Re: Why use Debian? Why not Red Hat?
On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 12:40:53PM +, Adam C Powell IV wrote: Koyote wrote: Ah, but any more than one is a problem for a machine with a USB floppy drive! Since most USB machines will have a bootable cdrom drive they dont have to use a single floppy. I think you're missing my point. RedHat has a floppy+CD system, with an extra floppy for PCMCIA Debian has a zero-floppy system, if you have the cd. [snip...] Debian install complete, never used Windows! But had to detour to RedHat to make it work. Hence the suggestion: a single floppy net install for Debian would be real nice. But might be not worth the effort, especially with USB support coming in soon- though that would have to be compiled in to the rescue floppy's kernel (not as a module), which would bloat it somewhat. :-( I didnt use windows to install debian either (a good thing since the last installations i made were on linux-only machines). I used the bootable cd on the pcs with a cd drive, and nfs+ftp on the other ones. Of course, had I not had a single cdrom drive I would have had to resort to other means... Installing via nfs does require several floppies, I think 2 or 3 (including the initial boot floppy). -Lex pgpaDrBhZmLVo.pgp Description: PGP signature
Printing problem with HP LaserJet IIP
I recently got a printer from someone who wasnt using it. He lost all the manuals but claims the printer used to work correctly under win 95/98. The printer is an HP LaserJet IIP (Plus). Now here is the problem I get: I tried setting up apsfilter and magicfilter, using the filter ljet2p, ljet2plo and ljet2plus, I tried lpr and lprng, and each time I get exactly the same error: the text prints out correctly but is output 4 times! Another strange thing: if I try using it via samba from a windoze box (using the printer 'raw', thus without filter), I get only one page, then 4 blank pages. This is better but still annoying. Is there a known catch with using this kind of printer under linux? Did anyone get one working correctly? Or did anyone experience a similar problem with another printer. Thank you, -Lex PS: Please cc to me pgpT7DbF1Cw0Q.pgp Description: PGP signature
Problem with ISA Kingston ethernet card
The card is a KNE2021LC, ISA, made by Kingston. I use the normal NE2000 ISA drivers. The card appears to be detected correctly but fails to work if I try to transmit anything on it. There is no error message. I tried changing IRQ, but that did not work. I used the test programs provided by Kingston and they ran fine. The card runs fine under windows too. I tried on two different linux pc and neither could use it. Any idea? Thanks, -Lex pgp4DaXkBoheg.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: CD player question
On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 02:46:25PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: My other system using an es1370 chip set PCI card that is (wherever possible) identically configured. I have no problem playing WAVs and MP3 with play resp. splay. But that's about it. None of the CD players gives me any output. But I also get no error message at all. And saytime produces some static in the speaker. Now saytime uses /dev/audio while play/splay use /dev/dsp, so this may explain thsi difference. but why doesn't /dev/audio work? And why do all the CD players not say a word? There is a catch with the es1370 driver in the kernel: it does not support the /dev/dsp interface the way the other drivers do (eg you cant use 'cat myfile.au /dev/dsp' to produce sound). If saytime try to use something like that that might be the problem. I had the with ICQJava before I switched to the ALSA drivers (and before I switched to gnomeicu). Thus you might want to try the alsa drivers. As for your CD sound problem... afaik you dont even need the sound driver to get sound from our cd, if you plugged the cd audio cable correctly (but I suppose windoze players use this to make sound too, so the cable is probably not the problem). No clue on whats happening there. Did you make sure you correctly specified the device to use? I hope you can get things working :) -Lex pgpEXMpeSEd0m.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: xdm problem
On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 03:54:53PM +0200, Fabrizio Roccato wrote: Same problem with my potato box. I have changed in the /etc/inittab the default runlevel to 5 id:5:initdefault: and all works fine. I'm not sure that 5 is the right runlevel for xdm, but it works and let me use tty1 too, but not the other (tty2-10, xdm start on tty11). Bye Biko You are right, I found out shortly after posting the initial message that it had to do with inittab. I was starting a getty on the first 10 vt, top on 11th and syslog on 12th, which left X on tty13, and it seems xdm was not happy with that. I removed the getty on tty[7-10] and set up inittab to open vt on demand (using the nice Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO) and now this works fine, in fact I like this setup even better than the previous one :-) -Lex pgpLNs0PlGiTe.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Printing problem with HP LaserJet IIP
On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 04:43:08PM +0200, Lex Chive wrote: I recently got a printer from someone who wasnt using it. He lost all the manuals but claims the printer used to work correctly under win 95/98. The printer is an HP LaserJet IIP (Plus). Now here is the problem I get: I tried setting up apsfilter and magicfilter, using the filter ljet2p, ljet2plo and ljet2plus, I tried lpr and lprng, and each time I get exactly the same error: the text prints out correctly but is output 4 times! Another strange thing: if I try using it via samba from a windoze box (using the printer 'raw', thus without filter), I get only one page, then 4 blank pages. This is better but still annoying. Well after somefidling with the config of both sides, windoze boxes are now printing correctly! yay! now the problem remains on the linux side... -Lex pgpCkiCjTRIon.pgp Description: PGP signature
xdm problem
Hello people... I am having a strange problem here with xdm. When I start it it kills the keyboard (no input possible at keyboards, numlock led is dead, but the mouse is still working). However, X runs perfectly fine. I first thought it was a hardware problem, but: I copied my system configuration onto a machine where xdm was previously working fine, and now it shows the same symptoms. Any idea of what could be causing this? I can give my whole package selection to whoever wants it, if that can help. I know the problem is quite vague, so i would like to know if anyone has experienced something similar. Both machines have an S3 ViRGE, using the SVGA server (i tried the s3v server too). Thank you, Lex PS: please cc to me -- PGP key: 'finger [EMAIL PROTECTED]' or on http://130.104.19.230/~lex pgpgGzG0w39b9.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Changing refresh rate in X...?
On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 11:33:08PM -0500, Steve wrote: Hello all, I have been, for some time now, attempting to change my refresh rate to 100Hz. My monitor's Hor. and Vert. Sync rates are 30-70 and 50-120 respectively. I used to have it run at 100Hz magically somehow, but my HD died and I had to reinstall because I am an idiot and never backed up anything. Now my refresh rate sits at 77Hz and I don't know how to make it higher. I run 1024x768x32bit. My video card is a Diamond Viper V330 with 8MB of RAM, all properly recognized. My monitor is a MAG DJ530. Any ideas? Thanks, Steve You need to have a proper mode defined in XF86Config... If you doesnt find a modeline hanging somewhere you can make your own, I suggest you read the XFree86-Video-Timings HOWTO, it is nicely explained. -Lex pgpKWJ9yOAs5q.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: qmail procmail
On Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 02:56:10PM +1000, Shao Zhang wrote: Hi, We are using qmail for our machines here. Now I could not get qmail to work with procmail to do the sorting. Basically, I need to fetchmail emails from three pop3 mail servers and then use qmail to deliever them all to the root account. Since you use procmail anyway you might as well use it as mda procmail: in your .fetchmailrc, use the line: mda procmail -d root From what you say of your setup that should be enough. -Lex pgpbCRZuzfMqr.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Block stupid/annoying sites
On Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 10:26:28PM +0200, andreas palsson wrote: Hello. I am using Debian GNU/Linux as a nameserver, and I wonder how do I modify it to reject all lookups for stupid sites like ad.doubleclick.net or any other annoying banner-site? I've been told to use something called junkbuster but I rather not run anything extra on the host, I simply would like to change something in the bind-configuration. Anyone got an idea? I would say put a bogus address for those sites in /etc/hosts. You can block packets for this address with something like 'route add 10.0.0.1 lo', I think, or block them at firewall level. -Lex pgp3cSfVrhBUH.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: disabling ports
On Thu, Aug 19, 1999 at 07:26:28PM -0400, Paul Miller wrote: How can I disable ports 515 and 6000 on my external ethernet adaptor? -- I'm ip masquerading an internal network and I only want those services running on the internal network. Thanks -Paul I guess, if the external nic is eth1, ipchains -I input 1 -i eth1 -p tcp --sport 515 -j DENY ipchains -I input 1 -i eth1 -p tcp --sport 6000 -j DENY no? Or if ur internal net is 192.168.1.0/24, ipchains -I input 1 -p tcp -s ! 192.168.1.0/24 515 -j DENY should work too. Cant try this now, but from the doc that should be the way (ipchains(8)). If ur using ipfwadm i dunno. -Lex pgpuvqZb8FTt2.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Sound volume problems
On Sat, Aug 21, 1999 at 11:14:40AM +0200, Fam. Engelen wrote: I have recompiled my kernel (slink, kernel 2.0.36 i think?) to support sound. I can now play waveforms catting to /dev/audio, s3mod works and I can play xkoules and quake with sound. The problem is that the volume is extremely low. The sound is very faint even when I turn the amp up to 100%, while in Windoze it works fine at 5-10%. I set the volume to the maximum with a mixer (aumix, xmix), too, which helped just a little. Has anybody had this problem, too? Any possible solutions? Thanks in advance, Arnout Engelen [EMAIL PROTECTED] (since i'm having some trouble with my mail server, please CC me at that adress, too). Dont forget to set the pcm volume too (aumix -v 100 -w 100). I used to have something like post-install es1370 /usr/local/bin/aumix -v 90 -w 100 -c 100 -l 100 now I use post-install snd-audiopci1370 /usr/sbin/alsactl restore pre-remove snd-audiopci1370 /usr/sbin/alsactl store This way if ur sound driver gets unloaded the volume is saved (I think the pre-remove option only works on 2.2 kernels though). If that does not work, sorry... -Lex pgpNZkBUF12Cv.pgp Description: PGP signature
Changing package status w/o dselect
Im sorry, this looks like a trivial question but I could not find the answer in dpkg doc... How can I change the status of a package (eg set it to hold) w/o having to launch dselect, and without using --get-selections | sed | --set-selections? I know it would be easy to make a script but if there's a standard tool i'd prefer to use that. -Lex pgp2LmvS6TXJk.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: how to format mySeagate ST33210A
On Wed, Aug 18, 1999 at 12:02:50AM -0400, Ralph Winslow wrote: I just got a new HD and tried to format it using my Debian 1.0 Installation Boot Emergency disk set. I made the disk primary and unplugged my current 2.1Mb drive and booted the first disk and partitioned using the second (Ramdisk). I made a 100Mb swap and the rest, ~3Gb, Linux bootable, then made the swap area with no problems. But when I tried to format the Linux partition it failed with 256/373mkfs.ext2: can'r resolve symbol 'llseek'. I then made the drive secondary and re-plugged my 2Gb 2.2 primary drive and rebooted, hoping to format from my regular system. I tried mke2fs /dev/hdd, but it says, no such device. I did an apropos format | more, but didn't spot a disk formatter in the voluminous output. Can anyone spare a clue for a veteran? TIA This is mke2fs /dev/hddn where n is the partition number. Also you dont say whether you made it slave or master, sec master is hdc. I have a ST310230A and never got any problem with it. I think I put it on the primary and installed windoze on it first as I have had bad experiences of installing that over linux. I guess the unresolved symbol probably means that ur executing the dynamically linked binary but /lib is ur ramdisk, thus the lib is not correct (maybe ur using glibc2.1 with a slink bootdisk?). Try with LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Hope this can help... -Lex pgpHeIux7i9FK.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Problems with Mutt and Exim
On Fri, Aug 13, 1999 at 12:56:40AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My problem in a nutshell: My login name on this machine is shadow. My
e-mail account at my university is [EMAIL PROTECTED] I can use Fetchmail and
Mutt to read mail from the tc.umn.edu server, and I can send e-mail fine as
well. The problem is that my sent messages arrive from [EMAIL PROTECTED],
which isn't the e-mail address they have to reply to! (No reply-to field is
defined either..) How can I make messages I send thru mutt exim come from
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Well, there is a quite elegant solution to this. At the end of your exim.conf
there should be some sample of an address rewriting rule, which can map local
user addresses to extern addresses (using an external text file).
The file would look like:
shadow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
and the rule
[EMAIL PROTECTED]${lookup{$1}lsearch{/etc/email-addresses}\
{$value}fail} bcfrF
well, you should replace localhost with whats appropriate (the qualify_domain,
probably).
-Lex
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Re: Upgrading to potato ...
On Thu, Aug 12, 1999 at 02:26:14PM +0100, Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe wrote: Hi I have two machines. Machine A is connected to the internet and is running slink and i want it to continue running slink. Machine b is not connected to the internet but i would like it to run potato. My idea is to use A to upgrade B but i need your (the experts) advice on the way i thought i could achieve this. ... I think the easiest would be to set up a proxy just for the time of the upgrade. Then you can upgrade machine B directly without bothering A. -Lex pgpr1kH0XcFV7.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: mapping mail names to user/account names
On Thu, Aug 12, 1999 at 07:21:49PM +0200, Ferdinand Schinagl wrote: Hi dear mail wizards, can sombody tell me how to do the following with my debian installation: For at least some maybe even all of the accounts on our server I'd like to have it receive emails addressed to it in a more formal naming convention. Means the machine should transport mail addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] though there is no account like firstname_of_user_A.last_name_at_user_A which doesn't even make sense to set up - too long a name and there are underscores (wouldn't be a problem really) and a dot inside the users name. In short, I'd like to do some user name mapping that's it. The mail should be received by an existing user of course. Any ideas who to do this conveniently? Thanks so far, Ferd Aliases? that seems the easiest to me (/etc/aliases, see doc on ur mta for exact use). -Lex pgpzI9qWCjhHV.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Terminal errors
On Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 04:31:25PM +, John Carline wrote: Immanuel Yap wrote: On Mon Aug 9, 1999, John Carline wrote: Executing 'dselect' now gives me the error 'Error opening terminal: unknown', and in addition many other commands give similar messages. For example, if I use a pipe to less (ls | less) I get the following: WARNING: Terminal is not fully functional. What does 'echo $TERM' say? Thump! Thump! Thump! sound of user banging head against desk :) Now why didn't I check that?? Thanks Noel. You asked the right question, the $TERM variable was blank. I ran an env command and compared it to my hamm disk. All the other variables looked ok. I then added TERM=linux and export TERM to my root .profile to see if that fixed it. It did. However I'm sure that that's not the correct place for TERM to be set. So! I've been checking files on my hamm disk in an attempt to find the correct spot. so far I've looked at /etc/inittab, .profile, .bashrc and any file I could find that said getty, login or init. No luck yet. You wouldn't by any chance have another hint in you, would you? :) I used to have that in /etc/profile ever since i use linux and i never had any problem. Something looking like '[ $TERM = -o $TERM = unknown ] TERM=linux'. -Lex pgpkdR0BqId4o.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: procmail question (was: looking for a mail client)
On Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 10:31:51PM +0200, Peter Palfrader aka Weasel wrote: Is it possible to have it run automatically when new mail arrives without the need for every user to have his .forward set to |/usr/bin/procmail so only having a .procmailrc fur users that want it? Of course, you just need to set up your mta to use procmail. The exact way to do it vary of course. That should be given in either the mta's doc or procmail doc. -Lex pgpVVWF8LX0QK.pgp Description: PGP signature
tar -I
Hi, tar used to accept the -I option to use bzip2 (instead of gzip with -z). Now the option is still documented in the man page but it no longer works. Why was the behaviour changed? Is there another letter assigned to bzip2? Thanks. Lex pgpTfSHxH9Rc6.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: xfs/xfstt
On Sun, Aug 08, 1999 at 12:09:06PM +1000, Bek Oberin wrote: I'm a bit confused about xfs and xfstt. I understand that xfstt is for truetype fonts, and I have it working. But as far as I can tell, xfs doesn't offer any advantage (for a regular user) over just putting directories in the FontPath bits of the X configs. Is this true? Yes it does. you only need to have one computer with the fonts and the font server. this saves disk space on other computers of your network. -Lex pgpd1NYr6nsWc.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Clearing a mail spool of duplicate emails???
On Sun, Aug 08, 1999 at 04:09:50AM +0100, Frankie Fisher wrote: Content-Description: Removing duplicate emails... Hi, Sometimes fetchmail is interrupted when it is fetching mail from my pop account. The result of this is that I have duplicate emails in my mail spool. Is there a package which will scan my mail spool and remove duplicates? [perhaps I could work it into my .fetchmailrc or sthg, or ppp/ip-up.d or somewhere] TIA, frankie I have this problem too. I am using procmail that I set up to catch duplicate (using the example), but unfortunately when there are too many mails it does not work (message ids need to be in cache, but cache size is limited). Still, if you take your mails often that might be enough for you. Or you can use a bigger cache, I use 32kb now but i'm going to increase that. -Lex pgpU1I7dSFqGa.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: How to escape this for the bash shell...
On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 03:08:55PM -0500, Michael Merten wrote: On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 03:08:20PM +0300, Alex Shnitman wrote: On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 01:22:17AM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote: I have a file named : ?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~ ... in my home directory. I am wondering how to escape this properly for rm to work on it in bash. Most people told you to rm ./file or rm 'file' but that won't work of course since you can't input the filename from the keyboard at all. (The name as you typed it looks like it consists of escape sequences, not something you can easily type on the keyboard.) So it's a better idea to use the shell's wildcard expansion to do the work for you. You can type rm -i * and then answer n for every file except for this one. It does look like escape sequences, but what key would produce ?[4~ ... the closest I can find is PgDn which produces ^[[4~. Is there a table/chart/listing of these somewhere for a linux term? the ? means unprintable character, and is probably really a ^[ (aka \e) (but the shell cant print it). you cant know what the first chars are though. the rm -i thing is the easiest (well here you could also use rm *[4~ since this is not likely to match another name). when there are too many files you can also use ls -i, then find. i guess this must be explained in every unix faq. -lex pgpX20CANhAAw.pgp Description: PGP signature
alsa modules
Hello, I have just installed and compiled alsa. In alsa-base there is a script /etc/init.d/alsa which preloads all the sound modules. Doesnt that ruin the purpose of modules, which is after all to save memory when it's not needed (well, at least part of the purpose)? Or is there some issue specific to alsa? kmod seems to handle the autoloading well enough. -Lex pgps1rAIbh1vL.pgp Description: PGP signature
wsoundserver segfaults on startup
Well thats it. Since i havent seen anything about that on the list i assume i must have done something wrong, so i would like to know if there is any hidden trick with the installation of wsoundserver? I tried pulling the source of wmsound, then wsoundserver, from the windowmaker website, and had the same problem (the segfault is actually in a function of libPropList). I dont think its relevant with the segfault, but im using a SB128 PCI with the Alsa drivers. I tried with stock kernel drivers too. Thank you. -Lex pgp3sLnJpsbdP.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: minimum delay maximum throughout
On Wed, Jul 28, 1999 at 11:03:28AM +0300, Halis Osman Erkan wrote: I want to learn more about minimum delay maximum throughput in ftp and telnet there would be a way to make settings to provide them. iphains TOS bit can do this ; i know ; But HOW? and whats the logic? Rgrds Halis Osman ERKAN Sophomore / Ege Unv. There is a nice explanation of this in the ipchains-howto (grep for TOS). I can not add anything to that :-) -Lex pgpBo6BV9YOzv.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Win Gateway
On Fri, Jul 16, 1999 at 01:30:00PM +0200, Algernon NG wrote: Hi all! I won't bother with pppconfig and other anymore. I accept it won't work. But Win does (I hate it!), so I would like to make my win computer act as an Internet gateway. If anyone has any ideas how can I configure my machines (both the Linux I think wingate is the easiest way to setup a win computer as a gateway. You can take advantage of the included SOCKS server since it is very easy to run most apps using socks quite transparently on linux (with the runsocks script). I think they also include modified dll to allow win machines to connect to it. Be advised that this is very insecure, inefficient and more difficult to set up (the clients) than a linux gateway. For serious purposes you will probably want to use a proxy server (eg firedoor) but this is less straightforward to set up. As usual in the M$ world, none of these softwares are free. -Lex pgpLpDjqxdYTn.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: nfs-client
On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 10:12:20AM -0500, Christian Dysthe wrote: Hi, I was upgrading my potato box and got this as the nfs-client was being set up. I also get an error message about this when I am rebooting. Here goes: Setting up nfs-client (1.4.3-2) ... Starting NFS client services: rpc.lockdlockdsvc: Function not implemented rpc.statd. I got this same message, and now I cant mount nfs exports, I get the error messages: kill_fasync: bad magic number in fasync_struct! nfs: server anoat not responding, still trying and it locks out, I have to kill the server. I dont use nfs often so I have no clue about what the problem could be. I know that nfs worked earlier. Anyone can help? -Lex pgpD1Bv60asqZ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: nfs-client -- Solved
On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 06:42:06PM +0200, Lex Chive wrote: On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 10:12:20AM -0500, Christian Dysthe wrote: Hi, I was upgrading my potato box and got this as the nfs-client was being set up. I also get an error message about this when I am rebooting. Here goes: Setting up nfs-client (1.4.3-2) ... Starting NFS client services: rpc.lockdlockdsvc: Function not implemented rpc.statd. I got this same message, and now I cant mount nfs exports, I get the error messages: kill_fasync: bad magic number in fasync_struct! nfs: server anoat not responding, still trying and it locks out, I have to kill the server. I dont use nfs often so I have no clue about what the problem could be. I know that nfs worked earlier. Anyone can help? -Lex Okay I reinstalled nfs-server and I recompiled the kernel and now it works fine. I assume it was a bug in the nfs-server package. Weird tho. -Lex pgpxVSrTnAgSB.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???
On Sat, Jul 03, 1999 at 06:28:37PM +0200, Sami Dalouche wrote: It's one thing to send Christmas gifs to people that are a couple of hundred bytes long; it's quite a different story when it's a huge, uncompressed bitmap which does exactly the same job. Sadly, in most e-mail clients either would be just a filename, with no immediate indication of how big it really is. If u insist to have a such function, maybe Mutt can do that... Mutt is not (should not) be concerned with fetching mail. From the doc: Note: The POP3 support is there only for convenience, and it's rather limited. If you need more functionality you should consider using a specialized program, such as fetchmail. If you are using an external (eg ISP) pop account then you should probably be using fetchmail which has an option to limit the size of message. If you are receiving your messages directly and are concerned with hd space you can junk them with procmail (or exim filters :P). Thats why unix is better imho than other os like win: there is not one big app but many small apps which are working together. This makes it much more customizeables, and also easier to upgrade. Some people like the win philosophy of having one do-it-all program, this is a matter of taste. True, those will maybe regret OE... -Lex pgphHqP6lv1JT.pgp Description: PGP signature
SVGATextMode
Hi, I'm having trouble with SVGATextMode. I have an S3 Virge DX, but every time I use a mode using a frequency over 37.5 MHz, I have display problems: at 40MHz some chars become unreadable, at 45 only some chars are actually readable and at 50 it gets simply impossible to read anything. Strangely enough, the problems only start after I've run X once. The output of grabmode is exactly the same before and after running X: 132x34 40.035 1056 1072 1232 1280 476 490 492 525 -Hsync -Vsync font 8x14 # 31.277kHz/59.58Hz I tried with different monitors, but it didnt change anything. The one im using now can handle 30-54 kHz H and 50-90 Hz V. Also the manual states a max bandwidth of 75 MHz. Anyone experienced something similar? If so I'd like to hear the solution :-) -Lex pgp8EnRq62CZ4.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: E-mail for dummies.
On Sun, Jul 04, 1999 at 09:43:06PM +0800, Hans van den Boogert wrote: Could someone please post a quick mail-system setup for dummies? As said, I simply want to connect to my ISP, collect/download my mail and read it in a browser-like X program like Mahogany. What is the principle setup? (Please, explain a bit!!!) What programs do I best use for what? What do these programs do? How do they interconnect? What is the sequence of collecting and sending mail? If you dont have a permanent connection to the internet the best way I know of is to use fetchmail. fetchmail will fetch (hehe...) the messages on your ISP (or your mail account wherever it is) and delivers them locally. Then you can either have your mail server (exim, if you used the defaults) handle them, or use a MDA like procmail to deliver them. For example, using procmail, I have: poll mail.telebot.net proto pop3 user pop_user pass pop_pass is local_user mda procmail -d local_user in ~/.fetchmailrc and then I just need to run fetchmail to get my mail. Once it has been delivered locally you can use any mail client to read it (mutt, pine, I guess Mahogany would work too although I never heard of it :). Is there any other on-line documentation besides the NAG and MailHOWTO? I have lots of time to read, much less to work on my system :-( Thanks for the help. -- Hans Well if you use fetchmail you probably want to read its manpage. If you use procmail you should read the doc under /usr/doc/procmail and if you use exim you probably want to install the exim-doc package and read the info files it has installed. Good luck, Lex pgp6e0JwhcxtS.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [RedHat]: Automatic Hardware Detection
On Sun, Jul 04, 1999 at 09:13:28PM +0100, Paulo J Matos aka PDestroy wrote: Does anyone know if RedHat 6.x does Automatic Hardware Detection? What's automatic hardware detection? PnP? -Lex pgpO73diF41kN.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Package problem.
On Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 04:26:23PM +0200, Kjetil Ødegaard wrote: Is it possible to make dpkg think it has installed mysql-base without actually doing it? Or install it without overwriting the current mysql installation? Take a look at the equivs package. -Lex pgpSBhQnkrjk9.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: More problems w/ EXIM upgrade
On Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 08:02:57AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But now I have a problem with mutt. When ever I try to send a message from within mutt, I get: 'Error sending message, child exited 127 ().' And the message is not sent. So I went and looked in /etc/Muttrc and fooled with the 'set sendmail' line, but that didn't do me any good. Does anyone no how to get mutt to work with exim again? This appears to be a problem with the mutt package. I have compiled and installed mutt manually and it works great. I reported this as a mutt bug, even though this is related to exim too. -Lex pgpFdRyVJ7kxx.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: smallest console font
On Fri, Jun 25, 1999 at 02:29:57AM -0700, John Haggerty wrote: I want to get the most out of my text console screen real estate. I am wondering about what is the smallest console cont for linux that can be implimented with something easy like setfont. Currently I am using gr8x6 however I think that that is still too big for my screen. Any help would be appreciated thanks in advance Using small fonts is not the only way to get more characters on a screen. You can also increase the screen resolution (which is also much easier to read). Take a look at the svgatextmode package, it's really nice. -Lex pgpnATidPpcuB.pgp Description: PGP signature
dhcpd
Hello,
I just installed the dhcp package on a potato box (with kernel 2.2.10).
There are both linux and win98 clients. Here is the relevant configuration:
option domain-name neuneu.com;
option domain-name-servers 192.168.0.2;
option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
option broadcast-address 192.168.0.255;
option routers 192.168.0.2;
default-lease-time 600;
max-lease-time 7200;
subnet 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
range 192.168.0.70 192.168.0.90;
}
However this does not work. When the win machines start they get a random
address, and if I try to run the dhcpcd client on a linux machine it times
out. tcpdump output shows several bootp queries.
There was a thread about this recently but no solution was posted, did anyone
finally find out what the problem was? I believe mine must be related.
Thank you,
Lex
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Re: soundcard too silent
On Wed, Jun 16, 1999 at 03:06:06AM +0200, Hartmut Figge wrote: Lex Chive wrote: On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 01:54:05PM +0200, Bernhard Dobbels wrote: On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Armin Wegner wrote: how can I raise the base volume of my sb 64 pci (ensonique)? try xmix and aumix on the console. why not the default gom ? I have never tried gom since it said in the desc it only works with OSS drivers, while the es1370 and es1371 (used in the sb pci cards) are using their own drivers, not part of OSS. Interface doesnt matter anyway since its run automatically :-) -Lex pgpGZOfojoWD5.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: email redirection
On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 12:32:48AM -0700, George Bonser wrote: You might try this in the .forward file of your home directory: ---begin .forward # Exim filter -do not remove! deliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---end .forward Actually this is even easier, the .forward only need to have the email address in it.
Re: Configuring exim
On Mon, Jun 14, 1999 at 11:53:48PM +0100, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: I'm using Demon Internet as my ISP, as you can probably guess. Demon automatically sends email via SMTP if the port is open (as far as I can tell), but there is now an optional POP3 service available. Since I'd much rather use fetchmail on its own than fetchmail and exim, I'd like to configure exim to not receive mail from Demon's servers. I can't work out how to do this from the exim docs - can anyone help? There is an option named sender_host_reject which might be what you need. Right. Doesn't that mean that the mails will be rejected, though? All I want is port 25 to be closed to anything other than localhost. From the documentation and from what I have seen from trying myself it will look like your smtp server is temporarily down. This is probably what you want; there is a harder option which would return a more serious error to your isp but then the mail would probably get permanently rejected and an error message sent back to the sender. I'm pretty sure exim is run from init.d, but i'm not entirely certain. Yes, I think this is an option at install time. The other option should be enough for your problem (of course, that depends of the settings of your isp...). Hope it works :) -Lex pgpoxht5mvU6J.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: soundcard too silent
On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 01:54:05PM +0200, Bernhard Dobbels wrote: On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Armin Wegner wrote: how can I raise the base volume of my sb 64 pci (ensonique)? try xmix and aumix on the console. Dont forget to change the volume of the PCM channel too, not only master (aumix -w 100 -v 100), i have this autoloaded in my conf.modules. -Lex pgpkaOs6SfTRP.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: New Win Convert--needs some help :)
On Sun, Jun 13, 1999 at 08:53:52PM -0600, Craig McPherson wrote: difficult, and the included fdisk program is MUCH better than that Disk Druid thing (which refused to even look at my hard drive), There is one warning tho if you are going to use DOS... Linux's fdisk doesnt care about the order of the logical drives in the extended partition (ie, /dev/hda5 may well be _after_ /dev/hda6), which seems to greatly perturb dos' fdisk. So if you use linux's fdisk ud better stop using dos' fdisk (which is anyway horrible), otherwise you might wipe out your extended partition (this happened to me once :( ). -Lex pgpadP5J3CEq7.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: IP Masquerading
On Mon, Jun 14, 1999 at 07:47:36AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any Debian specific documentation on IP Masquerading? I've read the mini how-to, but debian seems to have this extra /etc/ipmasq.conf file so I'm looking foe the correct way to configure debian IP Masquerading before I start asking any stupid questions. If there isn't any should we consider writing some? I had been masquerading with slack before I got debian and I didnt have to change anything. It is very straightforward on 2.2 kernel, read the ipchains-howto. I dont have this ipmasq.conf file tho, maybe there's something specific on potato? -Lex pgppmXsHl7VjQ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Configuring exim
On Mon, Jun 14, 1999 at 07:33:54PM +0100, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: I'm using Demon Internet as my ISP, as you can probably guess. Demon automatically sends email via SMTP if the port is open (as far as I can tell), but there is now an optional POP3 service available. Since I'd much rather use fetchmail on its own than fetchmail and exim, I'd like to configure exim to not receive mail from Demon's servers. I can't work out how to do this from the exim docs - can anyone help? There is an option named sender_host_reject which might be what you need. Alternatively, if you're running exim from inetd you can use the tcpd wrapper and use hosts.allow and hosts.deny to deny incoming connection from other sites (see hosts_access(5)). But I am not sure it is the right thing to do, why wouldnt you want to receive mail directly? -Lex pgp9plHKCjpDv.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: BE MORE SIMPLE!!!!
On Mon, Jun 14, 1999 at 10:34:25AM +, Gertjan Klein wrote: The people who manage the creation of software-based products are typically either hostage to programmers because they are insufficiently technical, or they are all too sympathetic to programmers because they are programmers themselves. That is one of the main points of the entire book: that programmers are the ones that design the user interface of programs. Programmers have a very different view of computing that arbitrary users. They subconsciously tend to assume that users of their programs have the same view as they themselves have. I hear that attitude in the oft-heard phrase teach a man to fish Though true in itself, many people are either not interested in or don't have the capacity to configure large, complicated applications; they just want to type their letters, and do the other stuff their bosses tell them to do. Cooper points out that the interaction design should be geared towards the people actually using the program, instead of the people that program it. Self-evident as this may seem, it appears that this is hardly ever the case. In the case of debian (and of linux in general) it is worth noting that programmers are not doing this for a living but because they like it... For example, since I am almost never using X I would hardly be eager to make an X interface for my prog... Interface design is imho the most boring part, thats maybe why it is sometimes overlooked in free programs. Just my two cents. A lot of people like making shiny interface too but not everyone loves it. -Lex pgpAhyY9Iv7T3.pgp Description: PGP signature
equivs
Here is the problem: I am trying to install ssltelnet, but it depends on libsocks4 (tho I dont see why). I already have socks5 on my system so obviously I dont want to install libsocks4 over this. So I configured equivs to provide libsocks4. No I have: anoat:/usr/src# dpkg --status equivs Package: equivs Status: install ok installed Provides: libsocks4 but when I run apt-get I get: anoat:/usr/src# apt-get -s install ssltelnet Updating package status cache...done Checking system integrity...ok The following extra packages will be installed: libsocks4 The following NEW packages will be installed: libsocks4 ssltelnet So, did I miss something? How am I supposed to use equivs, I just put the package name in /etc/equivs.conf and run debian/rules binary, right? and while we're at this how can I tell equivs to declare other package versions (eg if I want it to declare libc6 installed it doesnt change dependancies for packages wanting libc6(=2.1))? Thank you. Lex pgpF1CuGrMWiV.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: ftp ssh tunelling
On Thu, Jun 10, 1999 at 11:14:49PM -0500, Christian Dysthe wrote: I would like to know where I can find some information about how to do ftp over a ssh tunnel. Debian spesific information or info from somone who has done this successfully from/to a Debian box would be very helpful. There is a program named `sftp' in ssh2. It has the same interface than ftp but works with ssh. Debian package is still ssh1.2, sftp is not included in that version so you might consider upgrading ssh manually (the sources are on http://www.ssh.fi). -Lex pgpPHgTiZ7rnA.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: configure compiler to core dump
On Sun, Jun 13, 1999 at 05:35:56AM +1000, Shao Zhang wrote: How do I configure the g++ compiler to dump a core when it segment faults. I guess you're looking at the command to enable any segmentation faults. Under bash, the command to use is `ulimit', try `man ulimit' to see the various options as it is possible to fine-tune it. If you dont care you can just do `ulimit -c unlimited' (unless your admin has disabled this), which will enable any application to dump a core as large as it wants it. I am sorry if I have mistaken your point but I dont think there is a way to configure the compiler to enable core dumps. -Lex pgp4aQ6TWW06G.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Where is /usr/bin/file?
On Sat, Jun 12, 1999 at 10:20:07PM -, Pollywog wrote: Very strange; I looked for the package on Debian's website, using the search facility, and I can't find the package that owns /usr/bin/file. I do have /usr/bin/file on my Potato system. I think this might serve as a useful trick when you dont know what package owns a file... anoat:~$ grep '/usr/bin/file' /var/lib/dpkg/info/* /var/lib/dpkg/info/file.list:/usr/bin/file anoat:~$ dpkg --status file Package: file Status: install ok installed Priority: standard Section: utils Installed-Size: 233 Maintainer: Nicolás Lichtmaier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Version: 3.26-1 Depends: libc6 Conffiles: /etc/magic 272913026300e7ae9b5e2d51f138e674 Description: Determines file type using magic numbers File tests each argument in an attempt to classify it. There are three sets of tests, performed in this order: filesystem tests, magic number tests, and language tests. The first test that succeeds causes the file type to be printed. -Lex pgprdB1mXncS3.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: apache with cgi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I use these settings in my access.conf: DirectoryMatch ^/home/.*/public_html Options SymLinksIfOwnerMatch Indexes AllowOverride None /DirectoryMatch DirectoryMatch ^/home/.*/public_html/cgi-bin Options ExecCGI SymLinksIfOwnerMatch AllowOverride None AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl /DirectoryMatch Nothing needed in srm.conf. I can not be positively sure I did not have to change something elsewhere since this is something I set up a few months ago, but I think that was all there was to do. - -Lex On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Shao Zhang wrote: Hi, Can anyone help me set up apache so that all the users can execute their own cgi scripts?? I have set the following, but it does not work: in srm.conf: AddHandler cgi-script .cgi in access.conf: Directory /home/*/public_html AllowOverride All Options ExecCGI FollowSymLinks Indexes allow from all /Directory and the error message reads: [Wed Jun 9 18:12:31 1999] [error] [client 203.17.36.12] Options ExecCGI is off in this directory: /home/shao/public_html/try/cgi-bin/hello.cgi [Wed Jun 9 18:12:32 1999] [error] [client 203.17.36.12] Options ExecCGI is off in this directory: /home/shao/public_html/try/cgi-bin/hello.cgi Thanks for any help in advance. Shao. -- Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _ Department of Communications/ __| |_ __ _ ___ |_ / |_ __ _ _ _ __ _ University of New South Wales \__ \ ' \/ _` / _ \ / /| ' \/ _` | ' \/ _` | Sydney, Australia |___/_||_\__,_\___/ /___|_||_\__,_|_||_\__, | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |___/ _ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv iQB1AwUBN17qvzgIWdzVLpk5AQGfpQMAwR9p7h4XeGwXniAsJjTRFsmuUZZ3L11c 2D3KMte4D5wyFMRBZRqKUiEbV6UnyxclhNWaPJumpgcmmHpXQHTemgOiEWKZolj6 P0FonuKsbh/IIMsPLKLvwUCw9lCh/Rak =XXVQ -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: ide-scsi module
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- By typing `insmod ide-scsi' you added the support for your cdrom into the kernel. However this only last until the next reboot... I see three obvious options to solve this: 1) The easiest one: you add a line with all the modules you want to load in /etc/modules. All the modules there are installed at boot-times. 2) If you use your cdrom often, you can hard-compile it into the kernel. This will be slightly more efficient than the previous one. 3) Get kerneld (this is kmod in newer kernel, and works much better IMHO), which will automatically load needed modules. But this is quite harder to configure. This will save your memory when you do not need cdrom support. If you are new to linux, the 1st solution is probably the best one, at least until you recompile your kernel. - -Lex On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: Every time I reboot Linux complains that it can't mount my IDE CD-RW (HP8100i, running as /dev/scd0). The first time this happened I followed its advice and typed `insmod ide-scsi'. For that session, the CD-RW worked fine. But on rebooting the module appears to have been removed from the kernel. Why? -- alisdair mcdiarmidwww.letdown.demon.co.uk [cRusHed liKe a buG in tHe gRounD] -- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv iQB1AwUBN17uFzgIWdzVLpk5AQFBGAMAzNl1N0bytvHEMKBcDLOo0rZr+2IGPKPv +88ytRcSLSryd6TvBicezqZ4MlfbMOusEfNk/DknVxqMc6fg0KvBy1/RNuwe6r9b NL4xtVPEccXs6M9eowOZbqRDEuJX6HIq =bcQn -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: I am impressed with Debian!
Debian runs automatically (every day) a program named `updatedb' which builds some sort of file database. To disable this you can simply chmod 644 /etc/cron.daily/find. -Lex On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 08:47:38AM -0700, Martin Waller wrote: It's happened to me before (under hamm, but not slink) and it was find running. I don't why it ran find but it was a pain in the ass. I haven't had the problem for a while. May be there's some process running that lokks for something in a default loctaion and then if it can't get it there forks a find to try to locate it. I suspected TkDesk when this happened to me, but that could have been unfounded. caveat: this may have nothing to do with the problem you have! Martin From: Gregory Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Patrick Colbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Barry Kauler [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: I am not impressed with Debian so far. Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 09:45:51 -0500 Patrick Colbeck wrote: Hey, my hard drive did the sudden thrashing thing last night too. Its never done it before (well it has in NT but not in Linux). All I was doing was reading mail remotely over a dialup line using xemacs in a kterm in KDE 1.1.1 (from snowcrash). It stopped after a while (about 4 minutes) and has been fine since. This never happened before in RedHat or with Hamm. Is this a KDE thing perhaps ?. I am running on an AST M series Laptop which has 48Mb ram and a 2GB Linux partition with about 1300MB free and a 92MB swap file. Pat -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null It sounds like a 'cron' job was running. -- Gregory Wood Farsight Computer 1219 W University Blvd Odessa TX 79764 Voice: 1-915-335-0879 CT Pioneers Board Member Novell CNE Appgen VAR -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null pgpqgDFtAOQIs.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: some hardware questions
Yes the SB PCI is supported in kernel 2.2. But the driver is named es1370 (I read Creative bought the chip from ensoniq). No idea about DVD or Voodoo2. Hope it helps, Lex On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 09:11:11PM +0100, richard newton wrote: I just have a couple of hardware questions that I don't know the answers to. I need to know whether the SoundBlaster PCI cards are supported in any way. How about DVD? Is anyone running two Voodoo 2 cards in SLI mode? I'm building a new machine and I want to know just how far I can go technology wise. This job's too hard for us! -Andy and Randy Pig -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null pgpwxfYAoW5WU.pgp Description: PGP signature
