Re: how to rebuild mgetty_0.99.2-6
From: Sim Yskes [EMAIL PROTECTED] as i cannot find a complete source package for mgetty, i assume i should rebuild it by taking mgetty_0.99.2.orig.tar.gz, tar xvfz it and apply the mgetty_0.99.2-6.diff on it. Yes, but there's an automated way to do this. Get the .tar.gz file, the .diff.gz file, and the .dsc file. Run dpkg-source -x mgetty_*.dsc . But the result of this action is something what doesn't look like a debian package. no debian.* files to be found. We changed the package layout. Look for a debian subdirectory containing files like rules, control, etc. You might have to install the debmake package if any part of its utilities was used to produce that package. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian 1.2 install problem - short memory
Yes, it's probably low RAM. See if you can get that reserved 384k relocated to extended memory. Where it is now, it's quite useless. I test the boot set on a 4MB laptop, but one that doesn't waste that 384k. A special kernel with only the devices you need might solve the problem, if you can't relocate that 384k. There are some quite large device drivers that you don't need. That laptop uses IDE disks, right? Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian 1.2 rescue disk reboots Toshiba Tecra laptop
Greetings! I have a Debian 1.2 CD from iConnect. When I boot my Toshiba Tecra 730CDT laptop from the rescue floppy (either resq1440.bin or the new new-resq1440.bin) I get Loading root.bin and Loading linux , and then the laptop reboots from the floopy, giving me the boot: prompt again. At http://www.cck.uni-kl.de/misc/tecra710/, Jens Maurer reports that his Tecra Laptop cannot load bzImage format kernels. (He has submitted a kernel patch for this.) Does the rescue floppy use a bzImage kernel? I do have a Debian 1.1.11 CD (PHT Nov 96 Monthly Archive), and I can boot from its installation boot and root disks. Will I be able to get a Debian 1.2 rescue floppy for this laptop? If not, I can install 1.1 and then upgrade to 1.2. Is it possible to shift to 1.2 part way through the installation, either by providing the 1.2 base disks or by substituting the 1.2 CD when I reboot, or do I need to run dselect on 1.1 before shift to the 1.2 upgrade? This problem does not affect loadlin. Thanks, Kirk Hilliard P.S. Is someone maintaining a list of 1.2 glitches and simple fixes? -- This message was delayed because the list mail delivery agent was down.
Re: how to rebuild mgetty_0.99.2-6
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 22 Dec 1996, Sim Yskes wrote: as i cannot find a complete source package for mgetty, i assume i should rebuild it by taking mgetty_0.99.2.orig.tar.gz, tar xvfz it and apply the mgetty_0.99.2-6.diff on it. But the result of this action is something what doesn't look like a debian package. no debian.* files to be found. The patch seems to run ok, so i think that both versions do not match, but i'm not sure. So, what did i do wrong. After tar xzvf the .orig.tar.gz, you have to rename mgetty_0.99.2.orig directory to just mgetty_0.99.2, then you can apply the patch by doing a zcat mgetty_0.99.2-6.diff | patch -p0, and then you have to remove all the .orig files. But you might better download the .dsc file from the same directory you downloaded the .orig.tar.gz and the .diff.gz and do: dpkg-source -x mgetty_0.99.2-6.dsc And, voila, dpkg-source does everything for you. This should work with all the new packages. Remember to install the dpkg-deb package (which contains dpkg-source and other tools). Good night. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: latin1 iQCVAwUBMsBm4SqK7IlOjMLFAQEU+wP/Xi5F3s47pDdS5+STVL4FZpp5/5ohIoh5 Laj3OzvdoiORgNKxknYDnFCpzbr6pESK/WRXhgEP7IHbofOdYvJH/TZWX2ucVbgn GX9Lx3Ez+ccinvn3eR2T4LZqA9EdG/6DfX3WEl+wBYQK18Q9wrjc4PoII2gdaZ9l tvhU72L+74U= =Y3pl -END PGP SIGNATURE- Santiago Vila [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- This message was delayed because the list mail delivery agent was down.
Re: Problems with Talk under Debian
On Sat, 21 Dec 1996, John Goerzen wrote: I have been having problems with talk and ytalk under Linux. Any help would be greatly appreciated! I had trouble with this too. I believe one problem is that the host name of your machine must match the IP address of your machine. Otherwise, other talk daemons won't talk to you. If you are given a dynamic IP address by your ISP, then it almost certainly doesn't match. So, you must set the host name of your machine to match the given IP number after you establish your PPP/SLIP connection. You can set it with the hostname command. I have the following line in /etc/ppp/ip-up to do this for me automatically whenever I establish a PPP connection: /bin/hostname `/usr/bin/host $4 | head -1 | cut -f 2 -d ` Also, reverse name lookup must be set up correctly by whomever is in charge of your domain (probably your ISP). Otherwise, you will not be able to initiate a talk connection, although I think you can still reply if someone else initiates the talk session with you. And lastly, Sun's talk seems to be incompatible with just about every other OS's talk that I've tried, including Linux. So, if you're trying to talk to someone on a Sun, you're probably SOL. It would be nice if someone would hack the talk that comes with Linux so that it could talk to Suns as well. Gerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- This message was delayed because the list mail delivery agent was down.
cdrom problem during installation
I had a problem with the Sony CDU 311 CDROM during a floppy installation. The cdrom drive was recognized fine. During the menu driven installation phase, I kept getting messages hdc: media changed hdc: media changed hdc: tray open or drive not ready hdc: irq timeout : status = 0xd0 hdc: ATAPI RESET complete hdc: code: 0x70 key: 0x02 asc: 0x53 ascq: 0x00 etc, etc, etc the cdrom light would keep falshing. I tried turning the cdrom drive off in the BIOS but it didn't help What can I do, please help. --- Alexander Lobkovsky Phone: (805) 893-3684 Institute for Theoretical Physics Fax: (805) 893-2431 University of CaliforniaEmail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4030WWW: http://rainbow.uchicago.edu/~lobkovsk --- -- This message was delayed because the list mail delivery agent was down.
TIme online monitoring
Merry Christmas to all that it applies. I want to keep a running total of the time I am online, with MY ISP. Is there an easy way to do this? I want to see how much time I actually am online, and see if there is any way I can trim it down. In my local area, ISDN PPP accounts are only $19.95 a month, but Bell South charges 53.15 a month, plus $0.01 a minute after 200 hours. If i'm online for a straight week, there goes most of my time right there.. :) (which happens sometimes) I wanted to see how much time I use before I sign up for ISDN phone service. I figured $300 a month for the PHONE LINE per month if I average 20 hours a day. Which obvisouly, I won't be doing if I have to pay by the minute. :) Also, transfers and what not will be faster, so it will take less time online for many things... :) Like keeping a fresh local copy of Debian... -- Daniel Stringfield mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jax-inter.net/users/servo Send email for more information on the Jacksonville Linux Users Group! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 1.2 Upgrade Experience
I just upgraded to 1.2 and had a similar experience. It took a little time to iron things out but now everything (with the possible exception of amslatex) is working OK. First of all, thanks everyone for a remarkable package of software. Summary of constructive comments: 1. Many packages can not configure correctly on first pass from naive dselect upgrade because (for example) they depend on the new libc which hasn't been configured yet. 2. One of these was perl which makes further use of dselect impossible. Manual dpkg -i and rerunning install from dselect fixed 1 and 2. (I stayed in dselect till the whole process was completed and opened a new shell to run dpkg). 3. For some reason modules failed as well which resulted in losing ppp and access to my cdrom. Luckily I had a different kernel which still had its sbpcd driver so I could install the kernel package again. 4. I had trouble with pppd since the upgrade but I think the machine is just faster. I added some delays in chatscript and it worked at least once. Thanks again for the great system. Nathan -- This message was delayed because the list mail delivery agent was down.
Re: Debian 1.2 install problem - short memory
On Tue, 24 Dec 1996, George Bing wrote: I have been trying to install 1.2 on a Thinkpad 500 with 4 meg of memory without success. The machine had Slackware working on it, but the rescue disk fails on boot. It last message is: RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 And then hangs. I suspect the problem is a lack of memory. The rescue disk reports memory as: Memory: 1604k/4288k available (1044k kernel, 384k reserved, 672k data) By comparison, the slackware bare.i boot disk reports: Memory: 2828k/4288k available (688k kernel, 384k reserved, 388k data) and the previous custom kernel was similarly small. I tried the new.resq1440.bin with similar results. floppy=thinkpad, and mem=xxx, and other attempts at boot parameters make no difference, other than to elicit a slight variation of: Couldn't get a free page . . . out of Memory My guess is that the rescue disk kernel is just too large for a machine with so little memory. My expectation is to get the system going from floppy, and then add parts with either SLIP, PLIP, or PCMCIA ethernet - depending on how well things work. If the above interpretation is correct, is there any chance we could have a low memory version of the rescue disk for similar machines. I would put the disk together myself, except that I need a working debian system to install the package on to make a new disk. George I had a similar problem on an old 386 laptop. I was able to build a very bare kernel on another machine which I then copied to the resq144 disk. Granted this was a very homegrown hack but it worked enough to get the machine up and running and allow me to build a new kernel on it with what I needed. If you want to try this kernel mail me and I will send you a copy of the kernel and the steps I used to get it to work. A. Paul Heely Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK- Version: 2.6.3 mQCNAzK7Bg0AAAEEAKsT3b8bcTnBECwzCvKuZcSYYnxCJPEBD6S0UwVn+nlD+qda sRHxayk8ifE479TuS+TahF1/KgYwVYH4gx96UUpCIhhDsrr7cE5HTtmmW0txpGY+ Vczt6HUHzfV+Mj8Oji5PUQF+QbqIcpu/uV46tEl3EFgN0px31w7kiEXTd5/RAAUR tCdBLiBQYXVsIEhlZWx5IEpyLiA8YXBhdWxoQG1pbmRwb3J0Lm5ldD4= =zQIF -END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian 1.2 rescue disk reboots Toshiba Tecra laptop
Yes, it uses a bzImage kernel. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cdrom problem during installation
Gee, these CD drivers are no fun at all. Did you try placing a CD in the drive? (or removing the CD?). Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian 1.2 rescue disk reboots Toshiba Tecra laptop
Can you send me the patch? I guess it effects SysLinux, which is what we are using. I'll have to make another floppy image. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 1.2 Upgrade Experience
I think dpkg-ftp needs to sort the packages into dependency order before it retrieves them (since it generally doesn't get them all at once when doing a major upgrade). Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
pppd ISDN and W95
Hello, I'm running a dialserver with common modems now. We want to offer ISDN too soon.. I can't get it running unfortunately :-(( I have to external Elsa Fastlink ISDN adapters that do HDLC (sync PPP) I configured the modems with ats0=1 to pick up a line immideately I'm starting a job in /etc/inittab that starts pppd (version 2.2.0) with the options : auth -chap +pap modem crtscts debug I made a /etc/pap-secrets file As a client I use a Teles ISDN adapter that works perfectly on my ISP so I guess that can't be the problem.. When I dialin I get a good connection. I see W95 negotiating with the Linux and I see some things happening in the debug but no connect. Finnally I tried to dialout using the Elsa adapter from the Linux and I got a perfect connection to my ISP.. I don't understand it anymore :-((( I hope someone can help me.. Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Michel van Osenbruggen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
clnttcp_create: RPC: program not registered
Hello, I get these strange errors all the time. I can't figure out what they are. I get them when I try to mount a NFS drive of start a FTP session etc.. The errors are: clnttcp_create: RPC: program not registered clntudp_create: RPC: program not registered Can anybody tell me what to do about this ?? Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Michel van Osenbruggen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: A.out binaries in debian 1.2 ??? nah....
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], James Martino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 23 Dec 1996, Bruce Perens wrote: I suspect any packages with a.outs in them are orphaned packages. Of course 1.2 is meant to be ELF-only. Oh dear - uucp an orphaned package! What is the (*n*x) world coming to? If it really is orphaned, I might like to adopt it. I guess you could take it. However I've just uploaded an all ELF uucp package in the new source format into unstable for the same reason - I couldn't reach the old maintainer anymore. It should be on your mirror by now. I don't think UUCP needs much maintenance - there hasn't been a new upstream version for over a year so I consider it mature. So I don't think it really needs a new maintainer. But please check it out and let me know what you think. Mike. -- | Miquel van Smoorenburg| Sticky tape is like the Force - it has a | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | dark side, it has a light side, and it | | 8--8 | holds the universe together - Carl Zwanig | -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: clnttcp_create: RPC: program not registered
Hi Michel, You wrote: Michel Michel Hello, Michel Michel I get these strange errors all the time. I can't figure out Michel what they are. I get them when I try to mount a NFS drive of Michel start a FTP session etc.. Michel Michel The errors are: Michel Michel RPC: program not registered RPC clients report such an error when they can't find a daemon to connect to. You have to run rpc.mountd and rpc.nfsd to enable to mount Your self via NFS. Hope that helps.. borik P.S FTP is not RPC service. -- Boris D. Beletsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] For pgp public key, e-mail me with subject get pgp-key -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cdrom problem during installation
On Tue, 24 Dec 1996, Bruce Perens wrote: Gee, these CD drivers are no fun at all. Did you try placing a CD in the drive? (or removing the CD?). I had the same problem at home with my ATAPI CDROM (Sony CDU77E), the installation program would eventually go on after a long time, but as this program probes the disks often it was quite unsusable. Putting a CD in the drive does solve the problem. My computer at work has got a Toshiba ATAPI CDROM player and does not show this problem. It think the installation instructions should talk about this problem and give the fix. It's better than releasing yet another boot disk with no CDROM support at all, uh? :) -- Farzad FARID Administrateur Reseau SGIP - Publicis -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PPP Chatscript problem
I am trying to create a working chat script so I can proceed with my installation of debian 1.2. However, after a day of trying variations of chat scripts, I am stumped. What should I do to fix this script? Where am I going wrong? I have included my chat script, a sample of how I can log into my ISP using the windows terminal program, and a log of script failure. If I am unable to get a working chat script what are my options? Could I install minicom, use it to log into my ISP and run ppp by hand? My ppp.chatscript is: ABORT BUSY ABORT NO CARRIER ABORT VOICE ABORT NO DIALTONE ATDT77139661200 ogin: rick assword: own) dumb\rdppp The steps to log into my ISP are (captured from MS Windows Terminal) : ATDT7139661200 CONNECT 9600/ARQ/V32/LAPM NeoSoft AAS 1.0 (pandora.neosoft.com) 11 users, 9600/ARQ login: rick Password: Last login: Tue Dec 24 17:45:56 on ttyA55 Copyright (c) 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE (WINNIE) #2: Tue Oct 8 14:05:01 CDT 1996 Authorized users only. Welcome to the NeoSoft Advanced Access Server. Address problems to [EMAIL PROTECTED] READY NeoSoft Menuing Shell TERM = (unknown) dumb dppp The results of the script pon are (logged by syslog): Dec 244 15:43:40 tardis pppd[368]: pppd 2.2.0 started by root,uid 0 Dec 244 15:43:40 tardis chat[369]: abort on (BUSY) Dec 244 15:43:40 tardis chat[369]: abort on (NO CARRIER) Dec 244 15:43:40 tardis chat[369]: abort on (VOICE) Dec 244 15:43:40 tardis chat[369]: abort on (NO DIALTONE) Dec 244 15:43:40 tardis chat[369]: send (ATDT7139661200) Dec 244 15:43:42 tardis chat[369]: expect (ogin:) Dec 244 15:44:40 tardis chat[369]: ATDT7139661200^M Dec 244 15:44:44 tardis chat[369]: CONNECT 1400/ Dec 244 15:44:44 tardis chat[369]: alarm Dec 244 15:44:44 tardis chat[369]: Failed Dec 244 15:44:44 tardis pppd[369]: Connect script failed Dec 244 15:44:44 tardis pppd[369]: Exit -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Test messages
Merry Christmas all, I am sending this to see if this works, haven't seen those few messages I've sent to the list in my mail box. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kernel Package
I just used make-kpkg to create a custom kernel. Anything, I didn't need I didn't include support for in the kernel and I didn't choose to make anything as a module. The program created the kernel-image package with no problems, however, I noticed that it still keeps the same, modules file in /etc. I simply commented out everything and the reboot went fine and I've definitly noticed a big speed improvement with the new kernel, but I think as part of the install, a person should be asked if they want to disable all old modules and/or resetup modules for the new kernel. Just my 2 cents. -- - Willie Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://users.quicklink.net - -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Poppasswd
On Tue, 24 Dec 1996, Roy C Bixler wrote: I was just wondering if anyone out there has had any luck with the 'poppasswd' package. I have tried setting it up on a Debian 1.2 system, but it just freezes up when I try to change the password from Eudora. A list of all the processes shows that 'poppasswd' is running along with a 'passwd rcb'. These must be killed manually, otherwise they hang around even after pressing the 'Stop' button in Eudora. Hi, This is a very tricky problem. poppassd is a small app that calls passwd to change the password. Well, it passes some arguments to passwd and expects some responses from it. All very fine. Now, the newer debians use a passwd program that does a few checks on the password. If the new password is too similar to the old one, or if it is too short, or if it has too many repeated characters, etc. it will issue an error message and prompt you for a new (hopefully better) password. poppassd was not desinged to deal with this. It just waits for passwd to issue the prompt re-enter new password while password is saying too simple: try again. Try entering a very random, 8 chars password to see if it works. To solve your problem, you must try to find a passwd program that doesn't do these checks (at the expense of security) or hack poppassd to be smarter. I don't know if debian has a simpler passwd program. Hope this helps, Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems with Talk under Debian
On Tue, 24 Dec 1996, Gerry Jensen wrote: I had trouble with this too. I believe one problem is that the host name of your machine must match the IP address of your machine. Otherwise, thank you for this information! I've had this problem too ;) And lastly, Sun's talk seems to be incompatible with just about every other OS's talk that I've tried, including Linux. So, if you're trying to At least on my schools sun's running SunOS, they've got at least two, but I think three talk-clients. Maybe you should try some other.. When someone requests a talk with me when I use my school's sun the talk daemon tells me which talk-client to use. // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: libXt.so.6
On Tue, 24 Dec 1996, James W. Tucker wrote: I've installed Debian 1.2 from scratch but dpkg indicates that it can't find libXt.so.6 when I try to install the texbin package. I did I've had exactly the same problem, so it might be common. I don't know how to fix this (I used dpkg to force the install, but I guess not that is not the wat to fix this problem..) So I am very anxious to find out what the problem is?? someone? // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PPP Chatscript problem
On Wed, 25 Dec 1996, Richard Heestand wrote: What should I do to fix this script? Where am I going wrong? Your ISP didn't tell you everything you need to know. Some ISP's change the ppp login name from rick to prick (the p indicates its a ppp account, srick for a slip account). You might have to enter 'unix' at the first login to get to the ppp login. I didn't look at the script very close, but you seem to be making a connection, but it is to a shell account instead of ppp. Mark W. Blunier -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: TIme online monitoring
I want to keep a running total of the time I am online, with MY ISP. Is there an easy way to do this? Check out momond at http://slug.ctv.es/~emelero/momond. Mark W. Blunier -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: libXt.so.6
I've installed Debian 1.2 from scratch but dpkg indicates that it can't find libXt.so.6 when I try to install the texbin package. I did I've had exactly the same problem, so it might be common. I don't know how to fix this (I used dpkg to force the install, but I guess not that is not the wat to fix this problem..) So I am very anxious to find out what the problem is?? someone? This problem is *well* known!!! Add the line /usr/X11R6/lib to the file /etc/ld.so.conf, and then, run the command: ldconfig -v That's all. Alexander Gieg =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= By: Alexander Gieg E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/3222 IRC: AlexG =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Poppasswd
Hi, The -o option of the passwd command (in Debian 1.1 - don't know about 1.2) disables all checks. Hacking poppassd to call passwd with the -o option should be trivial. E.- This is a very tricky problem. poppassd is a small app that calls passwd to change the password. Well, it passes some arguments to passwd and expects some responses from it. All very fine. Now, the newer debians use a passwd program that does a few checks on the password. If the new password is too similar to the old one, or if it is too short, or if it has too many repeated characters, etc. it will issue an error message and prompt you for a new (hopefully better) password. poppassd was not desinged to deal with this. It just waits for passwd to issue the prompt re-enter new password while password is saying too simple: try again. Try entering a very random, 8 chars password to see if it works. To solve your problem, you must try to find a passwd program that doesn't do these checks (at the expense of security) or hack poppassd to be smarter. I don't know if debian has a simpler passwd program. Hope this helps, Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Eloy A. Paris Information Technology Department Rockwell Automation de Venezuela Telephone: +58-2-9432311 Fax: +58-2-9430323 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
