Re: Compute Farm
On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Gergely Madarasz wrote: On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Craig Sanders wrote: Tim, from my experiences with (much smaller scale but still essentially the same) mass-duplication of debian, all you need to do is duplicate the hard disk and change half a dozen (or less) files under /etc: /etc/hostname /etc/init.d/network /etc/hosts no need for changing these files, bootp can handle them (there is an example rc.bootp which can be put in /etc/init.d/network) that is true. however, i would be inclined to do it using dd to dupe the disks and a sh/ed/sed/perl script to modify the config files purely because bootp introduces a single point of failure to the network - if the bootp server dies then the other machines can't boot until it's fixed. The script method is also a lot simpler and more flexible - you can auto-configure anything you like with a suitable smart script. bootp only allows you to change the network details. either way will work, and it is possible to have redundancy in the bootp setup (just build another bootp or dhcp server and configure the two to work together without conflicting). craig -- craig sanders -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
curiosity
This is just a curiosity... I have debian 1.3.1.r6 when is going to be a new realise? that is almost 4 months old I see lot of programs that need an update... Thank you Joaquin Grech -- --- ! C r e a t i v i t y M u s tS u r v i v e! --- ! Fido: 2:341/19.67 Euronet: 25:928/100.67 ! ! Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]! ! Http://surf.to/creative Ya me direis :) ! --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: UPS again
On Sat, 7 Feb 1998, Ralph Winslow wrote: William R. Ward wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Raymond A. Ingles [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The UPS-HOWTO has a lot of info about using a UPS under Linux. I'd check there before returning it. I know that genpowerd is pretty flexible and can be configured to support almost any UPS. The UPS-HOWTO does not mention my brand. I even did a web search and found nothing, Linux or otherwise, about my UPS. You might try doing this the hard way - [build your own cable, etc.] HTH, lots of Luck, e-mail if you get stuck. I'm afraid that Ralph is right. If no one has done the work before, you'll have to make it work yourself. Vigorous questioning of the manufacturer may help... Sincerely, Ray Ingles (248) 377-7735[EMAIL PROTECTED] Suffering is good for the soul, but it is usually best to wait until the body has no choice in the matter. - Stephen Donaldson -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
[General Q] Filtering mail from IMAP server with procmail
Sorry for this non Debian question. I usually find that my questions to this mailing list get answered very fast. My mail is stored on a remote IMAP server. How do I use procmail to filter my mail? The documentation on procmail that I have read applies to mail on the local system (ie. /var/spool/mail). I am planning to use pine as the MUA and procmail to filter. Help / pointers would be appreciated. S. -- Maybe Lisa's right about America being the land of opportunity, and maybe Adil's got a point about the machinery of capitalism being oiled with the blood of the workers. -- Homer J. Simpson Sudhakar C13n (650) 937-2354 (O) International Websites Engineer (650) 940-1896 (H) http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
nmh configuration
Hi, I've got a hamm system running with smail(3.2.0.100-4), exmh(2.0-1), and would like to configure nmh(0.17-1) so that it uses smail as the local SMTP server (called by inetd), as was implemented in my bo system. I specifically do NOT want nmh to act as the SMTP server, because I have a custom smail transport which rewrites From: headers (thanks Daniel), which I wish to retain, as this works across all mail clients. When I run smail -bv -v kotsya | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm deliverable, however when I attempt to deliver mail by nmh using send -snoop test, with variations on servers: localhost.localdomain in my /etc/nmh/mts.conf, all mail is undeliverable: - = 220-localhost.localdomain Smail-3.2.0.100 (#2 1998-Jan-13) ready at Tue, 10 Feb 1998 17:04:16 + (/etc/localtime) = 220 ESMTP supported = EHLO localhost.localdomain = 250-localhost.localdomain Hello localhost.localdomain ([EMAIL PROTECTED] from address [127.0.0.1]), here's what we support: = 250-EXPN = 250-SIZE 10485760 = 250-8BITMIME = 250-PIPELINING = 250 HELP = MAIL FROM:[EMAIL PROTECTED] = 450 defer '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', sender address target 'localhost.localdomain' cannot be verified at this time: verify_sender(): BIND server failure: : Connection refused. (Try again later) = RSET = 250 Reset state = QUIT = 221 localhost.localdomain closing connection post: problem initializing server; [RPLY] 450 defer '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', sender address target 'localhost.localdomain' cannot be verified at this time: verify_sender(): BIND server failure: : Connection refused. (Try again later) send: message not delivered to anyone - It's my understanding that there are two ways to compile nmh, either with SMTP over TCP or SMTP over a pipe. In an attempt to alleviate that contention, I've tried setting sendmail: /usr/sbin/smail in my /etc/nmh/mts.conf as shown in the man page, to no avail. In fact, setting this param, restarting smail and inetd, has no effect. I've also setup an /etc/hosts file as shown in the man page. Coincidentally, the spost command is also missing from the nmh .deb, yet the nmh developer has told me it exists. Has the ability for nmh to pass along SMTP duties to sendmail/smail been disincluded from the nmh .deb? If so, and since my bo smail/MH system worked, this would make the claim that nmh is a drop-in replacement for MH (as told in the man page) disingenuous (even if technically it is configurable at compile time, because binary distribution is most prevalent), therefore I would suggest the nmh .deb first include the spost command, and then share a common method for SMTP duties with MH. Only then will nmh truly be a drop-in replacement for MH for Debian. For now I specify my ISP's smarthost in servers:, but this breaks local mail delivery. How can I configure nmh to call on smail for SMTP duties? -- D a v i d S t e r n -- http://weber.u.washington.edu/~kotsya [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RE: /usr/spool and related links...
Hi, In all fairness to the authors, is it accurate to call a program's incorrect behaviour a bug when the incorrect behaviour is caused be the standards being changed _after_ the software was released? Fine, I agree that using the bug-reporting channel is a useful way to send notice of what should be changed, but liberally describing programs as buggy, in this case, isn't fair. Remember, in the days of UNIX past, those symlinks were put in to make software compatible, because every vendor was doing something unique. The FHS is just another attempt to make all our programs compatible. (I make no statement about which is better!) Regards, --Kristian -- Today's FAILED opcode: UER: Update and Erase Record -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Modem
Dear Supporters, I have the program minicom on my computer and I need to know how to tell what the name of my modem is under the /dev or how I can find it. The default that came with the program was something like /dev/cua1 but it couldn't find that file name. Also can any of you tell me where I can get the pico editer program? Thanks, Pete Poff -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
rpc.portmap, ethernet-card prob
Hi, My rpc.portmap is away (/usr/sbin/rpc.portmap) and I don't know, why. What is its use?? How can I get it again? I have no /dev/eth0: Because the CARD is not correct installed or Do I have to create this file??(with mknod??) thanx so much florian attenberger -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Modem
On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Pete Poff wrote: Dear Supporters, I have the program minicom on my computer and I need to know how to tell what the name of my modem is under the /dev or how I can find it. The default that came with the program was something like /dev/cua1 but it couldn't find that file name. run: minicom -s then config your serial port. Also can any of you tell me where I can get the pico editer program? vi is a better editor, but, if you must have pico, you can download it at: ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/non-free/binary/pico_3.96L-2.deb (bo) or at: ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/hamm/non-free/binary-i386/editors/pico_3.96L-2.deb (hamm) Thanks, Pete Poff Not a problem. -BEGIN PGP MESSAGE- Version: 2.6.3i owEBigB1/4kAdQMFADTeT/iSz4msNXLdGQEBRMYC/i/NQ8dPuo4Ad97Pp/QZTqYT xbBRzMgvBkAoP8d6DPAVZPH0NRWA/Fr+K0x8Hzt2DhC0EWNWmHXt7yjm1lJZq0Tj c48ZRtMeCgIP9mV1kMH0L9yLvkjprgkOH72MBbUVxKwQYgouc2lnbmF0dXJl AA== =kKxu -END PGP MESSAGE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Modem
The device equivalent to /dev/cua1 is /dev/ttyS2. (In linux, as in other unices, the serial device numbering starts at 0, so /dev/ttyS1 is the same serial port as COM2 in DOS.) The use of the /dev/cua? devices is deprecated, I believe because of locking inconsistencies. Bob On Tue, 10 Feb 1998 Pete Poff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Supporters, I have the program minicom on my computer and I need to know how to tell what the name of my modem is under the /dev or how I can find it. The default that came with the program was something like /dev/cua1 but it couldn't find that file name. Also can any of you tell me where I can get the pico editer program? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RE: /usr/spool and related links...
On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Kristian Strickland wrote: In all fairness to the authors, is it accurate to call a program's incorrect behaviour a bug when the incorrect behaviour is caused be the standards being changed _after_ the software was released? Actually, your statement is incorrect (IMHO). Software that is, for example developed for another *nix os and is restructured by a debian maintainer to fit our policy, does not have to adhere to our standards at any point in time (before of after the release). Bugs here are meant to imply bugs with the debian system. This statement includes upstream bugs. To the average user, they may not know where the bug came from (i.e. the debian maintainer or upstream). Within debian, it's a bug. If it is an upstream bug, we helpfully pass it on (even perhaps with a patch). If it is just due to our packaging, then we take care of it. Upstream authors realize this (perhaps we should put a loud statement at the top of our bug tracking system to clarify that we could just as easily be responsible for the bug). Anyway, I think it is a whole lot easier letting users file everything as bugs and have us sort out the details. I do agree with you, but there doesn't seem to be a better solution. Cheers, Colin. -- Colin Telmer, Kingston, Ontario, Canada mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://terrapin.econ.queensu.ca -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: UPS again
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Brian White [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Like a dummy, I bought a UPS without bothering to check if genpowerd supports it (I don't think it does). But before taking it back (I believe I have a week to do so and it's real stormy now, so I'm glad to have it anyway), I wanted to ask if anyone knew if I could do anything with it. I bought a MinuteMan 280 Pro UPS. It looks like it has smart features but does not come with a cable or software. It is made by Para Systems. Is there any Linux software that'll talk to this beast? As far as I know, the only package that supports any kind of smart signalling is the apcd package (for APC systems, of course). If your UPS has a dumb-signalling mode, then you can probably build a cable that genpower can drive. Beyond that, though, I can't help you. They sell controller software for SCO Unix; is Debian binary-compatible enough to run SCO binaries? I seem to recall hearing it is. Barring that, I'll have to see if I can't talk them out of the specs... -Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408/458-8862 PGP Key 0x2BD331E5; Public key at http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/pubkey.txt - Take off all your clothes and walk down the street waving a machete and firing an Uzi, and terrified citizens will phone the police and report: There's a naked person outside! - Mike Nichols -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: UPS again
Yikes that sounds like a chore. I hope it doesn't come to that. --Bill. In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: William R. Ward wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Raymond A. Ingles [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 5 Feb 1998, William R Ward wrote: Like a dummy, I bought a UPS without bothering to check if genpowerd supports it (I don't think it does). But before taking it back (I believe I have a week to do so and it's real stormy now, so I'm glad to have it anyway), I wanted to ask if anyone knew if I could do anything with it. I bought a MinuteMan 280 Pro UPS. It looks like it has smart features but does not come with a cable or software. It is made by Para Systems. Is there any Linux software that'll talk to this beast? The UPS-HOWTO has a lot of info about using a UPS under Linux. I'd check there before returning it. I know that genpowerd is pretty flexible and can be configured to support almost any UPS. The UPS-HOWTO does not mention my brand. I even did a web search and found nothing, Linux or otherwise, about my UPS. You might try doing this the hard way - turn off and unplug your UPS, get a plug that fits its control plug and wire a bundle of wires keeping track of which wire goes to which pin, use a meter in ohmmeter mode to find the ground wire(s), bundle those, connect them to the meter ground probe, switch the meter to volts mode, plug in the UPS and note levels on other wires, allow UPS battery to charge, unplu UPS and note levels on each wire, monitor levels on each wire while battery discharges, get a plug to fit one of your free serial ports, wire the ground wire(s) from the UPS plug to the serial port ground wires, wire the appropriate signal wires from the UPS to the RTS, CTS, etc. lines of the serial port plug, write your own C or perl or tclsh/tk or ... program to do what you want, debianize the resultant package, use your imagination ... HTH, lots of Luck, e-mail if you get stuck. --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408/458-8862 PGP Key 0x2BD331E5; Public key at http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/pubkey.txt - Take off all your clothes and walk down the street waving a machete and firing an Uzi, and terrified citizens will phone the police and report: There's a naked person outside! - Mike Nichols -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- - Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mary bought a pair of skates upon the ice to frisk now wasn't that a crazy way her sweet young *? -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408/458-8862 PGP Key 0x2BD331E5; Public key at http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/pubkey.txt - Take off all your clothes and walk down the street waving a machete and firing an Uzi, and terrified citizens will phone the police and report: There's a naked person outside! - Mike Nichols -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Printers and printing
Hi Group, Im new to Linux, so bear with me. A point in the right direction is all that is required here -- well, maybe to spawn more questions. I have a debian 1.3.1 system setup, and I'm running X with a fair amount of success. I've decided to go ahead and install some applications, starting with StarOffice, which I am very impressed with BTW. I attempted to print a document I created with StarOffice, but discovered I only had a few post script printers available to me. I can only assume this is because I don't have the proper printer drivers installed for my hardware (an old HP laserjet plus, and a Canon BJC-620). So where do I get drivers for the devices I do have, and how do I go about installing them... Any help is appreciated. Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Modem
On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Pete Poff wrote: I have the program minicom on my computer and I need to know how to tell what the name of my modem is under the /dev or how I can find it. The default that came with the program was something like /dev/cua1 but it couldn't find that file name. i found the information at http://www.grass.org/LDP/LDP/nag/node56.html (a page called accessing serial devices from the network administrator's guide) helpful here... i have been playing the same game, getting minicom to actually find my modem, and just succeeded. however now although the modem will dial up, the connection is so slow that i get timed out before the login screen of my provider has appeared! any hints from anyone out there? cheers, ruth. * ANTaR (Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation) (http://www.antar.org.au/) have an online petition at http://www.austlii.edu.au/unsw/centres/ilc/petition/index.html Add your name against the Wik 10-point plan. * Ruth Corran School of Mathematics and Statistics The University of Sydney http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au:8000/u/ruthc/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Using hamm? READ THIS about /usr/spool and related links...
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Re: Modem /dev/cua vs /dev/ttyS
Use of /dev/cua? may be deprecated, but I can't get scripts to work with /dev/ttyS?, only /dev/cua?. Can anone explain why? For example, if you use the /usr/doc/ppp/examples/secure-card expect script, it uses redirection to /dev/cua? to communicate with the modem: system stty 19200 -echoe -echo raw /dev/cua3 /dev/cua3 If you change this to ttyS3 it will work once, but not again until you reboot. But /dev/cua? always works... On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: The device equivalent to /dev/cua1 is /dev/ttyS2. (In linux, as in other unices, the serial device numbering starts at 0, so /dev/ttyS1 is the same serial port as COM2 in DOS.) The use of the /dev/cua? devices is deprecated, I believe because of locking inconsistencies. Bob On Tue, 10 Feb 1998 Pete Poff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Supporters, I have the program minicom on my computer and I need to know how to tell what the name of my modem is under the /dev or how I can find it. The default that came with the program was something like /dev/cua1 but it couldn't find that file name. Also can any of you tell me where I can get the pico editer program? -- 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] .
weird tcp/inetd problem
My syslog is full of Feb 11 16:30:13 yodeller nmbd[16708]: connect from dialup-2.rising.com.au Feb 11 16:30:13 yodeller inetd[16659]: /usr/sbin/tcpd: exit status 0x1 Feb 11 16:30:14 yodeller nmbd[16709]: connect from dialup-2.rising.com.au Feb 11 16:30:14 yodeller inetd[16659]: /usr/sbin/tcpd: exit status 0x1 Feb 11 16:30:15 yodeller nmbd[16710]: connect from dialup-2.rising.com.au ... etc, etc. eventually followed by Feb 11 16:30:17 yodeller inetd[16659]: netbios-ns/udp server failing (looping), service terminated /etc/hosts.allow lists that host both by domain (.rising.com.au) and IP for that service; other services work 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] .
Compute Farm, Part II
I guess I didn't explain real well the first time, although I enjoyed the thread.. On this compute farm, they want to make changes to 1 machine, as in adding a package, changing a config file, etc and having the resultant changes reflected on the other 199 machines, without having to go to each machine and tweak it. Installing the machines will be a short, but intense process, but they are looking for long range admin solutions. Thanks, Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps Nihil illegitemi carborvndvm. --anon ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Compute Farm, Part II
If they are all pretty similar configs, then it sounds like a very easy solution is to use rdist or rsync. On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Tim Sailer wrote: I guess I didn't explain real well the first time, although I enjoyed the thread.. On this compute farm, they want to make changes to 1 machine, as in adding a package, changing a config file, etc and having the resultant changes reflected on the other 199 machines, without having to go to each machine and tweak it. Installing the machines will be a short, but intense process, but they are looking for long range admin solutions. Thanks, Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps Nihil illegitemi carborvndvm. --anon ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.** -- 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: rpc.portmap, ethernet-card prob
On Wed, Feb 11, 1998 at 02:51:58AM +0100, Florian Attenbergerhphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de wrote: My rpc.portmap is away (/usr/sbin/rpc.portmap) and I don't know, why. What is its use?? How can I get it again? I have no /dev/eth0: Because the CARD is not correct installed or Do I have to create this file??(with mknod??) Network devices do not have entries in /dev. The portmapper is used for some RPC services like NFS; what do you mean it is away? 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: libc5 (not libc6) by default? (was: CDE)
Alex Yukhimets [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm sure there is not the problem that the package is not *.deb. The problem here is that it was not linked with specific major version of libc. If you try to do ldd /path/to/some/CDE/executable/or/library I bet that you'll get dependence on libc6. Same thing happens to my Motif: libXm.so.2.0 seems to depend on libc6 while both of them used libc5 headers. The solution is to configure shared lib loader to use libc5 by default. If somebody can tell me how to do it, I would be very gratefull. Two things you can try: 1. Put /usr/X11R6/lib right at the end of /etc/ld.so.conf. (Is this done in the upgrade process? I'm sure it's made things work for me that didn't previously.) 2. Check for the path hardcoded into the binary; try: strings /path/to/dtlogin | grep '/usr/X11R6/lib' Nothing should be printed. This caused a problem with the Debian packages of fvwm2 and other programs a few months ago. I don't know how you'll get it to load libc5 by default; I haven't had this problem. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: UPS again
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (William R. Ward) (William R. Ward) (William R. Ward) (William R. Ward) (William R. Ward) writes: They sell controller software for SCO Unix; is Debian binary-compatible enough to run SCO binaries? I seem to recall hearing it is. Barring that, I'll have to see if I can't talk them out of the specs... Using iBCS you can run a lot of programs for particular versions of SCO Unix. If it's a driver you might have less luck. (You could see if objdump can disassemble it, but you didn't hear that from me...) ibcs is a Debian package. See if you can get a demo copy of the controller software to try out. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Compiling w/shadow support
Mark A. Bialik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've recently switched over to Debian, and have shadow support installed. I seem to have a reacurring problem when I need to compile my own software. I've figured out that I need to add -I/usr/src/linux/include to many of my CFLAGS, There should be very few packages you need to do this for. Is this plain Debian 1.3.1? but when the make gets down to the -lshadow area, ld dies with the old: ld: cannot open -lshadow: No such file or directory Try leaving it out, or using -lcrypt. The latter is for libc6, IIRC. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: rpc.portmap, ethernet-card prob
Florian Attenbergerhphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My rpc.portmap is away (/usr/sbin/rpc.portmap) and I don't know, why. What is its use?? How can I get it again? rpc.portmap moved to portmap recently in unstable. It's generally only used for NFS on most systems. I have no /dev/eth0: Because the CARD is not correct installed Linux has never used devices in /dev/ for networking. You use /sbin/ifconfig to find out about your card, etc. Do I have to create this file??(with mknod??) You should use /dev/MAKEDEV to create new devices, in any case. (BTW, I think your '?' key is sticking.) -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Compute Farm, Part II
On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Tim Sailer wrote: I guess I didn't explain real well the first time, although I enjoyed the thread.. On this compute farm, they want to make changes to 1 machine, as in adding a package, changing a config file, etc and having the resultant changes reflected on the other 199 machines, without having to go to each machine and tweak it. Installing the machines will be a short, but intense process, but they are looking for long range admin solutions. isn't this sort of thing precisely what cfengine is for? cfengine is available as a debian package. rdist/rsync/ssh can also be useful for remote admin too... BTW, what makes them think that RH can do this any easier than debian? looks like cfengine is orphaned at the momentit has been updated to libc6 already, though. /debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386$ dpkg -I admin/cfengine_1.3.19-2.deb new debian package, version 2.0. size 229684 bytes: control archive= 1078 bytes. 79 bytes, 3 lines * conffiles 818 bytes,21 lines control 665 bytes,21 lines * postinst #!/bin/sh 90 bytes, 7 lines * prerm#!/bin/sh Package: cfengine Version: 1.3.19-2 Section: admin Priority: optional Architecture: i386 Depends: libc6 Installed-Size: 428 Maintainer: (orphaned) Description: A tool for configuring and maintaining network machines The main purpose of cfengine is to allow the system administrator to create a single central file which will define how every host on a network should be configured. . cfengine is also useful as an interpreter for a general scripting language for ordinary users. It is handy for tidying up junk files and for maintaining `watchdog' scripts to manage access rights and permissions on files when collaborating with other users. . It takes a while to set up cfengine for a network (especially an already existing network), but once that is done you will wonder how you ever lived without it! craig -- Craig Sanders Systems Administrator VICNET- Victoria's Network http://www.vicnet.net.au Ph: +61 3 9669 9684Fax: +61 3 9669 9805 ** nothing is true, everything is permitted ** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Compute Farm, Part II
Tim, IIRC Brian White has advocated cfengine for this task. HTH Lindsay =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lindsay Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perth, Western Australia voice +61 8 9316 248632.0125S 115.8445Evk6lj Debian Unix =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Tim Sailer wrote: I guess I didn't explain real well the first time, although I enjoyed the thread.. On this compute farm, they want to make changes to 1 machine, as in adding a package, changing a config file, etc and having the resultant changes reflected on the other 199 machines, without having to go to each machine and tweak it. Installing the machines will be a short, but intense process, but they are looking for long range admin solutions. Thanks, Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps Nihil illegitemi carborvndvm. --anon ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.** -- 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] .
cdwrite and cd writers
Hi all, not really a debian question, so please excuse me if someone's bothered. Is there any other SCSI cd writer supported by cdwrite (I have 2.0, any new release?) except hp, yamaha, philips and kodak? I have a teac r55s and it seems it's not supported. Is it really unsupported? Since it's so difficult to find external SCSI writers, I'd like to knmow it before I return the writer. Yamaha looks like the only other chance available here. Any advice/model to avoid? thanks for your time. -- |||| ||| Marco Frattola Microsoft is not the answer ||`..'|| |||... Piacenza, ItalyMicrosoft is the question ||| ||| |||''[EMAIL PROTECTED]No is the answer ||| ||| ||| www.enjoy.it/users/~mk/index.html Live Linux, live free! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
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Re: Printers and printing
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert LaGrasse) writes: I attempted to print a document I created with StarOffice, but discovered I only had a few post script printers available to me. I can only assume this is because I don't have the proper printer drivers installed for my hardware (an old HP laserjet plus, and a Canon BJC-620). So where do I get drivers for the devices I do have, and how do I go about installing them... Install gs (maybe the version in non-free) and magicfilter and you should be able to use any printer as a Postscript printer. Doesn't StarOffice support PCL5 printers itself? You should be able to print to an HP LaserJet with this anyway. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Modem
Ruth Corran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i have been playing the same game, getting minicom to actually find my modem, and just succeeded. however now although the modem will dial up, the connection is so slow that i get timed out before the login screen of my provider has appeared! any hints from anyone out there? This can be caused by IRQ conflicts. Does the AT prompt come up immediately after you type OK and Enter? Does cat /proc/interrupts while minicom is running show a large number for serial? Is minicom set to a high enough speed? You might want to look at /etc/rc.boot/0setserial. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
PPP problems still
Hello, I am probably getting on peoples nerves, but I still dont have my ppp working on my linux box. I have followed the howto's and have tried what advice has been given me. None of this has worked so far. :( So I am still hoping that someone can shed some light on what I am doing wrong. I am enclosing the files that are needed to determine what is going on inside my system. It is a micron 166, 32M RAM, Supra 288i internal PnP modem, the rest is fairly irrelevant. I would also like to know if anyone knows how to compress an Iomega Zip-Disk in linux, as I would like to utilize my zip's for backing up files. At this point, any help at all is appreciated. I also have a line in my options file, that calls to a file named ppp-connect in /etc/ppp however, I do not have this file. Could this be my main problem at this point? I have configured my kernel, hopefully correctly. When I enter pon, or pppd, nothing happens, my modem is not even initialized. If I cannot get this working, then I will be stuck searching for another OS, but would really like to use linux, since I like the options it makes available. Thanks for your patience and any help that can be offered. Feb 10 21:07:54 charles kernel: PPP: version 2.2.0 (dynamic channel allocation) Feb 10 21:07:54 charles kernel: PPP Dynamic channel allocation code copyright 1995 Caldera, Inc. Feb 10 21:07:54 charles kernel: PPP line discipline registered. Feb 10 21:07:54 charles kernel: SLIP: version 0.8.4-NET3.019-NEWTTY-MODULAR (dynamic channels, max=256). Feb 10 21:07:54 charles kernel: SLIP linefill/keepalive option. Feb 10 21:07:54 charles kernel: Serial driver version 4.13 with no serial options enabled Feb 10 21:07:54 charles kernel: tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A Feb 10 21:07:56 charles kernel: registered device ppp0 # /etc/ppp/options debug /dev/ttyS3 38400 modem crtscts lock connect /etc/ppp/ppp-connect asyncmap 0 defaultroute# If you need to set up multiple serial lines then copy # this file to # options.ttyname for each tty with a modem on it. # # The options.tty file will assign an IP address to each PPP connection # as it comes up. They must all be distinct! # # Example: # options.ttyS1 for com2 under DOS. # # Edit the following line so that the first IP address # mentioned is the ip address of the serial port while the second # is the IP address of your host # # I usually use the convention os + dash + last 2 character of # the ttyname to refer to serial ports. # For example servername_s1 for ttyS1 on server servername 207.50.128.2:207.50.128.3 ABORTBUSY ABORTNO CARRIER ABORTVOICE ABORTNO DIALTONE ATZ OK ATDT3731501 CONNECT \d\c # This is a pap-secrets file to be used with the AUTO_PPP function of mgetty # mgetty-0.99 is preconfigured to startup pppd with the login option which # will cause pppd to consult /etc/passwd after a user has passed this file # 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 * os # UserIDs that cannot use PPP at all. Check your /etc/passwd and add any # other accounts that should not be able to use pppd! guest os * - master os * - rootos * - support os * - stats os * - # OUTBOUND connections # 3731501 # Here you should add your userid password to connect to your providers via # pap. The * means that the password is to be used for ANY host you connect # to. Thus you do not have to worry about the foreign machine name. Just # replace password with your password. # If you have different providers with different passwords then you better # remove the following line. myusername * mypass Feb 10 21:07:56 charles pppd[100]: pppd 2.2.0 started by root, uid 0 Feb 10 21:07:56 charles pppd[100]: tcgetattr: I/O error Feb 10 21:07:56 charles pppd[100]: Exit. Feb 10 21:08:35 charles pppd[116]: pppd 2.2.0 started by root, uid 0 Feb 10 21:08:35 charles pppd[116]: tcgetattr: I/O error Feb 10 21:08:35 charles pppd[116]: Exit. defaultroute /dev/ttyS3 38400 persist noipdefault debug #/etc/ppp/ppp-chat ABORT busy ATF\r OK ATD2C1\r OK ATDT3731501\r ogin myusername\r sword mypass\r
xmkmf and imake
Hi Which package does xmkmf come with. I used to have it on an unstable Debian installation, however, since re-installing and using the stable installation I can longer find it - I'm pretty sure I installed all the packages I had with the unstable one. Thanks -- Ryan Tracey smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
apache .htaccess seem not to be read
Hello, I have been trying to configure apache to have a few password protected directories. I have .htaccess files in the directories that worked with my previous installation, but seem not to with the default debian config files. Is there an extra directive I should be adding to the /etc/apache/*.conf 's? Thanks Tony -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: rpc.portmap, ethernet-card prob
On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Wed, Feb 11, 1998 at 02:51:58AM +0100, Florian Attenbergerhphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de wrote: My rpc.portmap is away (/usr/sbin/rpc.portmap) and I don't know, why. What is its use?? How can I get it again? I have no /dev/eth0: Because the CARD is not correct installed or Do I have to create this file??(with mknod??) Network devices do not have entries in /dev. The portmapper is used for some RPC services like NFS; what do you mean it is away? When i had Debian 1.3 installed rpc.portmap did not exist, when I first looked for it, but this did not matter (maybe because i dont use nfs) Some days ago I totally reinstalled debian 1.3.1 and rpc.portmap DID exist. Then I updated completely to the unstable release and noticed that it was away (BTW: I`ve installed the network packages). My ethernet card driver seems to be correctly installed. At bootup there are some error-messages, saying, that network service was not available. I can send you the exact error-message later (I can`t now because I`m not at home) Anyway Thank you very much florian attenberger -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: xmkmf and imake
On Wed, Feb 11, 1998 at 11:12:08AM +0200, Ryan Tracey wrote: Which package does xmkmf come with. For unstable, it's in xlib6g-dev; for stable, it's in xlib6-dev. HTH, Ray -- LEADERSHIP A form of self-preservation exhibited by people with auto- destructive imaginations in order to ensure that when it comes to the crunch it'll be someone else's bones which go crack and not their own. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: PPP problems still
Charles [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Feb 10 21:07:56 charles pppd[100]: pppd 2.2.0 started by root, uid 0 Feb 10 21:07:56 charles pppd[100]: tcgetattr: I/O error Feb 10 21:07:56 charles pppd[100]: Exit. Feb 10 21:08:35 charles pppd[116]: pppd 2.2.0 started by root, uid 0 Feb 10 21:08:35 charles pppd[116]: tcgetattr: I/O error Feb 10 21:08:35 charles pppd[116]: Exit. Don't know if I already said this, but I once had this error when used the same IRQ for my network card and the com port by mistake. You have a PnP modem. So you have to use ispnptools to configure it. Check if you set the modem to available values for IRQ and I/O in /etc/isapnp.conf and have enabled the (ACT Y) line. Ciao, Martin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: nmh configuration
David Stern [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've got a hamm system running with smail(3.2.0.100-4), exmh(2.0-1), = 450 defer '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', sender address target 'localhost.localdomain' cannot be verified at this time: verify_sender(): BIND server failure: : Connection refused. (Try again later) smail 3.2.100 has introduced some anti-spam measures. One of these is checking the sender. Unfortunatly this will cause trouble on a typical dialup box. Downgrade smail to the one in bo until there is a new smail which handles this case reasonable. I think you could also install your own DNS server who will resolve your localhost.localdomain. Ciao, Martin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: rpc.portmap, ethernet-card prob
On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Wed, Feb 11, 1998 at 02:51:58AM +0100, Florian Attenbergerhphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de wrote: My rpc.portmap is away (/usr/sbin/rpc.portmap) and I don't know, why. What is its use?? How can I get it again? I have no /dev/eth0: Because the CARD is not correct installed or Do I have to create this file??(with mknod??) Network devices do not have entries in /dev. The portmapper is used for some RPC services like NFS; what do you mean it is away? I think it was my error I think the /etc/init.d/* files where not updated, when I updated to debian 2.0 (The files are still looking for rpc.portmap instead of portmap, as its name is in the new release Maybe the new network packeges should care about this problem thanx florian attenberger -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
how to update
Hi, what is the fastest way to update from libc5 to libc6? Many packages are dependent on these libraries and I have no debian CD, everything I do I use ftp or www. It would be enough if I could get all the packages I need to update everything I guess. But I cannot see other way of doing this as to follow the dependency tree of packages and that could take quite a long time to get this working again. could anyone help me? Martin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: rpc.portmap, ethernet-card prob
On Wed, Feb 11, 1998 at 10:57:29AM +0100, Florian Attenberger wrote: I think the /etc/init.d/* files where not updated, when I updated to debian 2.0 (The files are still looking for rpc.portmap instead of portmap, as its name is in the new release Maybe the new network packeges should care about this problem When you upgrade the package, dpkg/dselect will ask you if you want to replace the configuration files (the scripts in /etc/init.d are configuration files) if you have changed them at all. If you say no then you have to make the appropriate changes yourself. 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: cdwrite and cd writers
Hi all, not really a debian question, so please excuse me if someone's bothered. Is there any other SCSI cd writer supported by cdwrite (I have 2.0, any new release?) except hp, yamaha, philips and kodak? I have a teac r55s and it seems it's not supported. Is it really unsupported? Since it's so difficult to find external SCSI writers, I'd like to knmow it before I return the writer. Yamaha looks like the only other chance available here. Any advice/model to avoid? First of all don't use cdwrite but cdrecord. Cdwrite isn't supported since 2 years and author wrote that i wiil be no further version. Cdrecord is new program (and much better) and best of all it supports your CD-Recorder (since version 1.6a9). Cdrecord's homepage is at: http://www.fokus.gmd.de/nthp/employees/schilling/cdrecord.html Good luck! __ Leszek Gerwatowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ ... Press any key to continue or any other key to quit. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: curiosity
creative [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is just a curiosity... I have debian 1.3.1.r6 when is going to be a new realise? that is almost 4 months old I see lot of programs that need an update... The new release (on CD) will take a while, to come out. As far as I know, a code freeze isn`t scheduled yet. After a freeze it will take at least 4 weeks for debugging, + four weeks of generating the Official CD images an distribution. (Infos from Christian Leutloff, who translated the installation manual for a german CD release). As the so called unstable matures more and more, you might want to consider upgrading... HTH, Jens --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key from: http://www.weh.rwth-aachen.de/~jens/public.asc Key ID: 2048/E451C639 Jens Ritter Key fingerprint: 5F 3D 43 1E 24 1E CC 48 1E 05 93 3A A7 10 73 37 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: cdwrite and cd writers
Leszek Gerwatowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all, not really a debian question, so please excuse me if someone's bothered. Is there any other SCSI cd writer supported by cdwrite (I have 2.0, any new release?) except hp, yamaha, philips and kodak? I have a teac r55s and it seems it's not supported. Is it really unsupported? Since it's so difficult to find external SCSI writers, I'd like to knmow it before I return the writer. Yamaha looks like the only other chance available here. Any advice/model to avoid? First of all don't use cdwrite but cdrecord. Cdwrite isn't supported since 2 years and author wrote that i wiil be no further version. Cdrecord is new program (and much better) and best of all it supports your CD-Recorder (since version 1.6a9). Cdrecord's homepage is at: http://www.fokus.gmd.de/nthp/employees/schilling/cdrecord.html cdrecord (including 1.6a9) is using illegal code, which makes it impossible to compile on all versions of linux. small example, found in lib/format.c va_list rargs; rargs = va_arg(args, va_list); this is possible on linux/x86 because va_list is a void * on linux/ppc however, va_list is a struct, and handled by va_ppc.h and this makes compilation fail. format() will need to be rewritten without a recursive use of va_list. /Stefan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: cdwrite and cd writers
On 11 Feb 1998, Stefan Berndtsson wrote: Leszek Gerwatowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all, not really a debian question, so please excuse me if someone's bothered. Is there any other SCSI cd writer supported by cdwrite (I have 2.0, any new release?) except hp, yamaha, philips and kodak? I have a teac r55s and it seems it's not supported. Is it really unsupported? Since it's so difficult to find external SCSI writers, I'd like to knmow it before I return the writer. Yamaha looks like the only other chance available here. Any advice/model to avoid? First of all don't use cdwrite but cdrecord. Cdwrite isn't supported since 2 years and author wrote that i wiil be no further version. Cdrecord is new program (and much better) and best of all it supports your CD-Recorder (since version 1.6a9). Cdrecord's homepage is at: http://www.fokus.gmd.de/nthp/employees/schilling/cdrecord.html cdrecord (including 1.6a9) is using illegal code, which makes it impossible to compile on all versions of linux. small example, found in lib/format.c va_list rargs; rargs = va_arg(args, va_list); this is possible on linux/x86 because va_list is a void * on linux/ppc however, va_list is a struct, and handled by va_ppc.h and this makes compilation fail. format() will need to be rewritten without a recursive use of va_list. /Stefan Yes - it uses illegal code but it works (on Linux x86 machine)! __ Leszek Gerwatowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ ... Press any key to continue or any other key to quit. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: how to update
Martin Pelikan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: what is the fastest way to update from libc5 to libc6? Many packages are dependent on these libraries and I have no debian CD, everything I do I use ftp or www. It would be enough if I could get all the packages I need to update everything I guess. But I cannot see other way of doing this as to follow the dependency tree of packages and that could take quite a long time to get this working again. could anyone help me? This script can: http://taz.net.au/autoup/ It downloads all required packages and installs them in the right order. HTH, Jens --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key from: http://www.weh.rwth-aachen.de/~jens/public.asc Key ID: 2048/E451C639 Jens Ritter Key fingerprint: 5F 3D 43 1E 24 1E CC 48 1E 05 93 3A A7 10 73 37 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Using hamm? READ THIS about /usr/spool and related links...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Colin R. Telmer wrote: Santiago: Will further future upgrades of base-files again remove the link? I would think that would be a good thing as it will root out buggy packages. Actually, the package does not remove the symlink, it just does not include it (a subtle difference :-). This means you can create the symlink by hand and then it will be preserved (removing the symlink deliberately would be too strong...) If we are able to modify all our software to comply with the standards, the symlinks will go away in the next Debian stable release (i.e. base-files_2.0.0 will not include the symlinks, as now). Being mostly FSSTND-compliant is a release goal for Debian 2.0 (it was already a release goal for Debian 1.3, just that we didn't remove the symlinks in bo when bo was unstable, so we didn't find the bugs). If you report a bug on this, you may tag it as important by adding the following pseudoheader: Severity: important in the bug report. Thanks. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: latin1 iQCVAgUBNOGPjSqK7IlOjMLFAQGZFQP6A57JNFsXFYik1/1dPSHUQAQd2Riyo9DF mEDhlDuhqy06fTKeYPtQTz8GC4920m4/tuV9RMHT7FY6SFCHnN2YOfw04KizLjuI sy8mUeMEHQgEd1Coue3CwNUm1ne/nn+92GkGvEXXV5VJO49gQR7DfLgICNIThHNJ DbiXiAn4xIc= =cG23 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: samba/win95
At 14.56 10/02/98 -0500, Paul Miller wrote: On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Antonio Doldo wrote: At 22.42 07/02/98 -0500, Paul Miller wrote: When I set samba to USER mode, it doesn't accept passwords from windows machines.. It works from linux machines.. I'm using encrypted password and the lastest samba release. I believe that the problem is simply in the login in win95 network (netbeui, ipx/spx, TCP/IP) because the line 'security=user' in the smb.conf presume that the account on the server samba must be identical on both machines. I don't think the protocol changes in the security setting is changed. My Linux box currently doesn't even support ipx.. and I don't know about netbeui... In the windows machines usually are used two protocols: IPX/SPX and NetBEUI for connecting the MS network, while for samba is request the stacks TCP/IP. In the Linux box must be installed the TCP/IP (naturally), but when you login in a box with the name 'paul' and try /home/paul/$ smbclient -L my_host samba identify 'paul' and the 'homes' share is the home of paul (/home/paul) therefore if you use a login_name in a windows pc as 'paul' you can be access to the listing of shares resources, otherwise no. whith security=share instead the community can view (only VIEW) the resources. If you want limitate the access from other networks can use allow hosts = 193.xxx. 141.xxx. perhaps there is another possibility: you can use the username.map in the samba config What is username.map? Is it where samba checks the password against a list of valid users? That doesn't sound too secure. I non use the username.map, but I believe is a file that contain the name conversions between PC and U*ix -Paul I hope is satisfactory Antonio -- Antonio Doldo Istituto Superiore di Sanita' Laboratorio di Chimica del Farmaco Viale Regina Elena, 299 I-00161 ROME phone +39 6 49.90.26.82 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: cdwrite and cd writers
Leszek Gerwatowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: cdrecord (including 1.6a9) is using illegal code, which makes it impossible to compile on all versions of linux. small example, found in lib/format.c va_list rargs; rargs = va_arg(args, va_list); this is possible on linux/x86 because va_list is a void * on linux/ppc however, va_list is a struct, and handled by va_ppc.h and this makes compilation fail. format() will need to be rewritten without a recursive use of va_list. /Stefan Yes - it uses illegal code but it works (on Linux x86 machine)! yes, and Linux/x86 isn't the entire world, and Debian isn't a project for Linux/x86 exclusively. That kind of attitude makes me truly sick.. /Stefan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: libc5 (not libc6) by default? (was: CDE)
On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Alex Yukhimets wrote: I just tried installing the RedHat CDE package into a Debian unstable system. It was compiled with an oldish version of libc5 and not libc6 which the unstable release is based on. I was successful in converting the rpm files to deb files using alien. Unfortunately, when I tried to start CDE using dtlogin, I received a core dump. I received no response from RedHat technical support. I'm sure there is not the problem that the package is not *.deb. The problem here is that it was not linked with specific major version of libc. If you try to do ldd /path/to/some/CDE/executable/or/library I bet that you'll get dependence on libc6. Same thing happens to my Motif: libXm.so.2.0 seems to depend on libc6 while both of them used libc5 headers. The solution is to configure shared lib loader to use libc5 by default. If somebody can tell me how to do it, I would be very gratefull. No that wasn't the problem. ldd does show a dependency on libc5. -- Jean Pierre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: cdwrite and cd writers
On 11 Feb 1998, Stefan Berndtsson wrote: Leszek Gerwatowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: cdrecord (including 1.6a9) is using illegal code, which makes it impossible to compile on all versions of linux. [...] Yes - it uses illegal code but it works (on Linux x86 machine)! yes, and Linux/x86 isn't the entire world, and Debian isn't a project for Linux/x86 exclusively. That kind of attitude makes me truly sick.. Don't be so sick :-) IN THIS PARTICULAR CASE it's better to have working program than to change CD-Recorder (I assume that this person runs Linux on x86). And it sounds good that someone is supporting this piece of hardware (and in future propably it will be supported). __ Leszek Gerwatowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ ... Press any key to continue or any other key to quit. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Debian 2.0
Since I'm going to set up a couple of Linux hosts in the near future I wonder if there is a release date (fix or approximate) set for Debian 2.0? If not, how long will it maximum take before testing etc. is done? TIA /fax -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Emacs Menu/Scrollbar Color
Stefan Baums hat gesagt: // Stefan Baums wrote: Hi all, I'd like to use GNU Emacs under X with a black background and white foreground. The problem is, this should be true of the menubar as well, but Xresources background foreground don't do the job. (It's possible, though: I saw a screenshot.) And can I set the scrollbar color separately? (This seems to be an unrelated problem: the aforementioned Xresources _do_ affect the scrollbar.) I couldn't find the relevant information in the man pages or info documents. Any ideas? I have a similar setup. Here it is: ~/.Xresources: Emacs.font: lucidasanstypewriter-bold-12- this is my fav. font Emacs*Background: grey90- and the window background is grey (you would like black...) Emacs*menubar.foreground: gold1 - menubar fore and Emacs*menubar.background: RoyalBlueback colors Emacs*menu*.foreground: RoyalBlue - switched for the font menu you Emacs*menu*.background: gold1 get with Strg-Mouse-1 Play with editres to try what you like best... -- Yours a href=http://www.koeln-online.de/einblick/; Frank Barknecht Das Koelner Stadt- und Unimagazin - /a -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RE: /usr/spool and related links...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Kristian Strickland wrote: In all fairness to the authors, is it accurate to call a program's incorrect behaviour a bug when the incorrect behaviour is caused be the standards being changed _after_ the software was released? Hi. Remember that Debian 2.0 has not been released yet... As Colin Telmer has already pointed out, these are bugs in the Debian sense. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: latin1 iQCVAgUBNOGrzCqK7IlOjMLFAQFTKgQAmbfRxyQtdGuX4yor/ljMG635/QjhoHkk RDzGgLT0O3SnNiLPzNosl25WOtS63Aka429escZowNojlPLTMPX8v4gM2UE/E2fr PkmcFpsjxzDwo6E6yOuRApNgwK7VEhUcJRPFtwdEvICsDi06O2SO8yOxoTTHdQYw z8Rp3xDo0Ac= =d6IY -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Installing with low RAM
I need help from someone that has installed Debian GNU/Linux 1.3 with low RAM! __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: StarOffice and Debian (2)
Hi Dou you know how to update the menus in fvwm2 in order to incorporate Star Office 4? I already put in ~/.fvwm2/main-menu-pre.hook the line + StarOffice Exec soffice but I would like to put it in the main menu (maybe in the Shells section). Thank you. -- At\'e breve === Pedro Quaresma de Almeida Departamento de Matem\'atica Faculdade de Ci\^encias e Tecnologia Universidade de Coimbra P-3000 COIMBRA, PORTUGAL e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] url: http://www.mat.uc.pt/~pedro/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
AGP Video
Hello, What AGP cards are being used successfully with X? Specifically, I'm considering the Matrox Millenium II AGP. Thanx -- Greg. -- What do you want to spend today? Debian GNU/Linux (Free for an UNLIMITED time) http://www.debian.org/social_contract.html Greg VenceKH2EA/4 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Compute Farm, Part II
Craig Sanders wrote: On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Tim Sailer wrote: I guess I didn't explain real well the first time, although I enjoyed the thread.. On this compute farm, they want to make changes to 1 machine, as in adding a package, changing a config file, etc and having the resultant changes reflected on the other 199 machines, without having to go to each machine and tweak it. Installing the machines will be a short, but intense process, but they are looking for long range admin solutions. isn't this sort of thing precisely what cfengine is for? cfengine is available as a debian package. Doh! I knew there was something out there to do this. That's why I asked the list. Looks like my brain is full.. when something new goes in, something old leaks out.. :) rdist/rsync/ssh can also be useful for remote admin too... BTW, what makes them think that RH can do this any easier than debian? I have no idea. The guy who is spouting that nonsense is considered a 'loose canon', but he's very vocal, and attracted a lot of attention. [clip] Description: A tool for configuring and maintaining network machines The main purpose of cfengine is to allow the system administrator to create a single central file which will define how every host on a network should be configured. This is exactly what they need I think. Thanks to everyone for the pointers! Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps They tell me my job is easy... anyone can do it. Why doesn't anyone else want it? -- me ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Network
Hi, I'm fairly new in setup network. I'd like to know is there any document that describe how to setup a network that has Linux, Windows/NT boxes. I think I'd like to be able to share files, printers, CDROM, etc on all these machines. Many thank in advance! I think that I've gotten my NIC driver loaded. Here is the cat /prod/pci --- 8 --- $ cat /proc/pci PCI devices found: Bus 0, device 15, function 0: Ethernet controller: Realtek Unknown device (rev 0). Vendor id=10ec. Device id=8129. Medium devsel. IRQ 9. Master Capable. Latency=96. Min Gnt=32.Max Lat=64. I/O at 0xf880. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfeffec00. Bus 0, device 14, function 0: VGA compatible controller: ATI 210888GX (rev 1). Medium devsel. IRQ 170. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x4000. Bus 0, device 13, function 0: SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7871 (rev 0). Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 15. Master Capable. Latency=96. Min Gnt=8.Max Lat=8. I/O at 0xfc00. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfefff000. Bus 0, device 2, function 0: Non-VGA device: Intel 82378IB (rev 3). Medium devsel. Master Capable. No bursts. Bus 0, device 0, function 0: Host bridge: Intel 82434LX Mercury/Neptune (rev 17). Slow devsel. Master Capable. Latency=96. --- 8 --- -- Timothy C. Phan Intelligence Quest Research, INC. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Network
iquest wrote: Hi, I'm fairly new in setup network. I'd like to know is there any document that describe how to setup a network that has Linux, Windows/NT boxes. I think I'd like to be able to share files, printers, CDROM, etc on all these machines. Many thank in advance! Load and configure samba on your Linux box, and make sure your WindoesN'T box has TCP/IP running. You should be able to talk back and forth with little problem. Unless you are running one of the latest samba versions, you will have a problem with password authentication from NT to samba. There is a patch (a registry hack) to make NT use clear passwords floating around. Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps They tell me my job is easy... anyone can do it. Why doesn't anyone else want it? -- me ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: StarOffice and Debian (2)
On 11 Feb 1998, Pedro Quaresma de Almeida wrote: Dou you know how to update the menus in fvwm2 in order to incorporate Star Office 4? If you're using the menu package (see /usr/doc/menu), simply add an entry for staroffice in /etc/menu. If you don't have a Debian package, you may need to masquerade under another package name. -- Jean Pierre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: [General Q] Filtering mail from IMAP server with procmail
You should check out fetchmail - it connects to an IMAP or POP server and retrieves your mail, then delivers it via SMTP to localhost; essentially it takes mail on the server and causes it to become mail on the local system, so that any filtering you then have on the local system will work. Sudhakar Chandrasekharan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sorry for this non Debian question. I usually find that my questions to this mailing list get answered very fast. My mail is stored on a remote IMAP server. How do I use procmail to filter my mail? The documentation on procmail that I have read applies to mail on the local system (ie. /var/spool/mail). I am planning to use pine as the MUA and procmail to filter. Help / pointers would be appreciated. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: StarOffice and Debian (2)
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:49:38 -0500 (EST) From: Jean Pierre LeJacq [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-user@lists.debian.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On 11 Feb 1998, Pedro Quaresma de Almeida wrote: Dou you know how to update the menus in fvwm2 in order to incorporate Star Office 4? If you're using the menu package (see /usr/doc/menu), simply add an entry for staroffice in /etc/menu. If you don't have a Debian package, you may need to masquerade under another package name. -- Jean Pierre I have puted in /usr/lib/menu/default/staroffice4 the following ?package(staroffice4):needs=x11 section=Apps/Shells icon=none title=Star Office 4 command=/usr/bin/soffice and then I have done update-menus But that does not worked. What is the problem? The fact that I say ?package(staroffice4) when there is not any package staroffice4 instaled (i did the instalation form the tar file)? In file:/usr/doc/menu/html/ch2.html they speak about -- You should add a line like this to your postinst and postrm script: if test -x /usr/bin/update-menus; then update-menus; fi -- where can I find the postinst and postrm scripts? At\'e breve === Pedro Quaresma de Almeida Departamento de Matem\'atica Faculdade de Ci\^encias e Tecnologia Universidade de Coimbra P-3000 COIMBRA, PORTUGAL e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] url: http://www.mat.uc.pt/~pedro/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: cdwrite and cd writers
Hi Stefan, cdrecord (including 1.6a9) is using illegal code, which makes it impossible to compile on all versions of linux. small example, found in lib/format.c va_list rargs; rargs = va_arg(args, va_list); this is possible on linux/x86 because va_list is a void * on linux/ppc however, va_list is a struct, and handled by va_ppc.h and this makes compilation fail. format() will need to be rewritten without a recursive use of va_list. Is this being done (by cdrecord's upstream author J. Schilling, by cdrecord's Debian package maintainer Erik Andersen, by one of the Debian developers working on the ports to non-i386 platforms)? What do these people have to say about the situation? You should open a bug against this package so that this problem can be tracked. Kirk Hilliard -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: PPP problems still
On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Charles wrote: I am probably getting on peoples nerves, but I still dont have my ppp working on my linux box. I have followed the howto's and have tried what advice has been given me. None of this has worked so far. :( I didn't find setting up PPP simple, partly because my circumstances are not quite standard. I wanted to set it up on my employer's internal phones, so all the machines have static IPs, ethernet cards etc., and I'm doing the serving as well as the clients. I also want callback available. So I wrote down everything I did, which is attached (I hope), and may be encoded (I apologise for pine). My modem is external (USR sportster voice 33.6). I would also like to know if anyone knows how to compress an Iomega Zip-Disk in linux, as I would like to utilize my zip's for backing up files. A zip disk is just another disk in linux. I personally use zip (infozip) in preference to tar/gzip but that's partly familiarity. I also leave the zipdisks as DOS so I can restore files to, say, my wife's Windoze laptop. The zipfilenames are 8.3, but that doesn't affect what's inside them. I also have a line in my options file, that calls to a file named ppp-connect in /etc/ppp however, I do not have this file. Could this be my main problem at this point? Could well be. When I enter pon, I've not used pon yet, though I'll probably move my scripts from ~ to /etc when I'm happy with other people (in group dip) using them. If I cannot get this working, then I will be stuck searching for another OS, but would really like to use linux, since I like the options it makes available. Thanks for your patience and any help that can be offered. It's worth persevering. Cheers, -- 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 Configuring manual PPP on my bo Debian GNU/Linux computers (both ends), using mgetty's callback. It's assumed that all the necessities (PPP, IP forwarding) are built into the kernel and the packages are installed (ppp, mgetty, minicom). Configure mgetty for your modem. /etc/inittab needs an mgetty line on both machines. s1:23:respawn:/sbin/mgetty -n 8 ttyS1 I use -n 2 on a dedicated modem line, 8+ for callback. Effect changes with telinit q to reread inittab or just kill the mgetty process and it'll respawn. /etc/mgetty/login.config needs callback information adding on the other end. magic-userid - - /usr/sbin/callback -S 5551212 (Leave it out on the computer whose phone bill you pay.) Configure minicom; I need: /dev/ttyS1, 115200,~^M~ATZ^M~, ATDT, 90. (Leave ttyS0 for mice.) Check /etc/minicom.users. The dial directory for minicom varies from user to user in ~/.dialdir. That should make callback work ok, with normal login to the other end. Configuring PPP itself. adduser myself dip to allow myself to run pppd, and then logout and back in for it to take effect. chgrp dip /etc/ppp.* to allow myself to run them (though I haven't actually used these scripts yet). Set up a PPP pseudo-user adduser --uid 1234 and password-for-, then set the shell to /bin/false. Create an executable file ~/ppp which types /usr/sbin/pppd /dev/ttyS1 115200 debug defaultroute user where is the agreed username. (You only need this file because you have but a few seconds to type the above.) For authentication of by PAP, add * password-for- (with tabs) to /etc/ppp/pap-secrets at both ends. To make PPP server use , change the line in login.config to /AutoPPP/ - - /usr/sbin/pppd auth -chap +pap login user Edit /etc/ppp/options and make the following extra lines active (these words are already active): (asyncmap 0), auth, (crtscts), (lock), (modem), debug, (proxyarp), (lcp-echo-interval 30), (lcp-echo-failure 4). Making a connection: Down the ethernet card if you want PPP to establish a gateway. minicom return or minicom -d foo return. ^a d and select the entry to dial entry foo. During/after the loud music, type any character. (Paragraph for callback only) When the login prompt is given, type magic-userid return where magic-userid is the magic username appropriate for your location. When your phone starts to ring, type ata return When the login prompt is given, type ^a q and confirm quit, then type ~/ppp return A link should be made, which you can check by typing tail -f /var/log/syslog assuming you're in group adm. You can now telnet etc. To hang-up, type poff return Up the ethernet if necessary and type /etc/init.d/network Automating it and adding chap. Remove -chap from the login.config line mentioned above. Create the following files (+- callback): ~/ /usr/sbin/pppd /dev/ttyS1 115200 defaultroute user \ connect /usr/sbin/chat -v -f ~/.chatscript +chap chap-interval 60 ~/pppc /usr/sbin/pppd /dev/ttyS1 115200 defaultroute user \
Re: how to update
Martin Pelikan [EMAIL PROTECTED] aksed: what is the fastest way to update from libc5 to libc6? and Jens Ritter [EMAIL PROTECTED] responded: This script can: http://taz.net.au/autoup/ It downloads all required packages and installs them in the right order. Craig Sanders' autoup script is the way to go, but first make sure that you read Scott Ellis' Mini-HOWTO at: http://www.debian.org/doc/libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO/libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO.html also available as a link from: http://www.debian.org/developers_corner.html You should do this not only so that you know what process is being automated, but also because it mentions some of the ramifications of the upgrade which aren't discussed in the script. The autoup script does not yet have its own stand-alone documentation. Kirk Hilliard -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: StarOffice and Debian (2)
On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Pedro Quaresma de Almeida wrote: On 11 Feb 1998, Pedro Quaresma de Almeida wrote: Dou you know how to update the menus in fvwm2 in order to incorporate Star Office 4? If you're using the menu package (see /usr/doc/menu), simply add an entry for staroffice in /etc/menu. If you don't have a Debian package, you may need to masquerade under another package name. I have puted in /usr/lib/menu/default/staroffice4 the following ?package(staroffice4):needs=x11 section=Apps/Shells icon=none title=Star Office 4 command=/usr/bin/soffice and then I have done update-menus But that does not worked. What is the problem? The fact that I say ?package(staroffice4) when there is not any package staroffice4 instaled (i did the instalation form the tar file)? This is the problem. update-menus checks to see if there is indeed a package staroffice4 installed on your system. If not, it will not include an entry. There are a couple of solution. * I believe that there is a Debian package that will install a fake package. * Use ?package(some_other_package_that_is_installed). This will work and shouldn't cause problems with the other package. * Add an entry directly into /etc/X11/fvwm2/main-menu-pre.hook -- Jean Pierre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Compute Farm
But I would suggest reading the article anyway. If RedHat makes it easy
to install on many machines, the group in the article did NOT use such a
solution. Instead, they spent time writing some scripts and setting up
a generic hdd that they sent to their hardware vendor. The scripts were
designed to customize each machine as it arrived. I have never really
seen a solution to this problem (although I find it hard to imagine that
RedHat has solved it - it seems tough to me).
Paul
On 10-Feb-98 Hunter H Marshall wrote:
Behan Webster wrote:
Hunter H Marshall wrote:
Tim Sailer wrote:
They want to be able
to configure 1 machine and mirror the setup to each machine
See if the recent aricle in Linux Journal might be
of help. The article concerned the use of 160
Alpha Linux boxes for graphics rendering. I belive
it was the Jan '98 issue.
http://www.ssc.com/lj/
Since Tim wants reason to use Debian instead of Redhat, and the article
you suggest talks of using Redhat, that probably won't be very helpful.
I do not have the article in hand. I was afraid of
something like that!
:-{
hunter red-faced marshall
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Re: StarOffice
On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Wiria A Kusuma wrote: try this site, it is a lot more responsive ftp://sunsite.uio.no/pub/unix/linux/packages/staroffice4/final/01 That's where I got it from too. Be quick though if you want to get it from sunsite.uio.no, AFAIK they're not really allowed to mirror StarOffice 4.0. I've tracked some other mirrors (several uni's in Germany) and all of them have had the SO4.0binariesremoved lately. Cheers, Joost -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Compute Farm, Part II
On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Tim Sailer wrote: Craig Sanders wrote: isn't this sort of thing precisely what cfengine is for? cfengine is available as a debian package. Doh! I knew there was something out there to do this. That's why I asked the list. Looks like my brain is full.. when something new goes in, something old leaks out.. :) rdist/rsync/ssh can also be useful for remote admin too... BTW, what makes them think that RH can do this any easier than debian? I am not sure if this solves the problem of package installation, unless you actually force a mirror of all files, not just the configuration files in /etc. Carlo --- Carlo U. Segre Associate Professor of Physics Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago, IL 60616 Voice:(312) 567-3498 FAX: (312) 567-3494 http://www.iit.edu/~segre [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Compute Farm, Part II
Lindsay Allen wrote: Tim, IIRC Brian White has advocated cfengine for this task. If I may, he advocated it because we used it here at Verisim to manage our workstations and servers. Unfortunately we found although it did work, it was rather clumsy, and didn't scale well in our environment. I have written a script (called cfile) which has all the functionality of what we had cfengine doing for us before. It needs a bit of a work (since we've been using it for 4 months we've noticed some places it could be improved). All in all though, it seems to do the trick of managing a small network of near identical machines (hardware wise). It can also specially configure certain machines to provide services (dns, web, ftp, etc). I am confident that it would scale much larger. Tim, if you are interested in seeing my developement code let me know. It's implementation will be taking a big change, but it's basic working will be the same. (i.e. the current version of cfile will give you an idea of it's capabilities and features). I plan on making a debian package of it once I am done my overhaul and make it even more generic (I want to use this same tool on my home network, here at Verisim, and on several other friend's networks). Let me know. Behan -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-613-224-7547 http://www.verisim.com/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Modem /dev/cua vs /dev/ttyS
Maybe someone more knowledgable can answer this, I can't. I have never had any problems with /dev/ttyS? devices in a script. I have been hearing that /dev/cua? devices are deprecated for years, and they haven't been included in the debian distribution since rex. Bob On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Steve Hsieh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Use of /dev/cua? may be deprecated, but I can't get scripts to work with /dev/ttyS?, only /dev/cua?. Can anone explain why? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: StarOffice
ftp://sunsite.uio.no/pub/unix/linux/packages/staroffice4/final/01 Is this really the same file as on the original site? I'm asking this question beacause the file names are different. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: StarOffice and Debian (2)
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 10:38:50 -0500 (EST) From: Jean Pierre LeJacq [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Pedro Quaresma de Almeida wrote: What is the problem? The fact that I say ?package(staroffice4) when there is not any package staroffice4 instaled (i did the instalation form the tar file)? This is the problem. update-menus checks to see if there is indeed a package staroffice4 installed on your system. If not, it will not include an entry. There are a couple of solution. * I believe that there is a Debian package that will install a fake package. * Use ?package(some_other_package_that_is_installed). This will work and shouldn't cause problems with the other package. I have used auctex, and it now works fine, Thank you. At\'e breve === Pedro Quaresma de Almeida Departamento de Matem\'atica Faculdade de Ci\^encias e Tecnologia Universidade de Coimbra P-3000 COIMBRA, PORTUGAL e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] url: http://www.mat.uc.pt/~pedro/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: PPP is still a disaster. :(. Please Help. :)
God, this was a pain in my arse when i had to get chap working. /etc/ppp.chatscript for ME is as follows: snip all crap, up to last 2 lines ATDT*70,4214368 CONNECT ^^^ Connect here is important, because it then makes it WAIT before it sends authentication requests. /etc/ppp.options_out is as follows: +ua /etc/ppp/chapchoice defaultroute /dev/modem 115200 persist ^^^ /etc/ppp/chatchoice contains the login/pass info for choice.net, the format is as follows: username password After that pon should work correctly. I must admit it took me a long while of using my isp's radias servers until i figured it out one day, now i connect the digital and much more faster modem pool :. Hope it works, if not, send an email, i'll try and help.. *** dA' Phucilage Phactory*Yesturday upon the stair,* *I met a guy who wasn't there,* *He wasn't there again today, * [EMAIL PROTECTED]*I think he's from the CIA. * *** author unknown -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Compute Farm, Part II
Behan Webster wrote: Lindsay Allen wrote: Tim, IIRC Brian White has advocated cfengine for this task. If I may, he advocated it because we used it here at Verisim to manage our workstations and servers. Unfortunately we found although it did work, it was rather clumsy, and didn't scale well in our environment. I have written a script (called cfile) which has all the functionality of what we had cfengine doing for us before. It needs a bit of a work (since we've been using it for 4 months we've noticed some places it could be improved). All in all though, it seems to do the trick of managing a small network of near identical machines (hardware wise). It can also specially configure certain machines to provide services (dns, web, ftp, etc). I am confident that it would scale much larger. Tim, if you are interested in seeing my developement code let me know. It's implementation will be taking a big change, but it's basic working will be the same. (i.e. the current version of cfile will give you an idea of it's capabilities and features). I plan on making a debian package of it once I am done my overhaul and make it even more generic (I want to use this same tool on my home network, here at Verisim, and on several other friend's networks). I'll pass the info along, Behan. Thanks. At this point, I'm not officially involved, although this may end up being a new job here at the Lab for me. For some reason, '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' gets routed to my mailbox.. :) Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps They tell me my job is easy... anyone can do it. Why doesn't anyone else want it? -- me ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: xauth for my wife:WOW, xdm multi X-windows
Daniel Martin suggested a magical solution, one his mail prodded me to use. I now have an X-session for myself on cntlaltF7, one X-session for my wife on cntlaltF8, one X-session for my child on cntlaltF9. WOW Mail to debian-users on January 4, 1998, by Remco Blaakmeer showed how to do this in xdm. He suggested a clean solution to alter /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers to something like :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X vt07 :0 -bpp 16 :1 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X vt08 :1 -bpp 8 which also gives you 16-bit color on one console and 8-bit color on the other. I myself now use :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X vt7 :0 :1 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X vt8 :1 :2 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X vt9 :2 You need change no other files. However, for beauty, you might alter /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config. The use of vt08 and :1 at the end of the above lines IS APPARENTLY UNDOCUMENTED, at least in the Debian distribution. These appendages are necessary! Without :2 at the end, I get no xdm login rectangle, just a grey screen, for cntlaltF9. Without the vt09 appendage for the third server, a video-timing problem appears so that most of the consoles become unuseable, having short random color stripes. None of these appendages are needed for the :0 server, though I add them for consistency. A bug report for xbase told about xdm multiple X-sessions working with ethernet or ppp connected, but not when disconnected. I had this very problem with my ppp connection. I would get the following error with no ppp Fatal server error: XDMCP fatal error: Session declined No valid address With ppp, if I turned off ppp, the xdm rectangle for login would dissappear, although the cursor would still work. Then when I turned ppp back on, the login rectangles would reappear. These problems disappeared when I followed Remco's suggestion to append vt8 :1 as above. To get a consistent login console like the first default one, you can also change the file /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config. Amongst the entries there, I have DisplayManager._0.authorize:true DisplayManager._0.resources:/etc/X11/xdm/Xresources_0 DisplayManager._0.setup:/etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0 DisplayManager._0.startup: /etc/X11/xdm/Xstartup_0 DisplayManager._0.reset:/etc/X11/xdm/Xreset_0 ! I copy the files for server 0 to those for server 1. DisplayManager._1.authorize:true DisplayManager._1.resources:/etc/X11/xdm/Xresources_1 DisplayManager._1.setup:/etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup_1 DisplayManager._1.startup: /etc/X11/xdm/Xstartup_1 DisplayManager._1.reset:/etc/X11/xdm/Xreset_1 ! I copy the files for server 0 to those for server 2. DisplayManager._2.authorize:true DisplayManager._2.resources:/etc/X11/xdm/Xresources_2 DisplayManager._2.setup:/etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup_2 DisplayManager._2.startup: /etc/X11/xdm/Xstartup_2 DisplayManager._2.reset:/etc/X11/xdm/Xreset_2 I then copied without change the files /etc/X11/xdm/*_0 files to /etc/X11/xdm/*_1 and /etc/X11/xdm/*_2. There are four such files; eg, /etc/X11/xdm/Xresources_2 . If you try this out, when you alter some of these xdm config files, you can tell xdm to look again with ps -auxw |grep X or ps -auxw |grep vt, then enter kill -SIGHUP pid-of-that-X If you wish to restart xdm, remember the dummy consoles like cntlaltF2. Go to /etc/init.d, enter ./xdm stop. You might check that ps -auxw |grep X returns no processes. Then enter ./xdm start. The virtual desktops were magical. These multiple X-sessions are just as magical. WOW This doesn't address your specific question, but what about this: I assume that when your wife uses linux, she normally logs in from the console (on one of the text mode consoles), and occasionally then wishes to run a few X applications. If so, then she can just do: startx -- :1 This will give her her own X display (on the next available virtual console, probably number 8), and she need not mess with any xauth stuff. (just make certain that Console is in /etc/X11/Xserver) If you do this, you'll also probably want to make a symbolic link from ~/.xinit to ~/.xsession (startx uses .xinit, xdm uses .xsession). Supposedly, one should be able to get xdm to start up with two X servers on two different virtual consoles, (and therefore two login screens) but every time I've tried it it just hung my xdm. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: nmh configuration
On 11 Feb 1998 10:21:33 +0100, Martin Bialasinski wrote: David Stern [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've got a hamm system running with smail(3.2.0.100-4), exmh(2.0-1), = 450 defer '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', sender address target 'localhost.localdomain' cannot be verified at this time: verify_sender(): BIND server failure: : Connection refused. (Try again later) smail 3.2.100 has introduced some anti-spam measures. One of these is checking the sender. Unfortunatly this will cause trouble on a typical dialup box. Doh! So that's what that phrase in the upgrade mini-howto meant. It would be nice if trouble was in some way described or at least an example was cited. I'm pretty sure I heeded that warning with the initial upgrade, albeit blindly. In this case, smail was probably ugraded at the same time as nmh was installed. At least I learned more about my mail systems. Downgrade smail to the one in bo until there is a new smail which handles this case reasonable. Thanks, I was just about ready to start the whole process over with MH. I think you could also install your own DNS server who will resolve your localhost.localdomain. True, although probably not practical for dialup connections. You're incredible! Thanks again, -- D a v i d S t e r n -- http://weber.u.washington.edu/~kotsya [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Compiling w/shadow support
There should be very few packages you need to do this for. Is this plain Debian 1.3.1? Well, it was. Since I went to libc6, it's now 2.0 or something :) ld: cannot open -lshadow: No such file or directory Try leaving it out, or using -lcrypt. The latter is for libc6, IIRC. But how do these packages know to use /etc/shadow instad of /etc/passwd then? Thanks, Mark == Mark A. Bialik (414) 290-6700 Systems/Security Administrator www.pmihwy.com/~markb Preferred Medical Informatics [EMAIL PROTECTED] Infinity HealthCare, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mequon, WI USA www.linux.org -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Modem /dev/cua vs /dev/ttyS (The Long, True answer to this reappearing question)
Serial device locking by convention uses files in a special directory which are named according to the name of the device. Unless all references to the device use the same name, this locking fails. That's why cua devices are no longer used. Why were they ever used? Because old versions of unix had two different devices for the same serial port, one on which an open would hang until the device asserted Carrier Detect (which getty's used) and another which open would return without having Carrier Detect (used for program which wanted to dial out on the modem). In the modern world we have the same device for both uses and control this type of behavior by passing flags to the open system call. For a while the old cua device files were kept around so that old programs which referenced serial lines as cuaX would still work. This however created a lot of problems because the locking convention fell apart unless everyone used the same device name. Thus cua devices were forever banished. Robert D. Hilliard wrote: Maybe someone more knowledgable can answer this, I can't. I have never had any problems with /dev/ttyS? devices in a script. I have been hearing that /dev/cua? devices are deprecated for years, and they haven't been included in the debian distribution since rex. Bob On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Steve Hsieh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Use of /dev/cua? may be deprecated, but I can't get scripts to work with /dev/ttyS?, only /dev/cua?. Can anone explain why? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RE: Compute Farm, Part II
That shouldn't be hard Have you though tof using 1 or 2 computers as fileservers? After a quick read of teh FHS (filesystem standard) the setup is made to allow the shareing of large parts of the filesystem between computers. Then anytime you add a program to the system (usually in /usr/bin etc) it is added to all of them as it is you will probably want to share the home directories for users anyway /usr itself can not only be shared...but can be mounted READ ONLY to prevent its destructiuon (you would want it writeable maybe on one or two machines so that you can administer it) of course the main problem is if the fileserver computer fails... but there should be solutions for that too... I havn;'t done much myself with it... it would probably mean using NFS or some other system that allows shareing between computers A great setup that I remember from when I was upgrading the computers at a large department store (big rollout) was that they had 2 computers acting as the main servers... 1 just mirrored the main one..and if the main one went down..the Alternate took over ...and the rest of the store didn't even know the difference I don't know how hard that would be to setupbut it should be possible from what I know... RedHat's system is mainly to set 1 machine up and have an easy way to clone it (I believ ethey call it kickstart...you do the setup once...then just pop it in and walk away...it dows the install automatically) as for the Change 1 config file that could be done too... you wouldn'tr want to share /etc tho...because then that shares everything...which isn't always good (wouldn't want them all to have the same IP adress) tho you could mount a shared version of etc and have the shared configs be sym links to the shared mounted version but...im just pulling these ideas off the top of my head... bottom line is it can be done...its just a matter of how you want to do it and what your needs are exactly I mean...you don't really want every system running servers (or do you?) I dunno...just my $.02 On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Tim Sailer wrote: I guess I didn't explain real well the first time, although I enjoyed the thread.. On this compute farm, they want to make changes to 1 machine, as in adding a package, changing a config file, etc and having the resultant changes reflected on the other 199 machines, without having to go to each machine and tweak it. Installing the machines will be a short, but intense process, but they are looking for long range admin solutions. Thanks, Tim -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: StarOffice
I think so.., just check the file size, I have not done that thou, have no luck connecting to the stardiv site., but I installed in deb 1.3.1 and hamm system flawlessly, it is completely different beast comparing to the previous ver, have not work it out much... good luck kusuma Cedric Bapst wrote: ftp://sunsite.uio.no/pub/unix/linux/packages/staroffice4/final/01 Is this really the same file as on the original site? I'm asking this question beacause the file names are different. -- 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: PPP is still a disaster. :(. Please Help. :)
dA' Phucilage Phactory [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: /etc/ppp.options_out is as follows: +ua /etc/ppp/chapchoice defaultroute /dev/modem 115200 persist ^^^ /etc/ppp/chatchoice contains the login/pass info for choice.net, the format is as follows: username password This won't work with pppd 2.3 where the +ua option is no longer available. I'd user the options user name-at-the-isp remotename my-isp and the pap-secrets: name-at-the-isp my-isp the-password Ciao, Martin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
xlib6g
I would like to install a software package that requires xlib6g. dpkg is loathe to install xlib6g with xlib6 already installed. Can I safely remove xlib6 i.e. will packages depending on xlib6 accept xlib6g ... or? ... I would appreciate hints. Regards, Richard -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
My encryption
Dear Representative, I see that you are interested in encryptions. Here is an other that offers you money as well. The page: http://www.cyberus.ca/~mbmb/dare.shtml Please get back. Martin Boros -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
My encryption
Dear Representative, I see that you are interested in encryptions. Here is an other that offers you money as well. The page: http://www.cyberus.ca/~mbmb/dare.shtml Please get back. Martin Boros -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: AGP Video
What AGP cards are being used successfully with X? Specifically, I'm considering the Matrox Millenium II AGP. The XSuse Millenium driver from http://www.suse.de is reputed to work with AGP. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
lpr problem
I just reinstalled most of my system (from 1.3.1 cd) after a crash, and am trying to set up printing. lpr returns an error message unable to get official name for local machine. Any pointers or info as to what causes this? -Chris -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
lpr problem - cont'd
Regarding my previous post about lpr problems, I am running DHCPD to obtain IP address, etc. -Chris -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: xlib6g
Richard Sevenich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: RS I would like to install a software package that requires RS xlib6g. dpkg is loathe to install xlib6g with xlib6 already RS installed. Can I safely remove xlib6 i.e. will packages depending RS on xlib6 accept xlib6g ... or? ... If you install the xlib6 from hamm, xlib6g should install fine. xlib6g is the glibc version of the X libraries, and libc5 programs won't run without the xlib6 package. -- _ / \ The cat's been in the box for over | David Maze | 20 years. Nobody's feeding it. The | [EMAIL PROTECTED] |cat is dead. | http://donut.mit.edu/dmaze/ | -- Grant, on Schroedinger's Cat \_/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: AGP Video
On 11 Feb 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote: What AGP cards are being used successfully with X? Specifically, I'm considering the Matrox Millenium II AGP. The XSuse Millenium driver from http://www.suse.de is reputed to work with AGP. And it does (at least on my system). :-) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Modem /dev/cua vs /dev/ttyS (The Long, True answer to this reappearing question)
On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: Serial device locking by convention uses files in a special directory which are named according to the name of the device. Unless all references to the device use the same name, this locking fails. That's why cua devices are no longer used. Why were they ever used? Because old versions of unix had two different devices for the same serial port, one on which an open would hang until the device asserted Carrier Detect (which getty's used) and another which open would return without having Carrier Detect (used for program which wanted to dial out on the modem). Was cua the one which would return without having Carrier Detect? My problem is that if I use /dev/ttyS? instead of /dev/cua?, in the /usr/doc/ppp/examples/secure-card expect script, it doesn't work. That script has stuff like system stty 19200 -echoe -echo raw /dev/cua3 /dev/cua3 When using /dev/ttyS? instead, it won't return, whereas using cua does. Would you know how to fix this problem so that I can use /dev/ttyS? instead in scripts like these? Thanks -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Modem /dev/cua vs /dev/ttyS (The Long, True answer to this reappearing question)
Steve Hsieh wrote: My problem is that if I use /dev/ttyS? instead of /dev/cua?, in the /usr/doc/ppp/examples/secure-card expect script, it doesn't work. That script has stuff like system stty 19200 -echoe -echo raw /dev/cua3 /dev/cua3 When using /dev/ttyS? instead, it won't return, whereas using cua does. Would you know how to fix this problem so that I can use /dev/ttyS? instead in scripts like these? Try adding -clocal to the above command and see what happens. Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps The quality of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. G.B. Shaw ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Compiling w/shadow support
On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Mark A. Bialik wrote: There should be very few packages you need to do this for. Is this plain Debian 1.3.1? Well, it was. Since I went to libc6, it's now 2.0 or something :) ld: cannot open -lshadow: No such file or directory Try leaving it out, or using -lcrypt. The latter is for libc6, IIRC. But how do these packages know to use /etc/shadow instad of /etc/passwd then? The routines in -lshadow are included in libc6 by default, there isn't any need for a seperate shadow library. -- 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: lpr problem
On 11 Feb, Christopher Judd wrote: I just reinstalled most of my system (from 1.3.1 cd) after a crash, and am trying to set up printing. lpr returns an error message unable to get official name for local machine. Any pointers or info as to what causes this? -Chris You might check the permissions on the host files like /etc/hosts /etc/hostname, /etc/resolv.conf, etc. Make sure they at least have permissions of 444. -- Brian -- Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
lchown(), libc6-2.0.7pre1, and 2.1.8x kernels
The lchown() function shows up in the most recent libc6 package. Is this on its own enough for dpkg to work happily with the 2.1.81+ kernels? -- _ / \ The cat's been in the box for over | David Maze | 20 years. Nobody's feeding it. The | [EMAIL PROTECTED] |cat is dead. | http://donut.mit.edu/dmaze/ | -- Grant, on Schroedinger's Cat \_/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
wanted packages
Is there any address where we can send our wishes to debian packages we would like to see created? Is there any address to consult for programs that can't (for any reason) have a .deb package? For instance, I would like to have .debs of: QSeeMe (the only cuseeme client I know of for linux) http://www.pangea.org/~mavilar/ jacob (integrate emacs with the java compiler) http://mats.gmd.de:8080/clemens/jacob/ apache-ssl (the secure apache) http://www.apache-ssl.org/ ssleay (encryption libs) http://www.psy.uq.oz.au/~ftp/Crypto/ fphone (free phone) http://www.inria.fr/rodeo/fphone/ hylafax (send faxes and pager messages) http://www.vix.com/hylafax/ Xswallow (generic plug-in for netscape, allows any external viewer be swallowed inside netscape!) http://www.csn.ul.ie/~caolan/docs/Xswallow.html and some java packages, like: javamail jsdk swing Thanks. -- Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella Product Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.conexware.com -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: lchown(), libc6-2.0.7pre1, and 2.1.8x kernels
Doesn't appear to be good enough on its own... dpkg: error processing ssltelnet_0.11.1-2.deb (--install): error setting ownership of symlink `usr/man/man8/in.telnetd.8.gz': No such file or directory dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) ii libc6 2.0.7pre1-1The GNU C library version 2 (run-time files) % uname -a Linux minnie2.eecs.umich.edu 2.1.85 #1 Wed Feb 11 15:39:06 EST 1998 i686 unknown On 11 Feb 1998, David Z. Maze wrote: The lchown() function shows up in the most recent libc6 package. Is this on its own enough for dpkg to work happily with the 2.1.81+ kernels? -- _ / \ The cat's been in the box for over | David Maze | 20 years. Nobody's feeding it. The | [EMAIL PROTECTED] |cat is dead. | http://donut.mit.edu/dmaze/ | -- Grant, on Schroedinger's Cat \_/ -- 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: wanted packages
Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: Is there any address where we can send our wishes to debian packages we would like to see created? Is there any address to consult for programs that can't (for any reason) have a .deb package? For instance, I would like to have .debs of: QSeeMe (the only cuseeme client I know of for linux) http://www.pangea.org/~mavilar/ Thats a good one. jacob (integrate emacs with the java compiler) http://mats.gmd.de:8080/clemens/jacob/ This one too. apache-ssl (the secure apache) http://www.apache-ssl.org/ Non-US site ssleay (encryption libs) http://www.psy.uq.oz.au/~ftp/Crypto/ Ditto fphone (free phone) http://www.inria.fr/rodeo/fphone/ Hrm.. haven't seen this one. hylafax (send faxes and pager messages) http://www.vix.com/hylafax/ This is in unstable I think. Xswallow (generic plug-in for netscape, allows any external viewer be swallowed inside netscape!) http://www.csn.ul.ie/~caolan/docs/Xswallow.html This is very cool and useful! It would make a great package. I never looked at the Copyright, etc... and some java packages, like: javamail jsdk swing These would be good ones too. Is swing distributable? I thought that was commercial... Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps The quality of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. G.B. Shaw ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
