premature munin-update termination due to read timeout from node?

2013-11-07 Thread Thomas Keusch
Hello,

I'm running a current Debian 7.2 with munin 2.0.6-4+deb7u1.

There are a couple of plugins which take some time to finish due to the nature
of what they do, which is around 17-19 seconds average. There is about half a 
dozen
of these plugins.

Unfortunaely munin-update terminates almost all the time after around 72
seconds, which is at least 50 seconds early to what a complete and successful 
run
takes. Seems it loses patience with reading from the node.

munin-node.log:
2013/11/07-06:51:05 [26174] Service 'tke_FOOBAR' timed out.

munin-update.log:
2013/11/07 06:56:02 [FATAL] Socket read from vs2.gothschlampen.com failed.  
Terminating process. at /usr/share/perl5/Munin/Master/UpdateWorker.pm line 394
2013/11/07 06:56:02 [ERROR] Error in node communication with 
vs2.gothschlampen.com/127.0.0.1:4949: [FATAL] Socket read from 
vs2.gothschlampen.com failed.  Terminating process. at 
/usr/share/perl5/Munin/Master/UpdateWorker.pm line 394


In munin-node.conf I tried to increase the timeout like this:

$ grep ^time /etc/munin/*.conf
/etc/munin/munin-node.conf:timeout 270

Which is undocumented, and doesn't help, nonetheless is the solution that comes
up most often if you google this kind of problem.

I also modified the call to munin-update inside munin-cron by appending
--timeout=250 and/or -timeout 250, which unfortunately doesn't seem to work
either.

Is munin really this broken in this regard, or is it with my otherwise rather
plain vanilla setup?

Best regards
Thomas


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Re: FreeBSD, Linux and NFS

2000-02-01 Thread Thomas Keusch
On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 12:00:02AM +, David Malone wrote:
 
  Is my assumption, that _only_ NFS v2 via TCP/IP, *NOT* UDP, will work
  between FreeBSD and Linux, correct? At all? If it ever was?

 NFS v2 over UDP is the traditional NFS flavor, and most likely to
 work. We're using 3.4 machines here with two Redhat-6.1 clients

Thanks, David!

I have switched it to UDP and did some testing.

It seems to work now. Meanwhile nearly 40*10^6 packets have passed the
interface, without any outtages being noticed.

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Re: FreeBSD, Linux and NFS

2000-02-01 Thread Thomas Keusch
On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 02:43:10PM -1000, Clifton Royston wrote:

[Problems with NFS over TCP]
 I would recommend trying to switch it to UDP and see if that helps. 

I changed to UDP, restarted the servers and have not had a problem since.
Thank you very much, Clifton.


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FreeBSD, Linux and NFS

2000-01-25 Thread Thomas Keusch

Hello,

does anybody happen to be running NFS between FreeBSD und Linux
successfully and painless?

I've got FreeBSD 3.4S cvsupped xmas or one, maybe two days after,
running as NFS server, while my Linux v2.2.14 box is the client.

On Linux, I mount stuff like this:

$ mount -t nfs -o ro,noauto,user,tcp,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=14,intr \
  darkstar:/storage /tmp/storage.darkstar

On the FreeBSD side of the universe, I've got this in /etc/rc.conf:

$ grep -e nfs -e mount /etc/rc.conf
nfs_server_enable=YES
nfs_server_flags=-t -n 4
mountd_flags=-2 -r

Ok, so if I get things right, which I think (hopefully) I do, this means
that Linux mounts NFS filesystems via TCP/IP, the FreeBSD server forces
NFS v2 via the -2 switch given to mountd and the 4 nfsd only serve
stuff via TCP/IP (-t argument).

But, stressing my home LAN a little bit the last few days, it happened
to me three times already that the server simply stops serving the fs
(or NFS in general, I didn't check before restarting stuff :-( ),
while it stays perfectly functional in all other ways I can think of.
Ok, it may be that no new/further NFS exported fs may be mounted by
remote machines, I don't know yet, but I can get you current if asked
to. Maybe it is just a regular permission problem that it can't mount
the fs in question via loopback networking.

Restarting nfsd/mountd, whichever order of starting them, doesn't seem
to help, on the Linux box processes accessing the NFS fs still hang.
Having restarted the daemons, I can mount another fs, though.
(Don't know if this works without restarting, sorry. But I can test..)

*Finally* :-)
... finally this is the error message I get on the Linux box syslog:

dante kernel: nfs: server darkstar not responding, still trying


Any ideas on that one?

Is my assumption, that _only_ NFS v2 via TCP/IP, *NOT* UDP, will work
between FreeBSD and Linux, correct? At all? If it ever was?
(I just seem to have remembered this sort of stuff popping up on the
lists and v2/tcp NFS being the solution)

So, is there some help for me?
I don't really know where to look at now..

Thanks for your valueable time, if you actually read this far :-))

HAND,
  thomas


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jde paket won't install properly

1999-12-14 Thread Thomas Keusch

Hello fellow users of Debian,

I think I've got a small problem here.


For university I need to develop in java, and so far I've done so using
XEmacs on the boxes provided, which run on solaris.

As I had XEmacs installed on my part slink, part potato system anyway,
I installed the 'jde' package from unstable yesterday, hoping it would
provide the 'JDE' menu in XEmacs I got used to on the solaris boxes.

Unfortunately, it didn't work out as I expected, having given me an error
in the configuration phase of the install.

Here is the situation:

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
dante:~ $ dpkg -l | grep -e emacs -e jde
ii  emacs20 20.3-7 The GNU Emacs editor.
ii  emacsen-common  1.4.8  Common facilities for all emacsen.
iF  jde 2.1.5-2.1.6bet Java Development Environment for Emacs or XE
ii  xemacs20-bin20.4-14Editor and kitchen sink -- support binaries
ii  xemacs20-nomule 20.4-14Editor and kitchen sink -- Non-mule binary
ii  xemacs20-suppor 20.4-14Editor and kitchen sink -- architecture inde
dante:~ $ dpkg --configure --pending
Setting up jde (2.1.5-2.1.6beta13-1) ...
jde: Skipping installation for emacsen flavor emacs
jde: Installing byte-compiled files for emacsen flavor emacs20
emacs-package-install: /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/jde \
emacs20 emacs20 xemacs20 failed at  \
/usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-package-install line 30.
dpkg: error processing jde (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 29
Errors were encountered while processing:
 jde
dante:~ $
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Anyone out there who had the same problem but got it to a working state
finally?

I tried running /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/jde xemacs20
manually, but there still is no 'JDE' entry in XEmacs menues.

I'm lost right now.


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Re: recommend mp3 encoder

1999-11-22 Thread Thomas Keusch
On Sat, Nov 20, 1999 at 03:55:55PM -0500, Arcady Genkin wrote:

 I'm looking for the highest compression quality possible. I don't care
 about speed (nor about interface) at all. Is there anything compareable
 to Fraunhoffer encoder under win32 for Linux?
 
 I'll be encoding wavs into 256 KBps mp3's.

Go with Fraunhofer's mp3enc (commercial) if possible,
else get a copy of LAME (said to be good).

Tomorrow's c't (german computer magazine) features a comparison between
LAME, mp3enc, XING encoder and bladenc.
Bladenc doesn't cut it, it seems, while mp3enc seems to be the reference in
audio quality, with LAME being a good alternative choice.

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Re: automated md5sum checks

1999-10-23 Thread Thomas Keusch
On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 06:25:27PM -, Pollywog wrote:

Hello Andrew,

 Is there an app which can perform md5sum checks of binaries on an automated
 basis, like once a week or so?  Would doing this just slow down my machine?

During its nightly/weekly/whatever run, for sure.

Have a look a the tripwire IDS package.

HTH, HAND
Thomas

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Re: Netscape and its cache

1999-10-11 Thread Thomas Keusch
On Mon, Oct 11, 1999 at 09:36:34AM +0200, E.L. Meijer Eric wrote:

 I noticed the same thing.  It is broken as far as I can see.  I added
 the following line to my crontab:

   50   ** 0/bin/rm -rf /home/tgakem/.netscape/cache

You might want to try this instead:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ [19:23:52] # crontab -l | grep netscape
00 ** * *   test -e /home/thomas/.netscape/lock || rm -rf 
/home/thomas/.netscape/cache/*

This only removes the cache if netscape isn't running.

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Re: deb http://security.ebian.org/ stable updates

1999-08-15 Thread Thomas Keusch
On Fri, Aug 13, 1999 at 02:23:34PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote:
 I just tried it ththe the same line in my sources.list ie
 deb http://security.debian.org/ stable updates
[it works]

 Maybe it was having a bad day when you tried it?

Yeah, I was having a really bad day I guess.

Now it is solved.
Sorry I didn't check this stupid thing earlier.

For those who are interested:
$http_proxy and $ftp_proxy were not set for root, but only for normal users
of the system. As traffic to 0/0 80 is blocked at my ISP, the connection did
not have a chance to succeed.

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Re: deb http://security.ebian.org/ stable updates

1999-08-14 Thread Thomas Keusch
On Fri, Aug 13, 1999 at 12:14:39AM +0200, Thomas Keusch wrote:

 Hi!

 I just tried to incorporate http://security.debian.org into my apt
 sources.list once again - and it didn't work once again.

Usually I don't reply to my own postings, but this was really a no-brainer
which I don't want to bother anyof you, as I solved the problem on my own.

Sorry I didn't check this stupid thing earlier.

For those who are interested:
$http_proxy and $ftp_proxy were not set for root, but only for normal users
of the system. As traffic to 0/0 80 is blocked at my ISP, the connection did
not have a chance to succeed.



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deb http://security.ebian.org/ stable updates

1999-08-13 Thread Thomas Keusch

Hi!

I just tried to incorporate http://security.debian.org into my apt
sources.list once again - and it didn't work once again.

This is my sources.list and what I get out of it when running
apt-get update:


==
dante:~ $ grep ^deb /etc/apt/sources.list
deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US
deb http://security.debian.org/ stable updates
dante:~ $

dante:~ $ apt-get update
Err http://security.debian.org stable/updates Packages
  Could not connect to security.debian.org (132.229.131.40).
Hit ftp://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US Packages
Hit ftp://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US Release
Err http://security.debian.org stable/updates Release
  Could not connect to security.debian.org (132.229.131.40).
Hit ftp://ftp.debian.org stable/main Packages
Hit ftp://ftp.debian.org stable/main Release
Hit ftp://ftp.debian.org stable/contrib Packages
Hit ftp://ftp.debian.org stable/contrib Release
Hit ftp://ftp.debian.org stable/non-free Packages
Hit ftp://ftp.debian.org stable/non-free Release
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
W: Couldn't stat source package list 'http://security.debian.org
stable/updates Packages'
(/var/state/apt/lists/security.debian.org_dists_stable_updates_binary-i386_Packages)
- stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct theses missing files
dante:~ $
==


Ok. Really nice hint at the end of the error message. :)

Repeating all over doesn't help, obvously.
So I'm really stumped on it this time.

The system in question is basically hamm, with some pieces from slink.
My apt version is:

==
dante:~ $ dpkg -l | grep apt
ii  apt 0.3.7slink0Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii  libpcap00.4a6-2System interface for user-level packet captu
dante:~ $
==

Can anyone help?

Lots of thanks in advance!


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Re: Easy way to install potato?

1999-08-10 Thread Thomas Keusch
On Sun, Aug 08, 1999 at 09:15:46PM -0700, Eric G. Miller wrote:

Hi Francis!

 On Sun, 08 Aug 1999, Francis J. Bruening wrote:
   | I'd like to do a fresh install of potato?
   | What's the easiest way to do that?
   | 
   | I'm thinking of installing the base slink stuff, and then using apt to
   | update  upgrade after pointing sources.list to the potato stuff?
 
 Yup.  I'd install the bare minimum, and then go right to installing
 potato packages. 

Please define ``bare minimum''.

At which point in the installation process is it reached?

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Re: Potato

1999-07-30 Thread Thomas Keusch
On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 10:57:11AM -0600, Nathan Duehr wrote:

 No, security.debian.org is a relatively new thing and probably isn't as
 documented as it should be.  It's not the same as proposed-updates.

Oh. OK.

 I don't understand the question about sources.list -- if you mean is there
 a list of mirrors, it's on the Debian website.

No, essentially I was thinking about a sample sources.list which already
contained stuff like security.debian.org, not only the bare bones example
that comes with apt -- how many newbies will take months to notice that
there is a simple possibility to automate (more or less) security fixes via
apt, because they first need to find out about security.debian.org and then
to have the idea of creating an apt-line for it?

   deb http://security.debian.org/ stable updates
  
  Is this the same as proposed-updates/ ?
  
  Is there a more complete sources.list then the default one on
  www.debian.org?
  
  I learned about the line Nate mentioned just now and wonder how many people
  miss important stuff like that.

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Installing potato off the net

1999-07-08 Thread Thomas Keusch

Hi,

until about a week ago I had a small box (amd 386dx40 w/ 16mb, 1.2gb)
serving my network, providing internet connectivity and so on, but due
to my fault (nothing to do with the dist, which is really great) the
installation (hamm+slink mixed) is hosed in a way I think reinstalling is
the less time consuming option.

I want to go with potato now and tried installing off the net, but failed.

I downloaded the installation disks for potato (the same as for slink)
and installed as usual. When dselect came up, I switched to another vt,
configured PPP and tried to update dpkg/apt via apt. I do not exactly recall
what specific error it was, but I ended up with a broken glibc2.1,
as it depended on libstd++ (or something similar), or vice versa, and one
wouldn't install. dpkg --configure --pending didn't fix it and I was stuck.
I intended to do an apt-get update  apt-get dist-upgrade after an
successful dpkg/apt upgrade.

Basically, as my connection is really slow, I want to switch to potato as
early as possible in the installation process (which basically installs
slink, as these are the slink disks).

So, all I need to know, is if one can safely switch VTs at this stage, leave
dselect alone without installing anything through it, i.e. with just the
plain base system installed, and upgrade manually, or do I have to perform
some kind of really small installation via dselect, finish it and then go to
potato via apt-get dist-upgrade later on (which would mean downloading the
same stuff again, just with a .01 version number increase)?

The less Megabytes I need to fetch, the better, as each one really hurts
using this connection. :-/


Any help appreciated.

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Re: weird crontab entries in system logs

1999-06-28 Thread Thomas Keusch
On Sun, Jun 27, 1999 at 07:49:25PM -, Pollywog wrote:

 A few minutes ago, I started getting this about every five minutes.  My
 /etc/crontab has not been changed, so I am stumped
 
  Unusual System Events
  =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
  Jun 27 19:40:32 lilypad /usr/bin/crontab[7692]: (root) LIST (root) 
  Jun 27 19:40:32 lilypad crontab[7695]: (root) REPLACE (root) 
 
 Any ideas about what is going on?

root listed root's crontab, then replaced it.
you only need to worry if you haven't changed root's crontab at that time.

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Re: awk progfile

1999-06-04 Thread Thomas Keusch
On Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 01:50:57PM -0500, James Frey wrote:

 If I put:  /Date/ respaldo  in a file (respchk) and run
 awk -f respchk

well, awk needs to know what input to process:

awk -f program.awk input.data

or simply pipe the input to awk:

cat data | awk -f prog.awk

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Re: new wmaker package?

1999-05-23 Thread Thomas Keusch
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 04:40:24PM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:

Hi Marcello!

  Now that I've updated, I found out WindowMaker in slink and potato are the
  same version, so my problems still persist.

 nope, they are not.  Slink has 0.20.3; potato has 0.53.0.  The version in
 potato is compiled on a slink system, but that's another thing.

Somewhere I must have made a mistake. Now all is working as it should and
I have the latest wmaker package installed.

  As this version (0.5x.x) has been available for some time, I keep wondering
  why there is no more recent package available, in particular because I think
  WindowMaker is quite popular.
 
 Because:
 
 a) none of the reported bugs have been fixed.  I've been looking at some of
them, but haven't had the time to fix them proper.
 
 b) there are some upstream patches, but none of them fix any important bugs,
IMO.
 
 c) I haven't been able to reproduce some of the reported bugs
 
 If you report a bug (where you can tell me what problems are you having with
 the current version) I'll be more than happy to look into it.

No problems so far with the current version.

The problems I have had were with 0.20.3-something, the slink package.

When started the first time, wmaker came up the correct way, with two icons
docked: a wmaker configuration tool and xterm.
When started again, these icons were not there any more and would not
reappear on subsequent starts.

On the virtual console where I started X11 (via startx) there was some
error message about wmaker having problems parsing one of its configuration
files (which were just the way they were saved when exiting on wmaker's
first run).


I managed to workaround this bug a couple of times, but I don't know what
exactly was the reason for it to not happen. Later, I was not able to work
around it any more, which made me get the latest package.

Sorry I can't be more precise, but I already removed the notes I took down,
as the current version simply works.

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Re: new wmaker package?

1999-05-22 Thread Thomas Keusch
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 10:13:19PM +0200, Philip Lehman wrote:
 On Fri, 21 May 1999, Thomas Keusch wrote:
 
 Or is a, maybe unofficial, 0.53.x package out there, somewhere?
 
 I downloaded 0.53 weeks ago from debian...

dante:~ $ grep ^deb /etc/apt/sources.list
deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
deb ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable non-US

dante:~ $ apt-get update
[...] (some errors concerning non-US, shouldn't matter in this case)

dante:~ $ apt-get install wmaker
Updating package status cache...done
Checking system integrity...ok
Sorry, wmaker is already the newest version
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 204 not upgraded.

dante:~ $ dpkg -l wmaker
[...]
+++-===-==-
ii  wmaker  0.20.3-5   Yet another window manager. This the next

dante:~ $ 


uhm... what's going on here?

Would you mind posting your /etc/apt/sources.list, please?


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Re: new wmaker package?

1999-05-22 Thread Thomas Keusch
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 05:03:52PM -0300, Paulo J. da Silva e Silva wrote:

   Or is a, maybe unofficial, 0.53.x package out there, somewhere?
   
 
 Take a look at Gnome's site: www.gnome.org. The gnome .debs for slink were
 released today and I am almost sure that there is a wmake 0.53 there.

I just went over there and downloaded them - thank you for that hint.
I'm still downloading the dependencies, being pretty confident I'll
be up-and-running in a few minutes. :)

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Re: new wmaker package?

1999-05-22 Thread Thomas Keusch
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 04:04:32PM -0400, eric a. Farris wrote:

[no wmaker 0.53.0 package available?] 
 umm, my potato wmaker is 0.53.0-2. are you sure you're getting
 everything from your potato mirror? here's my apt sources.list:

I thought so. My sources.list was like this (s/stable/unstable/):

deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US

 deb ftp://debian.crosslink.net/pub/debian stable main contrib non-free
 deb ftp://debian.crosslink.net/pub/debian unstable main contrib non-free
 deb http://www.debian.org/~jim/debian-gtk-gnome/gnome-stage-2 unstable main

I guess the last line made the difference.
I'll keep your entries around. :)

Thanks for your valueable help (to all of who have helped)

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new wmaker package?

1999-05-21 Thread Thomas Keusch

Hello,

I just updated some packages to unstable/potato, including some of my X11
stuff, mainly because I have had some problems with slink's WindowMaker
package.

Now that I've updated, I found out WindowMaker in slink and potato are the
same version, so my problems still persist.

Thus I just compiled and installed from the source (0.53.0), which basically
works, but I have some problems flawlessly integrating the Debian menus
into it.

As this version (0.5x.x) has been available for some time, I keep wondering
why there is no more recent package available, in particular because I think
WindowMaker is quite popular.

Or is a, maybe unofficial, 0.53.x package out there, somewhere?


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Re: Life at 4 bogomips

1999-05-11 Thread Thomas Keusch
On Sun, May 09, 1999 at 04:50:30PM -0700, George Bonser wrote:

Hi George!

 Well I got the old 386 put back together, figured I would use it for a
 firewall. 386SX33 with 10MB of RAM. Man, what an example to show what OS
 bloat has done!  I used to install Win31 on it, even installed OS/2 Warp
 on it. Now it is running Debian and MAN is it S-L-O-W.

 In dselect the Scanning available packages .. part puts out about
 one dot every three seconds.

 It will probably take overnight to install from CDROM.  I thought Linux
 was supposed to be snappy on old hardware? Or at LEAST as fast as Windows.
 The kernel seems fast enough but the distro-specific stuff is pretty
 doggy.

Once the system is installed, it does perform sufficiently well
(talking of an AMD386 DX40 w/ 16MB , though), IMHO, but the install
is a pain nevertheless. It was clocked 7.94 BogoMips, BTW.

Besides the OS' you mentioned above, did you bother trying to install
FreeBSD on it?

I had it installed on said machine and ran several (maybe somewhere near a
dozen) port compiles at once, totalling ~200 make/cc processes, at load of
about 20-25 and worth 80MB of swap.

All these processes were run at a low priority and one could still work
with the machine without to much delay. This had me really impressed.

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mail2news problem

1999-04-19 Thread Thomas Keusch

Hello!

I've just tried to set up a local mail2news gateway on my
box - and failed miserably so far. :-)


I've set up my aliases like this and ran newaliases afterwards:

=
lists.earthdawn:| /usr/bin/mail2news -o 'Visionaire \
Networks Mail2News Gateway dante' \
-n lists.earthdawn
=
(this is one line in /etc/aliases - no use of \ anywhere)


I get this error for every message that should go to the group:

=
1999-04-19 01:28:34 10Z0zK-0001o3-00 = [EMAIL PROTECTED]
U=thomas P=local S=310
1999-04-19 01:28:34 10Z0zK-0001o3-00 Neither the system_aliases
director nor the address_pipe transport set a uid for local delivery
of | /usr/bin/mail2news -o 'Visionaire Networks Mail2News Gateway
dante' -n lists.earthdawn
=



This is the procmail recipe that passes the message to the mail2news
alias lists.earthdawn:

=
:0
* ^From.*earthdawn-owner
{
  :0c:
  ! [EMAIL PROTECTED]

  :0:
  lists/earthdawn
}
=
(also saves a backup in lists/earthdawn - you never know...)


The system is Debian 2.0 with some updates:
=
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ [01:30:46] # dpkg -l | grep -e procmail -e exim -e newsgate
ii  exim1.92-3 Exim Mailer
ii  newsgate1.6-9  Mail to News and News to Mail Gateway
ii  procmail3.10.7-6   Versatile e-mail processor.
=

Anyone know what the error is?

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Re: How to correct suidmanager errors..

1999-03-17 Thread Thomas Keusch
On Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 10:20:56AM -0500, Jay Barbee wrote:

 I get this cron error ever since I upgraded the LPR package.
 
 I didn't just want to run a chmod on it, but if someone could explain what
 has happened and how to handle it I would appreciate it.

 /etc/cron.daily/suidmanager:
 /usr/sbin/lpc PERMISSION MISMATCH: was root.lp 2755 changed to root.lp 02755
 /usr/bin/lpq PERMISSION MISMATCH: was root.lp 6755 changed to root.lp 06755
 /usr/bin/lpr PERMISSION MISMATCH: was root.lp 6755 changed to root.lp 06755
 /usr/bin/lprm PERMISSION MISMATCH: was root.lp 6755 changed to root.lp 06755

I had these errors to, some days ago. Along with an lpr package upgrade, of
course.

You might try chmod/chown'ing the files to root.lp (0)6755.

The zero is the important part, don't know if you have to set it or to leave
it out, but it fixed the problem for me.

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Re: 1 swap vs. 2 swap partitions

1999-01-25 Thread Thomas Keusch
On Sat, Jan 23, 1999 at 11:06:18AM -0600, Andrew Ivanov wrote:

 Hi.
 I recently added a new HD to my system, and I have a chance to put an
 additional swap on it.
 The question is: is there any gain in speed of accessing swap memory if
 instead of one big swap on one disk I have 2/more small ones on separate
 disks?

Yes, there is, at least with SCSI or SCSI/EIDE.

If you just have EIDE and the drives are reasonably recent,
I'd give it a try, too.

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Re: where is xmem(hamm)?

1998-12-28 Thread Thomas Keusch
On Sun, Dec 27, 1998 at 06:49:51PM +0100, Thomas Keusch wrote:

 I received an email from David Stern [EMAIL PROTECTED], who
 provided an URL to the xmem source on sunsite:
 
 http://sunsite.uakom.sk/pub/linux/system/status/xstatus/xmem-1.02.tgz
 
 First I'll try that one (thanks David!), and in case it fails, I'll try
 unpacking the xmem executable off the old bo xcontrib package and use that.

Two things: xmem was in xproc (bo), not xcontrib.
the source mentioned above is 'another' xmem. :(

third thing:on my bo 1.3.1 CDs (from www.jfl.de) I looked for the source
of xmem. Unfortunately its .deb is damaged/is no .deb at all.

Are there some FTP-Servers that still feature bo?

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Re: where is xmem(hamm)?

1998-12-27 Thread Thomas Keusch
On Fri, Dec 25, 1998 at 11:07:38PM +0100, Peter Bartosch wrote:

Hello Peter!

  I grepped the contents-file for it but did not find it, I also
  searched the mailing lists archive at debian.org, but to no avail.
  I found someone asking where xmem had gone, but there was no answer.
 
 you´re not alone, i´ve asked for xmem some time ago, but nobody could help
 
 IIRC xmem was a contained in xcontrib

Yes, I think so, too.

 someone said that xmem was a symlink to xload - but i couldn´t find such
 option for xload - so i´ve searched for some equivalent

I was told the same by someone on [EMAIL PROTECTED] - but he didn't
elaborate any further. I read the manpage and tried linking xmem to xload
and running it as xmem - but that didn't help either.

 the only thing my requirements nearly fill was xosview, except
 the size (i´ve used xmem swallowed into an fvwm-panel)

Meanwhile I've been using xosview, too, but what I used to love about xmem
is its ability to show a history of the ram usage - xosview and most other
tools just show the present state.

 mabye some other guys know where it´s gone
  Any help appreciated.
 yes from me too ;)

I received an email from David Stern [EMAIL PROTECTED], who
provided an URL to the xmem source on sunsite:

http://sunsite.uakom.sk/pub/linux/system/status/xstatus/xmem-1.02.tgz

First I'll try that one (thanks David!), and in case it fails, I'll try
unpacking the xmem executable off the old bo xcontrib package and use that.

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where is xmem(hamm)?

1998-12-25 Thread Thomas Keusch

Hello fellow Debian users!

When I ran bo on my system I used to have a small util named xmem running,
which showed memory utilization in X11. I upgraded to Debian 2.0 a few
months ago and have not yet been able to relocate xmem.

I grepped the contents-file for it but did not find it, I also searched the
mailing lists archive at debian.org, but to no avail. I found someone asking
where xmem had gone, but there was no answer.

Any help appreciated.

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/etc/init.d/isdnutils

1998-10-30 Thread Thomas Keusch

Dear Debian users,

just about two hours ago I succeeded in setting up my ISDN subsystem. :-)
I can start /etc/init.d/isdnutils and interfaces will be created
correctly, which do dial on demand and neat stuff like that, so I assume
it is basically working (after a lot of trial and error). :)

The only obvious error I get is this one when calling the script:

Starting isdn services : isdnlogline0: Operation not supported by device
 interfacesisdnlog Version 2.99 loaded
(ISDN subsystem with ISDN_MAX_CHANNELS  16 detected - 2 active channels, 1 
MSN/SI entries)
(Data versions: iprofd=0x04  net_cfg=0x04  /dev/isdninfo=0x01)
 ipppd.

What might be causing the Operation not supported by device error?
What should I have a look at?

The card is a Teles S0/16.3c1 PnP rev 1.1.


At the moment I can't tell the exact version of the installed isdnutils
package, only that I got it from an Debian mirror out of the unstable
branch 3 or 4 days ago.

Any ideas?


tk.