Not really. I've had my share of troubles with apt/dpkg, but I've always been able to understand where the problem was, and deal with it. Debian's package management is truly amazing in this respect. Now I have a similar problem trying to get rid of a frozen-bubble error, only this time the above command doesn't work like it did for the ntfsprogs files: ... Preparing to replace frozen-bubble-data 1.0.0-4 (using .../frozen-bubble-data_1.0.0-6_all.deb) ... Unpacking replacement frozen-bubble-data ... mv: cannot stat `/usr/games/frozen-bubble.wav': No such file or directory dpkg: warning - old post-removal script returned error exit status 1 ... dpkg -i --force-overwrite man dpkg. This doesn't make sense here, because the problem is not a file belonging to 2 different packages. Once again, I don't recall a problem with my frozen-bubble upgrades... Actually, there is no /usr/games/frozen-bubble.wav file listed in the frozen-bubble-data 1.0.0-4 package. Very strange... You could start by doing a 'touch /usr/games/frozen-bubble.wav' and see if that solves the problem. Another option would be to try to completely uninstall (apt-get remove --purge) frozen-bubble and frozen-bubble-data first, then install them again... HTH, -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Smbclient works but not Samba
On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 21:47:25 +0100 Clive Menzies wrote: On (18/07/04 10:39), Ken Januski wrote: I wonder if anyone has any ideas as to why I can get smbclient to work going from my Debian box to my XP box but can't get it to work the other way round by trying to connect from XP to Debian. The most common error is This machine not authorized But I have both the IP and the ... You need to edit the /etc/samba/smb.conf file There is soem good documentation at: http://hr.uoregon.edu/davidrl/samba.html I solved a similar problem by adding browseable = yes at the top of the smb.conf file. Simpler setup than yours seems to be, though... HTH, -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: local/controllable causes of packet loss?
On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 23:45:30 -0400 Silvan wrote: I'm having annoying problems with my cable internet. At least once a day, ... In this state, if I take eth0 down and then attempt to take it back up, I seldom manage to do so. ... I had a problem like this some time ago, turned out to be a defective network card on the computer. Can you try with a different one? HTH -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ISO9660 file naming (limits)
On Mon, 5 Jan 2004 23:12:16 -0500 Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: I want to make a cd archive of my (past) school work and remove it from my hard drive. The problem lies in name/path length limits for ISO9660 filesystems. 'mkisofs -R -J' yields output such as Using FINDR000.HH;1 for ./SE1-Software_Engineering.3010-361/src/FindRoomWindow.hh (FindRoomWindow_glade.hh) Using FINDR000.CC;1 for ./SE1-Software_Engineering.3010-361/src/FindRoomWindow_glade.cc (FindRoomWindow.cc) When I loopback mount the ISO to inspect it, the file apears normal with the complete path and name. My question is, what does the output from mkisofs mean, and will the CD have all of the files correctly named? I've had that problem, especially for files in Windows partitions. It probably means mkisofs is renaming the files to conform to specs, and building the necessary filename translation tables. As far as I can tell, the renaming won't be visible to the user and all files will be available to the system with their original names. The command I use is different, though: mkisofs -r -D -L -l -graft-points -J -joliet-long -jcharset default ... This makes it produce non-strictly-conforming CD images, but will handle much deeper directories and longer filenames. Both Linux and Windows seem to read such CDs correctly. I've been using that for my backups for years with no problems, all files are correctly shown both under Linux and Windows. HTH, -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ISO9660 file naming (limits)
On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 11:17:43 -0500 Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 12:41:23PM +, Carlos Sousa wrote: ... The only anomaly it produces is a visible (and -apparently- empty) 'rr_moved' directory. | |mkisofs -r -D -L -l -graft-points -J -joliet-long -jcharset default ... | The -D option will make that directory go away, as a side effect ;) -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: APT::Default-Release doesn't seem to affect upgrades
On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 23:39:09 -0800 Ross Boylan wrote: On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 01:46:20AM +, Carlos Sousa wrote: It also may be the case that the version in unstable is the same as the version in testing, in which case apt-get will get the package from either testing or unstable, since it's the same. I'd almost file a wishlist bug about it, but as I recall there was quite a stack of more pressing issues for apt. To me, that behaviour is a feature. The package is exactly the same anyway, and if your testing sources are unavailable for some reason you still get to install the package (as long as some unstable source is available). Thanks, Carlos. Glad to be of help. -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: APT::Default-Release doesn't seem to affect upgrades
On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 12:57:23 -0700 Jamin W. Collins wrote: On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 11:39:09PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: We have a winner. Every single package that I checked that apt-get -s said was from unstable had the same version in testing and unstable. Which entry is first in your sources.list (unstable or testing)? apt-get will use the unstable source even if it comes last, e.g. when downloading from the testing source fails, for some reason. I saw it happen before my eyes once. Humbling experience... -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: APT::Default-Release doesn't seem to affect upgrades
On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 22:57:31 -0800 Ross Boylan wrote: On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 02:14:17AM +, Carlos Sousa wrote: You can do 'apt-cache policy | less' and check that the priorities assigned to the various sources are the ones you think you've specified. I once had a syntax error in the preferences file and apt completely disregarded the file. Possibly your case? Don't think so. apt-cache policy shows one unstable entry, priority 50. Maybe there is an upgrade that depends on an uninstalled package that is only in unstable. And then the presence of that package pulls in others? It also may be the case that the version in unstable is the same as the version in testing, in which case apt-get will get the package from either testing or unstable, since it's the same. Easy enough to check both theories. Do an 'apt-cache policy package' for the packages that are being pulled from unstable, and check the versions in either distribution. Cheers, -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: APT::Default-Release doesn't seem to affect upgrades
Please keep your postings to the list. Thanks. On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 16:51:01 -0800 Ross Boylan wrote: On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 12:53:21PM +, Carlos Sousa wrote: As extra precaution, Ross can disable apt-get from getting packages from unstable unless explicitly told to by creating /etc/apt/preferences with the lines: Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 25 25 may be replaced by any other number below 100. Oddly, I tried that, and it didn't completely work. Here's my preferences file: Explanation: Try to prevent unstable from creeping in Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 50 When I do apt-get -s dist-upgrade it still pulls in lots of unstables. Works fine here. What is that Explanation: line? Are you sure it's supported syntax? You can do 'apt-cache policy | less' and check that the priorities assigned to the various sources are the ones you think you've specified. I once had a syntax error in the preferences file and apt completely disregarded the file. Possibly your case? Regards, -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: APT::Default-Release doesn't seem to affect upgrades
On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 07:59:44 -0700 Jamin W. Collins wrote: On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 12:25:06AM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: ... APT::Default-Release testing; in apt.conf. I do not have an apt/preferences file. When I tried apt-get upgrade (or dist-upgrade) it wanted to upgrade a bunch of packages, all from unstable. You've probably installed one (or more) package(s) with version(s) newer than that available in testing but older than that available in unstable. With a Default-Release of testing you've set the priority for testing packages to 990, and all other releases that your system knows about to 500. The problem is that installed versions that only exist in /var/lib/dpkg/status get a priority of 100. As extra precaution, Ross can disable apt-get from getting packages from unstable unless explicitly told to by creating /etc/apt/preferences with the lines: Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 25 25 may be replaced by any other number below 100. -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sending messages using smbclient
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 11:29:18 +0100 Joerg Johannes wrote: Am Mi, den 19.11.2003 schrieb Alex Malinovich um 20:15: On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 08:24, Jacob S. wrote: On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 14:13:53 +0100 Joerg Johannes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody How do I send a message to a recpient in my local network using only the IP address? I can send a message with I don't think smb understands how to do it using ip addresses. At least, I've not been able to get linpopup to do it on my system. You might want to try using the -I option to specify the ip to connect to. I have already tried - does not work. I guess I will have to give the machine a name... That's strange! I've always used the -I option, and it has always worked. -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MTA help
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 08:05:34 -0800 Eric Walstad wrote: Now I would like to find out a way to setup usernames and passwords for courier-imap that are different than the user login. I'd prefer not sending the system login info over the lan. See the courier info on authuserdb, edit /etc/courier/userdb and make the database with makeuserdb. Good luck, -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: courier-imap setup - can't authenticate and maildir Q
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 10:39:17 -0500 David Gaudine wrote: Another question. I want to switch from wu-imap to courier-imap for efficiency. This seems to require switching from sendmail to exim, so I did, but reluctantly since everyone else here uses sendmail. Is it true that there's no way to use sendmail with courier-imap and maildirs? Sendmail and Exim are interchangeable software blocks serving one purpose, courier-imap and wu-imap are another set of interchangeable software blocks serving another, different purpose. You can play with them as might suit your fancy since any block will participate in the game according to a general set of rules all of them abide by. Besides, an imap server doesn't really work with an MTA. It just sits on top of a few directories and distributes mail to connecting clients according to a configured set of rules. So go ahead and use sendmail and courier-imap, no reason it shouldn't work, especially because none of them has to be aware of the other. If it helps, my ususal mail chain for incoming mail uses fetchmail for retrieval from ISP, then sendmail, then procmail for distribution into a set of directories, then courier-imap for local/remote distribution to mail readers. (I think fetchmail could be made to deliver directly to procmail and save the sendmail step, but it's been working so nicely... ;) -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: shell script question
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 08:30:23 +0100 Colin Watson wrote:
On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 11:18:11PM -0400, Jeff Elkins wrote:
mpg123 -b 1 -s $1 | sox -t raw -r 44100 -s -w -c2 - $2
In every case, $1 and $2 are the same, except for $2 I want the output
filename to have a .wav extension.
Could I alter the script to eliminate entering $2, since the basic filename is
the same?
Here's a little expression that strips off any trailing .extension
from $1 and tacks on .wav.
${1%.*}.wav
That's much better, no dependency on yet another utility, so more portable
code.
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Re: shell script question
On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 23:18:11 -0400 Jeff Elkins wrote: In the same vein, I'm working through a list of mp3s where some of them need re-encoding. First, I convert them to wavs with this script fragment: mpg123 -b 1 -s $1 | sox -t raw -r 44100 -s -w -c2 - $2 where I feed the script $1 (input) and $2 (output). In every case, $1 and $2 are the same, except for $2 I want the output filename to have a .wav extension. Could I alter the script to eliminate entering $2, since the basic filename is the same? man basename (the suffix bit). -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: seek problem on avi on cdrom
On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 04:16:52 +0200 Micha Feigin wrote: I have a divx avi file I created. On disk when playing with mplayer I can seek with no problem in the file (i.e. jump forwards/backwards). When I burn the file to cdrom I can no longer seek on the file with the error Cannot seek in raw AVI streams. (Index required, try with the -idx switch.) The file is of exactly the same size and was burned from the working file using k3b overburning for a 800Mm cd with one error message saying io error, not serious. Who says it's not serious? I wouldn't trust a CD recording that gave me an IO error. That's probably the cause of your problem. -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Games for 1-2 year old child. Recommendations wanted.
On Mon, 6 Oct 2003 01:10:41 +0100 Pigeon wrote: ... The television regulating authorities ought to legislate that the PDC code information should contain a flag to indicate whether the current material being transmitted is programme content, advertising or trailers. This could then be decoded by the receiving apparatus to mute the sound and blank the screen during adverts. This will *never* happen, I don't think. The whole purpose of broadcast television is to sell adds, all the rest that is broadcast is just to draw the viewers to the screen so they can see the ads. To do what you (and many others) suggest would effectively bring an end to broadcast TV (no financing). The advertisers would hate it, but fsck 'em. The viewers hate the adverts, and we're in the majority, by a long long way. Since the viewers of broadcast TV do not pay for it, but advertisers do, that majority is largely irrelevant. Irrelevant and harmless, since any actions of protest involving boycot, and thus giving up our favorite shows, will hardly get off the ground, and TV broadcasters are fully aware of that. This driving force behind television (the selling of adds) is so powerful that you can see more and more ads creeping up on viewer-financed TV distribution media such as cable, which you'd think would be a bit more under viewer control. So, the solution will have to be a spamassassin-like one. Smart receivers will have to analyse image/sound content as it's coming in, apply some heuristic criteria, and decide on that basis whether to block it on the fly. Even so, I doubt many equipment makers will take the trouble, since they would be fighting the industry that ultimately justifies their existence on the market. -- Carlos Human-Nature-Fan Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Holy Spam!
On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 12:13:28 -0400 (EDT) Jon Earle wrote: I've been forced to change my email address, thanks to the debian mailing list. No, it was thanks to spam. You're confusing the issues here. The Debian list is not the enemy, spammers are. -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Holy Spam!
On 3 Oct 2003 21:10:05 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried reading this mailing list with an email client. Had to unsubscribe after a few hours. I've been reading this mailing list with an email client (and posting to it as well) for the past two years. Still doing it. Still alive. -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: rpm -qa vs apt/dselect/etc
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 20:59:14 +0200 Chris Niekel wrote:
I once grabbed a function from somewhere:
packageof() {
[ $# = 1 ] w3m -dump http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?
}
This allows you to do packageof hello.
I very much doubt that. At least, not until you bring your cut'n'paste under
control.
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Re: Procmailrc to play sound async when message arrives
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 19:45:42 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if I fork bplay several times, it doesn't mix the sounds: they still play out synchronously, even though the caller isn't blocked. Is there a sound utility that will play a WAV file in an overlapped way -- so that I can get my rapid fire clicking effect. I know alsa can do this: I play XMMS and Festival and MPlayer all simultaneously. How can I do that from the command line with a WAV? The command 'play' (sox) does exactly that on my system. -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Procmailrc to play sound async when message arrives
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 01:16:51 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 09:06:49AM +0100, Carlos Sousa wrote: On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 19:45:42 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if I fork bplay several times, it doesn't mix the sounds: they still play out synchronously, even though the caller isn't blocked. Is there a sound utility that will play a WAV file in an overlapped way -- so that I can get my rapid fire clicking effect. I know alsa can do this: I play XMMS and Festival and MPlayer all simultaneously. How can I do that from the command line with a WAV? The command 'play' (sox) does exactly that on my system. play seems to block until sound is fully played for me; identically to bplay. Specifically: play file.wav play file.wav play file.wav Control returns immediately; but files play sequentially not simultaneously. Not here. Perhaps it's an issue with the sound daemon running on your system, then. I'm running artsd. -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Pinning question
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 22:06:48 -0600 Ryan Walters wrote: ... No, I installed woody's apt, and apt-utils first, as I did read that potato's apt didn't do pinning. You're right though, I'm don't think I'll bother with a mixed system, too much hassle. One thing I know will work fine, is using the machine purely as an X terminal, using another faster machine with more ram to run the actual applications. Kind of defeats the purpose of a laptop though I guess, as in that case it would be tied to the lan to run X. You can still have newer packages on an old distribution by getting the debian sources and producing debian binary packages locally. I've never tried that, but it seems that's an easy process, accomplished by only a few (one?) commands. -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: weak perfomance on woody
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 11:56:37 +0200 [loonyx | rolf joho] wrote: on my new woody-box i experience some major performance problems. thez appeared a day a go and i can not link this to any of my activities... ... ### TOP-OUTPUT: 11:07:30 up 35 min, 5 users, load average: 3.01, 3.04, 2.58 If this is representative of the usual state of your machine, then it seems indeed a very stressed one. I usually get load averages of 0.17, 0.17, 0.15 on my AMD 300MHz with 384 MB RAM, and I'm running a slew of server software. PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 3993 smmsp 19 0 2476 2472 1864 S12.9 0.5 0:00 sendmail 7566 root 9 0 988 988 748 S 7.3 0.2 0:20 top 3995 root 16 0 2700 2696 2420 R 7.3 0.6 0:00 sendmail 3980 rolf 16 0 980 980 748 R 6.4 0.2 0:00 top 976 identd 9 0 716 716 580 S 1.8 0.1 0:12 identd 977 identd10 0 716 716 580 S 1.8 0.1 0:12 identd 3992 root 10 0 1068 1068 884 S 1.8 0.2 0:00 mail 218 root 9 0 2408 2408 1820 S 0.9 0.5 0:06 named 443 root 12 0 2512 2508 2288 S 0.9 0.5 0:04 sendmail Hmm... too many top instances, and it seems you've caught sendmail on its occasional busy moments. The 'top picture' taken above was taken 35 minutes after boot, perhaps the machine is still running the daily/weekly/monthly anacron jobs? Make sure you understand the way your system runs in as much detail as possible. - do an occasional 'ps', and try to understand what each entry is doing there - check your /var/log/ files, especially syslog and messages. - check /etc/anacrontab and all /etc/cron* items HTH, -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Pinning question
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 14:24:54 -0600 Ryan Walters wrote: Hi, I've been trying to figure this out for a few days now, and can't seem to get it to work. I want to pin not based on [stable, testing, unstable], but based on distribution release, in my case, [woody, potato]. ... /etc/apt/preferences: Package: * Pin: release potato Pin-Priority: 800 Package: * Pin: release woody Pin-Priority: 200 This however didn't change anything, it still wanted to take all the woody versions of packages, the same as before the preferences file existed. Try pinning woody below 100. -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Pinning question
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 22:59:57 -0600 Jacob Anawalt wrote: ... http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200304/msg04011.html On Wed, 23 Apr 2003 00:16:11 +0100 Colin Watson wrote: ... I didn't realize you were interested in strange multi-release stuff. I don't trust pinning and avoid it like the plague. :) (I thought he had said something even better about pinning more recently but I can't find it.) He said he wished it didn't exist. It is indeed an *extremely* dangerous tool, almost guaranteed to render a system unusable if not used *exactly* right. And besides, there are much safer ways to reach the intended objectives. I've been using apt pinning since I first became aware of it (a few years ago), and it has been serving me well. But I understand the risks involved, and I make sure I understand the consequences whenever I make use of it. Apt pinning seems best suited for a testing system where you want to occasionally leech a few packages from unstable. Using it on stable distributions is a foolhardy thing to do, and doomed to certain failure. -- Carlos edge-walker Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No sourcing of ~/.profile at login
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 15:23:39 +0200 (CEST) David List wrote: Is there any way I can see *precisely* what happens during a user's login - what files are being sourced and such? Interesting idea. Try adding the line echo $0 to all relevant files in /etc/ and in $HOME/ Those should perhaps be: $HOME/.bash_profile $HOME/.bashrc $HOME/.profile /etc/bash.bashrc /etc/bash_completion /etc/environment /etc/profile (any others?) Then you should be able to see a 'trace' of the login process... -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Pinning question
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 10:00:11 -0600 Ryan Walters wrote: On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 11:29:49 +0100, you wrote: On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 14:24:54 -0600 Ryan Walters wrote: Hi, I've been trying to figure this out for a few days now, and can't seem to get it to work. I want to pin not based on [stable, testing, unstable], but based on distribution release, in my case, [woody, potato]. ... This however didn't change anything, it still wanted to take all the woody versions of packages, the same as before the preferences file existed. Try pinning woody below 100. I had tried that too, but since the apt/preferences file doesn't seem to have any effect, changing the pinning number doesn't do anything ... Just remembered that potato's apt may not yet be aware of apt pinning. Is that the version you have? No more ideas, I'm afraid. Anyway, as I said in another post, I *strongly* advise you *not* to use apt pinning on a stable distribution. -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: just get the changelog
On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 09:01:05 +0800 Dan Jacobson wrote: What is the URL these days to just get a changelog? I use http://people.debian.org/~noel/changelogs/ -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Faked From-Adress with my domain on them
On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 02:26:31 -0400 Michael C. wrote: I hope this fixes it. Sorry, I don't know of a test list. You can use a mail echo service like [EMAIL PROTECTED] to test how your mail arrives at its destination. -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: (no subject)
On Fri, 05 Sep 2003 23:02:25 +0800 csj wrote: On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 11:39:54PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi my name is stephany for quit a while now i have no sound and it keeps saying nmo audio device or no active mixer devices i w3nt to the control panel to install hardware but ^^^ I suspect the OP was using some GUI-based, probably wizard-oriented, audio configuration tool. We can safely conclude that the OP's running either KDE or Gnome. Looks more like Windows to me... -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: logrotate help
On Thu, 04 Sep 2003 15:11:38 +1000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One thing I have noticed though is all the websites I have created, I put their logs in this format: /var/log/web1/* /var/log/web2/* and so on, Those log files are not being rotated and are getting quite large. In what area of logrotate do I need to add these, do I have to add them all seperately ? man logrotate, check /etc/logrotate.d/ and add your own logrotate config files there. Cheers, -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cd manufactor
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 23:12:08 -0400 Johann Koenig wrote: On Tue, 02 Sep 2003 15:52:18 -0300 Savio Ramos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, How can discover the media manufacturer of cd or cd-rw? If your looking to find out about the actual cd / cd-rw (the little round thing), I don't think that it is possible. I do not believe that manufacturers stamp their name on the cd and/or that it is possible to read that kind of data. cdrecord -v reveals the CD media manufacturer code, so it seems it really is stamped on the media. -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lost Access to Logon Profiles after upgrade to samba 3 Beta 2
On Mon, 2 Sep 2002 10:24:21 -0500 Doug MacFarlane wrote: My Debian Sarge testing box got upgraded from Samba 2.2.6, I believe, to Samba 3 Beta 2 in the latest dist-upgrade supplied spate One thing's for sure, you got balls... Didn't the change in the major version number ring any alarm bells? of updates (90+, and I missed Sambe being in there . . . ). Fair enough. You're fired :) Not a big deal except that now I have lost access to the logon profiles directories at logon time. It's a basic Samba setup. Uses Unix passwords and Unix accounts, etc. Nothing fancy - no virtual accounts or anything like that. Samba server is running as the PDC. Been bullet-proof. Long shot here (I haven't upgraded my Samba installation yet), but my premilinary documentation browsing showed some config and operation changes concerning the authentication area. See http://us1.samba.org/samba/devel/docs/html/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.html chapter Account Information Databases, config options 'passdb backend' and 'auth methods'. Also chapter Upgrading from Samba-2.x to Samba-3.0.0 Anyway, that's what I expect to have trouble with when I upgrade. Cheers, -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: re wet blue
On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 18:28:55 +0200 Lukasz Hejnak wrote: (from some spammer) We have wet blue cow n/c We can ofert pig wet blue to If you have interest please send information abaut your company n/c! arghh.. sorry just couldn't help this one... wet blue farm animals? what will they think of next? and what kind of english is that? we have wet blue cow? the only thing that comes to my mind is: all your base are belong too us Tsk, tsk. Wet blue is a technical term used in the leather industry, designating animal hides that have suffered an initial chromium tanning process. These hides can then go through various other chemical processes in order to produce the large variety of leather products available to the consumer. C'mon, people... ;) -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Unfortunate Dummy.
On 02 Sep 2003 01:43:25 +0800 David Palmer wrote: The swap file is absolutely necessary. This is the space on the disc where operating transactions take place. Without a swap file, you don't have a system. Bollocks. Last I looked, swap space (file or partition) is a way to extend virtual memory by grabbing some disk space for the effect, and is thus completely optional. Your system may handle heavier applications simultaneously if you give it some swap space, but as long as you have a decent amount of RAM the system will run perfectly without it. Actually, if a system *needs* swap space to work correctly, you're probably due for a RAM upgrade. -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: unfortunate dummy gets good advise
On Mon, 01 Sep 2003 21:37:12 GMT zoe wrote: Ram I have got 524 mb of quality memmory so my friend agrees the swap is not needed. It wouldn't hurt to reserve a disk partition for swap, though, as it will be more difficult (and risky) to add it afterwards. But then, a swap file is also another way to go... -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: libc6 in unstable
On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 22:48:12 +0100 Carlos Sousa wrote: Do you think I could upgrade to the new libc6 without major system breakage? Went ahead with it, no breakage till now, except for systat complaining with date: relocation error: /lib/libpthread.so.0: symbol __libc_pthread_init, version GLIBC_PRIVATE not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference I can live with that till it's fixed. Thanks Greg, Andreas, David. -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sed question
On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 10:20:46 +1000 John Habermann wrote: I have tried things like the following: sed -e 's/^w.*\s//' log thinking that it would delete from the beginning of the line to the first white space but it deletes all matched expressions. (man sed, man grep) It seems you mean 's/^\w*\s//' Unfortunately, it seems sed doesn't understand the \w and \s escape sequences, unlike grep. Better try: sed 's/^[[:alnum:]]*[[:space:]]*//' -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sed question
On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 22:38:58 +1000 John Habermann wrote: I tried: cat temp | sed 's/^[[:alpha:]]*[[:space:]]*//' log Where temp is: test.wilderness.org.au/about_us/whatistwsck 203.48.59.163 - - [26/Aug/2003 08:14:01] GET http://test.wilderness.org.au/about_us/whatistws HTTP/1.0 200 20872 - Dillo/0.7.3 TCP_MISS:DIRECT but that just removes the test from .wilderness That's right, [:alpha:] only gets letters, and [:alnum:] letters and digits, missing the dots, slashes, etc. This will work: sed 's/^[^[:space:]]*[[:space:]]*//' meaning 'scrap all non-blanks and following blanks, from the start of the line. I thought I would be able to use grep and sed to do the job for me and I can use grep to filter them in separate log files but I now need to delete that first virtual host entry so I can use webalizer to analyse the seperate log files. I have read the info page for sed and looked at tutorials and the faq but haven't seen been able to really understand the options. Don't worry, it comes with practice Cheers, -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /var/lib/dpkg/status problem
On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 17:03:34 +0100 Aengus Walton wrote: I searched the debian-user list and found that others had this problem and fixed it by appending the line APT::Cache-Limits 25165824; to ^ remove the extra 's' My line is: APT::Cache-Limit 16777216; Cheers, -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Logging into X remotely
On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 22:45:07 +0100 Piers Kittel wrote: Sorry about not being very clear... I'm just trying to explain what I would like to do - the requirements I said earlier isn't set into stone - let me try again: I've got a 1.4GHz Athlon PC and a 100MHz 486 laptop. I'd like the 100MHz laptop to log in and use the power of the Athlon rather than processing everything locally on the 486 - as much as possible would be nice. Have you already tried my suggestion, or Steve's? I use VNC myself for just these cases, but XDMCP seems to be an equally feasible solution (never tried it myself). -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: tab completion in bash
On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 11:06:46 +0200 Borislav Petkov wrote: when i type a program name at the bash prompt and then auto-complete for a filename by pressing Tab it deliberately (i think) selects only those files that can be opened with the aforegoing program's name. Example, kuickview - .jpg, .gif etc. Where can i tweak this bash behavior so that I could tell it to recognize .m2v files as to be opened with mplayer, for example? In bash, type 'help compgen' and 'help complete' and check: /etc/bash_completion /etc/bash_completion.d/ -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Logging into X remotely
On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 04:06:39 -0700 Steve Lamb wrote: On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 11:42:09 +0100 Piers Kittel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible at all for X on a computer to log in another computer remotely? Yes. Look into XDMCP. Another option would be VNC. -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Logging into X remotely
On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 04:19:42 -0700 Steve Lamb wrote: On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 12:16:00 +0100 Carlos Sousa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 04:06:39 -0700 Steve Lamb wrote: On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 11:42:09 +0100 Piers Kittel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible at all for X on a computer to log in another computer remotely? Yes. Look into XDMCP. Another option would be VNC. Not with the parameters he specified. Eg local X server, no remote X server. His post is not clear, but I think he means it the other way around (parenthesis are mine): I.e. one computer has XDM and WMaker on it, but without an XFree86 server (the client?), another computer has a XFree86 server (the server?), the computer with WMaker on, logs on to the XFree86 and shows the XDM login dialog box (???), and then logs into the server, and see the whole display just as if it was on the other computer? It's not exactly clear what he means, though, but this business of logging in to another computer's display is easily achievable with VNC, even if he has to scrap his original requirement details, whatever they were. Cheers, -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Quoting
On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 13:30:53 +0200 Yves Goergen wrote: On Saturday, August 30, 2003 1:07 PM CEST, Paul Johnson wrote: I think it's better to stop this discussion, stay by my OE and ignore any complaints about it. Cool, then you should perhaps do the same and stop complaining about those irritating PGP signatures that your mailer cannot handle, since that is a direct consequence of your choice. -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Quoting
On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 12:48:56 +0100 Carlos Sousa wrote: On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 13:30:53 +0200 Yves Goergen wrote: On Saturday, August 30, 2003 1:07 PM CEST, Paul Johnson wrote: ^^ Oops, forgot to delete this line. Sorry. I think it's better to stop this discussion, stay by my OE and ignore any complaints about it. Cool, then you should perhaps do the same and stop complaining about those irritating PGP signatures that your mailer cannot handle, since that is a direct consequence of your choice. -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: scsi device for cdrdao
On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 12:17:21 -0400 Rick Pasotto wrote: I did three things: chown root.cdrom /dev/sg0 OK. chown root.cdrom /usr/bin/cdrdao chmod u+s /usr/bin/cdrdao If I were you I would reverse these 2 steps. All you should need after the first step above is to add your user to the cdrom group. adduser user cdrom -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
libc6 in unstable
Could anybody running unstable please tell me if there are any current major problems with libc6 currently in unstable, version 2.3.2-4, for the i386 platform? I'm tracking testing, but there are quite a few packages I usually get from unstable (openoffice.org, sylpheed, mozilla, etc), that are currently piling up on my wait queue because of their recent dependency on libc6 = 2.3.2, which I've learnt to treat with the utmost respect... Do you think I could upgrade to the new libc6 without major system breakage? Thanks, -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Tool for sending Windows popup messages?
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 10:49:44 -0700 Vineet Kumar wrote: * Carlos Sousa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030826 07:25]: On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 18:53:47 -0700 Vineet Kumar wrote: * Joe Emenaker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030825 17:03]: Is there some Debian tool that would let me specify an IP and a message and it would handle the delivery without making me bother with finding out the NetBIOS name, etc.? Did you try smbclient's -I option? Seems to need the netbios name all the same. I haven't tried it I have. $ echo 'hello' | smbclient -M pc-049 added interface ip=127.0.0.1 bcast=127.255.255.255 nmask=255.0.0.0 added interface ip=192.168.0.1 bcast=192.168.0.255 nmask=255.255.255.0 Connected. Type your message, ending it with a Control-D sent 7 bytes $ echo 'hello' | smbclient -I 192.168.0.67 -M pc-049 added interface ip=127.0.0.1 bcast=127.255.255.255 nmask=255.0.0.0 added interface ip=192.168.0.1 bcast=192.168.0.255 nmask=255.255.255.0 Connected. Type your message, ending it with a Control-D sent 7 bytes $ echo 'hello' | smbclient -I 192.168.0.67 -M XX added interface ip=127.0.0.1 bcast=127.255.255.255 nmask=255.0.0.0 added interface ip=192.168.0.1 bcast=192.168.0.255 nmask=255.255.255.0 session request failed , so I could be wrong, but: ... ... then so is the man page. Apparently. Cheers, -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A bit OT: iptables rules for simple network traffic accounting
I'm using a very simple technique for keeping a count of the traffic volume through my Internet connection, using 2 additional iptables rules and a script run regularly by cron, but the amount of available packages that deal with this issue, involving daemons and whatnot, makes me wonder if my approach is not perhaps a bit simplistic and has problems I'm not aware of. So I'd be grateful for any hints or warnings you may provide. The 2 iptables rules: iptables -t mangle -A PREROUTING -i $IFACE -j MARK --set-mark 1 iptables -t mangle -A POSTROUTING -o $IFACE -j MARK --set-mark 2 Then, iptables -L on the appropriate table/chain gives the byte counts for the incoming and outgoing traffic. Successive runs of the command can then be used for extrapolating hourly, daily, monthly, etc. traffic volume rates, if the tables aren't flushed or the counts zeroed in the meantime. As I understand it, packets travel through the system like this (simplified): (network) v mangle PREROUTING | nat PREROUTING . . . mangle POSTROUTING | nat POSTROUTING v (network) So mangle/PREROUTING and nat/POSTROUTING should be the appropriate entry and exit points to establish the byte-counting traps for ALL the packets that REALLY come in or go out through the interface. But I could only find a harmless target (MARK) for the mangle table, so I'm using it instead of the nat one for the outgoing packets. Results till now seem reasonable: 20030826-02 1061852402 eth0 in:6163358 out:5261251 total:11424609 20030826-120003 1061895603 eth0 in:63503498 out:60344946 total:123848444 -- +107mb, 214mb/day, 6gb/month 20030827-03 1061938803 eth0 in:191612289 out:124605420 total:316217709 -- +183mb, 367mb/day, 10gb/month 20030827-120002 1061982002 eth0 in:274144578 out:194747557 total:468892135 -- +145mb, 291mb/day, 8gb/month Is this really trapping all the traffic? Is the iptables' MARK target really innocuous concerning packet routing decisions (it's not used in all my other iptables' rules)? Any problems I'm unaware of? I've made this available through http://vbc.dyndns.org/~carlos/share/index.html Thanks for any comments. -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Tool for sending Windows popup messages?
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 18:53:47 -0700 Vineet Kumar wrote: * Joe Emenaker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030825 17:03]: Is there some Debian tool that would let me specify an IP and a message and it would handle the delivery without making me bother with finding out the NetBIOS name, etc.? Did you try smbclient's -I option? Seems to need the netbios name all the same. -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /etc/rc.boot
On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 12:55:13 +0200 martin f krafft wrote: /etc/init.d/rcS says that /etc/rc.boot is run only for compatibility. What's the Debian standard for rc.local/rc.boot now? Please don't make me write init.d scripts for every single line I need. /etc/inittab and /etc/cron.d:@reboot are not really options... What's wrong with /etc/rcS.d ? Just put a script there, or a symlink to one. -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fetchmail error
On 16 Aug 2003 22:26:31 -0400 Kevin Mark wrote: On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 18:25, Kevin Mark wrote: Hi deb-users, could anyone point me in the right direction. pop3 server-fetchmail-sendmail-pop3 client (evolution) Fetchmail issues an SMTP error and cant continue getting the rest of my email. snip After I used evolution to d/l my mail directly, I saw the previous posts about a possible bug in the debian-user email list software. Can anyone suggest a command in Sendmail that will do what 'headers_check_syntax false, headers_sender_verify false' will do in exim 4? The line FEATURE(`accept_unresolvable_domains')dnl in /etc/mail/sendmail.mc might be what you're looking for. HTH. -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful (was Re: Look
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 16:29:23 -0700 Alan Connor wrote: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Aug 6 16:21:40 2003 On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 09:10:03 -0700, Alan Connor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... For all that you do in trying to fight the spam problem, I find it ironic that you yourself are contributing to the problem through your mail headers. You're grossly violating your own netiquette that you previously preached to us regarding PGP/GPG signatures. ... Either this is a sick joke (and a poor one at that) or it is criminal. Either that, or you're the sick joke. Here's the From: header from the email I'm replying to: From: Alan Connor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do you also have an account at my service provider? Or is it that you're just incapable of setting up your mail system to show the real origin of your emails? Anyway, you're incurring in mail forgery. -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: from knoppix3.2 - where?
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 00:33:59 +0100 Richard Lyons wrote: On Tuesday 05 August 2003 23:52, Carlos Sousa wrote: From Knoppix's changelog and package list, I should think the OP is rather tracking unstable. The sources.list provided with Knoppix include some stable, quite few testing and some unstable URLs, Bit of a mess, then. Perhaps you should check /etc/apt/apt.conf for a line containing the key Default-Release and its value, that would pin the distribution. Also, is there a /etc/apt/preferences file? so I guess I should comment some out. I'm just not sure which... If you don't mind the lack of security updates in testing, then perhaps you could pin it down in apt.conf (via Default-Release), comment out the unstable URLs in sources.list and run 'dselect update'. The slew of packages from unstable already on the system will remain until new versions enter testing. Or, depending on your Linux/Unix skills and self-confidence, just go with unstable. -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Testing-Unstable question
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 07:59:44 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On a laptop I had only sources for stable and testing. I had also just done apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade. I then added unstable to sources.list and created apt.conf: laptop:~$ cat /etc/apt/apt.conf APT::Default-Release testing; APT::Cache-Limit 1000; and then did another apt-get update to update my cache. Then I did this: laptop:/etc/apt# apt-get -s dist-upgrade ... 14 packages upgraded, 9 newly installed, 2 to remove and 6 not upgraded. Why is anything changing? I didn't specify -t unstable to read in packages from unstable, so I'm not clear why it would install anything (since my testing machine was up to date). If you want to be able to access packages from unstable while keeping normal apt operations restricted to testing, you have to pin unstable to a value lower than 100 in your /etc/apt/preferences file. The reason for adding the unstable sources was because I wanted a newer version of mozilla. I suppose I should quit being a weenie and just run sid. Suit yourself. Probably better for security reasons, and to keep your adrenalin in a nice state of flow :) -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful (was Re: Look
On Thu, 07 Aug 2003 08:10:30 -0500 John Hasler wrote: Carlos Sousa writes: Do you also have an account at my service provider? Or is it that you're just incapable of setting up your mail system to show the real origin of your emails? Anyway, you're incurring in mail forgery. No he isn't. His From: line reads From: alanc. As it contains no domain your service provider's MTA adds its own. He's still doing something stupid, but it isn't forgery. Yes, I was aware of that. It's still forgery, though, in the sense that, through his ignorance, he is causing his email to appear to others as coming from non-existent addresses, in spite of having already been warned about it several times since the start of this discussion. -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: from knoppix3.2 - where?
On Tue, 05 Aug 2003 16:32:42 -0400 Howell Evans wrote: My knoppix knowledge is meger, but if its anything like the debian install you are running stable. From Knoppix's changelog and package list, I should think the OP is rather tracking unstable. -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can't read large files from CD
On 01 Aug 2003 11:04:04 -0700 Jeremy Brooks wrote: Hi, I'm using debian testing, on an IBM thinkpad A31. I am attempting to copy large (600MB) files from CD to my HD. I am getting i/o errors: cp: reading `/cdrom/The Fifth Element.avi': Input/output error I used to get this when I was using dma on my cd reader. Went away when I turned dma off (hdparm -d 0 /dev/hdc). -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Smaller margins in postscript documents.
On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 14:54:07 +0200 Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote: I want to shrink the margins of postscript documents, thereby enlarging the text to occupy a larger portion of each page. Any suggestions? pstops, in the psutils package. Man is your friend. -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT:Any tips on burning knoppix cdr
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 09:24:23 -0500 John Foster wrote: I have tried to burn 4 Knoppix cdr's using different programs including trying windoze nero with the exact same results.the cd burns but does not produce a bootable cd. Their web site seems to indicate that if you can sucessfully burn a cd with the Knoppi.iso file that it should boot. That has not worked. I was wondering if I need to try using the el torrito boot feature plus the image. The KNOPPIX_xxx.iso is already a cd filesystem image, prepared to be burnt directly onto a cd, so you have to skip the filesystem image creation stage. Whatever features are necessary for booting are already included in the image file. Under linux, something like: cdrecord dev=0,0,0 speed=4 -v -dao -data KNOPPIX_xxx.iso should work without problems (has always worked for me). The dev= numbers can be obtained by running 'cdrecord -scanbus', and the speed= should be adjusted to your drive's capabilities. HTH, -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Low latency patch worth the fuss?
Not responding to the OP's mail since I already deleted it. On 15 Jun 2003 18:57:05 -0500 Shyamal Prasad wrote: debian == debian iwk writes: debian Hi there, I'm just ripping a few CDs' with Grip and even debian with nice level -20 for both ripping encoding the system ^^ debian drags noticeably. If you mean you give the ripping/encoding processes the maximum priority then no wonder the system drags noticeably. Try a nice level of +15 or some such, this will push their priority below that of other running programs, and thus improve general system responsiveness. Take a bit longer to do the ripping/encoding, unfortunately... -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What is the best Xfree Setup Program?
On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 02:22:58 +0100 Colin Watson wrote: On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 01:55:53AM +0100, Carlos Sousa wrote: On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 17:54:24 -0400 Geordie Birch wrote: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 will allow you to reconfigure X, but will not re-detect the hardware; you must purge/reinstall xserver-xfree86 to accomplish this. This prompted me to go look in /var/lib/dpkg/info/, and xserver-xfree86.config seems to have something to do with it. Unfortunately, it seems to be meant to be run by other utilities, not directly by the user. dpkg-reconfigure, above, is one of the utilities in question. I imagined so, but I was trying to understand why dpkg-reconfigure wouldn't be enough to fully perform the necessary hardware detection and server reconfiguration. Doesn't it retread the same steps as the package postinstall scripts? Shouldn't it? Going through the purge/install charade seems like a very poor solution. The dpkg-reconfigure man page indicates that it runs with sane defaults (priority low, both seen and unseen questions). So why wouldn't a 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86' be able to do the same as the purge/install? If this is true (haven't checked it myself), perhaps a bug (normal?) should be filed against the xserver-xfree86 package. -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fstab Mystery
On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 22:05:17 +0200 Mark Annandale wrote: Hi Guys This is an extract from my /etc/fstab - /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 ntfs,ro,noauto,users,exec,uid=mark,gid=mark 0 0. ^^^ ^ 1 - ntfs should be separated by space/tab from whatever follows. 2- users - user. Not a mount expert, though :) HTH -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What is the best Xfree Setup Program?
On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 17:54:24 -0400 Geordie Birch wrote: On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 09:52:09AM -0700, Jake Johnson wrote: ... Is there any new programs that will aid in the Xfree problems. Redhat has a fairly good video detection software and I hope that debian has created something similar or better. Courtesy of apt in #debian: set up x is, like, To set up X in woody, sarge or sid, apt-get install discover read-edid mdetect dpkg --force-depends -P xserver-xfree86 apt-get install xserver-xfree86 (or x-window-system-core instead of xserver-xfree86 if you don't have it yet) dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 will allow you to reconfigure X, but will not re-detect the hardware; you must purge/reinstall xserver-xfree86 to accomplish this. This prompted me to go look in /var/lib/dpkg/info/, and xserver-xfree86.config seems to have something to do with it. Unfortunately, it seems to be meant to be run by other utilities, not directly by the user. -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: testing -- kdebase-audiolibs dependency
On Fri, 06 Jun 2003 18:18:59 -0600 Harshwardhan Nagaonkar wrote: Carlos Sousa wrote: dpkg --remove kdebase-audiolibs kde kdebase-dev Yes, that worked. Thanks so much. Does this mean that we can post to the debian bug-list place and tell them to put this solution there. Or is it just a really good workaround? This is absolutely not a solution to the bug. We were *very* lucky that only these 3 packages triggered the apt bug, if other more important (to us) packages were involved we would have a disfunctional apt managing our system. Anyway, glad I could be of help. -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ACPI HOWTO (draft #2)
On Fri, 6 Jun 2003 18:33:10 -0400 Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: For those who are interested I've got my second draft of an ACPI HOWTO online. http://xtrinsic.com/geek/articles/acpi.phtml Please feel free to let me know if you there are any parts which are unclear or flat-out wrong. :) emma Cool. I'm about to purchase a laptop, I'm certain I'll find your HOWTO invaluable :) Minor correction in the kernel unpack section: ... rm linux assuming that's a link to your old kernel ln -s /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-fresh linux ^^ ? -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: testing -- kdebase-audiolibs dependency
On Fri, 06 Jun 2003 12:34:28 -0600 Harshwardhan Nagaonkar wrote: Hello all, I have been trying to upgrade a testing system for about 2 weeks now. I have noticed that there is this following issue: [...] #apt-get upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Calculating Upgrade... Failed Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: kde: Depends: kdebase-audiolibs but it is not going to be installed or kdebase3-audiolibs but it is not installable E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages. [...] If I try to fix this manually with: [...] #apt-get install kdebase3-audiolibs [...] E: Package kdebase3-audiolibs has no installation candidate [...] So then I tried this: [...] #apt-get install kdebase-audiolibs [...] Sorry, kdebase-audiolibs is already the newest version. [...] Happened to me also, see bug #194224 ( http://bugs.debian.org/194224 ) The problem went away when I uninstalled kdebase-audiolibs. You'll lose packages kde (virtual, no harm done) and kdebase-dev (development, not needed for kde usage). Also, upgrading to kde 3.1.2 in unstable will take care of it, but that's a whole new ballgame... HTH, -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: testing -- kdebase-audiolibs dependency
On Fri, 06 Jun 2003 14:45:37 -0600 Harshwardhan Nagaonkar wrote: Please don't Cc: me on list mail. Just reply to the list, I'll be sure to read it :) Carlos Sousa wrote: On Fri, 06 Jun 2003 12:34:28 -0600 Harshwardhan Nagaonkar wrote: Hello all, I have been trying to upgrade a testing system for about 2 weeks now. snip The problem went away when I uninstalled kdebase-audiolibs. You'll lose packages kde (virtual, no harm done) and kdebase-dev (development, not needed for kde usage). snip I read the bug report. It was interesting, but I only saw your bug filed, I couldn't see the solution if it was there. If I did miss it, please forgive my inability to see and post it here please. That's it, there are no further postings to the bug. Here is what I did by interpreting what you said about removing kdebase-audiolibs... I tried to uninstall kdebase-audiolibs with #apt-get remove kdebase-audiolibs , but it gave the following error: *** # apt-get remove kdebase-audiolibs Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that the package is simply not installable and a bug report against that package should be filed. The following information may help to resolve the situation: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: kde: Depends: kdebase-audiolibs but it is not going to be installed or kdebase3-audiolibs but it is not installable E: Sorry, broken packages *** Should have warned you about this and advise you to use dpkg. Sorry :( Then I tried many combinations of forcing it to do it like apt-get remove -m kdebase-audiolibs, but to no avail. Then I read up some more in $man apt-get and it suggested manually uninstalling using dpkg in extreme cases. So I used dpkg, but it would not let me do it right away. So I used dpkg with forcing : * #dpkg --remove --force-all kdebase-audiolibs dpkg: kdebase-audiolibs: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you request: kde depends on kdebase-audiolibs | kdebase3-audiolibs; however: Package kdebase-audiolibs is to be removed. Package kdebase3-audiolibs is not installed. (Reading database ... 76702 files and directories currently installed.) Removing kdebase-audiolibs ... *** Then when I try to an apt-get dist-upgrade, it installs kdebase-audiolibs again and nothing else!!! Don't fight the package management. As long as kde and kdebase-dev are on the system, apt will try to satisfy its dependencies. Just try: dpkg --remove kdebase-audiolibs kde kdebase-dev and you should be ok. What is the command/route that you used to get rid of kdebase-audiolibs in such a way as to solve the problem (apt-get remove -fm, dpkg --force etc) ? And once you got it to uninstall, which command fixed things back to normal? Try the above, you should be fine. Good luck. -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
