Re: TV over LAN?
Thomas Hessling [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sorry if I made a mistake here, I'm not that familiar with the matter. I just wrote how I accomplish it. If I ssh to another machine and start mozilla for example, it does only work if I add the remote machine to my xhosts list. Try 'ssh -X' next time. Suonpäää...
Re: Less and .gz files
Sebastiaan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: On my earlier SuSE system less was able to read gzipped text files. Can i get less to do it also on Debian? yes, but the command is 'zless'. I beleive that the package gzip provides these commands. You will get a lot of other 'z' commands too, like zcat, zdiff, zgrep, zmore, zetc... Not necessarily. I say just 'less' even when I want to less gzipped or bz2'd files. Trick is to use lesspipe. From my ~/.bash_profile: LESS=-M-Q LESSOPEN=| lesspipe %s LESSCHARSET=latin1 PAGER=less export LESS LESSOPEN LESSCHARSET PAGER lesspipe is a shell-script that checks the extension on a filename and decides how files should be viewed. To .gz-files it does does a simple 'gzip -dc', for tar's it uses 'tar tvf', for .docs 'catdoc', picture-files such as .jpeg or .gif it says 'identify' and so one. lesspipe comes with less. Suonpää...
Freedb-submissions with jack
Has anyone tried submitting entries to freedb with jack? I just don't seem to able to do it. I almost filed a bug against jack, but decided to play safe and post a question instead. When trying to submit, I just get some python errors, like the following two: $ jack -m This is jack 2.99.7 (C) 2001 Arne Zellentin [EMAIL PROTECTED] choose a category: 1.) blues 2.) classical 3.) country 4.) data 5.) folk 6.) jazz 7.) misc 8.) newage 9.) reggae 10.) rock 11.) soundtrack 0.) none of the above: 0 OK, using `soundtrack'. Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/jack, line 2983, in ? do_freedb_mailsubmit(freedb_form_file, cd_id) File /usr/bin/jack, line 1861, in do_freedb_mailsubmit return system(( echo 'To: + freedb_servers[freedb_server]['submit_mail'] + '; echo From: ' + freedb_servers[freedb_server]['my_mail'] + '; echo 'Subject: cddb + cat + + cd_id + ' ; cat ' + file + ' ) | sendmail -t) KeyError: submit_mail $ Suonpää...
Re: ssh2 client for debian 2.2r4?
nate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - compile openssh and install to /usr/local/openssh (what i do) i prefer having apps in their own directory so i can just rm -rf them when i want to remove them instead of hunting them down in 10 different places. If you'd like to easily have links to it in /usr/local/bin, /usr/local/man/man1 etc, have a look a package 'stow'. I install all my locally compiled software in directories under /usr/local/stow and have stow make the links needed. $ apt-cache show stow Package: stow Priority: optional Section: admin Installed-Size: 284 Maintainer: Guillaume Morin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Architecture: all Version: 1.3.2-14 Depends: perl Suggests: doc-base Filename: pool/main/s/stow/stow_1.3.2-14_all.deb Size: 58126 MD5sum: cee7ec17bd3eef39060823ebaecea93f Description: Organiser for /usr/local/ hierarchy GNU Stow helps the system administrator organise files under /usr/local/ by allowing each piece of software to be installed in its own tree under /usr/local/stow/, and then using symlinks to create the illusion that all the software is installed in the same place. Suonpää...
Re: HP Officejet PSC 750
Pedro Quaresma de Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to buy an HP Officejet PSC 750 (printer/scanner/copier), is it supported in Linux? In full/partial/not-supported? See for yourself: http://hpoj.sourceforge.net/suplist.html (Yes, it should be supported. Scanning and printing should both work. In printing, use DJ9XX driver. Take a look at the package 'hpoj' in Woody and unstable. You probably need quite new GhostScript also. And SANE, of course.) Suonpää...
Re: EXT3
A man or a woman with no name [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where do you get those Alan Cox kernels from ? http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/ Suonpää...
Re: Speeding up scp (Was: Re: Ramfs and Cachless Networking.)
Viktor Rosenfeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In this case, blowfish is a nice speed improvement. Any idea, why it' not the default? I would assume it has something to do with 3des being older. In ssh man-pages it is said, that blowfish _appear_ very secure. I think BSD-folks are just being conservative, as usual. (Which, by the way, is why their products are usually considered very secure.) Suonpää...
Re: Speeding up scp (Was: Re: Ramfs and Cachless Networking.)
Viktor Rosenfeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Samuli Suonpaa wrote: $ time scp -c 3des -q oberon:/var/www/testi.100M /dev/zero real 1m28.652s user 0m0.050s sys 0m0.450s $ time scp -c blowfish -q oberon:/var/www/testi.100M /dev/zero real 0m27.329s user 0m0.070s sys 0m0.390s Nice difference, right? Stop! Could the file /var/www/testi.100M be in the OS cache during the second try? It was, but it was there the first time also, I deliberately ran both these commands a couple of times and only reported the last attempt. (Should have mentioned that, though.) If not, than a 300% speed improvement is certainly nice. It certainly is. Suonpää...
Re: ext3 on install
Adam McDaniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm curious if anyone here has any knowledge of Debian, in any future release, will prompt the user to install an ext3 filesystem during the initial install. It's already possible. Install normally on an ext2-partition, compile yourself a kernel with ext3 (you need patching), initialize the journal (tune2fs -j /dev/hda, for instance) and replace ext2 in fstab with ext3. e2fsprogs in (in Woody at least) are fully ext3-compliant. And by the way, if you use filesystem-type auto in /etc/fstab you can even switch between ext3-aware kernel and ont that only has ext2! Suonpää...
Re: ext3 on install
Eduard Bloch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When Woody comes, there will probably be a different flavour on each CD-ROM. So you have 5 CDs and depending on which you insert, you will get one of [ default | ide | ide-pci | reiserfs | udma100-ext3 ] installation systems. For what it's worth, rather than support for every possible journaling filesystem, I'd like to see boot-images with support for LVM. Suonpää...
Re: Ext3... what about it?
Julio Merino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can it be considered some stable now? Quite. BTW: I'm currently using ext2, and I don't switch to resierfs because freebsd can't access it nor partitionmagic. I hope that with ext3 these problems will go away, isn't it? They will, or at least they will change form. I think using freebsd to _write_ in ext2-mode to an ext3-filesystem which hasn't been shut down cleanly will introduce you some trouble, wouldn't recommend that. Otherwise I see no problems. Suonpää...
Re: Ext3... what about it?
Adam McDaniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 05:17:39PM +0300, Samuli Suonpaa wrote: Julio Merino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can it be considered some stable now? Quite. how about mixing it with other kernel harddrive magic, like raid or lvm? My experience with LVM and ext3 limits to one machine, on which I have used this combination for about a month without any problems. No problems so far, even resizing logical volumes has worked like a charm. Before that I used reiserfs on LVM for a few months, also without any real problems. _But_, since I haven't been using this combination any longer, I really cannot make any statements on it's reliability. Oh, and I have used -ac -kernels all the time. I assume that wouldn't make any difference, but its on my lvm that i really could use ext3. Except ofcourse the info on the lvm is very difficult to backup somewhere else becuase of its size... just incase anything went wrong :) Which reminds me... I'd gladly hear comments on LVM snapshots, if anyone has experience with them. Do they work reliably enough to be used for serious backups? Suonpää...
Speeding up scp (Was: Re: Ramfs and Cachless Networking.)
Viktor Rosenfeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I suspect that the problem lies with scp. On my local network I experience transfer rates of less than 200kB/s with scp because the server is an old Pentium 133 with not enough horse power. With plain old rcp I get up to 6MB/s on a 100MB (half duplex?) link. In that case I suggest you try blowfish cipher instead of 3des, which seems to be Debian default for some reason. Blowfish is a _lot_ faster than 3des, as this should demonstrate: (scp runs on my 400MHz laptop and sshd on a 900MHz server, networks is 100Mbps with no additional traffic.) $ time scp -c 3des -q oberon:/var/www/testi.100M /dev/zero real1m28.652s user0m0.050s sys 0m0.450s $ time scp -c blowfish -q oberon:/var/www/testi.100M /dev/zero real0m27.329s user0m0.070s sys 0m0.390s Nice difference, right? When you have decided this is really what you want, it's time to edit /etc/ssh/ssh_config to make blowfish the default cipher by adding 'Cipher blowfish' in part 'Host *'. Suonpää...
Partial debian mirrors
Before package-pools (and testing) it was quite easy to do partial mirrors of debian archive for local use. With pools, it it possible to have woody-only mirror set up at least with apt-move. But if I want to have something a bit more complicated? Currently I use Woody on my machines but I sometimes want to install newer packages with apt-get's wonderful '-t unstable' options. Addition to that, I have my deb-src -lines pointing to unstable. Is it possible, for instance, to have a local mirror with packages from Woody and Sid but _not_ from potato? How about having Woody binaries but Sid sources? Any ideas about which tools I should use? Suonpää...
Re: .config in kernel source?
Martin F. Krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: okay. so it's really just basic vanilla source (with patches applied)? so the actual kernel data (not image) is in kernel-headers? Kernel-source contains a tarball /usr/src/kernel-source-x.x.x.tar.bz2 which has everything you need to compile a kernel the traditional way or make packages kernel-image, kernel-docs and kernel-headers. Kernel-headers contains just the headers, the .h-files. what do you do if another piece of software needs both, headers and source, corresponding to the current kernel (e.g. vmware)? it isn't happy with just kernel-source (unconfigured), and it isn't happy with just kernel-headers (no source files). But vmware _is_ happy with kernel-headers. I have only kernel-image and kernel-headers installed in my laptop and vmware modules compile just fine. (At least vmmon.o and vmnet.o do.) You do not need both packages. You either install kernel-source which includes the source _and_ the headers (and docs) _or_ you install kernel-image plus, if needed, kernel-headers. I, for instance, do not have enough diskspace on my laptop to hold kernel sources, I have all the sources in my other machine at which I make packages kernel-image and kernel-headers to be installed on the laptop. Oh, and what comes to the subject of this message, the .config is included in kernel-image also, as /boot/config-x.x.x. Suonpää...
The reason for Star Office 5.2 breakage
(Posted on both lists since there's active discussion on both lists concerning this problem.) Five minutes ago I found the package that breaks Star Office the way that has been described on numerous emails. The package Star Office has problems with is sharefont. When sharefont 0.10-9 is installed, Star Office gives a very informative message stating that an unrecoverable error has happened every time I try to create a new document or open an existing one. apt-get remove sharefont solved the problem. Since I my knowledge on X fonts can quite accurately described as none, I wouldnät count on me to find much more information about the problem. I hope someone more competent with this same problem will look at the package and file a bug report with more information than that I could give. Suonpää...
apt-get insists updating gnupg with same version
After Werner Koch posted a small security patch for GnuPG 1.0.4 in gnupg-announce I decided it's time to compile gnupg from sources. Using Potato, I already had version 1.0.4 in use. Using apt-get source gnupg I fetched the most current sources, applied the patch and built gnupg_1.0.4-1_i386.deb, which I then installed. Everything seemed to work fine until I - a few days later - told apt-get to upgrade my packages. For some reason, it decided I needed the newest gnupg, gnupg_1.0.4-1_i386.deb and installed it. After I noticed what had happenes, I - again - installed the .deb I had compiled and now apt-get wants to upgrade it again. What I don't understand, is how come this happens even though package names are exactly the same. I assume that I could have used some other name for the package I compiled - like I do with --revision when compiling kernel -, is this correct? Suonpää...
Re: Encrypt a file
Damian Menscher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Samuli Suonpaa wrote: Umm... As you state, most applications asymmetric only for the key and symmetric for data. How come you still consider symmetric encryption to be faster? I'm afraid I don't understand your question... It might be, because I left at least one word out. _And_, the whole question was, I think, quite poorly written. Let's try again, shall we. Why do you think the asymmetric algorithms are really just wrappers around a symmetric algorithm? (Answer: because the symmetric method is faster!) My point exactly. No, how come we came to think we had different opinions on this one? The thread started by somebody asking a way to encrypt files asymmetric and Brian May stated symmetric method was faster. _Technically_ this is, of course, true. But, from the users point of view, saying gpg -e imho qualifies as using asymmetric encryption, although the data is _technically_ encrypted symmetric and only the key asymmetric. So, this in mind, I told there was no notable difference in whether you use symmetric or asymmetric encryption. Please note, that I was talking about the use of gpg - or pgp - all the time. Although it seems I should have made that more clear. My point in all this is, that when I encrypt something for myself - like when making backups - I usually use gpg -er suonpaa instead of gpg -c. Neat and simple, safe enough and as fast as gpg -c, I think. Although I have never cared enough to time it, really. (My lack of language skills... Is it okay to say the data was encrypted symmetric or should I say it was encrypted symmetrically?) Suonpää...
Re: Encrypt a file
Damian Menscher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Brian May wrote: While there are pros and cons in both methods, I have to wonder what you need to encrypt files for. For most applications, asymmetric encryption is better. No, for most applications, symmetric encryption is better. It is stronger, faster, more standardized, better tested, etc. The asymmetric methods often use asymmetric encryption only to encrypt a key for a symmetric algorithm. Umm... As you state, most applications asymmetric only for the key and symmetric for data. How come you still consider symmetric encryption to be faster? That said, you might still consider using pgp, as I believe it has the ability to do symmetric encryption. As does gpg. And, of course, I would use free software whenever possible. Suonpää...
Re: Encrypt a file
Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PGP could encrypt with both methods (not sure if this is still the case), however as far as I can tell, GnuPG can only encrypt with asymmetric keys (I might be mistaken). [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gpg --help | grep symm -c, --symmetric encryption only with symmetric cipher Suonpää...
Potato and ll_rw_block - and a bit about Gnus
(This is a rough translation of an article I posted a few hours earlier on Finnish linux-newsgroup.) What is ll_rw_block and why is kernel nagging me about it? from /var/log/syslog: Aug 21 17:02:24 erasmus kernel: ll_rw_block: device 03:06: only 1024-char blocks implemented (4096) Aug 21 17:02:24 erasmus last message repeated 15 times I first noticed this after I had compiled a custom kernel - or a couple of them - from kernel-source-2.2.17 provided with Potato. (This would make the kernel itself pre6, if memory serves). Machine I use is a Dell laptop. (By the way... Did others get Gnus 5.8 work out-of-the-box? For me it seemed impossible to make Gnus accept C-C C-C in message buffer. Kinda limited its use... Gnus from Woody seems to work alrigh, though.) Suonpää...
Re: how can I find broken symlinks
Remco Blaakmeer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Example: $ symlinks -r / This scans all mounted filesystems for symlinks. No it does not. $ man symlinks ... -r recursively operate on subdirectories within the same filesystem. ... BUGS symlinks does not recurse or change links across filesys tems. Suonpää... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HP Laserjet 6L
Stefan Baums [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: is anyone running the HP Laserjet 6L with Debian GNU/Linux? I'm using magicfilter 1.2-20, and the 6L is not in magicfilterconfig's list of suppor= ted printers. Can I use another filter (say, for the 4L) and will I be able to = get 600x600 dpi with that? I _think_ you should be able to do just fine with ljet4 instead of ljet4l. At least that's what I'm using with my LaserJet5L. Suonpää... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Windows under DosEmu
Nelson Posse Lago [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The DOSEMU documentation mentions how to run win3 under dosemu; there's a Brazilian linux user that wrote a mini-HOWTO (in portuguese...) on running win95 under DOSEMU, and others reported success (and failure ;-). Would there be any changes of getting that translated in English? Portuguese, anyone?-) Suonpää... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: viewing binary files
Paul McDermott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hello everyone, someone tries to view a binary file how do you reset the console. This happened on the console. Thank you in advance. Issue command reset. Suonpää... -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
