PPP kernel support loss ?? and other UNIX drivers

1998-01-21 Thread Hogland, Thomas E.
Have had this happen on two different systems now and am at a loss as to
why or how to fix. 

I install the base system and everything goes fine. Have a PPP script
saved on disk to enable PPP for Dselect FTP. After I restart the PC and
get the press enter to start dselect message I switch to tty2, load
the ppp script stuff and ppp-up to dial and connect. (On tty3 I use
tail -f /var/log/messages and wait for the IP address to be assigned
from my ISP, then back to dselect.) Start dselect, select method, select
generic install (no adds or deletes at all to start), download... All
goes fine. Usually is overnight, so by morning the PPP link has timed
out and hung up (per tty3 messages). Unpack, install, configure - get an
error on smail, mailx, cron and at that it can't resolve my host and
mail names. Try to bring up PPP in tty2 again and get the message that
the kernel lacks PPP support. Can restart the PC to no effect, can
reinstall PPP scripts to no effect, can switch directories amongst the
/etc family to no effect. Kernel is 2.0.29 and 2.0.30 (two different
systems, total of 4 or 5 installs). The PC's are both Compaqs - a
Prolinea MT 4/33 (AMD 486/133, 24MB RAM, two 500MB IDE) and a Presario
4840 (PII/266, 6GB IDE, 32MB RAM). The Prolinea has been formatted and
reinstalled 4x, the Presario is a fresh install on a single clean
partition (didn't even fdisk it in DOS before the install!). WHY, HOW,
and (now that the shouting is over and I feel better) how do we fix
this? 

Also, can I use drivers for UNIX SVR3.2, SCO UNIX and/or SCO XENIX under
Debian? (Have a dialup board that comes with those. Company's response
to Do you have Linux drivers? is Nope, but if you buy ___ board for
lotsa $$$ we have them...)


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Re: ftpproxy with dselect

1998-01-21 Thread Stephen Zander
Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Here's a pretty kettle of fish: 
 the method recently recommened for ftp proxies with dselect doesn't work,
 because my lovely isp requires you to login to the proxy using your
 username and password, and to get to the site by issuing a
 
 ftp user [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Shouldn't be a problem as that case is specifically handled by the perl
Net::FTP module dpkg-ftp relies for ftp support.  Try setting the
FTP_FIREWALL environment variable to your isp's proxy, leaving the dpkg-ftp
info as it was. Does it help at all?

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Re: command set

1998-01-21 Thread Britton

O'Rielly's Linux in a Nutshell is a good summary of common commands.  It
has lists of user, administrative, and network commands, a list of options
for each, and a short description of the commands functionality.

On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, J.P. Beebe wrote:

 I'm trying to learn how to use Linux. Can you tell me where I can find a
 command set for it? I don't know how to maneuvre in this system at all. 
 Thanks!
 J.P. Beebe
 
 
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Re: Two Monitors

1998-01-21 Thread Britton

I read an article in LJ describing the Metro-X server (I think that was it
anyway), which can drive multiple video cards (though only with the right
cards).  I don't know if Xfree has any support for this sort of thing, or
exactly how it would shake out with interrupts and such.  I too am
interested in this.  If you find anything else out let me know.

On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, Richard L Shepherd wrote:

 Has anyone any experience in using two monitors on one machine.  I'm
 thinking particularly of X.  I can get a second video card (which I guess
 is mandatory or there'd be nowhere to plug the second one in right?).
 
 What I'm really interested in is getting the tow side-by-side and having X
 treat them as one big screen (similar to the way Macintosh's can do this).
 Is this possible?  Or is my best bet to run up X :0 and X :1 and use
 Ctrl-Alt-F[78] to switch between them?
 
 I'd be interested to hear...
 
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Bug#15854 should be release-critical (was Re: buzz upgrade report)

1998-01-21 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
 It sounds like you are talking about Bug#15854.  On 11 Dec 1997
the maintainer's response to the bug report included a patch to fix
it, which he said would be included in perl 5.004.04-4.  

 My rex system contains non-empty directories that trigger this
problem, but my bo system does not.  I don't know if some bo systems
have them, or if all rex systems do.  It may depend on the upgrade
history of a particular box.

 As of last night, perl 5.004.04-4 was not on ftp.debian.org.  I
believe this should be considered a release-critical bug, as it can
break the auto upgrade script, leaving a system in an unstable
state.  

Bob

On Wed, 21 Jan 1998 10:31:32 +1100, Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
 Except that perl's postinst tries to clean up the mess in
 /usr/lib/perl5/i486-linux but fails, so the postinst
 fails and therefore the configuration of a whole lot of other
 packages fails too. I will file a bug report.


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Re: Bug#15854 should be release-critical (was Re: buzz upgrade report)

1998-01-21 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Jan 20, 1998 at 07:21:09PM -0500, Robert D. Hilliard wrote:
  It sounds like you are talking about Bug#15854.  On 11 Dec 1997
 the maintainer's response to the bug report included a patch to fix
 it, which he said would be included in perl 5.004.04-4.  
 
  My rex system contains non-empty directories that trigger this
 problem, but my bo system does not.  I don't know if some bo systems
 have them, or if all rex systems do.  It may depend on the upgrade
 history of a particular box.
 
  As of last night, perl 5.004.04-4 was not on ftp.debian.org.  I
 believe this should be considered a release-critical bug, as it can
 break the auto upgrade script, leaving a system in an unstable
 state.  

Yes I found that /usr/lib/perl5/i486-linux/5.002/auto/Socket 
still contained two files, which caused problems in the postinst.

Actually, they still exist on my hamm box (upgraded buzz-rex-bo-hamm)
but I'm still running 5.004.02-1; just upgraded to 5.004.04-3 and
had the same problem, error 123.

dpkg doesn't seem to know which package owns the files in that directory
though, so it's somebody's bug of the past. But perl needs to deal with it
now.


Hamish


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Re: Newbie --Adding Programs To My Debian Base

1998-01-21 Thread IBMackey


On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, Will Lowe wrote:

 On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, IBMackey wrote:
 
  I've been using debian for about 5 weeks. I'm just starting to think about
  adding some programs, not in the packages, to my system. One such program
  came in the form of program.bin.gz. I figure I can use my debian gunzip
  to get the first part of it unzipped. I have no idea what to do with the
  program.bin. Any help is sorely appreciated.
 
 Unzip it and put program.bin in /usr/local/bin/
 
 Then make sure /usr/local/bin is in your path,  and run the program from
 the command line with 
 
 program.bin
 
Will,
Thanks a lot. I think you left out the chmod 755 program.bin hint also.

i.b.

Also, to Craig Sanders,
I'm working up to that level,
Thanx



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xntpd

1998-01-21 Thread Camm Maguire
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted as well.

Greetings!  What's the best way to keep xntpd from making discrete
time adjustments (steps) to the clock when running across a dialup
Internet connection which periodically becomes saturated?  (i.e. xntpd
sees a different delay pattern when the line saturates, and falsely
adjusts the clock.)

Thanks!
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Re: Two Monitors

1998-01-21 Thread tjferrell
On 20 Jan, Britton wrote:
 
 I read an article in LJ describing the Metro-X server (I think that was it
 anyway), which can drive multiple video cards (though only with the right
 cards).  I don't know if Xfree has any support for this sort of thing, or
 exactly how it would shake out with interrupts and such.  I too am
 interested in this.  If you find anything else out let me know.
 

You hit the nail on the head so to speak... Both Metro-X and Accel-X
have supprot for multiple monitors (Metro-X has supprot built in -
Accel-X charges extra) and in both cases you are limited in respect to
what video adapters are supported.

HTH,
Tim

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notes on upgrade from bo to hamm

1998-01-21 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
   I just finished upgrading from bo to hamm.  It worked almost
flawlessly.  Here are my notes.




   After running the upgrade script, any new bashes that i start dont
work with set -o vi, even if i run that command manually.  The problem
appears only on the linux console, if i telnet it with a VT100 terminal
emulator then vi keybindings work right.




   X doesnt work any more...  When i try to start my X server, it switches
to video mode and hangs.  I have to log in remotely and reboot.


   I had a working X installation under Debian 1.3.1.  I did the upgrade
to hamm, and tried to run X.  It hung.  I reconfigured it using XF86Setup.
The VGA server ran fine, but when it tried to start the S3 serveer it
freaked out as above.


   The partition with my /usr on it filled up while i was upgrading X.
I saw no complaints from the packages being installed, fixed the problem
(freed up a bunch of space by moving the kernel sources off) and continued
the install.  Perhaps one of the X packages does not properly deal with
disk-is-full errors?  I'll try uninstalling everything and installing
it fresh on a roomier disk.




   A couple of problems with installation and configuration of specific
packages:


Unpacking libc6-dev (from .../devel/libc6-dev_2.0.6-2.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing 
/usr/local/tmp/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/devel/libc6-dev_2.0.6-2.deb
 (--install):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/include/ndbm.h', which is also in package 
libgdbmg1-dev
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)

   I uninstalled libgdbmg1-dev and installed libc6-dev, then it worked.


Preparing to replace gv 2.9.4-3 (using .../text/gv_3.5.8-4.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement gv ...
dpkg: error processing 
/home/kuzminsk/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/text/gv_3.5.8-4.deb 
(--install):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/include/X11/pixmaps/mini-gv.xpm', which is 
also in package fvwm-common


Preparing to replace wu-ftpd 2.4-27 (using .../net/wu-ftpd_2.4-27.1.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement wu-ftpd ...
dpkg: error processing 
/home/kuzminsk/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/net/wu-ftpd_2.4-27.1.deb 
(--install):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/man/man8/ftpd.8.gz', which is also in package netstd


dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of grmonitor:
 grmonitor depends on glut3g (= 3.5-1); however:
  Package glut3g is not installed.
dpkg: error processing grmonitor (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured

   This one's just a typo, the package it REALLY depends on is called
glutg3.  I dont know which should change, the package name or the
dependency.




   All in all i think that went real smooth.  Thanks a lot everybody!




Sebastian


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Re: PPP kernel support loss ?? and other UNIX drivers

1998-01-21 Thread Shaleh
May or may not affect you.  Check perms on /dev/ttyS?, needs to be group
dialout, and on ppp scripits.  PPP from debian assumes that you are in
group dip or root.  As I have seen it explained PPP actually is trying
to load over console, and there is no PPP support for PPP over a
console.


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Help !! On Installing and Upgrading.

1998-01-21 Thread Ian Perry
Please help.

I am relatively new to linux, and having trtied for several days now
require some assistance.

My question relates to the installation of 'unstable' sections, into the
Debian 1.3 system, where conflicts between the current 'stable' version 1.3
packages installed and the Debian 'unstable' packages.

The problem I have is...

I was examining the hamm (unstable) distributions and downloaded the Socks4
server package, and the libraries and dependants to go with it.   During
install I was warned that libc6 conflicted with libc5.  A force manual
install and configure merely, as expected, renders the system unusable as
libc5 is removed, and much of the 'stable' system requires libc5.

What is required to allow the installation of libc6 either with the safe
removal of libc5, without crashing the system, or having the two co-exist
on the same system, or cant the two be mixed ?  How is it done ?

I have searched the Debian web site but as yet can find no immediate
answer.

Thanks

Ian Perry
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Re: Local printing on server

1998-01-21 Thread Bostjan Jerko
At 16:50 20.1.98 -0500, you wrote:
On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, Bostjan Jerko wrote:

Connection refused 
 job 'cfA206debian' trasfer to [EMAIL PROTECTED] failed after 1 
 attempts
 
 I already checked hosts.lpd (ALL and localhost), hosts.allow (ALL, debian
 and localhost) and hosts (localhost, debian).

/etc/printcap

Probably worth your time to install magicfilter or apsfilter (but the
latter doesn't have a maintainer anymore).

Brandon

 You will be suprised, but I installed apsfilter. Maybe it was a mistake so
I will try with magicfilter.

Bostjan


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Linux and ADSL

1998-01-21 Thread rob
Hi there,

My local phone company is offering internet access through ADSL and I'm 
considering hooking up with them.  Could someone tell me what all would be 
involved in changing over my Linux box to use their ADSL instead of using 
my dialup PPP?  Does their modem require special drivers?

thanks,

rob


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MWave Modem

1998-01-21 Thread tommy knocker
I have an IBM computer with debian installed and it uses an internal 
Mwave modem.  I can't seem so write a script that will initialize the 
modem.  Does anybody have a script that will work with this modem that I 
can look at?  

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Upload files via web browser

1998-01-21 Thread iquest
Hi,

  I'd like to know how do I can create a web page that would
  allow the user browsing at the page to upload files
  to the server.

  I've seen the other way around where the user can download
  file from the server.  But for this case, the user is the
  client that uploads file to the server. Let assume the web
  page is for internal users only for now.

  Any CGI, JavaScript, Java, etc. pointers,  please email me.
  Thanks!


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Backup system

1998-01-21 Thread rob

Hi there,

I would like to set up a simple Backup system for a linux server I'm 
setting up.  I hear that linux has great support for floppy tape drives. 
 Anyone recommend a good one with least amount of troubles getting to work?

The system I would like to set up is to have a cron that backs up the 
entire drive to tape every 48 hours or so while everyone is sleeping.  I 
would also like to create a boot disk that anyone could use in the event of 
a hard drive failure.  After a new drive was installed the disk would boot, 
fdisk and format (if possible), and then dump the contents of whatever is 
on the tape back to the disk.

Is this possible?  Can anyone suggest what would be the best way to go 
about setting this up?  Anyone done something like this already or know 
where I can find someone who has?

thanks for any advice,

rob


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VM (Emacs mail reader) maintainer?

1998-01-21 Thread William R Ward
The VM mail reader has recently gone through several releases but the
Debian package isn't keeping up.  I've been installing it in
/usr/local/whatever but would like to be able to use the .deb files.
Who maintains this (or how can I find out)?  I would like to encourage
him/her to stay on top of the new releases of VM 

--Bill.

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Re: *-* auto-upgrade from rex to hamm

1998-01-21 Thread Carey Evans
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 does rex = rexx  (script language found in OS/2 amongst others)

As others have pointed out, no.  But REXX == Regina, a package in
to-be-2.0.

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Re: Upload files via web browser

1998-01-21 Thread Carey Evans
iquest [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

   I'd like to know how do I can create a web page that would
   allow the user browsing at the page to upload files
   to the server.

[snip]

Some browsers (like Netscape) support this.  I recommend doing the
necessary CGI programming using CGI.pm from Perl.  ISTR all the
necessary documentation comes with CGI.pm.

For Debian 1.3, install CGI-modules and libwww-perl.  The modules are
part of Perl 5.004 in hamm.

(This is all IIRC and IMHO, BTW.)

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Re: Upload files via web browser

1998-01-21 Thread A. M. Varon
   I'd like to know how do I can create a web page that would
   allow the user browsing at the page to upload files
   to the server.

If you have an FTP server on your web server, type this in your netscape:

ftp://e-mail address

example: ftp://[EMAIL PROTECTED]

It will ask you for your password and you can now upload your web page.
The only problem is... you could upload only one file at a time.

If you want to upload many files, go get netscape gold or netscape
communicator. It has a facility to upload plenty of files on your web
server.

regards,

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debian

1998-01-21 Thread Koen Muylkens
If i want a grafical enviroment on Linux wich on should I take and
how do I install it ? , Is X window good ?
THX


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Gzip + Dselect after libc6 upgrade

1998-01-21 Thread Brian Skreeg
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 Hi folks, `fraid I`m still having bother with gzip and dselect. I`ve
 upgraded to libc6 quite successfully. Everything works hunkydory but
 dselect always gives this error when installing. dpkg -i works fine
 on it`s own.
 
 Error;
 
 gzip: stdout: Broken pipe
 dpkg-deb: subprocess gzip -dc returned error exit status 1
 dpkg: error processing 
 debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/doc/doc-linux-html_98.01-1.deb 
 (--install):
  subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2

Can the person who sent me a reply to this problem please get in touch
again. Your mail had just quoted text in it and noone else has replied.
Cheers.

Ozzy (hoping muchly for some help)
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Re: Fast Network Terminal Graphics (gnuplot)

1998-01-21 Thread tibor simko
 camm == Camm Maguire [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

camm Years ago, a
camm friend helped me setup Tektronics terminal emulation under
camm kermit, but I can't seem to get it working now.  

don't forget to try out all of the tektronics terminals availabke in
gnuplot, i.e. `tek40xx`, `vttek`, `kc-tek40xx`, `km-tek40xx`,
`selanar`, or `bitgraph` (see `help set term tek40xx' in gnuplot).

once upon a time, tek40xx worked fine for me...
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Re: debian-user FAQ: your help is needed!

1998-01-21 Thread Jens Ritter
Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Greetings all!
 
 I've set up a framework for debian-user FAQ using FAQ-O-Matic by Jon Howell.  

It looks and feels great.

I guess you don´t want to mention it from the official pages yet.
But I really think the appropiate url would be ...debian.org/faq/

 looking for moderators for each section (see below).  I am also looking for 
 feedback regarding the setup.  I am sure some categories need to be added, 
 and 

You should add Problems as main section.
We should discuss how to organize it on the second level.

 Please contact me if you'd like to help.

I would like to. 
This is my first contact as a developer to debian, though.

Jens
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telnet to localhost

1998-01-21 Thread Wiria A Kusuma
I can not telnet or ftp to localhost, it says that service is not
started, but I can see them in /etc/service, can some body tell me where
should I check for this error? 
Further more I can not even ftp or http to my box from the net, even
thou my apache and wuftpd is up and running.., it says something like
connection closed by my server.

but I can do every outbound connection like ftp, telnet to the others
from my box, right now running kernel 2.0.32...

thanks
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Re: emacs, X, and Alt key

1998-01-21 Thread Mark Phillips

I, like Thomas Vaughan, have been having problems getting emacs to
recognise the Alt key under X.  (The system is a Toshiba laptop.)

Daniel Martin wrote:

 What is the result of the following commands:
 xmodmap
 xmodmap -pke | grep -E '64|11[356]'

Here are the results:

$ xmodmap
xmodmap:  up to 2 keys per modifier, (keycodes in parentheses):

shift   Shift_L (0x32),  Shift_R (0x3e)
lockCaps_Lock (0x42)
control Control_L (0x25),  Control_R (0x6d)
mod1Alt_L (0x40),  Alt_R (0x71)
mod2Num_Lock (0x4d)
mod3  
mod4Meta_L (0x73),  Meta_R (0x74)
mod5Scroll_Lock (0x4e)

$ xmodmap -pke | grep -E '64|11[356]'
keycode  64 = Alt_L
keycode 113 = Alt_R
keycode 115 = Meta_L
keycode 116 = Meta_R

I can't see anything particularly wrong here - but then, I'm no expert.
Is something not right?

Peter Galbraith wrote:

 Run `xev' and press the Alt keys to find what keycode they generate

I did this and got:

KeyPress event, serial 21, synthetic NO, window 0x2c1,
root 0x2a, subw 0x0, time 535084486, (-5,-23), root:(380,198),
state 0x0, keycode 64 (keysym 0xffe9, Alt_L), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 characters:  

KeyRelease event, serial 21, synthetic NO, window 0x2c1,
root 0x2a, subw 0x0, time 535084676, (-5,-23), root:(380,198),
state 0x8, keycode 64 (keysym 0xffe9, Alt_L), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 characters:  


Seems fine.  No?


Well I don't know what to do from here.  Any ideas?

Thanks,

Mark.

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Kernel Compile after libc6 upgrade

1998-01-21 Thread Mike Hill
This week I tried compiling a kernel (2.0.32) for the first time since
upgrading to libc6 about a month ago.  I can't get past `make dep.'  It
fails with the following message:

debian# make dep
make[1]: Entering directory
`/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.32/arch/i386/boot'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `dep'.
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.32/arch/i386/boot'
scripts/mkdep init/*.c  .tmpdepend
scripts/mkdep `find /usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.32/include/asm
/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.32/include/linux
/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.32/include/scsi
/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.32/include/net -follow -name \*.h ! -name
modversions.h -print`  .hdepend
make: *** [dep-files] Error 139

Have I missed something in the upgrade?

Thanks,

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ATI 3D Rage II and XFree86

1998-01-21 Thread Franz Karrer
I installed the Debian 1.31 kernel 20.2.29 on my Pc.
Now I have problems in finding the proper xserver configuration
for the  ATI 3D Rage II videoboard.

I tried svga and mach64 server where I can select - from
xf86config  - the ATI 3D Rage II,Ramdac option,
but I don't know which Ramdac types and clock cycles I 
should select.
When I try startx I get some black screens except for the 800*600
resolution, which flickers terribly.

The monitor supports 31-86 kHz, 50-160 Hz.
The board runs fine on WIN95 with a 1024*768 resolution.

Does anybody know how to configure the board?


Best regards, 

Franz Karrer
 


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X Windows

1998-01-21 Thread Rob
Hi All,

First, thanks for the assistance with the ethernet card yesterday -- I
now have network access :)

I'd like to do the X-Windows thing, where do I start? Is there a FAQ out
there somewhere? Any direction would be appreciated...

Thanks,
Rob

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Re: Two Monitors

1998-01-21 Thread Brian K Servis
Britton writes:


I read an article in LJ describing the Metro-X server (I think that was it
anyway), which can drive multiple video cards (though only with the right
cards).  I don't know if Xfree has any support for this sort of thing, or
exactly how it would shake out with interrupts and such.  I too am
interested in this.  If you find anything else out let me know.


In the Feb. 98 LJ on pg. 72 there was a user question on this response
was suggested Accelerated-X over Metro-X.  Multiple monitors feature
is refered to multi-headed.

I have no experience in this I am just passing this info on

On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, Richard L Shepherd wrote:

 Has anyone any experience in using two monitors on one machine.  I'm
 thinking particularly of X.  I can get a second video card (which I guess
 is mandatory or there'd be nowhere to plug the second one in right?).
 
 What I'm really interested in is getting the tow side-by-side and having X
 treat them as one big screen (similar to the way Macintosh's can do this).
 Is this possible?  Or is my best bet to run up X :0 and X :1 and use
 Ctrl-Alt-F[78] to switch between them?
 
 I'd be interested to hear...
 
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Re: Help !! On Installing and Upgrading.

1998-01-21 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, Ian Perry wrote:

 What is required to allow the installation of libc6 either with the safe
 removal of libc5, without crashing the system, or having the two co-exist
 on the same system, or cant the two be mixed ?  How is it done ?

Look at:
  file:/usr/doc/debian/libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO.html.tar.gz.

or at:
  http://www.debian.org/doc/libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO/libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO.html

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mixing kernel/modules versions, CONFIG_MODVERSIONS and ...

1998-01-21 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro

I would like to know what I have to do if I want to use mixed
kernel/modules versions compiled in my machine or in another one...

the kernel documention and HOWTOs doesn't tell about that... well, not
exactly they tell that if you enable CONFIG_MODVERSIONS you can _always_
misc different kernel/modules...

I never could do it, also trying it with insmod -f!

I always get messages like:

unresolbed symbols...
this module for kernel x dosn't match your kernel y
-- this module for kernel x doesn't match your kernel x

Is there more info somewhere?

Also I would like to get more info about kernel symbols and 
System.map/psdatabase ... etc..

Any comment will be greatly appreciated

Thanks in advance

Ulisses


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Re: Linux and ADSL

1998-01-21 Thread Stephen Gregory
Do a bit a research before you take the plunge. I almost went with
MTT (in nova scotia) and their ADSL service. However, I found out
that they are using some nasty proprietary Novell gunk. I went with a
cable modem instead.

The install was very sweet. Before the tech came I installed and
tested an ethernet card. I installed Dhcpcd (?? what ever the client
prog is). When the tech came I plugged in the modem to my card and I
started /etc/init.d/dhcpcd. 3 seconds later I was surfing the net :-)
The tech's comment: Wow, that was easier then a Mac install with
built in ethernet. :-)

I edited the /etc/init.d/dhcpcd script. I added the option -- eth0
as I have multiple cards. (The -- tells start-stop-daemon that the
rest of the line is cmd args to the daemon.)

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 In my area ( Pacific Bell ) the connection to ADSL is ethernet.  You
 simply get rid of the PPP connection and install a standard ethernet card.
 
 
 On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, rob wrote:
 
  Hi there,
  
  My local phone company is offering internet access through ADSL and I'm 
  considering hooking up with them.  Could someone tell me what all would be 
  involved in changing over my Linux box to use their ADSL instead of using 
  my dialup PPP?  Does their modem require special drivers?
  
  thanks,
  
  rob
  

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(Off-topic)Jade and DocBook

1998-01-21 Thread Mario Filipe
Hi

Just want to know if there is someone here who is using both those things ?
If there is then I will talk to you privately.

Thanks


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Re: perl module to read config files?

1998-01-21 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Sounds like a perfect job for bison and flex. Having looked at the syntax of
the new files I'm guessing they follow a nice, strict (easy to program for)
syntax. If you get the source it's probably got a parser embedded in it. It
shouldn't be difficult to translate c to perl.

Craig Sanders wrote:

 does anyone know of a perl module to parse config files as used by gated
 or the new bind 8.1?

 e.g. /etc/named.conf:

 options {
 directory /var/named;
 forward only;
 forwarders {
 203.16.167.1;
 203.16.167.5;
 };
 };

 zone . {
 type hint;
 file named.root;
 };

 zone localhost {
 type master;
 file named.local;
 };

 zone 127.in-addr.arpa {
 type master;
 file named.rev-local;
 };

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Re: Using xmodmap to set the Alt and Meta keys (emacs, X, and Alt key)

1998-01-21 Thread Peter S Galbraith

Mark Phillips wrote:

 I, like Thomas Vaughan, have been having problems getting emacs to
 recognise the Alt key under X.  (The system is a Toshiba laptop.)
 
 keycode  64 = Alt_L
 keycode 113 = Alt_R
 keycode 115 = Meta_L
 keycode 116 = Meta_R

What does emacs say when you invoke describe-key: 
  `C-h k Alt-x'
  `C-h k Meta-x'

Do you *really* want an Alt key?  Or do you want a Meta key?
When Emacs has separate Alt and Meta keys, I think it doesn't use the 
Alt key as Meta anymore.  You appear to have both available

My keyboard has this bottom row; the keycode are as shown by the `xev' 
command:

++ +---+ +---+ +---+ +---+ +---+ ++ ++
|Ctrl| |Win| |Alt| | Space | |Alt| |Win| |Menu| |Ctrl|
++ +---+ +---+ +---+ +---+ +---+ ++ ++
keycode:  37115   64  113   116   117109

If XFree is setup correctly, then the `Windows' key (identified above as 
Win), are Meta keys and the Alt keys are really seen in Emacs as Alt keys.
I use the Alt key to insert 8-bit characters, like é.
The `Menu' key really works and is a synonym for `Meta-x' in Emacs
(and pops up a buffer-specific menu in XEmacs).

When XFree isn't properly set up, or gets confused for some reason, you can
use `xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap' in some X initialisation file.  Here's my
~/.Xmodmap file:

---
clear Mod1
clear Mod2
clear Mod3

keycode  64 = Alt_L
keycode 113 = Alt_R
keycode 115 = Meta_L
keycode 116 = Meta_R
keycode 117 = Menu

add Mod2 = Alt_L
add Mod2 = Alt_R
add Mod1 = Meta_L
add Mod1 = Meta_R

remove Lock = Caps_Lock
keysym Caps_Lock = Hyper_L
add Mod3 = Hyper_L

keycode 22 = BackSpace
---

In addition to setting Alt and Meta keys, I disable the silly Caps_Lock key
and set a `Hyper' key so I can define more user keys in Emacs (Most people
just set an extra Control key here).  Also, I make sure to set the
BackSpace key correctly.

Hope this helps you and others,
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Modules and Debian

1998-01-21 Thread John Spence
Sorry for the elementary nature of the question but I am not happy with my
current understanding of module configuration under Debian. I'm not very
good at understanding Linux documentation yet.

/usr/doc/modules == contains a group of stubs that tell me they are
there for backwards compatibility.

/usr/doc/modutils == contains a file that says These utilities are
intended primarily for use with kernels 2.1.18 and above.


Anyway what I really want to know is the purpose of the files 

/etc/init.d/modules (which is a symlink to /etc/init.d/modutils)

/etc/modules

/etc/conf.modules


Here's what I think I understand so far.

/etc/init.d/modutils  

says it loads the appropriate modules in 'boot'. I
suppose this means /etc/init.d/boot which seems to load modules in
/etc/init.d/modutils.  Which one is doing what?  I think this couple of
files are for the loading of modules needed before kerneld? Like modules
to mount file-systems in fstab ?

/etc/modules

I like this one. Nice and uncomplicated (spot the non-shell programmer)

Contains the comment  # /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time.
(I thought that was what the previously mentioned file did)

I have auto commented out in this file so this means: kerneld will load
these modules as I need them?

If I had auto uncommented it would mean: kerneld would load them all at
boot time (but not in time for things like file-systems in fstab) ?


/etc/conf.modules
=
Contains only aliases for modules and options to load them?

I added an option line in this file specifying my net card settings to
prevent auto-probing at boot. 



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Re: Modules and Debian

1998-01-21 Thread Scott Ellis
On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, John Spence wrote:

 /etc/init.d/modules (which is a symlink to /etc/init.d/modutils)

The package to manage kernel modules used to be called modules.  It was
renamed upstream to modutils and we followed the naming convention.  The
modules symlink is to make sure that incompletely upgraded systems don't
break.

 /etc/init.d/modutils  
 
 says it loads the appropriate modules in 'boot'. I
 suppose this means /etc/init.d/boot which seems to load modules in
 /etc/init.d/modutils.  Which one is doing what?  I think this couple of
 files are for the loading of modules needed before kerneld? Like modules
 to mount file-systems in fstab ?

Close.  /etc/init.d/boot runs /etc/init.d/modutils to actually perform the
work of loading up the modules needed at boot time.


 /etc/modules
 
 I like this one. Nice and uncomplicated (spot the non-shell programmer)
 
 Contains the comment  # /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time.
 (I thought that was what the previously mentioned file did)
 
 I have auto commented out in this file so this means: kerneld will load
 these modules as I need them?
 
 If I had auto uncommented it would mean: kerneld would load them all at
 boot time (but not in time for things like file-systems in fstab) ?

If you uncomment auto, kerneld (which autoloads and unloads modules
according to need) is started at the beginning of the boot sequence.  If
it is commented out, kerneld loads closer to the end of the boot sequence.
The other lines list modules that should be loaded manually at the
beginning of the boot sequence and which won't be automagically unloaded
later.

 /etc/conf.modules
 =
 Contains only aliases for modules and options to load them?
 
 I added an option line in this file specifying my net card settings to
 prevent auto-probing at boot. 

Pretty much.  It is the config file for modprobe/kerneld and the manpages
for them may document it further.

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Re: Modules and Debian

1998-01-21 Thread David Z. Maze

John Spence [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
JS Here's what I think I understand so far.
JS 
JS /etc/init.d/modutils  
JS 
JS says it loads the appropriate modules in 'boot'. I suppose this
JS means /etc/init.d/boot which seems to load modules in
JS /etc/init.d/modutils.  Which one is doing what?  I think this
JS couple of files are for the loading of modules needed before
JS kerneld? Like modules to mount file-systems in fstab ?

Will, /etc/init.d/boot disappeared from hamm a while ago.  I'm not
sure _what_ this comment means.  But this script does four things:

-- Check that modules exist.
-- If the modules exist but there's no dependency file (i.e. new
   kernel), build the dependency file.
-- Load the modules listed in /etc/modules.
-- Load any modules symlinked into /lib/modules/boot.

The other script worth (briefly) staring at is /etc/init.d/kerneld,
which starts kerneld if it hasn't already been started.  These two
scripts take care of everything dealing with boot-time module
configuration.

JS /etc/modules
JS 
JS I like this one. Nice and uncomplicated (spot the non-shell
JS programmer)
JS 
JS Contains the comment # /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at
JS boot time.  (I thought that was what the previously mentioned file
JS did)

/etc/init.d/modutils actually loads the modules listed here.

JS I have auto commented out in this file so this means: kerneld
JS will load these modules as I need them?

Right; but kerneld gets started after sysklogd and watchdog.  Look in
/etc/rc2.d to see what the order of these things is.  kerneld will
_always_ get started unless you have noauto in /etc/modules.

JS If I had auto uncommented it would mean: kerneld would load them
JS all at boot time (but not in time for things like file-systems in
JS fstab) ?

It would start kerneld before running any of the scripts linked to
/etc/rc2.d.  For me, this is important because I need to be able to
load modules before starting either syslogd (unix) or watchdog
(softdog).  I could also load these modules by putting entries in
/etc/modules and letting kerneld start later.

At system start time, things happen in the order listed in
/etc/rcS.d.  So modutils happens before mountall, and loading kerneld
here (as opposed to later, in /etc/rc2.d/S12kerneld) would let you
dynamically load modules for filesystems you need to mount things.

JS /etc/conf.modules
JS =
JS Contains only aliases for modules and options to load them?
JS 
JS I added an option line in this file specifying my net card settings to
JS prevent auto-probing at boot. 

Yup.  Absolutely correct.

Good luck...

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greenbush

1998-01-21 Thread Geoffrey Deasey KD4WVF

Last night I received a message from Paul Wade, he said that he now has
power and is cutting cdrom's.  I did not expect this level of customer
service.  I hope everyone in Paul's family has come through this ordeal
well.  (the power i mean) (sorry for this off topic message)

But I thought that it needed to be said.  I know some people on this list
have not had good experence with paul, mine has been good.  I hope anyone
that is owed a cdrom will contact him and keep an open mind.

Just for the record, I have no connection with paul other than as a
satisfied customer.

--Jeff

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the summer!


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Re: telnet to localhost

1998-01-21 Thread Myron Alexander
On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, Wiria A Kusuma wrote:

 I can not telnet or ftp to localhost, it says that service is not
 started, but I can see them in /etc/service, can some body tell me where
 should I check for this error? 
 Further more I can not even ftp or http to my box from the net, even
 thou my apache and wuftpd is up and running.., it says something like
 connection closed by my server.
 
 but I can do every outbound connection like ftp, telnet to the others
 from my box, right now running kernel 2.0.32...
 
 thanks
 kusuma

Kasuma,

The reason you cannot telnet or ftp is that the inetd daemon is not
running. Even when off the 'net', telnet, ftp and many other daemons are
started by the inetd daemon. Think of inetd as a supervisor daemon.

You can get inetd or a similar package called xinetd ( which I use ).

The inetd daemon comes with netbase so you should have it. The xinetd
daemon has it's own package and is called xinetd ( what else :)).

Hope this helps.

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Re: Interrupts and serial ports

1998-01-21 Thread W Paul Mills
I have my modem and my UPS both connected to serial ports with the same
interupt. Seems to work OK. These are both on the same card which was
modified (not a lot of fun) to share the interupt. JDR Microdevices
sells a 4-port serial board that is supposed to support shared interupts.

On Sun, 11 Jan 1998, Dan Hugo wrote:

 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  0setserial confused me to. But after all I've figuered out, that linux (on
  my machine) does NOT support 2 serials on the same interupt. What happens
  is, that they both are not useable. I have set the jumpers on my ... hmmm
  ... let me look ... AdLib ISA POWER 221 card (which has 2 serial, 2
  parallel and 1 game port) to have the two extra serials as /dev/ttyS2 and
  /dev/ttyS3 (COM3: and COM4:) with interupts 11 and 12. And I have edited
  the 0setserial file as shown below:
  
  -  /etc/rc.boot/0setserial --- [snip] -
  ...
  
  #
  # The typical user will only have 2 serial ports. To try and minimise
  # problems, all other configurations have been commented out!
  #
  ${SETSERIAL} -b /dev/ttyS2 ${AUTO_IRQ} skip_test autoconfig ${STD_FLAGS}
  ${SETSERIAL} -b /dev/ttyS3 ${AUTO_IRQ} skip_test autoconfig ${STD_FLAGS}
  
  ...
  -  /etc/rc.boot/0setserial --- [snap] -
  
  As you can see, I have taken the '#' out. That's all.
 
 I have a Bo-unstable drop from about almost a year ago, and that comment
 is not in there... thought I did get everything working just right for
 my current setup, which is
 
 ttyS0 - Modem
 ttyS1 - PalmPilot (or whatever it's called now).
 
 I just got a BestPower Fortress (needed it), and I would like to hook up
 a serial laser printer and, if it works, leave it hooked up.
 
 I'm not necessarily short on interrupts yet, but I figured it would be
 interesting of the slower items could just share an interrupt.
 
 Oh well...
 
 -dh
 
 
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STuck - Dselect FTP through Firewall

1998-01-21 Thread Cox
What is dselect passing to my ftp proxy???

I can go through the firewall manually but I need to figure out exactly what 
commands dselect is generating.

Can I monitor this somehow

I do not have man pages or anything to help me because I can not run dselect 
from ftp and I do not have the CD. (And even if I did the box I am putting 
Debian on does not have a CD)


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Re: Using xmodmap to set the Alt and Meta keys (emacs, X, and Alt key)

1998-01-21 Thread Brian K Servis
Peter S Galbraith writes:

If XFree is setup correctly, then the `Windows' key (identified above as 
Win), are Meta keys and the Alt keys are really seen in Emacs as Alt keys.
I use the Alt key to insert 8-bit characters, like é.
The `Menu' key really works and is a synonym for `Meta-x' in Emacs
(and pops up a buffer-specific menu in XEmacs).



What is the 'correct' setup in XF86Config for a keyboard with windows
keys?  What Xkb* parameters need to changed from defaults and to what?

Thanks,

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Allow only certain users to print?

1998-01-21 Thread Ben Pfaff
I want to only let a few users print, using lprng.  I put the
following line in lpd.perms, but it didn't seem to have any effect:

REJECT SERVICE=P SERVER NOT USER=blp,brook,laura,root

Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?


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Help!

1998-01-21 Thread Jeffrey Velez
Why I can Not Post!

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user management

1998-01-21 Thread Paul Miller
Is there a program that is similar to Novell's syscon program?  Linux
really needs a good user management program (terminal-based) that can
quickly add/remove groups, set passwords/info fields, delete users, set
quotas, etc

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Re: Clean hamm installation

1998-01-21 Thread Paul Rightley
No,  I never used --force-blah.  The trouble was that I had xdm going,
and my video card cannot start X more than once (unless there is a reboot
in between) - my card is a Diamond Stealth 3000 3D.  Also, I had followed
the upgrade mini-HOWTO, but had not upgraded libgdbm and perl (since
this was only 'suggested' by the HOWTO - as opposed to being said to
be necessary).  Because of this, a lot of packages were having many
troubles configuring themselves (I know that this occurs anyway, but
it seemed much worse this time).  Then, the install stopped and started
xdm and my machine hung.  I have to press 'reset' at this time (there
is no other way to bring it back).  When the machine rebooted, it was in
an unusable state.  I suppose I could have brought it back (I tried
several suggestions offered on the lists, but that just got me to another
problem, and another, and another).  After this, I gave up and retinstalled.
This was not too bad, because my installation was quite old and was not
entirely 'clean' (beacuse I had learned to use Debian on this machine).
Its just too bad - I had had it going since buzz...

I think that, if I had waited a week (and kept up with debian-user),
I would have had no troubles.  I am just wondering about those people
out there who are not reading the mailing list...

Paul

On 16-Jan-98 Hamish Moffatt wrote:
 On Fri, Jan 16, 1998 at 03:15:14PM -0700, Paul Rightley wrote:
 Yes, I understand very well NOW that there are no hamm disks yet.
 My point was that this upgrade of Debian is really expecting a lot
 of typical Debian users.  At first glance, I thought that
 disks under dists/unstable/main/disks-i386 would actually belong
 to the unstable distribution.  It is such slight perception that can
 really make things difficult for most users.  For instance, Scott
 Ellis' Mini-HOWTO is very good - I followed all of the portions
 of it that called out specific packages and that didn't seem like
 suggestions (as opposed to necessary steps).  In this case,
 I did not upgrade libgdm1 and perl and due to another (slight)
 circumstance, was left with an unusable system after I launched
 dselect.
 
 Did you ever use --force-blah with dpkg? Was it ever possible to hose
 your system without using --force-blah?
 
 I upgraded my system before Scott's HOWTO was written; at that stage
 it was fairly simple and all the dependencies seemed to prevent
 me from doing anything wrong. IIRC, it was basically a case of
 installing new ld.so, removing the libc5 -dev libraries, installing
 libc6, installing the hamm non-g libraries, then installing the hamm g 
 libraries, then anything else, like bash. For a while I only upgraded
 the libraries (just to support running new libc6 stuff from hamm),
 not bothering with existing packages. Never any sign of trouble.
 
 
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Newbie Setting up LPRng

1998-01-21 Thread Jeffrey Velez
I installed LPRng on my linux machine using dselect.  How do I set this
program to print to my Remote HP LaserJet 4 using a JetDirect Box?
It's on a Novell Server 4.1.

I never printed on my linux machine, so I don't know if it is setup
already.

Please Help!
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anyone using proftpd?

1998-01-21 Thread Paul Miller
Is anyone using proftpd?  How does it compare to wu-ftp?  Security?

I noticed a huge amount of disk access (compared to wu-ftp) in a old
version of proftpd... I don't know if it has been fixed or changed.. 

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Re: user management

1998-01-21 Thread Brian K Servis
Paul Miller writes:

Is there a program that is similar to Novell's syscon program?  Linux
really needs a good user management program (terminal-based) that can
quickly add/remove groups, set passwords/info fields, delete users, set
quotas, etc

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Check out 

ftp://ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/ACMAINT/  

It is a user management program that was built by folks at Purdue
University to handle the user base of thousands of students and
machines!  I know it has support for lots of different OS's.  I have
used it as an end user on a Sun machine and it is VERY powerful and
does everthing you mentioned.  I have not tried building it on a Linux
box. If you get it working on a Linux box I think it has been added to
the list of possible packages for Debian.

Good luck,

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Re: ATI 3D Rage II and XFree86

1998-01-21 Thread Steve Hsieh
There is a web site on how to configure this board. Sorry, I forget the
exact site name. Do a search on the web for ATI Rage and Linux.  I think
you also need the 3.3.1 version of Xfree mach64 -- do you have that or are
you using the debian stable 3.3 version? 

I installed X on an ATI Mach64 3D RAGE Pro, so this may not apply to the
Rage II, but you can check.  For the rage pro card, the key part is in
the Device section, and the ChipID and ChipRev fields, which you need to
manually add after running xf86config...

# Device configured by xf86config:

Section Device
Identifier  ATI Mach64 3D RAGE Pro, Internal RAMDAC
VendorName  Unknown
BoardName   Unknown
VideoRam2048
ChipID  0x4754
ChipRev 0x01
# Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
EndSection


On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, Franz Karrer wrote:

 I installed the Debian 1.31 kernel 20.2.29 on my Pc.
 Now I have problems in finding the proper xserver configuration
 for the  ATI 3D Rage II videoboard.
 
 I tried svga and mach64 server where I can select - from
 xf86config  - the ATI 3D Rage II,Ramdac option,
 but I don't know which Ramdac types and clock cycles I 
 should select.
 When I try startx I get some black screens except for the 800*600
 resolution, which flickers terribly.
 
 The monitor supports 31-86 kHz, 50-160 Hz.
 The board runs fine on WIN95 with a 1024*768 resolution.
 
 Does anybody know how to configure the board?
 
 
 Best regards, 
 
   Franz Karrer
  
 
 
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using cd-jukebox under linux

1998-01-21 Thread mfrattola
Hi all,
I need to use a cd-jukebox and I hope I can do it under linux. It's a SCSI thing
has 14 drives and takes up 2 SCSI ids (2x7 discs). Now it's attached to a 
win3.11 box with an adaptec 2940AU.
Problem is that machine sees all the drives at boot time, but there's no
way to access them under windows (letters/drives show, but they're all empty).
I don't want to mess with win95 + have a linux box running debian with a 2.0.27
kernel. I'm ready to recompile it, and would like to ask if there's any doc
about using such beast .. I guess I have to use CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN, but what
else? when all it's up, under which devices will I found the drives? /dev/scd?
Should I create other /dev/scd? devices (I see only scd0 and scd1)?

Any experience is welcome. FWIW, debian machine is an IBM 315 with 128 MB ram,
adaptec 2940UW, SCSI cd, SCSI tape, running mostly as a samba server.
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proftpd - can't read

1998-01-21 Thread Paul Miller
I can't see my files or directories with proftpd 1.0 ... same for both
anonymous and system user...  what is wrong?  I don't think proftpd needs
the /lib, etc dirs.. ???

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netscape3.04 installer

1998-01-21 Thread Paul McDermott
hi everybody, i was wondering if there was a deb installer for
netscape3.04 file.  if there is can somebody point me to the right place.
Thanks in advance.
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Re: anyone using proftpd?

1998-01-21 Thread Ben Pfaff
   Is anyone using proftpd?  How does it compare to wu-ftp?  Security?

   I noticed a huge amount of disk access (compared to wu-ftp) in a old
   version of proftpd... I don't know if it has been fixed or changed.. 

I'm using proftpd without any problems.  However someone reported a
problem with it when downloading large numbers of files, I don't know
how that came out.


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Re: anyone using proftpd?

1998-01-21 Thread Paul Miller
hmm.. I just installed the newest Debian version and I can't see the
directory listing... ever have this problem?   BTW- the bug your talking
about should be fixed.. it says something about that on their homepage.

On 21 Jan 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote:

Is anyone using proftpd?  How does it compare to wu-ftp?  Security?
 
I noticed a huge amount of disk access (compared to wu-ftp) in a old
version of proftpd... I don't know if it has been fixed or changed.. 
 
 I'm using proftpd without any problems.  However someone reported a
 problem with it when downloading large numbers of files, I don't know
 how that came out.
 
 
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Re: emacs, X, and Alt key

1998-01-21 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 I, like Thomas Vaughan, have been having problems getting emacs to
 recognise the Alt key under X.  (The system is a Toshiba laptop.)
 
 Daniel Martin wrote:
 
  What is the result of the following commands:
  xmodmap
  xmodmap -pke | grep -E '64|11[356]'
 
 Here are the results:
 
 $ xmodmap
 xmodmap:  up to 2 keys per modifier, (keycodes in parentheses):
 
 shift   Shift_L (0x32),  Shift_R (0x3e)
 lockCaps_Lock (0x42)
 control Control_L (0x25),  Control_R (0x6d)
 mod1Alt_L (0x40),  Alt_R (0x71)
 mod2Num_Lock (0x4d)
 mod3  
 mod4Meta_L (0x73),  Meta_R (0x74)
 mod5Scroll_Lock (0x4e)
 
 $ xmodmap -pke | grep -E '64|11[356]'
 keycode  64 = Alt_L
 keycode 113 = Alt_R
 keycode 115 = Meta_L
 keycode 116 = Meta_R
 
 I can't see anything particularly wrong here - but then, I'm no expert.
 Is something not right?

The `problem' is that the Alt keys aren't acting as the Meta keys -
instead, your X is configured to have the Windows-Logo keys act as
Meta.  XFree86 does this if you tell it that you have a 104-key
keyboard (the keyboards without these amusing keys are 101-key
keyboards).  Based on earlier correspondence with the original person
who posted this problem, I think that XFree86 may now default to
104-key keyboard behavior unless you tell it otherwise.

Anyway, there are two ways to fix this:
1) Tell XFree86 that you have a 101-key keyboard.
I wouldn't do this unless you actually do have a 101-key keyboard, as
I'm uncertain whether or not XFree86 will then freak out when you
accidentally hit one of the Win95 keys.  It's probably still safe, but 
you might want do just go with solution (2) anyway.
You can do this by editing /etc/X11/XF86Config - if you have something 
a group of lines that begins with 'section Keyboard', change that
group of lines to read:

Section Keyboard
   ProtocolStandard
   XkbRulesxfree86
   XkbModelpc101
   XkbLayout   us
EndSection

Actually, if you already have such a section I'd leave it in place and 
just change the XkbModel line.  If you don't have a us keyboard
layout, then either re-run XF86Setup and choose your keyboard
explicitly there, or use solution 2.

You'll need to restart X for the changes to take effect.

2) Just force the Alt keys to act as Meta
Add the following lines to the end of your /etc/X11/Xmodmap:
keycode  64 = Alt_L Meta_L
keycode 113 = Alt_R Meta_R

Then either restart X or issue the command:
xmodmap /etc/X11/Xmodmap

Depending on how Emacs handles certain X events, you may need to exit
Emacs and restart it.  (I use Xemacs, which handles these events
properly, and so don't know what Emacs does)

(and before someone jumps in to say that the above lines will mean
 that you have to press Shift-Alt to use Meta, let me just point you to 
 the xmodmap man page, q.v.)


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Re: Newbie Setting up LPRng

1998-01-21 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, Jeffrey Velez wrote:

 I installed LPRng on my linux machine using dselect.  How do I set this
 program to print to my Remote HP LaserJet 4 using a JetDirect Box?
 It's on a Novell Server 4.1.

Take a look at the documentation:

  http://www.astart.com/lprng/LPRng.html

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How to share files with Win95 or NT

1998-01-21 Thread Cox
How do I get files off Win NT or 95 machines across my LAN.

I have TCP/IP running.


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Re: How to share files with Win95 or NT

1998-01-21 Thread Tim Sailer
Cox wrote:
 
 How do I get files off Win NT or 95 machines across my LAN.
 
 I have TCP/IP running.

Install samba and use smbclient to go to your share on the box.
Or, compile the kernel with smb support and use smbmount to mount
the remote share locally.

Tim

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[Re: How to share files with Win95 or NT]

1998-01-21 Thread Rob
You have to run some sort of server program on the 95 or NT machine, you
can find free and shareware applications for this at www.tucows.com. You
could also run ftp from the 95 or NT machine and put the files on the
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Re: emacs, X, and Alt key

1998-01-21 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, 

Well it may not quite follow the discussion... I'm using XEmacs 20 and X-3.2.2 
(hamm). I have the keyboard with Windows button neighbouring to ALT button. 
It works like ESC in XEmacs.  May be it's good enough solution.  The good 
thing is that I just followed whatever was the default in those X,XEmacs 
installations.

The Keyboard Section in XF86Config is:

Section Keyboard
ProtocolStandard
XkbKeymap   xfree86(us)
EndSection

Sasha.


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Re: telnet to localhost

1998-01-21 Thread Pure Energy
On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, Wiria A Kusuma wrote:

 I can not telnet or ftp to localhost, it says that service is not
 started, but I can see them in /etc/service, can some body tell me where
 should I check for this error? 
 Further more I can not even ftp or http to my box from the net, even
 thou my apache and wuftpd is up and running.., it says something like
 connection closed by my server.

Try calling inetd manually ...  /usr/sbin/inetd  This i have now seen
mentioned by a few ppl including myself.. inetd is not starting at boot.
I'm using netbase version 3.03-1 and have been haveing this problem since
upgrading. anyone have any ideas??

kernel 2.0.32
Debian 2.0


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Re: anyone using proftpd?

1998-01-21 Thread Ben Gertzfield
 Paul == Paul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Paul Is anyone using proftpd?  How does it compare to wu-ftp?
Paul Security?  I noticed a huge amount of disk access (compared
Paul to wu-ftp) in a old version of proftpd... I don't know if it
Paul has been fixed or changed..

We've been using it at my ISP, got.net, for a few months, with great
results. A few settings needed to be changed (ProFTPD doesn't allow
you to put a file on top of another file by default) but the virtual
domains work great :)

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Re: How to share files with Win95 or NT

1998-01-21 Thread Cox
See, the problem is I have a computer with no CD.  I have a network card and I 
am behind a corporate fire wall.  I can not get dselect to work  through my 
firewall so I thought if I set up a CD on a win95 box as shareable then I 
might get dselect to work that way.

But I don't have samba on this box,  I just have the basic install files.


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Cox wrote:

 How do I get files off Win NT or 95 machines across my LAN.

 I have TCP/IP running.

Install samba and use smbclient to go to your share on the box.
Or, compile the kernel with smb support and use smbmount to mount
the remote share locally.

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Re: How to share files with Win95 or NT

1998-01-21 Thread Tim Sailer
Cox wrote:
 
 See, the problem is I have a computer with no CD.  I have a network card=
  and I am behind a corporate fire wall.  I can not get dselect to work=
   through my firewall so I thought if I set up a CD on a win95 box as=
  shareable then I might get dselect to work that way.
 
 But I don't have samba on this box,  I just have the basic install files.

Ah... IIRC, you can set up the NT ftpd, as broken as it is, and point
your CD somewhere in the ftp tree. Then you can use the ftp method
of dselect.

Tim

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Re: MWave Modem

1998-01-21 Thread Stephen Zander
tommy knocker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 I have an IBM computer with debian installed and it uses an internal 
 Mwave modem.  I can't seem so write a script that will initialize the 
 modem.  Does anybody have a script that will work with this modem that I 
 can look at?  

I have bad news  I have bad news.  The answer is almost certainly: buy
a pcmcia modem.  AFAIK, there is no support for MWave devices in linux,
mainly because IBM/(what is their name ?) won't provide documentaion
without lots of legal/economic strings.

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Re: How to share files with Win95 or NT

1998-01-21 Thread Cox
No, I can't get dselect ftp to work throught my firewall.

I can manually ftp but dselect gets stuck.  I have been trying to get dselect 
to work for three days with no good help from the user-list.

So now I am trying to figure out a way to copy the files or run dselect from a 
shared CD off of one of my windows computers.

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Cox wrote:

 See, the problem is I have a computer with no CD.  I have a network card=
  and I am behind a corporate fire wall.  I can not get dselect to work=
   through my firewall so I thought if I set up a CD on a win95 box as=
  shareable then I might get dselect to work that way.

 But I don't have samba on this box,  I just have the basic install files.

Ah... IIRC, you can set up the NT ftpd, as broken as it is, and point
your CD somewhere in the ftp tree. Then you can use the ftp method
of dselect.

Tim

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Re: How to share files with Win95 or NT

1998-01-21 Thread Tim Sailer
Cox wrote:
 
 No, I can't get dselect ftp to work throught my firewall.
 
 I can manually ftp but dselect gets stuck.  I have been trying to get=
  dselect to work for three days with no good help from the user-list.
 
 So now I am trying to figure out a way to copy the files or run dselect=
  from a shared CD off of one of my windows computers.

I thought your NT box was on your side of the firewall. Sorry, I miss 
understood.

Tim

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logging into Winnt from linux

1998-01-21 Thread Gary van Blerk
Hi there, 

I have recently installed Debian Linux 1.3.1 Kernel 2.30.0 at work. We
 run a WinNt server 3.51 Is there any client I can use to log onto the 
WinNt server from my linux box and get access to all my resources on 
the server and also get Microsoft mail. Will I be able to use the 
resources of the machines in my workgroup? I can ping all of the 
servers. DHCP is working and I can ping gateways and machines in the 
workgroup. 

Any help will be greatly appreciated
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Re: How to share files with Win95 or NT

1998-01-21 Thread Jens Ritter
On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, Cox wrote:

 How do I get files off Win NT or 95 machines across my LAN.
 
 I have TCP/IP running.

You can use smbclient and smbmount with approximately the same syntax as
under Win96 and NT: \\where\what

To use smbmount you have make sure your kernel supports the smbfs

These tools are in the ksmbfs and samba packages.

HTH,

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Re: How to share files with Win95 or NT

1998-01-21 Thread Cox
I don't think that is that great of a suggestion.  I am trying to run deselect 
for the first time.  You know how many different files to is going to 
download.It would take all day to ftp these files to my local drive.  That 
is what dselect is supposed to do.

Now, can anyone tell me is there a way to monitor or capture the commands 
dselect is issuing to my ftp proxy???

I can watch from the firewall and see that dselect gets stuck.  But I can't 
tell what is going on.  I think the open command that dselect is sending to my 
proxy is getting rejected by the proxy and then the proxy is waiting for 
dselect to retry but it never does.



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 No, I can't get dselect ftp to work throught my firewall.

 I can manually ftp but dselect gets stuck.  I have been trying to get 
 dselect to work for three days with no good help from the user-list.

 You can manually ftp beyond your firewall?  If so, just ftp the packages
to your computer and use dpkg -i.

An even better way, if you have web access through the firewall would be
to go to Debian's web page and locate the packages that way.  The web
based version will also list any dependencies you might need.

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super: does syslog work?

1998-01-21 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
I've attempt to use the documented feature of super to direct its
logging information to the syslog daemon without success.  Logging to
a file works.  Here's an extract from /etc/super.tab:

  :global \
gethostbyname=n \
logfile=/var/log/super.log \
rlog_host=localhost \
syslog=y

Any ideas why this doesn't work?

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Re: emacs, X, and Alt key

1998-01-21 Thread Kirk Hilliard
Hi Mark!

 I, like Thomas Vaughan, have been having problems getting emacs to
 recognise the Alt key under X.  (The system is a Toshiba laptop.)

I'm running a Toshiba Tecra 730CDT, and the Alt key in emacs under X
works fine in combination with other keys without any special setup.
What model is your laptop and what window manager are you using?

One problem with fvwm2 it is the line in 
/etc/X11/fvwm2/system.fvwm2rc which breaks Meta-mouse:

  Mouse 0 W M move-and-raise-or-raiselower

I fix it by adding this line to my ~/.fvwm2/post.hook:

  Mouse 0 W M -

Meta-mouse is used in emacs for secondary selection.  I will bring
this up with the fvwm2 maintainer if this line is still in the hamm
version.

Kirk Hilliard

P.S.  I would rather use emacs -nw in an xterm than use emacs in
  its own window if it were not for secondary selection and
  mouse-yank-at-point.  Put (setq mouse-yank-at-point t) in your
  ~/.emacs and give it a try.


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Re: Interrupts and serial ports

1998-01-21 Thread dg
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On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, W Paul Mills wrote:

 I have my modem and my UPS both connected to serial ports with the same
 interupt. Seems to work OK. These are both on the same card which was
 modified (not a lot of fun) to share the interupt. JDR Microdevices
 sells a 4-port serial board that is supposed to support shared interupts.

OK Paul, but a *normal* standard serial port card has two 16550xx UARTs a
two connectors. These cards are AFAIK not able to share interupts
correctly. It works sometimes, when you don't use the corresponding port
at the same time, but this is not my thing. And if you have a
AMD-586DX/120 in an old VESA local bus motherboard, it could be
impossible (like it was for me). 

Now for something completely different!

You talk about a JDR Microdevices card with 4 ports. is it supported by
linux??? How much does it cost??? Because I could use some more ports at a
communication box at work, which should run Debian, if everything goes
right.

Thanx in advance!

Daniel

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Re: Interrupts and serial ports

1998-01-21 Thread Tim Sailer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 You talk about a JDR Microdevices card with 4 ports. is it supported by
 linux??? How much does it cost??? Because I could use some more ports at a
 communication box at work, which should run Debian, if everything goes
 right.

AST used to make a 4 port card that used 1 interrupt. There are a few
clones out there. DFI makes/made one, and I think JDR does too. The
setserial script has support for the cards.

Tim

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Re: Newbie Setting up LPRng

1998-01-21 Thread Lee Bradshaw
 I installed LPRng on my linux machine using dselect.  How do I set
 this program to print to my Remote HP LaserJet 4 using a JetDirect
 Box?  It's on a Novell Server 4.1.

 I never printed on my linux machine, so I don't know if it is setup
 already.

Hi,

I haven't used LPRng, so this message assumes you'll have similar
problems with LPRng as with lpr.

You may have several problems here.  You can check the debian archive
for an email which shows how to set up the /etc/printcap to route
through magicfilter and then out to a network printer.  You need to do
this because you can't use an input filter directly when printing to a
network printer.

old posting:
   http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-9712/msg02272.html

Another problem is that the JetDirect box is running with Novell.  I
think you have to choose either lpr or Novell support when setting
up the JetDirect.  I couldn't get my JetDirect to work directly with
win95 machines on the network and debian/solaris lpr, so the win95
machines print to the lp-r printcap entry on a debian machine.  On
debian, this entry is normally used when files are sent to lp, filtered
by magicfilter, and then sent to lp-r (the printer).  For win95, you
don't need the first two steps, so just send the files to the printer.
In win95 set up the printer type for the actual printer and use samba on
the debian machine to export the printer.

If you can't run lpr and novell support on the JetDirect, and you don't
want to change all the machines on the network to print through the
debian box, then I can't help you.  There may be a way to print from
debian to a novell print server, but I don't have any idea how to do it.

Please post if your JetDirect supports lpr and novell concurrently or if
not how you solved the problem.

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Re: super: does syslog work?

1998-01-21 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote:

 I've attempt to use the documented feature of super to direct its
 logging information to the syslog daemon without success.  Logging to
 a file works.  Here's an extract from /etc/super.tab:
 
   :global \
 gethostbyname=n \
 logfile=/var/log/super.log \
 rlog_host=localhost \
 syslog=y
 
 Any ideas why this doesn't work?

the rloghost=localhost line above makes me think that super is trying to
use syslog via a network connection to the syslog port of localhost instead
of using the syslog() function calls in the libc.

by default, syslogd does NOT accept network connections from any host
(including localhost, i believe) because that is a potential security
hole (a DoS attack to fill up the syslog host's disks with garbage is
easy to construct).

read the docs for syslogd to find out how to turn it on and why you
probably shouldn't.

you would be better off seeing if you can get super to log via calls
to syslog() rather than network syslogging. in /usr/doc/super/examples
there is an example showing :

# Also log via syslog (just for demonstration :-).
:global syslog=y

This may or may not do what you want - i.e it may not try a network
connecttion to syslog unless you give it an rlog_host definition.
experiment.

craig

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Sharing a single logon with Unix NT

1998-01-21 Thread Alex Monaghan
Help,

This is not 100% Debian specific, but should apply to Debian as well as other 
Unix flavors.

I've been tasked with rolling out Windows 95  NT, but I still need to provide 
NFS access to some Unix boxes (we use Beame  Whiteside NFS).

Ideally I'd like to be able to logon once to NT and / or Unix via Windows 95.

Any suggestions ( except junk NT grin )



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upgrade to hamm == X problems

1998-01-21 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
   Yesterday i upgraded from bo to hamm.  That went pretty well, but
X broke.  I ran out of disk space during the X upgrade, and i thought
maybe that was the problem.  I removed all the X packages and reinstalled
on a roomier disk, hoping that would fix things.  It didnt, X still
doesnt work.


   It worked fine with bo but when i start the server under hamm, my
machine switches to video mode, blanks the screen, and stops talking
to the console.  The server output looks normal (looks like it's not
aware there's a problem).  I cant switch virtual consoles, i cant toggle
numlock, but i can ping the machine and i can log in remotely.  I can also
reboot with Ctrl-Alt-Del.  I'm using an old Orchid Fahrenheit 1280 card
(S3 based).  I can run the VGA16 server ok, but not the accellerated
S3 server.




   Any ideas?  I guess the transition from XFree86 3.3 to 3.3.1 broke
support for my card...  I'll go look at the XFree web site.




Sebastian


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Re: telnet to localhost

1998-01-21 Thread Craig Sanders
On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, Wiria A Kusuma wrote:

 I can not telnet or ftp to localhost, it says that service is not
 started, but I can see them in /etc/service, can some body tell me
 where should I check for this error?

there are several possible causes for this:

1. check the log files in /var/log (especially daemon.log) - the
problem may be obvious from the logs.

2. is inetd running?  if not, why not?  fix it.

3. check to see if you have an entry for 127.0.0.1 in /etc/hosts,
or that your name server is resolving lookups for localhost,
localhost.your.domain, and 1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa.

if lookups on these names fail, then tcp wrappers PARANOIA setting is
probably refusing connections to this unknown host 127.0.0.1


if this is the case, you can fix it by either:

1. fixing your nameserver to do localhost lookups properly
2. adding 127.0.0.1localhost to your /etc/hosts file
3. adding ALL: 127.0.0.1 to your /etc/hosts.allow file.

if that doesn't help, check your routing table. you should have a host
route for host 127.0.0.0 or a network route for network 127.0.0 via the
lo interface.

like this:

$ route -n | grep ^127
127.0.0.0   0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0   U 0  0  143 lo

 Further more I can not even ftp or http to my box from the net, even
 thou my apache and wuftpd is up and running.., it says something like
 connection closed by my server.

 but I can do every outbound connection like ftp, telnet to the others
 from my box, right now running kernel 2.0.32...

this could be caused by inetd or tcp wrappers problems as mentioned above.

alternatively, it could be because your machine is on a private network
(eg 10.x.x.x, 172.16.x.x, 192.168.x.x) and is therefore unreachable from
the internet.  if you use some sort of Network Address Translation (NAT) or
IP Masquerading to get out to the net then this is the case.


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Re: errors in hamm upgrade

1998-01-21 Thread David Gaudine


 On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Adam Klein wrote:
 
  Yes.  Smail now rejects connections from hostnames which don't have
  a dot in them.  The fix is to change the line in /etc/smail/config
  which reads '-smtp_hello_broken_allow' to read
  'smtp_hello_broken_allow=localnet'.

I have the same (or a similar) problem, i.e. when I try to send mail
using pine I get a message complaining that localhost doesn't have a
. in it.  But, the above fix didn't work, and neither does
   smtp_hello_broken_allow=localnet:localhost:127.0.0.1
What does work is:
   smtp_hello_broken_allow=*
but I'm not fond of that, for obvious reasons.


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Re: super: does syslog work?

1998-01-21 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, Craig Sanders wrote:

 On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote:
 
  I've attempt to use the documented feature of super to direct its
  logging information to the syslog daemon without success.  Logging to
  a file works.  Here's an extract from /etc/super.tab:
  
:global \
  gethostbyname=n \
  logfile=/var/log/super.log \
  rlog_host=localhost \
  syslog=y
  
  Any ideas why this doesn't work?
 
 the rloghost=localhost line above makes me think that super is trying to
 use syslog via a network connection to the syslog port of localhost instead
 of using the syslog() function calls in the libc.

Already tried this without success.

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Re: upgrade to hamm == X problems

1998-01-21 Thread David Gaudine


On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote:

It worked fine with bo but when i start the server under hamm, my
 machine switches to video mode, blanks the screen, and stops talking
 to the console.  The server output looks normal (looks like it's not
 aware there's a problem).  I cant switch virtual consoles, i cant toggle
 numlock, but i can ping the machine and i can log in remotely.  I can also
 reboot with Ctrl-Alt-Del.

Are you sure you can't switch virtual consoles?  I have the same problem
in all other respects.  I have to use ctrl-alt-f1 instead of alt-f1
to switch virtual consoles since X is running, did you forget about that?
My power save light comes on and my monitor shuts off until I switch
to a virtual console.  The server output on the console is normal
as you said.



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syslog and pipe router

1998-01-21 Thread Ian Keith Setford

Yo-

I am trying to configure both my Debian machine and my Pipe 50 router to
use syslog.  I believe to have the Pipe 50 setup right according to the
manual.  I think linux isn't getting/accepting/writing the messages
though.

My pipe 50:

Ethernet-Mod-Config-Log-Yes, 192.168.100.102 (Debian), Port 514,
Local1 

Debian:

/etc/syslog.conf

Local1.info /var/log/pipe.log

Anything else?

I do show syslog running and it is logging other events like start-up
messages and such.  According to the Ascend manual every time the Pipe 50
is connected to/from a record should be created in /var/log/pipe.log.

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance!

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Re: errors in hamm upgrade

1998-01-21 Thread Martin Bialasinski
David Gaudine [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

  On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Adam Klein wrote:
  
   Yes.  Smail now rejects connections from hostnames which don't have
   a dot in them.  The fix is to change the line in /etc/smail/config
   which reads '-smtp_hello_broken_allow' to read
   'smtp_hello_broken_allow=localnet'.
 
 I have the same (or a similar) problem, i.e. when I try to send mail
 using pine I get a message complaining that localhost doesn't have a
 . in it.  But, the above fix didn't work, and neither does
smtp_hello_broken_allow=localnet:localhost:127.0.0.1
 What does work is:
smtp_hello_broken_allow=*
 but I'm not fond of that, for obvious reasons.

Do you have a NIC running? Then you also have to add it's IP.

Ciao,
Martin 


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fdos package needed

1998-01-21 Thread hollen
I have tried without success to find the fdos package on the Debian
FTP site.  I need it because mkrboot depends on it.  I need mkrboot
because boot-floppie depends on it.

In case I am going in the wrong direction, my ultimate goal is to make
a Debian boot/rescue disk with a custom kernel and the installable
modules necessary to boot from a single floppy and recognize my SCSI
tape drive that is attached to my laptop via a PCMCIA card.  I have
this working from the hard disk, but need a way to restore my backups
without having to re-install a base system before accessing PCMCIA
modules.

thanks,
dion

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Re: syslog and pipe router

1998-01-21 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Ian Keith Setford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Yo-

I am trying to configure both my Debian machine and my Pipe 50 router to
use syslog.  I believe to have the Pipe 50 setup right according to the
manual.  I think linux isn't getting/accepting/writing the messages
though.

Ehm, did you add the -r flag to the syslogd invocation?
Read the manpage ..

Mike.
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Re: syslog and pipe router

1998-01-21 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Ian Keith Setford [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 I am trying to configure both my Debian machine and my Pipe 50 router to
 use syslog.  I believe to have the Pipe 50 setup right according to the
 manual.  I think linux isn't getting/accepting/writing the messages
 though.

Syslog won't accept connections from the net unless you start it with -r.

Ciao,
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RE: Netscape 4.04.... [Read this Please!]

1998-01-21 Thread Vladislav Papayan x285
My netscape 4.04 is also working just fine -- I did not have
to do anything at all.  Just downloaded, installed using
debian packages and it just works.

My configuration:
hamm debian as of December 19 (all libc6 + some packages that cannot
live without libc5)
kernel: 2.1.78
To dial up I use X-ISP (I use the latest version -- I had to compile it
myself and get the latest x-forms library)


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Re: upgrade to hamm == X problems

1998-01-21 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
David Gaudine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
] Are you sure you can't switch virtual consoles?  I have the same problem
] in all other respects.  I have to use ctrl-alt-f1 instead of alt-f1
] to switch virtual consoles since X is running


   I tried both Ctrl-Alt-F? and the regular Alt-F?.  Neither works.
I also tried logging in remotely and running 'sudo chvt ?', and that
just sits there.  I also cant kill the X server when logged in remotely.
Something's definately pretty broken here...




Sebastian


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Re: syslog and pipe router

1998-01-21 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
I'm assuming you mean Pipeline 50, and that's a dandy little piece of
hardware! That's beside the point though. I can't offer you help but I share
in your misery. I've had the same problem with a MicroRouter 900i. I've got
everything set for syslog but I've never gotten a message from the thing. I
gave up, assuming the unit just didn't work right, but now that I hear this
I'm starting to wonder if maybe the syslog daemon isn't playing nice. Let me
know if you figure anything out.

Ian Keith Setford wrote:

 Yo-

 I am trying to configure both my Debian machine and my Pipe 50 router to
 use syslog.  I believe to have the Pipe 50 setup right according to the
 manual.  I think linux isn't getting/accepting/writing the messages
 though.

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Network Problem

1998-01-21 Thread Uros Platise

Hi there,

A week ago I set up new Debian machine
called marvin. It is an old 80386-40
CPU board with 40 MB of disk and 8 MB of RAM.

The only work marvin will do is routing between
Packet Radio network and home (local) network.
After setting the network configuration files I can
ping my working machine (called ide) from marvin.
And I can also ping marvin from ide. NFS is also
working as well. The trouble is telnet and ftp.
ide works (I assume) well as I can telnet to it
from my 3rd home computer But ide-marvin is 
the neck.

On marvin I installed the base system plus
netstd package. I can telnet to localhost (marvin)
but I cannot get out from the machine. Hence
rpc works well.

I already spent a few days and have no idea what
could be wrong. Have I missed some important packages
or what?

If anybody has any suggestion I would really
appreciate it!

Thanks!

Uros


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Re: errors in hamm upgrade

1998-01-21 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, David Gaudine wrote:

 
 
  On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Adam Klein wrote:
  
   Yes.  Smail now rejects connections from hostnames which don't have
   a dot in them.  The fix is to change the line in /etc/smail/config
   which reads '-smtp_hello_broken_allow' to read
   'smtp_hello_broken_allow=localnet'.
 
 I have the same (or a similar) problem, i.e. when I try to send mail
 using pine I get a message complaining that localhost doesn't have a
 . in it.  But, the above fix didn't work, and neither does
smtp_hello_broken_allow=localnet:localhost:127.0.0.1
 What does work is:
smtp_hello_broken_allow=*
 but I'm not fond of that, for obvious reasons.

In looking into the same problem, somewhere in the smail docs I found a
mention that pine is somewhat broken and that the fix for this is to use:

smtp_hello_broken_allow=127*

Note: running smailconfig resets this, so you will need to re-edit the
file after running this.

Bob

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Thanks!! syslog and pipe router

1998-01-21 Thread Ian Keith Setford

Jens:

I got mine working.  How about you?

-Ian

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