Unable to run virsh on bookworm

[Sean Whalen]

Hi,

I've installed virt-manager on a Debian bookworm system, and that is 
working fine. However, when I try to use the libvirt CLI client, virsh, 
I receive this error message:


virsh: /usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libvirt.so.0: version 
`LIBVIRT_PRIVATE_9.0.0' not found (required by virsh)


The Fedora package libvirt-libs 
<https://packages.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/libvirt/libvirt-libs/fedora-38.html> 
9.0.0 states that it provides 
libvirt.so.0(LIBVIRT_PRIVATE_9.0.0)(64bit), so I'm not sure why the 
Debian package wouldn't be the same way, or why virt-manager works but 
virsh does not.


I just filed a bug 
<https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1035808> (that was my 
time using the Debian bug tracking system). Is anyone aware of a 
workaround for this bug until it is fixed?


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Re: How exactly do I create a Debian live USB?

[Sean Behan]

That cp command looks fine, but if you want to try using dd with
offsets, try:

sudo dd if=debian-live-11.0.0-amd64-standard.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=4M

if is input file, of is output file, bs is blocksize which I set to 4MB
which is a typical block size

If that still doesn't work it's likely an issue with the USB flash drive
you're using.

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On 2021-10-11 06:38, kaye n wrote:
> Hello Friends!
> 
> I did this and was able to boot my newly created Debian 11 live USB but was
> stuck in a black terminal-like screen where it says, I/O error, etc.
> 
> Using GParted, I created an MS-DOS partition table and formatted the USB
> stick in fat32.
> 
> Then I used these commands
> 
> sudo cp  debian-live-11.0.0-amd64-standard.iso /dev/sdb
> sync
> 
> All seemed fine until I booted the live USB and got the error message as
> stated above.
> 
> Thank you for your time.

Re: Request of recommendations for public Mercurial repository hosting

[Sean Farley]

Mario Castelán Castro  writes:

> On 17/09/17 12:04, Mario Castelán Castro wrote:
>> My only candidate so far is Bitbucket. I want to know if there are other
>> options. I have already discarded SourceForge because it has Google JS.
>> All other providers that I know either are paid or do not offer
>> Mercurial. Unfortunately, most only offer Git.
>
> I discovered that Bitbucket registration does not work with Google
> JavaScript blocked, so it is no longer an option.

Yeah, we use Google for captcha. I just tried to register a new account
by blocking analytics but allowing google ang gstatic. :shrug:


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Switch user is broken for multiple sessions after upgrade to stretch.

[Sean Peters]

I've got a home desktop PC that often has several members of the
family logged in to it at the same time, with a mixture of LXDE,
GNOME, and FVWM(from .xsession) sessions.
It uses gdm3 as a display manager.

Since an upgrade to stretch, Switch User doesn't work.
None of these work:
  - "Switch User" option in the LXDE logout menu.
  - "New Login" button in xscreensaver,
  - "Switch User" button in gnome-screensaver,
  - gdmflexiserver
(It does work in GNOME)

I've also tried other display managers - LDXM, lightdm, sddm, wdm,
xdm - each has a switch user problem with some of the desktop
sessions.  Also, only gmd3 seems to remember the session choices on a
per user basis.

Any suggestions?

(There is also a problem that LXDE uses light-locker, which, when used
 with gdm3, just gives a blank screen with no way to get out of it.
 I've disabled light-locker for LXDE in
 /etc/xdg/autostart/light-locker.desktop to get around this.)

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Re: Debian 9

[Sean Behan]

On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 06:24:17PM -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote:
> On 06/27/2017 09:49 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> I downloaded the iso to check this out, yes it won't give you root passwd,
> the install takes the passwd while installing.  Sudo is installed but the
> user is not allowed sudo rights. Now I have this install and it's worst than
> the live dvd, it least you can sudo with the live dvd. Is there an easy fix
> I can try?  I've been googling but nothing easy to do.
 
Login as root, run "visudo" and uncomment the line that says:

# Allow members of group sudo to execute any command

Then log out and back in on your regular user


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Re: Debian 9

[Sean Behan]

On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 05:41:57PM -0400, Fungi4All wrote:
> Is this all it takes to hack the root account of a secure debian system?

Correct, if you're on the same architecture you can actually chroot to
acquire the same effect by issuing commands.

It's not really hacking, you have access to the file system, therefore
you are able to change the data on the disk, such as passwords.


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Re: How to attach a fully encrypted drive to Stretch

[Sean Behan]

On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 10:34:45AM +0200, Erwan David wrote:
> Le 06/27/17 à 10:16, Hans a écrit :
> > Hi!
> > I believe, first of all is to check, how youz device is seen at the 
> > usb-port.
> > 
> > As root start "tail -f /var/log/syslog" and then plugin your device. Check 
> > the 
> > messages.
> > 
> > When you know the device, check the partionin. Just start "fdisk" and print 
> > out your partitions. Be careful, not to change anything!
> > 
> > End fdisk, then open your encrypted partition (i.e. sdc3) using 
> > "cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdc3 somename" and enter your correct password.
> > 
> > The term "somename"  can freely be chosen, I personally are using something 
> > like "usr2" or "home2" whatever.
> > 
> > When your device is opened, you can mount it somewhere, I am using 
> > either "/mnt" or create a new directory (i.e. /disk1)
> > 
> > So, mount it using "mount /dev/mapper/somename /mnt".
> > 
> 
> It won't work : the disk is an lvm volume (as said in first message), so
> there is some lvm stuff to do before this. Sorry I do not know lvm to
> give the right commands to use.

When the drive is LVM it should me mapped to /dev/mapper/ automatically
after being opened by cryptsetup, you can then mount it like so:

"mount /dev/mapper/volume_name /mnt"


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Re: CPU frequency and custom kernel

[Sean Alexandre]

On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 11:06:14AM +0100, Jochen Spieker wrote:
 Check the files in this directory:
 
 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq
 
 Especially scaling_available_frequencies, scaling_max_freq and
 scaling_min_freq.

I've been using the cpufreq-info, which I think reports what's in those files.
For the Debian kernel I get:

cpufrequtils 008: cpufreq-info (C) Dominik Brodowski 2004-2009
Report errors and bugs to cpuf...@vger.kernel.org, please.
analyzing CPU 0:
  driver: acpi-cpufreq
  CPUs which run at the same hardware frequency: 0 1 2 3
  CPUs which need to have their frequency coordinated by software: 0
  maximum transition latency: 10.0 us.
  hardware limits: 800 MHz - 2.30 GHz
  available frequency steps: 2.30 GHz, 2.00 GHz, 1.80 GHz, 1.60 GHz, 1.40 GHz, 
1.20 GHz, 1000 MHz, 800 MHz
  available cpufreq governors: conservative, powersave, userspace, ondemand, 
performance
  current policy: frequency should be within 800 MHz and 2.30 GHz.
  The governor ondemand may decide which speed to use
  within this range.
  current CPU frequency is 800 MHz (asserted by call to hardware).
  cpufreq stats: 2.30 GHz:5.20%, 2.00 GHz:0.14%, 1.80 GHz:0.16%, 1.60 
GHz:0.20%, 1.40 GHz:0.28%, 1.20 GHz:0.44%, 1000 MHz:0.49%, 800 MHz:93.09%  
(39552)

And then for the custom kernel I get:

cpufrequtils 008: cpufreq-info (C) Dominik Brodowski 2004-2009
Report errors and bugs to cpuf...@vger.kernel.org, please.
analyzing CPU 0:
  driver: acpi-cpufreq
  CPUs which run at the same hardware frequency: 0 1 2 3
  CPUs which need to have their frequency coordinated by software: 0
  maximum transition latency: 10.0 us.
  hardware limits: 800 MHz - 2.30 GHz
  available frequency steps: 2.30 GHz, 2.00 GHz, 1.80 GHz, 1.60 GHz, 1.40 GHz, 
1.20 GHz, 1000 MHz, 800 MHz
  available cpufreq governors: conservative, powersave, userspace, ondemand, 
performance
  current policy: frequency should be within 800 MHz and 2.30 GHz.
  The governor ondemand may decide which speed to use
  within this range.
  current CPU frequency is 1.80 GHz (asserted by call to hardware).
  cpufreq stats: 2.30 GHz:11.32%, 2.00 GHz:1.27%, 1.80 GHz:0.94%, 1.60 
GHz:0.59%, 1.40 GHz:1.17%, 1.20 GHz:0.60%, 1000 MHz:1.12%, 800 MHz:82.99%  (713)

That last line for the custom kernel says the CPU runs at 800 MHz most of the 
time, 
but I think that's because the stats don't roll over on reboot. It shows I'm 
using 
the Debian kernel most of the time.


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Re: CPU frequency and custom kernel

[Sean Alexandre]

On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 03:03:33AM -0500, ken wrote:
 I've found cpuspeed to be buggy... the speed at which the cpu runs
 seems to have little to do with the conditions specified in the
 config file. Recent kernel upgrades have improved cpuspeed somewhat
 (without any changes to the config file), but it's still nonsensical
 at times.

I think that was it. I upgraded to most recent stable kernel (3.12.1) [1] and
no longer see the problem.

I took a look at the 3.2 changelog [2] to see if I could tell what particular
change Debian developers made to get this working. There are quite a few
cpufreq related changes, but it wasn't clear to me which fixes the problem
I was seeing.

[1] https://www.kernel.org/
[2] 
http://ftp-master.metadata.debian.org/changelogs//main/l/linux/linux_3.2.51-1_changelog


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CPU frequency and custom kernel

[Sean Alexandre]

I've built my own kernel, but the CPU runs faster (hotter, more fan noise, etc.)

I can't figure out why it's faster. Everything I've checked is the same between
the two kernels. If I boot to the Debian provided kernel the CPU runs at 800
MHz, but if I boot to my custom kernel it runs at 1.8 GHz. (These are baseline
speeds, after boot without running anything else.)

Here's what I've checked so far:

* Kernel versions are the same. The Debian version is 3.2.0-4-amd64 and the
  version I got from kernel.org is 3.2.52.
* The boot command line has the same paremeters for both: 
  linux /vmlinuz-3.2.0-4-amd64 root=/dev/mapper/tuzo-root ro quiet
* Both boot to the same root file system, and use the same configuration files.
* The .config file used to build the custom kernel is the same as the one used
  to build the Debian kernel. (I'm going to pare it down to just what I need
  once I figure out this problem.)
* Both use the ondemand cpufreq governor.

Is there anything else I should check?

My next step would be to try and build the kernel source from the Debian
package instead of from kernel.org. Maybe this is a code difference?


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ssh tunnel delay

[Sean Alexandre]

I'm seeing a delay when I attempt a connection through an ssh tunnel. The
connection's fast without the tunnel, but has an inital 80 second delay with
it.

Here's the case that works, without the tunnel.  I see lines I type echoed
immediately:

server nc -l -p 1212
client nc server 1212

But if instead I do this, the first line isn't seen for about 80 seconds.  
After that,
everything's fine and lines appear immediately:

server nc -l -p 1212
client ssh -o ExitOnForwardFailure=yes -fN -L1110:localhost:1212 server
client nc localhost 1110  

I can ssh to the server fine, with no delay. Any ideas why the tunnel has the 
delay?


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Re: ssh tunnel delay

[Sean Alexandre]

On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 12:25:59PM +0200, Juan Sierra Pons wrote:
 Can you launch the tunnel in verbose (-vvv) mode and send the logs?
 ssh -vvv -o ExitOnForwardFailure=yes -fN -L1110:localhost:1212 server

Here's what I'm seeing with -vvv:
http://paste.debian.net/37873/


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Re: ssh tunnel delay

[Sean Alexandre]

On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 01:11:17PM +0200, Juan Sierra Pons wrote:
 Hi,
 
 I don't see anything strange in the logs provided. Do you see anything
 strange in your dmesg, /var/log/daemon.log, etc?
 
 Is the DNS on the server's side working properly? Sometimes when the
 reverse DNS is not properly configure some TCP based services get some
 delay on first connection: ssh, mysql, etc
 
 Can a network issue  be discarded. Please check with mtr: mtr remote server
 
 Not a solution but a very tiny improvement , launch the tunnel with the -C
 (compression) parameter.

Thanks for looking at this. The other things you list look fine. I did notice
something else with the log, though. Below I type the line hello. Then
there's the 80 second delay. And then there's the log messages after the 
hello:

debug1: Entering interactive session.
client nc localhost 1110
hello
debug1: Connection to port 1110 forwarding to localhost port 1212 requested.
 
debug2: fd 6 setting TCP_NODELAY
 
debug2: fd 6 setting O_NONBLOCK 
 
debug3: fd 6 is O_NONBLOCK  
 
debug1: channel 2: new [direct-tcpip]   
 
debug2: channel 2: open confirm rwindow 2097152 rmax 32768

I think the delay no longer happens, with subsequent lines,  because
TCP_NODELAY and O_NONBLOCK get set. I wonder if there's a way to configure
things to set those from the start?


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Re: ssh tunnel delay

[Sean Alexandre]

On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 02:28:37PM +0200, Juan Sierra Pons wrote:
 2013/9/10 Sean Alexandre s...@alexan.org
 
  On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 01:11:17PM +0200, Juan Sierra Pons wrote:
   Hi,
  
   I don't see anything strange in the logs provided. Do you see anything
   strange in your dmesg, /var/log/daemon.log, etc?
  
   Is the DNS on the server's side working properly? Sometimes when the
   reverse DNS is not properly configure some TCP based services get some
   delay on first connection: ssh, mysql, etc
  
   Can a network issue  be discarded. Please check with mtr: mtr remote 
   server
  
   Not a solution but a very tiny improvement , launch the tunnel with the -C
   (compression) parameter.
 
  Thanks for looking at this. The other things you list look fine. I did 
  notice
  something else with the log, though. Below I type the line hello. Then
  there's the 80 second delay. And then there's the log messages after the 
  hello:
 
  debug1: Entering interactive session.
  client nc localhost 1110
  hello
  debug1: Connection to port 1110 forwarding to localhost port 1212 requested.
  debug2: fd 6 setting TCP_NODELAY
  debug2: fd 6 setting O_NONBLOCK
  debug3: fd 6 is O_NONBLOCK
  debug1: channel 2: new [direct-tcpip]
  debug2: channel 2: open confirm rwindow 2097152 rmax 32768
 
  I think the delay no longer happens, with subsequent lines,  because
  TCP_NODELAY and O_NONBLOCK get set. I wonder if there's a way to configure
  things to set those from the start?
 
 Hi,
 
 I have found a kind of workaround:
 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/openssh/bugs/56042
 If the ssh client is invoked with:
 ssh -N host -R port # TCP_NODELAY is not set
 ssh -n host -R port sleep 1d # TCP_NODELAY is set - this is a workaround
 
 Can you try to launch the tunnel without the -N parameter (maybe you
 can send later the tunnel to background)

I get the same thing, unfortunately, with this:
ssh -o IPQoS=lowdelay lowdelay -o ExitOnForwardFailure=yes -f 
-L1110:localhost:1212 skoki3 sleep 1d

I've also added this line to /etc/ssh/sshd_config on the server, and restarted 
ssh there:
IPQoS lowdelay lowdelay

This bug report makes it sound like the bug's been fixed on Debian 7.0, but 
maybe not:

Debian Bug report logs - #643312
openssh-client: IPQoS option ignored for AF_INET since 5.9p1-1
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=643312

I've got version 1:6.0p1-4 of openssh-client. The bug report says the problems 
fixed
there, but maybe not.


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dhcpdump not seeing dhclient messages

[Sean Alexandre]

I have a machine that's not acquiring a DHCP lease from my ISP. I can see that
dhclient is sending DHCPDISCOVER messages. My system log has:

Aug 25 17:36:41 athabasca dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth-wan to 255.255.255.255 
port 67 interval 7
Aug 25 17:36:48 athabasca dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth-wan to 255.255.255.255 
port 67 interval 13
Aug 25 17:37:01 athabasca dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth-wan to 255.255.255.255 
port 67 interval 12
Aug 25 17:37:13 athabasca dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth-wan to 255.255.255.255 
port 67 interval 12
Aug 25 17:37:25 athabasca dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth-wan to 255.255.255.255 
port 67 interval 5
Aug 25 17:37:30 athabasca dhclient: No DHCPOFFERS received.
Aug 25 17:37:30 athabasca dhclient: No working leases in persistent database - 
sleeping.

But for some reason the DHCPDISCOVER messages aren't making it out over the
NIC. I'm running dhcpdump and see no traffic.

This is with no firewall rules. All tables and chains are set to ACCEPT.

The odd thing is if I do the exact same thing with this machine connected to
a local TP-LINK router instead of my ISP cable modem, dhcpdump sees the
DHCPDISCOVER, and the machine acquires a DHCP lease.

Any ideas why would dhclient be sending a DHCPDISCOVER, but dhcpdump not see 
it? 


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Re: dhcpdump not seeing dhclient messages

[Sean Alexandre]

On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 02:54:27PM +0530, Arun Khan wrote:
 On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Sean Alexandre s...@alexan.org wrote:
  I have a machine that's not acquiring a DHCP lease from my ISP. I can see 
  that
  dhclient is sending DHCPDISCOVER messages. My system log has:
 
  Aug 25 17:36:41 athabasca dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth-wan to 
  255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
 
 -8-8-8-8-8-8-8-
 
  The odd thing is if I do the exact same thing with this machine connected to
  a local TP-LINK router instead of my ISP cable modem, dhcpdump sees the
  DHCPDISCOVER, and the machine acquires a DHCP lease.
 
 Is your cable modem setup in bridge mode?   (bridge between it's
 ethernet (RJ45) and the 'wan' ports with cable coming in from ISP.

Yes, bridge mode. (It's just a cable modem, and not a router. Bridge mode is the
only way it works.)

 
  Any ideas why would dhclient be sending a DHCPDISCOVER, but dhcpdump not 
  see it?
 
 Try tcpdump with  dest port 67

OK, thanks. I just tried that now, and it got a DHCP lease this time, for some
reason. So it's working again. I'll do a tcpdump next time, if I see the
problem again, and hopefully that will tell me what's going on.


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Re: dhcpdump not seeing dhclient messages

[Sean Alexandre]

On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 01:28:44PM -0300, Luther Blissett wrote:
 I do not know if this is the case, but ISP's usually record its
 customers MAC address which is universally unique. Maybe, just maybe,
 when you switched from your tp-link router to direct wan link, the ISP
 machine noticed that there was an unknown MAC attempting to connect and
 refused connection. Then your dhcp discover packets would reach ISP
 hardware, but would not receive any responses.

I've checked with my ISP and they say to just power down the cable modem for 30
seconds before attaching a machine with a new MAC. And, I've been able to
switch between two other machines, both with different MAC addresses. It's just
this third machine that's given me problems.

What I'm really stuck on right now is why does the dhclient log show that it's
sending DHCPDISCOVER messages, but dhcpdump isn't seeing them? It's like
something is sitting between dhclient and my NIC. I've disabled all firewall
rules, though, so know it's not that. (All tables and chains have a default
policy of ACCEPT, and no rules.)

 BTW, you should notice that dchp communications are not held with the
 same machines when you have a direct link as opposed to routed link.
 When routed through some gateway, you have two sets of dhcp ISP --
 router -- pc.

Thanks. All my connections right now are direct, like this:

[ISP]---[cable modem]---[my machine]

The cable modem is just a modem, and not a router.

But I know what you mean. My final configuration will be: 

[ISP]---[cable modem]---[my machine, a router]---[LAN machines]


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owncloud no longer in wheezy

[Sean Alexandre]

I see owncloud is no longer in wheezy, and I'm trying to understand why. Where
can I find information on why a package was pulled from a release?

I see this, but it only seems to say when it was pulled:
http://packages.qa.debian.org/o/owncloud.html

It was pulled from testing to unstable on 2013-05-14. I'd like to understand 
why, 
(and how this works in general.)

Is there somewhere else I can check?

I'm trying to understand the Debian development process as much as anything.

(I had installed owncloud on a wheezy box when wheezy was testing. I want to
install it again, but this time on wheezy stable.)


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Re: owncloud no longer in wheezy

[Sean Alexandre]

On Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 06:07:04AM -0400, Sean Alexandre wrote:
 I see owncloud is no longer in wheezy, and I'm trying to understand why. Where
 can I find information on why a package was pulled from a release?
 
 I see this, but it only seems to say when it was pulled:
 http://packages.qa.debian.org/o/owncloud.html
 
 It was pulled from testing to unstable on 2013-05-14. I'd like to understand 
 why, 
 (and how this works in general.)
 
 Is there somewhere else I can check?
 
 I'm trying to understand the Debian development process as much as anything.
 
 (I had installed owncloud on a wheezy box when wheezy was testing. I want to
 install it again, but this time on wheezy stable.)

I think I just found the answer to my question, here:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?repeatmerged=nosrc=owncloud#_4_2_5

owncloud 4.0 (the version that was in wheezy testing) had a serious bug. It's
been fixed, but in the next release: owncloud 5.0. But, wheezy had already been
frozen by that time and so owncloud got pulled.

So next time I'll check the Bugs in source package link to understand
why a package got pulled from a release:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?repeatmerged=nosrc=owncloud


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dhclient No DHCPOFFERS received

[Sean Alexandre]

I've got two Debian Wheezy machines. One can connect to my cable modem fine,
and gets an IP address. The other can't. They're both configured the same. Any
ideas why this might be?

The log message I get on the machine that doesn't work is:
Aug  7 06:29:26 moose dhclient: No DHCPOFFERS received.

The configuration on both machines looks the same. I've checked:
* /etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf
* /etc/sysctl.conf
* iptables

What's mysterious about this is that both machines can connect fine to my
TP-LINK home router, and get DHCP leases and IP addresses. It's only when I try
to connect the problem machine to my cable modem that it gets the No
DHCPOFFERS received.

I know it's not a MAC address issue. Both my TP-LINK home router and the Debian
Wheezy machine that works get DHCP leases without any problems, and have
different MAC addresses.

Any ideas? Thanks!


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Re: dhclient No DHCPOFFERS received

[Sean Alexandre]

On Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 02:57:58PM +, Andy Hawkins wrote:
 Sean Alexandres...@alexan.org wrote:
  I've got two Debian Wheezy machines. One can connect to my cable modem fine,
  and gets an IP address. The other can't. They're both configured the same. 
  Any
  ideas why this might be?
 
 Apologies for suggesting something obvious you might already have thought
 of, but I seem to recall my Cable provider's modem will only provide DHCP
 addresses to a single MAC unless it's been correctly release (or perhaps the
 Cable Modem re-powered).
 
 Could it be as simple as that?

No, unfortunately. I know it's not a MAC address issue. Both my TP-LINK home
router and the Debian Wheezy machine that works get DHCP leases without any
problems, and have different MAC addresses.

I also asked my ISP about this, when I had them on the line to bring up my
new cable modem. They said any MAC address is fine. Just power the cable
modem down for 30 seconds first.


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Re: dhclient No DHCPOFFERS received

[Sean Alexandre]

On Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 05:24:57PM +, Andy Hawkins wrote:
 In article 20130807164822.GA7727@tuzo,
 Sean Alexandres...@alexan.org wrote:
  No, unfortunately. I know it's not a MAC address issue. Both my TP-LINK home
  router and the Debian Wheezy machine that works get DHCP leases without any
  problems, and have different MAC addresses.
 
  I also asked my ISP about this, when I had them on the line to bring up my
  new cable modem. They said any MAC address is fine. Just power the cable
  modem down for 30 seconds first.
 
 Ok, I did say I was kind of stating the obvious!
 
 Next thing I'd be doing is using tshark or similar to sniff the traffic
 being seen on the Debian box.

OK, thanks, that's where I was headed, but was hoping it was something more
obvious. I can get a tcpdump, but don't know DHCP very well. I'll take a look,
though, and see what I can figure out.


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Re: dhclient No DHCPOFFERS received

[Sean Alexandre]

On Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 07:16:45PM +0100, Klaus wrote:
 On 07/08/13 18:24, Andy Hawkins wrote:
 In article 20130807164822.GA7727@tuzo,
  Sean Alexandres...@alexan.org wrote:
 No, unfortunately. I know it's not a MAC address issue. Both my TP-LINK home
 router and the Debian Wheezy machine that works get DHCP leases without any
 problems, and have different MAC addresses.
 
 I also asked my ISP about this, when I had them on the line to bring up my
 new cable modem. They said any MAC address is fine. Just power the cable
 modem down for 30 seconds first.
 
 Ok, I did say I was kind of stating the obvious!
 
 Next thing I'd be doing is using tshark or similar to sniff the traffic
 being seen on the Debian box.
 
 Andy
 
 
 Just more of the obvious stuff:
 You say it's a new cable modem, there is a home router, and there is
 at least one other Debian Wheezy box.
 Does your ISP provide you with one, or more than one IP address? If
 one, the router probably translates this public IP address to your
 private LAN. Does the router function as a DHCP server, or do you
 have a dedicated box on your LAN? Can you check the logs of your LAN
 DHCP server for entries matching the non-functioning box?

There's no NAT in what I'm doing, no. The boxes in each case get a public
IP address from my ISP (or try to.) The different cases are:

CASE 1, works:
[cable modem]---[TP-LINK router] 

CASE 2, works:
[cable modem]---[wheezy box that works]

CASE 3, doesn't work:
[cable modem]---[wheezy box that doesn't work]

I attach a laptop to the TP-LINK router to see that it got an IP address, so
there's NAT there. But, NAT doens't come into play for the larger problem, if
that's what you're asking.


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Re: dhclient No DHCPOFFERS received

[Sean Alexandre]

On Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 08:29:53PM +0100, Klaus wrote:
 On 07/08/13 20:19, Sean Alexandre wrote:
 On Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 07:16:45PM +0100, Klaus wrote:
 On 07/08/13 18:24, Andy Hawkins wrote:
 In article 20130807164822.GA7727@tuzo,
 Sean Alexandres...@alexan.org wrote:
 No, unfortunately. I know it's not a MAC address issue. Both my TP-LINK 
 home
 router and the Debian Wheezy machine that works get DHCP leases without 
 any
 problems, and have different MAC addresses.
 
 I also asked my ISP about this, when I had them on the line to bring up my
 new cable modem. They said any MAC address is fine. Just power the cable
 modem down for 30 seconds first.
 
 Ok, I did say I was kind of stating the obvious!
 
 Next thing I'd be doing is using tshark or similar to sniff the traffic
 being seen on the Debian box.
 
 Andy
 
 
 Just more of the obvious stuff:
 You say it's a new cable modem, there is a home router, and there is
 at least one other Debian Wheezy box.
 Does your ISP provide you with one, or more than one IP address? If
 one, the router probably translates this public IP address to your
 private LAN. Does the router function as a DHCP server, or do you
 have a dedicated box on your LAN? Can you check the logs of your LAN
 DHCP server for entries matching the non-functioning box?
 
 There's no NAT in what I'm doing, no. The boxes in each case get a public
 IP address from my ISP (or try to.) The different cases are:
 
 CASE 1, works:
 [cable modem]---[TP-LINK router]
 
 CASE 2, works:
 [cable modem]---[wheezy box that works]
 
 CASE 3, doesn't work:
 [cable modem]---[wheezy box that doesn't work]
 
 I attach a laptop to the TP-LINK router to see that it got an IP address, so
 there's NAT there. But, NAT doens't come into play for the larger problem, if
 that's what you're asking.
 
 
 Have you checked for DHCP client entries in /var/log/daemon.log ?
 I'm running the standard dhclient, from the isc-dhcp-client package
 (though my box is running SID), and there are log messages like
 
 /var/log/daemon.log:Aug  5 08:48:29 myhostname dhclient:
 DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
 /var/log/daemon.log:Aug  5 08:48:29 myhostname dhclient: DHCPREQUEST
 on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
 /var/log/daemon.log:Aug  5 08:48:29 myhostname dhclient: DHCPOFFER
 from 192.168.0.1
 /var/log/daemon.log:Aug  5 08:48:29 myhostname dhclient: DHCPACK
 from 192.168.0.1
 

On the wheezy box that works I get:

Aug  6 17:46:13 tuzo dhclient: Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client 4.2.2
Aug  6 17:46:13 tuzo dhclient: Copyright 2004-2011 Internet Systems Consortium.
Aug  6 17:46:13 tuzo dhclient: All rights reserved.
Aug  6 17:46:13 tuzo dhclient: For info, please visit 
https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/
Aug  6 17:46:13 tuzo dhclient: 
Aug  6 17:46:13 tuzo dhclient: Listening on LPF/eth0/10:0b:a9:8b:33:f8
Aug  6 17:46:13 tuzo dhclient: Sending on   LPF/eth0/10:0b:a9:8b:33:f8
Aug  6 17:46:13 tuzo dhclient: Sending on   Socket/fallback
Aug  6 17:46:13 tuzo dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
Aug  6 17:46:20 tuzo dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
Aug  6 17:46:20 tuzo dhclient: DHCPNAK from 10.132.192.1
Aug  6 17:46:20 tuzo dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 
interval 5
Aug  6 17:46:20 tuzo dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
Aug  6 17:46:20 tuzo dhclient: DHCPOFFER from 10.132.192.1
Aug  6 17:46:20 tuzo dhclient: DHCPACK from 10.132.192.1
Aug  6 17:46:21 tuzo dhclient: bound to 66.26.64.22 -- renewal in 1705 seconds.

On the wheezy box that doesn't work I get:

Aug  7 06:28:25 moose dhclient: Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client 4.2.2
Aug  7 06:28:25 moose dhclient: Copyright 2004-2011 Internet Systems Consortium.
Aug  7 06:28:25 moose dhclient: All rights reserved.
Aug  7 06:28:25 moose dhclient: For info, please visit 
https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/
Aug  7 06:28:25 moose dhclient: 
Aug  7 06:28:25 moose kernel: [  208.409987] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth-wan: link 
is not ready
Aug  7 06:28:25 moose dhclient: Listening on LPF/eth-wan/00:25:90:39:de:08
Aug  7 06:28:25 moose dhclient: Sending on   LPF/eth-wan/00:25:90:39:de:08
Aug  7 06:28:25 moose dhclient: Sending on   Socket/fallback
Aug  7 06:28:25 moose dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth-wan to 255.255.255.255 port 
67 interval 3
Aug  7 06:28:28 moose dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth-wan to 255.255.255.255 port 
67 interval 6
Aug  7 06:28:28 moose kernel: [  211.369046] e1000e: eth-wan NIC Link is Up 
1000 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: None
Aug  7 06:28:28 moose kernel: [  211.370437] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth-wan: 
link becomes ready
Aug  7 06:28:34 moose dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth-wan to 255.255.255.255 port 
67 interval 12
Aug  7 06:28:46 moose dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth-wan to 255.255.255.255 port 
67 interval 13
Aug  7 06:28:59 moose dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth-wan to 255.255.255.255 port 
67 interval 19
Aug  7 06:29:18 moose dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER

Re: dhclient No DHCPOFFERS received

[Sean Alexandre]

On Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 09:29:57PM +0200, Slavko wrote:
 is your network like this, please:
 
-
|ISP|
-
  |
  |
-
|   modem   |
-
  |
--
| |  |
 -  -  -
 |  Debian I |  | Debian II |  |  TP-Link  |
 -  -  -
 
 
 or like this?
 
-
|ISP|
-
  |
  |
-
|   modem   |
-
  |
  |
-
|  TP-Link  |
-
  |
 --
 ||
  - -
  |  Debian I | | Debian II |
  - -

My network is like your first diagram, but with only one machine connected to
the modem at a time.


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Re: SSHD Keys

[Sean Alexandre]

On Sat, Aug 03, 2013 at 10:16:08PM -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
 I was just renewing my SSHD keys (dpkg-reconfigure openssh-server)
 and noticed it is generating 512 bit RSA keys.  This isn't all that
 secure.
 
 How can I get it to generate better keys?

As root:

rm /etc/ssh/ssh_host*
ssh-keygen -N '' -b 4096 -t rsa -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key


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Hardware support

[sean Griffiths]

Hello and Good Day,

Please can you tell me if Debian squeeze 64 bit accepts more than 4GB ram, ie 
8GB? I have a Dell Latitude D6200 and am in the process of upgrading to a D6300 
which will accept 8GB maximum RAM and Dell actually sell these 8gb Memory 
modules (2x4gb), even though in the beginning they stated it's max was 4GB. And 
so knowing that the machine itself has no problems accepting it, I just need to 
make sure that Debian 6.0.7 64 bit will accept it, because these RAM modules 
are not on the cheap side! - about 150 uk pounds for the pair.

The other thing, just out of curiosity really, is to do with NVIDIA chipsets. 
Apparently the D6300 with the NVIDIA chipsets don't last long. And I think that 
maybe it is the pressure of using Windows, especially 7 or 8, on the chip that 
is the problem. So, am I right in thinking that, even using compiz, Debian is 
still going to be lighter on the graphics chip, than of Windows?

Thankyou

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Re: server log centalized

[Sean Alexandre]

On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 03:18:52PM +0200, Pol Hallen wrote:
 I need setting up a server log centralized over internet (using rsyslog).
 What is better? Using a vpn or crypt log files?

stunnel is good for this. It creates encrypted SSL tunnels between machines, for
network daemons. Here are some links:

stunnel package in wheezy
http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/stunnel4

Article about using stunnel with rsyslog
http://freecode.com/articles/ssl-encrypting-syslog-with-stunnel

Wikipedia article on stunnel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stunnel

Official site
https://www.stunnel.org/


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Deterministic Builds (was [Re: wacky question])

[Sean Alexandre]

On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 10:44:12PM -0400, Greg wrote:
 Does anyone think that debian could participate in any programs like
 PRISM? Or could a lone (or group of) sympathetic DD or DM slip a
 backdoor or something that could collect private info in the binary
 packages distributed by debian?

There was an interesting post on this the other day on the liberationtech 
mailing list
by Mike Perry from the Tor Project:

Deterministic builds and software trust
https://mailman.stanford.edu/pipermail/liberationtech/2013-June/009257.html

To quote:

 For the past several years, we've been seeing a steady increase in the
 weaponization, stockpiling, and the use of exploits by multiple
 governments, and by multiple *areas* of multiple governments. This
 includes weaponized exploits specifically designed to bridge the air
 gap, by attacking software/hardware USB stacks, disconnected Bluetooth
 interfaces, disconnected Wifi interfaces, etc. Even if these exploits
 themselves don't leak (ha!), the fact that they are known to exist means
 that other parties can begin looking for them.

 In this brave new world, without the benefit of anonymity to protect
 oneself from such targeted attacks, I don't believe it is possible to
 keep a software-based GPG key secure anymore, nor do I believe it is
 possible to keep even an offline build machine secure from malware
 injection anymore, especially against the types of adversaries that Tor
 has to contend with.

 This means that software development has to evolve beyond the simple
 models of Trust my gpg-signed apt archive from my trusted build
 machine, or even projects like Debian going to end up distributing
 state-sponsored malware in short order.

 This is where deterministic builds come in...

He goes on to explain what deterministc builds are, how Tor has started using 
them,
and how hopefully Linux distros will as well.

Also related, Bruce Scheier just wrote an interesting piece on weaponized 
exploits, on 
how the NSA is planting logic bombs and backdoors in machines and routers 
around the 
world:

Has U.S. started an Internet war?
www.cnn.com/2013/06/18/opinion/schneier-cyberwar-policy


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Re: Openvpn, network manager and resolv.conf

[Sean Alexandre]

On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 08:58:51AM -0700, Erwan David wrote:
 I am in holidays going from hotel to hotel and I see that
 resolv.conf stays the same, i.e. the one networkmanager writes from
 the hotel DHCP.

It sounds like you may not have the resolvconf package installed.


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Re: Openvpn, network manager and resolv.conf

[Sean Alexandre]

On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 05:42:19PM -0700, Erwan David wrote:
 Le 17/06/2013 09:25, Sean Alexandre a écrit :
 It sounds like you may not have the resolvconf package installed.
 
 I have...
 
 And I see in my resolv.conf
 
 # Dynamic resolv.conf(5) file for glibc resolver(3) generated by resolvconf(8)
 # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BY HAND -- YOUR CHANGES WILL BE OVERWRITTEN
 nameserver 8.8.8.8
 search key.chillispot.info
 
 And in /var/log/daemon.log
 
 Jun 17 17:35:27 bibi ovpn-dedibox[4076]: PUSH: Received control
 message: 'PUSH_REPLY,ifconfig-ipv6 2a01:e0b:2070:1::1001/64
 2a01:e0b:2070:1::1,tun-ipv6,route-ipv6 2000::/3
 2a01:0e0b:2070:1::1,redirect-gateway def1 bypass-dhcp,dhcp-option
 DNS 10.8.0.1,dhcp-option DOMAIN rail.eu.org,tun-ipv6,route
 10.8.0.1,topology net30,ping 10,ping-restart 120,ifconfig 10.8.0.10
 10.8.0.9'
 
 which shows that the openvpn server pushed the DNS

Your openvpn config file may be missing these two lines:

up /etc/openvpn/update-resolv-conf
down /etc/openvpn/update-resolv-conf

You should be seeing a log file entry like this, that shows resolv.conf has 
been updated:

Sun June 16 08:18:10 2013 us=8295 /etc/openvpn/update-resolv-conf tun0 1500 
1562 10.0.122.114 10.0.122.113 init


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Re: Openvpn, network manager and resolv.conf

[Sean Alexandre]

On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 08:31:41PM -0700, Erwan David wrote:
 Le 17/06/2013 19:40, Sean Alexandre a écrit :
 Your openvpn config file may be missing these two lines:
 
 up /etc/openvpn/update-resolv-conf
 down /etc/openvpn/update-resolv-conf
 
 You should be seeing a log file entry like this, that shows resolv.conf has 
 been updated:
 
 Sun June 16 08:18:10 2013 us=8295 /etc/openvpn/update-resolv-conf tun0 1500 
 1562 10.0.122.114 10.0.122.113 init
 
 
 That would mazke the config file on client not only linux but even
 debian specific. And good security dictates that such decision
 should be forced by server.
 I remember it once worked this way...

I see your point. I don't know if there's a way to do that -- to configure the 
OpenVPN
server to update resolv.conf for all clients without the clients needing to 
configure
anything.


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Re: Debian/Linux tutorials.

[Sean Alexandre]

On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 02:11:21PM +0300, atar wrote:
 I wanted to know please where can I enrich my knowledge about Linux
 at general and especially about Debian 

Linode's got some great tutorials:
https://library.linode.com/


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Re: avahi-daemon: Is it *really* needed?

[Sean Alexandre]

On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 12:39:16PM -0700, David Guntner wrote:
 I'm still running Squeeze for a while longer before I finally upgrade to
 Wheezy - want to let it shake out a bit before taking the plunge. :-)
 
 A question that I've been pondering for a while now:  Is the
 avahi-daemon *really* needed?  

I've disabled it, and haven't needed it. Here's more on what it's for:
http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/avahi-daemon

So it seems you'd only need it if you want auto-discovery for printers and other
devices on your network.

You should be able to disable it with:
update-rc.d avahi-daemon disable

This leaves it installed, to satisfy the dependencies you're seeing, but causes 
it
not to start when you reboot.

To stop it before rebooting:
service avahi-daemon stop


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Debugging a Wheezy Hang

[Sean Alexandre]

I've installed Wheezy on a laptop. Every few days it hangs. (I can't even 
ctl+alt+f2
to get a console.) I'd like to report this. How do I capture debug info that 
would
be useful in a bug report? (And, where do I file a bug report?)

Thanks!


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Re: Debugging a Wheezy Hang

[Sean Alexandre]

On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 03:47:13PM -0400, staticsafe wrote:
 Didn't you post this earlier this week?
 I will repost my answer and CC you as well:

I just joined the list, but apparently not in time to get your earlier response.
I'm seeing responses now. Thanks for resending. I'll take a look at those logs,
and the other things people are suggesting.

Would there any way to trigger a core dump, of the entire system, and would that
be in any way useful?


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Reporting Wheezy Freeze

[Sean Alexandre]

I've installed Wheezy on my laptop and it's freezing every so often. (I can't
even ctl+alt+F2 to get a console.)

I'd like to report a bug, but don't know where to start. What can I run to 
capture
info on the bug the next time it happens? Where/how do I report it?

Thanks for any pointers!


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ATI Graphics Radeon HD 5470

[Sean Gregory]

Hi

I am having an HP Laptop DV3 - 4170ee

It has a ATI Graphics card Radeon HD 5470 .

I am having trouble with the open source driver that comes with debian
sqeeze. It doesnt detect it fine.


By the way I tried the open source driver with Ubuntu 12.04.1 and Linux
Mint maya and it detects and activates it just fine..

Any suggestion with debian...

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Nvidia module makes system unstable

[Sean Whalen]

Hello All,

I recently made the switch from Kubuntu 11.10 to Debain stable.
Everything was running very well until I installed the Nvidia module
the Debian way.  Then, the system became highly unstable. I noticed
that the system would become very sluggish during simple tasks The
most repeatable example of this is the slow rate at which the
background fades when calling gksu. Additionally, there is a visible
lag in the redrawing of windows when applications are minimized or
restored. interestingly, video from YouTube seemed to be fluid.

The situation was annoying, but not unbearable, until the entire
system began to freeze. It seems that this may be related in some way
to bug #664261. My situation differs in that I used the version from
backports (280.13.really.275.36-1) in order to achieve compatibility
with my GeForce GTX 560 Ti FPB (Fermi) GPU, it's worth noting that it
did not experience any stability issues with the Ubuntu distribution
of the Nvidia module 280.13 when I used Kubuntu 11.10.

What should I do at this point? I'm tempted use the Nvidia installer,
but I'm concerned that it might unnecessarily dirty my system. Is it
possible to cleanly switch from the Nvidia installer to the Debian
way?

I'm also not sure whether I should report this as a separate bug, or
as an addition to the one mentioned above. Any thoughts would be
helpful.

Thanks in advance,
Sean


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Re: Problem with Samba on Squeeze

[Sean Crosby]

On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 6:51 AM, Roger Morgan halbtaxabo-...@yahoo.comwrote:

 Samba is running but I can't connect to it, and when I do the following
 test
 (from the Samba server):
 smbclient -L servername

 the response (after entering correct password) is:
 cut here---
 Receiving SMB: Server stopped responding
 session setup failed: Call timed out: server did not respond after 2
 milliseconds
 ---end of response--

 the Samba programs are running, here's the relevant part of the output of
 ps -ef
 | grep mb
 root  1969 1  0 18:13 ?00:00:00 /usr/sbin/smbd -D
 root  1983  1969  0 18:13 ?00:00:00 /usr/sbin/smbd -D
 root  2308 1  0 18:13 ?00:00:00 /usr/sbin/nmbd -D

 And here's my smb.conf file:
 #=== Global Settings ===

 [global]
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
load printers = yes
guest account = leong


add:
   map to guest =  Bad User


   printer = ML-1510_700
passwd chat = *Enter\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n
 *Retype\snew\s*\spassword:*
 %n\n *password\supdated\ssuccessfully* .
obey pam restrictions = yes
write list = leong


Delete write list

   encrypt passwords = true
public = yes


Delete public


passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
passdb backend = tdbsam
dns proxy = no
writeable = yes


Delete writeable


server string = %h server
path = /var/common


Delete path


unix password sync = yes
workgroup = galaxy
comment = lyra smbshare
 #valid users = leong  (no valid users list means anyone can login)
syslog = 0
panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d
max log size = 1000
directory mode = 766


Delete directory mode


pam password change = yes

 ## Browsing/Identification ###

 # Change this to the workgroup/NT-domain name your Samba server will part
 of

 # server string is the equivalent of the NT Description field

 # Windows Internet Name Serving Support Section:
 # WINS Support - Tells the NMBD component of Samba to enable its WINS
 Server
 #   wins support = no

 # WINS Server - Tells the NMBD components of Samba to be a WINS Client
 # Note: Samba can be either a WINS Server, or a WINS Client, but NOT both
 ;   wins server = w.x.y.z

 # This will prevent nmbd to search for NetBIOS names through DNS.

 # What naming service and in what order should we use to resolve host names
 # to IP addresses
 ;   name resolve order = lmhosts host wins bcast

  Networking 

 # The specific set of interfaces / networks to bind to
 # This can be either the interface name or an IP address/netmask;
 # interface names are normally preferred
 ;   interfaces = 127.0.0.0/8 eth0

 # Only bind to the named interfaces and/or networks; you must use the
 # 'interfaces' option above to use this.
 # It is recommended that you enable this feature if your Samba machine is
 # not protected by a firewall or is a firewall itself.  However, this
 # option cannot handle dynamic or non-broadcast interfaces correctly.
 ;   bind interfaces only = yes



  Debugging/Accounting 

 # This tells Samba to use a separate log file for each machine
 # that connects

 # Cap the size of the individual log files (in KiB).

 # If you want Samba to only log through syslog then set the following
 # parameter to 'yes'.
 #   syslog only = no

 # We want Samba to log a minimum amount of information to syslog.
 Everything
 # should go to /var/log/samba/log.{smbd,nmbd} instead. If you want to log
 # through syslog you should set the following parameter to something
 higher.

 # Do something sensible when Samba crashes: mail the admin a backtrace


 ### Authentication ###

 # security = user is always a good idea. This will require a Unix account
 # in this server for every user accessing the server. See
 # /usr/share/doc/samba-doc/htmldocs/Samba3-HOWTO/ServerType.html
 # in the samba-doc package for details.
   security = user

 # You may wish to use password encryption.  See the section on
 # 'encrypt passwords' in the smb.conf(5) manpage before enabling.

 # If you are using encrypted passwords, Samba will need to know what
 # password database type you are using.


 # This boolean parameter controls whether Samba attempts to sync the Unix
 # password with the SMB password when the encrypted SMB password in the
 # passdb is changed.

 # For Unix password sync to work on a Debian GNU/Linux system, the
 following
 # parameters must be set (thanks to Ian Kahan 
 ka...@informatik.tu-muenchen.de
 for
 # sending the correct chat script for the passwd program in Debian Sarge).

 # This boolean controls whether PAM will be used for password changes
 # when requested by an SMB client instead of the program listed in
 # 'passwd program'. The default is 'no'.

 ## Domains ###

 # Is this machine able to authenticate users. Both PDC and BDC
 # must have this setting enabled. If you are the BDC you must
 # change the 'domain master' 

Re: installer preseeding - partitioning

[Sean Crosby]

On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Richard Hector rich...@walnut.gen.nzwrote:

 On Mon, 2011-04-25 at 18:27 +1200, Richard Hector wrote:
  Hi all,
 
  I've got a preseed file, with a partitioning recipe that I think is
  valid, but I'm having trouble getting past the partitioner with no
  interaction. Unfortunately the documentation is a bit lacking on how the
  various partman values interact.
 
  This is the partitioning section of my preseed.cfg so far:
 
  ## Partitioning ##
  d-i partman-auto/disk string /dev/sda
  # d-i partman-auto/method string my-recipe
  # d-i partman-auto/choose_recipe select my-recipe
  d-i partman-auto/expert_recipe string my-recipe :: \
  10240 10240 -1 ext4 \
  $primary{ } \
  $bootable{ } \
  method{ format } \
  format{ } \
  use_filesystem{ } \
  filesystem{ ext4 } \
  mountpoint{ / } . \
   \
  2048 2048 2560 linux-swap \
  $primary{ } \
  method{ swap } \
  format{ } .
 
  d-i partman/confirm_write_new_label boolean true
  d-i partman/choose_partition \
select Finish partitioning and write changes to disk
  d-i partman/confirm boolean true
 


This is my preseed (from Lucid):

d-i partman-auto/disk string /dev/sda
d-i partman-auto/method string regular
d-i partman-auto/expert_recipe string physics-workstation :: \
200 2 250 ext4 \
$primary{ } \
$bootable{ } \
method{ format } \
format{ } \
use_filesystem{ } \
filesystem{ ext4 } \
mountpoint{ /boot } . \
25000 2 29000 ext4 \
method{ format } \
format{ } \
use_filesystem{ } \
filesystem{ ext4 } \
mountpoint{ /usr/local } . \
3000 2 6000 ext4 \
method{ format } \
format{ } \
use_filesystem{ } \
filesystem{ ext4 } \
mountpoint{ /tmp } . \
18000 18000 21000 ext4 \
method{ format } \
format{ } \
use_filesystem{ } \
filesystem{ ext4 } \
mountpoint{ / } . \
1000 2 300% linux-swap \
method{ swap } \
format{ } . \
1000 1 10 ext4 \
method{ format } \
format{ } \
use_filesystem{ } \
filesystem{ ext4 } \
mountpoint{ /scratch } .

d-i partman/confirm_write_new_label boolean true
d-i partman/choose_partitionselect  Finish partitioning and write
changes to disk
d-i partman/confirm boolean true
d-i partman-partitioning/confirm_copy   boolean true
d-i partman/confirm_new_label   boolean true


I think what you are missing is the d-i partman-auto/method string regular
line - from the example:

# The presently available methods are: regular, lvm and crypto
d-i partman-auto/method string regular


I also think there's a mistake in your formatting of the partition
sizes. The format (as I know it) is


200 2 250 ext4 \


Which is min_size priority max_size


I think it is also getting confused about the -1 in your / partition


Sean

Re: o/t ipod

[Sean Keane]

Sharepod

Free application to transfer music and video files from an iPod/iPod Touch/
iPhone to a PC.

Try running it in wine, or use a VM.




On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 09:17, Thomas H. George li...@tomgeorge.info wrote:

 On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 04:27:16PM +0100, Klistvud wrote:
  Dne, 27. 12. 2010 18:43:06 je Camaleón napisal(a):
 
  rant_and_malicious mode on
  I still fail to see what people find exciting in Apple devices.
  Yes, they
  look nice but they're also even more closed than any MS product :-)
  /rant_and_malicious mode off
 
  It must be their price. In our profit-centered culture, anything
  overly expensive seems to instantly achieve a magical aura and a
  high perceived value, be it a rolex, a ferrari, or a
  high-maintenance lady.
 
 Yes, but I must give the devil his due.  While I have no intention of
 using the gadget as an mp3 player - my Sundisk Sansa plays both mp3 and
 ogg - what the designers have crammed into this little package is truly
 impressive.  Wi-Fi, send and receive email, camera with zoom and the
 pictures can be emailed to my computer (my cell phone charges for that),
 motion and position sensors (the Star Walk app shifts the view of the
 night sky as you point the device at different stars), etc.

 If it had been my money I would have bought an Android device but I
 can't look this gift horse in the mouth.

 Tom George
 
 


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My Alt keys don't work!

[Sean Hammond]

Could someone help me sort out my keyboard configuration, or send me on 
the right track? I've investigated a little but I really don't know what 
to do. It's a somewhat tricky configuration.

1. I have two keyboards. The built-in one (it's a laptop), and an 
external one that I use. Since the keyboards are different no one 
configuration will work for both. Is it possible to have different 
configs for different keyboards?

2. Since the built-in keyboard has a stuck left alt key (it presses 
itself all the time) I had to disable left alt using an Xmodmap file. 
But this also disables left alt on the external keyboard. Is there a way 
to disable the key on the built-in only?

3. Currently I've tried to get my single keyboard config working for the 
external keyboard, but there are problems. Details follow. I apologise 
for the length of this but, well, it's complicated and I wanted to give 
as many relevant details as I could.

I'm running Debian testing on an OLPC XO-1 via DebXO, a build of Debian 
for the XO-1. The XO-1 has a slightly unusual keyboard ofcourse, but the 
DebXO image comes with a usable configuration for it. My keyboard has 
the 'stuck alt key' problem where the left alt presses itself all the 
time making the XO unusable, so I used an Xmodmap file to disable left 
alt and turn the XO's left 'grab' key into an alt instead:

remove mod1 = Alt_L
keycode 64 =
keycode 115 = Alt_L Meta_L
add mod1 = Alt_L

This worked. Now I actually use the laptop with an external keyboard, 
currently a UK-layout IBM Model M. I just plugged this keyboard in 
(using a USB-PS2 adapter) and it worked, aside from various details of 
course. The layout was wrong, so I had to press  to get an @ and so on, 
and of course the Xmodmap unnecessarily disabled the left alt on the 
external keyboard as well, although Alt Gr seemed to function as an alt 
key.

When I upgraded from debian stable to testing it asked me various 
questions about my keyboard configuration and the end result was the Alt 
Gr on the external keyboard stopped functioning as well, and now I have 
no alt keys!

I went into the Gnome keyboard prefs and set the keyboard to 'Generic 
102 key (Intl) PC', I could not find IBM Model M in the list of 
keyboards so I chose this generic one after counting the number of keys 
(102). I set the layout to UK. Now all the keys seem to work, they do 
what is shown on the keys themselves, except:

*   Neither Alt key functions. I used the program xev to find that 
Alt on the external keyboard is keycode 64 and Alt Gr is 108. 
Obviously my Xmodmap file is still disabling keycode 64. In the 
Gnome keyboard shortcuts config tool Alt is recognised as 0x40 and 
not seen as a modifier key, Alt Gr is not recognised at all. I tried 
to use Xmodmap to remap Alt Gr to an alt instead of remapping the 
XO's 'grab' key as before: `keycode 108 = Alt_L Meta_L` but this 
doesn't work (Alt Gr still does nothing), so I changed my Xmodmap 
back to as before.

*   There is a key in the top-left under Esc which has three labelled 
functions and I can't use the third one (the pipe character). Maybe 
cause you have to press Alt to get the third one?
  
*   There is a key near the bottom-left which is broken pipe and backslash, 
this key doesn't function at all.

So all in all I can't use Alt, pipe or backslash, which makes things 
fairly difficult, and I'm out of ideas.

Thanks in advance for any pointers.


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Call for testing: New PHP 5.3 debian packages

[sean finney]

(Please excuse the gratuitous cross-post)

Now that PHP 5.3 has been officially released[1], the Debian PHP packaging
team would like to announce the availability of PHP 5.3 packages for initial
public testing.

The packages are currently available for both amd64 and i386 users of
testing/unstable, via the experimental release section of the debian
packaging archive.  To install these packages on your system, add the
following line to /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ experimental main

you should then be able to install these packages with

apt-get install -t experimental php5

(and you can replace php5 with a more specific package selection
 of course)

DISCLAIMER: You should not install these packages on a production system,
until they have recieved wider testing and review.  I have
given the packages limited local testing but due to the
nature of the 5.3 upgrade it's possible that you may have
problems with either the packaging or one of the many changes
in this update!

As time progresses we may set up an alternate location dedicated for
php5.3 related packages, depending on demand, how many additional packages
we need to rebuild for testing (all debian packages that build against
the php API/ABI need to be updated) and how long we delay the transition
to 5.3 in debian unstable.  

I should emphasize that we don't have plans to transition to PHP 5.3 in
debian testing/unstable in the immediate future; at least not until we
feel comfortable that the packages and software are reasonably stable and 
tested.  So if you want to see this happen faster the best thing you can
do is report to us with your problems (and successes!) using these packages.

Please forward any and all feedback/problems to the Debian PHP team's
mailing list[2] and if you're convinced that there's a problem, the 
debian bug tracking system[3] and/or the PHP bug tracking system[4] depending
on who you think should get the blame :). 


Sean Finney (and the rest of the Debian PHP Maintainers)


[1] http://www.php.net/archive/2009.php#id2009-06-30-1
[2] pkg-php-ma...@lists.alioth.debian.org
[3] reportbug php5
[4] http://bugs.php.net


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Re: prevent writing to unmounted directory

[Sean Connor]

Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 I want to run a script to rsync local files to a NAS mounted to /mnt/music.  
 Sometimes the NAS is not running, and I want to prevent the script from 
 writing to the mount directory:  is there any easy way to prevent this?

Umount /mnt/music. Run chattr +i /mnt/music, or, if rsync
doesn't run as root, chmod o-w /mnt/music.

This doesn't prevent writes to existing files under the
mount directory, or to any file in any existing
subdirectory of the mount directory.

The immutable flag will become unset on /mnt/music when it's
mounted, and the permissions and ownership and so on will
match those of the root of the filesystem being mounted.

Example:

/tmp# dd if=/dev/zero of=loopfs.img count=400
400+0 records in
400+0 records out
204800 bytes (205 kB) copied, 0.00501796 s, 40.8 MB/s
/tmp# mke2fs -Fq loopfs.img
/tmp# mkdir loopdir
/tmp# chattr +i loopdir
/tmp# touch loopdir/foo
touch: cannot touch `loopdir/foo': Permission denied
/tmp# lsattr -d loopdir
i- loopdir
/tmp# mount -o loop loopfs.img loopdir
/tmp# touch loopdir/foo
/tmp# lsattr -d loopdir
-- loopdir

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Re: VIM question

[Sean G. McLaughlin]

On Wednesday 30 April 2008 06:18:27 pm Alex Samad wrote:
 but I can't change windows with C-PGUP C-PGDN.  My first thought
You can also use gt and gT.

 and I am not sure what syntax to use for control-page up is it
 C-PGUP
C-PageUp (and i_C-PageUp or i_CTRL-PageUp).


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Restricting resource usage on a shell server

[Sean Whitton]

Hello,

I am looking to set up a shell server providing apache, MySQL and
mailman as well as standard shell features. For this I am going to
need to limit my users usage of server resources so that they don't
compromise the usage of others. Particularly, I am looking to limit
disc usage across MySQL, mailman and of course normal files, bandwidth
usage across ssh, sftp, httpd and anything else (e.g. wget), and
memory/process usage to prevent one user hogging the server's capacity
- all of this in a clean, low maintenance manner! Yes, it is a lot to
ask, but I think Debian can do it, I just don't know how to make it.

1) Disc usage
I can setup quotas to limit users to a certain amount of drive space
quite easily, but how can I tie this to MySQL usage too? For example,
if a user has a 1GB quota and uses 512MB for a database, they should
then only be able to use 512MB for their home directory.

2) Bandwidth usage
I get the impression from asking around that this is not at all going
to be easy. I am thinking that simply limiting httpd and setting up a
restrictive firewall to stop users binding their own servers would be
an effective method assuming I can trust them not to upload huge
files. However, does anyone know of a better way of limiting bandwidth
globally?

3) Memory usage
In my experience of using limited free shells this is not at all hard
to do, I just don't know how.

If you are interested in the background: this is to expand
http://silentflame.com/ away from just a cPanel-based server to a
proper 'geek server' that doesn't spend its valuable ram on hosting
cPanel processes. cPanel does most of the above management
automatically and I am seeking to replace that - it handles the issues
above with MySQL and /home and all forms of traffic in one bandwidth
limit.

Any advice appreciated so that this project can go ahead.

Thanks,

Sean


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Re: Restricting resource usage on a shell server

[Sean Whitton]

On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 4:32 PM, Raj Kiran Grandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Sean Whitton wrote:
   Hello,
  
   I am looking to set up a shell server providing apache, MySQL and
   mailman as well as standard shell features. For this I am going to
   need to limit my users usage of server resources so that they don't
   compromise the usage of others. Particularly, I am looking to limit
   disc usage across MySQL, mailman and of course normal files, bandwidth
   usage across ssh, sftp, httpd and anything else (e.g. wget), and
   memory/process usage to prevent one user hogging the server's capacity
   - all of this in a clean, low maintenance manner! Yes, it is a lot to
   ask, but I think Debian can do it, I just don't know how to make it.
  
   1) Disc usage
   I can setup quotas to limit users to a certain amount of drive space
   quite easily, but how can I tie this to MySQL usage too? For example,
   if a user has a 1GB quota and uses 512MB for a database, they should
   then only be able to use 512MB for their home directory.
  

  Are the databases and the home directories on the same partition? The
  mysql database files are owned my the 'mysql' user on debian. So, it
  might not be possible to implement a quota system that includes the
  database.

They will be on the same partition :( I believe there are however
scripts out there to handle this kind of thing.


   2) Bandwidth usage
   I get the impression from asking around that this is not at all going
   to be easy. I am thinking that simply limiting httpd and setting up a
   restrictive firewall to stop users binding their own servers would be
   an effective method assuming I can trust them not to upload huge
   files. However, does anyone know of a better way of limiting bandwidth
   globally?

  Perhaps the iproute package would suit your needs.
  The following rules provide some basic limiting. I got them from some page.

  # tc qdisc add dev $DEV handle : ingress
  and
  # tc filter add dev $DEV parent : protocol ip prio 50 u32 match ip \
  src 0.0.0.0/0 police rate ${RATE}kbit burst 10k drop flowid :1

That makes sense but I want to set a limit in GB per month, and then
allow as fast transfer as required by the user. Is this possible with
that package?

Thanks,

Sean


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Re: Firewall suggestions?

[Sean]

SafeSquid - Content Filtering Internet Proxy (http://
www.safesquid.com/) ?
(No, it is not built on Squid-cache)

Proxy + cache + application layer firewall + built-in connectivity to
ClamAV daemon

Description - http://www.safesquid.com/html/portal.php?page=105

Using ClamAV - http://www.safesquid.com/html/viewtopic.php?t=2237

Download 20 user free version - 
http://www.safesquid.com/html/portal.php?page=126

Better to install and manage a single app. (has a browser based GUI) :D


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Re: jEdit - ia32-sun-java5-bin_1.5.0-10-3_ia64 (32-bit/etch)?

[Sean O'Donnell]

Just a follow-up in case anyone else has this issue.

By removing 'sablevm', jedit works now.

Cheers!

-sod

Sean O'Donnell wrote:

Hi All,

I'm trying to get jEdit to run on Debian (etch) 32-bit, but am having 
some issues. I got it installed on my 64-bit system just fine, but 
this was only accomplished on the 64-bit system because I was able to 
install the 'ia32-sun-java5-bin_1.5.0-10-3_ia64.deb' package (along 
with the other required java packages).


I'm unable to install this particular package on a 32-bit system, nor 
can I find a 32-bit version. I've installed all other required java 
packages that I needed to install on my 64-bit system, but it seems I 
still need the 'ia32-sun-java5-bin' package to get it going.


When I run jEdit, I receive the following errors:

$ jedit
Warning: -mx32m option NOT RECOGNIZED by java-sablevm.
A not recognized option will be just passed to SableVM.
Note that we don't know if we should expect an argument after it.
It almost _surely_ will result in an errors when the param is followed
by an argument. Refer to 'man java-sablevm' and 'man sablevm'.
Unknown option: -mx32m

Any suggestions would be much appreciated!

-sod





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Re: Tuning access to the internet

[Sean]

On Dec 18, 7:10 pm, Pol [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 How to tune access to the internet, to allow only certain users, or to limit
 access to certain hours of the day?

SafeSquid - Content Filtering Proxy, can do that and more. It allows
you to decide who can access what, when and how much on the net.

Just install SafeSquid and either create usernames and passwords to
allow only authenticated access, or specify what IPs are allowed
access.

See http://www.safesquid.com/html/portal.php?page=22 for creating
profiles and time based rules.

jEdit - ia32-sun-java5-bin_1.5.0-10-3_ia64 (32-bit/etch)?

[Sean O'Donnell]

Hi All,

I'm trying to get jEdit to run on Debian (etch) 32-bit, but am having 
some issues. I got it installed on my 64-bit system just fine, but this 
was only accomplished on the 64-bit system because I was able to install 
the 'ia32-sun-java5-bin_1.5.0-10-3_ia64.deb' package (along with the 
other required java packages).


I'm unable to install this particular package on a 32-bit system, nor 
can I find a 32-bit version. I've installed all other required java 
packages that I needed to install on my 64-bit system, but it seems I 
still need the 'ia32-sun-java5-bin' package to get it going.


When I run jEdit, I receive the following errors:

$ jedit
Warning: -mx32m option NOT RECOGNIZED by java-sablevm.
A not recognized option will be just passed to SableVM.
Note that we don't know if we should expect an argument after it.
It almost _surely_ will result in an errors when the param is followed
by an argument. Refer to 'man java-sablevm' and 'man sablevm'.
Unknown option: -mx32m

Any suggestions would be much appreciated!

-sod


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Re: Configuraci'on de Squid

[Sean]

Even I don't know much about Squid.
I use SafeSquid and forwarding in SafeSquid is quite simple -
http://www.safesquid.com/html/portal.php?page=37


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ALSA problems after kernel update

[Sean Zimmermann]

Hello everyone.

I have a question regarding ALSA and the kernel. I recently updated my Debian
system's kernel from 2.6.18.4 to 2.6.22.2. When I began using my new kernel,
I noticed that anything that worked with ALSA locked up (mplayer, gnome sound,
etc). I used module-assistant to build new alsa modules (from alsa-source) 
for my new kernel, and after the new package was installed, sound began 
working again.

However, after rebooting, I had the same problem I did before:
everything that used alsa had problems. If I ran
/etc/init.d/alsa reload (or force-reload), then sound worked again.
I think the system might be trying to load the old modules at startup.
Is there a way to fix this?

Regards,
Sean


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Re: Regarding tar and split

[Sean Zimmermann]

Paul E Condon pecondon at mesanetworks.net writes:
 
 The difference is that afio compresses each input file individually, so
 if there is a read/write error, only one file is lost from the archive.
 (Actually, there are a lot more differences - to start with the options
 are totally different syntax and symantics.) 
 

Thanks everyone for all of your help.

I have one final question: some people have brought up the strength of 
programs like afio that compress files individually to protect against 
corruption. Most of the things I archive are large image or movie files
(which typically don't compress well). I read through most of both
tar's and afio's man pages, and afio seems to have some interesting
features (like the ability to seek to blocks in an archive). If I 
am not compressing the archive, does afio and/or cpio still have 
benefits that make it more appealing than tar?

Regards,
Sean


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Re: Regarding tar and split

[Sean Zimmermann]

Douglas A. Tutty dtutty at porchlight.ca writes:

 Tar archive isn't designed for this, since its designed for sequential
 devices.  Have you considered using another archive format?  Perhaps
 iso?  You can split and join iso files, mount them with loop mount,
 compress, burn, whatever.
 
 Doug.

If I ignored the indexing issue (since most of my work with tar is large,
non-incremental backups where I typically restore the entire contents - 
it would be nice if there was indexing, but is not a huge problem), 
should I still use something other than tar? Right now, I use it to backup 
large files over multiple media, and tar's multipart feature allows me 
to do this without having to duplicate all of the files on my hard disk 
(though I have enough room to do this if I needed to). But if I were to 
use split instead of tar -M, and I don't need the archives indexed, should
I still switch to another archive format (cpio, ar, iso)? 

Also, if I give tar the --posix flag with -M, doesn't that make it so the 
archive does not use the gnu extensions and follows the standard format?

Thanks everyone for all of your help,
Sean






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new beta packages for cacti/spine(former cacti-cactid) available

[sean finney]

hello debian-user,


for those of you who use cacti


I've prepared some packages of the beta4 release of cacti/spine 0.8.7 (for 
spine, i386 and amd64 builds), which are now available for general testing 
and feedback.  The easiest way to  upgrade is to put:

deb http://people.debian.org/~seanius/cacti/beta ./

into your /etc/apt/sources.list, and run

 apt-get update

for users who don't already have cacti installed, they can then do:

apt-get install cacti mysql-server

and to install spine:

apt-get install spine

for users who have cacti (but not cacti-cactid) already installed:

apt-get upgrade

for users who have cacti and cacti-cactid installed:

apt-get dist-upgrade

is needed, to transition from cacti-cactid to the new spine package.


i'll make a best effort to keep this repository up to date with any future 
releases between now and the official 0.8.7 release, and any feedback you 
might have about problems/errors/etc is welcome.


sean


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Regarding tar and split

[Sean Zimmermann]

Hello.

I frequently work with large tar archives that often need to be split into
smaller pieces. Up until now, I've used tar -m to create multi-part archives. I
recently read that I can use split to do the same thing. Is there an advantage 
or disadvantage to using split over tar -m?

Also, is there some way to index a large tar file, so if I want to extract a 
file at the end of a large archive, tar doesn't have to seek through the entire
archive to get the file?

Thank you for any help.

Regards,
Sean


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dpkg not changing files in /boot after kernel upgrade

[Sean Zimmermann]

Hello.

I have been using the 2.6.18-4-powerpc kernel on my system for a while now
because, when the 2.6.21 kernel came out, it introduced a few bugs that
significantly diminished the performance of the system. I wanted to see if the
newer 2.6.21 still has this problem of if it has been repaired.

I opened aptitude and installed linux-image-2.6-powerpc, which also installed
linux-image-2.6.21-2-powerpc. The packages were apparently installed
successfully, but when I rebooted, it booted into the old kernel.

I looked at the /boot directory, and none of the links had changed. Here's the
output from when I reconfigured the kernel packages:

Running depmod.
Finding valid ramdisk creators.
Using mkinitramfs-kpkg to build the ramdisk.
Not updating initrd symbolic links since we are being updated/reinstalled 
(2.6.21-6 was configured last, according to dpkg)
Not updating image symbolic links since we are being updated/reinstalled 
(2.6.21-6 was configured last, according to dpkg)
Examining /etc/kernel/postinst.d.
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/mkvmlinuz

Why is it not updating the links - I had a version of 2.6.21, but I removed it a
long time ago. Is there a way to get dpkg to realize that it does need to modify
the symbolic links?

Thank you for any help,
Sean



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Re: http URL filter

[Sean Roberts]

 I am looking for a http URL filter for the gateway on my LANs, the
 basic requirement is: If the URL is in the blacklist, deny it and
 reply the user a page with No, we cannot let you pass.
 squid (transparent proxy) can do this job, but sometimes I do not want
 to configure a transparent proxy on the gateway.

Hello Deephay,

Have a look at SafeSquid ( http://freshmeat.net/projects/safesquid/). It is
a content filteing proxy and has a browser based GUI interface. It allows
you to give a 'profiled' internet access to users. The SafeSquid Composite
Edition is compatible with URL blacklist, and also has a feature
'Customizable Templates', which can be used to display customized html pages
for deny events. It also has many advanced features for content filtering.

Cheers

Re: Iceweasel Display Problem

[Sean Zimmermann]

Hugo Vanwoerkom hvw59601 at care2.com writes:
  I just went to http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html and it looks 
  fine to me.  A blackish background with light grey-brown letters.
  
  Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070310 
  Iceweasel/2.0.0.3 (Debian-2.0.0.3-2) on a current Sid.
  
 
 Same here.
 
 Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061205 
 Iceweasel/2.0.0.1 (Debian-2.0.0.1+dfsg-2) on a slightly outdated (TM) Sid.
 
 Hugo
 
 

Hm. Is it possible that this is not an iceweasel problem and instead has
something to do with my font files, gtk, the fact I use ppc, or something like
that? I'm fairly sure that it was working before all of the gtk updates were
migrated into testing, but I could be mistaken and it could be just a
considence. I also recently deleted my .gtk* and .gnome* files, but again, I'm
not sure if this is related.

Sean


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Re: Iceweasel Display Problem

[Sean Zimmermann]

 Create a virgin account, log in from it and see if you still have 
 the same problem.

I created a new account, but Iceweasel had the same problem.

Sean




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Re: Iceweasel Display Problem

[Sean Zimmermann]

Ron Johnson ron.l.johnson at cox.net writes:

 
 On 06/14/07 20:46, Sean Zimmermann wrote:
  Create a virgin account, log in from it and see if you still have 
  the same problem.
  
  I created a new account, but Iceweasel had the same problem.
 
 Hmmm.  Wish I could help you more.
 


Iceweasel is working. I have no idea why. After the xorg driver got updated, I
had to reset a few things in my xorg.conf file, so I decided to simply run
dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg and then add the modeline I needed. After
adjusting the settings for my old crt monitor so the image was centered, I
opened Iceweasel out of habit and it was working. 

Thank you for all of your help.

Sean


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Re: Iceweasel Display Problem

[Sean Zimmermann]

Here's what Iceweasel says on my about: page:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ppc; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/2007031001
Iceweasel/2.0.0.3 (Debian-2.0.0.3-1)

I'm running this on a ppc system; could that have something to 
do with the problem?

Sean Zimmermann


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Last log and noshell

[Sean Thomas]

Hi guys

When using last log, the users that use noshell appear to have never 
logged on.
How do you configure noshell to show whether or not a user using noshell 
has logged on or not.


Thanks


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UPS software on Debian

[Sean Thomas]

Hi People

I got a Meissner Netsafe 600 UPS that im trying to install on a Debian mail 
server, however the software it comes with looks to be only for the Red 
Hat/Fedora distros.
Does anyone know of any good generic for Debian that I can I can use sort 
this out. 



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Re: Shutdown my Laptop? Why should I?

[Sean Perry]

David R. Litwin wrote:

I have a year old Toshiba Intel Mobil P4 laptop using Sid. I recently
downloaded two large files via BitTorrent. As I wanted to have them as
quickly as I could, I decided to leave my laptop on until they were fully
downloaded, rebooting only for
upgrades. I noticed no real difference in performance (maybe Azureus
was hogging a bit more memory after a few days).

The question is this: Why should I ever turn off my laptop on a normal
occasion (normal being every-day, standard, stationary usage)? If I don't
want it on, I can suspend it in some way: Waking-up is faster than
booting-up.



My laptops live until a battery dies on the train (-:

Seriously though, no good reason to bounce a Linux box unless a) 
horrible app b) kernel mishap c) kernel upgrade.


That said, most laptop batteries degrade performance significantly if 
left plugged into the mains 24/7. So only plug in for refills.



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upgrade screwed up my network.

[Sean J. Fraley]

Earlier tonight, I ran an upgrade with aptitude, and my network 
configuration 
started acting weird.  Previously, I had set eth0 up to use a static IP of 
192.168.15.10 with the household router's IP of 192.168.15.1 as the gateway 
and nameserver.  This had been working fine for months.  After the upgrade 
today, ifconfig lists the following for eth0:

eth0  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:04:5A:88:A5:54
  inet addr:169.254.246.208  Bcast:0.0.0.0  Mask:255.255.0.0
  inet6 addr: fe80::204:5aff:fe88:a554/64 Scope:Link
  UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
  RX packets:925 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
  TX packets:1071 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
  collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
  RX bytes:220593 (215.4 KiB)  TX bytes:82583 (80.6 KiB)
  Interrupt:11 Base address:0xdc00

Web browsing and e-mail work fine, but accessign other systems on the LAN does 
not.  If I run /etc/init.d/networking restart the original static IP of 
192.168.15.1 gets set and LAN access works, but web browsing and e-mail do 
not.  Can anyone tell me what is going on, and how do I fix it?

Thank you,
Sean


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Re: Silicon Image 3114 and Seagate?

[Sean Davis]

On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 08:59:25AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
 On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
  You did not specify whether I should be looking for a drive with NCQ or 
  without NCQ.  :-)
 
 Look for information on the SIL 3114.  I don't own one, so I wouldn't know.
 I know that, for my ICH5R boards, I need SATA 150 because of chipset
 problems (I searched and read the errata datasheet from Intel), and NCQ
 won't make a difference at all (because the chip doesn't implement TCQ or
 NCQ).
 
  http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16856152018
  http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822148065
 
  Do you think that I may run into problems with these?
 
 No idea. As I said, do the homework in google :-(  I just pointed it out to
 you that a Barracuda is not the same as other Barracuda unless you remember
 to also ask the model.
 
 The ones in that blacklist in the kernel are ancient drives as far as these
 things go :P  So that blacklist is not worth much for making a decision.
 
 I'd get one of the newer 7200.8 (NCQ), there is no reason to believe the
 7200.9 would give you any advantage, and there might be compatibility
 problems, and the NCQ versions of the 7200.8 have newer firmware _and_ are
 newer drives so you get more warranty out of them :P
 
 Why don't you test the drives in the platform first, before buying them?

Just for a datapoint, I'm using two of the ST3250823AS models (the cuda
7200.8s that do support NCQ) on a 3112, and they work beautifully. IIRC
the 3114 is only different from the 3112 in that it has four ports instead
of two (correct me if I'm wrong of course)


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Re: RAR under linux: any alternative?

[Sean Davis]

On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 08:00:45PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote:
 Sean Davis wrote:
  split(1). Been around since ATT Version 6.
 
 Now verify each portion has no errors in it with split.  Oh, wait, ya
 can't.  That's because it is just a rough split and not an actual archive
 which can be verified.

That's what checksums are for.


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Re: RAR under linux: any alternative?

[Sean Davis]

On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 05:59:41PM -0600, Gnu-Raiz wrote:
 On 11:49, Sun 11 Dec 05, John Hasler wrote:
  Gnu_Raiz writes:
   This is one program that I believe is worth buying the license for. This
   is especially true if you have any windows machine's around. If you use
   Usenet for any amount of time you will find that this program is a must
   have.
  
  Interesting.  I've been on Usenet for twenty years and I have not felt any
  need for that program.
  
   It's kind of like needing Lame, or Mplayer nowadays, yes it's non free,
   but you really do need it.
  
  Mplayer is licensed under the GPL.
  -- 
  John Hasler
 
 
 Luke, Luke come to the dark side Luke! I think it is strange
 that when a person mentions Usenet all they think about is
 the text groups. 
 
 It's the other left folks, the alt.binaries side that use's
 rar files. Yes their is plenty of uses without copyright
 infringement. If your into video and working on a project
 and someone asks for a sample if you use zip, or tar they
 will probably laugh at you. How else are you going to get a
 uniform file size of say 15mb each in your sample if you
 don't use rar?

split(1). Been around since ATT Version 6.


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Root's Mail

[Sean Whitton]

Hi,

I just renamed the user that root's mail was being redirected to on a fresh
install. I  assume I can change it to the new username in the exim config file
- where is this? Or am I wrong? Do I need to do something else?

Thanks.





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POP SMTP

[Sean Whitton]

Hi,

I'm a newbie and I need to set up a complete mail server, POP and SMTP, on a
Debian box.

Help!

Thanks!



Note: I'm not subscribed, so please don't reply to the list!


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Re: Newbie Problems!

[sean]

Thanks very much. I have been thinking about it though.

I have a DNS server already running on silentflame.com. So I edited the Host
File (using WHM), and added a simple a record underneath for a subdomain. Will
this work?

Thanks.

Quoting ke6isf [EMAIL PROTECTED]:


On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, Sean Whitton wrote:


2)
I want a domain to point to the server. During installation I selected DNS
server, and I need to know how to set this up. A link to a tutorial would be
appreciated.


Like another responder said, assuming you have a domain and a static IP,
check around.  dyndns is pretty good for a free service.  Generally
speaking, if you ever need to run your own DNS, you'll know - and this
isn't quite one of those times.


3)
What do I need to do to set up an ftp server?


proftpd seems to Just Work with minimal to no tweaking.

=Dennis Carr


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Newbie Hostname Change

[Sean Whitton]

Hi,

My friend installed Debian on his computer and I'm supposed to be admining it as
a server. THings are going well (except I keep mistyping shutdown and killing
the server), but there is one problem: the hostname.

He typed Ask4 instead of ask4, which is a problem.

I assume I can change this with the hostname command, but I want to be sure
there arn't any additional steps beyond this.

Thanks, Sean






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Re: Newbie Hostname Change

[Sean Whitton]

Interesting. I have just tried it with base-config, and it appears to have
worked. But, just in case, is there anywhere else I need to change it? Thanks.

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On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 04:50:26PM +0100, Sean Whitton wrote:

Hi,

My friend installed Debian on his computer and I'm supposed to be
admining it as a server. THings are going well (except I keep
mistyping shutdown and killing the server), but there is one problem:
the hostname.

He typed Ask4 instead of ask4, which is a problem.

I assume I can change this with the hostname command, but I want to be sure
there arn't any additional steps beyond this.


The hostname command will only change it temporarily.  For a permanent
change, edit /etc/hostname.


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MOTD

[Sean Whitton]

How does one set up MOTD? A cat of /etc/motd?

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SSH

[Sean Whitton]

Hi Debian Community,

A total newbie question, but...

Is there any need to enable SSH, or will it just work out-of-the-box?

Thanks!


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Newbie Problems!

[Sean Whitton]

Hi all,

I would be grateful for any help on the following problems. Please indicate what
you are replying to in your response! Thanks.

1)
I installed apache using wajig.
I want to create a link between ~/public_html and the webspace for the user at
ip/~user. How do I do this please?

2)
I want a domain to point to the server. During installation I selected DNS
server, and I need to know how to set this up. A link to a tutorial would be
appreciated.

3)
What do I need to do to set up an ftp server?

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two scary syslog kernel messages

[Sean]

I'm running Debian Testing with the following kernel:
Linux marvin 2.6.11-1-686-smp #1 SMP Mon Jun 20 20:18:45 MDT 2005 i686 
GNU/Linux


My system is a 2.8Ghz Intel P4 with hyper threading enabled, 2GB RAM, 
and 2 SATA drives running in software RAID-1 (everything is mirrored 
including the boot and swap partitions).


This system is reasonably new and has been in production for about a 
month.  Up until about 3 days ago there were no problems - then 
suddenly mysql mysteriously corrupted a table.  Since mysql has done 
that sort of thing to me in the past (on different hardware), I didn't 
think too much of it and was able to restore from backup without any 
problem.  It bothered me as we had just purchased new hardware, but I 
put it to the back of my mind at the time.


This morning, however, I found the following two scary snippets in my syslog:


Sep 20 03:46:06 marvin kernel: [ cut here ]
Sep 20 03:46:06 marvin kernel: kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:482!
Sep 20 03:46:06 marvin kernel: invalid operand:  [#1]
Sep 20 03:46:06 marvin kernel: SMP
Sep 20 03:46:06 marvin kernel: Modules linked in: ipv6 i2c_i801 
i2c_core capability commoncap ext3 jbd mbcache evdev pcspkr hw_random 
shpchp
pci_hotplug intel_agp intel_mch_agp agpgart psmouse genrtc raid5 xor 
raid0 dm_mod e100 mii e1000 yenta_socket rsrc_nonstatic pcmcia_core sd_m
od ide_cd cdrom ide_disk ide_generic pdc202xx_new aec62xx alim15x3 
amd74xx atiixp cmd64x cs5520 cs5530 cy82c693 generic hpt34x ns87415 
opti62
1 pdc202xx_old rz1000 sc1200 serverworks siimage sis5513 slc90e66 
triflex trm290 via82cxxx floppy usb_storage piix ide_core vga16fb 
vgastate
usbserial usbhid usbkbd ehci_hcd uhci_hcd usbcore thermal processor fan 
ata_piix libata scsi_mod raid1 md unix fbcon font bitblit vesafb cfbc

opyarea cfbimgblt cfbfillrect
Sep 20 03:46:06 marvin kernel: CPU:0
Sep 20 03:46:06 marvin kernel: EIP:0060:[page_remove_rmap+57/80]
Not tainted VLI

Sep 20 03:46:06 marvin kernel: EFLAGS: 00010286   (2.6.11-1-686-smp)
Sep 20 03:46:06 marvin kernel: EIP is at page_remove_rmap+0x39/0x50
Sep 20 03:46:06 marvin kernel: eax:    ebx: 2000   ecx: 
c181cec0   edx: c181cec0
Sep 20 03:46:06 marvin kernel: esi: cfcfa00c   edi: c181cec0   ebp: 
3000   esp: d3349d54

Sep 20 03:46:06 marvin kernel: ds: 007b   es: 007b   ss: 0068
Sep 20 03:46:06 marvin kernel: Process java (pid: 20194, 
threadinfo=d3348000 task=db7a6a60)
Sep 20 03:46:06 marvin kernel: Stack: b5404000 2000 c0149805 
c181cec0 c02f2f80  d3349d8c 40e765e9
Sep 20 03:46:06 marvin kernel:b5801000 f536eb58 b5404000 
 c01499e3 c200c3a0 f536eb54 b5401000
Sep 20 03:46:06 marvin kernel:3000  b5401000 
f536eb58 b5404000  c0149a43 c200c3a0

Sep 20 03:46:06 marvin kernel: Call Trace:
Sep 20 03:46:06 marvin kernel:  [zap_pte_range+341/736] 
zap_pte_range+0x155/0x2e0

Sep 20 03:46:06 marvin kernel:  [zap_pmd_range+83/112] zap_pmd_range+0x53/0x70
Sep 20 03:46:06 marvin kernel:  [zap_pud_range+67/96] zap_pud_range+0x43/0x60
Sep 20 03:46:06 marvin kernel:  [unmap_page_range+126/160] 
unmap_page_range+0x7e/0xa0

Sep 20 03:46:06 marvin kernel:  [unmap_vmas+246/592] unmap_vmas+0xf6/0x250
Sep 20 03:46:06 marvin kernel:  [exit_mmap+159/400] exit_mmap+0x9f/0x190
Sep 20 03:46:06 marvin kernel:  [mmput+56/160] mmput+0x38/0xa0
Sep 20 03:46:06 marvin kernel:  [do_exit+175/832] do_exit+0xaf/0x340
Sep 20 03:46:06 marvin kernel:  [do_IRQ+30/48] do_IRQ+0x1e/0x30
Sep 20 03:46:06 marvin kernel:  [common_interrupt+26/32] 
common_interrupt+0x1a/0x20

Sep 20 03:46:06 marvin kernel:  [do_group_exit+64/176] do_group_exit+0x40/0xb0
Sep 20 03:46:06 marvin kernel:  [get_signal_to_deliver+528/800] 
get_signal_to_deliver+0x210/0x320

Sep 20 03:46:06 marvin kernel:  [do_signal+155/304] do_signal+0x9b/0x130
Sep 20 03:46:06 marvin kernel:  [del_singleshot_timer_sync+19/64] 
del_singleshot_timer_sync+0x13/0x40
Sep 20 03:46:06 marvin kernel:  [schedule_timeout+118/192] 
schedule_timeout+0x76/0xc0

Sep 20 03:46:06 marvin kernel:  [process_timeout+0/16] process_timeout+0x0/0x10
Sep 20 03:46:06 marvin kernel:  [sys_nanosleep+222/368] 
sys_nanosleep+0xde/0x170
Sep 20 03:46:06 marvin kernel:  [do_notify_resume+55/60] 
do_notify_resume+0x37/0x3c

Sep 20 03:46:06 marvin kernel:  [work_notifysig+19/21] work_notifysig+0x13/0x15
Sep 20 03:46:06 marvin kernel: Code: f0 83 42 08 ff 0f 98 c0 84 c0 74 
1b 8b 42 08 40 78 19 c7 04 24 10 00 00 00 b8 ff ff ff ff 89 44 24 04 e8
bb f8 fe ff 83 c4 08 c3 0f 0b e2 01 08 23 2c c0 eb dd 0f 0b df 01 08 
23 2c c0 eb c1 8d




And then later:
Sep 20 06:26:15 marvin kernel: Bad page state at prep_new_page (in 
process 'mysqld', page c181cec0)
Sep 20 06:26:15 marvin kernel: flags:0x4114 mapping: 
mapcount:-1 count:0

Sep 20 06:26:15 marvin kernel: Backtrace:
Sep 20 06:26:15 marvin kernel:  [bad_page+117/176] bad_page+0x75/0xb0
Sep 20 06:26:15 marvin kernel:  [prep_new_page+64/112] prep_new_page+0x40/0x70
Sep 20 06:26:15 

Re: two scary syslog kernel messages

[Sean]

On 2005-09-20 14:30:10 -0500, Alejandro Bonilla 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:



I'm running Debian Testing with the following kernel:
Linux marvin 2.6.11-1-686-smp #1 SMP Mon Jun 20 20:18:45 MDT
2005 i686
GNU/Linux

My system is a 2.8Ghz Intel P4 with hyper threading enabled, 2GB RAM,
and 2 SATA drives running in software RAID-1 (everything is mirrored
including the boot and swap partitions).


Well, try another kernel and see if the problems is still there.

2.6.14-rc2 has only a lot of fixes and clean ups to become the new more
stable kernel, maybe that could help you?

.Alejandro


Thanks for the suggestion.  I was kind of hoping someone would know if 
these problems were fixed, though.  :-)  I assume that kernel is still 
in the unstable branch?


l8r
Sean


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Re: Tips and Tricks for Dial-Up Internet Access?

[Sean Davis]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 10:21:34AM +0200, Kai Grossjohann wrote:
 Basajaun [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 
  One question I would like to make myself (I mean... not _to_ myself,
  hehehe) is: how does one get the modem not to produce its annoying
  noises with pon?
 
 There is an AT command you can send to the modem to tell it about the
 noise.  I believe the options are: no noise, noise until the
 connection is established, and noise all the time.
 
 You just need to include that command in your dialstring.  I forgot
 the exact command, though, but googling for the AT/Hayes command set
 should find it quickly enough.

I believe the command you're thinking of is ATW0. ATW1 is noise when
connecting, and ATW2 is noise all the time (I've used that when on a dirty
phone line with lots of interference, but eventually it got so annoying that
I just started going with auto-reconnect.)

(Note that I'm not positive: it's been years since I've used a dialup
connection. I am pretty sure that it's ATW[n] though. YMMV)

-Sean


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Default alsa card

[Sean Kennedy]

I'm using ALSA (w/ a 2.6 kernel) and I have two sound cards first being
a C-Media CM8738 and second being a Creative Labs SB Live!.  I want the
SB Live! to be my primary card, but despite choosing emu10k1 (the SB
Live! driver) in alsaconf, Debian (on bootup) still initializes the
CM8738 card first thus making it my primary.  I don't want to disable
the CM8738 card, I just want it to be secondary.

Thank you.


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easiest way to upgrade woody to sarge?

[Sean Davis]

I've got a Debian Woody system that's been running decently for over a month
now, and would like to update it to Sarge. I know it's been covered before,
but is there an authoritative document on updating? I can only access the
box remotely - it's hosted at the datacenter at which I work, and I don't
typically have time to mess with it at work, although I could hook up a
monitor/keyboard if I hosed it badly enough - so I'm wondering if there is
a procedure known to work on remote servers without much trouble.

The hardware is nothing exotic; Athlon XP2200+, 1GB ram, 80GB ATA100 HD.

TIA,
-Sean


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Re: root compromise on debian woody

[Sean Davis]

On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 07:55:50PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote:
 
 On Thu, 26 May 2005, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
 
  On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 06:41:18PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote:
   
 CAN-2005-1263 [Linux kernel ELF core dump privilege escalation]
 - kernel-source-2.6.11 2.6.11 2.6.11-4
 - kernel-source-2.6.8 2.6.8-16
 - kernel-source-2.4.27 2.4.27-10
   
   always use the latest kernel ... from kernel.org ...
   
   and similarly with other important binaries from their
   respective originating site
 mta, apache, kernel, glib, make/gcc, bash, endless list
   
  
  Sorry, but that is horrible advice.  For every app you get directly from
  upstream, you become directly responsible for supporting security
  issues.  I understand that even if you use the Debian packages, you are
  still ultimately responsible.  Not only that, but the Debian Security
  Team does an excellent job given the resources and situation.  Woody has
  versions of software that were no longer support upstream when Woody
  shipped.  That makes security support really difficult, but that doesn't
  mean that someone should run out and install everything from source.
  That sort of defeatst the purpose of a distro.
 
 sounds like all the same identical arguments can also be used for using
 the originating sources instead of *.deb  and the lag time between
 patches is up to the debian security team or *you/me* ... 
 
 ones preferences to depend on *.debs should NOT make it better or worst
 than using *.tgz files released from the original sources
 
 i prefer to have tighter and finer controls than depend on old packages

I agree. None of the packages in Woody are up to date unless you count
up-to-dateness as within five years of the last released version.

I can tolerate the Debian environment, but when they can't decide whether or
not to actually release Sarge, and keep touting Woody as stable when even
a fully-updated Woody still has a crappy kernel* ... I start thinking about
de-racking my server, backing it up, and going BSD.

*: Linux LOVES to swap. I swap all the time on my 1.8ghz Athlon XP with 1GB
ram. However, my NetBSD machine with the same amount of ram running at the
same frequency NEVER swaps, due to the ability to tune the VM, and the
better VM (UVM) in general. The NetBSD server almost always has at least
twice if not three times as much going on (+ KDE3.4) than the Linux machine.
Yet still never swaps or lags. Wish I could say that for Debian Woody, but I
can't.


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Re: root compromise on debian woody

[Sean Davis]

On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 10:43:11AM -0400, Carl Fink wrote:
 On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 07:00:56AM -0400, Sean Davis wrote:
 
  *: Linux LOVES to swap. I swap all the time on my 1.8ghz Athlon XP with 1GB
  ram. However, my NetBSD machine with the same amount of ram running at the
  same frequency NEVER swaps, due to the ability to tune the VM, and the
  better VM (UVM) in general. The NetBSD server almost always has at least
  twice if not three times as much going on (+ KDE3.4) than the Linux machine.
  Yet still never swaps or lags. Wish I could say that for Debian Woody, but I
  can't.
 
 Linux swaps aggressively, even when unnecessary in the short term on
 purpose, so RAM containing the swapped data or executable is available if a
 new task arises.  If the swapped stuff is called for, it's used from RAM and
 no time is lost.

no time is lost... you have infinite-transfer-speed zero-latency drives, or
what? I can't be the only one who's noticed that when machines start
swapping, they start getting slower. Or the only one to connect the two, for
that matter.

If there is enough RAM for the current workload, there is no reason to swap.
Period. Swapping when it's not needed is a ridiculous waste of CPU time and
disk I/O. If I understand your argument correctly, an accurate analogy would
be leaving your car running 24/7 just so that you don't have to start it the
next time you want to drive somewhere. Would you do that? no.

-Sean


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Re: how to determine WAN IP address from behind a NAT router?

[Sean Davis]

On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 07:17:38PM -0400, Brendan wrote:
 /sbin/ifconfig eth0 | grep 'inet add' | awk '{print $2}' |cut -d ' '  -f 12 |
 cut -d: -f 2

or, more simply, /sbin/ifconfig eth0 | awk -F: '/inet/ {print $2}'|sed 
s/'[[:space:]].*'//
but.. that won't tell you the WAN address if you're on a machine behind a
NAT router. just your LAN address.

-Sean


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Re: how to determine WAN IP address from behind a NAT router?

[Sean Davis]

On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 07:54:42PM -0400, Brendan wrote:
 On Thursday 05 May 2005 07:33 pm, Sean Davis wrote:
  On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 07:17:38PM -0400, Brendan wrote:
   /sbin/ifconfig eth0 | grep 'inet add' | awk '{print $2}' |cut -d ' '  -f
   12 | cut -d: -f 2
 
  or, more simply, /sbin/ifconfig eth0 | awk -F: '/inet/ {print $2}'|sed
  s/'[[:space:]].*'// but.. that won't tell you the WAN address if you're on
  a machine behind a NAT router. just your LAN address.
 
 I *am* the NAT router. ;-)

Oh. Um. Yeah. Nevermind :)

-Sean


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Re: kernel2.6 I cannot login

[Sean O'Dubhghaill]

Hello Massa

Some questions;

What kind of keyboard and mouse are you using?
Can you send the list a copy of your XF86Config-4?
Is the keyboard working fine when not using X Windows under 2.6?

On Tuesday 04 Jan 2005 11:26 am, Massa Takeuti wrote:
 Hello

 I'm in despair.
 since 3 weeks, I'm waiting some good advice in some Debian forums but
 unfortunately I've got nothing helpful yet...

 I already depenced more than a hundred hours for this problem. In vain.

 I compiled 2.6.9 (from source made by Debian). I get installation
 successful message. it boots. I see gdm login screen. But I cannnot
 login. I cannot move my mouce. Keyboard doesn't work.

 My system  (kernel 2.4 works since 1 year) :
 intel P4
 mother MSI neo2 with intel 82865 chipset
 matrox G450 videocard.


 In my syslog, I don't find a line marked as ERROR or WARNING.

 In xf86log, I find these elements :

 1

 (--) MGA(0): BIOS at 0xF5DC
 (II) Truncating PCI BIOS Length to 36864
 (--) MGA(0): Video BIOS info block at offset 0x07CE0
 (WW) MGA(0): Video BIOS info block not detected!
 (II) MGA(0): MGABios.RamdacType = 0x0

 2
 many lines like that :

 (II) MGA(0): Not using default mode 640x350 (vrefresh out of range)
 (II) MGA(0): Not using default mode 320x175 (bad mode
 clock/interlace/doublescan)
 (II) MGA(0): Not using default mode 640x400 (vrefresh out of range)
 (II) MGA(0): Not using default mode 320x200 (bad mode
 clock/interlace/doublescan)
 (II) MGA(0): Not using default mode 720x400 (vrefresh out of range)
 (II) MGA(0): Not using default mode 360x200 (vrefresh out of range)
 (II) MGA(0): Not using default mode 320x240 (bad mode
 clock/interlace/doublescan)

 and especially :
 (WW) (1280x960,gamen) mode clock 108MHz exceeds DDC maximum 80MH

 3

 drmOpenDevice: minor is 0
 drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
 drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999)
 drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999)
 drmOpenDevice: Open failed
 drmOpenDevice: minor is 0
 drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
 drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999)
 drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999)
 drmOpenDevice: Open failed
 drmOpenDevice: minor is 0
 drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
 drmOpenDevice: open result is 5, (OK)
 drmGetBusid returned ''

 4

 Warning: font renderer for .pcf already registered at priority 0
 Warning: font renderer for .pcf.Z already registered at priority 0
 Warning: font renderer for .pcf.gz already registered at priority 0
 Warning: font renderer for .snf already registered at priority 0
 Warning: font renderer for .snf.Z already registered at priority 0
 Warning: font renderer for .snf.gz already registered at priority 0
 Warning: font renderer for .bdf already registered at priority 0
 Warning: font renderer for .bdf.Z already registered at priority 0
 Warning: font renderer for .bdf.gz already registered at priority 0
 Warning: font renderer for .pmf already registered at priority 0

 Regards
 Tianlou


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Error from X

[Sean Kennedy]

Whenever I try to start xfontsel, the program pops up then soon after
closes with these errors:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xfontsel
X Error of failed request:  BadValue (integer parameter out of range for
operation)
  Major opcode of failed request:  45 (X_OpenFont)
  Value in failed request:  0x352
  Serial number of failed request:  1192
  Current serial number in output stream:  1193
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$

I've tried changing the locale to C with LC_ALL=C before invoking
xfontsel, but it didn't help it.

Any help is greatly appreciated.


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Re: xorg

[Sean O'Dubhghaill]

Yes, I'm running them right now and they seem to work well. I have had one 
small problem with xfree86-common not upgrading right but that hasn't caused 
any other problems that I can see. Heres the error I get when upgrading 
xfree86-common:

Setting up xfree86-common (6.8.1-0.4) ...
update-rc.d: /etc/init.d/xfree86-common exists during rc.d purge (use -f to 
force)
dpkg: error processing xfree86-common (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

On Friday 24 Dec 2004 8:35 pm, cancer wrote:
 has anybody tried out these xorg packages?:
 deb http://debian.linux-systeme.com unstable main
 deb-src http://debian.linux-systeme.com unstable main

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module documentation

[sean]

Where is there documentation on each of the modules/options available for 
kernel-2.4.27.  I'm trying to compile the kernel and some of these parameters, 
I really don't know what I'm doing.  Esp. when It gets into chip support, flash 
support, Pentium VS. Pentium-pro/i586/etc. options.  I'm compiling on a Pentium 
90MHZ system which is a Compaq from 1995.  This system has CD-ROM, floppy, pci 
network/sound card.  It works with the debian pre-compiled package 
kernel-image-2.4.27-speakup if that helps.  Obviously, I need to know which 
options are important for my system to boot.
Sean

Re: gdm and reboot

[Sean O'Dubhghaill]

On Wednesday 01 Dec 2004 8:02 pm, Ralph Katz wrote:
 On 12/01/2004 02:10 PM, Frederico Rodrigues Abraham wrote:
  Isn't there an option on GDM to enable normal users to shutdown
  and reboot the machine?
  It always requires the root password to do it...
  -- Fred

 Yes.  This is from my  /etc/gdm/gdm.conf  (using Sarge):

And you can also change this from the gdmsetup tool by turning off secure 
actions menu in the Security tab

  # The Actions menu (formerly system menu) is shown in the greeter, this
  is the # menu that contains reboot, shutdown, suspend, config and
  chooser.  None of # these is available if this is off.  They can be
  turned off individually # however
  SystemMenu=true
  # The Actions in the Actions menu require the root password
  SecureSystemMenu=false

 Regards,
 Ralph


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Re: how does mutt send?

[Sean]

Mutt does use exim4 to send your mail.  You have to do dpkg--reconfigure 
exim4-config.  Setup your mail to be sent through a smarthost assuming 
you're sending it through another system.  When you compose mail, you 
have to include a from address and name in double quotes and you must 
suply an email address on the reply-to line.  This is all documented in 
the mutt manual.
Sean


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Re: devfs vs. udev

[Sean O'Dubhghaill]

[snip]

 - Does hotplug inform udev when a new device connects to the computer?

Not sure, but new devices plugged in will cause new dev entries to be made. I 
think hotplug will just load the relevant modules and udev will sort out 
devices on its own

 - Does udev make use of devfs?

No

hope that helps,
Sean


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mutt skipping messages and the concept of threads

[Sean]

I somehow deleted a mesage from someone who only sent me one message and 
I did this by just deleting message by thread where I deleted all 
messages in a thread.  What makes up a thread?  Also I guess it's 
actually skipping certain messages and not popping them off the server.  
What could be causing this?
Sean


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Where can I find the program supervgatextmode

[Sean]

The subject line says it all, I did apt-get install supervgatextmode, 
nothing.  Then I did apt-cache search supervgatextmode, nothing.  I 
found nothing on google except references to it on email lists and no 
links to source, debs, docs, etc with further info on this program.  
Thanks
Sean


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playing cds

[Sean]

Ok, I have my cd-rom drive conected to my sound card.and normal sound 
works but cd's do not.  I am a member of groups audio and disk.  cdcd 
doesn't give me any error messages, but nothing plays.  What am I 
missing here?  Where should I look for any error messages. 
Sean


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question relating to speakers and my soundcard

[Sean]

I don't know if this related to linux, but my sound only works if I plug 
headphones or a really old pair of unpowered speakers into the jack.  
The old speakers are really faint, which I gues is why now they all have 
pwoered.  My question is, what is the difference between these old 
working speakers and my new non-working Boston Akustic speakers?  The 
newer speakers do work fine on another computer with a different 
soundcard.If I have to get new speakers, what specific kind do I need 
which will work with this s1370 soundcard?  The newer speakers work on a 
sbpci 64d, which I believe is a 1373 chipset.  I can't confirm the 
chipset on that, it's still a winblows machine.
Sean


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annoying mutt problem

[Sean]

After fetching my mail from my isp's pop server, mutt usually only 
displays the first 10 or so messages.  The others although fetched by 
fetchmail, don't display in my mailbox for a few minutes, according to 
mutt.  If I have about 50 or so, I can quit mutt, and go back in to see 
all the messages.  However if there are 200 or so, like today, it takes 
2 or so minutes and quitting and restarting mutt before I see them all.  
What's appening here?  Can I fix that?
Sean


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