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debian-user-digest Digest Volume 2007 : Issue 2719

Today's Topics: 

  Cobol compiler                        [ Bernard  ]
  Re: Cobol compiler                    [ Ron Johnson  ]
  Re: GLIBC_2.4                         [ Florian Kulzer  ]
  Re: GLIBC_2.4                         [ "David Fox"  ]
  Re: apt-get failing                   [ justsimplequestions  ]
  Re: Tool to configure sound           [ Florian Kulzer  ]
  Re: metacity2.14.5 under etch: keybo  [ Raj Kiran Grandhi 

Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 08:23:39 -0400


From: Bernard <bernard.fay@gmail.com>


To: debian-user@lists.debian.org


Subject: Cobol compiler


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Hi,


Do you need help?X

I am looking for a cobol compiler for Linux.  Do someone knows about such a
tool, commercial or not?


TIA,


Bernard



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Hi,<br><br>I am looking for a cobol compiler for Linux.&nbsp; Do someone knows about such a tool, commercial or not?<br><br>TIA,<br>Bernard<br clear="all"><br><br>



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Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 07:57:47 -0500


From: Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org


Subject: Re: Cobol compiler

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Do you need more help?X



On 11/01/07 07:23, Bernard wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am looking for a cobol compiler for Linux.  Do someone knows about such a
> tool, commercial or not?
Can we help you?X

apt-cache search cobol


-- 
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!


Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 13:49:59 +0100
From: Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: GLIBC_2.4
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On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 06:54:54 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:

[...]


> If $(HOME)/bin were first in your $PATH, then a malicious user or
> app that has write access to your account, then they could put
> sabotaged versions of common apps into $(HOME)/bin and do all sorts
> of nasty things to you.
> 
> But then, I just noticed that somehow $(HOME)/bin is the first entry
> in *my* $PATH!!!  Must find out how that happened...


~/.bash_profile does this by default nowadays:

# set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
if [ -d ~/bin ] ; then
    PATH=~/bin:"${PATH}"
fi

-- 
Regards,            | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer
          Florian   |



Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 20:14:51 +0700
From: "Ali Milis" <almilis@gmail.com>
To: "Debian User List" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: Cobol compiler
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> apt-cache search cobol


And how good is Open Cobol?

FYI: We still have a lot of Cobol applications that used
to run on AOS/VS (Data General). Those applications
were migrated Sun Solaris.

regards,

-- 
Raja Ali M.I. Ilias, Bengkalis, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AliMilis
Counted GNU/Linux Engineer # 405138 - http://counter.li.org/
Ubuntu User # 14458 - http://ubuntucounter.geekosophical.net/

Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 06:31:22 -0700
From: "David Fox" <dfox94085@gmail.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: GLIBC_2.4
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On Nov 1, 2007 5:49 AM, Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es> wrote:

>
> ~/.bash_profile does this by default nowadays:
>
> # set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
> if [ -d ~/bin ] ; then
>     PATH=~/bin:"${PATH}"
> fi
>


That's not as secure as putting the ~/bin part at the end.



Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 12:55:48 -0000
From: justsimplequestions <sigmatechnology@googlemail.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: apt-get failing
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On Oct 31, 6:10 pm, Andrew Sackville-West
<and...@farwestbilliards.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 10:05:32AM -0700, justsimplequestions wrote:
> > On Oct 31, 4:00 pm, Andrew Sackville-West
> > <and...@farwestbilliards.com> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 03:17:24AM -0700, justsimplequestions wrote:
> > > > Hello,
>
> > > > I am trying to install some new software as well as updating my
> > > > packages but apt-get install and apt-get update both fail. apt-get
> > > > update fails with:
>
> > > > Errhttp://security.debian.orgetch/updatesRelease.gpg
> > > >   Temporary failure resolving =E2security.debian.org=E2
> ...apt errors
>
> > > > My /apt/sources.list file is as follows:
>
> > > > debhttp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/etchmain
> > > > deb-srchttp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/etchmain
> > > > debhttp://security.debian.org/etch/updatesmain
> > > > deb-srchttp://security.debian.org/etch/updatesmain
> > > > debhttp://download.webmin.com/download/repositorysargecontrib
> > > > debhttp://packages.dotdeb.orgstableall
> > > > deb-srchttp://packages.dotdeb.orgstableall
>
> > > > I am able to ping external websites using both ip and name, The
>
> > > great that you can ping external websites, but can you ping the debian
> > > servers? those are the ones that count here ;)  Also there are some
> > > funky characters and missing characters in your apt output above. Is
> > > that transcription error? or something else?
>
> > Thanks very much for replying. Could not ping the debian servers! I've
> > entered the ip address for the debian sites in the hosts an voila!
> > However, those are funky characters above... they worried me as well
> > and am not sure how and why they appear like that.
>
> so you've got a name resolution problem. I'm betting that your
> sources.list is not properly encoded somehow. try creating a new one
> from scratch and see what happens. no copy and paste! retype it in a
> basic text editor like vim, or in a small operating system like emacs.
>
> The funky characters are the clue I'm looking at there...
>
> A
>
>  signature.asc
> 1KDownload


You're absolutely right - its definitely a DNS issue. Without even
retyping the sources.list manually, it looks like I can not not ping
by name either. I know in my original post I said I could ping
external sites but it seems I was incorrect. I can not ping any sites
using name - ip address is fine however (100% sure!). This is further
proved by the fact that if I add the ip address associated with the
name of the website in the hosts file, as I have done for the debian
sites, all works fine. I have no dns server running on and not sure
what I can do to rectify? Your help is greatly appreciated.



Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 14:30:31 +0100
From: "Micaela Gallerini" <mat.r.gl@gmail.com>
To: muthuraman.s <Mutthuramans@gmail.com>
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: CD integrity checking failed
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2007/11/1, muthuraman.s <Mutthuramans@gmail.com>:

> Hi all,
>           When the DVD images of Debian4.0r0 are checked for
> integrity , only the first DVD passes the test . When I insert the
> second DVD and press "continue"  for checking the DVD it says, the dvd
> is invalid and then when I press "continue" it says like "insert the
> boot CD to verify and the inserted DVD is not a boot cd" .I want to
> know whether DVD/CD integrity verification is only for the boot CD/DVD
> or can it check any DVD of Debian?
> Thanks .
> Muthu.
>


hi,
  what is the utility you use for the check, please?

regards,

--=20
"L'essere =E8 unito all'ente nello stesso modo in cui la vita =E8 unita all=
a morte"
Rashna
MIcaela Gallerini



Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 13:47:41 +0000 (UTC)
From: Joya Luevano Mayonga <feo-de53@myamail.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject:  networking restarts after resume
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I use Etch, and I hibernate my computer with userspace suspend (uswsusp) 
and hibernate packages. It generally works, but sometimes after the computer
resumed, networking restarts. ( and my X session, too). What is the problem?
Thanks.

dmesg:
[...]
Freezing cpus ...
Stopping tasks: ==============================================================
==============================================================================|
Shrinking memory... done (107919 pages freed)
pnp: Device 00:0c disabled.
pnp: Device 00:08 disabled.
pnp: Device 00:07 disabled.
ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:00:1f.5 disabled
ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:00:1f.4 disabled
ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:00:1f.2 disabled
....
swsusp: Need to copy 111050 pages
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU0: Intel P4/Xeon Extended MCE MSRs (12) available
CPU0: Thermal monitoring enabled
swsusp: Restoring Highmem
ACPI: Unable to turn cooling device [c18fbf04] 'on'
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1e.0 to 64
PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:1f.2 (0000 -> 0001)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.2[D] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level, low) 
-> IRQ 11
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.2 to 64
PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:1f.4 (0000 -> 0001)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.4[C] -> Link [LNK1] -> GSI 9 (level, low)
 -> IRQ 9
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.4 to 64
PM: Writing back config space on device 0000:00:1f.5 at offset 1 (was 
2800005, writing 2800000)
PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:1f.5 (0000 -> 0001)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.5[B] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 7 (level, low)
 -> IRQ 7
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.5 to 64
PM: Writing back config space on device 0000:02:01.0 at offset 1 (was
 2100007, writing 2100000)
pnp: Device 00:07 activated.
pnp: Device 00:08 activated.
pnp: Failed to activate device 00:09.
pnp: Failed to activate device 00:0a.
pnp: Device 00:0c activated.
Restarting tasks... done
Thawing cpus ...
via-rhine.c:v1.10-LK1.4.1 July-24-2006 Written by Donald Becker
PCI: Enabling device 0000:02:01.0 (0000 -> 0003)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:01.0[A] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 11 (level, low)
 -> IRQ 11
eth0: VIA Rhine II at 0x1c000, 00:e0:4c:99:08:13, IRQ 11.
eth0: MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x786d advertising 05e1 Link 41e1.
logips2pp: Detected unknown logitech mouse model 0
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB]
input: ImPS/2 Logitech Wheel Mouse as /class/input/input9
eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x41E1
bridge-eth0: enabling the bridge
bridge-eth0: up
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
[...]



Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 15:03:25 +0100
From: Dan H <dunno@stoptrick.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: DST: Same procedure as every half-year?
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On Thu, 01 Nov 2007 11:46:06 +0100
Jonathan Kaye <jdkaye10@yahoo.es> wrote:


> I'm running Lenny in CET and the change to GMT+1 (from +2) work
> perfectly. I didn't do anything special. The time was correct when
> I checked on Sunday morning.


I'm running Etch, and the problem somehow went away when I started the machine a second time. I'm not aware of having done anything special, except running "tzconfig" without making any changes.

I guess this is a hard-to-chase bug (if it's a bug indeed) because in conjunction with ntp it can only be reproduced twice a year ;-)

--D.


Can't find what you're looking for?X

Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 14:46:39 +0100
From: Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Tool to configure sound
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On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 13:33:26 +0100, Richard Lyons wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 12:51:51PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote:


[...]


> > - The problem might go away automatically if you upgrade to a newer
> >   version of ALSA and/or the kernel. (I don't recall if you mentioned
> >   which branch of Debian you are currently using.)i
> 
> Yes, I did upgrade to the latest in etch (which I am running currently)
> hoping for such a miracle.  Maybe I should consider going back to sid,
> which I ran for a long time previously.  I had the impression three
> months or so ago that that was a bad moment to get into sid, so I am
> still here in etch.


In that case, the first thing I would try is installing a 2.6.22 kernel
from www.backports.org. 

-- 
Regards,            | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer
          Florian   |



Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 09:09:42 -0400
From: "Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@porchlight.ca>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Debian on Core2Duo 64bit
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On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 10:59:29PM -0400, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote:
 > 

> > As long as you don't want to run one of the (couple of) third-party apps
> > that need i396 in Etch without also putting in an i386 chroot.  Note,
> > that many 32-bit apps will actually run in amd64 with the 32-bit libs
> > package.  I don't know about acroread since I don't use it.  Iceweasel
> > 32-bit with flashplayer needed a chroot.  A chroot isn't much to set up
> > or maintain.
> 
> It's not needed anymore at least in sid with flashplayer, in fact,
> there's a package in debian-multimedia.org that makes all the work for
> you, I mean, the configuration of the wrapper.
> 


Yes, but I said Etch.  

Doug.



Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 09:08:16 -0400
From: "Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@porchlight.ca>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: GLIBC_2.4
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On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 06:54:54AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
 

> If $(HOME)/bin were first in your $PATH, then a malicious user or
> app that has write access to your account, then they could put
> sabotaged versions of common apps into $(HOME)/bin and do all sorts
> of nasty things to you.
> 
> But then, I just noticed that somehow $(HOME)/bin is the first entry
> in *my* $PATH!!!  Must find out how that happened...


It would only be a security issue if the permissions on your home
directory and/or the execs themselves allowed others to execute them.

If you have a ~/bin with lax permissions, a malicious user doesn't need
a $PATH, he can just run them directly.  

Doug.



Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 10:10:21 -0400
From: Carl Fink <carl@finknetwork.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: WINE under Lenny
Message-ID: <20071101141021.GA13625@nitpicking.com>
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I need to run a Windows program or two for work, so rather than powerup my
laptop for 30 minutes of work per day, I thought I'd try to install the
programs on my Debian tower using WINE.

I installed the program using apt-get and as a test ran "wine wordpad".  No
window appeared, and mouse and keyboard inputs stopped working.  I had to
ssh into the box from the very laptop I was trying to avoid using in order
to kill the process.

So I downloaded the latest release from the winehq.com repository and
installed that.  And running "winecfg" stopped both mouse and keyboard
inputs, and I had to ssh into the box to kill the process.  In both cases, I
had to use kill -9 to actually stop them.

Is anyone having any luck with WINE?  I tried to trace the problem using
winedbg, but that locked things up, too.  Am I missing something obvious?

Please reply to the list rather than directly to me. 

Thank you.
-- 
Carl Fink                                   nitpicking@nitpicking.com 

Read my blog at nitpickingblog.blogspot.com.  Reviews!  Observations!
Stupid mistakes you can correct!



Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 20:04:55 +0530
From: Raj Kiran Grandhi <grajkiran@gmail.com>
To: debian-user <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: metacity2.14.5 under etch: keyboard lockup when opening a window
Message-ID: <4729E40F.8030002@gmail.com>
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Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I use gnome+metacity in etch.
> 
> I am experiencing random lockups of the display since a few hours. 
> Opening a window seems to trigger this. So far it has happened when 
> launching gvim, iceweasel and gnome-terminal (not everytime). What 
> happens in such cases is that the newly opened window is left without 
> the window-manger's borders. Keyboard locks up. Mouse responds to 
> motion, but mouse-clicks do not work. I am able to ssh from a remote 
> machine and kill metacity which seems to bring everything back to normal.


Upgrading metacity to 2.18.5 (testing) appears to have fixed the 
problem. There has not been any lockup since then.

I never managed to figure out what went wrong though.


> 
> There does not seem to be any bug filed against metacity at 
> bugs.debian.org, so I am not sure if it related to metacity.
> 
> The only change I have made to the system today is to upgrade icedove to 
> the testing release and install qemu.
> 
> Has anybody experienced a similar problem? Is there something I might 
> have done that is causing this?
> 
> Thanks,
> Raj Kiran
> 
> PS: Recent packages in last 2 days as reported by dpkg-www
> 
> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
> | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
> |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: 
> uppercase=bad)
> ||/ Name                           Version
> +++-==============================-======================
> ii  bochsbios                      2.3-2etch1
> ii  cramfsprogs                    1.1-6
> ii  dash                           0.5.3-7
> ii  debmirror                      20060907.1
> rc  glabels                        2.1.3-1
> ii  gtk2-engines-pixbuf            2.12.1-1
> ii  icedove                        2.0.0.6-1
> ii  icedove-gnome-support          2.0.0.6-1
> ii  iceweasel                      2.0.0.6+2.0.0.8-0etch1
> ii  iceweasel-gnome-support        2.0.0.6+2.0.0.8-0etch1
> ii  initrd-tools                   0.1.84.2
> ii  libcupsys2                     1.3.2-1
> ii  libgtk2.0-0                    2.12.1-1
> ii  libgtk2.0-common               2.12.1-1
> ii  libgtk2.0-dev                  2.12.1-1
> ii  libhunspell-1.1-0              1.1.9-1
> ii  libkrb53                       1.6.dfsg.3~beta1-2
> ii  libwxbase2.6-0                 2.6.3.2.2-1
> ii  libwxgtk2.6-0                  2.6.3.2.2-1
> ii  libxdamage-dev                 1.1.1-3
> ii  libxdamage1                    1.1.1-3
> ii  openhackware                   0.4.1-2
> rc  openoffice.org-base            2.0.4.dfsg.2-7etch1
> rc  openoffice.org-calc            2.0.4.dfsg.2-7etch1
> rc  openoffice.org-common          2.0.4.dfsg.2-7etch1
> rc  openoffice.org-core            2.0.4.dfsg.2-7etch1
> rc  openoffice.org-draw            2.0.4.dfsg.2-7etch1
> rc  openoffice.org-gcj             2.0.4.dfsg.2-7etch1
> rc  openoffice.org-impress         2.0.4.dfsg.2-7etch1
> rc  openoffice.org-math            2.0.4.dfsg.2-7etch1
> rc  openoffice.org-thesaurus-en-us 2.0.4~rc1-3
> rc  openoffice.org-writer          2.0.4.dfsg.2-7etch1
> ii  proll                          18-2
> ii  python-wxgtk2.6                2.6.3.2.2-1
> ii  qemu                           0.8.2-4etch1
> ii  systemimager-doc               3.6.3dfsg1-3
> ii  vgabios                        0.6a-1
> ii  x11proto-damage-dev            1.1.0-2
> 
> 38 packages
> 

Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 07:01:53 -0700
From: Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Apt-Get or Aptitude
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On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 09:35:02PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> was heard to say:

> On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 08:19:58PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 09:25:02AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> was heard to say:
> > > 
> > > this bothers me, since I mostly use aptitude. When I need a build-dep
> > > or source, I'm concerned that later aptitude may wipe something
> > > inadvertantly. Do you know if there are plans to implement these
> > > commands into aptitude? Or will apt-get always remain, so that its not
> > > a problem?
> > 
> >   aptitude shouldn't wipe out packages installed with apt-get, period
> > full stop.
> 
> you know, that wasn't fair of me. I was once concerned about that
> problem, but have subsequently learned that it really doesn't
> happen. So i apologise if that came across wrong.


  No, I just come down hard on this meme because it seems to have taken
on a life of its own and I'd like to squash it before it grows up into a
full-blown urban legend.

  Daniel



Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 06:56:31 -0700
From: Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: GLIBC_2.4
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On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 07:54:32PM -0800, Ken Irving <fnkci@uaf.edu> was heard to say:

> My impression is that there's no particular reasons that it can't be done,
> but it just hasn't been done.  There are probably wish list requests to
> this effect filed away somewhere on this, or so I dimly recall.  My guess
> is that what it needs is a suitably motivated person to actually make
> it happen.


  There are a few major problems.

  Many programs (in fact probably most) hardcode paths.  At the very
least they hardcode the path to their configuration file that tells them
where everything else is; they may also include linkages to libraries,
locations for data, etc.  Since we don't have a system where a program's
data can be discovered from argv[0], this has to be the case.  So if you
want to install a single binary package in multiple locations, it will
involve some sort of retrospective patching up of binaries, or perhaps
replacing binaries with wrapper scripts and modifying the program to
take its install location as a parameter (because of course many
programs don't support such a parameter by default).  Note, however,
that the wrapper script approach won't work for libraries that have
associated data.

  Furthermore, many packages drop files into locations determined by
other packages.  For instance, Gnome programs drop files into /etc/gconf
to tell gconf about their systemwide defaults.  If gconf is installed in
a different location, these programs need to know where to find it.

  I'm sure these can be solved in principle, but it's not a trivial
problem to make everything work properly.  I doubt you can even start to
get there without requiring modifications to every package.

  Daniel



Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 15:15:47 +0100
From: Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: GLIBC_2.4
Message-ID: <20071101141547.GB25769@pc0197>
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On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 06:31:22 -0700, David Fox wrote:

> On Nov 1, 2007 5:49 AM, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> >
> > ~/.bash_profile does this by default nowadays:
> >
> > # set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
> > if [ -d ~/bin ] ; then
> >     PATH=~/bin:"${PATH}"
> > fi
> >
> 
> That's not as secure as putting the ~/bin part at the end.


There is already an open bug report about handling ~/bin:

#379696: ~/bin handled incorrectly in .bashrc and .bash_profile
(Outstanding bugs - Normal bugs; Unclassified)

We could add the suggestion to put it at the end of $PATH instead of in
front.

-- 
Regards,            | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer
          Florian   |


Don't know where to look next?X

Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 10:30:24 -0400
From: "Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@porchlight.ca>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: dns? [Was: Re: apt-get failing]
Message-ID: <20071101143024.GA7143@titan.hooton>
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On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 12:55:48PM -0000, justsimplequestions wrote:
 

> You're absolutely right - its definitely a DNS issue. Without even
> retyping the sources.list manually, it looks like I can not not ping
> by name either. I know in my original post I said I could ping
> external sites but it seems I was incorrect. I can not ping any sites
> using name - ip address is fine however (100% sure!). This is further
> proved by the fact that if I add the ip address associated with the
> name of the website in the hosts file, as I have done for the debian
> sites, all works fine. I have no dns server running on and not sure
> what I can do to rectify? Your help is greatly appreciated.
> 


My first suggestion then would be to change the name of the thread since
its no longer an apt issue.  Something like "where's my dns gone?".

Send us your:

/etc/nsswitch.conf
/etc/resolv.conf (with the internet up if it's variable since if you
			have the resolvconf package installed, the file
			will change).

/etc/network/interfaces

the method you use to connect to the internet: ppp dialup, some type of
high-speed internet modem/router, whatever.

Where do you thing that your box normally gets dns service?

Doug

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