Re: Problem with resolv.conf and search list
[moving the discussion to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bruno BEAUFILS [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There is something I do not understand about resolving hostnames. It seems the search primitive of resolv.conf does not work properly in sid, nor in woody. Let's see some of my configuration files : resolv.conf search lifl.fr univ-lille1.fr iut-info.univ-lille1.fr nameserver 134.206.10.18 nameserver 134.206.1.4 nameserver 134.206.1.15 - The parser for resolv.conf is very stupid. Try: search lifl.fr univ-lille1.fr search iut-info.univ-lille1.fr nameserver 134.206.10.18 nameserver 134.206.1.4 nameserver 134.206.1.15 Phil.
Re: exploring debian's users and groups
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: sync: The shell of user sync is /bin/sync. Thus, if its password is set to something easy to guess (such as ), anyone can sync the system at the console even if they have no account on the system. HELP: If that is the only purpose of user sync, then group sync seems not very useful. The sync user could just as well be in nogroup. It's also a big security hole if you leave it without a password. Then you may login via an xdm session. operator: Operator is historically (and practically) the only 'user' account that can login remotely, and doesn't depend on NIS/NFS. When using dump/restore, dump sends a message via ttys to all members of the operator group when a tape needs to be rotated. disk: Raw access to disks. Mostly equivilant to root access. HELP: Well, I have some disk devices in /dev/ owned by the group, but I can't see the point. On another system, I noticed that some of the files lilo puts in /boot/ are also owned by disk. I can imagine local uses for such a group, like if you want to give some users in the group direct access to some hard disk. But these uses I've found on my systems seem to preclude doing that easily; if I put a user in group disk here, they'd have write access to the root filesystem. Very useful for backup (dump) programs. They can be ran with the disk and tape group without requiring root access. Phil.
Re: How can I trace a segfault on program start?
Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk writes: I have compiled a program with gcc 2.95. It segfaults immediately on starting and neither gdb nor strace reveal any useful information: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:.../src$ people Segmentation fault (core dumped) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:.../src$ gdb people GNU gdb 2001-07-05-cvs (MI_OUT) ... (gdb) run Starting program: /usr1/proj/bray/gtk/people_glade/src/people Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x0001 in ?? () (gdb) bt #0 0x0001 in ?? () Cannot access memory at address 0x0 (gdb) q The program is running. Exit anyway? (y or n) y [EMAIL PROTECTED]:.../src$ strace people execve(./people, [people], [/* 49 vars */]) = 0 --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) --- +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++ It could be that the stack pointers and/or frame pointers have been corrupted. You might want to break at '_start' which is the first function called by the loader, and then step through the assembler from there. Phil.
Re: diald question
On Sun, 23 Nov 1997 22:33:11 PST Janos A Csirik ([EMAIL PROTECTED] du) wrote: [snip] I have been using dctrl to look at timeouts and noticed that although my general tcp timeout is set to 10 minutes, fetchmail generates tcp packets that start as though they'd keep the link up for 10 minutes, but after about 1 second it changes to keeping the link up for only 5 seconds. If the host that fetchmail is trying to connect is not in my /etc/hosts, then everything still works since the host query udp packets have 30 second timeouts. (My modem takes about 20 seconds to connect.) [snip] I included a copy of my /etc/diald/standard.filters in case it's relevant. keepup tcp 5 !tcp.live This line says that when a tcp connection is closed, this connection will only hold the link up for 5 secs. That's probably this one you want to change: when the pop3 tcp connection is closed, the link has 5 secs to live unless you have other connections around. Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: 2.0.32 kernel: strange error
On Sat, 22 Nov 1997 07:07:05 +0100 Remco Blaakmeer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I posted the message below to comp.os.linux.misc but I didn't get any answer. Does anybody know more about the problem I describe below? Or can anyone point me at the right newsgroup for this question? Your friendly debian-user mailing list is always here to help you... [snip] The problem is with the 3c509 driver. I have a 3COM 3c509 card and an El Cheapo NE2000 clone, which have always worked flawlessly. The relevant lines in /etc/conf.modules are: alias eth0 3c509 alias eth1 ne options 3c509 io=0x300 options ne io=0x280 I supplied the 'io' parameters because /usr/src/linux/Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt says that probing for these cards is unreliable. Now, when I boot a 2.0.31 or 2.0.32 kernel, I get this error message when kerneld tries to load the 3c509 driver: symbol for parameter io not found io was removed some time ago from the driver. The irq should be enough to detect the card and will allow to find the ioport magically I think. Actually, unless your setup is really special, it should autodetect the card automagically. The auto-detection routine has been improved lately. Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: question seeing background process
On Fri, 21 Nov 1997 11:34:12 EST Paul ([EMAIL PROTECTED] a) wrote: Hi can I do the fg on vertual consloes. Lets say when I go home and login with telnet? You want to use screen's session management features. Let's say you're login from the console, you start screen, run a few things (including stuff in the background). Instead of exiting screen, you detach the session (CTRL-A CTRL-D). Later on, you login again (eventually from somewhere else), you can restore the session with screen -r. You can also steal a session: if you didn't logout and exited screen from home, you can grab the other session's state with screen -r too. This is very powerful. Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Tear-Drop (ip_fragment bug) anyone apply the patch?
On Wed, 19 Nov 1997 15:38:38 +0800 Jieyao ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Regarding patching the kernel source I tried to patch the debian kernel source 2.0.30-9 using 2.0.31 and 2.0.32 from the usual kernel distribution sites but there are always error and I can't complie correctly. You should use the pristine linux-2.0.30.tgz file, not the debian kernel tree provided by the kernel-source package. It's already patched. Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ncurses3.4
On Wed, 19 Nov 1997 13:34:52 EST Scott Ellis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, Orn E. Hansen wrote: Now, I can use pppd to manually put up my network... but diald (which I normally use) doesn't work, it will fail with 'sl0: transmit timeout, bad line quality?'... Okay, to be fair I never use diald, so I don't know what could be wrong here. Change the network: line of /etc/nsswitch.conf from files dns to files. That should make it. Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Pentium error
On Fri, 08 Mar 1996 15:26:15 +0100 Lukas Eppler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: There was a message in my newspaper this morning (Tages-Anzeiger,17.Nov.97, Switzerland, www.tages-anzeiger.ch) Which said the following (translated, my english isn't perfect) - New Pentium bug Intel has confirmed the Bug in their Pentium chips which was discovered recently, with which a PC can crash upon the machine code F00FC7C8. This should apply only to Pentium machines which are running under a multi user system (like Unix). There are already sold defender programs against this so-called F0-Bug, which search programs like virus scanners for the fatal code. -- This sounds like a don't use linux statement from intel. They don't even mention Windows NT, which is a multi user platform, too. And why the hell has this something to do with multi user systems? Is the mentioned code in use with debian linux? Nah, don't worry: 1) Linux has already a patch against it (2.0.32-pre5, soon to be 2.0.32), 2) Intel has been estonishingly linux-friendly (Linux went to their headquarters discussing the linux patch, they mention Linux on the web page they devoted to the bug) 3) NT is not multi-user, it's sequential multi-user (and even that, badly). I mean, you cannot telnet onto an NT box and crash an other user session (hence sequential). Furthermore, IMHO, it doesn't need a pentium bug to crash it. Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Pentium error
On Mon, 17 Nov 1997 00:13:35 +0800 I wrote: 2) Intel has been estonishingly linux-friendly (Linux went to their -^ headquarters discussing the linux patch, they mention Linux on the web page they devoted to the bug) You should obviously sequentially read: Linu[s], linux, linux. :-) Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Pentium error
On Mon, 17 Nov 1997 00:21:04 PST George Bonser ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On 16-Nov-97 Philippe Troin wrote: 3) NT is not multi-user, it's sequential multi-user (and even that, badly). I mean, you cannot telnet onto an NT box and crash an other user session (hence sequential). Furthermore, IMHO, it doesn't need a pentium bug to crash it. You are wrong in this. If I telnet into an NT box, place an executeable containing this bug in a an area I own and run it, the entire CPU stops cold. There are no longer any other user processes. The cpu STOPS. It crashes the whole machine. You'll have to explain me how to telnet (or rlogin or rsh) onto an NT box :-) But maybe we can take this off the mailing list ? Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux
Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux
Philippe Troin, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
$Id: packages.sgml,v 1.59 1997/11/17 08:54:03 phil Exp $
1. General Questions
1.1. Before reading this document
You should have read the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ
http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/.
1.2. Purpose of this document
This document is intended to identify areas that need your
contributions. It provides information that hopefully changes quite
often, so it supplements the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ.
1.3. Getting newer versions of this document
Newer versions of this document will be available via FTP and HTTP:
o http://www.debian.org/doc/prospective-packages.html
o ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/prospective-
packages.txt
o ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/prospective-
packages.html
o ftp://ftp.fifi.org/pub/debian-local/WNPP/
1.4. Feedback
Please send additions, corrections, suggestions and wishes to Philippe
Troin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mention to which version of this document
your comments refer.
Try to change the subject of your mail to reflect the packages you're
talking about, it makes it easier for me to sort out all Re: Work-
Needing and Prospective Packages emails I get. A suggested subject
line reads WNPP: removing foopackage or WNPP: working on
barpackage. Thanks.
2. Changes
2.1. Since version 1.58 1997/11/10
o Changed address for Yoshiaki Yanagihara to be [EMAIL PROTECTED]
o Changed address for Chirstian Leutloff to be [EMAIL PROTECTED]
o Added lsof to packages needing a new maintainer.
o Info2www adopted by Marco Budde mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED].
o Mysql adopted by Scott Hanson mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED].
o Dvi2tty adopted by Adrian Bridgett
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED].
o Gregor Hoffleit mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] is
working on gstep-make, gstep-gui, gstep-xdps, gstep-db, dgs, cakit,
ockit, objc, and adopted libtclobjc.
o Paul J Thompson mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] is
packaging Linux explorer (used to be Craig Small).
o Added unarj as orphan (probably forgotten eons ago).
o Libdnd1 adopted by James LewisMoss mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED].
o Statserial adopted by Brian Bassett
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], and Brian is working on srgp and
cgic.
o Leonardo Boselli mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] is working on
listguard.
o Gergely Madarasz mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] is working on hugs.
o Gettyps is orphaned.
o Branden Robinson mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] is
working on xtrs.
o Umsdos is orphaned.
o Majordomo adopted by Claus R. Wickinghoff
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], whos is also working on changesys.
o James A.Treacy mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] is working on siag.
o Uploaded packages (dropped from the list):
o kon
o kterm
o www-sql
o delimmatch
o rvplayer
2.2. Since version 1.57 1997/10/06
o Moved addressbook to orphaned.
o Freeciv adopted by Richard Braakman mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED].
o Linux explorer moved to section packages someone is working on.
o xscreensaver taken over by Craig Small mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED].
o Added sidplay in section packages someone is working on.
o Dropped bzip2 from needed packages.
o Dmalloc adopted by Luis Francisco Gonzalez
[EMAIL PROTECTED].
o Added lurkftp and htdig into packages needing a new maintainer.
o Moved hyperlatex and latex2rtf from packages needing a new
maintainer to orphans section.
o Gnuplot adopted by Tibor Simko
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED].
o Added typist and realvideo-installer to packages someone is
working on.
o Ptx adopted by Santiago Vila Doncel mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED].
o Gcl and gclinfo adopted by Steve Dunham
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED].
o Mesa and glut adopted by James A.Treacy mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED].
o Sox adopted by Guenter Geiger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED].
o Stefan Gybas mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] is working on
hsc.
o Christian Leutloff mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] is working
on jadetex, dtdparse, delimmatch, newtonlink biss-awt.
o James R. Van Zandt mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] is working on
emacsspeak-{bs,ap,ac,xx} (Sorry for the bashism ;-).
o Hamish Moffatt mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] is working on www-sql.
o Fvwm95, ncompress, upsd, xskat back into the orphans list.
o Fdos and komirr removed (dropped).
o Ircd adopted by the mysterious Ben (ask Christoph Lameter
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]).
o Willows added to the list of wanted packages.
o Oliver Elphick mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] is working on
PostgreSQL.
o Thhtpd was dropped.
o Idutch and wdutch adopted by Richard Braakman
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED].
o Xosview adopted by Radu Duta mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED].
o David Damerell mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] is working
on mangband.
o Libkde0, libkde0-dev, kdeapps adopted by Andreas Jellinghaus
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED].
o Dropped trafshow (already in netdiag package).
o Newly uploaded packages (removed):
o xmgr
o xzx
o screen
o xconq
o figfonts
o xonix
o
Re: re-thinking partitions
On Mon, 17 Nov 1997 11:17:51 GMT Otavio Exel ([EMAIL PROTECTED] ) wrote: - are symlinks really fast? Quite, except on NFS. could you be more specific? could you describe a situation where symlinks would slow-down things and a possible solution eliminating thesymlink? Normally, no NFS data is cached on the client, which means that for a small file, accessed via a symlink, the time to get the file will be twice, because the server will be contacted once to resolve the symlink, and a second time to access the file. This can get quite slow if you've got bad latency. Solution: don't use symlink forests on NFS exported volumes. why not have symlink resolving done by the server? AFAIK there's no need for the client to know about symlinks! You probably don't want this: o you want to have readlink() o you don't want rm -r automatically follow symlinks on NFS partitions o etc... etc... This is not a good idea... Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Help with sgml: cannot find debiandoc
I wanted to print the policy manual, and wanted to use sgml2latex, but it tells: % sgml2latex policy.sgml Processing file policy.sgml /usr/bin/nsgmls:OSFD0:1:27:W: cannot generate system identifier for document type DEBIANDOC /usr/bin/nsgmls:OSFD0:1:27:E: reference to entity DEBIANDOC for which no system identifier could be generated /usr/bin/nsgmls:OSFD0:1:0: entity was defined here /usr/bin/nsgmls:OSFD0:1:27:E: DTD did not contain element declaration for document type name /usr/bin/nsgmls:OSFD0:2:2:E: ENTITY declaration not allowed in prolog /usr/bin/nsgmls:OSFD0:3:0:E: cannot continue because of previous errors However I've got the following packages installed: ii debiandoc-sgml 1.0.11 Documentation formatting for Debian manuals un linuxdoc-sgml none (no description available) pn perlsgmlnone (no description available) pn psgml none (no description available) ii sgml-base 0.4utilities to maintain the SGML catalog file ii sgml-data 0.03 Data files for SGML programs ii sgml-tools 0.99.7-3 SGML tools un sgmls none (no description available) ii sgmlspm 1.03ii-3 Perl modules for processing SGML parser outp And /etc/sgml.catalog says: -- START SGML CATALOG ENTRY FOR PACKAGE debiandoc-sgml -- DOCTYPE debiandoc dtd/debiandoc.dtd ENTITY %general-chars entities/general -- END SGML CATALOG ENTRY FOR PACKAGE debiandoc-sgml -- I'm lost ! Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: SOS - Please help - Disaster struck !!!
On Sat, 15 Nov 1997 08:15:04 +0100 Robert Alexander ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: in a fit of abysmal stupidity I manage to break my 1.3.1 system. I wanted to upgrade to netbase-netstd 3.0 and FORCED an un-install of libreadline2 to install libreadline2g ... now my bash is broken and god knows what else ... locked out of home ... Only after I discovered the libc5-to-libc6-miniHOWTO Do I have some chance of rescuing my system ??? Yes. Don't panic. Put libreadline2 on a floppy, boot with the rescue disk, mount the floppy under /floppy, mount your filesystem hierarchy over /mnt (not just the root filesystem, you have to mount var on /mnt/var, etc...), and just do PATH=/mnt/bin:/mnt/sbin:/mnt/usr/bin:/mnt/usr/sbin:$PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/mnt/lib:/mnt/usr/lib export PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH dpkg --root=/mnt --install /floppy/libreadline.deb I'm not sure that the PATH/LD_LIBRARY_PATH stuff is mandatory (it just tells to look for binaries and libraries on your hard disk), but I tend to believeit won't work without it. And next time, think twice before using any of the --force options :-) Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ISDN link on demand.
On Thu, 13 Nov 1997 23:27:48 GMT Batista, M. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Know somebody set up the ISDN link to an ISP on demand? I make this link by hand, but when the hangup time out to come, the ISDN driver shutdown the link and i have to start up by hand once more. Have you tried diald ? Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Does lesstif provide libXm.so.1.2 for Netscape?
On Thu, 13 Nov 1997 22:05:47 MST Rick Macdonald ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: The release notes for Communicator 4.04 say that Linux plugins only work with the dynamically linked version of Motif 1.2. Does lesstif provide this, and do plugins work? Lesstif provides *source* compatibility with motif 1.2 (when it will be completed :-), not binary compatibility. Maybe you should start lobbying netscape to make a lesstif version of communicator, but I doubt it will work ;-) Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: xdm trouble
On 14 Nov 1997 11:46:46 +0100 Ole =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F8rgen?= Tetlie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I upgraded some packages to unstable yesterday, and now xdm dies, restarts, dies, restarts, dies, ... so I can't log on to fix it (I probably removed the old libX, while xdm is still linked to it!). Is it possible to disable xdm from lilo, or boot in any other way, so this doesn't happen? (I don't have rescues, so if it's impossible I'll just install a minimum debian on a spare partition, and fix it from there...) Entering 'linux single' at the lilo prompt will make you boot in single user mode (almost nothing running). From there, you will be able do disable xdm and/or fix your X server. Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: re-thinking partitions
On Fri, 14 Nov 1997 10:24:10 -0200 Otavio Exel ([EMAIL PROTECTED] br) wrote: - are symlinks really fast? Quite, except on NFS. You really should worry about it unless you're a performance freak. - I read somewhere that 500mb for /var and /tmp is fine; what exactly does that mean? two partitions summing up 500mb? one 500mb partition and symlinks from /var and /tmp? This is a lot of space wasted unless you have large spool directories (news/mail). For a reasonable single-user station, 64MB should be largely enough on /var. /tmp is left to your choice (16 is a good number). - why is /usr/tmp symlynked to ../var/tmp instead of /var/tmp? same applies to /usr/spool; is it important? Yes, all symlinks should be relative, in case you mount filesystems across NFS or with a boot disk: let's say you have /dev/hda1 / /dev/hda2 /usr /dev/hda3 /var Then mounting them from the rescue disk, you would have: /dev/hda1 /mnt /dev/hda2 /mnt/usr /dev/hda3 /mnt/var And /mnt/usr/tmp would correctly point to /mnt/var/tmp instead of /var/tmp. - what will happen with hard lynks if I cp -d from one part to another? They'll get duplicated. -d applies only to symlinks. If you want to preserve files exactly, you want to use cp -a (or tar, cpio, etc...). Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: where to place locate TeX style files
On 10 Nov 1997 17:53:49 +0100 Christian Leutloff ([EMAIL PROTECTED] che.de) wrote: I want to add a new style file to my system. I'm using an unmodified /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf. Therefor I should be able to place new style files under /usr/lib/texmf/local. I've tried this but LaTeX never founds the new style file. I run texhash after each try and the new style appears in ls-R. I moved new file to newly made directories TeX and latex (under /usr/lib/texmf/local). But nothing helps. 8-( You have to place them under the correct directory in /usr/local/lib/texmf. For a style file, it would be: /usr/local/lib/texmf/tex/latex/ Then run texhash. BTW, /usr/lib/texmf/local is a symlink to /usr/local/lib/texmf. Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: finding myself on DDS-2 tape...
On Mon, 10 Nov 1997 21:01:29 EST Tim Ferrell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Is there a formula for determining what percentage of tape I have left after a backup? I use 'mt tell' to get the current block on tape - how do I know how many blocks are on the tape? I am using a 4-8GB DAT drive with 90m and 120m tapes. I just need some kind of idea of how much tape is left... Write a tape to the end, and see what mt tell returns :-) Actually that's what I did (on a DDS-1 drive with a 90m tape - 2GB). It's around 20. I infer from this blocka are 10k and that a 120m tape would give around 40. Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux
Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux
Philippe Troin, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
$Id: packages.sgml,v 1.58 1997/11/10 10:09:58 phil Exp $
1. General Questions
1.1. Before reading this document
You should have read the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ
http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/.
1.2. Purpose of this document
This document is intended to identify areas that need your
contributions. It provides information that hopefully changes quite
often, so it supplements the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ.
1.3. Getting newer versions of this document
Newer versions of this document will be available via FTP and HTTP:
o http://www.debian.org/doc/prospective-packages.html
o ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/prospective-
packages.txt
o ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/prospective-
packages.html
o ftp://ftp.fifi.org/pub/debian-local/WNPP/
1.4. Feedback
Please send additions, corrections, suggestions and wishes to Philippe
Troin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mention to which version of this document
your comments refer.
Try to change the subject of your mail to reflect the packages you're
talking about, it makes it easier for me to sort out all Re: Work-
Needing and Prospective Packages emails I get. A suggested subject
line reads WNPP: removing foopackage or WNPP: working on
barpackage. Thanks.
2. Changes
2.1. Since version 1.57 1997/10/06
o Moved addressbook to orphaned.
o Freeciv adopted by Richard Braakman mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED].
o Linux explorer moved to section packages someone is working on.
o xscreensaver taken over by Craig Small mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED].
o Added sidplay in section packages someone is working on.
o Dropped bzip2 from needed packages.
o Dmalloc adopted by Luis Francisco Gonzalez
[EMAIL PROTECTED].
o Added lurkftp and htdig into packages needing a new maintainer.
o Moved hyperlatex and latex2rtf from packages needing a new
maintainer to orphans section.
o Gnuplot adopted by Tibor Simko
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED].
o Added typist and realvideo-installer to packages someone is
working on.
o Ptx adopted by Santiago Vila Doncel mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED].
o Gcl and gclinfo adopted by Steve Dunham
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED].
o Mesa and glut adopted by James A.Treacy mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED].
o Sox adopted by Guenter Geiger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED].
o Stefan Gybas mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] is working on
hsc.
o Christian Leutloff mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] is working
on jadetex, dtdparse, delimmatch, newtonlink biss-awt.
o James R. Van Zandt mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] is working on
emacsspeak-{bs,ap,ac,xx} (Sorry for the bashism ;-).
o Hamish Moffatt mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] is working on www-sql.
o Fvwm95, ncompress, upsd, xskat back into the orphans list.
o Fdos and komirr removed (dropped).
o Ircd adopted by the mysterious Ben (ask Christoph Lameter
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]).
o Willows added to the list of wanted packages.
o Oliver Elphick mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] is working on
PostgreSQL.
o Thhtpd was dropped.
o Idutch and wdutch adopted by Richard Braakman
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED].
o Xosview adopted by Radu Duta mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED].
o David Damerell mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] is working
on mangband.
o Libkde0, libkde0-dev, kdeapps adopted by Andreas Jellinghaus
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED].
o Dropped trafshow (already in netdiag package).
o Newly uploaded packages (removed):
o xmgr
o xzx
o screen
o xconq
o figfonts
o xonix
o fidogate
2.2. Since version 1.56 1997/09/08
o General cleanup of orphans package (no visible changes).
o Started probing for people who claimed they wanted to take over a
package and never did it.
o Fixed a bad url.
o Removed cam from packages someone is working on, uploaded.
o Restored majordomo in packages needing a new maintainer (new
maintainer renounced).
o Removed hpcdtoppm from packages someone is working on and added
gom instead (gom supercedes hpcdtoppm).
o Gpc, libgpc2 and gpc-doc taken over by Paul J. Thompson
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] and removed.
o Gs, gsfonts, gs-aladdin and libpaper taken over by Marco Pistore
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] and removed.
o Ucbmpeg and ucbmpeg-play taken over by Johnie Ingram
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] and removed.
o Xmorph uploaded and removed from packages someone is working on.
o Added bzip2 to packages someone should package section.
o Vrweb taken over by Larry Gilbert mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED].
o Orphaned guavac, javalex, java-cup and rsynth.
o Wnorwegian taken over by Ole Jrgen Tetlie mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED].
o Jean Pierre LeJacq mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] is working on
crack and cracklib.
o Xfig and transfig taken over by Enrique Zanardi
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED].
o Isite, linuxlogo, loadlin, ncsa, omir, pash, poppassd, syslinux,
transproxy, worklog taken over by a mysterious Ben (ask Christoph
Lameter mailto:[EMAIL
Re: URGENT: Diald connection problem
On Wed, 05 Nov 1997 22:25:14 +0100 Michael Legart ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Before I had a diskcrash and hat to reinstall my linux, the ppp connection worked fine with diald. How do I get the diald connect script installed again? It was really messed up, and I wanted to reinstalled the default one, so I deleted it. My problem now is, that the script doesn't get installed againt, when i install the diald package. Yeah, it's because it's a conffile, and dpkg assumes that if you deleted it you had a good reason. It will however ask the next time it installs diald if the provided version has changed. To get it back: 1) Copy all the configuration files of diald to a safe place. 2) Purge the diald package (removing it won't do it). 3) Reinstall the diald package. 4) Restore your conffiles. You'll find the default connect script in /etc/diald/connect. Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Unable to complete upgrade to libc6 development
On Wed, 05 Nov 1997 17:40:32 PST Howard S. Ostrowsky ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I recently went through the process of upgrading from libc5 to libc6. After testing the resulting system for a couple days and finding it apparently ok, I went on to upgrade the gcc, g++, and g77 compilers and their associated libraries. At least, I thought I did. Now I'm not sure what state it is in When I use gcc to try to compile 'hello.c', I get the following two errors: /usr/lib/crtl.o(.text+0xe): undefined reference to `__libc_init_first' /usr/lib/crtl.o(.text+0x18): undefined reference to `_environ' and the compile fails. Do you have leftover libc5 -dev packages ? When upgrading libc5-libc6 you're supposed to remove all -dev packages before installing the new ones. In addition, the output of ldd looks strange to me: libg++.so.2.7.2=/usr/lib/libg++.so.2.7.2 (0x4000c000) libstdc++so.2.7.2=/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.2.7.2 (0x40044000) libm.so.5=/usr/lib/libm.so.5 (0x40081000) libc.so.5=/usr/lib/libc.so.5 (0x4008a000) libm.so.6=/usr/lib/libm.so.6 (0x40148000) libc.so.6=/usr/lib/libc.so.6 (0x40161000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2=/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x4000) I'd add the locations of libc.so are very unusual too (should be /lib). Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: SSH Question...
On Thu, 06 Nov 1997 02:48:26 -0900 Adam Shand ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'm setting up an automated script which needs the functionality of rsh to execute some commands on a remote machine, and I need it to *not* prompt for a pasword. I know that I can do this with SSH using a .shosts file, but I would like to use one of SSH's additional methods of host authentication as well (to make it more secure against DNS pollution attacks etc). Is this possible to do and still not have to enter a password? Can anyone expain how or point me to relevant documentation? You want to use ssh-agent. This works like this: make a key pair with ssh-keygen put the public key in any server you want to be able to log in put the private key in any machine you want to log from put a .identity link in your .ssh directory run ssh-agent and ssh-askpass before running ssh/scp/slogin. You also want to read the ssh and ssh-agent manpages... Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: S3 versus S3V
On 04 Nov 1997 23:56:23 EST Ben Pfaff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Jan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Also I read about linking the file /usr/X11R6/bin/X to the server I am using but that doesn't seem to work. I type ln --sf /usr/X11R6/bin/Xf86_S3 /usr/X11R6/bin/X You probably want the command ln -sf /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_S3 /usr/X11R6/bin/X instead. Note capitalization of `f', number of dashes. ...but you probably don't want to do that either. /usr/X11R6/bin/X is a wrapper for debian which calls the correct X server. The correct X server is stored in the first line of /etc/X11/Xserver. The wrapper is setuid root and will open the privileged resources and then drop privileges before exec()ing the real X server. The doc you read is for the standard XFree86 release and should be fixed (you might want to open a bug for that matter). If you already did the symbolic link (and removed the wrapper), just reinstall xbase. Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: libdl1 ??
On Tue, 04 Nov 1997 17:07:20 +0100 Magic ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Where can I find libdl1 ? In the package dld. You can get this info by grepping into the Contents-i386 file located in the stable/ subdirectory of a debian ftp site. Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: diald / ppp routing problems on hamm system
On Tue, 04 Nov 1997 10:45:10 CST Ken Lauffenburger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hello, I very recently upgraded my home system from bo to hamm. As soon as I installed the netbase package, diald stopped working. The PPP link would connect, but the PPP link no longer was selected as the default route. However, I could establish the link using the 'pon' command. (I was using a fairly old revision of PPP, maybe ppp_2.2.0f-23.) In the past few days, I have brought ppp, diald, and other network packages up to the latest hamm revisions. In doing so, I changed my PPP configuration files to conform to the new directory/filename format, tried various option settings, and have pored through the PPP and diald documentation. But diald continues not to work, although I can get the PPP link up using pon. Here is what I have observed: (1) The first time I execute a command that accesses a network resource, diald establishes the PPP link right away. However, no data appears to cross the link after it comes up. If I issue the 'route' command at this point, it hangs without displaying the route table, as if it is suspended trying to access the nameserver. [big snip] On (1): Which is probably what happens. Tell route not to resolve host addresses with -n. On your problem: There were some problems reported with the /etc/nsswitch.conf. The networks line says files dns which means that when resolving a network address, libc will try first /etc/networks, then ask on DNS. However route tries to resolve the net diald passes to it and blocks in there (the DNS server cannot be contacted because there's no route to it, and the route cannot be established because the net has to be resolved). Try removing the dns entry from the networks line of /etc/nsswitch.conf. Anyways, this is problematic to have this networks line with dns, and a future version of base-files is supposed to fix this. Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: /etc/networks
On Tue, 04 Nov 1997 17:03:13 EST Matthew Tebbens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Is /etc/networks used the same as /etc/hosts ? It's almost the opposite :-) It consists in one entry per line with #-comments. Each entry has a net name first and a net address in seconds. No aliases allowed on netnames (I think). Can someone post an example of all the formats for /etc/networks ? This is mine: default 0.0.0.0 localnet127.0.0.0 fifi.org207.104.147.128 Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: URGENT: Diald connection problem
On Tue, 04 Nov 1997 22:39:32 +0100 Michael Legart ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi, I have a problem with diald ... [snip] Anyone has a connect script that is working? The diald package provides a nice connect script in /etc/diald/connect. You just have to fill the variables at the top of it to get it working. It has to diald a number Put it in PHONE_NUMBER (no spaces). send a login name at: Annex username: Put username: in USER_CHAT_SEQ. Put your username in USERNAME. send a password at: Annex password: Put password: in PASSWD_CHAT_SEQ. Put your password in PASSWORD. Verify that PROMPT, PROTOCOL_START and START_ACK are set to . That should be it. And once again don't put any space in any of the variables (it's a problem with the script). Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: 2.1.30 and 3c900 module: Transmitter access conflict
On Wed, 05 Nov 1997 14:09:00 +0700 Francesco Potorti` ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: The subject says it all: I am installing a Debian 1.3.1 system on a brand new PC with a 3c900 Combo board. Since I have a Buslogic Flashpoint SCSI card, I used the disks under the special/ directory, which use 2.1.30. Loading the 3c59x module seems to work, because the module correctly recognises the board. It then prints the following messages: 3c59x.c:v0.30-all 12/23/96 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3Com EtherLink III: Overriding PCI latency timer (CFLT) setting of 32, new value is 255. loading device 'eth0'... eth0: 3Com 3c900 Boomerang 10Mbps/Combo at 0xd400, 00:60:08:12:4d:ef, IRQ 12 Internal config register is 10302d8, transceivers 0xe138. 8K word-wide RAM 3:5 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/10baseT interface. Which is okay (I think), apart from the fact that the used interface is really the AUI. Then I run /etc/init.d/network, obtaining these messages: eth0: initial media type 10baseT. Have you tried running the 3Com setup program (under DOS) and set the card not to use Plug-And-Play mode ? And also maybe select the media type manually ? Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: idled and other timeout programs
On Sat, 01 Nov 1997 21:48:52 EST Paul Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'm looking for a timeout program which will _NOT_ kill my xterm sessions but will kill my idle telnet sessions. I attempted to do this with idled by making it ignore users in a 'console' group which the login program added to the user's groups. The only problem is XDM doesn't add users to any groups. What is tricky is determining if the user is on locally or telneting because both xterm and telnet use /etc/ttyp* ... Has anyone done this before or have any ideas? You can always look at which process has the matching pty open. It will be xterm for a xterm session or in.telnetd for a telnet session. You can do that with fuser. Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: `dump' command
[sent only to debian-user, no cross-posted to debian-devel] On Wed, 29 Oct 1997 21:45:23 GMT Oliver Elphick (olly@lfix.co.uk) wrote: The man page for dump says that Linux dump is not yet able to produce correct multi-volume backups. However, the man page is dated 1993. Is this statement still true? If so, what goes wrong? I've tested this with DAT and DDS-2 tapes and drives (Seagate), and the dump/restore is ok. Restore -C (comparison) complains about missing files but they're ok from by testings... You'd better experiment by yourself. I had no problem with my setup. Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: `dump' command - tape size
[sent only to debian-user, not cross-posted to debian-devel] On Thu, 30 Oct 1997 01:30:58 GMT Oliver Elphick (olly@lfix.co.uk) wrote: I am trying to use dump to write to DAT tape (60m long); I believe the capacity of this is something around 2Gb. Yes, about 2Gb. dump seems to believe that the capacity is something like 45Mb and, contrary to what the manual says, does not keep on writing to the end of the tape, but asks for a new volume after only 45Mb. I tried specifying block size and number of blocks: dump 0unfBb /dev/nst0 16000 64 /var but this seemed to make matters worse rather than better. Then I tried specifying density and length: the figures are obviously outside any range contemplated: dump 0unfds /dev/nst0 10900932 197 and dump refused to accept the density figure, so i had to decrease the density and increase the length until my input was accepted. Should dump be able to detect the end of a DDS tape? If so, should it not use EOT as a marker rather than trying to calculate tape lengths when it is not asked to do so? Yes. You probably want dump find itself the end of tape. I personnaly use: dump 0fubB $device 10 4194304 for a 90m 2GB tape without hw compression (which means it will always run to the end of tape whatever happens). Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Intel EtherExpress Pro 100B
On Mon, 27 Oct 1997 15:13:48 PST Matt Thompson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'm trying to install the driver for this card. I followed the instructions, and when I executed the compile-command I found at the bottom of the eepro100.c file (gcc -DMODVERSIONS -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/net/inet -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O6 -c eepro100.c), I receive the following errors: eepro100.c:41: linux/config.h: No such file or directory [snip] Add a -I/usr/src/linux/include option to the gcc command line. Your command gets the kernel headers from the wrong place. If this doesn't work, then you probably never compiled a kernel from these sources, and might want to recompile a full kernel. The include/linux symlink is created during compilation (and points to include/linux-i386, assuming you've got an intel platform). You can always try to do the symlink by hand, but if you've a got a version mismatch, then recompile everything. I hope this doesn't look too confusing... Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Strange disk problems - file dates out of wack
On Sun, 26 Oct 1997 09:42:59 EST Colin R. Telmer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Unmounted /home without any problems and ran e2fsck with the check for bad blocks and force options. However, the disk seems to be fine. Strange. Here are the key parts of the original note: There are several directories that are claimed (by du) to be absurdly big: 501597058 ./reevesj/.netscape/cache/13 634965987 . 1017117464 ./reevesj/.netscape/cache 1017117572 ./reevesj/.netscape 1017168521 ./reevesj Of course, those numbers are not correct! Looking more closely at /reevesj/.netscape/cache, one finds: br--r-srwx 1 2878729728 73, 60 May 21 2025 07 Notice the date and the permissions! Whatever this is, I cannot remove it, even using rm -f, as root! I also cannot change the permissions. What does lsattr say ? Maybe it's an immutable file (chattr it). Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Redhat - Debian PCI problems
On Sat, 23 Oct 1997 22:22:38 +0200 Daniel J. Mashao ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Thu, 23 Oct 1997, Bob Nielsen wrote: Now my question is - does it mean that Debian pci drivers are older that those in Redhat? Why would Redhat work and not Debian? Is the differences that deep? I always thougth the differences were minor. The drivers are in the kernel, not in anything added by the distribution. Thanks for this information. It really encourages me. I was beginning to think maybe Debian is too slow in adopting drivers. Did you try with kernel 2.0.31 ? It has a bunch of updated PCI devices and network drivers (amongst others). Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Preventing single user mode
On Wed, 22 Oct 1997 18:27:53 GMT Timm Gleason ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Philippe Troin mentioned something about a password option, Lilo has a password option (which you probably want to use with the restricted option too). RTFM. but I have been unable to find anything about this. Where might I find the difinative source of Lilo documentation? Well, since I have to tell you everything... :-) % apropos lilo lilo (8) - install boot loader lilo.conf (5)- configuration file for lilo % man lilo.conf ===extracts=== password=password The per-image option `password=...' (see below) applies to all images. === restricted The per-image option `restricted' (see below) applies to all images. ===later on per-image options: password=password Protect the image by a password. restricted A password is only required to boot the image if parameters are specified on the command line (e.g. single). ===end=== I guess you want to use password=somethjing and restricted. Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Preventing single user mode
On Tue, 21 Oct 1997 14:43:07 GMT Timm Gleason ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Does anyone out there know of a way to prevent a Debian box from being able to boot into single user mode? We have removed any sort of delay= settings from the lilo.conf, and this makes it extremely difficult to get into that mode, but does not prevent it. Lilo has a password option (which you probably want to use with the restricted option too). RTFM. Note that you'll never be able to secure a machine from people who have physical access to it. Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: gcc problem
On Mon, 20 Oct 1997 20:23:19 EDT Shaul Peleg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Can anyone tell me why I can't run the executable (if it is that!) that gcc compiles? Is there some kind of setup required? I am compiling in my home directory and another file, without the suffix is made but can't be run! Thanks all! Assuming you're compiling with: gcc -o foo foo.c You need to run it as ./foo, not foo. The . directory doesn't come by default in your path for security reasons. You can add it in your .bashrc if you want. Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: /dev/md0
On Thu, 09 Oct 1997 14:26:02 +0200 Pere Camps ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have a linear partition on my linux box (/dev/md0 = hdb7+hdb9+hdb11), and when I run the `mdadd -ar`, and I then mount the filesystem something like the following comes up: Warning: /dev/md0 has no checksum field Should I worry? Yes and no. This is because you created you mdtab by hand, and not with mdcreate. Mdcreate computes a checksum and puts it in the mdtab. When mdrunning a md partition, the checksum is computed and is compared to the one stored in the mdtab. If they're different, the md device isn't started. Having checksums can prevent you major problems if for example you add new disks and the devices change: You have /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1 as a single MD disk. /dev/sda has SCSI ID 0, /dev/sdb has ID 6. You add a new scsi device with id 3. Your /dev/sdb becomes /dev/sdc ! You'll probably trash your md device on next mount... The same can happen if you add/delete partitions... So, to have this checksum added to your mdtab, recreate it with mdcreate. Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: CDR drive replacement.
On Thu, 16 Oct 1997 13:28:57 EDT Dale Scheetz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have used Philips CDRs exclusively and have not been satisfied. For the usual reasons, I am replacing my current CDR and want something that will last a while. I can get an HP SureStore CD-Writer 6020 for a reasonable price. I am curious if anyone has had any first hand experience with this device? Is it encouraging? I have one and am 85% happy with it. CD writing and reading work ok (cdwrite and cdrecord work with it). Direct sound transfer (cdda2wav) works too. I'm less happy with the audio CD part. I had to hack the kernel so that I don't get target busy messages full my syslog. The various audio CD players work barely ok. So, if you don't care struggling moderately to have it play audio CDs, go for it. Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Work-Needing and Prospective Packages
Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux Philippe Troin, [EMAIL PROTECTED] $Id: packages.sgml,v 1.57 1997/10/06 09:59:38 phil Exp $ 1. General Questions 1.1. Before reading this document You should have read the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/. 1.2. Purpose of this document This document is intended to identify areas that need your contributions. It provides information that hopefully changes quite often, so it supplements the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ. 1.3. Getting newer versions of this document Newer versions of this document will be available via FTP and HTTP: o http://www.debian.org/doc/prospective-packages.html o ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/prospective- packages.txt o ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/prospective- packages.html o ftp://ftp.fifi.org/pub/debian-local/WNPP/ 1.4. Feedback Please send additions, corrections, suggestions and wishes to Philippe Troin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mention to which version of this document your comments refer. Try to change the subject of your mail to reflect the packages you're talking about, it makes it easier for me to sort out all Re: Work- Needing and Prospective Packages emails I get. A suggested subject line reads WNPP: removing foopackage or WNPP: working on barpackage. Thanks. 2. Changes 2.1. Since version 1.56 1997/09/08 o General cleanup of orphans package (no visible changes). o Started probing for people who claimed they wanted to take over a package and never did it. o Fixed a bad url. o Removed cam from packages someone is working on, uploaded. o Restored majordomo in packages needing a new maintainer (new maintainer renounced). o Removed hpcdtoppm from packages someone is working on and added gom instead (gom supercedes hpcdtoppm). o Gpc, libgpc2 and gpc-doc taken over by Paul J. Thompson mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] and removed. o Gs, gsfonts, gs-aladdin and libpaper taken over by Marco Pistore mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] and removed. o Ucbmpeg and ucbmpeg-play taken over by Johnie Ingram mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] and removed. o Xmorph uploaded and removed from packages someone is working on. o Added bzip2 to packages someone should package section. o Vrweb taken over by Larry Gilbert mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. o Orphaned guavac, javalex, java-cup and rsynth. o Wnorwegian taken over by Ole Jrgen Tetlie mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. o Jean Pierre LeJacq mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] is working on crack and cracklib. o Xfig and transfig taken over by Enrique Zanardi mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. o Isite, linuxlogo, loadlin, ncsa, omir, pash, poppassd, syslinux, transproxy, worklog taken over by a mysterious Ben (ask Christoph Lameter mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]). o Added autofs, floppybackup, jered, nat, optimizer, sftp, ssmtp to packages to give away. o Enrique Zanardi mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] is working on xmgr. o Added addressbook as package to give away. o Xfmail uploaded and removed from packages someone is working on. o offix-clipboard, offix-editor, offix-execute, offix-files, offix- trash taken over by James LewisMoss mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. o Removed the packages Karl Sackett was working on (leaving the project). o 2.2. Since version 1.55 1997/08/25 o Fixed a typo in PVM (was PVW). o Removed xgammon from packages someone is working on (uploaded to master). o Removed xpat2 and xsok from packages needing a new maintainer (new maintainer is Joel Rosdahl mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. o Cflow taken over by Ioannis Tambouras mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. o Majordomo taken over by Andy Kahn USG mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. o Changed the email for Drake Diedrich to be [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED] o Orphaned tcl74, tk40, tcl75, tk41, tclx74, tclx75, tix40. o Added abc2ps and abcmidi in packages someone is working on. o Added battalion to packages someone is working on and moved rocks and diamonds to it (used to be in the needed packages section). o Xfishtank and xgalaga taken over by Joey Hess mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. 2.3. Since version 1.54 1997/08/18 o Removed asp from packages someone is working on (uploaded). o Orphaned tkman. o Bin86 taken over by Juan Cespedes mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. o Orphaned pgcc. o Added majordomo to packages needing a new maintainer. o Removed smalleiffel from packages someone is working on. o Deliver taken over by Scott K. Ellis mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. o newsx taken over by Adrian Bridgett mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. o Added pppload and trafshow in packages someone is working on. o OmniORB (preivously listed in wanted packages) is being worked on. o Figlet taken over by Francesco Tapparo mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. o Added xfmail to packages someone is working on. 2.4. Since version 1.53 1997/08/11 o Fixed address for Will Lowe to be [EMAIL PROTECTED] o Fixed address
Re: umount: /cdrom: devide is busy.
On Sat, 04 Oct 1997 18:08:19 +1000 Alan Eugene Davis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: This happens to me quite often: a floppy or a cd isn't being accessed, but I cannot unmount it: umount gives the error I have indicated. Is there any way to find out what process or which xterm might be accessing or sitting on a certain device? Fuser in package procps can do this: fuser -muv /cdrom/ Lsof, in lsof package can do more things, but is more complex too... Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: IP MASQ: Errors
On Mon, 29 Sep 1997 09:54:50 CDT Joe Stewart ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have IP MASQUERADING on our network, and when a client connects to some sites we get this in the logs: MASQ: failed TCP/UDP checksum from 204.74.200.69! Otherwise, it seems fine. Is this a problem? Either way, what is it telling me? It's just a transmission error. Without masquerading, the kernel doesn't tell you about it. For masqueraded packets, it does as this might signal a problem with the masquerading code. Which means: if you seldom got these, it's ok, don't worry about it. If you've you've got a whole bunch, then there's a problem. Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Netscape 4.03 missing features?
On Mon, 29 Sep 1997 15:24:07 PDT Ed Slocomb ([EMAIL PROTECTED] .com) wrote: I installed the most recent version of NS Communicator (4.03) using the debian installer from hamm, but it seems that the bloated pig is missing one of the simplest enhancements present in the win32 version: the mechanism for adding a new bookmark to an existing subfolder. It's possible, but non-easy to find out by yourself. Drag the icon on the left of Location: and drop it on BookMarks. The bookmark menu will open and you'll be able to insert the new bookmark wherever you want. On Windows, you don't have to drop it, when you're dragging Location over Bookmarks, the menu opens itself. Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Strange library file
On Mon, 29 Sep 1997 18:45:02 EDT J Hulley-Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I was just trying to upgrade to the latest libc6 tcl/tk packages and the install failed because it could not overwrite libtk4.2.so.1. ls -la reports: p-w---s-wt 1 5513 33730 0 Jul 5 1962 libtk4.2.so.1 All attempts to rm or change it have failed. Anyone know how I can get rid of it ? Thanks. Mmmh, looks like you have a problem with your filesystem here. Check that the file is not immutable (lsattr libtk4.2.so.1), and eventually chattr it. Now, how did this shared library became a pipe ? Which version of kernel/e2fsprogs have you got ? Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: mke2fs
On Mon, 29 Sep 1997 23:32:21 PDT David Stern ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'm having an irregular experience with mke2fs. I'm attempting to format /dev/sda16 and message says: debian# mke2fs -v /dev/sda16 mke2fs 1.10, 24-Apr-97 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 /dev/sda16 is entire device, not just one partition! Proceed anyway? (y,n) But /dev/sda16 is just a 500MB partition, not an entire device: [..] /dev/sda4 147 147 527 3060382+ 5 Extended [..] /dev/sda16 463 463 527 522081 83 Linux native I tried changing the beginning and ending cylinders, to no avail. Why does mke2fs think /dev/sda16 is the entire drive? Because /dev/sda16 has major 8, minor 16, which is the major/minor pair for /dev/sdb: look at 'ls -l /dev/sda16 /dev/sdb'. BTW, you have created sda16 yourself didn't you :-) There is an infortunate 15 partition limit on PCs. Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: mke2fs
On Tue, 30 Sep 1997 00:16:12 PDT David Stern ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Philippe Troin wrote: Because /dev/sda16 has major 8, minor 16, which is the major/minor pair for /dev/sdb: look at 'ls -l /dev/sda16 /dev/sdb'. BTW, you have created sda16 yourself didn't you :-) I created it during the install procedure manually, yes. There is an infortunate 15 partition limit on PCs. Oh. Well..I'm a little surprised, very glad I asked, and very glad to know. I wouldn't have even come close to figuring that one out alone. Yeah especially if you had something on /dev/sdb :-) Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: reloading samba configuration
On Sun, 28 Sep 1997 22:23:06 EDT Paul Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'm using the default samba package installation which runs via inetd.. how can I reload samba's configuration file? I'm afraid you have to: # killall smbd nmbd which means that all connections are broken. And as SMB isn't a stateless protocol, the clients will feel it :-) Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Translation Table Syntax Errors?
On Sat, 27 Sep 1997 16:38:46 +0200 Remco Blaakmeer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sat, 27 Sep 1997, Victor Torrico wrote: Hello All, I keep getting error messages similar to the following when I run Mosaic and nedit: Warning: ... found while parsing '%s' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfDown Warning: translation table syntax error: %s [snip more errors] I'm running all the latest hamm/hamm stuff. What can I do to correct this problem? # su # cd /usr/i486-linuxlibc1/lib/X11 # ln -s ../../../X11R6/lib/X11/XKeysymDB ../../../X11R6/lib/X11/locale . # ^D $ Mosaic Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Hard links to a directory in a chroot environment
On Wed, 24 Sep 1997 11:43:53 +0200 joost witteveen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [..] Hard linked directories are bad, it would taker longer than that to explain. That's apity, cause I've been wanting to know why they are bad for a long time. Do you have any reference where I can search for an answer on that one? I have no reference, but I'll try to explain :-) When one does a mkdir(): 1. A directory special file is created, and an inode is allocated. 2. A `.' entry is created in this new directory, pointing to the inode allocated in 1. 3. A `..' entry is created, pointing to the parent's inode. All this is now performed atomically in the kernel through (2)mkdir, but there was a time when mkdir was performing these three steps in user space. When a rmdir() is done (assuming the directory is empty): 1. Entries . and .. are removed. 2. The directory inode is unlinked from the parent's directory entry. Having a hard link to a directory gives a first problem: Say you do: mkdir /usr/dir1 link /usr/dir1 /usr/local/dir1 (hard links /usr/dir1 to /usr/local/dir1) Then if you do cd /usr/local/dir1/.., you'll get to /usr. And there's no way for a program to detect that (the same thing can happen with symlinks, but one can read the symlinks contents). Second problem: you can create loops in the filesystem, eg: mkdir /usr/dir1 link /usr/dir1 /usr/dir1/loop Now start a find in /usr you can always wait for it to end. /usr/dir1/loop is equal to /usr/dir1 (inode-wise). Third problem: rmdir() doesn't work on a directory which is hard linked. Removing the . and .. entries will cause mayhem for the remaining links. Fourth problem: fsck doesn't work anymore and cannot fix some kind of problems anymore. Fsck operation relies on the fact that the directory tree, well err, is a tree. Allowing hard links between directories makes the directory structure an oriented graph. For all these reasons (and probably others I've never heard of), directory hard linking is discouraged. Most other unices forbid it too, or at least makes this feature a root-only privilege. And also, you can achieve the same effect 99% of the time with a symbolic link. The remaining 1% can be nailed down through a nfs loop mount (this 1% generally involves chroot()ed environments). For maximum security in chrooted environments: o don't mount /proc in the chrooted tree [..] o don't have devices in the chrooted tree Why are these? I can understand that they will cause havoc when a user in a chrooted becomes root, but if they do, they can create the devices/mounts files anyway. So, why are they suddenly a problem in chrooted environments? About /proc: /proc contains information about all the processes in the computer. Which means that a process running a a chrooted environment can acces to the working directory of any process running with the same uid outside of the chroot() dir through /proc/uid/cwd. Funny ? Assuming that you're root, and you're got a chrooted invironement in /chroot, and proc is mounted on /chroot/proc, try: cd /chroot chroot /chroot /bin/bash cd /proc/1/cwd Hop, you're back in the real / (cwd of init). Note that you don't have to be root to exploit this. About devices: Well, devices are common to the whole machine, which mean that if you've got a word-writable /dev/hda, someone in the chrooted environement can still trash your computer. However, if the permissions in the chrooted /dev are very conservative *and* there is no setuid executable in the chrooted tree, it should be reasonably safe. Oh, and there's one more thing which is also shared between the normal and chrooted environment: sockets, and IPC stuff. IPC stuff (shared memory, semaphores, etc...) is not a problem, unless there's a cooperating process outside the chrooted environement. Sockets are more annoying: any process can bind to unprovileged sockets, and any process can create a socket. Which means that someone in the chrooted environment can send crap to your syslog socket for example... (I'm not questioning your wisdom, I'm just curious). My wisdom is sometimes questionable :-) Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Disapearing /dev/tty0's
On Wed, 24 Sep 1997 19:28:53 MDT Chad D. Zimmerman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have had an interesting problem rear it's ugly head two times now .. my /dev/tty0's get SNAFUed for some reason. This is what they look like normally: tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16450 tty01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A tty03 at 0x02e8 (irq = 3) is a 16450 BUT two times now, this has happened when the system boots up: tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16450 tty01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16450 tty03 disapears and with it gone .. the mouse works but if I type pon to dial up the modem doesn't work and the mouse freezes and I have to reboot to get it back. Several reboots and the tty's go back to normal and everything works again. It has me befuddled. Anyone have any ideas? Plug-and-Pray ? Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Disapearing /dev/tty0's
On Wed, 24 Sep 1997 20:28:18 MDT Chad D. Zimmerman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, Philippe Troin wrote: Plug-and-Pray ? No Plug and Prey on this system. Not even windows. Good boy ! :-) Me too. Ok, so, from boot to boot, serial devices come and go. No I have no clue. If it were that the devices are there at boot and then diseappear, I had an explanation, but if in the same conditions the devices come and go from boot to boot, no idea. Sorry. Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Hard links to a directory in a chroot environment
On Tue, 23 Sep 1997 15:08:27 MDT Al Youngwerth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Here's what I want to do: Have restricted ftp access for users (chroot to their home directory). Allow certain users to be webmasters, these users should have a link in their home directory to a common directory that they can all read/write to. I'm using wu-ftpd, ext2fs file system and debian 1.3. This should work according to the documentation that I've read. But apparently ext2fs does not allow hard links to directories. Is this true? Is there any other way to implement this? Hard linked directories are bad, it would taker longer than that to explain. What you can do however is mount an nfs-looped directory. Ie: o add /my/exported/directory *.localnet (rw) to /etc/exports o (re)start nfsd (/etc/init.d/netstd_nfs stop; /etc/init.d/nfs start) o mount it in your chrooted environment: mount localhost:/my/exported/directory /restrictedroot/foo For maximum security in chrooted environments: o don't mount /proc in the chrooted tree o don't have setuid root files in the chrooted tree o don't have devices in the chrooted tree Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: downgrading ldso 1.9.2-3 to 1.8.10-2
On Tue, 16 Sep 1997 19:30:24 +0200 Alexander LIST ([EMAIL PROTECTED] raz.ac.at) wrote: I accidentally installed ldso 1.9.2-3 when trying to test some unstable packages. The rest of the system is still a bo. How dangerous is it to downgrade ldso? Perillous. Just don't do it, it will break your system. You can live with stable+ldso 1.9. Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: elf-xlib - correction - elf-x11r6lib
On Sun, 14 Sep 1997 23:08:28 - Rick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: It's the elf-x11r6lib I'm looking for not the elf-xlib as I stated in this posting. I searched the pkgs list from the Debian web site using elf as the keyword and nothing. I looked up a few of the pkgs that keep telling me they require it and they don't show it in the web site search either. Elf-x11r6lib used to be a virtual package back in the 1.1 days. Some packages still depend on it (they all have bugs assigned against them). It you want to get rid of the annoying dpkg message, just build a dummy package which provides it. Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: root and .rhosts file
On Mon, 15 Sep 1997 16:13:43 +0200 Martin Schulze ([EMAIL PROTECTED] ual.net) wrote: On Sep 15, Jeppe Buk wrote Try adding -h after rshd in your /etc/inetd.conf. This flag allows your in.rshd to use the root .rhosts file. Without it /root/.rhosts will be silently ignored. That did it! The option isn't mentioned in the man page. How was I supposed to have found this out myself? Please send an appropriate bug report against netstd. Not necessary. From `man rshd': 8. Rshd then validates the user using ruserok(3), which uses the file /etc/hosts.equiv and the .rhosts file found in the user's home di rectory. The -l option prevents ruserok(3) from doing any validation based on the user's ``.rhosts'' file (unless the user is the supe ruser and the -h option is used.) If the -h option is not used, su peruser accounts may not be accessed via this service at all. Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Getting rid of -r /usr/X11R6/lib
[Followups redirected to debian-devel] Some packages in hamm have been linked with the -r /usr/X11R6/lib option and break on a libc6 system with the new libc6 X libraries (coredump). This perl script will patch these programs and make them work: === BEGIN SCRIPT #!/usr/bin/perl -w # Open file open IN, $ARGV[0] or die can't find $ARGV[0]: $!; # Read it in one slurp select IN; undef $/; select STDOUT; $file=IN; close IN; # Remove this string $count=$file=~s!/usr/X11R6/lib\0!\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0!g; print Replaced: $count occurences in $ARGV[0]\n; # Write the file open OUT, $ARGV[0].out or die can't write $ARGV[0].out: $!; print OUT $file; close OUT; === END SCRIPT It's been working with emacs, xpmroot (package fvwm-common), fvwm2. All these programs now work like a charm (and got bugs assigned :-). Note: You should get one and only one replacement, otherwise it indicates something's gone wrong. Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Work-Needing and Prospective Packages
Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux Philippe Troin, [EMAIL PROTECTED] $Id: packages.sgml,v 1.56 1997/09/08 04:14:41 phil Exp $ 1. General Questions 1.1. Before reading this document You should have read the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/. 1.2. Purpose of this document This document is intended to identify areas that need your contributions. It provides information that hopefully changes quite often, so it supplements the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ. 1.3. Getting newer versions of this document Newer versions of this document will be available via FTP and HTTP: o http://www.debian.org/doc/prospective-packages.html o ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/prospective- packages.txt o ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/prospective- packages.html o ftp://ftp.fifi.org/puv/debian-local/WNPP/ 1.4. Feedback Please send additions, corrections, suggestions and wishes to Philippe Troin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mention to which version of this document your comments refer. Try to change the subject of your mail to reflect the packages you're talking about, it makes it easier for me to sort out all Re: Work- Needing and Prospective Packages emails I get. A suggested subject line reads WNPP: removing foopackage or WNPP: working on barpackage. Thanks. 2. Changes 2.1. Since version 1.55 1997/08/25 o Fixed a typo in PVM (was PVW). o Removed xgammon from packages someone is working on (uploaded to master). o Removed xpat2 and xsok from packages needing a new maintainer (new maintainer is Joel Rosdahl mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. o Cflow taken over by Ioannis Tambouras mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. o Majordomo taken over by Andy Kahn USG mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. o Changed the email for Drake Diedrich to be [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED] o Orphaned tcl74, tk40, tcl75, tk41, tclx74, tclx75, tix40. o Added abc2ps and abcmidi in packages someone is working on. o Added battalion to packages someone is working on and moved rocks and diamonds to it (used to be in the needed packages section). o Xfishtank and xgalaga taken over by Joey Hess mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. 2.2. Since version 1.54 1997/08/18 o Removed asp from packages someone is working on (uploaded). o Orphaned tkman. o Bin86 taken over by Juan Cespedes mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. o Orphaned pgcc. o Added majordomo to packages needing a new maintainer. o Removed smalleiffel from packages someone is working on. o Deliver taken over by Scott K. Ellis mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. o newsx taken over by Adrian Bridgett mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. o Added pppload and trafshow in packages someone is working on. o OmniORB (preivously listed in wanted packages) is being worked on. o Figlet taken over by Francesco Tapparo mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. o Added xfmail to packages someone is working on. 2.3. Since version 1.53 1997/08/11 o Fixed address for Will Lowe to be [EMAIL PROTECTED] o Fixed address for Hamish Moffatt to be [EMAIL PROTECTED] o Removed JADE from packages not yet available (already packagedin hamm). o Added asp to packages someone is working on. o Speak-freely taken over by Dave Restall mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. o Hypernews is being packaged by Brian S. Julin mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of Larry Gilbert mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. o Added hypermail to packages needing a new maintainer. o Orphaned file-rc. 2.4. Since version 1.52 Version 1.52 has not been released. 2.5. Since version 1.51 1997/08/04 o Tripwire taken over by Michael Meskes mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. o Changed Michael Meskes address. o Fixed a typo in smalleiffel. o Added isdnutils to packages needing a new maintainer. o Removed vlock and genromfs, taken over by Juan Cespedes mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. o Added uae, hpcdtoppm, and xpcd as packages under development. o Added rc to orphans. o Added pstoedit, wm2, gnuplot, gs, gs-aladdin, gsfonts, screen, transfig, and xfig to packages needing a new maintainer. o Added libkde0, libkde0-dev, and kdeapps as orphans. o Removed dialog, taken by Bill Mitchell mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. o Removed opustex from work-under-progress. o Removed freetype, taken over by Anthony Fok mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. o Added a blurb about email subjects. o Es taken over by James Troup. o Dip and sliplogin tken by Fabrizio Polacco mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. o Added fidogate in packages someone is working on. o Maelstrom and hextype taken by Richard Braakman mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. 2.6. Since version 1.50 1997/07/28 o Removed the notes section. o Removed x48 from packages someone is working on. o Added Robert Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED] packages to the orphaned section. o Added AX25 software and multicast (mbone) to needed section. o Added smalleiffel to packages someone is working on. o Removed erreously listed
Re: Fatal server error: xf86OpenConsole: Server must be run as root
On Fri, 05 Sep 1997 08:36:27 EDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Karsten Bolding writes: When I try to start x (startx) as a normal user on the new machine I get: [snip] Fatal server error: xf86OpenConsole: Server must be run as root Easily fixed. Go into /usr/X11R6/bin and 1) delete X 2) Make a link to the X server that you have chosen: ln -s ./XF86_SVGA X No, don't do that. /usr/X11R6/bin/X is a wrapper which does what is needed to be done as root and then drop the permissions and start the correct Xserver listed in /etc/X11/Xserver. The permissions should be (assuming you use the S3V server, but it's the same story for other servers): -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 4344 Jun 20 07:45 /usr/bin/X11/X* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2043768 Jun 20 07:38 /usr/bin/X11/XF86_S3V* Don't erase X ! It used to work like you told (X being a symlink to the correct X server) on old Xfree releases, but X has been an independent program since Xfree 3.2. Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Quick eth question
On Fri, 05 Sep 1997 15:51:49 MDT Mike Patterson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have an ne2000 card that worked in 1.2.1... And I just moved to 1.3.1. in /var/log/messages I see the line: eth0: NE2000 found at 0x300, using IRQ 9 but there is no /dev/eth0, and executing the command: MAKEDEV eth0 gives me: MAKEDEV: unknown device or group eth0 I doubt you ever had a /dev/eth0. Network interfaces don't have an entry in dev. They're manipulated through ifconfig. Try ifconfig eth0 addr up. Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Lost the POP in smail.
On Tue, 02 Sep 1997 12:40:35 CDT Anthony Landreneau ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Greetings, While doing some software upgrades to my debian box I lost the POP3 ability. Tried to reinstall smail, nothing, sendmail, nothing. Eudora will connect to the box, but as it starts to log in it will just hang. Any ideas on what could have happened and were I could look to respovle the situation? A POP-3 daemon used to be included in netstd, but it's been dropped some time ago. Now you need a separate package for POP-3 support: qpopper. Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Unidentified subject!
On Sat, 30 Aug 1997 12:49:28 MDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got a 486 machine that I have installed Debian 1.31 version on. It has a 3COM 3C905 tx PCI card in it. The system does not recognize the PCI card. Do I need to get something and recompile the kernal in order for linux to see the pci card? Yes, there's an updated driver for this card. It will eventually get through 2.0.31. You can find it at: http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html Alternately, you can get 2.0.31-pre7 from ftp://ftp.kernel.org Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: 2 CPU servers
On Fri, 29 Aug 1997 13:06:51 CDT Jesse Goldman ([EMAIL PROTECTED] ov) wrote: Our group is considering ordering some Debian servers running kernel 2.0.30 either with 2 Pentium Pro CPUs or 2 Pentium II CPUs. I've read somewhere, however, that, in the dual CPU configuration, lock-ups are occasionally experienced which may cut down on productivity. Does anyone have a Debian box with 2 processors and, if so, are you pretty happy with it? 2.0.31-pre7 seems to be working ok (no deadlocks). 2.0.30 or 2.0.29 with the deadlock-patch 6 works fine too. Also, does anyone know whether tape stackers are supported by the scsi driver included in the current kernels? Thanks... I've seen some tape loaders change tape when sent mt offline, which make them usable under linux. You might want to check first though. Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: error message:shel-init: cannot get working directory
On Mon, 25 Aug 1997 11:00:48 PDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: shel-init: cannot get working directory : getcwd: cannot access parent directories This is only with user accounts. Root doesn't do this. Check that all directories above your home directories are rwxr-xr-x. Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: telnet and ftp..
On Tue, 19 Aug 1997 16:45:24 CDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not quite sure what I did.. but, somehow I managed to remove telnet and ftp from my Debian installation through dselect. Of course, this is rather inconvenient. Which package can I find these programs? netstd. Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Iomega Ditto 2GB (internal).
On Mon, 18 Aug 1997 23:52:14 -0300 Felix Almeida ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'm a sysadmin of a small network at my college and I'm going to buy a new tape drive in order to do the back-ups. Some friends told me that the Iomega Ditto 2GB (internal model) is a good choice. So, I'd like to know if this drive works fine under Linux. Are there any problems with it? Does the kernel recognizes it? Does anybody use it? Please, help me! ;-) Thanks in advance. Felix Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: help - 1.3 upgrade killed XFree86
On Tue, 19 Aug 1997 07:29:11 PDT Kenneth Gaugler ([EMAIL PROTECTED] id.com) wrote: Yesterday I used the dselect/ftp method to upgrade my machine from Debian Linux 1.2 to 1.3. The system is now running 1.3, but X doesn't work anymore. startx /tmp/x.out 21 to capture the error messages at startup and came up with some things I have never seen before, like error opening security policy file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy Hmmm, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver points is a symlink to /etc/X11/xserver and /etc/X11/xserver contains SecurityPolicy. Both files are provided by xbase 3.3-3. Can you check for these files ? Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: transfer debian to CDR
On Wed, 20 Aug 1997 10:51:22 +1000 Lawrence Chim ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have mirrored the debian bo, non-free, contrib, and hamm. Now, my friend want to install it and ask me to burn a CD from the mirror. I know how to creating the CD-image already, the problem is that the mirror (*.deb files only) is around 840MB, a CDR can only store up to 650MB, how can I due with this problem? If I split it and store on two CDRs, say, bo, non-free and contrib on the first CDR, and hamm on the second CDR, would dpkg/dselect understands and ask me the swap the proper CDR? The debian-cd packages builds two iso images (source and binaries) from a mirror tree. You might want to give it a try... Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: 6666 and 6667 ports..
On Mon, 18 Aug 1997 09:44:22 -0300 Carlos Marcos Kakihara
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I have a netware which access the Internet in a school. People
here abuse this service so who really needs the machines can't use them.
IRC is the worst of all! So, I want to restrict the conection to the
and 6667 ports for some subnets. My router is a Debian 2.0.29 using
ppp 2.2.0f-19 to the other router.
Use tcpd and /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} if the connection happens on one of your
machines. Otherwise, if it's routed packets, use the kernel firewalling
facilities (man ipfwadm, probably kernel recompilation).
Phil.
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Work-Needing and Prospective Packages
Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux Philippe Troin, [EMAIL PROTECTED] $Id: packages.sgml,v 1.54 1997/08/18 13:12:08 phil Exp $ 1. General Questions 1.1. Before reading this document You should have read the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/. 1.2. Purpose of this document This document is intended to identify areas that need your contributions. It provides information that hopefully changes quite often, so it supplements the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ. 1.3. Getting newer versions of this document Newer versions of this document will be available via FTP and HTTP: o http://www.debian.org/doc/prospective-packages.html o ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/prospective- packages.txt 1.4. Feedback Please send additions, corrections, suggestions and wishes to Philippe Troin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mention to which version of this document your comments refer. Try to change the subject of your mail to reflect the packages you're talking about, it makes it easier for me to sort out all Re: Work- Needing and Prospective Packages emails I get. A suggested subject line reads WNPP: removing foopackage or WNPP: working on barpackage. Thanks. 2. Changes 2.1. Since version 1.53 1997/08/11 o Fixed address for Will Lowe to be [EMAIL PROTECTED] o Fixed address for Hamish Moffatt to be [EMAIL PROTECTED] o Removed JADE from packages not yet available (already packagedin hamm). o Added asp to packages someone is working on. o Speak-freely taken over by Dave Restall mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. o Hypernews is being packaged by Brian S. Julin mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of Larry Gilbert mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. o Added hypermail to packages needing a new maintainer. o Orphaned file-rc. 2.2. Since version 1.52 Version 1.52 has not been released. 2.3. Since version 1.51 1997/08/04 o Tripwire taken over by Michael Meskes mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. o Changed Michael Meskes address. o Fixed a typo in smalleiffel. o Added isdnutils to packages needing a new maintainer. o Removed vlock and genromfs, taken over by Juan Cespedes mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. o Added uae, hpcdtoppm, and xpcd as packages under development. o Added rc to orphans. o Added pstoedit, wm2, gnuplot, gs, gs-aladdin, gsfonts, screen, transfig, and xfig to packages needing a new maintainer. o Added libkde0, libkde0-dev, and kdeapps as orphans. o Removed dialog, taken by Bill Mitchell mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. o Removed opustex from work-under-progress. o Removed freetype, taken over by Anthony Fok mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. o Added a blurb about email subjects. o Es taken over by James Troup. o Dip and sliplogin tken by Fabrizio Polacco mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. o Added fidogate in packages someone is working on. o Maelstrom and hextype taken by Richard Braakman mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. 2.4. Since version 1.50 1997/07/28 o Removed the notes section. o Removed x48 from packages someone is working on. o Added Robert Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED] packages to the orphaned section. o Added AX25 software and multicast (mbone) to needed section. o Added smalleiffel to packages someone is working on. o Removed erreously listed packages mgetty and ircd (attributed to Ben Gertzfield). Mgetty has been taken over by someone, and ircd actually belongs to Christopher Lameter. o Added HTML version of Matt Welsh's Installation Getting Started in packages someone is working on. o Added xbat to packages someone is working on. o Removed scion sniffit radiusdmerit-lass phpfi xssi from the packages someone is working on section and added flin and deliver to the packages needing a new maintainer section. o Added agrep to the needed packages section. o Ipx and ncpfs taken over and removed. o Workman was wrongly listed as orphaned, removed. o Added xzx in packages someone is working on. o Moved clisp form needed packages to packages someone is working on. 3. Orphaned packages (An orphaned package is a package that has no current maintainer.) Please inform me via e-mail: o when you find that you need to orphan a package o when you believe that the following list is incomplete o when you would like to maintain one of these packages. Orn E. Hansen : o dialdcost o xega o xmailtool o xspread Yves Arrouye [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o compress-package o ppd-adobe-common, ppd-adobe-extra, ppd-adobe-misc, ppd-gs o psptools Dominik Kubla [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o arpd o cflow o csh o ptx o spell Brian C. White [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o zyxel Raul D. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o j1 (in old source format) o sam (in old source format) o ucbmpeg (in old source format) o ucbmpegplay (in old source format) Michael Nonweiler [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o nas Jim Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o mh-papers o term o witalian o pari, paridoc o wnorwegian Joost Witteveen
Re: Error meesage from bootup,
On Sat, 16 Aug 1997 08:20:05 MDT lc29b50 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: This is part of the message I recevied from the bootup, although everything seems to be working fine, is there a scsi module I should install?? md driver 0.35 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8 Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card! PPA: unable to initialise controller at 0x378, error 2 scsi : 0 hosts. scsi : detected total. This is normal. The kernel distributed with debian is compiled with almost all drivers in. Some of them are verbose when they cannot detect the hardware they're supposed to drive. These are the messages you're getting... Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: microsoft riff, wave audio data
On Sun, 17 Aug 1997 13:59:30 +0800 A.D.Y. Cheng ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Does anyone know what program in linux can transform the Microsoft riff, wave audio data into .voc file? Sox. In debian package sox. Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Work-Needing and Prospective Packages
Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux Philippe Troin, [EMAIL PROTECTED] $Id: packages.sgml,v 1.53 1997/08/11 17:26:39 phil Exp $ 1. General Questions 1.1. Before reading this document You should have read the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/. 1.2. Purpose of this document This document is intended to identify areas that need your contributions. It provides information that hopefully changes quite often, so it supplements the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ. 1.3. Getting newer versions of this document Newer versions of this document will be available via FTP and HTTP: o http://www.debian.org/doc/prospective-packages.html o ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/prospective- packages.txt 1.4. Feedback Please send additions, corrections, suggestions and wishes to Philippe Troin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mention to which version of this document your comments refer. Try to change the subject of your mail to reflect the packages you're talking about, it makes it easier for me to sort out all Re: Work- Needing and Prospective Packages emails I get. A suggested subject line reads WNPP: removing foopackage or WNPP: working on barpackage. Thanks. 2. Changes 2.1. Since version 1.51 1997/08/04 o Tripwire taken over by Michael Meskes mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. o Changed Michael Meskes address. o Fixed a typo in smalleiffel. o Added isdnutils to packages needing a new maintainer. o Removed vlock and genromfs, taken over by Juan Cespedes mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. o Added uae, hpcdtoppm, and xpcd as packages under development. o Added rc to orphans. o Added pstoedit, wm2, gnuplot, gs, gs-aladdin, gsfonts, screen, transfig, and xfig to packages needing a new maintainer. o Added libkde0, libkde0-dev, and kdeapps as orphans. o Removed dialog, taken by Bill Mitchell mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. o Removed opustex from work-under-progress. o Removed freetype, taken over by Anthony Fok mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. o Added a blurb about email subjects. o Es taken over by James Troup. o Dip and sliplogin tken by Fabrizio Polacco mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. o Added fidogate in packages someone is working on. o Maelstrom and hextype taken by Richard Braakman mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. 2.2. Since version 1.50 1997/07/28 o Removed the notes section. o Removed x48 from packages someone is working on. o Added Robert Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED] packages to the orphaned section. o Added AX25 software and multicast (mbone) to needed section. o Added smalleiffel to packages someone is working on. o Removed erreously listed packages mgetty and ircd (attributed to Ben Gertzfield). Mgetty has been taken over by someone, and ircd actually belongs to Christopher Lameter. o Added HTML version of Matt Welsh's Installation Getting Started in packages someone is working on. o Added xbat to packages someone is working on. o Removed scion sniffit radiusdmerit-lass phpfi xssi from the packages someone is working on section and added flin and deliver to the packages needing a new maintainer section. o Added agrep to the needed packages section. o Ipx and ncpfs taken over and removed. o Workman was wrongly listed as orphaned, removed. o Added xzx in packages someone is working on. o Moved clisp form needed packages to packages someone is working on. 3. Orphaned packages (An orphaned package is a package that has no current maintainer.) Please inform me via e-mail: o when you find that you need to orphan a package o when you believe that the following list is incomplete o when you would like to maintain one of these packages. Orn E. Hansen : o dialdcost o speak-freely (non-US developper) o xega o xmailtool o xspread Yves Arrouye [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o compress-package o ppd-adobe-common, ppd-adobe-extra, ppd-adobe-misc, ppd-gs o psptools Dominik Kubla [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o arpd o cflow o csh o ptx o spell Brian C. White [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o zyxel Raul D. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o j1 (in old source format) o sam (in old source format) o ucbmpeg (in old source format) o ucbmpegplay (in old source format) Michael Nonweiler [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o nas Jim Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o mh-papers o term o witalian o pari, paridoc o wnorwegian Joost Witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o xosview (probably to be abandonned) Doug Geiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o apsfilter Erick Branderhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o giftrans o idutch o mathpad o mfbasfnt o wdutch o wenglish Christian Linhart [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o statserial o xarchie o bibindex J.A.vanderMost [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o dmalloc Shaya Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o opie Stuart Lamble [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o fsp Larry 'Daffy' Daffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o xscreensaver Guy R. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o dld (do we still need this ?) Patrick J Edwards [EMAIL
Re: bash command history
On Sat, 09 Aug 1997 02:22:32 EDT Paul Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Is there any way to get bash to work like 4dos? -- If you type the first couple of characters of a command in history, it will only scroll through those commands begining with those characters... ^R aka CTRL-R man readline Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: [DPKG] Integrity checking?
On Fri, 08 Aug 1997 09:15:06 BST Magossa'nyi A'rpa'd ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Is dpkg can do integrity checking based on the MD5 hashes it uses? Our machine has been cracked, and we want to know which binaries have been compromised. There are per-package md5 sums to check the integrity of the .deb you download, but not per-file sums. What you can do is dpkg -iGROB path to the binary directory of the distribution like: dpkg -iGROB /cdrom/bo/binary-i386 dpkg -iGROB /cdrom/contrib/binary-i386 etc... This will reinstall all currently installed packages. This will have the side effect of reconfiguring everything... If course, you'll have to check for 1) binaries in /usr/local 2) other binaries. I'd suggest: o Removing ALL setuid bits in your system find / -perm +6000 | xargs chmod ug-s or chmod -R ug-s / (This might leave your system unusable except for root) o Check for all device files and remove the ones which are not in /dev find / -name /dev -prune -o ( -type b -o -type c ) -print | xargs rm Look for permissions for /dev/* and eventually fix them... o Do the dpkg -iGROB thing, which will resume correct setuidness. This should give you a fairly secure system. Disclaimer: Of course, this is just my advice, and you might destroy your system doing this... Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ppp configuring with dunc
On Mon, 04 Aug 1997 16:07:24 +0400 Eugene Sevinian ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: few weeks ago I have installed Debian from self made CDs with 1.3.0a. It seems that everything was fine! [Exepting the fact when I did not find some nice lovely things like xman and xload] [snip] xload is in the xproc package. xman is in the xcontrib package. Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Work-Needing and Prospective Packages
Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux Philippe Troin, [EMAIL PROTECTED] $Id: packages.sgml,v 1.51 1997/08/04 07:11:51 phil Exp $ 1. General Questions 1.1. Before reading this document You should have read the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/. 1.2. Purpose of this document This document is intended to identify areas that need your contributions. It provides information that hopefully changes quite often, so it supplements the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ. 1.3. Getting newer versions of this document Newer versions of this document will be available via FTP and HTTP: o http://www.debian.org/doc/prospective-packages.html o ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/prospective- packages.txt 1.4. Feedback Please send additions, corrections, suggestions and wishes to Philippe Troin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mention to which version of this document your comments refer. 2. Changes 2.1. Since version 1.50 1997/07/28 o Removed the notes section. o Removed x48 from packages someone is working on. o Added Robert Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED] packages to the orphaned section. o Added AX25 software and multicast (mbone) to needed section. o Added smalleiffel to packages someone is working on. o Removed erreously listed packages mgetty and ircd (attributed to Ben Gertzfield). Mgetty has been taken over by someone, and ircd actually belongs to Christopher Lameter. o Added HTML version of Matt Welsh's Installation Getting Started in packages someone is working on. o Added xbat to packages someone is working on. o Removed scion sniffit radiusdmerit-lass phpfi xssi from the packages someone is working on section and added flin and deliver to the packages needing a new maintainer section. o Added agrep to the needed packages section. o Ipx and ncpfs taken over and removed. o Workman was wrongly listed as orphaned, removed. o Added xzx in packages someone is working on. o Moved clisp form needed packages to packages someone is working on. 3. Orphaned packages (An orphaned package is a package that has no current maintainer.) Please inform me via e-mail: o when you find that you need to orphan a package o when you believe that the following list is incomplete o when you would like to maintain one of these packages. Orn E. Hansen : o dialdcost o hextype o speak-freely (non-US developper) o xega o xmailtool o xspread Yves Arrouye [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o compress-package o ppd-adobe-common, ppd-adobe-extra, ppd-adobe-misc, ppd-gs o psptools llucius [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o dialog Dominik Kubla [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o arpd o cflow o csh o ptx o spell o vlock Brian C. White [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o zyxel Raul D. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o j1 (in old source format) o sam (in old source format) o ucbmpeg (in old source format) o ucbmpegplay (in old source format) Michael Nonweiler [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o nas Jim Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o mh-papers o term o witalian o pari, paridoc o wnorwegian Joost Witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o xosview (probably to be abandonned) Doug Geiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o apsfilter Erick Branderhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o giftrans o idutch o mathpad o mfbasfnt o wdutch o wenglish Christian Linhart [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o statserial o xarchie o bibindex J.A.vanderMost [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o dmalloc Shaya Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o opie Stuart Lamble [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o fsp Patrick Weemeeuw [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o tripwire Larry 'Daffy' Daffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o xscreensaver Guy R. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o dld (do we still need this ?) Patrick J Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o mailpgp Dermot Bradley [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o radiusd-merit Fabien Ninoles [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o vrweb Peter Tobias [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o dip sliplogin (used to be in netstd). Robert Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o deliver o figfonts o figlet o hfsutils o maelstrom o motifnls o sox Others: o xcompat (should we drop it ?) o libc4 (a.out compatibility) 4. Packages needing a new maintainer Please inform me via e-mail: o when you find that you'd like to discontinue maintaining a package Please inform the mainatiner of the package: o when you would like to maintain one of the packages. Sven Rudolph [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o chimera (should be upgraded to v1.70) o enscript o seyon o lpr o xonix o xpat2 o xsok Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o xarclock o lha o dosfstools o sendfile Joe Kirby [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o lxtools Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o ncsa o genromfs o bridge/bridgex (Bridging Tools for Kernel 2.0.X/2.1.X) o berolist o adbbs (needs a better setup of pre-customized files) o gpc o libgpc2 o gpc-doc o verse o freefont o fdos o sharefont o newsx o syslinux o pash o zmailer o isite o knfs o poppassd
Re: Recording sound
On Thu, 31 Jul 1997 15:22:13 EDT Peter S Galbraith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: What package do people use to record .au audio files? There is xwave in hamm (which should currently work on a 1.3 system). Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Work-Needing and Prospective Packages
Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux Philippe Troin, [EMAIL PROTECTED] $Id: packages.sgml,v 1.50 1997/07/28 15:49:22 phil Exp $ 1. Note I've taken over the maintenance of the Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux from Sven Rudolph starting version 1.44 of this document. I've incorporated a lot of changes since. Please notify me of any errors. 2. General Questions 2.1. Before reading this document You should have read the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/. 2.2. Purpose of this document This document is intended to identify areas that need your contributions. It provides information that hopefully changes quite often, so it supplements the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ. 2.3. Getting newer versions of this document Newer versions of this document will be available via FTP and HTTP: o http://www.debian.org/doc/prospective-packages.html o ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/prospective- packages.txt 2.4. Feedback Please send additions, corrections, suggestions and wishes to Philippe Troin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mention to which version of this document your comments refer. 3. Orphaned packages (An orphaned package is a package that has no current maintainer.) Please inform me via e-mail: o when you find that you need to orphan a package o when you believe that the following list is incomplete o when you would like to maintain one of these packages. Orn E. Hansen : o dialdcost o hextype o speak-freely (non-US developper) o xega o xmailtool o xspread Yves Arrouye [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o compress-package o ppd-adobe-common, ppd-adobe-extra, ppd-adobe-misc, ppd-gs o psptools llucius [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o dialog Dominik Kubla [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o arpd o cflow o csh o ptx o spell o vlock Brian C. White [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o zyxel Raul D. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o j1 (in old source format) o sam (in old source format) o ucbmpeg (in old source format) o ucbmpegplay (in old source format) Michael Nonweiler [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o ipx o nas o ncpfs Jim Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o mh-papers o term o witalian o pari, paridoc o wnorwegian Joost Witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o xosview (probably to be abandonned) Doug Geiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o apsfilter Erick Branderhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o giftrans o idutch o mathpad o mfbasfnt o wdutch o wenglish Christian Linhart [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o statserial o xarchie o bibindex J.A.vanderMost [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o dmalloc Shaya Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o opie Stuart Lamble [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o fsp Patrick Weemeeuw [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o tripwire Larry 'Daffy' Daffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o xscreensaver Guy R. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o dld (do we still need this ?) Patrick J Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o mailpgp Dermot Bradley [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o radiusd-merit Fabien Ninoles [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o vrweb Volker Ossenkopf [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o workman Peter Tobias [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o dip sliplogin (used to be in netstd). Ben Gertzfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o ircd Others: o xcompat (should we drop it ?) o libc4 (a.out compatibility) 4. Packages needing a new maintainer Please inform me via e-mail: o when you find that you'd like to discontinue maintaining a package Please inform the mainatiner of the package: o when you would like to maintain one of the packages. Sven Rudolph [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o chimera (should be upgraded to v1.70) o enscript o seyon o lpr o xonix o xpat2 o xsok Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o xarclock o lha o dosfstools o sendfile Joe Kirby [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o lxtools Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o ncsa o genromfs o bridge/bridgex (Bridging Tools for Kernel 2.0.X/2.1.X) o berolist o adbbs (needs a better setup of pre-customized files) o gpc o libgpc2 o gpc-doc o verse o freefont o fdos o sharefont o newsx o syslinux o pash o zmailer o isite o knfs o poppassd o transproxy o loadlin o freetype o omir o komirr o worklog o mserver Karl Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o sysutils Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o dvi2tty o hyperlatex o info2www o latex2rtf o mysql Vincent Renardias [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o ftplib o lde o libdnd1 o libdnd1-dev o macutils o mcvert o offix-clipboard o offix-editor o offix-execute o offix-files o offix-trash o xabacus o xfishtank o xgalaga o xmcpustate o xodo Michael Meskes [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o html2latex o icmake o ntfs o xftp Joost Witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o bin86 o libpaper o axe o es o pixmap 5. Packages that someone is working on Programs listed in this section aren't yet available as Debian packages, but someone is working on providing a package. If you would like to work on one of these packages please contact
Work-Needing and Prospective Packages
Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux Philippe Troin, [EMAIL PROTECTED] $Id: packages.sgml,v 1.49 1997/07/24 06:02:41 phil Exp $ 1. Note I've taken over the maintenance of the Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux from Sven Rudolph starting version 1.44 of this document. I've incorporated a lot of changes since. Please notify me of any errors. 2. General Questions 2.1. Before reading this document You should have read the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/. 2.2. Purpose of this document This document is intended to identify areas that need your contributions. It provides information that hopefully changes quite often, so it supplements the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ. 2.3. Getting newer versions of this document Newer versions of this document will be available via FTP and HTTP: o http://www.debian.org/doc/prospective-packages.html o ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/prospective- packages.txt 2.4. Feedback Please send additions, corrections, suggestions and wishes to Philippe Troin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mention to which version of this document your comments refer. 3. Orphaned packages (An orphaned package is a package that has no current maintainer.) Please inform me via e-mail: o when you find that you need to orphan a package o when you believe that the following list is incomplete o when you would like to maintain one of these packages. Orn E. Hansen : o dialdcost o hextype o speak-freely (non-US developper) o xega o xmailtool o xspread Yves Arrouye [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o compress-package o ppd-adobe-common, ppd-adobe-extra, ppd-adobe-misc, ppd-gs o psptools llucius [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o dialog Dominik Kubla [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o arpd o cflow o csh o ptx o spell o vlock Brian C. White [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o zyxel Raul D. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o j1 (in old source format) o sam (in old source format) o ucbmpeg (in old source format) o ucbmpegplay (in old source format) Michael Nonweiler [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o ipx o nas o ncpfs Jim Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o mh-papers o term o witalian o pari, paridoc o wnorwegian Joost Witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o xosview (probably to be abandonned) Doug Geiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o apsfilter Erick Branderhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o giftrans o idutch o mathpad o mfbasfnt o wdutch o wenglish Christian Linhart [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o statserial o xarchie o bibindex J.A.vanderMost [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o dmalloc Shaya Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o opie Stuart Lamble [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o fsp Patrick Weemeeuw [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o tripwire Larry 'Daffy' Daffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o xscreensaver Guy R. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o dld (do we still need this ?) Patrick J Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o mailpgp Dermot Bradley [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o radiusd-merit Fabien Ninoles [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o vrweb Volker Ossenkopf [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o workman Peter Tobias [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o slip diplogin (used to be in netstd). Ben Gertzfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o mgetty o ircd Others: o xcompat (should we drop it ?) o libc4 (a.out compatibility) 4. Packages needing a new maintainer Please inform me via e-mail: o when you find that you'd like to discontinue maintaining a package Please inform the mainatiner of the package: o when you would like to maintain one of the packages. Sven Rudolph [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o chimera (should be upgraded to v1.70) o enscript o seyon o lpr o xonix o xpat2 o xsok Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o xarclock o lha o dosfstools o sendfile Joe Kirby [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o lxtools Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o ncsa o genromfs o bridge/bridgex (Bridging Tools for Kernel 2.0.X/2.1.X) o berolist o adbbs (needs a better setup of pre-customized files) o gpc o libgpc2 o gpc-doc o verse o freefont o fdos o sharefont o newsx o syslinux o pash o zmailer o isite o knfs o poppassd o transproxy o loadlin o freetype o omir o komirr o worklog o mserver Karl Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o sysutils Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o dvi2tty o hyperlatex o info2www o latex2rtf o mysql Vincent Renardias [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o ftplib o lde o libdnd1 o libdnd1-dev o macutils o mcvert o offix-clipboard o offix-editor o offix-execute o offix-files o offix-trash o xabacus o xfishtank o xgalaga o xmcpustate o xodo Michael Meskes [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o html2latex o icmake o ntfs o xftp Joost Witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o bin86 o libpaper o axe o es o pixmap 5. Packages that someone is working on Programs listed in this section aren't yet available as Debian packages, but someone is working on providing a package. If you would like to work on one of these packages
Re: dump error 8-(
On Thu, 24 Jul 1997 12:48:35 BST =?iso-8859-1?q?J=F6rg_Delker?= ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Can anybody help on this? All of the sudden I get a mystirious dump error: DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Thu Jul 24 12:41:50 1997 DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch DUMP: Dumping /dev/sda3 (/) to /dev/null DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files] DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories] DUMP: estimated 182460 tape blocks on 0.36 tape(s). DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories] DUMP: master/slave protocol botched. DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted. I have this sometimes when the partition I dump isn't in /etc/dumpdates. Create a dummy /etc/dumpdates line for your partition in /etc/dumpdates. Additionnaly, you might want to report this as a bug. Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: samba and windows NT
On Wed, 23 Jul 1997 16:36:30 +1200 Richard L Shepherd ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Tue, 22 Jul 1997, Syd Alsobrook wrote: I'm using debian 1.3 with samba 1.9.16. When my main workstation was running Win95 I could connect fine now I'm running NT 4.0 and I can browse the to my linux box but I'm getting a login error that says: The account is not authorized to login from this station. I have a colleague here who can no longer mount, via samba, his home directory since he applied service-pack 3 to his NT 4.0 machine. It's a big problem here because suddenly lots of people can no longer access their samba volumes on our main WWW (unix) servers the way they used to. I don't yet know of a satisfactory solution. Strangely enough Service Pack 3 changes the way the password database is accessed on NT. I don't say that this is a voluntary move from Micro$oft to burden Unix/NT interoperability, but... I've heard there's a switch somewhere wich says Allow clear passwords or something of the like, and that Service Pack 3 switches off. I have no clue of where this button hides in NT's widget forest. If you can find where this switch is, could you please get back to me and tell me ? I might have to deal with this crap soon... Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: xmix
On Mon, 21 Jul 1997 23:49:43 EDT dpk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Check your permissions on /dev/mixer. Mine permissions are set to '666'. Or better, add yourself (and all users who should be allowed sound access )to the audio group in /etc/group. Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: dselect skips the non-free distribution
On Sun, 20 Jul 1997 22:16:18 PDT Oz Dror ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have just installed 1.3. dselect ignores selected packages from non-free. Is there a way to fix that? You probably have some packages that cannot configure in the main distribution (or contrib). Try to resolve these problems (by doing a [C]onfigure or by removing them) before trying to re-do an [I]nstall. Dselect wants to have all the packages in the main distribution configured ok before going to contrib and non-free... Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Unidentified subject!
On Mon, 21 Jul 1997 10:36:46 CDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering if there was anyone working on putting enlightenment into a deb There is someone working on it. Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: not a debian question
On Mon, 21 Jul 1997 09:46:42 MDT Lazar Fleysher ([EMAIL PROTECTED] .gov) wrote: I have a pentium computer with a dual IDE controller, but BIOS can access only primary channel. Will Linux be able to 'see' both channels? (hope it is a yes...) Yes. Of course :-) I have tried to install second HD on the primary channel and . Hard drive from Western Digital is not recognized at all, but BIOS can find a Seagate one. Nevertheless, when I turn on the computer BIOS says that the new HD did not pass POST, press F1 to continue and computer boots from my old Panasonic drive, but very slowly... After that if I warm reboot the computer, everything is fine. Is the second HD configured as slave and the first configured as master. It sometimes looks dumb to say this, but some HD come with three-way settings (alone, master, slave). Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Any chroot experts
On Sat, 19 Jul 1997 12:02:51 EDT Brandon Mitchell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I recently attended an internet security talk, and one thing that caught my attention is placing an offender in a virtual playpin or jail cell, where they could do all the damage they wanted without hurting the actual setup. I figured this was done using a chroot environment. Beware of this. It's only 99% safe. The remaining 1%: the sockets and devices remain global. Ie as root in the playpin: mknod /dev/hda b major minor cat /dev/zero dev/hda will wipe your hard disk... Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Account Maintenance Package
On Thu, 17 Jul 1997 12:12:36 CDT Brian K Servis ([EMAIL PROTECTED] ) wrote: Here at Purdue the Engineering Computer Network staff have developed a very awesome account management package called ACMAINT. They currently use it to manage all the accounts and machines on the network.(Over 13,000 users with over 336,000 accounts on approx. 800 Sun's, 120 HP's, and handful of IBM's, SGI, etc!) From any machine on the network you can change any account on any other machine via a client server arrangement. The source and doc are in ftp://ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/ACMAINT/. I don't think it has been ported to Linux but can be built on 20 different *nix's including BSD4.2, BSD4.3 BSDPOSIX so it shouldn't be to difficult to add support for Linux. It is very customizable. I believe it was written in tcl/tk and uses an oracle database. All the developers have since left the network and so the code is for the most part frozen. There is a mailing list mentioned in the README's which is still active and the route to get support. I have used it on the computers at school and was very impressed but have not tried to get it to run on my single personal Linux box at home(don't see much point). I just thought I would mention this to the list in case someone would be interested in taking a look at it. I've added it in Work Needing and Prospective Packages as a wanted package. Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: /etc/issue file
On Fri, 18 Jul 1997 02:18:27 EDT Paul Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I know this doesn't totally relate to Debian... I want to add a clear screen character to the begining of the /etc/issue file instead of having a clear command in the .bash_logout... I think it is ^L... how can I add this character with emacs? ^Q^L Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Are their networking changes in regard to 2.1.* kernels?
On Fri, 18 Jul 1997 10:11:28 EDT Shaya Potter ([EMAIL PROTECTED] l) wrote: I just got a chance to get a spare machine to try out the 2.1 series kernels, well I decided to go with 2.1.45, and everything seems to work ok, except that when ever I boot up, I get the error SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument When the /etc/init.d/network script is run to ifconfig the ethernet device. I assume this is because some options changed with the 2.1 series. Where can I find info on the new syntax, or did I do something wrong. The route command became very picky with 2.1.x. Add all the options to the route command (netmask, broadcast). They were automagically computed before. Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: man pages, etc.
On Mon, 14 Jul 1997 15:54:07 CDT larry ives ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I just used the Debian installation for linux and it was a pleasure = compared to slackware! There are a couple of things that don't work = however. I can't seem to execute a man page session. When I look for the man = executable I can't find it, all though I do have some gziped man pages. The file command doesn't seem to be present either. Can anyone help = me? Err, did you install the mandb and file packages ? If you've just got the base system, it's likely they're not here... Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Debian + AfterStep= no color (fwd)
On Mon, 14 Jul 1997 15:39:22 MDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] I have no problems with the Slackware setup - Afterstep works beautifully and is very appealing visually. Under Debian however, I have almost NO color. Upon exit I see the message: Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for [color] My XF86Config is the same in both cases, as is my .steprc. My root window has a simple grey background, I am running at 8bpp, nothing special loaded except the wharf and Afterstep icons. [snip] Afterstep in its default configuration is very color greedy. You might want to get rid of some icons and/or some gradients. There's a file called something.8bit in /usr/doc/afterstep, you'd better have a look at it. Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Work-Needing and Prospective Packages
Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux Philippe Troin, [EMAIL PROTECTED] $Id: packages.sgml,v 1.48 1997/07/14 05:59:38 phil Exp $ 1. Note I've taken over the maintenance of the Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux from Sven Rudolph starting version 1.44 of this document. I've incorporated a lot of changes since. Please notify me of any errors. 2. General Questions 2.1. Before reading this document You should have read the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ http://www.debian.org/FAQ/. 2.2. Purpose of this document This document is intended to identify areas that need your contributions. It provides information that hopefully changes quite often, so it supplements the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ. 2.3. Getting newer versions of this document Newer versions of this document will be available via FTP and HTTP: o http://www.debian.org/doc/prospective-packages.html o ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/prospective- packages.txt 2.4. Feedback Please send additions, corrections, suggestions and wishes to Philippe Troin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mention to which version of this document your comments refer. 3. Orphaned packages (An orphaned package is a package that has no current maintainer.) Please inform me via e-mail: o when you find that you need to orphan a package o when you believe that the following list is incomplete o when you would like to maintain one of these packages. Orn E. Hansen : o dialdcost o hextype o speak-freely o xega o xmailtool o xspread Yves Arrouye [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o compress-package o ppd-adobe-common, ppd-adobe-extra, ppd-adobe-misc, ppd-gs o psptools llucius [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o dialog Dominik Kubla [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o arpd o cflow o csh o lsof o open o ptx o spell o vlock Brian C. White [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o zyxel Raul D. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o j1 (in old source format) o sam (in old source format) o ucbmpeg (in old source format) o ucbmpegplay (in old source format) Michael Nonweiler [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o ipx o nas o ncpfs Jim Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o mh-papers o term o witalian o pari, paridoc o wnorwegian Joost Witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o xosview (probably to be abandonned) Doug Geiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o apsfilter Erick Branderhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o elisp-manual o emacs-lisp-intro o giftrans o idutch o mathpad o mfbasfnt o wdutch o wenglish Christian Linhart [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o statserial o xarchie o bibindex J.A.vanderMost [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o dmalloc Shaya Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o opie Stuart Lamble [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o fsp Patrick Weemeeuw [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o tripwire Larry 'Daffy' Daffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o xscreensaver Guy R. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o dld (do we still need this ?) Patrick J Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o mailpgp Dermot Bradley [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o radiusd-merit Fabien Ninoles [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o vrweb Volker Ossenkopf [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o workman Others: o xcompat (should we drop it ?) o libc4 (a.out compatibility) 4. Packages needing a new maintainer Please inform me via e-mail: o when you find that you'd like to discontinue maintaining a package Please inform the mainatiner of the package: o when you would like to maintain one of the packages. Sven Rudolph [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o chimera (should be upgraded to v1.70) o enscript o seyon o lpr o xonix o xpat2 o xsok Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o xarclock o lha o dosfstools o sendfile Joe Kirby [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o lxtools Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o ncsa o genromfs o bridge/bridgex (Bridging Tools for Kernel 2.0.X/2.1.X) o berolist o adbbs (needs a better setup of pre-customized files) o gpc o libgpc2 o gpc-doc o verse o freefont o fdos o sharefont o newsx o syslinux o pash o zmailer o isite o knfs o poppassd o transproxy o loadlin o freetype o omir o komirr o worklog o mserver Karl Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o sysutils Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o dvi2tty o hyperlatex o info2www o latex2rtf o mysql Vincent Renardias [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o ftplib o lde o libdnd1 o libdnd1-dev o macutils o mcvert o offix-clipboard o offix-editor o offix-execute o offix-files o offix-trash o xabacus o xfishtank o xgalaga o xmcpustate o xodo Michael Meskes [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o html2latex o icmake o ntfs o xftp Joost Witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o bin86 o libpaper o axe o es o pixmap 5. Packages that someone is working on Programs listed in this section aren't yet available as Debian packages, but someone is working on providing a package. If you would like to work on one of these packages please contact the responsible person listed below. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl R. Sackett) : o swarm
Re: uname -a on /etc/motd
On Sun, 13 Jul 1997 18:22:23 EDT Randy Edwards ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Could someone tell me what process is putting what appears to be the output of a uname -a at the top of /etc/motd? I delete that regularly since IMHO it doesn't look very pretty, but try as I might, Linux seems to have more patience at putting it there then I do at removing it. :-) Set EDITMOTD=false in /etc/init.d/boot Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: NIS/AMD questions
On Sat, 12 Jul 1997 01:35:38 EDT Richard G. Roberto ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Wed, 9 Jul 1997, Philippe Troin wrote: 1) If the NIS server is down for a NIS domain, root cannot log on the console. This is annoying, accounts which are in /etc/passwd (like root) should be always accessible. Can root log in over the network? Are you running anything non-standard in the way of PAM or shadow support? Which version of yp-client are you using? I'm using the linux version available on sunsite (circa '95) and it works fine. I have a very slow link back to NY (where the ypservers are running on Solaris via niskit1.2) and ypbind sometimes gags and hoses everything except local entries. I can usually kill ypbind and restart it with ypset and pick a server that's behaving, but not always. In any case, root (or any local account) can always log in. I'm not running anything else (i.e. PAM, shadow). I have no pam whatsoever. I have the debian nis package, and when the NIS server goes down login hangs and dies, even on the console. The root entry is not exported via NIS and is present on the machine's passwd. Am I alone experiencing this ? Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: # new X release: how to upgrade
On Sat, 12 Jul 1997 09:06:28 -0300 Samuel J. MacDowell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'm running a debian 1.3 and would like to know what packages should I download to upgrade to the new X release Use dselect with the ftp method to contact a ftp server. It will download what it needs to upgrade to 1.3.1. Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: NIS/AMD questions
On 09 Jul 1997 23:00:27 +0200 Christian Leutloff ([EMAIL PROTECTED] e.de) wrote: Philippe Troin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1) If the NIS server is down for a NIS domain, root cannot log on the console. This is annoying, accounts which are in /etc/passwd (like root) should be always accessible. isn't it?? Under solaris this works pretty fine. Have you a root entry in your NIS tables?? Perhaps you should delete it. Have you set up nsswitch.conf to use files if nis failes?? I haven't got a root entry in the nis tables. My nsswitch.conf is as distributed. I thought this file was only used for libc6, not with libc5. It not, how do specify to fall back to the local passwd if NIS fails ? There is no manpage on nsswitch.conf... Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: CD-Writing again
On Thu, 10 Jul 1997 15:42:21 MDT Mike Patterson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Does anyone know of any software that reads/writes Multisession CDs? The cdrecord package supposedly does that. It's currently in unstable, but last time I checked it installed on a bo system. I haven't tested it though. It also needs a modified version of mkisofs. Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
