Servidor de News
Hola, al leer el Noticias COMO veo que dan dos posibilidades (servidores) para noticias, el Cnews y el INN. Dicen que es más aconsejable instalar Cnews. Cual me recomiendan? Dice que para el Cnews hay que darle soporte NNTP, no lo entiendo. Para lo único que quiero el servidor es para poder leer las news offline (4-6 grupos). Un saludo, J. Parera -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OffTopic: Unidad de disco extraible LS-120
Hola, actualmente tengo una unidad Iomega ZIP 100 por puerto paralelo la cual da algunos problemas con la impresora, pués se corta la impresión en curso si se accede al disco (normal por su esquema de funcionamiento) a más al funcionar por el puerto paralelo es un pelín lenta y ocupa un espació en mi lugar de trabajo justo al lado de un latavoz por lo que no me fio de la integridad de los datos. Estoy pensando en la adquisición de una unidad LS-120 interna, me la recomiendan? Sacaré mejor partido de ella? Es más rápida o más lenta que mi actual ZIP? Tengo entendido que da soporte a discos de 1.44mb y de 120mb, es asi (para anular mi actual disquetera)? Sus discos son más fiables o menos que los del ZIP (con los del ZIP nunca he tenido ningún problema)? Deberé crear algún dispositivo especial en /dev/? No tendré problemas entre los discos (120mb y 1.44mb)? Hay algo más que deba saber? Hasta pronto, J. Parera P.D. creo que esta vez me he pasado con las preguntas :-( si alguien le molesta este tipo de mail le ruego que me perdone. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Un dmesg con posibles fallos
Hola, revisando los mensajes que da la máquina al arrancar he encontrado alguna línea sospechosa: ide2: ports already in use, skipping probe A que se debe? Saludos, J. Parera Dmesg Description: Binary data
Re: FueradeTema: Unidad de disco extraible LS-120
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, J. Parera wrote: actualmente tengo una unidad Iomega ZIP 100 por puerto paralelo la cual da algunos problemas con la impresora, pués se corta la impresión en curso si se accede al disco (normal por su esquema de funcionamiento) Usa un núcleo de la serie 2.1.x. Esto te permitirá usar la unidad ZIP y la impresora al mismo tiempo (mediante un controlador integrado para el puerto paralelo que gestiona a la vez la impresora y la unidad ZIP sin ningún problema), y mucho más rápido, al incorporar el modo de transferencia EPP (si tu BIOS lo admite). Antes de gastarme dinero en otro cacharro, consideraría esta posibilidad. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: latin1 iQCVAgUBNayFqyqK7IlOjMLFAQH6BQP8CWS0+ZlRGYORfHgycvJIKb5+Ot/cMTvK 1JZrA2g0R/iRGrn436Z7ApIGqyj67Vtuz2V7gNRpjEDwioQfJxnnDrlkeaqbycYv QrfEjbW/OSlu/VNc1FpAi6r2jEZQsFFBFEHX1RQLPfw9cdQ7EAhWSinxMf5tLua2 hCMVMFovZms= =T0CI -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FueradeTema: Unidad de disco extraible LS-120
Santiago Vila wrote: Usa un nzcleo de la serie 2.1.x. Esto te permitira usar la unidad ZIP y la impresora al mismo tiempo (mediante un controlador integrado para el puerto paralelo que gestiona a la vez la impresora y la unidad ZIP sin ningzn problema), y mucho mas rapido, al incorporar el modo de transferencia EPP (si tu BIOS lo admite). En el ultimo kernel de la serie estable (ya el 2.0.35) aparece un dispositivo paride. ?Es ese al que te refieres y ya se ha incorporado a los kernel de la serie estable, o es otra cosa completamente distinta? Saludos, -- = Agustmn Martmn Domingo, Dpto. de Fmsica, ETS Arquitectura Madrid, (U. Politicnica de Madrid) tel: +34 +1 3366536, Fax: +34 +1 3366554, email:[EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.aq.upm.es/~agmartin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Instalar Debian sobre UMSDOS
On Tue, Jul 14, 1998 at 09:19:54PM +0200, Alberto Ruiz wrote: Hola a todos! ¿Como se podria instalar Debian 1.3.1 sobre umsdos? Quiero instalar Debian sobre umsdos y habia pensado en creal el sistema de ficheros con los diskettes de instalacion de una Slackware que deja instalar en umsdos y una vez creado el sistema de ficheros instalar Debian indicando como destino de instalacion la particion umsdos. Pero no funciona. ¿Podria hacerse lo que yo quiero? Actualmente el sistema de instalación no contempla la instalación sobre UMSDOS. No es un fallo, es una característica. El UMSDOS es un sistema poco eficiente y con bastante problemas, así que no está previsto usarlo, ni ahora ni en un futuro, hasta que se mejore (y el propio autor no lo tiene muy claro). Eso no quita para que puedas hacer la instalación a mano, pero es una tarea algo compleja. Hay mucha gente que desea probar el Linux sin reparticionar su disco. Aunque el sistema resultante es tremendamente ineficiente (lo que puede dar lugar a que piensen que el Linux, cualquier Linux, es ineficiente), puede ser interesante atender a esa demanda y ofrecer esa posibilidad, de hecho es una de las cosas en la lista por-hacer del sistema de instalación de Debian. Aprovechando una conversación paralela en el proyecto Debian GNU/Hurd he estado jugando con la idea de instalar Debian en una partición ext2fs virtual, contenida en un fichero en la partición MS-DOS. Esto elimina la necesidad de reparticionar, y cuando el usuario se canse del Linux (¡imposible!) ;-) borramos el fichero desde el DOS y yasstá. En cualquier caso no es algo que vaya a estar listo en poco tiempo. Saludos, -- Enrique Zanardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OffTopic: Unidad de disco extraible LS-120
On Tue, Jul 14, 1998 at 05:18:58PM +0200, J. Parera wrote: actualmente tengo una unidad Iomega ZIP 100 por puerto paralelo la cual da algunos problemas con la impresora, pués se corta la impresión en curso si se accede al disco (normal por su esquema de funcionamiento) a más al funcionar por el puerto paralelo es un pelín lenta y ocupa un espació en mi lugar de trabajo justo al lado de un latavoz por lo que no me fio de la integridad de los datos. Si quieres gastar el dinero, es tuyo no mía... :-) En los kerneles nuevos (2.1.106 es una buena opción -- con los parches de Alan Cox) hay soporte distinto para el puerto paralelo. Puede: a) Tener el ZIP y la impresora al mismo tiempo b) Imprimir más rápido en máquinas que tengan EPP con DMA c) Transferir datos de/al ZIP *mucho* más rápido El truco: es un kernel en desarrollo. El truco más feo: con el 2.1.107 se les ocurrió meter soporte para framebuffer en i386, lo cual es un real dolor de... Estoy pensando en la adquisición de una unidad LS-120 interna, me la recomiendan? Sacaré mejor partido de ella? Es más rápida o más lenta que mi actual ZIP? Tengo entendido que da soporte a discos de 1.44mb y de 120mb, es asi (para anular mi actual disquetera)? Sus discos son más fiables o menos que los del ZIP (con los del ZIP nunca he tenido ningún problema)? Y por que no: a) Te compras un ZIP SCSI (en realidad un adaptador para el que ya tienes) b) Te compras un ZIP ide asi no tiras por la borda la plata invertida en todos los discos ZIP que ya tienes. Marcelo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FueradeTema: Unidad de disco extraible LS-120
On Wed, Jul 15, 1998 at 10:52:33AM +0200, Agustin Martin Domingo wrote: Usa un nzcleo de la serie 2.1.x. Esto te permitira usar la unidad ZIP y la impresora al mismo tiempo (mediante un controlador integrado para el puerto paralelo que gestiona a la vez la impresora y la unidad ZIP sin ningzn problema), y mucho mas rapido, al incorporar el modo de transferencia EPP (si tu BIOS lo admite). El paride (además de ser una parida ;-) es para dispositivos IDE en un puerto paralelo, cosa que el ZIP no es. Marcelo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Eterm
Hi All, I've installed the package for eterm, and it seems to be okay, except that it exits as soon as the window opens. As far as I can tell from the somewhat scanty documentation, I don't NEED Enlightenment for it, which is good, since I'm using icewm/WindowMaker. Any ideas on how to get my eterms to stick around long enough to be usable? Thanks -bob UNIX _IS_ user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are. ** * Robert Kerr, The morphing guy. *MS 0441 Sandia National Labs * * [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Albuquerque NM 87185-0441 * * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Phone: (505) 844-8606 * * http://www.et.byu.edu/~kerrr* Fax: (505) 844-9297 * ** -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
setting the sender field (was Re: Smail Configuration)
I did a similar thing to get my smail working. I use exmh/mh for email. My problem is that the sender field is set to [EMAIL PROTECTED](FQDN). The user is jmb (or whoever I'm logged in as) and the hostname is achimota. The network I'm on (from my dial-up ISP) is ziplink.net. My FQDN ends up as achimota.ziplink.net, which does not resolve when a DNS lookup is done on it. As a result of this mail to some domains gets rejected. If the FQDN does not resolve it is rejected because maybe they think it is spam or something. Am I making any sense? I hope I have explained the problem clearly. For example this is being sent from user jmb on host nsx.rd.usr.com so the sender field in this message is going to read as [EMAIL PROTECTED], which is ok because nsx.rd.usr.com is a real host. From what I've been reading, the sender field is set by smail. Is there a part in the smail config files where I can set the sender field to a real value - one with a hostname that will resolve. Thanks for any help jmb On Fri, Jul 10, 1998 at 12:52:52AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: On Thu, Jul 09, 1998 at 12:20:53PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi , I have a mail account at my ISP which is SMTP. Can somebody please explain to me how to set up smail so that I can send and receive mails from my machine...Right now, I am using netscape mail, but not very comfy with that. (I did look at the HOWTO, but can not make head or tail out of it) Hello Vaidhy, please press return evry 80 characters or so, netscape puts whole paragraphs in a single line, thank you. Start smailconfig (maybe you need to provide option --force) as root. Then choose option (1) Internet host. Answer the questions, it should be pretty straightforward, but feel free to ask questions (I use exim, and don't rmember the exact questions). The important thing is smarthost, which should be YES and set to your SMTP host name. You are done. I ran into a slight problem using that config with smail. Perhaps I just didn't answer the questions properly? My config file ended up with a visible host name of worldnetla.net (my ISP domain), which was ok. The hosts line ended up worldnetla.net, sales.mmi.bus which was not ok. (sales.mmi.bus is local host name, not registered). The line for additional (more?) hostnames had localhost. Result was I could send email to anybody as long as they were not in my ISP domain. Smail tried to deliver mail to my ISP domain locally. Solution (maybe not politically correct, but it works): deleted the line for more hostnames, changed line for hosts to localhost, and it started working correctly. I don't remember the actual config tags for these lines (running sendmail now) but they are at the top of the generated config file. Mike -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: [Debian] iso9660 in 2.0.34 ?
Hi, Jay == Jay Barbee [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jay ...I believe I am confused... I do not mind a little Jay automation, but currently in my lilo.conf I have 3 linux kernels Jay that I use. Jay This kernel-package util seems as if it takes this functionality Jay away from you and simply uses default (/vmlinuz) and that is it. Rubbish. Please do not spread FUD. I have, at times, a round dozen kernel images on my machine, all compiled with kernel-package. I even have 2-3 2.0.34 images *ON AT THE SAME TIME*. Look at my lilo.conf, 5 (count it, five) different options. kernel-package is about flexibility and ease of use, not for putting peole in a straight jacket. Please investigate before making assumptions about things. __ boot = /dev/hda delay = 50# optional, for systems that boot very quickly compact vga=normal# force sane state root = current# use current setting message = /etc/lilo.message verbose = 3 prompt timeout = 300 image = /vmlinuz label = 2 root = /dev/hda2 append = mem=95M read-only image = /vmlinuz.old label = 3 root = /dev/hda2 append = mem=95M read-only image = /vmlinuz.stable label = 4 root = /dev/hda2 append = mem=95M read-only image = /vmlinuz.reallystable label = 5 root = /dev/hda2 append = mem=95M read-only other = /dev/hda1 table = /dev/hda label = 1 __ Jay Perhaps I simply don't understand what you are telling me to do Jay with this kernel-package when I go to install or test a new Jay kernel. Yup. manoj == Advantages of using make-kpkg -- -- - - I have been asked several times about the advantages of using the kernel-package package over the traditional Linux way of hand compiling kernels, and I have come up with this list. This is off the top of my head, I'm sure to have missed points yet. Any additions welcomed. i) Convenience. I used to compile kernels manually, and it involved a series of steps to be taken in order; kernel-package was written to take all the required steps (it has grown beyond that now, but essentially, that is what it does). This is especially important to novices: make-kpkg takes all the steps required to compile a kernel, and installation of kernels is a snap. ii) It allows you to keep multiple version of kernel images on your machine with no fuss. iii) It has a facility for you to keep multiple flavours of the same kernel version on your machine (you could have a stable 2.0.33 version, and a 2.0.33 version patched with the latest drivers, and not worry about contaminating the modules in /lib/modules) iv) It knows that some architectures do not have vmlinuz (using vmlinux instead), and other use zImage rather than bzImage, and calls the appropriate target, and takes care of moving the correct file into place. v) Several other kernel module packages are hooked into kernel-package, so one can seamlessly compile, say, pcmcia modules at the same time as one compiles a kernel, and be assured that the modules so compiled are compatible. vi) It enables you to use the package management system to keep track of the kernels created. Using make-kpkg creates a .deb file, and dpkg can track it for you. This facilitates the task of other packages that depend on the kernel packages. vii) It keeps track of the configuration file for each kernel image in /boot, which is part of the image package, and hence is the kernel image and the configuration file are always together. viii) It allows to create a package with the headers, or the sources, also as a deb file, and enables the package management system to keep track of those (and there are packages that depend on the package management system being aware of these packages) ix) Since the kernel image package is a full fledged Debian package, it comes with maintainer scripts, which take care of details like offering to make a boot disk, manipulating symbolic links in / so that you can make boot loader scripts static (just refer to the symbolic links, rather than the real image files; the names of the symbolic links do not change, but the kernel image file names change with the version) x) There is support for the multitudinous sub architectures that have blossomed under the umbrella of the m68k
Re: Debian 1.3 with AHA2842B
Maybe the reason that the RH installation disks work on your box and Debian doesnt is kernel related. Make a Debian 2.0 (hamm) rescue disk and try to boot. I am pretty sure that the hamm installation disks have a later kernel than the 1.3 installation disks. If this works, I suggest you make the rest of the 2.0 installation set and install hamm. Mike On Tue, Jul 14, 1998 at 08:37:15PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all! I have a problem, installing debian 1.3 with AHA2842B VLB controller. Hardware: VLB motherboard with AWARD 4.50G bios AHA2842B controller with bios enabled Quantum ProDrive LPS 270 MB Sony CDU 76S When I'm booting the root.bin, I see this on the screen: scsi0: AHA284x/ ... 4.0/3.2/4.0 scsi : 1 host scsi0: Scanning channel A for devices scsi : aborting command due to timeout aic7xxx: Aborting scb 0, TCL 0/0/0 .. scsi : BRKADRINT error(0x1): Illegasl Host Access Kernel panic : scsi0: BRKADRINT, error 0x1, seqaddr 0x0 In swapper task - not syncing. How can I solve this problem, please help me asap! I can isntall only the redhat 5.0 distribution without this error, but I want to use debian. Please send a copy to my email address too. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Amiga File system
Hello everyone! Here is a quick question: Where did AFFS support go in the Linux kernel? It was in 2.0.29 and 2.0.30, but when I upgraded my kernel to 2.0.34 it was gone as far as I can tell. Anyone have any info on this? My buddy needs to read off of some old Amiga drives and viola! I WAS able to help him, til last night that is... *sigh* Thanks for any feedback! Dave Jones -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Help! Mail problems ... again
fetching mail with `fetchmail -v` gives this output: [snip] fetchmail: POP3 RETR 1 fetchmail: POP3 +OK 5379 octets reading message 1 of 87 (5379 bytes) fetchmail: SMTP 220 omnic.rumpus.net ESMTP Exim 1.92 #1 Wed, 15 Jul 1998 11:47:34 +1200 fetchmail: SMTP EHLO omnic.rumpus.net fetchmail: SMTP 250-omnic.rumpus.net Hello root at localhost [127.0.0.1] fetchmail: SMTP 250-SIZE fetchmail: SMTP 250-PIPELINING fetchmail: SMTP 250 HELP fetchmail: forwarding to localhost fetchmail: SMTP MAIL FROM:@mail.es.co.nz SIZE=5379 fetchmail: SMTP 501 @mail.es.co.nz : colon expected after route fetchmail: SMTP error: 501 @mail.es.co.nz : colon expected after route fetchmail: SMTP MAIL FROM:root SIZE=5379 fetchmail: SMTP 501 root : sender address must contain a domain fetchmail: SMTP error: 501 root : sender address must contain a domain fetchmail: POP3 QUIT fetchmail: POP3 fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from mail.es.co.nz fetchmail: SMTP QUIT fetchmail: SMTP 221 omnic.rumpus.net closing connection fetchmail: normal termination, status 10 I havent changed a thing, and now it wont work... reminds me of windoze, please tell me it isnt true.. Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PGP Key available, reply with pgpkey as subject. - Bother, said Pooh, as he was assimilated by the Borg. - Debian GNU/Linux Ooohh You are missing out! -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
2.0 relase date?
Any projections on this? I note that the work all seems to be going into slink (2.1?), so when will 2.0 be reelased? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]770-996-6955 Factory Automation Systems Atlanta Ga. -- Windows 98: n. minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 1998 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Amiga File system
*-Dave Jones (14 Jul) | Hello everyone! | | Here is a quick question: | | Where did AFFS support go in the Linux kernel? It was in 2.0.29 and | 2.0.30, but when I upgraded my kernel to 2.0.34 it was gone as far as I | can tell. Anyone have any info on this? | | My buddy needs to read off of some old Amiga drives and viola! I WAS able | to help him, til last night that is... *sigh* | | Thanks for any feedback! Did you enable code maturity level options? This will let it ask you for experimental drivers, which the amiga fs is? If not you will NOT see the option for amiga fs support. -- Brian -- Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
xjed
Hi, Please does anyone know how to restrict the xjed beeper to visual mode only thanks Jonathan -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Help! Mail problems ... again
On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, Michael Beattie wrote: fetching mail with `fetchmail -v` gives this output: add the line: smtphost localhost to your .fetchmailrc file :) Nikolai -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
installation
I just installed Debian 2.0 beta off of my Cheap Bytes CD, and when I selected configure packages from dselect, I got a list of errors as it configured modules and it canceled out because of errors. Is there some place I could look at the configuration log and see what problems it had? Is there a way to correct the errors? |-| | [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Role-Player, Babylon 5 fanatic 1997-98 | |-| | Homepage: www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/ratirh (Careful it's not completed) | |-| | The past brings pain, the future depression, | | the present disappointment. The only thing that remains is the moment.| | Live for the moment, and enjoy life. You only have one chance. | |-| -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Printing .tex files
I have Debian vers. 1.3 and an old Citizen GSX 140 printer. I am attempting to print a .tex file. I assume my printer does not have a postscript interpreter. Therefore, as I understand it, the steps needed to print a .tex file are: 1) convert .tex to .dvi with latex filename.tex 2) convert .dvi to .ps with dvips -o filename.ps filename.dvi 3) print .ps with ghostview/ghostscript. The last step ,#3, is where I am having problems. From the command line, if I type gs -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=printer -sOutputFile=\|lpr filename.ps I get unknown device. If I omit the -sDEVICE it opens a ghostscript screen and prints it there, with nothing happening at the printer. If I open ghostview filename.ps it seems to treat it as .dvi file. Then when I try to print, it asks for the printer device, and I press o.k. to a blank entry. The program then prints, with the 'default device', I guess. (It would be helpful to know what that is.) But since ghostview treats the file as a .dvi the printer output is unintelligible. I think, the same as if I typed lpr filename.dvi. At the 'gs' prompt, if I type 'devicenames ==' I get numerous options which don't seem to work. (e.g I tried 'epson'). Am I missing a driver? Since 'lpr' works, it wouldn't seem so. I'm a bit confused, but it probably has a simple answer. ** A second problem is the .tex file I'm eventually going to print is 310 pages long, so I will need some way of printing small parts of the file. Ghostview has the 'mark page' and 'print marked pages' options, which would be great, except for the above problem of ghostview not recognizing my .ps file. Possibly there are options on the gs filename.ps command line that will segment the output. Also, I noticed several relevant options in the command dvips ...filename.dvi. What is the best way to do this? *** A third question just tacked on here. I found a file /root/screen.xwd about 1MB in size which I have no idea where it came from. Can I safely delete this? Or does it have a purpose I'm not aware of? *** Thanks for any help someone might have. Dennis Dixon P.O. Box 1896 Fort Bragg, CA 95437 (707) 964-2979 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dixonadvise.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Help! Mail problems ... again
Already had that there, (this is my fetchmailrc:) - defaults poll pop.es.co.nz proto POP3 user mickyb with password is omnic here fetchall smtphost localhost - That has worked perfectly for ages... I have not changed anything at all to do with fetchmail, or Exim, Fetching mail worked fine yesterday. The fact that I was getting a local SMTP connection in that output should tell you that I already had, or did not need smtphost localhost Is there a possibility that my ISP has changed their POP setup? -Original Message- From: Nikolai Andreyevich Luzan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Wednesday, 15 July 1998 12:43 Subject: Re: Help! Mail problems ... again On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, Michael Beattie wrote: fetching mail with `fetchmail -v` gives this output: add the line: smtphost localhost to your .fetchmailrc file :) Nikolai -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: the time
Shaleh wrote: Try 'man hwclock'. This should do the trick. -Damon To my knowledge there is no app that will change the time PERMANENTLY. That is why I said that the BIOS should be fixed. I used date, and another app (I forget what) on a bo box here at work. When it rebooted (long story) the time was wrong again. So I had to reboot it AGAIN. Yuck. If you can, just take it down, set the time correctly, and then make sure your timezone info is right. The timezones won't make your clock this far wrong, but it could be contributing. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
security? smail in frozen is an open relay
(My apologies if this already known, and also for not submitting a proper bug report, since I don't know how, and I don't want to risk this being overlooked.) The smailconfig script included with smail 3.2.0.101-4.4 (in frozen) does not set the smtp_remote_allow option. As a result, any computer on the internet can relay mail through a Debian system with smail installed. Spammers take advantage of sites that are open relays to send their mass mailings for them. (So any site with an open relay is not doing the rest of the internet a big favour.) (For more information on open relays, spammers and what to do about them, consult http://maps.vix.com/tsi/.) It is my opinion that this is serious enough that it should be fixed before Debian 2.0 is released. One possible fix, even suggested in the default smail config file is to say smtp_remote_allow=localnet, which restricts relay to users on the same network as the mail server. It will not restrict incoming or outgoing mail. This is reasonable as it allows the default config to be used on a server, and minimises the risk of unwanted relay. Another fix would be to add another question to the smailconfig script. Also note that this is not fixed in smail 3.2.0.101-5, which is in unstable. Andrew Lewycky [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Page Counting (print accounting)
Has anyone here setup a page accounting system for a print spool? What I am looking for some sort of software that will count the number of pages in postscript and pcl documents as they are spooled and then record it. I poked around but nothing seemed to leap out at me, jet I note that lprng has an accounting system.. Thanks, Jason -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Kernel (?) screen blanking
On Tue, Jul 14, 1998 at 11:32:59AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is not the kernel that is doing it. Look at the man page for setterm for console blanking and xset for X blanking. Eh? Perhaps I'm wrong, but setterm just sets the settings; the kernel does do the actual blanking Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: linux + win95: linux boot partition/1024 cylinder limit
On Tue, Jul 14, 1998 at 06:42:19PM +, Patrick Meidl wrote: after reading the relevant FAQs, HowTOs, installation instructions etc. I recognized that all bootable partitions must start before the 1024th cylinder (I would like to use LILO), so I thought the best solution might be to have these partitions: With LBA this appears to be incorrect. I have previously had systems booting Linux from the last 500mb of a 1.6gb drive; the 1024 limit only takes you to 528mb or so. I boot NT 2gb into a 6gb drive; no problem. I have never encountered any 1024 cylinder problem with Linux. I wish the documentation would not keep spreading these ideas. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
No debian, but laTeX(2e)......
Hi,
Im working, in debian, with latex 2e. My document style (or class) is
book. The document looks like this:
BLA BLA...
0.1 hello
0.2 hola
0.3 hi
0.3.1 hi but blabla.
and i like to be like this:
BLA, BLA.
1 hello
2 hola
3 hi
3.1 hi but, blablas
My titles (in expample: hello hola, hi) are created with
\section{stuff}. Should i use maybe another command???
Thakns for the help. Phillip Neumann, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: HOWTO on setting up NFS?
On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Eric House wrote: I'm trying to set up NFS on my 1.3.1 systems in order to share files with a couple of Solaris machines and more. An article in the June '98 _Linux Journal_ describes the procedure for Slackware, but since that distribution has the rpc.* daemons on by default it doesn't mention how to start them up -- and I can't figure it out. If you want Debian as an NFS server you need to add entries into /etc/exports (see exports(5)). The init script /etc/init.d/netstd_nfs will then start the appropriate daemons at boot time. Or you can start them youreself by /etc/init.d/netstd_nfs start. By the way, Debian's NFS server will not by useable for read/write with Solaris since Debian doesn't have a lock daemon. -- Jean Pierre -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
I'm getting arnsarbscraibe messages!!
Sorry about the spelling, but when I spelt it correctly, the debian-user server kept on thinking I wanted to unsubscribe, when in reality I just wanted to talk about the fact that I am being flooded with lots of messages from people who want to unsubscribe! Am I the only one, or are there other people who are getting lots of unsubscribe messages sent to them? For example, I just got this one: Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 23:55:23 + From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: unsubscribe unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, Mark. __ _\/___\__/___Mark_Phillips___/ \__/_\__/--\__/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ \__/HE___\__/--APTAIN/ \__/_\__/--\__/__/ /__To be is to do.__I. Kant___/ \__/__\__/___/ /__To do is to be.__A. Sartre_/ /__I am.God___/ /__Jesus did.___/ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: xfstt final setup questions.
On Sun, Jul 05, 1998 at 01:43:27AM +0200, Christopher Barry wrote: Hello everyone, Hi... sorry I took so long to reply, I don't always have tiome to read the debian-user list...its hard enough keeping up with all the other debian-* lists I read. [I am the xfstt maintainer btw] FontPath unix/:7100 just a warning...this will change RSN. portno 7100 conflicts with xfs (x font server...in xbase package). I will be moving the default port for xfstt to 7101...it hasn't happend yet...but RSN it will entry to /etc/X11/XF86Config and when I first tried starting x it failed and spewed a ton of errors so I switched to a new virtual console and typed xfstt and then switched back and tried startx again and this time it worked, and I am able to select ttf fonts in Netscape now and WOW!!! what a difference, it's really nice. I'm assuming the problem lies with init.d but the above thread seemed to suggest that the latest xfstt installs the proper init.d for you so once you copy over the ttf fonts and add the FontPath line to XF86Config you are set to go, but I'm not there yet as I must manually start xfstt in another console. So what do I need to do? The latest version of xfstt is in slink (unstable). It works (I mean.. _I_ am using it :) ) It DOES have an init.d script...and the script works fine for me...still might get some tweaking tho... BUG: /etc/init.d/xfstt is NOT a conffile in the current package this means basically this...if you modify the init.d script and you install a new version...your changes will be lost. This will also be fixed RSN (at the same time as the port 7100 thing) The current version has already moved the location of the truetype fonts dir from /var/ttfonts to /usr/share/fonts/truetype this is because /var/ttfonts violates both the fsstnd and the fhs very flagrantly. -Steve -- ** Stephen Carpenter ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All authority is quite degrading. -- Oscar Wilde pgpYOKpkxOqcW.pgp Description: PGP signature
problems with PPP Debian 2.0 beta
I recently upgraded my 'base' system to 2.0 beta, and also installed PPP 2.3.5-2. However, when I did this, ppp stopped working. It will dial, and it fails with the message peer refused to authenicate. Obviously this didn't happen before... I've checked pap-secrets and that looks the same.. in fact everything looks the same that it did before. Any ideas? Thanks, Chris please cc me by email -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Kernel (?) screen blanking
*-Hamish Moffatt (15 Jul) | On Tue, Jul 14, 1998 at 11:32:59AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | It is not the kernel that is doing it. Look at the man page for | setterm for console blanking and xset for X blanking. | | Eh? Perhaps I'm wrong, but setterm just sets the settings; the kernel | does do the actual blanking | Ok, true. I ment that the settings are not defined in the kernel but instead by user space applications. Sorry. -- Brian -- Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Size of ttfonts in Netscape?
On Mon, Jul 13, 1998 at 11:38:11AM +0200, Thomas Apel wrote: I installed xfstt from slink installed some fonts and it works. But when I chose them in the Netscape preferences I can't set the size anymore. The dropdown boxes are greyed out. What's the reason for this and how can I change this? Hmmm...loading Netscape ok what version are you using? I am running xfstt from slink (truth be told I am running an xfstt that is NOT YET in slink...I am still working on it...but...it is essentially the same as the slink one... no major changes) I changed my fixed width font to courier new (I was using courier adobe before) and it seems to work. The Size: dropdown box does not work this is because TrueType fonts are truely scaleable...they do not come in any pre-defined sizes. You should notice allow scaling is greyed out and selected. There is a text entry box next to it (under the drop box) Type in the size you want there. It worked fine for me. When I first changed the font was way too big...so I went into prefs-fonts and typed in 9 as the size in that text box...then hit OK it looks great. I really need to the monospace font (I use courier new) down, because it's far too big. Text in this font (e.g. all emails) doesn't fit in a normal sized window. Try what I suggest above. Does it work? if not..what version of Netscape are you using communicator 4.04 ...it also works with latest mozilla in slink -Steve -- ** Stephen Carpenter ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All authority is quite degrading. -- Oscar Wilde pgpSDWUO5qvns.pgp Description: PGP signature
Exim 2.00
Hello Just wondering if there are plans to make a debian packages (.deb) for Exim 2.00. It was just released a few days ago. Will it take a while to get it added into the normal area in FTP because hamm is forzen? Thanks again Nikhil -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Size of ttfonts in Netscape?
I was just playing with this a little more I think this si a bug in netscape... It apears that Netscape does not handle the truetype fonts well You can go into prefs and fix it...but...if you exit netscape and come back in it does not remember the font size that you used. I would recomend not using truetype fixed with fonts with netscape :( I am not sure exactly what the cause is...I will look into it further but... my gut feeling is this is netscape -Steve On Tue, Jul 14, 1998 at 10:34:29PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jul 13, 1998 at 11:38:11AM +0200, Thomas Apel wrote: I installed xfstt from slink installed some fonts and it works. But when I chose them in the Netscape preferences I can't set the size anymore. The dropdown boxes are greyed out. What's the reason for this and how can I change this? Hmmm...loading Netscape ok what version are you using? I am running xfstt from slink (truth be told I am running an xfstt that is NOT YET in slink...I am still working on it...but...it is essentially the same as the slink one... no major changes) I changed my fixed width font to courier new (I was using courier adobe before) and it seems to work. The Size: dropdown box does not work this is because TrueType fonts are truely scaleable...they do not come in any pre-defined sizes. You should notice allow scaling is greyed out and selected. There is a text entry box next to it (under the drop box) Type in the size you want there. It worked fine for me. When I first changed the font was way too big...so I went into prefs-fonts and typed in 9 as the size in that text box...then hit OK it looks great. I really need to the monospace font (I use courier new) down, because it's far too big. Text in this font (e.g. all emails) doesn't fit in a normal sized window. Try what I suggest above. Does it work? if not..what version of Netscape are you using communicator 4.04 ...it also works with latest mozilla in slink -Steve -- ** Stephen Carpenter ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All authority is quite degrading. -- Oscar Wilde -- ** Stephen Carpenter ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All authority is quite degrading. -- Oscar Wilde pgp8d2w4ZqyXN.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Help! Mail problems ... again
On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, Michael Beattie wrote: Already had that there, (this is my fetchmailrc:) - defaults poll pop.es.co.nz proto POP3 user mickyb with password is omnic here fetchall smtphost localhost - That has worked perfectly for ages... I have not changed anything at all to do with fetchmail, or Exim, Fetching mail worked fine yesterday. The fact that I was getting a local SMTP connection in that output should tell you that I already had, or did not need smtphost localhost Is there a possibility that my ISP has changed their POP setup? I have found that changing back to smail fixed the problem, but I now believe the problem is those annoying mail's from gecm. they caused fetchmail to use MAIL FROM: @pop.es.co.nz whereas the others came as: MAIL FROM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is there a way to stop smail doing that, or how can I configure exim to allow that form of address? -- fetchmail: forwarding to localhost fetchmail: SMTP MAIL FROM:@mail.es.co.nz SIZE=5379 fetchmail: SMTP 501 @mail.es.co.nz : colon expected after route fetchmail: SMTP error: 501 @mail.es.co.nz : colon expected after route fetchmail: SMTP MAIL FROM:root SIZE=5379 fetchmail: SMTP 501 root : sender address must contain a domain fetchmail: SMTP error: 501 root : sender address must contain a domain -- from the above I now realise that the MAIL FROM:root is fetchmail's error handling? the above is from exim's try, smail says @pop.es.co.nz is a valid sender address. (mail.es.co.nz and pop.es.co.nz are the same host.. do a nslookup on them) Thanks again, I guess the real question now is how to configure exim to allow these annoying occurences :) Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PGP Key available, reply with pgpkey as subject. - Are the noises in my head bothering you? - Debian GNU/Linux Ooohh You are missing out! -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: linux + win95: linux boot partition/1024 cylinder limit
Don't know about you, but I couldn't get lilo to boot with a 540 mb drive, even though linux lilo were in the 1st partition that was 480 mb and I used the last 35 mb or so for swap. Drive has 1049 cyl, 16 heads and 63 sec /track. Wouldn't boot unless I used the linear option in red hat 5.0. Couldn't make it boot at all in Debian, so gave up. I agree there is some serious discrepancies in the FAQs, HOWTOs, etc, but I for one don't know where to begin fixng it all. LBA problems are real, butI don't know why... Anyone else have peculiar successes or failures? Dave Jones -- From: Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: linux + win95: linux boot partition/1024 cylinder limit Date: Tuesday, July 14, 1998 8:35 PM On Tue, Jul 14, 1998 at 06:42:19PM +, Patrick Meidl wrote: after reading the relevant FAQs, HowTOs, installation instructions etc. I recognized that all bootable partitions must start before the 1024th cylinder (I would like to use LILO), so I thought the best solution might be to have these partitions: With LBA this appears to be incorrect. I have previously had systems booting Linux from the last 500mb of a 1.6gb drive; the 1024 limit only takes you to 528mb or so. I boot NT 2gb into a 6gb drive; no problem. I have never encountered any 1024 cylinder problem with Linux. I wish the documentation would not keep spreading these ideas. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
FetchMail problem
I'm trying to set up fetchmail and have been pulling my hair out because the program doesn't seem to be acting like how the docs and manpage says it should. I want to run fetchmail in a daemon mode, so I created a script in /etc/init.d with the proper format which calls fetchmail as: start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec /usr/bin/fetchmail -- -f /etc/fetchmailrc -d 7200 -t 180 -L /var/log/fetchmail.log this seems to run fetchmail just fine. The problem I get is that my user mail for local username redwards is put into root's mailbox. In my above-mentioned /etc/fetchmailrc I have the following entry: poll golgotha.net user redwards with password secret is redwards here flush mda formail -s procmail I don't get it. This manpage describes this as something that should put redwards's mail into my local user redwards's mailbox. I've varied it widely with no luck (starting and stopping the daemon appropriately as fetchmail only reads its *rc file once in daemon at startup) -- no matter what I seem to do the local root account gets all the mail for redwards. Can anyone see anything I'm doing wrong or give some suggestions on how to cure this? Thanks in advance. -- Regards,|Debian GNU/__ o http://www.debian.org . | / /__ _ _ _ _ __ __ Randy | / /__ / / / \// //_// \ \/ / ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) |// /_/ /_/\/ /___/ /_/\_\ http://www.golgotha.net |...because lockups are for convicts... Tech. Coord./Teacher|What is or why Linux? Click on the below: http://www8.zdnet.com/pcmag/pctech/content/16/13/os1613.001.html -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: FetchMail problem
On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Randy Edwards wrote: The problem I get is that my user mail for local username redwards is put into root's mailbox. In my above-mentioned /etc/fetchmailrc I have the following entry: try chowning thge script to the redwards user :) Nikolai -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Hamm on Libretto
Hey, I'm having some problems getting dpkg to install libc6 as part of installing hamm on my Toshiba Libretto. I have tried this under both bash.tcsh and zsh and it produces the same output: errors while processing libc6-dev_2.0.7r-3.deb: could not overwrite /usr/include/asm which is also included in package libc-kheaders dpkg-deb subprocess paste killed by signal (broken pipe) I'm trying to get this installed so I can THEN install gcc and from there rebuild a number of drivers from source to use on my Libretto. ideas or help from any and all would be greatly appreciated, esp. if you are a Libretto owner running Debian.. Thanks, Armadillo -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: security? smail in frozen is an open relay
On Tue, Jul 14, 1998 at 09:19:21PM -0400, Andrew Lewycky wrote: (My apologies if this already known, and also for not submitting a proper bug report, since I don't know how, and I don't want to risk this being overlooked.) I just submitted this as a bug report; you should receive a Cc of it. See http://www.debian.org/Bugs for details on how to submit bug reports. Thanks, 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. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: its not a dos partition?
Subject: Re: its not a dos partition? Christopher Barry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Martin wrote: Thought I changed that Dos won't let you create more than one primary partition when one is already set 'active' (bootable). Dos's fdisk won't let you set an active primary partition to non-active so that you can create another primary partition so you must use a different utility to do this first (such as linux's fdisk). Once you've done that, Dos's fdisk will let you set whichever primary partition you want active to 'active'. Thanks I'm not 100% clear on what you are saying here Caught writing a poorly worded message. For some time I have been dual booting linux and dos/win3.1 off of a HP drive with 1 gig. I added a 4g Seagate st15150w. It is now partitioned: .5g dos2 .5g dos3 1g linux 1g linux 1g linux With linux i can mount and write to all but dos3. This is important so that I can cp -a everything on my first drive to the second before repartitioning the first. I don't need this partition for for the rearranging, but would like this issue resolved before I rely on the drive. I picked this arrangement in hopes of keeping one linux partition as a primary for /usr to keep that slight speed boost and one dos partition under 1024 cylinders in case I ever needed to boot off of it. I haven't yet looked into the requirements for mirroring. I'm already set up with my bootable floppy to cp / and dos1 back to drive 1 which will then be .5g per os. I could prbably work around the dos partition that can't be read. Partition it a different way or something. I have just never heard of a dos partition that couldn't be read by linux. Dos thinks it can read and write to both dos partitions on drive 2. Elaina -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Smail help please
Hi. I really need some help here. I have fetchmail working fine. It pops my mail off my ISP's server just fine. I can't figure out how to make smail send mail through my account on my ISP to the internet when I am logged in. If I use netscapes mail it works fine. I have looked through man smail, man smailconfig and /etc/smail/* files. Does smail need a password somewhere to 'pop' mail on to my ISP's mail server for delivery or does it even have to deal with my ISP's mail server when sending? Please help. Thanks, MTY -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Print .ps files.
I am having trouble with printing. I have magicfilter, lprng, and cti-fthp (spelling?) installed. Text files print fine to my local printer (HP LazerJet 5L) but when printing postscript files with ghostscript I just get stepped lines of all these funny commands. I assume these commands are Adobe postscript commands because I see Adobe copyright usually in there somewhere. Since I think my printer is a PCL printer? I assume I need something that will convert to this. Does gs (ghostview) do this? I assume a filter will also be required that will correctly work with the PCL stuff as well. Am I totally off base? I am not sure if I require some statement in my printcap to handle this or not. Magicfilterconfig created my printcap for me (including seting my if and of) so I am hoping it is OK. Please help! -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Time Server
Long time ago when I was new to Linux I had a nice program that updated my system clock with time from somewhere on the net. Now I need that program again and have a hard time finding it using search engines and searching the infinite sunsite. Anybody knows what I am talking about and where I can find it? /--/ Daniel J. Mashao Electrical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Cape Town http://www.ee.uct.ac.za/~daniel Rondebosch, 7700, S. Africa (w) 27+21+650 2816 (h) 27+21+705 8469 /--/ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Time Server
Hi, I used a freeware program for windows a long time ago that set my bios clock to the time served from a local atomic clock, but I don't remember where I got it from. It may have been download.com or something and it wouldn't be of use to you anyways being that it's for windows, but maybe the guy that did the windows version also did the Linux version? If you find it for Linux, be sure to drop me the url so I can fetch it to. This actually would be a good thing to package for Debian come to think of it. Chris Daniel Mashao wrote: Long time ago when I was new to Linux I had a nice program that updated my system clock with time from somewhere on the net. Now I need that program again and have a hard time finding it using search engines and searching the infinite sunsite. Anybody knows what I am talking about and where I can find it? /--/ Daniel J. Mashao Electrical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Cape Town http://www.ee.uct.ac.za/~daniel Rondebosch, 7700, S. Africa (w) 27+21+650 2816 (h) 27+21+705 8469 /--/ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
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- Forwarded message from Nikolai Andreyevich Luzan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: at Infodrom Oldenburg (/\##/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.12 Joey) by finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE from murphy.debian.org with smtp id m0ywCQ1-001MvIC; Tue, 14 Jul 98 23:15 MET DST Received: (qmail 26826 invoked by uid 847); 14 Jul 1998 21:14:51 - Received: (qmail 26813 invoked by uid 38); 14 Jul 1998 21:14:50 - Received: (qmail 26806 invoked from network); 14 Jul 1998 21:14:48 - Received: from zzslusan.dialin.uq.net.au (HELO Ukraine.humbug.org.au) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) by murphy.novare.net with SMTP; 14 Jul 1998 21:14:48 - Received: from localhost ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) by Ukraine.humbug.org.au (8.9.1/8.9.1/Debian/GNU) with SMTP id HAA00998 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 07:05:44 +1000 Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 07:05:43 +1000 (EST) From: Nikolai Andreyevich Luzan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Delivery Notification: Delivery has failed (fwd) Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY=Boundary_(ID_2oBv8Hn4dkHgPIPwTyNOCg) Content-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Loop: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Status: O X-Status: F Content-Length: 3656 Lines: 86 This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. Send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for more info. --Boundary_(ID_2oBv8Hn4dkHgPIPwTyNOCg) Content-Type: TEXT/REPORT; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] hey all, I get one of these every time I send a message to debian-user. if you could please remove the seemingly non-existant member from the list as it is getting slighty annoying to get on of these ever 5 minutes. Nikolai -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 21:40:07 +0100 (BST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Delivery Notification: Delivery has failed Report on your message to: /R=AM/U=sslillg/@mr.geccs.gecm.com Reason: Failed to transfer; communications failure (0) Diagnostic: Maximum time expired (5) Extension-id: 1 Arrival-date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 21:40:07 +0100 (BST) --Boundary_(ID_2oBv8Hn4dkHgPIPwTyNOCg) Content-Type: MESSAGE/RFC822 Content-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Description: Received: from DIRECTORY-DAEMON by gcschm.geccs.gecm.com (PMDF V5.1-10 #26201) id [EMAIL PROTECTED] for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mon, 13 Jul 1998 21:39:51 +0100 (BST) Received: from gcsin3.geccs.gecm.com by gcschm.geccs.gecm.com (PMDF V5.1-10 #26201) with SMTP id [EMAIL PROTECTED] for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mon, 13 Jul 1998 21:39:49 +0100 (BST) Received: from gcsin1.gecm.com by gcsin3.geccs.gecm.com; (5.65/1.1.8.2/13Mar95-1139AM) id AA03493; Mon, 13 Jul 1998 21:39:44 +0100 Received: from murphy.novare.net by gcsin1.gecm.com; (5.65/1.1.8.2/13Mar95-0121PM) id AA21007; Mon, 13 Jul 1998 21:39:43 +0100 Received: (qmail 31550 invoked by uid 38); Mon, 13 Jul 1998 20:39:21 + Received: (qmail 31528 invoked from network); Mon, 13 Jul 1998 20:39:19 + Received: from zzslusan.dialin.uq.net.au (HELO Ukraine.humbug.org.au) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) by murphy.novare.net with SMTP; Mon, 13 Jul 1998 20:39:19 + Received: from localhost ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) by Ukraine.humbug.org.au (8.9.1/8.9.1/Debian/GNU) with SMTP id GAA01634 for debian-user@lists.debian.org; Tue, 14 Jul 1998 06:39:23 +1000 Resent-date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 20:39:21 + Resent-from: debian-user@lists.debian.org From: Nikolai Andreyevich Luzan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: the time In-reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resent-sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user debian-user@lists.debian.org Resent-cc: recipient list not shown:;@gecm.com;@gecm.com ;; Resent-message-id: pD6Bx.A.4sH.5Bnq1@murphy Message-id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Autoforwarded: false MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Importance: normal Precedence: list X400-MTS-identifier: [;35931231708991/[EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailing-List: debian-user@lists.debian.org archive/latest/11776 X-Loop: debian-user@lists.debian.org On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, David Parmet wrote: I got everything up and running (still working on X but that's another story) but when i ask for date it gives me May 25th. try [machine#] rdate -s your.local.time.host or adjtime or just set the bios clock to the right time :) Nikolai -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null --Boundary_(ID_2oBv8Hn4dkHgPIPwTyNOCg)-- - End forwarded message - -- Install joe (Joey's Own Editor) correct: Joe's Own Editor -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Time Server
Daniel Mashao [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Long time ago when I was new to Linux I had a nice program that updated my system clock with time from somewhere on the net. Now I need that program again and have a hard time finding it using search engines and searching the infinite sunsite. Anybody knows what I am talking about and where I can find it? You may consider using NTP or rdate (found in the netstd package). Chris -- // Chris Broult http://www.info.unicaen.fr/lpv [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ dpkg --status xntp3 Package: xntp3 Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: net Installed-Size: 384 Maintainer: Bdale Garbee [EMAIL PROTECTED] Version: 5.93-2 Replaces: xntp Depends: libc6 Conflicts: xntp Conffiles: /etc/cron.weekly/xntp3 4db595b81ca7ae4fda584fb92516a40d Description: Network Time Protocol clients and server The Network Time Protocol allows for the synchronization of clocks on networked computers. The xntpd daemon implements NTP, allowing Unix systems to participate in this synchronization. . NTP was designed with attention to details which might introduce systematic bias into the computations, and the protocol is capable of synchronizing with even the most precise external time sources. . The NTP protocol supported by xntpd is defined in RFC's 1059, 1119, and 1305 for versions 1, 2, and 3, respectively. For more information on how NTP works, and how to configure a campus of xntpd daemons, load the optional Debian package 'xntp3-doc'. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: [Debian] iso9660 in 2.0.34 ?
On 14 Jul 1998 18:21:21 -0500, you wrote: Rubbish. Please do not spread FUD. I have, at times, a round dozen kernel images on my machine, all compiled with kernel-package. I even have 2-3 2.0.34 images *ON AT THE SAME TIME*. Look at my lilo.conf, 5 (count it, five) different options. kernel-package is about flexibility and ease of use, not for putting peole in a straight jacket. Please investigate before making assumptions about things. [big snip] Having just installed Debian (coming from a Slackware version out of the back of a book) and being inundated with all the packages I could install (Debian 1.3.1, Version 2 beta cd in the post) I saw this make-kpkg package and, after reading article from people here on the list, thought I'd give it a try. I'm still a fairly novice user, but I manage to blunder my way around. After remembering the name (after trying make-kpg, make-dkpg, make-kdpg, find | grep make- :) Ah ha! found it. man make-kpkg. Humm, thats a bit short. man kernel-package.conf (or what ever it's called, I'm away from my machine at the moment). It appears the only option I want to set is the option to put the compiled kernel image in /boot. So I set this (you must set this option to true it says, but dosn't give an example about how to do it). Does make-kpkg run config for you? It dosn't say. I run make config first, and the run make-kpkg. Off it goes and makes my kernel. I wonder off to make a cup of tea, and do the washing up. Come back and it's finished. It hasn't made or installed the modules, it hasn't put the kernel into /boot. All it seems to have done is compile my kernel for me. All the functionallity you describe sounds really good, I (and many others by the sounds of things) might be missing the point here, but how do we USE this marvelous package? Is there any documentation, because the man pages are really, really poor. If there is no documentation, then this package is fairly usless unless you know how to use it correctly. A little pointer to how to start using the package correctly would be nice. -- Matthew Collins Mitral Systems Ltd arrgh! Sorry, spam filter in place. substitute nospam for matthew to reply by email. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Time Server
Daniel Mashao [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Long time ago when I was new to Linux I had a nice program that updated my system clock with time from somewhere on the net. Now I need that program again and have a hard time finding it using search engines and searching the infinite sunsite. Anybody knows what I am talking about and where I can find it? Searching for ``xntp'' should give you many references. It is also avalable as a Debian package on the latest CD. (It may also be on older CDs, but I can't check). debian/hamm/hamm/binary-i386/net/xntp3-doc_5.93-2.deb debian/hamm/hamm/binary-i386/net/xntp3_5.93-2.deb xntp may be an overkill. If all you want to do is sych your local clock to that of your ISP once or twice a day, have a look at ``netdate'' which should be part of the base system. Ask your admin/ISP for the name or IP addr of a system you can get the time from (It does not have to run a special server for netdate). man netdate This will align your clock with the ISP's system: netdate -l 30 udp host.yourdomain.za} Cheers -- Manfred --- The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.-- Albert Einstein -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: I'm getting arnsarbscraibe messages!!
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, Mark Phillips wrote: Sorry about the spelling, but when I spelt it correctly, the debian-user server kept on thinking I wanted to unsubscribe, [...] Hi. I am getting lots of messages like the one you quoted, but because I'm *also* subscribed to linux-announce :-), which has not anything to do with this list. In case you are interested, the Debian list server (SmartList) diverts the arnsarbscraibe messages (which should be sent to the -request address) out of the list so that they do not appear in the list itself. Thanks. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: latin1 iQCVAgUBNaxvGCqK7IlOjMLFAQFf8AP/dEoSDYc9VQ9+gFIoRwGFf6Kfy9GymiEV E00aTC77D2FaFCcsx6HqClgdw0nfV54BgveS5gsn334E+9RakLh0kGcfxj/pQso+ Qhs/mh1nthoC/bPsJMDk33A0r142GaM1i+ZGHBpqOe9/ZTiRQfJegNMapZGx4Y7q acS4qY96Es4= =oQm+ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: linux + win95: linux boot partition/1024 cylinder limit
I recognized that all bootable partitions must start before the 1024th cylinder (I would like to use LILO), so I thought the best solution might be to have these partitions: With LBA this appears to be incorrect. I have previously had systems booting Linux from the last 500mb of a 1.6gb drive; the 1024 limit only takes you to 528mb or so. I boot NT 2gb into a 6gb drive; no problem. I have never encountered any 1024 cylinder problem with Linux. I wish the documentation would not keep spreading these ideas. this sounds promising (I hate limitations). but: does anybody know if the NCR 53C810 SCSI BIOS on an ASUS PCI/I-486P3G motherboard uses LBA? I couldn't find out from BIOS setup and motherboard manual. by the way: anybody interested in a loadlin vs. lilo for win95+linux dual boot discussion? (I am new to the list so please skip this if you are having this every 3 months ... pointers to resources on that topic on the web are also welcome). *patrick* # Patrick Meidl # Konrad Lorenz Institute for Comparative Behavioural Research # Savoyenstr. 1a, A-1160 Vienna, Austria # Phone +43-1-486 21 21-36 | Fax +43-1-486 21 21-28 # Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] # WWW http://unet.univie.ac.at/~a8903821/home.htm -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Time Server
Daniel, Long time ago when I was new to Linux I had a nice program that updated my system clock with time from somewhere on the net. Now I need that program again and have a hard time finding it using search engines and searching the infinite sunsite. Anybody knows what I am talking about and where I can find it? Put this in your /etc/cron.daily/set_date #!/bin/sh rdate -s clock.psu.edu /dev/null And your clock will be set every day. :-) Salutacions, Pere __oUltima Ratio Regum 2:343/108.91 - _`\;_mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key available --- (_)/ (_) http://casal.upc.es/~pere/ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
How to regenerate apache-ssl certificates ?
Hi I have installed apache-ssl but now a questions just came into my mind! How do i regenerate the certificates or even better how can i convince the thing to generate certificates with a bigger expiration date (it's used in an intranet and we aren't to inclined into paying someone for a certificate) Thanks Mario Filipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] +---+ -| http://neptuno.sc.uevora.pt/~mjnf | - Nova Pagina (New) +---+ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Printing .tex files
Hello, Dennis Dixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I type gs -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=printer -sOutputFile=\|lpr filename.ps Perhaps it is not quite good advice, but I suggest to install magicfilter package. It will allow you to install some filters, which would handle conversion from PS to your printer. The second - instead of printer look for know to ghostscript names of printer. You will get list of devices after $ ghostscript -h Unfortunatelly, I don't really know what device it good enough for your printer. A second problem is the .tex file I'm eventually going to print is 310 pages long, so I will need some way of printing small parts of the file. You could make a booklet of that, using psutils package. If you would have questions about it, mail me. The booklet will be half smaller, with to pages on one paper sheet. Bilbo -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: No debian, but laTeX(2e)......
phillip Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1 hello 2 hola 3 hi 3.1 hi but, blablas Hello, You have 2 option. 1) Change book class to article class, depending what you really want to do. I mean, are you going to write a book, or just something like article or report. Report has its own class too. 2) Instead of \section, use \chapter, but names of chapter are formatted in really different way than names of section or subsection. Bilbo -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
re: can't find bind
Michael Harnois wrote: I have bind set up as a caching-only nameserver on the machine that serves as my internet gateway, and it works just peachy. However, my workstation can't see it: i.e. when I run nslookup, I get *** Can't find server name for address 192.168.0.3: Non-existent host/domain and it rolls over to the second listing in resolv.conf, my ISP's nameserver. Since everything else on my localnet works fine, what's wrong here? nslookup depends on the creation of ``A'' records in files kept in /var/named/ directory. The Debian install and setup does not create these for you. You have to do a little work on your own and create a full fledge name server for your network. First run run bind config to set up the various files that you need under Debian. When it comes to the point of asking whether you want a caching only server answer no. Bindconfig will prompt you for the forwarders and such. These are the actual nameserver addresses of your isp nameserver 1 and 2. After you have the that done hand edit the /var/named/boot.options file to reflect your local nameserver example: ; ; Options for name server ; Use `bindconfig' to automatically configure this file ; forwarders 198.69.186.1 198.69.186.2 ; type domain source file primary localhost named.local primary 127.in-addr.arpanamed.rev-local ;; Custom configurations below (will be preserved) primary jesus-is.orgnamed.hosts primary 1.168.192.in-addr.arpa named.rev-hostspatches-place:/var/named/ next edit the /var/named.hosts file to reflect your system host names example: ; ; /var/named/named.hosts ; ; BIND our hosts ; @ IN SOA patches-place.jesus-is.org. leroy.patches-place.jesus-is.org. ( 1 ; Serial 86400 ; Refresh 24 hours 900 ; Retry 15 minutes 2592000 ; Expire 30 days 1209600 ) ; Default TTL 14 days ; IN NS patches-place.jesus-is.org. IN MX 5 patches-place.jesus-is.org ; ; patches-place: ; patches-place IN A 192.168.1.1 IN HINFO PC-586 Linux nsIN A 192.168.1.1 nameserverIN CNAME patches-place.jesus-is.org. ; ; ; ; other hosts ; ; peepers IN A 192.168.1.2 IN HINFO PC-386SXLinux monet IN A 192.168.1.3 IN HINFO PC-Pentium Linux Next edit /var/named/named.rev-hosts example: ; ; /var/named/named.rev-hosts ; ;named.rev-hosts ; @ IN SOA patches-place.jesus-is.org. lcressy.patches-place.jesus-is.org. ( 1 ; Serial 86400 ; Refresh 24 hours 900 ; Retry 15 minutes 2592000 ; Expire 30 days 1209600 ) ; Default TTL 14 days ; IN NS patches-place.jesus-is.org. ; ; reverse map your IP addresses ; 0 IN PTR jesus-is.org 1 IN PTR patches-place.jesus-is.org. 2 IN PTR peepers.jesus-is.org. 3 IN PTR monet.jesus-is.org Next edit your /etc/resolv.conf to point to your name server example: nameserver 127.0.0.1 search jesus-is.org nameserver 192.168.1.1 finally, edit your /etc/host.conf example: order hosts,bind multi on nospoof on alert on trim jesus-is.org Well anyway, I hope that this helps your church. PTL BTW, I usually don't read the user list, so if you have any questions mail me directly Thanks -- 0 0 L R Associates Home Page:http://www.netaxs.com/~ldc/ ___ooO ~ Ooo___ LeRoy D. Cressy /\_/\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Consulting ( o.o ) Phone (215) 535-4037 ^ Fax (215) 535-4285 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Size of ttfonts in Netscape?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was just playing with this a little more I think this si a bug in netscape... It apears that Netscape does not handle the truetype fonts well You can go into prefs and fix it...but...if you exit netscape and come back in it does not remember the font size that you used. I didn't notice that I can use the text entry box although the check box is greyed out. But as you said it does not remember the settings. And yes I'm using Communicator 4.04. I would recomend not using truetype fixed with fonts with netscape :( Well, I already do so again. :-( As you mentioned the new mozilla: Can I change the size with it permantly and how usable is it overall? Thanks for your efforts, Thomas -- Thomas Apel [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key IDs: 90B40401 (RSA) and 5B980B91 (DH/DSS) -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
RE: linux + win95: linux boot partition/
The 1024 problem is a very real one. On old BIOSes the 1024 cylinder corresponded to 528 MB. Newer BIOSes do translation (they pretend the drive has more heads than it actually does so they can pretend that it has fewer cylinders than it actually does) and the 1024 cylinder corresponds to about 8 GB. Some BIOSes allow you to choose whether translation should be done with settings like Large or LBA for other BIOSes translation is on by default. Only LILO uses the BIOS so only LILO needs to know what (translated) disk geometry the BIOS is using. (Well fdisk needs to know the translated geometry when creating new partitions if you want to maintain compatibility with other OSes.) LILO gets the disk geometry from the kernel. For some systems the kernel doesn't default to the same geometry that the BIOS uses. You can fix this by 1) passing the BIOS geometry to the kernel as a boot option, 2) telling LILO the BIOS geometry through LILO config options, 3)using LILO's linear option which causes LILO to record linear sector numbers in the map file instead of cylinder/head/sector locations. I prefer option 1) because fdisk will also use the correct geometry. Option 3) just postpones conversion of sector numbers to C/H/S locations until boot time (when LILO can get the BIOS geometry directly from the BIOS). It doesn't solve the 1024 cylinder problem (which is a 528 MB or an 8 GB problem depending on your BIOS). I agree that there are problems with the documentation. Too much of it implies that the 1024 cylinder problem = 528 MB problem. Note 1: The DOS program dparam.com (that comes as part of the LILO distribution) can be used to determine the translated BIOS geometry. Note 2: Some very new BIOSes support extended 32 bit C/H/S addressing (up to 2 TB drives) through new BIOS routines. I don't think LILO supports these new BIOS routines yet. Tony Richardson -Original Message- From: Hamish Moffatt [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 1998 9:37 PM To: p.meidl; debian-user Subject: Re: linux + win95: linux boot partition/ On Tue, Jul 14, 1998 at 06:42:19PM +, Patrick Meidl wrote: after reading the relevant FAQs, HowTOs, installation instructions etc. I recognized that all bootable partitions must start before the 1024th cylinder (I would like to use LILO), so I thought the best solution might be to have these partitions: With LBA this appears to be incorrect. I have previously had systems booting Linux from the last 500mb of a 1.6gb drive; the 1024 limit only takes you to 528mb or so. I boot NT 2gb into a 6gb drive; no problem. I have never encountered any 1024 cylinder problem with Linux. I wish the documentation would not keep spreading these ideas. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Size of ttfonts in Netscape?
On Wed, Jul 15, 1998 at 01:04:15PM +0200, Thomas Apel wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was just playing with this a little more I think this si a bug in netscape... It apears that Netscape does not handle the truetype fonts well You can go into prefs and fix it...but...if you exit netscape and come back in it does not remember the font size that you used. I didn't notice that I can use the text entry box although the check box is greyed out. But as you said it does not remember the settings. And yes I'm using Communicator 4.04. yes its true...amazingly... for me anyway it seems to do the same thing for proportional fonts but...it remembers the settings I put...weird I would recomend not using truetype fixed with fonts with netscape :( Well, I already do so again. :-( As you mentioned the new mozilla: Can I change the size with it permantly and how usable is it overall? mozilla is useable...but...not exactly ready. Sometimes it puts the underline for links above the link...little things like that it does work tho...bu ton the whole looks just like Netscape...with some missing bells and whistles. -Steve -- /* -- Stephen Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- */ A favorite quote from a source I forget: Only Microsoft can take an algorithim that has been under years of public scrutiny and weaken it to the point where the entire key space can be searched in 3 days -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: [Debian] iso9660 in 2.0.34 ?
On Wed, Jul 15, 1998 at 08:46:35AM +, Matthew Collins wrote: On 14 Jul 1998 18:21:21 -0500, you wrote: Does make-kpkg run config for you? It dosn't say. It does not run config...you have to run make [menu,x]config yourself I run make config first, and the run make-kpkg. Off it goes and makes my kernel. I wonder off to make a cup of tea, and do the washing up. Come back and it's finished. It hasn't made or installed the modules, it hasn't put the kernel into /boot. All it seems to have done is compile my kernel for me. right...go up on elevel (usually to /usr/src/) and you should see a .deb file int hat directory... just install that deb as if it were any other deb package just dpkg -i ... it will install the kernel and the modules. Then save that deb for laterhave to re-install the system?? want an identical kenrel somewhere else... there it is how do we USE this marvelous package? Is there any documentation, /usr/doc/kernel-package -Steve -- /* -- Stephen Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- */ A favorite quote from a source I forget: Only Microsoft can take an algorithim that has been under years of public scrutiny and weaken it to the point where the entire key space can be searched in 3 days -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: linux + win95: linux boot partition/1024 cylinder limit
On Wed, Jul 15, 1998 at 11:41:26AM +, Patrick Meidl wrote: I recognized that all bootable partitions must start before the 1024th cylinder (I would like to use LILO), so I thought the best solution might be to have these partitions: With LBA this appears to be incorrect. I have previously had systems booting Linux from the last 500mb of a 1.6gb drive; the 1024 limit only takes you to 528mb or so. I boot NT 2gb into a 6gb drive; no problem. I have never encountered any 1024 cylinder problem with Linux. I wish the documentation would not keep spreading these ideas. this sounds promising (I hate limitations). but: does anybody know if the NCR 53C810 SCSI BIOS on an ASUS PCI/I-486P3G motherboard uses LBA? I couldn't find out from BIOS setup and motherboard manual. Perhaps I am wrong, but I think that this is only an IDE limitation, not a SCSI one. The main problem is the drive types in the BIOS setup, and these are never entered for SCSI drives. by the way: anybody interested in a loadlin vs. lilo for win95+linux dual boot discussion? (I am new to the list so please skip this if you are having this every 3 months ... pointers to resources on that topic on the web are also welcome). It is not too hard to hose your system when initially configuring LILO. Once it's installed it is safe enough. I do not know of any other advantages of LOADLIN. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Print .ps files.
On Wed, Jul 15, 1998 at 01:59:58AM -0700, Mark Yobb wrote: I am having trouble with printing. I have magicfilter, lprng, and cti-fthp (spelling?) installed. Text files print fine to my local printer (HP LazerJet 5L) but when printing postscript files with ghostscript I just get stepped lines of all these funny commands. I assume these commands are Adobe postscript commands because I see Adobe copyright usually in there somewhere. Since I think my printer is a PCL printer? I assume I need something that will convert to this. Does gs (ghostview) do this? I assume a filter will also be required that will correctly work with the PCL stuff as well. Am I totally off base? I am not sure if I require some statement in my printcap to handle this or not. Magicfilterconfig created my printcap for me (including seting my if and of) so I am hoping it is OK. Best to install the `magicfilter' package; it will set up printer filters to use ghostscript and other programs to allow you to print lots of file formats on your printer. I use the laserjet 4L selection with my 5L. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
H Key is unusable, after base installation of hamm
Just had the base system installation of Hamm, and wanted to type 'which superformat'. 'h' beeps and beeps ... i have to type Ctrl-V h to use it. I looked into the /etc/terminfo/l/linux via ... (untic) could find nothing. What's wrong with my very 'h'? Heh? :( Stelios Parnassidis | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MPE/IR - Garching | Giessenbachstr 85748 Garching - Germany| Tel: +49 (0)89 3299 3278 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: problems with PPP Debian 2.0 beta
auth is selected in /ppp/options now. It wasnt before. I had to put noauth in /ect/ppp/peers/provider to override it and get a connection. Mike On Tue, Jul 14, 1998 at 09:28:53PM -0500, Chris R. Martin wrote: I recently upgraded my 'base' system to 2.0 beta, and also installed PPP 2.3.5-2. However, when I did this, ppp stopped working. It will dial, and it fails with the message peer refused to authenicate. Obviously this didn't happen before... I've checked pap-secrets and that looks the same.. in fact everything looks the same that it did before. Any ideas? Thanks, Chris please cc me by email -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Colorado Tape Drive
I'm having problems with my Colorado 350 drive...ever since I've installed Win95, I can't do a successful back-up. Is this a software problem...do I need new software to go with Win95? Help... -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
ncurses 4.2?
How can I install ncurses 4.2 without wrecking havoc on my system and keeping everyting happy, dependencies and all? I would like to use a beta release of taper that fixes a bug I am experiencing with large archives and it needs at least ncurses 4.1. Thanks, Brian -- Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Tkdesk (was: File managers ??............)
Michael Beattie wrote:
On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Alexey Vyskubov wrote:
On Thu, Jul 09, 1998 at 02:38:00PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Tkdesk looks fine but I don't know how to get rid off of the icons menu
which
appear on the left of the screen.
Nasty hack:
put the following in the last line of ~/.tkdesk/AppBar:
set tkdesk(appbar) {{}}
You right :) it is nasty...
I think there is actually a setting in the browser somewhere...
File:Configuration:Appbar:Hide Appbar
I think have a look. I use kfm now :)
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If you use the menus then try the tkdesk menu and the toggle appbar
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How to build a custom kernel with kernel-source-2.0.34_2.0.34-4.deb
Dear debian fans, My system is hamm, and I have downloaded the kernel source (kernel-source-2.0.34-2.0.34-4.deb) from ftp.debian.org (1) What is the difference between linux-2.0.34.tar.gz and kernel-source-2.0.34_2.034-4.deb. (2) How to build a custom kernel with kernel-source-2.034_2.0.34-4.deb step by step please (I knew how to build it with linux-2.0.34.tar.gz) Thanks a lot! -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
dkpg error! What should I do?
Hello,
I'm fairly new to Debian, and I'm currently attempting to install the
Debian distribution on my Mac Centris 650. And, yes, I do realize
this is very unstable.
Nonetheless, my question concerns an error that I'm receiving when
using dselect and dkpg. I've managed to install most of the packages
I need without problem using dselect, and I do have a working system.
It's just that on a few packages ('at' for instance), I get errors
returned from dpkg. Here's an excerpt:
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% dpkg --install /Debian/stable/m68k-binary/admin/at_3.1.8-2.1.deb
(Reading database...
Unpacking at (from .../admin/at_3.1.8-2.1.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /Debian/stable/m68k-binary/admin/at_3.1.8-2.1.deb
(--install):
error setting ownership of symlink 'usr/man/man1/batch.1.gz':
No such file or directory
Errors were encounterd while processing:
/Debian/stable/m68k-binary/admin/at_3.1.8-2.1.deb
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I'm stumped as to what I can do, if this is even important. However,
it does appear that 'at' was not installed due to this error
So, I examined the package using dpkg --extract ..., and I did see the
batch.1.gz man page.
My question: What should I do to get this package to install? Any
help is greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Pete
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Re: [Debian] iso9660 in 2.0.34 ?
On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, Matthew Collins wrote: [ snip ] : All the functionallity you describe sounds really good, I (and many : others by the sounds of things) might be missing the point here, but : how do we USE this marvelous package? Is there any documentation, : because the man pages are really, really poor. If there is no : documentation, then this package is fairly usless unless you know how : to use it correctly. : : A little pointer to how to start using the package correctly would be : nice. RTFM kernel-package docs. All Debian documentation is in /usr/doc/packagename ... at the very least, there will be a copyright file there :) However, since Manoj is a very diligent maintainer, there's a wealth of information in /usr/doc/kernel-package . For starters, take a peek at the README.gz ... on the second page you would have found this: For the Brave and the impatient: 1% cd kernel source tree 2% make config # or make menuconfig or make xconfig and configure 3% make-kpkg clean 4% make-kpkg --rootcmd fakeroot --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image 5% dpkg -i ../kernel-image-X.XXX_1.0_arch.deb 6% shutdown -r now # If and only if LILO worked or you have a means of # booting the new kernel. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!! With this example you'll also need the `fakeroot' package, or you can run line 4 with sudo (or su to root). You need root privileges to create a deb package. kernel-package is the coolest thing ever. It has a ton of options, works with Debian kernel source, non-Debian kernel source, stable kernels, unstable kernels ... -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet - 410 South Phillips Avenue - Sioux Falls, SD 57104 mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9) -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Why does tty1 become the current VT on reboot/halt?
Noah L. Meyerhans [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hey all. Why is it that when I reboot or halt my machine, I'm automatically switched to the first virtual console? I don't like this at all, because all of the messages coming from the rc scripts get sent whichever VC I was on when I typed the reboot/halt command. I haven't been able to figure out how/where the event occurs. Is it possible to prevent it, or to have all the rc scripts send their output to tty1? Well, I can't provide a solution, but I can provide an explanation: xdm, or more specifically the Xserver xdm was running. Whenever an xserver shuts down, it reverts to the virtual terminal that was active when it started (which is usually VT1, unless you hit Alt-F# at the right time in the boot sequence). While this makes sense as something to do when the xserver is shut down directly, (for example, if one were running X through startx and exited X, one would expect to go back to the shell prompt that ran startx) it may not be the right thing to do when the Xserver is shut down while not active. I don't find this any more than a really minor inconvenience, since switching vt's with Alt-Fn works during the shutdown process, and even continues to work after the system has halted. You might file a wishlist bug against your favorite xserver though saying that it shouldn't switch vt's on shutdown unless it (the Xserver) was on the currently active vt. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: How to build a custom kernel with kernel-source-2.0.34_2.0.34-4.deb
No clue on question 1. In answer to question 2, I suggest you get the kernel-package package and then check /usr/doc/kernel-package for detailed instructions. Mike On Wed, Jul 15, 1998 at 09:56:31PM +0800, Alex Kwan wrote: Dear debian fans, My system is hamm, and I have downloaded the kernel source (kernel-source-2.0.34-2.0.34-4.deb) from ftp.debian.org (1) What is the difference between linux-2.0.34.tar.gz and kernel-source-2.0.34_2.034-4.deb. (2) How to build a custom kernel with kernel-source-2.034_2.0.34-4.deb step by step please (I knew how to build it with linux-2.0.34.tar.gz) Thanks a lot! -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: libc6 Netscape form problems
I am running the libc6 version of Netscape 4.05 and am experiencing some strang problems when entering text into text fields. Something keeps appending random binary bits to the end of the strings and it really screws things up. Sometimes it isn't even apparent in the field and other times it is. This is really fun when trying to order things on the web!! As an example I tried placing an order for 2 items and it somehow converted it to 21!!! Yikes! Or as another example I entered free source into yahoo's search field and it said that I had entered, free source=FC^=BE=A4-?=FC^=BE=A4-?h=3D5. What gives. I suppose I coul= d re-install the libc5 version of Netscape but if Netscape is not the problem I don't want to download the 11+M over my 31.2k dialup. This is a ns bug. Really funny, when you are paying bills through a www-service. Or entering passwords/uids/urls... --j -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: You have new mail
Hi! When loging in, my users sometimes get the message 'You have mail', when in fact they have new mail. Also, in redhat whenever they received new mail and they where in the bash shell, they'd get the 'You have new mail' after any command. In debian they don't. I think in /etc/profile, you have to include export MAILPATH=/usr/spool/mail/$USER You meant /var/spool. IIRC /usr/spool was abandoned some time a go. --j -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Packages of FTP Client (GUI)
I am looking for the packages of FTP Client (GUI) under X, Would someone know that? What is its name location? FileRunner is a great ftpclient and filemanager. You can find it from section: net. IIRC this was in contrib or non-free before, but the license changet month or two a go allowing it go to main. So if you're running bo, you might want to check contrib non- free too. --j -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: My 'h' key is unusable
Stelios Parnassidis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just had the base system installation of Hamm, and wanted to type 'which superformat'. 'h' beeps and beeps ... i have to type Ctrl-V h to use it. I looked into the /etc/terminfo/l/linux via ... (untic) could find nothing. What's wrong with my very 'h'? Heh? :( Could it be a missing backslash or caret in your /etc/inputrc? A mis-quoted section of your bash initialization files? It sounds almost as if bash is set to interpret h as delete-next-character (something that people sometimes want the delete key to do; I can see how on a poorly thought-out installation, one might want Control-h to do this). See if h does indeed behave this way by typing some stuff, backing up, and seeing if you can delete things with h. To track down the problem, I'd suggest doing: (at the bash prompt) bind -p | less and inside less search for h (less doesn't use readline, so it shouldn't be affected by the weird-h stuff). Then, I guess I'd look at /etc/inputrc, ~/.inputrc, and the various bash initialization files for anything that might be causing this. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: REALLY small machine
On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Robert Henry Rati wrote: I have an old 384 with 40 meg HD and 1 meg of ram and I wanted to set it up as my ftp server. Can Linux install into that small a HD and if so, how would I go about doing that? Linux can be booted in less than 1 meg, but you can't do much with it in that state, and you have to very very carefully craft your kernel to do it. Probably 2 megs is the smallest useful amount of RAM for Linux. You can install into 40MB of disk, though you'll probably want more. As jgreshes noted, old hard drives are very cheap now, even free if you do a little scavenging. Another alternative is installing just the minimum system and NFS mounting the rest from a beefier computer, but then I think you'll want 4MB of RAM to get acceptable performance. There are several license restrictions on it, but you may want to look at Minix-386. It's another (mostly) free unix-like OS, written for educational purposes. It's a lot smaller than Linux (though it has a lot fewer features) and some versions can even run on an 8086. It should run comfortably on 1MB of RAM, and I know it fits easily into 40MB of disk. Hardware support, particularly for networking stuff, is very limited, but you might get lucky. Unfortunately, ELKS (the Embeddable Linux Kernel Subset) is still being developed, and networking in particular is not at all usable right now. Keep checking, though... Sincerely, Ray Ingles(248) 377-7735 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Technically, Windows is an operating system, which means that it supplies your computer with the basic commands it needs to suddenly, with no warning whatsoever, stop operating. - Dave Barry -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: How to build a custom kernel with kernel-source-2.0.34_2.0.34-4.deb
On Wed, Jul 15, 1998 at 10:16:04AM -0400, Michael B. Taylor wrote: (1) What is the difference between linux-2.0.34.tar.gz and kernel-source-2.0.34_2.034-4.deb. Try a recursive diff on both source trees, and you'll notice that the debian kernel tree is patched with some security related patches etc. Maybe the changelog.Debian in the /usr/doc/kernel-source... directory will tell you more? (2) How to build a custom kernel with kernel-source-2.034_2.0.34-4.deb step by step please (I knew how to build it with linux-2.0.34.tar.gz) You can do it in the very same way! For your convenience, you can use the kernel-package instead, but you can use this with both source trees, too! make config make-kpkg clean make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image cd .. ls Voila! Marcus -- Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.Debian GNU/Linuxfinger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.orgmaster.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
PNP modem
Has anyone configured a PNP modem in Linux using PNPISATOOLS? I have a 33.6 modem which (unfortunately) is PNP and haven't been able to get Linux to recognize it. It should see it on /dev/ttyS1, since it's set for Com 1. Also, there were a number of scripts setup to connect you to an isp when you install Linux. I ment to go back and read the man page on them, but I've forgotten when the name was. I seem to remember con or some three letter command like that. Any help there? |-| | [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Role-Player, Babylon 5 fanatic 1997-98 | |-| | Homepage: www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/ratirh (Careful it's not completed) | |-| | The past brings pain, the future depression, | | the present disappointment. The only thing that remains is the moment.| | Live for the moment, and enjoy life. You only have one chance. | |-| -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
color prompts
Hello! I read in the Configuration HOWTO that RedHat Slackware Linux can use Escape control codes to add color support (and some default settings; like LESS as a default pager) to the prompt line, see below: _ # /etc/profile # System wide environment and startup programs # Functions and aliases go in /etc/bashrc # This file sets up the following features: # # o path # o prompts # o a few environment variables # o colour ls # o less # # Users can override these settings and/or add others in their # $HOME/.bash_profile # set a decent path echo $PATH | grep X11R6 /dev/null if [ $? = 1 ] ; then # add entries to the path PATH=$PATH:/usr/X11R6/bin:$HOME/bin:. fi # notify the user: login or non-login shell. If login, the prompt is # coloured in blue; otherwise in magenta. Root's prompt is red. USER=`whoami` if [ $LOGNAME = $USER ] ; then COLOUR=44 else COLOUR=45 fi if [ $USER = 'root' ] ; then COLOUR=41 fi # put a real escape character instead of ^[. To do this: # emacs: ^Q ESC vi: ^V ESC joe: ` 0 2 7 jed: ` ESC # Remove `;1' if you don't like the `bold' attribute. ESC=^[ PS1='$ESC[$COLOUR;37;1m$USER:$ESC[37;40;1m\w\$ ' PS2=Continue # no core dumps, please ulimit -c 0 # set umask if [ `id -gn` = `id -un` -a `id -u` -gt 14 ]; then umask 002 else umask 022 fi # a few variables USER=`id -un` LOGNAME=$USER MAIL=/var/spool/mail/$USER EDITOR=jed HOSTNAME=`/bin/hostname` HISTSIZE=1000 HISTFILESIZE=1000 export PATH PS1 PS2 USER LOGNAME MAIL EDITOR HOSTNAME HISTSIZE HISTFILESIZE # enable colour ls eval `dircolors /etc/DIR_COLORS -b` export LS_OPTIONS='-F -s -T 0 --color=tty' # customise less LESS='-M-Q' LESSEDIT=%E ?lt+%lt. %f LESSOPEN=| lesspipe.sh %s VISUAL=jed LESSCHARSET=latin1 export LESS LESSEDIT LESSOPEN VISUAL LESSCHARSET for i in /etc/profile.d/*.sh ; do if [ -x $i ]; then . $i fi done ___ The important part is: # notify the user: login or non-login shell. If login, the prompt is # coloured in blue; otherwise in magenta. Root's prompt is red. USER=`whoami` if [ $LOGNAME = $USER ] ; then COLOUR=44 else COLOUR=45 fi if [ $USER = 'root' ] ; then COLOUR=41 fi # put a real escape character instead of ^[. To do this: # emacs: ^Q ESC vi: ^V ESC joe: ` 0 2 7 jed: ` ESC # Remove `;1' if you don't like the `bold' attribute. ESC=^[ PS1='$ESC[$COLOUR;37;1m$USER:$ESC[37;40;1m\w\$ ' PS2=Continue I tried to make this work, so the prompt is in color, but instead it outputs the PS1= line almost verbatim for a prompt. Can this work in debian? Do I need to change something? Thanks for any feedback Dave Jones -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: How to regenerate apache-ssl certificates ?
Tim Hudson [EMAIL PROTECTED] emailed me the enclosed script. Mario Filipe wrote: Hi I have installed apache-ssl but now a questions just came into my mind! How do i regenerate the certificates or even better how can i convince the thing to generate certificates with a bigger expiration date (it's used in an intranet and we aren't to inclined into paying someone for a certificate) -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] usercert.cgi Description: application/unknown-content-type-cgi_auto_file
procmail and .forward
Hi, Before upgrading to hamm, I had to put a .forward file with that known line of redirection in order to get my e-mail filtered by procmail. Now, even without the .forward two users of my system were getting their e-mail filtered by procmail. I double checked and they didn't have the .forward file. Is this a bug? If yes, who is the guilt? sendmail, procmail? Of course they have an old .procmailrc file. I'm using hamm with: sendmail 8.8.8-20 procmail 3.10.7-6 Thanks, []s, Mario O.de MenezesMany are the plans in a man's heart, but IPEN-CNEN/SP is the Lord's purpose that prevails http://curiango.ipen.br/~mario Prov. 19.21 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Debian 2.0 - rcmd: Lost connection
Thanks for the reply... I believe that I am using the latest version of libc6, so I guess it is still broken. Here is the output from dpkg --list: ii libc6 2.0.7r-5 The GNU C library version 2 ii libc6-dev 2.0.7r-5 The GNU C library version 2 These are the latest packages in the hamm release. I've been using the hamm distribution for about 3 months and have been continuously upgrading to all the latest packages. Thanks for any help on this matter, Michael Q. Le Office: (530) 752-6347 Solid State Circuits Research Lab Fax:(530) 752-8428 Dept. of Electrical EngineeringUniversity of California, Davis http://junior.ece.ucdavis.edu Powered by Debian GNU/Linux! On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, J.H.M.Dassen wrote: [Courtesy copy of Usenet posting] Michael Q. Le [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I get the following error when I try to rlogin as root. The machine has a .rhosts file in the root directory to allow root login without a password. When I try to login from another Linux box, I get: hostm.ece.ucdavis.edu: Success But nothing happens...Terminal is still on the client machine. When I login from an HP machine, I get: rcmd: Lost connection This is caused by a bug in the version of libc6 that is installed on your 2.0 beta machine. Please upgrade to the latest version avaible; it is reported to be fixed there. Please consider using the debian-user@lists.debian.org mailing list for Debian specific questions. HTH, 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. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: You have new mail
Hi! When loging in, my users sometimes get the message 'You have mail', when in fact they have new mail. Also, in redhat whenever they received new mail and they where in the bash shell, they'd get the 'You have new mail' after any command. In debian they don't. I think in /etc/profile, you have to include export MAILPATH=/usr/spool/mail/$USER You meant /var/spool. IIRC /usr/spool was abandoned some time a go. I guess you're right. On my bo system /usr/spool is a link to /var/spool. On an Irix and a Solaris system here the mail goes into /usr/mail. I guess that's why I looked in /usr first. 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 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: linux + win95: linux boot partition/
On Wed, Jul 15, 1998 at 08:39:00AM -0400, Richardson,Anthony wrote: The 1024 problem is a very real one. Please, it really occurs in very few systems/configurations. It had been a problem for me occasinally because of some older mainboards lying around here. It is no problem with harddisks and mainboards bought over the last three years. Some BIOSes allow you to choose whether translation should be done with settings like Large or LBA for other BIOSes translation is on by default. All BIOSes I saw until now gave me the LBA option which I choose. See below. Only LILO uses the BIOS so only LILO needs to know what (translated) disk geometry the BIOS is using. (Well fdisk needs to know the translated geometry when creating new partitions if you want to maintain compatibility with other OSes.) LILO gets the disk geometry from the kernel. For some systems the kernel doesn't default to the same geometry that the BIOS uses. You can fix this by 1) passing the BIOS geometry to the kernel as a boot option, 2) telling LILO the BIOS geometry through LILO config options, 3)using LILO's linear option which causes LILO to record linear sector numbers in the map file instead of cylinder/head/sector locations. I prefer option 1) because fdisk will also use the correct geometry. Option 3) just postpones conversion of sector numbers to C/H/S locations until boot time (when LILO can get the BIOS geometry directly from the BIOS). It doesn't solve the 1024 cylinder problem (which is a 528 MB or an 8 GB problem depending on your BIOS). The last sentence is wrong. In case of LBA, BIOS as well as LILO to use linear sector numbers. The conversion is made in the drive itself, in a way noone else needs to be interested in. In short: Select LBA in the BIOS and linear als lilo option. Thats it. Nils -- *-* | Quotes from the net: L Linus Torvalds, W Winfried Truemper | | Lthis is the special easter release of linux, more mundanely called 1.3.84 | | WUmh, oh. What do you mean by special easter release?. Will it quit | * Wworking today and rise on easter? * pgpuXa3kF3AMG.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [Debian] iso9660 in 2.0.34 ?
On Wed, 15 Jul 1998 09:04:42 -0500 (CDT), you wrote: RTFM kernel-package docs. All Debian documentation is in /usr/doc/packagename ... at the very least, there will be a copyright file there :) [snip] kernel-package is the coolest thing ever. It has a ton of options, works with Debian kernel source, non-Debian kernel source, stable kernels, unstable kernels ... -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet - 410 South Phillips Avenue - Sioux Falls, SD 57104 mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9) Ahh! Now I know where the docs are, I'll certainly RTFM. One problem (not really a problem, but hey) is that there is so many new things when you install a new Debian system that you don't know where to start looking. I've always typed man whatever and see what I get. I guess I should look in usr/docs first. I have a hard enough time remembering the name of things I've installed. :) Thanks for the pointers. -- Matthew Collins Mitral Systems Ltd arrgh! Sorry, spam filter in place. substitute nospam for matthew to reply by email. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
2.0 Expected release date?
Any prohectiosn? The ddaily list of open bugs seems to have disapeared. Are they all done? Is anyone working on them? Does anyone care? Are all the devlopers moving on too slink/ After all it's a whole lot more fun to be on the cuting edge, than ploding awya at menails stuff for real users :-( -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]770-996-6955 Factory Automation Systems Atlanta Ga. -- Windows 98: n. minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 1998 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Upgrade bo-hamm w/SOCKS proxy, how?
I have a friend running bo, which he installed from CD. How can he upgrade to Hamm through his NT proxy server, running SOCKS? I can think of several difficult ways, but is there a beginners-approved way? Thanks! Jeff -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: PNP modem
Yup. Under hamm. I've had trouble is isapnp in the past but setting up an internal USR Sportster this time was a breeze and it was actually better since I could use IRQ 5 which is non-standard for a serial port (I'm using two other ports already). Does pnpdump find the device? Robert Henry Rati wrote: Has anyone configured a PNP modem in Linux using PNPISATOOLS? I have a 33.6 modem which (unfortunately) is PNP and haven't been able to get Linux to recognize it. It should see it on /dev/ttyS1, since it's set for Com 1. Also, there were a number of scripts setup to connect you to an isp when you install Linux. I ment to go back and read the man page on them, but I've forgotten when the name was. I seem to remember con or some three letter command like that. Any help there? |-| | [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Role-Player, Babylon 5 fanatic 1997-98 | |-| | Homepage: www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/ratirh (Careful it's not completed) | |-| | The past brings pain, the future depression, | | the present disappointment. The only thing that remains is the moment.| | Live for the moment, and enjoy life. You only have one chance. | |-| -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: procmail and .forward
I'm using hamm with: sendmail 8.8.8-20 procmail 3.10.7-6 It't not a bug...it's the way the packages are supposed to work together when installed system-wide. My isp has been set up that way since '94. When you need to use .forward is a bug occurring (more like an inconvenience installation.) Jason -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: procmail and .forward
Before upgrading to hamm, I had to put a .forward file with that known line of redirection in order to get my e-mail filtered by procmail. Now, even without the .forward two users of my system were getting their e-mail filtered by procmail. I double checked and they didn't have the .forward file. Is this a bug? If yes, who is the guilt? sendmail, procmail? Of course they have an old .procmailrc file. I'm using hamm with: sendmail 8.8.8-20 procmail 3.10.7-6 That version of sendmail will use procmail instead of deliver if it finds it. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Upgrade bo-hamm w/SOCKS proxy, how?
On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, Jeff Noxon wrote: How can he upgrade to Hamm through his NT proxy server, running SOCKS? I can think of several difficult ways, but is there a beginners-approved way? Does the NT proxy server proxy HTTP? If so use ATP and the http method, do this before you run it, export http_proxy=http://ntserver:port/; Jason -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: ncurses 4.2?
On Wed, 15 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I install ncurses 4.2 without wrecking havoc on my system and keeping everyting happy, dependencies and all? I would like to use a beta release of taper that fixes a bug I am experiencing with large archives and it needs at least ncurses 4.1. You could put it in /usr/local/ncurses and use the following in your Makefile: ICURSES = -I/usr/local/ncurses/include LCURSES = /usr/local/ncurses/lib/libncurses.a As an aside, I've never gotten taper to work successfully since upgrading to ftape-3.04d. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
fdutils error while setting
Hi, I'm getting the bellow message from dpkg while trying to set fdutils. What is wrong? How can I fix this? -- running dpkg --pending --configure ... Setting up fdutils (5.2pl4-3) ... Update-menus: waiting for dpkg to finish (forking to background) Update-menus: (checking /var/lib/dpkg/lock) Running /dev/MAKEDEV floppy-all ... MAKEDEV: syntax error: Unexpected '/', line 9, column 7 in file /proc/devices MAKEDEV: Sorry, can't continue. dpkg: error processing fdutils (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: fdutils -- Thanks []s, Mario O.de MenezesMany are the plans in a man's heart, but IPEN-CNEN/SP is the Lord's purpose that prevails http://curiango.ipen.br/~mario Prov. 19.21 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
RE: linux + win95: linux boot partition/
On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, Richardson,Anthony wrote: The 1024 problem is a very real one. Yes, I agree it is. However, Hamish was commenting on a posting that referred to SCSI drives, not IDE ones. Unfortunately he had pruned the quotation so much that all references to SCSI had disappeared. So the remainder (quoted immediately below) gave a very misleading impression, particularly the last statement made in a separate and unqualified paragraph. -Original Message- From: Hamish Moffatt [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 1998 9:37 PM To: p.meidl; debian-user Subject: Re: linux + win95: linux boot partition/ On Tue, Jul 14, 1998 at 06:42:19PM +, Patrick Meidl wrote: after reading the relevant FAQs, HowTOs, installation instructions etc. I recognized that all bootable partitions must start before the 1024th cylinder (I would like to use LILO), so I thought the best solution might be to have these partitions: With LBA this appears to be incorrect. I have previously had systems booting Linux from the last 500mb of a 1.6gb drive; the 1024 limit only takes you to 528mb or so. I boot NT 2gb into a 6gb drive; no problem. I have never encountered any 1024 cylinder problem with Linux. I wish the documentation would not keep spreading these ideas. Hamish -- -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Need good ftp-client, Checking links on webserver
Hi: 1) I would need an ftp client which is able to delete recursively a whole directory tree on the remote host. I tried ncftp, xftp, qftp, cftp ... (I cannot telnet to this machine, it is a web-server, I have only ftp access to it.) Does such a thing exist? 2) Is there some program in order to check all local links in my html-project? I tried hsc, but it does not seem to be appropriate, it is to powerful/complains about so many things I cannot afford to correct ... Thanks. === Clemens Heuberger Institut fuer Mathematik (A) Tel: (+43 316) 873-7127 Technische Universitaet Graz Fax: (+43 316) 873-7126 Steyrergasse 30/II e-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] A-8010 Graz, Austria http://finanz.math.tu-graz.ac.at/~cheub/ === -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: linux + win95: linux boot partition/
On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, Nils Rennebarth wrote: On Wed, Jul 15, 1998 at 08:39:00AM -0400, Richardson,Anthony wrote: The 1024 problem is a very real one. Please, it really occurs in very few systems/configurations. It had been a problem for me occasinally because of some older mainboards lying around here. It is no problem with harddisks and mainboards bought over the last three years. ^ eh? I'm very happy for you. I now run eight linux boxes, three of them modern enough that I had to use patched kernels for the SCSI until bo was released. However, the other five are all well over three years old and the mainboards don't lie around, they earn their keep. However, I have had the good fortune to acquire bigger disks, mainly because disks have necessarily fallen like manna from heaven as the rest of the lusers here (MS drones) have been migrated to W95. So for me, the 1024 limit is an increasing problem, not a diminishing one. Not immediately obvious, perhaps. Some BIOSes allow you to choose whether translation should be done with settings like Large or LBA for other BIOSes translation is on by default. All BIOSes I saw until now gave me the LBA option which I choose. See below. Only one of my five older machines has heard of LBA. While I smile when I read some of the HOWTOs I printed off several years ago, I don't forget that there are plently of people still grappling with older hardware (some still running 1.2.13 as well!). It's refreshing that linux allows one to make such choices. The only thing our administrators know what to do with such hardware is bin it. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Report: installed hamm from Cheapbytes CD
Hello, This is a brief report after installing Debian hamm from the Cheapbytes CD on my Dell Latitude CPi laptop. The CD boots OK, and everything works as before. The only thing that was a nuisance was in the section where you select what file systems, network drivers, etc. to install. There were several options in these menus that had no description next to them (so I didn't install any of those). After installing the base system (including PCMCIA support), the machine boots ok, with the following error messages: * Unable to load NLS charset cp437 * Unable to load NLS charset ISO8859-1 * 3c589_cs: Request IRQ: resource in use. This one is related to my network card, a 3com 3C589D PC (PCMCIA) card. Under WinNT, where it works, it is reported as using the following resources: IRQ10, memory 300-30F. Perhaps there is something else in Debian that already uses that IRQ? If so, what can be done? * Also, I seem to remember the two serial ports were reported as using the same IRQ. Could this be a problem? If so, how do you go about changing that? After booting, one small problem I had is that I got a bunch of errors for the execution of /sbin/getty, and then a message saying: INIT: Id S1 respawning too fast... and S1 was deactivated for 5 minutes. I commented out the only S1 entry in /etc/inittab, and that went away. The getty invocation seemed incorrect to me (sorry, don't have it handy). So, everything is mostly OK, except for those NLS charsets, and the network card; anyone has any suggestions regarding these? If possible, please answer via e-mail as well as to the list, to which I am not subscribed. Thanks a lot, and great job! Gonzalo Diethelm [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Web transaction security.
Jaakko Niemi wrote: snip This is a ns bug. Really funny, when you are paying bills through a www-service. Or entering passwords/uids/urls... snip --j There was a big discusion in one of the slashdot.org poles awhile back, I believe the pole was something like would you use (or do you trust) online shopping?. The consensus of the discussion was that it's actually SAFER to give your credit card # over the web. For the million different reasons, I suggest you look up this pole on the slashdot page and read it. I never trusted online commerce before, but now I use it often. Chris -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
