Re: what is the best pop3d?

1997-08-14 Thread Curtis' test dude
Where do you find the virtual pop3d?  

Curtis

On Tue, 12 Aug 1997, Jacques Gelinas wrote:

 On Sun, 10 Aug 1997, Paul Miller wrote:
 
  What is the best pop3d?  I've heard that qpopper can corrupt mail files
  under even lightly loaded systems.
 
 I know that the standard POP-3 daemon (from BSD, used by slackware) is not
 creating any session lock. So it is possible for a user to have to pop3d
 session at once and this result in corrupt folder (in fact, often the mail
 get duplicated).
 
 The problem is that sometime, user try to get their email and for
 different reason are not patient enough and try again. So mail program
 then close the current POP session and start a new one. The original pop3d
 take some time to close the connexion when it does some cleanup on the
 incoming folder. This is enough time a new pop3d to start on the same
 folder. Given there is not lock, some corruption exist.
 
 The virtual pop3d daemon (create with the original BSD pop3d daemon from
 slackware) has a session lock to prevent this problem and may be used as a
 replacement for standard pop3d. The lock stuff may be folded back in the
 original pop3d very easily is someone needs that.
 
 
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Quick Apology and WAVE thanks,

1997-08-14 Thread Leandro Asnaghi-Nicastro
Debians,

just a quick apology for sending my question about Wave twice.  The
first I sent went through my Windows NT mail server at work.  The
server is usually 90% of the times down, and even local mail arrived
2 days late.

My second request went through my Linux provider and it got to it's
destination in no time at all.

I'd like to also take this opportunity to answer all those that
answered my questions regarding WAVE.  Thank you again!

Leandro+
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connecting a BBS to the internet

1997-08-14 Thread Matt Kazmar
In the near future, I will be taking over a DOS Telegard BBS running its own
486. My Pentium Linux box is currently serving two modems for PPP and shell
dial in. What I would like is to connect the 486 to the Pentium using a null
modem cable so that users can call or telnet to the Pentium box, log in with a
generic login, and be connected directly to the BBS across the null-modem
cable. I have looked at making the 486 itself telnetable, but the solutions
are either not ready, or expensive.

thanx.
matt


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FAT 32

1997-08-14 Thread Paul McCarthy
I want to install debian linux on a partition on a hard disk.  The hard
disk has windows 95 (actually 98) on it.  OSR2 release of 95, and 98,
allow for formatting windows partitions using FAT 32.  It is ok if the
Linux cannot read the Fat 32 partitions.


Will enabling Fat 32 for any partition make it impossible to Boot Linux
if the linux partition comes after the Fat 32 partition?  Will Linux
jump from the boot partition to the Linux partition without caring
what's in between, or will it say I don't know what these screwy
partitions are in between the boot parition and me?


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Re: /etc/init.d structure [long rant]

1997-08-14 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Wed, 13 Aug 1997, Richard G. Roberto wrote:

 On Tue, 12 Aug 1997, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
 
  There was a discussion about this recently... So I thought I'd mention this:
  This is posted on cola; looks neat to me:
  
[snip]
 The premise is that a run level is _clearly defined_ and
 managed according to a schema.  Debian just shotguns links
 in everything that looks like a run control directory under
 /etc (practically).  A real sysr4 rc script should run all
 K* scripts in a run control directory, then all S* scripts,
 starting with rc1.d, incrementally up to the defined run
 level.  This means that having stuff in rc1.d and rc2.d is
 totally redundant.  Likewise for rc2.d and rc3.d, etc.
 After the defined default run level is achieved, changing
 run levels occurs by simply running the K* scripts in the
 new run level, then the S* scripts.

So excuse me if I have got this wrong, but does that mean going from run
level 2 to run level 7 requires running all K* then S* in run level 3,
then all K* then S* in run level 4, then all K* then S* in run level 5,
... all the way up to run level 7? And going from run level 4 down to 2
does the same in reverse?

Doesn't this mean that with something that has an S* in runlevel 3,5,7 and
a K* in 2,4,6, that it will be started, stopped, started, stopped... all
the way through? What about going through a runlevel 5 which is for power
down?

What I thought would be more sensible is to know what needs to be running
at each runlevel, and when you change runlevels, do a diff on the two
runlevels, kill everything in the first but not in the second, and start
everything in the second not in the first. This allows you to transition
faster between arbitary runlevels, and avoids transitioning through
runlevels you don't want to touch on the way.

This sort of scheme can be implemented in a variety of ways, including
config files, or S* symlinks in rcn.d directorys (no need for K* anymore).
I don't want to introduce yet another way of doing it, but it just seems
to make more sense to me.

[snip]
 The issue arose when package maintainers had to classify
 their packages as to falling into one of the categories
 described.  Some client process are dependant on server
 processes, etc.  These would need to be sorted out.
 Obviously any local services required to make a machine fit
 the description multi-user network client would need to be
 started by the end of run level 2.  There were a couple of
 other gripes, but I don't remember what they were.
 
why not just have the postinst script ask the user what runlevels do you
want this package to run at? and provide sensible defaults. That frees
the package maintainer from deciding what to clasify the package as, and
allows the user to have his own customized runlevels.

[snip]
 As for x86 vendors having a pow wow over how we should
 standardize differently than real unix systems do it,
 what's the point of this?  This is precisely why industry
 leaders get annoyed with us.  Would it really be so awful
 to just adopt the standards of current commercial
 practice?  And no, SCO doesn't count.  Industry leaders
 currently means Solaris, HP(Hitachi)/UX, AIX, Irix, and 
 maybe DU.

I agree that an x86 only view of the world is stupid. hardware platforms
are becoming more meaningless all the time. However, I do belive that it
is worth thinking of free standards independantly of comercial 
standards. Sure we can adopt the commercial standards if they are good
enough and we are free to do so, but if they suck we should go ahead and
make our own. The free software community is large enough now that we can
make our own standards, and even sometimes make the comercial world follow
us.

This is becoming even more important now that the comercial guys are
making open standards in a way that ensures they have a technical edge
and is hard for the competition to implement.

ABO


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Re: /etc/init.d structure [long rant]

1997-08-14 Thread Jim Pick

 I agree that an x86 only view of the world is stupid. hardware platforms
 are becoming more meaningless all the time. However, I do belive that it
 is worth thinking of free standards independantly of comercial 
 standards. Sure we can adopt the commercial standards if they are good
 enough and we are free to do so, but if they suck we should go ahead and
 make our own. The free software community is large enough now that we can
 make our own standards, and even sometimes make the comercial world follow
 us.

I'd like to second this.  Standards are definitely worth having.  But not
when they consist of inferior technology handed down to us from
commercially-dominated organizations in which we have no representation.

The nice thing about standards is that you can pick and choose which
ones you are going to support.

(I have no opinion on the /etc/init.d stuff though)

Cheers,

 - Jim




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Re: procmail -- 'or'

1997-08-14 Thread Paul Miller
no, no, no... I have the ^X-Mailing-List command for the Debian list.  I
need it for the linux net and admin lists...since they aren't in the same
format as the debian list (the format which works with ^X-Mailing-List)

-Paul

On Tue, 12 Aug 1997, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:

 On Aug 12, Paul Miller wrote:
  The Linux-Net/Admin mailing lists aren't in the same format as the Debian
  list.. (they don't use the Resent- lines)  Anyhow, without setting up
  multiple filters, how can I have procmail look through the to:, from:, and
  cc: fields..?
 
 If I understand you correct, you want to filter debian mail via .procmailrc
 (why should you otherwise mail to deian-user :)?
 
 Look at this:
 
 :0:
 * ^X-Mailing-List: debian-user@lists.debian.org*
 debian.user
 
 Tnak you,
 Marcus
 
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Re: samba/wins

1997-08-14 Thread Paul Miller
I found out what was wrong.. it didn't like the hostname I gave it --
invalid.. so I changed it and everything works..

-Paul

On Wed, 13 Aug 1997, Michael Stone wrote:

 Quoting Paul Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
  For some reason or another samba stopped working.. it no longer creates
  the server.dat and wins.dat in the /var/lock/samba directory.  Instead it
  contains a file called SHARE_MEM_FILE and SHARE_MEM_FILE.processes.
 
 Hmm. Those are the files that control file locking. They should 
 be there. 
 
 What do you mean by 'it stopped working?' I.e., can you connect
 with smbclient, or is this only a problem with browsing. Do you
 get any error message? Have you tried running testparm to see
 if your config files are corrupted? Did you kill the smbd and
 nmbd after you changed the names? Also, I thought that the 
 shared memory stuff was introduced with the .17alphas (I'm going
 from memory, so that may not be right.) If that's the case, and
 you think you are running .16p11, you might see if you have a 
 version conflict.
  
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Re: qmail 1.01 package

1997-08-14 Thread Paul Miller
I just installed the package and it works even worst then the one I
compiled.  If I send a message to another local user, it doesn't make
it... in fact, it doesn't even get into the alias/Mailbox file.

-Paul

On 13 Aug 1997, Larry Riedel wrote:

 
  Is there a qmail 1.01 package?  I couldn't find one in any of the
  contrib/non-free/stable/unsable directories.
 
 I found one in project/experimental and it works great.
 
 
 Larry
 
(sorry if this has already been answered - I read this list
 through a mail-news gateway with a high latency)
 
 
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Re: qmail 1.01 package

1997-08-14 Thread Jeff Noxon
Paul Miller wrote:
 I just installed the package and it works even worst then the one I
 compiled.  If I send a message to another local user, it doesn't make
 it... in fact, it doesn't even get into the alias/Mailbox file.

It works just fine on two of my machines.  Something must be botched in
your configuration...  The binaries are OK.

Jeff


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Status on Pentium Optimized gcc?

1997-08-14 Thread Shaleh
What is the status of pgcc?  Is it usable yet?  Any success or failure
stories??


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Re: restarting daemons

1997-08-14 Thread Gonzalo A. Diethelm
On Aug 12, 1997, at 23:33, George Bonser wrote:
  A quick and dirty that I sometimes use:
  
  killall -HUP inetd
  
  Which stops and restarts inetd causing it to re-read the inetd.conf file.

Just to make things clear, kill doesn't stop anything; it's purpose in
life is to send a given signal to a given process. When you do a

  killall -HUP inetd

you are sending a SIGHUP signal to all processes whose name matches
inetd. The inetd we all know, inetd(8), reacts to a SIGHUP by
rereading its configuration file, /etc/inetd.conf.

The name for the kill system call is a misnomer from old
times. Also, if no signal is specified, kill sends a SIGTERM signal to
the process(es), whose default action is to (surprise) terminate the
process; that explains (in part) the name kill.

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Laptop for Linux Debian

1997-08-14 Thread David M
Hello guys!

If one were to buy a laptop these days what would be a good brand that is 
widely supported by Linux (Debian)?

Thank you.

Dave


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Re: what is the best pop3d?

1997-08-14 Thread Jacques Gelinas
On Wed, 13 Aug 1997, Curtis' test dude wrote:

 Where do you find the virtual pop3d?  

vpop3d is part of the linuxconf distribution (see my signature). While
vpop3d maybe used as a replacement for normal pop3d, using its virtual
ability require some other utilities, including vdeliver and to make it
simple, linuxconf to let you manage all this easily.


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Re: ncurses problem?

1997-08-14 Thread Andrew Howell
Erik Andersen writes:
 I have found that with the newest rxvt (released within the last week I
 believe) it also messes up mutt, sets TERM to rxvt (which seems to break
 a few things that don't know about TERM=rxvt, and also messes up the
 screen for the kernel's menuconfig.  Oh, and backspace no longer does
 a ^H for some reason.
  

I had no problems with rxvt until I installed the new ncurses-base package.
This obviously has a different rxvt
terminfo file cause it doesn't display properly. Ncftp is a good test
TERM=rxvt and it's all messed up. TERM=vt100 it's fine.

Install the old ncurses-base package and it's fine
with TERM=rxvt.

excuse my horribly formated email, typing over a very slow
link.

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Re: ncurses problem?

1997-08-14 Thread Andrew Howell
Erik Andersen writes:
 I have found that with the newest rxvt (released within the last week I
 believe) it also messes up mutt, sets TERM to rxvt (which seems to break
 a few things that don't know about TERM=rxvt, and also messes up the
 screen for the kernel's menuconfig.  Oh, and backspace no longer does
 a ^H for some reason.
  

I had no problems with rxvt until I installed the new ncurses-base package.
This obviously has a different rxvt
terminfo file cause it doesn't display properly. Ncftp is a good test
TERM=rxvt and it's all messed up. TERM=vt100 it's fine.

Install the old ncurses-base package and it's fine
with TERM=rxvt.

excuse my horribly formated email, typing over a very slow
link.

Andrew



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chat problem

1997-08-14 Thread Britton

I had ppp and chat working under my last distribution (slackware) but I
have a hitch going here that I can't seem to resolve.  I am thinking it
might have something to with the script arrangement Debian uses, which is
a little different.  Here is my /etc/ppp.chatscript:

ABORTBUSY
ABORTNO CARRIER
ABORTVOICE
ABORTNO DIALTONE
   ATDT4740771
CONNECT  ''
sername  fsblk
word 'fsblk!'
UAF-DU-02c ppp

When I watch the progress of the script (with minicom) it hangs after
CONNECT.  I have tried responding with '\n' and '\r'.  The script did not
come with the CONNECT line but it didn't work then either.  Any
suggestions would be greatly appreciated.



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Re: qmail 1.01 package

1997-08-14 Thread David M
Hello guys!

  Is there a qmail 1.01 package?  I couldn't find one in any of the
  contrib/non-free/stable/unsable directories.
 
 I found one in project/experimental and it works great.

I'd love to try qmail!  I have a large mailing list running and the 
ability to send many (200,000+) messages a day sure interests me!  I am 
currently evaluating LSMTP and I must say it works really well, but it 
also costs a fair bit!

How does qmail compare?  I am sure it is quite fast too... :)

Please let me know the URL where I can download debian qmail package.  I 
did not find experimental in the normal FTP servers I access to.

Thank you in advance!

Dave


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Re: qmail 1.01 package

1997-08-14 Thread Larry Riedel

Paul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Larry Riedel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   Is there a qmail 1.01 package?  I couldn't find one in any of the
   contrib/non-free/stable/unsable directories.
  
  I found one in project/experimental and it works great.
 
 I just installed the package and it works even worst then the one I
 compiled.  If I send a message to another local user, it doesn't make
 it... in fact, it doesn't even get into the alias/Mailbox file.

When comparing qmail from the .deb file to what I had using the
standard .tar.gz distribution, I found it worked as advertised
in both cases.

I don't know if the installation script asks the right questions
to set up a working system.  I think qmail provides a lot of power
for relatively little complexity, but there is some complexity.  I
configured it per the documentation after installing it, so maybe
it does not work intuitively right out of the .deb file.


Larry


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Re: Problem with exim and fetchmail.

1997-08-14 Thread Rob Browning
Victor Torrico [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 In the interim, using fetchmail and exim, I still can only get my
 incoming mail to go into the /var/spool/exim/input directory.  How do I
 get the mail in this directory out to use it in exmh?  What steps must I
 follow?  I'm brain frazzled as of the moment.

Hmm, I have no idea why it's putting your mail there.  AFAIK it
shouldn't be.  All your mail should be going into
/var/spool/mail/username.

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Re: Laptop for Linux Debian

1997-08-14 Thread Rob Browning
David M [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 If one were to buy a laptop these days what would be a good brand that is 
 widely supported by Linux (Debian)?

We have had good luck here with Dells and Compaqs.  They both took
some tinkering (especially with the X setups), and we had to buy
AcceleratedX for one of the Dells.

Best place for you to poke around would be the Linux on Laptops home
page.  Unfortunately I don't have the pointer handy, but Altavista
should be able to find it for you pretty quick.

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Hey! ;) How come qmail is already in my passwd and group files???

1997-08-14 Thread David M
Hello guys,

I am about to install qmail when, voila!  Qmail has already the user ids 
and groups created in /etc/passwd and /etc/group???

I never installed qmail before and it is not a package in dselect... so I 
assume smartlist or some other package added this in for me???

Also the sh in my current /etc/passwd file is /bin/sh whereas qmails 
advice is /bin/true. 

What am I suppose to do?  Change it back so that it matches what qmail 
requires or leave it?  And if I leave it how will it affect the other 
package that installed this in the first place?

I think the .deb package for qmail might make things alot easier :)  Any 
tips where I can find the experimental directory???

Thank you.

Dave


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Re: /etc/init.d structure [long rant]

1997-08-14 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi,
Donovan == Donovan Baarda [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Donovan So excuse me if I have got this wrong, but does that mean
Donovan going from run level 2 to run level 7 requires running all K*
Donovan then S* in run level 3, then all K* then S* in run level 4,
Donovan then all K* then S* in run level 5, ... all the way up to run
Donovan level 7? And going from run level 4 down to 2 does the same
Donovan in reverse?

Donovan Doesn't this mean that with something that has an S* in
Donovan runlevel 3,5,7 and a K* in 2,4,6, that it will be started,
Donovan stopped, started, stopped... all the way through? What about
Donovan going through a runlevel 5 which is for power down?

You are hereby excused. *Nothing* has an S* in more than one
 level. A package is meant to be at a certain run level and higher. A
 level 3 package is started at run level 3, killed in run level 2, and
 at *no* other level. See how this works?

Donovan why not just have the postinst script ask the user what
Donovan runlevels do you want this package to run at? and provide
Donovan sensible defaults. That frees the package maintainer from
Donovan deciding what to clasify the package as, and allows the user
Donovan to have his own customized runlevels.

I think that punting this decision on to the user is bad
 design. Firstly, installing a large number of packages may well
 overwhelm a novice, secondly, there are ordering requirements between
 packages (potentialy) that the user may not be aware of, and thirdly,
 debugging and customer support are going to be a nightmare, with
 every system different from every other system.

There _is_ a way of doing this style of rc right (though it
 would generate *lots* of debate on debian-devel [yummy]), and I think
 the devopers *can* get to a consensus on what belongs at each run
 level -- (we did get to agree on the required, important, optional
 and extra categories, didn't we?)

manoj
 who would be interested in hearing more about how other unices got
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Re: Netscape Replacement?

1997-08-14 Thread Christian Leutloff
Victor Torrico [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 super!! XCmail progam (not a debian package).

why don't YOU package it for Debian!? ;-)
 
 The web browser's the rub.  I need to check my usage time periodically from
 my ISP using a browser.  Unfortunately arena and chimera2 both choke on the
 usage information page (core dumps).  Netscape did this OK.

what about amaya!? Get the thot package to. Both are in non-free.

Bye
  Christian

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Qmail ./qmail-config does not work! hard error???

1997-08-14 Thread David M
Hello guys,

more surprises! ;)  Everything compiled ok but when I got to step 7 there 
is a hard error message when the ./qmail-config script tries to run 
./dnsfq hostname.  It reports hard error!

Have any of you qmail installed on Debian?  Did you encounter this 
problem?  If so how to go about fixing it?

I am also somewaht confused on the impact of installing a non-package 
program into the filesystem doing things manually...?

Thanks.

David


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Re: samba host name

1997-08-14 Thread Fyodor Yarochkin
 That doesn't seem to make any difference.. ?
oops,  either i didn't understand your question, or..
 well, netbios name allows you to set any netbios name, you wish (the 
name, which appears in Net Envioument on Windoze.. if you meant something 
else?)


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Re: Laptop for Linux Debian

1997-08-14 Thread Markus Diesmann
Hi,

Be aware that ftp installation on a laptop is still a problem
with Debian.

We have Debian installed on three laptops, named and  nonamed
ones. Its working fine.

However, if you do not have a Debian CD, you will have trouble.

The installation disks do not allow you to directly enable 
PCMCIA support. So you have to install additional network 
and pcmcia packages with the help of another ftp-able
machine. To our experience the pcmcia packages is not 
consistend with the rest of the debian distributuion, so
you have to compile it by yourself, meaning you have to install
some source packages by yourself.
Again, it works but you have to work a lot.
We do not understand why the PCMCIA packages is inconsistent
with the rest of the distribution. Maybe the maintainers just
don't have this configuration: laptop with PCMCIA ethernet cards.
We do not want to blame anybody, the whole thing escpecially the
PCMCIA package by David Hinds is great work!
Just to make clear what the current situation is.

Markus Diesmann
Neurobiology and Biophysics
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Apache/Perl segfaults

1997-08-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
I'm having great trouble getting the new version of Apache to work
(version 1.2.1-4)

Apache fails to start. 

There are two problems:

1. When I run /etc/init.d/apache start, I got complaints from Perl that it
  couldn't find Apache::Constants (from /usr/lib/perl5/apache.pm, line 4).
  I got over this by adding 'export PERL5OPT=-I/usr/lib/perl5/Apache' to 
  /etc/init.d/apache.

2. Apache still does not start.  When I run 'apache -X', it reports a
   segmentation fault and core dump.  This is the backtrace:

#0  0x8090fb1 in perl_parse ()
#1  0x808ee82 in perl_startup ()
#2  0x8065b03 in init_modules ()
#3  0x8061c35 in standalone_main ()
#4  0x80621b4 in main ()

Can anyone offer any suggestions, please?

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Re: samba host name

1997-08-14 Thread Paul Miller
no.. its working now..  I changed some other things at the same time which
screwed up samba.. everything works now.  Thanks

-Paul

On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, Fyodor Yarochkin wrote:

  That doesn't seem to make any difference.. ?
 oops,  either i didn't understand your question, or..
  well, netbios name allows you to set any netbios name, you wish (the 
 name, which appears in Net Envioument on Windoze.. if you meant something 
 else?)
 


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Re: qmail 1.01 package

1997-08-14 Thread Paul Miller
Qmail web page: www.qmail.org
Debian package (FTP):
sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/distributions/debian/project/experimental/qmail*

according to the Qmail web page.. Qmail seems to have just about
everything.  Its both faster and more secure than sendmail also.  Plus it
is much easier to configure.  In addition to that, it supports a new
format of mailboxes that don't currupt.  Check out their page!

-Paul


On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, David M wrote:

 Hello guys!
 
   Is there a qmail 1.01 package?  I couldn't find one in any of the
   contrib/non-free/stable/unsable directories.
  
  I found one in project/experimental and it works great.
 
 I'd love to try qmail!  I have a large mailing list running and the 
 ability to send many (200,000+) messages a day sure interests me!  I am 
 currently evaluating LSMTP and I must say it works really well, but it 
 also costs a fair bit!
 
 How does qmail compare?  I am sure it is quite fast too... :)
 
 Please let me know the URL where I can download debian qmail package.  I 
 did not find experimental in the normal FTP servers I access to.
 
 Thank you in advance!
 
 Dave
 
 
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Re: Laptop for Linux Debian

1997-08-14 Thread Mike
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Markus Diesmann wrote:
However, if you do not have a Debian CD, you will have trouble.
The installation disks do not allow you to directly enable 
PCMCIA support.

Or you could try RedHat, installing over PCMCIA or PLIP is a piece of
cake. It even installs over the net from a CD mounted on an NT/Win95
server (which is unable to read the file names on the CD!).

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Re: Hey! ;) How come qmail is already in my passwd and group files???

1997-08-14 Thread Paul Miller
I can only answer your last question.. the experimental directory is in
the projects directory.. I know its on sunsite.unc.edu if you can't find
it elsewhere.

-Paul

On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, David M wrote:

 I think the .deb package for qmail might make things alot easier :)  Any 
 tips where I can find the experimental directory???
 
 Thank you.
 
 Dave
 
 
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Re: /etc/init.d structure [long rant]

1997-08-14 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
[...]
Manoj Srivastava  wrote:
   
   You are hereby excused. *Nothing* has an S* in more than one
  level. A package is meant to be at a certain run level and higher. A
  level 3 package is started at run level 3, killed in run level 2, and
  at *no* other level. See how this works?

There is one thing that I dont see yet.  There might be a necessity to
introduce parallel routes, e.g. you would want to have a runlevel that
starts xdm, and one that starts networking deamons for machines that
actually are on a network.  But there is no intrinsic order between
these things.  My machine at home is not connected to any network, which
means that certain daemons are not necessary, even if I do want to run
X.  Other people may want to connect to the network without having to
go through a runlevel that starts xdm.  Now how is this tackled?

Eric Meijer

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open news-server for linux.debian.* list in Germany

1997-08-14 Thread Christoph Martin

Hi, does someone know of a news-server in Germany where one can read
the linux.debian.* news hierarchy. Read access is enough, since anyway
you have to post through the mailinglist.

C. Martin

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Re: Debugging pine sessions

1997-08-14 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
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On Tue, 12 Aug 1997, David Wright wrote:

  Anyway, since the current Debian pine release (3.96L-3) is source-only and
  you have to compile it by yourself, you can do whatever changes before
  compiling.
 
 I thought Debian existed partly to avoid all that. That's why most people
 are using the binary distributions. [ ... ]

Perhaps I didn't explain well: pine is now source-only because the license
does not allow us to put a .deb package (which is a modified binary) in
a FTP server.

Yes, Linux distributions exist to avoid all that, but in this case,
there is nothing we can do (unless we violate the license, of course).

Sorry.

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faxing from Win 95

1997-08-14 Thread Alex Monaghan
Sorry if this has been asked before.

I want to be able to fax from my Windows 95 desktop, ideally via the 
default exchange client, but via a print driver would be OK.

I currently have my modem on my Linux server running regular mail  news 
transfer and would also like to be able to use a fax service without 
having to move the modem connection.

Is there such a tool ? If so where ?

Note: This is my personal system, not my work system.

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XF86Setup uses good graphic mode but...

1997-08-14 Thread Eugene Sevinian
Hi all,

Recently a friend of mine bought a PC with video card (IGS1682; 
InteGraphics System ). Though XF86Setup itself is able to recognize this
card (i.e. switch into 640x480 or higher(?) ) but I had not proper
choice in card selection menu. Therefore during startx session I have no
normal graphic resolution (only 320/200 or smth like that) with generic
VGA :(.

Is there any way in such a situation?

Thanks, 

Eugene Sevinian


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Re: adduser and NIS

1997-08-14 Thread Swen Thuemmler
On Wed, 13 Aug 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:

 It's unlikely this will be fixed. I've noticed that something has to
 be a pretty serious bug to be put in 1.3 now. I think (hope) that
 libc6 uses the more modern /etc/nsswitch.conf rather than putting
 weird entries into /etc/passwd, group, etc. to dictate the use of
 NIS, DNS, etc.
 
 Looking forward to Hamm and libc6,

You still might want to have these weird entries in /etc/passwd for
supporting netgroups, for example. The [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], 
-user,
+user entries in /etc/passwd ar IMHO much more flexible than to have only
the choice between all or nothing. And you can have this (I assume)  with
libc6, too, just use
passwd: compat
group: compat
in /etc/nsswitch.conf.  At least this does work with the NYS-enable libc.

Greetings, Swen



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Re: Status on Pentium Optimized gcc?

1997-08-14 Thread Shaya Potter
On Wed, 13 Aug 1997, Shaleh wrote:

 What is the status of pgcc?  Is it usable yet?  Any success or failure
 stories??

I've been using it on one machine, w/o any real problems. However, I
haven't released it really publicly yet, so I doubt many people are using
it. :)  I'll release it today or tomorrow into unstable.  However, it's
only for libc6, I could make a libc5 one too, but I don't have the time
right now for it.  Also, I'm going to orphan it soon, so if anyone wants
to claim it, they can have it in a week or 2.


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Re: faxing from Win 95

1997-08-14 Thread Adam Shand
 I want to be able to fax from my Windows 95 desktop, ideally via the 
 default exchange client, but via a print driver would be OK.

Yes it would be nice.  It's been on my list of things to do for a while :)
 
 I currently have my modem on my Linux server running regular mail  news 
 transfer and would also like to be able to use a fax service without 
 having to move the modem connection.

From what little I've seen and read you should be able to do it with
Samba. I believe theres a file in the document directory (somewhere)
called something like win-fax which details the basics of this.

Adam.


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Re: Laptop for Linux Debian

1997-08-14 Thread Dale Martin
David M [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Hello guys!
 
 If one were to buy a laptop these days what would be a good brand that is 
 widely supported by Linux (Debian)?
 
 Thank you.
 
 Dave

I've installed Debian on both a Toshiba Satellite 220CDS, and a
Toshiba Tecra 740CDT.  The 740CDT has an LCD that will do 1024x768
with XFree86, BTW - it's gorgeous.  The 220 CDS will to 800x600, but
since it's dual scan, it's not NEARLY as pretty.

As someone else mentioned, I had to install off of CD in order to get
PCMCIA support, to get network support.  But the CD only cost $10, or
whatever, so it's not too big of a deal in my mind.

Later,
Dale
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Re: Sendmail dsc file?

1997-08-14 Thread Johnie Ingram

Nathan == Nathan E Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Nathan  Hmm ... I tried a 'dpkg-source -x sendmail*dsc' and got this
Nathan message: dpkg-source: error: tarfile
Nathan `./sendmail_8.8.7.orig.tar.gz' contains object
Nathan (sendmail-8.8.7/FAQ) not in expected directory
Nathan (sendmail-8.8.7.orig)

As others have doubtless said by now, you need to use the dpkg package
from hamm to unpack it.  Debian is switching to pristine sources for
the next major release -- the original tarball from the author no
longer has to be repacked as sendmail-8.8.7.orig just to suit the
whims of older dpkgs.

Instead only the filename was changed.

This means, not coincidentially, that the source code on the Debian
site now matches the PGP signature published by the author.


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Re: faxing from Win 95

1997-08-14 Thread Joost Kooij


On Fri, 15 Aug 1997, Adam Shand wrote:

  I want to be able to fax from my Windows 95 desktop, ideally via the 
  default exchange client, but via a print driver would be OK.
 
 From what little I've seen and read you should be able to do it with
 Samba. I believe theres a file in the document directory (somewhere)
 called something like win-fax which details the basics of this.

There is a freeware or shareware thingy made by a german company that
provides a win95 client program ala Microsoft's fax send dialog that is
intended to work with a linux samba server. I have downloaded it a while
ago, but haven't had the time to actually install and try it, but I sure
plan to do so.

I can't remember the exact name and url, but if you do a search on
altavista for 
+linux +samba +fax windows95 faxdriver 
you'll probably find it easily. 


Joost


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Re: ncurses problem?

1997-08-14 Thread Oleg Krivosheev

Hi,

On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, Andrew Howell wrote:

 Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 12:00:50 +0759 (WST)
 From: Andrew Howell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: Erik Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Cc: Debian Users debian-user@lists.debian.org
 Subject: Re: ncurses problem?
 Resent-Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 04:15:04 +
 Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
 Resent-cc: recipient list not shown: ;
 
 Erik Andersen writes:
  I have found that with the newest rxvt (released within the last week I
  believe) it also messes up mutt, sets TERM to rxvt (which seems to break
  a few things that don't know about TERM=rxvt, and also messes up the
  screen for the kernel's menuconfig.  Oh, and backspace no longer does
  a ^H for some reason.
   
 
 I had no problems with rxvt until I installed the new ncurses-base package.
 This obviously has a different rxvt
 terminfo file cause it doesn't display properly. Ncftp is a good test
 TERM=rxvt and it's all messed up. TERM=vt100 it's fine.
 
 Install the old ncurses-base package and it's fine
 with TERM=rxvt.
 
 excuse my horribly formated email, typing over a very slow
 link.

well, i've put in my .bash* files

if [$TERM == 'rxvt']; then
  TERM=xterm;
fi

it cures all the problems for me.

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Re: ppp configuring with dunc

1997-08-14 Thread Richard G. Roberto
All of that output looks normal.  Without more information,
I'd say either hte system you're connecting to isn't
correctly configured for proxy arp, or you're not using the
peer as the default gateway, which you should.  This used to
be in the default /etc/ppp/options file, but I just noticed
that its not in the latest one.  

You can grep for default in you *.ctn file(s) under
~/.dunc and see if defaultroute is getting set.  If not, you
can filre up dunc and go to Modify (then select next,
OK, bla bla, select your connection) and go to Details.
This should give you a bunch of settings to choose from.
Choose defaultroute by arrowing down to it and pressing
space bar.  You may also want to arrow down to proxyarp
and mark that as well, although that's only supposed to be
for the server or peer side.  It won't hurt anything to
have it on though.

If that doesn't change anything, check with the system
administrator of the peer and see if there's a problem on
the proxy arp server.  By the way, I get the message about
Cannot determine ethernet address for proxy ARP also, it
doesn't affect my system though.

Outside of this, I'm afraid I'm out of ideas.

Good luck.

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Re: /etc/init.d structure [long rant]

1997-08-14 Thread Richard G. Roberto
On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, Donovan Baarda wrote:
 So excuse me if I have got this wrong, but does that mean going from run
 level 2 to run level 7 requires running all K* then S* in run level 3,
 then all K* then S* in run level 4, then all K* then S* in run level 5,
 . all the way up to run level 7? And going from run level 4 down to 2
 does the same in reverse?

No.  The incremental behavior is only up to the default run
level.  If there is none defined, you get prompted at
startup for a run level and I'm not sure if the system
should use the incremental method or jump right to it at
that point.

 
 Doesn't this mean that with something that has an S* in runlevel 3,5,7 and
 a K* in 2,4,6, that it will be started, stopped, started, stopped... all
 the way through? What about going through a runlevel 5 which is for power
 down?

You only have K* scripts if you need to shut a process or
server down for proper operation in the new run level (or
make sure something's not running).  You only have S*
scripts for the stuff you need started _for that run level_.

Run level 5 isn't implemented as power down yet, but it
should be.  Obviously if you do an init 5, you should expect
to go down.  If you set your default run level to 7, you're
in for a very short session ;)  The 7, 8,  9 run levels are
unique to linux AFAIK.  They shouldn't be used as defaults
for the reason's you point out.

 
 What I thought would be more sensible is to know what needs to be running
 at each runlevel, and when you change runlevels, do a diff on the two
 runlevels, kill everything in the first but not in the second, and start
 everything in the second not in the first. This allows you to transition
 faster between arbitary runlevels, and avoids transitioning through
 runlevels you don't want to touch on the way.

Again, changing run levels after the default has been
reached just runs the K* then S* scripts for that run level.
We do that part right already.  We just don't define the run
levels correctly.  Until we do, its pointless to consider a
functional rc script since the run levels will be identicle.

 
 This sort of scheme can be implemented in a variety of ways, including
 config files, or S* symlinks in rcn.d directorys (no need for K* anymore).
 I don't want to introduce yet another way of doing it, but it just seems
 to make more sense to me.

Well, if I run something in run level 3 that conflicts with
something in run level 4, I need to stop the service in
conflict before the run level 4 process tries to start.
That's why I can define K* scripts.  This works like the
diff you mentioned.

 
 [snip]
  The issue arose when package maintainers had to classify
  their packages as to falling into one of the categories
  described.  Some client process are dependant on server
  processes, etc.  These would need to be sorted out.
  Obviously any local services required to make a machine fit
  the description multi-user network client would need to be
  started by the end of run level 2.  There were a couple of
  other gripes, but I don't remember what they were.
  
 why not just have the postinst script ask the user what runlevels do you
 want this package to run at? and provide sensible defaults. That frees
 the package maintainer from deciding what to clasify the package as, and
 allows the user to have his own customized runlevels.

Flexibility is always good, and I support having a mechanism
to allow users to customize this easily (admintool? package
configuration tool?), but there should be functional
defaults shipped with the system (for everything IMHO) so
that users don't _have_ to muck around with that if they
don't want to.

 
 [snip]
  As for x86 vendors having a pow wow over how we should
  standardize differently than real unix systems do it,
  what's the point of this?  This is precisely why industry
  leaders get annoyed with us.  Would it really be so awful
  to just adopt the standards of current commercial
  practice?  And no, SCO doesn't count.  Industry leaders
  currently means Solaris, HP(Hitachi)/UX, AIX, Irix, and 
  maybe DU.
 
 I agree that an x86 only view of the world is stupid. hardware platforms
 are becoming more meaningless all the time. However, I do belive that it
 is worth thinking of free standards independantly of comercial 
 standards. Sure we can adopt the commercial standards if they are good
 enough and we are free to do so, but if they suck we should go ahead and
 make our own. The free software community is large enough now that we can
 make our own standards, and even sometimes make the comercial world follow
 us.
 
 This is becoming even more important now that the comercial guys are
 making open standards in a way that ensures they have a technical edge
 and is hard for the competition to implement.

This argument is only viable about 4% of the time its used.
The rest of the time its just another artificial obstacle to
progress.  I can remember working for a DEC var a few years
ago when 

Re: Debugging pine sessions

1997-08-14 Thread Anthony Fok
On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, Santiago Vila Doncel wrote:

  I could see your point about -DDEBUG not being appropriate for a
  production program if the resultant output was only useful for debugging
  Pine. However, the principal use of this information is for debugging
  pine /sessions/ (and the default debug level can be set accordingly).
 
 Again, there must be very few people interested on this.

I disagree.  The debug feature is a standard Pine behaviour.  I was very
surprised disappointed when I discovered that I couldn't use the debug
option at all (I was having some problem with Pine and the SMTP server
(exim), and I would like to check the .pine-debug? files to see what was
going on.)

Therefore, I think the -DDEBUG flag should be turned on by default.  If
some user is annoyed with the .pine-debug? files, they can always use the
-d 0 option.  At least, let the user make the decision instead of
eliminating the -d option entirely.

Anthony

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Re: finger return No one logged on. and I am logged...... (fwd)

1997-08-14 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
Anybody can report my same problem?

Andrea Arcangeli

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Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 16:22:17 +0200 (CEST)
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Subject: Re: finger return No one logged on. and I am logged..

On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

On Wed, 13 Aug 1997, David Fries wrote:

Are you logged in at console or with an rxvt in X?  I don't have a
problem with logging in the console, but it doesn't show up if I'm in
a rxvt.

I logged in the console, but w works also if I am logged in xterm:

arca:~$ w
 12:03pm  up 5 min,  4 users,  load average: 0.04, 0.07, 0.02
USER  TTYLOGIN@  IDLE   JCPU   PCPU  WHAT
andrea   ttyp0  11:59am   0:22   0:00   0:00 -bash
andrea   ttyp1  12:00pm   2:09   0:00   0:00 -bash
andrea   ttyp2  12:01pm   0:04   0:00   0:00 pine
andrea   ttyp3  12:02pm   0:00   0:00   0:00 w
arca:~$ last |head -5
andrea   ttyp3:0.0 Thu Aug 14 12:02   still logged in
andrea   ttyp2:0.0 Thu Aug 14 12:01   still logged in
andrea   ttyp1:0.0 Thu Aug 14 12:00   still logged in
andrea   ttyp0:0.0 Thu Aug 14 11:59   still logged in
reboot   system boot   Thu Aug 14 11:58  
arca:~$ finger
No one logged on.

I want to know if is a finger problem or is caused by something other.


I am sure the problem is caused by login.

arca:~# /var/run/utmp
arca:~# last -f /var/run/utmp

utmp begins Thu Aug 14 16:16:46 1997
arca:~# login

arca login: root
Password:
Linux arca 2.1.49 #2 Tue Aug 12 21:29:09 CEST 1997 i586 unknown
Last login: Thu Aug 14 16:03:58 on tty1.
No mail.
arca:~# last -f /var/run/utmp
~***|*** * **`q   * **ISun Apr  7 10:47   still logged in
*r   *Y**8*   `q   Thu Jan  1 01:08   still logged in
*-   *r   `q   Sat Jan 10 22:43   still logged in
***3 4*@   Thu Jan  1 01:00 - 19:12  (18:12)

utmp begins Thu Jan  1 01:00:00 1970
arca:~#

Can be a libc problem? xterm login shell return the same problem of login
from console.

arca:~# ldd /bin/login
libc.so.5 = /lib/libc.so.5 (0x4000b000)
arca:~# ldd /usr/bin/X11/xterm
libXaw.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw3d/libXaw.so.6 (0x4000b000)
libXmu.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6 (0x4005e000)
libXt.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x4007)
libSM.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x400b2000)
libICE.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x400bb000)
libXext.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x400d)
libX11.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x400db000)
libncurses.so.3.0 = /lib/libncurses.so.3.0 (0x40179000)
libc.so.5 = /lib/libc.so.5 (0x401b6000)

arca:~$ dpkg -l libc5
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
uppercase=bad)
||/ NameVersionDescription
+++-===-==-
ii  libc5   5.4.33-5   The Linux C library version 5 (run-time
libr

Any suggestions?

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Re: Laptop for Linux Debian

1997-08-14 Thread Michael Laing
I use a Sharp 9030 with 1024x768 active matrix screen. No problems
running debian and the XFree86 folks helped me get X working - support
for the chip set (S3 Aurora) is now included in the standard XFree86
distribution.

If I were you and money were an issue I would look for a
used/refurbished/overstocked 1024x768 notebook such as my Sharp or an
NEC 6030X. Should be able to find one for about $2000 at places such as
onsale.com.

I use mine as my primary machine now; useful since I have several
offices and travel between them.

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Re: X11 Display permitions

1997-08-14 Thread Stoyan Kenderov
Hi, 

excuse me if my suggestion underestimates your X11 knowledge, but
what is the contents of the environment variable $DISPLAY  when you are 
logged in as root and as a normal user?

Could it be, that this variable has no value when logged in as an user, so
that your X11-applications fail to connect to the X11-server on your host?

If my suspicions apply please set the DISPLAY variable to :0.0 and try
again to run the application...

Alternatively, you are using Xauthority type of connection authorisation for
your server, and in your user's home-directory is a (old) wrong key-file
.Xauthority ...


hope this hepls,

regards,
   Stoyan

On Tue, Aug 05, 1997 at 02:11:11PM +0800, Luka Pravica wrote:
 Hi,
 
 when I'm not logged in as root, I can start X but many programs I try to run
 give the following error: cannot open display.
 
 I can run the same programs as root, without any problems. 
 
 Probably I have to change permitions for opening Xdisplay, but I couldn't
 find how.
 
 Thanks in advance,
 
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Re: /etc/init.d structure [long rant]

1997-08-14 Thread jghasler
Manoj Srivastava writes:
 *Nothing* has an S* in more than one level. A package is meant to be at a
 certain run level and higher. A level 3 package is started at run level
 3, killed in run level 2, and at *no* other level. See how this works?

Simple and elegant, but not very flexible.  How about a state machine
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Re: chat problem

1997-08-14 Thread jghasler
Britton writes:
 When I watch the progress of the script (with minicom) it hangs after
 CONNECT.  I have tried responding with '\n' and '\r'.  The script did not
 come with the CONNECT line but it didn't work then either.  Any
 suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Can you log in by hand via minicom?  If so, try responding with '\d'.  Your
system may be just a hair too fast for them.
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sylogd error logging for rlogind

1997-08-14 Thread Peter S Galbraith

If I try to rlogin into Debian, and the originating machine's IP
and hostname cannot be validated to be the same, then rlogin fails.

That's a feature, not a problem.

In this case, the two machines requesting an rlogin connection are not
listed in our DNS, nor do they appear in my /etc/hosts.
Trying to rlogin from the misconfigured Sun, I get the error:

 shcsun8 32 % rlogin mixing
 Protocol error, mixing.qc.dfo.ca closed connection

From Slackware 3.0, I get the error:

 $ rlogin mixing
 mixing.qc.dfo.ca: No such file or directory

(Now that one is  weird!)

On the Debian PC hosting the connection, I only get entries like:

daemon.log: Aug 14 08:10:42 mixing in.rlogind[9636]: connect from 142.130.48.22

No errors are logged.  Shouldn't they be?
The problems go away if I put entries for them in /etc/hosts, but it's
difficult to clue in on the problem since nothing is logged.

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networking X-windows

1997-08-14 Thread Syd Alsobrook
Ok, so I have looked everywhere for this answer but can not find it.

I have my linux machine running X very well now I want to connect my winnt
box to my linux box with X windows but can't figure out how. I have a
X-server on my nt box but I don't know how to make the connection. can
anyone help?

thanks

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Re: Blocking spam by IP number

1997-08-14 Thread David Sewell
On Mon, Aug 11, 1997 at 11:49:00PM -0800, Bruce Perens wrote:
 My final version will not simply deny the connections, but will output
 an SMTP error to them which will cause an immediate mail bounce at their
 end.

I've been using the tcpd banners option, with lines in /etc/hosts.deny
that basically look like this:

  in.smtpd exim: \
 [list of bad hosts/networks]: banners /usr/local/lib/tcpd

Then in /usr/local/lib/tcpd I have a file named exim (add links
as needed creating synonyms for in.smtpd and other sendmail-equivalent
services) that contains these two lines:

550-5.7.1 SMTP connection refused from %h 
550 5.7.1 Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] from another host for reason

The tcpd banners function means that the connection is not simply
refused, but instead, the text contained in the file corresponding to
the name of the service is transmitted to the client. (The given SMTP
error codes are, I believe, the most up-to-date way of indicating
administrative prohibition for security reasons; see RFCs 2034, 1893,
and 821.)

As for lists of known e-mail spam domains, I know of one site containing
regularly-updated lists at ftp://ftp.cybernothing.org/pub/abuse/.
(It is maintained by J.D. Falk, whois is with CAUCE, the Coalition
Against Unsolicited Email.)

I think a Debian spam-blocking package, using TCPD and generalized to
cover all MTAs, would be a good thing, with a couple of caveats. For one
thing, there's a legal issue: if the Debian package contains the actual
net blocks and/or domain names to refuse mail from, that could open the
Debian project to harrassing lawsuits from spammers. You'd probably want
legal advice on this. Probably the package should put the burden of
choosing blocked nets/sites on the individual user, maybe by getting
addresses to block from a file that the package installer would be
required to create (either by hand or maybe with a script that would
pull in lists from given URLs--J.D. Falk's site has a couple of scripts
like that).

DS
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Re: ncurses problem?

1997-08-14 Thread Brian Mays
Andrew Howell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Erik Andersen writes:
  I have found that with the newest rxvt (released within the last week I
  believe) it also messes up mutt, sets TERM to rxvt (which seems to break
  a few things that don't know about TERM=rxvt, and also messes up the
  screen for the kernel's menuconfig.  Oh, and backspace no longer does
  a ^H for some reason.
 
 I had no problems with rxvt until I installed the new ncurses-base package.
 This obviously has a different rxvt
 terminfo file cause it doesn't display properly. Ncftp is a good test
 TERM=rxvt and it's all messed up. TERM=vt100 it's fine.
 
 Install the old ncurses-base package and it's fine
 with TERM=rxvt.

This is true, and I've been considering reporting it as a bug.

The rxvt terminfo entry in the old ncurses-base package was very
similar to xterm-color's entry.  It added mouse support and some stuff
necessary to handle the Home/End keys.

The new ncurses-base package does not have an xterm-color entry and
its rxvt entry is very different from its xterm entry (which to me is
somewhat strange, since rxvt is usually described as a smaller
replacement for xterm).

Versions of rxvt prior to 2.20-5 set the TERM environment variable to
xterm-color.  (Note that this would cause problems with the new
ncurses-base package, which does not have an xterm-color terminfo
entry.)  Since Debian has an rxvt terminfo entry, this was reported as
a bug.  After some discussion, I agreed with the author of the report
and modified rxvt in version 2.20-5 to set TERM=rxvt on color displays
and TERM=xterm on monochrome displays (since there was no monochrome
rxvt terminfo entry available).

The rxvt terminfo entry should be fixed.  I suggest that it should
follow the rxvt entry in the old ncurses-base package and be made
equivalent to xterm with additional mouse and Home/End support.

While we're fixing the terminfo entries, I would also like to suggest
that a rxvt-mono entry be created for monochrome displays.  It should
be equivalent to the new rxvt entry with the color support disabled.
I would then modify rxvt to set TERM=rxvt-mono, instead of TERM=xterm
which it does now, when running on monochrome displays.

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Re: networking X-windows

1997-08-14 Thread Paul
What program are you using I'm using two. Omni-x and xwin34.  The line
that needs to be changed is in the configuration part of the computer that
you are trying to connect to. command:
/usr/X11R6/bin/xterm -sh -ls -display the_system_that_you_are_trying_to
connect_from:0
I hope this helps.  let know how you makke out.  if you need more
information please email me.
Paul

On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, Syd Alsobrook wrote:

 Ok, so I have looked everywhere for this answer but can not find it.
 
 I have my linux machine running X very well now I want to connect my winnt
 box to my linux box with X windows but can't figure out how. I have a
 X-server on my nt box but I don't know how to make the connection. can
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Virtual Console is garbaged

1997-08-14 Thread Shaleh
I ran grep and it ended up reading a binary file.  Now my console is
gibberish -- control chars, escape sequences, and non-printable chars. 
I tried kill -HUP on getty, I tried kill on getty -- no dice.  Any
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Re: Virtual Console is garbaged

1997-08-14 Thread Paul
hi, logout and login again
Paul


On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, Shaleh wrote:

 I ran grep and it ended up reading a binary file.  Now my console is
 gibberish -- control chars, escape sequences, and non-printable chars. 
 I tried kill -HUP on getty, I tried kill on getty -- no dice.  Any
 ideas?
 
 
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Re: Virtual Console is garbaged

1997-08-14 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
You can try reset, tput reset and echo ^V^O. I have had most success with
   echo ^V^O

I Hope this helps.

// Heikki

Shaleh wrote:

 I ran grep and it ended up reading a binary file.  Now my console is
 gibberish -- control chars, escape sequences, and non-printable chars. 
 I tried kill -HUP on getty, I tried kill on getty -- no dice.  Any
 ideas?

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Re: Virtual Console is garbaged

1997-08-14 Thread stick
 
 hi, logout and login again
 Paul
 

That might not be enough to fix it.  If it's still hosed, try running
'reset' this is usually enough to clear-up most situations like this.
Note: you may have to type it in blind since you won't be able to
see the text as you're typing it.  Also, I don't think you can redirect
reset's output to another VT...it'd be worth a try, though.

 
 On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, Shaleh wrote:
 
  I ran grep and it ended up reading a binary file.  Now my console is
  gibberish -- control chars, escape sequences, and non-printable chars. 
  I tried kill -HUP on getty, I tried kill on getty -- no dice.  Any
  ideas?
  

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Re: Virtual Console is garbaged

1997-08-14 Thread Brandon Mitchell
Try the reset command.  I believe the best results are when TERM=linux, 
but I can't be sure.

Brandon

On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, Shaleh wrote:

 I ran grep and it ended up reading a binary file.  Now my console is
 gibberish -- control chars, escape sequences, and non-printable chars. 
 I tried kill -HUP on getty, I tried kill on getty -- no dice.  Any
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Samba problems.

1997-08-14 Thread Niklas Höglund
...
Allowed connection from dropzone.flf.lu (192.168.1.20) to Linux root
nobody logged in as admin user (root privileges)
08/13/97 17:04:50 dropzone (192.168.1.20) connect to service Linux root
as user nobody (uid=0,gid=0) (pid 22285)
...

dropzone.flf.lu is a winnt machine, and I log on as grewer on it, but
when I'm trying to mount the linux machine it logs on as nobody (tried
w95 too, same thing).

I'm using smbd 1.9.16p11 (old?)

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Re: /etc/init.d structure [long rant]

1997-08-14 Thread Dima
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Manoj Srivastava writes:
  *Nothing* has an S* in more than one level. A package is meant to be at a
  certain run level and higher. A level 3 package is started at run level
  3, killed in run level 2, and at *no* other level. See how this works?
 
 Simple and elegant, but not very flexible.  How about a state machine
 approach?

Assuming runlevel is roughly equivalent to state, the above model is
a stack of states.  A state transition diagram would be a (potentially fully
connected) graph of states.  (Potentially) what a mess. :)

Next question is how to define a state -- 6 basic states is what we have
now.  If we want more states (finer grain) our graph becomes messier.

Also, runlevels _are flexible.  Nobody can force me to start networking
daemons at RL 2 -- I can bloody well start them from ip-up when I ring my
ISP, at whatever runlevel I happen to be then.  (In practice I don't care: 
when I don't need networking daemons, they waste about $0.5 worth of my 
swap partition.  Big deal).

If you let user similarly customize the states, you _will end up with a 
fully connected graph for STD -- definitely a mess.  
(One program implementing a complex state machine is sendmail, BTW.)

Stack is a much simpler structure -- easier to implement, less bugs etc.
Besides, it's almost there already.

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printing over samba to win95

1997-08-14 Thread Paul Miller
I'm trying to add an entry to the /etc/printcap file to print on another
machine (win95) using samba.  I have a HP Deskjet 660C and I want to use
Magicfilter's DJ550C filters.  Here's the problem:

1) how do I use two filters in the printcap file (dj550c-filter and smbprint)
2) when I print w/ only smbprint, the printer's error light lights up and
if I press the retry button it works...

-Paul


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Re: Virtual Console is garbaged

1997-08-14 Thread Andy Kahn

- 
- hi, logout and login again
- Paul
- 
- On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, Shaleh wrote:
- 
-  I ran grep and it ended up reading a binary file.  Now my console is
-  gibberish -- control chars, escape sequences, and non-printable chars. 
-  I tried kill -HUP on getty, I tried kill on getty -- no dice.  Any
-  ideas?
-  
- 

logging out and logging back in doesn't necessarily reset the
terminal correctly.  a better solution would be stay logged in,
and then do ctrl-v, ctrl-o, and hit return.
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Re: ppp configuring with dunc (solved)

1997-08-14 Thread Eugene Sevinian
Thanks, Richard!
Now it works. After few attempts to modify old 
/root/.ppprc I have noticed that dunc replaced it
by the short file with one option (defaultroute)
and 2-3 strings as well.  Then I just added this option
in old (and valid) .ppprc file. Hope this will be fixed later.

 

On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, Richard G. Roberto wrote:

 All of that output looks normal.  Without more information,
 I'd say either hte system you're connecting to isn't
 correctly configured for proxy arp, or you're not using the
 peer as the default gateway, which you should.  This used to
 be in the default /etc/ppp/options file, but I just noticed
 that its not in the latest one.  
 
 You can grep for default in you *.ctn file(s) under
 ~/.dunc and see if defaultroute is getting set.  If not, you
 can filre up dunc and go to Modify (then select next,
 OK, bla bla, select your connection) and go to Details.
 This should give you a bunch of settings to choose from.
 Choose defaultroute by arrowing down to it and pressing
 space bar.  You may also want to arrow down to proxyarp
 and mark that as well, although that's only supposed to be
 for the server or peer side.  It won't hurt anything to
 have it on though.
 
 If that doesn't change anything, check with the system
 administrator of the peer and see if there's a problem on
 the proxy arp server.  By the way, I get the message about
 Cannot determine ethernet address for proxy ARP also, it
 doesn't affect my system though.
 
 Outside of this, I'm afraid I'm out of ideas.

It was It :)

Regards,

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Re: Qmail ./qmail-config does not work! hard error???

1997-08-14 Thread Dima
David M wrote:
 Hello guys,
 
 more surprises! ;)  Everything compiled ok but when I got to step 7 there 
 is a hard error message when the ./qmail-config script tries to run 
 ./dnsfq hostname.  It reports hard error!
 
 Have any of you qmail installed on Debian?  Did you encounter this 
 problem?  If so how to go about fixing it?
 
 I am also somewaht confused on the impact of installing a non-package 
 program into the filesystem doing things manually...?

Well, why not use the *.deb package from project/experimental then?

Anyway, IIRC qmail-config tries to create file /var/qmail/control/me that
contains
eris.dev.null 
on my box -- use vi and put your fqdn there. 
(I think it's in the docs actually.)

HTH
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Debian Linux on IBM and Compaq servers

1997-08-14 Thread Franz J Fortuny
We intend to set our Linux up on either an IBM or a COMPAQ server (6000).

Would anybody out there have any experience as to the feasability of this 
project?

So far we have noticed that the Debian dist. does not recognize the Mylex SCSI
Array controller present in the IBM 320 pc server. (If you know how to solve 
this
problem, please let me know).

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faxing from Win95

1997-08-14 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Here's the URL someone else was trying to remember:

http://www.esem.com/esemfax.html

It works with mgetty+sendfax. I haven't tried it, but one of these
days when I have time I plan to. That's why I had it bookmarked!

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Re: Debian Linux on IBM and Compaq servers

1997-08-14 Thread Peter S Galbraith

Franz J Fortuny wrote:

 We intend to set our Linux up on either an IBM or a COMPAQ server (6000).

Here's my summary about how I managed to use Linux on a Compaq Deskpro 6000.

BIOS:

  Nothing in particular except that it forces all PCI devices on IRQ 11.
  So much for greater performance!
  Anyway, the default Adaptec 2940U driver (aic7xxx) in 2.0.30 does not
  do shared IRQs without a tiny patch to aic7xxx.c:

- if (request_irq(config-irq, aic7xxx_isr, SA_INTERRUPT | SA_SHIRQ,
+ if (request_irq(config-irq, aic7xxx_isr, SA_SHIRQ, aic7xxx, NULL))

  so my network card wouldn't work until I applied the patch.  

  The following updated driver does use shared IRQs and is more stable:

ftp://ftp.pcnet.com/users/eischen/Linux/aic7xxx-2.1.26-Jun1.tgz

  It compiled fine under 2.0.30.  Make sure you read the README file
  because there is some hand-editing to do.

  I edited aic7xxx.c to enable tagged queueing with 6 commands per lun
  for increased SCSI performance:

  /* Uncomment this for tagged queueing. */
  #define AIC7XXX_TAGGED_QUEUEING
  
  /*
   * You can try raising me if tagged queueing is enabled, or lowering
   * me if you only have 4 SCBs.
   */
  #define AIC7XXX_CMDS_PER_LUN 6

  A newer version still of the aic7xxx driver will be included in 2.0.31 
  (at least it's in the pre-release I'm using). 

Network:

  The Compaq uses an onboard network card called the Compaq Integrated
  NetFlex-3/P.  James Banks [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Caldera is writting
  a driver for it:
  
ftp://ftp.caldera.com/pub/stuff/tlan-0.29.tar.gz
  
  It works great!

PD-CD

  The Compaq came a few months ago with a neat SCSI PD-CD which reads
  regular CDs and also handles PD rewritable 650 MB cartridges.  The
  SCSI PD device is supported under Linux (enable multiple LUN in the SCSI
  part of the kernel configuration).
  
  Since April or so, Compaq has started to ship Deskpro's with IDE/ATAPI
  PD-CDs (instead of the SCSI model).  Using a stock 2.0.30 kernel, the CD is
  seen as /dev/hdc but the PD part is ignored (at least the CD works for
  Linux installation!)
  
  The PD device works under a patched 2.0.30 Linux kernel.  The ide-scsi
  stuff used is currently in 2.1.X kernels, but currently 2.1.45 has not
  support for msdos filesystems which ruled it out for me.  

  Gadi Oxman [EMAIL PROTECTED] (the author) managed to get his 
  ide-scsi sources included in 2.0.31, available also in pre-release 
  pre-patch-2.0.31-3 available on www.linuxhq.com

  E-mail me if you'd rather get the patches to 2.0.30.  They may be more 
  stable (I've have problems with pre-patch-2.0.31-3).

  After applying the patch, recompiling and booting the new kernel, the
  CD is seen as /dev/sr0
  This device did not exist on my machine, so I did this to get it:

   cd /dev
   ./MAKEDEV sr0

  The PD was seen as a standard SCSI disk (/dev/sdd in my case, since
  I had 3 oher disks) on another SCSI device.

Sound

  The sound card works with these SoundBlaster settings:
  
  #
  # Sound
  #
  CONFIG_SOUND=y
  # CONFIG_PAS is not set
  CONFIG_SB=y
  # CONFIG_ADLIB is not set
  # CONFIG_GUS is not set
  # CONFIG_MPU401 is not set
  # CONFIG_UART6850 is not set
  # CONFIG_PSS is not set
  # CONFIG_GUS16 is not set
  # CONFIG_GUSMAX is not set
  # CONFIG_MSS is not set
  # CONFIG_SSCAPE is not set
  # CONFIG_TRIX is not set
  # CONFIG_MAD16 is not set
  # CONFIG_CS4232 is not set
  # CONFIG_MAUI is not set
  CONFIG_AUDIO=y
  CONFIG_MIDI=y
  CONFIG_YM3812=y
  SBC_BASE=220
  SBC_IRQ=5
  SBC_DMA=1
  SB_DMA2=5
  SB_MPU_BASE=0
  SB_MPU_IRQ=-1
  DSP_BUFFSIZE=65536
  # CONFIG_LOWLEVEL_SOUND is not set

Keyboard

  The keyboard has an awfully slow repeat rate.  Drives you mad.
  You can reset it with:

   kbdrate -r 30

Video

  The Matrox Millenium card is supported under the new XFree-3.3
  using the SVGA server.  It's very fast.

SCSI and Disk.

  Uses an Adaptec 2940U, supported under Linux.  See below about
  booting Debian.

  As for disk, I got the 4.3 GB version.  It turns out it's a Seagate 
  Barracuda with a 9 MB/sec transfer rate.  Fast enough for me!

Installing Debian

  I'm using Debian 1.3, and had to build a custom boot disk because the
  probing in the regular install boot disk would somehow touch the Adaptec
  SCSI controller and reboot the PC.  This was actually very easy to do using
  another Linux machine.The custom kernel is at:

   ftp://ftp.phys.ocean.dal.ca/users/rhogee/Debian/

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Re: finger return No one logged on. and I am logged...... (fwd)

1997-08-14 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Aug 14, Andrea Arcangeli wrote
 Anybody can report my same problem?
 
 Andrea Arcangeli
 
 -- Forwarded message --
 Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 16:22:17 +0200 (CEST)
 From: Andrea Arcangeli [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: David Fries [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: Re: finger return No one logged on. and I am logged..
 
 On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
 
 On Wed, 13 Aug 1997, David Fries wrote:
 
 Are you logged in at console or with an rxvt in X?  I don't have a
 problem with logging in the console, but it doesn't show up if I'm in
 a rxvt.
 
 I logged in the console, but w works also if I am logged in xterm:
 
 arca:~$ w
  12:03pm  up 5 min,  4 users,  load average: 0.04, 0.07, 0.02
 USER  TTYLOGIN@  IDLE   JCPU   PCPU  WHAT
 andrea   ttyp0  11:59am   0:22   0:00   0:00 -bash
 andrea   ttyp1  12:00pm   2:09   0:00   0:00 -bash
 andrea   ttyp2  12:01pm   0:04   0:00   0:00 pine
 andrea   ttyp3  12:02pm   0:00   0:00   0:00 w
 arca:~$ last |head -5
 andrea   ttyp3:0.0 Thu Aug 14 12:02   still logged in
 andrea   ttyp2:0.0 Thu Aug 14 12:01   still logged in
 andrea   ttyp1:0.0 Thu Aug 14 12:00   still logged in
 andrea   ttyp0:0.0 Thu Aug 14 11:59   still logged in
 reboot   system boot   Thu Aug 14 11:58  
 arca:~$ finger
 No one logged on.
 
 I want to know if is a finger problem or is caused by something other.
 
 
 I am sure the problem is caused by login.
 
 arca:~# /var/run/utmp
 arca:~# last -f /var/run/utmp
 
 utmp begins Thu Aug 14 16:16:46 1997
 arca:~# login
 
 arca login: root
 Password:
 Linux arca 2.1.49 #2 Tue Aug 12 21:29:09 CEST 1997 i586 unknown
 Last login: Thu Aug 14 16:03:58 on tty1.
 No mail.
 arca:~# last -f /var/run/utmp
 ~***|*** * **`q   * **ISun Apr  7 10:47   still logged in
 *r   *Y**8*   `q   Thu Jan  1 01:08   still logged in
 *-   *r   `q   Sat Jan 10 22:43   still logged in
 ***3 4*@   Thu Jan  1 01:00 - 19:12  (18:12)
 
 utmp begins Thu Jan  1 01:00:00 1970
 arca:~#
 
 Can be a libc problem? xterm login shell return the same problem of login
 from console.
 
 arca:~# ldd /bin/login
 libc.so.5 = /lib/libc.so.5 (0x4000b000)
 arca:~# ldd /usr/bin/X11/xterm
 libXaw.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw3d/libXaw.so.6 (0x4000b000)
 libXmu.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6 (0x4005e000)
 libXt.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x4007)
 libSM.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x400b2000)
 libICE.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x400bb000)
 libXext.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x400d)
 libX11.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x400db000)
 libncurses.so.3.0 = /lib/libncurses.so.3.0 (0x40179000)
 libc.so.5 = /lib/libc.so.5 (0x401b6000)
 
 arca:~$ dpkg -l libc5
 Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
 | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
 |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
 uppercase=bad)
 ||/ NameVersionDescription
 +++-===-==-
 ii  libc5   5.4.33-5   The Linux C library version 5 (run-time
 libr
 
 Any suggestions?
 
 Andrea Arcangeli
 

On my machine:


   mike:~$ finger
   No one logged on.
   mike:~$ finger @localhost
   [localhost]
   Username Real name  Idletime TTY Remote console location
   root root  15:09   1 (mike)
   mschmitz Mike Schmitz  20:00   2 (mike)
   root root  17:00   3 (mike)
   dialout  dialout0:03  s1 (/usr/sbin/pppd )

Bug or feature?

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Re: faxing from Win95

1997-08-14 Thread Joost Kooij


On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:

 Here's the URL someone else was trying to remember:
 
 http://www.esem.com/esemfax.html
 
 It works with mgetty+sendfax. I haven't tried it, but one of these
 days when I have time I plan to. That's why I had it bookmarked!

Thanks, Jens. That's the one. However, I found that there is also
something called respond, which you can find along with some other nice 
tools at:
  http://www.boerde.de/~horstf/

I actually got this url from the samba homepage, where it is listed
prominently:
  http://lake.canberra.edu.au/pub/samba/

Greetings,


Joost


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Re: Blocking spam by IP number

1997-08-14 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, David Sewell wrote:

 : I think a Debian spam-blocking package, using TCPD and generalized to
 : cover all MTAs, would be a good thing, with a couple of caveats.

That's quite difficult to implement.

One of the most important reasons: not all MTA are using
tcpserver/inetd/xinetd as their 'parent'. For example ZMailer and Sendmail
do create their own serversocket. (Yes I know, both of them have options 
to make them spawned by inetd).


Another reason that you don't want to use (imho) tcpd as a spamfilter: I
like to 'filter' messages on more than just the other end's IP-address.
I know ZMailer supports additional blocking:
  - source address (ip)
  - HELO line
  - MAIL line
  - RCPT line
  - existance of a valid DNS-entry in the several lines

This makes the blocking highly configurable - that's what you want to have
(imho again :/ )

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gettyps, uugetty etc?

1997-08-14 Thread Miguel A. Figueroa
Hi,

Any pointer to info on the tty -vs- cua setup for modems? I just 
installed Debian in place of Redhat (can I get an amen), and I used 
to have to have two devices for one modem. ttyS1 for dial-in and cua1 
for dialout. For dialout, I need it for PPP which works great, but 
for UUCP from office to home, the modem refuses to pick up. I set up 
all the sames stuff for uugetty, uucp and smail. Any pointers to FAQs 
mailing lists etc will be much appreciated.

Thanks
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Re: finger return No one logged on. and I am logged...... (fwd)

1997-08-14 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, Mike Schmitz wrote:

 On Aug 14, Andrea Arcangeli wrote
  Anybody can report my same problem?
  
  arca:~$ finger
  No one logged on.
  
 
mike:~$ finger
No one logged on.
mike:~$ finger @localhost
[localhost]
Username Real name  Idletime TTY Remote console 
 location
root root  15:09   1 (mike)
mschmitz Mike Schmitz  20:00   2 (mike)
root root  17:00   3 (mike)
dialout  dialout0:03  s1 (/usr/sbin/pppd )
 
 Bug or feature?
 
Bug.

I am running a standard 1.3.1 system (no hamm...or cheese either)

Both finger and finger @localhost provide the same, correct, output,
listing everyone logged into my system.

I suspect that this is a problem with unstable. Can't say exactly what,
but downgrading things until it works should help to provide a pointer to
the problem.

Luck,

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Re: finger return No one logged on. and I am logged...... (fwd)

1997-08-14 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, Mike Schmitz wrote:

 
mike:~$ finger
No one logged on.
mike:~$ finger @localhost
[localhost]
Username Real name  Idletime TTY Remote console 
 location
root root  15:09   1 (mike)
mschmitz Mike Schmitz  20:00   2 (mike)
root root  17:00   3 (mike)
dialout  dialout0:03  s1 (/usr/sbin/pppd )
 
 Bug or feature?



My machine

mario aguia: ~$ finger
LoginName Tty   Idle  Login Time   Office Office
Phone
marioMario Olimpio de Men *18:08  Aug 14 10:03 Institute  55+ 
marioMario Olimpio de Men  p0 Aug 14 10:03 (:0.0)
marioMario Olimpio de Men *p1 Aug 14 15:29 (:0.0)
mario aguia: ~$ finger @localhost
[localhost]
Username Real name  Idletime TTY Remote console
location
marioMario Olimpio de Menezes   8:08   1 (aguia)  
marioMario Olimpio de Menezes p0 (:0.0)   
marioMario Olimpio de Menezes p1 (:0.0)   
mario aguia: ~$ 




what about?

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Getting a list of spamers (multiple sites) for sendmail or mailagent

1997-08-14 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi,

The following script (which is now a part of the Debian
 mailagent package) gets a list of spam domains and email adresses
 from a built in list of half-a-dozen or so sites which update this
 information, and can format the data so that one may feed sendmail or
 mailagent directly to filter spam.

Maybe this can be massaged to cover other MTA's. I think I can
 massage it to do lookups and generate IP addresses for tcp wrappers. 

In any case, the man page is embedded, try 
 % pod2man getspam | nroff -man  getspam.1

manoj

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==
#! /usr/bin/perl
#  -*- Mode: Perl -*- 
# getspam --- 
# Last Modified By : Manoj Srivastava
# Last Modified On : Wed Aug 13 17:44:23 1997
# Last Machine Used: tiamat.datasync.com
# Update Count : 52
# Status   : Unknown, Use with caution!
# HISTORY  : 
# Description  : 
# 
# $Id: getspam,v 1.1 1997/08/13 22:44:47 srivasta Exp $

#
# Copyright (c) 1997
#Randal L. Schwartz merlyn@stonehenge.com,
#   Scott Blachowicz [EMAIL PROTECTED],
#and
#  Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED].
#All rights reserved.
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require 5.001;

use strict;
use diagnostics;
use Carp;
use Sys::Hostname;
use URI::Escape;
use LWP::Simple;
use Getopt::Long;


package main;

=head1 NAME

getspam - A script to get the latest list of spammers.

=cut

=head1 SYNOPSIS

 usage: getspam [options] 
 where the options are:

=over 2

=item --lists LISTNAME

colon seperated list of indices into hash of URLs, currently this is
one of aol, mindspring, znet, iocom, nancynet, cyberpromo, llv)

=item --output OUTPUT  

base prefix for split lists, filename for merged list

=item --help

A short usage message.

=item --[no]split

split lists into individual files - default is on for 'mailagent' and
off for others)

=item --type TYPE_OF_OUTPUT 

sendmail or mailagent - default mailagent

=item --[no]verbose

verbose

=back

=cut

=head1 DESCRIPTION

This utility creates a series of lines that look like

=over 2

Z

C/^(([EMAIL PROTECTED])?1floodgate\.com)$/i

C/^(([EMAIL PROTECTED])?205\.254\.167\.57)$/i

=back

which happen to be directly useful in .rules lines that look like this:

=over 2

Z

EltINITIALgt Envelope From Sender Relayed Reply-To: ~/.spamlist {

=over 4

ANNOTATE -d X-merlyn-spam Smells like spam from %1;
REJECT;
};

=back

Alternatively, it can produce files ready for the Bcheck_mail2 macro
in recent Bsendmail versions, so that one may automatically keep
ones spam filter up to date. The default is mailagent format.

This version of the getspam utility has been podified and tweaked by
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED], based entirely on the work of
Scott Blachowicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] (the program structire is mostly
his), which, in turn, was inspired by and based on the script posted
to the Agent users list by Randal L. Schwartz merlyn@stonehenge.com. 

=cut 

sub main { 
  my $ret;
  my $lists = 'ALL';
  my $spam_base = $ENV{'HOME'}/spamlist;
  my $output_type = mailagent;
  my $split_lists = 1;
  my $verbose = 0;
  my $help = 0;
  my $MYNAME = '';
  
  ($MYNAME = $0) =~ s|.*/||;
  my $usage= EOUSAGE;
 usage: $MYNAME [options]
 where the options are: 
   --lists LISTNAME 
 colon separated list of indices into hash of URLs, currently this
 is one of aol, mindspring, znet, iocom, nancynet, cyberpromo, llv
   --helpThis message.
   --output OUTPUT  
 base prefix for split lists, filename for merged list)
  --[no]split
  split lists into individual files - default is on for
  'mailagent' and off for others
  --type 

Re: SoundBlaster

1997-08-14 Thread Richard Morin
On Tue, 12 Aug 1997, Geoff R Deasey wrote:

 Anyone else having a problem with soundblaster 16 on 220,irq 5,dma 
 1,16bit dma5
 
 
 I get messages that it is busy.
 
 I am using 1.3.1 with kernel 2.0.30.
 
 --Jeff
 
 

Under the directory /usr/src/linux/drivers/sound is a file called
Readme.linux.  Within this file is info about cat /dev/sndstat and a
script that you need to run if the output of cat /dev/sndstat tells you
to.

Use vi(or you fave editor) to cut out everything but the script, save it,
make it executable, and run it.  I've been using my soundblaster 16 pnp
for ages with the exact config quoted above with great results.
There has been a few times I've had to edit the /usr/src/linux/.config
file by hand to make it take my irq 5, but it works.  I compile my kernel
the old fashioned way. :-)

Hope this helps...sorry so late on this, but I'm working through ahh. 
612 messages at the moment..
Rich M
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Re: gettyps, uugetty etc?

1997-08-14 Thread stick
amen.
 
 Hi,
 
 Any pointer to info on the tty -vs- cua setup for modems? I just 
 installed Debian in place of Redhat (can I get an amen), and I used 
 to have to have two devices for one modem. ttyS1 for dial-in and cua1 
 for dialout. For dialout, I need it for PPP which works great, but 
 for UUCP from office to home, the modem refuses to pick up. I set up 
 all the sames stuff for uugetty, uucp and smail. Any pointers to FAQs 
 mailing lists etc will be much appreciated.

/dev/cua? has been obsoleted.  Long ago, it was used for dialout as you'd
experienced.  Among other things it caused grief for file locking -
specifically, how does one make sure that using /dev/ttyS1 prevents another
process from using /dev/cua1?

For a long time (haven't read the current docs) PPP's documentation specified
/dev/cua? as the port to use, even though it didn't work that way - you had
to use /dev/ttyS?.

The UUCP specific issues I'm not going to be much help on.  It's been many
moons since I've done UUCP setup - and then it was HDB (aka BNU).

 
 Thanks
 Miguel
 

Chuck

PS  If this isn't a FAQ, it should be.  :)

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