Re: Auto-ripping music CDs
Looking at vold might be a place to start. I'm not sure how it would handle audio CDs, but I bet it would know about media changes, etc. - Original Message - From: Andrew Pritchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian User List debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 5:26 PM Subject: Auto-ripping music CDs I've been using the rather excellent abcde cd ripping software for some time in one of my servers at home. I've got it setup now so that it hardly ever requires any intervention from a user - apart from logging in and starting the script off and that's a step I'd like to get round if I can. I was wondering how I could get the machine to: 1) Watch for a CD being put into the machine (some kind of automounting daemon I'm guessing) 2) If it's a music CD then run abcde, and eject the cd when it's done. (Perhaps running abcde, and when it can't grab music from the data cd then go onto item 3) 3) Otherwise mount the cd according to /etc/fstab Has anyone done this, or can they suggest a possible solution. It's a woody box, running a 2.4.18 kernel. Thanks in advance, Andrew I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire (1694-1778) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: URGENT md question: RAID partitions lack device nodes
Unless something with raidtools has drastically changed and I didn't notice, there is no such thing as partitioning an md device. Instead, you'd partition the disks themselves, and then create RAID 1s from those partitions. E.g., instead of making hda1 and hdb1 into md0 and trying to partition md0, partition hda and hdb in identical ways and then create RAID 1s md0, md1, md2, etc. - Original Message - From: Ralf G. R. Bergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian GNU/Linux User Mailing List debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 4:39 PM Subject: URGENT md question: RAID partitions lack device nodes Hi there, I need to operate two disks in RAID1 mode (mirroring.) I've set up raidtab and constructed the raid (/dev/md0.) I've also partitioned it using cfdisk: md0p5 Logical Linux 100.00* md0p6 Logical Linux 768.00 md0p7 Logical Linux 500.00 md0p8 Logical Linux 4000.01 md0p9 Logical Linux 10933.00 md0p10 Logical Linux 2000.13 HOWEVER I can't mkfs the individual (pseudo) partitions because the device nodes are missing, and MAKEDEV doesn't know how to create them either. What am I doing wrong? BTW, I'm running kernel 2.4.17 and Debian testing (Woody.) Thanks, Ralf -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: eepro100 with P4 (Gateway E-3600)
Right, I don't have the URLs handy but what you'll find looking around is that the problem is often related to usage on 10BaseT networks. I ended up downloading a utility to flip a few bits on the card, then the driver seems to be OK on my 10BaseT network. Intel has information on the problem. - Original Message - From: Faheem Mitha [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Thedore Knab [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2002 8:38 PM Subject: Re: eepro100 with P4 (Gateway E-3600) On 3 Mar 2002, Thedore Knab wrote: I was wondering if anyone has Linux running on a Gateway E-3600. I recompiled the kernel with 2.4.17 and the eepro100. Are there any issues with the eepro100 and and the 2.4.17 ? During downloads, the machine locks up tighter than a clam. This lookup occurs in and out of X, so I don't think it is an X problem. I am also using the nv frame buffer rather than the NV driver. I don't see any errors in the syslogs. Maybe I am using the wrong module. Any ideas ? Specs for Gatway E-3600: Pentium 4 1500Mhz 512 MB 133 Mhz RAM GeForce 2 MX: 32MB NVIDIA(TM) AGP Graphics Accelerator 40GB 7200RPM Ultra ATA100 hard drive Integrated Intel 10/100 (EV) Ethernet Adapter Integrated Sound Blaster compatible audio IDE 20x min./48x max. CD-ROM drive - Ted Knab This is a known problem with the eepro100 driver, though it doesn't have anything to do with 2.4.17 or the other hardware you have, I don't think. It seems to be a relatively kernel-independent issue. I experienced it myself, and you'll find extensive discussion of it, along with other issues, on the eepro100 mailing list. However, I would not waste your time going there. Just try the Intel driver. The kernel module source is available as Debian package e100-source. I tried this with 2.4.17. Previous to this I was getting lockups around 20 to 30 seconds into a heavy download (like apt-get does) on a reproducible, regular basis. After switching to e100 all problems went away. Warning: the e100 driver has its own issues, so it is not certain to fix your problem. But certainly give it a try. Sincerely, Faheem Mitha. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kernel 2.4.17...2 strange things
Today i upgared from potato to woody... with: dselect update apt-get dist-upgrade (just mentioning it cause this might be the wrong way?) And i switched to a 2.4.17 kernel. Now i have 2 NICsdifferent brands...realtek and 3com. eth0, the realtek, connnectiong to the net and eth1 for the LAN, which is a 3com ISAPNP NIC. Both are compiled into the kernel. First thing i noticed that the NICs had switchedrealtek became eth1 and 3com eth0grrr. Look at the Ethernet HOWTO, it covers assigning these. Test at boot, then used 'append' in LILO. The examples are kind of spread out, but look at the stuff for 3COM ISA cards. By default the system applies eth0 to the first card found, so a brute-force solution is to try swapping the cards... The other problem is that with my previous 2.2.19 kernel the 3com was detected at IRQ7 and 0x300 which is what it is set to... (checked with the 3com utils) But with 2.4.17 it gives me IRQ12 and base 220which is the PS2 port IRQ...(so no mouse either) I checked again with the 3com utils and the card was still set to 7/300 From what i can tell i did compile the kernel with all the right options including PNPisa. How do i solve this? Start by seeing if you can get the eth0/eth1 assignments back the way you like them. it might fix things. You didn't change any BIOS settings that would affect IRQ assignments, did you? If you load the NIC drivers as modules, then how they're assigned to eth0 and eth1 should be, I think, a function of aliases in /etc/modules.conf. IOW I literally have alias eth0 eepro100 in my woody system's modules.conf (put there by my having a file containing that in /etc/modutils/local and my running update-modules). I don't see why you couldn't have alias eth0 driver for preferred NIC for eth0 alias eth1 driver for preferred NIC for eth1 Down side is you have to maintain this. Up side is that you're in control. And another thing...i also noticed that on mounted vfat windows partitions every file and every directory now gets marked as executable... Is this normal? The 'ls -l' output for vfat is mostly bogus, the vfat file system doesn't really have those properties. I wouldn't trust anything except for the filename modify date. BTW: Because you replied to a message and changed the title when you started this thread, your email got buried in a different thread instead of starting a new one. Next time you post, just start with a new message. HTH, Paul -- Paul Mackinney | Another look at Sept 11 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.copvcia.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Borked mouse
My woody workstation's (2.4.17 kernel) mouse is acting a little funky like that--typically brought on by heavy CPU load (from casual observation). /etc/init.d/gpm stop /etc/init.d/gpm start will always resolve it, but I'm hoping I'll see a new gpm deb come over pretty soon--hearing other people's experiences makes me suspect something there. - Original Message - From: Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ross Vandegrift [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 3:26 PM Subject: Re: Borked mouse Ross Vandegrift wrote: Hello all, I've got a big problem with my mouse on a Debian testing box. I began building up the box last Thursday for Friday and everything was going smoothly, including the mouse. Today, I power up the machine (untouched since Friday) and bam, I've got no mouse action. Swapping the mouse, mobo header, kernel version, and gpm version all come out to have these effects: 1) 'cat /dev/psaux' and move mouse prints garbage like it should 2) 'gpm -m /dev/psaux -t ps2' gives nothing. 3) A custom compiled gpm works like a charm with the above command line. Bug in the gpm deb? Ross Vandegrift [EMAIL PROTECTED] I noticed late last week that a newly built Sid box had trouble with the mouse. Running /etc/init.d/gpm once (like during the boot process) left the mouse dead; running it a second time brought the mouse to life. I didn't bother trying to track down the problem. I just decided to run gpm twice in a row to get by until the (presumed) bug was fixed. Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux RAM drive support/performance
Sure, I just happened across some at http://www.cdw.com/shop/search/results.asp?FilteredGroup=HSO but can't claim any experience with any of the hardware. Have fun! Cory, I saw them for $2K for 2 GB which is 3-4x the cost of the memory. I'm not sure how the performance would compare versus the virtual approach like you say--it is a little hard to believe it would justify the cost just on that. I have hunted all over for an actual RAM based drive in this price range. Any chance you remember where you found this drive? Thanks, Paul
Re: Linux RAM drive support/performance
If that's not the problem and you just really have an incredibly disk-intensive application, you might consider a solid state disk if it's really that important. You can buy them with IDE or SCSI interface, so they look and act like regular hard drives. This is a very good idea except for cost. Have you seen the price of solid state disks? The cheapest ones I've seen are over $50K. Do you know of any cheaper ones? The new motherboards will probably be able to support more than 4GB leaving room for a cheap virtual solid state drive... I saw them for $2K for 2 GB which is 3-4x the cost of the memory. I'm not sure how the performance would compare versus the virtual approach like you say--it is a little hard to believe it would justify the cost just on that. However there would be other benefits to having it in hardware. For example I'd love to see a server boot off one. 8)
Re: Linux RAM drive support/performance
You mention heavy activity and drive fatigue--is your system thrashing? Maybe it doesn't have enough physical memory to begin with. If that's not the problem and you just really have an incredibly disk-intensive application, you might consider a solid state disk if it's really that important. You can buy them with IDE or SCSI interface, so they look and act like regular hard drives. Does Linux support any RAM drive(s)? How much faster are these drives over an attached drive? Is there a CPU performance penalty? We would like to replace our mechanical drive with a small (4GB) RAM drive. The mechanical drive is getting pounded 24 hours a day. In addition to fatigue, the extra performance would be nice. Is it true the x86 architecture is limited to 32 bit addressing and will never support more than 4GB of address space? Trying to see what the limitation will be. I know this is a lot of questions. As always, any help is appreciated. Regards, Paul
Re: What's the reasonable time to mirror a hard disk?
It's possible you might actually want a software RAID 1, which would keep the partitions duplicated in real time, and if one fails, the file system would still be usable. Of course the partitions are not really meant to be mounted directly--they're meant to be treated as a single RAID unit. Maybe that's not what you meant at all. If you really do want to dd one partition to the other, I think it couldn't hurt to increase dd's block size a little more. Why use a spoon when you can use a shovel? - Original Message - From: Yuwen Dai [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2001 11:44 PM Subject: What's the reasonable time to mirror a hard disk? Hi, All I have two identical hard disk linked with one cable. The capacity of each disk is 40G. I want to have the second disk be the mirror of the first disk by using this command: dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=32k Nearly 2 hours passed, dd still hadn't finished. I had to press 'Ctrl-C' to stop it. Is this the right way to mirror a disk? Or is there some better way to do this? Thanks in advance. Best regards, Dai Yuwen _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mixed up RAID-0 arrayt
*Is* a drive actually missing? Can fdisk see partition tables on all your stripes? If you really lost one of your stripes, then by the laws of RAID 0 you just lost your whole set. I only use RAID 0 on expendable stuff. BTW, it's been my experience that if there are persistent superblocks present, /etc/raidtab changes won't have any effect. Failure wrote: Well, I wasn't as careful as I should have been (read: no backups of old config files for reference) out of habit, and it's finally got me into big trouble. I have a four disk RAID-0 array holding a couple years worth of /home and also backups of /var and /mp3 (which are both gone from elsewhere). I've tried a few things like rearranging /etc/raidtab to the way I think it may be since the drive numbers have changed, and running raidstart /dev/md/0, but it tells me the drives are out of order and a drive is missing. The array is set up with persistent superblocks so before I screwed it up it was autodetected at startup. The box is running 2.4.7 with an unstable build of raidtools2 (I think) from source a few months back. I obviously don't fully understand what I'm doing, can somebody help me out with getting the array back in order? I haven't touched the drives themselves, and they were properly unmounted before I mixed them up, so everything else should be fine. -- Andrew W. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://failsure.net/ http://home.cwru.edu/~agw4/ -- Debian GNU/Linux Georgia State U. CS/Networking UG -- VW bus driver -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: swapon and raid systems
I have a couple of systems that use kernel RAIDs (specifically, mirrors). The systems also have regular (non-mirrored) partitions for swap. When the systems boot, the swap partitions don't get installed. I have isolated it to the fact that the boot scripts first grep for resync in /proc/mdstat, and only run swapon if the grep fails (i.e, there's no resync string in /proc/mdstat). Which boot script is that? I can understand the logic of not wanting to swap on an md device that's getting a RAID resync, but it surprises me that even non-mirrored swap would be passed over as well. Unfortunately, it appears that at boot time, these systems *always* have resync in mdstat, because swap never seems to be added after a reboot. Which leads to some questions: 1. what is the purpose of this check? 2. is it normal for my raids to always be resyncing at boot (*)? 3. suggestions for a good (maintainable) approach to ensuring that my non-RAID swap partitions always get enabled at boot? (*) Thinking back, I think that all of the reboots on these systems have been due to abnormal causes (i.e., a power failure yesterday), so maybe resyncing is normal after unplanned reboots? All of my raidtools experience is with RedHat, but if you watch a graceful shutdown closely, the last thing the kernel should do is mark each RAID member's superblock with a clean flag. Then that's used when the device is raidstarted again. If all members are clean, then no resync is needed; otherwise, generally it is. I'm reasonably sure that's what forcing your resyncs at boot. I'd recommend watching a few graceful reboots closely to see exactly what's happening with the resyncs and with the swap activation.
Re: FW: OT : GUI Interfaces
Not sure why this Karsten Self person is being so hard on you. I encourage you to patiently and humbly persist and suggest we both ignore the whining noise. 8) Anyway, I think you'll find in researching this that in a very superficial sense Linux + X is analagous (although *not* equivalent) to DOS + Windows. However with the further abstraction X provides of the window manager layer versus the underlying window management system, you as a user have much more freedom and flexibility. I use Enlightenment as a window manager. Other people use other window managers they like. We are all running X underneath. Windows has no notion of this, as everything is all rolled into one. No choices, no flexibility, no true customization. It is true that X is not lightweight. I'm not aware of a window environment that is. You gotta have a lot of stuff in there. I do feel that X is more lightweight than Windows 2000, FWIW. And like folks have said, it's extremely powerful and flexible, which implies complexity. Now, if you're looking for something truly lightweight, I would consider curses-based text mode. You can't get much more lightweight than that, and you can still create what could be considered GUI, it'd be mouse-driven, and it'd run snappily on just about anything. This is of course another strength of a Linux environment. Don't want a full-blown window system? Fine--don't run one. *You* put the pieces together depending on what you need. You may be interested in http://packages.debian.org/stable/base/libncurses5.html , http://packages.debian.org/stable/libs/libcurses-perl.html , http://packages.debian.org/stable/libs/perlmenu.html . If you do decide to go the X route, Tcl/Tk is extremely cool and so is the Tk family of modules for Perl, although I wouldn't necessarily characterize the latter as lightweight. - Original Message - From: Joris Lambrecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Karsten M. Self' kmself@ix.netcom.com; debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 4:24 AM Subject: RE: FW: OT : GUI Interfaces Thanks, i'll look into that so i won't be the dumb ass i'm now -Original Message- From: Karsten M. Self [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: donderdag 12 april 2001 1:44 To: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' Subject: Re: FW: OT : GUI Interfaces on Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 05:05:21PM +0200, Joris Lambrecht ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: hmmm, i don't think you're missing anything, X does indeed provide a graphicall shell to run a gui on, i'll have to rephrase my question to, does anyone know a GOOD desktop that doesn't weigh a TON on an older system. Or more precisely, an environment where you don't have to manually configure your menu's, that's a plus in the windows os desktop you know maybe i just need a good read on X and gui's ? any resource would be welcome ... Debian configures most menus for you. WindowMaker, my preference. Gratuitous screenshots at http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Images/Desktop/ It's running very happily on my PPro 180MHz/256MB system (at 96MB until November 2000). Other good middlin' options include BlackBox, SawFish (formerly SawMill). Purists often tend toward fvwm2. There's a good overview of window managers at the Window Managers for X page: http://www.plig.org/xwinman/ -- Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.comhttp://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of Gestalt don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: installing win98 after everthing else....
I can answer part of this. I haven't done anything quite so complex as that, but I did use Linux fdisk to partition my disk like I wanted it, then installed Windows 98, let it have its way with my MBR, *then* installed Debian and let LILO lay down a nice new MBR that boots to my Windows 98 FAT32 partition, which I think is /dev/hda2. That partition is a primary that's not at the start of the disk, but being ignorant of all things non-Micro$oft, Windows just sees it as C: and is completely satisfied with that. DOS fdisk is a little confused by the setup but deals with it--I can't quite remember--however there's no way you get partition a disk like I have with DOS fdisk; it's just not flexible enough. In your case, I think you should be fine pulling the master, reconfiguring your partition as FAT32, and installing Windows 98 there, and (I guess) who cares about the MBR on what will be the slave. Once you put back in the master, you won't even have to boot from a floppy to change your MBR, as your master's MBR will have been safe and sound sitting on your desk. 8) However, I'm not sure how Windows 98 will react when that master is back in there and drive letters may or may not be remapped. I guess you might try just real quickly setting up the new partition, booting DOS and formatting it with /s (being careful to figure out what partition is what!), then set up LILO and try to boot it, then see how all the drives map. If that boot drive maps to C:, like it will when the slave is temporarily the master, then I bet you'll be OK. If not, it may take more thinking. - Original Message - From: rich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2001 10:16 PM Subject: installing win98 after everthing else Howdy all, I've got a tri-boot box - linux, win95 and freebsd... I would like to install win98 and eventually erase win95. I have 2 hard drives configured as follows: master: /dev/hda1 win95 /dev/hda2 freebsd /dev/hda3 debian root /dev/hda4 debian swap slave: /dev/hdb1 extra ext2 primary /dev/hdb2 another ext2 primary /dev/hdb3 vfat primary /dev/hdb5 vfat logical /dev/hdb6 vfat logical /dev/hdb7 ext2 (/usr) logical /dev/hdb8 vfat logical /dev/hdb9 vfat logical /dev/hdb10 vfat logical What I want to do is change /dev/hdb1 to vfat, unplug my master, configure my slave as master temporarily, install Win98 on /dev/hdb1, then reassign original master / slave, put Win98 in Lilo and have a quad boot box for awhile whilst I get stuff tranferred from win95 to win98... my question is, will win98 allow itself to be installed on a partition of my choosing, or will it just erase everything and install itself wherever it wants? Thanks in advance, Rich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: potato-woody upgrade story, saga, nightmare
Bill, since my similar experience, I've seen plenty of other posts about the same thing. Thanks go to Joey for responding, although I agree that his answer is a little terse. What I take from it is that 1) that's what unstable is all about--needing to be prepared for some weirdness here and there, and 2) this is bug-related, i.e., the procedure you followed was correct, and the bug bit you, and getting out of it gracefully is purely a function of your experience and instinct with apt/dselect. However--and this is my main point--I, and I'm guessing plenty of others like me who feel like we're seasoned enough to start running unstable but got bit by this sort of problem, really would like to hear from some folks who have done recent upgrades to woody and had to resolve this stickiness. I certainly don't have any problem with learning by jumping in feet first--probably wouldn't be here if I didn't--but this one seems tough enough, confirmed by several others, that I think it would be really helpful if someone out there more experienced can tell us if there's really a systemic problem, if there was an easy way around, or if we just ignorantly did something wrong. 8) I'm certainly not upset about this. After reinstalling my system I set up LILO again to boot my NT partition, and it still looked as heinous as it ever has. 8) The best things in life are free, eh? TIA! Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bill Wohler wrote: So file some bug reports, that's what the debian bug tracking system is for, and that's what testing is for too -- so people can test it and tell us what's broken/ Hey Joey, where I could identify the package, I have done so. Unfortunately, in the case of the dependencies, I'm just so overwhelmed that I have absolutely no idea how to identify which packages have problems. Are there any tools that allow you to answer the question: Why did the update of these 100 packages cause these 30 perfectly good packages to get removed? This task is impossible to do by hand. Because so many X packages were affected, and because the debs were just plain GONE from woody, I suspect a problem with the process that migrates packages to woody. There's no package per se to report problems with that, is there? Hence my message to debian-user to alert the caretaker of the big woody that something was afoot at the Circle-K. (in cleanup) Can't call method DESTROY on an undefined value at /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/Question.pm line 251 during global destruction. (in cleanup) Can't call method close on an undefined value at /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/ConfModule.pm line 476 during global destruction. Don't bother filing a bug on this though, it's totally innocuous and fixed in unstable. Thanks for letting me know. That was in debconf? -- Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD Maintainer of comp.mail.mh FAQ and mh-e. Vote Libertarian! If you're passed on the right, you're in the wrong lane. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-get dist-upgrade broke on testing
Yes, that's *exactly* what happened to me, dist-upgrading from a slink install with a stock 2.0.36 kernel. I ended up doing a fresh install from my potato CD just because things got pretty messy. Clearly it's not supposed to work that way, but I'm not sure what went wrong specifically. This was on a Dell desktop with nothing exotic going on. I can't help thinking my ancient kernel wasn't helping any, but it didn't seem to be implicated in any of the error messages. Besides, I did the same thing with a 2.0.36 kernel at home. By the end I was using dselect which seems to be incredibly wise about how to get from A to B, but it just got worse and worse. So now I have mostly stable with various things from woody or sid (like openssh). If you find out anything I'd sure like to know. In the rebuild I got gnome working so I'm pretty happy. Still easier than any windows reinstall I've ever done! - Original Message - From: Danie Roux [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 5:30 AM Subject: apt-get dist-upgrade broke on testing Testing breaks. But this is the first time it happened to me :-( Anyway here's the error: Use of uninitialized value at /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/ConfigDb.pm line 38, GEN60 chunk 43. Use of uninitialized value at /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/ConfModule.pm line 152, GEN60 chunk 43. Use of uninitialized value at /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/ConfigDb.pm line 38, GEN60 chunk 46. Use of uninitialized value at /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/ConfModule.pm line 152, GEN60 chunk 46. (Reading database ... 48062 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace xbase-clients 3.3.6-11potato15 (using .../xbase-clients_4.0.2-1_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement xbase-clients ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xbase-clients_4.0.2-1_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config', which is also in package xserver-common dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/xbase-clients_4.0.2-1_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) So where to now? Thanks! Danie.
Re: kill: cannot kill some processes
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 08:52:36AM -0500, Cory Snavely wrote: Right now on a big Solaris machine of mine I have about a dozen zombied Perls--parent process (Apache) long gone, and when I -9ed them, their PPIDs became 1 (init). Classic zombie. Hrrrm? Not quite. Init eventually inherits zombie children (when the parent dies), but init reaps the dead children. Perhaps your children aren't dead? Brian, you're right. Now that I look more closely, they're in sleep state. If I just knew why... Problem is, these Perls are running scripts off a software RAID, and thus have it locked. This happened before--when I reboot the server to get rid of the zombies, or some other reason, the filesystem won't unmount, won't get a clean flag, and therefore will force fsck on reboot. As it's over 100GB, a full fsck takes several hours. Now maybe there's something I don't know to recover from this cleanly, or maybe Linux handles it a different way, but it seems like this is an example of zombies causing a real problem. If anyone knows a way around it, I'd be real grateful! Doesn't sound like a zombie to me. A zombie has -no- open files and goes away as soon as init inherits it. A zombie is in state 'Z' on ps. What you describe sounds more like something in state 'D', which is waiting for IO to complete. (This can happen on NFS when things break in just the wrong way for some reason.) They're not zombies because they're not dead yet (they need to release their files before they are really dead). For processes stuck in a 'D' state, there is very little you can do about them. You may be able to sneak out of re-fscking by remounting the drive read-only before rebooting, though. Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Thanks.
Re: kill: cannot kill some processes
One thing about zombie process: Don't worry about trying to make them go away. They don't consume any CPU time, or any other resources other than the slot in the process table and the less than 1K of memory required to hold their state information. They are not worth worrying about. Not entirely true. Init can inherit enough zombie processes that it hits its process limit (1024, if I remember correctly). Can you 'shutdown'? Nope. Not unless you can free up a slot. And if something's going haywire and spawning zombies quickly, this can be a problem. Not a common occurance, though... Seconded, although for a different reason and based on an experience on Solaris. Right now on a big Solaris machine of mine I have about a dozen zombied Perls--parent process (Apache) long gone, and when I -9ed them, their PPIDs became 1 (init). Classic zombie. Problem is, these Perls are running scripts off a software RAID, and thus have it locked. This happened before--when I reboot the server to get rid of the zombies, or some other reason, the filesystem won't unmount, won't get a clean flag, and therefore will force fsck on reboot. As it's over 100GB, a full fsck takes several hours. Now maybe there's something I don't know to recover from this cleanly, or maybe Linux handles it a different way, but it seems like this is an example of zombies causing a real problem. If anyone knows a way around it, I'd be real grateful! c
slink - woody dist-upgrade bit me hard
Confident from my first slink - potato dist-upgrade, I attempted slink - woody and pretty much hosed my installation. I've saved files and am doing a CD install of potato. The nature of the failure was surrounding woody's xbase-clients, which wouldn't upgrade due to a conflict w/ xserver-common and introduced a growing set of unconfigurable packages as I pushed forth in a sort of brute-force manner. As I'm still learning the dist-upgrade process, and in particular the problem resolution one does there, I see this as a learning opportunity (after a pint of cider last night and sleeping on it 8). What I'd like to know is if I did something wrong in skipping a release with my dist-upgrade (slink - woody) or if the thing that bit me would have bit anyone dist-upgrading to woody at the time I did. Does that make sense? If anyone has similar experiences to share, that would be welcome. I remain in awe and appreciation of dist-upgrade, but after one going well and one going sour I'm still a little afraid of it! thx, c
Re: copying a file system across the network
I always use srchost% cd /srcdir srchost% tar cf - . | ssh desthost cd /destdir; tar xBf - - Original Message - From: Lindsay Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2001 5:10 AM Subject: copying a file system across the network Past messages have detailed how to copy a file system from one drive to another, but now I need to do it across the network. Of course I need to preserve soft and hard links and device files. I do have a tape device here, but at 525Mb it's nowhere near big enough for the job. I have ssh but not rsh. Is there a straight-forward way of doing this? Thanks for any pointers. Lindsay -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lindsay Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED]Perth, Western Australia voice +61 8 9316 2486, 0403 272 564 32.0125S 115.8445E Debian Linux =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: recommend a secure shell client for Windows
I'll second that. I tried putty and ttssh both and came away with ttssh. ttssh does port forwarding, which is very convenient for X, ftp, etc. - Original Message - From: Slin Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Silver [EMAIL PROTECTED]; debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2000 7:47 AM Subject: Re: recommend a secure shell client for Windows terraterm with the SSH plugin works very well with exceed. Slin - Original Message - From: Silver [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2000 8:09 PM Subject: Re: recommend a secure shell client for Windows Ok, everyone is saying putty is working fine... I use SecureCRT (http://www.vandyke.com) which does also nice linux handling with a color terminal and stuff. Silver - Original Message - From: Harry Henry Gebel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2000 11:27 AM Subject: recommend a secure shell client for Windows A friend of mine wants me to set up an account for him on our server, and since I do not allow telnet logins he needs a Windows SSH client. I checked around and there are quite a number of them out there, can anybody recommend which is the best? I do not have a Windows machine to test them out on, but I figured this must be a pretty common problem so somebody must have a good idea of which one is the best. Once he has attained proficiency on the command line I want him to be able to use X, so it would be nice if it is a client that supports port forwarding (of course at that point I will have to find a Windows X server for him, but that is a problem I'll deal with when it comes up, maybe by then he'll be willing to put Linux on one of his machines.) -- Harry Henry Gebel, ICQ# 76308382 West Dover Hundred, Delaware -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Get your FREE personal .com domain name and NAMEzero Personal Portal at: http://www.namezero.com. For customer service, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Postscript printers
When I researched all this several years ago, I found it's not HP's development, it's a PostScript interpreter/raster image processor (RIP) that's OEMed from a company that used to be named Xionics and appears to now be named Oak Technology Products (www.oaktech.com). On their web site you can see they sell this type of technology and have suggestive reference to the HP product line, but neither they nor HP come right out and say it. In the publishing world there are a variety of PostScript RIPs but in the consumer electronics market the only ones that seem popular are Adobe and Xionics (or now Oak, apparently). In my experience working at a typesetting company, we had generally better experience with the Xionics RIP than the Adobe. True, compatibility is an issue but unless you are doing truly funky things with fonts (like making your own) or need strict adherence to Adobe specifications for things like screening, you'll not be at much risk. In particular, performance and throughput were better in the QMS printers we loved dearly. As far as using ghostscript to RIP PostScript to raster PCL, that's going to be a waste of your computer's CPU and just increase the amount of data that has to be delivered to the printer. PostScript is extremely efficient and you're better off, if you want to print PostScript, to let the printer do the work. Note I'm not saying anything about cost/benefit here. I prefer PostScript because of its robustness. That's an opinion, others may prefer PCL on the same merit, but I'm not aiming to start a flame war on that topic. I remember reading that in the past 2-3 years, HP switched from true Adobe Postscript to an inhouse Postscript emulation. I have an HP Laserjet 4MPlus which has a Postscript SIMM that has Adobe Postscript trademarks printed right on it (and the manual states that it's Postscript is licensed from Adobe) and that's from maybe 4 years ago. All Apple Laser Printers are (or at least used to be) Postscript and I would imagine that they might still use true Adobe Postscript. However, the truth is that HP has so much of the laser market, I'd be quite surprised if their Postscript emulation was not extremely competitive with Adobe's own product, but then again, stranger things have happened. HTH, Daniel Dave wrote: It seems like its getting hard to find a true Postscript printer - either Adobe has gotten too expensive for the manufacturers to license it, or the consumer market has given up on Postscript. The last Postscript printer I bought was an expensive Tektronix. - Dave Felt S.Salman Ahmed wrote: BN == Bob Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BN It depends on what you mean by true postscript. Yes, the BN 2100M is a PostScript printer, but uses a HP-developed emulation BN rather than Adobe firmware. BN And a printer that uses Adobe firmware would likely be more expensive than one that uses some type of emulation ? Salman Ahmed ssahmed AT pathcom DOT com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: PCMCIA serial/modem problem
I may be all wet here, but are you sure it's ttyS1? If your laptop is like mine, it probably has onboard serial that forces your PCMCIA modem up to ttyS3. In fact, cardmgr is smart enough to symlink /dev/modem to it for me, and un-symlink it when I pop the card out--really slick--I always use /dev/modem. Oliver Elphick wrote: I am trying to use a modem PCMCIA card with a laptop. The card is registered and configured, but the chosen interrupt (IRQ 3) does not appear in /proc/interrupts; I think this is the reason why I cannot access the card. It is impossible to open it either for reading or for writing. I have checked the permissions on the device /dev/ttyS1 and checked that its major and minor numbers are correct. (This card has worked on this laptop in the past, though with a different kernel version.) Can anyone suggest what to do to make this work, please? kernel: 2.2.15 Card: SmartLink PCMCIA Fax modem from Archtek Telecom Socket 0: product info: CIRRUS LOGIC 56K MODEM, CL-MD56XX, 5.41 manfid: 0x014e, 0x0088 function: 2 (serial) rover:/home/olly# cardctl config Socket 0: Vcc 5.0V Vpp1 0.0V Vpp2 0.0V interface type is memory and I/O irq 3 [exclusive] [level] Speaker output is enabled function 0: config base 0x0100 option 0x60 status 0x08 ext 0x00 io 0x13f8-0x13ff [8bit] rover:/home/olly# setserial -a /dev/ttyS1 /dev/ttyS1, Line 1, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x13f8, IRQ: 3 Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0 closing_wait: 3000 Flags: spd_normal skip_test rover:/home/olly# cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 0:7599348 XT-PIC timer 1: 4220 XT-PIC keyboard 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 8: 1 XT-PIC rtc 12: 3692 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse 13: 0 XT-PIC fpu 14: 308980 XT-PIC ide0 15: 27 XT-PIC ide1 NMI: 0 rover:/home/olly# cat /proc/ioports -001f : dma1 0020-003f : pic1 0040-005f : timer 0060-006f : keyboard 0070-007f : rtc 0080-008f : dma page reg 00a0-00bf : pic2 00c0-00df : dma2 00f0-00ff : fpu 0170-0177 : ide1 01f0-01f7 : ide0 0376-0376 : ide1 0378-037a : parport0 03c0-03df : vga+ 03f6-03f6 : ide0 03f8-03ff : serial(set) 13f8-13ff : serial_cs 4000-4007 : ide0 4008-400f : ide1 rover:/home/olly# cu -l ttyS1 cu: open (/dev/ttyS1): No such device cu: open (/dev/ttyS1): No such device cu: ttyS1: Line in use -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP: 1024R/32B8FAA1: 97 EA 1D 47 72 3F 28 47 6B 7E 39 CC 56 E4 C1 47 GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C34 3E1D 0C1C Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD; and the fruit of the womb is his reward.Psalms 127:3 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Debian on Ultra 5 helppp
I would try a setenv boot-device disk at the ok (PROM) prompt, then reset and it should boot from SCSI id 0. - Original Message - From: Mario Zuppini To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2000 10:48 PM Subject: Debian on Ultra 5 helppp When i say boot from harddisk and then it prompts you to reboot the ultra and remove floppy disks, i get the following error. Rebooting with command: boot boot device: disk:a File and Args Memory Address Not Aligned ok that is the above error that leaves me at the ok prompt, i dont know what to do from there or how to fix, does anyone have any ideas ?
Re: Software-RAID and partitioning
Christian Pernegger wrote: I have 3 18GB SCSI disks I want to use in a new-style Soft-RAID-5 configuration. At the moment I have 1. partitionsd.4swap 2. partitionsd.3ext2(for squid) 3. partitionsd.1raid-auto This of course means I have to have the whole md device under one mountpoint (the directories under which are the targets of symlinks under / .) I'd rather be able to have a real seperate partition on the array for at least /home. Is it feasible to split the raid partitions (sd.1) on the disks and create an md0 and an md1, or does this hamper performance? Thanks Christian -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Mike Fedyk wrote: I'm looking into making a raid setup also, and I'm not familiar with the new-style you're talking about. You would have to resize all of the partitions on each drive. I'm not too familiar with Raid5. Does the parity partition have to be the same size as the data partitions? In my experience with software RAID (on Solaris with Solstice DiskSuite), partitions need to be the same size (and *geometry*: cylinders/heads/sectors) for each RAID slice. Remember, in *any* redundant RAID level (1 and higher), there has to be parity for each bit. So therefore one can reasonably conclude the partitions must be exactly the same size. Now, one doesn't have to use the whole drive for a RAID 5 partition. You could partition each of those 18 GB drives in half, say, and RAID 5 the first half across the three for a 18 / 2 * (3 - 1) = 18 GB RAID 5. Then use the leftover 3 partitions for straight filesystems. Or mirror two of them with RAID 1, or stripe two of them with RAID 0, etc... Clearly, it can get a little academic with these configurations. I'm not sure what the performance impact is of having one or more partitions on a drive devoted to RAID while having one or more just normal. Anymore, if I want large filesystems, I tend to simplify my life and use each whole drive in my RAID 0 or 5.
Re: Bring Out Yer' Dead... Dead Sparcs That Is.
Check your keyboard connections, both at the motherboard and at the keyboard. If the keyboard is connected, you should hear a beep (from the keyboard) at power-on. It is possible that's what's causing it not to boot is that it's in diag mode. Without console output from the PROM, you're not going to be able to determine that or change it. If your keyboard connections can't be fixed, and you really can't find another type-4 or type-5 keyboard, then you may want to unplug that entirely and go with the serial port. If you can get the PROM prompt, and if my guess is correct that it's in diag mode, then the commands you want are setenv diag-mode? false reset Good luck! p.s. I don't want to go on the cart!
Re: Linux Mail Client (was: Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error))
Steve Lamb wrote: On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 12:02:00PM -0500, Mark Schiltz wrote: After hashing through all your comments, I believe I know what you want. An email client that has a folder for [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED], etc. (but dosn't call it a folder) with sub-folders for inbox,outbox,etc. (its ok to call these folders) for each of the above non-folders. Does that about sum it up? Yes, completely separate mail accounts. That is exactly it. My apologies if I was too vague in my descriptions. If that's the case, how far is Netscape Communicator from doing what you want (using IMAP)? Have as many IMAP accounts as you want (Netscape doesn't seem to consider them folders), plus a folder structure for each, distinct Inboxes and Trash, plus a local folder structure in case you want that.
Re:
When X (and xdm) starts, you can still get to the virtual consoles by hitting Ctrl-Alt-F1 through Ctrl-Alt-F6 (depending on which console you want). To get back to X, go to the seventh virtual console by hitting Ctrl-Alt-F7 (or just Alt-F7). Patrick J Draper wrote: How do I stop my Debian 2.1 machine kicking straight into X windows or how do I get out once it has. I'm having problems and wish to boot to the command line.
Re: Laptop email
Wow, yeah, that would work. Good job! I wanted to avoid building the whole thing myself, you see. In the Windows 98 build you actually do a File-Offline-something or other that lets you read (and browse) in an offline mode. It uses the IMAP cache and the browser cache to do this. Probably it's mainly just the flick of a switch in the code, really, when you consider both caches are already there. This menu option isn't present in the potato build, nor any other UNIX build I've ever seen, for that matter. I think folks used to assume anything running UNIX was full-time networked. Just ain't so anymore. Andre Berger wrote: Cory Snavely [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is the *exact* same problem I have. One possible solution I've been kicking around is to set up a low-end server at home with imapd and Apache with mod_roaming (for the address books, etc.) That's a lot of work. To confess, though, I thought it might be fun 8) and good practice. My biggest complaint, though, is that the potato Netscape doesn't seem to have the same offline reading capability as the Windows 98 one. Does anybody know about that (why that feature doesn't seem present)? You just have to use it ;) I have exim to send mail from and fetchmail to download mail to my potato box. Add shell scripts to /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ that send and receive mail automatically as soon as you go online. Set (Netscape) Preferences | Incoming Mail Servers 's Server Type to Movemail. I had to use External MoveMail '/usr/lib/xemacs-21.1.10/powerpc-debian-linux/movemail' from xemacs21-nomule's bin package because the Builtin MoveMail didn't work. Set the User Name to the login name on your own box (your $USER). BTW I have unchecked any other button there. As soon as the scripts in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ have finished, you can go offline. Use Messenger's Get Msg btn to actually get the mail into Netscape. Set the Outgoing (SMTP) Server to 'localhost', the User Name to your login name on your own box again. If you want to send mail, always use the Send btn (not Send later). This will add the msg to the exim queue. Andre Christopher Hicks wrote: Hi All, Having just got my laptop back from repair (g) I am ready to reinstall operating systems and recover everything from my backups etc etc. I'll also take the opportunity to upgrade from slink to potato. One improvement I would very much like to make over the setup I had before is this: it would be *very* convenient to store my email on a partition accessible to both Linux and Win98 (which I have to have for work - sigh) such that I can access it with a unified set of folders/address book etc from whichever O/S I happen to be in the time. This also requires a mail client which runs under both linux and Win98 (or at least a pair of clients with compatible file formats). At first sight Netscape Messenger would seem to fit the bill, but unfortunately it seems to use different filenames (for its mail folders) under the two O/S's. If the set of filenames were static I could possibly get around it with some symbolic link trickery on the linux side, but this would limit me to creating new mail folders only in Windows, and then manually fiddling to make that new folder work in linux. Yuck. (Also Netscape has the one POP server limitation which is a pain since I use two POP accounts). Mahogany looks promising, but I've heard it is still excessively buggy. Does anyone have any other suggestions? Christopher Hicks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Andre Berger [EMAIL PROTECTED] from Bonn, Germany -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: is there a gui frontend in X for dialing ppp?
We...pon and poff, and let's not overlook plog _are_ elegantly tiny and simple, _but_ since my ISP instituted 'idle-time disconnects' I don't always know whether I'm connected or not. A little on/off light thingie might be nice to check before doing an apt-get, a perl -MCPAN or a wget. AAMOF, since pon's man page is also elegantly tiny and simple, I have not found if or how it can be activated by an application yet. Anyone know? Then I could care less about a little light thingie. I always run an asmodem on my dialup machine. It's a compact modem icon indicating activity and dialed-up-ness, although not transfer rates like some of the others mentioned. Also doesn't obviate pon/poff--but gives you a good idea of when the connection is up and how traffic is moving. Little blinky lights. Cute as heck.
Re: Samba printing question
I have set up samba so my wife can print from Windows 95 to the printer on my Linux box (dj520 configured with magicfilter). It prints fine, but after the page ejects, a second page is printed with: %%[ Page: 1 ]%% %%[ LastPage ]%% I suppose this is some PostScript code, probably generated by the Windows Laserwriter II NT driver I selected. Is there any way to suppress this? I don't know how to suppress it, but I think I know what it is. Some drivers generate PostScript that outputs status messages to the printer console device. (PostScript interpreters have these, although most actual printers don't have physical consoles.) If you were to use ghostview, for example, that same output would pop up in a console window. Also you'd see it in Acrobat Distiller. Anyway, it looks like magicfilter is taking that and lobbing on the end of your job. That's really the wrong thing to do. You might look into the configuration settings of magicfilter to see if you can customize what to do with that sort of output. This is the kind of thing where you might find a nice place to stick a 2/dev/null and fix the problem. The suggestions from other to change to a different driver may fix the problem--depends on whether the application is telling the driver to put that stuff in or the driver is putting it in because it thinks it's a good idea.
Re: UPS wars: APC vs Tripplite?
If you want to use your own batteries, you may want to look into products from Trace Engineering at http://www.traceengineering.com . The make all sine wave inverters for the renewable energy community. - Original Message - From: Jaye Inabnit ke6sls [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ron Farrer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Debian User debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Friday, May 19, 2000 2:30 AM Subject: Re: UPS wars: APC vs Tripplite? Hi Ron, I tried them both. I was happier with Triplite... Tho, it too was returned. I need to leave my box here, some times for days unattended. I have a huge set of backup batteries that I run all my radio gear from.. I decided there had to be a product that would use MY batteries and not some little dinkster battery that will die in 30 minutes. So far tho, I haven't found a solution other then using a modified sinewave which can get pretty noisy. For true sine wave, I did find a product for the off grid folks with a fairly fast optional relay. Tho, they haven't replied to my tech request. Best of luck to you. regards On Thu, 18 May 2000, Ron Farrer wrote: Hello, I've been thinking about getting a new UPS. Previously I purchased APC products, but I want to hear about other experiences. I've pretty much narrowed it down to a product from APC or Tripplite. APC is more expensive, less Linux/UNIX friendly, but makes good products (IMHO). Tripplite is less expensive, more Linux/UNIX friendly, but I'm not sure how the quality of their product compares to APC. Does anyone know of some sort of comparison between these two companies products? I'm interested in features/quality more then price. TIA, Ron -- Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Home: http://www.farrer.net/~rbf/ Alpha Linux Organization: http://www.alphalinux.org Bellingham Linux Users Group: http://www.blug.org Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=unnamed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: -- Jaye:-} M.J. Inabnit, KE6SLS e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] 707-442-6579 h/m 707-441-7096 p http://www.qsl.net/ke6slsICQ# 12741145 This mail composed with kmail on kde on X on linux warped by debian If it's stupid, but works, it ain't stupid. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Apache VH Help needed
This isn't an Apache configuration issue, it's a DNS configuration issue. You need an A record for the customer1.com domain with the IP address of the server. This assumes, of course, that this is OK with your customer--they may already have an A record in place for their domain. This also assumes you have some control over the DNS records. - Original Message - From: Jaume Teixi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian User debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2000 4:58 AM Subject: Apache VH Help needed I've setup this in order to not to restart apache each time I enter a new customer: My problem is How To config that automatically *.customer1.com points to www.customer1.com ? I've setup on httpd.conf : VirtualHost 192.192.192.192 ServerNamecustomers.mydomain.com CustomLog /var/customers/logs/access_customers.log vcommon VirtualDocumentRoot /var/customers/webs/%0 VirtualScriptAlias/var/customers/webs/%0/cgi-bin /VirtualHost On /var/customers/webs/ I put each directory as www.customer1.com, www.customer2.com, etc. thanks! -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Slink Iso image
I built my slink ISO 9660 image using the pseudo-image kit, which assembles the image on the fly from the Debian mirror of your choice, then patches it against an actual image. Quite impressive to watch, BTW. Of course this was at work over T3. The preferred distribution mechanism for ISO 9660 images is via the pseudo image kit. Why? Because there aren't that many mirrors willing to host entire ISO images, but there are many mirrors (one of them close to you!) that can offer all the individual *packages*. The question dialogue at http://cdimage.debian.org/ may make you feel like you're not getting the direct information, but I learned to trust it. That was how I found the pseudo-image kit. C'mon...trust it. If it turns out you actually need to make ISO images at all, you'll get to either http://cdimage.debian.org/ch1211.html for the pseudo-image kit or http://cdimage.debian.org/ch1212.html for the ISO images themselves. Again, though, I'd urge you to 1) use the dialogue and 2) avoid downloading the image from an image mirror unless that's your only option. c - Original Message - From: Tony Schonfeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Monday, December 20, 1999 2:59 AM Subject: Slink Iso image Sorry to ask again but i've read this week slink iso image is available at cdimage.debian.org but i can't find it. Please can you tell me if slink r4 ISO image is available for download in other ftp site ? many thanks Tony
Re: Wvdial and non-root access
Cory Snavely writes: I just set up ppp on my slink workstation yesterday, and I used sudo to avoid setting scripts suid (although pppd installs as suid root). Even though I'm using pon/poff, I'll bet sudo can solve your problem, too, if suid scripts give you the feeling. You just need to add the user who should be able to start ppp to the 'dip' group. The command is 'adduser username dip' (as root, of course). Yeah, but since pppd runs setuid root, just membership in dip won't let you kill pppd unless you set poff setuid root as well. I used sudo to avoid having to do this. Right?
Re: Wvdial and non-root access
Only root is able to use wvdial, even though I thought wvdial has been set up for use by non-root users. was wvdial set up for this by yourself, or by the wvdial install program? When I, as user david, type wvdial, I get an error that david cannot have access to /dev/ttyS1. That's better than before, when david couldn't access the wvdial.conf file. My solution to this is to restrict the access to the wvdial executable and make it suid. This isn't technically the safest way of doing it but I'd rather have a simple solution I can keep track of, rather than a complicated solution that I can't. I also have a suid wrapper to 'kill pidofwvdial' available so that any user in the appropriate groups can take the modem offline no matter who put it online. I just set up ppp on my slink workstation yesterday, and I used sudo to avoid setting scripts suid (although pppd installs as suid root). Even though I'm using pon/poff, I'll bet sudo can solve your problem, too, if suid scripts give you the feeling. I never used sudo before, but I found it intuitive and flexible and IMHO it would be easier to maintain than keeping track of suid scripts.
Re: Postscript Merging Dial-in PPP Access
1) Merge two postcript files. I'm trying to run a small script that converts the text output from another program into Postscript, and then merge that file with a previously createed postscript file. Here's the script segment that does these things :- --- Begin Script Segment -- for $source.* do cat $file | enscript -p/tmp/outfile.ps -R -B cat /u/psback.ps /tmp/outfile.ps | lpr -PHPLaser done End Script Segment --- The HP Laser is a fully postscript capable printer, I can print both files seperately, and the files are able to merge print on a SCO box, but under linux the files seem to not want to merge. psback.ps is a background image that is needed behind every page printed. source.* is a collection of single pages (organised through another section of the script, quite simple really). Comments about this will be greatly appreciated. All help useful. Actually, this is probably more of a PostScript problem than a Linux problem. In this case, though, I think the difference in behavior (between the two UNIX systems) may be attributable to enscript. (I.e., no flames please.) Generally PostScript files are not appendable in this way. Now, maybe psback.ps is specially designed to be used in that way, but the typical way a PostScript programmer would have to make that work (modifying the showpage function) is dependent on how the file that follows is prepared, and whether *it* modifies the showpage function. (Typical reason a PostScript generator might modify this function: implementing page numbering.) I think what's probably happening here is that the version of enscript on the system where this *does* work must generate a different (simpler) PostScript prologue than the version on your Debian system. Namely, that version of enscript probably doesn't modify the showpage function itself. Under this theory, what would be happening is psback.ps executes its code and modifies the showpage function (probably) to lay down the background first, then the rest of the page your enscript output comes along and undoes those modifications and voila, you get the symptoms you didn't describe 8), which are probably either a) no output or b) same output as enscripting alone. Right? Unfortunately, the fix for this problem (assuming that's what it is) is not that easy. It would probably involve reworking psback.ps to a more reliable implementation, or reworking enscript's prologue to make it more tolerant of psback.ps. For experimentation, I would also recommend trying to view the file with ghostscript, and also moving it off the system and printing it from various places (PCs, Macs, whatever you have around. If the symptoms are all the same, then I think you can be assured the problem is in fact something like I suggest rather than the Debian lpd, and you might want to consider reposting in a PostScript forum. Sorry if any of this sounds vague. Unless you know PostScript the details aren't that helpful. c
Re: disk image
See http://cdimage.debian.org/ which will lead you through a series of questions and explain how to create bootable iso9660 images for installing Debian. c - Original Message - From: vincent leycuras [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Thursday, October 07, 1999 8:03 AM Subject: disk image Hi! I just installed Linux Mandrake 6,0 because it was easy to download: you probably know they have their distrib ready for download in .iso format, ready for CD burning. I also know FreeBSD have it. Do you know a way of finding the same thing for Debian Linux? Vincent, France.
