printer quota
Does anyone know of a printer quota package. I know there is printer accounting but I'm not sure thats what I want. I have a hack worked out if there is not a printer package but I was hoping there was something a little more standard. Thanks -- Jason KillenDeath to tyrants! Monolith : That funny looking guy talking to himself in the back of class PGP fingerprint = 64 71 48 14 31 AE C6 70 E4 4F 64 EB 3B AA 00 6B [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cs.wcu.edu/~jkillen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
NIS being funny
Ok I've got another NIS question. My client machines, I don't rember what they are called but I know they are not servers and they are not slaves, for some reason have the wrong password map. Basically when I do a ypcat passwd I get logins like adm and root in there, I have the server setup to export only UIDs greater than 1000. Anyone know why. A realated question. I have the NFS ugidd and its friends running on both the client and server. Every once in a while, it dosent seem to happen at regular intervals but it does happen more than once a day sometimes, the ownerships for the home directories on the client machine go bad, they go to nobody nogroup. Well thats the list of questions for now. Thanks for all the help. -- Jason Killen Question Stupidity Yea M$ Word is neat and all but at least TeX dosen't assume I'm stupid. Monolith : That funny looking guy talking to himself in the back of class PGP fingerprint = 64 71 48 14 31 AE C6 70 E4 4F 64 EB 3B AA 00 6B [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cs.wcu.edu/~jkillen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: mounting /var/spool/mail
Ok sorry for my non-well formed question. /etc/exports line looks like this (names and faces have been changed) / 242.21.5.133 (rw,root_squash,map_daemon) In this example I have exported the root directory of the server to the machine with the given ip, thats right...right. On the client I say mount 242.21.5.133:/ /mntpnt when I cd to /mntpnt/var/spool/mail and say ls the directory is empty. On the server /var/spool/mail is full of files. I probally should mention that I have home mounted with out problem and followed the same steps in both cases. In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: You might want to post the contents of /etc/exports, /etc/hosts.allow, and /et c/hosts.deny that reside on the server plus /etc/fstab from the client. Are there any error messages w hen you mount the server? Does the target directory exist on the client? Later Rob -- Jason Killen Question Stupidity I'm here for my American dream and I'm not leaving until I get every bit Monolith : That funny looking guy talking to himself in the back of class PGP fingerprint = 64 71 48 14 31 AE C6 70 E4 4F 64 EB 3B AA 00 6B [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cs.wcu.edu/~jkillen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: mounting /var/spool/mail
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: Tine to shine the bright lights in the eyes and start asking nasty questions to your system: For instance, after you have done mount 242.21.5.133:/ /mntpnt, what do you get from ls /mntpnt? ls /mntpnt/var? ls /mntpnt/var/spool? There are files in /mntpnt/var/spool/cron but not in /mnt/var/spool/mail. The same questions if you DON'T mount 242.21.5.133:/ ? Do you by any chance have a directory /mntpnt/var/spool/mail on the local machine which happens to be empty? Check (using the unadorned command mount) that you DON'T have the remote root directory mounted before doing this test. I don't have /mntpnt/var/spool/mail localy. I notice that the mount command you cite does not include any options. Normally, at the very least you would say mount -t nfs 242.21.5.133:/ /mntpnt unless you have an entry for /mntpnt in /etc/fstab which says that the default filesystem type for mounting to /mntpnt is nfs. I've never been forced to use -t for an nfs mount but it's worth a shot. The behaviour you describe is consistent with (a) failure to mount 242.21.5.133:/ to /mntpnt with the mount 242.21.5.133:/ /mntpnt command, together with (b) having a local directory /mntpnt/var/spool/mail which is empty. -- Jason Killen Question Stupidity I'm here for my American dream and I'm not leaving until I get every bit Monolith : That funny looking guy talking to himself in the back of class PGP fingerprint = 64 71 48 14 31 AE C6 70 E4 4F 64 EB 3B AA 00 6B [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cs.wcu.edu/~jkillen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
mounting /var/spool/mail
Hello all. I've got a server and a client and I'm trying to mount the servers /var/spool/mail but nomatter what I try the mount point is empty on the client. Does anybody know why?? -- Jason Killen Question Stupidity I'm here for my American dream and I'm not leaving until I get every bit Monolith : That funny looking guy talking to himself in the back of class PGP fingerprint = 64 71 48 14 31 AE C6 70 E4 4F 64 EB 3B AA 00 6B [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cs.wcu.edu/~jkillen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
nfs problem
Hello all. I have finally gottne nis setup on a few machines but nfs is giving me problems. Basically what happens is when the client mounts the server all ownerships are lost. I have tried using map_daemon in /etc/exports of the server and running ugidd but to no avail. Has anyone gotten nis/nfs up and running and if so could you please give me some instructions on getting nfs to work out. I noticed that the debian nis howto didn't say anything about nfs. Thanks. -- Jason Killen Question Stupidity I'm here for my American dream and I'm not leaving until I get every bit Monolith : That funny looking guy talking to himself in the back of class PGP fingerprint = 64 71 48 14 31 AE C6 70 E4 4F 64 EB 3B AA 00 6B [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cs.wcu.edu/~jkillen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: lilo-menu
Ah. I did see the stuff about a message file but wasn't sure of the format, I guess it has no format. Thanks for tying my loose ends up. In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] yo u wrote: Take a look at /usr/doc/lilo/Manual.txt.gz ... seach for MESSAGE and PROMPT. Essentially (according to the manual), you do MESSAGE=filename PROMPT Where filename is a file containing a message you want printed before the boot: prompt, I guess something like --- Welcome to My Computer When you see boot:, enter either Win for Windows95 Linuxfor Linux MacOsif you're into fruit etc.etc.etc.. There's also a way to get it to clear the screen first. Will [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/ * Good Idea: Feeding Stray Cats in the Park. Bad Idea: Feeding Stray Cats in the park ... to a bear. * -- Jason Killen Question Stupidity Friends of Sinn Fein, 510 C Street, NE Washington, DC 20002 Tel: +1-202-547-8883 * Fax +1-202-547-7889 Monolith : That funny looking guy talking to himself in the back of class PGP fingerprint = 64 71 48 14 31 AE C6 70 E4 4F 64 EB 3B AA 00 6B [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cs.wcu.edu/~jkillen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
making a menu with lilo
Can anyone give me some help with setting up lilo to give the user a menu at boot. I've never set up a machine to do more than boot linux and the man pages haven't helped much. -- Jason Killen Question Stupidity Friends of Sinn Fein, 510 C Street, NE Washington, DC 20002 Tel: +1-202-547-8883 * Fax +1-202-547-7889 Monolith : That funny looking guy talking to himself in the back of class PGP fingerprint = 64 71 48 14 31 AE C6 70 E4 4F 64 EB 3B AA 00 6B [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cs.wcu.edu/~jkillen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
duplicating installation
Is there a quick and easy (ha) way to duplicate a debian installation from one machine to another. I've got 5 machines and I would like for them all to have the same packages installed. -- Jason Killen Question Stupidity Friends of Sinn Fein, 510 C Street, NE Washington, DC 20002 Tel: +1-202-547-8883 * Fax +1-202-547-7889 Monolith : That funny looking guy talking to himself in the back of class PGP fingerprint = 64 71 48 14 31 AE C6 70 E4 4F 64 EB 3B AA 00 6B [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cs.wcu.edu/~jkillen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: duplicating installation
I thought that might do what I wanted. Thanks for the help. In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote : On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Jason Killen wrote: Is there a quick and easy (ha) way to duplicate a debian installation from one machine to another. I've got 5 machines and I would like for them all t o have the same packages installed. dpkg --get-selections dpkg --set-selections -- Jason Killen Question Stupidity Friends of Sinn Fein, 510 C Street, NE Washington, DC 20002 Tel: +1-202-547-8883 * Fax +1-202-547-7889 Monolith : That funny looking guy talking to himself in the back of class PGP fingerprint = 64 71 48 14 31 AE C6 70 E4 4F 64 EB 3B AA 00 6B [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cs.wcu.edu/~jkillen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: duplicating installation
Ok that almost works. My question now is once I have used --set-selections what do I do? Do I run dselect set the place to get the files and just hit install. (I don't have a machine that I can experiment with right now.) In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote : On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Jason Killen wrote: Is there a quick and easy (ha) way to duplicate a debian installation from one machine to another. I've got 5 machines and I would like for them all t o have the same packages installed. dpkg --get-selections dpkg --set-selections -- Jason Killen Question Stupidity Friends of Sinn Fein, 510 C Street, NE Washington, DC 20002 Tel: +1-202-547-8883 * Fax +1-202-547-7889 Monolith : That funny looking guy talking to himself in the back of class PGP fingerprint = 64 71 48 14 31 AE C6 70 E4 4F 64 EB 3B AA 00 6B [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cs.wcu.edu/~jkillen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
adding users with samba
I have just dpkged samba and I am trying to set up users. I need to create a samba login for everyone in /etc/passwd. I haven't found an easy way to do this, or any way that actually worked. When I run addtosmbpass it just sits. I guess my question is what is the syntax for running addtosmbpass, the HOWTO mentions redirecting a file but I get kind of lost in all of that, and is there an easy to add an entry in the samba password file for everyone in /etc/passwd. Thanks again guys/gals. -- Jason Killen Question Stupidity Want to stop the IRA??? Free the north. Monolith : the new ANSI standard for humans PGP fingerprint = 64 71 48 14 31 AE C6 70 E4 4F 64 EB 3B AA 00 6B [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cs.wcu.edu/~jkillen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Is this the Debian Philosophy? (or.... $#@!@#$ bash 2.0!)
I think numbering things this way is a great idea. I would like to see Debian succeed(?) on and off, in the real world, the net. The one thing that I have always liked about Debian is the ability to be easy but not so easy that I have to be an ape to setup it up. I hope that with this move to the market place debian does not loose it's hack ability. As for Mr. Stallman and his problems with the exact name of Debian well I'll just say that if he wants an os of his own why dosen't he make one, yea I know about the HURD and such but hey when is the last time you picked up a copy of HURD Journal. Well enough bitting of the hand that feeds. The next version of the system will be called Debian 1.3.1 Revision 1. People who make long-term products based on Debian requested that we not change the version number of the system if we were only making a few bug fixes. For example, X windows was rebuilt because Richard Stallman requested that XDM display Debian GNU/Linux rather than just Debian Linux. It's worthwhile to insert that change, but not worthwhile to make everyone think they need to upgrade their systems because of it. Thus, we will not bump the release number to 1.3.2 for minor changes. This has been a large problem for some kinds of retailers, such as bookstores - they will not carry Debian unless we can promise them that we will give them a life-cycle longer than one month on their product. You will notice that both Red Hat and Slackware do not change their version numbers for bug fixes _at_all_. We will be changing the revision number, but not the release number. Thanks Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 -- Jason Killen Question Stupidity Want to stop the IRA??? Free the north. Monolith : the new ANSI standard for humans PGP fingerprint = 64 71 48 14 31 AE C6 70 E4 4F 64 EB 3B AA 00 6B [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cs.wcu.edu/~jkillen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Can you give a clue how to get this realaudio for linux?
I went to the real audio page (http://www.realaudio.com) and had to hunt around for real audio (not real player or real video) In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: I have not seen this real audio for linux. Where and how can this be found? Alan Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Jason Killen Question Stupidity Mama's don't let your babies grow up to be Linux hackers Monolith : the new ANSI standard for humans PGP fingerprint = 64 71 48 14 31 AE C6 70 E4 4F 64 EB 3B AA 00 6B [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cs.wcu.edu/~jkillen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Adding helpers in Netscape
I have gotten the real audio player for linux and tried to set up netscape to use the player but when I click on a real audio file netscape gives me this error message sh: -c: line 1: missing closing ')' for arithmetic expression sh: -c: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token ';' sh: -c: line 1: '((/usr/local/bin/realaudio/raplayer /tmp/file.ram); rm /tmp/file.ram )' (Yes I changed the file names) I don't use sh/bash much so I don't really understand the error. Can anyone toss me some pointers or ideas?? Thanks. -- Jason Killen Question Stupidity Mama's don't let your babies grow up to be Linux hackers Monolith : the new ANSI standard for humans PGP fingerprint = 64 71 48 14 31 AE C6 70 E4 4F 64 EB 3B AA 00 6B [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cs.wcu.edu/~jkillen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Adding helpers in Netscape
Ash seems to be working great. Thanks for the info. In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you w rote: On Fri, 15 Aug 1997, Jason Killen wrote: sh: -c: line 1: missing closing ')' for arithmetic expression sh: -c: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token ';' sh: -c: line 1: '((/usr/local/bin/realaudio/raplayer /tmp/file.ram); rm /tmp /file.ram )' This is a result of the bash 2.00 bug. You might try: 1) using/installing ash from 1.3.1 Notes: I don't know if it suffers from the same bug. You'll have to make a symlink from /bin/sh to ash, wherever ash is (probably /usr/bin/, but I might be wrong) 2) upgrading to bash 2.01 from hamm Notes: I _know_ it doesn't suffer from the same bug. Haven't found any other bugs, either. You'll have to upgrade to libc6 from unstable, also, so you'll need to read the mini-howto that was posted this morning. If you don't have a copy, I'll mail you one. It's painless if you follow the directions. Will [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/ -- Jason Killen Question Stupidity Mama's don't let your babies grow up to be Linux hackers Monolith : the new ANSI standard for humans PGP fingerprint = 64 71 48 14 31 AE C6 70 E4 4F 64 EB 3B AA 00 6B [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cs.wcu.edu/~jkillen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Modem
I was bored the other day so I decided to grab my old modem and try it out. (It's an internal with a Rockwell(eek) chipset) I slapped it in and booted the machine, everything looked ok. But when I ran kermit after setting the speed, line and hitting c kermit hangs. I get the connection info but when I try to type commands nothing happens, my keystrokes don't don't even get echoed. Along those lines. What tty is my modem I have two working com ports and an internal modem. Is there a way to say the internal is number 1 or number 2 if I want. And I though getting the ethernet stuff up was crazy. (Actually it wasn't that bad.) -- Jason Killen Question Stupidity Mama's don't let your babies grow up to be Linux hackers Monolith : the new ANSI standard for humans PGP fingerprint = 64 71 48 14 31 AE C6 70 E4 4F 64 EB 3B AA 00 6B [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Crazy Ultrasound card
I just bought a Ultrasound sound card, used. It's up and working fine but the audio cable that came with my cdrom drive wont fit the pins on the card. Did I miss something? -- Jason Killen Question Stupidity Mama's don't let your babies grow up to be Linux hackers Monolith : the new ANSI standard for humans PGP fingerprint = 64 71 48 14 31 AE C6 70 E4 4F 64 EB 3B AA 00 6B [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Jason Killen Question Stupidity Mama's don't let your babies grow up to be Linux hackers Monolith : the new ANSI standard for humans PGP fingerprint = 64 71 48 14 31 AE C6 70 E4 4F 64 EB 3B AA 00 6B [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Jason Killen Question Stupidity Mama's don't let your babies grow up to be Linux hackers Monolith : the new ANSI standard for humans PGP fingerprint = 64 71 48 14 31 AE C6 70 E4 4F 64 EB 3B AA 00 6B [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
module problem
I hope this hasn't already been talked about. I installed the sources and modules for kernel 2.0.30 from the unstable directory and when I boot I get this message : Loading Failed! The module symbols (from linux-2.0.30) don't match your linux-2.0.30. Does anyone know how to fix this?? -- Jason Killen Question Stupidity Mama's don't let your babies grow up to be Linux hackers Monolith : the new ANSI standard for humans PGP fingerprint = 64 71 48 14 31 AE C6 70 E4 4F 64 EB 3B AA 00 6B [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: module problem
Just how easy is it? (aka what FM should I read?) In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote : I usually have to rebuild the modules myself. Simple to do. -- Jean Pierre On Wed, 30 Apr 1997, Jason Killen wrote: I hope this hasn't already been talked about. I installed the sources and modules for kernel 2.0.30 from the unstable directory and when I boot I get this message : Loading Failed! The module symbols (from linux-2.0.30) don't match your linux-2.0.30. -- Jason Killen Question Stupidity Mama's don't let your babies grow up to be Linux hackers Monolith : the new ANSI standard for humans PGP fingerprint = 64 71 48 14 31 AE C6 70 E4 4F 64 EB 3B AA 00 6B [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
mh security
I looked at the debian mh and noticed it was suid group with the group mail and although I'm not sure that a non root user can newgrp to mail (I tried and it didn't work) I changed inc and msgchk to rwxr-xr-x (instead of rwxr-sr-x). Does anyone know if what I did could create any problems?? Did I fix any problems??? It seems to me that as long as I own my /var/spool/mail file inc and msgchk don't need to be suid. --- Forwarded Message Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Delivered: at request of mail on tinuviel Received: from smtp.gte.net ([207.115.153.29]) by tinuviel.cs.wcu.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA11712 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Wed, 23 Apr 1997 14:37:43 -0400 Received: from russkiy ([EMAIL PROTECTED] [153.35.193.225]) by smtp.gte.net (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) with SMTP id NAA19793; Wed, 23 Apr 1997 13:37:41 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 14:37:46 -0400 From: RuSSKIy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Security Holes Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=150C4FA07A45 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - --150C4FA07A45 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit http://www.123.net/~onkyo/files/exploits/linux-mh.asc - --150C4FA07A45 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name=linux-mh.asc Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename=linux-mh.asc There is a security hole in Red Hat 2.1, which installs /usr/bin/mh/inc and /usr/bin/mh/msgchk suid root. These programs are configured suid root in order to bind to a privileged port for rpop authentication. However, there is a non-security conflict between mh and the default Red Hat 2.1 configuration in that the /etc/services lists pop-2 and pop-3 services, but the mh utilities do lookups for a pop service, which doesn't exist, resulting in an inability to use any of the pop functionality. This may be a fortunate bug, since there may be more serious security holes within the pop functions of these two program. The security hole present in these two programs is that when opening up the configuration files in the user's home directory, root privileges are maintained, and symbolic links are followed. This allows an arbitrary file to to be opened. Fortunately, the program does not simply dump the contents of this file anywhere, and only certain formatting is allowed in the file to be processed by the program in order to see any output. In the cases where it will be processed, only the first line of the file will actually be output to the user. Program: /usr/bin/mh/inc, /usr/bin/mh/msgchk Affected Operating Systems: RedHat 2.1 linux distribution Requirements: account on system Patch: chmod -s /usr/bin/mh/inc /usr/bin/mh/msgchk Security Compromise: read 1st line of some arbitrary files Author: Dave M. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Synopsis: inc msgchk fail to check file permissions before opening user configuration files in the user's home directory, allowing a user on the system to read the first line of any file on the system with some limitations. Exploit: $ ln -s FILE_TO_READ ~/.mh_profile $ /usr/bin/mh/msgchk - --150C4FA07A45-- --- End of Forwarded Message -- Jason Killen Question Stupidity Mama's don't let your babies grow up to be Linux hackers Monolith : the new ANSI standard for humans PGP fingerprint = 64 71 48 14 31 AE C6 70 E4 4F 64 EB 3B AA 00 6B [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Weird X error with pthreads.
I have your basic X program, open a window and draw something on it, and when I link it with the pthreads library and try to run it I get : XIO: fatal IO error 0 (Unknown error) on X server :0.0 after 26 requests (24 known processed) with 0 events remaining. I'm not calling any functions that are in the pthreads library I'm just linking the library in. Does anyone know why I get this? -- Jason Killen Question Stupidity Mama's don't let your babies grow up to be Linux hackers Monolith : the new ANSI standard for humans PGP fingerprint = 64 71 48 14 31 AE C6 70 E4 4F 64 EB 3B AA 00 6B [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
using shadow
I know that /etc/passwd must be readable by world but if shadow passwording is used can /etc/shadow be set to only read/write by root. How do I setup shadowing, I know there is the libpam package but other than that I'm basically lost. -- Jason Killen Question Stupidity Ma ma's don't let your babies grow up to be Linux hackers Monolith : the new ANSI standard for humans PGP fingerprint = 64 71 48 14 31 AE C6 70 E4 4F 64 EB 3B AA 00 6B [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: debian in a lab
It seems to me the best way to do this would be to use the ftp install but that may take to much time so making a template machine and then copying everything from that machine to all the others (cp -Rap) would work. If you can open the machines and get the drives out this wouldn't be to bad, if not you would have to at least get a kernel and filesystem and nis working first, unless you feel like ftping a 300 meg file across the room, that has been done, if you are going to use nfs instead of ftp then why not just install everything. I had /usr nfs mounted for about 10 minutes one time and it was slow I could run ls and go get a coke. The best way to keep up with what is in /usr would probally be nis. Sorry for the rambling. In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: Hi, We're planning on installing debian in a lab of about 50 machines and were wondering if anyone had come up with a good way to install it over the net. We want to spend as little time on each machine as possible. Each machine will be on the net. We've thought of a couple of ways to do this, like: creating a template machine and then stuffing the disk image on all the others, or just using the normal debian install (but we're worried we'd have to spend to much time on each machine). There are a couple of other questions we have as well. Has anyone nfs mounted /usr and if so how do you handle updates to packages? Also, what is the process for creating local packages that override standard packages? Thanks, Kay -- Jason Killen Question Stupidity Ma ma's don't let your babies grow up to be Linux hackers Monolith : the new ANSI standard for humans PGP fingerprint = 64 71 48 14 31 AE C6 70 E4 4F 64 EB 3B AA 00 6B [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: .forward not working
I'm using sendmail *duck*. And it seems to work sorta I think my problem is one with procmail and slocal. Although I havent played much with getting it to forward to another address, that was a problem from a user that I couldn't figure out. In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: Jason Killen writes: Does anyone have any idea why .forward would not forward or pipe to a progra m (ie procmail). It seems like it is not even being looked at. Ouh, I thougt it was a misconfiguration by me on my machine in the offices. Reading this it doesn't seem to be. :-( I came across the same problem. .forward is working fine as long as there are only some email addresses inside. It seems that Smail can't execute a program at this point. (maybe procmail can't be called as 'nobody') Seems I have to investigate my configuration on finlandia with the one on troi Regards Joey -- / Martin Schulze * Debian GNU/Linux Developer * [EMAIL PROTECTED] / / http://www.debian.org/ http://home.pages.de/~joey/ -- Jason Killen Question Stupidity Ma ma's don't let your babies grow up to be Linux hackers Monolith : the new ANSI standard for humans PGP fingerprint = 64 71 48 14 31 AE C6 70 E4 4F 64 EB 3B AA 00 6B [EMAIL PROTECTED]
.forward not working
Does anyone have any idea why .forward would not forward or pipe to a program (ie procmail). It seems like it is not even being looked at. Thanks -- Jason Killen Question Stupidity Ma ma's don't let your babies grow up to be Linux hackers Monolith : the new ANSI standard for humans PGP fingerprint = 64 71 48 14 31 AE C6 70 E4 4F 64 EB 3B AA 00 6B [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mh problem
When I try to send mail from mh (comp, repl, etc.) I get this. post: problem initializing server; [BHST] no servers available send: message not delivered to anyone Looks like it's my week for questions. Jason Killen Question Stupidity Monolith : the new ANSI standard for humans RPS : better living through [EMAIL PROTECTED] world domination
Zyxel
Has anyone used Zyxel(?) it is in the unstable directory and looks a lot like mgetty (v,and the fax stuff). Has anyone used vgetty and had it work *with out problems*. I asked earlier about using my linux box as an aswering machine and got tons of messages telling me to use vgetty and now that I've read some of the docs I am not sure about which modem to buy. BTW : I still havent solved my problem with not being able to telnet into my box, I think I'm going to do a total reinstall of the stable tree, I'm at 1.2 now. Jason Killen Question Stupidity Monolith : the new ANSI standard for humans RPS : better living through [EMAIL PROTECTED] world domination
Re: Connection closed by foreign host.
Ah, good call. I'll try it. Thanks On Sun, 23 Mar 1997, Mike Orr wrote: Perhaps telnet is working properly but something else is causing your login shell to exit immediately. I get a similar response, not with telnet, but with script. I would get Script started, output file is typescript and then it would immediately exit with Script done, output file is typescript. This happens with bash at the console, but it does not happen in an rxvt, and it doesn't happen with zsh at all. I don't notice it anymore since I use zsh all the time now, but a quick check revealed that it's still doing that. Try putting an echo Hello telnet world as the first line of you .bashrc (or whatever shell initialization file you use), to verify whether your telnet session gets at least that far. If it doesn't, try switching login shells and see if it that works. ** MICHAEL SCOTT ORR [EMAIL PROTECTED] * ** 1405 NE 56th Street, Seattle, WA 98105 USA * English * ** Tel: +1 (206) 522-9627, fax: 328-6209 *Russki * ** Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Esperanto * * (Insert silly quote here) Jason Killen Question Stupidity Monolith : the new ANSI standard for humans RPS : better living through [EMAIL PROTECTED] world domination
Re: Connection closed by foreign host.
Simple enough, so easy I should have thought of it myself (TM). daemon.log says Mar 21 00:20:59 rn120006 in.tel[9586]: connect from 127.0.0.1 Ekk. Now I'm really confused, I reinstalled getty and login. Anymore ideas? On Thu, 20 Mar 1997, Paul Christenson [N3EOP] wrote: On Thu, 20 Mar 1997, Jason Killen wrote: Which log is the log? I'm looked throught last and auth.log but found nothing. OK; do this: 1. Attempt a telnet session. 2. When it fails, cd to /var/log. 3. ls -ltr The error (if logged) will be in one of the last files listed. (My guess is daemon.log.) Jason Killen Question Stupidity Monolith : the new ANSI standard for humans RPS : better living through [EMAIL PROTECTED] world domination
mgetty
Is anyone using mgetty?? Did anyone have problems getting it setup?? (I ask only because I tried to set it up on my redhat system and it screwed up things like login.) Thanks for the input. Jason Killen Question Stupidity Monolith : the new ANSI standard for humans RPS : better living through [EMAIL PROTECTED] world domination
Re: Connection closed by foreign host.
There is a delay between the Escape character is '^]' and Connection closed. Which log is the log? I'm looked throught last and auth.log but found nothing. On Wed, 19 Mar 1997, Paul Christenson [N3EOP] wrote: On Wed, 19 Mar 1997, Jason Killen wrote: I cant rlogin either but I do get mail along with other services. What happens exactally is I try to telnet in and I get Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. Connection closed by foreign host. Is there a delay between the 'Escape' and 'Connection closed' lines? If so, it may be trying to resolve the names. However, if you deleted/recreated the hosts.deny file, then it shouldn't be worrying about that. What does the log say? Jason KillenQuestion Stupidity Monolith : driven by inner daemons RPS : better living through world [EMAIL PROTECTED]domination
Re: Sound
Recompiling the kernel will get rid of the probing on boot along with help your sound card, I recompiled a kernel and had sound with no problem, yes you have the sound code just do a kernel recompile. The stuff about switching mrb's every time you want a different os sounds a little funny, ever heard of lilo. I havent read your pervious messages so you may already know what I have told you. On Thu, 20 Mar 1997, Robin Beckett wrote: Correct me modify as needed. :) Right, we appear to have sorted the modem, problem, thanks very much. The XFree86 problem still exists, but I'm working on that. The other problem I have currently is with sound. I have a Sound Blaster 16 which is usually on Address 220, IRQ 5, DMA's 1 5, 330 for Midi, etc. I've read the Sound-HowTo document, and downloaded the VoxWare Sound drivers 2.5, but not had much luck so far. The installation instructions aren't that helpful. One would assume that I'm going to have to rebuild the kernel, etc, so where can I find a copy of the source for it? Do I already have it but I don't realise it? Help! Maybe I should've used the copy of UNIX System V release 4 in the attic, 'cause we've got stacks of books... but this is more fun! :) I've successfully got LOADLIN working now anyway, which should stop me constantly changing the MBR to swap operating systems. Phew. Can one assume that if I rebuild the kernel I will have to copy it across again? And finally... on bootup it's still looking for all kinds of hardware that I don't have, and I read somewhere about how to remove it... can I assume that since I may have to rebuild the kernel to get sound support, then the other hardware support is in there too, i.e. a rebuild will get rid of it? Cheers. Have fun, RtB. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fido: 2:2500/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Jason Killen Question Stupidity Monolith : the new ANSI standard for humans RPS : better living through [EMAIL PROTECTED] world domination
Connection closed by foreign host.
I have a problem that I havent been able to fix. Since I upgraded everything from 1.2 to 1.2.7 I havent been able to telnet into my machine. I have tried everything from deleting host.allow and hosts.deny and then touching them to installing the new netstd and nothing seems to help. I cant rlogin either but I do get mail along with other services. What happens exactally is I try to telnet in and I get Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. Connection closed by foreign host. I have tried telneting in from off machine but that dosent make any difference either. Can anyone help? Jason KillenQuestion Stupidity Monolith : driven by inner daemons RPS : better living through world [EMAIL PROTECTED]domination
Re: applixware
I also would like to hear. On Tue, 18 Mar 1997, Richard Sevenich wrote: The recent Linux Journal review of Applixware makes that office suite sound very attractive. It is, however, packaged for RedHat. Has someone on our list had successful experience installing it via alien or whatever method? If so I'd like to hear how smoothly the installation went. Regards, Richard Jason KillenQuestion Stupidity Monolith : driven by inner daemons RPS : better living through world [EMAIL PROTECTED]domination
Can linux be my answering machine??
Does anyone know if there are any programs that let linux act like an answering machine. Just a thought. Jason KillenQuestion Stupidity Monolith : driven by inner daemons RPS : better living through world [EMAIL PROTECTED]domination
Re: X personal configuration files: .fvwm2rc vs. .Xdefaults
I run all my xterms from the fvwm menu or the buttons so my lines look like this xterm Exec exec xterm -fg lightgrey -bg black -sb You are correct in saying that .Xdefaults should handle this I'm not sure why it wouldn't, I use .Xdefaults to configure knews. Tell me what you find. On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, Jean-Paul LACHARME wrote: Hi, I use fvwm2, and it works without real problem. Lots of desktop features are designed within .fvwm2rc. In other systems, some X local features are designed within a .Xdefaults file. I did not find any global template for .Xdefaults in Debian. Nevertheles s, I wonder if creating such a file can be avoided when using X through fvwm2. I confess that I have not a clear idea of which configures what. I suppose that .Xdefaults is just fit for raw X commands and .fvwm2rc for the upper graphic layer, but it helps little. For example, it has been said that running a color Xterm (which is very convenient) needs only to add the line 'Xterm*customization: -color'. OK. So, I created a .Xdefaults file into my home directory with this single line, but this was without any effe ct (in fact, I expected no more. Things are more complex). I did not even success to change the default shinning white background of the xterm windows (pity for my eyes !). I performed a grep white command on the config files, but it gave me nothing. Has somebody some ideas about it ? Regards, JP L --:-) Jean-Paul Lacharme. GREQAM UMR 6579 au CNRS Centre de la Vieille Charite. 2, rue de la Charite. 13002 Marseille. FRANCE Tel.: 0491140731/Fax:0491900227 Jason KillenQuestion Stupidity Monolith : driven by inner daemons RPS : better living through world [EMAIL PROTECTED]domination
Re: xt?
On 7 Mar 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marsh writes: Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think ATT System V ever ran on 286s. From what I understand some 6300's, not 7300's, ran SV on 286's. Coherent is nice if you can get a copy. Jason KillenQuestion Stupidity Monolith : driven by inner daemons RPS : better living through world [EMAIL PROTECTED]domination
Connection closing on telnet/ftp
As I said before I have up graded my system but not can not telnet into it from on the machine and off the machine. When I do telnet is gives you the normal telent hello : bash# telnet localhost Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. but then says Connection closed by foreign host. I have checked both /etc/hosts.allow and hosts.deny and made them both empty. When I look in /var/log/daemon.log I see : Mar 6 02:14:37 rn120006 tcpd[615]: connect from unknown Mar 6 02:14:37 rn120006 tcpd[615]: warning: can't get client address: Socket op eration on non-socket It's this that I don't understand. Can anybody explain or give insight. Jason KillenQuestion Stupidity Monolith : driven by inner daemons RPS : better living through world [EMAIL PROTECTED]domination
Connection closed by host
I just updated everything I have but now when I try to telnet into my machine I get a connection closed by host. I checked inetd.conf and found in.telnetd, other than that I'm not sure what could be wrong. Other things work eg sendmail. Any ideas?? Jason KillenQuestion Stupidity Monolith : driven by inner daemons RPS : better living through world [EMAIL PROTECTED]domination
Re: Procmail recipe.
When this is done please post it here or forward it to me. Procamil and I have this love hate thing going on. On Mon, 24 Feb 1997, Brian Skreeg wrote: Hi folks, Could someone do me a wee favour and write out a simple procmail recipe for filtering this mailing list to another folder? (~Mail/deb) Been playing around for ages and can't seem to get it to filter on the To: header. TIA, Ozzy, __ _ _ / \ \ \ / / / / / |-Brian SkreegIRC:_Ozzy-| \__/ \ \ |-Lead guitarist extraordinaire-| \__/_/ |-I don't look like two zombies-| -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jason KillenQuestion Stupidity Monolith : driven by inner daemons My thoughts of despair are getting [EMAIL PROTECTED] loud. --Social D. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian on the shuttle
Why does everyone keep saying that X should look like Win 95. I don't want to get into a shouting match about which is easer to use and those people who like the Win 95 look and feel can stick with it. I just don't like the fact that some people feel we should masqurade(?), I feel we should give the option of looking like 95 but is looking like 95 that big of a deal. I guess my tiff is not with the people working on making X look like 95 but more with people who compare all operating systems and user interfaces with Win 95. Sorry for the rant...I'll be quiet now. On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, W. Joseph Mantle wrote: --snip-- Aside: Red Hat Linux 4.0 was awarded Best of 1996 by InfoWorld Magazine in the category of Desktop Operating Systems. In that article I learned that Red Hat...includes its own desktop windows with a Windows 95 look and feel. ^^^ Joe Mantle University of Illinois -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jason KillenQuestion Stupidity Monolith : driven by inner daemons My thoughts of despair are getting [EMAIL PROTECTED] loud. --Social D. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian on the shuttle
It does say debian (GNU/Linux...is that ok Mr. Stallman??) is going to space so you do have to expect the guys from debian, as any normal human, to talk about themselves more and just mention Linus. Basically I don't see any wrong doing, therefore no reason to point fingers and yell, but it would be nice to see Linus get some media attention. All and all, as I have said before, it dosen't really matter whos name is on it as long as it says Linux. We are working together and because of that some of us will get talked about at times and others at other times. We are brothers! World domination fast! Just my 2 cents. On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, David Gaudine wrote: On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, Jonas Bofjall wrote: On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, Yoav Cohen-Sivan wrote: First and foremost - great going guys! But... It saddened me to see no mention of Linus' name in the article. He is more than just a Neither of Richard Stallman or the GNU team... Nor any suggestion that any other Linux distribution may have ever existed. It really sounds like the Debian team finished the job and made Linux into a useable system. [relevant part of Bruce's quote brought back in] A Finnish college student started Linux in the early 1990's, and was joined by others on the Internet who helped develop the system. We united Linux with free software contributed by other volunteers to make a complete system of 800 software packages. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jason KillenQuestion Stupidity Monolith : driven by inner daemons My thoughts of despair are getting [EMAIL PROTECTED] loud. --Social D. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fetchmail/procmail
I have procmail working now but everyonce in a while it says that it cant get the lock /var/spool/mail/jasonlck. Do you know why?? Can I fix it?? On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Kevin M. Bealer wrote: Jason Killen wrote: Thanks for the pointer on fetchmail. The part about having procmail send the mail to an intermediate mail box is intresting and a little over my head (I don't know much about procmail, just a sweep of the man pages.) but I will try to work things out. Thanks a lot. On Wed, 12 Feb 1997, Behan Webster wrote: (clip) Jason KillenQuestion Stupidity Monolith : driven by inner daemons My thoughts of despair are getting [EMAIL PROTECTED] loud. --Social D. If you are loosing mail, you might want to look in the /var/spool/mail directory. I don't remember what I did wrong, but earlier this year I had a configuration problem and my mail ended up there with the user name of nobody. I wish I could remember what I did to fix it (it works now). I think I had a problem with the .procmailrc and I scrapped it and wrote another one (the old one had gotten a lot of junk in it anyway.) After this everything went fine. [EMAIL PROTECTED]/GNU--1.2---Linux--2.1.25--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper. -- Rod Serling Jason KillenQuestion Stupidity Monolith : driven by inner daemons My thoughts of despair are getting [EMAIL PROTECTED] loud. --Social D. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AUI cable in 3C590
I'm not sure about a driver but you should probally use the dos utility to set your card to AUI instead of autodetect. On Wed, 19 Feb 1997, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: Hi, I'm planning to connect a AUI cable into a 3C590 card. Is there some problem? Does Linux deal with it? Thanks, []s, Mario O.de Menezes - oo-O-oo- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://tucano.ipen.br - http://www.ipen.br/~mario/mario.html | -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jason KillenQuestion Stupidity Monolith : driven by inner daemons My thoughts of despair are getting [EMAIL PROTECTED] loud. --Social D. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
