blocking hosts
If I want to block all access to my debian box from a certain IP, is it as simple as placing the IP in /etc/hosts.deny? I am using debian woody... Thanks. -- Matthew Daubenspeck 08:13:06 up 5 days, 17:58, 1 user, load average: 0.02, 0.04, 0.01 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ntpd connection problems
I have ntp-simple installed on one debian woody server syncing time from a few external servers. I have several other debian woody servers trying to use ntpdate to set their local clocks from the server. It doesn't seem to be working. Here is what I have tried: # ntpdate -q 172.17.0.1 server 172.17.0.1, stratum 3, offset 0.109778, delay 0.02586 5 Feb 20:00:30 ntpdate[27109]: adjust time server 172.17.0.1 offset 0.109778 sec Which shows the server is working properly. However, when I try to set the local clock, it fails: # ntpdate 172.17.0.1 5 Feb 20:01:10 ntpdate[27110]: no server suitable for synchronization found Here is the -d debug output: # ntpdate -d 172.17.0.1 5 Feb 20:01:33 ntpdate[27111]: ntpdate 4.1.0 Mon Mar 25 23:39:50 UTC 2002 (2) transmit(172.17.0.1) receive(172.17.0.1) transmit(172.17.0.1) receive(172.17.0.1) transmit(172.17.0.1) receive(172.17.0.1) transmit(172.17.0.1) receive(172.17.0.1) transmit(172.17.0.1) server 172.17.0.1, port 123 stratum 3, precision -17, leap 00, trust 000 refid [192.168.1.1], delay 0.02588, dispersion 0.0 transmitted 4, in filter 4 reference time:c3cd65d1.984fc1df Thu, Feb 5 2004 20:01:05.594 originate timestamp: c3cd65ee.0e089e34 Thu, Feb 5 2004 20:01:34.054 transmit timestamp: c3cd65ed.f1300581 Thu, Feb 5 2004 20:01:33.942 filter delay: 0.02594 0.02589 0.02588 0.02588 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 filter offset: 0.112553 0.112541 0.112532 0.112536 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 delay 0.02588, dispersion 0.0 offset 0.112532 5 Feb 20:01:33 ntpdate[27111]: adjust time server 172.17.0.1 offset 0.112532 sec What do I have screwed up? Thanks for the help. -- :wq! Matthew Daubenspeck http://www.oddprocess.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Replying from Mutt
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 10:30:04AM -0500, Lou Losee wrote: The dist-upgrade of testing appears to have altered mutt so replies are edited with nano instead of vi. I have no aversion to learning another editor although I was comfortable with vi but my first attempt to reply to a message failed. I struggled to find the exit from nano but succeeded in reaching the usual screen with y for send mail however after 24 hours the reply has not appeared in the list. I believe that mutt uses the editor defined to either the VISUAL or EDITOR environment variables. If neither of these are set it then uses the string 'vi'. Perhaps something you installed/upgraded has set one of these env variables. Try issuing 'echo $VISUAL' and 'echo $EDITOR' to see if either of them are set. Or you can set this in ~/.muttrc set editor = vim -c 'set tw=72'' -- :wq! Matthew Daubenspeck http://www.oddprocess.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Anyone using Squirrelmail 1.4.2 on Stable?
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 09:47:36AM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: I see at http://www.squirrelmail.org/download.php the deb: squirrelmail_1.4.2-1_all.deb (1623 d/l) anyone using that with stable? Any dependency issues or other problems to be aware of? I use 1.4.2 on stable, but I don't use the .deb package. It's just as easy to download the php source and install it manually... -- :wq! Matthew Daubenspeck http://www.oddprocess.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bookmarks: Konqueror *AND* Mozilla ???
Methinks you have your own little open source project there as far as i know -- very badly needed. I wrote a PHP/Mysql web app to access links anywhere. It's a very simple concept and easily maintainable. I threw in a little javascript for expandable folders. Search Freshmeat or Sourceforge for something similar. http://bookmark4u.sourceforge.net/ I have been using it for years and it works GREAT. Very speedy even with a lot of bookmarks and folders... -- :wq! Matthew Daubenspeck http://www.oddprocess.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jabberd segfault
I just upgraded my kernel to 2.4.23 (standard from kernel.org) and everything is working great except for jabberd. After the system restart, it will no longer starts and just segfaults. $ /etc/init.d/jabber start Starting jabberd: Failed Is all I get, and if I try to start it manually, I get: $ /usr/sbin/jabberd 20031215T16:18:46: [notice] (-internal): initializing server Segmentation fault There is nothing in the log other then the above line minus the Segmentation fault... Any ideas? -- :wq! Matthew Daubenspeck http://www.oddprocess.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Jabberd segfault
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 10:36:26AM -0700, Jamin W. Collins wrote: Which jabber package version, which architecture, and which version of libc6? Recent libc6 versions have cause segfaults with older jabber packages ( 1.4.3-1). arch - ppc jabber - 1.4.2a-12 (I tried -13 as well with the same result) libc6 - 2.3.2.ds1-10 Bingo! Upgrading jabber to 1.4.3-1 solved the problem. Sorry, I didn't even notice that a new package was in the list.. -- :wq! Matthew Daubenspeck http://www.oddprocess.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Jabberd segfault
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 12:05:40PM -0700, Jamin W. Collins wrote: Yep, this is the _exact_ combination that first reported the problem to me. Upgrading the package or recompiling the source with the new libc6 corrects the problem. Thanks for the quick help! -- :wq! Matthew Daubenspeck http://www.oddprocess.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jabber servers
Is there anyone using jabberd as an internal Jabber server? I have the server up and running fine, but have had no luck with the jabber-muc Conference room package. Whatever I try, it fails to connect. Any ideas? -- :wq! Matthew Daubenspeck http://www.oddprocess.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PDA/GSM Phones
I am looking to replace my Palm PDA and my current cellphone with one of these new fancy GSM phones. I have too many things hanging off my belt. I am starting to feel like Batman... A lot of these new phones have Bluetooth built into them. Here is where my questions begin. 1 - Bluetooth. Any ideas of the Linux support? Does anyone have a specific adapter working? 2 - Is anyone doing the same thing already that can point me in the right direction? 2 - Syncing the data. A lot of these phones have all of the standard PDA based apps built into them [calendar, contact list, todo list, etc]. Has anyone tried syncing this with something via Bluetooth? An example of a phone in question is the Sony Ericson T616: http://www.1800mobiles.com/t616activ.html Any ideas? Thanks. -- :wq! Matthew Daubenspeck http://www.oddprocess.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Printing to JetDirect printer
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 09:26:08AM +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote: I want to continue printing to our JetDirect printer with Debian. I tried to google and apt-cache search came up with so many packages and I didn't know what to install. lprng. I never had any luck with getting cups working with JetDirect. -- :wq! Matthew Daubenspeck http://www.oddprocess.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Multiple IPs on one NIC
On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 07:05:52PM -0600, Francisco Castellon wrote: auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.1.8 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 192.168.1.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255 gateway 192.168.1.1 auto eth0:0 iface eth0:0 inet static address 192.168.1.15 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 192.168.1.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255 gateway 192.168.1.1 Would this work? In order for me to use the 192.168.1.8 and 192.168.1.15 IPs for the one network card? You don't need the eth0:0 gateway item, as that route has already been added to the system from the first interface. Just use ifup eth0:0 and you will be all set! -- :wq! Matthew Daubenspeck http://www.oddprocess.org pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: PHP Fatal error: Unable to start session mm module in Unknown on line 0
On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 10:22:22AM -0700, Maria Garcia Suarez wrote: Hi there! I'm using the Apache and PHP4 packages in Woody and my Apache doesn't want to load. When I load it the system says: /etc/init.d/apache start Starting web server: apache PHP Fatal error: Unable to start session mm module in Unknown on line 0 failed I've browser around and some people propose: echo 33554432 /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax but it doesn't work for me (I even tried with greater numbers). Some others propose to delete /tmp/session_mm.sem but I don't have that file. snipped Check out /etc/php4/apache/php.ini Search for session.save_handler and try setting it to files instead of mm Then restart apache. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Rack servers
I am in the works of trying to plan for a handful of new servers, and have had enough with towers... Does anyone have any suggestions for rack (1 or 2 U) servers that I can install Debian on? TIA. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Big Sister, network monitor.....
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 09:37:34AM +0100, Max Lock wrote: Hi folks, I'm trying to get `big sister' working on Debian stable. I've aliened the RPM's to .deb's and installed OK, but now I'm having problems creating a display_map.cfg that works. All the images referenced are there and have read permissions. display_map.cfg: template/var/lib/bigsister/www/westberksmap.gif red /var/lib/bigsister/www/skins/static_lamps/red.gif yellow /var/lib/bigsister/www/skins/static_lamps/yellow.gif green /var/lib/bigsister/www/skins/static_lamps/green.gif purple /var/lib/bigsister/www/skins/static_lamps/purple.gif at 10,10 HUNGERFORD dump/var/lib/bigsister/www/map.gif Has anyone got big sister working on Debian in this way? are the paths that big sister expects somehow mangled? I used to have big sister working on stable, but I didn't mess with the rpm to deb method. I just installed it fresh and everything worked without a problem... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
dancer-ircd and olines
I am trying to get the O: lines working with dancer-ircd and, well, it doesn't. I have changed /etc/dancer-ircd/olines according to the docs [http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~aps100/dancer/dancer-oper-guide/dancer-oper-guide/x798.html#AEN865] and my client still responds with an incorrect password. I have tried using mkpasswd --hash=md5 'password' as well as just using plain text passwords, and they both have the same results. I checked the bugs and googled until I was blue in the face, all with no results. Any ideas what I can be missing?? Thanks for the help. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Need advise about FTP
On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 09:49:52PM +0300, Haim Ashkenazi wrote: I thought of that but since it could grow to quite a few virtual domains with a few users on each domain, I think it's easier to stay on top of things with some database of users instead of just going through '/etc/passwd' (e.g. vpopmail has passwd file for every virtual domain...). You can create a separate user file with proftpd... AuthUserFile /path/to/file It uses the exact same format as /etc/passwd -- :wq! Matthew Daubenspeck http://www.oddprocess.org pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Netsaint or Nagios?
I am in the process of building a dedicated Netsaint/Nagios box to host a slew of client/server stats. What exactly should I use? I have no problems running unstable if I have to, but what do I need to install? Netsaint or Nagios? TIA. -- :wq! Matthew Daubenspeck http://www.oddprocess.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Log rotation
I currently have a daemon logging each day's worth of activity into a separate daily log with the daemon-month.date.year format. Unfortunately, I cannot change the options of HOW it is logged or what it is named. I really only want to keep a weeks worth of logs, and have tried to use logrotate to handle all the rotation and removal. In short, it doesn't seem to be working. From what I can tell, logrotate is better suited at rotating a single log file, not logs that change the filename daily (such as an apache log). I guess the last resort would be to create some sort of shell script that would run in cron once a day and delete the oldest file in the log directory. Any other ideas that I might be missing? Thanks. -- :wq! Matthew Daubenspeck http://www.oddprocess.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Log rotation
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 12:06:27PM -0500, Mike M wrote: I guess the last resort would be to create some sort of shell script that would run in cron once a day and delete the oldest file in the log directory. Sounds like a good solution if you have log files that always get a unique name, like Mon.20030331.log. I am not sure if logrotate can handle filenames like Mon.*.log. Drat. Yes, the files are created with daemon-MM-DD- with no extension. I guess shell scripts are the only recourse. Thanks for the reply. -- :wq! Matthew Daubenspeck http://www.oddprocess.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Log rotation
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 01:44:24PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: It can. Just be sure to anchor the glob. For example, using /var/log/samba/smb* is really bad because the first rotated file (smb_foo.1) will match as well. The above anchor with *.log prevents ...log.1 from matching. This is where I run into the problem. The files do not have a .log extension. They are in the format of MM.DD. -- :wq! Matthew Daubenspeck http://www.oddprocess.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is my hard drive dying?
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 03:06:43PM -0800, nate wrote:
Andrew Pritchard said:
I've been looking through the logcheck on one of my machines, and I've
seen a lot of these types of messages:
Mar 24 17:14:51 orion kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady
SeekComplete Error }
Mar 24 17:14:51 orion kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 {
UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=3994439, sector=63232
Mar 24 17:14:51 orion kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:01 (hda),
sector 63232
Does this mean my drive is dying? I've not had any problems with the
machine till now.
I have also found that this happens when you are not using the proper
IDE kernel driver...
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Re: Why use COPS?
On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 04:01:18PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: A preliminary attempt to set up CUPS was rather demanding and I'm wondering if there is much point on a single-user system. Most of my printing is quite straightforward (plain text and only occasional images) and it works well with apsfilter or magicfilter, so is there any reason to spend several hours trying to get CUPS to work? Any significant advantage with that system? I could NEVER get CUPS working, but I will admit the setup is a bit strange. I have the local spooler collect jobs and route them to a bunch of HP JetDirect printers. Like I said, with CUPS, this never worked. I gave up, installed lprng and it worked within 5 minutes. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why use COPS?
On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 12:15:03PM -0500, Alan Shutko wrote: What problem did you have? I just added a direct queue to our LJ4000 jetdirect port. Took about 30 seconds, and works fine. (Normally, I go through our NT queue.) I didn't use a specific PPD for it as I normally would since I don't know where it is, offhand. I didn't try going to the LPR port on the jetdirect, that's usually pickier since you have to know the queue, but assuming you've got the CUPS web admin set up, it should be easy. Every time I tried to print anything, it would just spit out blank pages... What did you use as the address for the printer in the CUPS setup? -- :wq! Matthew Daubenspeck http://www.oddprocess.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: entrance exam [was wt?(long and fustrated)]
On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 02:44:26PM -0700, Glenn English wrote: The main reason I'm beating my head against this wall is because Debian *doesn't* do things like replace LILO with GRUB. Things take a while; possibly because there's nobody available to do them, but I'd like to think it's more because the powers that be are more careful about introducing the latest bleeding edge GUI toy (not to imply that GRUB is a toy). So why not just install GRUB yourself? I can't understand how people consider the install that difficult... -- :wq! Matthew Daubenspeck http://www.oddprocess.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Small/Medium scale SAMBA
I am currently researching the possibility of slowly moving an existing Novell network [with all Windows clients except mine :)] to something Linux based. I have about 900 clients that would be slowly migrated if this whole thing is feasible. The version of NetWare we are using now is no longer officially supported from Novell, so it is becoming more and more difficult to successfully make newer hardware work with the old software. Can Samba handle this kind of client load? It would be mainly for basic file/sharing and print spooling... The next question would be the user administration setup. I know in a perfect world, LDAP would probably be best. After some preliminary research, LDAP kind of makes my head spin... But Rome wasn't built in a day either... I started googling some possibilities, but haven't come up with a whole lot to point me in a direction. Is anyone using something similar, that can point me in a few specific directions? Thanks for the help. -- :wq! Matthew Daubenspeck http://www.oddprocess.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mutt 1.5.x packages for Sarge?
On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 09:31:21PM +0100, Sebastian D.B. Krause wrote: On 3468 September 1993, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: Does anyone have or know where to get some 1.5.x mutt packages that will work on woody? http://people.debian.org/~nobse/debian/woody/backported/mutt/ Or in your sources.list: deb http://people.debian.org/~nobse/debian/woody/backported/ ./ Wonderful! Thanks a million! -- :wq! Matthew Daubenspeck http://www.oddprocess.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: howto select webmail ???
Also sprach Michael D. Schleif (Wed 26 Feb 02003 at 08:07:48PM -0600): I am looking for a webmail client. snip [1] mutt is my primary mta, and this is not going to change. [2] often, I am away from my office, in a windoze environment, and exploder is more available than putty ; [3] I primarily use maildir [4] however, so far, I am forced to use mbox for compressed archives ; [5] so, whatever webmail I use must peacefully coexist with mutt! [6] I am researching IMAP servers, and am open to suggestions [7] these criteria are immutable; but, I will consider limits to other functionality What do you think? I use SquirrelMail with courier-imap, as well as mutt alongside it. It works great and have had no problems... mbox might be a different story... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
IRC Server
Can I please have some suggestions on a small, simple, and secure IRC server. I don't need anything major, but would like some basic functionality... Thanks. -- :wq! Matthew Daubenspeck http://www.oddprocess.org pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: ftp
On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 05:43:21PM -0600, Donald Spoon wrote: I believe the ftp client is installed by default... much the same as in Windows. The daemon needed to make the machine a ftp server is not. There are several you can install via apt-get... 1. ftpd 2. proftpd 3. wu-ftpd 4. others?? I like proftpd. Installation is simple, and almost automatic with apt-get. About the only config question you have is about allowing anonymous logins. I don't, and it has worked right from the start for me. If you are worried about security, you might want to look into using SSH. The scp function works very much like ftp, but over a secure ssh link. You can also use SSH's secure FTP server, sftp. It uses roughly the same command structure as the standard ftp clients, but is tunneled through SSH. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: exim vs. mutt: envelope/from/sender ???
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 04:21:47PM -0600, Michael D. Schleif wrote:
As some of you know, I am transitioning from netscrape to mutt mua's.
I am having some mail sending issues.
The host on which the new mail system resides is bragi.private.network.
The default exim and mutt installations passed this name onto the
internet, whereupon intelligent mail servers rejected my mail, because
private.network. is an unusable domain.
I own the domain: helices.org , which is hosted elsewhere. I also have
several other email addresses, all valid and I can receive mail using
any of them. This particular network sits behind attbi.com cablemodem,
and it is not practical to host a valid public domain here.
I want to be able to change between email addresses from within mutt.
How do I do that?
Initially, I'd configured exim for this:
local_domains = localhost:Bragi.private.network
Now, I have this:
local_domains = localhost:private.network
For rewrites, I've tried several things; but, this is current:
*@private.network ${lookup{$1}lsearch{/etc/email-addresses}\
{$value}fail} frFs
*@Bragi.private.network ${lookup{$1}lsearch{/etc/email-addresses}\
{$value}fail} frFs
In ~/.muttrc, I have these weird variables, _none_ of which make it into
received email:
set envelope_from=yes
set from=Michael Zchleif [EMAIL PROTECTED]
set realname=Michael Zchleif [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What do you think?
I already do a similar thing, but I forget about Exim rewriting
everything. I use the following in my .muttrc:
my_hdr Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
my_hdr From: Matthew Daubenspeck [EMAIL PROTECTED]
set use_from
That should take care of it all.
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Re: ssh keys from two behind-the-firewall boxes?
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 06:08:31PM -0600, will trillich wrote: this is probably item #2 of the really-obvious-faq that i'm not yet aware of, so i'll go ahead and ask because i haven't taken the opportunity to look like a goober in, oh, about half a day, now... doing the ssh-keygen thing works like a charm; you copy your private keys to the remote box and then just slap it into your ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file and poof, no more passwords! so now you can run ssh-driven scripts without having to worry about the username/password interruption. Does anyone have a FAQ on how to set this all up? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: setting up mysql-server
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 05:22:51PM -0600, Ray wrote: i seem to be missing part of the setup on this. i can't remotely connect to mysqld and it seems to have the TCP port disabled, but the config files seem to say it should be using the default tcp port. a few lines from /etc/mysql/my.cnf [mysqld] user= mysql pid-file= /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid socket = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock port= 3306 a few lines from /var/log/mysql.log /usr/sbin/mysqld, Version: 3.23.49-log, started with: Tcp port: 0 Unix socket: /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock local connections to the database work just fine. Comment out skip-networking and restart the mysql. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can not get UDMA-100 working...
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 10:29:30PM +0100, mess-mate wrote: | I use a vanilla 2.4.20 kernel, in which I have activated the | Promise PDC202XX support. I have also chosen the Boot off-board PDC202xx is a RAID controller ! So long as I know when working in raid1 every HD must have his own cable. (I've a asus P4T533-r (raid)) my 2 cents. No, they aren't all RAID controllers. The standard Ultra100TX2 that I have is a PDC20268... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Memory usage after upgrade
Thanks to everyone for their help on my hard drive issue (HDA kept showing busy and then reset). I replaced the drive as well as the cable and I seem to be back in business. While I had the server down and the case open, I decided to add more RAM. I upgraded from 512MB to 1280MB. Does anything have do be done to allow the system to use this much RAM? After the reboot, top is showing some strange numbers for memory usage: Mem: 970780K total, 964108K used, 6672K free, 891456K buffers It doesn't look like it's recognizing all of the new RAM.. -- :wq Matthew Daubenspeck http://www.oddprocess.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Memory usage after upgrade
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 02:24:37PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: Looks like it only sees 1GB RAM. What you have to do is recompile the kernel to enable these options: CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G CONFIG_HIGHMEM This is because, by default, the kernel only sees 1GB. I think it has to do with the x86 archetecture. Data above 1GB must be moved down below 1GB for certain IO operations. If you have less than 1GB RAM, that code path need not be taken, so the system is optimised for people who have less than 1GB RAM. The instructions on how to use the kernel-package stuff didn't make much sense to me. How/why is that any easier then compiling directly from source, the standard way? I downloaded the standard 2.4.19 sources from kernel.org, compiled and all is running with the new RAM being recognized. Thanks for the tip. Now that I am running 2.4.19, is there anything specific that I should watch out for? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: bash, but no .bashrc??
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 03:52:53PM -0500, Andy Estes wrote: I am running Debian Woody (3.0r1). The default shell for my user account is bash, and I can verify this by typing 'ps' once I am logged on. However, the contents of my .bashrc do not get executed by default. If I explicitely invoke bash (typing 'bash' at the shell), .bashrc is executed properly, but if I simply log in (locally or remotely), it doesn't happen. Can anyone explain what is going on here? if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then source ~/.bashrc fi Add that to your ~/.bash_profile -- :wq Matthew Daubenspeck http://www.oddprocess.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] custom dyndns.org domain local bind
Kenneth Dombrowski said: I am trying to set up a http://dev.domain.tld VirtualHost as well as a http://www.domain.tld VirtualHost, which was working fine in Apache from the LAN when I was serving the DNS myself, and is reportedly working now from without the LAN snip Do you have the Apache virtual host listening to the machine's local ip? (192.168.0.x) I am also using dyndns.org and a netgear router, and I have no problems whatsoever. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] custom dyndns.org domain local bind
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 02:47:38PM -0500, Kenneth Dombrowski wrote: Yes, the virtual hosts all listen on VirtualHost * I still have some domains set up for the LAN only (they belong to me, but are not registered with dyndns.org yet), these are VirtualHosts with the same apache configuration and they work fine, as shown below.. So what exactly isn't working? I can see the Debian test page at http://www.kuboaa.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Drive errors
I have been running the same woody box for more then 2 years, and I
just got the following message:
hda: timeout waiting for DMA
hda: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
hda: timeout waiting for DMA
hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
hda: DMA disabled
ide0: reset: success
I seem to remember (the archives were no help) that someone had
suggested that this may be a bad drive? Everything seems to be working
now, but if this drive is on it's way out, I would rather replace it
now before it's completely dead...
Thanks for the help.
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Re: Drive errors
On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 12:13:43PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: - what is the length of your ide cables ?? Standard, I would assume 24 - which drive is the Master ?? which ide connector is the Master ? - is the drive set to cable select or fixed Master This is the only drive on the controller, and it is set to Master. - i assume you have the new 80-conductor cables Yes. - power the machine off... wiggle the cables... pull it off and replug it back in And sacrifice uptime?!!? :) - use only the same speed disk on the ide cable - ata66 drives only one cable - ata100 drives only on another cable - ata133 drives only on its cables The only other ide drive is a CDROM, on another cable. - what is the ide chipset on the motherboard or pci ide cards ? It's a Via, I forget the chipset off hand... - what kernel options is enabled for the ide chipsets ? It's a stock compiled kernel from the debian install... - when copying data off this disk.. make a copy to a dfiferent disks other than your normal backups ... no point in copying a failing disk to a used to be good backup until the last backups Already started doing that :) - if you are using the IBM deskstar drives ( made in thailand).. than yes.. go buy a new disk now and join the class action suit Nope, it's a Seagate... -- :wq Matthew Daubenspeck http://www.oddprocess.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Apache dies every Sunday, 6:00am
The Subject about says it all. For the life of me I can't track this
down. For some crazy reason, all apache processes cease to exist just
after (approx) 6:25am. This is the section of the error.logs:
[Sun Jan 5 06:25:28 2003] [notice] SIGUSR1 received. Doing graceful
restart
[Sun Jan 12 06:25:29 2003] [notice] SIGUSR1 received. Doing graceful
restart
And it has been doing this for quite some time. The only thing I can
tie it to is a cron job for logrotate. The apache settings have the
logs rotated on a weekly basis. I have tried to trace down WHY this
would happen, but came up with nothing. Here is the logrotate script:
/var/log/apache/*.log {
weekly
missingok
rotate 20
compress
delaycompress
notifempty
create 640 root
sharedscripts
postrotate
/etc/init.d/apache reload /dev/null
endscript
}
I am using the sarge versions of both apache (1.3.26-1.1) and
logrotate (3.6.5-2). Any suggestions?
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Re: Apache dies every Sunday, 6:00am
On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 06:33:40PM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: Now hold on just a second, there, cowboy... Is apache _dying_ or is it _restarting_? If you go to http://yourbox.com/ at 6:30 on Sunday morning, do you get a response? No. And there are no Apache processes running. I have to manually start apache everytime. If not, then we have to figure out why the restart fails and the log messages after the ones you posted are the place to start looking. It starts a new log, and starts with this: [Sun Jan 5 13:52:10 2003] [warn] pid file /var/run/apache.pid overwritten -- Unclean shutdown of previous Apache run? [Sun Jan 5 13:52:11 2003] [notice] Apache/1.3.26 (Unix) Debian GNU/Linux mod_ssl/2.8.9 OpenSSL/0.9.6g PHP/4.1.2 configured -- resuming normal operations [Sun Jan 5 13:52:11 2003] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/lib/apache/suexec) [Sun Jan 5 13:52:11 2003] [notice] Accept mutex: sysvsem (Default: sysvsem) That was when I first caught apache not running on the 5th of Jan. Telling apache to do a graceful restart is the standard way of getting it to (among other things) close and reopen its log files. A process tracks open files by using a file descriptor, which points at a location on the disk, not at a file name. If logrotate just moved access.log to access.log.0, apache would continue writing to the same _file_ rather than the same _file name_ - the new access.log would remain empty and all new log messages would be written to access.log.0. This would defeat the purpose of rotating the logs, so, after moving the old log file, apache is told to restart so that it will start writing to the new one. After a log is rotated, logrotate suggests restarting any service that belongs to the log. It seems to work fine on 4 other boxes, and this one is the only one that fails. The only difference is that this box runs sarge and the others are woody. I have searched the bug reports for both apache and logrotate, and have not found any results that match. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DNS hosting
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 01:46:17PM -0600, Jack O'Quin wrote: I've been happy with Granite Canyon (http://soa.granitecanyon.com/). Their Public DNS Service offers both primary and secondary DNS free of charge to anyone who asks. They solicit donations to cover maintenance and administration costs. I've got a DSL line with a single static IP address. I run the primary DNS server on my home system and use ns[12].granitecanyon.com for secondaries. Works like a charm. I can edit my zone files directly, and they pick up the changes automatically. The only problem is: they're busy. Initially, it may take a while to register your domain. Figure on waiting several days before their servers know your name. Can you host DNS servers on a Dynamic IP address? If I use 'dig domain.com NS' it responds with domain names for name servers, not IP addresses. So if I am using a dynamic host name (dyndns.org) to point to my server, will requests follow the name or the IP? Reading over what I just wrote, it's pretty ugly, but I can't think of a better way to explain it... -- :wq Matthew Daubenspeck http://www.oddprocess.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CVS Attic question
I am using the woody release of CVS and I have two quick questions regarding setup. Is there a way to disable CVS using the Attic? When files are removed, I wish they would be deleted instead of moved. How can I enable a nightly tar/compress of the entire cvsroot? Thanks in advance. -- :wq Matthew Daubenspeck http://www.oddprocess.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian as a packet shaper
I am looking into the possibility of using a server as a packet shaper with Debian. Is this viable? I have researched other commercial packet shapers, and, for the most part, are way out of the possible budget. Plus, if I can do the same thing with a server and Debian, I would look like a hero when the budget came in way under projects amounts :) I am probably looking at a 1000 client network. Any ideas where I should start to look? -- :wq Matthew Daubenspeck http://www.oddprocess.org msg21650/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: X Win and Mouse
Hal Vaughan said: 2) Does anyone know how X behaves if it is looking for the mouse on the wrong port? Does it not start, start w/out a mouse, keep restarting until it finds the mouse, or what? It will fail to start, and you will see a message about not being able to initialize a mouse... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
USB/Serial converter
I just got a new laptop and after all was said and done, I realized the damned thing didn't have a serial port. Doh! Has anyone had any experience with USB - Serial Port converters and linux? -- :wq Matthew Daubenspeck http://www.oddprocess.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DWL-650 Wireless NIC
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 10:04:55PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: I've recently installed the orinoco gold card and it's working very well. Except it keeps dropping down to 2MB even when 5' away. I don't know how this can be managed from the drivers or what can be 'tweaked'. I am also using an orinoco gold card and orinoco WAP, but I cannot get WEP working. Have you? -- :wq Matthew Daubenspeck http://www.oddprocess.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mutt and multiple identities
I currently have about three different mail accounts forwarded to my debian server, and then exim sorts them into their respective folders. I have mutt setup to read all of the folders, and I am trying to set specific settings for each account. From what I can see, folder-hook is what I am looking for. But it does not seem to be working. Here is the section of my .muttrc: folder-hook . source ~/.muttrc folder-hook =INBOX.NWLSDsource ~/.mutt/nwlsd_muttrc For testing purposes, the NWLSD setup has a different set of headers and a different signature. This seems to work when I switch to the NWLSD folder. However, if I switch back to INBOX (or any other folder), it still seems to use the NWLSD settings. If I don't switch to the NWLSD folder, all the settings are as they should be until I switch. Any ideas what I am doing incorrectly? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dual Monitors
I am currently using fluxbox with a dual video card/monitor setup and it works great. Is there any way to give each of the monitors a different background? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dual Monitors
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 01:00:03PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: Depends, are you using Xinerama or true Dual Head? If you're running Xinerama, I think you're more or less stuck. With Xinerama the two physical displays become one logical display. If you're running true Dual Head, simply set the DISPLAY variable to the second display before running the command to set the background image, such as: DISPLAY=:0.1 bsetbg ~/.blackbox/background-2.jpg Got it. Disabled Xinerama and now it works perfectly... Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] Love you guys
On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 03:19:31PM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote: deFreese, Barry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sorry for the goofy OT post but I really wanted to put Debian on a Compaq Proliant 1600 and not have to put RedHat on it. I couldn't get it to see the array controller and being the newbie moron that I am I had no idea how to get it to work. A quick google pointed out to me that Disk2 has the array module on it and BAM I am now installing it!! You guys ROCK!! Wait until it's installed and running before letting the compliments fly. Especially with a Compaq! :) Amen to that :) I just installed on a Compaq PL 1600, so if you have any questions, let me know. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] Love you guys
On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 03:04:55PM -0800, deFreese, Barry wrote: Matthew, What did you use for the Netelligent Ethernet adapter, or did you install something else? I am using the onboard adapter as well as another... After you partition the drive and begin the base install, it will ask you for any additional kernel modules. Under the Net section, look for something named TLAN or ThunderLAN. That is the chipset that the Netelligent adapter is based on... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] Moving away from KDE to what?
csj said: On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 09:24:20 -0600 Jamin W. Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wouldn't dream of running any Desktop Environment on my K7-650 or my C1VN laptop. Some people dream, others do ;-). I'm running KDE 3.1rc2 on a P2-350 with 128 MB SDRAM. My packages are built from KDE cvs using gcc-3.2 (I don't know if that makes the difference.) True, the load time from GDM to a usable desktop is like booting Windows. But once in, I don't notice too much of a difference in responsiveness, and I'm using the supposedly SVG Crsytal theme (You've got to see it to believe it). I have a test box that is a K7-700 with 1GB of RAM and I run fluxbox. It works great! Cut out all of the non-needed window fluff :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Text files in windows mode
I am trying to create a bunch of text files for use with a streaming MP3 player (Audiotron). However, due to the fact that the developers use Windows CE as their kernel, every danged playlist I make is not understood by the player because it cannot understand my debian created text files. Is there any easy way to do this? Currently, I use something like: ls ./*.mp3 list.m3u Is there a way to change that through the command line? I use vim as an editor, is there a config option/switch I can use there as well? TIA msg12799/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: mutt and Mozilla mail
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 08:59:32PM -0600, Gianfranco Berardi wrote: I like Mozilla mail, but sometimes I am at work and I would like to be able to access my mail through the command line. Well I find Mutt should do its job just fine, but what I also find is Mozilla will seem to get confused with the mailbox in question once I use Mutt on it. If I select a a message, Mozilla mail will display the wrong email. Has anyone else experienced this/found a fix? How exactly are you accessing the mail? Local, POP3, IMAP? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: users still logged in
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 08:01:35PM -0800, nate wrote: After having a mess of connection problems that caused my ssh sessions to drop, I noticed that the 'w' command still thinks there are users logged in that I know are not. check the process table to see if shells for those ttys are still open. e.g. [aphro@portal:~]$ w 20:00:16 up 9 days, 1:31, 2 users, load average: 1.38, 0.69, 0.60 USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT aphropts/3aphro.aphroland. Tue190.00s 0.32s 0.09s w aphropts/4aphro.aphroland. Thu22 21:44m 0.08s 0.05s bash [aphro@portal:~]$ ps auxw | grep 'pts/4' aphro 8978 0.0 0.1 4048 1660 pts/4SNov07 0:00 -bash root 8988 0.0 0.1 4048 1644 pts/4SNov07 0:00 bash aphro 2624 0.0 0.0 1336 468 pts/3S20:00 0:00 grep pts/4 then kill the process ids. I have found when killing dead sessions only kill -9 to the shell seems to work(at least with bash). if there are no processes then your log files may have a bit of curroption in them(I haven't had this happen in years), I am not certain how to deal with it(perhaps rename/remove them?) The strange part is that when 'w' is run, it displays 5 users but there is 1 user listed with username and TTY values -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to set /etc/hosts to force loopback connect
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 04:05:51PM +0800, Patrick Hsieh wrote: Hello list, I'd like to make my debian box to loopback connect when it tries to connect to a specific domain name, say www.foo.com. So I configured /etc/hosts and put 127.0.0.1 www.foo.com in it. When I try to ping www.foo.com, it exactly goes to 127.0.0.1. But when I use telnet www.foo.com 80, it will not connect to 127.0.0.1. Any idea? Are you using apache on port 80? By default, I don't think apache listens on IP 127.0.0.1. You would have to manually add that? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
users still logged in
After having a mess of connection problems that caused my ssh sessions to drop, I noticed that the 'w' command still thinks there are users logged in that I know are not. How can I fix it? msg11870/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: (none):/home/haralambos# Whoops-how do I configure a hostname.....
/etc/hostname On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 04:15:52AM +1300, Haralambos Geortgilakis wrote: Hi all again, whoops Doh! I managed to miss this out in my installation. What is the easiest way to fix this, so I can use Gnome again? *TIA* Greek Geek Santa's elves are just a bunch of subordinate Clauses. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: public lending right
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 08:19:39AM -0600, Mailing List wrote: They could just give it away: i.e. have a machine with a CD burner and let people turn up with blanks and make copies. Failing that, there'd be no problem as long as they offered source code too. I wonder who we'd have to talk to in order to encourage this kind of thing? Why not see about getting this to the local schools?? Many have computer labs. I am sure in the U.S. At least with the over abundance of older PC's that this would be a great way to get people turned on to Debian. I bet there is at least one Debian user a town that could contact someone and get started. We already do this in our K-12 School district. :) We handle the download of the image and the burn. All the student/faculty has to do is supply a CD. We have some restrictions on the whole thing, but mainly as long as we don't break the license of the software. So far, it has been mainly Open-Source projects and ISO downloads... Debian is at the top of the list! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: woody to testing
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 01:19:00PM +1100, Joyce, Matthew wrote: I am running Woody stable, and would like to move to testing, I know there are some documents, but I'm not really clear on what actually happens during the process ? - edit /etc/apt/sources.list and change all instances of 'woody' to 'sarge'. - apt-get update - apt-get -s dist-upgrade [-s does a dry-run] - apt-get dist-upgrade - apt-get upgrade -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Needed: Hardware recommendateons for Wireless Networking
On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 01:29:56PM -0500, Thomas H. George,,, wrote: Thanks to help from the list I now have a one computer network with a dsl connection to the internet. There are two other computers in our house which could benefit from this connection. One suggestion was to run wires through the heating ducts but this does not seem feasable in our case. Before purchasing a DSL Gateway Router I would appreciate benefiting from the experience of other debian users. Check out the products from D-Link. A lot of their wireless access points have a router/NAT actually included access point. http://www.dlink.com/products/DigitalHome/Wireless/index.asp Their stuff is really inexpensive at newegg.com msg10794/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Spamassassin
I recently installed spamassassin on my testing/sarge box and I am fairly happy with the results. However, my main box still runs stable/woody and I am wondering if the stable version of spamassassin works as well as the testing... TIA. msg10461/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Lighter window managers
I *could* see xfce being a viable option, except that when I ran it, it just didn't look, well, all that good. The icons looked like they were drawn by someone that *had to put something there* to identify the buttons, and there was a lot of *reinventing the wheel* with applications that were essentially the same as existing generic X applications. My understanding is that CDE, on which I had been told it was based, has been effectively sidelined in favour of KDE and Gnome. My *(very) personal* opinion is that if you want to run an entire separate reimplementation of basic software with no identifiable enhancements, install OpenWindows, which is very fast and surprisingly capable. Give fluxbox a try. Highly customizable, fast, and cuts out all the non-necessary fluff. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lighter window managers
On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 12:30:32PM -0400, Chip Rose wrote: As much as I like Blackbox, I still miss KDE because of the ability to lock the screen by clicking the padlock button at lower right. I never leave my terminal for a moment without locking it - it's easier than logging completely out - I use the lockout feature constantly, and haven't seen it in lighter window managers. Use xscreensaver, it has a lock feature. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mass installation on XBox (and economics)
2 thoughts: - I'm pretty sure that you *must* buy some games that come bundled with the Xbox. So, the price is .gt. $200. - If we buy lots of Xboxen, it will be that much fuel for MSFT for when they go to GameCos and say, Look at our sales figures. You should make games for Xbox. Thus, stay away from MSFT!! (They do make good optical mice, though...) Heh. Trust me, for $200, you don't get a single bundled game :) For that price, you only get one damned controller! With that said, I have to say that this conversation is getting farther and farther OT.. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: mass installation on XBox
On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 09:46:04AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 17:49, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: [snip] Ugh. I have to tell you, why is everyone so damned worried about why would you want to do it. Why? Because it's possible. That's not a very good reason for a University to spend it's limited amount of public money... If you think this is the first time ANY university has wasted money, I feel sorry for you :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: mass installation on XBox
On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 04:01:48PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 11:28, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 09:46:04AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 17:49, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: [snip] Ugh. I have to tell you, why is everyone so damned worried about why would you want to do it. Why? Because it's possible. That's not a very good reason for a University to spend it's limited amount of public money... If you think this is the first time ANY university has wasted money, I feel sorry for you :) Because they have wasted money in the past, and will do it in the future, I shouldn't be upset that they do it now? I'm not saying it's right, I'm just saying it happens. And this is the kind of project that screams university funded :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: mass installation on XBox
Firstly, you need a mod chip for each Xbox. Secondly, you need to install them into each Xbox. Thirdly, how many Xboxes, mod chips, expensive Myrinet networks, and how much labor would it take to replace *one* dual Athlon 4? Striclty speaking, for some hard problems, where connectivity is very important, even 100 XBoxes working together will not reach the same performance. Luckily, most interesting number-crunching problems fall somewhere in the middle: connetivity is important, but some parallelization is possible. Our lab had to write a specific grant application for a Linux cluster. I just don't think a grant application asking for well over $20,000 to buy Xboxes, mod chips and network hardware has even the slightest chance of being approved. And even *if* one goes through the process of raising the money necessary for this, if Microsoft comes out with the new Xbox version that resists hacking by that time, you may just get stuck with 100 game consoles. As to the legal issues, IANAL and I don't even know under which jurisdiction you live. Consider my ealier statement a friendly suggestion to consult one. Ugh. I have to tell you, why is everyone so damned worried about why would you want to do it. Why? Because it's possible. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Apache Child Segfaults
I have been getting a LOT of these lately: [Sat Sep 28 19:50:25 2002] [notice] child pid 22504 exit signal Segmentation fault (11) [Sat Sep 28 19:50:26 2002] [notice] child pid 15395 exit signal Segmentation fault (11) [Sat Sep 28 20:28:59 2002] [notice] child pid 22621 exit signal Segmentation fault (11) [Sat Sep 28 20:28:59 2002] [notice] child pid 22620 exit signal Segmentation fault (11) [Sat Sep 28 23:12:39 2002] [notice] child pid 22560 exit signal Segmentation fault (11) [Sat Sep 28 23:12:39 2002] [notice] child pid 22531 exit signal Segmentation fault (11) [Sat Sep 28 23:12:41 2002] [notice] child pid 22615 exit signal Segmentation fault (11) [Sat Sep 28 23:12:41 2002] [notice] child pid 22562 exit signal Segmentation fault (11) Any ideas what they mean? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Apache Child Segfaults
what version of apache are you running ? there is a known vuln that can root a box on 64-but unix and windows and causes the child to die oni 32-bit unix.. $ apache -version Server version: Apache/1.3.26 (Unix) Debian GNU/Linux Am I to assume that all updates are applied? mod_ssl, OpenSSL? Yup, all updated and as current as 'sarge' permits :) any related logs? can you cross-reference times to accesses of URLs? Perhaps a script is causing it somehow.. That it is in the error logs. There was a standard 404 error now and then, I thought it may have something to do with it. I fixed the 404, and the problem still persists. I'll end this with a great big Hrm.. :) Me too :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Apache Child Segfaults
On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 02:38:53PM -0500, Justin Ryan wrote: Am I to assume that all updates are applied? mod_ssl, OpenSSL? Yup, all updated and as current as 'sarge' permits :) what versions? since testing doesn't have security updates, it's possible that these are lagging.. any SSL related log entries? $ dpkg -l apache ||/ NameVersion Description +++-===-===-== ii apache 1.3.26-1.1 Versatile, high-performance HTTP server what I meant to ask was, can you cross reference the times with the access_log and find anything interesting? grab 10 or so of them and grep for the time (as well as one minute before/after just in case) to see if anything common is being accessed.. it's possible (though unlikely) that something which apache would not log as a specific error would cause the child to die.. Sorry, yes, I checked this out as well. Nothing out of the ordinary that I could see. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Virtual Host set up problem
On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 10:08:51PM -0400, Brian Auty wrote: Hello, I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction. I've set up a Debian Server running Apache with 2 network cards - one for internal, one for external. The system works perfectly when I set up just one domain. When I go to set up ip-based virtual hosting, I've followed these steps: 1) set up the additional ips in /etc/network/interfaces and restart networking - everything seems OK. 2) set up the virtual servers in /etc/apache/httpd.conf - both websites are set up as virtual that I want to host. The main server isn't visible to the net. 3) change /etc/hosts to contain the ips and hostnames required The result is that the virtual host works for only one site. The only thing I see that could be the problem is that running ifconfig - the virtual ip numbers don't show, but they are in the network interfaces file. Any suggestions? Can you ping those IP numbers? How do you have them setup in /etc/network/interfaces? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Apache and Caps
Is there anyway to tell Apache to ignore Caps? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bogus spaces inserted when pasting to VIM
On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 07:51:25PM +0200, Tim Dijkstra wrote:
Hi,
I have this annoying problem when using VIM. If I select in one instance of VIM
(using the mouse) some text that starts with some spaces, like:
local_folder_delivery:
driver = appendfile
group = mail
mode = 0660
mode_fail_narrower = false
envelope_to_add = true
directory = ${home}/Maildir/.$h_X-gotmail-folder
maildir_format = true
And than paste (clicking the middle button) in another instance, it inserts spaces
at the beginning of the lines, which results in:
local_folder_delivery:
driver = appendfile
group = mail
mode = 0660
mode_fail_narrower = false
envelope_to_add = true
directory = ${home}/Maildir/.$h_X-gotmail-folder
maildir_format = true
:set paste
Then paste.
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Reset root password
I have acquired a hand me down debian potato box that I need to do some serious overhaul work on, but the old admin doesn't remember the root password. Does anyone have a quick and dirty FAQ or doc on how to reset/change the root password? Thanks for the help. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
apt-get upgrade holding back packages
$ apt-get upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages have been kept back apache apache-common bind9-host binutils dhcp-client dnsutils file html2text libc6 libc6-dev libdb2 libdb3 libdns5 libfreetype6 libglib1.2 libisc4 liblwres1 libpng2 libssl0.9.6 libwrap0 logrotate mailx make mawk modutils openssl pppoe tcpd wget whois 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 30 not upgraded. I didn't change a thing and apt-get was working perfectly yesterday. Any idea what I broke? msg02838/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
telnet and old ANSI graphics
Is there a way to get that standard telnet command in a terminal window to support ANSI graphics? I am really embarrassed to mention why :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dual boot win98 w/ 2 hard drives
Windows really wants to be the master, I think; in fact, it wants to be on the primary master. My configuration is that the linux drive is the primary master and the windows drive is the secondary master, but LILO remaps the drives when booting windows to make the windows drive the primary on the fly. Here's the relevant section of my /etc/lilo.conf: [snip] other=/dev/hdc1 label=Windows loader = /boot/chain.b map-drive = 0x80 to = 0x81 map-drive = 0x81 to = 0x80 table = /dev/hdc [snip] Yes, Windows wants to be the 1st drive all of the time. But that doesn't mean you have to give into it :) The easiest way I found (if you do not want Windows on the 1st drive) is to install linux on the primary 1st, then disconnect the drive. Move the 2nd disk to the primary, and install windows on it. Move it back to the 2ndary, put back the linux drive and adjust your bootloader. This way, if you ever bonk your linux drive for any reason, you can still move the Win partition back to primary and let it boot itself. pgplkfviOzlqp.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: new ssh package busted on i386?
On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 01:36:17PM -0400, Ross Vandegrift wrote: Anyone else getting this: willow:~# apt-get -u upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Setting up ssh (3.3p1-0.0woody4) ... adduser: Unknown argument `--no-create-home'. dpkg: error processing ssh (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 255 Errors were encountered while processing: ssh E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) I'm seeing it on woody and potato that have exhibited no other installation problems. The Debian bugs database seems to not contain a report for this. Worked for me on 5 different woody systems... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SSH stuff... (from slashdot)
Is this true? -Forward The privilege separation code in OpenSSH 3.3 does not work with 2.2 Linux kernels. It relies on mmap() semantics that aren't supported before kernel 2.4 (maybe 2.3.x). OpenSSH will configure, compile, and install successfully. It will start up, but it will NOT accept connections. Your clients will get a broken pipe message, your syslog will get an mmap: invalid parameter message. The solutions are: Upgrade to kernel 2.4 or higher. Don't compile in Privilege Separation. You might be able to compile privsep in and disable it, but I couldn't get this to work. Maybe I had a typo in my config file. I dunno. I didn't see this anywhere until I dug into my syslog and then the OpenSSH mailing list. You have been warned. If you do have kernel 2.4, you should read README.privsep in the openssh source distro, since you need to create a special directory and user/group for this (which also bit me in the butt...even if sshd had worked on 2.2, when I restarted it remotely, it didn't come back up because it didn't have that user...yeah, yeah, rtfm. :) ) - End forwarded message - pgpoqxihXPPul.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Stable not same as potato in security archive?
On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 09:53:07AM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote: I noticed the announcement of the patch to SSH (version 3.3) in security-announce. I tried to upgrade to the patched Potato version. This was the pertinent line in my sources.list: deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free ^^ After apt-get update, I could only fetch 3.0. But I noticed that on another system, I was able to get 3.3. It had: deb http://security.debian.org/ potato/updates main contrib non-free ^^ in sources.list. After changing my sources.list to that on the first system, and doing apt-get update, I was able to get ssh 3.3. I thought potato and stable were the same thing right now!? No? Not sure how the structure works actually, but I noticed the same thing with a few new woody installs. They were adding stable to all of the sources.list. I manually changed them to woody and it seems to be working ok... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: exim doesn't deliver to maildirs
snipped
| Well this doesn't hurt at any rate, the old system of having the primary
| deliver go to
|
| file = /var/spool/mail/${localpart}
Do note that you must use the directory = option, not the file =
option in conjunction with maildir_format.
Yes, I'm now using
directory = ${home}/Maildir/
I always use:
directory = /home/$local_part/Maildir
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Re: kernel upgrade to 2.4.18
Sorry to pick up this conversation midstream, but all this talk of kernel upgrades got me wondering, and I decided to try it for myself. I have downloaded the sources and uncompressed them where they should be. I made the link (if I should or not, this is how I have always done it otherwise) and have tried make menuconfig. I keep getting errors about not having ncurses installed. I searced with apt-get and have tried to install anything that even mentions ncurses, but I still get the same error. Any ideas? TIA. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
djbdns ppc?
I have been using djbdns for a while now, but only on the i386 platform. I got my hands on a G4 server and have loaded debian, but cannot seem to find a djbdns-ppc version. Any ideas? pgp2jiW3R02rs.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: djbdns ppc?
On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 08:30:35AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: On 21-Jun-2002 Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: I have been using djbdns for a while now, but only on the i386 platform. I got my hands on a G4 server and have loaded debian, but cannot seem to find a djbdns-ppc version. Any ideas? you really should give maradns a look. Similar goals as djbdns, but none of the djb. What's wrong with the djb? Maybe I am just naive :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: djbdns ppc?
djb is the initials for Dan Bernstein, a well known computer programmer. His work on security related issues is well regarded. The problem with djb's software is the copyright he puts them under. Debian does not have a ppc djbdns because the licenses on Dan's code prevent binary distribution, you have to compile it yourself. Many people find dealing with djb and his software to be troublesome, others love his code. maradns is a small dns server designed for security as well and is released into the public domain so everyone has the right to do as they wish with it. The 1.0.0 release was issued this morning and should arrive in Debian soon. Compiling it is no big deal, but does maradns perform as well as djbdns does? I used to use Bind, which is like shooting yourself in the face with a large cannon. However, djbdns has performed great and been fairly perfect since I have used it... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: More boot from scsi w/ Promise ultra qs
On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 08:39:13PM -0400, Alice M. Pinard wrote: Hmm my bios has a place to choose booting from scsi first instead of ide but even when I choose that there are no boot lineup (A,Cdrom,C; A,C; and such) choices that have 'scsi' in them... most of the directions I've seen where the one giving the directions used the 'boot from scsi' option to enable booting from their promise ultra involved changing to something like a A,Scsi,C or something. I did finally get a chance to note down my bios... an Award Modular Bios v4.51PG ... does that make a difference? For my system to boot my promise card, I have to have Boot other device enabled... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Man page output
Is there an easy way to output man pages without all of the underlined text? I want to redirect man page output to text type files, but all of the files include squares or ^H^H^H all over the place... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: address book in mutt
On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 02:03:46AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: What programs are available to get an address book going for mutt? I'm trying to bust away from pine right now, but one thing that's holding me back is the lack of address book. A walkthrough on how to set this up (or at least decent documentation on the same) would be greatly appreciated. Use an alias file. This is the section of my .muttrc # alias file setup set alias_file=~/.mutt_aliases source ~/.mutt_aliases Then in the .mutt_aliases file, use: alias name [EMAIL PROTECTED] Each on it's own line. When you send a new message, you can use the name from above in the To: line. If you want to scroll through your aliases, hit Tab when mutt asks for To: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Norton Ghost
Has anyone used ghost with debian? I tried doing a disk to disk copy, and when I boot the new disk, all it does it scroll 09 09 09 09 across the screen... What else can I use to move my install from 1 drive to another? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Norton Ghost
Yes, but on dual-boot machines with W2K on the first partition and Debian behind that. I tried doing a disk to disk copy, and when I boot the new disk, all it does it scroll 09 09 09 09 across the screen... I've done disk-image to disk. I suspect that if you'll boot off your Debian CD with something like linux root=/dev/hda1 and then re-run lilo, this might fix the problem. I tried this and it still runs the install on the CD. How can I get around the install? I apologize in advance for the newvie questions :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Norton Ghost
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 11:18:39PM +0200, gerhard wrote: Am Mittwoch, 22. Mai 2002 15:26 schrieb Matthew Daubenspeck: it does it scroll 09 09 09 09 across the screen... Hello, I'm not shure if it will work, but i think (only an idea) it's because of lilo. So try to start your root system with the rescue cdrom or floppy: mount /dev/rootpartition /mnt chroot /mnt lilo exit umount reboot After messing with it for FAR too long, I finally tried exactly this and it worked like a charm. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: exim configuration
On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 06:03:16AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: hmmm... Good point. I wonder then, how I'm supposed to create an MX / A record in dyndns.org. They provide a form for it, and if I do dig @ns1.mydyndns.org -MX tacocat.net it comes up OK as janus.tacocat.net but you say it doesn't. I wonder what the problem is. $ host -t mx tacocat.net This is a problem. You have no A *and* no MX records for your domain. RoadRunner's smtp servers are rejecting any mails whose return address has a domain that can't be contacted. If their server did accept the mail, and then had to bounce it for some reason (eg the recipient is over their quota), they would be stuck with an undeliverable bounce message. Here is my dig response, if it is worth anything... ; DiG 9.2.0 tacocat.net MX ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; -HEADER- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 47701 ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 5, ADDITIONAL: 6 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;tacocat.net. IN MX ;; ANSWER SECTION: tacocat.net.86400 IN MX 10 janus.tacocat.net. ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: tacocat.net.86400 IN NS ns4.mydyndns.org. tacocat.net.86400 IN NS ns5.mydyndns.org. tacocat.net.86400 IN NS ns1.mydyndns.org. tacocat.net.86400 IN NS ns2.mydyndns.org. tacocat.net.86400 IN NS ns3.mydyndns.org. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: janus.tacocat.net. 60 IN A 24.208.241.254 ns4.mydyndns.org. 172795 IN A 212.100.224.176 ns5.mydyndns.org. 172795 IN A 66.37.215.46 ns1.mydyndns.org. 172795 IN A 66.37.215.45 ns2.mydyndns.org. 172795 IN A 216.7.11.132 ns3.mydyndns.org. 172795 IN A 64.71.191.27 ;; Query time: 43 msec ;; SERVER: 192.168.0.4#53(192.168.0.4) ;; WHEN: Tue May 21 08: MX looks fine to me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: serving the web without a web server
Just because you can ping the address, it doens't mean the website is still working. All ping does is affirm that your local box can contact and communicate with the remote box; it has nothing to do with www. On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 11:05:18PM +0100, Keith Robinson wrote: Hi, I have something bizarre happening: I serve some web sites, including http://www.dynamiccompany.co.uk and even though I've stopped apache (apachectl stop), I can still ping the web site: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ping www.dynamiccompany.co.uk PING dynamiccompany.co.uk (213.131.168.136): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 213.131.168.136: icmp_seq=0 ttl=245 time=27.8 ms 64 bytes from 213.131.168.136: icmp_seq=1 ttl=245 time=23.0 ms --- dynamiccompany.co.uk ping statistics --- 2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max = 23.0/25.4/27.8 ms [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ So, I do a traceroute (from a remote box): [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ traceroute www.dynamiccompany.co.uk traceroute to dynamiccompany.co.uk (213.131.168.136), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets 1 172.20.103.254 (172.20.103.254) 9.735 ms 25.230 ms 10.375 ms 2 rdg-cam1-a-fa00.inet.ntl.com (213.105.91.49) 10.078 ms 14.060 ms 12.956 ms 3 bre-t2core-a-pos49.inet.ntl.com (62.253.64.165) 10.900 ms 18.956 ms 50.684 ms 4 bre-bb-a-so-330-0.inet.ntl.com (62.253.185.57) 12.658 ms 13.755 ms 14.886 ms 5 gfd-bb-b-so-700-0.inet.ntl.com (213.105.172.150) 15.009 ms 15.474 ms 25.388 ms 6 linx-ic-2-so-100-0.inet.ntl.com (62.253.185.74) 18.645 ms 55.592 ms 15.737 ms 7 linx4.newnet.co.uk (195.66.225.131) 20.428 ms 16.976 ms 27.521 ms 8 atm1.th.newnet.co.uk (212.87.77.21) 18.044 ms 17.804 ms 20.383 ms 9 atm1.cams.newnet.co.uk (212.87.77.154) 19.826 ms 27.832 ms 19.748 ms 10 my web server Of these, only 172.20.103.254 is unknown whois 172.20.103.254: IANA (IANA-BBLK-RESERVED) Internet Assigned Numbers Authority 4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 330 Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6695 US Netname: IANA-BBLK-RESERVED Netblock: 172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255 Coordinator: Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (IANA-ARIN) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (310) 823-9358 Domain System inverse mapping provided by: BLACKHOLE-1.IANA.ORG 192.0.32.18 BLACKHOLE-2.IANA.ORG 192.0.32.19 These blocks are reserved for special purposes. Please see RFC 1918 for additional information. So, are ntl or newnet (where the box is located) caching (aggressively) or is there a different issue? Can anybody else ping www.dynamiccompany.co.uk (who aren't with ntl) - this could at least remove ntl from the equation. Any thoughts? I'm a bit stumped. All help greatly appreciated. Keith -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hard drive performance, new kernel?
I have tried multiple things to speed up my hard drive access, and the best I can seem to squeeze out of a 7200RPM 40GB HDD is 23 MB/s. That just doesn't sound right... I have another box with another linux distro with an ATA66 5400RPM drive that gets 40 MB/s without even tweaking anything. The only possibility I can thing of is that I never told the debian installer what IDE controller I was using, and it is just loading a generic. Is this possible? Is there any easy way to recompile the kernel, or do I have to download the sources and do it the old fashion way? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hard drive question
I am using an MSI mobo with a VIA VT686B chipset that should allow
ATA100 operation. Here is the hdparm information:
burnt:/home/mellofone# hdparm -i /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
Model=ST340823A, FwRev=3.39, SerialNo=6EF0WCTQ
Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw15uSec Fixed DTR10Mbs RotSpdTol.5% }
RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=0
BuffType=unknown, BuffSize=512kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=off
CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=78165360
IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:240,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5
AdvancedPM=no WriteCache=enabled
Drive Supports : Reserved : ATA-1 ATA-2 ATA-3 ATA-4 ATA-5
Which to me shows that it is using ATA100... However:
burnt:/home/mellofone# hdparm -t /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 34.05 seconds = 1.88 MB/sec
Good god! Can that be right? The drive wasn't under any heavily load,
and I ran the test 3 times What gives?
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Re: hard drive question
Which to me shows that it is using ATA100... However: Don't believe that's quite the case. That is reading what the drive is capable of. Per the hdparm man page: -i Display the identification info that was obtained from the drive at boot time, if available. What does hdparm /dev/hda return (that's how the drive is currently configured). burnt:/home/mellofone# hdparm /dev/hda /dev/hda: multcount= 0 (off) I/O support = 0 (default 16-bit) unmaskirq= 0 (off) using_dma= 0 (off) keepsettings = 0 (off) nowerr = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead= 8 (on) geometry = 4865/255/63, sectors = 78165360, start = 0 HDIO_GET_BUSSTATE failed: Input/output error I'm no expert, but that doesn't look good :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
