Re: Which X pkgs to hold? THANKS
Rob Weir wrote (on 20 Dec 2002 at 18:55): Ideally, you would have either used the Debian packages, or installed into /usr/local/X/ or something and used equivs to satisfy apt. The first option is definitely superior though, especially since X 4.1 *is in woody*. Thanks to Doug MacFarlane, Osamu Aoki, J. W. Dixon and Rob Weir for great answers. Just to clear up why I did what I did, which people understandably wondered about: I needed 4.2, not 4.1 (at least, so I was told by a guy with the same notebook). At the time I did it, 4.2 was not in testing (this was a while ago; I have been very busy since then). Now I'll try using of the Debianized 4.2 packages people indicated, and I will read up on libc6 issues between woody and testing before I decide which way to go. You're a high-performance list, guys! T. -- -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +49-3341-30 99 99 -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: simple exim configuration
Paul Scott wrote (on 18 Dec 2002 at 23:57): fetchmail to get the mail, procmail to sort it, mozilla or mutt to display it, you're all set. That sounds great. Thanks. Any ideas why I can't apt-get remove exim without removing mutt? Because the mutt package expects the system to have some kind of MTA, I'd guess. An MTA is a normal part of a typical system. Options for overriding such dependencies should be covered in the man page somewhere. T. -- -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +49-3341-30 99 99 -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do I tell apt that X is installed (from tar dist)
Doug MacFarlane wrote (on 19 Dec 2002 at 13:32): APT::Default-Release stable; and add lines to /etc/apt/sources.list that point to testing, as well as to stable, like this: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib # entry for testing distribution for installing from testing deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib Thanks, Doug! That answers an even better question than the ones I asked. It's been heck to get an X-server running on this notebook, but if I save my XF86Config-4 very very safely, I think your suggestion is the way to go. Tony -- -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +49-3341-30 99 99 -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Which X pkgs to hold?
Hi Gang! I have a woody notebook and put XFree86 4.2.0 on it from the tarballs (because of better hdw support than in X v3). Now I want to try out some window managers, but apt-get wants to install xfree86-common every time I ask it for an X app. The Question: - What packages do I need to mark as hold (or better?) to save the XFree86 v4 installation from getting damageed? (I took most of the options offered in the X installation routine, except Japanese fonts etc.) - Where would I have looked to find this out myself if I were a smarter user? - What's the best way to mark those packages so that I can continue life with apt-get? All kinds of anticipatory gratitude, Tony -- -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +49-3341-30 99 99 -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pppd + multilink + demand = ?
Marcus Jodorf wrote (on 21 May 2002 at 16:41): Option multilink ebenfalls wunderbar - bloß nicht im Zusammenhang mit demand! Ist das eine bekannte Einschränkung? Ja. Zumindest als ich noch damit rumgespielt habe, war das ein bekanntes Phänomen - aber das ist jetzt leider schon über ein Jahr her (DSL ;-). Du solltest einmal in de.comp.os.unix.linux.isdn nachfragen oder drübergoogeln, ob sich das inzwischen geändert hat, denn da sitzen die kompetentesten Leute zum Thema. Danke. Habe ich schon versucht; werd's aber nochmal. Inzwischen ist es leider nicht mehr so ganz dringend, da der ISDN-Anbieter die Bereitstellung unseres 3. Anschlusses vermasselt hat (DSL außer Reichweite ;-(. T. -- -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +49-3341-30 99 99 -- -- Zum AUSTRAGEN schicken Sie eine Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] mit dem Subject unsubscribe. Probleme? Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] (engl)
pppd +multilink + demand = ?
Hi gang! My pppd does the demand option fine. Now my ISP offers ML-PPP, and I find pppd does the multilink option just great too--but not in conjunction with the demand option! Is this a known issue? Anybody have a workaround? Do I want to start reading up on diald or something like that? (What I'd like most is bandwidth-on-demand: linkwise demand dialing.) The fine print: Potato à la Bunk; kernel 2.4.9, pppd 2.4.1; the hardware under the PPP interface is an AVM B1 ISDN card. Many TIA, T. -- -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +49-3341-30 99 99 -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] Was kann man gegen Beleidigung per E-Mail tun?
Thomas Huemmler wrote (on 22 Apr 2002 at 8:27): * Tony Crawford [EMAIL PROTECTED] [22.04.02 07:35]: ob man in der Lage ist, einen anderen zu beurteilen, ist bestenfalls ungewiß, aber eine Aussage über sich selbst macht man mit jedem Wort. Netter Spruch. Ist der von Dir? Muß ich zugeben, ja - (c) 2002 Tony Crawford. Kannste gerne benutzen; über ein Belegexemplar freue ich mich :-). T. -- -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +49-3341-30 99 99 -- -- Zum AUSTRAGEN schicken Sie eine Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] mit dem Subject unsubscribe. Probleme? Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] (engl)
Re: Unglueckliche Uebersetzung ?
Marko Schulz wrote (on 13 Apr 2002 at 12:00): Ja, das sollte besser formuliert werden. Hier ein Vorschlag: Wenn Sie Ihren Rechner mit einer USB-Tastatur oder -Maus startet, dann sollten sie die Treiber hierfür fest in den Kernel eincompilieren (betrifft ggf. hid-, keybdev- (und/oder mousedev), input-, usbcore- und USB-Hostcontroller-Module). Ansonsten kann es zu Fehlern beim Systemstart kommen, da die Module noch nicht geladen werden können. Den Kram in den Klammern (in der Äußeren (aber auch in der Inneren)), kann man vielleicht besser weglassen. Das ist zu detailliert. Nicht weglassen, sondern die Klammern und das und/oder weglassen. Der Sinn davon ist bereits durch ggf. gegeben. Vorschlag mit einigen kleinen Änderungen: Wenn Sie Ihren Rechner mit einer USB-Tastatur oder -Maus starten, dann sollten Sie die Treiber für diese Geräte nicht als Module, sondern fest in den Kernel eincompilieren. Das betrifft die Kernel-Optionen [Liste der Optionen, wie sie in 'make config' genannt werden!]. Sonst kann es zu Fehlern beim Systemstart kommen, da diese Geräte bis zum Laden der Module noch nicht verfügbar wären. Tony -- -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +49-3341-30 99 99 -- -- Zum AUSTRAGEN schicken Sie eine Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] mit dem Subject unsubscribe. Probleme? Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] (engl)
Re: Installing Debian or Linux
Craig Sampson wrote (on 24 Mar 2002 at 16:22): Like all RPM (or rather non APT) distros its a nightmare to update and keep updated but you don't care about this when you are completely new and can't get anything running. LOL! T. -- -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +49-3341-30 99 99 -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ext3fs (was Re: debian-user-german@lists.debian.org)
Karsten Rothemund wrote (on 22 Mar 2002 at 11:36): On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 09:07:23AM +0100, Alexander Schmehl wrote: * Martin Herzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020321 23:54]:Hat jemand ne Idee? (Mal abgesehen von Fenster auf und raus mit der Kiste.) Filesysteme auf ext3 umstellen, dann dauert ein reboot nicht so lange ;) Geht auch nachtraeglich, soweit ich weiss. Oder liege ich falsch? Dann bitte sofort schreien! Todeinfach: http://www.linux-user.de/ausgabe/2002/04/073-ext3/ext3.html T. -- -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +49-3341-30 99 99 -- -- Zum AUSTRAGEN schicken Sie eine Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] mit dem Subject unsubscribe. Probleme? Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] (engl)
Re: Upgrade to kernel 2.4.* on woody - easy?
Martin Edward John Waller wrote (on 20 Mar 2002 at 15:03): I want to upgarde to a 2.4.* kernel on my woody system. Is this is a startightforward re-compile with relevant kernel source or are there things I need to watch out for? It was pretty painless for me. I started with the kernel- image_2.4.17-bf... package, which is intended to run on most equipment, then I started with its config file when I needed a custom 2.4.x kernel. T. -- -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +49-3341-30 99 99 --
Re: /etc/issue
Michael Kines wrote (on 15 Mar 2002 at 10:43): I accidentally erased my /etc/issue . Now, when I switch alt-ctrl f1, there is no indication of what tty I am on. Where can I get that back again? Thanks. And read ISSUE ESCAPES in man getty(8). T. -- -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +49-3341-30 99 99 --
RE: The future of Debian install??
Craig Sampson wrote (on 12 Mar 2002 at 19:57): I may have missed something (sure hope so), but what I'd find immensely useful is a way of being able to choose, at install (or other) time what packages I want then save this selection 'list' to a file so that when I next install Debian on another box I can just tell it to use the previously made selections. Maybe you can adapt this: === From: Eric Richardson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: Debian Reinstall Date sent: Wed, 23 May 2001 08:56:08 -0700 Copies to: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Forwarded by: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date forwarded: Wed, 23 May 2001 18:07:00 +0200 (MET DST) Organization: MilagroSoft Inc. Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: On 09-May-2001 Ronan O'Sullivan wrote: Hi there, I am wondering is there anyway to save your current installed packages information and when you reinstall for apt or dselect to know what packages to install or remove to restore your system to the previous state? 2 steps: a) # dpkg --get-selections|sed -e 's/deinstall$/purge/'|dpkg # --set-selections apt-get dselect-upgrade # this removes any lingering # packages in your list b) # dpkg --get-selections|sed -e 's/hold$/install/' package_list # copy package_install /somewhere/safe Then, after the install: # dpkg --set-selections package_list # apt-get dselect-upgrade The sed call is to ensure that even packages on hold get stored properly. This is very clever and effective. I tried it today and it worked like a charm to get a good package list for backup and of course purge deinstalled packages as per a). BTW, How can I find why a package is on hold? Thanks again, Eric = -- -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +49-3341-30 99 99 --
Re: Truly stupid menu seting
Joe wrote (on 10 Mar 2002 at 19:59): Here's just one of the things that peeves me, using a typical kde-menu example, but gnome does the same thing: if I want to start kwrite I don't want to be staring at a menu item that says Advanced Editor have to find out for myself that they mean kwrite not emacs. Please, can't menu items just say what they are? I'm hip. Let's file a bug. T. -- -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +49-3341-30 99 99 --
Re: Change from SuSE to Debian
pete atkinson wrote (on 11 Mar 2002 at 19:36): Are there any hints/tips/watch-out-fors that you could offer, principally, I am a bit confused over the non-RPMness of packages and the lack of the config suites such as YAST/YAST2 that SusE employs. Hi Pete! Make project lists. Pull out a couple sheets of scratch paper and start a page for Mail, one for httpd, one for Printing, one for Application X that's supposed to run on this box, etc. Then you can break down each page into a few interlocking programs or packages. Then stick to one page until you've got it licked--or until it degenerates into a minor to-do list. SuSE and YAST try to make a monolith out of something that is by nature modular. Your phrase Non-RPM-ness of packages mystifies me. BTW up until today I was reading [suse-linux] (I'd started on account of a system I got stuck with), and it was very entertaining to see a few people there who know something of the world explaining to the others about really dependable dependencies, apt-get, and something like Debian's bug tracker. Welcome! T. -- -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +49-3341-30 99 99 --
Re: exim, courier mit authmysql
Karel W. Dingeldey wrote (on 3 Mar 2002 at 17:26): Ich verwende Potato und würde meine exim/courier Kombination die Benutzer gerne über MySQL authentifizieren lassen. Kann mir jemand sagen welche DBs und Tabels ich dazu in MySQL erstellen muß und welche Einstellungen in der exim.conf und der Schau dir erstmal das cookbook auf www.exim.org an. T. -- -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +49-3341-30 99 99 -- -- Zum AUSTRAGEN schicken Sie eine Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] mit dem Subject unsubscribe. Probleme? Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] (engl)
Re: Root symlink to /boot/vmlinuz
Craig Dickson wrote (on 1 Mar 2002 at 20:29): of 2.4.18-ac2. This means I have to go change the /vmlinuz symlink every time I install a new kernel, and I'm wondering if I can safely just delete the link and never bother with it again. Yes, you can. Just make sure lilo.conf or whatever boot loader you're using can find the kernel without it. T. -- -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +49-3341-30 99 99 --
Re: When will woody be out?
louie miranda wrote (on 28 Feb 2002 at 22:27): Hi, when will Woody be out? Use it now, while it's still in ... Sorry. But seriously, it's running very well for lots of people already. T. -- -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +49-3341-30 99 99 --
Re: LAN to Internet gateway problem
Stephan Hachinger wrote (on 25 Feb 2002 at 17:36): machine I want to configure as router is 192.168.90.95 (stephan). Stephan has a second network card inside (192.168.37.95) and connects to the internet over this card and dsl (pppoE). Now, this is what I've tried: -Modifying the route table on pentiumdioxid (see attached route output)-Installing dnrd, a dns forwarder, on stephan (dns resulution seems to work without problems now)-setting ip_forward to yes in /etc/network/options on stephan I've also attached hosts.allow and hosts.deny. Been up for over four hours and no answers yet? Well then: I don't see anything in the above about any NAT, which you need if those private-IP hosts are going to talk to the Internet. You didn't say what kernel version you're running, so read the documentation on either ipchains or iptables--or go straight to the IP-masquerading Howto. The problem is, when I try to ping www.debian.org from pentiumdioxid, pentiumdioxid gets the ip adress of debian.org (198.186.203.20) but it doesn't get any packages back. Well, you have a name server on your gateway machine, so that's where you're getting the IP address from. The internal computer apparently made no contact with the Internet at all. P.S.: Into which file can I put the routing table modifications so that the modified routing table is automatically loadad at startup? If there's an /etc/init.d/ppp*, that might be an appropriate place. If not, there's always /etc/init.d/networking, or copy that to a new name, edit it a lot, and read man update-rc.d about the order of execution of the init scripts and see how to set your routes after the interfaces are up. T. -- -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +49-3341-30 99 99 --
Re: Archiv für Potato und Kernel 2.4.x?
Jörn Franke wrote (on 22 Feb 2002 at 23:01): Hallo zusammen, weis jemand was mit o.g. Archiv von Adrian Bunk passiert ist (people.debian.org/~bunk/debian potato)? Oder gibt es dafür einen Ersatz? Ja, und google kennt's inzwischen. # Adrian Bunk's packages for kernel 2.4 on potato deb http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/debian potato main deb-src http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/debian potato main -- -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +49-3341-30 99 99 -- -- Zum AUSTRAGEN schicken Sie eine Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] mit dem Subject unsubscribe. Probleme? Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] (engl)
Slow iptables impatient anacron
Hi Gang! I have a script in /etc/cron.daily that runs iptables -L -v -x -Z|other|stuff|mail root -s netfilter report The first command takes so long to put out its output that cron (actually anacron I guess) seems to time out and mails me the report: /etc/cron.daily/stuff: Null message body; hope that's ok iptables: Resource temporarily unavailable Running iptables -L by hand, I see that it's very slow. It takes a minute or two to read out the FORWARD chain in particular. Even without the -v argument! The questions: -- Is that normal behavior for iptables? Or is there something I can do to speed it up? -- Is there an easy way to make cron (or anacron) wait five minutes for the output before giving up? -- Is there anything to be gained by removing anacron and using only cron? The system runs 24/7. This is a potato/bunk system, kernel 2.4.9, with the netfilter stuff compiled as modules. Anticipatory gratitudes, Tony -- -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +49-3341-30 99 99 --
Re: adduser 77777 problem
louie miranda wrote (on 20 Feb 2002 at 4:56): try useradd Did you? T. -- -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +49-3341-30 99 99 --
Re: Slow iptables impatient cron (was Slow iptables impatient anacron)
Tony Crawford wrote (on 20 Feb 2002 at 9:13): The questions: [...] -- Is there anything to be gained by removing anacron and using only cron? That one I have now answered myself: No, no help. Meanwhile here's the pstree: init-+-apcupsd---apcupsd |-atd |-cron---cron-+-sendmail | `-sh---run-parts---stuff---iptables |-exim . . . Everybody's waiting around for iptables to exit. T. -- -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +49-3341-30 99 99 --
Re: Slow iptables impatient anacron
Karl E. Jorgensen wrote (on 20 Feb 2002 at 9:57): On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 09:13:47AM +0100, Tony Crawford wrote: Hi Gang! [...] Running iptables -L by hand, I see that it's very slow. It takes a minute or two to read out the FORWARD chain in particular. Even without the -v argument! [...] What about trying with the -n option? DNS lookups *will* slow things down a bit. Ach du--! slapping forehead Never mind! T. -- -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +49-3341-30 99 99 --
Re: Slow iptables impatient cron solved
I wrote (on 20 Feb 2002 at 13:08): Karl E. Jorgensen wrote (on 20 Feb 2002 at 9:57): On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 09:13:47AM +0100, Tony Crawford wrote: Hi Gang! [...] Running iptables -L by hand, I see that it's very slow. It takes a minute or two to read out the FORWARD chain in particular. Even without the -v argument! [...] What about trying with the -n option? DNS lookups *will* slow things down a bit. Ach du--! slapping forehead On the other hand, I do like having the names rather than numbers in that output. And normally, lookups shouldn't take *that* long. By experimenting, I found out that the long lookup occurred when my iptables rules used a netmask that does not correspond to a known subnet, namely 192.168.2.0/28 when the local network is 192.168.2.0/24. iptables was apparently waiting for a resolver timeout before printing localnet/28. So for now I'm replacing that with separate rules for each host in that block of 16. Apparently there's no problem putting names on single addresses, just on blocks of them. Not exactly the way it spozed to be, but quicker than setting up aliasing and splitting the network into real subnets. Meanwhile, while we're on the subject, is there a way I can make cron (or run-parts or whoever) wait longer for the output before timing out? Or maybe detach the process? Or is that a bad idea? T. -- -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +49-3341-30 99 99 --
Re: Slow iptables impatient cron solved
Alan James wrote (on 20 Feb 2002 at 15:53): On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 03:16:15PM +0100, Tony Crawford wrote: By experimenting, I found out that the long lookup occurred when my iptables rules used a netmask that does not correspond to a known subnet, namely 192.168.2.0/28 when the local network is 192.168.2.0/24. iptables was apparently waiting for a resolver timeout before printing localnet/28. you can use /etc/networks to fill in these names. I already tried that, with no apparent success, but I'll try it some more--that's the kind of nice painless solution I'd like best. I sure don't want to install BIND here. see man networks for the syntax, its pretty much the same as the hosts file. I get Undocumented for that. (This is a potato/2.4.9 à la Bunk- -is that man page in Woody maybe?) Thanks for the tips! Tony -- -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +49-3341-30 99 99 --
Re: Config file gehört zu welchem Paket?
Andreas Schockenhoff wrote (on 20 Feb 2002 at 22:30): doch: dpkg -S /etc/inetd.conf dpkg: /etc/inetd.conf not found. pumpkin:/pub/software/Linux# dpkg -S inetd.conf debmake: /usr/share/debmake/debian/inetd.conf.ex netbase: /usr/share/man/man5/inetd.conf.5.gz und was ist an diesen Dateien anders als z.B. dpkg -S /etc/wgetrc wget: /etc/wgetrc Without looking, lemme guess: maybe they're tarred from one location and installed to another (after some install-time modification) by a post-install script? T. -- -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +49-3341-30 99 99 --
Re: exim frozen msgs resenden
Ulrich Wiederhold wrote (on 18 Feb 2002 at 11:35): Hi, aufgrund eines Fehlers (siehe andere Mail) konnten einige Mails von mir nicht mehr versendet werde. Wie kann ich dies nun forcieren? Wenn ich exim -q verwende, bekomme ich in der Logdatei nur die Meldung: 2002-02-18 11:32:48 16cjWN-0002Qt-00 Message is frozen Thaw messages with exim -Mt Msg-No. T. -- -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +49-3341-30 99 99 --
Re: pppoe, pppd and dsl problem on Woody
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (on 18 Feb 2002 at 10:47): auto eth0 iface eth0 inet ppp provider dsl-provider Any ideas? Yeah. Did this last week--sorry, the computer is in Berlin so at the moment I only have my memory to consult. But I believe the deal was, don't put ppp and provider in your /etc/interfaces. Just set up eth0 like a normal LAN interface. Then pppoe will automagically put another interface, ppp0, on top of it (on account of its command line argument) and that one will be ppp. T. -- -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +49-3341-30 99 99 --
Re: OT: Suggestion for next Debian release
Tom Cook wrote (on 18 Feb 2002 at 10:41): [You should be more optimistic.] There is no interest here in ridiculing anyone, even less someone who formulates his criticisms and suggestions constructively. Here endeth the lesson. ;-) How much is less than no interest? SCNR (BTW I'd guess that would was an attempt at a past tense of will in the obsolete sense of want to: ...someone who was trying to formulate...) T. -- -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +49-3341-30 99 99 --
Re: ISDN diald: router setup tale of woe
Richard Gaywood wrote (on 16 Feb 2002 at 18:05): Hi. I'm having massive grief configuring a standalone ISDN router and I could desperately use some pointers. Are you using pppd or ipppd? What version? Have you read in the man page about the demand and persist options? T. -- -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +49-3341-30 99 99 --
Re: ISDN diald: router setup tale of woe
Richard Gaywood wrote (on 16 Feb 2002 at 18:37): On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 07:21:34PM +0100, Tony Crawford wrote: Richard Gaywood wrote (on 16 Feb 2002 at 18:05): Hi. I'm having massive grief configuring a standalone ISDN router and I could desperately use some pointers. Are you using pppd or ipppd? ipppd. Is this a bad idea? Not at all. But it makes a difference in the names of the options concerned ... What version? Default potato -- i2.2 patchlevel 10anubis. Although man ipppd reports 2.2.9, oddly. Not so odd, and fairly up to date. Individual package version numbers are independent from the distribution release number. Have you read in the man page about the demand and persist options? man ipppd reports persist as obsolete in ipppd; it'd get me into trouble with my ISP anyway, although I can see what you're saying. It doesn't mention a demand option at all. Yes, sorry, demand is a pppd option. What you want for ipppd is dialmode=auto in /etc/isdn/device/ippp0. (Do you have lots of nice explanatory comments in that file?) That should make the ISDN line dial whenever packets are sent to the interface ippp0. In order for packets to get sent there, you usually want to set a default route--your handy-dandy config scripts may have done this for you; verify using route -n. Also, the isdnutils package sets up scripts in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ and ...ip-down.d. You can amend these scripts to activate firewall rules whenever you ISDN line is up, or to correct the routing. (There was a time when the default route had to be restored in ip- down after every hangup.) These scripts are also full of helpful comments. Tony -- -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +49-3341-30 99 99 --
Immortal process after loopback mount
Hi Gang! A couple of weeks ago I mounted an iso9660 image as a loopback device. The CD image seemed to be in good order, but umount failed, and ever since then ps aux has shown: root 6747 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW Jan24 0:00 [loop0] and it doesn't respond to kill -9. Meanwhile rmmod loop returns: loop: Device or resource busy Any advice? Tony -- -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +49-3341-30 99 99 --
Re: Immortal process after loopback mount
Tony Crawford wrote (on 12 Feb 2002 at 15:57): A couple of weeks ago I mounted an iso9660 image as a loopback device. The CD image seemed to be in good order, but umount failed, and ever since then ps aux has shown: root 6747 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW Jan24 0:00 [loop0] and it doesn't respond to kill -9. Meanwhile rmmod loop returns: loop: Device or resource busy Dazu sollte ich bestimmt erwähnen: Kernel 2.4.9 à la Bunk on a Potato system. Any advice? Tony -- -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +49-3341-30 99 99 --
Re: First boot hangs on PCMCIA services after install
Robert Kausch wrote (on 12 Feb 2002 at 13:44): Starting PCMCIA services: modules and the cursor sits behind modules, and nothing changes. I've left it for up to 10 minutes, but to no avail. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I remember that from hamm and potato installations on my Toshiba. I had to boot the installation disk, dig into /target/etc/... and disable the PCMCIA, then reboot to finish the installation and compile a custom kernel with the latest PCMCIA patches. Took about a day each time, esp. since I didn't take notes and keep archives. After a HD upgrade, I installed Woody recently from the rescue floppy images + FTP, and the whole PCMCIA bit came up automagically. You might want to consider trying that. Tony -- -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +49-3341-30 99 99 --
Re: Wanda swam across my desktop ??
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (on 30 Jan 2002 at 13:44): On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 11:01:27AM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: ... gnome code bloat ... Like the man said, you have the source, go and fix it. Or not use it :) How about an option in the .deb installation script saying something like Would you like Gnome to provide a humorous surprise on your desktop now and then? [y]/n (BTW I once found an Easter egg I wasn't looking for. It was in the back of my closet, and I found it in July--bweagh!) T. -- -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +49-3341-30 99 99 --
Adrian Bunk's 2.4/spud packages anywhere?
Oh s**t! I just noticed that apt-get is pulling 404s on people.debian.org/~bunk/. I see Adrian has pulled out of Debian and his famous 2.4-kernel-on-potato packages are no longer available--or does someone know of a mirror? This hits me at a bad time, as I want to replicate my home LAN router installation for a friend on Tuesday... T. -- -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +49-3341-30 99 99 --
Re: fetchmail exim on a ppp dialup
Paul E Condon wrote (on 15 Dec 2001 at 20:49): I have a newly installed Potato host. I have installed and configured fetchmail and exim as best I understand. Email is not coming through to the mail file /var/mail/pecondon as I think it should. What can I do to debug? exim -bt address exim -d9 -bt address What information is needed by people who might give me advice? -- -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +49-3341-30 99 99 --
Re: exim on a dialup
Mario Vukelic wrote (on 13 Dec 2001 at 8:25): The ugly thing with the rewriting is that the above rule in the eximconfig-generated conf file rewrites always, regardless of destination, i.e., also for local mail that stays on your machine or network (Which means that replys to local mail want to go over the ISP account, which is often not what's wanted). If your /etc/aliases contains the reverse table of your /etc/email-addresses, the local replies will stay local. If that doesn't turn out to be true for you, hit me up for config details: it works for me. T. -- -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +49-3341-30 99 99 --
Re: funny ps output
Stephen Gran wrote (on 26 Oct 2001 at 15:23):
Thus spake Jonathan B. Leffert:
I'm seeing the following errors when I invoke 'ps':
{netlink_unicast} {netlink_unicast_R__ver_netlink_unicast}
Warning: /boot/System.map-2.4.13 does not match kernel data.
{netlink_unicast} {netlink_unicast_R__ver_netlink_unicast}
Warning: /usr/src/linux/System.map does not match kernel
data.
PID TTY TIME CMD
1421 pts/200:00:00 zsh
1439 pts/200:00:00 ps
I've done some research into this and the common answer is
that my
System.map is out of date. It's not. I've checked and
rechecked it. This
has never happenened until I went from 2.4.10 to 2.4.11.
Now, with every
kernel version it happens.
I'm running unstable on i386.
I get the same thing, running potato on i386 with 2.4.9, which I
built and installed using make-kpkg! I've been living with the
warning for a while, but of course I'd like to make it go away.
T.
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Re: a close call
will trillich wrote (on 11 Oct 2001 at 8:25): telinit 1 took me to runlevel 1, and then ^D continued on to runlevel 2. Gladly, ndc/named/bind/dns/whateverthenomdejouris is working again... And i didn't have to mess with my uptime. Whew! 8:24am up 391 days, 9:20, 2 users, load average: 0.03, 0.07, 0.01 So your system was up all through that, eh ;-)? Well, you missed a prime opportunity to test whether your disk motors can still do the old zero-to-sixty. T. (going down in a couple hours to change a NIC): -- -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +49-3341-30 99 99 --
Re: MS Windows users secretly dominating debian-user!
oivvio polite wrote (on 19 Sep 2001 at 11:27):
Well not exactly dominating. Maybe not secretly either. But it
sounded
good. This oneliner from the department of utterly useless info
tells
it all:
agrep ^User-Agent: ,^X-Mailer: user|perl -ne 'chomp;/.+?:
(.?.?.?[^\d,\(,\[,\/]{1,14}).*/; $o=$1; $o=~s/ //g;print
$o\n;'|sort|uniq -dc|sort -rn
Funny, I'm not in the list, but I can't see where that pipeline
leaves out those of us with Debian in the first Received
stamp.
T.
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eth0 is S-L-O-W--outgoing, that is
How do I start diagnosing this? Incoming data from the LAN is as fast as it should be, but outgoing, whether Samba file transfer or POP3, looks like about 1/3 of one Mbit/s. In addition, there seem to be pauses of several seconds in larger transfers. Files or mail attachments that go over one MB often time out during these pauses. Debian 2.2, kernel 2.4.9 (A. Bunk's packages), acting as POP3 server, Samba print server, and NAT gateway. The card is a D-Link DFE-530TX; takes the via-rhine driver. the diagnostics program from Donald Becker's site shows it's linked to the switch at a steady 100BASE-Tx. Disk access, as far as hdparm -tT goes, seems normal for ATA-33. (This is an Asus SP97-V board w SiS chipset, P233MMX CPU.) During a long, slow file transfer, top doesn't show any excessive CPU use--no process over 0.3%. The iptables configuration is minimal: just the one NAT rule, and incoming filters when the PPP link is up. Other configuration info available of course. I'm clueless what to do. Try other NICs on speculation? Downgrade the kernel version? How can I figure out where the problem is? TIA, Tony -- -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +49-3341-30 99 99 --
OT(?) Where has www.scyld.com gone?
And/or where is Donald Becker's NIC driver work now? Tony -- -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +49-3341-30 99 99 --
Re: APCUPSD doesn't shutdown machine
Dean A. Roman wrote (on 14 Sep 2001 at 0:34): Maybe somebody can send there working config files so that I can try them. I'm running an APC Smart-UPS 700. I'm running the same one, and I tested the shutdown recently. (I had to rebuild the system after a disk controller failure.) I'll be glad to share my config--just say GO--but I have to say I'm not using the new script system from the current Debian package! T. -- -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +49-3341-30 99 99 --
Re: exim
Timeboy wrote (on 12 Sep 2001 at 14:10): Do i become stupid? Or isn't exim an MTA? Sorry that i don't understand this question. But isn't only a mail that thing, that exim can deliver? I only can answere: There is a mail to deliver. Maybe you're looking for the -bm option. Look for it in the exim manual. (Read also about -t to go with that.) But your script might be safer, and will in any case be more portable, if you pipe the message to mail. T. -- -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +49-3341-30 99 99 --
Re: Why doesn't 2.2r3 CD boot on Toshiba 4080 XCDT ...
Rino Mardo wrote (on 8 Sep 2001 at 7:59): curious indeed. i remember having the same problem with hamm and a toshiba notebook of the satellite series, but much older than your notebook, and if i recall correctly there is a special boot diskette image that you have to download and use to boot instead of from the cd. You mean the tecra boot floppy? I remember that too. I had to use them to get hamm installed on a completely non-Toshiba system once. But that was because the normal boot floppy kernel hung, wasn't it? Anyway, the situation I have now looks odd to me. I tell the BIOS to boot CD, HDD in that order. If I put the 2.2r0 CD in the drive, it boots. If I put the 2.2r3 CD in the drive, it's ignored (or tried and found wanting I guess) and the system boots from the hard disk. And I have two other computers here that boot fine from the 2.2r3 CD. Still curious, Tony -- -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +49-3341-30 99 99 --
How to diagnose slow Samba server?
Hi Gang! We have mostly Windows boxes here on the LAN--20 computers in all--but also two Linuces running Samba. The one I was thinking of using as a file server for a workgroup here, though, has proved to be strangely slower than the other when sending files to a Windows box. Both are Pentium 233s, but the other can serve 10 MB in a couple of seconds, whereas this one takes a couple of *minutes*. In the other direction--copying a file to a Samba share on this server--the speed looks about 3.5 MB per second, which I wouldn't have thought to complain about. I've checked the disk read time with hdparm -Tt, and I get 17 MB/sec from cache, 7 MB/sec from disk. I'm not sure where to look next. I suspect the network software, but how can I tell? Any cracks out there who can give me a checklist? Here's the system at a glance: ASUS SP97-V board, that's a SiS 5598 chip (incl. 5513 IDE controller, does UDMA/33); P233MMX CPU, 96 MB RAM; eth0 is a D- Link DFE-530TX 100Mbit card, takes the via-rhine driver (connected to an ATI 10/100 switch--the 100M LED is steady on the NIC and on the switchport). The OS is potato with kernel 2.4.9 thanks to the packages on Adrian Bunk's page. Oh, Samba is version 2.0.7-3. Tony -- -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +49-3341-30 99 99 --
Why doesn't 2.2r3 CD boot on Toshiba 4080 XCDT ...
... although the 2.2r*0* CD does? At first I thought I had a coaster, but it boots fine on other machines. FWIW the Progeny 1.0 CD I got off a magazine cover won't boot on the Toshiba either. Very curious (and holding on to those 2.2r0s), Tony -- -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +49-3341-30 99 99 --
Re: HELO command in exim
Pedro Zorzenon Neto wrote (on 4 Jul 2001, at 9:45): How can I tell exim to send my full domain in the HELO instead of my hostname? From the exim info, under Main Configuration: primary_hostname *option* - Option: primary_hostname Type: string Default: see below This specifies the name of the current host. This is used in the HELO command for outgoing SMTP messages, and as the default for `qualify_domain'. If it is not set, Exim calls `uname()' to find it. If this fails, Exim panics and dies. If the name returned by `uname()' contains only one component, Exim passes it to `gethostbyname()' in order to obtain the fully qualified version. T. -- -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +49-3341-30 99 99 --
Re: where to do iptables setup?
[Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 10:08:37PM -0500] will : apt-get install ipmasq unless i've missed something? Well, the ipmasq package is overkill unless you have servers behind your firewall. Or maybe ICQ, NetMeeting etc. To Vineet: I load some basic rules, including a MASQ rule, the way you do, in /etc/init.d/my_ip_filters, then supplement them with interface-specific rules in /etc/ppp/ip- up.d/00more_ip_filters (and clean up in /etc/ppp/ip- down.d/ZZmore_ip_filters). T. -- -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +49-3341-30 99 99 --
Re: ipppd problems
MaD dUCK wrote (on 25 Jun 2001, at 0:00): I am experiencing a problem, which may be IRQ-caused, but it's weird and I don't think that IRQs are the cause. I don't think so either. You shouldn't get anywhere near that far with an IRQ problem. However, whenever I initiate a TCP connection, the ISDN link goes down. the logs report the following: Jun 25 00:51:42 embryo ipppd[3516]: IPCP terminated by peer Jun 25 00:51:43 embryo ipppd[3516]: LCP terminated by peer Jun 25 00:51:45 embryo ipppd[3516]: Connection terminated. With a 2.4 kernel (er--how bad do you need iptables?), try the AVM CAPI driver with the plug-in for pppd instead of ipppd. Or if you really don't want to, try a different isdn4linux version-- I think the latest are on ftp.suse.com. My guess is, you're probably having a weird problem between kernel modules. I'm running an AVM A1 on 2.2.17 with ipppd and a B1 on 2.4.3 with CAPI and pppd. I can't really help much with your combination. any help or pointers appreciated. Well, there's the i4l newsgroup, de.alt.comm.isdn4linux, and an AVM-B1 mailing list which is on-topic only if you go the CAPI route. T. -- -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +49-3341-30 99 99 --
Re: Setting the time with Samba
Andrew Pollock wrote (on 27 May 2001, at 17:17): Sorry if my problem was not clear... The Windoze box is reporting a totally different time to what's on the Linux box when I use the net time command. (a) 'net time \\server' doesn't *set* the time. That's why Mike pointed out the /set /yes arguments. (b) make sure both computers have meaningful timezone settings! T. -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +49-3341-30 99 99
Re: HELP!!! Installing Debian
Jan Enning wrote (on 20 May 2001, at 21:17): I am new to Debian Linux. After downloading files from BASE-i386 and DISK-i386 directory, i've tried to install debian. I typed INSTALL and the install.bat file run. After loading some modules, I am stuck to the the following message: Kernel Panic : VFS : Unable to mount root on FS on 01:00 What have I missed? Please help! Similar experience yesterday trying to repair the installation on my Toshiba. (I needed to neutralize /etc/init.d/pcmcia in order to boot after stupidly apt-get-upgrading to a wrong package.) Anyway, I recently upgraded my iso images from 2.2 r0 to r3, and now the gear in the install directory on CD 1 only got me as far as the same message you noted. Fortunately I still had the 2.2 r0 CDs with me, and they worked! Has something been broken? Is anyone interested in more detail? T. -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +49-3341-30 99 99
Samba: Nameless printer in Net Hood
Hi Gang! I'm stumped. Samba 2.0.8 on Debian 2.2 (kernel 2.2.17) shows an extra printer in the Network Neighborhood on the Windows clients, with an non-printing character as the name, which shows up as a single little rectangle character in Windows. I suspect it's a tab, because opening it in Windows gets me the prompt to install a printer driver for '\\RUTABAGA\ '. I've searched /etc/printcap and /etc/samba/smb.conf (see below) for where this comes from ... Oh yeah, and this printer entry also appears in Swat with an asterisk, which allegedly means it is defined in printcap and so can't be deleted in Swat. I've tried cutting all blank lines out of printcap, to no avail. Spooler is LPRng 3.6.12, in case that makes any difference. Both of the real printers--one local, one remote--work fine via Samba. Any clues? Any links to *searchable* Samba mailing list archives? Tony Printcap: = HPLaserJet6L|raw|HPLJ6L :lp=/dev/lp0 :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp :af=/var/log/print-acct :lf=/var/log/print-errs :fx=flp kyocera|fs1000 :lp= :rm=10.0.0.51 :rp=L1 :sd=/var/spool/lpd/kyocera :mx#0 :sh === smb.conf: === [global] workgroup = OURGANG netbios name = RUTABAGA server string = %h (Samba %v on Debian 2.2) interfaces = eth0 127.0.0.1 bind interfaces only = Yes encrypt passwords = Yes passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u passwd chat = *Enter\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n . debug level = 5 max log size = 1000 socket options = IPTOS_LOWDELAY TCP_NODELAY SO_SNDBUF=4096 SO_RCVBUF=4096 printer driver file = /usr/printers/printers.def os level = 33 dns proxy = No wins support = Yes invalid users = root hosts allow = 10.0.0. load printers = yes [homes] comment = Home Directory writeable = Yes create mask = 0700 directory mask = 0700 browseable = No [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/spool/print create mask = 0700 guest ok = Yes printable = Yes print command = lpr -b -r -P%p %s [PRINTER$] path = /usr/printers guest ok = Yes browseable = No [kyocera] comment = Kyocera FS-1000 path = /tmp guest ok = Yes printable = Yes printer = kyocera printer driver = Kyocera FS-1000 printer driver location = \\%L\PRINTER$ = -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +49-3341-30 99 99
Spontaneous reboot! HW diagnostics?
Hi Gang! After over 100 days of error-free service, my Debian 2.2/i486 dial-up-router-cum-print-server did a spontaneous reboot yesterday. (Aftermath: the CMOS clock had jumped ahead an hour and a half, the nmbd log contained non-printing characters at that point, and 1 e-mail in the exim spool was corrupt.) Before this happens again, maybe somebody can recommend ways to test for decaying silicon? Preferably in-service; if that's not possible then at least without booting a different OS? T. -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +49-3341-30 99 99
Re: Spontaneous reboot! HW diagnostics?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (on 4 May 2001, at 10:02): memtest86 (available from http://reality.sgi.com/cbrady_denver/memtest86/) will give your memory at least a good workout. The Readme and freshmeat testimonials look great. Thanks! I'll be running that this weekend. It needs to be run directly from boot off of floppy in real mode of processor). Also boots from LILO now apparently! T. -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +49-3341-30 99 99
Re: 3c509 and 2.2r2 installation
Harry Newton wrote (on 24 Apr 2001, at 23:15): I'm having a little trouble doing an NFS install on a machine with a 3com 3c509 card ( 3 ports ) for Debian 2.2r2. Stupid 3c509s. I just got one working after lots of headaches. In the end, I enabled Plug-n-Pray in the 3com EEPROM setup (but not in the computer's BIOS), then nailed all the other cards to fixed IRQs in the BIOS PCI/PnP settings, leaving 9, 10, 12 and 15 free. The 3c509 came up on IRQ 10 and that was the end of hours of struggle. Kernel 2.4.2. -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +49-3341-30 99 99
Re: ISDN packages broken?
Willi Dyck wrote (on 21 Apr 2001, at 19:45): when I do /etc/init.d/isdnutils restart (after configuring everything properly(?)) on my Debian 2.2r2 System with Kernel 2.4 packages (from the Bunk kernel 2.4 distro), I get the following error messages: Restarting isdn services :/dev/isdnctrl: No such device Sorry - this system lacks PPP kernel support Check wether you configured at least the ippp0 device! Am I doing something wrong or is ISDN support in Debian 2.2r2 buggy? Have got the same issue. Not quite sure but I have heard that it is a bug with the 2.4.x kernels which is not fixed yet. Can someone give more precise information on this? TIA Sorry if you're an old hand and I'm way off base with this question, but you're sure you checked the PPP option *in the ISDN section* of the kernel configuration? That's CONFIG_ISDN_PPP and friends in the .config file as opposed to CONFIG_PPP. T. -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +49-3341-30 99 99
Re: ISDN packages broken?
Willi Dyck wrote (on 22 Apr 2001, at 13:37): CONFIG_ISDN_PPP and friends in the .config file as opposed to=20 CONFIG_PPP. Yes of course! OK, sorry. Well, at the time I upgraded to kernel 2.4.2, I used the packages from Adrian Bunk's 2.4.x-on-potato page, which said the ISDNutils were not ready. So I kept the ones I had, and they worked OK--at least, ipppd did. Sorry, that computer's not here so I can't give you exact version info. But you can always check for fresh isdn software at ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/isdn4linux/ What kind of ISDN card is it BTW? T. -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +49-3341-30 99 99
Re: how to set correct time?
Ross Boylan wrote (on 20 Apr 2001, at 10:58): I installed ntpdate and can get the time when I query, but any time I try to set the time I get the error 20 Apr 10:45:07 ntpdate[13883]: no server suitable for synchronization found Does anyone have any suggestions how to get this to work? It happened to me when I first set up ntpdate a couple weeks ago. I *guessed* (caveat emptor) that the current system time was too far off for ntpdate to consider any of the received values plausible. So I used the ntpdate argument to just show results, not set the clock, then used date to set the clock more or less to the minute. After that, ntpdate worked (and is now adjusting time upon PPP dial-up but no more than once an hour). T. -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +49-3341-30 99 99
Re: [debian-users] 3Com 3c900 NIC troubles
Randall Hansen wrote (on 19 Apr 2001, at 8:30): Hello folks ~ I'm trying to get my 3Com 3c900B-TPO working under Debian 2.2.18pre21. Here's what I've tried, and what I know, or think I know :P The site to read about the 3com cards is Donald Becker's http://www.scyld.com/network/ I seem to recall when I was first getting to know Debian (2.0) and using 3c509 and 3c900 combo cards, the mailing lists were full of warnings about the 3c900B. Search some archives, there may yet be some answers for you out there. Tony (still wrestling with an intermittently unrecognized 3c509) -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +49-3341-30 99 99
(Fwd) Re: APC ups problems - backupspro
Lindsay Allen wrote (on 18 Apr 2001, at 22:44): The daemon clearly talks to the UPS. It knows the voltages and the times and the events. When the power fails it stops people logging in. But it does not shut down the server. Any event scripts in your configuration directory that might be getting in the way? Correct paths etc. in your apccontrol script? T. -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +49-3341-30 99 99 --- End of forwarded message --- -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +49-3341-30 99 99
Re: any women here?
Lurk lurk ... but I have to toss in this article about the male/female disproportion among the geekly that I stumbled across on slashdot by chance half a year ago. The author has now archived it herself apparently. I think the reflections on socialization and the larval stage of geek development are hard to beat. http://infotrope.net/writing/content/chick2/chick2.html T. (but what do I know) ... lurk lurk melissa ion kibbe wrote (on 18 Apr 2001, at 18:34): Well, they could start by explaining why so few women are interested in IT, and if they see a way to overcome it. And if there is , and it's within our reach/abilities, well what are we waiting for ? unfortunately, i think it comes back to the way we were raised as kids (in the u.s. anyway; i can't speak for other countries). and the way we are raised stems from the stereotypes addressed in this thread. little girls' toys aren't technical. they're not programmable or build-at-home like toys that are marketed toward little boys. where as most little boys grow up with leggos, race car tracks and remote-control cars (the lucky ones :), most girls get life-like baby dolls and other such doll-related things. dolls are great, don't get me wrong. i had my share when i was young. but what i notice is that girls' toys are ready to play with right out of the package. boys' usually involve some building or problem solving, such as model-building. this lays the foundation for an adult life of questioning how things are put together and how they work. this is obvioulsy not true for everyone, especially those girls who built models of the Enterprise when they were kids :). but i think it explains a bit why presence of females is a bit lacking in the technolgy field. melissa. -http://web.morgul.net/~atomic/-- Just about every computer on the market today runs Unix, except the Mac (and nobody cares about it). -- Bill Joy 6/21/85 --- GAT d--@ -p+ c+++() l++ u+ e+(*) m* s n+(---) h- f+ !g w+++ t++(+++) r+ x+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +49-3341-30 99 99
Re: fetchmail segfaults
Henrique M Holschuh wrote (on 4 Apr 2001, at 9:48): Well, it is not a security update, and it has about 90% chance of causing headaches, since the new initscript/ppp-scripts scheme will force the user to do some manual configuration. I don't think it should go in stable. Considering I've already manually messed with my /etc/init.d and /etc/ppp/ip-up.d scripts enough, let me just ask for the specifics before upgrading: certain internal problems with segfaults due to certain mail content are fixed in the version now in woody? Tony -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +49-3341-30 99 99
Re: Cable for home network?
Nate Amsden wrote (on 31 Mar 2001, at 21:28): signal. so if your going 100 feet or even 50 i would for sure use solid core. pvc should be fine for your ... cables or if you make your own be sure to crimp em right, a couple of my friends learned the wrong way and they made me a few cables but they didn't work worth shit if the length was more then 15feet. for me i always buy premade cables as i can't crimp worth shit either. Solid core takes different RJ45 crimps from stranded, and you're likely to get the wrong ones because solid-wire cable almost never gets a plug crimped on it: it gets clipped into a patch panel or a wall jack. If you crimp a normal plug on solid cable, you will have a connection in the beginning, but it won't last. The best thing is to connect your solid-wire cable to a surface- mount wall jack--and do screw that to the wall--then use pre- crimped patch cables. That way your network can stand being plugged and unplugged a few hundred times. If most of your computers are in one room, of course, you'd want to put the switch there and just run patch cables (up to 15') to the NICs. T. -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +49-3341-30 99 99
Re: ?!: 2.4 kernels, modules_install
Adrian Bunk wrote (on 25 Mar 2001, at 23:12): You need new modutils. D'oh! Thanks to all five who answered. As I said, I read the FM, but I guess I must have read it too late at night. Yup, the info was there all along. Sorry! Tony -- La idea de un Dios sabio, todopoderoso y que, además, nos ama, es una de las creaciones más audaces de la literatura fantástica. --Jorge Luis Borges -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +49-3341-30 99 99
?!: 2.4 kernels, modules_install
Hi gang! It seems the behavior of make modules_install has changed radically with linux 2.4. Or is it just me? Contrary to what I've become accustomed to, the 2.4.2 from kernel.org seems to have put all its modules into /lib/modules/2.4.2/kernel/..., in a directory tree that matches that of the source. And it doesn't find them on booting. I could understand this if make modules_install ended with an error, but it didn't. So I tried a .deb of 2.4.0-test11, and same thing. Any ideas? May I add that I read the docs in the source package and browsed the kernel.org list archives, and haven't found anything about intended changes in this regard, so I guess something's broken on my system, which is potato. All the 2.2.17 kernels I built on it worked fine, including some ISDN patches. I'd like to use the ISDN drivers that are in the 2.4s, though, since the back-ports to 2.2 are somewhat backlogged. In anticipatory gratitude for all kinds of astute tips, Tony -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +49-3341-30 99 99
Re: Lion Worm
Glenn Becker wrote (on 23 Mar 2001, at 22:14): OK, I've tried adding this line via dselect *and* direct editing of the source.list file ... and I get '404 file not found's for the security stuff. What could I be doing wrong? ... Not if you hsve put deb http://security.debian.org/ potato/updates main contrib non-free ^ There's a space after .org/ Did you miss it by any chance? T. -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +49-3341-30 99 99
Kernel 2.4.2: weird make modules_install?
Hi gang! Maybe this is not strictly a Debian question, but it's on a Debian system, so: Is there some reason I don't know about why kernel 2.4.2 doesn't make modules_install? The kernel makes and boots; the modules seem to be made too, in their little subdirectories under /usr/src/linux/drivers and what have you, but make modules_install does not behave as accustomed, although it completes without an error. I'm about to start fishing them out by hand and moving them to /lib/modules/2.4.2, where make modules_install has only created subdirectories called kernel and pcmcia, and a symlink to /usr/src/linux/ called build. Tony -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +49-3341-30 99 99
Re: Crash-URL
No crash. Opera 3.62 for Win32 says, Could not open file. T. Shao Zhang wrote (on 24 May 00, at 14:37): try this: hello, please click me!! Regards, Shao. Sven Burgener [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I once saw a link on a page that caused windows to crash immediately when clicked on. It was stated on that very page that this would happen. So then I tried it and it worked! Unfortunately I lost the URL. :*( Anyone know of this? Perhaps it's something like NUL or so which supposedly is a reserved name under windows? TIA! Sven-- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe debian-user- [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- __ __ Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _ Department of Communications / __| |_ __ _ ___ |_ / |_ __ _ _ _ __ _ University of New South Wales \__ \ ' \/ _` / _ \ / /| ' \/ _` | ' \/ _` | Sydney, Australia |___/_||_\__,_\___/ /___|_||_\__,_|_||_\__, | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |___/ __ ___ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe debian-user- [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Phone: +49-3341-30 99 99 -- Fax: +49-3341-30 99 98
Potato install: pcmcia broken?
Boy, I sure do pick loser subject lines! (was: Order of installation - potato/pcmcia.) Second try: Hi gang! What am I doing wrong? I copied linux, install.bat, base2_2.tgz, driver2_2.tgz, loadlin.exe etc. etc. to a DOS partition on my Toshiba 4080 XCDT, then booted from a DOS floppy and ran install.bat. The installation looks great (congratulations, team!) up to reboot the system: the boot hangs in /etc/init.d/pcmcia, right after it echoes modules to the screen. The pcmcia modules all show unresolved symbols. Don't they fit the 2.2.14 kernel that comes with the installation? Is something broken, or is there an operator error here? (I can Alt+Ctrl+F2 out of the dbootstrap routine and disable the init.d/pcmcia script before rebooting, but then what--go to dpkg and install kernel and pcmcia module sources and recompile before finishing the installation? That can't be the intended behavior.) Tony -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Phone: +49-3341-30 99 99 -- Fax: +49-3341-30 99 98
Re: Potato install: pcmcia broken?
Germano Leichsenring wrote (on 7 Apr 00, at 16:52): Hi, did you try this? update-modules ; depmod -a ; /etc/init.d/pcmcia start I did the depmod and start--didn't know about update-modules (why update them? they're brand new) but I'll try it, thanks! Tony -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Phone: +49-3341-30 99 99 -- Fax: +49-3341-30 99 98
Order of installation - potato/pcmcia
Hi gang! What am I doing wrong? I copied linux, install.bat, base2_2.tgz, driver2_2.tgz, loadlin.exe etc. etc. to a DOS partition on my Toshiba 4080 XCDT, then booted from a DOS floppy and ran install.bat. The installation looks great (congratulations, team!) up to reboot the system: the boot hangs in /etc/init.d/pcmcia, right after it echoes modules to the screen. The pcmcia modules all show unresolved symbols. Don't they fit the 2.2.14 kernel that comes with the installation? Is something broken, or is there an operator error here? (I can Alt+Ctrl+F2 out of the dbootstrap routine and disable the init.d/pcmcia script before rebooting, but then what--go to dpkg and install kernel and pcmcia module sources and recompile before finishing the installation? That can't be the intended behavior.) Tony -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Phone: +49-3341-30 99 99 -- Fax: +49-3341-30 99 98
Re: Wordperfect for Linux
Sandy Shapiro wrote (on 6 Apr 00, at 9:31): I have Debian 2.1 (Slink). I downloaded Wordperfect 8 for Linux (guilg00.gz). During the install I get numerous error messages. It seems to be looking for subdirectories that don't exist on my system, and the program won't run. Will Wordperfect only work on the Corel Linux, or is there a way to get it to work on Debian? It will run (though I still haven't got anything to go through the Word import filter yet). I had it running on mostly-hamm-with-XFree86- v3.3.5, kernel 2.0.34. You need to watch the error messages and feed it some old libraries from the oldlibs and maybe X11 sections of the Debian installation--search the archives of this list or just ask Corel if you can wait a few days for the answer. T. -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Phone: +49-3341-30 99 99 -- Fax: +49-3341-30 99 98
Re: Corel WP: missing libXpm.so.4
Vitux wrote (on 28 Mar 00, at 18:20): ./xwp: can't load library 'libXpm.so.4' Any ideas? Yeah, been there. You just need to install the corresponding library from either the X or the oldlibs section, I forget which, of your Debian release. Try maybe dselect, [S]elect, slash to search, libXpm. -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Phone: +49-3341-30 99 99 -- Fax: +49-3341-30 99 98
Re: x windows only allows root??
john smith wrote (on 26 Mar 00, at 23:27): hello, I am no longer able to log in x-windows (via xdm) on non-root account.. x windows only allows root to log on. when trying to log on using non-root account the screen flickers for a moment then returns back to the xdm login prompt. has this something to do with permissions or something? I had this symptom recently. Somehow my /dev/null permissions had got changed so that xrdb couldn't read from it except as root. chmod 666 /dev/null fixed it. Tony -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Phone: +49-3341-30 99 99 -- Fax: +49-3341-30 99 98
Who knows German?
Please excuse me for abusing the list to try to recruit some volunteers ... LinuxTag e.V is the non-profit association that organizes Europe's largest GNU/Linux and free software convention (this year: June 29 - July 2 in Stuttgart--see http://www.linuxtag.org/ ). The group could use a hand in translating web content, press materials and occasional correspondence from German into English. Anyone interested in contributing their skills? Tony -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Phone: +49-3341-30 99 99 -- Fax: +49-3341-30 99 98
Re: libXpm.so.4.11
Jose Alberto Lobo wrote (on 22 Mar 00, at 15:04): I straightaway copied libXpm.so.4.11 to my /usr/X11R6/lib directory, and ran ldconfig. My citrix program now runs normally but, alas!, after I logout xdm does not let me back in anymore. I can only log in as root, or else, use the character console... I had the same symptom after Corel WP 8 and then some old libs that it required. After a long search, the problem turned out to be the permissions of /dev/null: the read bits had been disabled and needed to be turned back on. T. -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Phone: +49-3341-30 99 99 -- Fax: +49-3341-30 99 98
xdm problem: xrdb hangs, except for root
(Trying again with xdm in the Subject. If this doesn't attract any ideas, I guess I'll have to trash major parts of the installation and try again or use something else.) Hi gang! Can anybody help me with this conundrum? I have a hamm installation with a 2.0... kernel on a Toshiba 4080 XCDT, and I installed XFree86 version 3.3.5 to get the vid driver for it. Symptom is, xdm pulls up a graphcial login prompt which works fine if I log in as root. If I log in as a normal user, I get no window manager, no xterm, no nuthin--just a mouse pointer that moves. (BTW the last thing I was doing before I started spending all my time on this problem was trying to install Corel WP8, which was demanding certain old libraries or symlinks to such. Maybe that's what caused the trouble? Anyway:) With some help from the nice people on the debian-user-de list, I ran ps aux on another virtual console, and figured out this much: xrdb, called by a 'for' loop in the global Xsession script, runs once for each file in /etc/X11/Xresources. There are three of those: xbase-clients, xfree86-common und xterm. After a normal user logs in, xrdb hangs each time (pulls 99% CPU use, says xtop--what's it doing?). When I kill it, the Xsession script resumes control and runs xrdb again. After the third and last xrdb call is killed, an Xsession seems to start --I see my xterm and xclock nice root background color, same as a root login gets--but then after ~3/4 of a second the whole X server crashes. Whereupon xdm restarts it and the Login prompt is back. I read 'man xrdb', but found no clues. I've checked all the permissions I can think of, and as far as I can see the users should be able to read and run anything root can, as far as X11 is concerned. Grateful for any hints, T. -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Phone: +49-3341-30 99 99 -- Fax: +49-3341-30 99 98 La idea de un Dios sabio, todopoderoso y que, además, nos ama, es una de las creaciones más audaces de la literatura fantástica. -- Jorge Luis Borges
xrdb hangs--except for root
Hi gang! Can anybody help me with this conundrum? I have a hamm installation on a Toshiba 4080 XCDT, and I installed XFree86 3.3.5 to get the vid driver for it. (BTW the last thing I was doing before I started spending all my time on this problem was trying to install Corel WP8, which was demanding certain old libs or symlinks to such. Maybe that's what cause the trouble? Anyway:) Symptom is, xdm pulls up a graphcial login prompt which works fine if I log in as root. If I log in as a normal user, I get no window manager, no xterm, no nuthin--just a mouse pointer that moves. With some help from the nice people on the debian-user-de list, I've figured out this much: xrdb is getting called by a 'for' loop in the global Xsession script, once for each file in /etc/X11/Xresources. There are three of those: xbase-clients, xfree86-common und xterm. For a normal user, xrdb hangs each time (pulls full 99% CPU use in xtop--what's it doing?). When I kill it (from a different virtual console), the Xsession script resumes control and runs xrdb again. After the third and last xrdb call is killed, an Xsession seems to start --I see xterm and xclock and a nice root background color same as root gets--but then after ~3/4 of a second the whole X server crashes. Whereupon xdm restarts it and the Login prompt is back. I read 'man xrdb', which says things about cpp, but no clues. I've checked all the permissions I can think of, and as far as I can see the users should be able to read and run anything root can in the /etc/X11 tree. Grateful for any hints, T. -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Phone: +49-3341-30 99 99 -- Fax: +49-3341-30 99 98 La idea de un Dios sabio, todopoderoso y que, además, nos ama, es una de las creaciones más audaces de la literatura fantástica. -- Jorge Luis Borges
Solved! (?) Re: lilo: 'Kernel /vmlinuz is too big'
Hi gang! Got the 586 kernel running! I don't know why. I did make bzlilo instead of make bzImage, and it failed with the same error message from lilo in the second-to-last message. But then I copied the bzImage from that compile by hand to /, ran lilo by hand, and bingo. Go figure. So I'm no wiser, but quite thrilled with how many people pitched in to try and help me out. Thanks guys! Tony -- -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Phone: +49-3341-30 99 99 -- Fax: +49-3341-30 99 98 --
lilo: 'Kernel /vmlinuz is too big'
Hi Gang! I got this error after throwing out a 386/387 mainboard and putting in a Pentium 133/PCI, then recompiling the kernel with the new processor type and PCI bios support. Now Lilo doesn't want to install the new kernel, grr-grr! The old one was already over 700 KB and the new one is 900, so what's the big deal? And: what's the remedy? I tried make bzImage, I tried all three HD geometries offered by the new BIOS, I tried linear (which I'd *had* to use on the 386) ... I can post lilo.conf on demand, but it's a dead simple 1-drive, 1-OS IDE system, boot is hda and root is hda2 ... Grateful for any tips, Tony -- -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Phone: +49-3341-30 99 99 -- Fax: +49-3341-30 99 98 --
Re: lilo: 'Kernel /vmlinuz is too big'
Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote (on 27 Apr 99, at 17:59): You should *definitely* exclude support for things you don't need. This makes your kernel much smaller. Very helpful also is to compile things I have most everything in modules that goes in modules ... floppy disk, tape, cd-rom drivers, network drivers, etc. Tape not applicable, but the rest is all mod. You later load these modules after the kernel has mounted the root filesystem (this can even be done automagically by use of the kernel daemon or the respective kernel thread.) Right. This was a running system until this morning, remember. tried make bzImage, And why didn't it work? This *is* the solution to your problem... It did work, in the sense that a kernel was compiled ... but it wasn't significantly smaller. Are there some arcana of bzImage-making that I missed in the kernel docs? (and yes, I did make mrproper first!) I tried all three HD geometries offered by the new BIOS, I tried linear (which I'd *had* to use on the 386) ... I Those two points won't help you at all, they don't have anything to do with your problem. Good to know. I'm not really looking forward to a fresh installation ... but I can always boot from floppy and tar everything first if it comes to that. Thanks for your tips, though! Tony -- -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Phone: +49-3341-30 99 99 -- Fax: +49-3341-30 99 98 --
Re: lilo: 'Kernel /vmlinuz is too big'
Ian Peters wrote (on 27 Apr 99, at 15:45): wasn't significantly smaller. Are there some arcana of bzImage-making that I missed in the kernel docs? (and yes, I did make mrproper first!) Uhh ... it's not supposed to be. It's not smaller, just contains logic to handle loading the bigger kernel. Okay! How do I tell lilo about this? T. -- -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Phone: +49-3341-30 99 99 -- Fax: +49-3341-30 99 98 --
Re: RedHat need not apply
Kenneth Scharf wrote (on 22 Apr 99, at 5:07): While it is good that Debian takes its time to 'get it right' having a commerical product based on Debian could put some pressure on the distro for 'more timely releases' or worse, a commerical release of an 'unstable' branch might occurr to 'keep up with the Jones'. Which would bring the Linux league one step closer to the corporate league. The next subsequent step being that the bugs left in the release would be denied (or renamed issues) in the marketing literature. Tony -- -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Phone: +49-3341-30 99 99 -- Fax: +49-3341-30 99 98 --
Re: talkd doesn't work
MCV runnign in.talkd and in.ntalkd doesn't stop me getting no talk MCV daemon on pick.sel.cam.ac.uk errors. Where should the talk MCV daemons be started? Mine comes up on mesg y. You could put that in your profile I guess. Tony -- -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Phone: +49-3341-30 99 99 -- Fax: +49-3341-30 99 98 --
Re: POP3 Server in LAN?
Bob Nielsen wrote (on 12 Apr 99, at 11:37): drwxrwsr-x 2 root mail 1024 Jan 25 16:03 pop qpopper created this with the right permissions. /etc/inetd.conf should specify that qpopper is run by root, so you shouldn't be getting the error: pop-3 stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.qpopper Thanks for your interest, Bob! Check-OK on the permissions. My inetd.conf line is also same as yours, but ... if I understand it correctly, the man page says once the POP3 connection is authenticated (which mine is--a wrong password gets me a whole different error), qpopper changes its ID from root to the incoming POP user. Anyway, a couple of people have answered now who seem to have the same setup and no problems, but I still get this stupid error. I guess this is the famous Linux being picky about who its friends are. Tony -- -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Phone: +49-3341-30 99 99 -- Fax: +49-3341-30 99 98 --
POP3 Server in LAN?
Hi people! I ran this question end of last week and got no bites; here again with slightly changed Subject line. Anyone got a tip for me? I'd like to use Debian as a POP server in the LAN, but so far it doesn't want to play along. Here's the syslog: Apr 10 17:29:42 pumpkin tcplogd: pop-3 connection attempt from miregal [192.168.0.1] Apr 10 17:29:42 pumpkin in.qpopper[17472]: connect from miregal Apr 10 17:29:43 pumpkin in.qpopper[17472]: Unable to open temporary maildrop '/var/spool/pop/tony.pop': Permission denied (13) Apr 10 17:29:43 pumpkin in.qpopper[17472]: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: -ERR System error, can't open temporary file, do you own it? What should the permissions for /var/spool/pop be, or is there something else I'm doing wrong? Tony -- -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Phone: +49-3341-30 99 99 -- Fax: +49-3341-30 99 98 --
POP spool: permission denied (13)
Hi people! Anyone got a tip for me? I'd like to use Debian as a POP server in the LAN, but so far it doesn't want to play along. Here's the syslog: Apr 10 17:29:42 pumpkin tcplogd: pop-3 connection attempt from miregal [192.168.0.1] Apr 10 17:29:42 pumpkin in.qpopper[17472]: connect from miregal Apr 10 17:29:43 pumpkin in.qpopper[17472]: Unable to open temporary maildrop '/var/spool/pop/tony.pop': Permission denied (13) Apr 10 17:29:43 pumpkin in.qpopper[17472]: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: -ERR System error, can't open temporary file, do you own it? What should the permissions for /var/spool/pop be, or is there something else I'm doing wrong? Tony -- -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Phone: +49-3341-30 99 99 -- Fax: +49-3341-30 99 98 --
help w pppd+isdnutils+diald?
Any German (or maybe even Dutch) users out there care to walk me through what must be a very typical setup here in Germany--async PPP over an ISDN dial-up? I just can't find my case in any of the many German and Dutch examples on the Web--and the files are moved in Debian (or hamm?) anyway. Gibt's nicht vielleicht einen deutschen Leser, der mir bei einer wohl recht typischen Konfiguration zur Seite stehen moechte? Ich moechte meine ganz normale ISDN-Verbindung zum ISP in Debian 2.0 nachbauen. (HiSax ist installiert und findet die AVM-Karte einwandfrei--bloss die ganze Skripterei verwirrt mich.) Just mail me--this won't interest very many on the list, I reckon. Thanks, Tony Tony Crawford [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can apt-get do proxy-http req?
On 18 Aug 98 at 9:01, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: Set http_proxy to point to your proxy server, ie export http_proxy=http://172.16.1.1:3128/; The sources.list man page explains this. Thanks! I'm trying this now. (BTW the information on apt in the bottom half of the dselect access methods screen refers to the man page for source.list, apparently a typo!) Tony Tony Crawford [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +49-3341-30 99 99 Fax: +49-3341-30 99 98
Re: modprobe
On 18 Aug 98 at 23:10, count zero wrote: hi to all, when i boot up my linux debian 2.0 i find this message modprobe: can't locate module char-major-10 Me too! Can you please forward any personal replies you get that don't go through the list? Tony Tony Crawford [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +49-3341-30 99 99 Fax: +49-3341-30 99 98
Can apt-get do proxy-http req?
Hi! Newbie here struggling with updating. And I never did get dselect to work consistently during the bo installation. Anyway: I manually collected the packages demanded by autoup.sh and ran it. Now the readme says I need to update ALL installed packages. For that volume, it should be worth giving dselect a try. Apt-get wants proper URLs, but I have a proxy server on a Windows machine on the LAN, and the Linux box at this stage of the game staunchly refuses to see anything on the Internet, by name or by IP number (I've compared the route table and the network script and the ifconfig eth0 with other people's posts--I've been lurking--but to no avail). So: Is there a way I can get apt to do a proxy request to my local Windows proxy server, which has no trouble finding the Internet? Another angle: Using FTP access in dselect, can I tweak the paths in the get commands? dselect does proxy-ftp connections, but seems not to find hamm packages on the German mirrors (symbolic links not in place?)--it lets me choose the paths (which contain /hamm/hamm/) when setting up ftp access, and gets the package lists all right, but then it uses other paths-- the default /debian/dists/stable/binary-i386/.../--when trying to get the pkgs themselves, and gets nothing. Or will I have to identify and get all these update packages by hand, i.e. without the benefit of apt or dselect? Or am I completely missing the easy way? Sorry about the confused sentences ... Thanks for your attention! Tony Tony Crawford [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel. +49-3341-309 999 Fax +49-3341-309 998
