ssh stopped working today
Any help on this will be greatly appreciated! This morning when I tried to use ssh to log into my debian firewall from the private network I get no response. But I can telnet to my isp's server and then ssh back into the debian firewall from there with no problem. I have been ssh'ing into the firewall from the private network for months with no problem. What could have changed? I have changed no settings, and there is no evidence of a break-in (that I can see). It seems strange that I can log in from the public side of the firewall, but not the private side. What could have changed? -Ben Messigner This mail was sent from a 100% Microsoft-free (aka GPF-free) environment. Have a stable day. Use Linux.
update: ssh stopped working
If you read my last post you know that ssh started acting up on my firewall. I could log in from the public side, but got no responce from the private side. In the last hour it has mysteriously started working again. I made no system changes at all -- it just fixed it's self. Does anyone know what's up with this? It was 100% reliable for months - today is the first time there has been a problem. -Ben Messinger This mail was sent from a 100% Microsoft-free (aka GPF-free) environment. Have a stable day. Use Linux.
Re: Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid Fast!
On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Adam Shand wrote: i don't care if an app crashes, as long as it doesn't take anything else down with it. NT does it to me all thje time..doing normal things then BAM! thats the kinda crash that REALLY pisses me off. upgrade to glibc 2.1 and you will care. it gets really bad. just to reiterate. there is no unknown problem here. if you are running a system with libc5 or glibc 2.0 you are fine and won't have any problems with netscape. it is only when you upgrade to glibc 2.1 that you have problems. Netscape fine with glibc2.0? Not. It has been crashing on me since day one and has only gotten worse with newer versions whether libc5 or glibc2.0 I think the original poster meant Netscape 4.71 sucks rocks. -Ben This mail was sent from a 100% Microsoft-free (aka GPF-free) environment. Have a stable day. Use Linux.
Re: Berolist
Matt Kopishke wrote: I am trying to configure Berolist under Slink. snip ### I have tried every thing I can think of, I also have tried smartlist, Majordomo, and mailman with out any luck, all thought I had Majordomo running while back on a different install. I have yet to find a easy list server to set up, maybe it's my bad luck but every one else say they don't have problems like I do... -Matt- Matt, I wasted a lot of time trying to get Berolist working and finally went to smartlist. I couldn't keep Berolist from seg-faulting. I even compiled my own and it still was seg-faulting. Smartlist was harder to configure than Berolist, but easier than Majordomo and is working well. -Ben -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ben Messinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email contains no tyops. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Re: loop devices?
Steve George wrote: Hi, I am looking into using loop devices so I can encrypt stuff onto a floppy file system. I am stuck right at the start with loop devices. The manual says to do the following: dd if=/dev/zero of=/file bs=1k count=100 losetup -e des /dev/loop0 /file Password: type a password Init (up to 16 hex digits): This is the part I am stuck on...what hex digits am I supposed to type?? I've tried hitting return and typing randomly..I can't find anything in the man pages or the kernel src docs. Anyone know what I should type please? Thanks, Steve -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Linux Journal, July '98 Issue #51 page 64-67 Encrypted File Systems, by Bear Giles The procedure he outlines for creating an encryped floppy is as follows (assuming the kernel mods have already been done): # dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/fd0 bs=1k count=1440 # losetup -e des /dev/loop0 /dev/fd0 Pass phrase: yourpasswordhere # mke2fs /dev/loop0 # losetup -d /dev/loop0 You can substitute des with idea if idea is installed. The first line initializes the floppy with 'random data'. The second command sets up the loopback device to be over the floppy. The third command is the standard mkfs utility. The fourth line releases the loopback device. To mount the floppy do the following: #mount /dev/fd0 /mnt -text2,loop,encryption=des You should then be prompted for a passphrase. Let us know if this works. -Ben -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ben Messinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email contains no tyops. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
berolist mail-list server
I am trying to get the mailing-list server berolist working. Setting it up includes adding aliases such as: listname : |/usr/sbin/list listname So you see that mail sent to listname gets piped to the program /usr/sbin/list , or at least that is what is suppose to happen. When I do send mail to listname it doesn't get delivered. When I try to flush the mail que with runq I see messages such as: V 1999-09-17 22:06:25 11S7dL-00039J-00 Neither the system_aliases director nor the address_pipe transport set a uid for local delivery of |/usr/sbin/list news So, it says no uid was set. Is this a problem with my exim configuration? How do I get a uid set? I am assuming this is the problem. I have read the bug reports for berolist, one of which says that permissions are wrong and to change /usr/sbin/list to SUID lists.lists to make it work. Did I do this correctly by issuing the commands: # chown list.list /usr/sbin/list # chmod u+s /usr/sbin/list ls -l now shows: -rwsr-xr-x 1 list list20620 Oct 14 1998 /usr/sbin/list But I still get the same problem including the same message from runq. Any thoughts? I would really like to get berolist working since it seems just right for what I need. Majordomo or another full-feature list-serve would be overkill for what I am doing, so I hope I don't have to resort setting up one of them instead. -Ben -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ben Messinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email contains no tyops. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Re: debs for WindowMaker sound stuff?
Mark Wagnon wrote: Since I've managed to get sound working to some degree, I thought I'd play with some of the sound options of WM, only I can't seem to find any debs for them. Does anyone know where I might find debs for WSoundPrefs, wmsoundconfig, and WMSound? If not, then I guess I'll roll 'em myself. TIA Slink debs for wmsound are at: http://master.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages/ The other sound related packages are listed there, but the deb's are missing (tarballs are there though). Perhaps they are still being prepared. I updated WM and wmsound tonight from the above url with no problems. -Ben -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ben Messinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux is coming. What side of the paradigm shift will you be on? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Re: [off topic] installing linux from scratch
This mail was sent from a 100% Microsoft-free (aka GPF-free) environment. Have a stable day. Use Linux. On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Armin Wegner wrote: Hi, can anybody tell where to find information on how to install linux from c source code. Currently I'm using Debian. Debian is fine. But there is no support for my Riva TNT chipset in X 3.3.2.3. Anouncements that NetGod has made slink .deb's of xfee 3.3.3.x have been all over this list for the past few days. -- I personally instlaled the updates from his site last night. Look at the list archive over the last two days for the url. So I've installed version 3.3.3.1 from source to /usr/local. Now there are many very anoying problems with the dpkg dependency check, when installing application for X. dpkg won't let me install twm without installing xbase, etc. before. dpkg is missing an option to tell it, that an package has been installed by hand and there is no need to install the .deb package. Acctually, the better way to do this it to make a .deb package from the source, and then install the .deb package. Debian has a most wonderful package management system - don't try to out-smart it or bypass it. Making .deb's is as easy as compiling - but like I said, the work has already been done. I'm using very few package. Propably it's an option for me, to install linux from source code. My /usr/local is bigger then /usr. Armin -Ben
RE: I am not impressed with Debian so far.
This mail was sent from a 100% Microsoft-free (aka GPF-free) environment. Have a stable day. Use Linux. On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Patrick Colbeck wrote: Hey, my hard drive did the sudden thrashing thing last night too. Its never done it before (well it has in NT but not in Linux). All I was doing was reading mail remotely over a dialup line using xemacs in a kterm in KDE 1.1.1 (from snowcrash). It stopped after a while (about 4 minutes) and has been fine since. This never happened before in RedHat or with Hamm. Is this a KDE thing perhaps ?. I am running on an AST M series Laptop which has 48Mb ram and a 2GB Linux partition with about 1300MB free and a 92MB swap file. Pat I don't think it's a KDE thing. I think it is a cron thing (or an anacron thing, or whatever scheduler you are using.) -Ben
A thank-you regarding exim deb (fwd)
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 11:16:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Ben Messinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]--- oops, typo! Subject: A thank-you regarding exim deb Mark, I just installed/configured exim and it was refreshingly easy. Thank you for your work on this package. I am assuming you are responsible for the post-install script? Thanks for adding the section to allow forwarding from local networks specified by ip. This was a God-send. I have a small network that needs access to this server, and I have no need or desire to set up a dns server just for these 5 boxen. Your set-up worked great and the mail is flowing like water now. I am busy at work and really needed to get mail working in a hurry, and because it went so smoothly and quickly I had to take a minute (which I now have because of your efforts) and thank you for your work. You package maintainers are the unsung heros and should get more recognition in my oppinion. Keep up the good work. -Ben PS - I hope you don't mind that I cc'd this to debian-user. I hope that other package maintainers will see this and know that you are all appreciated. We sometimes take for granted all the work that has been done so that us non-developers can just type apt-get update ; apt-get dist-upgrade and then just sit back and watch the magic happen. Thanks. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ben Messinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Haberling Financial Group =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Re: making linux look bad
tf wrote: Hey everybody I make linux look bad. I've been messing with it for almost 2 years and have never had it running well enough to use. So. can someone give me a strategy to follow? I'm obviously going about this the wrong way. I think it would help if I got ppp working-both pon and wvdail dial out, but leave the line open and not connected to anything. right now, my only internet connection is via windows. This is awful! But luckily you have come to the right place. The Debian community is a wealth of information and expertise unsurpassed by any other distribution follownig in my experience (ymmv). Ok, here are my recomendations, to be followed by some of my personal experiences. This may get long so I will start with the summary and you can stop reading beyond that if it gets boring. 1. Catalog _all_ of your hardware and ensure that _every_ piece is supported (well). 2. If you have hardware that is not supported then buy, barter, or trade, for pieces that are. 3. Aquire some desk references - good Linux books. Buy two and you will be amazed at how often the answer you are looking for is in book 'A' but not 'B'. Then you will find the answer to another question only in book 'B'. There are to many good books to list, but you need at least one. This is not an option - get one or more. 4. Set some goals and priorities for getting things working. a) get a solid installation completed. b) get ppp working -- important. use to access info for solving all other pronblems. d) start with the next most important feature and work on it until you get it working. e) repeat step 'd' untill everything works. f) after all your hardware is working keep learing (shell scripting, compiling sources, etc.) Personal experiences: Don't get discouraged. The first time I installed Linux it took me _months_ to get all of my hardware working correctly. Then one day I sat down in front of the thing and everything was working. That was so great. The turning point for me was the day I realized that every time I got stuck and couldn't find a solution to a problem I would boot Windoze (ie. I would take the easy way out.). I realized that as long as I kept dropping back to Windoze every time Linux got tough I would never learn. At that point I decided to try an experiment - total immersion. I resolved not to boot windows at any cost. I wanted to do two things: 1)learn more by forcing myself to find solutions to Linux problems, and 2) To see if Linux really could supply all I needed from a computer. Well it worked. In '98 I removed windows to make more space for Linux -- I hadn't booted windoze in over a year! It was not easy at first, but in the first two months of project total immersion I learned more than I had in the previous _year_ of dual-booting. If you do this I am sure you will look back in three months and be amazed at how far you have come. I know that not everyone can make that level of commitment to using Linux, but I recommend it if you can. The good news is that it gets easier as you learn more. There will come a day when you can sit down in front of a bare system and walk away an hour later leaving a fully configured system complete with network, printing, sound, x-windows, etc. And even better, you will know how to use it! Then the fun begins. Hang in there. We will be here to help. -- --- Ben Messinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Only dead fish go with the flow. Use Debian/GNU Linux. ---
Re: 2 network cards revisited
MR wrote: /etc/lilo.conf now looks like: boot=/dev/hda1 root=/dev/hda1 install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map vga=normal delay=20 image=/vmlinuz label=Linux read-only append=ether=11,0x300,eth0 ether=10,0x240,eth1 ran liloconfig and let it install a boot block using the current lilo config. rebooted.. and only 1 card is picked up (looks like nothing changed) -Matt Make your append entry the first line. I am using two NIC's in this way. You might also try being more ambiguous and let the kernel find the addresses on its own. My lilo.conf looks like this: append = ether=0,0,eth1 boot=/dev/hda1 root=/dev/hda1 install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map vga=normal delay=50 image=/vmlinuz label=Linux read-only #safety net - this is a known working kernel image=/vmlinuz.safe label=safe root=/dev/hda1 vga=normal -- --- Ben Messinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Only dead fish go with the flow. Use Debian/GNU Linux. ---
Re: Cobalt Qube
G. Crimp wrote: Anyone know anything about the Cobalt Qube. I have someone asking me questions about setting up a Linux environment for himself (diskless, fanless box, remember ?). He specifically asked me about the Qube. My ISP has one. They love it (they showed it off to me last month). It will run something like 500 virtual hosts, and is blazingly fast. It is not a Linux box that happens to be running a web server. It is the other way around -- It is designed _specifically_ as a web server and that is all it does. Trying to use it as a desktop-application server would be well beyond it's design scope. -- --- Ben Messinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Only dead fish go with the flow. Use Debian/GNU Linux. ---
Re: Switching windows managers
Christian Dysthe wrote: Hi, I was wondering if there is any software available that makes it easy to switch window managers without having to edit too many ini files. TIA Go to freshmeat.net and look for guichooser. It is a gtk app that works great for switching between window managers, and it is easy to set up. When you startx you get a panel with a list of window managers. You click on the one you want to start and away you go. When you quit that window manager the panel pops up again and you can select a different wm or choose to quit x. -- --- Ben Messinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Only dead fish go with the flow. Use Debian/GNU Linux. ---
Re: Xauth, how to get rid of it?
Pollywog wrote: I get those annoying MAGIC COOKIE warnings when I su from a regular user and this even happens when I use vim after 'su'. I am still able to edit stuff, and the only problem is when I need to run some X program as superuser. I saw somewhere how to deal with this Xauth stuff, but I don't remember where. -- Andrew [PGP5.0 Key ID 0x5EE61C37] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null I am also having the same trouble. I didn't see a reply to Andrew's question, so I wanted to add that I am also interested in solving this one. I never encountered this problem when I was using other (lesser) distributions. Please help if you know the answer. There are some tools like gnome-apt that I would like to use without having to end my x-session and start a new one as root. -- Ben Messinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux user.
NIC trouble
I just picked up some cheap used NE2K pci ethernet cards to use for a home lan. I installed two in this Linux box since it may become a proxy-gateway/firewall for a DSL connection soon. I re-compiled the kernel to support the cards, and set my BIOS to use irq's that were available. This is the relevant boot message: ne2k-pci.c:v0.99L 2/7/98 D. Becker/P. Gortmaker http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linu x/drivers/ne2k-pci.html ne2k-pci.c: PCI NE2000 clone 'Winbond 89C940' at I/O 0x6c00, IRQ 10. eth0: PCI NE2000 found at 0x6c00, IRQ 10, 00:20:78:14:51:6B. ne2k-pci.c: PCI NE2000 clone 'Winbond 89C940' at I/O 0x7000, IRQ 5. eth1: PCI NE2000 found at 0x7000, IRQ 5, 00:20:78:12:8C:3C. I made entries in /etc/init.d/network so that it now reads: #! /bin/sh ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 route add -net 127.0.0.0 ifconfig eth0 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255 192.168.1.1 route add -net 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 dev eth0 But when the above is executed at boot time it returns the following errors: SIOCSIFNETMASK: Cannot assign requested address SIOCSIFBRDADDR: Cannot assign requested address The card (eth0) is now listed in the routing table, as well as being identified by ifconfig, but I can not pass packets to my other computers although I see the light blinking on the card when I try to ping another box. Any help will be appreciated. Thank you. -Ben -- Ben Messinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux user.
Re: Convert FAT32 to FAT16 with windows 98
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FAT32 does not appear to be just a new partition type, which can coexist with FAT16 Linux partitions. Both utilities I tried (Win95 FDISK Maxtor Maxblast) required either all FAT32 or no FAT32, and Linux FDISK was then unable to add any Linux/FAT16 partitions, once there was a FAT32 partition. A comment in the PartitionMagic blurb (www.powerquest.com/press/pm4ships.html) also seems to indicate that FAT32 takes over the entire hard drive: For those consumers who find themselves with a FAT32 partition when they buy a new drive, PartitionMagic can convert FAT32 partitions to FAT16 partitions so that users can continue to use other operating systems and utilities. Does anyone know how to mix FAT32/FAT16/Linux partitions on a single hard drive? I want to do this because my 99.9%-full 1.2GB FAT16 partition expanded to 1.6GB when I copied it to a 2GB FAT16 partition(due to a larger cluster size, I guess), but took only 800MB on a FAT32 partition. I have used PartitionMagic to mix fat16/fat32 partitions on the same drive on two different computers - one with a WD ide and the other with a Quantum ide. I had no problems what so ever. For example one with four partitions was formatted like this: /dev/hda1 linux swap /dev/hda2 ext2 (Linux /) /dev/hda3 fat32 (windows c:) /dev/hda4 fat16 (mounted as d: in windows, and /dosd in Linux) -- Ben Messinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux user.
Re: Convert FAT32 to FAT16 with windows 98.
Nick Rudd wrote: yes i have only windows 98 installed on my computer. I was wondering if there was any way that i could convert FAT 32 back into FAT16 without reinstalling windows. Chris Smith Partition Magic will convert from fat16 to fat32 or vice-versa. It does it with a gui and is quite easy and in my experience safe. I have converted a partition to fat32 and then back to fat16 at a later date with no problems. One responder asked why would you not want to leave it fat32. My experience is that lilo will not work on the mbr of a fat32 drive, and also a fat32 drive is slower than the same drive with fat16. But that doesn't really matter to me anymore - now _all_ my partitions are ext2 g. -- Ben Messinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux user.
Enlightenment .15.x for Slink
Are there any E .15.x debs for Slink yet? I would hate to compile if someone has already done the work. I have kept apt pointed at http://www.debian.org/~jim/debian-gtk-gnome/gnome-stage-2; as was previously mentioned on the list, but as of yet there is only an unstable directory. Am I looking in the wrong place or just not being patient enough? (my humble respect goes out to all Debian developers - you do tremendous work.) -Ben Ben Messinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux user.
Re: Enlightenment .15.x for Slink
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *- On 19 Mar, Ben Messinger wrote about Enlightenment .15.x for Slink Are there any E .15.x debs for Slink yet? snip From http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-9903/msg01784.html they are at deb http://www.debian.org/~bma enlightenment/ Unless I am mistaken these are debs for Potato, not Slink. Here is a portion of the Packages file from that directory: Package: enlightenment Version: 0.15.4-1 Priority: optional Section: x11 Maintainer: Brian M. Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] Depends: freetype2, imlib1(= 1.9.4-1), libaudiofile0, libc6 (= 2.1), libesd0, libfnlib0, libjpeg62, libpng2, libtiff3g, libungif3g (= 3.0-2) | giflib3g (= 3.0-5.2), xlib6g (= 3.3-5), zlib1g (= 1:1.1.3), enlightenment-docs Anyone else? -- Ben Messinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux user.
Re: Using crontab to update Debian
snip Quoting Shaleh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On 09-Mar-99 Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: Hi Debian users, In my country (Brazil) I only have to pay one tax between 0:00 and 6:00 AM independent of call time. I'm start thinking to get my home machine live at night and set crontab to use pon or wvdial (I have two account, one with pon and other with wvdial) and use /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/script_to_upgrade. Am I following the right path to solution? The script will be only: #!/bin/bash apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade ? Have a nice day,Paulo Henrique Yes, except for the fact that the install needs you there to hit enter a few times. Apt says is this correct [Y/n], press enter to continue. The packages scripts may ask you for info as well. You can add the -y switch to your apt-get command to automatically answer yes to all the promts. This would facilitate unattended updates. Be shure to read your logs though to see what got replaced durring the night! I set my system up like this. It has worked _almost_ perfectly (having your dot-files replaced without your knowledge can be anoying). It is nice though to wake up each morning to find that _everything_ on your system is up to date. Two examples of problems I encountered are: 1. One day after some updates gnome stopped working. I never use it anyway so I didn't even try to fix it yet. 2. Another day I went to print a document and couldn't access /dev/lp0. Apt-get had updated the lpr package durring the night and replaced the permissions file with a new one that locked me out. Easy to fix, but an inconvenience. Good luck. - Ben Messinger -- If Micro$oft were a pharmacutical company I would hate to think what they might do to get us to buy more pain medication.
please recommend 3d video card
A large electronics/computer store is closing their store where I live and they are having a liquidation sale tommorow. I thought this might be the time to upgrade a few things and would like recomendations on a 3D video card. I only use Linux, so 'WinTendo' performance is a non-issue. Please let me know what you recommend for best Linux support and performance/compatability. Thanks in advance! -Ben -- If Micro$oft were a pharmacutical company I would hate to think what they might do to get us to buy more pain medication.
Re: SOLVED: samba 2.0 troubles (mostly)
Daniel J. Brosemer wrote: I gave it one last stab after the small success with your /etc/hosts suggestion I figured there were more resolution problems, and so I bit the bullet and enabled the builtin WINS server in samba, pointed the win95 box at it, and all appears to work. I don't like this because I think there should be a better way, but in the meantime, I'll use this as it appears to work. Enabling WINS in Samba solved my problems as well. Win95 is broken -- It will not reference lmhosts if DNS is enabled. Because of this all my windoze clients were polling like crazy. Enabling WINS on the Samba server eliminated all polling traffic and really sped things up. YMMV. -- Ben Messinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are no accidents, only plans other people make and don't tell you about.
Re: realaudio with 2.2.2
Bob Nielsen wrote: I saw some messages about realaudio not working with 2.2.x. I've been able to get it to work with some sites (which use video) and not others. Does anyone know if Real is going to have an upgrade soon? G2? rumor I have a good friend who is a sysadmin for my isp (which is really handy at times!). One of the former sysadmins that he worked with now works for RealNetworks and they stay in touch. The guy at RealNetworks says they are working on a Linux G2 player but doesn't know (or won't tell) any more than that. At least it is nice to know we will probably get one sometime. /rumor -- Ben Messinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are no accidents, only plans other people make and don't tell you about.
raplayer deb package?
Is there a deb installer for the realaudio player? If so what is the package name/path? -- Ben Messinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are no accidents, only plans other people make and don't tell you about.
Re: Slink, xbase-common and xdm...
Hogland, Thomas E. wrote: Interesting - if I can ever figure out how to get into the system I'll do that :-) There's no way to shut down and reboot clean - xdm won't do anything till you log in g... I was having the same problem. I was able to do a ctrl+alt+F1 to get to the console. Try that. From there I was able to edit Xsession and remove that hideous retched loathsome xdm. -- Ben Messinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are no accidents, only plans other people make and don't tell you about.
Re: slashdot poll
Paul Seelig wrote: On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, M.C. Vernon wrote: RH is a commercially-based distro, so they can spend loads of cash on advertising etc, so they are the most popular, despite Debian's inherantly free-er nature, and techincal superiority Redhat is a distribution geared at ease of use. That's why Linus himself uses Redhat and not Debian. Debian with all it's technical superiority would definitely benefit from becoming a bit more user friendly as well. This should be possible without dumbing down or sacrificing technical advantages but might in the contrary actually add to it's overall quality. I my oppinion this would be hard to do (make Debian easier without sacrifices). To be technically superior demands certain sacrifices. This is why race cars do not have air-conditioners and cup-holders. You start worying about comfort and ease of use and you end up with a mini-van instead of an F1 car -- or in our case RH instead of Debian. -- Ben Messinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are no accidents, only plans other people make and don't tell you about.
Re: slashdot poll
Pollywog wrote: Several people have told me that as newbies (first time install) they got RedHat up and on the net in 15 minutes, but I don't believe any of them. -- Andrew I recently installed RH just to see what the big deal was about. I was totally offended by the hands-off install. The hardware detection was kool, but I know my hardware anyway. When the install was complete x started right up. No problem so far other than the fact that it installed the whole thing on one big 3.1gig partition and totally ignoring /dev/hdb. Then I tried to set up ppp. Looked easy. I followed the menus, typed here, clicked there and so on and so forth. But it wouldn't dial. So I thought I would take a look at the scripts to see what might be wrong. One look at the scripts and I knew that this system was designed to be opperated from a gui front-end only. I browsed around all the regular system files and everything was unfamiliar. Nothing seemed to be where it should have been, and what I could find I could not understand. My previous experience has been with Debian, SuSE, and Slack. With those you can check under the hood and know what you are looking at. I was totaly put off by RH. I took it off my box and put Debian back on within an hour. And by the way, I had ppp working within a few minutes after the install was complete. Maybe a newbie could have gotten ppp working for me under RH, but I think anyone with Linux experience would have had a hard time. g Is RH the Anti-Unix Linux? -- Ben Messinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are no accidents, only plans other people make and don't tell you about.
having just one problem with 2.2.1
I compiled 2.2.1 and have only found one problem on my system. I changed my working printcap to identify lp0 as the printer (was lp1 under 2.1), and dmesg reports that the parralel port is detected at boot. However, I get permission errors when I try to print. For example, $ cat testfile lpr returns ^Ano connect permissions. Trying to print from Netscape mail client returns the error no connect permissions, job 'cfA224jedi' transfer to [EMAIL PROTECTED] failed. So I made lp0 world writable and tried again (maybe wrong approach, but I am new at this). Now I get nothing. So I su root and do a $ lpc status lp0 and get ^Ano connect permissions. Any suggestions would be appreciated. By the way, so far printing is the only problem I have had with 2.2.1 under slink. Some said they had problems with ppp under 2.2.0, but mine is working fine. Also, support for my sound-card (Opti/MAD16) is much improved over 2.1.x. -Ben
just one problem with 2.2.1 - solved!
Ben Messinger wrote: I compiled 2.2.1 and have only found one problem on my system. I changed my working printcap to identify lp0 as the printer (was lp1 under 2.1), and dmesg reports that the parralel port is detected at boot. However, I get permission errors when I try to print. snip Well, I thought this was a problem caused by the new kernel (or my mis-configuration of it rather), but It was the new lpr package that was the culprit (permissions in /etc/lpd.perms). Thanks Mario, Heikki, Eric, and Matthew for clueing me in. I got a little complacent lately and have been just doing an 'apt-get update ; apt-get dist-upgrade' once a week to stay on top of slink without paying close attention to what got updated. I will pay a little more attention to it from now on. g. -Ben
lurker's printer problem solved!
I want to thank Bob Nielson for the answers, and Craig Hodges for asking the questions! Because of your thread today you helped me solve my own printer problem that I was to embarassed to ask the list about. Thanks guys! This list has made the transition to Debian smoother than I could have hoped for. If you are new to Linux and trying to decide which distribution to use -- go with Debian. I wish I had not wasted the last 2 years with other distributions. Debian is a delight, and the Linux community's best kept secret! -Ben
slink vs. staroffice 5.0
I had staroffice 5.0 working under hamm, but it broke when I updated to slink. I am assuming due to differences in libc.so.6 between hamm and slink. Is this right? Is there a way to keep slink and still get staroffice working again? Everything else I use is working fine. -Ben
Re: slink vs. staroffice 5.0
Ben Messinger wrote: I had staroffice 5.0 working under hamm, but it broke when I updated to slink. I am assuming due to differences in libc.so.6 between hamm and slink. Is this right? Is there a way to keep slink and still get staroffice working again? Everything else I use is working fine. False alarm. Somehow I lost an environment variable I had previously set. All is well now.
Re: apt-get to upgrade from hamm to slink.
Rafael Kitover wrote: On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 05:47:49PM +1030, Mark Phillips wrote: Hi, I've just installed the slink version of apt-get. Am I right in thinking that to upgrade to slink, I should run: apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade snip What happens if my ppp link dies in the middle? apt handles these things very gracefully, and will pick up where it left off last time. This is true, but it can go wrong. This happened to me, and apt did resume and finish - but the package that it was getting when the ppp link was severed got corrupted (or incomplete download). All other packages were ok, but this was the cause of much sorrow when the corrupt package disabled the package system until it was removed by hand and reference to it removed from the package database. If you use a static ip this probably won't happen to you, but if you use dynamic ip, beware. -Ben
removing/updating a stuck package
While using apt-get to update my packages (144mb worth) I lost my ppp connection. I re-connected and resumed the update, but the package that was being downloaded when the connection was lost got corrupted (all other packages upgraded properly). This package (ftape) is now stuck part installed/part uninstalled/part updated. Now when I try to remove the ftape package(s) I get the following messages: running dpkg --pending --remove ... dpkg: error processing ftape-module-2.0.34 (--remove): Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should reinstall it before attempting a removal. (Reading database ... 42762 files and directories currently installed.) Removing ftape-module-2.0.35 ... No diversion `diversion of /lib/modules/=KVERS/misc/ftape.o to /lib/modules/2.0.35/misc/ftape.o.old by ftape-module-2.0.35', none removed can't open /lib/modules/2.0.36/modules.dep dpkg: error processing ftape-module-2.0.35 (--remove): subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of ftape-util: ftape-module-2.0.35 depends on ftape-util. dpkg: error processing ftape-util (--remove): dependency problems - not removing Errors were encountered while processing: ftape-module-2.0.34 ftape-module-2.0.35 ftape-util dpkg --remove returned error exit status 1. Press RETURN to continue. #Trying to re-install it results in: Updating package status cache...done Checking system integrity...ok The following packages will be REMOVED: ftape-module-2.0.34 ftape-module-2.0.35 ftape-util 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 3 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0b of archives. After unpacking 1705k will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y #snip Errors were encountered while processing: ftape-module-2.0.34 ftape-module-2.0.35 E: Sub-process returned an error code Some errors occurred while unpacking. I'm going to configure the packages that were installed. This may result in duplicate errors or errors caused by missing dependencies. This is OK, only the errors above this message are important. Please fix them and run [I]nstall again Press enter to continue. installation script returned error exit status 100. Press RETURN to continue. Any idea how to correct this? I am not able to install/remove any packages at this time due to this situation. Please advise. Thanks in advance. -Ben Messinger
Re: Remote boot question
Eric Monson wrote: We are setting up a network with Linux and need some help. We are attempting to remote (network) boot the Win95 systems that we already have as clients for our Linux server. The problem is this: We have been looking into using ROM chips plugged into the network cards on the clients, but commercial solutions are too expensive. We could burn the ROMs ourselves, but we have no program to burn in. We were wondering if anyone could help us find a less expensive / difficult solution. snip Sincerely yours, Eric Richard Monson If I understand you correctly you are just trying to re-boot win95 pc's from a Linux box. Is this right? Ok, here is the easy solution. Many will cringe and scoff, but it works and it is free. Use BackOrofice (yea, the one from the cult of the dead cow). It should work great for this. It is free and can be configured so as to be secure. You will need BackOrofice server to place on the win95 pc's, and the BackOrofice Linux client to control them. Opinions? -Ben Messiger
Re: AMD K6-2 3D Now 300 MHz
Darko Martic wrote: Hi ! Are there any problems about using the processor from the subject with Debian linux ? I'm buying a new processor and I think I'll buy that one. Thanx ! I am using that processor on two boxen with no problems. One is a server that has been up continuously since I booted it for the first time over two months ago. -Ben
looking for xconfig
Can someone please tell me which package contains the xconfig program (for configuring kernel compile options)? I haved looked everywhere I can think of. I even did a grep of the Packages files and found nothing. Thanks in advance. -Ben
Re: True Type Fonts
AJ wrote: hey i installed xfstt copied my true type fonts from windows to /var/ttfonts ran xfstt --sync but when i run gimp i only have access to the fonts i used to have what did i do wrong? AJ You are almost there. Now you have to add the font-path to your .xinitrc or from command line per the xfstt documentation (sorry, don't have it handy). -Ben
strange windowmaker behavior
These problems existed using the wmaker package from hamm as well as the wmaker package from /frozen. (wmaker_0.20.3-1.deb) I am having trouble with my x sessions using windowmaker. I have windowmaker set as the default window-manager. When I run startx windowmaker starts up with no dock, only an xterm and an icon with the windowmaker logo. If I exit my session and remove the ~/GNUstep directory windowmaker runs correctly (I think). The dock and clip are there, and I can add apps to the dock, use the WPrefs app, use the clip, etc. But, as soon as I close x (even if I save session) the next time I startx the dock is gone again, and there is just the wm logo in the corner of the screen. If I remove the ~/GNUstep dir again the problem goes away, but only lasts for that session. I am new to Debian - I have recently moved to Debian from SuSE. Thank you for your help. -Ben
