Re: Convert realaudio to free audio ???
On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 19:13, Roberto Sanchez wrote: $ mplayer proprietary.rm -oa pcm -oafile=open.wav Slight bugfix, I think that last command should be '-oafile open.wav' without the = sign. How do you do that for video files? My school does some courses over the web with streaming video (WMV, of course). After the class session they make the whole WMV video available as a download. I've been burning them to CD, but I hate to keep them in WMV format, I'd rather use an open format. Speaking of which, what is a good open format for video (preferably one that MPlayer supports since I already have it). I've not tried this with video files, but I'd expect you need to use mencoder - that will usually output an .AVI container, although I think you can tell it to write MPEG-1 program streams, too. As for the best 'open' codec format, you're probably more likely to get better platform coverage by storing them as MPEG4 with an .AVI container AKA 'DivX' since they can then be played by just about any platform, and even some standalone DVD players (like the KiSS ones, for example) This is hardly an 'open' solution, but more likely to be able to be played back on any modern OS. Cheers, Gavin. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Convert realaudio to free audio ???
mplayer can play realplayer files (I guess that audio too). I'm not sure about converting them though... Since mplayer can play realmedia (it may need you to install the binary realplayer for some of the very new formats, but I'm unsure on this point), it can also send the output to a file... try something like $ mplayer proprietary.rm -oa pcm -oafile=open.wav If it turns out you need the realplayer, you can apt-get install realplayer (from the deb repository at marillat.free.fr) and this will unpack the binary installer for you and install it in a more Debian-centric way :) Cheers, Gavin. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Evolution image/pjpeg inline display (again)
Hi :) I'm a longstanding Debian user (running sid at the moment) so have Evo 1.4.5, and am experiencing the problem listed in the subject, that image/pjpeg attachments are not displayed inline, but am only given the option to Save Attachment. I've found quite a few references to this on the web, but have yet to come across a solution. It's especially maddenning because the thumbnail in the Evo message pane is correct, but yet I must save the attachment and view it externally. I've had a poke in /etc/mime.types and mime-magic, etc. but without joy... one message suggested to use gconf to force Evo to deal with image/pjpeg inline. This sounds like a plan, but I've been a KDE user up until now, and am running KDE3 at the moment, with the various GNOME libs installed solely to support Evo... how would I go about convincing Evo to display these images inline? Thanks, Gavin. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Partitions and format
On Wednesday 08 October 2003 19:40, Joachim Fahnenmueller wrote: It shouldn't be necessary to reinstall. Worst case - ackup your data and reformat the partition. I think it is even possible to upgrade a partition from ext2 to ext3, but I don't know in detail. Yes, not only is it possible, but it is very easy and very safe to do so: If you find /dev/hda1 is ext2 and you'd like to move to ext3, simply $ tune2fs -j /dev/hda1 That will create the journal inodes... Then you can change your fstab entry to 'ext3' and enjoy the security and fast fsck-ing of ext3 Cheers, Gavin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: `who' is broken?
So Who is broken, Whereis uninstalled and Which is on hold? ;) Sorry :) gdh
SCSI DDS-2 Tape drives
Hi :) I've just acquired a HP C1533A tape drive, and whilst I can successfully tar files back and forth from it, I'm poking in the dark.. I'm using 90m DDS-1 tapes, which give an uncompressed capacity of 2Gb with this drive... but are there any tools to accurately measure both the data rate and the precise capacity of the drive/tapes? I ask this because I have a large amount of (already-compressed) data that I'd like to span across several tapes, and would like to squeeze as much as possible onto each tape :) Any advice would be greatly appreciated :) Kind regards, Gavin.
Re: wet blue
DEAR SIR , WE ARE INTERESTED TO BUY WET BLUE SPLIT CATTLE HIDES , WITH FOLLOWING SPECIFICATIONS : THICKNESS:over 3.5 MM . SIZE :40 TO 42 SQ/FT AVERAGE SIZE PLEASE SEND YOUR OFFER BY E-MAIL . Uuhhh yeh... we're running a special offer at the moment of 13.6 sproggets per square ironing board... (what?) gdh
Re: video editing under linux
You might want to look at http://heroinewarrior.com/bcast2000.php3 :) gdh - Original Message - From: Saqib Shaikh To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 8:54 PM Subject: video editing under linux hi a friend of mine is wondering if there are any video editing software under linux. i told him that i knew of no such program but would ask. any help? saqib
Re: Need to resize a Win2K NTFS partition before I can install
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Felix Oxley wrote: Can you suggest a tool which can do this? Sure. Partition Magic. The NTFS driver for Linux is very unstable, so it follows that there's certainly nothing GPL'd which can rebuild the structure of an entire NTFS system :) If you could afford Win2000 in the first place, Partition Magic is a fantastic tool at a sensible price :) Regards, Gavin.
Re: mp3 encoder Deb
WB HI, WB Ive been looking for an mp3 encoder in a deb package, anyone found one? I WB have installed Grip and CDParanoia. No, there is no such. There's certainly no package available from any of the Debian mirrors... but add this to your /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://forcix.cx/ debian/ Then do an apt-get update, and finally: apt-get install lame Et voila :) gdh
Re: Breakage in samba security update?
On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Dave Sherohman wrote: Replying to myself, but... The server in question is an Alpha. Any attempt to connect to its workgroup (for which it is the master browser) causes the following to appear in /var/log/smb: [2001/04/18 10:48:55, 0] lib/util_sec.c:assert_gid(72) Failed to set gid privileges to (-1,65534) now set to (0,0) uid=(0,0) Snap! :) I'm glad someone else had the same problem... Our AlphaServer runs Debian 'testing' and I found this error this morning... I solved it by manually installing the later 2.0.7-5 packages from ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/samba :) Have fun! :) gdh
Re: Does anyone know what this is ?
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Benj wrote: I run top, and see this process: 7705 0.0 % -discard [164.138.*.*] What is this process -discard ?? The IP (from which i've hidded the last two numbers) is totally unknown, its not my servers's or mine. discard is a TCP service provided by inetd itself which just ignores any input fed to it. That IP is connecting to your machine and spewing data into inetd. It's not harming your machine, but it will be wasting bandwidth. Do you think I should kill it ? More than that, I'd disable discard, and it's friends daytime, echo, and chargen in /etc/inetd.conf. then '/etc/init.d/inetd restart' gdh
Re: bad minute?
00,15,30,45 * * * * /usr/local/etc/logcheck.sh The double-zero might be causeing it to choke.. the rest of the crontab seems fine... Regards, Gavin.
Re: Need a way to install driver / packages
Somehow mount the DOS partition and read files from there? Yep :) mkdir /mnt/msdos mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/msdos Format a disk so Linux will read it, and copy the files from DOS to there? Yep :) mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /floppy vfat is the Windows9x long-filename support ... you can also use 'msdos' if 8.3 filenames are enough =) Regards, Gavin.
Re: Need a way to install driver / packages
Hi. I responded to your message above about the 3c905c. You seem to be taking my word that you can't get the driver for this card. That's daft :) We use nothing but 3c905c's at work The module you need is '3c59x' and is part of the standard distribution - yeh I know it's not terribly logical.. but hey who said Linux was ever logical? ;) Kind regards, Gavin.
Re: Help! Accidentally started deleting /usr
I created a directory /opt/tmp and later wanted to delete it, but I accidentally typed rm -r usr instead (within the /opt directory). What is the best way to restore my system to health? I suggest you read the recent archives of this list, as some poor guy did much the same as you The short answer is: restore from your backups :) No backups? Copy all important stuff to your other machine, reinstall from scratch, and learn from the experience :) gdh
Re: Home/End Keys with Putty (Woody)
On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Heiko Ordelt wrote: Hi there! After i upgraded my debian box to woody i can't use the Home/End keys with Putty anymore ;( Anyone knows a solution for this problem? Hello Heiko... I had this problem, too and solved it by including the following line in .bash_login in my home directory export TERM=linux Regards, Gavin.
Re: #!/bin/bash
On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote: it seems apache could run with ash for example w/o problems - it just needs change all echo -ne blahblah\n to echo blahblah (wtf do we need the first?) The first doesn't take a new line so it's possible to do this: echo -ne Restarting apache web server: some stuff echo done And get this output: Restarting apache web server: done instead of this Restarting apache web server: done And anyway, why would you want to insist on 'ash' ? The two shells that are installed on EVERY Debian system by default (from the base2_2.tgz tarball) are 'sh' and 'bash'. sh doesn't always provide the features scripts need, but bash does, and thus it's the default for most scripts, because we can guarantee it will be present without needing a Depends: ash line for each .deb. Kind regards, Gavin.
Re: #!/bin/bash
On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote: - echo -ne Restarting apache web server: echo -n is enough for this and works even in ash OK, yes the -e is just for interpreting \n and friends... - And anyway, why would you want to insist on 'ash' ? faster, smaller etc. it could be ksh or whatever does /bin/sh point to. Certainly, a 100k binary vs. the 400k of bash is much tighter, and the POSIX-compliance feature of ash is certainly useful, but in Debian we're talking about a system where lots of packages are dependant on the moster that is PERL to do basic post-configuration, so a debate over 300k and a few milliseconds seems fairly insignificant when compared to the megabytes and seconds that perl will take to start up on 486s and m68k.. sh ios just symlink to bash. Oh :) Hadn't noticed that before :) that's it, i don't like scripts that require bash if they don't have to. So have you actually removed bash from your system and made ash the default? I think the whole point was that bash is recognised as THE standard shell (in the Linux community as opposed to the *BSD one, anyway) whether we like it or not.. and this is dictated by the fact that it's in the base2_2.tgz, because it is so core to the basic function of the system. If ash provided all the facilities of bash, there's little question it would be the default shell.. So to this end, Require'ing ash would add to the system overhead since (I reckon) 98% of people would need to have ash installed for them, instead of just using a standard package that everyone has already... Regards, Gavin.
Formatting/Mounting ext2/vfat floppies addendum
Was just poking through the manpage for mount, looking for something else, and thought this little section might be useful ? Note that the auto type may be useful for user-mounted floppies. Creating /etc/filesystems can be useful to change the probe order (e.g., to try vfat before msdos) or if you use a kernel module autoloader. This is in the manpage under the -t commandline option.. I thought it was a bit scary how it cited the exact problem someone on the list was having :) Anyway, back to other fun stuff.. Regards, Gavin.
Re: Recommended mailer software
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Robert Waldner wrote: On Wed, 28 Mar 2001 17:03:19 +0200, Joakim Nordlander writes: The mailing list is currently using Majordomo, but I'm thinking of moving to Smartlist. Try listar. Fast, flexible and with a _very_ helpful mailing list. Listar also has a lovely web-configuration frontend so lusers who can't figure out how to use a -request admin address can adjust their settings :) gdh
Nautilus ?
Just a pop question :) I've installed potato as a bare-bones system, and upgraded to woody... I take it, in theory, I should have been able to so apt-get install nautilus and it'd install that package, plus all necessary X server and library files? Needless to say it didn't :) Anyway, that's not even what I'm wittering on about... I have a basically working Nautilus installation, but it displays any HTML as source in the window, and is unable to view anything starting with help: or eazel: What package am I missing, because I've gone round in circles with the nautilus-trilobite package depending on 'rpm' but version mismatches mean that apt wont let the required versions be installed at the same time :/ Does any of this sound familiar to anyone? I think I need to lie down now... Cheerio! Gavin.
Re: Nautilus ?
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Rob VanFleet wrote: You need nautilus-mozilla, which you can't get because it depends on Mozilla .8 or later, which hasn't been packaged yet (even in unstable, it is still at M-18). So at the moment the only way to get a fully functional nautilus in Debian is to either package Mozilla myself manually (haha :) or do the entire Nautilus install by hand? (also haha :) gdh
Re: Flash Player ?
On Sun, 18 Mar 2001, Stan Brown wrote: What's the Debian way of installing a Flash Player plugin for Netscape? Add this to /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://forcix.cx/ debian/ then do apt-get update, and apt-get install flashplayer-nonfree :) Regards, Gavin.
Re: Flash Player ?
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Allan M. Wind wrote: then do apt-get update, and apt-get install flashplayer-nonfree Looks like they rename a dir and didn't include a readme, so the installer fails. Gah :/ It's not a package I've used myself... I use that source because the guy also packaged the mp3 encoder 'lame' .. but I happened to remember he does the flash player, too.. It might be worth dropping him a note of the error then :) I'm sure he'll have an address on http://forcix.cx/ Kind regards, Gavin.
Re: nameserver for class CHAOS ?
On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, will trillich wrote: i've gotten a strange DNS/NAMED/BIND error message: =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Mar 12 10:36:45 server named[2991]: No root nameservers for class CHAOS where do i look to determine whether or not this is important? and what to do about it, if so? It's not terribly important, and I'd do a grep on your entire /var/named (or wherever your zone files live) for CHAOS... Basically, there are three classes of address that BIND supports... From O'Reilly's DNS/BIND book: A.1.5 Classes (From RFC 1035, page 13) CLASS fields appear in resource records. The following CLASS mnemonics and values are defined: IN 1 the Internet CS 2 the CSNET class (obsolete - used only for examples in some obsolete RFCs) CH 3 the CHAOS class HS 4 the Hesiod class You might want to consult RFC 1035 for more info :) The most useful thing I can think of for the CHAOS class is the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/test$ nslookup -q=txt -class=CHAOS version.bind. 0 That'll only work on real nslookup's, which doesn't include the current Debian one which complains about being deprecated... gdh
Re: requirements of cipe
On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Nick wrote: what kernel do I need? Can I use 2.2.14 or 2.2.18 I have tried a few times and never had any joy with this... So I had a hunt around and found 'vtun' instead, which does exactly the same thing, is more flexible and is quite straightforward to configure :) From 'apt-cache show vtun' VTun requires the Universal TUN/TAP kernel module which can be found at http://vtun.sourceforge.net/tun/index.html or in the 2.4 series linux kernel. vtun includes compression and I saw roughly a 30% effective speed increase over a 128kbit line... Have fun :) Gavin.
Re: nameserver for class CHAOS ?
Besides, 'host' is shorter to type than 'nslookup'... =) But not 'nsltab' ;))) gdh
Re: nameserver for class CHAOS ?
It's not terribly important, and I'd do a grep on your entire /var/named (or wherever your zone files live) for CHAOS... hmm! grep CH /etc/bind/* nothing! maybe i've got a hosed slave/master relation specification...? Your zone files live in /etc/bind? The debian default was /var/cache/bind/ I thought? Apart from that, I dunno :) BIND is such a complete law unto itself, tho' Gavin.
Re: system slowdown when copying audio CDs
On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Romain Lerallut wrote: I have a problem when writing audio tracks from a CD to my HD. My PC slows down a *lot* when copying tracks from an audio CD, but not when I'm reading data (neither when I'm burning a CD). Ripping audio data requires your machine to throttle the IDE controller and the CD-ROM drive hard... and depending on your configuration, it /can/ be a very intensive process.. I'm sure we've all seen Windows freeze when you put a CD in because it's asking the CD drive about the newly inserted disc, and the drive is locking the IDE interface while it has a think... I have no SCSI CD-ROM, but I wouldn't be surprised if things were MUCH better That's what I think anyway - I'm no hardware guru so I'm probably completely wrong :) Regards, Gavin
Re: system slowdown when copying audio CDs
It isn't really. Data CD's contain data headers that help the drive position itself in arbitrary locations - similar to sector headers on floppy and hard disks. Well done that man! You said what I was going to say - except I'd have rambled on aimlessly for ages :) gdh
Re: Powerpoint player (extreme programming presentation)
I have to do a presentation of extreme programming for my colleges. And I have found a powerpoint presentation on the net. Is there any powerpoint players for Linux. Nope, any solution would be based around either running an entire Windows installation in VMware, or using WINE... Probably easier just to install windows on a spare partition :) gdh
RE: Powerpoint player (extreme programming presentation)
On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Joris Lambrecht wrote: This might be the way to go, in case you do ... there is a free powerpoint presentation viewer available at the microsoft site. Maybe someone should try to get this to work with WINE. Well, it was about 18 months ago but I managed to get Word to run just by mounting my windows partition in Linux and running MSWORD.EXE ... it complained a lot about missing files and fonts, but it did run! :) Things should have improved since then... and A powerPoint viewer should be less taxing than the mighty Word :) gdh
RE: ProFTP server not serving win clients!!
On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Rick Jansen - Tweakers.net wrote: Try to enable Passive mode on your Windows clients. I don't know what version is currently active with debian, but ProFTPd 1.2.0rc2 had (amongst many others) a stupid bug where PASV mode didn't work... so I'd suggest try toggling passive mode on Windows :) gdh
Re: mp3 encoding
Put deb http://forcix.cx/ debian/ in your /etc/apt/source.list and then type apt-get install lame Well, the source-line didn't work, but I grabbed the .deb in my browser. It does work - did you remember to a) Put a space between forcix.cx/ and debian/ ? b) run apt-get update before trying to install lame? Just a note in case forcix has any other juicy tidbits you'd want to update in the future... gdh
Re: where to get potato boot floppies
I need to reinstall Potato (my Woody system got screwed today and I can't figure out how to fix the numerous problems). My friend has my CD's, so I was going to just install off of the net, but I don't know where to get boot floppies, please help Try http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/ You need the four driver disks, boot.bin and rescue.bin You'll also nead rawrite to copy the images to floppies... you can get it at: http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/dosutils/ Have fun! :) Gavin.
Re: where to get potato boot floppies
You need the four driver disks, boot.bin and rescue.bin Typo! root.bin, not boot.bin :) And boot from the rescue.bin floppy =) gdh
Re: Output cron in mailbox
On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, mark's-debian wrote: Hello, I setup a cronjob to fetch these mailinglists messeages from my mailserver. Everytime the job is run I get an email with the output from this job. How do I stop this. Because I'm afraid I'm loosing valuable diskspace Put this at the end of the relevant line in crontab :) 1/dev/null 2/dev/null and it'll all go away :) There's also a shorter syntax like 21/dev/null but I can't remember it exactly at the moment... Regards, Gavin
Re: Is OpenSSH broken in sid?
On Mon, 5 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having this odd ball problem where ssh refuses to read the host keys and it is unable to setgid. I've no idea what is wrong. Does anyone have a clue about this? I'm getting it too, and it's terribly annoying... but I worked around it by installing ssh2 instead :) Gavin
Re: Is OpenSSH broken in sid?
Read http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=86908repeatmerged=yes and then do a dist-upgrade - the bug in libpam has been fixed, and SSH works again :) gdh
Re: ssh or not to ssh
On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Robert L. Harris wrote: Ok, new scenario. 3 debian unstable boxes. 3 2.4.2 kernels. 3 boxes all upgraded to latest dist-upgrade yesterday. 1 box will take ssh logins the other deny. I get the standard /etc/motd, then a line saying: setgid: Operation not permitted It's a bug in the PAM libraries... and is already fixed.. try a dist-upgrade. gdh
Re: size of a directory
On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Gregor Kaleta wrote: How can I view the size of a spezial directory e.g. /usr? Try du /usr play with the options for the du command... du -sh is a good one for simply getting the total space used in an easily readable format :) gdh
Re: Is it possible to downgrade a Debian system from testing to stable?
So, short of starting over from scratch, is there a way to get back to stable? Yep sure... edit /etc/apt/sources.list and change anything that says 'testing' to 'stable' then run apt-get update and finally apt-get dist-upgrade. That should bring you back to stable :) Of course, if youwant to move back to a 2.2 kernel, you'll need to do that manually.. gdh
Re: Is it possible to downgrade a Debian system from testing to stable?
On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Dave Sherohman wrote: No, it won't. When you run the dist-upgrade, apt will see that all packages on the system are already at least as new as those available (testing's version numbers are higher than stable's) and do nothing at all. I thought that this was one of the new features of apt 0.5, that it WILL downgrade when dists are changed? Maybe I misheard/misinterpreted :// gdh
Re: Console text scrambled (in a different way :)
Thanks for that :) 'reset' - feck, if I'd known it would be that simple... Right, will try that next time said thing happens! Thankyou! gdh
Re: Console text scrambled (in a different way :)
On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Gavin Hamill wrote: Thanks for that :) 'reset' - feck, if I'd known it would be that simple... Right, will try that next time said thing happens! Thankyou! It worked! Much appreciated! gdh
Re: Eek! X won't go away!
On 27 Feb 2001, John Hasler wrote: It was the generic 'xdm' that was the problem, but when I tried to remove it, it wanted to take 'task-x-window-system' away, too.. Let it. 'task-x-window-system' is an empty package which does nothing but depend on a bunch of X stuff so that the X stuff gets installed when you install it. Removing it will have no effect at all. Thank you :) Even though it told me it was going to remove only a few k, I was prety convinced when it actually started up, it'd secretly remove all the x packages contained in the task :) Will dump that now =) gdh
Thanks re: Eek! X won't go away!
Just wanted to drop a note to say thanks to all the people who replied so quickly to this little dilemma! Fankoo! :) gdh
Console text scrambled (in a different way :)
Hullo again.. sorry to bother you nice people, but this one has been bugging me since I started using Linux a couple of years ago.. it's not Debian specific, but I've had better, more educated responses from this list than any other. Now, enough of the brown-nosing ;) If I display a file which contains binary data, often there will be a sequence of characters which the console interprets to 'switch character sets' and then any lower case characters become little boxes, or patches of fuzz, yet numbers and upper case characters are unaffected. I know of no way to fix this, although a little script to output the 'switch back to normal mode' characters would be handy :) Any takers? Gavin.
Eek! X won't go away!
I have a MOST bizarre and interesting problem at the moment! After my 'unstable' machine boots.. about 2 minutes later, X will start up, with an xconsole in the corner showing 'dmesg' output, and a simple graphical login prompt in the centre of the screen forces a login before anything else can be done... If I try and kill X with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, it immediately reloads... This one has foxed me completely!! Any ideas? Kind regards, Gavin.
Re: Eek! X won't go away!
On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Glenn Becker wrote: It sounds like you have xdm running. I don't much like it either - it is difficult to get to pure console with that thing in the way. You're quite right I do indeed have xdm running, and had already noticed the problem vanished when xdm did, but I assumed it had some vital functionality for X that I wasn't aware of... But I'll be sure to blat it from startup completely :) What purpose does it serve anyway? Thanks! Regards, Gavin,
Re: Eek! X won't go away!
On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Glenn Becker wrote: I don't really know what the purpose of xdm is. There are packages to 'prettify' it, but I just object to the whole thing. :-) Urk! Yes.. 'This version of Linux is better because it's version 7 instead of 2.2 and it has a nicer looking login prompt' sigh Go back to bed with Mr. Gates, silly people =) gdh
Re: Eek! X won't go away!
3. Remove gdm completely by doing something like apt-get remove gdm as root. Hi :) It was the generic 'xdm' that was the problem, but when I tried to remove it, it wanted to take 'task-x-window-system' away, too.. so I decided to just remove the startup lines in /etc/rc.* :) Thanks! gdh
Re: Procmail, pine, imapd and bogus mailboxes...
On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Thomas Guettler wrote: Do you really need this link? Why don't you don't you filter your mails to different mboxes in your $HOME with procmail? (With a .procmailrc) Probably not, but it's handy for running the odd bit of legacy software that needs this old 'standard'... Pine should be able to do this, maybe UW-imap not. Yeh that's the problem, really :) I only have one user who needs IMAP, so running courier-imap as a daemon rather than from inetd seems a bit of overkill! UW's stuff is crappy, but at least it doesn't run all the time ;) gdh
Procmail, pine, imapd and bogus mailboxes...
Hullo! I'm writing here 'because I never had this problem with Slackware' :) Okie, in /var/spool/mail, I have a symlink from 'gdh' to my real mailbox in /home/gdh/Mailbox, and this link in this preset dir lets crappy stuff like pine and UW's imapd work correctly... However, I've moved to Debian unstable, with qmail as the MTA, and procmail as the MDA (?) ... Alas procmail complains very loudly when it sees a link in /var/spool/mail - and as it's manpage says, will rename the link to BOGUS.gdh.blahblah ... What I'd like to know is.. is there a way around this, or to disable this 'feature' of procmail? If someone has a more elegant solution I'm all ears, and yes I know the nicest solution is probably mutt and Courier-IMAP, but I like pine I'm afraid :) Kind rgards, Gavin.
Re: resolv.conf gets modified on boot
On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Lex McPhail wrote: Using DHCP - will try using a static IP and see what happens. Thanks for the info. I can't speak for 'pump' but if you're using dhcpcd, try 'dhcpcd -R' - that'll prevent it from updating your resolv.conf :) gdh
Re: resolv.conf gets modified on boot
I can't speak for 'pump' but if you're using dhcpcd, try 'dhcpcd -R' - that'll prevent it from updating your resolv.conf :) How to pass that flag when dhcpcd is called from /etc/network/interfaces? Ooh :/ That's a good question... Don't know, sorry.. the dhcpcd man page doesn't seem to suggest that dhcpcd reads a global conf-file or anything :( Soz :/ gdh
Re: OT - Can windows mount NFS volumes exported by my Linux box?
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Daniel de los Reyes wrote: Can this be done? Can I mount NFS volumes from a win machine or am I stuck to using Samba? Short answer: Yes. Longer Answer: At a price. There's a shareware package called DiskAccess, and commercial offerings from Hummingbird and Omni-NFS.. Try www.download.com and just search for NFS :) gdh
Re: OT - Can windows mount NFS volumes exported by my Linux box?
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Andrew Perrin wrote: True enough - but recognize that Samba's advantage is that it runs on the stable OS, so you don't have to load anything at all on the windows side! I'm not a fan of NFS... but it can be useful in situations where file permissions are important... and Samba can be /such/ a bitch to configure permissions properly - more often I end up giving full guest access and just limit it by IP rather that deal with mapping users, etc. Also, it's handy having an nfs server for working directly on source code from Windows, else the Unix host would appear on the local Network Neighbourhood =) gdh
Re: Urk! apt wants to uninstall my entire system!
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, ^chewie wrote: I did an apt-get update today on my alpha 'unstable' system and nearly required new trousers this morning when I almost pressed 'Y' to this little lot... [Perl 5.6 reorg, revert to stable/testing] OK, the easy route sounds like a good plan :) Alternatively, I might just not do any upgrades for a couple of weeks until perl sorts itself out... as I remmeber, I was using unstable because quite a few of the packages I needed either weren't in testing/stable or were quite decrepit old versions.. Incidentally, when you do 'dist-upgrade' on unstable, you're simply ASKING for trouble. At the most, would only run the following in a cron job: Oh god no I don't run it automatically! I wouldn't even do that on 'stable' - I like to be at the console when I do it, to catch any odd errors as they appear... Thanks for the reply :) Kind regards, Gavin.
Re: Urk! apt wants to uninstall my entire system!
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, ^chewie wrote: I did an apt-get update today on my alpha 'unstable' system and nearly required new trousers this morning when I almost pressed 'Y' to this little lot... Just out of curiousity, I did an apt-get update this morning, then apt-get install perl and that cleared the whole palaver :) We're all happy again - Hurrah! gdh
Re: Running Deb on old PCs
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, David B. Harris wrote: That'd be more complex; you'd probably have to write a web front-end ... and you'd also have to install some sort of webserver :( At 340M, you're already going to be limited to how many voice messages you can store with only the base Debian config; adding big stuff like a webserver might make matters worse. Just my two cents' worth here... I did a semi-manual potato install recently (i/e/ selecting individual packages from the menu rather that just the groups) and have ended up with a full mail and web/SSL/PHP/mod_perl system with quite a few extra odds and ends in under 200Mb... 340 should leave plenty of room even for a kernel recompile :) Regards, Gavin.
Re: Exceed 6.0 with Debian 2.2r2 and Windows95
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Walther, Christoph wrote: Dear Debian-Community, how do I setup Linux Debian 2.2r2, so that I can connect to it remotely using Hummingbird Exceed 6.0, running on a Win95-Box? This one is easy enough... let's say your Win95 box has an IP of 10.0.0.95, just type export DISPLAY=10.0.0.95:0 and then any X applications you run from that shell will be directed to your eXceed client. If you want to make it more permanent, just put that line in ~/.bashrc (I think) or maybe it's ~/.bash_login - I can never remember =) Have fun! Gavin.
Urk! apt wants to uninstall my entire system!
Hello :) I did an apt-get update today on my alpha 'unstable' system and nearly required new trousers this morning when I almost pressed 'Y' to this little lot... macha:/home/gdh/# apt-get dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Calculating Upgrade... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: adduser analog apache apache-common autoconf automake build-essential courier-imap cvs-buildpackage debhelper debiandoc-sgml debmake devscripts dh-make dlint docbook docbook-stylesheets docbook-to-man docbook-xml docbook2man docbook2texi dpkg-dev dpkg-ftp dpkg-perl dupload flexml horde imp jade kernel-package libapache-mod-ssl libdate-manip-perl libdbd-mysql-perl libdbi-perl libdevel-symdump-perl libdigest-md5-perl libhtml-parser-perl libhtml-tagset-perl libi18n-langtags-perl libmime-base64-perl libmldbm-perl libnet-perl libsgmls-perl libtext-format-perl liburi-perl libwww-perl libxml-dom-perl libxml-dumper-perl libxml-generator-perl libxml-grove-perl libxml-node-perl libxml-parser-perl libxml-perl libxml-rss-perl libxml-twig-perl libxml-writer-perl lintian listar-cgi mysql-client mysql-server openssl perl-5.004 perl-5.004-base perl-5.005 perl-5.6 php4 php4-imap php4-mysql qmail-src sgml-base sgml-data sgmlspl sgmltools-2 sp task-c++-dev task-c-dev task-debian-devel task-devel-common task-dns-server ucspi-tcp-src xaw-wrappers xaw3dg xbel xbel-utils The following NEW packages will be installed: libcap1 sfio1999 20 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 84 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 41.5MB of archives. After unpacking 80.9MB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] I've had a fair amount of truck with apt and package problems before, but I have no idea where to start looking to fix this one? I'm open to suggestions! :) Kind regards, Gavin.
