Re: Security camera management software
Have a look at Zoneminder (http://www.zoneminder.com/), a very nice surveillance app for Linux. Linux Media Labs makes 4 8-port analog capture cards that work with this app. On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 11:01:40AM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brian Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A friend of mine recently asked me if any decent software exists for Linux for managing security cameras. He intends to setup up 6 or 7 cameras, and wants to be able to manage them from a MacOS X box. Seriously? Or is this a toy project? It's for a home business of sorts (a 24-hour car wash located on their property but not visible from the house). So yeah, it's serious, but not something he wants to dump a ton of money into. Having used security cameras as part of my job, I can safely say that every digital camera system blows balls. If you want usable footage, go analog for this project. Whoever has to look at the footage for some minute detail will thank you for it. What about using analog cameras through a capture card? Would that be good enough quality? Also, what kind of minute detail are you talking about? I'm sure he'd like to be able to recognize faces, but I'm not sure he'd need more detail than that. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: A way of setting up a computer for routing *just* port 113?
It sounds like you just need to install one of the fake identd packages, like nullidentd, and make your router forward port 113 requests to that. nullidentd will always answer foobar to any request. I run it on my router (a Debian machine) to fool silly IRC servers which require an ident service before you can connect. There isn't any way to share the port like you suggest. Perhaps if you explain why you need ident to work (it is almost never needed at all), someone can help more. Regards, Jeff On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 04:06:24AM +0100, Joseph Jones wrote: My router, which is not a computer, but rather an unbranded little plastic box, will only allow ports to be forwarded to one IP on the LAN's Class C subnet. This causes a problem when trying to use ident, which uses port 113, as it means that only one computer in the house may use ident without resetting the router. Would it be possible to setup, say, my desktop machine, or any other Debian machine, to be a router for *just* port 113? So I could forward port 113 on the WAN to that machine, and then that machine could automatically share port 113 with any machine on the home LAN? This would include the Windows boxes that form the unfortunate majority on the LAN. If so, what would be the requirements? Please understand I'm no expert with networking *or* Debian, but I know enough to setup small LANs and am generally capable of following instructions :) Many thanks in advance :D Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cheap dual-port NIC, anyone?
Does anyone know of a cheap ($100 or less) dual-port NIC card? Or quadport? The best deal I am aware of is $150 for an Intel Dual 10/100 Server adapter, and that card requires two IRQs for some reason... Thanks Jeff
Re: Cheap printer?
There is no such thing as a cheap inkjet printer IMHO. They all cost a fortune to operate. They work on the razor blade principle -- they give away the handle and expect to make money on the blades. I would personally suggest a used laser printer. I see HP laserjets at garage sales all the time (although I am sure the situation may be very different where you are.) Toner costs a LOT less than ink. Regards Jeff On 29 Jun 2000, Vicente Torres wrote: I have recently bought an EPSON Stylus color 480 for my home use. It was a surprise for me to note that this printer has no button to push and everything must be controlled from Windows (including changing or installing the ink cartridge!). So, I must return it and buy another printer. Wich one would you recommend to me? It must be cheap; I do not want to use color on my printings and it must work fine with linux.
Re: Oracle 8i and Debian?
I'm running Oracle 8 w/ Potato on a production server. It was a PITA to get running but it runs very well. You'll find the discussion forums at Oracle.com an invaluable resource. Regards Jeff
Re: VMWare, Samba, and Slink
Instead of asking the Debian mailing list for help with VMware's Samba, you should probably try using Debian's Samba -- which works just fine. :) Is VMWare 2.0 significantly faster than 1.x? I used it for a while and gave up. Good luck, Jeff On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 04:24:17PM -0600, Robert Kerr wrote: Hi all, I have VMWare 2.0 installed on a slink machine, and I'm trying to set up samba to let my Win98 installation talk to the rest of the box. Anyway, it's set up host-only networking, and telnet, ftp, netscape all work fine. But, samba doesn't work. I looked in the /var/log/ logs and found this line: VMWare[init]: /usr/bin/vmware-smbd: error in loading shared libraries VMWare[init]: : undefined symbol: setresuid and sure enough, there's no symbol setresuid in and of the libs in /usr/lib or /lib Under RedHat 6.0, setresuid is defined in libc.a, but it's not on Debian 2.1. Has anyone gotten vmware's samba running under slink? Or does anyone know how I can get around this problem? Thanks
Re: Wheel mouse not working...oy.
FWIW, I tried using icewm and was unable to get the mouse wheel working with Netscape. But when I switched to sawfish (from Helix Gnome), the mouse wheel works in most programs including Netscape and Mozilla. Regards, Jeff -- Help Microsoft end piracy! Give Linux to a friend today! On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 03:32:47PM +0800, Corey Popelier wrote: Just a thought, but all this mouse wheel talk is centered around Netscape. Have you tested anything else that utilises the mouse wheel? For instance either Mozilla, or even the XMMS playlist should react to the mouse wheel. Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Tim Jump wrote: First off, thanks to both of you for replying...and making me feel dumb. Even after reading all the documentation and all the config files and SEEING that the mouse wheel was represented as buttons 4 5, I never thought about changing the number of buttons in XF86Config to 5. Duh. Unfortunately, it didn't work. Here's the MODIFIED section of my XF86Config: Section Pointer ProtocolIMPS/2 Device /dev/psaux Resolution 200 Buttons 5 ZAxisMapping4 5 EndSection I *think* I've checked everything else. I copied pasted the Netscape entry from the aforementioned wheel mouse page into my .Xresources again just to be sure...no dice. I then tried copying THAT over to /etc/X11/Xresources/netscape to see if it would do anything...but it didn't. I even tried running imwheel again with it's default configuration to no avail. Suddenly I'm REALLY missing the days when I'd use console mode exclusively. I am again, in a word, stumped. Any further help would be greatly appreciated. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [] Bababooey Dragon [] -==UDIC==- The stupider it looks, the more important it probably is. -- J. R. Bob Dobbs -- Babylon Five Addict [] DEVOlved [] Dirty old man in training -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: PDF Writer for Linux ?
On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 06:43:12PM +0200, Oliver Schoenknecht wrote: I am currently searching a program similar to Adobe Acrobat under Linux that makes PDF-files out of files of all kinds... gs contains a program called ps2pdf that will convert any Postscript file to PDF. PDF is mostly postscript to begin with. Regards, Jeff
Re: Promise Ultra66 Controller...
I have one, and it works great. Download the IDE patches relative to 2.2.15 from www.linux-ide.org. Regards, Jeff On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 12:12:37PM -0500, Kelly Corbin wrote: Anyone get the Ultra66 controller to work in the kernel? I don't want to use it as a module, and I don't see it in the kernel anywhere. They say it has been native in the kernel since 2.2.10, but I can't find it in 2.2.13 or 2.2.15. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks all...
Re: Promise Ultra66 Controller...
Basically, you do the following: tar xfz linux-2.2.15.tar.gz (This you have probably done already, but make sure you start with a clean source tree) cd linux gunzip -dc /wherever/ide.2.2.15.2509.patch.gz | patch -p1 make menuconfig (make sure to enable Promise support. If you are booting the Promise controller and not your onboard chipset, there is also an option for that... Read the help.) make-kpkg kernel_image (or whatever you normally do to make kernels) I hope this helps. Regards, Jeff On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 03:26:53PM -0500, Kelly Corbin wrote: OK, I got the file ide.2.2.15.2509.patch.gz, but I have never installed a patch before, I have always installed the complete source. I have tried patching as suggested on kernel.org's readme, but to no avail. How did you do it? Thanks again. Kelly Corbin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jeff Noxon wrote: I have one, and it works great. Download the IDE patches relative to 2.2.15 from www.linux-ide.org.
Re: Promise Ultra66 Controller...
On my system, I see messages like this: hda: Maxtor 54098U8, ATA DISK drive hdc: Maxtor 91728D8, ATA DISK drive hde: Maxtor 91152D8, ATA DISK drive ide0 at 0xac00-0xac07,0xb002 on irq 5 ide1 at 0xb400-0xb407,0xb802 on irq 5 ide2 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 hda: Maxtor 54098U8, 39082MB w/2048kB Cache, CHS=79406/16/63, UDMA(66) hdc: Maxtor 91728D8, 16479MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=33483/16/63, UDMA(33) hde: Maxtor 91152D8, 10991MB w/256kB Cache, CHS=22332/16/63, (U)DMA So I presume you are saying that the drive models have been identified, but it has not displayed the capacity, cache size, or other details. My first guess would be a potential IRQ conflict. If you boot the system with no drives attached to the Promise controller, does /proc/interrupts show the Promise controller sharing an IRQ? If so, try the card in another slot. (It is OK for both channels on the Promise card to use the same IRQ. That is normal. Mine are both on IRQ 5.) Beyond that, I'm not sure what to suggest. You could try asking on Linux-kernel, or asking the author of the Promise driver. I'm wondering why your ide1 is on IRQ 15. That sounds like the second IDE port on the motherboard, not the second channel on the Promise card. I wonder what happened to the second channel on the Promise? Regards, Jeff On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 05:11:44PM -0500, Kelly Corbin wrote: That did it, thanks. I am now having problems with it hanging during the boot. It finds the card and drives, but it hangs after the lines: ide0 at 0xblah, 0xblah on irq 10 ide1 at 0xblah, 0xblah on irq 15 Any ideas why this might be hanging?
Re: UPS wars: APC vs Tripplite?
Have you looked at Best Power? The Fortress line is very competitive with APC, and comes with software and source code! Onvia.com carries them, and with free shipping and the various $25 coupon codes floating around... You can't beat the price! I bought one on back-order, and it arrived in two days. I've had several Fortress units in use at the office for the last year and a half, and they have been flawless so far. APC's recent low-end/midrange products have had failure rates over 60% (of a dozen units) for me in less than two years. APC's older products were much more reliable. As always, your mileage may vary. Good luck Jeff On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 04:20:52PM -0700, Ron Farrer wrote: Hello, I've been thinking about getting a new UPS. Previously I purchased APC products, but I want to hear about other experiences. I've pretty much narrowed it down to a product from APC or Tripplite. APC is more expensive, less Linux/UNIX friendly, but makes good products (IMHO). Tripplite is less expensive, more Linux/UNIX friendly, but I'm not sure how the quality of their product compares to APC. Does anyone know of some sort of comparison between these two companies products? I'm interested in features/quality more then price. TIA, Ron -- Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Home: http://www.farrer.net/~rbf/ Alpha Linux Organization: http://www.alphalinux.org Bellingham Linux Users Group: http://www.blug.org Regards, Jeff -- Diagnostics for your VW/Audi - http://www.planetfall.com/~jeff/obdii/
Trick serial port question!
I need to be able to open a dumb-terminal session to a serial port, while forcing RTS low. Strange, yes, but an absolute requirement. Can this be done with any existing utilities? kermit? Thanks Jeff
Re: Frozen, Potato or Woody?
Frozen and Potato are the same thing (for now). You probably don't want to mess with Woody, particularly without doing a Potato upgrade first. In other words, upgrade to Potato. Apt-get is your best bet for a successful upgrade. You will need more disk space -- enough to hold new versions of everything. And be prepared to wait, because a 486 is not a rocket. :) If you can borrow another hard drive and add it to your machine temporarily, that might help get things done. If not, I suggest you stick with Slink, or wait for Potato CD-ROMs to arrive. Enjoy, Jeff
Re: Asus K7V motherboard
If it didn't work, you'd be seeing posts about it. It's very unusual for an off-the-shelf motherboard to have problems with Linux these days. I'm about to buy a K7V myself. Linux works just fine on my K7M. Regards, Jeff On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 11:01:29AM +0200, Alfredo Amiel P. Leonardia wrote: Anybody out there using an Asus K7V motherboard? It's very new and I haven't found anything on the web concerning compatibility with linux or lack thereof. Any info?
Re: postgresql 6.5.3 vs. debian
Why, pray tell, are you trying to install RedHat postgresql RPMs on a Debian system? Debian has postgresql 6.5.3 already, in frozen. What you are doing with RPMs is just asking for trouble. The easiest thing to do is just upgrade your whole system to frozen. If you can't, then set up apt (/etc/apt/sources.list) to access your nearest mirror and run apt-get install postgresql ... this should upgrade just postgresql and the parts of your system it depends on. Regards, Jeff On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 03:10:35PM -0500, w trillich wrote: aaugh! i'm having my fourth day of troubles trying to upgrade my 6.3 pgsql (came on the debian cd) to 6.5.3, and i'm hoping someone might have the insight i need to get over this hurdle... these are the postgres files i'd love to install: postgresql-6.5.3-3.i386.rpm or postgresql-devel-6.5.3-3.i386.rpm postgresql-perl-6.5.3-3.i386.rpm postgresql-server-6.5.3-3.i386.rpm postgresql-test-6.5.3-3.i386.rpm onto Linux 2.0.36 #2 Sun Feb 21 15:55:27 EST 1999 i586 unknown here's the group of error messages i run into when merely CONVERTING (via 'alien') the *.rpm's to *.deb's: dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: unknown output from ldd on `debian/tmp/usr/bin/pg_dump': ` libreadline.so.3 = not found' dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: unknown output from ldd on `debian/tmp/usr/bin/pg_dump': ` libhistory.so.3 = not found' dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: unknown output from ldd on `debian/tmp/usr/bin/pg_id': ` libreadline.so.3 = not found' dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: unknown output from ldd on `debian/tmp/usr/bin/pg_id': ` libhistory.so.3 = not found' dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: unknown output from ldd on `debian/tmp/usr/bin/psql': `libreadline.so.3 = not found' dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: unknown output from ldd on `debian/tmp/usr/bin/psql': `libhistory.so.3 = not found' dpkg: /lib/libtermcap.so.2 not found. so i hopped on the web and searched for *.rpm's that would take care of filling in the missing holes: libtermcap-2.0.8-20.i386.rpm -- contains /lib/libtermcap.so.2.0.8 (to which i linked the sought-after libtermcap.2.0 via 'ln -s libtermcap.so.2.0.8 libtermcap.so.2.0' thinking that internal tweaks wouln't break the interface) readline-2.2.1-6.i386.rpm -- contains /usr/lib/libhistory.so.3.0 /usr/lib/libreadline.so.3.0 (which i linked to the sought-after filenames in similar fashion to the method i used for libtermcap) but doing so seems to not helped one iota, even after going into 'dselect' and choosing to update package info from the mounted directory where the *deb packages reside. nearly giving up, i tried using the RPM installer instead: # rpm -i libtermcap-2.0.8-20.i386.rpm failed dependencies: /etc/termcap is needed by libtermcap-2.0.8-20 /sbin/ldconfig is needed by libtermcap-2.0.8-20 /bin/sh is needed by libtermcap-2.0.8-20 ld-linux.so.2 is needed by libtermcap-2.0.8-20 libc.so.6 is needed by libtermcap-2.0.8-20 libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by libtermcap-2.0.8-20 libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1) is needed by libtermcap-2.0.8-20 # rpm -i libtermcap-2.0.8-20.i386.rpm failed dependencies: /etc/termcap is needed by libtermcap-2.0.8-20 /sbin/ldconfig is needed by libtermcap-2.0.8-20 /bin/sh is needed by libtermcap-2.0.8-20 ld-linux.so.2 is needed by libtermcap-2.0.8-20 libc.so.6 is needed by libtermcap-2.0.8-20 libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by libtermcap-2.0.8-20 libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1) is needed by libtermcap-2.0.8-20 i'd appreciate any direction... thanks (i've still got some hair left, and would like to keep it). [accidentally posted this to debian-devel this morning. whoops.]
Re: Transparent network bridge+filter?
You have an interesting idea, but it won't work in my case. I have to put this between a pair of Cisco routers running EIGRP. They won't see each other if the router discovery packets (etc.) aren't forwarded by a bridge. I also can't guarantee that the address of the router on one side won't change -- it is not under my control. Thanks!! Jeff On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 08:42:00AM +0100, Onno Ebbinge wrote: At 02:08 PM 1/18/00 -0600, Jeff Noxon wrote: Can anything that runs on Linux do reliable network bridging filtering? I need a transparent filter that I can drop into an existing network. Ipfilter will do the job with Open/NetBSD. It may work on Linux, but requires kernel 2.0.35 and isn't compatible with glibc. Another guy ask -something like that- before, I replied with an answer that worked ;-) Here is my reply and maybe you can use parts of it: (You don't want to use this route config ;-) This has been a while but here it goes: Please test if the next settings will do the trick. The debian box cannot be reached from the inet or lan, We can do something about the lan connection though... Note: Filtering firewall is WIDE open! Note: There is a route for all IP's because they are on the same subnet (netmask) but NOT on the same network device! Note: Youre gateway is 63.225.131.78 root# ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 root# ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0 promisc root# ifconfig eth1 0.0.0.0 promisc root# route add 63.225.131.73 eth0 root# route add 63.225.131.74 eth0 root# route add 63.225.131.75 eth0 root# route add 63.225.131.76 eth0 root# route add 63.225.131.77 eth0 root# route add 63.225.131.78 eth1 root# ipchains -P input ACCEPT root# ipchains -P forward ACCEPT root# ipchains -P ouput ACCEPT root# ipchains -F root# ipchains -X Please send me your results
Transparent network bridge+filter?
Can anything that runs on Linux do reliable network bridging filtering? I need a transparent filter that I can drop into an existing network. Ipfilter will do the job with Open/NetBSD. It may work on Linux, but requires kernel 2.0.35 and isn't compatible with glibc. Any suggestions would be great. Please copy me on replies. Thanks! Jeff
Re: Sound Blaster Live!
On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 07:57:16PM -, Pollywog wrote: I am using SB 16 (Vibra I believe it is called) and I use the OSS-Linux drivers, which cost me $20. They only allow half-duplex. Are there other drivers that allow this card to be used in full-duplex mode? I believe those cards only allow pseudo-full-duplex operation (ie there is some kind of catch to it). The ALSA drivers probably do what you want: http://www.alsa-project.org/ ALSA is still in development, so it changes often, but it works very well. Regards Jeff
Re: Flat-panel monitors?
On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 05:57:27PM -0400, B. Szyszka wrote: I was wondering what luck, if any, you guys have had with flat panel monitors in Debian. Has everything worked as it should? I'm using an SGI 1600SW (17.4 wide) with the #9 card it's bundled with. The X-Server for this card really stinks and is full of bugs, but it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make for this beautiful screen. :) I'd change cards, but there aren't any other cards on the market that support this monitor. Regards, Jeff
Re: Flat-panel monitors?
On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 09:59:42AM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: I'm using an SGI 1600SW (17.4 wide) with the #9 card it's bundled with. A co-worker of mine owns this same monitor (boy is it sweet!) and uses the Acclerated X server. It's much faster and less buggy. You may want to check this out. It is much faster and seems bug-free, but unfortunately it doesn't support DGA or XKEYBOARD, and those help out VMware quite a bit. And there are political issues within the company where I work -- getting software certified is a pain. I can use anything in Debian because Debian is certified, but another product is not. Of course, the ideal solution would use an entirely different video card, as the #9 card is not a great card. But there are very few 100% digital cards out there. I looked into that, and even talked to SGI about it. I forget which DFP standard the 1600SW uses, but it's different from the two standards offered by everyone else (Matrox, ATI, etc). They said they are working on a product that will adapt the monitor to work with other types of DFP interfaces. They realize they made a mistake when choosing the interface. Who knows, that product may even be shipping now... :) Regards, Jeff
Re: large hard disks (again)
The 2.2 kernels will properly detect 1024 cylinders. For other kernels, you can put fdisk in xpert mode and override its detection, or you can also specify the disk geometry on the kernel command line. Regards, Jeff On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 05:14:25AM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: I have posted this before, how to fdisk a 8.4gb drive. Problem was that with slink fdisk saw only 1024 cy, 255h, 63s for a total of 8.4gb. If I booted a RedHat 6.0 or Mandrake 6.0 CD (also stormix) their partition utilities (fdisk, disk druid, etc) would report the correct number of cyl's (2100) to give a 17.2gb total disk size. After partitioning with Stormix I stopped the install, and booted my slink cd and then installed slink (skipping the partition step, which was already done). This worked. Now if I run fdisk, it still reports the wrong(?) number of cyl's but does show the correct partition sizes (p command). It also complains about different logical and physical starting and/or ending cyl numbers for the last two partitions on the disk. However if I go to expert mode (x) and change the number of cylinders (c) to 2100, the p command now gives the exact same printout as fdisk under Mandrake or Redhat fdisk. So...why does fdisk get the correct size info from the kernel under Mandrake or Redhat? Can it be a difference between the 2.0.36 kernel and the 2.2 series? Or is it a later version of fdisk itself (BTW cfdisk and sfdisk behave the same way...) I now think the difference is in the 2.2 kernel. Any ideas? I now know I can partition under debian by giving fdisk the correct final cyl number. But I still had to use Mandrake fdisk to find this number!
Re: large hard disks (again)
On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 10:15:37AM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: Exactly what I suspected. Only how to figure out the geometry in the first place? Anyway I now have that information for the disk in question. As soon as potato is release it will be water under the bridge. Possible sources: - Label on the drive itself - Web site of drive manufacturer - BIOS (Award BIOS in particular has an auto-detect feature, which is not the same as setting the drive type as AUTO) - The partition table already on the drive, if the drive has already been partitioned by another OS. And others, I'm sure. Regards, Jeff
Re: Riva TNT
On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 10:27:33AM -0400, Samantha Summers wrote: I have a Velocity 4400 which uses the Riva TNT. I thought this was built in the SVGA X server, but if it is, XF86Setup doesn't see it. I think I have the most current XF86Setup and SVGA server offered in stable. They are both 3.3.2.3a-11. You need a newer one. You can download a binary of the SVGA server from nvidia's web site or from one of the Xfree86 mirrors. Regards Jeff
Re: Mylex DAC960
Installing Debian on a system with a DAC960 is not easy. I've done it several times, *by hand*, using the Debian rescue disk only to get a shell prompt. Let me repeat that it is very difficult, and I wouldn't be able to walk you through it. It works wonderfully once installed, however. I would suggest that the easy way to do this is to put in an IDE drive temporarily, install Debian onto it, get it so it sees the DAC960, and then move everything over to the DAC960 disk and remove the IDE drive. Good luck, Jeff On Wed, Aug 11, 1999 at 10:42:45AM +0200, Fabrizio Roccato wrote: I will install debian on a computer with only this Mylex DAC960 Raid Controller (no other disks...). The official resc. disk does not work, so i have recompiled a new kernel with patch from www.dandelion.com, created the devices and substitute the kernel in the rescue-disk... lilo and fdisk seems to be of the correct version, so i dont substitute them. Now at boot time the kernel recognize the RAID controller and the volume but the installation procedure doesnt. Any idea on how to install? Will this raid controller supported in the next debian release?
Re: 8MB PCI 1600x1200@76Hz video card suggestion?
On Thu, Jun 10, 1999 at 12:59:31PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: I found: STB Velocity 4400 Creative Labs Graphics Blaster Riva TNT ASUS V3400 TNT (AGP only) Diamond Viper V550 Hercules Dynamite TNT What version of XFree is required, and what xserver do we use? Just about any version of XFree will do. You may need to download a newer X server from xfree86.org, or upgrade to potato. If I recall correctly, the SVGA server contains the TNT support. You might want to double-check on the xfree86.org website. Regards Jeff
Re: 8MB PCI 1600x1200@76Hz video card suggestion?
I'm not sure who started this thread, but I recommend the nVidia RIVA TNT chip. You can buy a 16MB TNT card (PCI or AGP) for $99 at Best Buy. You can find them cheaper on the 'net. Creative Labs makes one, and so do several other companies. They work very well under both Windoze and X. And the driver is now open source. Regards Jeff
Re: 8MB PCI 1600x1200@76Hz video card suggestion?
On Wed, Jun 09, 1999 at 03:14:40PM -0400, Sean wrote: I've often wanted to go with a TNT card, but I'm concerned about the card's heat output. Every query I've ever made about just how hot does this card run has been left largely unanswered, which has just increased my trepidation about the card in general. If you're looking for actual temperatures, check out http://sysdoc.pair.com. In general, don't worry about it. If you don't overclock the card, heat is not a problem. Mine uses a passive heatsink and it's just fine. The Diamond and Hercules and Asus use fans. The Asus and Hercules cards run cold. Regards, Jeff
Re: Mission critical Debian
I'm using it for two mission critical point-of-sale support applications for a Fortune 10 company. In fact we have used Linux in one of these roles since mid-95 (starting w/ Slackware and migrating to Debian later.) Plans for others are in the works. Slackware was a mess, but Debian is very elegant and easy to manage/upgrade. If I say which company, I will likely be fired. I work here as a contractor. Suffice it to say that over 8,000 stores are involved, and the role of Linux (Debian) is increasing. We are replacing AIX systems with it. The management in this corner of the corporation has been convinced that Linux is every bit as good, and in many ways better, than AIX in our highly customized environment. Believe it or not, support is one major reason for the switch. Others are ease-of-use and cost, both up-front and ongoing. Regards, Jeff
Re: Corel : GNOME vs KDE
Oh, no. Let's not start another GNOME-vs-KDE thread. Please! On Thu, Apr 22, 1999 at 08:47:47PM +0200, Sami Dalouche wrote: I don't understand why Corel has chosen KDE instead of Gnome. [ Rest deleted ]
Re: Potato
At least 99% of Slink works with 2.2.x kernels. I have several machines running kernels 2.2.5/2.2.6 on Slink. I'm running Potato on one machine, and at the moment it is stable, but that will change from time to time during the course of the development cycle. Unless you want to deal with the occasional hassles presented by glibc2, I'd suggest sticking with Slink. Regards Jeff On Wed, Apr 21, 1999 at 11:01:25AM -0400, Madel, Kurt wrote: For those of you using Potato, I was wondering how unstable it is. I have a Zip Plus drive and know that it is naturally supported by the 2.2.X kernel, so would like to move to a 2.2.X distribution as soon as possible and would like to use Debian because I believe in freedom.
Re: new ATI graphics boards
You might be better off avoiding ATI graphics boards under Linux. ATI is not cooperative with the developer community and drivers tend to take a while to get written stabilize. I've suffered through problems with several generations of Mach64 cards. Maybe the new boards work great already, but I doubt it. Regards, Jeff
Re: Citrix ICA and Debian Linux 2.0
Try running 'ldd' on the executable to see what is missing. I.e., ldd winframe Or whatever the name of the executable is. Follow up here. Regards, Jeff On Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 04:59:41PM +0200, Peter Niessink wrote: I'm a novice linux user, coming the spoiled-brat world of M$ ;-) Has anyone gotten Citrix ICA (as avaliable from http://www.citrix.xom) for Linux running succesfully on Debian 2.0 ? So far i'm getting problems installing it because it is missing obscure libraries (i've already gott libc5 installed for backward compatability) but it is requiring components that i cannot relate to any package. Who can help me out If you want to try a server to test it on I'll be glad to give you a test account (on the Internet at hydra.aimcons.nl).
Re: cd-to-cd burning
On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 01:34:50PM -0500, Matt Garman wrote: What is the best way to do CD-to-CD copying under Linux? Specifically, I have a copy of the official debian 2.1 (slink) CD of which I want to burn an identical copy. Is it necessary to make an ISO9660 image from the current CD and then burn? Surely there is an easier way to get around this. I used something like: cdrecord -dev=5,0 -isosize -speed=4 /dev/scd0 You might also want to add -dummy and -v (verbose) when you do your first test, and of course, use the correct SCSI ID for your recorder. Note that this technique will only copy a single-session CD with one ISO9660 data track. Regards, Jeff
Re: cd-to-cd burning
On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 02:51:16PM -0400, Dan Brosemer wrote: Haven't tried this one, but: dd if=/dev/cdrom1 of=/dev/stdout bs=1048576|cdrecord dev= speed=?? -v -xa2 /dev/stdin (try it with the -dummy flag first as I've never done this!) It won't work because cdrecord has to know the size of the ISO image before it can write it. If you can't do CD-CD copying successfully in the way I described earlier, you can do something like: dd if=/dev/scd0 of=cdimage.iso bs=64k To copy the image to the hard drive first. Then burn it: cdrecord dev=5,0 speed=4 -v -dummy cdimage.iso Jeff
Re: K6 error
On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 02:40:17PM -0500, ktb wrote: AMD K6 stepping B detected - probably OK (after B9730) Check the serial number on your CPU. If it's this number, you're fine. If you have less than 32 MB, you're fine, unless you plan to add more. If you have a buggy chip, you can call AMD and get it replaced with a shiny new K6-2-300 for free! (Seriously, they will do it.) Some K6's had bugs that really only affected use under Linux with 32MB. I recently had one replaced, but I had to get a new motherboard to support the K6-2. Regards, Jeff
Document processing? (TeX/SGML?)
I'm looking for the best tool to create a professional-looking document once, and then render it in the following formats: HTML Postscript PDF ASCII I'm not concerned so much about a learning curve as I am about flexibility and results. Microsoft Word and other GUI-based products drive me nuts because they don't give me the control (or stability) I need. What tools can tackle this kind of chore and what are their relative merits? Should I be looking at TeX or SGML tools? Or should I just stick with plain HTML? Naturally, the tools I use should be free and available as part of Debian. Thanks in advance for your suggestions, Jeff
Re: purge will not remove autofs
Add an exit 0 to the top of the prerm script and try again. i.e., #!/bin/bash exit 0 Regards, Jeff On Fri, Apr 09, 1999 at 03:31:18PM -0400, Paul Kirschner wrote: In the process of installing and removing autofs and amd, I got autofs locked up so that I cannot remove, purge, install or unpack it. All I get is... dpkg --purge autofs (Reading database ... 28494 files and directories currently installed.) Removing autofs ... Stopping automounter. dpkg: error processing autofs (--purge): subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 Starting automounter:. Errors were encountered while processing: autofs The pre and post-rm script just stop autofs and run OK by hand. How can I completely remove or install or fix this? TIA.
Re: CDDB updates
On Fri, Feb 12, 1999 at 06:21:03PM +, M.C. Vernon wrote: Is there any way to upload a record to a CDDB server (either the cddb one, or in a local record)? I have a cd in front of me that gcd refuses to play because cddb doesn't produce a match for that CD id xmcd? That's the program that started the CDDB. Regards, Jeff
Re: SAMBA and Peer Networks?
On Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 08:21:24PM +, tracheotomy bob wrote: I have installed SAMBA on my machine at work but what I really want to do is to be able to read other peoples shared Windows9x folder et al. It this possible with SAMBA or is SAMBA just a server-side application? SAMBA will do what you want. It includes a program called smbclient. Regards, Jeff
Re: Search and Replace
On Fri, Jan 08, 1999 at 08:49:10AM -0700, John Greer wrote: I know that this is not Debian specific but I thought I would give it a shot anyway. I need to search a series of files for a text string (grep I know) and then I need to replace that string with another. Is there a command or string of commands that I can do this in? If this is possible it will make my life much easier!! Thanks You can do what you want with sed or with a simple perl script. Example: sed s/oldstring/newstring/g oldfile newfile If you have a lot of files to do, for x in file1 file2 file3 do mv $x $x.old ; sed s/old/new/g $x.old $x ; done You can use wildcards instead of file1...file3 Regards, Jeff
Re: SIIG SCSI AP-10 PCI Adapter Debian Help?
There is an Initio driver available on the Initio website. The driver is also in the latest kernel snapshots from Alan Cox. If this information does not help you, let me know and I'll get more specific. SIIG does not make its own cards. They just buy cheap ones and sell them with their name pasted on. ;) Regards, Jeff On Mon, Dec 21, 1998 at 11:21:39PM +, Art Lemasters wrote: I installed a Micropolis SCSI drive with a SIIG AP-10 adapter (Fast SCSI-2), and the kernel did not find it. Does anyone have a kernel, module or boot disk to support it? A year and a half, and I'm still a newbie here. :-) /proc/scsi/scsi showed Attached devices: none Here's the extract from /proc/pci. --- PCI devices found: [...] Bus 0, device 17, function 0: SCSI storage controller: Initio Corp Unknown device (rev 1). Vendor id=1101. Device id=9400. Medium devsel. IRQ 15. Master Capable. Latency=32. I/O at 0x6100. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe041. -
IDE RAID 1 Hardware - Experiences?
I want to use a PCI RAID-1 IDE controller on a mission-critical Linux box. Are there any problems I'm likely to face? How will I know if a disk has gone bad? I want to avoid the software RAID driver because I need the system to be bootable even after a disk failure, without operator intervention. Any comments would be appreciated! Thanks, Jeff
Re: 64megs to 192megs of ram
On Sun, Dec 20, 1998 at 02:33:18PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 20 Dec, Nuno Carvalho wrote: If you're using lilo you need to add to your lilo.conf the following line: append=mem=128M I not sure if 2.1.x kernels need that ! Yes, all kernels need it. The 64meg barrier is a lilo thing, not kernel afaik. 2.1.x kernels do not need it. 2.0.36 does not need it. It has nothing to do with LILO. LILO does not determine memory size for the Linux kernel. The BIOS call to determine memory size could originally return a maximum of 64MB. Recent (i.e. = Pentium) machines support an alternate BIOS call that can report 64MB. Newer kernels use this new BIOS call if available. Some really old machines with 64MB may still require something like mem=128M, but I doubt many old machines support that much RAM anyway. Regards, Jeff
Re: 8G ide harddrive limit?
On Fri, Dec 18, 1998 at 09:47:39AM -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote: I just brought 17.2G ide harddrive, and when I try to use cfdisk to partition it, it only sees 8G. FWIW, I updated cfdisk to ones in frozen. Bios and Linux bootup sees it as 17.2G, so I don't know why cfdisk will not.:( Running 2.0.36(my own roll) and mostly Debian 2.0 with few updates. I installed a 17.2GB Maxtor in my system. 2.1.130, and I had some strange problems. The BIOS and Linux both report correct geometry if it's on hdc, but on hda, Linux thinks it's a 528MB drive. The BIOS setup shows correct geometry no matter where I put it. I used fdisk, not cfdisk. I ended up overriding the Linux values in lilo.conf to get lilo working: ... snip ... append=hda=33483,16,63 ... snip ... Use whatever values your BIOS reports. Note that if you do this, your kernel files must be below cylinder 1,024. The easiest way to do this is to make a small partition for /boot, and put it at the beginning of the drive. I had to pass the same values on the command line using the Debian rescue disk in order to get it partitioned correctly and get lilo installed once I messed everything up. :-) Maybe someone else has a better solution... Regards, Jeff
Re: Compiling Netscape with LessTif?
On Fri, Dec 18, 1998 at 11:28:38PM +0100, Daniel Elenius wrote: I vaguely recall some-one talking about compiling Netscape with lesstif, saving a lot of memory. Is this possible, and how would it be done. I searched in the debian-user archives, but all I found were some generic advice on compiling with lesstif. Are you thinking of Mozilla? Source code is not available for Netscape. Mozilla sort-of works with Lesstif, but you're better off with a real Netscape. Mozilla is switching to GNOME these days... No more Motif. Regards, Jeff
Re: Corel® WordPerfect® 8 for Linux® is here! (fwd)
On Thu, Dec 17, 1998 at 12:33:00PM -0500, Person, Roderick wrote: Here's the link. According to the stats I was 3rd to download, so I figured it was hard to find. The stats said that for me too, so something must be broken. (And I was so impressed by my own timing...) ;) Regards, Jeff
Re: how to put apache under hosts.{allow,deny}'s control?
On Wed, Dec 16, 1998 at 02:04:04PM -0500, Shaleh wrote:
Subject says it all. How can I put non-inetd services under
hosts.{allow,deny}'s control?
If you really want that, the best thing to do is run Apache from inetd.
According to the manpage it can be run that way.
Regards,
Jeff
Re: Creating 1.743MB Debian Rescue Disk
I can't even get superformat/dd to create resc1743. I think we really need a 1.44MB rescue disk for systems that can't handle the oddball disk sizes. In my case, superformat formats/verifies just fine, but dd fails with a bunch of floppy driver errors. I ended up installing slink on a machine the brute-force way using the tomsrtbt single-disk Linux distribution. What a pain. :) Regards, Jeff
Re: Segmentation faults
On Thu, Dec 10, 1998 at 06:22:54PM -0500, Tom wrote: Could anyone please answer these questions about segmentation faults? What is a Segmentation Fault? How do I trace its cause? How are they normally fixed. Why don't I get a core dump when they happen? Thank you It's a memory access violation. It could happen (for example) by writing to read-only memory or by writing outside of the process memory space. It could be caused by a null-pointer dereference. If your executable that's crashing has debug symbols in it, you can run it from the gdb debugger. Reproduce the problem and gdb will show you the line of offending code. You may also learn something by using strace or ltrace on the program. You don't get a core dump because you have core dumps disabled. The command ulimit -c controls the creation and maximum size of core files. A core file will probably not be useful to you unless the binary that's crashing has debug info in it. Regards, Jeff
Re: quicky postgreSQL question
On Wed, Nov 25, 1998 at 02:47:53PM -0500, Shaleh wrote: How can I read in a comma delimited file and have the contents added to a SQL table? I seem to recall there being a program that did this for postgres. I've always done that kind of thing using Perl. You can use the postgres libraries, or you can just convert the file into SQL insert statements and run it from psql. Heck, you could even use sed. I don't know of an easier way. Regards, Jeff
Re: SQL Database performance
On Thu, Nov 19, 1998 at 04:58:00PM +, Martin Oldfield wrote: Does anyone have a feel for the relative performance of the various SQL databases in Debian ? I'd also be interested to know how these compare to something like Oracle (under either NT or Linux). I'm looking to manage two databases: one of roughly ten thousand records a few k in size, the other 100,000 rather smaller records. It might well be feasible to use something like gdbm for the latter one. Postgresql runs like greased lightning. In some tests involving 0.5 million records of a few K in size, it blew away MS SQL Server. I think it was version 6. Postgresql runs well, although it does have some limitations. ODBC was the main weakness I noticed. We're currently deploying Oracle on a Debian server... Oracle is bloatware even by Microsoft standards. I can't comment on speed yet. Good luck, Jeff
Re: source code for /bin/login?
On Thu, Nov 12, 1998 at 02:09:33PM -0500, John B. Fink wrote: Hi folks, Due to an extreme amount of idiocy at the place where I work, I have need to modify the /bin/login program so that instead of displaying this -- adler login: it will display this -- login: [snipped] If you make the changes, how about adding the option to login.defs, and forwarding the changes upstream? That would be most cool... You can find out where to find source code for a given package like this: $ dpkg --status login Package: login Essential: yes Status: install ok installed Priority: required Section: base Installed-Size: 153 Maintainer: Guy Maor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Source: shadow this is what you want Version: 980403-0.3 Replaces: shadow-login, shadow-passwd Pre-Depends: libc6 Conflicts: shadow-login Conffiles: /etc/login.defs 8f524e3b2937d29b4cc54fcfae9f4155 /etc/login.access d30c542d565436bd5333a80466d5ccf8 /etc/securetty 2561f31ce2a1b00b28cacf3e9ad54734 /etc/porttime 5b19db99247a9275bd94a6c8e2140b52 /etc/limits 9d253c5f92441741739064c5bf92ef6f /etc/init.d/logoutd 48a23db21d84dc9ea7f4f3f9adf97da2 Description: Sign on to the system. login and newgrp change the user and group. Regards, Jeff
Re: HELP slink upgrade: netscape: locale `C' not supported
Re-install xlib6g and it should work. Now if only I could get Acrobat working again... Regards, Jeff
Re: How much RAM do I need?
On Wed, Nov 11, 1998 at 01:58:16PM -0800, Eric House wrote: I need to decide whether to upgrade my Debian laptop to 48 or 80 meg (from the current 16). Is there any way to log how much swap is currently getting used during the activities I run all the time? Try vmstat free Any other advice on how much is enough? This machine is for personal use (e.g. Pilot software development) and will never be a server. If you run X, I'd say 80, if you just run in text mode 48 should be fine. You may get better battery life with 80 since you'll probably hit the disk less. Keep in mind that any free memory you have is used to buffer executables and cache the filesystem... The more the better. On the other hand, if your chipset can't cache more than 64MB, going to 80MB might actually make some things slower. I'm not sure if telling the kernel mem=64M on an 80MB machine would be enough to fix that problem or not. Regards, Jeff
[SMP] P2 Database Srvr: 1x450 or 2x350 CPUs?
I'm setting up a Debian box for my client as an Oracle server. I'm torn between Dual 350's or a single 450 MHz chip. The price is the same. The machine will have 256MB of RAM and a 16MB RAID-5 controller (either Mylex or AMI), and four Cheetah 9GB drives. Linux kernel will probably be 2.0.36pre, at least until 2.2.x is solid enough for production use. Our other Linux server had a 450-day uptime and I'd like this one to be just as stable, if not better. :-) Single 450: No need for SMP kernel. Dual 350: Extra overhead of SMP kernel. More raw power. I'm guessing they'd be about equal in performance. With a single 450 I can always add another CPU later if necessary. Oracle couldn't offer any advice. Is anyone using AMI's MegaRaid card on Linux? It looks better than the Mylex, but I trust Leonard's ability to write rock-solid drivers. Any tips or comments would be great! Regards, Jeff
Re: [SMP] P2 Database Srvr: 1x450 or 2x350 CPUs?
On Tue, Nov 10, 1998 at 11:47:18AM -0800, George Bonser wrote: On Tue, 10 Nov 1998, Jeff Noxon wrote: I'm setting up a Debian box for my client as an Oracle server. I'm torn between Dual 350's or a single 450 MHz chip. The price is the same. The machine will have 256MB of RAM and a 16MB RAID-5 controller (either Mylex or AMI), and four Cheetah 9GB drives. If you are going to run a 2.0.x kernel, do *NOT* use an SMP solution. I would suggest you go to 2.1.x now ... find a kernel that is stable on your box (2.1.125 and .127 are good candidates) and use the SMP box. Everything will then migrate happilly over to 2.2 once it is released. If you MUST have the server now and MUST run 2.0.x kernels, use the single processor solution though you will be able to upgrade later. Compromise: Get the SMP system and run a non-SMP kernel until you switch to 2.2.x What is the basis for this advice? Is 2.0.x SMP just a crappy performer because it doesn't have granular locking? I'm using 2.1.x on my Alpha box and it seems stable. I'm a little hesitant to run it on a production machine, but I can give it a shot. With the kernel issue out of the way, I'm still not sure whether SMP is the better solution. Thanks, Jeff
Re: Multiple IP addresses on one Machine
On Tue, Nov 10, 1998 at 02:58:21PM -0500, Collin Rose wrote: I am trying to setup Multiple IP addresses on one Machine. CAn anyone tell me how to do this? I.e. Apache will bind to one IP and the server itself uses another. You can use IP aliasing to do that. You need to have it enabled in the kernel, and then you can use ifconfig to create a new alias. If your network is eth0, you can create aliases like eth0:0, eth0:1, etc. Then you need to change the Apache configuration to bind to the address you want. Regards, Jeff
Re: SOLVED: 2 XServers on 1 terminal?
On Tue, Oct 20, 1998 at 06:16:40PM -0500, Alexander Kushnirenko wrote: Hi, Disregard my previous message. I already learned how to do it. Could I run 2 X servers on one comupter? So that Alt-F7 correspond to first session, and Alt-F8 for the second session? There are 2 people working on one computer, and we don't want to mess each other X sessions. Sasha. How? Thanks for the enlightenment, Jeff
Re: DRIVERS FOR DFE-530TX (D-LINK)
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 01:48:27PM +0100, jrivas wrote: Anybody knows where i can get DFE-530TX (D-Link) drivers? Isn't that one using a DEC chipset? If so, try the tulip driver. Regards, Jeff -- It's time to close windows and open source. Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds.
Re: Oracle
On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 10:12:33PM -0400, Bedrock LAN Administrator wrote: alien -i oracle.rpm (or whatever the filename turns out to be) Oracle is a ~145mb .tar.gz file. It has its own installer. Regards, Jeff -- It's time to close windows and open source. Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds.
Re: Oracle
On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 11:25:56AM -0400, Alex Yukhimets wrote: Debian is not a company to sign up with. You can use Oracle on Debian with no problems whatsoever. It is even distributed in plain tarballs and not rpms. You can download it right now, if you want. I have a problem with that. I'm using Debian in a corporate setting. We started with Slackware in 1995 for a low-budget project. We were forced to stop using it in 1997 and migrated that machine to AIX, which is our standard platform. Now, thanks to the good Linux press, we're using Debian on a few machines with plans to deploy more. One of those will need to run Oracle. If companies are only going to support RedHat or one of the other commercial distros, Management is going to tell us that we need to run RedHat, not Debian. We may both realize that there isn't any problem technically with running Oracle (or any other app) on Debian. But that's not the issue. I wish decisions were made on technical merit alone, but this is the real world. For that reason, it would be nice if Debian had a marketing interface to corporations like Sybase, Oracle, etc. And we need to know key things like how big our user base is. The problem is that this is a full-time job... :-( Regards, Jeff -- It's time to close windows and open source. Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds.
Re: Do I have a win-sound card?
Try using isapnptools to configure the sound chip. It's probably an ISA PnP device. Jeff
Re: Off Topic: Samba
On Fri, Oct 02, 1998 at 04:28:09PM -0400, dpk wrote: I have searched the Debian and Samba website for answers, as well as /usr/doc, and newsgroups for a resolution. I would like to use encrypted passwords, but not have to maintain a samba password file as well as /etc/passwd. Is it possible to do this with Debian/samba? If so, could someone point me in the right direction of sites and solutions I should research? I do not believe this is currently possible. Unix passwords are one type of one-way hash, and Samba passwords are another. It might be possible someday when Debian supports PAM. I guess a workaround would be a front-end passwd program that changes both passwords. I don't know if one exists. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong. Regards, Jeff
Linux tools for Atmel AVR?
Does anyone know of Linux tools for the AVR? Anyone interested in helping me write some? I'd like to see a macro assembler, simulator, and programming software. None of that stuff should be terribly complicated. Thanks Jeff
Re: Apache mod_ssl
On Wed, Sep 16, 1998 at 05:32:49PM +0100, Oliver Thuns wrote: No but there is apache-ssl, wich is also a debian package (in hamm), find it at www.debian.org - packages - search I think it's in the non-US section Does anyone know why it's such an old version of Apache? There should be 1.3.1/SSL in unstable (slink). It's 1.2.5. Jeff
Re: GTKICQ
On Wed, Sep 16, 1998 at 06:30:27AM +, Phillip Neumann wrote: Is was a dep problem. I found a directory inside another directory called .deps. I remove it and the compilation went ok. Why is this problem? The conculson of this is that the maker of this program used redhat .? My conclusion is that their dependency mechanism is broken. Normally (IMHO) dependencies should be based on program-specific header files, and exclude the system-wide ones. They aren't necessarily in the same place on every system, as you found out... Jeff
Re: Apache mod_ssl
On Wed, Sep 16, 1998 at 04:11:28PM +0200, Ulisses Alonso Camaro wrote: On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Oliver Thuns wrote: Is there a Apache mod_ssl package under development? No but there is apache-ssl, wich is also a debian package (in hamm), find it at www.debian.org - packages - search I think it's in the non-US section Does anyone know why it's such an old version of Apache? Thanks Jeff
Unable to create a boot disk for hamm install
I'm forwarding this for a friend. You can reply directly to me or to the list. I already told him how to boot from the rescue disk and the CD-ROM, but I've never seen this problem before and we would appreciate some insight. Thanks! Jeff --- I got stuck on my installation last night. I can't get my floppy to create a boot floopy. As such, I'm afraid to reboot my system to continue the installation since I have not way of rebooting it. *smile* When it tries to create my boot floppy, it gives me: Problem -- Creation of boot floppy failed. Please make sure that the floppy was not write-protected, and that you put it in the first drive. Try another floppy if the problem persists. I've tried several disks and they all give me the same error. I've tried mke2fs /dev/fd0 1440 and while it is writing the inode table I get: Warning: could not write 8 blocks in inode table starting at 5: Attempt to write block from filesystem resulted in short write. This error persists starting at 13, 21, 29, 37, and 45 and ends with ext2fs_mkdir: Attempt to write block from filesystem resutled in short write while creating root dir. Thus when I try a mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /floppy I get mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0, or too many mounted file systems These errors are consistant across many disks. I can however mount the disk I booted the system off of orginally (fat32). All other disks don't seem to work. Any suggestions?
Re: Softmodems and Debian
On Tue, Sep 15, 1998 at 12:11:40PM -0400, Person, Rod wrote: I FINALLY got Debian up and running to my liking with the help of a few if not more of you guys thanks. But here is something that hit me on the way to work today. I have a Digicom Softmodem. I have to load an algorithm before I can use it. In DOS it was quite simple. path=c:\smodem;c\ dl data144b.xtd That's all my autoexec.bat needed. I just realized that is why Seyon is hanging for me. Does anyone out there use a softmodem? Are the loader and algorithm ported to Linux (I know the answer is no!!). I think I'm going to have to load the DOS algorithm from Debian. How do I do this? After all I'm still a newbie. Two possibilities come to mind: 1) Boot DOS first, and load linux from loadlin instead of LILO. You can use FreeDOS if you don't want to use DOS. 2) Use dosemu to load the code after Debian has booted. I used #2 once to get a Digicom modem working. I ended up returning it to the store anyway. Jeff
Re: Where's my mouse?
On Fri, Sep 04, 1998 at 08:37:04AM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: I change out my serial mouse for a ps2 mouse, and now my mouse can't be found. What do I do now? - In 'X': re-run XF86Setup and select /dev/psaux for your mouse port. also set up a sym link between /dev/mouse-/dev/psaux Look at /proc/misc. Do you have a line like this? 1 ps2aux If not you need a kernel with PS/2 mouse support. Jeff
Re: Problem with superformat
On Thu, Sep 03, 1998 at 10:33:49PM +0800, zjdwdz wrote: When I used superformat I got an error message: ... mformat error. mformat: command not found Why did this happen? How to solve it? I've installed the fdutils package. TIA! You need the mtools package. fdutils recommends it. You can ignore the error if you don't need a DOS (FAT) filesystem on the floppy. It seems to me that this error could be cleaned up a bit. :) Jeff
Re: Linux BOOTP server: questions
On Wed, Sep 02, 1998 at 01:38:18PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: I wonder what when it discovers that the configuration file has changed means. Does it keep an eye on the file? Yes. Jeff
Re: autonice or default priority of program
On Sat, Aug 29, 1998 at 03:37:09PM -0500, Torry Akins wrote: Is there a way to autonice a program when it is run? We use matlab running on debian linux. When a couple of these memory hogs run, the X display gets really choppy? It would be nice if matlab was set to a lower priority when it is loaded. rename it: $ mv matlab matlab-real And wrap a script round it: #!/bin/sh nice -whatever /usr/bin/matlab Jeff
hamm: hwclock y2k problem
FYI, to those whom may be concerned: There appears to be a bug with the hwclock program and y2k wraparound, on at least one system. I have several systems using the AMI model 721 motherboard. You'd think that AMI, being a BIOS manufacturer, would get this right... In any case, this board wraps to 1980 in y2k. Any attempt to display the date with hwclock fails in mktime() after the rollover. The system time does correctly wrap to 2000. /proc/rtc shows 2000. Rebooting the system puts it in 1980, however. It seems to me that /proc/rtc and hwclock would show the 1980 date if they were functioning correctly. The only workaround for this bug I can see is to put a crontab entry in the system to have it rewrite the CMOS time after the wraparound occurs. Other Y2K testing has shown that other Y2K dates do not present a problem for this system. Even y2k leap years work. Odd. Thanks, Jeff -- Please Cc: me on replies sent to mailing lists.
PHP 3.0.3 available on my webpage
I couldn't wait any more for a PHP release that works with Apache 1.3.1, so I did it myself. You can download it from my homepage: http://www.planetfall.com/~jeff/debian/ This is PHP 3.0.3 for Apache 1.3.1 (Slink). I was going to build it for hamm, but I noticed that Apache 1.3.1 is no longer in stable-updates. I have built binaries for Alpha *only* ... It's tested and working, and should be trivial to compile on x86. All the necessary changes have been done. If anyone builds x86 binaries, please send them to me. Note that I'm not a developer, and there are certain to be problems with this release -- particularly with dependencies. I've done the best I could do in a limited amount of time, and it works for me. Enjoy, Jeff
Upgrade bo-hamm w/SOCKS proxy, how?
I have a friend running bo, which he installed from CD. How can he upgrade to Hamm through his NT proxy server, running SOCKS? I can think of several difficult ways, but is there a beginners-approved way? Thanks! Jeff -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: PHP3 and PGSQL
You need to edit /etc/php3.ini. RTFM in the /usr/doc/php3-pgsql directory. (Look at README.Debian.) It works great. On Wed, Jul 08, 1998 at 10:43:18PM +0200, Adam Heczko wrote: Hi everybody ! I've got problem running my *.php3 files, in which I use PostgreSQL as a database server. Generally pg_connect(localhost, , , , dbname); function generates following error message : Fatal error: Call to unsupported or undefined function pg_connect() in /var/www/my_file.php3 on line 15 My system configuration is : // from dpkg -l : ii apache 1.3.0-2Versatile, high-performance HTTP server ii php33.0-2 A server-side, HTML-embedded scripting langu ii php3-doc3.0-2 Documentation for PHP3 ii php3-pgsql 3.0-2 PostgreSQL module for PHP3 ii postgresql 6.3.2-8Object-relational SQL database, descended fr // from /etc/apache/httpd.conf : LoadModule php3_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/libphp3.so //from postmaster.init : PGALLOWTCPIP=yes PGPORT=5432 All files resides in their default (Debian) locations. Could anybody help me ? Thanks, Adam Heczko. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: high end SCSI card recommendation
On Thu, Jul 09, 1998 at 08:10:08PM +0200, Jens Ritter wrote: Allen Ahoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anyway, if this is a controller issue, whats the best controller for busy web servers running Debian LInux 1.3, kernel 2.0.33 and apache? I can just get one and be done with it, recompile and that particular one, and ... I heard a rumor that buslogic cards are the better supported cards in linux as buslogic itself writes the drivers. Can this be confirmed? BusLogic drivers are not written by BusLogic, although BusLogic has provided equipment, test facilities, engineering assitance, and so on. The BusLogic driver is rock solid. For a strictly budget-minded user, Advansys is not a bad choice. They write their own drivers. If you can spring a few more bucks and get BusLogic, though, I highly recommend their products. Jeff -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Mirrored Drives?
On Fri, Jul 03, 1998 at 06:13:35PM -0400, Chris Brown wrote: I'm looking to increase the reliability (fault tolerance) of a system that's using IDE drives. Is there a way to add a second identical drive and have the the OS mirror the data on the partitions? such that if one drive actually crashed, the OS would keep running or at least be restarted with little data loss? Take a look at the mdutils package. You can do mirroring (RAID 1), but you'll have to re-partition your disks. I doubt it can continue to run during a hardware failure, though, and it's a pain in the butt to boot from a Linux md (RAID) device. Newer kernels offer RAID 5, which may be a better solution. I think you need three or more disks. Patches are probably available for 2.0.x kernels. For this, look at the raidtools package. Jeff -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: postgres intallation failed
On Sat, Jun 27, 1998 at 11:14:19AM +0200, Networking Wizard wrote: After Shared PostgreSQL library intsallation (libpgsql 6.3.2-8) i've been trying to inttall postgresql (6.3.2-8) severl times, but i did not succeed; dpkg terminates because of unspecified errors. Here is the log: Unpacking replacement postgresql ... Setting up postgresql (6.3.2-8) ... Now installing the PostgreSQL database files in /var/postgres/data su - postgres -c PATH=/usr/uxs:/root/uxs:/root/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/lib/postgresql/bin:/usr/lib/postgresql/bin; initdb -l /usr/lib/postgresql/lib -r /var/postgres/data -u postgres dpkg: error processing postgresql (--install): [snip] I think the bug is in base-passwd. You need to edit /etc/passwd so that the shell is /bin/sh or similar. I filed a bug report on base-passwd about this. Jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: postgres intallation failed
On Mon, Jun 29, 1998 at 06:29:17AM +0200, Oliver Elphick wrote: The bug is not in base-passwd but in postgresql. I used adduser to create the account if it did't exist, but I had not noticed that `adduser --system' assigns /bin/false as the shell. I have changed postgresql-6.3.2-11 to use useradd instead. This is bug#24036. If you don't use --system, will the uid still be 1000? And shouldn't this uid be consistent across multiple Debian installations? Has someone already closed the base-passwd bug, or should I? Jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Postgres, php question
On Thu, Jun 25, 1998 at 12:27:56PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Wed, Jun 24, 1998 at 07:51:19AM -0400, Paul McDermott wrote: hello my debian user friends, I've installed Postgres.deb, php3.deb, apache.deb and www-pgsql from the slink area. I've done the postgres tutorial and it was great. Now i want to start on makeing a web interface for a database i put together. I read through the documentation, but i am confused. Is there a tutorial for the php3 program? If so where can i That's why I got in to www-sql in the first place -- it is easier to use/learn than php but is less flexible as a result. I have done some reasonably advanced stuff with www-sql and have created some big messes to do it. FWIW, I read the beginning of this thread this morning, then installed php3 and php3-pgsql, and now have some wickedly nice code. I don't know how I ever lived without php3 before! It is so sweet! I've already replaced most of my shtml and CGI with it. The learning curve is very short if you know C. If anyone needs any specific help, please let me know. To make php3-pgsql work, you have to enable it in /etc/php3.ini. Then you just do simple stuff like: ? $db=pg_connect(dbname); $res=pg_exec(select foo from bar); $rows = pg_NumRows ($res); echo(select returned $res rows.); ... etc ... ? and so on. I still haven't done a form with it yet, but that's next on my agenda. One of the niftier things you can do is write functions and include them from any web page... I'm impressed. It's fast, too. Jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: staroffice
On Fri, Jun 19, 1998 at 01:13:49PM -0400, Brian Morgan wrote: Where is that Staroffice4 that you're talking about? I can only find 3.1-8 in hamm/contrib/binary-i386/editors. StarOffice 4 is commercial -- i.e. not free. IMHO it's well worth the $100 since it's virtually a clone of MS Office. It's a bit sluggish though. Jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: staroffice
On Fri, Jun 19, 1998 at 11:59:53AM -0700, Brian Weiss wrote: StarOffice 4 is commercial -- i.e. not free. IMHO it's well worth the $100 since it's virtually a clone of MS Office. It's a bit sluggish though. Jeff That's not correct. I downloaded the full software package from their site for absolutely nothing. It's not an evaluation copy and doesn't require you to register or spend money in any way. Try downloading it from their site and if you still have trouble getting it drop me an E-mail and I'll see what I can do. If it's an evaluation copy, that means it's not free. It's for sale all over the place, and I remember reading a statement from the company that the Linux version is no longer free -- although it may be possible to download (and apparently is). StarOffice 3 was just an experiment to test the viability of a Linux port. It was distributed under different terms. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong. I don't remember if this info came from C.O.L.A. or Linux Journal. Jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: staroffice
On Fri, Jun 19, 1998 at 03:56:00PM -0400, Patrick Ouellette wrote: Ok, I messed that up. Version 5 is scheduled for the second quarter. (It has only been 6 or 7 years since I had to *use* my poor excuse for German) Second quarter of 97 or 98? (Or if they were truly emulating Microsoft it would be 2Q96.) Jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dvorak keyboard in X?
On Fri, Jun 19, 1998 at 02:00:33PM -0700, Keith Beattie wrote: Ian Keith Setford wrote: I was wondering if the current xbase has support for a dvorak type keyboard. If so, is it an option within xf86config? [snip] Perhaps there is another way to compensate for a Dvoraked keyboard (one where the keys have been re-arranged) but my guess is that would have to happen at the device-driver level. [snip] You can do this with the kbd package. AFAIK there is no need to even mess with X. kbd comes with dvorak-l and dvorak-r key translation tables. Try man loadkeys Jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Apple II Emulator
On Wed, Jun 17, 1998 at 09:13:44AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bad newsI can't find xgs anywhere! I just spent some time digging around the web, I found its offcial homepage is gone...I was able to find the authors homepage but it contained no mention of xgs, all I could fine was xgs-dos, and running a GS emulator, through dosemu, thats just too twisted even for me. -Steve ftp.apple.asimov.net. Jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
NTSC Composite TV Output from X or svgatextmode?
I'm looking for a way to get NTSC composite video from my computer. I know that a number of external converter boxes are available, but I'd rather have it come directly from the video card, if possible. Do any cards support this under Linux? I tried an ATI Xpression PC2TV card, and it only worked in 80x25 text mode -- and looked like crap on my TV. I'd rather use 40x25 for this, or possibly 320x200 under X. I'm developing a custom home theater application under Linux... Thanks Jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Still can't sort out MBR -- Linux and NT
On Sat, May 09, 1998 at 05:54:08PM +0100, Tristan Day wrote: When I load from a boot disk (created by format /s at dos prompt in Win95), fdisk doesn't work because it doesn't exist, thus fdisk /MBR doesn't work. If I try this in linux, it says MBR not found tried in lower case too Of course. You'll have to copy fdisk.exe onto the boot disk... Actually, the best thing to do is to use Win95's boot disk utility to make a boot disk. Use the help facility, search for boot disk, and you're on your way. It will copy a whole bunch of utilities to the floppy. Everyone who runs Windoze should have one or two handy. Jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Diskless Debian, Shared /usr, etc...
On Thu, May 07, 1998 at 03:10:57PM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: On Sun, May 03, 1998 at 09:13:58PM -0500, Jeff Noxon wrote: Thanks -- that was an excellent idea. I had to massage nfsroot into working with libc6, but it was a great starting point. My client is now taking up 2100K -- not bad. Could you plubish the patched nfsroot somewhere? It would be useful for quite a few ppl. That's opening a can of worms. :-) I haven't fixed it, but I did use it to figure out what I needed to make everything work. In my opinion, the package is far more complicated than it needs to be -- at least for most people. If you want to use it (or fix it), the main thing to look at are the different libraries. Hamm uses libc6, while nfsroot still tries to use libc5. Jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Books or Debian wrong? and other stuff
On Fri, May 08, 1998 at 01:07:44PM -0400, Thomas J. Malloy wrote: When I, an linux and unix novice, find that commands I am entering are not yielding the results I expect how do I know if this failure is caused by a program bug, an error in the book or man page, my error or something else? For example on page 104 of Learning the Bash Shell O'reilly there is the following command vi $(grep -l 'command substitution' ch*) According to the text should load into the vi editor a file that is a list of the files in the PWD that begin with ch which contain the string command substition. The man page for grep would seem to confirm this However when I typed vi $(grep -l 'linux' *.txt) it loaded all the documents into vi not a list of documents. Is the book wrong? The book is wrong. Debian's behavior is correct. You'd have to save the list of files _to_ a file before vi would be able to read it as a list: grep -l linux *.txt tmpfile vi tmpfile Instead, what you're doing is feeding the output of the grep command to the command line. Try this for clarification: echo $(grep -l linux *.txt) Or this: echo `grep -l linux *.txt` And as long as I am here, I have noticed that the escape charactor in kermit does not work ^\. Neither does there seem to be anyway to exit dosemu other than killing the process. Kermit is full of bugs, and hamm does not have a current version. You can exit dosemu by running the exitemu program. Jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Books or Debian wrong? and other stuff
On Fri, May 08, 1998 at 02:05:21PM -0500, Pete Harlan wrote: Kermit is full of bugs, and hamm does not have a current version. Kermit is easy to download, compile and install, and works well. Ctrl-\ is the escape character, but you have to follow it with another character to cause anything to happen. For example, Ctrl-\ C will get you back to the kermit prompt, and Ctrl-\ ? will give you a list of other escaped commands. I think some of the issues I've had with kermit are libc6-related, because libc5 versions always worked well for me. Among other problems, I've found it impossible to exit from kermit on occasion. I have to put it in the background and kill it. :) Thanks Jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian 1.31
On Thu, May 07, 1998 at 04:42:23PM -0400, Will Lowe wrote: I want to have the ability to dual boot with Debian and Windows 95 ? (I know with Windows NT and Windows 95 this is possible). Will such thing be possible Debian Windows 95? Absolutely. Lots of us do this all the time. Very easy to configure and use. It might be helpful to explain how to do it. I know the default installation will only let you boot off the primary drive, as LILO is installed into the partition and not the boot sector. It's always easy to boot from the boot disk made during installation, but booting Linux off the secondary drive? Is there a graceful and free way to do this without installing LILO in the primary drive's boot sector? Jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian 1.31
One other thing to keep in mind is the tendency Microsoft software has to rewrite the boot record (i.e. remove LILO). So always keep a boot disk handy -- you never know when you'll need it. (Like after that Win98 upgrade...) :) Jeff On Thu, May 07, 1998 at 04:55:41PM -0400, Will Lowe wrote: On Thu, 7 May 1998, Jeff Noxon wrote: off the secondary drive? Is there a graceful and free way to do this without installing LILO in the primary drive's boot sector? I don't think so. But you do boot=/dev/hda root=/dev/hdb1 for your linux kernel stanza and boot=/dev/hda1 for your win95 stanza and (I think) you should be ok. I dual-booted linux off the second hard drive for a while with Win95 on the first disk using lilo and didn't have any problems. I've since deleted that lilo.conf, so I don't remember exactly how I did it, other than that it was pretty straightforward. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Radius Server Authentication
On Tue, May 05, 1998 at 01:36:54PM -0500, Matthew D. Myers wrote: I would like to know if there is some way to make linux authenticate telnet and ftp sessions from a radius servers' user list? The answer is probably, if you recompile login, ftp, etc. to use PAM, and then configure PAM appropriately. But it sounds like a big pain, and I'm not sure how you'd get UID's and GID's from a RADIUS server. You'd still need /etc/passwd and /etc/group entries. And you'd need to provide a way for users to change their passwords... and so on. Sounds like a better idea might be to hack RADIUS to use NIS for authentication. But then again I can only guess about what you're trying to accomplish. Good luck, Jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Radius Server Authentication
On Tue, May 05, 1998 at 02:02:26PM -0500, Matthew D. Myers wrote: Ok... what is PAM ? Pluggable Authentication Modules. Install the pam-doc package and go from there. Jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Diskless Debian, Shared /usr, etc...
On Sat, May 02, 1998 at 10:57:39AM -0700, Jim Pick wrote: I use Joost's nfsroot package, which sets most of the stuff up. It's a good start - but You still need to do a fair amount of hacking to get it to work. I think the package got wiped out by the latest freeze, so you need to fetch the source out of /project/orphaned. Thanks -- that was an excellent idea. I had to massage nfsroot into working with libc6, but it was a great starting point. My client is now taking up 2100K -- not bad. I also found a WaveLAN packet driver and burned a boot ROM using the netboot package. It works! How exciting... :) Jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Diskless Debian, Shared /usr, etc...
I'm about to set up a diskless Debian workstation. It's going to be booting over NFS using 2Mbps Wavelan... I know, not fast, but it's just going to be dishing out .MP3's to my stereo system -- so quietness and heat are the major concerns here. I know I can just do a full install in some subdirectory on my main box, but can I be more conservative with disk space and share some partitions between both installations? Any tricks, caveats, HOWTO's, etc? Thanks for any advice, Jeff, wondering how X is going to look on his TV set... PS: If anyone has boot rom code for a WaveLAN card (ha!), please let me know... :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: incoming PAP authentication failures
On Wed, Apr 29, 1998 at 02:36:39PM +0200, Lorenzo Lazzeri wrote: Hello, On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, Paul Miller wrote: When I dialup to my Linux box, it keeps reporting authentication failures even though the password is correct.. Here is the ppp.log file (debug 9) I think your /etc/ppp/pap-secrets should have chmod 600 and root.root owner. Furthermore, if you're authenticating your users via login option you should have this line * * * REMEMBER to add the last asterisk, they should be FOUR entries. Dunno why, but it seems that ppp-2.3.3 wants all the four fields, while ppp-2.2.0 did work also with just the first three. I don't know why everyone else needs this. I'm using AutoPPP. I don't want everyone on my system to have ppp, and this is my conffile: [snip] # INBOUND connections # Every regular user can use PPP and has to use passwords from /etc/passwd #* mystic user1 * * user2 * * user3 * * user4 * * user5 * * # UserIDs that cannot use PPP at all. Check your /etc/passwd and add any # other accounts that should not be able to use pppd! #guest mystic * - #master mystic * - #root mystic * - #supportmystic * - #stats mystic * - [snip] Jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
