Re: I can lock up machine. Why?
Hi, Could this be a bug in fte? manoj -- Manoj Srivastava url:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Mobile, Alabama USAurl:http://www.datasync.com/%7Esrivasta/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: hi
ok, i got libc5_5.4.33-7.deb from hamm, and here's what i got: mattyt# dpkg -i libc5_5.4.33-7.deb dpkg: regarding libc5_5.4.33-7.deb containing libc5: libc5 conflicts with libc5-dev libc5-dev (version 5.4.33-6) is installed. dpkg: error processing libc5_5.4.33-7.deb (--install): conflicting packages - not installing libc5 Errors were encountered while processing: libc5_5.4.33-7.deb ...should i install libc6-dev 2.0.5c-0.1 first? thanks, matty Matt Thompson MZI, Inc. v-206.430.3726 707 S. Grady Wayf-206.430.3420 Renton, WA 98055 [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 14 Oct 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt == Matt Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Matt okay, i'm back in business, and per the HOWTO, i installed Matt ldso_1.9.5-1 without incident. the HOWTO said that next Matt would be libc6_2.0.4-1, but that, ...any later version Matt should also be acceptable, so I attempted: *snip* Matt is there a way to replace libc5 while installing libc6? i Matt read dpkg --help, but didn't see anything there. it doesn't Matt mention anything special in the HOWTO, either. i'll read Matt 'info dpkg' in the meantime... Just upgrade your libc5 to the newest in hamm before you upgrade to libc6. This should probably be mentioned in the HOWTO :) -- Brought to you by the letters C and P and the number 3. My sister has three.. gender biases. -- Moxy Fruvous Ben Gertzfield http://www.imsa.edu/~wilwonka/ Finger me for my public PGP key. I'm on FurryMUCK as Che, and EFNet and YiffNet IRC as Che_Fox. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: I can lock up machine. Why?
On Tue, 14 Oct 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey. I've been doing lots of programming lately and have noticed (how could I not) that I am reliably able to cause my machine to lockup. I'm running 1.3.1, and have reinstalled from CD twice, once going so far as to wipe the entire boot partition first. This is how I do it: open a document in xfte that is several pages long. Quickly scroll through it using the page up and page down keys. In as little time as a minute I'm able to lock the machine solid -- no disk access, nothing. Note that I told the Xserver to disable XAA acceleration and am now stable but slow. I'm running a Cyrix P120+, Tyan Titan III, and Trident 9680 PCI with 2 Megs of RAM on the card, 24 in the machine. Also note that this machine has been perfectly stable for well over a year, since Debian 1.2, in fact. This sound like it could be caused by can't get free page problems with the delivered 1.3 kernels. 2.0.29 is better than 2.0.30, but they can both be locked by fast allocation of buffers. I don't think that 2.0.27 had this problem, so you might try downgrading the kernel. 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] .
Question about new 'g' packages in unstable
Hi. I'm trying to install the new version of Scotty because I want tkined but it requires tk8.0 which depends on one of the new 'g' packages which seem to be appearing in unstable... in this case xlib6g. Now I just tried to install these new xlib6g packages and hosed my system because xlib6g conflicts with xlib6 and I couldn't remove xlib6 because lots and lots depended on it (so stupidly I tried to do a --force on xlib6g and then remove xlib6 which was not a happy thing because lots of things depended on elf-x11r6lib which xlib6 provided but xlib6g doesn't). In short... does anyone have a copy of tk8.0 before the xlib6g dependency that they could mail me? The slightly longer question is: 'What's the story with the new 'g' packages and how do I safely swap over. Thanks, Adam. PS. I've been off the list for a couple weeks as I moved... sorry if this has been discussed... could replies be CC'd to me as I have only just resubbed. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: staroffice and libc
Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : hi everyone I'm trying to use the latest debianized staroffice package but : the dependancies show that I need libc when i do a dpkg -l libc none : Depends: libc (= 5.4.4-0) where do i find this package? : Thanks. If there is more info that you need please ask. Try forcing the install (if you have libc5 = 5.4.4-0 installed): dpkg --force-depends -i staroffice.deb E.- -- Eloy A. Paris Information Technology Department Rockwell Automation de Venezuela Telephone: +58-2-9432311 Fax: +58-2-9431645 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: hi
On 14-Oct-97 Matt Thompson wrote: ok, i got libc5_5.4.33-7.deb from hamm, and here's what i got: mattyt# dpkg -i libc5_5.4.33-7.deb dpkg: regarding libc5_5.4.33-7.deb containing libc5: libc5 conflicts with libc5-dev libc5-dev (version 5.4.33-6) is installed. dpkg: error processing libc5_5.4.33-7.deb (--install): conflicting packages - not installing libc5 Errors were encountered while processing: libc5_5.4.33-7.deb You can remove libc5-dev, and also, you shouldn't need to install any *-dev unless you are going to compile you own programs. The gimp works without any *-dev and I would assume must debian packages are same. Later, David ...should i install libc6-dev 2.0.5c-0.1 first? thanks, matty Matt Thompson MZI, Inc. v-206.430.3726 707 S. Grady Wayf-206.430.3420 Renton, WA 98055 [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 14 Oct 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt == Matt Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Matt okay, i'm back in business, and per the HOWTO, i installed Matt ldso_1.9.5-1 without incident. the HOWTO said that next Matt would be libc6_2.0.4-1, but that, ...any later version Matt should also be acceptable, so I attempted: *snip* Matt is there a way to replace libc5 while installing libc6? i Matt read dpkg --help, but didn't see anything there. it doesn't Matt mention anything special in the HOWTO, either. i'll read Matt 'info dpkg' in the meantime... Just upgrade your libc5 to the newest in hamm before you upgrade to libc6. This should probably be mentioned in the HOWTO :) -- Brought to you by the letters C and P and the number 3. My sister has three.. gender biases. -- Moxy Fruvous Ben Gertzfield http://www.imsa.edu/~wilwonka/ Finger me for my public PGP key. I'm on FurryMUCK as Che, and EFNet and YiffNet IRC as Che_Fox. -- 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: hi
On 14-Oct-97 Matt Thompson wrote: ok, i got libc5_5.4.33-7.deb from hamm, and here's what i got: mattyt# dpkg -i libc5_5.4.33-7.deb dpkg: regarding libc5_5.4.33-7.deb containing libc5: libc5 conflicts with libc5-dev libc5-dev (version 5.4.33-6) is installed. dpkg: error processing libc5_5.4.33-7.deb (--install): conflicting packages - not installing libc5 Errors were encountered while processing: libc5_5.4.33-7.deb You can remove libc5-dev, and also, you shouldn't need to install any *-dev unless you are going to compile you own programs. The gimp works without any *-dev and I would assume must debian packages are same. Later, David ok, i removed libc5-dev, which also removed wg15-locale, flex and gcc (and several -dev packages, but i assume i won't be needing those since i'm no hacker, unfortunately :) ). now, i know i want gcc if i ever want to compile a new kernel, right? but do i need flex or wg15? if so, should i get it from unstable? should i install the stable gcc from dselect, or get the version from unstable and dpkg it? thanks loads, matty -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Fortune
I like to display fortune or the dhammapada in my x-window at login, so I have in ~/.xsession xmessage -center `dp` In fact, I like it so much that I generate a new dhammapada every 10 minutes on an X-window in the fourth quadrant: xterm -T dhammapada -geometry +1024+1118-e watch -n 600 dp -- Jim Burt, NJ9L, Fairfax, Virginia, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mnsinc.com/jameson If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience. --William James, Varieties of Religious Experience -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Samba/Win95 \\server\share%user doesn't work
I can't get the \\server\share%user syntex to work.. It'll just log on as the public user w/o asking for a password. Anyone have this problem? -Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: staroffice and libc
I had installed stafoffice without using --force and the installation is ok. Eloy A. Paris wrote: Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : hi everyone I'm trying to use the latest debianized staroffice package but : the dependancies show that I need libc when i do a dpkg -l libc none : Depends: libc (= 5.4.4-0) where do i find this package? : Thanks. If there is more info that you need please ask. Try forcing the install (if you have libc5 = 5.4.4-0 installed): dpkg --force-depends -i staroffice.deb E.- -- Eloy A. Paris Information Technology Department Rockwell Automation de Venezuela Telephone: +58-2-9432311 Fax: +58-2-9431645 -- 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: SUID shells...aaarrgghh
Garry Myers wrote: so, logging into console as root $ cp /bin/bash /bin/somefile $ ls -l /bin/somefile - -rwxr-x--- 1 root root 318612 Oct 14 22:44 /bin/somefile $ chmod a+xs /bin/somefile - -rwsr-s--x 1 root root 318612 Oct 14 22:44 /bin/somefile Presumably a hacker (or cracker to be precise) would chgrp to root if root was gained by some exploit. Exiting and logging in as test_user (created for the purpose), when I execute /bin/somefile and do whoami and id, test_user is still controlling the shell with uid guid etc set to test_user. I've tried a number of variations on the above but to no avail. I *hate* the idea of not knowing how to do something that some IRC #hack juvenile can! I know I'm missing something awfully obvious here or else I've got something new to crow about regarding Debian to my linux-challenged (read RedHat and Slackware :) ) friends... You're just running into some simple protection that is designed to trip up said pimply-faced crackers: bash gives up any suid permissions when it starts up. If you try the same thing with some other shell that doesn't have this protection, it will probably work as you would expect. -- see shy jo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
How secure is netcat?
If I wanted to use tcp wrappers to do something like: in.smtpd: .cyberpromo.com:twist netcat %a 25 would it represent a great security hazard? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RE: How secure is netcat?
I ment, of course, nc On 15-Oct-97 George Bonser wrote: If I wanted to use tcp wrappers to do something like: in.smtpd: .cyberpromo.com:twist netcat %a 25 would it represent a great security hazard? -- 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] .
GRASS and libcurses.so.1
Perhaps this is offtopic. Perhaps not. I am trying to get GRASS running on a debian system. My problem isn't unique, but I want to find out if anyone running debian has solved it. The problem I am getting with existing precompiled binaries, is failure to load the curses library libcurses.so.1. A solution has been proposed, of FTPing the libcurses.so.1 file on the GRASS ftp site and installing it. I would like to ask whether this would cause any problem, or what other solutions have been found, short of recompiling. (I would like to compile grass, but my system is, as usually the case when trying to keep up to date with debian, in limbo. This brings up another question---is it safe to begin compiling with libc6? When will it be? Does the dual library compilation route work? Ahhh sh ). Alan Davis -- I consider that the golden rule requires Alan E. Davis that if I like a program I must share itMarianas High School with other people who like it AAA196, Box 10001 Saipan, MP 96950 ---Richard StallmanNorthern Mariana Islands GMT+10 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
dselect suggestion
I recently went into dselect using ftp mode ( I loaned someone my cd ;-) and lo an behold r4 was out. Now my simple snatch and grab of xxgdb became several hours of downloading rather than convince dselect not to upgrade me. If I was on a dedicated line I would not care, but I was at home w/ my 28.8. Could there be an option in dselect to upgrade to next revision that handles new packages and is solely responsible for this. That way if I do not want to upgrade ( or do not have the time ) I do not have to. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
YASQ (yet another sendmail question), more detailed
On 14 Oct 1997, Eloy A. Paris wrote: Hi, I doubt it's sendmail problem (I mean, nothing that a recompile will solve). It looks like a configuration problem. Can you send more information to the list? Your hosts names, your sendmail.mc file, where are you trying to send mail to, etc. See ya. E.- Here we go: --- /etc/host.conf order hosts,bind multi on /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost 10.0.0.5 p5.jrpriv.dep5 www.jrpriv.de www 10.0.0.4 p4.jrpriv.dep4 /etc/mailname p5.jrpriv.de /etc/resolv.conf search jrpriv.de /etc/sendmail.mc divert(-1) # All comment lines with '#' deleted. divert(0) VERSIONID(`@(#)sendmail.mc 8.7 (Linux) 3/5/96') OSTYPE(debian)dnl FEATURE(masquerade_envelope)dnl FEATURE(use_cw_file)dnl FEATURE(use_ct_file)dnl FEATURE(nouucp)dnl FEATURE(nodns)dnl FEATURE(local_procmail)dnl MAILER(local)dnl MAILER(smtp)dnl Cwp5.jrpriv.de MASQUERADE_AS(p5.jrpriv.de)dnl /etc/aliases (Only postmaster for root, I've the file not here at the moment) --- Should I post other files as well? The systems are similarly configured. I installed Debian 1.2 from scratch and updated most packages (except tex) to 1.3 and the current unstable version. I'm not absolutely sure, but I think, when I installed 1.2, mailing from one host to the other worked. I have NOT installed bind and am not using named on either of the machines. When I use 'mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]' from p5 (or vice versa) I get in the logs and from mailq the error message: Deferred: Name server: p4.jrpriv.de.: host name lookup failure runq didn't help (of course). I tried several things with /etc/host.conf and /etc/resolv.conf (thanks go to Brandon Mitchell for some suggestions!), but none of them worked. I tried for example to rename the files (in order to make them unavailable), to remove the bind statement from host.conf, to add a 'domain' line in resolv.conf (but this file shouldn't be used anyway, should it), to reverse the order of the lines in the files and more I can't think of now. BTW, if I mail on p5 to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] it works fine, also with the FQDN (p5.jrpriv.de). But when I try to mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (which is p5's IP) I get host map: lookup (10.0.0.5): deferred in the logs. Isn't mailing to IP's supposed to work as well? What's wrong here? I don't need the mailing system under all circumstances, but it's nice to leave some messages to remember on the other computer and besides it must be possible, somehow (without installing a nameserver - which I definitely don't want to, because I don't need it, so it would be a waste of memory). Thank you for your time and help, Ulf P.S.: Quoting my original message: : Hi, : I've a small intranet running with debian. In fact, there are only two : machines which are not connected to the internet. : I don't use a name server on either of the machines, it's not needed. : Addresses are read from /etc/hosts. : I use the latest sendmail package but can't send mail from one computer to : the other. I get something like 'Deferred: p4.: Name server : hostname lookup : failure. Well, I don't understand what happens. I configured sendmail to not : use any name server (FEATURE(nodns)), so there shouldn't be the cause. : Address canonification works fine when I turn it on in sendmail.mc, so : there's no trouble with /etc/hosts (ping,telnet,ftp and samba are ok as well) : Is this a problem with the current sendmail package? I remember correctly, when : I used another distribution a year ago, I solved this by recompiling sendmail. : Any ideas what could be wrong or what I could try? Thanks, : Ulf. -- #include signature -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: GIMP
On Mon, 13 Oct 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote: On Sun, 12 Oct 1997, Matt Thompson wrote: hello, all, I tried to install the GIMP and xtar, and when trying to run both, I get the same error message: xtar: can't load library 'libXm.so.2' ...and: gimp: can't load library 'libXm.so.2' Searching the Contents file for libXm showed me that the shared library is in libs/lesstif. Install the package and things should work. You should also file bug reports against the packages that do not declare it in their dependencies. Isn'Ät libXm the Motif library ? So install the statically linked gimp version. 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] . Jens Kerle e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://venus.rz.fh-heilbronn.de/~jkerle/ IRC: nick mars in #hp48 FTP: ftp://ftp.fh-heilbronn.de/pub/system/hp48 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Question about new 'g' packages in unstable
Hello! You have to *upgrade* xlib6 before installing xlib6g (which conflicts only to older versions of xlib6. I hope you know that you are going to use the hamm system, which is somewhat unstable (because of the change from libc5 to libc6. xlib6 is libc5, and xlib6g is libc6, and they are not kompatible. PLease be shure to read the From xlib5 to xlib6 mini HOWTO from Scott (?) Ellis (??) here on the list (check the archive or mail me, and I will send you one). Marcus On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, Adam Shand wrote: Hi. I'm trying to install the new version of Scotty because I want tkined but it requires tk8.0 which depends on one of the new 'g' packages which seem to be appearing in unstable... in this case xlib6g. Now I just tried to install these new xlib6g packages and hosed my system because xlib6g conflicts with xlib6 and I couldn't remove xlib6 because lots and lots depended on it (so stupidly I tried to do a --force on xlib6g and then remove xlib6 which was not a happy thing because lots of things depended on elf-x11r6lib which xlib6 provided but xlib6g doesn't). In short... does anyone have a copy of tk8.0 before the xlib6g dependency that they could mail me? The slightly longer question is: 'What's the story with the new 'g' packages and how do I safely swap over. Thanks, Adam. PS. I've been off the list for a couple weeks as I moved... sorry if this has been discussed... could replies be CC'd to me as I have only just resubbed. -- 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] .
dpkg-scanpackages
hi, I have downloaded all the packages based on which I want to create the Packages file. Now I don't know how to create the override file for dpkg-scanpackages ... help? TIA, Mart Klanberg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
xterm color (*sigh*)
Hi, y'all, Well, got bash 2.01-5 and gimp 0.99 installed and working. I'm finding out that I have to upgrade to the hamm versions of just about everything, like fvwm2 and emacs. That's ok. 'Been doing it all by dpkg instead of dselect, now that I'm comfortable with that. An old problem cropped up, tho. I don't have colors in my xterms anymore. My xsysinfo has colors just fine, but not my xterms. I never had to adjust anything with bo (except to edit /etc/profile with alias ls=ls --color, which I've done). Is there something else I need to do now that I'm hamming it up as it were? (sorry for the lousy pun :) ). thanks again for all the help, matty Matt Thompson MZI, Inc. v-206.430.3726 707 S. Grady Wayf-206.430.3420 Renton, WA 98055 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Linux as a mail and intranetserver
Carey, thanks for your information: At 21:28 14.10.1997 +1300, Carey wrote: You could use qmail, exim, sendmail or smail, or maybe another, not necessarily in that order. I use and like qmail, despite the author's attitude and the fact that there's no real Debian package. Any idea where I can check out qmail? - which web- and proxyserver to use Apache is the most widely used web server and probably a good choice. There's basically just one choice for web proxy: squid. This comes with the Debian release or is it to be found elsewhere? If you put a POP server on your Linux machine, it looks like an ISP. Qmail comes with one. Use Pegasus Mail or whatever on the Windows machine. Downloaded Pegasus and installed. Have not gone into details but it should serve the purpose od multipule users for one machine. I like Gnus under XEmacs, and it's not to bad once it's set up. VM and (X)Emacs might be easier to start with. I've heard good things about Mutt. Don't know about them yet. I will have to try them after I have installed Linux. My immediate aim is to install that which will serve my purpose and save as much precious time on un- and re-installing different applications. This is not actually too bad under Debian. You can even get your old configuration back. That is one reason why I choose Debian, though it took some time to get it from the US. Here in India Slackware is available, but I had to give up a previous installation of a free distribution of it. Dirk Kievith -- CADD Services WebDesign| [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- Tel./Fax: +91-413-20620 | http://www.webstudio6.com -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Linux as a mail and intranetserver
At 13:28 14.10.1997 -0400, Matthew wrote: - Can one have a Linux server and W95 pc's as clients. Linux has brilliant Windoze support. i'd even go as far to say it's one of it's most valuable features when speaking of an office intranet. What exactly do you want Linux to serve, or do for the W95 clients ? To give Internet and email facilities with a dial-up connection to the ISP. The W95 (or Linux) clients will be machines for *multiple* users to browse the Web and send and receive email. - As such, is there a way that multiple users could *download* their mail from the local Linux server into W95? Which mail package to use for that? Internet Explorer 4.0 Active Desktop is quickly invading the `Dozer realm shudder, but there is Eudora, or the stalwart Navigator or others. I would stick with Netscape for everything, the web, mail, news Make things easier to install, configure...etc Here again, does Netscape support multiple users with their own addresses on one or more machines? - Else should one leave Windoze for what it is and work only with Linux packages. Which email-packages under Linux are most user-friendly? snip i would also suggest dropping some more RAM in your box. it's not required on headless server, that is a server without a graphial interface, but is sure is a great feeling to be able to fire up X Windows on your 486 and browse the net. ( i know because i have a former Windoze running Debian Linux 486 too! ) It depends what you want to doand how you want to do it. I personally have totally switched to Linux Would like to too. But this brings up the question to what extend Linux supports W95 or DOS packages. I mainly work with different CAD software and graphic and Web authoring packages, apart from the usual 'office' applications such as ClarisWorks etc. Would it be necessary to shift to the unix versions of these softwares? Thanks, Dirk Kievith -- CADD Services WebDesign| [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- Tel./Fax: +91-413-20620 | http://www.webstudio6.com -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Linux as a mail and intranetserver
At 11:22 14.10.1997 -0500, Mark wrote: smail is the Debian preference and would probably be suitable for your intranet. on the other hand, sendmail is equally suitable and is still easy to configure. Is there a basic difference between smail and sendmail? Linux has brilliant Windoze support. i'd even go as far to say it's one of it's most valuable features when speaking of an office intranet. You mean to say as a server or as an OS for W95 applications? Internet Explorer 4.0 Active Desktop is quickly invading the `Dozer realm shudder, but there is Eudora, or the stalwart Navigator or others. I agree with your shudder. IE4 appears to be only uninstalled by a reformatting of the HD. Eudora is very fine, but does not support multiple users on one machine. The same thing for Navigator, if I have understood rightly. Else should one leave Windoze for what it is and work only with Linux packages. Which email-packages under Linux are most user-friendly? again, Netscape Navigator is a common tool but there are many others. just to see, browse http://www.xnet.com/~blatura/linapps.shtml. there are some powerful and useful desktop managers now and more exciting utilitites are introduced weekly. selection of an email package is somewhat dependent upon the the needs and abilities of the users, IMO. i would also suggest dropping some more RAM in your box. it's not required on headless server, that is a server without a graphial interface, but is sure is a great feeling to be able to fire up X Windows on your 486 and browse the net. ( i know because i have a former Windoze running Debian Linux 486 too! ) I will get a Pentium with 32 MB after i get the feel of Linux and use the 486 as a client. take the plunge! I certainly will. Thanks a lot! Dirk Kievith -- CADD Services WebDesign| [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- Tel./Fax: +91-413-20620 | http://www.webstudio6.com -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: man page for nsswitch.conf
Dale Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What I _don't_ know is if I have my nsswitch.conf file set up correctly. I can't seem to locate documentation for it, so it makes it hard to check :-) Try in the Libc info pages under NSS Configuration File: URL:info:libc#NSS%20Configuration%20File. -- Carey Evans * http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ gc kernel: Warning: possible SYN flooding. Sending cookies. kernel: validated probe(17f, 17f, 11557, 5010, -1645409555) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: A quickie on telnet
Mike Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Very simply, I'm trying to telnet to a site and get some data from a script. In HPUX, I would do this: echo Alinetobesent | telnet an.address.com 1234 telnet assumes it's connected to a terminal. Try one of the utilities designed with this in mind: netcat or socket. Also, the socket support in Tcl or Perl is probably easier for something quick. -- Carey Evans * http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ gc kernel: Warning: possible SYN flooding. Sending cookies. kernel: validated probe(17f, 17f, 11557, 5010, -1645409555) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: xterm color (*sigh*)
Matt Thompson wrote: Hi, y'all, Well, got bash 2.01-5 and gimp 0.99 installed and working. I'm finding out that I have to upgrade to the hamm versions of just about everything, like fvwm2 and emacs. That's ok. 'Been doing it all by dpkg instead of dselect, now that I'm comfortable with that. An old problem cropped up, tho. I don't have colors in my xterms anymore. My xsysinfo has colors just fine, but not my xterms. I never had to adjust anything with bo (except to edit /etc/profile with alias ls=ls --color, which I've done). Is there something else I need to do now that I'm hamming it up as it were? (sorry for the lousy pun :) ). thanks again for all the help, matty Matt Thompson MZI, Inc. v-206.430.3726 707 S. Grady Wayf-206.430.3420 Renton, WA 98055 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Add a symbolic link to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 in /usr/i486-linuxlibc1/lib, that should correct the problem. deepthought% ls -l /usr/i486-linuxlibc1/lib/ total 7 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Oct 2 12:50 X11 - ../../X11R6/lib/X11 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6464 Sep 29 12:18 libpaper.a lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Oct 14 13:04 libpaper.so - /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libpaper.so.1.0.3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: SUID shells...aaarrgghh
so, logging into console as root
$ cp /bin/bash /bin/somefile
$ ls -l /bin/somefile
- -rwxr-x--- 1 root root 318612 Oct 14 22:44 /bin/somefile
$ chmod a+xs /bin/somefile
- -rwsr-s--x 1 root root 318612 Oct 14 22:44 /bin/somefile
You're just running into some simple protection that is designed to trip up
said pimply-faced crackers: bash gives up any suid permissions when it
starts up.
Note that this behaviour is new in bash-2.0 (1.4 didn't do it).
I find it annoying, though. I don't really see the great advantage
of this (its _very_ easy to get around for hackers), and it makes it
more difficult for me to become UID 7483 (no such user exists on my
system, but say it does on a friendly nfs server).
I used to be able to just do
cp /bin/bash /tmp; chown 7483 /tmp/bash; chmod u+s /tmp/bash;/tmp/bash
but now I have to use a different shell (and then type bash, cause I cannot
use the other shell). Does anyone know of an easier way to become
UID=7483?
If you try the same thing with some other shell that doesn't have this
protection, it will probably work as you would expect.
--
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#!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777iX+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0j]dsj
$/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$kSK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1
lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp|dc`;s/\W//g;$_=pack('H*',/((..)*)$/)
#what's this? see http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/
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X-error in xdvi
Hi, Recently, when I try to use xdvi, I get the following error: X Error of failed request: BadPixmap (invalid Pixmap parameter) Major opcode of failed request: 54 (X_FreePixmap) Resource id in failed request: 0x0 Serial number of failed request: 458 Current serial number in output stream: 472 Can anybody explain it ? l -- Aluisio Neves Fagundes - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Plasma Phys.Group - Phys.Institute - Univ. of Sao Paulo Cx.Postal 66318 -- 05315-970 Sao Paulo SP Brazil Phone: voice (011) 818-6908 --- Fax (011) 818-6749 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: SUID shells...aaarrgghh
Joost Witteveen wrote: Note that this behaviour is new in bash-2.0 (1.4 didn't do it). I find it annoying, though. I don't really see the great advantage of this (its _very_ easy to get around for hackers), and it makes it more difficult for me to become UID 7483 (no such user exists on my system, but say it does on a friendly nfs server). I used to be able to just do cp /bin/bash /tmp; chown 7483 /tmp/bash; chmod u+s /tmp/bash;/tmp/bash but now I have to use a different shell (and then type bash, cause I cannot use the other shell). Does anyone know of an easier way to become UID=7483? It might be a nice idea to create an option for su, so that you could type su --uid 7483 this option does not currently exist however. You could look into the setuid command from the super package. With that command you can say setuid 7483 command You can use this command in shell script `uidshell' like this: #!/bin/bash while true; do echo -n [uid = $1] `pwd` $ read a b=`echo $a | cut -d' ' -f1` if [ $b = cd ] || [ $b = exit ]; then $a else setuid $1 $a fi If you run this script as super user typing `uidshell 7483', you more or less get what you want. The script could be much fancier of course, but I think it beats the `copying bash' procedure for quick and dirty operations. 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: SUID shells...aaarrgghh
I wrote: You can use this command in shell script `uidshell' like this: #!/bin/bash while true; do echo -n [uid = $1] `pwd` $ read a b=`echo $a | cut -d' ' -f1` if [ $b = cd ] || [ $b = exit ]; then $a else setuid $1 $a fi done Forgot to copy that last line. 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] .
Booting to SCSI
Hey everyone! Simple (hopefully) question. I've got an IDE drive on an Tyan motherboard with an Award BIOS. I recently went out and bought a Seagate Cheetah drive on a Symbios Logic (aka NCR) 53c875 host adapter (an AWESOME combination, BTW g) How do I make the system boot from the SCSI drive instead of the IDE drive? Yes, I know I can make the LILO in the MBR of the IDE drive point to the Linux partition on the SCSI drive, and I have done this; but I would perfer a better solution. -- John Goerzen | Running Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming| Debian GNU/Linux is a free replacement for [EMAIL PROTECTED] | DOS/Windows -- check it out at www.debian.org. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: A quickie on telnet
You might try the netcat program, it is specifically designed for this and is (yipee!) a Debian package. Mike Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Very simply, I'm trying to telnet to a site and get some data from a script. In HPUX, I would do this: echo Alinetobesent | telnet an.address.com 1234 And it would happily telnet to the machine and echo the command, getting me the results I wanted. This doesn't seem to work under any of the shells I could find installed in DEBIAN, or any odd variation I could come up with. Any ideas, or do I have to re-write in C using sockets (bleah)? --Mike -- 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| Debian GNU/Linux is a free replacement for [EMAIL PROTECTED] | DOS/Windows -- check it out at www.debian.org. --+-- Notice: You may purchase the right to send me unsolicited commercial e-mail (spam) for the fee of $500 (USD) per message. Billing can be either pre-arranged or can occur automatically after the reception of a spam. Failure to pay will be treated in accordance to US Code, title 47, sec. 227, which allows unsolicited e-mail to be punishable by action to recover actual monetary loss or $500, whichever is greater, per violation. Sending spam to me without payment constitutes unauthorized access to my mail daemon, which is in violation of federal law. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: mutt 0.84-0
On Tue, Oct 14, 1997 at 03:08:12PM -0500, Joe Stewart wrote: Received this from debian-changes list - where can it be downloaded from? It is still in master's Incoming directory, presumably because it needs manual processing. I've put a copy at ftp://ftp.wi.leidenuniv.nl/pub/linux/devel-ray/ Ray -- Cyberspace, a final frontier. These are the voyages of my messages, on a lightspeed mission to explore strange new systems and to boldly go where no data has gone before. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: xlock
No, shadow was definitely on and functioning fine. It is xlock itself who can't read the password despite being setgid shadow. The problem (which I finally figured out) is that the passwords are being served by nis. I have nis setup to mangle passwords for non root users, and since xlock doesn't run as root, there is no way for it to read the password from nis. (nis mangles the password by returning an x for the password field). The are only 2 ways of fixing the problem as far as I can tell. 1) don't have nis mangle the passwords. 2) set xlock to be setuid root. I've opted for the second solution. There is another solution, I think. I recently recompiled xlockmore from the Debian sources to enable bomb mode and the xmlock program (which is working well enough with lesstif). When I was reading the options, I ran across an option which lets their be an encrypted password in your home directory which xlock will check against instead of trying to use shadow passwords etc. Paul Serice -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: dpkg-scanpackages
On Wed, 15 Oct 1997, Mart Klanberg wrote: hi, I have downloaded all the packages based on which I want to create the Packages file. Now I don't know how to create the override file for dpkg-scanpackages ... help? You will need to get the appropriate override file from the indices directory on any Debian mirror. For 1.3 you want override.bo.gz and for unstable override.hamm.gz. Unzip the appropriate file for the distribution in question and you should be off and running. 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: SUID shells...aaarrgghh
I wasn't going to send this trick to the list, but since there is a
demand:
int
main() {
setuid(0);
seteuid(0);
execl(/bin/sh, -sh, 0);
}
put this in filename.c, compile with gcc -o filename filename.c, set up
with chmod u+s filename, and run with ./filename. Much smaller than a
copy of bash too:
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 4125 Oct 15 09:03 evil
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 103 Oct 15 09:03 evil.c
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 325548 Aug 15 12:56 /bin/bash
If you are trying to do this for convienence, don't, unless you know the
risk and way's of securing this from other users. There are better ways
(su, sudo, etc).
HTH,
Brandon
On Wed, 15 Oct 1997, joost witteveen wrote:
so, logging into console as root
$ cp /bin/bash /bin/somefile
$ ls -l /bin/somefile
- -rwxr-x--- 1 root root 318612 Oct 14 22:44 /bin/somefile
$ chmod a+xs /bin/somefile
- -rwsr-s--x 1 root root 318612 Oct 14 22:44 /bin/somefile
You're just running into some simple protection that is designed to trip up
said pimply-faced crackers: bash gives up any suid permissions when it
starts up.
Note that this behaviour is new in bash-2.0 (1.4 didn't do it).
I find it annoying, though. I don't really see the great advantage
of this (its _very_ easy to get around for hackers), and it makes it
more difficult for me to become UID 7483 (no such user exists on my
system, but say it does on a friendly nfs server).
I used to be able to just do
cp /bin/bash /tmp; chown 7483 /tmp/bash; chmod u+s /tmp/bash;/tmp/bash
but now I have to use a different shell (and then type bash, cause I cannot
use the other shell). Does anyone know of an easier way to become
UID=7483?
If you try the same thing with some other shell that doesn't have this
protection, it will probably work as you would expect.
-
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PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] does infinite loops in 5 seconds
Phone: (757) 221-4847 --Linus Trovalds
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Re: Changing mouse drivers
On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, Daniel Martin wrote: On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, Richard A. Guay wrote: I now want to change to using a serial mouse. What would be the steps (I do not want to reload the OS.)? Reload the OS? That's windows-world thinking. First, if you installed the gpm package, you'll need to run 'gpmconfig' as root, and tell gpm about your mouse. Then, assuming you have X, you'll have to re-run XF86Setup (stop X first by quitting your session and, if you have xdm running, doing: /etc/init.d/xdm stop ) Inside XF86Setup, say yes to use the old configuration and all you should have to do is pick your new mouse parameters. (be certain to read through all of the dialog boxes that come up there, and test the new mouse setting by applying the changes) You shouldn't even need to reboot! If you're using the -R option in gpmconfig with /dev/gpmdata in XF86Config, you don't need to make any changes to X. It also seems to avoid the problems that some people have reported with their mice when switching between X and VCs. -- 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] .
Mounting File systems and shells
Can anyone tell me how to mount my MSDOS and NTFS partitions... And also, what's a good msdos like shell and how do i set it up? Thanks a million... Curl __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Debian Installation on IBM PS/2 Model 70
I am attempting a Debian install on an IBM PS/2 Model 70, with the standard 1.3 (might be 1.3.1) rescue disk. The kernel recognises the IBM ESDI disks, but I had to do mknod /dev/eda b 36 0 mknod /dev/eda1 b 36 1 mknod /dev/eda2 b 36 2 Also dinstall does not recognise /dev/eda as a local drive, so I have used the second window to do the fdisk and mke2fs The next problem is that fdisk -l does not recognise eda disks, even though fdisk /dev/eda does work. (This is being reported in the order I found it, there may be a better order) I got round this by doing (in the other window) fdisk /dev/eda /tmp/fdisk and then p, to list the partition table and q to quit. I then edited the resulting /tmp/fdisk With this I could enable swap, and eventually mount the root partition (you have to keep recreating /tmp/fdisk because dinstall keeps overwriting it) I have now reached the stage where it is installing the base set, so hopefully everything will be OK from here. John Lines p.s. it would be useful to have some way (not nescessarily obvious) to re-execute dinstall, for people who have edited it in the second window - I havent really looked into exactly how it is started -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
NFS/NIS support
Hi all, I very new to Debian (maybe 24 hours) although I have quite a bit of experience with SGI's and Sun's. I have a few questions I was hoping someone could answer for me. 1) I've seen that NFS is supported on Debian, but I haven't seen any mention of an automounter. Is there one? 2) If so, does it support NIS maps? 3) The reason we set this machine up is to become familiar with what Linux can give us. Management wants to buy cheap hardware (PeeCee), but we are unwilling to use the cheap OS that they come with (Windoze). I'm interested in window manager suggestions. The SGI's use a modified mwm from OSF, so I know that's not a freebie. Is there one that will give user's the look and feel of a commercial workstation? Thanx! -- __ Matthew Majka - Software Engineer Honeywell Defense Avionics Systems Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
help installing w/ AHA-2740A-Twin
I'm having trouble installing Linux on a machine with an Adaptec AHA-2740A-Twin SCSI card. I've got the machine (a 486) down to that, an NE2000, and an IDE card (for the floppy), with no disks. Right now I'm trying Debian (its error messages seem more useful than the hanging I was getting with RedHat). The bad part seems to start like this: qlogicisp : PCI bios not present eata_dma: No BIOS32 extensions present. This driver release still depends on it. Skipping scan for PCI HBAs. aic7xxx: (aic7xxx_isr) Encountered spurious interrupt. scsi0: BRKADRINIT error(0x1): Illegal Host Access Kernel panic: scsi0: BRKADRINIT, error 0x1, seqaddr 0x0. Any advice would be welcome... -Chip -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Linux as a mail and intranetserver
On Wed, 15 Oct 1997, Dirk Kievith wrote: At 11:22 14.10.1997 -0500, Mark wrote: smail is the Debian preference and would probably be suitable for your intranet. on the other hand, sendmail is equally suitable and is still easy to configure. Is there a basic difference between smail and sendmail? For most, smail is much easier to configure. Linux has brilliant Windoze support. i'd even go as far to say it's one of it's most valuable features when speaking of an office intranet. You mean to say as a server or as an OS for W95 applications? Internet Explorer 4.0 Active Desktop is quickly invading the `Dozer realm shudder, but there is Eudora, or the stalwart Navigator or others. I agree with your shudder. IE4 appears to be only uninstalled by a reformatting of the HD. Eudora is very fine, but does not support multiple users on one machine. The same thing for Navigator, if I have understood rightly. I'm not sure but I think there is a non-shareware version of Eudora which supports multiple users. Netscape 4.0 does. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [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] .
Re: Question about new 'g' packages in unstable
On Wed, 15 Oct 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You have to *upgrade* xlib6 before installing xlib6g (which conflicts only to older versions of xlib6. I hope you know that you are going to use the hamm system, which is somewhat unstable (because of the change from libc5 to libc6. xlib6 is libc5, and xlib6g is libc6, and they are not kompatible. PLease be shure to read the From xlib5 to xlib6 mini HOWTO from Scott (?) Ellis (??) here on the list (check the archive or mail me, and I will send you one). Yes you got my name right :) And the latest updated version is at http://www.gate.net/~storm/FAQ/ (in about every format you could want) -- Scott K. Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gate.net/~storm/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Debian Installation w/ AHA-2940
I tried installing 1.3 today on a PC. It didn't go too well. I've installed Debian more times than I can recall, and have never had this problem before. Mind you, i've never installed it on a machine like this either. AHA-2940, 1x 2.1gig drive, 1x Sony CD. For a start, the autobooting CD part wouldn't. It'd recognise a bootable CD, and even start the booting process. It came up with the one line LDLINUX.SYS blerb, and then just sit there. No problem, I'll do it another way. Running boot.bat from the CD solved that problem. It started up the installation process, loaded the kernel, went through the blerb and made it to the first box, the one where you choose colour or mono. The keyboard didn't work. Odd, coz it worked a minute or so ago. Capslock/Numlock keys didn't toggle the led's. It was like it wasn't plugged in. Ok, no problem. I'll boot from floppy. Dug up 7 disks, wrote them, booted. Same problem. Some bastard stole my Debian 1.2 CD's, so as a temporary measure Slackware 96 has been installed. It's not a real good solution, but it'll do I suppose. As I said, i've installed Debian [via the autobooting CD and other methods] numerous times, this is the first i've seen of this. I assume it's a problem to do with the Adaptec board. Is this a Debian problem, a 1.3.* problem or an Adaptec problem? More importantly, any solutions? Thanks, D. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: NFS/NIS support
On Wed, 15 Oct 1997, Matthew Majka wrote: I very new to Debian (maybe 24 hours) although I have quite a bit of experience with SGI's and Sun's. I have a few questions I was hoping someone could answer for me. We'll sure try. Always glad to have a new convert :) 1) I've seen that NFS is supported on Debian, but I haven't seen any mention of an automounter. Is there one? We actually have two :). There is amd, which I believe supports Sun automounter maps. There is also autofs, although that requires you to be running a late 2.1.x-series kernel and takes a different kind of map file. 2) If so, does it support NIS maps? Yes, amd at least supports NIS maps 3) The reason we set this machine up is to become familiar with what Linux can give us. Management wants to buy cheap hardware (PeeCee), but we are unwilling to use the cheap OS that they come with (Windoze). I'm interested in window manager suggestions. The SGI's use a modified mwm from OSF, so I know that's not a freebie. Is there one that will give user's the look and feel of a commercial workstation? There are over half a dozen different window managers packaged with Debian, as well as the potential to buy CDE from RedHat for a totally commercial feel. -- Scott K. Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gate.net/~storm/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: xlock
Paul Serice wrote: There is another solution, I think. I recently recompiled xlockmore from the Debian sources to enable bomb mode and the xmlock program (which is working well enough with lesstif). When I was reading the options, I ran across an option which lets their be an encrypted password in your home directory which xlock will check against instead of trying to use shadow passwords etc. Yes, that is another way of getting xlock to read _a_ password, but that still doesn't solve the problem of it not being able to read your _nis_ password (which is mangled). The option you speak of is a hack which is useful for people who don't have complete control over the machines or lan they are using. In our case (since we do have control over all the computers), we'd rather only have one password per user read from a single location (i.e. nis). The problem has now been settled. The new xlock will check if nis serves mangled passwords, and if it does, it will install xlock setuid root (an unfortunate solution, but the only viable one). Thanks anyways, 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: NFS/NIS support
Scott Ellis wrote: On Wed, 15 Oct 1997, Matthew Majka wrote: I very new to Debian (maybe 24 hours) although I have quite a bit of experience with SGI's and Sun's. I have a few questions I was hoping someone could answer for me. We'll sure try. Always glad to have a new convert :) I wouldn't call myself a convert (not from commercial Unix'es anyway). Just a personal quest to eliminate Windoze wherever I can... ;-) -- __ Matthew Majka - Software Engineer Honeywell Defense Avionics Systems Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Debian libc5 to libc6 Mini-HOWTO (regular posting, updated)
Notes on handling the new libc5 upgrade in the latest stable update are at the end. Debian libc5 to libc6 Mini-HOWTO Scott K. Ellis, [EMAIL PROTECTED] $Id: libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO.sgml,v 2.9 1997/10/14 02:46:50 storm Exp $ 1. Introduction The Debian project is currently in the process of putting together the next release of the Debian system. This version will utilize the new libc6, a replacement for the prior libc5 which includes many enhancements and brings the Linux C library back into sync with the GNU project. We are doing this in a way to allow you to continue to utilize your older software by providing development and operating environments for both C libraries. However, all packages in the new release will be linked with the new C library. This has made it slightly more difficult to install packages from the unstable branch of our development tree into a working system. There is a slight possibility of making your system unbootable in the process, this guide is intended to help you avoid such problems. 1.1. Recent Changes: o Updated note about /etc/nsswitch.conf o Note about vthunk change with glibc 2.0.5c. o Seperated bash upgrade from required upgrade. o Note on how to upgrade via dpkg-ftp. o Notes about NIS and libgdbm (perl) issues. o Note about libc6-based e2fsck being bad for large partitions. 1.2. Finding updates The latest version of this Mini-HOWTO should be available in the following locations: o http://www.gate.net/~storm/FAQ/libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO.html o http://www.gate.net/~storm/FAQ/libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO.txt o http://www.gate.net/~storm/FAQ/libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO.sgml o ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/doc/libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO.txt o ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/doc/libc5-libc6-Mini- HOWTO.html.tar.gz 1.3. Copyright and Disclaimer This Mini-HOWTO is covered by the copyright of and may be further redistibuted under the same terms as other HOWTOs from the LDP. As always, this document comes with NO WARRANTY. These comments are based on my personal experience and experimentation. While this worked for me off a freshly installed v1.3.1 system, you mileage may vary. Please send any comments or corrections to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2. Requirements 2.1. Minimum Requirements The minimum list of packages to install to be able to run unstable- branch packages is below. Install these packages one at a time in exactly the order listed. When versions are mentioned, that is a minimum suggested version, any later version should also be acceptable. o ldso_1.9.5-1 o libc6_2.0.4-1 2.2. Upgrading bash While you can install many libc6 package with just ldso and libc6, you will probably want to upgrade a few other packages as well. Since bash-2.01 fixes problems experienced with Netscape and helper applications, it is one of the more likely packages to need updated. However, it is also one of the few packages that is capable of rendering your system useless if upgraded incorrectly. Install the packages below one at a time in exactly the order listed. IMPORTANT: If you use dselect to do the initial upgrade of these packages, there is a very good possibility of breaking bash and therefore making your system unusable. o ncurses3.0_1.9.9e-2 o ncurses3.4_1.9.9g-3 o libreadline2_2.1-4 o libreadlineg2_2.1-4 o bash_2.01-2 2.3. Other Suggested Packages These packages are not absolutely essential for the functioning of the packages in unstable, but are still very useful. The new dpkg-dev may be necessary for unpacking source archives from unstable, and the new dpkg-ftp is needed if you wish to use the ftp method of dselect to upgrade your system to the unstable distribution. o libg++272_2.7.2.5-2 o dpkg_1.4.0.19 o dpkg-dev_1.4.0.19 o dpkg-ftp_1.4.9 2.4. Other Possible Conflicts Since perl is used in many package installation scripts, problems with with library upgrades may temporarily break perl, which may break other package installations. To be safe, install the new libgdbm1 and then the new libgdbmg1 packages by hand before upgrading perl. 3. Development If you wish to do libc6 development, you should first purge all the '-dev' packages on your system, the new development system will use packages with the suffix '-dev' for libc6 development and '-altdev' for libc5 development. You will wish to install the latest libc5 package, and altgcc if you wish continue to do libc5 development as well. Some libraries haven't been recompiled for the new libc6 yet, check that all your vital libraries are available before upgrading. Linking libc5-based libraries with libc6-based programs will have unpredictable results. 4. Concerns 4.1. Upgrading to libc6_2.0.5c-0.1 Due to a change in the vthunk handling code in libc6 and libg++, you must
Re: Mounting File systems and shells
Curlen Middleton wrote: Can anyone tell me how to mount my MSDOS and NTFS partitions... Assume your DOS partition is your first primary partition; create a directory called /dosc (or /bill_gates_oses_suck/c if you prefer). Then, as root, type: mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /dosc If you don't want anyone to write to the partition, add -r before `-t msdos'. For a Win95 partition, use vfat instead of msdos (but you may have to rebuild the kernel: I don't know if vfat support is built in to the default kernel). Use `umount /dosc' to unmount the partition. If you want the partition mounted all the time, add this line to /etc/fstab: /dev/hda1 /dosc msdos defaults 00 Look at the man page for mount to find the meaning of various options. The first IDE disk (master) is /dev/hda and its primary partitions are /dev/hda1 to /dev/hda4; the slave disk on the first controller is /dev/hdb and so on. ... And also, what's a good msdos like shell and how do i set it up? Something of an oxymoron, don't you think? If you mean a shell that emulates DOS, I don't think there is one; why would anyone create such a monster? Any Unix shell has greater capabilities. If you want to run DOS utilities on (unmounted) DOS disks, look at the package mtools, which contains programs such as mformat, mdir, mcopy and so on. To access a DOS disk which you have mounted, use normal Unix commands. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Sambades on non-us site
The Sambades package on the overseas site has permissions problems. Anyone notice this ? Is it on purpose ? Matthew -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
NFS as root
I was wondering on how to get a machine with no HD to mount its root via nfs on another running machine, the only documentation I have found is on how to create a nfsroot floppy which boots the kernel for the machine. The problem is once its booted I get errors from INIT about initial console. Any idea what's wrong and how to fix it? G'razel the shifty kitty Tapestries FurryMUCK FuroticaMUCK [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.aye.net/~kestrel To err is human, To purr feline. -- Robert Byrne -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Linux as a mail and intranetserver
At 02:45 PM 10/15/97 +0500, Dirk Kievith wrote: Internet Explorer 4.0 Active Desktop is quickly invading the `Dozer realm shudder, but there is Eudora, or the stalwart Navigator or others. I agree with your shudder. IE4 appears to be only uninstalled by a reformatting of the HD. Eudora is very fine, but does not support multiple users on one machine. The same thing for Navigator, if I have understood rightly. Eudora does support multiple users. They have a FAQ on this somewhere on http://www.eudora.com. Dirk Kievith -- CADD Services WebDesign | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- Tel./Fax: +91-413-20620 | http://www.webstudio6.com -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Linux as a mail and intranetserver
At 09:27 15.10.1997, Jack wrote: At 02:45 PM 10/15/97 +0500, Dirk Kievith wrote: Internet Explorer 4.0 Active Desktop is quickly invading the `Dozer realm shudder, but there is Eudora, or the stalwart Navigator or others. I agree with your shudder. IE4 appears to be only uninstalled by a reformatting of the HD. Eudora is very fine, but does not support multiple users on one machine. The same thing for Navigator, if I have understood rightly. Eudora does support multiple users. They have a FAQ on this somewhere on http://www.eudora.com. Checked Eudora Pro out. They write they support: 'Multiple e-mail accounts feature allows you to send and receive mail from different Internet e-mail accounts, so you can perform all of your correspondence at once.' What I would need is a support for multiple email users on one or two machines, like Pegasus Mail. The kind of thing they implement in a college I suppose. Thus password protected login would also be necessary. Pegasus does not feature that either. Suppose I will have to shift to Linux-based-email-packages?? :-) Dirk Kievith -- CADD Services WebDesign| [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- Tel./Fax: +91-413-20620 | http://www.webstudio6.com -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: xterm color (*sigh*)
Matt Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: An old problem cropped up, tho. I don't have colors in my xterms anymore. My xsysinfo has colors just fine, but not my xterms. I never had to adjust anything with bo (except to edit /etc/profile with alias ls=ls --color, which I've done). In one of your Xresources files (~/.Xresources if you have allow-user-resources set in /etc/X11/config, add XTerm*customization: -color and you should be ok. -- Michael D. Harnois, Redeemer Lutheran Church, Washburn, IA [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem. --G. K. Chesterton -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Problems
On Oct 14, Julien Pham wrote I have installed magicfilter, but it doesn't work and send strange files to the printer... And I have add me to the audio group as you said (what is it apb25) but it doesn't work. You want to add the userid that you normally use (not root, but the other one). As someone has said, adduser is the proper way to do it, and as someone else has said, you will have to log out and log in again for it to work. Type groups - you should see something a bit like this (but shorter!) apb25 floppy sudo audio www-data src staff guest email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Artificial intelligence - the http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett | art of making computers act PGP key available on public key servers | like those in the movies -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: problem with leafnode and gnus
On Oct 13, Frank Barknecht wrote Gustaf Erikson hat gesagt: // Gustaf Erikson wrote: However, after subscribing to c.o.l.misc and c.o.l.advocacy with gnus, I run fetch. It takes a long time. I check /var/spool/news, and see lots of directories for alt, gnu, soc, and uk. That's a feature, I think. A lot of messages get crosspostet to groups you don't have subscribed and you are not interested in. I even have /var/spool/news/microsoft/... :( I started to use leafnode, but thought that this was ugly and stopped. I hoped that either I was doing something wrong or leafnode would be fixed. I now use inn and newsx (I like newsx, but inn was a pain - maybe now I have a better idea things won't be so bad). I have a page at http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/wyvern/isp which should help if you are feeling lucky :-) Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Artificial intelligence - the http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett | art of making computers act PGP key available on public key servers | like those in the movies -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
just add IP_FORWARDING/GATEWAYING
hi everybody, just gave-up my first try at kernel compilation :-( the reasons why it failed are unimportant now, I probably overlooked one or more needed modules; the fact is that I was just trying to add IP_FORWARDING GATEWAYING capabilities to my Debian 1.3 in order to gain access to the internet through a PPP connection; now I'd like to do my second atempt configuring it *exactly* like Debian does except for the IP_FORWARDING GATEWAYING capabilities; how do I do this? is Debian's /usr/src/linux/.config available somewhere? BTW: is there a *good* reason why Debian 1.3 comes without IP_FORWARDING GATEWAYING included? TIA! Otavio Exel /\oo/\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: A quickie on telnet
Very simply, I'm trying to telnet to a site and get some data from a script. In HPUX, I would do this: echo Alinetobesent | telnet an.address.com 1234 Try this (just an example): (echo group comp.os.linux.misc ; sleep 5 ) | telnet news.alaska.net nntp This should work and you can can make the series inside the ()'s more complicated if you want to do multiple commands. Adam. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: building perl 5.004?
On Sat, 11 Oct 1997, Ken Gaugler wrote: Has anyone successfully built Perl 5.004? I get all kinds of *.h files not found errors, like /usr/include/time.h no such file or directory. This is odd, because the files are definitely there. I have built it just fine with systems based on both the bo and hamm distributions. Without seeing the output of something like ls -l /usr/include/time.h and the *exact* error message(s) you get, I'm afraid I can't give you much useful advice, however. Andy Dougherty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept. of Physics Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: just add IP_FORWARDING/GATEWAYING
BTW: is there a *good* reason why Debian 1.3 comes without IP_FORWARDING GATEWAYING included? I assume that anyone who is routing a proper network should know enough to recompile the kernel (it's not exactly rocket science these days). If it was included by default you could have all sort of people with security problems that they don't even know about... and some of them will never know about. Adam. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Mounting File systems and shells
Oliver Elphick wrote: ... And also, what's a good msdos like shell and how do i set it up? Something of an oxymoron, don't you think? Yes :-) If you mean a shell that emulates DOS, I don't think there is one; why would anyone create such a monster? But in fact one does exist - look at the lsh package. Example: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ls debian/ dl/ doc/ gnustep/ html/ mail/ prog/ work/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~lsh Cls debian dl doc gnustep html mail prog work Cdir Volume in drive C is too loud Volume Serial Number is EF53-00FF Directory List dl DIR 10-15-97 1:36p debian DIR 10-05-97 1:50p html DIR 10-04-97 4:28p mail DIR 10-15-97 3:13p prog DIR 10-09-97 11:56p work DIR 10-15-97 1:06p doc DIR 10-12-97 6:51p gnustep DIR 07-17-97 3:43p 8 files0 bytes 1337864192 bytes free C Scary, huh? -- see shy jo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Debian Installation w/ AHA-2940
Dale Harrison wrote: I tried installing 1.3 today on a PC. It didn't go too well. I've installed Debian more times than I can recall, and have never had this problem before. Mind you, i've never installed it on a machine like this either. AHA-2940, 1x 2.1gig drive, 1x Sony CD. I'm using Debian 1.3, and had to build a custom boot disk because the probing in the regular install boot disk would somehow touch the Adaptec SCSI controller and reboot the PC. The custom kernel (and instructions for use) is at: ftp://ftp.phys.ocean.dal.ca/users/rhogee/Debian/ This doesn't really sound like it will sole your problem, but you might want to give it a try. -- 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: Laptop in different places ...
On 14 Oct, Obi wrote: The problem is that I have my mail server on the subnet A, and my normal name is the one on subnet A. When I'm on subnet B, I'd like not to change the name of the machine to whatever.B, but if I don't do that, fetchmail is not able anymore to retrieve my mail. Everything else seems fine, but the mail. Hi, this is not a very helpfull describtion of your fetchmail problems. What version of fetchmail do you run? What does fetchmail -v say? Ciao, Martin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Sambades on non-us site
On Wed, 15 Oct 1997, Matthew Tebbens wrote: The Sambades package on the overseas site has permissions problems. Anyone notice this ? Is it on purpose ? Matthew Yes, my mirror has failed to pick this up for the last 2 days because of this. I REALLY want it for about 3 servers here. 8---8 Richard Shepherd ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 8---8 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
several problems with a new installation (hey, I'm learning)
Hi, I have a list of problems that I need help with: 1) I still can not get the serial mouse to work. Every time I configure it, th e mouse flies around the screen very erratically. I have messed around with man y options for it and I still can not make it work! 2) I can not get the sound to work! If I execute cat bong.au /dev/audio I g et zsh: no such device: /dev/audio (I did the cat at root level, so it is not a permissions conflict). How do I check for the drivers for the audio board? I t is IBM MWave sound card. 3) How do I check the number of bit planes being used by the xserver? I seem t o still run out of colors with a S3-Virge board with 2 Megs of RAM! How do you specify the resolution and number of bit planes to come up in with startx? 4) Where can I look to find some good background pictures in xpm format? Thank you for your time and attention. Richard A. Guay Network Administrator ASIC International Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.asicint.com -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: No DPMS with xdm and xautolock?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Lauder) writes: I'm running Debian 1.3.1 on a 486 with the XF86_P9000 Xserver. My monitor supports DPMS and I have the power_save option and StandbyTime, SuspendTime, and OffTime options set in my XF86Config file. The monitor suspends and powers down in X except when either running xautolock or when at the xdm login screen. Does anyone know why this is happening, and what I should do to enable DPMS powersaving for the xdm login and when running a screensaver? xlock disables the screen saver by default. You can use the -enablesaver option to override this (according to the manual). I can't tell you about xdm as I'm not using it. Torsten -- What a depressingly stupid machine The Restaurant at the End of the Universe PGP Public Key is available -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: route does not show all networks by name
Walter L. Preuninger II [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have 4 network cards a poor old 486-66. When I run route I see all routes fine, except for the -net entries. These are displayed in dotted quad instead of name. /etc/networks contains the following: localnet 127.0.0.1 corenet 192.168.0.0 loannet 192.160.0.32 depnet192.160.0.64 I feel this has some thing to do with my subnet mask of 255.255.255.224, so what do i do? There was recently a discussion in de.comp.os.linux.networking (in german) about this topic. It seems that the code in netstat (or was it route) assumes a network address to have the last of the four byte set to zero (which is a wrong assumption with your netmask). I don't know if a patch is already available. Maybe we should ask the author about this. Torsten -- What a depressingly stupid machine The Restaurant at the End of the Universe PGP Public Key is available -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: xterm/keypad
Dale Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is probably going to sound stupid, but... How does one enable the numeric keypad in an xterm? I've never actually noticed that the keypad acts as cursor movement before. It works well for me. With Numlock enabled I get the numeric keys, with numlock disabled the cursor functions are enabled. Here is a portion of my .Xmodmap for comparing: keycode 0x4D = Num_Lock keycode 0x70 = KP_Divide keycode 0x3F = KP_Multiply keycode 0x52 = KP_Subtract keycode 0x4F = KP_Home KP_7 keycode 0x50 = KP_Up KP_8 keycode 0x51 = KP_PriorKP_9 keycode 0x56 = KP_Add keycode 0x53 = KP_Left KP_4 keycode 0x54 = NoSymbolKP_5 keycode 0x55 = KP_RightKP_6 keycode 0x57 = KP_End KP_1 keycode 0x58 = KP_Down KP_2 keycode 0x59 = KP_Next KP_3 keycode 0x6C = KP_Enter keycode 0x5A = KP_Insert KP_0 keycode 0x5B = KP_Delete KP_Decimal clear Mod2 addMod2= Num_Lock These seems to be the relevant entries for the numeric keyboard. BTW, I use a Microsoft Natural Keyboard with german layout but this shouldn't be of any importance. Torsten -- What a depressingly stupid machine The Restaurant at the End of the Universe PGP Public Key is available -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Gs-aladdin 5.03 not yet uploaded...
so i was able to obtain a libc5 gs-aladdin 5.03! (I'll upload it this night). Unfortunately i have problems with the upload (problems on master probably). I'll continue to try, however if someone needs gs-aladdin 5.03 ungently, i can put the package somewhere in my private ftp space. Thank you, Marco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
man page for mkfs.ext2 ??
I'm in the process of copying my Debian system to a new (larger) partition and I want to tinker with the number of inodes, etc. The man page for mkfs refers me to the man page for mkfs.ext2... but I don't have it! Does anyone know which package this belongs in? I thought I got all the man pages... Thanks Chris Chris R. Martin email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Engineeringweb: http://http.tamu.edu/~crm7479/ Texas AM University... I'm a 21st century digital boy, I don't know how to read but I've got a lot of toys. -- Bad Relgion -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Portmapper errors
I get the following messages in syslog, right after the ifconfigs: Oct 15 07:34:39 wildebeest kernel: portmap: RPC call returned error 111 Oct 15 07:34:39 wildebeest kernel: RPC: task of released request still queued! Oct 15 07:34:39 wildebeest kernel: RPC: (task is on xprt_pending) (repeat twice more) Any ideas on this? Is it serious? I'm running 2.1.57, with a bunch of the unstable debian packages. (I had some bizarre nfs behavior, but I passed that off as kernel related) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: man page for mkfs.ext2 ??
On Wed, 15 Oct 1997, Chris R. Martin wrote: I'm in the process of copying my Debian system to a new (larger) partition and I want to tinker with the number of inodes, etc. The man page for mkfs refers me to the man page for mkfs.ext2... but I don't have it! Does anyone know which package this belongs in? I thought I got all the man pages... I don't know why, but try 'man mke2fs' instead. Bob Nielsen Internet: [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] .
Re: Mounting File systems and shells
Joey Hess wrote: Oliver Elphick wrote: ... If you mean a shell that emulates DOS, I don't think there is one; why would anyone create such a monster? But in fact one does exist - look at the lsh package. Example: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ls debian/ dl/ doc/ gnustep/ html/ mail/ prog/ work/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~lsh Cls debian dl doc gnustep html mail prog work Cdir Volume in drive C is too loud Volume Serial Number is EF53-00FF Directory List dl DIR 10-15-97 1:36p debian DIR 10-05-97 1:50p html DIR 10-04-97 4:28p mail DIR 10-15-97 3:13p prog DIR 10-09-97 11:56p work DIR 10-15-97 1:06p doc DIR 10-12-97 6:51p gnustep DIR 07-17-97 3:43p 8 files0 bytes 1337864192 bytes free C Scary, huh? Good grief -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: NFS as root
On Wed, 15 Oct 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering on how to get a machine with no HD to mount its root via nfs on another running machine, the only documentation I have found is on how to create a nfsroot floppy which boots the kernel for the machine. The problem is once its booted I get errors from INIT about initial console. Any idea what's wrong and how to fix it? Have you tried the nfsroot package? It contains some useful scripts to set up the server for the diskless clients. They still aren't perfect (hence the version number: 0.5), but once you get the idea, you can fill in the gaps yourself. I did it once and had a working system. Remco -- Very funny, Scotty. Now beam up my clothes. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: NFS as root
On Wed, 15 Oct 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was wondering on how to get a machine with no HD to mount its root via nfs
on another running machine, the only documentation I have found is on how to
create a nfsroot floppy which boots the kernel for the machine. The problem
is once its booted I get errors from INIT about initial console. Any idea
what's wrong and how to fix it?
Have you tried the nfsroot package? It contains some useful scripts to set
up the server for the diskless clients. They still aren't perfect (hence
the version number: 0.5)
Note, that for hamm, the not-perfectness is somewhat extreme: it
doesn't work at all, however hard you try.
For bo, on the other hand, it should work, after you read most of
the docs.
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joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
#!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777iX+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0j]dsj
$/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$kSK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1
lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp|dc`;s/\W//g;$_=pack('H*',/((..)*)$/)
#what's this? see http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/
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Re: NFS as root
On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, joost witteveen wrote: Note, that for hamm, the not-perfectness is somewhat extreme: it doesn't work at all, however hard you try. Can you explain why it doesn't work? I think I haven't used my diskless computer since I upgraded the nfsroot package to the current hamm version. Remco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
nslookup failure due to Connection refused
Using the latest versions of libc6, netbase and netstd 2.17-1,
and dnsutils 8.1.1-2, I can't seem to get nslookup working.
The error message is
*** Can't find server name for address 127.0.0.1: Server failed
When I run 'strace nslookup', I see that the sequence of events leading
up to this is:
open(/home/sgk/.nslookuprc, O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
socket(PF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, IPPROTO_IP) = 3
sendto(3, \315\333\1\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\001..., 40, 0, {sin_family=AF_INET,
sin_port=htons(53), sin_addr=inet_addr(127.0.0.1)}, 16) = 40
select(4, [3], NULL, NULL, {5, 0}) = 1 (in [3], left {5, 0})
recvfrom(3, \315\333\201\202\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0..., 1024, 0,
{sin_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(53), sin_addr=inet_addr(127.0.0.1)},
[16]) = 40
close(3)= 0
write(2, *** Can\'t find server name for ..., 64*** Can't find server name
for address 127.0.0.1: Server failed
but I fail to infer what action item to take as a result.
Any help would be appreciated.
Susan Kleinmann
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