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Alex Malinovich
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Joined: 19 Feb 2005
Posts: 96
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 Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 6:30 pm Post subject:
Re: Any experiences with "Creative Nomad Muvo TX" MP3 players?
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On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 10:11 -0800, Todd A. Jacobs wrote:
--snip--
| Quote: | All the player makers try to lock you in somehow. This one is just less
objectionable than most in that regard. YMMV.
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That's not entirely accurate. I've been quite happy with my Neuros for
well over a year now, and both the sync software and the firmware are
open source. It plays ogg, mp3, wma, and wav without any problems.
No point in using a free (as in speech) OS if everything you choose to
plug into it is non-free.
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Miquel van Smoorenburg
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Joined: 01 Mar 2005
Posts: 64
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| Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 6:30 pm Post subject:
Re: Set UID and GID for NFS purposes (Solved)
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In article <4201493A.6020106@optusnet.com.au>,
David Powell <moondrake@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
| Quote: | Thanks for that advice Alexander and Robert - since I posted I
discovered the usermod and groupmod commands. As this is a development
box for home, there's only one user (me) so it wasn't an onerous way to
fix the issue. The commands I used were:
usermod -u <idnum> <username
groupmod -g <idnum> <groupname
It seems to have done the trick. It was very late at night, but I think
I did also have to chown/chgrp -R the mounted NFS directory - which as
Robert suggests wouldn't be a lot of fun if you had many users.
Something to keep in mind for future reference.
If starting from scratch (without files/users set up) I guess you could
specify the uid/gid on each box when creating users...
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The standard way to solve this is to run NIS, or nowadays perhaps LDAP.
Mike.
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Jorge Peixoto
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Joined: 19 Feb 2005
Posts: 3
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| Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 6:30 pm Post subject:
weird error on apt-build solved
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I solved it by removing auto-apt/testing and
installing auto-apt/unstable:
sudo apt-get remove --purge auto-apt
sudo aptitude install auto-apt/unstable
I don't know if this is a bug in auto-apt/testing or
if the previous installation was corrupted.
[]'s
--- Jorge Peixoto <jorgepeixotomorais@yahoo.com.br>
escreveu:
| Quote: | Whichever program I try to install with apt-build, I
receiver these two error messages before installing
the build-deps
E: Há problemas e -y foi usado sem --force-yes
E: Falha ao processar as dependências de construção
This is portuguese (I'm Brazillian) and means
E: Problems ocurred and -y was used without
--force-yes
E: Error processing build-deps.
And the build-deps do not get installed. I tried to
google for it and found nothing. I looked at
apt-build.conf and it is ok (and there is no such -y
option ; option --force-yes does not even exist in
apt-build, seems to be an apt-get option). Can
anybody
help?
Information:
Athlon 1200@1400, 256 MB RAM
ASUS A7V8X-X Motherboard
2.6.9-kanotix kernel
runing Kurumin 4.0 (a Brazillian flavor of Knoppix
with
kernel from Kanotix ; basically it's Debian Testing)
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Hannes Mayer
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Joined: 02 Mar 2005
Posts: 71
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| Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 6:30 pm Post subject:
Re: Debian netinst ISO (2005-01-31 snapshot) failing ?
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On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 22:20:36 -0500, Roberto Sanchez
<roberto@familiasanchez.net> wrote:
Roberto,
the weekly build as of 24-JAN-2005 has no "desktop environment" option
due some broken packages or so, so I'd wait either for this weeks
builds or if the installations are not that urgent for sarge release.
Best regards,
Hannes.
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J.F.Gratton
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Joined: 31 May 2005
Posts: 17
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| Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 6:30 pm Post subject:
Re: Debian netinst ISO (2005-01-31 snapshot) failing ?
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That was a quite fast answer, Joey, thank you. Actually so fast that I
wasn't expecting an answer last night and went to bed :)
Thanks again, I'll try it right away.
Jeff
On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 22:05 -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
| Quote: | J.F.Gratton wrote:
When I select the next step (partition the hard drive), it fails
completely, the screen goes red and tells me that no hard drive is
attached to the computer (huh ?). Most likely there is a reason why ide-
disk won't load and of course it is related to that red screen --
actually the other way around: the red screen is related to the ide-disk
failure to load.
This is apparently a known problem with the current daily builds. Use
rc2 instead.
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steef
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Joined: 20 Feb 2005
Posts: 227
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| Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 6:30 pm Post subject:
Re: [Fwd: Re: apache 1.3.x seems a mess!]
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Matt Zagrabelny wrote:
| Quote: | check your httpd.conf file. there should be an option like
"FollowSymLinks" or similar for your DocumentRoot.
-matt zagrabelny
i did that. httpd seems perfectly normal. yet the links in the server
itself, in var/www still do not work.
tried it out on woody, on another hd in the same machine (ceteris
paribus): there the links work flawless!
what version is running in the woody system?
what version is running in the sarge system?
have you tried using the *same* httpd.conf file for both web servers?
-matt zagrabelny
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Hi list,
did some tests. seems that thunderbird mailprogram somehow blockades
linking from /home/steef/&& to the apacheserver 1.3.x on debian testing.
tried it out on three different hdxx on the same and another machine;
with net-installing sarge with only kdebase, the x-server and x windows
plus some progr. like file-roller xpdf etc. : lenient.
am a debian-user with some experience. however: i miss the knowledge to
seek further, anybody else some ideas??
thanx , esp. Matt
groeten uit groningen, holland,
steef
on woody apache. as i said, apache works perfect: installing thunderbird
on woody is (for me) impossible. guess that's why.
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Benedict Verheyen
*nix forums Guru Wannabe
Joined: 22 Feb 2005
Posts: 101
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| Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 6:30 pm Post subject:
Re: switch from 2.4.24 lvm1 to 2.6.10 lvm 2 problems
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Hi,
so i tried several STOCK debian kernels 2.6.9 and 2.6.10 to get a 2.6
kernel and
lvm2 going. Both of them give again this error:
1 PV(s) found for VG main: expected 0
Unable to find volume group main
ntfs drivber 2.1.22 [Flags: R/O module]
pivot_root: No such file or directory
/sbin/init: 431: Cannot open /dev/console: No such file
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init
1) How come that even after i update all related tools to support LVM2 and
a 2.6 kernel, that a stock debian 2.6 kernel is not able to handle my root
on LVM? 2.4.24 works ok though.
( i tried 3a00, /dev/main/lv_root, /dev/mapper/main-lv_root as root
devices but for all i get the same error)
2) I then tried to compile my own kernel from the config of the stock
kernels and putting lvm and ext3 support direct into the kernel.
However when i want to make an initrd i get these:
root@arthur:/boot[14:51:46]# mkinitrd -o initrd.img-2.6.10.31jan2005
-r /dev/main/lv_root 2.6.10.31jan2005
/usr/sbin/mkinitrd: /dev/main/lv_root: Kernel does not support LVM
Wuh? I compile lvm2 into the kernel and i get "Kernel does not support LVM"
How weird is that. Is this a mkinitrd bug?
So a stock kernel can't reach lvm, a self compiled one neither so how am i
going to switch to a 2.6 kernel?
This is an ongoing pain IMHO on Debian. Probably my own fault but nontheless
a pain.
Thanks,
Benedict
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Antti Tolamo
*nix forums beginner
Joined: 19 Feb 2005
Posts: 5
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| Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 6:30 pm Post subject:
Re: Mozilla and Firefox plugins and addins
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Jim Hall wrote at Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 01:32:03AM -0600, that:
| Quote: | In Sarge, I need to add plugins to Firefox and Mozilla. Should I only
use what's available with apt-get? Or, are there other methods? I can
not take the chance of breaking anything, so whatever I do has to work
or I'm not allowed to do it.
Jim
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If you're talking about plugins, they're system wide far as I know
and have to be made by hand, unless there is a Debian package for it.
For mozilla-firefox I did to download jdk 1.5 for a JAVA plugin
and make a symbolic link from it's plugin directory to mozilla-firefox's
/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/the_plugin
Extensions can installed directly per user by downloading, providing
they support the Firefox version you have.
As it is I have two firefoxes right now. I'm not sure is it debian
based problem or firefox, but my mozilla-firefox 'disappears' time
to time. It can't be called nor is there a process for it.
Is this known problem?
I have Sarge + Gnome and Debian packaged firefox
Antti
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Roberto Sanchez
*nix forums Guru
Joined: 10 Mar 2005
Posts: 1211
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Re: RAM information
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Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
| Quote: | Hi,
I've a Compaq laptop with 256mb RAM (266mhz). I'm planning to add more
RAM into it.
Can I add another 512mb (266mgz) RAM from some other vendor, say
kingston or samsung ??
Will a combination of 512 and 256 make conflicts ???
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That is a question for Compaq. Without knowing what model you even
have, it would be impossible to say. That would be like me saying,
"I have a Ford truck with a six cylinder engine. I want to change
it to an 8 cylinder engine. Will there be any probems?"
Read this:
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
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Clive Menzies
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Joined: 21 Feb 2005
Posts: 533
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| Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 6:30 pm Post subject:
Re: Old post: Writing to SMB share fails from some applications
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On (02/02/05 11:40), Carlos Ribeiro wrote:
Ah! That was a while ago and I gave up, reverting to nfs. Then about 3
weeks ago I took delivery of a new laptop and thought I'd try again.
Following spotting something about smbfs being deprecated in favour of
cifs, I installed the cifs kernel module (using modconf in debian) and mounted
the shares as cifs instead of smbfs. I did this last week and it's been
working fine since then.
I tried using smb4k but it still seems erratic in behaviour so now I
mount the shares by including them in the /etc/fstab. My set-up is
complicated by running OpenOffice in a 32bit chroot (the laptop runs
amd64) and so I also bind the samba shares to the chroot so that
openoffice can open them.
I downloaded xsmbrowser yesterday and have being playing with it. It is
too early to tell whether it will prove sufficiently reliable to be able
to mount shares as required rather than on boot.
I'm cc'ing the list for information.
Regards
Clive
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Kirk Strauser
*nix forums beginner
Joined: 24 Feb 2005
Posts: 32
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| Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 6:30 pm Post subject:
Re: convert jpg 2 pdf memory ?
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On Tuesday 01 February 2005 23:18, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote:
| Quote: | I have about 280 jpg's of approximately 250k each that I am trying
to convert into a single pdf.
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Should we assume you're using ImageMagick's "convert" command?
| Quote: | What are my possible workarounds so that I can convert all of the jpg's
into a single pdf?
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I've got more experience in this field than I'd like to admit. An
alternative method might be to convert all 250 of them into TIFFs, use
tiffcp (from libtiff-tools) to join them into one big TIFF, then run
tiff2pdf (same package) to convert them into a PDF. The tiff* tools are
much, *much* more efficient than ImageMagick at certain tasks.
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Andreas Rippl
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Posts: 139
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| Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 6:30 pm Post subject:
Re: creating new users on debian
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On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 07:25:12AM -0500, mack wrote:
| Quote: | On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 11:02:35 +0100, Andreas Rippl <a.rippl@gmx.net> wrote:
On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 03:46:40PM -0500, mack wrote:
I'm doing research on creating new users on a debian radius server
using a bash script. I've been looking at adduser and useradd
commands today, but can't seem to figure out how to fit it together.
Adduser is an interactive command and for some reason the useradd
command doesn't seem to be creating users correctly in order to
authenticate. I've read the man pages on these commands. Any help
would be appreciated.
Thanks.
mack
Hi Mack,
perhaps a stupid suggestion, but useradd with the -p option enters the
unencrypted passwd into /etc/shadow, so authentification can't work.
The passwd needs to be supplied to the -p option encrypted.
A (non-interactive) way around is to not use -p option and to do
a '/usr/bin/passwd $username' in a second step. There is also a
Shadow-Password-HOWTO which might have some info on supplying encrypted
passwds to -p.
Anyway, the README.Debian under /usr/share/doc/passwd says to use the
adduser command...
Now, if you meant that user creation works and you only have problems
with the radius configuration, ignore this drivel.
Hth,
Andreas
Thank you for your advice and suggestions!!
I tried to command /usr/bin/passwd $USERNAME like you said, but at the
command prompt it then goes into interactive mode asking for the new
password.
Since I will need to run a non-interactive script to a remote machine
to set up new user accounts, anything that prompts the sysadmin is no
good. We've got a lot of people creating new accounts from our the
call center. When the new accounts are created in the billing
software, it makes a remote connection to the radius server. There
has to be a script on the radius server that can create a username and
password.
On an old RedHat machine the perl script the former admin used worked
fine. But the version of passwd on Debian does not allow to use the
--stdin flag which is necessary for the script to run non-interactive.
I'm not a perl script writer (yet!), so I'm trying to write just a
simple bash script to do the same thing.
So my problem is how to get passwd to work without someone sitting
there typing in the user's new password.....
Thanks for any help!!!
mack
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Hi Mack, |
I don't really know how Radius works, but I'll assume for the sake of
cutting down the problem that you want to create a user
non-interactively from the shell. As such, I'll leave it to you to
ensure the security of this approach. As you'll have to run the script
you're planning as root anyway, I guess the following might work:
- create the user with 'useradd' and the options you'd like - but not any
password.
For the next step you need to install the expect package:
Description: A program that "talks" to other programs
Expect is a program that "talks" to other interactive programs
according to a script. Following the script, Expect knows what
can be expected from a program and what the correct response
should be. An interpreted language provides branching and high-
level control structures to direct the dialogue. In addition,
the user can take control and interact directly when desired,
afterward returning control to the script.
With this (Tcl-based) scripting language, you can supply data
non-interactively to an interactive program. Useful!!! 
Also, there is no need to fear, as with the package comes an example
script, 'autoexpect', under /usr/share/doc/expect/examples/autoexpect.
This script lets you specify 'autoexpect /usr/bin/passwd $USERNAME';
then you will be prompted to give the new passwd interactively twice
and as a result you will have a script called script.exp. Now what is
left to do is replace the interactively given passwd with one which you
can supply when calling the expect script, like
'script.exp newuser newpasswd'; the script I created after playing
around a bit with the input parameters (called e.g. [lrange $argv 1 1]
here) is the following:
--- 8< ------------------------
#!/usr/bin/expect -f
# Usage: passwd_noninteract.exp username newpasswd
#
set force_conservative 1 ;# set to 1 to force conservative mode even if
;# script wasn't run conservatively originally
if {$force_conservative} {
set send_slow {1 .1}
proc send {ignore arg} {
sleep .1
exp_send -s -- $arg
}
}
set timeout -1
spawn passwd [lrange $argv 0 0]
match_max 100000
expect -exact "Enter new UNIX password: "
send -- "[lrange $argv 1 1]\r"
expect -exact "\r
Retype new UNIX password: "
send -- "[lrange $argv 1 1]\r"
expect eof
--- 8< ------------------------
Note that I had to use force_conservative, as otherwise the script runs
too fast. This script can now be called from your shell script for user
creation. I would be happy if people can proove that there is a much
simpler way to create users non-interactively, but anyway, that's what I
came up with.
Good luck
Andreas
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Ron Johnson
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Re: RAM information
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On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 13:16 +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
| Quote: | Hi,
I've a Compaq laptop with 256mb RAM (266mhz). I'm planning to add more
RAM into it.
Can I add another 512mb (266mgz) RAM from some other vendor, say
kingston or samsung ??
Will a combination of 512 and 256 make conflicts ???
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Companies that specialize in selling RAM would have that information.
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Ritesh Raj Sarraf
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| Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 6:30 pm Post subject:
Re: RAM information
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On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 08:59:36 -0500, Roberto Sanchez
<roberto@familiasanchez.net> wrote:
| Quote: | Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
Hi,
I've a Compaq laptop with 256mb RAM (266mhz). I'm planning to add more
RAM into it.
Can I add another 512mb (266mgz) RAM from some other vendor, say
kingston or samsung ??
Will a combination of 512 and 256 make conflicts ???
That is a question for Compaq. Without knowing what model you even
have, it would be impossible to say. That would be like me saying,
"I have a Ford truck with a six cylinder engine. I want to change
it to an 8 cylinder engine. Will there be any probems?"
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Oops! My mistake, Sorry.
It's a Compaq Presario 2203 Laptop based on Intel Centrino Technology.
It contains an Intel 855GM chipset motherboard which can support upto
2GB of RAM.
At present it's containing 256 Mb of RAM that was shipped default.
The make of the RAM is:
Speed: 266Mhz
Type: DDR.
Now, My questions,
Can I add another 512Mb of RAM making it a total of 768Mb (512 + 256). ??
And I want to add the RAM from some other vendor, may be Kingston or
Samsung, it'll
be cheap then.
Can I do that If I match the speed and type of the RAM ??
I know you might say how this question is related to Debian:
Will that combination (Two different capacity RAM from different
vendors) create any
conflict/panic in Debian and in Linux in particular ???
rrs
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