What where huh?
When I go for my packages to install should I look in buzz, buxx-fixed, or rex. Which way do I go, Which way do I go.:-) thanks
Re: DANGER: installing ld.so libc5 with dftp
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ronald van Loon) Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 08:53:42 +0200 (MET DST) |Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 11:19:55 -0400 |From: Brian C. White [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |Apparently, until ld.so is configured libc5 won't install, and if |libc5 insn't configured then perl breaks. After which nothing will |install. | | I believe this just happened to me with dpkg-ftp as well. | |It sounds like dpkg-ftp and dftp don't respect pre-depends? That would |be extremely bad. Hmmm, I installed my entire system with the 5 disks and dpkg-ftp (1.1.4) and had no problems whatsoever. My initial installation went fine. But at some point dselect decided to pull down more recent version of (I believe) libc5 and ld.so and dpkg. That was when the problems occurred. --Mike
Re: Anonymous ftp and the ls command.
doesn't wu-ftpd use builtin code for simple ls?
Re: DANGER: installing ld.so libc5 with dftp
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 11:19:55 -0400 From: Brian C. White [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apparently, until ld.so is configured libc5 won't install, and if libc5 insn't configured then perl breaks. After which nothing will install. Am I right in assuming that this is an upgrade from 0.93 to 1.1 ? I can't think of another reason that libc5 would not be installed. Thanks Bruce
Re: FAQ: Work-Needing and Prospective Packages
On Fri, 13 Sep 1996, Sven Rudolph wrote: 2. Packages needing a new maintainer Richard Kettlewell [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o aout-svgalib o svgalib1 o svgalib1-bin o svgalib1-dev I need a newer varsion of svgalib for a program (XaoS) I want to package up for debian. Is this package orphaned? Is anyone else planning on taking over maintaining it? I don't really want to take on such an important package myself (too new at this).
Re: Installation problems: boot, nfs, X
From: Mikko Suonio [EMAIL PROTECTED] Starting Dynamic Drive Overlay Press spacebar to boot from diskette... ERROR: Incompatible BIOS Translation Detected. Refer to your Ontrack documentation for more information. Insert boot ... It seems to be a hardware problem. Or? You are using Ontrack Disk Manager on your hard disk. This isn't going to work well with Linux. If you don't have anything _but_ Linux on that hard drive, I suggest you purge Disk Manager from the drive. If this is the C: drive on the computer, you can probably purge it by saying y to the install master boot record question when you install the LILO package. Otherwise, just boot Linux from a floppy. Regarding the NFS problem, please build a custom kernel for your system. 3. I am not able to run XFree. I'm using the Mach64-server with a XF86Config that worked with RH 2.1. I just get (startx) PEXExtensionInit: Couldn't open default PEX font file Roman_M Fatal server error: Cannot open mouse (No such device) The ps/2 mouse driver is in the psaux module. Bruce
Re: Debian Logo?
Logo. (And before people complain that Logo is too frivolous a language to have in the distribution, remember we have an Intercal package already.) If there's a decent unix logo out there, point me at it and I'll take a look... _Mark_ maintainer of frivolous languages :-)
execute permissions in /etc/init.d
Is there a good reason why all the start stop functions in /etc/init.d are executable by anybody by default. It seems to me that this allows your average user to stop an important system service. Anyone have comments? Al Youngwerth [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Anonymous ftp and the ls command.
Mark Eichin wrote: doesn't wu-ftpd use builtin code for simple ls? I don't know but I haven't installed wu-ftpd myself, only the standard ftpd that comes with the netstd package. Maybe the solution to my problem is just to install this package. Pedro Ivan --
Re: DANGER: installing ld.so libc5 with dftp
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 11:19:55 -0400 From: Brian C. White [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apparently, until ld.so is configured libc5 won't install, and if libc5 insn't configured then perl breaks. After which nothing will install. Am I right in assuming that this is an upgrade from 0.93 to 1.1 ? I can't think of another reason that libc5 would not be installed. No. This was a recent upgarde of a few packages in unstable on a right-up-to-date system. As I understand it, what happened was approximately this... dpkg --install .../ldso* .../libc5* .../other packages the results were unpack ldso unpack libc5(error perl: cannot find libdl.so.1) unpack others (error perl: cannot find libdl.so.1 occasionally) Apperently it never configured ldso before proceeding to the remaining packages. Configuring ldso and libc5 and then installing everything again was successful. (Note that this is from memory and so may not be entirely accurate.) Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) --- In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not.
Re: Worldnet.att.net via Linux PPP Connection
There is a Disable source routes prompt when configuring the kernel (with make menuconfig or make config). You are free to enable it when building your own kernel. I'd like to hear a good explanation of what the security problem is, and why anyone would want to use source routes. Thanks Bruce
Re: DANGER: installing ld.so libc5 with dftp
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 96 11:29 PDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 11:19:55 -0400 From: Brian C. White [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apparently, until ld.so is configured libc5 won't install, and if libc5 insn't configured then perl breaks. After which nothing will install. Am I right in assuming that this is an upgrade from 0.93 to 1.1 ? I can't think of another reason that libc5 would not be installed. I don't have a log of what happened, so take this with a grain of salt, but my impression was that ld.so and libc5 both existed, but were going to be updated, and it was the update that didn't work correctly. In particular, I believe I started with a set of buzz-fixed boot disks, and then installed rex packages on the system. I'm assuming that ld.so or libc5 has been updated since the buzz-fixed disks were last cut. --Mike
Re: Lynx and binary files
(a) Content-type: application/GNU Compr. Tar (b) Content-type: text/plain The question now is, who tells lynx to identify these files? It's normal - look at lynx.cfg file and modify it - it should contain lot of lines with first word SUFFIX (it tels how to transfer different filetypes) an add lines like: SUFFIX:.deb:application/octet-stream SUFFIX:.tgz:application/octet-stream I think that in Debian version of Lynx file lynx.cfg should at least contain first line!!! If Lynx reads /etc/mime.types, then both of these are already defined. application/x-debian-packagedeb application/x-gtar gtar tgz Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) --- measure with micrometer, mark with chalk, cut with axe, hope like hell
Re: cfs Debian package available!
On Fri, 13 Sep 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: oh boy you don't know how glad I am to hear this, after spending 10 solid hours yesterday fiddling around with Olaf Kirch's linux port of CFS. Can you please point me to yours? You'll be able to find cfs at my homepage for the time being. Thats at http://www.cs.usask.ca/undergrads/pje120/linux/cfs.html. PACKAGE: cfs VERSION: 1.1.2-1 DEPENDS: netstd (= 2.0.5) ARCHITECTURE: i386 SECTION: admin PRIORITY: optional MAINTAINER: Patrick Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] DESCRIPTION: Cryptographic Filesystem uses NFS to allow for a complete file system that is encrypted on the fly. It uses DES, and Triple-DES. de3944f245f85bc08f2d49774aeba090 cfs-1.1.2-1.deb 1460f0b6be22bbf7ef6b301b5aa36b98 cfs-1.1.2-1.diff.gz fa854471a87c0ce78c5cfb435acd077e cfs-1.1.2-1.tar.gz It is important to note the following: 1. I need a non US and a non Canada Web site, otherwise it would become illegal to export Debian without the permission of either government and ATT. 2. Even though *I* view this as a stable and mature package, it needs to be tested before it really is considered so. The extent of my testing has been on my machine only so I would appreciate feed back. (email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) -BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK- Version: 2.6.2i mQENAzI3S2MAAAEH/1w3D9iQHL1FsYTcL24BdfHQDGbiQv0H0UlLnMem18Z44BKd cESGr2oGChTlB4CirYXPuQLcAmqbzNUetm03NqnM/rB6V0+Cph5U3tMy04FOoA+R tYvnP55G3W5Jx02cibFTa7zw+QtoJI2SKA71DlpGuqRkAeiwcHsqfTiGeZsNAfNM +uhx0DvfeFJOXeeB61NTbL8OJ9yo+LsigWmZkW2c8rbvBOW3XEwM2vKeelBJf0nR EtQuuREGQ67Zn/HeIktmu4wzw4C/OvRVGjFPtvmVo3JMBKgv/gkSUPP2qQCsGLSh i9mKfu1Bar6WLCEteBFLH6rpmq0h9UCrEdtmyQ0ABRO0KVBhdHJpY2sgSi4gRWR3 YXJkcyA8cGplMTIwQG1haWwudXNhc2suY2E+ =+Dx7 -END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-
Re: texbin postinst in unstable fails
On Fri, 13 Sep 1996, Miro Torrielli wrote: I installed debian 1.1.8 on another pc, using dpgk-ftp to retrieve all necessary packages, from stable unstable. Firstly, I noticed that when installing a large number of packages on the system, the unpacking of some of them fail, complaining that some lib or another is missing. This has already happened twice before, on two other machines. happened here too, on a newly mke2fs'ed box, with only pppd and a few net packages installed, using dpkg-ftpd, using rex. also, the dircolors included in the util-linux (or so..) package doesn't have the -z option anymore (for zsh). Help would be appreciated. thanx, Antoine Reid PS: Make sure to reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you CC to me... thanx Antoine Reid / [EMAIL PROTECTED] KeyID 1024/6E2E993D Fingerprint 6D A5 D2 D9 FC 17 FB 74 4A BB E7 70 41 E3 3A A1 -= All opinions are my own, so leave my employer out of this =-
Re: DANGER: installing ld.so libc5 with dftp
Brian C. White writes: No. This was a recent upgarde of a few packages in unstable on a right-up-to-date system. As I understand it, what happened was approximately this... dpkg --install .../ldso* .../libc5* .../other packages the results were unpack ldso unpack libc5(error perl: cannot find libdl.so.1) unpack others (error perl: cannot find libdl.so.1 occasionally) This is due to a problem in the ld.so packaging. It will be fixed in the next version. Until it's available, you should install ld.so by itself. David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1101 E. Arapaho Road (214) 234-6400 Richardson, TX 75081
Re: execute permissions in /etc/init.d
On Fri, 13 Sep 1996, Al Youngwerth wrote: Is there a good reason why all the start stop functions in /etc/init.d are executable by anybody by default. It seems to me that this allows your average user to stop an important system service. Anyone have comments? No it doesn't. Normal (i.e. non-root) users can only kill processes that they own... which just about means processes that they have started. So /etc/init.d being executable by world is not a problem at all. Try stopping one of these services (as a non-root user)... you'll see. Christian
Re: Worldnet.att.net via Linux PPP Connection
On Fri, 13 Sep 1996, Bruce Perens wrote: I'd like to hear a good explanation of what the security problem is, and why anyone would want to use source routes. The security problem? Basically, if you've got source routing enabled, I can send bad IP packets to your machine and they'll get there. By 'bad' I mean, say, packets with a wrong 'Source IP' field. This can be used to get packets from 'outside' through a firewall and make the packets look like they came from 'inside' to the destination machine, I believe. And of course, this is kinda 'helpful' to crack services (eg rsh, etc.) that put trust into specific IP numbers. I don't know it that was very clear, but at least it was some kind of an explanation. Please keep 'Drop source routed frames' enabled in the Debian kernels. Christian
X authorization
How is the X authorization set up in Debian? I am running xdm and I discovered that only the login user can start an X window. There are 2 situations when I cannot start a X window: (1) when I try to start a window after 'su' to root. I discovered this can be fixed if I do 'xhost +mymachinename'. How to this automatically? A line in Xaccess or some /etc/X11/X???.hosts file? (2) after establishing a PPP connection to my service provider and changing my hostname (I have only a dynamic IP address from my ISP). Here I suppose there is nothing I can do except do xhost from my ip-up script after fixing (1). --Derek Lee
ftp-user in lynx
Good morning fans, Where is the username for ftp downloads defined in lynx? I'm working on two machines, one a.out (migrating to Debian) and one elf (Debian). On both machines the same version of lynx is installed. Package: lynx Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: net Maintainer: Andrew Howell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Version: 2.4-FM-960316-1 When I make an ftp download from the elf machine lynx uses 'joey@' as password, on the a.out machine lynx takes 'WWWuser@'. Why? Thanks for your assistance, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / http://home.pages.de/~joey/ / VFS: no free i-nodes, contact Linus -- finlandia, Feb '94 /
Re: Installing on a portable
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Stromberg) writes: I don't know anything about PCMCIA, but I know that if you know what you're doing (like checking dependencies and such) using dpkg is ok - dselect is there to help you check dependencies and to display what packages there are. So I'd say go ahead and use dpkg to install the package. Helpful? Yes indeed, thank you. For the record, I used the standard boot/root/base1,2,3 floppies. I then used dd to dump a tar file of the pcmcia debian packages to floppy, and dd at the other side to retrieve them. dpkg -i installed the packages (first time it complained about a missing modules directory - guess I got the order wrong). I configured the network by hand (ifconfig and route - there probably is a better way of doing this) and then I was talking to the rest of the world and could use dselect. Curiously I had another problem, that is all the boot kernels I used (buzz, buzz-fixed and rex - I tried them all several times each), gave nfs_* symbols not resolved (symbols in 2.0.6 don't match version 2.0.6 or similar message). This means that I couldn't load the nfs module and so had to use ftp access instead. I'm puzzled by this as I can't remember the same problem with the other two (desktop) systems I've installed. Thanks to the poster and Brian Mays who emailed me, I'm now up and running. Tony Robinson
Re: Undefined module symbols
James MacLean wrote: On Sep 13, 1:59pm, Chuma Agbodike wrote: Subject: Undefined module symbols Greetings. I picked up DOSEMU 0.63.1.75 from your ftp site. Installed it, but I have run into a wall. I get a screenful of undefined module symbols. And DOSEMU fails to load. I am runing Linux version 2.0.13 What do you recommend that I do to get DOSEMU to work? Best regards Chuma Have you upgraded your kernel in between compiling DOSEmu? If so , try another make and see if it updates the modules. Otherwise, try modifying the load_module.sh file to include some extra params like the -Z and -z parms. execute DOSEmu's insmod without any parms to see the options. LAter, JES -- James B. MacLean[EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Education http://www.ednet.ns.ca/~macleajb/dosemu.html Nova Scotia, Canada B3M 4B2 Thanks James. After studying your response, I searched for all ocurences of insmod. There was another lurking somewhere. I renamed it to insmodold. Even though you said use the other insmod, it would not work. I kept on getting: insmod not a file or directory. Well I went to read LINUX manual about unix commands and started to understand why ./load_module.sh has that dot before the slash. In DOS if you're in the current DIR and the command is there the system doesn't have to stick to the path. So you get my drift I hope. Anyway I applied my haunch and got the help info after I did ./insmod from /usr/src/dosemu.bin where the insmod command was placed. It worked. From there I went on. Now I studied the DOSEMU info files some more and finally was able to get DOSEMU started. Thanks. Now I have to figure out why am getting: DOSEMU: ttys lock: (/usr/spool/uucp/LCK .. mouse): No such file or dir. DOSEMU: ttys lock: (/usr/spool/uucp/LCK .. modem): No such file or dir. And int10,0 set_video_mode failed Like I said am new to this stuff! Best regards Chuma
Re: Debian 1.2 release date?
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bob Bagwill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Relationships tend to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids, which are essential to the generation of good code. Wonderful one-liner. I think you should make a sig out of this and copyright it quick... or *is* it your sig?? :-) Chris
RE: texbin postinst in unstable fails
On Fri, 13 Sep 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: texbin fails to configure because version mfbasfnt-1.0-5 is missing the file manfnt.mf (a special font for something in Knuth's book). Downgrading to mfbasfnt-1.0-3 from buzz-fixed overcomes the problem I ran into this, too, and the program that complained about this (Metafont?) started logging errors, which turned into a 72 MB log file... I wish I had written down the filenames and stuff, but I haven't. :( I can reproduce it, I think. I just have to configure Babel. -Marcelo
Re: texbin postinst in unstable fails
C'est manfnt.mf. Install mfbasfnt-1.0-3 de buzz-fixed et ca ira. On peut installer mfbasfnt-1.0-7 aussi, mais c'est dans Incoming maintenant. One can also install mfbasfnt-1.0-7, but it is in Incoming right now. Merci! Ca marche maintenant. Translation: Thanks, now it works :-) Ne rien. Niets te danken. Erick
Trouble with xdm
Hi, I have just installed a minimal set of packages in order to run X11. Everything works fine: if I use startx I get X up and running (with twm as WM... how do I change that? I'd like to have fvwm2 as the default WM for all my users), and it works with xinit, too. But if I run xdm (from a root shell), it seems to start, but the login console never shows up. Any pointers, please? Thanks, Marcelo Magallon
