Re: changed server name, how-to change back
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Keith) writes: I somehow changed the name of my server back copying files from another server onto this one. Which files sets the name of the server? It took me a moment to figure out what you were asking. The file you're looking for is /etc/hostname, which is used in the startup process to set the machine's name.
Re: ppp connection with Demon
Tom Bowles [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Incidentally it's not just receiving and sending data that is slow. There is also a 20-30 second delay between sending the modem initialisation (and phone number for that matter) strings and getting any response. Could it be something to do with the serial interface itself. I am now about 100 miles from anything I know anything about, but it's a hell of a lot more interesting than windows. I think you may be onto something here - since you're getting data, but there are serious timing delays (that you're certain aren't caused by Demon being slow - that is, delays even in the init strings), you may have the wrong IRQ set on your serial device, or there may be some conflict in IRQ settings. Do a: setserial /dev/modem (or /dev/ttyS1, or /dev/WhateverYourModemIs) and note the results. Since you are getting data, the port setting is correct and the UART listed is correct or close enough. The IRQ, however, may well be wrong. If you have some other OS in which the modem works well, you could look at the device information for the modem there. Once you have the correct IRQ for your modem, you'll want to edit /etc/rc.boot/0setserial down around lines 25-30 and fix the information there. You can then as root run /etc/rc.boot/0setserial and try your modem again. Is the modem a plug-and-play internal modem? If so, look at using the isapnptools to set up the modem. (You'll have to run one program to dump out the configuration info. on your modem, edit that file to suit your needs, and then run another program on the edited file to set the configuration in your modem - once you get the config. the way you want it, putting it into /etc/isapnp.conf will have it used at boottime - but there's much more info. in the isapnp docs) Note that if you have an external modem that calls itself plug-and-play, this doesn't actually mean anything. (Well, not anything that you care about with regards to setting up your modem for linux) If the modem is an internal one with switches/jumpers, you'll need to look at it and your modem manual to determine what IRQ it's set to. (If you've lost the modem manual, you might want to check the manufacturer's web site). If it's an external modem, then the IRQ's are probably 4 for /dev/ttyS0 (aka com1) and 3 for /dev/ttyS1 (aka com2). However, some machines (like mine) have BIOSes which can alter this, so that the built-in com ports use IRQ's 4 and 12. Check your BIOS's setup menu. DANIEL MARTIN p.s. What are all these settings: IRQ, io port (sometimes called just port) and the UART number? Well, UART is just a number that identifies the type of chip controlling the serial device. The kernel needs to know this so that it can know how large a buffer the device has, what speeds it supports, how it reports line conditions (like hardware flow control), etc. UART type can usually be detected automatically. The most common UARTs are the 16550, 16550A, and 16650. This number is something specific only to serial devices. The io port and IRQ require a very brief explanation of how the processor gets data from other devices in the system. Essentially, all devices in the system are connected to one set of wires called the data bus. The processor, when it wishes to send or get data, will set some wires to identify the address it wishes to access, a wire to indicate whether this is a read or a write, and will then either set the relevant data wires for a write or assume that whatever device responds to this address has set their state as soon as it requested the read and will then read the data wires. (this is oversimplified, but you get the idea). Anyway, the io port is the address the processor uses to get and send data to the modem. (actually, serial devices generally need 8 consecutive address; you specify only the first one - this is why this will sometimes be called the base io port address or io base; these ports are used not only to send and receive data but also to set/get status information) You can see what devices use which io ports on your system by doing cat /proc/ioports. Now, when a device needs to tell the processor something (like incoming data or my output buffer is empty, you could send more), the device can't force the processor to do a read. Instead, what the device does is raise a signal saying in essence pay attention to me. It does this through an Interrupt ReQuest, or IRQ. There are, I believe, only 16 of these lines available and several are allocated to system things (like the separate chip that controls the clock, or the keyboard, or the internal line used to signal floating point math errors). With an IRQ set incorrectly, the processor would not realize that there was incoming data on the modem - this could cause the unbelievably slow response time you seem to have. You can find out which devices use which irq lines by doing cat /proc/interrupts.
Re: resolv.conf, PPP and multiple providers
(This is being resent because it was mercilessly bounced... :( )
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
*- Damon Muller wrote about resolv.conf, PPP and multiple providers
|
| However, anyone have any hints on how to set up the resolv.conf file
| when you have multiple ISPs? I guess I could have an ip-up script modify
| it when it dials each ISP, but that's a bit of a pain.
|
That is about the only way to do it. Read
/usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/Dynamic-IP-Hacks.gz. It is a little out of date
but it has some good ideas. Another file to modify is /etc/hosts.
Note that under Debian 2.0, /etc/ppp/ip-up is a script that runs every
file under /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ - so if you want to add something it's
easiest to do it by adding a new file to that directory (note that the
filename must only contain the alphanumeric characters and
underscore(_) ).
On simple way to do this is:
#!/bin/bash
get_ns () {
case $PPP_REMOTE in
128.220.222.2) echo 128.220.2.7 128.220.2.82 ;;
137.22.*) echo 137.22.1.13 137.22.1.15 137.22.1.4 ;;
203.20.*) echo 203.20.80.1 203.34.5.3 ;;
esac
}
echo -n /etc/resolv.conf
# Next line optional
echo search empire.net.au /etc/resolv.conf
for ns in `get_ns`; do echo nameserver $ns /etc/resolv.conf; done
Re: xdm starts local server
(This is being resent, as I have had to reconfigure my mail program to get around internic's objection to the debian.org name) Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Aug 12, 1998 at 03:20:30PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why you get different behaviour from xdm and start might be explained by this: There's a script /etc/X11/Xsession that claims to be run by both xdm and xinit (to which startx is a wrapper.) The script seems to look for ~/.xsession only though. Maybe it isn't run after all from xinit on Debian systems. That means that the comments in the file are misleading. I don't actually have either ~/.xsession or ~/.xinitrc, which is why I find this all the more strange. Ok - what about your /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc file? This should be a symbolic link to ../Xsession; if it isn't, then I can understand why you get this odd behavior. If it is a symbolic link, then something must be going wrong in the /etc/X11/Xsession script when started by startx. Tell me, is the file ~/.xsession-errors created when you start X with startx? (Delete the file first, as it's surely being created when you log in via xdm) If so, do the contents of that file after starting X with startx provide any clue as to what's going on?
Re: fvwm95 after hamm upgrade
Doug Thistlethwaite [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, I upgraded my bo system to hamm last night. Everything went pretty well, though I did have the run the install portion of dselect several times for it to get through without errors... Well, I'm impressed - I made a slight error in packaging up fvwm95 for hamm, such that bo upgrades aren't as smooth as they could be - oops. Anyhow - Everything seems to have installed fine. But I have now noticed that my windows manager fvwm95 does not seem to read my prior config file in my home directory The config info was in /home/doug/.fvwm2rc95 on my bo system and everything seemed to work fine. The first lines of my window-managers /usr/X11R6/bin/fvwm95 /usr/X11R6/bin/fvwm2 ... What do I need to do so my windows manager will read my ini file? The name of the ini file changed between the bo and hamm versions - if you had a customized system-wide initialization file, you got a little message about it. Personal initialization files are harder to check for. Anyway: 1) The name of the new initialization file is .fvwm95rc - you can rename your .fvwm2rc95 to .fvwm95rc and it'll work, BUT 2) fvwm95 now has an improved configuration, much like the configuration scheme of fvwm2 - if you use this new scheme then whenever you install new packages, they'll appear in your fvwm95 menu the next time you restart fvwm95. For more information on this new scheme, refer to /usr/doc/fvwm95/README.sysrc.gz. The basic gist is to create a subdirectory called .fvwm95 and then place in it a file called post.hook containing your own customizations. There are also some examples of things you can do with the system configuration files in the system config. files themselves (they're all commented out; uncomment what you want). Note that if you do have a ~/.fvwm95rc file, the new configuration scheme won't get touched, and your menu won't get updated to show the list of currently installed packages. Some people who are used to the one long monolithic configuration file find the new config. scheme a bit confusing - but it's not, really. I'd be glad to help you with it.
Re: minimal files essential for booting ?
Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: I went nuts partitioning the new disk. I was mostly just experimenting. Many will think I have gone needlessly overboard. I won't disagree. The old disk has two partitions, one being swap. The new disk has a partition for just about everything. These directories all live on their own partitions: /usr /usr/local /var /home /etc /bin /tmp /lib I think the FSTND standard requires these directories to be available during boot: /bin /dev /etc /lib /tmp /sbin (Note that /etc and /tmp must be writable, I don't know about the rest.) I can't remember about /var, but suspect that it is required for /var/run, /var/lock, and /var/log. /var can be on its own partition without any problem - in fact, it is possible to have /tmp on its own partition too, but in that case there must still be some room in the / partition for a small /tmp directory that the system can use before mounting the real /tmp. The rest of your partitioning setup, though, seems fine. Just move /lib, /bin, and /etc back to your / partition and all should be fine. And the boot process (and going into single user mode for maintenance/backups) is the only time when you have to worry whether enough programs are present on certain partitions. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: xacc brings my laptop to a crawl
Mike Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm trying to use xacc in the hamm release (xacc_1.0.17-2.deb), but when I try to enter a number in the register window, the cursor blinks exceedingly fast and it brings to X server to a near standstill. I can still continue, but at a snail's pace, maybe a character every 10 seconds. This occurs with both the lesstif and statically linked motif version. So, does xacc have a bad polling mechanism or something or do I have my Xserver misconfigured? Mike Roberts This is actually a bug in lesstif. (More accurately, in the libc6 lesstif contained in the package called lesstifg) You can fix it (supposedly, according to the lesstifg maintainer) by installing the lesstifg from slink, version 0.84-1 or higher. (I think the current version is something like 0.85.3-1) Once you do install this, I _strongly_ suggest putting lesstifg on hold (with an equals sign) in dselect. Unfortunate mistakes with version numbering means that the hamm lesstifg will try to come back if you don't do this. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Diald and Windows NT/95
Butch Kemper [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. What is causing the link to yo-yo and how to change the Windows boxes to stop the yo-yo from happening. Doesn't diald come with some sort of monitor program? (use 'dpkg -L diald' to see what comes with diald) I think it's called 'dialdmon' or something like that? Why don't you watch that to find out what the windows boxes are doing? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: SHELL: duping stdout and stderr to another file
Ulisses Alonso [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all I would like to know _how to copy_ (not start a new shell, eg: script) stdout and stderr _from a shell script_ to a file. Also It is interesting for me if there is a way to stop copying stdout and stderr... Thanks in advance, Ulisses Well, I'm not entirely certain what you mean, so I'll just say several things that might answer your question and hope that one of them tells you what you want to know. Suppose I have a simple shell script: #!/bin/sh echo Guvf vf n frperg zrffntr. | tr a-zA-Z n-za-mN-ZA-M And I call this script foo. I make it executable so that I can call it like this: cush:~$ ./foo This is a secret message. Now, I decide I want to redirect this into a file. I do: cush:~$ ./foo sekritfile Ok. So I can redirect all of foo's stdout into a file. But suppose I made a mistake in foo (say, I added an extra argument to the `tr' command). Then I get: cush:~$ ./foo sekritfile tr: too many arguments Try `tr --help' for more information. Well, I want to redirect both foo's stdout and stderr into a file. Ok; I do this by saying redirect stdout to sekritfile and redirect stderr to the same place as stdout: cush:~$ ./foo sekritfile 21 All well and good. I can even do fancy things like redirecting stdout and stderr to two different files: cush:~$ ./foo sekritfile 2 errfile Ok. So far so good. Now suppose I don't want to have to specify where the stuff in foo goes on the commandline; suppose I want the shell script to just redirect everything all the time. I can do this by using the shell builtin command 'exec' in a slightly unusual way: #!/bin/sh exec sekritfile 2 errfile echo Guvf vf n frperg zrffntr. | tr a-zA-Z n-za-mN-ZA-M So now what happens is that when I do: cush:~$ ./foo Is that the output of the tr command is redicted to 'sekritfile' and the stderr of the tr command (and any following commands) is redirected to 'errfile'. I could redirect them both to the same place using: exec sekritfile 21 So far so good. But what if I want to redirect something and then undo the redirection? Say, if I had: #!/bin/sh echo Guvf vf n frperg zrffntr. | tr a-zA-Z n-za-mN-ZA-M echo Done decoding. And I wanted the first line redirected, and the second not. Then, I just need to save the original destinations of stdout and stderr, like this: #!/bin/sh exec 31 42 sekritfile 21 echo Guvf vf n frperg zrffntr. | tr a-zA-Z n-za-mN-ZA-M exec 3 24 echo Done decoding. Then, only the first echo command gets redirected to a file. cush:~$ ./foo Done decoding cush:~$ cat sekritfile This is a secret message. But notice: cush:~$ ./foo msgfile cush:~$ cat msgfile Done decoding. cush:~$ cat sekritfile This is a secret message. Now, suppose that instead of redirecting output, I want to copy it. (That is, I still want to see the output on the screen). This means the output has to go to two places - the file and the screen. There are a few ways to do this - I'm only going to show one involving the 'tail' command. The problem is that the shell won't split output by itself, and won't do overall redirections (like the exec commands above) into pipes. However, we can do this: #!/bin/sh cat /dev/null sekritfile # create it so that tail doesn't complain tail -f sekritfile tailpid=$! exec sekritfile exec 21 ... ... more commands here ... sleep 2 kill -1 $tailpid This causes the shell to dump stdout and stderr into the file sekritfile and at the same time starts up a process (the tail -f) that reads the file and displays its contents. The last kill command is necessary to stop the 'tail' process when the script is done. If you want to do this and only want to redirect portions of the script, you can do: #!/bin/sh cat /dev/null sekritfile tail -f sekritfile tailpid=$! exec 31 42 exec sekritfile exec 21 ... ... these commands get saved to the file ... exec 51 62 13 24 ... ... these commands don't go to the file ... exec 15 26 ... ... these commands go to the file ... sleep 2 kill -1 $tailpid I hope this answers your question. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: no pon!
Martin Bialasinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: DP == David Parmet [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: DP who is this pid 109 and what does it want with my life? pid = Process ID To check what prozess has ID 109 do a ps ax|grep 109 Incidentally, if you have the process id already, all you have to do is: ps pid That is, ps 109 The advantage of this is that you also get the headers telling you what each column means; for example when one does: ps u 1 And gets: USER PID %CPU %MEM SIZE RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 1 0.0 0.2 76876 ? S Jul 26 0:03 init [2] One has at least some chance of figuring out what all that information means. The ps ax | grep foo idiom is so common that it's sometimes easy to forget that ps does take non-option arguments. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: partition memory
Yanick MICHOU [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, I would like to know what is the shell command to know what is the available, used and free memory on the current partition ? You mean the available used and free disk space? The command is df - I believe it stands for something like disk free. It'll tell you how much is available on each partion. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Fvwm2 and Debian menu
Curt Daugaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I like the design of the Debian menu package, and I'm trying to follow the docs to get auto-updating of menus under X, but I seem to have hit a roadblock. I use Fvwm2, and according to the comments in system.fvwm2rc and the Fvwm2 docs--in the Debian package, compliant with the menu package--FvwmButtons (formerly Good Stuff) is set up so that the user can easily override the defaults. But it looks like the menudefs.hook, autogenerated by the menu-package, is determined to invoke DebianFvwmButtons, which stubbornly overrides any configuration the user attempts. Well, you don't have to start your FvwmButtons from the menu - you can just start it automatically (assuming you always want it to be there); on one account on my machine, this is done by putting all the customization into post.hook and a call to 'Module FvwmButtons' in init-restart.hook. If, however, you want it in the menu you can always put it in yourself with an AddToMenu command in post.hook; modifying the menu entry itself (by changing /usr/lib/menu/fvwm2) gets wiped by a new fvwm2. This has the problem that the DebianFvwmButtons is still there... The best solution is probably to use DestroyModuleConfig DebianFvwmButtons in post.hook and then listing the entries one wants. Of course, since this command exists, one wonders why the author of the fvwm2 config used DebianFvwmButtons to begin with... -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: No PINE debian package?
jason and jill [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's included in the distribution and available for download from www.debian.org. Can't get much more available than that unless you contract Pam Anderson to deliver it to your home. ;) He may have missed it because it's in non-free rather than mail. Also, note that Pine is not available directly as a binary for hamm; it was actually a mistake to distribute it for bo (Debian 1.3.x) in the first place, and the University of Washington has asked us not to distribute any precompiled binary other than the ones they've approved; however, we can distribute the source, and so in hamm pine exists only in source form. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Why does tty1 become the current VT on reboot/halt?
Noah L. Meyerhans [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hey all. Why is it that when I reboot or halt my machine, I'm automatically switched to the first virtual console? I don't like this at all, because all of the messages coming from the rc scripts get sent whichever VC I was on when I typed the reboot/halt command. I haven't been able to figure out how/where the event occurs. Is it possible to prevent it, or to have all the rc scripts send their output to tty1? Well, I can't provide a solution, but I can provide an explanation: xdm, or more specifically the Xserver xdm was running. Whenever an xserver shuts down, it reverts to the virtual terminal that was active when it started (which is usually VT1, unless you hit Alt-F# at the right time in the boot sequence). While this makes sense as something to do when the xserver is shut down directly, (for example, if one were running X through startx and exited X, one would expect to go back to the shell prompt that ran startx) it may not be the right thing to do when the Xserver is shut down while not active. I don't find this any more than a really minor inconvenience, since switching vt's with Alt-Fn works during the shutdown process, and even continues to work after the system has halted. You might file a wishlist bug against your favorite xserver though saying that it shouldn't switch vt's on shutdown unless it (the Xserver) was on the currently active vt. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: My 'h' key is unusable
Stelios Parnassidis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just had the base system installation of Hamm, and wanted to type 'which superformat'. 'h' beeps and beeps ... i have to type Ctrl-V h to use it. I looked into the /etc/terminfo/l/linux via ... (untic) could find nothing. What's wrong with my very 'h'? Heh? :( Could it be a missing backslash or caret in your /etc/inputrc? A mis-quoted section of your bash initialization files? It sounds almost as if bash is set to interpret h as delete-next-character (something that people sometimes want the delete key to do; I can see how on a poorly thought-out installation, one might want Control-h to do this). See if h does indeed behave this way by typing some stuff, backing up, and seeing if you can delete things with h. To track down the problem, I'd suggest doing: (at the bash prompt) bind -p | less and inside less search for h (less doesn't use readline, so it shouldn't be affected by the weird-h stuff). Then, I guess I'd look at /etc/inputrc, ~/.inputrc, and the various bash initialization files for anything that might be causing this. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: FVWM2 (New X user)
Matt Kopishke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have X (finally) working on my machine (bo), I am running FVWM2 and was wondering what I do to add a pattern or color (prefer pattern) to the desktop. I now you edit the fvwm.rc file, but what do I edit, what format file do I use for the pattern, and were would I put it? Actually, the debian fvwm2 setup is made for easy customization, so that you don't need to edit huge monolithic .fvwm2rc files. Just create a subdir. of your home directory call .fvwm2 - then put the background you want into one of the following files: ~/.fvwm2/background.xpm ~/.fvwm2/background.gif ~/.fvwm2/background.jpg (If multiple files are present, .xpm takes precedence over .gif which takes precedence over .jpg) You can also just change the color by putting the color name (like red or blue) into the file ~/.fvwm2/background.color Finally, you can get it to choose a random background by creating a file called ~/.fvwm2/background.list, and listing one background file per line. DANIEL MARTIN P.S. One mistake people often make is to download a ~/.fvwm2rc file from the net or use a friend's - in that case, you lose all the nice debian-specific stuff in Debian's fvwm2 setup. If you ever want to do something to tweak fvwm2's setup, just add lines to the file ~/.fvwm2/post.hook as though you were adding lines to your ~/.fvwm2rc. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Xconsole vs security
Shaleh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If your password is in pap-secrets it is supposed to remain just that -- a secret. I never see my password come wizzing by on xconsole and I use pap too. So, now we need to figure out why. The \q only works in a chatscript. Do you perhaps have the debug option uncommented in /etc/ppp/options? Or is there a debug in /etc/ppp/peers/provider? That's the only thing in the ppp sources even looks like it could cause a password to appear in a log. (Though admittedly, I haven't examined the sources in too much detail). Tell me, what does the message with the ISP password look like? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: -post_data
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gerald V. Livingston lI) writes: This isn't debian specific, but what the hey. How does one find out the format needed to use the -post_data switch in LYNX to feed data to a remote CGI using a script? The data format is exactly what's sent to the server, so any reference on http should tell you. Briefly, it's the syntax used in URL's after the ? - that is, data consists of one or more key/value pairs separated by ampersands (). The key and the value are separated by an equals sign (=), and sometimes a pair may consist of only a key, with no equals sign or value. Within the key and value, characters other than [A-Za-z0-9] are encoded (*) - spaces (character 32) are replaced by plus signs (+) and other characters are replaced by %XX, where XX is the hexidecimal character code (note that spaces then can also be written as %20 - in fact, any character _can_ be written as a %-sequence, but only certain characters need to be written that way) I'm certain that some perl modules in libwww-perl already handle this format as well as getting info. from the server - you're probably much better off using them than trying to pass this to lynx, unless for some reason you're avoiding perl. * Actually, you're allowed to stick more than just the digits and the numbers in without %-encoding them. In theory, the only characters that need to be encoded are Control characters, space, double quote () and any of the characters in: ;/?:@=+#%, but many people encode anything except the letters and digits -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Fvwm95: FvwmTaskBarAutoHide problems
Benno Overeinder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I am using the Fvwm95 window manager and has enabled the infamous FvwmTaskBarAutoHide option. With Debian 1.3, the Fvwm95 taskbar appeared automagically if the mouse hits the bottom of a virtual desktop (i.e., generated a certain event which made the taskbar to be raised). However, if the virtual desktop is one of the lower most of the desktops (i.e, with DeskTopSize 3x2, the lower three), the specific event is not generated and the taskbar did not appear. With the Fvwm95 distribition that comes with Debian 2.0, this problem is solved, that is, in the lower virtual desktops the taskbar appears without any problems. But now the taskbar appears in the other virtual desktops very slowly and in steps. The mouse changes from shape each time the taskbar raises with a step, as if a series of X events are necessary to raise the taskbar instead of a single event. 1. I've seen the problem (and should fix it, since I'm the Debian maintainer for fvwm95) 2. The taskbar is being raised in a series of XMoveWindow calls, by two pixels each call. I can try to make that an option in the next Debian fvwm95 package; howver, there's much to do with getting Debian's versioning back in sync with the upstream source, among other things, so this may wait. 3. I don't know of a simple solution (I rarely use the TaskBarAutoHide myself.) I'll see if I can disable some X events on the TaskBar as it's moving, but this could cause other problems. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: libc6 upgrade crash my machine!!!!!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After running dselect and trying to upgrade all my old hamm packages including libc6, nothing works now it seems the libc6 package is corrupted or something, i've tried to mount the file system and run dpkg -i --root=/mnt --admindir=/mnt/var/lib libc6xxx.deb but it complains about preinstall and postinstall scripts ( -- not found --). Please Help There was very recently a libc6 package (2.0.7r-3) that died if you had an /etc/ld.so.preload file or the environment variable LD_PRELOAD set. I'd recommend temporarily moving that file (after mounting your drive with the rescue disk as above) if it exists and commenting out any definitions of LD_PRELOAD in /etc/profile or similar files. You should then be able to boot your system and upgrade to the latest (-5) libc6 that fixes these problems. (This should be on the ftp mirrors now; though I can't get through to ftp.debian.org at the moment, I can see it on non-us.debian.org, so it's probably on all the major ftp mirrors) You can then move /etc/ld.so.preload back and re-enable any LD_PRELOAD settings. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Xconsole vs security
Nuno Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I'm using Debian 1.3.1 and KDE Beta4. When I call the xconsole program I could almost activity on my machine but I think there's something wrong ... Sometimes on xconsole I could see my login and password as when I write them ! It's rigth !?!? I don't think so ! As I work as root and have a username on my machine there's no problem but if I add a new account if someone call xconsole could see my password to my ISP ! The question, I think, is that you are concerned because when you dial up, the password to your isp gets logged by the chat program, and so appears in the xconsole window. You worry that anyone you give an account to can call up xconsole and thereby see your ISP password, which would be a bad thing. Ok, to begin with you can make it so that chat doesn't log your password by putting a \q in front of it. In my chatscript (/etc/ppp.chatscript on a Debian 1.3.1 machine) I have: ABORTBUSY ABORTNO CARRIER ABORTVOICE ABORTNO DIALTONE ATDT4103660015 name MyISPlogin word \qMyISPpasswd This will replace your ISP password with all question marks (like: ?) in the logged messages. (This next bit is directed at the list) I was going to add more, but then I noticed that the pipe xconsole reads is world-read - does this strike anyone else as a security hole? Surely the information dumped into /dev/xconsole is as sensitive as that dumped into /var/log/messages, right? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: problem with libpam0 and libpam-util in stable
Chris R. Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm probably missing something obvious here, but I can't seem to get libpam0 and libpam-util to install, because aparently they depend on each other. Do I need to use dpkg --force ?? Thanks, Chris Try specifying both on the same dpkg command line: dpkg -i libpam0_whatever.deb libpam-util_whatever.deb Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Does this message strike anyone as significantly less helpful than the former mail a message with the subject unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] message? I'll grant you that people screwed that up too, but this seems to be asking for people to get confused. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: [Debian] Urgent: how to create Debian CD from non-debian UNIX system
Nico De Ranter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, we have a local mirror of the debian distribution that we use to install our Debian PC's. However next week we will have to install Debian on a PC which has no access to our network so we want to create a CD starting from the current mirror. unfortunately the mirror is located on a SUN and none of my Linux machines has enough harddisk to contain a CD. I tried installing the sources for debian-cd but they don't seem to contain any documentation. -( Thanks in advance, Nico Well, it is also possible to use CD images that other people have created (assuming that your SUN has good network connectivity and that it has hard drive space to spare) - if you want to make a CD for installing a bo (aka 1.3 or 1.3.1) Debian system you can get the official CD image in any number of places - the www.debian.org site should tell you where in detail. If instead you want a CD that can create a hamm (aka 2.0, or at this point really 2.0-beta, since officially 2.0 doesn't exist yet) system, you can look at the webpage http://www.uk.debian.org/debian-cd/cd-images/ , where Phillip Hands has put his 2.0-beta CD images (I'd suggest only using the 2.0beta1 images on that site, however). I know this isn't exactly what you asked about, but it may be much easier to go get someone else's CD image than trying to nudge the debian-cd scripts into working on a SUN. DANIEL MARTIN -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Is Netscape Navigator really only for 16-bit color?
Chip Grandits [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've installed Netscape Communicator v4.05 on my bo system running Xwindows with the FVWM manager. I don't have any Motif or Motif clones. When I attempt to browse to a page which uses Java, Netscape just crashes immediately and goes away. (No harm to anything else - as far as I can tell). The one thing I turned up from my own research is to ensure that Moz_2.zip is in a particular directory ( I think /usr/local/netscape - whatever it said that's where it is on my system). Does anyone know why it's going down? Do I need some additional Java Support Packages besides that which comes with Netscape? Do I need another archive utility for moz_2.zip. Is there a particular log file I can look at to get more info? Tell me - how did you install netscape? Did you install it with the Debian netscape-installer package, or did you attempt to do your own installation? If you installed netscape without using the Debian package, then try starting netscape up with: MOZILLA_HOME=/usr/local/netscape netscape (where instead of /usr/local/netscape, you would actually put in whatever directory you used - you seem to indicate that you put netscape in /usr/local/netscape which is why I used that dir.). If this works for you, you may consider replacing the symbolic link that's invoking netscape (you can find out where this link is with which netscape) with a little script that looks something like this: #!/bin/sh MOZILLA_HOME=/usr/local/netscape export MOZILLA_HOME exec /usr/local/netscape/netscape $@ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: what goes into .xinitrc and what into .xsession
Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i tried to figure out while setting up the system whats supposed to go under the .xinitrc file and what into .xsession. Because I tried to use .xinitrc first to initialise stuff (like chosing window manager) but it won't work, so i put the things in .xsession and the most did, exept that every time that people tell me where to change configuration they tell me to put stuff in .xinitrc so i wondered. Maybe I'm doing something wrong. Thanx It is a bit confusing, isn't it. Here's the situation under Debian: If you start X with startx, then: first it tries to do the stuff in your .xinitrc; if you don't have one, it goes and invokes the system xinitrc, which on Debian goes and does what happens when you use xdm to start X. If you start X with xdm (the graphical login screen): It does the stuff in the system-wide Xsession. On Debian, this does nice things like suck in your ~/.Xresources file if you have one and then if you have your own ~/.xsession, goes and does that - if you don't have your own ~/.xsession, it tries to start an xterm and whatever you have set up as the default window manager for your system. The combined moral of this on Debian is: A ~/.xinitrc is pointless - if you put all your customizations into ~/.xsession and delete your ~/.xinitrc then you'll get the same environment no matter how you start X, and when using startx you'll get all the nice standard startup things from the system-wide Xsession. It's really the better way to go. Also how do i load the modules for fvwm2? they won't load for me with an error message saying that they should be called from inside fvwm (i tried t load them from inside fvwm2 but it didn't work) And how do i set a back groung pix under fvwm2 and afterstep (can it be jpeg?) The error message means to say that the modules should be called directly by fvwm2, (e.g. through a menu item or in a startup file). The easiest way is to install the menu package and then use the menus that appear when you click on the left button in the root window. (the root window is what is known to the rest of the world as the background - also note that you'll have to exit fvwm2 after installing menu) If you want to invoke a certain module with command line arguments, then you might try using the FvwmTalk module - this lets you send commands to fvwm2 as though it were reading them from a startup file. Also, if you've been getting non-Debian advice on configuring your system, someone may have told you to create a ~/.fvwm2rc file. Resist the temptation. Debian has a much better way to configure fvwm2 - read the /usr/doc/fvwm2/README.sysrc.gz for details. (Basically, create a directory ~/.fvwm2 and then put anything you want to add to the default setup into ~/.fvwm2/post.hook and all will be well) Finally, a background picture is easy with the Debian fvwm2 setup (I don't know about afterstep myself) - just put your background image into ~/.fvwm2/background.jpg. Or, to automatically size your picture to fit your screen, you can abuse the program that chooses background images and put the single line: -fullscreen /path/to/my/background.jpg into the file ~/.fvwm2/background.list - note that a ~/.fvwm2/background.jpg file takes precedence over a background.list file. You can add more lines to the background.list file to have it choose a random one each time you start X. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to make an intermediate machine receive mail while the destination is down?
Carlos Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I need to shutdown our main mail server for hardware changes, and I'd like that another machine in our department receives the mail and hold it until the main server is up again, and then sends the stored mail to the server. How can this be done? The temporary holder can be our gateway/dns, for example, so that packets already travel through it. Carlos Well, you'll need to modify your MX dns record to point to the new destination - you'll then need to tell the gateway machine that's holding the mail explicitly how to route it, or else the machine holding the mail will try to send it to itself, and mail will get caught in a loop. How to do this depends on what mail software is on your gateway/dns machine. But why bother? If your main server is only going to be down for one or two days, then there shouldn't be any problem in simply not having something to hold the mail - if the sites sending the mail can't get through to your mail server, they'll just hold it until they can get through. Typically, what will happen is that people trying to send mail to your site will only even notice that something's odd if your server is down for three days (in that case, the person who sent the mail will get something from their mail server saying This message has been undeliverable for 3 days; we'll keep trying for another 9 days), and all the mail will get through if your main server is down for less than twelve. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No E 14 yet
M.C. Vernon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I too like fvwm2, but I can't configure the menu - I've RTFM and looked at the config pages, but I can't add things to sub-groups of the main menu - whatever I try just ends up at the bottom of the main menu (i.e. the `root' menu that comes up first when you click the mouse). I guess you must have got this sussed (I know a lot of packages auto-add themselves to the menus in the right place, but I'd like to add some more, and the big config file has do not edit all over it :( ) The problem with RTFM is that sometimes it's hard to figure out which manual it is one is supposed to read. Hooking into the auto-generated menus is best done through the menu package - point your favorite web browser to file://localhost/usr/doc/menu/html/index.html and read the section on How a user can override the menus. The advantage of this is that your new entries would appear in other menus should you choose to change window managers. (You can also make certain menu entries fvwm2 specific, but even then they'll appear in things like fvwm95 which can, in theory, do anything fvwm2 can) Alternatively, you could in your post.hook have code like: AddToMenu /Debian/XShells Super-user xterm Exec ssh -l root localhost xterm -title Root Shell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xemacs splits mail
Stefan Gödel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm using VM. Does this really matter? I always felt that reading and writing / sending of mail are very distinct from each other (at least in xemacs). I'm using the usual mail mode with mime extensions to write my mail. My variable help gives me: `mime-editor/split-message' is a variable declared in Lisp. Value: nil Documentation: *Split large message if it is non-nil. [tm-edit.el] I have (setq mime-editor/split-message nil) in my ~/.emacs file. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: jdk1.1-runtime
Ed Cogburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What you are essentially trying to do here is to upgrade from libc5 to libc6 (the JDK was compiled for libc6). This is not a trivial task. It is the heart of the difference between Debian 1.3 and 2.0. There is a shell script called autoup.sh in the developer's corner on http://www.debian.org that can automate the worst of the upgrade (it will upgrade via ftp). After that, you can use dselect to finish the upgrade (also via ftp). Be warned though, it took me the better part of a day (~10 hrs) to download everything for this, although a minimal install should take less. The ftp location for hamm is 'ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/dists/hamm/main'. Although I was using the jdk1.1 for a long time before upgrading to libc6 - the old jdk1.1 package allowed one to install it on a bo system, which was most appreciated at the time. I still have the 1.1.3.v2-1 .deb packages if someone wants them (these can be installed on a libc5 system) - note however that there may be bugs the maintainer has fixed in recent packages. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Q: How to get class String from libg++272 with Debian2.0
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, May 29, 1998 at 02:31:29PM +0200, Waldemar ¯urowski wrote: I switched from Debian 1.3 to Debian 2.0 while I was writing a program for my final exam of my study. I used in many places class String, and class which implements regular expression. When I did upgrade, I didn't check if everything had compiled ok. First of all, I had to use EGCS g++, which uses stdc++2.8, as g++ from wasn't anymore in GCC package. It seems there isn't any String class in stdc++-lib. I know that String _is_ in libg++-dev, but stdc++-dev and libg++-dev conflict which each other. I'd like to go back to g++ from GCC but I don't see it anywhere. SNIP I've built libg++2.8 and libg++2.8-dev packages for use with egcs's g++. Those packages are currently still in the Incoming directory, so you'll have to fetch them from a mirror of Incoming (see http://www.debian.org/devel/incoming_mirrors.html for a list) for now. Yay! I've been waiting for this; I know, I'll migrate my code eventually... The fastest way I found to getting to where I could compile old g++ source code was to install the altgcc and libg++-altdev packages; I know, it's not the best solution, but it was the one I could set up quickest at the time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: WindowMaker | Menu? - Xterms
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anyone know how to get something like, xterm -bg black -cr green -fg white to be the command that gets spawned from WindowMaker's XShells-Xterm, instead of the ugly default xterm? Thanks in advance, Timothy Three solutions: 1) decide that the default xterm isn't so ugly after all. 2) Modify Xresources to make the xterm that appears with xterm be what you want; putting the following into ~/.Xresources (and either restarting X or running xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources) will do that: xterm*background: black xterm*foreground: white xterm*cursorColor: green (You can put these lines into /etc/X11/Xresources to affect every account on your machine) 3) Modify the menu entry - to do this, you should (as root) copy /usr/lib/menu/default/xbase to /etc/menu/xbase and then edit it, changing the xterm to xterm -bg black -cr green -fg white so that a portion of that file reads: ?package(xbase):needs=x11 section=XShells \ longtitle=Xterm: terminal emulator for Xtitle=Xterm\ command=xterm -bg black -cr green -fg white You should then (as root) run update-menus. You can also (if you want to make this change just for your account, and not for all the others on your system) put the modified xbase file into ~/.menu/xbase and run update-menus as your normal (non-root) user. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: jdk1.1-runtime
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I managed to find the old jdk 1.1.3v2 .debs which can be installed on bo (libc5 systems). I've put them into my public_html directory on master.debian.org - note that although I am a debian maintainer, I do not maintain nor never have maintened the jdk packages. md5sums: c875ec46c914747fd24d0e4e034c8101 jdk1.1-dev_1.1.3.v2-1.deb e0cb8617175008fc6a09ccfbc0c52840 jdk1.1-docdemo_1.1.3.v2-1.deb 630b752a48d7842b53dce47cb7a9920a jdk1.1-runtime_1.1.3.v2-1.deb Each of these are available via http: http://master.debian.org/~fizbin/jdk1.1-dev_1.1.3.v2-1.deb http://master.debian.org/~fizbin/jdk1.1-docdemo_1.1.3.v2-1.deb http://master.debian.org/~fizbin/jdk1.1-runtime_1.1.3.v2-1.deb -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: latin1 Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.4, an Emacs/PGP interface iQCVAwUBNW8knxveYt4Z3sD9AQFllQQAjBCzKiye8QwE6UoRisnmZNV3zPeeMd4u mUflbfFU8koHhfyL5A5N1Edkukt3S8byFpGGLf6HvSkRYoWsSgTUSSsZy/wLtYJZ 26/QN3jJMQLm90fTClX82BBG0vGRUma8Uzr4mdqYQZHOCBwSj/f9GFWNKlMVSfXd eFc27gLnfqk= =ADGE -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: WindowMaker | Menu? - Xterms
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Cool! Thanks alot! Can you tell me where is the documentation for this .Xresources file? man .xresources, man -k xresources etc don't have anything. :( Timothy Three solutions: 1) decide that the default xterm isn't so ugly after all. 2) Modify Xresources to make the xterm that appears with xterm be what you want; putting the following into ~/.Xresources (and either restarting X or running xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources) will do that: xterm*background: black xterm*foreground: white xterm*cursorColor: green (You can put these lines into /etc/X11/Xresources to affect every account on your machine) The real documentation? It's in the Xlib documentation published by the X consortium. Trust me, you don't want that. The basic format of the file is as in the lines above - my ~/.Xresources file looks like this: *scrollBar: true ! make everything have a scrollbar xterm.vt100*translations: #override \ KeyBackSpace: string(\177) \n\ KeyDelete: string(0x1b) string([3~) \n xterm*background: bisque3 xterm*foreground: black netscape*blinkingEnabled: False DctrlIcon*geometry: +1092+670 pmon*geometry: +1052+670 Blank lines are ignored - exclamation points begin comments. A particular application obeys resources if they begin with * or with the application's executable name or with the application's class name (an application's Class name can be found with 'xlsclients -l'). What each resource does is application specific. The xterm man page has several good examples of xresource lines. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: why can't i compile things ???
Mario Filipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Yesterday i (think i) did a mess of my system. I accidently made a strip * on a lib directory. Today when i try to compile anything I always get the following : gcc -O -o poster poster.c -lm ld: warning: cannot find entry symbol _start; defaulting to 080485e0 Can anyone please expalin me how to fix this. Thanks You need to re-install at the very least the ldso package. (Packages usually need to be re-installed with dpkg, not dselect - just say dpkg -i /path/to/file/ldso-what.ever.deb) You should probably also re-install libc6 (assuming you have a hamm system; libc if you're still using bo, aka 1.3). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: changing default screen manger in x
Rev. Joseph Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, May 25, 1998 at 10:04:38PM +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote: Make sure you have allow-user-xsession in /etc/X11/config, then create the file .xsession in your homedir. It should be something like: xterm # start a xterm xterm # start a second one fvwm2# start the windowmanager. Note the missing those should be exec'd, ie exec xterm , etc. WHAT? First off, not using the exec anywhere is _just_fine_. Some people don't like not using that because then there's an extra process floating around until you exit X. If, however, you do decide that you can't afford the (rather small) overhead, or you decide that it's messy to have extra processes just floating there, only the last line (the fvwm2 line) should have exec at the front. If you want to do any cleaning up after you exit X, you need that process hanging around and so can't use exec. exec command is a bit non-sensical. It does nothing different from command and just spreads confusion about what should be in an .xsession file. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I can't get tar to exclude files!!
Admaster Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm running Debian GNU/Linux 1.3 and I've tried many permutations of tar -zcvf test.tar * --exclude=leave_me_out.txt The file I ask to be excluded is reliably INcluded!! What is the correct syntax??? The problem is that --exclude applies only to files tar finds by descending directories, not to files mentioned explicitly on the command line. When you use *, that's the same as typing every file name explicitly (since the shell does not pass tar the *, but instead passes it each file's name - try 'echo *' some time to see what the shell does); therefore, --exclude doesn't apply. The following appears to do what you want - be aware, however, that this tar archive contains ., so when extracting it it will change the permissions of the current directory to the permissions of the directory when the tar archive was made: tar -czvf ../test.tar.gz --exclude='*exclude*pattern*' . (Note the ' marks and the final period - also note that test.tar.gz has to be in a different directory, or it will try to include itself - nasty recursion) Note that it's usually bad form to create a tar archive of files without a directory. That is, if the directory /home/martind/work/vander contains the files I want to make a tar archive out of, it's better to do: cd /home/martind/work/; tar czf vander.tar.gz vander than to do: cd /home/martind/work/vander; tar czf ../vander.tar.gz * The first method will mean that when one extracts the archive, all the extracted files go into a vander/ subdir. The second method means that all the newly extracted files go into the current directory, where there may already be much stuff. Note that if you use the first method, a --exclude will work as you might expect it should. If you really must have a tar archive with files in the current directory, and don't want to have . in the archive, then try: (this should all be one long line) find * -prune \! -name '*exclude*pattern1*' -print | xargs tar czvf testtar.tar.gz --exclude='*exclude*pattern2*' The difference between '*exclude*pattern1*' and '*exclude*pattern2*' is that the first pattern excludes files in the current directory and the second excludes files in subdirs. of the current directory. For example, if I had the following files on my system: /tmp/tartest/ /tmp/tartest/bar /tmp/tartest/tbark /tmp/tartest/frog /tmp/tartest/sounds/ /tmp/tartest/sounds/frogcall.au /tmp/tartest/sounds/dogbark.au /tmp/tartest/sounds/catmeow.au /tmp/tartest/froglegs/ /tmp/tartest/froglegs/recipe1.txt /tmp/tartest/froglegs/recipe2.txt and then I did: cd /tmp/tartest find * -prune \! -name '*frog*' -print | \ xargs tar czvf mytar.tar.gz --exclude='*bar*' I would then get (as the output of 'tar tzf mytar.tar.gz'): bar tbark sounds/ sounds/frogcall.au sounds/catmeow.au Note that the '*frog*' excluded the 'frog' file in the top directory and the 'froglegs' directory. Also note that the '*bar*' didn't exclude the bar and tbark in the top directory (the way the long command is written causes tar to be called with the arguments 'bar', 'tbark', and 'sounds' - these are the output of the find command), but did exclude the 'dogbark.au' in the sounds directory - this is because tar was handed 'sounds' as an argument, and descended into the directory itself. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Matrox Mystique 220 video card
Keith Alen Vance [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I recently installed a Matrox Mystique video card and was wondering what files I am missinf from my xfree86 and where I can get them. I don't have a browser setup on this computer so if you could give me ftp servers that would be great. Here is the error message I get when starting xwindows with afterstep 1.4 installed. I rerean the configuration utility and told it that I had a Matrox Mystique video. I did not select an accelerated server because I was told the matrox cards work with the svga server. For the Mystique 220 card, you really need a more recent Xfree86 than comes with Debian 1.3.1 (aka bo) - you have two choices: 1) upgrade to hamm (aka what will be Debian 2.0) 2) Install the XFree86 3.3.1 binaries yourself I think method 1) is preferrable, but you can find (by searching the mailing list archives for mystique from February) a description of how to do 2) as well. If you decide to do 1), be certain to look at http://www.gate.net/~storm/FAQ/libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO.html first. There's also a script that will do most of the upgrade for you somewhere - I think it's in the Developer's corner section of the debian web site. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Xwindows not working
Keith Alen Vance [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have recently been screwing up my system and I am about ready to trash the whole thing and start over from scratch. I purchased a new video card Mystique 220 and I am trying to get it work with Xfree86 and AfterStep. I downloaded the files for Xfree86 3.3.1 and installed them and then setup afterstep 1.4. The problem is that if I do a startx if returns an error that it can't find afterstep.So if I go in to the .xinitrc file and comment the afterstep line out xwindows starts and then shuts down without any error messages. What I am saying is that it starts and then automatically shutdown right away. I really screwed things up when I was extracting the xfree86 files. I extracted them in the wrong directory at least once. So my hard drive is almost full. Is there a way I can delete Files by date. I would really like to totally back out of everything that I have done today and start over with a fresh kernel and the bare necessities. I am reluctant to just wipe my drive because I installed Linux via ftp and that takes awhile. Any suggestions would be great. Well, unfortunately extracting files usually gives the newly extracted files their old date, rather than the current one. However, what you might do is find out where the files went - you can do this with: find / -name 'XF86*' You can find out what a specific tar file extracts to with: tar tf whatever.tar or tar tzf whatever.tar.gz Then, go to the directory where you were when you did the incorrect extraction and try something like: tar tzf whatever.tar.gz | xargs rm -i (you may have to be in the directory above where you did the extraction, depending on how the tar file is built) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why fetchmail didn't download my e-mail ?
Ionut Borcoman at musa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: SNIP bash-2.01$ fetchmail fetchmail: 1 message for borco at mail.mailbox.ro. reading message 1 of 1 (2579 bytes) fetchmail: SMTP error: 501 @mail.mailbox.ro : colon expected after route fetchmail: SMTP error: 501 ionut : sender address must contain a domain fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from mail.mailbox.ro bash-2.01$ In /var/log/exim 1998-05-20 17:29:35 unqualified sender rejected: ionut H=localhost (debian.borco.net) [127.0.0.1] (ionut) The problem isn't with fetchmail exactly, it's with exim - What appears to be happening is that error messages have no envelope sender (presumably to prevent stuff from being thrown back at them - there's no point in generating an error message for an error message), so fetchmail just uses your name as the envelope sender. Exim, however, doesn't want to accept your unqualified (unqualified here means a name such as ionut and not [EMAIL PROTECTED]) username as a sending address. The way to tell exim to behave more like less paranoid mailers and accept this unqualified address is to put the following in /etc/exim.conf: sender_unqualified_hosts = localhost Hmmm... I wonder if I've been missing some error messages because of this... (I didn't have this line in my exim.conf until now either). -- I need a sig... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Overriding fvwm95 buttons in the post.hook?
Douglas Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have read the documentation on fvwm95 and on FvwmButtons but I am still at a loss to decide how I would override definitions of buttons in /etc/X11/fvwm95/system.fvwm95rc What I would like to do is to use rclock rather than xclock for one of the buttons. (rclock can be configured to alert you to incoming mail so a single window can do double duty of displaying the clock and an xbiff-like indicator of incoming mail.) If I add the lines *DebianFvwm95Buttons(Title rclock, Icon clock.xpm, \ Swallow(UseOld) rclock 'Exec /usr/bin/X11/rclock -bg \#c0c0c0 \ -geometry -1500-1500 ') to my ~/.fvwm95/post.hook file I get the rclock in addition to all the other buttons. What I would like to do is to remove the other buttons and then add the ones I want. Is this possible using the post.hook file? Well, I'm not entirely certain it is - this is one of the reasons I really need to get off my but and package up something like Redhat's configuration scheme. Actually... (checking the fvwm95 man page) Yes, it is possible. What you need to do is say: DestroyModuleConfig DebianFvwm95Buttons This wipes out all the default buttons - you can add the ones you want back in. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pppd 2.3.5: peer refused to authenticate problem
Shaleh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The answer is easy. The new ppp's set auth on by default. They did not use to do so. Edit the provider script and add noauth near the end. All will be happy. To be a bit more explicit - make certain that the keyword noauth is in /etc/ppp/peers/provider. Also, note that you no longer need to have your /etc/ppp/peers/provider (which is where the contents of bo's /etc/ppp.options_out got dumped) all one line. (In fact, I don't think you ever needed it all in one line, but now you certainly can use multiple lines); mine looks like: # The chatscript (be sure to edit that file too) connect /usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/chatscripts/provider bsdcomp 15 crtscts mru 2000 mtu 2000 defaultroute noipdefault /dev/modem 38400 modem persist noauth I find the file much more readable this way; not that it changes too often, but it just looked messy before. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
modprobe log entries
Does anyone know how to have the modprobe in hamm display more descriptive log messages when it can't load a module? I've been getting messages in my log like: May 14 13:27:41 cush modprobe: can't locate module and I've been trying to track them down, (they appear whenever netscape is started) but it would really help if I knew what module it is that modprobe can't locate (as a test, doing 'insmod IMnothere' gives the identical log entry - no clue of what module was asked for). I seem to remember that modutils from bo would actually tell you in the logs what was being looked for. (Can someone running bo confirm this for me? That is, that the unfound module is mentioned in the logs, not just as output of insmod.) I'm running hamm, modutils version 2.1.85-10. And just to head off some of the 'try this and see if it works' replies, yes I do have alias net-pf-3 off alias net-pf-4 off alias net-pf-5 off in my /etc/conf.modules. Hmmm... this may be a bug against modutils, as I'm almost certain that bo gave you a clue in the logs. -- Daniel Martin, who doesn't really have a good sig yet. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: modprobe log entries
Daniel Martin at cush [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anyone know how to have the modprobe in hamm display more descriptive log messages when it can't load a module? I've been getting messages in my log like: May 14 13:27:41 cush modprobe: can't locate module and I've been trying to track them down, (they appear whenever netscape is started) but it would really help if I knew what module it is that modprobe can't locate Well, I don't know what I thought I was doing before, because modprobe appears to still give full module information when it can't find a module; it's just that in this case the module being asked for is the empty string (); kerneld is calling modprobe with something equivalent to: /sbin/modprobe -k -s '' So maybe this is a bug against kerneld, as I can't imagine a normal situation that would cause it to ask for an empty module. And I have no idea what module binfmt-0 might be; it doesn't appear as one of the aliases on my machine's modprobe -c. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xdm and shutdown
Jorge Daniel Ruckj [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all. How I do a shutdown if I use xdm? Thanks Are you aware that even while using xdm one can press Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get to a text console? I find a surprising number of linux users unaware of this fact. From the text console, you can do a shutdown as normal. A while ago (within the last two weeks, I think) someone posted some nice tcl/tk code that one could add to some of xdm's startup scripts to get a little shutdown button to appear on the xdm startup screen. I'll see if I can go dig it up... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: help w/ ttysnoop
Shaleh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can someone please help me setup ttysnoop?? I have set up the entry in inetd.conf. /etc/inetd.conf telnet stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.telnetd -L/usr/sbin/ttysnoops /etc/snooptab * socket login /bin/login When I telnet to my box, ttysnoops appears to not spawn. Any help appreciated. Have you told inetd to look at the new config. file? You do this with: (as root) killall -HUP inetd Or I suppose you could reboot, but that's win95-ish thinking. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: off-topic autofs permissions
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi! I guess this it not a debian related problem, but: I am setting up a small Network with a linux server and some linux, win95 and nt-workstation clients. The clients shall be able to access the cd-rom and zip-drive on the server using autofs. The problem is that the zip drive is mounted as drwxr-xr-x root.root /misc/zip, so windoze clients can´t write on it. I RTFM, but did not find a way to set other permissons. Any ideas someone? There are two ways to do this - one is to make the zip drive have an ext2 filesystem instead of a dos one, but then you won't be able to use the zip drive on MS machines. The other is as follows: I assume that in your /etc/fstab you have something like: /dev/sda4/misc/zip vfat noexec0 0 (Or you may have type fat instead of vfat, or you may have some other options instead of noexec (like, say, defaults)) Anyway, what you need to do is make the following change to /etc/fstab: /dev/sda4/misc/zip vfat noexec,umask=0000 0 (If you just had defaults before, you can just replace it with the umask=000 bit) Then everyone will be able to write to /misc/zip. Also, anyone will be able to delete anyone else's files on /misc/zip, and you won't be able to tell who did it - this is because the fat/vfat filesystem can't keep track of who owns what file; attempting to make the directory sticky (like /tmp is) won't work. I suggest that it really might be best to have some other directory, which was set with permissions like /tmp that would be copied onto the zip disk every five minutes or so by a cron job. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: chmod not working
Alain Toussaint [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i was messing with some permission to directory but i think i found a bug in chmod,i try to run chmod 751 on my home directory (i put the content of the home directory on another partition because of lack of space on my root partition),but the permission is still drwxr-x--x,i even tried to run chmod u=rwx,g=rx,o=x on it to no avail,does all this qualify as a bug ??? I think that you must think that 'drwxr-x--x' means something different than it does. Seeing this permission in ls means that the user (owner) of the directory has read, write, and execute privileges, that people in the same group as the owner have read and execute privileges, and that anyone else has only execute privilege. Did you perhaps mistype the above and leave out the word not somewhere? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Unidentified subject!
(I've replied to debian-user instead of debian-devel because this really belongs on -user) Ian Keith Setford [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yo- I would like suggestions and input on how to sell Debian in the sense of Debian versus RedHat, FreeBSD, or any other distribution. I will attempt to persuade a small committee of faculty to install Debian on a yet to be purchased machine. The machine is an experiment at my university to see if a select group of students can successfully administer a machine. I have my own views of why Debian is better and honestly I love it to death but the marketing and X-based configuration of RedHat seem to be weighing against me. I am also aware of a notion that FreeBSD is somewhat more secure than linux which I must also combat. Well, I can only provide some anecdotal evidence - my undergrad. school recently (in the past year) switched the student-admisitered unix box from an ugly slackware version to FreeBSD. While both, as far as I can tell, are administration nightmares (though the people managing it now seem to be making saner decisions than the old slackware group did, so it's not as bad), at least it was possible to get X working on the box when it was Slackware. This has not been possible so far for the FreeBSD folks. Also, last I looked at FreeBSD it was still using some old X - that is, earlier that X11R6.3. The consequence is that X windows on FreeBSD was _much_ less secure as anyone who could telnet in could grab a picture of the display (or worse). That, however, may have changed. So if X is a priority, don't go with FreeBSD. Where FreeBSD's more secure reputation comes up is that occasionally bugs are found in the Linux networking kernel code that make it possible for people to write programs which take the machine down. These are fixed and patches are usually distributed within a week - often before many people even know the bug exists. FreeBSD rarely has this problem. This is in my experience the only time the reputation of FreeBSD being more secure is justified; also, it's a relatively minor worry, what with recompiling the linux kernel being as easy as it is. Finally, I'd avoid FreeBSD for the same reason I'd avoid slackware - no packaging system. On a student-run box (and therefore, presumably administered by volunteers and/or people with less than 5 years experience as unix sysadmins), this is a definite priority. RedHat's only advantage over Debian that I can see is in the ease of initial setup - and there, only in the ease of initial X setup. (which is, IMHO, a major flaw in Debian 1.3.1 - X Setup is poorly documented, or at least it was when I did it - maybe the FAQ-O-Matic has taken care of things). RedHat is a pain to upgrade and a royal pain to administer remotely. With Debian, it's a snap. (The bo-hamm upgrade notwithstanding, which is easy if you actually read the documentation beforehand). Please suggest the best hardware configuration for a machine that will host thousands of users and be up 24/7. I suspect that an i386 machine would be most suitable only because I am unaware of the stability or availability of Alpha/Sparc ports and due to the lesser price of i386 hardware. Sure - Pentium or whatever. The most important thing is to have gobs of memory - 64 meg minimum. Also, if you buy the hardware in components yourself, make certain you have enough fans. (Some Cyrix chips are known to overheat - if you have the money, there's nothing wrong with buying genuine intel). Please point me towards any information that might help me get Debian on such an important machine at my university. The machine that am I asking for advice in building is a replacement machine for the machine in which this e-mail is being created. I am sorry if this message seems somewhat convoluded but I feel very strongly about having Debian an the operating system on this computer. I lack the advanced programming skills(I receive my degree in Finance in a few months) to be a Debian developer but I sincerely desire to help promote and help the Debian project. On a side note, with whom do I need to correspond with to discuss the use of the Debian logo and name? If anyone was wondering, I attend the University of North Texas located in Denton, Texas (30miles north of Dallas/Ft.Worth). It is the 3rd largest university in Texas. Please feel free to reply directly to me or to the list! Thanks again, -Ian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
modprobe log entries
Does anyone know how to have modprobe display more descriptive log messages when it can't load a module? I've been getting messages in my log like: Apr 22 16:38:52 cush modprobe: can't locate module and I've been trying to track them down, (they appear whenever netscape is started) but it would really help if I knew what module it is that modprobe can't locate (as a test, doing 'insmod IMnothere' gives the identical log entry - no clue of what module was asked for). I seem to remember that modutils from bo would actually tell you in the logs what was being looked for. (Can someone running bo confirm this for me? That is, that the unfound module is mentioned in the logs, not just as output of insmod.) I'm running hamm, modutils version 2.1.85-10. And just to head off some of the 'try this and see if it works' replies, yes I do have alias net-pf-3 off alias net-pf-4 off alias net-pf-5 off in my /etc/conf.modules. Hmmm... this may be a bug against modutils, as I'm almost certain that bo gave you a clue in the logs. -- Daniel Martin, who doesn't really have a good sig yet. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian list `From' line (Re: exim mutt, weird)
Santiago Vila Doncel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Peter S Galbraith wrote: I have a procmail recipe to catch the Debian mailing list traffic : :0 * ^From [EMAIL PROTECTED] debian I would not trust the From line. Why don't you just use the Resent-Sender field? This works mostly, but again a few people have a Resent-Sender added to their mail before it goes to the listserver, and they then slip through. I've found the X-Mailing-List header to be the most reliable way of sorting. (Of course, if debian's listserv added a received: header that told for whom the message was received, I might key off that as I do for some non-debian lists). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Unidentified subject!
Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, 18 Apr 1998, Scott D. Killen wrote: What exactly is the hamm release? hamm is the nickname for the next version of Debian, 2.0. It has been frozen for testing since April 1st and most of the problems seem to have dissapeared now. It is slated for release in late April. Don't hold your breath. At the rate things are going, we'll be lucky to get it out the door by June. *sigh* I wish I had time to help maintainers with release-blocking bugs... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: why?
George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Why would any list accept an email message with the above in the To: header? Your question could be asking one of two different things: 1) Why would the list accept mail with an obviously bogus To: header? 2) Why would the list accept mail that doesn't have the list address in the To: or Cc: header fields? The answer to 1) is that the list software can't tell what addresses are obviously fake - just because an email address isn't valid by the time it reaches the listserv doesn't mean it's a fake. (As an example, suppose I have an internal network with a mail gateway. I send something to someone else on the internal network and Cc: it to the list. The To: header ends up looking like To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], which is a valid mail address only internally. The listserv couldn't tell the difference betweeen this and an obviously fake address.) The answer to 2) is that the listserv does this right now because it's easier than checking all the header fields. However, there's no technical reason (other than that one might have to rewrite the list-processing software again) for not doing this that I can see. It would disallow people Bcc:'ing stuff to the list, but for an open list with publicly accessible archives, is this really a necessary feature? Also, someone in the US State of Maryland might want to consider donating a mail server for Debian. That email would have been grounds for criminal charges had the server been located in Maryland. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xclock -sticky ?
shaul [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am running fvwm2. I want that xclock will stick to the screen while I am moving to a different part of the screen (My screen is divided into 3x3 parts). How can I accomplish it with xclock command line ? How could I learn it without someone telling me that ? Well, I don't think that it can be accomplished with the xclock command line. However, if you put the appropriate Style line in, say, ~/.fvwm2/post.hook, you can make xclocks sticky: Style xclock Sticky This is in the fvwm2 manpage. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Strange umount permission denied
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Wilderspin) writes: On 16 Apr 98 13:17:25 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I keep getting an error message telling me that I can't unmount my CD drive. The simplest thing this could be is that one of your shells has /cdrom as their current directory. You can't unmount until you cd out of there. You can find out which processes (if any) are using a given filesystem with: fuser -m /dev/hdc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: bash_2.01.1-1 segfaults
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi! I have problems installing this version of bash: postinst-script segfaults. Other scripts using /bin/sh also get segfaults now and loggin in with the new bash isn´t possible :-( . I am currently logged in as root with an old (bo) bash, so the system is quite useabel. I have the latest libc6, ncurses3.4 and libreadlineg. Previous Version of bash was 2.01-5. So, if there is anyone out there who can help. Are you certain that you have version 2.1-8 of the libreadlineg2 library installed? The only time I've heard of anything like this is when bash was installed without this library being installed first. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: A few things about Debian Hamm
Stephen Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't believe that is true I am using pine under hamm obn my pc here at work well..I have it installed...due to problems with firewall issues and DHCP I can't seem to get mail working but... I downloaded pine as a binary for hamm I saw the deb of hamm in hamm/non-free/binary-i386/mail -Steve There may have been a pine binary .deb for hamm before people got the license figured out. The fact is, the University of Washington forbids distributing modified binary versions of pine. (There was a binary .deb in bo because the license isn't perfectly clear that that's forbidden, but if you look for it, it's there) Yes, this is highly annoying. Yes, many people have tried to get them to change it, with no success. I know many people annoyed at pine's non-freeness have chosen to go with mutt - you may want to look at that. The original post also asked about the enlightenment wm. The list of prospective packages (http://www.debian.org/doc/prospective-packages.html) lists it as one that's being worked on. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Making Script Run as Super User
Jeff Noxon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Apr 12, 1998 at 02:41:34PM -0500, Butch Kemper wrote: I want a script to execute as the Super User. I have tried several things with the s attribute but have not been successful. Linux won't let you create suid shell scripts -- they're insecure. The s attribute is ignored on shell scripts. You can probably do what you want with the sudo package. Jeff Most scripts won't execute as super user for good reason. HOWEVER, you can get around this either by writing an suid C wrapper program (basically just a C program that exec's your script) or by using perl (which implements its own wrapper program). I'd actually recommend either writing the script in perl or using a perl script to call your shell script, as perl helps you avoid some annoying insecure practices. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Whereis?
Michael Thigpen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: SNIP Also, what has happened to tkdesk? It has been my filebrowser and of choice and more for over a year now, and I cannot find it either. tkdesk was orphaned by its maintainer - I've taken it, but since it was orphaned at the time of the hamm freeze the next tkdesk I upload will go into slink (aka 2.1, what is currently unstable). In the mean time, you can get a tkdesk that will work (though you'll need to make the .deb yourself) from ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/project/orphaned/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Reverse DNS lookup at telnet
Scott D. Killen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I run a server with Debian 1.3.1 installed. This machine is set up as an internet gateway to a 3 bit subnet. Diald is installed for automatic dialup internet connections. My machine runs a caching name server that the machines on the subnet use as a nameserver. The problem is that when I telnet from a machine on the subnet, the server does a reverse lookup of the connecting machine's IP address, but it can't answer it's own request so the Internet link goes up. This makes telnet connections very slow... especially if the dialup connection doesn't work. How can I solve this problem? I want to either stop doing reverse lookups when answering telnet requests, or, ideally, I want to set up bind so it can answer reverse lookups for addresses on my subnet Well, the reverse DNS lookups are probably being caused by the line: ALL: PARANOID in your /etc/hosts.deny. You can disable reverse DNS lookups for all incoming telnet connections by putting this as the first uncommented line in /etc/hosts.allow: in.telnetd: ALL You can also be more selective, and cause the reverse lookups only to happen for certain hosts: in.telnetd: 137.22. Then DNS lookups are not done for hosts whose IP addresses begin with 137.22 You can also use network/netmask notation: in.telnetd: 137.22.96.0/255.255.224.0 Then all hosts on that network would not have reverse DNS lookups done. (that particular network happens to be the network of students' personal machines at my undergraduate school) The reason that reverse DNS lookups are being done at all is that the tcp wrappers are trying to find out if access is allowed, and will collect what information they need to determine this - the ALL: PARANOID rule in /etc/hosts.deny denies access to machines without a resolvable DNS address, so if the wrappers get that far in determining whether or not to grant access, a reverse DNS query will be generated. The suggested lines in /etc/hosts.allow let the tcp wrappers decide to give a host telnet access before getting to that rule, so a reverse DNS query is never necessary. More information in hosts_access(5). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: smail
Ionut Borcoman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, Daniel Martin at cush wrote: (If you want an example exim.conf for a dialup system, I can send you mine) Can you send me the configuration files, please. And some info to set up my e-mail system. Enough people (2) asked for this that I've put it on a web page: http://www.math.jhu.edu/~martind/debian/myexim.html Be aware that these scripts relate to my setup and will NOT work unless they're modified. Mostly, any references to cush or to jhu.edu need to be changed. I have an POP3 account and I aleready configured the ppp. The computer has only an dial-up connection through the modem. I would like to be able to: 1. write e-mail messages offline (the messages should go to a queue). My exim configuration does this. 2. use a script to connect, get my mail from the remote POP3 server, send all the messages from the queue and disconect. I have understood from a friend of mine that there should be a problem with the timming between the time of realising the connection (pon gives back the controll prety quick and you have to go th plog -f to see if you've realy got the connection). So the script should also check that the conection is up. Also it should check that al the messages heve been uploaded from the queue to the remote server. Assuming that you're using bo (aka Debian 1.3.1) you should do something like this: cp /usr/bin/pon /usr/local/bin/ponmail Edit /usr/local/bin/ponmail and after the `cat /etc/ppp.options_out` add ipparam mailonly. Then, put the following 6 lines into /usr/local/bin/poffmail: #!/bin/sh export PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin while netstat --inet -n | grep ESTABLISHED /dev/null; do sleep 5 done poff Then do: chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/poffmail If you don't have the commands 'runq' and some sort of fetchmail command in your /etc/ppp/ip-up then add the following two lines to /etc/ppp/ip-up: runq -qf HOME=~myuser su -c 'fetchmail -d 900' myuser (where 'myuser' should be your regular (i.e. non-root) username) You should probably put a 'killall fetchmail' into your /etc/ppp/ip-down script. Now, at the bottom of your /etc/ppp/ip-up (AFTER any runq or fetchmail commands) put the following 4 lines: if [ $6 = mailonly ]; then sleep 5 /usr/local/bin/poffmail fi What this does: if you start ppp with 'ponmail' istead of 'pon', then your machine will shut down the ppp connection as soon as there are no open connections. Adding the fetchmail and runq lines to /etc/ppp/ip-up causes your machine to deliver any pending mail and get any waiting mail each time ppp is turned on (with pon or with ponmail). Is there a way to set fetchmail to leave the messages on the remote server ? Yes; read the fetchmail man page. The keyword you want is keep. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: visudo
Corey Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: While I was editing my /etc/sudoers file using the visudo command, my computer lost power. When I was able to restore power, everything seemed to be functioning alright. Except, I tried to run the visudo command, and got the following error: visudo: sudoers file busy, try again later. I tried removing the file, then renaming a backup copy to /etc/sudoers, and it still gave the same error. Then I tried removing and reinstalling the package, only to get the same error. If it makes a diff, I'm running hamm. Thanks for any help you can provide, visudo copies the sudoers file to /etc/stmp before working on it. You can fix you problem by doing rm /etc/stmp. Incidentally, you might have been able to diagnose this problem by running 'strace visudo' and then looking at the last few lines before visudo prints the error message it gives you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Tkdesk error
Marc van der Vossen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes... Tell me, what does xlsfonts -fn -*-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-14-* It says font unmatched say? If it says nothing, do as root /var/lib/dpkg/info/xfnt100.postinst and then do xset fp rehash (as your regular user) and then try the xlsfonts command again. If it still says nothing, try doing killall -1 xfs This says xfs not found (or it says not running) as root, and then try the xlsfonts command again. If it still says nothing, exit X, start it up again and try xlsfonts once more. (i.e. if using xdm, get back to the login screen and log back in; if using startx then exit X completely and use startx again) If still nothing, then something's really weird; could you tell me what xset q has to say about the Font Path:? Sure I can, it says /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc Ah ha! - ok, I think I can solve your tkdesk problem. As root, go edit the file /etc/X11/XF86Config and find the line that says FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc And add immediately below it the following lines: FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi Then (after exiting X and logging back in again) all should be well. As for your afterstep problem, it keeps getting weirder. Try this: remove your ~/.xsession and then as root edit the file /etc/X11/window-managers and move the line that talks about afterstep to the top of the list. If that doesn't work (or if there is no afterstep line in /etc/X11/window-managers), then maybe there's something wrong with the afterstep install. Tell me, does running afterstep inside an xterm say something about another WM is running or the screen is already being managed or something similar? (This is what should happen) If instead it says command not found then afterstep is not properly installed. Re-install afterstep. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: smail
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Elliot) writes: I've asked a question about mail before and got a little help. I can now run fetchmail(thanks to whoever showed me how to setup .fetchmailrc). So I can READ my messages. However, I still don't know how to setup smail so I can send my mail. I posted a little info about my connection/hostname,etc... but I think I'll do it again. If anyone can tell me what to do to send mail from my system it would be greatly appreciated. SNIP Well, I once wrote a page on how I did this at http://www.math.jhu.edu/~martind/mybox.html However, I should point out that I've gone on to a different method entirely once I switched from a bo system to a hamm system; I now use exim instead of smail, and it has address rewriting (which is the main thing that needs to happen as mail goes from your machine to the outside world) built in. As I saw someone else put it, the smail author has gone insane - the latest smail that hamm uses has features which cannot be disabled that make it unusable for a dialup system. Though the bo smail can work with a dialup system using the method I describe in that web page, it's probably better to use exim. (If you want an example exim.conf for a dialup system, I can send you mine) Here's the basic info... hostname:castle-of-lions (thanks to whoever told me to use '-' instead of '_') mail server:mail.inxpress.net (it also might be ns1.inxpress.net) username:kingalfor A couple questions. When I tried setting it up to use my ISP's mail server, it tried using my castle-of-lions hostname, and then said 'no fqdn name found'(or something to that effect) Is that because it's trying to use my computer as the server? Also, since my net username is kingalfor, do I have to have a user like that on my computer? Not at all. Your .fetchmailrc should have something like: user kingalfor with password xxx is alfor here after it the poll line. But since you've already gotten fetchmail working, you knew that. Any of my examples will do - I've got the username martind on my machine, and dtm12 on my ISP's mail machine. SNIP OK, one last question kind of pertaining to this... I'm using tin to read news, and I'd like to post messages, however, it automatically starts vi. Is there a way I can get it to use a different editor? I got elm to use edit instead of vi. I would think you could configure tin to use something else. I know vi is powerful, but call me wuss... I really don't want to learn it. I've seen something about a command like EDITOR='editor_name'. I forgot where I read about it, but it made it sounds as if that will set up a default editor so that programs call that one instead of vi or what have you. If I'm wrong about this, could you tell me what this does, and how to use it? the command is: EDITOR=/my/editor/here export EDITOR (or, more succinctly 'export EDITOR=/my/editor/here') - this command sets the EDITOR environment variable, which most programs (and all debian programs that are obeying policy) which invoke an editor will look at before invoking an EDITOR. These commands need to either be typed each time before you start tin or placed in your ~/.bash_profile and ~/.bashrc. A few programs may want to use the VISUAL environment variable if that's set. If setting EDITOR as above doesn't make tin behave, try a: unset VISUAL and then try tin again. If this works, put the unset command in your ~/.bash_profile and ~/.bashrc. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie Setting up Fonts Server in X Windows
Gnoh, Chee Seng [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I recently installed Debian 1.3 and X Window on my machine. I tried running AfterStep but it complained about some fonts (Adobe-Helvetica ...) not found. I encountered the same font problem with other apps as well. I used xinit to start. Please correct me if I am wrong, but I understand that I need to setup xfs in order for these apps to be able to get hold of their fonts. I have installed xserver_s3, xbasefnt, xbase and couple of other font packages 100dpi, cyrillic and scalable. No; you don't need to configure xfs, and in fact I've found it much easier to do without it. All you need to do is add some directories to the X server's font path. There are two ways to do this, at least; I'm only certain about the second method. Method 1) re-run XF86Setup; this requires the xserver-vga16 to be installed. Method 2) As root, edit the file /etc/X11/XF86Config. Add new FontPath lines to the section Files; for example, my /etc/X11/XF86Config has the following: Section Files RgbPath/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/chinese:unscaled FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi-il2 FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi-il2 FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ETL FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/PEX FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/maru FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc-il2 EndSection This is much more than most people will need; I happen to have lots of fonts installed. To find out which lines you should add, do: ls /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem CD-rom
Gabrie van Zanten [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I bought Debian 1.3.1 CD-version a few days ago. I have 2 computers: Pentium2 with CD player and Win98 / WinNT 5.0 on it and a 486 no CD rom / Win95 on it. What I did was copying the whole CD to the harddisk of the 486 using Win95. Unfortunately thats when the links got lost and Linux now can't recognize them as links. Well, as the win95 file system doesn't (really; the shortcut stuff they do is not quite it) support the concept of links, this isn't surprising. Is there a way to copy the files from the cd to the 486 and still keeping those links ? I can install a base setup so maybe using telnet, ftp in combination with tar or something ? (I should preface this by saying that a good portion of this is from memory) Yes; I'll assume that you've gotten your disk partitioned the way you want it (or at least, that you have the Win95/DOS partitions as you want them), and that you plan to keep some Win95 stuff on the machine. Create a dos directory called c:\linux, then create a subdir c:\linux\boot and copy all the files in the boot subdir. of the CD into that. Then, copy the file base1_3.tgz in the bo/disks-i386/1997-05-30/ subdirectory of the CD into your c:\linux directory. (replace 1997-05-30 by whatever date you have) You can then begin the installation process by getting out of win95 into DOS (Restart in DOS Mode), and doing cd c:\linux\boot boot This will in fact boot up linux. When asked where to install the base system from, tell the program that it's on your hard drive's DOS partition, and point the install program to the linux subdirectory. Once the base system is installed, the rest of the install can be done by ftp. (Hopefully you can set your NT box up as an ftp server serving out the CDROM) I know taking the CD out of the first and installing it in the other is an other solution, but I'm not to keen on that because of the accessibility of the computer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Tkdesk error
Marc van der Vossen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: font -*-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-14-* doesn't exist So there is a font missing, where should it be and how should I install it. You should install either the xfnt75 or xfnt100 package. I'll try to remember to have the next tkdesk recommend one of these packages. I've got them both installed, that's the strange part about it. You just start it in xterm, right ? Yes... Tell me, what does xlsfonts -fn -*-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-14-* say? If it says nothing, do as root /var/lib/dpkg/info/xfnt100.postinst and then do xset fp rehash (as your regular user) and then try the xlsfonts command again. If it still says nothing, try doing killall -1 xfs as root, and then try the xlsfonts command again. If it still says nothing, exit X, start it up again and try xlsfonts once more. (i.e. if using xdm, get back to the login screen and log back in; if using startx then exit X completely and use startx again) If still nothing, then something's really weird; could you tell me what xset q has to say about the Font Path:? If you get a result with xlsfonts that's not nothing, try running tkdesk again. An other question: I have installed Afterstep, but now I need to get it started, I think .xinitrc or something like that has to be modified, how should I do that You should modify your ~/.xsession to say something like: exec afterstep How can I do that with the standard edit ? Where can I find that file, I found Xsession which referred to .xsession, but I wasn't able to find it. If you don't have the file ~/.xsession (that is, .xsession in your home directory) then create it and put the line exec afterstep (and nothing else) into it. Another option is to (as root) move the afterstep line in /etc/X11/window-managers to the top of the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Unable to start program
Torsten Hilbrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Daniel Martin at cush [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: SNIP root's initialization files, or into the system-wide path. (I should qualify this with the statement that I don't completely understand why this is a security hole when it's done as the last component of the PATH, but...) Quite simple, think of a command named sl put in some users home directory and root which tries to type ls but accidently typed sl. If cwd is that directory the program sl is executed with root priviledge :-(. Fair enough; I was thinking that no one would be careless enough to allow typos into command lines typed in a root shell. (I know that I, for one, am painstakingly careful about what I type as root after hosing a slackware system three years back with an accidental 'rm -r /lib' - I had meant to do 'rm -r /lib/pbmcompat/' but on that keyboard the '/' and return were just too close together...) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Unable to start program
Joost Kooij [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Gabrie van Zanten wrote: Hi, Sometimes I see a program (I think) but I can't run it, even though I'm using root. Like this one: -rwxr-xr-x XF86_S3V 2043768 I thought I could at least run it and get an error, but Linux says: command not found. I had this too when installing fortune. After logging in as a user I could run fortune, but not before as root (fortune was in the users PATH, does it matter?). If its not in your $PATH, the shell won't find it. Unix, unlike dos, does not automatically consider the current directory ( $PWD ) to be part of $PATH, unless you explicitly set it so ( eg. add a dot to $PATH like so: export PATH=$PATH:. ) If you type ./commandname that will always work, because the shell sees an absolute path prepended to the command, just like as if you had typed /home/userx/somedir/command SNIP I should point out that it is considered a bad security idea to put . (or in fact any directory name that doesn't begin with /) in root's PATH. If you're just wanting to do something one time, it might be ok to do 'PATH=$PATH:.' as above but I wouldn't put that into root's initialization files, or into the system-wide path. (I should qualify this with the statement that I don't completely understand why this is a security hole when it's done as the last component of the PATH, but...) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Where is telnet and ftp ?
Gabrie van Zanten [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, Can I telnet and ftp to my own computer? I tried pinging 192.168.1.1 (which is this computer) but a ftp will not log me in, and a telnet either ? Do I have to start a special demon ? And how should I do that ? No, you just need to allow access. By default, debian is set up to deny access to machines it can't get a name for. (You can see what happened if you look at /var/log/daemon.log) You have at least two options, then: Add a line to /etc/hosts for every host that you will want to access your machine from, something like this: 192.68.0.1 cushl.localnet cushl 192.68.0.2 wsw.localnet wsw Or, you can change this default policy by commenting out the ALL: PARANOID line in /etc/hosts.deny. Then, any host will be able to connect to your machine. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: create a distrib using Debian
Julien Ortega [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I want to include in a debian distrib some programs, configs etc.. If i can do that i would like to make an CD to install this version on my computers. Do you have HOWTOs, URLs or other that can explain me how to do ? Well, I suggest you look at what scripts debian uses to make its CDs; these are in the debian-cd package. At the very least, you'll also need to install the mkisofs (for making CD images) and syslinux (for making bootable disk images, which you need to make bootable CDs) packages. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debianized Netscape for Debian 1.3.1 ?
shaul [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there any Debianized Netscape for Debian 1.3.1 except for the probably obsolete (and also problematic) Netscape 3.01 (Navigator) ? Well, first off, there is no .deb package of netscape itself, period. What there are are .deb installer packages - these are packages which require you to have already downloaded the netscape .tar.gz file from one of netscape's sites first and placed it into /tmp. Installing these packages then causes that file to be unpacked, put in the appropriate place and other things (like adding netscape to menus) to be done. So, now the question becomes whether there is a netscape installer package for Debian 1.3.1 for anything other than netscape 3. And the answer there is no, but this is one of the few cases where one can use packages from the frozen distribution (that is, from hamm, or what will become Debian 2.0) for Debian 1.3.1 - so, I'd recommend getting the following: ftp://ftp.linux.it/pub/Debian/dists/frozen/contrib/binary-i386/web/netscape4_4.0-7.deb And then if you want just the web browser: ftp://sunsite.dsi.unimi.it/pub/www/Netscape/pub/communicator/4.04/shipping/english/unix/linux20/navigator_standalone/navigator-v404-export.x86-unknown-linux2.0.tar.gz But if you want the web browser, and the mail and news capability: ftp://sunsite.dsi.unimi.it/pub/www/Netscape/pub/communicator/4.04/shipping/english/unix/linux20/base_install/communicator-v404-export.x86-unknown-linux2.0.tar.gz You should put the .tar.gz file from the sunsite netscape mirror into /tmp and run dpkg -i on the .deb file. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AOL and spam (way OFFTOPIC)
M.C. Bezemer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi! Just in case you didn't yet notice, it seems that the spam mail on the debian-user list is coming from only ONE sender. Well, all the spam that came from aol. I notice that no one seems at all upset about the obviously commercial spam (even to me, a non-chinese speaker [1]) sent from netvigator.com by way of hkstar.com, in chinese. (this seems especially odd as that spammer very obviously tried to hide his/her identity) Does spam only offend if it is legible by the recipient? Is the real offense in spam not the wasting of disk space (for truly, these aol spams are really very short things, individually) but the forcing of commercial thoughts into the heads of the recipient. But I'm seriously digressing now, and not really qualified to do this sort of analysis. [1] Though I do have a mail-reader that lets me read the big5 chinese encoding, and so lets me pick out the portions that aren't written in chinese characters. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Offtopic: Java Mode broken in Xemacs20?]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi. I just installed xemacs20 (I had xemacs19 before). SNIP Any idea on how to fix this, or any other way to get it to syntax highlighting? Well, I don't know why registerring the file with version control would give you syntax highlighting, but you problem may come from not having cvs installed. But registerring something with version control is not the way to get syntax highlighting anyway. I just have the following in my .emacs, and it suffices to give every java file pretty colors: (add-hook 'java-mode-hook 'font-lock-mode) If you just want to higlight one file, just do M-x font-lock-mode. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mail in linux...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Elliot) writes: SNIP the hostname, but won't let me get mail. I changed my computer name to mail.inxpress.net(my mail servers provider), and used fetchmail... I told it to send my root mail to my main user(alfor). When it downloaded it, it appeared to delete the messages, and I couldn't find them in any of the /home/(user) directories. How can I set my system up to get and send mail? The messages were delivered to smail, which should have put them in /var/spool/mail/user - this is the file that elm/pine/whatever (have you considered mutt? No? Why not?) will look in for new messages. Pine is in non-free, assuming you're using stable (aka 1.3.1 aka bo) - the license on pine has some silly restrictions that make it not completely free (in the sense of liberated, not in the sense of costing nothing) software. And your username on your isp's mail server and your username on your own machine don't have to be at all the same. I have an entry something like this in my .fetchmailrc: poll mail.geocities.com proto pop3 user topoliza with password x is martind here since I have a mail account with geocities under the name topoliza and my user name on my box is martind. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: x is dead - non-free
Tristan Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After loads of problems with LSL ( after 2 weeks they wrote back to me saying my credit card was out of date because 1/10/98 in England means 1st October and over in America it's 10th Jan, and I wrote back correcting them but they said that I have to use another card) I am facing a real dilemma with Distribution disks. If X becomes non-free, there will be no point buying a Debian distribution CD if I am correct?? I mean, if X isn't on there, I'll have to dnld everything anyway, or buy Red Hat ?? What a pain. X is a large part of Debian, it's stupid to make it non-free... As has been said many, many times, all the annoucement means is that X11R6.4 from the open group will become non-free. X11R6.3 will remain free - there's nothing the Open group can do about this. And the XFree86 people will continue develop, support, and improve their X stuff. (and so we may very well see XFree86 producing their own X11R6.4) So, in short: DON'T PANIC. X will remain a part of Debian now and in the foreseeable future; futermore, it will remain free. (this is one reason the DFSG are written the way they are - once free, always free [1]) X development may be slowed down a bit, but I don't at the moment see any reason to be worried by that. [1] This doesn't mean that one can't create a DFSG free product, and then decide to make subsequent versions of the product non-free. However, the versions that are released with DFSG compatible licences will _always_ be DFSG free. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Files in 2 or more packages
Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You comment is very precise, but isolating the names of the packages, and running dpkg to see if they both (or at least one of them, because of some weird upgrade cases) conflict with the other would not take more than 5 lines of perl, and, yes: I know someone out there could do it in only 1 line :^ In fact, someone has done this and has been posting the results to debian-devel, and most conflicts like this have been caught. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Getting info from Win '95 before removing it
Ian Lynagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On the release of Hamm I will be taking Win'95 off my 486 and replacing it with Linux (BTW, does 40 meg swap partition sound about right for 8 megs of RAM (total HD size=340MB)?). It sounds much too big. I would definitely NOT have swap space more than about twice my physical memory. Before removing Win'95 is there anywhere I can get any information which may be useful to Linux? I have printed a full report from device manager. You'll probably want to also get information specific to your isp - mainly, you'll want the IP addresses of the DNS servers (this will be under the properties of TCP/IP networking in the network control panel), and of course things like what number to dial. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FTP login incorrect when user specified
gunfried geiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dear Linux Experts, what might be the reason for the following behaviour of FTP when trying to log into my Linux device: the client shows 'connected to 134.2.4.8' but after specifying the user and the CORRECT password, it shows: '530 Login incorrect. Login failed' It can't be a problem of the hosts.allow and hosts.deny class i presume ? gg No; if it were an /etc/hosts.deny or /etc/hosts.allow issue, you wouldn't even get that far. However, ftp denies normal users the ability to log in if their username is listed in /etc/ftpusers, or if the user has a non-standard shell. (A shell is considered non-standard if it's not listed in /etc/shells). Could either of these be the case? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Editing java files.
Liran Zvibel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, Now that I know that I should type java name and not name.calss ( I couldn't have thought about it myself) I can start working. Does anyone of you has an addition to .emacs or another emacs file that colors java sources (Like there is for C\C++ LaTeX, etc)? Well, if your emacs has a java mode (I _think_ that the emacs in Debian 1.3.1 does; I'm almost certain that the xemacs in Debian 1.3.1 does), it's quite easy to do: (add-hook 'java-mode-hook 'font-lock-mode) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: frivolity: the joystick
Richard E. Hawkins Esq. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: OK, I had to do it. Radio shack had $15 joysticks with a $15 rebate, and I took one for the kids machine at home, which runs the darkside ... So now I want to connect it to my machine. But looking through the kernel build, i see no drivers. Is there a way to get it to produce xevents taht I could map to keys? First you need kernel support for the device - the hardware HOWTO has location of the patches for the kernel joystick drivers. Then, I'd suggest checking out the XInput package - I don't use any XInput devices myself, but it sounds like it might be able to do what you want. An altavista search on linux joystick can be very informative. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: URGENT: Problems with bash_2.01.1-1_i386.deb pkg.
Here's what I'd do - install the ash from hamm, then do: ln -sf ash /bin/sh Then, edit your /etc/passwd file (with vi, probably) and change the top line so that it contains '/bin/ash' instead of '/bin/bash' - root should now be able to log in, at least. Damir Naden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ** Confidential ** snipped -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: simple smail questions
Otavio Exel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hi all, I'm using Debian 1.3 bo with a 2.0.29 kernel; my smail installation is preety standard; I have a permanent connection to the internet; smail is working fine for most everything here; ..but I still have some questions.. see if you can help me, please: - I saw a message here stating (not in these words) that smail is dead; use exim instead; is it true? I can see that smail is still (according to Debian) the reccomended MTA for Debian! note that I'm not spam-asking which one you use! :-) Well I just switched over to my own hacked version of exim, and I have to say that it (now) has almost everything I could want in a mailer. If my adjustments were cleaner, I'd send them upstream. - on the subject of moving files from /var/spool/smail/error to /var/spoll/smail: I did just that yesterday and the files are still there.. I'm afraid my crond is *not* calling runq. how do I make sure runq is beeing called? there is a /etc/smail/crontab but I don't see how crond would find it there.. You shouldn't be moving them to /var/spool/smail/ - you should be moving them to /var/spool/smail/input/ - and I believe that /etc/smail/crontab is installed as the crontab for the user mail during the package install. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: man segmentation fault
Bujtar Janos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello ! Today my debian hamm started to fail when i want to see a man page Every time i want to see man pages (any!!!) the result is core dumped. Stracing the man the last message is Updating index cache for path.. Any ideas? As root, run 'mandb -c' - man occasionally gets its index file corrupted. This fixes it. Has anyone put this question in the FAQ-O-Matic yet? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: grabbing root window images.
Alexey Vyskubov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a way to grab root window without such sophisticated procedure? xwd -root file.xwd This format is a bit ... obscure, but it can be converted to ppm with xwdtopnm (in the netpbm package), and you can look at a captured image with xwud. I occasionally do this to get a look at the X screen on a remote machine: ssh -C remotemachine 'DISPLAY=:0.0 xwd -root; sleep 30;' | xwud Also, xwd is free (it's in xbase). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sendmail ignores /etc/hosts
Bob Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: sendmail seems to ignore the entries in /etc/hosts, relying instead on doing a DNS lookup for each message. smail does this also. Is there a way to configure it to look first at /etc/hosts and use the DNS only if the address cannot be resolved there? I assume it doesn't use /etc/host.conf, because that already has: order hosts,bind multi on Well, with smail when this happens it's because smail is looking for MX DNS records, not A DNS records; to get smail to use the hosts file you need to tell it to use the gethostbyname router for certain locations (you do this by having a gethostbyname router with the required attribute before your other routers). I suspect that sendmail is doing the same thing - that is, looking for MX DNS records, which means bypassing the hosts file. You need to somehow tell sendmail to just use gethosbyname() instead of DNS stuff; maybe there's a way to have sendmail look for address (A) DNS records, which should amount to the same thing as using gethostbyname(). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OFF: Re: viewing binary files
Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I often make a script called my.reset that simply echo's ^O (letter o). If this attachment worked right, then you should be able to use it without any problem. Fyi, ^O puts the terminal back into text mode which is the only problem I've ever had after reading a binary. Um... That's not _quite_ correct. Ctrl/O shifts to the primary character set, which is usually the right one. (The escape sequences necessary to change the primary char. set are rather unlikely to appear in a binary file, but they can happen - especially if, for example, the binary was of a program that did a lot of screen manipulation) I always go with outputting esc-c, which resets the terminal (and ends up clearing the screen too; oh well). I think the keyboard HOWTO has all sorts of information like this. (The reason it's so common to need the ^O fix is that to get the terminal to switch to the secondary character set (which starts out on well-behaved terminals as the graphics set) one only needs to send the terminal a ^N; assuming characters are evenly distributed in a binary, it gives a binary file about a one-in-two chance of leaving the screen in a messed-up state). -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bash 2.01 with bo
cleto [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, I need to install Bash 2.01 on a Debian 1.3.1 bo-based system. How safe is it to use bash-2.01 from bo-unstable? Does anyone have had problems with that? Thanks for any tip! Cleto I used essentially that same bash 2.01 on my bo box for at least two months before upgrading to hamm, and never had any problems. (I did have a problem upgrading to hamm, but that was because the bash 2.01 package I was using had a version numbering problem which isn't present in the bo-unstable one) -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PPP Configuration: Getting Hooked Up to my ISP
M. Fong [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Status: Stage 2: Further along, running into DNS issues Thanks for the suggestions thus far: I had a shell script which didn't have the correct 'executable' permissions. Something like rw-rw-rw instead of chmod 777 /etc/ppp/whatever_script. Here is how far I have progressed: 1. Executing pppd now dials out (I never got this far in Stage 1 becaues a script file did not have execute permissions hence it was unable to call chat()) 2. Logging into the ISP successfully 3. PAP authentication works fine 4. I can ping the ISP's gateway machine. BRICK WALL 5. I cannot ping anything that is not localhost or the gateway (see below) Ex. 'ping sunsite.unc.edu' 6. DNS configuration does not seem configured properly. I am inferring this by comparing my output of ifconfig() and route () with the output example in the PPP-HOWTO document. Well, from the transcript you included, I can't tell if problem 6 is causing problem 5, or vice versa. Since 'route -n' actually seems to give reasonable values, could you try 'ping 206.170.168.35'? (That address was one of the DNS servers listed in your original post). Also, try removing the domain statement from /etc/resolv.conf. domain and search keywords are mutually exclusive. -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mail getting stuck in .../smail/input
Adrian Monk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am having the problem that some mail (only the occasional message) is getting stuck in /var/spool/mail/input. Running mailq gives: ABCDEFG-HJKLMNO From: atheris (in var/spool/smail/imput) Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 22:35:35 + (Local time zone must be set--see zic manual page) Args: -t -oem -oMP sendmail I can't work this out. In /etc/timezone there appears GMT (correct). And what on earth is zic?! Eventually the mail disappears, often into some black hole and never to be seen again. Well, more information would be nice. When mail appears to be stuck like this, try searching /var/log/smail/logfile for [ABCDEFG-HJKLMNO] (although in actuality it'll look more like [m0yDUOd-0007EHC]), and post telling what the logfile has to say about the message. Then do a 'runq', and see what the same logfile now says about the message. smail logfiles are much more informative than mailq output. -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X Window - help!!!
Tristan Day that's you! [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Being *completely* new to Linux, I thought the Windows-like environment would be part of the Debian Installation. I guess what I was after was Xwindow/Xfree or something. I looked all over the site and searched for both, but can only find reference and packages that run ON it rather than xwindow itself... How do I get it?? For an X windows install most comfortable to newbies, I'd suggest first installing xbase, xserver-vga16, xfntbase, and xfnt75. (Assuming you're using Debian 1.3.1 (i.e. bo), when you select xbase the other three will be selected for you - just accept what the conflict resolution screen comes up with). Although you may opt to have xdm running at boot time, don't attempt to start it right after installing the packages (there will be questions about this, all you have to do is answer n at the appropriate time) Then, I'd exit dselect and run (as root) XF86Setup this is a graphical program that will let you set up X windows. (It should be run during the package install, but the way dselect calls dpkg results in dpkg setting up xserver-vga16 before xbase, which makes it not possible to run XF86Setup automatically). At this point, you'll just be running XF86Setup to find out which server you need for you graphics card (though to have the setup program work, you will first have to set up your mouse) - select your card and notice the error message you get. It will say something like ... server not installed - remember which server it said was needed, and exit XF86Setup. Go back in to dselect, and install xserver-... (i.e. install whichever xserver XF86Setup said you needed). At this time also install fvwm-common and fvwm95. (Or, if you have prior X experience and prefer a different window manager, whichever you prefer) When asked whether to make the new xserver the default, say yes. Now re-enter XF86Setup and follow it all the way through. You can then safely start xdm with /etc/init.d/xdm start and you're on your way. (If you chose not to use xdm, you can start X with the command startx) If, at any point in this process, your screen suddenly blanks and doesn't seem to return to normal, this is probably because something is trying to use X before it's all installed and configured. Most likely, this will be xdm. If this happens, just press Ctrl-Alt-F1 or Ctrl-Alt-F2 (or F3, 4, 5, or 6) to get back to a text screen, and as root do: /etc/init.d/xdm stop If something else is trying to use X unsuccessfully, there's probably some text screen with a load of X startup messages on it - find the screen and press Ctrl-C to stop it. Finally, for reasons I can't imagine, every now and then XF86Setup will generate an invalid X configuration file. The symptom of this is that X won't start, and the text screen you used to start X on (or /var/log/xdm-errors if using xdm) will contain something about there being no valid video modes. To fix this, I have always gone in and editted /etc/X11/XF86Config manually. What needs to happen is that X needs to be told that your monitor can do more - go to the Monitor section, find the HorizSync and VertRefresh lines and make the values more lenient. For instance, if the line says: HorizSync 32 Change it to: HorizSync 31.5-32.5 If your first adjustment doesn't work, try looking through the messages on X startup and seeing what monitor characteristics are required for different video modes (the error message will say that a given video mode is being deleted because it requires such-and-such horizontal or vertical frequency). -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Q] XDM -- how to reconfigure
Vladislav Papayan x285 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, When installing debian I was suggested by the installation program to use XDM to start X windows. I now understand that I do not want that. However I can only use startx command (what I was using before the new installation) if logged in as root. I would like to use startx command to start xwindows for regular users. Is there a way to reconfigure xwindows or xdm to ask me that question about whether I want to use xdm again so I can answer 'No'. Well, you can run xbase-configure to get asked the question again, but it's just as easy to edit the config. files yourself. Just comment out the line saying start-xdm in your /etc/X11/config, and xdm won't start up anymore. To shut down xdm, after having made the change so that it won't start at boot time, you then still need to do /etc/init.d/xdm stop I recommend NOT doing this while logged in through X - use one of the text consoles (see below). To allow anyone physically at the machine to start up X windows, not just root, modify /etc/X11/Xserver and make the second line Console. Anyone logged in to one of the text consoles can now start X with the startx command. Another question is: I would like to know whether it is possible to switch back and forth between Xwindows and a full screen terminal (sort of like in NT where I can have a full screen command promt and switch from and to it). You can switch to any of the text consoles with Ctrl-Alt-Fn (where n is from 1 to 6). You can switch back to X with Ctrl-Alt-F7 (or in fact, just with Alt-F7 - the reason you need a Ctrl-Alt-Fn instead of just Alt-Fn to get out of X is that some window managers like to use the Alt-Fn keys themselves). -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bitmap files
C.J.LAWSON [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I was just wondering if anyone knew of a package for editing scanned in images. The gimp (non-free in bo; free in hamm) is almost certainly what you want. DANIEL MARTIN p.s. why non-free and then free? The gimp people stopped using Motif and wrote their own (GPLed) toolkit. -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X at higher resolutions, and embedding lower resolutions
Maximiano C. Francisco III [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How do you enable X to run at say 16 bpp? I know you can tell X to run at 16bpp by running X as: X -bpp 16 But how do you make sure that everytime I log on it goes to this resolution automatically? Also, I have some applications which run only in 8bpp mode, and I HATE having to restart X each time I need to run these apps. Is there a way I can run my default X session in 16 bpp, but still run these 8bpp apps? thanx... Well, you can set the default color depth in XF86Config as someone else mentioned. As for running certain apps at different resolutions, I don't believe that's possible; however, it is possible to run two X servers at once (on different virtual consoles), each with a different number of bits per pixel. (you can then switch between the two with Ctrl-Alt-F?, where ? is usually 7 or 8) If you're using startx, and start up one server with: startx -- -bpp 16 # Or just with startx if you've made 16bpp default You can start up another with: startx -- :1 -bpp 8 Then, the 16bpp server will start on (probably) VT7, and the 8bpp one will then start on VT8. One thing to watch is that you need to run startx from a text console, not an xterm. (Unless in /etc/X11/Xserver you've said that anybody can start up X). If you use xdm, you can change the last few lines of /etc/X11/Xservers to be: :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X -bpp 16 vt07 :1 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X -bpp 8 vt08 In xdm you need to specify explicitly the virtual terminal the server starts on because xdm will start both servers at once, and they'll end up fighting over the first available terminal. Once you've started both servers, you can switch from one to the other as easily as you can change text consoles. Not quite what you wanted, but workable. -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: default blanking
Steve Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: tko, setterm -blank 0 Steve Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know that this has been asked before, but please refresh my memory... The default screen blanking is shutting off the X windows display preventing the long term usage of the screen savers. How do I disable the console default blanking so that I can use the screen savers instead? Thanks. No, what you want is xset s off - the setterm line is for text consoles. (The blanking of the X screen is not actually the same as the blanking that happens on text consoles). While you're looking at that, you may want to check out xset +dpms - a better blanking for power-saving monitors. (test it with xset dpms force standby) As always, the man page (for xset) will give you more information. -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Smail/Sendmail Question
Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, I was wondering if the following is possible using either Smail or Sendmail, What I want to do is to use smail or sendmail mail to deliver my internet email, The problem I have is that I need one of these packages to deliver any local mail or network mail to the appropriate user/server, but to queue all internet email until my dialup connection is established using ppp, I also need smail or sendmail to change the from address of the email to the address of my internet email account, (i.e. email bound for the internet needs the From address changed from [EMAIL PROTECTED] which is my Linux box to [EMAIL PROTECTED] my internet email account). Is this possible? if so how. Well... Sort of; that is, I've got an smail system on my machine that does this (it's described in http://www.math.jhu.edu/~martind/mybox.html) - however, I don't know how well that setup fares under the smail from hamm. (I've put smail on hold until I have time to deal with it potentially breaking when I go full hamm - I still use the smail from bo). The smail setup I use can easily be modified so that mail to a certain collection of destination addresses doesn't result in rewritten headers - all you need to do is copy the smtp transport from the default /etc/smail/transports, and then set up routes in /etc/smail/routers to handle it; for example, an /etc/smail/routers file of: # Your comment here # Deliver my own network directly - don't rewrite localmail: driver=gethostbyname, transport=smtp; required=mynetwork.foo.com # Outside world - rewrite and send it to myisp.com for delivery smart_host: driver=smarthost, transport=smtprewriter; path=smtp.myisp.com You don't need to use a smarthost, but it's probably a good idea for an intermittently-connected site. Now I should point out that there are still some things I don't completely like about this system, and anti-spam stuff on your ISP's smtp server could screw things up - specifically, if your ISP rejects mail based on the envelope from address (the address given in the smtp MAIL FROM: command), as that can't be rewritten. Assuming that usernames are synchronized across your LAN, you may want to set up the smail on machines that are not the gateway using the satellite option of smailconfig; I don't really have much experience with that option. In any case, what you probably want to end up with on these non-gateway machines is a smartuser directive in /etc/smail/directors and a smarthost router in /etc/smail/routers sending everything on to your gateway machine, and the local_xform option on the smtp transport in /etc/smail/transports. -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: network problem
Martin Bialasinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Florian Attenberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I´m connected to my isp via isdn. Every 20 minutes my computer dials out and in dont know why. Looks like your MTA. If you use smail, check the crontab in /etc/smail. If you determine that it is smail, and your smail setup is sending all of your mail through a smarthost, then you can try entering a numeric IP address for the name of the machine through which you send all your mail. That is, if you have something like: smart_host: driver=smarthost, transport=smtprewriter; path=whatever.myisp.com In your /etc/smail/routers file, then you can replace it with something like: smart_host: driver=smarthost, transport=smtprewriter; path=123.213.32.21 Where instead of 123.213.32.21 you should use the IP address of your ISP's smtp host. This has the slight disadvantage that it needs to be changed if your ISP moves things around. (I haven't tried this myself, but see no reason why it shouldn't work) -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: smail (again..... sheesh..)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Beattie) writes: Okay... over the last 2-3 months I have been subscribed to this list, I have noticed a predominant percentage of messages are about smail, and it's configuration. Obviously, I have a question. What I would like to know is what are peoples opinion's on their own configurations, and what the pro's and con's are. One I can think of; Daniel's rewriting of /etc/smail/config every login, versus having visible_name set to your ISP's domain, to have a valid hostname. (All of these questions relate to dial-up configurations) Well, I can give you some advantages/disadvantages of what I do. The advantage is that Sender: addresses are always correct in some sense, and the envelope From: address seems to be written correctly as well. The disadvantage is that re-running smailconfig breaks this setup (or rather, anything you get by running smailconfig is wiped out at the next ip-up). It's probably the wrong thing to do for someone whose box only ever has one user who's sending mail. Another question is, what is better: using a smarthost for all mail, or for mail that fails? opinions here Well... any mail composed while offline is just going to end up going through the smarthost anyway, so why not use a smarthost all the time? The only time I'd consider not using a smarthost for all mail (for a dialup ppp box) would be when one's smarthost was notoriously slow. What would people suggest in my situation, where my ISP's SMTP server does not mind invalid hostnames? should I just use it as a smarthost, and forget about visible_name? I have not understood how to set up a smarthost, how is this done? Yep. Setting this situation up is easy - in smailconfig choose the internet site option, give your ISP's name as your visible name, and enter their smtp server as your smarthost. Or, if you insist on editing your /etc/smail/routers file directly, replace all routes with this one: smart_host: driver=smarthost, transport=smtp; path=your.isps.smtp.server -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Netscape fails to automatically open ps, ram, ...
Bob Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Fernando Tadeu C Brandt wrote: Netscape is showing the following error box when I try to open postscripts, sound file, etc: sh: -c line 1: missing closing ')' for arithmetic expression sh: -c line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `;' sh: -c line 1: '((gv /tmp/MO34FAF5B0003B1); rm /tmp/MO34FAF5B0003B1 )' This is the classic symptom of running the somewhat-buggy bash-2.0 in bo. I would suggest upgrading to hamm to get around this. There is a bo version of bash-2.05 around which provides a workaround, but you have to be very careful when you do upgrade to hamm if you have that version installed (I found out the hard way). Actually, that's bash-2.01 and the problems with it when upgrading to hamm have been resolved (version numbering things). There is now a bash-2.01 in ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/bo-unstable/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: 80M Thanks, and new question :)
Russ Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have numerous packages installed on my system. In the case of the xserver-svga package, the version number of the Bo package was higher than that of the Hamm package, and it was not apparent to me that I needed to reinstall it. Is there a script similar to autoup.sh which will examine my system and compare my installed packages against the available Hamm packages, and tell me which ones need to be upgraded? This sounds like the job dselect was designed for. BTW, I still can't email out from Linux using Pine and Sendmail. I have to use Windows :(. The problem seems to be in my username and domain. My ISP doesn't recognize me. Sigh... it seems as though everyone's having this problem lately. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: # login from remote host?
Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: /bin/login will only allow root logins from those terminals listed in /etc/securetty. Although telnetd doesn't use a serial port, it does use a pseudo-tty. If you want to allow root login via telnet you'll need to add all the pseudo-ttys to /etc/securetty. Bruce Dobrin wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to login to my linux systems as root, it doesn't work. I've setup the hosts.equiv file so I can login in from elsewhere as anything else, but not as root. I have an isolated network so security is not an issue. Or you could change /etc/login.defs and comment out the CONSOLE line. (Although I should probably add that all of my bad security idea bells are going off in my head) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
