null password
I am setting up an old SparIPC to run debian linux. The main function of this machine to provide ppp login service. I have a user 'ppp' that I need to be able to login without a password. The authentication is then done with pap. The default shell for 'ppp' is then /usr/sbin/pppd. '/usr/sbin/pppd' is in /etc/shells. I can't seem to figure out how to let this user login without a password. Does anyone know how todo this? Thanks for your help. Bob
Re: dhcpcd question
On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Guilherme Soares Zahn wrote: -My linux box should get it's IP address from a DHCP server, and it -really does it perfectly UNTIL they move my PC to a different subnet I have found this problem too. -(what seems to be happening quite frequently here)... When it happens, -the only way to make dhcpcd get an IP address for me is to delete the -/etc/dhcpc/dhcpcd-eth0.cache file... Then, shouldn't dhcpcd deal with I added an rm /etc/dhcpc/dhcpcd-eth0.* to my dhcpcd start script. I know that dhcpcd works well on redhat and does not suffer this problem. I've looked through their start scripts and can't seem to find a major differences in the way debian and redhat call dhcpcd. Any more ideas? Bob
Re: DSL good enough to run a small server on?
On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, [iso-8859-1] André Bell wrote: -have $4,000 per month in mind -- no thanks -- or something less. $4,000 Yikes that is expensive. My phone company, charges a $99 install fee, plus you must provide the router or by one from them. But the monthly charge is on $200 for 7.1Mbps, $140 2Mbps, $69 640Kbps, $50 144Kbps. And that includes a pots line too for everything above 144Kbps. Bob
sound help
To all, I'm trying to get sound working on my laptop. Windows reports it as a Yamaha Opl3-SAx WDM Driver The sound howto says that the Yamaha Opl3-Sax sound chip is supported. So I went to my misc directory for my kernal modules and saw three opl3 modules. I tried modprobe all of them. The opl3.o module is the only one that modprobed sucessfully. But when I cated /dev/sndstat it came up with nothing. The sound howto talks about how to compile the drivers into the kernel, but I'd like to use modules if possible. I couldn't find any docs on the debian web page for configuring sound. I've configured sound before but it was useing redhat's sndconfig program. So my question is: am I useing the right module, and how do I get this to work. Thanks for all your help. Bob
Re: sound help
Thanks to Chanop Silpa-Anan I've now got all my modules loaded according to /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sound/OPL3-SA2. When I go to play something like I don't even get a crackle over my speakers. So, how do start trouble shotting this? Thanks again. oh below is the output of cat /dev/sndstat Thanks again. mars:/lib/modules/2.2.10/misc# cat /dev/sndstat OSS/Free:3.8s2++-971130 Load type: Driver loaded as a module Kernel: Linux mars 2.2.10 #2 Wed Jun 16 00:23:31 EST 1999 i686 Config options: 0 Installed drivers: Card config: Audio devices: 0: MS Sound System (CS4231) (DUPLEX) Synth devices: 0: Yamaha OPL3 Midi devices: 0: MPU-401 0.0 Midi interface #1 Timers: 0: System clock 1: MS Sound System (CS4231) Mixers: 0: OPL3-SAx and AD1848 (through MSS) 1: MS Sound System (CS4231) Bob On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Bob C. Ruddy wrote: -To all, - I'm trying to get sound working on my laptop. Windows reports it as a -Yamaha Opl3-SAx WDM Driver The sound howto says that the
More dhcpcd and pcmcia questions
When trying to start dhcpcd from the 'network.opts' file dhcpcd never picks up the network information. When I run /etc/init.d/dhcpcd start it works fine as long as I don't switch networks(see previous post). What happens when I boot the system with 'DHCP=y' in the 'network.opts' file is that the card gets initialized but there is no ip address, broadcast address, or network mask associated with it. Any ideas? Thanks for the help. Bob
Re: Qmail
On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Gergely Madarasz wrote: - What do you think about Qmail. As to what I think. I think qmail is one of the easiest, safest, mtas to use. I have never lost a message or ever had a problem with qmail. It has been extremely stable for me and I would recomend it to any one. - I think it sould become the default mta of debian. As mentioned earlier, do to it's license that does not allow the distibution of binaries it will problally never be a part of the qmail disttribution. The packager of qmail has done a wonderful job of setting up the compile scripts etc, so there is not much of a loss here. My $.02 Bob
Re:Qmail
On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Justa na acount to get my list mails wrote: -by the way, i noticed that the mailing-lists of debian are based on that. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the debian maillists and email have been moved off of qmail. Bob
Re: xdm on a headless machine
On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Steve Rothanburg wrote: -In /etc/X11/xdm/xservers comment out any line referring to servers that you really -don't want it to start. This works but it checks fro a valid XF86Config file which I don't have. Any ideas? Bob
php3 - mysql.so
On the stable version of debian, I've got php3 module loaded into apache. That part works fine. I am trying to load modules into php though specifically the mysql module. But they are not loading. Here is what is in my /etc/php3/apache/php3.ini file. The two modules listed mysql.so and calendar.so are located in /usr/lib/php3/apache and have permsisions 644 Thanks for the help. Bob extension_dir = /usr/lib/php3/apache; directory in which the loadable extensions (modules) reside ;; ; Dynamic Extensions ; ;; ; if you wish to have an extension loaded automaticly, use the ; following syntax: extension=modulename.extension extension=mysql.so extension=calendar.so
RE: debian vs redhat
- who have administered both dists. I have administered both boxes. As mentioned with redhat you can not use both linuxconf and edit the scripts by hand. As far as the scripts with redhat once you inderstand how they are put together you can edit them by hand just as easy as another dist. My biggest reason for making the RedHat to debain switch was because of the package manager. The debian package manager is much nicer, cleaner, and use ful then the redhat package manager. I have also never successfully upgraded a redhat box from one version to another. I always end up reinstalling redhat. When debian made the libc to glibc switch everything went smoothly. RedHat has some to learn. Bob
xdm on a headless machine
Who would I go about starting xdm on a machine were I didn't want it to take over the console? Bob
xircom pcmcia card
Hello, I've got a problem getting my xircom Ethernet+Modem multifunction card working right. The first problem is that I can't get the card manager to automatically load the modules for the card. The second problem is that even when I do modprobe the module. When I run ifconfig it tells me that the device doesn't exist. The strange thing is that about one out of ten times though it does actually work. I've retraced my steps on the few times I've gotten it to work but have not been able to reproduce the results of it working. I'm running kernel 2.2.10 if any one has experience with this card please let me know. It is the one without the doggles on it. Thanks again for your help. Bob
