Re: going beyond a ch341 uart-usb convertor

[Mirco Piccin]

Hi,
Have you tried uploading the firmware to the board again?


On Mon, Apr 12, 2021, 05:55 Gene Heskett  wrote:

> Greetings all;
>
> Building a design/builder for a 3d printer, which when a std usb to
> printer cable is connected between the computer and the 3d printer,
> Identifies as a ch341 convertor cable once it is plugged into the
> printer.
>
> conman seems helpless, as does cutecom.
>
> cura has a monitor that can drive an ender 3 over this same cable but
> I've not been able to establish a connection to cura, for whatever
> reason.
>
> Perhaps conman or cutecom is not the correct way to do it. IDK, and the
> docs for this printer are as non-existant as the chinese company that
> made it. Its labeled as a NEWEREAL M-18-S, and is nearly twice as big as
> an ender 3. Work envelope is 310x310x400mm, and is the same bed-slinger
> style as an ender 3.
>
> What would the next thing to try and discover why its not working?
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
> --
> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
>  soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
> -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
> If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
>  - Louis D. Brandeis
> Genes Web page 
>
>

Re: OT: SQL database - some questions

[Mirco Piccin]

Hi Hans,

> Maybe I should precise my question: How can I restore my data from this sql
> database on my desktop? Is there a tool to extract my blogs?
>
> I do not want to build a webserver with php and wordpress and so on, just
> extract my blogs.  Phpmyadmin needs a webserver to run. This is not, what I
> wanted, of course.

you need apache + php only if you are using phpMyAdmin.

If you use Tora (or mySqlBrowser, or squirrel-sql, ..) you can browse
your database from your desktop.
But you must have a database server in which restore the database (and
the data)!

After restoring, i think you can copy every blog entry into an html files.
Then you can open them directly in your web browser.
Other way: you can try to migrate them to other desktop tools (like
Tagspaces) in which data are stored in html format.
Of course you can write a little bash/java/python script to do the job.

M

Re: OT: SQL database - some questions

[Mirco Piccin]

Hi Hans,

> I had had a webserver hosted by a provider, which is switched off since a
> year. From this server I got a backup of a sql database. The system that ran
> that time, was wordpress, and the database is called something like
> "bla_bla_wp2016018_911.sql.gz"

i suppose the backup has all the blog data, so yes, you should be able
to resume from it your blogs (if you haven't deleted them).
The backup of a database usually comes with all the data (of course)
and with all the sql commands useful to recreate the tables. You only
need to create a database for first.
Here more info:
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql-backup-excerpt/5.7/en/reloading-sql-format-dumps.html

After restore, you can browse the tables  to find your blogs using
Tora, phpMyAdmin, or any other tools.
All the data will be of course with html tags.

Good luck
M

Re: Photovoltaic inverter monitoring or logging software

[Mirco Piccin]

Hi,
Consider also to use an Arduino connected to your inverter using TA sensors.

Then you can use Emoncms, that is a cms (lamp) focused on log, elaborate
and show power consumption/production data.
It's opensource and you can use the free cloud version (emoncms.org) or
download it and install in your own server.

They design also hw stuff (arduino related). The main project is :
www.openenergymonitor.org

Regards
M
 Il giorno 26/feb/2014 10:20, Bret Busby b...@busby.net ha scritto:

 On Fri, 31 Jan 2014, Scott Ferguson wrote:


 On 31/01/14 13:38, Bret Busby wrote:


 Hello.

 I am wondering whether anyone on this list, has any knowledge or
 experience of software that runs on Linux, preferably Debian Linux, for
 monitoring/logging electricity output from a photovoltaic inverter.

 In searching in the Debian packages facility, the only package that I
 found, was solarpowerlog (0.23a-2), for Debian Linux v7, and the package
 is apparently for only Solarmax inverters.

 I am seeking software that will interface with Rewatt inverters, which
 apparently have an RS232 interface socket. The inverters come with a
 software disk, the supplied software apparently being for only MS
 Windows.


 I'm not familiar with that inverter, but you should be able to get
 general logging data from the port. If you're *very* lucky it'll have
 telnet console.

 Point Wireshark at the interface:-
 # apt-get install wireshark wireshark-doc


 Does that work with (does it scan for), or is any other application
 available that scans for, wireless signals?

 I have wireless carrier frequency 433M (assumed to be 433MHz)

 Two transmitters, so I am wondering whether a utility/application exists,
 to scan for the two separate signals and retrieve the data from the
 signals, so that the data can be processed.

 --
 Bret Busby
 Armadale
 West Australia
 ..

 So once you do know what the question actually is,
  you'll know what the answer means.
 - Deep Thought,
   Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
   The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
   A Trilogy In Four Parts,
   written by Douglas Adams,
   published by Pan Books, 1992
 


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Re: 3D printer

[Mirco Piccin]

Hi

 The problem is that we know all the history of struggle between linux
 and printers (and devices in general). I was wondering if this is the
 case with 3D printers.

it's not the case!

 I think I like most the Prusa i3. It looks pretty! And being the third
 version, the site states: he i3 incorporates lessons learned from the
 previous two Prusa designs, as well as other popular modern RepRap
 designs. 

 I wonder how to connect it to computer. Is it USB?

you connect your pc to the printer using a USB cable.
The electronic on the printer is basically a Arduino Mega (or
derivated or clone):
http://arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoBoardMega2560

As you can read:
The Mega2560 differs from all preceding boards in that it does not
use the FTDI USB-to-serial driver chip. Instead, it features the
ATmega16U2 (ATmega8U2 in the revision 1 and revision 2 boards)
programmed as a USB-to-serial converter.

 And do you need any special driver? How debian sees it?

you don't need any drivers others than the standard.
You see Arduino as a /dev/ttyACMx device (with older Arduino version
the device was /dev/ttyUSBx).
It's a serial device.

Anyway:
http://arduino.cc/en/Main/Software (you need the Arduino IDE to update
firmware on your 3d printer, download it, it's opensource)
and
http://playground.arduino.cc/Learning/Linux

Regards
Mirco


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Re: 3D printer

[Mirco Piccin]

Hi

 I would like to start a topic on 3d printers. Does anyone here have
 experience in using such printers with debian/linux?

here i am :)

 What brand would you recommend?
 How about kits?

i'm using an opensource 3d printer (RepRap project), specifically a Prusa i2.
It arrived as a kit.
Low price and good results.
Take a tour on the project wiki:
www.reprap.org
(there's also a forum)

 What software is there available in debian repositories to create 3D
 projects that can be directly printed?

if you are a programmer, use OpenSCAD.
Or you can use Blender.
(both opensource),

Then you need to export your object in STL format.
Then you need to use Slic3r (that is an italian opensource slicing sw)
http://slic3r.org/
to generate gcode from this STL.
At this point you need a 3d printer :)

 Thanks any input.

regards
Mirco


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Re: 3D printer

[Mirco Piccin]

Hi

 I would like to start a topic on 3d printers. Does anyone here have
 experience in using such printers with debian/linux?

 here i am :)
 ...
 Very nice tip. Thanks!

 I'm looking forward to build one. From the link you gave, I see there
 is some models to build:

 http://reprap.org/wiki/Build_A_RepRap
 ...
 Very good options! What is the model you have? Did you find it
 difficult to assembly or find the required pieces?

i have a full working Prusa i2:
http://reprap.org/wiki/Prusa_Mendel_(iteration_2)
that is an improvement of the Mendel.

I'm also building a Prusa Air v2:
http://reprap.org/wiki/Air_2
that is quite similar to the i2, and a Prusa i3:
http://reprap.org/wiki/I3

This last one is the simpler to build and to calibrate.
All the boms are available on the reprap site.
Anyway, all the pieces are easly available on a diy shop or on ebay :)

There are also a lot of new online stores that sell specifically 3d
printer parts (electronics, extruders, bearings, pulleys, rods and so
on).

Regards
M


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Re: Backup/Restore software?

[Mirco Piccin]

Hi

 May I put in a vote for BackupPC?

+1 for BackupPC

  The Pros as I see them are:
  * Web based configuration, making it easy to get started with (but you
can also dig into plain-text config files easily enough, too.
  * Can backup a machine using rsync, rsyncd, tar-over-ssh or even SMB
(for backing up Windows machines without installing any client on
them)
  * De-duplicates files both in time (so if you make two full backups
onto one disk, it only takes up the size of the first image plus any
changed data) and in space (if you backup two linux machines, there
will be common OS files and these are de-duplicated). Hard links are
used to fill the backups, so each one looks like a full backup.
  * Restoring a file can be pushed back from the web interface.

don't forget you can also backup using FTP protocol (that means, eg,
web site backup)!

M


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Re: screenshot manipulation tool

[Mirco Piccin]

Hi

  Do you have a good screenshot manipulation tool to recommend?

 I meant a simple one, just to the point, not a big monster like gimp.

i use Shutter!


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Re: screenshot manipulation tool

[Mirco Piccin]

Hi

 - unable to work on the image from the system clipboard.

just configure the keybinding on Shutter preferences to use the stamp
button (or: Import from clipboard)

 - unable to further select out from the already captured image
 - no general-purpose commonly-used image handing capability, eg. cut-out,
 past, paste as new, etc.

you can crop your ss or selection in edit function and save as new, or
open existent image (or other screenshot) and import into another.
For my use of this tool, that is guide image publish, this is the
better tool i've found.

Regards
M


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Re: pure-ftpd replies 421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection

[Mirco Piccin]

Leonardo,

 did you check the bind configuration ()?

 I haven't BIND installed on my system -- I need no DNS server on it.

i'm talking about pure-ftpd bind configuration :-)

In conf file (maybe /etc/pure-ftpd.conf) there must be a bind directive.
Or something similar in the init script options (-S or --bind ip
address,port)

Anyway, give a look also at:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1032226

M

Re: pure-ftpd replies 421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection

[Mirco Piccin]

Hi

 I've installed pure-ftpd on a Debian 5.0.7 box using the standard config.
 When I try to connect from another machine on the same subnet, or even
 from the localhost, I get the message:

 Connected to 10.1.2.3.
 [...and then, a few seconds later,]
 421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection

did you check the bind configuration ()?

Regards
M

Re: Android Debian - Lets start Debian for Android hw phones

[Mirco Piccin]

hi,

 Let's start the Debian distro for Android capable hardware phones.

 What are the first steps we can easily take, to get started on this?

it seems there's already something like that:
http://www.androidfanatic.com/community-forums.html?func=viewcatid=9id=251

Here are instructions about running X-Windows and more specifically the LXDE
Desktop GUI on the G-1 Android Phone (of course, it works also in other
smartphone..).
http://wiki.lxde.org/en/Android

Regards
M

Re: [slightly OT] Internet accessible home security systems using Debian?

[Mirco Piccin]

Hi again

 Does anybody have any experience installing/using an internet accessible
 home security system?

 You could also consider small domo IP networked cameras which provide an
 embedded mini web-server and they're easy to setup and control (basically
 you only need to provide the power and a dsl/cable Internet connection).

i prefer the Foscam ipcams:
http://www.foscam.com/
that are quite cheap (and can be used also in ZoneMinder environment)

Regards
M

Re: [slightly OT] Internet accessible home security systems using Debian?

[Mirco Piccin]

Hi,

 We recently bought a retirement home, but it will be a year or so before
we can move in
 -- leaving the place uninhabited most of the time.  I'd like to install an
inexpensive (under
 $1000 for parts -- I'll do the installation myself) CC-TV  (CC=closed
circuit) and recorder
 that can be connected to a Linux-based computer I can access over the
Internet.

you can use ZoneMinder
http://www.zoneminder.com/

with or without DVR (ZoneMinder itself can act as video recorder).
Zoneminder has a lot of features (e.g. Motion Detection, Trigger, email
delivery..), and a wui - web user interface.
It supports lan streaming (e.g. Ip Cam, Video server) and usb cam.

Or, if you want to save more $$, you could use also something like this:
http://icamview.com/
that convert usb camera in ip camera, providing Motion Detection, email
delivery, ftp upload...

My 2 cents
Regards
M

Re: [OT] a radar-like tracking device

[Mirco Piccin]

Hi,

 I want to have a radar-like device to track moving object. It should
 offer me two piece of information: the angel and the distance of the
 object from me

why not use Arduino (www.arduino.cc)??

Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on
flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. It's intended for artists,
designers, hobbyists, and anyone interested in creating interactive objects
or environments (www.arduino.cc)

Here you are, ie, a Radar project that could be ok for you:
http://luckylarry.co.uk/arduino-projects/arduino-processing-make-a-radar-screen-to-visualise-sensor-data-from-srf-05-part-2-visualising-the-data/

Visit also Arduino forum (http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl)!

Regards
M

Re: How to use two displaies

[Mirco Piccin]

Hi

On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Jimmy Johnson field.engin...@gmail.comwrote:

 Guo Jiahua wrote:

 I have a laptop, with a VGA interface.
 I connected a extra display to my laptop, but it shows nothing, the state
 of it is NO SIGNAL.
 I wander how to config to use the two displaies, one of my laptop, one
 extra.



 On a laptop the display is normally controlled by the function key on the
 laptop or fn key + F key that will have a monitor image on the F key.



...or you can use the xrandr utility, that allows more flexibility.
There's also a gui : grandr.

Regards
M

Re: Lenny / Pidgin / Msn

[Mirco Piccin]

HI,

 Msn's protocol is not supported by pidgin? Why?

of course that is supported:
http://pidgin.im/

Regards
M

Re: Monitoring network activity

[Mirco Piccin]

Hi,

 How would I go about finding out what application is connecting to the
 web and/ or what is connecting to my machine to cause the modem
 light activity?

i think that with wireshark or ntop you should obtain the information you
need.

Regards
M

Re: installing deb files from unstable or testing

[Mirco Piccin]

Hi

 I meant using testing and unstable packages in Lenny..

There are two way2 to do the job:
backports (as Camaleón suggests)
apt-pinning (as John suggests)

Regards
M

Re: web app lvm linux

[Mirco Piccin]

Hi

 Hi, do you know any web app for manage lvm on debian linux? Or ar
 least to show LVM  logical volumes via web?

Webmin :-D

Re: web app lvm linux

[Mirco Piccin]

Hi,

 Webmin has a lot of features I does not use.. is there any easier than
 webmin to manage lvm?

you can install the minimal version,

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webadmin/webmin-1.510-minimal.tar.gz
(1.6 M)

and then add only the modules you need..

M

SCSI tape library ISCSI

[Mirco Piccin]

Hi all,
it's possible to manage a SCSI tape library (IBM 3581) with ISCSI?
I need to use that library attached to a server into another server...

Thanks
Regards
M
**

Re: SCSI tape library ISCSI

[Mirco Piccin]

Hi,

 it's possible to manage a SCSI tape library (IBM 3581) with ISCSI?
 I need to use that library attached to a server into another server...

well, the aim is to share the tape library across the network..
Is there a way (iscsi or other) to do the job?

Regards
M

Re: SCSI tape library ISCSI

[Mirco Piccin]

Hi, thanks for replies.

 it's possible to manage a SCSI tape library (IBM 3581) with ISCSI?
 I need to use that library attached to a server into another server...

 well, the aim is to share the tape library across the network..
 Is there a way (iscsi or other) to do the job?

 What you need is a SCSI to iSCSI bridge.

 All you need is an iSCSI bridge such as one of these ATTO units:


http://www.attotech.com/products/product.php?cat=5scat=8sku=IPBR-2600-DR0

http://www.attotech.com/products/product.php?cat=5scat=8sku=IPBR-1550-DR0

Atto device it's not a really cheap solution :-)
Since it's a temporary  need, I'll try to find a workaround...

Regards
M

Re: Act on PDF's properties

[Mirco Piccin]

Hi Luca,

 I have a PDF document that I want to lock for some features, such as
 content extraction, and printing.

If you want to use a shell command, you can use the pdftk package.
You can set encryption, allow/disallow fetaure (printing, copy, etc)...

Or you can use java iText library, and write your own script :-)

Regards
M

Re: avi to dvd

[Mirco Piccin]

Hi,

 Can someone point me to a decent GUI  [i don't want
 to go through the command line for this] avi to dvd
 converter? I've Googled a little and found some references
 for DeVeDe and ManDVD, but i'm not able to make a
 documented decision.

i use DeVeDe.
It's very easy to use.
Also menu creation and conversion tasks are simplified...

Regards
M

Re: VirtualBox or VMware?

[Mirco Piccin]

HI,

 I would appreciate opinions on the relative advantages/disadvantages of
 these two apps

don't forget that with the new VMWare Player release (3.x) - that is free,
it's possible to create your own vm.
Before that release, it was not possible to do.

 VMWare is more server/service oriented in my opinion.

I agree.

Regards
M

Re: mount -o remount,rw as user

[Mirco Piccin]

HI,

 On a mostly Etch system with this line in /etc/fstab
/dev/hda5 /dmsdos   defaults,rw,user,umask=0001  0 0
 user mike can mount the partition and write to it but not remount it
 read only in any way I can discover.

to make the partition mounted readonly, simply change rw (read write) to ro
(read only) in the fstab row:
   /dev/hda5 /dmsdos   defaults,ro,users,umask=0001 0 0

 mike@/deb40:~ mount -o remount,ro /d
 mount: only root can do that

for this issue you can use sudo (for more info: # man sudoers).
For example, your sudoers file could be:

# /etc/sudoers
#
# This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root.
#
# See the man page for details on how to write a sudoers file.
#

Defaultsenv_reset

# Host alias specification

# User alias specification

# Cmnd alias specification
Cmnd_AliasMOUNT = /bin/mount
Cmnd_AliasUMOUNT = /bin/umount

# User privilege specification
rootALL=(ALL) ALL

# Uncomment to allow members of group sudo to not need a password
# (Note that later entries override this, so you might need to move
# it further down)
# %sudo ALL=NOPASSWD: ALL

mike ALL = NOPASSWD: MOUNT, UMOUNT



But in this case mike will be able to use mount for any partition.

Hope this helps you.

Re: Little OT : Software for Active Noise Cancelling or Reduction

[Mirco Piccin]

Hi,
i find this thread:
http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=28t=442

It's quite old, but it could be a start point.

The aim is to create an anti-phase in realtime.
This job is done by a don't-know small (and suppose poor) chip into some
headphones that provide noise cancelling/reduction.
So i suppose it's not so difficult to do the same using a pc process and
Debian (or other linux distro, of course).

Of course i don't want absolute noise cancelling (i think that it's also
impossible).
A good reduction is enough.

Regards
M

On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Mark Neidorff m...@neidorff.com wrote:

 On Wednesday 05 August 2009 04:42 pm, John Hasler wrote:
  M writes:
   i was considering to buy headphones with Active Noise Cancelling /
   Reduction.
  
   But before spend money, i'd like to know if there's a software that
   could do the same job (for free).
 
  No.  Not feasible.
  --
  John Hasler

 Is it technically not feasable, meaning that a room is too large to do
 noise
 cancelling in, or not feasable from the linux software prespective?

 Mark


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Little OT : Software for Active Noise Cancelling or Reduction

[Mirco Piccin]

Hi all,
i was considering to buy headphones with Active Noise Cancelling /
Reduction.

But before spend money, i'd like to know if there's a software that could do
the same job (for free).
Thanks in advance!

Regards
M

wmi-client on Squeeze/Sid

[Mirco Piccin]

Hi all,
i'm trying to install wmi-client packages on my Squeeze/Sid, but i'm
not able to find in the standard repositories (main, contrib 
non-free).
Any tips?
Thanks!

Regards
M


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Re: wmi-client on Squeeze/Sid

[Mirco Piccin]

Hi,

 i'm trying to install wmi-client packages on my Squeeze/Sid, but i'm
 not able to find in the standard repositories (main, contrib 
 non-free).

 http://packages.debian.org/sid/wmi-client

this seems only for m68k platform (mine is i386).
Regards
M


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Re: wmi-client on Squeeze/Sid

[Mirco Piccin]

Hi

  http://packages.debian.org/sid/wmi-client

 this seems only for m68k platform (mine is i386).
 Regards
 M

 and the source isn't provided too. Too bad.

George in a pm , tell me that the package is available in the ubuntu repos:

http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/python/wmi-client

That works for me.
Thanks!

Regards
M


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Re: wmi-client on Squeeze/Sid

[Mirco Piccin]

Hi

 I just wanted to add that you might want to check to see if they have it in
 the jaunty repos as well. Jaunty is closer in release then hardy to
 debian/squeeze

Thanks!
what's more, i can install wmi-client (hardy version), but i'm not
able to make it works.

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
INTERNAL ERROR: Signal 11 in pid 26121 (4.0.0tp4-SVN-build-UNKNOWN)
Please read the file BUGS.txt in the distribution
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
PANIC: internal error
BACKTRACE: 8 stack frames:
 #0 winexe(call_backtrace+0x2b) [0x82e1007]
 #1 winexe(smb_panic+0x244) [0x82e12fb]
 #2 winexe [0x82e144e]
 #3 winexe [0x82e1483]
 #4 [0xb7fad400]
 #5 winexe [0x8087790]
 #6 /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe5) [0xb7dfb775]
 #7 winexe [0x8086461]
Aborted

But it seems that jaunty version is not available.

I think i will dowload source from winexe home page:
http://eol.ovh.org/winexe/
and compile myself.

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Re: wmi-client on Squeeze/Sid

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Hi and thanks,

 I found the intrepid version, still probably not as new of a version as what
 squeeze is but it should be better then the hardy one since hardy would be
 about the same as etch.

  http://packages.ubuntu.com/intrepid/wmi-client

 The only other way is to get the source and install that way. I don't think
 you will benefit much by having it as a repo anyway since it doesn't seem to
 be actively developed or ported.

 I also found that it seems they are pulling it from jaunty as well and that
 support for what it does will be built in to samba, I don't know when or it
 may already be.

 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wmi/+bug/359637

Ok

 Just trying to give ya a few ideas, I don't know what it is for or what it
 does so I can't recommend a replacement.

remotely executes commands on WindowsNT/2000/XP/2003 systems from
GNU/Linux (form winexe homepage).

I'd like to be able to run scripts / win applications / win commands
form a linux machine (like psexec win tool).
(I'm not talking about scripts that i could run using cygwin ssh).

Anyway,

 http://eol.ovh.org/winexe/

the source compile require a samba recompile.

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Re: Obtain info about cd-r/rw

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Hi

  $ cdrdao scanbus
  Cdrdao version 1.1.9 - (C) Andreas Mueller andr...@daneb.de
  Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'

  ATAPI:0,0,0  SONY, CD-RW  CRX195E1 , ZYS5
  ATAPI:0,1,0  Toshiba , DVD-ROM SD-M1712, 1808

 So we know what kind of devices they are.

  $ cdrdao disk-info --device 0,0,0
  0,0,0: SONY CD-RW  CRX195E1 Rev: ZYS5
  Using driver: Generic SCSI-3/MMC (raw writing) - Version 2.0 (options
 0x)

  CD-RW: no
  Total Capacity   : n/a
  CD-R medium  : Ritek Co.
Short Strategy Type, e.g. Phthalocyanine
  Recording Speed  : n/a
  CD-R empty   : no
  Toc Type : CD-ROM XA
  Sessions : 1
  Last Track   : 2
  Appendable   : no


Thanks, that's exactly what i'm looking for.

 Actually, I couldn't find such tools for DVD.

I use growisofs package for retrieve information about dvd media.
With dmesg, once inserted dvd media, i can see the drive device, then
dvd+rw-mediainfo does the job:

# dvd+rw-mediainfo /dev/sr0
INQUIRY:[_NEC][DVD_RW ND-3540A ][1.04]
GET [CURRENT] CONFIGURATION:
 Mounted Media: 1Bh, DVD+R
 Media ID:  RICOHJPN/R01
 Current Write Speed:   6.1x1385=8467KB/s
 Write Speed #0:6.1x1385=8467KB/s
 Write Speed #1:5.1x1385=7056KB/s
 Write Speed #2:4.1x1385=5645KB/s
 Write Speed #3:3.1x1385=4234KB/s
 Write Speed #4:2.0x1385=2822KB/s
 Write Speed #5:1.0x1385=1411KB/s
GET [CURRENT] PERFORMANCE:
 Write Performance: 4.0x1385=5540KB/s...@[0 - 442367]
6.0x1385=8310KB/s...@[442368 - 1155071]
8.0x1385=11080KB/s...@[1155072 - 2295104]
 Speed Descriptor#0:00/2295104 r...@8.0x1385=11080kb/s 
w...@8.0x1385=11080kb/s
 Speed Descriptor#1:00/2295104 r...@8.0x1385=11080kb/s 
w...@6.0x1385=8310kb/s
 Speed Descriptor#2:00/2295104 r...@5.0x1385=6925kb/s w...@4.0x1385=5540kb/s
 Speed Descriptor#3:00/2295104 r...@5.0x1385=6925kb/s w...@2.4x1385=3324kb/s
READ DISC INFORMATION:
 Disc status:   blank
 Number of Sessions:1
 State of Last Session: empty
 Next Track:  1
 Number of Tracks:  1
READ TRACK INFORMATION[#1]:
 Track State:   blank
 Track Start Address:   0*2KB
 Next Writable Address: 0*2KB
 Free Blocks:   2295104*2KB
 Track Size:2295104*2KB
READ CAPACITY:  0*2048=0


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Re: vmware 1.0.8 (or .9) with 2.6.29

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HI

 I'm seriously thinking to switch to virtualbox ose...

 me too but my image will not boot in VB, I have taken a copy of the boot
 disks to see what I can do, but I am not hopeful - its a W2000 server
 image.  This is the exact reason I want to move to VB from vmware

I also need to work with win2k (server).
It's possible to install a fresh win2k os using virtual box, but there
are also some ways to clone your existent vmware win2k machine.
You can use Clonezilla, or Mondo, or converting .vmdk to .vdi or
something else.

Example:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuMagazine/HowTo/Switching_From_VMWare_To_VirtualBox:_.vmdk_To_.vdi_Using_Qemu_+_VdiTool

 I suspect that VirtualBox may require a fork

VirtualBox is released also in a OpenSource version:
virtual box ose

Of course a fork is possible, but i don't think that it's required -
not for now.

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Re: UDEV to trigger a program

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Hi,

 I would to know how to use/modify UDEV (with Linux 2.6.18-6-686) in order to
 execute a wanted program (that I programmed myself) when I plug a USB key to
 the PC.

i casually was reading this thread:
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-262696.html
where is explained something like you are looking for (i quote the
specific post):


1. Plug your device and mount it usually. Then call
udevinfo -a -p /sys/block/sda -- you have insert your devices sd*
here. You are doing this to get some information about your drive to
identify it in a rule file.

2. put your rules file under /etc/udev/rules.d/ with a name like 10-local.rules

3. your rule file should be like

KERNEL==sd*,SYSFS{size}==308206223,SYMLINK+=mydisk,RUN=your_script

this will create a symbolic link for your device and run your script
to mount it. since you named it as mydisk* and not some random sdb5 or
stuff, your script will be able to correctly identify it.


Hope this helps you!
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Re: vmware 1.0.8 (or .9) with 2.6.29

[Mirco Piccin]

Hi,
my experience is similar to your.
I've strongly  used vmware-server (1.08) installed in my job laptop.
After last kernel update, there was no way to recompile vmware network  modules.
I've tried any-any-update patch, tried any known fix but without success.
The only vmware-server release that i'm able to run with this kernel
is the 2 (with the fix reported by Hugo).

 I know this is rather OT, but do you know how compatible 1.0.8 is to
 vmware server 2 ?

All your virtual machines created in release 1.08 are compatible with release 2.
Anyway vmware-server 2 is quite different from previous release (first
of all in the disk space required...).

I'm seriously thinking to switch to virtualbox ose...

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Obtain info about cd-r/rw

[Mirco Piccin]

Hi all.
How can i obtain info about a cd-r/rw support?
I usually use dvd+rw-mediainfo for dvd+/-* , but i don't know if
ther's something similar for cd-*.

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Re: voip that works on linux and windows

[Mirco Piccin]

Hi,

 Is there some program that can run on both linux and windows that provide
 voip (and perhaps video) other than Skype?

i use Ekiga:

http://www.gnomemeeting.org/

There's a client also for Windows.

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Re: tftpd-hpa fails to start.

[Mirco Piccin]

Hi

 Hi, i'm having a slight issue following this article [1]. My client
 will boot through PXE and find the host, then it won't find an image
 and keeps on showing TFTP timeouts.

did you check if tftp is running on you server ?
# ps -A | grep tftp

 The thing is, to use the articles example, instead of:
 r...@itchy:~# /etc/init.d/tftpd-hpa start
 Starting HPA's tftpd: in.tftpd.
 r...@itchy:~#

 i get:
 r...@itchy:~# /etc/init.d/tftpd-hpa start
 Starting HPA's tftpd: in.tftpdr...@itchy:~#

 There's an echo . in /etc/init.d/tftpd-hpa but it doesn't get that
 far, it just quits. My boot files are in /var/lib/tftpboot and my
 /etc/default/tftpd-hpa is this:
 #Defaults for tftpd-hpa
 RUN_DAEMON=yes
 OPTIONS=-l -s /var/lib/tftpboot

it seems all ok.
You could try to get your file usinf a tftp client (tftp - Trivial
file transfer protocol client)
It's the better way to test if your tftp server works.

 I'm using unstable's tftp-hpa 0.49 and don't see any tftp log in /var/log.

I run a 0.43-1.1, and i miss the log in /var/log too.

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Squeeze/Sid + Gnome2 = security risk opening some kind of file

[Mirco Piccin]

Hi all,
after upgrade from lenny/sid to sqeeze/sid, not all is working fine.
My actual problem is this: if i try to open some kind of file (i.e.
pdf, ods, png... ), happens that  a popup tells me:

The filename file_name.ods indicates that this file is of type
ods document. The contents of the file indicate that the file is of
type OpenDocument Spreadsheet. If you open this file, the file might
present a security risk to your system.

Do not open the file unless you created the file yourself, or received
the file from a trusted source. To open the file, rename the file to
the correct extension for OpenDocument Spreadsheet, then open the
file normally. Alternatively, use the Open With menu to choose a
specific application for the file. 

So, to open the file, i must right click - open with - choose the
right application.

Is there a way to solve that problem?
Thanks in advance!

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Re: Rescue Linux partition

[Mirco Piccin]

HI,

 Is there a bootable utility that can be installed on a CD and rescue or back
 up the data in the Linux ext2 partitions on my HDD and write them to a CD
 using the CD writer on my system.

I think that any Linux live cd (DSL - Damn Small Linux, or Knoppix,
for example) it's good to do the job.

 The data in the ext 2 partitions is
 small enough to fit onto a CD.  I don't want to install a different Linux
 version if I can't backup what's already there.

Why not in a USB Flash Drive?

 I also need a utility to determine why the floppy
 won't boot, even though it reads and writes once the system is booted to
 Windows.

Again, with a linux live cd you could try to mount the floppy:
# mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /media/floppy
If i remember correctly, you need also to load floppy module.
Maybe you also need to add this option:
pnpbios=off
to the kernel command line, during the boot.

Once you have installed linux on hd, you can:
- add floppy module on /etc/modules: in this way it will be loaded
at every boot;
- edit your /boot/grub/menu.lst and add at the end of kernel line
the option pnpbios=off

Anyway, dmesg is your friend.
Hope this helps you
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Re: what's the difference and superior between gtk+ and gecko?

[Mirco Piccin]

Hi,

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Star Liu minxinjian...@gmail.com wrote:

 I want to develop a cross-platform desktop software by open source
 platform and develop tools. I'm also a web developer so I'm interested
 in gecko, and know that gecko is also able to build desktop
 applications by XUL, not only display html files. But it seems gtk+ is
 the more normal way to develop desktop applications, then what's the
 superior of the two methods? thanks.


Did you consider to use Qt?

Regards
M

Re: Dual monitor problem (intel, GNOME)

[Mirco Piccin]

HI

Monitors: Internal LVDS 1280×800, external VGA 1280×1024.
 Video: Intel GM965/GL960.
 Software: Debian 5.0, Gnome. Exception: X is from experimental.
 Initial layout: two identical pictures of 1024×786 each.

 With grandr, I can fix the resolution of each screen (just by
 selecting Auto) and put VGA right of my LVDS (Layout). I have
 to move the upper and lower panels from the VGA to the LVDS with
 the mouse, though.
 First question: How can I save the setting, so that I don't have
 to do this every time (fix the resolution and move the panels to
 my primary screen)?


grandr is a frontend to xrandr.
You can edit  a simple bash script that launch xrandr with your preferred
settings.


Second question: How can I influence, where new windows and
 dialogues will pop up? E.g. always LVDS would be fine.


Sincerely i don't know.
Regards
M

Re: calender, contacts, appts., to do list, etc. server for Debian

[Mirco Piccin]

Hi all,

 I am playing around with the idea of installing a calender server on a
 Debian machine at my home.

i use Group-Office, and i think that's a good solution.
Task, Email, Address Book, Calendar, Notes and a file repository.
Sync with mobile is available only on Enterprise edition.
It's also quite easy to customize.

Regards
M

Re: Execuse me,where could I find debian3.0 CDs for intel-x86?

[Mirco Piccin]

Hi all.

Here:
http://www.debian.org/releases/
you can find all Debian releases index.

Hope this helps you!
Regards
M

Re: laptop does not resume after suspend

[Mirco Piccin]

Hi all.

 Some days ago, following a normal package update, I noticed that my Dell
 Inspiron 1525 laptop doesn't resume after suspend any more. Now the only way
 to quit the suspended state is to switch the laptop off by pressing the
 power button. In fact I have no clear idea what package can cause this bug
 to file a proper bug report.

i have the same problem.
My laptop is a Thinkpad T60, and OS is Debian Lenny/Sid.

Suspend / Resume always worked well, but after a normal update, resume
doesn't work anymore.

acpid 1.0.8-1
acpi-support 0.109-9
linux-image 2.6.26-1o-686

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Re: only root can unmount

[Mirco Piccin]

Hi all

 I get the following error when unmounting dvd:

 $ umount /mnt/dvd
 umount: only root can unmount /dev/dvd from /mnt/dvd

 Strange is that, I have user in my fstab:

 $ grep dvd /etc/fstab
 /dev/dvd /mnt/dvd auto user,noauto,exec,ro 0 0

 and moreover, I mounted /mnt/dvd as myself, not root.

Maybe you need to setuid root for /bin/umount (as this is usually):
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 44088 2008-04-29 03:57 /bin/umount

Hope this helps you.
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Unusual use of Wiimote

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Hi all.
Today i find this site:

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/projects/wii/

and i feel enthusiast.
I register myself to www.wiimoteproject.com and i see that it works
also with linux.

Does anyone have some experiment?
Should i buy a wiimote for xmas? :-D

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Re: Unusual use of Wiimote

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Hi!

 Today i find this site:

 http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/projects/wii/

 and i feel enthusiast.
 I register myself to www.wiimoteproject.com and i see that it works
 also with linux.

 Does anyone have some experiment?
 Should i buy a wiimote for xmas? :-D

 Well, I used it with a wii, and I don't like it. It's somewhat
 imprecise, and it's very straining to use it as a mouse pointer. It's
 not designed at all to hold it in your hand anyway. I missed a keyboard
 and a trackball all the time. I wish they would make the Trackman Marble
 FX again so that I could buy a new one if mine breaks ...

Well, the interesting thing is that :
For most of these projects, you don't need the Nintendo Wii console.
You only need the Wii controller and a bluetooth connection

The idea of realize a Interactive Whiteboards with a projector and a
wiimote is very good (and quite cheap)!
(considering that in Italy, president Berlusconi allocate about 30
million euro to provide 1 interactive  Whiteboards :-( .)


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Re: what's the group and username of apache2 web server?

[Mirco Piccin]

Hi.

 How to get the group and username of apache?

Ususally apache/apache2 user and group : www-data.
You can find that information in many ways:

look at this file:
/etc/apache2/apache2.conf

(mine :
...
# These need to be set in /etc/apache2/envvars
User ${APACHE_RUN_USER}
Group ${APACHE_RUN_GROUP}
...
)

and then at this file:

/etc/apache2/envvars

(mine:
...
export APACHE_RUN_USER=www-data
export APACHE_RUN_GROUP=www-data
...
)

or simply check the current apache2 process user:
# ps -aux | grep apache2
...
www-data  4276  0.0  0.1  33396  3668 ?S09:40   0:00
/usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
www-data  4277  0.0  0.1  33396  3668 ?S09:40   0:00
/usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
www-data  4278  0.0  0.1  33396  3668 ?S09:40   0:00
/usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
www-data  4279  0.0  0.1  33396  3668 ?S09:40   0:00
/usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
www-data  4280  0.0  0.1  33396  3668 ?S09:40   0:00
/usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
...

Hope this helps you!
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Re: nfs problem

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Hi,

 Machines A and B both run Debian. There are no firewall rules
 blocking any kind of traffic A--B.

 I try to mount, by means of nfs, a directory of B to a mount point
 on A, read-write.

 I can read the contents of /home/storage/video on B. But I cannot
 write anything to it. I keep getting the message read-only
 filesystem.

i'm not actual using NFS, but i remember that you must have the same
user and group id on both pc, or you will not able to do the job as
you describe.

hope this helps you!
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Re: vmware vmserver 2 is avail

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Hi.
I've downloaded it few hours ago.

 VMware's vmserver 2 is out.

 Anybody figure out how to use wget to download it?

Link to download the core is:
https://www.vmware.com/freedownload/p/download.php?cmp=EMC-ServerActivationli=licensea=DOWNLOAD_FILEbaseurl=http://download2.vmware.com/software/server/filename=VMware-server-2.0.0-116503.i386.tar.gz

(I think it's legal to post here the link)

Hope this helps you
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Re: OT, where is jar

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Hi

 Where can I find the 'jar' command?

 It used to come with the java package, but I have all necessary java
 packages:

I don't know if jar is a command; usually i use java -jar ..:

# java -jar file.jar

It works.
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Re: OT, where is jar

[Mirco Piccin]

Sorry, maybe i've not understand well

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 12:06 PM, Mirco Piccin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Hi

 Where can I find the 'jar' command?

 It used to come with the java package, but I have all necessary java
 packages:

if you need to run .jar file, use this command:

 # java -jar file.jar

If you mean the archive tool for Java archives, i agree with tha above posts.
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Re: How to download online videos?

[Mirco Piccin]

HI

 Can anybody suggest a proper tool (if any exists) for Debian?
 (MS-Windows users have ReaPlayer that works for that.)

I think that depends on which kind of video you mean.
Real Player is available also for Debian, but there are a lot of other
applications and scripts (and also firefox/iceweasel plugins) to do
the job.

Which kind of video you need to download?

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Re: How to download online videos?

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Hi again

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 6:52 PM, Michael Marsh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Rodolfo Medina
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 All the videos that can be viewed online but cannot be downloaded normally.
 The problem arose with a particular .flv video I wanted to download from a 
 web
 site.  I managed to download it with MS-Windows RealPlayer, from the Windows
 partition I have on my hard disk.

Well, firefox/iceweasel has a lot of plugins that handle .flv (and
also other extension) video download.
I.e. :
Fast Video Download
Magic's video Downloader
and so on...

And that's the better way.

If you aim to download from platform like Veoh or NinjaVideo, instead,
 there's  a python script that can help you :
http://code.google.com/p/veohproxy/

..and so on.

As you see, there are a lot of solutions...

Hope this helps you
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Re: Nautilus fails to manage desktop

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Hi all.

  i'm running nautilus 2.20.0-6, and after a recent reboot nautilus is
refusing to manage the desktop

 check the content of file ~/.config/user-dirs.dir see if that can help
 you.

 There's no such file. What should be there?

That's happened to me too: same release of nautilus.
I think the problem is not nautilus, but the gtk libraries.
In fact i'm having problems with my usual applications that use the
gtk libraries.

Any ideas?


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Re: Nautilus fails to manage desktop

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Hi all, i've find a temporay solution...

  i'm running nautilus 2.20.0-6, and after a recent reboot nautilus is
refusing to manage the desktop

 check the content of file ~/.config/user-dirs.dir see if that can help
 you.

 There's no such file. What should be there?

 That's happened to me too: same release of nautilus.
 I think the problem is not nautilus, but the gtk libraries.
 In fact i'm having problems with my usual applications that use the
 gtk libraries.

It was posted by Christian Jaeger to the debian user mailing list, in
a topic with subject:
Lenny users: attn about Gnome/libxml2 breakage

As i've said, the problem is not nautilus.
The problem is related to new release of libxml.
Here i report the solution proposed by Christian, but i think it's a
good idea to read all the topic/replies.

 Solution: install libxml2 from unstable; this is actually a downgrade (from 
 libxml2 2.6.32.dfsg-2+lenny to 2.6.32.dfsg-2). I.e.
 apt-get install -t unstable libxml2/unstable, but you need to have the 
 unstable sources in apt.sources and use apt pinning (I
 won't explain that here, check other sources).

Hope this helps!
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Re: [OT]: Cellular phone used as modem stops during fast downloads

[Mirco Piccin]

Hi

 the problem only occurs during fast downloads, i.e. in umts mode: when the
 download proceeds at a high speed, say about 40 kilobytes per second, the
 phone (a Nokia 6630) stops and reboots, and so the connection breaks down.
 Anybody having experienced the same problem?

Also i use often my 6680 (that has about the same hw of your 6630) to
navigate www and to download.
I connect to an italian UMTS mobile tel. provider.
I use a BT connection between laptop and phone (never tried using usb cable).
But all work good.

Maybe a phone firmware update could resolve this issue.
Regards
M


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Debian Server hostname and Win 2003 DNS server

[Mirco Piccin]

Hi all.
I have 2 new running Debian Etch :-) server into an (old)  Windows
environment.
Servers work like a charm, but i am not able to ping them by hostname.
They are configured with a static ip address and have samba installed and
working.

Any tips?

Thanks!
Regards
M

Re: Debian Server hostname and Win 2003 DNS server

[Mirco Piccin]

Hi!
 Servers work like a charm, but i am not able to ping them by hostname.

Thanks Bob:
 You may need to add relevant entries to the hosts file in each windows
machine

...and Damon for yours replies
 If you put those entries into another hosts hosts file, then you can ping
this
 host from that box by the above hosts names.
...
 Windows also has a host file.  Edit that as well.

Yes, i know, if i modify hosts file both in linux and in windows machine i
will not have more problems to ping those 2 new Debian servers.
But there are a lot of people (and computer) that use services running on
those servers.
I hope there's a way to to the job wothout modify every single users
machine.

Or not? :-D

Re: Debian Server hostname and Win 2003 DNS server

[Mirco Piccin]

Hi and thanks all.

 Ahhh, the Socrates method, my fav form of instruction.

 Mirco, as Ron is hinting at and as I said (see the first idea I had) run a
 DNS server.  DNS came about because sys admin became to in shape and
 physically dangerous to there managers from all the running around they had
 to do to keep the hosts files in sync.  Edit the DNS entry, all machines pick
 up the new data:  IT works stay soft and flabby, chicks don't dig them, they
 stay motivated to stay at the office, managers can continue to push IT sys
 admin around with out threat of physical harm.  Everybody is happy.

Maybe i miss an important information (or not? ...it's in subject).
There's a Win 2003 DNS Server.
My problem  is that all the clients can ping them self using hostname,
and they can ping all other windows server in the same way, but not
those 2 Debian server.

Chris understand well my situation.
So i try his suggest:
# apt-get install dnsutils
# touch /etc/nsupdate.conf

edit that file in this way:

update delete HostName.DomainName.com. A
update add HostName.DomainName.com. 86400 A 192.168.1.1
show
send
quit

(where HostName.DomainName.com is my Debian fqdn, and 192.168.1.1 my
Debian ip address).
Then run the following command:
# nsupdate -v /etc/nsupdate.conf

Here you are my output:

Outgoing update query:
;; -HEADER- opcode: UPDATE, status: NOERROR, id:  0
;; flags: ; ZONE: 0, PREREQ: 0, UPDATE: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; UPDATE SECTION:
HostName.DomainName.com.  0   ANY A
HostName.DomainName.com.  86400   IN  A   192.168.1.1

couldn't get address for 'DNSHostName.DomainName.com': not found

If i try to ping DNSHostName.DomainName.com, my debian machine resolve
the record.
Any other suggest?

Regards!
M


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Re: Debian Server hostname and Win 2003 DNS server

[Mirco Piccin]

Hi all!

On 6/25/08, Stackpole, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Chris understand well my situation.
  So i try his suggest:
  # apt-get install dnsutils
  # touch /etc/nsupdate.conf

  edit that file in this way:

  update delete HostName.DomainName.com. A
  update add HostName.DomainName.com. 86400 A 192.168.1.1
  show
  send
  quit

  (where HostName.DomainName.com is my Debian fqdn, and 192.168.1.1 my
  Debian ip address).
  Then run the following command:
  # nsupdate -v /etc/nsupdate.conf

  Here you are my output:

  Outgoing update query:
  ;; -HEADER- opcode: UPDATE, status: NOERROR, id:  0
  ;; flags: ; ZONE: 0, PREREQ: 0, UPDATE: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
  ;; UPDATE SECTION:
  HostName.DomainName.com.  0   ANY A
  HostName.DomainName.com.  86400   IN  A   192.168.1.1

  couldn't get address for 'DNSHostName.DomainName.com': not found

...
  My suggestion would be to try adding:
  server DNSHostName.DomainName.com

  as the first line in your /etc/nsupdate.conf file. Should it not
  resolve, try the IP.

Done.
But i have this output:

;; -HEADER- opcode: UPDATE, status: NOERROR, id:  0
;; flags: ; ZONE: 0, PREREQ: 0, UPDATE: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; UPDATE SECTION:
HostName.DomainName.com.  0   ANY A
HostName.DomainName.com.  86400   IN  A   192.168.1.1

update failed: REFUSED

I'm thinking that there could be some problems in the DNS server...


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Re: Debian Server hostname and Win 2003 DNS server

[Mirco Piccin]

Hi all.

  I have 2 new running Debian Etch :-) server into an (old)  Windows
  environment.
  Servers work like a charm, but i am not able to ping them by hostname.
  They are configured with a static ip address and have samba installed and
  working.

  Is there some problem with adding the machines as A records in the Windows
 DNS Management console?

I am not the Windows Administrator. So i call the man who administer
the DNS and DHCP server.
He tell me that the Windows 2003 DNS service does not allow dns entry
update if the machine is not registered in Active Directory.

Of course those Debian machine are NOT registered in AD.
So, the way suggested by Chris is of course the right one, but in the
case below explained.

The solution could be:
- add the Debian machine in the AD (i'm not good enough yet :-D), but
the Windows admin will not be very happy  for this - he reads that
maybe required an installation of  Windows Services for UNIX 3.5
- enter manually the DNS entry on DNS server : here that admin tell me
that due to some feature that i don't remember (sorry), there will be
the risk that the DNS server delete that entry after 7/14 days if not
queried for that period.

We have not take a decision yet.
:-D

Regards!
M


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Re: Debian Server hostname and Win 2003 DNS server

[Mirco Piccin]

Hi all!

 I too ran into that issue with the 2k3 DNS server I use. For me, I just
  set up the nsupdate command within a cron job to run weekly. The forced
  update resets the time counter on our 2k3 DNS server. I do not know if
  it is the same on yours.

  I read the man pages again and did a quick google search. It looks like
  this is possible to use with nsupdate, you just need to pass the right
  information (which for you, I do not know what that would be). My
  suggestion would be to read the man page and google whatever terms you
  think might help you so that you know what flags will do the job.

Thanks, Chris, I'll do the same!
Regards!
M


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Re: Debian Server hostname and Win 2003 DNS server

[Mirco Piccin]

 Hi!

  He's talking out of his bottom.

  I also walk the Dark Path, and I administer a Small Business Server 2003,
 based on Windows Server 2003. It has an Etch server, two routers and a
 printer in the forward lookup zone of the local domain, absolutely none of
 which are domain members, but all, by virtue of DNS entries, known to AD.

  How in hell's name does he make a gateway router an AD member? Possibly AD
 won't accept a zone transfer from a non-AD machine, but there's nothing
 stopping him entering it by hand.

  It's right click, New Host (A)...

Yes, i'm sure you are right.
I've no access to that machine, but if its admin does not want to do a
simple right click :-D


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Re: mounting an smbfs as non superuser

[Mirco Piccin]

Hi all

On 6/5/08, Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Tony Heal wrote:


 I am trying to mount an smbfs as the backup user and something is not
 right. I can run this as root and it works fine

 mount -t smbfs –o owner=backup -o lfs -o
 username=administrator,password=XX //192.168.2.200/drobo/media/drobo/

 yet when I mount it that way the backup user has no permissions. If I try
 and mount it as the backup user I get a message stating only root can do
 that.

 mount: only root can do that


Yeah.


 Anyone know how I can mount this so that the backup user can write to it

  I don't know if there is anything different about smbfs, but when I get
 that message from mount it means either:

 There is no entry in /etc/fstab for that filesystem/mountpoint combo
 or
 There is an fstab entry, but it does not have the user option



Yes, a solution could be to add a fstab entry.

Another way is to use smbmount.
You need to set uid root smbmnt, smbmount, smbumount, mount, umount (chmod
u+s ..).
And the mount the remote share with smbmount command:
smbmount //remoteshare /mount/point  -o
username=user,password=password,workgroup=workgroup

It works for me.
I use many remote shares, and the mount is related to some other scripts, so
i prefer this way to the fstab edit.

Hope it helps you.
Regards
M

Re: Issue with VMware

[Mirco Piccin]

Hi

 So I installed VMware server, had to use the any-any update for I use the
 2.6.24 kernel and
 when I try to run it, it says that same message as before running the
 vmware-conifig.pl tool.

I'm running about the same kernel (2.6.24-1-686).
I'm running also VMWare server rel. 1.0.5 (latest).
First i install VMWare Server with its installer (vmware-install.pl)
and then, when the installer fails creating modules, i use the
runme.pl included in vmware-any-any-update package (rel 116).

 I also tried VMware Workstation trial, and that didn't work either.

 I tried running vmware-config.pl after running the any-any update several
 times, and I get the same message.

Maybe posting error will help us.

Anyway, if you update often your system (as me), the problem you
encountered could be related to the current gcc version (different
from the one used to compile the kernel).
If so, you can recreate the link of /usr/bin/gcc to point to the right
gcc version, for example:

# ls -l /usr/bin/gcc*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  7 2008-04-09 21:27 /usr/bin/gcc - gcc-4.1
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  82064 2008-03-29 18:16 /usr/bin/gcc-3.4
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 195844 2008-03-10 00:10 /usr/bin/gcc-4.1
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 192252 2008-03-24 01:09 /usr/bin/gcc-4.2
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 207008 2008-04-02 05:04 /usr/bin/gcc-4.3

# rm /usr/bin/gcc
# ln -s /usr/bin/gcc-4.2 /usr/bin/gcc

(of course gcc version may be different).

...and the retry with the installer or with the any-any-update.
Or, better, you can force the use of a specific GCC version, but i
don't remember how do that in this case.

Hope it helps you.
Regards
M


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Re: vmware-server with 2.6.24

[Mirco Piccin]

Hi all
About vmware server and 2.6.24 kernel:

 http://blog.creonfx.com/temp/vmware-any-any-update-116.tgz works for me.

AFAIK, vmware workstation 6 and vmware server 1.0.4 don't need any 
 patch. I've tried both of them on 2.6.22 and 2.6.24. Both run very well.

I've right now installed the new (3 weeks ago) server release with the
any-any-update support, and in specific:

VMware-server-1.0.5-80187
vmware-any-any-update-116

It works well.
Regards


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Flash presentation embedded on .exe file

[Mirco Piccin]

Hi all.
I've a flash presentation embedded into an .exe file.
To see that i must use my windows machine.

What can i do to see also in my linux machine that presentation?
Is there a way to decompile that .exe file to obtain the .swf file?

I try also using wine, but with no success.
Any suggest?

Regards
M


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Re: Flash presentation embedded on .exe file

[Mirco Piccin]

Hi all.

I apologize for this self-reply, but i solved my own problem (google
is the best).

  I've a flash presentation embedded into an .exe file.
  To see that i must use my windows machine.

I use this tool :

http://www.northcode.com/resources/utilities/exe.html

that run also with wine.
And works well.

Regards
M


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Re: vmware-server with 2.6.24

[Mirco Piccin]

Hi all.

  I have found from previous times trying to install vmware not to look to
  hard, sometimes it just go to far, which is why I try and kiss it.  So
  tried out the any-any stuff, it worked so I was happy.

  But knowing it is a simple things as changing a header file name, I
  might re look at it and go back to the kernel modules from the vmware
  tar ball

yes, you must modify the /vmmon-only/include/vcpuset.h included in
vmmon.tar (into vmware-any-any-update115.tar.gz)

SO:

# wget http://knihovny.cvut.cz/ftp/pub/vmware/vmware-any-any-update115.tar.gz
# tar zxvf vmware-any-any-update115.tar.gz
# cd vmware-any-any-update115
# cp vmmon.tar vmmon.tar.ori
# tar xvf vmmon.tar

You must modify ./vmmon-only/include/vcpuset.h
edit
#include asm/bitops.h
to obtain
#include linux/bitops.h

so, finally, you'll have:
...
#elif defined MODULE
  #include linux/bitops.h
#elif defined __APPLE__  defined KERNEL
...

Recreate the tar file and run the runme.pl (instead of vmware-config.pl)

# tar cvfp vmmon.tar vmmon-only
# ./runme.pl

Hope this help.
Regards
M


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Re: Install Debian into Fabiatech embedded system

[Mirco Piccin]

Hi and thanks for reply!

On 3/14/08, Kevin Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 04:04:23PM +0100, Mirco Piccin wrote:
   Hi all.
   Does anyone  never install Debian into embedded system like this one?
  
   
 http://www.fabiatech.com/fabia/products/index.php?main_sn=3sub_sn=10p_sn=59title=FB2612

 Have you seen http://www.emdebian.org/ ?

The embedded system linked above, has a x86 processor. Emdebian will
work good on it?

I need to install also RTAI ( RealTime Application Interface :
http://www.rtai.org) on it.
Does anyone have some experience on that?
Any suggest?

Regards
M


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Install Debian into Fabiatech embedded system

[Mirco Piccin]

Hi all.
Does anyone  never install Debian into embedded system like this one?

http://www.fabiatech.com/fabia/products/index.php?main_sn=3sub_sn=10p_sn=59title=FB2612

It seems to be standard enought, but any suggests will be appreciated!
Reagrds
M


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Re: Install Debian into Fabiatech embedded system

[Mirco Piccin]

Thanks David.

   Does anyone  never install Debian into embedded system like this one?
  
   http://www.fabiatech.com/fabia/products/index.php?main_sn=3sub_sn=10p_sn=
  59title=FB2612

 Given that it has a CF slot, and I presume you are doing to install Debian on
  the CF, then the easiest way to do this is to build the root partition on
  the CF from a PC, and then boot that.  I have done this many times with WRAP
  cards.  Depending on the size of the CF you may need to strip some things
  out (like /usr/share/doc) before it will fit (I installed onto a disk and
  then stripped things out and then copied the contents and ran lilo to build
  a boot sector).

  If you do not want to attach a CRT/LCD and keyboard, you might also try
  setting the boot parameters to use a serial console.

A boy ask me to install also a wm (KDE) in that.
Assuming that i can use DOM or CF up to 4gb sized, wiill KDE run on an
embedded system like that (Geode 500mhz)?

Regards
M


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Re: Install Debian into Fabiatech embedded system

[Mirco Piccin]

Hi all again!

 Does anyone  never install Debian into embedded system like this one?

 
 http://www.fabiatech.com/fabia/products/index.php?main_sn=3sub_sn=10p_sn=
59title=FB2612

   Given that it has a CF slot, and I presume you are doing to install 
 Debian on
the CF, then the easiest way to do this is to build the root partition on
the CF from a PC, and then boot that.  I have done this many times with 
 WRAP
cards.  Depending on the size of the CF you may need to strip some things
out (like /usr/share/doc) before it will fit (I installed onto a disk and
then stripped things out and then copied the contents and ran lilo to 
 build
a boot sector).

   A boy ask me to install also a wm (KDE) in that.
   Assuming that i can use DOM or CF up to 4gb sized, wiill KDE run on an
   embedded system like that (Geode 500mhz)?

 It'll be a bit on the slow side, but it should work.  Esspecially if
  you give it adequate RAM.

I imagine that, but never tried before. Thanks!

  Slightly OT: You say that a boy asks you to do this.  Is this just
   a language-translation issue, or does a child really want this?

:-D No, not a child, an adult!

Thanks!
King Regards
M


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Re: Strange /usr/bin file

[Mirco Piccin]

Hi!

 # Dear package manager, in what package do we have '['?
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -S [
 dpkg: [ not found.
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/[
 dpkg: /usr/bin/[ not found.
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -S '/usr/bin/\['
 coreutils: /usr/bin/[

 # Hmm... I guess some initial knowledge is required after all

:-D
Of course!

 Now we don't want to trust our local system. So let's ask
 packages.debian.org:

 http://packages.debian.org/coreutils , and check the files list.
 Or check in the files search list in http://packages.debian.org/

Thanks!
Regards
M


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Re: Strange /usr/bin file

[Mirco Piccin]

Hi and thanks for the replies.

 man [ is quite evealing

...and that was the first thing i've done:

# man [
TEST(1)  User Commands TEST(1)

NAME
   test - check file types and compare values

SYNOPSIS
   test EXPRESSION
   test

   [ EXPRESSION ]
   [ ]
   [ OPTION

..but sorry, for me was not full understandable that [ = TEST,
expecially after i've read about the 2.6. 24.1 kernel  (mine) exploit
in a debian topic, today :-D

I've been using Debian for about 5 years, and i've never seen this
command. Now i know it, thanks!

Regards
M


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Strange /usr/bin file

[Mirco Piccin]

Hi all.
I find in my Debian Lenny machine this file, in /usr/bin folder:

-rwxr-xr-x  1 root   root   34504 2008-01-29 04:03 [

Who created this file? What does it do?

Thanks for any reply

Regards
M


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Re: Signature based backup solution?

[Mirco Piccin]

Hi!

  Do you know any backup solution which store backup like mirror, but each 
  file is
  compressed? And then can do incremental backups without an original file? 
  (like
  rdiff http://linux.die.net/man/1/rdiff)

I use BackupPC.
http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/

It stores files by incremental or full backup,  using ssh, rsynch or
smb (so you can backup Win or Linux or Mac without problems).
It also compress files, and handles versioning.
It has also a web gui very simple to use.

I use it with high satisfaction.
Try it, it is also present in debian repository.
I suggest to try the last release (3.1) from source, even if it's
available from debian repository (but only with lenny/sid you have the
same rel.; in etch it's available the 3.0.1 rel.).

Hope that helps you.
M


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Re: VMWare player: why no package?

[Mirco Piccin]

Hi all.

 Worked fine with 2.6.22-4 here.  AMD Turion (K7) if that helps.  I run
 Testing.

I'm running VMWare Server (released free as the Player) with
2.6.22-3-686 (Centrino Duo) on lenny/sid.

To build correctly the modules , i use the vmware-any-any-update,
that is a tool released by the VMware developer (u can find ez with
google).

Anyway, i'm starting to use VirtualBox OpenSource Edition, that is
available also in Debian repository and has no problem with modules.

Regards,
M


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Re: install etch from usb onto xp machine

[Mirco Piccin]

Hi.
Are you sure your pc can boot from usb?

 Any easy way to make the XP machine see the usb drive, boot from it,
 and do an install?

I notice that some pc doesn't allow boot from usb, some other allows
that but you must enable the usb boot in bios utility (and set the
correct boot order, of course)

Verify that, you must make bootable the usb-key.
If you have a linux machine you can use syslinux.
I've find just now this old guide (http://d-i.pascal.at/) that i think
can help you.

I usually install debian in no-cd machine using etherboot
(http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/apas02.html.en#howto-getting-images-netboot).

Regards
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Re: concatenating pdf files

[Mirco Piccin]

Hi!

 I have scanned related pages of a document as jpeg
 (limitation of software), converted to pdf using
 imagemagick::convert. Now is there a way to concatenate
 the pdf files (or jpeg files and then conver to pdf)
 to collect the complete document.

i use GhostScript in a similar case in this way:

gs -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOUTPUTFILE=firstANDsecond.pdf -dBATCH
first.pdf second.pdf

that for me works perfectly. Of course you can join more than 2 files.
'man gs' (and google :-D) surely help you for parameters.

Hope that helps you!

Re: Replacing HD with Flash IDE drive

[Mirco Piccin]

Hi!

 Anyways, flash based IDE drive would be the solution I am guessing. I am
not really concerned with the size as I am running a fairly
 minimal debian system. So about 4G would be perfect.

 So anybody has any experiences with this on Debian? Does the Flash HD
simply look like an IDE drive in debian?

Yes, i've done the same for my home server.
It's based on a fanless miniitx, and the only noise was the HD.

I use a CF 2 IDE adaptor; CF is recognize as IDE hd and the installation was
done with no problems.
And until now no problems, of course.

Also i use a 4 gb cf.

Only, i don't know if there an adaptor from PowerBook g4 hd connector (sata?
eide?) to cf.
Hope this encourage you!

Bye

Re: Anyone using Debian on notebook?

[Mirco Piccin]

Hi!

I run debian lenny/sid in my Thinkpad T60 with no problems : wifi works,
hdap works, fingerprint reader works, acpi works, and also supend (sometimes
:-D) works.
Before that i run debian sarge on a Thinkpad R51P and T40 again with no big
problems.

I had mre problems using Win$ :-D

And in one case (Compaq Presario p900) debian sarge was the only linux
distro to work good!

So, don't worry, the (debian) community is always present to give support!
There are also many web site where find a lot of info for any laptop!

Good Luck!

Re: Default Gnome2 Font

[Mirco Piccin]

Hi all.

 thanks for the suggest, but output about screen resolution is correct:

 # xdpyinfo | egrep 'dimens|resol'
   dimensions:1400x1050 pixels (286x214 millimeters)- that is my
 screen resolution..
   resolution:124x125 dots per inch


 For now i modify manually the fonts and fonts size from Appereance
menu,
 but is not enought.
 I'd like to know which is the mint fonts config

Try to set Xft.dpi explicitly to the correct value:

echo Xft.dpi: 124 | xrdb -merge -

All seem rigth, but i have still the problem.
I try to boot with a live cd.
And i discover that i must set another Resolution in the
System - Preference -Appereance - Fonts - Details

Infact if i here define a Resolution: 96 dots per inch, all fonts
dimension in right. Ant here's the solution (i think) to this problem.
If i define instead Resolution: 124 dots per inch, all fonts dimension
seem bigger.

But, i don't understand: if i have a bigger resolution, i should have
smaller fonts, or not???

Bye and thanks!

Re: multimedia.debian.org question

[Mirco Piccin]

Hi.

 What can I add to /etc/apt/sources.list to access multimedia.debian.org
repository?  This machine runs lenny if that's important.

I'm running lenny/sid, too.
I've added :

### Marillat Debian Multimedia ###
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ testing main
deb-src http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ testing main

to my /etc/apt/source.list

Hope it helps you and that's what you are looking for!
Bye!

Re: Default Gnome2 Font

[Mirco Piccin]

Hi!

 ...fonts on gnome 2 is now strange: seems big and bold (seems to use
 magnify :-)).

Check if the output of

xdpyinfo | egrep 'dimens|resol'

matches the actual dimensions of your monitor.


thanks for the suggest, but output about screen resolution is correct:

# xdpyinfo | egrep 'dimens|resol'
  dimensions:1400x1050 pixels (286x214 millimeters)- that is my
screen resolution..
  resolution:124x125 dots per inch


For now i modify manually the fonts and fonts size from Appereance menu,
but is not enought.
I'd like to know which is the mint fonts config

Thanks for any advice!

Default Gnome2 Font

[Mirco Piccin]

Hi all.
Few days ago it's arrived my new laptop :-D
I install on it the debian lenny via netinstall.
This time i choose Desktop Environment from the installer cd (usually
start with base system and then upgrade with window manager packages - of
course, only on user laptop :-D).

All work good.
On my display (14.1 inches at 1400x1050) gnome 2 is fantastic.
Then, i choose to modify my /etc/apt/source.list changing lenny to
testing.
And upgrade all upgradable.

All work good again.
But...fonts on gnome 2 is now strange: seems big and bold (seems to use
magnify :-)).

Can anyone help me to do my gnome beautiful?
What could happened to the font configuration?
Who can tell me if the default clean gnome2 fonts configuration is now
usable?

Thanks and feel free to ask me more details...

Remote execution on Win machine

[Mirco Piccin]

Hi all.
I need to launch on a Win remote machine a .bat script (that run an .exe
file) from another linux machine.
Is there a way to do that?

Probably using cygwin i could, but it would be better to install less
possible on that Win machine.

Thanks!

Re: Remote execution on Win machine

[Mirco Piccin]

Hi

How about rdesktop/grdesktop?


Well, i don't know if i can run remotely a .bat script on a Win machine with
rdesktop, but i know that i don't want to remote connect to this machine
(like a terminal client).

Also, the linux box is without X.
Anyway, you mean the -s rdesktop option?

Re: Remote execution on Win machine

[Mirco Piccin]

Hi again.

I need to launch on a Win remote machine a .bat script (that run an .exe
file)
from another linux machine.

I've not found any way to launch a .bat script using rdesktop, because it
open a graphical remote desktop session.
I don't need that and it does not work as i espected.

So, i'm considering cygwin.
I've installed cygwin on a test remote win machine, and install sshd.
Now, i can run a script  using ssh:

ssh user@win_ip cmd /c path_to_my_script

Because of it's a test machine, i'm temporary not able to check if the
correct script work.
Anyway, my test script do:
- create a file;
- launch calc.exe;

The result:
- file was created on win machine;
- on task bar i see the calc.exe process, but i'm not able to see anything
on win machine.

I suppose that it's working a kind of X redirection but it could be
possible to disable this kind of redirection? And open a graphical
application remotely?
Surely i will not need to launch a graphical application, but now i'd like
to understand better.
Any suggests?

Thanks!

Re: Linux Printer Sharing

[Mirco Piccin]

Hi all.
I've  a Etch machine that acts also as a print server.
In my laptop is installed a lenny, and in my wife laptop, win XP pro (:-().
I have 2 printers configured in my server (one usb port and one lpt port).

I have NOT installed samba on my server (well, really it's installed, but
not configured to share printers!).

I have configured both in my laptop using CUPS and pointing the to the
server (for example: http://my_server:631/printers/my_printer_name).
In the XP laptop i use the Adobe Postscript Driver and configure in the way
described above.

Of course, in my server i have modified the cups configuration file
(etc/cups/cupsd.conf) to allow the connection from other hosts.

Anyway, i agree with Ron  Steve, SAMBA should be the better way to do that
job.
For win machine you can use also the cupsaddsmb utility to automagic
install!!

Hope it helps you!
Bye

Re: dual purpose USB-key

[Mirco Piccin]

Hi.

 Is it possible to boot to grub and in its menu choose between either doing
maintenance on the
 current hard disk or running the installer to install a basic debian
 system on a new hard disk?

Last xmas i do something similar for some customers.
My usb-key drive was so 'configured':
- a multimedia distro: geexbox
- a tiny debian distribution: DamnSmallLinux
- a tiny System Utility distribution (Gentoo based): SystemRescueCD
- a tiny Slack distro: Slack PopCorn Edition
..all bootable from Grub.

And there was also installed WinPenPack to allow to run some GPL
applications from Window$ without install anything.

I don't remember well the way i do that, but all i remember is:
1 - install geexbox on the usb-key (you can do that with 'hd-install' option
while booting geexbox);
2 - copy all the DamnSmallLinux, SystemRescueCD, Slack to the root
partition;
3 - edit the grub (installed by geexbox)  with the new kernel and verify
device.map;
4 - personalize grub - background, timeout, default etc etc;

So, the way i do that is installing on yhe usb-key a distribution that allow
the boot via grub (not syslinux).
From that there was not problem.

If you want i can share this usb-key image (only 512 MB!!), so you can look
at that.
Hope it helps you!
Bye!

Re: dual purpose USB-key

[Mirco Piccin]

Hi!

 In your experiment, you installed multiple distros. But I assume that
 the installation routine is quite different from the installer unless
 the debian installer is kind of a live system that could be added to
 grub menu.


well, i use geexbox live-cd, using hd-install (or install-hd, i don't
remember well :-)) choosing the usb-key drive as HD on which install it.
Then, to add the many distros, i use live cds (dsl, slack  systemrescuecd).

For example, damn small linux live cd use syslinux to boot.
So, i look at kernel and initrd listed in it's /boot/isolinux/isolinux.cfg
(the syslinux configuration file in the live cdrom, in this case from the
old version i used):

DEFAULT linux24
APPEND ramdisk_size=10 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off vga=791
initrd=minirt24.gz nomce noapic quiet BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix
TIMEOUT 300

..and modify grub menu.lst (the grub installed by geexbox, in the usb-key
drive) in this way:

title DamnSmallLinux (GNU/Debian based)
root(hd0,0)
kernel /dsl/linux24 ramdisk_size=10 init=/etc/init lang=it apm=power-off
vga=791
initrd /dsl/minirt24.gz  nomce noapic quiet frugal restore=sda1
BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix
boot
.

So i convert syslinux boot string into a grub stanza.
I don't install DSL in any way, i boot that in LIVE mode from usb-key drive.

And so on for the other distributions.
So i think that there's no problem with the debian net-install (for example:
looking at debian-40r1-i386-netinst.iso) - there's a folder called
isolinux with file isolinux.cfg:
...
LABEL install
kernel /install.386/vmlinuz
append vga=normal initrd=/install.386/initrd.gz --
LABEL linux
kernel /install.386/vmlinuz
append vga=normal initrd=/install.386/initrd.gz --
LABEL installgui
kernel /install.386/vmlinuz
append video=vesa:ywrap,mtrr vga=788
initrd=/install.386/gtk/initrd.gz --

LABEL expert
kernel /install.386/vmlinuz
append priority=low vga=normal initrd=/install.386/initrd.gz --
LABEL expertgui
kernel /install.386/vmlinuz
append priority=low video=vesa:ywrap,mtrr vga=788
initrd=/install.386/gtk/initrd.gz --
...
where you can find out the kernel, the initrd and many boot options.
You had to copy all the contents of the live cd (excluded autorun.*,
readme.* etc etc, if you want) and edit grub menu.lst.

Instead of grub you can use syslinux (i don't remember why i choose to use
grub, at the end).
But the way is about the same: you must put in one file (grub way:
menu.lstor syslinux way:
syslinux.cfg ) the boot string for all the kernel you have in the usb-key
drive.

Hope it helps you a little more...

Bye!

Re: LSI Logic 1068 controller

[Mirco Piccin]

Hi!
 LSI Logic 1068 controller is supported in the debian linux?
Probably this:

http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html

is a good start point, but your controller is not reported.
If you are going to buy a new raid sata controller card,  you can  be sure
that  3ware is full supported (it's quite expensive...).

Hope it helps you!
Bye