PS/2 Mouse device
Can anyone tell me what the major/minor device numbers for a PS/2 mouse are? Currently gpm et al want to use /dev/ttyS0 but that is definately not working. Thanks Stephen --- Normality is a statistical illusion. -- me -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Installation 1.3 failed, returned to 1.1 and upgraded
I pulled all the tricks I could, trying to install Debian 1.3 as on ftp.debian.org with bo/disks-i386/current/* dated June 4. I created 7 install diskettes both at work and at home, but both sets produced the same problem on my home computer (which has run Debian 1.1 since November, 1996). Three problems arose: 1. The Debian install would not recognize Linux swap space I had used since November, 1996. This swap space resided on a primary scsi partition as /dev/sda1. I suggest that the install diskettes correct this problem. When I created another swap partition at /dev/sda5, the install diskettes recognized and used this swap space. Additionally, when I returned to Debian 1.1 install diskettes, that install recognized /dev/sda1 as swap space. 2. Using only diskettes, the install script produced a floppy diskette which booted by hanging while uncompressing /vmlinuz. After five full tries at install with new disks two times, I sought other approaches. My other approaches; including using yard diskettes to alter the Debian 1.3 installed files on hard disk; chroot with the rescue disk and the probably good Debian 1.3 install on hard disk; and dpkg --root=/target -i ./vim_4.6-1.deb failed for understandable reasons like unavailable or incompatable libraries (eg, can't resolve symbol 'sysinfo'). 3. Starting install from scratch, I used a single rescue diskette and ***my mirror of Debian 1.3*** on a second scsi hard disk. This approach worked swiftly, thanks to the Debian community. However, while /vmlinuz uncompressed well from the floppy, each attempted install hung after the same point, VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Looking at /etc/fstab with the dandy resue diskette, I gather the next comments should have been mounting /proc When I returned to my Debian 1.1 install diskettes from November, 1996, with Kernel 2.0.6, my install went perfectly. FOLLOWING the Debian 1.3 upgrade notes, my upgrade from the 1.1 minimal install went perfectly. Still, I would hope to one day use the current Debian 1.3 install procedure when installing Debian on a blank partition. Perhaps the new installation doesn't yet accomodate scsi correctly. I use an Adaptec 2940UW adapter and two 2GB Seagate SCSI drives (a Hawk and a Barracuda). I also have 64 MB memory on a Pentium Pro 200 MHz computer, which probably is irrelevant to my problems. I'll put a lot of effort getting Debian on my computer because I believe both the structure and the results of Debian are top notch, but it needs that top notch repaired. Jim Burt, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Anyone has seen this before?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eloy A. Paris) writes: 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? I don't think your SCSI controller is the problem. Most likely hard drive problems. Check that you have the latest driver and give the FreeBSD driver a shot. Make sure you have no cabling problems (long cable runs, etc). -- 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: Netscape bug: Newbies using root
It is stated very clearly in documentation all over that you should run as root as little as possible... Besides, it is common sense. When I first taught myself Unix, this was impressed on me very clearly. The Linux NAG and SAG mention it, I'm sure, as do some various HOWTOs. BG Lim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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] . -- 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: Quotas AMD
Did you enable quota support in the kernel on both the client *AND* the NFS server? I work with a Debian machine with just such a setup, and there are no real problems there Felix Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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] . -- 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: setting switching screen densities
Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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? Look: 1024x768 is not the same as 1024X768. easiest way is to edit /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers file. Mine looks like: Better: edit XF86Config and specify a default color depth. -- 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: setting switching screen densities
E.L. Meijer \(Eric\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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? Yes, although I had not identified the cause like you have. [CC to the X maintainer] -- 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)
Yes, that is true. This is precisely why this is not such a big deal for us, although it may be for people running Windows... Jim Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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 -- 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: PS/2 Mouse device
SZ == Stephen Zander [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: SZ Can anyone tell me what the major/minor device numbers for a SZ PS/2 mouse are? Currently gpm et al want to use /dev/ttyS0 SZ but that is definately not working. I have /dev/mouse soft linked to /dev/psmouse, whic is in turn soft linked to /dev/psaux. The major/minor numbers for psaux are 10/1. R. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: defrag
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 20 Jun 1997, Peter Iannarelli wrote: I do not have this file on my 2.1.42 linux kernel I do have this file with my 2.1.2 kernel. The old extfs and xiafs file systems were officially discontinued and removed in the 2.1.x series kernels as obsolete. They haven't been used by anyone for a long time, and were removed from the source tree since nobody wanted to update them with all the other changes in the core interfaces of the kernel. ++ || Your friends will know you better in the | | Scott K. Ellis | first minute you meet than your acquaintances | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | will know you in a thousand years.| ||-- Illusions | ++ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3 Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBM6sQ8qCk2fENdzpVAQFCWQP/X1xQ3uwFeuxVz4l58kko/Tkzx9cwH9/O i7NTFO9SnmpD0VDZe1jzvcas8YvaseSvwxAiS++jyMx0DFoVPaXFTbZ8UCJgcAym YNupFhu/7PRwSF7n89adl3ICPO84VTr5XpJqV5fUokH0ZD/BACbhQO4vqRayL7Xh UT86vBqix2g= =m2YW -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- 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 Fri, 20 Jun 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote: what i did that finally worked was to choose the monitor can do 1280x1024 @60hz option; this worked where entering my own specifics failed. I'll try this sometime today. Maybe after doing that I should tweak the config file by hand to give it the real Horiz Vert ranges. Also, i used XF86Setup, which ultimately gave me the best results. Sorry, my mistake. I ran 'XF86Setup', not 'xf86config'. The graphical X setup program, not the text-based one. I might try the text-based config program as well. 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: setting switching screen densities
On 20 Jun 1997, John Goerzen wrote: easiest way is to edit /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers file. Mine looks like: Better: edit XF86Config and specify a default color depth. I prefer to edit the Xservers file. That way I can have both a 16 bit and an 8 bit per pixel display, and changing the depth is easier - I don't have to search through hundreds of lines of X config to find the line that needs changing:-) Anyway, it's xdm's job to run as many X servers as I want, in whatever bit depths I want. I see /etc/X11/XF86Config's role as telling the X server what my card and screen are capable of (i.e. low level hardware config only), and /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers's function is to tell xdm to start up X in whatever mode(s) I want. the only time i've ever really needed the 8bpp display was when i wasted half a day looking at quake. Nice game. Once the novelty wears off, though, it's just an improved doom. i guess i'm just not into games very much :-) 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: 100 Mbit Ethernet
there is a bug in the tulip driver version 0.76 which won't let other cards in the system be recognized. the following unofficial patch was posted on the linux-tulip-bug mailing list: --- tulip.c-076 Mon May 19 22:12:25 1997 +++ tulip.c-076aMon May 26 11:47:17 1997 @@ -496,7 +496,7 @@ #if defined (MODULE) return cards_found; #else - return 0; + return cards_found ? 0 : -ENODEV; #endif } --alex-- -- | I believe the moment is at hand when, by a paranoiac and active | | advance of the mind, it will be possible (simultaneously with | | automatism and other passive states) to systematize confusion | | and thus to help to discredit completely the world of reality. | -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: /etc/passwd
From: Matthew Tebbens [EMAIL PROTECTED] My /etc/passwd is group owned by one of my users. Does the group owner of this file change when a user changes his password? No. Change it back to group root. If you find that one of our programs is changing the group of this file, please tell us right away. Was it group-writable? Check and make sure that the user isn't doing any funny stuff. Check /etc/group and make sure the user's name isn't on group 0. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: BIG NetScape Bug!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 (fwd)
And once Communicator for Linux is officially released, we won't have to worry about it any more. And exactly how is the release of Communitcator going to fix the systems running 3.01? 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: Installation 1.3 failed, returned to 1.1 and upgraded
3. Starting install from scratch, I used a single rescue diskette and ***my mirror of Debian 1.3*** on a second scsi hard disk. This approach worked swiftly, thanks to the Debian community. However, while /vmlinuz uncompressed well from the floppy, each attempted install hung after the same point, VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. I need a little clarification, please. The install worked, however the boot floppy that was created by the installation menu item Create a boot floppy hangs, or is it booting from hard disk that hangs? It looks as if it is mounting the wrong root filesystem. Would you please run fdisk and tell me what it says about the swap partition that was not recognized? Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Mail Archives Stopped?
Thanks to all. But at present time 20:35 EDT www.debian.org still not updated. Mark Evans, haven't seen your site before. An easy decision to add it to my bookmarks. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
modem hang up
Hello all, I am running PPP connecting to my ISP. However, after connecting, if I leave the connection idle for about half an hour, the modem will hang up itself which I do not really want. Can somebody point out to me how to turn off this feature? Thanks for help in advance ! Anthony -- 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
On 20 Jun 1997, Ben Gertzfield wrote: Ah hah! You have to re-build your kernel, unfortunately, The Deskpro series have been known to be really sneaky about where they hide their BIOS information. My 1985 Compaq DeskPro 8086 had problems caused by a weird BIOS. It looks like they haven't learned 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: /etc/passwd
Details: v--- was not root. -rw-r--r-- 1 root xxx 1681 Jun 17 00:57 /etc/passwd ii adduser 2.13 Utilities to add users and groups to the sys I only have 5 users on my system and I keep a very close watch on the system and users. I don't think it was any of my users. I suspect a package or program. It was definitly not done by me. Could this be an adduser problem ? I'll have to ask the user a few questions and try to find out if it could have been due to adduser OR passwd (he changed his password right after I created the account) Matthew On Fri, 20 Jun 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: From: Matthew Tebbens [EMAIL PROTECTED] My /etc/passwd is group owned by one of my users. Does the group owner of this file change when a user changes his password? No. Change it back to group root. If you find that one of our programs is changing the group of this file, please tell us right away. Was it group-writable? Check and make sure that the user isn't doing any funny stuff. Check /etc/group and make sure the user's name isn't on group 0. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Smail and spammers
The curretn smail beta has these features and a release of a new smail with much better security is near. There is a bit of an argument on some of the smail mailing lists now about how the default setup should be. As currently proposed, the default configuration would be very strict and likely result in the bouncing of a good bit of mail but the debian maintainer is free to loosen some of this up. Right now, your best shot is to run smail under inetd using hosts.allow and hosts.deny to keep parasites at bay. On Sat, 21 Jun 1997, John Foster wrote: Is there any way I can disable spammers from using my smail server to distribute spam? From the logs it appears that someone is sending mail from a compuserve account that then propagates into a large batch of mails to address all over the world. The original post from compuserve and the resultong hundreds of outgoings all have the same ID. Is this due to BSMTP? If I add a -bsmtp to the pipe: section of the transports file will I break anything? Is there some way that I can restrict use of the | thingy to local users only? ie mail that originates on the server, as against mail from outside (that is compuserve)? Is there a resource out on the Internet that will point me in the right direction? Wot a lot of questions! John Foster -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: /etc/passwd
Could this be an adduser problem ? I tried adduser and it did not change /etc/passwd's group. I'll have to ask the user a few questions and try to find out if it could have been due to adduser OR passwd (he changed his password right after I created the account) Try also chfn and chsh. I tried shadowconfig, adduser, and passwd. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: BIG NetScape Bug!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 (fwd)
George Bonser wrote: And once Communicator for Linux is officially released, we won't have to worry about it any more. And exactly how is the release of Communitcator going to fix the systems running 3.01? Getting out of Netscape Employee Suite From what I understand of this bug, it is not as trivial to exploit this as the mags (and the Security Update in the Netscape homepage) have made it out to be. I not trying to say that the bug itself is trivial. Neither am I saying that people should start moving up to communicator. I am just saying that one should always keep one's (form and cookie) alerts on. By doing this the risks are, IMHO, far lesser. Sudhakar PS: These are my opinions and my opinions alone. -- If something goes wrong...blame the guy who can't speak English. -- Homer Simpson Sudhakar Chandrasekharan(415) 937-2354 (O) International Web Engineer Type of Guy (415) 940-1896 (H) http://home.netscape.com/people/thaths/ smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: Mail Archives Stopped?
Thanks to all. But at present time 20:35 EDT www.debian.org still not updated. Mark Evans, haven't seen your site before. An easy decision to add it to my bookmarks. I got ahold of the maintainer of www.debian.org and he promised that the mirror would be updated at it's usual mirror time tonight. - Sue -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
NIS in Debian 1.3 broken?
I upgraded a box from 1.2 to 1.3, and now my NIS doesn't work. A yppasswd reports the user as unknown, and a ypwhich results in a segfault. A ypcat reports that there is no server bound to the NIS domain. The yp server is a debian box still running 1.2. I tried upgrading a separate debian box piece by piece, and found that upgrading libc5 seems to be the culprit. Both the libc5 in 1.3, and the libc5 in bo-updates don't work. At another installation, I upgraded to 1.3 without a hitch. The yp server in that setup is a DEC machine running OSF/1 V3.2 Has anyone else noticed this problem? Is it somehow related to the old NIS server in debian 1.2? Is there a fix yet? -- Scott Barker Linux Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mostlylinux.ab.ca/scott/ (under construction) [ I try to reply to all e-mail within 3 days. If you don't ] [ get a response by then, I probably didn't get your e-mail. ] [ Unsolicited commercial and junk e-mail will be proof-read for US$100 ] Try to look unimportant because the bad guys may be low on ammo. - Amphibious Warfare Review, Spring '89 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: modem hang up
Ping you host once in a while. ping -i 500 xyz.com /dev/null see ping man page. On Sat, 21 Jun 1997, A.D.Y. Cheng wrote: Hello all, I am running PPP connecting to my ISP. However, after connecting, if I leave the connection idle for about half an hour, the modem will hang up itself which I do not really want. Can somebody point out to me how to turn off this feature? Thanks for help in advance ! Anthony -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Help! I'm modeming... and I can't hang up!!! ,, / ( _(-)- .' ^^ [EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Bitburn Access. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: defrag
In response to a question from Rick Macdonald, dpk (Dennis) said 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 If you want to run e2fsck, or fsck, you have the -f option to force an check. Of course you want to have the partition unmounted, or mounted read only.. 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] clipper National Security Council explosion Treasury terrorist Delta spy Mossad data encryption munitions Serbian fuel oil bomb -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: NIS in Debian 1.3 broken?
On Fri, 20 Jun 1997, Scott Barker wrote: I upgraded a box from 1.2 to 1.3, and now my NIS doesn't work. A yppasswd reports the user as unknown, and a ypwhich results in a segfault. A ypcat reports that there is no server bound to the NIS domain. The yp server is a debian box still running 1.2. I tried upgrading a separate debian box piece by piece, and found that upgrading libc5 seems to be the culprit. Both the libc5 in 1.3, and the libc5 in bo-updates don't work. At another installation, I upgraded to 1.3 without a hitch. The yp server in that setup is a DEC machine running OSF/1 V3.2 Has anyone else noticed this problem? Is it somehow related to the old NIS server in debian 1.2? Is there a fix yet? A problem I had while testing 1.3 pre-release may be related. I have some nfs mounts as no_root_squash for mirroring and other purposes. I couldn't access them properly from the test machine with shadow passwords enabled. When I have time, I'm going to put a test partition on each machine and see what happens when all use shadow, when all don't, and when only some do. I guess shadowconfig on and shadowconfig off are supposed to let you bounce back and forth. +--+ + 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: BIG NetScape Bug!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 (fwd)
George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And once Communicator for Linux is officially released, we won't have to worry about it any more. And exactly how is the release of Communitcator going to fix the systems running 3.01? There's this thing called an Upgrade, you know -- 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: Xlib3.3 server probs
Jean Pierre LeJacq [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 20 Jun 1997, Brian Skreeg wrote: 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; Yes I've noticed this problem as well. Two solutions. You can allow any user to run apps by executing: xhosts + Ick, ick, ouch! NEVER do that! The second solution is to add specific users to your .Xauthority file using the xauth program. See man pages for details. This solves the problem for me. -- 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: Is it possible to force the serial port IRQ's?
Edit your /etc/rc.boot/0setserial file. Al Youngwerth [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- From: Carlo U. Segre [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian Users List debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Is it possible to force the serial port IRQ's? Date: Friday, June 20, 1997 4:15 PM Hello All: I have a PPro 200 system which I dual boot between Windows95 and Debian Linux (most of the time!). I also have an internal modem installed on COM2 so I have used the BIOS to set the on-board serial port to COM4 with IRQ 11 (this is an option for my motherboard which I have not seen in others). Under Windows95, the COM4 is properly detected with the correct IRQ, in Linux, however, both COM2 and COM4 are autoprobed as IRQ 3. I have noticed an analogous situation when I disabled the second COM port in the BIOS but Linux finds it anyway. It seems that Linux does not pay attention to these BIOS settings. Is there any way for me to force it to pay attention? Thanks, Carlo *** *Carlo U. Segre * * Department of Biological, Chemical and Physical Sciences * *Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL 60616 * * Voice: (312) 567-3498 FAX: (312) 567-3494 * *[EMAIL PROTECTED] * *** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: man-db install script problem (chmanconfig)
Thank you, Christian. Yes, man-db's unspecified dependency on perl appears to be the problem. And so it seems, as BG Lim pointed out (thank you), that this is a small packaging bug. Thanks, folks. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
'e2fsck -c' vs scandisk
If I found a defective sectors on my /dev/hda2 using e2fsck -c and I try to fix the problem, how can I know the names of the damaged fixed files as I can do using dos scandisk? I think knowing the names should be very useful, because replacing these files should be more safe. Andrea Arcangeli [EMAIL PROTECTED] HomePage: http://www.imola.queen.it/user/arcangeli/ Debian Mirror: ftp://dida43.deis.unibo.it/pub/debian/ Debian GNU __ ___ / / (_)__ __ __/ / / /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \ /_/ //_/_//_/\_,_//_\_(_) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Xfree33
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Jun 21 10:48:13 1997 Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from mail.u-net.com ([127.0.0.1]) by scorch.u-net.com with esmtp (ident oz using rfc1413) id m0wfMlo-000USAC (Debian Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #2); Sat, 21 Jun 1997 10:47:48 +0100 (BST) X-ApparentlyTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from athena.lblesd.k12.or.us ([167.128.5.2]) by mail.u-net.net with ESMTP id 30539-25836; Fri, 20 Jun 1997 18:26:01 +0100 Received: from lblesd.k12.or.us ([167.128.5.5]) by athena.lblesd.k12.or.us (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA07097 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Fri, 20 Jun 1997 10:31:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ccMail by lblesd.k12.or.us (IMA Internet Exchange 2.1 Enterprise) id 00048F10; Fri, 20 Jun 97 10:21:01 -0700 Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 10:32:47 -0700 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Administrator) Subject: Message not deliverable To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Skreeg) Content-Description: cc:Mail note part X-UIDL: fea5886bd992d4f6feedc13d3bf36814 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] . 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] .
xdm 'login incorrect'
I know this has to be something simple... I finally got Debian 1.3 installed, and have X up and running with XDM. Everything comes up good, the at the login prompt, I enter my login name and password which I _know_ are good. XDM tells me it's an invalid login. Any idea what I've done (or not done) ?? Thanks, Tim - LINUX 2.0.6 i486 Because reboots are for upgrades!! - Please direct Email to: tjobrien(at)traveller.com -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Multiple kernels /System.map
On Fri, 20 Jun 1997 15:36:17 -0700 , Stephen Zander wrote: Is there some way to pass an alternate name from /System.map (or /boot/System.map) to the kernel at boot? I'm mucking with a custom kernel but want to leave the 2.0.30 image safely intact. I've setup lilo.confto recognise /vmlinuz.2.0.30 as a valid kernel but can't figure out how to seperate the system.map files AFAIK, the System.map file is read by klogd only. You can pass an option to klogd to specify which System.map it should use. Look at the comments in your /etc/init.d/syslogd for an example of this. Remco -- Jean-Luc Picard: To baldly go where no man has gone before. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: xdm 'login incorrect'
On Sat, Jun 21, 1997 at 03:52:57AM -0500, Tim O'Brien wrote: I know this has to be something simple... I finally got Debian 1.3 installed, and have X up and running with XDM. Everything comes up good, the at the login prompt, I enter my login name and password which I _know_ are good. XDM tells me it's an invalid login. Any idea what I've done (or not done) ?? This is from memory, so someone correct me if I'm wrong. You have shadow passwords on, and aren't using xdm-shadow. The solution is to go to VT1 (ctl-alt-f1), and type shadowconfig off shadowconfig on And restart xdm. Dom -- It was Penguin lust... at its ugliest. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
HP 6020 cd-writer
Anyone got this thing to play an audio cd ? I can read and write cd-roms, but as far as playing audio cds, I've got SCSI errors and SCSI bus resets... Is this thing SCSI-II compliant ? Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
X11 Problems
I have just installed the X11 graphical windows program, at the same time as upgrading from debian 1.2 - 1.3. It all worked fine at the time, and I selected to have X11 coming up automatically on start-up. However, I have just rebooted my machine, and after the usual linux start-up messages, it came up with the login window in X11. I entered 'root' as user name, and my password (I need to make linux bootable from hard-drive), but kept getting login incorrect. (I installed shadow passwords when upgrading to 1.3, if this has any effect). Is there a way I can get linux to boot-up without starting X11 (preferably without resorting to the rescue disk), and/or change my password? Is the problem that you can't login to X11 as root? Cheers Rich. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: answer to xdm automatically starting
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], writes: 3) the file /etc/xdm.dpkg-dist exists, but xdm isn't launching. However, xdm from a root window successfully launches. If you get answer for this one, please, let me know :) ... change /etc/X11/config so that it contains #no-start-xdm start-xfs start-xdm xdm-start-server Also check the Xservers file in /etc/X11/xdm. The line describing the local machine's display must be uncommented before xdm will try to manage it: :0 Local local /usr/bin/X11/X :0 -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://homepages.enterprise.net/olly In case of connection troubles, try [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
SOLVED: TeTex-Problems
I had big problems installing the TeTex-Package. Thats how I solved it (thanx again for all the hints from this list...) I manually purged all (!) TeTex-packages and unset my XDVIFONTS-variable (I think that was the clue). Then manually installed all 3 packages again (tetex-bin, -base and -extra). Someone just had the same problem as I had (Unable to find default-somewhat file). Maybe this works for you too. Peace, Gernot -- -- Gernot Bauer University of Linz [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Big Bad Bug - adduser truncating files from /etc/skel.
I finally had the need to add some users to my brand new 1.3.0 server. Using adduser everything copied from /etc/skel to /home/[user] gets hacked down to one line. I checked my other machine that was 1.2.6 based and the same thing happened. .bash_profile: -- # ~/.bash_profile: executed by bash(1) for login shells. umask 022 -- becomes: -- # ~/.bash_profile: executed by bash(1) for login shells. -- (yes, not good) .alias: -- alias a alias alias loada 'source ~/.alias' alias loadalias loada alias log watchlog unalias ls alias ls 'ls-F -C' alias lsa 'ls -A' alias vdir'ls -l' alias vdira 'dir -A' alias d 'dir' alias da 'dira' alias v 'ls -l' alias va 'v -A' alias pls \\ls alias md mkdir alias rd rmdir alias rmold 'rm -rf *~ .*~ #*#' alias - less alias + 'less -E' # alias + more alias f finger alias ff 'finger -l' alias p 'ping -c 1' -- becomes : -- alias a alias -- Don't seem like a 'feature' to me -- Elite MicroComputers 908-541-4214 http://www.psychosis.com/emc/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Xfree33
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 # Isnt this a feature? Did you try xhost +? My root-user also must not open windows on my (user-)screen. xhost + disables this. Gernot -- -- Gernot Bauer University of Linz [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
downloading packages
Now that i have downloaded the base linux system, i need to run dselect to load any packages. Heres my question, where are all the packages that are shown in dselect located? Are they on the base floppies, or do i have to download them from the net? I would like to download them all into my dos partion and just pick and choose which ones i want all at once. I know there is a way to access them straight from the ftp site, but my dos partition is the only place a have access to the net. Also, in dselect, are these all the packages that are available to me? I would really like to learn EVERY option available to me, but the easyist would be met with the same gratitude. Thanks -- 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, Jun 20, 1997 at 12:12:14PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: 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. In fact, depending on your hardware, the performance might even be worse. I have a Shuttle HOT-553, which is a Triton HX motherboard. I have a Western Dig 1.6gb on the primary, and a Quantum 3.2gb which was on the secondary. Linux would initially enable the DMA for the Quantum, then disable it when it mounted the partitions, after a timeout. This doesn't happen now that I've moved the Quantum onto the primary with the WD (although it still happens to my CD-ROM drive which is on the secondary). I don't know if there's a performance difference, but I couldn't be any worse off. So in summary, DMA does not seem to work to drives on the secondary controller, while it works fine on the primary. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust[EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science computer systems engineering.3rd year, RMIT. http://hamish.home.ml.org/ (PGP key here) CPOM: [ ] 48% 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] .
XF86Setup
Having recently seen XF86Setup mentioned on debian-user, I decided to give it a try. Upon startup it complains that /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/symb10.pc* is missing and aborts. I've tried to deselect several font packages, but that hasn't helped. How can I find out which package will supply the required fonts? TIA -- - Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Someday soon I really MUST find a way to piss away a LOT of bandwidth on this .sig -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Xfree33
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 # Isnt this a feature? Did you try xhost +? My root-user also must not open windows on my (user-)screen. xhost + disables this. xhost + allows more than that. xhost + allows any user on any machine connected via a network to do anything to your X screen. Including record every key stroke (you don't type in passwords, do you), pop up windows, etc. At least xhost +machinename allows only any user on a given machine to do that. Take a look at the man page for xauth, for a safe way to do that. Basically, when the system is running, it creates a small magic cookie that only it knows, that only you can read. When some program tries to connect to the server, it asks for that magic cookie. If the program can't provide it, the program can't talk to your server. If you want other people (like root, or yourself logged into another machine, or your friend next to you) to be able to talk to your screen, you can provide them with a copy of the cookie. It is much secure than opening up your machine to every user in the world! -- Buddha Buck [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just as the strength of the Internet is chaos, so the strength of our liberty depends upon the chaos and cacaphony of the unfettered speech the First Amendment protects. -- A.L.A. v. U.S. Dept. of Justice -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Connecting to Windows NT
Hello everyone. First thing I apologize right away if I am posting this in the wrong areas. Reading the latest version of the PPP How To, I discovered that PPP has something called MS CHAP. Apparentely if you have a WinNT server, this is what is required to connect Linux to it. Has anyone tried this? As far as I know the server is asking for CHAP since it wants my username and password, and once I connect, the very first time, when I connected under Win95, it asked the network name. After entering that, everything worked fine. I am relatively new to Linux, just converted from Win, although I am too used at have everything working (and crashing) right away. Any hints or suggestions would be great from someone who has tried anything like it before. Thank you all in advance, Leandro+ ___ Leandro Asnaghi-Nicastro (LA672) Capital of Nasty Electronic Magazine - http://www.capnasty.org CAT, n. (1) A soft, indestructible automation provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in domestic circles -- Ambrose Bierce (2) A lapwarmer with a built-in buzzer -- Anonymous ZimID 46B98555 1993/12/15 0D 6E 96 68 D6 B3 9A 96 20 ED 1F AF 11 46 13 79 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
dselect problem
Hello all, I am trying to install a Debian 1.3 system on my friend's computer. However, I encountered a serious problem which I do not know how to solve. There is no problem of installation. I setup ppp correctly and able to dail in to ISP. But when I try to upgrade the system using ftp of dselect, it gives me this error: Net::FTP.Bad peer address at /usr/lib/perl5/Net/FTP.pm line 405 I just cannot understand this error. Can someone help me on this? Thanks very much!! Anthony -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
XTerm-color
Hi all, I would like to know what is going wrong with my setup for the Xterm: I put the following lines in my Xresources-file (in /etc/X11) #ifdef COLOR *customization: -color #endif but nothing happened, when I start an xterm, it is still b/w. I am using Debian 1.2.4 from the Cheapbytes CD with a 16 bpp S3-X-Server. -- Bye, Marc Saric Visit http://www.rat.de/marc_saric/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: XTerm-color
MS == Marc Saric [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MS I would like to know what is going wrong with my setup for the MS Xterm: I put the following lines in my Xresources-file (in MS /etc/X11) MS #ifdef COLOR MS *customization: -color MS #endif MS but nothing happened, when I start an xterm, it is still b/w. I MS am using Debian 1.2.4 from the Cheapbytes CD with a 16 bpp MS S3-X-Server. Have you started the X server again? Indeed all you need to do is to load these new resources in the server resources database: xrdb -merge /etc/X11/Xresources Also, try ls --color=auto. -- Emilio C. Lopes mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: XTerm-color
#ifdef COLOR *customization: -color #endif Does it do the same thing without the #ifdef and #endif lines? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: PCMCIA Cards
On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: Rob MacWilliams wrote: My question has to do with the PCMCIA cards that are available now. I will need to run a modem and an ethernet card at the same time, and I was worried about cable interference and thinking of the future (the machine only has two slots). I figured the the 3com (3c562D) modem/ethernet combo card would do the trick, but a quick look through the Hardware and PCMCIA How-to's revealed that interrupts could be a problem. I use two cards in my Gateway Solo 2100: 3com 3c589D and a Gateway TelePath 33.6 modem. I use them simultaneously and haven't had a problem. Both worked like a charm from the beginning with no twiddling. (The modem is OEM from USR, which is actually manufactured by Megahertz I think.) I've been using a LinkSys EthernetCard Model EC2T and a Megahertz (USRobotics) XJ4336. Both work well after some initial problems with IRQ settings. -- Jean Pierre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Debian Consultants List
*** ** Announcing the Debian GNU/Linux consultants list! ** *** Even though a Debian system can be supported quite well with a little time and by using the debian mailing lists, some people either don't have the time or have specialized needs and are willing to hire someone to either maintain or add additional functionality to their Debian system. The consultants in this list are available to fill such a need. Please note that some consultants donate a portion of their income (derived from Debian) to supporting Debian. This is up to each consultant or company. The Debian consultants list can be accessed from the Support section on www.debian.org (or any of it's mirrors), or can be accessed directly at: http://www.debian.org/consultants.html To have yourself added to this page, or to make any changes to information about you on this page, please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] I would like to take this moment to thank Sue Campbell for helping set up these page and making sure all the web Mirrors _finally_ picked up the latest version of the consultants pages. Cheers Sue! 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] .
aspfilter
I have recently installed Debian for the first time and tried installing the apsfilter package as apsfilter worked well on my previous Slackware Linux system. However, I am unable to get the new installation to work. I am able to print fine if I force it to ascii mode using the -Pascii option. However the default setting fails with all file types. The error message from the log: + ...many lines of output deleted... + PRINT_PS= gs -q -sDEVICE=ljet2p -sPAPERSIZE=letter -dNOPAUSE -dSAFER -sOutputFile=- + '[' '' = True ']' + '[' '' = True ']' ++ file - /usr/lib/apsfilter/filter/aps-ljet2p-letter-auto-mono: file: command not found + set -- + shift + shift + FILE_TYPE= + rewindstdin ...output continues... (do you need more?) All filters are present. File permissions are correct. I've tried reinstalling the package. All paths are correct and entered in the GLOBAL.sh script. One of the apsfilter directories has a readme that mentions a /etc/magic file which is NOT present on my system (I had one on the old Slackware system). I tried to create a magic file using the samples in the apsfilter package but it didn't help. I'm at a total loss as to what to do next (other than go back to Slackware!) Any suggestions would be really appreciated. I can't afford to loss any more hair and I'm yanking it out by the handful now! Thanks in advance! Jess Stryker -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: dselect problem
On Sun, 22 Jun 1997, A.D.Y. Cheng wrote: Net::FTP.Bad peer address at /usr/lib/perl5/Net/FTP.pm line 405 I think thats because ftp.debian.org is down (I am guessing thats who your using). Try a mirror site. :) Smash forehead on keyboard to continue. ,, / ( _(-)- .' ^^ [EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Bitburn Access. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: modem hang up
Your ISP is probably the one that is doing this, not Linux. A.D.Y. Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello all, I am running PPP connecting to my ISP. However, after connecting, if I leave the connection idle for about half an hour, the modem will hang up itself which I do not really want. Can somebody point out to me how to turn off this feature? Thanks for help in advance ! Anthony -- 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: X11 Problems
This is a known problem, I believe. Check the info under the disks-i386 directory -- I think there is a file in there that mentions this. FYI, you should try this, as root on the console: shadowconfig off shadowconfig on Richard Harran. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have just installed the X11 graphical windows program, at the same time as upgrading from debian 1.2 - 1.3. It all worked fine at the time, and I selected to have X11 coming up automatically on start-up. However, I have just rebooted my machine, and after the usual linux start-up messages, it came up with the login window in X11. I entered 'root' as user name, and my password (I need to make linux bootable from hard-drive), but kept getting login incorrect. (I installed shadow passwords when upgrading to 1.3, if this has any effect). Is there a way I can get linux to boot-up without starting X11 (preferably without resorting to the rescue disk), and/or change my password? Is the problem that you can't login to X11 as root? Cheers Rich. -- 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: modem hang up
Many ISPs have policy against such a thing, so be careful before you do it. Udjat -Whoo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ping you host once in a while. ping -i 500 xyz.com /dev/null see ping man page. On Sat, 21 Jun 1997, A.D.Y. Cheng wrote: Hello all, I am running PPP connecting to my ISP. However, after connecting, if I leave the connection idle for about half an hour, the modem will hang up itself which I do not really want. Can somebody point out to me how to turn off this feature? Thanks for help in advance ! Anthony -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Help! I'm modeming... and I can't hang up!!! ,, / ( _(-)- .' ^^ [EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Bitburn Access. -- 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: X11 Problems
On Sat, 21 Jun 1997, Richard Harran. wrote: I have just installed the X11 graphical windows program, at the same time as upgrading from debian 1.2 - 1.3. It all worked fine at the time, and I selected to have X11 coming up automatically on start-up. However, I have just rebooted my machine, and after the usual linux start-up messages, it came up with the login window in X11. I entered 'root' as user name, and my password (I need to make linux bootable from hard-drive), but kept getting login incorrect. (I installed shadow passwords when upgrading to 1.3, if this has any effect). Is there a way I can get linux to boot-up without starting X11 (preferably without resorting to the rescue disk), and/or change my password? Is the problem that you can't login to X11 as root? This is the same problem that Tim O'Brien was having. It is a configuration ordering problem that has been fixed in the next release. Xdm get's configured as non-shadow while the system is configured for shadow. The workaround is simple. Switch to a console VC (cntrl, alt, F1, for instance) and, as root, type: shadowconfig off shadowconfig on and restart xdm. Everything should work fine from this point on. Luck, Dwarf -- _-_-_-_-_-_- _-_-_-_-_-_-_- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 656-9769 Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tallahassee, FL 32308 _-_-_-_-_-_- If you don't see what you want, just ask _-_-_-_-_-_-_- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Big Bad Bug - adduser truncating files from /etc/skel.
On Sat, 21 Jun 1997, Dave Cinege wrote: I finally had the need to add some users to my brand new 1.3.0 server. Using adduser everything copied from /etc/skel to /home/[user] gets hacked down to one line. I checked my other machine that was 1.2.6 based and the same thing happened. I believe that this was fixed in a more recent version of adduser. What version are you using? 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: Big Bad Bug - adduser truncating files from /etc/skel.
On Jun 21, Dave Cinege wrote I finally had the need to add some users to my brand new 1.3.0 server. Using adduser everything copied from /etc/skel to /home/[user] gets hacked down to one line. I checked my other machine that was 1.2.6 based and the same thing happened. Hi, upgrade to 3.4 from unstable, will be in 1.3.1: adduser (3.4) stable unstable; urgency=HIGH * fixed behavior when grouphomes=yes (#10422). * don't do shell expansion on system() calls (#10425). * copy to skel copies entire file (#10399) -- Guy Maor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue, 10 Jun 1997 10:45:30 -0500 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] .
xauth +, not a good idea...
On Jun 21, Gernot Bauer wrote 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 # Isnt this a feature? Did you try xhost +? My root-user also must not open windows on my (user-)screen. xhost + disables this. ... and enables anyone on the Internet to connect to your X server and, say, stuff the string rm -rf / in an open root xterm. Or read everything you type, inluding passwords. Doing xhosts + in response to an Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key is pretty much the equivalent of making all files writable by anyone (chmod -R ugo+w /) and setting all the passwords to in response to a permission denied error when trying to access a file. Anyone that can get to your machine can now do pretty much anything they want to it. So, unless your machine is never connected to any kind of network, it's definitely a *bad* idea. And the Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key message that other users get when trying to connect to your X server is definitely a *feature* (enclosed in stars) as opposed to a feature (enclosed in quotes). If you trust everyone who has a login on your machine, do xhost +local: instead of xhost +. This will allow only non-network, local connections to your X server. If you don't trust every user on your machine, you'll need to learn a bit about xauth. xauth list $DISPLAY will list the key for the display $DISPLAY. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[~] xauth list $DISPLAY pianocktail.org/unix:0 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 53a82429fe56a1cf5236f3d4852e7d79e Anyone who has that key is authorized to connect to the X server managing display $DISPLAY. So say you want to grant user bar access to the display that user foo is using, you just do (as bar): [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[~] xauth add pianocktail.org/unix:0 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 53a82429fe56a1cf5236f3d4852e7d79e (Everything after the 'add' was copied (using cut and paste) from the output of the 'xauth list' command.) You can automate this a bit more if you can use something like rsh or ssh. Then doing (as user foo): [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[~] xauth extract - $DISPLAY | ssh -l bar localhost merge - will give user bar the same access rights over the display $DISPLAY as user foo. By changing 'localhost' to some other host name, you can give a user logged onto another machine access to your display. (extract/merge work in a binary format instead of text, so they're not really suitable for cut and paste work.) If you logged in as a non-root user and want to give root on that machine the right to open xterms, etc. (maybe you want to install the latest Debian packages from stable), there's an even easier way. Since root can read other users' files, you can just tell root to use user foo's $HOME/.Xauthority file (which is where all the information we've just manipulated using 'xauth' is stored)... Just setting root's XAUTHORITY environment variable to (say) /home/foo/.Xauthority will tell root to use the keys contained in that file when she needs to authenticate herself to the X server (to, say, open an xterm). I hope I've been convincing enough on these two points: 1. Doing xhost + is simply a *bad* idea. 2. Doing it right (i.e. with xauth, .Xauthority and MIT magic cookies) really isn't that hard. If you have questions, please don't hesitate to ask here Christian Debian Security Officer PS Not that the MIT magic cookie scheme is perfect... The cookies aren't encrypted when they are transfered between the X client and the X server. So if you're connecting over a network, people who can snoop on your packets can grab the magic cookie and then use it to connect to your X server and do nasty stuff. But that's quite a bit harder to do. And since it requires snooping, it won't work for local X connections. If you want to do remote X connections securely, you really want to have a look at ssh. It makes it easier to have secure X connections than unsecure ones. (No need to do any xauth stuff.) There's a Debian package for it on the Debian non-US ftp site. PPS Where do people learn to xauth +? Would having a file that explains what the Right Thing (tm) to do is be a good idea? Something that would get installed with Debian's X11 packages, or something... pgp022jrMPh0k.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: XF86Setup
On Jun 21, Ralph Winslow wrote give it a try. Upon startup it complains that /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/symb10.pc* is missing and aborts. I've Hi, I suppose it's the xfnt75 package which is missing in your setup. 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: downloading packages
On Sat, 21 Jun 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now that i have downloaded the base linux system, i need to run dselect to load any packages. Heres my question, where are all the packages that are shown in dselect located? Are they on the base floppies, or do i have to download them from the net? I would like to download them all into my dos partion and just pick and choose which ones i want all at once. I know there is a way to access them straight from the ftp site, but my dos partition is the only place a have access to the net. Also, in dselect, are these all the packages that are available to me? I would really like to learn EVERY option available to me, but the easyist would be met with the same gratitude. Thanks You will want to get the msdos-i386 directory, as the file names will not get mangled. You will need an ftp client that can follow symlinks and retrieve the files. Some clients (primarily windows related) don't deal with symbolic links correctly. The msdos-i386 directory is nothing but symbolic links that have adequate file names. Currently this directory tree contains 316035 1k blocks (k in this case equals 1024 bytes). This 300 + meg of packages will need disk space to live on. Another option would be to buy a CD from one of the many fine vendors available, like myself, for instance ;-) Luck, Dwarf -- _-_-_-_-_-_- _-_-_-_-_-_-_- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 656-9769 Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tallahassee, FL 32308 _-_-_-_-_-_- If you don't see what you want, just ask _-_-_-_-_-_-_- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: setting switching screen densities
stealth vram (#124), which is an S3. I've set it for 432 under 8 bits, and 32 under 16 (1mb vram). ^^^ Do you mean you have 1 Mb VRAM on the card? Then it can't do better then 800x600x16 bpp (800x600x2 / 1024^2 = 0.92 Mb.) -- Dimitri -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: XF86Setup
On Sat, 21 Jun 1997, Ralph Winslow wrote: Having recently seen XF86Setup mentioned on debian-user, I decided to give it a try. Upon startup it complains that /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/symb10.pc* is missing and aborts. I've tried to deselect several font packages, but that hasn't helped. How can I find out which package will supply the required fonts? TIA The package you need, besides xfntbase, is xfnt75. The new release of XFree86 has these dependencies explicitly declared and should be less of a problem. Luck, Dwarf -- _-_-_-_-_-_- _-_-_-_-_-_-_- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 656-9769 Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tallahassee, FL 32308 _-_-_-_-_-_- If you don't see what you want, just ask _-_-_-_-_-_-_- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: X11 Problems
You can always type Ctl-Alt-F1 to get to a regular console. I don't know, however, if that will fix your problems. Ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have just installed the X11 graphical windows program, at the same time as upgrading from debian 1.2 - 1.3. It all worked fine at the time, and I selected to have X11 coming up automatically on start-up. However, I have just rebooted my machine, and after the usual linux start-up messages, it came up with the login window in X11. I entered 'root' as user name, and my password (I need to make linux bootable from hard-drive), but kept getting login incorrect. (I installed shadow passwords when upgrading to 1.3, if this has any effect). Is there a way I can get linux to boot-up without starting X11 (preferably without resorting to the rescue disk), and/or change my password? Is the problem that you can't login to X11 as root? Cheers Rich. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: XF86Setup
At 10:32 AM 6/21/97 -0400, you wrote: Having recently seen XF86Setup mentioned on debian-user, I decided to give it a try. Upon startup it complains that /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/symb10.pc* is missing and aborts. I've I just finished setting up X and had the same problem. I fixed it by selecting xfnt75 under dselect, the running /sbin/xbase-configure to set up the XF86Config file. Hope this helps, Tim - LINUX 2.0.6 i486 Because reboots are for upgrades!! - Please direct Email to: tjobrien(at)traveller.com -- 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?
John Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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? Yes. It is very easy to use a standard mailhost as a relay if it doesn't have any kind of relay-access-control. If so, how do I stop it? There is a set of patches for Sendmail that allow it to do this, you can use BlackMail as a spam-filter, or install qmail (http://www.qmail.org/) which has a reasonable amount of configurability fo stopping spam, and also several patches that further improves this ability. (Checking if the envelope-from address is valid through DNS or simply blocking an ip-range.) 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? Install iplogger. This will give you entries in the syslog for all connection attemts made to your machine, like: Jun 21 16:42:53 blight tcplogd: smtp connection attempt from yme.mo.hiMolde.no And then how do I prevent it happening again? Install access-control-lists for relaying on your current MTA, or switch to qmail. -- Vebjorn Forsmo [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 80 13 6B 4B 7C 83 B7 DC 5C 9C A8 AE C0 AD 22 F4 2048/00952325 1995/05/13 To err is human, to forgive is Not Company Policy. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: XTerm-color
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], writes: Hi all, I would like to know what is going wrong with my setup for the Xterm: I put the following lines in my Xresources-file (in /etc/X11) #ifdef COLOR *customization: -color #endif but nothing happened, when I start an xterm, it is still b/w. I am using Debian 1.2.4 from the Cheapbytes CD with a 16 bpp S3-X-Server. Look at /etc/X11/config This is quoted from /usr/doc/xbase/README: Other X confguration options are in the file /etc/X11/config. This file consists of a list of options. Comments begin with a # symbol. If an option is present with a no- prefix, you should not be prompted about it by configuration scripts. If an option is not present at all then you may be prompted to supply a value for it when you run the configuration scripts in the future. The currently defined options are: ... * allow-user-resources If users have a file called .Xresources in their home directory, these resources will be merged with the default resources when they log in. So ensure that this line exists in the file, if you want to use a private .Xresources file. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://homepages.enterprise.net/olly In case of connection troubles, try [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: xauth +, not a good idea...
Christian Hudon wrote: On Jun 21, Gernot Bauer wrote 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 # Isnt this a feature? Did you try xhost +? My root-user also must not open windows on my (user-)screen. xhost + disables this. ... and enables anyone on the Internet to connect to your X server and, say, stuff the string rm -rf / in an open root xterm. Or read everything you type, inluding passwords. Doing xhosts + in response to an Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key is pretty much the equivalent of making all files writable by anyone (chmod -R ugo+w /) and setting all the passwords to in response to a permission denied error when trying to access a file. Anyone that can get to your machine can now do pretty much anything they want to it. So, unless your machine is never connected to any kind of network, it's definitely a *bad* idea. And the Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key message that other users get when trying to connect to your X server is definitely a *feature* (enclosed in stars) as opposed to a feature (enclosed in quotes). If you trust everyone who has a login on your machine, do xhost +local: instead of xhost +. This will allow only non-network, local connections to your X server. [snip] Ooops, thanx for these hints. Looks like I should take some more lessons in security-matters... Gernot -- -- Gernot Bauer University of Linz [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
