Credit Card Debian CD image with Telemetry Software(diagnostic stuff)
http://openrock.net has completed a project to produce an installable debian CD image fitting on a Credit Card. Check it out. The 50MB iso can be used to install a Debian System with most of the usual features anywhere. Just keep it in your purse. Can even be used to install servers since it includes apache, perl, postgres etc and lots of useful diagnostic stuff. Get your emergency Debian/CD for your purse at http://openrock.net. How could you ever have lived without it? This is a true(tm) debian CD with .debs on it not only a basesystem.
A philosophical investigation of Linux Communities
This might be slightly off topic but have a look at Ko's writing -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2000 23:27:14 -0800 From: Ko Kuwabara [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: my thesis on linux First of all, thank you very much, once again, for all the help you have given me last year. I have finally finished my thesis on Linux, which is at www.cukezone.com/kk49/linux/contents.html The paper discusses the improbable development of the Linux kernel in the hands of part-time volunteer hackers scattered across the Internet. Admittedly, only a few of the ideas presented in the paper are my own. For one, the discussion burrows heavily from papers by Eric Raymond, nor are my conclusions much unlike his. For another, the overall framework is a rather broad, however directly relevant, application of the emerging science of complex adaptive systems pioneered by John Holland, Christopher Langton, and others at the Santa Fe Institute. In all, Raymond's evolutionary view is given an extended and more formal treatment under the terms of sociology as well as chaos and complexity. But aside from my arguments as such, I am hoping that my paper will nonetheless prove to contribute to our understanding of OSS communities. Most of all, my paper presents an ethnographic account of Linux developers, amassed through series of e-mail interviews. While Linux as a social phenomena has been a topic of wide interest and a subject of much discussion by notable names, there seems to be a lack of papers that offer first-hand views and opinions of the general members of the rich and diverse community. At the same time, the paper is intended for an audience in social sciences, and written by a Linux newbie. Errors may be plentiful from the standpoint of a real Linux hacker. While I ask you to tolerate some of my arguments, the paper (as the Linux project itself) benefits directly from your feedback and comments, so please do not hesitate to write me. Thank you Ko Kuwabara - Ko Kuwabara 848 Tappan St. #17 Ann Arbor, MI 48104 E-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk49/
Re: [pann@ourmanpann.com: Incoming PPP, slink]
On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Pann McCuaig wrote: The Win95 box sees only itself and the server---it can't reach any other boxes on the ethernet network. The reverse is also true---the server can ping the Win95 box when it's connected but none of the other boxes on the network (either Win95 or Linux) can ping the dialup box. You need to enable IP forwarding. See the netbase script. First thought is a routing problem. Perusing the docs suggests that the server, through the PPP 'proxyarp' option, will pretend to the other machines on the network to be the dialup box. /var/log/ppp.log shows the proxyarp option took, but nonetheless, there is no communication between the ppp0 and eth0 interfaces. Suggestions? TIA Its a routing issue so make sure you enable IP forwarding and check if other systems see the MAC address associated with the IP address of the modem. Make sure that the IP of the modem is valid on the ethernet.
Interviews for Debian positions at the LWE in New York
Capital Technologies is looking for more Debian developers and persons with skills in web site design and implementation. Offering competitive wage in the Bay Area. Stock-Options, Quarterly Bonuses and Hiring Bonus. We are located in Emeryville which is *not* directly in San Jose but the North Bay and has better living conditions. Capital Technologies is a supporter of Open Source and a member of Linux International. We are offering positions dealing extensively with Debian installations and packaging. Representatives of Capital Technologies will be present at the Linux World Expo and conduct interviews. Please reply with a resume to this email to be considered. For more information see http://www.captech.com http://opensource.captech.com
Do Linux full-time... Hiring Linux specialists
Capital Technologies is still having two open positions for Linux developers. Offering competitive pay, stockoptions and moving bonus. We are in the business of monitoring eCommerce applications and are developing a sophisticated solution for that purpose. IPO expected next year. Debian/Linux Software Developer - Develop and maintain Debian packages for our needs and for the Opensource community. Linux Web developer - Develop Web contents and the logic in the back using Apache/PHP/Perl For more info see http://www.captech.com http://opensource.captech.com We already have a couple of debian developers on board. Come and join us in doing what is fun for money
Linux Developers/Web people needed for Bay Area Startup
Captech ise offering eCommerce diagnostic solutions and are looking to expand our team in preparation for the anticipated IPO next year. We are using Debian/Linux and have several Debian people on staff. We pay competitive wages and provide excellent benefits. 2 Web Developers. Develop Web applications using Apache/PHP/SQL/Perl 2 Linux Developers. Develop debian packages for our monitoring solution. 1 Network Engineer. Help expand and maintain or worldwide corporate lan using Linux Routers as well as Cisco equipment. Firewall setup. Security policies. 1 Web Monitor developer. Develop a HTTP transaction monitor. Requires detailed knowledge of HTTP as well as PERL and other languages. Capital Technologies is a member of Linux International and suppports Open Source. More information about Captech can be found at http://www.captech.com http://opensource.captech.com (Site might be down in the next days because we are moving our equipment into a location with better connectivity). Please send resume to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
News Gateway for debian mailing lists to linux.*
Work is going on to get the news gateway functional again. Sorry I was
hired by another company and did not have time to migrate the gateway
yet.
Talk to [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you have any further comments or to apply for
feeds of linux.*
-- Forwarded message --
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 01:21:02 -0800 (PST)
From: George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: maillinglist news interface down? (fwd)
The below was posted to Debian user. I have also noticed that debian.devel
has gone away.
George Bonser
-- Forwarded message --
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 10:44:05 +0100 (MET)
From: Christoph Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-user@lists.debian.org
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: maillinglist news interface down?
Resent-Date: 18 Nov 1999 09:44:49 -
Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Resent-cc: recipient list not shown: ;
Hi folks.
Does anyone know what happended to the Debian list to news gateway. I
did not get any knews from linux.debian.devel fro about a week. In
linux.debian.user there were only a dozen in the last days, which seem
to be come in over news directly and not via the mailling list.
Is the gateway down?
Do I have to resubscribe to the mailling list, to be able to read it
again?
Christoph
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Christoph Martin, Uni-Mainz, Germany
Internet-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Linux developers for Bay Area startup
Capital Technologies is still having two open positions for Linux developers. Offering competitive pay, stockoptions and moving bonus. We are in the business of monitoring eCommerce applications and are developing a sophisticated solution for that purpose. Debian/Linux Software Developer - Develop and maintain Debian packages for our needs and for the Opensource community. Linux Web developer - Develop Web contents and the logic in the back using Apache/PHP/Perl Please submit resume's to me. For more info see http://www.captech.com http://opensource.captech.com We already have a couple of debian developers on board. Come and join us in doing what is fun for money
Hiring Linux Developers and Specialists in the Bay Area
Work for a Silicon Valley startup deploying and developing a solution based on Debian/Linux for eCommerce diagnostics. - Stockoptions - Moving Bonus - Competitive pay Information about Capital Technologies can be found at http://www.captech.com. Capital Technologies is an active supporter of Linux and plans to get involved much more in the future. See http://opensource.captech.com. Capital Technologies plans to go public within 12 months. We are looking especially for expertise in the following areas: - Network Management Systems - Debian packaging system - Apache/PHP/SQL and Web stuff - Installation and configuration - Software development for diagnostic solutions for Linux - Networking specialist for WAN/LAN - Network security specialists - Intel Hardware - General Support of Linux - Documentation Writer for a large project. Join the growing number of Debian enthusiasts working for Capital Technologies and respond to this email with your resume.
Linux Web developers wanted for the Bay Area by Capital Technologies
Capital Technologies is using Debian/Linux extensively and is looking to increase its team of people working with Debian/Linux to design an eCommerce monitoring system. We are looking for a Senior person and one or two junior positions. The emotional center of our offering is our customer web site. This is the vehicle our customers use to configure and change their information, such as assets monitored and notification schedules. It is also where they go to get current status information for their eBusiness and to get reports on performance and availability. It is the control panel for our customers, and we are committed to expanding its functionality, and delighting our customers with its usefulness. We are looking for a Senior Web Developer who can be passionate about this mission and lead a team of web developers to realize it. Position Requirements: Candidate needs to have prior experience designing and building large-scale web sites. Required Skills: * Experience with leveraging Open Source tools including Linux, Apache, Perl, PHP, Mod Perl, Perl's DB Library BBD::DBI * Expertise with HTML, JavaScript, XML, HTTP * Experience with Java and SQL * Comfort with Rapid Development methods used within the framework of a defined architecture. * Past experience and a current commitment to using engineering best practices in the development process. * Excellent communication and interpersonal skills * Must be able to work well in a team environment About Us: Join Capital Technologies (CapTech), the 8th fastest growing privately held company in the Bay Area. CapTech is pioneering the field of remote, facilities-independent monitoring and management of eBusinesses. We help our customers save money and increase the availability and correct operation of their co-located eBusiness Systems. We combine sophisticated, web-based customer interaction, advanced help desk and workflow software, a 24 by 7 fully staffed network operations center, and Internet-oriented monitoring and management software. CapTech has grown to over $6.5M in revenues, has a Japanese subsidiary, and has been ranked as one of the Top 25 Fastest Growing Private Companies in the San Francisco Bay Area for the last three consecutive years. CapTech's investors include two well-known venture capital firms: Mohr, Davidow Ventures and Weiss, Peck Greer. CapTech offers full medical / dental / vision benefits and a 401K Plan. We are seeking outstanding individuals with excellent communication and written skills. Find a Career with a well funded, pre-IPO, fast rising organization and a great working environment. More information at http://www.captech.com http://opensource.captech.com Contact me directly for any questions. We are always open for people with other useful talents.
Captech is looking for a Technical Writer
http://www.captech.com/jobs/tech_writer.html Captech is using Debian/Linux and has hired a number of Debian developers. Note that it says Local applicants only in the URL. Contact me if you are not in the Bay Area. We might find a way.
Wanting to Hire Linux Developer
Title: Linux Developer Job Description: Develop and maintain Debian packages related to our solution within the standard Debian distribution as well as on our opensource site (http://opensource.captech.com) as well as on our private archives. Deploy and configure Debian/Linux systems. Setup and configuration of diverse hardware (PCs, LAN, WAN) focusing on the Linux operating system but occasionally including Microsoft NT and other Unix platforms. The job includes the duty to keep in touch with the Open Source community on issues related to our to our business operations and deployment of such software. Occasionally technical research in literature and the Internet regarding special topics will be expected. We are in the process of developing a remote monitoring and management system. The job might include drawing code together from a variety of sources in C, Tcl, Java, Perl, shell scripts and other languages as well as helping with the design and testing of our solution. The job also might include helping with the coordination of other people involved with building our solution. It is expected that the person will develop considerable expertise with Linux as well as networking and the use of Linux as a server platform. The ability to troubleshoot and diagnose problems with Linux servers accurately needs to be developed for the support of our networks operations department. CapTech (http://www.captech.com) is a solid startup in the Bay Area. Captech has already two Debian developers on staff. Required Expertise: * Linux * TCP/IP * Basic knowledge of Open Source methods and customs. * Volunteer for at least the last 12 month in an Open Source project Required Skills: * Programming knowledge in C and script languages (bash, perl, tcl, java) * Ability to communicate in an business environment with a diversity of platforms and software solutions. Desired: * Debian Developer * Knowledge of firewalling, NAT, Routing, WAN and VPN technologies * Network Management know-how. Compensation: * Competitive pay for the San Francisco Bay Area. * Moving Bonus!
SSMTP use for ISP email.
I think this should make the message go into the archives and thus you will have some publicly available info re ssmtp. Thanks for the flowers ;-) -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 08:43:22 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: SSMTP Information Dear ssmtp developers, I am a debian user who has been trying to get mutt+smail to work together, so I could send mail through my ISP's smtp box. I only have a dialup connection, so I would usually use pine or netscape mail (along with fetchmail) to send and recieve my email. It was not until I tried to setup mutt that I ran into the need to setup my debian box's email mta. Since mutt is not an smtp aware client, and I didn't want to deliever all outbound mail myself, I had to configure smail to send all outbound mail to my ISP's smtp box. Never having configured an mta before, I spent the next 3 days looking through docs and could not find any working information about a proper smail configuration for sending all outbound mail through my ISP. I did come across a configuration in the debian faq'o'matic but it did not work. I continued to get SMTP 501 errors. I had just about given up until someone on the debian irc server told me about your ssmtp package. And much to my suprise it is exactly what I needed for my current setup/net-connection. I suspect there are many people out there just like me using Debian who would like to use a non-smtp aware email client such as mutt, who would greatly appreciate knowing about ssmtp. Since most people are connect to the internet via a dialup account, and there are more and more debian users everyday who have very little unix experience, I believe if you made your package known to the general public via some faq, or if you placed it in the debian install manual, or if you placed an entry about it in the debian faq'o'matic, it would greatly help out individuals who wish to use MUAs like mutt and not have to rely on non-free software or large clients like emacs for doing their email. Therefore, since most people don't need a full blown email mta, your package meets the needs of many people out there. So please consider placing an entry in the mail-HOWTO, or any other relavent HOWTO, or faq about your package. As for myself, when ever I see someone with a similar problem on the news groups or irc, now I can point them to your package. thank you for coding ssmtp, Don Llopis
Removal of debian usenet gateway
Just ask and the gateway will be gone. I did this because I thought this would be of benefit to the project. If you want to make Debian smaller and make it difficult for people to access information about the project then that is your problem. The gateway was set up after approval by Bruce. On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, Ian Jackson wrote: Bruce or Pete: please make an executive decision that our mailing lists are not to be gatewayed to generally-distributed newsgroups. Alternatively, Christoph could just stop, but I doubt he will. Ian. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Packages available for expert maintainers or newbies
The following packages need some work to be done and I dont get around to do it. They need someone with expertise: knfsKernel NFS tools (Difficult to build under libc6) (experimental) omirr Online Mirror Tool (Difficult to build under libc6) debmake Important package building tool. Backward compatibility important. Numbers of open issues I have not had time to deal with. cipe (unreleased) encrypted IP Tunnel. dhcpd DHCP Server (integration with new SO_BINDTODEVICE) feature outstanding. fvwm95 Configuration files need a rework Other available packages also for new maintainers: bridge/bridgex Briding tools for 2.0.X/2.1.X kernels automount Floppy automounter beroSimple Mailing List bible-kjv The classic english Bible bonnie IO performance tester debsums Check md5sums of packages defrag Defragmenter freefont/sharefont Fonts for X11 jailICMP logger jered Editor le Editor mserver Modem Server smb-nat SMB Services analyzer optimizer Optimize Assembly code pftpFTP client sftpFTP client poppassdEudora etc POP Password change daemon suidmanager Manages special permissions syslinuxBoot loader for Debian Disks worklog Log times on projects xfstt TrueType Font Server for X11 zmailer SuperHigh Performance Mailer Conditions for takeover: Upload with your maintainer name in it within 14 days. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: smartmail/exim question
This phenomenon is due to the strict RFC conformity of exim. smartlist generates a header with Resent-From but no Resent-To. To comply with some RFC exim will insert a Resent-To header (I got that from Phil a while back). This is known to the smartlist people and the examples for Smartlist mention a workaround. Add this to rc.local.s20 # # Some sendmails get very jumpy if they don't find a Resent-To: # field, # use this to give them one: # :0 fhw | formail -a Resent-To: multiple recipients of $listaddr In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: : --pgp-sign-Multipart_Mon_Nov__3_15:12:56_1997-1 : Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII : I've recently installed exim and set up several smartlist mailing : lists. Things are working the way I want them to, except for : one thing. : Every outgoing message contains a Resent-To: header with the addresses : of everyone on the list. How can I get rid of this? : Cheers, : - Jim : --pgp-sign-Multipart_Mon_Nov__3_15:12:56_1997-1 : Content-Type: application/pgp-signature : Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit : -BEGIN PGP MESSAGE- : Version: 2.6.3a : Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.4, an Emacs/PGP interface : iQCVAwUBNF5ahuQz770qyIfJAQEdIwP/RUa0qZt1AHne7Q22SRMQ2sekFIBKZUB9 : RXWNnBCvhGNi87emg873lDjbl3YU7ER6+EZdIi8a+Bq5eDAqz3dubE4bRSsD/wiw : N0dExxEUJbE5o2mFDQVh5cWsQKm/BzN+1PVdilKm4k1hTZgAHkdmbbftu1ttk7aJ : Vk5A3U0+zX0= : =F7p6 : -END PGP MESSAGE- : --pgp-sign-Multipart_Mon_Nov__3_15:12:56_1997-1-- : -- : TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to : [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? : e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- Please always CC me when replying to posts on mailing lists. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Remove gpc gpc-doc isite libgpc2 pash adbbs
I have given up trying to find a maintainer for the packages listed. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 16:19:45 -0800 From: Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ftp.debian.org: Orphan gpc gpc-doc isite libgpc2 pash adbbs Package: ftp.debian.org Version: N/A Please remove the listed packages to the orphaned directory. I am no longer using the packages at all and attempts to get other maintainers have failed again and again. -- System Information Debian Release: 1.3 Kernel Version: Linux cyrix200 2.1.60 #20 Mon Oct 27 18:11:52 PST 1997 i486 unknown -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: VIA Chipsets and Linux
I am running a VP2 with a Cyrix 200 CPU. It does IDE busmastering beautifully under 2.1.59. I got this 5 months ago and sent information regarding the PCI Ids of the Mobo to the PCI maintainer. Now all kernels recognize the VIA hardware very well. 2.0.X does not support Busmastering IDE transfers as far as I know. (Side question: Is the boa for hamm ready yet?) In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: : I am considering purchasing a motherboard using one of the : VIA chipsets (VP1, VPX, VP2) instead of a TX-based motherboard. : Does anybody know of any compatability issues, such as IDE drivers, : etc..? I'm considering the Rhino-12+ from Octek (Ocean) or a : FIC PA-2007. The Rhino uses the VPX chipset (although its listed : as using the VP1) and the PA-2007 uses the VP2. : Does anybody have one of these boards to generate useful comments? -- --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- Please always CC me when replying to posts on mailing lists. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Last call for adbbs before I give up on it.
adbbs is a bbs package based on perl. There is some screwup with the ReadKey library in the current relase that I do not seem to be able to fix. To my knowledge this is the only bbs package we have in the distribution. If someone is willing to take over the package then please write me an e-mail and I will sent you my current tree which fixes all other bugs on record. Otherwise I will completely give up on that package. I am not using it at all. --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Figuring out the fasted mirror for you
Here is a small script that finds the 10 fastest debian mirrors for you.
Just put the README.mirrors from the ftp sites in your current directory.
Then run the script:
#!/bin/sh
# Script to figure out the fastest Debian mirror sites
grep \..*:/ README.mirrors| awk '{ print $1 };' | \
awk -F: '{ print $1 }' | fping -aef - | \
awk '{ print substr($2,2),$1 }' | sort -n| head -10
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Re: problem with gpc
Ok. Last call for a maintainer for gpc. Almost a year ago someone else
took it over and nothing was done. I am going to remove the package since
it will be included in future egcs releases anyways if no one is willing
to maintain the package.
The fix for the bug is described in the bug archives for the package.
On Wed, 10 Sep 1997, Paul J. Thompson wrote:
dear all,
i trying to use gpc to test my programs as i write them for a
programming class i am taking. anyways, i tried to compile my first
dinky little program and i get this error:
ld: cannot open -lgpc: No such file or directory
i am sure that it is not a problem in the program because it compiles
under gpc on another linux system (non-debian) and it compiles on our
campus VMS. it also looks to me to be a more system related problem.
what's up? (please help me!)
confused,
paul j. thompson
p.s. for good measure, here's the program:
PROGRAM LAB3 (INPUT,OUTPUT);
(* Paul J. Thompson*)
(* September 9, 1997 *)
(* CS2113 *)
(* Lab Section 1 *)
CONST
PRICE = 3;
VAR
ITEMS,
TOTALITEMS,
COST : INTEGER;
BEGIN
TOTALITEMS := 0;
WHILE NOT EOF DO
BEGIN
READLN(ITEMS);
TOTALITEMS := TOTALITEMS + ITEMS;
COST := ITEMS * PRICE;
WRITELN(ITEMS:3,' ITEMS COST $',COST:3);
END;
WRITELN;
WRITELN('TOTAL ITEMS SOLD = ',TOTALITEMS:3);
END.
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Re: inetd.tab/exim
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: : The exim package aparently doesn't add a line in the inetd.tab to load : exim. What should I have in this file? File a bug against the smail package. It does not clean up inetd.conf on deinstallation. Exim will not overwrite an existing configured mailer-entry in /etc/inetd.conf. -- --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- Please always CC me when replying to posts on mailing lists. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Exim-error: What does this mean?
/etc/aliases must not be group or world writable and be owned by the correct user. In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: : Can somebody help me to configure my exim please. There was no : responses after a previous request. : I have a dialup ppp-connection to an ISP. Incoming mail works without : problem. Some outgoing messages also. However, there is one address : (and it is one I have used several times a week with smail) which : gives the following error message in the /var/log/exim/mainlog: : - : 1997-08-11 12:23:01 0wxrcr-2u-00 system_aliases director: : /etc/aliases (linear search): wrong mode : 1997-08-11 12:23:01 0wxrcr-2u-00 == [EMAIL PROTECTED] : D=system_aliases defer (-17): /etc/aliases (linear search): wrong mode : - : I do not understand what is wrong. : : Johann Spies : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Windsorlaan 19 : Pietermaritzburg : 3201 : Suid Afrika (South Africa) : Tel/Faks Nr. +27 331-46-1310 : -- : TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to : [EMAIL PROTECTED] . : Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- Please always CC me when replying to posts on mailing lists. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: about the gpc package
Look at the bug reports for the gpc package on www.debian.org for a fix . The one who took over the package has vanished appearantly. Anyone volunteering to maintain the package? On Tue, 19 Aug 1997, nik w wrote: I am unable to compile schtuff with gpc, namely: godg# pwd /usr/doc/gpc/examples/contrib godg# gpc screen.p ld: cannot open -lgpc: No such file or directory i _do_ have libgpc2 installed: godg# dpkg -L libgpc2 /. /usr /usr/lib /usr/lib/libgpc.so.2.8 /usr/lib/libgpc.so.2 would i be wrong in expecting to see a libgpc.a somewhere? thanks, nik w. --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: PPP with multiple numbers and getting modem status
Forwarding this to the current ppp maintainer. On Sun, 10 Aug 1997, Brandon Mitchell wrote: [ request to dial multiple numbers to connect to an isp ] I have not tackled this problem, but I think a perl script would be the way to go. I am not a perl programmer, so when I wanted a script to keep trying to connect to my ISP to run my mirror in the early hours, I asked Ralph Winslow to help me. The attached script does _that_ job but it might be useful as a sort of map of how the job can be done. [ perl script is no longer attached ] Goodness, I thought this would take a week for me to work up, and I just did it in 5 minutes. Here goes: modify pon: #!/bin/sh if [ -r /etc/ppp.options_out -a -r /etc/ppp.chatscript ]; then /usr/sbin/pppd connect /path/multi-chat.sh `cat /etc/ppp.options_out` # relocate else echo You do not have permissions to access /etc/ppp.chatscript or /etc/ppp.options_out fi Then make the following multi-chat.sh: #!/bin/sh # this restarts the loop after all scripts are run while true; do # this cycles through the scripts for i in /etc/ppp/scripts/*; do # this trys the script if /usr/sbin/chat -v -f $i; then exit 0 fi # didn't make it, bad script # don't really need the sleep, it just gives the modem a second # to catch it's breath :-) sleep 5 done done Then place a series of scripts in /etc/ppp/scripts that you want run in order (should be alphabetical, I have chat.1 chat.2...). It worked perfectly, no delay, runs right through the list. Now I just have to make a bunch of chat scripts (and hope this thing hangs up ok, I only know that it just got me on just now). Mr. Lameter: Could this be considered as an addition/example to ppp? If so, all I ask is that my name is included in a comment at the top of the multi-chat script. Enjoy, Brandon - Brandon Mitchell E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/7877/home.html We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds. --Linus Torvalds --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: dhpcd_0.5.16.1-2 - kernel 2.0.31?
It looks like I have to retract that change. Linus has released another pre patch for 2.0.31 today without the SO_BINDTODEVICE patches. You can find the necessary patches at www.linuxhq.com. In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: : On Mon, 4 Aug 1997, Christoph Lameter wrote: : : I wanted to upgrade my DHCP daemon to the latest upstream version : : that is already packaged in Hamm (dhpcd_0.5.16.1-2). However, : : the package says that it won't work with kernels = 2.0.30 so : : it needs at least 2.0.31. : : There was a promise made to release 2.0.31 soon a while back. The already : existing pre-patches to 2.0.31 provide functionality to make DHCP able to : use multiple interfaces. : : Build your kernel using these patches and everything will work. : I assume you meant that the patches are for 2.0.30. : Were are these patches located. : Thanks, : -- : Jean Pierre : -- : TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to : [EMAIL PROTECTED] . : Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- Please always CC me when replying to posts on mailing lists. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: dhpcd_0.5.16.1-2 - kernel 2.0.31?
2.0.31-pre2 for example On Tue, 5 Aug 1997, Nils Rennebarth wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 4 Aug 1997, Christoph Lameter wrote: It looks like I have to retract that change. Linus has released another pre patch for 2.0.31 today without the SO_BINDTODEVICE patches. You can find the necessary patches at www.linuxhq.com. Where? I couldn't identify any of the Linux 2.0 Unofficial Patches with the SO_BINDTODEVICE patch. Nils - -- \ /| Nils Rennebarth --* WINDOWS 42 *-- | Schillerstr. 61 / \| 37083 Göttingen | ++49-551-71626 Micro$oft's final answer | http://www.nus.de/~nils -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv iQB1AwUBM+b1/lptA0IhBm0NAQFgVgL+J9f1L2yyRk4bMyv9Ih//kK+N+jrc//+V pZFWuh7zbuymOQ6xAoxJm5UmY9opvDX1OHD3S9n/UIixvJyrpVVOS0m7EZjFmwEy 6i+FyrbHIXKHTPNmiW7kv9nfXVHKhN/R =B3jF -END PGP SIGNATURE- --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
SO_BINDTODEVICE patch for 2.0.30
Due to popular demand here a post of the SO_BINDTODEVICE patch. It will
enable the dhcpd package for Debian to serve multiple Network Cards.
Patch and more information can be found at:
http://gunpowder.Stanford.EDU/software/LinuxChanges.html
On Tue, 5 Aug 1997, Trent Johnson wrote:
Hi,
Could you send me a copy of the so_bindtodevice patch. Am I correct in
think that this patch will allow me to run a dhcp server that servers
networks on two different ethernet cards?
Trent
--- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ ---
diff -u -r linux/drivers/net/new_tunnel.c
linux-modified/drivers/net/new_tunnel.c
--- linux/drivers/net/new_tunnel.c Sun Mar 24 02:47:39 1996
+++ linux-modified/drivers/net/new_tunnel.c Fri May 2 10:48:35 1997
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@
* routing tables
*/
iph = (struct iphdr *) skb-data;
- if ((rt = ip_rt_route(iph-daddr, 0)) == NULL)
+ if ((rt = ip_rt_route(iph-daddr, 0,
skb-sk?skb-sk-bound_device:NULL)) == NULL)
{
/* No route to host */
/* Where did the packet come from? */
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@
}
ip_rt_put(rt);
- if ((rt = ip_rt_route(target, 0)) == NULL)
+ if ((rt = ip_rt_route(target, 0, skb-sk?skb-sk-bound_device:NULL))
== NULL)
{
/* No route to host */
/* Where did the packet come from? */
diff -u -r linux/include/asm-i386/socket.h
linux-modified/include/asm-i386/socket.h
--- linux/include/asm-i386/socket.h Sun Mar 24 02:47:39 1996
+++ linux-modified/include/asm-i386/socket.hWed Apr 16 12:25:57 1997
@@ -22,4 +22,6 @@
#define SO_BSDCOMPAT 14
/* To add :#define SO_REUSEPORT 15 */
+#define SO_BINDTODEVICE 25
+
#endif /* _ASM_SOCKET_H */
diff -u -r linux/include/linux/route.h linux-modified/include/linux/route.h
--- linux/include/linux/route.h Tue Oct 8 09:48:40 1996
+++ linux-modified/include/linux/route.hThu Apr 17 15:54:24 1997
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@
#define RTF_WINDOW 0x0080 /* per route window clamping */
#define RTF_IRTT 0x0100 /* Initial round trip time*/
#define RTF_REJECT 0x0200 /* Reject route */
+#define RTF_NOTCACHED 0x0400 /* this route isn't cached*/
/*
* This structure is passed from the kernel to user space by netlink
diff -u -r linux/include/net/route.h linux-modified/include/net/route.h
--- linux/include/net/route.h Fri Mar 28 16:10:57 1997
+++ linux-modified/include/net/route.h Tue Apr 22 14:46:46 1997
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
* Alan Cox: Reformatted. Added ip_rt_local()
* Alan Cox: Support for TCP parameters.
* Alexey Kuznetsov: Major changes for new routing code.
+ * Elliot Poger: Added support for SO_BINDTODEVICE.
*
* FIXME:
* Make atomic ops more generic and hide them in asm/...
@@ -83,7 +84,7 @@
extern voidip_rt_flush(struct device *dev);
extern voidip_rt_update(int event, struct device *dev);
extern voidip_rt_redirect(__u32 src, __u32 dst, __u32 gw, struct
device *dev);
-extern struct rtable *ip_rt_slow_route(__u32 daddr, int local);
+extern struct rtable *ip_rt_slow_route(__u32 daddr, int local, struct device
*dev);
extern int rt_get_info(char * buffer, char **start, off_t offset,
int length, int dummy);
extern int rt_cache_get_info(char *buffer, char **start, off_t
offset, int length, int dummy);
extern int ip_rt_ioctl(unsigned int cmd, void *arg);
@@ -131,9 +132,9 @@
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_KERNELD
-extern struct rtable * ip_rt_route(__u32 daddr, int local);
+extern struct rtable * ip_rt_route(__u32 daddr, int local, struct device *dev);
#else
-extern __inline__ struct rtable * ip_rt_route(__u32 daddr, int local)
+extern __inline__ struct rtable * ip_rt_route(__u32 daddr, int local, struct
device *dev)
#ifndef MODULE
{
struct rtable * rth;
@@ -142,7 +143,8 @@
for (rth=ip_rt_hash_table[ip_rt_hash_code(daddr)^local]; rth;
rth=rth-rt_next)
{
- if (rth-rt_dst == daddr)
+ /* If an interface is specified, make sure this route points to
it. */
+ if ( (rth-rt_dst == daddr) ((dev==NULL) ||
(dev==rth-rt_dev)) )
{
rth-rt_lastuse = jiffies;
atomic_inc(rth-rt_use);
@@ -151,23 +153,23 @@
return rth;
}
}
- return ip_rt_slow_route (daddr, local);
+ return ip_rt_slow_route (daddr, local, dev);
}
#else
;
#endif
#endif
-extern __inline__ struct rtable * ip_check_route(struct rtable ** rp,
- __u32 daddr, int local)
+extern __inline__ struct rtable * ip_check_route(struct rtable ** rp, __u32
daddr,
+
Re: dhpcd_0.5.16.1-2 - kernel 2.0.31?
: I wanted to upgrade my DHCP daemon to the latest upstream version : that is already packaged in Hamm (dhpcd_0.5.16.1-2). However, : the package says that it won't work with kernels = 2.0.30 so : it needs at least 2.0.31. : How come this happens when 2.0.31 hasn't been released yet? Is it : a missunderstanding on my part? There was a promise made to release 2.0.31 soon a while back. The already existing pre-patches to 2.0.31 provide functionality to make DHCP able to use multiple interfaces. Build your kernel using these patches and everything will work. : I had to go back to dhpcd 0.5.14 because indeed it did not work at all : with my 2.0.30 kernel. Please use the stable version if you do not follow Linux Development Projects. I will retract the newer release if there is no Linux 2.0.31 at the end of our development cycle. -- --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- Please always CC me when replying to posts on mailing lists. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: IRC bug ?
Take over irc. No problem with me. On 3 Aug 1997, James Troup wrote: Matthew Tebbens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Found this message in BUGTRAQ, not sure if it has been seen here yet... I already forwarded this to the bug tracking system, but the bug tracking system is down along with master. I've put a non-maintainer bug-fix version up at URL:http://thor.lib.chalmers.se/~jamest/blah/ Could people please test this? The machine I built it on is an IRC server running a non-debian, home brewed version of ircd, and I can't kill it to test the Debian version. [Well I could, but Stefan would probably come after me with a knife or something] It should work, the changes I've made are minimal, but if it's to go in stable it needs to be tested. Christoph/Paul, if either of you are actively maintaining ircd, sorry and please just ignore my non-maintainer version, I assume it isn't though since it's on the Working needing done [...] list... -- James --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: boa and security
Right now the only way I can see is to use the build in linux firewall to restrict access. File a bug report against boa. The author might be willing to work on that. In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: : Hi : A quick boa question. I would like to run boa as our web server on our : terminal server to run cgi scripts but would really like to be able to : restrict who can run those scripts. : Can I run boa from inetd or are there any ways to easily do this with an : .htaccess file or similar? I'd rather not have to run apache but will if : that's the only way to get the features I need. : Adam. : -- : TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to : [EMAIL PROTECTED] . : Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- Please always CC me when replying to posts on mailing lists. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Debian News Gateway at news.fuller.edu
A one way Gateway has been set up a while ago at news.fuller.edu. It takes mailing list traffic from Debian Mailing lists and puts it into the linux.debian.* groups. Posting into the usenet groups is not sent back to the linux.debian.* groups to keep mailing lists clear from Usenet junk. news.fuller.edu features public NNTP access for all linux related newsgroups. Feeds for News Servers are available. Just point your news server at news.fuller.edu and you will be able to read many important mailing lists. --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: turning shadow on
My last experiences on that issue: You need to have X installed otherwise shadowconfig on will fail because it expects to modify an X configuration file. In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: : On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: : Hi, : : I've upgraded from 1.2 to 1.3 w/o too much trouble. At that time I : did not turn shadow on. Now I would like to do it. Should I do a : shadowconfig on and cross my fingers or is there something further? : : I've installed almost all the stuff from stable. : : This should work fine. If you have not installed X yet, and intend to, you : will need to switch it off and then on again after the installation to get : the correct xdm for shadow. This has been fixed in the 3.3-3 version of X. : Luck, : Dwarf : -- : _-_-_-_-_-_- _-_-_-_-_-_-_- : aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 656-9769 : Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road : e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tallahassee, FL 32308 : _-_-_-_-_-_- If you don't see what you want, just ask _-_-_-_-_-_-_- : -- : TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to : [EMAIL PROTECTED] . : Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- Please always CC me when replying to posts on mailing lists. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Smail and spammers
Upgrade to exim which has extensive spam prevention mechanisms and filters build in. In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: : Is there any way I can disable spammers from using my smail server to : distribute spam? : From the logs it appears that someone is sending mail from a : compuserve account that then propagates into a large batch of mails to : address all over the world. : The original post from compuserve and the resultong hundreds of : outgoings all have the same ID. Is this due to BSMTP? : If I add a : -bsmtp : to the pipe: section of the transports file will I break anything? : Is there some way that I can restrict use of the | thingy to local : users only? ie mail that originates on the server, as against mail : from outside (that is compuserve)? : Is there a resource out on the Internet that will point me in the : right direction? : Wot a lot of questions! : John Foster : -- : TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to : [EMAIL PROTECTED] . : Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- Please always CC me when replying to posts on mailing lists. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Smail and spammers
Exim can do table lookups as you wish and its very easy compared to what I have seen from smail. Get on the exim mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] for details regarding how to configure exim for that purpose. You also might also want to have a look at the exim web site http://www.exim.org On Sun, 22 Jun 1997, George Bonser wrote: On Sun, 22 Jun 1997, Christoph Lameter wrote: Upgrade to exim which has extensive spam prevention mechanisms and filters build in. I hope to install a unique system this week that uses exim to handle email to the internet and smail handling the extensive uucp network that it interfaces with. I am assuming from my initial review of the documents that I need to build a domain database of the uucp sites that I will pass mail to and then build a director using a pipe transport to move bsmtp to smail for transmission to the uucp sites. My question is if anyone else has interfaced exim to a uucp setup with multiple uucp neighbors and if they would share what they learned. My reason for using smail and not simply piping the mail to uux is that I want to take advantage of smail's rsmtp for sending email to some of the uucp sites. Smail is great for a large uucp network that is constantly changing its connectivity and routing. Its pathalias path file routing table is great. George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: defrag
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: : I have an old scsi drive which I fsck'ed as ext2. I didn't get any errors : doing so. ( this was about 4 months ago ). Now the drive is 24% : non-contiguous and I finally found the defrag package, however when I run : it I get this error: : bash# defrag /dev/sda1 : defrag 0.61 : defrag: bad magic number in super-block : Is there away of fixing this problem and how serious is it? : Thanks, : Dennis There is no problem. Just make sure you have a Minix file system on your SCSI drive. Reading the documentation might also help. -- --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- Please always CC me when replying to posts on mailing lists. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: rsh or ssh and authorization over a masqueraded connection.
Use RSA User authentication instead of RSA Host authentication. You need to run keygen and then put your public key on the host you want to reach. Get rid of the .shosts file and the pain of passwords is gone. You can put your private key on any account you want to use to connect from. In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: : Is it possible to set up password free logins (for rsh or ssh) to a : server via a masqueraded connection? I spent quite a bit of time : recently trying to figure this out, and it seemed like the host really : didn't want to let this happen. Something about incoming connections : from a non-privileged port being used. : [ server ] --- ppp --- [ masquerading host ] --- [masqueraded host] : The connections go through without a hitch when I try from the : masquerading host but won't work from the masqueraded host, even when : I'm careful (for ssh) about the known_hosts and .shosts file contents. -- --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- Please always CC me when replying to posts on mailing lists. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: rsh or ssh and authorization over a masqueraded connection.
On 9 Jun 1997, Rob Browning wrote: Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You need to run keygen and then put your public key on the host you want to reach. Get rid of the .shosts file and the pain of passwords is gone. You can put your private key on any account you want to use to connect from. I had tried that, but that still requires you to type the pass phrase. I'm looking for a method that doesn't. Normally you can use ..rhosts or .shosts for this, but I can't get it to work through a masqueraded connection. You can simply decrypt the private key and then no passwords are required. The reason I *need* to do this is because I need to be able to access a cvs server from the masqueraded machine. It works just fine over here. --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: fdos, and ncftp
Those packages are in the non-free or contrib sections which are usually not included on CD-Rom. Try ftp.debian.org. In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: : Two questions: : I'm trying to set up a Debian system using a disk from Cheap*Bytes : (part of their 5-disk set). dselect says for a couple of packages : (i.e. dosemu) that fdos is recommended, but not available. In fact, a : search of the Debian FTP structure shows that there *is* no fdos : package. : What's up? : This is Debian 1.2. : On the same topic, dselect wants a local directory which isn't on : the C*B CD. I hear they leave stuff out, so I'm not shocked. : However, dselect also insists that there's a local directory on the : FTP site, which there is not. I'm confused. : As for NcFTP -- can a mere newbie user request a new package? I'm : used to NcFTP, which I've used on Panix (Sun) and on my home machine : under OS/2. Sure, I could compile it myself, but I'm afraid that as : soon as I do, a package would be released and I'd have a hard time : upgrading. :-) : Thanks. : -- : Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum : http://dm.net : -- : TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to : [EMAIL PROTECTED] . : Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- Please always CC me when replying to posts on mailing lists. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Looking for New Maintainers
I am listed as the maintainer of the following packages in the distribution. These are available for other maintainers. I would especially welcome if someone who wants to become a debian developer would take a package or two. All packages have been done using debmake and should be easy to handle. Some of these packages have had others volunteering to take over the package in the past but they have not uploaded any new version and I am still listed as the maintainer in the packages file. If you want to take one of those you need to first try to contact the person listed. ncsaNCSA Webserver wwwoffleWeb Proxy for Offline Browsing defrag Peter Iannarelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] genromfsBootup File System bridge Bridging 2.0.X Kernels bridgex Bridging 2.1.X Kernels ppp Philip Hands [EMAIL PROTECTED] berolistEasy to handle List Server adbbs BBS Software eject Eject and Change CDs chosHelmut Geyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] boa Fast Webserver gpc GNU Pascal libgpc2 gpc-doc verse Daily Scriptural Verse freefontFonts for X bonnie Performance Test fdosFreeDos (probably obsolete since dosemu contains it now) sharefont Shareware Fonts upsdBdale Garbee [EMAIL PROTECTED] newsx News Retrieval ncompress Helmut Geyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] syslinuxBoot Loader for Debian Boot Floppies ircdPaul Haggart [EMAIL PROTECTED] fvwm95 Kenneth MacDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] pax David Frey [EMAIL PROTECTED] pashNC clone netdiag Philip Hands [EMAIL PROTECTED] floppybackupBackup to floppies zmailer Extremely efficient Mailer isite Web Search / Database Search engine xskat Helmut Geyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] bible-kjv Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] knfsKernel NFS tools poppassdRemote password change daemon for Eudora etc. transproxy Transparent Proxy Tools loadlin Boot Loader freetypeTrueType FontManager automount Helmut Geyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] planColin Telmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: How to trick debian into thinking a package is installed
Those tools are in the adpkg package... But that package also has an experimental version of dpkg in it. I will put it back somehow. If you have access to an earlier version of adpkg then get that. On Sat, 10 May 1997, Igor Grobman wrote: There used to exist 2 utilities called deb2asc and asc2deb which were very useful for this kind of thing. They were part of debmake at one time then were moved to adpkg, and after adpkg's removal from distribution seem to have disappeared. Christoph, would you put them back into debmake or anywhere else for that matter? These utilities are truly useful for creating dummy packages. With those utilities available, you would just need to create a text file containing something like this: %control Package: dummy Version: 1.0 Provides: motif, tetex (and some more standard control file lines) Then you run asc2deb, and a .deb package is built. On May 9, Steve Hsieh wrote Hi, Can someone tell me how I can trick debian into thinking that a package is installed? Specifically, I have the real motif installed on my system. However, since this is (obviously) not a debian package, debian has no idea that I have it. And so if I try to install the xmcd package, it refuses to install because lesstif isn't installed, but I can't install lesstif without overwriting the real motif... I guess I could also use the --force-depends option in dpkg to force an install? So my questions are; 1. what's the dirty way to modify the config files so debian thinks lesstif is installed? 2. if I create my own binary .deb package with my motif binaries inside it, how do I change the control file so it provides lesstif? On a side note, motif apps really ought to require a motif package, and lesstiff should provide motif, as opposed to packages directly requiring lesstif. Steve -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: NIS problem, please Help
Richard Zoni ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : Hello, : : we have a debian linux NIS server running on a 166Mhz Pentium with 64Mb, : it serves a cluster of 20 debian linux boxes. : We have very big maps (600 lines in passwd and 2 hundreds more in group) : : Our ypserv is consuming up to 90% CPU time, : is it normal? I have experienced the same. Remove the + entry from the /etc/group files and everything will be back to normal. The /etc/group entries are not cached and each machine has to search through all of them via the NIS server to figure out to which groups a user belongs. The debian scheme adds a group for each users making the problem much more acute with debian. We have solved it by copying the /etc/group to all the machines with a cron job at night. -- --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- Please always CC me when replying to posts on mailing lists. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Poppasswd
I do not follow debian-user. Sorry I dont know the full context of the message here. Poppassd uses the passwd program to change passwords. If the password is not accepted then Eudora usually gives an error message. That is at least the behavior when connected to our Internet Servers running poppassd. They are still based on Debian 1.1 though. From what I can tell no change in the passwd program happened between Debian 1.1 and Debian 1.2. On Fri, 27 Dec 1996, Roy C Bixler wrote: rcb On Wed, 25 Dec 1996, Nelson Posse Lago wrote: rcb Hi, rcb This is a very tricky problem. poppassd is a small app that calls passwd rcb to change the password. Well, it passes some arguments to passwd and rcb expects some responses from it. All very fine. Now, the newer debians use rcb a passwd program that does a few checks on the password. If the rcb new password is too similar to the old one, or if it is too short, or if rcb it has too many repeated characters, etc. it will issue an error message rcb and prompt you for a new (hopefully better) password. poppassd was not rcb desinged to deal with this. It just waits for passwd to issue the prompt rcb re-enter new password while password is saying too simple: try again. rcb Try entering a very random, 8 chars password to see if it works. To solve rcb your problem, you must try to find a passwd program that doesn't do these rcb checks (at the expense of security) or hack poppassd to be smarter. I rcb don't know if debian has a simpler passwd program. rcb rcb I checked to see if this is the problem by logging into the server rcb directly and changing my password to the same thing I attempted to change rcb it to with Eudora and 'poppasswd'. That worked just fine the first time. rcb rcb My configuration is Debian 1.2 stable (poppasswd_1.2-4) and Eudora Pro v. rcb 3.0 flailing away on Windoze '95. The connection just hangs after I rcb specify the new password for the second time. The Eudora dialog box just rcb sits with a 'newpasswd' text. If I look on the server, there are idle rcb 'poppasswd' and 'passwd rcb' processes running. Also, as expected, typing rcb in my original password incorrectly will cause Eudora to abort the rcb operation. It really appears as if 'poppasswd' itself is just hanging rcb after it receives the 'newpass' command - this is what I got if I 'telnet' rcb direct to port 106 and go through the protocol sequence. rcb rcb Any ideas? rcb rcb Roy rcb [EMAIL PROTECTED] rcb rcb --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- PGP Public Key = FB 9B 31 21 04 1E 3A 33 C7 62 2F C0 CD 81 CA B5 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Poppasswd
Did they release a new version? On Sat, 28 Dec 1996, Roy C Bixler wrote: rcb rcb My configuration is Debian 1.2 stable (poppasswd_1.2-4) and Eudora Pro v. rcb rcb 3.0 flailing away on Windoze '95. The connection just hangs after I rcb rcb specify the new password for the second time. The Eudora dialog box just rcb rcb sits with a 'newpasswd' text. If I look on the server, there are idle rcb rcb 'poppasswd' and 'passwd rcb' processes running. Also, as expected, typing rcb rcb in my original password incorrectly will cause Eudora to abort the rcb rcb operation. It really appears as if 'poppasswd' itself is just hanging rcb rcb after it receives the 'newpass' command - this is what I got if I 'telnet' rcb rcb direct to port 106 and go through the protocol sequence. rcb rcb I solved my problem by getting the 'poppassd.c' source from rcb rcb ftp://ftp.qualcomm.com/quest/unix/servers/password/linux.tar rcb rcb and compiling. It works with no changes. FWIW, I did notice that the rcb Debian package has a 'shadow password patch' included and the qualcomm rcb version does not. rcb rcb Roy rcb [EMAIL PROTECTED] rcb rcb --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- PGP Public Key = FB 9B 31 21 04 1E 3A 33 C7 62 2F C0 CD 81 CA B5 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Will Caldera's WABI run on a Debian system?
Rick Macdonald ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Does anybody know if Caldera's WABI will run on a Debian system?
: Caldera's web page kind of says maybe.
:
: I'm tempted to pay the $200 just so I can run Quicken without
: booting up DOS/Windows.
:
: I haven't checked for awhile, but I assume that WINE is still
: a long ways away. I couldn't tolerate having my Quicken files
: corrupted!
If Caldera uses RPM then install the Debian RPM Package and the debmake package.
Debmake contains software to install RPM Packages which might enable you to run
WABI under debian.
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Re: Hylafax packages?
Dermot Bradley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: On Tue, 5 Nov 1996, Craig Sanders wrote:
:
: You mentioned that one of your hylafax packages conflicts with mgetty - are
: you working on fixing that?
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: It has been suggested that I use diversions to handle the conflict.
: Anyone got a example of a diversion?
Its in the debian manual under diversion. If you use debmake then it will
do it for you.
BTW I have split up mgetty. You can simply conflict with mgetty-fax now.
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Re: Hylafax packages?
It would probably be good to split mgetty into mgetty mgetty-fax mgetty-voice mgetty-doc That does not solve the problem with accepting incoming faxes though. Although hylaxfax does have something to offer in this regard. I have no idea how to integrate that. I have no experience with multi-binary packages. If someone else wants to do it then tell me. Otherwise I have to make debmake multi-binary aware. On Tue, 5 Nov 1996, Craig Sanders wrote: cas That was myself. I was almost finished and then I discovered debmake cas :-) I've spent the past week or so getting to grips with it. Can you send me a summary of your experiences so I can improve my package? --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- PGP Public Key = FB 9B 31 21 04 1E 3A 33 C7 62 2F C0 CD 81 CA B5 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hylafax packages?
What is exactly conflicting? On Tue, 5 Nov 1996, Dermot Bradley wrote: bradley On Tue, 5 Nov 1996, Craig Sanders wrote: bradley bradley You mentioned that one of your hylafax packages conflicts with mgetty - are bradley you working on fixing that? bradley bradley It has been suggested that I use diversions to handle the conflict. bradley Anyone got a example of a diversion? --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- PGP Public Key = FB 9B 31 21 04 1E 3A 33 C7 62 2F C0 CD 81 CA B5 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hylafax packages?
Ok. I will put the fax related files in a separate package mgetty-fax (and the voice part in mgetty-voice). Thus hylafax should conflict with mgetty-fax . On Tue, 5 Nov 1996, Dermot Bradley wrote: bradley On Tue, 5 Nov 1996, Christoph Lameter wrote: bradley bradley What is exactly conflicting? bradley bradley mgetty and hylafax both provide a binary called sendfax in /usr/sbin bradley bradley Dermot bradley bradley -- bradley Dermot BradleyEmail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] bradley Communications Director Tel: +44 1232 572003 bradley Genesis Project Ltd Fax: +44 1232 560553 bradley Belfast Coleraine Desertmartin, N.I. WWW: http://www.gpl.net/ bradley --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- PGP Public Key = FB 9B 31 21 04 1E 3A 33 C7 62 2F C0 CD 81 CA B5 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is there a .deb package for Netscape ?
Stan Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: sun\bject line pretty much says it all. I like the debian
: install mechanisim!
Yes. There is. Why do you ask? Look on the ftp site.
Debian has more than 800 packages in rex which is soon to be released. You are
bound to find
almost everything you can think of there.
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Re: Red Hat Package Manager debianized
The debmake package has now added functionality to install Red Hat and Slackware packages using dpkg and thus entering information about those packages into the debian packaging system. On Mon, 28 Oct 1996, Hamish Moffatt wrote: moffatt Redhat. So I sought for a way to install RedHat packages under Debian and moffatt debianized the Red Hat Package manager rpm. I was able to install gated moffatt moffatt Installing this package means that you have two competing package managers moffatt that know nothing about each other on your system! moffatt moffatt Since Redhat now has dependencies, perhaps it would be nice if dpkg moffatt or some other Debian-specific program were to be able to install moffatt RPMs but maintain Debian packaging information etc. Although this moffatt would discourage people from writing Debian-specific packages perhaps. moffatt moffatt moffatt hamish moffatt --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- PGP Public Key = FB 9B 31 21 04 1E 3A 33 C7 62 2F C0 CD 81 CA B5 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fixed! (Re: mgetty isn't answering the phone (ioctl problem))
Pete Harlan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: In my experience, I've had to turn MGETTY OFF when I wanted to make an
: outbound PPP call. Dunno exactly why. I can dial out when I have MGETTY
: running, if I dial out with something like Minicom.
:
: This is because they're not putting their lockfiles in the same
: directory. Look at the compilation options for both of them and make
: sure that they're each using, e.g., /var/lock/LCK..ttyS0 for the
: lockfile, and that they write their pid in the file in ASCII format
: (not binary). (This is from the Linux FSSTND.)
:
: Kermit, Minicom, pppd, any modem software you write, mgetty, etc.,
: must agree on all of the above, and then it works like a dream.
The debian packages agree on those locations and should work without a problem.
If a package
uses a different location then its a bug which should be reported.
I am using the exact configuration mentioned above. Running mgetty on my modem
and pppd does outbound
connections like the one I am working from now.
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Re: xinetd
On Sun, 13 Oct 1996, Boris D. Beletsky wrote: borik Since i've noticed that there is no xinetd pkg for debian, i thought borik that i can maintain it. I really like to have it. But I wonder how the debian scripts for the maintenance (update-inetd) of inetd.conf will fare with the different config format. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dosemu_0.64.0.2-3_i386.changes
On Sat, 5 Oct 1996, Joey Hess wrote:
joeyI installed this dosemu package, and just installing it locked my system
joeyup. I had to hit reset, and clean up all the errors on my filesystem that
joeycropped up.
What kernel version are you running and what version of the standard
library?
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Re: shadow for debian
Ricardo Kleemann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : Does debian have a shadow package which would simplify installation of : shadow? Or do I have to install it manually? I still have a lot of reservations about using shadow. The only way that it would make sense is if you are restricted to just using one machine. I am running a separate machine that does not allow user access for all services or sensitive information. Another machine allows user login which is a kind of shell server - a cheap old 486DX66 that does nothing criticall at all. If someone breaks in then he can probably disturb some other users access but not bring down major components. Export the / directory to your secure host. And then change the root password to * via NFS. Do password lookups via NIS not allowing passwords to be seen by users (and not thus not having passwords in /etc/passwd). Mount the users home directory from the secure server and give the root_squash option. No user can own a binary owned by root now... Except for laborious exploitation of security holes (in what? Sendmail is also running on the secure host) I doubt that anyone can get in. And even if so: Access from that host to other systems is quite limited. The system is running accounting and some other things that will make life quite difficult. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: is there a dhcp client package?
That is not available. Perhaps you could put it together?
Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: I see the dhcpd server package, but has a dhcp client been made into a
: debian package? I have to set up a computer that will use dhcp to
: configure it's networking, and was hoping for a debian package to smooth
: the way.
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Re: Linux SMP
Ricardo Kleemann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : Hi guys... : : I'm wondering if attempting to use Linux-SMP is any good. Afterall, for : real efficiency, don't the programs/daemons/utilities have to be designed : in such a way that they'll make use of SMP capabilities? The operating systems nature is to run multiple processes. SMP is just dividing those processes up amoung the processors. : : For example, if I have sendmail, pop3d, httpd daemons running, on a dual : processor system with SMP kernel, as compared to a single-processor : system, would I gain much advantage? No. Because the limitations with those are usually in the I/O not in the numbercrunching abilities of the CPU : Let's say, for example, a dual-133 and a single-PPro200. My feeling is : that for raw speed and efficiency, the PPro200 would easily win out... That is probably true. Moreover you do not have all the SMP problems. : Now, due to the fact that most ISP usage is dependent on bandwidth : limitations (meaning that a lot of the time the raw processor power won't : do much good) what is your opinion on choosing a more effective system? : Between say dual-133 or single-Pro200? Buy three Pentium 100s Machines and network them. Distribute the server processes equally between them and you have a wonderful fast system. Get another P-133 for all the compilation stuff you want to do. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Netatalk borke in 2.06 to 2.0.20???
Netatalk is fine here with 2.0.21 2.0.18 2.0.14 etc. Reinstall the newest *deb module with netatalk. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : Hello all. Netatalk does not seem to be functioning on my system since : upgrading to kernel 2.0.6. I upgraded to 2.0.20 to see if it would come back. : Everything loads fine, but the macintosh clients don't see the Linux box's file : system and printers. Nbplkup shows all the devices on the network (Mac and : Linux) and I can use the equivalent of ping to bounce packets off both Mac and : Linux boxes. Any ideas?? : : Pat Ouellette :
Re: vgetty as answering machine
You might have an old version of the mgetty package which did not include all docs. Get the newest mgetty-0.99 from rex. Heiko Schlittermann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : Martin Schulze wrote: : : : : Good evening folks, : : : : I know that vgetty is able to do this job, but I didn't find enough : : information to configure this. : : MGETTY comes definitfly with enought and complete docs. : : : Heiko : -- : email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] : pgp : A1 7D F6 7B 69 73 48 35 E1 DE 21 A7 A8 9A 77 92 : finger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] :
Master.debian.org down yggdrasil.com down ...
master.debian.org is down since Sunday. Any plans to bring it back up? yggdrasil.com is also down (Even the DNS Servers are not reachable!) and is the gateway from the usnet linux.debian.user group to the mailing list. Can we establish alternate gateways so that at least the usenet groups will still work?
Re: Worldnet.att.net via Linux PPP Connection
On Fri, 13 Sep 1996, David L. Craig wrote:
dlc I am not aware that this could happen. There is no IP
dlc routing going on at all. Most ISPs (like us) block all
dlc routing information sent from the PPP link.
dlc
dlcI guess I wasn't clear. I wasn't refering to routing
dlcprotocols as much as the ability of packets to be
dlcsource-routed through the system. My point was this type of
Per default source routing under Linux is disabled. I still dont
know what the security issue is you are referring to?
dlcdocument should include enough information, probably one
dlcparagraph including a pointer to detailed info, that alerts
dlcthe reader to these security issues. It is not the job of
dlcthe ISPs to educate their customers about risks of being an
dlcInternet host, and the network admin on the LAN side of this
dlcpath may not be aware the node is running a SLIP or PPP link
dlcto an ISP.
dlc
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Bernard Leach ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : It seems that Mark Shuttleworth is no longer maintaining the : apache package. Just wondering who, if anyone has picked : it up and if there is a 1.1 version. A debian apache 1.1.1 is available on ftp.fuller.edu/Linux/debian/apache This packe will be removed as soon as the official maintainer releases and Apache version. We run Apache 1.1.1 with debian on multiple machines.
Re: Worldnet.att.net via Linux PPP Connection
David L. Craig ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : I was very unhappy to see this nice explanation ignore the : perils of IP routing between the ISP and internal networks. : Does anyone suppose its original source could be located so : at least a paragraph could be inserted warning of the danger : and recommending the user hook up with his network : administrator to ensure he doesn't inadvertantly create a : backdoor into his organization? I am not aware that this could happen. There is no IP routing going on at all. Most ISPs (like us) block all routing information sent from the PPP link.
Re: how to sign up to debian-devel?
Same here. Jim Pick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : : : : I have the same problem here ! : I you find out, email me please. : : Phil. : : : : Same problem here also. Do I sense a pattern? : : - Jim : :
FVW95 anyone?
Is anyone working on getting fvwm95 debianized? I have a halfway working package and I wonder if its worth the effort to finish it since I saw some discussion about other people working on it.
Pine other non-free packages
: BTW, should I go hunting for a Pine debian package or just go and compile : it myself? I couldn't find it on my cdrom with Debian 1.1.4... :/ : Is it a licensing problem or finding a maintainer problem? Its a licensing problem. The debian packages are in the non-free section on ftp.debian.org or ftp.fuller.edu. You might want to download the complete section since those packets cannot be put on a CD.
Experimental DHCPD package
The only thing you have to do is to customize the
/etc/dhcpd.conf file a bit to get it going on your machine. (That is if it
works for you)
Available at
ftp://ftp.fuller.edu/Linux/debian/dhcpd*
Please report back to me your experiences. If some people run it
successfully then I will submit it to be included in the Debian
distribution.
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Re: Reorganizing linux.* hierachy
Miquel van Smoorenburg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], : Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : I think we should do the following. : : 1. Map all high traffic groups / mailing lists linux.xxx to :comp.os.linux.* : : No, *please* don't do this with, for example, linux.dev.kernel. It has : enough junk in it as it is; spreading this through all of usenet will make : the group useless. The real kernel hackers will find a new mailinglist : and use that instead (in fact that's already happening at the moment, : as I understand) and it will leave you with another group with lots of : traffic and no actual content. It has content even if the real kernel hackers find other ways of discussing the issues. The group is appearently needed otherwise it would not have that high a volume. You cannot avoid junk. : : 2. reorganize the linux.* groups to throw obsolete things out. : : Some FAQ or document that says which groups exist and which are obsolete : would help; I would like to remove disfunctional groups on our newsserver : ASAP. That would be nice. : : 3. Make all groups non-moderated. The current setup is a major :speed problem. : : Remember linux.* is really a gateway to a mailing list. BTW, do you : have your moderators file set up right? When I post something in linux.*, : it shows up on our news server within a matter of _minutes_. You do have : linux.*:[EMAIL PROTECTED] in your moderators file, right? Exactly. And I have had repeatedly problems with that host rejecting e-mail and delaying delivery for hours. I have never had a message show up within minutes. The reason for the delays might also be my NNTP access. Is there any location I can draw a faster NNTP feed for linux.* from? I currently get linux.* via PSI.
Re: mailing list
Here (news.fuller.edu). We have free NNTP access worldwide to the comp.os.linux and the linux.* hierachies. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : On Wed, 28 Aug 1996, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: : :A good thing to see is some news mecanism. Aren't time to put :Debian list on news groups? : : linux.debian.users. Go and get the Linux Hierachy. : : : Where would one be able to get a feed for the Linux Hierarchy? : : Mike Mattice :
Reorganizing linux.* hierachy
I think we should do the following. 1. Map all high traffic groups / mailing lists linux.xxx to comp.os.linux.* 2. reorganize the linux.* groups to throw obsolete things out. 3. Make all groups non-moderated. The current setup is a major speed problem. Anyone who wants newsgroup access to linux.* right now is invited to access the newsserver news.fuller.edu.
Re: mgetty basic setup
Please read the documentation provided. (man mgetty and look into /usr/doc/mgetty!) Have no idea why it did not install the configuration files. Worked on my system when tested before being released. Your Slackware frustration is understandable! Getting used to consistent file location also took me awhile. David Gaudine ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : : I have mgetty working on a Slackware system, so I assumed I'd have no : trouble getting it working on a Debian system. Boy, was I wrong. : I have no idea what I'm doing, or why nobody else seems to have trouble. : I couldn't find any debian-specific instructions. : : 1) using dpkg --contents mgetty_099.deb, I see that various :configuration files (login.config, mgetty.config, etc.) go in :/etc/mgetty. However, after installing the package, that directory :was empty. Why? I've removed and reinstalled the package, using :both dselect and dpkg; usually /etc/mgetty is empty, once login.config :mysteriously appeared. Finally I copied the files from the Slackware :system. : : 2) What should the line in /etc/inittab be? I'm using :d3:45:respawn:/sbin/mgetty ttyS2 :because this is what worked with Slackware. (not exactly; the other :system used com2 (d2,ttyS1), and /usr/local/sbin). Where is this :d3:45 stuff documented? The reason I got it working with Slackware :is that there were already sample lines commented out. (I think.) : :BTW, the modem is set to com3, and minicom works using /dev/ttyS2 : : 3) Do I need the gettydefs file? I copied it from - you guessed it - :the slackware system. : : Oh, I should mention what happens; absolutely nothing. No answer, no : logs. :
Re: Squid 1.0.9 available at ftp.fuller.edu
Miquel van Smoorenburg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], : Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : ?? Why double the work. This was an ad for the debianized version. : : Oh I am sorry. I misunderstood. I've been keeping a debianized version of squid : since squid 1.0.3 at least, and I've been emailing with the original maintainer : (Craig Sanders) about it. It has been my intent for quite some time to make : the Interim release but I didn't hear anything anymore from Craig. : : Oh well. Your version is much better than mine. Running your squid now and have removed mine from ftp.fuller.edu. Thanks.
Re: man crashes
On Sat, 24 Aug 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote:
dwarfI've got the same version. I get:
dwarf
dwarf$ man -kr xx
dwarfxxgdb (1x) - X window system interface to the gdb debugger.
dwarf
dwarfHowever, most of my man pages are in /usr/man not /usr/local/man. Try
dwarfrunning mandb on /usr/man and see if that helps.
dwarfYou might also try checking the MD5SUM on the package file you installed
dwarffrom. If it does not check out, then you got a corrupt package file. Try
dwarfgetting a new copy and re-install, if this is the case.
dwarfJust an asside...is your shell bash?
Yes.
Here is the output from what you suggested:
mandb: warning: /usr/man/man1/dpkg-source.1 is a dangling symlink
mandb: can't open /usr/man/man1/dpkg-parsechangelog.1: No such file or
directory
mandb: warning: /usr/man/man1/dpkg-parsechangelog.1: bad symlink or ROFF
`.so' request
mandb: warning: /usr/man/man1/dpkg-source.1 is a dangling symlink
mandb: can't open /usr/man/man1/dpkg-genchanges.1: No such file or
directory
mandb: warning: /usr/man/man1/dpkg-genchanges.1: bad symlink or ROFF `.so'
request
mandb: warning: /usr/man/man1/dpkg-source.1 is a dangling symlink
mandb: can't open /usr/man/man1/dpkg-buildpackage.1: No such file or
directory
mandb: warning: /usr/man/man1/dpkg-buildpackage.1: bad symlink or ROFF
`.so' request
mandb: warning: /usr/man/man1/dpkg-source.1 is a dangling symlink
mandb: can't open /usr/man/man1/dpkg-distaddfile.1: No such file or
directory
mandb: warning: /usr/man/man1/dpkg-distaddfile.1: bad symlink or ROFF
`.so' request
Checking for stray cats under /usr/man...
Checking for stray cats under /var/catman...
3 man subdirectories contained newer manual pages.
80 manual pages and 0 stray cats were added.
waterf:/home/clameter# man -kr xx
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
waterf:/home/clameter#
Seems that the man package cannot cope with some screwups of the dpkg
updates.
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Squid 1.0.9 available at ftp.fuller.edu
For all those who run the beta version of squid in unstable: There is the release 1.0.9 available at ftp.fuller.edu/Linux/debian. I tried to contact the author but no response meanwhile our Webcahce was crashing every other day. If you are in the same boat...
Re: man crashes
On Sat, 24 Aug 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote:
dwarfOn Sat, 24 Aug 1996, Christoph Lameter wrote:
dwarf
dwarf Seems that the man package cannot cope with some screwups of the dpkg
dwarf updates.
dwarf
dwarfSounds like you upgraded to an experimental version of dpkg. Which version
dwarfdo you have? I'm running 1.3.6 with none of these problems.
1.3.9 as of today.
Any way to fix those problems?
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Re: Squid 1.0.9 available at ftp.fuller.edu
?? Why double the work. This was an ad for the debianized version.
On Sun, 25 Aug 1996, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
miquelsIn article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write:
miquelsFor all those who run the beta version of squid in unstable: There is
miquelsthe release 1.0.9 available at ftp.fuller.edu/Linux/debian.
miquels
miquelsI tried to contact the author but no response meanwhile our Webcahce
miquelswas crashing every other day.
miquels
miquelsIf you are in the same boat...
miquels
miquelsOK, then I guess it's time to upload my interim version to master.
miquelsI have packaged squid-1.0.9 and have it running on a couple of
miquelsmachines. I'll upload it to master in a few minutes but in the mean
miquelstime you can get it from
miquels
miquelsftp://ftp.cistron.nl/pub/people/miquels/alpha/
miquels
miquelsMike.
miquels
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Re: /etc/passwd migration between systems
Jim Worthington ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : I tried copying the /etc/passwd file from a Sun workstation to a Linux : machine in order to create common user accounts. Use NIS. Copying /etc/passwd can cause a lot of problems keeping it up to date. : : Linux, however would not decrypt the Sun passwords when correctly : entered. Thei technique works fine between Solaris and Sun Unix. : : Does Linux use a different encryption algorithm than Sun? (obviously it : is different) Is there any Sun compatability login software for Linux : that would allow me to use a common password database between the two : systems? NIS is available on both systems and will allow the Linux box to use the passwd etc contents on the sun. : : Jim :
Re: man crashes
Same problem here. Hamish Moffatt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : : When I try to view a manual page that's located in /usr/local/man, : man says it's updating a local index, then gives a segmentation fault. : Any ideas on how to fix this? : : : thanks : hamish :
Re: man crashes
Dale Scheetz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : On Sat, 24 Aug 1996, Hamish Moffatt wrote: : : : When I try to view a manual page that's located in /usr/local/man, : man says it's updating a local index, then gives a segmentation fault. : Any ideas on how to fix this? : : Need more information to be of any help. : What version of man are you using? What shell and it's version? : Such problems in the past have been caused by a corupted index file. Try: : mandb /usr/local/man and see if that helps. waterf:/usr/local# mandb /usr/local/man Processing manual pages under /usr/local/man... Checking for stray cats under /usr/local/man... Checking for stray cats under /var/catman/local... 0 man subdirectories contained newer manual pages. 0 manual pages and 0 stray cats were added. waterf:/usr/local# man -kr xx Segmentation fault (core dumped) waterf:/usr/local# dpkg -s man Package: man Status: install ok installed Priority: important Section: doc Maintainer: Alvar Bray [EMAIL PROTECTED] Version: 2.3.10-11 Depends: groff, libc5, libgdbm1 Description: Display the on-line manual. This packages provides the man command, this utility is the primary way of examining the on-line help files (manual pages). Other utilities provided include the whatis and apropos commands for searching the manual page database; the manpath utility for determining the manual page search path and the maintenance utilities mandb, catman and zsoelim. This packages uses the groff suit of programs to format and display the manual pages. waterf:/usr/local# Hope that is enough
StarOffice install script (No Motif)
Download the staroffice package into some directory and put the following
script there. Run it as superuser and Staroffice will install without
Motif libraries:
starinst:
#!/bin/sh
# Prepare Star Office for Non Motif installation
mkdir temp
cd temp
# Extract Libraries needed for installation
unzip ../disk.01-1 libxp3so.0/libxp3.so
unzip ../disk.01-2 libso312.0/libso312.so libtools.1/libtools312.so
unzip ../disk.01-4 libsv312.1/libsv312.so
unzip ../disk.01-5 libsvt31.0/libsvt312.so
# Copy them over to /usr/local/lib
find . -type f -exec cp {} /usr/local/lib \;
cd ..
rm -rf temp
# Link Needed
ln -s libso312.so /usr/local/lib/libXm.so.2
ldconfig
# Make install executable if not yet
chmod a+x install
# Startup installation
exec ./install
Re: Fix for your serial/PPP problems
renald loignon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : Could someone knowledgeable in low-level kernel matters take a look at the : following? I looked at the Web page, and though it sounds interesting : overall (and it WOULD solve a serial problem I experienced with Debian 1.1.1 : and kernel 2.0.6), there appear to be some technical inaccuracies which give : me second thoughts. Any comments appreciated. What are the inaccuracies you are referring to? Seems to be ok as far as I can tell except I dont know enough about PIC programming to tell if he is right on that.
Re: ftape format warning!!!
: : There were only two sessions on my tape. Sadly, the second session : contained the /usr filesystem, so I lost everything :( Rejoice! you did not lose anything! Just reinstall and restore what you have. All stuff in usr are executables and other read-only stuff as per FSSTND. (except if you had sources in /usr/src or customizations in /usr/local)
StarOffice under Debian
Is anyone running StarOffice under Debian? If so how and where did you get the Motif Libraries?
Re: NFS module insertion failed
Again: Why is the broken installation disk not taken off ftp.debian.org? This is a very ugly trap to run into as a newbie. : This topic has been in the list lately. Until a new version of the : kernel image package is available, you have two options. : : 1) Recompile the kernel using the kernel-source package. Which you probably cannot do unless you have installed the debian firstd. : 2) Use my without-any-promises recompiled package which has a working : nfs.o module in it. This package is in : :ftp.mcc.ac.uk:/pub/linux/distributions : : and is called : :kernel-image-2.0.6-custom-1.0.i386.deb Good! Shall I set up a webpage with current debian fixes?
Re: nfs.o module in version 2.0.6
Why has this been on the ftp site for weeks now? NFS installation is all we do around here and the fixed version is one that does not work. Mr A Birdi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : : : Dear users, : : This is in reply to some of the queries regarding the nfs module in : version 2.0.6 of the kernel. At least two people have responded with : the advice to recompile the kernel which seems to be a succesful : approach. : : I have discovered however that the problem lies with the module nfs.o : itself. Lazaro Salem ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) was kind enough to send me : his recompiled version of nfs.o which works fine with the kernel : supplied with Debian 1.1.3. Thus, a solution to the problem is to : merely recompile the module and not necessarilly the entire kernel. If : there is enough interest, I can upload the nfs.o module which Lazaro : supplied to me to some public site until the Debian maintainers fix : the problem. Please write me if you would like this to happen. : : Alvin : : -- : - :| Alvin BirdiEmail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | :| School of Economic Studies Tel: 0161 275-4791 | :| University of Manchester Fax: 0161 275-4812 | :| Manchester M13 9PL UK | : - :
How to upgrade a running Slack 3.0 Server to Debian 1.1 (Instructions here)
Updated Instructions!!! Howto Upgrade a Running Slackware 3.0 System to Debian 1.1 -- I have the problem that our main server has to be up almost 24hrs a day but yet I need to switch to Debian since Slackware is becomming badly outdated. Here is how to do it. Note that Debian is not yet running since I am still stuck at step 9 trying to get as much as I can of my old configuration over to the new system before rebooting. 1. Prepare an empty partition and mount it on /new 2. untar buzz-fixed/disks-i386/*14/base1_1.tgz on it 3. Setup /new/etc/fstab /new/etc/localtime, /new/etc/hostname etc. 4. make a directory /new/ftp and mount your NFS Server with the Debian distribution 5. Activate Debian 1.1 in a chroot environment chroot /new bash 6. Mount the proc filesystem lest cron and at will not install: mount /proc 7. Install debian packages Run dselect and dpkg to install aditional packages from the /ftp directory. Its amazing how much you can do with two distributions on one machine this way. You should even be able to compile programs. Be careful what daemons are started in the chroot environment. Kill them off ASAP otherwise they might mess up something in your Slackware setup. 8. Fix some stuff The process of moving the configuration files from the old root to the new root is probably now to be done and the most painful in the process. 9. Reconfigure lilo to boot with the new partition You better have alternate boot possibilities now if something goes wrong. 10. Reboot Fix more things that broke with the change G! Or reboot with the old system.
IRCD / SmartList / xfishtank available at ftp.fuller.edu
We got some more packages debianized. Here is the current list of unique debian packages at ftp.fuller.edu: In this directory you will find new packages that are not yet in the standard debian distribution. mgetty-0.99-1 Adds PPP autodetect to mgetty. ppp-2.2.0fx-1 Adds Remote configuration ability for DNS information for dialin Win95 and WinNT users. apache-1.1.1-1 Upgraded Apache Package verse-0.12 Daily Scripture Verses xfishtank-2.2 Fishtank for X ircd-2.8.21-1 IRC Server smartlist-3.10-1 Mailing List Processor. No Perl much faster than Majordomo. If anyone could help us getting these packages onto ftp.debian.org... Also we have set up an IRC Server for the LUG in Los Angeles at lalug.org. We would be interested in building an IRC network with other LUGs.
Re: problems with inn: ME cant update_active nl.misc
Do a renumber that usually fixes your high water marks (which seem to be wrong in this case). MMAP on linux works just fine. Andre Koopal ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : Hello, : : I have installed debian at my home-site, and now I am trying to get a newsfeed : to my home. : : I have set up all files and everything seems to be working, but when news : is coming in I see the following errors in syslog: : : Aug 4 20:24:10 windmill innd: ME cant update_active nl.misc : Aug 4 20:24:10 windmill innd: ME cant symlink /var/spool/news/nl/misc/0 and nl/ : newsgroups/0 File exists : : and innd dies. : : I have read something in the inn-faq about linux not being able to handle MMAP : update of the active-file, so I recompiled inn with active=READ, but this : doesn't help either. : : Does anybody knows what can be happening here? : : Thanks in advance, : : Andre Koopal :
How can I submit packages to be included in the distribution?
We needed to produce some .deb packages when our site began utilizing debian. We would like to offer them to the public, but we cannot find a way to submit them anywhere. Could someone please tell us what to do? The documentation on how to submit packages or become an official maintainer are in total disarray right now. Here is a list of packages available from ftp.fuller.edu/Linux/debian today: mgetty-0.99-1.deb Adds PPP autodetect to mgetty. ppp-2.2.0fx-1.i386.deb Adds Remote configuration ability for DNS information for dialin Win95 and WinNT users. apache-1.1.1-1.deb Upgraded Apache Package with proxy Cache support etc. verse-0.12.deb Daily Inspiration through a verse from the King James Bible Planned .deb package from our site (Please tell us if this is anywhere already available!) We are running a full Campus Setup here and we will produce the following packages for our setup: - Harvester Caching Daemon - SmartList ListServer with Full Sendmail integration - procmail with Full Sendmail Integration - fwtk Firewall Toolkit - hylafax Fax Receive and Send with Sendmail Integration - sac System Accounting tools - strobe,tcpspray Probe other systems - ircd IRC Daemon - 3270 Telnet - Hytelnet
Re: How can I submit packages to be included in the distribution?
On Fri, 2 Aug 1996, Dermot Bradley wrote:
On 2 Aug 1996, Christoph Lameter wrote:
Planned .deb package from our site (Please tell us if this is anywhere
already available!) We are running a full Campus Setup here and we will
produce the following packages for our setup:
- Harvester Caching Daemon
Look at Squid instead - an old version can be found in rex/unstable. It's
a few version behind.
Never heard of Squid. Speedwise I have seen no other software that could
compete with Harvester.
- procmail with Full Sendmail Integration
Isn't this part of buzz/stable?
Yes but its not set up as the local mailer. Sendmail uses deliver under
Debian as far as I can see.
- hylafax Fax Receive and Send with Sendmail Integration
You could also use efax which is part of buzz. Someone is working on qfax
(multi-user extensions to efax).
I need an integration with Sendmail and the ability to control the time
period and where those faxes are sent.
I've also been working on a few packages myself:
- analog WWW stats program
- apache + php + webcounter Apache with several additional modules
There are webcounter cgi-bin thingies that we are using on our site.
The most important stuff for you will probably be the apache source code.
I'd really like to see someone maintaining it and keeping it current.
I'm hoping to do the following:
- merit radius
- nocol Network monitoring package
- ldap
- gated (for internal use - Gated have strict
redistribution policies!)
I know. Perhaps you can just publish the patches and have debian.rules do
an automatic ftp from the gated site?
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