Re: Slip Acount Dialer

[Igor Grobman]

On Mon, 10 Mar 1997, Pete Poff wrote:

> Hi,
>   I was wondering if there is a slip acount dialer program that 
> could allow me to connect to my socket slip acount and be able to use the 
> programs like ftp and telnet?

Try dip.  It is included in netstd package.

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Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation
Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Slip Acount Dialer

[Pete Poff]

Hi,
I was wondering if there is a slip acount dialer program that 
could allow me to connect to my socket slip acount and be able to use the 
programs like ftp and telnet?

thanks,
 Pete Poff---AKA---BlackJack
   Personal E-Mail Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   Kyron E-Mail Address:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
   Kyron address:   telnet.cyberconinc.com 4000

mh problem

[Steve]

This question is a FAQ, and is answered in the MH FAQ, but the answers
don't seem to help my situation...

Here's the problem. I'm using exmh, but when I try to send, I get this
message:

post: problem initializing server; [BHST] no servers available
send: message not delivered to anyone

>From the MH FAQ, I gather that this is because it can't connect to
localhost port 25. There is a reason for that: I don't have anything
listening on port 25 and I don't want to. I'm somewhat security-minded
and strongly believe that a system should not allow anyone access to
anything they don't actually need access to. Therefore, because this
box isn't a mail server, I don't have anything listening on the SMTP
port.

Anyway, looking at the MH FAQ:

>5. Your load average is so high that sendmail is refusing connections.
>Solution: Change your configuration from "mta: sendmail/smtp" to
>"mta: sendmail" so that a sendmail processes is spawned to
>deliver the message.  This is a double-edged sword since the
>extra process only makes the load worse.

This sounds like what I want to do. My system is refusing SMTP
connections, although not because of load. I tried adding the "mta:
sendmail" line to my ~/.mh_profile, and I also tried a "servers:" line
with the name of my mail server. No change with either option.

What am I supposed to do? I wasn't sure about the mta option, but I
figured that the servers line would work. Is the ~/.mh_profile file
ignored or do I have these options in the wrong place?

BTW, I'm running sendmail (with only the -q option) instead of smail,
if that makes a difference.

Re: rsh don' t work?!?

[Heikki Vatiainen]

I think this is what Andrea was trying to do:

#rsh localhost ls
permission denied
#echo "localhost hessu" >> .rhosts
#rsh localhost ls
Mail
News
bin
[rest of the listing cut]

Andrea, you need at least a 'hostname user' line in $HOME/.rhosts on the 
computer you want to remotely log in to. See rlogin(1) and rsh(1). You may 
also need to specify your login name with the '-l' option if they are 
different on your local and remote hosts. Read the mans, they are fine :)

One occasion where I found rsh very useful was when I was trying to create a 
CD-ROM image with my friend. We had two networked computers which both had 
less than 1200 megs of free space and thus were incapable to hold the finished 
CD-ROM image and source files at the same time. Since we couldn't mount the 
disks over nfs we put the source files to host1 and did something like this on 
it:

# mkisofs /path/to/the/image/files | rsh host2 'cat > cd.image'

The image data from mkisofs was piped to rsh and over the network to host2 
where it was put in the file cd.image. The '-quotes are necessary to keep the 
shell on host1 from seeing the redirection character >.

// Heikki
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Re: Mathematica [was "What is the typical response from i-Connect?"]

[Norris Preyer]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Zachary) writes:

> Also, has anyone experience with Mathematica 3.0 on Debian? I called and
> chatted to a nice lady at Wolfram who told me that as long as a.out and
> ELF binaries are supported, Mathematica plays nice with Linux. However,
> you never know if there are other 'gotchas' lurking underneath the surface.
> 
> John
> 
I don't know what the bit about a.out is about, for file reports:
Mathematica: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 386, version 1, stripped

Version 3.0 is *very* nice, with the entire 1400 page book available
via on-line help, along with classy typography.  It also takes 116Mb
for a full install, as well as Motif (I don't know if lesstif would
work).  It seems very fast and stable---Wolfram Research took the time
to do this right.

I've not yet experimented with notebook-->html pages and the like, but
there's lots of fun stuff to explore.  Is there a Linux (or Debian)
Mathematica group??

--Norris

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Re: kernel-config

[Tim Sailer]

In your email to me, J.P.D. Kooij, you wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, 10 Mar 1997, Mikael Hallendal wrote:
> 
> > Hi!
> > 
> > I try to get the sound working i linux and when I do make config in th 
> > kernel-source I'm aksed
> > to enter the I/O-base but the only thing that happens is that it says 
> > 'no help is available.
> > 
> > Can anyone help me, please!
> 
> I find your question not very clear: 
> 
> Do you mean to say that the config script hangs at the point where you 
> should be able to enter the address of your soundcard's IO-port? What 
> version of the source do you use? 
> 
> Or do you mean that you need help finding the right address number to
> enter for your card? What soundcard do you have?

Nope.. this is a known bug (I think). No matter what you enter, it
gives the 'no help' message. A newer version of the kernel-source
package will help (I think again).

Tim

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Adaptec 2940 UW

[Bernd Kreimeier]

The current resque disk does not work with my
Adaptec 2940 UW. This does not surprise me,
as none of the Kernels above 2.0.12 (up to 2.0.27)
I tried did work. An small remark in a README in
an otherwise useless RedHat stated that Adaptec
support is partially broken since 2.0.12.

In consequence, no Debian. Unfortunately I have
not succeeded in getting a 2.0.0 kernel (that
works) on a Debian resque disk. Any hint or
advice much appreciated.

b.

Re: zsh vs bash

[Brian S. Julin]

On Sat, 8 Mar 1997, Bob Clark wrote:

> This is *not* a flame.  This list is kind of touchy lately.  It's just
> that I'm a big fan of bash (with vi editting mode instead of emacs) and
> if there's a better shell out there I'd like to give it a try.  It just
> doesn't sound like zsh has anything to offer that bash doesn't. 

Speed.  Bash is cumbersome.  But if you have the computing power
it I don't see that zsh has too much else.

> Comments anyone?

Personally I think they should write a bourne shell in Perl (psh?).
Now that could be fun.

--
Brian S. Julin

Re: kernel-config

[J.P.D. Kooij]

On Mon, 10 Mar 1997, Mikael Hallendal wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> I try to get the sound working i linux and when I do make config in th 
> kernel-source I'm aksed
> to enter the I/O-base but the only thing that happens is that it says 
> 'no help is available.
> 
> Can anyone help me, please!

I find your question not very clear: 

Do you mean to say that the config script hangs at the point where you 
should be able to enter the address of your soundcard's IO-port? What 
version of the source do you use? 

Or do you mean that you need help finding the right address number to
enter for your card? What soundcard do you have?


Joost

diald and dctrl

[Richard Morin]

Hi Folks, 
Does anyone know what the "forcing timeout" box means in dctrl?  dctrl
doesn't run every time, but when it does, it has a countdown going on in
the "forcing timeout" box.  To me, this means it is forcing the link down,
but how do I stop it from doing this?



Richard Morin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Samba 1.9.16p11

[Klee Dienes]

Jim Pick writes:

> I believe the new Samba (in unstable) uses PAM (pluggable authentification
> modules).  Klee Dienes (the maintainer) mentioned in debian-devel that
> the following lines need to be added to /etc/pam.conf:

Exactly.  The new versions of Samba (1.9.16p11-2) and libpam0 (0.56-1)
will fix this problem, and should be showing up in 'unstable' soon.

For now, though, the lines given by Jim Pick should fix the problem.

Thanks,
 - Klee

Re: Regarding HPFS in the install/setup...

[[EMAIL PROTECTED] ;The Doctor What]

Repeating what you said:
->On Mon, 10 Mar 1997, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ;The Doctor What wrote:
->
->> Isn't HPFS, which is refered to in the Debian Install Device Drivers
->> section, actually OS/2's High Performace File System, which is Read
->> Only?  It says it's NT's HPFS... I didn't think Linux supported
that (yet).
->
->OS/2 uses HPFS most extensively, but NT also supported it (MS removed it
->in the 4.0 release). It is a MicroSoft file system that IBM somehow owns
->part of, like most of Os/2. It's not really incorrect to call it NT's
->HPFS just useless as NT can't use the format anymore. NT's native
->filesystem is NTFS (which has an experimental driver out).

Ahh... I can imagine how IBM got ahold of it (if it's part
owned/designed by MS).  Remember, in the early days of OS/2, it was an
MS/IBM cooperative effort.

It isn't NT's HPFS though, is it?  I mean, it was written for OS/2
originally.  Wasn't OS/2 out before NT?  I thought NT supported it
until MS decided to shot all OS/2 compatability in the back (i.e.
Win95/NT4.0)

Perhaps that "title" should say: OS/2 and NT HPFS

BTW: Is the HPFS ReadOnly still?


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"Ever wonder why the SAME PEOPLE make up ALL the conspiracy theories?" -mkj

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Re: Samba 1.9.16p11

[Tim Sailer]

In your email to me, Jim Pick, you wrote:
> 
> --==_Exmh_247101692P
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> 
> 
> > I have upgrade to Samba 1.9.16p11.
> > After thus I have no more connection to servicec with password:
> > 
> >  first SMBtconX failed, trying again. ERRSRV - ERRbadpw (Bad password -
> >  name/password pair in a Tree Connect or Session Setup are invalid.)
> >  SMBtconX failed. ERRSRV - ERRbadpw (Bad password - name/password pair in a
> >  Tree
> >  Connect or Session Setup are invalid.)
> >  Perhaps you are using the wrong sharename, username or password?
> >  Some servers insist that these be in uppercase
> > 
> > Any comments?
> > 
> > Mirek Kwasniak
> > 
> 
> I believe the new Samba (in unstable) uses PAM (pluggable authentification
> modules).  Klee Dienes (the maintainer) mentioned in debian-devel that
> the following lines need to be added to /etc/pam.conf:
> 
> samba   auth required   /usr/lib/security/pam_unix_auth.so debug
> samba   account  required   /usr/lib/security/pam_unix_acct.so
> samba   session  required   /usr/lib/security/pam_unix_session.so
> samba   password required   /usr/lib/security/pam_unix_passwd.so

Actually, it fixed the authentification problem, but then samba had
other problems. It would core dump very nicely after validation
of the password.

Tim

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Re: Samba 1.9.16p11

[Jim Pick]

> I have upgrade to Samba 1.9.16p11.
> After thus I have no more connection to servicec with password:
> 
>  first SMBtconX failed, trying again. ERRSRV - ERRbadpw (Bad password -
>  name/password pair in a Tree Connect or Session Setup are invalid.)
>  SMBtconX failed. ERRSRV - ERRbadpw (Bad password - name/password pair in a
>  Tree
>  Connect or Session Setup are invalid.)
>  Perhaps you are using the wrong sharename, username or password?
>  Some servers insist that these be in uppercase
> 
> Any comments?
> 
> Mirek Kwasniak
> 

I believe the new Samba (in unstable) uses PAM (pluggable authentification
modules).  Klee Dienes (the maintainer) mentioned in debian-devel that
the following lines need to be added to /etc/pam.conf:

samba   auth required   /usr/lib/security/pam_unix_auth.so debug
samba   account  required   /usr/lib/security/pam_unix_acct.so
samba   session  required   /usr/lib/security/pam_unix_session.so
samba   password required   /usr/lib/security/pam_unix_passwd.so

Hope this fixes it.

Cheers,

 - Jim



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Re: Regarding HPFS in the install/setup...

[Jason Gunthorpe]

On Mon, 10 Mar 1997, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ;The Doctor What wrote:

> Isn't HPFS, which is refered to in the Debian Install Device Drivers
> section, actually OS/2's High Performace File System, which is Read
> Only?  It says it's NT's HPFS... I didn't think Linux supported that (yet).

OS/2 uses HPFS most extensively, but NT also supported it (MS removed it
in the 4.0 release). It is a MicroSoft file system that IBM somehow owns
part of, like most of Os/2. It's not really incorrect to call it NT's
HPFS just useless as NT can't use the format anymore. NT's native
filesystem is NTFS (which has an experimental driver out).

Jason

Re: What happend to the debian-user-digest list?

[Bruce Perens]

To re-subscribe to debian-user-digest, send mail to

[EMAIL PROTECTED]

The message should be the word "subscribe".

Bruce
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What happend to the debian-user-digest list?

[Pedro I. Sanchez]

Hello,

Two weeks ago I was subscribed to the list debian-user-digest and
suddenly I stopped receiving messages. I tried to re-subscribe but there
is no menu to do that in www.debian.org. Is that list still alive? If
so, how can I subscribe to it again?

Thank you,

Pedro I. Sanchez

kernel-config

[Mikael Hallendal]

Hi!

I try to get the sound working i linux and when I do make config in th 
kernel-source I'm aksed
to enter the I/O-base but the only thing that happens is that it says 'no help 
is available.

Can anyone help me, please!

/Micke
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Regarding HPFS in the install/setup...

[[EMAIL PROTECTED] ;The Doctor What]

Isn't HPFS, which is refered to in the Debian Install Device Drivers
section, actually OS/2's High Performace File System, which is Read
Only?  It says it's NT's HPFS... I didn't think Linux supported that (yet).

Am I wrong?

(I was using DEB 1.2.7)



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Exim as replacement for smail

[David Sewell]

There's now an exim package available in the "unstable" hierarchy.
(For those who don't know, exim is a Mail Transport Agent that
had roots in smail but has grown into an actively maintained
independent sendmail replacement; it incorporates a number
of security and filtering features that smail lacks.)

I'm wondering if anyone who has converted from smail to exim
could comment on how much reconfiguring is likely to be necessary
after the conversion--I assume that the exim package won't use
information from an smail install, since the two packages are
defined as conflicting.

DS
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Re: make-kpkg

[Alair Pereira do Lago]

Mirek Kwasniak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> My first attempt to make-kpkg:
> 
> $ make-kpkg -revision custom.1.0 kernel_image
> 
> I got endless messages:
> 
>   Max open DLCI (CONFIG_DLCI_COUNT) [24]
> 
>   This is the maximal number of logical point-to-point frame relay
>   connections (the identifiers of which are called DCLIs) that
>   the driver can handle. The default is probably fine.
> 
>   Max open DLCI (CONFIG_DLCI_COUNT) [24]
> 
>   This is the maximal number of logical point-to-point frame relay
>   connections (the identifiers of which are called DCLIs) that
>   the driver can handle. The default is probably fine.
> 
> ...
> 
> What do I do ?

I had the same problem.
There is a fix to be done in dpkg-gencontrol which changes a line
chown(@fowner, "$fileslistfile.new")
 to
chown(0,0, "$fileslistfile.new")

It was published in this list somewhere around. BTW, Does anyone know wether
this bug was fixed in some new package?

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Computer Science Department -- Universidade de S~ao Paulo -- Brazil

Re: Can someon help me configuring X?

[Christian Meder]

On Mar 10, Barbara Cel wrote
> Hi debians!
> 
> 
> 
> I'm tired of 4th day of configuring debian (what a bitchy system,
> 
> friends are advising me to buy Red Hat) and I still haven't X-windows
> 
> configured. I've been instaling this few times from the very beginning
> 
> and i had lots of strange error messages (i'm using S3 64 V+ card and
> 
> I installed X server for this card). After configuring with xf86config
> 
> the most intriguing errors were:
> 
> 
> 
> "no screens installed"
> 

Hi !

This error indicates that there is something wrong with your
/etc/XF86Config . I'm willing to help you but perhaps you could first email
me your relevant files off the list (privately). 

> and (this I have now)
> 
> 
> 
> "PEX extension module not loaded"
> 
> "XIE extension module not loaded"
> 

This error is harmless and would be ignored by X11 if the rest would
be ok.

> there are more of this and when I'll be running linux next time i'll
> 
> copy it all. 

Please mail me the other errors you get too.

> Now I changed to DOS (win95) which partition I have no
> 
> idea how to mount - I tried to set it as /dev/hdc without reason,
> 
> nevermind. If someone will help me with X i'll be greatful...!
> 

Hope I will be able to help you.

Greetings,

   Christian
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I never go to see
Where it ends.
It fills a few hollows,
And makes banks for the swallows, 
It sets the sand a-blowing,
And the blackberries a-growing.
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Re: RPC for linux

[Dominik Kubla]

It's part of the system library. Just remove -lrpc* from the Makefile
and everything should do fine. (libc6 will change that a bit, but it
will still be distributed aling with libc...)

Dominik Kubla
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Re: question on dates

[dpk]

The command to view the time is 'date'.  If you do a man on this you can 
see how to change the format.  Here is a couple of examples to get you 
started...

<4 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ >date +%m/%d/%y
03/10/97
<5 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ >date +%H:%M
12:59

Hope this helps,
Dennis

On Mon, 10 Mar 1997, G. Kapetanios wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 
> I have a very pressing question and I would be very happy if somebody
> could give me a clue. I have a commercial psckage installed on my debian
> system which ( GAUSS for econometric applications ) which takes the date
> time e.t.c. from the system. Unfortunately, after I upgraded from stable
> to unstable it seems to be getting the wrong format for the date or time .
> Can somebody tell me whether the programs which provide these information
> have been changed from the stable to the unstable? If so, and this must
> somehow be the case can I change the defaults to what they used to be ? If
> not which is the package providing this information so that I can
> downgrade it ??
> 
>Thanks very much
>George 
> 
> ---
> George Kapetanios
> Churchill College
> Cambridge, CB3 0DS  
> U.K.E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> ---
> 
> 

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Re: rcp & rsh help

[Philippe Troin]

On Mon, 10 Mar 1997 06:53:23 CST Paul Serice ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

> I've got rlogin working fine.  I just edited my .rhosts file.  The problem
> is that rcp is not working, and I think what is happening is as follows:
> 
> When I is a "rsh" command, the output always begins with "stdin: is not a
> tty".  Now, when I issue any "rcp" command the command looks and sounds
> like it is working then it just stops and waits.  My guess is that this
> "stdin: is not a tty" error is being issued which is messing up the rcp
> protocol.

You probably have a stty or an other command which assumes you're running on a 
tty in your shell init file. Though rsh/rcp do not perform a login, they run 
the non-interactive init files (.bashrc, .cshrc...).
The best is to enclose these tty-specific commands with a
if [ "$PROMPT" != "" ]

PROMPT (or prompt for csh) are empty when running non-interactive.
Then you shouldn't get anymore "is not a tty" message, and rcp should work...

Tricky eh ?
Phil.

Re: rsh don' t work?!?

[dpk]

You don't need the 'ls' at the end for rsh.  I don't know what options 
you were trying to obtain from using it, but I didn't find anything about 
it in the man page.  I tried the same thing you did and received the same 
results.  However, you can see if you omit the 'ls' it works just fine.


<1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ >rsh localhost ls
Permission denied.
<2 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ >rsh localhost
Password: 
Last login: Mon Mar 10 12:44:09 from :0.0


I hope this helps.
Dennis

On Mon, 10 Mar 1997, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> I want to use rsh, but I found:
> 
> $ rsh localhost ls
> Permission denied.
> 
> What I must change (for example in hosts.allow) to run it?
> 
> Thanks.
> --
> Andrea Arcangeli
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.imola.queen.it/user/arcangeli/
> 
> 

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RPC for linux

[Daniel Navarro Reyes]

 I need the RPC library for linux. I would thankful if somebody tells
where I can load it down.

Thanks

Daniel Navarro

Re: problem with mirror after transition to 1.2.8

[Mike Neuffer]

On Mon, 10 Mar 1997, Pete Templin wrote:

> 
> Hello,
> 
>   I'm having trouble with mirror, and I think the problems have
> arisen since I upgraded from 1.2.7 to 1.2.8.  Here's some example errors:
> 
> package=debian ftp.debian.org:/debian/ -> /server/ftp/pub/debian/
> main:/usr/bin/mirror:2205 Caught a SIGSEGV shutting down at
> /usr/bin/mirror line 3601.
> 
> ls -l on a certain file gives:
> ?x   0 root daemon   16842757 Jul 14  1970
> www-search_1.007-1.diff.gz
> 
> and that file can't be rm'ed, chmod'ed, or written over.
> 
> Any ideas or fixes?

Check if the file is immutable.

do a:
lsattr www-search_1.007-1.diff.gz 
to check.

Mike

Michael Neufferi-Connect.Net, a Division of iConnect Corp.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Home of the Debian Master Server.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]14355 SW Allen Blvd., Suite 140
503.641.8774   Beaverton, OR 97005

Re: Problems Compiling Kernel 2.0.27

[David Wright]

On Sun, 9 Mar 1997, johannes martinez wrote:

> Thought wrote:
> > 
> > I normally don't compile sound board support, because I never use sound in
> > Linux, but I was just messing around and I decided 'what the hell' and
> > included it when I was remaking my kernel, and I got a bunch of missing
> > configuration files/setup errors when trying to compile too.  I just
> > thought 'ahh screw it' and compiled without sound.  Is there a problem in
> > 2.0.27 with sound?
> 
>   Same problem here.  However when i removed support for the 
> yamaha chip it seemed to work okay.  Course then i did a dselect, and 
> got my new kernel replaced and had to build it again.
> 
> johannes martinez
> 
> 

No problem here except that it needs a bit of care where you configure 
the card - IRQs, DMAs and whatnot - and there's no help available for 
those options, unlike the rest of the configuration. As sound is built 
onto my motherboard, I have little documentation and basically I used 
the original CONFIG.SYS parameter line to guess what I should respond.

--
David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA
U.K.  email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]  tel: +44 1908 653 739  fax: +44 1908 655 151

Re: Problems Compiling Kernel 2.0.27

[David Wright]

On Sat, 8 Mar 1997, David James Loken wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> I have been trying to recompile my kernel 2.0.27. I would like to
> use Menuconfig but I'm missing the
> 
> file 'lxdiaglog.o' in /usr/src/linux/scripts/lxdialog. Does anyone know
> where I can get a copy?

I'm not sure why you'd want this file. The only catch with running 
menuconfig is that you need to install ncurses-dev.

> 
> So I tried running 'make config' that goes along fine until I try to compile
> the sound board option.
> 
> gcc tells me I'm missing the 'configure' in /usr/src/linux/drivers/sound.

Did you set both "Sound card support" and "/dev/dsp and /dev/audio 
support" as well as the specific card (say, Sound Blaster for example).

> I have read the Readme.linx file, 
> but I don't how to run the script that is appended to the end of
> Readme.linux after I have deleted the first 
> part of file.

I copied the file to /root, called it sound.configuration, edited out 
the surrounding text, chmod u+x so it's executable and typed
./sound.configuration (I think). Remember that . is not in root's path 
(security risk).

> 
> Also I have tried to compile the 2.0.27 kernel without sound. 'make
> config' works fine but, when try 
> 
> running 'make dep' gcc say it can't find 'mkdep.c' even though 'mkdep.c' is
> present in /usr/src/linux/scripts.
> 
> If it is in the wrong directory which directory should I put it in.

I think if you get error messages, it usually means you've done 
something wrong in the configuration stage. It certainly did with me.
(Or forgetting to clean each time.)
I'd be loath to start moving things about in the source tree.

> 
> Thanks in advance, & 73 for now.
> 
> Dave Loken VE6DJL 
> 
> 

--
David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA
U.K.  email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]  tel: +44 1908 653 739  fax: +44 1908 655 151

rsh don' t work?!?

[Andrea Arcangeli]

I want to use rsh, but I found:

$ rsh localhost ls
Permission denied.

What I must change (for example in hosts.allow) to run it?

Thanks.
--
Andrea Arcangeli
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.imola.queen.it/user/arcangeli/

Re: Minimal Install

[Paul Serice]

On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Mike Patterson wrote:

> The problem is that I'm trying to do a debian install in less than 100 
> megs. Of course this means forgoing things like X, etc... But every time
> I go through dselect and choose packages to remove, it refuses to comply!
> Instead, it complains about failed dependancies, etc, that are listed as
> ok. Does anyone know the magical combinations of packages to start out 
> with a simple system that I can add onto as I need to?
> 
> As a side note, here's what I wante this machine to eventually do (in order):
> 
> * Be mountable by my other Linux boxes
> * Act as an IPX router (needed for next requirement?) 
> * Have some directories mountable (shared) by my Win95 boxes
> * Act as a print server (using a local printer)
> * Allow dial-in PPP/IPX (Win95)


I have just finishing installing Debian on a 386 with 4 megs of ram and an
80 meg hard drive which is partitioned as 60 for Linux and 20 for swap
space.  My installation took up about 40 megs and it is very close to what
you require.

All you need to do is get rid of dselect.  Just get the installation
floppies and install those.  Then download the packages you need.  There
is one caveat:  I don't think the default Debian kernel comes with NFS
enabled so you'll have to recompile to kernel.  (I don't know about IPX.)
At any rate, you should recompile to get the exact kernel you need.

The long and short of it is that your probably not going to have enough
space to compile a new kernel on the 100 meg hard drive.  I didn't.  So,
what I did was just use a different computer to compile a kernel then put
the kernel on the small computer via sneaker-net.

Paul Serice

Re: Laodable Modules

[David Wright]

On Sun, 9 Mar 1997, Rob MacWilliams wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I am trying to compile a custom kernel for the usual reasons.  I am not 
> seeing any errors during the 
> compile, installation or boot phases, but some of the modules won't install.  
> Here are the steps I took
> to compile the kernel:
> 
> mv /lib/modules/2.0.27 /lib/modules/2.0.27.old
> mv /vmlinuz /vmlinuz.old

I don't do this.

> 
> cd /usr/include
> mv asm asm.old
> mv linux linux.old
> mv scsi scsi.old
> 
> ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/asm-i386 asm
> ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/linux linux
> ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/scsi scsi
> 
> (linux is a symbolic link to /usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.27 it was a link to 
> /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.0.27 but both give the same errors)

These links should not be made with Debian.

> 
> make mrproper
> make xconfig
> make dep
> make clean
> make zImage
> make modules
> make modules_install
> 
> cp /usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.27/arch/i386/boot/zImage /vmlinuz

Rather than this cp (and the previous mv) you can use "make install".
Then remove the modules.dep before rebooting and depmod is done 
automatically.

> 
> edit /etc/lilo.conf so I have a backdoor if this crashes
> run LILO
> 
> edit /etc/modules so that only auto is uncommented
> 
> reboot
> login as root
> $depmod -a
> 
> $insmod psaux

Why have the mouse built as a module?

> misc_register undefined
> misc_deregister undefined
> Loading failed! The module symbols (from linux-2.0.27) don't match your 
> linux-2.0.27

This may be because you didn't copy the System.map along with vmlinuz.
BTW I copy both to /boot and use links from / (if only because that's 
how the installation system was set up.

> 
> 
> $modprobe psaux
> Initialization of psaux failed
> 
> $insmod misc
> $insmod psuax
> Cannot open /lib/modules/misc/psuax.o
> 
> Checking the datestamp confirms that it was compiled along with the other 
> modules that work.
> psaux isn't the only module that fails to load, but hpfs and ppp work fine.  
> I can dig through all of the 
> modules and see exactly which ones work and which ones don't if that would 
> help.  If an strace of 
> insmod would help I can include that also, but that would have made this 
> message huge.
> All of the important parts of the system are Debian/GNU. 

Can you shorten your lines, please.

> 
> Any clues?  I'm relativly new at this, but having a great time learning all 
> of the ins and outs.
> 
> Thanks 
> 
> 
> "Time is the best teacher, unfortunately it kills all of it's students"
> 
> Rob MacWilliams   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> N9NPU
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

I hope that's a little help. Good luck.

--
David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA
U.K.  email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]  tel: +44 1908 653 739  fax: +44 1908 655 151

Re: What is the typical response from i-Connect?

[Mark Evans]

On Mon, 10 Mar 1997, John Zachary wrote:

> I eagerly ordered the Debian CD from i-Connect last weekend, but after
> a couple of email inquiries, I have not heard a word from them. Are they
> still selling the CD and/or should I be worried that I sent them my
> credit card number? 

I ordered a CD from them before Christmas, finally received it on Jan 20,
1997.  I tried calling them, no luck their voicemail box was full.  It
took several weeks for them to return my emails too.  Not the type of
service I was expecting based on their web site which states they burn the
CD within 2 or 3 days of your order.

I would recommend going with Cheap-Bytes or one of the other Debian CD
producers. I-connect won't get anymore of our business.


--
Mark EvansLinux v2 Information Headquarters
[EMAIL PROTECTED]   http://www.ecsnet.com

Re: turning off computer

[James W. Lynch]

-  Received message begins Here  -

Could one add a user named "halt" or "shutdown" whose login shell
was shutdown with the appropriate parameters?

Jim.


Jim Lynch, System Engineer,  SGI/Cray Research, Inc. / ARS: K4GVO
Federal Business Systems, Phone: (770) 631-2254, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Suite 270, 200 Westpark Drive, Peachtree City, GA 30269

Re: What is the typical response from i-Connect?

[Pete Harlan]

> I eagerly ordered the Debian CD from i-Connect last weekend, but after
> a couple of email inquiries, I have not heard a word from them. Are they

That's typical of the response I've gotten from i-Connect.  They seem
like great folks, but my experience has been that they don't respond
to customers, or deliver product, quickly.

Dale Scheetz has been great; he needs to be able to take credit card
orders, though, which he couldn't last time I ordered from him.  He
does respond quickly, though, both email and shipping.


Then there's always cheapbytes, etc., but I've had no experience with
them.

--
Pete Harlan
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: More shared lib stuff

[Tomislav Vujec]

"Walter L. Preuninger II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> to compile the program, I followed the elf-howto and just did a
> gcc -o example example.c

You'll have to add -lmy_lib on the end of line, if you want to compile
example with your shlib libmy_lib.so

Re: color xterm

[Daniel S. Barclay]

> From: "Fran\gois Gouget" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> [...]
> > Interesting.  Where did you find information on that resource?  (It's 
> > apparently not in the manual page.)
> 
> In this mailing list. It was in the following message:
> 
> << To: Philippe Troin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> Philippe Troin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
>  However, as we
> discussed just over a month ago on this list, the correct answer is not
> documented anywhere in the Debian packages. You can read the manpage
> for ls until hell freezes over and still not get color. ...

When things like this come up, can we please submit them as bug reports?
Nothing is going to get fixed if it isn't pushed back upstream.

Daniel

What is the typical response from i-Connect?

[John Zachary]

Hello all,

I eagerly ordered the Debian CD from i-Connect last weekend, but after
a couple of email inquiries, I have not heard a word from them. Are they
still selling the CD and/or should I be worried that I sent them my
credit card number? 

Also, has anyone experience with Mathematica 3.0 on Debian? I called and
chatted to a nice lady at Wolfram who told me that as long as a.out and
ELF binaries are supported, Mathematica plays nice with Linux. However,
you never know if there are other 'gotchas' lurking underneath the surface.

John

Re: imap4 locking fails

[winspace]

In reply to the honourable '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' who said:

> Try setting the protection bits on the /var/spool/mail directory to
> drwxrwsr-x  
>   ^
>   +-- I think this is the big you need to change.
> 


it didnt fix it unfortunately but it gave me an idea so i set it to 777 and tha
t 
fixed it but i dont feel right about the security being set to world writeable.
 
any suggestions people ? can someone fix the source ?

TIA




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Re: ethernet routing problem

[Steve Izma]

> From [EMAIL PROTECTED]  Sun Mar  9 19:11:47 1997
> 
> On Mon, 3 Mar 1997, Steve Izma wrote:
> 
> > I've been setting up Debian 1.2.4 (25 Jan.: Cheapbytes distribution)
> > on two new Pentium 150 systems and I can't get network routing over
> > ethernet to work.
> >
> > I'm using the D-link DE220P, which the ne
> > driver easily finds. Ifconfig gives this report, which I believe shows
> > correct configuration of the driver to the card:
> >
> > eth0  Link encap:10Mbps Ethernet  HWaddr 00:80:C8:2D:7D:8F
> >   inet addr:192.54.242.228  Bcast:192.54.242.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
> >   UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
> >   RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
> >   TX packets:4117 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
> >   Interrupt:11 Base address:0x220 
> > 
> > Pinging the localhost works fine, but pinging anything else on the
> > network (even the immediately adjacent device connected via coax)
> > produces no result. I'm sure it's not a wiring problem because the
> > rest of the machines on the network are not affected and I get the
> > same negative results using ping on both new machines, which are wired
> > into the network in different locations in the office.
> 
> does the card have more than one connector? i.e. BNC and/or RJ-45 and/or
> AUI connectors?
> 
> If so, make sure that the card is correctly configured to use the right
> connector for your network.
> 
> 4117 TX packets and 0 RX packets makes me a bit suspicious that, e.g., the
> card is configured to use the RJ-45 UTP connector when you are running on a
> coax network - or vice-versa.

That was the problem. Much thanks. When using other cards of this
type in the past, I ran the DOS setup on them, but this time the
ne driver found the right i/o so quickly I figured I didn't need
to go to the trouble of removing the card, putting it in a DOS
machine, and then reinstalling it, etc. (forgetting that there
was more to setup than just i/o & IRQ). So using the setup
program and changing connectors to BNC did the trick.
Thanks again.
--Steve Izma, Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Waterloo, Ont., Canada N2L 3C5
(519) 884-0710 ext. 6125 FAX: (519) 725-1399
[EMAIL PROTECTED]  or  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: imap4 locking fails

[Bernt T. Hansen]

Try setting the protection bits on the /var/spool/mail directory to
drwxrwsr-x  
  ^
  +-- I think this is the big you need to change.

Hope this helps,
Bernt.

On Mon, 10 Mar 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 16:13:27 +1000
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: imap4 locking fails
> 
> can anybody explain why the imap4 is behaving as shown below ? is it unable 
> to 
> 
> lock the inbox and if so what is the remedy ? this occurs with all users.
> 
> Connected to mozart.void.hell.net.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> * OK mozart.void.hell.net IMAP4 Service 8.3(144) at Mon, 10 Mar 1997 15:52:58 
> +1100 (EST) (Report problems in this server to [EMAIL PROTECTED])
> a001 login winspace xx
> a001 OK LOGIN completed
> a002 select inbox
> * NO Error creating /var/spool/mail/winspace.lock.857969608.30935.mozart: 
> Permission denied
> * 331 EXISTS
> * OK [UIDVALIDITY 857969609] UID validity status
> * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Draft \Seen)
> * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Draft \Seen)] Permanent 
> flags
> * OK [UNSEEN 1] 1 is first unseen
> * 331 RECENT
> a002 OK [READ-WRITE] SELECT completed
>  logout
> * NO Error creating /var/spool/mail/winspace.lock.857969626.30935.mozart: 
> Permission denied
> * BYE mozart.void.hell.net IMAP4 server terminating connection
>  OK LOGOUT completed
> Connection closed by foreign host.
> 
> permissions on directorys and mailfile /var/spool/mail/winspace
> drwxr-xr-x  12 root root 1024 Jan  7 11:56 var
> drwxr-xr-x  12 root root 1024 Nov  6 22:10 spool
> drwxrwxr-x   2 mail mail 1024 Mar 10 15:52 mail
> -rw---   1 winspace users 1045857 Mar 10 15:53 winspace
> -rw-rw   1 administ mail 4370 Mar  8 16:12 administ
> 
> lsattr on directories
> --- var
> --- spool
> --- mail
> 
> TIA and cheers
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> 
> 
> 

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Computer Systems  235 Bellamy Road North   phone: (416)431-6216
Analyst   Scarborough,   Ontario   fax:   (416)431-2617
  Canada M1J-2L7

apache question

[Daniel Doro Ferrante]

Hi,

I have just removed my httpd and installed apache but I'm 
having some troubles in using it (actually in loading it). It gives me a 
couple of messages:

getpeername  : socket operation on non-socket
getsocketname: socket operation on non-socket
Error getting local address

Weel, I just don't know what to do... I have already 
tried some different configuration files - I mean, I tried to replace to 
ones that apache installed with some that I have that I am sure that work 
- thinking that the problem were them. Nothing "good" hapened.

Thanks,

Daniel.




Daniel Doro Ferrante
CECM - Curso Experimental de Ciencias Moleculares - USP.
   Course of Molecular Sciences - University of Sao Paulo.

Av. do Anfiteatro, s/n. Favo 22 - Colmeias.
Sao Paulo, SP.
Brasil.
E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Tel: +55 +11 818-3188 - comercial
 +55 +11 818-3187 - comercial
 +55 +11 444-6932 - residencial

FAX: +55 +11 444-6932 - residencial

imap4 locking fails

[winspace]

can anybody explain why the imap4 is behaving as shown below ? is it unable to 

lock the inbox and if so what is the remedy ? this occurs with all users.

Connected to mozart.void.hell.net.
Escape character is '^]'.
* OK mozart.void.hell.net IMAP4 Service 8.3(144) at Mon, 10 Mar 1997 15:52:58 
+1100 (EST) (Report problems in this server to [EMAIL PROTECTED])
a001 login winspace xx
a001 OK LOGIN completed
a002 select inbox
* NO Error creating /var/spool/mail/winspace.lock.857969608.30935.mozart: 
Permission denied
* 331 EXISTS
* OK [UIDVALIDITY 857969609] UID validity status
* FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Draft \Seen)
* OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Draft \Seen)] Permanent 
flags
* OK [UNSEEN 1] 1 is first unseen
* 331 RECENT
a002 OK [READ-WRITE] SELECT completed
 logout
* NO Error creating /var/spool/mail/winspace.lock.857969626.30935.mozart: 
Permission denied
* BYE mozart.void.hell.net IMAP4 server terminating connection
 OK LOGOUT completed
Connection closed by foreign host.

permissions on directorys and mailfile /var/spool/mail/winspace
drwxr-xr-x  12 root root 1024 Jan  7 11:56 var
drwxr-xr-x  12 root root 1024 Nov  6 22:10 spool
drwxrwxr-x   2 mail mail 1024 Mar 10 15:52 mail
-rw---   1 winspace users 1045857 Mar 10 15:53 winspace
-rw-rw   1 administ mail 4370 Mar  8 16:12 administ

lsattr on directories
--- var
--- spool
--- mail

TIA and cheers




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Re: A young girl lost her puppy

[Michael Harnois]

Thought <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Hi Debians, so the subject line got your attention huh?  I figured
> if I titled this message "Stupid Questions" nobody would pay
> attention. 

Your second assumption was right. Your first one was right, too, but
not for the sort of attention you wanted, unless being annoying was
your ultimate goal. 

Perhaps you have all day and all night to sit around reading Usenet
news and e-mail. Most of us do not. Or perhaps you don't need
sleep. Some of us do. Therefore, we cannot read every message in every
mailing list or newsgroup we are subscribed to. I, for one, do not
look at any message that simply says "question" or "what's wrong" or
anything like that. I look for subject lines that point to problems or
questions that 1) I've already dealt with or 2) I'm experiencing but
haven't found an answer to or 3) have to do with something that sounds
interesting to me. I feel that's the best use of my time. 

I read your message because I thought it was spam, and I usually reply
to spam with a nasty message to the sender. 

--
+  Michael D. Harnois  + If you want to follow Jesus,  +
+  Redeemer Lutheran Church, Washburn, IA  + you better look good on wood. +
+  [EMAIL PROTECTED]+ -- Daniel Berrigan+

problem with mirror after transition to 1.2.8

[Pete Templin]

Hello,

I'm having trouble with mirror, and I think the problems have
arisen since I upgraded from 1.2.7 to 1.2.8.  Here's some example errors:

package=debian ftp.debian.org:/debian/ -> /server/ftp/pub/debian/
main:/usr/bin/mirror:2205 Caught a SIGSEGV shutting down at
/usr/bin/mirror line 3601.

ls -l on a certain file gives:
?x   0 root daemon   16842757 Jul 14  1970
www-search_1.007-1.diff.gz

and that file can't be rm'ed, chmod'ed, or written over.

Any ideas or fixes?

  --Pete
___
Peter J. Templin, Jr.   Client Services Analyst
Computer & Communication Services   tel: (717) 524-1590
Bucknell University [EMAIL PROTECTED]

dselect internal error

[sferac]

Hi all!

I'm upgrading a rex machine with rex-updates.

What is dselect telling me?

---
internal error - no filename at -e line 12,  chunk 16.

installation script returned error exit status 1.
Press RETURN to continue.
---

It happens at the Install/Update step.

rcp & rsh help

[Paul Serice]

I've got rlogin working fine.  I just edited my .rhosts file.  The problem
is that rcp is not working, and I think what is happening is as follows:

When I is a "rsh" command, the output always begins with "stdin: is not a
tty".  Now, when I issue any "rcp" command the command looks and sounds
like it is working then it just stops and waits.  My guess is that this
"stdin: is not a tty" error is being issued which is messing up the rcp
protocol.

Am I on the right track?  If so, now what?

Thanks
Paul Serice

make-kpkg

[Mirek Kwasniak]

My first attempt to make-kpkg:

$ make-kpkg -revision custom.1.0 kernel_image

I got endless messages:

  Max open DLCI (CONFIG_DLCI_COUNT) [24]

  This is the maximal number of logical point-to-point frame relay
  connections (the identifiers of which are called DCLIs) that
  the driver can handle. The default is probably fine.

  Max open DLCI (CONFIG_DLCI_COUNT) [24]

  This is the maximal number of logical point-to-point frame relay
  connections (the identifiers of which are called DCLIs) that
  the driver can handle. The default is probably fine.

...

What do I do ?

Mirek Kwasniak

Samba 1.9.16p11

[Mirek Kwasniak]

I have upgrade to Samba 1.9.16p11.
After thus I have no more connection to servicec with password:

 first SMBtconX failed, trying again. ERRSRV - ERRbadpw (Bad password -
 name/password pair in a Tree Connect or Session Setup are invalid.)
 SMBtconX failed. ERRSRV - ERRbadpw (Bad password - name/password pair in a
 Tree
 Connect or Session Setup are invalid.)
 Perhaps you are using the wrong sharename, username or password?
 Some servers insist that these be in uppercase

Any comments?

Mirek Kwasniak

question on dates

[G. Kapetanios]

Hi,


I have a very pressing question and I would be very happy if somebody
could give me a clue. I have a commercial psckage installed on my debian
system which ( GAUSS for econometric applications ) which takes the date
time e.t.c. from the system. Unfortunately, after I upgraded from stable
to unstable it seems to be getting the wrong format for the date or time .
Can somebody tell me whether the programs which provide these information
have been changed from the stable to the unstable? If so, and this must
somehow be the case can I change the defaults to what they used to be ? If
not which is the package providing this information so that I can
downgrade it ??

   Thanks very much
   George 

---
George Kapetanios
Churchill College
Cambridge, CB3 0DS  
U.K.E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---

GE2500 Network card

[Paulo Ramos]

I would like to know if someone has this network card driver for debian.



TIA

Paulo
 

Re: zsh vs bash

[Tomislav Vujec]

Richard Kettlewell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> hosts=(valour cushioned myrddin tacitus chiark \
>   mercury.elmailer.net wigwam.elmail.co.uk sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk \
>   ftp.uu.net ftp.sendmail.org tlingit.elmail.co.uk)
> ssh=(chiark)
> compctl -k ssh ssh
> compctl -k hosts telnet ftp rlogin rsh ping traceroute
> compctl -k hosts -f rcp scp

And I'll add my favorite:
compctl -x "n[1,~]" -u -S "/" - "n[1,//]" -k hosts -S "/" - "s[]" \
-f -k "(http:// ftp:// gopher:// telnet:// wais://)" -S "" \
-- lynx Mosaic netscape
compctl -x "n[1,~]" -u -S "/" - "n[1,//]" -k hosts -S "/" - "s[]" \
-k "(http:// ftp://)" -S "" -- wget rftp

-- 
Tomislav Vujec   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion...

A young girl lost her puppy

[Thought]

Hi Debians, so the subject line got your attention huh?  I figured
if I titled this message "Stupid Questions" nobody would pay
attention.  But now that you're here, here's some simple questions to keep
you on your toes! :)

1) Is there a way to turn on Numlock by default, or better yet, to
prevent it from being turned off?  My BIOS sets Numlock to ON when I boot,
but when I load the kernel (with lilo) it turns numlock off. :(  Is there
a way to make it leave it on, or to turn it back on on all my Virtual
TTYs?  (I've put the setleds command in /etc/init.d/ but that only effects
the first Virtual Console, even when I set the 'defaults')

2) Currently I have 6 Virtual Console lines in my inittab, but I've heard
that there's a way to only have one of those lines, and to be able to
create Virtual Consoles on demand by pressing Alt-Uparrow or something.
Is there a way to do this?  It seems kind of pointless to have six gettys
running when I'm only using 2, and it's a pain when I am using up all 6
VCs and need more.

3) Speaking of Alt-Uparrow, is this the same thing as 'kbrequest' in
inittab, and why doesn't either of them work?  Is there a way I can bind
keys to make initd do commands?

4) Is there a way to disable the Visual-Bell?  A lot of my programs (like
less) have options to turn off the bell, but they say "If your console has
a Visual Bell, it will be used instead."  Well that stupid flashing is
even more annoying than the bell I'm trying to get rid of! :)  Is there a
way to disable the Visual Bell?

5) I just installed shadow-login_960810, shadow-passwd_960810, and
shadow-su_960810 on my system.  Everything works fine, but I was wondering
if there was any way to customize 'login'.  For one, if you have a 'login
incorrect' (coz of misspelt names or wrong passwords or wahtever) it take
about 3 very annoying seconds to retry.  Is there a way to make it ask for
a new login: immediately instead of waiting?  I'm guessing that the pause
is a 'feature' to deter password guessers from breaking in, but I think
it's just annoying and would rather have it turned off.

6) Another login question: my host name is res154002.wsu.edu because I'm
living in a dorm, and whenever I get the login prompt it always says
"res154002 login:".  Well, I know this is just being picky, but is there a
way to make it not say res154002?  It looks really tacky.  I'd rather it
just say "login:".  Is there a place where I can get the source for a
'login' with shadow capability so I can just edit all these options in a
config.h or something?

Ok, well that's all the questions I can think of for now...  I've asked
other questions on this list and have gotten friendly responses - thanks!
I've gotten all my modules in a basket and am using zsh now :)  Oh, and a
note to people thinking of converting shells: if you switch to zsh and
think of switching your /bin/sh link to zsh instead of bash, you'll get a
bunch of errors when running /etc/init.d/rc, so don't do it!  hehe, I had
that problem today and got a bunch of "/etc/init.d/rc: no such file or
directory" errors or something like that...

Later Gators!

Can someon help me configuring X?

[Barbara Cel]

Hi debians!



I'm tired of 4th day of configuring debian (what a bitchy system,

friends are advising me to buy Red Hat) and I still haven't X-windows

configured. I've been instaling this few times from the very beginning

and i had lots of strange error messages (i'm using S3 64 V+ card and

I installed X server for this card). After configuring with xf86config

the most intriguing errors were:



"no screens installed"



and (this I have now)



"PEX extension module not loaded"

"XIE extension module not loaded"



there are more of this and when I'll be running linux next time i'll

copy it all. Now I changed to DOS (win95) which partition I have no

idea how to mount - I tried to set it as /dev/hdc without reason,

nevermind. If someone will help me with X i'll be greatful...!



Barbara "Babsi" Cel

e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

web: www.geocities.com/RainForest/8100/

snail mail: os "Na Stoku" 29/13

25-408 Kielce, Pl

Re: example script want

[Ronald van Loon]

|"> awk '{ print }
|"> /section\[xyz\]/ { print "new line of text"; }'
|"
|"Your version will print "new line of text" every time "section[xyz]" is
|"matched anywhere in the input line. The form I gave ensures that only an
|"exact match for the whole line does this.

Yes, a small oversight; it should have read:

/^section\[xyz\]$/ { print "new line of text"; }'

instead.

Ronald van Loon ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

"I am waiting as fast as I can! I want patience, and I want it *NOW*!"
 - Bethany J. Parkhurst

Re: /home a read-only filesystem

[Harmon Sequoya Nine]

Mike --

Do you have write permissions to that directory (ls -ld /home)?
Is it a separate partition or on a separate disk?  If so, check out
the /etc/fstab entry for /home, and if you see "ro" or something along
the lines of "read-only", remove it.  I'm very interested what the
problem turns out to be.  Please let me know.

-- Harmon

Re: identd

[Guy Maor]

John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I have no entry for identd in /etc/services.
> 
> What is the well known port(tcp or udp)?
> 
> Is there a good reason why it's not in by default, ie. security?

It's in /etc/services
auth113/tcp authentication tap ident

and it's on by default, /etc/inetd.conf
ident   stream  tcp nowait  nobody  /usr/sbin/identdidentd 
-i


Guy

identd

[John Foster]

I have no entry for identd in /etc/services.

What is the well known port(tcp or udp)?

Is there a good reason why it's not in by default, ie. security?

John Foster

Re: flon command?

[Bruce Perens]

What does the "flon" command do? Maybe we have it under a different
name.

Bruce
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Re: nslookup

[Craig Sanders]

On Sun, 9 Mar 1997, Gith wrote:

> > However, to get it to work with nslookup, add one of the following
> > lines to /var/named/named.local:
> >
> > [...deleted...]
> >
> > remember to update (increment) the serial number in both files, and
> > get named to reload its database with 'ndc reload'.
>
> Ok, I tried this and it didn't work either. I even remembered to
> update the serial numbers. :) Any other ideas? This bind/named thing
> seems tough

i knew there was something wrong with what i posted - i should have
taken the time to check it again before posting it. ignore it, it's
garbage (what i posted would make a dns record for 'mybox.localhost'
which is not what you wanted).

to get an entry for 'mybox.quicklink.net' you need to have write access
to the zone files for the quicklink.net domain. i.e. if you are not
hostmaster for that domain your only option is to send off a request to
whoever is responsible for that domain.

even then it should not point to 127.0.0.1 - that ALWAYS points to the
localhost for whoever looks it up. i.e. your machine for you, my machine
for me, etc etc. in other words, it would be useless.

you must have a reason for wanting to get the info from nslookup - maybe
there's another way to get the same result. In most cases, an entry in
/etc/hosts as detailed by someone else in this thread will be all that
is needed.

if you've written a script based around nslookup, then you may be better
off rewriting it so that it uses the resolver library - then it can make
use of /etc/hosts AND dns.

craig

flon command?

[Lawrence Chim]

Is there a debian package provides the flon command?


Lawrence,

Re: lesstif requirement

[edwalter]

On Mon, 10 Mar 1997, Lawrence Chim wrote:

> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > 
> > The newest package for timidity depends on lesstif.  I own motif
> > proper.  Is there a way to create a stub package for motif that
> > provides motif and then have timidity depend on motif.  lesstif could
> > provide motif too.
> > 
> 
> Which commerical Motif you are using?  I have just finished the
> installers
> for Metro Motif 2.0 and Metro OpenGL.
> 
> Anyway, you can still able to install lesstif (at the moment) as the
> lesstif .so lib is named libXm.so.0.76 while Metro Motif .so lib is
> named
> libXm.so.2.0.  Apparently, they can co-exist on the same system.
> 

I have mootif from infomagic.  I guess they can coexist, but it seems
stupid to have to install lesstif.

Erv

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Re: nslookup

[Gith]

On Mon, 10 Mar 1997, Craig Sanders wrote:

> 
> this won't help nslookup at all. nslookup is specifically a DNS lookup
> tool, not a generic hostname resolver - it does a name-server lookup.
> 
> it will however, help any program that uses the resolver library to
> resolve host names (i.e. just about every networking program). This is
> probably what Gith wants.
> 
> 
> However, to get it to work with nslookup, add one of the following lines
> to /var/named/named.local:
> 
> mybox   IN  A   127.0.0.1
> or
> mybox   CNAME   localhost.
> 
> 
> if you're really fussy about DNS "correctness", you might want to also add
> another PTR record to /var/named/named.rev-local so that the reverse lookup
> for 127.0.0.1 will also mention "mybox":
> 
> add the following line to /var/named/named.rev-local just after the
> "1.0.0 " line:
> 
> IN  PTR mybox
> 
> 
> remember to update (increment) the serial number in both files, and get
> named to reload its database with 'ndc reload'.
> 


Ok, I tried this and it didn't work either.
I even remembered to update the serial numbers. :)
Any other ideas? This bind/named thing seems tough

-
Willie Daniel
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  http://users.quicklink.net/~gith/
-

Re: syslogd startup slow bootup -- why?

[Joey Hess]

John Timmers:
> I've just installed bash_2.0-2 and sysklogd_1.3-14 among other things
> (but these are relevant to the question) and generally the bootup
> sequence hangs for 10 seconds, just after syslogd is started, and just
> before klogd starts.  There are no error messages in any of the logs,
> and there is no abnormal amount of CPU usage by syslogd when it runs, so
> I don't think that there's anything wrong with the daemon, maybe
> something in the /etc/init.d/syslogd script that might be causing the
> slight interruption.  Has anyone else noticed this, and is it documented
> somewhere that I might read something about it?  I have everything else
> set up properly (I'm almost sure) as there are not other errors or
> hiccups occuring elsewhere.  Can anyone shed any light on this situation
> for me ?

I'm noticing it too. It's in fact the syslogd program that is delaing for 10
seconds. I see this in the sysklogd changelog:
  * Modified syslogd.c to not kill itself which confuses bash 2.0

I also looked in the source, and saw:
if (fork())
{
/* We try to wait the end of initialization */
sleep(10);
exit(0);
}

This seems quite a primitive way to handle this, but I'm sure the author is
aware of it, so I'm not going to report this as a bug.

-- 
   "true - do nothing, successfully" - - true (1)

Re: lesstif requirement

[Lawrence Chim]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> The newest package for timidity depends on lesstif.  I own motif
> proper.  Is there a way to create a stub package for motif that
> provides motif and then have timidity depend on motif.  lesstif could
> provide motif too.
> 

If you are using SWiM Motif, you can call them to provide the debianized
version to you.

Lawrence,

where to upload the debianized packages?

[Lawrence Chim]

Re: lesstif requirement

[Lawrence Chim]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> The newest package for timidity depends on lesstif.  I own motif
> proper.  Is there a way to create a stub package for motif that
> provides motif and then have timidity depend on motif.  lesstif could
> provide motif too.
> 

Which commerical Motif you are using?  I have just finished the
installers
for Metro Motif 2.0 and Metro OpenGL.

Anyway, you can still able to install lesstif (at the moment) as the
lesstif .so lib is named libXm.so.0.76 while Metro Motif .so lib is
named
libXm.so.2.0.  Apparently, they can co-exist on the same system.

Lawrence,

Re: rebuilt kernel with sbpcd

[Steve McIntyre]

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write:
>Following the instructions in sbpcd (the README for release 4.2 or newer of 
>the SoundBlaster Pro CD-ROM driver for Linux) I rebuilt the kernel with
>no apparent improvement.  The driver still spends many long seconds
>probing for a LaserMate at startup (I can access data CDs).
>
>During the `make config' procedure I'm able to select the following:
>
>SCSI support (CONFIG_SCSI)
>SCSI disk support(CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD)
>SCSI CD-ROM support  (CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR)
>ISO9660 cdrom filesystem support (CONFIG_ISO9660_FS)
>
>but not Matsushita CD-ROM support (CONFIG_SBPCD) or any of its alternatives.
>Is there something else I need to select first to be given this choice?  I
>have a SoundBlaster 16 with a Panasonic CR-562B.

Yes, you should be looking for the proprietary interface CD-ROM section:

"CD-ROM drivers (not for SCSI or IDE/ATAPI drives)"

-- 
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syslogd startup slow bootup -- why?

[John Timmers]

I've just installed bash_2.0-2 and sysklogd_1.3-14 among other things
(but these are relevant to the question) and generally the bootup
sequence hangs for 10 seconds, just after syslogd is started, and just
before klogd starts.  There are no error messages in any of the logs,
and there is no abnormal amount of CPU usage by syslogd when it runs, so
I don't think that there's anything wrong with the daemon, maybe
something in the /etc/init.d/syslogd script that might be causing the
slight interruption.  Has anyone else noticed this, and is it documented
somewhere that I might read something about it?  I have everything else
set up properly (I'm almost sure) as there are not other errors or
hiccups occuring elsewhere.  Can anyone shed any light on this situation
for me ?

Something else I've noticed, which has piqued my curiosity. My system is
a PPro 200 with two fairly similar 2.1 gig SCSI HD's (Quantum Fireball
and Quantum Empire) on a NCR53c810 scsi adaptor and I have these drives
partitioned up (linux, win95, win-nt). On one 800 meg partition, I've
installed Redhat 4.1, and on another 800 meg partition (the other drive)
I have installed Debian 1.2 with some recent upgrades.  I've installed a
few upgrades on both systems, generally to libc-5.4.23,
binutils-2.7.0.9, X11R6-3.2, ld.so-1.8.10, etc, and also have installed
Accelerated X server and Common Desktop Environment with similar setups
on both systems (I was bored one day, and started experimenting...) Now,
I've noticed something, and this is no professional experiment with
stopwatches or anything, but it seems as if the Debian release is faster
at running certain things (kernel compile, starting CDE, etc) and
definitely have noticed (from running "top" or "ps aux", etc.) that %CPU
and %MEM totals are generally lower (like up to 50% lower) with the
Debian release of linux.  What gives, I thought all releases were
reasonably similar in operation ?  Is there something magical that the
Debian developers have done with linux, that has escaped the other chaps
releasing linux OS, ie Redhat, Slackware, et al ?
-- 
Regards 

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Re: rebuilt kernel with sbpcd

[Daniel Stringfield]

> Following the instructions in sbpcd (the README for release 4.2 or newer
of the
> SoundBlaster Pro CD-ROM driver for Linux) I rebuilt the kernel with no
apparent
> improvement.  The driver still spends many long seconds probing for a
LaserMate
> at startup (I can access data CDs).

You must edit sbpcd.h (its in one of the kernel include directories)
There are several lines you will want to remove or "fix up".

Re: help!!!!

[Christian Meder]

On Mar 9, Valenzuela Family wrote
>  I have a 386 laptop that i just installed linux on and I don't know how
> to print from it and how to automatically mount a floppy.  Here is my
> booth message if anyone can help me.
> Thank you,
> Ernesto

Hi

regarding printing:
install the lpr package and the magicfilter or apsfilter package (I
prefer personally the magicfilter package). I'm not sure at the moment
if magicfilter will be setup automatically by the installation
routines. If not take a look at the documentation how to set it up but
it's relatively easy. 
Automatically mounting of floppy is not that easy. If you work usually
with floppies with a DOS filesystem on it take a look at the mtools
package. You don't need to mount/umount in this case.

Greetings,

Christian
-- 
Christian Meder, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

What's the railroad to me ?
I never go to see
Where it ends.
It fills a few hollows,
And makes banks for the swallows, 
It sets the sand a-blowing,
And the blackberries a-growing.
  (Henry David Thoreau)

Re: Problems Compiling Kernel 2.0.27

[Christian Meder]

On Mar 9, David James Loken wrote
> Hi!
> 
> I have been trying to recompile my kernel 2.0.27. I would like to
> use Menuconfig but I'm missing the
> 
> file 'lxdiaglog.o' in /usr/src/linux/scripts/lxdialog. Does anyone know
> where I can get a copy?
> 
> So I tried running 'make config' that goes along fine until I try to compile
> the sound board option.
> 
Hi !

I think the method to compile your own kernel with the least hassles
is:
0. make sure you have a functional rescue floppy (general advice)
1. get the Debian package kernel-source-2.0.27
2. get the Debian package kernel-package
3. install them
4. do a make config or make menuconfig or make xconfig (set the
DISPLAY for root correct)
5. read the /usr/doc/kernel-package/README and/or the man page of make-kpkg
6. do a 
make-kpkg clean
make-kpkg -revision custom.1.0 kernel_image
(both in the source directory)
7. you get then a kernel-image Debian package in the parent directory
8. search for a formatted floppy or format one
9. install the kernel-image Debian package with something like 
dpkg -i .deb
(you will now be asked for the floppy)
10. if you compiled some features in the kernel you had as modules
before edit now /etc/modules.conf and comment the lines out which
describe the features you have compiled in
11. try it and reboot 

Greetings,

Christian

-- 
Christian Meder, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

What's the railroad to me ?
I never go to see
Where it ends.
It fills a few hollows,
And makes banks for the swallows, 
It sets the sand a-blowing,
And the blackberries a-growing.
  (Henry David Thoreau)

Re: X

[Falk Hueffner]

On Sat, 8 Mar 1997 22:25:59 +0100, you wrote:

>Hello
>
>I've finally managed to make X work. At least in a way. When I write
>"startx" I get a patterned background and a square in the upper left corner
>in which it says xterm.

If you have no borders/title with the terminal, it seems you didn't
install a window manager. That's strange, because the installation
routine should force you to install one ;-). Install e.g. the fvwm2 or
the fvwm95 package.

>I have no mouse response, even though I have in text
>mode.

The mouse is configured in /etc/X11/XF86Config. Maybe it is set to
MouseMan mode and you have a Microsoft mouse or someting. Have a look at
the mouse section of the config file, there's some expanation in the
comments, or do man XF86Config.

>And what shall I do to get a higher resolution?

The resolutions are also defined in XF86Config. Press ctrl-alt-keypad+
and - to cycle between them.

Bye,
Falk
-- 
Falk Hueffner  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

/home a read-only filesystem

[Michael Hill]

Is there a trick to creating user directories under /home?  I'm told it's a
read-only filesystem whenever I try to put anything there (as root).  Adduser
didn't seem to have a problem but the directory remained empty.

Thanks.

Mike

-- 
Michael Hill
Toronto, Canada
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

XEmacs Alt key in AfterStep

[Michael Hill]

I read a response recently about restoring Alt as the Meta key in XEmacs by
altering the mouse/keyboard shortcuts in .fvwmrc.  Is there similar advice that
applies to .steprc?  My attempts have so far failed.

Thanks.

Mike

-- 
Michael Hill
Toronto, Canada
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

rebuilt kernel with sbpcd

[Michael Hill]

Following the instructions in sbpcd (the README for release 4.2 or newer of the
SoundBlaster Pro CD-ROM driver for Linux) I rebuilt the kernel with no apparent
improvement.  The driver still spends many long seconds probing for a LaserMate
at startup (I can access data CDs).

During the `make config' procedure I'm able to select the following:

SCSI support (CONFIG_SCSI)
SCSI disk support(CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD)
SCSI CD-ROM support  (CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR)
ISO9660 cdrom filesystem support (CONFIG_ISO9660_FS)

but not Matsushita CD-ROM support (CONFIG_SBPCD) or any of its alternatives.
 Is there something else I need to select first to be given this choice?  I
have a SoundBlaster 16 with a Panasonic CR-562B.

Thanks.

Mike

-- 
Michael Hill
Toronto, Canada
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

lesstif requirement

[edwalter]

The newest package for timidity depends on lesstif.  I own motif
proper.  Is there a way to create a stub package for motif that
provides motif and then have timidity depend on motif.  lesstif could
provide motif too.

Thanks,
Erv

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Re: nslookup

[Craig Sanders]

On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, Thought wrote:

> edit your /etc/hosts and put mybox on the line with 127.0.0.1
> 
> it should then look something like:
> 
> 127.0.0.1 localhost   localhost.quicklink.net mybox

this won't help nslookup at all. nslookup is specifically a DNS lookup
tool, not a generic hostname resolver - it does a name-server lookup.

it will however, help any program that uses the resolver library to
resolve host names (i.e. just about every networking program). This is
probably what Gith wants.


However, to get it to work with nslookup, add one of the following lines
to /var/named/named.local:

mybox   IN  A   127.0.0.1
or
mybox   CNAME   localhost.


if you're really fussy about DNS "correctness", you might want to also add
another PTR record to /var/named/named.rev-local so that the reverse lookup
for 127.0.0.1 will also mention "mybox":

add the following line to /var/named/named.rev-local just after the
"1.0.0 " line:

IN  PTR mybox


remember to update (increment) the serial number in both files, and get
named to reload its database with 'ndc reload'.


> On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, Gith wrote:
>
> > In general, how could I get nslookup to return localhost.quicklink.net
> > when queryed about "mybox".
> > Any ideas?

Re: cannot run dpkg anymore

[Craig Sanders]

On 7 Mar 1997, Laurent Bonnaud wrote:

> after upgrading (successfully) to libc5_5.4.20 and ld.so_1.8.9, the
> commands "dpkg -l" and "dpkg -i abc.deb" fail with the error message
> (i'm citing from memory as my machine is not connected to a network) :
>
> dpkg : cannot resolve symbol 'sysinfo'.
>
> The command "dpkg --version" works, though. I tried to upgrade "by
> hand" to ld.so_1.8.10 and dpkg_1.4.0.8 but it does not solve the
> problem. All other binaries run well. Does anyone have a solution ?

try running 'ldconfig' (you need to be root to do this).

from the man page:

DESCRIPTION
   ldconfig creates the necessary links and cache (for use by
   the run-time linker, ld.so)  to  the  most  recent  shared
   libraries  found  in the directories specified on the com­
   mand line, in the file /etc/ld.so.conf, and in the trusted
   directories  (/usr/lib  and  /lib).

my guess is that libc5_5.4.20 didn't install correctly for some reason
and ldconfig was not run to update the shared lib links.


If this doesn't help, try booting with your rescue/install disk and
updating the /lib/libc.so.5 sym link by hand - in the worst case, you
may need to copy the libc5 from the rescue disk onto the hard disk
before creating the sym link - then reboot and immediately install a new
libc5 with dpkg.


craig