Re: What would you do?
Jim, I have a very similar setup. I have a Linux box and a Macintosh connected at home via ethernet. I would strongly recommend that you have the modem connected to the Linux box and then use it as a network gateway. The Win95 machine can have access to the internet via IP masquerading. All but a few services can be accessed across a well setup masquerade system. Install diald and you have demand dialing every time you try to make an outgoing internet connection. Once you have it working it is very slick. The packages you need are: IP masquerading compiled into the kernel pppd diald If you'll look under the HOWTO index at the Linux Documentation Project http://sunsite.unc.edu/mdw/ you'll find howto's for all of these programs. I'd be happy to help you if you get stuck, just drop me a line. Ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] Before I start loading a lot of packages on my new system I would like to describe my setup and see what my options are WRT internetworking my local network: 1 486-66 Linux box (Debian 1.2) 1 P133 Win95 box These are networked and the modem is currently attached to the Win95 box. I have a shell account and a PPP account which I currently access from the Win95 box. The Linux box is running Apache. In addition to possibly running a full time web server, I would like to be able to periodically retrieve information from the net and be able to page myself when an event occurs. What packages would I need to make the Linux box the internetworking server? Is there a good FAQ which provides an overview? Cheers, Jim -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Quotas AMD
Does anybody know how I can configure my network in order to let the users know their disk quotas? The problem is that the quota command doesn't show the quota values, it only shows them when the user is logged on the server. I'm using the AMD to mount the home directories by NFS on the clients. I've read all of documents related to quotas, but with no success... Also, I've noted that when I mount the home directories by hand (without AMD), using NFS of course, the users can see their disk quotas normaly, but I really don't know why. Please help-me. :-) Thanks in advance, Felix Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RPM to deb package conversion
According to the announcement for Debian 1.3 at the Debian web site, dpkg can now be used to install RPM files (at least that's how I read it). I upgraded to 1.3, but I don't see anything about this in the dpkg docs or man page. I tried it on an rpm file ( dpkg -i something.rpm) but it didn't work. Anybody know how to use dpkg to install rpm packages? Phil Tomson -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: fetchmail, procmail, mail reading, Gnus, XEmacs
Bob poll pop.primenet.com proto pop3 user USERNAME pass PASSWORD Try adding an `mda' line to it. Here's what I use: A different solution that will use your mail daemon is to put smtphost localhost in your .fetchmailrc defaults -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: RPM to deb package conversion
According to the announcement for Debian 1.3 at the Debian web site, dpkg can now be used to install RPM files (at least that's how I read it). I upgraded to 1.3, but I don't see anything about this in the dpkg docs or man page. I tried it on an rpm file ( dpkg -i something.rpm) but it didn't work. Anybody know how to use dpkg to install rpm packages? Yes, you have to install debian package alien from admin (it depends on package rpm so you would have to install that also). After installation the generic use of alien is the following: alien -i -n something.rpm As aresult you will get a package something.deb which you can install using dpkg -i Good luck. Alex Y. Phil Tomson -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ | _ 7 ''' \() (O O) / \ \ +---oOO--(_)+ |\ __/ -- | Alexander Yukhimets [EMAIL PROTECTED] | || | http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | ( / +-oOO---+ \ / |__|__| ) /(_ || || | (___)ooO Ooo \___) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: What would you do?
Thanks for the tips. Cheers, Jim On Thu, 19 Jun 1997, Benjamin T. White wrote: IP masquerading compiled into the kernel pppd diald If you'll look under the HOWTO index at the Linux Documentation Project http://sunsite.unc.edu/mdw/ you'll find howto's for all of these programs. I'd be happy to help you if you get stuck, just drop me a line. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Anyone has seen this before?
Hi, I got these error messages today when I was gunzipping a 115 MBytes file (pretty processor and disk intensive): scsi0: MEDIUM ERROR on channel 0, id 1, lun 0, CDB: Read (10) 00 00 30 0a fe 00 00 90 00 Current error sd08:16: sense key Medium Error Additional sense indicates Unrecovered read error scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:16, sector 290634 scsi0: MEDIUM ERROR on channel 0, id 1, lun 0, CDB: Read (10) 00 00 30 0b 66 00 00 08 00 Current error sd08:16: sense key Medium Error Additional sense indicates Unrecovered read error scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:16, sector 290634 I created the partition where the file was stored today and mke2fs -c gave no error messages. Also, today I was dumping a CD-ROM to another partition on the same SCSI disk and got several of this messages: Jun 19 11:36:11 zeus kernel: scsi0: MEDIUM ERROR on channel 0, id 6, lun 0, CDB: Read (6) 02 84 a2 26 00 Jun 19 11:36:11 zeus kernel: Current error sr0b:00: sense key Medium Error Jun 19 11:36:11 zeus kernel: Additional sense indicates L-ec uncorrectable error Jun 19 11:36:11 zeus kernel: CD-ROM I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 660128 What's happening here? Is my NCR83C510 SCSI adapter going to die or I need to trash the CD I was reading and the hard disk with bad sectors? E.- -- Eloy A. Paris Information Technology Department Rockwell Automation de Venezuela Telephone: +58-2-9432311 Fax: +58-2-9430323 -- 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? I installed smail PPP, and elm packages from Debian, and everything worked. I installed Pine tonight and Pine and the system sends mail automatically to my ISP that does its magic to get mail where ever. I didn't have to do anything special to get mail sent out, and the only thing I have to do to get mail is to run popclient (later, fetchmail). 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 really don't know about this. The only thing I have heard about is procmail which is supposed to enable witchcraft, and is widely used. Any info about the best newsfeed program for a slow link? I have heard good things about and have tried slrn, but have not got it to work. I expect it to yield if I can get an hour awake to look at it. --David - 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 Mossad data encryption munitions Serbian hydrazine National Security Council explosion Treasury terrorist Delta Force fuel-air bomb -- 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, joost witteveen wrote: 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. Most of the spam seems to come from a half a dozen or so domains. I send everything from those domains to /dev/null with procmail. Like this ( part of .procmailrc )- :0: * ^(To|From|Sender).*savetrees.com /dev/null :0: * ^(To|From|Sender).*cyberpromo.com /dev/null :0: * ^(To|From|Sender).*ispam.net /dev/null :0: * ^(To|From|Sender).*spamford.com /dev/null :0: * ^(To|From|Sender).*public.com /dev/null :0: * ^(To|From|Sender).*quantcom.com /dev/null http://www.sound.net/~wpmills/ - : W. Paul Mills : Bill, I was there several years ago. : : Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A. : Why would I want to go back tomorrow?: : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Where were you! : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Linux: Tomorrow's operating system, : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] :here, today. : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : : : compuserve 70023,1750 : #define MY_TRUE_LOVE computer: -- http://homepage.midusa.net/~wpmills/ - -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: I need help again please?
On Thu, 19 Jun 1997, Dominic Torruellas wrote: OK I've done what all you nice peaple have told me to do, I've turned of my cache cand shadow ram stuff and tried to boot off teh rescue disk, now it says non-system disk error, anyone know how I can fix this? Uh! I do not seem to remember what you are trying to do. Sounds like you are trying to boot from a floppy that contains nothing, or at least not in the right places ( boot sector ). You may need to try makeing another boot (rescue) disk. Hope this helps. If not please post more information as to your problem _as_it_stands_now_. http://www.sound.net/~wpmills/ - : W. Paul Mills : Bill, I was there several years ago. : : Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A. : Why would I want to go back tomorrow?: : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Where were you! : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Linux: Tomorrow's operating system, : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] :here, today. : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : : : compuserve 70023,1750 : #define MY_TRUE_LOVE computer: -- http://homepage.midusa.net/~wpmills/ - -- 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, Christian Hudon wrote: On Jun 18, Rick Macdonald wrote 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. Actually it's not superstition at all. I think you can still recover a file that's been overwritten once with zeroes... just open the HD (in a clean room, of course) and read off the sectors with a electron microscope (or something like that). The voltage levels will all be bellow the 'zero threshold' but they won't be all equal, and from the small variations you can recover the contents of the file before it was overwritten with zeroes. Of course, whatever was written on your hard drive must be worth quite a bit of cash (to you or to other people) for this recovery method to make sense economically. So the 'overwrite multiple times' precaution is probably overkill for the vast majority of people. I used to recover some badly trashed floppys under M$DO$ with Central Point Software PCFormat (CPS has been absorbed by Symantic/Norton). Somehow it could read and rewrite every byte on the disk. Saved some peoples hyde down at the old rubber factory. That tells me that it may be quite possible to read an overwritten disk. But multiple overwrites with varying patterns should make that impossible. http://www.sound.net/~wpmills/ - : W. Paul Mills : Bill, I was there several years ago. : : Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A. : Why would I want to go back tomorrow?: : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Where were you! : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Linux: Tomorrow's operating system, : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] :here, today. : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : : : compuserve 70023,1750 : #define MY_TRUE_LOVE computer: -- http://homepage.midusa.net/~wpmills/ - -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Mail with dynamic IP
I finally got all my tcp/ip software up and running but can't figure out what to do with mail. What software do I need for mail over POP3 and a normal e-mail account from an ISP? Is there any kind of documentation for this? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: elm filters?
On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Zachary DeAquila wrote: The package elm-me+ that I got doesn't include /usr/bin/filter. Where'd it go? --Zachary The elm package I have has it, but why use it. It really does not work well enough to be usefull. Procmail is better and really quite easy to set up once it all sinks it to the dense gray matter. There are several man pages for this procmail(1), procmailrc(5), procmailsc(5), procmailex(5). Try it, I think you will like it. http://www.sound.net/~wpmills/ - : W. Paul Mills : Bill, I was there several years ago. : : Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A. : Why would I want to go back tomorrow?: : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Where were you! : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Linux: Tomorrow's operating system, : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] :here, today. : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : : : compuserve 70023,1750 : #define MY_TRUE_LOVE computer: -- http://homepage.midusa.net/~wpmills/ - -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: upgrading from popclient to fetchmail in 1.3
On Thu, 19 Jun 1997, Bob Nielsen wrote: I recently upgraded to 1.3 and replaced popclient with fetchmail. When I try to run fetchmail, my ISP is connected and when attempting to retrieve mail, I get the error message: reading message 1 (2679 bytes) .fetchmail: SMTP connect to (null) failed fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from pop.primenet.com here is my ~/.fetchmailrc file: poll pop.primenet.com proto pop3 user USERNAME pass PASSWORD try adding _ is USERNAME here _ like this poll pop.primenet.com proto pop3 user USERNAME pass PASSWORD is USERNAME here I don't understand the smtp error message. I am using the default smail installation as my MDA. Any suggestions are appreciated. http://www.sound.net/~wpmills/ - : W. Paul Mills : Bill, I was there several years ago. : : Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A. : Why would I want to go back tomorrow?: : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Where were you! : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Linux: Tomorrow's operating system, : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] :here, today. : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : : : compuserve 70023,1750 : #define MY_TRUE_LOVE computer: -- http://homepage.midusa.net/~wpmills/ - -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: PPP with a dynamic address?
On Thu, 19 Jun 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: Try using the loopback 127.0.0.1 in /etc/hosts. Pppd will run ip-up and ip-down scripts for you, so that you can figure out the IP number and broadcast it to some outside site that you would like to be able to call you back. Several suggestions have indicated that 0.0.0.0 be used for a dummy full name. I guess my question at this point is, What purpose is served by the line: 199.44.34.24dwarf.polaris.net dwarf in /etc/hosts? If I don't need such a line when dynamic IPs are used, why do I need one when it is a static IP? Thanks, 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: upgrading from popclient to fetchmail in 1.3
I recently upgraded to 1.3 and replaced popclient with fetchmail. When I try to run fetchmail, my ISP is connected and when attempting to retrieve mail, I get the error message: reading message 1 (2679 bytes) .fetchmail: SMTP connect to (null) failed fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from pop.primenet.com here is my ~/.fetchmailrc file: poll pop.primenet.com proto pop3 user USERNAME pass PASSWORD Is your local login name nielsen? If not, you will need to tell fetchmail what user to deliver the mail to. My ISP login is robmacw and my local login is rob, so you probably need to change your something like mine: poll mail.cl-sys.com proto pop3: user robmacw, with password notonyourlife is rob here and wants mda /usr/bin/procmail -f -; The stuff after the and is probably unecessary until you get fetchmail working. Try it out. If you need more help, just ask. Later Rob I don't understand the smtp error message. I am using the default smail installation as my MDA. Any suggestions are appreciated. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AX.25:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine. Rob MacWilliams [EMAIL PROTECTED] N9NPU -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RE: PPP with a dynamic address?
Hi, You just need to have 127.0.0.1 MyBox localhost And you don't need 0.0.0, or at least I havn't had a problem without one.:) David On 19-Jun-97 Dale Scheetz wrote: My ppp connection is to an ISP that is willing to provide me with a static IP address, allowing me to be the same address every time I connect. I have been asked by a friend to help set up his machine for ppp, but his ISP will only provide a dynamic IP address. I am a bit confused about how to deal with the entry in /etc/hosts. For the system to work properly, is it necessary to update this file every time a connection is made? I haven't tried anything yet. I'm just trying to understand what I need to do, so I will not look like a total idiot ;-) Any pointers appreciated, 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] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: fetchmail, procmail, mail reading, Gnus, XEmacs
On 19 Jun 1997, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: Bob here is my ~/.fetchmailrc file: Bob poll pop.primenet.com proto pop3 user USERNAME pass PASSWORD Try adding an `mda' line to it. Here's what I use: poll mail.provider.com protocol pop3 username myusername password MYPASSWD mda formail -s procmail Thanks, that worked. Other suggestions I received were: --- try adding _ is USERNAME here _ like this poll pop.primenet.com proto pop3 user USERNAME pass PASSWORD is USERNAME here A different solution that will use your mail daemon is to put smtphost localhost in your .fetchmailrc defaults -- Neither of these helped, but thanks all for the suggestions. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AX.25:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: PPP with a dynamic address?
Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Several suggestions have indicated that 0.0.0.0 be used for a dummy full name. I guess my question at this point is, What purpose is served by the line: 199.44.34.24dwarf.polaris.net dwarf in /etc/hosts? If I don't need such a line when dynamic IPs are used, why do I need one when it is a static IP? Hmm. I thought he was suggesting that you use sed or something to edit the 0.0.0.0 to the correct value at runtime. I didn't know 0.0.0.0 would be acceptable, and I've found that hostname hacks, if this is one, can fail from version to version of the kernel/resolver. Specifically, some programs can be very particular about entries in /etc/hosts; sendmail, rlogind, and lprng come to mind. I've had trouble at one time or another with each of these as a result of dynamic-ip's and/or masquerading. I haven't taken the time to make sure I've gotten everything exactly right -- I've just tended to to fix the problems as they crop up. -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
(fwd) Re: Is Debian linux part of Microsoft? (fwd)
Slightly off topic .. but is still just as important. I saw this post in the comp.os.linux.advocacy newsgroup and it was something that I personally feel that others should look at. Mail the Developers since this post was directed somewhat towards them. Chad D. Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dabcc-www.nmsu.edu/~chad/ In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ben Bullock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... The last time I looked at anything done by Debian linux was the Debian patch for gmp, the Gnu multiple precision library. I found a mistake within one minute of looking at it. This mistake had been introduced by one Mr. Ian Jackson of Cambridge university. I did report his mistake to him, but he didn't reply. I get an awful lot of mail, as you might expect. I don't remember seeing a message from you. Could you please tell me when you sent me this message, and from what email address ? The Message-ID would be useful too. I do not delete mail sent to me personally (as opposed to that sent to a mailing list or from cron), so I will have a copy of it somewhere, but I need to know where to look. If you still have a copy I'd appreciate it if you would post it here. Others have pointed out that the Debian Project have a bug tracking system which will ensure that bug reports do not get lost even if developers happen to miss or lose the email in question. The Project would like you to submit your bug reports there. I agree that is very odd indeed that no-one else on ucam.comp.linux (my local newsgroup about linux where followups to this message are directed) ever has any problems at all with Debian linux. Even when I point out exactly where the bug is, in great detail, I still get hordes of foaming-at-the-mouth loonies shouting at me and blaming my incompetence for everything. This is odd. Suffice it to say that those of us on this newsgroup who read your postings have a different view of the matter. What could possibly explain this phenomenon, apart from widespread mental illness? I note that Bill Gates lately said that he regards free software as one of his biggest competitors, and further note that he is planning to give Cambridge university large quantities of money. I wonder how much money Ian Jackson and his fellow Debian developers such as Peter Benie and Martin Hardcastle are going to get from Bill Gates by distributing their mangled versions of free software packages and thus putting people off free software for life? Please retract this libellous allegation immediately. If you do not do so I shall contact your postmaster and/or take legal action against you (and/or them, if they fail to act appropriately). -- Ian Jackson personal email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] These opinions are my own.http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ijackson/ PGP2 public key id 0x23f5addb, fingerprint 5906F687 BD03ACAD 0D8E602E FCF37657 -- Chad D. Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dabcc-www.nmsu.edu/~chad/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: How to install when a Boot Manager is peresent?
Kharaghani, Ali [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am trying to install Debian OS on my PC. I have two other OSes on my computer with a boot manager (OS/2). How can I install Debian safely? Well, on my similar system I installed LOADLIN on my DOS partition, and just boot DOS, then run LINUX.BAT. Boot floppies also work. You can install LILO in the Linux partition, then add it to the Boot Manager menu, but I can't because the partition is up above cylinder 1024 and can't be booted. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum http://dm.net -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Quotas AMD
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Does anybody know how I can configure my network in order to let the
users know their disk quotas? The problem is that the quota command
doesn't show the quota values, it only shows them when the user is logged
on the server.
You need to run the rquotad on the server to be able to query quotas for
NFS-mounted filesystems. I patched /etc/init.d/quota to run rpc.rquotad if you
export filesystems and at the same time some filesystems have quotas. I don't
check, though, that set of exported filesystems and the set of filesystems with
quotas have a non-empty intersection.
Cheers,
Lukas
---
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Apdo. Postal 20-364 | Tel.: +52 5 622 5166
01000 Mexico D.F., MEXICO| Fax: +52 5 622 5015
#! /bin/sh
#
# Patched by Lukas Nellen [EMAIL PROTECTED] to check if it might
# be a good idea to run `rquotad'.
# The regular expression for grepping /etc/exports to check if we are an
# NFS-server is shamelessly stolen from netstd_nfs.
RQUOTAD=/usr/sbin/rpc.rquotad
case $1 in
start)
# Check quotas.
if [ -x /usr/sbin/quotacheck ]
then
echo -n 'Checking quotas: ';
/usr/sbin/quotacheck -a -ug
echo 'Done'
fi
# Turn quotas on.
if [ -x /usr/sbin/quotaon ]
then
echo 'Turning on quotas';
/usr/sbin/quotaon -aug
fi
# Start rpc.rquotad
if [ -x $RQUOTAD ] \
grep -q '^[^#]*quota' /etc/fstab \
grep -q '^/' /etc/exports
then
echo 'Starting rquotad.'
start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec $RQUOTAD
fi
;;
stop)
if [ -x /usr/sbin/quotaoff ]
then
echo Turning off quotas
/usr/sbin/quotaoff -a
fi
start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --oknodo --exec $RQUOTAD
;;
*)
echo Usage: /etc/init.d/quota {start|stop}
exit 1
esac
exit 0
bizarre netscape behavior
I've now had this happen twice. When i install netscape, it works. The next day, however, i get a message that I have 3.00 resources instead of 3.01. Do i need a daily install? :)There has never been any other netscape on this installation; just the *deb file from unstable, and the *tgz file from netscape -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
How do i access drives?
Im new to Linux and i was wondering how to access the floppy drive... I also have windows95 running on another hard drive and i need to know how to access files off of that hard drive. Help? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: BIG NetScape Bug!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 (fwd)
Let's not over-react, please. This bug *only* allows people to see files that the user running Netscape has access to, and *only* if it already knows the names of these files. On a Debian 1.3 machine, which uses shadow passwords, essentially the only thing that would be of use for people would be files in your home directory. And since there are no predictable patterns for these files, it would be difficult to construct a web page that would cause serious harm. George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Better take this SERIOUSLY folks, it is a VERY big bug ... major security hole. It allows a server to see EVERYTHING on the client filesystem. George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 21:06:45 -0500 From: Francisco Benavides [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: BIG NetScape Bug1 Hi, A HUGE flaw was uncovered in the new NetScape, for more details: http://cnnfn.com/digitaljam/9706/12/netscape_pkg/ Bye/Francisco :) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- John Goerzen | Running Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Will ATI 3D Rage chips work with XFree86?
FYI, I am running an ATI 3D Pro Turbo PC2TV 8meg card (3D Rage II-based) and it works very nicely (although the TV output doesn't yet work under Linux.) Raja R Harinath [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Michael Tempsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 15 May, Rick Macdonald wrote: Re: R. Chris Ross wrote: Re: I wondered if the D3 Rage chip set boards would work with Re: XFree86. They are supposed to be quite hot and someone offered to Re: trade me a Wincharge for one even up. Re: Re: Maybe I should grab the new 3D GPT once the chipset is supported in Re: XFree? If my memories are correctl then the 3D Rage _is_ supported in XFree 3.2 and the 3D Rage II in XFree 3.2A... From the XFree86[tm] 3.3 Release Notes: 3.11 Mach64 server o Support for 3D Rage II based Mach64 cards is included. o Various problems with support for some revisions of CT, VT and GT chipsets have been fixed. o It is strongly recommended that all users with CT, VT, GT and 3D Rage II based Mach64 cards upgrade to the 3.3 release due to the problems that were fixed. 3.2A is not available as a .deb package, but I've seen several reports of people simply replacing the Mach64 Xserver binary from 3.2 with the one from 3.2A. Haven't tried this myself, but did do a similar thing under Slackware last fall (3.1.2-3.1.2F) so it'd seem reasonable... XFree86 3.3 should be available in `unstable' real soon now, as soon as Mark Eichin feels it's right. - Hari -- Raja R Harinath -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] When all else fails, read the instructions. -- Cahn's Axiom Our policy is, when in doubt, do the right thing. -- Roy L Ash -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- John Goerzen | Running Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: BIG NetScape Bug!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 (fwd)
My concern was for someone running Netscape as root. Also, systems earlier than 1.3 are not likely to have shadow installed but I know that some might. And thirdly, since the linux versions that have been released are unsupported, it is possible that there will not be patched releases of the earlier versions. This concenrs me if the exploit is made public after the patched release of the supported versions. 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: How do i access drives?
Im new to Linux and i was wondering how to access the floppy drive... I also have windows95 running on another hard drive and i need to know how to access files off of that hard drive. Help? There is a very usefull command mount (check out man mount) To access device (floppy drive, hard drive) you have to mount them at some point -- empty directory (called mount point). In Debian the mount point for floppy drive is just /floppy, you can create directory like /dos for mounting win95 drive. After that you just execute as *root* : mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy after that you can just cd /floppy and do whatever you want. Dont forget to unmount it! cd to somwhere out of the /floppy and execute: umount /floppy ^-- not a misprint! For hard drive you would have to do something similar: mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /win ^ substitute for the correct device of your drive Alex Y. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ | _ 7 ''' \() (O O) / \ \ +---oOO--(_)+ |\ __/ -- | Alexander Yukhimets [EMAIL PROTECTED] | || | http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | ( / +-oOO---+ \ / |__|__| ) /(_ || || | (___)ooO Ooo \___) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: BIG NetScape Bug!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 (fwd)
On Thu, 19 Jun 1997, George Bonser wrote: My concern was for someone running Netscape as root. Well, I assumed this was common sense, but people shouldnt really be using netscape as root (at least not to surf the web). Just off the top of my head, I cant think of any reason one would *need* to. Maybe I overlooked some use? Root should really only be used to do specific administration tasks. Unprivilaged users should be used for day to day stuff. 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] \_\/ pgpZxsCbIfQYJ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: BIG NetScape Bug!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 (fwd)
Well, I assumed this was common sense, but people shouldnt really be using netscape as root (at least not to surf the web). Just off the top of my head, I cant think of any reason one would *need* to. Maybe I overlooked some use? Root should really only be used to do specific administration tasks. Unprivilaged users should be used for day to day stuff. Absolutely correct but I see a lot of newbies using root. 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: black hole #
On Jun 19, Samuel J. MacDowell wrote Ave ! When installing the kernel-source-2.0.27.deb dpkg complain about something was break. Now when I try 'dselect' to remove it I get the following message: dpkg: error processing kernel-source-2.0.27 (--remove) Package is in a very ban inconsistent state You should reinstall ... Well, how can I scape from this vicious circle ? Hi, try: dpkg --force-remove-reinstreq package From the manpage: Remove a package, even if it's broken and marked to require reinstallation. This may, for example, cause parts of the package to remain on the system, which will then be forgotten by dpkg. Greetings, Christian -- Christian Meder, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What's the railroad to me ? I never go to see Where it ends. It fills a few hollows, And makes banks for the swallows, It sets the sand a-blowing, And the blackberries a-growing. (Henry David Thoreau) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: BIG NetScape Bug!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 (fwd)
Well, I assumed this was common sense, but people shouldnt really be using netscape as root (at least not to surf the web). Just off the top of my head, I cant think of any reason one would *need* to. Maybe I overlooked some use? I use a browser as root to check whats happening with my router, using mrtg (which isn't a debian package). But I'm **very** careful! Root should really only be used to do specific administration tasks. Unprivilaged users should be used for day to day stuff. There's not much you can't do with groups and permissions set right. John Foster -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
netatalk error: atalkd socket: Invalid argument
Hi, After upgrading the Linux server in our Macintosh network to Debian 1.3, the atalkd daemon in netatalk won't load, but returns the error: socket: Invalid argument AppleTalk worked fine before. Anyone else seen/fixed this? Scott -- Scott Hanson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Inter-Research Science Publisher Nordbuente 23, D-21385 Oldendorf/Luhe, Germany Tel: +49-4132-7127 Fax: +49-4132-8883http://www.int-res.com -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: man-db install script problem (chmanconfig)
On Jun 19, John M. Rulnick wrote Checking for languages ... de_DECan't locate Getopt/Long.pm in @INC at /usr/sbin/chmanconfig line 38. Hi, did you install perl ? Or did you stick with the perl which comes with the installation disks and didn't install the rest of perl ? I have dpkg -s perl Package: perl Status: install ok installed Priority: important Section: interpreters Installed-Size: 5399 Maintainer: Darren Stalder [EMAIL PROTECTED] Version: 5.003.07-10 Replaces: io Provides: io Pre-Depends: ldso (= 1.8.0-0), libc5 (= 5.4.0-0), libdb1, libgdbm1 Suggests: perl-suid, perl-debug Conflicts: io and it did succeed installing man-db. Greetings, Christian -- Christian Meder, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What's the railroad to me ? I never go to see Where it ends. It fills a few hollows, And makes banks for the swallows, It sets the sand a-blowing, And the blackberries a-growing. (Henry David Thoreau) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: How do i access drives?
Alex Yukhimets [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After that you just execute as *root* : mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy You can also use the programs in the mtools package if you just want to access dos disks. You will also need to add yourself to the floppy group (see man adduser) first. -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Netscape bug: Newbies using root
I agree that nobody shoudl be using root. But for newbies its hard having to learn Unix adn system admin at the same time. By using root, you avoid all the 'Permission denied' messages. BG -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: man-db install script problem (chmanconfig)
The problem is that the script needs Long.pm, which (I think), is a Perl script. Install Perl from interpreters and it should be fine. I think this is a bug, because perl is big and not many people esp newbies want it or need it, just to install man, which shoudl be the first thing any newbie installs. I emailed the maintainer but has not got a response. BG -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: How do i access drives?
Alex Yukhimets [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After that you just execute as *root* : mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy You can also use the programs in the mtools package if you just want to access dos disks. You will also need to add yourself to the floppy group (see man adduser) first. Even if you don't want to use the mtools package (e.g., because it will not let any ordinary unix programs use the floppy), you don't need to be root to use the floppy. As root just add an entry to your /etc/fstab file like /dev/fd0/floppy msdos umask=000,user,noauto 0 0 this will allow any user to mount the floppy (with 'mount /floppy') or unmount it (typing 'umount /floppy'), and read from it and write to it. If you want to restrict the write access to group floppy, look up the group number of floppy in /etc/group (in my case it's 25), and use /dev/fd0/floppy msdos umask=002,gid=25,user,noauto 0 0 Eric Meijer -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 40 2472189 Eindhoven Univ. of Technology | tel. lab. +31 40 2475032 Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (TAK) | tel. fax+31 40 2455054 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Netscape bug: Newbies using root
On Jun 20, BG Lim wrote I agree that nobody shoudl be using root. But for newbies its hard having to learn Unix adn system admin at the same time. By using root, you avoid all the 'Permission denied' messages. For some months after I got Linux installed until I knew better, I had my own account (graham) with a UID of 0, because I wanted to poke around the system. My experience is far from rare. That doesn't make it any more justified to do, however. -- Graham Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIME PGP mail OK. (define pgp-fingerprint E9 B7 5F A0 F8 88 9E 1E 7C 62 D9 88 E1 03 29 5B) (require 'stddisclaim) pgpPS8po4VnS5.pgp Description: PGP signature
accessing filesystems...again
My installation is supposed to be the latest release of Debian..(1.3) The Dos partition that Windows95 is on is a totally different hard disk and is the first hard drive. I looked in my linux directory (all over the system) but found no dos dir. Did i screw up with installation? How can i fix it so that i can see my files in my dos partition? I think i am missing something important here .. Thankz -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: accessing filesystems...again
My installation is supposed to be the latest release of Debian..(1.3) The Dos partition that Windows95 is on is a totally different hard disk and is the first hard drive. I looked in my linux directory (all over the system) but found no dos dir. Did i screw up with installation? How can i fix it so that i can see my files in my dos partition? I think i am missing something important here .. Thankz No you didn't screw up. I believe there's no default directory for mounting DOS/Win file systems. You have to make one yourself. First you have to find what device your dos partion is. Become root and type fdisk -l This may take some time because it tries to access a number of disks that may not exist. On my machine this gives: # fdisk -l Disk /dev/hda: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 1023 cylinders Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 bytes Device Boot BeginStart End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 *11 260 524128+ 6 DOS 16-bit =32M /dev/hda2 261 261 1023 15382085 Extended /dev/hda5 261 261 514 512032+ 6 DOS 16-bit =32M /dev/hda6 515 515 53032224+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hda7 531 531 1023 993856+ 83 Linux native You can see that I have two DOS partitions: one on /dev/hda1 and one on /dev/hda5. To mount them I made two directories in /dosc, and /dosd. You can use any name you like, in your case (1 partition) /dos may be a good idea. Now you have to make the file systems known to linux. I added the following lines to my /etc/fstab: /dev/hda1 /doscvfatumask=002,gid=100 0 0 /dev/hda5 /dosdvfatumask=002,gid=100 0 0 This makes all files readable, writable and executable by everyone in group 100, which is `users' on my system (see the file /etc/group). After you added a similar line to to /etc/fstab, your system will automatically mount your windows partition at boot time. To mount it now, type mount -a See 'man mount' for the meaning of the options umask=002,gid=100, and for other options. Hope this helps, Eric -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 40 2472189 Eindhoven Univ. of Technology | tel. lab. +31 40 2475032 Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (TAK) | tel. fax+31 40 2455054 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Mail with dynamic IP
Carl Flippin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I finally got all my tcp/ip software up and running but can't figure out what to do with mail. What software do I need for mail over POP3 and a normal e-mail account from an ISP? Is there any kind of documentation for this? Some of it's covered in the ISP-Hookup HOWTO, although I think Debian's packages are probably slightly different. It refers you to some other documents. For POP3, use fetchmail. There's a Debian package. For outgoing mail, use smail with a smarthost and runq to send it, or similar methods with sendmail, exim, or qmail and serialmail. -- Carey Evans * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Our mail program accidentally deleted our remove list. - Real quote from UCE -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: TeTex-Problems
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Gernot wrote: Have you tried to run texconfig? Yup. It seems to quit normally, but when I use script I get some error-messages: kpsetool: texmf.cnf not found. texhash: global Kpathsea configurarion file texmf.cnf not found. texconfig has found the folloving environment variables set: texconfig has found the folloving environment variables set: /usr/bin/texconfig: /tmp/texconf186/logfile: No such file or directory Hmmm again ??? It appears your teTeX installation is severely damaged. Try to purge it and reinstall it. Nils - -- \ /| Nils Rennebarth --* WINDOWS 42 *-- | Schillerstr. 61 / \| 37083 Göttingen | ++49-551-71626 Micro$oft's final answer | http://www.nus.de/~nils -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv iQB1AwUBM6pb0VptA0IhBm0NAQG35QL7Bxc1/GBVOrt1QdKi6I7wd48uQeQeu6Qi POW+espjnVL3z6ymwTWh3T4fAKZGkOUtCScrL1mDReAkrxgozVDDoXkG8zH/WgV/ 9z0OCWUm7yXyKdXPs2cf6YKImx28vTt6 =PQna -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Mail Archives Stopped?
I am a relatively new subscriber to this list. For the 1st week or two it appeared to be archived once a day. It has now been more than a week since the archives accessible through www.debian.org have been updated. Is something wrong or is this normal? Thanks. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: BIG NetScape Bug!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 (fwd)
On 19 Jun 1997, John Goerzen wrote: Let's not over-react, please. This bug *only* allows people to see files that the user running Netscape has access to, and *only* if it already knows the names of these files. On a Debian 1.3 machine, which uses shadow passwords, essentially the only thing that would be of use for people would be files in your home directory. And since there are no predictable patterns for these files, it would be difficult to construct a web page that would cause serious harm. NT and Win95 users are at risk since the OS is typically loaded into the default directories and files such as those containing passwords are susceptible to being accessed. Recommendation from NS is to turn off Java Script and set the warn of sending secure data option until the patched versions are released. Cheers, Jim -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Boot linux from two linux partition
Hi! Hmmm. I'm not exactly new to Linux, though I feel like it sometimes, and I had trouble with almost this exact problem. I was trying to do Debian 1.2 and Debian 1.3 rather than Red Hat and Debian 1.3, and I was using separate physical drives, but I think the problem is the same. The only solution I've found (I would be *very* happy to hear from someone who had a better solution) was to install LILO twice. The first copy of LILO is almost exactly the same as your setup above, with the addition of other=/dev/hda4 label=Red Hat Linux loader=/boot/chain.b The second copy of LILO is installed in the boot block of /dev/hda4 (NOT in the MBR), and just boots by default into whatever setup that copy of Linux uses. Since I experiment with new kernel versions from time to time (part of the hazards of owning a dual processor machine), I also like to keep two kernel versions available in /etc/lilo.conf, so that there is always an old, working kernel available, no matter what sort of disaster^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H jdevelopment kernel I try. That complicates the scenario, but not by much (just an additional entry in each lilo.conf). email if you'd like copies of my two lilo.conf files. Stephen Ryan Debian GNU/Linux 1.3 Mathematics graduate student, Dartmouth College Some time ago, I had Debian and Slackware (Slack on hda4 and Debian on hdb2). My approach for dual boot, for example in Debian was: /etc/lilo.conf: boot=/dev/hda compact install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map vga=normal delay=20 # ZIP drive settings append = aha152x=0x140,11,7,1 # DOS bootable partition other = /dev/hda1 label = win95 table = /dev/hda # DOS bootable partition config ends # Linux bootable partition config begins # Debian latest kernel image=/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb2 label = Debian read-only image=/mnt/slack/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda4 label = Slack read-only This means i have slackware mounted in /mnt/slack, and you have to do the same in slackware. It's not very elegant but it works! Nuno Cândido -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Quotas AMD
On Thu, 19 Jun 1997, Lukas Nellen wrote: You need to run the rquotad on the server to be able to query quotas for NFS-mounted filesystems. I patched /etc/init.d/quota to run rpc.rquotad if you export filesystems and at the same time some filesystems have quotas. I don't check, though, that set of exported filesystems and the set of filesystems with quotas have a non-empty intersection. Cheers, Lukas Ok. I know that. I'm starting rpc.rquotad in my netstd_misc script (on the server), so it is not the problem... When I mount the filesystems on the clients, via NFS too, directly in the fstab (not in AMD) the quotas are shown normaly (if I didn't have started the rpc.rquotad it won't occur). Thank you anyway. :-) Felix Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do i access drives?
Hello, To access a drive in Linux (or any other Un*x for that matter) you have to mount the device at a mount point in the existing file system. To mount my DOS partition i use this: mount /dev/hda2 /dos -t msdos ^ ^^ | |Refers to the file system type you are mounting The mount point, an empty directory in your filesystem Refers to the device being mounted. In this case the 2nd partition of the a IDE hard drive To mount the floppy drive use something like this mount /dev/fd0 /mnt -t msdos For more info read the mount(8) man page. Oh, by the way, the unmount command is umount (without the n) for some unclear reason. Ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: How do I find the source of the spammers?
The problem of relaying can be solved by restricting access to the local subnet. However, that would irritate some good customers. Suppose I am traveling with my laptop and want to read and answer my email. I don't want to pay for a toll call to the dialup because I can hook up via ethernet or my brother says 'go ahead and use my local dialup account'. There is a way to fix this for the ISP who thinks it's worth the trouble. You could set up a web page that requires a password or have them login via telnet. This would validate the IP the customer is at and you could allow in.smtp because you know who to 'counsel' if you get a spam complaint. I suppose that you could require the telnet connect to stay active in order to accept mail for relaying. They would have to switch to the telnet and hit a key within n(60?) seconds before sending or the connect to smtp would be refused. Hopping between open telnet and mailer programs is easy for Windows or Linux users. The apache approach has several possibilities. Maybe a javascript (ugh) would be sufficient to tell the server you are still valid from the IP. If somebody does this, they should share it freely. Most of the spam comes from 'borrowed' mail servers. On Fri, 20 Jun 1997, John Foster wrote: Hi, This post is probably a bit off topic, but maybe one of you can give me a pointer in the right direction. I'm looking after the servers of an ISP, and someone is using us for bulk mailouts. I get a lot of mail in postmasters mailbox about it. I can't seem to find how it's getting in though! Here's a chunk from my logs: logfile.3.gz:06/17/1997 06:42:38: [m0wdNiA-000AM5C] Failed TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ERROR:(ERR101) unknown host logfile.3.gz:06/17/1997 07:03:12: [m0wdNiA-000AM5C] Failed TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ERROR:(ERR101) unknown host logfile.3.gz:06/17/1997 07:03:13: [m0wdNiA-000AM5C] Failed TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ERROR:(ERR101) unknown host logfile.3.gz:06/17/1997 07:03:13: [m0wdNiA-000AM5C] Failed TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ERROR:(ERR101) unknown host logfile.3.gz:06/17/1997 07:03:13: [m0wdNiA-000AM5C] Failed TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ERROR:(ERR101) unknown host logfile.4.gz:06/16/1997 08:23:55: [m0wdNiA-000AM5C] Received FROM:[EMAIL PROTECTED] HOST:203.20.112.1 [199.174.230.27] PROTOCOL:smtp PROGRAM:in.smtpd ORIG-ID:[EMAIL PROTECTED] SIZE:6337 The last entry is the first reference to this piece of mail in my logs! Is it possible for someone to use their compuserve account to send mail to my daemon that instructs it to run the bulk mailout? the host 203.20.112.1 is one of my servers. If so, how do I stop it? More importantly, how can I find if it's one of the 800 clients who has an account on this server, so I can close their account and send them elsewhere? And then how do I prevent it happening again? I guess that if there's a clueful person who knows the answer to this one then they'll probably want to email me personally, so that the solution is not advertised to the spammers. Then again I guess we'd all like to know how to do this. I'm using smail from the 1.3 distribution. Perhaps I should be using another mail-daeomn. Or is there a way that I can restrict things in smail? The documentation for smail is (or was anyway) pretty woeful! This is rather urgent as I see it! John Foster System Administrator (in training!?) Net-Trek/Cynergy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . +--+ + 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: What would you do?
On Thu, 19 Jun 1997, Jim Michael wrote: Before I start loading a lot of packages on my new system I would like to describe my setup and see what my options are WRT internetworking my local network: 1 486-66 Linux box (Debian 1.2) 1 P133 Win95 box In addition to the other suggestions put samba on the Linux box. What I did was give 95 a different IP and machine name than Linux on the same box. This is helpful because when I boot the same machine into Linux, it has nfs exports that wouldn't be there under 95. Using samba, I started migrating files to the Linux box. I got to the point where all I needed for 95 is an old 233mb Maxtor. The primary reason I have any 95 capability at all is that I get free software for shipping, ordering, banking, etc. from vendors. One of them was offering free ground freight on electronic orders, so I would boot 95 and run the software which dials a toll-free number and order product. One of these days we'll have a windows emulator that works with these programs and just run them as a Linux task. See my LDP mirror at http://www.wtop.com/LDP for latest howto's, including samba. +--+ + 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] .
looking for programs
Hello! I'm looking for two programs: First, I need a program to make foils (I tried LaTeX/foiltex but writing foils with LaTeX is very difficult and takes a lot of time). Second, I need a program to make scientific plots. Gnuplot doesn't produce very nice graphs and formatting of minor ticks is not possible. The tool should be a combination between a spreadsheet and a plotting tool. Thanks, Jochen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Netscape and bash 2.0
From our local linux mailing list: I have most of them fixed, but one annoying thing still is there. When netscape calls a helper, it uses the syntax ((somecommand somefile); rm somefile ) but the new bash gets confused on the parentheses with the semicolon. I think redirecting /bin/sh to /usr/bin/tcsh would fix it, but that seems like a dangerous thing to do. Is there a proper fix? * Since I don't use helper apps much, I never ran across this. Does anyone have a solution? Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps Madness takes its toll... Please have exact change! ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Netscape and bash 2.0
Since I don't use helper apps much, I never ran across this. Does anyone have a solution? Use the netscape installer package in contrib. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: BIG NetScape Bug!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 (fwd)
On Fri, 20 Jun 1997, John Foster wrote: Well, I assumed this was common sense, but people shouldnt really be using netscape as root (at least not to surf the web). Just off the top of my head, I cant think of any reason one would *need* to. Maybe I overlooked some use? I use a browser as root to check whats happening with my router, using mrtg (which isn't a debian package). But I'm **very** careful! I agree that this is extremely impoartant use (along with other administration uses where you are talking to admin cgi's, manpages, dwww? or others). In these cases, you are (theoretically) completely safe as long as you trust the program you are talking to with netscape. Just dont take a break from work and check a couple of your favorite web pages :) 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] \_\/ pgpXsXp6CgHUZ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: gs-aladdin pdf files
On Fri, 20 Jun 1997, AUBORD Alain wrote: This is not surprising. The encrypted PDF use non public algorithm with a secret key from Adobe. Unlicensed PDF writer cannot decode it. The problem is that even if I save the file as postscript, using the acroread package (I suppose it is licensed since it can read the file), the final ps file can not be read by gs. Is this the same problem ? []s, Mario O.de Menezesmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Nuclear and Energetic Research Institute - IPEN-CNEN/SP BRAZIL | | http://curiango.ipen.br/~mario - - http://www.ipen.br| -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Netscape and bash 2.0
In your email to me, Clint Adams, you wrote: Since I don't use helper apps much, I never ran across this. Does anyone have a solution? Use the netscape installer package in contrib. It was initially installed with the installer package. Does it have to be purged and re-installed? Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps Madness takes its toll... Please have exact change! ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Mail Archives Stopped?
On Fri, 20 Jun 1997, David R Baker wrote: I am a relatively new subscriber to this list. For the 1st week or two it appeared to be archived once a day. It has now been more than a week since the archives accessible through www.debian.org have been updated. Is something wrong or is this normal? I also maintain an archive of the debian-* lists at http://www.linuxhq.com. They are updated every 30 minutes. -- Mark Evans Linux 2.x Information Headquarters [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxhq.com -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: LAN configuration problem?
On 19 Jun 1997, Rob Browning wrote: echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forwarding What does the 'cat ' part do? That's what I meant. The cat was the result of a failure to cut and paste properly... Also, Randy's question was about an IP Masquerading setup. He almost certainly doesn't want ip_forwarding turned on. that must have been a too-early-in-the-morning before-i've-had-my-coffee type of answer :-) Craig -- craig sanders networking consultant Available for casual or contract temporary autonomous zone system administration tasks. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: 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. I use it without any problems. What apple disk are you using? Are you running it as root? (You have to be root in order for svgalib to work unless you make the binary suid root.) Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) --- In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: bizarre netscape behavior
I've now had this happen twice. When i install netscape, it works. The next day, however, i get a message that I have 3.00 resources instead of 3.01. Do i need a daily install? :)There has never been any other netscape on this installation; just the *deb file from unstable, and the *tgz file from netscape Do you have any cron jobs that make modifications to your system over night? Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) --- Generated by Signify v1.02. For this and more, visit http://www.verisim.com/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: striping, etc.
They will go on a machine with 3 200m ide drives, which will be a poor-man's server. My current thinking is to mount / on the first controller, and use the other pair as /usr on the second interface. /usr will be NFS exported. Or would I be better off putting the two /usr drives on separate controllers? I'd think it was better to mount them across separate controllers. With seperate control and data lines, the kernel can issue two simultaneous requests and get data from both at the same time. My understanding with IDE (and EIDE) is that a single controller can only access a single drive at a time and must wait for that request to finish before issuing another. SCSI is a more sophisticated in that it allows a request to be issued and then the bus to idle (for more requests or other data) until the drive finishes processing the request and can blast back the data. This is why SCSI is much better than EIDE when dealing with more than one drive. (At least, this is my understanding... Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong.) Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) --- Debian GNU/Linux! Search it at http://insite.verisim.com/search/debian/simple -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Anyone has seen this before?
Sounds like you need to recreate the filesystem on the SCSI disk, and do a badblock check.. I had a Quantum Empire drive that was giving me problems like this ... I created a filesystem and ran a bad block check, and I haven't seen a media error since. Doing the bad blocks check on a 2 gig drive and an adaptec 2940W took nearly 12 hours on a P90 ... I'm not sure if that's because the Adaptec is pedantic about errors, or what. At any rate, it might be worth trying for you ... and if the SCSI drive is under warranty, replace it! Good luck, -- Nathan Norman:Hostmaster CFNI:[EMAIL PROTECTED] finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key and other stuff Key fingerprint = CE 03 10 AF 32 81 18 58 9D 32 C2 AB 93 6D C4 72 -- On 20 Jun 1997, Eloy A. Paris wrote: :Hi, : :I got these error messages today when I was gunzipping a 115 MBytes file :(pretty processor and disk intensive): : :scsi0: MEDIUM ERROR on channel 0, id 1, lun 0, CDB: Read (10) 00 00 30 0a fe 00 :00 90 00 :Current error sd08:16: sense key Medium Error :Additional sense indicates Unrecovered read error :scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:16, sector 290634 :scsi0: MEDIUM ERROR on channel 0, id 1, lun 0, CDB: Read (10) 00 00 30 0b 66 00 :00 08 00 :Current error sd08:16: sense key Medium Error :Additional sense indicates Unrecovered read error :scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:16, sector 290634 : :I created the partition where the file was stored today and mke2fs -c gave :no error messages. : :Also, today I was dumping a CD-ROM to another partition on the same SCSI :disk and got several of this messages: : :Jun 19 11:36:11 zeus kernel: scsi0: MEDIUM ERROR on channel 0, id 6, lun 0, CDB: : Read (6) 02 84 a2 26 00 :Jun 19 11:36:11 zeus kernel: Current error sr0b:00: sense key Medium Error :Jun 19 11:36:11 zeus kernel: Additional sense indicates L-ec uncorrectable error :Jun 19 11:36:11 zeus kernel: CD-ROM I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 660128 : :What's happening here? Is my NCR83C510 SCSI adapter going to die or I need :to trash the CD I was reading and the hard disk with bad sectors? : :E.- : :-- : :Eloy A. Paris :Information Technology Department :Rockwell Automation de Venezuela :Telephone: +58-2-9432311 Fax: +58-2-9430323 : : :-- :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: Netscape and bash 2.0
It was initially installed with the installer package. Does it have to be purged and re-installed? Yes. There seems to be no mechanism for upgraded versions to compensate for the absence of the patch in previous ones. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: RPM to deb package conversion
According to the announcement for Debian 1.3 at the Debian web site,
dpkg can now be used to install RPM files (at least that's how I read it).
I upgraded to 1.3, but I don't see anything about this in the dpkg docs or
man page. I tried it on an rpm file ( dpkg -i something.rpm) but it didn't
work.
Anybody know how to use dpkg to install rpm packages?
Install the alien package. Then:
alien(1L) alien(1L)
NAME
alien - Convert or install an alien binary package
SYNOPSIS
alien [--to-deb] [--patch=file] [options] file
alien --to-rpm [options] file
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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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plip connection to laptop breaks after laptop disk powers down
Hi, recently I connected my laptop B via PLIP to my Tower A at home. Both are running Debian 1.2 (Kernel 2.0.27). Everything works wells as long as the laptop's disk is busy. After 120 sec been idle the disk is run down. This is the moment when the connection between Tower and laptop seems to be down. To be precise: - on tower A I can no longer ping, rlogin etc. to laptop B - using B, I CAN PING A - after that I can again reach B from A - for another 120 sec Of course I get plip-driver messages on A like these: Jun 20 09:47:40 nana kernel: plip1: receive timeout(2,c7) As long as the line is busy, everything works quite well. My throughput is about 38 kB/sec. My plip is Jun 20 06:04:09 nana kernel: NET3 PLIP version 2.2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jun 20 06:04:09 nana kernel: plip1: Parallel port at 0x378, using assigned IRQ 7. Any hints ? Kind regards Gerd -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: How do I find the source of the spammers?
On Fri, Jun 20, 1997 at 07:50:01AM +1000, John Foster wrote: This post is probably a bit off topic, but maybe one of you can give me a pointer in the right direction. I'm looking after the servers of an ISP, and someone is using us for bulk mailouts. I get a lot of mail in postmasters mailbox about it. I can't seem to find how it's getting in though! You might want to consider installing Blackmail, which is an antispam filter; I don't remember the exact address, but Altavista should turn it up. Or see spam.org. It will kill any connection it thinks is spam, either from a list of spam sites you specify, or any traffic which both originates and terminates not on your machine or a specified list of machines. Stops people spamming you. You have to be careful with its configuration though; I run it on my company's internet server, located at our ISP; I specified that all of our domain can send mail via the server, but as dialup users we appeared in the ISP's domain, so it wouldn't forward our mail (using Netscape Mail or whatever) until I fixed my configuration. I'm using smail from the 1.3 distribution. Perhaps I should be using another mail-daeomn. Or is there a way that I can restrict things in smail? The documentation for smail is (or was anyway) pretty woeful! Blackmail likes smail. 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: setting switching screen densities
On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote: stealth vram (#124), which is an S3. I've set it for 432 under 8 bits, and 32 under 16 (1mb vram). But it seems to insist that the higher density modes don't exist. It's startup messages (the ones that are left) annnouce (--) there is no mode definition mamed 1024x768 (--) removing mode 1024X768: from list of valid modes then again for 800x600. What am I doing wrong? i don't know. I am getting a similar problem when i run the new xf86config to generate a new XF86Config file for my new monitor. See my next message for details. While I'm at it, the 2-bit questions: 1) what was the command to switch between screeen sizes? Ctrl-Alt-PLUS and Ctrl-Alt-MINUS PLUS and MINUS refer to the keys on the numeric keypad. 2) for that matter, if i use xdm, how do i switch between 8 16? easiest way is to edit /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers file. Mine looks like: # $XConsortium: Xserv.ws.cpp,v 1.3 93/09/28 14:30:30 gildea Exp $ # # Xservers file, workstation prototype # # This file should contain entries to start the servers on the # local machine; if you have more than one display (not screen), # you can add entries to the list (one per line). If you also # have some X terminals connected which do not support XDMCP, # you can add them here as well. Each X terminal line should # look like: # XTerminalName:0 foreign # # X servers are automatically added to this file by the Debian # xbase and xserver configuration scripts. :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 -bpp 16 :1 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :1 -bpp 8 The '-bpp 16' on the end of the :0 line does the trick. The :1 line runs an 8bpp X server on the next available virtual tty. On a standard debian system with getty running on virtual ttys 1-6, this will give a 16bpp X on tty7 and an 8bpp X on tty8. Switch between them with the usual Ctrl-Alt-F7 and Ctrl-Alt-F8. (actually, mine doesn't always look like that. Usually I run with the :1 line commented out. Whenever I need an 8bpp X and don't feel like shutting down all the programs i have running, I just edit the file and send a SIGHUP to xdm) 3) the file /etc/xdm.dpkg-dist exists, but xdm isn't launching. However, xdm from a root window successfully launches. there seems to be a bug in the installation script for xbase. it wipes the /etc/init.d/xdm script. you can fix it by: cd /etc/init.d mv -f xdm.dpkg-dist xdm craig -- craig sanders networking consultant Available for casual or contract temporary autonomous zone system administration tasks. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
ANNOUNCE: updated deb-view.el V1.3 for Deb file viewing
Last summer I wrote a deb file browser for emacs. I'm sure it will be made obsolete by the deity project but it may be of use to some people until then. Apparently MC has similar functionality. Somewhere along the way deb-view stopped differentiating between new and old style deb files on Debian systems because the file command now recognizes deb file formats specifically. This release of V1.3 fixes this problem. There aren't any package install features, just smart browsing and the ability to copy individual files out of the archive. At the time many people suggested that this could/should go into contrib or someplace so that it gets included into the Debian distribution. This was never done. Here is the original announcement, modified to mention that it also views HTML files using w3.el. --- snip --- Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 17:07:39 -0600 From: Rick Macdonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: deb-view.el: emacs tool for browsing deb files! I've written a tool for emacs that allows one to browse deb files. It's nice to peek at a package file and read the doc, man pages, install scripts, file list, etc, without installing it first. You can even copy files out of a deb archive if you want to! Why emacs? Because most of the smarts to do this stuff was already in emacs. I just gathered it together in a simple but clever way for Debian users! ;-) Emacs users will recognize tar-mode, the emacs feature that that I'm exploiting. Here's sort of what it looks like on the screen. To view any file, just go to that line and press v. If it's a man page file, press N. Press W to view HTML. It doesn't matter is the file is compressed (.gz); it uncompresses automatically on the fly. Press c to copy an individual file out of the archive! === Buffers Files Tools Search Operate Mark Immediate Help drwxr-xr-xroot/root 0 ./ -rw-r--r--root/root441 control -rw-r--r--root/root 13 conffiles -rwxr-xr-xroot/root 1459 postinst -C37 L2 Emacs: sudo_1.4.3-5.deb-INFO (Tar Narrow)--All--- drwxr-xr-xroot/root 0 ./ drwxr-xr-xroot/root 0 etc/ -r--r-root/root280 etc/sudoers drwxr-xr-xroot/root 0 usr/ drwxr-xr-xroot/root 0 usr/bin/ -rwxr-sr-xroot/root 41996 usr/bin/sudo drwxr-xr-xroot/root 0 usr/man/ drwxr-xr-xroot/root 0 usr/man/man8/ -rw-r--r--root/root 4782 usr/man/man8/sudo.8.gz -rw-r--r--root/root 3257 usr/man/man8/visudo.8.gz drwxr-xr-xroot/root 0 usr/man/man5/ -rw-r--r--root/root 5289 usr/man/man5/sudoers.5.gz drwxr-xr-xroot/root 0 usr/sbin/ -rwxr-xr-xroot/root 24596 usr/sbin/visudo drwxr-xr-xroot/root 0 usr/doc/ drwxr-xr-xroot/root 0 usr/doc/copyright/ -rw-r--r--root/root 1282 usr/doc/copyright/sudo drwxr-xr-xroot/root 0 usr/doc/examples/ drwxr-xr-xroot/root 0 usr/doc/examples/sudo/ -rw-r--r--root/root 2572 usr/doc/examples/sudo/sudoers drwxr-xr-xroot/root 0 usr/doc/sudo/ -rw-r--r--root/root 2335 usr/doc/sudo/FAQ.gz -rw-r--r--root/root 2398 usr/doc/sudo/debian.OPTIONS.gz --**-C37 L9 Emacs: sudo_1.4.3-5.deb-DATA (Tar narrow)--All--- === The lisp file is about 300 lines long. I decided not to post it to the list, for fear of annoying non-emacs users, so I've put it up on a web server. Sorry, I don't have anonymous ftp for you. The file is about 13KB. http://www.cuug.ab.ca:8001/~macdonal/deb-view.el If you can't get at it, I can email it to you. Note that deb-view works for the current and past formats of the Debian file format. As the deb file evolves, I hope I can continue to provide this tool. One thing that I'm missing is a way for future Debian newcomers to know about this tool. Suggestions welcome. I hope some of you find this useful! ...RickM... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
defrag
I have an old scsi drive which I fsck'ed as ext2. I didn't get any errors doing so. ( this was about 4 months ago ). Now the drive is 24% non-contiguous and I finally found the defrag package, however when I run it I get this error: bash# defrag /dev/sda1 defrag 0.61 defrag: bad magic number in super-block Is there away of fixing this problem and how serious is it? Thanks, Dennis + dpk [EMAIL PROTECTED] + work : 517.353.8892 + + Systems Undergrad + pager: 517.222.5875 + + Division of Engineering Computing Services + + -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: setting switching screen densities
On Tue, 17 Jun 1997, Daniel Doro Ferrante wrote: I suppose you have already run the 'xf86config'. Have you set everything that it asks for? In a machine I installed a friend of mine forgot to set the mouse under X and it didn't worked without the mouse installed... Things like this can happen... By the way, I have the same video board that you have and I had no problem in upgrading or configuring it under X. I did the same settings that you mentioned above and I am running 1024x768 with no trouble. Actually, there's something weird with the latest xf86config. A few days ago i got rid of my old 15 monitor and got a 17, so I made a backup copy of my /etc/X11/XF86Config file and ran xf86config. It seemed to work perfectly. I set the mouse, keyboard, video card, monitor (filled in the values from the manual which came with it). Then it ran the X server to test the settings. Perfect! 1280x1024. Clicked on OK, and saved the configuration. However, when I restarted xdm, I got an 800x600 screen. When I looked in /var/log/xdm-errors, I saw that it was discarding all the higher resolutions. I've lost the actual error messages - forgot to keep a copy of the log file - but i'm sure I'll see them again this weekend when i have time to get it running in 1280x1024. I assumed i had made a mistake and forgot to save the config or something, so I did it again. and again. and again. i gave up after that, i may not have got it going but i had sort of proved that i hadn't made some simple, stupid mistake...which meant that xf86config was making some simple, stupid mistake :-) As soon as I figure out what it is, I'll file a proper bug report. So, something is wrong with what it saved. I *SAW* X running my new screen in 1280x1024 mode. I'm glad I kept a backup copy of my old /etc/X11/XF86Config file :-) Sometime this weekend I hope to find the time to get this new monitor running to it's full potential (my X desktop is way too cramped even using FVWM*'s pager module with about 20 or 30 windows open at any time) BTW, my system has a 2MB S3 Trio 64 video card, and the monitor is a Velta 17 -- Horiz: 30kHz-69kHz, Vert: 50Hz-120Hz, Bandwidth: 100MHz, Max Resolution: 1280x1024(NI). craig PS: This reminds me of another bug I should report: fvwm95's task bar dies if you have too many windows open. too many is an unknown quantity, i've never counted them...more than 15 or 20 at least. Anyway, what seems to be happening is that fvwm95 finds out how big each title bar has to be by dividing the taskbar by the number of windows it has to list. If there are too many to list, it just freezes. I work around this bug by dragging the taskbar's corner with the left mouse button to make it double-height...that seems to fix it, but it's annoying to have to lose some valuable screen real-estate. Anyone else seen this? Does anyone else regularly run with 20 or 30 or 40 windows open? -- craig sanders networking consultant Available for casual or contract temporary autonomous zone system administration tasks. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Quotas AMD
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Ok. I know that. I'm starting rpc.rquotad in my netstd_misc script (on the server), so it is not the problem... When I mount the filesystems on the clients, via NFS too, directly in the fstab (not in AMD) the quotas are shown normaly (if I didn't have started the rpc.rquotad it won't occur). Strange. I do get quota information via rquotad even for an NFS mount administered by AMD. Are we running different versions of the amd and quota packages? I'm using Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ NameVersionDescription +++-===-==- ii quota 1.55-8 An implementation of the diskquota system. ii amd upl102-11 The 4.4BSD automounter. Cheers, Lukas -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: setting switching screen densities
Actually, there's something weird with the latest xf86config. A few days ago i got rid of my old 15 monitor and got a 17, so I made a backup copy of my /etc/X11/XF86Config file and ran xf86config. It seemed to work perfectly. I set the mouse, keyboard, video card, monitor (filled in the values from the manual which came with it). Then it ran the X server to test the settings. Perfect! 1280x1024. Clicked on OK, and saved the configuration. However, when I restarted xdm, I got an 800x600 screen. When I looked in /var/log/xdm-errors, I saw that it was discarding all the higher resolutions. I've lost the actual error messages - forgot to keep a copy of the log file - but i'm sure I'll see them again this weekend when i have time to get it running in 1280x1024. I assumed i had made a mistake and forgot to save the config or something, so I did it again. and again. and again. i gave up after that, i may not have got it going but i had sort of proved that i hadn't made some simple, stupid mistake...which meant that xf86config was making some simple, stupid mistake :-) As soon as I figure out what it is, I'll file a proper bug report. So, something is wrong with what it saved. I *SAW* X running my new screen in 1280x1024 mode. This looks like something similar to what I experienced with XF86Setup. It goes like this: running XF86Setup, the program determines the modes with the best refresh rates for my monitor/video card combination. Seems OK, but it does so _for_256_colors_. When I then switch to 16 bit color, the modes in XF86Config with resolution higher than 800x600 get deleted, because the video card cannot supply these refresh rates. Solution: pretend that your monitor cannot handle high vertical refresh rates in XF86Setup, and the defined modes will have low enough refresh rates for the video card to cope with. The older xf86config program used to provide a lot more modes apparently. Has anyone noticed this before? Eric Meijer -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 40 2472189 Eindhoven Univ. of Technology | tel. lab. +31 40 2475032 Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (TAK) | tel. fax+31 40 2455054 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: defrag
On Fri, 20 Jun 1997, dpk wrote: I have an old scsi drive which I fsck'ed as ext2. I didn't get any errors doing so. ( this was about 4 months ago ). Now the drive is 24% non-contiguous I've seen a few people state their fragmentation percent. How do you get this number? ...RickM... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
THANKS
I was having trouble downloading debian by ftp. The problem was, as many people on this list suggested, that my 3c509 ethernet card was mis-configured, and trying to broadcast through the coaxial socket when my network connection was through a 10-base-T cable. I was able to configure it correctly using the 3c5x9cfg.exe dos program, as suggested by users on this group, and now everything is hunky-dory. Thanks to everyone who helped. Rich. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: How do I find the source of the spammers?
Paul Wade wrote: The problem of relaying can be solved by restricting access to the local subnet. However, that would irritate some good customers. Suppose I am traveling with my laptop and want to read and answer my email. I don't want to pay for a toll call to the dialup because I can hook up via ethernet or my brother says 'go ahead and use my local dialup account'. Well, I don't see it as an irritation. I do travel with my laptop and I do get/send email while on the road. But if you're on the road and have access to the internet but not through your own ISP, you *should* have access to the sendmail server for whoever's Internet hookup you're using. I find it quite painless to simply go into my Netscape Mail settings and set the outgoing mail server to whatever the local sendmail server is. As long as your Reply-To: header is set correctly, you'll have not trouble getting replies sent through a foreign sendmail server. And besides, are you saying that *your* sendmail will accept connections from the outside world? You are truly a brave spirit, given the seeming never-ending source security holes which sendmail has always been. There is a way to fix this for the ISP who thinks it's worth the trouble. You could set up a web page that requires a password or have them login via telnet. This would validate the IP the customer is at and you could allow in.smtp because you know who to 'counsel' if you get a spam complaint. I suppose that you could require the telnet connect to stay active in order to accept mail for relaying. They would have to switch to the telnet and hit a key within n(60?) seconds before sending or the connect to smtp would be refused. Hopping between open telnet and mailer programs is easy for Windows or Linux users. The apache approach has several possibilities. Maybe a javascript (ugh) would be sufficient to tell the server you are still valid from the IP. If somebody does this, they should share it freely. Most of the spam comes from 'borrowed' mail servers. I think the ultimate solution is to build support into mail clients for ssh or something of the like. -- 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: plip connection to laptop breaks after laptop disk powers down
At 04:29 PM 6/20/97 +0200, Gerd Bavendiek wrote: recently I connected my laptop B via PLIP to my Tower A at home. Both are running Debian 1.2 (Kernel 2.0.27). Everything works wells as long as the laptop's disk is busy. After 120 sec been idle the disk is run down. This is the moment when the connection between Tower and laptop seems to be down. It is not the disk, but the laptop going into sleep mode (I believe). Check what IRQ's are able to bring the laptop out of sleep mode again, make sure that /dev/lp? (IRQ 7 / 5, check your config) is one of those devices. Im not quite sure, but try this :) Geir -- \\\|/// Geir Bjune - Student ved IFD,HiBu \\ ~ ~ //http://home.sn.no/home/gbjune ( @ @ ) Women love cats. Men say they love cats, o00o_(_)_o00o but when women aren't looking, men kick cats. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
eth0: Too much work !!!!!!!!???????
I am getting in regular intervals on the tty console the message: eth0: Too much work on interrupt, 0x01 What is that ?? My network is working fine, no problems, maybe it comes out becaude my ethernet wd driver is set as module ??? Any ideas ?? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
xdm is not comming up ......
I have installed and configured xdm, at boot time xdm is launched but nothing appears on the screens. I only have the 6 tty screens available. Doing ps -x shows that xdm is running. So where is it. Of course, loggin in to a tty screen and executing startx works ! Any help please. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: problems with Adaptec AHA2x4x at installation
On Thu, 19 Jun 1997, schaffer wrote: I have tried unsuccessfully tried several versions of Debian on machines with Adaptec 2x4x SCSI adapters. I haven't gotten around yet to see how the kernel is actually configured, but on bootup it recognizes the adapter and tries to initialise it ending in a kernel panic situation long before it tries to install the device drivers from the drv disk. I suspect that this is the cause of the problem. I have tried to fix the situation by building a custom kernel with the AIC7xxx driver compiled in, but I didn't manage to find a configuration wher the kernel fit on the resq floppy and still is functional. Does anybody have some suggestions. I really want to get Debian up on my main machine. Would it be possible to build a boot kernel that uses only floppy and ram-disk before loading the necessary device drivers from the drv disk? Somebody mentioned that the SuSe distribution uses this approach. This certainly would go a long way to solv my problem. Please reply by email: my newsfeed seems to carry this group only spuriously. Hartmann Schaffer Couldn't the problem come from other hardware? I have a Pentium 90 with Adaptec 2940, not the Wide one. Debian 1.1 needed a prebuilt kernel from the special ones in order to menage the Adaptec 2940, but sometimes later this was no more necessary... ...I think I'm not daydreaming when I say that while installing the Debian 1.2.4 base system the default prebuilt kernel immediately saw the adapter correctly. Later of course I built a 'customized' kernel, its compressed image is 357164 bytes. I could gzip and send the .config file to you if you want to give a look. (Linux has been running very fine on this system since the very first time I installed it on it, in Fall-Winter '95; I tried Yggdrasil, various Slackware versions, RedHat, and Debian is now definitely my choice and I have recently removed any distribution other than Debian.) Nicola Bernardelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Please use [EMAIL PROTECTED] for messages from any kind of robot, such as mailing lists. From that address no autoresponse messages will return even when I'm not at home. --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: I need help again please?
On Thu, 19 Jun 1997, Dominic Torruellas wrote: OK I've done what all you nice peaple have told me to do, I've turned of my cache cand shadow ram stuff and tried to boot off teh rescue disk, now it says non-system disk error, anyone know how I can fix this? This sounds very much like the bios can't find a bootable image on the disk. Probably the image didn't get written without errors, which seems to happen a lot. It is much more likely that the problem is with the quality of the disks than the quality of your hardware or the settings in your bios. If you already have a working linux, you can try 'mkdosfs -c' on a formatted disk. Generally, linux is much pickier about the quality of disks than dos and 'mkdosfs -c' often spots potentially bad disks. Every disk that passed this test has always booted without problems here, on any computer. If you don't have a linux yet and use rawrite2.exe from dos, writing the resc1440.bin image three times to the disk might work (though more knowledgable people might classify such an attempt as voodoo, it once worked for fine me.) Some questions to ask yourself before giving up on your hardware: - How many disks have you tried to write? - Did they all fail consistantly in the same manner? - Have you tried to use disks of a known-good quality? And last but not least: - Have you tried the disks that fail on your computer on other computers (just booting from the rescue disk should do no harm to a computer)? Good luck, Joost -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: eth0: Too much work !!!!!!!!???????
On Fri, 20 Jun 1997, Eddie Katz wrote: I am getting in regular intervals on the tty console the message: eth0: Too much work on interrupt, 0x01 What is that ?? My network is working fine, no problems, maybe it comes out becaude my ethernet wd driver is set as module ??? Any ideas ?? 1) Could be the interrupt controller hardware. Try using another IRQ. 2) Could be from something on the network. Does it still happen if you are disconnected from the net? 3) Sometimes other devices, especially older ones have flaws which cause them to step on I/O addresses, DMA lines, and IRQ lines that they're really not using. Some of the jumperless ones do this. I have gone as far as taking a knife to them and permanently removing the connection to unused IRQ lines. 4) Make sure your network broadcast, mask, etc. values are correct. ifconfig will tell you this. +--+ + 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: bizarre netscape behavior
next day, however, i get a message that I have 3.00 resources instead of 3.01. Do i need a daily install? :)There has never been any other netscape on this installation; just the *deb file from unstable, and the *tgz file from netscape Do you have any cron jobs that make modifications to your system over night? only those that are installed automatically; i haven't touched them myself. rick -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Debian 1.3 install enters a reboot cycle
Tried to install debian 1.3 from the TRI-Linux CD. At some point during Linux loading, the system reboots and enters an infinite cycle. I have an Adaptec 2940U and tried to pass aic7xxx=no_reset to the kernel, but I don't know what the kernel name is! I tried: boot: default aic7xxx=no_reset boot: root.bin aic7xxx=no_reset boot: aic7xxx=no_reset None worked. Any idea how to get passed this hurdle? Thanks -- Peter Galbraith, research scientist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maurice-Lamontagne Institute, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada P.O. Box 1000, Mont-Joli Qc, G5H 3Z4 Canada 418-775-0852 - FAX 418-775-0546 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: LAN configuration problem?
Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Also, Randy's question was about an IP Masquerading setup. He almost certainly doesn't want ip_forwarding turned on. Hmm. I'm not sure but I think as far as the kernel is concerned masquerading may count as a form of forwarding. All I do know is that for both myself and a friend of mine, with some kernels, masquerading wouldn't work until we wrote to that proc file. that must have been a too-early-in-the-morning before-i've-had-my-coffee type of answer :-) Probably true. -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: setting switching screen densities
Actually, there's something weird with the latest xf86config. A few days ago i got rid of my old 15 monitor and got a 17, so I made a backup copy of my /etc/X11/XF86Config file and ran xf86config. It seemed to work perfectly. I set the mouse, keyboard, video card, monitor (filled in the values from the manual which came with it). Then it ran the X server to test the settings. Perfect! 1280x1024. Clicked on OK, and saved the configuration. However, when I restarted xdm, I got an 800x600 screen. When I looked in /var/log/xdm-errors, I saw that it was discarding all the higher resolutions. I've lost the actual error messages - forgot to keep a copy of the log file - but i'm sure I'll see them again this weekend when i have time to get it running in 1280x1024. what i did that finally worked was to choose the monitor can do 1280x1024 @60hz option; this worked where entering my own specifics failed. Also, i used XF86Setup, which ultimately gave me the best results. Then, however, i had to edit out an aweful lot of extra modes . . . So, something is wrong with what it saved. I *SAW* X running my new screen in 1280x1024 mode. yes, i saw this with some cases in which i still ended up with a useless configureation file. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: xdm is not comming up ......
On Fri, 20 Jun 1997, Eddie Katz wrote: I have installed and configured xdm, at boot time xdm is launched but nothing appears on the screens. I only have the 6 tty screens available. Doing ps -x shows that xdm is running. So where is it. Of course, loggin in to a tty screen and executing startx works ! Check to see if you have an entry in /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers (mine follows). Also check /etc/X11/config to see if there is an entry line like start-xdm if this line contains no-start-xdm, remove the no-. finally, my entry below starts X in true color (16bpp). If you remove the -bpp 16 then it will start in the default 8bpp. Some X apps only run under 8bpp. Cheers, Colin. # $XConsortium: Xserv.ws.cpp,v 1.3 93/09/28 14:30:30 gildea Exp $ # # Xservers file, workstation prototype # # This file should contain entries to start the servers on the # local machine; if you have more than one display (not screen), # you can add entries to the list (one per line). If you also # have some X terminals connected which do not support XDMCP, # you can add them here as well. Each X terminal line should # look like: # XTerminalName:0 foreign # # X servers are automatically added to this file by the Debian # xbase and xserver configuration scripts. :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X -bpp 16 -- Colin R. Telmer, Institute of Intergovernmental Relations School of Policy Studies, Queen's University Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7L-3N6 (613)545-6000x4219 [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint = 09 E9 DA 66 9C EE 33 DC B8 3B 97 0E 01 BC EC 0B PGP Public Key at URL:http://terrapin.econ.queensu.ca -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: BIG NetScape Bug!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 (fwd)
already knows the names of these files. On a Debian 1.3 machine, which uses shadow passwords, essentially the only thing that would be of use for people would be files in your home directory. And since there are no predictable patterns for these files, it would be difficult to construct a web page that would cause serious harm. what about .login or .cshrc? these seem like prime candidates for mischief? rick -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Debian 1.3 install enters a reboot cycle
None worked. Any idea how to get passed this hurdle? Try 'linux'--you can probably find out for sure by hitting TAB. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Debian 1.3 install enters a reboot cycle
I'm guessing the kernel name is 'linux'. It's actaully the label name in LILO, if you had a label ... otherwise it's the name of he image, I believe. No matter, as you can hit the tab key at the boot prompt to see a list of valid boot images. However, I don't think your 2940U is the problem. The no_reset parameter is to prevent the HBA from resetting the SCSI bus, which it does by default to allow all the SCSI devices on the bus to initialise. Could you submit a more detailed description of your problem? When does it reboot? What is the infinite cycle? What kind of hardware in your machine, etc... -- Nathan Norman:Hostmaster CFNI:[EMAIL PROTECTED] finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key and other stuff Key fingerprint = CE 03 10 AF 32 81 18 58 9D 32 C2 AB 93 6D C4 72 -- On Fri, 20 Jun 1997, Peter S Galbraith wrote: :Tried to install debian 1.3 from the TRI-Linux CD. :At some point during Linux loading, the system reboots and enters :an infinite cycle. : :I have an Adaptec 2940U and tried to pass aic7xxx=no_reset :to the kernel, but I don't know what the kernel name is! :I tried: : :boot: default aic7xxx=no_reset :boot: root.bin aic7xxx=no_reset :boot: aic7xxx=no_reset : :None worked. Any idea how to get passed this hurdle? :Thanks :-- :Peter Galbraith, research scientist [EMAIL PROTECTED] :Maurice-Lamontagne Institute, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada :P.O. Box 1000, Mont-Joli Qc, G5H 3Z4 Canada 418-775-0852 - FAX 418-775-0546 : : :-- :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: striping, etc.
They will go on a machine with 3 200m ide drives, which will be a poor-man's server. My current thinking is to mount / on the first controller, and use the other pair as /usr on the second interface. /usr will be NFS exported. Or would I be better off putting the two /usr drives on separate controllers? I'd think it was better to mount them across separate controllers. With seperate control and data lines, the kernel can issue two simultaneous requests and get data from both at the same time. My understanding with IDE (and EIDE) is that a single controller can only access a single drive at a time and must wait for that request to finish before issuing another. yes; that's the hitch with ide. On the other hand, we don't have spare scsis lying around :) The reason i'm hesitating to put them on separate controllers is that / is also on the first controller. Everything that gets nfs exported will come off /usr, and my concern is that massive hits to the portion that was slaved could leave / unaccesable to the host. SCSI is a more sophisticated in that it allows a request to be issued and then the bus to idle (for more requests or other data) until the drive finishes processing the request and can blast back the data. This is why SCSI is much better than EIDE when dealing with more than one drive. (At least, this is my understanding... Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong.) yes; exactly. I just wish we had scsis. Of coure, if this whole thing works, we may be able to get one . . . rick -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: BIG NetScape Bug!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 (fwd)
Rick Hawkins wrote: already knows the names of these files. On a Debian 1.3 machine, which uses shadow passwords, essentially the only thing that would be of use for people would be files in your home directory. And since there are no predictable patterns for these files, it would be difficult to construct a web page that would cause serious harm. what about .login or .cshrc? these seem like prime candidates for mischief? How about ~/.ssh/identity? Of course security minded people will require a password to decrypt their personal ssh identity... And as far as ssh falling back to .rhosts or rlogin, sshd can be (and should be IMHO) configured to do neither. Behan -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-613-224-7547 http://www.verisim.com/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: striping, etc.
On Fri, 20 Jun 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote: : : They will go on a machine with 3 200m ide drives, which will be a poor-man's : server. My current thinking is to mount / on the first controller, and : use the other pair as /usr on the second interface. /usr will be NFS : exported. Or would I be better off putting the two /usr drives on : separate controllers? : : I'd think it was better to mount them across separate controllers. With : seperate control and data lines, the kernel can issue two simultaneous : requests and get data from both at the same time. My understanding with : IDE (and EIDE) is that a single controller can only access a single : drive at a time and must wait for that request to finish before issuing : another. : :yes; that's the hitch with ide. On the other hand, we don't have spare :scsis lying around :) : :The reason i'm hesitating to put them on separate controllers is that / :is also on the first controller. Everything that gets nfs exported will :come off /usr, and my concern is that massive hits to the portion that :was slaved could leave / unaccesable to the host. : : : SCSI is a more sophisticated in that it allows a request to be issued : and then the bus to idle (for more requests or other data) until the : drive finishes processing the request and can blast back the data. : : This is why SCSI is much better than EIDE when dealing with more than one : drive. (At least, this is my understanding... Somebody please correct : me if I'm wrong.) : :yes; exactly. I just wish we had scsis. Of coure, if this whole thing :works, we may be able to get one . . . : On that linux-raid list I told you about, someone was discussing IDE performance. Seems that with their testing, which may or may not have been very accurate, that putting IDE disks on the same or seperate controllers seemed to have very little difference in performance. I suspect this has more to do with the crappiness of IDE than anything to do with the md algorithms. Given your concerns about / being accessable, I believe the best choice would be to put both drives on the secondary controller. After all, this is a proof of concept type install, right? I suppose you could try creating a linear device and a raid0 device and run some adhoc tests to see if there's a difference ... but I think you'll find that IDE is holding you back, not the md stuff. Good luck! May the gods grant you many gigs of SCSI disk :) -- Nathan Norman:Hostmaster CFNI:[EMAIL PROTECTED] finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key and other stuff Key fingerprint = CE 03 10 AF 32 81 18 58 9D 32 C2 AB 93 6D C4 72 -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Xlib3.3 server probs
Hi, I recently upgraded my Xfree setup to 3.3 from unstable. But now I seem to have some problems. Only the user that runs the xserver (startx) can run apps on it any attempt to run an app by another user is refused. eg below; # xhost Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key xhost: unable to open display :0.0 # I have noticed that SecurityPolicy loading bug on startup. Ozzy, __ _ _ / \ \ \ / / / / / |-Brian SkreegIRC:_Ozzy-| \__/ \ \ |-Lead guitarist extraordinaire-| \__/_/ |-I don't look like two zombies-| -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: BIG NetScape Bug!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 (fwd)
George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My concern was for someone running Netscape as root. This should never occur. People should not run Netscape as root. (In a nutshell: Java The thought of running unknown programs as root should send a shiver down your spine...) And thirdly, since the linux versions that have been released are unsupported, it is possible that there will not be patched releases of the earlier versions. This concenrs me if the exploit is made public after the patched release of the supported versions. There have already been exploits made public on Bugtraq, I believe. And once Communicator for Linux is officially released, we won't have to worry about it any more. -- John Goerzen | Running Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming| [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 install when a Boot Manager is present?
I'm getting FATAL ERROR: Bad logical partition. Press any key to exit fdisk during installation. The first partition on my hard drive hda1, I guess is not recognized by fdisk or cfdisk within the installation program (on resc floppy). This happen on option B: Partition a hard disk, for a Swap partition. The first partition is the boot manager by OS/2 and must be readonly. Would this be a problem? Is there any other way of installing Debian using floppy disks? Thanks Ali -- From: Bob Nielsen[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: June 19, 1997 7:44 PM To: Kharaghani, Ali Subject: RE: How to install when a Boot Manager is present? On Thu, 19 Jun 1997, Kharaghani, Ali wrote: Bob, Thank you for your prompt response. Actually I have problem installing Debian. I go as far as the step to create a Linux Swap partition. And the cfdisk fails to work. If you have a large hard disk, cfdisk won't work correctly. Go to a virtual terminal with ctrl-F2 or ctrl-F3 and run fdisk instead. Bob --- Bob NielsenInternet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
where is md home page?
Is there a home page for md's driver/utils? Lawrence -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: xdm is not comming up ......
Eddie Katz wrote: I have installed and configured xdm, at boot time xdm is launched but nothing appears on the screens. I only have the 6 tty screens available. Doing ps -x shows that xdm is running. So where is it. Of course, loggin in to a tty screen and executing startx works ! Make sure /etc/X11/config has the line: xdm-start-server -- 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: defrag
I have checked the manpage of fsck to find what produces it. I had an unclean reboot the other day so when the system came up it fsck'ed the disks and printed output of the % contiguous. I don't suggest clicking the reset button on your linux box to find out however. hehe. I'm sure someone else knows how to produce this. Dennis On Fri, 20 Jun 1997, Rick Macdonald wrote: Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 09:23:22 -0600 (MDT) From: Rick Macdonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: dpk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Debian User List debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: defrag On Fri, 20 Jun 1997, dpk wrote: I have an old scsi drive which I fsck'ed as ext2. I didn't get any errors doing so. ( this was about 4 months ago ). Now the drive is 24% non-contiguous I've seen a few people state their fragmentation percent. How do you get this number? ...RickM... + dpk [EMAIL PROTECTED] + work : 517.353.8892 + + Systems Undergrad + pager: 517.222.5875 + + Division of Engineering Computing Services + + -- 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, Rick Macdonald wrote: Actually it's not superstition at all. I think you can still recover a file that's been overwritten once with zeroes... just open the HD (in a clean room, of course) and read off the sectors with a electron microscope (or I think the older Norton manuals explained the government wipe in greater detail. The one I have now doesn't say how many repeats, only that a fast wipe of one pass of zeros takes a few seconds on a 1.44MB floppy, whereas a government wipe takes about two hours. It says the last character used has to be decimal 246. I wonder if there are government employees who make a living scraping ones and zeros off erased disks... There's a hardware aspect to the problem of erasing floppies by writing over them. Whereas a HD is written by the same head every time, floppies are typicaly written by several different ones, which may vary in their exact geometry. You might write over it many times, but someone just reads the data from the guard bands. Surely the residual value of a used floppy is less than two hours usage of any piece of hardware. Perhaps two seconds in a mincing machine. -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +44 1908 653 739 fax: +44 1908 655 151 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
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I'm getting FATAL ERROR: Bad logical partition. Press any key to exit fdisk during installation. The first partition on my hard drive hda1, I guess is not recognized by fdisk or cfdisk within the installation program (on resc floppy). This happen on option B: Partition a hard disk, for a Swap partition. The first partition is the boot manager by OS/2 and must be readonly. Would this be a problem? Is there any other way of installing Debian using floppy disks? Thanks Ali -- On Thu, 19 Jun 1997, Kharaghani, Ali wrote: Bob, Thank you for your prompt response. Actually I have problem installing Debian. I go as far as the step to create a Linux Swap partition. And the cfdisk fails to work. If you have a large hard disk, cfdisk won't work correctly. Go to a virtual terminal with ctrl-F2 or ctrl-F3 and run fdisk instead. Bob --- Bob NielsenInternet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
