Re: snd-bt-sco.ko modprobe success?
On Jan 4, 2005, at 11:32 AM, Markus Becker wrote: Hello, I have seen your posting to debian-users. Currently I'm trying to get this running as well on a debian machine, but I have several problems: 1) When doing make in the kernel subdirectory, /lib/modules/2.6.9-1-686/source is not available. Found this: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=281739 But where to link source then? Shall I install kernel-source-2.6.9 and link source into that? 2) modprobe says: FATAL: Module snd_bt_sco not found. Have you solver your problem and can you give me some hints? Hey Markus! I managed to build snd-bt-sco.ko - my problem is building snd-hwdep.ko, on which snd-bt-sco.ko depends. You need your current kernel's source - either from kernel.org or a Debian kernel-source-* package - to build a kernel module. Kernel modules are built many ways - I used the Debian way: I made a rough Debian bluetooth-alsa package (http://cgi.sfu.ca/~jdbates/debian/pool/bluetooth-alsa/). Install bluetooth-alsa-source. From your kernel's source directory, run: make-kpkg ... --added-modules bluetooth-alsa | path to bluetooth-alsa ... modules_image Install the resulting bluetooth-alsa-modules-* package. I can't make more progress with bluetooth-alsa till I can build snd-hwdep.ko, I'm still struggling to manually add CONFIG_SND_HWDEP=m to my .config (http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user/178252). If anyone has suggestions, they'd be very gratefully appreciated! Thanks! Jack -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Manually Editing Kernel .config
How do I manually configure my kernel to build snd-hwdep.ko? I built an extra kernel module (snd-bt-sco.ko) which requires snd-hwdep.ko, but snd-hwdep.ko isn't built, there's no kernel configuration option to enable it. I tried manually adding CONFIG_SND_HWDEP=m to my .config, but it is removed by make-kpkg kernel_package. I even tried running make-kpkg configure first, but the configure rule depends on .config, so it's always rerun after I add CONFIG_SND_HWDEP=m. Some googling / gmaning only confirmed that the .config shouldn't be edited manually. No information how to manually configure CONFIG_SND_HWDEP=m. Can anyone help? Thanks! Jack -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: login script xterm
On Nov 17, 2004, at 5:10 AM, Andrea Vettorello wrote: On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 23:12:46 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where should I put commands to be executed when I login, when I open an xterm, but not when a shell is run on other occasions? I want some commands executed when I login, but not when a shell is otherwise run, so I put them in my ~/.login, vs. my ~/.bashrc. Unfortunately, they aren't executed when I open an xterm. I hoped there might be a ~/.xtermrc I could put them in, but I haven't found mention of an xterm initialization script anywhere in the documentation. Also, I thought I could configure xterm to start as if with the -ls flag. Anyway, there's probably a reason it doesn't, like a login shell might break some application using xterm? Where should I put them? Well, .bash_profile is executed for login shells and .bashrc is executed for non-login shells. If you want to set some environment variables or execute some commands only when xterm are launched, you can add a condition in your .bashrc, something like: case $TERM in xterm*) echo This is an XTerm ;; *) echo This isn't an XTerm ;; esac Hope this helps. That's awesome! Thanks! These lines work great, in .bash_profile for login shells .bashrc for xterms: if [ -n $PS1 ]; then if [ -z $STY ]; then # An interactive shell without screen. exec screen -xRR else # An interactive shell within screen. alias grep=grep --color alias ls=ls --color fi fi Thanks again! Jack -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Script to Set Environment Variable?
How do I write a script to set an environment variable? I feel like I should know this. I want to set my PATH in pbuilder the author suggested using an A hook. However, I can't create a hook - an executable - which sets an environment variable. I tried: #!/bin/sh export PATH=/usr/lib/ccache:$PATH and just: export PATH=/usr/lib/ccache:$PATH but in either case, calling ./A10hook doesn't change my environment variable. I hope I'm just missing something foolishly obvious. Thanks for any help! Jack -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
login script xterm
Where should I put commands to be executed when I login, when I open an xterm, but not when a shell is run on other occasions? I want some commands executed when I login, but not when a shell is otherwise run, so I put them in my ~/.login, vs. my ~/.bashrc. Unfortunately, they aren't executed when I open an xterm. I hoped there might be a ~/.xtermrc I could put them in, but I haven't found mention of an xterm initialization script anywhere in the documentation. Also, I thought I could configure xterm to start as if with the -ls flag. Anyway, there's probably a reason it doesn't, like a login shell might break some application using xterm? Where should I put them? Thanks! Jack -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: aptitude: packages have been kept back?
On Oct 17, 2004, at 5:51 AM, Nate Bargmann wrote: * Katipo [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004 Oct 16 21:56 -0500]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone suggest how else to learn more about aptitude's problem with these kept back packages? Thanks! Which packages are you referring to exactly? Regards, The list of packages being kept back is growing each time I run aptitude dist-upgrade. Here is a current example: wum:~# aptitude dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done The following packages have been kept back: apt aptitude autofs bash bind9 bsdmainutils debianutils fakeroot gawk grep heimdal-dev libapache-mod-ssl libapache2-svn libapt-pkg-perl libasn1-6-heimdal libdevmapper1.00 libdiscover1 libdiscover1-pic libgcc1 libgpmg1 libgssapi1-heimdal libhdb7-heimdal libkadm5clnt4-heimdal libkadm5srv7-heimdal libkafs0-heimdal libkrb5-17-heimdal libnewt-dev libnewt-pic libnewt0.51 libpng12-0 libreadline-common libreadline4 libsasl2 libsasl2-gssapi-mit libtiff4 libxml2 libxslt1.1 netselect nscd quagga sasl2-bin slrn ssh-krb5 strace whiptail whois xsltproc The following packages will be upgraded: libexpat1 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 47 not upgraded. Need to get 59.5kB of archives. After unpacking 4096B will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] apt-get dist-upgrade doesn't have this problem: wum:~# apt-get dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Calculating Upgrade... Done The following packages will be upgraded: apt aptitude autofs bash bind9 bsdmainutils debianutils fakeroot gawk grep heimdal-dev libapache-mod-ssl libapache2-svn libapt-pkg-perl libasn1-6-heimdal libdevmapper1.00 libdiscover1 libdiscover1-pic libexpat1 libgcc1 libgpmg1 libgssapi1-heimdal libhdb7-heimdal libkadm5clnt4-heimdal libkadm5srv7-heimdal libkafs0-heimdal libkrb5-17-heimdal libnewt-dev libnewt-pic libnewt0.51 libpng12-0 libreadline-common libreadline4 libsasl2 libsasl2-gssapi-mit libtiff4 libxml2 libxslt1.1 netselect nscd quagga sasl2-bin slrn ssh-krb5 strace whiptail whois xsltproc 48 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 8988kB/11.7MB of archives. After unpacking 1128kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Here is a view from aptitude; I don't know how to un-hold bash, or why in this case aptitude wants to remove it: Actions Undo Package Search Options Views Help f10: Menu ?: Help q: Quit u: Update g: Download/Install/Remove Pkgs aptitude 0.2.15.8#Broken: 94 Will free 373MB of disk space DL Size: 59.5kB idbash -1589kB 3.0-7 3.0-8 idbsdutils -160kB 1:2.12-10 1:2.12-10 p cfdisk-utf8 none 2.11n-5+1 idcoreutils-7266kB 5.2.1-2 5.2.1-2 iddebianutils -238kB 2.10.2 2.10.3 iddpkg -3961kB 1.10.23 1.10.23 iddselect -471kB 1.10.23 1.10.23 ide2fsprogs-1286kB 1.35-8 1.35-8 p elilonone 3.4-8 p elvis-tiny none 1.4-18 The GNU Bourne Again SHell Bash is an sh-compatible command language interpreter that executes commands a read from the standard input or from a file. Bash also incorporates usefula features from the Korn and C shells (ksh and csh). a a Bash is ultimately intended to be a conformant implementation of the IEEE POSIXa Shell and Tools specification (IEEE Working Group 1003.2). a a Included in the bash package is the Programmable Completion Code, by Ian a Macdonald. a a I haven't held or removed any packages - only run aptitude. This seems to be a new feature of some releases back. Try hitting Shift-u and see if they are now marked as upgradable. Thank you for your suggestion! Unfortunately I found shift-u had no effect. What is wrong with aptitude? Has no one else observed this behavior? I am experiencing it on each of three machines running Debian. Many thanks for your help! Jack -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FIXED: Package Download Tool?
On Aug 26, 2004, at 1:56 AM, Thomas Adam wrote:
On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 08:49:20AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
apt-get -y --print-uris install lyx | awk '/http:/ {print wget $1}'
I like to use the following for that:
http://linuxmafia.com/~n6tadam/apt-fetch
-- Thomas Adam
Thanks, everyone, for your help with this problem! I really appreciate
all the suggestions.
I finally figured out how to download foreign architecture packages
using aptitude -o APT::Architecture=foreignarch.
I think this feature is unfortunately very hidden, so I contributed
this patch: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=277123
However, I'm still searching for a tool to download packages'
dependancies.
Thanks again!
Jack
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Re: aptitude: packages have been kept back?
On Oct 7, 2004, at 3:59 AM, robin wrote: --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone please explain why some packages might be kept back, or how I might find out? I guess what I'd like to know is how to get more information about why aptitude is concluding that these couple packages should be kept back, to better understand whether the fault is aptitude's or mine. Unfortunately I haven't managed to gather this, using only aptitude's ample documentation. I don't think it's a bug. I see something similar with synaptic. It usually happens after I update my lists and choose a range of files to upgrade. The files kept back are the upgradeable files I have chosen not to upgrade. It would be worth installing synaptic as it is much clearer what is happening than aptitude, in my opinion.:-) I have a kept-back which is waiting for other packages to be upgraded which are not available yet. It is unlikely that you are doing any thing wrong. Robin Thanks for your help! I'm confident that these packages dependancies are met. I haven't put anything on hold or chosen not to upgrade these packages - I'd like them upgraded! I've gone so far as to examine these packages in aptitude, hoping to un-hold them, or discover why they are kept back; from in aptitude, these packages are marked id - installed and will be deleted. I can't explain why these packages are kept back from aptitude dist-upgrade, will be deleted from in aptitude, yet apt-get dist-upgrade upgrades them just fine. Installing synaptic is probably a good idea - unfortunately I'm not running X I'd rather not setup an X server just to resolve this problem with aptitude. Can anyone suggest how else to learn more about aptitude's problem with these kept back packages? Thanks! Jack -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Contents files
Anyone know how to generate Contents files from a repository, for use with apt-file? I found no hints in the apt-file documentation... Thanks! Jack -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: aptitude: packages have been kept back?
On Oct 2, 2004, at 1:11 AM, Thomas Adam wrote: --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone please explain why some packages might be kept back, or how I might find out? http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=aptitude Enjoy. Thanks for the tip, Thomas, but did you mean this problem has already been reported, or that I should submit a bug report? If you mean this has already been reported, I can't find the bug to which you're referring. If you mean I should submit a bug, I'm not convinced my problem isn't my misuse of aptitude. I guess what I'd like to know is how to get more information about why aptitude is concluding that these couple packages should be kept back, to better understand whether the fault is aptitude's or mine. Unfortunately I haven't managed to gather this, using only aptitude's ample documentation. Could you please clarify what you meant, Thomas? Thanks again! Jack -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
aptitude: packages have been kept back?
I'm a long time apt-get user, trying to make sense of aptitude. I really like aptitude's automatic dependancy tracking; but it keeps keeping packages back whenever I run aptitude dist-upgrade. apt-get dist-upgrade doesn't keep packages back. Examining these kept back packages in aptitude, they are marked id, which I gather means installed and will be deleted. I can think of no reason why these packages should be kept back or deleted, nor have I been able to find such a reason using aptitude. Can someone please explain why some packages might be kept back, or how I might find out? Thanks oodles! Jack -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
initrd / linuxrc: /bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
I been trying for what feels like ever to build an initrd to boot an LVM 2 root partition on a foreign architecture. Unfortunately, I keep seeing: RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory: 164k init 4k chrp 32k prep /bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off # with even the simplest linuxrc : ( I created an initrd consisting of: /bin /bin/dash /bin/echo /bin/sh - dash /dev /dev/console c 5 1 /lib /lib/ld.so.1 /lib/libc.so.6 /linuxrc linuxrc is a not-overly-complicated shell script: #!/bin/sh echo linuxrc is working! But you'll notice, instead of linuxrc is working!, I see /bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off. Entering echo linuxrc is broke, broke, broke! at the prompt works as expected. I've been over over Documentation/initrd.txt in the kernel source tree. No help from Google. Anyone who can suggest what might be wrong, or where I should ask, will win a just released, 30% more potent, personally autographed copy of my eternal gratitude! Thanks, Jack -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Examine Package Conflicts
How does one examine conflicts between packages' dependancies? I just tried upgrading my system, APT concluded that an important package had to be removed. Now I must figure out which packages' dependancies require my important package's removal, so I can remove them, or otherwise satisfy their dependancies. I've been over the APT HOWTO, but I'm still not clear which tool to use, to discover for what reason my important package must be removed. Many thanks for your APT advice! Jack -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Package Download Tool?
Is there a tool to quickly download, for a given architecture, a given package its dependancies? I've been doing a lot of cross development find myself downloading lots of packages using the Debian web interface. Good as Debian's web interface is, this is tedious. Investigating apt-get, I found: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=197424 but I can't figure out how to stipulate an architecture to aptitude (-a powerpc, or something) or download depended packages. I need a tool to quickly download ( optionally extract, in one step) packages for a stipulated architecture, there dependancies. Anyone know of a solution? I thought that Debian, with a repository of cross architecture binaries, the oldest package tools, would be great for cross development - but thus far, it's been surprisingly difficult! Thanks! Jack -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Where's routed?
I run Debian unstable plan to setup dynamic routing (for the first time). I'll probably start with RIP, maybe graduate to OSPF. I notice that routed isn't available in Debian any longer. Anyone know why this is? I think my alternatives include quagga or bird. Can anyone with dynamic routing experience recommend a good place to start? Thanks! Jack -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Listing Files - Permissions in Octal?
How can I generate a directory listing, including permissions represented in octal, instead of r, w, x? I frequently use ls -l to list files, including their permissions, but I thought sometimes it would be nice to list these in terms of their octal values. I couldn't find any hints in man ls, or google. Does anyone here know how it's done? Sorry for asking such a general question - I'd be happy to ask elsewhere if someone knows a more appropriate list. Thanks! Jack -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
APT Removing Packages *With Met* Dependancies?
Why must libgle3 and xscreensaver-gl be removed when I try to install a package which conflicts with, but provides xlibmesa-gl? I'm experimenting with some (ugly) video drivers. I need to remove xlibmesa-gl and install a different libGL.so, so I used the following control file and equivs to build xlibmesa-gl-dummy: --- Package: xlibmesa-gl-dummy Provides: xlibmesa-gl Conflicts: xlibmesa-gl --- However, when I try to install xlibmesa-gl-dummy, APT insists on removing libgle3 and xscreensaver-gl. --- # apt-get install xlibmesa-gl-dummy Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: libgle3 xlibmesa-gl xscreensaver-gl The following NEW packages will be installed: xlibmesa-gl-dummy 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 3 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 2406B of archives. After unpacking 7878kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] --- As far as I understand, these packages' dependancies should be met ... Can someone spot what I'm doing wrong? Thanks! Jack -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
network names, sortlist, resolv.conf
I've looked around for a Linux resolver mailing list, but failing that, I thought I'd ask here. I'm using the sortlist statement in my resolv.conf to prevent some programs from being confused by multihomed hosts. I've also setup mnemonic names for our networks, so, for instance: --- # route Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface zot * 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth1 des * 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth2 ... # route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 192.168.179.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth1 192.168.103.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth2 ... --- I would like to use these same mnemonics in the sortlist statement: sortlist zot des ... Unfortunately this doesn't work. Is someone able to please tell me what I'm doing wrong / whether names in resolv.conf is just silly / where I should ask / what source I should look at? Thanks! Jack -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
make-kpkg, cross compiling for powerpc?
How do I invoke make-kpkg to cross compile a kernel for powerpc? I've built and installed gcc-3.3-powerpc-linux. I tried make-kpkg --revision 200406241 --rootcmd fakeroot --arch powerpc kernel_image, without success. Apparently the Specified GNU system type powerpc-linux does not match gcc system type i386-linux. I've been over the make-kpkg man page, but I found the descriptions of --arch and --cross-compile unclear (or written for someone who already knew what they were doing). I'm afraid google couldn't help me this time. Thanks for your help! Jack -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian /etc/hosts Behavior
Hmm ... I am also running unstable; a fresh install. Fresh as fresh can be! I assumed that the installer had created this line - it asks for the hostname when configuring the network - but I'd have to do another installation to be sure. Jack On Apr 18, 2004, at 11:47 AM, Ken Irving wrote: On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 09:33:11AM -0700, Marc Wilson wrote: On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 10:32:29AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- 127.0.0.1 kas localhost --- This realized, it was a quick fix: --- 127.0.0.1 localhost --- If this entry prevents hostname -f and hostname -d from working, why does Debian create it? Debian doesn't, on any of my machines: ... Personally, what YOU had in /etc/hosts looks like something that was added locally. I had the same thing on one machine running unstable (hostname before localhost), but not on others running stable. I recently used the hostname command (followed by some grepping and editing other files under /etc) to change the host's name; maybe that was responsible for this format? -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FIXED: Debian /etc/hosts Behavior
Thanks Jo! That should save me future problems. Jack On Apr 18, 2004, at 8:22 PM, Joey Hess wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm ... I am also running unstable; a fresh install. Fresh as fresh can be! I assumed that the installer had created this line - it asks for the hostname when configuring the network - but I'd have to do another installation to be sure. The installer does indeed create that line. In recent daily builds, we've changed things around to the more sane: 127.0.0.1 localhost hostname -- see shy jo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: distcc dpkg-buildpackage
Thanks very much for the info. Spot on. I've now got it working. In addition to editing debian/rule, I discovered using CONCURRENCY_LEVEL instead of -j is advised (necessary)? Jack On Apr 18, 2004, at 4:29 AM, Pigeon wrote: On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 10:17:58PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is anyone successfully using distcc with dpkg-buildpackage? I tried: --- MAKE=make -j4 CC=distcc DISTCC_HOSTS=localhost kas dpkg-buildpackage --- but distcc wasn't used : ( Frequently the package's build scripts will override anything you set for things like CC and CFLAGS. If the overriding takes place in debian/rules (most of the time it does), you can simply edit debian/rules before running dpkg-buildpackage. If it takes place in the actual Makefiles, though, either you've got to do a lot of tedious editing, or you can do something gross but functional like making /usr/bin/gcc a wrapper around the real compiler. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x21C61F7F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian /etc/hosts Behavior
I just spent a painful couple of days trying to figure out why Kerberos authentication was broken. DNS checked out, but it turns out hostname -f was only returning the short hostname, due to the following entry in /etc/hosts: --- 127.0.0.1 kas localhost --- This realized, it was a quick fix: --- 127.0.0.1 localhost --- If this entry prevents hostname -f and hostname -d from working, why does Debian create it? Thanks! Jack -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
distcc dpkg-buildpackage
Is anyone successfully using distcc with dpkg-buildpackage? I tried: --- MAKE=make -j4 CC=distcc DISTCC_HOSTS=localhost kas dpkg-buildpackage --- but distcc wasn't used : ( Jack -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian XFree86 -nolisten tcp
I run a cluster of machines w/ only one display; I need to run lots of remote X apps. For performance, I think I need the X server listening on a TCP port - but Debian makes a big deal about the security implications. Have I any options besides A) using SSH, B) removing the -nolisten tcp option, (or C) avoiding remote X apps)? Must I actually remove -nolisten tcp from /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc and /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers, or is there a /etc/default or dpkg switch I missed somewhere? # - SECURITY NOTE: Always pass the -nolisten tcp option to the X # server, as shown in the examples below, unless you know you # need the X server listening on a TCP port. Omitting this # option can expose your X server to attacks from remote hosts. # Note also that SSH's X11 port-forwarding option works even with # X servers that do not listen on a TCP port, so you do not need # to remove the -nolisten tcp option for SSH's benefit. Thanks! Jack -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
kmod aliases
Where does Debian recommend putting network driver kernel module aliases for kmod (eg. alias eth0 8139too)? Should they all go in /etc/modutils/aliases? Or in a separate file, like /etc/modutils/net? Or each in its own file: /etc/modutils/eth0, et cetera ... Or even something else? What is good form? Thanks! Jack -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
uniqueIdentifier Command
I'm using uniqueIdentifier objects to define objects in my LDAP directory. Does a command exist to produce a random string? Thanks! Jack -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
sortlist, resolv.conf, DHCP client
I need to add a sortlist option to my resolv.conf. Unfortunately, it is periodically overwritten by my DHCP client. The nameserver options are not overwritten, using the supersede domain-name-servers option in dhclinet.conf. What configuration will prevent my sortlist option from being overwritten? Thanks, Jack -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debugging rsh
I am trying to rsh to my server. I am using kerberos authentication. I believe I have configured everything correctly, but rsh simply complains: hostname: Connection refused. I checked my inetd.conf. Unfortunately, I can't figure out how to debug rsh. Even using the -d option, nothing is printed either to stdout or the logs. How can I debug rsh to determine why I can't connect? Thanks, Jack -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
