Re: su username w/o password in potato

However, with the new PAMified packages, I cannot replicate this functionality, and I can't find information about how to do it... anyone? /etc/pam.d/su: # This allows root to su without passwords (normal operation) auth sufficient pam_rootok.so -- \\// peter -

make-kpkg questions

Hi! Just learned to use make-kpkg, *but*, I want to do some things differently: 1. How do I tell it not to create a /vmlinuz symlink in the root directory? I want my root directory clean (i.e no files at all) (Also, it complained when there wasn't a /vmlinuz already, thought I was doing

Re: [DISASTER] Latest update broke my system entirely

Seth R Arnold: Peter -- even if the paths are correct? I am a little reluctant to play around with mine, since my system works... Jonas Steverud: The message said the pathes had to be relative and mine where absolute. Since they looked ok and I didn't know what to change them too I let them

Re: xinetd problems

No, there are two different things: - service_name - tag: service - service id - attribute tag: id Ah! Now I see. Works fine, thanks! -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ - and God said: nohup make World World.log

xinetd problems

Hi! I'm using xinetd because it can bind services to certain network interfaces. BUT, I'm not able to get it to bind *one* service to *two* interfaces (out of three). How do I do that? I can't specify the service twice (it complains about duplicats), nor can I have two interface lines, or two

slrn and newsgroup descriptions

How do I get slrn to show the newsgroup descriptions? I have set % if non-zero, show description of newsgroup if available set show_descriptions 1 % column where group descriptions start set group_dsc_start_column 40 in my .slrnrc, but they won't show up when I run slrn. I have descriptions

Re: [DISASTER] Latest update broke my system entirely

Jonas Steverud: (none) login: root login[10]: PAM unabvle to resolve symbol pam_sm_authenticate login[10]: PAM unabvle to resolve symbol pam_sm_setcred login[10]: PAM unabvle to resolve symbol pam_sm_authenticate login[10]: PAM unabvle to resolve symbol pam_sm_setcred My guess is that you

Re: DriveReady SeekComplete Error and DriveStatusError

B. Szyszka: I've reinstalled Debian to try to get a cleaner setup going, but am running into some error messages: hdb: write_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdb: write_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } That's *usually*¹ a sign that your hard disk is about to die on

Re: xinetd problems

I can't specify the service twice (it complains about duplicats), Use `id' tag - different in any service definition Well, the problem is that the id number is the port from /etc/services, and there is only one id per port. This is socket interface limitation (not only xinetd) you can bind

Re: garbled characters in vim

$: env LANG=C LESSCHARSET=latin1 Try setting LC_ALL=sv_SE.ISO8859-1. That ought to fix it. You might also want to try to set LANG=sv. This also makes some of the programs speak Swedish, which is quite nice. PS. There is now also a debian-user-swedish list which you might want to subscribe

Re: daemon/initd

There is also this thingy: rinetd - Internet redirection server I don't know if it can replace inetd or not.. No, it justs allow you to specify that certian ports on your machine should be forwarded to other machine. Quite useful for making machines behind a firewall available outside it,

One-time password for PPP dialup

What's the best way to deal with one-time password for dialup (PPP) accounts? I generate new codes for each time I dial-in to work, and as of now I have written a small Perl wrapper that manually edits the PPP password file each time I call, but I was wondering if there's a better way? I've

Re: telnetd-ssl

The problem has been found. The telnet daemon was set in inetd.conf to be started as user telnetd, which was something that telnetd-ssl didn't grok. After resetting it to root, it works just fine. -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ - and God said: nohup make World World.log

Re: mail and security

Which reminds me -- why does debian still use the gnu locate, rather than slocate (secure locate) -- It's there all right: slocate 2.0-1 H 25KB 59KB utils +-[slocate]---+ | a secure

Re: telnetd-ssl

J.H.M. Dassen (Ray): Looks like the permissions on your ttyp devices are wrong; they should look like this: crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty3, 2 Mar 13 1999 /dev/ttyp2 Okay, I fixed that (it must've somehow forgot to reset them, because some were owned by my own user accound, and had

telnetd-ssl

Installerade telnetd-ssl nyss, men jag kan inte logga in utifrån: telnet dat95pkn Trying 10.10.247.110... Connected to dat95pkn.campus.mdh.se. Escape character is '^]'. telnetd: /dev/ttyp2: Permission denied . Debian Linux/BSD/GNU/XFree86/etc potato (2.2) dat95pkn.campus.mdh.se Connection

telnetd-ssl

I just installed telnetd-ssl, but now I can't log in remotely: telnet dat95pkn Trying 10.10.247.110... Connected to dat95pkn.campus.mdh.se. Escape character is '^]'. telnetd: /dev/ttyp2: Permission denied . Debian Linux/BSD/GNU/XFree86/etc potato (2.2) dat95pkn.campus.mdh.se Connection closed

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Re: Dselect problems

Brad [EMAIL PROTECTED]: You're using a broken mirror (or an arch that doesn't have all packages properly ported--if you're not using an i386, please say so and disregard the below). (I'm using i386). Hmmm, strange, I'm using ftp.sunet.se, which ought to be complete. I used another mirror

Dselect problems

Hi! Dselect seems to think that there is a conflict in my package selection, something that neither apt-get or console-apt thinks. Upon trying to exit the package selection, this package conflict display appears, and I can't get away from it, because changing anything brings it back: EIOM Pri

jed keybinding

Hi! I'm using jed with WordStar keybindings; how can I get it to honour the Home and End keys so that I can get to the beginning/end of the line with them? Would be very nice to be able to do that... -- \\// peter - please Cc: all replies to me

Re: jed keybinding

Would be very nice to be able to do that... And... It would be nice to be able to use the Delete key to remove to the right (now it just beeps me)... -- \\// peter - please Cc: replies to me

Re: Problems with the samba update

Patrick Olson: I am going to assume that version is from unstable (also known as potato) since my Samba is older. In that case, there was mention of a bug in that version of Samba that makes it need a 2.2.x kernel. The message at this address has a better explanation than I can give:

Re: Problems with the samba update

Could someone enlighten both of us as to the method of putting a hold on packages when apt is involved? That would be appreciated, since dselect currently thinks my packet selection is broken, whereas apt-get/capt works fine. -- \\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/

Re: Problems with the samba update

The solution to my problem was to remove the samba password file and re-enter my users passwords into it. This fixed the problem for me. The problem is that I do not have a password file for samba, I don't use encrypted password (mostly because I'm too lazy to set them up). -- \\// Peter -

File formats for fonts?

Hi! Where can I find information on the format of the files that are output by setfont (-O, -o, -om and -ou options)? I want to make a Latin-1 font of my VGA card's built-in font, but is lacking information on how to do it. -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ - and God said:

Problems with the samba update

Hi! A recent samba update (in potato) rendered all my shares non-functional. For some reason, no-one can mount anything, not even using the correct passwords, and if I try to browse my computer (from a Windows machine), it claims that I have to enter a password for \\computername\IPC$ I've tried

Font editor?

Hi! Is there a font editor included in Debian to let me edit the console fonts (.psf) (and unicode mappings) in a sensible way? I'd like to take the font on my video card and remap it to Latin-1 so I can use it as a console font. (And I need to fix the unicode mapping, since they seems to be all

Re: Font editor?

I'm not sure if this will do the job or not. It is a font editor, but it says .fnt instead of the .psf you mention. I don't know much about fonts so maybe I should have kept my mouth shut :-) Hope this info is helpful. Seems to be about what I wanted. Thanks. Hmm, on exit it messed up my

Character sets in potato Vs. slink?

Hi! In Slink, I use this setup for /etc/kbd/config: CONSOLE_FONT=lat1-16.psf CONSOLE_MAP=lat1.uni but in Potato, that doesn't work. So I changed it to CONSOLE_FONT=lat1-16 CONSOLE_MAP=lat1.sfm which doesn't seem to give the same results, especially not with regard to the line drawing symbols.

Re: Pascal

Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Oh, sorry. Is the source code archive for fpc from Debian 2.0 available somewhere? Have you tried gpc, the GNU pascal compiler? I have now, and it doesn't like my code. Even with the --borland-pascal switch. :-/ -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/

Pascal

Hi! I installed fpc (Free Pascal) before, but now it is listed as obsolete in Dselect. Has it been replaced with something else? I need to be able to compile Turbo Pascal like programs, that's why I installed fpc in the first place, because it's good at that. -- \\// Peter -

Re: Pascal

I installed fpc (Free Pascal) before, but now it is listed as obsolete in Dselect. Has it been replaced with something else? And, now that I upgraded to the version of libc6 (2.1) from potato (to be able to install some other development packages), all my Pascal programs causes segmentation

Re: Pascal

You'll have to recompile the programs to work with glibc2.1. If they're leftovers from Debian 2.x, you could install libc5 and see what happens. Hmmm, I think I installed fpc initially with Debian 2.0 (which was what was stable when I first installed). It worked fine with 2.1, but broke now

Re: Pascal

Then run apt-get source packagename to grab the source for a package, or apt-get -b source packagename to grab the source AND recompile it. Well, it's just that fpc seems to have been dropped as of Debian 2.1, and it isn't in 2.2 either. -- \\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ Please

Dependency problem with dpkg - apt-get

Hi! I'm having a problem; I installed my own inews (mini-inews from Slackware, which posts directly to NNTP) to get uqwk to work (the inews that came with Debian requires, for some strange reason, a local news server, which I don't have). I updated the equivs package to indicate this. Now,

Problems with SIAG

Hi! I'm having problems running SIAG under Debian 2.1. The on-line help doesn't open, it complains that the file 'file:/usr/doc/siag/siag/docs/siag.html' doesn't exist, which it does: ls -lG /usr/doc/siag/siag/docs/siag.html -rw-r--r-- 1 root 1209 feb 5 02:32

uqwk / inews

I am trying to upload articles written with a SOUP reader using uqwk and inews from their respective Debian packages, but I fail. inews keep telling me that the groups are invalid. NNTPSERVER is set to the server that inews should deliver to, and so is /etc/news/server, but it doesn't seem to

local news spool

Hi! I read news on a couple of news servers, and would want to combine those to be able read it at home. I need to fetch the news manually, since I can't get nntp feeds from them. I also would like to set up so that some of the mailing lists that I subscribe to are automatically converted to news

Wanted: Location of unused packages

Is there a program available that looks at the access times of the various installed binaries, and reports on the packages whose binaries hasn't been used in the last, say, two months? Would be a great way to get a list of those hey, this sounds cool! packages one selected in dselect but never

Need Apache with proxy support

Hi! I'm running Slink and am in need of a version of Apache that has the proxy module compiled-in (the supplied version hasn't). Is there a fully enabled version available somewhere, or do I need to compile it from sources myself? Please reply Cc: me, since I have not subcribed to this list --

Re: Trouble updating (trashed my X setup)

Just for grins, I note you're in .se. Do you happen to have the LANG or any of the LC_* variables set? If so, try unsetting them and PLEASE let me know if that fixes the problem or changes nothing. That solved the problem... I had LC_TYPE=iso_8859_1 and LC_ALL=sv_SE.ISO8859-1 set, and when

Trouble updating (trashed my X setup)

I was doing a apt-get dist-upgrade to update to the latest versions, when installing the xserver-common package didn't work. This has now trashed my X installation completely, so it doesn't work at all. This is what happens when I try to install it: # dpkg --install

smbmount and Linux 2.2.0?

Where can I find a smbmount that works with Linux 2.2.0 in a Debian archive? None of those I've found seem to work (the kernel complains about it being the wrong version). Please reply with cc to me. -- \\// Peter - http://www.mds.mdh.se/~dat95pkn/

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