Master.debian.org down yggdrasil.com down ...
master.debian.org is down since Sunday. Any plans to bring it back up? yggdrasil.com is also down (Even the DNS Servers are not reachable!) and is the gateway from the usnet linux.debian.user group to the mailing list. Can we establish alternate gateways so that at least the usenet groups will still work?
Re: modules.tgz in buzz-fixed/.../special-kernels/boot1440*.bin are corrupt
|Hello. | |Yesterday I tried to install a buzz-fixed system. As the disk I wanted to |install onto, was a SCSI disk connected to a ncr810, I had to use one of |the special kernels - number 5 in buzz-fixed/.../disks-i386/special-kernels. | |At the time of the part of installation where the kernel is installed I got |an error saying something of type of error in archive. Yes, the modules.tgz file is corrupted (truncated). There is a bigger problem here: the standard boot-disk has a 2.0.6 kernel, de special-kernels have a 2.0.5 kernel. This means that you can't use the modules.tgz from the boot-disk (which is uncorrupted) with the other kernels. This means that all the people in need of a special kernel who have the Debian-distribution from the latest Infomagic CDs (which I used Saturday) have a problem. Worse, the problem persists. I think it is of the utmost importance to keep the bootdisks in sync. After all, it's just a matter of a 6-fold compile. This can even be automated... Ronald van Loon ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Shouldn't go app-defaults in /etc/X11?
Michael Alan Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you disagree with this, as many seem to, please propose a solution whereby package maintainers can easily make sure that app-defaults files are updated to reflect any changes introduced in the upstream app-defaults file. Well, couldn't the files in app-defaults be marked as config files (DEBIAN/conffiles) in the packages? Then dpkg creates checksums of these files and when a package is updated, it can be replaced (if there were no changes) or it can ask the user what he wants to do with it (replace, leave under different name, i.e. add .dpkg-dist extension). I think all this is done automatically by dpkg now (at least in the newest revision of dpkg). I've seen this working with a few other packages, since I upgraded to unstable a few days ago. Cheers, Chris -- _,, Christian Schwarz / o \__ [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], ! ___; [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / \\\__/ !PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC 22 BA \ / http://www.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/ -.-.,---,-,-..---,-,-.,.-.- DIE ENTE BLEIBT DRAUSSEN!
Shouldn't go app-defaults in /etc/X11?
Hi! I just browsed the Linux FSSTND (v1.2) but haven't found a comment about the app-defaults directory. Backups would be much easier if _all_ the configurable files are in /etc and /usr can't be mounted readonly if one has to change the app-defaults file. (Shouldn't, as a simple rule, all files that are referred by the debpkg-conffiles be placed in /etc ?) Cheers, Chris -- _,, Christian Schwarz / o \__ [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], ! ___; [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / \\\__/ !PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC 22 BA \ / http://www.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/ -.-.,---,-,-..---,-,-.,.-.- DIE ENTE BLEIBT DRAUSSEN!
bug: arrow keys, xterm_color, dselect
Hi all, when running dselect in an xterm, the arrow keys in the Select menu use to stop working. The j,k keys continue to work. I think they stop to work when you press something else, like v, or o. Going to the Main menu and back again solves the problem, of course until you happen to press something else except the arrow keys again. bobo rajec PS: sorry if this is a faq: is there a Debian package for libc 5.3.12 ? I could not find it on my ftp site.
Re: Protections against a mad maintainer?
Hi Sue,
I read with intrest your posting, you do make valid points with refrence to
the trade off's ... That is assuming the person involved is rational. Believe
me, if you want to make sure that an upload from you is untracable... It can be
done .. and finally, it is a simple matter to delay the phenomenon so that it
occurs at a certain day of after a finite number of executions, 666 for
example..
It is a frightening thought,...
Regards
Jonathan
Hi Jean --
There are (at least) 3 counterarguments to the concern that Debian
maintainers could maliciously add dangerous commands to their
?{pre,post}{inst,rm} scripts:
-- the same package system which is open to many for development is
equally open to many for testing.
-- by having both stable and unstable releases, Debian distinguishes
between packages which are [likely to have been] tested and those which
are not.
-- as the saying goes, Never interpret as malicious that which could
also be explained by stupidity. Humans at commercial software firms
are no more protected from their own stupidity than humans who are working
to provide free software, _and_ who are offering the world the opportunity
to scrutinize their source code.
Another way to pose the question is, what would motivate a developer to
include mailicious software? He could be pretty sure that the offending
code would be found quickly, and he would be identified (via PGP keys)
with the problem. The perpetrator would be immediately banned from
using the system. And all he got for his trouble was to inconvenience one
or a few unknown, randomly selected, victims. Not a very good tradeoff.
All the same questions being asked of free software should be asked,
of course, of the commercial software...
HTH,
Susan Kleinmann
modules.tgz in buzz-fixed/.../special-kernels/boot1440*.bin are corrupt
Hello. Yesterday I tried to install a buzz-fixed system. As the disk I wanted to install onto, was a SCSI disk connected to a ncr810, I had to use one of the special kernels - number 5 in buzz-fixed/.../disks-i386/special-kernels. At the time of the part of installation where the kernel is installed I got an error saying something of type of error in archive. Some half hour of checking later I had found out that the modules.tgz files on all of the special kernels (.../special-kernels/boot1440_2.0.5-?.bin) are corrupt. This was done by doing dd if=boot1440_2.0.5-5.bin of=/dev/fd0 bs=18k mcopy a:modules.tgz . tar -zvvtpf modules.tgz, where this last step results in an error message saying premature end of file. The boot1440_2.0.5-?.bin files was fetched from a mirror, so be really sure that I had the latest (and greatest) files I did this check on boot1440_2.0.5-3.bin and boot1440_2.0.5-5.bin from the same directory on ftp.debian.org as well. Same error on those as well. This is not a cry for help. I managed to install anyway by un-taring (getting the error) and then re-taring the files that was extracted. This lead to some interesting choices when selecting modules, such as a module *! However I think we should correct the erroneous files. I know that there has been some other messages regarding this, especially one where somebody asked for a better specification of the problem, but I've deleted those messages so I dont know who it was that was asking that. Please contact me if you want more information. Debug mode, MartinS
Re: Worldnet.att.net via Linux PPP ConnectionRep
As Bruce Perens wrote: Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 13 Sep 96 14:05 PDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christoph Lameter), David L. Craig [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Worldnet.att.net via Linux PPP Connection Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Reply-To: Bruce Perens [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'd like to hear a good explanation of what the security problem is, and why anyone would want to use source routes. The only legitimate use of source routing of which I am aware is for testing explicit network routes, determining their RTTs, etc. Illegitimate uses are attacks employing address spoofing, sequence number guessing, ICMP Redirects, and undoubtedly many other methods, with results running from denial of service to complete compromise of a host. I am not enough of a security maven to provide a better explanation, though I'm trying to become more knowledgable. Firewalls and Internet Security by Cheswick and Bellovin makes for sobering reading, but leaves much as an exercise to the reader. Perhaps the more knowledgable, like Alan Cox, could provide a satisfactory explanation. Again, my point is: shouldn't there be a mention of the basics (be sure IP forwarding and source routing are not enabled) with an end user level of explanation of why not, a pointer to more info, and an encouragement to be sure the local network admin is aware of the link?
Re: Undefined module symbols
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DOSEMU: ttys lock: (/usr/spool/uucp/LCK .. mouse): No such file or dir. There is no /usr/spool/uucp/ directory so it can't make /usr/spool/uucp/LCK .. mouse I had a similar problem when I ran a non-Debian version of efax. It should use /var/lock/LCK..mouse instead. Maybe the directory DOSEMU uses is configurable. Good luck, Nathan Thanks. I verified that I do not have the offending DIR. There is a /var/lock/LCK. I will make the modification and see how it goes. Chuma
Re: New kernal
marcus hightower [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Where should I look for a stable kernel? I have to make a new kernel so that my Xwindows will work. (My mouse pad on the laptop freezes the keyboard). Is there a Debian packaged kernel that will guide me through it or do have kernel*.tar.gz from and make it myself? My gcc is working great and I just installed the make.deb and I have some documents but they do not talk about *.deb files. Here is what I do to build a custom kernel. Get the Linux kernel source from one of the usual locations (e.g., ftp.cs.helsinki.fi in /pub/Software/Linux/Kernel/v2.0 or some other closer location). Hold on to the source so that when you wish to upgrade the kernel version, you can download the patches instead of the entire source again. For example, I have the linux-2.0.tar.gz file in /usr/src and all of the patches up to version 2.0.19 in directory /usr/src/patches. When I wish to compile the latest version of the kernel, I rebuild the source with $ cd /usr/src $ tar xzf linux-2.0.tar.gz $ cd linux $ zcat ../patches/patch-2.0.[1-9].gz \ ../patches/patck-2.0.[1-9][0-9].gz | patch -p1 I can check to see whether the changes were patched correctly with find /usr/src/linux -name '*.rej'. Next retrieve and install the kernel-package package. Since I keep the kernel source in the /usr/src/linux directory, here are the commands that I would use to build and install a customized kernel for kernel version 2.0.19: $ cd /usr/src/linux $ cp /usr/lib/kernel-package/debian/debian.config .config $ make config [ or make xconfig, etc. ] [ Answer questions to customize the kernel's configuration ] $ make-kpkg kernel_image $ dpkg -i ../kernel-image-2.0.19_3.0_i386.deb That's all. You can clean up your system by deleting the kernel-image-2.0.19_3.0_i386.deb file and the kernel source tree, but you should save the contents of the .config file for the next time that you recompile the kernel. If your laptop uses PCMCIA cards and you are not using the default Debian kernel, you should recompile the PCMCIA kernel modules. Retrieve and install the pcmcia-source_2.8.22-1_i386.deb package. The instructions for recompiling the pcmcia-modules package are in the /usr/src/modules/pcmcia-cs/debian/README file. -- Brian
dvips top margin
I installed Debian 1.1 and found that my tex files were no longer leaving a margin at the top of the page. I traced it to /usr/lib/texmf/dvips/config.ps where a4size was set instead of letter. I don't recall any questions from the installation of the dvipsk about the paper size. I don't know whether this is a common problem or something weird that I did but I thought I would just drop a note to the net in case anyone else is having the same problem. Nathan Salwen
Re: llseek error large partitions
Johnny I do not know why this happens, only that the same thing happend Johnny to me when I tried to format my Quantum Sirrocco 2.5 Gig hard Johnny drive. Around about the 2.1 gig it starts reporting errors. I can Johnny only assume that the system cannot handle partitions over 2 gig. You need a version of fdisk that as recent as 2.0 or better to support disks bigger than 2 GB, for example the fdisk from util-linux-2.5 which says miles:~ [root] # fdisk -v fdisk v2.1 (4GB) As for maximal partition size, read (using altavista or dejanews) the newsgroup article with referenced below, it shows how partitions can be as large as 959 GB (yes, just under one TB, a million MB). You have to increase the block size which becomes a little inefficient at that size ... I cannot recommend few big partitions anyway. Disks do fail, and you're better off when it happens on a limited partition, /usr/local say, rather than on /. Subject: Re: Really 2 GB file size limit? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kristian =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=F6hntopp?=) Date: 1996/07/28 Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?entf=E4llt?= Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system -- Dirk Eddelbuttel http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd
curses.h?
I need a header file named curses.h I did a search but did not find anything. I did change to the highest gcc. Is that why make can't find it. P.S. Thanks for the help with as86
Re: ELM and PGP
joost witteveen: BTW, I'm _not_ saying there's something wrong with the way Larz signs. I'm just noticing a pattern I share the office with God[1], of course there isn't anything wrong with my signatures. The problem with my signatures is the I'm using the new PGP/MIME draft-RFC, while elm probably only understands the older application/pgp proposal (or plain PGP messages). PGP/MIME separates the text and the signature in two different MIME parts. Among other things, this makes it possible to read MIME-typed PGP-signed messages with MIME-capable but PGP-uncapable readers such as Pine. Linus used to hate my mail before I started to use PGP/MIME. Another bonus is that it is possible to sign a multipart message (attachments), without making things unnecessarily complicated. See http://www.c2.org/~raph/pgpmime.html for info on PGP/MIME. BTW, Tove is the only person allowed to call me Larz. :) -- Please read http://www.iki.fi/liw/mail-to-lasu.html before mailing me. Please don't Cc: me when replying to my message on a mailing list. [1] Well, not anymore. I quit work and am now a full time student again. pgpx7NsHXC8r5.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: recompiling kernel and ppp
Kevin what am I missing?!?!?!? You didn't tell us what you were selecting for PPP in make xconfig. If I am not mistaken, you need modules. I always use them where I can, and they work great for me. I select: # # Network device support # CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y CONFIG_DUMMY=m # CONFIG_EQUALIZER is not set # CONFIG_DLCI is not set CONFIG_PLIP=m CONFIG_PPP=m # # CCP compressors for PPP are only built as modules. # CONFIG_SLIP=m CONFIG_SLIP_COMPRESSED=y CONFIG_SLIP_SMART=y and # # Character devices # CONFIG_SERIAL=m which, using kerneld with the auto option in /etc/modules, and alias dummy0 dummy in /etc/conf.modules gives: miles:~ [root] # lsmod Module:#pages: Used by: ppp51 (autoclean) dummy0 11 (autoclean) slip 22 (autoclean) slhc 2[ppp slip] 3 (autoclean) serial 74 (autoclean) (Ppp is used to the ISP, and slip is loaded as I also use cslip over a null-modem cable as an el-cheapo network to a laptop running Debian). -- Dirk Eddelbuttel http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd
HELP: Probs configuring X
Ok, X works ok, with one annoying problem: Down the left hand side of the screen is a fairly narrow(~.25 inch) band of increased intensity that makes anything that fall within it unreadable. This occurs in all video modes with resolutions higher than 640x480. My hardware: STB Powergraph 64 Video(S3 Trio64V+ Chipset) MAG DX17F Monitor(30-64kHz Horizontal, 50-100Hz Vertical) I am using the xserver-s3, and configured for the S3 Trio64 chipset. Anyone have any suggestions? Justin Stodola Senior-Physics Dept. U of Ky [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kernel-package
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marcus Hightower writes: Marcus Does anybody know where I can find this as86 thing. See the Debian FAQ (from the doc-debian package, or the ftp site) 7.4. How can I find out what package produced a particular file? To identify the package that produced the file named foo execute either: o dpkg -S filename. This searches through the lists of installed files. This is (currently) equivalent to searching all of the files having the file extension of .list in the directory /var/lib/dpkg/info/. o grep foo Contents, or zgrep foo Contents.gz. This searches for files which contain the substring foo in their full path names. The files Contents and Contents.gz reside in the major package directories (Debian-1.1, non-free, contrib, etc.) at a Debian FTP site. A Contents file refers only to the packages in the subdirectory tree where it resides. Therefore, a user might have to search more than one Contents files to find the package containing the file foo. Hence: miles:~ [root] # zgrep as86 /mirror/debian/rex/Contents.gz usr/bin/as86 bin86 so you have to install the bin86 package. Marcus Also does the zimage automaticly gets installed when you do a Marcus make zimage or does it just makes it without installation. Use the kernel-package from the rex/binary-all/misc directory. It will build a .deb file with your kernel and install it all for you (you need to read some doc, though). -- Dirk Eddelbuttel http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd I had used make-kpkg to build a debian package of linux 2.0.13 sources and installed the resulting .deb . Then I found that I had to reconfigure because my sound card will not work in windows every time I run Linux and switch back to win 95. I have to run DOS 5.0 to revive the sound in win 95. Since the IRQs and addresses were different in win 95 I decided to make the sound irqs in win 95 the same as in linux. Anyway after make config , make-kpkg refuses to run telling me there is nothing to make. What do I need to do to have make-kpkg rebuild with the new config ? Best regards Chuma
fvwm2 as default wm from xdm
Hello all ... a debian node of mine is using xdm ... Q1? Can someone please tell me how to set fvwm2 as the default window manager. Q2? Is there a deb install package for olwm/olvwm and those related apps that go along with it? (such as the slackware install has) Thanx in advance. As always - your help is appreciated...
Re: kernel-package
Chuma Anyway after make config , make-kpkg refuses to run telling me there Chuma is nothing to make. What do I need to do to have make-kpkg rebuild Chuma with the new config ? Run make-kpkg clean *before* you do a make xconfig -- Dirk Eddelbuttel http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd
Re: Protections against a mad maintainer?
Jonathan, writing from vega.netg.se: Believe me, if you want to make sure that an upload from you is untracable... It can be done .. Untraceable is a matter of degree. Forging someone's pgp signature is about as difficult as breaking into a commercial software publisher's office and replacing the master-copies of software there. Sure, it can be done, but this possibility doesn't favor one distribution channel over another. Also, untraceable has a strong element of risk -- you're going to have a presence somewhere, but does anyone care enough to want to investigate that presence? If someone cares, then maybe you find out you're not as untraceable as you'd thought. -- Raul
bug: dselect and arrow keys in xterm_color
Hi, When using dselect running in xterm_color, the arrow keys sometimes do not work. It means, they do work the first time I use them. Then, after presing something else, (+,-,=), they do not work anymore. After returning to the main menu and selecting the same menu item once more, they start to work again, until I press something else again. Other cursor movement keys (j,k...) work as expected. bobo rajec PS: sorry, if this is a faq: is there a debian package for libc-5.3.12?
recompiling kernel and ppp
Hi All,
ok, yet another newbie to debian. I think I've RTFM but I'm missing
something.
the problem: this kernel doesn't support ppp
what I've done:
I just got a CD of debian 1.1.6 (with kernel 2.0.0 and 2.0.12) from
i-connect. It installed 2.0.0. I got everything installed, including X (a
pain, my #9 Motion 771 likes to shift the screen dramatically). I then
tried ppp. I have chat scripts that worked great with slackware 1.2.13 (I
did a complete re-partition, etc, the only things I kept from slackware was
my chat scripts). When I tried ppp it wouldn't give me a default route.
Instead of debugging, I decided to get the latest version of everything
first. I grabbed the various FAQ's, HOWTO's, etc, and started reading.
There was some contradictory advice but I think I got a workable procedure.
the kernel sources for 2.0.12 were on the cd. I installed them to
/usr/src, made the link to /usr/src/linux, ran make menuconfig, and
everything was fine. But no ppp. I rebuilt the kernel 5 or 6 times,
trying different parameters for module/no module, etc. Everything compiles
fine but ... this kernel doesn't support ppp.
this was last week and the real world intruded on my playing. Over the
weekend I had some time to try this again. I reread the FAQ's, etc. I
grabbed (from sunsite) kernel 2.0.20 and (from ftp.debian.org) the latest
ppp.deb and module.deb. (note: I'm using OS/2 Warp for all of this, I have
boot manager/lilo set up and it all works great). I rebooted into linux
2.0.12. Then...
cd /usr/src
cp -p /f/{kernel,ppp,module} .
tar zxf kernel...
(this exanded into /usr/src/linux, I renamed the subdir to kernel-2.0.20
and made a link to linux)
dpkg -i ppp,module
cd linux
make menuconfig (here I've tried various options for module, etc, but,
bottom line, I'm compiling ppp in directly, not using modules, trying to
reduce one level of confusion)
make dep;make clean
make zlilo (chug chug chug no problem)
make modules
make modules_install
sync
reboot
...
log in as root
/sbin/ip-on ru (ru is the name of my chat script)
kernel doesn't support ppp
ARGHH!
what am I missing?!?!?!?
thanks,
--
kc
Kevin Conover: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
as86?
Does anybody know where I can find this as86 thing. My kernel wants it during the compile. Also does the zimage automaticly gets installed when you do a make zimage or does it just makes it without installation.
Re: fvwm2 as default wm from xdm
On Mon, 16 Sep 1996 09:58:03 PDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Q1? Can someone please tell me how to set fvwm2 as the default window manager. Add 'fvwm2' in first position in /etc/X11/window-managers. Q2? Is there a deb install package for olwm/olvwm and those related apps that go along with it? (such as the slackware install has) I've seen that a debian package has been made for Openwin libraries, but I dunno for the whole openwin environment. Phil.
Re: ELM and PGP
Dear Debian people, I have the following problem with ELM and PGP. I often get a message saying could not open pgptemp.$01 - and the request that I type the correct filename. However, this filename, if I am not mistaken, should have been presented to PGP by ELM. I've got the same problem -- but _only_ with the (otherwise very much valued) posts from Larz. All other pgp signed messages go through elm-pgp nicely, but, since a couple of mounths or so, Larz's posts don't. Do you have trouble with all pgp signed posts, or like me, also with larz's only? BTW, I'm _not_ saying there's something wrong with the way Larz signs. I'm just noticing a pattern -- joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Use Debian/GNU Linux!
nfs daemon
would any one care to enlighten me why the nfs daemons are commented out of /etc/init.d/netstd_nfs. i needed to mount a disk off another linux machine and i couldn't do it until i turned on the daemons by hand. are there any security issues associated with this? the same daemons are also commented out of /etc/inetd.conf. --alex-- -- | I believe the moment is at hand when, by a paranoiac and active | | advance of the mind, it will be possible (simultaneously with | | automatism and other passive states) to systematize confusion | | and thus to help to discredit completely the world of reality. |
Re: Shouldn't go app-defaults in /etc/X11?
Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Backups would be much easier if _all_ the configurable files are in /etc and /usr can't be mounted readonly if one has to change the app-defaults file. (Shouldn't, as a simple rule, all files that are referred by the debpkg-conffiles be placed in /etc ?) Please peruse /usr/doc/X11/debian.README, to understand why I say that, on Debian, app-defaults files are not considered configurable. If you disagree with this, as many seem to, please propose a solution whereby package maintainers can easily make sure that app-defaults files are updated to reflect any changes introduced in the upstream app-defaults file. Mike.
Re: llseek error large partitions
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am encountering an error formatting large partitions (2.8 gb). Equipment is a pentium 100, Adaptec 1542CF, DEC DSP5300. The drive partitions just fine, then when the debian install program tries to read past around 2.1 gb I receive a message badblocks: Cant resolve symbol llseek. Also, I receive this message when past this point and writing the inode tables, 256/350 mkfs.ext2: Can't resolve symbol llseek Does anyone have any idea what is going on here? Thanks for any help, I do not know why this happens, only that the same thing happend to me when I tried to format my Quantum Sirrocco 2.5 Gig hard drive. Around about the 2.1 gig it starts reporting errors. I can only assume that the system cannot handle partitions over 2 gig. This is not that big a problem as you can use quite a few partitions on you hard drive. If you read the debian.FAQ document, it has some guide lines on what sizes you should make your partitions and what they should be mounted as. -- Be seeing you... xXXXx Johnny Stevenson 2nd Year Bsc Computing Science E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/~n4215605 xXXXx
Re: recompiling kernel and ppp
On Mon, 16 Sep 1996 08:48:06 EDT Kevin Conover ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: It installed 2.0.0. I got everything installed, including X (a pain, my #9 Motion 771 likes to shift the screen dramatically). For this card, you need to add a InvertVCLK * 0 for every Display section in every Accel Screen section of your /etc/XF86Config. Phil.
Re: curses.h?
Marcus Hightower writes: Marcus I need a header file named curses.h Markus, it's documented in the FAQ as I wrote you some hours ago. So please do use the Contents or Contents.gz file. miles:~ [root] # zgrep curses.h /mirror/debian/rex/Contents.gz usr/i486-linuxaout/include/bsd/curses.h libc4-dev usr/i486-linuxaout/include/curses.h libc4-dev usr/include/curses.h ncurses3.0-dev usr/include/ncurses.hncurses3.0-dev usr/include/slang/slcurses.h slang-devel In this case you want the ncurses3.0-dev package. -- Dirk Eddelbuttel http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd
Re: 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? Why does it allow your average user to stop an important system service? If a user runs the scripts, the scripts are executed with the *user*'s permissions. Since the user has no authority to (for example) send signals to a daemon process they don't own, there is no damage they can do. There's no difference from the user running the commands in the script manually. Thus there is no harm in allowing execution by anybody. Warwick Warwick Harveyemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Computer Sciencephone: +61-3-9287-9171 University of Melbourne fax: +61-3-9348-1184 Parkville, Victoria, AUSTRALIA 3052 web: http://www.cs.mu.OZ.AU/~warwick
Re: cfs Debian package available!
Patrick J. Edwards wrote: 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. How much space do You need ? I can offer my machine and WWW page for the CFS package. I'm from Poland. Contact me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Regards, Pawel.
Re: as86?
Marcus Hightower wrote: Does anybody know where I can find this as86 thing. My kernel wants it during the compile. Also does the zimage automaticly gets installed when you do a make zimage or does it just makes it without installation. You want the bin86 package for the assembler. make zimage just makes an image. To install it using your lilo.conf, try make zlilo. Or you could just make-kpkg to roll your own kernel package which can then be installed using dpkg. Ciao, -- Thomas Baetzler, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] A HREF=http://home.pages.de/~thb/;thb's Homepage/A
Re: seeking WWW browser (smaller than Netscape)
specification. Tables have also been added (recently) to the standard; frames have not. As such, it's not likely that Mosaic or Lynx will support frames in the near future. (Tables are being added to Mosaic. I don't know the status of tables in Lynx). Lynx 2.5 [claims it] has tables, although I haven't had much luck .. hamish
Re: llseek error large partitions
I checked the article below out - and instead of using the debian install I did a ' mke2fs -b 2048 /dev/sda1'. I also tried a 4k block and still received the same results(an lseek error). Am I doing this correctly? Mike Bigus [EMAIL PROTECTED] Johnny I do not know why this happens, only that the same thing happend Johnny to me when I tried to format my Quantum Sirrocco 2.5 Gig hard Johnny drive. Around about the 2.1 gig it starts reporting errors. I can Johnny only assume that the system cannot handle partitions over 2 gig. You need a version of fdisk that as recent as 2.0 or better to support disks bigger than 2 GB, for example the fdisk from util-linux-2.5 which says miles:~ [root] # fdisk -v fdisk v2.1 (4GB) As for maximal partition size, read (using altavista or dejanews) the newsgroup article with referenced below, it shows how partitions can be as large as 959 GB (yes, just under one TB, a million MB). You have to increase the block size which becomes a little inefficient at that size ... I cannot recommend few big partitions anyway. Disks do fail, and you're better off when it happens on a limited partition, /usr/local say, rather than on /. Subject: Re: Really 2 GB file size limit? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kristian =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=F6hntopp?=) Date: 1996/07/28 Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?entf=E4llt?= Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system -- Dirk Eddelbuttel http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd
Re: DOSEMU problems
you need the xcompat package, the dosemu that is included in debian is still aout. shaya -- Shaya Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 13 Sep 1996, Marc Weeber wrote: Hello Debians, I compiled the kernel with the necessary requirements for DOSEMU. I installed the debian package and just entered `dos' at the prompt. Result: dos: can't find library 'libX11.so.6' Well, I do have the library, what went wrong and how can I adjust DOSEMU? thanks in advance, Marc [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: modules.tgz in buzz-fixed/.../special-kernels/boot1440*.bin are corrupt
Martin Stromberg wrote: Hello. Yesterday I tried to install a buzz-fixed system. As the disk I wanted to install onto, was a SCSI disk connected to a ncr810, I had to use one of the special kernels - number 5 in buzz-fixed/.../disks-i386/special-kernels. At the time of the part of installation where the kernel is installed I got an error saying something of type of error in archive. Some half hour of checking later I had found out that the modules.tgz files on all of the special kernels (.../special-kernels/boot1440_2.0.5-?.bin) are corrupt. This was done by doing dd if=boot1440_2.0.5-5.bin of=/dev/fd0 bs=18k mcopy a:modules.tgz . tar -zvvtpf modules.tgz, where this last step results in an error message saying premature end of file. The boot1440_2.0.5-?.bin files was fetched from a mirror, so be really sure that I had the latest (and greatest) files I did this check on boot1440_2.0.5-3.bin and boot1440_2.0.5-5.bin from the same directory on ftp.debian.org as well. Same error on those as well. This is not a cry for help. I managed to install anyway by un-taring (getting the error) and then re-taring the files that was extracted. This lead to some interesting choices when selecting modules, such as a module *! However I think we should correct the erroneous files. I know that there has been some other messages regarding this, especially one where somebody asked for a better specification of the problem, but I've deleted those messages so I dont know who it was that was asking that. Please contact me if you want more information. Debug mode, MartinS This bug still hanging around? Heck I posted a message almost identical to yours about a month ago. Maybe we should have directed it to the maintainer of the special kernel boot disks. I am at work right now and don't have immediate access to the Packages file. If the maintainer is reading this please respond. Steve -- Steve Millard Harrisburg, Pa. USA - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - It ain't what you don't know that hurts you, but what you do know that just ain't so. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Re: ELM and PGP
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 16 Sep 1996, Lars Wirzenius wrote: liwThe problem with my signatures is the I'm using the new PGP/MIME liwdraft-RFC, while elm probably only understands the older liwapplication/pgp proposal (or plain PGP messages). PGP/MIME separates liwthe text and the signature in two different MIME parts. Among other liwthings, this makes it possible to read MIME-typed PGP-signed messages liwwith MIME-capable but PGP-uncapable readers such as Pine. Linus liwused to hate my mail before I started to use PGP/MIME. Another bonus liwis that it is possible to sign a multipart message (attachments), liwwithout making things unnecessarily complicated. [Don't know how to display Application/PGP-SIGNATURE attachments. Try Save.] so i should have this pgp-mime software to view u're pgp-sig? and btw. there are very good scripts for pine that filter the incoming mail and check the sig, and decrypt . also there are scripts for outgoing mail to sign and crypt. take a look: - -BEGIN PGP MESSAGE ANALYSIS- Pretty Good Privacy(tm) 2.6.3ia+ - Public-key encryption for the masses. (c) 1990-96 Philip Zimmermann, Phil's Pretty Good Software. 1996-03-04 International version - not for use in the USA. Does not use RSAREF. Current time: 1996/09/15 23:24 GMT File has signature. Public key is required to check signature. . Good signature from user Lars Wirzenius [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Signature made 1996/09/08 10:45 GMT using 1024-bit key, key ID 4CBA92D1 - -END PGP MESSAGE ANALYSIS- thats one example of automatic sig check when viewing mail (comp.os.linux.announce :) ___ Boris Beletsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] For pgp public key, e-mail me with subject get pgp-key. ___ In Linux veritas -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia+ Charset: latin1 Comment: Boris Beletsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] iQCVAwUBMjyQ5Qz8DjY6pgpxAQFGZQP/fdWX/y9aQH4MqqkW3L5bvb7DMP0xzyoo Rgv6FEUZW87sHTRRY6rkaMgAZgmrZ5xxQIOaqyDApQ/NRlolt5DELYKUKl7bRvls IpEWRCJNQiglZC6URsdEf5+1jCApUo3r2k+WGTv1SGgKN43xLCaV0/NqIFZXEbgR xEPNgynLQKc= =qIlC -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: as86?
Install the bin86 package. Dominik -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- The text above represents my personal opinion and does not represent the official position of my employer on the issue(s) discussed. Any official statement made on behalf of my employer by me is marked as such.
