Re: ¿Qué es el grupo linux.debian.spanish?
: El día Tue, 14 Sep 1999 12:28:53 +0200, José Carlos García Sogo [EMAIL PROTECTED] contaba: José:: Pues eso. ¿Es esta lista gestionada como un USENET? Me José:: interesaría mucho, pues a partir de poco no voy a poder José:: bajarme el correo todos los días, y no mola llegar y José:: encontarse con 500 mensajes sin leer. José:: ¿En qué servidores se puede encontar ese grupo? [...] En cuanto a los servidores, vaya por delante que no tengo ni idea. Prueba con news.mad.ttd.net / news.bcn.ttd.net o news-3.rediris.es. Hasta donde yo sé (y siempre que no me corrijan :-) todos los mensajes que se mandan a las listas de debian se reenvían a través de una pasarela del tipo mail = news a los grupos debian.* En esos grupos puedes seguir las discusiones, pero no postear. Para eso tienes que enviar correo a la lista normalmente (aunque como no necesitas estar suscrito para eso --de ahí los spammers--, no tendrás ningún problema). Un saludo. -- RESET
Re: No puedo hacer telnet a mi propia maquina
Hola Probablemente es un problema de /etc/hosts. Éste funciona: como: 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain 127.0.0.2 nombre_de_máquina localhost Un saludo. -- RESET
Re: monitorización de mail
M. Angel Esteban wrote: Hola!! ¿Sabéis alguna manera de monitorizar mediante slink como van entrando los mails a mi máquina (mediante cónsola, nada de X) basada en dhis?. Si pudiera ser mediante un doc o referencia muxo mejo,ke kiero aprendé :-D Hola, Lo que yo hago es correr tail -f /var/log/smail/logfile en una consola virtual (o en un shell abierto por screen). Eso te va mostrando las llegadas y partidas de email, y tambien los errores... si usas smail obviamente. No se cual sera el log de otros MTA's. Alguna vez me acuerdo que hice algo para redireccionar logs a una consola automaticamente, sin dejar la consola ocupada (como en el caso de tail -f), pero ya no me acuerdo como. Funcionara tail -f ? Felipe.
Dudas de XEmacs
Hola a todos. Cuando intento acceder a web desde xemacs, este lo intenta pero al momento suena un beep de error y aparece en la barra de mensajes: Invalid regexp: Invalid preceding regular expression y no sigue. ¿Alguien sabe donde tengo que tocar en el setup de xemacs para solucionar esto?. Ya que estamos, otra cosa. Tengo instalado 'gnus' pero al lanzarlo para ver las news (yo uso inn) me dice: nntp (news) open error: .Continue? No se donde tocar en el setup para arreglar esto ¿puede alguien ayudarme?. Muchas gracias y saludos. -- Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Webs: http://www.ctv.es/USERS/viguPersonal http://www.ctv.es/USERS/vigu/linux/ ViguLinux PGP public key: http://www.ctv.es/USERS/vigu/vigu.pubkey
Diald
Hola a todos... Tenia yo en el trabajo, una maquina funcionando con diald, y al cambia al kernel 2.2.10 ha dejado de funcionar (aunque sospecho que el netbase tambien tiene algo que ver, porque en 2.2.9 funcionaba, y tampoco en este funciona), se queja de que hay un parametro incorrecto en inet, en el momento de establecer el interface SLIP, he cambiado el diald a la version 0.98..., pero igual. No se que hacer con esto. ¿Existe alguna alternativa para diald, teniendo en cuenta que los que va a demandar la llamada son PCs con NT?,¿existe forma de hacer funcionar diald con estos nucleos? Gracias y saludos.
Re: Lprng y permisos en /dev/lp0
Angel Vicente Perez wrote: Hola a todos... Tengo instalado el lprng-3.6.10-1, como sistema de impresión, desde que tengo esta versión instalada, no puedo imprimir nada, siempre obtengo un mensaje diciendo que no existe el dispositivo, y que permiso denegado. He visto que cuando se ejecuta checkpc, no se cargan los modulos de impresora. Creo que es una cuestion de propietarios y de permisos, pero en las versiones anteriores, lo arreglaba usando checkpc, con esta, es que no soy capaz. ¿Le ha pasado a alguien lo mismo? Supongo, que tienes compilado el kernel con Paralell printer support ¿no?. A mi me pasaba eso porque no lo tenia compilado. Saludos -- Ramiro Alba Laboratori de Termotecnia i Energetica Departament de Maquines i Motors Termics ETS d'Enginyers Industrials de Terrassa C/Colom 11 Tf: 34 - 93 739 82 43 Fax: 34 - 93 739 81 01 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xemacs y del
El viernes 17 de septiembre de 1999 a la(s) 20:19:33 +0200, RESET contaba: ¿Qué es XEmacs? Los mantenedores de XEmacs siguen activamente los cambios de Emacs y además trabajan para añadir nuevas características. ¿Por qué hay dos entonces, si son (casi) iguales? -- Just do it. David Serrano [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Registered User no. 87069 http://come.to/Hue-Bond.worldIn love with TuX - Linux 2.2.12 PGP Public key at http://www.ctv.es/USERS/fserrano/pgp_pubkey.asc
Impresión
Hola: Tengo la Debian 2.1 con el Kernel 2.0.36, el problema es que puedo imprimir sólo ficheros de Gv, por ejemplo páginas de html del Netscape he incluso de texto con el mutt etc, etc... no puedo, sabeis que debo hacer. Y otra cosa quiero actualizarme el Kernel a uno de los últimos, cuando compilé este ya me ví negro para compilar la tarjeta de sonido y la impresión, por eso me gustaría que me comentarais algo, mi tarjeta de sonido es una SoundBlaster 16 Isa PnP y mi impresora es una Espson Stylus Color 440. Gracias de antemano...
Re: No puedo hacer telnet a mi propia maquina
Hola, On vie, 17 sep 1999 03:19:27 RESET wrote: Probablemente es un problema de /etc/hosts. Éste funciona: como: 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain 127.0.0.2 nombre_de_máquina localhost ¿ Para qué sirve la dirección 127.0.0.2 ? Un saludo, JonN
Problemas con Samba y redes
Saludos a los listeros. Acabo de instalar Samba en un servidor con Debian 2.0, pero no consigo hacerlo funcionar bien. El caso es que el servidor linux es visible desde clientes windows 95, pero cuando pincho en el explorador de red para ver los recursos compartidos me pide una contraseña para el recurso IPC$ y no me deja nada más. No se si puede ser porque hay algún demonio de samba que no ha sido lanzado (en la instalación de samba seleccione inetd) creo que con NT me paso alguna vez algo parecido y era porque el servicio de servidor no había sido iniciado, pero ya no me acuerdo. ¿Es posible ver al equipo con el explorador de windows si falta algún demonio de samba? ¿Me podría explicar alguien cuales son las funciones de cada demonio de samba? También indicar que en la configuración de Samba el unico recurso compartido que he puesto de momento es la sección [home], ya que unicamente quiero compartir el directorio home del usuario que se conecte. Otra duda que tengo es que he instalado una tarjeta de red compatible NE2000, le paso todos los parametros y al iniciar Linux me la detecta correctamente como eth0. La duda es que he intentado buscar el dispositivo eth* en /dev y no he encontrado ninguno, ¿como es posible esto? Estoy utilizando modulos para la tarjeta. La verdad es que la tarjeta la he conseguido hacer funcionar pero no se muy bien lo que he hecho, quite un comentario de una linea del fichero conf.modules ( exactamente una linea que decia #alias eth0 tu controlador de red ) y puse alias eth0 ne2000 y me funcionó. Antes intente crear el dispositivo con MAKEDEV (versión 1.5) y no supe como hacerlo. No se si hay que crearlo o si como ya me funciona dejarlo así, de todas formas me gustaría saber que ha pasado. Siento haberme extendido tanto, pero es que tengo tantas dudas que no se yo. Ya iré preguntando más cosas poco a poco, porque cada día que pasa tengo más vicio con Linux (espero que sea sano y no tener que ir a urgencias) :-)) Gracias a todos.
Re: No puedo hacer telnet a mi propia maquina
On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Cosme Perea Cuevas wrote: Eps! lo he solucionado modificando `/etc/networks'. Lo tenía: localnet 127.0.0.0 y he añadido la línea: localhost 127.0.0.1 ¿Es una solución ortodoxa? 13:23:phucksys:root# cat /etc/networks loopnet 127.0.0.0 localnet192.168.1.0 Si quieres saber cómo pertenecer a Paco Brufal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fidonet, la red de correo con más Fidonet 2:346/3.68 CALIDAD del Mundo y SIN SPAM, preguntame como. ...At War. Leathernecks. 1993 --- Pine 4.10 + Sendmail 8.9.3 * Origin: FAQ de R34.LINUX: http://www.linuxfreak.com/~r34_linux (2:346/3.68)
icewm de Slink
Buenas. Cambiando cositas del ~/.icewm/preferences veo que algunas no funcionan. Por ejemplo le pongo a ColorActiveTitleBarText el valor rgb:00/00/00 y tras reiniciar icewm, el texto sigue tan blanco como por defecto. ¿Alguien lo ha cambiado y le ha funcionado? No es la única opción que no rula, y me tiene bastante mosqueadillo... -- Just do it. David Serrano [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Registered User no. 87069 http://come.to/Hue-Bond.worldIn love with TuX - Linux 2.2.12 PGP Public key at http://www.ctv.es/USERS/fserrano/pgp_pubkey.asc
Netscape Communicator 4.51: trampa barriobajera.
Hola, Pues o no lo he entendido bien, o la versión de Notescapes que he instalado me (nos) la está jugando miserablemente. Porque he desabilitado java, javascritp, etc., y cuando entro (off-line con Wwwoffle) en una página con algún código que llama a otro documento (=publicidad), pues el Wwwoffle recibe la petición (que he de cancelar cada vez) o, si tengo ese host en la lista de no cacheables, me dice que no se puede saltándose la página que quería ver (y que tengo en mi HD). Con el Navigator 4.5 NO PASABA! No veas que fastidio si tengo que desinstalar y volver as otra versión... Es el(los) paquete(s) que vienen con Slink. Saludos. -- Cosmehttp://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Lounge/8698/ == -=-=- A través de Debian GNU/Linux -=-=- -=-=- Software Libre -=-=- http://www.linux.org/ S.O. Multi-[plataforma, tarea, usuario] http://www.gnu.org/ Free Software Foundation http://lucas.hispalinux.es/Documentación en Castellano http://www.openresources.com/es/Revista Open Resources LuCAS/LinuxFocus/pub/mirror/LinuxFocus/Castellano/ LinuxFocus == pgpkmwv9E6Hc6.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: picture as background in xterm or other?
rxvt and wterm, too -- RESET
Re: Awe64 Gold
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 11:44:08PM +0200, Steeve Lennmark wrote: On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 09:51:30PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: I'm using an AWE64 quite happily. What's not working? Are you using isapnpconf or something to set it up correctly? What have you tried? I've tried compiling it into the kernel, and as module, but it just dont seem to work.. More detail on what you are trying and how precisely it fails to work would be appreciated. Could you explain that step's i should go throu? What I did (IIRC - it was a while ago): 1. configured my kernel with SB16 support as a module. 2. configured isapnp to set up my sound card a. install isaponptools b. use pnpdump to generate template /etc/iaapnp.conf c. edit /etc/isapnp.conf to avoid conflicts with other devices (the file is very well commmented) 3. reboot 4. run modprobe sb irq=nnn io=0xnnn dma=0xnnn mpi_io=0xnnn where the settings match those chosen in step 2. Also modprobe opl3 io=0xnnn for completeness. 5. if everything works, adjust /etc/modutils so that the modprobe options are permenant. HTH. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFShttp://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/ pgpGQ2Z6Z7tvg.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Leafnode question...
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 06:38:41PM -0400, Jonathan Lupa wrote: Unfortunately, I get the same results. =( I forgot to inform you about something. Leafnode only knows to fetch news that you request with a news read (i.e., tin or trn). When the nntp server (leafnode) gets a request it will mark the group for the next time you run fetch -vvv. So use a reader to request a group, then go and run fetch -vvv. If that doesn't work, then I'm at a loss. -- NatePuri (natedawg) Certified Law Student McGeorge School of Law Sacramento, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ompages.com http://office.ompages.com/~natedawg PGP: http://www.ompages.com/PGP.html UIN: 43504034 IRC: office.ompages.com #ompages pgpp63w7HxsZ5.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Backup -- what directories are important?
B == Brian Boonstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: B Hi B I've got a CD-RW drive, and a hankering to back up. I'm using a few B GB of space with my potato distribution, but most of that is packages that I B could easliy fetch again from the web if my HD crashed. Are there any B comments on the following list of directories to backup? B /home/ B /etc/ B wherever the dpkg data is stored B /usr/local/ B One thing I'm wondering: if I do this, how do I restore my list of B packages in such a way that dpkg will go out and refetch/install them all? I'm doing something like this, but it is still by hand at the moment (there's nothing critical on the machine). dpkg --get-selections dpkg --set-selections (though I haven't tried the latter yet, just read it in the man page...) -- Scott Henry [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Help! My disclaimer is missing! IRIX MTS, / GIGO *really* means: Garbage in, Gospel Out Silicon Graphics, Inc / http://reality.sgi.com/scotth/
Re: [Mailer-Daemon@pingoo.linhax.org: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender]
On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 06:47:26PM +0200, Sami Dalouche wrote: How can I avoid this type of behaviour ? When I tell exim to use the smtp.free.fr - I have rights to use it as a smarthost -, I receive a message like this. How can I repair this ? SMTP error from remote mailer after MAIL FROM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SIZE=1754: host smtp.free.fr [212.27.32.5]: 501 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Sender domain must exist You need to have your Sender: and the SMTP MAIL FROM be valid e-mail addresses. If you own a domain of any kind, set exim up to use that as the local domain (qualify_domain = domain.name). Otherwise, try something like rewriting (such as that in the rewrite configuration and the end of /etc/exim.conf) or a mail client which communicates with the MTA using SMTP. There's quite a bit of discussion of this in the debian-user archives. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFShttp://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/ pgpQ2E5znFX7g.pgp Description: PGP signature
ethernet configuration
Hello, I'm having trouble getting my ethernet to work properly. I'm in a dorm room at a university that supplies ethernet and I KNOW it worked last year. I'm dual booted and I used my winmodem in Win98 over the summer (and unsuccessfully tried to configure it for Linux). This is all I can think that would have disturbed the ethernet configuration. The driver is tulip and it's a Netgear card. Here's what I've done so far (at the advice of others): I did modprobe tulip and then dhcpcd eth0, but that still didn't solve the problem. Neither commands returned anything. my /etc/init.d/network file contians: #! /bin/sh ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 route add -net 127.0.0.0 The lights on my card are actually lit up and blinking,(supposedly showing data transmission, I think) but I can't ping any servers or anything. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
RE: Leafnode question...
On Friday, September 17, 1999 1:33 PM, Mark Brown [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 11:31:45AM -0400, Jonathan Lupa wrote: Sith:/usr/doc/leafnode/examples# fetch -fvv 1.6.2: verbosity level is 2 I strongly recommend upgrading to a more up to date version of Leafnode - older versions have some serious bugs in fetch which make it totally unusable in some configurations. Thank you both for your help!!! After upgrading, everything worked fine. Yay! =) Sith:/var/spool/news/leaf.node# fetchnews -fvvv 1.9.4: verbosity level is 3 -Jonathan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Regex and memory gone.. was Re: spreadsheet (excel, WingzPro)
I remember reading today / yesterday that someone had problems with Wingz on a 48MB system... I just downloaded both Wingz and WingzPro, installed them in under 5 minutes and both run very smoothly and quickly on my 32MB 200Mhz Pentium I running Slink... The Excel and HTML import / export functions seem to work flawlessly... Gnumeric (at least the [...] Ah, that was me. Perhaps I set it up wrong? Wingz complined about not having libg++27 and libstdc++27. Was I wrong to soft-link and ldconfig the libg++2.7.2 and libstdc++2.7.2 libs to these? The complaints then vanished and I then got the memory exhausted error from Regex. I don't know if this will help, but here is the output from ldd /usr/local/Wingz3/bin/LINUX/Wingz on my system: libm.so.5 = /lib/libm.so.5 (0x4000c000) libXpm.so.4 = /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXpm.so.4 (0x40015000) libXmu.so.6 = /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXmu.so.6 (0x40023000) libXext.so.6 = /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXext.so.6 (0x40035000) libXt.so.6 = /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXt.so.6 (0x4004) libX11.so.6 = /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libX11.so.6 (0x40082000) libdl.so.1 = /lib/libdl.so.1 (0x4012) libg++.so.27 = /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libg++.so.27 (0x40123000) libstdc++.so.27 = /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libstdc++.so.27 (0x4015b000) libc.so.5 = /lib/libc.so.5 (0x4018c000) libSM.so.6 = /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libSM.so.6 (0x4024a000) libICE.so.6 = /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libICE.so.6 (0x40253000)
Re: Backup -- what directories are important?
*- On 17 Sep, Brian Boonstra wrote about Backup -- what directories are important? Hi I've got a CD-RW drive, and a hankering to back up. I'm using a few GB of space with my potato distribution, but most of that is packages that I could easliy fetch again from the web if my HD crashed. Are there any comments on the following list of directories to backup? /home/ /etc/ wherever the dpkg data is stored /var/lib/dpkg but don't back this up if you are going to restore all the packages. /usr/local/ One thing I'm wondering: if I do this, how do I restore my list of packages in such a way that dpkg will go out and refetch/install them all? dpkg --get-selections install.list My backup script runs this at the start of every backup and puts the file in a directory that will be backed up. Then after you have installed the base system: dpkg --set-selections install.list Then fire up dselect and make sure you access method is set up. Then update the available list and jump straight to the install. -- Brian - Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis -
Guessing the date style from the timezone for postgresql postinst
In order to help remove unnecessary prompts from the Debian PostgreSQLl
installation script, I want it to guess the local date style, to be chosen
from the following list:
Style DateDatetime
---
ISO1999-07-17 1999-07-17 07:09:18+01
SQL17/07/1999 17/07/1999 07:09:19.00 BST
POSTGRES 17-07-1999 Sat 17 Jul 07:09:19 1999 BST
GERMAN 17.07.1999 17.07.1999 07:09:19.00 BST
NONEURO07-17-1999 Sat Jul 17 07:09:19 1999 BST
US 07-17-1999 Sat Jul 17 07:09:19 1999 BST
EURO 17-07-1999 Sat 17 Jul 07:09:19 1999 BST
I propose to include the attached script. If the zone belongs to USA or
Canada, I use American format; if it belongs to another country I use
European format; if the country is unidentified I try to guess from
the zone abbreviation and its offset from UTC. For zones which aren't based
on regional names I use ISO.
Are there any other countries besides USA and Canada which use American
datestyle? Am I right in thinking that Canada does?
If you have a recent potato system, with timezone files in
/usr/share/zoneinfo, could you please run the script and let me know if
it gives WRONG results for you. If it does, please tell me your timezone
and offset (date '+%Z %z') and what the date style ought to be. If you
can suggest a change to the script that will get it right without breaking
results for other countries, that will be even better!
Please do NOT tell me if it is RIGHT or I will be overwhelmed with mail!
If anyone wants to see the result for all timezones, this Bourne shell
fragment will do it:
(cd /usr/share/zoneinfo;
for TZ in `find * -type f ! -name '*.tab' ! -name localtime`
do echo -en `date '+%Z %z'` \\t $TZ \\t
/tmp/guess.datestyle
done |
awk '{printf %7s %5s %40s %2s %s %s\n,$1, $2, $3, $4, $5, $6}' |
less)
#! /bin/sh
# Guess the postgresql datestyle to use for a given timezone (from glibc)
# make sure we can find the timezone database
ZONEDIR=/usr/share/zoneinfo
if [ ! -d $ZONEDIR ]
then
echo Sorry, I don't know where to find the timezone files; this
script expected to find them in $ZONEDIR
exit 1
fi
# make sure TZ is set and exported
if [ -z $TZ ]
then
TZ=`date '+%Z'`
fi
export TZ
# find the timezone offset from UTC
tzno=`date '+%z'`
# Find the name of the zone - strip off unwanted header directories
x=`echo $TZ | cut -d/ -f1`
case $x in ( SystemV | posix | right )
x=`echo $TZ | cut -d/ -f2-4`
;;
* )
x=$TZ
;;
esac
# What country does this zone belong to (if undefined, set it to __)
tzcountry=`grep $x $ZONEDIR/zone.tab | head -1 | cut -c1-2`
if [ -z $tzcountry ]
then
tzcountry=__
fi
# Guess the timezone
case $tzcountry in ( US | CA )
# US date format
# (I assume Canada uses US format)
GuessDateStyle=US
;;
DE )
# Germany has a style to itself
GuessDateStyle=GERMAN
;;
__ )
# No country, so see if the zone is a region or country name
x=$TZ
while echo $x | grep -q /
do
y=`dirname $x`
case $y in ( SystemV | posix | right )
y=`basename $x`
;;
esac
x=$y
done
case $x in ( Africa | Canada | Indian | Mexico | America |
Chile | GB | Iran | Mideast | Antarctica | Cuba | Israel | NZ | Singapore |
Arctic | Jamaica | Asia | Japan | Navajo | Turkey | Atlantic | Kwajalein |
Australia | Egypt | Libya | US | Brazil | Eire | Pacific | Hongkong | Poland |
Europe | Iceland | Portugal)
# try to guess the zone from the UTC offset and the
# zone abbreviation
if [ -z $GuessDateStyle ]
then
GuessDateStyle=EURO
# if the user has German locale, I assume
# he will want GERMAN style
if [ $LANG = de_DE ]
then
GuessDateStyle=GERMAN
elif [ $tzno -le -200 -a $tzno -gt -1200 ]
then
tzn=`date '+%Z'`
case $tzn in ( ADT | AST | AKDT | AKST
| CDT | CST | EDT | EST | HADT | HAST | HST | MDT | MST | NDT | PDT | PST)
GuessDateStyle=US
;;
esac
fi
fi
Re: multihost exim setup (general MTA question I guess)
Hi, On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 10:53:54PM -0400, Jonathan Lupa wrote: OK, this is pretty complicated to me, so the chance of me misspeaking is large. I'm no expert, so the same goes for me. What I want is the server to do the fetchmail durring ip-up and ip-down. That mail getting delivered to the servers MTA, and then the servers MTA to be smart enough to deliver appropriate mail to the workstation. Also, Try using this in the servers exim.conf: local_domains = *.mynetwork I need outbound mail on the workstation to keep going (maybe send it off to the server where it is spooled until ip-up, when it gets send out. host_accept_relay = *.mynetwork (again, in server's exim.comf) As far as I understand what your after, you then want to run exim.conf on your workstation and set it up as a `sattelite' system, so that outgoing messages are sent to your server (this will also rewrite the headers to say they are from server.mynetwork). Also, you may want to read http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue42/stumpel.html I have rewritten the `outfilt' script that this URL talks about so that the From: field is obtained from an email-alias file (clobbering the mail reader's aliasmyaddr to guard against accidental changes). Also, the CC:'s and To: headers processing is a little more sophisticated to ensure it will work under a variety of conditions. I will stick it on the web in a few days if anyone is interested. HTH, Mark.
Opening dynamic text file
Hi, Apols for the non debian specific Q, but I was hoping someone would know how I could read in and process a file (a log file in this case), and then when further lines are written read these without reloading the whole file (performance considerations). I thought that (using perl) continually open()ing the file without close()ing would do the trick as the line number is not reset, but this didn't work. Any ideas? (or shouldn't log files be abused in this manner?) Thanks, Mark. PS. Any language: python, perl, C ... - it doesn't matter. (Well possibly with the exception of Miranda:)
Re: multihost exim setup (general MTA question I guess)
Whoops, should have said local_domains = localhost:*.mynetwork in server's exim.conf Cheers, Mark.
Re: ethernet configuration
On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Stephen Monroe wrote: Hello, I'm having trouble getting my ethernet to work properly. I'm in a dorm room at a university that supplies ethernet and I KNOW it worked last year. I'm dual booted and I used my winmodem in Win98 over the summer (and unsuccessfully tried to configure it for Linux). This is all I can think that would have disturbed the ethernet configuration. The driver is tulip and it's a Netgear card. Here's what I've done so far (at the advice of others): I did modprobe tulip and then dhcpcd eth0, but that still didn't solve the problem. Neither commands returned anything. my /etc/init.d/network file contians: #! /bin/sh ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 route add -net 127.0.0.0 The lights on my card are actually lit up and blinking,(supposedly showing data transmission, I think) but I can't ping any servers or anything. This is how I've been able to sucessfully use DHCP with Debian slink. I use version 2.0 of ISC's DHCP client (http://www.isc.org/view.cgi?/products/DHCP/index.phtml). Unfortunately, there aren't any .debs available for this version, and I wouldn't trust what's the version of dhclient included in Debian, so you'll have to compile it from source. Here's the /etc/dhclient.conf that I use: send host-name the host name you want to use, in quotes; request subnet-mask, broadcast-address, routers, domain-name, domain-name-servers; script /etc/dhclient-script; -- -- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are two things that are infinite; Human stupidity and the universe. And I'm not sure about the universe. - Albert Einstien
How does it...
Is the setup text based or graphial? What are the extra features this opperating system has over my RH6 box? What system would be the cheeziest I could run it on?
Re: How does it...
Text-based. The extra features are multiple -- the package management is by far the best I have ever seen in any product. (I haven't tried FreeBSD yet, though.. I hear it is nice too. :) The updates are far more often. (Security patches are released within hours of finding the problems..) There are far more debian developers than redhat developers -- meaning each package gets more attention that their red-hat counterpart, as well as updated more often. Debian is not without its downsides though. I have yet to find them, however. (teehee! ;) As for the cheeziest, I hear doritos are the cheeziest. (Actually, what did you mean? :) On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 08:47:19PM -0500, Fredrick Schmitt wrote: Is the setup text based or graphial? What are the extra features this opperating system has over my RH6 box? What system would be the cheeziest I could run it on? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Seth Arnold | http://www.willamette.edu/~sarnold/ Hate spam? See http://maps.vix.com/rbl/ for help Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!
Re: [OT] How to make a critical section in user program?
Wojciech writes: I agree, but what about the root's processes? Root's special status extends only to file access. Well, but in the kernel I can't use the write(ComFd,c,1). Am I wrong? (I hope I've missed something) Write a device driver and put your critical section in it. Run the rest of the program in user space and call the driver when you need to do the critical stuff. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI
Re: How does it...
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 08:47:19PM -0500, Fredrick Schmitt wrote: Is the setup text based or graphial? What are the extra features this opperating system has over my RH6 box? What system would be the cheeziest I could run it on? Oh boy, you have hit a nerve. You will get quite a lot of responses here. First of all, you can run debian 2.1 (slink) and potato on something as small as a 386 if you wanted a minimal install. What debian offers over redhat is the following (from my point of view) 1. More secure. Debian has a lot more security bug fixes, and is arguable the most secure linux. 2. Internet upgrades work. Apt-get utility makes upgrading over the internet a dream come true. Simply type 'apt-get update' and 'apt-get dist-upgrade' and all updated packages will be downloaded and installed. 3. Dependencies resolved. You will not get error messages that rpm gives you when a dependency is not met. Instead the apt-get utility will resolve all dependencies and download an install in the order of dependencies. For example, 'apt-get install navigator-smotif-451' will download libc5, xlib4g, and all the other debian packages that netscape requires. It doesn't get any better than that. If there is a missing dependency; which does happen, usually 'apt-get -f install' and 'dpkg --configure -a' will download missing dependencies and configure the unconfigured software. 4. Menu integration. When ever you install an X app dpkg will update your menus in all you window managers. Whether you use KDE, GNOME, icewm or fvwm your menus will always reflect the packages you have installed. No hand editing of menu scripts needed. 5. Fully scriptable. Just like slack or BSD or RH, Debian does not take the config files away from you. If you want to manually edit config files, there is no problem. 6. Real install scripts. Debian packages are the highest quality, when you install, say, squid, the install script will prompt you to enter basic settings so that it will work right after the install. 7. No distribution mangling. When you want to get rid of something 'apt-get remove package' will remove the package and the dependencies that are no longer in use by another prog. It's much harder to break your system. -- NatePuri (natedawg) Certified Law Student McGeorge School of Law Sacramento, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ompages.com http://office.ompages.com/~natedawg PGP: http://www.ompages.com/PGP.html UIN: 43504034 IRC: office.ompages.com #ompages pgpIzKOfKvBGF.pgp Description: PGP signature
IPX woes-want old module and new kernel-possible?
Thanks to earlier suggestions about pinpointing the source of my kernel slowing down... it is the ipx service causing problems. While others have noted in earlier posts ipx issues with the 2.2.x kernels, I found none which involved a slowdown/lockup of the machine itself. Don't know if this is a first...? I would like to move up from 2.0.36. Does anyone know if one of the higher versions has the ipx bug resolved? Also, I have a dilemma. My token-ring card (Olicom) will compile into the 2.2.9 kernel, but the patch fails on higher versions. Their suggestion to patch 2.2.9 for olicom, then use the kernel patches to raise 2.2.9 up higher also failed. So I thought about this: How about compiling the driver as a module, then recompiling the kernel at the 2.2.12(13?) level with solely token ring support built in. Then use it with the module. Or is this totally brainless? (Mind you that I plead ignorance based on being a chemist, not a comp. scientist. ;) Kenward
login failed -- critical error - immediate abort
Hello I'm running the latest potato. I rebooted my box this morning and I got the error after logging in (as root as user): critical error - immediate abort I noticed a bug report filed about this, and so I downgraded login from stable, and now I'm able to login. Before I run another apt-get upgrade, I wanted to see if anyone else had this problem and what the solution is besides using login from stable. John Bagdanoff -- * Window users: Move up to Linux * * Linux users: Move up to Debian *
Free version of maildir2mbox?
Hello, Is there any DFSG free versions of maildir2mbox, included with qmail? This program converts $HOME/Maildir/ into $HOME/Mailbox, to allow use of Maildir, even if individual programs (eg pine, nmh) do not support Maildir format. (...or please correct me if pine and/or nmh do support Maildir!) Thanks in advance, -- Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgpxQhP9GMCTu.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: login failed -- critical error - immediate abort
I am too proud of my uptime to reboot, but switching to a different VC and logging in worked for me, and I think I saw login upgraded when I upgraded earlier today. Out of curiousity though, how on earth did you downgrade login when you couldn't log in?? :) On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 07:45:50PM -0700, John Bagdanoff wrote: Hello I'm running the latest potato. I rebooted my box this morning and I got the error after logging in (as root as user): critical error - immediate abort I noticed a bug report filed about this, and so I downgraded login from stable, and now I'm able to login. Before I run another apt-get upgrade, I wanted to see if anyone else had this problem and what the solution is besides using login from stable. John Bagdanoff -- * Window users: Move up to Linux * * Linux users: Move up to Debian * -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Seth Arnold | http://www.willamette.edu/~sarnold/ Hate spam? See http://maps.vix.com/rbl/ for help Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!
Re: correct way to move /usr to a new partition..
I have decided that I need more room for my Slink system... my 1GB linux partition that stores my entire system is now over 80% full... I was thinking of using another empty 1GB partition (/dev/hdb1 - currently mounted as /linux2a) for /usr. My thinking is: 1. as root, cp -r -p /usr /linux2a 2. change fstab to mount /dev/hdb1 as /usr (with options set to defaults, errors=remount -ro ???) 3. rm /usr I am more cautious -- I would rename /usr to /old_usr rather than delete it. No need to paint yourself into a corner you can avoid.. delete it after a few days of it running perfectly. :) That's a good suggestion - my question is: is there a linux utility to compare directories / files to see if they are the same? Seems like I've heard of one, but can't remember...
Re: To the Debian Project, IMHO
On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Simon Martin wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ok, so this is my 2 cents worth. GUI utilities are ok, command line utilities are ok, simple dialogs are ok, this is not the issue. The real issue is not to fall into the Microsoft or RedHat paradigm. Please, do not compare the two. I run Red Hat, Debian, SuSE and FreeBSD, and I truly believe the Red Hat guys do not deserve these criticism. If you run Red Hat you can use both the GUI interface or the command line utilities, just like in any other flavor of Unix (and I am including Solaris here too). This is a flavour of Unix, Unix is not trivial, Unix is a fairly mature fully featured operating system and you have to know at least a little about what you are doing and be prepared to read the manual before you do something useful. That's fine. However, many other users may just want to run a stable, efficient OS that they have not had a chance to run so far. I do not see why we should limit ourselves to the techies or geeks of the world, especially since many corporations as well as small and midsize businesses could also benefit from running Linux as long as we also make it easy enough for them to get the basic configuration up and running. IMHO one of the reasons that there is a contest between NT and Linux is that Microsoft said that NT was so simple to install and use, unfortunately tuning and other administrative tasks can be a real pain. Linux never made any bones about the fact that you have to learn to be able to use it. It's not out of the box and run. I think that the efforts to dumb down the operating system and say that anyone can use it would hurt the Linux image, maybe irreparably. I disagree here. The main reason why there is a contest between WinNT and Linux is not due to customer disappointment at how difficult WinNT is to set up or run. Rather, the main cause is the lack of stability and scalability of that other OS. Add to that the strings attached to a commercial OS manufactured by a semi-monopolistic company, and you have all the ingredients you need for people to dislike WinNT. Apart from that all real computer enthusiasts are masochists any way. Tell someone that this is a system that only real men can use (sorry about the sexist remark but real people does not convey the same meaning) and you'll have them fighting to get at it (how do you think I started) and have a real sense of achievement when they manage to get the system to boot, and now PPP, and now bind, and now sendmail, and now ... Again I disagree here. I do not think we are able to decide who is and who is not a real computer enthusiast. This is starting to sound like those inquisitors back in the 1950's trying to decide who was a good American. In any case, I also doubt that the best route for Linux is to convert it into an exclusive property of computer hobbysts. No matter how much wemay dislike it, that is not our decision to make. In our societies, it is the market the one that usually makes those decisions. Let Microsoft take the bashing from users who do not WANT to know. Stay just that little bit above the rest. Have all the tools in any and every form. Drag'n Drop is good, but so is rcp. And now it's back to work. __ _ Debian GNU User / /(_)_ __ _ ___ __ Simon Martin / / | | '_ \| | | \ \/ / Project Manager / /__| | | | | |_| | Isys \/_|_| |_|\__,_/_/\_\ mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.1 for non-commercial use http://www.pgp.com iQA/AwUBN99PNSTe2wIotMrcEQLUpQCg0g4Y22gkoXHf51aeQt3upQ8qK6UAoOTS qWoAPRGuyBGgw6H5LnWQK1BQ =0P97 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
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Re: login failed -- critical error - immediate abort
Hi Seth,
Sorry, didn't mean to send to you directly, twice no less :{
Seth R Arnold wrote:
I am too proud of my uptime to reboot, but switching to a different VC and
logging in worked for me, and I think I saw login upgraded when I upgraded
earlier today.
I did try the other VCs but still got the same error. I, too saw the
login upgraded before my ill-fated bootup, and I thought that was the
problem.
Out of curiousity though, how on earth did you downgrade login when you
couldn't log in??
I was able to login in single user mode (guess I shoulda mentioned
that).
John
:)
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 07:45:50PM -0700, John Bagdanoff wrote:
Hello
I'm running the latest potato. I rebooted my box this morning and I got
the error after logging in (as root as user):
critical error - immediate abort
I noticed a bug report filed about this, and so I downgraded login from
stable, and now I'm able to login. Before I run another apt-get
upgrade, I wanted to see if anyone else had this problem and what the
solution is besides using login from stable.
John Bagdanoff
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Re: Opening dynamic text file
On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 11:01:20AM +1000, Mark M wrote:
Apols for the non debian specific Q, but I was hoping someone would
know how I could read in and process a file (a log file in this case),
and then when further lines are written read these without reloading
the whole file (performance considerations).
Maybe you want to open the file as a pipe from tail -f. Something
like:
open LOG, tail -f /var/log/syslog | or
die Couldn't open log file;
Then maybe you work up a couple loops that check the input stream.
for (;;) {
while (LOG) {
$quit = myprocess $_; # process the line...
}
last if $quit;
sleep 5; # or some length of time
}
You might check the tail man page for other options that could be
useful.
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Re: Guessing the date style from the timezone for postgresql postinst
Style DateDatetime --- ISO1999-07-17 1999-07-17 07:09:18+01 SQL17/07/1999 17/07/1999 07:09:19.00 BST POSTGRES 17-07-1999 Sat 17 Jul 07:09:19 1999 BST GERMAN 17.07.1999 17.07.1999 07:09:19.00 BST NONEURO07-17-1999 Sat Jul 17 07:09:19 1999 BST US 07-17-1999 Sat Jul 17 07:09:19 1999 BST EURO 17-07-1999 Sat 17 Jul 07:09:19 1999 BST I propose to include the attached script. If the zone belongs to USA or Canada, I use American format; if it belongs to another country I use European format; if the country is unidentified I try to guess from the zone abbreviation and its offset from UTC. For zones which aren't based on regional names I use ISO. Are there any other countries besides USA and Canada which use American datestyle? Am I right in thinking that Canada does? Argentina uses dd/mm/yy, not dd-mm-yy.
berolist mail-list server
I am trying to get the mailing-list server berolist working. Setting it up includes adding aliases such as: listname : |/usr/sbin/list listname So you see that mail sent to listname gets piped to the program /usr/sbin/list , or at least that is what is suppose to happen. When I do send mail to listname it doesn't get delivered. When I try to flush the mail que with runq I see messages such as: V 1999-09-17 22:06:25 11S7dL-00039J-00 Neither the system_aliases director nor the address_pipe transport set a uid for local delivery of |/usr/sbin/list news So, it says no uid was set. Is this a problem with my exim configuration? How do I get a uid set? I am assuming this is the problem. I have read the bug reports for berolist, one of which says that permissions are wrong and to change /usr/sbin/list to SUID lists.lists to make it work. Did I do this correctly by issuing the commands: # chown list.list /usr/sbin/list # chmod u+s /usr/sbin/list ls -l now shows: -rwsr-xr-x 1 list list20620 Oct 14 1998 /usr/sbin/list But I still get the same problem including the same message from runq. Any thoughts? I would really like to get berolist working since it seems just right for what I need. Majordomo or another full-feature list-serve would be overkill for what I am doing, so I hope I don't have to resort setting up one of them instead. -Ben -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ben Messinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email contains no tyops. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Re: Guessing the date style from the timezone for postgresql postinst
Carey Evans wrote:
Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk writes:
If you have a recent potato system, with timezone files in
/usr/share/zoneinfo, could you please run the script and let me know if
it gives WRONG results for you. If it does, please tell me your timezone
and offset (date '+%Z %z') and what the date style ought to be. If you
can suggest a change to the script that will get it right without breaking
results for other countries, that will be even better!
Given my normal environment, the script doesn't work out which country
I'm in:
Here's a revised version of the script taking into account all comments
so far.
Raul Miller wrote:
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 11:20:13PM -0400, Joe Drew wrote:
It's my personal preference that ISO standard be used unless otherwise
told - but that's me.
I tend to agree. It would just be so simple to have the default be ISO.
As ISO is very unambiguous, I don't think it would cause problems, either.
Then again, maybe someone else knows of problems it would create...
I agree that it would make things simpler, but I doubt that most people
would actually prefer it, because it isn't the way we naturally think of
dates.
Joe Drew wrote:
Canada is a very multicultural country, and it really is every
person for him- or herself.
That being so, it definitely makes sense to use ISO for Canada.
Of course, the installer can override the guess, but I like to guess as
close as possible.
#! /bin/sh
# Guess the postgresql datestyle to use for a given timezone (from glibc)
# make sure we can find the timezone database
ZONEDIR=`ls -l /etc/localtime | awk '{print $NF}' | cut -d/ -f1-4`
if [ ! -d $ZONEDIR ]
then
echo Sorry, I don't know where to find the timezone files; this
script expected to find them in $ZONEDIR
exit 1
fi
# make sure TZ is set and exported
if [ -z $TZ ]
then
TZ=`ls -l /etc/localtime | awk '{print $NF}' | cut -d/ -f5-10`
fi
export TZ
# find the timezone offset from UTC
tzno=`date '+%z'`
# Find the name of the zone - strip off unwanted header directories
x=`echo $TZ | cut -d/ -f1`
case $x in ( SystemV | posix | right )
x=`echo $TZ | cut -d/ -f2-4`
;;
* )
x=$TZ
;;
esac
# What country does this zone belong to (if undefined, set it to __)
tzcountry=`grep $x $ZONEDIR/zone.tab | head -1 | cut -c1-2`
if [ -z $tzcountry ]
then
tzcountry=__
fi
# Guess the timezone
case $tzcountry in ( US )
# US date format
GuessDateStyle=US
;;
AR )
# Argentina
GuessDateStyle=SQL
;;
CA )
# Canada has no standard
GuessDateStyle=ISO
;;
DE )
# Germany has a style to itself
GuessDateStyle=GERMAN
;;
__ )
# No country, so see if the zone is a region or country name
x=$TZ
while echo $x | grep -q /
do
y=`dirname $x`
case $y in ( SystemV | posix | right )
y=`basename $x`
;;
esac
x=$y
done
case $x in ( Africa | Canada | Indian | Mexico | America |
Chile | GB | Iran | Mideast | Antarctica | Cuba | Israel | NZ | Singapore |
Arctic | Jamaica | Asia | Japan | Navajo | Turkey | Atlantic | Kwajalein |
Australia | Egypt | Libya | US | Brazil | Eire | Pacific | Hongkong | Poland |
Europe | Iceland | Portugal)
# try to guess the zone from the UTC offset and the
# zone abbreviation
if [ -z $GuessDateStyle ]
then
GuessDateStyle=EURO
if [ $LANG = de_DE ]
then
GuessDateStyle=GERMAN
elif [ $tzno -le -200 -a $tzno -gt -1200 ]
then
tzn=`date '+%Z'`
case $tzn in ( ADT | AST | AKDT | AKST
| CDT | CST | EDT | EST | HADT | HAST | HST | MDT | MST | NDT | PDT | PST)
GuessDateStyle=US
;;
esac
fi
fi
;;
* )
# Not a country or region so use ISO
GuessDateStyle=ISO
;;
esac
;;
* )
# The rest of the world uses normal European format
GuessDateStyle=EURO
Re: How does it...
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 08:47:19PM -0500, Fredrick Schmitt wrote: What system would be the cheeziest I could run it on? Unfortunately, you cannot run Debian on a block of cheese. Work on a cheese port is in progress, but is not even ready yet for the alpha release. Until then, you must run Debian on a computer. That is, however, about the only limitation. Rob -- Buy land. They've stopped making it. -- Mark Twain
Re: Guessing the date style from the timezone for postgresql postinst
Here's a revised version of the script taking into account all comments so far. I guess Argentina isn't the only country that uses the SQL format. There must be some others too. It would be great to find a source for this information
ppp failure under debian (slakware with pppd 2.2 patch level 0 works)
Hi, I'm typing this from my old slackware install. I connect on this installation using cu -l /dev/cua1 then negotiating my way through my ISP's login manually, then start pppd in another window, then quitting from cu. This worked fine whne this machine was a 486 and now works with a new motherboard cpu. I tried installing potato on the machine, and most things are going fine, except that sound isn't working on the new setup, and ppp won't work on it. I'm fairly sure that the serial conifg is OK, as I can get out with cu -l /dev/ttyS1, but when I try to start pppd, it complains about cu having the serial line and won't let it at it. As far as using pon, I get the following : Aug 4 19:16:00 castle kernel: PPP: version 2.2.0 (dynamic channel allocation) Aug 4 19:16:00 castle kernel: PPP Dynamic channel allocation code copyright 199 5 Caldera, Inc. Aug 4 19:16:00 castle kernel: PPP line discipline registered. Aug 4 19:16:00 castle kernel: registered device ppp0 Aug 4 19:16:00 castle pppd[620]: pppd 2.3.8 started by robert, uid 1000 Aug 4 19:16:01 castle chat[621]: abort on (BUSY) Aug 4 19:16:01 castle chat[621]: abort on (NO CARRIER) Aug 4 19:16:01 castle chat[621]: abort on (VOICE) Aug 4 19:16:01 castle chat[621]: abort on (NO DIALTONE) Aug 4 19:16:01 castle chat[621]: abort on (NO DIAL TONE) Aug 4 19:16:01 castle chat[621]: abort on (NO ANSWER) Aug 4 19:16:01 castle chat[621]: send (ATZ^M) Aug 4 19:16:01 castle chat[621]: expect (OK) Aug 4 19:16:46 castle chat[621]: alarm Aug 4 19:16:46 castle chat[621]: send (AT^M) Aug 4 19:16:46 castle chat[621]: expect (OK) Aug 4 19:17:31 castle chat[621]: alarm Aug 4 19:17:31 castle chat[621]: Failed Aug 4 19:17:32 castle pppd[620]: Exit. Aug 4 19:18:00 castle kernel: PPP: ppp line discipline successfully unregistere One thing that concerned me was that the kernel messages from dmesg don't mention the ppp0 device as happens on a working debian ppp machine I've seen. The relevant part of dmesg looks like this PPP: version 2.3.7 (demand dialling) PPP line discipline registered. and that's it. What is happening? ppp is a kernel module and the same problem happens with kernels 2.0.36 and 2.2.10 (from the debian packages) Help! Robert King, Australian Environmental Studies, Griffith University, Australia 3875 6677 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ens.gu.edu.au/robertk/ statistician (n.) someone who can draw a mathematically precise line from an unwarranted assumption to a foregone conclusion. [anon.]
Re: Free version of maildir2mbox?
On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Brian May wrote: Hello, Is there any DFSG free versions of maildir2mbox, included with qmail? This program converts $HOME/Maildir/ into $HOME/Mailbox, to allow use of Maildir, even if individual programs (eg pine, nmh) do not support Maildir format. (...or please correct me if pine and/or nmh do support Maildir!) I don't know of any currently, but I am working (with a group of others) on a library (libmailbox) for GNU mailutils that will support multiple mailbox formats, including mbox and Maildir. When ready, such a change should be almost trivial to do. Keep an eye out for it (Freshmeat is a good place to watch). -- Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.ndn.net/ As time goes on, my signature gets shorter and shorter... - me
Re: su without password using libpam
Ben Collins wrote: Ok correction on this. In the /etc/security/su.allow just put root (who they are allowed to su to). and the add this line: ### auth sufficient pam_listfile.so onerr=fail sense=allow \ file=/etc/security/su.allow item=user apply=you ### This applies the rul for you to be able to su to root without a password. apply=you only makes sense in conjunction with the tty, rhost and shell items, as stated in the docs. The above way, any user gets passwordless root access, not only user you. The only way to manage this, is to set up a group wheel, use the auth required pam_wheel.so line, add user you to group wheel and do it the above way leaving out the apply=you option. -- Andreas KurthMannheim, Germany
Re: correct way to move /usr to a new partition..
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 11:40:09PM -0500, rich wrote: That's a good suggestion - my question is: is there a linux utility to compare directories / files to see if they are the same? Seems like I've heard of one, but can't remember... $ apropos checksum cksum (1)- checksum and count the bytes in a file sum (1) - checksum and count the blocks in a file $ apropos md5 md5sum (1) - generates or checks MD5 message digests debsums (1) - Check the md5sums of a package (those are just a few of the md5 ones... :) md5 is much nicer than the sum or cksum programs.. -- Seth Arnold | http://www.willamette.edu/~sarnold/ Hate spam? See http://maps.vix.com/rbl/ for help Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!
Re: berolist mail-list server
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 10:45:31PM -0700, Ben Messinger wrote: V 1999-09-17 22:06:25 11S7dL-00039J-00 Neither the system_aliases director nor the address_pipe transport set a uid for local delivery of |/usr/sbin/list news Is list a trusted user in /etc/exim.conf? trusted_users = mail:listar Does the director specifically set the uid? listar_aliases: driver = aliasfile # Option added by convert4r3 file_transport = address_file # Option added by convert4r3 pipe_transport = address_pipe file = /usr/lib/listar/aliases search_type = lsearch user = listar group = listar -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to the switchboard of souls. ---+-
Dying services due to low memory?
Hi there, can anyone point me to a solution for the following problem? I have several machines running as Internet servers, mainly FTP and HTTP. They're relatively low-end machines (P100 and 486-133 with 48 resp. 64 MB RAM.) Every couple of days I have to restart inetd or other stand-alone services (like syslogd, klogd, snmpd, apache.) I'm pretty sure the reason why the processes fail is that memory usage is too high (it's *definitely* not due to memory problems, like failing RAM modules or overclocked CPUs.) Memory usage is permanently about 99%, swap usage only a few percent. But obviously processes are dying because they can't allocate real memory?! Of course a work-around would be to reduce the no. of concurrent FTP users that I allow, but I cannot easily do that. I simply cannot accept that services die as easily as they do. Isn't there a way to prevent this? I need a high availability of my machines, and having to constantly check and possibly restart services is not acceptable. :-( Thanks, Ralf -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: Dying services due to low memory?
Ralf, ugly as it is, you could have a cron job restart inetd every five minutes. I have heard that there is a debian package to ensure that daemons are always running, I have forgotten the name of course. Perhaps you could check ebay, ubid, etc for used memory? On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 11:17:13AM +0200, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: Hi there, can anyone point me to a solution for the following problem? I have several machines running as Internet servers, mainly FTP and HTTP. They're relatively low-end machines (P100 and 486-133 with 48 resp. 64 MB RAM.) Every couple of days I have to restart inetd or other stand-alone services (like syslogd, klogd, snmpd, apache.) I'm pretty sure the reason why the processes fail is that memory usage is too high (it's *definitely* not due to memory problems, like failing RAM modules or overclocked CPUs.) Memory usage is permanently about 99%, swap usage only a few percent. But obviously processes are dying because they can't allocate real memory?! Of course a work-around would be to reduce the no. of concurrent FTP users that I allow, but I cannot easily do that. I simply cannot accept that services die as easily as they do. Isn't there a way to prevent this? I need a high availability of my machines, and having to constantly check and possibly restart services is not acceptable. :-( Thanks, Ralf -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Seth Arnold | http://www.willamette.edu/~sarnold/ Hate spam? See http://maps.vix.com/rbl/ for help Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!
Re: telnetd-ssl
J.H.M. Dassen (Ray): Looks like the permissions on your ttyp devices are wrong; they should look like this: crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty3, 2 Mar 13 1999 /dev/ttyp2 Okay, I fixed that (it must've somehow forgot to reset them, because some were owned by my own user accound, and had 620 permissions). But now all I get is: $ telnet dat95pkn Trying 10.10.247.110... Connected to dat95pkn.campus.mdh.se. Escape character is '^]'. Debian Linux/BSD/GNU/XFree86/etc potato (2.2) dat95pkn.campus.mdh.se Connection closed by foreign host. Ben Collins: Also could you check the version of the login package you have installed, I have another person who is having problems after upgrading to the latest potato version (19990827-#). dpkg -s says: Version: 980403-0.3.2 -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ - and God said: nohup make World World.log
latex
Hi all, where can I found a latex tutorial ? Thanks. -- --- - Powered by Debian/GNU Linux - -- Linux User 140860 Machine 61143 -- Juli-Manel Merino Vidal [EMAIL PROTECTED]- -- -- -- -- - - http://jmmv.cjb.net/ My homepage | | | | | | | | | | | http://www.debian.org / Best linux dist. | | | | | | | | | | http://www.gnu.org / GNU Project ---| | | | | |
xemacs del
Hi all, I've a problem with the del key in xemacs. If I press del it does the same as backspace, so deleting the character before the cursor position. It happens in the console and under X (but not with emacs, that works fine). What I have to do to make work both keys ? So, del deleting the current character and backspace to delete the character before the cursor position (this one works not). Please, HELP. This is really annoying. Thanks. -- --- - Powered by Debian/GNU Linux - -- Linux User 140860 Machine 61143 -- Juli-Manel Merino Vidal [EMAIL PROTECTED]- -- -- -- -- - - http://jmmv.cjb.net/ My homepage | | | | | | | | | | | http://www.debian.org / Best linux dist. | | | | | | | | | | http://www.gnu.org / GNU Project ---| | | | | |
Re: latex
The canonical reference is a silly-looking book with a wierd cat on the cover and such. It is written by a Leslie Lamport. (A quick google finds this webpage: http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/personal/Leslie_Lamport/home.html Nice book. :) On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 11:59:06AM +0200, Juli-Manel Merino Vidal wrote: Hi all, where can I found a latex tutorial ? Thanks. -- --- - Powered by Debian/GNU Linux - -- Linux User 140860 Machine 61143 -- Juli-Manel Merino Vidal [EMAIL PROTECTED]- -- -- -- -- - - http://jmmv.cjb.net/ My homepage | | | | | | | | | | | http://www.debian.org / Best linux dist. | | | | | | | | | | http://www.gnu.org / GNU Project ---| | | | | | -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Seth Arnold | http://www.willamette.edu/~sarnold/ Hate spam? See http://maps.vix.com/rbl/ for help Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!
Re: Job in queue on hold, but not job in queue. Huh?!
Kent == Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kent I'm trying to set up printing on a Debian box to a remote Kent printer. My printcap looks like: lp|hplj4l|HP Laserjet 4L:\ Kent :lp=/dev/null:sd=/var/spool/lpd/hplj4l:rm=the_printer's_ip_address:rp=hplj4l:\ Kent :sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\ Kent :if=/etc/magicfilter/ljet4l-filter:\ Kent :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs: Kent If I try to print something (say, lpr /etc/printcap), and Kent then do a lpq, I get: Printer: lp@localmachine_name 'HP Kent Laserjet 4L' Queue: no printable jobs in queue What version of lprng are you using ? There was a bug in potato for a couple of days, but it has been fixed. If you're on potato, try upgrade to the latest version of lprng. -- Laurent Martelli [EMAIL PROTECTED]
dselect error
Kenneth Litko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I keep getting this error from dselect and it is driving me nuts. Here's the error: internal error - no filename at -e line 12, P chunk 13 installation script returned error status 1. Press RETURN to continue. Me too, except I get it at chunk 28. I've got a heterogenious network at home with a sparc station 2 and some x86 machines. (40 bogomips on the sparc, but it feels like a lot fewer.) I bought a couple of slink distributions from tree.uk.com and merged them on my file server and am attempting to install from there. The 200MB disk X-server-only sparc installed OK, and my 200MB disk 486 router-only installed OK. When I try to install on my 'main' machine I get the above failure message. Installing from the CDs seems to work better though the failure occurs in an as yet unpredictable way. On my fourth attempt to get it going I reinstalled everything, selected a minimal initial configuration, and then began selecting packages one by one and installing them. All went well till I selected apache which depends on a slew of other stuff - I suspect one of the .deb's is corrupt - but as soon as the install method tries to install the twenty or so files, it falls over with the above. I've looked at the dselect and dpkg documentation and am curious to look inside /var/lib/dpkg/methods to see if I can turn on some kind of debugging flag to get some slightly more useful output from the mounted install method. However I don't know any perl (yet) so I might not be able to achieve much. Anyone else seen this? Anoyone got a clue whats going wrong? Anyone recommend a learning perl book for a busy software engineer with a strong regard for Ada and a very low opinion of c, c++, java, apl and other languages which accept bursts of line noise as syntactically valid. thanks in advance Andrew
silly sendmail question
Greetings... I know I'm going to get a lot of responses to the tone of read the how-to or check the archives but I have to post my question anyway, as I have done both and I'm still clueless. My question is this: I do not have a domain of my own, and connect to the net via PPP. I use sendmail when I'm in text mode (which honestly I prefer over X-Windows), and for months I've been trying to figure out how (or if) I can make my sender address stop looking like this: From: my real name here as I set it when adding a user account my user [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Morpheus is, of course, my hostname, or what I named my computer.) It would be nice if sendmail would report me as either my actual email address through my isp, or as the one I use to mail to this list (an iname account). The problem is of course I can't figure out how to change how sendmail reports me as sender, and hell I don't even know if it's possible. If it is, someone please tell me how? I'd appreciate it a great deal. TIA, addiction -- addiction: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://thunder.prohosting.com/~delusion/ Powered by Debian GNU/Linux (potato) 2.3.6 -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GAT d--- s-:+ a- C+++ UL+++ P+ L++ E--- W+++ N++ o+ K- w-- O- M- V-- PS+ PE Y+ PGP++ t 5 X R+ tv b+++ DI+ D+ G e h! r% x** --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- --
netscape: booksmarks have changed
Hi, Some weirdness.. Today I upgraded to navigator-46 (from netgod). Netscape reports, every 2 minutes or so, that the bookmarks are changed and are being reloaded. I've seen this before (after my previous upgrade?), ignored it and it went away.. but curiosity remains.. Does anybody know what is causing this? Regards, Remco -- Lebed XTC Qaddafi convict BATF South Africa kazerne AK-47 Slobodan Milosevic van Balen aanslag Kropotkin General Javier Solana MI5
Re: Dying services due to low memory?
On Sat, 18 Sep 1999 02:31:44 -0700, Seth R Arnold wrote: [...] RAM.) Every couple of days I have to restart inetd or other stand-alone services (like syslogd, klogd, snmpd, apache.) [...] Ralf, ugly as it is, you could have a cron job restart inetd every five minutes. I have heard that there is a debian package to ensure that daemons are always running, I have forgotten the name of course. Well, this *is* ugly indeed. I'd rather fix the reason, not the symptom. :-) I mean I can't believe that there isn't an elegant way to stop *already running* processes from dying(sp?) because of memory shortage. Perhaps you could check ebay, ubid, etc for used memory? Sorry, it took me a minute to understand what you are suggesting. My first thought was I've never heard about these programs. :-))) I don't think that's an option. I have a very limited budget and already spent much more than I originally wanted to spend. Also, it's a matter of principle: We're talking about Linux, not Windoze, ok? So why can't the machine just run, even under memory shortages? There's lots of free swap space available, I don't understand why that doesn't suffice to keep the processes running? Before I had that many FTP users on one of the machines, I had the machine running for half a year without a single reboot or me having to restart services. Now sometimes I have to restart inetd twice a day. If I hadn't sshd running which fortunately doesn't die I even had to drive a mile or two to fix the machine. :-( Any other idea? Pointers to watchdog programs that restart services? -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: ppp failure under debian (slakware with pppd 2.2 patch level 0 works)
I'm fairly sure that the serial conifg is OK, as I can get out with cu -l /dev/ttyS1, but when I try to start pppd, it complains about cu having the serial line and won't let it at it. Odd. I just tried cu on this system and it complains that the line is in use. Pon works fine. Is there anything in /var/lock? This might be a bug in cu. Aug 4 19:16:01 castle chat[621]: send (ATZ^M) Aug 4 19:16:01 castle chat[621]: expect (OK) Aug 4 19:16:46 castle chat[621]: alarm Aug 4 19:16:46 castle chat[621]: send (AT^M) Aug 4 19:16:46 castle chat[621]: expect (OK) Aug 4 19:17:31 castle chat[621]: alarm Aug 4 19:17:31 castle chat[621]: Failed Your modem is failing to respond. What happens when you send it 'ATZ' from cu? Please post your /etc/chatscripts/provider and /etc/ppp/peers/provider files. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI
Configurare la schda video
Ho una scheda video s3virge agp con chipset non supportato e non riesco a configurare xwindow. C'è un upgrade, o qualcosa che possa fare?? Grazie
Re: su without password using libpam
On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 09:44:58AM +0200, Andreas Kurth wrote: Ben Collins wrote: Ok correction on this. In the /etc/security/su.allow just put root (who they are allowed to su to). and the add this line: ### auth sufficient pam_listfile.so onerr=fail sense=allow \ file=/etc/security/su.allow item=user apply=you ### This applies the rul for you to be able to su to root without a password. apply=you only makes sense in conjunction with the tty, rhost and shell items, as stated in the docs. The above way, any user gets passwordless root access, not only user you. The only way to manage this, is to set up a group wheel, use the auth required pam_wheel.so line, add user you to group wheel and do it the above way leaving out the apply=you option. It shouldn't according to the docs (yes I read that particular caveat, but the logic is still there for it to work). For passwordless access, you could make the pam_wheel.so module sufficient which means that belonging to the group root gives them access to su without a password. Ben
labels
Greetings: I am running potato with an hpdeskjet 540c installed as my printer. I would like to find out how to print labels under Debian linux. I am a hobbyist bee-keeper and give labeled honey jars to friends. Last year I printed my labels under a windows program but want to use debian to print this year. (I also don't have windows installed anymore. :) Thanks for any help you can give me. Eric Wolven
Re: telnetd-ssl
On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 11:50:06AM +0200, peter karlsson wrote: J.H.M. Dassen (Ray): Looks like the permissions on your ttyp devices are wrong; they should look like this: crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty3, 2 Mar 13 1999 /dev/ttyp2 Okay, I fixed that (it must've somehow forgot to reset them, because some were owned by my own user accound, and had 620 permissions). But now all I get is: $ telnet dat95pkn Trying 10.10.247.110... Connected to dat95pkn.campus.mdh.se. Escape character is '^]'. Debian Linux/BSD/GNU/XFree86/etc potato (2.2) dat95pkn.campus.mdh.se Connection closed by foreign host. Ben Collins: Also could you check the version of the login package you have installed, I have another person who is having problems after upgrading to the latest potato version (19990827-#). dpkg -s says: Version: 980403-0.3.2 Ok, just wanted to make sure it wasn't a problem with the new login package. I'm not sure what the situation is with telnet-ssl now. Ben
Re: silly sendmail question
On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 07:32:38AM -0400, add|ct|on wrote: Greetings... I know I'm going to get a lot of responses to the tone of read the how-to or check the archives but I have to post my question anyway, as I have done both and I'm still clueless. My question is this: I do not have a domain of my own, and connect to the net via PPP. I use sendmail when I'm in text mode (which honestly I prefer over X-Windows), and for months I've been trying to figure out how (or if) I can make my sender address stop looking like this: From: my real name here as I set it when adding a user account my user [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Morpheus is, of course, my hostname, or what I named my computer.) It would be nice if sendmail would report me as either my actual email address through my isp, or as the one I use to mail to this list (an iname account). The problem is of course I can't figure out how to change how sendmail reports me as sender, and hell I don't even know if it's possible. If it is, someone please tell me how? I'd appreciate it a great deal. TIA, addiction I have run across this problem too. In the /etc/mail/sendmail.mc file you need to include a couple of features. Here is a copy of my sendmail.mc file. divert(-1) # # Copyright (c) 1983 Eric P. Allman # Copyright (c) 1988, 1993 # The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. # # Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without # modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions # are met: # 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright #notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. # 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright #notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the #documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. # 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software #must display the following acknowledgement: # This product includes software developed by the University of # California, Berkeley and its contributors. # 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors #may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software #without specific prior written permission. # # THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND # ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE # IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE # ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE # FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL # DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS # OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) # HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT # LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY # OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF # SUCH DAMAGE. # # # This file is used to configure sendmail for use with Debian systems. # divert(0) VERSIONID(`@(#)sendmail.mc 8.9.1a (Linux) 19981026') OSTYPE(debian)dnl LOCAL_CONFIG define(`SMART_HOST', smtp:my.isp.net)dnl FEATURE(masquerade_envelope)dnl FEATURE(allmasquerade)dnl FEATURE(use_cw_file)dnl FEATURE(use_ct_file)dnl FEATURE(nouucp)dnl define(`confTO_QUEUEWARN', `12h')dnl MAILER_DEFINITIONS MAILER(procmail)dnl MAILER(smtp)dnl FEATURE(accept_unresolvable_domains) LOCAL_CONFIG MASQUERADE_AS(usu.edu)dnl ## Custom configurations below (will be preserved) define(`RELAY_HOST', smtp:my.isp.net)dnl define(`RELAY_MAILER', TCP)dnl MASQUERADE_DOMAIN(`MyHostname.something')dnl FEATURE(nocanonify)dnl FEATURE(local_procmail)dnl The Masquerade options tells sendmail what to pretend to be to the outside world. My machine is then masqueraded as my.isp.net and MyHostname.something is never seen by the outside world. I have also found that your hostname needs to be hostname.something otherwise sendmail will say cannot cononify own domain name, and take forever to actually send mail. Hope this helps. Allan -- Smile, it makes people wonder what you're up to.
Re: labels
On 18 Sep 1999, eric k. wolven wrote: Greetings: I am running potato with an hpdeskjet 540c installed as my printer. I would like to find out how to print labels under Debian linux. I am a hobbyist bee-keeper and give labeled honey jars to friends. Last year I printed my labels under a windows program but want to use debian to print this year. (I also don't have windows installed anymore. :) I've done this using latex. It takes quite a time to get the template set up correctly but once you've done that you can print labels indefinitely. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.1 (Windows-free zone) Book Reviews: http://www.achc.demon.co.uk/bookreviews/ The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on... - Edward Fitzgerald (Rubaiat of Omar Khayyam)
Re: How does it...
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 20:26:35 -0700, NatePuri wrote: 4. Menu integration. When ever you install an X app dpkg will update your menus in all you window managers. Whether you use KDE, GNOME, icewm or fvwm your menus will always reflect the packages you have installed. No hand editing of menu scripts needed. I'd add a 4b here: MIME integration. Packages keep your /etc/mailcap current so your mailer, webbrowser etc. always know what MIME types your system can handle. Ray -- J.H.M. Dassen | RUMOUR Believe all you hear. Your world may [EMAIL PROTECTED] | not be a better one than the one the blocks | live in but it'll be a sight more vivid. | - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan
Re: ppp failure under debian (slakware with pppd 2.2 patch level 0 works)
On 09/18/99 at 17:06:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote concerning ppp failure under debian (slakware with pppd 2.2 patch level 0 works): Hi, I'm typing this from my old slackware install. I connect on this installation using cu -l /dev/cua1 then negotiating my way through my ISP's login manually, then start pppd in another window, then quitting from cu. This worked fine whne this machine was a 486 and now works with a new motherboard cpu. I wonder if you've set up Debian to use /dev/cua1. It should use /dev/ttyS1 instead, since the cua- callout devices are being phased out. -- Jesse Jacobsen, Pastor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Grace Lutheran Church (ELS) http://www.jvlnet.com/~jjacobsen/ Madison, Wisconsin GnuPG public key ID: 2E3EBF13 pgpBvhkq2Q3G1.pgp Description: PGP signature
KDEDIR and KDE 1.1.2
I have KDEDIR set to /usr/bin/X11 I installed KDE 1.1.2 in this order (source, not Debian packages): kdesupport kdelibs kdebase all the other packages The problems is that my menus do not work; only my desktop icons bring up the apps they should bring up. Should I have KDEDIR set to /usr/bin/X11 or is that a mistake? I am running Potato -- Andrew - GnuPG Public KeyID: 0x48109681
Re: hi i got a question
Scott Henry wrote: snip Medium answer: WinModem (and other Win* hardware) is a really stupid idea: cripple the hardware to save a few manufacturing bucks. snip And unless you have a pretty fast system, you take a big performance hit too. What a rip-off.
Re: How does it...
You knew what I meant. What is the most gutless system I could run it on (weakest processor)? Rob Mahurin wrote: On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 08:47:19PM -0500, Fredrick Schmitt wrote: What system would be the cheeziest I could run it on? Unfortunately, you cannot run Debian on a block of cheese. Work on a cheese port is in progress, but is not even ready yet for the alpha release. Until then, you must run Debian on a computer. That is, however, about the only limitation. Rob -- Buy land. They've stopped making it. -- Mark Twain
Re: undelete for partition tables?
On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, Tom Pfeifer wrote: Instead of me trying to cover every possible detail now (which is impossible anyway), I suggest you try following my procedure and try to account for the differences in your situation as you do it. If you have specific questions or problems, feel free to ask. If you really want to do this, you are going to have to get into this up to your eyeballs anyway - I can only try to get you started. Owing to work, we were unable to work on this until Friday evening but I'm happy to report at least partial success. My colleague bought Norton System Works 2000, the latest version. The version of DiskEdit in there does support 8GB drives. It also has a menu command for linking in a partition that safely adds it into the partition table for you. Any way the root partition was toasted. But apart from the files in /etc it didn't have anything much that couldn't be replaced. The all-important /home partition came through fine. /var seemed to be fine when mounted read-only but when I tried to mount it read-write, the kernel complained that the ext2 file system had unsupported options. In the end what I did was to tar it up, erase and remake the filesystem and recopy the files again. Now the only remaining problem is the /usr partition. On trying to mount it I get: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda6, or too many mounted file systems e2fsck has a -b option that will restore the superblock from backups that are kept throughout the file system but you have to give it the number of a sector which contains one. Do you know what the signature of a superblock should be? If worst comes to worst we will just blow it away and reinstall. There is nothing in /usr that can't be replaced. -- Jaldhar H. Vyas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: silly sendmail question
On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 07:32:38AM -0400, add|ct|on wrote: Greetings... I know I'm going to get a lot of responses to the tone of read the how-to or check the archives but I have to post my question anyway, as I have done both and I'm still clueless. My question is this: I do not have a domain of my own, and connect to the net via PPP. I use sendmail when I'm in text mode (which honestly I prefer over X-Windows), and for months I've been trying to figure out how (or if) I can make my sender address stop looking like this: From: my real name here as I set it when adding a user account my user [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Morpheus is, of course, my hostname, or what I named my computer.) I tried to do exactly this for a long time and never could get it to work right. About the time I figured it out how to do it, I discovered mutt, and never looked back. Since then, I've reinstalled sendmail, and I'm not sure if my solution works any more. The solution that I used (and that I'm about to try again, now that you've reminded me) is in the sendmail FAQ at http://www.sendmail.org/faq/ . I think it's question 3.2. The solution that I use now is mutt. It took me about a day to learn to appreciate mutt, and now I use it even when (if) I'm in X. HTH Rob -- I tried the clone syscall on me, but it didn't work. -- Mike Neuffer trying to fix a serious time problem
Re: hi i got a question
snip Medium answer: WinModem (and other Win* hardware) is a really stupid idea: cripple the hardware to save a few manufacturing bucks. snip Maybe stupid today, but when modems were expensive, it made it possible for people to have a high-speed modem at low cost. -- Andrew
Re: undelete for partition tables?
On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, Laurent PICOULEAU wrote: Lo?c Prylli posted a C programm on the newsgroup fr.comp.os.linux some 2 years ago to detect an ext2 partition that can help to solve Jaldhar's problem. This programm can be found on http://www.linux-france.org but I don't know the exact URL. If you can't find it, I have a copy of it I was unable to find this program. Doing a web search, I did find one called gpart but I would like to look at the program you mention too. Then I will package whichever one is better for Debian. So please send me the location or a copy if you can. -- Jaldhar H. Vyas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PCMCIA (?) Ethernet problem
Ingles, Raymond wrote: I'm installing Debian 2.1 onto a Zenith Z*Star EX, a 486/50MHz laptop w/8MB RAM and a 300MB HD. snip Sorry I don't have any technical help to offer you on this. But I would like to tell you this; The very first time I installed Linux, in '95, was on one of those machines your are using. I had such problems with the installation that I gave up and didn't install again until a few months later on a home-built machine where I had no problems. The shop where I worked, at the time, was using Z stations and inevitably replaced all of them with Gatway computers because these systems were so problematic just running Windows. What Fiat was to the automotive industry Zenith is to the computer industry. Hopefully, for the sake of consumers, they are not making computers anymore.
Re: To the Debian Project, IMHO
Ok, ok, I sit corrected in several respects, but I am still adamant that any attempt to paint Linux as an out of the box solution with no prior knowledge is a real danger to the on-going comercial success of Linux. I worked in tech-support for Xerox for about 7 years (Xerox used to sell Apple Mac, IBM PS/2 and Dell in Latin America), and I would say that at least 70% of the problems we had we with users who not only did not know what they were doing (no problems with that) but who did not WANT to know what they were doing. Microsoft has fixed the image of it's OS as just use and ignore it. Let's not fall into that trap. Fixing the customers expectations is paramount for a successful install. If you fix the expectations as zero cost, zero learning then you are NOT going to have a successful install. I am fairly competent with Debian, but the last time I looked at RedHat, I did not want to do any real config changes until I had read the corresponding man pages and other documents, and these are both Linux based In short. If you use a tool you have to know it. If you want to use a tool well you have to learn how it works. You don't get something for nothing and you definitely don't want to tell your customers to expect the world for nothing. __ _ Debian GNU User / /(_)_ __ _ ___ __ Simon Martin / / | | '_ \| | | \ \/ / Project Manager / /__| | | | | |_| | Isys \/_|_| |_|\__,_/_/\_\ mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'I used to be schizophrenic, but now both of us are all right'
xfree 3.3.4 debianized, where can I found it pls?
Any URL? Thanx in advance. JY
Re: Question of Firewall Mail Servers
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 14:11, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: I am working on adding a debian slink linux system as a fire wall to my existing company network. When finished, we will have an ISDN router connected to the linux firewall machine and a separate network card connecting the internal network to the linux system. The mail server will be inside of the firewall and needs to receive SMTP connections through the firewall. My question is how is this done? There are (at least) two ways to do this. Another user has responded to tell you how to punch a hole in your firewall for port 25. You can also use a store and forward system to prevent anyone from outside your network from talking directly to port 25 on your mail server. One such system is smap, and another is smtpd. I've had good experience with the latter, no experience with the former. If memory serves, I selected smtpd because it was pretty much a drop-in on a debian slink system that was the firewall. I used rinetd on that system for punching holes in the firewall (port 22, ssh, for example). http://www.obtuse.com/smtpd.html http://www.boutell.com/rinetd/ Luck, Pann -- What's All the Buzz About Linux?L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: xfree 3.3.4 debianized, where can I found it pls?
Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: Any URL? Thanx in advance. JY I assume you are talking about slink packages. http://samosa.debian.org/~branden/ you can apt-get with deb http://samosa.debian.org/%7Ebranden/ xfree86-334-slink/ hth -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= dyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Re: xfree 3.3.4 debianized, where can I found it pls?
On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 06:13:45PM +0200, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: Any URL? http://samosa.debian.org/~branden/xfree86-334-slink/ Found from: http://www.debian.org/~branden/
Re: RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Gary Young wrote: snip Some change between the kernel in Debian 2.0 and in Debian 2.1 fails on something in my hardware. I'll look at what hardware is in the box next. Hamm uses 2.0.34 while Slink uses 2.0.36 The only obvious difference I have noticed is that 2.0.36 is able to proble INT 13 to size the memory. Compare standard output from the Hamm kernel to the Slink kernel. Compare version numbers to figure out which kernel components have been updated. That may help you zero in on the problem. Could there be a problem with the SCSI intialization? You did say you were using SCSI drives? The driver compiled into the stock kernel has most likely undergone some updates. There may be some parameters you can enter from the boot: prompt to get you past the delema. There is always the possibility that you have some hardware failure that was not being detected by the older kernel. Just a few things to consider.
guest accounts with wu-ftp
I am trying to enable the guestgroup feature with wu-ftp (2.5.0). The login and the chrooted environment is flawlessly but the ls command doesn't work. The ls used within the anonymous account works. I used the same binary and the libs within the guestgroup account without success. The ls command is executed, wu-ftp is announcing that the command was succesfully executed but the content of the directory isn't displayed. I read the howto for the setup of guest accounts from the wu-ftp mailing list archive and all variations I tried weren't sucessfull. If I issue strace -f chroot ~guestuser ls the output shows no problems with the ls, i. e. the directory contents are displayed. I tried to use a ls binary with statically linked libs but wasn't able to build one. Even the gnu fileutils are compiled with shared libs. Any hints are appreciated. Werner
Re: xfree 3.3.4 debianized, where can I found it pls?
Thanks to all of you! JY
Re: Dying services due to low memory?
Ralf G. R. Bergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have several machines running as Internet servers, mainly FTP and HTTP. They're relatively low-end machines (P100 and 486-133 with 48 resp. 64 MB RAM.) Every couple of days I have to restart inetd or other stand-alone services (like syslogd, klogd, snmpd, apache.) I'm pretty sure the reason why the processes fail is that memory usage is too high (it's *definitely* not due to memory problems, like failing RAM modules or overclocked CPUs.) Memory usage is permanently about 99%, swap usage only a few percent. But obviously processes are dying because they can't allocate real memory?! Why do you say that it is obviously the reason? The only program that I have ever seen that needs real memory and won't use swap is javac. In general, if you aren't using swap space then you aren't running short of memory. The kernel always tries to use all memory for buffers and cache if it isn't being otherwise used. I don't know what your problem is, so I can't help any further, but I would look for other problems before suspecting memory in your case. -- Carl Johnson[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: latex
Juli-Manel Merino Vidal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all, where can I found a latex tutorial ? There are books available as has already been mentioned, but if you have tetex installed, look in the /usr/doc/tetex-doc/texmf/latex/general/ directory. The file lshort2e will give you some quick information, and the others have more detailed information. -- Carl Johnson[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xemacs del
On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 12:01:17PM +0200, Juli-Manel Merino Vidal wrote: Hi all, I've a problem with the del key in xemacs. If I press del it does the same as backspace, so deleting the character before the cursor position. It happens in the console and under X (but not with emacs, that works fine). What I have to do to make work both keys ? So, del deleting the current character and backspace to delete the character before the cursor position (this one works not). Please, HELP. This is really annoying. Thanks. I found this in the XEmacs help menu, under sample configurations I think. Just add it to your .emacs file: ;; If you prefer delete to actually delete forward then you want to ;; uncomment the next line (or use `Customize' to customize this). (setq delete-key-deletes-forward t) And it should work. HTH, MBG -- Infinite: Bigger than the biggest thing ever and then some. Much bigger than that in fact, really amazingly immense, a totally stunning size, real wow, that's big, time. Infinity is just so big that, by comparison, bigness itself looks really titchy. Gigantic multiplied by colossal multiplied by staggeringly huge is the sort of concept we're trying to get across here. -Douglas Adams 'The Restaurant at the End of the Universe' pgpmiovpN0vmT.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: netscape: booksmarks have changed
*- On 18 Sep, Remco van 't Veer wrote about netscape: booksmarks have changed Hi, Some weirdness.. Today I upgraded to navigator-46 (from netgod). Netscape reports, every 2 minutes or so, that the bookmarks are changed and are being reloaded. I've seen this before (after my previous upgrade?), ignored it and it went away.. but curiosity remains.. Does anybody know what is causing this? I have seen this when netscape crashes and I start a new one. What happens is that the gui has died but there still remains a netscape engine running in the background. Check 'ps axf' for a running netscape/communicator that is not associated with your currently running one and kill it. -- Brian - Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis -
removal of essential packages
Once again I spent a lot of time with the debian package system. It seems to be impossible to remove an essential package although dpkg offers an option. When I am issuing the command dpkg --force-remove-essential perl-base only a help message is displayed. This is frustrating since dpkg --force-help displays the command as valid. I am not able to install a lot of important packages since I have to replace perl-base v. 5.004 with v. 5.005 and the 5.004 perl with the newest one. I am stuck again with a debian package problem. These problems are consuming most of the time for administering the system (my next system will be slackware). Werner
Re: removal of essential packages
On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Werner Reisberger wrote: Once again I spent a lot of time with the debian package system. It seems to be impossible to remove an essential package although dpkg offers an option. When I am issuing the command dpkg --force-remove-essential perl-base only a help message is displayed. This is frustrating since dpkg --force-help displays the command as valid. I am not able to install a lot of important packages since I have to replace perl-base v. 5.004 with v. 5.005 and the 5.004 perl with the newest one. I am stuck again with a debian package problem. These problems are consuming most of the time for administering the system (my next system will be slackware). If anything is depending on perl-base you have to issue a dpkg --force-remove-essential --ignore-depends=perl-base perl-base -- Ashley Clark
.xsession problem with WDM amd/or WindowMaker
I am running Debian 2.1 with all updates (nothing as yet from the unstable area) and am having this bizarre problem with my .xsession file. I am using Wdm 1.0-7 and WindowMaker 0.20.3-5. WindowMaker has been specified as the default window manager by moving its entry to the top of the /etc/X11/window-managers file. When I try and add commands to the .xsession file for either the root user or the non-privileged user ssahmed, the x session for either of those users doesn't start and I am dumped back into the WDM login screen. For example, I added the following lines to ssahmed's .xsession file : xterm xterm Login failed and I was dumped back into the WDM screen. Here is what the ~ssahmed/.xsession-errors file had to say : Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server xterm Xt error: Can't open display: :0 Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server xterm Xt error: Can't open display: :0 The only modification I have made to WDM's config is the following line from /etc/X11/wdm/wdm-config : DisplayManager._0.authorize:false Can someone please explain to me how to start up X clients from my .xsession file ? Do I have to start up WindowMaker from my .xsession file (as I do for RedHat) or is it enough to rely on /etc/X11/window-managers ? Thanks. -- Salman Ahmed ssahmed AT interlog DOT com
Re: removal of essential packages
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Werner Reisberger wrote: Once again I spent a lot of time with the debian package system. It seems to be impossible to remove an essential package although dpkg offers an option. When I am issuing the command dpkg --force-remove-essential perl-base only a help message is displayed. Did you read that message? Note this line: dpkg: need an action option dpkg is complaining that you didn't tell it to do anything! Try this command: dpkg --force-remove-essential --remove perl-base - --force-* are just flags that tell dpkg not to abort when it sees you trying to do something potentially damaging. You still need the action - --remove in order to remove packages. I am not able to install a lot of important packages since I have to replace perl-base v. 5.004 with v. 5.005 and the 5.004 perl with the newest one. No slink packages should require 5.004, and the current perl in potato is 5.005 (potato perl-base just depends on perl5-base, it provides no files). So i'm not clear on why you need to remove it in the first place... - -- finger for PGP public key. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBN+PK+L7M/9WKZLW5AQE8lgP/aO5LQIpssEyytQmsN2IfefqshIZ8lt7V MM/h6+RwbcNvBHyfD/qbzWOSsnYS5p5mIKX29nlrh+OYSaS5oX42tSZjkdvtUMks 2HUj4KLyJ6IKNT5aeMYG0KtUZEcgK6kFjyIzeffcIDXjAOWXz0GqB4Qz2fil67Dq i4SSVgaxPxE= =g0PY -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: How does it...
On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 08:32:52AM -0500, Fredrick Schmitt wrote: You knew what I meant. What is the most gutless system I could run it on (weakest processor)? I'd guess either a 386SX/16 or an old m68k box. Probably the 386 is the better option - many old m68k machines are too underspeced to boot. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFShttp://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/
PPP for non-root users
How do I enable non-root users to use PPP (via pon/poff) ? Thanks. -- Salman Ahmed ssahmed AT interlog DOT com
Re: .xsession problem with WDM amd/or WindowMaker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Salman Ahmed wrote: Do I have to start up WindowMaker from my .xsession file (as I do for RedHat) or is it enough to rely on /etc/X11/window-managers ? Yes, you do have to run the window manager explicitly if you use an .xsession file. You can have your .xsession use /etc/X11/window-managers, though. Just place this at the bottom of your .xsession (code shamelessly ripped from /etc/X11/Xsession) Start code if [ -e /etc/X11/window-managers ]; then for i in `sed 's/#.*//' /etc/X11/window-managers`; do if [ -x $i ]; then realstartup=$i break fi done elif [ -x /usr/bin/x-window-manager ]; then realstartup=x-window-manager fi if [ -z $realstartup ]; then if [ -x /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator ]; then realstartup=x-terminal-emulator else # fatal error exec /dev/tty echo -n .xsession: unable to start X session: echo no window managers, and no terminal emulators found. exit 1 fi fi exec $realstartup # End code # - -- finger for PGP public key. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBN+PMp77M/9WKZLW5AQGR8gQAgDGkGA7kIA9WmQMeoGIUhYQd+PL5wSlV MtkOxMXOJ9PqN9G3rzSmgC0ZqdlwcR/pyL18+lyq9J5DMbWg0bz7l4Pm0UMV6wrc Q95ZJikSqFwyokjLduGb2r+y0Xv8KmJ7rbpJ/tdIeKk3hV3L0lWWy4WGO60UaAvg 4XVYFq8SPzc= =WVyF -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: PPP for non-root users
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Salman Ahmed wrote: How do I enable non-root users to use PPP (via pon/poff) ? With the normal Debian setup, you only have to add those non-root users to group dip. As root, this command should do it: adduser username dip - -- finger for PGP public key. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBN+PP9L7M/9WKZLW5AQH1xAP+IpJJOjMY5hSNbwZBKJpaz7V7/Ro6/xsi kJW37+pxIELQl7UZIxpN/EUaD0Qnq5xvy9aTlJS/Y1L3SgOInmbEh5inXAM0DMbE rmJuHLp3jw7Fw5tIan1A3RWlV/R7pDEOCIU0DAm2dz0Z31SlmjAJdlGU37NrgFNb HL24NSZkAWo= =8kaz -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: PPP for non-root users
On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 01:26:17PM -0400, Salman Ahmed wrote: How do I enable non-root users to use PPP (via pon/poff) ? Add them to the dip group (eg, put their name in the list at the end of the dip entry in /etc/group). -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFShttp://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/ pgpoq0gzl36JS.pgp Description: PGP signature
