i am trying to run a script call fp_install.sh but my slink box says run
is not a command, what do i try
change into the directory where the script is and then run:
# ./fp_install.sh
if that gives you an error like this:
bash: ./fp_install.sh: No such file or directory
check the first line
Did anybody have problems with mailman 1.1? It won't let me login as the
list admin, and it doesn't give any error.
make sure you have cookies enabled, and you aren't using any sort of
filtering proxy like junkbuster.
adam.
I'd like to run without suexec, if possible, since I have absolutely no
need for it.. How would one arrange that with the debian Apache
install?
you have to explicitly enable suexec for each virtual domain you host. if
you have a directive in your config called user and/or group then you
My problem is in getting Eterm to grab the console messages. I have
tried suid root, I have tried to run Eterm as root. I have even tried
to change the owener of /dev/console. Nothing works... the Eterm just
opens up and gives me a command prompt (normal Eterm usage). Is there
anything I
Which ports are inadvisable for closing? TIA, John N.
it depends on what the box does. if it's just a workstation for you then
you can probably turn off everything in inetd.conf except ident.
ports you might want to look into leaving open, depending on the purpose of
the box:
ftp
ssh
ident
it should not matter. both master and slave servers are capable of being
authoritive (all that ns1/ns2 need to be in this case). it does mean that
you propagation times will be a little higher but if you running bind 8 with
updates turned on it shouldn't be a big deal.
adam.
On Mon, 6 Mar
I personally don't think that specifying a term as console shows you
anything all that interesting - at least, it never has for me.
OTOH, if you do a tail -f /var/log/syslog in a transparent Eterm, and
park it in the corner of your screen, you have a very cool XConsole.
Pipe it through a
a lot of violence. Maybe that's the way to do it, though. I also spent
some time finding out all the packages I would have to remove if I
removed libgtk*. That seemed like more work than was necessary as well,
but perhaps that's the right way to do it.
not the answer to your main question
1. how do i tell sendmail to relay email for a group of IPs ?
something like this in exim :
sender_net_accept_relay = 192.168.1.0/24:192.168.2.0/24
make sure you have the access file feature enabled and add the ip addresses
to the /etc/mail/access file and then run makemap on it
/usr/bin/X11/xauth: unable to open tmp file /tmp/Xauthef4473-n
/usr/bin/X11/xauth: unable to write authority file /tmp/Xauthef4473-n
and X11 forwarding does not work. This file (Xauthef4473-n) exists and has
the following
permissions:
-rw---1 myname users
Any ideas how to
/usr/bin/X11/xauth: unable to open tmp file /home/paul/.Xauthority-n
/usr/bin/X11/xauth: unable to write authority file /home/paul/.Xauthority-n
Is this potentially a permission problem? What should they be?
i believe i just read a message in debian-user about there being a problem
with
The exim.org site says that it supports CRAM-MD5 and PLAINTEXT
authentication for SMTP *if* it's called for in the Makefile.
So, the question becomes: is it compiled in on the distributed Exim?
not really an answer but if you install it you should be able to tell by
telnet'ing to port 25 of
ok, i downloaded the file fp40.linux.tar.gz
good start.
i put it threw gzip making it a fp40.linux.tar file
this doesn't make any sense, can you try to describe what you did so we can
help you?
sorry to ask such a dumb question, but know what? i looked all over that
site, but nothing
ok, started w/ the file fp40.linux.tar.gz from www.rtr.com since it is a
.gz (gzipped) i did gzip -d fp40.linux.tar.gz, well that took off the
.gz extension right? now i have fp40.linux.tar as my file name.
now you need to untar it. you can untar a file with a command like this:
# tar xvf
This might be a stupid question, but how do I get support for SuExec in
Apache?
i just went through this a couple days ago.
I've been browsing the Apache website and /usr/doc, but there's no easy
explaination of how to implement it.
all you have to do is add the suid bit to
On one machine, I get this message everytime I connect to it. I have
tried to reinstall ssh via apt-get remove/install ssh,
and I still get the error message everytime.
Reinstalling ssh won't solve the problem as some simple reading would
make clear. See below.
actually if you are
Does anyone know how to use Eterm as a console window for grabbing
messages from /dev/console. I know I am suppose to use the -C option
when starting Eterm... but it never works! BTW, I am using enlightenment
w/ gnome-session (if this helps?)
this is the command i used to run from my
And how can you set up /home/user/cgi-bin to be web-executable if you
cannot describe it with a web url?
that's what aliases and scriptaliases are for. you would put in their
virtualhost config (or just change the pathing cgiwrap's source) something
like this:
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/
i'm trying to make my system as secure as possible, in light of recent
news of networks getting broken. the first thing i did was to turn off
services spawned by the inet daemon that i don't use. currently the
following are the only ones running - i didn't turn them off since i
don't know
That involves creating a virtual host for every user.
I was asking whether ~user/cgi-bin can be made to be not under
/home/user/public_html/cgi-bin but /home/user/cgi-bin.
with ~username urls it's even easier. i'm not sure how you do it with
suexec cause i've never tried but with cgiwrap
It is automatic with suexec. Only you have to enable suexec by setting
suexec setuid.
hrm, i thought i tried that and it didn't work. regardless, if you know how
then that's the main thing :)
Unfortunately with apache, data is always served as www-data.www-data or
whatever it is set to in
hi.
hopefully this isn't a cause of me failing to rtfm, but i can't find the
docs on it. i want to enable suexec for the debian apache but as far as i
know this is a compile time option. the debian docs discuss suexec but when
i try and enable it by using the User|Group directives i get this
Here is a list of searches from the apache main site about suxec AND
security:
thanks but i just figured it out. all that needed to happed was to have the
suid bit set on the suexec binary.
# chmod 4711 /usr/lib/apache/suexec
the log file shows that it is now detecting the suexec binary,
i did have this problem and i figured out what was wrong ... and i can't
remember what it was ... it was a minor config error. one thing i had to
fix was the path the the sshd_config file in /etc/ssh.
Not sure I follow you here; what path?
during the upgrade /etc/ssh/sshd_config had
It is the way it is supposed to be.
is there a something in the docs i missed explaining that this is what needs
to be done? it took me a very frustrating hour to figure this out. if not
it should be submitted as a documentation bug, right?
With suEXEC enabled, cgi-s run setuid-ed, which is
It is not only what they write, but what they set the permissions to, as
well. I know, this is also what they should learn. But with
exploitable setuid cgi-s, and one can never be sure that his code is
unexploitable, not only his cgi datafiles, but all files can be accessed
and modified
I will third that statement. Netscape will take from like 30-60 megs
depending... 4.7, btw. On the subject of memory leaks, has anyone ran
(g)top after having had gaim open for a few hours I don't know
anything about the AOL IM protocol, but I'm guessing it doesn't require
upwards of
On a local potato I just installed ssh 1.2.2-1 and clicked through all
the warnings about installing it over the old non-free ssh. Since I was
unable to log into the old sshd, I figured I had nothing to lose.
that is probably symptamatic of another problem though. the old sshd works
just
When I setup xscreensaver from gnome control center it works fine. Doing
a ps ux shows it was called like so xscreensaver -no-splash -timeout
15 -nice 20 -lock-mode -xrm *programs:?flag -ncolors 256 -cycles 3000
-size 1 -root. However, when I try to put this in ~/.Xclients it
complains about
I was wondering if anyone has come up with any tools for Debian to be
able to sync with a Palm or Handspring Visor handheld. Are there any
handhelds that Linux is able to work with?
there are lots. the command line tools and libraries in the pilot-link
package are what most of them are based
clear file
Um, no. I know how to create empty files. :)
the above command doesn't create an empty file, it creates a file which
contains the control codes which clear the screen. eg.
heyzeus(larry)$ clear /tmp/blah
heyzeus(larry)$ od -tc /tmp/blah
000 033 [ H 033 [ 2 J
Hmmm, I don't think that's true, AFAIK you can configure mutt to edit
the header in the message body however you want. See its man files.
as it says just below where you cut off the quote:
editing that field and then scrolling through it. when you set 'set
edit_headers' on you can edit
Hmm. I've never had any problems with it, but YMMV. (Not SMTP, by the
way, but RFC 822.)
yeah you're right.
See, that drives me up the wall. I don't like the fact that it all goes
through another editor (and one so badly written that it needs to insert
a spurious blank line at the end of
does anyone know which mail programm can access imap postoffices and
also encrypt mail with pgp?
pine has the best imap support, and can support pgp/gpg though filters
(check out pgp4pine on freshmeat), this is what i use.
mutt's pgp/gpg integration is second to none (it's *really* nice) but
Can anyone explain to me the restriction on where I can place cgi
scripts if suExec is being used with apache? As best as I can
understand, all cgi scripts must be contained under the *global*
DocumentRoot in order for suExec to run them. This means that when I
have a setup like
cgi's go in
as your first command. Logins will now be invisible and automatic, like
rsh, so scripts ought to work.
if it's for scripting you are typically better to use a ~/.shosts file on
the remote host instead of relying on the ssh-agent stuff. you don't always
have the option of running 'eval
(Personally noted, but for the benefit of other readers:)
i knew i was gonna catch it for that :-)
I actually find that, for a committed vim user like me, and indeed
first thing, i use vim for admin work (:%s/whatever/something/g rocks
...), but for for typing email i finding annoying. when
i've just swapped over from pgp5 to gpg and have this one problem. i use
to use pgpv to display an encrypted text file to stdout so that i could grep
it for keywords (i have a misc. password file i keep encrypted and an alias
to decrypt it and search it).
but i can't figure out how to do this
I have Perl Cookbook ISBN 1-56592-243-3. Here is the blurb on the back
cover:
i would tend to recommend the oreilly learning perl for a novice. just
read a chapter a night and do the excercises and in a week you should no
90% of the perl you're likely to need. if you need more after that
hi.
a couple days ago i decided to change over from pgp5 to gnupgp. it's gone
fairly painlessly except some keys that i try to import give me this
error no matter what i do:
heyzeus(larry)$ gpg --recv-keys E8DA6B27
gpg: requesting key E8DA6B27 from wwwkeys.us.pgp.net ...
gpg: key
In addition to that you need a wrapper that rearranges the library path,
this is the one I use
i've attached a better one which was posted by someone on bugtraq. it also
solves a couple security issues which are particularly an issue if you're
using wp on a multiuser system.
make sure you
is there somewhere i can buy a powerpc debian install cd?
or do i need to wait for potato to become stable?
thanks,
adam.
Basically, you need to wait for Potato to become stable, or find someone
who can run the CD build scripts for you. Try asking on debian-powerpc
or whatever the port list is.
i can wait for that, hopefully it shouldn't be too far off. i don't really
need it for anything, i'm just dying to
check out my thinkpad page at:
http://www.spack.org/geek/thinkpad-390.html
just grab the XF86Config from there and copy it to /etc/X11/XF86Config and
you should be good to go. note that you need to have the svga server
installed and it needs to be at least 3.3.1 (i think).
you should
* SASL isn't compiled in, my notes/temp package are at work ;-{
I hope to get this (SMTP auth) going ASAP.
have you found any docs on doing this and making it work? i downloaded the
tar ball from sendmail.org the other day and any mention of smtp auth seemed
quite missing.
am i just
It does :-) But nothing prevents you from using the libc5 version of
netscape under potato (which is what I do)
what i do as well, just download the libc5 version and use the netscape4
installer.
I wouldn't call it rock solid, but it's useable and only crashes two or
three times a week (I
i don't care if an app crashes, as long as it doesn't take anything else
down with it. NT does it to me all thje time..doing normal things then
BAM! thats the kinda crash that REALLY pisses me off.
upgrade to glibc 2.1 and you will care. it gets really bad. just to
reiterate. there is no
Netscape fine with glibc2.0? Not. It has been crashing on me since day
one and has only gotten worse with newer versions whether libc5 or
glibc2.0
well it sucks a lot harder with glibc 2.1, it's basically not usable. i've
had no major problems with libc5 or glibc 2.0 versions though i would
I just installed the new Netscape 4.71 version on my Debian Linux
server. Just a report- It installs nicely with the Netscape4 installer
from Debian if you rename it to the proper convention. It seems MUCH
faster and more stable that all of the previous versions I have used.
are you running
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Computers are useless. They can only give you answers
2. How can I prevent anybody from changing virtual consoles and
killing my X session when I am away and locked it with xlock?
it's actually easier then that, all the need to do is hit ctrl-alt-backspace
and they'll be dumped back to the virtual console which you started it on.
run startx.
startx clear ; logout
ah! that makes sense, thanks, i'll try it.
adam.
hey.
we've recently decided that it would be a good idea to build a new shell box
and isolate it a bit more then our current one is (keep the hackers a little
farther away from where anything important happens).
this box will also handle uucp mail because our uucp customers need to log
in to a
How about setting the attribute to always append the domain name. (can't
remember the option but it's around somewhere)
done that, it doesn't help in this case. i believe the reason is because it
only add's the domain when it goes through the smtp mailer.
and since you're delivering mail on
there is a kdevelop debian package. i installed it earlier today and played
with it briefly.
it seemed to work alright for the 10 minutes i played with it.
you can grab it from:
http://kde.tdyc.com/packages.php3
adam.
On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, Bob Bernstein wrote:
Has anyone been able
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Computers are useless. They can only give you answers
Here's a question: does anyone's NS handle large combo boxes in HTML
forms correctly? Whenever I need to select an item off a very large
combo box (like states in an online order form: multiple popup windows
created), my keyboard stops working, at least within NS. This has been
I am running rsync from a script that is executed by cron. It is
intended to mirror work stuff at home. It uses my personal accounts on
both ends (different accounts).
Sadly, rsync returns the following error (and doesn't work :)
Permission denied
unexpected EOF in read_timeout
i've
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- Pablo Picasso -
thansk to hartmut posting the solution from debian devel i too now have a
working solution. because it took me a couple times reading through the
message to understand what to do i thought i would repost in case other
people were confused.
this is what you should do if you've been having
Thank you. I get the same exits as you with failed passwords and
closing windows.
no problem glad it helped. :)
I did this, using navigator instead of communicator. The netscape4
installer seems happy. But I've got a library problem that I can't
figure out. I installed libg++27 and yet
In a wild fit of Debian advocacy, I persuaded a colleague at work to
partition the hard disk on his portable and install Debian.
good for both of you :-)
Installation was a breeze...it put the PCMCIA stuff in and booted nicely
with beeps and so on. But it had lost all the IP info and
a little late but ...
Only HTML (among formats that some readers can handle) really handles
nested quotes well, IMHO. It's got a tag just for it. Do any
text-based readers handle HTML (by spawning Lynx or something)? Just
curious; I wouldn't *dare* post HTML here. ;-)
pine (and i'm
Anyway, the problem is that Netscape is quite frequently crashing with a
bus error. This usually happens when I close a Netscape window
(actually, it happens close to half the time when I close a Netscape
window), which is painful because I have to either live with an
ever-growing number of
be here soon.
adam.
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Computers
- p2-266 128mb ram
- kernel 2.2.9
- glibc 2.1.1-13
- xfree 3.3.1 (vmware 3.3.1 server)
sorry i'm dumb that would be 3.3.3.1.
I've not noticed this behavior on closing any window BUT a navigator
window. The bug seems to be common to navigator and communicator 4.5+
(yes, I've seen this
i was trying to find a pattern among the info people posted but couldn't
really see one. did anyone else figure this out?
- p2-266 128mb ram
- kernel 2.2.9
- glibc 2.1.1-13
It's the glibc from unstable.
but i thought there were several posts from people claiming that it worked
just
hi,
i'm hoping someone can help me. i've got listar working and it seems very
nice, but i want to play with the cgi frontend and i can't get it to do
anything.
i've just installed both listar and listar-cgi, have made to modifications
necessary to have one working list and am trying to run the
I am trying to run fetchmail over ssh but I seem to be too dumb to get
it going. Ive read the (debian) docs, a webpage dedicated to this
problem (http://yosh.gimp.org/Secure-POP-SSH.html) but still I cant get
it going. I hope somebody here can help me.
thanks for the url. :-) here's the
hi.
netscape 4.5 had the bug where it disappeared whenever you clicked on a
mailto url, and netscape 4.6 is *HIDEOUSLY* unstable and just cores all the
time.
netscape 4.51 was rock solid for me and i'd love to revert back to that but
the debian packages have disappeared, and 4.51 isn't
i suspect, that you have switched to glibc2.1 and fear, that netscape
4.5 now would be unstable also for you. my communicator 4.6 (linked to
glibc2.0) is not more unstable as my formerly communicator 4.5.
all i did was upgrade netscape. i didn't upgrade my libc (and in fact i've
been running
well, that sounds as if 4.6 is more sensitive to glibc2.1 than 4.5 was.
maybe ... i just downloaded 4.5 from netscape.com and it's having the same
problems. so either it's not the communicator binary itself that is the
problem, or somehow something else changed without me noticing.
if i need
for what it's worth after having massive problems with netscape being stable
after my upgrade to communicator 4.6 i downloaded the old debian 451
packages from a slow to update debian mirror and it's working perfectly.
here's my setup, i hope it helps someone:
heyzeus(larry) dpkg -l | egrep
As far as I know there is not a port of JDK2 for Linux. Check
www.blackdown.org to keep updated.
sorry this is a little late but there is a version being worked on:
http://www.freshmeat.net/appindex/1998/06/05/897078982.html
ftp://iodynamics.com/pub/mirror/linux-jdk/JDK-1.2/
this is a machine that we would need to grow, obviously. what i want to
do is just bring one or two of the smaller labs up with it for testing.
With only two drives, i won't be able to RAID5 the thing as i was
hoping, but i thought i saw someplace where RAID5 isn't Linux's Very
Good Friend
hey.
i have an old 486 setup to run ppp via a dsl line. i then have a network on
the 192.168.10.0/24 network setup behind it for my and my girlfriends
laptop. i have ipmasq running (default debian 2.0.36 kernel) and everything
works great, except ...
when i'm ssh'd into remote hosts from my
It may not be pretty or proper but it seems to work. Putting this is either
~/.menu/ or /etc/menu and running update-menus as a user or root causes the
menu item to appear properly. Hope this helps.
Right!! I found this out at 2 AM this morning!
Two kudos tho, it works here in only
Any one have any experience with using this. Is it worth installing on a
133 pentium?
probably not. solaris is a pretty big memory pig and from what i hear wabi
isn't all that lean either.
That is question 2, has anyone ported any solaris software to linux? I
like to use WABI and JAVA
I have a potato system that I update regularly. Recently I put in a
custom 2.2.5 kernel to support my soundblaster 16. This is whats is
causing me problems.
If I cat foo.au /dev/audio it works correctly. However once if I try to
use x11amp or splay or anyone of the other mp3 players I
hi,
i've got the pcmcia-source 3.0.9-3 installed and debian/rules binary-modules
works just fine but when i try to run debian/rules binary-cs it always pukes
like this (it's linking against 2.2.7 but it's being doing agains 2.2.2 and
2.2.5 as well):
if anyone knows what is causing this it would
But if I don't mistake, theire is a lot of software that add a ~ after a
backup file. So I would like to know if there is a way do delete in one
commande with secure way.
when i'm not sure if the rm command i'm going to run is the one i actually
want i do this:
# ls ~*
and then if the list
What I did was:
cool thanks. this does seem to be the solution.
thanks.
adam.
hey.
i've compiled and installed my own kernel for ages with debian. currently
i'm running 2.2.5 with no problems until now.
i'm trying to install vmware which looks really cool (http://www.vmware.com)
but running into this problem. because it doesn't have a module for my
kernel already setup
hey.
i've recently swapped from using a desktop to using my laptop for
everything. i have sound compilied and it's working fine but i am having a
problem playing mp3 with either freeamp or x11amp (either as a normal user
or as root).
the program loads up, but nothing happens when i hit play.
-- Both are proportionally spaced, and your terminal program will
probably fail to deal well. My guess is that you get
intercharacter spacing equal to the widest character in the font
(more likely than not a capital M).
ahh, okay that makes sense.
-- You haven't specified
question ... i would really like to use a different font under x for my
*terms (i'm using Eterm at the moment but i don't care which of the various
options i use in the end).
i found xfontsel and found a font i like (looks great in the preview in
xfontsel) but when i tell Eterm to use it, the
When i updated slink from kernel 2.0.36 to 2.2.1 i got a kernel source
package from the debian ftp site. It was a debian package. I read that
there where no patches applied to the kernel source for use with debian.
I am wondering since i dont see a deb package for 2.2.2 or 2.2.3 if i
can
i'm pretty sure that star office will do this. other then that i am not
aware of anything.
http://www.stardivision.com/
adam.
On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, eric scroger wrote:
I need a program that can read Excel xls spreadsheet and possibly export
data to a text file. Anyone know of such a
i had this problem as well, and it magically went away. guessing (i didn't
notice for a while) i would say it probably happened when i installed the
oldlibs stuff to make word perfect work.
i'd check in the oldlibs directory in slink and install the appropriate ones
which acroread needs and
it depends which version. the standard pcmcia package has supported the
10baseT/modem combo card for a year and a half or so. some of the newer
xircom cards are still unsupported i believe.
check the docs.
adam.
On Mon, 4 Jan 1999, Austanners Wet Blue Pty Ltd wrote:
Does debian support
i've been looking at the quantex laptops (www.quantex.com) and they look
too good to be true. very reasonable prices, decent looking hardware and
a pretty cool web site (though slow ...).
has anyone had any experiences with them? i'd love to hear anything about
them, especially if debian works
just as a follow up note here. don't even bother with the patch from
stardivision, it's a waste of time (imho of course). star office still
crashes and behaves erratically even with the patch, and if the problems
are as bad as mine were (the install crashed on the welcome screen) you
can't even
that is none other than Vmailer from Wietse Venema, which other than
having a truely scary name fit for a vampire, has something personal
against Dan Bernstein and Qmail. He's very active on BugTraq, and
seems to know what he's doing most of the time, but his attitude and
few errors I have
like the philosophy behind Debian. I am wondering if Debian is just
too difficult for me at this point. I am wondering if maybe I should
try Red Hat, I have heard it is easier to install, and then come back
to Debian. Does this sound like a logical progression to anyone? I
don't have
Now booting shows lilo getting through LI but then nothing. I
assume something is going wrong in the loading of linux but I'm not
sure what's likely to be wrong and how I should deal with it. I found
one report of something similar in the archives but no answer there.
i'm not sure if this
i updated to the latest of gxsnmp via apt and it updated a bunch of my
gnome/gtk libraries in the process. now when i try and run any app linked
to these libraries it get:
badger(larry) gxsnmp
gxsnmp: error in loading shared libraries
libgtk-1.1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such
gxsnmp: error in loading shared libraries
libgtk-1.1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
I thought that was just me, I get that too. Means I can't run balsa either
damn, i hope someone knows what's going one (someone, anyone??).
btw, what do you think of
; \
description=HTML Text; nametemplate=%s.html
i'm not at by debian box now so i can't play to make it actually work but
something similar to this should work with the newer versions.
adam.
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it to.
http://www.emumail.com/
adam.
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Is there any way for me to sort my inbox by sender name and the rest
of the folders by orderedsubj? I'm getting kinda tired of hunting
around my inbox for emails from specific persons, but like OrderedSubj
for lists like this one :)
hrm. i sort everything by reverse arrival (so the most
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