Depmod and joystick problems
I thought i had no problems upgrading to 1.3 but this may be one of them. First my joystick doesn't work. Yup, sounds like a small inconvenience but checking it out i saw that depmod returns a problem reading ELF header saying no such file or directory, doesn't tell me what it is looking for though! Also with the joystick i checked the list in var/lib/dpkg and it shows files going for kernels 2.0.27 and 2.0.30. Only thing is i'm running 2.0.29. Is this a bug in the package or a bug in my system? TIA, johannes martinez -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: terminology/concept questions
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Re: [Q] How to create a FTP only account.. for...
Hi all Hi regarding this subject... I have used /bin/true for ftp-only accounts but i need to go one step farther. I have a /home/webusers directory where i have user accounts who with web space only. Right now they ftp in and put there html files there. But the thing is they still have access to the rest of the machine. So.. How can i have /home/webusers setup as a root dir (chroot environment)? Set up wu-ftpd as your ftp server. Then put all users into one group. This doesn't need to be the only group they are in. Call this group 'ftponly' just to be obvious. Then edit the ftpaccess file and place a line guestgroup ftponly in it. Then put files like bin/ls, etc/passwd and etc/group into their home directories just as if they were the home directory for an anonymous ftp account. If you forget this they won't be able to do 'ls'. Now you should be all set up. Don't forget to read the right man pages so you understand what I am talking about (ftpaccess has its own page). Also i'm not sure if i want then all grouped together in one group? Can anyone explain pros/cons for this? I have no idea about really bad or really good things, but if they have a umask 002 like in a standard Debian system, their primary group should not be ftponly and their files should not be group-owned by this group. A pro is of course that the thing with wu-ftpd actually works if they are in one group. Remco -- Jean-Luc Picard: To baldly go where no man has gone before. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: terminology/concept questions
Peter S Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] What tcsh has is powerful command completion, which I believeDebian doesn't setup by default. For example, one could program tcsh such that it knew all the options to the `dpkg' command. zsh has this too, but it uses sh syntax. There's even a perl script to convert tcsh's completion to its own. (It also has lots of other nice features.) You really should try it. -- Carey zsh bigot Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Depmod and joystick problems
On Sat, 28 Jun 1997, Johannes Martinez wrote: I thought i had no problems upgrading to 1.3 but this may be one of them. First my joystick doesn't work. Yup, sounds like a small inconvenience but checking it out i saw that depmod returns a problem reading ELF header saying no such file or directory, doesn't tell me what it is looking for though! There is a fixed version of the joystick package in bo-updates. Can you try this one out and see if it fixes your problems? Luck, Dwarf -- _-_-_-_-_-_- _-_-_-_-_-_-_- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 656-9769 Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tallahassee, FL 32308 _-_-_-_-_-_- If you don't see what you want, just ask _-_-_-_-_-_-_- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: cron.daily : when does it run?
On Wed, 25 Jun 1997, Peter S Galbraith wrote: And how can we control it? Looked at man pages, but coudn't find it. (And I'm used to Slackware with only /var/spool/cron/crontabs/ stuff) /etc/crontab http://www.sound.net/~wpmills/ - : W. Paul Mills : Bill, I was there several years ago. : : Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A. : Why would I want to go back tomorrow?: : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Where were you! : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Linux: Tomorrow's operating system, : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] :here, today. : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : : : compuserve 70023,1750 : #define MY_TRUE_LOVE computer: -- http://homepage.midusa.net/~wpmills/ - -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: DOS partition with linux
I created the following partitions on my PC with debian: linux, linux swap space, and DOS 16bit 32MB on my PC. I made the DOS partition the bootable one. Linux seemed to have continued to install correctly. When I rebooted the computer, the computer did not start into eithe. How do I install MSDOS in the DOS partition? How do I select the OS of choice for booting up? What you need is lilo, which should have come with Debian. I would read through /usr/doc/lilo/Manual.txt, which explains things very nicely. Basically, you describe your setup to a program called lilo with a config file. lilo can be set to allow you to choose which system you boot, as well as doing the startup chore. You can install the loader on your disks MBR or elsewhere. From what I hear the second method is better, and I believe it because my setup doesn't work right at the moment. Unfortunately, DOS and Win95 are both stupid pigs when it comes to booting up. DOS will only boot if you have just made it's partition the active one with DOS fdisk, and Win95 simply will not keep it's grubby mits off your disk no matter what you do (tip: never allow a wizard to reboot for you). If anyone out there can help me with either of these problems I would greatly appreciate it. __ I like six eggs when starting on a journey. Fried - not poached. And mind you don't break 'em. I won't eat a broken egg. -- Thorin Oakenshield -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
USR Modem Hangs Intermittantly
I have a US Robotics Sportster 28,800, and it works, sort of. However, every two or three minutes (give or take a minute or more) it hangs for about 30-200+ seconds. It did on each of these last two lines *scream*. Same thing under Win95. I know this is not my server is is very fast from a terminal on campus. I have heard that this is a problem with USR Sportsters and that there is an init string type fix. I couldn't find it anywhere on their web page or 'automated voice system' (read: crock of shit) though. If anyone out there know how to solve this problem I would certainly like to know. __ I like six eggs when starting on a journey. Fried - not poached. And mind you don't break 'em. I won't eat a broken egg. -- Thorin Oakenshield -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Dselect won't download
Now that contrib and non-free have moved inside the distributions, I can no longer access them via dselect. What stupid thing am I doing wrong? I'm trying to get unstable's main, contrib and non-free areas. I tried both dpkg 1.4.0.8 in stable and 1.4.0.17 in unstable, combined with dpkg-ftp 1.4.8 (which is in both stable and unstable). If I set the access method Debian directory to /debian and the distributions to unstable, I get only the Packages file from the main area (via the old link /debian/unstable, I assume). If I set the Debian directory to /debian/dists/unstable and distributions to main contrib non-free, I get all three Packages files. The Install routine lists all the files I want in this form: want: dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/doc/dwww_1.4.1-1.deb (46K) ^^ An extra level of dists/unstable directories appears out of nowhere in the file names, even though dselect has already cd'd *inside* /debian/dists/unstable. All the downloads fail with No such file or directory. Thinking that perhaps the dists part is now implied by dselect and I don't actually have to mention that directory, I try /debian and unstable/main unstable/contrib unstable/non-free. Then it can't find any of the Packages files. ** MICHAEL SCOTT ORR [EMAIL PROTECTED] * ** 1405 NE 56th Street, Seattle, WA 98105 USA * English * ** Tel: +1 (206) 522-9627, fax: 328-6209 *Russki * ** Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Esperanto * * (Insert silly quote here) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: [Q] How to create a FTP only account.. for...
On Sat, 28 Jun 1997, System Account wrote: regarding this subject... I have used /bin/true for ftp-only accounts but i need to go one step farther. I have a /home/webusers directory where i have user accounts who with web space only. Right now they ftp in and put there html files there. But the thing is they still have access to the rest of the machine. So.. How can i have /home/webusers setup as a root dir (chroot environment)? Also i'm not sure if i want then all grouped together in one group? Can anyone explain pros/cons for this? have a look at proftpd which is a new ftp server package in the hamm (aka unstable) distribution. proftpd does virtual ftp hosting. It is possible to patch wu-ftpd to do virtual hosting too, but it is a lot more work and IMO doesn't give as good a result. proftpd is MUCH easier than messing about with patching wu-ftpd. WARNING: you may have to upgrade several other packages to hamm - hamm is in transition from libc5 to libc6. There are many significant changes from libc5 to libc6, so doing this may cause you many headaches at the moment. Try installing proftpd, if it doesn't work without requiring new libs etc then read docs about libc6 BEFORE you decide to upgrade everything else. If you decide not to upgrade to hamm, then it should be fairly simple to download the debianised sources for proftpd and make your own package - rebuilding packages for debian is very easy. BTW, I am running hamm at the moment, and haven't had any problems with it. Craig -- craig sanders networking consultant Available for casual or contract temporary autonomous zone system administration tasks. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
libreadlineg2 and upgrade to unstable
1. Can anybody tell me how to satisfy the dependencies etc. to install libreadlineg2 (ftp'd from master.debian.org). Using dpkg -r on libreadline doesn't work as it's needed by other packages. 2. Have tried to install chimera2 but the install fails on postinst with a message about not beiug able to update-manu ?? Any help much appreciated - I'm planning to install 1.3 from scratch on my mew PPro next week so will have an all Debian network. Andy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
fvwm95 taskbar
Installing -10.deb version of fvwm95 gives me a taskbar. Installing -10.2.deb version of fvwm95 gives no taskbar. How does one get a taskbar after installing -10.2.deb version of fvwm95? Cheers, Victor -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: USR Modem Hangs Intermittantly
On Sat, 28 Jun 1997, Britton wrote: I have heard that this is a problem with USR Sportsters and that there is an init string type fix. This isn't a fix. USR still has the problem, the symptoms of which are exactly as you describe. The init string fix is more of a kludgy work-around that helps the problem in some/many cases. | Debian GNU/ __ o Regards, |/ / _ _ _ _ _ __ __ .| / /__ / / / \// //_// \ \/ / Randy| // /_/ /_/\/ /___/ /_/\_\ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | ...because lockups are for convicts... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
fetchmail problem ...
OK, actually fetchmail sucks. Is there any chance of getting the original popclient program back? I realize fetchmail is more suave and sophisticated, but it doesn't deliver my mail! I had a very simple command line working with popclient that gags under the fetchmail link because fetchmail wont deliver to STDOUT and let me do what I want with it!! I've tried the two following fetchmailrc files: poll mailhost.domain.net with proto pop3: user methere there has password mypwd is mehere here and wants mda /usr/bin/deliver -d %s poll mailhost.domain.net with proto pop3: user methere there has password mypwd is mehere here and wants mda /usr/bin/deliver fetchmail gets called out of ipup as root: fetchmail -v -k 21 /tmp/pop.out which does seem to read the mailbox correctly, exits with a zero return code, but never delivers mail!! Furthermore, I can't seem to get any output from deliver. I'm not sure which of the two above syntaxes is correct. They were not run in the same fetchmailrc file. Both seem to be correct from the man page for fetchmail (3.8-0), although I don't see how that could be. Part of the man page describes specifying a direct MDA and requiring a %s in the MDA definition to substitute the local username. The example on how to to this calls /bin/mail directly without the %s. Any help would be appreciated. Pine as a pop client is not my first choice (but works non the less). I hope I'm on the debian-user-digest list now, but just in case I'm not, please cc me in any replies. By the way, does anyone know if there are digests for devel and private? Thanks in advance. Cheers, Richard -- Until we extend the circle of our compassion to all living things, we will not ourselves find peace -Albert Schweitzer -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Update on can't Install any deb's
Hello fellow Debian users I found the problem as to why I get 'empty filename' and the database that is read. its the /var/lib/dpkg/info where thats the info on all deb's I think So what I have since done is move the offending files out of there.:-) but of course that got me only thourgh `mgetty-fax', and then another `empty fil ename' came :-( So I removed that one and another of the same error came up... I conclude that my info dir/database is curupt :-( This have occured when I was doing a minor upgrade and my computer locked up causing me to reset the computer I would like for someone to gzip there info dir and send my please I would prefer someone with a simular install options as mine I use ftp.debian.org [ stable unstable contrib non-free] curently running 1.3 kernel 2.0.30 Basically I think that I need only the *.list files from the info directroy which what I would try replacing first. I'm also very open to suggestions on other ways of fixing this problem... Please reply asap as my system is somewhere in between here and the twlight zone. TIA Peter DEBIAN the best LINUX distribution GNU there simply isn't any other way to go -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: libreadlineg2 and upgrade to unstable
On Sun, 29 Jun 1997, Andrew Martin Adrian Cater wrote: 1. Can anybody tell me how to satisfy the dependencies etc. to install libreadlineg2 (ftp'd from master.debian.org). Using dpkg -r on libreadline doesn't work as it's needed by other packages. You need to have first installed a recent version of libreadline2, which will put itself in a libc5-compat directory and so not clash with libreadlineg2. Actually most programs that use libreadline2 now have libc6 versions that use libreadlineg2, but there are still a few left. 2. Have tried to install chimera2 but the install fails on postinst with a message about not beiug able to update-manu ?? That's because you don't have the menu package installed. I know I should have made the postinst so it didn't die on finding that error; I'll release a patched version soon. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Dselect won't download
The new archive structure is completely unknown to any current versions of dselect. As a result, when dselect asks its first question (where is the standard archive), the correct answer is none. After that you can supply the complete path for each of the three sections of the distribution for each of the next three (four) questions. This should get you where you want to go. Luck, Dwarf -- _-_-_-_-_-_- _-_-_-_-_-_-_- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 656-9769 Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tallahassee, FL 32308 _-_-_-_-_-_- If you don't see what you want, just ask _-_-_-_-_-_-_- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: SCSI times out with Jaz drive
Martin Brundage wrote: When I do a recursive copy of a large number of files to an IDE drive my AHA-2940 times out occasionally, although it seems to always recover and finish the copy. I am using stock 2.0.27 kernel with all SCSI options (except tape support) compiled into the kernel. I'm no SCSI expert by any means, bu I would: - Check all the usual SCSI potential problems (termination, etc). - Upgrade your aic7xxx driver to the newest release: ftp://ftp.pcnet.com/users/eischen/Linux/aic7xxx-2.1.26-Jun1.tgz I know it says it's for 2.1.x kernels, but the SCSI code has not changed wrt 2.0.30. - Upgrade to 2.0.30 (Can't hurt, but not sure you *need* to do it; I running the above driver under 2.0.30). - If problems persist, subscribe to the aic7xxx mailing list. -- Peter Galbraith, research scientist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maurice-Lamontagne Institute, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada P.O. Box 1000, Mont-Joli Qc, G5H 3Z4 Canada 418-775-0852 - FAX 418-775-0546 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: fetchmail problem ...
fetchmail gets called out of ipup as root: fetchmail -v -k 21 /tmp/pop.out which does seem to read the mailbox correctly, exits with a zero return code, but never delivers mail!! Furthermore, I can't seem to get any output from deliver. You must give fetchmail a -m option to tell it to deliver to an mda instead of to port 25. Fetchmail is not a direct replacement for popclient. John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: USR Modem Hangs Intermittantly
I have heard that this is a problem with USR Sportsters and that there is an init string type fix. This isn't a fix. USR still has the problem, the symptoms of which are exactly as you describe. The init string fix is more of a kludgy work-around that helps the problem in some/many cases. Well, what's the init string fix? I'd like to know it too because I'm experiencing the same problem with my USR Sportsters that I'm using for remote dial-in - currently 6 of them Thanks, Kevin Traas Systems Analyst Baan Business Systems Langley, BC, Canada -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Majordomo anonymous ftp
1- Does a package exist for the Majordomo mailing list handler? Or do I install it from scratch? The installed /etc/passwd file has an entry for Majordomo, yet I can't find this package using the www.debian.org search engine. 2- There's no anonymous ftp account on a Debian installation? I'm quite surprised. Do I install it fro scratch? Thanks again for all your help! This list is invaluable in setting up the system. -- Peter Galbraith, research scientist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maurice-Lamontagne Institute, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada P.O. Box 1000, Mont-Joli Qc, G5H 3Z4 Canada 418-775-0852 - FAX 418-775-0546 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Majordomo anonymous ftp
1- Does a package exist for the Majordomo mailing list handler? Or do I install it from scratch? The installed /etc/passwd file has an entry for Majordomo, yet I can't find this package using the www.debian.org search engine. It's under non-free. Or, it might be contrib... I can't check right now 2- There's no anonymous ftp account on a Debian installation? I'm quite surprised. Do I install it fro scratch? Install the package wu-ftp. During install, you will be asked if you want an Anonymous FTP account created. Thanks again for all your help! No problem! This list is invaluable in setting up the system. How true! I've found it to be the same! Later, Kevin Traas Systems Analyst Baan Business Systems Langley, BC, Canada -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: fvwm95 taskbar
Hi, On Sun, 29 Jun 1997, Victor Torrico wrote: Installing -10.deb version of fvwm95 gives me a taskbar. Installing -10.2.deb version of fvwm95 gives no taskbar. How does one get a taskbar after installing -10.2.deb version of fvwm95? i had the same problem. You can check that -10.deb is about 500+ K while -10.2 is about 270K. The reason is that -10.2 is packaged without modules - no FvwmTaskbar, no FvwmPager etc. I've downgraded to -10.deb OK -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RE: dosemu comes w/o conf file
The solution to this problem is simply to purge dosemu and then reinstall it. Thank you Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler. The problem is that dselect only removes packages - it does not purge them. This means that one cannot use dselect and remove and then successfully install dosemu. This is analogous to the problems I had reintsalling the teTeX packages recently. In both cases, one cannot remove and then immediately reinstall some packages because of simple problems. Perhaps I am the only one encountering such problems - but probably not. Maybe this should be in the release testing program? (Sorry, but I cannot volunteer to do this at the moment...) Paul Rightley On 27-Jun-97 Paul Rightley wrote: I just install dosemu 0.66.3-1 (the version in stable). It manages to install perfectly, but 'dos' gives the error 'can't open /etc/dosemu/conf' or something similar. When I look in /etc/dosemu, I find conf link to a file that is not present - 'dist'. Also, no /etc/dosemu.conf file is provided. This leaves dosemu unusable (at least as far as I know and as far as I have RTFM). Has this been seen before? Paul Rightley -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: [Q] How to create a FTP only account.. for...
On Sun, 29 Jun 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote Hi all Hi regarding this subject... I have used /bin/true for ftp-only accounts but i need to go one step farther. I have a /home/webusers directory where i have user accounts who with web space only. Right now they ftp in and put there html files there. But the thing is they still have access to the rest of the machine. So.. How can i have /home/webusers setup as a root dir (chroot environment)? Set up wu-ftpd as your ftp server. Then put all users into one group. This doesn't need to be the only group they are in. Call this group 'ftponly' just to be obvious. Then edit the ftpaccess file and place a line guestgroup ftponly in it. Then put files like bin/ls, etc/passwd and etc/group into their home directories just as if they were the home directory for an anonymous ftp account. If you forget this they won't be able to do 'ls'. Now you should be all set up. Don't forget to read the right man pages so you understand what I am talking about (ftpaccess has its own page). Also i'm not sure if i want then all grouped together in one group? Can anyone explain pros/cons for this? I have no idea about really bad or really good things, but if they have a umask 002 like in a standard Debian system, their primary group should not be ftponly and their files should not be group-owned by this group. A pro is of course that the thing with wu-ftpd actually works if they are in one group. Remco Ok this is what i have setup right now ***/etc/passwd*** miller:passwd:5000:5000:Miller:/ftp/./web/miller:/bin/true the /bin/true is in /etc/shells ***/etc/group*** webusers:*:109: miller::5000: should this be webusers:*:109:miller and all other users? now i made a /home/ftp/webusers dir drwxr-xr-x 3 root webusers 1024 Jun 29 14:50 web and then /home/ftp/webusers/miller dir drwxr-xr-x 2 miller webusers 1024 Jun 29 14:50 miller ***/etc/ftpd/ftpaccess*** #added guestgroup webusers guestgroup miller Now after doing this i try to ftp in: ftp timberwolf.provision.net Connected to timberwolf.provision.net. 220 timberwolf FTP server (Version wu-2.4(14) Wed Jan 8 21:17:19 MET 1997) ready. Name (timberwolf.provision.net:adren): miller 331 Password required for miller. Password: 550 Can't set guest privileges. Login failed. Remote system type is UNIX. Using binary mode to transfer files. ftp bye 221 Goodbye. I do not want users logging in with a group login. Each user should have thier own login and passwd. Because of this i don't see a reason for the group. I have read the manpages for ftpaccess and i'm still not sure why this isn't working. Is there something i'm over looking as the error 550 Can't set guest privileges. leads me to believe that i'm close? Also if i remove guestgroup miller (or both) from the ftpaccess file it does log me in but cann't find a home directory: 331 Password required for miller. Password: 230-No directory! Logging in with home=/ 230 User miller logged in. Any other suggestions??? -Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: [Q] How to create a FTP only account.. for...
Please do not Cc: to my e-mail address. I will only get the same message twice. On Sun, 29 Jun 1997 15:50:25 -0400 (EDT) , System Account wrote: Ok this is what i have setup right now ***/etc/passwd*** miller:passwd:5000:5000:Miller:/ftp/./web/miller:/bin/true the /bin/true is in /etc/shells This seems to be good at first sight. ***/etc/group*** webusers:*:109: miller::5000: should this be webusers:*:109:miller and all other users? Yes, it should. Or you would have to add a 'guestgroup' entry in ftpaccess for each web user. now i made a /home/ftp/webusers dir drwxr-xr-x 3 root webusers 1024 Jun 29 14:50 web and then /home/ftp/webusers/miller dir drwxr-xr-x 2 miller webusers 1024 Jun 29 14:50 miller And this would be miller's home directory? Then you should change the home directory in /etc/passwd from /ftp/./web/miller to /home/ftp/webusers/miller. About the permissions: I would make each directory like /home/ftp/webusers/miller like this: drwxr-x--x 2 miller miller 1024 Jun 29 14:50 miller This way only the user himself (and root) would be able to read his home directory. If his web pages are stored in $HOME/pub_html or something like that, this directory should be like: drwxr-xr-x 2 miller miller 1024 Jun 29 14:5 pub_html The home directory should have execute permission for all users or nobody would be able to view the web pages. Read permission is not necessary, because the www server already knows the name of the pub_html dir. ***/etc/ftpd/ftpaccess*** #added guestgroup webusers guestgroupmiller If all users are in the 'webusers' group, you only need the entry for that group. This means you have one file less to maintain if you add or remove a user. Now after doing this i try to ftp in: ftp timberwolf.provision.net Connected to timberwolf.provision.net. 220 timberwolf FTP server (Version wu-2.4(14) Wed Jan 8 21:17:19 MET 1997) ready. Name (timberwolf.provision.net:adren): miller 331 Password required for miller. Password: 550 Can't set guest privileges. Login failed. Remote system type is UNIX. Using binary mode to transfer files. ftp bye 221 Goodbye. I do not want users logging in with a group login. Each user should have thier own login and passwd. Because of this i don't see a reason for the group. I have read the manpages for ftpaccess and i'm still not sure why this isn't working. Is there something i'm over looking as the error 550 Can't set guest privileges. leads me to believe that i'm close? The only reason for the group is that you don;t have to add each user's personal group to the ftpaccess file. If you want to do that, fine. Drop the webusers group and put a 'guestgroup username' line in ftpaccess for each web user. Also if i remove guestgroup miller (or both) from the ftpaccess file it does log me in but cann't find a home directory: 331 Password required for miller. Password: 230-No directory! Logging in with home=/ 230 User miller logged in. This looks like a message you would get if your home directory doesn't exist. Are you sure that /ftp/web/miller exists or is this an error in /etc/passwd? Remco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: fvwm95 taskbar
Oleg Krivosheev wrote: Hi, On Sun, 29 Jun 1997, Victor Torrico wrote: Installing -10.deb version of fvwm95 gives me a taskbar. Installing -10.2.deb version of fvwm95 gives no taskbar. How does one get a taskbar after installing -10.2.deb version of fvwm95? i had the same problem. You can check that -10.deb is about 500+ K while -10.2 is about 270K. The reason is that -10.2 is packaged without modules - no FvwmTaskbar, no FvwmPager etc. I've downgraded to -10.deb OK Guess I will also downgrade to -10.deb which works fine for me. Perhaps the FvwmTaskbar and FvwmPager will be packaged seperately in the near future. There must be a reason they were omitted from -10.2. Another of life's little mysteries. Thanks for your reply. Victor -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Switching IP aliases
On Sat, 28 Jun 1997, Lindsay Allen wrote: Richard, Would it fix things if you were to ping a non-existant host, thus causing a broadcast from your box? Maybe ping to various subnets as required? Good idea. I now have two debian linux machines passing an IP alias between them. I get the one which has just taken on the alias to ping an unused IP number on the localnet, after setting the alias interface to be the gateway to the localnet. I then swap the routing back to normal. I'm observing what other machines on the localnet do with-respect-to their arp tables. These other machines are: AIX 4.2 Solaris 2.5 Win 95 Linux Digital Unix (OSF) Cisco router All of these happily update their arp caches as I switch the aliases EXCEPT for Solaris! It's brain-dead! It continues to cache entries for ages. I don't know what to do about that! I do not have much experience here. g I'm just learning to, with the help of some local network gurus. 8---8 Richard Shepherd ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 8---8 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: rsh authentication ...
Richard == Richard G Roberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Richard I have (after some frustration with explicit entries, as Richard well as ALL: ALL) removed hosts.deny and hosts.allow on Richard both machines. The solution is to ditch `inetd' and tcpwrappers, and install `xinetd'. It is *MUCH* easier to configure, and has superiour logging and access control facilities. It should be the SPI standard, not `inetd', IMO. -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl M. Hegbloom) http://www.inetarena.com/~karlheg Portland, OR USA Debian GNU 1.3 Linux 2.1.36 AMD K5 PR-133 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
My inbox is read only.
Somehow my inbox became read only, when I start pine, it says something about can't removing the mailbox lock file, but I can't find any lockfile. How could I have messed this up, I didn't do anything really except add an account which also has this problem. TIA, Shaya -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Too many open files: ulimits
Marcelo == Marcelo E Magallon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Marcelo Hi, I'm getting this message very often in one of the
Marcelo Debian Linux machines I work with, and I have no clue of
Marcelo where to start looking. It's not coming from the kernel
Marcelo since it's not logged along other kernel messages, but it
Marcelo shows up in the console.
MarceloThe first time I saw it, it came from fortune. But
Marcelo now it's coming from various tex programs, lyx, ldconfig,
Marcelo and others.
Your `ulimit's are too low. Here's what I do, in /etc/profile for
now. (If the user changes shells to non-sh, it won't get run unless,
in the /etc/$shell-init script for that shell, a similar command is
run.) I think this works better than Lshells, or the similar settings
in the `login.defs' file. It will also set ulimits for `sshd' logins.
(sshd has its own internal login, and thus bypasses ulimit settings
for the standard login you'd get with rlogin or telnet.)
Clipped from the top of /etc/profile:
# --
# Set the Limits - this will work for `slogin`s too.
# --
# The format of /etc/ulimits.conf is:
#login_id:core:D:F:L:M:N:S:T:U:V
mylimits=$(grep ^$(whoami) /etc/ulimits.conf)
if [ -z $mylimits ]; then
mylimits=$(grep default /etc/ulimits.conf)
fi
eval $(echo $mylimits | awk -F: \
'{printf(\
ulimit -c %s;\
ulimit -d %s;\
ulimit -f %s;\
ulimit -l %s;\
ulimit -m %s;\
ulimit -n %s;\
ulimit -s %s;\
ulimit -t %s;\
ulimit -u %s;\
ulimit -v %s,\
$2,$3,$4,$5,$6,$7,$8,$9,$10,$11)}')
# clean up a little.
unset mylimits
#---
This is all of /etc/ulimits.conf:
# help ulimit
# ulimit: ulimit [-SHacdflmnpstuv] [limit]
# Ulimit provides control over the resources available to processes
# started by the shell, on systems that allow such control. If an
# option is given, it is interpreted as follows:
# -Suse the `soft' resource limit
# -Huse the `hard' resource limit
# -aall current limits are reported
# -cthe maximum size of core files created
# -dthe maximum size of a process's data segment
# -fthe maximum size of files created by the shell
# -l the maximum size a process may lock into memory
# -mthe maximum resident set size
# -nthe maximum number of open file descriptors
# -pthe pipe buffer size
# -sthe maximum stack size
# -tthe maximum amount of cpu time in seconds
# -uthe maximum number of user processes
# -vthe size of virtual memory
# If LIMIT is given, it is the new value of the specified resource.
# Otherwise, the current value of the specified resource is printed.
# If no option is given, then -f is assumed. Values are in 1024-byte
# increments, except for -t, which is in seconds, -p, which is in
# increments of 512 bytes, and -u, which is an unscaled number of
# processes.
# H so how does that go again?
# 1024 bytes is 1k...
# 1k * 1024 = 1024is 1 Mb60 * 60 = 3600 seconds/hour
# 2048is 2 Mb
# 4096is 4 Mb
# 8192is 8 Mb
# 12288 is 12 Mb
# 16384 is 16 Mb
# 18432 is 18 Mb
# 24576 is 24 Mb
# 32768 is 32 Mb
# The format of this file is:
#login_id:core:D:F:L:M:N:S:T:U:V
default:0:16384:8192:4096:18432:128:8192:3600:32:24576
# More priveledged users:
karlheg:unlimited:unlimited:unlimited:unlimited:unlimited:1024:unlimited:unlimited:unlimited:unlimited
root:unlimited:unlimited:unlimited:unlimited:unlimited:1024:unlimited:unlimited:unlimited:unlimited
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl M. Hegbloom)
http://www.inetarena.com/~karlheg
Portland, OR USA
Debian GNU 1.3 Linux 2.1.36 AMD K5 PR-133
Re: My inbox is read only.
Figured it out, somehow my /tmp became unreadable. That's fixed now. Shaya On Sun, 29 Jun 1997, Shaya Potter wrote: Somehow my inbox became read only, when I start pine, it says something about can't removing the mailbox lock file, but I can't find any lockfile. How could I have messed this up, I didn't do anything really except add an account which also has this problem. TIA, Shaya -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: xemacs with auctex
Mario == Mario Olimpio de Menezes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (require 'tex-site) Mario ^^^ nothing seems to happen with this :( The autoloading isn't working right, I think. You might try reporting it on news:comp.emacs.xemacs. Try: (load-library latex) for the AUCTeX LaTeX mode, and (load-library tex) for its TeX mode. -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl M. Hegbloom) http://www.inetarena.com/~karlheg Portland, OR USA Debian GNU 1.3 Linux 2.1.36 AMD K5 PR-133 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
