Disappointment with Debian
I have been the user of Debian for quite sometime. Most of the time it works fine but there are some critical times when the system fail when I am not expecting it. For example I just received a CD from lsl for Debian 1.3.1 and I tried to update my debian 1.2 system. Now the Xserver is mixed up and I cannot read xterm. Only root can use dip etc. Why debian does not leave the system the way it was before the install? Why make the whole X screen unreadable? Well right now I feel so bad. Does anyone have any idea? I have Trident 94xx video card with 1 Meg. Everything used to work fine before I inserted the CD and tried to upgrade my system. Thanks in advance, ~~~ D.J. Mashao, [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Debian in Dominican Republic or Puerto Rico!!!
I want to get the Debian 1.3.1 2CDs set but I do not want to pay a mail service and I do not want to Download it. Does any want know about a resaler in Dominican Republic or Puerto Rico? I am very interesting!!! Thanks. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ICQ
Mind letting us non-Win95 users know just what Mirabilis ICQ is, that we should all want it on Linux? -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED]Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you can; I don't mind. Elmwood, Wisconsin Do not send email advertisements to this address. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: bind
On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, dada wrote: I instaled bind pakage to make an DNS server to my local area network (to learn how setup it). Before install it, Netscape works fine. But now,ie: when I open and web page in my hardisk,Netscape don't work fine (it wait too much time and I have to kill it,becouse it newer open that page). If I stop the deamon named and re-run Netscape,it works fine. Here is what my powerful divination talents tell me. You only have problems when you are not connected to the Internet. What happens is that Netscape reads the file, and for some reason tries to resolve an address that it contains. So it queries the local name server, i.e. your local bind server. But most probably your server does not have the necessary information in its local file. Thus it tries to contact another name server on the Internet. But since it's offline the UDP messages are not answered and eventually time out. After trying many times it will definitely give up. This is why netscape seems dead. It may even happen that if you try to use the menus you will have to kill you X session. At least that's what happened to me. Solutions: - Stop using bind. - Change the named.boot file depending on whether you are connected or not. When not connected don't use forwarders. - Set up dial on demand AND arrange for the DNS resolution packets to trigger the connection. -- Francois Gouget [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.mygale.org/~fgouget/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Repartition Format
Hi I've just finished repartition my hard drive using FIPS and have confirmed that the partition was done, but the new partition doesn't seem to be formatted. I am a little bit confused how to format the new drive. Do I: (a) - Format the new drive first in DOS then boot Linux from the CD. or (b) - Format the new drive using the Linux fdisk, then boot Linux. My new disk space for Linux is around 700MB could provide a nice way of dividing this for Linux, (i.e how much do I reserve for root, swap disk (i have 16MB RAM), usr, etc). How do directly boot of the CD? From DOS or Win95? Thanks Patrick -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Mail Config
On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, Kevin Traas wrote: I'd like to know how my ISP dumps all e-mail destined for one domain into one e-mail account. Is this just an aliasing issue? A DNS issue? An MTA issue? If they are using mailertables one easy way is: domain.dom local:username That places all mail for [EMAIL PROTECTED] into the local mailbox for username. George Bonser Why is it that the same people that tell us that manned space flight is a waste of money also tell us that we have been visited by aliens? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: fetchmail problem?
Adrian Bridgett wrote:
Well as you can see - that fixes it :-) Where is the %b bit documented,
In the changelog, I saw:
- [patch-0.76.ld.locales.1] changed date handling in _mutt_make_string() to
use %{...} and %[...] as escapes to strftime() for UTC and local time,
respectively. Also adds the $locale variable to set the time format.
[Liviu]
So man strftime and:
%b The abbreviated month name according to the current
locale.
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Re: Installing tonight -- a question or two
dpk wrote: On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, Shaleh wrote: Does anyone know if the cheapbytes CD is bootable? Someone else will have to help you here, because I always install via ftp. Regards, Dennis Using CheapBytes's cd here, it will boot fine from dos mode (win95), though you will find that it will require mounting the cdrom drive before running dselect. One thing has got me going though, I am having one heck of a time getting the S3 drivers to install for xwindows (keeps coming back with unable to find missing files) -- Man did not weave the web of life - he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. *Chief Seattle 1854* Larry Blackburn aka renzo http://www.sonic.net/renzo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
What is '/etc/emacs/site-start.d' for?
Hi, What's the directory '/etc/emacs/site-start.d' for? When I installed 'calc', I found that the 'calc autoloads' file '50calc.el' is in '/etc/emacs/site-start.d/'; but emacs doesn't seem to automatically load it. '/etc/emacs/site-start.d/50calc.el' looks like those file such as '/etc/rc2.d/S10sysklogd'. Any help is appreciated; thanks. -mlt -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ICQ
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I don't use Win95 either, but I used to so that is how I know what it is and why I want a Linux version. Andy way it is a cool little app. Pretty much what it does is let you make a list of people and then notify you when they are on line. It then lets you find out there IP address, send them messages, chat, send files and all that fun stuff. These other people have to have ICQ also of course. It is pretty neat because you can just drop someone a message and if they are on line then the get it right then or if the are off it sends it to a server run bye Mirabilis wick waits for them to come on line and then forward it to them. You can open up multiple person chat and send people URLs, pictures, files and email. It is built in with a lot of Win95 junk that wouldn't be needed on a Linux version. Like it will automaticly call an app if say someone sends you a wav file it calls a wav player or it will call your web browse if they send you a URL. It only does this when you want it to so don't worry about your web browser opening up all the sudden if someone sends you a URL. It is also very customizable. This is in my opinion one of the better little Utils out there. It would be really cool if they got it multiplatoform so I could use it with my buddies who use Win95, or Mac, or Linux the ICQ would be a killer app. Want more info? go to http://www.mirabilis.com On 28-Jul-97 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mind letting us non-Win95 users know just what Mirabilis ICQ is, that we should all want it on Linux? -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED]Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you can; I don't mind. Elmwood, Wisconsin Do not send email advertisements to this address. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . - - E-Mail: Travis Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.methow.com/~tcole -- Get my Public Key here Date: 28-Jul-97 Time: 17:47:03 640Kb should be enough for anybody Bill Gates - - -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBM90/9GgYC2+RaorhAQHJDwP+Oc4vr8qI/lx6d2M4Ukun4GFVGafix4np TxkfspjD2aoocz+psxkn032cE+a+z2o77fFhHov9WxLpJpNIdXOtNT/Zm7vfCh6M tJEQy26SKxAFC+jJqjTbUKoFzQ+qudObW86IO6pNoVUw4XWcAWx4uKVG1P875rYX +vs0K4h1Kwc= =HlMq -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Repartition Format
Hi I've just finished repartition my hard drive using FIPS and have confirmed that the partition was done, but the new partition doesn't seem to be formatted. I am a little bit confused how to format the new drive. Do I: (a) - Format the new drive first in DOS then boot Linux from the CD. or (b) - Format the new drive using the Linux fdisk, then boot Linux. My new disk space for Linux is around 700MB could provide a nice way of dividing this for Linux, (i.e how much do I reserve for root, swap disk (i have 16MB RAM), usr, etc). How do I directly boot off the CD? From DOS or Win95? Thanks Patrick -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Bugs in 1.3.1 Debian packages
On Sun, 27 Jul 1997, Carl Fink wrote: :I send a letter to this list earlier, complaining about a problem after :upgrading inn. I have now figured out the problem. : :Consulting the inn FAQ, I find that the error I saw is caused by a :corrupt history.dir file. Theoretically running makehistory as I did :should have cleared this, but it didn't. In the end I had to delete :history.dir and replace it with the clean one from the package. : :Really, I don't think the inn package should corrupt history.dir, and :would consider this a bug. After installing INN myself and having my server crash a few times due to bad SCSI drives, I'd have to note that inn is _very_ touchy. If you replaced any of the files in /var/lib/news during the upgrade, it seems likely to me that inn wasn't happy when it restarted. : :Another bug for the maintainer: the new ppp package prevented me from :running the pon script as non-root. It happens that I knew how to fix :this (chmod the pppd executable to make it runnably by mere mortals), :but a beginner would be stumped. A better idea, read the docs and make ppp users members of group dip. Security is not a bug. : :And another: upgrading the DOSEMU package not only replaced my :/etc/dosemu/conf file, but *wiped it out*, forcing me to reconfigure :from scratch. : :I have good backups, but again someone else might have had the program :rendered unusable. I consider all three of these significant bugs. :The first one wasted a full day of my time, not something I consider :trivial. : :Thanks for listening. :-- :Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] :Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum :http://dm.net : : :-- :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: Repartition Format
I am a little bit confused how to format the new drive. Assuming you want to format it as an ext2fs partition, you need to use the mke2fs program to do that. As far as I know, you can only do this from Linux. The Debian installation disks can format your partition as one of the install steps. Cheers, - Jim pgpHDOcU18Ayc.pgp Description: PGP signature
Netscape package won't configure
Okay, I finally got X working, so I decided to Install the Netscape 3 package that comes with 1.3.1. When I get to the configure stage of dselect, I get the following: == running dpkg --pending --configure ... Setting up netscape (3.01-4) ... ERROR: The Netscape archive must be in /tmp under the name: /tmp/netscape-v301-export.x86-unknown-linux-elf.tar.[gz|Z] Do NOT simply rename the archive of another version in order to force it to install with this package. It will not work. Archive files can be found on ftp.netscape.com. dpkg: error processing netscape (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: netscape dpkg --configure returned error exit status 1. == Has anyone else seen this? What can I do about it? Thanks. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum http://dm.net -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
PPP question.
I have a BitsurfrPro EZ modem (ISDN). I can do single channel connections just fine. How ever when I do multi-link PPP (duel channel) I have a LCP EchoReq problems: Jul 28 09:46:18 bitgate pppd[28432]: local IP address 206.163.127.171 Jul 28 09:46:18 bitgate pppd[28432]: remote IP address 206.163.127.127 Jul 28 09:46:44 bitgate pppd[28432]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x0 00 00 00 00] Jul 28 09:48:10 bitgate pppd[28432]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x1 00 00 00 00] Jul 28 09:53:02 bitgate pppd[28432]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x2 00 00 00 00] Jul 28 09:53:32 bitgate pppd[28432]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x3 00 00 00 00] Jul 28 09:54:02 bitgate pppd[28432]: Excessive lack of response to LCP echo frames. Jul 28 09:54:02 bitgate pppd[28432]: sent [LCP TermReq id=0x3] Jul 28 09:54:02 bitgate pppd[28432]: rcvd [LCP TermAck id=0x3] Jul 28 09:54:02 bitgate pppd[28432]: Connection terminated. Jul 28 09:54:02 bitgate pppd[28432]: Exit. I know this is really not a Debian problem but I could use the help. Thanks! [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
X problem?
I have upgraded to Debian 1.3.1 and now sattrack runs, and the display opens, but the lower 3/4 of the screen is corrupted. Its hard to describe what the problem is, but here goes... There are several zig-zag 'lines' running vertically down the screen. I have remade sattrack, thinking the new libs might have something to do with it, but no go... I really like to keep track of the shuttle and mir, and I can with the predictions, but X is so much nicer. When I right click (afterstep) outside the window, the screen cleans up. also, when switching from a vc to X, the screen is clean for about 1/2 second. Any Ideas? -- Walter L. Preuninger IIwaldo @ irc.wasteland.org:#unix [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rapidramp.com/~walterp L I N U X Where You Really Should Be! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
X Problem? More Info
It seems that when I focus the sattrack graphic window, the zig-zags appear. when i focus the sattrack text display, the graphic display clears up. If the graphic display is focused, and I focus another window, like netscape, the corruption remains. I am beginning to believe that the problem is more related to afterstep and not sattrack? Any Ideas? -- Walter L. Preuninger IIwaldo @ irc.wasteland.org:#unix [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rapidramp.com/~walterp L I N U X Where You Really Should Be! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Mail Config
I'm quite certain this is a new feature in Sendmail 8.8.5. I can't remember the details but we run 8.8.5 on our BSDI boxes and it allows you to set up aliases for entire domains, certain addresses within a domain, or both. If you do alias a domain, all addresses in that domain must be aliased, either on a one-for-one basis or as a whole. I look into this more at work tomorrow, if you like. i'll need to do it for a customer soon anyway :) -- Nathan Norman:Hostmaster CFNI:[EMAIL PROTECTED] finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key and other stuff Key fingerprint = CE 03 10 AF 32 81 18 58 9D 32 C2 AB 93 6D C4 72 -- On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, Kevin Traas wrote: : :I've got fetchmail up-and-running on my local system. It is configured for :multi-drop - i.e. all incoming mail for my domain goes into one account at :my ISP which fetchmail receives and then resends to smail on my box for :delivery to the individual accounts. : :All's well. Everything's great. Except for one little thing. : :I'd like to know how my ISP dumps all e-mail destined for one domain into :one e-mail account. Is this just an aliasing issue? A DNS issue? An MTA :issue? : :Thanks for any pointers or help you can provide. : :Later, : :Kevin TraasBaan Business Systems :Systems AnalystLangley, BC, Canada : : :-- :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: ftp web pages updating in apache?
I am looking at a similar question. There is a company that is supposed to be laying out web pages for my company. I would like to have them set up so that they can FTP their data in, both us and them can look at it and off we go. It seamed that the easiest way was to set them up as a user then symlink the directory that is the document root for apache in the /home/user directory then they would have access. If I understand correctly, when a user logs in via FTP they are put into their home directory by default they would cd to the document root. On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, Beauvalot Erik wrote: Normally the web pages of the users are like that http://www.yourweb.com/~username In the user directory you should have a public_html directory (It's the default) and all the pages of the user are in this directory so if the user connect himself with his userid via FTP, he will be able to change evry thing in this directory. At 11:55 28/07/97 +0200, dada wrote: Hi How can I do to permit that one user, that have count in my computer (attached to and TCP/IP local network),can actualice your web pages? I want the next: 1.- If the user make an authenticated ftp access,he must go to directory where is his web pages (but *only* to thats directory). 2.- If the user make an anonymous ftp, he must go to my ftp server (that works OK now) bye -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . - Erik BEAUVALOT ATT RD Lab Manager of Paris/EMEA Tel : +(33)1 47 67 46 06 GSM: +(33)6 09 48 32 11 E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.beauvalot.com/ - -- 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: Netscape package won't configure
On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, Carl Fink wrote: Okay, I finally got X working, so I decided to Install the Netscape 3 package that comes with 1.3.1. When I get to the configure stage of dselect, I get the following: == running dpkg --pending --configure ... Setting up netscape (3.01-4) ... ERROR: The Netscape archive must be in /tmp under the name: /tmp/netscape-v301-export.x86-unknown-linux-elf.tar.[gz|Z] Do NOT simply rename the archive of another version in order to force it to install with this package. It will not work. Archive files can be found on ftp.netscape.com. ^^ dpkg: error processing netscape (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: netscape dpkg --configure returned error exit status 1. == Has anyone else seen this? What can I do about it? If you have not done so, you need to retrieve the appropriate archive file from ftp.netscape.com. Debian cannot distribute this file because Netscape is not free software. Syrus. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Syrus Nemat-Nasser [EMAIL PROTECTED]UCSD Physics Dept. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: atd - at daemon?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 28 Jul 1997, Eloy A. Paris wrote: just for curiosity: in Debian versions prior to 1.3 there was not at daemon (atd). After I upgraded to 1.3 there is an atd process hanging around. Does anyone know why? I guess at processing was done by crond in previous version, why did it change? Before, cron was set to call atrun every 1 or 5 minutes, forcing disk reads and basically making any power-management functions useless without disabling at. Now atd can cache its state, and doesn't need to read the drive (changing an atime stamp) every minute, so disks can cycle down. If you aren't running any at tasks, atd will get itself swapped out and stay there in any memory crunch. - -- | Live never to be ashamed if anything Scott K. Ellis | you do or say is published around the world -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | even if what is published is not true. | -- Illusions -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBM91BPqCk2fENdzpVAQGkowQAplMyVdvhaRKIgENVOKlZo4UfPLkIAB83 Y8EEKoXTiCObCbbHw9CucJI0C3mhH+8L3l6c11Zd9XHI5L9hvfPcwpgNEnd6Dn3k 6Dvsq3+ri3s0o+yuEFLpfmREnY0mDDrGBRZPnDM/De+mg8W6oKmI6u5QotXJ3A4b KVb89H5I97o= =NR9m -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
uudecode
Hi, I have problem in decoding a binary uuencoded file. I received a mail (not as an attachment)with binary uuencoded message and i don't know what how to decode it. I downloaded a a decoded/encoder 'uudeview' software from the internet . I cut paste the section of encoded message which begins with 'begin 600' and ends with 'end' into word document, renamed the file with uue extension. I tried to decode it using the uudeview software but i kept getting the message 'uudeview did not find anything to decode'. Can someone help me. I looked for an answer from the internet and i came across this mailing lists. If I'm asking for help in the wrong place..please forgive. Thank you. _ Sent by RocketMail. Get your free e-mail at http://www.rocketmail.com -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: running a program on x logout
On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: [edited] robert havoc pennington wrote: I want to run a program when I log out of my X session (specifically, kill $SSH_AGENT_PID) and I can't figure out how. Then make your ~/.xsession as: #!/bin/bash exec /usr/bin/ssh-agent /usr/X11R6/bin/fvwm2 Then when you exit it will go away all by itself! I assume that currently your starting it in your fvwm InitFunction. Rather, in your InitFunction you can run ssh-add, which will pop up a nice little window first thing. Hmm. The new problem, doing it this way, is that I can't run ssh -f remotehost xbiff in any of the fvwm2 startup files, because it tries to run before I can type in the pass phrase for ssh-add. I was doing this in .xsession: ssh-agent ssh-add exec fvwm2 which waits for ssh-add to finish getting the pass phrase, then runs fvwm2, and works fine except that ssh-agent won't quit at the end of the session. if I exec ssh-agent fvwm2, then have ssh-add and ssh both in the startup files (InitFunction or elsewhere), I get two pass phrase requests. I can't figure out any way to tell fvwm2 to wait for ssh-add to finish before continuing. It can wait for a window to appear, but that's the only kind of wait it seems to be able to do, as far as I can tell. Ideas? Havoc Pennington -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: uudecode
Hi there On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, Siyamala Kasinathan wrote: Hi, I have problem in decoding a binary uuencoded file. I received a mail (not as an attachment)with binary uuencoded message and i don't know what how to decode it. I downloaded a a decoded/encoder 'uudeview' software from the internet . I cut paste the section of encoded message which begins with 'begin 600' and ends with 'end' into word document, just save (export) all message into text file and run uudeview on it - it's smart enough to figure what is required to be decoded. works for me OK -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
uudecode
Hi, I have problem in decoding a binary uuencoded file. I received a mail (not as an attachment)with binary uuencoded message and i don't know what how to decode it. I downloaded a a decoded/encoder 'uudeview' software from the internet . I cut paste the section of encoded message which begins with 'begin 600' and ends with 'end' into word document, renamed the file with uue extension. I tried to decode it using the uudeview software but i kept getting the message 'uudeview did not find anything to decode'. Can someone help me. I looked for an answer from the internet and i came across this mailing lists. If I'm asking for help in the wrong place..please forgive. Thank you. _ Sent by RocketMail. Get your free e-mail at http://www.rocketmail.com -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ICQ
Travis Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Andy way it is a cool little app. Pretty much what it does is let you make a list of people and then notify you when they are on line. It then lets you find out there IP address, send them messages, chat, send files and all that fun stuff. These other people have to have ICQ also of course. It is pretty neat because you can just drop someone a message and if they are on line then the get it right then or if the are off it sends it to a server run bye Mirabilis wick waits for them to come on line and then forward it to them. You can open up multiple person chat and send people URLs, pictures, files and email. It is built in with a lot of Win95 junk that wouldn't be needed on a Linux version. Like it will automaticly call an app if say someone sends you a wav file it calls a wav player or it will call your web browse if they send you a URL. It only does this when you want it to so don't worry about your web browser opening up all the sudden if someone sends you a URL. It is also very customizable. So, basically, it's about what irc (on a network with services) can do for you? Seems like an incredible breakthrough getting something we've had for several years on a lot more platforms. /Stefan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: xdm configuration
Thanks for the responses. Yes, run-xconsole is unnecessary (I also comment it out), but the xdm-start-server was missing. Note: not no-xdm-start-server (or perhaps this is this an option?) As someone else pointed out, the line :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X needed to be inserted in /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers in place of the commented line indicating that debian had not configured X. I had found that one by comparing with my other Debian system, but made the mistake of typing /usr/X11R6/lib/X, which was hard to debug. The gzips fonts in XFree86 3.3 are also incompatible with AcceleratedX. I tried gunzip'ping them, then compress'ing them, but still get an error: font `fixed' not found. Xaccel currently runs by pointing to the XFree86 3.2 fonts. If anyone has any ideas about the nature of this fonts error, let me know. As for the X configuration, the setup scripts should probably be a bit smoother, and more verbose on exiting about how to get back on track after exiting to manually configure an X server. David In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], writes: ... Now I try to run xdm and it doesn't start. I have a xdm-start line in my /etc/X11/config and on boot it reports that it is starting up xdm. Manually `xdm start` or `xdm` do nothing. What else do I need to configure? This is my /etc/X11/config: # This file contains configuration flags for the X Window System. # For a description of the meanings of the flags, see # /usr/doc/X11/debian.README run-xconsole obey-nologin allow-user-resources allow-user-modmap allow-user-xsession allow-failsafe start-xdm start-fs no-xdm-start-server run-xconsole may be the item you are missing? I don't think so, I have xdm running with run-xconsole commented out. That is no problem. If you comment it out you just don't see all those error messages in the console window passing by :) Eric -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 40 2472189 Eindhoven Univ. of Technology | tel. lab. +31 40 2475032 Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (TAK) | tel. fax+31 40 2455054 -- 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] .
bind - no binfmt-0 / too many open files.
Hi, I am having the following problem after having gotten and installed the updated version of bind from bo-updates (the one showed is after downgrading back to see if it would fix the problem - errors are the same) (from /var/adm/daemon.log) Jul 29 01:52:15 www modprobe: can't locate module binfmt-0 Jul 29 01:52:15 www modprobe: can't locate module binfmt-0 Jul 29 01:52:28 www named[20732]: starting. named 4.9.5-REL Mon Apr 28 20:39:58 MET DST 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/debian/bind/bind-4.9.5/named Jul 29 01:52:28 www named[20732]: fcntl(dfd, F_DUPFD, 20): Too many open files Jul 29 01:52:28 www last message repeated 14 times I also upgraded ld.so, after finding that security-fixed packages don't seem to be making it into the package listings from standard updates from the stable tree any longer.. (my venture to bo-updates was to get ldso and libdb fixes) I tried downgrading, ld.so back to the orignal, also, which didn't help any. Anyone care to shed some light on this? Also: # lsof | wc -l 852 Everything has worked fine on this system otherwise, and appears to be still working ok. Only bind seems to be affected. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: xdm configuration
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], W Paul Mills writes: On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], writes: ... Now I try to run xdm and it doesn't start. I have a xdm-start line in my /etc/X11/config and on boot it reports that it is starting up xdm. Manually `xdm start` or `xdm` do nothing. What else do I need to configure? This is my /etc/X11/config: # This file contains configuration flags for the X Window System. # For a description of the meanings of the flags, see # /usr/doc/X11/debian.README run-xconsole obey-nologin allow-user-resources allow-user-modmap allow-user-xsession allow-failsafe start-xdm start-fs no-xdm-start-server ^^^ I don't really know, but should this be xdm-start-server?? xdm-start-server allows your machine to manage X displays on other machines, which is not what is wanted in this particular case. run-xconsole may be the item you are missing? I don't think so, I have xdm running with run-xconsole commented out. That is no problem. If you comment it out you just don't see all those error messages in the console window passing by :) Sorry about that, Eric is right of course. and in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Wesley Hart writes: I had an identical experience setting up my 1.3 system: I chose not to enable xdm until after I had hand-tested my X config. Then when I tried to start it manually, it failed in the manner that you describe. After fruitlessly looking at all of the xdm config files I could find, I ended removing and reinstalling the xbase and xserver-svga packages. A bit heavy-handed, but it got the job done. In retrospect, I _think_ the problem was that the /etc/X11/xdm/Xserver wasn't configured correctly. I seem to recall seeing a 'debian-not-configured' comment in there before I did the reinstall. I'm not at my debian system right now, but I'll take a look at this tonight and see if I can reproduce the problem by tweaking this file. Yes. When first installed, /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers contains nothing but comments. You need a line like this linda:0.0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 to enable xdm to manage your local display. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver Make it idiot-proof, and someone will breed a better idiot. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Modem config
What is the current standard for device files? I have a pcmcia modem. Previously it worked fine with /dev/cua1 under my Slackare Linux. Debian appears to have gone to some other device files or naming system. (I think it tried to put /dev/modem -- /dev/ttyS0 which didn't work for me.) Anyway, I pointed /dev/modem to /dev/cua1 on the partition with my Slackware partition. That works fine, but where should it really go? Regarding the pcmcia packages, on the local mirror here I find no completely compatible binary package for the linux kernel 2.0.29. The pcmcia package is split into pcmcia-cs and pcmcia-modules, with versions 2.9.5-2 and 2.9.5-3 compiled for linux kernels 2.0.29 and 2.0.30. Due to rumors of bugs in 2.0.30, I don't want to go to that kernel, and there are only pcmcia-cs 2.9.5-3 and pcmcia-modules 2.9.5.2, which do not solve each others' dependencies under dpkg. I solved the above problem by getting the source package. However this may have been the cause of some previous postings on pcmcia install problems. If it hasn't been corrected at ftp.debian.org, then it should be. David -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
X fonts, Re: xdm config
I just answered a question I had about X fonts. XFree86 3.2 fonts are compressed, while XFree86 3.3 are gzipped. To convert between compression formats it is not sufficient to change only the compression of the fonts, but also the fonts.dir file in each font directory, which list font_type.pcf.gz instead of font_type.pcf.Z One would have to do a search-and-replace in these files. (This problem arose because the AcceleratedX from Xi graphics does not support gzipped fonts.) David -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
povray-manual/lynx/slang problem
Hi everyone, I sure am happy to see tha my favorite raytracer, povray has been included in debian 1.3. It was also nice to see that it now has html documentation. I have some problems however reading it. I have tried to do this at home with the lynx 2.7.1-1 package and the slang 0.99.38-2 package (from the 1.3.1 CD). The problem is that if lynx tries to follow a link to a different file, it always goes to the top of that file, not to the correct position. At work I had lynx 2.6-2 and slang 0.99.34-1. This worked OK. After upgrading to same packages I had at home, the same erroneous behaviour turned up. This is not the whole story however. I first tried to read the files with arena from 1.3.1, and this complained about bad html, also jumps to wrong references, and dumps core as well. I ran weblint on povray.htm and got numerous errors, the last of which put weblint into a loop. So it seems that the html pages aren't fully confirming at least (I don't know much about html), but an older version of lynx could deal with it. Did anyone encounter these problems before, and knows what to do about it (besides downgrading lynx). Any comments are greatly appreciated, Eric Meijer -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 40 2472189 Eindhoven Univ. of Technology | tel. lab. +31 40 2475032 Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (TAK) | tel. fax+31 40 2455054 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Making a CD for a Magazine
The UK Unix Group want to promote Linux on the front cover CD of PC magazines. We think the following would be useful -A distribution that made sense in 100MB monthly parcels. (we can only squeeze a small amount of space from the huge amount of Windows SW that gets put on) -Does not need RockRidge -Would work on FAT, VFAT and FAT32 filesystems in a umsdos manner. -With a fips that worked with the new FAT32. Now I guess with Debian we can split the distribution by removing directories (e.g. X, electronics etc) and just release bits every month. RockRidge means nothing to me, is this UNIX file semantics support? (apparently the magazines have trouble with this) I have not needed to do this with Debian and I can't remember anything in the install docs but I guess umsdos works out of the box? Anyone know if fips is being upgraded? My questions are 1) Has anyone done this before 2) Does anyone have any opinons 3) Is anyone intrested in the results Regards, Alec -- Alec Clews, [EMAIL PROTECTED], PGP keyid:48FA EB81 TCA Consulting Ltd Tel. 44-(0)171-415-8159 Fax:44-(0)171-556-0022 New CIty Court, 20 St Thomas Street, London, Britain, SE1 9SD == Usual Disclaimers Apply = [Personal and PGP key http://www.earth.demon.co.uk/alec] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
ldso 1.8.11 makes system unusable
I tried to upgrade some packages on a 1.1.* installation. Made the system nearly and so I have two questions: is it a known problem (- bug report) and how do I fix it? -Winfried [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/winni dpkg -i ldso_1.8.11-1_i386.deb (Reading database ... 19925 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace ldso 1.8.11-1 (using ldso_1.8.11-1_i386.deb) ... sh: can't resolve symbol 'rl_ignore_some_completions_function' dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script killed by signal (Segmentation fault) dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ... sh: can't resolve symbol 'rl_ignore_some_completions_function' dpkg: error processing ldso_1.8.11-1_i386.deb (--install): subprocess new pre-removal script killed by signal (Segmentation fault) sh: can't resolve symbol 'rl_ignore_some_completions_function' dpkg: error while cleaning up: subprocess post-installation script killed by signal (Segmentation fault) Errors were encountered while processing: ldso_1.8.11-1_i386.deb -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Running Netscape Communicator
When starting Netscape Communicator 4.01 v6 from xterm, using the Netscape command, there are no error messages generated. All works well including encryption and decryption. When starting it using the Netscape button on the fvwm95 button bar an error message appears and everything works well except for encryption and decryption. The error message reads No valid encryption policy file was found for this English language version of Communicator. All encryption and decryption will be disabled. Pertinent excerpt from .fvwm2rc95 file follows immediately: -- [ snip ] - *FvwmButtons(Title Netscape, Icon nscape.xpm, \ Action 'Exec Netscape netscape -geometry 920x622+90+5 ') -- [ snip ] - How can Communicator be started from the button bar without generating the error message? Victor -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ICQ
So, basically, it's about what irc (on a network with services) can do for you? Seems like an incredible breakthrough getting something we've had for several years on a lot more platforms. I don't think (I could be wrong) ICQ does anything that can't be done via IRC... HOWEVER it does do with a great deal more friendliness. While some people take to IRC like fish to water a great deal more get instantly lost. IRC is a wonderfully huge, anarchistic mess. You can do damn near anything in it but you have to know quite a bit to make it all work. ICQ allows new comers to easily learn to keep tabs on what other friends are on line at the same time they are. It allows people like me, with a permenant connection, to have friends blast me a message that pops up on my screen within a few seconds of it being sent. For me (getting ~ 400 emails a day) this immediacy, and convenience, is great. The main reason I've stopped using ICQ (apart from no Linux support :) is that I can't stay connected to their server. It keeps kicking me off and not allowing me to reconnect for several hours. Adam. - Earthlight Communications Limited P.O. Box 5301 Adam Shand (fax) +64 3 477 5463 Dunedin, New Zealand Systems Manager(voice) +64 3 479 0303 -- http://larry.earthlight.co.nz/ -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
What is '/etc/emacs/site-start.d' for?
Hi, What's the directory '/etc/emacs/site-start.d' for? When I installed 'calc', I found that the 'calc autoloads' file '50calc.el' is in '/etc/emacs/site-start.d/'; but emacs doesn't seem to automatically load it. '/etc/emacs/site-start.d/50calc.el' looks like those file such as '/etc/rc2.d/S10sysklogd'. Any help is appreciated; thanks. -mlt -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: xdm configuration
I had an identical experience setting up my 1.3 system: I chose not to enable xdm until after I had hand-tested my X config. Then when I tried to start it manually, it failed in the manner that you describe. You must run xbase-configure after you modify the config file, reinstalling everything is sure a waste of time :) Mat -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ICQ
Adam Shand [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ICQ allows new comers to easily learn to keep tabs on what other friends are on line at the same time they are. It allows people like me, with a permenant connection, to have friends blast me a message that pops up on my screen within a few seconds of it being sent. For me (getting ~ 400 emails a day) this immediacy, and convenience, is great. Tabs on friends are called /notify. Messages to others... well.. /msg, or /notice if you like.. The main reason I've stopped using ICQ (apart from no Linux support :) is that I can't stay connected to their server. It keeps kicking me off and not allowing me to reconnect for several hours. Are you saying ICQ lacks server-server connections? If so, it's not even progress reinventing the wheel like that. Replacing a free, well established, fully functional, and multi-platform with a non-free, single platform lacking basic functionality for handling networks as they look today, sounds more insane than sane to me. Investing some time making the irc clients more user friendly sounds much more like a sane idea to me. /Stefan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
bind problem - update
Built myself a new version of bind from source, and it's working just fine. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ICQ
Hi Stefan, Tabs on friends are called /notify. Messages to others... well.. /msg, or /notice if you like.. I know this (well actually I'm not much of an IRC buff, but I could figure it out quick enough) but that doesn't change the fact that IRC is so vast and complicated that it loses a LOT of beginners. Are you saying ICQ lacks server-server connections? If so, it's not even progress reinventing the wheel like that. I don't know. The do have multiple servers and from what I can tell they intercommunicate, but it's all their proprietary stuff so I'm not really sure exactly how it works. All I know is that from what I can tell their network is getting hit pretty hard and their servers aren't quite up to it (and they are losing the battle from what I can see). Replacing a free, well established, fully functional, and multi-platform with a non-free, single platform lacking basic functionality for handling networks as they look today, sounds more insane than sane to me. Investing some time making the irc clients more user friendly sounds much more like a sane idea to me. ICQ is free in that it doesn't cost any money, however it's not public license or source code available. The problem with IRC is that it simply does TOO much. Come to think of it ICQ does one thing that I don't think you can do with IRC and that is leave a message for someone that they will get as soon as they next connect. Though again that's what email is for. The idea of writing a VERY simple IRC client is an interesting one. The only problem I can see is how do you set it up so that it doesn't get trashed by the hacker community. My experience with IRC shows that it leaves a lot to desired from server/security point of view. Adam. - Earthlight Communications Limited P.O. Box 5301 Adam Shand (fax) +64 3 477 5463 Dunedin, New Zealand Systems Manager(voice) +64 3 479 0303 -- http://larry.earthlight.co.nz/ -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: running a program on x logout
robert havoc pennington [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] Hmm. The new problem, doing it this way, is that I can't run ssh -f remotehost xbiff in any of the fvwm2 startup files, because it tries to run before I can type in the pass phrase for ssh-add. I was doing this in .xsession: ssh-agent ssh-add exec fvwm2 which waits for ssh-add to finish getting the pass phrase, then runs fvwm2, and works fine except that ssh-agent won't quit at the end of the session. I would do the following, simplified from what I have: .xsession: #!/usr/bin/zsh exec /usr/bin/ssh-agent ~/.xsession-real .xsession-real: #!/usr/bin/zsh /usr/bin/ssh-add /dev/null exec /usr/bin/X11/fvwm2 -- Carey Evans * [EMAIL PROTECTED] these are not inherent flaws in [NT] -- they don't happen by accident. They are the result of deliberate and well-thought-out efforts. - MS -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: povray-manual/lynx/slang problem
E.L. Meijer \(Eric\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip - POVRay manual] So it seems that the html pages aren't fully confirming at least (I don't know much about html), Yes. a name=... must be followed by a /a in most cases. I corrected this with a Perl one-liner: perl -pi~ -e 's:a *name[^]*:$ /a:g' *.htm There are other problems once this is fixed, assuming HTML 3.2: /usr/bin/nsgmls:povray.htm:9:16:E: document type does not allow element H1 here /usr/bin/nsgmls:povray.htm:17:6:E: end tag for element HEAD which is not open /usr/bin/nsgmls:povray.htm:18:64:E: document type does not allow element BODY here /usr/bin/nsgmls:povray.htm:529:3:E: document type does not allow element HR here /usr/bin/nsgmls:povray.htm:530:7:E: document type does not allow element CENTER here (Could we have a policy that HTML docs must be HTML 3.2 or have a DOCTYPE and match that?) Unfortunately the current version of Lynx seems to remove spaces from references like a href=pov3.htm#section 2.1 ^ I'm not sure whether this is permitted or not, but I don't think there _should_ be a space anywhere in a URL. This can be fixed with a bit more Perl removing all the spaces from all the URLs: perl -pi~ -e 's:(a +\w+=)([^]*)():($a=$2)=~tr/ //d,$1$a$3:eg' *.htm I haven't tested it extensively though. Go ahead and submit a bug report or feature request against both Lynx and POVRay. Ask me to explain that Perl later. -- Carey Evans * [EMAIL PROTECTED] these are not inherent flaws in [NT] -- they don't happen by accident. They are the result of deliberate and well-thought-out efforts. - MS -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Quotas Mail Spool file
This is simple question but I have setup quotas for user home directories before, but exactly how does one put a quota on a user's mail spool file? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Disappointment with Debian
Daniel, You're not providing us with enough information to work on. On Jul 28, Daniel J. Mashao wrote Now the Xserver is mixed up What do you mean? Does it dump core or not? Do you get an image or not? Does it only work for some users? Do you get error messages? If so, which? Is your /etc/X11/XF86Config OK? and I cannot read xterm. ? Only root can use dip etc. What permissions does dip have (ls -al /usr/sbin/dip; on my system -rwsr-xr-- 1 root dip, thus only root and members of group dip can use it)? Which users are in group dip? Ray -- Cyberspace, a final frontier. These are the voyages of my messages, on a lightspeed mission to explore strange new systems and to boldly go where no data has gone before. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
apcd -- 3 Cheers!!!
Just when I thought it was safe to throw away my APC Smart UPS along comes apcd. Bravo. Paul Serice -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ICQ
On 29 Jul 1997, Stefan Berndtsson wrote: Travis Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Andy way it is a cool little app. Pretty much what it does is let you make a list of people and then notify you when they are on line. It then lets you find out there IP address, send them messages, chat, send files and all that fun stuff. These other people have to have ICQ also of course. It is pretty neat because you can just drop someone a message and if they are on line then the get it right then or if the are off it sends it to a server run bye Mirabilis wick waits for them to come on line and then forward it to them. You can open up multiple person chat and send people URLs, pictures, files and email. It is built in with a lot of Win95 junk that wouldn't be needed on a Linux version. Like it will automaticly call an app if say someone sends you a wav file it calls a wav player or it will call your web browse if they send you a URL. It only does this when you want it to so don't worry about your web browser opening up all the sudden if someone sends you a URL. It is also very customizable. So, basically, it's about what irc (on a network with services) can do for you? Seems like an incredible breakthrough getting something we've had for several years on a lot more platforms. No, it is much, much more than just a chat line. You can chat if you want to, but you can send data back and forth easily, you can conference more securely, you can send emails to one another ... it is the poor mans replacement for Novel Groupwise (with some additions). /Stefan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Chad D. Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Southwest Technology Development Institute New Mexico State University --- HP: http://dabcc-www.nmsu.edu/~chad/ DBP: http://dabcc-www.nmsu.edu/~chad/Debian/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
what's the better mta?
Hi I'm installing a linux box as mail server, and would like to know what is the better MTA to use. I'm thinking about smail, but I guess sendmail is most popular. Anyway, I don't discard another mta, since it's realy good. Do you have any sugestion? thank you Bruno -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
what's the better mta?
Hi As I asked before, I also would like to know if there's a recomended _news_ server Regards Bruno -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: PPP question.
Add this line to your /etc/ppp/options file (or put it on your ppp command line): lcp-echo-interval 0 Your ISP does not respond to lcp-echo packets (they are used to detect if the link has gone down). Hope this helps, Al Youngwerth [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- From: Udjat -A MiB [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: PPP question. Date: Monday, July 28, 1997 6:45 AM I have a BitsurfrPro EZ modem (ISDN). I can do single channel connections just fine. How ever when I do multi-link PPP (duel channel) I have a LCP EchoReq problems: Jul 28 09:46:18 bitgate pppd[28432]: local IP address 206.163.127.171 Jul 28 09:46:18 bitgate pppd[28432]: remote IP address 206.163.127.127 Jul 28 09:46:44 bitgate pppd[28432]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x0 00 00 00 00] Jul 28 09:48:10 bitgate pppd[28432]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x1 00 00 00 00] Jul 28 09:53:02 bitgate pppd[28432]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x2 00 00 00 00] Jul 28 09:53:32 bitgate pppd[28432]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x3 00 00 00 00] Jul 28 09:54:02 bitgate pppd[28432]: Excessive lack of response to LCP echo frames. Jul 28 09:54:02 bitgate pppd[28432]: sent [LCP TermReq id=0x3] Jul 28 09:54:02 bitgate pppd[28432]: rcvd [LCP TermAck id=0x3] Jul 28 09:54:02 bitgate pppd[28432]: Connection terminated. Jul 28 09:54:02 bitgate pppd[28432]: Exit. I know this is really not a Debian problem but I could use the help. Thanks! [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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: what's the better mta?
On Jul 29, Bruno O. M. Simoes wrote I'm installing a linux box as mail server, and would like to know what is the better MTA to use. I'm thinking about smail, but I guess sendmail is most popular. Anyway, I don't discard another mta, since it's realy good. Do you have any sugestion? Using Debian GNU/Linux you are able to use some different MTAs. You shoul depend your decision which one to use on you personal experiences and your needs. The question 'which is the better mta' can't be answered. It's the same as with 'is emacs better than vi' c. If you're not familiar with any mta it would be a good idea to install one and try to configure it. If you fail, purge it and install the next one. You'll find the mta you like best. Joey -- Individual Network e.V._/ OrgaTech [EMAIL PROTECTED]_/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geschaeftszeit: Di+Mi+Fr, 15-18 Uhr _/Tel: (0441) 9808556 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: apcd -- 3 Cheers!!!
Just when I thought it was safe to throw away my APC Smart UPS along comes apcd. Bravo. APC is also supported by the Genpower package. It only does dumb signalling, but can use the Plug-n-Play cable that comes with the APC units these days. Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) --- Generated by Signify v1.02. For this and more, visit http://www.verisim.com/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
xdm hangs
Hi. I just reinstalled Debian. All works well except xdm. I am able to manually run startx, but when xdm runs at boot, it never displays the GUI. When I run it manually, I get this: moe# xdm -debug 9 DisplayManager.errorLogFile/DisplayManager.ErrorLogFile value /var/log/xdm-errors DisplayManager.daemonMode/DisplayManager.DaemonMode value true DisplayManager.pidFile/DisplayManager.PidFile value /var/run/xdm-pid DisplayManager.lockPidFile/DisplayManager.LockPidFile value true DisplayManager.authDir/DisplayManager.authDir value /var/lib/xdm DisplayManager.autoRescan/DisplayManager.AutoRescan value true DisplayManager.removeDomainname/DisplayManager.RemoveDomainname value true DisplayManager.keyFile/DisplayManager.KeyFile value /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-keys DisplayManager.accessFile/DisplayManager.AccessFile value /etc/X11/xdm/Xaccess DisplayManager.exportList/DisplayManager.ExportList value DisplayManager.randomFile/DisplayManager.RandomFile value /dev/mem DisplayManager.greeterLib/DisplayManager.GreeterLib value /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/libXdmGreet.so DisplayManager.choiceTimeout/DisplayManager.ChoiceTimeout value 15 DisplayManager.sourceAddress/DisplayManager.SourceAddress value false creating socket 177 Created chooser socket 5 WaitForSomething It then just sits there waiting for something to happen. Has anyone seen this before? Any ideas on a solution? Thanks in advance. Dave -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: PPP question.
Udjat -A MiB wrote: I have a BitsurfrPro EZ modem (ISDN). I can do single channel connections just fine. How ever when I do multi-link PPP (duel channel) I have a LCP EchoReq problems: Jul 28 09:46:18 bitgate pppd[28432]: local IP address 206.163.127.171 Jul 28 09:46:18 bitgate pppd[28432]: remote IP address 206.163.127.127 Jul 28 09:46:44 bitgate pppd[28432]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x0 00 00 00 00] Jul 28 09:48:10 bitgate pppd[28432]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x1 00 00 00 00] Jul 28 09:53:02 bitgate pppd[28432]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x2 00 00 00 00] Jul 28 09:53:32 bitgate pppd[28432]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x3 00 00 00 00] Jul 28 09:54:02 bitgate pppd[28432]: Excessive lack of response to LCP echo frames. Jul 28 09:54:02 bitgate pppd[28432]: sent [LCP TermReq id=0x3] Jul 28 09:54:02 bitgate pppd[28432]: rcvd [LCP TermAck id=0x3] Jul 28 09:54:02 bitgate pppd[28432]: Connection terminated. Jul 28 09:54:02 bitgate pppd[28432]: Exit. I know this is really not a Debian problem but I could use the help. Run this: grep -v '^#' /etc/ppp/options | sort -u Do you see lcp-echo-interval ? Remove that line from /etc/ppp/options and your connection will no longer be dropped for lack of responses to LCP echo requests. -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: X Problem? More Info
On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, Walter L. Preuninger II wrote: It seems that when I focus the sattrack graphic window, the zig-zags appear. when i focus the sattrack text display, the graphic display clears up. If the graphic display is focused, and I focus another window, like netscape, the corruption remains. I have similar/worse problems after upgrading to Debian 1.3.1 yesterday. I thought the X stuff in 1.3.1 was supposed to be fixed and since I used the CD to upgrade I cannot tell where exactly the problem is coming from. - Anyone out there? help? ~~~ D.J. Mashao, [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ICQ
Chad D. Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No, it is much, much more than just a chat line. You can chat if you want to, but you can send data back and forth easily, you can conference more securely, you can send emails to one another ... it is the poor mans replacement for Novel Groupwise (with some additions). The only function that can't be replaced with email and talk (or other chat proggie) is the online notification. -- Cerebus [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint: BC AB 28 19 A6 A4 FF 5B CA 4D B4 03 3A A7 F4 5C -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: what's the better mta?
Hi Joey Using Debian GNU/Linux you are able to use some different MTAs. I know this... You shoul depend your decision which one to use on you personal experiences and your needs. You're right. The question 'which is the better mta' can't be answered. It's the same as with 'is emacs better than vi' c. I agree. If you're not familiar with any mta it would be a good idea to install one and try to configure it. If you fail, purge it and install the next one. You'll find the mta you like best. So my question is wich is the most used, principally because I want to have a good support, anyway. I would take some like exim that must to be good, but a small people know it. Regards Bruno Joey -- Individual Network e.V._/ OrgaTech [EMAIL PROTECTED]_/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geschaeftszeit: Di+Mi+Fr, 15-18 Uhr _/Tel: (0441) 9808556 -- 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] .
X after Deb 1.3.1 (was Re: Disappointment with Debian)
On Tue, 29 Jul 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel, You're not providing us with enough information to work on. On Jul 28, Daniel J. Mashao wrote Now the Xserver is mixed up What do you mean? Does it dump core or not? Do you get an image or not? Does it only work for some users? Do you get error messages? If so, which? Is your /etc/X11/XF86Config OK? No it does not dup core. It can only work in 800x600 mode and using C-A-Backspace to change mode only works for 640x480 and the monitor cannot display it in higher mode. This is a minor problem for now. My major problem is that I cannot read text in xterms. Highlighting text makes it unreadable. It is hard to explain but generally X is unusable. Is there an easy way I can get back to the previous X? The problem is not with XF86Config file. It worked before with Debian 1.1 and 1.2.4 and 1.2.8. I tried to generate a new one but it had similar problem. I thought the problem where fonts so I proceeded to comment some lines in XF86Config file and this did not help any. What permissions does dip have (ls -al /usr/sbin/dip; on my system -rwsr-xr-- 1 root dip, thus only root and members of group dip can use it)? Which users are in group dip? I solved this by chmod o+x /usr/sbin/dip. I am the only user on the system and I am in the dialout group which may have owned dip before. I forgot how to add a group to a user so I just chmod it. I may need to get back to the old X because it used to work fine and I really did not need any new Xserver. ~~~ D.J. Mashao, [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: what's the better mta?
On Jul 29, Bruno O. M. Simoes wrote If you're not familiar with any mta it would be a good idea to install one and try to configure it. If you fail, purge it and install the next one. You'll find the mta you like best. So my question is wich is the most used, principally because I want to have a good support, anyway. I would take some like exim that must to be good, but a small people know it. I believe Smail is well supported, sendmail, too. Although only few people really are familiar with it. If you need some freakin' setup get a sendmail guru first and then decide to use it. Exim might be supported well, too. I haven't seen q+a about it. Qmail is well supported and zmailer... hmm... someone tried to re-package it, that's all I know. Regards Joey -- Individual Network e.V._/ OrgaTech [EMAIL PROTECTED]_/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geschaeftszeit: Di+Mi+Fr, 15-18 Uhr _/Tel: (0441) 9808556 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ICQ
The only function that can't be replaced with email and talk (or other chat proggie) is the online notification. So someone just needs to write a free daemon that handles online notification. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: what's the better mta?
If you have one system that is your all-around linux box, I would suggest that you go with cnews. If you are setting up a dedicated news machine, use INN and load it with as much RAM as you can afford plus a little more. On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Bruno O. M. Simoes wrote: Hi As I asked before, I also would like to know if there's a recomended _news_ server Regards Bruno -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . George Bonser Why is it that the same people that tell us that manned space flight is a waste of money also tell us that we have been visited by aliens? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: what's the better mta?
I use smail. It is a lot easier to get configured than sendmail and there have been fewer security problems with it. If you have a small site, run it out of inetd and use your hosts.allow and hosts.deny to manage access if you are connected to the net full time. On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Bruno O. M. Simoes wrote: Hi I'm installing a linux box as mail server, and would like to know what is the better MTA to use. I'm thinking about smail, but I guess sendmail is most popular. Anyway, I don't discard another mta, since it's realy good. Do you have any sugestion? thank you Bruno -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . George Bonser Why is it that the same people that tell us that manned space flight is a waste of money also tell us that we have been visited by aliens? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Need Help on Pkg: mirror
I've successfully set up mirror on my system and have let it run nightly for about a week now. Things have settled down a bit; however, I'm continuously getting roughly 600 lines of the following (as a brief example) in every report. Any ideas why? And why mirror isn't resolving this issue? TIA for any help, Kevin Traas Baan Business Systems Systems Analyst Langley, BC, Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 882-8169 NEED TO unlink /mirror/debian/hamm/contrib/binary-all/x11/metrox_3.1.2-1.deb NEED TO unlink /mirror/debian/hamm/contrib/binary-all/utils/compress-package_1.3-1.deb NEED TO unlink /mirror/debian/hamm/contrib/binary-i386/shells/pash_2.2-1.deb NEED TO unlink /mirror/debian/hamm/contrib/binary-i386/otherosfs/picasm_1.5-2.deb NEED TO unlink /mirror/debian/hamm/contrib/binary-i386/editors/nedit-smotif_4.0.3-1.deb NEED TO unlink /mirror/debian/hamm/contrib/binary-i386/editors/nedit-dmotif_4.0.3-1.deb NEED TO unlink /mirror/debian/hamm/contrib/binary-i386/admin/npasswd-boulder_1.2.2-2.deb NEED TO unlink /mirror/debian/hamm/contrib/binary-i386/admin/logwrites_1.1-3.deb -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Need Help on Pkg: mirror
On Jul 29, Kevin Traas wrote I've successfully set up mirror on my system and have let it run nightly for about a week now. Things have settled down a bit; however, I'm continuously getting roughly 600 lines of the following (as a brief example) in every report. Any ideas why? And why mirror isn't resolving this issue? Try to configure mirror: max_delete_files=80% or set it to 100% if you know what you're doing. If you edit do_unlinks.pl in /usr/lib/mirror you are able to pipe the mail through do_unlinks and the files will be removed. Afaik you have to edit do_unlinks before doing this. It won't acceppt bogus paths. Joey -- Individual Network e.V._/ OrgaTech [EMAIL PROTECTED]_/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geschaeftszeit: Di+Mi+Fr, 15-18 Uhr _/Tel: (0441) 9808556 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
XF_S3V
Hi, not really the place to ask, but here it goes: does anybody have a diamond 3d 2400 4MB running at 1280x1024? If so, with what refresh-rate? The information on the diamond-site says no 1280x1024, XFree 3.3 says it does. Also, the listed refresh-rates on the diamond-site are low. Maarten _ | Maarten Boekhold, Faculty of Electrical Engineering TU Delft, NL| | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ftp web pages updating in apache?
On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, R Chris Ross said: Chris [...] I would like to have them set up so that they can FTP Chris their data in, both us and them can look at it and off we go. Chris It seamed that the easiest way was to set them up as a user Chris then symlink the directory that is the document root for Chris apache in the /home/user directory then they would have Chris access. If I understand correctly, when a user logs in via Chris FTP they are put into their home directory by default they Chris would cd to the document root. People who use anonymous ftp to connect to your machine can only see the ~ftp subtree. But people who use non-anonymous ftp can see all of your machine! (Unix file permissions permitting.) kai -- A large number of young women don't trust men with beards. (BFBS Radio) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: What is '/etc/emacs/site-start.d' for?
On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, sca bbs said: sca What's the directory '/etc/emacs/site-start.d' for? sca When I installed 'calc', I found that the 'calc autoloads' sca file '50calc.el' is in '/etc/emacs/site-start.d/'; sca but emacs doesn't seem to automatically load it. I think there is supposed to be an Emacs Lisp script that runs on Emacs startup and loads all files in /etc/emacs/site-start.d. But I don't use the Debian Emacs installation, so I don't really know. kai -- A large number of young women don't trust men with beards. (BFBS Radio) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
umsdos and df command
Hello everyone I have made a small (3.5M) Linux installation for DOS users so they can use the network services of our local community network. (free PPP limited to an hour per day; not bad for nuthin' huh?) Anyway, it uses umsdos. I am using a bastardized version of /etc/init.d/boot and have prety much left the filesystem checking as it is by default. The umsdos filesystem (root) is mounted and sync'd ok, but the df command does not show that /dev/hda1 was mounted, although it obviously is because the system boots. Can anyone offer a clue as to why this might be? -- Regards, Jim -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Quotas Mail Spool file
On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Shawn Caron wrote: This is simple question but I have setup quotas for user home directories before, but exactly how does one put a quota on a user's mail spool file? Turn quota's on for /var where the mail spools are (/var/spool/mail) That should do it, since each user owns their own mailbox. mike... Micro$oft, what do you want to spend today? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: bootdisk/lilo/ramdisk
Install the boot-floppies package and modify the script that creates the rescue disk to add the facilities you need. Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Libc6 Upgrade Howto?
Is there a HOWTO on howto upgrade from 1.3.x to unstable with libc6? I'm the new maintainer for uudeview and now have a machine available to run as a developement machine. I tried to upgrade to unstable with dselect, first upgrading dpkg, but just ran into a maze of dependicies that left my machine a mess. I had to re-install 1.3.1 on it. Whats the trick to this? -- Steve Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RE: Running Netscape Communicator
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Usualy you need to move a file called moz40p3 to your .netscape directory. You should find it in the directory you installed Netscape in. But usulay if you do not have this file in the correct place it will also generate the error message when you start Netscape from an Xterm. You may wan't to look at the path entries in your .*rc files. Possibly there is a path pointing to the moz40p3 file which is effecting the shell your fvwm95rc is calling Netscape from and not effecting the shell in your Xterms. Just some guesses. Hope this helps On 29-Jul-97 Victor Torrico wrote: When starting Netscape Communicator 4.01 v6 from xterm, using the Netscape command, there are no error messages generated. All works well including encryption and decryption. When starting it using the Netscape button on the fvwm95 button bar an error message appears and everything works well except for encryption and decryption. The error message reads No valid encryption policy file was found for this English language version of Communicator. All encryption and decryption will be disabled. Pertinent excerpt from .fvwm2rc95 file follows immediately: -- [ snip ] - *FvwmButtons(Title Netscape, Icon nscape.xpm, \ Action 'Exec Netscape netscape -geometry 920x622+90+5 ') -- [ snip ] - How can Communicator be started from the button bar without generating the error message? Victor -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . - - E-Mail: Travis Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.methow.com/~tcole -- Get my Public Key here Date: 29-Jul-97 Time: 11:33:21 640Kb should be enough for anybody Bill Gates - - -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBM944kGgYC2+RaorhAQHQVwP/W+/OdOBEzkFBkQYcyySqO3q8STulaBbs UY7UDNjhp9pkfEO3shWX8bw4TejoB8ZkZLHVzUW9ClevKaVov3KB4NKY+WWk2vee tXs0Nlwcoe6BLf8Qep6QNXkmEblNfF4L2ZAr8aBlvn6FmlI6kgHRTvWKsQn+/23w 4EkpgLcolFY= =OQEA -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ICQ
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 29-Jul-97 Clint Adams wrote: The only function that can't be replaced with email and talk (or other chat proggie) is the online notification. So someone just needs to write a free daemon that handles online notification. I would be verry happy with that. A chat feature whould also be nice. How would you run the server side? Possibly run it off the established IRC networks? Which, by the way, are far from reliable. I think the realy cool thing to do would be to organize a new network for this or talk to some organization like ml.org It would also be cool if there was a Win95 compatible client. I am not a programer so I couln't do it, at least not until I learn how to program, but it would be really cool if some one else who was into writeing it like the idea as much as I do. But what I am proposing could develope into a large undertaking. Possible something I may like to do my self once I start college. Let me know if the is alread a way to do this besides IRC. The deamon idea is a great one. And maybe make an Xprogram that would do some kind of small visual notification when you get a message. But I still think ICQ is a cool little app. I really don't like using IRC for several reasons. You can't leave messages for someone. Most IRC channels I have been on are populated by a large number or complete morons. Netsplits. Irc servers are frequent targets of cracker attacks. And sending files by DCC has to be the slowest thing ever. Usualy when I have sent files with ICQ I get near the max throuput of my modem. But I could have been doing something wrong whith DCC. Just my thoughts. - - E-Mail: Travis Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.methow.com/~tcole -- Get my Public Key here Date: 29-Jul-97 Time: 11:43:52 640Kb should be enough for anybody Bill Gates - - -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: noconv iQCUAwUBM949kGgYC2+RaorhAQEgtwP2Mbr3GLTnqUq7YmnTiEBLNHf1o0BF3W0H aMmXFny356YHo5ZTMrLi/bsFCGX62Z1cfZNUqKNdJVr6tE3CFBMA2xTEm8KrwmxY WlAN7FxvtEts4WEBBABLb0PMnAfG1zPk0Ht2vi1dLSp8ADGMeevjgyYZms9sdjJi o1tLLvruGg== =qhmc -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
XEmacs can't find pathes
When I invoke GNUS, it says: nnspoll() open error: The active file doesn't exist:/usr/lib/news/active. But my Debian box hat active file under /var/lib/news, not /usr/lib/news. When I invoke CVS Update Directory with the Menu Tools/VC, XEmacs says it can't find file /usr/local/bin/cvs. My Debian have installed cvs in /usr/bin. Are they bugs? Should I write a bug report? I have only a line in my .emacs: (setq gnus-select-method '(nnspool )) I am using Debian 3.1, kernel version 2.029, cvs 1.9-4, xemacs 19.14-1 and xemacs-support 19.14-1. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ICQ
I would be verry happy with that. A chat feature whould also be nice. How would you run the server side? Possibly run it off the established IRC networks? Which, by the way, are far from reliable. I think the realy cool You could conceivably just write a stripped-down IRC client that would use the standard IRC services. But from what I've heard about ICQ, everyone's given a unique identifier, while IRC has that nick problem. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
metafont/dvips problem
I installed MusixTeX from sunsite and tried to print the documentation. I get the following error, and the document does not print. (Something goes to the printer, but nothing actually gets printed.): $ dvips -A musixdoc.dvi This is dvipsk 5.58f Copyright 1986, 1994 Radical Eye Software ' TeX output 1997.07.25:0901' - |lpr dvips: Checksum mismatch in font /var/spool/texmf/pk/ljfour/public/mflogo/logo10.720pk tex.pro. [1] [1] [3] [5] [7] [9] [11] [13] [15] [17] [19] [21] [23] [25] [27] [29] [31] [33] [35] [37] [39] [41] [43] [45] [47] [49] [51] [53] [55] [57] [59] [61] [63] [65] [67] [69] [71] [73] [75] [77] [79] [81] [83] [85] [87] [89] [91] [93] [95] [97] [99] [101] [103] [105] [107] [109] [111] If I delete the pk file mentioned in the error message, the same thing continues to happen. It also happens with xdvi, which shows: $ xdvi musixdoc.dvi kpathsea: Running MakeTeXPK logo10 720 600 magstep\(1.0\) ljfour MakeTeXPK: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=magstep(1.0); scrollmode; input logo10 This is METAFONT, Version 2.718 (C version 6.1) (/usr/lib/texmf/fonts/source/public/mflogo/logo10.mf (/usr/lib/texmf/fonts/source/public/mflogo/logo.mf [77] [69] [84] [65] [70] [80] [83] [79] [78]) ) Font metrics written on logo10.tfm. Output written on logo10.720gf (9 characters, 2200 bytes). Transcript written on logo10.log. Checksum mismatch (dvi = 3369601584, pk = 4170477374) in font file /var/spool/texmf/pk/ljfour/public/mflogo/logo10.720pk Note: overstrike characters may be incorrect. Can anyone tell me what is causing this error and how to cure it? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver Make it idiot-proof, and someone will breed a better idiot. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Running Netscape Communicator
You hit the nail on the head !!! Including the complete path for netscape in the .fvwm2rc95 eliminated the error message and now decryption and encryption work normally. Thanks for your kind help. Victor -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ICQ
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 29-Jul-97 Clint Adams wrote: I would be verry happy with that. A chat feature whould also be nice. How would you run the server side? Possibly run it off the established IRC networks? Which, by the way, are far from reliable. I think the realy cool You could conceivably just write a stripped-down IRC client that would use the standard IRC services. But from what I've heard about ICQ, everyone's given a unique identifier, while IRC has that nick problem. That is why running it through a different network would be cool. But if it ever got very popular it could present some real problems to adminaster - - E-Mail: Travis Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.methow.com/~tcole -- Get my Public Key here Date: 29-Jul-97 Time: 13:04:27 640Kb should be enough for anybody Bill Gates - - -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBM95NHGgYC2+RaorhAQEFWAP+KBBYGM03BEXkPdWZfYAdg2r7SwH1ynT8 FSaM7hHJDqnVnwfXzCEOj9jCWLd4286hUUEwaWS8G5/4k6QhTgP8/dv3BKxgqTvB ceOjDY7Wm3sHirgz4xk/rFQeQlYRreNKwtzWmsMk9EutsDOY/DSA0t1BufkbWQzz 64wR8nGeSYo= =+KAO -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ICQ
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Clint Adams) writes: You could conceivably just write a stripped-down IRC client that would use the standard IRC services. But from what I've heard about ICQ, everyone's given a unique identifier, while IRC has that nick problem. [EMAIL PROTECTED] is usually reliably unique. Actually, IRC uses this too if you look at the implemented protocols (not the RFC-- it's too far out of date). [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a full user specifier guaranteed uniqe (ignoring spoofing for the moment) used by the servers. It would make sense if IRC would simply drop the unique nickname requirement; but alas, 'tis not to be. That said, you still require a centralized registration point(s); both ICQ and Powwow do this. Who's going to commit permanent resources? -- Cerebus [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint: BC AB 28 19 A6 A4 FF 5B CA 4D B4 03 3A A7 F4 5C -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Quotas Mail Spool file
On Tue, Jul 29, 1997 at 09:17:06AM -0400, Shawn Caron wrote: : This is simple question but : I have setup quotas for user home directories before, but exactly how does : one put a quota on a user's mail spool file? So quota /var as well, or /var/spool/mail, if you have a partition just for mail. On my production (ie, users on them) boxes, I quota the following: /home 10 MB /var 5 MB /tmp 2 MB -- Jason Costomiris | Finger for PGP 2.6.2 Public Key [EMAIL PROTECTED] | There is a fine line between idiocy My employers like me, but not| and genius. We aim to erase that line enough to let me speak for them. | --Unknown http://www.jasons.org/~jcostom -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: what's the better mta?
On Tue, Jul 29, 1997 at 12:03:15PM -0300, Bruno O. M. Simoes wrote: : So my question is wich is the most used, principally because I want to have : a good support, anyway. I would take some like exim that must to be good, : but a small people know it. Sendmail is definitely the most popular/best supported. 99% of all the problems associated with sendmail can be corrected by just reading a bit, and deciding on a reasonable configuration, rather than blindly accepting the defaults. -- Jason Costomiris | Finger for PGP 2.6.2 Public Key [EMAIL PROTECTED] | There is a fine line between idiocy My employers like me, but not| and genius. We aim to erase that line enough to let me speak for them. | --Unknown http://www.jasons.org/~jcostom -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: what's the better mta?
On Tue, Jul 29, 1997 at 08:52:47AM -0700, George Bonser wrote:
:
: I use smail. It is a lot easier to get configured than sendmail and there
: have been fewer security problems with it. If you have a small site, run
: it out of inetd and use your hosts.allow and hosts.deny to manage access
: if you are connected to the net full time.
The problem with smail is that you are vulnerable to being used as a
spam relay. With sendmail, qmail or exim, I can turn that off. Here's
a sample sendmail .mc file, which gets used with the m4 macros to generate
your sendmail.cf... This includes spam rejection/relay protection. This
spits out a *working* (no tweaking required) sendmail.cf, complete with
the ability to do virtual hosts and rewrite outgoing addresses. It also
replaces the Mprog mailer with smrsh, instead of bash, which takes care of
a large portion of sendmail holes.
divert(-1)
#
# /etc/spamlist: domains, one per line to deny mail from
# /etc/LocalIP: local IP addresses
#
# Happy spam thwarting.
#
divert(0)dnl
VERSIONID(`@(#)lart.mc 8.8.5 (dogbert.sjis.com) 4/24/97')
OSTYPE(linux)dnl
FEATURE(always_add_domain)dnl
FEATURE(use_cw_file)dnl
FEATURE(`virtusertable',`hash -o /etc/virtusertable')dnl
FEATURE(`genericstable',`hash -o /etc/genericstable')dnl
FEATURE(use_ct_file)dnl
FEATURE(nouucp)dnl
FEATURE(local_procmail, /usr/bin/procmail)dnl
define(`confME_TOO', True)dnl
FEATURE(`smrsh', `/usr/sbin/smrsh')dnl
MAILER(local)dnl
MAILER(smtp)dnl
MASQUERADE_AS(yoursite.goeshere.com)dnl
LOCAL_CONFIG
F{SpamList} /etc/spamlist
F{LocalIP} /etc/LocalIP
LOCAL_RULESETS
Scheck_rcpt
# first: get client addr
R$+ $: $(dequote ${client_addr} $) $| $1
R0 $| $*$@ ok no client addr: directly invoked
R$={LocalIP}$* $| $*$@ ok from here
# not local, check rcpt
R$* $| $* $: $3 $2
# remove local part, maybe repeatedly
R$*@$=w.$*$3 $1 $3
# still something left?
R$*@$+$* $#error $@ 5.7.1 $: 571 we do not relay
Scheck_compat
R$+ $| $+ $1 $| $2
R$+ $| $+ $1 $| $2
R$+ ! $+ ! $+ $| $+ [EMAIL PROTECTED] $| $4
R$* @ $* $={SpamList} $| $* $# error $: 552 SpamFilter: email from
junkmailer's domains not accepted.
--
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My employers like me, but not| and genius. We aim to erase that line
enough to let me speak for them. | --Unknown
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mke2fs problem
I just tried to partition my new hdisk (Quantum bigfoot 4.3 Gb) but I faced the following problem: - I created a 2.0 Gb primary partition with fdisk (cylinders 1 to 255) - When I created the partition with mke2fs /dev/hdb1, it failed creating the inode table with the following message: Jul 29 23:27:07 bayes syslogd 1.3-0#15: restart. Jul 29 23:28:05 bayes kernel: Oops: Jul 29 23:28:05 bayes kernel: CPU:0 Jul 29 23:28:05 bayes kernel: EIP:0010:[find_candidate+212/244] Jul 29 23:28:05 bayes kernel: EFLAGS: 00010206 Jul 29 23:28:05 bayes kernel: eax: ebx: 01172ce4 ecx: edx: 001fa54c Jul 29 23:28:05 bayes kernel: esi: edi: 01172ce4 ebp: 0400 esp: 01172cac Jul 29 23:28:05 bayes kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018 Jul 29 23:28:05 bayes kernel: Process mke2fs (pid: 186, process nr: 29, stackpage=01172000) Jul 29 23:28:05 bayes kernel: Stack: 01172ce4 0400 0001 00124855 01dc3a98 01172ce4 Jul 29 23:28:05 bayes kernel:0400 0001 0341 0001 0400 0341 0007 0400 Jul 29 23:28:05 bayes kernel:3218 035d 00124b9f 0341 00124cce 0400 0001 0400 Jul 29 23:28:05 bayes kernel: Call Trace: [refill_freelist+153/948] [getblk+47/936] [getblk+350/936] [block_write+519/1396] [free_area_init+269/432] [timer_bh+193/820] [timer_bh+248/820] Jul 29 23:28:05 bayes kernel:[do_bottom_half+59/96] [handle_bottom_half+11/32] [V2_block_getblk+87/388] [wake_up_interruptible+60/220] [n_tty_receive_buf+2799/2852] [timer_bh+193/820] [timer_bh+193/820] [timer_bh+248/820] Jul 29 23:28:05 bayes kernel:[do_bottom_half+59/96] [pty_write+365/380] [tty_default_put_char+30/40] [opost+440/456] [write_chan+247/400] [tty_write+221/304] [write_chan+0/400] [sys_write+271/328] Jul 29 23:28:05 bayes kernel:[do_bottom_half+59/96] [system_call+85/128] Jul 29 23:28:05 bayes kernel: Code: 8b 40 18 89 44 24 10 ff 0f 83 7c 24 10 00 0f 85 38 ff ff ff I'm using the following versions: kernel: 2.0.30 e2fsprogs: 1.10-4 Has someone faced the same problem ? TIA, Christophe -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: mke2fs problem
Hi, From what I hear, there's a serious problem with that version of e2fsprogs (at least fsck) which may be affecting your new file-system. Also, I believe that 2 Gigs is the limit on a Linux filesystem's size so perhaps that's causing you problems as well... J. Goldman -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: mke2fs problem
On Tue, 29 Jul 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just tried to partition my new hdisk (Quantum bigfoot 4.3 Gb) but I faced the following problem: - I created a 2.0 Gb primary partition with fdisk (cylinders 1 to 255) - When I created the partition with mke2fs /dev/hdb1, it failed creating the inode table with the following message: Jul 29 23:27:07 bayes syslogd 1.3-0#15: restart. Jul 29 23:28:05 bayes kernel: Oops: Jul 29 23:28:05 bayes kernel: CPU:0 Jul 29 23:28:05 bayes kernel: EIP:0010:[find_candidate+212/244] Jul 29 23:28:05 bayes kernel: EFLAGS: 00010206 Jul 29 23:28:05 bayes kernel: eax: ebx: 01172ce4 ecx: edx: 001fa54c Jul 29 23:28:05 bayes kernel: esi: edi: 01172ce4 ebp: 0400 esp: 01172cac Jul 29 23:28:05 bayes kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018 Jul 29 23:28:05 bayes kernel: Process mke2fs (pid: 186, process nr: 29, stackpage=01172000) Jul 29 23:28:05 bayes kernel: Stack: 01172ce4 0400 0001 00124855 01dc3a98 01172ce4 Jul 29 23:28:05 bayes kernel:0400 0001 0341 0001 0400 0341 0007 0400 Jul 29 23:28:05 bayes kernel:3218 035d 00124b9f 0341 00124cce 0400 0001 0400 Jul 29 23:28:05 bayes kernel: Call Trace: [refill_freelist+153/948] [getblk+47/936] [getblk+350/936] [block_write+519/1396] [free_area_init+269/432] [timer_bh+193/820] [timer_bh+248/820] Jul 29 23:28:05 bayes kernel:[do_bottom_half+59/96] [handle_bottom_half+11/32] [V2_block_getblk+87/388] [wake_up_interruptible+60/220] [n_tty_receive_buf+2799/2852] [timer_bh+193/820] [timer_bh+193/820] [timer_bh+248/820] Jul 29 23:28:05 bayes kernel:[do_bottom_half+59/96] [pty_write+365/380] [tty_default_put_char+30/40] [opost+440/456] [write_chan+247/400] [tty_write+221/304] [write_chan+0/400] [sys_write+271/328] Jul 29 23:28:05 bayes kernel:[do_bottom_half+59/96] [system_call+85/128] Jul 29 23:28:05 bayes kernel: Code: 8b 40 18 89 44 24 10 ff 0f 83 7c 24 10 00 0f 85 38 ff ff ff I'm using the following versions: kernel: 2.0.30 e2fsprogs: 1.10-4 ^^^ That's your problem, it's compiled against glibc, get -2 from stable and you shouldn't have a problem. since it's compiles against libc5 (glibc is buggy in a function e2fsprogs needs very badly for partitions over 2 gig) Shaya -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ICQ
On Wed, 30 Jul 1997, Adam Shand wrote: [cut] ICQ is free in that it doesn't cost any money, however it's not public license or source code available. The problem with IRC is that it simply [cut] AND I don't believe that it will remain free once it gets out of the beta testing phase...give it away free to get them hooked, then start charging... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
