Re: Transplanting old System to New Drive (now Linux for vision impaired)
On 08/18/2011 07:38:58 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > For me the biggest problem is CD labels - my writing makes the > reading > even harder. Now if someone created a simple system that announced > the > title of any cd placed in the drive based on information burned to > the > CD See http://www.freedb.org and the packages with cddb in their name for possible solutions. I don't know how to tell if an app is cddb/freedb aware. There's probably a lot of music apps that are See also the festival package and the result of running "debtags search speech". Regards, Karl Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." -- Robert A. Heinlein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1313728198.8919.0@mofo
Re: network-connected camera with motion-detection e-mail configurable in Linux?
On 06/08/2009 04:12:40 PM, Barclay, Daniel wrote: Actually, I wrote in that in reply to your other message about USB attachment (intending, of course, to have been viewing that other message when I started my message ). Anyway, the camera itself runs Linux, and yes, has a web page via which you configure it. As far as the motion detection and email sending, you might have to compile that yourself. (Perhaps ask on their mailing list or something.) And I don't know whether it would run zoneminder at the desired framerate, etc., or if some simpler motion detection would be good enough. Their cameras are not cheap and the lenses can be expensive too. But the resolution, framerate, low light, etc. specs all looked really good. At this point we're probably offtopic and I've exhausted my knowledge anyhow so I'll stop. I just thought I'd point you in that direction. (By the way, is Elphel's product web page as screwed up (stair- stepping down and to the right) for you as it is for me (runniing SeaMonkey)? Yes. Maybe it's supposed to look like that? Or maybe it's because I'm still using the etch iceweasel? Karl Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." -- Robert A. Heinlein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: network-connected camera with motion-detection e-mail configurable in Linux?
On 06/08/2009 03:45:08 PM, Barclay, Daniel wrote: Karl O. Pinc wrote: > > On 06/08/2009 03:30:21 PM, Karl O. Pinc wrote: >> >> On 06/08/2009 03:19:37 PM, Barclay, Daniel wrote: >>> Does anyone know if there any wireless network-connected video cameras >>> with in-camera motion-detection-triggered e-mail notification that are >>> configurable via Linux? > >> If you want cool cameras that run Linux where you might >> (possibly) be able to do everything on-camera see Elphel: >> http://www3.elphel.com/index.php You seem to have missed a key part of my question. I was asking about network-connected cameras--ones that do not require a host computer (other than the computer "hosting" the browser) for viewing and, hopefully, configuration and initial setup. I don't think I missed that part. The Elphel will, e.g., stream ogg theora video viewable in, e.g., mplayer. (With high resolution and high frame rates too.) Or do you mean that the camera must have a video display attached? Karl Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." -- Robert A. Heinlein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: network-connected camera with motion-detection e-mail configurable in Linux?
On 06/08/2009 03:30:21 PM, Karl O. Pinc wrote: On 06/08/2009 03:19:37 PM, Barclay, Daniel wrote: Does anyone know if there any wireless network-connected video cameras with in-camera motion-detection-triggered e-mail notification that are configurable via Linux? If you want cool cameras that run Linux where you might (possibly) be able to do everything on-camera see Elphel: http://www3.elphel.com/index.php Sorry, missed the wireless part. I'd guess that for wireless support you'd want to stick a 10349 interface board on and plug in a usb wireless device. Or maybe there's other options. YMMV. Karl Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." -- Robert A. Heinlein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Does anyone else consider this a bug?
On 06/08/2009 03:29:06 PM, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: Hello, Last-point first, you can instruct Debian-Installer to prompt for fixed IP (rather than using DHCP). Isn't there a choice when in expert mode as well? Karl Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." -- Robert A. Heinlein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: network-connected camera with motion-detection e-mail configurable in Linux?
On 06/08/2009 03:19:37 PM, Barclay, Daniel wrote: Does anyone know if there any wireless network-connected video cameras with in-camera motion-detection-triggered e-mail notification that are configurable via Linux? Typically you'd do motion detection with the zoneminder package in Linux. (I've heard good things but not used it.) If you want cool cameras that run Linux where you might (possibly) be able to do everything on-camera see Elphel: http://www3.elphel.com/index.php Karl Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." -- Robert A. Heinlein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Listing held packages for which there are upgrades
On 06/08/2009 02:55:42 PM, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 12:57:46 -0500, Karl O. Pinc wrote: > On 06/08/2009 12:44:13 PM, Karl O. Pinc wrote: >> On 06/08/2009 12:40:16 PM, Harry Rickards wrote: >>> On 06/08/09 18:13, Karl O. Pinc wrote: >>> > Hi, >>> > >>> > On etch when I did an 'aptitude upgrade' it would show >>> > the packages on hold that would have been upgraded >>> > but were held back. On lenny this no longer happens. Packages that could be upgraded and have been placed on hold: aptitude search '~U~ahold' Pakchages that could be upgraded: aptitude search '~U' (Assuming that, for your purposes, "could be upgraded" is equivalent to "have been held back".) Thanks very much. I swear I read the docs, but I guess I can't read. For my purposes I think I want: aptitude search '~U' -o Dir::Etc::sourcelist=/etc/apt/sources.list.securityonly where sources.list.securityonly has just the security.debian.org repositories. (It makes me wonder if there's a way to do this without having a separate sources.list file.) Karl Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." -- Robert A. Heinlein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: rsync and Windows backups on a Debian box and permissions
On 06/08/2009 01:28:53 PM, H.S. wrote: Karl O. Pinc wrote: > > On 06/08/2009 11:26:01 AM, H.S. wrote: >> >> Any ideas how I get around this problem? Nice tips, and it appears they make sense. However, please pardon my ignorance, I am not sure I fully understand: These are sort of "this or that" choices. > a) Don't do that. Have the uid/gids be the same on the MS > and Debian sides. You mean preserve the the uid/gids on the Debian side so that they are the same as they were on the XP machine? Right, and set the ids manually when you make the users on the Debian side. > b) Use --numeric-ids in the rsync script and after it finishes > use find -uid and chown to change the uids to the "right" value. > (Likewise for gids.) >From rsync's man page, --numeric-ids will preserve the numeric ids across transfers. So, it appears that I am on the right track in (a) above. But what should I change these ids to on the Debian side? If the ids are preserved, shouldn't that be fine for the following step as well? Yup. Since all I require is that the users on XP be able to browse their own backups on Debian (which, as you wrote in (c), should be accomplished using samba). You don't have to use samba, it's just nice for MS Windows users. FYI, somebody must have done this before so there's probably a best-practices on the net, somewhere. Karl Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." -- Robert A. Heinlein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Listing held packages for which there are upgrades
On 06/08/2009 12:44:13 PM, Karl O. Pinc wrote: On 06/08/2009 12:40:16 PM, Harry Rickards wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/08/09 18:13, Karl O. Pinc wrote: > Hi, > > On etch when I did an 'aptitude upgrade' it would show > the packages on hold that would have been upgraded > but were held back. On lenny this no longer happens. 'aptitude safe-upgrade' will upgrade safely, and will sometimes hold back packages. 'aptitude dist-upgrade' will not. I think upgrade now goes to safe-upgrade. Neither will upgrade packages that have been put on hold with "aptitude hold". That's what I'm asking about. Now that I think of it I'd like to see a listing of packages that have been held back for any reason, both those held because I manually put the on hold and those that are held back by aptitude for reasons of it's own when a "safe-upgrade" is done. Either way I'll need to manually look at upgrading. > How do I get a list of those packages, and only those > packages, that would be upgraded if they were not on hold? Karl Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." -- Robert A. Heinlein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.orgwith a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Karl Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." -- Robert A. Heinlein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Listing held packages for which there are upgrades
On 06/08/2009 12:40:16 PM, Harry Rickards wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/08/09 18:13, Karl O. Pinc wrote: > Hi, > > On etch when I did an 'aptitude upgrade' it would show > the packages on hold that would have been upgraded > but were held back. On lenny this no longer happens. 'aptitude safe-upgrade' will upgrade safely, and will sometimes hold back packages. 'aptitude dist-upgrade' will not. I think upgrade now goes to safe-upgrade. Neither will upgrade packages that have been put on hold with "aptitude hold". That's what I'm asking about. Sorry for the lack of clarity. > How do I get a list of those packages, and only those > packages, that would be upgraded if they were not on hold? Karl Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." -- Robert A. Heinlein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Listing held packages for which there are upgrades
Hi, On etch when I did an 'aptitude upgrade' it would show the packages on hold that would have been upgraded but were held back. On lenny this no longer happens. How do I get a list of those packages, and only those packages, that would be upgraded if they were not on hold? FYI I want this mostly because I have too many systems to apply security updates to manually. So I've a cron job that regularly does updates from the security team repository. However I do not want critical packages, e.g. the kernel, upgraded by an automatic process. I put the packages I want to manually review on hold. I rely on the output from the cron jobs to notify me when there are updates available for such packages. Unlike, say the security-announce email list, the cron jobs keep emailing me until I apply the latest upgrades. I can miss an email on occasion and not have to worry about missing an irreplaceable message. Thank you. Karl Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." -- Robert A. Heinlein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: rsync and Windows backups on a Debian box and permissions
On 06/08/2009 11:26:01 AM, H.S. wrote:
Hello,
I have a Debian box (running Testing) which rsyncs some directories
from
a Windows laptop (running XP on an ntfs partition) to a partition on a
local disk on the Debian box.
The Debian box uses rsync via ssh connection made with the XP box
which
has cygwin and ssh server installed. The user used to do the ssh
connection is an administrator on the XP box ('root'). The script is
running from the root account on the Debian box.
The command is something like this:
rsync --delete --modify-window=10 --force -Rvaue ssh
--exclude-from=$EXCLUDESFILE --progress \
xp-box:"/cygdrive/c/Documents\ and\ Settings/user1
/cygdrive/c/Documents\ and\ Settings/user2" /mnt/backups/xp-daily-00;
where $EXCLUDESFILE is a variable defined with the path to the
excludes
files on the Debian box.
Now, this all works very well for making the backups.
However, the permissions of the files pulled from the XP box to the
Debian box are the same as on the XP box. The same two users, user1
and
user2, also exist on the Debian box. However, the gids and uids of
these
users are different on the XP box and on the Debian box. So the users
cannot browse their own directories (backups) from within the Debian
box
(permissions denied).
This is a problem if a user wants to browse, or recover files from,
his
backups by connecting from the XP box to the Debian box using ssh
(because then the user's gid and uid are Debian numbers, not the XP,
or
cygwin on XP, numbers).
Any ideas how I get around this problem?
a) Don't do that. Have the uid/gids be the same on the MS
and Debian sides.
b) Use --numeric-ids in the rsync script and after it finishes
use find -uid and chown to change the uids to the "right" value.
(Likewise for gids.)
c) Have the users recover/browse their backups with samba
instead of ssh and have samba map the uids/gids "properly".
Karl
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Re: Lenny CUPS server and etch CUPS client
On 07/07/2008 04:09:13 PM, Rainer Dorsch wrote: Am Montag, 7. Juli 2008 schrieben Sie: > > # Only listen for connections from the local machine. > > Listen localhost:631 > > Listen 192.168.1.10:631 > > Listen /var/run/cups/cups.sock If this is OT, my apologies. I've not been following this thread. However, it appears there's mention of messing with cupsd.conf, and I just struggled through trying to configure a cups server on a headless box. Rather than muck about in cupsd.conf, which only got me trouble in my browser with messages that indicated I needed to upgrade cups, I instead used ssh to tunnel ipp traffic so that I could access the headless cupsd host via a localhost address on the box where the browser lives. On the box where you have your browser: su - ; # be root ssh -L 632:localhost:631 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Then fire up your browser and go to: http://localhost:632/ When you're done configuring, exit the ssh session. I found a few links (printers) would take me back to http://localhost:631/, the wrong url, but mostly things worked fine and I was able to configure a cups server on a box that does not run a browser. Regards, Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." -- Robert A. Heinlein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PGP Keys Expiration
On 07/06/2008 08:36:13 AM, John W Foster wrote: I have over the years established several PGP public keys that are no longer valid due to expired e-mail addresses. I did not think at the time they were created that I needed an expiration date in thm. FWIW, IIRC accepted best practice is to generate a revocation when you generate the initial key pair. Then (so long as you keep backups) you'll always be able to revoke the key even if you forget the password, or whatever. Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." -- Robert A. Heinlein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: More than one xserver?
On 07/06/2008 08:31:35 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Karl O. Pinc wrote: Why step 2, make softlinks to the X command? http://www.linux.com/base/ldp/howto/XFree-Local-multi-user-HOWTO/sym_links.html That does not explain much. Just says you have to do it. Likewise, I found in "man xinit": ... However, servers are usually named Xdisplaytype where displaytype is the type of graphics display which is driven by this server. The site administrator should, therefore, make a link to the appropriate type of server on the machine, ... But that's also not an explanation. I can see where it'd be nice to know what X server is doing what when you look at ps output, but otherwise don't see the point. I'm wondering if the symlink is some sort of requirement, and if not what the purpose is. Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." -- Robert A. Heinlein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: More than one xserver?
On 07/06/2008 08:31:35 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Karl O. Pinc wrote: On 07/06/2008 07:27:05 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Karl O. Pinc wrote: What's the right way to run more than one X server? , I _could_ just run X and startX directly. Are there any out-of-the-box solutions or should I just use inittab? How would you use startx on monitors other than the first one that has the console output? In my case I'm thinking I wouldn't need more than "the first one", if that. (My writing was not very clear, sorry.) The thing is, the local machine is nothing more than a thin client. The goal is to use a very minimal machine locally and have all the compute power elsewhere. Unless I really want to do _anything_ local, I don't need a client side on the local machine at all. I can just run the server: # this file is/etc/inittab # console #8 disp0 connects to remote *dm via xdmcp 8:23:resspawn:X -query xclient.example.com -layout disp0 # console #9 disp1 connects to remote xsane front-end, # started by a command=xsane in authorized_hosts, # which in turns connects back to a local saned process # to access a locally connected scanner. 9:23:resspawn:startx ssh -i /usr/local/etc/sanestuff/sanekey [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'DISPLAY=xserver.example.com:1 xsane' -- -layout disp1 (I've not tested the above.) So, all the applications run remotely, all the desktop eyecandy is generated remotely, and all the scanner image processing is done remotely. (And I'm hoping that if I do cups right all the awful gostscript printer munging is done remotely too.) The local box has video cards, a nic, and no fan excepting the PSU. Silence. Yay! Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." -- Robert A. Heinlein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: More than one xserver?
On 07/06/2008 07:27:05 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Karl O. Pinc wrote: What's the right way to run more than one X server? There don't seem to be any hooks in the /etc/init.d/*dm scripts. (I thought maybe there'd be something in /etc/default/, at least for gdm which IIRC has some hooks for different configuration settings for different DISPLAYs.) I run 2 xservers for two displays/keyboards/mice: http://wiki.debian.org/Multi_Seat_Debian_HOWTO Thanks. That's what I was looking for. I couldn't figure out how to start 2 servers automatically. (It's that grody .ini config file format. Is .ini even documented anywhere?) Why step 2, make softlinks to the X command? What if I didn't want to use a *dm? On one DISPLAY I want to go straight to the *dm of a remote box, and on the other, the one used for a copy machine, I don't want to authenticate at all. A *dm seems a bit overkill, I _could_ just run X and startX directly. Are there any out-of-the-box solutions or should I just use inittab? Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." -- Robert A. Heinlein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
More than one xserver?
Hi, What's the right way to run more than one X server? There don't seem to be any hooks in the /etc/init.d/*dm scripts. (I thought maybe there'd be something in /etc/default/, at least for gdm which IIRC has some hooks for different configuration settings for different DISPLAYs.) I'm running etch, but if there's other work in Lenny/Sid would like to know where Debian is going with this. I could whack together something in inittab using startx but would rather do things "the right way". If this is not the place to ask where can I get an answer? I want at least one X server to serve a client desktop on the other side of the LAN, so that may mean executing the Xserver directly and using the -query argument. I've not made up my mind but am leaning away from an xdmcp chooser on that display because it's just another hassle to pass through at login. Another Xserver will run nothing but xsane as a client and act as a stand-alone copy machine. That one I'll probably auto-login with gdm, or maybe not. Thanks. Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." -- Robert A. Heinlein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: Success in reflashing a crippled OEM bios
For the record, I had to set the RAM timing to 1:1 to slow the frontside bus down to 133MHz, with the CPU setting at 133 as is set by the "performance" default bios settings, in order to have stability. Memtest86+ was reporting errors otherwise. On 08/01/2007 03:49:03 PM, Karl O. Pinc wrote: Hi, FYI. Some time ago I bought a cheap $150 Linspire box from Frys. (Great Quality PC, it says on the box.) I bought it because I knew Linspire did not ship binary-only drivers, so I knew the box would work with all distros. Sadly, Linspire has changed their policy and buying a box with their OS is no longer a guarentee of anything. For that and other reasons I can no longer recommend buying a pre-loaded Linspire box. I'd love to be a fly on the wall when these people are talking about how they want to sell a crippled box, and what features they want to pay extra money to rip out. It comes with a ECS 741GX-M2 motherboard. (10/18/2005-741GX-M2-6A7I8E19C-00, says the boot screen.) Turns out this is a ECS 741GX-M motherboard that's been fitted with a crippled BIOS, as far as I can tell. It turns out that you can flash the bios with the latest 741GX-M bios from www.ecs.com.tw. This gives you the option of booting at power-up, so you know your box will come up after a power failure, and lots more. YMMV. Don't blame me if you turn your box into a brick. Here's my notes: Installed the 41GXMA13.bin bios from: http://www.ecs.com.tw/ECSWebSite/Downloads/ProductsDetail_Download.aspx?detailid=422&DetailName=New&DetailDesc=741GX-M%20%20(V1.0)&CategoryID=1&MenuID=82&LanID=9 Used the AWD865.exe program to do it. This makes a backup of the old bios: AWD865 backup.bin /pn/sy This installs and clears the cmos: AWD865 41gxma13.bin /py/sn/cc Then told the bios to install the optimized settings, not the safe ones. And then told it to boot at power-up, etc. The BIOS chip is a: EN29F002ANT-70JC You have to rip 2 layers of stickers off to get see the part number printed on the chip. Note that the bios protect jumper is documented backwards. Pins 1 & 2 need to be jumpered to allow the bois to be updated. Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." -- Robert A. Heinlein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OT: Success in reflashing a crippled OEM bios
Hi, FYI. Some time ago I bought a cheap $150 Linspire box from Frys. (Great Quality PC, it says on the box.) I bought it because I knew Linspire did not ship binary-only drivers, so I knew the box would work with all distros. Sadly, Linspire has changed their policy and buying a box with their OS is no longer a guarentee of anything. For that and other reasons I can no longer recommend buying a pre-loaded Linspire box. I'd love to be a fly on the wall when these people are talking about how they want to sell a crippled box, and what features they want to pay extra money to rip out. It comes with a ECS 741GX-M2 motherboard. (10/18/2005-741GX-M2-6A7I8E19C-00, says the boot screen.) Turns out this is a ECS 741GX-M motherboard that's been fitted with a crippled BIOS, as far as I can tell. It turns out that you can flash the bios with the latest 741GX-M bios from www.ecs.com.tw. This gives you the option of booting at power-up, so you know your box will come up after a power failure, and lots more. YMMV. Don't blame me if you turn your box into a brick. Here's my notes: Installed the 41GXMA13.bin bios from: http://www.ecs.com.tw/ECSWebSite/Downloads/ProductsDetail_Download.aspx?detailid=422&DetailName=New&DetailDesc=741GX-M%20%20(V1.0)&CategoryID=1&MenuID=82&LanID=9 Used the AWD865.exe program to do it. This makes a backup of the old bios: AWD865 backup.bin /pn/sy This installs and clears the cmos: AWD865 41gxma13.bin /py/sn/cc Then told the bios to install the optimized settings, not the safe ones. And then told it to boot at power-up, etc. The BIOS chip is a: EN29F002ANT-70JC You have to rip 2 layers of stickers off to get see the part number printed on the chip. Note that the bios protect jumper is documented backwards. Pins 1 & 2 need to be jumpered to allow the bois to be updated. Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." -- Robert A. Heinlein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Partitioning an FTP server
> From: Bill English [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 12:55 PM > To: 'Debian Users' > Subject: Partitioning an FTP server > > I am new to Debian for servers...my only experience is with home boxes. > > I am building an FTP server that I want to dedicate most of the space to > holding files. > What would be the best way to partition it given the server's purpose? The best way to partion it would be to use lvm2 so that you can easily change your mind later. Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." -- Robert A. Heinlein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Trouble installing mysql based packages on Etch
Hi, I just tried to install cacti and drupal on etch. In both cases I had to create the database, the user, and the database tables/etc. by hand. dpkg-reconfigure didn't give an error message and didn't create the db. Is this a debconf problem? A problem with the individual packages? A problem with msyql? How do I report this? Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." -- Robert A. Heinlein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Command-line/batch tools for handling mail attachments?
On 01/12/2006 02:35:06 PM, Jim Holland wrote: Hi On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Karl O. Pinc wrote: > What about mimedecode? I hadn't come across that before. I tested it with various encoded messages and it didn't do anything at all OTOH, maybe I am thinking of mpack/munpack and scripting with file, binhex, uudecode et-al. It's been a long time. I _did_ get something working once upon a time. Sorry to have possibly sent you down a blind alley. Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." -- Robert A. Heinlein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Command-line/batch tools for handling mail attachments?
On 01/12/2006 02:35:06 PM, Jim Holland wrote: Hi On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Karl O. Pinc wrote: > > What about mimedecode? I hadn't come across that before. I tested it with various encoded messages and it didn't do anything at all - output was the same as input. It seems to be designed only to handle subparts of content-type text, not actual attachments. It could be handy if it extracted all the text and left the rest, but its output includes all the encoding as well. The way I've used it is to give it entire emails, envelope headers and all, and let it do it's thing. Then I sort through the resultant directory of output, which contains all the parts of the email original body message text as well as attachments et-al. IIRC, YMMV. Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." -- Robert A. Heinlein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Command-line/batch tools for handling mail attachments?
On 01/12/2006 01:34:42 PM, Jim Holland wrote: It seemed initially that uudeview could do it all out of the box - decoding MIME base64, uuencoding, BinHex etc. It does that all very well - even with broken boundary lines and missing headers etc. However the more I tested it the more problems I found with loss of the text part of messages in the output, leading to the script getting more and more complicated in order to be able to handle each exception. What about mimedecode? Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." -- Robert A. Heinlein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Email login options
On 01/12/2006 09:49:50 AM, Tony Heal wrote: What I am looking for are solutions/best practices for SMTP authentication so local and remote users can use our SMTP server, and pop authentication without depending on the Windows domain. Does anyone have any suggestions that does not require sending passwords over clear text and allows for easy to manage passwords without having to log into the mail server to change a users password. Obviously, you need a separate password store. LDAP works very well and was pretty much designed for this. To allow users to change their password you either run a webserver and write a php script (or whatever) or you use the big ldap management tools, which must have this feature built in even though I've not looked at them to check. Unfortunatly, I'm having a brain fart and can't recall their names. RedHat bought one from Netscape and open-sourced it and Novell recently-ish open sourced another. Then, you require users to authenticate with TLS to do anything. That'd be pop3s, imaps, and smtps. It'll require messing with their clients. Do not give your users unix accounts. I'd recommend postfix as the MTA, easy to config and to secure. You might look into cyrus for the mail store. I know this will scale into the thousands of users, and probably much higher than that. Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." -- Robert A. Heinlein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HELP! My printer won't stop!!
On 01/11/2006 09:16:01 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: did you get any answers. Now my computer is doing something similar. It keeps printing smiley faces on every page and won't stop 1) Unplug printer. This should clear it's memory, which can contain pages and pages of smiley faces. 2) Use lpq in a terminal window to get the job numbers of your print jobs. (Line Printer Queue) 3) Use lprm followed by the job number to cancel the jobs you don't want. Be root if necessary, but it probably won't be. (Line Printer ReMove) Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." -- Robert A. Heinlein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: saving xterm scrolling data to file
On 01/11/2006 04:14:55 PM, Haines Brown wrote: When I run a command with debug in xterm, a lot of info scrolls past. How can I save this to a file? All I get is how to debug the debug message, not the debuging information itself, which just scrolls quickly by in the terminal: I vaguely recall there is a utility to capture input to the terminal to file. script Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." -- Robert A. Heinlein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Free Memory and Tasks
On 01/11/2006 03:30:07 PM, Marco wrote: Every day my free memory decrease and I don't understand why... BTW, you want your free memory to decrease becase memory is no good unless it's used. If it's not used for anything else the OS uses it for disk buffers. See also vmstat & ps -axv Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." -- Robert A. Heinlein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice: No Such Device
On 01/11/2006 12:54:00 PM, Ed Young wrote: I can't get X to start because apparently because the mouse device can't be found, though the device directory entry seems to be there: Falcon:/etc/X11# ls -la /dev/input/mice crw-rw 1 root root 13, 63 2005-02-25 23:43 /dev/input/mice Random things to try: Check your dmesg output (or /var/log/dmesg) to be sure that the kernel recognises the mouse. Likewise check the logs (/var/log/messages I suppose.) Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." -- Robert A. Heinlein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Can't deactivate volume group" on shutdown
Hi, When I shutdown (or halt) on the console I get the message: Can't deactivate volume group "vg00" with 1 open logical volume(s) Which seems reasonable because my root partition is a logical volume, but I'm new to LVM2 and figure it's better to ask now than suffer wierd data corruption later. Is this message normal? Do I have a problem? Here's more detail: Debian sarge. Fresh install. Linux 2.6 kernel. (2.8.8-2-686) /dev/hda 300GB WD ATA drive. Only disk. /dev/hda1 400MB /boot /dev/hda2 299.6GB Extended partition /dev/hda5 299.6GB Linux LVM /dev/vg00 volume group with all of /dev/hda5 /dev/vg00/swap 400MB swap /dev/vg00/root 5GB / remainder of vg unused All file systems ext3. Drive: WDC WD3000JB-00KFA0 (Gnasty WD drive has all jumpers removed to be lone master.) System: 400MHz Celeron IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01) Thanks. Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." -- Robert A. Heinlein P.S. I posted this to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list but got no reply, there seems to be hardly any traffic at all there, so figured I'd try here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian hangs at 5% on install ??
On 08/10/2005 01:16:57 PM, Ken Walker wrote: The system has 1 CD SCSI cd writer at id:0 ( 50pin cable ) - Terminated 1 Dat drive at id:1 ( 50pin cable ) 1 Dat drive at id:2 ( 50pin cable ) 1 Scsi 9g at ID:3 ( 68pin cable ) - Terminated 1 Scsi 9g at ID4( 68pin cable ) the card is at id:7 Might want to check that your card is not terminated too. Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." -- Robert A. Heinlein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Serial comm program
On 08/10/2005 06:32:56 AM, Daniel D Jones wrote: Sorry, don't mean to be all elite about modularization. This is what I'd do, and do do in similar circumstances. YMMV I'm a Cisco tech for a very large organization. Half the time, I'm connected to a router console via a serial port. The other half, I'm connecting remotely. (Serial connectivity and network connectivity are different balls of wax. Getting serial right is always a pain.) Our routers and switches only accept remote access via one specific server. I SSH into that server, then telnet into the device. When I'm working on a device, being able to scroll back to stuff that's scrolled off the screen is vital. I have my terminal windows all set to 1000 lines of scrollback, YMMV. We're required to log everything we do to the devices, so logging at all times is necessary. Have your .bash_profile always start 'script'. Have script append output. Use logrotate to keep your disk from filling up. There are a number of actions that are highly repetitive. Scripting them makes it much easier and reduces the chances of error. I also need to paste in long configs. I would like to tell you how to use drag and drop to paste file content, but I don't know if it's even possible. Maybe somebody else can help with that. Otherwise, there's select with the left mouse button and paste with the middle button, and there's always "cat". There's a couple of extra mouse clicks to open the text file and select the content before pasting, which is too bad. :-( As far as scripting goes, the 'expect' language rocks. See "chat" also. I generally pipe directly to/from the serial devices in /dev/ with chat but expect is designed to drive other interactive programs, although you can talk directly to serial devices too. If the info is pasted in too fast, the router or switch will drop characters, so I need something with a configurable delay after pasting characters or lines from the clipboard. This I don't understand. Your net connections should be all TCP, and so the data should arrive at the destination. The serial connections need flow control and/or rate limiting. The way to do this is with the proper wiring and configuraton of the serial port, either through minicom config or directly on the port with setserial. (I'd use a minicom config.) If you can't guarentee the other end of the serial line will have flow control then you need to reduce the bps on the serial line to something that won't overflow. (I'm sure you know all this.) If you're talking to a unix box that's got the serial line wired into it, have your script use stty to adjust it's serial line. Most of the time, I upload new IOS files via TFTP. If a router crashes or the flash memory croaks or for whatever reason it will only come up to the rommon> prompt, it may require transfer via xmodem. etc, etc. For xmodem etc., we're back to serial lines, either mincom, which will invoke xmodem for you, or to an expect script that runs xs. (Heck, expect could drive minicom too I suppose.) Evidently, it doesn't exist. Yes, it is certainly possible to accomplish everything I need via multiple programs. However, if I do go to multiple programs, it all has to work together. I have to be able to log the xmodem transfer, and I'd really like to be able to script the whole thing. I'm well aware of the value of small, sharp tools and the Unix way. But I'm also aware of the value of powerful programs that just work. I think you just need to know what pieces are out there. Expect might be the key. They do all fit together. I wasn't slamming minicom or any of the other programs, nor was I intending to "get uppity" about the decade it was written in. Right. There's real value in having everything "in front of your face". Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." -- Robert A. Heinlein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Serial comm program
On 08/10/2005 04:34:38 AM, Carl Fink wrote: On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 05:13:45AM +, Karl O. Pinc wrote: Wow. That's the cliche of how Linux people treat questions, right there. "If you want a program like that, just write one yourself." Well, you did ask _why_ no such program was about. I'm thinking the answer is that people who want something like this have wacked up something customized to their specific need. Can no one answer the actual question? Have you tried looking at freshmeat.net? Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." -- Robert A. Heinlein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Serial comm program
On 08/10/2005 12:13:45 AM, Karl O. Pinc wrote: If you can't recall the commands and _must_ have them in a menu then wack something out with tcl/tk or make a special menu bar/drawer/applets with gnome or whatever. I suspect the right way to do this is to use XUL, javascript, and mozilla. With a little practice it should be easy to make a mini-gui with drop-downs for the command line args, etc. Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." -- Robert A. Heinlein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Serial comm program
On 08/10/2005 12:27:50 AM, Chris Palmer wrote: As Unix-like-system afficionados, we can't afford to get uppity about what decade our software was designed and implemented in. :) Like Gregory, I find minicom entirely sufficient. In fact I very nearly like it. As for the rest of it, why have everything in one big wad? If you want a window with scrollback use an xterm. If you want ssh/scp/sftp/telnet/rsh then use that program. If you want session logging use script. If you want kermit/xmodem/ymodem/zmodem use kermit or sz/rz/sx/rx etc. And you can script it all to automate your tasks, which you can't do with a regular GUI. If you can't recall the commands and _must_ have them in a menu then wack something out with tcl/tk or make a special menu bar/drawer/applets with gnome or whatever. Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." -- Robert A. Heinlein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: disk usage of an umounted partition?
On 08/09/2005 09:11:54 PM, Colin Ingram wrote: I don't know if this is even possible but can I find out the disk usage of a partition with a unknown or damaged filesystem? file -s /dev/fooa will often tell you what sort of filesystem it is and then you can try to mount or repair it. (or "mount -t auto ...") Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." -- Robert A. Heinlein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: daisy-chaining internet connectivity
On 08/09/2005 08:45:08 PM, Terrence Brannon wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) writes: >> > * Ensure that packet forwarding is in place. Use either a firewall >> > package or do this yourself with low level commands. >> > >> > echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward Ok, I did this echo cmd with no prob To keep from having to do this every boot put net.ipv4.ip_forward=1 into /etc/sysctl.conf Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." -- Robert A. Heinlein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Docbook is broken, where do I ask for help? Bug#318817
Hi, I'm running Debian Sarge, having started maybe a year ago when it was still testing. Some months ago docbook broke. I worked around it for a while but eventually filed a bug report: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=318817 When I generate any sort of output from docbook I get the message: I/O error : Attempt to load network entity http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd (And, I can't generate pdf output.) Although I apparently did not file it for the right package the maintainer helped me anyway, reaching the conclusion that a catalog was not right. Here's the md5sum for my catalog, I'd appreciate knowing if it's different from anybody else's catalog. $ md5sum /usr/share/xml/docbook/schema/dtd/4.3/catalog.xml 38f29b4ec05fa3341d37690bd2605120 /usr/share/xml/docbook/schema/dtd/4.3/catalog.xml The bug supposedly got transferred to the right maintainer, but it was closed by the original maintainer when he found the problem was not in his package. I don't want to keep submitting the same bug over and over to different packages until I get lucky. What should I do? Do other Sarge users have problems with docbook/xmlto/xsltproc? I suspect maybe there's just a dependency that's not installed (and not recommended by the installed packages?) I really do need to get docbook working. Thanks for the help. Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." -- Robert A. Heinlein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
