How to count actual users?
Hi All, I've been attempting to estimate how many Linux users there are and I've come accross too many differing statistics. I decided that it may be easier to get a reasonable count of how many known users of Debian can be counted by the number of unique email addresses have suscribed to the lists hosted here. Does anyone know the number? Could it be posted to this list? It may be usefull as a statistic for Debian advocacy. thanks --ptw -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging more http://www.gmx.net +++ Bitte lächeln! Fotogalerie online mit GMX ohne eigene Homepage! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re Root symlink to /boot/vmlinuz
On Mon, 03 Mar 2002 at 23:25:30, k l u r t wrote: On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 23:29, Craig Dickson wrote: Dumb question: why does Debian like to have a symlink, /vmlinuz, pointing to the kernel image in /boot? Does some program depend on being able to find the kernel at /vmlinuz? Would something break if I simply deleted this symlink? I ask because I install kernels by hand, and I use a naming scheme for my kernels that tells me what they are and when they were built, e.g. vmlinuz-2.4.18-ac2-020226 is a 26 Feb 2002 build of 2.4.18-ac2. This means I have to go change the /vmlinuz symlink every time I install a new kernel, and I'm wondering if I can safely just delete the link and never bother with it again. Thanks, Craig me thinks you would like make-kpkg (kernel-package) IIRC, kernel-package asks if you want the symlinks. I may be wrong, it's been a while since I've needed a new kernel :) -- Paul T Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] And, strange to tell, among the Earthen Lot Some could articulate, while others not: And suddenly one more impatient cried -- Who is the Potter, pray, and who the Pot? -- The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam --
Re: strange PATH problems with root
On Mon, 30 Jul 2001 13:15:56 +0200, Pascal wrote: Hi all, I run Debian Potato (Kernel 2.2.17) with Gnome and sawmill as Window Manager. I use the Gnome Display Manager for graphical loggin. Last week, I decide to uninstall gdm. Just after unsinstall, I discovered a (small) problem on my system when login into bash : the root's PATH is not set as it was before. The root PATH doesn't contain /sbin;/usr/sbin anymore. I took a look at the config file from gdm and saw that the PATH for root was correctly set in this file. I checked /etc/profile and /root/.bash_profile but the PATH isn't set in any of these file for root user. However, I can remenber that my system was running correctly before I decided to use gdm. So the right config files must have been overwriten or lost. I can't remenber if I've modified root's .bash_profile for example. So, here come my question : Could someone send me root's dot configuration file (.bash_profile at least). Is there a .profile for root just after a freshly install Or better, has someone been confronted to the same problem ? Is this due to gdm ? You must have sash installed. This can be tested by doing an su from the command line. If sash is installed, then root's login shell will not include /sbin;/usr/sbin, but su will give root a proper shell including /sbin;/usr/sbin AFAIK, this feature is intended to be a last line of defense against some rootkits and against hackers who are unaware of sash. I believe that you can set a different password for the full featured root shell, but I have been unable to make this work. I'm not eleet 3n0ugh I guess. I'm going to be trying again when I add a new box (new toys, yay, being employed isn't all that bad after all.) to my playground next week. -- Paul T Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] And, strange to tell, among the Earthen Lot Some could articulate, while others not: And suddenly one more impatient cried -- Who is the Potter, pray, and who the Pot? -- The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam -- -- Paul T Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] And, strange to tell, among the Earthen Lot Some could articulate, while others not: And suddenly one more impatient cried -- Who is the Potter, pray, and who the Pot? -- The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam --
Re: fetchmail, mutt, masqmail
On Fri, 20 Jul 2001 10:40:16 +0200, Dieter wrote: This sounds smart, small and fast - since Heather told me to use a lot of customized fetchmail-scripts. Can you tell me (newbie) how to configure and command masqmail to read and send mails while on a dialled-in-connection (pppd, pop3, smtp). As MUA I use mutt. Look at /usr/share/doc/masqmail/examples. Pretty much all you need to know is in there. If you still need help after customizing the examples and placing them in /etc/masqmail, post back with your questions. Also, there are manpages for the different masqmail configuration files that are of some help in understanding the examples. See man masqmail and scroll down to the SEE ALSO section. Mutt should not be effected by the MTA you choose, so you don't need to worry about that. -- Paul T Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] And, strange to tell, among the Earthen Lot Some could articulate, while others not: And suddenly one more impatient cried -- Who is the Potter, pray, and who the Pot? -- The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam --
Re: fetchmail, mutt, masqmail
Hi all, Get rid of fetchmail and use masqmail to fetch your mails as well as to que and deliver them. I do this and have no problems retrieving mail from two different mail servers. Masqmail also supports apop which does not send your mail password unencrypted like pop3 does. You can use authenticated smtp with cram-md5 encryption to send mails to your smarthost, thus minimizing the possibility of someone sniffing your password and misusing your mail account. -- Paul T Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] And, strange to tell, among the Earthen Lot Some could articulate, while others not: And suddenly one more impatient cried -- Who is the Potter, pray, and who the Pot? -- The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam --
Re: Mouse Locking up in KDE2
On Sun, 15 Jul 2001 14:01:23 EDT, Dude wrote: On Sun, 15 Jul 2001, Jonathan Daugherty wrote: My girlfriend optical intellimouse seems to become useless in the kde2 beta. It seems to happen if there has been no activity and then she starts using it again. I had that same bug when using X = 4 and Kde2. It also seems to happen with any WM with X4. I fixed it by stopping gpm. It seems to confuse X and I noticed that when gpm is running, I get erratic mouse behavior until I turn it off. I have removed gpm (but ill doule check) but it still seems to lock up G If the mouse works properly in gpm, you can make x11 and gpm play nice by setting your mouse device in x11 to /dev/gpmdata. I've not tried this with an optical intellimouse, but it has worked for me in every instance I have had a conflict between gpm and x11. --ptw -- Paul T Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] And, strange to tell, among the Earthen Lot Some could articulate, while others not: And suddenly one more impatient cried -- Who is the Potter, pray, and who the Pot? -- The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam --
Re: ALSA and Creative Vibra16x (sb16)
On Sun, 15 Jul 2001 18:31:47 EDT, Richard wrote: Does anyone have a working ALSA and Creative SB16 Vibra16x ? snd-card-sb16 loads, and xmms works, but I can't get wsoundserver to make any noise ;-( If I switch to the OSS sb module, things seem to work fine. The difference betwixt the Vibra16x and normal SB16 is that this card has two 8bit DMA channels, instead of on 8bit and one 16bit I have a Creative Vibra16x soundcard, but I run OSS with this card. IIRC, the card is unsupported by the ALSA. I'm planning on casting this card on the dustheap as soon as I find the time to get a better card. -- Paul T Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] And, strange to tell, among the Earthen Lot Some could articulate, while others not: And suddenly one more impatient cried -- Who is the Potter, pray, and who the Pot? -- The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam --
Re: Swap fscked in 2.4.5?
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001 17:39:30 EDT, Mike wrote: The 128 MB limit on swap partitions went away in the 2.2 series. I think it is 2 gig now. I had forgotten that, What about swap on raid? -- Paul T Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] And, strange to tell, among the Earthen Lot Some could articulate, while others not: And suddenly one more impatient cried -- Who is the Potter, pray, and who the Pot? -- The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam --
Re: [very very OT] noisy power supply
Joerg Johannes wrote: OK. Thanks everybody. I think I'll leave my power supply alone, put my computer under my desk and look for a less noisy power supply. Putting the box in another room is not very easy, because I need the 3D-accelerated graphics from my geforce card, which I cannot export via network... joerg Another optionis to add a fan to bring air into the case. There is usually a mounting for inside the front of the case. You can fasion a washable air filter from plastic foam filter material that is available at many hardware stores (usually packaged as a replacement filter for window mounted air conditioners). I've used this for a few years now and have expirienced good results and no problems. On some systems it may be necessary to add some wire mesh (1 cm holes works fine) to prevent the filter from being pulled into the fan. --ptw -- Paul T Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] And, strange to tell, among the Earthen Lot Some could articulate, while others not: And suddenly one more impatient cried -- Who is the Potter, pray, and who the Pot? -- The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam --
Re: After power outage, Linux crashing
On Wed, 11 Jul 2001 23:30:55 EDT, David wrote: Hello everyone, A few days ago, the power went out while I was using linux. I am using SuSe linux if that helps. Fsck fixed the errors, but since then my computer has been locking up. How do I see what fsck fixed and what is causing my computer to lock up? I would like to redo linux, but I don't have enough space to back up my data. Any suggestions would be appreciated. David You can start by inspecting the contents of the lost+found directories that are located on each partition. If fsck found unidentifiable data (files and/or bits of files) it will have been relocated here. You will have to identify what the file is and where it belongs by the contents, iirc. You can also force the re-installation of any or all of the packages on your system by some means (I don't know how to do this on SuSE, this is the Debian list.) If you had posted more info about the crashes then perhaps you could get some reasonably helpful responses. Try posting to a SuSE user list, there might be some persons there familiar with the peculiarities specific to that distribution. If you can include the errors that occur (look in your logfiles) before the crash, perhaps someone will be able to figure what specific damage has occured. --ptw -- Paul T Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] And, strange to tell, among the Earthen Lot Some could articulate, while others not: And suddenly one more impatient cried -- Who is the Potter, pray, and who the Pot? -- The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam --
Re: Swap fscked in 2.4.5?
To all experiencing the 2.4.5 swap problems, you guys should follow the kernel lists or read kernel-traffic when running the latest kernels. IIRC, shortly after kernel 2.4.5 was released there was a report of problems involving swap and memory use. The fix was to have twice as much swap as RAM (or more). This may require one to have multiple swap partitions, if you have more than 64M of RAM. If you have more than one HD and your machine is using swap, you can improve your machine's performance by placing each swap partition on a different drive. I tested this on a machine running 2.4.5 and found that it works fine, but I am not currently running that kernel, as I have no specific need for it. --ptw -- Paul T Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] And, strange to tell, among the Earthen Lot Some could articulate, while others not: And suddenly one more impatient cried -- Who is the Potter, pray, and who the Pot? -- The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam --
Re: mason firewall building tool
On 11 Jul 2001 19:13:59 +0200, Guy wrote: kiteless == kiteless [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: kiteless hello all i was just wondering if any of you have ever tried kiteless using a program / package called mason to build firewalls on I tried mason once. It has an `auto-learn' mode where it will scan the network and add filtering rules for everything which passes through the firewall. I found it generated way too many rules, and required quite a bit of hand-tuning. Actually, you can reduce the number of generated rules by adding to or changing the mason default rules. Like most good tools in Linux, it is only really usefull if you know and understand what you and your tools are doing. In order to make effective use of mason one must be able to edit the generated ruleset, and identify those generated rules that are undesirable. If you do not understand ipchains, do not use mason. It can create rules that will allow hostile traffic if hostile traffic is encountered while mason is learning. --ptw -- Paul T Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] And, strange to tell, among the Earthen Lot Some could articulate, while others not: And suddenly one more impatient cried -- Who is the Potter, pray, and who the Pot? -- The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam --
Re: Help For Newbie
On Fri, 06 Jul 2001 17:06:50 BST, Keri wrote: I bring up pppconfig which in it's wonderful ReadMe file says it does everything for you basically, but it just shuts itself back down.Duh! Where did it go? Keri You need to be root to run pppconfig, but you probably already know that. Is pppconfig allowing you to make any choices? If so choose the option to Create a connection and answer the questions pppconfig asks. If you've any confusion about the specifics, post your questions here with as much specific info as you can gather about the situation. If pppconfig is closing without allowing you to finish, post here with the details (what is pppconfig allowing you to do?, what is the last thing you do before pppconfig dies?, or I did these steps: launched pppconfig, chose Create, ... then pppconfig [died | failed | finished]...) I hope this helps. I'm not sure what is happening on your machine and a little more info will make it easier to help. -- Paul T Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] And, strange to tell, among the Earthen Lot Some could articulate, while others not: And suddenly one more impatient cried -- Who is the Potter, pray, and who the Pot? -- The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam --
Re: Keyboard Prob
On Fri, 06 Jul 2001 22:59:25 BST, Keri wrote: Many real modems have a chip on them marked rockwell. Cheers, Joost Well Made in Taiwan doesn't come close. Will have a good think abotu this one and have someone do some searching for the origination. At least it's a start to one of the reasons why this puppy won't work. Keri What text is printed on the largest chip on the modem? Post back with that and I'll try to look up what kind of controller it is. Even if that chip is made by Rockwell, it could still be a winmodem, so don't just list the manufacturer, include any numbers found there as well. Other info that may be found on the modem Also, use the dmesg command to see what hardware the kernel is detecting. Look for something that looks like this: ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A to see if the kernel is detecting the serial ports. If the kernel is not detecting the serial ports, then either the serial driver is not being loaded (if it is a module) or the serial ports may be disabled in the bios, but this is unlikely. If the modem is a pci device, it should show up in the output of the lspci command. -- Paul T Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] And, strange to tell, among the Earthen Lot Some could articulate, while others not: And suddenly one more impatient cried -- Who is the Potter, pray, and who the Pot? -- The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam --
Re: uk.debian.org
On Wed, 04 Jul 2001 21:39:38 BST, Saqib wrote: fair enough, don't understand ms either. why does it contain chinese characters by the way? saqib So persons who read Chinese can find the link. IMHO, Not using native characters for the language links would be insensitive and show a lack of respect for those who wish to read the site in their native language. --ptw -- Paul T Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] And, strange to tell, among the Earthen Lot Some could articulate, while others not: And suddenly one more impatient cried -- Who is the Potter, pray, and who the Pot? -- The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam --
Re: compiling Kernel
On Thu, 05 Jul 2001 03:43:31 PDT, Dan wrote: when I #make menuconfig, or make config, I get the fallowing error; make: *** No rule to make target 'config' . Stop. Also from the articles I've read about compiling the Kernel the = /usr/linux directory is referenced, however I don't have this directory. What am I doing wrong? Any help is greatly appreciated. My guess would be that you are not in the source directory. cd to /usr/src/linux or wherever you unpacked your kernel-source. I use /var/tmp/build/kernel-source-[version] to build my kernel-image packages so I don't have to be root to build them, but others may choose differently. -ptw ps Please post text-only when posting to this list. HTML is superfluous. -- Paul T Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] And, strange to tell, among the Earthen Lot Some could articulate, while others not: And suddenly one more impatient cried -- Who is the Potter, pray, and who the Pot? -- The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam --
Re: broken dist-upgrade
On Fri, 29 Jun 2001 01:32:55 +0200, Joost wrote: But really, upgrading your dist should be done with dselect. Why? --ptw -- Paul T Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] And, strange to tell, among the Earthen Lot Some could articulate, while others not: And suddenly one more impatient cried -- Who is the Potter, pray, and who the Pot? -- The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam --
Re: tracking down the cause of an entry in syslog?
On Sat, 23 Jun 2001 01:41:52 -0300, Henrique wrote: On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Eric G. Miller wrote: On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 05:30:29PM -0400, Paul Wright wrote: I've been getting an irritating recurring syslog entry that I'd like to track down and stifle, but I'm at a loss as to discover what process is causing the entry. Jun 22 16:02:02 ICMP message type destination unreachable - bad port from 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1-127.0.0.1) Bad port? That's one I've not seen before. Paul T. Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] -currently seeking employment- Using fetchmail by chance? Annoying isn't it. What is annoying is that nobody reported the bug to me. How can I log (or discover) which port is being sought? None apparently. That's probably the problem... And it is a big one if this is true :( If you guys track it down to fetchmail, please submit a bug report, and be warned that it'll probably require gdb traces to find the problem unless I manage to duplicate the problem here. Stop fetchmail and see if they disappear ;) And by all means tell me if they do disappear. Hi there, I found the cause on my system a few minutes ago. From /var/log/ippl/all.log: Jun 23 02:02:02 ICMP message type destination unreachable... From a mail (logcheck report): Subject: j001 2001/06/23 02:02 system check From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 02:02:02 -0400 On my system, this only occurs when local mail is delivered. Maybe because I use masqmail instead of fetchmail. IIRC, fetchmail passes the mauil to procmail for delivery, and masqmail delivers the mail directly to /var/spool/mail/user. Please correct me if I'm wrong. I'm going to read up on procmail in hopes of finding out what port it is looking for, etc. I'm not convinced it's a bug as yet, but then I'm not convinced it's not. You can check this by sending a mail to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] sending a mail off host does not cause the entry on my machine. Any ideas? Thanks for all the help. I'll post again when I know more. -ptw
Re: tracking down the cause of an entry in syslog?
On Sat, 23 Jun 2001 03:08:39 -0800, Ethan wrote: On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 07:45:31AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Sat, 23 Jun 2001, Paul Wright wrote: From /var/log/ippl/all.log: Jun 23 02:02:02 ICMP message type destination unreachable... Destination unreachable due to host down is fine, but due to illegal port isn't... I'm going to read up on procmail in hopes of finding out what port it is looking for, etc. I'm not convinced it's a bug as yet, but then I'm not convinced it's not. procmail doesn't use sockets at all AFAIK, the problem lies probably with masqmail. procmail tries to notify biff about the new mail it just delivered, it does this by connecting to comsat on localhost. no comsat - ippl log entry. i haven't been able to find a way to disable this so i just told ippl to ignore it: ignore icmp type 3 from localhost You can check this by sending a mail to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, I have a 'full blown' MTA in my system (postfix), so it will just (try to) deliver the email to user somebody and mail me back a complain if it cannot. No weird ICMP messages. biff = no in main.cf for postfix will stop it from doing these connections, but procmail is another matter. btw: i use postfix with a ~/.forward that pipes my mail to procmail. i don't have masqmail. Thank you Ethan. Very cluefull of you. -ptw -- Paul T. Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] -currently seeking employment-
Re: DSelect
On Sat, 23 Jun 2001 17:30:05 EDT, Kevin Stokes wrote: I've got a newbie problem with DSelect. When I choose 'Select' browse the packages, there are about 100 things selected to be installed that are not currently installed, and I don't want. When I try to press the '-' key to not select them, many of them give me crap about dependencies. It would take me hours to go through them all. My number one priority is to not screw up my system. How can I clear the whole list to the machine's current install state so I can select only the one tiny package I want? In the end I used apt-get to get what I wanted. But I won't be able to use DSelect until I figure this out. Any help would be appreciated. Dselect tends to be a little troublesome about reccomends and suggests. I'd reccomend that you use aptitude to browse the package list, as I've had fewer problems with dependancy tie-ups than I've had with dselect. I've never really liked dselect because of the way it handles suggests but there are some who prefer it. -ptw -- Paul T. Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] -currently seeking employment-
tracking down the cause of an entry in syslog?
Hi all, I've been getting an irritating recurring syslog entry that I'd like to track down and stifle, but I'm at a loss as to discover what process is causing the entry. The entry is (from logcheck output) this: Jun 22 16:02:02 ICMP message type destination unreachable - bad port from 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1-127.0.0.1) Jun 22 16:12:37 ICMP message type destination unreachable - bad port from 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1-127.0.0.1) Jun 22 16:12:38 ICMP message type destination unreachable - bad port from 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1-127.0.0.1) sorry about the no wrap on the quote. There are no other events being logged at identical times, or at similar times with identical frequencies in any of my logs. Does anyone have advice on how to track down the cause? How can I log (or discover) which port is being sought? Is there any way to do this without un-installing individual packages until the entry ceases to be made? If methodically un-installining packages is the only or most logical method of tracking this, then does anyone have a good guess at where to start? What docs will help me to figure this one out? (I've RTFM, but may have looked in the wrong place.) Thanks in advance. --ptw -- Paul T. Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] -currently seeking employment-
Re: lp0 on fire
On Fri, 15 Jun 2001 11:51:57 EDT, David wrote: I was printing a rather large label job from a local debian machine to a remote debian machine that has an old dot matrix printer attached to it. After about 10 minutes of printing to the remote printer, the message lp0 on fire popped up on the remote machine's terminal and the printer stopped for a minute or so. The printer then continued, but the lp0 on fire message keeps coming up every several minutes along with the corresponding pause in printing. I did not find a similar message on the local machine. I do not recall this message when I would attach the dot matrix printer to the local debian machine and use the printer as a local printer. Any ideas what is happening? BTW, the print job came out fine. I get this message whenever my Epson Stylus Pro 850 has any error, such as out of ink, out of paper, overheating, etc. My other printer, an Epson dot-matrix printer causes these messages on very hot days and during very big print runs, but seldom fails to complete the print job. I assume that lp0 on fire is how lpd reports any error message from the printer. I could be wrong though - anyone got more/better info? It does get one's attention quite efficiently. --ptw It sure does get ones attention though. -- Paul T. Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] -currently seeking employment-
Re: Help; apt-get trashed system, how to recover
On Fri, 08 Jun 2001 15:53:14 CDT, Gregory wrote: Help. I am running Debian 2.2, with upgrade to Woody from debian.org via FTP. I have been running well for over 5 months without reboot(!) or maintenance. I went to fetch a new package, and my system decided it wanted to get 108 MB of updates. It failed on a bunch of them, I tried again, and again, and then a force (-f) option as suggested by apt-get, to no avail. Perl seems to have kludged itself.. The details follow, how do I recover?! Try apt-get --fix-missing install perl-base perl, if that doesn't work try apt-get --fix-missing install perl-base perl. One of those should work. YMMV. -ptw -- Paul T. Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] -currently seeking employment-
Re: ip masq
Hi Derya, Hi all there, I'm working at a school and we have a debian server. We use ip masq for = more than one hundred Windows NT . Last week i get an empty PC and = installed debian to it. Now i have a problem. I want to find a way to = connect to my second debian from my home but it doesnt have an IP of its = own its under the main server. So can i do something to say to the main = server that whenever a x.ourdomain.com request comes it has to go to = that machine? Sorry for my terrible techn eng. but this is all i know... = :( Thanks in advance There's quite a bit involved in IP masq setup. I'd recommend reading the IP-Masqerade-HOWTO, which should be found in: http://localhost/doc/HOWTO/en-html/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO.html If it's not there you can find it at: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO.html You may want to see: http://localhost/doc/HOWTO/en-html/Firewall-HOWTO.html I hope this helps. -ptw -- Paul T. Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] -currently seeking employment-
Re: Re. Total Confusion
On Tue, 05 Jun 2001 10:47:32 PDT, Sidney wrote: Given that this is a problem common to all versions of linux, it does not seem that the solution is in editing any ppp file. It almost seems that there is a failure in some part of the hardware whose only effect is to prevent linux from going online. My facititious suggestion that a gremlin who does not like linux dwells in my computer is only a bit more implausible. Scrap wvdial, setup ppp with pppconfig, test your connection, add the option demand to the file /etc/ppp/peers/provider. It is no longer necessary to use wvdial or diald to automate a ppp connection. (thank God) Works nicely. -- Paul T. Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] -currently seeking employment-
Re: /etc/mailname ?
On Thu, 07 Jun 2001 01:52:16 BST, Colin wrote: walt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After a recent dist-upgrade I started getting empty email messages every day from root, with a domain name the same as in /etc/mailname . I don't remember when /etc/mailname was generated, or by which config program, so I don't recall what purpose the file serves. Any thoughts on what I need to reconfigure to get the daily system notices arriving again? /etc/mailname is the file all packages are supposed to use to get the hostname for outgoing mail and news messages they generate. If it's wrong, go ahead and change it. My guess is that that isn't related to why you're getting empty mails, though; you could check root's crontab and /etc/cron* for a start as to what you might need to look at, but from a distance it's hard to tell. Sorry, I missed the first posting about this. I have the same situation, an empty mail from / to root. It's being generated by a daemon that wants to report something, but is not working properly. I reviewed my system logs, it seemed that snort was bungled. I guessed this because the empty mail message came to me at 07:35:02 -0400, and snort usually mails me at 07:35:02 -0400. You should look to see if there is a consistant time that the blank mails are being delivered. You may have a similar situation. As for my situation, I'll know if I fixed it tommorrow morning ;) -- Paul T. Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] -currently seeking employment-
Re: /etc/mailname ?
Hi Paolo, Ciao Paul Wright, I have the same situation, an empty mail from / to root. It's being generated by a daemon that wants to report something, but is not working me too: Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 04:25:01 + (Europe/Rome) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) To: undisclosed-recipients: ; Status: RO Content-Length: 0 Lines: 0 always at 4:25:01 Why To: undiscolsed-recipients ? bah! [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc# cat mailname u7369b.matapp.unimib.it Interesting, I've never seen To: undisclosed-recipients: before. The only thing I can suggest is to review your mail logs for that 4:25:01 in hopes that the entries are more informative at a earlier date. Anyone else see this before? ptw -- Paul T. Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] -currently seeking employment-
Re: How to change domain name???
On Thu, 7 Jun 2001 13:53:00 +1000, Ian wrote: The spots which come immediately to mind are change the entry in the /ets/hosts file this change the entry in the /etc/hostname file --- and this should match mailname in /etc run sendmailconfig (or the config for your mail program) Ian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 1:53 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: How to change domain name??? How do you change the domain name on a already running box? When I originally setup my lan, I did not have a true domain and I called my network foo.bar (instead of yahoo.com for example). Now I have a real domain name and want to start changing machines over to it. TIA, Also, man hostname. You'll need to be root to use hostname to change the hostname. Then you'll need to change the name in several configuration files (/etc/exim.conf, /etc/sendmail.conf /etc/hosts, /etc/bind/name, /etc/apache/httpd.conf, /etc/motd, others I cant remember) takes time, there must be a more elegant, and easier way, but I haven't figured out that one yet. --ptw -- Paul T. Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] -currently seeking employment- -- Paul T. Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] -currently seeking employment-
Re: Help: squid on a dial-up machine
On Sat, 02 Jun 2001 17:32:18 EDT, Eugene wrote: Hello, I have a problem with squid (2.4.1-5) seemingly ignoring the '-D' during the startup. When booting, squid dies because it cannot find nameservers (of course! I'm on a dial-up!), despite being told (per man page) to disable initial DNS tests with the '-D' option. Any suggestions? You may want to build a caching-only nameserver on localhost. I am not using squid atm, but use a cahing-only nameserver to reduce traffic/ connection times on my dialup link. It should work w/o problems for squid. The bind package set up a caching-only nameserver when installed. There is more info at: http://localhost/doc/HOWTO/en-html/DNS-HOWTO.html or /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/DNS-HOWTO.txt.gz if you do not have the HOWTOs installed on you machine, look here: http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/DNS-HOWTO.html the setup described in the howto differs somewhat from the debian bind defaults, but it explains the concepts pretty well. Read the HOWTO, but use the defaults, IMHO. -- Paul T. Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] -currently seeking employment- -- Paul T. Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] -currently seeking employment-
Re: Linux debian
On Tue, 29 May 2001 12:51:11 EDT, Jenner wrote: Hi! My name is Jenner, i'm new in the linux world and i really need some = help. I have the GNU Linux Debian 2.1, i'm right now partitioning a = 40Gb. disk and the system tells me that i cannot boot from the hard = drive 'cause this distribution of linux only supports 1024 cylinders = from hard disk and i got 19564 cylinders. What can i do? Do i got to = always boot from the floppy? Will Linux be sharing your drive with another OS? That leads to other considerations. You can deal with large drives by using a careful partitioning scheme and the correct kernel. Some helpful information on this can be found at: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Large-Disk-HOWTO.html anytime, and at: /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/Large-Disk-HOWTO.txt.gz after you've solved the problem. There are some problems with disks over 33.8Gb and 2.2.x kernels, but this may not effect your situation, depending on the kernel on the install disks. * Anyone know about this? Please help * There is more information on partitioning at: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Partition/ I'd venture to be more specific, but the note about the 33.8Gb limit in the Large-Disk-HOWTO tells me to be quiet until I know more ;) My other problem is that i got a RealTek net card and i don't have the = drivers. Can i download it into a floppy? If i can do that, how can i = install it? If i can't do it that way what can i do? I searched for Linux RealTek on Google and found several links to several posts that mention card recognition problems with RealTek NICs. Read the Linux Ethernet-HOWTO: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Ethernet-HOWTO.html and pay special attention to section 4 Vendor/Manufacturer/Model Specific Information. It mentions at least four different RealTek cards that each has it's own quirks. There is other information by the Ethernet Driver Deity, Donald Becker at: http://www.scyld.com/network/ where Becker now works. Good luck, have fun, and all that encouraging bullsh*t ;) -- Paul T. Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] -currently seeking employment-
Re: Free mail a/c that allows download of mail
On Sun, 27 May 2001 23:47:22 +1000, Mark wrote: Is there any free mail accounts (like hotmail etc.) that allow you to download your mail so that you can read it with mutt say? Instead of having to view it through the web browser when connected to the internet. I want something that you can use fetchmail or something similar to download the mail with. Is there any that allow this? Thanks in advance. Mark. I use gmx.net http://gmx.net/ . They also allow you to use them as your Smart Mailer using cram-md5 login. I use masqmail to fetch my mail from my gmx.net and another account and send all mail out through gmx. Works great for me, but they do require that you fill out a questionaire. No spam so far (three weeks) -- Paul T. Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] -currently seeking employment-
Re: Upgrading to Testing (was: Re: Ive been getting scanned...)
On Sun, 27 May 2001 06:07:24 EDT, Marc wrote: What are the proper lines to put in /etc/apt/sources.list to upgrade from stable to testing? I seem to recal someone on the list saying to replace the lines for stable with: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free That line is correct, leave unstable out of it, unless you want sid. but this will also get packages from unstable, which I would prefer not to do at this time. If I do make these changes and do an 'apt-get update/upgrade' then apt wants to upgrade 188 packages on my box, add 40 some packages and delete 11 packages. If I only have the line for testing in my sources.list then 'upgrade' only wants to change 7 packages and 'dist-upgrade' also updates only 7 packages and wants to delete 3 others. There is much that simply does not exist in testing that is in stable and unstable. I thought that testing was a complete set of packages, but this does not seem to be the case. Can anyone explain exactly the way packages flow through the system, including when a new release becomes stable? Testing is a bit screwy right now, but word is it should be fixed sometime soon. AFAIK, there's something wrong with the Packages file, but I could be wrong. I'd wait a day or so so they can get everything repaired. Anyone know more or more accurate info? -- Paul T. Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] -currently seeking employment-
Re: I've been getting scanned...
On Sun, 27 May 2001 14:07:46 PDT, Karsten wrote: Wrong. Testing is unstable + 10 days - bugs. Yes, but only for packages that begin with a through f ;) (at least for the moment) -- Paul T. Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] -currently seeking employment-
Re: I've been getting scanned...
On Sun, 27 May 2001 18:17:53 PDT, Karsten wrote: on Sun, May 27, 2001 at 06:11:11PM -0400, Paul Wright ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sun, 27 May 2001 14:07:46 PDT, Karsten wrote: Wrong. Testing is unstable + 10 days - bugs. Yes, but only for packages that begin with a through f ;) Pardon? Light-hearted joke about the problems that testing has been facing over the past 24 hours. -- Paul T. Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] -currently seeking employment-
ICMP message type destination unreachable...
Hi all, I have been receiving the following entries in my syslog: May 25 22:02:02 j001 ippl: ICMP message type destination unreachable - bad port from 127.0.0.1 They are triggered whenever I fetch my mail from my POP account. Both fetchmail and masqmail cause the same thing. This also happens when mail generated by the machine is delivered, so it likely has nothing to do with the POP retrieval. (I have masqmail installed to retrieve and send mail via a service provider) I have also encountered a similar message with a non-localhost ip: ippl: ICMP message type destination unreachable - bad host from 206.x.x.x The ip address is for a dns server used by the isp I connect to the internet with. (this is according to dig -x [ipaddress] I've been reading docs all day and would appreciate some help, a bit of knowledge, (a whack upside my head with a cluestick?) that is offered. What could my mail system be attempting to do here? Is there something misconfigured in masqmail? Other than configuring logcheck to ignore this report, how can I stop this otherwise harmless message? Thanks all, -- Paul T. Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] -currently seeking employment-
Caching-only nameserver - which bind
Hi all, I'm about to configure a caching only nameserver for my dialup box, and I noticed that there are two variants of the bind package available, bind and bind9. I know that the bind package is version 8.x Which version should I use? Is there an advantage or disadvantage to the newer version? Is configuration for bind-9 so different that I should stick with bind-8? Thanks, I look forward to any advice offered. -- Paul T. Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] -currently seeking employment-
Re: preferred dialup program
On Fri, 25 May 2001 23:30:02 CDT, ktb wrote: On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 11:14:51PM -0500, Jeff Maxson wrote: is there a best dialup program? I have been using wvdial, and it seems to work ok, so I guess don't fix what ain't broke, but maybe another program is somehow better... I used to have good luck with pppconfig. kent I have no problem using pppconfig and the autodialer option in the current ppp. I was very happy to get rid of diald. ;) -- Paul T. Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] -currently seeking employment-
Re: startx missing in potato - 4.0.3
On Fri, 25 May 2001 23:35:50 CDT Dana wrote: I did a apt-get dist-upgrade to get to 4.0.3 of xfree86, and now I'm getting a startx not found in /usr/X11/bin. The sysbolic link is present in /etc/X11/X so, anyone have a startx file they'd mind sending to me for potato 2.2.r3? I had to reboot to Windows since my mailer under Linux is balsa, otherwise I would have more details. Thanks! Dana Try whereis startx: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ whereis startx startx: /usr/X11R6/bin/startx /usr/bin/X11/startx I'm running woody, but I'd be surprised if startx was removed from your machine. I upgraded to testing when I changed over to xfree86 4.0 and expirienced no problems. -- Paul T. Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] -currently seeking employment- -- Paul T. Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] -currently seeking employment-
Re: startx missing in potato - 4.0.3
On Sat, 26 May 2001 00:15:13 CDT, Dana wrote: Actually, startx is gone. I should have just done an upgrade from xfree86.org vs the dist-upgrade via apt-get. Just a reminder, this is a potato 2.2.r3 release. I also should have backed up startx. I *really* don't want to reinstall again. Make sure that you have the package xbase-clients installed. Thats the package that startx ships in. Other xfree86 version four packages I have installed are: package version xfree86-common 4.0.3-3 xserver-xfree86 4.0.3-3 xfonts-100dpi 4.0.3-3 xfonts-75dpi4.0.3-3 xfonts-base 4.0.3-3 xfonts-scalable 4.0.3-3 xserver-common 4.0.3-3 xterm 4.0.3-3 xutils 4.0.3-3 If you apt-get these packages you should have enough to get x running again. enter them all on one line and use the --fix-missing option: (apt-get --fix-missing install xfree86-common xserver-common etc.) This should at least fill out your dependancies. It seems that you may have had more than xbase-clients removed when you did the upgrade. I hope you didn't lose too much. Don't re-install, it's not much fun and it's not really neccessary. good luck, -- Paul T. Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] -currently seeking employment-
Re: [Kris.VanHeurck@siemens.atea.be: i810 chipset on potato]
Branden forwarded this to debian-user: Dear X Strike Force, I am currently installing Debian GNU/Linux potato on a machine in our labs. I found out (by opening the case, since I had no documentation on the machine) that there is a i810 chipset inside. I found the debian-page on this matter (XFree86 with i810 chipset) but had no succes so far on inserting the module which I succesfully compiled from i810-agpgart-module.tar.gz into my kernel which is kernel-image-2.2.18pre21 (and I also compiled succesfully myself). It reports unresolved symbols. Should I upgrade my xserver to woody or sid, since you say on your webpage: [23 Dec 2000] This has been removed since the official Linux kernel and XFree86 4.x are now in sync with each other.. what does this mean ?? Can you help me out by getting my xserver running ? thanks, Kris Hi Kris, I think I can help. Should I upgrade my xserver to woody or sid... You should upgrade the entire distribution to Woody. Do the following: 1. change your /etc/sources.list to look like this: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free (you may use your favorite mirror if you wish) 2. issue the commands: apt-get update and: apt-get dist-upgrade if you run into any difficulties (the dependancies issue can get complicated, but you should't have any problems) try running: apt-get --fix-missing dist-upgrade 3. make certain you have the correct packages for xfree86-4.0 4. get the kernel-source-2.2.4 package XFree86 4.x are now in sync with each other.. what does this mean ? It means that the xfree86 developers are coordinating with the kernel developers. (and contributing code for the kernel agpart modules. re-compile and install the kernel from the 2.2.4 source. configure xfree86 (use xf86config -- despite what some may claim, it works well with xfree86-4) Start your xserver and have fun. If you have any problems or questions post to the debian-user list, there's many extremely talented souls who will tell you where I've gone wrong ;) -- Paul T. Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] -currently seeking employment-
I've been getting scanned...
Hi all, Someone's been port-scanning me, checking only some high ports. Here are my relevant log entries: May 26 13:39:30 j001 ippl: port 37397 connection attempt from 216.136.179.238 May 26 13:43:03 j001 ippl: port 37404 connection attempt from 216.136.179.238 May 26 13:43:06 j001 ippl: port 37404 connection attempt from 216.136.179.238 May 26 13:45:55 j001 ippl: port 37406 connection attempt from 216.136.179.238 May 26 13:45:58 j001 ippl: port 37406 connection attempt from 216.136.179.238 May 26 13:47:10 j001 ippl: port 37408 connection attempt from 216.136.179.238 May 26 13:49:30 j001 ippl: port 37412 connection attempt from 216.136.179.238 Does anyone know what they may be looking for in that range? Does anyone know of a good reference for info (vulnerabilities sorted by port, service, etc)? Does anyone how I can find out who/where/what-domain or host is using that ip? Thanks in advance for any help / advice. -- Paul T. Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] -currently seeking employment-
Anacron message re:/etc/cron.daily/slocate
Hi all, Today I recieved one of those wonderful mails from Anacron with thre following content: /etc/cron.daily/slocate: updatedb: this is not a valid slocate database: /var/lib/slocate/slocate.db Does anyone know why /var/lib/slocate/slocate.db would be not valid? I've read the manpages for updatedb and slocate, but have not come across any descriptions of the checks being made. Is it safe to remove /var/lib/slocate/slocate.db ? and create a new one? If I would create a new one would I use slocate -U /var/lib/slocate ? If not what command would I use? What further implications could be implied by the not valid slocate database? -- Paul T. Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] -currently seeking employment-
Message type unreachable - bad...
Hi all, Question about logs, logging, etc. I have the following (or similar) message from ippl (my ip logger) showing up in my syslog every hour on the hour: May 25 12:02:02 j001 ippl: ICMP message type destination unreachable - bad port from 127.0.0.1 (sorry about not wrapping that) I've determined that this happens when logcheck sends it's report to my MTA (masqmail) which then forwards the message to me in accordance with ny /etc/aliases file. I do not generate a similar message when sending mail off site, but I do when fetching my mail from my POP mail provider(s). This also occured when I was using fetchmail (before two weeks ago). This message occurs for every mail that is delivered to a user on the local machine. Am I correct in assuming the ICMP message is being generated by masqmail and not by another program, possibly procmail? Is there another program that is called by masqmail or procmail that causes this? My gut says this has to do with dns, and that if I were to add a caching-only server on my machine, this would go away. Is this correct? Thanks for the help. -- Paul T. Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] -currently seeking employment-
Re: Anacron message re:/etc/cron.daily/slocate
On Fri, 25 May 2001 15:12:14 EDT, hall answered my question: *snip* Is it safe to remove /var/lib/slocate/slocate.db ? and create a new one? *snip with: I've deleted the existing file on more than one occasion and it's been recreated the next time slocate runs with no problems. Doing so is probably the easiest attempt at fixing it. If you want to be safe, just rename the existing one so that you can put it back if things get even worse... ;-) Do you have any idea what may have caused this? Did you run slocate after deleting the file /var/lib/slocate/slocate.db or did you just wait for anacron to run updatedb for you? Thanks, -- Paul T. Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] -currently seeking employment-
Re: [users] Re: a quickie
so what does 114 days of uptime buy you? A sense of pride. does it matter that much??? To me, no. To others, maybe. -- Paul T. Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] -currently seeking employment-
Re: Message type unreachable - bad...
On Fri, 25 May 2001 12:25:47 PDT, Eric wrote: On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 02:48:15PM -0400, Paul Wright wrote: *snip* I have the following (or similar) message from ippl (my ip logger) showing up in my syslog every hour on the hour: May 25 12:02:02 j001 ippl: ICMP message type destination unreachable - bad port from 127.0.0.1 *snip* I know that fetchmail generates these when delivering mail. Yes, I used fetchmail before and saw it then too. I'm attempting to learn the meanings of the various messages in my logfiles. I'd like to get beyond the point of saying oh, that happens all of the time, I'll just ignore it. ;) Does anyone know of a good rescource for interpeting logfiles? What tools are helpfull in managing / interpeting logs? I currently am using logcheck and syslog-summary. I'd like to know of additional / other tools people find useful. I'd also like to know if others may have some handy filtering tips for the tools I'm using now. Thanks, -- Paul T. Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] -currently seeking employment-
Re: your mail
I had responded to the earlier post by Jenner, but I seem to be expiriencing random mail loss (see my post Re: Missing mail... to help JA Hi everybody! JA JA I just install Debian on my computer and as soon as it reboot it display me this: JA FA1: This happened to me when i upgraded the cpu in my box and accidentaly overclocked it, if you machine is overclocked, you need to set it back to its recommended settings, this also includes overclocking memory with bios settings etc. Linux uses all hardware more effectively and aggresively than bloatsoft, so overclocking is more likely to cause trouble. I too saw the mysterious FA1 message one time long ago, and only after much contemplation and endless searching did I find the following: The boot prompt looks something like this: 4.1 The boot prompt ~~~ 14FA: This is the list of valid keys which may be pressed. This means that partitions 1, and 4 can be booted, also the first floppy drive (F). The A means that 'advanced' mode may be entered, in which any partition may be booted. The prompt for this mode looks like this: 1234F: The only other valid key which may be pressed is RETURN, which continues booting with the default partition. The above is from /usr/share/doc/mbr/README My sugestion is to use a boot floppy (you did make a boot floppy, didn't you?) and press F, then see man install-mbr and the above README. You may have your master boot reccord manager pointing at the wrong partition (should point to the partition with /boot on it), or the necessary info is beyond reach. An alternative suggestion, that was at one time guarenteed to start a flame war for just bringing it up, is to install LILO on the mbr instead of the mbr manager. See man lilo.real for more info about this. Good luck and have fun. -- Paul T. Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] -currently seeking employment- -- Paul T. Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] -currently seeking employment-
Re: About PGP signatures
On 24 May 2001 11:12:27, Craig wrote: FWIW, I'm using Evolution 0.10, and I have no problem reading PGP signatures from mutt users. I am using mhn/exmh and have no problems with mutt PGP sigs. I had been unaware that any MUA had problems with mutt sigs. -- Paul T. Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] -currently seeking employment-
Re: Help installing Debian-LINUX
On Thu, 24 May 2001 10:07:18, Smruti wrote: Hello I am a new user of LINUX, want to install Debian-LINUX in my system. I already have windows-98 in my system. I have a 20GB hard disk partitioned into 4 Drives. I want to install LINUX in one of my pre-exixting partitions(e,g : D/). How can I do it? Can I install it in D:\ without disturbing the windows-98 which is in c: drive? Do I have to repartition the hard disk while installing Debian-LINUX? If I succeed in installing how can I swith between operating systems? Please help me in these matters. For a good reference on how to set up your machine for dual-boot, see the document at: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Linux+Windows-HOWTO/ It is quite detailed, will explain all the necessary steps for the install. -- Paul T. Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] -currently seeking employment-
Re: 2.2 to 2.4
On Thu, 24 May 2001 17:18:30 BST, Patrick wrote: After compiling the new kernel, I get the 'uncompresing kernel...OK' text and then nothing happens, the system just hangs and i have to reboot it. any ideas!? My system is a P200 MMX with 128MB RAM. Debian 2.2 fully upgraded with a sources.list as follows: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free deb http://people.debian.org/~bunk/debian potato main I am trying to upgrade from the 2.2 kernel in order to have my ADSL connection with Alcatel modem working on Linux. When I do my make bzlilo, I reboot and it ahngs at the forst stage: I get the 'uncompresing kernel...OK' text and then nothing happens, the system just hangs and i have to reboot it. Actually I have to pull the power cable out as even the keyboard disappears at this point. All help appreciated... I would reccoment upgrading to testing, then re-compiling using make-kpkg (I am assuming you used this the first time) I had no problems with 2.2.4 when I did this. -- Paul T. Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] -currently seeking employment-
Re: Missing mails
On Thu, 24 May 2001 10:00:53 PDT, Jaye wrote: G'mornin' Paul, And good afternoon to you, Jaye Have you looked into your mail queue to verify that there is no mail sitting there undelivered? I can see several other possible problems, but you can quickly verify if the problem is your box by reading the mail logs. Find out where your mailer keeps it's running logs and read up on them for yesterday. Already checked both, the mail spool (var/spool/masqmail/input) is empty. I originally checked using mailq. If they were sent and acknowledged by your smtp then it's not your problem locally, but a problem somewhere else. I thought that originally, but wanted to get a second opinion. I'm now sure it's nothing to do with my setup, but was unsure that I was assessing the situation correctly. Mail is something people get crazy about. I have an attorney who's office has yet to deliver successfully an email to my wife. I've offered to help track down the problems, but like you already mentioned, it's a built in way to have a perpetual excuse - oh, you *didn't* get my email? - after a year, it's rhetorical! Yeah, I've heard the excuse from clients (I sometimes work in construction) and friends before. I always thought it was something they said when they owe me money ;-) I couldn't really be sure thought, because I have almost no expirience with the systems the use (Win9x, and Mac). Perhaps if I used something other than GNU/Linux, the occasional bug wouldn't bother me so much. (I'd grow accustomed to them!) good luck to you. Thanks, but I don't need luck, I've got Debian! -- Paul T. Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] -currently seeking employment-
Re: 2.2 to 2.4
On Thu, 24 May 2001 23:05:52 BST, Patrick wrote: Changing to testing/unstable did the trick. Its booted. Actually, this 200MMX with its 128MB RAM and 8 Gig hard drive was my pride and joy once upon a time. when I moved it from NT Server to Linux, most felt I had passed up on a superb desktop machine when I could hav eput any old bit of tin as a Linux server. Yet now, compliling the 2.4 kernel was akin to watching paint dry it was so slow. Makes me wonder if the 3.8 kernel in a few years will cause a P4 1500MHz to keel over in shock .-) Yeah, the kernel keeps on growing, it's almost like another OS I'd heard of once... -- Paul T. Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] -currently seeking employment-
Re: lilo difficulties - ADDENDUM
Hello, I sent a reply to your message about your LILO problem, but my MTA was misconfigured at the time (I was playing around with sendmail... lesson learned) and I'm unsure if it was sent. So, here I'll sumarize: The LILO start message LI indicates that either the file /boot/boot.b is missing / relocated (unlikely) or that there is a geometry mismatch with lilo reading your disk (more likely). In order to fix the second problem, add the global option linear to your /etc/lilo.conf. See the lilo.conf manpage and /usr/share/doc/lilo-docs/user.ps.gz (section 5.2.1) for more info. let me know if you got my earlier mail, or if you've solved your problem. -- Paul T. Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] -currently seeking employment-
Missing mails
Hi all, Starting a few days ago, I've encountered some mysteriously disappearing mail. Twice today I've posted to the list and had my posts go MIA. Yesterday, mail to a friend dissapeared into the aether (ether?) I'm wondering if there may be a problem with my MTA setup, the list, or if it's just those damn sun-spots (I'm leaning toward the sunspots). Before yesterday, I had never expirienced lost email, and had thought it was only a lame excuse to use when confronted with accusations of failure to respond. Now I'm not so sure... I am currently using Masqmail to send and retrieve my mail, I retrieve mail from two POP3 accounts and use one of those services (gmx.net) as my smart mailer. I use cram-md5 login for auth when sending, and standard POP3 login when retrieving. All mails use my @gmx address for the return path. I cannot send mails directly from my dialup box because my isp has managed to get the entire range of dialup IP addresses listed on the rbl (probably a good idea). I'm usually pretty good at troubleshooting problems on my own, but when the symptom seems to happen inconsistantly, I get stumped. If anyone has any idea about why this may be occurring, and how to correct the problem, I'd appreciate your help. That is, assuming this mail ever gets to the list in the first place. Thanks all. -- Paul T. Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] -currently seeking employment-
Re: Can anyone help me with a modem problem ?
On Wed, 16 May 2001 at 11:27:16 PDT Ricardo Maurcio wrote: Hello, I'm now using com3 irq 3... cause irq 4 would mess with com1... but i've tried using minicom to dial to my isp and staying connected for a long time... but after a few seconds i get disconnected, also with pppd, i dial.. stablish a connection, and after a few secs, minutes at the most, i get suddenly disconnected... i've disabled the call waiting feature of my phone line but still get disconnected... I really don't know what to do... i want to use this modem :/ (rest of quote ommitted) What are you seeing in /var/log/messages ? (use tail -f /var/log/messages before you initiate the connection.) This will tell you about the interaction with the isp. If you are sure it's a modem problem and not a setup problem you can read the modem-HOWTO (in /usr/share/doc/HOWTO) for a primer on troubleshooting your modem. There is a section (18.5) listing web sites with modem info. http://www.teleport.com/~curt/modems.html was particularly educational for me. I'm sorry this became a sort of polite version of RTFM but I can't really help without more specific info about the problem. I hope that I've been somewhat helpfull. --ptw [EMAIL PROTECTED]
