Re: webalizer
Tilmann Holst wrote: Remco van de Meent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll make a new package available in the next few days and I'll put it up for download on some debian.org machine. You won't find in the potato archive however. I just put them online: http://people.debian.org/~remco/ (source and binary webalizer_1.30.4-3.1) Somebody please test and report :) I still have no potato box around for extensive testing, unfortunately. Is it possible to put it into proposed-updates? It might even get included in Debian 2.2r4, I've been told. regards, Remco. -- :: Remco van de Meent :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: http://remco.vandemeent.net/
Re: webalizer
various people wrote: [webalizer-1.30.4 from potato is badly broken, starting Oct 5, 2001] [there is a fix from the upstream author] I'll make a new package available in the next few days and I'll put it up for download on some debian.org machine. You won't find in the potato archive however. Thanks for your patience and the efforts several people put into solving this problem. regards, Remco. -- :: Remco van de Meent :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: http://remco.vandemeent.net/
Re: matrox g450: matrox.com drivers or X 4.1.0 drivers?
Oleksandr Moskalenko wrote: Mine tries to load the mga_hal module and fails, presumably because I haven't installed it. I take it you've downloaded the one from matrox.com? What does it do? Also, FWIW, if you don't install the matrox drivers, the 450 is only supported starting with X 4.1.0. On my G400 mga_hal prevents dri from being enabled. I assume that's because mga_hal was compiled for ?4.0 and they haven't updated it for 4.1, yet. Everything seems to work beautifully WITHOUT any Matrox drivers even though mga_hal load failure message shows up in XFree86 log. Someone else posted similar experiences for their G450 on this list before, too. It works also with the mga_hal driver (downloaded from matrox.com) loaded, after recompiling it on X version 4.1.0. On a system w/ G450 that is. regards, Remco.
Re: full duplex ethernet ?
Felipe Alvarez Harnecker wrote: is it possible to query the kernel ( 2.2.19 ) if a given ethernet card is in half o full duplex mode ? cat /proc/something ? Not that I know, but for a lot of cards diagnostical programs are available from ftp.scyld.com . cheers, Remco.
Re: logrotate source?
Ken Weingold wrote: This looks like an interesting tool and I would like to check it out on our OpenBSD box. Does anyone know about a source tarball for it? This may sound stupid, but I am not sure what to do with the tarball available from the Debian site. :-/ I looked at the Makefile and it looked okay to me, so I types 'make' but got errors. The .orig.tar.gz cabinet is (or should be) exactly the same as the upstream source... cheers, Remco.
Re: Mutt keeps on moving read mail from /var/mail/user
Daniel de los Reyes wrote: I have set set nomove in my .muttrc , however every mail message that I read in /var/mail/dadecal gets moved to $Home/mbox. This is very annoying and I understand it shouldn't be happening since I set the nomove setting. How can I get rid of it? I attach my .muttrc file set move=yes # don't ask about moving messages, just do it You should set that one to no I think. cheers, Remco.
Re: How do I get off this list?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry to bother the list with this. But the method for unsubscribing (that came in an email when I subcribed), does not work. How do I unsubscribe? When people have difficulties unsubscribing from the lists, most of the time it is caused by a mismatch between the address they used to subscribe to the list, and the address they're using when trying to unsubscribe. You can figure out the exact email address that is subscribed to the list by looking at the Return-Path header that comes with each mail you receive from the Debian mailinglist server. An example Return-Path header: Return-path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In this case, the address used to subscribe to the debian-user list is [EMAIL PROTECTED] (so you have to replace the second `equals' sign with an `at' sign to get the email address). If you send mail _from_that_account_ to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in the body of the message, it will unsubscribe you automatically (in most cases - sometimes other errors occur preventing automatic unsubscription, if you need help in that case contact listmaster). cheers, Remco (who has the infamous [EMAIL PROTECTED] hat)
Re: Debian is safer than this ? I REALLY HOPE SO !
Joris Lambrecht wrote: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/16168.html Describing holes in lprng, wu.ftpd, and rpc.statd. None of these holes are present in potato with the updates from security.debian.org. cheers, Remco.
Re: Can't contact archive.debian.org
Lance Heller wrote: I've not been able to contact 'archive.debian.org' for some days now. Should another host be used, what's up?? archive.debian.org == saens http://db.debian.org - debian machines - saens: crashed, hoping to recover ftp://ftp.rfc822.org/pub/debian-archive/ seems to have a mirror if you need something from it. cheers, Remco.
Re: Helix/Ximian
Joris Lambrecht wrote: [ using Debian (woody/potato) with 2.4.0 kernel and Xfree86 4.0.2 ] I've recently move to the Gnome/Ximian (used to be Helix) environment. Over at the gnome/ximian sites i've read about an auto-updater (seemed much like windowsupdate) for Ximian, i ran the shell command the ximian.updater page suggested but i guess i got it all wrong On a Debian system, you can just run $ apt-get update $ apt-get -u dist-upgrade to get the latest and greatest Ximian GNOME packages. The first time you ran the go-gnome.org script, it updated your /etc/apt/sources.list to include an entry for Helix GNOME. cheers, Remco.
Re: marks in syslog
Marco C . wrote: Why sometimes in my logs magically appears the line date,time host -- MARK -- What does this MARK mean? Have a look at the syslogd(8) manual page, around line 100: -m interval The syslogd logs a mark timestamp regularly. The default interval between two -- MARK -- lines is 20 minutes. This can be changed with this option. Setting the interval to zero turns it off entirely. Cheers, Remco.
FYI: using logitech cordless keyboard extra keys in X4
Hi, Maybe this is interesting for people with a Logitech Itouch or Cordless keyboard that is equipped with a dozen extra keys for controlling audio and internet related things. I'm using a cordless keyboard, XFree86 4.01 and the sawfish window manager (debian unstable). First step is to configure X so that it knows about the extra keys. This version of X already comes with some knowledge about them so we just have to enable it. In the XF86Config file, XkbModel to logicordless (or itouch). Restart X. You can now check whether it works or not by using the 'xev' utility: while running it, you should see things like XF86Standby in its output when pressing the sleep key. Second step is to go to the shortcuts section of the sawfish configuration in the gnome control panel. Using add and grab, I entered the following shortcuts: XF86AudioLowerVolume - Run shell command: amixer set Master 1- XF86AudioRaiseVolume - Run shell command: amixer set Master 1+ XF86AudioPlay - Run shell command: xmms -u XF86AudioNext - Run shell command: xmms -f XF86AudioPrev - Run shell command: xmms -r XF86AudioStop - Run shell command: xmms -s XF86Standby - Gnome logout XF86Mail - Run shell command: evolution XF86HomePage - Run shell command: gnome-moz-remote --newwin XF86Search - Run shell command: gnome-moz-remote --newwin http://www.gnome.org; I left the mute key out, as I haven't found a way yet to actually toggle it on and off (I know you can mute it with amixer set Master mute and unmute with amixer set Master unmute, but you'd need an extra script to have it toggling between those values). Cheers, Remco. PS It Works For Me (tm) :-)
Re: Packages
Antonio A. Lobato wrote: Due problems accordant my lasts mail`s, I just win to install packages manualy: downloading from internet to my windows partition and installing it from my hard disk ( ! ). My problem is being to find the dependences packages. To install the the package Afterstep, I need 7 dependes packages, but I don`t find three: libxpm4, libz1, xlib6g. Does anybody knows how find it ? If you have apt up-and-running on your box, you can look at its cache to find out what the dependencies are and where to find the corresponding packages. E.g. if you want to install afterstep, enter this command (the -s means that it will show you what it is going to do if you leave the -s out): # apt-get -s install afterstep Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: dpsclient imagemagick libbz2 libhdf4g libjpeg62 libmagick4g libtiff3g xpm4g [...] Now for each of these packages (maybe you'll have to install more extra packages in your specific situation, apt will tell you), you have to look up its location in apt's cache: # apt-cache show dpsclient | grep ^Filename | head -1 Filename: dists/potato/main/binary-i386/x11/dpsclient_0.5.9.1+000216-6.deb If you can't find the location this way, you'll have to use apt-cache showpkg to find out what package you really need (for example, libz1 is provided by zlib1g). Hence the locations of the packages you still need are: dists/potato/main/binary-i386/x11/xlib6g_3.3.6-11potato15.deb dists/potato/main/binary-i386/libs/zlib1g_1.1.3-5.deb dists/potato/main/binary-i386/x11/xpm4g_3.4k-5.deb So you go to a nearby Debian mirror and download those files. The path is relative to the root of the Debian tree on that server. HTH, Remco.
Re: Where is libblacs-pvm.so ???
Christopher W. Aiken wrote: I just installed Debian 2.2_r2 and chose some packages from the simple setup. I got a lot of the same errors reported during the package configuration step. ldconfig also reports the same error. The error indicates that /usr/lib/libblacs-pvm.so is not available. Sure enough libblacs-pvm.so is a symb link to libblacs-pvm.so.1 and libblacs-pvm.so.1 is not available. Does anyone know where libblacs-pvm.so is? What it is used for? It comes from the blacs1-pvm package: Package: blacs1-pvm Priority: extra Section: libs Installed-Size: 143 Maintainer: Philipp Frauenfelder [EMAIL PROTECTED] Architecture: i386 Source: blacs-pvm Version: 1.1-7 Depends: libc6 (= 2.1.2) Filename: dists/potato/main/binary-i386/libs/blacs1-pvm_1.1-7.deb Size: 38952 MD5sum: 3ced9b690f02c3ce38d3e859582cdef0 Description: Basic Linear Algebra Communications Subprograms The BLACS project is an ongoing investigation whose purpose is to create a linear algebra oriented message passing interface that may be implemented efficiently and uniformly across a large range of distributed memory platforms. . This package provides the shared libraries. Cheers, Remco.
Re: Helix gnome control center freezes
Seung-woo Nam wrote: Since I upgraded my Debian system from 2.2_rev0 to 2.2_rev2, all the Sawfish menus in Gnome control center wouldn't work (appearance, focus behaviour, etc.). When I click on any of those the window just freezes and doesn't show any contents of menus. I know Helix gnome is not a part of official Debian dist but since it happened after the upgrade, I was wandering ther's any conflict between Helix Gnome and new Debian. Has anyone had the same problem? I can't provide a solution but I've had the same problem. Try running the control center using strace. You'll probably see that it tries to find all kind of librep/rep-gtk related things. You need to fiddle around with that a little, I'm afraid (put some extra symbolic links in or so). Cheers, Remco.
Re: new Kernel 2.4 missing Old Tulip module ?
Jack O Max wrote: I found that the new Kernel 2.4 does not have the Old DECchip Tulip (dc21x4x) PCI support. My 1 year old Netgear FA310TX does not work properly without this module. Any suggestion to solve this problem? It is still in the kernel, look for the Generic DECchip DIGITAL EtherWORKS PCI/EISA configuration option. Cheers, Remco.
Re: Removal from list
Colin Watson wrote: Yes Colin I tried that as well. Only 48 hours till I fly too. Im trying though to get off this list as quietly as possible.. OK - in that case I think my best advice is to mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] and ask them to unsubscribe you manually. They've been pretty responsive any time I've dealt with them. It's been taken care of. Cheers, Remco.
Re: debian-user-digest Digest V100 #705 etc
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: On Sunday 03 December 2000 5:23 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ** Original Message ** FROM: debian-user@lists.debian.org SENT: Fri 12/01/2000 11:47 AM TO: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SUBJECT: debian-user-digest Digest V100 #705 I've added this address to my procmail blacklist. And it got removed from all Debian mailinglists as well. Cheers, Remco.
Re: PHP Apache 1.3.12
Martin WHEELER wrote: Since upgrading to Apache 1.3.12, I can't install PHP3 or 4, not nohow. apt-get install error message follows: .. Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: php4: Depends: apache-common ( 1.3.9.1) but 1.3.12-2.0.potato.1 is to be installed E: Sorry, broken packages .. Just like apt is indicating, you need version 1.3.9 of apache, not 1.3.12-something. So if you want to run apache-1.3.12, you'll have to recompile php4 as well. Cheers, Remco.
Re: Fonts XFree86 4.0.1
Jason C. Hammons wrote: hey, I'm having some trouble getting true type fonts working in the new X4 (without xfstt, unless that's how you do it), could anyone point me in the direction of a decent HOW-TO or something? A few steps: You need to enable a module in the X4 configuration that gives you truetype fonts support, for example the xtt module (see /etc/X11/XF86Config-4). Then you need to put your font descriptions (those .ttf and .fon files) in a directory, for example in /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType. Also you've got to add this directory to your font path in the XF86Config-4 configuration file. Now you have to install the fttools package to get the mkttfdir utility. Use that utility to create a fonts.dir file in the directory you put your truetype font files in. This should do the trick. At least, it worked for me :-) Cheers, Remco.
Re: xserver-xfree86
Dominique Rousset wrote: last upgrade in woody seemed to break the postinst script and consequently the x server Is it a bug in the last update (4.0.1-6) ? Is is a bug in my configuration ? It's a bug in the 4.0.1-6 postinst script. Cheers, Remco.
Re: ppp, must dial 0 before number, how?
A.E. Roy wrote: I need to dial 0 to phone out of the building, how to I set up ppp to wait for a new dialingtone after the 0? Put 0, (without quotes) in front of the number you're trying to dial. The comma makes your modem wait for two seconds after the initial 0. Cheers, Remco.
Re: WARNING - Virus infected messages on list
Colin Watson wrote: I hearby propose that the list automatically reject all postings that appear to have been sent using MS Outlook. this way this garbage won't happen each and every time ya new Outlook worm comes out. I hereby propose we don't. This stuff doesn't harm us, and Outlook users have more than enough ways to share worms with each other already. Blocking it would inconvenience a lot of people for little gain. Agreed. I emailed the messagelabs.com folks to stop sending those unsollicited emails to the mailinglist. If they don't we'll probably have to block them ourselves. Cheers, Remco ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: digest version broken?
Seth Cohn wrote: Looks like digests are broken, could someone fix please? Digests are broken at the moment. I sent out a bunch of digests this morning, catching up with the email from the last couple of days. I hope it will be business as usual quite soon. Cheers, Remco. -- Debian GNU/Linux - The Universal Operating System [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailinglist Administrator
(fwd) Debain 2.2
Hi there, Maybe someone could help this lady... Cheers, Remco. - Forwarded message from Amanda Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Amanda Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Debain 2.2 Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 16:17:10 +0100 Hello I have a customer with Debain 2.2 is it comaptioable with Codewarrior for Red Hat Linux do you know? Mettroworks codewarriors pubilshers havent got back to me. If you can't help please forward this mail to someone who you think may beable to help. Regards Amanda - End forwarded message - -- Debian GNU/Linux - The Universal Operating System [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: maillinglist news interface down?
Martin Schulze wrote: Christoph Martin wrote: Hi folks. Does anyone know what happended to the Debian list to news gateway. I did not get any knews from linux.debian.devel fro about a week. In linux.debian.user there were only a dozen in the last days, which seem to be come in over news directly and not via the mailling list. The former gateway at fuller.edu is down. There should be a new gateway at opensource.somedomain.com, gecko knows more. opensource.captech.com Remco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mail front end
In lists.linux.debian.user, you wrote: I am looking for something like MS Exchange with folder and such. You could try xfmail, for example -- IIRC it supports folders. Remco
Re: Where in the debian's gcc is defined the FLT_MAX constant?
I'm just trying to compile the snns program, which uses the MAXFLOAT constant. The maxfloat is defined in the /usr/include/math.h as: #define MAXFLOAT FLT_MAX However the FLT_MAX is not defined at all... Probably it should be defined in the float.h file, but there is no such file in my debian system :-( For the current potato distribution: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/2.95.2/include/float.h (gcc package) And for slink: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/2.7.2.3/include/float.h (gcc package) /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/egcs-2.91.60/include/float.h (g++ package) Regards, -Remco
su username w/o password in potato
Hi, With the 'old' secure-su package, one could su to a user without a password, when set up in /etc/suauth . I was using this quite a lot :) However, with the new PAMified packages, I cannot replicate this functionality, and I can't find information about how to do it... anyone? TIA, -Remco Please Cc me when replying to the mailinglist.
sendmail: to queue or not to queue
Hey, I'm looking for a way to have local and remote deliveries in sendmail being scheduled in a different way. I'd like to do this: . if an incoming email is being sent to a local mail address, then try to deliver immediately . if an incoming email is being sent to a remote mail address, queue the message till runq is run I can't find a way to do this. Maybe anyone reading this message does know how to get this trick done? Thanks! Regards, -Remco
Re: apt-0.3.10slink11.deb
Robert Varga wrote: Where can I find apt-0.3.10slink11.deb ? It was up on proposed-updates and at security.debian.org, but now I can't find it there... although it is still in the packages files. ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/slink-proposed-updates/ still has it. -Remco
Re: apt-get: upgrade one package to particular version?
Mirek Kwasniak wrote: On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 04:40:01PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: Mirek Kwasniak wrote: [...] Don't upgrade one only package from potato because potato depends on glibc2.1 and some packages on perl5.005. No, feel free to install any package from *any* debian distribution onto *any* other, so long as the dependancies allow you to do so. Debian intends for these things to work. It was so. But glibc2.0 and 2.1 can't coexist. Old binary perl modules can't coexist with perl5.005. You can expect unpredictable crashes during upgrade (as I did yesterday). I can suggest full upgrade to potato (but it isn't easy now). As long as the condition Joey mentioned holds, there is no reason why packages wouldn't work together. And I bet the unstable version of icewm depends on libc6 (= 2.1). -Remco
Re: installing Majodomo
Cagdas Ogut wrote: I have installed Majordomo 1.94.4 on Debian-2.1 When I run ./majordomo in /usr/lib/majordomo I get, duygu:/usr/lib/majordomo# ./majordomo Can't locate majordomo_version.pl in @INC (@INC contains: /root /usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux/5.004 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/local/lib/site_perl/i386-linux /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at ./majordomo line 64. Does anybody have any Idea on what I did wrong? The majordomo programs are to be run from within the /usr/lib/majordomo/wrapper program. But I don't even know why you would try to run the majordomo program itself, it is intended to have it run by your mailer. Take a look at README.Debian in /usr/doc/majordomo for example. -Remco
Re: DocBook to html HOWTO
Felipe Alvarez Harnecker wrote: Can someone tell my how to convert a DocBook document to HTML ? Something like this should do the trick: jade -t sgml -d \ /usr/lib/sgml/stylesheet/dsssl/docbook/nwalsh/html/docbook.dsl \ your-source-file-here.sgml HTH, -Remco
Re: problems after compiling new kernel
Pollywog wrote: After compiling kernel 2.2.10 and trying to install new software, I got: ... ./pcap-linux.c:31: net/if.h: No such file or directory ... Why does this happen? Am I doing something wrong? It seems I frequently lose if.h In the 2.2.x kernels, if.h is in include/linux/, so instead of #include net/if.h, you should use #include linux/if.h. HTH, -Remco
Re: [LINUX] VPN software?
Nico De Ranter wrote: I'm looking for a VPN solution that would preferably be free :-) and has a server for Linux (or UNIX in general) and clients for Linux and Windows. A quick search on Freshmeat for 'vpn' gave 12 results.. -Remco
Re: Kernel too big
Camilo Alejandro Arboleda wrote: When I compile the kernel with the command 'make bzImage' the image generated has a size of about 800.000 bytes, and when I try to install the image using 'liloconfig' I get the error 'kernel too big', but I cannot remove more drivers from the kernel without lose features that I really need. You could try to put some drivers in modules instead of compiling everything straight into the kernel itself? The usage of modules could reduce the kernel size quite a lot, I think. -Remco
Re: pciutils package (was: Sound blaster 16 pnp)
Hans van den Boogert wrote: BTW, this pciutils package is not in the basic Debian 2.1 set up, yet with every boot up the kernel invokes lspci, which is doesn't find of course. Is this an oversight from the team who compiled the installation list, or is there a reason for omitting? Seems a bit strange to me. It's strange indeed; it has come up before, and because the default Debian 2.1 install comes with 2.0.36, which doesn't support the /proc/bus/pci interface of the 2.2 kernels (the interface that pciutils uses) it might have been better to not to include that call to lspci. -Remco
Re: apt dselect security fixes
Judith Bush wrote: Weekly news says new rsync to fix security hole, linked to email which says uploaded to UK. Subject: Uploaded rsync 2.3.1-0.slink.1 (source i386) to uk greycat:~# more /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian stable non-US deb ftp://debian.egr.msu.edu/debian stable main contrib non-free deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free non-US You have to include the slink-proposed-updates directory as well, to get that rsync (and procmail and some more) fix with apt. Something like this will do (didn't test it, by the way :/): deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian dists/slink-proposed-updates/ HTH. -Remco
Re: Config multiple ips on one linux box
Shao Zhang wrote: ifconfig eth0:1 203.63.219.30 up arp broadcast 203.63.219.255 I got the following messages: SIOCSIFADDR: Operation not supported by device SIOCSIFFLAGS: Operation not supported by device SIOCSIFBRDADDR: Operation not supported by device SIOCSIFFLAGS: Operation not supported by device Am I missing something from my kernel(2.2.6)?? If I am, what is it?? Did you enable CONFIG_IP_ALIAS in your kernel configuration? -Remco
Re: PHP3+MySQL problems
Chris wrote: Hi. Well, I seem to be having problems getting PHP to recognize that I have mysql support in place. When I try to view a document with a mysql_connect() function in it, I get: Fatal error: Call to unsupported or undefined function mysql_connect() in /home/cmayes/public_html/apples.php3 on line 12 Which means that the mysql.so module doesn't get loaded. cmayes:/usr/lib/php3/apache# ls calendar.so crypt.so mysql.so In my /etc/php3/apache/php3.ini: extension_dir = /usr/lib/php3/apache But just its presence does not mean that it also gets loaded! You need to add extension=mysql.so to your php3.ini file. HTH -Remco
Re: Sendmail+IDA?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is IDA? Does debian's sendmail package include IDA? Is there a quick method of configuring sendmail? IDA is some extension to old, _old_, versions of sendmail. Sendmail got almost completely rewritten with the 5.x-8.x transfer. Debian comes with sendmail 8.x and you can configure it with the sendmailconfig script. HTH, -Remco
Re: setting virtual hosts with apache
Eugene Sevinian wrote: VirtualHost new_host.some_domain ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] DocumentRoot /var/www/vhosts/radiovan/ ServerName new_host.some_domain ErrorLog /var/log/apache/new-error.log TransferLog /var/log/apache/new-access.log /VirtualHost Is something wrong in this configuration? The new_host also set in /etc/hosts as alias for original hostname. Try this one: - NameVirtualHost 1.2.3.4 # IP number of the box VirtualHost 1.2.3.4 ServerName new_host.some_domain .. /VirtualHost VirtualHost 1.2.3.4 ServerName other_host.some_domain .. /VirtualHost - This is supposed to work correctly... at least it does for me. HTH, -Remco
Re: Burn the Official Debian CD
Shao Zhang wrote: I have got the official debian 2.1 and would like to make a copy of it. I am wondering if I need any special software in order to make them still bootable. Since the machine where the burner connected has got Windoze, I have got no idea how to do this. Thx for any help in advance. Just copy it w/o any extra settings. At least, that's what I did and it worked. bye, -Remco
Re: WEIRD!
Rick Smith wrote: I have noticed lately when I look at my server when it has been idle there is multiple lines that say Unable To Load Interpreter Maybe something ran out of memory, or your processtable was full so bash (or another shell) couldn't get loaded. Regards, -Remco
Re: Setting up ssh
Corey Ralph wrote: Does anyone know where I can find a howto on setting up ssh? I have tried running the script to get the hosts using dns, but it doesn't find any hosts. Is there a way to give it an IP address to try, and have it add the host? I don't know if I understand you correctly, but I think you mean this: give ssh an IP-address to connect to, because the DNS isn't working, but have it put the hostname belonging to that IP-number in the known_hosts file. If that's what you mean, the answer is no, I'm afraid. bye, -Remco
Re: apache
Petru NOTINGHER wrote: I have a little problem with apache when I try to run cgi scripts : I get the following message : [Tue Apr 13 18:53:12 1999] [error] (8)Exec format error: exec of /usr/lib/cgi-bin/plan.cgi failed [Tue Apr 13 18:53:13 1999] [error] [client 162.38.204.15] Premature end of script headers: /usr/lib/cgi-bin/plan.cgi Can anybody help me ? Try running /usr/lib/cgi-bin/plan.cgi yourself, the output should be something like Content-Type: text/html html . . /html Note the blank line between the start if the HTML code and the end of the header. HTH, -Remco
Re: Debian 2.1 iso source..
Gurra db wrote: hmm.. I've dowloaded debian 2.1 source in iso files. Wrote them to 2 cd:s and now I can't find any installations files.. the cd don't boot and the cd label says Debian 21 disc 3 -- source-1.iso on the cd I can't find any install files .. what am I missing ?? Those are the ISO images containing all the source code of the programs Debian is built from. You need to put the binary-i386 ISO's (there are 2 of them) on a CD, they contain the actual compiled packages you need to install Debian. bye, -Remco
Re: Disk usage utility?
Christian van Enckevort wrote: Maybe lsof can help you. It gives a list of open files. There is a debian package for lsof. Unfortunately it is kernel dependent. The slink version only works for 2.0.35. That is not true. The slink version for example also works on a 2.0.36 kernel. However, you *will* get a warning, but it works fine. Of course it won't if certain kernel API's are going to change, but that isn't likely in the 2.0.3x range, I'd say. bye, -Remco
Re: dselect internal error
Pieter-Tjerk de Boer wrote: [dselect errors] Since then, this error message pops up every time I try [I]nstall. I'm telling all these details because I suspect that somehow this was not the right way to cope with the two changes (newer NFS server, and newer 'stable' distribution). As the co-maintainer of that NFS server you're talking about, I know the contents of it (the directory layout, I mean) didn't change. It only got moved to a new machine (with a different hostname). So that won't cause your problem, I'd say. As you're using a `hamm'-machine at the moment (the previous stable Debian version), you should start with reading the hamm-to-slink-upgrade instructions, I think. You can find them here: http://www.debian.org/releases/2.1/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html Second, I suggest using apt when upgrading. Detailed instructions about using apt to upgrade your system are in the same document. To use apt, you need to create a /etc/apt/sources.list file as pointed out in that document. At the University of Twente, this one is proven to work good: deb http://ftp.student.utwente.nl/debian slink main contrib non-free deb http://ftp.student.utwente.nl/debian-non-US slink non-US deb http://ftp.student.utwente.nl/debian dists/slink-proposed-updates/ Note that the last line includes the 'proposed updates' of slink, which are not yet part of the 'stable' distribution, but I recommend installing them anyway (security fixes etc). Good luck! Regards, -Remco
Re: PHP Apache 1.3.5
Marek Habersack wrote: Does anyone know where can I find binary debs for PHP compiled to work with Apache 1.3.5? I don't think they're available. However, Apache 1.3.6 is in the current distribution, and I think (but I'm not sure) that the php3 packages will be replaced by apache-1.3.6-compatible ones soon. bye, -Remco
Re: defrag
Sami Dalouche wrote: Is it possible to remount / in ro mode without rebooting ? If you don't have any files opened for writing, this should do the trick: mount -n -o remount,ro / HTH, -Remco
Re: glibc-2.1-dev - where is bytesex.h?
Toens Bueker wrote: subject says it all. Did bytesex.h move to another package? Or was it just left behind? :-) You could use bits/endian.h instead. But even better, include endian.h. HTH, -Remco
Re: apt
Craig T. Hancock wrote: Is there way to see what pacakges that happen to be upgraded $ apt-get -s dist-upgrade HTH, -Remco
Re: lpr not installed
Bal K. Paudyal wrote: It looks like my old pc with Debian does not have lpr installed. What package it is in? Any idea? /usr/bin/lpr is in both the lpr and the lprng packages. HTH. -Remco
Re: 1.3 - 2.0. Am I okay to reboot?
Chris Wong wrote: WARNING If APT lists lib* in the list of essential packages to remove then it is very likely you will hose your system by continuing. -- This was quoted from the Debian 2.0 update README. I've logged my 1.3 - 2.0 update, and just noticed something. Is it a big deal? Is it safe to reboot? libreadline2-dev will be removed in favor of libreadlineg2 (which is needed for the bash that comes with hamm). You might want to install libreadlineg2-dev by the way, but it is not needed for normal operation. libnet is replaced by libnet-perl. So, I don't seen any problems and I'd say go for it! (my stuff) # apt-get dist-upgrade Updating package status cache...done Checking system integrity...ok The following packages will be REMOVED: libnet libreadline2-dev The following NEW packages will be installed: libmime-base64-perl libdb2 liblockfile0 libnet-perl libstdc++2.8 whiptail zlib1g pkg-order perl-base libgdbmg1 tcl7.6 libg++272 newt0.21 data-dumper libc6 ncurses3.4 libcompfaceg1 libreadlineg2 slang0.99.38 The following packages have been kept back util-linux 138 packages upgraded, 19 newly installed, 2 to remove and 1 not upgraded. Need to get 39.9M of archives. After unpacking 9057k will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y bye, -Remco
Re: proftpd + virtual hosts
Graham Ashton wrote: is it possible to do name based virtual hosting with proftpd? the documentation on the web site suggests not, and that you need to do IP address based virtual hosting instead. :( Name-based virtual hosting in Apache is done by reading the headers of a HTTP request: GET /path/to/file.html HTTP/1.0 Host: www.virtualhost.com [more headers] Apache uses the Host header to determine which virtual server it should use. In the FTP-protocol, there is no such header, thus name-based virtual hosting isn't possible in FTP-servers. IP-address-based virtual hosting is possible, because an ftpserver may bind itself to a specific network interface, instead of all of them. HTH, -Remco
Re: XFree86 is 3.3.3.
Graham Lillico +44 1785 782329 wrote: Does anyone know if XFree86 is 3.3.3.x is avaliable in deb format anywhere? Or when we will have one avaliable? It will not be in the distribution till the maintainer of the X11 Debian packages feels comfortable about the current (3.3.2) packages. Anyways, if you need specific support for a chipset, which is supported in 3.3.3 though not in 3.3.2, you're encouraged to download just the binary X/Windows server from an xfree86.org mirror. Adjust /etc/X11/Xserver and your 3.3.2 X/Windows systsem will work together with your 3.3.3 server. HTH, -Remco
Re: XFree86 is 3.3.3.
Peter Paluch wrote: 1.) There is not even one (!) word processor which is able to export the documents in MS Office97 format and is working properly with Slovak locale in XWin. You don't need to blame, nor Debian, nor Linux in general, that M$Office is being used at your office. If they want you to use M$Office (and apparently, they do), then blame your employer if you don't agree with him. This is nothing personal, but I see people pointing to that so-called disadvantage of the products current available on Linux platforms, but they're pointing to the wrong people. If someone wants to have a M$Office compatible thing on Linux, go out and write it. Don't blame others for not writing it. 2.) I can't use TeX or similar because in that PC magazine they're using just MS products. See above. 3.) I was unable to set up Slovak keyboard properly. I downloaded XWin 3.3.3. sources and compiled it and it worked with the same settings and same keyboard flawlessly! A friend of mine, using RedHat 5.2, laughed at me when I told him that we in Debian do not have even 3.3.3 when there is 3.3.3.1 out! I felt that time very uncomfortable. There is no `competition' between RedHat and Debian on this point. If you feel better having the latest versions of software available, without caring about other things, I don't think Debian will suffice for you. Debian strives after other matters, like stability and security. I don't want to start another holy war, but Debian and RedHat just differ from each other on some points. So until XWin 3.3.3.x appears in Debian distribution East-Europeans will have big problems getting their international support and locales working in XWin and I think it is a big pitty. I am, truly said, angry about it. Just explaining my feelings, please do not take it as offence. I simply can't stand the feeling that Linux can't do something that Windows can. I understand it is not so easy to administer and package such huge thing as XWindow, however, this disfunctionality should be at least treated as bug. It is not a bug in 3.3.2, it is a feature in 3.3.3. So I don't agree with you. But I *do* see your point, and I'm sorry for you that it most likely won't be resolved in the upcoming (2.1, slink) Debian release. I don't know if your problem will be resolved if you put the latest X11 server (3.3.3.1) in place of your current X11 server, I doubt it. I think the 'bug' is in some library. You might want to checkout the 3.3.3.x X11 Debian packages when they are available for testing in the `potato' Debian archive. Regards, -Remco
Re: XFree86 is 3.3.3.
Peter Paluch wrote: Again - I am terribly sorry if I offended someone. I didn't mean it so, indeed. You maybe don't see this event to be so serious than I see it, but in fact the present state doesn't allow me to use my native language on Linux. I didn't think you offended someone. At least you didn't offend me :) It was just that I'm seeing an ongoing stream of rants being thrown at the Linux community in general about this matter. And I thought this was a good time to tell the feelings I have about such rants. Sorry for being somewhat harsh towards you. Regards, -Remco
Re: XFree86 is 3.3.3.
David Zanetti wrote: That is, until it dselect comes along an upgrades the X servers :( Several times already my 3.3.3 SVGA server has been nuked by dselect, and 3.3.2 doesn't support my TNT board :( An easy fix of course is to put your new (3.3.3) server in /usr/local/X11/bin or something like that, and have /etc/X11/Xserver point to that location. In that case, dpkg won't overwrite it. HTH, -Remco
Re: dmesg: What file?
Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: Hi: I was under the impression that the command dmesg just typed out the contents of /var/log/kern.log. This does not seem to be true. What is the file which dmesg is displaying? It uses the klogd to display the information (kernel log daemon). Try strace/ltrace'ing dmesg for example. -Remco
Re: qt
Cuno Sonnemans wrote: I get the following errors when I install qt: kernel/qimage.cpp :614: X11/Xlib.hno such file or directory : : X11/Xutil.h : : X11/Xos.h Are you sure that you have the `xlib6g-dev' package installed, and that /usr/X11R6/include is in your include path? bye, -Remco
Re: How do you install autofs package ?
Philippe BARBELET wrote: What are the steps to install the automounter system under 2.0.34 kernel ? First of all, make sure the kernel-based automounter is enabled in your kernel. Second, install the `autofs' package. Most likely, it'll create an /etc/auto.amnt for you; you can put the filesystems you want to mount using the automounter in that file, and now those entries are available as /amnt/entry on your computer. HTH, -Remco
Re: Converting Docbook .sgml to .html?
Aaron Van Couwenberghe wrote: I'm trying to convert a Docbook document to HTML. upon executing 'sgml2html libgii-api.sgml' I recieve Processing file libgii-api.sgml /usr/bin/sgmlsasp: can't open /usr/lib/sgml-tools/dist/book/html/mapping': No such file or directory Of course. I've known in the past how to do this with jade, but documentation is *very* sketchy. What is the correct way to do this? can sgmltools be made to recognize docbook? The new (to-be-developed) version of sgmltools will know about docbook. The current version does not. However, you can do the trick with jade... jade -t sgml -d \ /usr/lib/sgml/stylesheet/dsssl/docbook/nwalsh/html/docbook.dsl \ file.sgml ... which will give you a bunch of HTML-files. HTH, -Remco
Re: GMT take-over in slink
Robert King wrote: Since I upgraded to slink, for some reason syslog reports all its times in GMT (which isn't a big problem), and cron does its stuff according to GMT (which is a big problem, because updatedb goes off in the middle of the afternoon instead of at 6am, which is a real pain). Does anyone know why its doing this? It should no happen w/o your confirmation during the upgrade, but however.. You can change it by running `tzconfig' as root. HTH, -Remco
Re: docbook-stylesheets
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to use the docbook-stylesheets (v. 1.07-1). I've got a simple outline and I've managed to get jade to accept it (after a little struggling). I have two big problems though: When I try to use HTML output, I don't get anything generated (or if I do I can't find it). Can anyone tell me why this might be? What is the command you're using to generate HTML? It should be something like this, I guess: jade -t sgml \ -d /usr/lib/sgml/stylesheet/dsssl/docbook/nwalsh/html/docbook.dsl \ sourcefile.sgml HTH, -Remco
Re: Will frozen work with 2.0.36 ?
Gary L. Hennigan wrote: | Above asks it all ... will I have failings with that, or must I upgrade to | 2.1.xx? | | Sorry if it's been asked before. Debian frozen/slink is based on 2.0.34 but provides packages for both 2.0.35 and 2.0.36, so, yes it will work with 2.0.36. The current bootfloppies from slink are based on kernel 2.0.36, which is also the one that gets installed by default. But indeed, with some minor upgraded, a Debian slink system will run 2.1.x/2.2.x kernels without any problems. bye, -Remco
Re: Counting number of lines in a text file
Jay Barbee wrote: I was wondering what the quickest way to count the number of records (lines) in a text file. It would be neat to do many files at once and save the output in a seperate file in the format 'filename:::#records'. for a in file1 file2 file3; do \ echo -n $a seperate_file; \ echo -n ::: seperate_file; \ wc -l $a seperate_file; \ done HTH, -Remco
Re: Counting number of lines in a text file
Jay Barbee wrote: I was wondering what the quickest way to count the number of records (lines) in a text file. It would be neat to do many files at once and save the output in a seperate file in the format 'filename:::#records'. for a in file1 file2 file3; do \ echo -n $a seperate_file; \ echo -n ::: seperate_file; \ wc -l $a seperate_file; \ done How would I gather a list of all TXT files in the directory before this and pass each file to this script. Change the 'file1 file2 file3' list to '*.txt' for example... -Remco
Re: Samba 2.0.0 - are there any deb's?
Björn Elwhagen wrote: I'm interested in knowing wheather there is a debian-package of Samba 2.0.0. If there isn't any and if there is gonna take time for it to be available i might just install the tar-ball instead. Perhaps at bit more hassle but... They are in the project/experimental/ directory on the ftp-site. bye, -Remco
Re: dpkg-source
Frederick Page wrote: I was wondering, what will happen, when I get another distribution and do e.g. an apt-get dist-upgrade, will it then replace the bla-package with a newer version (if there is a newer version in the new distribution) or will it leave my customized package alone? It will upgrade the package. -Remco
Re: dpkg-source
Ben Collins wrote: I was wondering, what will happen, when I get another distribution and do e.g. an apt-get dist-upgrade, will it then replace the bla-package with a newer version (if there is a newer version in the new distribution) or will it leave my customized package alone? It will upgrade the package. Does apt not respect packages that have been held? It does, so that's indeed a way to enforce your own packages. Thanks for pointing that out :-) -Remco
Re: unknown libs
Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: I have some warning when install new packages and cant figure how to solve this: ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/X11R6/lib/libUnidraw.so.0 (No such file or directory), skipping [snip] Looks like a bunch of broken symlinks in those directories. Run 'symlinks -d /path/to/directory' to remove those dangling links. HTH, -Remco
Re: Project Management Program
Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: Hi, Look for RCS or CVS. The last is speeding up the development of many Linux programs. Have a nice day,Paulo Henrique Familien Bolding wrote: Does a Project Management program similar to CA SuperProject or Microsoft Project exist for Linux. Though neither RCS nor CVS support things like scheduling, IIRC, like MS Project does. I don't know of any program that would do that trick in Linux either :( bye, -Remco
Re: apache-common 1.3.4
Lawrence Walton wrote: Anyone know where the package for apache-common 1.3.4 is? In the unstable section of the Debian archive: dists/potato/main/binary-i386/web/apache-common_1.3.4-1.deb HTH, -Remco
Re: apt-get dist-upgrade
Robert Kerr wrote: I'm using apt-get dist-upgrade to upgrade to slink. It gives me about 90 MB to download. I'd like to find a list of the files it needs and then download them at school, where my internet connection is much faster. So, my question is: where does apt-get keep a list of the files it needs? I wouldn't know actually, but there is a way to get them quite easily. Use the command 'apt-get -s dist-upgrade' to get a list of packages apt is going to install, for example: The following NEW packages will be installed: libglib1.1.13 libgimp1.1.1 libgtk1.1.13 The following packages have been kept back locales timezones libc6-dev libwww-perl libc6 15 packages upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded. Inst lilo Inst nvi Inst modutils Inst ispell Inst ibritish Inst make Inst autoconf Inst debhelper Inst debian-keyring Inst fdutils Inst libgimp1.1.1 Inst libglib1.1.13 Inst libgtk1.1.13 Inst gimp1.1 Inst icewm Inst lesstifg Inst raidtools Inst vim Conf lilo [snip] In this output, grep for ^Inst and then grep in the available file (/var/lib/dpkg/available) for *packagename_* and pipe that output through 'grep frozen' (slink==frozen), Now you'll get a list of filenames in the archive. And that's the list you need, I think. HTH, -Remco
Re: sysv style init of daemons
Thomas Adams wrote: Is there an easy to read in-depth description of the sysv style init? I hope the name is right; I mean the way of starting daemons by making links instead of the traditional way of placing a start script into /etc/rc.boot The current maintainer and (co-?)author of the sysvutils package has written some docs about it; they are in /usr/doc/sysvutils/ bye, -Remco
Re: rtin: ... illegal character in hostname
Stef Hoesli Wiederwald wrote: When I reply to an author of an usenet posting using rtin, I get the following error message from our Mailserver: |- Message log follows: -| no valid recipients were found for this message |- Failed addresses follow: -| Adrian Sieber \[EMAIL PROTECTED] ... illegal character in hostname |- Message text follows: | Whats wrong with rtin? The \'s are not supposed to be there, and the 2nd one causes the bounce. It's known that rtin isn't that good in handling From: lines in some cases when replying. Just edit the To: line of your message to contain just To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], without those quotes and without the full name etc. bye, -Remco
Re: Multiple pop accounts
Ries van Twisk wrote: Witch program do I need to pop multiple accounts from my ISP? I use sendmail as my MTA, and use qpopper so my windows users can read there e-mail (correct?) fetchmail will do the trick. HTH, -Remco
Re: Telnet and Xprograms
Gregory Green wrote: I have tried usining vt100, vt102, vt220 and I cannot figure out how to export X programs, such as xterm, to my telnet session. I export my and I still cannot connect. I get the following error: _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 /usr/X11R6/bin/xhost: unable to open display xxx.xxx.xxx.xx:0.0 What do I have to set? You need to run an X-server on the computer you're telnet'ing from. And you need to set the DISPLAY environment variable to the correct X-server, which usually is xxx.xxx.xxx.xx:0. On the machine you run the X-server, you need to give access to the host you're telnet'ing into, with the command xhost +yyy.yyy.yyy.yy. HTH, -Remco
Re: Telnet and Xprograms
Gregory Green wrote: I have tried usining vt100, vt102, vt220 and I cannot figure out how to export X programs, such as xterm, to my telnet session. I export my and I still cannot connect. I get the following error: _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 /usr/X11R6/bin/xhost: unable to open display xxx.xxx.xxx.xx:0.0 What do I have to set? You need to run an X-server on the computer you're telnet'ing from. And you need to set the DISPLAY environment variable to the correct X-server, which usually is xxx.xxx.xxx.xx:0. On the machine you run the X-server, you need to give access to the host you're telnet'ing into, with the command xhost +yyy.yyy.yyy.yy. I have been doing just what you suggested but I get the errors anyway. I get the same error when I run xhost. I am telneting in to my Debian box running X, from a PC running Windblows using the procomm 32 telnet program. Is this a server problem or do not have the telnet session set up properly? You need to run an X-server on that PC running Windows. It doesn't matter if there is one running on your Debian box in this case. I don't know if procomm32 provides an X-server, but I assume not. Try the one that comes with Exceed (commercial) or X-Win32 (commercial too, but you can download a trial version from Tucows). HTH, -Remco
Re: Screenshot utility for Debian?
Branden Robinson wrote: But how about getting screenshots of VC's? Apparently no such tool already exists. What would it take to write one? Root privileges, or can it be implemented in userspace? If you're referring to textmode virtual consoles, I'd say you should be able to do it in userspace. In a sense, gpm is some sort of screen-capture utility, so I think that code could be quite useful when writing a complete capture utility for textmode. And gpm doesn't need root-privileges. bye, -Remco
Re: Screenshot utility for Debian?
Remco van de Meent wrote: And gpm doesn't need root-privileges. Sorry, that's an error, it actually does. Apologies for disturbing you. -Remco
Re: umask: file dirs
Pere Camps wrote: Is there any way to have a umask that creates files in 640 by default and directories in 750 ? umask 027 HTH, -Remco
Re: ..de.debian.org
Thomas Adams wrote: What's up with the ...de.debian.org servers? A DNS problem perhaps? No, there is no DNS problem, but apparently their uplink is broken at the moment. Please try other mirrors for the time being. bye, -Remco
Re: No ldd?
On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 04:50:04PM -0800, George Bonser wrote: : I just got a DIFFERENT copy of ldso and this one included ld. There is a : bad .deb going around someplace. Apparently. I just checked the ldso package on the master site (ftp.debian.org), and that one appears to be okay. But it remains strange, according to the logs, there has been just one version of ldso installed in the archives. Anyways, if people still have problems with the missing ldd, get the package from ftp.debian.org and dpkg -i it. bye, -Remco
Re: root telnet
UF Marpaung wrote: How to make telnetd accept root login ? Have a look at the manual page securetty(5) and edit /etc/securetty. HTH, -Remco
Re: making symlinks in cvs
Joey Hess wrote: I know cvs doesn't do symlinks, but I need some symlinks to be created when a cvs directory is checked out, and I know that's possible because Manoj told me how once... but I've forgotten the details. Could anyone fill me in on how to do it? I haven't tried it myself, but when looking at the HTML file /usr/doc/cvs/html-info/cvs_18.html#SEC159 in the CVS documentation, I'd say you can run some command when a directory is checked out using the -o option in the modules file. HTH, -Remco
Re: No ldd?
On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 11:05:34AM -0800, Morgan Fletcher wrote: : But neither of those packages, as installed on my system, contain ldd: : : $ dpkg -L ldso libc6 | grep -i ldd : /usr/lib/lddstub : /usr/man/man1/ldd.1.gz That's kinda strange. I assume, you mean with `current' the current slink distribution. $ dpkg -c dists/slink/main/binary-i386/base/ldso_1.9.10-1.deb | grep ldd -rwxr-xr-x root/root100520 1999-01-14 04:23 usr/bin/ldd -rwxr-xr-x root/root 1776 1999-01-14 04:23 usr/lib/lddstub -rw-r--r-- root/root 786 1999-01-14 04:23 usr/man/man1/ldd.1.gz Do you have ldso version 1.9.10-1 installed on your system ? bye, -Remco
Re: only allow user to login from a specific IP
On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 12:35:32PM -0500, Paul Miller wrote: : How can I only allow user to login from a specific IP (telnet/ftp/etc)? Try /etc/login.access and its manpage login.access(5). HTH, -Remco
Re: PGP public keysevers?
On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 05:33:50PM +, M.C. Vernon wrote: : Anyone know of any of these that work - the first few from the pgp : documentation (dated 1995) all seem dead (unroutable mail domain, failed : nslookup etc.)... The one serving [EMAIL PROTECTED] seems to work (just tried it, actually). bye, -Remco
Re: dependency problems!
On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 01:27:34AM +0100, Ben Jorgensen wrote: : libgtk-perl depends on libglib1.1 (= 1.1.3-1) : libglib1.1 does not appear to be available : libgtk-perl depends on libgtk1.1 (= 1.1.2-1) : libgtk1.1 does not appear to be available : : I'm running debian unstable. What should I do? I doesn't work even if I do : it manually with dpkg. Both packages, with the required versions, are available in frozen. Maybe you need to include the frozen tree in your dselect access configuration? bye, -Remco
Re: Getting X to run as a normal user
On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 02:38:23PM +, Rich Harran. wrote: : /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc: /dev/null: permission denied : : repeated three times. Apparently, /dev/null doesn't have the proper permissions. Issue a 'chmod 666 /dev/null' and try again. You might have problems with other programs too, right? I've seen systems with bad permissions on /dev/null before, but I don't know what causes it. bye, -Remco
Re: irc.debian.org - No DNS
On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 08:56:56AM -0500, Chris Hoover wrote: : It appears that the dns for irc.debian.org is fscked up. When I try to : ping it, I get unknown host. Does anyone know of another irc server I : can use to get on the #debian channel? I don't have problems resolving that hostname at the moment. irc.debian.org is round-robin'ed to these IP-numbers: 195.64.65.21 208.136.203.10 212.46.64.45 164.11.100.9 203.62.135.40 209.176.56.220 209.197.224.62 138.123.128.101 206.187.91.10 132.248.29.200 209.0.31.129 203.111.84.6 192.188.244.13 209.140.211.17 199.199.220.2 207.16.36.11 38.250.52.51 204.140.166.40 199.173.181.35 203.37.222.161 209.81.8.249 207.203.100.150 199.183.24.237 204.209.161.5 Don't use IP-numbers to connect to the IRC-network, unless DNS fails. bye, -Remco
Re: SLINK installation question
On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 10:49:58AM -0500, William Schwartz wrote: : If I'm installing SLINK (frozen) from scratch and APT asks me if I want to : get packages from STABLE FROZEN or UNSTABLE I should normally choose : FROZEN right? Those match SLINK installation? Yes, currently the symlinks are like this: stable - hamm frozen - slink unstable - potato HTH, -Remco
Re: SAMBA and shadowpasswd
On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 10:21:11AM +0100, Riccardo Tommasini wrote: : Does anybody have any experience with SAMBA and Shadowpassd? I mean, my : samba server deos not recognize passwords as soon as a service is passwd : protected and I believe it has something to do with the shadowpasswd. : : How is it possible to overcome this problem? Samba uses its own passwd file, often called /etc/smbpasswd. Have a look at the smbpasswd(8) manual page. cheers, -Remco
Re: How to mail a file?
On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 01:28:48PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : I believe there's a command for e-mailing a file without having to use an : MTU, but directly from the command line. mailx, smail,... any ideas? For text files: mail -s 'your subject' recipient file.txt For binary files: uuencode file.bin file.bin | mail -s 'your subject' recipient HTH, -Remco
Re: How to mail a file?
On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 05:45:11PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : The below responses to my initial question just left me with a few doubts: : : - How would I gzip and/or tar the file? Would this process take place : before encoding? (OTH tar'ing would be a way of sending several files at : once). Yes. And remember, tar/gzip makes binaries of them. : - should graphics files be treated as binaries, as far as : uuencoding/mimencoding is concerned? Yes. But .ps files, which may contain graphics, are not necessarily binary files. bye, -Remco
Re: Adding ftp users?
On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 04:36:10PM -0400, Timothy Hospedales wrote: : How should I add a real user to my wu-ftpd server? Make sure you have a class containing 'real' in your /etc/ftpd/ftpaccess file. Now everyone who has a valid login shell (that is, their shell according to /etc/passwd is listed in /etc/shells) has access to your ftp-site, using their normal login and password. : I suppose I could just copy my /etc/passwd to the ~ftp/etc/passwd, but is : this secure? And will I have to do it again everytime I add a new real : user? I can't hardlink to /etc/passwd because /home/ftp is on its own : partition...? I haven't seen much about this in the relevant manpages and : wuftpd FAQ. adduser and addftpuser scripts don't seem to be much help : either. You can use the ~ftp/etc/passwd to have it contain some uids and usernames, without passwords, to make the uids shown correctly when someone does a 'ls -l' on your ftp-site, when logged in anonymously. HTH, -Remco
