Re: a modest proposal - Debian needs more $
From: Nathan E Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: a modest proposal - Debian needs more $ Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 10:21:27 -0600 I assume the reason why US-based people have it easy when they make donations is because the treasurer is in the US. For whatever the reason, I say rather than force debian to build some complicated financial structure, people who don't have trivial access to US Dollars and/or an easy way to send them to debian should take the extra effort and cost to convert/send the cash. Consider that part of your donation. When handling money things get complicated. Feelings get hurt. Just for instance, what if a debian financial agent/collector gets mugged on his way to the bank, and suddenly a couple of hundred is missing? How would debian investigate? Did he just keep the cash and make up a story? There are lots of ways to contribute. If where you are at is particularly hard to get cash to debian, then there are a lot of other things you could do: Help with the debian booth at any local/regional events. If you can't spend all day at one, drive the people who do to the event, spend 45 minutes carrying heavy stuff to the booth. Drop by with lunch. Cut to measure all the CAT5 they'll need. Let couple of debianites sleep at your house, etc, etc. Specifically spend time answering debian questions here and elsewhere. If you can program, fix something! Download the latest and greatest, put lots of effort into testing and really locate the source of the problem. Post the kind of bugreports someone can do something about. Buy a fast, fat SCSI harddrive, a fat chunk of ECC, or any one high quality commercial-grade part and ship it to debian. _ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx
Re: 2 distros coexisting?
You have to start somewhere... And Mandrake has been pretty good to me. It's only flaw that I see is that it is based on RH/RPM. If it was based on .deb, apt* dpkg, it would be perfect... No it would be progeny. (er ... would have been) _ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com
Re: 3c905c arp/configuration problems
From: Angus D Madden [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Angus D Madden [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: 3c905c arp/configuration problems Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 23:32:12 -0500 On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 12:26:44PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does the connect light come up on the NIC in the client? The NIC in the gateway? all lights are on, including the lights on the switch. Thus traffic send from gateway to client doesnot get through. yes. Because the who-has, is-at handshake fails. Most probably I would pin this down to a broken cable line between the gateway and the client somewhere. Either a broken twisted pair in one of your cat-5 cables, a broken pin in one of your NICS or a dry solder joint creating a broken connection in a NIC. I've had this *exact* connundrum before and it turned out to be hardware (in my case it was the port I was using on the switch which was dead, and another port worked fine). Basically all the traffic is one way. The client can talk to the gateway but the gateway cant talk to the client. It maybe the vortex, because they've had lots of problems with HP changing the spec's on them and breaking the OSS drivers. Theres a page by the guy that wrote the original driver explaining the hassles. I have tried two different cables and all the ports on the switch. The only thing left would be the NIC itself, which was working fienn yesterday. If all else fails I'll buy a new NIC. First time I had this prob it took me weeks. Then when I changed the switch port and it all worked I spent a week banging my head against my desk :) Kind Regards Crispin Wellington thanks. my head is fully prepared for banging. g attach3 Have you watched for error messages from the card on boot-up? I had a 905C get a screwy ROM. The card would work for about a 3 minutes, then die. I could logon immediately, start the transfer of a large file, and watch the lights blink fast, then see them blink slower and slower then after maybe 1 minute or so, it would completely stop. When the card was first initialized it mentioned a checksum failure of somesort. The damn thing had worked fine for months, then I added a tape drive to the box, (never touched the NIC, except to yank the cable from the back) and when I tried to plug it back into the network later that day... _ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com
Re: problem removing a file
From: Adrian Bolzan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: problem removing a file Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 16:24:11 +1000 Hi, I have a file that has been named --absolute-paths (no quotes). It looks like it was created when one of our sysadmins was testing a burt backup routine. It is about 650MB and I need to remove it. However, I cannot remove the file as the rm command thinks it is an option! nor can I rename it with mv. any help would be appreciated... thanks, adrian go to the directory it is in, do: rm ./--absolute-paths or do its full pathname _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp.
Re: Is anyone using woody in a production environment?
From: Angus D Madden [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Roderick Cummings [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Is anyone using woody in a production environment? Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 09:28:46 -0500 On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 02:32:49AM -0500, Roderick Cummings wrote: Only that the new 2.4 kernel-image wont mount my root partition: request_module[block-major-3]: Root fs not mounted VFS: Cannot open root device 303 or 03:03 Please append a correct root= boot option Kernenl Panic: VFS Unable to mount root fs on 03:03 Even though lilo.conf specifies the correct root= option, and fstab is correct as well. I experienced the same problem repeatedly on every box I tried to install the 2.4 kernel-image debs. Other people I talked to didn't have the same problem. It's because the new kernels are initrd. Rather than read up on mkinitrd, I think it's easier to just download the kernel source and compile your own kernel. But that's just me. g attach3 hmmm, I wonder what we could be doing wrong... _ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com
Re: problem installing debian
From: David S [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian enquiries debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: problem installing debian Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 23:31:41 - Hi, I recently got a copy of debian 2.2r4 through one of the official vendors on the debian website and i'm having trouble accessing the x window system this is the error message i get when initx or startx command is used: _exec of usr/bin/x11/xf86_NONE failed _x11transSocketUNIXConnect can't connect: errno= (111) giving up xinit:connection refused (errno 111) unable to connect to xserver no such process (errno 3) server error I've heard about problems with the geforce2 mx400/linux and since using this card have had trouble using graphics with other distros as well (mandrake, suse) my system: 1Ghz K7 Gigabyte 7dxr m/b 256mb DDR Ram nvidia Geforce2 mx400 64mb 2 HDs debian was installed using a 128mb swap partition and two other 3gb linux native partitions, initially i installed a lot of packages incl. the x-windows components but a lot of errors were reported during setup, after i found i couldn't get to a desktop i tried reinstalling the system and installed the xwin components ONLY however the same errors and problem occured - any help will be gratefully received (it may be something really obvious but i'm an absolute beginner (sorry)) David S. Are you trying to run XFSetup(debconf) or xf86config? On most of the system's I've installed XFSetup doesn't work. _ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com
Re: Debian Vs RedHat
From: Stuart Krivis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Subject: Re: Debian Vs RedHat Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 19:21:13 -0500 --On Friday, January 11, 2002 00:19:57 +0100 martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: also sprach Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002.01.10.1834 +0100]: Does the RPM build process have an equivalent of dpkg-shlibdeps? only since recently... but in general, RPM and DEB are really functionally equivalent. RPM *is* a good packaging system, it's other things which make .rpm based systems suck (read my next post). I've never felt RPM was as good as DEB. RPM-based distros just don't seem to be as maintainable over the long haul. Personally, I have issues with a binary-based distribution. I am enamored of the *BSD ports system and buildworld. :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] With the nice, cheap machines available now (you can pick up a Dual 1.5ghz Athlon with 1gig of ram for 1300$), compiling everything yourself is a possibility, but I have a dozen or so 486's, IPX's, udb's chugging along that would all but choke and die if I were to apt-get source and build everything. _ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com
Re: Debian on Lindows ?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Debian on Lindows ? Date: Fri 11 Jan 2002 04:05:07 MET Hello Debianites, Personally i've grown attached to the Debian way of doing things (cfr. prev. mail) yet am still stuck with a windows-only scanner. I was wondering if anyone can tell me about the possibility to get the Debian/Gnu Linux-style to work on a to-be-installed Lindows system. Lindows itself seems to be a very specific distribution wich requires a complete reinstall. Dunno if re-partitioning is required but i don't want to have to start learning non-Debian Linux configuration. I'll learn that if the need really does require it ;) Regards, Joris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have you tried plex86? You could just start your windows whenever you need to scan something. _ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx
Re: Is anyone using woody in a production environment?
Is there a safe and stable way to build/install woody packages onto a potato system other than to dist-upgrade to woody? what's from with dist-upgrade? Only that the new 2.4 kernel-image wont mount my root partition: request_module[block-major-3]: Root fs not mounted VFS: Cannot open root device 303 or 03:03 Please append a correct root= boot option Kernenl Panic: VFS Unable to mount root fs on 03:03 Even though lilo.conf specifies the correct root= option, and fstab is correct as well. _ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com
Re: dd to /dev/tape Advantages ?
From: Thedore Knab [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: dd to /dev/tape Advantages ? Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 02:23:57 -0500 For backups, I understand the disadvantages and simplicity of using tar. I also like using dump now that I understand it. I was wondering if anyone was using dd to make tape backups. What are the advantages/ disadvantages. i.e. Using dd to write to Tape (raw dump) - mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind dd if=/proc/kcore of=/dev/nst0 bs=20480 count=10 mt -f /dev/nst0 status mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind dd if=/dev/nst0 of=/tmp/rwtest.dat bs=20480 ls -l /tmp/rwtest.dat Ted Knab To backup harddrive filesystems, it would make restoration's a bit tricky in that the partition sizes would have to be the exactly the same. I've never tried it, but running fsck on a filesystem where the size of the dd written to the disk was different than the partition, would be interesting. _ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com
Testing to unstable
Hi, I had a system running testing for a while, and I decided to try unstable. I did a dist-upgrade and everything seemed to go fine, however on reboot, the new 2.4 kernel won't boot correctly, it fails to mount root. I've tried a few things with mkinitrd, and fiddled with lilo. Modutils were upgraded with everything else, I thought to run a 2.4 kernel, the only gotcha was to make sure you upgrade modutils as well. Here is the exact text: request_module[block-major-3]: Root fs not mounted VFS: Cannot open root device 303 or 03:03 Please append a correct root= boot option Kernenl Panic: VFS Unable to mount root fs on 03:03 Thanks. _ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com
Re: Testing to unstable
From: Adam Majer To: Roderick Cummings CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Testing to unstable Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 07:19:15 -0600 On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 07:10:32AM -0500, Roderick Cummings wrote: Hi, I had a system running testing for a while, and I decided to try unstable. I did a dist-upgrade and everything seemed to go fine, however on reboot, the new 2.4 kernel won't boot correctly, it fails to mount root. I've tried a few things with mkinitrd, and fiddled with lilo. Modutils were upgraded with everything else, I thought to run a 2.4 kernel, the only gotcha was to make sure you upgrade modutils as well. Here is the exact text: request_module[block-major-3]: Root fs not mounted VFS: Cannot open root device 303 or 03:03 Please append a correct root= boot option Kernenl Panic: VFS Unable to mount root fs on 03:03 How did you install the kernel? Manually or using Debian kernel package thingy? I always install it manually and never had this problem so I'm assuming it has to be Debian kernel package thingy that's at fault?? Not sure though. I installed the 2.4.17-1 kernel .deb for i686 that is in testing. _ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com
Re: Testing to unstable
From: Jason M. Harvey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Testing to unstable Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:55:51 -0500 On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 07:19:15AM -0600, Adam Majer wrote: | On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 07:10:32AM -0500, Roderick Cummings wrote: ---snip--- | Please append a correct root= boot option ---snip--- is there any change there's no root=/dev/device_name for your root partition in your lilo.conf? for example, mine is root=/dev/hda2 while my boot=/dev/hda, and my fstab has /dev/hda2 / ext2 defaults 0 1. good luck, jason -- registered linux user #202942 http://counter.li.org/ http://www.theigloo.dhs.org Mine is /dev/hda3, which is in lilo.conf, and my fstab file is correct too. Previously I've compiled my own 2.2 kernels, manually and the debian way without any problems. I might try compiling a non-debian 2.4 to see how it goes. (I can still boot the system with my old 2.2 kernel) The way the error messages referes to device 303, does 2.4 refer to devices differently? _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp.
Re: COM21 is killing me with ARP
From: Vector [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Sebastiaan [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Angus D Madden [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: COM21 is killing me with ARP Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 16:30:48 -0600 (MDT) The fact that your provider is using an etire class B address space for a single broadcast network is what should be making you nervous. In most network architecture schemes, the ip's are divided into blocks and thus the amount of broadcasts being received by individual hosts are greatly reduced. I would want to see more of the dump to actually determine if this is really a problem. ARP's are used to gain the MAC address of a system with an IP that is on the same network as you are. With a class B address space of potentially 65,533 hosts on the same broadcast network you can expect to see *MANY* ARP requests! Is this ATT, sounds like something they would do... vector On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Sebastiaan wrote: On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Angus D Madden wrote: On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 12:01:23PM +0200, Sebastiaan wrote: a couple of days ago I installed a COM21 cable modem. Although I can internet without problems, the modem itself is sending me endless ARP requests, while my computer does not answer them. I analysed the data with I have a COM21 and I have the same problem. You'll notice that the TX light on your NIC will never stop. It never used to be a major problem with my ne2k-pci NIC (until the NIC got toasted for one reason or another). After that I switched to a 3c905*, which seemed to work great but would go dead after about 15 minutes (presumably because of the arp bombardment). I hope it did not get toated because of the COM21: I only like fried chips. I have no trouble with the interface (MACE, PowerMac) and the link is pretty stable until now. Thanks for the info, Sebastiaan My solution was to reset with interface with a cron job every 15 minutes. It's a total rat-fsck solution, but it works. This makes me nervous. 212.127.*.* is my ISP cable modem network. What is this, can I stop it? I'm not sure it comes from one source. If I tcp dump I see many 'arp who has xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx tell xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx' and the ip addresses jump around all over the place. Not sure how to stop it. g -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sounds more like an Williams-style configuration. _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
Re: gnome/KDE
From: Margarete Hans [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: gnome/KDE Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 01:16:40 -0400 What are the advantages/disadvantages of gnome and KDE? Basically, which one should I install? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm not sure there are any at this point. The license problem is gone, so there are no political reasons to not use kde. In the past I did not use kde because of this. One or 2 of the KDE apps seem maybe slightly better than gnome, but you can run them under gnome as easily as you can under kde. They both have about the same quality, functionality, etc. I primarily use gnome, but that's just because I am far more used to it. But sometimes I also use icewm only, especially in vnc (hint, hint eXperts). If you dont have the disk space for both, flip a coin. _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
Re: NFS
From: Jerry Sternesky [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: NFS Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 08:58:58 -0400 Where can I get information on setting up an NFS share for Potato? The nfs how-to isn't helping me and in The Debian GNU/Linux Network adminstrator's manual, the nfs section is blank. I installed nfs-common and nfs-kernel-server. rpcinfo -p only showed portmapper running so I executed rpc.mountd and that seemed ok, but when I run rpc.nfsd I get nfssvc: Function not implemented. So I need to be able to figure out what is happening here. I never had a problem with nfs before, but this is my first install of debain and things are a little different then I am accustomed to. So a point in the right direction would be appreciated. Thanks, Jerry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's pretty easy after you do it once, like most things. You need to specify what directories to share in /etc/exports. Otherwise, on boot or init change, nfsd checks to see if there are any directories to export and if there are none it exits. So that's why you're not seeing it. Here is one of my export files. It's sharing a cd to the system named howard and pointlessly is offering rw to it, not that I look at it. duh! [EMAIL PROTECTED] cat /etc/exports # /etc/exports: the access control list for filesystems which may be exported # to NFS clients. See exports(5). /cdrom howard.x.lan(rw) _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
Re: vnc icewm and no permissions
From: Roderick Cummings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: vnc icewm and no permissions Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 22:30:55 -0400 I was using vnc on a small box to run a gui program, but I have managed to mangle it rather badly. Anyway, I got the idea to remove the menu's, toolbars, etc in icewm so you can't open any programs while logged in via xvncviewer. I did this my removing the menu package, and then going into /usr/lib/menu, default and /etc/menu and removing them. Then I went into /etc/X11/icewm and deleted the files menu, preferences, programs and toolbar. The idea was to make it harder for someone who has gotten into vnc, to get to a shell, although I'm sure there are lots of things an X expert could do, but at least someone would have to think a little before owning me. And this worked fine for quite a while. But one day (today infact) I was using the vnc session, and at some point noticed a way to right-click a bring up an xterm. When I did this, it killed icewm, and left me with just a xterm but no window manager, somekind of failsafe login, i think. So then I found the file, /etc/menu-methodes/icewm. It had several lines mentioning xterm, so I deleted the 3 lines: x11= prog \ $title \ ifempty($icon,-) ifnempty($icon,$icon) $command\n text= prog \ $title\ ifempty($icon,-) ifnempty($icon,$icon) xterm -T \ $title \ -e $command\n wm= restart \ $title\ ifempty($icon,-) ifnempty($icon,$icon) $command\n I restarted vnc, and got nothing but the xterm, and no window manager. I've --purged and reinstalled all of the packages, vnc, ice, xbase, xcommon, etc. All of the files I edited or deleted seem to be back the way they were before. However, when starting vnc, all I get is X(vnc), no window manager, no xterm, nothing. I set icewm and other xprogs to start in ~/.xsession and even in /etc/X11/xsession, and it has no effect. if I try to launch an app from a commandline (by just ssh'ing into the box, I get connection refused by server. Checking the xsession errors, anything I try to start up in .xsession or /etc/X11/xsessiom, xintrc, etc and they all also exit with connection refused by server. Everything is running under the same login, and DISPLAY is set correctly, etc, but I'm getting connection refused for everything. I even put an xhost + in xsession and it still doesn't make any difference. What else can I look at? All of these files were purged and replaced, with the same stable packages I had used when I originally installed everything. Thanks. _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] OK something odd is going on, now everything works fine when I login from work. But when I ssh from my home systems (the box in question is one of my homesystems) any xterms launched are not allowed access to the vnc X server. But when I ssh in from elsewhere it works fine. Before I screwed with things, it worked fine from home and elsewhere there have been no changes to my other homesystems. Ah, correction, any of my homesystems NOT running X work correctly. From console only, without an X server running locally I can launch apps on to the vnc Xserver (DISPLAY is set right both ways). Is ssh causing a problem? There is a environmental variable called XAUTHORITY that points to a file in /tmp. Is this the source of the problem? But in either case, this was not a problem previously. _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
Re: do you know any free proxy server?
From: ktb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: do you know any free proxy server? Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 17:44:07 -0500 On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 06:21:30AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm assuming www - squid You could easily search yourself at - http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages Search for proxy and select Descriptions hth, kent -- From seeing and seeing the seeing has become so exhausted First line of The Panther - R. M. Rilke -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] What about ftp? I would like to point apt to something local to reduce the burden on *.debian.org, but I think setting up a mirror would be overkill that would waste even more of debian's bandwidth. _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
vnc icewm and no permissions
I was using vnc on a small box to run a gui program, but I have managed to mangle it rather badly. Anyway, I got the idea to remove the menu's, toolbars, etc in icewm so you can't open any programs while logged in via xvncviewer. I did this my removing the menu package, and then going into /usr/lib/menu, default and /etc/menu and removing them. Then I went into /etc/X11/icewm and deleted the files menu, preferences, programs and toolbar. The idea was to make it harder for someone who has gotten into vnc, to get to a shell, although I'm sure there are lots of things an X expert could do, but at least someone would have to think a little before owning me. And this worked fine for quite a while. But one day (today infact) I was using the vnc session, and at some point noticed a way to right-click a bring up an xterm. When I did this, it killed icewm, and left me with just a xterm but no window manager, somekind of failsafe login, i think. So then I found the file, /etc/menu-methodes/icewm. It had several lines mentioning xterm, so I deleted the 3 lines: x11= prog \ $title \ ifempty($icon,-) ifnempty($icon,$icon) $command\n text= prog \ $title\ ifempty($icon,-) ifnempty($icon,$icon) xterm -T \ $title \ -e $command\n wm= restart \ $title\ ifempty($icon,-) ifnempty($icon,$icon) $command\n I restarted vnc, and got nothing but the xterm, and no window manager. I've --purged and reinstalled all of the packages, vnc, ice, xbase, xcommon, etc. All of the files I edited or deleted seem to be back the way they were before. However, when starting vnc, all I get is X(vnc), no window manager, no xterm, nothing. I set icewm and other xprogs to start in ~/.xsession and even in /etc/X11/xsession, and it has no effect. if I try to launch an app from a commandline (by just ssh'ing into the box, I get connection refused by server. Checking the xsession errors, anything I try to start up in .xsession or /etc/X11/xsessiom, xintrc, etc and they all also exit with connection refused by server. Everything is running under the same login, and DISPLAY is set correctly, etc, but I'm getting connection refused for everything. I even put an xhost + in xsession and it still doesn't make any difference. What else can I look at? All of these files were purged and replaced, with the same stable packages I had used when I originally installed everything. Thanks. _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
Re: Port Sentry
From: Rajkumar S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Roderick Cummings [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: debian debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Port Sentry Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 20:51:46 +0530 (IST) On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, Roderick Cummings wrote: Now when portsentry detects a port scan it blocks the ip making the scan. I am not an expert in security, but some doubts. Is it wise to block an ip just because it did a port scan? What if s/he spoofs the ip and puts your ip as source address? raj A rule in my input chain will drop any incomming packet claiming to be from the localhost. (the routers to other networks will drop any incomming packets claiming to be from my network as well). Blocking the ip's might be a problem if say, someone takes control of one of the servers at my customers site, but then the application would die and be noticed. Although that would be a serious DOS attack, I'd much rather know there is a problem and discover the system in the customer's network was hacked, than continue to talk to it and process data from it. Unfortuneatly the customers do have legitimate reasons to access the systems in my network (several of which they actually own). _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
Re: Port Sentry
From: Noah L. Meyerhans [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian User List debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Port Sentry Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 12:50:39 -0400 On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 08:51:46PM +0530, Rajkumar S. wrote: Now when portsentry detects a port scan it blocks the ip making the scan. Is it wise to block an ip just because it did a port scan? What if s/he spoofs the ip and puts your ip as source address? This is the real problem, and is a very good reason not to block IP addresses based on a portscan. Very few large scale sites do anything of the sort. It is trivial to spoof the source address of a portscan, allowing one to cause your machine to block access from your nameservers or your clients or other important sites. I recommend using ippl or the ipchains/iptables based logging facilities in place of portsentry. They don't necessitate having a service actually listening on unused ports. noah -- ___ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html attach3 These networks are not accessible from the internet, nor are the customer networks. So The only spoofing would be from either co-workers here, or employee's of customers. The decision then is, is the risk of a spoofed source DOS worth continuing to accept data from a potentially compromised host, particularly when the person doing the scan is someone who knows a lot about the systems he's attacking and the data they process. Such a person could easily fake customer billing, credits, and cause lots of problems far worse than an hour or so of downtime. But you are right about the namservers not blocking. The whole point of many nameservers is public access, so they are easily found, and often messed with, so they should be monitored closely, be tight, but also be tolerant of newbies trying weird things to them. However, in this situation the nameservers are less important anyway, most of the applications have the IP's in their hosts files. Nearly all of the systems are application processors, not user stations, so they are constantly passing application messages, datafiles, etc with a fixed set of machines. _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
Re: Installation Problems
From: Margarete Hans [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Installation Problems Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 19:10:24 -0400 I assume that no one responded to my original message because it was in rich text format so here it is again - hopefully in plain text this time. I tried installing Debian Potato, vanilla flavor, with floppies on a COMPAQ laptop, Contura 400C. It has 20480 KB RAM, of wich 4 MB are on the System Board and 16 MB are part of an Expansion Module, an SL enhanced 486DX2 processor at 40 MHz, an integrated 387-Compatible coprocessor; I have a primary DOS FAT-16 partition (410MB), a primary Linux partition (50MB)(unformatted) and and expanded partition with two other unformatted Linux partitions(70MB and 210MB). The partitions were made with Partition Manager, a very basic DOS-utility. I downloaded the disk images with DownloadAccelerator. Upon inserting the rescue disk and rebooting, it checked the RAM, accessessed the floppy and then simply stopped. The curser was on the top row, blinking. I retried it a couple of times, rawriting it on different floppies each time. I then tried it on my primary computer (DELL Pentium 166, 32MB RAM, AMIBIOS version A10 by Americanmegatrends, one 3GB FAT-32 Win95 partition). The same thing happened. I assumed that the problem was that the file was corrupted. I redownloaded the disk image. This time, on both computers, I got a message that the floppy is not a bootable disk. I redownloaded it a third time from a different server, with the same result as the second on both computers. I tried the Compact flavor. The rescue disk worked fine on both computers, but upon inserting the root image disk, I got a message invalid compressed format (err=1)5VFS: insert root floppy and press ENTER. Upon hitting enter, without changing disk, there is some obscure code repeated twice and then a Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 2:00 ide0: unexpected interrupt, status=0x80, count=1. I tried downloading the compact root twice, rawrote it onto different disks and tried it on both computers with the same results. I have no new ideas of what to try next. What should I do? Derek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] What system are you writing the floppies with? Do other non-linux bootdisks created by that drive work? It can be frustrating, I once made the boot-root-driver disks for an alpha system 4 times, each time with different (new) disks, dd'd by different systems, before it finally worked. _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
Port Sentry
I have set up a debian system to act as an intrusion detection system with portsentry. Now when portsentry detects a port scan it blocks the ip making the scan. Is there a way to get this information propogated to nearby routers, etc. It would be interesting to have all traffic to or from the offending system be rejected. We have a lot of connections to our customers networks, the thing we worry about is one of their employee trying some kind of hack or DOS. Thanks. _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
Re: LILO error: ran out of input data?
From: Brian Dunnette [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: LILO error: ran out of input data? Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 01:33:30 -0500 Sounds like the box is bad, I'd guess that the memory is the problem. Funny thing is, I've tried using different memory (a newer DIMM, and some old SIMMs) and get the same error regardless. Is there some weird BIOS setting I'm missing (it's an FIC VA-503+, if that helps), or is it just hosed? Thanks, Brian Dunnette -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Humm. I have a few of those fic mobos too. If the memory itself is good, there still could be be a chip or something on the motherboard is causing memory problems. You might try memcheck x86, I don't have a link for it here. It boots off of a floppy and burns through the memory running a series of write, read and compares with different bit patterns. See if anything else runs correctly on the machine, run through a windows install if you have one of their cds or you could try a NIC's diagnostic diskette just something to show whether it happens only under debian/linux or not. You could try another hd and/or cable, does the problems begin more or less right away or only after its copied a lot of stuff to the hd, or starts reading from the disk? _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
Re: lynx depends on libz1
From: Andreas Mueller (EED) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: lynx depends on libz1 Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 10:34:21 +0200 Hallo Debian's I've tried to install lynx out of the potato 2.2 r_0_ CD-Roms using dpkg Lynx claims to depend on libz1. I couldn't find these on any of my CD-R's. Can someone help me please on that? Andreas... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think it's zlib1g, (gzip, etc) that it wants. If you set up the CDs to be the apt source, running apt-get install lynx should install everything you need. Otherwise just mount the cd and do a find for zlib* and it should pop up. _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
Re: Bad DIMM? Need testing advice
From: Manuel Reiter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Bad DIMM? Need testing advice Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 13:24:36 +0200 (CEST) Hi, I recently thought I'd take advantage of the low RAM prices and got some memory for my home machine (Athlon 900, Asus A7V). I bought two 256MB PC133-DIMMs specified for 2-2-2 timing. Being a bit on the cautious side regarding memory, I decided to run memtest86 which indeed reported some errors early on. I haven't had time to investigate any further, but I thought I'd post what I have so far and ask for advioce about my testing plan. Here goes: During Test 1 [Moving Inv, oneszeros, cached] a couple of addresses fairly close to each other (1e92e99c, 1e94a99c, 1e90a99c, 1e92699c, 1e91a99c, 1c93e99c, 1e94299c, 1e91a99c) were reported with errors. They all seemed to fail in exactly the same bit. The ouput was somewhat as follows Addr Good: Bad:4000 Xor:4000 I encountered 8 errors in 7 passes of Test 1, 6 of which occured in pairs (2 errors in same run, shortly after one another). 2 passes went through without any errors. As you can see above, no single address failed more than once. As I have absolutely no idea about the physical properties of memory, I'm somewhat at a loss interpreting this result. Does it look like a faulty chip or could there be some other reason? The memtest86 README mentions something about USB legacy support producing fake errors with some INTEL chipsets -- could something similar be happening here? FWIW, I have disabled USB legacy support. I plan to proceed as follows: - run the complete test (could anybody with a similar setup give me some estimate as to how long this would take? Also, do you deem it necessary to run the extended tests as well?) at least once, better twice and note which other tests fail. - swap the 2 DIMMs and rerun the tests that failed, noting whether the errors still occur and if yes, whether they occur in the same memory region. If that is the case, I'd suspect it's not a simple case of a broken chip. - test each DIMM separately to find out which one is faulty. Any comments, suggestions, advice? Thanks in advance, Manuel -- Manuel Reiter | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Institut fuer Theoretische Physik | J.W.Goethe Universitaet| Robert-Mayer-Str. 8-10 | D-60054 Frankfurt am Main | Germany| (Voice: [+49]-69-798-22632, Fax: -28350) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Memcheck takes at least 45 minutes to complete. If the machine is relatively slow it will take a lot longer. I always just start the program and go away, so I can't even say how long it actually takes. I ran it on a 486 and it ran for over 8 hours. I left at 5pm, and didn't wait to see when it stopped. _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
Re: nis +
From: Viktor Rosenfeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Martin Würtele [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: nis + Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 14:59:20 +0200 Martin Würtele wrote: On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 03:29:48AM -0400, Roderick Cummings wrote: I am trying to learn how to admin nis and nis+. I found the nis package in debian, but does debian have an nis+ package? If not are there nis+ packages else where? i don't know, just be aware that even in 2.4 the nis+ kernel server is sort of broken! What's a NIS+ server doing in a kernel. I mean, IIRC, there is no such thing and it wouldn't even make sense for it to be there. Ciao, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maybe he has confused nis and nfs. Although I'm not sure why nfs should be a kernel space daemon either. Maybe for performance reasons, or maybe just the range of things NFS must do calls for it. Thanks for the links, I'll check them out. For starters I will work with the nis package already part of stable, a copy of the O'reilly nis and nfs book is floating around somewhere at work. That should be enough reading to keep me busy a while at least. _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
Re: newbie: Help, I'm stuck!
From: Scott Frankel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user debian-user@lists.debian.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: newbie: Help, I'm stuck! Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 22:30:28 -0700 Problem 1: the cursor won't respond I installed the Potato release as the default OS in a dual-boot setup on an Apple PowerBook Pismo (Firewire/2000/tc.). X (v.3) launches happily, but the cursor arrow won't respond to either the trackpad or an externally connected USB mouse. It won't budge from the center of the display (which is some sort of Debian desktop decoration with some icons on either side. Don't know what they do yet; I can't click'em.) That might be due to the program gpm running in the background. Try disabling it. Try /etc/init.d/gpm stop gpm is a mouse program that lets you cut and paste at the console. Problem 2: dselect config file mulched I've inadvertantly hoarked whatever shoot-myself-in-the-foot.config file it is that controls what the dselect program can access. I can't seem to get a package list update from the CD's I installed from. With this remedied, maybe I could install the man pages! In any event, this leads to the frustrating: Check out /etc/apt/sources.list Unless you totally deleted it, it probably have a few default sources you can uncomment. Man/info will can provide more info if not. also you could try re-running the first option on deselect and resetup apt. Problem 3: dsl via dhcp internet connection does't work Which means that I can't connect to the Debian ftp site to download the XF86Setup package! I posted a plea the other day and received very interesting information in return. (Thanks!) My /etc/network/interfaces file, edited accordingly, now reads: # interfaces to launch at boot auto lo eth0 # loopback interface iface lo inet loopback # fast ethernet iface eht0 inet dhcp Nontheless, I still get unresolved address errors from dselect's Access methods. Lynx complains as well. From a cold boot and root login, invoking ifconfig returns no output whatsoever. If I then invoke % ifconfig eth0 up I get eth0 PHY ID: ... full_duplex:1, speed: 100 dselect lynx remain unhappy though, even after that ifconfigery. Note that the computer is connected to a Linksys Cable/DSL Router, which serves IP numbers via DHCP -- and the whole setup works flawlessly under MacOS ... Two related questions: - What does /sbin/pump do? I'm told it plays/can play a role in dhcp configuration. What would/should I do to implement it? - What does /sbin/ifup do? There's reference to it in the original /etc/network/interface file. Thanks in advance for your help. I've spent the better part of a week absolutely dead in the water - Scott -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can't help there, I've never needed to do DHCP. _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
Re: turning off exim on port 25
From: Eric N. Valor [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jim Breton [EMAIL PROTECTED],Debian-User Mailing List debian-user@lists.debian.org,debian-firewall@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: turning off exim on port 25 Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 00:22:12 -0700 I'm pretty sure that you can either start it in inetd mode or daemon mode (from init.d/). It depends on how you config it at install. Also, I believe Bryan still wanted it to do internal delivery work, but just wanted to turn off the port 25 listen (can't do it without disabling exim). A better way to disable the daemon script would be to either remove the symlink in /etc/rcX.d (where X = your default run-mode as defined in /etc/inittab) or rename it from S??exim to K??exim in your default run-mode (either way works). At 06:58 AM 5/24/2001 +, Jim Breton wrote: On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 11:33:40PM -0700, Eric N. Valor wrote: That pretty much turns off exim altogether. Actually the script in /etc/init.d/ will start exim in stand-alone mode if you disable the listener in inetd.conf. So you will still have it listening on 25/tcp. While effective for disabling the Port 25 listen, it doesn't allow Bryan to use exim for his purposes. I think he's also using it in daemon mode rather than being run from inetd. I'm not sure whether exim will still do deliveries from the queue if you disable the tcp listener (I don't use exim), but if it does, I'd suggest shutting it off altogether. Just put an exit 0 at the top of the script. (Again I'm not sure if exim will still work correctly after that, and I don't have a box handy with exim on it to test... so try it out.) -- Jim B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Eric N. Valor Webmeister/Inetservices Lutris Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED] - This Space Intentionally Left Blank - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Exim will be called by its cron job, so local deliveries should work fine. Inet would only call exim, if someone connected to port 25. _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
Re: LILO error: ran out of input data?
From: Brian Dunnette [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: LILO error: ran out of input data? Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 11:52:57 -0500 Hey all... Just tried installing Debian 2.2 on an old K6 I had lying around... after wading through LOTS of stuff (the installer crashes at random points, I get unable to handle null dereference or kernel paging errors, and I get segfaults when the installer tries to unzip the base2_2 and drivers packages...) I thought I'd finally gotten everything working -- LILO ran normally, and the installer, for once, exited happily. But then, upon rebooting, I get this: LILO Loading Linux. Uncompressing Linux... ran out of input data -- System halted What, exactly, does this mean? And how can I get rid of it? Thanks, Brian Dunnette -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sounds like the box is bad, I'd guess that the memory is the problem. I have a K6-200mhz (plus nearly a dozen K6-2s and K6-IIIs) that runs debian just fine. Whenever I had a system with bad memory usually the first problem I notice is filesystem errors, I guess because of the filesystem buffers get screwy before they're written to disk and/or the program actually flushing them does screwy things due to the bad memory. Of course when the memory goes bad, pretty much everything tends crap out, but anything memory intensive is likely to get weird first, like just uncompressing the kernel during boot-time, etc. How it manifests itself depends on how much of the RAM is bad. _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
nis +
I am trying to learn how to admin nis and nis+. I found the nis package in debian, but does debian have an nis+ package? If not are there nis+ packages else where? _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
Re: how to set correct time?
tzconfig will let you specify the timezone if you want to try to adjust it, but you might have set up the system so that it expects GMT from the hardware. Also, depending if it is some applet or xprogram that's displaying the time for you, you need to check and specify the timezone for that program, rightclick for properties. Also dual booting with windows can be a problem. If thats the case, set the current local time in the bios, and set up your system so it does not expect to see GMT on boot, I forget exactly how to do that. But in /etc/ there is a file with time and zone info in it. /etc/default/rcS does the GMT part and /etc/timezone or timezone.conf for the zone part. From: DvB [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: how to set correct time? Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 00:33:49 -0500 You might wanna try rdate (I usually sync with time.nist.gov). Stephen Boulet wrote: On Thursday 19 April 2001 05:58 pm, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: I foolishly don't know how to set the correct time for my system clock. The timezone is correctly set to London/England, but the time is about 6 hours out (date reports the time in 'BST' - I presume this is British Standard Time). I tried using the date command but nothing happened. Thanks for any help Rory -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
mailboxes?
I'm getting an error when checking my mail with mail. After reading the mail, and exiting, it does not delete the mail, it prints out: Unable to lock mailbox: Permission denied Now if I use mutt, I can delete the message, but what is wrong with mail/mailx? the permission's on /var/mail/myusername is: -rw-rw1 greggmail0 Apr 19 13:20 /var/mail/myusername which should be right. There is nothing in /var/lock/ /var is a local partition, created during the original install, so no nfs or other problems. What else should I try looking at? Thanks. _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
Sparc boot disks
I'm having trouble installing debian on an Ultra E1. I have (several times over the last couple of weeks) downloaded fresh copies of the rescue and driver-1 disk from the sun4u directory, and the root disk as well. I've written them to several different new disks. I get through to the part where I install the drivers disk onto the harddrive. It says, This is disk 1 of 1 in the drv14-sun4u series 27-Nov-2000 13:18 EST, Wrong Disk This is from series drv14-sun4u, You need disk 1 of series the driver series [sic] The rescue and drivers disks should match they both came from the same sun4u directory on ftp.debian.org, and the errors message doesn't make sense. What can I try to fix this? I can install on E1's with a CD, but the 2 E1's I have now, do not have a CD rom drive, the drives were stolen by someone from another department. I could probably find a temporary drive, but there must be something wrong with the boot disks or perhaps my brain is out of wack, and I don't realize something obvious. _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
