Recovering files on lvm/reiserfs partition
Howdy list, So, I did something stupid. (Again.) My desktop went down, but I needed a backup off of it for a different computer on the lan, so I took out the lvm drive and put it in my other backup server. Only problem was, the lvm drive I put in and the lvm drive I pulled from the working backup server had lvm partitions with the same vg name. So, needless to say, I caused a lot of confusion to the operating system and ran some commands that hurt my system. One of the commands I ran trying to fix it was vgreduce --removemissing. All this did was make it so that lvm could not see the either lvm drive. So, I put the original drive back in the server and tried to mount my fileserver lvm drive. I had to manually add some physical volumes back into the vg to get the drive to mount. Then it worked, but most of the files were missing. I tested with photorec, and after 160+ hours of searching, it found 640,000+ files for the fileserver (consuming over 100GB). So, it looks like all of the data is still there, but some index files or something got deleted from the filesystem. And photorec does not restore the directory or file names, just the files themselves. Anybody know a way I can get most of these files back without having to manually rename and reorganize everything? I'm keeping the drive unmounted and storing data elsewhere until I can get this mess untangled... :-/ TIA HAND, Jacob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OT: Socket A motherboard
Howdy list, Sorry this is a bit OT, but the motherboard just died in one of my computers. I was hoping to simply replace it, since I do not have enough money to build a new computer right now. But, I can't find any good sources for a socket A motherboard w/SATA (the computer currently has an Athlon XP 2200+ in it). So, does anybody know of a reliable source for a decent socket A motherboard? Newegg.com and zipzoomfly.com don't have anything that fits the criteria. :-( TIA, Jacob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: Socket A motherboard
Jacob S. wrote: Howdy list, Sorry this is a bit OT, but the motherboard just died in one of my computers. I was hoping to simply replace it, since I do not have enough money to build a new computer right now. But, I can't find any good sources for a socket A motherboard w/SATA (the computer currently has an Athlon XP 2200+ in it). So, does anybody know of a reliable source for a decent socket A motherboard? Newegg.com and zipzoomfly.com don't have anything that fits the criteria. :-( TIA, Jacob Here are some.. http://www.google.com/products?q=%22socket+a%22+motherboard+satabtnG=Searchshow=dd Did you look at any of those links? The first 3 are either server motherboards or miniITX (no AGP slot). The rest are online stores that look questionable to me. I have no experience with geekshoponline or itrshop, but I did notice that even though Google lists them as selling the product you can not find it on their websites by following the categories or other links. And when you follow Google's link to that product, the pictures won't load and there is almost zero product details. Thanks for trying, Jacob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: Socket A motherboard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/03/07 19:16, Sam Leon wrote: Jacob S. wrote: Howdy list, Sorry this is a bit OT, but the motherboard just died in one of my computers. I was hoping to simply replace it, since I do not have enough money to build a new computer right now. But, I can't find any good sources for a socket A motherboard w/SATA (the computer currently has an Athlon XP 2200+ in it). So, does anybody know of a reliable source for a decent socket A motherboard? Newegg.com and zipzoomfly.com don't have anything that fits the criteria. :-( I don't think anyone makes socket A cpu's or motherboards anymore. Your best bet would be ebay. My nf7-s v2 is holding up quite well. :) Yea, that's exactly why I was asking on the list. I was hoping maybe somebody would know of a store with some old inventory or something weird like that. And *none* will have SATA. Well, my socket A motherboard that just died has 4 SATA ports on it. Unless you meant SATAII, as somebody else already suggested. Jacob [Sorry for the private reply on the first try, Ron. I'm using webmail while my main computer is dead.] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Unexpected irq trap when booting
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 00:47:04 GMT s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jacob S [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:34:43 -0700 Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 06:49:41PM -0500, Jacob S wrote: Good thought, but acpi=off did not make any (noticeable) difference. It still hung during boot with an unexpected irq trap. some googling turned up this: http://www.mepis.org/node/10972 Thanks for the tip. I turned off everything the BIOS will let me turn off... USB, lan, wifi, modem, etc. and it still had the irq trap during A shot in the dark from /var/log/messages: If a device doesn't work, try pci=routeirq. If it helps, post a report Nope. :-( A few of these things have changed which vector the irq trap occurs in, but none have eliminated the error. Even with all the options combined, it still hangs on an unexpected irq trap. Thanks again, Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGfLuEkpJ43hY3cTURAuhyAJ0fhx4hOQX+DD8jUb6ynk25SfC1ZwCff1O8 q0BGjwDvsUgiw04PcQXuiJI= =gCQH -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Unexpected irq trap when booting
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:34:43 -0700 Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 06:49:41PM -0500, Jacob S wrote: Good thought, but acpi=off did not make any (noticeable) difference. It still hung during boot with an unexpected irq trap. some googling turned up this: http://www.mepis.org/node/10972 which mentions turning off a bunch of crap in the BIOS (onboard modem etc). I suspect that's where you need to go. Also pulling pci bus cards off the machine and booting, then putting in one at a time to see if you can find the problem. Thanks for the tip. I turned off everything the BIOS will let me turn off... USB, lan, wifi, modem, etc. and it still had the irq trap during boot. There are not really any settings it will let me tweak, as far as bus speeds or anything other than disabling peripherals, since this is a laptop. Anyone else have any suggestions? Puzzled and confused, Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGewY8kpJ43hY3cTURAsONAJ9MDnovI7s8o/qeAf76haHwwOmlxACgwTAe 9ge4ZviFUcPdyPfPWgeZGaI= =v0Qb -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Unexpected irq trap when booting
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 14:05:45 +0200 (CEST) pinniped [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (quote) I then upgraded back to the bios version that came with the laptop, but the unexpected irq trap persists. (end quote) Did you enter the BIOS setup and ensure that everything was set back the same as before? A BIOS update may 'update' the actual settings to some default state. Yes, but since I never changed anything in the BIOS setup before installing Linux, I am not sure I would notice any changes. Thanks, Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGeEpJkpJ43hY3cTURAkepAKCwojIYyLjA1oyBQACQlA7rHFMMqgCdHyOh b6UVZjpxmXbWivELCi0OdIw= =p5d5 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Unexpected irq trap when booting
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 10:51:23 +0100 Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 12:53:11PM -0500, Jacob S. wrote: Howdy List, In doing some googling to get Debian setup on a Dell Inspiron 1501 I found some people had better success with the contrast/brightness function keys if they downgraded the bios to an older version. So, I tried this but Debian started hanging with an error message about unexpected irq trap at vector XX. I then upgraded back to the bios version that came with the laptop, but the unexpected irq trap persists. To make matters worse, the Debian Etch installer hangs with the same error as well now (but different vector, if that means anything). Knoppix, however, still boots just fine. I have tried adding noapic nolapic to the boot options. That seems to help the installer boot eventually, though it still pauses for a long time working on the error. Debian on the hard drive still will not boot though, because it can not get root mounted after the unexpected irq trap. When I did a google search for unexpected irq trap at vector, the hits suggests that this is ACPI related, not APIC ... So perhaps booting with acpi=off will make some headway? There are some other acpi-related parameters too you might want to play with... Good thought, but acpi=off did not make any (noticeable) difference. It still hung during boot with an unexpected irq trap. Thanks, Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGeGuXkpJ43hY3cTURAuA3AJ4kYVsbfH57p0S414O4w7/i5Ls0nACggJt2 wh9YQIRYbWAwYYDGBrlMLEA= =V373 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Unexpected irq trap when booting
Howdy List, In doing some googling to get Debian setup on a Dell Inspiron 1501 I found some people had better success with the contrast/brightness function keys if they downgraded the bios to an older version. So, I tried this but Debian started hanging with an error message about unexpected irq trap at vector XX. I then upgraded back to the bios version that came with the laptop, but the unexpected irq trap persists. To make matters worse, the Debian Etch installer hangs with the same error as well now (but different vector, if that means anything). Knoppix, however, still boots just fine. I have tried adding noapic nolapic to the boot options. That seems to help the installer boot eventually, though it still pauses for a long time working on the error. Debian on the hard drive still will not boot though, because it can not get root mounted after the unexpected irq trap. Does anyone have any other thoughts or suggestions for how I can fix this? TIA, Jacob -- GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 Random .signature #45: NT == No Thanks signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Sarge - Etch = udev problems
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Howdy List, This being gone at school for 5 months and then trying to fix 6 computers when I get home all at the same time is getting old. :-) My latest problem is on a Thinkpad that I upgraded from Sarge to Etch. The upgrade installed a 2.6.18-*-486 kernel and udev, which I changed to a 2.6.18-*-686 kernel (and udev). Now whenever I boot the laptop it has a ton of permission problems in /dev. For starters, /dev/random, /dev/urandom, /dev/tty* /dev/null have permissions of 660 while being owned by root:root, which effectively restricts logins to root only. I edited /etc/udev/rules.d/020_permissions.rules to do different permissions and/or group ownerships, but it seems to be ignoring the rules. /var/log/syslog does not show any udev errors at boot time, either. It also broke my wireless connection, but I can not yet determine if that is udev related or not (not real sure how it could be, though). I have tried Googling the problem as well as looking through the udev bugs on bugs.d.o, all to no avail. Does anyone have any thoughts or hints on what might be causing this udev problem? Let me know if you need any additional info or logfiles. TIA, Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGaiV/kpJ43hY3cTURAp2cAJ91j4tSfbFB5ORErH+pe+GI1LWmIACaAyoB yHhnb2coOwb6oq6wHEGrpTE= =XIF3 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
AGP DRI on a Radeon Xpress 1150
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Howdy List, I'm trying to setup Debian Etch on a new Dell Inspiron 1501. X is working great so far, except that I cannot get DRI enabled. I can modprobe radeon and tell the xorg.conf to use the radeon driver, but glxinfo still reports no DRI. Looking in the xorg.log file it says screen :0 is not dri capable. So I have tried adjusting refresh rates and resolution and everything but still the same error message. Finally I realized that it is not creating a /dev/dri/card0 device. I am assuming 'it' would be udev, in this instance, probably because there is no '*_agp' module loaded. So I tried loading each of the *_agp modules present in the 2.6.18-4-amd64 kernel but still no /dev/dri/card0. I have seen others say they got DRI working on their 1501, so I am hoping someone knows what I need to do or maybe another 1501 user can share some config details with me. Any hints or tips? TIA HAND, Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGZe39kpJ43hY3cTURApgkAKC/qiwMDa1OLgcs3tk5kIZ5SzFoKgCdGDUZ e+mOSUH/MZkTd/zmgH103nA= =qlzP -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Recovering an lvm partition
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Howdy List, An unnamed person was trying to learn LVM and add storage capacity to my fileserver while I was gone and messed up the partition a bit. Doing a vgdisplay vg_name would cause it to error out about a missing device. (The new drive had been repartitioned after being added with vgextend. :-/) I managed to fix that part of it, eventually, using vgreduce - --removemissing vg_name. However, now lvdisplay shows that there is no logical volume on that vg. Nothing has been done to erase the filesystem and data, so I am hoping I can recover it. But before I simply do an lvcreate and try to get the same settings it had previously, does anyone know of something like vgcfgrestore that would restore the lv from the /etc/lvm/vg_name0.log config file? TIA, Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGWu7QkpJ43hY3cTURAmxDAKDKiBQzHSNf9JbwSHFd76cx4aqHOgCeLUsH Bw2ZEc4sZGupJQherjcNVso= =iBCT -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Recovering an lvm partition
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 28 May 2007 11:08:18 -0400 Roberto C. Sánchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 10:01:32AM -0500, Jacob S wrote: I managed to fix that part of it, eventually, using vgreduce - --removemissing vg_name. However, now lvdisplay shows that there is no logical volume on that vg. Nothing has been done to erase the filesystem and data, so I am hoping I can recover it. But before I simply do an lvcreate and try to get the same settings it had previously, does anyone know of something like vgcfgrestore that would restore the lv from the /etc/lvm/vg_name0.log config file? Hmm. I've never run unto this. Any chance you have a recent backup? If not, are you able to look in the shell history and see the exact sequence of commands that this unnamed person used to add the new pv? No backups... err, oh, happy day! I just found out my backups were working. I thought that partition had gotten full. No sequence of commands in the shell history, unfortunately. But now that I know I have pretty good backups, I will just experiment and see if I can get it working again. If I make any startling discoveries I will be sure and report them to the list. :-) Thanks, Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGWwYFkpJ43hY3cTURAhYqAKCwIyxnRpN2ZPs/SekHpHhmdtiI1wCfXKtu w3jM/K6P4OBbrFNN+FC9SP4= =30Xu -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Recovering an lvm partition
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 28 May 2007 09:51:47 -0700 Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 11:40:33AM -0500, Jacob S wrote: On Mon, 28 May 2007 11:08:18 -0400 Roberto C. Sánchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 10:01:32AM -0500, Jacob S wrote: I managed to fix that part of it, eventually, using vgreduce - --removemissing vg_name. However, now lvdisplay shows that there is no logical volume on that vg. Nothing has been done to erase the filesystem and data, so I am hoping I can recover it. But before I simply do an lvcreate and try to get the same settings it had previously, does anyone know of something like vgcfgrestore that would restore the lv from the /etc/lvm/vg_name0.log config file? Hmm. I've never run unto this. Any chance you have a recent backup? If not, are you able to look in the shell history and see the exact sequence of commands that this unnamed person used to add the new pv? No backups... err, oh, happy day! I just found out my backups were working. I thought that partition had gotten full. No sequence of commands in the shell history, unfortunately. But now that I know I have pretty good backups, I will just experiment and see if I can get it working again. If I make any startling discoveries I will be sure and report them to the list. :-) if you really want to be able to play with it and have the disk space, dd the partitions onto other disks so you can recreate the situation multiple times... Unfortunately I did not have that much free disk space laying around. (It is an 80GB lvm that is totally full.) However, lvcreate did sucessfully create a logical volume of the right size and I could then mount it without a problem. I made sure to specify the right lv size and not to format it and all the data appears to still be there. Thanks, Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGW1pzkpJ43hY3cTURArhsAJ9i/CMfvQHwE7IGZWT9mYIAc884dQCgvXpx PA8Hz2t7AWXyhuUANbiIQfE= =oRRV -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Good video card?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 27 May 2007 06:19:12 -0500 Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/27/07 00:58, David Fox wrote: [snip] Fortunately, a friend gave me an Nvidia Gforce FX5200, has 128 megs of RAM. This one is decidedly better for the 3D applications (beryl *almost* works). Although it's not state of the art (I was reviewing some of the writeups on current, bleeding edge graphics cards, and basically I was just floored -- those things are practically supercomputers...). Still, a 5200 or something similar might run you close to $50. Make that $29 at NewEgg. (You don't mention whether this is AGP 2X, 4X or 8X. This *is* AGP, right?) Yes, this is AGP 4x/8x. And while it doesn't need much in the 3d department, enough to run googleearth would be nice. I also vote nvidia. All prices at NewEgg: GeForce FX5500 128MB DDR AGP 4X/8X card $48 Geforce FX5500 256MB DDR AGP 4X/8X card $51 For future use, though, I'd buy an OpenGL 2.0 card: PNY VCG62256APB GeForce 6200 256MB GDDR2 AGP 4X/8X $60 Thanks for all the suggestions. Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGWee6kpJ43hY3cTURAmMKAKDQRwgJfRCPGPCwJR1w85FI8a1zgwCcCiS0 7xaiBHt2ssJpJ+XrlslWzwg= =ETIy -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Good video card?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Howdy List, I'm looking to purchase a new video card to replace a dying Radeon 9200. The 9200 was relatively easy to install - load the kernel module and set the correct driver in the xorg.conf file and it was good to go - - no compiling drivers or kernels. However, this is the second 9200 to die on me, so I'm looking for something different this time - but still easy to setup. Any recommendations? TIA HAND, Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGWRNSkpJ43hY3cTURAt/5AJ9dmf/vQkLVO4lTyn9Zz5BiRhRYTQCg6Axo gjsE6+eDJsmTWCHK2wrkyK8= =pbaU -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Debian as a Web server
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 00:03:39 +0200 Justin Hartman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sure you're wrong. Debian was showed as #1 in the web servers that publishes the distribution info by Netcraft some time ago (nothing more than 1 or 2 years ago). I'm sure I am and I was really making this statement based on my own perception more than any hard facts. I think what may be causing this perception is the web-based control panel companies like Cpanel and SWsoft. I've never seen a Cpanel or Plesk server running off of Debian but again this is only what I have noticed. I help maintain a Debian server running Plesk for part of my day job. The nice part was during Plesk installation it added a repos to the /etc/apt/sources.list file so that it gets their important updates as needed. That way I don't have to modify my normal upgrade procedure on the Debian server. HTH, Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFfzRIkpJ43hY3cTURAhMBAJ42yv5jimKpfUrUWfTRNYiZR3eHawCgoYBA //7XLbHbFo3YE32Rk8afY0I= =gFjE -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Trouble reading a Windows cd
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Howdy list, I have a cd of pictures that a friend burned for me on their windoze machine. Whenever I try to mount it though, mount gives me an error saying mount: Not a directory. I know this is not a permissions problem, as I get the same error when I try to mount it as root. And yes, the mount point really is a directory. I suspected that the disk was not finalized, so I tried a cdrecord -fix dev=/dev/dvd, but the cd still does not mount. I also made a backup of the cd with dd, before running cdrecord. But of course, mount -o loop on the .iso file gives the same error as mounting the cd. Does anyone have any suggestions on how I might be able to manipulate the cd to get the files off of it? TIA, Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFaPHzkpJ43hY3cTURAmWaAJ4sIBVPX8j3f41unJuBhH21f7AoRwCgm9y0 8Y+stovAbDGvwwNoKlchxo4= =l0lD -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: strange email link
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Hugo Vanwoerkom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to contact county officials in Lewis and Clark County MT,
USA.
They have a page:
http://www.co.lewis-clark.mt.us/index.php?id=30
But the email links don't work.
They expand to such:
javascript:linkTo_UnCryptMailto('nbjmup+qefibsuAdp/mfxjt.dmbsl/nu/vt');
I suspect that this is a case of M$ only but I don't know.
I yet have to install XP again, VMware isn't helpful with modems, but
it is an odious task :-(
Anybody make sense out of those email links?
That's some pretty weak encryption. :-)
Look at the last 6 characters of the encrypted e-mail address and you
can figure out their code: /nu/vt is the encrypted part, and you know
their domain name ends with .mt.us. Replace all / characters with a .
and replace the only . with a - etc. I tried my suspicion on the
Feedback link and came out with an address of mailto+pdehart _at_
co.lewis-clark... Look at the person's name for the link you want and
you can easily confirm whether you decrypted it right or not. You can
probably drop the mailto+ portion, as well.
HTH,
Jacob
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Re: Problem opening StarOffice files in OpenOffice 2
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 02:18:32 + Bruce M. Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anybody else found that the Debian supplied OOo 2.0.4 (2.0.4-5) in Etch will not open StarOffice 5 .sdw files? I first get a 'Filter Selection' window (as though it hasn't recognised the file type), I can go select (after hunting for) 'StarWriter 5.0', and then get General Error. General input/output error. I believe the debian package openoffice.org-filter-so52 should fix it for you. HTH, Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFWUFIkpJ43hY3cTURAouaAKC1hmHfVQsrohTS5uymADzOpreLZACfU0D6 cUtrZx56HwNKbum9VszCIKI= =CkuI -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: routing only certain traffic through vpn?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 17:27:40 -0400 Roberto C. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 03:54:24PM -0500, Jacob S wrote: I'm fairly certain that you know enough to keep it from being a problem, but the schemen you describe is a hair's breadth away from makig your company's VPN open to the public Internet. I just thought I'd point that out. Sorry, Roberto, a couple days of hard work on a house addition must have fried my brain... I'm not following you. Care to expound on how you think my company's vpn might be open to the public internet? Simply that someone managing to compromise your machine from the public Internet would then have a direct route to your comapny's vpn. Even if you have disabled IP forwarding, someone compromising your machine can setup some sort of user-level proxy or simply enable ip forwarding (if they have root). Maybe I made it sound more serious than it really is. Basically, if both connections to the public net (direct and through the company VPN) are equally well protected, then you don't have to much to worry about (in terms of traffic leakage). But, for example, if your company's VPN connection is well secured and direct net connection is not, you could end up exposing your company's network. This is the same problem that you have with any sort of multi-interface system, except that VPNs are usually given a higher level of trust. Ah, right, I follow you now. Both machines sit behind a firewall, so it's certainly not our easiest target. That and if they got root on my computer there are a lot more things I would be worried about them getting besides the vpn connection. Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFPAV+kpJ43hY3cTURAqa7AKC4lyH2R6TXrWHK2faVNrurnK/QdwCfbAZo Amx3pXUeL31XHSx19lkgOHg= =Ju/x -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: routing only certain traffic through vpn?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 12:48:35 -0400 Roberto C. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 10:58:27AM -0500, Jacob S wrote: This sounds like you don't have your routing setup properly. I use a vpn regularly for work and only traffic going to their range of ip addresses goes through the vpn. Hi Jacob, I'm fairly certain that you know enough to keep it from being a problem, but the schemen you describe is a hair's breadth away from makig your company's VPN open to the public Internet. I just thought I'd point that out. Sorry, Roberto, a couple days of hard work on a house addition must have fried my brain... I'm not following you. Care to expound on how you think my company's vpn might be open to the public internet? Thanks, Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFO9qEkpJ43hY3cTURAov+AJ0REtwXgBGPUjd6Xuy06Aj818vuxACgrg46 6Gk25JBcCCtBuLgR/MjT/vM= =e52S -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: routing only certain traffic through vpn?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 11:03:20 -0400 Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, i'm wondering whether it's possible to route only certain internet traffic through a vpn, or to exclude certain ip addresses/ranges from the vpn. my situation is as follows: I work mostly from home and rely on the university's vpn to be able to access online journals. ths works fine., but when I'm connected to the vpn I can't send mail from my home email account (postfix doesn't work properly). I'm wondering whether I could contact my smtp host from outside of the vpn somehow. has anyone tried this and/or any suggestions? This sounds like you don't have your routing setup properly. I use a vpn regularly for work and only traffic going to their range of ip addresses goes through the vpn. What does route -n show on your computer? And how do you connect to the internet? Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFN6CnkpJ43hY3cTURAnmNAJ9/Iy6Zr2oQOCTT6PtfkGyNxnHfTwCbB14q e1xwmze9caT/BxRlDkm9+gU= =YTXP -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: 1 CPU or 2 ?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 14 Oct 2006 19:15:53 -0700 michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 14 Oct 2006 20:04:53 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/14/06 19:53, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 05:33:29PM -0700, michael wrote: Hello, Looking for suggestions on going with 1 dual core CPU or 2 dual core CPU. Main server would be an NFS file server. Probably using SW raid as well. Money is a conern. Is it better to go with a single, yet faster CPU?, or go with a slower CPU, yet have 2 of them? Go with whatever you can get cheeper. If it is primarily an NFS server, any CPU over 1 GHz will do. Even a single cpu with a single core. The only concern is if you are using a 10 Gbps network card. If money is a concern, you are not going to be using a 10 Gbps network card. Other questions to ask: - - How many users will it be serving? - - How busy will it be? Even if you are only serving one system, will it be a streaming uncompressed High Def video server, or an MPEG-2 and MP3 server for 1 person.? Probably about 100-150 workstations. This server will also run proxy, email and web, but my main concern was NFS as I'm kinda new to it. Sorry to join this thread a little late, but do you really need all of those services on one server? I consider it a pretty big security risk to have private data files on a public e-mail/web server. If it were up to me, I would be looking into a way to get 2 cheap servers instead of 1 expensive server. HTH, Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFNm3jkpJ43hY3cTURAmpoAKCGQo1sLKCSF8KRh8Z+D/zYlrcwjQCfUkW0 JMZUPRkaP+pVHpgmgZlzOq0= =iPL4 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Watching google videos?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 08:35:38 + W. Borgert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the answers: The download link works fine - because it says Windows/Mac I was under the false impression that I get some obscure file. The video downloader extension for Firefox works very well, too. It allows to choose between AVI, FLV, and MP4. All three formats can be played by mplayer, gxine and totem play at least the AVI variant. Conclusion: No need for proprietary software of flash crap :-) The video downloader extension only gives you the 3 format options when the video has a download link on the Google site. Not all Google videos have a download link, in which case video downloader only gives you the option of downloading it in flv. HTH, Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFNObikpJ43hY3cTURAjpIAJ91Fszv7VOv5JcG3je5tOLY/QEu2QCfYlEg fFH4o9JOY9uAW+plH9NB6cY= =sS27 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: macromedia new windows version problem
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 13:32:49 -0400 Stephen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 09:49:12AM -0700 or thereabouts, Paul Johnson wrote: On Monday 21 August 2006 08:01, Stephen wrote: If it were closed source, then implementations of it wouldn't be allowed to exist such as MING, the various open source players, and editors. The standard itself is closed, so the best you can hope for is broken compatibility in the long term. It is NOT a closed standard. Please present proof of this. As in Adobe's documentation of the format. Any lack of prosecution by Adobe does not mean it is an open standard, as we witnessed with gif images in recent history. Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFE6flTkpJ43hY3cTURAo/PAJoCpDB12gyMUhVlQVC8Mz8Synnb/wCeNv6r k6ZtpbikzSylvbtgU6C0l7A= =LBCj -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon (WAS: Re: Osama Bin Laden Take Over List!)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 14:34:16 -0700 Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 21 August 2006 11:07, Marc Shapiro wrote: I do not have a right hand gas tank, so I get to sit in a long line and look at the other, empty lane, being unused. For those of us with left hand gas tanks (the majority), after I get to move up to a pump I have to wait for the attendant to get to me to pump my gas, instead of just getting out and pumping my own. Then, after the tank is full, I have to wait for them to get back to me, just to take the nozzle out and hand me my receipt. This usually adds at least a minute, if not more, to my time at the pump, not including any additional time waiting in line to get to a pump. If we eliminated that extra time at the pump it would virtually eliminate any waiting in line, as well. Knowing that's how gas stations work in your area, it would have been prudent to have kept this limitation in mind when you purchased your vehicle. Otherwise you're stuck waiting in line or paying 10-30¢ more per gallon at a self-service cardlock or being an inconsiderate driver by going the wrong way into the right-hand pumps at a Washington self-serve station. Buy a car just because it has a right hand gas tank? I'd rather buy gas where the traffic lanes are 2-way and there's rarely lines for a pump - regardless of what side your gas tank is on. Hint: this place is not in Oregon, Washington or California. And yes, my legislators trust me enough to pump my own gas. Having pumped my own gas for 32 years and in many states prior to moving to Oregon, I can say that I have probably seen as many gas spills from gas station attendants as from self pumping customers. The total number of spills, from either, sources, is rather low. Go to Vancouver (WA or BC, either of them, doesn't matter). Or Seattle. There's usually a standing puddle of gasoline in front of at least one pump and the place reeks of gasoline by comparison to even a truck stop gas station in Oregon. This isn't to say that even the career gas pumpers don't occasionally spill, at least here they're required to clean up gas spills quickly. Even then, seeing kitty litter or a spill kit in use or a puddle of gas is the exception and not the rule at mini-serve stations. So you're basing your opinion of all self-service gas stations on those 3 cities? Quite the limited sample there. (That being said, the only time I've seen them spill was earlier today at an Estby station near Intel where I work since it was running on fumes when I pulled in, the tank burped while refuelling and the nozzle dropped out. And the Estby station gave me the gas gratis to make up for spilling gas on fender...$5 car wash for $30 gas...can't complain too much...) Just out of curiosity, how much training are these pump attendants required to go through to be qualified experts in pumping gas? Thanks. This thread is reminding me once again of how glad I am to live in my home state. Keep up the good work! Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFE6ji/kpJ43hY3cTURAoA4AJ0dl3gnz5KChu4AJl0MPMG2rQVrrgCgkFZb p5iISy19qPugPAKOpm3l2cI= =vHsq -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Weird cursor problem in X11
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 12:54:07 -0500 Kevin Buhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jacob S [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Both in gdm and after logging into an x session, a copy of the mouse pointer will 'freeze' in one spot on the screen. The usual blanket solution for X cursor problems is to try disabling the hardware cursor. Try adding: Option SWcursor on to the Driver (or Screen or Monitor---any of these should work) section of your XF86Config-4. Thanks, Kevin. This did indeed fix it. I put the line you suggested in the Driver section for the video card and then confirmed that Xfree86 was using it in /var/log/XFree86.0.log. Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFE6PhdkpJ43hY3cTURArpWAKCHpa9uiWTouEg9ujuV46ErZXc6sgCgwERG 9LGDOC6T3wY1Kfp5SGq0JM8= =GWXQ -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Use of Debian Logo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 01:07:02 +1000 Pranesh Medilall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To Whom it may concern My name is Pranesh Medilall currently study towards a Bachelors degree in Netcentric Computing at Monash University,Melbourne Victoria. I have been assigned a websystems assignment where I have to develop a webpage. Being a fanatical linux guy I here by ask for permission to use the Debian Linux logo on my page for my assignment. I think you will find all of your questions are answered at the following url. http://www.debian.org/logos/ HTH HAND, Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFE5zu9kpJ43hY3cTURAj2GAJ49V/69dZHHijUKw9yC+Ru+cKsy4QCfTa0w pLRJu1+BKOvldDcsUtQi73Q= =T0Mp -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Where's the grub boot menu?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 12:41:04 -0500 Kevin Buhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jacob, Is it possible that GRUB is looking for /boot/boot/grub/menu.lst, instead of /boot/grub/menu.lst? The README makes reference to this when /boot is a separate partition. When you ran grub-install, did it not create a /boot/boot/grub directory with a menu.lst template in there? If so, GRUB is probably using that one instead of the one you've been modifying. The update-grub script, unfortunately, only updates the first of /boot/grub and /boot/boot/grub that it finds, so it won't have touched the version that GRUB is using, if this is the case. The only difference I see between our menu.lst files is that my Xen boot stanzas have no root line in mine: title Xen 3.0 running 2.6.16.2-xen-amd64-k8 kernel /xen-3.0-amd64.gz dom0_mem=262144 module /vmlinuz-2.6.16-2-xen-amd64-k8 root=/dev/mapper/main-buddharoot ro console=tty0 module /initrd.img-2.6.16-2-xen-amd64-k8 savedefault boot However, I doubt your problem has anything to do with problems in the menu.lst---it seems pretty clear that GRUB is just failing to find the file entirely or using a different copy. This was exactly it. Thank you! There was a /boot/boot/grub dir, but no /boot/boot/grub/menu.lst. Running grub-install --root-directory=/ /dev/sda fixed it. The strange part is that the documentation specifically says grub-install - --root-directory=/boot /dev/sda is an example of how to do the installation when your boot partition is separate from the root partition. Oh well, it works now. And I learned how to use the grub shell in the process. :-) Thanks for your help, Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD4DBQFE51cykpJ43hY3cTURAg0dAJimM5MRlNEOzhSwWCj/u3ckULA8AKC0qAR8 X3iKgn8iiIt6I1JPKXsCPA== =2vcD -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Where's the grub boot menu?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Howdy list, I'm sure this must be a simple problem, but I can't find it on Google. When I boot my server, grub always drops me into it's shell, instead of giving me a boot menu, or even booting the default. Having to type 3 lines at least 40 characters long just to get it to boot each time gets a bit tiring. I have tried changing the default line in menu.lst, as well as an update-grub and even a grub-install, all to no avail. Can anyone point out what I'm missing? Thanks, Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFE5gONkpJ43hY3cTURAq5jAJkB02B9Gh4BwO5qE8TO6xDvA93PAgCg1uCF pZTrfWKWEZEDyl46eNc9bL8= =EiAw -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Where's the grub boot menu?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 11:24:45 -0700 Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 01:14:33PM -0500, Jacob S wrote: Howdy list, I'm sure this must be a simple problem, but I can't find it on Google. When I boot my server, grub always drops me into it's shell, instead of giving me a boot menu, or even booting the default. Having to type 3 lines at least 40 characters long just to get it to boot each time gets a bit tiring. I have tried changing the default line in menu.lst, as well as an update-grub and even a grub-install, all to no avail. Can anyone point out what I'm missing? well, just to get the obvious out of the way, where is menu.lst located? should be in /boot/grub/menu.lst Yes, it is. # ls -l /boot/grub/menu.lst - -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3761 2006-08-18 12:05 /boot/grub/menu.lst /boot is /dev/sda1 and root is /dev/sda5. When I ran grub-install I gave it the options --root-directory=/boot /dev/sda. Any other thoughts? Thanks, Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFE5hU+kpJ43hY3cTURAncAAJ9oCztl8UChC/Fa2nOCvmAGaO0IFQCfQ+rj asNGBqcwLyqbeBkFpH3jeXQ= =2s8H -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Where's the grub boot menu?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 13:38:12 -0500 Mumia W. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 08/18/2006 01:14 PM, Jacob S wrote: Howdy list, Howdy Jacob. I'm sure this must be a simple problem, but I can't find it on Google. When I boot my server, grub always drops me into it's shell, instead of giving me a boot menu, or even booting the default. Having to type 3 lines at least 40 characters long just to get it to boot each time gets a bit tiring. I have tried changing the default line in menu.lst, as well as an update-grub and even a grub-install, all to no avail. [...] The default line in menu.lst, AFAIK, is supposed to be just a number--the number of the boot option to use as default. Yes, this is how I set it up. Examine the part of menu.lst that describes the # kopt= option. That is where you can put kernel command line parameters that will survive an invocation of update-grub. This is done too. I have attached my menu.lst to this e-mail. If anyone can spot any problems in it, that would be most appreciated. Thanks again, Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFE5ibMkpJ43hY3cTURAi2zAJ0VBlmHwwmTRt7AfFPUbzqZeAsWTQCeKO8w f5J1/f+YxbiZrloiKy85tdM= =8Dy4 -END PGP SIGNATURE- menu.lst Description: Binary data
Re: Where's the grub boot menu?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 19:01:12 -0500 Mumia W. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 08/18/2006 03:44 PM, Jacob S wrote: [...] title stable Xen 3.0.1 / Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.12.6-xen0 root(hd0,0) kernel /xen-3.0.1.gz module /vmlinuz-2.6.12.6-xen0 root=/dev/sda5 ro console=tty0 module /initrd.img-2.6.12.6-xen0 savedefault boot [...] I think that the kernel options need to appear after the kernel name on the kernel line. You use the module command to load your initrd. Even after reading parts of info grub, I don't fully understand what the module command does, but AFAIK, it's more usual to use the initrd command to load an initrd. I would change it like so: ... kernel /xen-3.0.1.gz root=/dev/sda5 ro console=tty0 module /vmlinuz-2.6.12.6-xen0 initrd /initrd.img-2.6.12.6-xen0 ... Note, I have no experience with Xen. Yes, Xen makes the menu.lst look a bit strange. The documentation for Xen specifically says the initrd needs to be used on a module line, instead of an initrd line. I believe part of the reason for this is that Xen basically takes control as the primary domain, and then the privileged domain itself runs as a virtual server. Xen does not have the binaries and command line tools of a real operating system though, so any configuration of it is done from the privileged domain (aka dom0). I have not specifically read about the kernel options, though all of the Xen howtos have done it the way I did. Also, when I boot using the grub shell, I type it exactly as I have it in the menu.lst and it works perfectly. And it used to work without needing the grub shell, when I had the kernel/module lines in the same order as I have them currently. Now you see a little (more) of why it is confusing me so much. :-) Thanks, Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFE5mwxkpJ43hY3cTURAsWRAKCcSn4pgTZTf3jYYGhuBDGRiLqLNwCaA4u0 X29kLGYcgvhTkqt2b+KFExY= =q4yS -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Naming multiple alsa sound cards (was Re: synthetic sound generator with api)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 01:41:00 -0400 Chuckk Hubbard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If no one knows, does anyone know where I can find documentation of how to control this for Debian? I'd like my ALSA to be in order so I can recompile my kernel, and I can't find any clear explanation of it. Everyone says the order the modules are loaded is random, but you can control it; how do I do this, if only one module is a soundcard, the other two are MIDI controllers? To have modules loaded in a certain order, I would add them to /etc/modules in the order you want them loaded. One module per line, no other instructions needed. This works when I need network cards loaded in a certain order. HTH, Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFE212dkpJ43hY3cTURAv21AJ4oA1ZLuuGBzEjJsvdXZl9atYOhGQCgrINQ 9UWvyAw5VuEGPDlM9P1LPN8= =NwCQ -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Naming multiple alsa sound cards (was Re: synthetic sound generator with api)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 12:35:33 -0400 Chuckk Hubbard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/10/06, Jacob S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- To have modules loaded in a certain order, I would add them to /etc/modules in the order you want them loaded. One module per line, no other instructions needed. This works when I need network cards loaded in a certain order. Okay, snd-emu10k1 is already there, because I added it previously. Any idea where I can find the appropriate names for the MIDI devices? The names in /proc/asound/cards are completely different- it has Audigy rather than emu10k1. What did alsaconf put in /etc/modprobe.d/sound? That should list the module names. Failing all else, you might be able to deduce the names from an lsmod | grep snd. HTH, Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFE22XSkpJ43hY3cTURAvkxAKCy3rHF2yg+mwwCg2rHB+pyIaKBnwCeNf+F WlxZwdCrVWUgThp1Gfnj8s8= =XXl+ -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Naming multiple alsa sound cards (was Re: synthetic sound generator with api)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 13:46:32 -0400 Chuckk Hubbard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/10/06, Jacob S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 12:35:33 -0400 Chuckk Hubbard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/10/06, Jacob S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- To have modules loaded in a certain order, I would add them to /etc/modules in the order you want them loaded. One module per line, no other instructions needed. This works when I need network cards loaded in a certain order. Okay, snd-emu10k1 is already there, because I added it previously. Any idea where I can find the appropriate names for the MIDI devices? The names in /proc/asound/cards are completely different- it has Audigy rather than emu10k1. What did alsaconf put in /etc/modprobe.d/sound? That should list the module names. Failing all else, you might be able to deduce the names from an lsmod | grep snd. /etc/modprobe.d/sound: #alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1 #options snd-emu10k1 index=0 lol Maybe because the other two are MIDI controllers? I don't know if they'd be classified as snd or not; If Alsa has anything to do with them, then yes, they are classified as snd. one is an Evolution UC-33e, and the other is a M-Audio MIDIsport 1x1. Like I said before, I'm not sure how much these instructions apply, since I really do only have one soundcard. Before I reconfigured my kernel, these lines were what made qjackctl only recognize either the soundcard OR the MIDI devices, never both... If I remember correctly, you said the midi controllers are connected by usb, right? I can't make anything of lsmod either. Thanks for your help, btw. Hammertime:/home/chuckk# lsmod | grep snd snd_usb_audio 69408 53 snd_usb_lib14656 1 snd_usb_audio ^ Assuming I remembered correctly, there's two of the modules right there. snd_emu10k1_synth 6592 0 snd_emux_synth 31424 1 snd_emu10k1_synth snd_seq_virmidi 7584 1 snd_emux_synth snd_seq_midi_emul 5728 1 snd_emux_synth snd_seq_dummy 3684 0 snd_seq_oss29444 0 snd_seq_midi8160 0 snd_seq_midi_event 7008 3 snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi snd_seq 45676 12 snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi_emul,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event snd_emu10k1 101988 5 snd_emu10k1_synth snd_rawmidi23008 4 snd_usb_lib,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi,snd_emu10k1 snd_ac97_codec 83968 1 snd_emu10k1 snd_ac97_bus 2688 1 snd_ac97_codec snd_pcm_oss36864 0 snd_mixer_oss 15552 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_pcm76836 6 snd_usb_audio,snd_emu10k1,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss snd_seq_device 7788 8 snd_emu10k1_synth,snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi snd_timer 21476 3 snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm snd_page_alloc 9576 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm snd_util_mem4448 2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1 snd_hwdep 9284 3 snd_usb_audio,snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1 snd 48576 76 snd_usb_audio,snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_device,snd_timer,snd_hwdep soundcore 9856 1 snd usbcore 114524 5 usbhid,snd_usb_audio,snd_usb_lib,uhci_hcd Most of the modules with 'midi' in their name are used by both the midi controllers and emu10k1, from what I can see. Also, have you tried doing any googling to see what modules are needed for your midi controllers? I suspect it is just those two I pointed out above. Which means to always have the midi controllers in a certain order, not just after or before the the emu10k1, you will need to do more research on /etc/modprobe.d/sound, /proc/asound/cards and alsa so that you can tell it which order to put them in. Sorry, I have never had an emu10k1, more than one sound card or midi controllers, so I am going on the limited information you have provided. HTH, Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFE23hJkpJ43hY3cTURAkKxAKCbnavTDKrKa5aVsDQJ1/8KJbz+IACg3GW+ vD9SgRueCPLPJJJz6rXVRUc= =MAJG -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Naming multiple alsa sound cards (was Re: synthetic sound generator with api)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 9 Aug 2006 12:24:24 -0400 Chuckk Hubbard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/5/06, Hugo Vanwoerkom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: CJ van den Berg wrote: On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 05:20:38PM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: For the alsa behaved apps (like libao) you set alsa_card=1 or 0 and ao_example.c plays on either one soundcard or the other. Just a small tip. On machines with multiple sound devices the alsa card numbers may not be predictable because the device number depends on which card was detected first. On my machine it seems to be pretty random. Alsa allows you to refer to sound devices by *name* though too, which works much more predictably. So for example in libao you would use the driver option dev=hw:NAME instead of dev=hw:NUMBER. The names of the devices on your machine are listed (in square brackets) in /proc/asound/cards. I have this in /etc/modprobe.d/sound: alias snd-card-0 snd-via82xx options snd-via82xx index=0 alias snd-card-1 snd_ca0106 options snd_ca0106 index=1 and now the cards always seem to come up in that order. But thanks for the tip! Is there any sort of standard for this? I don't have /etc/modprobe.d/sound, and I can't find anywhere what files I need to edit to get this done. Not to state the obvious here, but have you tried alsaconf? My /etc/modprobe.d/sound was created by running that utility. HTH, Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFE2hOkkpJ43hY3cTURAkGYAJ998BKo+AudHoJmw96Eyv4QGnZxFQCfXFTX wazo2QAQ1g3LQTqiS+FYz1c= =4mEM -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Weird cursor problem in X11
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello list, I am having a strange problem in X11 that I have not been able to solve. First, this is on a AMD XP 1800+ on a Giga-Byte motherboard with a Via chipset and built-in video card. The video card uses the 'savage' driver in Xfree86. The machine is running Sarge. Both in gdm and after logging into an x session, a copy of the mouse pointer will 'freeze' in one spot on the screen. I can continue to move the mouse and see its movement across the screen, but the 'frozen' cursor stays there, giving me 2 pointers on the screen. Sometimes the frozen cursor will go away after a couple minutes, other times it stays for 30 minutes to an hour. And then almost as soon as the 'frozen' pointer is gone, it will reappear in a different spot on the screen. Sometimes it is the normal 'pointer' that freezes, sometimes it is the 'text selection' pointer and other times it is the busy/hourglass pointer. I have double-checked and triple-checked that my XF86Config-4 file only has one mouse section in it and it seems to be using the proper driver and settings. But for the life of me, I can not find the solution to the problem. Googling hasn't turned up much, either. The mouse is a Logitech optical mouse with a scroll wheel. I am using the ImPS/2 protocol for it in X. Does anyone have any tips or suggestions for what might be causing this? TIA, Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFE2U8zkpJ43hY3cTURArTUAKDET1SI+pKeopSHzqTzXL99nGRgOgCfZQ56 F1rOoo8QMXxrqW/p1dQCYSA= =6BqO -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: RFC: Well supported scanners under Linux?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 15:40:03 -0300 Rogério Brito [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear people, I have some photos that I would like to preserve in a digital form and I thought of using a scanner for this. Unfortunately, I my knowlegdge about scanners is zero and I have already visited the sane project page, but could not decide what would be a good purchase. So, in light of this, I would like to ask you some recommendations based on your experiences for scanners that are fully functional under Linux, from open-source friendly companies. I am open to recommendations for other devices, like the multifunctional devices, but I'm not sure if they are adequate and would give me the best bang for the buck. I currently have an HP OfficeJet G85(xi) and the scanner works great in Linux, using hpijs, hpoj and sane. My brother also has an HP PSC 5xx that works equally well, though it requires the newer hplip software. It's all software available in Debian, though I don't remember how much of it is in Sarge. I am currently running Sid. HTH, Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFE1MY0kpJ43hY3cTURAhw+AKCGCkX6pr1cgiCevSiB9cpMvLsJjQCdGLbk IlFL0zzEpStUrHr3aK4allM= =0NbY -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: mysqld is being killed by the kernel (in the parlor with a candlestick)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 17:31:38 -0400 Roan Horning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I was hoping there was a magic setting for mysql, that would let it run using less memory--especially since the databases I'm running are small. It seems to spawn 4 or 5 child processes automatically. I could live with only 1 or 2. I managed to reduce Apache's memory footprint a little without an apparent loss of response. Ahh well, I guess 256MB is a little on the small size these days, even for a non-gui server. Speaking of which, 240108k is a little odd- I wonder if I'm about to have some physical ram problems. 240108k might just mean that the BIOS reserves some of the ram for use by the video card. This is common on motherboards that have built in video cards (not sure whether your video card is built in or not). HTH, Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFE08sKkpJ43hY3cTURAlhTAJ4idZ5i1IOb/abMTIyFgKDXWngg5gCgvU/t Du2Z73heXhRlZcyrRfEbBI0= =X5ra -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: apt-get md5sum error on etch system
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 4 Aug 2006 14:41:20 +1000 John O'Hagan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 04 August 2006 11:03, Jacob S wrote: On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 15:58:06 -0400 snip [...] I have been experiencing this same error, sometimes mixed with a gzip error complaining that stdin is not in gzip format for about a week now. I just changed my sources.list to use ftp instead of http and the problem went away. However, to make the problem more curious, when this problem started happening I was using mirrors.kernel.org so I switched to ftp.us.debian.org thinking maybe it was a mirror problem. But that did not fix it either. Only switching to ftp seemed to fix it. This would make me suspect that it's a bug with apt-get, except that I am using http for debian-multimedia.org and wine.sourceforge.net without problems. Thoughts, anyone? [...] I had a similar-sounding problem a couple of months back - I was getting both the Couldn't stat... and the gzip error messages. I didn't change my sources.list because the mirrors seemed to be working for everyone else; and I could still upgrade by manually downloading the Packages files from the mirror sites. There seemed to be something wrong with apt-get's interaction with the Packages files. I tried deleting everything in /var/lib/apt/, and even purging and reinstalling apt (which is scary on a running system). Nothing worked until the next upgrade of apt, when the problem went away. If you search this list for apt-get update you will find a smattering of similar posts, none with a definitive solution. Makes me think there is a sneaky little apt bug out there. Tonight I had a different variety of it. 19 out of 408 packages failed to download, when I was trying to an apt-get upgrade. I tried to do a wget on the url that apt-get reported as failed, and wget also said there was no such file. However, I then changed the url for wget from ftp://ftp.us.debian.org... to http://ftp.us.debian.org... and 2 out of 3 files tested worked. The 3rd, however, got a 404 error from the debian.org server. So, it is sounding like there are multiple problems here. Are some of the Debian servers overloaded due to the crack a few weeks ago? I thought everything was back up since then, though. Confused... Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFE0+dckpJ43hY3cTURApZQAJ99YWs/UkSZtLzeBm4FDAkOpsA42wCgkMXm xWDm+0fNrDjwAV+FFSIxWDA= =v4py -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: apt-get md5sum error on etch system
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 15:58:06 -0400 José Alburquerque [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: José Alburquerque wrote: My problem is that when I run 'apt-get update' I get these errors: Failed to fetch http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz MD5Sum mismatch Failed to fetch http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/non-free/binary-i386/Packages.gz MD5Sum mismatch Failed to fetch http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/main/source/Sources.gz MD5Sum mismatch Reading package lists... Done W: Couldn't stat source package list http://http.us.debian.org etch/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_etch_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list http://http.us.debian.org etch/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_etch_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead. I'm replying to myself because I believe I fixed this problem on my own: I did a little research and found that the repository information that apt-get uses is found in /etc/apt/apt.sources. I changed my debian mirror from http://http.us.debian.org to ftp://ftp.debian.org and this fixed my problem entirely. (I got the list of mirrors from debian.org). This leads me to believe that there may be something wrong with http://http.us.debian.org. (By the way, I experienced the same errors with http://ftp.us.debian.org). Should I report this somewhere? Thanks. I have been experiencing this same error, sometimes mixed with a gzip error complaining that stdin is not in gzip format for about a week now. I just changed my sources.list to use ftp instead of http and the problem went away. However, to make the problem more curious, when this problem started happening I was using mirrors.kernel.org so I switched to ftp.us.debian.org thinking maybe it was a mirror problem. But that did not fix it either. Only switching to ftp seemed to fix it. This would make me suspect that it's a bug with apt-get, except that I am using http for debian-multimedia.org and wine.sourceforge.net without problems. Thoughts, anyone? TIA, Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFE0pzXkpJ43hY3cTURAjHlAKDm8At1ZGl71bC3cJpPH2ZJzuEuTwCeKvaU C3CTSe4f5RChwtHpq+hsH5o= =529x -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Openoffice.org 2.0.2-3 - problem opening files
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 16 May 2006 20:42:33 -0500 Jacob S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Howdy list, I seem to be having some problems with OO.org 2. The program starts up fine, and I can get the file - open dialog to come up and navigate to the apropriate directory, but when I select a file for it to open it hangs. When it hangs I am unable to change desktops, select other applications from the taskbar, etc. either via the keyboard or with my mouse. The only way I am able to kill Openoffice is by pressing Ctrl-Alt-F2 to get to a text console. Has anyone else had this problem or know what might be causing it? I have tried removing all of the openoffice.org packages and reinstalling them, as well as deleting (moving) my ~/.openoffice.org2 directory. It took me a while, but I finally figured out my problem. It seems portmap is hung or not running when this happens. If I kill openoffice and do an '/etc/init.d/portmap start' as root, then I can run openoffice without a problem. Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEoA69kpJ43hY3cTURAsWaAKDKufcdYBUxi0MG7wQ/SKCa+y8yvACgh44J SxKgPfGvJouezmDXIiWuwQY= =wlkv -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 2 Jun 2006 14:32:27 -0700 Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 02 June 2006 13:11, Steve Lamb wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: If good ideas did spread, sales tax would be unconstitutional in more than Oregon and New Hampshire, Uh, sales tax is better than the alternative which is the income tax which, correct me if I'm wrong, Oregon has. I much prefer my state of no income tax and a sales tax, thanks. OK, stay in the regressive hellhole you live in and avoid infecting Oregon, then. self-service gasoline would be banned for environmental, speed, cost and safety reasons Environmental issues are a joke. Spilled gasoline creates groundwater and air pollution. Even the EPA says this. Speed? Hardly, last time I was in Oregon it took me longer to gas up my car than it did outside. Unique situation. And last time I was there in an 18-wheeler they still self-served their own fuel. If they have a cardlock card, yes, they can, because they're technically also an employee of the gas station then. Cost? Let's see, I know have to pay for several lackeys to pump my gas for me and that is supposed to *lower* prices? Haha, you funny. Vancouver, WA self service prices as of this morning: $3.209/gal Portland, OR mini-service prices as of this morning: $2.899/gal Hmm, which is cheaper again? more than Oregon and Illinois would have regional governments and urban growth boundaries, And this is good, how, exactly? You want all cities to be as pack as NY? Yes, because otherwise they sprawl like Los Angeles, the greater evil. cities other than Portland, Seattle and New York would have the kind of transportation infrastructure that isn't an expensive joke, By this I presume you mean public which is in and of itself a complete joke. Yeah, 2 hours to get the same distance as it takes me 30 minutes on my motorcycle. No, I mean overall. Overemphasis on the freeway and lack of efficient public transit have dragged most of this continent to a standstill. airlines would have to compete against ground transportation with their own money, not tax dollars. About the only good idea right there. Of course it isn't like ground transportation isn't using tax money as well. Save for Amtrak, which is the postal service for when you need to ship a warm body, name one. I know of a large metroplex where the only public transportation gets tax money. The business talked the cities into adding a full percentage point to their sales tax to help fund the bus line. And yes, they're still worlds slower than driving your own car. They needed the tax money so much that they started spending it on art for their bus stations that cost a couple $million a piece. Stuff that looked like twisted metal in one case and a woman shaking her fist at heaven in another. They were having such a riot, they talked the city governments into giving them even more money to start a rail line. It's faster than the bus, but only if you want to go to a very selective spot in the downtown of a member city. Otherwise you have to use the rail to get to a bus stop so you can still have a 2 hour long ride. I don't buy into the public transportation sales pitch, if you can call it that. HAND, Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEgY4nkpJ43hY3cTURAmVLAJ4z2GHwD5YC1f76CL+zRAfkBD7gtwCgtxe9 I1MNG2+aipYrpKxdxWA454U= =3xTS -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 01 Jun 2006 14:09:43 -0400 Roberto C. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: That's typical in elections except ties, and not surprising nobody bothered or wanted to check for absentee ballots. This is one of the two problems Oregon eliminated by going to vote by mail. So, all voting is done by mail? That's different. Mostly. Read back in this thread for where the pros and cons of Oregon's new system were already discussed. Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEf0/OkpJ43hY3cTURAi2IAKDNkORh0u7v/hVPrJnX9YgbvwI3gACg1RQt OX6jZolAfUKIzmYslM5ewII= =9gbE -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Openoffice.org 2.0.2-3 - problem opening files
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Howdy list, I seem to be having some problems with OO.org 2. The program starts up fine, and I can get the file - open dialog to come up and navigate to the apropriate directory, but when I select a file for it to open it hangs. When it hangs I am unable to change desktops, select other applications from the taskbar, etc. either via the keyboard or with my mouse. The only way I am able to kill Openoffice is by pressing Ctrl-Alt-F2 to get to a text console. Has anyone else had this problem or know what might be causing it? I have tried removing all of the openoffice.org packages and reinstalling them, as well as deleting (moving) my ~/.openoffice.org2 directory. Any tips or hints would be much appreciated. TIA, Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEan+OkpJ43hY3cTURAl/TAJ9DzYf3PMC78iIpY2eXUzb0B1sJpQCbB8UG bJs4dndbCT+tXrDA0vlLO/s= =YfnG -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Sensord messages in syslog
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Howdy list, I've been getting some messages in syslog the past couple days like the following: Apr 20 04:19:10 jacob sensord: Sensor alarm: Chip w83627hf-isa-0290: +3.3V: +3.22 V (min = +3.14 V, max = +3.47 V) [ALARM] Apr 20 03:58:10 jacob sensord: Sensor alarm: Chip w83627hf-isa-0290: VCore 1: +1.60 V (min = +1.52 V, max = +1.68 V) [ALARM] Obviously it's an alarm from sensord, though not one that triggered more than a syslog warning about it (as I've not heard any beeping from my computer). But here's my question; in the first line it says the +3.3V line is currently at +3.22V, where the min is set to +3.14V and the max is set to +3.47. So it would look like the +3.3V line is where it is supposed to be, in the middle of the min and max. Vcore 1 looks the same way. So, why is sensord spitting out alarms about this? Is there a setting I'm misunderstanding, or does sensord simply not like fluctuating voltages, even if they do stay within the proper limits? TIA, Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFER6x8kpJ43hY3cTURAs3/AKDaNS856Y2e3iJONEUyBe8XAO9w4QCeNVt9 tFRBPA68/je1oyMPB+5V4SQ= =w/KJ -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [OT] gpg check
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 13 Apr 2006 14:52:02 -0700 Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 13 April 2006 07:53, S. M. Ibrahim wrote: Please check my mail if gpg works here :) It is signed and seems to verify that the message hasn't been altered in transit, but you have not uploaded your public key to x-hkp://pgp.mit.edu/ or any other well-known keyserver. Subkeys.pgp.net isn't known well enough for you, Paul? The OP's key downloaded just fine for me, using that keyserver. Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEP7XskpJ43hY3cTURAhblAKDeAywwTFHtYkC20lxgM+z4xGxVQACdE8wH FGSjB/1gbB68uT/pxLqqBfc= =J9D7 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: HDD errors, completely confused.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 19:49:42 +0100 Toby Satchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I tried to connect to my Samba share on my Debian machine and it didn't work for some reason. So I decided I would reboot it. (Its only a home server and more of a project/experiment so not that important) But when it came back up and tried to boot into the kernel I got these errors: Current sda: sense key medium Error Additional sense: Unrecovered read error - auto reallocate failed end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 11367019 scsi0: ERROR on channel 0, id 0, lun0. CDB: Read (10) 00 06 ef 15 00 00 74 0 I only just managed to get this as the screen was continually updating. I am not sure where to go from here, as the errors stopped and asked do I want to either remount the HDD with RW options or to enter the root password and manually admin it. I put a-load of data as a backup on one of the partitions before I lost the samba share but it seems that was not copied across due to the partition usage size not changing. ( had booted into a XP partition on the server to check that worked also check the partitions and they seemed fine so i am completely confused. Never seen this before, not sure entirely what the problem is or how to fix it. When I got that error just over a month ago it was a dead SATA drive. I would immediately do any backups you can and hope that you can claim warranty on the drive. Booting your computer from a Knoppix cd is probably the most likely method to work to get data off the drive, if there is any hope at all. HTH, Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEPVaGkpJ43hY3cTURAsNKAKCJxUB8vHKp7XvGEodVbgnMjUzJQQCeOsC/ SnXwsXHtI2z9OuwSnO/0+ek= =VcQ1 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Installing a 3Com EhterLink Driver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 7 Apr 2006 11:28:25 -0700 Redefined Horizons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm still relatively new to Linux, but I'm learning :] I've been using Debian for a few months, and I'm ready to connect to the internet. I've got a Debian box at work and at home. I'd like to connect the work box to my company's T1 connection. I ran: dmesg | grep eth which returned nothing. I think this means that I don't have a device driver for my ethernet card intsalled. I have the Debian box at work dual-booting with MS Windows XP. So I pulled the model information for my ethernet card of the Windows OS. It is a 3Com EtherLink XL card. I then found a place to download a Linux driver for that model ethernet card. However, I can't find Debian package for the driver. Is there such a thing? If not, how do I install the driver? Do I have to recompile the kernel, or can I just compile the source code for the driver? (I've never compiled source code on my Linux boxes, or recompiled the kernel. So either way, I'm going to learn something new!) What kernel are you using? (uname -a from the command line.) Taking a guess here, but you can probably just modprobe 3c59x to enable support for that nic. Then run ifconfig -a to see if there is an eth0 device recognized. If all works well, then you will need to setup the eth0 device in /etc/network/interfaces. HTH, Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFENrUdkpJ43hY3cTURAjQbAJ0QB3VAPuYAo+r5ExJ0MRgQH21vkgCgtbYI nv1r7g2l8lcJQ/DP8+M8WnU= =Pbdz -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Multi server package management
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 07 Apr 2006 17:21:46 -0400 Roberto C. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Simon wrote: Hi There, We are gathering quite a few debian servers now and have just started testing a debian xen server, thus giving us more debian servers :). Is there anything out there to manage the packages on all these servers? (kind of like how redhat does it online). A nice web-based tool would be good! I suppose i would want: 1stly: Central reporting for all servers (updates etc) 1. cron-apt 2ndly: A way to then apply those updates 2. cron-apt With a bit of thought, i could get something up and running myself i supose, but i just wondered if there is anything already before i do. This assumes a generally heterogenous package set. For a homogeneous environment, I would look at systemimager. Something like fai might also be helpful for at least the initial install. I'm sure there are more tools out there, but I've not spent a lot of time learning that side of Debian yet. :-) HTH, Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFENy37kpJ43hY3cTURAj8cAJ0XDZqXDNCmNvPvb0/gwBEEYCU68QCgy3of IK7TApm0XngVV6nwsyBtT6k= =YbCP -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: something like dreamweaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 4 Apr 2006 09:49:10 -0700 (PDT) belahcene abdelkader [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am looking for a tool like dreamweaver. Is there on linux a tool better than bluefish or quanta. Theses tools are great but for someone coming from microsof environment!! I think the closest thing would probably be nvu, based on the Mozilla code. Last I knew it had a ways to go, but their goal was to get it to be something like a Dreamweaver competitor. You can apt-get install nvu or if that's not up to date enough, you can download and install it from the nvu website: www.nvu.com HTH, Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEMsQCkpJ43hY3cTURAgrJAKCJgIelcw62Q385g5/AGgYLMWGDKgCgtL1c R3yzXdo53AB8b5H9jIT/QrE= =Hd7A -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Strange PPPoe problem
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 22:44:11 -0600 anoop aryal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 25 March 2006 09:24 pm, Jacob S wrote: [snip] # ping longbow.arroway.com -c 1 -M do -s 1472 PING longbow.arroway.com (66.252.129.166) 1472(1500) bytes of data. From pool-71-244-52-50.dllstx.fios.verizon.net (71.244.52.50) icmp_seq=1 Frag needed and DF set (mtu = 1492) --- longbow.arroway.com ping statistics --- 0 packets transmitted, 0 received, +1 errors # ping longbow.arroway.com -c 1 -M do -s 1464 PING longbow.arroway.com (66.252.129.166) 1464(1492) bytes of data. 1472 bytes from longbow.arroway.com (66.252.129.166): icmp_seq=1 ttl=49 time=163 ms --- longbow.arroway.com ping statistics --- 1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 163.150/163.150/163.150/0.000 ms So then I added the line pty /usr/sbin/pppoe -I eth0 -T 80 -m 1464 no, the mtu is 1492. you use 1464 in the ping because your are specifying the ping payload. the total packet size ends up being 1464+28 = 1492. (which is what you had to begin with.) all is not lost, we know PMTU works on your end provided you leave the three iptable rules mentioned above. it seems like a firewall on the mail server is causing icmp 3/4s from reaching the mail server. we can't do much about the firewall. ie, the mail server replied with packets with size = 1500 (most likely) with DF set, the other endpoint of your DSL sent back an icmp 3/4 message back to the mail server to send smaller packets, the firewall protecting the mail server dropped it and the mail server never knew to send you packets of 1492 or less. there is a 'hack' that may fix this. try and put this in your ruleset in the *mangle table (assuming your dsl interface is ppp0): -A POSTROUTING -p tcp --tcp-flags SYN,RST SYN -o ppp0 -j TCPMSS --clamp-mss-to-pmtu or use this from the command line if you don't already have the *mangle section: iptables -t mangle -A POSTROUTING -p tcp --tcp-flags SYN,RST SYN -o ppp0 -j TCPMSS --clamp-mss-to-pmtu what this does is sets the mss of the initial SYN packet to pmtu - 40. the reciever (the mail server in this instance), then, uses the mss to calculate the reply packet size instead of the default of 1500. by doing this it would have created packets of the right size (1492) and therefore doesn't need PMTU to work. again, the above rule is in addition to the previous three. Very nice! That time it worked. E-mail downloaded sucessfully several times now. :-) I'll add those 4 lines to my firewall script. The mail server I'm downloading from is also a Debian machine... where I have root access (even though it's not my own server). Is there anything I should (can?) change in it's iptables firewall so that other users don't have to fuss with this kind of a problem? apply the first three rules on the mail server. drop the fourth rule from your (home?) linux box. if you apply the first three rules to the mail server, the whole thing should work without the fourth rule. the fourth rule is a hack to make it work when the firewall on the other end drops icmp 3/4 messages. or you can leave it in... shouldn't really hurt. snip I took some time to try this on the mail server today... E-mail still has the same problem when both my firewall and the server have the first 3 iptables rules applied. Which must mean it's one of the routers between me and the server. I suspected this would be the case, as I never had this problem with my old dsl line. It was only after switching to a fiber optic line (through a different isp) that I started having this problem. But I was interested in experimenting with it just the same. Thanks for your help and the great explanations. Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEMSLOkpJ43hY3cTURAre+AJ9tm1oVhJRY2xCOXccqVSVpq2unigCdEs1k PAx5oFaOIm5+w/SuLQqFQGQ= =oWDE -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Strange PPPoe problem
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 10:33:07 -0600 anoop aryal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 24 March 2006 06:55 am, Jacob S wrote: On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 14:35:20 -0600 anoop aryal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 23 March 2006 10:58, Jacob S wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Howdy list, I recently changed ISPs, away from static ips on a dsl line to a single dynamic ip on Veriz*n's new Fi*S (fiber optic) service. The new service uses PPPoe - not a problem, or so I thought - I have PPPoe on my firewall. Now, I have used PPPoe from this very same firewall on a different dsl line before and it worked great. But for some reason when I do PPPoe for the new fiber line only http traffic works properly. When downloading e-mail, everything is fine until it tries to download the mail (I see it login, get the number of messages to download, and then it tries to start downloading). At this point the e-mail just hangs until it finally times out. It does not seem to be port-related, as I have setup the e-mail server with port-forwarding rules to allow me to download mail on non-standard ports and it exhibits the same problem. And if I do PPPoe on the provided D-Link router, instead of on my firewall, everything (including e-mail) works great. snip google PMTU to read about this in more detail, but it seriously sounds like icmp 3/4 packets are being dropped somewhere. if you setup your firewall to allow icmp packets of type 3/4 thru, you should be all set (well, you'd hope so anyway). a set of rules like so should do the trick: -A INPUT -p icmp --icmp-type fragmentation-needed -j ACCEPT -A OUTPUT -p icmp --icmp-type fragmentation-needed -j ACCEPT -A FORWARD -p icmp --icmp-type fragmentation-needed -j ACCEPT then, make sure you have the iputils-ping package installed (not the netkit-ping) and try: ping your.mail.host -c 1 -M do -s 1472 and you should get back an icmp reply saying what the mtu should be. subtract 28 from it and try pinging with that size and it should go thru. eg, if the reply says mtu = 1492, try: ping your.mail.host -c 1 -M do -s 1464 and it should go thru just fine. if you get a request timeout, that means that some routers are just dropping your packets without an icmp 3/4 message. keep reducing the size of your packet and see if you can get anything thru. read up on PMTU for possible solutions. there are ways to stop automatic PMTU discovery etc. Ok, things are getting stranger here. I ran the iptables rules you suggested and here's the ping results: # ping longbow.arroway.com -c 1 -M do -s 1472 PING longbow.arroway.com (66.252.129.166) 1472(1500) bytes of data. From pool-71-244-52-50.dllstx.fios.verizon.net (71.244.52.50) icmp_seq=1 Frag needed and DF set (mtu = 1492) --- longbow.arroway.com ping statistics --- 0 packets transmitted, 0 received, +1 errors # ping longbow.arroway.com -c 1 -M do -s 1464 PING longbow.arroway.com (66.252.129.166) 1464(1492) bytes of data. 1472 bytes from longbow.arroway.com (66.252.129.166): icmp_seq=1 ttl=49 time=163 ms --- longbow.arroway.com ping statistics --- 1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 163.150/163.150/163.150/0.000 ms So then I added the line pty /usr/sbin/pppoe -I eth0 -T 80 -m 1464 no, the mtu is 1492. you use 1464 in the ping because your are specifying the ping payload. the total packet size ends up being 1464+28 = 1492. (which is what you had to begin with.) all is not lost, we know PMTU works on your end provided you leave the three iptable rules mentioned above. it seems like a firewall on the mail server is causing icmp 3/4s from reaching the mail server. we can't do much about the firewall. ie, the mail server replied with packets with size = 1500 (most likely) with DF set, the other endpoint of your DSL sent back an icmp 3/4 message back to the mail server to send smaller packets, the firewall protecting the mail server dropped it and the mail server never knew to send you packets of 1492 or less. there is a 'hack' that may fix this. try and put this in your ruleset in the *mangle table (assuming your dsl interface is ppp0): -A POSTROUTING -p tcp --tcp-flags SYN,RST SYN -o ppp0 -j TCPMSS --clamp-mss-to-pmtu or use this from the command line if you don't already have the *mangle section: iptables -t mangle -A POSTROUTING -p tcp --tcp-flags SYN,RST SYN -o ppp0 -j TCPMSS --clamp-mss-to-pmtu what this does is sets the mss of the initial SYN packet to pmtu - 40. the reciever (the mail server in this instance), then, uses the mss to calculate the reply packet size instead of the default of 1500. by doing this it would have created packets
Re: Strange PPPoe problem
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:49:56 -0500 Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 24 March 2006 07:55, Jacob S wrote: snip So then I added the line pty /usr/sbin/pppoe -I eth0 -T 80 -m 1464 to /etc/ppp/peers/dsl-provider, but the problem continued. After commenting that line back out (so that no pty... -m declaration had been made in the dsl-provider config), I was able to sucessfully download one single e-mail from a server. There was only one e-mail in that account and it downloaded like normal. So I sent an e-mail to that account, being that it was on a different server from my normal tests, but that one would not download sucessfully. So it would seem like it had something to do with the size and speed of the one that downloaded properly. In short, it's still a no go and I have no clue why. The D-Link router still works great, but pppoe from the firewall doesn't. The d-link works... And does this also go thru the same iptables rules as the PPPoE? If so, then playing with iptables is only going to break something. In any event, a run of /etc/init.d/iptables stop (as root of course) will open things up and prove or disprove that theory. I wouldn't leave it off for very long though. If you persist in using PPPoE rather than a good router, then I believe I'd take this problem to the Roaring Penguin folks to see if they've a new version that fixes this, or can use you for a test bed to see about fixing it. No, the d-link has it's own firewall stuff. It connects directly to the network line, in place of a modem. (Since this fiber optic service does not have a modem). I tried disabling iptables on the firewall to see if I still had the same problem, except I do not have a way of downloading e-mail on the firewall. And since iptables was no longer doing NAT, I could not do anything web related from my client machines. :-) I also upgraded from a 2.4.24-2-586tsc kernel to a 2.6.8-2-386 kernel tonight to see if it would help anything. It did not seem to have any affect on the problem. Thanks, Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEJgpwkpJ43hY3cTURAkNfAJkB5mDZzXVOFTWmn1dI0iyROfjtagCg3+Va PZFLA9APnapatMPzY49Jv3s= =yXlF -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: SATA drive probs: Knoppix OK, but nothing else
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 19 Mar 2006 17:08:43 +0100 Michelle Konzack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am 2006-03-16 14:01:02, schrieb Hugo Vanwoerkom: Jacob, let me go over your suggestion: boot the knoppix CD and modprobe dm_mod, then mount /, meaning the partition that I usually run from? And then chroot into that mounted partition and run the lilo that I normally run? You do not need to chroot you. lilo -r /mount_point will do the job. Please read man lilo. ;-) Yep, I have used that several times. However, I ran into a problem a couple times with Woody Knoppix (whatever the latest Knoppix ver. was back then). For some reason the newer lilo in Knoppix was causing conflicts in Woody. It's been too long so I don't remember all the details... if I would have had to use the Knoppix lilo any time I wanted to update my boot sector (I don't think so) or if lilo didn't like my older boot sector or something weird. Whatever the case, I found a chroot to be a more surefire way of getting it to work. So that's why I recommended a chroot for Hugo. Both are pretty easy though. HAND, Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEHr1skpJ43hY3cTURAssUAKDeDQUXpJiZCJw/tmR7RtnTTAoK1gCffsHY 1UE3s6wKoFGbRguiLatFWt8= =K8o/ -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: SATA drive probs: Knoppix OK, but nothing else
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 06:19:58 -0600 Hugo Vanwoerkom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jacob S wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 14:01:02 -0600 Hugo Vanwoerkom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jacob S wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 snip Mount / as in the new root that you said you just installed but can't get to boot. Don't forget to also mount /boot if it's not on the / partition. The rationale for the chroot before running lilo is that it works better, in my experience. Knoppix is usually a bit newer than Debian Stable which can cause some compatability problems, and you already mentioned that the lilo in Knoppix was giving you errors. After doing a chroot, any commands you run (including lilo) would be running the Sarge version that you just installed, rather than Knoppix's version. I tried that, and close but still no sigar... modprobe dm_mod is OK. Then I mount /mnt/hdc5 where the Sarge partition is, and chroot /mnt/hdc5. When I run sudo /sbin/lilo -v 5 I get: sudo: unable to lookup Knoppix via gethostbyname() LILO version 22.6.1, Copyright (C) 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger Development beyond version 21 Copyright (C) 1999-2004 John Coffman Released 17-Nov-2004, and compiled at 12:32:32 on May 25 2005 Debian GNU/Linux raid_setup: dev=1605 rdev=0300 raid_setup returns offset = ndisk = 0 BIOS VolumeID Device Reading boot sector from /dev/hda Fatal: open /dev/hda: Permission denied I set the permisions on /dev/hda to: brw-rw-rw- 1 root disk 3, 0 Feb 26 2005 /dev/hda Did you change these permissions for /dev/hda in Knoppix, or in the chroot? I suspect the permissions problem is from Knoppix, not your chroot. But the error remained. How do I get past those permissions? Thanks for your help. For grins, what happens if you su to root before you chroot? Knoppix will let you su without a password, from what I recall. I tend to use root for my admin. tasks, such as running lilo, so I'm not very familiar with how it would work when run from sudo. I know sudo is supposed to allow temporary (and limited) root privileges, but obviously it's not giving full root in this case. HTH, Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEGtsskpJ43hY3cTURAuOSAJ0dSaHVFkVxEqjWDu30LvTUyARlywCeLcLb ht3cPS5mH9YpJeNJB09VZLM= =oqPt -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Which kernel for highmem support?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 14:53:33 + Andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello List, Today I have built a new box running Debian testing with 2GB of RAM. I used Debian testing because the Sarge installer didn't support my hardware. The problem is that while my BIOS reports the full 2GB of RAM, top only reports 960MB. I have learnt from Google that some kernels lack highmem support, and suspect this is the cause of my problem. I guess I need to install a new kernel? uname -a reports the following: Linux artoo 2.6.15-1-486 #2 Mon Mar 6 15:19:16 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux I have been searching packages.debian.org, but am not sure which kernel would be the most suitable. I have an AMD64 processor, but I chose to use the regular i386 port because the amd64 port is unofficial. Could anyone suggest which would be the most suitable kernel for me? Since you have an AMD processor, I would go for linux-image-2.6.15-1-k7. I am currently running linux-image-2.6.12-1-k7 on an AMD Athlon XP and it recognizes all 2.5GB of ram in this machine. HTH, Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEGtvkkpJ43hY3cTURAnZpAJwM2ahubR4BkP80aVqTrkPcelQeywCfXxre ek8+7BSiorD6twI8y28iyms= =lNo7 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: SATA drive probs: Knoppix OK, but nothing else
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 10:50:50 -0700 Glenn English [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 16 March 2006 05:24, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Booting into my normal Sarge with lilo hangs at the start with the drive connected. Oh, dear! Sarge is doing this too. If Knoppix has absolutely no problems, I believe my problems are all software related. Knoppix finds it as /dev/sda. I created ext2 partitions 1-7, no problems. I was unable to run lilo from Knoppix: got errors that he could not find the right device mapper. Anybody have a clue as to what to google for, or what to do next to get a bootloader to run with the drive connected? It's software, all right. The installer is setting things up in a way that is trashed by something during the boot process. Things are moved around and drives are renamed. Knoppix is seeing your drive(s) correctly because it's booting the CD -- if your system could get through the boot process, it'd see things correctly too. If I were you, I'd try to install from an old CD set. This has happened in just the past few weeks. You might want to try woody. It worked. Woody will not recognize SATA drives. I would try a modprobe dm_mod in Knoppix, then mount /, with /boot mounted inside of it, if they are on different partitions. Now chroot into / and run the installed copy of lilo. This usually works for me, even if it spits a warning or two. HTH, Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEGaaMkpJ43hY3cTURAsT+AJ4zdqGtmUiETk0do0UsmeSR//+cKQCfQUS4 Qs9k9XrrBQEdX04JSaA/9vI= =XajI -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: debian lists subscription options
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 21:12:29 +0530 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Is there a way to subscribe to debian-* mailing lists with mail delivery turned off? No, but you can post if you're not subscribed. HTH, Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEGaa+kpJ43hY3cTURAsulAKCLtDGsTwTsG/Zq6RuF7ujhAsBfZgCfdWfV XCb+RrFFxhp9f3UDgsiBHO0= =C3Rj -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: SATA drive probs: Knoppix OK, but nothing else
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 14:01:02 -0600 Hugo Vanwoerkom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jacob S wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 16 March 2006 05:24, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: snip - problems booting new installation from SATA drive snip I would try a modprobe dm_mod in Knoppix, then mount /, with /boot mounted inside of it, if they are on different partitions. Now chroot into / and run the installed copy of lilo. This usually works for me, even if it spits a warning or two. Jacob, let me go over your suggestion: boot the knoppix CD and modprobe dm_mod, then mount /, meaning the partition that I usually run from? And then chroot into that mounted partition and run the lilo that I normally run? Mount / as in the new root that you said you just installed but can't get to boot. Don't forget to also mount /boot if it's not on the / partition. The rationale for the chroot before running lilo is that it works better, in my experience. Knoppix is usually a bit newer than Debian Stable which can cause some compatability problems, and you already mentioned that the lilo in Knoppix was giving you errors. After doing a chroot, any commands you run (including lilo) would be running the Sarge version that you just installed, rather than Knoppix's version. HTH HAND, Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEGe7xkpJ43hY3cTURAqkDAJ0fTMIRexqZrfJptirwFNgTPvgTJgCgyqIL 7eXqksVp8pAx7zMHV9wAtgU= =Lt7n -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Proposed change for subscriptions...
Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 11 March 2006 04:00, Mike McCarty wrote: I'd like to propose a change to subscription protocol used here. I suggest permitting a non-member alias to post messages, while sending the e-mails from the list to the real e-mail address. As an example, I'd like to propose that I be able to subscribe as a *poster* as [EMAIL PROTECTED], while receiving the posts as [EMAIL PROTECTED], which is my real e-mail address. No e-mail would be sent to the alias, which would be used only to permit posting, but would not be subscribed as a recipient. Commentary anyone? I'd love to be able to do that myself. It might cut the spam considerably. Since anybody can post to this list without being subscribed (witness the spam we get), where is the problem? You simply subscribe under one address and post from another. (And should you have trouble with your posts getting a higher spam score since your posting address is not subscribed, you can subscribe to debian-whitelist which was created for this purpose.) HTH, Jacob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Xserver-xorg - radeon module?????
Kai Sandsengen wrote: The module will not load and the module version seems out of date, how can I solve this??? /var/log/Xorg.0.log [dri] radeon.o kernel module version is 1.16.0 but version 1.17.0 or newer is needed. # lsmod | grep radeon radeon 73856 0 drm61716 1 radeon Try upgrading your kernel. I run a 2.6.12 kernel with xorg and haven't had any problems getting the radeon module to work for my Radeon 9200SE. HTH, Jacob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian not recognizing 1 of my 2 CPUs and sees only 16k cache =(
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 8 Mar 2006 10:22:04 -0500 Yu,Glen [Ontario] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've recently installed Debian 3.1 (2.4.27 kernel) on a Dell PowerEdge 2800 server w/dual Xeon 3.6GHz Processors and 2MB L2 cache per processor core, however when I do cat /proc/cpuinfo, it gives shows that I only have 1 processor and 16k cache: snippets of /proc/cpuinfo = processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel ... model name: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.60GHz ... cpu MHz : 3589.54 cache size: 16k ... ... = There is no processor: 1 output following this implying that it didn't recognize a 2nd cpu. Concerning the 16k cache problem, I've read about it in a another post (which unfortunately, I can't seem to find again). If anybody has had similar problems and can provide me with some assistance, I would greatly appreciate it Thanks, Glen Yu | [EMAIL PROTECTED] P.S. - I read various solutions to this problem but with different kernels/distros by which they enabled acpi support, and others turning it off. However, I don't see the significance of doing that since acpi is a power management interface and a server such as this has all the power it needs from the outlets... Are you using an SMP kernel? SMP is not acpi and it can affect the number of cpus seen even if your server is getting all the power it needs from the outlets. If not, run apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.27-2-686-smp. Modify Grub's menu.lst or Lilo's lilo.conf if necessary, then reboot. Now 'cat /proc/cpuinfo' should show 4 processors (if I am correctly reading that each of your Xeons is a dual core cpu) HTH, Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEDvhskpJ43hY3cTURAtvTAKCoaTzM99kImUt5b9lKM4qkrcu8OACeIoNU Qf26NS0sfAvOCp10SkTemhY= =FOFH -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: I'm looking for a better XShell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 4 Mar 2006 23:23:22 + Magnus Therning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 01:14:57PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: Gnome: My problem with gnome is that when I install the packages and choose it in the display manager (kdm), I get a garble of incompletely drawn windows, and there is repainting whenever I move the mouse, which repainting makes the garble worse. This happens on a Sarge system that is a clean new installation. I'm puzzled about this and about the installation. I thought putting a new ext2fs on the root partition would wipe out all old information, but somehow old garbage seems to be surviving and poisoning things. But, for now, I hope to avoid confronting this issue. Hmmm, never seen that problem. How does it look for a virgin user? (You can always create a temporary dummy user just to ake a quick look and then delete all traces of the user if you don't want to keep it around.) Fiddling with the root partition wouldn't necessarily have any impact on user configurations, what you need to do is clear out your user's configuration (~/.gnome*). It's also worth checking whether you've installed all the GOMe packages you need. The easiest way is to install 'gnome'. Which may bring in a few more packages than you strictly need, but it's easier to trim down later once you have things working. If you are not using KDE, I would also recommend using GDM instead of KDM. This should improve performance at least a little bit as it will not be loading KDE libraries and such into ram. (Assuming GDM does not exhibit the problems you mention having with a Gnome desktop.) HTH, Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFECiSgkpJ43hY3cTURAmAYAJ4sNJOnNDNUZVGy1MdXYHw365zKUgCg0h0i 75uQLyXQWW1IIHffz7l3Qos= =1Fwc -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Sun or SuperMicro: Which to choose
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 3 Mar 2006 11:29:57 +0100 (CET) Bart van den Heuvel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody have something to say about this? Maybe only the chipsets which one is faster/better the ServerWorks ht1000 of the nForce4? (reading my own mail i figure that it might be read as a spamming commercial, IT IS NOT!) I'm afraid I don't have experience with either of those machines. I have a really old Sun Ultra 10 that works really nice. But my experience with Suns is that they are very expensive for the hardware you get (unless perhaps you need a lot of tech support). But if all you're wanting is a 1U rackmount with an Opteron dual core, why not build it yourself? You can get it a lot cheaper and it's a lot of fun to build your own. :-) I'm currently in the process of building a 1U with a 64bit Athlon and 1GB of ram. (It's for some personal webhosting projects, so I didn't go too heavy on hdds, ram and such.) Alternatively, if you're really stuck on one of the two machines you listed, you might try asking over on debian-isp. They seem to have more experience with rackmounts and servers. HTH, Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFECGztkpJ43hY3cTURAj+eAJ41AqyeBwWrd5diEoQtIjNDYUXPvgCgjrXg OrJOxPblOQpc3SRs8hOvIew= =vMNp -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: What do you do with a .jar file?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 2 Mar 2006 12:53:54 -0800 (PST) ke6isf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Running Sarge with the Sun Java package installed, per the instructions provided on the IRC channel. OK, so I have this .jar file. If I open it using 'java hidejournal-0.3.1.jar', it gives me: Exception in thread main java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: hidejournal-0/3/1/jar If I open it from Nautilus (I run Gnome), it pops it open in File Roller. It sounds more like a problem with your java than your .jar, IMHO. Try the solutions in the following link and see if that makes it work better. (And probably try running java with the -jar option another poster mentioned.) http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jsp?forum=14thread=441886tstart=75trange=15 HTH, Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFECG7TkpJ43hY3cTURAi5bAJ9Irir9cWX1um/azAwRfqlnZDs7MQCfTia5 GEGgHfXyBQBmOelaQ7cxY6E= =mdoP -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Virtual servers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello list, I am in the process of trying to setup a new server to do some webhosting/e-mail (just for personal stuff). I am thinking of putting all of the webhosting and e-mail software inside a virtual server, so that I can create a second virtual server for tinkering without risking downtime on the webhost side of it. So, now for my questions. I see user-mode-linux, xen and kernel-patch-vserver are supposed to allow this type of installation. Any recommendations one way or the other? Any pointers to a good howto for any of the three? Also, I am assuming I will need a unique ip for each virtual server; is this correct? TIA, Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEBezzkpJ43hY3cTURAr4NAKCcg9EjyRpikRqnw7DlgPTxnbCMagCgqSM3 aMvyxd7EoySwAVQK89T0hyo= =1aOY -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: MUTT users PLEASE read [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: lists.d.o Spam (was: Marking BTS spam)]
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 25 Feb 2006 13:40:04 +0200 Andrei Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 15:08:17 -0600 Jacob S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 11:38:00 -0500 Kevin Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi spam-killers, Here is a new test system to improve spam reporting in Debian. It seems mutt users will be the primary ones to use this. Cheers, Kev Sylpheed users are also on the list of people with a client that can do this. Jacob Do you mean Message-Redirect ? Yes. Works for me. Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEAI2bkpJ43hY3cTURAm7fAKDnuFzKoZChu/BV4JJFa5Kps0KM2gCfUv4l xJzAqXD/rJ89tcOYSUhbq8M= =rwSK -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Jabber translation [Was: gaim login to messenger (msn)]
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 25 Feb 2006 18:09:16 + Magnus Therning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 09:29:37AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: On Saturday 25 February 2006 04:56, Alex Nordstrom wrote: Another solution is to use the Jabber network, which is also supported by Gaim. Some servers on the Jabber network provide gateway services to other networks so that, normally, clients do not need to update when the proprietary half of the network changes. The Jabber protocol is also less likely to change unexpectedly and become backwards-incompatible like the proprietary alternatives. http://www.jabber.org/ This is ultimately what we needed; all the multiprotocol IM clients are merely a bad hack in comparison to just making an open network in the first place. Has anyone ever gotten it to work? I was very happy to find out Google federated GTalk a while back, and I was hoping that this'd mean I could ditch Gaim and use a Jabber-only client. However, after trying several translation servers I have still no access to my MSN/Yahoo accounts and the contacts I have there... I've never tried it with MSN or Yahoo, but I setup a jabber server on a Sarge server a while back. The gateway feature works great for aim, in my experience. HTH, Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEAMGukpJ43hY3cTURApHzAJ9TXTdy87l5hkuRVig/afhzL2rvWACgoNiz QLvtm/6qXJrHZ7GoEGzmRbw= =8LtK -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: MUTT users PLEASE read [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: lists.d.o Spam (was: Marking BTS spam)]
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 11:38:00 -0500 Kevin Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi spam-killers, Here is a new test system to improve spam reporting in Debian. It seems mutt users will be the primary ones to use this. Cheers, Kev Sylpheed users are also on the list of people with a client that can do this. Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFD/3XEkpJ43hY3cTURAg84AJ4u/U9qnwcm00U7TTSlNxdMPfBo2QCgszrI GMfOVZothc91/30bM6O3K4g= =P4XW -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: apache config question - China IP's
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 12:03:39 -0600 Michael Schurter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin Coyner wrote: On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 09:41:42PM -0600, Jacob S wrote.. 221.226.124.109 - - [20/Feb/2006:16:17:10 -0500] GET http://1-shops.com/prx.php?p=q1w2e3r4t5y6u7i8o9p0*a-b HTTP/1.1 404 288 http://www.google.com/intl/en-us/; Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; Crazy Browser 1.0.5) So what is this? They are not requesting pages that exist on my server, but pages on other domains. My server gives the proper error code back - 404. They're looking for open proxies. People that are lazy in loading/configuring mod_proxy in apache can easily turn a webserver into an open proxy. So they scan for one, similar to the way we've all seen attempts at finding open smtp gateways or easily crackable ssh passwords. So aside from setting up some iptables 'drop' rules, is there any other way from keeping this from occuring? It's messing up my web stats since these guys are requesting more non-existent pages that I have real pages on the website. You could exploit the fact that they're trying to access nonexistent domain names on your system by setting up your default virtual host to redirect them elsewhere (such as http://blackhole-1.iana.org/ or http://localhost/). Or if they're really using a crawler called Crazy Bowser you could pretty easily block them with BrowserMatch in Apache. Sorry I don't remember what the exact line should be, but spending a few minutes at http://httpd.apache.org/docs/ should help. Using your firewall is probably the best way of blocking such traffic, but as a fellow sysadmin I understand that blocking entire IP ranges isn't really appealing. Crazy Browser is a legitimate browser built on top of Internet Exploder. Hence why the name Crazy fits it so well. :-) Then again, if they're not smart enough to use Firefox or something other than IE, maybe he would want to block them. If it's only the stats you're worried about, you could always use a different stats/modify your current stats program so that it only shows valid requests. I believe awstats puts 404s in a different section, if you configure it properly. HTH, Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFD+2ZqkpJ43hY3cTURAq1rAJ9wYjgeunjgDoHdwRd+Z0KhyK+C7gCbB0lt tmPEhSnmNlngvZUhAV8n8Hk= =5PgH -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: apache config question - China IP's
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:28:20 -0500 Kevin Coyner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been watching the apache logs on a website I work on and have seen strange entries recently. They are in Combined form, and here is a snippet: 221.226.124.109 - - [20/Feb/2006:16:17:10 -0500] GET http://1-shops.com/prx.php?p=q1w2e3r4t5y6u7i8o9p0*a-b HTTP/1.1 404 288 http://www.google.com/intl/en-us/; Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; Crazy Browser 1.0.5) I interpret this as follows: Client IP: 221.226.124.109 Page attempted: http://1-shops.com/prx.php?p=q1w2e3r4t5y6u7i8o9p0*a-b HTTP error code: 404 Now the server I work on is in the IP range 64.34.x.x, and has nothing to do with 1-shops.com. And the client - 221.226.124.109 - that is hitting on my Apache server can be traced back to China. So what is this? They are not requesting pages that exist on my server, but pages on other domains. My server gives the proper error code back - 404. I normally wouldn't worry about this, but in the last month these types of entries have increased dramatically, with most of them originating from IP's in China. They're looking for open proxies. People that are lazy in loading/configuring mod_proxy in apache can easily turn a webserver into an open proxy. So they scan for one, similar to the way we've all seen attempts at finding open smtp gateways or easily crackable ssh passwords. HTH, Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFD+ov5kpJ43hY3cTURAqk7AJ9t6c84wtoEbYb0udKlnbCAtKPESQCdGDo0 fGnnK8qDa1Xe2eDdEcR5VI4= =L1Nc -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: XOrg+Radeon = No Direct Rendering?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 9 Feb 2006 23:44:54 -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 09 Feb 2006 09:53:47 +0100 Renato Serodio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Section Device Identifier ATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon R250 Lf [FireGL 9000] Driver radeon BusID PCI:1:0:0 Option UseInternalAGPART yes Option RenderAccel true Option AccelMethod EXA EndSection Section Device Identifier ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R200 QL [Radeon 8500 LE] Driver ati BusID PCI:1:0:0 EndSection I don't know if it is valid to specify radeon any more? I had a problem with it at one point and when I did 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg' it wasn't shown as an option anymore. I never tried any of the extra options so I don't have any input to give there. Yes, radeon is still valid. I'm still using it. Both radeon and ati seem to work for my 9200, but radeon is slightly faster in my experience. HTH, Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFD7K3ckpJ43hY3cTURAqvCAKCMN3O53kiD0Wby7/EcQJx7ILVXhgCgpmUK X7qxB+CTu6F2P1xJx/a4AFs= =BjX2 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: XOrg+Radeon = No Direct Rendering?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 09 Feb 2006 07:40:24 +0100 Ivan Glushkov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jacob S wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 8 Feb 2006 22:30:44 +0100 Renato Serodio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, my 3D plots were rather slow, and I decided to check: $ glxinfo direct rendering: No Well, I dug and dug, and here's what I got: For a functional Hardware Acceleration with Radeon 9200/9000: - agp, intel-apg (or other), drm and radeon drivers - glx, dri and radeon modules loaded from Radeon But somehow it's not working. Then I came across a post mentioning hardware acceleration had been dropped in favour of nice fonts (??). I'd like to get my graphics back on hardware, but can't begin to understand how. Does anyone have a clue that could help me? I'm using an ATI Radeon 9200SE here and glxinfo shows: direct rendering: Yes I'm running the latest Debian Sid. For a long time I couldn't get more than about 14fps in ppracer, but I see I'm now getting ~77fps. (It used to be about 110fps in Xfree86, but it looks really good and has more detail with the 77fps now, so I can't complain.) A side question: How do you see the fps value in ppracer? And why you are using a game for a quantitative measurement of your graphics performance? I use for the same porpouses glxgears fgl_glxgears (coming with thw fglrx driver) In ppracer, go to Configuration - Graphics - Display FPS. I mentioned ppracer as a bit of a sidenote, since not all applications in Sid could handle Xorg's dri at first. Up until just recently, glxgears/glxinfo would show I had dri enabled in Xorg, but applications like ppracer would only show about 20fps (and cpu usage would go through the roof). If you prefer glxgears stats, though... I'm currently getting ~1400fps. HTH, Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFD61vvkpJ43hY3cTURAgLIAJoD1tiE8S+pAh9z74+idIu25KuHoQCdF2gu zeGYUA/oxy5AvqiLO+fH38k= =WvIe -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: XOrg+Radeon = No Direct Rendering?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 09 Feb 2006 09:53:47 +0100 Renato Serodio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh, I forgot about the xorg.conf file.. # xorg.conf (Xorg X Window System server configuration file) # # This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, Section Module LoadGLcore Loadbitmap Loaddbe Loadddc Loadglx Loaddri # Loadextmod Loadfreetype Loadint10 Loadrecord Loadtype1 Loadv4l Loadvbe SubSection extmod Option omit xfree86-dga EndSubSection EndSection Section Module LoadGLcore Loadbitmap Loaddbe Loadddc Loaddri Loadextmod Loadfreetype Loadglx Loadint10 Loadrecord Loadspeedo Loadtype1 Loadvbe EndSection Section Device Identifier ATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon R250 Lf [FireGL 9000] Driver radeon BusID PCI:1:0:0 Option UseInternalAGPART yes Option RenderAccel true Option AccelMethod EXA EndSection Section Device Identifier ATI Technologies, Inc. RV280 [Radeon 9200 SE] Driver radeon # Driverati # ChipId0x4967 - might be needed for dual-head Option EnablePageFlip on EndSection Section Monitor Identifier Generic Monitor Option DPMS HorizSync 30-90 VertRefresh 50-60 EndSection Section Monitor Identifier Generic Monitor HorizSync 31.0-60.0 VertRefresh 56.2-75.0 Option DPMS EndSection Section Screen Identifier Default Screen Device ATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon R250 Lf [FireGL 9000] MonitorGeneric Monitor DefaultDepth24 SubSection Display Depth 24 Modes 1680x1050 EndSubSection EndSection Section Screen Identifier Default Screen Device ATI Technologies, Inc. RV280 [Radeon 9200 SE] Monitor Generic Monitor DefaultDepth16 SubSection Display Depth 1 Modes 1024x768 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 4 Modes 1024x768 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 8 Modes 1024x768 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 15 Modes 1024x768 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 16 Modes 1024x768 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 24 Modes 1024x768 EndSubSection EndSection Section ServerLayout Identifier Default Layout Screen Default Screen InputDevice Generic Keyboard InputDevice Configured Mouse InputDevice Synaptics Touchpad EndSection Section ServerLayout Identifier Default Layout Screen Default Screen InputDevice Generic Keyboard InputDevice Configured Mouse # InputDevice Generic Mouse EndSection Section DRI Mode0666 EndSection Section DRI Mode0666 EndSection It looks like our xorg.conf files are pretty close. What happens if you comment out the BusID and Option lines in your video card Device section? After restarting X, try a glxinfo/glxgears and let us know what they say. Which Intel chipset is on your motherboard? Also, I wouldn't bother installing/compiling the ATI drivers. From what I hear, the drivers in the Linux kernel are a lot better. HTH, Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFD618XkpJ43hY3cTURApOsAJ4tKAHC6pH6glvUb9uS6DWubFUXLwCaA0S8 gifFHYj1WvEeD92Hg0xvbss= =iKxy -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: ntp strangeness
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 8 Feb 2006 19:36:54 -0500 Ken Wahl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've had the same problem for about 6 weeks. I'm not sure but I think it is bug #342887. Doesn't NTP usually use the system clock as a fallback? http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=342887 NTP has been pretty much useless and I've had to keep time by calling ntpdate hourly from cron. Thanks for the link, it was very helpful. My /usr is in the / partition, so that wasn't the problem. I ended up moving /etc/rcS.d/S18hwclockfirst.sh to /etc/rcS.d/S09hwclockfirst.sh (right before S10checkroot.sh) as per the above bugreport. 4 hours after rebooting, my time is still correct so it looks like it fixed it. (No, I didn't reboot to check the clock... I was trying to boot a new kernel with usb scsi debugging enabled.) Now why running S18hwclockfirst.sh, then S10checkroot.sh and finally S22hwclock.sh in that order wouldn't fix it without a reboot is beyond me, but fortunately somebody in the bugreport knew what they were talking about. Thanks to everyone for the tips and suggestions. Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFD67NckpJ43hY3cTURAvREAJwJpeezoG2HMH9X7E7v1/dEcjWDKwCdENzV P8KUw9PitQ/SJJjDmEvxIMM= =MY0Y -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: XOrg+Radeon = No Direct Rendering?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 8 Feb 2006 22:30:44 +0100 Renato Serodio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, my 3D plots were rather slow, and I decided to check: $ glxinfo direct rendering: No Well, I dug and dug, and here's what I got: For a functional Hardware Acceleration with Radeon 9200/9000: - agp, intel-apg (or other), drm and radeon drivers - glx, dri and radeon modules loaded from Radeon But somehow it's not working. Then I came across a post mentioning hardware acceleration had been dropped in favour of nice fonts (??). I'd like to get my graphics back on hardware, but can't begin to understand how. Does anyone have a clue that could help me? I'm using an ATI Radeon 9200SE here and glxinfo shows: direct rendering: Yes I'm running the latest Debian Sid. For a long time I couldn't get more than about 14fps in ppracer, but I see I'm now getting ~77fps. (It used to be about 110fps in Xfree86, but it looks really good and has more detail with the 77fps now, so I can't complain.) For reference, here's my config: - debian unstable/experimental with 2.6.14 - XOrg 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 (module loader present) - mtrr (compiled into), agp, agp-intel, radeon, drm as kernel modules - Ati Radeon 9200/9000 (as shipped in nx7000/x1000) - xorg.conf: Modules: glcore, glx, dri device: driver radeon, UseInternalAGPART, RenderAccel and AccelMethod EXA Even with glxinfo saying DR is disable, the log shows: (II) RADEON(0): Direct rendering enabled And last, dmesg|grep agp or dmesg|grep dri don't show a thing I see a lot of stuff in dmesg about agp on mine. Run lsmod to make sure you have both agpgart and the appropriate agp driver for your mobo chipset installed. (I have an nForce2 chipset, so I use the nvidia_agp driver.) You might also attach your xorg.conf file to your next e-mail. HTH, Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFD6oFOkpJ43hY3cTURArHgAJwNBWLOhpef7X1Huv7o1V2Sk3SVCQCfUu31 gyV8+LLyURBl1eyfk95KuQc= =fZhP -END PGP SIGNATURE-
ntp strangeness
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello list, After I did an apt-get update/upgrade Monday I've had problem keeping the time set properly on my computer. I have both ntpdate and ntp-server installed, running a strictly Sid machine. Originally I thought maybe it was my motherboard clock, since it was the first time I had rebooted in a couple months. So I used hwclock to set both the hardware clock and system clock. Before long the time was a half hour fast again. I then stopped ntp-server and deleted /etc/adjtime and /var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift, thinking it may be what was throwing the time off. After restarting ntp-server though, it was only about 30 minutes before my clock was a half hour fast again. Now it's almost a full hour fast. Anybody know what might be causing this? It's about to drive me up the wall. I never realized how much I look at my computer clock until I almost walked out the door to an appointment an hour early today. :-) (At least it's an hour fast and not an hour slow.) TIA, Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFD6oLCkpJ43hY3cTURAkqeAJ99c+Q2lR+TS05tnzo2FCVX1E448gCfalNx WAxxhXaaO3NDq5vU2MCmV5A= =ZB7b -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: weird fam/samba problem
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 7 Feb 2006 02:07:04 -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2 Feb 2006 22:05:36 -0600 Jacob S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fam was started by /etc/init.d/fam on my Sid machine. (I say was because it appears my machine is now using avahi, since I did an apt-get upgrade the other day.) These are unrelated things. Avahi provides a framework for Multicast DNS Service Discovery AKA zeroconf AKA rendezvous AKA bonjour AKA whatever Apple decides to call it next week. Fam is for tracking changes to files and reporting those back to applications. Gamin is intended to be a better replacement for fam, whether it lives up to that I don't know, but it's what I have installed on my system. True. Thanks for the correction, Seeker. I guess I had a momentary brain short-circuit. :-) Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFD6KFjkpJ43hY3cTURAmsaAJ9Ra9NWLQRCmOwC1QAaQuDfE088LwCeMyDn A+rF01lXUCjxditOW3Cw6OE= =zxK7 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Udev Usbkey problems
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 7 Feb 2006 12:13:59 -0700 John W. M. Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 11:02:13PM -0600, Jacob S wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello List, I just upgraded Sid to the latest packages today. I also got my usbkey back from warranty repair by the manufacturer. I have tested the key in OS X on an iBook and it works great. However, when I plug it into my Debian Sid box, syslog fills up with the following errors: Feb 6 14:43:45 jacob kernel: usb-storage: device scan complete Feb 6 14:43:45 jacob kernel: ioctl_internal_command: 4 0 0 0 return code = 802 Feb 6 14:43:45 jacob kernel:: Current: sense key: No Sense Feb 6 14:43:45 jacob kernel: Additional sense: No additional sense information Feb 6 14:43:45 jacob kernel: ioctl_internal_command: 4 0 0 0 return code = 802 Feb 6 14:43:45 jacob kernel:: Current: sense key: No Sense Feb 6 14:43:45 jacob kernel: Additional sense: No additional sense information Feb 6 14:43:47 jacob kernel: ioctl_internal_command: 4 0 0 0 return code = 802 This is suspicious, as it looks like your device is either damaged, or out of spec. Can you recompile your kernel to turn on verbose USB debugging? :-( That wasn't the answer I wanted to hear. Especially since they just replaced it on warranty. Oh well. Better to deal with it now than have it break when I need to get critical data off of it. I will try to recompile with debugging enabled. It will probably be later this week, so I will post back here after it is done. I'm using a 2.6.12-1-k7 kernel. I tried restarting udev and eventually even rebooted (yes, I know that shouldn't be needed). I also made sure I didn't have any udev rules in my rules.local file that would be affecting it. A google search of this problem on lists.debian.org comes up empty. Searching the whole web for this problem comes up with more than a dozen hits of a single guy reporting this problem to the linux kernel e-mail list in May 2005 with no replies. Anyone have some clues how I might be able to fix this? It looks like a device problem. You'd need to turn on debugging (I recommend both USB and SCSI) to get a better feel for what is failing. When turned on, verbose USB debugging output will tell me what commands are being sent to the device, and how it is responding to them. Thanks. I'll report back as soon as I get more (debugging) info. Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFD6WcYkpJ43hY3cTURAvVjAJsGTha2d+BevStxFDmJf63LKYcTyQCfTdYP IzFYw+j661TAKQvU16pb7pM= =N+tJ -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Udev Usbkey problems
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello List, I just upgraded Sid to the latest packages today. I also got my usbkey back from warranty repair by the manufacturer. I have tested the key in OS X on an iBook and it works great. However, when I plug it into my Debian Sid box, syslog fills up with the following errors: Feb 6 14:43:45 jacob kernel: usb-storage: device scan complete Feb 6 14:43:45 jacob kernel: ioctl_internal_command: 4 0 0 0 return code = 802 Feb 6 14:43:45 jacob kernel:: Current: sense key: No Sense Feb 6 14:43:45 jacob kernel: Additional sense: No additional sense information Feb 6 14:43:45 jacob kernel: ioctl_internal_command: 4 0 0 0 return code = 802 Feb 6 14:43:45 jacob kernel:: Current: sense key: No Sense Feb 6 14:43:45 jacob kernel: Additional sense: No additional sense information Feb 6 14:43:47 jacob kernel: ioctl_internal_command: 4 0 0 0 return code = 802 I'm using a 2.6.12-1-k7 kernel. I tried restarting udev and eventually even rebooted (yes, I know that shouldn't be needed). I also made sure I didn't have any udev rules in my rules.local file that would be affecting it. A google search of this problem on lists.debian.org comes up empty. Searching the whole web for this problem comes up with more than a dozen hits of a single guy reporting this problem to the linux kernel e-mail list in May 2005 with no replies. Anyone have some clues how I might be able to fix this? TIA, Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFD6CnYkpJ43hY3cTURAg0hAJ484rBg9fxo1BjTLudwJKo19JrSaQCfZK89 Xe8OwVPUpJxgVdt/mWyw6t4= =h1Vn -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Exim GMail smarthost
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 05 Feb 2006 18:47:12 -0500 Stephen Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stephen Allen wrote: Hello folks. I've spent this morning Google'ing and Yahoo'ing attempting to find a tutorial for setting up Exim4 to send to GMail Smarthost. Strange, I haven't found anything yet, although I've found a good one on configuring fetchmail for GMail. Does anyone have an URL where it shows someone like me a SxS on setting up Exim4 for GMail Smarthost ? I'm not presently subscribed, so I'd appreciate if folks could honor my Reply-To. Greatly appreciated. OK got a reply. The only problem is I manually trashed what was in my 'etc/exim4' directory. I've completely purged exim4, but on subsequent installs, it doesn't set up the required files in '/etc/exim4'. So, I haven't been able to test David Berg's insructions. Any idea how to force these files to be configured again ? I wish/wanted to start from a virgin install. FWIW I've run dpkg-reconfigure exim4 but it aborts with an error because the configuration files in 'etc/exim4' don't exist. Which exim4 packages are you trying to install? It looks like most of the config files in my /etc/exim4 were created by the exim4-config package, not exim4 or exim4-base, as one might expect. HTH, Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFD5ppskpJ43hY3cTURAkvzAJ9CmWJavbHDVMeEmjZTWbWQwZk0VwCfcmUL k+kszNk7IuvXddQu7bI+NMM= =P00I -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Redirect hostname to internal box
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 03 Feb 2006 12:24:27 +0200 Clifford W. Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, Firstly I'm not sure if this is the right place but here goes: I'm using Debian 3.1. I have dyndns with wildcards enabled, and I'd like to have traffic to a specific hostname directed to my internal webserver. e.g. phpsysinfo.example.com - firewall intbox.example.com - internal box Due to it being dynamic dns (dyndns.org) and I only have one ipaddress, I can't seem to get it to work with out doing apache redirecting to a different port I believe Apache's mod_proxy would do this. But make sure you read the appropriate documentation and set it up carefully, so that you're not turning Apache into an open proxy. HTH, Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFD41p1kpJ43hY3cTURArMoAJ4rdmAKTF5Jyjw+sG1vidvu8SE3VACgr+W3 lvv05slYjQ9fcKVQxqG+8Ng= =jgyi -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Backing up Windows using rsync
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 3 Feb 2006 18:52:30 +0530 TAC Forums [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi We just got a new requirement: To automated the backup of the all the data on the network with the option of being able to retrieve/restore a file upto any 7 days. Current Setup: - 14 Windows workstations - 45 GB - 1 Linux server (Redhat). - 80 GB Total Backup: 125 GB (Max would grow to 200 GB in the next 2-3 years) I was planing to use rsync with SSH on Windows and the Linux server and schedule the script to copy the files/folders to a Debian based Linux server in the following folder structure: /backup/Monday/server /backup/Monday/ws01 /backup/Monday/ws02 /backup/Monday/ws03 . . /backup/Tuesday/server /backup/Tuesday/ws01 /backup/Tuesday/ws02 /backup/Tuesday/ws03 . . This would mean I'd need the Debian server storage capacity would need to be at least 200 GB x 7 = 1.4 TB. Question: Is there a better way to do what I'm doing? And is there already a piece of software that exists on the NET that does what I'm doing better and I should trying to re-invent the wheel? :-) Apt-get install backuppc. It does the incremental backups others have suggested. It can use rsync, samba, nfs, ssh tar for backups on Linux, Windows and Mac OS X clients. It also implements pooling, so that if you have an identical file on 5 computers, it only keeps one copy of it instead of 5. The web interface makes it very easy to retrieve a single file from any of the backups and you can configure how many backups it keeps around. I currently have mine keeping 6 days of incrementals, 2 weekly full backups and 2 monthly full backups. This gives me the ability to pull files from recent backups, as well as have a little insurance going back 2 months. I would expect your disk usage to be around half of the 1.4TB estimate you mention above, if you use BackupPC. It also has other extras, such as the ability to give users logins to the web interface. Based on their username, it will then restrict their access so that they can only retrieve files from their own computers and can't see which other computers/files have been backed up by the backup server. HTH, Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFD44gDkpJ43hY3cTURAl5eAKCfD5mMcgwNw/RT4jl9SXbFPxy8ygCfXfYf KnuQgKjTqVdRq6yZlGMbPQg= =moVc -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: weird fam/samba problem
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 20:06:26 -0500 Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 02 February 2006 18:36, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: maybe there is a setting in fam.conf that is tying up the shares? Maybe, I just found one that will stop it from tracking non-local stuffs if set=true, so I did. But I still haven't managed to find whats starting it at boot time, there is no output from a grep -R fam /etc Fam was started by /etc/init.d/fam on my Sid machine. (I say was because it appears my machine is now using avahi, since I did an apt-get upgrade the other day.) HTH, Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFD4taUkpJ43hY3cTURAqrHAKCsZnUB5pzzRGnZHsu72YUh2RtCbwCfVehw slhqajRdQfla0SG9VAp/6ug= =gfJm -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: debian source philosophy
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 16:01:09 + Digby Tarvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a general question on Unix/Linux philosophy/configuration on which I would be curious to know what the Debian view/situation is I am a big fan of having my sources readily and instantly available, and one of the things I was least happy with when I moved from my old BSD/OS system to Linux was that the source was never quite so handy... For example in the old BSD system, if I had a binary executable path/foo then I could generally be confident of two things: 1. 'man foo' will tell me how to run it 2. 'cd /usr/src/path/foo;make' could rebuild it There were some exceptions, for example if foo was not part of the official distribution, but something I had installed from elsewhere, then the source would be in /usr/local/src/path/foo and the directory name would often be the program name with version numbers appended, but it was still reasonably straigh forward to locate the source directory given the path to a random executable.. On some systems (eg Inferno), the path to the source is a standard part of each manpage, which I think is a great idea. The big advantage of having the source all unpacked and online is I can use tools like find and grep on my entire source tree, so that even if I am not interested in modifying something, it becomes part of a vast library of programming examples and documentation on how every part of the system works. Or if I want a complete list of all the programs that reference a particular header file or library, it is a simple find/grep job rather than needing special dedicated tools. Unfortunately most Linux distros seem to assume that people don't normally want the source on their systems unless they explicitly ask for it. Even on gentoo, where the policy is to build everything from source on the target system, the unpacked sources are by default removed at the completion of the build, and even if that is over-ridden the the source directories are not neatly arranged in a directory structure that in any way mirrors the locations of the related binaries.. So my question is - how close can I get to this ideal with the APT package management system on Debian? Is there some way to request that source is always downloaded with any binary that it installs? Or to request that sources for all installed packages be installed? Can I have the source automatically unpacked and accessible rather than left in an obscure compressed archive somewhere? I will get around reading all of the documentation, but perhaps some of the more experienced debian users can give me a bit of a heads-up on how far I can expect to eventually get on a Debian system. This isn't a full answer to your question, but should help you get started in the right direction. apt-get install apt-build, then do a man apt-build. You might also do a man apt-get and read the sections on source and build-dep. HTH, Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFD2QThkpJ43hY3cTURAqEmAKCXIDKpfnX3wXlwaOsLcVPoyDqjbQCfX2pq Sz6jCEo0wKzV4h6iLWMubS4= =UW+J -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Sharing Linux printer with Mac
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 22:39:06 -0500 Chinook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok you Debian experts, I think I'm on to something with this printer sharing thing. My last update is included at the end if you need to refresh your memory :-) Basically I'm wondering why in the CUPS interface on my Mac I can see the printer attached to my Linux box, but can't print to it. I can use the printer on my Linux box where it is attached via usb. So, on my Mac I bring up network tools and find: I get results pinging debian1, 192.168.2.48 and 192.168.2.1 (the router), but not variations like debian1.belkinlan or 192.168.2.48:631 or belkinlan (the router). Also, if I do a port scan of debian1 or 192.168.2.48 (no other variations work) I get: Port Scanning host: 192.168.2.48 Open TCP Port: 22ssh Open TCP Port: 427svrloc Open TCP Port: 548afpovertcp Port Scan has completed ... but no 631, even so as I mentioned my Mac does see the printer on the Linux box - just can't print to it. I'm thinking it should show up and cupsd is running on my Linux box. Could cupsd be bound to 127.0.0.1 alone on my Linux box? If so how can I find out and even better have my Mac see it so it shows up in the port scan? I think the seeing part is the broadcasting and separate from the accessing part. If I bring up Network Tools on my Linux box and do a port scan on 192.168.2.12 (Mac) I see port 631 open for ipp. I think the big key here is not seeing port 631 open in an nmap scan on the Linux server. You don't have a firewall running on this machine, right? In my cupsd.conf file I simply have a line that says Port 631 under Network Options. It looks like you can also define an ip or hostname to listen to in that section, but I've never had reason to limit it. I am able to see 631 open when I do an nmap scan of my print server from another computer on the network. Last night I enabled browsing in cups on my Linux print server and then tried printing to the printer from my iBook (OS X 10.4.x). When I went to http://localhost:631 on the iBook I noticed that it immediately saw the printer and Firefox could print to it great. Easiest printer setup I've ever had. HTH, Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFD1kXakpJ43hY3cTURArCFAKCwlZXHIiJx8algq7GFx0TfvbAhCwCdFTeW lvSqAdSPARPw2HUfV4HAXLc= =9Wm7 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [OT] Speakeasy static ips
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 10:11:10 -0500 Rick Pasotto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 09:08:52AM -0600, Jacob S wrote: Does anyone on the list have a static ip from Speakeasy? I'm wondering if their static ips are listed in any of the blacklists that block all (or most) dsl connections. I do and have never had a problem. I host several sites, both email and web. Thanks, Rick! Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFD1kP7kpJ43hY3cTURAvlDAJ9+PIsFYWY6fXIC1yueDriyEEbHVQCdHMD4 PkFpMEKs1xDQCVNlrdn2dYg= =a2x3 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Sharing Linux printer with Mac
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 14:09:05 -0500 Chinook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I'm not having any problem seeing the Linux printer from my Mac. It shows up in the CUPS interface and app print dialog on my Mac. In fact adding either or both of your suggestions prevents me from seeing the printer, so I left the cupsd.conf browsing options alone to accept defaults there. As I understand it, browsing (i.e. seeing) and selecting (i.e. using) are two different things. I can see the [EMAIL PROTECTED] thing, but I can't print to it. Yes, it definitely appears that way. With the Browse command you can tell it to announce itself to one subnet while Listen tells it to only listen on another subnet. Can you copy/paste all of the Browse and Listen arguments you have in your cupsd.conf? As I (hopefully) explained in my later update, trying to print from my Mac to the printer I see on the Linux box gives me the error can not resolve debian1 or can not resolve 192.168.2.48 whichever I use. If I set up a printer on my Mac pointed at the Linux printer and try to use it, then it just sets there with the message 192.168.2.48 is busy - will try again in 30 seconds. When you point it to 192.168.2.48, I am assuming that means you added the printer to your list of printers manually? And you're doing this through http://localhost:631 in your browser, right? Are you pointing it to ipp://debian1/ipp/printer_name or ipp://debian1/printers/printer_name? The cups examples all show hostname/ipp/printer_name, but I have only gotten it to work using hostname/printers/printer_name so far. I am not sure exactly where the Mac points and haven't bothered to check it out, since it just works. This despite including the Allow suggestion from Wackojacko. Both your suggestions were appreciated :-) What is BUGGING the heck out of me is where Jacob zeroed in on the irregularity I see. Doing a port scan from my Linux box to my Mac I see port 631 open for ipp, but doing the reverse I do not!!! I have ruled out a firewall issue on both the Mac and router, and if there is one on my Linux box (I didn't specifically install one yet) I wish someone would tell me where to look? What do you see when you run telnet localhost 631 on the Linux computer? Now try running telnet 192.168.2.48 631 on your Linux computer (assuming '2.48 is the ip of the Linux computer). On my computer I see the following when running those commands: $ telnet localhost 631 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost.localdomain. Escape character is '^]'. $ telnet 192.168.35.10 631 Trying 192.168.35.10... Connected to 192.168.35.10. Escape character is '^]'. I see it (as blind as I am) as an issue with Mac OS X and/or Apple's tinkered CUPS there, and/or threading my way through the labyrinth of CUPS configuration on my Linux box. So far the only abnormality I found in the web interface side of OS X's cups is that they had a fairly limited supply of HP drivers. But that was no longer an issue once I enabled browsing on the Linux print server. HTH, Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFD1o3ckpJ43hY3cTURAomVAJ0XfTxrp5DL1EW5qEJPQ1FCt3bYpQCgqSwo nGPViKr6tgt+ZRHBwXSMmY4= =PG7T -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Sharing Linux printer with Mac
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 21:37:30 -0500 Chinook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 17:01:53 -0500 Chinook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jacob S wrote: On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 14:09:05 -0500 Chinook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I'm not having any problem seeing the Linux printer from my Mac. It shows up in the CUPS interface and app print dialog on my Mac. In fact adding either or both of your suggestions prevents me from seeing the printer, so I left the cupsd.conf browsing options alone to accept defaults there. As I understand it, browsing (i.e. seeing) and selecting (i.e. using) are two different things. I can see the [EMAIL PROTECTED] thing, but I can't print to it. Yes, it definitely appears that way. With the Browse command you can tell it to announce itself to one subnet while Listen tells it to only listen on another subnet. Can you copy/paste all of the Browse and Listen arguments you have in your cupsd.conf? The text file is at: http://homepage.mac.com/lee_cullens/COPYOFcupsd.conf a couple things I saw that may matter, maybe not. 1) turn up your logging on at least the linux side if not the mac side jsut to see what is happening. you're currently set at info. tail the log on linux side so you can watch what happens when the mac tries to connect. I hadn't got to that point yet because I apparently don't have a connection to look at the logs for - am I wrong? 2) the list two include lines: # Include files in /etc/cups/conf.d Include /etc/cups/cups.d/ports.conf Include /etc/cups/cups.d/browse.conf have you looked at those to make sure there is no conflict? They're just flag status files - both one-liners. The first contains Listen localhost:631 The second contains Browsing on It seems to me the first is a further clue that CUPS on my Linux box isn't listening to anything but localhost, unless I'm misinterpreting it. That's probably it! That ports.conf file appears to be the only place you tell it what ips/ports to listen on. Change the Listen localhost:631 line in ports.conf to Listen 631 - this will tell it to listen on port 631 on any ip addresses associated with that computer. You can also delete the Include line for browse.conf - it's a duplicate of a setting you specified elsewhere in cupsd.conf. Then run /etc/init.d/cupsys restart and see if your Mac is able to print any better. If not, enable debugging for the logs and see if the logs make any mention of printing attempts from the Mac. HTH, Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFD1vsdkpJ43hY3cTURAoCRAKCxPVeNgYjUn9heRCESIdnv/DTd0wCfbzC8 CEwj9FRu1WJD+Wqs+Lm0kQ0= =Y01V -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Very poor apt source speeds
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 14:16:22 + Piers Kittel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, For over a month, I'm seeing extremely poor apt-get download speeds, I'd be *very* lucky to get 5kb/s and occasionally 25kb/s if it connects at all, and I've tried several sources including: mirror.ox.ac.uk debian.blueyonder.co.uk debian.hands.com ftp.uk.debian.org www.mirrorservice.org Could it be the difference between http and ftp - perhaps your isp has ftp limited or something? You might also try apt-spy. I'm still getting full speed from the kernel.org mirror on a DSL connection, so it should definitely be possible for you to get a lot better than 5kb/s. HTH, Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFD1PDfkpJ43hY3cTURAi1TAKDAA/fooeywZyzCKqGV2H1QG0MTkwCgt0SJ TgUl/ZnrRzFeirJsBsl3vOA= =oML1 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
[OT] Speakeasy static ips
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Does anyone on the list have a static ip from Speakeasy? I'm wondering if their static ips are listed in any of the blacklists that block all (or most) dsl connections. TIA, Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFD1PGEkpJ43hY3cTURAlhDAJ4/7mRn7Z3zBZCraX5+BWx2HdMRCACghE02 NbsdZXA4PPf8bMOAPls4QTk= =yYpj -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: What is gaim upto on my system?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 18:03:52 -0500 [KS] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: On Friday 20 January 2006 07:02, [KS] wrote: I had noticed a few days back that gaim had around 5 or 6 processes and was surprised. I killed those and started it again. But 560 seems to be way too much. Has anyone noticed this? Any reasons as to why this is happenning? Gaim is an infamous memory seive. I think GAIM stands for GAIM Abosrbs Important Memory. One increasingly popular way around this problem is to get psi, and a jabber server with the transports to the other networks, and just use Jabber as a common ground. Replied to Paul only by mistake earlier. Yes, Gaim is becoming a pain. Even after killing all the gaim processess (560 of them), I restarted and checked after about 5mintues and there were 4 processes again :( Is it a bug or Gaim's normal behaviour? Thanks Paul, Sounds like a bug to me. I started 2 instances of Gaim on my computer and a ps aux | grep gaim only shows 2 processes running. (I have my dozen or so screen names sorted into categories and like differentiating between them with separate buddy list windows.) The ps aux | grep gaim also shows that the 2 instances are only using a combined 3.2% of my memory - with 1GB of ram and 1GB of swap installed. I'm currently using Gaim 1.5.1cvs from Sid. You might try reporting this in the Gaim bugtracker or seeing if their mailing list has any help. HTH, Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFD0cllkpJ43hY3cTURAtp3AKDNWuzjuSWLfXOUpWYsutHJiwOSEgCbBlwI QUMbpI6hFxW5yr/dS2O0EUg= =IySw -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Gnupg - upgrade a trustdb?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 13:05:35 -0600 Jacob S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 13:27:12 -0600 John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jacob writes: So, I figure there must be some way to 'upgrade' the trustdb so that I can fetch new keys without corrupting the trustdb, but I don't know what it is. Anyone have any advice on a good way to fix this? I'd try deleting the trustdb and letting gpg rebuild it. Except then I lose any trust values I had assigned to keys. For example, when I read an encrypted message in mutt, I get the following warnings: gpg: WARNING: This key is not certified with a trusted signature! gpg: There is no indication that the signature belongs to the owner. gpg: WARNING: message was not integrity protected But because I had assigned a trust level (and maybe another trick or two, I don't remember for sure), when the old trustdb is in place that message doesn't appear. I know, I could edit those keys all over again and assign trust values, but I was hoping to avoid that. I finally found it. In addition to doing the normal gpg --export and gpg --export-secret-keys I needed to do a --export-ownertrust. Then I could wipe out my ~/.gnupg dir (actually, I used mv instead) and let gpg recreate it when I did a gpg --import and gpg --import-ownertrust. And gnupg is now able to download new/updated keys from public keyservers again. Thought I would archive the solution here for anybody that might be googling. Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFD0AYxkpJ43hY3cTURAvNuAJwMxwAjTeZAsjq9fHce56PP6vU4XgCgvqWe KQ2ygMnQLXFpimnpSdafvK4= =44bO -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Gnupg - upgrade a trustdb?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 13:27:12 -0600 John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jacob writes: So, I figure there must be some way to 'upgrade' the trustdb so that I can fetch new keys without corrupting the trustdb, but I don't know what it is. Anyone have any advice on a good way to fix this? I'd try deleting the trustdb and letting gpg rebuild it. Except then I lose any trust values I had assigned to keys. For example, when I read an encrypted message in mutt, I get the following warnings: gpg: WARNING: This key is not certified with a trusted signature! gpg: There is no indication that the signature belongs to the owner. gpg: WARNING: message was not integrity protected But because I had assigned a trust level (and maybe another trick or two, I don't remember for sure), when the old trustdb is in place that message doesn't appear. I know, I could edit those keys all over again and assign trust values, but I was hoping to avoid that. Thanks, Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDyp0CkpJ43hY3cTURAsqDAKCSTpR7WIrOmOt3Lf8xbYCPoGlCQACdF+xo YB43HMjXmSBebHunis2ix0U= =c3PW -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Should I Abandon Mutt and Exim4?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 09:02:33 -0500 Thomas H. George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My system is Sarge with a 2.6.11 kernel. We have a Verizon DSL connection. I can send and receive email with Mozilla and receive mail with fetchmail but I have not been able to setup exim4 to send mail from mutt. With Mozilla the setup is: Account Name: lists Your Name: Thomas H. George email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] POP mail server server name: mail.tomgeorge.info port 110 user name: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Outgoing Server (SMTP) Settings server name: outgoing.verzison.net port 25 user name: dryden With exim4 the setup using dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config is Split configuration into small files?: No mail sent by smarthost; received via SMTP or fetchmail System mail name: tomgeorge.info IP address to listen to: 127.0.0.1 Other destinations for which mail is accepted: Left Blank Machines to relay for: Left Blank Machine handling outgoing mail for this host (smarthost): outgoing.verizion.net Hide local name in outgoing mail: No Keep number of DNS-queries minimal: No In addition I have edited the file /etc/exim4/passwd.client adding a line mail.verizion.net:dryden:OurPassword Somewhere I have gone wrong in the setup but, having tried various combinations without success, I need help. I am attaching the the result of tail /var/log/exim4/mainlog in hopes this makes my mistake obvious and someone can put me straight. Tom George 2006-01-11 12:20:10 1Ewjdq-0004pA-Oa = [EMAIL PROTECTED] U=tom P=local S=436 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2006-01-11 12:20:11 1Ewjdq-0004pA-Oa ** [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=smarthost T=remote_smtp_smarthost: SMTP error from remote mailer after MAIL FROM:[EMAIL PROTECTED] SIZE=1474: host outgoing.verizon.net [206.46.232.12]: 550 5.7.1 Authentication Required 2006-01-11 12:20:11 1Ewjdr-0004pD-9G = R=1Ewjdq-0004pA-Oa U=Debian-exim P=local S=1383 2006-01-11 12:20:11 1Ewjdq-0004pA-Oa Completed 2006-01-11 12:20:11 1Ewjdr-0004pD-9G ** [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=smarthost T=remote_smtp_smarthost: SMTP error from remote mailer after MAIL FROM: SIZE=2444: host outgoing.verizon.net [206.46.232.12]: 550 5.7.1 Authentication Required 2006-01-11 12:20:11 1Ewjdr-0004pD-9G Frozen (delivery error message) So obviously the server is saying exim4 hasn't authenticated before it is trying to send the e-mail. Marc responded, Does outgoing.verizon.net advertise STARTTLS? If not, you need to authorize your exim to do authentication over an unencryped connection. If I understand the attached quote from /usr/share/doc/exim4/README.Debian.gz exim should handle this automatically (and the Mozilla setup referred to above is set to use TLS if available). Is there some other setting I should change? - Tom George Exim4 can handle it transparently, but it seems by default Debian sets up exim4 to only use tls authentication. Try editing /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template and edit the 'remote_smtp_smarthost:' section. Change tls_tempfail_tryclear = false to tls_tempfail_tryclear = true. Immediately below that line, insert a new line reading hosts_require_auth = outgoing.verizon.net. (And make sure you spell 'verizon' correctly. I notice you misspelled it several different ways throughout your e-mail, which can also cause problems like you describe.) Once you're done editing the file, run 'update-exim4.conf' to generate the new config files. HTH, Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDx77WkpJ43hY3cTURAg3gAJ9Xc1FczFA+ZoMApFcQtvY7IDNcLQCgtfik Ba0K+8hAsYuGCOMQxwx6sAs= =eJmD -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Gnupg - upgrade a trustdb?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ok, so I created this problem for myself. But now I can't figure out how to fix it. The problem comes because I simply dropped a .gnupg directory along with it's pubring, secring and trustdb into my ~/ directory so that I could use my gpg keys. Except, the keyrings and trustdb were probably about 2 years old. Now, if I already have somebody's public key in my keyring, I can successfully send and receive encrypted mail from them. But if I try to retrieve a new key gpg hangs trying to update the trustdb. I then end up with a corrupted trustdb that makes gpg hang any time I use it. If I copy the old trustdb back into place, I'm good to go again. So, I figure there must be some way to 'upgrade' the trustdb so that I can fetch new keys without corrupting the trustdb, but I don't know what it is. Anyone have any advice on a good way to fix this? TIA, Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDx9jVkpJ43hY3cTURAr2bAJ9u5VATjZ7Ki1okIG0CxZljUIeg9gCgtIWK vD5wHrIjL+N4YTK9R1Btwg4= =kuEf -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Live CD for Headless Box
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 10:27:37 -0800 Stephen Le [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody know of any livecds specially targetted towards headless computers? I need a livecd that I can drop into a computer and immediately get SSH access to the system. If nobody knows of such a livecd, does anybody know how I would make one that worked in such a manner? I modified a Knoppix cd for this purpose a while back. If you go to www.knoppix.net they have a howto on remastering a cd. Just edit Grub's menu.lst so that the default boot option does console only (not required, but why use extra ram for gui stuff that you won't be using?). Then I think I added my config for a static ip and starting ssh to /etc/init.d/knoppix-autoconfig. Worked great for me, but of course YMMV. HTH, Jacob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDx/mokpJ43hY3cTURAuv3AJ99EmO6zX55a2tW3lm5MxlflBHLjgCgo1Yz c75Fi7NW0EgyBwfwyAuAxg0= =atNt -END PGP SIGNATURE-
