Re: Debian kernel VMware
On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: When I build kernel from sources (using kernel-package) vmware completely hangs my box (I must use reset button). just an idea: vmware builds its own kernel modules. if you change the kernel, you might need to re-run vmware-config.pl My experience is that vmware notices when a new kernel is installed and will prompt you to rebuild the modules. I've had no trouble using vmware and rebuilding newer versions of the kernel. -- Jean Pierre
Re: Help with module problems on Upgrade to 2.1
On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Gregory Guthrie wrote: I am running Debian 2.0, upgraded from ... (libc5), and trying to upgrade to 2.1. When I do an apt-get upgrade, it complains that: Sorry, but the following packages are broken.. and halts. When I try to repair the problems using dselect, I cannot seem to get out of a circle which won't let me remove the broken ones, nor configure them, due to dependencies. Probably there is some correctness to what it reports, but it feels like I am stuck in a maze of twisty-truney passages, which all look alike! :-) It all seems to start with libpam-util; Details attached. Any help is greatly appreciated. Hi Greg, good to hear from you. When I've run into these types of problems, I usually have to use dpkg manually to force the updates. You'll have to be careful that you don't totally mess-up the system by making sure you have the update required packages as deb files. apt-get stores the downloaded deb files in /var/cache/apt/archives/. You can then use a combination of dpkg --force --remove and dpkg --force --install to update your system. Executing dpkg on multiple files at the smae time also helps. If you need more specifics, please ask. -- Jean Pierre
Re: Configuration management
On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Christian Lynbech on satellite wrote: I have been toying with the same idea (putting stuf like /etc) under CVS control, though I haven't gotten round to become serious about it yet. My idea towards handling individual machine specifics would be to use the branch system. If a certain file needed a specific change, branch off (on that file only) and do it. The trick would be to have a consistent tag naming scheme that would automate the process in the other direction. One could then run CVS through some apropriate scripts that would examine the tag structure and do the right thing. I'm not sure this would be quite enough. Typically the configuration files differ only slightly from one another. What I would like is some way of having a way of seperating the local host configuration from the standard configuration. Some packages are already configured this way but most are not. Cfengine would be one way of addressing this but it essentially takes over control of the entire configuration process which I don't care for. -- Jean Pierre
Re: Configuration management
On 28 Feb 2000, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: However, I'm not really happy with this way of doing things. I'd like to hear about some other ways. I've toyed with the idea of using CVS, archiving /etc and making a local package. Slightly related, I'm also looking for ways to quickly clone a system. We're using CVS for just that purpose. Right now we're source controlling the full /etc directory for each machine. We've also explored just a little the possiblity of sharing configuration information for different machines using the module facility of cvs. Overall, I'm pleased with what we have so far. The big win is we can track all changes to our configuration, we can audit who changed what when, and roll back to known good configuration. The main limitation we've run into are: * CVS (the remote protocol) doesn't track file permissions, ownership and symbolic links. All of these are important for configuration files. * CVS component model is directory based. To share configuration across machines the configuration files for a particular package must be isolated in a separate directory. Many Debian packages are not organized like this. * Machine specific changes are hard to isolated. Debian packages make this somewhat difficult. Something like cfengine can handle this but it doesn't integrate well with CVS. Hope this helps. -- Jean Pierre
RE: Socket 7 question
On Sat, 5 Feb 2000, John Krueger wrote: From personal experience with that particular board, I highly recommend spending a few extra dollars and purchase a different motherboard, sound and video card. The PC100 boards use the SiS5xx series chipset, with SiS530 video and a more or less generic sound codec. These boards are difficult to Again, I hold absolutely no reservation in recommending that you don't purchase this particular board. You will save some money with this board, but the money saved will not be worth the setup fun you will have. I've been search for a motherboard with integrated video, sound, and ethernet to use as a diskless workstations with Debian. Can anyone recommend a particular board? I'm also looking for small case/power-supply on the order of the netwinder size. Any ideas here? -- Jean Pierre
RE: Socket 7 question
On Sun, 6 Feb 2000, Phil Brutsche wrote: A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... I've been search for a motherboard with integrated video, sound, and ethernet to use as a diskless workstations with Debian. Can anyone recommend a particular board? Not right off hand - all the decent motherboards I know of don't have most of that stuff integrated. I'm also looking for small case/power-supply on the order of the netwinder size. Any ideas here? Are you aware of how small a netwinder is? There aren't any socket 7 motherboard/case combinations that are that size. Yes and I know that nothing available is that small. The NLX form factor is the smallest I've seen: 20.3cm x 28.7cm (8 x 11.3). The board that looks most promising to me is the Asus MES-N (http://www.asus.com.tw/products/motherboard/pentiumpro/mes-n/) but I have no direct experience running Debian on it. -- Jean Pierre
Re: keyboard repeat rate
On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Attila Csosz wrote: How could I set the keyboard repeat rate and the speed? Because when I start X and end my X session I observe the following: when I press some key I must wait a while to get any character on the screen. Then the keyboard echos the characters normally onto the screen. Without X the keyboard works normally( I have vindozer keyboard ). kbdrate -- Jean Pierre
Re: Is Hard drive too big?
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Paras Patel wrote: I've been running into this problem at work trying to install two new harddrives into a Dell XPS D266. The drives are manufactured by Seagate, with a capacity of ~13GB. The first issue that I thought was the problem was the BIOS, so I upgraded that to the latest version. Then I thought, all I needed to do was to partition my hard drives. In the Linux boot-up screen, it seems to register my drives and their true capacity, but I cannot seem to realize this capacity while I am using cfdisk or fdisk. Anyone have an idea of what might be troubling me? Any approches to get past this problems. I have a 25G hard drive and ran into a similar problem. The solution in my case was to upgrade to the latest fdisk in unstable. fdisk_2.10d from the debian package util-linux_2.10d-5 works great. -- Jean Pierre
Re: read-only file system
On Sat, 6 Nov 1999, T.V.Gnanasekaran wrote: I can't create dir in /usr/doc area. I get: genome:/usr/doc# mkdir test mkdir: cannot make directory `test': Read-only file system genome:/usr/doc# Probably because /usr was mounted readonly. Try: mount and see if this is true. To change to read/write see the man page for mount. -- Jean Pierre
Re: read-only file system
On Sat, 6 Nov 1999, T.V.Gnanasekaran wrote: mount /dev/sda11 on /usr type ext2 (ro) To change to read/write see the man page for mount. did it, now i have remounted. I should check fstab file before I down the machine just to make sure it is not mounted with 'ro' again. Actually, I would encourage you to keep this ro. There's typically no reason to write into /usr except when installing new packages. This provides some extra security and system consistency. -- Jean Pierre
Re: console-tools-data errors on install.
On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Todd Suess wrote: Looks like the latest console-tools-data and console-tools has a bug. See following output upon installation attempt. Setting up console-data (1999.08.29-3) ... Cannot find termcap: Can't find a valid termcap file at /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/Term/ReadLine.pm line 305 I will report this as a bug, anyone else get this also? Yes. -- Jean Pierre
Re: Something wrong with potato modutils
On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Wichert Akkerman wrote: Previously Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam wrote: I have the same problem. I upgraded my potato machine yesterday. I had a bunch of unresolved symbols. I did a update-modules. Now my machine is complaining about /etc/modules.conf being older than /lib/modules/2.2.5/modules.dep. It's a warning which can be safely ignored. modules.dep is remade on boot, while modules.conf is only generated when needed. As a result it tends to be older, which triggers this warning. Somehow, the depmod -a from init.d script seems to be not writing the modules.dep. When I run depmod -a manually, the modules.dep gets created. Next time, I boot, there is a old modules.dep in my /lib/modules. How you have me confused.. how can the script not write modules.dep while you still get the error that modules.conf is older then that file? Something doesn't add up here.. This is a known problem. See: http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/47/47830.html -- Jean Pierre
Re: passwd
On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Vincent Deffontaines wrote: now I tried something else I set my password to a 9 characters one lets say poipoipoi which is 9 charaters you can type poipoipoi followed by anything... you just get in as well... I believe that, by default, the library function crypt() only uses the first eight characters. If you switch to MD5 passwords, you can extend this length but at the lost of compatibility with other UNIXes. -- Jean Pierre
Re: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.2.12/modules.dep
On Thu, 21 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have only recently upgraded my kernel to 2.2.12. The error below is returned after trying to install a new module: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.2.12/modules.dep opl3sa: dma, irq and io must be set. See attachment which is the response I gave earlier today. -- Jean Pierre From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Oct 22 01:23:52 1999 Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 19:51:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Jean Pierre LeJacq [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: modprobe errors again On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Pollywog wrote: There has to be a bug in some package, because I upgraded my potato system and again I get the modprobe errors below: Oct 21 19:21:08 lilypad modprobe: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.2.12/modules.dep This is a know bug in the modutils package. See the bugs page on this. Solution is to add the file /etc/modutils/paths and add entries for each one of subdirectories under /lib/modules/2.2.12/. Then run update-modules. -- Jean Pierre
Re: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.2.12/modules.dep
On Thu, 21 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 01:25:50AM -0400, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote: This is a know bug in the modutils package. See the bugs page on Where is this bugs page? http://bugs.debian.org/modutils In particular, see Bug#47830. Solution is to add the file /etc/modutils/paths and add entries for each one of subdirectories under /lib/modules/2.2.12/. Are there any more specific docs to read about setting up this file? See the man page modules.conf(5). The only change for Debian is that this file is created automatically from the files in /etc/modutils using update-modules(5). -- Jean Pierre
Re: modprobe errors again
On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Pollywog wrote: There has to be a bug in some package, because I upgraded my potato system and again I get the modprobe errors below: Oct 21 19:21:08 lilypad modprobe: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.2.12/modules.dep This is a know bug in the modutils package. See the bugs page on this. Solution is to add the file /etc/modutils/paths and add entries for each one of subdirectories under /lib/modules/2.2.12/. Then run update-modules. -- Jean Pierre
Re: GNU Emacs-20.4 debs
On 1 Oct 1999, Alexander Zhuckov wrote: Tell me, ple-e-e-e-ase, where I can find GNU Emacs 20.4 Debian packages? In unstable distribution in the packages xemacs20-*. -- Jean Pierre
Re: Linux/NT dual booting
On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Dave Wiard wrote: i want to boot both NT and Linux directly from the hard disk (dual boot).. is this even possible with an x86 machine? i want the x86 machine to somewhat match my Alpha, but i've never been successful in getting this to work.. NT There's a Linux HOWTO on this topic. I works great. -- Jean Pierre
Re: Remote Login
On Sat, 25 Sep 1999, j way wrote: Hi, login from ttyS1 is rejected while the same username password are accepted on the main console. Is there some further permission required to enable? You may need to edit the file /etc/login.access. See the man page login.access(5). -- Jean Pierre
Re: lpd: daemon not started.
On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, Justin Settle wrote: I can't seem to print anything out with lpd + magicfilter. I can cat file out to the printer and I believe that magic filter is setup correctly. The problem is that if I do a lpc status it says no daemon present. I do a lpc up all and it says daemon started but if a lpc status is done again it reply's no daemon is present. lpr filename does nothing - the printer doesn't move and the file never appears in lpq. Is the daemon running? Try ps ax to see. If not, try running the daemon directly from a command line and use the options to place in the foreground and debugging on. See the lpd manpage for details. $ /usr/sbin/lpd -L /var/log/lpr.log -F -D debug=5 -- Jean Pierre
Re: cracklib
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, John Davis wrote: I get messages in my root mailbox about cracklib. It always prints the same two numbers. What does this mean? This is the output from the /etc/cron.daily/cracklib file. I've fixed this in the potato release of cracklib-runtime so you could try installing that version. Alternately, edit the cron.daily script to redirect the output of crack_packer to /dev/null. -- Jean Pierre Debian cracklib-runtime maintainer.
Re: read-only filesystems
On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Mike Wood wrote: I'm building several kiosk style machines. I would like to make most of the filesystem RO (except /tmp). What pitfalls can I expect. How can I make syslogd/klogd not start (chmod 000)? Any information would be helpful. I went down this route for a while before dropping this. The /usr partition can be mounted RO without problem. /tmp, /var, /home must be RW. Unfortunately the root partition must also be RW mainly because files in /dev have their permissions changed. I've seen strategies to use RAM drives to solve this problem. The devfs is probably the best way to solve this problem. -- Jean Pierre
Re: Basic debian package question
On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, Mark Glassberg wrote: The dosemu source packages have orig and diff in their names. How do these packages work together? There are several files that work together to form an overall package. The two you mentioned are used when building the Debian package from the original source. -- Jean Pierre
Re: preventing weak passwords
On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Chad A. Adlawan wrote: im really sick of almost having to remind my users to use non-dictionary passwords. we provide a web based interface to change their passwords and so the checking done by executing /usr/bin/passwd is not implemented. im thinking of dictionary cracking my users passwords so that i can narrow down on those only on those whos passwords need fixing, that is, only those whose passwords can be dictionary cracked. does anyone know of an application that can do what i want ? You may want to consider the debian package for cracklib2. This is a library that will check the quality of the passwords as they are set by the user so it is proactive. Alternately, the author of cracklib2 has another program named crack that will check the quality of existing passwords. Not packaged in debian yet. -- Jean Pierre
Re: Unwanted Graphical Login and other woes...
On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Andrew J Fortune wrote: I don't know what I have done, but Linux (using slink) is now booting up to a graphical login. This is not what I want at the moment, and I was wondering if anyone knew what the problem might be ? this is not normally a problem, but I am trying to resolve other problems associated with startx and file resolutionand this is not allowing me to test some things. You probably have xdm installed. You can either remove the package with dpkg or disable the automatic startup by removing the symbolic links in /etc/rc[0-6].d/S??xdm. To do this with the login screen, first switch to another virtual console using the Alt-F? where ? in 1, 2, 3, ... -- Jean Pierre
Upgrade of sp and sgml packages breaks validation
My recent upgrade of potato's sgml and sp packages broke the validation of HTML 4.0 documents. When I try validating a file known to be valid: nsgmls -s -c /usr/lib/sgml/catalog index.html I receive many errors along the line: nsgmls:/usr/lib/sgml/entities/HTMLsymbol:24:27:E: 402 is not a character number in the document character set Any ideas what I may be doing incorrectly? -- Jean Pierre
Re: TCP wrapper telnet breakage?
On 4 Jun 1999, Christopher R. Barry wrote: Ever since I did some major upgrading of my Debian box to potato, telnet seems to be screwed, though it is configured properly and worked before. It's the classic problem: In /etc/hosts.allow (redundant, but just making sure) ALL: 127.0.0.1 ALL: localhost ALL: HAL This seems to indicate that you can only connect from your local host. Do you get any output from syslog. Check your files in /var/log. -- Jean Pierre
Re: Kernel with APM support.
On Sat, 5 Jun 1999, Jens K. Olsen wrote: I have Debian running on my SONY VAIO and it works like a dream. Only thing I am missing is the APM support. I downloaded the kernel source package, etc. and I am getting ready to compile the kernel with APM support. I would like to keep my system as it but with APM support. Since I have never compiled the kernel before, I have no idea what to select and what to leave out when runing make config. Is there a way I can use the default settings of the Debian package and just add APM support so I end up with the exact same kernel, but with APM support? If this a standard Debian distribution you should see a file /boot/config-x.x.x which describes the configuration of the kernel you are running. You can use this file during the configuration phase of building a new kernel make menuconfig Just look for the entry for loading an existing configuration. You can then modify only the APM settings and leave the rest as is. Then save the configuration and compile the kernel. I recommend using the kernel-package package which creates a debian package file. make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.1 clean make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.1 kernel_image make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.1 modules_image Make sure your /etc/lilo.conf is correct and then install the new kernel -- Jean Pierre
Re: Debian on Dell Inspiron
On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Alec Smith wrote: Has anyone had any luck installing Debian 2.1 on a Dell Inspiron 7000? I have a 3c575 CardBus adapter which I'd like to use. I've got the NIC working under RedHat 6.0, but I'd rather use Debian as its what I have on I've been using the potato release for several months quite happily. There is also an excellent web site about getting linux (the author uses Debian) working with the Inspiron: http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~steveh/inspiron/ Only thing not working is the sound which uses the Maestro 2 chip which doesn't appear to be supported. I'm using the 3c575 myself without any problems. -- Jean Pierre
Re: Debian on Dell Inspiron
On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Alec Smith wrote: Have you been able to make the NIC do 10Base-T? I edited the /etc/pcmcia/network.opts file so the line for speed detection was 10baseT but this didn't work. Wish I had 100MBps, then there'd be no trouble. :) Yes, no problems. In fact, I use the card on both 10 and 100 MBps networks. -- Jean Pierre
Re: PCMCIA broken after apt-get upgrade
On Fri, 4 Jun 1999, Pat O'Brien wrote: I have a Toshiba 2535 laptop, with a minimal Potato - X - Gnome install. I got audio, ppp, and pcmcia going and decided to upgrade the whole kitten caboodle to the latest stuff, so I apt-get updated, and apt-get upgraded. When I rebooted, the kernel no longer recognizes the modem. Now I get the message during boot: No solution but I can confirm the problem on a Dell Inspiron after doing the same upgrade. -- Jean Pierre
Re: email from cracklib cron
On 29 Apr 1999, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: My question is why hasn't this been fixed? Or perhaps it has and somehow my system just isn't up-to-date? Or was it deemed too simple a fix to warrant a new version of cracklib-runtime? It has been fixed and uploaded to potato. There has since been another bug found which I've tracked down to a bug in the find package. A new upload should be coming shortly. I'm not clear on when its ok to upload a fix to a stable distribution. This is clearly not a security issue or even a serious problem. Would it still be appropriate to upload to slink? -- Jean Pierre
Re: web link checker
Thus spake Colin Telmer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Why not just install the debianized version? I don't know about stable, but it is in unstable. Cheers. So, in addition to the tarball, you can snag a deb at: http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/web/linbot.html or, a slightly less newer version at (the unstable version is perfectly fine) http://www.debian.org/Packages/stable/web/linbot.html The unstable version is significantly better than stable. I recommend that you install that version. A new update will be posted in a few days. -- Jean Pierre Debian linbot package maintainer
Re: Linux drivers ?: Rage Pro LT Card for Flat-Panel-Displays (LCD)
On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Roy, Purna wrote: Do any of you know of a linux X-configuration in terms of driver an other settings for this ? Check out the following site. It works well for my Dell Inspiron notebook which uses this chip with 8 Mbytes memory, not so well with the version that has 4 Mbytes memory: http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~steveh/inspiron/ -- Jean Pierre
Re: debian - NFS - Solaris
On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, File Server Admin wrote: does anyone know how to solve the problem with NFS incompatibility between Solaris (2.5) client and Linux (Hamm) NFS server? Here Linux box exports /home and /var/spool/mail. Problems are: - mailx and elm hang, - tar and make demonstrate indeterministic behaviour... Simple programs like cp work OK. Some people say that the problem is that Linux does not have lockd/statd (and Solaris' lockd says cannot find inet addr for...linux box name), but I did not notice at Linux box any requests from Solaris for locking and anything unusual. Anyway, does anyone know how to solve the problem? My experience is that the Linux NFS server is broken when working with Solaris NFS clients. We can get read only mounts to work reliably but not read-write. The new 2.2 kernel does have some support for lockd and the nfs code itself has been changed substantially. My impression is that it is not stable. We recently retired our Debian server for a Solaris server for this reason alone. This is a serious short coming in Linux. -- Jean Pierre
Re: Notebook manufacturer recomendation
On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Dave Swegen wrote: With a bit of luck I'll be starting work in a few weeks (crossing fingers til they pop off and fly accross the room), and I was told I'd be bought a notebook. So I was hoping I could get some pointers to which notebook manufacturers tend to allow for easy debian installation. I believe the companys semi-official provider is Compaq - any thoughts? Just one data point for the Dell Inspiron 7000. 333 MHz, 8 GByte HD, beautiful 15' LCD * No problems installing Debian in a dual boot configuration with NT. * PC-CARDBUS works well with 32 and 16 bit cards. * Don't get internal modem as its a WinModem. * Sound uses Maestro chip which is not currently supported. * Uses ATI Rage Pro LT chip for video which is only partially supported using a special patched Mach64 server and fbcon device from the 2.2 kernel. Result is marginal. Xig has a commercial X server which supposedly works well. * No problem with mouse. * Works with both 2.0 and 2.2 kernels. * APM power management seems to work well except for the lid closing switch. Battery life is excellent. Overall I happy with the performance which is much better than most laptops I've used. Its heavy though. -- Jean Pierre
Re: X problems after an update
On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, William Schwartz wrote: Well, I used dselect to update the available packages from SLINK (frozen). And it listed a bunch as updated required. So, I let it install them, but I didn't really look at what they were. My X was working before all this, but now after doing the update, it no longer works. The error I'm getting is the following: FreeFontPath: FTP /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonta/misc:unscaled refcount it 2, should be 1;fixing. Now, I'm not sure if this is the error that is causing the server to shut down. but it is doing so. Before the error hits me, it shows waiting for X server to shut down Then displays that refcount error. The last line that appears during startup is (--) SVGA: Generic SpeedUps selected (Flags=0x30) I re-ran XF86Setup to respecify all my setup options, but it still comes back with the same error. When I call startx it goes into X for a second, and jumps back. I just upgraded myself and have run into quite a few problems. First see if the file ~/.xsessions_errors (?) is produced. For me there was a shell programming error in /etc/X11/Xsession that needed to be corrected. -- Jean Pierre
Re: What does this mean?
On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, Jesse Evans wrote: I get this message every day. What does it mean? -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Output of Anacron job `cron.daily' Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 10:12:04 -0800 (PST) From: root (Anacron) 45375 45375 This is a bug in the cracklib package specifically in the /etc/cron.daily/cracklib script. I'm working on an upload to correct this. -- Jean Pierre
Debian network consultant desired in MA
Hi folks, I hope this is an appropriate message to send to this list. I'm searching for an consultant to help us configure a mixed environment of Debian, Solaris and NT. The work will involve setting up file sharing, password synchronization, third party package installation, printer configuration, backup configuration, firewall configuration. Many/most of the services are provided by Debian servers. The difficult part is configuring NT to support network installs of packages and cooperation with UNIX. I estimate 2-3 weeks of work on-site in Cambridge MA with possiblity of long-term support. Anyone interested should email me directly. Thanks, -- Jean Pierre LeJacq CTO Quoin Inc 1208 MASSACHUSETTS AVE STE 3 CAMBRIDGE MA 02138 voice: 617.492.6461 fax: 617.492.6861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: password security: john, cops, etc
On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Pere Camps wrote: Is there any debianized program to check the 'strictness' of passwords. Something like john, cops, etc. I'm also looking for a passwd replacement that enforces 'strict' passwords. There's cracklib which is a proactive checker in that it checks passwords as the users set them. Currently there are several bugs for the package but I'm actively working on them. Should see a new upload in a few days. -- Jean Pierre
Re: password security: john, cops, etc
On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Pere Camps wrote: There's cracklib which is a proactive checker in that it checks passwords as the users set them. Currently there are several bugs for the package but I'm actively working on them. Should see a new upload in a few days. Please tell me when you do. Just check the frozen and unstable distributions on the debian servers. That's where they will go. -- Jean Pierre
Re: dualboot linux and NT?
On 21 Jan 1999, Frederick Page wrote: And I boot LILO with the NT-Bootmanager, also works fine. partition-1 Windows-NT, 4.0-service pack 4, NTFS partition-2 FAT32, pagefile.sys, only used for virtual memory How does that work? I was always under the impression, that Fat32 was not supported by NT 4.0. Hmmm ... I just checked and indeed my second partition is FAT16. Still, I'm not sure if NT 4.0 doesn't support FAT32. Its a nonissue for me since all I use partition 2 for is the pagefile.sys. -- Jean Pierre
Re: dualboot linux and NT?
On 19 Jan 1999, Frederick Page wrote: you wrote on: 18 Jan 99 at 15:30 (received 19.01.99) about : _Re: dualboot linux and NT?_ WinNT can not boot directly from a slave disk, as far as I know. Well, it *can* boot from any disk and any partition, no matter what. It needs to have it's boot files on the active partition on the master drive. That's exactly the problem, you need to have a FAT16-partition within the first 1024 cylinders of the first harddrive. The so-called C: (speaking in DOS-/Win-terms). This is clearly not true. I have a dual boot configuration on my Dell Inspiron with one IDE harddrive configured as follows: MBR lilo partition-1 Windows-NT, 4.0-service pack 4, NTFS partition-2 FAT32, pagefile.sys, only used for virtual memory partition-3 Debian, ext2 partition Remaining Debian filesystems Works fine. -- Jean Pierre
Re: NFS and Solaris 2.5
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Matt Delaney wrote: I am running a Debian 2.0 on a i686. It functions as an NFS server to a number of other Debian i686 machines and a SPARC Solaris 2.5 machine. I think the SPARC is crashing the nfsd on the Debian server and it typically occurs when I copy very large files to the NFS FS from a local FS on the SPARC machine. Usually the situation can be solved by restarting /etc/init/netstd_nfs. I have been in contact with other users who have this identical problem on identical machines. Typical log entries in the NFS server daemon.log: Jan 19 12:55:34 bermuda nfsd[4788]: strange write req from hawaii.ucd.ie: count 4294967295 len 4294967295 Jan 19 12:56:31 bermuda nfsd[6100]: non-standard errno: 14 (Bad address) I am using the following package versions: I've tried to use Linux as an NFS server for Solaris with mixed results. For READONLY it works fine. For READ/WRITE it is unreliable since the current Linux NFS server does not support locking. You may want to investigate the new 2.2.pre NFS since it now claims to support locking. Unfortunately, last I saw only client support was provided. -- Jean Pierre
Re: cracklib's cron emails.
On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Sergey Imennov wrote: Hi Sergey, I wasn't able to read the body of your message but I'm guessing your asking about the emails from cracklib cron. This is a known bug that I'm working on fixing. Till then you simply have to rediret the output of the cracklib utilities to /dev/null inside the cron shell script. -- Jean Pierre
Re: help wanted for kernel install
On Sat, 9 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, now I cd to linux and I'm in 2.0.36. This seems right to me, but I must still missing something, because make menuconfig produces the following errors: debian:/usr/src/linux# make menuconfig rm -f include/asm ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) make -C scripts/lxdialog all make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.36/scripts/lxdialog' gcc -O2 -Wall -fomit-frame-pointer -DLOCALE -DCURSES_LOC=curses.h -c lxdialog.c -o lxdialog.o In file included from lxdialog.c:22: dialog.h:29: curses.h: No such file or directory make[1]: *** [lxdialog.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.36/scripts/lxdialog' make: *** [menuconfig] Error 2 You need to install the curses3.4-dev package. -- Jean Pierre
Re: new LILO won't install a new boot sector ...
On Sun, 13 Dec 1998, Seth M. Landsman wrote: So I have a laptop that has been running slink since August. I just downloaded the new lilo and tried to install a new kernel via lilo. I get the error message : [EMAIL PROTECTED] sudo lilo First boot sector has a pre-21 LILO signature lilo -q does not show the new kernel has been installed. In rebooting, the new kernel is in fact not installed. Any one know if there is a way to update a lilo 20 boot record so that lilo 21 will install? Or do I have to bite the bullet and do an fdisk /mbr and boot from a disk? Sorry no solution but another data point. I also have a laptop with a dual boot configuration with NT and Debian. The Debian root is on partition /dev/hda5 which is a logical partition. lilo_20-0.1 works fine. lilo_20-2 doesn't. When lilo is run, no errors are reported but when trying to boot, the LILO prompt appears correctly but when the linux kernel is select it hangs after printing that it is loading the kernel. -- Jean Pierre
Re: pcmcia cardmgr doing the right thing after resuming?
On Sun, 15 Nov 1998, Alan Su wrote: i have a laptop here that does not see the pcmcia cards after resuming. basically, suspending the machine goes fine, and after resuming, i can do most everything. however, the network is not there. bouncing the card manager with '/etc/init.d/pcmcia restart' gets things back to normal. what am i missing here? is there a script that gets run on a resume where i can do this? thanks...and be gentle; this is my first attempt at a laptop installation. =) Is your kernel configured with APM? Even if it is, your laptop may be nonstandard or doesn't implement the apm standard at all. Supposedly, the pcmcia package should work properly with apm. However, there are enough broken apm laptops that I notice that the pcmcia maintainers have added hooks to the latest release. These are scripts that get invoked on resume. Try downloading the latest debian pcmcia package and read the documentation. -- Jean Pierre
Re: Unresolved symbols on networking modules
On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Curt Daugaard wrote: I've seen posts to this list about this problem before, but I can't recall the solution. I'm trying to revive an ip masquerading setup I had in the past, but when I try to start it up a get a long list of unresolved symbols on the net modules. The modules were made and installed after the last kernel compile. Can anyone give me any clues about how to fix this? Did you rerun depmod -a? I tend to solve these problems by recompiling the kernel and modules, removing the old /lib/modules/ver directory, installing the new kernel and modules, running depmod -a, rebooting, and rerunning depmod -a. -- Jean Pierre
Re: PCMCIA ethernet cards w/Debian
On Fri, 6 Nov 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 12:34:23AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: Does anyone know if a PCMCIA ethernet card with the following wonderful description will work with a Hamm/Slink system? Credit-card size, PCMCIA Type II form factor Complies to PC Card 1995 CardBus standards Anyone's guess really, but probably. Lots of them are just NE2000 cards. If it is a CardBus card, you'll have to recompile the pcmica package to support CardBus as the debian package currently doesn not. -- Jean Pierre
Re: how to install slink netscape?
On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Markus M. Schneider wrote: that the actual netscape binaries were now included in these packages...is this wrong? When I tried to run netscape, it wasn't there. I don't have a /usr/X11R6/bin/netscape (which I think should probably be a link to /usr/lib/netscape/45b2/wrapper or something). All I seem to have are the wrappers...no real netscape binaries. I additionally had to install communicator-base-45 and communicator-smotif-45. The corresponding dependencies seam to be missing. I recently upgraded as well but now communicator fails with a bus error. I've also upgraded to the latest libc and X packages in unstable. Has anyone else seen this problem? -- Jean Pierre
Re: cracklib mail
On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Max wrote: I keep on getting bizarre mail from cracklib every single day with the following message: /etc/cron.daily/cracklib: 45375 45375 Looking in /etc/cron.daily/cracklib doesn't tell me why it's mailing me with those two numbers, and neither do the cracklib man pages. Any clues? /etc/cron.daily/cracklib reforms cracklib's cached dictionary database everyday using crack_packer. In my version, 2.7-5, the output is redirected to /dev/null. Which version are you using? -- Jean Pierre
Re: cracklib mail
On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Max wrote:
-- Start of included mail From: Jean Pierre LeJacq [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Max wrote:
I keep on getting bizarre mail from cracklib every single day with the
following message:
/etc/cron.daily/cracklib:
45375 45375
I'm using the same version, and here's the key section of my
/etc/cron.daily/cracklib:
/usr/sbin/crack_mkdict ${cracklib_dictpath_src} |\
/usr/sbin/crack_packer ${cracklib_dictpath}
The man page says that crack_packer creates 3 files, yet there's no
mention of anything being sent to standard output, so I don't know if
adding /dev/null to the end of the line will do anything, or will
it?
Ooops ... I have a locally modifed version. Yes, adding the
/dev/null at the end of the line will solve this problem.
I'm the maintainer for cracklib2. I'm planning on a new release in
the next few weeks and I'll fix this bug at the same time.
--
Jean Pierre
Re: XEmacs C/Java mode configuration
On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Thomas Apel wrote:
When I write C/Java Code in XEmacs the braces are always indented like
this:
if (x)
{
x = 0;
}
But I want it to look like this:
if (x)
{
x = 0;
}
How can I change this? I think I searched the whole options menu but
didn't find anything. Are there any docs where I could have read about
this?
Take a look at the info page for xemacs/cc-mode. all is explained
there.
--
Jean Pierre
Re: pine warning
On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, D'jinnie wrote: So I finally cobbled pine 4.05 together...except now it keeps giving me a Mailbox vulnerable - directory must have 1777 protection. I don't know which directory it's talking about and what exact permissions it wants... I assume its talking about: /var/spool/mail -- Jean Pierre
Re: some questions
On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Santiago Vila Doncel wrote: The Debian source of pine 4.05 is available in project/experimental, under the source directory. It should compile cleanly in a Debian 2.0 system. I still use pine 3.96, because I consider it more stable. Could you elaborate on what problems you've had with 4.05? Thanks, -- Jean Pierre
Re: xemacs
On Wed, 23 Sep 1998, Mikael W Asp wrote: Xemacs is usually not a problem to me, but now I don't have a clue. Every time I try to use html-mode it says in the modeline (HTML Font) but when push tab so indent the line I get this message: External entity html not fount Public identifier -//IETF//DTD HTML//EN and then the modeline says (HTML [html] Font). Xemacs is usnig the SGML mode which requires the SGML catalog. Check the info page to make sure you have this configured properly. -- Jean Pierre
Re: HELP! Seriously messed up bo - hamm
On Sat, 19 Sep 1998, Michael Stutz wrote: Please help -- I really messed up my 1.3 system today trying to upgrade to 2.0 using the 2-cd set from LSL. I'd like to be able to find a way out of this mess and be able to upgrade properly rather than having to save my /usr/local and /etc and then reinstall new... ... snip ... Running dselect doesn't help, either. dpkg is broken -- every time I run it I get something like: (Reading database ... 23523 files and directories currently installed.) Removing wget ... install-info: No dir file specified; try --help for more information. dpkg: error processing wget (--remove): subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1 Update-menus: waiting for dpkg to finish (forking to background) Update-menus: (checking /var/lib/dpkg/lock) Errors were encountered while processing: wget I'd first resolve the dependency problems by removing the packages with dpkg dpkg --remove wget If the prerm or postrm scripts fail, edit them to remove the problems. They're located in /var/lib/dpkg/info. Once the dependencies are resolved, add only a few packages at a time starting with the essential ones. -- Jean Pierre
new imap-4.2-1 and lockfiles
I recently upgraded to the new imap package (thanks for maintaining it Jaldhar!) and noticed a significant change in lockfile management. The imap daemon runs as the user/group of the person executing the daemon instead of the group mail. This causes a problem since I currently have the spool directory ownership/permissions set to: drwxrwsr-t root mail/var/spool/mail My MUA (i.e. pine) warns that the mailbox is vulnerable since a lockfile is not created. What's strange is if I allow global writes, no lockfile actually written but the MUA is happy. What should be the ownership/permission of /var/spool/mail? Or should /usr/sbin/imapd be sgid mail? Thanks, -- Jean Pierre -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Bo crashes under heavy disk load
On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Peter S Galbraith wrote: Torsten Hilbrich wrote: You can try the aic-driver which is available at ftp://ftp.dialnet.net/pub/linux/aic7xxx/ I made some good experience, this driver seems to be more stable than the one included in 2.0.33 (which I currently use), especially when activating special features such as SCB paging and tagged command queueing. BTW: the aic7xxx driver changed alot in the last kernel releases, you might also give 2.0.34 or 2.0.35 a try. Stock 2.0.35 won't boot on an 2940U anyway. Well, for me the stock 2.0.35 been working fine for a few days now. -- Jean Pierre -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
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
Re: Linux NFS question
On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, George Bonser wrote: I have been digging around and it looks like lockd is not supported in linux until 2.1.5? Can anyone verify this? A friend has a Linux filesystem that he wants to mount from another OS and it seems to really want to see lockd on the linux box. Is he going to have to wait for 2.2 or is there someting for 2.0? Not sure I can confirm but after some extensive searching on the Internet last year, I could find nothing for 2.0. My experience with Debian as an NFS server to Solaris is that read-only works fine but read-write is hopeless. -- Jean Pierre -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: NFS/Network locking available?
On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, Ossama Othman wrote: I am exporting some ext2 filesystems from my Debian box to a Solaris machine. While the export works, the Solaris automounter complains about network locking not being available on my Debian box. Is network locking supported in hamm? If so, how do I enable it? No, not in HAMM. Or in any Linux distribution I know of. Some folks were working on adding support for NFS locking but I've lost the URL. I wouldn't recommended using Linux NFS as a server for Solaris. It works find for serving read-only filesystems but is worthless for read-write. This is a major problem with Linux and prevents us from deploying Linux more widely in our company. -- Jean Pierre -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: 3c905b
On Thu, 28 May 1998, William D. Rendahl wrote: How do I set up a 3Com 3c905b (Cyclone?) NIC at 100Mbps on Bo? Use the 3c59x driver. The Ethernet-HOWTO and NET-3-HOWTO will help. -- Jean Pierre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: LI when booting
On Fri, 29 May 1998, Michael Roark wrote: I know this topic is hardly fresh, but I can't find the solution anywhere. You know the case -- installing to a large disk -- reboot and freeze at LI. What how-to do I read to find the fix? There's a problem with your lilo configuration. Take a look at the mini howto on lilo. -- Jean Pierre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: is pam linux specific?
On Thu, 28 May 1998, Ulisses Alonso wrote: that's the question... No. At least Solaris uses it as well. I believe Sun was the primary developer of pam. -- Jean Pierre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ethernet Problems
On Sat, 9 May 1998, jscogin wrote: I use the install program to install my Ethernet card. It finds the address and IRQ. I then configure the name and IP address. It says it is configuring the driver eth0. I then install the kernal, but when I reboot, the eth0 driver is not loaded and it says the network is unreachable. I have been on the news groups and several people have had ideas but nothing seems to work. When I do ifconfig -i it lists lo but not eth0. You need to have the kernel compiled to support your type of card or use loadable modules. Have you done either? -- Jean Pierre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Stupid question for the day
On Sun, 10 May 1998, Randy Edwards wrote: I've looked and apropros'ed myself to near death, but nowhere can I find out what that command is to automagically set up a program in /etc/init.d to run properly at the various run levels. Last time I set one up I did it manually and would like to avoid that this time. The program I want to run is simply a series of ipfwadm calls to set up my masquerading, along with some insert modules on start and rmmod's on stop. Anyone know the command I'm talking about? Thanks update-rc.d -- Jean Pierre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: changing a users group
On Fri, 8 May 1998, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: Which is just the same as manually editing them. Is there a good reason to use vipw, instead of just vi /etc/passwd? only if something goes wrong :) I forget exactly what it is, but vipw does some checking before saving the file, preventing some types of dumb mistakes. Also, if you have shadow passwords, directly editing /etc/passwd can give strange results. iirc, i actually had different passwords in single user mode and multiuser after that . . . . it took days and some help to figure out what was going on. Would pwck and grpck have helped. I always use these after editing any of the user/group files. -- Jean Pierre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Object-Oriented Database
Does anyone know of an object-oriented database that uses the odmg c++ bindings and run under Linux. I have been using poet and o2, but from what I can tell they have no Linux version available. I only know of texas. It is an oo database but uses a model similar to ObjectStore and not the ODMG model. It also does not appear to be supported. -- Jean Pierre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pgp
On Sun, 5 Apr 1998, Chris wrote: I tried to install the package pinepgp from my local debain mirror, but it complains that it can't find the package pgp. Any ideas how I can set this stuff up? You need to download the pgp package which is in a non-US based distribution. Go to www.debian.org which explains how to get non-US based packages. -- Jean Pierre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pstree in fvwm* menus
On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, Ossama Othman wrote: Since pstree exits as soon as it has printed the process tree, is there any point to having fvwm* start up an xterm that will close very soon after it is opened? For example, I can never see the outout of pstree when running it from the fvwm* menus since the xterm it opens up just closes too fast. I guess this wouldn't be an issue if pstree would persistently track processes like top does. I have pstree pipe into less. This keeps the xterm up as long as you like. -- Jean Pierre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dwww and dhttpd??
On Mon, 16 Mar 1998, Lee Bradshaw wrote: Can anyone recommend a good small server to use with dwww for viewing the debian documentation? I'm the maintainer of wn so ... I would recommend wn. Small, efficient, can be run from inetd. Only issue is that it is significantly more security minded than others which makes its more difficult to set up. Boa is another small server that I've seen mentioned. -- Jean Pierre -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: It's all so confusing, so should I get a CD Distribution?
On Sun, 15 Mar 1998, Tristan Day that's you! wrote: 1) Would you recommend a distribution disk for a newbie? Yes. 2) Are there different ones to get? what are the differences? Quite a few: RedHat, SUSE, Debian, Slackware, ... 3) I know this is a Debian list, but do you recommend Debian for user-friendliness? What are its advantages/disadv. ? I read an article about Red Hat being good, but it's expensive (£50 = $85) Since this is a debian list, debian of course! It still is difficult to install for a UNIX novice. 4) Can I dual-boot Windows NT and Debian? Yes. There is a HOWTO which describes the steps required. There are comparisons of the different distributions available. Search the WWW. -- Jean Pierre -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pcmcia modules ... unresolved symbols
On Thu, 12 Mar 1998, Nebu John Mathai wrote: I just purchased an IBM Home and Away PCMCIA/14.4 combo pcmcia card. I downloaded the pcmcia-cs and pcmcia-modules Debian packages and installed them. My kernel is compiled for networking and loadable modules however if I insmod the precompiled modules '8390' and pcnet-cs I get /lib/modules/2.0.29/net # insmod 8390 ./8390.o: unresolved symbol dev_alloc_skb_Re1879ac7 ./8390.o: unresolved symbol ether_setup_R49e2786a ./8390.o: unresolved symbol eth_type_trans_R5d6ef009 ./8390.o: unresolved symbol netif_rx_R4c16cac7 ./8390.o: unresolved symbol dev_kfree_skb_R7154554e ./8390.o: unresolved symbol dev_tint_R3dd5ae2a Did you run depmod -a? I have the following modules to support network pcmcia cards: pcnet_cs 8390 ds i82365 pcmcia_core Check the output of lsmod. If your /lib/modules/2.0.29/modules.dep is out of date you may not be loading the proper set of modules. -- Jean Pierre -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kernel and auto module loading.
On Sun, 8 Mar 1998, Ian Perry wrote: I have recompiled the kernel to 2.0.32 and disabled these modules as they were not needed. I did the usual make dep, make clean, make zImage, make modules, make modules_install, and copied the zImage file to /boot and created a symbolic pointer /vmlinuz /boot/zImage, and reran LILO So far so good...and this works fine except... On bootup I still get loading modules smbfs, rarp plus /lib/modules/2.0.32/ivp4/rarp.0: unresolved symbol kfree_skb_R2cfc2375 /lib/modules/2.0.32/ipv4/rarp.o: unresolved symbol arp etc How do I stop the kernel from loading these modules at startup ? Just before doing the install, try moving /lib/modules/2.0.3? aside. Then do the install. Run depmod -a both before and after rebooting. You may also want to check your /etc/modules and /etc/modules.conf files to see whats being preloaded. -- Jean Pierre -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Kernel and auto module loading.
On Sun, 8 Mar 1998, Ian Perry wrote: Thanks, It was in the modules file. I had not noticed that file, and I just checked, it is nowhwere in the docs I have. There was also a lot of unused stuff in the /lib/modules/2.0.3? directory. I am beginning to realise that debian linux is not nearly as 'user unfriendly' as people make out. Debian does still require quite a bit of knowledge to get everything to work correctly. One thing that should make your life much simplier when recompiling the kernel is the kernel-package package. I use it exclusively since it takes care of many of these cross-dependencies. -- Jean Pierre -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: where is libext2fs.so.2
On Thu, 5 Mar 1998, Richard Sevenich wrote: Bravely upgrading to hamm via ftp, I find my machine unbootable - complaining about a missing 'libext2fs.so.2'. In which package might i find this. e2fslibsg -- Jean Pierre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: dotfile locking, NFS and lockd
On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Nelson Posse Lago wrote: On the same line, I think the new (2.1.x) kernel-supported NFS server is supposed to have the hooks necessary to implement a really cool lockd for linux which would solve this kind of problem and allow for reliable NFS locking among linux and other Unixes etc. Quite misteriously, I don't see mentions to this when people talk about the improvements of the new kernels, why is that? And is the lockd really being developed? If so, should I expect it to be available when the newer kernel freezes? My understanding is that nfs locking is not part of the new nfs server. There is some work being done on a lockd daemon but it seems to be a low priority. See: http://www.swb.de/personal/okir/status.html. -- Jean Pierre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: LI instead of LILO:
On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Daniel Mashao wrote: I just installed a new Debian system. I had to copy the base1 disk X times on Y disks to get Debian to install. But now I get a LI instead of the expected LILO: What can I do without having to do a complete reinstall? This is the boot loader providing some status. Each letter indicates a particular phase of the boot process. Take a look at the LILO howto to see what LI refers to. -- Jean Pierre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Out of PTTY's
On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, C.J.LAWSON wrote: ... Its one problem after another ... When I try to run the script program I get a message saying out of PTTY's and the program aborts. Does anyone have a clue as to what on earth brings this about .. You may be using all your available pseudo-tty devices. Check to see how many /dev/ptyp[??] you have. You can create additional devices using the MAKEDEV script in that same directory. -- Jean Pierre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: diagnosing smail (2)
On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, David Stern wrote: This is a slightly shorter version of some questions I asked earlier regarding smail configuration. I've read all the smail docs available and there is no definitive smail resource, so I'd really appreciate it if someone would *PLease* take a few moments to reply. I'm no smail expert but here goes. There is an smail mailing list which you should find useful: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1.) How can I find out what ident_sender, as well as all other variables, are assigneded as? (I need to know so I can test what is happening; e.g.: when I set visible_name to u.washington.edu, and restart smail and inetd or reboot, there is no change, but I don't know why. I've tried echoing and mailing the variables, but I must be doing it wrong.) Use the rewriting rules as in your 2nd question and included and variable you like with the prefix $. 2.) Why does from_field require it begin From: (as shown in the man page below) and does from_field rewrite the From: line, or the Sender: line and how does it decide? (It seems ambiguous.) I believe the From: is required by IETF standards. 3.) What is the difference between the roles of Sender:, Return-path:, and From: lines and are each required according to RFC's? (It was my understanding that there was some contention as to whether the Sender: line was required, but that it was desirable because it acts as an envelope, which is a good thing for some MTA's and MUA's. I'm not clear about the roles of Return-path:, From:, and Sender: or which are required.) Not sure on this one. From: is always required. The others are optional. For example, pine will prompt the user if Return-path: is defined in the message if they would prefer to use that instead of From: . -- Jean Pierre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: trouble reinstalling pcmcia-related things
On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Sen Nagata wrote: to make a long story short, i've removed (not purged) my pcmcia-cs (also pcmcia-source and pcmcia-modules) package and tried to reinstall it. when i try to reinstall pcmcia-cs, i get: /lib/modules/2.0.32/misc/scc.o unresolved symbol i don't have any need for scc.o (AFAIK), and i dont have it selected via modconf either. any pointers as to where i might go or what i might do to fix my set up? Try installing pcmica-modules first. -- Jean Pierre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: trouble with the boot-block..
On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Gary Kline wrote: However, after installing Debian on my first and third SCSI drives and *not* using LILO as the boot manager, I found that I __always__ boot into Debian, into a RAM file system. After re-installing both OS's from scratch several times I've come to the conclusion that something is causing the master boot track to always throw me into the re-install RAM-fs of Linux. I'd be much obliged for some work-arounds here. Am I using the wrong rescue disk or what? Are you booting from the rescue floppy disk. If yes, then indeed you will be using the RAM-fs. You can either use the boot floppy disk or LILO installed on the hard disk. -- Jean Pierre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: /etc/cron.daily/wn error
On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Luis Francisco Gonzalez wrote: Hi, I have been getting this error and I don't really know what's going on. Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 06:47:33 + (GMT) From: root (Cron Daemon) To: root Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] run-parts /etc/cron.daily Mime type file too large. run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/wn exited with return code 2 I'm the maintainer of wn. I know about this problem and am tracking it down now. I hope to have a solution and updated package later this week. -- Jean Pierre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ethernet card (hamm)
On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Jonas Bofjall wrote: Now I can't get networking to actually work. I can't ping anything except the loopback (127.0.0.1) and my own IP address. Does the latter mean that my network card works or does the packet never leave the machine? `ifconfig eth0' has the right IP, Bcast and Netmask -- but the wrong base IO address. It says 0x230 and the module when loaded says 0x220. However, when I try `ifconfig eth0 io_addr 0x220' it answers `SIOCSIFMAP: Operation not supported'. How do I proceed to locate the actual problem? (I mean: how do I find out if the hardware is malfunctioning, if the module doesn't work with my card or if there's a configuration problem?) If you have the original disk available for the ethernet card, they usually have a ms-dos based configuration utility to test the card and set ports and irqs. Also take a look at the /usr/src/kernel-source under your module for the ethernet card and there may be documentation on options you can pass when loading the module. -- Jean Pierre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: trouble with the boot-block..
On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Gary Kline wrote: According to Jean Pierre LeJacq: On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Gary Kline wrote: However, after installing Debian on my first and third SCSI drives and *not* using LILO as the boot manager, I found that I __always__ boot into Debian, into a RAM file system. After re-installing both OS's from scratch several times I've come to the conclusion that something is causing the master boot track to always throw me into the re-install RAM-fs of Linux. Are you booting from the rescue floppy disk. If yes, then indeed you will be using the RAM-fs. You can either use the boot floppy disk or LILO installed on the hard disk. Both the hard drive and the rescue floppy throw me into the RAM-fs. (In fact, trying to re-install FreeBSD from its floppy disk is impossible.) Does the same thing happen when booting from your boot floppy? Did you install LILO on the harddisk? If so, send me the /etc/lilo.conf. -- Jean Pierre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: IP Filtering/Firewall (kernel modules) help!
Take a look at the Firewall-HOWTO. It does a very good job of explaining the basics. -- Jean Pierre On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, matthew tebbens wrote: To just filter packets for my own machine I would have to add ?: Network firewalls IP: forwarding/gatewaying ?? IP: firewalling Is forwarding/gatewaying required for filtering packets ? Is forwarding/gatewaying required for masquerading ? Can someone be more specific on the definitions for: Network firewalls IP: forwarding/gatewaying IP: firewalling IP: masquerading IP: ipautofw masq support IP: ICMP masquerading IP: transparent proxy support (EXPERIMENTAL) IP: always defragment IP: accounting Thanks, Matthew Listed below is the Kernel Networking section. -- Networking Network firewalls Network aliasing TCP/IP networking IP: forwarding/gatewaying IP: multicasting IP: syn cookies IP: rst cookies IP: firewalling IP: firewall packet logging IP: masquerading Protocol-specific masquerading support will be built as modules. IP: ipautofw masq support IP: ICMP masquerading IP: transparent proxy support (EXPERIMENTAL) IP: always defragment IP: accounting IP: optimize as router not host IP: tunneling IP: multicast routing (EXPERIMENTAL) IP: aliasing support (it is safe to leave these untouched) IP: PC/TCP compatibility mode IP: Reverse ARP IP: Disable Path MTU Discovery (normally enabled) IP: Drop source routed frames IP: Allow large windows (not recommended if 16Mb of memory) --- The IPX protocol Appletalk DDP Amateur Radio AX.25 Level 2 Bridging (EXPERIMENTAL) Kernel/User network link driver -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: PS/2 Mouse Port
On 20 Feb 1998, William R. Ward wrote: I have a motherboard that has a PS/2 mouse port. It's *not* an ATX motherboard, though - the PS/2 port and the parallel port are together on a metal insert that goes in one of the card slot holes in the case. I have a TrackMan that has a PS/2 port: with an adapter it works fine in the serial port, but I want to free up that port and use the PS/2 port on the motherboard. I tried plugging the mouse in, powering up the system, and configuring XFree86 to use /dev/psaux or /dev/psmouse, but no dice. I also tried cat /dev/psaux and moving the trackball and pushing buttons, and saw nothing - I expected to see gibberish. So maybe it isn't working at all! Is the kernel (or kernel module) configured to support the ps/2 mouse? Also check in the bios if the PS/2 port is enabled and at the excepted IRQ. -- Jean Pierre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Using 100Mbit ethernet with Debian 1.3.1??
On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, Joergen Haegg wrote: We are trying to get a working 100 Mbit card to a Debian system. None of the cards we have tried will listen to the net, ifconfig says 'SIOCSIFFLAGS Try again'. This happens with Intel Etherexpress 100 and 3COM 3c905. We've been using the 3c905 at 100 Mbit for over a year on several debian unstable systemswith no problems. Probably your problem is that your kernel/modules don't support this card. Simply compile a custom kernel including support for this card. -- Jean Pierre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: libc5 (not libc6) by default? (was: CDE)
On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Alex Yukhimets wrote: I just tried installing the RedHat CDE package into a Debian unstable system. It was compiled with an oldish version of libc5 and not libc6 which the unstable release is based on. I was successful in converting the rpm files to deb files using alien. Unfortunately, when I tried to start CDE using dtlogin, I received a core dump. I received no response from RedHat technical support. I'm sure there is not the problem that the package is not *.deb. The problem here is that it was not linked with specific major version of libc. If you try to do ldd /path/to/some/CDE/executable/or/library I bet that you'll get dependence on libc6. Same thing happens to my Motif: libXm.so.2.0 seems to depend on libc6 while both of them used libc5 headers. The solution is to configure shared lib loader to use libc5 by default. If somebody can tell me how to do it, I would be very gratefull. No that wasn't the problem. ldd does show a dependency on libc5. -- Jean Pierre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: StarOffice and Debian (2)
On 11 Feb 1998, Pedro Quaresma de Almeida wrote: Dou you know how to update the menus in fvwm2 in order to incorporate Star Office 4? If you're using the menu package (see /usr/doc/menu), simply add an entry for staroffice in /etc/menu. If you don't have a Debian package, you may need to masquerade under another package name. -- Jean Pierre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: StarOffice and Debian (2)
On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Pedro Quaresma de Almeida wrote: On 11 Feb 1998, Pedro Quaresma de Almeida wrote: Dou you know how to update the menus in fvwm2 in order to incorporate Star Office 4? If you're using the menu package (see /usr/doc/menu), simply add an entry for staroffice in /etc/menu. If you don't have a Debian package, you may need to masquerade under another package name. I have puted in /usr/lib/menu/default/staroffice4 the following ?package(staroffice4):needs=x11 section=Apps/Shells icon=none title=Star Office 4 command=/usr/bin/soffice and then I have done update-menus But that does not worked. What is the problem? The fact that I say ?package(staroffice4) when there is not any package staroffice4 instaled (i did the instalation form the tar file)? This is the problem. update-menus checks to see if there is indeed a package staroffice4 installed on your system. If not, it will not include an entry. There are a couple of solution. * I believe that there is a Debian package that will install a fake package. * Use ?package(some_other_package_that_is_installed). This will work and shouldn't cause problems with the other package. * Add an entry directly into /etc/X11/fvwm2/main-menu-pre.hook -- Jean Pierre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: CDE
On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Scott Ellis wrote: On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Matej Grasic wrote: Hello. I have aquestion about CDE. Is there a version of CDE for Debian (can I hope that it will be). CDE is commercial software. You can buy a Linux version from RedHat and convert the RPM using the alien package into a .deb to install. I just tried installing the RedHat CDE package into a Debian unstable system. It was compiled with an oldish version of libc5 and not libc6 which the unstable release is based on. I was successful in converting the rpm files to deb files using alien. Unfortunately, when I tried to start CDE using dtlogin, I received a core dump. I received no response from RedHat technical support. Its a real pity that Debian doesn't have support for the primary window enviornment used by all commercial UNIX vendors. Maybe we should try to work directly with TriTeal, the suppliers of CDE for RedHat, a seperate package for Debian. -- Jean Pierre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: xemacs 20.3 slow load
On Mon, 9 Feb 1998, Daniel Martin at cush wrote: Gerald Wann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If find particularly interesting any lines in the file where a timeout occurs. I have attached a snippet below, which is repeated many times in the load process. Could anyone shed light on just what is happening here? Hmm... - it appears that xemacs is attempting to do a dns lookup, and that's the connection that's taking so long. If you had a bo machine, I'd ask you what your /etc/host.conf said, (and make certain it had the line order hosts,bind at the top) but I know that in hamm the configuration for name lookups has changed a bit - does anyone know what you need to do on a hamm box to be certain that gethostbyname() doesn't produce a dns query if a given name is found in /etc/hosts? I needed to add an entry into /etc/nswitch.conf. -- Jean Pierre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: xemacs 20.3 slow load
On Mon, 09 Feb 1998 10:40:18 EST, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote: On Mon, 9 Feb 1998, Daniel Martin at cush wrote: Hmm... - it appears that xemacs is attempting to do a dns lookup, and that's the connection that's taking so long. If you had a bo machine, I'd ask you what your /etc/host.conf said, (and make certain it had the line order hosts,bind at the top) but I know that in hamm the configuration for name lookups has changed a bit - does anyone know what you need to do on a hamm box to be certain that gethostbyname() doesn't produce a dns query if a given name is found in /etc/hosts? I needed to add an entry into /etc/nswitch.conf. What specifically did you add? Here's my nswitch.file: passwd: files group: files shadow: files gshadow:files hosts: files dns networks: files dns protocols: files services: files rpc:files Its important to have files before dns for hosts entry. -- Jean Pierre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Netscape releasing source code for 5.0
Sudhakar Chandrasekharan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | I am curious to find out what folks in the Debian community think of | this. | | What are the changes that you would make to the source code to make | the browser better? | | 2. What features would you add to the browser? I'd like the ability to substitute my choice of email and news programs for the netscape versions. -- Jean Pierre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Installing Netscape
On Fri, 23 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Everytime I try to run Netscape I get a color map error followed by a bus error. It will run with the -mono option but I still get errors and a bunch of the buttons don't have images. Which X server are you running? I had problems running the xfree XF86_VGA16 (sp?) server. I could not successfully run Netscape except with the -mono option. The XF86_SVGA works fine. -- Jean Pierre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Network Problem
On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, Uros Platise wrote: The only work marvin will do is routing between Packet Radio network and home (local) network. After setting the network configuration files I can ping my working machine (called ide) from marvin. And I can also ping marvin from ide. NFS is also working as well. The trouble is telnet and ftp. ide works (I assume) well as I can telnet to it from my 3rd home computer But ide-marvin is the neck. On marvin I installed the base system plus netstd package. I can telnet to localhost (marvin) but I cannot get out from the machine. Hence rpc works well. Do you have tcpd wrapper installed on ide? If so, you may be restricting access to the telnet and ftp daemons on ide. Check your /etc/inetd.conf file to make sure that telnet and ftp are enabled. If they are and wrapped with tcpd, check your /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny file to see what restrictions are in effect. -- Jean Pierre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Help !! On Installing and Upgrading.
On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, Ian Perry wrote: What is required to allow the installation of libc6 either with the safe removal of libc5, without crashing the system, or having the two co-exist on the same system, or cant the two be mixed ? How is it done ? Look at: file:/usr/doc/debian/libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO.html.tar.gz. or at: http://www.debian.org/doc/libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO/libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO.html -- Jean Pierre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
