hey.
i've never tried to run make-kpkg on non-debian'ized kernel source before
(ie. normally i download kernel-source-2.x.x).
so i downloaded the source, cd'd into it and ran:
make-kpkg --initrd --revision=2:adam.1.0 kernel-image
and i get a package that looks and installs fine, but it won't
Likely you didn't include support for your root fs or the hardware
controlling the disk. I once left out support for my IDE controller.
It didn't work out too well :-).
hrm, i don't think so and i just doubled checked. i copied my .config
from my 2.4.14 kernel (which works just fine) to the
It is perfectly possible to say m to all types of disks and all
filesystems. But then your kernel will not be able to access the
disk. Your boot disk must be built into your kernel.
i thought initrd solved that problem by allowing modules to be loaded into
a ram disk before the disk was
But in that case your initrd (or the 2nd floppy with the modules) will
need to contain the modules compatible with your new kernel too.
i understand that, but make-kpkg is supposed to (and always has in the
past) taken care of that for me.
Save yourself the headache and compile support for
hey.
i'm building a debian disk image as a linux based 802.11b access point
(using jouni malinen's host ap mode drivers). basically at this point it
works but i'm trying to convert from lilo to grub because as i become
familiar with it i like it a lot better.
this image will be batch loaded
Hi.
I'm trying to setup a CVS server with multiple allow-root commandline
options. the new cvs 1.11.1p1-1 package does this with cvs-pserver
wrapper instead of adding options directly to the /etc/inetd.conf file.
however i can't find an example syntax of of the /etc/cvs-pserver.conf
file
I'm trying to setup a CVS server with multiple allow-root commandline
options. the new cvs 1.11.1p1-1 package does this with cvs-pserver
wrapper instead of adding options directly to the /etc/inetd.conf
file.
as always as soon as i post a question i figure out the answer. in case
anyone
Where can I find documentation that will explain the install and usage
of PPPoE with Debian ?
i just set this up this morning for an earthlink connection. it's pretty
straight forward. from memory, quickly here are the steps (as root):
first make sure your ethernet adapter is setup and does
i went to install powershell today and i got this. my immediate
response was the the md5 check sum must not have matched (apt does that
now ... right?). but it installed anyway... wtf?
if it's going to get an error shouldn't it abort?
adam.
$ sudo apt-get install powershell
Reading Package
It is the first time I have read anything negative about portsentry.
while a lot of what the author is saying is true portsentry and snort are
two quite different things. really the only thing they have in common is
that they are designed to improve the security of your network/server.
Hi.
I'm trying to install Debian on a Compaq Proliant DL360 with the
integrated smart raid controller.
The error message I get is on boot up:
scsi : 0 hosts.
scsi : detaected total.
Partition check:
apm: BIOS not found.
VFS: Cannot open root device 00:00
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root
Hey all.
I'm hoping for some advice here. I've just started a new job and one of
the things they want me to do is to build a linux farm/cluster for running
large simulation and regression tests.
Some of these tests can be up to 4GB and in time they will grow larger.
I have a limited
hey.
i'm trying to password protect a wiki site, or rather i don't want to
password protect it yet, but i want to make sure that i know how to if i
ever need to resist an attack on the site.
i only want to password protect the normally open edit ability, i still
want people to be able to view
I just installed Mailman on my Potato server here at work and
attempted to set up a test mailing list. None of the welcome messages
were sent out. After digging around for a while, I found this in
/var/log/mailman/smtp-failures:
it means exactly what it says. that postfix isn't allowing
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Phpwiki-talk] problem with phpwiki using dba.
Adam Shand wrote:
Warning: Variable passed to reset() is not an array or object in
/var/www/devel.spack.org/phpwiki/lib/dbalib.php on line 52
Warning: Variable passed to each
hey.
since i upgraded libc6 and dpkg (from unstable) i've been having a lot of
problems with dpkg seg faulting trying to install stuff. currently i
tried to upgrade gnumeric and it bombs out on gnome-libs-data like this:
(Reading database ... 44809 files and directories currently installed.)
i just upgraded apache to the latest in unstable and there is now a mysql
dependancy (mysql-common and libmysqlclient10).
can anyone explain this to me? i don't use mysql.
i also noticed that when i try to remove libmysqlclient10 it wants to
remove mailman as well.
adam.
i've tried to get sips (a really nice and simple databaseless weblog)
running on two different debian boxes without luck. for some reason it's
not parsing some of the templates right.
i thought maybe i'd tweaked something wrong but i just it again on a
default install of debian and i get the
you definitely do not want use the patches for 2.2.18 with any other
kernel, unless you really know what you are doing (you would have to
make sure that the files that the patch changes are unchanged between
2.2.18 and whatever you will use).
yah, i know that :)
I don't know whether
Don Marti's posted a DNS hack which can be used to deny specific
domains on a sitewide basis, if you run DNS. The advantage is that
it's a one-time rule which works transparently for all systems on the
local net. The bad news is that an extensive list of blocked sites is
likely to be
The IMP/HORDE combination is pretty good.
i did a lot of research on this not too long ago and the one i liked best
was squirrel mail. it just came out with 1.0pre1 so it's pretty close to
stable (i'm using 0.65 with good luck).
http://www.squirrelmail.org/
one of my requirements was
You can search the archives to find a link to the deb. There
are licensing issues with pine so Debian doesn't include it but
there are people who have built the debs. I just snagged the
latest stable release (source) from the pine web site. I had to
install a
I am looking for a tool to monitor the through-put of my connection to
the internet. I want to know if my connection is maxing out, or my
users just have slow connections to the internet. Is there a debian
package to do this, or a recommendation otherwise?
if you want something simple get
hey.
i wanna build my own kernel using make-kpkg with some custom patches (the
openwall patch and the sub domain patch from wirex) with the release
2.2.18 kernel (which isn't in debian yet).
it looks like i can just put the patches into /usr/src/kernel-patches but
my question is do i have to
i just tried to switch from windowmaker (which i've been using for
years) to kde2. i did:
# apt-get install task-kde
# echo startkde ~/.xsession
# startx
when i run kde most things won't run and i get a lot of segfaults. when i
open the control panel there's nothing in there. no modules, no
oops sorry this was my comment about disconnected mode imap that started
this ... didn't realise it'd been picked up on.
Well I'm no expert, but I suspect that disconnected mode with IMAP
means that after IMAP has downloaded all the mail headers, it
disconnects, allowing the user to peruse
hey.
i just ran into a sendmail problem i haven't had to deal with before.
the hoststatus stuff is messing with my laptop (it check when my laptop
isn't connected and remembers that it can't get to hosts even after i plug
the ethernet in grr i just forced about 20 messages from over the last
message --
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 11:52:40 -0800 (PST)
From: Adam Shand [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Debian User List debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: undefining m4 macro in sendmail.mc
hey.
i just ran into a sendmail problem i haven't had to deal with before.
the hoststatus stuff
You may also want to subscribe to debian-kde@lists.debian.org (low
volume, so far :).
cool, thanks i'll check that out.
what about getting konqueror to support ssl? it's supposed to do it but
where do i enable it? when i go to an ssl site i get told that konqueror
doesn't support ssl?!?
if it is unsigned i think so. signed certs i think only have to match
the domain.
but where is the domain listed if not in the the common name of the cert?
instead of fixing your ssl cert look into ditching outlook or fixing
outlook.
i don't want to do that. i use fetchmail (haven't used
(Not for newbies, but...) I read all of my mail in Gnus, the singing,
dancing mail- and newsreader for Emacs. Gnus' view of the world is
that everything (including mail groups, mbox files, IMAP folders, ...)
is a newsgroup, and reacts accordingly.
does it support disconnected mode imap?
After upgrading to Woody, (and not changing anything) I can't print
correctly anymore. I used magicfilterconfig to setup /etc/printcap
using the HP laserjet4l driver. The first page is like: %PS-Adobe-3.0
having just discovered both cups and pdq i would recommend one of them.
pdq (and the
i have stunnel installed and working to provide imap over ssl support but
the certificate it creates seems not to match my hostname. when i run
fetchmail i get a warning (which is okay) but outlook won't connect at all
because of the mismatch.
it looks like the problem is with the cn attribute
hey.
one of the recent debianplanet articles prompted me to tidy up an email
i've had as an on going work for a couple years. basically everytime i
convince some one to give debian a try and i have a little cheat sheet i
mail to them to help them get started.
it's got useful basic dpkg and apt
i've updated the list with your corrections and suggestions. thanks for
the input.
adam.
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
/var/lib/dpkg/info
location of the package maintainer scripts (postinst, prerm, etc) as well as
other pieces of packaging data like md5sums, conffile
I'm looking for recommendations for an Intrusion Detection system for my
firewall. Preferably a debian package but not restricted to.
Try aide http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/aide.html.
aide or tripwire will both do host based intrusion detection. if you want
network intrusion
I can log in on Zope as superuser and create a new user. But I can
not log in as that user although anything is correct as far as the
login name and password is concerned.
i am new to zope as well but i just dealt with this the ohter day. it
appears that the admin user can log in from
... hey. i looked everywhere i can think to and i can't figure out how to
do this.
my old gpg key expired a few days ago so i generated a new one. now a
lot of people had signed my old key so i want to sign me new key with my
old key so it will be trusted as well.
how do i sign my new public
how do i sign my new public key with my old private key?
okay sorry to follow up my own message but i just figured it out.
sometimes it seems that i have to write down (or explain it to someone
else) in order to figure it out.
if you need to do this it seems impossible from with in the
Mind you, I don't understand how come the debs don't compile out of
the box, but that's another matter.
if the binaries don't run it's a pretty sure guess that something weird is
going on. i would solve that first. you can grab a debian package of
pine from:
I do have a question. What is a good POP server to use with maildir
mailboxes? I have few users who want to use POP instead of imap.
Any suggestions?
there are only a couple of options. qmail's popper (no a debian package
i believe) or solid-pop3.
cyrus has a pop/imap server but i don't
does anyone know of a recent package for libapache-mod-dav? from
searching around on the web i found:
http://www.debian.org/~flight/libapache-mod-dav/
but it's an older version which requires a version of apache 1.3.7-0.
thanks,
adam.
I have a libdav.so that I custom-compiled for my Debian potato web
server running Apache 1.3.9.
Should I send it to you? It needs the package libxmltok1 to run.
no thanks, i just finished installing the module from source, i was
impressed at how nicely it was put together. the only tricky
hi.
i recently changed mailserver that i pop my mail off of, and the new one
uses openssh on debian instead of ssh on solaris. i used a preconnect to
tunnel the session via ssh with a line like this:
preconnect ssh -C -f -L 1100:maus.spack.org:110 maus.spack.org 'sleep 9'
this used to work
i'm not sure if ldap will store session information but i suspect it
will. check out ldap and nss (pam modules to interface to ldap servers).
there are packages for both for debian.
adam.
On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Benjamin Hudgens wrote:
I asked this yesterday and got a very limited response so I
I want a Linux replacement for Microsoft Money or Quicken. I have
tried MoneyDance, XACC, GNU-Cash, and several others that are under
development but none of them allow for downloading from my bank. This
is currently my only reason for using any Microsoft programs and I
want to totally
Now is there any way to convert the other config files apart from
named.{boot,conf}?
the format of the actual db files didn't change between bind 4/8. all you
need to migrate is the named.boot - named.conf
adam.
hey.
at some point in the future i'd like to migrate the web based package
finder i wrote (http://www.spack.org/debian/)to use apt as the back end
(instead of manually ftping the Packages.gz files and hasing them into a
pseudo database.
however one of the features of the package finder is that
Is there some way i can change the username on mail sent by pine?
the usual way to go is to configure your mta to do address rewriting.
however, in pine you could add a custom header From: blabla - but this
is not very clean.
How do i change that in pine? I have cant find any
According to the only package I found on Debian's site concerning APM
(apmd): The Debian default kernel does *not* contain APM support,
because it causes problems on some computers.
as of a few kernels ago in potato (at least a few months ago but i can't
remember when) apm support *is*
check out solidpop, there is a debian package of it as well (solid-pop3d).
it supports virtual domains and a bunch of other useful stuff.
adam.
On Fri, 12 May 2000, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote:
Hi,
When using exim + virtual domains, is it possible to have a pop3
server also
I think WindowMaker has some kind of session manager, but if you can't
figure out how to make that work, you can put this in ~/.xsession
# We like a screensaver...
if [ -f /usr/bin/X11/xscreensaver ]; then
/usr/bin/X11/xscreensaver -no-splash
fi
if you run X by typing 'startx'
hey.
i know that the debian versions of pine that are around are linked against
libc-client4.7, and that libc-client has been patched to support maildir for
uw-imap. does anyone know what is necessary to make pine support imap? and
if it already does cause of the libc-client patches how do you
Well there is a problem with this rule, it searches the entire email for
VBS. All i want it to search for is the attachment of a file name with
the extension of .vbs Okay can this be done? Im sure it can, just i can
not find any info on how to make it do this. Can someone purdy please
any body have this problem and no how to solve it?
heyzeus(larry)$ smtm
ERROR: Date::Manip unable to determine TimeZone.
Date::Manip::Date_TimeZone called at /usr/lib/perl5/Date/Manip.pm line 615
Date::Manip::Date_Init() called at /usr/lib/perl5/Date/Manip.pm line 1315
If you have sendmail and you want to block this virus, you can just add the
following to your configurations:
HSubject: $CheckSubject
SCheckSubject
RILOVEYOU $#error $: 571 This message likely contains a virus.
You will of course also block any legitimate mail with that
Adam just fyi there was a patch to courier imap to fix this
Adam problem (and one with gnus) announced on freshmeat today.
Where can I get this patch for Gnus?
on freshmeat like i said. it's not a patch for gnus though, it's a patch to
courier-imap to fix a compatibility problem
I couldn't see any patch file listed here...
I did see one listed in http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/63/63376.html, but
doesn't it doesn't apply cleanly to courier-imap-0.31 (probably cutting
and pasting from the web page messes it up).
Where can I get a clean version of this patch? For
that's useful, thanks. i've never used macro's in vi, i'll play with it. i
need to check out wml as well as someone else suggested ;)
adam.
On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, Rick Younie wrote:
On Sat, Apr 29, 2000, Adam Shand wrote:
A two-liner is
%s/^/p/ - add p to the start of each line
I'm no pro, but the following, without squashing works. And yes, I know
that at the end of the file it might give an error.
:g/^ *$/+1 s/^ *[^ ]/p/
that does indeed do the trick! now i just have to decipher the regex so i
understand it.
thanks!
adam.
Thanks for tracking this down! Hopefully, it will be fixed in courier
soon, but in the meantime, your patch works great! I've gone back to
using courier again.
just fyi there was a patch to courier imap to fix this problem (and one with
gnus) announced on freshmeat today.
adam.
This corresponds to the what the man page tells me to do. Using this
exact setup, I get a parse error at user, which is the line following
the above one. I don't know how to correct this. May someone show me
their [working] config-file?
here is my working config. the only thing i've changed
So add p to any non-blank line? I'd like to know a one-liner for this
too. You've got blank line with ^$ but how do you negate that?
but what if a paragraph has more then one line. you have to detect the
beginning of a new paragraph and then insert a 'p ' before the first line
of text.
A
while you can specify that a substitution take place on many lines
(1,3s/// for lines 1-3, .,$s/// for lines here to end of file, or
%s/// for lines all) VI is based on EX which is a line editor.
yah, hence my question :)
there may be some advanced voodoo mumbo-jumbo that will allow VIM (or
hi.
i saw some articles here the other day about people using reiserfs. just a
quick question. are the patches compatible with the patched debian
kernel?
does anyone know when a journaled filesystem (from what i've read reiserfs
is the most mature one for linux so far) will be included in
does anyone know of a radius server that will forward authorization requests
to a tacacs server?
such a beast would make my life a lot easier in the near future. ideally
what i would like to do is detect a realm either by username ([EMAIL
PROTECTED])
or by dnis (number dialled to reach the nas
is there a way to match a pattern over more then one line in vi (i normally
use vim)?
i'm html formatting text documents and what i'd like to do is replace
something like the below paragraphs:
__
the first line of text, this is
hey.
i friend wanted me to convert a picture he had into an ascii art image. the
gimp has an option to export an image to AA format (which i assume is ascii
art??) but it's greyed out. does anyone know what i have to do to enable
this, i have the aalib stuff installed.
if i am mistaken about
you have to get the international kernal patch from either
www.kerneli.org, or in the non-US section. Then you have to patch the
kernel and recompile.
with the new mellowing of usa crypto laws, is there any chance that the
international kernel patch could be included in the default debian
Probably not. Beside the crypto laws, there is also the DSFG that
debian adheres to, and many of the encryption schemes have patents on
them, thus makeing them non-free, and not in debian by default.
oh yeah, i forgot about that ... still there are some that are patent
unencumbered aren't
I know this isn't the list for this, but I'm having some issues with a
sendmail config. I'm trying to configure sendmail to forward *all* mail
(incoming or outgoing) on a specific box to a different box (a mail
server) but everything I've tried has the following debug output:
you need to
i have no idea. is this dealt with in a Ruleset or with a
command/option? i've set the following in the .cf file:
you should configure it to be a null client using the /etc/mail/sendmail.mc
file. the feature you want is described at:
http://www.sendmail.org/m4/features.html
one
that's the idea. i don't want to deal with anything. this host will
simply be a box where people in an office will send mail out (which
should be relayed to the actual mail server) so there's no need to do
anti-spam business on this machine.
how did you configure it to be a null client?
It is very unlikely, but... a typo in the hwclock script could prevent
the next message from appearing, yet the script is still completing, in
which case the problem is in the script(s) being executed after
hwclock. If the above yields nothing then check /etc/rcS.d and look
at the script
Which would indicate that /sbin/hwclock is hanging the system.
yah, but why?
Doh, probably because there is no file named /etc/init.d/hwclock.
hwclock.sh and hwclock are both in the util-linux package.
not sure i follow this ... if i need util-linux why wouldn't the install
have installed
i found a file called clientproto.mc with the distribution and i
modified it to say:
okay.
# This the prototype for a null client -- that is, a client that
# does nothing except forward all mail to a mail hub. IT IS NOT
# USABLE AS IS!!!
divert(0)dnl
VERSIONID(`@(#)clientproto.mc
[Sun Apr 9 18:16:43 2000] [error] [client 194.145.136.134] Premature end
of scr ipt headers: /home/andricik/public_html/works/test.cgi
what happens when you run the program on the command line? what about if
you first su to the user the web server runs as? (you may have to assign the
web
Thing is there is an unneeded step in there. Exim doesn't need a
delivery agent (procmail) not does it need a filter program (procmail)
since both are build in. One could just use Exim for both of those so
the path would be fetchmail - exim - mutt.
or the other way around, fetchmail
hey.
i'm hoping someone knows the answer to this. i'm trying to do a fresh
potato install and i've had this problem no matter what i try and do. i get
to the point where i reboot off of the hard drive, everything boots up as
normal until this point:
Starting portmap daemon: portmap.
Setting
I have installed sslwrap, but I don't understand how do I actually _use_
it. I want to encrypt a [ftp,pop,etc...] connection between my computer
and a remote machine. The remote machine has sslwrap installed too. What
client do I use to connect, say, to the remote pop3 server, but with
i am getting an error now after updating my kernel
the ftpd deamon says: - Fatal: Group: Unknown group 'root':
therefore the service doesn't start
any suggestion before i hose down the system??
do you have a group called root in your /etc/group file? i'll bet $$ that
you don't (or
The usual way to run sshd is via inetd, though. So maybe Beavis is
asking the wrong question, maybe ssh into his box already works without
any additional effort. If not, look in /etc/inetd.conf for a line
mentioning ssh, perhaps there's something wrong with it.
err, not true. and unless
May be there are some parameters I _must_ turn on in the kernel to run
VMware? or may be I must install respective kernel-headers package?
you need to have the real time clock enabled. other then that i don't think
there is anything that is required (the default debian kernel used to
provide
Hi I want to add a code to my signature if is there any one who knows
how I can do it please tell me for example I want to attach todays date
or random test to my signature ..
i haven't done this but it should be relatively trivial to use the
'sending-filter' feature of pine. write a perl
i just used to one to restore my system and they are *VERY* nice. all the
in built help for various ways they can be used is very helpfull.
thanks!
adam.
You can tell proftpd to allow logins without a valid shell. It can also
set a default root directory for users so they can't see anything above
that point.
Is this what is called chroot?
it's technically not a chroot jail since in a chroot jail even the daemon
can't get outside the jail
i'm sure this is a faq but i can't find the answer so i'm hoping someone
here can give me a quick pointer to the right direction.
i just got done installing slink on a 13Gb maxtor drive. my /var (where i
like to keep everything) is just over 10Gb.
when i boot it hangs on the message:
I want to have easy freedom in limiting user access. I have killed
telnetd, and only sshd. I want to allow some users access through ssh,
some through ftpd, and some through samba. How can I turn off user
access through ssh, but keep their account, and allow them access
through ftp? Can
I think I want to install an imap mail server on my linux server. Can
someone recommend a good one that is debianized? Here is why I want
one. I'm using several different computers on my home network, and want
to be able to read my any of my e-mail from any computer here. I
believe this
ever since i upgraded to 2.2 i've had very sporadic sucess using my floppy
disk on my thinkpad 390. sometimes it seems to kinda work but most of the
time it doesn't work at all. i'm currently trying to create a boot floppy
for a potato resuce disk and getting this error:
heyzeus(larry)$ sudo
working the way it should be.
that'll teach me for trying to fix a problem i hadn't had yet. sigh
adam.
On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Adam Shand wrote:
ever since i upgraded to 2.2 i've had very sporadic sucess using my floppy
disk on my thinkpad 390. sometimes it seems to kinda work but most
I won't ask why, but you should probably follow the fhs standard or you
might break things.
which is?
I don't recall what the limit is, but with a large partition that may
contain many small files, you're likely to run out of inodes. And that's
no fun. I'd suggest breaking up var into
a deb of 8.10 is now in the unstable archive and the upgrade from 8.9.3
is relatively painless.
has it been compilied against the sasl libraries?
i haven't seen a lot of doco on implementing SMTP AUTH but am very
interested in this!
the only really good docs are on claus' home page that
There were no other way. Were can I get sendmail 8.10 and the sasl
patches?
there isn't a debian sendmail 8.10 package yet but there is the sasl
packages (libsasl7 and libsasl-dev).
download sendmail source from www.sendmail.org and there is some good info
on how to make it all work in the
I have long used gnotepad+ also, but lately, due to the reasons you have
offered, I have used gxedit. It seems to be about at the point of
functionality that gnotepad+ used to be when I thought it was so handy.
You would have to try it yourself to see if it suited you. Gedit seems
like it
There's a plethora of editors out there. Ever tried XEmacs? XEmacs has
pull-down menus, so you don't really have to memorize all the key
combinations, and most importantly has very nice syntax highlighting
features.
emacs is way more then i need. all i want is a simple gui based text editor
VIM is pretty easy to use ... and gVIM, the graphical interface to VIM
is rather nice looking I think.
yeah ... i can do that, but it's not quite what i had in mind. i did
however just check the gedit homepage and it turns out that the debian
package is quite out of date and that there are a
I have a problem: my ISP ask me for username and password to send e-mail
by smtp. With Netscape is easy to configure it, but I don't know how to
do that with smail or sendmail. Can somebody help me?
the problem is: smtp has NO password at all (AFAIK). the point is, you
have to do POP
hey.
i've been a loyal user of gnotepad+ for quite a while but it seems to be
getting buggier and buggier (and more and more features that i don't
need). what i like about it is that it's one editor program with a bunch of
tabs for multiple open documents so you can switch between them. i
When installing on my laptop, after the network setup I was asked which
interface and selected PCMCIA not ethernet.
you did it correctly.
The PCMCIA card appears to be working OK but when I run ifconfig I get
eth0 unknown interface errors.
what do you mean it's working okay? if you type
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