Re: Replacement for webmin in Debian? was: Debian Weekly News - January 17th, 2006
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Mike Fedyk wrote: Michael Bellears wrote: I have a few installs that are using webmin. What packages in debian provide similar functionality in a web based interface? I looked at gosa, but it is ldap centric and didn't seem to provide the general purpose web config interface that webmin does. No reason why I can't. It's just that one of the reasons why I like Debian is that most of what I need is already packaged, and another thing I don't have to worry about from the perspective of security updates. but webmin is packaged for debian (package webmin) http://packages.debian.org/stable/admin/webmin --at least for stable that I am using. Yes, but it was just removed from unstable, so it won't be in the next stable. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Replacement for webmin in Debian? was: Debian Weekly News - January 17th, 2006
Removed Packages. 22 packages have been [76]removed from the Debian archive during the past week: 76. http://ftp-master.debian.org/removals.txt * webmin-* -- Web interface for system maintenance, and modules [94]Bug#343897: Request of maintainer, outdated; unmaintained [ please reply to my address also because I am not subscribed to debian-user ] I have a few installs that are using webmin. What packages in debian provide similar functionality in a web based interface? I looked at gosa, but it is ldap centric and didn't seem to provide the general purpose web config interface that webmin does. Thanks, Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Replacement for webmin in Debian? was: Debian Weekly News - January 17th, 2006
Michael Bellears wrote: I have a few installs that are using webmin. What packages in debian provide similar functionality in a web based interface? I looked at gosa, but it is ldap centric and didn't seem to provide the general purpose web config interface that webmin does. Any reason you can't use the source version directly from http://www.webmin.com/? It's trivial to install (Unpack, run setup.sh), then all future updates are done within webmin. No reason why I can't. It's just that one of the reasons why I like Debian is that most of what I need is already packaged, and another thing I don't have to worry about from the perspective of security updates. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VMware
Matias Rollan wrote: Hola ! --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just checked out VMware's site and it did not list Debian as a distro that it supports. Has anyone had any problems with this? The cost is $189.00 for the download. If there is a problem with VMware, is there an alternative? As long as I remember after wmware there was a bunch of people making something similar called "plex86". [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache search 86 |grep -i virtu plex86 - PC virtualization program to run x86 OSes [dummy package] Don't forget that the win4lin that supports winxp is based on qemu apt-get install qemu If you want it for personal use, qemu might be good, but there are many enhancements in win4lin that haven't been sent upstream (but will be eventually). I haven't used it but read up about it on the qemu lists a while back. Mike
Re: Making spamassassin nice?
David Baron wrote: I am running through procmail. I find that this spawns multiple processes and they run at normal priority and bog the system. Do I run with nice in the procmail file or better to set somewhere (where?) in a conf file? Use spamc from procmail, and limit the number of spamd processes with the command line switch in the /etc/defaults/spamassassin Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Making spamassassin nice?
Jon Dowland wrote: On 7/25/05, David Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks. /etc/default/spamassassin has limits on child processes and nicelevel as well. Can anyone report on what sort of resources are needed to run spamassassin adequately? Since the upgrade to sarge, SA has totally killed our virtual machine. We have the lowest-tier bytemark VM (64MB mem). With a prefork limit of four processes and maximum nice, spamd still brings it to its knees. How does dspam compare in resources usage terms? I would say, set the limit to 1 or 2. Last time I checked, spamd used ~15MB ram per process, but I forget how much was shared between the processes. Mike
Re: why do PPP connections die with heavy disk usage?
Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 14:04 -0400, Daniel B. wrote: Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Daniel B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know why Linux can't seem to maintain a diald-dialed serial PPP connection while performing lots of disk I/O, especially on a PIO-mode IDE disk? Because the IDE driver turns off interrupt processing completely when issuing commands to / reading data from the drive. With DMA, you don't really notice, in PIO mode, you do .. If it turns off interrupt processing completely, how would, say, keyboard and timer interrupts get processed? Wouldn't I be seeing keystrokes getting dropped occasionally? It blocks them, ofcourse. The hardware still sets the interrupt bit. Do you mean that interrupt handling is _suspended_ when writing to/reading from the drive (that is, other interrupts aren't ignored entirely; just deferred)? Same difference :) Does the kernel not handle serial port interrupts with higher priority than disk interrupts to make sure that serial data doesn't overrun buffers? Because the IDE driver simply turns all interrupts *off* ... I would think that even if the kernel IDE code had to disable interrupts while performing a PIO-mode transfer, as soon as it re-enabled interrupts (at the end of the IDE operation), pending interrupts would be handled. Does one IDE operation (in PIO mode) take so long that the serial port buffer overflows before the disk operation is done? Indeed. Are you using a 2.4 or 2.6 kernel? In the 2.6 kernel, each interrupt is locked and disabled/enabled individually to avoid problems like this. Or are pending interrupts not all processed before a subsequent IDE operation is started? To change this, see "man hdparm", -u option. Well, given that the manual page says: -u ... Use this feature with caution: some drive/controller combinations do not tolerate the increased I/O latencies possible when this feature is enabled, resulting in massive filesystem corruption. I'm not about to try that, since the reason I'm using PIO mode in the first place is because I get massive file system corruption when I use DMA mode with IDE controllers on my motherboard (Asus A7M266-D; AMD 762(?) chipset). Have you reported this to the kernel IDE maintainers ? Yes, this needs to be reported and fixed or worked around. Where is your kernel from, and how is it configured? Does it try to use dma with your drive automatically, or did you have to force it with hdparm? Post the output from lspci also. Would setting one of hdparm's sector-count options to a small value decrease the length of time interrupts are disabled and reduce the chances of problems with serial communication? I don't know, I try to avoid broken hardware :) Mike. Many times, it is broken drivers. Mike
Re: Mega Problem with SATA / 2.6.8.* und 2.6.12.*
news.gmane.org wrote: Hi NG! I've got a mega problem with SATA and the above mentioned kernels under Debian 3.1. I have installed Debian to a PATA 120GB IBM drive on the onboard controller. As well I have a RAID-5 set (software raid) consisting of 4 samsung sata drives on two pci-controllers with si3112 chipset. Whenever I Get rid of those si3112 based cards, and get a good promise, via or 3raid based card. Also, get a 4 port card. In disaster recovery (replacing a failed drive) you don't want to accidentally replace the wrong drive. And it is easy to do that when the drive order can change just by reordering the module loading. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cahnging debian version
Hendrik Boom wrote: On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 04:30:11PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Quoting Alan Ianson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: security team. Are you sure i cannot go back to stable ? I don't think so, at least not without reinstalling. You can upgrade from Woody (old stable) to sarge (current stable) or from stable to testing or unstable. But there is no easy way to downgrade. Yes, you can downgrade. You use the pinning fuction of apt to set negative pin numbers on packages. http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Debian/downgrade.html It's also completely unsupported and fairly likely to break your system... And given the number of packages he'd have to do it to, not easy. Actually these lines in /etc/apt/preferences would downgrade an unstable system to testing: package: * pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 711 package: * pin: release o=Debian Pin-Priority: 7221 I have done it with a few packages, but never with more than 15 packages or so. That being said, if you are not on a critical system, and are willing to learn how to fix things if they break, it's a great way to get started. ;)
Re: apt-move stable[/-]updates problem
W M Brelsford wrote: I've been using apt-move update to populate a local hierarchy for use by my other machines via nfs: deb file:/n/di/var/debian stable main contrib non-free deb file:/n/di/var/debian stable/updates main contrib non-free Since the sarge release, however, the security updates seem to be creating/using the directory /var/debian/.apt-move/dists/stable-updates (rather than .../stable/updates?). And /var/debian/dists/stable contains both updates/main/binary-i386/Release and updates/updates/main/binary-i386/Release etc. The updated packages, of course, are not found by apt-get on the other machines. Why not just change the line to: deb file:/n/di/var/debian stable-updates main contrib non-free -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
exim4, tls failing message delivery
Hi, I have a Debian sarge exim4 mail server that is having some trouble delivering messages to several clients behind Postini's mail service. I see these errors in my logs: 2004-12-16 18:35:22 1Cf1IT-0007mU-Ry TLS recv error on connection to oomc.com.s8a1.psmtp.com [64.18.7.10]: A TLS packet with u nexpected length was received. After doing some googling I found references to Debian bug #249210, but exim4 is compiled against libgnutls11, not libgnutls10 which the bug is about. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=249210 I'm looking for any known workarounds for this bug to get this working. Here is the relevant information from reportbug: Package: exim4-daemon-light Version: 4.34-8 Severity: normal -- Package-specific info: Exim version 4.34 #1 built 20-Nov-2004 11:30:44 Copyright (c) University of Cambridge 2004 Berkeley DB: Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 3.2.9: (May 26, 2004) Support for: iconv() IPv6 GnuTLS Lookups: lsearch wildlsearch nwildlsearch iplsearch cdb dbm dbmnz dsearch nis nis0 passwd Authenticators: cram_md5 plaintext Routers: accept dnslookup ipliteral manualroute queryprogram redirect Transports: appendfile/maildir/mailstore autoreply lmtp pipe smtp Fixed never_users: 0 Configuration file is /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated # /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf # # Edit this file and /etc/mailname by hand and execute update-exim4.conf # yourself or use 'dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config' dc_eximconfig_configtype='internet' dc_other_hostnames='lists.matchmail.com:quickmail.matchmail.com:matchmail.com' dc_local_interfaces='' dc_readhost='' dc_relay_domains='pinetreepreschool.com:pinetree123.com:pinetreeabc.com' dc_minimaldns='false' dc_smarthost='mail.pacbell.net' CFILEMODE='644' dc_use_split_config='true' dc_hide_mailname='' mailname:matchmail.com -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (7221, 'testing'), (711, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-1-686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C Versions of packages exim4-daemon-light depends on: ii exim4-base 4.34-8 EXperimental Internal Mailer -- a ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libdb3 3.2.9-20 Berkeley v3 Database Libraries [ru ii libgnutls11 1.0.16-9 GNU TLS library - runtime library ii libpcre34.5-1.1 Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi -- no debconf information -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.296 / Virus Database: 265.5.4 - Release Date: 12/15/2004 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: raid
Huston wrote: raiddev /dev/md0 raid-level 5 nr-raid-disks 3 nr-spare-disks 0 persistent-superblock 1 parity-algorithmleft-symmetric chunk-size 32 device /dev/sda3 raid-disk 0 device /dev/sdb1 raid-disk 1 device /dev/sdc1 raid-disk 2 First of all, I suggest you use mdadm, it has a lot of safe guards that are helpful. And second, but the most important, which device is your root partition? You probably overwrote something. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: raid
Huston wrote: sda3 is the partition for the whole drive where my root, and Linux partition reside. I have three: Linux, root, and whole, which encompasses the other two. Could that have been my problem? Should I have just chosen root or native instead of whole. Should I partition the other disk to be exact replicas of the first one? I don't understand. where is / mounted? where is Linux mounted? where is whole mounted? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: raid
Your data is gone. I don't know why you have a partition that overlaps your others, but you have just erased all of your data. Only use empty partitions for raid. Then you create a filesystem on that and then put data in the partition. Sorry, I hope you didn't have anything important on that drive, and that you had backups. Mike Huston wrote: guess my formatting didn't stay Device flagStartEndBlock IdSystem /dev/sda10170001708000 83Linux /dev/sda2 1700017272278528 82Linux Swap /dev/sda3017272 17686528 5Whole disk That is what I get for getting in a hurry.. - Original Message - From: Huston [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mike Fedyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 8:14 PM Subject: Re: raid Here is how it is when I hit p after putting in the disk and entering the partition a hard drive command. They are in columns so you may have to maximize the window. Device flagStartEndBlock Id System /dev/sad0170001708000 83 Linux /dev/sad1700017272278528 82 Linux Swap /dev/sad017272 17686528 5 Whole disk Those are how my partitions are set. You can tell me if they are wrong, but that is how I have them I probably should put my swap at the beginning of the drive. Anything else you can throw at me would be helpful. - Original Message - From: Mike Fedyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Huston [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 7:48 PM Subject: [Norton AntiSpam] Re: raid Huston wrote: sda3 is the partition for the whole drive where my root, and Linux partition reside. I have three: Linux, root, and whole, which encompasses the other two. Could that have been my problem? Should I have just chosen root or native instead of whole. Should I partition the other disk to be exact replicas of the first one? I don't understand. where is / mounted? where is Linux mounted? where is whole mounted? -- 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: raid
Hardware raid only works with entire disks, but Linux MD raid is more flexable. For a three drive raid5 array, create one partition on each drive that is the same size (and doesn't overlap enything else!). It looks like you only have two unused drives -- that's fine. Create a raid5 array sdbX and sdcX and one missing drive (where X is the partition number you just created.) copy over your filesystems, (if you're using an initrd, make sure it will detect your array) and boot off of your md array. Now add your the partition that was in use to your array and you're set. That is a general overview of the steps, I'm sure more details can be found with google, and I strongly suggest you use mdadm, and scrap the raidtools package. Mike Huston wrote: That is the way it was recommended by the software to have a whole disk partition. I am okay with the data. I have it someplace else too. So how should I have my partitions set up? Get rid of the overlapping partitionI am getting that...so I should just have a Linux and swap partition So what partition should I be looking at raiding. the Linux partition? What should I have put in my raidtab where the question marks are? I had a 3 for the whole disk. I am assuming that I should just do the Linux partition.. Should my first device be my hard drive at 0?I have the OS residing on disk 0.Thanks in advance. raiddev /dev/md0 raid-level 5 nr-raid-disks 3 nr-spare-disks 0 persistent-superblock 1 parity-algorithmleft-symmetric chunk-size 32 device /dev/sda?? raid-disk 0 device /dev/sdb1 raid-disk 1 device /dev/sdc1 raid-disk 2 - Original Message - From: Mike Fedyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: linux.debian.user Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 8:40 PM Subject: Re: raid Your data is gone. I don't know why you have a partition that overlaps your others, but you have just erased all of your data. Only use empty partitions for raid. Then you create a filesystem on that and then put data in the partition. Sorry, I hope you didn't have anything important on that drive, and that you had backups. Mike Huston wrote: guess my formatting didn't stay Device flagStartEndBlock Id System /dev/sda1017000 1708000 83 Linux /dev/sda2 1700017272278528 82 Linux Swap /dev/sda3017272 17686528 5 Whole disk That is what I get for getting in a hurry.. - Original Message - From: Huston [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mike Fedyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 8:14 PM Subject: Re: raid Here is how it is when I hit p after putting in the disk and entering the partition a hard drive command. They are in columns so you may have to maximize the window. Device flagStartEnd Block Id System /dev/sad017000 1708000 83 Linux /dev/sad1700017272278528 82 Linux Swap /dev/sad017272 17686528 5 Whole disk Those are how my partitions are set. You can tell me if they are wrong, but that is how I have them I probably should put my swap at the beginning of the drive. Anything else you can throw at me would be helpful. - Original Message - From: Mike Fedyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Huston [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 7:48 PM Subject: [Norton AntiSpam] Re: raid Huston wrote: sda3 is the partition for the whole drive where my root, and Linux partition reside. I have three: Linux, root, and whole, which encompasses the other two. Could that have been my problem? Should I have just chosen root or native instead of whole. Should I partition the other disk to be exact replicas of the first one? I don't understand. where is / mounted? where is Linux mounted? where is whole mounted? -- 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] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MD software raid multiple disk failure recovery help script
Hi all,
I just wrote a script runs a brute force attack against a raid5 array
that has had multiple drives removed from an active array.
Yep, that's what I did, and the last resort was (from everywhere I could
find with google) was to use the old mkraid tool if I had a raidtab. I
have been using mdadm for a while now and was not looking forward to
working with the old tools, and modifying the array manually.
This script will take two arguments, the md device, and then a space
separated list of devices that are within the array.
Then it will create a new array (make sure you have one missing drive so
that it doesn't try syncing the disks) with the old disks. What you're
trying to do is find the original disk order, and if you fail multiple
disks, that ordering info is lost AFAIK.
Here[1] are the combinations that would be tried for a four drive raid
array. That's 24 combinations for 4 drives, 120 for 5 drives and a
whopping 720 for 6 drives. I have four drives, but even running the
commands and keeping track of the combinations on paper 24 times is enough.
I developed against ash since I need to be able to run this under
busybox. It just outputs combinations like[1], and doesn't call any
commands in this version. I just need some review of the code for logic
errors and bashisms (which is what I usually write shell scripts against).
I have attached, and pasted[2] the code.
Thanks,
Mike
[1]
sda3 sdb3 sdc3 sdd3
sda3 sdb3 sdd3 sdc3
sda3 sdc3 sdd3 sdb3
sda3 sdc3 sdb3 sdd3
sda3 sdd3 sdb3 sdc3
sda3 sdd3 sdc3 sdb3
sdb3 sdc3 sdd3 sda3
sdb3 sdc3 sda3 sdd3
sdb3 sdd3 sda3 sdc3
sdb3 sdd3 sdc3 sda3
sdb3 sda3 sdc3 sdd3
sdb3 sda3 sdd3 sdc3
sdc3 sdd3 sda3 sdb3
sdc3 sdd3 sdb3 sda3
sdc3 sda3 sdb3 sdd3
sdc3 sda3 sdd3 sdb3
sdc3 sdb3 sdd3 sda3
sdc3 sdb3 sda3 sdd3
sdd3 sda3 sdb3 sdc3
sdd3 sda3 sdc3 sdb3
sdd3 sdb3 sdc3 sda3
sdd3 sdb3 sda3 sdc3
sdd3 sdc3 sda3 sdb3
sdd3 sdc3 sdb3 sda3
[2]
#!/bin/ash
set -e
#set -x
rotate() {
local last_var=$1
shift
echo $@ $last_var
}
rotate_part() {
local no_rotate=
local r_to_shift=$1
shift
while [ $r_to_shift -gt 0 ]; do
no_rotate=${no_rotate# }$1
shift
r_to_shift=$(( $r_to_shift - 1 ))
done
echo $no_rotate$(rotate $@)
}
do_it() {
local shift_factor=$1
shift
local my_partitions=$@
local d_shift=$(( $num_drives - $shift_factor ))
if [ $shift_factor -lt $(( $num_drives - 1 )) ]; then
while [ 0 -lt $d_shift ]; do
do_it $(( $shift_factor + 1 )) $my_partitions
my_partitions=$(rotate_part $shift_factor $my_partitions)
d_shift=$(( $d_shift - 1 ))
done
else
echo $my_partitions
fi
}
#partitions=missing disc0/part2 disc2/part2 disc3/part2
array_dev=$1
shift
partitions=$@
num_drives=0
for i in $partitions; do
num_drives=$(( $num_drives + 1 ))
done
do_it 0 $partitions
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Re: MD software raid multiple disk failure recovery help script
Mike Fedyk wrote:
Then it will create a new array (make sure you have one missing drive
so that it doesn't try syncing the disks) with the old disks. What
you're trying to do is find the original disk order, and if you fail
multiple disks, that ordering info is lost AFAIK.
Here[1] are the combinations that would be tried for a four drive raid
array. That's 24 combinations for 4 drives, 120 for 5 drives and a
whopping 720 for 6 drives. I have four drives, but even running the
commands and keeping track of the combinations on paper 24 times is
enough.
I have an update that enforces the missing to avoid array
reconstruction (which would destroy the data on an array if
reconstructed improperly).
This version includes code to create the array, and use tune2fs, mount,
and e2fsck for array construction verification. Oh, there is a hard
coded setting of 256K sized chunks, which is very important in recovery.
With all of these combinations, I still haven't found one that passes
the tests. Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks,
Mike
#!/bin/ash
set -e
#set -x
rotate() {
local last_var=$1
shift
echo $@ $last_var
}
cut_one() {
shift
echo $@
}
rotate_part() {
local no_rotate=
local r_to_shift=$1
shift
while [ $r_to_shift -gt 0 ]; do
no_rotate=${no_rotate# }$1
shift
r_to_shift=$(( $r_to_shift - 1 ))
done
echo $no_rotate$(rotate $@)
}
do_it() {
local shift_factor=$1
shift
local my_partitions=$@
local d_shift=$(( $num_drives - $shift_factor ))
if [ $shift_factor -lt $(( $num_drives - 1 )) ]; then
while [ 0 -lt $d_shift ]; do
do_it $(( $shift_factor + 1 )) $my_partitions
my_partitions=$(rotate_part $shift_factor $my_partitions)
d_shift=$(( $d_shift - 1 ))
done
else
echo -n $my_partitions:
mdadm -S $array_dev /dev/null 21
mdadm -C $array_dev -c 256 -l 5 -n $num_drives $my_partitions --force --run
/dev/null 21 \
tune2fs -l $array_dev /dev/null \
echo tune2fs: $my_partitions /tmp/abc.log \
mount -t ext3 $array_dev /mnt/test -o ro \
echo mount: $my_partitions /tmp/abc.log \
umount $array_dev \
e2fsck -fn $array_dev \
echo e2fsck: $partitions /tmp/abc.log \
sleep 10
echo
fi
}
#partitions=missing disc0/part2 disc2/part2 disc3/part2
array_dev=$1
shift
#Add missing drive to keep the MD RAID driver from
#starting a reconstruction thread.
partitions=$@
#Start counting at -1 to account for added missing drive.
num_drives=0
for i in $partitions; do
num_drives=$(( $num_drives + 1 ))
done
[ ! -e /mnt/test ] mkdir /mnt/test
[ -e /tmp/abc.log ] mv --backup=numbered /tmp/abc.log /tmp/abc.log.bak
for i in $partitions; do
do_it 0 missing $(cut_one $partitions)
partitions=$(rotate $partitions)
done
Where to put module config with module-init-tools?
Hi, What file should I edit to set options for a module at boot time? I looked at /etc/modules.conf, and it is generated by update-modules, but that is a deperciated command, so what is the new way of doing things? I created /etc/modutils/options[1], and ran update-modules but the options I set don't seem to be used by the module. [1] echo 'aic7xxx aic7xxx=verbose,pci_parity:1,global_tag_depth:1' /etc/modutils/options -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Where to put module config with module-init-tools?
Prashant Kumar wrote: what to do for kernel 2.6 I have similar problem everytime after reboot I have to issue modeprobe -k psmouse in kerne 2.6 and xfree86 how to get rid of it Why do you have to do that? The problem should be fixed. Have you filed a bug report? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Where to put module config with module-init-tools?
Andreas Janssen wrote: Add options aic7xxx aic7xxx=verbose,pci_parity:1,global_tag_depth:1 to some file in /etc/modprobe.d (2.6) or /etc/modutils (2.4). If you use 2.4, run update-modules or update-modules.moditils. Also make sure that /etc/modprobe.conf does not exist if you use a current version of module-init-tools. OK, thanks. Now, wtf is wrong with this module?! I can modprobe aic7xxx aic7xxx=global_tag_depth:1 And get the specified tag depth and I can: modprobe aic7xxx aic7xxx=verbose And it will be verbose. But I can't: modprobe aic7xxx aic7xxx=global_tag_depth:1,verbose When I do I get aic7xxx: can only take 1 arguments aic7xxx: `global_tag_depth:1' invalid for parameter `aic7xxx' or modprobe aic7xxx aic7xxx=verbose,global_tag_depth:1 and when I do I get aic7xxx: can only take 1 arguments aic7xxx: `verbose' invalid for parameter `aic7xxx' to get both at the same time. WTF? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Strange nss-ldap auth failure
Hi, I just did a dist-upgrade to sarge today. I can login as root (obviously) and su to an account via libnss-ldap, but if I try to su from any normal user to any other (or the same) user who has their account defined in ldap, the authentication fails. Also, I have other debian linux systems that auth against the same ldap server without trouble. I've gone to the trouble of installing libpam-ldap on this system, and that works as well as account names in ls -l listings. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (7221, 'testing'), (711, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.7-1-686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C Versions of packages libnss-ldap depends on: ii debconf 1.4.30.2 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libdb4.24.2.52-17Berkeley v4.2 Database Libraries [ ii libkrb531.3.4-3 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries ii libldap22.1.30-3 OpenLDAP libraries -- debconf information: * libnss-ldap/dblogin: false libnss-ldap/override: true * shared/ldapns/base-dn: dc=matchmail, dc=com * shared/ldapns/ldap-server: ldap * libnss-ldap/confperm: false * shared/ldapns/ldap_version: 3 libnss-ldap/binddn: cn=proxyuser,dc=example,dc=net * libnss-ldap/nsswitch: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to send jobs to a SCSI printer with cups?
Does the scsi backend use SG (SCSI Generic) device files to send the jobs to a printer? I have been unable to find device file names to use for the backend. Also my goal is to be able to send PCL to this printer: Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 05 Lun: 00 Vendor: HP Model: HP5000/C50 Rev: 305 Type: Printer ANSI SCSI revision: 02 It is an Oce PageStream 372 high speed continuous printer. Any ideas or hints welcome. P.S. This is an effort to switch our print spooling from proprietary main frame IPDS over Bus Tag to PCL over SCSI[1] using open source software[1]. Anyone interested in this project, send me a message. [1] Native TCP/IP is not supported on this printer controller without an upgrade to the printer costing several tens of thousands of dollars. [2] Actually there are two steps, the first outlined above with DocuRight generating the PCL, and cups spooling it to the printer. The next step is to use PlanetPress to generate PostScript that GhostScript RIPs to PCL. If anyone knows of a production quality open source layout program that is targeted toward printing variable data and generates PostScript optimized for high (400PPM) print rates, then please let me know. If not, then I'm still looking for OSS PS and EPS manipulation tools. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Load shoots very high with disk activity
Danie Roux wrote: On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 02:09:47PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: Danie Roux wrote: Using XFS, and kernel 2.6.8. In the past two weeks I noticed that my PC load shoots up on anything that needs disk activity. The CPU's are quiet during all this: top - 17:04:09 up 6:07, 3 users, load average: 2.25, 1.88, 1.37 Cpu0 : 10.3% us, 4.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 76.3% id, 8.7% wa, 0.7% hi, 0.0% Cpu1 : 11.3% us, 3.3% sy, 0.0% ni, 70.4% id, 15.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% It gets so bad that the mouse starts jerking! Does anyone have some advice on where to start looking for optimizing? (hdparm -t looks fine) How about disk subsystem info? IDE, SATA, or SCSI? Controller? Memory? Are you reading a bunch of small files or large files? Sorry about that: 512M RAM Single IDE drive: hda: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63, UDMA(100) On my running hdparm: /dev/hda: Timing buffered disk reads: 168 MB in 3.03 seconds = 55.51 MB/sec And a simple aptitude dist-upgrade would make my mouse start jerking. Are you running any binary modules? What is the prioroty of your X server? run vmstat 1 during the jerkiness. Is it swapping? Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Using debian as backup authentication for win2003 AD server?
Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote: Em Tue, 07 Sep 2004 02:50:04 +0200, Mike Fedyk escreveu: Can I setup a linux based system to act as a backup kdc to the win2003 server? Youd better check up the Samba documentation for that. It was scheduled to be included in Sambas capabilities, but perhaps youll have to run a quite recent package from unstable or even an experimental one. No, I'm thinking of using kerberos and ldap instead of samba for this. But you're probably right that the samba people would know best. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to know whether the sarge iso including sata_via
Li Daobing wrote: Hello, I want to install debian-sarge on my computer. the harddisk on my computer is VIA-SATA, my debian sarge install cdrom can't detect my harddisk, I want to download the newest version, but i don't know whether the newest version include sata_via module to detect my harddisk. how to know whether the sarge iso include sata_via? Or may i create a sata_via driver softdisk, how to do that? Any advice, comment, RTFM with pointers is welcome. I booted into linux26 at the sarge iso boot prompt and installed on such a system. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: need iptables port forwarding help!
Tom Vier wrote: On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 05:45:31PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: I suggest you use the shorewall package. It adds enough abstraction to be powerful without getting in your way, and has very good documentation. unforunetly, i can't even get masq to work right with it. 8( also, i can't get any of the rules anyone posted in this thread to work. i appreciate the replies, though. Did you copy the apropriate files to /etc/shorewall? What changes did you make? did shorewall restart give any errors? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Load shoots very high with disk activity
Danie Roux wrote: Using XFS, and kernel 2.6.8. In the past two weeks I noticed that my PC load shoots up on anything that needs disk activity. The CPU's are quiet during all this: top - 17:04:09 up 6:07, 3 users, load average: 2.25, 1.88, 1.37 Cpu0 : 10.3% us, 4.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 76.3% id, 8.7% wa, 0.7% hi, 0.0% Cpu1 : 11.3% us, 3.3% sy, 0.0% ni, 70.4% id, 15.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% It gets so bad that the mouse starts jerking! Does anyone have some advice on where to start looking for optimizing? (hdparm -t looks fine) How about disk subsystem info? IDE, SATA, or SCSI? Controller? Memory? Are you reading a bunch of small files or large files? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: need iptables port forwarding help!
Tom Vier wrote: On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 01:43:36PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: Did you copy the apropriate files to /etc/shorewall? What changes did you make? did shorewall restart give any errors? no errors. here's a tarball of my config. i didn't add the stuff for dnat. thanks for the help. First of all before I even look at the contents of the files, gunzip the masq.gz file in /etc/shorewall. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gnumeric or oocalc
Richard Lyons wrote: On Monday 06 September 2004 21:43, Paul Gear wrote: [...] I have another criteria which you may or may not find relevant: is it cross-platform. This is a critical issue to me, because i need to be able to recommend the tool to the end users i support, and most of them still use Windows or Mac. Therefore, if there is a cross-platform solution that works (i.e. OpenOffice.org), i recommend it. I do the same with browsers and email (Mozilla/Firefox/Thunderbird). But gnumeric can read and write excel format files, so less of a problem... He meant will gnumeric run on windows or mac... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Using debian as backup authentication for win2003 AD server?
Right now, I have one win2003 server running AD, and all of my (debian) linux servers authenticating against an openldap server with libnss-ldap (but not libpam-ldap). After doing a little research, it looks like I can easily install libpam-krb5 point it at the win2003 server, and use that for password verification, but that brings up another issue. Can I setup a linux based system to act as a backup kdc to the win2003 server? Or should I just setup the kdc and ldap servers on linux and have the windows machines authenticate against that? Also, what about krb5 and heimdal? Both are available in debian, but why would I want to use one or the other? Opinions, tips and links welcome. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: need iptables port forwarding help!
Tom Vier wrote: i've tried several times, using multiple different rules i've found from different sites, and i still can't get port forwarding working. does anyone have working rules they could send me? i'm trying to forward packets from my isp to port to an internal ip (i use nat) and port 22. I suggest you use the shorewall package. It adds enough abstraction to be powerful without getting in your way, and has very good documentation. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[OT]Ghostscript Lists?
I've looked at the archives for AFPL and GNU Ghostscript, and it doesn't seem like very many people are there, except for a couple here and there exchanging patches on the AFPL list, and complete spam on the GNU list. I'm looking at using GhostScript to convert PostScript to PCL for an Oce PS372 production printer. It prints 372 images per minute on continuous paper, and since the pages are 2up (two pages next to each other on the same paper to be cut down the middle later) that's 744 pages per minute. While I expect I'll be able to handle the setup myself, it would be nice to have a list of other GhostScript users to work with. Anyone know where all of the ghostscript hackers and users hang out? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Network Filesystem: NFS or Distributed?
Stephen Patterson wrote: On Fri, 02 Jul 2004 01:00:15 +0200, Mike Mestnik wrote: I see the need for a distributed database and all, what I'm not finding is a step by step howto. Something on the lines of type this in. I had installed openafs-fileserver(deb-pkg) on paladen but that didn't seam to help any. Any one with experiance might help by inproving the pkg's debconfig:) Is NFS still the right choice for me? To set that up, I echo $path-to-share client(rw) /etc/exports; and apt-get. NFS will work, though that is centred on having 1 server and multiple clients connected to it. For a more distributed setup, you may find coda useful, though when I checked 2+ years ago it only supported ~15MB shares. No, I don't think so. If you want anything it's OpenAFS for distributed network filesystems. With coda, you have to wait until the entire file is transferred to your system before you can see one byte in userspace and that's a design decision because of their disconnected operation feature. OpenAFS has a larger community around it, but it does take a lot of setup to get it working (I plan to, but haven't set it up myself yet). Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian Installer + MD RAID? was: Debian Installer + LVM
Alexei Chetroi wrote: I've just tried beta-3 of Sarge installer and I have to say that I'm impressed. Great job, folks. I've installed my current system from beta-2 on lvm, beside root partition, but in beta-2 me had to format physical volume from shell, as I didn't find how to do it from installer. When will there be MD support in the debian installer? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
sh scripting framework project?
I have a few scripts I've written, that each have various levels of reporting errors. I'd like to unify the error reporting, and initialization as much as possible. One thing I just thought of was to write a wrapper that creates a different email based on exit code. The thing is, I'd rather work with a project than roll my own. Does anyone know of an OSS project that does something like this? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Graphical resolution changer for Xfree86?
Hi, I was reading some reviews of other distributions, and they had a graphical control panel that allowed you to change your resolution without restarting X11. Does Debian have anything like that? Thanks, Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Clicking on a folder in the left pane of the KDE 3.1 file manager tries to drag folder
Hi, I'm running KDE 3.1 in Sarge, and whenever I click on a folder in the left pane of the KDE file manager, it acts as if I was dragging the folder but I have lifted my finger off of the mouse button. Has anyone else seen this? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Graphical resolution changer for Xfree86?
Haim Ashkenazi wrote: Mike Fedyk wrote: Hi, I was reading some reviews of other distributions, and they had a graphical control panel that allowed you to change your resolution without restarting X11. Does Debian have anything like that? if you're using sid and KDE 3.2 you can use krandrtray. I remember that gnome had one too, but I don't remember the details. OK, I found gvidm[1] (doesn't depend on Gnome), but it only changes the resolution of the screen, but the resolution of the X desktop. Does anyone know if krandrtray will change the desktop resolution also? [1] Package: gvidm Priority: optional Section: x11 Installed-Size: 66 Maintainer: Ola Lundqvist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Architecture: i386 Version: 0.3.1-4 Depends: libc6 (= 2.2.4-4), libglib1.2 (= 1.2.0), libgtk1.2 (= 1.2.10-4), xlibs ( 4.1.0) Filename: pool/main/g/gvidm/gvidm_0.3.1-4_i386.deb Size: 13682 MD5sum: 21e54672a7c2f6b45a89fba2ff1b1dfd Description: Gtk app to quickly and easily change video resolutions in X. Running gvidm will pop up a list of available modes and allows the user to select one if desired. This makes it perfect for running from an application menu or a hotkey, so you don't have to use ram for an applet constantly running. If you are running dual or multi-head displays, it will give you a list of screens so you can select the appropriate one. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Graphical resolution changer for Xfree86?
Paul Johnson wrote: Mike Fedyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was reading some reviews of other distributions, and they had a graphical control panel that allowed you to change your resolution without restarting X11. Does Debian have anything like that? C-M-+ and C-M-- are your friends. Yes, I know about those. Sorry I didn't mention that. That changes the resolution of your screen, but not your working area resolution. Is there anything that does this without restarting X? Thanks, Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tiered bayesian spam filtering
I've been thinking of setting up a two tier bayes system for my users. Have a global (wait! hear me out...) bayes database used by all users, and a user specific bayes database also. When you train the per user bayes database, you're also training the global bayes database. The global database would have 50% or 75% of the scoring or something like that. Has this already been done? Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Remote shutdown windows server from Debian Linux?
Philippe Marzouk wrote: On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 11:06:30PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: Hi, I have a few Linux and Windows servers hooked up to the same UPS. Is there command that will send the signal to a windows server to shutdown and turn off in Debian Linux (ie, already packages)? And if not, is there something like that at all? There is a NUT client called WinNUT which could maybe do what you want. NUT is packaged in Debian; for WinNUT see http://www.networkupstools.org in the 'client projects' section. This looks great. I'll give it a try. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Send Page not working with Mozilla-FireFox Mozilla-ThunderBird
When I select the menu option in FireFox, there is no response. I checked /etc/alternatives, but there wasn't anything there for MUA. What do I need to do to get this working? Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Remote shutdown windows server from Debian Linux?
Hi, I have a few Linux and Windows servers hooked up to the same UPS. Is there command that will send the signal to a windows server to shutdown and turn off in Debian Linux (ie, already packages)? And if not, is there something like that at all? Thanks, Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gigabit Ethernet switch using Linux?
Hi guys, I've been looking at prices for a managed gigabit Ethernet switch, and thought the prices are a bit up there... :-/ All of the features I need could be provided by Linux, but the question is. Can I get hardware that'll give me 12-16 gigabit ports in one computer? Are there multi-port gigabit Ethernet cards? I'm sure I'd need 64bit PCI as well as 64bit PCI cards to handle the bandwidth. Anyone ever looked into this before, and have any pointers? Thanks in advance. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: LILO
Kent West wrote: No. Boot up off your installer CD, go through the installation as far as mounting / and /usr, but DO NOT partition/initialize (skip those steps). Then shell out via Alt-F2. Run chroot /target. Now you can edit /etc/lilo.conf to fix whatever problems it has, then run lilo. exit, Alt-F1 back to the installer, choose Reboot system and remove the installer CD. Hopefully you're now fixed. If not, provide more info (error messages, etc) (and please, don't top post). And what if your root is on raid1? Woody's installer doesn't support that AFAIK, so I typically boot into knoppix and reconstruct my arrays manually (since they don't fscking build in the raid modules to be able to do auto-detection ARGH!) and re-run grub/lilo. More recently, I've had to switch back to lilo since update-grub refuses to work if your / or /boot is on a raid1. :( Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: system performance monitor
Andy Fish wrote: Hi, I am new to debian and I'm looking for some kind of performance monitor that gives an instantaneous readout of typical performance indicators like memory, cpu and network bandwidth. it should be terminal based if at all possible as the machine is hosted and doesn't have X installed. You might want to check out an rrdtool based graphing system. I use lrrd/munin but there are others like cricket and etc. You can view the output in a local web browser. Also, check out ntop and top for console based tools. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Thunderbird empty - anyone else ?
Stewart wrote: Uwe Dippel wrote: After the latest upgrade, Thunderbird opens without problem, but does not show anything. Just the title. No Icon, no menu. It does not complain either. Any idea; anybody else experiencing this ? Yes. It happened when I upgraded TB from 0.5-1 to 0.5-2. The old mozilla solution appears to work: move ~/.mozilla-thunderbird, purge thunderbird, reinstall, move ~/.mozilla-thunderbird back. It's far from the ~debian way~, but maybe something more elegant may yet appear. In the meantime, I'm using balsa and dabbling with thunderbird until it's a little less unstable. in TB 0.5-2 there was a major packaging change, and there was a mixup. TB itself is quite stable at this point, this was just a packaging issue. I'm sure the maintainer will find the problem and make a -3 sometime next week. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Fwd: Re: Anti-aliasing fonts in OpenOffice vncserver]
Mike Fedyk wrote: Mike Fedyk wrote: Tim Waugh wrote: The fontconfig library does client-side text rendering. Thanks. I looked it up and it looks like it's freetype that does the rendering. There's a new package in Debian Unstable and the changelog mentions freetype changes. I'm downloading that now. Boo! That didn't help. :( Changed my color depth from 16bit to 24bit, and now OpenOffice has anti-aliased fonts! With 16bpp, xvncviewer 3.3.7 is very snappy, but vncviewer 3.3.7 on Win2k Pro is not nearly as snappy and uses a lot of CPU on the client. Raising my color depth to 24 also made the viewer faster on windows (over a 100Mbps LAN) surprisingly enough. I'm happy. :-D -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PostScript - samba - PDF - email attachment
Hi, I'm going to setup PDF printing, instead of Adobe Acrobat Pro to generate PDFs for my users. I could write up a shell script, but why duplicate work if it's already done? Anyone know of anything that'll help me with this, or any tips and tricks I should know? Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
xf4vnc packaged for debian?
Hi, I'm setting up a Linux Terminal Server and the lack of anti-aliasing for some applications isn't very appealing to the eye. xf4vnc supports the Render X11 extension, and I'm writing to this list looking for experiences with it, and to see if it happens to be packaged for debian on some external repository... Thanks, Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT?] Re: PostScript - samba - PDF - email attachment
Mark Roach wrote: On Sat, 2004-02-21 at 00:19 -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: I'm going to setup PDF printing, instead of Adobe Acrobat Pro to generate PDFs for my users. I assume this means that your users are on Windows, right? If that is the case, you should check out redmon. That would almost certainly be easier than writing a new cups driver. See http://www.dominux.co.uk/ ghostscript.html for more info. Hmm, interesting. It's good to know it can be done easily in a windows-only shop. But I'm not interested in installing that on all of my workstations. I'm more looking for a solution that uses cups/lprng/lpr to queue to ps2pdf then to a file that will be emailed to the user. If there are scripts already in debian I'd like to use them, or extend them for my needs. Thanks, Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT?] Re: PostScript - samba - PDF - email attachment
Marc Wilson wrote: On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 07:59:58PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: I'm more looking for a solution that uses cups/lprng/lpr to queue to ps2pdf then to a file that will be emailed to the user. How about this, which is more than likely a gross hack, but works for me? OK, this looks workable. I'll send you a cleanup patch once I get it working the way I want. Which debian package do you think would be a good candidate to submit this to (after the cleanup of course) as an example script? Mike * /etc/printcap: * pdf|pdfwriter|PDF_Writer :sd=/var/spool/lpd/pdf :lp=/dev/null :if=/usr/local/bin/pdffilter :mx#0 :sh :rg=printers * /usr/local/bin/pdffilter: * #!/bin/bash # pdffilter - take in postcript, output PDF, mail to submitter # Marc Wilson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) # uncomment the following line to enable entirely too much output... #DEBUG=yes ENSCRIPT=/usr/bin/enscript ENSCRIPTOPTS=-Bh -M letter -p - GS=/usr/bin/gs GSOPTS=-q -dNOPAUSE -dSAFER -sBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -r600 -dPDFSETTINGS=/default MUTT=/usr/bin/mutt LOGGER=/usr/bin/logger FACILITY=lpr.debug TEMPORARY=`mktemp /tmp/pdfwrite_` JOBNO=000`echo $CONTROL | cut --delim=+ -f 2 | cut --delim= -f 1` CONTROLFILE=hfA`echo $JOBNO | sed 's/.*\(...\)$/\1/'` MAILTO=`cat $CONTROLFILE | grep ^P | cut --delim== -f 2` INPUTFILE=`cat $CONTROLFILE | grep ^J | cut --delim== -f 2` OUTPUTFILE=/tmp/`echo $INPUTFILE | rev | cut --delim=/ -f 1 | rev`.pdf if [ ! -x $MUTT ] || [ ! -x $ENSCRIPT ] || [ ! -x $GS ]; then exit 1 ; fi if [ $DEBUG ]; then $LOGGER -p $FACILITY pdf: TEMPORARY = $TEMPORARY $LOGGER -p $FACILITY pdf: JOBNO = $JOBNO $LOGGER -p $FACILITY pdf: CONTROLFILE = $CONTROLFILE $LOGGER -p $FACILITY pdf: MAILTO = $MAILTO $LOGGER -p $FACILITY pdf: INPUTFILE = $INPUTFILE $LOGGER -p $FACILITY pdf: OUTPUTFILE = $OUTPUTFILE fi # save the input stream cat $TEMPORARY # let's make sure of what this job is BEFORE we try to print it, shall we? if (file $TEMPORARY | grep PostScript /dev/null 21); then # ok, it's PS, use ghostscript to print it if [ $DEBUG ]; then $LOGGER -p $FACILITY pdf: Input to PDF filter is PostScript ; fi $GS $GSOPTS -sOutputFile=$OUTPUTFILE $TEMPORARY if [ $DEBUG ]; then $LOGGER -p $FACILITY pdf: Mailing result to $MAILTO ; fi $MUTT $MAILTO -s Your PDF print job '$INPUTFILE' -a $OUTPUTFILE /dev/null rm $TEMPORARY exit 0 elif (file $TEMPORARY | grep text /dev/null 21); then # not PS, file(1) thinks it's text so go with that if [ $DEBUG ]; then $LOGGER -p $FACILITY pdf: Input to PDF filter is ASCII text ; fi $ENSCRIPT $ENSCRIPTOPTS $TEMPORARY | $GS $GSOPTS -sOutputFile=$OUTPUTFILE - if [ $DEBUG ]; then $LOGGER -p $FACILITY pdf: Mailing result to $MAILTO ; fi $MUTT $MAILTO -s Your PDF print job '$INPUTFILE' -a $OUTPUTFILE /dev/null rm $TEMPORARY exit 0 else # it's not PostScript, and it's not text, so fail out if [ $DEBUG ]; then $LOGGER -p $FACILITY pdf: ERROR: Unrecognizable input to PDF filter ; fi exit 1 fi Ugly, huh? But it works. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Stampeeding heard of kdeinit processes
Hi, I have several users running KDE on one of my servers, and whenever I upgrade a package that changes the menu, all of the KDE users re-parse the entire menu list. Has anyone else seen this? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Disabling artsd on multi-user VNC server
Hi, I have several users running KDE desktops through VNC on one of my servers. The only problem, is that every user starts artsd and a message comes up saying it couldn't initialize the sound system. I searched for arts|audio|sound in /etc/kde3 but didn't find anything promising. How do I keep the artsd package installed (I want all KDE packages, (I just don't have sound on the server), and disable the automatic startup of it for each user centrally? Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hard copy books for Debian?
Katipo wrote: Hello Mike, On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 20:52:29 -0800 Mike Fedyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a friend who is looking for a hard copy book to debian Linux. Can anyone point me to some good ones? Thanks A thread has just ended to this effect within the last couple of days. You will find some excellent references in an appropriately named thread in the archive. Regards, You're right, they were two threads in my debian IMAP folder. Should have done a search for book first. Now there is a third. Thanks for the reference. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Anti-aliasing fonts in OpenOffice vncserver
Jan Suchy wrote: I believe you can't get anti-aliased fonts with vncserver because it doesn't support OpenGL. You'll probably get an error message similar to this one: Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :3.0 when you try to start an application which normally has anti-aliased fonts. AFAIK the only vnc server implementation which has the GLX extension is xf4vnc (http://xf4vnc.sourceforge.net). I have no personal experince with it but I'll appreciate yours if you're going to give it a try. Why do I get anti-aliased fonts with vncserver 3.3.7-1 in all of KDE, Mozilla FireBird 0.7, and Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 and not OpenOffice? Could one of these libraries be providing the anti-aliasing instead of depending on GLX/Render in the X server? Package: mozilla-firebird Version: 0.7-7 Depends: fontconfig, psmisc, libatk1.0-0 (= 1.4.1), libc6 (= 2.3.2.ds1-4), libfontconfig1 (= 2.2.1), libfreetype6 ( = 2.1.5-1), libgcc1 (= 1:3.3.2-1), libglib2.0-0 (= 2.2.3), libgtk2.0-0 (= 2.2.1), libidl0, libjpeg62, libpango1.0-0 (= 1.2.1), libpng12-0 (= 1.2.5.0-4), libstdc++5 (= 1:3.3.2-1), libxft2 ( 2.1.1), libxrender1, xlibs ( 4.1.0), zl ib1g (= 1:1.2.1) Package: mozilla-thunderbird Version: 0.5-1 Depends: libatk1.0-0 (= 1.4.1), libc6 (= 2.3.2.ds1-4), libfontconfig1 (= 2.2.1), libfreetype6 (= 2.1.5-1), libgcc1 (= 1:3.3.2-1), libglib2.0-0 (= 2.2.3), libgtk2.0-0 (= 2.2.1), libidl0, libjpeg62, libpango1.0-0 (= 1.2.1), libstdc+ +5 (= 1:3.3.2-1), libxft2 ( 2.1.1), libxrender1, xlibs ( 4.1.0) | libx11-6, xlibs ( 4.1.0) | libxext6, xlibs ( 4.1.0) | libxp6, xlibs ( 4.1.0) | libxt6, zlib1g (= 1:1.2.1) Package: openoffice.org-bin Version: 1.1.0-6 Depends: libart-2.0-2 (= 2.3.8), libaudio2, libc6 (= 2.3.2.ds1-4), libcurl2 (= 7.11.0-1), libdb3++c102 (= 3.2.9-19) , libfontconfig1 (= 2.2.1), libfreetype6 (= 2.1.5-1), libgcc1 (= 1:3.3.2-1), libmyspell3, libstdc++5 (= 1:3.3.2-1), libxaw7 ( 4.1.0), xlibs ( 4.1.0) | libice6, xlibs ( 4.1.0) | libsm6, xlibs ( 4.1.0) | libx11-6, xlibs ( 4.1. 0) | libxext6, xlibs ( 4.1.0) | libxt6, zlib1g (= 1:1.2.1), debconf (= 1.2.0), openoffice.org (= 1.1.0-2) Package: vncserver Version: 3.3.7-1 Depends: libc6 (= 2.3.1-1), libgcc1 (= 1:3.3-0pre9), libstdc++5 (= 1:3.3-0pre9), xlibs ( 4.1.0), zlib1g (= 1:1.1. 4), perl, xbase-clients, xserver-common, vnc-common (= 3.3.6-1) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Anti-aliasing fonts in OpenOffice vncserver
Hi, I'm sorry if this is a FAQ, but maybe I'm doing something a little different. I'm setting up what I call a Linux Desktop Server. It uses a similar idea to Citrix and MS Terminal server, but with VNC instead. Anyway, if I point OpenOffice to an Xfree86 Xserver, I get anti-aliased fonts, but not with the vncserver as the Xserver. They're seperate machines, so I'm hoping there is some package I forgot to install, or some config option that needs to be set so I can have anti-aliased fonts through the VNC server. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hard copy books for Debian?
Hi, I have a friend who is looking for a hard copy book to debian Linux. Can anyone point me to some good ones? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Anti-aliasing fonts in OpenOffice vncserver
Mike Fedyk wrote: Anyway, if I point OpenOffice to an Xfree86 Xserver, I get anti-aliased fonts, but not with the vncserver as the Xserver. They're seperate machines, so I'm hoping there is some package I forgot to install, or some config option that needs to be set so I can have anti-aliased fonts through the VNC server. Forgot to mention package name and version: ii vncserver 3.3.7-1 Virtual network computing server software -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Remote access PC support
On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 06:46:38PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: I've worked with VNC and several other technologies (radmin, WTS, and another which fails to come to mind...). For intermittent support work, they are acceptable. Wouldn't want to work on 'em full time though. I'm working on a Linux Desktop Server for all of the windows machines on my network, and everything except for the smooth scrolling in firefox VNC responds almost like a local X server. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CLI
On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 12:45:20PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: (Now if only I played FPS games with any skill ...) Hey, you're not the one that started chatting with me only to get my hand off of the mouse to get a head shot are you?! ;) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: default destination in exim?
On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 05:49:12PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
On 2004-02-17, Ken Gilmour penned:
Try adding the following to exim.conf
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ${lookup{$1}lsearch*{/etc/email-addresses}
{$value}fail}
In which section would this go?
You will also need to put * into /etc/email-addresses
Um, something here is making me nervous. Would I have to then enumerate
every possible mail user in /etc/email-addresses as well?
Ie, if joe, bob, and dan are actual users on my machine, but do not have
entries in /etc/email-addresses, and I put the rewrite rule you suggest
into my config, will all of their email go to the user defined for * ?
I don't understand why putting
*: username
in my /etc/aliases file doesn't seem to work =/
Search for /etc/aliases in your exim.conf, and s/lsearch/lsearch*/ to put
a literal * after lsearch.
Then put *: destination username at the end of /etc/aliases and your
concerns will be taken into account.
Mike
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Re: Rejecting viruses the Right Way[tm]
On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 04:52:30PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: For the second time: I'm not saying you have to move *all* your services to another provider, address, or pipe. Given current spam filtering realities, you probably *will* have to find someone -- a major ISP, a friend, a small botique mail services provider, foo -- to provide outbound mail services. They'd have to receive smtp traffic on port ! 25. Remember, port 25 is blocked for him... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HOWTO - Speed up IDE HD's
On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 11:32:55PM -0800, Roger Chrisman wrote: fun stuff RAID 1 is one strategy for getting 'faster' read going. Redundant Array of Inexpensive Devices (RAID) comes in various flavors. RAID 1 is a flavor where you take two disks of the same size and have the computer treat them as one disk. The computer mirrors the identical data onto both disks and can read one part of a file from one drive simultaneously as it reads the other part of the file from the other drive. Thus reading the whole file in half (roughly half I think) the time it would take to read the whole file from one drive. Of course rather than paying for two drives, you might want to just pay for one faster drive, more RAM, or some other speed enhancer. If you already have the drives sitting around thought, RAID 1 is something you might like. Linux can do Software Raid. So you do not need to buy special hardware controllers. If you do Software Raid, to achieve the speed advantage you should put the two disks that make up your one logical device on separate cables. md0 stands for 'zeroeth (1st) multiple device,' a notional drive made up of more than one real drives. I did Software RAID 1 with two drives and SuSE 9's Installer for my desktop box (just before converting to the Debian way :-). It was kinda tricky. I actually bought a 2 Channel Controller PCI card so that I could have four total (including the two on my mother board) channels and thus not have more than one drive per cable. I have four drives you see. CD drive, back up IDE hard drive, and two IDE drives as my RAID 1 md0. These fancy tricks might not be worth it though if your system bus is 33MHz. My two PIII servers have 33MHz system bus (PCI host bridge). So I don't think it would be worth the trouble on my servers. Someone who knows more about RAID please tell me if I am mistaken about that. Oh, I think it'll be useful. Remember, PCI at 32bits and 33Mhz can transfer 132MBytes/sec, and your drives won't fill that up. Also, once you start seeking, your disk throughput goes down radically. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mymail worm
On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 10:07:22AM -0700, s. keeling wrote: # Put A TAB Character Between [] Brackets Below. * 1^0 ^[ ]charset=.?Windows-1252.? Can't you use \t or $'\t' there instead of using an actual tab character? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Only 16 groups max with nss-ldap?
Hi, I have a working setup with a ldap server hosting my unix accounts and groups, and both the server and clients are running debian sarge. The problem starts when I have users that are members of more that 16 groups. with th 17th and up group all access is denied to directories marked 770 and owned by that group. Also, these groups are at the end of the list in the output of the id and members commands. Has anyone seen this before? Also, I created a test with 20 groups on one system not using nss-ldap with all users and groups in the /etc/ flat files and it all works as expected (no permission denied messages). Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Default profile settings in mozilla-thunderbird
On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 04:48:49PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: OK, I have this in /etc/mozilla-thunderbird/pref/mailnews.js Do I need to make a /etc/mozilla-thunderbird/pref/prefs.js file? What do I need to do to change the default settings for new profiles mozilla-thunderbird? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Default profile settings in mozilla-thunderbird
On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 07:09:05PM +0100, Alexander Sack wrote: mozilla its next generation standalone-apps (fbird, tbird) do hold all global configuration within their own tree. For debian that would be: /usr/lib/mozilla-thunderbird/default/prefs. the prefs folder is linked to /etc/mozilla-thunderbird/prefs/. You may edit the entries there to change default settings. This will always works. You won't have to force it. These settings should not become silently overwritten when upgrading the next time. To do something that really works for you is a matter of if you know what you are doing where you wanna get after having done so. OK, I have this in /etc/mozilla-thunderbird/pref/mailnews.js pref(ldap_1.number_of_directories, 6); pref(ldap_1.directory1.description, Personal Address Book); pref(ldap_1.directory1.dirType, 2); pref(ldap_1.directory1.isOffline, false); pref(ldap_1.directory2.description, Four11 Directory); pref(ldap_1.directory2.serverName, ldap.four11.com); pref(ldap_1.directory3.description, InfoSpace Directory); pref(ldap_1.directory3.serverName, ldap.infospace.com); pref(ldap_1.directory4.description, WhoWhere Directory); pref(ldap_1.directory4.serverName, ldap.whowhere.com); pref(ldap_1.directory5.description, Bigfoot Directory); pref(ldap_1.directory5.serverName, ldap.bigfoot.com); But none of them show up as selections for a ldap server to verify my addresses. That's not what I'm after, it's just an example. I have a local ldap server that I want all of my users to have automatically in their fbird setups. How come it's not there? Do I need to re-create my profile? ... Just tried that, and all I get for ldap in my prefs.js is: user_pref(ldap_2.prefs_migrated, true); Hey, I could just append the data to each user's prefs.js file, but then what are the files in /etc for then? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: single desktop per user with vncserver through inetd
On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 08:25:44AM +0100, John Smith wrote: how about defining multiple ip-addresses on your 'server', with each having their own hostname and running a user unique vnc server on each? Well, that would eliminate the need to put :NN after the hostname, but not the elegant solution I was looking for, and a large usage of IP addresses... I thought of starting a script in the Xsession file that would lookup what port the user should be using, and then connect to that port after a login with [gkx]dm, but that would add more overhead with the X clients communicating with the Xvnc server, which sent data to xvncviewer in (possibly) the same machine, and then sending it to another Xvnc server that was created from the inetd connection and then finally going out over the network to my client. As you can see not very effecient. Anyway, I'm using the one port per user thing right now and it's working ok... But don't hesitate to let me know if you have any more ideas that might help. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: single desktop per user with vncserver through inetd
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 09:45:22AM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: I really don't see what the OP's problem is... the vncserver package comes with documentation on how to set it up through inetd to provide an xdm chooser on connect via XDMCP. I have it configured so on all the other boxen in the house so that anyone can use any box from anywhere. I have tried that thank you. But there is one thing that it doesn't do that I want. *one persistant desktop per user accessable from seperate hosts*. If you use the inetd trick, you can get several sessions with the same user, and if you want to login from another host you get a different instance of your desktop and apps. The only way I've been able to get this is with one port per user, and tell my users what port is theirs, and load all of the user's desktops on startup of the server (a linux desktop server to win32 clients). If you have more suggestions I'm all ears (or eyes ;). Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Change default browser for Mozilla-Thunderbird
On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 09:54:43AM -0600, Paul Stolp wrote: * Mike Fedyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-01-09 23:47]: Currently they open up with konqueror, how do I change that to mozilla-firebird? I use mutt from unstable, but I had to: # update-alternatives --config x-www-browser That did the trick. Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Default profile settings in mozilla-thunderbird
Hi, I'm using running thunderbird[1] debian testing, and noticed these[2] files in /etc, but they don't seem to affect my configuration. For instance, there are references to ldap servers in [2], but prefs.js in my $home doesn't say anything until ldap until I added it manually. How do I set the defaults in a way that won't be overwritten on new upgrades, and will be followed by new thunderbird profiles created after the changes? Thanks, Mike [1] mozilla-thunderbird: Installed: 0.4-1 [2] /etc/mozilla-thunderbird/pref/security-prefs.js /etc/mozilla-thunderbird/pref/all.js /etc/mozilla-thunderbird/pref/mailnews.js /etc/mozilla-thunderbird/pref/editor.js /etc/mozilla-thunderbird/pref/unix.js /etc/mozilla-thunderbird/pref/xpinstall.js /etc/mozilla-thunderbird/pref/mdn.js /etc/mozilla-thunderbird/pref/smime.js -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Change default browser for Mozilla-Thunderbird
Currently they open up with konqueror, how do I change that to mozilla-firebird? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
single desktop per user with vncserver through inetd
Hi, I like the feature where I can have my users login through one port and then login to their user with [xgk]dm, but last time I tried it I was able to make several instances of desktops, but not login to the same desktop again from another vncviewer (say, from another host). Is there a way to do this with one port and inetd, or will I have to use several ports, and tell my users which port is theirs (and start desktops for 50 users from init.d). Thanks, Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
/proc/meminfo for 2.0, 2.2 2.4.x
Hi everyone. I'm working on a script that parses /proc/meminfo for output to rrd-tool. It's part of lrrd-client, and currently it parses the Mem: and Swap: lines for its information, and if they're not there, it goes through rest of the file to parse the output. I'm thinking of reversing that parsing, or eliminating the Mem: and Swap: line parsing completely (the information is available lower in the file). I'm planning on supporting 2.4 (stock, rmap and aa VM), as well as 2.6 kernels, but I don't run 2.0 or 2.2 kernels anymore. Instead of booting a bunch of old kernels, maybe you guys could post the output of /proc/meminfo to the list. I'm interested in: o 2.0 and any variations (fond memories :) o 2.2 and any variations (haven't booted this in a while) o 2.4 with rik's origional VM (similair to rmap, but don't have any examples) o 2.4 with -aa VM (should be same as stock) o 2.4 with rmap VM (adds some fields for active, and inactive lists) o 2.4 with stock VM (no VM patches!) o 2.4 and any variations (if there's anything else in 2.4 that modifies /proc/meminfo!!!) o 2.6 and any variations Let the posting begin! :) Here's what I get on a 2.4.20-rmap15e kernel: total:used:free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 923860992 835952640 879083520 94367744 427601920 Swap: 493322240 8093696 485228544 MemTotal: 902208 kB MemFree: 85848 kB MemShared: 0 kB Buffers: 92156 kB Cached: 413944 kB SwapCached: 3636 kB Active: 643084 kB ActiveAnon: 243232 kB ActiveCache:399852 kB Inact_dirty: 41488 kB Inact_laundry: 36340 kB Inact_clean: 16300 kB Inact_target: 147440 kB HighTotal: 0 kB HighFree:0 kB LowTotal: 902208 kB LowFree: 85848 kB SwapTotal: 481760 kB SwapFree: 473856 kB Here's another with the 2.4.23 stock VM: total:used:free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 526766080 339722240 1870438400 17928192 160370688 Swap: 6420725760 642072576 MemTotal: 514420 kB MemFree:182660 kB MemShared: 0 kB Buffers: 17508 kB Cached: 156612 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 56060 kB Inactive: 249868 kB HighTotal: 0 kB HighFree:0 kB LowTotal: 514420 kB LowFree:182660 kB SwapTotal: 627024 kB SwapFree: 627024 kB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: migration from RedHat to Debian, general question about Debian (dpkg, kernel, config)
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 10:05:42AM -0800, Valentine Kouznetsov wrote: And about kernel. Thanks for comments that kernel-source is already shipped with all necessary patches. Roberto asked about which mount options I used to mount cd. /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 user,noauto,ro 0 0 Hmm, did you compile in ide-scsi too? If so, then it can be initialized before ide-cd (I always build it as a module, so I don't know if/when that was a problem). Try mounting /dev/sr0 instead. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Anaconda, where's the beef?
On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 05:35:19AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ ...though I see no mention of Anaconda on it. Anyone know? I've read it a few days ago, and it mentioned anaconda in passing saying why we're using debian-installer instead of anaconda (all of the 11 arch, plus the many sub-arches). Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Building XFree 4.3
On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 11:28:01PM +, . . wrote: Hi everyone I'm tring to build Xfree 4.3 on my debian system because I need a patch to the siliconmotion driver that has only been committed in 4.3.99. I'm trying two separate paths, and I'm stuck in either. If you send us a diff, we can include it in the next release. Why do you need this patch? It's a bug affecting support for an external monitor. You can find more info (and the patch itself) at http://bugs.xfree86.org/show_bug.cgi?id=727. It could be very handy if you could backport it ;-) I really doubt that they would be back porting it, rather they'd probably add it to the work they're doing to get 4.3 packaged for sarge (it's currently in experemental -- so be careful before you try it!) Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Spamassassin, keep feeding messages for bayes?
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 05:12:35PM -0800, Daddy Vaughan wrote: Sorry about the lateness of this question, but in furthering spamassassin's training, should one _not_ have SA write a log into the spam being used for training? sa-learn will filter out the spamassassin report, and only look at the origional message contained within, so you don't have to worry about that. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kde in testing ?
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 01:07:10PM -0800, Cam Ellison wrote: * Mike Fedyk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 03:28:30PM -0900, Greg Madden wrote: so KDE 3 went into testing about a week ago and will replace any Since when? I haven't seen kde3 in sarge. It's there, all right, and so is KDE2. Don't try to install KDE3 from You're right, there's a partial transition from kde2 to kde3 in sarge. Neither are usable if you install a new system now. (unless you go to unstable) The testing scripts should keep this partial transition from making it into testing... Was it manually hinted? scratch, because libsensors-1debian1 does not exist and most of the rest of the setup depends on it. There was a bug report cleared a few Luckily I installed kde3 when that package was available... apt-cache policy libsensors-1debian1 libsensors-1debian1: Installed: 2.7.0-6 Candidate: 2.7.0-6 Version Table: *** 2.7.0-6 0 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status weeks ago that should have cleared the matter up, but it looks as though the maintainer has not been able to (has not had time to?) Was the bug closed in the BTS, or by a package upload? debianise libsensors2. The failure to install is classified grave. (In the meantime, my kids are making do with icewm.) Too bad you didn't install when you had the chance (or stick with kde2) until all of kde3 makes it into testing... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Spamassassin, keep feeding messages for bayes?
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 10:19:01PM +0100, Benedict Verheyen wrote: Hi, my Spamassassin's bayes stuff finally kicked it as i now see bayes_00 and similar stuff in the headers. Do i need to keep feeding spam and ham to sa-learn? Yes, especially ham. And the spam that hasn't been taught enough in the bayes system yet. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Another dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 question
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 04:18:11PM +0100, Jimmy Johansson wrote: Hi, I tried to do dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 yesterday expecting it to create a new XF86Config-4 file, but it didn't. I moved the old XF86Config-4 to my /home/username directory and ran dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86. Am I supposed to do something else? I am asking because I want to try some different settings but I don't want to do it by hand... I have a similair question. With xserver-xfree86 it suggests a few hardware detection packages, that should detect the hardware I have. (I tested discover, and read-edid manually, and they did discover the hardware I have). So how do I get xserver-xfree86 to use them? Version: 4.2.1-13 Suggests: discover, mdetect, read-edid, libglide2 ( 2001.01.26) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Another dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 question
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 03:03:01PM +0900, Nick Hastings wrote: * Mike Fedyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] [031113 14:20]: snip With xserver-xfree86 it suggests a few hardware detection packages, that should detect the hardware I have. (I tested discover, and read-edid manually, and they did discover the hardware I have). So how do I get xserver-xfree86 to use them? Version: 4.2.1-13 Suggests: discover, mdetect, read-edid, libglide2 ( 2001.01.26) dpkg-reconfigure -plow xserver-xfree86 -pvalue, --priority=value Specify the minimum priority of question that will be displayed. dpkg-reconfigure normally shows low priority questions no matter what your default priority is. That should be the default, but I'll give it a try anyway later (I'm in the middle of some things in X right now...) Thanks, Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Searching for an editor...
On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 02:29:38PM -0800, Tom wrote: On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 10:46:33PM +0100, Otto Wyss wrote: On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 18:32:47 +0200, Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All in all, the built-in editor of Anjuta is exactly what I'm looking Tom Try Scite, you'll love it. Anjuta's editor is based on it. Sorry for being late but have a look at wxGuide-Editor http://wxguide.sourceforge.net/indexedit.html;. It is also based on the Scintilla edit control as the above ones. Ug. I just tried scite, and looked at the GTK scintilla screenshots. Those fonts/colors are garish and ugly. The screenshots of wxguide-editor running on Win32 looked nice (naturally). Did you think of changing the colors and font sizes (they're already changed, so there's a good chance it's configurable!). Maybe if you made a different color/font/size scheme, you could submit it for inclusion... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kde in testing ?
On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 03:28:30PM -0900, Greg Madden wrote: so KDE 3 went into testing about a week ago and will replace any Since when? I haven't seen kde3 in sarge. http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=meta-kde Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Testing system from stable install
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 03:19:34PM +, Tim Milstead wrote: Thanks for the advice I'll give it ago tonight. It looks like you are assuming I'm not installing the base with a 2.4 kernel e.g. bf2.4. Is it okay to do so (and still upgrade it)? After I cahnge to testing will I have to stay in testing or can I get packages from anywhere e.g. stable or other sites? Once you go to testing, you will most likely want to stay there... That being said, you can install packages from stable (some packages are easier than others), and other sources, but they will have to be integrated with testing. You'll probably end up waiting for some package from unstable to make it in once all of the dependancies are satisfied for all 10 archatectures debian supports. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Stable Debian == obsolete??
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 09:01:49PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: Configure X by hand? Why? The Debian X packages have a very sophisticated configuration system which walks you through the configuration. With a little googling, you'll even find that installing hotplug, mdetect and read-edid before X will enable it to auto-detect most everything for you anyway. Well now isn't that nice, and here I've been using debian since dec 1998, and I didn't know about those packages!!! :( Installed now. Hmm, detect doesn't seem to work fully on 2.6 kernels, but maybe it's because it wasn't run on boot yet. Will file bugs reports as I identify them. :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Stable Debian == obsolete??
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 06:48:14PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: Hmm, detect doesn't seem to work fully on 2.6 kernels, but maybe it's Err, I mean the discover package... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: rms on debian
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 01:19:42AM +1000, Tom Massey wrote: * Kevin Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-08-17 15:06]: RMS: When I recommend a GNU/Linux distribution, I choose based on ethical considerations. Today I would recommend GNU/LinEx, Hmm. I respect Mr Stallman's ethical position, but shouldn't he be a bit more consistent? If he wants to credit GNU as in GNU/Linux, shouldn't he also credit Linux as in GNU/Linux? Has the government of Extramadura written a kernel called LinEx that can be run as the kernel of a GNU system? Quite seriously, recognising the role that GNU has had to play, I think it's equally necessary to recognise the role of Linux. Why should anybody call it GNU/Linux over Linux if RMS endorses GNU/LinEx? God! (oh, wait this is the Debian list, nevermind) LinEx uses the same Linux that Debian does. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux defragmenter?
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 08:49:02PM -0500, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: Like a moron, I requested a read-receipt with the last message I sent. Sorry! However, I did come across a 'defrag' command by doing this: apt-cache show defrag See if that will fix your problems or not. I've never used it, but it supposedly works with ext2, minix, and xiafs. And look at how old minix and xiafs are... that was probably the last time the tool was maintained. And IIRC, it only works on ext2/3 with 1k blocks and only on unmounted filesystems, so you won't be defragmenting your root fs unless you run it from a bootable dist like knoppix. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Poor performance with 1GB of RAM
On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 10:27:35PM +0200, J. Zidar wrote: Thanks to all the people that helped me clear this issue. Is there a way to repartition my swap and root partition the Partition Magic way (no need to format etc.) as it seems that my swap partition is to big (2gigs for 1 1gig o'ram)? Yes, you can. Try parted 1.6. Also consider using a swap file instead, or in addition to a swap partition. That way it is much easier to control how much swap you have available. Also check out the swap device priorities, and you can have the swap partition used before the swap file. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Automated security updates?
On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 08:23:36PM -0400, Johann Koenig wrote: On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 20:10:48 -0400 Kevin McKinley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to use cron to apply updates from security.debian.org? Is there any reason I shouldn't do this? apt-cache show cron-apt How would this work with something like testing or unstable? I doubt it would be a good idea, but I wonder if anyone has tried it anyway. (thinking of all the times I have had to run through the packages and choose one by one which ones I wanted to install or leave just to avoid one causing apt to want to remove a bunch of my packages, this might not be a good idea to do with my mixed testing/unstable system, though a pure testing system might work...) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mixed testing/unstable system, and dist-upgrade
Hi, I have kde, and gnome installed from unstable, and as packages get upgraded, and dependancies change, or new versions are available in unstable, I more often than not, have apt-get trying to remove 50-100 packages instead of getting the needed packages from unstable. If I read the apt_preferences manual correctly, once a package has been installed from unstable, and it hasn't been put into my highest priority entry (testing), then future upgrades should be from unstable for that package. Did I do something wrong, or is this a bug? # apt-get -ut unstable install kdelibs-data Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: kdelibs-bin kdelibs4 libarts1 The following packages will be upgraded kdelibs-bin kdelibs-data kdelibs4 libarts1 4 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 170 not upgraded. Need to get 12.6MB of archives. After unpacking 643kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Compare this to: Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... The following packages will be REMOVED: amor ark artsbuilder atlantik cdbakeoven eyesapplet fifteenapplet flashkard kaboodle kaddressbook kalarm kalzium kamera kandy kaphorism kappfinder karbon karm kasteroids kate katomic kaudiocreator kbackgammon kbattleship kbear kblackbox kbounce kcalc kcharselect kchart kcmlinuz kcoloredit kcontrol kcpuload kcron kdat kde kde-amusements kde-core kdeaddons kdeaddons-kfile-plugins kdeadmin kdeadmin-kfile-plugins kdeartwork kdeartwork-style kdebase kdebase-bin kdebase-kio-plugins kdeedu kdegames kdegraphics kdegraphics-kfile-plugins kdelibs kdelibs-bin kdelibs4 kdemultimedia kdemultimedia-kfile-plugins kdemultimedia-kio-plugins kdenetwork kdenetwork-kfile-plugins kdepasswd kdepim kdepim-kfile-plugins kdepim-libs kdeprint kdesktop kdessh kdetoys kdeutils kdf kdict kdm kdvi kedit keduca kenolaba kfax kfind kfloppy kformula kfouleggs kgeo kget kghostview kgpgcertmanager khangman khelpcenter khexedit kicker kicker-applets kiconedit kile kit kiten kivio kjots kjumpingcube klaptopdaemon klettres klickety klines klipper kmahjongg kmail kmailcvt kmenuedit kmerlin kmessedwords kmid kmidi kmines kmix kmoon kmplot kmrml knapster2 knetfilter knetload knewsticker knode knotes kodo koffice koffice-data koffice-libs kolf konq-plugins konqueror konqueror-nsplugins konquest konsole kontour kooka korganizer korn koshell kpackage kpager kpaint kpat kpercentage kpersonalizer kpf kpilot kpoker kpovmodeler kppp kpresenter krdc krec krecord kreversi krfb krita kruler krusader ksame kscd kscreensaver kshisen ksim ksirc ksirtet ksmiletris ksmserver ksnake ksnapshot ksokoban kspaceduel ksplash kspread kstars ksync ksysguard ksysv ktalkd kteatime ktexmaker2 ktimer ktip ktouch ktron ktuberling ktux kugar kuickshow kuser kverbos kview kviewshell kvoctrain kweather kwin kwin4 kword kworldclock kxconfig kxmlrpc libarts1-mpeglib libkdeedu1 libkdegames1 libkdenetwork2 libkonq4 libkregexpeditor libkscan1 lskat megami mpeglib noatun noatun-plugins qtella-kde quanta secpolicy The following packages will be upgraded kdelibs-data 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 213 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/5060kB of archives. After unpacking 278MB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] here is my apt preferences file: package: * pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 711 package: * pin: release o=Debian Pin-Priority: 722 sources.list: #Stable #deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib #deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free #Testing deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free #Unstable deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free #Security deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free #Proposed Updates deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ stable-proposed-updates main non-free contrib deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ testing-proposed-updates main non-free contrib #Open Office #deb ftp://ftp.vpn-junkies.de/openoffice unstable main contrib #deb http://www.phy.olemiss.edu/openoffice/ testing main contrib #deb http://ftp.freenet.de/pub/ftp.vpn-junkies.de/openoffice/ unstable main contrib #Coda #deb http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/pub/coda/linux debian/binary-$(ARCH)/ #Samba Stable #deb http://people.debian.org/~peloy/samba stable main -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gaim: keyboard shortcut for switching between tabbed IM/Chat tabs?
On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 03:20:22PM -0400, Aaron wrote: On -4665-Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 09:57:44PM -0500, Alex Malinovich [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus, On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 17:35, Mike Fedyk wrote: On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 04:56:31PM -0500, Nathan Poznick wrote: Thus spake Mike Fedyk: Hi, Is there a keyboard shortcut in gaim to switch between IM/Chat tabs when they're in one window with seperate tabs? Alt-N, where N is one of the numeric keys, such as 1, 2, 3, etc... will jump you to tab N Thanks, that did the trick. You can also use Ctrl-PgUp or Ctrl-PgDn to go to the next or previous tab. I'm not sure if this is a true standard but every tabbed application I've ever used has honored it. You can Ctrl-Tab to move sequentially through the tabs, or Ctrl-Shift-Tab to move sequentially backwards. I guess there are about sixteen ways to change tabs in gAIM without a mouse ;-) Ctrl+(shift+)?tab changes desktops in KDE for me... Yes, all of those work for me in gaim, except of course the ctrl+tab. Thanks guys. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Suggestions on choosing an IMAP server
On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 10:05:36AM -0700, Mark Ferlatte wrote: Neal Lippman said on Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 08:28:56PM -0400: The reason that I selected cyrus over courier was that it provided me with the ability to use fetchmail to retrieve my email from all of my pop3 mailboxes and forward the mail via lmtp into the imap store, because cyrus provides an lmtp daemon; this means that I don't have to run a full smtp daemon. I could not figure out whether courier does or does not include the capability to recieve incoming messages via lmtp. AFAIK, courier doesn't support this... (the IMAP server certainly doesn't, and I'm not sure if the Courier local delivery agent supports LMTP either). Cyrus is the only open source solution I'm aware of for large mail stores, but I found that courier-imap-ssl was much easier to setup and maintain for the typical small-medium office setup, especially when combined with ReiserFS. I have an office with about 50 computers, so that seems right. I'll give courier a spin. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
gaim: keyboard shortcut for switching between tabbed IM/Chat tabs?
Hi, Is there a keyboard shortcut in gaim to switch between IM/Chat tabs when they're in one window with seperate tabs? Thanks, Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gaim: keyboard shortcut for switching between tabbed IM/Chat tabs?
On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 04:56:31PM -0500, Nathan Poznick wrote: Thus spake Mike Fedyk: Hi, Is there a keyboard shortcut in gaim to switch between IM/Chat tabs when they're in one window with seperate tabs? Alt-N, where N is one of the numeric keys, such as 1, 2, 3, etc... will jump you to tab N Thanks, that did the trick. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: rsync or wget?
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 09:06:09AM +0200, David Fokkema wrote: On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 03:22:37PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 03:53:31AM +1000, bob parker wrote: On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 00:48, David Fokkema wrote: Hi group, I've just installed apt-proxy. Should I use rsync or wget for fetching packages? I don't really understand the differences. I do understand that rsync can sync to filesystems by only downloading the differences, but apt-proxy knows what it needs to download, right? Only one package, or a list or something like that, not a whole filesystem. And once a transfer is started, what is the difference in speed between rsync and wget? Does rsync do something very smart? So, basically: should I use rsync or ftp or http servers in my apt-proxy.conf? I know nothing about apt-proxy but I do know that wget saturates my rubber band powered dial-up connection and makes browsing very unpleasant while it's going on. rsync does not saturate the link but it gets ~70meg / 8hours whereas ftp/http gets ~100meg in the same time. I would suggest wget then. Because apt-proxy requests the file immediately once it has received a request you want to get the data to the requester (apt-get) ASAP. And if you're worried about your line being saturated, you need to setup QoS. There are some seperate pagkages, but fiaif includes firewalling, and QoS features in one and has taken my average ping time time down from 500ms, to 30-50ms on a 384/1.5 DSL link. Yes, wget it is, :-) I'll look into QoS. I know what it is, of course, but I never thought I would need it. I'm not that concerned with slow browsing, but I have some ssh connections open from time to time. It would be nice to keep them responsive while my other programs saturate my internet connection. I'll take a look at fiaif. It integrates the wondershaper from lartc.org. You should read the documentation for it to tune it to your modem. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: wireless/cat5 bridge
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 05:28:52PM -0500, Todd Pytel wrote: I'm looking to set up a transparent wireless/cat5 in the uncommon direction - i.e. the network and rest of the world are on the wireless side and the LAN is on the cat5 side. At some point, I'll probably go with a hardware solution, but for the moment Debian is what I've got. I don't need firewalling, filtering, routing, or NAT - just a transparent bridge. So what is the Debian proper way to do this? From what I've read online, I need to ultimately do... brctl addbr br0 brctl addif br0 eth0 brctl addif br0 eth1 ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0 ifconfig eth1 0.0.0.0 ifconfig br0 netmask 255.255.240.0 broadcast 10.36.127.255 Is the last line correct (assuming my numbers are right)? That is, I don't assign an IP address to br0 because it's transparent? For the same reason, I shouldn't be doing any routing, correct? Also, do I need entries in interfaces for eth0 or eth1? Or should I just write everything I need into a script, dump that into init.d, and create links appropriately? # /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8) #auto br0 iface br0 inet static address 10.0.0.122 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 10.0.0.0 gateway 10.0.0.1 bridge_ports all -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Suggestions on choosing an IMAP server
Hi D-U :) I'm going to switch from pop3 to imap, and I'd like to know what you guys think is the best debian packaged IMAP server, and why. I'd really like to use MailDir mailboxes. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
