Re: need proxy server that can auth to parent proxy server
On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 11:37, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: I have an app here that can handle a proxy, but not proxies that require authentication. I want to run a proxy proxy on my machine, that this app can connect to, and which will then connect to another proxy requiring auth - the only function needs to be to perform the additional auth step. Squid does that. Here is how the upstream proxy configuration looks like: cache_peer upstream proxy parent upstream proxy port 0 no-query default proxy-only login=user:pass #(all the above on one line) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Asking for ATA congiguration via debian.....
On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 11:21, Predesta Yudha wrote: Dear Sir Or Madam My name is Pri Desta Yudha, Male, 24 years old, Indonesian, student at Dept. Of Physics Majoring in Instrumentation Electronics, University Of Indonesia. I'm in last semester, today I get last assignment to graduate. My last assignment about using debian distro to build database system with mysql as database server in Dept Of Physics, University Of Indonesia. I got problem in ATA configuration, included memory, setting-up back-up dat for once in 24 hours, power-down back-up, etc.. on Debian. Can you help me to show how to config in Debian. My computer specs are... 1. P4 Intel Hyperthreading 2.4 GHz. 2. Asus Motherboard P4P800. 3. Harddisk 80 GB (2 HDD). Thanks for Debian Team... Sincerelly Yours Your question is very politely asked, and that's an excellent first step, but it is an very vague question on a very broad subject. I fear that you will not get the answers you a looking for. You will have much better chances of getting useful answers if you ask specific questions focused on a clearly identified problem for which you explain as precisely as possible the conditions in which the problem occurs. More specifically in your case it is unclear what you mean by ATA configuration and you fail to describe any problem. Ask the question again in different terms and you will get better answers. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: how to change beep noise
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 23:08, Daniel Edmund Davison wrote: Hi, I've just installed debian woody on a HPze1230 laptop. The beep noise it is making on ambiguous file-completions, new mail, etc is very loud. The keyboard volume-changing and muting keys are not recognised. Is there an alteration I can make within debian to change/disable this noise? Disabling the beep noise : 'xset b 0 100 10' signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?
On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 17:11, Mental Patient wrote: I found myself using imagemagic often to manipulate photos taken with a digital camera. I use nautilus/gnome as my desktop environment. After a while it got annoying to have to keep dropping into a shell to rotate, scale or montage the picture(s). So I wrote a couple pygtk scripts and put them in the scripts dir for nautilus. So now I can select a bunch of pictures, right click and send them to the wrapper. Up pops a gtk2 interface that I can use to set options like rotational direction, or filetype to output as a montage. It fits in with the rest of the desktop and I dont have to keep opening/closing terminals. Very interesting. Are your scripts distributed somewhere ? signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Flash and Java in mozilla-firebird ?
I thought I had everything set to get Java and Flash in mozilla-firebird but it is actually not the case. I followed advice from various pages fished from Google, downloaded the JRE package and the non-free flashplugin package, and I put the right simlinks in /usr/lib/mozilla-firebird/plugins : lukeme:/usr/lib/mozilla-firebird/plugins# ls -al total 29 drwxr-xr-x2 root root 280 Sep 15 14:28 . drwxr-xr-x9 root root 1384 Sep 15 14:28 .. lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 43 Sep 2 18:03 flashplayer.so - /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/flashplayer.so lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 44 Sep 2 18:03 flashplayer.xpt - /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/flashplayer.xpt lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 59 Sep 2 18:04 javaplugin_oji.so - /usr/lib/j2se/1.4/jre/plugin/i386/mozilla/javaplugin_oji.so lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 42 Jul 15 00:10 libmozilla_bonobo.so - ../../mozilla/plugins/libmozilla_bonobo.so -rw-r--r--1 root root20816 Sep 14 08:44 libnullplugin.so lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 29 Jul 22 10:11 raclass.zip - ../../RealPlayer8/raclass.zip lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 25 Jul 22 10:11 rpnp.so - ../../RealPlayer8/rpnp.so But since it is not working there is certainly something else I need to do. May somebody please enlighten me ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cyrus Could not shut down filedescriptor...
On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 15:56, Jogi Hofmller wrote: Hi! * Jean-Marc V. Liotier [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-08-06 15:31]: Aug 4 10:43:25 localhost cyrus/imapd[10867]: Could not shut down filedescriptor 0: Bad file descriptor Aug 4 10:43:25 localhost cyrus/imapd[10867]: Could not shut down filedescriptor 1: Bad file descriptor Aug 4 10:43:25 localhost cyrus/imapd[10867]: Could not shut down filedescriptor 2: Bad file descriptor I found nothing with Google. Does anyone know what this is about ? Look at the thread from info-cyrus. I found an archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/thrd2.html#13109 From what I read, the Error is 'harmless' ... Thanks to Henrique and Jogi for the answers. Time to update my logcheck.ignore ! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-get -d is cool, but now to install them
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 05:07, Dan Jacobson wrote: Alas, after a lot of apt-get -d's during the previous connection, the only way to use apt-get (not dpkg) to then install them seems to be: set -- `find /var/cache/apt/archives -name \*.deb -cmin -60 -print| sed '[EMAIL PROTECTED]/@@;s/_.*//'`; apt-get install $@ 'apt-get upgrade' 'apt-get -d' puts the packages in the cache (/var/cache/apt/archives). So the next time you run 'apt-get upgrade' it will only download packages that are not already there. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cnews or inn2 ?
I need to set up a handful of local only groups for workgroup collaboration. I have no experience with NNTP administration whatsoever although I'm getting reasonably comfortable with mail/web/etc. server administration. Which software should I use ? cnews and inn2 both seem to be good choices with different features/complexity compromises, but I would welcome more information about their respective merits. Also, I am running all authentication from a LDAP tree. Is it possible for cnews or inn2 to authenticate from LDAP ? If not, I guess I'll export LDAP data to a text file as the NNTP server sees fit, but that would not be as nice. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
slapd upgrade from 2.0.27-4 to 2.1.22-1 is a catastrophe
I have a testing system (with a handful of packages pinned to unstable). During the upgrade I performed today, slapd went from 2.0.27-4 to 2.1.22-1. The result is catastrophic : - Postfix no longer works properly (I am using ldap virtual maps) - The upgrade process produced a bunch of errors I do not understand but that seem to correlate with LDAP tree migration problems. Here is what I got from the installation process : --- Dumping directory to /var/backups/ldap/2.0.27-4/slapd-dc=ruwenzori,dc=net-slapcat.ldif with new slapcat... /etc/ldap/slapd.conf: line 53: unknown directive defaultaccess in ldbm database definition (ignored) done dn: ou=People,dc=ruwenzori,dc=net Missing RDN [A bunch of additional 'Missing RDN' errors] dn: cn=stephanie,cn=valdmann.com,ou=Mail,dc=ruwenzori,dc=net Mismatched RDN: cn=sva [A bunch of additional assorted 'Missing RDN' and 'Mismatched RDN' errors] Use of uninitialized value in scalar assignment at /usr/share/slapd/fix_ldif line 613, chunk 86. Moving old database files to /var/backups/ldap/2.0.27-4/... done Recreating directory from /var/backups/ldap/2.0.27-4/slapd-dc=ruwenzori,dc=net-slapcat.ldif.fixed... /etc/ldap/slapd.conf: line 53: unknown directive defaultaccess in ldbm database definition (ignored) /etc/ldap/slapd.conf: line 53: unknown directive defaultaccess in ldbm database definition (ignored) done Starting OpenLDAP: slapd. --- slapd is started, but large chunks (I would say most) of my LDAP tree did not get through the conversion process that apparently happened during the installation. In addition I have no idea what a RDN is and I can't find the information. If anyone has a clue I would be happy if they shared it here. Postfix keeps bitching about LDAP being broken, but I guess it is just the effect of the slapd setup being very broken, so I guess I should not pay attention to those messages and focus on getting my LDAP tree back online in proper shape. Jul 25 16:32:39 localhost postfix/nqmgr[9980]: fatal: load_library_symbols: dlopen failure loading /usr/lib/postfix/dict_ldap.so: /usr/lib/postfix/dict_ldap.so: undefined symbol: ldap_url_search_st Jul 25 16:32:39 localhost postfix/cleanup[9979]: fatal: load_library_symbols: dlopen failure loading /usr/lib/postfix/dict_ldap.so: /usr/lib/postfix/dict_ldap.so: undefined symbol: ldap_url_search_st Jul 25 16:32:40 localhost postfix/master[7767]: warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/cleanup pid 9979 exit status 1 Jul 25 16:32:40 localhost postfix/master[7767]: warning: /usr/lib/postfix/cleanup: bad command startup -- throttling Jul 25 16:32:40 localhost postfix/master[7767]: warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/nqmgr pid 9980 exit status 1 Jul 25 16:32:40 localhost postfix/master[7767]: warning: /usr/lib/postfix/nqmgr: bad command startup -- throttling Jul 25 16:32:56 localhost postfix/smtpd[10001]: fatal: load_library_symbols: dlopen failure loading /usr/lib/postfix/dict_ldap.so: /usr/lib/postfix/dict_ldap.so: undefined symbol: ldap_url_search_st Jul 25 16:32:57 localhost postfix/master[7767]: warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/smtpd pid 10001 exit status 1 Jul 25 16:32:57 localhost postfix/master[7767]: warning: /usr/lib/postfix/smtpd: bad command startup -- throttling I guess the quick fix would be to downgrade to slapd 2.0.27-4 but I can't find the package with that version. Has anyone got an archive with old packages ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: slapd upgrade from 2.0.27-4 to 2.1.22-1 is a catastrophe
On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 17:23, Jean-Marc V. Liotier wrote: I have a testing system (with a handful of packages pinned to unstable). During the upgrade I performed today, slapd went from 2.0.27-4 to 2.1.22-1. The result is catastrophic : - Postfix no longer works properly (I am using ldap virtual maps) - The upgrade process produced a bunch of errors I do not understand but that seem to correlate with LDAP tree migration problems. Here is what I got from Stephen Frost on debian-openldap. His answer is very interesting. --- Dumping directory to /var/backups/ldap/2.0.27-4/slapd-dc=ruwenzori,dc=net-slapcat.ldif with new slapcat... /etc/ldap/slapd.conf: line 53: unknown directive defaultaccess in ldbm database definition (ignored) done dn: ou=People,dc=ruwenzori,dc=net This is kind of odd.. It sounds like the slapd.preinst script was unable to slapcat the database with the 2.0.27-4 slapcat- not a good sign. Once you move back to 2.0.27-4 you might shut down your database and see what happens when you run slapcat on it, it *should* work but if it doesn't it could definitely cause problems during upgrade. [A bunch of additional assorted 'Missing RDN' and 'Mismatched RDN' errors] The fix_ldif script is having a great deal of trouble performing the migration from your old LDAP tree to a new compliant LDAP tree. The underlying problem is that the new version of slapd is much more picky about schema's and proper form than the old version so we're trying to fix old 2.0 LDIF's to be compliant. Obviously this doesn't work in all cases. slapd is started, but large chunks (I would say most) of my LDAP tree did not get through the conversion process that apparently happened Unfortunately you may have to perform the conversion process yourself. I'm willing to help and if we can fix things so that the conversion process works for you that's great but it might not be possible to do in a general way... Postfix keeps bitching about LDAP being broken, but I guess it is just the effect of the slapd setup being very broken, so I guess I should not pay attention to those messages and focus on getting my LDAP tree back online in proper shape. I expect the slapd database is, as you said, missing alot of things that postfix is looking for which is what postfix is complaining about. I guess the quick fix would be to downgrade to slapd 2.0.27-4 but I can't find the package with that version. Has anyone got an archive with old packages ? There's always http://snapshot.debian.net/ (http://snapshot.debian.net/archive/2003/07/10/debian/pool/main/o/openldap2/ appears to have 2.0.27-4 packages). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: slapd upgrade from 2.0.27-4 to 2.1.22-1 is a catastrophe
The conversion process needed to make our tree acceptable to recent versions of slapd not being something I am going to embark upon on a Friday evening, downgrading to version 2.0.27-4 seems the most reasonable course of action. After having wiped the partly upgraded setup and installed the various 2.0.27-4 packets I loaded my backup LDIF, relaunched postfix and everything is now fine. On Monday, I will take a look at what the conversion process and try to understand why the fix_ldif script barfs on it. Well, that was the short story. Here is the real story for the benefit of other clueless users like me who want to know what actually happened. The truth is that I'm a telecommunications marketing consultant with a very superficial understanding of proper systems administration and a clueless LDAP newbie to boot, and I ended up taking care of the damage control today because all the really competent people are either staffed 200% or on vacation, so I had to learn LDAP administration basics in the process and get to know the tools along the way with a fair bit of trial and error. And I started with downgrading just slapd to 2.0.27-4 and found myself wondering why slapd kept on dying and the tools would not talk to it, only to finally understand after a bit of hair pulling that the system was not going to work unless everything was 2.0.27-4. But I succeeded, had fun along the way and now find myself with a nice varnish of LDAP skills. So let that be an encouragement to the other clueless newbies around : don't let that stuff intimidate you too much, you only need to know how to read, and some degree of patience... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Activating vim color?
On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 07:36, Miranda, Joel Louie M wrote: Im using vi and I switch to vim, I was wondering what r the syntax to active the color codes? Its just black n white. Im coding and I wasn hoping I can activate the colors. The command is 'syntax enable'. To make colorization permanent, insert the following line in your .vimrc : syntax on -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Console password generator
On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 10:24, Miranda, Joel Louie M wrote: Im not sure if debian package has a password generator. Do we have one? I think I saw one but I couldn't figure where. Package: makepasswd Description: Generate and encrypt passwords Generates true random passwords by using the /dev/random feature of Linux, with the emphasis on security over pronounceability. It can also encrypt plaintext passwords given on the command line. You can also try : mkpasswd (1) - Overfeatured front end to crypt(3) mkpasswd is contained in the whois package. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Office soulution
On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 04:26, Hanasaki JiJi wrote: apt-get install ooqstart-gnome = quick starter from sarge doesnt look like there is a package to install openoffice directly ooqstart-gnome does not quickstart the install, it keeps an openoffice thread in memory at all times so that documents are opened very fast. If you have sufficient RAM, it is very convenient because otherwise openoffice is really slow to launch. The Openoffice package is openoffice.org Why .org ? I have no idea, but it's Openoffice for you. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Ethernet problems: old 3c509b card is having overrun and errors
On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 14:29, Jason M. Harvey wrote: actually, i had the same exact problem! mine was an isa 3com, i think the 3c509c... Me too, I had two 3c509 ISA (out of the three I had) die in similar ways in the few last weeks. I guess they are beginning to show their age. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: ssh keys from two behind-the-firewall boxes?
On Sat, 2003-02-01 at 01:55, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 06:08:31PM -0600, will trillich wrote: doing the ssh-keygen thing works like a charm; you copy your private keys to the remote box and then just slap it into your ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file and poof, no more passwords! so now you can run ssh-driven scripts without having to worry about the username/password interruption. Does anyone have a FAQ on how to set this all up? Below is what worked for me. I think that it may vary according to the version of the SSH protocol that you want to use, but it works like that on a stock Debian unstable. # On the local host : ssh-keygen -t dsa -f id_dsa # When prompted for a password, just press 'enter'. scp id_dsa.pub [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/ # On the remote host : test -d ~/.ssh || mkdir ~/.ssh chmod 700 ~/.ssh cd ~/.ssh touch authorized_keys2 cat ~/id_dsa.pub authorized_keys2 chmod 640 authorized_keys2 rm -f ~/id_dsa.pub That's it, you are set with passwordless SSH. Taking advantage of ssh-agent to avoid using passwordless keys would be the next evolutionary step, but I'm not there yet and I am already very happy to be able to script scp, rsync and unison sessions, and to be able to login everywhere without repetitive keyboard entry. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: running a command on many files in many subdirectories
On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 23:56, Levi Waldron wrote: I'm sure this is simple, but maybe someone here can help me do it in a few minutes instead of hours. I have a bunch of files in a bunch of directories, and I want to run the same command on each of them. For each input file, the output file should have the same name except ending in .txt, and the output files should be put a common directory. ie, Here is something I wrote to do batch Imagemagick conversion on a whole tree of image while taking advantage of multiple processors if available. Maybe some of the techniques used could be transposed in your context. files=`find . -name '*.tif' -print | wc -l | tail -c 2 | head -c 1` cpu=`grep processor /proc/cpuinfo | wc -l | tail -c 2 | head -c 1` nnumber=`expr $files / $cpu` find . -name '*.tif' -print | sed -e 's/ /\\ /g' | sed -e 's/(/\\(/g' | sed -e 's/)/\\)/g' | xargs -P $cpu -n $nnumber mogrify -format png signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Passwordless SSH still asks for password when remote usernamediffers
Here is what I did : # Local end : cd ~/.ssh # Enter an empty password when prompted by the following command ssh-keygen -t dsa -f id_dsa scp id_dsa.pub remote.end.net:~/.ssh # Repeat last command for all remote ends # Remote ends cd ~/.ssh touch authorized_keys2 cat id_dsa.pub authorized_keys2 chmod 640 authorized_keys2 rm -f id_dsa.pub # Local end : ssh remote.end.net # Look ma, no password ! Works great between various hosts where I have the same username. But when I want to connect to a host where my username is different (ssh -l differentusername other.remote.end.net) I am still asked for a password. I log on fine, but it is annoying to be unable to enjoy passwordless SSH, SCP and Unison just because I could not get an account with my usual username. Can anybody point me toward a solution ? signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Passwordless SSH still asks for password when remote usernamediffers
On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 16:54, Colin Watson wrote: On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 04:34:44PM +0100, Jean-Marc V. Liotier wrote: Please show the output of 'ssh -vvv -l differentusername other.remote.end.net'. It works for me ... Actually, only one remote host exhibits the behavior. Other hosts work fine, even across platforms (Irix and Debian). The culprit is a Debian host. And the refusal to log me on without asking for a password is independent of the username. So my initial question was completely off... Apologies for the false trail. So I am guessing this is a wrongly configured option in /etc/sshd_config on the remote host. Maybe it refuses the public key authentication, or the keys are wrong... I went through the /etc/ssh/sshd_config but I don't quite understand it enough to find what could be wrong. If anyone has a clue, it is welcome. Kisangani% ssh -vvv [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenSSH_3.5p1 Debian 1:3.5p1-4.1, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0x0090700f debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config debug1: Applying options for * debug1: Rhosts Authentication disabled, originating port will not be trusted. debug1: ssh_connect: needpriv 0 debug1: Connecting to tethys.jipo.org [194.206.11.154] port 22. debug1: Connection established. debug1: identity file /home/jim/.ssh/identity type -1 debug1: identity file /home/jim/.ssh/id_rsa type -1 debug3: Not a RSA1 key file /home/jim/.ssh/id_dsa. debug2: key_type_from_name: unknown key type '-BEGIN' debug3: key_read: no key found debug3: key_read: no space debug3: key_read: no space debug3: key_read: no space debug3: key_read: no space debug3: key_read: no space debug3: key_read: no space debug3: key_read: no space debug3: key_read: no space debug3: key_read: no space debug3: key_read: no space debug2: key_type_from_name: unknown key type '-END' debug3: key_read: no key found debug1: identity file /home/jim/.ssh/id_dsa type -1 debug1: Remote protocol version 1.99, remote software version OpenSSH_3.4p1 Debian 1:3.4p1-1 debug1: match: OpenSSH_3.4p1 Debian 1:3.4p1-1 pat OpenSSH* debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0 debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_3.5p1 Debian 1:3.5p1-4.1 debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT received debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha1,diffie-hellman-group1-sha1 debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: ssh-rsa,ssh-dss debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: aes128-cbc,3des-cbc,blowfish-cbc,cast128-cbc,arcfour,aes192-cbc,aes256-cbc,[EMAIL PROTECTED] debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: aes128-cbc,3des-cbc,blowfish-cbc,cast128-cbc,arcfour,aes192-cbc,aes256-cbc,[EMAIL PROTECTED] debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: hmac-md5,hmac-sha1,hmac-ripemd160,[EMAIL PROTECTED],hmac-sha1-96,hmac-md5-96 debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: hmac-md5,hmac-sha1,hmac-ripemd160,[EMAIL PROTECTED],hmac-sha1-96,hmac-md5-96 debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: none,zlib debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: none,zlib debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: first_kex_follows 0 debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: reserved 0 debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha1,diffie-hellman-group1-sha1 debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: ssh-rsa,ssh-dss debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: aes128-cbc,3des-cbc,blowfish-cbc,cast128-cbc,arcfour,aes192-cbc,aes256-cbc,[EMAIL PROTECTED] debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: aes128-cbc,3des-cbc,blowfish-cbc,cast128-cbc,arcfour,aes192-cbc,aes256-cbc,[EMAIL PROTECTED] debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: hmac-md5,hmac-sha1,hmac-ripemd160,[EMAIL PROTECTED],hmac-sha1-96,hmac-md5-96 debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: hmac-md5,hmac-sha1,hmac-ripemd160,[EMAIL PROTECTED],hmac-sha1-96,hmac-md5-96 debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: none,zlib debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: none,zlib debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: first_kex_follows 0 debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: reserved 0 debug2: mac_init: found hmac-md5 debug1: kex: server-client aes128-cbc hmac-md5 none debug2: mac_init: found hmac-md5 debug1: kex: client-server aes128-cbc hmac-md5 none debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REQUEST sent debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_GROUP debug1: dh_gen_key: priv key bits set: 135/256 debug1: bits set: 1608/3191 debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_INIT sent debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REPLY debug3: check_host_in_hostfile: filename /home/jim/.ssh/known_hosts debug2: key_type_from_name: unknown key type '1024' debug3: key_read: no key found debug3: check_host_in_hostfile: match line 3 debug3: check_host_in_hostfile: filename /home/jim/.ssh/known_hosts debug2: key_type_from_name: unknown key type '1024' debug3: key_read: no key found debug3: check_host_in_hostfile: match line 3 debug1: Host 'tethys.jipo.org' is known and matches the RSA host key. debug1: Found key in /home/jim/.ssh/known_hosts:3 debug1: bits set: 1565/3191 debug1: ssh_rsa_verify: signature correct debug1: kex_derive_keys debug1: newkeys: mode 1 debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent debug1: waiting for SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS debug1: newkeys: mode 0 debug1
Re: Passwordless SSH still asks for password when remote usernamediffers
On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 18:02, Christian Jaeger wrote: Make sure that the user's home dir on the remote host is not group writeable (and the .ssh subdir as well). sshd does some checks before using some files. Yes, that was it. 'chmod 700 ~/.ssh' on the remote host solved the problem. Thanks to you and to Colin for your help ! signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Passwordless SSH still asks for password when remote usernamediffers
On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 18:04, Jean-Marc V. Liotier wrote: On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 18:02, Christian Jaeger wrote: Make sure that the user's home dir on the remote host is not group writeable (and the .ssh subdir as well). sshd does some checks before using some files. Yes, that was it. 'chmod 700 ~/.ssh' on the remote host solved the problem. Thanks to you and to Colin for your help ! While I'm at it, here is my revised recipe fort passwordless SSH. Next step : use ssh-agent... But that is going to be another story. For now : # Local end : cd ~/.ssh # Enter an empty password when prompted by the following command ssh-keygen -t dsa -f id_dsa scp id_dsa.pub [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/.ssh # Repeat last command for all remote ends # Remote end test -d .ssh || mkdir .ssh chmod 700 ~/.ssh cd ~/.ssh touch authorized_keys2 cat id_dsa.pub authorized_keys2 chmod 640 authorized_keys2 rm -f id_dsa.pub # Local end : ssh -l user remote.end.net # Look ma, no password ! signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Drive errors
On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 23:42, Pigeon wrote:
On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 10:06:01AM -0500, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote:
I have been running the same woody box for more then 2 years, and I
just got the following message:
hda: timeout waiting for DMA
hda: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
hda: timeout waiting for DMA
hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
hda: DMA disabled
ide0: reset: success
I seem to remember (the archives were no help) that someone had
suggested that this may be a bad drive? Everything seems to be working
now, but if this drive is on it's way out, I would rather replace it
now before it's completely dead...
I just had this (on a CD-RW rather than an HD). Ten minutes later the
drive lost its ability to drive the sled and loading motors. It's
completely f**ked now. So yeah, I'd be worried.
Same experience here : an old IDE hard drive began producing these
errors under load a few days before dying completely. Your disk is
probably going to die soon. Back it up NOW if you can, and maybe
throttle the backup so that it does not stress the disk too hard - a
final crash while backing up would sure be a pity.
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Re: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related careers/schooling?
On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 23:31, Pigeon wrote: On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 07:52:21PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: [1] Bicycle with cargo trailers can move anything. I've moved a sofa and a fridge with them myself, though had to rent larger trailers. I've moved a fridge by strapping it on the carrier. This made the bike possible to ride, but impossible to push. You want a Tchoukoudou ! http://clignot.antville.org/stories/102758/##comments Who would have guessed that a discussion on debian-user would drift so far to get me to post a link about those Congolese wooden bicycles ? They have wooden wheels and routinely carry 400 to 500 kg on the slopes of the Great Lakes volcanoes. Online ordering is presently not possible... signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: kill with regex?
On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 00:22, Michael Wardle wrote: On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 02:40, Hugh Saunders wrote: ps x gives a list of xine's which i would like to kill My preferred method is: $ kill `ps -C xine -o pid=` OR $ ps -C xine -o pid= | xargs kill This is subtly different from the other suggestions (such as killall xine), as it kills anything beginning with xine. This is very useful for killing evolution and its components when a major error occurs. 'killev' is specially made to properly kill evolution and its components. That's the way evo's developers meant it to be killed. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: apt-get remove exim .... wants to remove more?
On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 18:54, Andy wrote: I want to install qmail to give it a test drive and thought it might be a good thing to remove exim. But look at all that will be removed below Why does Debian want to remove all those other packages? steelhead:~# apt-get remove exim Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: anacron apache at exim leafnode logrotate mailagent mailx mutt qpopper samba swat Run dselect. First select qmail, and then deselect exim. That way, the smtp dependency will remain satisfied. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Gnome 2 + Sarge : Which window manager?
AFAIK metacity is the WM favored by the Gnome project. I'm using it on several stations and it is quite satisfactory except for a minor refresh problem when switching workspaces. There are other Gnome compatible WM, this one is a sober one that seems to focus on not getting in the way of the Gnome desktop environment and does it quite well. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: CDROM's headphone jack old-fashioned?
On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 21:36, Dan Jacobson wrote: Take my RICOH CD-R/RW MP7080A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive, which seems to have difficulty often realizing that a cd had been inserted. Anyway, say I retire it. Can it then play CDs without a computer around? Yes, but the controls are very rudimentary. Plug a power supply into your CD drive, put a CD audio in the tray, plug headphones into the front panel jack socket, press play and you will hear the music. Sometimes, pressing play continuously will fast forward and pressing play just once skips one track. To stop, press the eject button. On top of the inconvenience, the output quality will probably suck. But nothing stops you from doing it. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: LAN IPv6 global connectivity HOWTO
On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 19:52, Jeremy T. Bouse wrote: [..] Your construction of the EUI-64 is off a bit... [..] Thanks a million for your explanation : turns out I had really not understood how to produce an address. As a result, I rewrote sections 6.1 Setting up the router's LAN interface and 6.2 Setting up the stateless autoconfiguration server. Writing a howto is a good way to make sure you really understand the subject... The updated and corrected version is still at the same place : http://www.jipo.org/jim/Jims_LAN_IPv6_global_connectivity_howto.html Now I think that it can really be an useful resource for newcomers to IPv6. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
LAN IPv6 global connectivity HOWTO
Hello, I am a Debian user and I recently set up IPv6 access for my LAN. Finding easily accessible documentation targeting the neophyte that I am was quite difficult so I decided to document my setup. http://www.jipo.org/jim/Jims_LAN_IPv6_global_connectivity_howto.html I hope it will be useful to some. I welcome any comments. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: IMAP recommendations
On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 17:03, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: 1. Install cyrus21-imapd, cyrus21-admin, sasl2-bin, cyrus21-pop3d, cyrus21-clients 2. for i in all your users ; do saslpasswd2 -c $i ; done 3. vi /etc/imapd.conf, edit at least the admins line, and make sure whatever you have for an admin has been saslpasswd2 -c'ed. (default would be user cyrus) 4. cyradm --user admin localhost (change admin to whatever your admin is) cm user.thefirstuser cm user.theseconduser ... 5. That's it. If it is so straightforward, it is indeed very nice. But what about if I want to interface a local Postfix to it ? I can't get Postfix to talk to Cyrus, so if there is a recipe as simple as the one you give for Cyrus alone I will be very happy... signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: smbfs just isn't there
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 16:52, Tim Verry wrote: I have a pentium 200, non mmx. Do I need i586 or can I use i686? You must choose i586, mmx or not. Same for the K6. i686 would PPro upwards. From the kernel doc, a few widely used conventions of varying relevance to the current topic : Here are the settings recommended for greatest speed - 386 for the AMD/Cyrix/Intel 386DX/DXL/SL/SLC/SX, Cyrix/TI 486DLC/DLC2, UMC 486SX-S and NexGen Nx586. Only 386 kernels will run on a 386 class machine. - 486 for the AMD/Cyrix/IBM/Intel 486DX/DX2/DX4 or SL/SLC/SLC2/SLC3/SX/SX2 and UMC U5D or U5S. - 586 for generic Pentium CPUs, possibly lacking the TSC(time stamp counter) register. - Pentium-Classic for the Intel Pentium. - Pentium-MMX for the Intel Pentium MMX. - Pentium-Pro for the Intel Pentium Pro/Celeron/Pentium II. - Pentium-III for the Intel Pentium III and Celerons based on the Coppermine core. - Pentium-4 for the Intel Pentium 4. - K6 for the AMD K6, K6-II and K6-III (aka K6-3D). - Athlon for the AMD K7 family (Athlon/Duron/Thunderbird). - Elan for the AMD Elan family (Elan SC400/SC410). - Crusoe for the Transmeta Crusoe series. - Winchip-C6 for original IDT Winchip. - Winchip-2 for IDT Winchip 2. - Winchip-2A for IDT Winchips with 3dNow! capabilities. - CyrixIII for VIA Cyrix III or VIA C3. If you don't know what to do, choose 386. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: apt-get upgrade : many not found files
On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 15:01, Francois Chenais wrote: I'm using sid and one of my source server is ftp.uk.debian.org. The apt-get upgrade can't upgrade 54 packages because of 404 not found error ?? Why does the update works fine and the upgrade fails ? From what you describe, it looks like they are probably in the middle of updating their mirror. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Setting gtkhtml language in Gnome 2 ?
I just made the transition to Gnome 2 (losing my multi-gnome-terminal settings and panel applets and launchers despite a program pretending to convert my existing setup - not that I wasn't expecting something like that to happen, but it's still not nice). I had a look in the new gnome-control-center and did not find the settings of the gtkhtml component. I used to go to this place to change the language : that was the way to get Evolution to spellcheck in the language of my choice. Now, gnome-control-center is devoid of anything like that and since Evolution has no menu entry for switching languages there is no way for me to do it. Has anyone any idea of where to do ? On a more general level, why was gnome-control-center stripped of so many entries ? I can understand the need for simplicity, but still I don't see how losing existing controls can be good : even the Pilot settings have disappeared ! signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Metacity incomplete screen refresh on switching workspace
While dselecting my way to gnome2 in unstable, I decided to have a look at metacity (2.4.1-1) since the gnome guys seem to recommend it. The good thing it that it really does not pretend to do more than manage windows (but I guess that's a matter of personal taste). The bad thing is that when switching between workspaces, the new workspace is badly refreshed : parts of the screen are correctly refreshed, but others are not. See http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~jml/Metacity_workspace_switch_incomplete_refresh.png A bit of clicking and scrolling around gets me a refresh, but it slows me down quite a bit. Is it a bug with Metacity, of did I configure something badly ? At least it does not crash anymore... signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Galeon crash (continued)
On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 15:28, Victor Munoz wrote: I receive a message like this: Application /usr/bin/galeon-bin (process 325) has crashed due to a fatal error (Segmentation fault). And today I noticed I also get a message in standard output, if I have a terminal open: Gtk-CRITICAL ** file gtkmain.c:line 582 (gtk_main_quit): assertion main_loops !=NULL failed. I'm not sure this is your exact problem, but it looks similar. On startup, Galeon was exiting with : ** CRITICAL **: file /home/erich/debian/galeon/galeon-1.2.6/src/mozilla/mozilla.cpp: line 134 (gboolean mozilla_preference_set(const char *, const char *)): assertion `new_value != NULL' failed. ** ERROR **: file /home/erich/debian/galeon/galeon-1.2.6/src/main.c: line 789 (galeon_exit): assertion failed: (g_list_length (all_embeds) == 0) I posted a bug : http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92315 It has been classified as a duplicate of another entry : http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86312 The solution is to delete your .galeon directory, or better rename it .galeon.bak so you can restore your bookmarks and cookies later. Restart galeon, go through the first run wizard and you'll be fine thereafter. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Saying thanks [was: Debian equivalent of .login file?]
On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 00:15, Colin Watson wrote: On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 06:12:38PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you! Is it considered polite to post a thank-you message, or is this unnecessary email traffic? IMHO it's nice to see that people's problems have been solved. It makes a change from aargh, it's all gone horribly wrong. :-) Not only nice, but also very usefull : when posting, always keep in mind that everything eventually ends up in online archives that will be used by a readership much larger than the relatively small group of list subscribers. So when your problem has been solved, by all means do notify the list of which solution was the correct one. When I trawl the archives for a solution to a problem, this is something I always find a very valuable time saver. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: a good file manager - any suggestions?
On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 10:56, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: it has been almost a week since i shifted to linux and it has been wonderful. one thing that i am missing is a file manager like explorer. two paned. left side tree, right side contents of directory. I once wanted the same thing and kept being repeatedly frustrated by nautilus, gmc and countless others. Then I discovered gentoo. Once I had overcome my former addiction to two paned. left side tree, right side contents of directory interfaces and impregnated myself with the Norton Commander way, I found out I had become noticeably more productive in dealing with file shuffling, especially when took upon myself to memorize some basic regular expression syntax : regex file selection is wonderful ! It's very fast, very clean, very configurable and I have always found it's default behavior to be remarkably consistent. If it just had a few more file types recognized in the default install and if the default program associations were in harmony with the rest of the desktop it would be even better although that's nothing that you can't fix yourselves as you encounter unknown types. apt-cache show gentoo Description: A fully GUI configurable X file manager using GTK+ gentoo is a file manager for X11, written from scratch in pure C. It utilises the GTK+ toolkit for its interface. A goal with gentoo is to let the user do all configuration from within the program itself; there should be no need to hand-edit configuration files and restart the program in order to customize it. gentoo features a fairly complex and powerful file identification system, coupled to a object-oriented style system, which together give you a lot of control over how files of different types are displayed and acted upon. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: PPT files
On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 12:41, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Does Debian provide a tool for reading PPT files ? Openoffice works fine. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: how to use NT's shared files?
On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 13:22, Amir Tal wrote: On Friday 27 September 2002 11:25, John Joe wrote: i have a Linux PC on a LAN. i want to use shared files in NT server. how to do that? read about smbclient. Or if you are GUI minded, take a look at komba or gnomba. Works well to mount SMB shares with a couple of mouse clicks. Compared to Windows network neighborhood, the discovery behaviour is much more consistent, especially since you can force the scanning of specific subnets or IPs. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: No menus and weird field size in Openoffice
On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 06:29, lgeralds wrote: I might have a cleaner solution than you posted to the newsgroup. su cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType ln -s /usr/share/fonts/truetype/*.ttf ./ You don't even have to restart X to get ttfs and OO.org working. /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType had the correct fonts.* files. It was missing the fonts. Good luck. Thanks. For now, the dirty solution works, but I post yours to debian-users and debian-openoffice. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: No menus and weird field size in Openoffice
On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 10:11, Larry Geralds wrote: Jean-Marc V. Liotier wrote: On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 06:29, lgeralds wrote: I might have a cleaner solution than you posted to the newsgroup. su cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType ln -s /usr/share/fonts/truetype/*.ttf ./ You don't even have to restart X to get ttfs and OO.org working. /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType had the correct fonts.* files. It was missing the fonts. Good luck. Thanks. For now, the dirty solution works, but I post yours to debian-users and debian-openoffice. After I sent you the message I found out that I was not accessing some tt fonts I had, so for good measure I did the following while in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType: ttmkfdir fonts.scale mkfontdir /etc/init.d/xfs-xtt force-reload /etc/init.d/xfs restart Thanks again, but try to post your findings to the lists instead of sending them directly to me. This way, more people can benefit from them. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
No menus and weird field size in Openoffice
When I launch Openoffice, wether spreadsheet or word processor, the menu bar is not visible and all fields have really weird sizes (either so tiny one does not see what is in the field, or so big it takes most of the screen). Document opened with it are displayed and it responds to keyboard shortcuts, but the GUI is completely unusable. I really have no idea what to do. I would have said that GTK could be the culprit, but other GTK apps work fine. I'm puzzled. Has anyone ever seen such thing ? signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: No menus and weird field size in Openoffice
On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 15:05, Jean-Marc V. Liotier wrote: When I launch Openoffice, wether spreadsheet or word processor, the menu bar is not visible and all fields have really weird sizes (either so tiny one does not see what is in the field, or so big it takes most of the screen). Document opened with it are displayed and it responds to keyboard shortcuts, but the GUI is completely unusable. I really have no idea what to do. I would have said that GTK could be the culprit, but other GTK apps work fine. I'm puzzled. Has anyone ever seen such thing ? I forgot to mention : I'm running unstable and I update every day. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: GUI front-end for writing CD audio to CD-R?
On Fri, 2002-05-17 at 16:18, Mike Frisch wrote: On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 12:26:40AM -0700, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: MP3 to WAV, I use xmms with the disk writer output plugin. For the burning process itself, I use cdroast. I am trying to make it a one-step process, instead of two. mp3burn is a simple command line tool for making audio CDs from mp3s without filling up your disk with .wav files. It requires perl, mpg123, and cdrecord. There are also a few GUI frontends to mp3burn; pick favorite widget set: Xmp3burn, Kmp3burn, and Gtkmp3burn. http://mp3burn.sourceforge.net/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: No certificate files found with proftpd on woody
On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 11:49, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: -- what is this No certificate files found error ? Any idea ? It's most probably because your daemon is SSL enabled and therefore requires the generation of a SSL certificate. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
gnome-spell hogs CPU
A few times a day, gnome-spell-component starts hogging all resources and forces me to kill it manually. Notice the zombie ipspell sub-task that hangs under it. This happens while I'm running Evolution. Here is an extract of the ps faux output showing the two tasks that show the symptom of my problem. jim 1436 95.9 2.3 17092 4420 ?R04:26 268:30 gnome-spell-component --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_Spell_DictionaryFactory:0.1 --oaf-ior-fd=24 jim 1439 0.0 0.0 00 ?Z04:26 0:01 \_ [ispell defunct] The defunct ispell is a daughter task of the gnome-spell-component task I suspect that I should file an upstream bug report, unless somebody has a clue about possible causes. I'm running unstable on an Inspiron 4000 with 2.4.17 gnome-spell 0.4.1-3 evolution1.0.3-1 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
swapd : CPU hog du jour
After a few hours of running, the new version of swapd 0.2-4 systematically starts hogging all available CPU ressources. With a niceness of -1 (not nice) it's obviously not being nice but you could have guessed that. Worst thing is that the previous version of swapd was running very fine on my systems. Has anyone encountered the same problem? I'm running unstable on an Inspiron 4000 (196 MiB RAM) with 2.4.17 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Evolution - Spell Checking
On Fri, 2002-04-05 at 04:00, Roy Pluschke wrote: Anybody know how to get spell checking working in evolution ? There is an unofficial packet that provides spelling to the gtkhtml component. I use it myself and it does the job quite nicely. http://www.luyer.net/EvoBuilds/spell-checking/gnome-spell_0.3-0_i386.deb Parameters are in the /Document Handler/HTML Viewer menu of the Gnome Control Center. In the Miscellaneous tab of the Spell Checking box is a Language field where you should enter the two letters code of your language of choice (en, de, es or fr for example). These settings are also editable from Evolution through the Properties option of the Edit menu in a message composition window wich in facts calls the Gnome Control Center, but the settings do not take effect until you close and re-open the window. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Evolution - Spell Checking
On Fri, 2002-04-05 at 05:08, Crispin Wellington wrote: On Fri, 2002-04-05 at 10:00, Roy Pluschke wrote: Anybody know how to get spell checking working in evolution ? apt-get install gnome-spell You're bloody well right : I wonder why I installed that old package from that external source instead of picking it from the distribution... So forget the nonsense I wrote in my previous post: the package in unstable is more recent. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Debian 2.2r5
On Fri, 2002-03-29 at 12:17, Michael Palmer wrote: when i try to mount the cdrom i get mount: special device /dev/cdrom does not exist. - Check what /dev/cdrom actually is. It is most probably a link to the actual special device, something such as /dev/scd0 /dev/hdc or /dev/sr0 - If /dev/cdrom links nowhere, dmesg | grep CD will tell you what it should be linked to. Remove /dev/cdrom and ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom - Check that the correct permissions are set on the device : on my laptop it looks like brw-r--r-- signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Help with compiling X 4.2.0
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Re: [OT] Redefinition of Black Market [was Re: Screen-free Linux?]
On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 20:42, Ron Johnson wrote: Apparently so. It's been 60ish years since WW2, the economy still functions, and taxes aren't confiscatorialy high (yet), so for us, the underground (or black) market is in stolen property, etc. If you sell me a piece of kit you very legally own, and I pay you in cash, that's black market : no trace, no taxes paid. The property traded is not necessarily illegal, it's just that the transaction is not visible to the State. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: OT: Wireless NIC to NIC; need WAP?
On Sat, 2002-03-16 at 23:34, Kent West wrote: I've got two Debian (Sid) boxes in different parts of the house. Can I put in a wireless NIC into each one of them, and them talk to each other, or must I have a Wireless Access Point as an intermediary? In IBSS mode, also known as ad-hoc mode, nodes can talk to each other with no need for an access point. But two nodes on a network must see each other in order to talk. Having an access point allows you to run your network in BSS mode (also known as infrastructure mode), bringing you a star topology and the possibility of roaming between access points. Also, as long as I'm on the subject. Typically I'd buy some name brand I'm more familiar with, like D-Link or Netgear, but the Siemens box specifically mentions that Linux is a compatible OS. For that reason, I'd like to throw my money toward Siemens. Any technical reasons not to? Any 802.11 compatible access point will do. Features and performance will vary, but compatibility is more or less assured if the device is compatible with 802.11. Operating systems have nothing to do with that. And one more: why can't I find a PCI wireless NIC, instead of a PCI wireless NIC adapter plus a wireless PCMCIA NIC? There are some, but they don't have any advantages over the PCI-PCMCIA adapters, apart a few models providing a reverse SMA or BNC plug (more practical and less expensive than buying a pigtail). Look harder and you will find some : Compaq WL200 (no longer produced, but you will find them on eBay - 100mW output and Prism2 chipset make them very interesting), Cisco Aironet 342 and 352, Dlink DWL520 and 3Com Airconnect 3CRWE777A. 802.11 NICs evidently mostly aim at the laptop market. Wireless NIC on a fixed computer is a very secondary market. Manufacturing dedicated PCI NIC in small quantities is probably more expensive than supplying a generic adapter with the mass produced PCMCIA card. Thanks (and man! I hope the inappropriate racist thread dies soon)! Yes, intolerant people should all be executed. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: pppoe and kernel 2.4.x
On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 19:06, Frodo Baggins wrote: Is there another, more debian conformant, way to do it? Yes : use the Debian ppp and pppoe packages. This way, you shall run pppoe purely in user mode instead of using the kernel module which is still rather developmental as far as I have read. You look suspisciously french to me, so it will certainly be of interest to you that the stock Debian pppoe and ppp package work fine with Netissimo. I currently use it to connect to Nerim through an Alcatel 1000. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: how to get past an apt dependency problem?
On Wed, 2002-02-20 at 07:28, Christopher M. Jones wrote: I can't get past a dependency problem related to the unstable version. I don't have a quick answer to your particular problem, but as far dependancy conflicts in unstable are concerned my policy is to avoid forcing anything and just wait a few day until the problem is resolved. There are exceptions, but in doubt it's a safer policy. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: empty emails every morning from debian box
On Thu, 2002-02-07 at 13:17, shri wrote: here's a weird occurance. A blank email gets sent to me every morning around half past six. I have attached a copy - any ideas ? Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 06:25:03 + By default, the scripts in /etc/cron.daily are executed at 0600. On the box I'm currently logged on, log rotation occurs around 0625, but in your case it could well be anything within /etc/cron.daily signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Segfaults in seemingly unrelated programs -- SOLVED
ldd gives a list of the libraries on which a program depends. After
booting in single user mode, I choose a simple program (login) among the
ones that were segfaulting and then methodically began reinstalling its
libraries one by one.
To find out which package contained the file which ldd was telling me
was part of the program's dependancies, I used the package content
search feature on the Debian site.
Once the package name was idetified, I just had to apt-get install
--reinstall packagename in order to reinstall it.
On second try, I found the culprit : pam. The library had been corrupted
in the disk crash, and reinstalling the package solved the problem.
It feels great when everything is working again. I'm glad I solved this
one without massive reinstallation. That's something I love in Debian :
it's almost always possible to solve a problem by really solving it, not
by reinstalling everything from scratch as it is almost always the case
on some other well known OS.
Thanks to the unknown guy on the Debian IRC channel that introduced me
to the use of ldd.
For reference and indexing, here is the text of my original post.
On Sun, 2002-02-03 at 00:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Due to a faulty fan, one CPU overheated and brought the system down. On
restart, fsck indicated that some filesystem corruption occured.
On startup, gdm would not start. After entering my username in the
console, the login prompt came back without giving me the opportunity to
enter my password. The logical next step, booting in single user mode.
In single user mode, quickly appeared that a few programs segfault.
Among them : su, apache, gdm, smbd, nmbd, cron, pppd, and login. Mostly
everything else superficially seems to work, with a few exceptions.
So I tried to find out what these program could have in common appart
from creating tasks with a different user than the one under which they
are run. I suspected that they all depended on a library whose file the
crash corrupted. So off I went with ldd. Apart from the omnipresent
libc6 (without which not much does anything at all), the prime suspect
was libcrypt. It seems that anything that uses libcrypt crashes the
moment it calls it. I only say it seems because I was unable to be
more conclusive after observation of strace output. But it may be
because I am not familiar with strace.
I observed one exception : makepasswd. Strace shows it calling something
from libcrypt, but it does its job with no problem. I compared
/lib/libcrypt.so.1 between the broken server and another machine with
the same OS, and the file sizes were identical. So I have no proof that
libcrypt is guilty and my feelings toward this hypothesis may be
completely wrong.
Here is an example of strace outsput. The program studied is login
(the one that generates the console login prompt).
It begins with calls in
/lib/libcrypt.so.1
/lib/libpam.so.0
/lib/libpam_misc.so.0
/lib/libdl.so.2
Then, on the sane system it goes like the following. It's the same on
the broken system, except that the memory addresses are not the same.
open(/lib/libc.so.6, O_RDONLY)= 3
read(3, \177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\230\327...,
1024) = 1
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=1170492, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 1187296, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) =
0x4005c000
mprotect(0x40174000, 40416, PROT_NONE) = 0
old_mmap(0x40174000, 24576, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED,
3, 0x1
old_mmap(0x4017a000, 15840, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANO
close(3)= 0
munmap(0x40016000, 40843) = 0
Here, login on the broken machine segfaults :
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) ---
+++ killed by SIGSEGV +++
Except that instead the memory address on the last line is different :
munmap(0x40016000, 35897) = 0
I dont know if that detail is relevant, but since some (but not all) of
the segfaulting programs end the same way, I thought it might be.
On the sane system, here is the beginning of what follows in the strace
after the point where it has segfaulted on the broken system.
brk(0) = 0x80546dc
brk(0x8054704) = 0x8054704
brk(0x8055000) = 0x8055000
getuid32() = 0
ioctl(0, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE, {B38400 opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0
ioctl(0, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE, {B38400 opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0
brk(0x8057000) = 0x8057000
readlink(/proc/self/fd/0, /dev/pts/2, 4095) = 10
socket(PF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0) = 3
connect(3, {sin_family=AF_UNIX, path=/var/run/.nscd_socket}, 110) = -1
ENOENT
close(3)= 0
open(/etc/nsswitch.conf, O_RDONLY)= 3
I thought it might give some elements of context.
If anyone has read this far, thank you. At that point, I am somewhat out
of my depth
Re: Segfaults in seemingly unrelated programs
On Sun, 2002-02-03 at 00:36, Mario Vukelic wrote: On Sun, 2002-02-03 at 00:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A blind stab in the dark: why not simply 'apt-get --reinstall install the suspected libs and programs'? That would be if pppd had not ceased functionning. I guess I'm going to burn a snapshot on CD from somewhere with connectivity and do that. And use ext3 in the future? ext3 is the least hassle of all journaling fs's since you can convert on the fly Of all my systems (a handfull), the disk that probably endured corruption is the only one not running ReiserFS. So in a way your suggestion points to my shortcoming. I guess having taken the effort to convert this disk to a journalling filesystem would have saved me the headache. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Segfaults in seemingly unrelated programs
n Sun, 2002-02-03 at 17:09, Rob Mahurin wrote: On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 08:52:36PM -0700, Rick Macdonald wrote: On Sat, 2 Feb 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had similar symptoms once. Segfaults and apparently corrupted disk files. It turned out to be a bad memory SIMM. Try running memtest86 for awhile (10 minutes to an hour or more; depends on how much memory you have and how fast the cpu is). After I replaced the memory, I reinstalled all packages in-place (declining any config files) to refresh any files that may have been bad. Made me feel better, at least. I had the same thought, though I'm not sure how an overheated CPU fan could damage the memory. It seems more likely that the libraries Jim mentions are corrupted, and the one program that works is somehow lucky. A memtest couldn't hurt, though. It's not he fan that's overheating, it's the CPU. The fan is merely not doing it's work properly due to the second CPU slocket blocking the airflow. Swapping out all memory was an even faster test than waiting for memtest86 to complete. There is still the minuscule probability that both sets of memory chips are faulty, but I guess my hardware problems are driving me paranoid. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Segfaults in seemingly unrelated programs
On Sun, 2002-02-03 at 04:52, Rick Macdonald wrote: On Sat, 2 Feb 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Due to a faulty fan, one CPU overheated and brought the system down. On restart, fsck indicated that some filesystem corruption occured. On startup, gdm would not start. After entering my username in the console, the login prompt came back without giving me the opportunity to enter my password. The logical next step, booting in single user mode. In single user mode, it quickly appeared that a few programs segfault. I had similar symptoms once. Segfaults and apparently corrupted disk files. It turned out to be a bad memory SIMM. Try running memtest86 for awhile (10 minutes to an hour or more; depends on how much memory you have and how fast the cpu is). To make a looong story short, I swapped out the hard disk, the controller, the cables and all memory before concluding that a heavy CPU load reliably produced corruption and/or a system freeze and finding out this was caused by faulty cooling on the first CPU. I have an Asus P2B-DS, and I can provide more detail about this horror story if anyone wishes. Why isn't there more space between the two processor slots on this otherwise good board ? After I replaced the memory, I reinstalled all packages in-place (declining any config files) to refresh any files that may have been bad. Made me feel better, at least. Already did that once in a past accident on the same machine, but for at the time unknown reasons. That time, pppd was still running and a little for loop running on the package list that apt gave me did the trick. Today, I guess I'll have to burn a few CDs... signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Wanda swam across my desktop ??
On Mon, 2002-01-28 at 12:38, Preben Randhol wrote: Have anybody else experienced this? Happened to me a couple of week ago late at night, and I really thought I was hallucinating. I only appreciate easter eggs if they remain rare, subtile and discreet. Wanda was a pleasant suprise, but wherever easter eggs are, bloat lurks not far away. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: What's a debian kid look like?
On Thu, 2001-12-20 at 08:44, Phillip Deackes wrote: OK, male, 44 years old, British living in the UK. We usually don't feel the need to explain the colour of our skin Very clear trend here, and every time I read '$age years old $color american' I feel the urge to challenge the use of skin color as a significant defining element of personnality. To us Europeans, this is very alien. While I'm at it : 25 years old, European citizen of French nationality, married, telecom and Internet strategy consultant and project manager, graduate degree, spends too much time toying with computers and networks, moderate centrist. Interests: obsessing about technological artefacts, playing strategy games against friends, operational art and tactics, adventure travel (41 countries so far including 17 african countries), history, sociology and geopolitics, too much reading (both web and dead tree), martial arts, the great outdoors (walking, biking, rollerblading)... pgpbgYsLebUDW.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: scsi card compatibility under Debian
On Sun, 2001-12-09 at 21:57, Mark Seven Smith wrote: I am looking for useful, and CHEAP--I am on a fixed income, and feeling very poor these days ;-) The Hewlett-Packard website claims that the scanner I have needs a $150 dollar card; in fact they generously point out the exact card they want me to buy...the card that came with the scanner, the Hewlett-Packard card, is useless, they admit, but they won't do anything about it. So basically it is a useless scanner, the way it is shipped. I think the card would work with Windows 3.1, but the scanner was purchased when I was using Windows 95 (and it was supposed to be compatible),but gave nothing but trouble. Now, I use Linux, but of course there's no way to support the stupid useless card (which was a triangular board with a small chip on it). I have a HP scanjet 5p and I replaced the ISA triangle card with a PCI Adaptec 2904. It worked perfectly well. In fact, any card with and external SCSI-2 connector will certainly do fine. Don't believe the lies they tell you. pgpXPEEZDw07T.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: DVD player
On Tue, 2001-12-04 at 09:54, Peter Good wrote: On Tue, 4 Dec 2001 17:15, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: This might be a silly question, but why then, do they sell video cards now, with at least 8mb standard, with 32mb in a lot, and in my case 64mb? Mostly to store more textures for 3D rendering. pgp8ck3wDNnBL.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: OT: How long has your Linux system been up ?
On Thu, 2001-11-15 at 12:19, Frank Zimmermann wrote: As long as your talking about servers this uptime thing is ok, but when talking about workstaions it's redicolous, premature and an unjustifiable waste of natural resources. I sometimes think Linux users just do this to show their Windows using friends how cool they are. I shut down my machines at the end of the day. I don't : in a peer to peer environment, workstations are increasingly contributing their share of the serving. Shutting down nodes during nighttime is actually a sad waste of perfectly good computing ressources. pgpOdvBTJcNr3.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: NNTP proxy ?
On Sun, 2001-10-28 at 00:49, Marcus Crafter wrote: Does anyone know if Debian currently has a NNTP proxy ? or some application that provides such functionality ? Try Leafnode. http://freshmeat.net/projects/leafnode/ I compiled on a Cobalt Qube and it served a few users behind a slow link, downloading articles at low traffic hours. I was very happy with it. I have not tried the Debian package though. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/news/leafnode.html There is also : - a web administration front-end http://freshmeat.net/projects/leafwa/ - a statistics generator http://freshmeat.net/projects/stats/ But I have personally tried none of these two. pgpqAugFV8EDs.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Software DVD players
On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: Excuse my ignorance, but what's the attraction of watching DVD movies on a computer? It seems I'm better off in my comfy recliner chair or on the couch watching my 29 inch Panasonic GAOO then sitting at my desk in the den. Watching a DVD on my laptop in bed with my wife, watching a DVD on a plane trip, borrowing a videoprojector and enjoying a wall sized picture with my friends... And I have no TV. pgpPm3kFb3cOL.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: tool to scan for open samba shares
On Sat, 2001-10-20 at 20:16, dman wrote: On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 05:42:01PM +0200, Oliver Korff wrote: | Hi folks, | | I need a tool to scan my network for open samba or windows shares. nmap and | netcat are well known, but I want someting thet tells me, what shares are | open eg.: //192.168.0.55/C/ or something like that. smbclient If you wish something more graphical, I recommend Komba2. You can scan, mount/unmount and open shares very easily. In my opinion, this is the closest you will get from opening Network Neighborhood, and you get much more control on top of that with the ability to specify the scanning of a given host or address range. pgpWDax1HSJcg.pgp Description: PGP signature
