Re: hacker attack: leaves .BitchX dir in root's home
Carlos: BitchX is an IRC program that put's a directory called .BitchX in the users home directory. Either you have this and have used it or your hacker used it as root. Of course a hacker may have just created it so it might look normal in your directory. What's in the directory? Carlos Carvalho wrote: My site has been atacked by a hacker using a method that leaves a directory .BitchX (or something close) in root's home dir. It gets the user/password combination of any user that telnet, ftp or use pop3 to get to the machine (no ssh). What's the security hole that's being exploited? At first the attacker didn't have the root password. Any help is greatly appreciated. This is urgent... Carlos -- 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: Cnews would not configure on installation
Johann Spies writes: Cnews installation script exits with an error message informing the user that it could not configure cnews. I don't know how to proceed from there. I had the same problem. I used dpkg --force to install and configure cnews and inews, and then cycled trough dselect until it stopped bitching. I also had to edit the news crontab to take out all the inn stuff that inews put in. I still get complaints about the fact that compress is missing and that there are no uucp files. Email me if you need help with cnews. I've been using it on my two user system for years. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Why /floppy -- why not /mnt/fd or something?
Peter Prohaska [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all! Please dont flamme me for that unimportant question. But I was wondering, why `/dev/fd*'s are mounted at /floppy. When reading fsstnd, you would expect them to be mounted in /mnt/someting. Since /floppy is neither one of those un*x shorties nor used during installation I can't see why it lives on the root. The floppy drive not used during installation? Depends on how you install. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: SVGATextMode - thanks for help
On Wed, Jan 14, 1998 at 04:48:30PM -0500, Igor Grobman wrote: - don't use SVGATextMode if X is started Why? works fine here. He's right. X Server looks at the Textmode to save and restore it properly, but only once at startup-time. It then assumes that the mode keeps the same. So it fails to restore it properly if you switched mode in the meantime. Try: stm 100x37; startx; change back to console; stm 80x25; change to X and back to console, you get a skewed screen. It always worked fine for me here, and it does now, but the manpage does mention that X-server indeed only saves textmode once at startup-time. Maybe it only works for some vidcards, or maybe the more likely reason is that I am running the latest X-server(3.3.1-2) while bo has 3.3 which is older. -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: X-win more effiecient than Win95?
Orn E. Hansen wrote: No, Windows is not an interface... and it's a lot more than just a GUI, it's an operating system as well (as of Win95, WinNT). The box that you buy when you buy Windoze 95 contains an operating system which is called Windows 95. That box contains MSDOS 7.0 and Windows GUI. Most ppl refer to the GUI as the whole enchalada, thus a GUI OS but that is not the case. MS just packaged the 2 together and called them Windows 95 OS. Just examine the startup sequence or go to MS's web site and get the toys package that has a control panel addition which gives you several options about the hidden functions, one of wich allows you to boot into GUI or DOS prompt. Additionally if it was the OS there wouldn't be an option in the preferences of a DOS program to hide windows from DOS programs nor the need to reboot into DOS for other programs. And that's right, you need to compare X+Window manager, not just X which was the issue. True. Because of the way Windoze is programmed. Otherwise you can benchmark X without a window manager. But Windoze won't run without it's window manager counterpart Explorer since there is no way to run programs without it. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Moving to libc6 X
On Mon, 12 Jan 1998, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: Hi, All what is the best way to move from libc5 based X (3.3-4) to libc6 ? Is there a particular order of upgrades? I already have libc6-2.0.6 and related stuff from hamm installed. The xlib6g package in hamm conflicts with xlib6 ( 3.3-5), so the first thing to do is to upgrade the xlib6 package. Latest version is 3.3.1-2. Then, install the xlib6 package. After that, upgrade any X packages you have to their hamm equivalents. I suppose you could also simply point dselect at the hamm tree (on an ftp mirror or wherever you get your packages from). Remco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Libc5 / Libc6
On Mon, 12 Jan 1998, Ian Gill Watkins wrote: I want to upgrade one or two of the packages on my system beyond the stable distribution. The newer packages are all requiring libc6, but that conflicts (in DSELECT) with libc5 which is a dependence to a _very_ large number of programs. =:| What should I do? Forget it and wait? If you want to upgrade to libc6, read the mini-HOWTO about the upgrade. It involves upgrading libc5 to a version that doesn't conflict with libc6, so your libc5-based programs will still run. Remco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Problem dialing in w/AutoPPP/PAP! Help!
Rick Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Peter Iannarelli wrote: In pap-secrets I has to adjust the following line. * * This kind of entry would allow everybody access to your system without a password. So Joe down the street who knows a username but doesn't have his own account can use any other account he wants. This is not true. From the pap-secrets: # Dont be disturbed therfore by the fact that this file defines logins with # any password for users. /etc/passwd will catch passwd mismatches. # # This file should block ALL users that should not be able to do AUTO_PPP! # AUTO_PPP bypasses the usual login program so its necessary to list all # system userids with regular passwords here! # # ATTENTION: The definitions here can allow users to login without a # password if you dont use the login option of pppd! # The /etc/ppp/options file installed has the login option enabled # INBOUND connections # Every regular user can use PPP and has to use passwords from /etc/passwd * * Ciao, Martin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
xfig: Freezes when Text button is pushed
I recently installed Debian 1.3.1. When I use xfig, everything works O.K. till I try to use text by pushing the Text button and it freezes. Ocassionally, one or two of the other buttons also give this problem. Have anybody else come across this? How do I proceed to debug this? I am using a 486 PC with 32 meg memory, the swap partion is about 100 M and the Linux partition also has about 300 MB free. I did not have any problem on this machine with xfig with Slackware. In fact I have another partition running Slackware linux, and I am able to run xfig on that. Sebastian Canagaratna Department of Chemistry Ohio Northern University Ada, OH 45810 -- --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
hamm screen
I am having a strange problem with the hamm version of screen, it works fine for root, but when any other user tries to run it, it just 'freezes' as in: [EMAIL PROTECTED] screen it just sits there for ever, not error message, nothing. Any ideas? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Staroffice 3.1 core-dumps.
On Wed, Jan 14, 1998 at 09:27:28PM +0200, Neilen Marais wrote: Hi I installed Staroffice 3.1 using the debian installer .deb's All seemed to have gone fine, but when I run setup to do the per-user setup bit, it coredumps... Also if I run swriter3, or any of the other binaries, it also tries to run the setup bit, which core-dumps of course, and then complains about the user setup not being done. This is what Scott Ellis wrote about it: The setup script is being confused by your xlib6g (the rest of the staroffice stuff works). A hack to get it to work is to rename /usr/XllR6/lib to /usr/X11R6/libx, run the setup util, then rename the directory back. Regards Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / No question is too silly to ask, / /but, of course, some are too silly to answer -- perl book / pgpM35cLIePNf.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: setting up xdm for runlevel 4
On 13 Jan 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote: Shaleh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would like to setup xdm so that it s started upon entering runlevel 4 and stopped when dropping back down to runlevel 3. How does debian handle xdm?? It is done with symlinks in the /etc/rcrunlevel.d directories. I recommend the update-rc.d programm for altering the setup. And to start xdm at all, you need to edit /etc/X11/config and change 'no-start-xdm' to 'start-xdm'. The /etc/init.d/xdm script does a grep -q ^start-xdm /etc/X11/config to see if it has to start xdm. Remco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: divide the list in beginners and advanced
On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, John Spence wrote: I like the list the way it is aswell! :) Yes, I do to. AOL mode me too /AOL mode Although I would dearly love to see a: When is version 2 coming out-list When is version 2 coming out will not be announced in advance, I'm afraid. At one point in time it will have been released and then everybody will know about it. How to move from libc5 to libc6-list There is a mini-HOWTO on this subject that is posted regularly to this mailing list. I don't know the URL, but I am sure it can be found on the WWW somewhere. Both lists could be answered by a bot that posted the usual reply. I don't think it would work, since subscribing and unsubscribing to mailinglists like that would be too much trouble if you can just lurk debian-user for a while and get the answer. And you still would have to post a message to debian-user regularly to let people know they exist. I do think that a lot of general Linux questions that aren't particularly Debian specific are posted here but that is only because in my opinion, the quality of the answers provided is higher than can be found in newsgroups. Yes, the Debian community is very fortunate to have such high-quality mailing lists. Remco -- If you can't beat your computer at chess, try kick-boxing -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Problem dialing in w/AutoPPP/PAP! Help!
[PAP not working with ppp 2.3.2] On Thu, Jan 15, 1998 at 10:34:01AM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: I had this problem; PAP just didn't damn well work. For me, the fix was to add the following to pap-secrets: # magic fix * * * Someone on one of the linux mailing lists suggested it; it seems to be otherwise undocumented, although certainly not unimportant. Shadow passwords may also make a difference. I'm not using them here; I think last time I tried them (on ppp 2.2) I couldn't login with PAP any more either. This magic fix doesn't work on 2.3.2; I tried it before and I tried it again. Thanks, Jeff -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Problem dialing in w/AutoPPP/PAP! Help!
On Wed, Jan 14, 1998 at 07:46:41PM -0600, Jeff Noxon wrote: [PAP not working with ppp 2.3.2] On Thu, Jan 15, 1998 at 10:34:01AM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: I had this problem; PAP just didn't damn well work. For me, the fix was to add the following to pap-secrets: # magic fix * * * This magic fix doesn't work on 2.3.2; I tried it before and I tried it again. Package: ppp Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: net Installed-Size: 311 Maintainer: Philip Hands [EMAIL PROTECTED] Version: 2.3.2-1 Depends: libc6, netbase Works fine here. Using shadow passwords? I'm not, last time I tried it (ppp 2.2.0f) I couldn't login with PAP if shadow passwords were enabled. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: X-win more effiecient than Win95?
On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Rick Jones wrote: Orn E. Hansen wrote: No, Windows is not an interface... and it's a lot more than just a GUI, it's an operating system as well (as of Win95, WinNT). The box that you buy when you buy Windoze 95 contains an operating system which is called Windows 95. That box contains MSDOS 7.0 and Windows GUI. Most ppl refer to the GUI as the whole enchalada, thus a GUI OS but that is not the case. MS just packaged the 2 together and called them Windows 95 OS. Indeed. Just examine the startup sequence or go to MS's web site and get the toys package that has a control panel addition which gives you several options about the hidden functions, one of wich allows you to boot into GUI or DOS prompt. Yes, and the functions are not really hidden, they're just not documented. But heck, what _is_ documented in Win95? The trouble shooting help doesn't get you far beyond is the printer switched on? and check that the cable is plugged in. Additionally if it was the OS there wouldn't be an option in the preferences of a DOS program to hide windows from DOS programs nor the need to reboot into DOS for other programs. And those are the options you don't have on aa WinNT system. WinNT is an OS. And that's right, you need to compare X+Window manager, not just X which was the issue. True. Because of the way Windoze is programmed. Otherwise you can benchmark X without a window manager. But Windoze won't run without it's window manager counterpart Explorer since there is no way to run programs without it. Well, I have seen Win95 boxes where the explorer took very long to start up, probably due to network problems. I noticed that, before the explorer is started, Ctrl-Esc works like in Win3.x and gives you the task manager which lets you run any program (including exporer, which can be very convenient if you're having problems). Remco -- If you can't beat your computer at chess, try kick-boxing -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Problem dialing in w/AutoPPP/PAP! Help!
On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: [PAP not working with ppp 2.3.2] # magic fix * * * This magic fix doesn't work on 2.3.2; I tried it before and I tried it again. Package: ppp Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: net Installed-Size: 311 Maintainer: Philip Hands [EMAIL PROTECTED] Version: 2.3.2-1 Depends: libc6, netbase Works fine here. Using shadow passwords? I'm not, last time I tried it (ppp 2.2.0f) I couldn't login with PAP if shadow passwords were enabled. I have shadow pw (of course :-)) and 2.2.0f works right now (since I downgraded immediately), but 2.3.2 won't work with or without any magic fix. I won't switch back to plain passwords, though. In fact the * * * causes a 'Conversation error', and a * * simply an 'Authentication failed'... cya peter -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RE: Why /floppy -- why not /mnt/fd or something?
On 14-Jan-98 Peter Prohaska wrote: Hi all! Please dont flamme me for that unimportant question. But I was wondering, why `/dev/fd*'s are mounted at /floppy. When reading fsstnd, you would expect them to be mounted in /mnt/someting. Since /floppy is neither one of those un*x shorties nor used during installation I can't see why it lives on the root. just interrested, peter. It's whatever suits your taste. I have directories /A: /C: and /D: for mounting msdos floppy partitions on: helps the DOSsers to feels at home! (and yes, the colon is part of the name). Put entries in /etc/fstab, a floppy in the drive, and people can learn to mount /A: very easily. Cheers, Ted. E-Mail: Ted Harding [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 15-Jan-98 Time: 02:33:18 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: divide the list in beginners and advanced
Remco Blaakmeer wrote: On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, John Spence wrote: I like the list the way it is aswell! :) Sometimes I do and sometimes not. I'm sure it is possible to parse the subject line at the list server or the client end for keywords like config or compile etc. and forward them to either an advanced list/mailbox or basic list/mailbox. Ask that users put the appropriate keyword in the subject and return a message with keywords if there isn't a recognisable keyword in the subject. Then ppl could subscribe to one or both lists and only the appropriate messages will go to the specific list, or as close as possible. I have been on this list for 2 years or so now and noticed that this subject comes up like once a month. The answer that most other long-time list subscribers seem to give is that the more experienced users would drop the basic list and leave a bunch of newbies answering eachothers questions. I don't think so. Some of the guru's enjoy helping others. The ones that don't are most likely not subscribed to this list anyway. Some don't consider themselves that experienced and will remain subscribed to basic out of modesty, even though they are more than experienced enough to help the beginners. So, I think the best way to split the list (if it happens) is to have a single address to send to with 2 (or more basic/interm/advanced etc.) outgoing lists from the list server after parsing the subject line. There would be no more email than there is now since the server would parse the email and newbies could subscribe to all the lists if they want to get the scoop on more advanced topics. Additionally, MAYBE! the server could watch for the same subject from the same user x times and upgrade the message to the next evel since it doesn't seem to be answered in the current level. This is probably too much trouble to accomplish acurately for anybody to want to fool with, but it's a thought. Yes, I do to. I do think that a lot of general Linux questions that aren't particularly Debian specific are posted here but that is only because in my opinion, the quality of the answers provided is higher than can be found in newsgroups. Yes, the Debian community is very fortunate to have such high-quality mailing lists. I agree 100%. I've been on the internet for about 4 years, I guess, and I think this is absolutely the best bunch of folks on the internet. There's some cock-fighting, posturing, bitching and flaming from some of us at times, but this list is still the best there is. Have a good one. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
NTFS driver as modul
AB MM BTW I've got the same problem, when I've changed kernel... AB MM Even I don't tour on: AB MM Set version information on all symbols for modules AB AB Weird. Is this a bug perchance? AB It's not the ideal fix, but the 2.1.x kernels have much better NTFS AB - even (experimental) write. Try 2.1.78 if you want (or possibly 2.1 AB although there seem to be a few compile problems). I'm having enough fun with the upgrade to the Unstable distribution, that I think I'll give the development kernels a miss! Thanks for the info about NTFS in the next release I'll look forward to that. Ian W Karachi, Pakistan email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
divide the list in beginn
IT Shouln't it be possible to divide the list in beginners and advanced Problem is that you couldn't stop mis-posting, so you'd end up with people posting twice, once in the newbies group and once in the experienced group just in case nobody in the newbies group knows the answer, so you'd end up with more mail than ever g Ian W Karachi, Pakistan email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Problem dialing in w/AutoPPP/PAP! Help!
I can verify that turning off shadow passwords fixes the PAP problem. This is unacceptable. And it's already reported in bug 16044. Oh well. On Thu, Jan 15, 1998 at 03:10:26AM +0100, Peter Gervai wrote: On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: [PAP not working with ppp 2.3.2] # magic fix * * * This magic fix doesn't work on 2.3.2; I tried it before and I tried it again. Package: ppp Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: net Installed-Size: 311 Maintainer: Philip Hands [EMAIL PROTECTED] Version: 2.3.2-1 Depends: libc6, netbase Works fine here. Using shadow passwords? I'm not, last time I tried it (ppp 2.2.0f) I couldn't login with PAP if shadow passwords were enabled. I have shadow pw (of course :-)) and 2.2.0f works right now (since I downgraded immediately), but 2.3.2 won't work with or without any magic fix. I won't switch back to plain passwords, though. In fact the * * * causes a 'Conversation error', and a * * simply an 'Authentication failed'... cya peter -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
ncpfs - slist nprint OK no ncpmount
Hi - wondering if anyone can help me out I have managed to get the ipx working and can slist and nprint. When I try to ncpmount I get mount failed. logged in as root, file server is 3.12, mounting to mount point /nw, directory /nw exists. Regards Andrew Robinson Linux newbie -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Upgrade script, bo to hamm
On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: The obvious question (please don't take offense) is: Did you start ppp before entering dselect? dselect, or rather dpkg-ftp, will attempt to make an ftp connection, but assumes that a ppp connection is up. It does not check, AFAIK, to see if there is such a connection. Bob On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, IBMackey wrote: Problem - dselect refuses to connect by ftp to sites. To be more precise, Connecting to ftp.us.debian.org ... FTP ERROR Quick answer is yes, I started ppp. i.b. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Upgrade script, bo to hamm
On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Craig Sanders wrote: i've cc-ed my reply to debian-user as you're more likely to get an answer from there. i don't use the ftp install method at all. On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, IBMackey wrote: Tried your script. Being the newbie chicken that I am, I entered the commands on the command line to make sure of spelling and etc. Everything worked great. Problem - dselect refuses to connect by ftp to sites. To be more precise, Connecting to ftp.us.debian.org ... FTP ERROR query/setup script returned error exit status 1. Press RETURN to continue. I've checked access to the site by Netscape, Pine, and Lynx. No problems. I use dists/unstable/main dists/unstable/non-free dists/unstable/contrib for the list of distributions to get. Any ideas?? try reinstalling the dpkg-ftp package is the only thing i can think of. are you behind a firewall of any kind? check your configuration of dpkg-ftp too... BTW, which version of the upgrade script did you run? craig -- craig sanders Craig, I tried reinstalling, the dpkg -iBE just skips it saying all is well. I'm not behind a firewall. I used v0.5 of your script. I'm intrigued by your suggestion to configure the dpkg-ftp. What kind of configuration does it need ??? ibm -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
magicfilter, gs, deskjets
I apologize if this is slightly off topic. I can't
seem to find an answer elsewhere, having tried the
more appropriate newsgroups.
When printing color on my HP 692C the color pictures
are much to dark. The Printing HOWTO suggests appending
a file, gamma.ps, right before the file name in the
gs command. I've created this file as follows:
%!
{0.3 exp} {0.3 exp} {0.3 exp} {0.3 exp} setcolortransfer
I've tried running this from the command line and
inserting gamma.ps at the end of the gs command line
in the magic filter configuration file, all with no
noticable results.
I've tried changing the values to various numbers but
whatever I do I see no change in print darkness. Does
anyone know how to lighten the print when using magicfilter?
I'm sure I'm doing something wrong, but after two full
days of tinkering I still haven't discovered what! If
someone out there has succesfully lightened their print
in this situation I would love to know what did the trick.
I'm using the current /hamm versions of gs and magicfilter.
Any hints, pointers, etc would be most appreciated!
Thanks in advance.
Jess
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Re: Upgrade script, bo to hamm
On Wed, Jan 14, 1998 at 09:39:24PM -0600, IBMackey wrote: On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: The obvious question (please don't take offense) is: Did you start ppp before entering dselect? dselect, or rather dpkg-ftp, will attempt to make an ftp connection, but assumes that a ppp connection is up. It does not check, AFAIK, to see if there is such a connection. Bob On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, IBMackey wrote: Problem - dselect refuses to connect by ftp to sites. To be more precise, Connecting to ftp.us.debian.org ... FTP ERROR Quick answer is yes, I started ppp. I too have been having trouble connecting to ftp.us.debian.org. When I try to ftp there, I get the following: Connected to santanni.cc.gatech.edu. 220 santanni.cc.gatech.edu FTP server (Version wu-2.4.2-academ[BETA-15](1) Tue Oct 7 12:46:13 EDT 1997) ready. 331 Guest login ok, send your complete e-mail address as password. 230- and then it hangs. Nothing happens. Is the FTP server down? Adam Klein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Upgrade script, bo to hamm
On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Adam Klein wrote: [ snip! ] : : I too have been having trouble connecting to ftp.us.debian.org. : When I try to ftp there, I get the following: : : Connected to santanni.cc.gatech.edu. : 220 santanni.cc.gatech.edu FTP server (Version wu-2.4.2-academ[BETA-15](1) Tue Oct 7 12:46:13 EDT 1997) ready. : 331 Guest login ok, send your complete e-mail address as password. : 230- : : and then it hangs. Nothing happens. Is the FTP server down? : : Adam Klein I dunno about whether they're up or down, but I do know gatech sees some heavy traffic now and again (well, to be fair, that specific server does) I've set up an ftp mirror at brahe.midco.net ... feel free to try it out. It may be quite fast or not so fast depending where you are at. Is the mirror list still being maintained? I've submitted to the address in README.mirrors twice about this mirror with no response. I've also sent email about one of the existant entries in that file being invalid. -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet - 410 South Phillips Avenue - Sioux Falls, SD 57104 phone: (605) 334-4454 fax: (605) 335-1173 mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net PGP Key ID: 0xA33B86E9 - Public key available at keyservers PGP Key fingerprint: CE03 10AF 3281 1858 9D32 C2AB 936D C472 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Lilo howto install it?
Ivan Rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well the thing is I tryed creating a small partition in the first HD ( 50Mb ) to install LILO in there. I select the LILO package in dselect but seems that is not being installed. I created a lilo.conf file and didn't work either. All you need to do is to run the program /sbin/lilo. This will write the bootloader to the bootsector as specified in /etc/lilo.conf. Every time you edit lilo.conf or move the kernel on the disk you need to rerun this program. The reason this is not done at the time the lilo package is installed is that it is slightly dangerous. If the lilo.conf file is wrong the result could be an unbootable system. Therefore check the lilo.conf carefully before running /sbin/lilo. Also have a bootdisk ready just in case. cat _your-kernel_ /dev/fd0 makes a primitive bootdisk (the Debian rescue disk is also usable). You could also write the bootloader to the bootsector of a floppy in order to test your boot configuration (use boot=/dev/fd0 in lilo.conf). - Sten Anderson -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
upgrading libpng for ghostscript
I've seen a fair bit of discussion on this list of problems moving between libc5 and libc6 and problems with programs that rely on them. I'm wondering if I can expect similar problems if I upgrade to ghostscript 5.10. This requires, amongst other libraries, libpng v.0.96. The version available on my Debian CD is version 0.89c. I guess ghostscript will run just fine. But will this break other apps that are currently using the lesser version number ? TIA, Gerald Crimp -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: lilo with multiple kernels/partitions
Tim Ferrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: what kind of entry do I need to add to lilo.conf to get lilo to boot a alternate kernel located on a Zip disk? I can use a custom boot floppy and mount the Zip disk (/dev/sda1) as root but it would be simpler if I didn't need the floppy... one less disk to misplace ;-) If your BIOS is able to acces the zip drive, you should be able to treat it as any other drive. Mount the zip drive and insert: image=path/vmlinuz.alt the new alternative kernel label=alternative root=/dev/sdc7 your root partition read-only in lilo.conf - Sten Anderson -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Printer name
Hi, I've purchased a Laser printer and I'd like to know how do I know the name of the print that connect to my Debian box. I am able to print files without any problem. I just like to know how printer name was created (if any). Thanks! Timothy C. Phan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
SEUL's choice of sendmail
at some point around Wed, 14 Jan 1998 15:56:25 -0500 (EST) William T Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] mentioned: We will be using Sendmail (which is the only one we can distribute easily) and probably procmail for mail deliver. This is what red hat uses and we won't change it unless we need to. is there some place i could find the discussion about the choice being sendmail? in particular, i am wondering what the problems are w/ distributing qmail. i am not aware of any difficulties, and i would love to know what those difficulties might be. in fact, i'd love to know what kinds of difficulties are encountered w/ other choices -- such as smail. it seems to me that these difficulties must be pretty significant if sendmail is what was finally decided upon [1], and since i am ignorant of these difficulties, i would very much like to know :-) -sen [1] sorry, couldn't resist as having to upgrade sendmail so frequently because of buffer-overflow-related security holes has been a real pain -- forgive me for the remark, i really want to know why sendmail is what you can distribute easily. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: [Q] ~/.xinitrc is not being read
Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Jan 14, 1998 at 03:05:04PM -0500, Vladislav Papayan x285 wrote: I use now xdm to login into the system -- however it seems like my ~/.xinitrc is being ignored. .xinitrc is used for startx, and .xsession is used for xdm logins. I symlink them together here for convenience. I believe that the .xsession script must also be executable. The first line in the script should be #! /bin/sh, then do chmod +x .xsession (or do this to .xinitrc if you use the symlink method) - Sten Anderson -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Why /floppy -- why not /mnt/fd or something?
Peter Prohaska [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all! Please dont flamme me for that unimportant question. But I was wondering, why `/dev/fd*'s are mounted at /floppy. When reading fsstnd, you would expect them to be mounted in /mnt/someting. Since /floppy is neither one of those un*x shorties nor used during installation I can't see why it lives on the root. As you probably know it is not mandatory to use that mount point - you can mount a floppy wherever you like. I think it is a matter of convenience and tradition. /floppy is also used on many other unix installations. - Sten Anderson -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: debian 1.2x ldso upgrades
John S. Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Having problems upgrading libc5, xlib6 and ldso using dpkg I get; ** Setting up ldso (1.8.12-1) ... ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so (No such file or directory), skipping ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so (No such file or directory), skipping ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/X11R6/lib/libXp.so (No such file or directory), skipping ** I feel like I am in a loop here, as the package map says that the above libraries are in xlib6, which is asking for ldso This is not an error (at least not a serious one). I think ldso is installed just fine (check with dpkg -s ldso). After installation the program ldconfig is run, and this program gives you the warnings. This is a very common warning. It usually means that you have symlinks in /usr/X11R6/lib to libraries that are not present. These symlinks should of course have been removed when the libs were removed, in any case you can ignore the warning (unless of course that you depend on these libs, but you don't). - Sten Anderson -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: SEUL: Re: SEUL distribution?
Pity ... this looks like it would have been a good candidate for the POSIX package manager as is used with Unifix Linux. There are plans being worked on that would use Debian as the base distribution, with a POSIX package manager. The decision to use RedHat and RPM was made before these plans existed. BTW, thanx for the pointer to the distribution, could you send me the URL too? As for the comment about Debian being rushed to be first out the door with something, I must take exception here. Red Hat pushed a broken distro out the door with 5.0 but Debian has taken its time and seems to be trying to get a fairly polished product out. I know that RedHat rushed quite a bit to get Hurricane out, and it shows in the speed at which the Errata list has grown. I will have to now take a closer look at the Debian distribution's efforts relative to glibc and stability. TTYL, Omega Erik Walthinsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] - SEUL Project system architect __ / \SEUL: Simple End-User Linux - || M E G ACreating a Linux distribution _\ /_ for the home or office user -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Debian Pgp question...
| On Tuesday, 13 January 98, at 12:14:19 PM | Smorrill wrote about Debian Pgp question... I have used Pgp for quite awhile with Win95, and thus have already made my secret key id number, etc. I would like to get pgp set up with Linux as I would like to move to using Debian exclusively. Anybody out there familiar with this issue of how I would use my same 1028 bit key (created under Dos, MIT pgp...2.6.2) without having to revoke the existing key a create a new one? Mount the drive that contains your pgp directory in windows. In your home directory, link .pgp to the win95 pgp directory. On my machine, ln -s /dr_c/pgp ~/.pgp 2B OR NOT 2B=FF Adam Heath of Borg-Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] Join the H.323 effort. Email http://www.debian.org - Get Your Own Linux! [EMAIL PROTECTED] with http://wwp.mirabilis.com/3375265 - Page Me the word subscribe in the body. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: hamm screen
On Wed, Jan 14, 1998 at 08:23:23PM +, Norbert Veber wrote: I am having a strange problem with the hamm version of screen, it works fine for root, but when any other user tries to run it, it just 'freezes' as in: [EMAIL PROTECTED] screen it just sits there for ever, not error message, nothing. Permissions correct on /tmp? (drwxrwxrwxt). screen creates some sockets in /tmp I believe. I'm using 3.7.4-3 here and it seems to be fine. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Lilo howto install it?
Ivan Rojas writes: Sorry for get back to the same question, I bet that millions of times you have solved this answer but this is the first time I ask it :o) I got Debian 1.3 in CDs and installed in my second hard drive, guess what is in the first one... anybody said windoze95? Well the thing is I tryed creating a small partition in the first HD ( 50Mb ) to install LILO in there. I select the LILO package in dselect but seems that is not being installed. I created a lilo.conf file and didn't work either. Am I missing something? read the man and FAQ's but no so much about it. LOADLIN.EXE and a kernel image on the root of Win95 Is the second small partition beyond cylinder 1024 of the first hard drive? Try man lilo.conf and treat Win95 as a DOS bootup! Did you read /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/LILO.gz ? -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Why /floppy -- why not /mnt/fd or something?
why `/dev/fd*'s are mounted at /floppy. I think it is a matter of convenience and tradition. Personally, I use /fd0, /fd1, etc. The RedHat method (/mnt/floppy) seems less than useful to me. The reason for this is that I always use /mnt for what it's designed for: temporary mounts. Putting subdirectories underneath /mnt for *standard* mount points seems ridiculous. If someone who doesn't know better needs to mount a temporary device on a system, they mount it on /mnt. This has the effect of completely hiding any devices (i.e. the floppy, CD, zip, etc.) from the filesystem. This is broken enough that the first thing I do when installing RedHat is to change the fstab and create the appropriate directories. TTYL, Omega P.S. I use RedHat on all my systems, I admit. I will be installing Debian in the near future (as soon as I can get another machine running *with* monitor). Erik Walthinsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] - SEUL Project system architect __ / \SEUL: Simple End-User Linux - || M E G ACreating a Linux distribution _\ /_ for the home or office user -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
SEUL packaging, etc.
Ok, so what does this have to do with Debian then? The decision to use RedHat was made before we were aware of certain initiatives. The current plan is to base SEUL on Debian, hopefully aiding in the generation of a Debian-based Linux core, which would be standardized, allowing packagers to compile their apps *once*, rather than 4 or 5 times for the existing distributions. The core would be versioned as a whole, allowing for simple dependency checking against it, and no need to test a package against innumerable distribution/version combinations. This has the effect of much reducing possible vendor excuses, as well. Neat. I hope you get it working, but until then we do have a working package system here on debian-user. We call it dpkg. Precisely. I believe what he was mentioning was some kind of front end. I have not looked at Diety, but I believe that may be much of the solution. Note that, however, Diety is designed for today's typical Linux User, which is not the target audience for SEUL. Because of that, even Diety may be overkill. I would like to make it almost trivial for a user to install a package, i.e. click in a hypertext help/wizard window and it will install what is required for functionality set X (e.g. I want to set up a dialup account with email masquerading and a DynDNS hostname, ok, that's maybe a little complex...). Hmm, well, you must not read the Debian lists then :) There's been a lot of sniping recently about 1.3.1 (bo) _NOT_ being kept up to date. Most users seem to prefer up to date whether they need it or not. That may be true of the current Linux User, as defined above, but not of the end-user that SEUL is targeting. A unified core will help much in these goals, though. does nothing to further the goal of this list: Helping Debian Users. I agree. This discussion should be moved to seul-project and/or the appropriate Debian developers list. I'm not saying your project is unimportant. I am saying that its discussion doesn't belong here. Quite right. No comment :) The use of sendmail may also be up for debate. At the time sendmail was decided upon, we had intentionally restricted our choices to sendmail and qmail. The debate was over two things: capabilities and license. sendmail came out on top in both of those categories. This does not mean that sendmail is necessarily our choice. I intend to ask people to write up their experiences with any and all MTA's they have seen, used, or just heard of (and then tried, of course). These documents will be formalized and posted to our site, and will then form the basis for a point-by-point discussion to decide which MTA is best. Once a general consensus is reached within the team responsible for this decision, we will have officially decided on one or another. There are more procedures we have yet to put into effect, partially because of lack of underlying services (our web site is still being pieced together, for instance). I hope this help clear up some questions about SEUL. If you have more, please feel free to email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (a two-person alias) and we will do our best to answer them. TTYL, Omega Erik Walthinsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] - SEUL Project system architect __ / \SEUL: Simple End-User Linux - || M E G ACreating a Linux distribution _\ /_ for the home or office user -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: SEUL: Re: SEUL distribution?
On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Erik Walthinsen wrote: I know that RedHat rushed quite a bit to get Hurricane out, and it shows in the speed at which the Errata list has grown. I will have to now take a closer look at the Debian distribution's efforts relative to glibc and stability. Stability you've got it. One good example is the Netscape installer (Navigator or Communicator) Debian. This installer fixes a few glitches where Netscape would give you a bus error. So Netscape is very stable when I run it... even with java applets in some web pages. Other distro? well, you don't have an installer for netscape. regards, =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Andre M. Varon Lasaltech Incorporated Technical Head Fax-Tel: (034)435-0836 e-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] web page: http://www.lasaltech.com/andre.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Printer name
iquest wrote: Hi, I've purchased a Laser printer and I'd like to know how do I know the name of the print that connect to my Debian box. I am able to print files without any problem. I just like to know how printer name was created (if any). Thanks! Timothy C. Phan Have a look in /etc/printcap file. If you have only one printer, the first line of the printer definition entry should look like this: Printer name>[|Printer alias>|...]\ Now if you have more than one printer, there is there are two possibilities to define a default printer. The first is to set as printer name or printer alias the key word lp. The second is to define an environment variable PRINTER to the default printer name to use. Of course, if you have only one printer you can know you printer name with the second method too. These informations should be exact but I'm not on my Linux box actually. So if something is not exact, take a look in the lpr manpage. bye -- Cedric Bapst [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X-win more effiecient than Win95?
Remco Blaakmeer wrote: Yes, and the functions are not really hidden, they're just not documented. But heck, what _is_ documented in Win95? The trouble shooting help doesn't get you far beyond is the printer switched on? and check that the cable is plugged in. Very true. I think they might have left out the important stuff to keep non-power users from getting wise to their little game of shells right off the bat. Additionally if it was the OS there wouldn't be an option in the preferences of a DOS program to hide windows from DOS programs nor the need to reboot into DOS for other programs. And those are the options you don't have on aa WinNT system. WinNT is an OS. Exactly. I'm sure (foolish?!?) that they are going to come through with a genuine graphical OS in the upcoming iteration of Windoze (98 - 99?) since there has been quite a bit of talk concerning the piece of beta crap they shipped in those Windoze boxes. Well, I have seen Win95 boxes where the explorer took very long to start up, probably due to network problems. I noticed that, before the explorer is started, Ctrl-Esc works like in Win3.x and gives you the task manager which lets you run any program (including exporer, which can be very convenient if you're having problems). Remco That may be due to explorer actually running but not displayed, but I'll have to check that out. Even so I doubt it's stable at all. Hell, Windoze isn't really stable when it's loaded normally =) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Debian 1.3.1 on Compaq ProSignia
Hello, my problem is as follows: I tried to install Debian 1.3.1 with the rescue disk to an old (7/1993) Compaq Server ProSignia 80486/66 MHz. When I try the second step of installation (partition the harddisks), an error occurs with the message: No harddisk to be found! The Server contains an EISA-board, an SCSI-2-Controller NCR 52c710 onboard, 4 harddisks (IBM. 3x1,05 GB, 1x1,2GB), an Toshiba CD-ROM and a Compaq Netflex 32 netcard. So what can I do that Linux finds the SCSI-Controller ? Thank you very much, Herbert Poehlmann -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: cdrom problem
I have the same problem with a Mitsumi cdrom on a Mad16 card. I thought it was something to do with the fact that the Mad16 is a software configurable card. Linux seems to leave the hardware in a state DOS can't recognise. I just use halt instead of reboot, and then press the reset button. Tim. PS, sorry if this has already been replied to, usa.net is about six hours slow, I'm looking for another POP mail service. --- Debian/GNU Linux... the maintainable operating system http://www.debian.org -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Problem dialing in w/AutoPPP/PAP! Help!
I can verify that turning off shadow passwords fixes the PAP problem. This is unacceptable. And it's already reported in bug 16044. Oh well. It this the case with ppp-pam installed ? If you are using ppp for dial-in, with PAP authentication, I was assuming that people will be using PAM too. Install ppp-pam_2.3.2-2.deb to get PAM support. Also ppp_2.3.2-2.deb has shadow support (I hope), where ppp_2.3.2-1.deb did not, so you could try that. There is a problem with the non-pam ppp's handling of password aging, so on the whole I'd prefer if people used PAM for dial in. I'd be interested to hear how people get on with PAM, since I don't use PAP for dial-in, so have trouble testing it. BTW I'm hoping to get pppd to be able to detect the presence of libpam at run-time, and so get rid of the ppp-pam package in the future. Cheers, Phil. PPP Meister [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Upgrade script, bo to hamm
On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, IBMackey wrote: try reinstalling the dpkg-ftp package is the only thing i can think of. are you behind a firewall of any kind? check your configuration of dpkg-ftp too... BTW, which version of the upgrade script did you run? Craig, I tried reinstalling, the dpkg -iBE just skips it saying all is well. i didn't mean run the autoupgrade script again (fortunately, it's not dangerous to run more than once on a system...it doesn't re-do stuff that it's already done). i meant reinstall just the dpkg-ftp package with 'dpkg -i ...' I'm not behind a firewall. I used v0.5 of your script. I'm intrigued if version 0.5 ran through without any errors, then the script has done it's job. it stops as soon as it encounters an error. by your suggestion to configure the dpkg-ftp. What kind of configuration does it need ??? i don't use the ftp method, but i recall that it has a passive option. try yes and try no. see if it makes any difference. it's been some time since i even looked at dpkg-ftp so there may be other options you can try. you get to reconfigure an install method - e.g. ftp - by selecting it again from the Access methods menu in dselect. craig -- craig sanders -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: xfig: Freezes when Text button is pushed
On Wed, 14 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently installed Debian 1.3.1. Have anybody else come across this? How do I proceed to debug this? I had exactly this same problem :-( My solution, while not going to hamm (with lib6) to check newer version, was use the mono chromatic version. To do this, I had to uninstall xfig and re-install it, choosing mono version at the setup. It works fair well now. []s, Mario O.de MenezesMany are the plans in a man's heart, but IPEN-CNEN/SP is the Lord's purpose that prevails http://curiango.ipen.br/~mario Prov. 19.21 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Problem dialing in w/AutoPPP/PAP! Help!
Hello Phil, On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Philip Hands wrote: I can verify that turning off shadow passwords fixes the PAP problem. This is unacceptable. And it's already reported in bug 16044. Oh well. It this the case with ppp-pam installed ? With or without. Tried both. If you are using ppp for dial-in, with PAP authentication, I was assuming that people will be using PAM too. Install ppp-pam_2.3.2-2.deb to get PAM support. I tried that as well. Also ppp_2.3.2-2.deb has shadow support (I hope), where ppp_2.3.2-1.deb did not, so you could try that. There is a problem with the non-pam ppp's handling of password aging, so on the whole I'd prefer if people used PAM for dial in. Well I did not analysed my system's password resolution THAT deep (this is my fault :)) so I cannot tell whether PAM works or not. But I installed libpam0g and libpam0g-util so I suppose it does, since me and the users are use usual login procedures as telnet or ftp, and they seem to work. [Uhh, sidenote. Checking the dependencies showed that I have no packages depending on libpam, so, ehm, could be that nobody ever cared it's there. So I cannot tell whether my PAM installation is correct or not since nobody uses it AFAIS. How to tell...?] Unfortunately I cannot tell - even using all the debugging levels are there - what is the problem when failing authentication. Isn't it possible to create a nice Just For Me pppd with extended pw fail debugging? (PAM or plain result codes, details on failing like lib fail, pw fail, aging fail, etc.) I'd glad to run it for you and tell the result! [I badly need a pppd handling libc6 utmp/wtmp correctly.] Of course I tried 2.3.2-2. Didn't worked with or without the ppp-pam package. Is the .../pam.d/ppp file correct? I'm not a PAM guru... bye, peter -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: PAP - Shadow passwords may also make a difference
I had this problem; PAP just didn't damn well work. For me, the fix was to add the following to pap-secrets: # magic fix * * * Someone on one of the linux mailing lists suggested it; it seems to be otherwise undocumented, although certainly not unimportant. Shadow passwords may also make a difference. I'm not using them here; I think last time I tried them (on ppp 2.2) I couldn't login with PAP any more either. is that true? __ IT -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: xfig: Freezes when Text button is pushed
I recently installed Debian 1.3.1. When I use xfig, everything works O.K. till I try to use text by pushing the Text button and it freezes. Ocassionally, one or two of the other buttons also give this problem. Have anybody else come across this? Yes, me. For me it was caused by xaw95 (or maybe xaw3d). Eighter uninstalling those, or installing the xaw-wrappers package helped in my case. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Potentially offensive files, part 5: /dev/random. `head -c 4 /dev/random` may print 4-letter words (once every approx 4e8 tries). -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Why /floppy -- why not /mnt/fd or something?
On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Daniel Martin at cush wrote: Peter Prohaska [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: why `/dev/fd*'s are mounted at /floppy. When reading fsstnd, you would expect them to be mounted in /mnt/someting. Since /floppy is neither one of those un*x shorties nor used during installation I can't see why it lives on the root. The floppy drive not used during installation? Depends on how you install. I use floppy installation but I don't use /floppy. I assume the floppies don't actually get mounted during installation, so you have to type /dev/fd0. But I do like /floppy as I don't normally cd there, but I can type /ftab and that's it. I'm careful to preserve unique first letters for all the frequently used top level directories. In fact, only /bin, /boot, /lib and /var don't work this way (thanks to lost+found and the kernel link). -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +44 1908 653 739 fax: +44 1908 655 151 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: PAP - Shadow passwords may also make a difference
Hello all: I have adjusted by pap-secrets file as follows: #magic fix * * not # magic fix * * * I have tested with and without shadow passwords and all works fine. I think the trick is in the /etc/mgetty/login.config. I had to specify login in the AutoPPP line. OR perhaps its some other little setting I am over looking. For example. in my /etc/ppp/ options.ttyS0 options.ttyS1 options.ttyC0 . I specify the following: *** options.ttyS0 file *** moose:moose-s0 not moose-s0:mooseas indicated in the example *** options.ttyS1 file *** moose:moose-s1 not moose-s1:mooseas indicated in the example In my /etc/hosts file I give the indicated nodes IP addresses. ie: 142.154.27.2moose--- multiport server 142.154.27.10 moose-s0 142.154.27.11 moose-s1 Peter -Original Message- From: Irmund Thum [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Thursday, January 15, 1998 7:15 AM Subject: Re: PAP - Shadow passwords may also make a difference I had this problem; PAP just didn't damn well work. For me, the fix was to add the following to pap-secrets: # magic fix * * * Someone on one of the linux mailing lists suggested it; it seems to be otherwise undocumented, although certainly not unimportant. Shadow passwords may also make a difference. I'm not using them here; I think last time I tried them (on ppp 2.2) I couldn't login with PAP any more either. is that true? __ IT -- 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: Pregunta (reply in spanish)
Hola Fabio! On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Fabio Daniel Guerra wrote: Como hago para adquirir el Programa LINUX DEBIAN. Lo nesecito urgente y no lo concigo? En el servidor de Debian (www.debian.org) puedes encontrar una lista de ellos, concretamente puedes mirarlo en http://www.debian.org/vendors.html un saludo desde Espan~a Ulisses PD: en la maling list normalmente se habla en ingles, hay mailing lists sobre linux en castellano como [EMAIL PROTECTED], si quieres mas informacion sobre ello avisame... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Pregunta (reply in spanish)
On Thu, Jan 15, 1998 at 02:23:40PM +0100, Ulisses Alonso Camaro wrote: PD: en la maling list normalmente se habla en ingles, hay mailing lists sobre linux en castellano como [EMAIL PROTECTED], si quieres mas informacion sobre ello avisame... According to ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/mailing-lists.txt we have also a spanish-language user mailing list: debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org Description : This list is used to give support for Spanish speaking users of Debian GNU/Linux. Language: spanish Moderated : no Subscription: open Ray -- Obsig: developing a new sig -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
procps_1.2.5-1.deb install error
This procps fails on install: trying to overwrite directory `/bin' in package debianutils with nondirectory Richard Nelson -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
printing
Question for the C crowd: I have a program which I wish to print an ordered text file. In the Linux Programmers Guide, the printer chapter shows how to directly talk to the printer port. I'd like to be able to send the text to the appropriate printer filter (and spooler). How would one go about doing that? -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
xauth problem
I've chased this one for a while. Martin Bialasinski tried to help via private
email, but neither of us could figure out what is wrong.
# xauth -i generate westgac3/unix:0 .
xauth: creating new authority file ~/.Xauthority
xauth: unable to open tmp file ~/.Xauthority-n
xauth: unable to write authority file ~/.Xauthority-n
With Martin's guidance, I learned about using strace, so here's the 'strace'
result:
---
# strace xauth -i generate westgac3/unix:0 .
execve(/usr/X11/bin/xauth, [xauth, -i, generate, westgac3/unix:0,
.], [/* 25 vars */]) = 0
mmap(0, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) =
0x40007000
mprotect(0x4000, 20301, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC) = 0
mprotect(0x8048000, 23763, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC) = 0
stat(/etc/ld.so.cache, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=8784, ...}) = 0
open(/etc/ld.so.cache, O_RDONLY) = 3
mmap(0, 8784, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 3, 0) = 0x40008000
close(3)= 0
open(/usr/lib/libgnumalloc.so.5, O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, \177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3..., 4096) = 4096
mmap(0, 12288, PROT_NONE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x4000b000
mmap(0x4000b000, 5832, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0) =
0x4000b000
mmap(0x4000d000, 1988, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0x1000)
= 0x4000d000
close(3)= 0
mprotect(0x4000b000, 5832, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC) = 0
stat(/etc/ld.so.preload, 0xbadc) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open(/usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6, O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, \177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3..., 4096) = 4096
mmap(0, 73728, PROT_NONE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x4000e000
mmap(0x4000e000, 62925, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0) =
0x4000e000
mmap(0x4001e000, 3612, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0xf000)
= 0x4001e000
mmap(0x4001f000, 232, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x4001f000
close(3)= 0
mprotect(0x4000e000, 62925, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC) = 0
open(/usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6, O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, \177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3..., 4096) = 4096
mmap(0, 270336, PROT_NONE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x4002
mmap(0x4002, 251891, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0) =
0x4002
mmap(0x4005e000, 13596, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3,
0x3d000) = 0x4005e000
close(3)= 0
mprotect(0x4002, 251891, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC) = 0
open(/usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6, O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, \177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3..., 4096) = 4096
mmap(0, 36864, PROT_NONE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40062000
mmap(0x40062000, 27717, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0) =
0x40062000
mmap(0x40069000, 4640, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0x6000)
= 0x40069000
close(3)= 0
mprotect(0x40062000, 27717, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC) = 0
open(/usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6, O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, \177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3..., 4096) = 4096
mmap(0, 86016, PROT_NONE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x4006b000
mmap(0x4006b000, 71563, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0) =
0x4006b000
mmap(0x4007d000, 3180, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0x11000)
= 0x4007d000
mmap(0x4007e000, 6236, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x4007e000
close(3)= 0
mprotect(0x4006b000, 71563, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC) = 0
open(/usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6, O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, \177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3..., 4096) = 4096
mmap(0, 45056, PROT_NONE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x4008
mmap(0x4008, 36153, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0) =
0x4008
mmap(0x40089000, 4300, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0x8000)
= 0x40089000
close(3)= 0
mprotect(0x4008, 36153, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC) = 0
open(/usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6, O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, \177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3..., 4096) = 4096
mmap(0, 647168, PROT_NONE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x4008b000
mmap(0x4008b000, 624417, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0) =
0x4008b000
mmap(0x40124000, 17760, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3,
0x98000) = 0x40124000
close(3)= 0
mprotect(0x4008b000, 624417, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC) = 0
open(/lib/libc.so.5, O_RDONLY)= 3
read(3, \177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3..., 4096) = 4096
mmap(0, 765952, PROT_NONE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40129000
mmap(0x40129000, 531571, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0) =
0x40129000
mmap(0x401ab000, 22276, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3,
0x81000) = 0x401ab000
mmap(0x401b1000, 205164, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
ProFTPD 1.0.0 and remote users
Has anyone setup ProFTPD? Local access is fairly snappy, but remote users find that it is excruciatingly slow from the connected message to the user prompt -- and it doesn't seem to get any faster after that either. An mget * request of a large directory (say /usr/share/games/fortunes) errors out with the message can't find list of remote files, oops Richard Nelson -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RE: [Q] ~/.xinitrc is not being read
Yes, that is what I found yesterday -- besides being named .xsesion, the file needs to be an executable -- it does not need to have #!/bin/bash -- however. Vladislav -- From: Sten Anderson[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 1998 11:45 PM To:debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc:The recipient's address is unknown. Subject: Re: [Q] ~/.xinitrc is not being read Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Jan 14, 1998 at 03:05:04PM -0500, Vladislav Papayan x285 wrote: I use now xdm to login into the system -- however it seems like my ~/.xinitrc is being ignored. .xinitrc is used for startx, and .xsession is used for xdm logins. I symlink them together here for convenience. I believe that the .xsession script must also be executable. The first line in the script should be #! /bin/sh, then do chmod +x .xsession (or do this to .xinitrc if you use the symlink method) - Sten Anderson -- 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: procps_1.2.5-1.deb install error
On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Nelson, R.A (Richard/Rick) wrote: This procps fails on install: trying to overwrite directory `/bin' in package debianutils with nondirectory Known problem fixed with procps-1.2.5-2 which is stuck in incoming at the moment. -- Scott K. Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gate.net/~storm/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Clean hamm installation
Hi, Is it already possible to install a new system directly with hamm? I need to do an install tonight, and want it to be hamm. I noticed that the hamm/main/disks-i386/current directory points to bo/disks-i386/current. Does this mean that I can install a clean libc6 system using those install disks? Or would a better approach be to install a minimal bo system and then upgrade? Maarten _ | Maarten Boekhold, Faculty of Electrical Engineering TU Delft, NL| | Computer Architecture and Digital Technique section | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: printing
Question for the C crowd: I have a program which I wish to print an ordered text file. In the Linux Programmers Guide, the printer chapter shows how to directly talk to the printer port. I'd like to be able to send the text to the appropriate printer filter (and spooler). How would one go about doing that? lpr filename See the documentation on lpr and printcap, in the lprng package. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: smail / fetchmail and ppp problems
On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, Damir J. Naden wrote: Yup, same here. It takes a *very long* time for the mail to get from fetchmail to my mailbox. Has anyone tried exim package and what (if any) downsides are to use the exim instead of the smail package? I use the smail version that came with the Debian 1.3.1 CD and do not have the same problem. I have tried several times to get exim going, but did not succeed. I have read somewhere that there maybe a problem using fetchmail and exim together. I'm using hamm versions of exim and fetchmail, and haven't had any problems related to these (fetchmail once didn't take the mda.. line as the last line of .fetchmailrc, but same thing with couple other so it wasn't related). --j -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: printing
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Question for the C crowd: I have a program which I wish to print an ordered
text file. In the Linux Programmers Guide, the printer chapter shows how to
directly talk to the printer port. I'd like to be able to send the text to the
appropriate printer filter (and spooler). How would one go about doing that?
Send your file to the lpr command. This is easier than it may at
first seem because of the popen command that allows one to open a pipe
as if it were a regular file; for example:
FILE *outputf;
if (should_print) outputf = popen(lpr, w);
else outputf = fopen(tmpfilename, w);
Or even:
FILE *outputf;
char buffer[256];
if (should_print) {
sprintf(buffer, lpr -P%s, printer_name);
outputf = popen(buffer, w);
} else outputf = fopen(tmpfilename, w);
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Re: Clean hamm installation
On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Maarten Boekhold wrote: I noticed that the hamm/main/disks-i386/current directory points to bo/disks-i386/current. Does this mean that I can install a clean libc6 system using those install disks? Or would a better approach be to install a minimal bo system and then upgrade? Base disks are in the works. In the mean time, install bo first and upgrade (I'd suggest trying the script). Brandon -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: printing
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Question for the C crowd: I have a program which I wish to print an ordered text file. In the Linux Programmers Guide, the printer chapter shows how to directly talk to the printer port. I'd like to be able to send the text to the appropriate printer filter (and spooler). How would one go about doing that? FILE *fp; fp = popen(lpr, w); fprintf(fp, Hello world\n); pclose(fp); See the manual page for popen() Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | The dyslexic, agnostic, insomniac lay in his bed [EMAIL PROTECTED] | awake all night wondering if there is a doG -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: printing
Question for the C crowd: I have a program which I wish to print an ordered
text file. In the Linux Programmers Guide, the printer chapter shows how to
directly talk to the printer port. I'd like to be able to send the text to the
appropriate printer filter (and spooler). How would one go about doing that?
My quick and dirty attempt (I checked that it does compile though)
would be:
#include stdio.h
#include stdlib.h
int main(void) {
FILE *fp;
char* printername = bla;
char command[1024];
sprintf(command, lpr -P%s, printername);
fp = popen(command, w);
if(fp == NULL) {
fprintf(stderr, Could not output to printer %s\n, printername);
perror(NULL);
exit(1);
}
fprintf(fp, This goes to the filter known to /etc/printcap as %s\n,
printername);
pclose(fp);
}
The interesting thing is in the popen()/pclose() functions. You might
want to check the man page on those. Problem is you cannot read error
messages from the lpr command in your program. If you cannot live with
that, it will get much more complicated (interesting reading material
about communication betweeen processes is in the comp.unix.programmer
faq).
Eric Meijer
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Re: xauth problem
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've chased this one for a while. Martin Bialasinski tried to help via private email, but neither of us could figure out what is wrong. open(~/.Xauthority, O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) access(~/.Xauthority, F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) The kernel does not know about ~/ as an abbreviation of the homedirectory, that's why it fails. I think you have set some environment variable which xauth uses to ~/ or similar instead of the full path to your homedirectory. Check out the output of set and/or printenv to find out which variable. Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | The dyslexic, agnostic, insomniac lay in his bed [EMAIL PROTECTED] | awake all night wondering if there is a doG -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ProFTPD 1.0.0 and remote users
Has anyone setup ProFTPD? Local access is fairly snappy, but remote users find that it is excruciatingly slow from the connected message to the user prompt -- and it doesn't seem to get any faster after that either. An mget * request of a large directory (say /usr/share/games/fortunes) errors out with the message can't find list of remote files, oops I am using proftpd to host Debian and GNU mirrors as well as some files of my own, and no one has complained. You can try it out at pfaffben.user.msu.edu, if you want. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Clean hamm installation
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Re: Clean hamm installation
Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Maarten Boekhold wrote: I noticed that the hamm/main/disks-i386/current directory points to bo/disks-i386/current. Does this mean that I can install a clean libc6 system using those install disks? Or would a better approach be to install a minimal bo system and then upgrade? Base disks are in the works. In the mean time, install bo first and upgrade (I'd suggest trying the script). There is no need to install the entire Bo dist. Install only the Bo base system using the base floppies. At the end of the installation process dselect is started. Quit immediately, and do a manual bo-hamm upgrade of the base system (by using the script or the howto). When then the base system is upgraded to libc6 you can start dselect again and point it to the hamm dist. - Sten Anderson -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: xauth problem
Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've chased this one for a while. Martin Bialasinski tried to help via private email, but neither of us could figure out what is wrong. open(~/.Xauthority, O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) access(~/.Xauthority, F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) The kernel does not know about ~/ as an abbreviation of the homedirectory, that's why it fails. I think you have set some environment variable which xauth uses to ~/ or similar instead of the full path to your homedirectory. Check out the output of set and/or printenv to find out which variable. To be more specific, it is the shell (bash, csh, whatever) which expands '~' into the path for your home directory. You probably put this in your .bash_profile: XAUTHORITY=~/.Xauthority Putting the '~' within quotes keeps the shell from performing the expansion. As a pure example try the following commands: echo ~ echo ~ echo \~ Here's a tip for you though: if you are trying to create the .Xauthority so you can run things from X when you logged in as your regular user there's a better (easier) way. Let's say that I logged into xdm on my workstation as the user myself. Now I need to do a few administration things so I have to su to root. After I 'su' I just do: export XAUTHORITY=~myself/.Xauthority And off I go. Note that this works because although the perms on an Xauthority file are always set to 0600, root can read *any* file. -- 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] .
Windows NT Debian
This is the output from my Linux box that won't attach to my network: boot.info Description: Binary data ethernet.info Description: Binary data route.info Description: Binary data
Re: hamm screen
On Thu, Jan 15, 1998 at 04:52:01PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Wed, Jan 14, 1998 at 08:23:23PM +, Norbert Veber wrote: I am having a strange problem with the hamm version of screen, it works fine for root, but when any other user tries to run it, it just 'freezes' as in: [EMAIL PROTECTED] screen it just sits there for ever, not error message, nothing. Permissions correct on /tmp? (drwxrwxrwxt). screen creates some sockets in /tmp I believe. I'm using 3.7.4-3 here and it seems to be fine. yes, they are: drwxrwxrwt 3 root root 4096 Jan 15 12:02 tmp I use 3.7.4-4, I've noticed that it does not make any files in /tmp even when I run it as root. I remember that the bo screen used to make something like /tmp/screens/username.. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Lilo howto install it?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Try man lilo.conf Did you read /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/LILO.gz ? Or even better: Read the Lilo User Guide. It resides in /usr/doc/lilo. Unfortunately only as latex source. gunzip all files in the directory and type make. That should generate user.dvi and tech.dvi. If you prefer postscript try dvips user.dvi -o - Sten Anderson -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Whiney little request
Hello everybody, I have a minor little request. Does anybody else miss the xbiff program in debian? I can't seem to even find the SOURCE code anywere. I am fully aware that this is an extremely minor request and is just filler for your mailbox but I would like to see it as part of the default. Anyone else? Thanks, -Rich P.S. I've just installed debian (good riddance to slackware) and beleive I encountered a bug when trying to install netscape. Did anybody else have a similar problem? I kept getting an error where dselect told me that the the netscape.tar.gz file should be in my /tmp directory. Does this sound familar to anybody? In anycase, netscape did not install so I picked it up from the netscape website via lynx. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Whiney little request
On Thu, Jan 15, 1998 at 10:17:02AM -0700, Richard Wicks wrote: Hello everybody, I have a minor little request. Does anybody else miss the xbiff program in debian? I can't seem to even find the SOURCE code anywere. I am fully aware that this is an extremely minor request and is just filler for your mailbox but I would like to see it as part of the default. Anyone else? xbiff is in the xcontrib package in hamm, it is probably in the equivalent bo package as well Thanks, -Rich P.S. I've just installed debian (good riddance to slackware) and beleive I encountered a bug when trying to install netscape. Did anybody else have a similar problem? I kept getting an error where dselect told me that the the netscape.tar.gz file should be in my /tmp directory. Does this sound familar to anybody? In anycase, netscape did not install so I picked it up from the netscape website via lynx. netscape is not distributed with debian, the package you are talking about is just an installer script. you have to get it with lynx as you did, then place the tar.gz in /tmp and the netscape*.deb takes care of installation for you.. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Whiney little request
Xbiff is there. http://cgi.debian.org/www-master/debian.org/Packages/stable/x11/xcontrib.html There are also other alternatives to xbiff that are similar but do niftier things. Hit http://www.debian.org/packages.html and search for xbiff. encountered a bug when trying to install netscape. Did anybody else have a similar problem? I kept getting an error where dselect told me that the the netscape.tar.gz file should be in my /tmp directory. Netscape can't be redistributed by anyone except Netscape Inc. without paying large fees. You have to download the netscape.tar.gz from netscape.com, put it in /tmp, and the netscape package .deb will install if for you. Will -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/ | -- | So don't beg, and don't plead. | | You can't have the heart you make bleed. | |-- The Beautiful South, Love is... | -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Staroffice 3.1 core-dumps.
Hi I installed Staroffice 3.1 using the debian installer .deb's All seemed to have gone fine, but when I run setup to do the per-user setup bit, it coredumps... Also if I run swriter3, or any of the other binaries, it also tries to run the setup bit, which core-dumps of course, and then complains about the user setup not being done. Running a Hamm system that is about a week old since the last update. Quick hack to make it work rename /usr/X11R6/lib to /usr/X11R6/libx run the staroffice setup rename /usr/X11R6/libx to /usr/X11R6/lib Would there be anything wrong with just making a symbolic link? And leaveing it there (in case there are any other hair-brained apps looking for a funny lib To answer myself, no, a link don't work, only re-naming. Anyway, thanks for the quick, correct answer :) -- Scott K. Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gate.net/~storm/ Cheers Neilen -- E-Mail: Neilen Marais [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 15-Jan-98 Time: 02:07:55 This message was sent by XFMail -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: proftpd
I can't seem to do a recursive get on proftpd. Anything I should set in config file? -- *) Aria -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ProFTPD 1.0.0 and remote users
Thanks, I've verified the problem on your system as well --- Users behind a firewall see the hang betwixt connect/user prompt and then a hang during a ls (right after passive mode is entered). When I do the same from my ISP (no firewall), I see no delay at all. I've sent a bug report to the ProFTPD 1.0.0 author, have installed wu-ftpd-academ again untill I hear back. Richard Nelson -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Staroffice 3.1 core-dumps.
On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Neilen Marais wrote: Hi I installed Staroffice 3.1 using the debian installer .deb's All seemed to have gone fine, but when I run setup to do the per-user setup bit, it coredumps... Also if I run swriter3, or any of the other binaries, it also tries to run the setup bit, which core-dumps of course, and then complains about the user setup not being done. Running a Hamm system that is about a week old since the last update. Quick hack to make it work rename /usr/X11R6/lib to /usr/X11R6/libx run the staroffice setup rename /usr/X11R6/libx to /usr/X11R6/lib Would there be anything wrong with just making a symbolic link? And leaveing it there (in case there are any other hair-brained apps looking for a funny lib The problem is that the setup program is finding the xlib6g libs there, which causes it a problem since it needs the regular xlib6 libs. Renaming the directory moves the xlib6g stuff completely out of ld.so's path. This will, of course, break running new X stuff until the directory is put back, but it allows the setup program to find the correct libraries in /usr/lib/libc5-compat -- Scott K. Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gate.net/~storm/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: xauth problem
On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've chased this one for a while. Martin Bialasinski tried to help via
private
email, but neither of us could figure out what is wrong.
open(~/.Xauthority, O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
access(~/.Xauthority, F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
The kernel does not know about ~/ as an abbreviation of the homedirectory,
that's why it fails. I think you have set some environment variable which
xauth uses to ~/ or similar instead of the full path to your
homedirectory.
Check out the output of set and/or printenv to find out which variable.
To be more specific, it is the shell (bash, csh, whatever) which expands '~'
into
the path for your home directory. You probably put this in your .bash_profile:
XAUTHORITY=~/.Xauthority
The solution is, of course:
XAUTHORITY=${HOME}/.Xauthority
(AFAIK, $HOME is already set when /etc/profile is run)
But this is the default location. I think it is better to not set the
variable at all if you don't have a good reason to set it.
Remco
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odd login prompt
On my hamm system if I misspell my password and get a new prompt, it appears that issue is not parsed, simply printed. My prompt is something like0 Debian \s 2.0 hamm \n. On initial login it is fine. I have discovered that this happens even if I just hit enter at the login prompt. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RE: printing
Þann 15-Jan-98 skrifar [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Question for the C crowd: I have a program which I wish to print an ordered text file. In the Linux Programmers Guide, the printer chapter shows how to directly talk to the printer port. I'd like to be able to send the text to the appropriate printer filter (and spooler). How would one go about doing that? Put the ordered file into a temporary one, and execl 'lpr' on that file, removing it when 'lpr' is done... or open a pipe to 'lpr'. Orn Einar Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice+fax; +46 035 217194 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
a hamm question
Hello all, I am wondering about Debian 2.0... WIll it have more SCSI drivers in the basic install package? 1.3.1 (at least the one I got, from cheapbytes) only offered the ncr8x0. I will be using aha152x and pas16 SCSI on my Linux systems. Martin Jackson: [EMAIL PROTECTED] === Information Science Major Mankato State University === -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: xauth problem
Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've chased this one for a while. Martin Bialasinski tried to help via
private
email, but neither of us could figure out what is wrong.
open(~/.Xauthority, O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
access(~/.Xauthority, F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
The kernel does not know about ~/ as an abbreviation of the
homedirectory,
that's why it fails. I think you have set some environment variable which
xauth uses to ~/ or similar instead of the full path to your
homedirectory.
Check out the output of set and/or printenv to find out which
variable.
To be more specific, it is the shell (bash, csh, whatever) which expands
'~' into
the path for your home directory. You probably put this in your
.bash_profile:
XAUTHORITY=~/.Xauthority
The solution is, of course:
XAUTHORITY=${HOME}/.Xauthority
(AFAIK, $HOME is already set when /etc/profile is run)
But this is the default location. I think it is better to not set the
variable at all if you don't have a good reason to set it.
Ah, but in the situation I described, you want to point to the logged-in user's
Xauthority, not roots, so using your command above will not work since once you
su HOME
will be root's home directory. Also as you point out you don't need to set it.
I believe
xdm provides it. Also, you must make sure to 'export' the variable.
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Re: a hamm question
WIll it have more SCSI drivers in the basic install package? 1.3.1 (at least the one I got, from cheapbytes) only offered the ncr8x0. I will be using aha152x and pas16 SCSI on my Linux systems. 1.3.1 does support other scsi drivers, including aha152x. But it doesn't autoprobe for many of these. For instance, if you are using the default settings for your aha152x, then you need to give the following argument to the kernel when it boots: aha152x=0x140,11,7,1 and it will detect the card. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: SVGATextMode - thanks for help
On Wed, Jan 14, 1998 at 07:06:55PM -0500, Igor Grobman wrote: On Wed, Jan 14, 1998 at 04:48:30PM -0500, Igor Grobman wrote: - don't use SVGATextMode if X is started Why? works fine here. He's right. X Server looks at the Textmode to save and restore it properly, but only once at startup-time. It then assumes that the mode keeps the same. So it fails to restore it properly if you switched mode in the meantime. Try: stm 100x37; startx; change back to console; stm 80x25; change to X and back to console, you get a skewed screen. It always worked fine for me here, and it does now, but the manpage does mention that X-server indeed only saves textmode once at startup-time. Maybe it only works for some vidcards, or maybe the more likely reason is that I am running the latest X-server(3.3.1-2) while bo has 3.3 which is older. Wait a minute - I have 3.3.1-1, so it has to be the server / graphic card (I use s3 server for trio64 hercules card). Nice to hear it works for you ;) Marcus -- Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.Debian GNU/Linuxfinger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.orgmaster.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
BIND question
I have a problem with BIND. We have a medium-sized network (192.168.0.0) connected to the internet via a dial-on-demand ISDN line. We pay by the minute, so we want to keep connect-time to a minimum. The ISDN router basically masquerades the internal network. I want to run a nameserver on my Linux box on the 192.168.0.0 network. I want to set it up with a couple of features: 1. It should cache 'real' addresses from outside. 2. It should forward unknown queries about 'real' addresses to a nearby nameserver on the other of the ISDN line. 3. It should serve as a primary nameserver for the 192.168.0.0 domain. 4. It should not forward any unknown queries about the 192.168.0.0 net over the ISDN line. I have got it configured to do 1, 2, and 3. However, i dont have a complete database of 192.168.0.0 names, and queries that arent satisfied by my zone database are forwarded. Is there any way around this? Any help is appreciated. Sebastian -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: BIND question
On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: I want to run a nameserver on my Linux box on the 192.168.0.0 network. I want to set it up with a couple of features: 1. It should cache 'real' addresses from outside. 2. It should forward unknown queries about 'real' addresses to a nearby nameserver on the other of the ISDN line. 3. It should serve as a primary nameserver for the 192.168.0.0 domain. 4. It should not forward any unknown queries about the 192.168.0.0 net over the ISDN line. I have got it configured to do 1, 2, and 3. However, i dont have a complete database of 192.168.0.0 names, and queries that arent satisfied by my zone database are forwarded. Is there any way around this? Any help is appreciated. The newest version of bind allows for configuration of forwarding in the named.conf file. See /usr/doc/bind/manual/options.html for details. Your should be able to do what you need. -- Jean Pierre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: odd login prompt
Shaleh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On my hamm system if I misspell my password and get a new prompt, it appears that issue is not parsed, simply printed. My prompt is something like0 Debian \s 2.0 hamm \n. On initial login it is fine. I have discovered that this happens even if I just hit enter at the login prompt. This would seem to imply that getty (which issues the first prompt) parses /etc/issue, but login (which issues subsequent login prompts) does not. I'd file a bug against login. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: XDM,KDM on DEBIAN 1.31
On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Herr Detlev Scholz (ODIS) wrote: Now i installed the KDE-desktop on the box. The KDE is working well, when i start with startx. When i try to aktivate XDM or KDM, the Xserver starts, asks for login but after login it seems that the Xserver crashes and XDM is started again asking for username. Look in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc, and add export KDEDIR=/usr/local/kde or the right dir. ciao Michele -- Dalla Silvestra Michele finger://[EMAIL PROTECTED] Key fingerprint = 68 02 A9 C7 FB 05 9E 9C C7 B6 4A 13 61 25 5B 43 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Bo with Wine
Is there a way to keep the bo distribution of debian and install Wine? I was thinking that you might could downgrade and use the older version of libc5 which doesn't conflict w libc6, then just add the libc6 program, make links, and then install wine. Then you could just wait until Hamm becomes Bo again. Anyway, that's my idea, has anybody tried it? Are there any pitfalls? ib -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Bo with Wine
On Thu, Jan 15, 1998 at 02:15:49PM -0600, IBMackey wrote: Is there a way to keep the bo distribution of debian and install Wine? I was thinking that you might could downgrade and use the older version of libc5 which doesn't conflict w libc6, then just add the libc6 program, make links, and then install wine. Then you could just wait until Hamm becomes Bo again. Anyway, that's my idea, has anybody tried it? Are there any pitfalls? just get the source and compile it, its just as easy.. :) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: more from the ppp battlefield
At 04:18 PM 1/14/98 -0500, you wrote: On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, dave mallery wrote: i finally just killed the process supporting the mouse... i guess there is a way in some init control file to prevent it from starting gpm. /etc/rc*.d/*gpm Serial connection established. Using interface ppp0 Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyS0 then... it reports pairs of LCP ConfReq and ConfNak messages it looks like each one is echoed back immediately... after ten pairs, it reports: Serial line is looped back and shuts down. : ( onr thing i notice is that the connection was at 14.4 and my options show 38.4... however, i can read the banner, etc and the password was passed ok. The chatscript probably finished before the provider was ready for ppp to start. Dial in with something like minicom, and do the process by hand. There is probably something at the end you forgot. Good luck, Brandon hi thanks for the reply. (blush) i had the wrong password for logging in... it starts with a captial P, not lower case. now i can ping with abandon all over the net. now i am back to work finding how to get my mail from the isp's mail server. should i use elm or pine or...?? do they work like Eudora and go thru a connection dialog with the mail server every so often?? i re-configured my smail for network. any other suggestions? thanx again dave -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Mail notification
Hi, I have a number of mail boxes, to handle the different lists I am on. I use procmail to filter the mails to the right folders. I have put: MAIL='/var/spool/mail/tim;/home/tim/mail/debian-user;/home/tim/mail/seul- project' MAILCHECK=10 into my .bash_profile. I have tried the same MAIL variable as MAILPATH but this didn't work. Also, how can I have mail that have been cross posted still sorted into the correct boxes? At the moment procmail looks at the TO headers, but if something is crossposted, all the mails go into the same box. I think I need to set something in a different header, but I don't know what it is. Thanks for any help, Tim. --- Debian/GNU Linux... the maintainable operating system. http://www.debian.org -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
