Strange reboot
Hi all, I was wondering whether any one could explain why my machine would spontaneously reboot itself. It's a Debian unstable box running kernel 2.4.4. Personally I suspect some sort of issue with the kernel itself. I doubt that the machine has been broken into since absolutely nothing has shown up in my logs, no port scans, no TCP/IP connections, nothing in my Apache and proftpd logs. Any thoughts? Thanks for the help, Cheng
Re: NIS broken in unstable
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 09:57:36AM -0400, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: Hi, I just upgraded NIS on my machine (unstable w/2.4.4) and now it won't bind to the domain, so I'm basicly screwed... Anyone know what happened? -Jon Hi, There's apparently a problem with the unresolved rpc symbols in the new libc. You can check for yourself by doing 'ypserv -d'. There's also an open bug report at bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=97195repeatmerged=yes Currently the only workaround I've seen is to rebuild ypserv with the new libc. HHTH, Cheng
Mutt and NFS
Hi all, I have a question about running Mutt and NFS together. My current mail setup has procmail delivering mail to ~/mail and mutt reading the mail boxes from there. However, when I'm reading mail from my other box (which has /home mounted from NFS), mutt always open my mail-boxes read-only. I've read the Readme.NFS that came with mutt but would rather not have to mount the entire /home tree with the 'nolock' option. Also, the mutt FAQ says that I can get around this by configuring mutt using the '--with-homespool' option, but I haven't figure out how to do this. Any hints/advice? Both boxes are currently running unstable. Thanks in advance, Cheng
Re: ssh in woody?
I've build a new box, very basic. I did an upgrade to woody and now I try apt-get install ssh and it can't find a candidate??? Help? ssh is in the non-US part of Debian. To install it add a line like deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-non-US potato/non-US main contrib non-free to your sources.list file, and then run apt-get again. Hope this helps, Cheng
Mail receipts
Does anyone know how to configure either exim or mutt so that I can request and receive read receipts for my email? Thanks for any help in advance, Cheng
Re: DOS long filename style - why?
On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 02:21:12PM -0500, Ken Weingold wrote: Why are the filenames that I access on a mounted DOS partition shortened like you would see from within DOS? I thought it was only something DOS would display since it was incapable of seeing more than 8.3. You porbably mounted your filesystem as msdos instead of vfat. Cheng
Re: apache
anybody the debs of apache-common_1.3.13 or 1.3.12 and apache_1.3.13 or 1.3.12 left to mail me? libapache-mod-perl requires apache = 1.3.13 and woody's current version is 1.3.14 I think it's been fixed. mod-perl now works with 1.3.14. Cheng pgp1uZbY9YmmV.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: apache
On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 05:27:14PM +0100, Martin W?rtele wrote: snip apt-get install apache -s Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: apache-common libapache-mod-ssl php4 php4-domxml php4-gd php4-ldap php4-mysql php4-pgsql php4-xml The following packages will be REMOVED: libapache-mod-perl libapache-mod-speedycgi ^^ there's still the dependency problem :-( snip Oh, had that problem too. The way I solved it was to allow apt to remove the package and then run 'apt install libapache-mod-perl'. I don't know why but it refused to upgrade the mod-perl lib. for 1.3.13. Cheng pgpopqNWYYvqE.pgp Description: PGP signature
Sawfish default font color
How do I change my default font color in sawfish 0.34? I'm running dark-colored GTK Sawfish themes; in a lot of apps, like GnomeCal and Gnome Control Center, the text defaults to black and thus is impossible to see... I suspect that it has something to do with the 'default-foreground' variable. However, trying to change it to white through my .sawfishrc doesn't seem to work; when checking the value in sawfish-client, it is set to white, but the font is still black. Any solutions? Thanks in advance, Cheng
Re: Can't run X after upgrade
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 08:22:46PM -0700, JD Kitch wrote: snip X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting. snip For the recent XFree86 4.0.x package, check in /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config Set allowed_users=console. If you run xdm (or gdm), it has to be set to anybody Cheng
Re: Can't run X after upgrade
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 07:49:20PM -0800, Eric G . Miller wrote: On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 09:41:22PM -0600, Cheng H. Lee wrote: On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 08:22:46PM -0700, JD Kitch wrote: snip X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting. snip For the recent XFree86 4.0.x package, check in /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config Set allowed_users=console. If you run xdm (or gdm), it has to be set to anybody Are you sure about that? That would certainly be a change from previous versions of X. Mine says rootonly and gdm works fine... Yes...don't know about the reasoning behind the change. On my machine, it's set to anybody to allow me to run gdm and use startx. If it's set to console, gdm doesn't seem to work; setting it to rootonly prevents me from using startx. Also, I had a problem about gdm not respawning the X server properly after logging out when it was set to rootonly. anybody seems to be the only option that allows me to do both. YMMV. Cheng
Re: spidermonkey.helixcode.com down?
Yes, the site was down for a bit earlier today. It's back up now as of 1:40 a.m CST. Cheng Dear debian-users, I decided to take the plunge and add the HelixCode site to sources.list, and 'apt-get install task-helix-gnome task-helix-gnome-dev' -- I figured I might as well get up to date with Gnome and see how it is these days. I get some errors from apt-get of this nature (for about 5 packages): Err http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com unstable/main sawfish-gnome 0.33.1-helix2 404 Not Found Failed to fetch http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/distributions/debian/dists/woody/main/binary-i386/sawfish-gnome_0.33.1-helix2_i386.deb 404 Not Found Unable to correct missing packages. E: Aborting Install. I tried again, a couple times. Then I tried apt-get update just to make sure things were square, and the connection is timed out. Now I can't even ping spidermonkey. Am I just unlucky in my timing, or what? Anyone else seeing this? =wl
Re: configuring the kernel
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 07:27:28PM +0100, robert_wilhelm_land wrote: I'm searching for the IP_forwarding option in make xconfig to build up a new 2.2.17 kernel. The menu contains some IP forwarding experimental options, but I guess that is not what I would like to have. This mashine is supposed to enable other clients (on different C-class subnets) to access the internet - I assume routing is therefore required. Would someone help to clarify? The option you're looking for is CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE. There are also some other options related to this one that you might want to enable. The IP Masquerading HOWTO from the LDP will help you pick the correct kernel options. URL: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO.html Cheng
Re: Telent
On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 09:28:03PM -0800, Trainer wrote: I have a question. Is there some configuration that I need to make in order to telnet in to my Linux box. I have a static ip, and i can log on locally. I have the gateway configured. I get the log in thru telnet and enter root and then password. Everytime I get incorrect login I know this is not correct because i can log in locally. Can i use root to log in? I very new to Linux and Debian and need some advice. First off don't use telnet...use ssh instead. Telnet isn't secure at all because it's completely clear text. And yes, there are debs for the ssh system (but you'll need a non-US deb source). Once you've converted to ssh, edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config and set PermitRootLogin to yes. Personally, I wouldn't do that -- I have PermitRootLogin set to no for safety; this requires me to ssh in as a normal user then su to root. Cheng
Re: How to create /dev/gpmdata?
I can not find this device in /dev. Unfortunately, MAKEDEV does not know how to create it. I don't think you have to...when I setup gpm, it was created automatically. Cheng
Re: looking for the libssl095a file
To support the https protocol in Konqueror(KDE2) I need the libssl095a.deb file, it isn't in kde.tdyc.com site, someone knows where I can find? libssl095a is a non-US package (due to export restrictions). You'll have to grab it from one of the non-US sites, like ftp.de.debian.org I would suggest adding a non-US mirror to your sources.list just for convenience sake. Insert a line like this: deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free You can then 'apt-get libssl095a' to grab the package. Cheng
Re: Gnome window raisng question
On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 11:55:41AM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: I am seting up potato with Gnome and the Swafish WM. I am from a classic UNIX background, and have always used focus follows mouse And Click on border to raise window managemnet polices. How can I get this set up to act like that? In GNOME control center, there's a section for the sawfish window manager. Both of these settings are under the 'focus' sub-section. Cheng
Re: a few newbie questions
I'll do my best...hopefully someone will back me up... On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 10:12:39AM -0800, Tristan wrote: 1) After compiling a new kernel, when i boot up i get an error saying modprobe: can't locate module char-major-10-135 is this error serious how can i fix it? If I remember correctly from the kernel sources, this is a module used to deal with different code pages (i.e. handling different character sets). You can prevent modprobe from trying to load it by commenting out the appropriate line from /etc/modules.conf 2) Also when i boot up how do i disable a nfs and lpd service from starting automatically? Provided nfs is a user space daemon and not one built into the kernel -- change the symlinks in your /etc/rc2.d directory to stop these services instead of starting them. This is accomplished by changing the symlink from S* to K*. For example to stop the lp service, move /etc/rc2.d/S20lpd (or whatever it's called on your system) to /etc/rc2.d/K20lpd Simlarly, to stop NFS, move /etc/rc2.d/S20nfs-server (again, if that's what it's called on your system) to /etc/rc2.d/K20nfs-server 3) I just installed console-apt, what are the differences between console-apt and dselect (which one should i use?) Not sure what the exact differences are. Personally I prefer apt over dselect unless I'm not sure exactly what package(s) I'm looking for. In my experience, apt does a better job of checking for dependency problems. Hope this help, Cheng
Re: Gnome window raisng question
Give focus to windows even when they have not asked for it ? If not selected, you can click on a window, raise it, and it still won't have focus. Does click to focus mode pass the click through to the window (Well I don;t want click to focus mode) Just a word of caution: disabling pass the click through to the window can have some weird effects. I tried that once and windows stopped responding to mouse clicks... Raise windows when they are focuse (No, I don;t want that). Uncheck that. Focus follows mouse. Change the When does the mouse pointer affect the input focus option from click to either enter-exit or enter-only Windows are raised _only_ whne you click on the border. Wow...not really sure how or even if it can be done (I'm pretty sure it can). One other place that might have something to do with this is the 'shortcuts' section of the sawfish config tool. Unbinding the 'Button1-Click' and 'Button1-Up' events in the window and title context may solve your problem...again, a word of caution, this can possibly lead to some really weird behavior. Cheng
