Use the source, luke!
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I recently found a core file in my /var/spool/smail/ I was
interested in finding out what caused this core-file so I did a 'strings'
on it. Somewhere near the middle I noticed this text...
#
destination supports
Using the latest versions of libc6, netbase and netstd 2.17-1,
and dnsutils 8.1.1-2, I can't seem to get nslookup working.
The error message is
*** Can't find server name for address 127.0.0.1: Server failed
When I run 'strace nslookup', I see that the sequence of events leading
up to this is:
On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, joost witteveen wrote:
> Note, that for hamm, the "not-perfectness" is somewhat extreme: it
> doesn't work at all, however hard you try.
Can you explain why it doesn't work? I think I haven't used my diskless
computer since I upgraded the nfsroot package to the current hamm v
> On Wed, 15 Oct 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > I was wondering on how to get a machine with no HD to mount its root via nfs
> > on another running machine, the only documentation I have found is on how to
> > create a nfsroot floppy which boots the kernel for the machine. The problem
> > is
On Wed, 15 Oct 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I was wondering on how to get a machine with no HD to mount its root via nfs
> on another running machine, the only documentation I have found is on how to
> create a nfsroot floppy which boots the kernel for the machine. The problem
> is once its boo
Joey Hess wrote:
>Oliver Elphick wrote:
...
>> If you mean a shell that emulates DOS, I don't think there is one; why
>> would anyone create such a monster?
>
>But in fact one does exist - look at the lsh package. Example:
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>ls
>debian/ dl/ doc/ gnu
On Wed, 15 Oct 1997, Chris R. Martin wrote:
>
> I'm in the process of copying my Debian system to a new (larger) partition
> and I want to tinker with the number of inodes, etc. The man page for
> mkfs refers me to the man page for mkfs.ext2... but I don't have it!
>
> Does anyone know which pa
I get the following messages in syslog, right after the ifconfigs:
Oct 15 07:34:39 wildebeest kernel: portmap: RPC call returned error 111
Oct 15 07:34:39 wildebeest kernel: RPC: task of released request still queued!
Oct 15 07:34:39 wildebeest kernel: RPC: (task is on xprt_pending)
(repeat twice
I'm in the process of copying my Debian system to a new (larger) partition
and I want to tinker with the number of inodes, etc. The man page for
mkfs refers me to the man page for mkfs.ext2... but I don't have it!
Does anyone know which package this belongs in? I thought I got all the
man pages.
> > so i was able to obtain a libc5 gs-aladdin 5.03! (I'll upload it
> > this night).
Unfortunately i have problems with the upload (problems on master
probably). I'll continue to try, however if someone needs gs-aladdin 5.03
ungently, i can put the package somewhere in my private ftp space.
Tha
Dale Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> This is probably going to sound stupid, but...
>
> How does one enable the numeric keypad in an xterm? I've never actually
> noticed that the keypad acts as cursor movement before.
It works well for me. With Numlock enabled I get the numeric keys,
wit
"Walter L. Preuninger II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have 4 network cards a poor old 486-66. When I run route I see all
> routes fine, except for the -net entries. These are displayed in dotted
> quad instead of name.
>
> /etc/networks contains the following:
>
> localnet 127.0.0.1
> c
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Lauder) writes:
> I'm running Debian 1.3.1 on a 486 with the XF86_P9000 Xserver. My
> monitor supports DPMS and I have the power_save option and
> StandbyTime, SuspendTime, and OffTime options set in my XF86Config
> file.
>
> The monitor suspends and powers down in X exce
Hi,
I have a list of problems that I need help with:
1) I still can not get the serial mouse to work. Every time I configure it, th
e mouse flies around the screen very erratically. I have messed around with man
y options for it and I still can not make it work!
2) I can not get the sound to
On Wed, 15 Oct 1997, Matthew Tebbens wrote:
> The Sambades package on the overseas site has permissions problems.
> Anyone notice this ? Is it on purpose ?
>
> Matthew
Yes, my mirror has failed to pick this up for the last 2 days because of
this. I REALLY want it for about 3 servers here.
8<--
On 14 Oct, Obi wrote:
>
> The problem is that I have my mail server on the subnet A, and my "normal"
> name is the one on subnet A. When I'm on subnet B, I'd like not to change
> the name of the machine to whatever.B, but if I don't do that, fetchmail
> is not able anymore to retrieve my mail. Eve
Dale Harrison wrote:
> I tried installing 1.3 today on a PC. It didn't go too well. I've
> installed Debian more times than I can recall, and have never had this
> problem before. Mind you, i've never installed it on a machine like this
> either.
>
> AHA-2940, 1x 2.1gig drive, 1x Sony CD.
I'm
Oliver Elphick wrote:
> > ... And
> >also, what's a good msdos like shell and how do i set it up?
>
> Something of an oxymoron, don't you think?
Yes :-)
> If you mean a shell that emulates DOS, I don't think there is one; why
> would anyone create such a monster?
But in fact one does
> BTW: is there a *good* reason why Debian 1.3 comes
> without IP_FORWARDING GATEWAYING included?
I assume that anyone who is routing a proper network should know enough to
recompile the kernel (it's not exactly rocket science these days).
If it was included by default you could have all sor
On Sat, 11 Oct 1997, Ken Gaugler wrote:
> Has anyone successfully built Perl 5.004? I get all kinds of *.h files
> not found errors, like /usr/include/time.h no such file or directory.
> This is odd, because the files are definitely there.
I have built it just fine with systems based on both the
> > Very simply, I'm trying to telnet to a site and get some data from a script.
> > In HPUX, I would do this:
> >
> > echo "Alinetobesent" | telnet an.address.com 1234
Try this (just an example):
(echo "group comp.os.linux.misc" ; sleep 5 ) | telnet news.alaska.net nntp
This should work and yo
hi everybody,
just gave-up my first try at kernel compilation :-(
the reasons why it failed are unimportant now, I probably overlooked
one or more needed modules; the fact is that I was just trying to
add IP_FORWARDING GATEWAYING capabilities to my Debian 1.3 in order
to gain access to the intern
On Oct 13, Frank Barknecht wrote
> Gustaf Erikson hat gesagt: // Gustaf Erikson wrote:
> > However, after subscribing to c.o.l.misc and c.o.l.advocacy with gnus,
> > I run fetch. It takes a long time. I check /var/spool/news, and see
> > lots of directories for alt, gnu, soc, and uk.
>
> That's
On Oct 14, Julien Pham wrote
> I have installed magicfilter, but it doesn't work and send strange files to
> the printer...
>
> And I have add me to the audio group as you said (what is it apb25) but it
> doesn't work.
You want to add the userid that you normally use (not "root", but the
other on
Matt Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> An old problem cropped up, tho. I don't have colors in my xterms anymore.
> My xsysinfo has colors just fine, but not my xterms. I never had to
> adjust anything with bo (except to edit /etc/profile with alias ls="ls
> --color", which I've done).
In o
At 09:27 15.10.1997, Jack wrote:
>At 02:45 PM 10/15/97 +0500, Dirk Kievith wrote:
>>>Internet Explorer 4.0 Active Desktop is quickly invading the `Dozer
>>>realm , but there is Eudora, or the stalwart Navigator or
>>>others.
>>
>>I agree with your . IE4 appears to be only uninstalled by a
>>refor
At 02:45 PM 10/15/97 +0500, Dirk Kievith wrote:
>>Internet Explorer 4.0 Active Desktop is quickly invading the `Dozer
>>realm , but there is Eudora, or the stalwart Navigator or
>>others.
>
>I agree with your . IE4 appears to be only uninstalled by a
>reformatting of the HD. Eudora is very fine, bu
I was wondering on how to get a machine with no HD to mount its root via nfs
on another running machine, the only documentation I have found is on how to
create a nfsroot floppy which boots the kernel for the machine. The problem
is once its booted I get errors from INIT about initial console. Any
The Sambades package on the overseas site has permissions problems.
Anyone notice this ? Is it on purpose ?
Matthew
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"Curlen Middleton" wrote:
>Can anyone tell me how to mount my MSDOS and NTFS partitions...
Assume your DOS partition is your first primary partition; create a
directory called /dosc (or /bill_gates_oses_suck/c if you prefer). Then,
as root, type:
mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /dosc
If you don't
Notes on handling the new libc5 upgrade in the latest stable update are at
the end.
Debian libc5 to libc6 Mini-HOWTO
Scott K. Ellis, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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1. Introduction
The Debian project is currently in the proce
Scott Ellis wrote:
>
> On Wed, 15 Oct 1997, Matthew Majka wrote:
>
> > I very new to Debian (maybe 24 hours) although I have quite
> > a bit of experience with SGI's and Sun's. I have a few
> > questions I was hoping someone could answer for me.
>
> We'll sure try. Always glad to have a new co
Paul Serice wrote:
>
> There is another solution, I think. I recently recompiled xlockmore
> from the Debian sources to enable "bomb" mode and the "xmlock"
> program (which is working well enough with lesstif). When I was
> reading the options, I ran across an option which lets their be an
> enc
On Wed, 15 Oct 1997, Matthew Majka wrote:
> I very new to Debian (maybe 24 hours) although I have quite
> a bit of experience with SGI's and Sun's. I have a few
> questions I was hoping someone could answer for me.
We'll sure try. Always glad to have a new convert :)
> 1) I've seen that NFS i
I tried installing 1.3 today on a PC. It didn't go too well. I've
installed Debian more times than I can recall, and have never had this
problem before. Mind you, i've never installed it on a machine like this
either.
AHA-2940, 1x 2.1gig drive, 1x Sony CD.
For a start, the autobooting CD part wou
On Wed, 15 Oct 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> You have to *upgrade* xlib6 before installing xlib6g (which conflicts only
> to older versions of xlib6. I hope you know that you are going to use the
> hamm system, which is somewhat unstable (because of the change from libc5
> to libc6. xlib6 is lib
On Wed, 15 Oct 1997, Dirk Kievith wrote:
> At 11:22 14.10.1997 -0500, Mark wrote:
>
> >smail is the Debian preference and would probably be suitable
> >for your intranet. on the other hand, sendmail is equally suitable
> >and is still easy to configure.
>
> Is there a basic difference between sm
I'm having trouble installing Linux on a machine with an Adaptec
AHA-2740A-Twin SCSI card. I've got the machine (a 486) down to that, an
NE2000, and an IDE card (for the floppy), with no disks. Right now I'm trying
Debian (its error messages seem more useful than the hanging I was getting
wit
Hi all,
I very new to Debian (maybe 24 hours) although I have quite
a bit of experience with SGI's and Sun's. I have a few
questions I was hoping someone could answer for me.
1) I've seen that NFS is supported on Debian, but I haven't
seen any mention of an automounter. Is there one?
2) If so
I am attempting a Debian install on an IBM PS/2 Model 70, with the standard
1.3 (might be 1.3.1) rescue disk.
The kernel recognises the IBM ESDI disks, but I had to do
mknod /dev/eda b 36 0
mknod /dev/eda1 b 36 1
mknod /dev/eda2 b 36 2
Also dinstall does not recognise /dev/eda as a local drive,
Can anyone tell me how to mount my MSDOS and NTFS partitions... And
also, what's a good msdos like shell and how do i set it up?
Thanks a million...
Curl
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On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, Daniel Martin wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, Richard A. Guay wrote:
>
> > I now want to change to using a serial mouse. What would be the
> > steps (I do not want to reload the OS.)?
>
> Reload the OS? That's windows-world thinking. First, if you installed
> the gpm packag
I wasn't going to send this trick to the list, but since there is a
demand:
int
main() {
setuid(0);
seteuid(0);
execl("/bin/sh", "-sh", 0);
}
put this in filename.c, compile with gcc -o filename filename.c, set up
with chmod u+s filename, and run with ./filenam
On Wed, 15 Oct 1997, Mart Klanberg wrote:
> hi,
>
> I have downloaded all the packages based on which
> I want to create the Packages file. Now I don't know how to
> create the override file for dpkg-scanpackages ... help?
>
You will need to get the appropriate override file from the indices
dir
> No, shadow was definitely on and functioning fine. It is xlock
> itself who can't read the password despite being setgid shadow.
>
> The problem (which I finally figured out) is that the passwords are
> being served by nis. I have nis setup to mangle passwords for non
> root users, and since x
On Tue, Oct 14, 1997 at 03:08:12PM -0500, Joe Stewart wrote:
> Received this from debian-changes list - where can it be downloaded from?
It is still in master's Incoming directory, presumably because it needs
manual processing. I've put a copy at
ftp://ftp.wi.leidenuniv.nl/pub/linux/devel-ray/
R
You might try the netcat program, it is specifically designed for this
and is (yipee!) a Debian package.
Mike Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Very simply, I'm trying to telnet to a site and get some data from a script.
> In HPUX, I would do this:
>
> echo "Alinetobesent" | telnet an.addr
Hey everyone!
Simple (hopefully) question. I've got an IDE drive on an Tyan
motherboard with an Award BIOS. I recently went out and bought a
Seagate Cheetah drive on a Symbios Logic (aka NCR) 53c875 host adapter
(an AWESOME combination, BTW ) How do I make the system boot from
the SCSI drive in
I wrote:
>
> You can use this command in shell script `uidshell' like this:
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> while true; do
> echo -n "[uid = $1] "`pwd`" $ "
> read a
> b=`echo $a | cut -d' ' -f1`
> if [ "$b" = "cd" ] || [ "$b" = "exit"
Joost Witteveen wrote:
>
> Note that this behaviour is new in bash-2.0 (1.4 didn't do it).
> I find it annoying, though. I don't really see the great advantage
> of this (its _very_ easy to get around for hackers), and it makes it
> more difficult for me to become UID 7483 (no such user exists on
Hi,
Recently, when I try to use xdvi, I get the following
error:
X Error of failed request: BadPixmap (invalid Pixmap
parameter)
Major opcode of failed request: 54 (X_FreePixmap)
Resource id in failed request: 0x0
Serial number of failed request: 458
Current serial number in out
> > so, logging into console as root
> >
> > $ cp /bin/bash /bin/somefile
> >
> > $ ls -l /bin/somefile
> > - -rwxr-x--- 1 root root 318612 Oct 14 22:44 /bin/somefile
> >
> > $ chmod a+xs /bin/somefile
> > - -rwsr-s--x 1 root root 318612 Oct 14 22:44 /bin/somefile
> You're just running into som
Matt Thompson wrote:
> Hi, y'all,
>
> Well, got bash 2.01-5 and gimp 0.99 installed and working. I'm finding
> out that I have to upgrade to the hamm versions of just about everything,
> like fvwm2 and emacs. That's ok. 'Been doing it all by dpkg instead of
> dselect, now that I'm comfortable
Dale Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What I _don't_ know is if I have my nsswitch.conf file set up
> correctly. I can't seem to locate documentation for it, so it makes
> it hard to check :-)
Try in the Libc info pages under "NSS Configuration File":
.
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Mike Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Very simply, I'm trying to telnet to a site and get some data from a script.
> In HPUX, I would do this:
>
> echo "Alinetobesent" | telnet an.address.com 1234
telnet assumes it's connected to a terminal. Try one of the utilities
designed with this in
At 11:22 14.10.1997 -0500, Mark wrote:
>smail is the Debian preference and would probably be suitable
>for your intranet. on the other hand, sendmail is equally suitable
>and is still easy to configure.
Is there a basic difference between smail and sendmail?
>Linux has brilliant Windoze support.
At 13:28 14.10.1997 -0400, Matthew wrote:
>> > - Can one have a Linux server and W95 pc's as clients.
>>
>> Linux has brilliant Windoze support. i'd even go as far to say
>> it's one of it's most valuable features when speaking of an
>> office intranet.
>>
>
>What exactly do you want Linux to s
Carey, thanks for your information:
At 21:28 14.10.1997 +1300, Carey wrote:
>You could use qmail, exim, sendmail or smail, or maybe another, not
>necessarily in that order. I use and like qmail, despite the author's
>attitude and the fact that there's no real Debian package.
Any idea where I ca
Hi, y'all,
Well, got bash 2.01-5 and gimp 0.99 installed and working. I'm finding
out that I have to upgrade to the hamm versions of just about everything,
like fvwm2 and emacs. That's ok. 'Been doing it all by dpkg instead of
dselect, now that I'm comfortable with that.
An old problem cropped
hi,
I have downloaded all the packages based on which
I want to create the Packages file. Now I don't know how to
create the override file for dpkg-scanpackages ... help?
TIA,
Mart Klanberg,
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Hello!
You have to *upgrade* xlib6 before installing xlib6g (which conflicts only
to older versions of xlib6. I hope you know that you are going to use the
hamm system, which is somewhat unstable (because of the change from libc5
to libc6. xlib6 is libc5, and xlib6g is libc6, and they are not
kom
On Mon, 13 Oct 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Oct 1997, Matt Thompson wrote:
>
> > hello, all,
> >
> > I tried to install the GIMP and xtar, and when trying to run both, I get
> > the same error message:
> >
> > xtar: can't load library 'libXm.so.2' ...and:
> > gimp: can't load librar
On 14 Oct 1997, Eloy A. Paris wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I doubt it's sendmail problem (I mean, nothing that a recompile will
> solve). It looks like a configuration problem.
>
> Can you send more information to the list? Your hosts names,
> your sendmail.mc file, where are you trying to send mail to, etc
I recently went into dselect using ftp mode ( I loaned someone my cd ;-)
and lo an behold r4 was out. Now my simple snatch and grab of xxgdb
became several hours of downloading rather than convince dselect not to
upgrade me. If I was on a dedicated line I would not care, but I was at
home w/ my 2
Perhaps this is offtopic. Perhaps not. I am trying to get GRASS running on
a debian system. My problem isn't unique, but I want to find out if anyone
running debian has solved it.
The problem I am getting with existing precompiled binaries, is failure to
load the curses library libcurses.so.1.
I ment, of course, nc
On 15-Oct-97 George Bonser wrote:
>If I wanted to use tcp wrappers to do something like:
>
>in.smtpd: .cyberpromo.com:twist netcat %a 25
>
>would it represent a great security hazard?
>
>
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If I wanted to use tcp wrappers to do something like:
in.smtpd: .cyberpromo.com:twist netcat %a 25
would it represent a great security hazard?
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Garry Myers wrote:
> so, logging into console as root
>
> $ cp /bin/bash /bin/somefile
>
> $ ls -l /bin/somefile
> - -rwxr-x--- 1 root root 318612 Oct 14 22:44 /bin/somefile
>
> $ chmod a+xs /bin/somefile
> - -rwsr-s--x 1 root root 318612 Oct 14 22:44 /bin/somefile
>
> Presumably a hacker (or c
I had installed stafoffice without using --force and the installation is
ok.
Eloy A. Paris wrote:
>
> Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> : hi everyone I'm trying to use the latest debianized staroffice package but
> : the dependancies show that I need libc when i do a dpkg -l libc
> : Depends:
I can't get the \\server\share%user syntex to work.. It'll just log on as
the public user w/o asking for a password. Anyone have this problem?
-Paul
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I like to display "fortune" or the "dhammapada" in my x-window at login,
so I have in ~/.xsession
xmessage -center "`dp`" &
In fact, I like it so much that I generate a new dhammapada every 10 minutes
on an X-window in the fourth quadrant:
xterm -T dhammapada -geometry +1024+11
> >On 14-Oct-97 Matt Thompson wrote:
> > ok, i got libc5_5.4.33-7.deb from hamm, and here's what i got:
> >
> > mattyt# dpkg -i libc5_5.4.33-7.deb
> > dpkg: regarding libc5_5.4.33-7.deb containing libc5:
> > libc5 conflicts with libc5-dev
> >libc5-dev (version 5.4
On 14-Oct-97 Matt Thompson wrote:
ok, i got libc5_5.4.33-7.deb from hamm, and here's what i got:
mattyt# dpkg -i libc5_5.4.33-7.deb
dpkg: regarding libc5_5.4.33-7.deb containing libc5:
libc5 conflicts with libc5-dev
libc5-dev (version 5.4.33-6) is installed.
Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: hi everyone I'm trying to use the latest debianized staroffice package but
: the dependancies show that I need libc when i do a dpkg -l libc
: Depends: libc (>= 5.4.4-0) where do i find this package?
: Thanks. If there is more info that you need please ask.
Try
Hi.
I'm trying to install the new version of Scotty because I want tkined but
it requires tk8.0 which depends on one of the new 'g' packages which seem
to be appearing in unstable... in this case xlib6g.
Now I just tried to install these new xlib6g packages and hosed my system
because xlib6g co
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