ack! x has been hosed
I got X going by using XF86Setup. Initially, when done, it ran xvidtune. Now, no such luck. I ultimately ended up removing all of the xpackages and reinstalling, but still no. It seems to be unhappy about a missing default font. here's the output from startx: XFree86 Version 3.2 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6100) Release Date: Oct 26 1996 If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting problems. (see http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ) Operating System: Linux [ELF] Configured drivers: S3: accelerated server for S3 graphics adaptors (Patchlevel 0) newmmio, mmio_928, s3_generic (using VT number 7) XF86Config: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config (**) stands for supplied, (--) stands for probed/default values (**) XKB: keymap: xfree86(us) (overrides other XKB settings) (**) Mouse: type: Microsoft, device: /dev/mouse, baudrate: 1200, 3 button emulation (timeout: 50ms) (**) S3: Graphics device ID: Diamond Stealth VRAM (**) S3: Monitor ID: My Monitor these figures seem outrageously high: (--) S3: Mode 1024x768 needs hsync freq of 70.24 kHz. Deleted. (--) S3: Mode 1152x864 needs hsync freq of 70.88 kHz. Deleted. (--) S3: Mode 1280x1024 needs hsync freq of 74.59 kHz. Deleted. (--) S3: Mode 1600x1200 needs hsync freq of 75.00 kHz. Deleted. (--) S3: Mode 1152x864 needs hsync freq of 76.01 kHz. Deleted. (--) S3: Mode 1280x1024 needs hsync freq of 78.86 kHz. Deleted. (--) S3: Mode 1024x768 needs hsync freq of 80.21 kHz. Deleted. (--) S3: Mode 1280x1024 needs hsync freq of 81.13 kHz. Deleted. (--) S3: Mode 1600x1200 needs hsync freq of 87.50 kHz. Deleted. (--) S3: Mode 1152x864 needs hsync freq of 89.62 kHz. Deleted. (--) S3: Mode 1280x1024 needs hsync freq of 91.15 kHz. Deleted. (--) S3: Mode 1600x1200 needs hsync freq of 93.75 kHz. Deleted. (--) S3: Mode 1600x1200 needs hsync freq of 105.77 kHz. Deleted. (--) S3: Mode 1280x1024 needs hsync freq of 107.16 kHz. Deleted. (--) S3: Mode 1800X1440 needs hsync freq of 96.15 kHz. Deleted. (--) S3: Mode 1800X1440 needs hsync freq of 104.52 kHz. Deleted. (**) FontPath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/ (--) S3: card type: ISA (--) S3: Diamond Stealth BIOS found (--) S3: chipset: 911 (--) S3: chipset driver: s3_generic (--) S3: videoram: 1024k (**) S3: Ramdac type: normal (--) S3: Ramdac speed: 110 ??? should i have defined a different ramdac? what is one, anyway? (--) S3: clocks: 25.98 28.32 28.32 0.00 25.17 28.32 28.32 28.32 (--) S3: clocks: 25.17 28.32 28.32 28.32 25.17 28.32 28.32 28.32 (--) S3: Maximum allowed dot-clock: 110.000 MHz (**) S3: Mode 640x480: mode clock = 25.175, clock used = 25.170 (--) S3: There is no defined dot-clock matching mode 800x600 (--) S3: Removing mode 800x600 from list of valid modes. (--) S3: There is no defined dot-clock matching mode 1024x768 (--) S3: Removing mode 1024x768 from list of valid modes. (--) S3: Using 6 bits per RGB value (--) S3: Virtual resolution set to 640x480 (--) S3: Using a banksize of 64k, line width of 1024 (--) S3: Using a single 64x64 area at (640,0) for expanding pixmaps (--) S3: Using 8 planes of 1024x543 at (0,481) aligned 8 as font cache PEX extension module not loaded XIE extension module not loaded failed to set default font path '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/' Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' but whre is this defined?? _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 giving up. xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. help. i'm losing the fight. rick -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: how to change motd ?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 17 Jun 1997, Christopher Ray Martin wrote: I've noticed that /etc/motd is always replaced by Debian upon bootup. I was wondering where it gets the contents which replaces it, and how I can stop it from doing that!! /etc/init.d/boot replaces the first line of /etc/motd, the rest of it should be left intact. If you really don't like that behavior, feel free to modify /etc/init.d/boot :) ++ || Your friends will know you better in the | | Scott K. Ellis | first minute you meet than your acquaintances | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | will know you in a thousand years.| ||-- Illusions | ++ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3 Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBM6cd36Ck2fENdzpVAQFWkwP7BJPeO2nD4ThJWNAt8ZEfCIcKCEshO+d8 WSC3ukLnbS8QeXvqiI7PBLteY1HV5k+HNefFQqkLnKCxrP6hHTftvWVtsWxdNlfB xtNBud8PCsR1dS8zQddiWLfZ9q7qpuj81QJt5mshO91ZQ2TJBel7hOUBl4gWeaBq ibH9XcvPyXU= =NuWb -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: UUCP mail gets queued instead of sent
Eloy A. Paris wrote: Hi, sorry again for the off-topic question... following the advice several people in the list gave to me last week, I set up UUCP to handle e-mail between our main office and our remote branch offices. I can write e-mail and it gets sent to the UUCP job queue. Later, when the systems connect, the jobs are processed and rmail is run in the remote host. Everything is fine except that rmail (sendmail?) queues the new messages. Of course, Sendmail processes later the mail queue when it is time (-qxxm parameter when sendmail is started where xx is the number of minutes) and mail gets delivered. What I want to know is if there is a way mail can be sent right away without queuing it after the remote job (rmail) is done. Thanks in advance for any suggestion you UUCP/Sendmail gurus. If you're using UUCP to transport your mail then is it necessary to run sendmail in queue-mode? Otherwise there really isn't a way to fix your problem is kinda non-trivial (but certainly possible!) -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: how to change motd ?
On Tue, 17 Jun 1997, Christopher Ray Martin wrote: I've noticed that /etc/motd is always replaced by Debian upon bootup. I was wondering where it gets the contents which replaces it, and how I can stop it from doing that!! From /etc/init.d/boot: ---begin /etc/init.d/boot snip # Set EDITMOTD to no if you don't want /etc/motd to be editted # automatically EDITMOTD=yes snip # # Update /etc/motd. # if [ $EDITMOTD != no ] then uname -a /tmp/motd sed 1d /etc/motd /tmp/motd mv /tmp/motd /etc/motd fi snip ---end /etc/init.d/boot Just edit /etc/init.d/boot and set EDITMOTD to no. Or replace the if part with some code that merges in a fortune cookie or whatever else that suits you. Be careful for the following: /etc/init.d/boot comes with the package sysvinit. Every time you upgrade or reinstall this package, dpkg will ask you if you want to replace the existing /etc/init.d/boot with the package maintainers version. Always install the package maintainers' version of /etc/init.d/boot, because it is a very non-trivial configuration file and changes in it between versions are also non-trivial. Just re-adapt the new /etc/init.d/boot to your wishes. Have fun, Joost -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ack! x has been hosed
For the fonts, you need at least xfntbase, and xfnt75 is probably necessary, too. For the video modes, I think there is no problem. Xfree 3.3 seems to give much more choice than before. look at your /etc/X11/XF86Config file. Some modes are for low-end hardware, others for 21 (or 25) or bigger monitors with fast graphic cards... Great. You should have at least this mode working : # 800x600 @ 60 Hz, 37.8 kHz hsync Modeline 800x600 40 800 840 968 1056 600 601 605 628 +hsync +vs ync This worked with my old 14 (max 37.9kHz !). So I guess you misspelled the Monitor specs. Install more fonts. Obviously some are missing. For example I have xfnt75, xfnt100, xfntbase, xfntscaled installed. You have a valid mode at 640x480 so this is not the problem. Be sure to check HorizSync and VertRefresh in section Monitor, though. 'man XF86Config' is your friend, too. Alexandre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: fvwm95-2 won't work
Just installed it myself, from what I remember there is no default config file. You have to rename one of the installed config files to what fvwm95-2 is looking for (forgot the name right now). Matthew On Tue, 17 Jun 1997, Alberto Ruiz wrote: I don't know what happended, but what I upgraded from fvwm95 to fvwm95-2, fvwm95-2 doesn't work anymore. I'm not even getting any errors in the .xsession-errors file or on the console. Did the new installation wiped-out the default settings or is just not working? Alberto Ruiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] PS. Thanks to all who helped on the afterstep color problem :) . But I still want to switch to fvwm95. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: PDF Writer
Carlo U. Segre ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : Does anyone know of a program which writes PDF files under Linux? For free I don't know. May be Adobe sells a version for Linux. I downloaded from their Web site Acrobat Reader for Linux. It works great and installed with no problems under Debian. E.- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ack! x has been hosed
I got X going by using XF86Setup. Initially, when done, it ran xvidtune. Now, no such luck. I ultimately ended up removing all of the xpackages and reinstalling, but still no. It seems to be unhappy about a missing default font. try using mkfontdir on the listed dirs. -- Ciccio C. Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: xfig cannot handle colors in 16-bit mode
Hello, I recently bought a new VGA card, and switched to 16-bit mode for X11, but I just found out that xfig can't handle colors now. When I try to select a color, xfig prints the message Can't allocate necessary colorcells, can't popup color panel. This is obviously true, since X11 doesn't allocate color cells in 16-bit mode, but it is not necessary. Is there a workaround to tell xfig to use the existing colors, or can I tell X11 to simulate a writeable colormap? I didn't see that a bug report has been filed on this yet. I'd don't use xfig, so no specific answer. If you have enough RAM, try to get X into DirectColor mode. BTW, there are reasons why one would like to use a color map even with 32 bit colors: when we want to change colors without repainting all the image. This is used as well for animations as for color (gamma, etc) corrections. -- Ciccio C. Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Can't deinstall package
On Jun 16, Mark Phillips wrote Hi, I have a package kernel-source-1.99.7 which for some reason is half installed. When I try to deinstall it I get this: [snip] How do I get rid of it? If reinstalling the package really isn't an option, you can try passing the --force-remove-reinstreq to dpkg when removing the package. Christian pgp5FCSnPy8Ok.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: POP mail questions
And what if I want multiple accounts to be processed properly. I.ll have a different login for each email address on my local machine, but they each need to go out properly. Eg. gvlp == [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mail host == plus.com) gvlu == [EMAIL PROTECTED](mail host == pop.netaddress.com [POP3 in] and mail.netaddress.com [SMTP out]) snl == [EMAIL PROTECTED] (see above) gvlh == [EMAIL PROTECTED] (just an example, the others are real but I may want to expand the idea later.) What would I need to set up to get that working, AND to ensure internally written mail goes to the proper box WITHOUT having to be sent to the smarthost just to turn around and come right back. My machine name is Force1 (currently Force1.plus.com when online with a static IP assigned --- ping 199.1.12.165 to see if I am online and check IRC #Debian if I am) On 16 Jun 97, debian-user@lists.debian.org wrote regarding: __ Re: POP mail questions __ In you /etc/smail/config file append together.net to your hostnames= line thusly: hostnames=gologotha:whatever-else-you-have:together.net then add the following new config parameter: visible_name=together.net That should do it but the visible name must also appear in the hostnames line. Would you or anyone know how I could implement a rule so that smail (or whatever program handles this sort of thing) would rewrite any outgoing messages to correct the [EMAIL PROTECTED] to become [EMAIL PROTECTED] (together.net is of course my ISP)? | Debian GNU/ __ o Regards, |/ / _ _ _ _ _ __ __ .| / /__ / / / \// //_// \ \/ / Randy| // /_/ /_/\/ /___/ /_/\_\ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | ...because lockups are for convicts... George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Gerald V. Livingston II Reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: PDF Writer
On 18 Jun 1997, Eloy A. Paris wrote: Carlo U. Segre ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : Does anyone know of a program which writes PDF files under Linux? For free I don't know. May be Adobe sells a version for Linux. I downloaded from their Web site Acrobat Reader for Linux. It works great and installed with no problems under Debian. Aladdin Ghostscript comes with a script called ps2pdf that converts a postscript file to pdf. Erv -- PGP Public Key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint: A5 AB 25 7D 7A FD 4D FE BE 21 47 60 0C DC 67 9E ==-- _ / / \ ---==---(_)__ __ __/ / /\ \ - [EMAIL PROTECTED] --==---/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / / /_/\ \ \- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -=/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ /__\ \ \ - [EMAIL PROTECTED] \_\/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Elvis problems in X (was: Re: No Termcap)
On Jun 16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote I have a question about elvis, rxvt and termcap. I think the Debian package of elvis still needs termcap. Nope. Package: elvis Priority: optional Section: editors Installed-Size: 775 Maintainer: Erik B. Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Architecture: i386 Version: 2.0-8 Replaces: elvisnox, elvisx11, elv-vi Provides: elviscmn Depends: libc5 (= 5.4.13-1), ncurses3.0, xlib6 (= 3.2-0) [snip]^^ As you can see, it uses ncurses (which uses 'terminfo' for its terminal database), not termcap. Does anybody have the same experience or am I the only one with this problem? BTW, the only reason I have for running rxvt is the color support that is default. Does anyone know an easy way to get color support in the xterm that comes with the Debian installation of X? To get color by default in xterm's, add the line XTerm*customization:-color to the file /etc/X11/Xresources. Works for me. I don't do vi, so I can't really help you with your problems. But are you using the elvis Debian package? I got the impression from your message that you aren't. If so, you might want to install it and see if it works better. And if it doesn't, you should file a bug report about it. It's real easy. Just email [EMAIL PROTECTED] The first line of your message should say Package: elvis, the second line should say Version: 2.0-8 (or whatever version you have installed). Then you explain what doesn't work right, including error message given by the programs, etc. The more details, the better. Christian pgpoAoh6K9wte.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: ack! x has been hosed
I got X going by using XF86Setup. Initially, when done, it ran xvidtune. Now, no such luck. I ultimately ended up removing all of the xpackages and reinstalling, but still no. It seems to be unhappy about a missing default font. I too have been wrestling with configuration of X of late. Did you install all the font packages? The dependency structure didn't alert me to their necisity but the server worn't start without them. I think it is a 'one of the set is needed' issue, but I thought I read that Debian had a dependency mechanism to represent this situation. Also, when you removed X, did you select to purge configuration files (using _ instead of -) ? I had a problem with X trying to load the S3V server and it took me forever to realize that just removing and re-installing isn't always enough, you have to make sure the old config files are gone also. It seems to me this is a bug in the server packages. When removed they should not leave lines in config files packaged with xbase (IIRC) trying to launch them. these figures seem outrageously high: (--) S3: Mode 1024x768 needs hsync freq of 70.24 kHz. Deleted. (--) S3: Mode 1152x864 needs hsync freq of 70.88 kHz. Deleted. (--) S3: Mode 1280x1024 needs hsync freq of 74.59 kHz. Deleted. (--) S3: Mode 1600x1200 needs hsync freq of 75.00 kHz. Deleted. (--) S3: Mode 1152x864 needs hsync freq of 76.01 kHz. Deleted. (--) S3: Mode 1280x1024 needs hsync freq of 78.86 kHz. Deleted. I'm not so sure. My server runs in 1280x1024, but it looks extremely bad (extreme flicker around edges, pixel columns are out of line, exactly the stuff you would expect if my monitors maximum hsync of 69 kHz was too low). If anyone knows how to fix this Im all ears. (--) S3: Diamond Stealth BIOS found (--) S3: chipset: 911 (--) S3: chipset driver: s3_generic (--) S3: videoram: 1024k (**) S3: Ramdac type: normal (--) S3: Ramdac speed: 110 ??? should i have defined a different ramdac? what is one, anyway? You might want to open up and take a look at your chip. I had the one chip from IBM that is not detected in mine (IBM RGB 526). Good question about what the little buggers are. PEX extension module not loaded XIE extension module not loaded I have this problem also. I installed the packages, why are they not being loaded? I suspect this might have somethig to do with the failure of many apps (9wm, xmix) that complain about not being able to load libraries in /usr/X11R6/lib that definately are there, I have checked. help. i'm losing the fight. Onward christian soldier. Try purging configs if you havn't done it. Good luck. rick __ I like six eggs when starting on a journey. Fried - not poached. And mind you don't break 'em. I won't eat a broken egg. -- Thorin Oakenshield -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
100 Mbit Ethernet
This is just a quickie, and I'm sure it's an easy one too: Does Linux support any/all 100 Mbit capable ethernet cards? i.e. is it possible to use 100 Mbit ethernet with Linux? I have no such machines (though I have some that drive 100 Mbit capable cards at 10 Mb, since that's what the nets they're on are at). I'm just checking to make sure there are 100 Mb drivers too... Please reply by email... 8---8 Richard Shepherd ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 8---8 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Can't deinstall package
On Tue, 17 Jun 1997, Christian Hudon wrote: On Jun 16, Mark Phillips wrote I have a package kernel-source-1.99.7 which for some reason is half installed. When I try to deinstall it I get this: [snip] How do I get rid of it? If reinstalling the package really isn't an option, you can try passing the --force-remove-reinstreq to dpkg when removing the package. Thanks for the advice. I gave it a go and came up with: # dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq kernel-source-1.99.7 dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled: Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should reinstall it before attempting a removal. (Reading database ... 28305 files and directories currently installed.) Removing kernel-source-1.99.7 ... The file /usr/src/.linux-versions does not exist. This is an misconfiguration, making it hard to provide a /usr/src/linux symlink if the latest target is removed. Please Hit return to continue. Error: /usr/src/linux not a symbolic link, not removing. dpkg: error processing kernel-source-1.99.7 (--remove): subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: kernel-source-1.99.7 So I still can't get rid of it. Any more ideas? Thanks. - Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] They told me I was gullible ... and I believed them! - -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: 100 Mbit Ethernet
I actually did this today... I replaced my old bnc/twisted pair SMC card with a 10/100 Switchable SMC which has the 21040 DEC chipset on it (tulip driver). We are using a 100 Mbit hub and have noticed a great deal speed increase with it. It seems as if the only thing that slows me down are my scsi harddrives when downloading large files! They still use the same drivers for the corresponding chipsets. In my case I didn't have to even recompile my kernel because the DEC 21040 and the 21041 use the same driver. I hope you have the same success and pleasure as I. Dennis On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Richard L Shepherd wrote: Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 13:08:06 +1200 (NZST) From: Richard L Shepherd [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian Users debian-user@lists.debian.org Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: 100 Mbit Ethernet Resent-Date: 18 Jun 1997 02:06:11 - Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org Resent-cc: recipient.list.not.shown:;@lists.debian.org This is just a quickie, and I'm sure it's an easy one too: Does Linux support any/all 100 Mbit capable ethernet cards? i.e. is it possible to use 100 Mbit ethernet with Linux? I have no such machines (though I have some that drive 100 Mbit capable cards at 10 Mb, since that's what the nets they're on are at). I'm just checking to make sure there are 100 Mb drivers too... Please reply by email... 8---8 Richard Shepherd ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 8---8 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . + dpk [EMAIL PROTECTED] + work : 517.353.8892 + + Systems Undergrad + pager: 517.222.5875 + + Division of Engineering Computing Services + Quote me+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Can't deinstall package
On Jun 18, Mark Phillips wrote Thanks for the advice. I gave it a go and came up with: # dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq kernel-source-1.99.7 dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled: Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should reinstall it before attempting a removal. (Reading database ... 28305 files and directories currently installed.) Removing kernel-source-1.99.7 ... The file /usr/src/.linux-versions does not exist. This is an misconfiguration, making it hard to provide a /usr/src/linux symlink if the latest target is removed. Please Hit return to continue. Error: /usr/src/linux not a symbolic link, not removing. dpkg: error processing kernel-source-1.99.7 (--remove): subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: kernel-source-1.99.7 So I still can't get rid of it. Any more ideas? Hmm. You installed your own kernels over the one that kernel-source-1.99.7 had installed, right? Did you remove the 1.99.7 kernel source tree by hand or is it still lying around somewhere under /usr/src or have you moved it somewhere else? Could you also tack on the contents of the postinst script (i.e. /var/lib/dpkg/info/kernel-source-1.99.7.postinst) to your next message? Btw, is the kernel-package maintainer reading this? Christian pgp4iasMZXxbK.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Can't deinstall package
Thanks for the advice. I gave it a go and came up with: # dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq kernel-source-1.99.7 dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled: Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should reinstall it before attempting a removal. (Reading database ... 28305 files and directories currently installed.) Removing kernel-source-1.99.7 ... The file /usr/src/.linux-versions does not exist. This is an misconfiguration, making it hard to provide a /usr/src/linux symlink if the latest target is removed. I had this problem some time back. try editing /var/lib/dpkg/status, and change the entry for this package to not installed. Then remove the offending directories, install the package, and remove it. rick -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: 100 Mbit Ethernet
I actually just got a switch with a 100Mb port on it and I have a news server that was going to go on the end of that for now, but I wasnt quite sure how to get debian to recognize that fact. Checking ifconfig it still says 10Mb, but i haven't really looked into it much yetto many other things to fix Daniel Laffin -- IDSI Systems Administrator (914)868-7207 -- On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Richard L Shepherd wrote: This is just a quickie, and I'm sure it's an easy one too: Does Linux support any/all 100 Mbit capable ethernet cards? i.e. is it possible to use 100 Mbit ethernet with Linux? I have no such machines (though I have some that drive 100 Mbit capable cards at 10 Mb, since that's what the nets they're on are at). I'm just checking to make sure there are 100 Mb drivers too... Please reply by email... 8---8 Richard Shepherd ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 8---8 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Can't deinstall package
On Tue, 17 Jun 1997, Christian Hudon wrote:
On Jun 18, Mark Phillips wrote
Thanks for the advice. I gave it a go and came up with:
# dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq kernel-source-1.99.7
dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should
reinstall it before attempting a removal.
(Reading database ... 28305 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing kernel-source-1.99.7 ...
The file /usr/src/.linux-versions does not exist. This is an
misconfiguration, making it hard to provide a /usr/src/linux
symlink if the latest target is removed.
Please Hit return to continue.
Error: /usr/src/linux not a symbolic link, not removing.
dpkg: error processing kernel-source-1.99.7 (--remove):
subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
kernel-source-1.99.7
So I still can't get rid of it. Any more ideas?
Hmm.
You installed your own kernels over the one that kernel-source-1.99.7 had
installed, right? Did you remove the 1.99.7 kernel source tree by hand or
is it still lying around somewhere under /usr/src or have you moved it
somewhere else?
Wrong. I have not done anything by hand relating to kernels. I think
the problem arose originally when I first installed Debian. I installed
Debian 1.1 after it had just come out. The kernel it provided was 2.0
hot off the press (so it could claim to be the first distribution with
the 2.0 kernel). However the source package that went with it was
the 1.99.7 one. For some reason I don't think it installed properly
back then. I didn't worry about it at the time as I had no need to
roll my own kernel and I had other difficulties to worry about.
I have upgraded my system a number of times (currently 1.3) and each
time the problem with kernel-source-1.99.7 has remained. It's only
recently that I've tried to fix the problem and it seems I can't.
Could you also tack on the contents of the postinst script
(i.e. /var/lib/dpkg/info/kernel-source-1.99.7.postinst) to your next
message?
I have included it at the end of the message.
Thanks.
-
Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED]
They told me I was gullible ... and I believed them!
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/var/lib/dpkg/info/kernel-source-1.99.7.postinst:
#! /bin/perl
# -*- Mode: Perl -*-
# debian.postinst ---
# Author : Manoj Srivastava ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] )
# Created On : Sat Apr 27 05:42:43 1996
# Created On Node : melkor.pilgrim.umass.edu
# Last Modified By : root
# Last Modified On : Sun May 19 02:36:13 1996
# Last Machine Used: melkor.pilgrim.umass.edu
# Update Count : 7
# Status : Unknown, Use with caution!
# HISTORY :
# Description :
#
#
$|=1;
# Predefined values:
my $package=kernel-source-1.99.7;
# Ignore all invocations uxcept when called on to configure.
exit 0 unless ($ARGV[0] $ARGV[0] =~ /configure/);
# most of our work is done in /usr/src.
chdir '/usr/src' or die Could not chdir to /usr/src:$!;
# Test if we need to do anything at all. This test and exit make us
# idempotent.
if (-e 'linux' ! -l 'linux') {
my $answer;
print STDERR EOF;
Error configuring $package: /usr/src/linux does not seem to be a
symbolic link, possibly from an old package or a left-over from a
user installed kernel. Please remove /usr/src/linux and try to
reconfigure $package.
Please Hit return to continue.
EOF
$answer = STDIN;
exit 1;
}
# fine. We now have a link.
my $old_target='';
$old_target = readlink('linux') if -e 'linux';
die could not read link /usr/src/linux:$! unless defined $old_target;
# before we change the link, let us make sure that if the file
# .linux-versions exists, we can read and write to it.
if (-f '.linux-versions') {
my $answer;
if (! -r '.linux-versions' -w _) {
print STDERR ERR;
The file /usr/src/.linux-versions should be read and writable. ($!)
Please change permissions and reconfigure $package.
Please Hit return to continue.
ERR
;
$answer = STDIN;
exit 1;
}
}
else {
my $answer;
open(REGISTRY,/usr/src/.linux-versions) || do {
print STDERR ERR;
The file /usr/src/.linux-versions should be read and writable. ($!)
Please change permissions and reconfigure $package.
Please Hit return to continue.
ERR
;
$answer = STDIN;
exit 1;
};
print REGISTRY REG;
# This is a list of the current versions of Linux kernel sources or
# kernel header packages on the system.
REG
;
close(REGISTRY);
}
## Another paranoid check before we do anything:
if (! -d $package) {
my $answer;
print STDERR I could not find the directory /usr/src/$package.\n;
print STDERR This is very, very, wrong. I'm
Re: plog doesn't work anymore under 1.3
On 16 Jun 1997, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote: MP == Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MP Hi, MP I had a look at /var/log/ppp.log and it is empty. It seems like MP this file is no longer written to??? MP Any ideas? What's in /etc/syslog.conf? If this file has been replaced by the upgrade process, I think the old file is copied as /etc/syslog.conf.dpkg-old (AFAIR). Yes, this may be the problem. I did a diff /etc/syslog.conf /etc/syslog.conf.dpkg-old and came up with: 7,8c7 daemon.* -/var/log/daemon.log mail.*/var/log/mail.log --- daemon.*;mail.* -/var/log/daemon.log 28a28 local2.* -/var/log/ppp.log Does this mean there is a bug with the upgrade procedure? Should I change back to the old file? Thanks, - Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] They told me I was gullible ... and I believed them! - -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Startup message
Every time I start up my system I get the following message: starting /sbin/syslogd ... /etc/rc2.d/S10sysklogd: line 38:64 Interruptstart-stop-daemon --start --verbose --exec /sbin/syslogd $SYSLOGD What does this mean? What should I do? I just upgraded to Debian 1.3. Adam Klein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RE: ack! x has been hosed
Hi Rick, On 17-Jun-97 You wrote: I got X going by using XF86Setup. Initially, when done, it ran xvidtune. Now, no such luck. I ultimately ended up removing all of the xpackages and reinstalling, but still no. It seems to be unhappy about a missing default font. Did you save the XF86Config in XF86Setup? If not rerun XF86Setup and don't use the old XF86Config as the default. Once XF86Setup is done, save the XF86Config before doing anything else. You can run xvidtune after you start the X, so don't try to run it in the XF86Setup. (**) S3: Ramdac type: normal (--) S3: Ramdac speed: 110 Make sure you picked right xserver and that you have installed it using dselect or with dpkg -i. ??? should i have defined a different ramdac? what is one, anyway? You shouldn't have to define ramdac. The XF86Setup will probe it if left blank, and this goes for any setting in video card section. Just make sure you pick the right xserver. (--) S3: clocks: 25.98 28.32 28.32 0.00 25.17 28.32 28.32 28.32 (--) S3: clocks: 25.17 28.32 28.32 28.32 25.17 28.32 28.32 28.32 I don't think these clocks are right. So let the XF86Setup generate new XF86Config, which, hopefully, have new clocks setting. Once you have new XF86Config file, then see how many errors you still get. Cheers, David -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Install Debian on Amiga 1200... HELP!!!
Kaixo!!! I need to intall Debian 1.3.x on Amiga 1200, so i need info.. I have Debian installed on Pentium (i386 platform), but i have no idea about amiga. I have an Amiga 1200 with an IDE 240 HD, PCMCIA SCSI, IDE Cd-ROM... Can anybody help me Thanks. -- Agur.. The Basque Madness / / (_)__ __ __ I.M.D. Computing / /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] //_/_//_// /_/\_\ http://www.geocities.com/sunssetstrip/alley/8071 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: POP mail questions
You need to 1) Stop using me as a mail relay. Any futher attempts at that will result in mail for your domain being routed to /dev/null unless you ask my permission first. I do have a system set up specificly FOR UUCP mail MX hosting that I can set you up a UUCP over TCP/IP account on if you like and you can set up an MX record pointing there if you like. 2) set up an alias for sendmail in that user's home directory that calls smail with a specific config file for that user. On Tue, 17 Jun 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And what if I want multiple accounts to be processed properly. I.ll have a different login for each email address on my local machine, but they each need to go out properly. Eg. gvlp == [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mail host == plus.com) gvlu == [EMAIL PROTECTED](mail host == pop.netaddress.com [POP3 in] and mail.netaddress.com [SMTP out]) snl == [EMAIL PROTECTED] (see above) gvlh == [EMAIL PROTECTED] (just an example, the others are real but I may want to expand the idea later.) What would I need to set up to get that working, AND to ensure internally written mail goes to the proper box WITHOUT having to be sent to the smarthost just to turn around and come right back. My machine name is Force1 (currently Force1.plus.com when online with a static IP assigned --- ping 199.1.12.165 to see if I am online and check IRC #Debian if I am) On 16 Jun 97, debian-user@lists.debian.org wrote regarding: __ Re: POP mail questions __ In you /etc/smail/config file append together.net to your hostnames= line thusly: hostnames=gologotha:whatever-else-you-have:together.net then add the following new config parameter: visible_name=together.net That should do it but the visible name must also appear in the hostnames line. Would you or anyone know how I could implement a rule so that smail (or whatever program handles this sort of thing) would rewrite any outgoing messages to correct the [EMAIL PROTECTED] to become [EMAIL PROTECTED] (together.net is of course my ISP)? | Debian GNU/ __ o Regards, |/ / _ _ _ _ _ __ __ .| / /__ / / / \// //_// \ \/ / Randy| // /_/ /_/\/ /___/ /_/\_\ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | ...because lockups are for convicts... George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Gerald V. Livingston II Reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: POP mail questions
On Sun, 15 Jun 1997, Stan Brown wrote: I have anacount on Netcom that I hav historically used as my primary mail receipt/reading/sending place. The response over the net has become pretty bad for interactive use, and the Netcom version of elm doesn't understand MIME. What I would like to do is contimue to use my Netcom address, download my mail for local reading, and uplad outgoing mail such that it still show Netcom as the point of origin. [...] I am using just such a setup. A few notes: 1) Since netcom doesn't provide slip/ppp to shell account holders, you will have to fake it using slirp (which is what I use), tia, or possibly term. If you haven't already set this up, let me know off the list since this isn't really Debian specific. 2) I use fetchmail to retrieve my messages, It injects them into port 25 of my linux box for smail to feed to my spool via procmail. Here's my .fechmailrc (edited): poll 10.0.2.2 protocol POP3 user dthayer password noneofyourbusiness 3) I use smail as my mail handling agent. I answered the questions in smailconf yielding the following /etc/smail/routers file (indented and minus the standard comments) smart_host: driver=smarthost, transport=smtp; path=mail.netcom.com 3) I have pine set up to (un)fake my address back to [EMAIL PROTECTED] rather than [EMAIL PROTECTED] This can also be configured into smail somehow if elm doesn't support this, check the archives. This setup works great, I can read and compose my mail off line, smail spools it until next time I log in. The only thing left for me is to setup a procmail recipe on my netcom account to reject obvious spam so that it never gets downloaded your pal dave Dave Thayer Denver, Colorado USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Upgrade path to 1.3 - Chicken Egg problem
At 17:13 17/6/97 +0200, you wrote: On Tue, 17 Jun 1997, Edouard Katz wrote: At 22:58 16/6/97 +0200, you wrote: On Mon, 16 Jun 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a standalone Debian 1.2 machine ;( - so here is what I plan to do: 1. Identify all packages that where updated on 1.3 and dld them, including the Packages file. How do you do that ? Joost, Well I think I'd better explain my situation: Have decide recently to move to Debian (fully support its policy) so I went on the net and found the necessary stuff to install the base1_3 system. Installed very well without a problem on my old 486/33 no CD. The only way to install from a CD is to mount the CD on a server in our site and export it for NFS mounting. The problem is that I have installed the base1_3 system and just got my CD that is Debian 1.2 Release What do I do ?? I HATE the downloads over the net even if here at work I can do it freely !! Do I go backward to 1.2 ?? Or - do I have a list of 1.3 files that are really required for operation, development environment that I will have to dld and the remaining stuff can be used from the 1.2 CD. I need to have a clean devlp. environment, need that the libs be uptodate, I believe that I can live with the X environment of the 1.2 distrib. That's the situation, a specific list of 1.3 files essential from /net /libs /dev Thanks, == Eddie Katz == Tel: (1) 30 80 37 46 FAX: (1) 30 80 33 36 == == [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marketing Sales Manager== -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: long user names for POP mailboxes
On Tuesday 17 June 97, at 11 h 12, the keyboard of Al Youngwerth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's my setup: smail 3.2.3, fetchmail 3.9.8 and the standard in.pop3d that comes with Debian. Drop it. Last time I checked (can anyone confirm this is still the case?), this thing didn't even log the attempted logins with wrong passwords. A cracker could use it to try every guessable password on your site. Use qpopper instead (available as a Debian package). -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
XFree 3.3 need /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy?
This is my /var/log/xdm-errors XFree86 Version 3.3 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6300) Release Date: Jun 2 1997 If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting problems. (see http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ) Operating System: Linux 2.0.21 i486 [ELF] Configured drivers: S3: accelerated server for S3 graphics adaptors (Patchlevel 0) newmmio, mmio_928, s3_generic (using VT number 7) XF86Config: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config (**) stands for supplied, (--) stands for probed/default values (**) XKB: keymap: xfree86(us_microsoft) (overrides other XKB settings) (**) Mouse: type: MouseMan, device: /dev/mouse, baudrate: 1200 (**) S3: Graphics device ID: S3 (**) S3: Monitor ID: Acer (**) FontPath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/freefont/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/sharefont/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X 11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/ (--) S3: PCI: Trio32/64 rev 40, Linear FB @ 0xf000 (--) S3: chipset: Trio64V+ rev. 41 (--) S3: chipset driver: newmmio (--) S3: card type: PCI (--) S3: videoram: 2048k (--) S3: Ramdac type: s3_trio64 (--) S3: Ramdac speed: 135 MHz (--) S3: Using Trio32/64 programmable clock (MCLK 50.114 MHz) (--) S3: Maximum allowed dot-clock: 80.000 MHz (**) S3: Mode 1024x768: mode clock = 80.000 (**) S3: Mode 800x600: mode clock = 69.650 (**) S3: Mode 640x480: mode clock = 45.800 (**) S3: Mode 320x200: mode clock = 12.588 (**) S3: Using 16 bpp. Color weight: 565 (--) S3: Virtual resolution set to 1024x768 (--) S3: Local bus LAW is 0xF000 (--) S3: Using a banksize of 2048k, line width of 1024 (--) S3: Using a single 64x64 area at (960,769) for expanding pixmaps (--) S3: Using 16 planes of 960x255 at (0,769) aligned 8 as font cache error opening security policy file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy What does it mean the last line? Andrea Arcangeli [EMAIL PROTECTED] HomePage: http://www.imola.queen.it/user/arcangeli/ Debian Mirror: ftp://dida43.deis.unibo.it/pub/debian/ Debian GNU __ ___ / / (_)__ __ __/ / / /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \ /_/ //_/_//_/\_,_//_\_(_) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: making debian packages
On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, joost witteveen wrote: [Charset iso-8859-2 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] I've made my own deb file with polonisation stuff for tetex. I know that other people may want to use it so i think about putting it in contrib directory. Why in the contrib directory? Why don't you want to become a maintainer? Only if you don't want to maintain (correct bugs found) the package afterwards, it should be put in non free (there are other cases, but I don't think they apply here). Generally, Debian isn't too keen on non-maintained packages, as they will probably have to be removed in the future (when we use different libs etc), and will only result in user-irritation in the long run. How to become a maintainer: see First of all I WANT to maintain my package. But I don't have so much time to do all the things described in debian-policy. I've made this package and I want to share my work with others. I know that there are many people in Poland which want to use this package (few of them already use it as testers). Second of all my package is not so typical becouse it's made rather as a bunch of other packages which can be found on the Net then my own work. I've just generated all needed files from instalation scripts in those packages and put it in right places so teTeX can use it (naturally my work was to choose dirs, to choose files needed and to write small debian installation script which configures teTeX to use my package but that's all). Becouse in tetex-pl (so it's called by me) there are 3 packages with non-GPL licencies and the main difference is that authors want to distribute the whole package with sources and not only separate files from it I had to put whole packages in tetex-pl. Now I know that it can by freely distributed (in sesn of GPL). But in fact there is no tetex-pl-source package at all (all sources and original docs are in tetex-pl) so as I understand I cannot put it in main distribution. It can be freely distributed so not in non-free. So I think myself that it should be in contrib directory. So now you have much more information and I wait for good advise for me. Naturally thanks all of you for making such great product as Debian and thanks to Joost Witteveen for this message. Leszek Gerwatowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: xfig cannot handle colors in 16-bit mode
Hi Carl, which version do you use? 3.2.0-beta3 from 'stable' works pretty well here. The docs say that True- and PseudoColor Visual support have been added as of 3.2. 3.1.4 will not work. Regards, Andree -- | Institute of Geophysics phone: +49 40 4123 4389 ANDREE LEIDENFROST | University of Hamburg fax: +49 40 4123 5441 Geophysicist | Bundesstrasse 55 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | D-20146 Hamburgwww: www.app-geoph.dkrz.de -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: fvwm95-2 won't work
Just installed it myself, from what I remember there is no default config
file. You have to rename one of the installed config files to what
fvwm95-2 is looking for (forgot the name right now).
This appears to be right, indeed (I would suggest that the postinst
of fvwm95-2 copyies that example system.fvwm2rc95 file, just before
the 'update-menus' call).
But there is (for the users) an other solution: just install the menu
package, and you'll get a system.fvwm2rc95 file that has most of
the applications that are installed on your system in it's menu.
--
joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
#!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777iX+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0j]dsj
$/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$kSK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1
lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp|dc`;s/\W//g;$_=pack('H*',/((..)*)$/)
#what's this? see http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/
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Re: X install under 1.2
On Sun, 15 Jun 1997, Bob Clark wrote: 'cldg5429' is an invalid chipset. This should be clgd not cldg! If this was just a typo in your post, you Typo. I tried many chipsets. SuperProbe says its a 5429. Cheers, Jim -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Diald won't work after 1.2-1.3(Fixed)
Thanks for all your useful inputs from this mailing list. My diald is working( I think) now. What has happened is that after upgrading from 1.2 to 1.3, diald stop working. Somebody in the list mensioned to do incremental upgrading. So I started to upgrade Req base section only and hold other sections(Std, Devel, Xtra ). After upgrading Req base section, diald stopped working. So I thought there was a file causing diald not working. I then restored 1.2 from my backup tape and upgrading file one by one in Req base section. I have noticed there is a file called setserial. The name rings a bell. Diald needs comm port. Does this program execute after boot up my pc? Any way, I hold this program for upgrade and upgraded everything else. Now diald works. Does this mean there is something different in setserial 2.12-2 from 2.10-8? Please give me some idea. Thanks, Jimmy Lu -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
where is mgetty-voice
Where is the mgetty-voice package? I have had a (quick) look in mgetty and mgetty-fax, but couldn't see it. I have looked at the entire site :-( Thanks in advance, Adrian -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Artificial intelligence - the http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett | art of making computers act PGP key available on public key servers | like those in the movies -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
linux 2.1.x -- poor multitasking?
Does anyone else find the multitasking in Linux 2.1.42 and thereabouts pretty bad? My system is a Cyrix 6x86-P150+ with 32mb, and while I'm compiling the kernel for example, other processes run very slowly, especially when accessing the disk; it can take five seconds to get another prompt, a long time to login, etc. The load isn't very high either. It doesn't happen in 2.0.30; I first noticed it around 2.1.3x. I do have Triton DMA support enabled, in case it's relevant. Anyone else having this problem? Unfortunately I don't subscribe to linux-kernel because I expect the volume is very high. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust[EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science computer systems engineering.3rd year, RMIT. http://hamish.home.ml.org/ (PGP key here) CPOM: [ ] 47% The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. --Bohr -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: linux 2.1.x -- poor multitasking?
On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote: Does anyone else find the multitasking in Linux 2.1.42 and thereabouts pretty bad? My system is a Cyrix 6x86-P150+ with 32mb, and while I'm compiling the kernel for example, other processes run very slowly, especially when accessing the disk; it can take five seconds to get another prompt, a long time to login, etc. The load isn't very high either. It doesn't happen in 2.0.30; I first noticed it around 2.1.3x. Remember version 2.1.x is still considered developmental, in that case there could be many bugs or other inefficienies. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: making debian packages
On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, joost witteveen wrote: [Charset iso-8859-2 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] I've made my own deb file with polonisation stuff for tetex. I know that other people may want to use it so i think about putting it in contrib directory. Why in the contrib directory? Why don't you want to become a maintainer? Only if you don't want to maintain (correct bugs found) the package afterwards, it should be put in non free (there are other cases, but I don't think they apply here). Generally, Debian isn't too keen on non-maintained packages, as they will probably have to be removed in the future (when we use different libs etc), and will only result in user-irritation in the long run. How to become a maintainer: see First of all I WANT to maintain my package. But I don't have so much time to do all the things described in debian-policy. Are you sure you don't have enough time? You describe you've got beta testers trying you package (and apparently you fix the bugs they report), you are asking us on debian-user, so it seems to me you're an excelent candidate for a new debian package maintainer (only if you already know now that in one year time, you are never going to speak polish, or use debian any more, then you'd be a worce candidate, but that doesn't seem to be the case eigther) I've made this package and I want to share my work with others. Note, btw, that those others probably isn't restricted to polish Debian users: how about russian ones, that want to learn from how you did things? And, come to russian, even I would install tegex-ru (if it ever is released), as my brother lives in Moscow now and it might be fun to write something in russian to him. So, by making the package a true debian package, there may be many more people that indirectly benifit form your work than you realise. Second of all my package is not so typical becouse it's made rather as a bunch of other packages which can be found on the Net then my own work. I maintain about 10 different packages. Only one or two is my own work, the others are stuff found on the net. True, for example my gs package is mostly one package found on the net, but by collecting many different files around the internet, and putting them in the right locations so that polish people can write poslish out of the box, you are just making your package more valuable than just my gs package: If there were no gs package, people could easily download it themselves, and run it. Your package, however, saves many people a much more work. Becouse in tetex-pl (so it's called by me) there are 3 packages with non-GPL licencies and the main difference is that authors want to distribute the whole package with sources and not only separate files from it I had to put whole packages in tetex-pl. Now I know that it can by freely distributed (in sesn of GPL). But in fact there is no tetex-pl-source package at all (all sources and original docs are in tetex-pl) so as I understand I cannot put it in main distribution. It can be freely distributed so not in non-free. So I think myself that it should be in contrib directory. I am not sure I fully understand this: What I understand is: you downloaded package1, package2, and package3. You put the stuff in .../tetex-pl-0.1/package* on your harddisk, you created the files .../tetex-pl-0.1/debian/* to make the three packages combine to one debian package. Now, doing dpkg-buildpackage in the .../tetex-pl-0.1 directory should create the debian source package (tetex-pl_0.1-1.orig.tar.gz) [see footnote 1], the diffs, and the debian package (tetex-pl_0.1-1_i386.deb) etc. Also, package1 (or whatever) contains files that have to be kept together when distributed. But that's actualy what happens, as every Debian CD has got to have the source-code on it (to satisfy GPL (at least an old version of it)). So, I don't think distributing tetex-pl_0.1.orig.tar.gz would make the authors unhappy. So, if the above is correct, then you've got the source package already. As everything can be distributed with diffs (you didn't mention this, but I hope this is the case), it seems to me the stuff _can_ in fackt go in the main distribution. (if not, maybe you can ask the upstream authors of the package*, they probably didn't intend you to be unable to put their stuff in debian). [footnote 1]: maybe your problem is the .diff file, as that doesn't get created automatically. To do that, just (re-)untar package* in .../tetex-pl_0.1.orig/package* and run dpkg-buildpackage. Now the diffs aren't really against the upstream package, but against all upstream pacakges, but this should be OK. (just put a note in /usr/doc/tetex-pl/copyright on how you created the orig package.) So now you have much more information and I wait for good advise for me. Naturally thanks all of you for making such great product as Debian Apparently the main
Re: linux 2.1.x -- poor multitasking?
Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anyone else having this problem? Unfortunately I don't subscribe to linux-kernel because I expect the volume is very high. Hamish I have read that SMP is enabled by default in the newer kernels, and this gives very poor performance (in 2.1.42 specifically) on uniprocessor machines. So, comment out SMP=1 in the top level Makefile and rebuild your kernel, if you don't need SMP. Personally, I'm staying away from the developmental kernels for now - I'm running SMP and have had the best luck with 2.0.14, and reports for newer kernels haven't looked that good for SMP. (They're in the middle of aggressive optimizations for SMP, so it's really no surprise!) Later, Dale -- + finger for pgp public key -+ | Dale E. Martin | University of Cincinnati Savant Research Laboratory | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]| http://www.ececs.uc.edu/~dmartin | +--+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Debian over NFS
Hello, I am wondering how to set up systems in this way: * A Debian server, with a large hard disk, with a fairly full install of Debian. * Multiple Debian client machines, with small hard disks (often 100 meg or less). I'd like to mount, at minimum, /usr from the Debian server. /usr should be mounted over NFS in read-only mode. My questions are: * How do I go about installing packages on the client? I would assume that I install packages in the normal way on the server, but that wouldn't update the client's /etc directory. However, I do not want to try to install on the client since it would fail if it tries to write anything in /usr. * How do I remove packages? Again, if I remove from the server, there may still be files left in the client's /etc and /var directories. * What is the suggested method for going about this? Thanks, John Goerzen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Linux FS Question
At 11:19 AM 6/18/97 +0200, you wrote: Hi Tim, as far as I know the data is still there (until the blocks that it occupies are reused). Unfortunately deleting for ext2fs meaning deleting the last reference or pointer to the file. Consequently the file simply Is there a way to securely delete a file? Or do I need to study the e2fs and develop a program to do it? I'm sure there's lots of people out there who'd like the ability to know that when something's been deleted, it's gone; no line, no waiting.. Right now. Ideas? Thanks, Tim Linux 2.0.6 i486 Because reboots are for upgrades! --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
[coteau@westriv.com: Network Problem]
-Forwarded message from coteau [EMAIL PROTECTED]- Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from elvis.sw.ods.com ([160.86.13.7]) by elo.sw.ods.com with esmtp id m0weKxO-00014ZC (Debian Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #2); Wed, 18 Jun 1997 08:39:30 -0500 (CDT) Received: from master.debian.org (primer.i-Connect.Net [206.190.143.13]) by elvis.sw.ods.com (Netscape Mail Server v2.01) with SMTP id AAA8466 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 08:39:28 -0500 Received: (qmail 10072 invoked by uid 834); 18 Jun 1997 13:39:30 - Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (qmail 10070 invoked from network); 18 Jun 1997 13:39:29 - Received: from ctc.ctctel.com (206.30.29.2) by master.debian.org with SMTP; 18 Jun 1997 13:39:29 - Received: from coteau.ctctel.com (wr-32.dialup.ctctel.com [206.30.31.162]) by ctc.ctctel.com (8.8.3/8.8.3) with SMTP id HAA27971 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 07:46:43 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 07:44:10 -0600 From: coteau [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Network Problem Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi there, We have successfully loaded Linux (Debian 1.3) and have the xdm working properly. We are using fvwm95 as the window manager. The problem we are having is, when we try to telnet or ping to our other unix and linux machines, the error message came nerwork is unreachable. Other machines are running (SGI)Irix 5.3 and Debian 1.1 . We checked the cables and all the necessary files, as mention in the manuals. These appears to be in order. When we type the ps -ef command, no daemons appear to be running. If you have any suggestion for us. Please e-mail us, we'll be thankful. Sincerely, Riaz Khan -End of forwarded message- -- David EngelODS Networks [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1001 E. Arapaho Road (972) 234-6400 Richardson, TX 75081 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Linux FS Question
On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Tim O'Brien wrote: Is there a way to securely delete a file? Or do I need to study the e2fs and develop a program to do it? I'm sure there's lots of people out there who'd like the ability to know that when something's been deleted, it's gone; no line, no waiting.. Right now. Kinda like a Norton wipedisk? Ideas? Well, you could overwrite the file with gibberish _before_ deleting it. I think that's what Norton does, several times if I remember correctly. That's to comply with US federal regs, which seem a bit superstitious to me! Actually, the giberrish itself is probably some specified bit pattern. ...RickM... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: [coteau@westriv.com: Network Problem]
Hi there,
We have successfully loaded Linux (Debian 1.3) and have the xdm working
properly. We are using fvwm95 as the window manager. The problem we are
having is, when we try to telnet or ping to our other unix and linux
machines, the error message came nerwork is unreachable.
Have you setup your ip numbers, and routing etc correctly?
What's the output of:
route
ifconfig
(to configure this, edit /etc/init.d/network)
We checked the cables and all the necessary files, as mention in the
manuals.
No, network unreachable doesn't mean the cables are wrong, it ususally
means wrong routes.
These appears to be in order.
When we type the ps -ef command, no daemons appear to be running. If
you have any suggestion for us. Please e-mail us, we'll be thankful.
ps -ef shouldn't output deamon info. You've probably BSD/SysV syntax,
whereas Debian ps uses SysV/BSD syntax.
Try ps -ax
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$/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$kSK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1
lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp|dc`;s/\W//g;$_=pack('H*',/((..)*)$/)
#what's this? see http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/
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Re: Linux FS Question
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 09:01:23 -0500 To:debian-user@lists.debian.org From: Tim O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Linux FS Question Is there a way to securely delete a file? Or do I need to study the e2fs and develop a program to do it? I'm sure there's lots of people out there who'd like the ability to know that when something's been deleted, it's gone; no line, no waiting.. Right now. Ideas? You could write a small c prog, that stats the file to get the size, then open the file, write 0's to the whole file, close it and unlink. Most of this is standard library calls. Stephen. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Linux FS Question
Maybe a proper way of doing is to fill the file with zeroes from /dev/zero before removing. Regards, Andree -- | Institute of Geophysics phone: +49 40 4123 4389 ANDREE LEIDENFROST | University of Hamburg fax: +49 40 4123 5441 Geophysicist | Bundesstrasse 55 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | D-20146 Hamburgwww: www.app-geoph.dkrz.de -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Upgrade path to 1.3 - Chicken Egg problem
On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Edouard Katz wrote: Have decide recently to move to Debian (fully support its policy) so I went on the net and found the necessary stuff to install the base1_3 system. Installed very well without a problem on my old 486/33 no CD. The only way to install from a CD is to mount the CD on a server in our site and export it for NFS mounting. NFS install is great, because you need only 1 floppy. The problem is that I have installed the base1_3 system and just got my CD that is Debian 1.2 Release What do I do ?? I HATE the downloads over the net even if here at work I can do it freely !! Do I go backward to 1.2 ?? Or - do I have a list of 1.3 files that are really required for operation, development environment that I will have to dld and the remaining stuff can be used from the 1.2 CD. I'm not sure about this, but (off the top of my hat): AFAIK it should work just fine. The 1.3 base packages (which is what you've got from base1_3.tgz) are independent of any other packages. Maybe you'll have some minor compatibility problems with optionals from 1.2, but I don't even think that's very likely. If this does appear to be the case with a package from 1.2, just update to the version in 1.3. Dselect could be a bit confusing to use, but you can trust it will not downgrade the base packages to their 1.2 versions. I need to have a clean devlp. environment, need that the libs be uptodate, I believe that I can live with the X environment of the 1.2 distrib. That's the situation, a specific list of 1.3 files essential from /net /libs /dev Hmmm, if you want to do some development, you'll want to have at least libc5-dev from devel/. It must be the same version as libc5 from base/, so you'll have to at least download that package. Also, notice that 1.3 has shadow support and the installation suggests it as default. This might break some packages in 1.2 that do not support shadow-passwords (xdm in xbase might be a candidate.) If you notice any problems with logging in and permissions, try 'shadowconfig off' or get packages from 1.3 (alas, xbase from 1.3.0 has a little configuration flaw related to xdm, but it is quite easily fixable. It should be working by default in 1.3.1's xbase.) Cheers, Joost -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ack! x has been hosed
On Tue, 17 Jun 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote: I got X going by using XF86Setup. Initially, when done, it ran xvidtune. Now, no such luck. I ultimately ended up removing all of the xpackages and reinstalling, but still no. It seems to be unhappy about a missing default font. here's the output from startx: XFree86 Version 3.2 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6100) Release Date: Oct 26 1996 If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting problems. (see http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ) Operating System: Linux [ELF] Configured drivers: S3: accelerated server for S3 graphics adaptors (Patchlevel 0) newmmio, mmio_928, s3_generic (using VT number 7) XF86Config: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config (**) stands for supplied, (--) stands for probed/default values (**) XKB: keymap: xfree86(us) (overrides other XKB settings) (**) Mouse: type: Microsoft, device: /dev/mouse, baudrate: 1200, 3 button emulation (timeout: 50ms) (**) S3: Graphics device ID: Diamond Stealth VRAM (**) S3: Monitor ID: My Monitor these figures seem outrageously high: (--) S3: Mode 1024x768 needs hsync freq of 70.24 kHz. Deleted. (--) S3: Mode 1152x864 needs hsync freq of 70.88 kHz. Deleted. (--) S3: Mode 1280x1024 needs hsync freq of 74.59 kHz. Deleted. (--) S3: Mode 1600x1200 needs hsync freq of 75.00 kHz. Deleted. (--) S3: Mode 1152x864 needs hsync freq of 76.01 kHz. Deleted. (--) S3: Mode 1280x1024 needs hsync freq of 78.86 kHz. Deleted. (--) S3: Mode 1024x768 needs hsync freq of 80.21 kHz. Deleted. (--) S3: Mode 1280x1024 needs hsync freq of 81.13 kHz. Deleted. (--) S3: Mode 1600x1200 needs hsync freq of 87.50 kHz. Deleted. (--) S3: Mode 1152x864 needs hsync freq of 89.62 kHz. Deleted. (--) S3: Mode 1280x1024 needs hsync freq of 91.15 kHz. Deleted. (--) S3: Mode 1600x1200 needs hsync freq of 93.75 kHz. Deleted. (--) S3: Mode 1600x1200 needs hsync freq of 105.77 kHz. Deleted. (--) S3: Mode 1280x1024 needs hsync freq of 107.16 kHz. Deleted. (--) S3: Mode 1800X1440 needs hsync freq of 96.15 kHz. Deleted. (--) S3: Mode 1800X1440 needs hsync freq of 104.52 kHz. Deleted. (**) FontPath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/ (--) S3: card type: ISA (--) S3: Diamond Stealth BIOS found (--) S3: chipset: 911 (--) S3: chipset driver: s3_generic (--) S3: videoram: 1024k (**) S3: Ramdac type: normal (--) S3: Ramdac speed: 110 ??? should i have defined a different ramdac? what is one, anyway? (--) S3: clocks: 25.98 28.32 28.32 0.00 25.17 28.32 28.32 28.32 (--) S3: clocks: 25.17 28.32 28.32 28.32 25.17 28.32 28.32 28.32 (--) S3: Maximum allowed dot-clock: 110.000 MHz (**) S3: Mode 640x480: mode clock = 25.175, clock used = 25.170 (--) S3: There is no defined dot-clock matching mode 800x600 (--) S3: Removing mode 800x600 from list of valid modes. (--) S3: There is no defined dot-clock matching mode 1024x768 (--) S3: Removing mode 1024x768 from list of valid modes. (--) S3: Using 6 bits per RGB value (--) S3: Virtual resolution set to 640x480 (--) S3: Using a banksize of 64k, line width of 1024 (--) S3: Using a single 64x64 area at (640,0) for expanding pixmaps (--) S3: Using 8 planes of 1024x543 at (0,481) aligned 8 as font cache PEX extension module not loaded XIE extension module not loaded failed to set default font path '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/' Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' but whre is this defined?? _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 giving up. xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. I can help you with this last one. The base system doesn't create the device tty0 with the resulting above error message. Cd to /dev and run: ./MAKEDEV tty0 And try again. Once the package have been installed, you can create a new configuration file by deleting the old one in /etc/X11 and then running xbase-configure. You will need xfntbase and xfnt75 installed for this to work. If you have room I highly recommend installing all of the xfnt packages, as many programs use fonts without declaring any dependence and they will fail with font errors. Hope this helps, Dwarf -- _-_-_-_-_-_- _-_-_-_-_-_-_- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 656-9769 Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tallahassee, FL 32308 _-_-_-_-_-_- If you don't see what you want, just ask
Re: Linux FS Question
On Wed, 18 Jun 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 09:01:23 -0500 To:debian-user@lists.debian.org From: Tim O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Linux FS Question Is there a way to securely delete a file? Or do I need to study the e2fs and develop a program to do it? I'm sure there's lots of people out there who'd like the ability to know that when something's been deleted, it's gone; no line, no waiting.. Right now. Ideas? You could write a small c prog, that stats the file to get the size, then open the file, write 0's to the whole file, close it and unlink. Most of this is standard library calls. Stephen. One example of a program to do this is can be found on sunsite.unc.edu in /pub/Linux/utils/file/wipe.tgz Also note that the chattr(1) program claims to set a file attribute that will cause a file to be overwritten with zeros before it is deleted from an ext2 file system. This will not work because the required code was removed from the Linux kernel in version 1.3.36 (Oct 95) and has not been added back. See the following comment from /usr/src/linux/fs/ext2/truncate.c: /* * Secure deletion currently doesn't work. It interacts very badly * with buffers shared with memory mappings, and for that reason * can't be done in the truncate() routines. It should instead be * done separately in release() before calling the truncate routines * that will release the actual file blocks. * * Linus */ Anyone looking for a kernel hacking project? John Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: PDF Writer
On 18 Jun 1997, Eloy A. Paris wrote: Carlo U. Segre ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : Does anyone know of a program which writes PDF files under Linux? For free I don't know. May be Adobe sells a version for Linux. I downloaded from their Web site Acrobat Reader for Linux. It works great and installed with no problems under Debian. It's also available as a debian package (acroread.) Joost -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Firewalls
One wants a firewall to 1. not require logging into the firewall computer itself (TIS requires this) 2. not require putting new (1 line changed then recompiled) ftp, telnet, ... on the computers behind the firewall (SOCKS4 may require this, I forget) The first causes the user a lot of work, the second causes the administrator a lot of work. I understand any reasonable commercial firewall does both 1 and 2. TIS informed me personally that 1. is inherent in their software, but they sell gauntlet without this problem. Of course, neither you nor I wants to pay for a firewall. I'm unsure what the new SOCKS (SOCKS5 I believe) does, but it has many improvements. I have also seen alpha level firewalls, one being developed by, I believe, a group of banks in Switzerland. These firewall approaches provide more secure proxy servers. The kernel itself provides IP-filtering approaches if compiled with firewall. You tell the kernel which addresses to allow and which to deny. There was a nice command that does this (I forget its name). Hopefully enough people want a proxy firewall that the free community will develop one that is not burdensome. __ Reply Separator _ Subject: Firewalls Author: debian-user@lists.debian.org at INTERNET Date:6/13/97 3:51 PM Anyone running a debian-based firewall out there? Does anyone have any experience with the TIS firewall toolkit package for Debian? How about setting up firewalling in the kernel? What are the pros and cons of each method for building a Linux firewall? Thanks. Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Help with X start up
Hello, I'm trying to get X running (I downloaded the files in x11 from the Debian 1.3 binaries.) I get the following error when I try to start X using startx or xinit. Fatal server error no screens found I used XF86Setup to configure the system. Do I have to set up a special terminal or device to run X? If yes, how? This is my first installation with Linux, but I've installed X on FreeBSD and have been using UNIX for a while. I think I must have missed some step in the installation process. Thank you, stef -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
After Install: crc error
I install Debian 1.3 on a now clean partition from 7 diskettes. The last install went smoothly and I created a boot floppy. Very early in the following boot, I get the messages loading linux ... uncompressing Linux ... [there was nothing like Done] crc error --system halted To resolve the problem, I created a second set of install disks at another site, but I got the same error. The computer I install on has an Adaptec 2940 SCSI card and I install to /dev/sda9, a SCSI disk. I also have an Atapi CD, which during installation F4 showed repeated errors, though I did not install from CD -- I supposed that the installation occasionally looked at other devices without need. The Debian installation I had used since November, 1996, works well with this Atapi CD [the CD is probably irrelevant to the installation]. I thought I could scheme around the problem with chroot. With the rescue disk, I could not chroot /target, nor could I change root with the chroot of the Debian installation and the rescue disk running (I believe I got a segmentation fault, though using yard rescue disks I got an unrecognized variable which was probably a library problem). My solution: I will install with my November, 1996, Debian 1.2 disks. They worked fine for 15 other Debian installs I had done. Then I will convert over to Debian 1.3, following upgrade instructions. Unrelated comment: Evidently, the Debian installation will not recognize a SCSI swap partition on the first partition /dev/sda1. My previous Debian installation used this as a swap partition and the installation showed it still so defined, but the step Initialize and Activate the Swap Disk Partition detected no swap partition. I later added the swap partition /dev/sda5 (a logical rather than a primary partition) which the Debian install did detect. Jim Burt [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: file system tools for dos
On Sat, 14 Jun 1997, BG Lim wrote: I'm running a dos/linux system. I remember reading that there was a tool for accessing the ext2fs from dos. Can anyone tell me where to get it? Enjoy it. BG -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Paulo attachment: ext2tool.zip
Re: PDF Writer
On Tue, 17 Jun 1997, Carlo U. Segre wrote: Does anyone know of a program which writes PDF files under Linux? pdftex, is program that makes (La)TeX output PDF files instead of the standard DVI. It's still in Beta though, but will probably be included in the next teTeX-release (which Debian now uses). Pictures are troublesome, except PNG's and JPEG's which are easily included. ghostscript, can convert postscript to PDF. However, it outputs everyting as a bitmap, which makes it practically unusable. Adobe Acrobat is not available for Linux, though it is available for other unices. Maybe you can run it under some sort of binary compatibility package? I propose that you at least write a complaint letter to Adobe for neglecting to port Acrobat to Linux (after all, the *have* ported Acrobat Reader, so there should be no problems for them). // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: After Install: crc error -- rescue disk broken?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... loading linux ... uncompressing Linux ... [there was nothing like Done] crc error --system halted Same here. It seems that current rescue disk is broken (I tried 2 flopies, checked 'em with ndd etc.) -- Dimitri -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: file system tools for dos
Please don't send binaries on the list ! Especially big ones ! Next time someone asks for XFree3.3, I'll send all the debs ! :-) Thank you. Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
descriptions of the various mailing lists
Is there an up-to-date document describing what is in the various mailing lists? I'm trying to subscribe to the various mailing lists before leaving university where ATM I look at some via a mail-news gateway. In particular, does anybody know about these: debian-board things to do with the BOD (such as...)? debian-devel-announce ? debian-doc ? debian-faq for the Debian FAQ? debian-testing testing group? debian-www Debian web site? debian-changes uploads into stable? debian-devel-changes uploads into unstable/experimental (and stable?) TIA Adrian -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Artificial intelligence - the http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett | art of making computers act PGP key available on public key servers | like those in the movies -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: file system tools for dos
On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Philippe Troin wrote: Please don't send binaries on the list ! Especially big ones ! Next time someone asks for XFree3.3, I'll send all the debs ! :-) Thank you. Phil. Sorry about that folks. When I realize my mistake, the email already was out of the email server. If I note that sooner I could delete the email. Once again, sorry. Paulo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
IBM Aptiva
Has anyone gotten Debian 1.2.X to run on an Aptiva? I was able to install it but hat to remove the Radio mouse and the Wave card.. The Wave card to get the NIC to work.. IRQ 10 I/O 300 And the Mouse had to be swapped out for a Serial mouse... Any suggestions... Thank's Denis -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Firewalls
On Wed, 18 Jun 1997 10:55:41 EST [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One wants a firewall to 1. not require logging into the firewall computer itself (TIS requires this) 2. not require putting new (1 line changed then recompiled) ftp, telnet, ... on the computers behind the firewall (SOCKS4 may require this, I forget) Anyone running a debian-based firewall out there? Yup. Does anyone have any experience with the TIS firewall toolkit package for Debian? How about setting up firewalling in the kernel? I have an `industrial' firewall working out there, fully in the kernel (with ipfwadm). It masquerades all outbound connections (currently all, but you can choose which ports to forward and/or allow outbound connections), and refuses all outside connections except for mail, DNS and http. It also checks for spoofing (correct addresses on correct interfaces). From the user, the only constraint is that he has to use passive ftp. Everything else is completely transparent. Ipfwadm is hard to figure out at the first glance, but it's really powerful. Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
make boot floppy problem Deb1.3
I'm experiencing problems installing Debian1.3 from scratch. I followed the Debian1.3 installation guide and opted to install with floppy disks. Everything went swiftly untill I reached the point : Make a Boot floppy After introducing an empty, formatted, write-enabled floppy and hitting enter I get the following messages: Formatting the floppy... Verifying track 0, head 0 end-request:I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 17 end-request:I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 17 Verifying track 0, head 1 end-request:I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 17 end-request:I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 32 Verifying track 0, head 0 end-request:I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 17 end-request:I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 17 Verifying track 0, head 1 end-request:I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 17 end-request:I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 32 After which the installation stops. (does not hang, goes back to menu) I tried different floppies, ... , in vain. Has it got anything to do with the way I configured the device drivers (nothing installed explicitly) or might it be a hardware problem ? I installed it together with an existing MS-DOS using fips to free space for my Linux partitions. Any help for this Linux newbie highly appreciated !! :) Thanks a lot, --Erwin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: make boot floppy problem Deb1.3
On Wed, 18 Jun 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm experiencing problems installing Debian1.3 from scratch. I followed the Debian1.3 installation guide and opted to install with floppy disks. Everything went swiftly untill I reached the point : Make a Boot floppy After introducing an empty, formatted, write-enabled floppy and hitting enter I get the following messages: Formatting the floppy... Verifying track 0, head 0 end-request:I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 17 end-request:I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 17 Verifying track 0, head 1 end-request:I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 17 end-request:I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 32 Verifying track 0, head 0 end-request:I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 17 end-request:I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 17 Verifying track 0, head 1 end-request:I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 17 end-request:I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 32 After which the installation stops. (does not hang, goes back to menu) I tried different floppies, ... , in vain. Has it got anything to do with the way I configured the device drivers (nothing installed explicitly) or might it be a hardware problem ? I installed it together with an existing MS-DOS using fips to free space for my Linux partitions. Any help for this Linux newbie highly appreciated !! :) Thanks a lot, --Erwin The way I installed Debian was from MS-DOS, I used rawrite2.exe(available on ftp.debian.org) to copy the different images that I downloaded earlier t, to disk. Then I booted off of my disk and the insdtallation began. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Install Debian on Amiga 1200... HELP!!!
On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Iñaki Martínez wrote: Kaixo!!! I need to intall Debian 1.3.x on Amiga 1200, so i need info.. I have Debian installed on Pentium (i386 platform), but i have no idea about amiga. I have an Amiga 1200 with an IDE 240 HD, PCMCIA SCSI, IDE Cd-ROM... Can anybody help me Thanks. Well, the major problem with Amiga is the lack of an MMU (Memory Management Unit) in most models and, as far as i know, Linux needs an MMU to work. The Motorola 68020, which is the CPU of the basic A1200, does not contain an MMU making installing Linux impossible. Bye, Paolo Nenzi - Roma - Italia - *- GPS = Guesses Position Somehow -* -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: where is mgetty-voice
I asked myself the same thing recently. I don't have the stuff with me here at work, but if you check the readme/doc files for mgetty, you should see the home page of the author/support person. According to the web site, the voice package was in for some major overhaul of some sort. You can get sources for it there (for all of mgetty, actually, it being in the mgetty/voice dir). I got that far, and am going to actually build it when I get 5 minutes. regards -dh Where is the mgetty-voice package? I have had a (quick) look in mgetty and mgetty-fax, but couldn't see it. I have looked at the entire site :-( Thanks in advance, Adrian -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Artificial intelligence - the http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett | art of making computers act PGP key available on public key servers | like those in the movies -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: where is mgetty-voice
Adrian Bridgett writes: Where is the mgetty-voice package? I have had a (quick) look in mgetty and mgetty-fax, but couldn't see it. I have looked at the entire site :-( Actually it's in master's incoming directory and should be distributed soon. Regards Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / The good thing about standards is / / that there are so many to choose from. -- Andrew S. Tanenbaum / -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
SMC Elite16 83690 Setup
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Re: make boot floppy problem Deb1.3
On Wed, 18 Jun 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm experiencing problems installing Debian1.3 from scratch. I followed the Debian1.3 installation guide and opted to install with floppy disks. Everything went swiftly untill I reached the point : Make a Boot floppy After introducing an empty, formatted, write-enabled floppy and hitting enter I get the following messages: Formatting the floppy... Verifying track 0, head 0 end-request:I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 17 end-request:I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 17 Verifying track 0, head 1 end-request:I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 17 end-request:I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 32 Verifying track 0, head 0 end-request:I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 17 end-request:I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 17 Verifying track 0, head 1 end-request:I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 17 end-request:I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 32 After which the installation stops. (does not hang, goes back to menu) I tried different floppies, ... , in vain. Has it got anything to do with the way I configured the device drivers (nothing installed explicitly) or might it be a hardware problem ? I installed it together with an existing MS-DOS using fips to free space for my Linux partitions. Any help for this Linux newbie highly appreciated !! :) Thanks a lot, --Erwin There are several possibilities for your problem: 1. Is the floppy write protected? 2. It is possible that although you can read with the drive that it is broken for write. 3. Did you try cleaning the drive? As you have a DOS partition to boot from, I can suggest an alternative to a boot floppy that I think you will be much happier with in the long run. You need the program loadlin.exe (available from the tools directory of a Debian archive, and with the 1997-06-06 disk set) and the kernel image named linux on the rescue disk. Copy them both to a subdirectory on the DOS partition, boot the dos partition, and cd to that subdirectory. You can now type: loadlin linux root=/dev/hda2 rw and your new system will boot up. You can incorporate this functionality into the menu system available in config.sys and execute the above command in the proper section of autoexec.bat so that either the DOS and the Linux systems can be chosen at boot time. Luck, Dwarf -- _-_-_-_-_-_- _-_-_-_-_-_-_- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 656-9769 Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tallahassee, FL 32308 _-_-_-_-_-_- If you don't see what you want, just ask _-_-_-_-_-_-_- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Are spammers subscibing to the lists?
Seems like the incoming spam has picked up, although I haven't been on usenet for weeks. Makes me wonder if we have a spammer subscribed to the lists just to collect email addresses. Anybody else with the same problem? +--+ + Paul Wade Greenbush Technologies Corporation + + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.greenbush.com/ + +--+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Are spammers subscibing to the lists?
Seems like the incoming spam has picked up, although I haven't been on usenet for weeks. Makes me wonder if we have a spammer subscribed to the lists just to collect email addresses. Anybody else with the same problem? I've been spammed like crazy after going on Usenet on an unprotected account. By that I mean, that I had my e-mail address in the From: and Reply-to: fields. To go around this you can put a blank space (leandro @ifront.com for example). At least in the mailing lists like this one there isn't that much of a worry for spamming =) Perhaps we could have that the mail program checks the domain from where the mail is coming from, and if the domain is invalid it rejects the mail. Leandro+ ___ Leandro Asnaghi-Nicastro (LA672) Assistant to the Editor and Localization, GAMESMANIA Internet Frontier Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (416) 656-2659 Fax: (416) 656-0863 There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment...You had to live--did live, from habit that became instinct--in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized. --From George Orwell's 1984 ZimID 46B98555 1993/12/15 0D 6E 96 68 D6 B3 9A 96 20 ED 1F AF 11 46 13 79 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Can't deinstall package
Hi, I just read about this. I think that the best thing to do at the moment is to remove mention of the package from /var/lib/dpkg/status. Look at the files mentioned in /var/lib/dpkg/kernel-source-1.99.7.list, and make sure that they are gone. Also remove /usr/src/linux; if you are going to use kernel-source packages it is a good idea to let /usr/src/linux be a symbolic link managed by the kernel-source packages (unpack your copies of unpstream sources in some other directory, I either use /tmp/linux or /usr/src/linux-2.0.30). kernel source packages unpack into /usr/src/kernel-source-X.XX and change the symbolic link to point at the latest kernel source (allowing for multiple source trees). If you have multiple sources installed, it does the right thing if you dpkg --remove new source packages, making sure that .usr.src.linux always points to a valid directory (until you remove the last source tree, that is). I'm sorry for the trouble you have experienced. manoj -- ... cost consciousness and sophisticated design are basically incompatible. Richard F. Moore Manoj Srivastava url:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Mobile, Alabama USAurl:http://www.datasync.com/%7Esrivasta/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Are spammers subscibing to the lists?
On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Leandro Asnaghi-Nicastro wrote: Seems like the incoming spam has picked up, although I haven't been on usenet for weeks. Makes me wonder if we have a spammer subscribed to the lists just to collect email addresses. Anybody else with the same problem? I've been spammed like crazy after going on Usenet on an unprotected account. By that I mean, that I had my e-mail address in the From: and Reply-to: fields. To go around this you can put a blank space (leandro @ifront.com for example). I don't like to do that. It makes it inconvenient for people to reply. Besides, name mangling (paulwadeATgreenbushDOTcom) is a form of surrender to the abusers. I use traceroute and then abuse.net to file complaints. Perhaps we could have that the mail program checks the domain from where the mail is coming from, and if the domain is invalid it rejects the mail. That gets complicated because many people are at the mercy of a technically challenged ISP. It would be great if everyone could get a static IP with DNS. Besides, anybody can subscribe to the list and never post a thing. Then they just extract addresses from the messages that pass through. A list server that requires a password somewhere in the message and removes it before remailing would be nice. Another spam generator is people using my domain names in false addresses on usenet. I would need a program that scans 19000 newsgroups for domain names in order to catch these people. They usually do this in the porno groups and the email volume is high as a result. +--+ + Paul Wade Greenbush Technologies Corporation + + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.greenbush.com/ + +--+ + http://www.greenbush.com/cds.html Special Linux CD offer + +--+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Are spammers subscibing to the lists?
Paul Wade wrote: Seems like the incoming spam has picked up, although I haven't been on usenet for weeks. Makes me wonder if we have a spammer subscribed to the lists just to collect email addresses. Anybody else with the same problem? Talking of spam - Have you folks ever wondered how they never want to sell anything that is worth buying? All the spam that I have got seem to belong to one of the following categories - * Make money fast (rehash of the old pyramid scheme) * Advertise your site in a gazillion search engine for pennies * Scantily clad persons are waiting for me to visit their pages. * 10,000 fresh email addresses are available for 19.95 (this should be the spam equivalent of recursion ;-) If people are going to spam me, why don't they ever sell books, s/w, h/w for cheap? Sudhakar -- Sudhakar Chandrasekharan(415) 937-2354 (O) International Web Engineer Type of Guy (415) 940-1896 (H) http://home.netscape.com/people/thaths/ smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: Are spammers subscibing to the lists?
I've thought the same thing. I've _never_ posted to USENET from this machine (maybe once in February!), so it has to be either someone I know or this list that's let the spammers get my name! Still, they'd only get the names of those who are brave enough to post to the list, as I understand it. John Foster On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Paul Wade wrote: Seems like the incoming spam has picked up, although I haven't been on usenet for weeks. Makes me wonder if we have a spammer subscribed to the lists just to collect email addresses. Anybody else with the same problem? +--+ + Paul Wade Greenbush Technologies Corporation + + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.greenbush.com/ + +--+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Are spammers subscibing to the lists?
It looks as if someone is trolling the Debian mailing lists and spamming their subscribers. The spammer may be getting them via the news gateway. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Are spammers subscibing to the lists?
That gets complicated because many people are at the mercy of a technically challenged ISP. It would be great if everyone could get a static IP with DNS. OK, so I'm technically challenged! How do I put 1200 clients in 2 C class networks with static IPs? Jon Foster -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Apache problems with 1.2-1.3 upgrade
Ted == Ted Okada [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ted 1. You indicated the home directory to be /home/www-data Apache Ted recommends /var/www ... I let Apache use /home/www-data ... In Ted fact, I understand what happened. I was using /var/www and Ted instead of user www- data, I used user www with /var/www as the Ted home directory. What would you recommend given new packages? Ted Should I symlink /var/www with /home/www-data? In general, with Ted regards to where Debian is going and for future upgrades of Ted Apache, what should the strategy be for location to place web Ted data? The historic place for the Debian Apache document root is /home/www-data/webspace. The other webserver packages used different conventions, and for 1.3 it was decided to standardize on /var/www as a default. But this is only a default -- the administrator can always change this afterwards. With apache in particular, only /etc/apache/httpd.conf is hardwired; the locations of everything else can be configured from commands in that. The preinst script should have added /var/www instead of /home/www-data -- its a Bug symptomatic of its antiquity. :-) Personally I still have my site in /home/www-data/webspace -- it makes it easier to backup, and the parent /home/www-data stuff can be used for other webserver-related stuff, like other virtual domains. Ted 2. During the configuration of apache and apache-modules, there Ted were configuration scripts... Do you know where these scripts are Ted so I can run these scripts later to both configure apache as well Ted as configure which apache modules to load? I'm sorry for this Ted newbie question... All config scripts are stored in /var/lib/dpkg/info, named apache.preinst, apache.postinst, etc. The apache.postinst is what you are thinking of, but really all it does is call the apacheconfig program (which you can run at any time). If you already have the user and group www-data set up, really you don't need the scripts at all. Just copy over the three config files in /etc/apache -- httpd.conf, access.conf, and srm.conf -- and start apache with /etc/init.d/apache start. ~ mm mm Johnie Ingram, Network Technician mm mm Research Development Dept., The Library Network m m m 33030 Van Born Road, Wayne, MI 48141 +1 313 326 8910 x144 mm mm GO BLUE PGP E4 70 6E 59 80 6A F5 78 63 32 BC FB 7A 08 53 4C You must realize that the computer has it in for you. The irrefutable proof of this is that the computer always does what you tell it to do. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Are spammers subscibing to the lists?
OK, so I'm technically challenged! How do I put 1200 clients in 2 C class networks with static IPs? Are these all unix stations or are some of these Win95/NT if the latter of the two you can buy a product from Bay Networks that lets you use IPX for 50 stations to one IP number it seems to work OK for alot of people.. Otherwise you have to get another 2 class C's. --Matt -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Are spammers subscibing to the lists?
PW == Paul Wade [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PW Seems like the incoming spam has picked up, although I haven't PW been on usenet for weeks. Makes me wonder if we have a spammer PW subscribed to the lists just to collect email addresses. Anybody PW else with the same problem? Here in Munich there is a debian-user to newsgroup (muc.lists.debian.user) gateway. Maybe there are some other gateways out there too. -- Emilio C. Lopes mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Are spammers subscibing to the lists?
PW == Paul Wade [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PW A list server that requires a password somewhere in the message PW and removes it before remailing would be nice. Maybe a just header. Each reader of this list had to setup it just once in their mailreaders and forget it. -- Emilio C. Lopes mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Are spammers subscibing to the lists?
On Thu, 19 Jun 1997, John Foster wrote: That gets complicated because many people are at the mercy of a technically challenged ISP. It would be great if everyone could get a static IP with DNS. OK, so I'm technically challenged! How do I put 1200 clients in 2 C class networks with static IPs? That doesn't make you dumb, but it is a handicap because the national providers don't want to give the numbers to the local ISP. I have configured Linux boxes with multiport cards to assign the IP when the user is logged in. The ISP that I did it for still had a problem with his original lines (Cisco router and NT Tacacs authentication). Goes to show that Linux systems are better than those ready-made boxes. +--+ + Paul Wade Greenbush Technologies Corporation + + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.greenbush.com/ + +--+ + http://www.greenbush.com/cds.html Special Linux CD offer + +--+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
The technically challenged WAS Re: Are spammers subscibing to the lists?
On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, M BAILEY wrote: OK, so I'm technically challenged! How do I put 1200 clients in 2 C class networks with static IPs? Are these all unix stations or are some of these Win95/NT if the latter of the two you can buy a product from Bay Networks that lets you use IPX for 50 stations to one IP number it seems to work OK for alot of people.. Otherwise you have to get another 2 class C's. Ah so this is a new maening of technically challenged that I've never met before! John F. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Are spammers subscibing to the lists?
On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: Talking of spam - Have you folks ever wondered how they never want to sell anything that is worth buying? All the spam that I have got seem to belong to one of the following categories - * Make money fast (rehash of the old pyramid scheme) * Advertise your site in a gazillion search engine for pennies * Scantily clad persons are waiting for me to visit their pages. * 10,000 fresh email addresses are available for 19.95 (this should be the spam equivalent of recursion ;-) Dear debian users, I am looking for a way to make money fast while advertising my website in all the search engines. Hopefully, scantily clad persons are waiting to sell me thousands of email addresses. Serious replies only. Please, no spam. Seriously, I think they are fishing in the wrong place for idiots. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Are spammers subscibing to the lists?
On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Paul Wade wrote: Seriously, I think they are fishing in the wrong place for idiots. The snagg rate can be very low and still be very profitable when the cost of doing business is being paid by others. Doesn't matter how small that percentage is, given enough spam the return is sufficient to appear profitable. Later, Dwarf -- _-_-_-_-_-_- _-_-_-_-_-_-_- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 656-9769 Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tallahassee, FL 32308 _-_-_-_-_-_- If you don't see what you want, just ask _-_-_-_-_-_-_- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Are spammers subscibing to the lists?
On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Paul Wade wrote:
Seriously, I think they are fishing in the wrong place for idiots.
The snagg rate can be very low and still be very profitable when the
cost of doing business is being paid by others. Doesn't matter how small
that percentage is, given enough spam the return is sufficient to appear
profitable.
So, how about making everybody who wants to subscribe to debian-user
sign some statement that they will never by anything from spammers, ever?
Seriously, though: Is there a way (with procmail or other) that
I can automatically forward all email with non-existant
Reply-To: addresses to /dev/null? That would probably halve the
amount of spam I get.
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Re: Are spammers subscibing to the lists?
On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote: On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Paul Wade wrote: Seriously, I think they are fishing in the wrong place for idiots. The snagg rate can be very low and still be very profitable when the cost of doing business is being paid by others. Doesn't matter how small that percentage is, given enough spam the return is sufficient to appear profitable. The easiest victims are those who partied hard the day before and aren't thinking clearly. Hope you had a happy birthday, Dale! +--+ + Paul Wade Greenbush Technologies Corporation + + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.greenbush.com/ + +--+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
How to deliver mail over the modem
I'll try this again, i have as yet been unable to post to this list. I have smail delivering local mail, i have fetchmail getting mail from my pop account. How do i get outgoing mail to be delivered when i dial up? what is the best program to use? Do i have to change anything in pines config? As well what works best to sort mail? Is there also something that will rip stuff off the subject line? I subscribe to a list that has [header:10293] attached to every message so that messages don't get threaded. Any info about the best newsfeed program for a slow link? TIA, johannes martinez -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Are spammers subscibing to the lists?
Seriously, though: Is there a way (with procmail or other) that I can automatically forward all email with non-existant Reply-To: addresses to /dev/null? That would probably halve the amount of spam I get. You can do two things: From Abuse.net, get all the known addresses of spammers and set them in a filter. Also, you can have your mail server do an automatic check of the domain it's receiving mail from. If the mail is from [EMAIL PROTECTED] and your mail server program detects that the domain name BOY.COM doesn't exist, it can drop the mail. The unfortunate part about this is that the error would bounce to either someone else (to bad not back to the spammer) and that people who use fake domains that actually exists (I get tons from Compuserve and AOL) will still come through. My 10-user ISP works this way, and I get no spams there at all, although I am not sure how the system works (that's how it was explained to me). I have just installed Linux myself and although I am slowly converting myself to Linux from Windows 95, I have a lot to learn. I'm used at having my bed made. It crashes once in a while, but it's always made =) Perhaps the best way to get rid of spammers is to become filthy rich, so when we receive their mail, we can do a WHOIS on the website they advertise, and then send our boys to take care of them... just a dream. True, Spamming is part of the freedom and the Internet is an anarchy, with no control, but I still feel that if Spam should not stopped because we'd be interfeering with their freedom, they are interfeering my freedom (and my wallet). Leandro+ ___ Leandro Asnaghi-Nicastro (LA672) Assistant to the Editor and Localization, GAMESMANIA Internet Frontier Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (416) 656-2659 Fax: (416) 656-0863 Cynic, n.: A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. Hence the custom among the Scythians of plucking out a cynic's eyes to improve his vision. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary ZimID 46B98555 1993/12/15 0D 6E 96 68 D6 B3 9A 96 20 ED 1F AF 11 46 13 79 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
how to get apple2 deb package working?
Has anybody got this emulator working? All i get when i try and boot something is a bunch of '@' signs filling up the screen and nothing after that. I'm running 1.3, kernel 2.0.29, and have a matrox if it's pertinent. TIA, johannes martinez -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Are spammers subscibing to the lists?
On 18 Jun 1997, Emilio Lopes wrote: PW == Paul Wade [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PW A list server that requires a password somewhere in the message PW and removes it before remailing would be nice. Maybe a just header. Each reader of this list had to setup it just once in their mailreaders and forget it. That's easy for pine, but some of those who need help aren't running Debian yet. They could be using Netscape, Eudora, or whatever with another OS to do mail. +--+ + Paul Wade Greenbush Technologies Corporation + + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.greenbush.com/ + +--+ + http://www.greenbush.com/cds.html Special Linux CD offer + +--+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: The technically challenged WAS Re: Are spammers subscibing to the lists?
On Thu, 19 Jun 1997, John Foster wrote: Ah so this is a new maening of technically challenged that I've never met before! When I originally used the term, I was referring to the ISP's who don't have DNS info for their IP's at all. If they could at least make sure that reverse lookup returns something like 'modem99.spamfactory.net' it would help. They should also let their accounts know that logs are kept and all posts and messages are traceable to the account. The people who hide behind anonymous remailers and such can be dealt with if most ISP's block all messages and traffic from those IP numbers. I do think that 'technically challenged' is appropriate for some ISP's here in Maine, USA. They don't know how to setup a nameserver or block traffic. +--+ + Paul Wade Greenbush Technologies Corporation + + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.greenbush.com/ + +--+ + http://www.greenbush.com/cds.html Special Linux CD offer + +--+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ack! x has been hosed
dwarf wrote, _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 giving up. xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. I can help you with this last one. The base system doesn't create the device tty0 with the resulting above error message. Cd to /dev and run: ./MAKEDEV tty0 this helped; it also got rid of the startup messages about serial ports . . . And try again. Once the package have been installed, you can create a new configuration file by deleting the old one in /etc/X11 and then running xbase-configure. You will need xfntbase and xfnt75 installed for this to work. If you have room I highly recommend installing all of the xfnt packages, as many programs use fonts without declaring any dependence and they will fail with font errors. I now have *absolutely* no idea why this is working. What I found from diddling is: with XF86Setup, and the SVGA server, i could get into x--at 320x200 (240?). with xf86config, i couldn't get a working setup sor the S3; generally the fixed font error. switch /etc/X11/Xserver didn't help, either; still errors from the SVGA setup with the server switched. then i installed xserver-s3v --i have no idea what the relation between this and s3 is --and got an unrecognized chip errror. so i purged that, and set Xserver back to svga. voila. X at 640x480, but the virtual screen isn't any larger. for that matter, i can't even tell how many bpp this is. if it's 24, that would explain things . . . so: 1) how do i tell it what mode i'm in? 2) how do i set the default to 8? 3) for that matter, will the s3 chips do 1280x1024 under the vga16 server? All I need (care) about color for is the code hi-liting in emacs. 4) how do i figure out settings for XF86config for screen settings/sizes? I'd like 640x480,1024x728, and 800x600 on 8 bit, 640x480800x600 on 16, and 640x480 on 24 . or 640x400 on 32 if it forces me to 32. 5) do i need to sacrifice undergraduates to keep this working? and if so, to the screen, the software, or the hardware? :) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Debian over NFS
* A Debian server, with a large hard disk, with a fairly full install of Debian. * Multiple Debian client machines, with small hard disks (often 100 meg or less). I'd like to mount, at minimum, /usr from the Debian server. /usr should be mounted over NFS in read-only mode. I'm working on a similar set up. this is the first machine, and is supposed to become the server--though i'd like to keep it and make another one the server. We have mostly 4m 486's with 80 and occasionaly 200 mb drives. We've already figured to cannibalize them about 2:1, so we'll have 8m/80+ machines. What I'm thinking right now is: central server 16M, with 2 or 3 200 mb drives. Things will install onto this machine. It will export /usr by nfs the rest: 8/80 or so. These will get a minimal installation. the base installation, X, probably lyx (these are for grad students); maybe a couple of others commonly used. These will mount the server as /usr2, and usr2/bin, etc., will appear in the local paths. Also, I'm figuring to put /home on the server, so that files can be accessed from any machine. What I still need to figure out is how to have the password file downloaded regularly from the master to the little ones, and hwo to have password changes sent to it rather than the local machines. rick -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: How to deliver mail over the modem
On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Johannes Martinez wrote: I'll try this again, i have as yet been unable to post to this list. I have smail delivering local mail, i have fetchmail getting mail from my pop account. How do i get outgoing mail to be delivered when i dial up? what is the best program to use? Do i have to change anything in pines config? runq (part of smail) might do it. If pine is giving the mail to smail, then configure smail to forward it to the smtp server provided by your dialup. smailconfig calls it a smarthost. As well what works best to sort mail? Is there also something that will rip stuff off the subject line? I subscribe to a list that has [header:10293] attached to every message so that messages don't get threaded. I use procmail to put the mail directly into pine folders. A lot of people use it, so it's easier to get help. Any info about the best newsfeed program for a slow link? Someone else can answer this one. +--+ + Paul Wade Greenbush Technologies Corporation + + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.greenbush.com/ + +--+ + http://www.greenbush.com/cds.html Special Linux CD offer + +--+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: file system tools for dos
Paolo: I already have the ext2tool, it LOOKS wonderful but it has some serious problems with SCSI drives. And It doesn't talk to more than the second drive on a controller. I have a VL bus 486 dx2/66 16 MB RAM 2840 SCSI controller with a 150 MB Microp 1674 (Win 3.1, Dos6) , a Seagate ST3655N 540 MB (Win 95), and a Fujitsu M1606S 1 Gig (Linux ext2) and a EZ 135 removable - various. It won't talk to the ext2 drive. Can you help me? --David On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Paulo Ramos wrote: On Sat, 14 Jun 1997, BG Lim wrote: I'm running a dos/linux system. I remember reading that there was a tool for accessing the ext2fs from dos. Can anyone tell me where to get it? Enjoy it. BG -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Paulo - LINUX: the FREE 32 bit OS for [345]86 PC's available NOW! David B Teague | User interface copyrights software patents make [EMAIL PROTECTED] | programing a dangerous business. Ask me or [EMAIL PROTECTED] spy counter-intelligence wild porno sex gold bullion Soviet Bosnia clipper National Security Council explosion Treasury terrorist Delta Force bomb Iran Mossad data encryption munitions Serbian hydrazine ammonium nitrate fuel oil -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Are spammers subscibing to the lists?
On 18 Jun, Paul Wade wrote: Seems like the incoming spam has picked up, although I haven't been on usenet for weeks. Makes me wonder if we have a spammer subscribed to the lists just to collect email addresses. Anybody else with the same problem? I didn't have time to install a anti-spam filter yet, so look at this spam (some headers). Quite a few recipients look quite familiar. 3* Joey, Heiko and [EMAIL PROTECTED] for example. The Message-Id Header also looks strange to me. Well lets see what [EMAIL PROTECTED] thinks about this. Ciao, Martin Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-Id: Mach10 1.1 fxpromo.com -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: The technically challenged WAS Re: Are spammers subscibing to the lists?
John Foster wrote: On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, M BAILEY wrote: OK, so I'm technically challenged! How do I put 1200 clients in 2 C class networks with static IPs? Are these all unix stations or are some of these Win95/NT if the latter of the two you can buy a product from Bay Networks that lets you use IPX for 50 stations to one IP number it seems to work OK for alot of people.. Otherwise you have to get another 2 class C's. I think what Bruce meant about everyone having static IPs was not Surely each ISP can get enough addresses so that each customer could be assigned a static IP thus providing a one-to-one mapping from IP address to person, then we could easily pin-down spammers from the sendmail tracks left in the email headers. but rather, Gee, wouldn't it be nice if every person had one and only one IP so we'd have a one-to-one mapping from IP address to person, then we could easily pin-down spammers from the sendmail tracks in the headers. -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: make boot floppy problem Deb1.3
Erwin: I got this collection of errors trying to install Debian 1.1 until I changed my controller (Adaptec AHA 1542 A) which had firmware circa 1988. I suspect nobody else keeps superanuated hardware around as long as I do, but it is worth thinking about if you hardware has any age on it. You indicate that you tried various floppies. I got these errors until I used fresh high quality floppies freshly formatted in a late (for me that means post 1994) machine. I hope that others will be of further assistance. Luck! --DAvid On Wed, 18 Jun 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm experiencing problems installing Debian1.3 from scratch. I followed the Debian1.3 installation guide and opted to install with floppy disks. Everything went swiftly untill I reached the point : Make a Boot floppy After introducing an empty, formatted, write-enabled floppy and hitting enter I get the following messages: Formatting the floppy... Verifying track 0, head 0 end-request:I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 17 end-request:I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 17 Verifying track 0, head 1 end-request:I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 17 end-request:I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 32 Verifying track 0, head 0 end-request:I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 17 end-request:I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 17 Verifying track 0, head 1 end-request:I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 17 end-request:I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 32 After which the installation stops. (does not hang, goes back to menu) I tried different floppies, ... , in vain. Has it got anything to do with the way I configured the device drivers (nothing installed explicitly) or might it be a hardware problem ? I installed it together with an existing MS-DOS using fips to free space for my Linux partitions. Any help for this Linux newbie highly appreciated !! :) Thanks a lot, --Erwin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . - LINUX: the FREE 32 bit OS for [345]86 PC's available NOW! David B Teague | User interface copyrights software patents make [EMAIL PROTECTED] | programing a dangerous business. Ask me or [EMAIL PROTECTED] spy counter-intelligence wild porno sex gold bullion Soviet Bosnia clipper National Security Council explosion Treasury terrorist Delta Force bomb Iran Mossad data encryption munitions Serbian hydrazine ammonium nitrate fuel oil -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
elm filters?
The package elm-me+ that I got doesn't include /usr/bin/filter. Where'd it go? --Zachary -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
