Limiting scp access
Hi, I'm trying to setup a secure replacement for an ftp server where a limited set of users should be able to connect using scp only while the other users should not be able to connect at all. I know scponly can be used to prevent a user from getting a full login using ssh, but how do I prevent regular users from logging in via ssh at all. The idea is to setup a server which is available from the Internet for 1 specific user using scp only, but all other users can get full ssh access when they are connecting from my internal network only. I want to make sure that a user who has full ssh access from my internal network cannot get full ssh access when trying to connect from home. Any ideas? Nico -- - It has been said that there are only two businesses that refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry. - Nico De Ranter Senior System Administrator Sony Service Center (NSCE) The Corporate Village, Da Vincilaan 7-D1 B-1935 Zaventem, Belgium Telephone: +32 (0)2 700 86 41 Fax: +32 (0)2 700 86 22 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Limiting scp access
On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 13:57 +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: Nico De Ranter: The idea is to setup a server which is available from the Internet for 1 specific user using scp only, but all other users can get full ssh access when they are connecting from my internal network only. See man 5 sshd_config for the option AllowUsers. You can qualify usernames with a hostname like [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wildcards are allowed, too, so it should be possible to do something like Duh, that's the option I was looking for thanks! AllowUsers scponly [EMAIL PROTECTED] But I am not sure about the localdomain part. It might be easier to run two instances of SSH on the machine. One of them listens on a local interface, the other one on the public interface with the restriction to the scponly user. That's what I'm intending to do. Less chance of making a config error and accidentaly allowing everybody in :-) Thanks!! Nico J. -- - It has been said that there are only two businesses that refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry. - Nico De Ranter Senior System Administrator Sony Service Center (NSCE) The Corporate Village, Da Vincilaan 7-D1 B-1935 Zaventem, Belgium Telephone: +32 (0)2 700 86 41 Fax: +32 (0)2 700 86 22 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Howto setup my own CA the right way?
Install openvpn and have a look at the scripts in /usr/share/doc/openvpn/examples/easy-rsa/ These make it really easy to create your own CA, server keys, client keys... (Note: you may have to copy them to /etc/openvpn first) Nico On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 02:55 +0100, Pascal Huisman wrote: Can anyone point me to a tutorial/howto on how to setup my own CA the right way? Scripts from freeradius like CA.all, or CA.pl, and apache2-ssl-certificate are all fast ways to nowhere. The many tutorials I find on the net differ so much, it's hard to figure out how to do it proper. Afterwards I wish to create certs for apache, ssl, openvpn, freeradius, clients and more. Thx. Pascal. -- - It has been said that there are only two businesses that refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry. - Nico De Ranter Senior System Administrator Sony Service Center (NSCE) The Corporate Village, Da Vincilaan 7-D1 B-1935 Zaventem, Belgium Telephone: +32 (0)2 700 86 41 Fax: +32 (0)2 700 86 22 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
webcollab, php5.0 and ctype
Hi, I'm trying to install webcollab running on Debian Sarge (with php5.0 installed from http://people.debian.org/~dexter . Webcollab depends on php5.0-ctype however even after installing that package (and rebooting just in case) ctype still doesn't seem to be available. When I do 'php -m' I get a long list of modules but ctype is not in the list. there is a .ini file in the /etc/php5.0/conf.d directory that seems to be correct (it looks the same as for the other modules) and the ctype.so file is available. Anybody any idea why ctype doesn't get loaded (I don't know much about php)? # more /etc/php5.0/conf.d/500ctype.ini extension=ctype.so # ls -l /usr/lib/php5.0/20041030/ total 3748 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 28316 Oct 27 13:34 bcmath.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12120 Oct 27 13:33 bz2.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23176 Oct 27 13:33 calendar.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root9180 Oct 27 13:32 ctype.so ... Thanks in advance, Nico -- - It has been said that there are only two businesses that refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry. - Nico De Ranter Senior System Administrator Sony Service Center (NSCE) The Corporate Village, Da Vincilaan 7-D1 B-1935 Zaventem, Belgium Telephone: +32 (0)2 700 86 41 Fax: +32 (0)2 700 86 22 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: webcollab, php5.0 and ctype [SOLVED]
Fixed the problem. In case somebody else is interested: PHP loads different modules depending on how it is called. From the command line it looks at /etc/php5.0/conf.d , when called via apache2 it looks at /etc/php5.0/apache2/conf.d . Altough most (all?) modules are added to /etc/php5.0/conf.d automaticaly, none are added to the apache2 setup by default. Add a link in /etc/php5.0/apache2/conf.d and restart apache to get it working. Nico On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 14:05 +0100, Nico De Ranter wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install webcollab running on Debian Sarge (with php5.0 installed from http://people.debian.org/~dexter . Webcollab depends on php5.0-ctype however even after installing that package (and rebooting just in case) ctype still doesn't seem to be available. When I do 'php -m' I get a long list of modules but ctype is not in the list. there is a .ini file in the /etc/php5.0/conf.d directory that seems to be correct (it looks the same as for the other modules) and the ctype.so file is available. Anybody any idea why ctype doesn't get loaded (I don't know much about php)? # more /etc/php5.0/conf.d/500ctype.ini extension=ctype.so # ls -l /usr/lib/php5.0/20041030/ total 3748 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 28316 Oct 27 13:34 bcmath.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12120 Oct 27 13:33 bz2.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23176 Oct 27 13:33 calendar.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root9180 Oct 27 13:32 ctype.so ... Thanks in advance, Nico -- - It has been said that there are only two businesses that refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry. - Nico De Ranter Senior System Administrator Sony Service Center (NSCE) The Corporate Village, Da Vincilaan 7-D1 B-1935 Zaventem, Belgium Telephone: +32 (0)2 700 86 41 Fax: +32 (0)2 700 86 22 -- - It has been said that there are only two businesses that refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry. - Nico De Ranter Senior System Administrator Sony Service Center (NSCE) The Corporate Village, Da Vincilaan 7-D1 B-1935 Zaventem, Belgium Telephone: +32 (0)2 700 86 41 Fax: +32 (0)2 700 86 22 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.debian.org down?
Is anybody else having problems reaching the debian website? I can't reach www.debian.org or security.debian.org. DNS still works (ah, wait, they appear to be the same machine 194.109.137.218. hardware problem? scheduled downtime?). Nico -- - It has been said that there are only two businesses that refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry. - Nico De Ranter Senior System Administrator Sony Service Center (NSCE) The Corporate Village, Da Vincilaan 7-D1 B-1935 Zaventem, Belgium Telephone: +32 (0)2 700 86 41 Fax: +32 (0)2 700 86 22 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: www.debian.org down? -- resolved
Seems to be resolved. I should have waited a bit longer before posting this :-) Nico On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 09:06 +0200, Nico De Ranter wrote: Is anybody else having problems reaching the debian website? I can't reach www.debian.org or security.debian.org. DNS still works (ah, wait, they appear to be the same machine 194.109.137.218. hardware problem? scheduled downtime?). Nico -- - It has been said that there are only two businesses that refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry. - Nico De Ranter Senior System Administrator Sony Service Center (NSCE) The Corporate Village, Da Vincilaan 7-D1 B-1935 Zaventem, Belgium Telephone: +32 (0)2 700 86 41 Fax: +32 (0)2 700 86 22 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: www.debian.org down? -- wrong thread
Oops, my mistake. I'm too lazy to type debian-user@lists.debian.org (or put it in my addressbook) so I tend to grab an existing message, hit reply (eh, I mean Reply-to-list :-), remove the existing subject and content and type a new message. Guess there is something in the headers that ties it to the thread, I always assumed threading was done based on the subject. Will try to be less lazy next time :-) Nico On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 09:37 +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 09:06:54AM +0200, Nico De Ranter wrote: Is anybody else having problems reaching the debian website? I can't reach www.debian.org or security.debian.org. DNS still works (ah, wait, they appear to be the same machine 194.109.137.218. hardware problem? scheduled downtime?). I was going to ask you to post a new message for a new topic, don't reply to an existing, unrelated thread, as your message was threaded with the discussion about the Reply-To header in my client. However, in inspection of your message's headers, I cannot see _why_ tis is the case: I can't see References: or In-Reply-To: headers. So I don't know why my mailer made this decision. Does anyone else have an idea? (Maybe it's too early for me) -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ FD35 0B0A C6DD 5D91 DB7A 83D1 168B 4E71 7032 F238 -- - It has been said that there are only two businesses that refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry. - Nico De Ranter Senior System Administrator Sony Service Center (NSCE) The Corporate Village, Da Vincilaan 7-D1 B-1935 Zaventem, Belgium Telephone: +32 (0)2 700 86 41 Fax: +32 (0)2 700 86 22 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: epson R300 w/ cups
On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 21:37, Greg Folkert wrote: On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 17:09 +0200, Nico De Ranter wrote: Do you get the same quality as on Windows? In my experience the quality on Windows is still better :-(. Haven't tried printing photos on Linux. I've had no luck at all printing directly onto CDs from Linux. If you find something, please let me know! :-) Nico On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 10:19, Alvin Oga wrote: hi ya fyi... contrary to some (cups) howto's epson stylus photo R300 w/ cups-1.1.23 seems to work fine :-) - it'd be my first printer to ever work w/ cups after fiddling with its config files for 8hrs or so - next step .. to print fancy graphics directly onto the CDs ( guess what kind of CDs and it aint cd's w/ pics ) Here goes! Bug #293890, is a request from me to provide 5.0.0-beta2 in experimental. Roger Leigh, now has released 5.0.0-beta4 into experimental. BTW, experimental can be installed in any version additionally. I have both an R300 and an RX600, I can do near everything that either printer can do. Photos are spectacular, exactly the same as Windows (IMNSHO) as I have photos printer through the same printer from both Windows and Linux with Cups and Gimpprint. Make sure you have the latest PPDs/Capabilities description files for the package. It made a difference last year, might not now. Heck, even Epson claims Linux is supported now, through a 3rd party using CUPS. Well, the last time I played with it was about 1 year ago (that 's about 10 years in IT time :-) so I'll definitely have a look at the new version. Thanks! Nico -- - It has been said that there are only two businesses that refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry. - Nico De Ranter Senior System Administrator Sony Service Center (NSCE) The Corporate Village, Da Vincilaan 7-D1 B-1935 Zaventem, Belgium Telephone: +32 (0)2 700 86 41 Fax: +32 (0)2 700 86 22 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: epson R300 w/ cups
Do you get the same quality as on Windows? In my experience the quality on Windows is still better :-(. Haven't tried printing photos on Linux. I've had no luck at all printing directly onto CDs from Linux. If you find something, please let me know! :-) Nico On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 10:19, Alvin Oga wrote: hi ya fyi... contrary to some (cups) howto's epson stylus photo R300 w/ cups-1.1.23 seems to work fine :-) - it'd be my first printer to ever work w/ cups after fiddling with its config files for 8hrs or so - next step .. to print fancy graphics directly onto the CDs ( guess what kind of CDs and it aint cd's w/ pics ) c ya alvin -- - It has been said that there are only two businesses that refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry. - Nico De Ranter Senior System Administrator Sony Service Center (NSCE) The Corporate Village, Da Vincilaan 7-D1 B-1935 Zaventem, Belgium Telephone: +32 (0)2 700 86 41 Fax: +32 (0)2 700 86 22 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrading to etch
On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 15:33, nullman wrote: isnt etch currently only a very young fork of sarge ? - so IT WILL be as stable as sarge the last months ! I'm not sure. Etch is likely to get the latest version of KDE, Gnome, Perl, python... soon which will make it very unstable for a while. Nico -- - It has been said that there are only two businesses that refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry. - Nico De Ranter Senior System Administrator Sony Service Center (NSCE) The Corporate Village, Da Vincilaan 7-D1 B-1935 Zaventem, Belgium Telephone: +32 (0)2 700 86 41 Fax: +32 (0)2 700 86 22 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sarge Kernel 2.6 and (K)dm)
I had the same problem after upgrading the kernel to 2.6. Mouse was gone completely in X, no way to get it back. I recompiled the kernel and everything works fine now. I'm not sure which change did the trick (I made a lot of changes to the kernel config). Nico On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 09:30:35AM +0200, Björn Wolter wrote: Ich habe installed a current snapshot of sarge the i installed the kernel 2.6.4 image now i cant boot directly into X. I use kdm as the login manager... kdm.log and XFree86*.log tells me that he has no core pointer, also he cannot open /dev/input/mice. strange is.. when i log in as root, and start kde with /etc/init.d/kdm start, he runs kdm and no errors like no core pointer appears. i have reconfigured the device section in XF86Config-4 to /dev/psaux and /dev/input/mice - all the same result. when i start debian with kernel 2.4.x kdm works well... so it must be problem with kernel 2.6 my mouse device section looks like this .. Identifier Generic Mouse Driver mouse Option SendCoreEvents true Option ProtocolImPS/2 Option Device /dev/input/mice Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 .. has someone a tip for me to run X (kdm) with kernel 2.6 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] - It has been said that there are only two businesses that refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry. - Nico De Ranter Senior System Administrator Sony Service Center (NSCE/VPE-B) The Corporate Village, Da Vincilaan 7-D1 B-1935 Zaventem, Belgium Telephone: +32 (0)2 700 86 41 Fax: +32 (0)2 700 86 22 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Using VLANs on Debian
/etc/network/if-pre-up.d/vlan was broken. Fixed it now (took me a while to figure out how ifup works). I'll try sending a patch to the maintainer if I can figure out how to do that :-) Nico On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 09:09:31PM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 04:30:57PM +0100, Nico De Ranter wrote: Hi, I'm trying to get VLANs to work on a Debian box. I've installed the vlan package and compiled vlan support into the kernel. Everything seems to work fine when I configure the interfaces manualy. However I can't figure out how to make sure the interfaces will come up automaticaly at boot time. The vlan package installs /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/vlan but there is no information on how it is used. Any ideas anyone? Thanks in advance I believe ifup should run those scripts automatically. Try man ifup. Perhaps it needs customizations? Or may be /etc/network/interfaces? -- If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas. -- George Bernard Shaw (sent by shaulk @ actcom . net . il) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] - It has been said that there are only two businesses that refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry. - Nico De Ranter Senior System Administrator Sony Service Center (NSCE/VPE-B) The Corporate Village, Da Vincilaan 7-D1 B-1935 Zaventem, Belgium Telephone: +32 (0)2 706 43 11 Fax: +32 (0)2 700 86 22 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Using VLANs on Debian
Hi, I'm trying to get VLANs to work on a Debian box. I've installed the vlan package and compiled vlan support into the kernel. Everything seems to work fine when I configure the interfaces manualy. However I can't figure out how to make sure the interfaces will come up automaticaly at boot time. The vlan package installs /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/vlan but there is no information on how it is used. Any ideas anyone? Thanks in advance Nico - It has been said that there are only two businesses that refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry. - Nico De Ranter Senior System Administrator Sony Service Center (NSCE/VPE-B) The Corporate Village, Da Vincilaan 7-D1 B-1935 Zaventem, Belgium Telephone: +32 (0)2 706 43 11 Fax: +32 (0)2 700 86 22 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
testing my mailserver
My ISP used to have an e-mail address where you could send a message to and then the server would send it right back at you including all the headers it received. Great for testing your mail server. Unfortunately my ISP doesn't offer this service anymore. Does anybody know a server that offers the same service? Thanks in advance, Nico - It has been said that there are only two businesses that refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry. - Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SDCE/VPE-B) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
nmap: No buffer space available
Hi, I'm using nmap to scan for unauthorized webservers on my internal network (class A, 10.0.0.0/8) using the following command: nmap -p80 -v -T normal 10.0.0.0/8 21 | tee /root/nmap.log after the first 255 hosts I get the following message: sendto in send_ip_raw: sendto(4, packet, 28, 0, 10.0.11.100, 16) = No buffer space available Sleeping 15 seconds then retrying sendto in send_ip_raw: sendto(4, packet, 28, 0, 10.0.11.100, 16) = No buffer space available Sleeping 60 seconds then retrying Any idea what buffers are running out of space? Anything I can do to fix this? Thanks in advance, Nico - It has been said that there are only two businesses that refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry. - Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SDCE/VPE-B) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Totaly OT: how to cut up pictures
Howdy, I'm afraid this is not realy Debian related but I'm not sure where to turn to otherwise and you guys seem to now everything anyway :-) I'm looking for a (free) tool (Linux or Windows, Linux prefered ofcourse) to cut up an image in rows and columns. I'm writing a webinterface to my ethernet switches, I have a drawing of the switch but I would like to be able to color the ports depending on some criteria. I figure the easiest way to do this is to cut up the image, create an HTMl table that fits it back together and fill in the correct images for the status of the ports. I tried a number of image editors to cut up the original image but I found no program that is able the at least cut an image into two new images. In stead I have to select a part, cut it into a new image, select another piece... But I always end up having pieces with 1 line too much or missing :-(. There has to be something outthere... Thanks in advance, Nico - It has been said that there are only two businesses that refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry. - Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SDCE/VPE-B) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux and wireless pcmcia
Hello again, I vaguely remember somebody sending me a very usefull e-mail on Friday or Saturday with the changes I had to make to get my setup running. Unfortunately I either accidentaly deleted this e-mail (happens sometimes when you get 600+ e-mail a day) or it could have been a voice talking to me in my dreams :-). I checked the list archives but I could find no trace of it. Anyway, if the e-mail actualy existed I would be much obliged if the original author could resend it :-) Thanks in advance again and again and again and again and again and again... Nico On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 04:58:08PM +0200, Nico De Ranter wrote: Howdy, I'm trying to get my wireless pcmcia card (Lucent Technologies, Orinico RangeWaveLAN Turbo 11MB Silver) to work on a desktop PC with a Texas Instruments PCI1410 cardbus controller runnign kernel 2.4.6. Unfortunately the system insists on seeing my card as anonymous memory. Any idea whether there is anything special needed to get wireless pcmcia to work? There doesn't seem to be any information regarding pcmcia in the the kernel source tree. Nico - It has been said that there are only two businesses that refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry. - Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SDCE/NEE-B) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] - It has been said that there are only two businesses that refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry. - Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SDCE/NEE-B) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Linux and wireless pcmcia
Howdy, I'm trying to get my wireless pcmcia card (Lucent Technologies, Orinico RangeWaveLAN Turbo 11MB Silver) to work on a desktop PC with a Texas Instruments PCI1410 cardbus controller runnign kernel 2.4.6. Unfortunately the system insists on seeing my card as anonymous memory. Any idea whether there is anything special needed to get wireless pcmcia to work? There doesn't seem to be any information regarding pcmcia in the the kernel source tree. Nico - It has been said that there are only two businesses that refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry. - Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SDCE/NEE-B) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Urgent: how to rescan SCSI channel for new drives?
Howdy, is it possible to add a scsi drive to a Linux system without having to reboot the machine i.o.w. is there a way to rescan the scsi bus (cfr drvconfig; disks on Solaris) ? Thanks in advance, Nico - It has been said that there are only two businesses that refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry. - Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SDCE/NEE-B) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
root access on serial port denied -(
Howdy, I'm setting up a number Linux servers in our lab. All servers will be connected through the serial port to a console master. Unfortunately it turns out the Debian installation (testing) refuses root login on the serial console because PAM consideres it not secure -(. Is there any way to turn this behaviour off? Thanks in advance, Nico - It has been said that there are only two businesses that refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry. - Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SDCE/NEE-B) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ouch, debconf stopped working
Ok, ok, I know I should have known better. I upgraded to unstable/testing some time ago, a few days ago I noticed X4.x was finaly in unstable so I upgraded again. Only to find out debconf can't live with a recent perl upgrade. Now the only thing I get is something like: Setting up nis (3.9-4) ... Can't modify goto in lvalue subroutine return at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Base.pm line 24, near } Compilation failed in require at (eval 4) line 3. ...propagated at /usr/share/perl/5.6.1/base.pm line 18. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Iterator.pm line 5. Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Question.pm line 7. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Question.pm line 7. Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Config.pm line 5. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Config.pm line 5. Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Log.pm line 8. Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Db.pm line 5. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Db.pm line 5. Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/debconf/frontend line 22. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/debconf/frontend line 22. dpkg: error processing nis (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 255 Errors were encountered while processing: nis Unfortunately I can't remove perl since it is kind of vital :-). And it doesn't seem to be possible to reinstall perl because then apt-get tells me perl is already up-to-date. Dito for the debconf package. Any ideas? I'm kind of lost here :-( Thanks in advance, Nico - It has been said that there are only two businesses that refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry. - Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SDCE/NEE-B) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ouch, debconf stopped working
Hmm, tried upgrading debconf again and now it works... strange... ok, never mind my previous mail :-) Nico On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 08:03:13PM +0200, Nico De Ranter wrote: Ok, ok, I know I should have known better. I upgraded to unstable/testing some time ago, a few days ago I noticed X4.x was finaly in unstable so I upgraded again. Only to find out debconf can't live with a recent perl upgrade. Now the only thing I get is something like: Setting up nis (3.9-4) ... Can't modify goto in lvalue subroutine return at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Base.pm line 24, near } Compilation failed in require at (eval 4) line 3. ...propagated at /usr/share/perl/5.6.1/base.pm line 18. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Iterator.pm line 5. Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Question.pm line 7. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Question.pm line 7. Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Config.pm line 5. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Config.pm line 5. Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Log.pm line 8. Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Db.pm line 5. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Db.pm line 5. Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/debconf/frontend line 22. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/debconf/frontend line 22. dpkg: error processing nis (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 255 Errors were encountered while processing: nis Unfortunately I can't remove perl since it is kind of vital :-). And it doesn't seem to be possible to reinstall perl because then apt-get tells me perl is already up-to-date. Dito for the debconf package. Any ideas? I'm kind of lost here :-( Thanks in advance, Nico - It has been said that there are only two businesses that refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry. - Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SDCE/NEE-B) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] - It has been said that there are only two businesses that refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry. - Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SDCE/NEE-B) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Trying to automount /home with info from NIS
Hi, I have a SUN based network. All user info (passwd, homedir) is distributed through NIS. I want to integrate a Linux box in my network allowing all my users to logon to it and get their homedirectory mounted automaticaly. I'm trying to use autofs to do this. I created bison:/# more /etc/auto.master /home +auto_home NIS contains a map called auto_home: bison:/# ypcat -k auto_home nico immortelle:/usr/people/nico ... However when I try to access /home/nico I get bison:/# cd /home/nico bash: cd: /home/nico: No such file or directory In /var/log/daemon.log I find: Jun 28 15:14:59 bison automount[7890]: attempting to mount entry /home/nico Jun 28 15:14:59 bison automount[8733]: lookup(yp): looking up nico Jun 28 15:14:59 bison automount[8733]: lookup(yp): lookup for nico failed: No such map in server's domain It looks like automount is trying to use the map 'nico' in stead of looking up 'nico' in the map 'auto_home' ? Any ideas how I can get this to work? I'm using autofs 3.1.7-1 on Debian 'testing'. Is there any other automounter software (besides amd which doesn't seem to understand the SUN automounter map) Thanks in advance, Nico - It has been said that there are only two businesses that refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry. - Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SDCE/NEE-B) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Trying to automount /home with info from NIS
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 03:20:30PM +0200, Nico De Ranter wrote: Hi, I have a SUN based network. All user info (passwd, homedir) is distributed through NIS. I want to integrate a Linux box in my network allowing all my users to logon to it and get their homedirectory mounted automaticaly. I'm trying to use autofs to do this. I created bison:/# more /etc/auto.master /home +auto_home Found it: should have been: /home auto_home the /etc/init.d/autofs script decides whether this is a NIS map when it can't find a file with that name (dangerous way of doing this I would say!) Nico NIS contains a map called auto_home: bison:/# ypcat -k auto_home nico immortelle:/usr/people/nico ... However when I try to access /home/nico I get bison:/# cd /home/nico bash: cd: /home/nico: No such file or directory In /var/log/daemon.log I find: Jun 28 15:14:59 bison automount[7890]: attempting to mount entry /home/nico Jun 28 15:14:59 bison automount[8733]: lookup(yp): looking up nico Jun 28 15:14:59 bison automount[8733]: lookup(yp): lookup for nico failed: No such map in server's domain It looks like automount is trying to use the map 'nico' in stead of looking up 'nico' in the map 'auto_home' ? Any ideas how I can get this to work? I'm using autofs 3.1.7-1 on Debian 'testing'. Is there any other automounter software (besides amd which doesn't seem to understand the SUN automounter map) Thanks in advance, Nico - It has been said that there are only two businesses that refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry. - Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SDCE/NEE-B) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] - It has been said that there are only two businesses that refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry. - Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SDCE/NEE-B) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Trying to build Redhat kernel on Debian
-2.4.2-redhat/include/linux/module.h:177: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype /usr/src/linux-2.4.2-redhat/include/linux/module.h:186: `try_inc_mod_count_R_ver_str' declared as function returning a function /usr/src/linux-2.4.2-redhat/include/linux/module.h:186: warning: parameter names (without types) in function declaration make[2]: *** [rtc.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.2-redhat/drivers/char' make[1]: *** [_modsubdir_char] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.2-redhat/drivers' make: *** [_mod_drivers] Error 2 - It has been said that there are only two businesses that refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry. - Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SDCE/NEE-B) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kernel building - missing symbols :-(
Howdy, I'm trying to install a special application which comes with a binary only :-( module. When I try to load the module I get: mvfs.o: unresolved symbol printk_Rsmp_1b7d4074 mvfs.o: unresolved symbol panic_Rsmp_01075bf0 I think I missed something in the kernel however I can't figure out what. Is there any way to find out what option could be providing those symbols? Nico - It has been said that there are only two businesses that refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry. - Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SDCE/NEE-B) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Any Clearcase users on Debian?
Howdy, I'm trying to get Clearcase (huge, expensive code revision system) to work on Debian but I can't get the mvfs module to load. Has anybody tried this before? and succeeded? Please don't tell me to revert to Redhat 6.2 :-( Nico - It has been said that there are only two businesses that refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry. - Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SDCE/NEE-B) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ghostscript on Debian 2.2 - lprsetup.sh no included?
Howdy, I'm trying to setup a non-postscript capable printer in /etc/printcap. According to /usr/shared/doc/gs/Unix-lpr.htm there should be a script lprsetup.sh A shell script which sets up soft links and creates a template insert for the printcap file. However the script doesn't seem to be included in the ghostscript distribution. Any ideas on where to find information on how to setup printing through ghostscript? Thanks in advance, Nico - It has been said that there are only two businesses that refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry. - Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SDCE/NEE-B) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Printing to an HP 1220C/PS postscript printer
Howdy, I just bought a postscript capable inktjet printer from HP (HP1220C) which turns out to be a regular PCL3 enhanced printer with some Windows software that does the conversion from Postscript to PCL3 enhanced (HP Belgium wasn't even aware this of this software only feature -( ). Anyway since my network is mostly Unix based (Debian and Solaris) I need to find a way to get the bloody thing to print Postscript files. I tried ghostscript but I only succeeded in getting A4 300x300 dpi (the printer should be capable of at least A3 600x600 dpi) and that's realy not enough. I'll settle for a Windows based solution if necessary (and print through samba, note: I tried the Adobe Pressready Basics software supplied with the printer which is supposed to be a portscript driver for windows but it still prints my postscript files as regular ASCII). Has anybody had any success with printing to an HP 1220C ? Thanks in advance, Nico - It has been said that there are only two businesses that refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry. - Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SDCE/NEE-B) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: URGENT: permissions of /dev/ttyS? are constantly getting reset
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 01:48:53PM +, David Wright wrote: Quoting Nico De Ranter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I'm installing a little ppp server for a special project. The ppp daemon needs to be started by a non-root user. I've added the user to the dialout group however the default permission are: crw-r-1 root dialout4, 64 Nov 30 16:23 /dev/ttyS0 in stead of crw-rw1 root dialout4, 64 Nov 30 16:23 /dev/ttyS0 I tried chmod but the next time I reboot the permissions are reset to crw-r- again. How can I switch off this behaviour? Having the user log in as root is really not an option. The first solution is to use pppconfig, pon and poff. Non-root users need to be in the group dip. Remember that a session only acquires its group permissions when you login. If you insist on using wvdial to set up your modem (BTW it is a good idea to say which packages you are using when asking for help; I'm just guessing you use wvdial because you're hitting the same bugs as other people do.), you might be able to just copy the modem scripts written by wvdial into your pppconfig. I get the impression that most people who use wvdial have root access and correct the permissions themselves. (Bug #85709.) These tools are all very nice if you're a homeuser wanting to use a modem to dialin. However there are lots of other things you can do with ppp. I'm not intrested in using any of these programs I just need that special user to be able to use bare bones pppd. Anyway, I added a S99zfixttyS script to /etc/rc2.d that will revert the permissions to a more useable value. I would however like it very much if the Debian installation would offer a skip-the-paranoid-stuff button. Having good security by default might be heaven for regular homeusers but it's hell for anybody trying to do special development on Linux. Disclaimer: I'm a sysop, my colleague is on holiday, I had a bad week. Please forgive me if this sounded insulting or whatever. Thank whatever god you believe in it's almost weekend :-) Nico - It has been said that there are only two businesses that refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry. - Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SDCE/NEE-B) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: URGENT: permissions of /dev/ttyS? are constantly getting reset
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 08:25:06AM -0800, Nate Amsden wrote: Nico De Ranter wrote: Howdy, I'm installing a little ppp server for a special project. The ppp daemon needs to be started by a non-root user. I've added the user to the dialout group however the default permission are: crw-r-1 root dialout4, 64 Nov 30 16:23 /dev/ttyS0 in stead of crw-rw1 root dialout4, 64 Nov 30 16:23 /dev/ttyS0 I tried chmod but the next time I reboot the permissions are reset to crw-r- again. How can I switch off this behaviour? Having the user log in as root is really not an option. if it were my box i'd just make a script and have it execute as the last thing on boot and change the permissions back. I'm not realy sure whether it's something at boot time or from a cron job. I know there are some pesky little scripts that insist on doing some security checks from cron.daily. Anyway, I'll try it, thanks. Nico nate -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] - It has been said that there are only two businesses that refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry. - Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SDCE/NEE-B) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
URGENT: permissions of /dev/ttyS? are constantly getting reset
Howdy, I'm installing a little ppp server for a special project. The ppp daemon needs to be started by a non-root user. I've added the user to the dialout group however the default permission are: crw-r-1 root dialout4, 64 Nov 30 16:23 /dev/ttyS0 in stead of crw-rw1 root dialout4, 64 Nov 30 16:23 /dev/ttyS0 I tried chmod but the next time I reboot the permissions are reset to crw-r- again. How can I switch off this behaviour? Having the user log in as root is really not an option. Thanks in advance, Nico - It has been said that there are only two businesses that refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry. - Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SDCE/NEE-B) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Urgent: can't install Netscape anymore?
Howdy, I just installed a new Debian box which needs to have Netscape (preferably 6.01). Unfortunately both version 6.01 and 4.76 seem to depend on libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.2 and all I have is libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 Any idea how to fix this? I tried linking .2 to .3 and running ldconfig again but that doesn't seem to help. It's urgent since the user needs it today for a demo. Thanks in advance, Nico - It has been said that there are only two businesses that refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry. - Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SDCE/NEE-B) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Urgent: can't install Netscape anymore?
Found it. had to install libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1_2.91.66-4.deb by hand Nico On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 01:27:54PM +0100, Nico De Ranter wrote: Howdy, I just installed a new Debian box which needs to have Netscape (preferably 6.01). Unfortunately both version 6.01 and 4.76 seem to depend on libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.2 and all I have is libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 Any idea how to fix this? I tried linking .2 to .3 and running ldconfig again but that doesn't seem to help. It's urgent since the user needs it today for a demo. Thanks in advance, Nico - It has been said that there are only two businesses that refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry. - Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SDCE/NEE-B) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] - It has been said that there are only two businesses that refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry. - Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SDCE/NEE-B) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Broken reverse DNS - after recent bind upgrade?
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 11:12:02PM +, Terry Boon wrote:
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I run a network of two machines on Debian 2.2 (potato). apt-get
upgraded bind this evening, and since then, reverse name lookup on the
master name server for my domain has been broken.
The machines are as follows:
poulenc (172.16.0.1)
prokofiev (172.16.0.2)
poulenc is the master name server for the domain
herts.counterfactual.org (not visible to the outside world).
The logs (extract below) show that bind now has some problem upon
reading in the configuration files. Error messages include ...not at
zone top... and ...outside zone
Does anyone have ideas as to why this has suddenly stopped working and
generated these error messages?
Many thanks for any help.
=== Extract from /var/log/syslog (formatted for clarity) ===
Jan 29 22:04:54 poulenc named[517]: Zone 0.16.172.in-addr.arpa (file
/etc/bind/db.172.16.0): No default TTL ($TTL value) set, using SOA
minimum instead
Jan 29 22:04:54 poulenc named[517]: /etc/bind/db.172.16.0:5: SOA for
172.16.0.in-addr.arpa not at zone top 0.16.172.in-addr.arpa
Jan 29 22:04:54 poulenc named[517]: /etc/bind/db.172.16.0:10: data
172.16.0.in-addr.arpa outside zone 0.16.172.in-addr.arpa
(ignored)
Jan 29 22:04:54 poulenc named[517]: master zone
0.16.172.in-addr.arpa (IN) rejected due to errors (serial 5)
=== Extract from /etc/bind/named.conf ===
zone 0.16.172.in-addr.arpa in {
type master;
file /etc/bind/db.172.16.0;
};
=== Extract from db.172.16.0 ===
; BIND master database file
; 172.16.0
; Created by Terry Boon on 7 January 2001
172.16.0.in-addr.arpa. IN SOA poulenc.herts.counterfactual.org.
terry.counterfactual.org (
Shouldn't this be
0.16.172.in-addr.arpa.
Actualy I always use
@ IN SOA ...
works for me.
5 ; Serial
10800 ; Refresh after 3 hours
3600; Retry after 1 hour
604800 ; Expire after 1 week
86400 ) ; Minimum TTL of 1 day
;
; Name servers
;
0.16.172.in-addr.arpa.IN NS prokofiev.herts.counterfactual.org.
0.16.172.in-addr.arpa.IN NS poulenc.herts.counterfactual.org.
;
; Addresses point to canonical names
;
1.0.16.172.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR poulenc.herts.counterfactual.org.
2.0.16.172.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR prokofiev.herts.counterfactual.org.
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how to get a list of updated packages after apt-get update
Howdy, how can I check which packages are new after doing a apt-get update? I don't want to upgrade all packages I just want to know whether a certain number of packages can be upgraded. I don't want to run dselect either since this will starting selecting lots of stuff automaticaly and I will end up with a big mess afterwards too. Where does apt-get keep track of the packages after a apt-get update? Nico - It has been said that there are only two businesses that refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry. - Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SDCE/NEE-B) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to get a list of updated packages after apt-get update
Found it! /var/state/apt/lists/* will do the trick. :-) Nico On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 01:06:12PM +0100, Nico De Ranter wrote: Howdy, how can I check which packages are new after doing a apt-get update? I don't want to upgrade all packages I just want to know whether a certain number of packages can be upgraded. I don't want to run dselect either since this will starting selecting lots of stuff automaticaly and I will end up with a big mess afterwards too. Where does apt-get keep track of the packages after a apt-get update? Nico - It has been said that there are only two businesses that refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry. - Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SDCE/NEE-B) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] - It has been said that there are only two businesses that refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry. - Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SDCE/NEE-B) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GeForce2 MX, drivers, X4...
I took the binary (tgz) distribution from the XFree86 website and installed it over my existing X 3.3.x. It worked without problem. Didn't have to install anything from NVidia (according to the readme on the NVidia website, support for the Geforece2 MX is included in the newest 4.whatever release). I do realise however that I will be in trouble when I want to upgrade Debian, but I'll see about that when it happens :-) I definitely did not have to recompile my kernel (altough it might be necessary for the more advanced features?) Nico On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 10:52:31PM -0500, Jonathan Markevich wrote: Well, the price was right and I grabbed a GeForce2 MX card... now I have no X. I understood X 3.3.x support was nil, so started an X4 upgrade...! Now, I'm not sure how to proceed, I'm still downloading one packages, (xserver-xfree86), but if I understand correctly, I need to compile the kernel module and stuff. Has anyone done this? I try to compile the latest module (0.9-5) and get... cpp: -lang-c: linker input file unused since linking not done cc: installation problem, cannot exec 'cc1': No such file or directory make: *** [nv.o] Error 1 ? I don't understand the error. What just happened? Do I really need to do this? This is quite different... -- Jonathan Markevich [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.geocities.com/jmarkevich == It's VIRUSES, not VIRII! See http://language.perl.com/misc/virus.html == Concerning the war in Vietnam, Senator George Aiken of Vermont noted in January, 1966, I'm not very keen for doves or hawks. I think we need more owls. -- Bill Adler, The Washington Wits -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] - It has been said that there are only two businesses that refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry. - Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SDCE/NEE-B) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GeForce2 MX, drivers, X4...
On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 06:47:02AM -0600, Casey Webster wrote: The stock drivers for nvidia's cards depend on mesa for opengl, so you will not get accelerated 3d graphics. whether you need/want them us up to you, but here is what do do if you want them. Aha, I didn't know that (didn't try anything 3d yet anyway). Thanks from nvidia's ftp there is a NVIDIA_KERNEL*.tgz and an NVIDIA_GLX*.tgz, grab both and make sure the get the newest version. they both extract into thier own directories, go into the NVIDIA_KERNEL directory and i believe you jsut have to type make. this comples the driver as a module to the kernel who's headers are in /usr/include/linux installs it and insmods itself. Now go into the GLX directory. Here you want to read the FAQ you can get off nvidia's website, and backup the libGL.so's and glx.so's that this driver will overwrite. when your satisifed, type make and then go to your XF86Config file. for your card, change the driver from nv to nvidia and wherever the option is, you can do options glx. I dont know if its specific to TNT cards (what i have), but only 24 bit color is supported, if i try 32 bit the console freezes and i have to telnet in and Yep I noticed the 32 bit problem too. reboot to get it back. I've successfully played Descent3 and Quake3 under this setup with hardware accelerated openGL (a bit faster that they are under windows for me even) -casey On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Nico De Ranter wrote: I took the binary (tgz) distribution from the XFree86 website and installed it over my existing X 3.3.x. It worked without problem. Didn't have to install anything from NVidia (according to the readme on the NVidia website, support for the Geforece2 MX is included in the newest 4.whatever release). I do realise however that I will be in trouble when I want to upgrade Debian, but I'll see about that when it happens :-) I definitely did not have to recompile my kernel (altough it might be necessary for the more advanced features?) Nico On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 10:52:31PM -0500, Jonathan Markevich wrote: Well, the price was right and I grabbed a GeForce2 MX card... now I have no X. I understood X 3.3.x support was nil, so started an X4 upgrade...! Now, I'm not sure how to proceed, I'm still downloading one packages, (xserver-xfree86), but if I understand correctly, I need to compile the kernel module and stuff. Has anyone done this? I try to compile the latest module (0.9-5) and get... cpp: -lang-c: linker input file unused since linking not done cc: installation problem, cannot exec 'cc1': No such file or directory make: *** [nv.o] Error 1 ? I don't understand the error. What just happened? Do I really need to do this? This is quite different... -- Jonathan Markevich [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.geocities.com/jmarkevich == It's VIRUSES, not VIRII! See http://language.perl.com/misc/virus.html == Concerning the war in Vietnam, Senator George Aiken of Vermont noted in January, 1966, I'm not very keen for doves or hawks. I think we need more owls. -- Bill Adler, The Washington Wits -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] - It has been said that there are only two businesses that refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry. - Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SDCE/NEE-B) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [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] - It has been said that there are only two businesses that refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry. - Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SDCE/NEE-B) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
upgrading the kernel to 2.4
Howdy, I tried to compile a 2.4 kernel, however it turns out the /lib/modules directory has been restructured and now the system can't find any modules anymore. Is there any package that might resolve this or should I install modutils from scratch? Nico - It has been said that there are only two businesses that refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry. - Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SDCE/NEE-B) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: new Kernel 2.4 missing Old Tulip module ?
The structure of the /lib/modules directory has been changed in the 2.4 kernels so I guess the modutils can't find the correct kernel module. (try lsmod, it should list all modules that are currently loaded) I don't know how to fix this however (see my previous mail :-) Nico On Sat, Dec 30, 2000 at 04:07:19AM -0800, Jack O Max wrote: I have tried the Generic DECchip DIGITAL EtherWORKS PCI/EISA module and build it into the kernel. The Netgear FA310TX cannot brings up after reboot. Here is the part of the boot message: Modprobe: modprobe : Can't locate module eth0 Configuring network interfaces: SIOCSIFADDR: No such device Eth0: unknown interface: No such device SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device SIOCSIFBRDADDR: No such device Eth0: unknown interface: No such device Eth0: unknown interface: No such device Done . . After login, the ifconfig appears lo (Local Loopback) only. Do you have any suggestion? Warm Regards, Jack P.s. I have tried the DECchip Tulip (dc21x4x) PCI support' and it work ok with my Netgear card most of the time, except it locks up the eth0, if there was a few minutes of network outage. Example: The upstream network has outage for 10 minutes and the Netgear will lock up eth0 even the network backs on. I have to manually use ifdown eth0 and ifup eth0 to brings it up. It is still in the kernel, look for the Generic DECchip DIGITAL EtherWORKS PCI/EISA configuration option. Cheers, Remco. --- Remco van de Meent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jack O Max wrote: I found that the new Kernel 2.4 does not have the Old DECchip Tulip (dc21x4x) PCI support. My 1 year old Netgear FA310TX does not work properly without this module. Any suggestion to solve this problem? __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - Share your holiday photos online! http://photos.yahoo.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] - It has been said that there are only two businesses that refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry. - Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SDCE/NEE-B) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: upgrading the kernel to 2.4
I found a mail from a few days ago (wasn't in the archives yet?) that solved my problem: make sure you have at least the following versions: o Gnu C 2.91.66 # gcc --version o Gnu make 3.77 # make --version o binutils 2.9.1.0.25 # ld -v o util-linux 2.10o# kbdrate -v o modutils 2.3.18 # insmod -V o e2fsprogs 1.19 # tune2fs --version if needed also: o pcmcia-cs 3.1.21 # cardmgr -V o PPP2.4.0# pppd --version o isdn4k-utils 3.1beta7 # isdnctrl 21|grep version Most of them are available from woody (you don't have to do a full upgrade to woody, just upgrade the required parts). modutils 2.3.18 isn't available however but I found 2.3.23 somewhere in the pool directory and it installed without problems. Nico On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 09:41:38AM -0200, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: On 3 Jan 2001, Moritz Schulte wrote: Nico De Ranter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I tried to compile a 2.4 kernel, however it turns out the /lib/modules directory has been restructured and now the system can't find any modules anymore. You simply need a newer version of modutils. You could fetch Unstable's (or, is it already in Testing?) modutils source package and compile it on your Potato system.. it didn't help me! version in unstable(testing) is still 2.3.11 and 2.4 kernels need at least 2.3.18 (from Changes). I have to load my modules manually up to now :-((( []s Mario O.de MenezesMany are the plans in a man's heart, but IPEN-CNEN/SP is the Lord's purpose that prevails http://curiango.ipen.br/~mario Prov. 19.21 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] - It has been said that there are only two businesses that refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry. - Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SDCE/NEE-B) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: as86 Error compling kernel-source-2.2.18
Shouldn't that be bin86 ? Nico On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 04:47:59PM -0700, John Galt wrote: binutils is what you're looking for On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, Greg Strockbine wrote: since this is my first time compiling the kernel this isn't strange that I don't have as86 right? This is normal that I have to go out and find this via google.com? thanks - greg s. Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.18/arch/i386/boot' cc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.18/include -E -traditional -DSVGA_MODE=NORMAL_VGA bootsect.S -o bootsect.s as86 -0 -a -o bootsect.o bootsect.s make[1]: as86: Command not found make[1]: *** [bootsect.o] Error 127 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.18/arch/i386/boot' make: *** [zImage] Error 2 -- Pardon me, but you have obviously mistaken me for someone who gives a damn. email [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] - It has been said that there are only two businesses that refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry. - Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SDCE/NEE-B) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: remote management
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 11:51:30PM -0600, Matt Fair wrote: On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 05:31:57PM -0600, Matt Fair wrote: :I am managing my server remotely using ssh. If my network connection :goes down for some reason, I have no control over it, is there a way :where I could check to see if there is a network connection and then :restart the connection? best option is to recompile the kernel on the server to put the console out to serial port (is this default in debian kernels? if not what problems does it create, I always roll mine that way), then you can hang a modem off the serial port and even if the networking on the server breaks you can get in to try and fix it. Would this be a dial-in connection to the computer to manage it? What I need is to manage the computer remoteley all the way back to the lilo prompt. Are there any how-to's to do this? What other equipment would I need for this? Would there be any way to encrypt the session? Thanks Matt Have a look at The PC Weasel 2000 (realweasel.com) it's supposed to give you full serial console access up to the bios. It works as a replacement for the video card. If you want dial-in access, a consoleserver will also be necessary (Consoleserver 800/3200 from www.lightwavecom.com). This allows you to control a number of serial consoles and also supports modem access. They have announced support for ssh and remote power management (so if the machine is realy blocked you can even remotely turn it off and on :-). They're not cheap however :-(. Lucent(?) also has a slightly cheaper machine ( Portmaster 2e, up-to 30 serial ports) but they don't (and as far as I know won't) support ssh. Expect to pay about 250$ for the PC weasel and 3000$ for the consolemaster (will vary a lot depending on the exact configuration). Nico - It has been said that there are only two businesses that refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry. - Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SDCE/NEE-B) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: remote management
On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 02:49:15AM -0600, Matt Fair wrote: I looked at realweasel.com, I could not see a place where you could purchase The PC Weasel 2000 on the site, where can you purchase this product. I tried the demo, it is I don't know, I haven't bought any yet (I'm planning to). Try [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nico exactly what I need. Thank you, Matt zOn Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 11:51:30PM -0600, Matt Fair wrote: On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 05:31:57PM -0600, Matt Fair wrote: :I am managing my server remotely using ssh. If my network connection :goes down for some reason, I have no control over it, is there a way :where I could check to see if there is a network connection and then :restart the connection? best option is to recompile the kernel on the server to put the console out to serial port (is this default in debian kernels? if not what problems does it create, I always roll mine that way), then you can hang a modem off the serial port and even if the networking on the server breaks you can get in to try and fix it. Would this be a dial-in connection to the computer to manage it? What I need is to manage the computer remoteley all the way back to the lilo prompt. Are there any how-to's to do this? What other equipment would I need for this? Would there be any way to encrypt the session? Thanks Matt Have a look at The PC Weasel 2000 (realweasel.com) it's supposed to give you full serial console access up to the bios. It works as a replacement for the video card. If you want dial-in access, a consoleserver will also be necessary (Consoleserver 800/3200 from www.lightwavecom.com). This allows you to control a number of serial consoles and also supports modem access. They have announced support for ssh and remote power management (so if the machine is realy blocked you can even remotely turn it off and on :-). They're not cheap however :-(. Lucent(?) also has a slightly cheaper machine ( Portmaster 2e, up-to 30 serial ports) but they don't (and as far as I know won't) support ssh. Expect to pay about 250$ for the PC weasel and 3000$ for the consolemaster (will vary a lot depending on the exact configuration). Nico - It has been said that there are only two businesses that refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry. - Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SDCE/NEE-B) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - It has been said that there are only two businesses that refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry. - Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SDCE/NEE-B) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Office software - and printers
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 02:45:50PM -0500, urbanyon wrote: 2) Are there any printers recommended for use with Debian? Checkout http://www.linuxprinting.org Nico - It has been said that there are only two businesses that refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry. - Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SDCE/NEE-B) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian checks filesystems at every boot
Anyway, when I run halt or shutdown I see all the messages relating to the processes being stopped. I even see the message I put in right before my sync addition. And still it seems to go wrong :-(. Might there be a problem with timing. Since my second partition is rather big (15GB) perhaps the sync doesn't get enough time and the machine powers down before the sync can end. But on the other hand, the sync is not run in the background so he should wait anyway. The strange thing is that I didn't have this on my previous pc altough it was running the same version of Debian. Nico On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 06:25:51PM -0800, Eric G . Miller wrote: On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 02:29:23PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: on Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 08:35:28PM +0100, Nico De Ranter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Howdy, I just got a new computer and installed Debian on it (ofcourse :-). The installation uses 2 partitions, 1 of 5GB and 1 of 15GB (hey I have to do something with all that diskspace don't I :-). I did the same install as I always did starting from the Debian 2.2 cd's. However with the new PC every time I boot Linux will complain the filesystems weren't properly unmounted and will do a full check of the filesystems. I do ofcourse always make sure to turn off the machine by typing halt. This is your problem. Try: $ shutdown -h now I don't think so -- man halt: NOTES Under older sysvinit releases , reboot and halt should never be called directly. From release 2.74 on halt and reboot invoke shutdown(8) if the system is not in runlevel 0 or 6. This means that if halt or reboot cannot find out the current runlevel (for example, when /var/run/utmp hasn't been initialized correctly) shutdown will be called, which might not be what you want. Use the -f flag if you want to do a hard halt or reboot. At least it works as advertised here; same for reboot. I think this has been the case for some time under linux. -- Eric G. Miller egm2@jps.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] - It has been said that there are only two businesses that refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry. - Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SDCE/NEE-B) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian checks filesystems at every boot
Howdy, I just got a new computer and installed Debian on it (ofcourse :-). The installation uses 2 partitions, 1 of 5GB and 1 of 15GB (hey I have to do something with all that diskspace don't I :-). I did the same install as I always did starting from the Debian 2.2 cd's. However with the new PC every time I boot Linux will complain the filesystems weren't properly unmounted and will do a full check of the filesystems. I do ofcourse always make sure to turn off the machine by typing halt. I even tried adding an explicit sync to /etc/init.d/umountfs but that doesn't seem to help either. I even had to boot single user once to do a manual fsck. Any ideas what might be wrong? Thanks in advance, Nico - It has been said that there are only two businesses that refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry. - Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SDCE/NEE-B) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mirrors Re: Debian Weekly News - October 25th, 2000
On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 09:55:33PM -0400, A R wrote: Jeff Lessem wrote: In your message of: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 18:20:27 EDT, you write: According to [1], the mirrors will be afected, so to create them it is said the some exclude tweaking must be done. Does anyone have the info -or the script- for what exactly is meant Mirroring Potato, getting ready for 2.2_r1 I use the mirror perl script to maintain a local mirror of i386 potato and woody. So that I do not download files for all of the architectures I am not interested in, my mirror configuration file for the Debian archives has lines like exclude_patt+|binary-sparc|disks-sparc in it. In the future (if I understand things correctly) there will no longer be binary-$arch directories; all of the binaries will be in the same directories. So that I don't download the .deb files for the architectures I do not want I will have to add some lines like exclude_patt+|sparc.deb|sparc.changes -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Do you mean the mirror option from apt-move? Or some other script? If the last, I have no clue about it. please indicate where apt-get install mirror it's a separate package. Has nothing to with apt-get it will just mirror any ftp-site. Nico -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null It has been said that there are only two businesses refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry. Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SDCE/NEE-B) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MS and Corel
So no M$-Linux coming up :-) ? Nico On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 02:23:23PM -0700, George Bonser wrote: Well, since MS bought non-voting stock, I don't expect there to be a big problem. It isn't like MS is going to use its position to vote people onto the board of directors or anything. On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Dr. Orange wrote: This is probably more appropriate to devel but anyhow, any reaction on debian's part to MS buy of 25% of Corel? -S- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null It has been said that there are only two businesses refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry. Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SDCE/NEE-B) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: debian: dos2unix and unix2dos utilities.
These should be in the sysutils package. ape:/var/lib/dpkg/info# dpkg -L sysutils /. /usr /usr/bin /usr/bin/bogomips /usr/bin/procinfo /usr/bin/lsdev /usr/bin/fromdos /usr/bin/todos /usr/bin/dos2unix /usr/bin/unix2dos /usr/doc /usr/doc/sysutils /usr/doc/sysutils/copyright /usr/doc/sysutils/changelog.gz /usr/man /usr/man/man1 /usr/man/man1/memtest.1.gz /usr/man/man1/fromdos.1.gz /usr/man/man1/todos.1.gz /usr/man/man1/sysutils.1.gz /usr/man/man1/bogomips.1.gz /usr/man/man1/dos2unix.1.gz /usr/man/man1/unix2dos.1.gz /usr/man/man8 /usr/man/man8/lsdev.8.gz /usr/man/man8/procinfo.8.gz /usr/sbin /usr/sbin/memtest Nico On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 10:48:23AM +1100, Brendan J Simon wrote: Are there any dos2unix and unix2dos command line utilities in any of the debian pacages ??? I've done an apt-cache search ... but can't find anything suitable. Thanks, Brendan Simon. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null It has been said that there are only two businesses refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry. Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SDCE/DME-B) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Now: BROKEN apt-get dist-upgrade. Was: yp problem.
Howdy,
have a look at /var/lig/dpkg/*.list for a list of all files that should
be installed.
I had some trouble with apt-get on my system too. Altough certain packages
where available in the distribution (in the correct place and readable) apt-get
told me it couldn't install them. dpkg -i had no problem at all. Very strange.
On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 11:31:26AM +0200, Douglas Eck wrote:
Thanks Nico. Portmap showed as installed but there was no binary there.
This is troubling. So I uninstalled and reinstalled the portmap package.
NIS fixed.
This is strange. I did a dist-upgrade and now seem to have a corrupt install.
I've had to reinstall telnetd, portmap, netbase and a bunch of other
vital packages. In each case, dselect showed them as installed but the
relevant binaries were not anywhere on the hard drive. I've had to
delete and reinstall them.
Is there any way to generate a list that I can use to reconcile
what dselect/apt thinks is on my system with what is *really* on
my system?
As an aside. Could there be any *worse* behavior for a package manager?
I know I didn't just go off and delete things. At some point during
the apt-get dist-upgrade, the old versions were deleted and new ones
were *not* installed.
Maybe a lack of diskspace?
Nico
Doug
Nico De Ranter wrote:
Do you have the portmapper running? Try
/etc/init.d/portmap start
then run ypbind again.
Nico
On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 10:59:27AM +0200, Douglas Eck wrote:
I just downloaded the new nis package. It installed fine. Now, when
I run ypbind -debug, I get this:
43 ROOT ruchetta ~ypbind -debug
parsing config file
Trying entry: ypserver fava.idsia.ch
parsed ypserver fava.idsia.ch
add_server() domain: idsia.ch, host: fava.idsia.ch, nobroadcast, slot: 0
Trying entry: domain idsia.ch
parsed domain 'idsia.ch' broadcast
add_server() domain: idsia.ch, broadcast, slot: 0
[Welcome to ypbind-mt, version 1.6]
Cannot register service: RPC: Unable to receive; errno = Connection
refused
Unable to register (YPBINDPROG, YPBINDVERS, udp).
---
Before I upgraded to woody, yp worked fine. Also, yp works on our redhat
machines. I grabbed the redhat ypbind binary and tried it. Same error.
When
I do a strace, this is what I see. Why 127.0.0.1? Seems like I'm refusing
my
own RPC service registration? What gives?:
port=htons(111), sin_addr=inet_addr(127.0.0.1)}}, 16) = 56
poll([{fd=7, events=POLLIN, revents=POLLERR}], 1, 5000) = 1
recvfrom(7, 0x8056ec8, 400, 0, 0xb92c, 0xb8d8) = -1 ECONNREFUSED
(Connection refused)
write(2, Cannot register service: RPC: Un..., 76Cannot register
service: RPC: Unable to receive; errno = Connection
refused
) = 76
write(2, Unable to register (YPBINDPROG, ..., 49Unable to register
(YPBINDPROG, YPBINDVERS, udp).) = 49
write(2, \n, 1
) = 1
write(5, [EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]..., 148) = 148
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, NULL, [HUP INT QUIT SEGV TERM CHLD RT_0], 8)
= 0
rt_sigsuspend([HUP INT QUIT SEGV TERM CHLD] unfinished ...
--- SIGRT_0 (Real-time signal 0) ---
... rt_sigsuspend resumed ) = -1 EINTR (Interrupted system
call)
sigreturn() = ? (mask now [HUP INT QUIT SEGV
TERM CHLD])
wait4(30253, NULL, __WCLONE, NULL) = 30253
_exit(1)= ?
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DVD writers on Linux?
Does anybody know whether there is any support for DVD writers on Linux (i.e. Panasonic DVD-RAM LF-D103 /1xDVD-Ram 2xDVD-Rom SCSI)? Thanks in advance, Nico It has been said that there are only two businesses refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry. Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SDCE/DME-B) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: proftpd won't allow me to connect -- SOLVED
Got it: the proftpd deb was compiled for use without a shadow file :-( I reinstalled the machine without a shadow file and now it works. Nico On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 03:56:06PM +0200, Nico De Ranter wrote: ServerType is standalone and the deamon is running ps -ef ... ftpd 288 1 0 Aug29 ?00:00:00 proftpd (accepting connections) ... according to netstat -a there is indeed something listening on the ftp port: tcp0 0 *:ftp *:* LISTEN Nico On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 03:50:35PM +, Pollywog wrote: Make sure /etc/proftpd.conf has the correct ServerType for your setup, either standalone or inetd and if the latter, make sure /etc/inetd.conf knows about it. On 29-Aug-2000 Nico De Ranter wrote: Howdy, I'm trying to setup proftpd 1.2.0pre10 on my Debian 2.2 box. However whenever I try to connect I get a 421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection message on the client and - ProFTPD terminating (signal 11) It has been said that there are only two businesses refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry. Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SDCE/DME-B) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null It has been said that there are only two businesses refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry. Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SDCE/DME-B) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: proftpd won't allow me to connect
ServerType is standalone and the deamon is running ps -ef ... ftpd 288 1 0 Aug29 ?00:00:00 proftpd (accepting connections) ... according to netstat -a there is indeed something listening on the ftp port: tcp0 0 *:ftp *:* LISTEN Nico On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 03:50:35PM +, Pollywog wrote: Make sure /etc/proftpd.conf has the correct ServerType for your setup, either standalone or inetd and if the latter, make sure /etc/inetd.conf knows about it. On 29-Aug-2000 Nico De Ranter wrote: Howdy, I'm trying to setup proftpd 1.2.0pre10 on my Debian 2.2 box. However whenever I try to connect I get a 421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection message on the client and - ProFTPD terminating (signal 11) It has been said that there are only two businesses refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry. Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SDCE/DME-B) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
proftpd won't allow me to connect
Howdy, I'm trying to setup proftpd 1.2.0pre10 on my Debian 2.2 box. However whenever I try to connect I get a 421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection message on the client and - ProFTPD terminating (signal 11) message in /var/log/daemon.log on the server. I tried running with full debugging but that doesn't make me any wiser. Any idea what might keep my client from connecting. (/etc/hosts.allow and deny should be ok) Thanks in advance Nico It has been said that there are only two businesses refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry. Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SDCE/DME-B) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
problem with tetex in potato?
Hi, I just burned some CD's with the latest Debian version (potato) and tried to update my system (running frozen potato already). Since I've already had problems with tetex for a very long time I decided to remove it from my system ad reinstall it. However it turns out that altough tetex-bin/base/extra are recommended by a lot of packages, the tetex packages themselves are not in the Packages file anymore. The DEBs are in the tex directory on the official CD's however. Does anybody have any idea why this is so and how I can install tetex? Note: I tried to run dpkg -i on the DEBs directly but I got some errors about xDvi not existing Thanks in advance, Nico It has been said that there are only two businesses refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry. Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SDCE/DME-B) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ** Emegancy Request **
On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 11:42:19AM -0300, Marcello Mezzanotti wrote: Thomas Guettler wrote: On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 11:17:08PM +1000, Bill wrote: Hi All, Can someone please tell me the easiest and safest way to mirror a Hard Drive, keeping all permissions, owner, groups etc. intact man dd -- Thomas Guettler Office: guettli_NoSpam_interface-business.de www.interface-business.de Private:guettli_NoSpam_gmx.de http://yi.org/guettli (Replace _NoSpam_ with @) -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null what about rsync ?? Might not work for devices and such. Depends on what exactly you want to do. If it's a one time copy dd will probably be faster anyway. Nico It has been said that there are only two businesses refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry. Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SDCE/DME-B) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
monitoring server performance
Howdy, I have setup an old PC to be our webproxy and database server (postgresql). However I want to check whether the machine is strong enough to handle the loadi (I'm especialy concerned about disk access). Is there any tool that can give me more information that can give me more detailed information than top (e.g. something like sac on Solaris)? Thanks in advance, Nico It has been said that there are only two businesses refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry. Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SDCE/DME-B) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Printing to an HP 2000Cxi?
Howdy, I need to be able to print to an HP 2000Cxi printer from Linux. I'm running magicfilterconfig to setup the printcap. Magicfilter has a lot of drivers but it doesn't seem to have much for HP inktjets. I see a lot of laserjet drivers and deskjet dj500 dj500c but I'm wondering whether these would work for the 2000Cxi (aren't they a bit old?) Anybidy any ideas? Thanks in advance Nico It has been said that there are only two businesses refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry. Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SDCE/DME-B) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Potato install
Howdy, I'm installing a new PC with Debian potato. Unfortunately when I was asked to choose between Simple and Advanced installation I choose Advanced but after seeing the list of possible packages I changed my mind :-). How can I rerun the installation without having to reinstall the whole system? Nico It has been said that there are only two businesses refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry. Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SDCE/DME-B) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian Linux on Sony Vaio PCG-XG / PCG-F309
Howdy, did anybody ever try/succeed to install Linux on a Sony Vaio PCG-X9 or PCG-F309. It isn't in the list of Linux-able portables yet but perhaps somebody already tried? Nico It has been said that there are only two businesses refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry. Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SUPC-E/DME-B) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problems Mirroring Debian
Howdy, I've setup a local mirror of Debian for our development (yes, I do work for Sony :-). Unfortunately lately I started getting lots of errors like: Scanning local directory /mirror/debian Scanning remote directory /pub/linux/debian compare directories (src 48187, dest 35740) Cannot create local file .in.ls-lR.gz. Failed to get ls-lR.gz: 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for ls-lR.gz (1300202 bytes). Failed to get file 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for ls-lR.gz (1300202 bytes). Cannot open data socket Failed to get ls-lR: 426 Data connection: Broken pipe. Failed to get file 426 Data connection: Broken pipe. Failure on 'RETR ls-lR.patch.gz' command Failed to get ls-lR.patch.gz: 200 PORT command successful. Failed to get file 200 PORT command successful. Cannot open data socket . this goes on for some time and then the mirror program starts removing everything which is currently in my local copy :-(. I tested multiple servers and they all gave the same errors so I guess it's my mirroring software somehow and not the servers refusing me for some reason. I installed the latest version (2.9) of mirror but that still gives the same problems. Can anybody recommend me some good mirroring software that can manage multiple mirrors (round-robin to make sure every mirror gets its share) Thanks in advance, Nico It has been said that there are only two businesses refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry. Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SUPC-E/DME-B) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Y2K (Re: Vera and SIOCADDRT - separate subjects)
The original sender uses a broken mail program. It's not on your side. Nico On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Oliver Elphick wrote: This message to debian-user shows an invalid date; (year 100). I have seen a couple of others like this on a non-debian list, where another subscriber did not see the error. I want to establish whether the error is on my machine or on the original poster's. John wrote: Received: from murphy.debian.org (murphy.debian.org [209.41.108.199]) by mail.enterprise.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA00267 for olly@lfix.co.uk; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 20:34:02 GMT Received: (qmail 21647 invoked by uid 38); 5 Jan 2000 20:33:15 - Resent-date: 5 Jan 2000 20:33:15 - Resent-cc: recipient list not shown: ; X-envelope-sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-mailer: atlantis mail 32 Resent-message-id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resent-from: debian-user@lists.debian.org X-mailing-list: debian-user@lists.debian.org archive/latest/77758 X-loop: debian-user@lists.debian.org Precedence: list Resent-sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org From: John [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Vera and SIOCADDRT - separate subjects Date: Wed, 5 Jan 100 20:23:07 GMT ^^^ I use sendmail as SMTP transport, procmail for internal distribution, and exmh as the MUA. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. I am the LORD. Leviticus 19:18 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null It has been said that there are only two businesses refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry. Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SUPC-E/DME-B) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Matrox Marvel G400 or Guillemot Cougar Video Edition
Howdy, I want to buy a new graphics board. I can choose between a Matrox Marvel G400 and a Guillemot Cougar Video Edition. (I want something with a TV-out). What would be the best choice/ best linux support? Nico It has been said that there are only two businesses refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry. Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SUPC-E/NSSE) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing Debian-2.1 on a Compaq DeskPro EN Series Workstation
I have a number of Compaq Deskpro EN's and EP's. Everything works fine except for one major problem: about 1 out of 3 times I boot the keyboard will go completely dead (you can still logon through the network however). I'm not the only one who had this problem, at the time I started working with these Compaqs I posted a few messages on the web and got replies from other people reporting the same kind of problems. We never figured out what was the reason. This was one of the reasons why I finaly switched to buying Dell in stead of Compaq. Anyway, I installed potato on a Deskpro EP 6350 and after some keyboard trouble during installation it seems to run stable with kernel 2.2.13. However I'm not sure whether this is coincidence or whether it realy got fixed. Personaly I wouldn't go for Compaq. Nico On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, Salman Ahmed wrote: Has anyone tried installing Debian-2.1 on a Compaq DeskPro EN Series Workstation ? I am trying to get a workstation at the office so that I can install Debian on it, and there's an offchance it might be a Compaq workstation. This machine might be a PIII 500MHz with an Intel(R) PRO/100+ Management Adapter ethernet card. Thanks. -- Salman Ahmed ssahmed AT pathcom DOT com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null It has been said that there are only two businesses refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry. Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SUPC-E/NSSE) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing Debian-2.1 on a Compaq DeskPro EN Series Workstation
On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Salman Ahmed wrote: NDR == Nico De Ranter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: NDR I have a number of Compaq Deskpro EN's and EP's. Everything NDR works fine except for one major problem: about 1 out of 3 times NDR I boot the keyboard will go completely dead (you can still NDR logon through the network however). Does this also happen when you boot NT workstation ? So far, I have (re)booted my DeskPro EN system a number of times and the keyboard (and other HW) has been fine. Nope, Windows NT/9X runs fine :-(. I had this problem with a lot of Compaqs (actualy all of the new-model EN en EP's that I have.) Note however: I bought my last Compaq somewhere around June I think, so perhaps it has been solved in newer models. Note2: that Compaq I installed last week (running kernel 2.2.13) still runs fine so I guess that solves it too. NDR NDR Personaly I wouldn't go for Compaq. Neither would I. I prefer either a PC clone with components individually spec-ed out, or one of the newer Dell systems. But, frankly, I'll take whatever I can get to run Debian on ;) My users started complaining that there are no old systems available anymore. We used to sell the old systems, however now I'm turning all of them into servers running Debian -) Nico -- Salman Ahmed ssahmed AT pathcom DOT com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null It has been said that there are only two businesses refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry. Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SUPC-E/NSSE) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Citrix ICA client on potato anybody?
Howdy, I just downloaded the Windows Terminal Server client for Linux (actualy Citrix' ICA Client for the Metaframe version of Windows Terminal Server), but it appears to use libc5 in stead of 6. Is there anyway I can get this working? tmp/./linux/echo_cmd: can't load library 'libc.so.5' Nico It has been said that there are only two businesses refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry. Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SUPC-E/NSSE) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Netatalk is trashing the network
Howdy, I installed netatalk on a Debian system to allow a Mac user to access his homedir on Unix. Unfortunately the daemon appears to be broadcasting AARP packets by the dozen ... aarp probe 52.98.14 tell 52.98.14 aarp probe 52.98.15 tell 52.98.15 aarp probe 52.98.16 tell 52.98.16 ... [ad infinitum] I know Appletalk is a very crapy protocol when it comes to broadcasting but this is realy to much. Even our (few) Macintoshes do not send that many broadcasts. Is there any way to turn this off? It's realy messing up my network. Nico Three things are certain: Death, taxes, and lost data. Guess which has occurred. Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SUPC-E/NSSE) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Driver for Compaq Netelligent network card
On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Tim Ayers wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install Debian GNU/Linux on a Compaq Deskpro 6000. I'm stuck on getting the network to work. As far as I can tell the network card is a Netelligent 10/100 TX Embedded UTP Bus 0. Can anyone tell me which driver goes with that? Thanks! try the Tlan driver. Nico Hope you have a very nice day, :-) Tim Ayers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Three things are certain: Death, taxes, and lost data. Guess which has occurred. Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SUPC-E/NSSE) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Secure Networks?
Yes it is possible. Look for Virtual Private Network (VPN). Nico On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Andrew Clark wrote: I have a quick question. I have two networks in different locations, is there any way to have all traffic between the two networks encrypted (by the gateway machines I'd assume) ie so that I can just use telnet between the two networks and it'll be encrypted (as well as all http, ftp etc) If this is possible, where would I find information? Regards, Andrew Clark. Pls CC me, I'm not on the list ATM. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Three things are certain: Death, taxes, and lost data. Guess which has occurred. Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SUPC-E/NSSE) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Urgent: How do I relay mail
Unfortunately only sendmail was installed on that system (MkLinux, not Debian :-( ). Anyway I got smtpd somewhere and compiled it myself. Now it works perfect :-). Thanks anyway. Nico On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Mark Brown wrote: On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 02:43:57PM +0100, Nico De Ranter wrote: no mail at all (only from the localhost). How can I convince my mailserver to start relaying mail? Which MTA are you using? With exim (the default for Debian), you can set the relay_domains parameter in exim.conf to include the local domain (eg, relay_domains = *.debian.org would allow all Debian machines to relay). For postfix, look at the relay_domains and mynetworks configuration options. Note: I'm running MkLinux on a Mac but that shouldn't be an issue I guess. They may use a different MTA by default - sendmail seems likely. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFShttp://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/ Three things are certain: Death, taxes, and lost data. Guess which has occurred. Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SUPC-E/NSSE) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgpLofb4Rm1qh.pgp Description: PGP signature
Urgent: How do I relay mail
Howdy, I need to setup an (internal) server that will relay mail. I does not need to accept mail from outside it will just have to forward mail from anybody who can reach it to wherever it has to go. I Installed sendmail but the default setting for it is to relay no mail at all (only from the localhost). How can I convince my mailserver to start relaying mail? Note: I'm running MkLinux on a Mac but that shouldn't be an issue I guess. Nico Three things are certain: Death, taxes, and lost data. Guess which has occurred. Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SUPC-E/NSSE) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Do I have a virus?
If you ever need to remove Linux from a friend's PC again :-), run lilo -u before removing the linux partition. That should uninstall lilo from the mbr. Nico On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, David Punsalan wrote: A friend of mine (not me...I'm just writing this e-mail for him - yeah, that's it) decided to remove debian from my...uh...I mean his PC and he's tried several things to make lilo go away so he can go back to his normal win98 life: 1. typed 'fdisk /mbr' at both c:\ and c:\windows\command 2. completely erased linux native and swap partitions Yet...after restarting the computer...low and behold - lilo kicks in, and proceeds to attempt to boot debian. Could there be a virus here? I'd really appreciate a reply. Thanks. - David -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Three things are certain: Death, taxes, and lost data. Guess which has occurred. Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SUPC-E/NSSE) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Do I have a virus?
On 29 Oct 1999, Martyn Pearce wrote: | A friend of mine (not me...I'm just writing this e-mail for him - yeah, | that's it) decided to remove debian from my...uh...I mean his PC and he's | tried several things to make lilo go away so he can go back to his normal | win98 life: | | 1. typed 'fdisk /mbr' at both c:\ and c:\windows\command Curious that fdisk didn't do it. Might be worth checking the BIOS settings --- some M/Bs have a virus protection mechanism that, when enabled, prevents anything writing to the first sector of the hard disk. Nope, I've had the same problem. Can it be that lilo changes something in the bootable partition and not only in the mbr? In that case fdisk /mbr won't be able to help. Nico Mx. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Three things are certain: Death, taxes, and lost data. Guess which has occurred. Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SUPC-E/NSSE) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Debian] Multiport Ethernet boards?
On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, Nico De Ranter wrote: Are those 10/100Mbit boards? Do you have any data on performance issues? I want to build a router with 10 10/100Mbit interfaces but I wonder whether a standard PCI motherboard can handle that amount of traffic Nico Yes, these are 10/100. I have done some testing with them and I can use tcpspray from a machine on one net to a machine on another net saturating two ports on the card at wire speed and still handle normal traffic on the other two links. Note that this is with about 45 firewall rules in place. Looks good. I just got a quote from a vendor for a hardware router (layer 3 switch) that solution will cost about 50,- BEF ( +- 13000 US$ ). I guess I'll have no problem convincing my boss to go for Linux :-) Nico -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- How do you tell when you run out of invisible ink? Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SUPC-E/NSSE) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Debian] Multiport Ethernet boards?
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Nico De Ranter wrote: SMC unfortunately only has a dual one (couldn't find anything else on their website). But Znyx has exactly what I want and even seems to have good support for Linux so I'll probably buy a Znyx Netblaster ZX346Q. I have been doing a lot of work lately with the Adaptec quad tulip boards. They work great with 2.2 kernels ... not at all for me with 2.0. They have an on-board PCI bus with a bridge to the system PCI bus. Shares one interrupt so it is possible to build a firewall/router with up to 16 security zones on separate physical nets using the motherboards we have to use. Are those 10/100Mbit boards? Do you have any data on performance issues? I want to build a router with 10 10/100Mbit interfaces but I wonder whether a standard PCI motherboard can handle that amount of traffic Nico -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- How do you tell when you run out of invisible ink? Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SUPC-E/NSSE) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Debian] Multiport Ethernet boards?
On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Nico De Ranter wrote: : : Howdy, : : I believe somebody posted a message about this some time ago : but I couldn't find it in the archives (actualy I don't know : what to look for :-). I want to build a router using a PC : running Linux. Unfortunately there aren't enough PCI slots to : accomodate all networkadapters. Are there any multiport : ethernet adapters around that are supported by Linux? Yes. SMC makes a nice one that's based on the tulip chipset. There's a dual model, and I think a quad. I don't have any URLs but I did search Altavista once with exactly your question and came up with a few pages talking about multiport NICs supported in Linux. SMC unfortunately only has a dual one (couldn't find anything else on their website). But Znyx has exactly what I want and even seems to have good support for Linux so I'll probably buy a Znyx Netblaster ZX346Q. : Considering I want to build a router with 9 network interfaces : (preferably 100Base-Tx but I guess that's too much to ask for :-), : what kind of PC should I use (it will only do routing and maybe : DNS). Will a Pentium 233MMX do the trick or should I go for : a PIII 550. Will 64MB do or should I use 128MB, will the amount : of memory have any impact at all on the performance. I figure : the PCI bus will probably be the bottleneck here. Well, I would think that the Pentium would handle it - Bay routers (for example) are generally powered by 68040 Motorola chips ... RAM is good :) : Isn't there a Linux-router or something like that around? http://www.linuxrouter.org/ Thanks !! :-) Nico -- How do you tell when you run out of invisible ink? Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SUPC-E/NSSE) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Debian] Multiport Ethernet boards?
Howdy, I believe somebody posted a message about this some time ago but I couldn't find it in the archives (actualy I don't know what to look for :-). I want to build a router using a PC running Linux. Unfortunately there aren't enough PCI slots to accomodate all networkadapters. Are there any multiport ethernet adapters around that are supported by Linux? Considering I want to build a router with 9 network interfaces (preferably 100Base-Tx but I guess that's too much to ask for :-), what kind of PC should I use (it will only do routing and maybe DNS). Will a Pentium 233MMX do the trick or should I go for a PIII 550. Will 64MB do or should I use 128MB, will the amount of memory have any impact at all on the performance. I figure the PCI bus will probably be the bottleneck here. Isn't there a Linux-router or something like that around? Nico -- How do you tell when you run out of invisible ink? Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SUPC-E/NSSE) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ethernet MACaddress constantly changing
OK, I did some testing: rebooted from Linux to Windows and the other way around a couple of times and got the following peculiar results: 1. linux: 0:80:0:10:b7:7c 2. windows: 0:10:5a:92:b7:7c 3. linux: 80:0:0:10:85:bb 4. windows: 0:10:5a:92:b7:7c 5. linux: 2:0:0:10:2:16 6. windows: 0:10:5a:92:b7:7c 7. linux: 4:0:0:10:8:5b It seems to be a linux-only problem, windows is stable (at least something about Windows that's stable :-) ). ...wait a minute... turning of vmware ethernet bridge... 8. linux: 0:10:5a:92:b7:7c ...looks good... once more... 9. linux: 1:0:0:10:1:b ...damn... 10. linux: 0:10:5a:92:b7:7c I think it's not even Linux, it's probably the card itself :-( I should again get a bogus one... 11. linux: 1:0:0:10:1:b ...yep there it is again :-( OK never mind it seems to be something with the card itself :-( Nico Hello James M., On 12-Aug-99, you wrote: snip... LJM MAC addr is another story. LJM That should be fixed to the adaptor and never change. (Well, LJM almost never. There are a few that have mac addresses that LJM are able to be modified with a special utility. The only ones LJM I know about are for older minicomputers...) LJM Likewise, I have encountered systems where the Eth Addr could be changed but again, it was a long time ago and I think they were minis. I doubt the 3Com NIC Eth could be changed. LJM I have a portable with a 3Com 3CCE589ET CPCMCIA network LJM adapter. I'm also running arpwatch on my network to check for LJM ellegal aliens. I noticed that everytime a reboot my portable LJM from linux to windows or the other way around I get a message LJM from arpwatch that the Ethernet address of my portable changed. LJM Shouldn't the ethernet address be network-card-specific. Is either LJM Linux or Windows98 changing my Ethernet address and ifso why? LJM Assuming arp on Debian is like other unixes I've used, go to another m/c on your network and ping your laptop then arp -a it - this should return the Eth. Do it before and after rebooting the L/T. Also, does arpwatch give you the addresses? Are the addresses consistent - is the change always from addr A to addr B or does it vary. For example, if you boot from Windoze to Debian and then back to W, what addresses are reported by arpwatch and what do you get by ping/arp -a at each step? Could this just be the NIC Eth going to null during the re-boot? Regards, LeeE -- http://www.spatial.freeserve.co.uk -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- How do you tell when you run out of invisible ink? Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SUPC-E/NSSE) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ethernet MACaddress constantly changing
I just installed another PCMCIA network adapter and now the MAC address is stable so it was indeed the card. Thanks to all who helped ;-) Nico OK, I did some testing: rebooted from Linux to Windows and the other way around a couple of times and got the following peculiar results: 1. linux: 0:80:0:10:b7:7c 2. windows: 0:10:5a:92:b7:7c 3. linux: 80:0:0:10:85:bb 4. windows: 0:10:5a:92:b7:7c 5. linux: 2:0:0:10:2:16 6. windows: 0:10:5a:92:b7:7c 7. linux: 4:0:0:10:8:5b It seems to be a linux-only problem, windows is stable (at least something about Windows that's stable :-) ). ...wait a minute... turning of vmware ethernet bridge... 8. linux: 0:10:5a:92:b7:7c ...looks good... once more... 9. linux: 1:0:0:10:1:b ...damn... 10. linux: 0:10:5a:92:b7:7c I think it's not even Linux, it's probably the card itself :-( I should again get a bogus one... 11. linux: 1:0:0:10:1:b ...yep there it is again :-( OK never mind it seems to be something with the card itself :-( Nico Hello James M., On 12-Aug-99, you wrote: snip... LJM MAC addr is another story. LJM That should be fixed to the adaptor and never change. (Well, LJM almost never. There are a few that have mac addresses that LJM are able to be modified with a special utility. The only ones LJM I know about are for older minicomputers...) LJM Likewise, I have encountered systems where the Eth Addr could be changed but again, it was a long time ago and I think they were minis. I doubt the 3Com NIC Eth could be changed. LJM I have a portable with a 3Com 3CCE589ET CPCMCIA network LJM adapter. I'm also running arpwatch on my network to check for LJM ellegal aliens. I noticed that everytime a reboot my portable LJM from linux to windows or the other way around I get a message LJM from arpwatch that the Ethernet address of my portable changed. LJM Shouldn't the ethernet address be network-card-specific. Is either LJM Linux or Windows98 changing my Ethernet address and ifso why? LJM Assuming arp on Debian is like other unixes I've used, go to another m/c on your network and ping your laptop then arp -a it - this should return the Eth. Do it before and after rebooting the L/T. Also, does arpwatch give you the addresses? Are the addresses consistent - is the change always from addr A to addr B or does it vary. For example, if you boot from Windoze to Debian and then back to W, what addresses are reported by arpwatch and what do you get by ping/arp -a at each step? Could this just be the NIC Eth going to null during the re-boot? Regards, LeeE -- http://www.spatial.freeserve.co.uk -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- How do you tell when you run out of invisible ink? Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SUPC-E/NSSE) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- How do you tell when you run out of invisible ink? Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SUPC-E/NSSE) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Debian] Ethernet MACaddress constantly changing
Hi, I have a portable with a 3Com 3CCE589ET CPCMCIA network adapter. I'm also running arpwatch on my network to check for ellegal aliens. I noticed that everytime a reboot my portable from linux to windows or the other way around I get a message from arpwatch that the Ethernet address of my portable changed. Shouldn't the ethernet address be network-card-specific. Is either Linux or Windows98 changing my Ethernet address and ifso why? Thanks in advance, Nico -- How do you tell when you run out of invisible ink? Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SUPC-E/NSSE) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
using 6 serial ports
Howdy, I added a board with 4 serial ports to my PC. I can access the first two serial ports on that board but I do not succeed in connecting to the other 2 ports. I added support for more then 4 serial ports to the kernel and I added some setserial lines to /etc/rc.boot/0setserial but it still doesn't seem to work. When I boot Linux I get a message stating: Serial driver version 4.27 with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A ttyS02 at 0x03e8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS03 at 0x02e8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A Should I do anything special to use the next 2 serial ports? I couldn't find anything in the serial-HOWTO. Thanks in advance, Nico -- How do you tell when you run out of invisible ink? Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SUPC-E/NSSE) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [potato] gdm doesn't start windowmanager
I had the same problem, and I found that there were a couple of things that could be behind it first it could be a bad xsession file, or it could be an issue with the window manager, either it's not correctly installed, or the /etc/X11/window-managers file is trying to start a windowmanager that doesn't exist (probably twm) I checked that, there is no .xsession file at all and I tried a number of window managers. I even tried copying the complete /etc/X11 and /etc/gdm directory from my portable (which does have a working potato, however I upgraded it a long time ago) to my desktop. I got the exact same problem. I even tried copying gdm and gdmgreeter from the portable but it still didn't work :-(. I promised someone I was going to have a look at .xsession-errors but I'm afraid I forget it :-). I'll try to post a copy of some config and error files tonight. Nico R. Nico De Ranter [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/04/99 03:14AM Howdy, I don't know whether this is the correct mailinglist to post this but anyway... I upgraded my Debian box to unstable and installed gdm. Unfortunately when I try to login the screen flickers a few times and the gdm screen pops back. When I start X by typing startx from a text console everything works fine. I noticed this problem on a few PC's that have been upgraded to potato so I think it's a bug and not a misconfiguration. I now potato is called unstable for something but I hope somebody has a workaround or fix for this. Thanks in advance, Nico -- How do you tell when you run out of invisible ink? Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SUPC-E/NSSE) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- How do you tell when you run out of invisible ink? Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SUPC-E/NSSE) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [potato] gdm doesn't start windowmanager
Nico De Ranter wrote: Howdy, I don't know whether this is the correct mailinglist to post this but anyway... I upgraded my Debian box to unstable and installed gdm. Unfortunately when I try to login the screen flickers a few times and the gdm screen pops back. When I start X by typing startx from a text console everything works fine. I noticed this problem on a few PC's that have been upgraded to potato so I think it's a bug and not a misconfiguration. what does your ~/.xsession-errors file say after gdm does this? It should give us an idea of what's happening so we can help solve the problem... the symptom you list just means that, for some reason, X is unable to load its WM, or has some other error that ends the session. It could be a number of things. I verified it: my .xsession-errors stays empty :-(. --Evan -- How do you tell when you run out of invisible ink? Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SUPC-E/NSSE) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[potato] gdm doesn't start windowmanager
Howdy, I don't know whether this is the correct mailinglist to post this but anyway... I upgraded my Debian box to unstable and installed gdm. Unfortunately when I try to login the screen flickers a few times and the gdm screen pops back. When I start X by typing startx from a text console everything works fine. I noticed this problem on a few PC's that have been upgraded to potato so I think it's a bug and not a misconfiguration. I now potato is called unstable for something but I hope somebody has a workaround or fix for this. Thanks in advance, Nico -- How do you tell when you run out of invisible ink? Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SUPC-E/NSSE) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Extra serial ports
Howdy, for a test setup I need a PC with 4 serial ports (ppp server). Can I simply plugin any PCI board with 2 serial ports or will I need any hardware specific drivers? I believe this used to work fine with an ISA board with 2 serial ports but I have never tried a PCI version and I can only find PCI serial boards nowadays. I guess it should be fine but it would be nice if somebody could say Hey, I tried it and it works without problems. Thanks in advance, Nico -- How do you tell when you run out of invisible ink? Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SUPC-E/NSSE) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Linux] resetting the serial port
Howdy, I'm currently experimenting with my serial ports. I have installed mgetty and everything works perfectly. Unfortunately when I kill the process that is using the serial ports, I can't use the port for some time anymore. I either have to reboot the PC or wait some time for it to be available again. Any idea how I can manualy reset the serial port? Thanks in advance, Nico -- How do you tell when you run out of invisible ink? Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SUPC-E/NSSE) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Debian] can't upgrade from slink to potato
On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Mark Wagnon wrote: On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 10:17:46AM +0200, Nico De Ranter wrote: I'm trying to upgrade my slink system to potato (I need a newer ppp version). I first used dselect to have a look at the new package in potato but when I run apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade apt tells me there are no packages to upgrade. Apparently apt thinks my system is already up-to-date. Any idea how I can convince apt to do the upgrade anyway? WARNING TYPE=important Are you sure you want to go to potato? Things are rather unstable at the moment, more so than usual. If you can't deal with random breakage, you may want to stay with slink. /WARNING I've been running potato on my laptop without problems for some time now. I installed it mainly for the gnome stuff which wasn't (isn't?) available for slink at that time. I haven't had much problems with it (except for some installation problems where packages didn't like eachother :-). then you can run apt-get update and apt-get upgrade. If you don't want to go all the way with potato, I belive you can just do am apt-get install ppp-whatever and it'll upgrade the necessary packages for you. Check out the man page and /usr/doc/apt for more info. You may not have much luck installing potato debs on a slink system, since potato uses glibc 2.1 while slink has 2.0, and nearly everything depends on glibc (aka libc6). You could always download the sources from potato and try compiling them on your slink system... That's exactly why I wanted to upgrade the whole system in stead of just the ppp package. I considered downloading the source and compiling it myself but that would make it difficult to upgrade later on. That's the one thing about packages that I don't like: it's so hard to mix packages with your own self-compiled applications :-( Anyway, as the previous guy suggested: I did indeed stupidly forget to update /etc/apt/sources.list :-) Nico -- How do you tell when you run out of invisible ink? Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SUPC-E/NSSE) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian install fails utterly
I had the same problems installing debian on a Toshiba Tecra. It boots fine from the second CD-ROm but then there just is no suitable rescue disk to install. What I did was: I copied the directory containing all disk images from the first CD and so on to the windows partition on my harddisk and replaced the rescue.bin (or something like that, I don't have the CD's at hand) with the one for the tecra. Then boot to DOS and run linux.bat or boot.bat or whatever from the harddisk. Nico I have been trying to install Debian slink for about 3 working days now, and it will not happen. First off, let me say that I am new to Debian, but not to linux. I have been using it since 1991, so it's not a total newbie mistake, but it may be a Debian newbie mistake. I tried to boot off of the CDROM. The kernel hangs after it loads the driver for my SCSI adapter (on-board AIC7890). I found some documentation saying that the SCSI adapter can cause problems, but that someone (adric?) had created some boot floppies that solved the problem. I d/l'ed those and booted using them with the same hang. So I tried botting off of the second CDROM, the 'tecra' one, and it did not hang on the kernel boot, but it did panic because it evidently didn't know where to find the root filesystem. Then I tried creating a new boot floppy with a new kernel that didn't have support for my SCSI adapter at all (as it will not be used at all -- don't ask, it's another long story). While it booted okay, it also did not know where to find the root. I finally figured (not that it's documented anywhere that I can find) that I needed to boot via floppy with the 'ramdisk' method and that the root is in root.bin. Now I'm actually up to a point that looks like it's trying to install. I go through some stuff that looks okay until I get to a point where it's looking for resc1440-2.2.6.bin (2.2.6 is the kernel I compiled). It can't find it of course, and there appears to be no way to tell it to look for something else. And I can't get any farther. Then I have the idea to boot off of the 'tecra', but do a 'ramdisk' boot and have it load the root off of the floppy. This seems to boot fine until it tries to find the rescue disk again. This time it looks for a file that seems sane, but it can't find it, so I umount the tecra CDROM and mount the standard one. Then it seems able to find the disk image and everything goes okay until reboot, at which point it tries to boot off of that original kernel that hangs at the SCSI driver. At this point, I am ready to jump up and down on the install media, the motherboard with the SCSI adapter that I didn't want (again, don't ask), the vendor that sold it to me, my coworkers, the debian.org website, RedHat (just for laughs), both Deb and Ian, Adaptec, whoever wrote the Install Guide my mother; really, just about everybody in sight. I know I'm close to being in danger of offending everyone on this mailing list, but at this point, I'm real close to telling everyone I know that Debian is a true POS and to avoid it at all costs. I would really like to be able to avoid that. It's as if the folks making the distro decided that if you couldn't boot off of the CDROM without any additional options then they really didn't want your business. Try following the instructions for booting off of a floppy. It doesn't work. All it says is that you need to boot off of the Resuce Floppy (6.2). Try to find a reference to inserting the CDROM or an additional floppy or anything. I certainly couldn't. If I was installing Slackware, for instance, I would have tried to boot off of the CDROM, it would have hung up, and I would then have created two floppy disks, a boot and a root, and booted off of them, with all defaults accepted. I know that this works fine because I did it on this machine just to make sure that there wasn't a hardware problem. Anyway, now that I've come as close as humanly possible to creating pure flamebait, would someone PLEASE tell me that you're a complete idiot and you're going about it completely wrong and this is what you're supposed to be doing, you annoying fool. Derision would be fine if I could just get this f**ker installed. -Bitt -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- How do you tell when you run out of invisible ink? Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SUPC-E/NSSE) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Debian] can't upgrade from slink to potato
Howdy, I'm trying to upgrade my slink system to potato (I need a newer ppp version). I first used dselect to have a look at the new package in potato but when I run apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade apt tells me there are no packages to upgrade. Apparently apt thinks my system is already up-to-date. Any idea how I can convince apt to do the upgrade anyway? Nico -- How do you tell when you run out of invisible ink? Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SUPC-E/NSSE) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Debian] Gnome session manager
Howdy, I'm running icewm-gnome and I like it very much. However every time I logon it will give me a pile of windows that I apparently was open when I logged off (sometimes it even starts some programs that I definitely wasn't running anymore when I logged off). However in stead of spreading around those windows in the same way they were when I logged off (which would at least be acceptable), it makes one big pile of them in the top-left corner of the first desktop. How can I turn this behaviour off? I don't want a session manager. If I want a window to open automatically I'll put it in my .xsession. Thanks in advance, Nico -- How do you tell when you run out of invisible ink? Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SUPC-E/NSSE) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[LINUX] How to change the boot logo
Howdy, I just recompiled my kernel so that I now get a nice penguin logo when I boot :-). Is there any way I can change this logo? (I'd like to add some details about my system next to it, kind of like a SUN when it boots) Nico -- How do you tell when you run out of invisible ink? Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SUPC-E/NSSE) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Debian] linux on a Compaq proliant 2500
Howdy, I believe this question has been asked before but I couldn't find it in the archives. I'm trying to install debian on a Compaq 2500 with multiple scsi disks. The first disk contains a small Compaq-specific partition and an NT server partition. The second disk contains Debian. I installed lilo in all kind of combinations but when I reboot I only get the LI from LILO. I know this means The first stage boot loader was able to load the second stage boot loader, but has failed to execute it. This can either be caused by a geometry mismatch or by moving /boot/boot.b without running the map installer. But I have no idea how to solve this. Any ideas? My lilo.conf now looks like: boot=/dev/sda (tried sda2, sdb also, ran liloconfig each time) delay = 40 compact root=/dev/sdb1 install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map vga=normal image=/vmlinuz label=Linux read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36 label=working read-only other=/dev/sda2 label=dos table=/dev/sda and my partitions look like: trapist:/usr/doc/lilo# fdisk /dev/sda Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 522 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda11540131 12 Unknown /dev/sda2 *6 522 4152802+ 7 OS/2 HPFS Command (m for help): q trapist:/usr/doc/lilo# fdisk /dev/sdb Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/sdb: 57 heads, 62 sectors, 1021 cylinders Units = cylinders of 3534 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 *1 1021 1804076 83 Linux native -- How do you tell when you run out of invisible ink? Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SUPC-E/NSSE) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Linux] where is tip or cu?
Howdy, I need to talk to my serial port. On other Unices I would use tip or cu. Any idea which package contains these tools? (I know they both exist for Linux since I used them before, unfortunately I reinstalled Debian and I can't find them anymore) Thanks in advance, Nico -- How do you tell when you run out of invisible ink? Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SUPC-E/NSSE) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[LINUX] PPTP server for Linux
Howdy, is there a PPTP server for Linux available? I know there is a client for Linux bould I'd prefer not to run the server on Windows (actualy I'd prefer not to run anything on Windows :-) Nico -- How do you tell when you run out of invisible ink? Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SUPC-E/NSSE) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[LINUX] VPN software?
Howdy, I'm looking for a VPN solution that would preferably be free :-) and has a server for Linux (or UNIX in general) and clients for Linux and Windows. (SSH tunneling won't do the trick) Any ideas? Thanks in advance, Nico -- How do you tell when you run out of invisible ink? Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SUPC-E/NSSE) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[DEBIAN] version of tar that does bzip2
Howdy, is there a version of tar somewhere that will recognize bzip2 compression? I don't like untarring in two passes :-) Nico -- How do you tell when you run out of invisible ink? Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SUPC-E/DNSE-B) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Debian] Dell portble loses CD-ROM
Howdy, I'm trying to install Debian on a Dell Lattitude CPi. The base installation (from CD) goes fine but after I reboot he tends to loose the CD-ROM (/dev/hdc unrecognised). I did install the iso9660 module. Any ideas what might be wrong? Thanks in advance, Nico -- How do you tell when you run out of invisible ink? Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SUPC-E/DNSE-B) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
