[Q] Virtual domains with postfix...
Hi, Can someone give me step by step instructions on how to go about using postfix for virtual domains? I already have something working decently. But have problems when I have a [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] Both these need to point to two entries in /etc/aliases. Thanks. S. -- Am I the only one who just wants to play hopscotch, bake cookies, and watch 'The McLaughlin Group?' -- Lisa Simpson Sudhakar C13n http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ Lead Indentured Slave
Re: [Q] Setting up a primary DNS server for my domain name on a Debian box...
Ralf G. R. Bergs proclaimed: On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 15:37:03 -0800, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: [Now I tried doing an nslookup from a remote machine] datagram from [207.1.145.44].1392, fd 22, len 31 req: nlookup(www.aunet.org) id 54197 type=1 class=1 req: found 'www.aunet.org' as 'www.aunet.org' (cname=0) req: nlookup(aunet.org) id 54197 type=1 class=1 req: found 'aunet.org' as 'aunet.org' (cname=1) ns_req: answer - [207.1.145.44].1392 fd=22 id=54197 size=145 rc=0 datagram from [207.1.145.44].1392, fd 22, len 31 req: nlookup(www.aunet.org) id 54197 type=1 class=1 req: found 'www.aunet.org' as 'www.aunet.org' (cname=0) req: nlookup(aunet.org) id 54197 type=1 class=1 req: found 'aunet.org' as 'aunet.org' (cname=1) ns_req: answer - [207.1.145.44].1392 fd=22 id=54197 size=145 rc=0 So What is happening? Help would be greatly appreciated. From the above log it seems as if everything goes right (but I'm no bind expert.) I'm clueless why things don't work for you, sorry. It turns out the firewall in front of my remote machine was blocking UDP traffic. Thaths -- I'm Kent Brockman. On the eleven o'clock news tonight, a certain kind of soft drink has been found to be lethal. We won't tell you which one until after sports and the weather with Funny Sonny Storm. -- Kent Brockman Sudhakar C13n http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ Lead Indentured Slave
[Q] Setting up a primary DNS server for my domain name on a Debian box...
[Note: Would appreciate if you Cc-ed me on your replies to this thread] Hi, I have never configured bind before. I have a Debian (slink+potato) box. I have bind 8.2.2p3-1 installed on this box. I want this box to be the primary DNS server (the one that is listed in the whois record) for my domain name. The entries for the various things in my domain would be pretty simple. Only one 'A' record for foo.org Everything else would (at the moment) be CNAME records pointing to the A record. I tried following the instructions in the DNS HOWTO. Things work fine when I do a nslookup from the machine which is running bind. But when I do an nslookup remotely (setting this machine that is running bind as the server) all queries time out. Would greatly appreciate step by step instructions (or pointers to step by step instructions) on how to set up a primary domain name server on Debian. Thanks a lot. Thaths -- English. Pfft. Who needs that? I'm never going to England. -- Homer J. Simpson Sudhakar C13n http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ Lead Indentured Slave
Re: [Q] Setting up a primary DNS server for my domain name on a Debian box...
Ralf G. R. Bergs proclaimed: On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 13:50:30 -0800, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: I tried following the instructions in the DNS HOWTO. Things work fine when I do a nslookup from the machine which is running bind. But when I do an nslookup remotely (setting this machine that is running bind as the server) all queries time out. Can it be that your upstream router blocks access to your nameserver port? To verify this you could configure your firewall to log access to nameserver/UDP. *If* your upstream router properly routes nameserver requests you would see something in your kernel log. Did some more debugging. I stopped named and launched it off the command like like so: # named -d 1 -f [Lots of info deleted] [At this point I did an nslookup from the local machine. The logging follows] datagram from [127.0.0.1].4206, fd 20, len 31 req: nlookup(www.aunet.org) id 42367 type=1 class=1 req: missed 'www.aunet.org' as '' (cname=0) evSetTimer(ctx 0x80c6ba0, func 0x805be3c, uap 0, due 942881435.0, inter 0.0) forw: forw - [149.174.213.5].53 ds=4 nsid=65532 id=42367 -1ms retry 4sec datagram from [149.174.213.5].53, fd 4, len 145 send_msg - [127.0.0.1].4206 (UDP 20) id=42367 [Now I tried doing an nslookup from a remote machine] datagram from [207.1.145.44].1392, fd 22, len 31 req: nlookup(www.aunet.org) id 54197 type=1 class=1 req: found 'www.aunet.org' as 'www.aunet.org' (cname=0) req: nlookup(aunet.org) id 54197 type=1 class=1 req: found 'aunet.org' as 'aunet.org' (cname=1) ns_req: answer - [207.1.145.44].1392 fd=22 id=54197 size=145 rc=0 datagram from [207.1.145.44].1392, fd 22, len 31 req: nlookup(www.aunet.org) id 54197 type=1 class=1 req: found 'www.aunet.org' as 'www.aunet.org' (cname=0) req: nlookup(aunet.org) id 54197 type=1 class=1 req: found 'aunet.org' as 'aunet.org' (cname=1) ns_req: answer - [207.1.145.44].1392 fd=22 id=54197 size=145 rc=0 So What is happening? Help would be greatly appreciated. S. -- English. Pfft. Who needs that? I'm never going to England. -- Homer J. Simpson Sudhakar C13n http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ Lead Indentured Slave
[Fwd: Debian specific Partition problme]
Please respond directly to Nagarjuna Thanks. S. Original Message Subject: Debian specific Partition problme Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 10:18:06 +0530 (IST) From: Nagarjuna G. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Sudhakar Chandrasekharan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear Manoj/Sudhakar I have posted this query earlier on the linux-india list, I found no replies. I am very curious to know the reason for this behaviour of fdisk program. Could you find out this from your friends at debian.org about it? the problme is: I have encountered a peculiar problem on a debian (2.1). The system has a 9.1 UltraWide SCSI disk (seagate make). When I do `fdisk' it shows the following: studio:/two# fdisk /dev/sdb The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 8683. There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, and could in certain setups cause problems with: 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., LILO) 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK) Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/sdb: 64 heads, 32 sectors, 8683 cylinders Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb18 8676 8875912+ f Win95 Extended (LBA) Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary: phys=(1023, 254, 63) should be (1023, 63, 32) /dev/sdb58 965 979933+ 83 Linux native /dev/sdb6 965 1083 120456 82 Linux swap /dev/sdb7 1083 4903 3911796 83 Linux native /dev/sdb8 4903 8676 3863601 83 Linux native As you notice the number of cylinders are shown to be 8693, too large to make lilo work. Obviously I failed to make the machine boot linux, except through a boot floppy. Otherwise there are no problems during running. However, what surprised me was when I tried (on the same harddisk) using SuSe 6.2, and Redhat 6.0, the out put of fdisk shows entirely different. They show only 1106 cylinders. This time lilo also works fine. I thought the fdisk program is same across different distros. Why does this happen? Any clues? Nagarjuna -- Nagarjuna G. Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, TIFR, Mumbai. INDIA Phones: Office: 556 7711, 555 4712, 555 5242Residence: 2155604 Fax: 091 - 22 - 556 6803 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --
Re: Compiling ATA/66 support into the kernel?
aphro proclaimed: use 2.3.x kernel for ata/66 Does it support booting off a ata/66 drive? The patches for 2.2.13 say that booting off of ata/66 drive is not supported. Thaths -- Now, what is a wedding? Well, Webster's Dictionary describes a wedding as, 'The process of removing weeds from one's garden.' -- Homer J. Simpson Sudhakar C13n http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ Lead Indentured Slave
Compiling ATA/66 support into the kernel?
How do I compile ATA/66 support into the kernel? And what version of the kernel should I use? The slink boot floppies have 2.0.36 and this kernel is not currently recogonizing my ide2 and ide3 interfaces. Here is my setup: Abit BP6 MoBo. 128M PC100 SDRAM 2 * 466MHz Celeron PPGA ide0 (ATA/33) Matshita ATAPI CDROM (master) ide1 (ATA/33) nothing ide2 (ATA/66) Western Digital 20.5 G HDD (supports ATA/66) ide3 (ATA/66) nothing scsi0 Tekram 390U Ultra Wide II card (ncr53x875E) sda Quantum 9.1G HDD Another strange problem I have been having. When I install slink (on /dev/sda) the ncr SCSI controller is detected fine. No SCSI errors even when doing a lot of disk I/O. But the kernel is UP. When I compile a custom kernel (2.0.36 or 2.2.13) for SMP with support for ncr53c8xx and / or sym53c8xx I keep getting time-out messages from the scsi driver like the following whenever I do a lot of disk I/O (like an apt-get upgrade pointing to potato): scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 6167, scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Write (10) 00 00 8f f7 27 00 00 02 00 sym53c8xx_abort: pid=6167 serial_number=6182 serial_number_at_timeout=6182 SCSI host 0 abort (pid 6167) timed out - resetting SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0. sym53c8xx_reset: pid=6167 reset_flags=2 serial_number=6182 serial_number_at_timeout=6182 sym53c875E-0: restart (scsi reset). sym53c875E-0: Downloading SCSI SCRIPTS. sym53c875E-0-0,*: FAST-20 WIDE SCSI 40.0 MB/s (50 ns, offset 16) scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 6572, scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Write (10) 00 00 8f f7 0f 00 00 02 00 sym53c8xx_abort: pid=6572 serial_number=6599 serial_number_at_timeout=6599 SCSI host 0 abort (pid 6572) timed out - resetting SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0. sym53c8xx_reset: pid=6572 reset_flags=2 serial_number=6599 serial_number_at_timeout=6599 sym53c875E-0: restart (scsi reset). sym53c875E-0: Downloading SCSI SCRIPTS. sym53c875E-0-0,*: FAST-20 WIDE SCSI 40.0 MB/s (50 ns, offset 16) Thaths -- Now, what is a wedding? Well, Webster's Dictionary describes a wedding as, 'The process of removing weeds from one's garden.' -- Homer J. Simpson Sudhakar C13n http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ Lead Indentured Slave
[MTA] Problems using sendmail and exim...
Note: I am sending this email from home. Please Cc me ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) in your replies. I run a couple of mailing lists that get pretty decent traffic. I used to use Exim as my MTA. I came across a pretty strage problem using Exim a couple of weeks ago. Mails to cyberspace.org started bouncing. I somehow managed to exchange a few emails with one of the admins of this service and they adviced me to move to a different MTA. I installed sendmail. Stragely, once I installed sendmail I noticed that any email to the vsnl.net.in domain started bouncing. One of the mailing lists I run is the Linux-india mailing list. Many people in the vsnl.net.in domain are subscribed to this list. I ran a couple of tests and the results are as following: OS: Debian 2.1 (hamm) sendmail: 8.9.3-3 exim: 2.05-1 * Sendmail acting as the MTA. Any mail to the vsnl.net.in domain is bouncing. www:~ $ echo testing. Please ignore | sendmail -v [EMAIL PROTECTED] Warning: alias database /etc/aliases.db out of date [EMAIL PROTECTED] Connecting to sbcsmtp1.ptss.com. via esmtp... 220 sbcsmtp1.ptss.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.8.8/8.8.8; Wed, 23 Jun 1999 10:29:03 -070 0 (PDT) EHLO aunet.org 250-sbcsmtp1.ptss.com Hello aunet.org [216.103.113.202], pleased to meet you 250-8BITMIME 250-SIZE 1600 250-DSN 250-ONEX 250-ETRN 250-XUSR 250 HELP MAIL From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] SIZE=24 250 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Sender ok RCPT To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 553 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... relay hosting BLOCKED [EMAIL PROTECTED] User unknown RSET 250 Reset state /home/thaths/dead.letter... Saved message in /home/thaths/dead.letter Closing connection to sbcsmtp1.ptss.com. QUIT 221 sbcsmtp1.ptss.com closing connection * Using Exim as MTA. Mails reach vsnl.net.in fine. Mails to cyberspace.org now bouncing. $ echo Testing. Please ignore. | sendmail -v [EMAIL PROTECTED] LOG: 0 MAIN = [EMAIL PROTECTED] U=thaths P=local S=292 www:~ $ Exim version 2.05 debug level 1 uid=8 gid=8 probably Berkeley DB version 1.8x (native mode) delivering message 10wrvg-0003mp-00 Connecting to blr.vsnl.net.in [202.54.12.6] ... connected SMTP 220 blr.vsnl.net.in ESMTP Sendmail 8.9.1a/8.9.1; Thu, 24 Jun 1999 00:06 :12 +0530 (IST) SMTP EHLO www SMTP 250-blr.vsnl.net.in Hello aunet.org [216.103.113.202], pleased to meet you 250-EXPN 250-VERB 250-8BITMIME 250-SIZE 250-DSN 250-ONEX 250-ETRN 250-XUSR 250 HELP SMTP MAIL FROM:[EMAIL PROTECTED] SIZE=1323 SMTP 250 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Sender ok SMTP RCPT TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED] SMTP 250 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Recipient ok SMTP DATA SMTP 354 Enter mail, end with . on a line by itself SMTP writing message and terminating . SMTP 250 AAA03580 Message accepted for delivery SMTP QUIT LOG: 0 MAIN = [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=lookuphost T=remote_smtp H=blr.vsnl.net.in [202.54.12 .6] LOG: 0 MAIN Completed $ echo Testing. Please ignore. | sendmail -v [EMAIL PROTECTED] LOG: 0 MAIN = [EMAIL PROTECTED] U=thaths P=local S=295 www:~ $ Exim version 2.05 debug level 1 uid=8 gid=8 probably Berkeley DB version 1.8x (native mode) delivering message 10wrwF-0003ms-00 Connecting to grex.cyberspace.org [204.212.46.130] ... connected SMTP 220-grex.cyberspace.org Sendmail 8.6.13/8.6.12 ready at Wed, 23 Jun 199 9 14:40:54 -0400 220 ESMTP spoken here SMTP EHLO www SMTP 250-grex.cyberspace.org Hello aunet.org [216.103.113.202], pleased to meet you 250-EXPN 250-SIZE 10 250 HELP SMTP MAIL FROM:[EMAIL PROTECTED] SIZE=1326 SMTP 250 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Sender ok SMTP RCPT TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED] SMTP 553 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever. SMTP QUIT LOG: 0 MAIN ** [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=lookuphost T=remote_smtp: SMTP error from remote m ailer after RCPT TO: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: host grex.cyberspace.org [204.212 .46.130]: 553 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... One generation passeth away, and anoth er generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever. Exim version 2.05 debug level 1 uid=8 gid=8 probably Berkeley DB version 1.8x (native mode) LOG: 0 MAIN = R=10wrwF-0003ms-00 U=mail P=local S=1228 LOG: 5 MAIN Error message sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] LOG: 0 MAIN Completed Exim version 2.05 debug level 1 uid=8 gid=8 probably Berkeley DB version 1.8x (native mode) delivering message 10wrwH-0003mx-00 LOG: 0 MAIN = thaths [EMAIL PROTECTED] D=localuser T=local_delivery LOG: 0 MAIN Completed What gives? Would really appreciate help in fixing this under Exim. Thanks. Thaths -- If there were any justice, my face would be on a bunch of crappy merchandise -- Homer J. Simpson
Re: [MTA] Problems using sendmail and exim...
On Wed, Jun 23, 1999 at 12:34:57PM -0700, did George Bonser write: On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: LOG: 0 MAIN = [EMAIL PROTECTED] U=thaths P=local S=295 www:~ $ Exim version 2.05 debug level 1 uid=8 gid=8 probably Berkeley DB version 1.8x (native mode) delivering message 10wrwF-0003ms-00 Connecting to grex.cyberspace.org [204.212.46.130] ... connected SMTP 220-grex.cyberspace.org Sendmail 8.6.13/8.6.12 ready at Wed, 23 Jun 199 9 14:40:54 -0400 220 ESMTP spoken here SMTP EHLO www Your EHLO is broken. That host probably requires a fully qualified domain name. www.what? Just www will probably not work. This is LIKELY due to your /etc/hosts being incorrect. Try ip-address fully-qualified-name hostname 1.2.3.4 myhost.mydomain.com myhost My /etc/hosts used to have: 127.0.0.1 www localhost I changed that to: 216.103.113.202 www.aunet.org www 127.0.0.1 www localhost Works now. Thanks a lot. S. -- If there were any justice, my face would be on a bunch of crappy merchandise -- Homer J. Simpson
Re: [MTA] Problems using sendmail and exim...
On Wed, Jun 23, 1999 at 02:57:09PM -0500, did Brad write: On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: * Sendmail acting as the MTA. Any mail to the vsnl.net.in domain is bouncing. www:~ $ echo testing. Please ignore | sendmail -v [EMAIL PROTECTED] Warning: alias database /etc/aliases.db out of date [EMAIL PROTECTED] Connecting to sbcsmtp1.ptss.com. via esmtp... ^ Could that be the problem? It seems to be connecting to the wrong address. ptss.com is one of the MX servers listed for the vsnl.net.in domain. Ok, looking at George Bonser's reply, it gives me something to check. $ telnet grex.cyberspace.org 25 Trying 204.212.46.130... Connected to grex.cyberspace.org. Escape character is '^]'. 220-grex.cyberspace.org Sendmail 8.6.13/8.6.12 ready at Wed, 23 Jun 1999 15:47:31 -0400 220 ESMTP spoken here EHLO www 250-grex.cyberspace.org Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED] [XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX], pleased to meet you 250-EXPN 250-SIZE 10 250 HELP MAIL FROM:[EMAIL PROTECTED] SIZE=1326 250 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Sender ok RCPT TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 553 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever. Looks like that is the problem. You'd think it'd give a more appropriate error message, though. Like complaining about the EHLO instead of the RCPT later on... [EMAIL PROTECTED] told me that it was to block spam. S. -- If there were any justice, my face would be on a bunch of crappy merchandise -- Homer J. Simpson
Re: printout being chopped off...
Mario Olimpio de Menezes proclaimed: I had similar problems with this printer and the bellow link led me to a very useful page with tons of info about Epson printers: http://www.eunuchs.org/linux Thanks. I took a look at the page. But the things suggested in that page did not fix my problems. I have partially fixed the problem I was having. I edited /etc/enscript.cfg and used the dimensions specified against letterdj for letter. Now enscripts prints fine. Thaths -- Son, this is the only time I'm ever going to say this. It is not OK to loose. -- Homer J. Simpson Sudhakar C13n http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ Indentured Slave
Re: printout being chopped off...
Wayne Topa proclaimed: I had a similar problem with my Brother Laser Printer. I finally fixed it by using a2ps and changing the papersize in a2ps.cfg ie Medium: Letter 607 780. I just keep changing it until I got everything printing on the paper, correctly. Could you give me more information? How does a2ps work with apsfilter and gs? Thaths -- Son, this is the only time I'm ever going to say this. It is not OK to loose. -- Homer J. Simpson Sudhakar C13n http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ Indentured Slave
printout being chopped off...
Hi, I have an Epson Color Stylus 640. When I print 2-uped pages, a bit of the page (on the left hand side) gets chopped off. I am printing to 'letter' paper. Here is what I tried: * Installed slink's lprng, gs (not gs-alladin), enscript, psutils and magicfilter. * Ran /usr/sbin/magicfilterconfig and chose stylus800, stylus_color_360dpi and stylus_color_720dpi as filters. * When I print from Netscape Communicator using lpr -Pprinter_name, the output is fine. * When I try to use print from Netscape Communicator using 'psnup -c -Pletter -n 2 | lpr -Pprinter_name' I see that a little bit (about 2 characters) gets chopped off on the left hand side (when seen length-wise). It is not that the printed area bleeds off the end of the paper. There is a definite non-printable border. It is at the edge of the border and the printable area that the bleed occurs. * Tried printing from command line using 'enscript -2r -G -Mletter -Pprinter_name foo.txt'. Same problem. * Installed lprng, enscript and psutils from slink. Installed gs-aladdin and apsfilter from potato. * Configured apsfilter for uniprint driver for Epson Color Stylus 600. * Tried printing with psnup and enscript. Same problem as before. I guess I need to somehow change the printable area parameter for papersize letter. How do I do this in a system-wide way? Thanks. Thaths PS: Would appreciate it if you Cc-ed me on your replies to this thread. -- Marge: Homer, can't we pawn my engagement ring instead? Homer: Now, I appreciate that, honey, but we need hundred and fifty dollars here. Sudhakar C13n http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ Indentured Slave
How to create /dev/eth*?
I recently got a DSL connection at home. When I first installed Linux in this machine at home it did not have an ethernet card. I used to use ppp to connect to the net. This machine is running slink from the mid-feb time-frame. I copied over /etc/init.d/network from another Debian box and edited the IP, GATEWWAY etc. parts. I notice that I do not have /dev/eth*. How do I create these /dev/eth* entries? Plug: Brad in Kingston technologies' tech support line was really helpful. I called Kingston expecting the I'm sorry. We do not support Linux response. I asked Brad what chipset theit KNE110/TX PCI ethernet cards were based on. He immediately pulled up a URL which talks about Linux support for this card (http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/pnic.html) and emailed it to me. Thaths PS: Would appreciate if you Cc-ed me in your replies to this thread. -- For a school with no Asian kids I think we put up a pretty darn good science fair! -- Principal Skinner Sudhakar C13n http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ Indentured Slave
Re: How to create /dev/eth*?
Benoit Joly wrote: you dont need to create the device. the device will be there if your kernel support the ethernet card, which is probably not what you did. so compile your kernel to support the ethernet card and everything should be fine. Thanks. I will try it out later today when I go home. S. -- For a school with no Asian kids I think we put up a pretty darn good science fair! -- Principal Skinner Sudhakar C13n http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ Indentured Slave
[Howto?] sucking all posts to newsgroup foo.bar.baz
Hi, I just installed suck on my machine. I want to archive all unexpired and uncancelled posts that are available in a newsgroup (say, alt.foo.bar.baz). How do I go about doing this? suck(1) says that it is possible for me to download ALL the newsgroups in my news server. It does not tell me how I can filter out all the unwanted newsgroups. Thanks in advance. Thaths PS: Would appreciate it if you Cc-ed your reply to me. -- Homer: There's only two kind of guys who wear those shirts: gay guys and big, fat party animals. And Bart doesn't look like a big, fat party animal to me... Marge: So, if you wore a Hawaiian shirt, it wouldn't be gay? Homer: Right. Thank you. Sudhakar C13n http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ Indentured Slave
[Off Topic] SW Radio software for Linux?
Hi, I was wondering whether there are any sort of short radio software for Linux. Since Debian has roots connected to HAM radio, I though someone here might have an answer. Thaths PS: Would appreciate if you Cc-ed me in your reply. -- Oh my God, Space Aliens!! Don't eat me, I have a wife and kids! Eat them! -- Homer J. Simpson Sudhakar C13n http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ Indentured Slave
[HOWTO?] Configure ircd and get it running...
Hi, I just finished installing the ircd package. I want to run an irc server for my intranet (my machine is inside the firewall). I poked around /usr/doc/ircd and was unable to find out how exactly to configure ircd. I made some cursory changes in /etc/ircd/ircd.* 1. From the little that I have read I understand that /usr/lib/ircd/bin/dancer is ideal for me. Is this correct? 2. At the moment ircd is started off /etc/inet.d I want to start it as a daemon. How? 3. What are the things that I *must do* before running my server? Thanks. S. -- I'm not a bad guy. I work hard, and I love my kids. So why should I spend half my Sunday hearing about how I'm going to hell? -- Homer J. Simpson Sudhakar C13n http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ Indentured Slave
Installing hamm on a HP Vectra VL 8
Folks, Has anyone sucessfully install hamm on a HP Vectra VL8? I am having problems with my built in ethernet card. NT says that the card is 3C905B I compiled the kernel with support for 3C59X and bootup is fine. But I am not even able to ping my gateway. S. -- Now, sweetie, don't worry about a thing. I'll teach you to comb it over so no one can tell. Just like my hair! -- Homer J. Simpson Sudhakar C13n http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ Indentured Slave
Re: Communicator won't run. Help!
I got the libc5 version from the supported directory. I am using tcsh. Also make sure that the environment variable MOZILLA_HOME is set to point to /usr/local/netscape The $HOME is already set. here is the ldd output: ldd: version 1.9.9 libXt.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x4000d000) libSM.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x40055000) libICE.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x4005e000) libXmu.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6 (0x40073000) libXpm.so.4 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4 (0x40085000) libXext.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x40093000) libX11.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x4009f000) libdl.so.1 = /lib/libdl.so.1 (0x40143000) libc.so.5 = /lib/libc.so.5 (0x40146000) libg++.so.27 = /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libg++.so.27 (0x40206000) libstdc++.so.27 = /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libstdc++.so.27 (0x4023e000) libm.so.5 = /lib/libm.so.5 (0x4026f000) libc.so.6 = /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40278000) ld-linux.so.2 = /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x4031d000) I also try to debug the netscape executable (although there is no debugging symbol). The seg fault seems to be in libc.so.5. Do the following and send me the output via personal email (do not mail the mailing list) - $ strace /usr/local/netscape/netscape One thing you could try is moving the ~/.netscape directory out of the way and starting communicator again. If it starts fine, you can slowly start moving files from your old ~/.netscape to your new ~/.netscape one by one and see when the seg fault starts happening. Thaths -- Homer: Oh Lisa! There's no record of a hurricane ever hitting Springfield. Lisa: Yes, but the records only go back to 1978 when the Hall of Records was mysteriously blown away. Sudhakar C13n http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ Indentured Slave
[Off Topic] Ideas on providing low cost email access to schools
[I would appreciate it if you Cc-ed your replies to this thread to me] #include offtopic.h Folks, I am planning on writing an article for a computer magazine in India [1]. This magazine is big supporter of Linux in India. I thought of writing an article on how high schools and colleges with non-dedicated connections to each other could provide basic internet access [2] to its students. Basic Idea ^^^ The schools will be connected to each other with hubs in the various regions. These hubs typically would have dedicated connections (leased lines). The schools have departmental LANs with windows (3.1 and '95) machines. Basically, the departments will be providing the students with accounts on their POP/SMTP (Linux) servers. The students would use a POP/SMTP capable client to connect to the server and download and upload their emails. Outgoing Mail ^ The Linux machine will queue all the outgoing mail. This Linux machine will then dial another school or hub (via. PPP) during the off-peak hours and send out the emails from the queue. The hubs which have dedicated connections will then take care of sending out the emails to the recipients. Incoming Mail ^ An email bound for foo.edu.in will reach the hub (bar.net.in) and will be queued there. When foo.edu.in connects to bar.net.in to send out outgoing email, bar will instruct foo to download the incoming email. Questions ^ 1. Has something like this been implemented elsewhere? It would be nice if I had more actual technical details on how this has been implemented. 2. I have a pretty good knowledge of how to take care of the outgoing mail scenario. I am a bit hazy on how the hub would queue mails coming to foo. How can the MTA be configured in bar to wait for foo to connect? 3. Are there out of the box solutions available? Do any of the MTAs support this kind of stuff? I don't want to write custom scripts. I prefer a solution that needs minimal maintenance. 4. I want to stay with TCP/IP. uucp is not a solution for me. Footnotes [1] PCQuest - http://www.pcquest.com/ [2] I am defining basic internet access as email for starters. If a school has a dedicated internet connection this will include NNTP, FTP and HTTP access. Thanks in advance for your input. Thaths -- Homer: Oh Lisa! There's no record of a hurricane ever hitting Springfield. Lisa: Yes, but the records only go back to 1978 when the Hall of Records was mysteriously blown away. Sudhakar C13n http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ Indentured Slave
Re: Communicator Installation
Hi, I'm trying to install Communicator 4.5 and can't get anywhere. I downloaded the file with Lynx from the netscape ftp site. The file was saved in /root/communicator-v45-export.x86-unknown-linux2.0.tar.gz # cd /root # tar zxvf communicator-v45-export.x86-unknown-linux2.0.tar.gz this will extract the files into a directory called communicator-... or something like that. # cd communicator* # ./ns-install When asked about where to install say /usr/local/netscape The files will be installed under that directory. # cd /usr/local/bin Create a symbolic link from the bin directory tot he actual location of the executable. # ln -s /usr/local/netscape/netscape netscape You can launch communicator from /usr/loca/bin/netscape I'm thinking the file shouldn't be in /root when I try to install it, maybe it doesn't matter? I tried moving it with mv 'file name' /usr and I get a not valid command, another time I just got the root prompt # back. I do a search locate communicator and it still shows the file is in /root/ comm The final execuatable is not called communicator. It is called netscape. Thaths -- Homer: We'll search out every place a sick twisted solitary misfit might run to. Lisa: I'll start with Radio Shack. Sudhakar C13n http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ Indentured Slave
Re: printing from netscape
How do you print to a remote printer from netscape? When I click on the print button, I get a screen with the print command defaulting to lpd. Are you sure that the print command says lpd? It should say lpr. lpr is the client that sends a page to the printer. lpd is the daemon. i.e. the server. Is there some other place I need to specify which printer in my printcap I want to print to? I've got my printcap setup with a couple of different printers, named by their host name. If I just click PRINT when taking the defaults, it gives me an error: lpd: Fatal error - another print spooler is using TCP printer port, possibly lpd process '139' Change the print command to lpr -Pprinter_name. I am assuming that you have set up the printcap entries OK. Sidenote: Netscape Navigator / Communicator generates postscript of the page that needs to be printed and passes it on to the print command. This lets you make nice and interesting things like printing back-to-back and 2-uped pages using psnup etc. Thaths -- See, Marge. Who needs a car wash when you can just drive around in the rain? -- Homer J. Simpson Sudhakar C13n http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ Indentured Slave
/var/log/utmp missing
After a previous upgrade to slink, I notice that /var/log/utmp is now missing. Can I just touch it to create it? What should be its file permissions? who and w are showing strage results probably because utmp is missing. S. -- I've figured out an alternative to giving up my beer. Basically, we become a family of travelling acrobats. -- Homer J. Simpson Sudhakar C13n http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ Indentured Slave
xemacs-mule-canna-wnn doesn't support korean-hangul input method?
Hi, I am extremely new to this whole concept of input systems and double byte characters. I am trying to set up my machine and an eXceed client so that a user of my machine can use xemacs to edit Korean documents (encoded in EUC-KR). Here is what I did - 1. Installed xfnt* 2. Installed xemacs20-mule-canna-wnn 3. Started xfs on my machine 4. Installed eXceed on the user's machine and configured it to read fonts from my machine (foo:7100) . 5. start xemacs on the user's machine and - (a) 'Mule'--'Set Language environment'--'Korean' (b) 'Mule'--'Select input method' The status line comes with a dialog - Select input method (default korean-hangul): (c) I simply type enter to accept the default and see the error message No valid input method is specified. (d) I ignore this error and open an HTML file that is in Korean. The korean characters are displayed just fine. (e) 'Mule'--'Toggle input method' and see the error message Can't activate input method 'korean-hangul' What other packages do I need to get Korean input working on my machine? I am able to get japanese working pretty good (as far as I can tell. I don't speak / read / write japanese or korean). Thanks. Thaths -- No, I can't. This is my cause. I'm like the man who singlehandedly built the rocket and went to the moon. What was his name? Apollo Creed? -- Homer J. Simpson Sudhakar C13n http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ Indentured Slave
Re: Nescape 4.5 for SWim Motif 2.1?
AlexY wrote - Is there a package of Netscape 4.5 compiled for SWiM Motif 2.1 ? Most probably not. Netscape always used Motif 1.2 for linking. May be glibc2 version uses Morif 2.1 - but unlikely. You are right. Navigator / Communicator 4.5 glibc dynmotif is linked against 1.2. $ ldd /usr/local/nova_glibc/netscape-dynMotif | grep libXm.so libXm.so.1 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXm.so.1 (0x40017000) Thaths -- No, I can't. This is my cause. I'm like the man who singlehandedly built the rocket and went to the moon. What was his name? Apollo Creed? -- Homer J. Simpson Sudhakar C13n http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ Indentured Slave
[Q] backspace problems connecting to XDM via eXceed
Hi, I am running xdm on my machine. When I log into the machine on the console, my xterm's backspace is working fine. But when another user logs into my machine using eXceed on NT (using XDMCP-broadcast), backspace does not work. What resources / files should I modify to map backspace to ^H? Here are snippets from some of my config files - /etc/X11/Xresources ^^^ XTerm*termName: xterm *VT100*backarrowKey: false *VT100.Translations: #override KeyDelete: string(\033[3~)\n\ KeyHome: string(\033OH)\n\ KeyEnd: string(\033OF) I *really* prefer setting termName to xterm. $ diff /etc/X11/xdm/Xresources /etc/X11/xdm/Xresources_0 1c1 ! /etc/X11/xdm/Xresources --- ! /etc/X11/xdm/Xresources_0 3c3 ! X resources used by xdm sessions --- ! X resources used by xdm sessions on display :0 I don't think it is my ~/.Xresources that gives me proper backspacing on the console. When I log into my machine using eXceed remotely I have the same backspace problem. If the remote user just uses eXceed to open an xterm (and not an XDM session), the backspacing works fine. Thaths -- Look, Marge, you don't know what it's like. I'm the one out there every day putting his ass on the line. And I'm not out of order! You're out of order. The whole freaking system is out of order. You want the truth? You want the truth?! You can't handle the truth! 'Cause when you reach over and put your hand into a pile of goo that was your best friend's face, you'll know what to do! Forget it, Marge, it's Chinatown. -- Homer J. Simpson Sudhakar C13n http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ Indentured Slave
Re: PPP dial out fails at LCP ConfReq
John Hasler wrote - Martin Bialasinski writes: What I mean is that you shouldn't send the \d. He isn't sending \d. To chat '\d' means pause one second. Some ISP's get confused if chat exits and lets pppd start sending packets before they finish authenticating. The pause gives them time to get their act together. Thanks for all the help folks. I have figured out what the problem is. It was not my chatscripts. It was not /etc/ppp/peers/netcom It was something really stupid on my part. My modem was an internal one connected to com3 (/dev/ttyS3). The IRQ was being set wrong. I unplugged the card, changed the jumpers on the card to diable PnP and set its IRQ to an unused one (10), rebooted, ran setserial and that solved the problem. Just thout this info had to be archived in some mailing list for people who might come across a similar problem in the future. Thaths -- I can't believe you didn't invite me. After I painted those cool stripes all over your car. -- Homer J. Simpson Sudhakar C13n http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ Indentured Slave
Re: Can't load library
Ken Archer wrote: Trying to get Netscape 4.5b2 up and running on Debian 2.0, I get the error message that: Netscape: cannot load library libXpm.so.4 I have the same Netscape running fine on a Suse 5.2 partition with libXpm.so.4 installed in the same default directory (/usr/X11R6/lib). Did you run ldconfig after libXpm was installed? $ ldconfig -p | grep libXpm should tell you if libXpm is being seen. Also, $ ldd /usr/bin/netscape should list the libraries needed by the netscape binary (replace /usr/bin/netscape with whatever is approriate for your installation) and whether they are found in the system. I have used Slackware, Red Hat, Suse and now Debian. I had no idea there was so much difference between the setup on Debian and the other dist. I would appreciate a well placed nudge in the right direction. Hope that is not a well placed nudge in the direction of Netscape. ;-) S. -- I can't believe you didn't invite me. After I painted those cool stripes all over your car. -- Homer J. Simpson Sudhakar C13n http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ Indentured Slave
PPP dial out fails at LCP ConfReq
I have fianlly managed to get a proper chatscript to dial into my ISP (I think). Now I find that when pppd comes on it always fails at the LCP ConfReq phase. Here is a snippet from my ppp.log Oct 3 09:25:08 cabrio chat[1127]: CONNECT Oct 3 09:25:08 cabrio chat[1127]: -- got it Oct 3 09:25:08 cabrio chat[1127]: send () Oct 3 09:25:08 cabrio chat[1127]: expect (ogin:) Oct 3 09:25:28 cabrio chat[1127]: 38400^MICG Netcom[PM9:S10]^M Oct 3 09:25:28 cabrio chat[1127]: ^M Oct 3 09:25:38 cabrio chat[1127]: login: Oct 3 09:25:38 cabrio chat[1127]: -- got it Oct 3 09:25:38 cabrio chat[1127]: send (us,ppp,thaths^M) Oct 3 09:25:38 cabrio chat[1127]: expect (word:) Oct 3 09:25:58 cabrio chat[1127]: us,ppp,thaths^M Oct 3 09:26:08 cabrio chat[1127]: Password: Oct 3 09:26:08 cabrio chat[1127]: -- got it Oct 3 09:26:08 cabrio chat[1127]: send (??) Oct 3 09:26:08 cabrio chat[1127]: send (\d) Oct 3 09:26:09 cabrio pppd[1126]: Serial connection established. Oct 3 09:26:18 cabrio pppd[1126]: Using interface ppp0 Oct 3 09:26:18 cabrio pppd[1126]: Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyS2 Oct 3 09:26:18 cabrio pppd[1126]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 magic 0x7fb8 pcomp accomp] Oct 3 09:26:51 cabrio last message repeated 11 times Oct 3 09:26:57 cabrio last message repeated 2 times Oct 3 09:26:58 cabrio pppd[1126]: Hangup (SIGHUP) Oct 3 09:26:58 cabrio pppd[1126]: Modem hangup Oct 3 09:26:58 cabrio pppd[1126]: Connection terminated. Oct 3 09:26:59 cabrio pppd[1126]: Exit. The PPP Howoto (Section 7.10) says - Linux does not support RPI modems. If your modem is RPI then you will have to find a different modem. This is not likely to change in the future given the statements made by Rockwell's management. Examine the systel log when you use the debug option. If the trace shows that the it isw sending the LCP-request frame over and over again and the id number is not incrementing then you are not exchanging frames with the remote PPP software. Can somebody help me get dial up working? I am at my wits end. S.
Re: [pppd] error: link not 8-bit clean
/etc/chatscripts/isp ABORT BUSY ABORT NO CARRIER ABORT VOICE ABORT NO DIALTONE ABORT NO ANSWER ATZ OK ATDT2230101 CONNECT '' ogin: \d\q'us,ppp,thaths' ssword: \qpassword \d\c OK, terminal login looks like the way to go. The ISP starts PPP immediately, so your chatscript looks all right. I am a bit puzzled. Pleas etry to remove all lines after ssword: \qpassword in the chatscript. I was able to get over the 8-bit clean problem. Now what happens is I see ppp0-/dev/ttyS2 happening after the connection is established. I try doing an 'ifconfig ppp0'. I don't see the IP address getting set properly. The modem hang ups with no explanation. Got to spend more time debugging it. S. -- I saw this in a movie about a bus that had to speed around a city, keeping its speed over 50, and if its speed changed, it would explode! I think it was called, 'The Bus That Couldn't Slow Down.' -- Homer J. Simpson Sudhakar C13n http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ Indentured Slave
Re: [pppd] error: link not 8-bit clean
Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This usually means that the chat script is exiting without having provided the other end with everything it needs. Dial in with minicom and work through the login until you get the garbage that indicates that ppp has started on the other end. Then use your notes to answer pppconfig's questions. Send me the error messages (they are in /var/log/ppp.log) and copies of /etc/chatscripts/provider and /etc/ppp/peers/provider and I will try to help you. Attaching 3 files to this email. 1. pap (the log and various scripts) 2. chat (the log and various scripts) 3. hyper-term (What happens when I actually dial in using hyperterminal) So what is happening? Help would be greatly appreciated. S. ---PAP--- /var/log/messages - Aug 24 18:58:54 cabrio pppd[1253]: pppd 2.3.5 started by root, uid 0 Aug 24 18:58:55 cabrio chat[1254]: abort on (BUSY) Aug 24 18:58:55 cabrio chat[1254]: abort on (NO CARRIER) Aug 24 18:58:55 cabrio chat[1254]: abort on (VOICE) Aug 24 18:58:55 cabrio chat[1254]: abort on (NO DIALTONE) Aug 24 18:58:55 cabrio chat[1254]: abort on (NO ANSWER) Aug 24 18:58:55 cabrio chat[1254]: send (ATZ^M) Aug 24 18:58:55 cabrio chat[1254]: expect (OK) Aug 24 18:59:14 cabrio chat[1254]: ATZ^M^M Aug 24 18:59:14 cabrio chat[1254]: OK Aug 24 18:59:14 cabrio chat[1254]: -- got it Aug 24 18:59:14 cabrio chat[1254]: send (ATDT5321000^M) Aug 24 18:59:14 cabrio chat[1254]: expect (CONNECT) Aug 24 18:59:14 cabrio chat[1254]: ^M Aug 24 18:59:44 cabrio chat[1254]: ATDT5321000^M Aug 24 18:59:44 cabrio chat[1254]: CONNECT Aug 24 18:59:44 cabrio chat[1254]: -- got it Aug 24 18:59:44 cabrio chat[1254]: send (\d) Aug 24 18:59:45 cabrio pppd[1253]: Serial connection established. Aug 24 18:59:46 cabrio pppd[1253]: Using interface ppp0 Aug 24 18:59:46 cabrio pppd[1253]: Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyS2 Aug 24 19:00:16 cabrio pppd[1253]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests Aug 24 19:00:16 cabrio pppd[1253]: Connection terminated. Aug 24 19:00:16 cabrio pppd[1253]: Receive serial link is not 8-bit clean: Aug 24 19:00:16 cabrio pppd[1253]: Problem: all had bit 7 set to 0 Aug 24 19:00:34 cabrio pppd[1253]: Hangup (SIGHUP) Aug 24 19:00:35 cabrio pppd[1253]: Exit. /etc/ppp/peers/netcom - noauth #pppconfig_noauth connect /usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/chatscripts/netcom #pppconfig_connect debug #pppconfig_debug /dev/ttyS2 #pppconfig_dev 115200 #pppconfig_speed defaultroute #pppconfig_route noipdefault #pppconfig_ipdefault user 'us,ppp,thaths' #pppconfig_user /etc/ppp/pap-secrets 'us,ppp,thaths' * password /etc/chatscripts/netcom --- ABORT BUSY ABORT NO CARRIER ABORT VOICE ABORT NO DIALTONE ABORT NO ANSWER ATZ OK ATDT5321000 CONNECT \d\c ---Chat--- /var/log/messeges - Aug 24 19:09:05 cabrio pppd[1412]: pppd 2.3.5 started by root, uid 0 Aug 24 19:09:06 cabrio chat[1413]: abort on (BUSY) Aug 24 19:09:06 cabrio chat[1413]: abort on (NO CARRIER) Aug 24 19:09:06 cabrio chat[1413]: abort on (VOICE) Aug 24 19:09:06 cabrio chat[1413]: abort on (NO DIALTONE) Aug 24 19:09:06 cabrio chat[1413]: abort on (NO ANSWER) Aug 24 19:09:06 cabrio chat[1413]: send (ATZ^M) Aug 24 19:09:06 cabrio chat[1413]: expect (OK) Aug 24 19:09:25 cabrio chat[1413]: ATZ^M^M Aug 24 19:09:25 cabrio chat[1413]: OK Aug 24 19:09:25 cabrio chat[1413]: -- got it Aug 24 19:09:25 cabrio chat[1413]: send (ATDT2230101^M) Aug 24 19:09:25 cabrio chat[1413]: expect (CONNECT) Aug 24 19:09:25 cabrio chat[1413]: ^M Aug 24 19:10:05 cabrio chat[1413]: ATDT2230101^M Aug 24 19:10:05 cabrio chat[1413]: CONNECT Aug 24 19:10:05 cabrio chat[1413]: -- got it Aug 24 19:10:05 cabrio chat[1413]: send (^M) Aug 24 19:10:05 cabrio chat[1413]: expect (ogin:) Aug 24 19:10:15 cabrio chat[1413]: 115200^M Aug 24 19:10:15 cabrio chat[1413]: netcom login: Aug 24 19:10:15 cabrio chat[1413]: -- got it Aug 24 19:10:15 cabrio chat[1413]: send (??) Aug 24 19:10:16 cabrio chat[1413]: expect (ssword:) Aug 24 19:10:25 cabrio chat[1413]: ^M Aug 24 19:10:45 cabrio chat[1413]: netcom login: 'us,ppp,thaths'^M Aug 24 19:10:45 cabrio chat[1413]: Password: Aug 24 19:10:45 cabrio chat[1413]: -- got it Aug 24 19:10:45 cabrio chat[1413]: send (??) Aug 24 19:10:45 cabrio chat[1413]: send (\d) Aug 24 19:10:46 cabrio pppd[1412]: Serial connection established. Aug 24 19:10:55 cabrio pppd[1412]: Using interface ppp0 Aug 24 19:10:55 cabrio pppd[1412]: Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyS2 Aug 24 19:11:25 cabrio pppd[1412]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests Aug 24 19:11:25 cabrio pppd[1412]: Connection terminated. Aug 24 19:11:25 cabrio pppd[1412]: Receive serial link is not 8-bit clean: Aug 24 19:11
[pppd] error: link not 8-bit clean
I installed Hamm on a machine at home. The installation went perfectly. I next tried configuring a dial up connection to get into my ISP (Netcom - http://www.netcom.com/). Here is the story of my experiments with pppd and associated applications - 1. I first tried dunc to create a new connection. I created two profile. One with PAP authentication and the other with chat. When I tried to connect to Netcom, both of the profiles failed. I, unfortunately, don't remember the error message. 2. I now tried pppconfig. Again created two profiles. PAP and chat. Both fail. syslog says that the dialin is working fine (as far as I can see). During the LCP phase the connection is disconnected after an error message is printed (something along the lines of receiving link is not 8-bit clean). There is some info about this error message in /usr/doc/ppp/FAQ I could not make sense of it. 3. I read the man pages for pppd and chat and hacked a couple of scripts and tried them out. Same problem as '2'. 4. I tried kppp. In kppp's case the dialer calls the ISP first. pppd is started only after the dial-in phase has completed. Shouldn't pppd actually start first and invoke chat to make the connection? When pppd kicks in it tries to talk to the modem. It fails because it is unable to detect CARRIER. 4. I installed xisp from unstable along with libforms0.88 I like the interface. When I say 'Connect' pppd starts fine. Then chat tries to dial out but fails without any message. My setup - hamm (CheapBytes CD). /dev/ttyS2 is a Zoom K56 modem. I try ATZ, ATDTnumber. And now for the questions - * Does someone have a working bunch of scripts for connecting to Netcom? I'd really appreciate it if you could give them to. * Does Netcom use PAP / CHAP? * I also want the ability to dial into work. Dial into work uses SecureID. Are there any dial-up scripts that make using SecureID easier. I did take a look at /usr/doc/ppp/examples/secure-card but could not get it work. Thaths -- I saw this in a movie about a bus that had to speed around a city, keeping its speed over 50, and if its speed changed, it would explode! I think it was called, 'The Bus That Couldn't Slow Down.' -- Homer J. Simpson Sudhakar C13n http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ Indentured Slave
Making XDM use *my* window manager
Hi, This is most probably a frequently asked question. I poked around the Debian documentation and am unable to find the information (probably because I looked at the wrong place). How do I make xdm start a preferred window manager on a per-user basis? I want to leave the system-wide default preferred window manager (in /etc/X11/window-managers) to be Fvwm95. I personally want to use Fvwm2 with Gnome. I already have the appropriate stuff in my .xinitrc for launching Gnome and Fvwm2 via startx. % cat ~/.xinitrc background-properties --init keyboard-properties --init mouse-properties --init panel xset +fp beetle:7100/ exec /usr/bin/X11/fvwm2 % cat ~/.xserverrc exec X :0 -bpp 16 Should I be creating a new .xsomething file in my home directory? My box resides in a secure intranet. Does the default Debian installation allow other folks using eXceed on WinDOS 95/NT in my network connect to my machine via XDMCP-Broadcast? Which files should I modify to allow users in my intranet to connect to my machine (now you see why I want to leave Fvwm95 as the system-wide default window manager)? S. -- Marge, it takes two to lie. One to lie and one to listen. -- Homer J. Simpson Sudhakar C13n http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ Indentured Slave
Re: No color in second xterm
Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: Mike wrote: You need to set TERM=xterm-debian (as I discovered today). That did not seem to solve the problem. One more strange thing that I notice is that my first xterm is always slightly bigger than subsequent xterms. I have screen captures of the first xterm and later xterms at - http://www.aunet.org/thaths/color.gif - First xterm http://www.aunet.org/thaths/no_color.gif - subsequent xterms I just solved this problem (or rather, it solved itself). I had the following in my .tcshrc - switch ($TERM) case xterm: case xterm-debian xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources breaksw default: breaksw endsw I deleted that and things have been fine. Why did *that* snippet cause the problem? I don't know. It just did. S. -- I really came on Godly. I took taxicabs all over NY. I tipped big because He would have. I got into a fight with a guy and I forgave him. It is true. Some guy hit my fender and I said unto him 'Be fruitful and multiply.' But not in those words. -- Woody Allen Sudhakar C13n http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ Indentured Slave -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
No color in second xterm
After I installed hamm on a new machine I have noticed that the first xterm I start (xterm -ls -sb) has proper colors. All xterms started after the first xterm do not display colors properly. Even when I quit all xterms and start a new xterm, the new xterm does not have color. Here is my setup - * KDE 1.0 * % setenv | grep TERM TERM=xterm * In my .tcshrc - if ( (! $?ENVONLY) $?prompt ) then # Let xterm display the pwd alias cd 'cd \!*; echo -n ^[]2\;$cwd^G' set prompt=%U%m%u:%B%/ \!%b% endif * Server MetroX. Same problem with SVGA server too. * cat ~/.xserverrc exec X :0 -bpp 16 * Color ls works fine. It is color xterm that I am having problems with How do I get my colors back? What am I doing wrong? Is it a terminfo problem? Thaths -- A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. -- Douglas Adams Sudhakar C13n http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ Indentured Slave -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: No color in second xterm
Mike wrote: You need to set TERM=xterm-debian (as I discovered today). That did not seem to solve the problem. One more strange thing that I notice is that my first xterm is always slightly bigger than subsequent xterms. I have screen captures of the first xterm and later xterms at - http://www.aunet.org/thaths/color.gif - First xterm http://www.aunet.org/thaths/no_color.gif - subsequent xterms As you will notice, the subsequent xterm is smaller in height and width. As I said earlier, color ls works fine. It is the other color aspects of the xterm (prompt, vim etc.) that don't work. S. -- I really came on Godly. I took taxicabs all over NY. I tipped big because He would have. I got into a fight with a guy and I forgave him. It is true. Some guy hit my fender and I said unto him 'Be fruitful and multiply.' But not in those words. -- Woody Allen Sudhakar C13n http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ Indentured Slave -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Debian 2.0 [beta or released on HP Kayak XU?
Has anybody installed Debian 2.0 (beta or released) on a HP Kayak XU? My Official CDs have not reached me yet. So I would have to do the basic installation via the dard disk and ask dselect to upgrade via FTP. There is a problem with the network / PCI cards on Kayaks that people have reported (http://www.cs.uit.no/~johnm/os/linux/kayak.html)) I am going to do my installation later today. Can anybody who is running Debian on a Kayak send me configuration info for getting this baby up and running? Thaths -- Oh, everything is too damned expensive these days. Look at this bible I just got - Fifteen bucks! And talk about a preachy book... everybody is a sinner. [points to a verse] Except this guy. -- Homer J. Simpson Sudhakar C13n http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ Indentured Slave -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Powerpoint equiv. for Linux
Does anybody know whether there is an equivalent for Linux/Unix of the MS Powerpoint prog for preparing slides for overhead projector? My wife has to use this prog for preparing slides for medical lectures and because of it (and a private practice invoicing prog) I have to keep a Windows 95 partition which, needless to say, I would dearly like to get shot of. This might not exactly be what you are looking for. But it might be useful for some folks. http://developer.netscape.com:80/docs/technote/javascript/prestemp/prestemp.html A nice alternative to PowerPoint presentations. HTML presentation tool using dynamic HTML. S. -- Oh, Lisa, you and your stories: Bart's a vampire, beer kills brain cells. Now let's go back to that...building...thingie... where our beds and TV...is. -- Homer J. Simpson Sudhakar C13n http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ Indentured Slave -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
[Q] Steps in migrating to qmail from smail
I have a pretty simple smail instalaltion. I have heard nice things about qmail. I installed qmail-src. Could somebody give me the steps on compiling qmail and migrating to qmail from smail.Do I uninstall smail first (with --force-depends) and then install qmail? Thanks. S. -- Why is it that any monster trying to prove its worth decides to go to Manhattan? Sudhakar C13n http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ Indentured Slave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dictionaries?
Are there any dictionary programs (console and/or X)? -- a dictionary, not just a list of correctly spelled words! You could look at http://www.dict.org/ I use their client, dict (command line) and daemon, dictd on my machine. Somebody (forgot their name) is already in the process of packaging this for hamm (Debain 2.0). S. -- And we can't watch Fox because they own those chemical weapon plants in Syria. -- Homer J. Simpson (in sing-song voice) Sudhakar C13n http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ Indentured Slave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[tcsh] disabling autologout?
Hi, How do I diable autologout in tcsh? The man page tells me how I can enable it. The problem seems to be that even under X my DISPLAY is not being set and tcsh running under xterm keeps logging me out after a period of inactivity. S. -- Whom the gods would destroy, they first teach BASIC. Sudhakar C13n International Websites Engineer http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [X Problem] Windows lacking chrome after recent upgrade
Joey Hess wrote: Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: I recently upgraded my hamm installation to the latest set of software under frozen. Suddenly I find that X windows have lost their chrome. I tried kde, fvwm2 and olwm. Smae problem in all the cases. Why is this happening? Hoe can I get around it? I really have no idea what you mean by chrome. Do you mean they no longer have a greyish background color? If so, you might need to install on of the packages nextawg or xaw3dg or xaw95g. I mean the windows do not have anything surrounding them. The whole title bar of the window is missing. I am therefore unable to move windows around. Another thing I noticed was that I am unable to get the pop up menus (when I click on a blank background part of the screen) for buttons 1, 2 3. My FvwmButtons don't appear. All I get is an xterm and when I quit this xterm my x session ends and I get thrown back to console. I tried poking around a bit and found out that /usr/sbin/xbase-config does not do anything. It just quits. Maybe I should try strace-ing it to find out what is happening. S. -- The human race never solves any of its problems. It merely outlives them. -- David Gerrold Sudhakar C13n International Websites Engineer http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [X Problem] Windows lacking chrome after recent upgrade
Manoj Srivastava wrote: look into ~/.xsession-errors if you use xdm, or, if you use startx, look for errors in the log file (assuming you start startx like startx //tmp/startx.log). Sounds like your window manager is dying. I got that when I messed up the configuration for fvwm2 once. Eureka! Figured out what the problem was. /etc/X11/Xsession was missing. I located a slightly old version and managed to fix the problem. BTW, I was last messing around with kde that I compiled and that could be the reason for the expletive deleted -up. Thanks. S. -- The human race never solves any of its problems. It merely outlives them. -- David Gerrold Sudhakar C13n International Websites Engineer http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[X Problem] Windows lacking chrome after recent upgrade
Hi, I recently upgraded my hamm installation to the latest set of software under frozen. Suddenly I find that X windows have lost their chrome. I tried kde, fvwm2 and olwm. Smae problem in all the cases. Why is this happening? Hoe can I get around it? S. -- The human race never solves any of its problems. It merely outlives them. -- David Gerrold Sudhakar C13n International Websites Engineer http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Majordomo] Howto setup?
So I've installed majordomo on my machine after fixing my problems with smail. What should I be reading to configure majordomo and get it up and running? S. -- If a gun can protect something as important as a bar, it is good enough to protect my family. -- Homer J. Simpson Sudhakar C13n International Websites Engineer http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian(hamm) system compiles Netscape 5.0!!
It is true. Dynamically linked against glibc. Thaths -- The truth is not out there The truth is not out there The truth us not -- Bart Simpson, The Sprintfield Files Sudhakar C13n International Websites Engineer http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Motif] RH Motif 2.1 versus lesstif
I've used alien to convert the RPM for RH Motif 2.1 to .deb Looking at the listing for files for lesstif and RH Motif 2.1 I see that if I install RH over lesstif it will overwrite some of the files that lesstif provides. Should I just remove lesstif and go with RH Motif? Would apps like xscreensaver-dmotif work with the libs provided by RH motif? Curious. Thaths -- What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. -- Salman Rushdie Sudhakar C13n International Websites Engineer http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Panic] dpkg-ftp upgrade removed required packages
I upgraded my hamm machine yesterday using dpkg-ftp. I now find that the following important (at least to me) packages are listed under the 'Removed' section - timezone7.55-2 libg++27-dev2.7.2.1-8 libgdbm1-dev1.7.3-19 Under 'Avail. ver' nothing is listed. Is this the result of the disk crash @ debian.org that I keep hearing about? S. -- Prohibition! They tried it in the movies and it did not work. -- Homer J. Simpson Sudhakar C13n International Websites Engineer http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[hamm] backspace not working in bash in xterm
[This mail had bounced back once. Hopefully, it should work this time.] I am running a hamm system with the latest updates. For the past few weeks ncurses-bin and ncurses-base upgrades were failing because /usr/share/terminfo already existed. I mv-ed /usr/shre/terminfo to /usr/share/terminfo.bak and upgraded my ncurses-base and ncurses-bin. I also installed the Matrox X server from SuSE. Since then I have noticed that my backspace has stopped working. In the case of tcsh I was able to get it back by 'set BACKSPACE ^H' However, getting it to work under bash is still a problem. I tried 'stty erase backspace'. But all my computer does is beep when I click the backspace (or delete) button. I carried out various tests and have isolated the problem to TERM=xterm. backspace works fine in the console. Am I right in assuming that the upgrade to XSuSE was the reason for the problem? How do I get backspace working again? What files do I need to edit? Thaths -- If there was a law, it would be against it. -- Homer J. Simpson Sudhakar C13n International Websites Engineer http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Q] socks-client rftp rtelnet fails
$ cat /etc/socks.conf sockd @=socks.domain.com * 0.0.0.0 $ rftp ftp.debian.org ftp: connect: Connection refused ftp bye $ which rftp /usr/bin/rftp I have had this problem for over a year now. I have tried all socks4.2 and socks 5 clients (both .deb packages and custom versions compiled from source). If not rftp, can somebody suggest some other ftp s/w that tunnels through a socks firewall? Thaths -- If there was a law, it would be against it. -- Homer J. Simpson Sudhakar C13n International Websites Engineer http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Q] socks-client rftp rtelnet fails
Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: How about Netscape4? It seems to work fine for me. (socks5 server) I did a little bit of research and found out that the problem is that the rftp that comes with socks does not support pasv transfers. I just installed ncftp, configured it for pasv and things seem to be working fine now. The problem with using Navigator / Communicator for ftp is that it is usually overkill for simple ftp. Also, Navigator FTP does not support cool stuff like 'prompt off' 'mget *.html' etc. [I speak only for myself. I do not speak for my employer. ;-] Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: I have had this problem for over a year now. I have tried all socks4.2 and socks 5 clients (both .deb packages and custom versions compiled from source). If not rftp, can somebody suggest some other ftp s/w that tunnels through a socks firewall? Thaths -- If there was a law, it would be against it. -- Homer J. Simpson Sudhakar C13n International Websites Engineer http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Q] KDE for libc6. motif for libc6
I asked the same question a short time ago and got no answe. But here are a couple of ideas: a) compile it yourself. The package maintainer gave me a bit of a hint that, if one wants to go this route, then it would be helpful to install a package that can be found under 'ftp.debs.fuller.edu:/debs/kde4debian_0.3_all.deb' - this provides Debian files in addition to the standard KDE installation. I am really not comfortable doing this. Mainly because I haven't learn to use deb-make to include the proper entries for the menu items. b) get the libc6 RedHat packages, convert to .deb's and install those. Question. Would alien add the proper menu entries for the new / modified applications? S. -- America's health care system is second only to Japan, Canada, Sweden, Great Britain, well, all of Europe, but you can thank your lucky stars we don't live in Paraguay. -- Homer J. Simpson Sudhakar C13n (650) 937-2354 (O) International Websites Engineer (650) 940-1896 (H) http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
[LILO]
I upgraded from 64M to 96M of RAM. beetle % cat /etc/lilo.conf boot=/dev/sdb3 root=/dev/sdb3 # Generated by liloconfig compact install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map vga=normal delay=20 image=/vmlinuz label=Linux append = mem=96M read-only beetle # dmesg | grep Memory Memory: 63084k/65536k available (836k kernel code, 384k reserved, 1232k data) beetle % cat /proc/meminfo total:used:free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 64598016 59875328 4722688 92307456 2199552 28725248 Swap: 657981440 65798144 MemTotal: 63084 kB MemFree: 4612 kB MemShared:90144 kB Buffers: 2148 kB Cached: 28052 kB SwapTotal:64256 kB SwapFree: 64256 kB What gives? I *did* reboot. I did run the BIOS config utility. During bootup I can see 96M. FWIW, I use System Commander. Get into LILO from there and bootup. I am guessing that LILO is not passing the append string to the kernel. Would appreciate help. Thaths -- There is no good wars, with the following exceptions: The American Revolution, World War II and The Star Wars Trilogy. -- Bart Simpson Sudhakar C13n (650) 937-2354 (O) International Websites Engineer (650) 940-1896 (H) http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
[fvwmconf] HowTo?
I have installed this package. /usr/doc/fvwmconf does not have much info on how to run it. Neither does it have a man page. How do I get started with thjs? S. -- When will I learn? The answers to life's problems aren't at the bottom of a bottle. They are on TV. -- Homer J. Simpson Sudhakar C13n (650) 937-2354 (O) International Websites Engineer (650) 940-1896 (H) http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Motif and lesstif coexistance?
Can RedHat motif (I used alien to convert a .rpm to .deb) co-exist with lesstif? xscreensaver installation complains that it needs lesstif. S. -- When will I learn? The answers to life's problems aren't at the bottom of a bottle. They are on TV. -- Homer J. Simpson Sudhakar C13n (650) 937-2354 (O) International Websites Engineer (650) 940-1896 (H) http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Install Applixware on Debian?
Has anybody installed Applixware on a Debian system? S. -- Oh, Lisa, this isn't real. It's just how you might look if you were a cartoon character. -- Homer J. Simpson Sudhakar C13n (650) 937-2354 (O) International Websites Engineer (650) 940-1896 (H) http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Nondestructively partition ext2 fs?
Is there an ext2 equivalent of fips? I have a lot of space on the disk which I am mounting as /usr/local. I want to partition it and use one partition as /opt. Thaths -- Oh, Lisa, this isn't real. It's just how you might look if you were a cartoon character. -- Homer J. Simpson Sudhakar C13n (650) 937-2354 (O) International Websites Engineer (650) 940-1896 (H) http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
[autofs] Need a auto.hosts map for different machines with different exports
$ showmount -e foo /logs (everyone) / (everyone) $ showmount -e bar /var/spool/pcnfs (everyone) /d (everyone) $ cat /etc/auto.master /h /etc/auto.hosts /tools /etc/auto.tools /mnt/etc/auto.mnt --timeout 10 $ cat /etc/auto.hosts * :/ As expected (from auto.hosts), I am able to mount the exports of foo under /h/foo. As expected, I am unable to mount the exports of bar under /h/bar I try * :/d/ Works great for mounting the exports of bar but I am unable to mount the exports of foo now. I try * : I am unable to mount the exports of foo and bar. What should my map read for mounting the exports of both foo and bar? Thaths PS: foo and bar are generic names. foo and bar could be exporting anything. -- Oh, Lisa, this isn't real. It's just how you might look if you were a cartoon character. -- Homer J. Simpson Sudhakar C13n (650) 937-2354 (O) International Websites Engineer (650) 940-1896 (H) http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
[General Q] Filtering mail from IMAP server with procmail
Sorry for this non Debian question. I usually find that my questions to this mailing list get answered very fast. My mail is stored on a remote IMAP server. How do I use procmail to filter my mail? The documentation on procmail that I have read applies to mail on the local system (ie. /var/spool/mail). I am planning to use pine as the MUA and procmail to filter. Help / pointers would be appreciated. S. -- Maybe Lisa's right about America being the land of opportunity, and maybe Adil's got a point about the machinery of capitalism being oiled with the blood of the workers. -- Homer J. Simpson Sudhakar C13n (650) 937-2354 (O) International Websites Engineer (650) 940-1896 (H) http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
[Q] Editing kanji in X
Hi, I am looking for a easy to use kanji editor for X. Is there one that is already packaged with Debian (hamm)? S. -- Besides, it is a victimless crime. The only victim is Moe. -- Home J. Simpson Sudhakar C13n (650) 937-2354 (O) International Websites Engineer (650) 940-1896 (H) http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
[xscreensaver] How to add custom hack...
I have xscreensaver 2.14-1 (hamm) installed on my machine. I have created a custom hack after grabbing the soucres for 2.15 How do I make the xscreensaver binary aware of my hack? Do I have to create a new Debian package for 2.15? I see a file called xscreensaver directory/driver/XScreenSaver.ad Where does the Debian package install this file? S. -- To YOU I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition. -- Woody Allen Sudhakar C13n (650) 937-2354 (O) International Websites Engineer (650) 940-1896 (H) http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Netscape releasing source code for 5.0
I am curious to find out what folks in the Debian community think of this. 1. What are the changes that you would make to the source code to make the browser better? 2. What features would you add to the browser? 3. Would a UN*X developer add a feature that is unix specific. Or would he / she add a cross platform feature? Thaths PS: #include stddisclaimer.h -- To YOU I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition. -- Woody Allen Sudhakar C13n (650) 937-2354 (O) International Websites Engineer (650) 940-1896 (H) http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
[hamm] dpkg-ftp problems from behind the firewall
Hi, I'm trying to upgrade my hamm installation through dselect's FTP method of retrieving packages. Here are some comments. * Why does dpkg-ftp insist on downloading all of the packages that are selected? In other words, why doesn't it download only those packages (among the ones selected for installation) that are not already installed? * I am able to successfully upgrade the list of available packages by choosing pasv FTP transfer. But when I try to install the packages, dselect/dpkg says that it is trying to download each of the packages. The download fails with a 'No such file or directory' for each of the packages. What is the path I should be giving dpkg-ftp? I tried /debian/unstable, /debian/hamm and a few others. Is there are problem with symbolic links? S. -- Singing is the lowest form of communication. -- Homer J. Simpson Sudhakar C13n (650) 937-2354 (O) International Websites Engineer (650) 940-1896 (H) http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
[off topic?] NBSD - Not-So-Bad Distribution
The Not-So-Bad Distribution page is at http://www.bell-labs.com/project/nsbd/ I don't know if this has been discussed before. Are there problems with rolling something like this into dselect? S. -- Singing is the lowest form of communication. -- Homer J. Simpson Sudhakar C13n (650) 937-2354 (O) International Websites Engineer (650) 940-1896 (H) http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Netscape 4.04.... [Read this Please!]
I have been following various messages about Netscape 4.04, and it seems to me that lots of people's NSN4 don't do Java properly, AND, (Please correct me if i'm wrong), I haven't seen any successfull reponses to mine or anyone else's messages about fixing this problem. So! Will anyone who's NSN4 will do Java applets properly please respond to this, then maybe we can figure out what those of us whose Java does not work have missed. Hi, I am sorry I have not been following the Netscape Navigator problems threads properly. I have been able to run java applets in Navigator 4.04 successfully. But I installed NN 4.04 by hand under /usr/local. What problems with java applets have you been having? Here is my setup - * Netscape files under /usr/local/netscape/ * Symbolic link from /usr/local/bin/netscape to /usr/local/netscape/netscape * Environment variable MOZILLA_HOME set to point to /usr/local/netscape I suspect that your problem is probably because of MOZILLA_HOME. S. -- If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. -- Derek Bok, president of Harvard Sudhakar C13n (650) 937-2354 (O) International Websites Engineer (650) 940-1896 (H) http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
libc5-libc6 Upgrade - Problem logging in with username in NIS
Hi, Thanks to the help of the fine folks in this mailing list, I was able to upgrade to hamm reasonably easily. I am still poking around my system to find out problems with the upgrade. After the upgrade, I am unable to log into my machine with a username in YP. $ cat /etc/passwd ...some stuff... +::0:0::: $ cat /etc/nsswitch.conf passwd: db files group: db files shadow: db files hosts: files dns networks: files protocols: db files services: db files ethers: db files rpc:db files netgroup: db files $ ypcat passwd|grep thaths thaths:snip:8022:690:Sudhakar Chandrasekharan:/u/thaths:/bin/bash When I am able to ypcat and grep my password entry, why am I unable to login with this username? I have also been unable to su to this username. Sudhakar -- Programming in X Windows is like trying to find the square root of pi using roman numerals Sudhakar C13n (650) 937-2354 (O) International Websites Engineer (650) 940-1896 (H) http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Panic - Re: libc5-libc6 Upgrade - Problem logging in with username in NIS
Nils Rennebarth wrote: On Tue, Jan 13, 1998 at 09:26:27PM -0800, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: After the upgrade, I am unable to log into my machine with a username in YP. $ cat /etc/nsswitch.conf passwd: db files group: db files shadow: db files For these three replace db files with compat and you should be done. And, yes, nsswitch.conf is the place to look for. How should it read? The HOWTO mentions this but does not give an example. Could you give me an example. Also, I am in Panic Mode now. I have changed some stuff in nsswitch.conf [possibly adding nis to the passed entry or something like that. nsswitch.conf did not have a man page]. I got back to work this morning and tried to log in as root and login failed. Could not log in with a username from NIS either. I decided (unwisely, it seems) to reboot. Upon reboot the various daemons in /etc/init.d/ are started and the machine seems (I say seems because I did not wait long enough to see if it really does) to hang while starting postgres (under /usr/local). As I see it, here are my options - * Try to see if the boot sequence is really hanging by giving it enouch time. If it manages to proceed with the rest of the boot sequence and gets me into the login prompt, I have to try my luck with loggin in as root. * If I am unable to log in as root, how do I fix what I did to nsswitch.conf? I was sensible enough to backup the old file before making the changes. I am unable to locate my emergency disk (or whatever it is called). Can I use the Debian 1.3 distribution's installation boot disks, mount /dev/sdb3 as root and fix the problem and then try rebooting with my regular custom boot disk? How? * Ideally, I'd prefer booting up into NT and being able to access the ext2 partition. I remember reading somewhere that there is a device driver for reading / writing into an ext2 partition for NT. Help me Obi Wan. You are my last hope. ;-) Sudhakar -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Panic - Re: libc5-libc6 Upgrade - Problem logging in with username in NIS
Nils Rennebarth wrote: I tried to be clear but... anyway, my /etc/nsswitch.conf looks like this: #---cut here to damage your monitor-- # /etc/nsswitch.conf # # Example configuration of GNU Name Service Switch functionality. # passwd: compat group: compat shadow: compat hosts: files dns networks: files dns protocols: db files services: db files ethers: db files rpc:db files netgroup: nis db files # Doh! Rereading what you had written, it makes sense. What does compat give me as opposed to db files nis? I don't know if this is documented in the info files. (You need the debian package libc6-doc for this. Yes, this is not obvious.) Oooow! That hurt. ;-) Thanks again for all the folks who helped. I think hamm is quite stable. If you are contemplating an upgrade but have held back because of stability concerns, I suggest that you read the mini-HOWTO, grab the upgrade script and don't screw up (like I did). S. -- Programming in X Windows is like trying to find the square root of pi using roman numerals Sudhakar C13n (650) 937-2354 (O) International Websites Engineer (650) 940-1896 (H) http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
[fvwm2] Desktops, Pagers and Backgrounds etc.
I use fvwm2 as my window manager. I want to do a very simple thing but am confused by the terminology in the man pages. I launch FvwmPager on startup. Snippets from my /etc/X11/fvwm2/post.hook - # I want 9 seperate desks to work on DeskTopSize 3x3 # FvwmPager Customization * FvwmPagerDeskColor 0 steelblue * FvwmPagerDeskColor 1 black * FvwmPagerDeskColor 2 deepblue # FvwmBacker Customization *FvwmBackerDesk 0 -solid steelblue *FvwmBackerDesk 1 -solid blue you get the idea I also launch FvwmButtons on startup. My FvwmPager is swallowed by FvwmButtons. What I am trying is to give each of my 9 desktops (I switch between these using the FvwmPager in FvwmButtons) it's own background color. Once I get this working, I want to match the backgrounds in my FvwmPager against my different desks. All I get is an ugly greenish blue background for (get this) *all* the 9 desks. What am I doing wrong? I'm using 1.3.1 Thaths -- For the first time in my life everything is absolutely perfect the way it is... So here is the deal. You freeze everything as it is and I won't ask for anything more. If this is OK please give me absolutely no sign OK, deal! -- Homer J. Simpson Sudhakar C13n (650) 937-2354 (O) International Websites Engineer (650) 940-1896 (H) http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
libc5 - libc6 Upgrade Roadmap?
I read the mini HOWTO and reports in this mailing list about unstable being stable enough. My machine is kind of a production server. The world would not end if it goes down for a day or so. But still it is important to have it up and running ASAP. I am planning on upgrading to hamm later today. I have a few questions before I set off - * I am downloading the entire hamm binary-i386, contrib and non-free tree to a directory (actually, my home directory) on an NFS server. Is there a possibility that NFS might stop working during the upgrade process? * Could some kind soul who has gone through the upgrade process give me a roadmap? The Mini-HOWTO, though useful, does not provide information on how to upgrade the other packages once I have done the basic upgrading. Can I start using dselect after following the instructions in the mini-HOWTO? * I have compiled and installed some packages under /usr/local/ (pgsql, ssh, socks etc.). I guess I have compiled these with libc5. Is there a possibility that they would stop working when I upgrade to libc6? * I am running something 1.3.1.r4 Should I get hold of the libc5 libraries (from gate.net) that don't conflict with libc6 and upgrade after installing these libraries? Your help would be greatly appreciated. S. -- Programming in X Windows is like trying to find the square root of pi using roman numerals Sudhakar C13n (650) 937-2354 (O) International Websites Engineer (650) 940-1896 (H) http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
make-kpkg - minor irritant compiling custom kernel
Hi, I'm trying to compile a custom kernel (2.0.31) for my machine using make-kpkg (3.01). I came across a minor irritant. Here is what I do - 1. make config|xconfig|menuconfig 2. Edit drivers/sound/local.h and add #define DESKPROXL (my machine. drivers/sound/Readme.cards asks me to add this line after make config. 3. make-kpkg -revision Custom.X.Y kernel_image To my irritation, make-kpkg runs make config again in some kind of automated mode. And drivers/sound/local.h is re-created without the #define for DESKPROXL. Because of make-kpkg running make config again, I am unable to use (without some emlementary hacking of the Makefile in drivers/sound/) make-kpkg for creating custom kernels. Is make-kpkg supposed to behave this way? Thaths -- It was a tumultuous time for a nation. The clear beverage craze gave us all a reason to live. The information super highway showed the average person what some nerd thinks about Star Trek. And the taming of the dog continuted unabated. -- Homer J Simpson Sudhakar C13n (650) 937-2354 (O) International Websites Engineer (650) 940-1896 (H) http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Problems compiling perl 5.004.04 - ld: cannot open -lnsl
I am trying to compile perl 5.004.04 and am having problems. My compiler is unable to locate -lnsl (for some reason). But I'm sure that the reqd library is in /lib - $ cd /lib $ ls -l *nsl* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root17448 Jun 5 1997 libnsl-2.0.4.so* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Aug 5 19:43 libnsl.so.1 - libnsl-2.0.4.so* Also, $ ldconfig -p | grep nsl 95 - ELF libnsl.so.1 = /lib/libnsl.so.1 96 - ELF libnsl.so.1 = /lib/libnsl.so.1 And - $ more /etc/ld.so.conf /usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw3d /usr/local/lib /usr/lib/i486-linuxaout /usr/X11R6/lib /usr/X11R5/lib /usr/X11R6/lib/i486-linuxaout /lib /usr/local/pgsql/lib I have attached the typescript of my session trying to run perl's configure script. Any help would be appreciated. I know. I know. I could just upgrade to hamm. I just don't want to loose the stability of my current system in the middle of the week. Thaths -- To vacillate or not to vacillate, that is the question ... or is it? Sudhakar C13n (650) 937-2354 (O) International Websites Engineer (650) 940-1896 (H) http://people.netscape.com/thaths/Script started on Thu Dec 4 10:53:25 1997 beetle ~/tmp/perl5.004_04# ]0; beetle ~/tmp/perl5.004_04sh Configure Beginning of configuration questions for perl5. Checking echo to see how to suppress newlines... ...using -n. The star should be here--* First let's make sure your kit is complete. Checking... Looks good... This installation shell script will examine your system and ask you questions to determine how the perl5 package should be installed. If you get stuck on a question, you may use a ! shell escape to start a subshell or execute a command. Many of the questions will have default answers in square brackets; typing carriage return will give you the default. On some of the questions which ask for file or directory names you are allowed to use the ~name construct to specify the login directory belonging to name, even if you don't have a shell which knows about that. Questions where this is allowed will be marked (~name ok). [Type carriage return to continue] The prompter used in this script allows you to use shell variables and backticks in your answers. You may use $1, $2, etc... to refer to the words in the default answer, as if the default line was a set of arguments given to a script shell. This means you may also use $* to repeat the whole default line, so you do not have to re-type everything to add something to the default. Everytime there is a substitution, you will have to confirm. If there is an error (e.g. an unmatched backtick), the default answer will remain unchanged and you will be prompted again. If you are in a hurry, you may run 'Configure -d'. This will bypass nearly all the questions and use the computed defaults (or the previous answers if there was already a config.sh file). Type 'Configure -h' for a list of options. You may also start interactively and then answer ' -d' at any prompt to turn on the non-interactive behavior for the remainder of the execution. [Type carriage return to continue] Much effort has been expended to ensure that this shell script will run on any Unix system. If despite that it blows up on yours, your best bet is to edit Configure and run it again. If you can't run Configure for some reason, you'll have to generate a config.sh file by hand. Whatever problems you have, let me ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) know how I blew it. This installation script affects things in two ways: 1) it may do direct variable substitutions on some of the files included in this kit. 2) it builds a config.h file for inclusion in C programs. You may edit any of these files as the need arises after running this script. If you make a mistake on a question, there is no easy way to back up to it currently. The easiest thing to do is to edit config.sh and rerun all the SH files. Configure will offer to let you do this before it runs the SH files. [Type carriage return to continue] Locating common programs... awk is in /usr/bin/awk. cat is in /bin/cat. comm is in /usr/bin/comm. cp is in /bin/cp. echo is in /bin/echo. expr is in /usr/bin/expr. find is in /usr/bin/find. grep is in /usr/bin/grep. ls is in /bin/ls. mkdir is in /bin/mkdir. rm is in /bin/rm. sed is in /bin/sed. sort is in /usr/bin/sort. touch is in /usr/bin/touch. tr is in /usr/bin/tr. uniq is in /usr/bin/uniq. Don't worry if any of the following aren't found... I don't see Mcc out there, offhand. I don't see byacc out there, either. cpp is in /usr/bin/cpp. csh is in /bin/csh. date is in /bin/date. egrep is in /usr/bin/egrep. gzip is in /bin/gzip. less is in /usr/bin/less. I don't see line out there, either. ln is in /bin/ln. more is in /bin/more. nroff is in /usr/bin/nroff. perl is in /usr/bin/perl. I don't see pg out there, either. sendmail is in /usr/sbin/sendmail. test is in /usr/bin/test. uname is in
[Q] problems with TimeZone, Clock xntp
Hi, I have xntp installed. My system should get the correct time when it boots up. But I see that my xclock shows is ahead by an hour. I suspect this has something to do with the fact that I had problems running tzconfig. I run tzconfig and choose 'US time zones' in the first screen. Now I try to choose 'Pacific'. But 'Pacific' always conflicts with 'Pacific-New Samoa' so I get struck at this prompt. To break out of the loop, I choose Mountain. Then I edit /etc/timezone and change it to Pacific physically. However, when I run date, I get the following as the output - $ date Fri Nov 14 16:45:12 MST 1997 I guess 'MST' refers to Mountain Standard Time. How can I get my system to show the correct local time? S. -- It was so humiliating. They put me on a cold mettalic table and probed me with Wait a minute. That was my last physical. -- Homer J Simpson Sudhakar C13n (650) 937-2354 (O) International Websites Engineer (415) 940-1896 (H) http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
autofs and 2.0.31
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote - I have compiled a 2.0.31 kernel. One of the reasons for doing so was to use autofs. However when I did make menuconfig I didn't see an option for autofs support. I thought it was in the kernel anyway and instaled he package. However the package does not find autofs support and won't start. Does anyone use this package? If yes, how I go about activating autofs support ? I remember seeing some such problem too. Try the following - * Make sure you have chosen 'y' for 'Prompt for experimental modules / drivers'. autofs support is still considered to be experimental. * I would recommend 'make config'. I definitely saw 'autofs' support when I configured this way. S. -- It was so humiliating. They put me on a cold mettalic table and probed me with Wait a minute. That was my last physical. -- Homer J Simpson Sudhakar C13n (650) 937-2354 (O) International Websites Engineer (415) 940-1896 (H) http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
[Q] talk - Couldn't bind to control socket...
Hi, I recently switched to kernel 2.0.31. 'talk' seems to have broken after this switch. When I try 'talk' I get the following message - $ talk thaths Couldn't bind to control socket : Cannot assign requested address (99) Does this have something to do with the new kernel? BTW, which package is 'talk' in? I can try upgrading it to 'hamm'. S. -- Self improvement has always been a passion of mine. -- Homer J Simpson Sudhakar C13n (650) 937-2354 (O) International Websites Engineer (415) 940-1896 (H) http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
[Q] autofs and kernel 2.0.31
Hi, Thanks, first of all, to all the folks who answered my questions on getting Sound and CD to work on my Compaq DeskPro XL. I have been fooling around with kernel 2.0.31 that I downloaded from funet.fi I see that autofs support is included with this release of the kernel. Are there docs on autofs? I am currently using amd and would like to switch to autofs. I also downloaded autofs-0.3.14 This has the autofs deamons and modules and a patchfile for kernel 2.0.30 I am unable to compile kernel 2.0.30 with autofs support. That is the reason I moved up to kernel 2.0.31 How should I proceed with kernel 2.0.31 and autofs? Would the autofs deamon 0.3.14 wouk with the autofs support in kernel 2.0.31? Thaths -- Expiry date June Nineteen Eighty Nin-Two Thousand Twelve. -- Homer J Simpson Sudhakar C13n (650) 937-2354 (O) International Websites Engineer (415) 940-1896 (H) http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: [Q] autofs and kernel 2.0.31
Olivier THARAN wrote: On Tue, Oct 28, 1997 at 10:56:28AM -0700, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: How should I proceed with kernel 2.0.31 and autofs? Would the autofs deamon 0.3.14 wouk with the autofs support in kernel 2.0.31? I'd say, if the patches for autofs are included in 2.0.31, go ahead, just install autofs-0.3.14 and use the kernel configured for autofs support. It has worked fine for some time now in the 2.1.x series, so I suppose the 2.0.31 support is the latest. Installation of the daemon is fairly easy, just let it install, and make your maps /etc/auto.master with everything sensible. Then, launch the daemon and here you go! I just found an even better method. Just downloaded autofs from hamm (unstable). I prefer the Debian distribution to a local installation. If the hamm autofs installation goes OK I'm set. If it does not work out, I can always make a local installation of autofs. Speaking of automounting, have any of you folks come across a way of automounting SMB volumes? I don't like smbclient/smbmount. Thaths -- Expiry date June Nineteen Eighty Nin-Two Thousand Twelve. -- Homer J Simpson Sudhakar C13n (650) 937-2354 (O) International Websites Engineer (415) 940-1896 (H) http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
[Q] Various problems with Compaq DeskPro XL - CD-ROM, MSS Sound.
When I boot up - kernel: FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306 kernel: scsi0 : AM53/79C974 PCscsi driver rev. 0.5; host I/O address: 0x7100; irq: 11 kernel: kernel: scsi : 1 host. kernel: Vendor: COMPAQPC Model: ST32430N Rev: 0554 kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 kernel: Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 kernel: kernel: target 1: rate=10.0 Mhz, synchronous, sync offset=15 bytes kernel: Vendor: COMPAQModel: ST32550N Rev: 6316 kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 kernel: Detected scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 kernel: Vendor: COMPAQModel: PD-1 LF-1094C Rev: B110 kernel: Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 kernel: Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0 kernel: scsi : detected 1 SCSI cdrom 2 SCSI disks total. kernel: SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 411 [2006 MB] [2.0 GB] kernel: SCSI device sdb: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 411 [2006 MB] [2.0 GB] If I read these messages correctly, my CDROM should be /dev/sr0 I pop-in a CD and do the following - # mount -t umsdos /dev/sr0 /cdrom mount: the kernel does not recogonize /dev/sr0 as a block device (maybe `insmod driver'?) # mount -t iso9660 /dev/sr0 /cdrom mount: the kernel does not recogonize /dev/sr0 as a block device (maybe `insmod driver'?) My kernel has umsdos, iso9660, SCSI CD-ROM support compiled in. # ls -l /dev/sr0 brw-r--r-- 1 root root 22, 0 Jul 24 17:46 /dev/sr0 My machine is a Compaq DeskPro XL 6200. How could I get my CD-ROM to work? Also, has anybody got the MSS Sound to work on a Compaq DeskPro XL? Thaths -- Expiry date June Nineteen Eighty Nin-Two Thousand Twelve. -- Homer J Simpson Sudhakar C13n (650) 937-2354 (O) International Websites Engineer (415) 940-1896 (H) http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Is there anything more unstable than Netscape??
jim wrote: Since I get on average about 10 fatal crashes of netscape a day, when combined with the flaky behavior, I'd say that Netscape for linux is the most unstable but working application I've ever seen. Is anyone out there running netscape communicator 4.0b5 and having a good time??? Good News GUI browser users I run the daily builds that are available internally here at Netscape. Believe me. It is getting better all the time. When I started running the daily builds they used to crash and burn horribly. But the last week or so the builds have been great. The builds have not reached Win32 quality (and I use this term very loosely). But I do expect Mozilla 4.01 to become quite stable by the time it is released. Sudhakar -- An elephant is a mouse running an Operating System. -- Donald Knuth Sudhakar Chandrasekharan(415) 937-2354 (O) International Web Engineer Type of Guy (415) 940-1896 (H) http://home.netscape.com/people/thaths/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: [Q] How to create a FTP only account...
Alex Yukhimets wrote: How do I create a FTP only account in my machine? I do not want this account to be telnettable (ie. a shell account). Iam running wu_ftp on my linux machine. I also have to do this on a machine running Solaris. This other machine is running Solaris' built-in ftpd. Would I be able to achieve the same there? Help would be greatly appreciated. This user should just have /bin/true as a shell. That works perfectly for denying telnet connections. But attempts to login for ftp fail with the following message - 530 User iflash access denied... I checked my /etc/shells and noticed that /bin/true was not listed there. Inserted a line for it and BOOM! Worked like clockwork. Thanks a lot! As a joke, I know one ISP that to prevent telnetting put to everyone's account a .login file with logout line in there :) Everyone just smart enough to ftp a better .login gained easy shell access... ROTFL! Sudhakar -- An elephant is a mouse running an Operating System. -- Donald Knuth Sudhakar Chandrasekharan(415) 937-2354 (O) International Web Engineer Type of Guy (415) 940-1896 (H) http://home.netscape.com/people/thaths/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
[Q] How to create a FTP only account...
How do I create a FTP only account in my machine? I do not want this account to be telnettable (ie. a shell account). Iam running wu_ftp on my linux machine. I also have to do this on a machine running Solaris. This other machine is running Solaris' built-in ftpd. Would I be able to achieve the same there? Help would be greatly appreciated. Sudhakar -- An elephant is a mouse running an Operating System. -- Donald Knuth Sudhakar Chandrasekharan(415) 937-2354 (O) International Web Engineer Type of Guy (415) 940-1896 (H) http://home.netscape.com/people/thaths/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
[General Q] What is inetd?
What is inetd? Where can I read up more on inetd and its advantages / disadvantages? I am currently running my apache off of /etc/init.d/apache . I was wondering whether there is any adavatage of using inetd to start apache. Sudhakar -- An elephant is a mouse running an Operating System. -- Donald Knuth Sudhakar Chandrasekharan(415) 937-2354 (O) International Web Engineer Type of Guy (415) 940-1896 (H) http://home.netscape.com/people/thaths/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: [Q] Best Strategy to install Debian 1.3 using a PCMCIA CDROM?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 23, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote Sudhakar PS: Does my digital signature attachment bother folks reading this list. Mutt doesn't know about this content-type, so I don't see it. I shall not use these huge digital signatures that might annoy people. I shall not use these huge digital signatures that might annoy people. I shall not use these huge digital signatures that might annoy people. I shall not use these huge digital signatures that might annoy people. I shall not use these huge digital signatures that might annoy people. I shall not use these huge digi Sudhakar PS: Fans of the TV series The Simpsons will immediately get the reference. ;-) If you have not watched it, I suggest that you should start. -- I'm all for progress. It is change that I object to. -- Mark Twain Sudhakar Chandrasekharan(415) 937-2354 (O) International Web Engineer Type of Guy (415) 940-1896 (H) http://home.netscape.com/people/thaths/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
[Q] Best Strategy to install Debian 1.3 using a PCMCIA CDROM?
What Ho! I am planning on installing Debian 1.3 on my laptop. I have had prior success installing 1.2 on this same laptop. I prefer to clean up the hard-disk and start from scratch. But here is the problem. This laptop does not have a built in CDROM drive. I have had success using a PCMCIA CDROM with this machine in the past. How do you think I should go ahead with my installation? I want to dselect packages from the PCMCIA CDROM and not through FTP (I have a 14.4 modem. :-( ). Can I get my PCMCIA CDROM drive functional before running dselect? Sudhakar -- I'm all for progress. It is change that I object to. -- Mark Twain Sudhakar Chandrasekharan(415) 937-2354 (O) International Web Engineer Type of Guy (415) 940-1896 (H) http://home.netscape.com/people/thaths/ smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: [Q] Best Strategy to install Debian 1.3 using a PCMCIA CDROM?
Rick Macdonald wrote: On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: I am planning on installing Debian 1.3 on my laptop. I have had prior success installing 1.2 on this same laptop. I prefer to clean up the hard-disk and start from scratch. You do? I switched to Debian a year and a half ago in the hopes I would never have to do that again! I'm probably safe saying that hundreds of other Debian users would say the same thing. I'm very curious as to why you would not just upgrade in place; one of Debian's claims to fame? True that Debian has this wonderful upgrade mechanism. The problem is I did unmentionably stupid things installing additional s/w on it and the machine is all messed up. I now find local packages installed in all kinds of places. And I would like to start with a clean slate. ;-) Of course, if I absolutely cannot do what I am trying to do, I would slowly start cleaning up the machine and take the upgrade path. Sudhakar PS: Does my digital signature attachment bother folks reading this list. -- I'm all for progress. It is change that I object to. -- Mark Twain Sudhakar Chandrasekharan(415) 937-2354 (O) International Web Engineer Type of Guy (415) 940-1896 (H) http://home.netscape.com/people/thaths/ smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: [Q] Best Strategy to install Debian 1.3 using a PCMCIA CDROM?
Ed Down wrote: On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Rick Macdonald wrote: On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: I am planning on installing Debian 1.3 on my laptop. I have had prior success installing 1.2 on this same laptop. I prefer to clean up the hard-disk and start from scratch. You do? I switched to Debian a year and a half ago in the hopes I would never have to do that again! I'm probably safe saying that hundreds of other Debian users would say the same thing. I'm very curious as to why you would not just upgrade in place; one of Debian's claims to fame? Those of us who followed the recommendations of the docs installed 1.1 on one partition. I upgraded to 1.2 by just gradually installing all the 1.2 packages, but now I have realised the error of one partition and I will be installing 1.3 from a clean hard disk on to several partitions - with /home and /usr/local backed up and reinstalled of course. The same in my case too. Ideally, I would like to have seperate partitions for /, /usr, /usr/local, /home and /root. One wants to maintain a clean machine. ;-) Another thing. The more installs and re-installs that one does, the more one learns in the process - IMO. I have had hours of bliss (and learning) installing Debian on all kinds of machines. Sudhakar -- I'm all for progress. It is change that I object to. -- Mark Twain Sudhakar Chandrasekharan(415) 937-2354 (O) International Web Engineer Type of Guy (415) 940-1896 (H) http://home.netscape.com/people/thaths/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Books on Debian
Paul Wade wrote: I also agree. Only a few pages of hardcopy are needed. Consider the candidate for a thick 'Complete Debian' type of book: 1) His hardware is too strange to get base and a few things installed. 2) He has no way to browse a CD. 3) He has no way to view web pages. 4) He can't send/receive email and use this list. 5) He can't print anything. He needs hardware, connectivity, or friends more than a book. A complete book would be a convenience to me, but I would rather spend the money on hardware. I have a lot of 'obsolete' hardware that is still productive. I can't say the same for most of the software and books that I purchased. If I had spent the money at a good restaurant, I would at least have some good memories for it. I have found that all I needed for Installation and Getting started with Debian are - * The Debian Installation instructions printed out * A book like 'The Linux Bible' which has all the HOWTOs and mini HOWTOs. In my case I had only one machine on my desktop and it happened to be the machine on which I was installing Debian. So my normal channel for surfing the web was cut off till I could get my box on net net. If that were not the case, one does not need the HOWTOs. Has anybody tried to convert Matt Welsh to Debian? If he starts using Debian I think he will change his excellent 'Installation and Getting Started' to deal with Debian instead of (shudder) Slackware. ;-) Sudhakar -- I'm all for progress. It is change that I object to. -- Mark Twain Sudhakar Chandrasekharan(415) 937-2354 (O) International Web Engineer Type of Guy (415) 940-1896 (H) http://home.netscape.com/people/thaths/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Dear Mr. Sean.Seaman
Paul Wade wrote: The copy of my previous message to you bounced because your From: address is invalid. If you want to send an unsubscribe message you need to have the right address set up in your 'Pegasus for Windows' mailer. I have tried to make a good guess as to what address to send this to as you can see from the To: header. If you can't figure it out maybe we should forward copies of your correspondence to someone at rutgers.edu who has a better solution to this problem. Please have a wonderful day. On Sat, 21 Jun 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Sat, 21 Jun 1997 21:00:38 + From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: /etc/securetty problem Resent-Date: 22 Jun 1997 02:17:26 - Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org Resent-cc: recipient list not shown: ; I've done that a hundred times you fuck. It doesn't work I'm still on the damned list. Why did this guy (Sean) subscribe to this list in the first place!? Sad! Sudhakar -- If something goes wrong...blame the guy who can't speak English. -- Homer Simpson Sudhakar Chandrasekharan(415) 937-2354 (O) International Web Engineer Type of Guy (415) 940-1896 (H) http://home.netscape.com/people/thaths/ smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: Netscape uses SOCKS host for local servers
Kirk Hilliard wrote: How do I get Netscape to not use a SOCKS host for machines in my local domain? I am running Mozilla/3.01Gold (X11; I; Linux 2.0.27 i586) on my Debian 1.2 box, which is on a network behind a (SOCKS 4) firewall. After I set Options/Network Preferences/Proxies to Manual Proxy Configuration and filled in the SOCKS Host field it had no problems getting through to the outside world. However, it goes through the SOCKS host even to contact local http servers. (This is a problem because the SOCKS host is in a different building to which I am connected with only 10Kbps pipe.) I set the No Proxy for field to the local domain name but this had no effect. Mozilla/3.0Gold (WinNT; 1), similarly set up to use the SOCKS host, connects to local http servers directly, even without an entry in the No Proxy for field. It looks like the 'No Proxy For' field does not accept widcards. So saying No Proxy for *.foo.com would still take you to bar.foo.com through your configured proxy (in your case, the SOCKS 4 host). One solution I can think of is using the 'Automatic Proxy Config' feature. For more info on this, read - http://home.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/2.0/relnotes/demo/proxy-live.html Sudhakar -- If something goes wrong...blame the guy who can't speak English. -- Homer Simpson Sudhakar Chandrasekharan(415) 937-2354 (O) International Web Engineer Type of Guy (415) 940-1896 (H) http://home.netscape.com/people/thaths/ smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: BIG NetScape Bug!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 (fwd)
George Bonser wrote: And once Communicator for Linux is officially released, we won't have to worry about it any more. And exactly how is the release of Communitcator going to fix the systems running 3.01? Getting out of Netscape Employee Suite From what I understand of this bug, it is not as trivial to exploit this as the mags (and the Security Update in the Netscape homepage) have made it out to be. I not trying to say that the bug itself is trivial. Neither am I saying that people should start moving up to communicator. I am just saying that one should always keep one's (form and cookie) alerts on. By doing this the risks are, IMHO, far lesser. Sudhakar PS: These are my opinions and my opinions alone. -- If something goes wrong...blame the guy who can't speak English. -- Homer Simpson Sudhakar Chandrasekharan(415) 937-2354 (O) International Web Engineer Type of Guy (415) 940-1896 (H) http://home.netscape.com/people/thaths/ smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: Are spammers subscibing to the lists?
Joost Kooij wrote: On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Paul Wade wrote: On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: Talking of spam - Have you folks ever wondered how they never want to sell anything that is worth buying? All the spam that I have got seem to belong to one of the following categories - * Make money fast (rehash of the old pyramid scheme) * Advertise your site in a gazillion search engine for pennies * Scantily clad persons are waiting for me to visit their pages. * 10,000 fresh email addresses are available for 19.95 (this should be the spam equivalent of recursion ;-) You forgot one type: Some months ago, after posting to this list, a junkmailer urged me several times to accept Jesus Christ as my personal saviour. Well, as long as they don't e-mail bibles along with it this kind of spam is probably the most bearable. Perhaps we have a real Debian Jock spammer. (S)He seems to know that the Debian distribution contains the King James version of the text. ;-) snip I'm very curious about other methods of fighting back. What does abuse.net do for example? snip I have been using the net for more almost 4 years now and this kind of spam seems to have started fairly recently (about a year back). The net.pests of yesteryears were an entirely different species mainly menacing usenet. Do others around here remember net.history the same way I do? Sudhakar -- Reverend, I think I am coveting my own wife. -- Ned Flanders Sudhakar Chandrasekharan(415) 937-2354 (O) International Web Engineer Type of Guy (415) 940-1896 (H) http://home.netscape.com/people/thaths/ smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: Are spammers subscibing to the lists?
Paul Wade wrote: Seems like the incoming spam has picked up, although I haven't been on usenet for weeks. Makes me wonder if we have a spammer subscribed to the lists just to collect email addresses. Anybody else with the same problem? Talking of spam - Have you folks ever wondered how they never want to sell anything that is worth buying? All the spam that I have got seem to belong to one of the following categories - * Make money fast (rehash of the old pyramid scheme) * Advertise your site in a gazillion search engine for pennies * Scantily clad persons are waiting for me to visit their pages. * 10,000 fresh email addresses are available for 19.95 (this should be the spam equivalent of recursion ;-) If people are going to spam me, why don't they ever sell books, s/w, h/w for cheap? Sudhakar -- Sudhakar Chandrasekharan(415) 937-2354 (O) International Web Engineer Type of Guy (415) 940-1896 (H) http://home.netscape.com/people/thaths/ smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: [META] Use of the list for non-Debian matters
Ed Down wrote: snip What _I_ would like is a nice concise posting regarding setting up a mail filter for pine and other mail progs, posted regularly, so that instead of saying 'I will unsubscribe' and losing possibly important members of the list, people say 'That mail filter sounds easy to set up, I'll do that instead'. begin plug With Communicator one can start using filters and (gasp!) digital signatures. end plug Actually, I haven't had the time to set up my debian-user filters up. So currently all the emails to this list get dumped into a folder for future reading. A way of having meaningful subject lines could work. But again, it would not if people did not follow the naming convention. I emailed a post last week that went 'update-menus broken in 1.4?' In retrospect I think I should have chosen a better subject line. How about the following scheme - [net] problem with communicator install [x11] problem setting up fvwm2 menus etc. J/ my 2 cents. Sudhakar -- When all else fails, read the instructions. Sudhakar Chandrasekharan(415) 937-2354 (O) International Web Engineer Type of Guy (415) 940-1896 (H) http://home.netscape.com/people/thaths/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: X server via network.
Philippe Troin wrote: snip See (1)xauth for details. You can also use ssh which will do this automagically, and will also encrypt (and optionally compress (good on slow lines)) the connections. [ssh is available on the debian-non-US site] I don't know about the Debian-non-Us site. But you could go to the source - http://www.cs.hut.fi/ssh/ It runs pretty smoothly on my machine. Sudhakar -- When all else fails, read the instructions. Sudhakar Chandrasekharan(415) 937-2354 (O) International Web Engineer Type of Guy (415) 940-1896 (H) http://home.netscape.com/people/thaths/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
[Q] update-menus broken in 1.3?
I have spent the last couple of hours trying to customize my fvwm2 setup. I basically want to add stuff to the default menus that comes with Debian. I tried the following - * Moved /usr/lib/menu/default/vim to /etc/menu/vim and ran update-menus. Then quit X and restarted it. Don't find vim under /Apps/Editors (which is where it is supposed to put in). * Moved /usr/lib/menu/default/vim to ~/.menu/vim and did the same as above. Still no vim in my Apps/Editors * Moved /usr/lib/menu/default/vim to /usr/lib/menu/vim (I know. I am not supposed to do that. But just wanted to find out if update-menu was broken). Ran the update scripts and restarted X. Still to no avail. What am I missing? Sudhakar -- Jesus saves! But wouldn't it be better if he has invested? Sudhakar Chandrasekharan(415) 937-2354 (O) International Web Engineer Type of Guy (415) 940-1896 (H) http://home.netscape.com/people/thaths/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: [Q] update-menus broken in 1.3?
Joey Hess wrote: Sudhakar Chandrasekharan: I have spent the last couple of hours trying to customize my fvwm2 setup. I basically want to add stuff to the default menus that comes with Debian. I tried the following - * Moved /usr/lib/menu/default/vim to /etc/menu/vim and ran update-menus. Then quit X and restarted it. Don't find vim under /Apps/Editors (which is where it is supposed to put in). Do you have the vim package installed? I doubt it. If you look at /etc/menu/vim, it probably starts with ?package(vim): which means that unless package vim is installed, this menu entry will be ignored. Oops! Forgot to mention that. I have installed the latest beta version of vim under /usr/local/bin. To add local stuff, try using ?package(menu): at the front of the line in themenu file. Since the menu package is of course installed, the menu item will show up. (There are probably better ways to do this..) That worked. As you said, there *should* be another way to specify local packages. Though I can understand why update-menus does not add an item if the package is not installed. Another question. I know this might be a FAQ. If I want to install a package that is not part of the Debian distribution, how do I go about it? I think there are two scenarios here - * foo.tar.gz contains the binaries, libs etc. * foo.tar.gz contains the source. Ie. I have to compile the program before I install it. I have currently been bypassing the dpkg mechanism and installing these packages under /usr/local tree. Sudhakar -- Jesus saves! But wouldn't it be better if he has invested? Sudhakar Chandrasekharan(415) 937-2354 (O) International Web Engineer Type of Guy (415) 940-1896 (H) http://home.netscape.com/people/thaths/ smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: Were to put non-debian files (was: [Q] update-menus broken in 1.3?)
Scott K. Ellis wrote: On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: Another question. I know this might be a FAQ. If I want to install a package that is not part of the Debian distribution, how do I go about it? I think there are two scenarios here - * foo.tar.gz contains the binaries, libs etc. * foo.tar.gz contains the source. Ie. I have to compile the program before I install it. I have currently been bypassing the dpkg mechanism and installing these packages under /usr/local tree. You're doing it correctly, ideally all programs not installed from debian (or redhat or slackware with alien) packages should be put under /usr/local. Debian won't touch files there, except for a few packages that create empty directories where local add-ons can be placed (perl and emacs/xemacs that I recall). I think I should rephrase my question. Assuming I don't want to get around dpkg while installing local packages, what should I do? Or rather, how do I create my own .deb package? Sudhakar -- Jesus saves! But wouldn't it be better if he has invested? Sudhakar Chandrasekharan(415) 937-2354 (O) International Web Engineer Type of Guy (415) 940-1896 (H) http://home.netscape.com/people/thaths/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
