Re: problemas con *.c [solucionado]
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Re: makeinfo en slink?
On Sat, Oct 16, 1999 at 09:04:18AM +0200, Cosme Perea Cuevas wrote: $ dpkg -S makeinfo tetex-bin: /usr/bin/makeinfo No se si es este `makeinfo' (el binario de tetex-bin) el que buscas... Pues yo tampoco, al final me he bajado las fuentes de potato y compila bien. El paquete en el que está es texinfo-4.0.deb aunque no se si será el mismo programa. Gracias. -- ||| (- -) oOOo(_)oOOo--- | Smile... tomorrow will be worse. Murphy | |--| | [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | http://personales.jet.es/olsago/ | | http://fly.to/luzluciernaga | --
Re: Como se hacen debs?
On Sat, Oct 16, 1999 at 09:01:15AM +0200, Cosme Perea Cuevas wrote: Este artículo te será de ayuda: http://www.openresources.com/es/magazine/making-debian-packages/index.html También puedes pasar por al archivo de la lista (no recuerdo la URL, mira en la web de Debian) porque si no me equivoco se envió algo al respecto no hace mucho. Sí, ya me lo han enviado. Gracias a todos. Ya tengo material de lectura para esta tarde. -- ||| (- -) oOOo(_)oOOo--- | Smile... tomorrow will be worse. Murphy | |--| | [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | http://personales.jet.es/olsago/ | | http://fly.to/luzluciernaga | --
Re: informacion linus
Can someone who can speak spanish please answer? Thanks, Alexander, one of the listmasters On Sat, Oct 16, 1999 at 03:13:10PM -0500, Margarita R wrote: me interesa recibir toda la informacion del sistema linus en español y por favor enviar a carlos
[SOLUCION] xemacs y del
El dia Sun, Sep 12, 1999 at 11:21:55PM +0200, Juli-Manel Merino Vidal tuvo a bien escribir: acabo de instalar xemacs y me molesta un pequeño detalle: cuando pulso del hace la misma función que al pulsar la tecla de borrado. No estoy en las X y el teclado en la consola funciona perfectamente, excepto en el xemacs. Que debo configurar para que la tecla del funcione correctamente ? Aunque este mensaje se envió hace tiempo, llevo desde entonces dándole vueltas al asunto. Al cabo de muchas pruebas, he decidido ignorar el archivo ~/.xemacs-options y hacerlo todo en ~/.emacs. Doy por supuesto que quien utilice la solución no tiene en uso emacs y xemacs a la vez, porque las opciones de xemacs deben ir en .xemacs-options si vamos a seguir los cánones. Aquí está el resumen de la solución: (require 'delbs) (custom set-variables '(delete-key-deletes-forward t) '(delbs-enable-delete-forward t)) (if (not window-system) (puthash ?\^? 'backspace keyboard-translate-table)) Las cuatro primeras líneas solucionan el problema en las X-Window, ¡pero no en consola! Es necesario añadir el (if (not window-system)) para que funcionen bien el backspace y el delete también en consola, que era lo que se preguntaba originalmente. Es probable que se pudiera quitar una de las dos líneas '(delete-key-deletes-forward t) '(delbs-enable-delete-forward t) pero como así me funciona, he preferido no tocarlo más. P.D.: fuera de la solución ya, y dado que tengo el xemacs como editor externo para el mutt, no viene mal buscar en www.freshmeat.net un archivo que ponga el modo mutt para el xemacs. Añade las siguientes líneas: (load ~/mutt.el) ;; o bien otros, yo uso mutt.el pero hay más semejantes (custom-set-faces) (setq options-save-faces t) (standard-display-european t) La ventaja es que colorea las cabeceras del mensaje, también en consola :) Saludos, -- 'Mounten' wird fuer drei Dinge benutzt: 'Aufsitzen' auf Pferde, 'einklinken' von Festplatten in Dateisysteme, und, nun, 'besteigen' beim Sex. (Christa Keil in a German posting: Mounting is used for three things: climbing on a horse, linking in a hard disk unit in data systems, and, well, mounting during sex.) -- Ivan Juanes Prieto -- Latin and Greek Teacher Canary Islands (Spain) -- Linux Debian 2.2
Re: Frame buffer
On Sat, 16 Oct 1999, Jose Rodriguez wrote: Todas las tarjetas que cumplan el VESA 2.0 (creo que todas las AGP lo tienen) pueden emplear al menos el frame buffer VESA VGA (que no el mejor, pero que a mí me funciona de maravilla). Y en las que son VESA 1.2 tambien se puede usar el frame buffer. Tan solo tienes que cargar algun extensor de la Video BIOS en DOS y arrancar el Linux con loadlin. Yo tengo una S3 ViRGE DX (VESA 1.2), y cuando quiero poner el frame buffer, arranco desde un disquete DOS con el loadlin, un kernel con soporte para FB, y el programa s3vbe20.exe. También hay disponible un parche no oficial para que el kernel soporte FB en las S3 que son VESA 1.2, pero no lo he encontrado... Si quieres saber cómo pertenecer a Paco Brufal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fidonet, la red de correo con más Fidonet 2:346/3.68 CALIDAD del Mundo y SIN SPAM, preguntame como. ...The Shoeshineman. Bata. 1995 --- Pine 4.10 + Sendmail 8.9.3 * Origin: FAQ de R34.LINUX: http://www.linuxfreak.com/~r34_linux (2:346/3.68)
Re: modulos de sonido
On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, cygar wrote: Hola, tras haber parcheado y compilado el kernel 2.2.12 (parchee 2.2.11 y 2.2.12) ya que antes usaba 2.2.10. me han traido problemas los modulos de sonido. Yo los cargo en este orden: uart401 sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330 opl3 io=0x388 Si te sirve de algo... Si quieres saber cómo pertenecer a Paco Brufal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fidonet, la red de correo con más Fidonet 2:346/3.68 CALIDAD del Mundo y SIN SPAM, preguntame como. ...Suckers. Dano No Sweat. 1995 --- Pine 4.10 + Sendmail 8.9.3 * Origin: FAQ de R34.LINUX: http://www.linuxfreak.com/~r34_linux (2:346/3.68)
Re: makeinfo en slink?
On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Gorka Olaizola wrote: ¿Tiene slink este programa? como puedo averiguar en que paquete esta? Está en tetex-bin, pero tienes que instalar también tetex-base. Si quieres saber cómo pertenecer a Paco Brufal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fidonet, la red de correo con más Fidonet 2:346/3.68 CALIDAD del Mundo y SIN SPAM, preguntame como. ...Having Sex. Critical Mass. 1995 --- Pine 4.10 + Sendmail 8.9.3 * Origin: FAQ de R34.LINUX: http://www.linuxfreak.com/~r34_linux (2:346/3.68)
Nuevo documento sobre Server Side Includes
Hola! Acabo de poner en mi web un documento sobre creación de HTML dinámico con Server Side Includes. Espero que le echeis un vistazo a ver que os parece: http://www.ctv.es/USERS/pbrufal/ssi_linux.html Si quieres saber cómo pertenecer a Paco Brufal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fidonet, la red de correo con más Fidonet 2:346/3.68 CALIDAD del Mundo y SIN SPAM, preguntame como. ...Hey!. Toni Salmonelli. 1995 --- Pine 4.10 + Sendmail 8.9.3 * Origin: FAQ de R34.LINUX: http://www.linuxfreak.com/~r34_linux (2:346/3.68)
[macan@colband.com.br: Re: =?iso-8859-1?Q?K core 3D5Fo=3D5Fque=3D5F=3D3DE9=3 D5Fisso=3D3D3F =3F=3D]
Valeu macan!!! -- Q: Would you like to see the WINE list? A: What's on it, anything expensive? Q: No, just Solitaire and MineSweeper for now, but the WINE is free. -- Kevin M. Bealer, about the WINdows Emulator ---BeginMessage--- On Sat, Oct 16, 1999 at 03:10:23PM -0200, Crash Override wrote: Olá pessoal, Gostaria de saber o que é esse aquivo que fica em /proc/kcore esse tal de kcore está comendo 25mb do meu HD. Ele está com a atribuição só de leitura e não dá p/ modificá-lo pelo menos eu tentei, bom dependendo que que ele seja queria saber uma maneira de apagá-lo bele Os arquivos sob /proc nao sao arquivos de verdade e nao ocupam espaco do hd, nao se preocupe. o /proc e' uma virtualizacao que mapeia parametros do kernel e outras cositas mas no formato de arquivos e diretorios. Até + galera t+ , --macan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---End Message---
Upgrade and floppy
As an inexperienced debian user, I rashly followed some instructions I read somehwere to do an update/upgrade from the slink version I installed from a couple of CDs that fell off the back of a magazine. I have a debian/win95 system with a debian boot floppy. I boot to one or the other system by having the bios set to boot A:C and putting the debian floppy in the drive if I want debian. Now I realise that the only way to boot debian is with the old version on my floppy disk. I don't actually know if I achieved anything with my apt-get dist- upgrade, apt-get update and apt-get install libc6, but I do have the feeling that I'll only get to debian with the old version on my floppy disk anyway. How do I find out what sort of state my system is in now? And is there a way to get the new system (if I've got it) on to the floppy disk? I'm only subscribed to the digest list, so it might take some time for me to read any replies, but I'd be most grateful anyway. David
PCI Bus inquiry HP8130 , PCI eth0 set to irq0 ...Yup Zero that is
Has anyone out thar, installed Linux onto a HP 8130, and if so, can they perhaps enlighten me as to how to tell the BIOS how to manually address a PCI network card. You will appreciate that a eth0 is a handy thing to have nowadays :-) I seem to be having some serious PnP problems with the ISA side as well with this system. The isapnp dump file looks OK with a AD sound card on IRQ5, however isapnp spits the dummy when booting up, with a cannot allocate type message message. Once i get the cards going, maybe I can use the proxy on the network to get out, as I had to pull the ISA Multitech Modem that this system was installed with, because I believe by the way it was behaving it was a Windoze only deal. (Maybe the whole puking box is?). Perhaps some good citizen from Hewlett Packard can lend some light on the subject!!. Smitty
Re: pile of packages
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, Konstantin Kivi wrote: How can I generate Packages.gz and other auxiliary files (what?) from a directory with a number of packages such as kde or proposed updates I want to make it possible to be installed over local network using apt Look into dpkg-scanpackages, from the dpkg-dev package. - -- finger for PGP public key. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBOAj9Gr7M/9WKZLW5AQH+YQP8CkuT0KFEEOAjqpWRnotu6Vn/EH1OjrHV UmNosglbsN1MwYme5TMiPBJhRV9EkBQA0L4ovAMsK9YToE/6KgdW0GbgUu4uwihe G0/mfDnCyYHpfSfXrQR/hSzyVMr1gLpIU2kCKUAm57PnVZv3bADySXatURlIS0Sp iPel43MhypA= =I++0 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
security flaws in proftpd/wuftpd ?
i find it very suprising that there is not even a peep from debian developers about the massive security holes in proftpd and the minor ones in wu.ftpd ..virtually all the other distros announced. even if there is not a good fix people should be made aware not everyone watches bugtraq. unless the version(s) of proftpd in debian are safe? i read a post that talked about flaws in the very design of it, making it secure would require almost an entire re-write of the whole package. i posted to debian-user a few weeks back askin for help with this issue but never saw a reply(if there was sorry i must've missed it) nate (just tryin to watch out for fellow debian users) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Linux System Administrator http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By:http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMPhttp://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]--
Re: HELP: Free space zero no matter what
On Sat, Oct 16, 1999 at 03:57:39PM -0600, Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote: Okay, I'm back and running, and I figured out my problem. ext2 filesystems have reserved blocks, though I don't know what they're for. It seems only root can access them, although I haven't really checked this. tune2fs can lower the number of reserved blocks, but here's my question: Why, on a 6.4 GB hard drive, were there 300MB or reserved blocks? because mke2fs reserves an amount of 5% by default of the partition beeing formatted for the superuser What are they for, and do I really need them? The answer is in the (first) question :) JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] FORTH IF HONK THEN
WMPPP.APP and transfer rate
For some reason, my docked icon for wmppp.app (I'm using WindowMaker) will NOT show the transfer rate until about 1 minute and 10 seconds into the connection. Until then, it shows 0K0 It wasn't doing this a couple of days ago. Any ideas? -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian 2.1
need help for my mitsumi cdrom
At 12:00 PM 10/16/99 +0200, you wrote: Try this as root : # modprobe mcd /lib/modules/2.0.36/cdrom/mcd.o: init_module: Device or resource busy # mount /dev/mcd /cdrom -t iso9660 -o ro mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/mcd as block device (maybe 'insmod driver'?) If that doesn't work, post here the error messages you got. You should know the I/O and IRQ used by your interface (defaults are 0x300, irq 11), if you do not remember hve a look at the interface, these parameters are setted by jumpers and switch on it. I found a manual for my old cdrom. It says concerning DIP switch - I/O address: DIP switch 1 (SW1) of the interface card assigns the input/ounput (I/O) portaddress for the cd-rom drive. The default I/O port address is 300h through 303h. Table 1 lists the settings of DIP switch SW1 and the corresponding I/O port selections. Concerning IRQ Channel: Blah, blah, blahIRQ10 (default) It shows in diagram how to make settings IRQ9, IRQ2, IRQ3, IRQ5, IRQ10, IRQ11 Jeff
Re: kernel upgrade options
Try using dselect to select the kernel-source you want as well as kernel package which has the scripts for a Debian-style kernel install. Read the docs with kernel package. I've tried both SuSe and RedHat and find Debian easier to get around in--most of the time. Eric Wolven
RE: security flaws in proftpd/wuftpd ?
Actually, .t has been mentioned in Debian Weekly News. Proftpd seems like it was designed with security in mind, much more so than wu-ftpd. Do you remember the date of that post that discussed the design flaws? I'd like to read it. proftpd just switched primary developers. As such, it's receiving a major over-haul. Now they're trying to shake the last of the bugs out for 1.2.0. That's where all those proftpd-1.2.0preX versions are comming from. offtopic: One of the hols that was fixed a few weeks back stemmed from the fact that something like this happened: strncpy(acharbuffer, userinput, X) which supposedly led to a buffer overflow. Could someone explain how a buffer overflow could happen with strNcpy? I thought using strNcpy pretty much stopped buffer overflows cold. Thanks, Bryan On 16-Oct-99 aphro wrote: i find it very suprising that there is not even a peep from debian developers about the massive security holes in proftpd and the minor ones in wu.ftpd ..virtually all the other distros announced. even if there is not a good fix people should be made aware not everyone watches bugtraq. unless the version(s) of proftpd in debian are safe? i read a post that talked about flaws in the very design of it, making it secure would require almost an entire re-write of the whole package. i posted to debian-user a few weeks back askin for help with this issue but never saw a reply(if there was sorry i must've missed it) nate (just tryin to watch out for fellow debian users)
looking before I leap (bye gnome!)
Hey guys, I'm going to get rid of gnome by dpkg -purging all four of the task-gnome-* debs that I installed. I also stumbled on the fact that, for some reason, apt-get install mc also gets rid of them. unless one of you guys yells at me, this is probably the method that I will use, as I want some of the pre-gnome functionality of mc. What the heck is the big deal about gnome anyway? -- -t
Permissions and group of /cdrom
Could someone please give me an ls -l of their /cdrom file? I moved all (about 7) removable media mount points below /mnt, and forgot what their group ownerships were. Also, I noticed that the old /floppy mount point had the group floppy, and that below /dev, any possible floppy-related device file was in the group floppy. Yet, if I recall correctly /cdrom was in the group cdrom, but the device files are in group disk. Does this cause any problems? Thanks, Bryan
Mailbox types: MBOX or MH
I'd like to create a new mailbox folder. My MUA, XFmail, supports both MH and MBOX style mailboxes. Which is better? Or rather, what are the pros and cons of each? I would like to start using Mohogany, once its a little more stable. Will my choice of mailbox type make any difference to that transition? Thanks, Bryan
dselect can not allocate memory
I am trying to install some stuff using dselect, but it tells me that can not allocate memory, returns error 1 My status: # free total used free shared buffers cached Mem 1405640929964 1484 196 1752 -/+ buffers/cached: 214411912 Swap: 1980 1320 660 # df -h UsedAvailable Capacity Mounted/on /dev/hda1 1.5G489M 930M34%/ I suppose that I need to increase the swap space, but I am not sure. I don't know how to do it without reinstalling the whole thing againg from zero. Please help. Thanks Antonio.
turning your computer off
Is there a best way to shut down linux and turn off your computer? I read in an online guide that you should press ctrlaltdelete. When I do this and I later turn my computer on it says last boot failed...Then it installs. Is this the recommended way to turn off your computer? Jeff
RE: Permissions and group of /cdrom
On 17-Oct-99 Bryan Scaringe wrote: Could someone please give me an ls -l of their /cdrom file? I moved all (about 7) removable media mount points below /mnt, and forgot what their group ownerships were. Also, I noticed that the old /floppy mount point had the group floppy, and that below /dev, any possible floppy-related device file was in the group floppy. Yet, if I recall correctly /cdrom was in the group cdrom, but the device files are in group disk. Does this cause any problems? drwxrwsr-x 2 root cdrom1024 May 24 1998 cdrom
RE: Permissions and group of /cdrom
On 17-Oct-99 Pollywog wrote: On 17-Oct-99 Bryan Scaringe wrote: Could someone please give me an ls -l of their /cdrom file? I moved all (about 7) removable media mount points below /mnt, and forgot what their group ownerships were. Also, I noticed that the old /floppy mount point had the group floppy, and that below /dev, any possible floppy-related device file was in the group floppy. Yet, if I recall correctly /cdrom was in the group cdrom, but the device files are in group disk. Does this cause any problems? drwxrwsr-x 2 root cdrom1024 May 24 1998 cdrom I don't know why the g+s bit is set there; it isn't for my floppy. drwxrwxr-x 2 root floppy 1024 May 17 11:53 floppy
Re: turning your computer off
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 16 Oct 1999, jh wrote: Is there a best way to shut down linux and turn off your computer? I read in an online guide that you should press ctrlaltdelete. When I do this and I later turn my computer on it says last boot failed...Then it installs. Is this the recommended way to turn off your computer? It says last boot failed because ctrl-alt-del is by default mapped to reboot, not shutdown. Since you shut the power off in the middle of the reboot, it interprets this as failure. There are several ways to enter the shutdown state. They have to be used as root, for obvious reasons. telinit 0 halt # May cause problems with older versions, man halt for info. shutdown -h now In any case, wait until the system tells you to power down. If you have APM supported and properly configured, it may shut itself down. And finally, if you have Magic SysRQ Key and APM support in your kernel, pressing SysRQ-S, waiting for Done, SysRQ-U, waiting for Done again, and SysRQ-O should do it too. This is Not Recommended. - -- finger for PGP public key. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBOAkwib7M/9WKZLW5AQGVGgP/Vkni704aeTkgnuUn4YpDkYieZrUjcAtP gSf1Uu1cfXW68lFWj1J05v+ETLPrAegthex6FEKE6rbERYveUNouNDaTG0MOey+f S2PqVp6i3KImhPeZtMaVDbKR5+1GpZP3TxE3oHKdR0c/4GpqtBXYUKlgGYxASHMv FCPgQKU+DsY= =RdJZ -END PGP SIGNATURE-
RE: turning your computer off
On 17-Oct-99 jh wrote: Is there a best way to shut down linux and turn off your computer? I read in an online guide that you should press ctrlaltdelete. When I do this and I later turn my computer on it says last boot failed...Then it installs. Is this the recommended way to turn off your computer? Jeff shutdown -h 0
Re: turning your computer off
Hi Jeff, I'm rather new also, but in order to use ctrlaltdelete you will have to enter that into some file or other. Instead try the command: shutdown. check out the man, but to use this command be sure to be root. So at the root prompt type: #shutdown -r now or: #shutdown -h now The -r is for reboot -h is to halt or shutoff the computer. There are more options in the manual, in fact if you want to use the three finger salute, that to is in the man. Have fun Dean jh wrote: Is there a best way to shut down linux and turn off your computer? I read in an online guide that you should press ctrlaltdelete. When I do this and I later turn my computer on it says last boot failed...Then it installs. Is this the recommended way to turn off your computer? Jeff -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
newt0.30 - a potato problem
When I try to install the latest mc I get a problem with newt dependancies: Depends: libc6, libc6 (= 2.0.7u-6), slang1 ( 1.3), slang1 ( 1.2.2-0) So if I install mc along with slang1_1.3.9-1 I will to lose newt, whiptail, modconf and pppconfig. Do we just wait for new packages to appear, or have I missed something? =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lindsay Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perth, Western Australia voice +61 8 9316 248632.0125S 115.8445E Debian Linux =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Re: turning your computer off
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 16 Oct 1999, Dean wrote: I'm rather new also, but in order to use ctrlaltdelete you will have to enter that into some file or other. This is properly set up by default on a Debian system to reboot. (Specifically, it executes /sbin/shutdown -t1 -r now. Some people (me included) add the -a option to this). The file is /etc/inittab, the line looks something like this: # What to do when CTRL-ALT-DEL is pressed. ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -r now - -- finger for PGP public key. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBOAk8Rr7M/9WKZLW5AQGsVwQAg+NOT1MRyRXAbcOPlXFtRRKmJVl0H+em gYobMqdKPSfaRfWQNzUnguk3ALxswD2fXOnZon2K2Amam53fQQnYTeaEe73ska/K 6m04xSbkhG3Ix9+dOLOB39Xqj5FO0Q6zxUgz35w9mE3llnCYPngPw0ij/rvYH3qn h6LupVpCQ4I= =SyFV -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: newt0.30 - a potato problem
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, Lindsay Allen wrote: When I try to install the latest mc I get a problem with newt dependancies: Depends: libc6, libc6 (= 2.0.7u-6), slang1 ( 1.3), slang1 ( 1.2.2-0) So if I install mc along with slang1_1.3.9-1 I will to lose newt, whiptail, modconf and pppconfig. Do we just wait for new packages to appear, or have I missed something? This appears to have been fixed already. The latest whiptail (version 0.50-4) depends on libnewt0. modconf and pppconfig would only have been removed because they depend on whiptail. newt can be safely removed (and IIRC is no longer available). Until it was fixed, the proper solution was to put slang1 and all programs that depend on the 1.3.9 version on hold until all necessary dependancies have been satisfied (an unnecessary dependancy being a program you have no qualms over removing). - -- finger for PGP public key. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBOAk9or7M/9WKZLW5AQGS/gP8C+nZquWOaUWhBdyh2u6SCHjG2CqvQvON 5T6lhyJ/39yLNQhKkcxpRaOMwm94YuoWZKe1VMA3MbyrcGfFzwZ0AoF3JhShiMzV rogweQDVdtq4PXByie2s/EqL36XrAL/aIQQXo39nfxgTCSMG6tqgHEsYczO3xT9B YV6VR26wlXM= =naGw -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Strange Cron Job
Mmmm... Can somebody tell me what this means... From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Oct 15 00:40:08 1999 Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from root by WEASEL with local (Exim 3.03 #1 (Debian)) id 11c1y8-j6-00 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Fri, 15 Oct 1999 00:40:04 -0700 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cron Daemon) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] test -f /proc/modules /sbin/rmmod -a X-Cron-Env: SHELL=/bin/sh X-Cron-Env: HOME=/root X-Cron-Env: PATH=/usr/bin:/bin X-Cron-Env: LOGNAME=root Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 00:40:05 -0700 Status: RO Content-Length: 45 Lines: 2 rmmod: QM_MODULES: Function not implemented It was generated by the cron.daliy entry 'modutils': */20 * * * * root test -f /proc/modules /sbin/rmmod -a ...after I upgraded to potato I began receving this message in my mailbox precisely every 20 min. But, I have no idea what it is trying to tell me. Thanks, bw
Sound Module for 2.0
Hi, Can someone tell me what the name of the kernel module for sound is in version 2.0.36? Thanks, bw
Re: looking before I leap (bye gnome!)
Hello, What the heck is the big deal about gnome anyway? I have only seen the gnome that comes on the Debian 2.1 CD, I have not seen later versions. I believe gnome is in its infancy stage at present. From what I have read about it on the web, the big deal appears to be that a full set of applications will be delivered that supply the general computing needs of the public. And of course these will be provided FREE OF CHARGE! It's underlying architecture is somewhat brand new, but I am very impressed with the goals and the technical accomplishments of it so far. I have been trying to get binaries of new(er) gnome pieces running on my (slink and 2.0.36) system, but have not yet. I am not sure I love the gtk widget set (yet) but I have not played around with development with it. As far as your other question, I have removed and reinstalled gnome MANY times on my system with no illness to my system. John (In no way connected to the gnome project) __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: newt0.30 - a potato problem
On Sat, 16 Oct 1999, Brad wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Do we just wait for new packages to appear, or have I missed something? This appears to have been fixed already. The latest whiptail (version 0.50-4) depends on libnewt0. modconf and pppconfig would only have been removed because they depend on whiptail. newt can be safely removed (and IIRC is no longer available). Thanks, Brad. whiptail_0.50-4 still has not turned up on my mirror but I'm glad it is in the works. newt is still there. Maybe I need a better mirror, though it's fairly long pipeline out here to Western Australia. Cheers, Lindsay =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lindsay Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perth, Western Australia voice +61 8 9316 2486 32.0125S 115.8445E Debian Linux =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Re: PCI Bus inquiry HP8130 , PCI eth0 set to irq0 ...Yup Zero that is
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... Has anyone out thar, installed Linux onto a HP 8130, and if so, can they perhaps enlighten me as to how to tell the BIOS how to manually address a PCI network card. You will appreciate that a eth0 is a handy thing to have nowadays :-) You could 1) Try the NIC in a different PCI slot 2) Go to the BIOS and set the field 'PnP OS' (or something to that effect) to 'No' or 'Off'. IRQ0 is used by buggy BIOSes (ie all of them. Literally.) to mean 'invalid IRQ'. It usually happens when 'PnP OS' is set in the BIOS. Incidentally, it only works with Win95/98. 3) Try a BIOS upgrade (ie flash your BIOS). It could be a bug that's been resolved in a newer BIOS. Another possibility: this thing has so much proprietary hardware, and designed to work with Win9x so closely, you'd be fighting a lost cause to get anything but Win9x running. I seem to be having some serious PnP problems with the ISA side as well with this system. The isapnp dump file looks OK with a AD sound card on IRQ5, however isapnp spits the dummy when booting up, with a cannot allocate type message message. Again, try updating your BIOS. Once i get the cards going, maybe I can use the proxy on the network to get out, as I had to pull the ISA Multitech Modem that this system was installed with, because I believe by the way it was behaving it was a Windoze only deal. (Maybe the whole puking box is?). It wouldn't surprise me. -- -- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are two things that are infinite; Human stupidity and the universe. And I'm not sure about the universe. - Albert Einstein
makefile managers
I am looking for a program that can manage/generate makefiles for projects. Preferably something that will work under xemacs. Thanx [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How's the CDROM problem, solved?
Hi, Yes, I read that post. You need to determine what the IRQ and IO address of your board is currently. Then tell linux about it. By looking at the current switch settings on your board, use the tables in the manual to determine what IRQ and IO address the board is set for. Don't trust anything that says default until you have verified it. The modprobe command error indicates something is wrong with the combination of HW/SW. The mount command will never work until you get this right. You can always view the system boot text by executing the dmesg command. You will want to look at the IRQs used by other devices and may have to set your board differently, so it does not use one of those. I would post the entire dmesg output to the list if you can't figure out what the error messages are from the normal messages. I am not sure where to specify these addresses to linux, so you may want to post that specific question to the list once you do determine what your current addresses are, and it doesn't look like any other devices are using the IRQ. John __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
RE: security flaws in proftpd/wuftpd ?
i dont have the date of the post..i rm my mail weekly ..didnt know about the weekly news thing i knew it existed but never read it yet.. i did/do check freshmeat/linuxtoday/linuxweeklynews/bugtraq/(others?) regularly and never saw a mention. nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Linux System Administrator http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By:http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMPhttp://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- On Sat, 16 Oct 1999, Bryan Scaringe wrote: Actually, .t has been mentioned in Debian Weekly News. Proftpd seems like it was designed with security in mind, much more so than wu-ftpd. Do you remember the date of that post that discussed the design flaws? I'd like to read it. proftpd just switched primary developers. As such, it's receiving a major over-haul. Now they're trying to shake the last of the bugs out for 1.2.0. That's where all those proftpd-1.2.0preX versions are comming from. offtopic: One of the hols that was fixed a few weeks back stemmed from the fact that something like this happened: strncpy(acharbuffer, userinput, X) which supposedly led to a buffer overflow. Could someone explain how a buffer overflow could happen with strNcpy? I thought using strNcpy pretty much stopped buffer overflows cold. Thanks, Bryan On 16-Oct-99 aphro wrote: i find it very suprising that there is not even a peep from debian developers about the massive security holes in proftpd and the minor ones in wu.ftpd ..virtually all the other distros announced. even if there is not a good fix people should be made aware not everyone watches bugtraq. unless the version(s) of proftpd in debian are safe? i read a post that talked about flaws in the very design of it, making it secure would require almost an entire re-write of the whole package. i posted to debian-user a few weeks back askin for help with this issue but never saw a reply(if there was sorry i must've missed it) nate (just tryin to watch out for fellow debian users)
Re: dselect can not allocate memory
is this right in i see only 2MB of swap on a machine with 14MB of ram ? i make it rule for myself to have 128MB swap for every physical hdd installed, even with 256MB ram i still have 256MB swap (only using 4MB of it though) MemTotal:253164 kB MemFree: 5664 kB MemShared:70652 kB Buffers: 72544 kB Cached: 103688 kB SwapTotal: 267108 kB SwapFree:262228 kB nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Linux System Administrator http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By:http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMPhttp://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- On Sat, 16 Oct 1999, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: I am trying to install some stuff using dselect, but it tells me that can not allocate memory, returns error 1 My status: # free total used free shared buffers cached Mem 1405640929964 1484 196 1752 -/+ buffers/cached: 214411912 Swap: 1980 1320 660 # df -h UsedAvailable Capacity Mounted/on /dev/hda1 1.5G489M 930M34%/ I suppose that I need to increase the swap space, but I am not sure. I don't know how to do it without reinstalling the whole thing againg from zero. Please help. Thanks Antonio. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: turning your computer off
i usually do shutdown -h now to shut it down. and wait for the message from the kernel to power down. nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Linux System Administrator http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By:http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMPhttp://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- On Sat, 16 Oct 1999, jh wrote: Is there a best way to shut down linux and turn off your computer? I read in an online guide that you should press ctrlaltdelete. When I do this and I later turn my computer on it says last boot failed...Then it installs. Is this the recommended way to turn off your computer? Jeff -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Mailbox types: MBOX or MH
Bryan Scaringe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd like to create a new mailbox folder. My MUA, XFmail, supports both MH and MBOX style mailboxes. Which is better? Or rather, what are the pros and cons of each? I would like to start using Mohogany, once its a little more stable. Will my choice of mailbox type make any difference to that transition? Here's what the gnus doc has to say about those two; I don't know XFmail, but I assume most of this applies: -- `nnmbox' UNIX systems have historically had a single, very common, and well- defined format. All messages arrive in a single spool file, and they are delineated by a line whose regular expression matches `^From_'. (My notational use of `_' is to indicate a space, to make it clear in this instance that this is not the RFC-specified `From:' header.) Because Emacs and therefore Gnus emanate historically from the Unix environment, it is simplest if one does not mess a great deal with the original mailbox format, so if one chooses this backend, Gnus' primary activity in getting mail from the real spool area to Gnus' preferred directory is simply to copy it, with no (appreciable) format change in the process. It is the dumbest way to move mail into availability in the Gnus environment. This makes it fast to move into place, but slow to parse, when Gnus has to look at what's where. `nnmh' The Rand MH mail-reading system has been around UNIX systems for a very long time; it operates by splitting one's spool file of messages into individual files, but with little or no indexing support - `nnmh' is considered to be semantically equivalent to `nnml' without active file or overviews. This is arguably the worst choice, because one gets the slowness of individual file creation married to the slowness of access parsing when learning what's new in one's groups. -- So if those are the only two choices, I guess mbox is likely to be better if you don't need MH for somehting else. HTH
proftpd/wuftpd bug - my first post
found the first post in the archives http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-9909/msg00200.html To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: ProFTPD patch for exploit? From: nate [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 00:42:07 -0700 (PDT) from the thread output on the archive site there was no reply. nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Linux System Administrator http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By:http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMPhttp://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]--
Re: keymap error when closing X
Hi Ookhoi; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: How do I fix it? System: `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp -w 1 -R/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb -xkm -m us -em1 The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports: -emp -eml Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server keymap/xfree86 /var/tmp/xfree86.xkm' Ookhoi I have simply got rid of that message by commenting out the XkbKeymap line in XF86Config file (in /etc/X11/). HTH, damir
X server crashes....
Hi, My X server crashes on a consistent basis without any apparent reason. Here is the output(useful parts) of my 'startx -- -bpp 16 errors' command , XFree86 Version 3.3.2.3 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6300) Release Date: July 15 1998 If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting problems. (see http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ) Operating System: Linux 2.0.36 i686 [ELF] Configured drivers: SVGA: server for SVGA graphics adaptors (Patchlevel 0): NV1, STG2000, RIVA128, ET4000, ET4000W32, ET4000W32i, ET4000W32i_rev_b, ET4000W32i_rev_c, ET4000W32p, ET4000W32p_rev_a, XF86Config: /etc/X11/XF86Config (**) stands for supplied, (--) stands for probed/default values (**) XKB: rules: xfree86 (**) XKB: model: pc101 (**) XKB: layout: us (**) XKB: options: ctrl:swapcaps (**) XKB: keymap: xfree86(us) (overrides other XKB settings) (**) Mouse: type: PS/2, device: /dev/psaux, buttons: 3 (**) SVGA: Graphics device ID: matrox (**) SVGA: Monitor ID: sa (--) SVGA: Virtual resolution set to 1152x864 (--) SVGA: SpeedUp code selection modified because virtualX != 1024 (--) SVGA: Using XAA (XFree86 Acceleration Architecture) (--) SVGA: XAA: Solid filled rectangles (--) SVGA: XAA: Screen-to-screen copy (--) SVGA: XAA: 8x8 color expand pattern fill (--) SVGA: XAA: CPU to screen color expansion (TE/NonTE imagetext, TE/NonTE poly text) (--) SVGA: XAA: Using 9 128x46 areas for pixmap caching (--) SVGA: XAA: Caching tiles and stipples (--) SVGA: XAA: General lines and segments (--) SVGA: XAA: Dashed lines and segments Fatal server error: Caught signal 11. Server aborting When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send the full server output, not just the last messages xinit: connection to X server lost.^M I don't know what to make of it. I have a Matrox Mystique (4MB) card. Any suggestions... Thanks Rajesh
Re: anyone use FireMail?
On 17-Oct-99 George Bonser wrote: On Sat, 16 Oct 1999, Pollywog wrote: I have done it that way (in a central filter), but FireMail will let me use an external file and Exim won't AFAIK. Sure it will. Each user can use their .forward as a filter file OR you can have a central filter file that filters all mail. Your .forward simply has to start with the Exim filter statement to tell Exim that it is a filter file. This way it only filters your mail and nobody elses. I failed to explain what I meant. I want to have a lookup done from a central filter or system filter, but the lookup would be performed on an external file such as /var/mail/block/dirty_spammer.db and dirty_spammer.db would consist of Received: headers, one to each line. I have tried it and it did not work. -- Andrew
PCI512 Card
Hi, I am trying to use a Creative PCI512 card under slink. The accompanying literature says that it is identical to the SBLive. So I tried the driver downloaded from Creative site (0.2b) under kernel 2.2.5 as per the docs. But the module does not load with a message 'Device busy' and/or something similar. Has anybody used this card? Thanks, sridhar Sridhar M. A. Department of Physics University of Mysore, Manasagangotri Mysore 570 006, INDIA E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: X server crashes....
hi y.. the X messges is saying... a. it did not recognize any legal display for sync 1024x768, 1280x1024 800x600 etc... nothing... - you do NEED to know the horizontal sync and vertical refresh values ( or the manufacturers model number ) b. run Xconfigurator or XF86Setup or someother X11 setup tool... c. Check the errors again with the same method you used or X -probeonly have fun alvin Hi, My X server crashes on a consistent basis without any apparent reason. Here is the output(useful parts) of my 'startx -- -bpp 16 errors' command , XFree86 Version 3.3.2.3 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6300) Release Date: July 15 1998 If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting problems. (see http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ) Operating System: Linux 2.0.36 i686 [ELF] Configured drivers: SVGA: server for SVGA graphics adaptors (Patchlevel 0): NV1, STG2000, RIVA128, ET4000, ET4000W32, ET4000W32i, ET4000W32i_rev_b, ET4000W32i_rev_c, ET4000W32p, ET4000W32p_rev_a, XF86Config: /etc/X11/XF86Config (**) stands for supplied, (--) stands for probed/default values (**) XKB: rules: xfree86 (**) XKB: model: pc101 (**) XKB: layout: us (**) XKB: options: ctrl:swapcaps (**) XKB: keymap: xfree86(us) (overrides other XKB settings) (**) Mouse: type: PS/2, device: /dev/psaux, buttons: 3 (**) SVGA: Graphics device ID: matrox (**) SVGA: Monitor ID: sa (--) SVGA: Virtual resolution set to 1152x864 (--) SVGA: SpeedUp code selection modified because virtualX != 1024 (--) SVGA: Using XAA (XFree86 Acceleration Architecture) (--) SVGA: XAA: Solid filled rectangles (--) SVGA: XAA: Screen-to-screen copy (--) SVGA: XAA: 8x8 color expand pattern fill (--) SVGA: XAA: CPU to screen color expansion (TE/NonTE imagetext, TE/NonTE poly text) (--) SVGA: XAA: Using 9 128x46 areas for pixmap caching (--) SVGA: XAA: Caching tiles and stipples (--) SVGA: XAA: General lines and segments (--) SVGA: XAA: Dashed lines and segments Fatal server error: Caught signal 11. Server aborting When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send the full server output, not just the last messages xinit: connection to X server lost.^M I don't know what to make of it. I have a Matrox Mystique (4MB) card. Any suggestions... Thanks Rajesh -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
[no subject]
Hi. At the command line, how do I keep a message from scrolling so fast and missing it? Something like dos /p? Also, is there a keyboard combination that will re-enter the last command? Like dos F3? Thanks, Jeff
Re: your mail
On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, jh wrote: Hi. At the command line, how do I keep a message from scrolling so fast and missing it? Something like dos /p? You'll want to pipe the output to 'more' or 'less'. In the Unix world, programs generally don't worry about formatting their own output. Also, is there a keyboard combination that will re-enter the last command? Like dos F3? If you're using bash (which you should be) then you can push up-arrow to go back to the previous command. It has a full range of functions which operate on the command history - you can search, edit previous commands, do a lot of stuff - much better than DOS F3. You can also configure it to use vi editing commands to operate on the command history, in which case 'esc k' would allow you to go back to the previous command.
Re: Potato broke my mouse in X?
:- Aaron == Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That did it. Thanks, although that seems like something I should have tried... -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is gpm running? if so kill it and startx and see if your mouse works. Anyway, gpm should repeat the mouse events for the X server, that's how it works on my system. I can have the mouse both in X and the VT's at the same time (well, not the same time really, but I can switch between X and text-mode back and forth with no problem) Pf -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx| http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/8999 Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.2.12 #1 Fri Oct 1 02:10:16 CEST 1999 i686 unknown
scrolls too fast
Hi. At the command line, how do I keep a message from scrolling so fast and missing it? Something like dos /p? Also, is there a keyboard combination that will re-enter the last command? Like dos F3?
Re: turning your computer off
:- jh == jh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a best way to shut down linux and turn off your computer? I read in an online guide that you should press ctrlaltdelete. When I do this and I later turn my computer on it says last boot failed...Then it installs. Is this the recommended way to turn off your computer? the correct command is shutdown -h now which is also available as halt If you have an ATX case and motherboard, shutdown -h -p now or the shorter poweroff also turns power down. You should have compiled your kernel with APM poweroff option for this to work. Pf -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx| http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/8999 Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.2.12 #1 Fri Oct 1 02:10:16 CEST 1999 i686 unknown
Re: scrolls too fast
*- On 17 Oct, jh wrote about scrolls too fast Hi. At the command line, how do I keep a message from scrolling so fast and missing it? Something like dos /p? command | less or command | more or command | most less, more most are all called pagers. More is part of the base system so it should already be on your system. less and most are in their own packages. Read the man pages for all the options. Also, is there a keyboard combination that will re-enter the last command? Like dos F3? Depends on your shell, usually it is either the up-arrow, ^P or !!. Read the man page for you shell and look for the key word of history. Most shells you can stor a history of the past commands and recall them with something like !5 for the 5th most recent command. Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: scrolls too fast
Hi, I also posted a reply to your CDROM problem, to get you a little further, but it has not shown up yet. Anyway use the more command followed by the file name. This will not help you with dmesg though, unless you output it to a file, or pipe the output directly to more... more foo.txt would display the file foo.txt, one page at a time, using space bar to advance to next page. dmesg foo.txt would put the output from dmesg into foo.txt dmesg | more would take the output of dmesg and pipe it directly into more Be careful with typos until you know what you are doing. The rm command is like del. The mv command is line rename, and the cp is like copy. To shutdown your system properly, execute shutdown -h now as root, and WAIT until it displays system halted. Failure to do so can corrupt your disk, as the kernel caches disk writes. Important log files are in the /var/log directory. I think dmesg just prints out the syslog file. Also if you want to use the floppy, you can't just switch floppies without unmounting them, keep that in mind for later. John __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
success for the mitsumi cdrom painintheneck guy
I have good personal news. I got the kernel to accept my cdrom module for my old mitsumi. I pulled the interface card and discovered that nothing seemed to be set to default. I tried changing the I/O jumper to default and the IRQ switches to default and modconf recognized the first time. I am jubilant. I am now trying to learn how to mount the cdrom. Thanks for everyone's assistance! Jeff
Re: CDROM problem, solved? Yes, I think
Hi, The dselect program will mount the CDROM for you. I assume you wish to get the rest of the debian SW on your machine and that is why you wish to use the CDROM at the moment. You can brave dselect now, chose the Multi-CD option in ACCESS. When it asks you for the device, specify /dev/mcd for it. It will ask you a few questions about directories, but since you have the CD, you should be able to hit RETURN for everything. Then refer to my earlier post to brave dselect, but I REALLY recommend getting more info on deselect if you get too frustrated. If you wish to see if the CDROM works first, execute that mount command that was posted, or you may be able to get away with mount /dev/mcd /mnt(mounts the CD as /mnt) ls /mnt(lists the files in the top level directory) df (shows you what is mounted) umount /mnt(unmounts the /mnt which is your CDROM now) You may have to use mount -t iso9660 /dev/mcd /mnt ro or whatever was contained the other post. I'm sure you wrote it down or have it. John From: jh [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: John Miskinis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: CDROM problem, solved? Yes, I think Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 00:36:05 -0600 I pulled the interface card and the first thing that I noticed is that nothing was set to default. I thought I would restore the jumper settings and the switches to default and try it. I went into modconf and installed the module to the kernel. It worked! It succedded. Now how do I mount it? I am very grateful for your coaching. The part about not trusting that something is set to default did it. Jeff __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: Creating/Moving a partition
I had a similar problem and I found the Hard Disk Upgrade mini-HOWTO to be much helpful. I hope that such a reference is acceptable by you, though it is not a direct answer. Some few weeks ago someone replied to me quite rudely when I answered him this way. I find such references to be of much help and do not mind that people will answer to me like that. I'd like to make a new partition for /var because I don't have enough drive space where /var is currently mounted (/) to run apt-get dist-upgrade. What's the best way of doing this? I can create a new /var partition because I've got plenty of available drive space, but what set-up files will I have to modify to make sure things go smoothly? I assume I'll have to change fstab. But then do I have to move all contents of the current /var to the new /var? Could I create the new partition using a temporary name, move all the /var stuff to it, then rename it to /var? Thanks. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian 2.1 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: LaTeX? (was: Newbie Non-FAQ(I think) questions)
Okay, where can I find a good tutorial on LaTeX? I want to get started in it, but I don't know where to start. [10:27:15 /tmp]$ ls /usr/doc/texmf/latex/general/ a.ps guide.dvi.gz l2kurz.dvi.gz lshort.dvi.gz essential.dvi.gz guide.ps.gz latex2e.dvi.gz symbols.dvi.gz [10:27:18 /tmp]$
SOLVED: Re: SECOND TRY: Re: Group adm?
Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote: I don't know what is happening exactly, but this is my setup: drwxrwsr-x 11 root staff1024 Oct 14 10:42 /home drwxr-s--x 66 dwon dwon 5120 Oct 15 15:20 /home/dwon Amazing. Setting my permissions owner on /home and /home/ed using Dwayne's setup above solved it. Don't ask me; I haven't a clue why it worked. :-) Anyway, thanks Dwayne and Eric. -- Ed C.
etho: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e000.
Hello again! :) While trying to setup a dual celeron machine to run MASQ with a friend, we ran into an insurmountable problem. He has two D-LINK 530TX network cards, which are listed as supported on the SuSE.com webpage, and they seem to take the via-rhine module in 2.0 and 2.2 just fine, except we get this dreaded error message at boot: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e000. We put his win95's 3c905b into the machine, and it can get on the network just fine using the 3c59x module; adding only one D-LINK with the 3c905b gives those error messages (when it was two D-LINK cards, I think the error message was the same, but silly me, forgot to write it down! ugh.) Does anyone know how to tackle this? We just downloaded and installed kernel 2.2.12 from ftp.kernel.org. Can I give more details? thanks. :) -- Seth Arnold | http://www.willamette.edu/~sarnold/ Hate spam? See http://maps.vix.com/rbl/ for help Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!
RESTORE YAHOO MESSANGER
I am trying to restore my yahoo messanger.PLEASE ADVISE
Re: Console messages and commands
Hi! The re-enter command is the up-arrow-key. If you miss any messages, you can scroll up and down the console by shift+Pgup/Pgdown (don't really know how these keys are exactly called on an English kb-sorry), or you type command | more. Kind Regards, Stephan Hachinger - Original Message - From: jh [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Sunday, October 17, 1999 8:20 AM Hi. At the command line, how do I keep a message from scrolling so fast and missing it? Something like dos /p? Also, is there a keyboard combination that will re-enter the last command? Like dos F3? Thanks, Jeff -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: looking before I leap (bye gnome!)
tf wrote: [snip] What the heck is the big deal about gnome anyway? Was this flame-bait really necessary? If you don't like it, don't use it. Either way, don't make a big deal about it. -- Ed C.
Problems with SB 64 AWE
Hello! I've got a problem setting up a SB Awe 64 under Linux (kernel 2.2.5). I've compiled the following support into it: Sound Blaster (SB, SBPro, SB16, clones) support (CONFIG_SB) [Y/n/?] Generic OPL2/OPL3 FM synthesizer support (CONFIG_ADLIB) [Y/n/?] /dev/dsp and /dev/audio support (CONFIG_AUDIO) [Y/n/?] MIDI interface support (CONFIG_MIDI) [Y/n/?] FM synthesizer (YM3812/OPL-3) support (CONFIG_YM3812) [Y/n/?] lowlevel sound driver support [Y/n/?] AWE32 support (CONFIG_AWE32_SYNTH) [Y/n/?] (according to the AWE mini howto) and Plug and Play support. I determined the IRQ etc. by looking up the resources in the WIN 95 device manager. But the kernel does not recognize any SB or AWE device. Perhaps I've determined the resources wrongly, but how to get the resource data? It's all ISA plug and pray, and the bios doesn't list much. Maybe someone has already experience with this. Thanks for any help. Kind Regards, Stephan Hachiger
Re: turning your computer off
jh wrote: Is there a best way to shut down linux and turn off your computer? I read in an online guide that you should press ctrlaltdelete. When I do this and I later turn my computer on it says last boot failed...Then it installs. Is this the recommended way to turn off your computer? You can use shutdown as others have suggested, but frankly, the simplest thing to do is to use Ctrl-Alt-Del and wait untill the shutdown process is complete. When you notice the hardware reset has occured (screen clears and shows BIOS message and/or your monitor cycles on, off and on again), then turn the machine off. It only takes a few seconds of waiting. -- Ed C.
Re: Problems with SB 64 AWE
Stephan Hachinger wrote: Hello! I've got a problem setting up a SB Awe 64 under Linux (kernel 2.2.5). I've compiled the following support into it: Sound Blaster (SB, SBPro, SB16, clones) support (CONFIG_SB) [Y/n/?] Generic OPL2/OPL3 FM synthesizer support (CONFIG_ADLIB) [Y/n/?] /dev/dsp and /dev/audio support (CONFIG_AUDIO) [Y/n/?] MIDI interface support (CONFIG_MIDI) [Y/n/?] FM synthesizer (YM3812/OPL-3) support (CONFIG_YM3812) [Y/n/?] lowlevel sound driver support [Y/n/?] AWE32 support (CONFIG_AWE32_SYNTH) [Y/n/?] (according to the AWE mini howto) and Plug and Play support. I determined the IRQ etc. by looking up the resources in the WIN 95 device manager. But the kernel does not recognize any SB or AWE device. Perhaps I've determined the resources wrongly, but how to get the resource data? It's all ISA plug and pray, and the bios doesn't list much. Maybe someone has already experience with this. Thanks for any help. Kind Regards, Stephan Hachiger -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Have you configured isapnptools to set up your Awe on boot? This has to be done before loading modules. You also have to pass the resources info. to the module - for an Awe, the only two you need to pass resources to are sb and opl3. I wouldn't bother with the Adlib module. Get back to me if you need more help (email me direct). I can remember how much of a pain this was when I started with Debian / Linux. Jonathan.
Re: my root filesystem is 21.6% non-contiguous...
- Is that bad? most of my other filesystems are in the 1.5% range. This - seems to have happened after I through my /usr directory onto its own - partition... shortly thereafter, I noticed that it was 20.9%. I thought - that it may have been because I just moved a large chunk of it, but - after a couple of weeks, it has gotten larger instead of smaller... do I - have anything to worry about? hmmm that can slow your file access down. you should try backing it up,creating new filesystem and restoring it. there are programs which can defragment the filesystem but they are not 100% working. -- Matus fantomas Uhlar, sysadmin at NEXTRA, Slovakia; IRC admin of *.sk [EMAIL PROTECTED]; http://www.fantomas.sk/; http://www.nextra.sk/ Chernobyl was an Windows 95 beta test site.
user{add,del} with PAM and LDAP
I have succesfully configured user authentication on a potato box against an
LDAP directory with libpam-ldap and libnss-ldap. I was able to transfer
existing users to LDAP ok, but adding or deleting users is a problem.
Apparently user{add,del} do not support PAM (maybe this adding and deleting
users just isn't possible with PAM, I don't know).
Alternatively I am looking for command line, X or web interface that would
allow me to directly access and modify user account data on the LDAP server.
TIA,
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EsounD trouble (second try)
(repost of my previous message -- accidentally used reply-to to an unrelated thread in the mailing list -- probably missed everyone who has a threaded mail reader.) Can I use EsounD without GNOME/Enlightenment? I installed the esound package but I can't get anything to play via esd. The only thing I can get out of the speaker is the esd startup tone sequence (when I run esd in the background). I tried esdplay, esdcat, esddsp, xmms (with esound plugin) but I can't seem to get esd to produce any sound at all. What am I doing wrong??? T
nfs + setgid problem
Hello. I have a workstation pool with the home dirs shared over NFS. The home dirs are sgid by default in debian, so if a user creates a directory readable by himself only, it becomes sgid too. (KDE's Desktop directory is an example for that, it gets mode rwx--S---.) The nfs server (I user knfs) however cannot export these directories, they seem to be empty if I try to read them from a NFS client. It would be a solution to remove the sgid bit from the home directories, but isn't there a way to tell knfs to export these files correctly? Thanks in advance for any help, Dietrich
Re: nosuid option for '/'?
- And if nosuid is - a good thing for this system, can it be implemented for the - /home directories only, without doing it for the whole / directory? - - Being that nosuid is a mount option, this would be quite easy to do if - your /home was a separate partition, which I assume it is not. / should NOT be mounted nosuid. but you can mount filesystems as /tmp /home and /var as noexec (the only problem will be with /var/lib/dpkg where dpkg unpacks preinstall and postinstall scripts) -- Matus fantomas Uhlar, sysadmin at NEXTRA, Slovakia; IRC admin of *.sk [EMAIL PROTECTED]; http://www.fantomas.sk/; http://www.nextra.sk/ LSD will make your ECS screen display 16.7 million colors
Re: anyone use FireMail?
On 17-Oct-99 George Bonser wrote: Yes, you can use lookups from external files in the rules, you must have had the syntax wrong. I know I can have external files for lookups done from exim.conf but I attempted it from my system and central filters and it did not work, not for the Received: header, in any case. It has worked for me for domains and complete e-mail addresses and for To: headers. I used much the same syntax for all of them. thanks -- Andrew
Re: looking before I leap (bye gnome!)
tf [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: tf Hey guys, I'm going to get rid of gnome by dpkg -purging all four tf of the task-gnome-* debs that I installed. That's not going to get rid of the GNOME stuff. Those packages just depend on lots of other packages; you need to actually go off and remove those packages too (generally gnome-*) to really purge GNOME. tf I also stumbled on the fact that, for some reason, apt-get install mc tf also gets rid of them. unless one of you guys yells at me, this is tf probably the method that I will use, as I want some of the pre-gnome tf functionality of mc. Well, mc conflicts with gmc, and I believe task-gnome-desktop depends on that. So that will cause the task-gnome-desktop package -- but not anything else it depends on, like for example gnome-panel -- to be removed. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://donut.mit.edu/dmaze/ Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal. -- Abra Mitchell
Re: X server crashes....
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... Hi, My X server crashes on a consistent basis without any apparent reason. Here is the output(useful parts) of my 'startx -- -bpp 16 errors' command , [snip] (--) SVGA: Virtual resolution set to 1152x864 (--) SVGA: SpeedUp code selection modified because virtualX != 1024 (--) SVGA: Using XAA (XFree86 Acceleration Architecture) (--) SVGA: XAA: Solid filled rectangles (--) SVGA: XAA: Screen-to-screen copy (--) SVGA: XAA: 8x8 color expand pattern fill (--) SVGA: XAA: CPU to screen color expansion (TE/NonTE imagetext, TE/NonTE poly text) (--) SVGA: XAA: Using 9 128x46 areas for pixmap caching (--) SVGA: XAA: Caching tiles and stipples (--) SVGA: XAA: General lines and segments (--) SVGA: XAA: Dashed lines and segments Fatal server error: Caught signal 11. Server aborting Signal 11 is a segmentation fault. This is what I suggest: 1) Re-install the X server binary. It might have gotten munged somehow 2) Check your memory, motherboard, and L2 cache, or a combination of the above. Those are the three most common causes of a Sig11, especially for 'no apparent reason'. Out of curiosity, have you tried recompiling the kernel recently? -- -- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are two things that are infinite; Human stupidity and the universe. And I'm not sure about the universe. - Albert Einstein
Re: HELP: Free space zero no matter what
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jean-Yves BARBIER [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Oct 16, 1999 at 03:57:39PM -0600, Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote: Okay, I'm back and running, and I figured out my problem. ext2 filesystems have reserved blocks, though I don't know what they're for. It seems only root can access them, although I haven't really checked this. tune2fs can lower the number of reserved blocks, but here's my question: Why, on a 6.4 GB hard drive, were there 300MB or reserved blocks? because mke2fs reserves an amount of 5% by default of the partition beeing formatted for the superuser Yes, but the actual _reason_ for that is that the block allocation algorithms of the ext2 filesystems need at least 5% of free space to work properly. Ever wondered why you do not need to defragment an ext2 filesystem? You can tune the free space and set it to 1% or so, but if you write to the partition a lot and it fills up, it will get a) very slow to write to and b) fragmented, so very slow to read from as well. For a filesystem with static content (like /usr) that you fill up only once and then just read from it doesn't matter as much. Mike. -- First things first, but not necessarily in that order.
Re: turning your computer off
Just typing halt works on slink. It seems to have all the correct aliases in now. - Original Message - From: jh [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Sunday, 17 October 1999 2:51 Subject: turning your computer off Is there a best way to shut down linux and turn off your computer? I read in an online guide that you should press ctrlaltdelete. When I do this and I later turn my computer on it says last boot failed...Then it installs. Is this the recommended way to turn off your computer? Jeff -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
RE: proftpd/wuftpd bug - my first post
Aaah, Now it makes sense. I would suggest gettin on the proftpd mailing list. They've been cranking out a new release about once a week. If you submitted a bug a week or more ago, it's probably already implemented. The debian package maintainer for proftpd is usually pretty good about getting upstream released into the unstable branch. Bryan On 17-Oct-99 aphro wrote: found the first post in the archives http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-9909/msg00200.html To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: ProFTPD patch for exploit? From: nate [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 00:42:07 -0700 (PDT) from the thread output on the archive site there was no reply. nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Linux System Administrator http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By:http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMPhttp://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Mailbox types: MBOX or MH
Could you tell me where you found this information? I spent a few hours looking for this stuff on the web and came up empty-handed. I'd like to read that entire section of the GNU docs. Bryan On 17-Oct-99 David Coe wrote: Bryan Scaringe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd like to create a new mailbox folder. My MUA, XFmail, supports both MH and MBOX style mailboxes. Which is better? Or rather, what are the pros and cons of each? I would like to start using Mohogany, once its a little more stable. Will my choice of mailbox type make any difference to that transition? Here's what the gnus doc has to say about those two; I don't know XFmail, but I assume most of this applies: -- `nnmbox' UNIX systems have historically had a single, very common, and well- defined format. All messages arrive in a single spool file, and they are delineated by a line whose regular expression matches `^From_'. (My notational use of `_' is to indicate a space, to make it clear in this instance that this is not the RFC-specified `From:' header.) Because Emacs and therefore Gnus emanate historically from the Unix environment, it is simplest if one does not mess a great deal with the original mailbox format, so if one chooses this backend, Gnus' primary activity in getting mail from the real spool area to Gnus' preferred directory is simply to copy it, with no (appreciable) format change in the process. It is the dumbest way to move mail into availability in the Gnus environment. This makes it fast to move into place, but slow to parse, when Gnus has to look at what's where. `nnmh' The Rand MH mail-reading system has been around UNIX systems for a very long time; it operates by splitting one's spool file of messages into individual files, but with little or no indexing support - `nnmh' is considered to be semantically equivalent to `nnml' without active file or overviews. This is arguably the worst choice, because one gets the slowness of individual file creation married to the slowness of access parsing when learning what's new in one's groups. -- So if those are the only two choices, I guess mbox is likely to be better if you don't need MH for somehting else. HTH -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Mailbox types: MBOX or MH
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... Could you tell me where you found this information? I spent a few hours looking for this stuff on the web and came up empty-handed. I'd like to read that entire section of the GNU docs. This documentation isn't part of any 'GNU docs'. It's available as part of the technical notes for the email program Pine. Pine's homepage is http://www.washington.edu/pine. -- -- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are two things that are infinite; Human stupidity and the universe. And I'm not sure about the universe. - Albert Einstein
RE: success for the mitsumi cdrom painintheneck guy
Sorry I didn't post sooner. I'm trying to get caught up with my mail. You didn't need to set the jumpers back to their defaults. you could have them set to anything. you just need to know what they're set to. I have my mcd at 0x340, IRQ 10. In my /etc/modutils/modules I added the line: options mcd mcd=0x340,11 and added the following line to the end of /etc/modules: mcd So that the mcd module is loaded on system startup. Optional: If the old mcd is the only (or primary) CDROM drive in youyr system, do the following: cd /dev ln -s mcd cdrom This will create a sym-link from the mcd device file called cdrom. This way, you won't have to thing in terms of mcd, but just in the more generic cdrom. You can think of the symlink as an alias for the mcd file. As for mounting the CDROM, you have two ways to do this: The Pain-in-the-ass-way: mount -t iso9660 /dev/mcd /cdrom This tells mount that the filesystem type is iso9660 (all cdroms use this filesystem), the device you want to mount is /dev/mcd (if you did the optional step above, you can use /dev/cdrom instead), and you want to mount the filesystem under /cdrom. The SMART way: add the following line to the end of your /etc/fstab file. /dev/mcd /cdrom iso9660 defaults,noauto 0 0 Again, if you did the optional step above, you can substitute /dev/cdrom for /dev/mcd. now, when you want to mount the filesystem (cdrom), just say: mount /dev/mcd (or substiuture /dev/cdrom) -or- mount /cdrom mount will look in the fstab file for the appropriate entry to get filesystem type, and whatever else it needs. Saves some typing. Hope this helps, Bryan On 17-Oct-99 jh wrote: I have good personal news. I got the kernel to accept my cdrom module for my old mitsumi. I pulled the interface card and discovered that nothing seemed to be set to default. I tried changing the I/O jumper to default and the IRQ switches to default and modconf recognized the first time. I am jubilant. I am now trying to learn how to mount the cdrom. Thanks for everyone's assistance! Jeff -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: turning your computer off
If you have an ATX case and motherboard, shutdown -h -p now or the shorter poweroff also turns power down. You should have compiled your kernel with APM poweroff option for this to work. Note: If you are on a SMP machine, APM will break things badly. So don't use it then. --Ian Ehrenwald
hwclock and fear of rebooting
I'm nervous about rebooting my machine because I have used the hwclock program to set the RTC to an atomic clock, and am waiting a couple of weeks to set it again and calculate the drift. (Eventually, I'll set up the hwclock to make adjustments to the system clock using adjtimex.) Anyway, if I reboot will I the hwclock settings in the drift file be affected, and therefore I'll have to start all over again? Thanks. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian 2.1
My broken iceconf
I have Slink, but update the icewm and iceconf packages. Now when I run iceconf, I get this error message: Can't locate object method add_with_viewport via package Gtk::ScrolledWindow at /usr/bin/iceconf line 312 Until I updated iceconf and icewm, this didn't happen. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian 2.1
Re: Smail help needed from newbie
Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote: How far does the mail get before it bounces? (does it get to your ISP's mail server?) It could be that your machine name is not a valid domain name, and therefore DNS confirmation fails. Thanks for the reply - it does not get to the ISP's mail server but stays in local machine, and gets bounced back to user who sent it. I did try exim but had exactly the same problem, so installed smail instead.
Re: Problems with SB 64 AWE
You probably need to install and/or configure isapnptools to handle the plug 'n pray portion. Most likely you'll need to setup some module parameters as well. I can email you the configuration settings I'm using for both of the above, if you'd like. You'll probably have to adapt them somewhat, but they should give you a pretty close starting point. On Sun, Oct 17, 1999 at 11:14:54AM +0200, Stephan Hachinger wrote: Hello! I've got a problem setting up a SB Awe 64 under Linux (kernel 2.2.5). I've compiled the following support into it: Sound Blaster (SB, SBPro, SB16, clones) support (CONFIG_SB) [Y/n/?] Generic OPL2/OPL3 FM synthesizer support (CONFIG_ADLIB) [Y/n/?] /dev/dsp and /dev/audio support (CONFIG_AUDIO) [Y/n/?] MIDI interface support (CONFIG_MIDI) [Y/n/?] FM synthesizer (YM3812/OPL-3) support (CONFIG_YM3812) [Y/n/?] lowlevel sound driver support [Y/n/?] AWE32 support (CONFIG_AWE32_SYNTH) [Y/n/?] (according to the AWE mini howto) and Plug and Play support. I determined the IRQ etc. by looking up the resources in the WIN 95 device manager. But the kernel does not recognize any SB or AWE device. Perhaps I've determined the resources wrongly, but how to get the resource data? It's all ISA plug and pray, and the bios doesn't list much. Maybe someone has already experience with this. Thanks for any help. Kind Regards, Stephan Hachiger
Re: where are the word processor debs
On Sat, 16 Oct 1999, Charles Lewis wrote: Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 15:51:35 -0500 From: Charles Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user debian-user@lists.DEBIAN.org Subject: where are the word processor debs Resent-Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 20:52:30 + Resent-From: debian-user@lists.DEBIAN.org Resent-cc: recipient list not shown: ; Does anyone have a url for a nice wordprocessor? I've got an ftp url for kde in my sources.list, but I don't have koffice in my package list. I tried corel's website but they don't have a .deb to download. try www.abisource.com for abiword debs === Charles Lewis, Director of Administrative Computing Southwestern Adventist University, Keene, TX (817)556-4720 [EMAIL PROTECTED] FAX (360)397-7952 === OK
Mounting problems
This is confusing the hell out of me: I want to allow a user, AND ONLY THAT USER, to mount CD's and floppys. We'll call him 'bob'. I added 'bob' to the groups floppy and cdrom. adduser bob floppy adduser bob cdrom my mount points are: /dev/fd0/mnt/fd0 vfat defaults,user,noauto 0 0 /dev/fd1/mnt/fd1 vfat defaults,user,noauto 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdromiso9660 defaults,user,noauto 0 0 /dev/cdrw /mnt/cdrw iso9660 defaults,user,noauto 0 0 /dev/mcd/mnt/mcd iso9660 defaults,user,noauto 0 0 /dev/zip/mnt/zip vfat defaults,user,noauto 0 0 and an ls -l of my /mnt directory shows: dr-xr-x--- 2 root cdrom1024 May 18 21:51 cdrom/ dr-xr-x--- 2 root cdrom1024 May 18 21:51 cdrw/ dr-xr-x--- 2 root floppy 1024 May 18 21:51 fd0/ dr-xr-x--- 2 root floppy 1024 May 18 21:51 fd1/ dr-xr-x--- 2 root cdrom1024 Aug 16 21:07 mcd/ dr-xr-x--- 2 root floppy 1024 May 18 21:51 zip/ Now, if 'bob' mounts the cdrom, /mnt/cdrom becomes: dr-xr-xr-w 2 root root 1024 May 18 21:51 cdrom/ And now ANY user can see the contents of the CD!!! Why did the group and permissions change? How do I prevent other users from changing into that directory (/mnt/cdrom)? Thanks, Bryan
Re: X server crashes....
On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, Phil Brutsche wrote: A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... Fatal server error: Caught signal 11. Server aborting Signal 11 is a segmentation fault. This is what I suggest: 1) Re-install the X server binary. It might have gotten munged somehow 2) Check your memory, motherboard, and L2 cache, or a combination of the above. Those are the three most common causes of a Sig11, especially for 'no apparent reason'. Out of curiosity, have you tried recompiling the kernel recently? Hi, I reinstalled the X binaries (X, XF86_SVGA) again. The new X server is running and I'm keeping my fingers crossed... :) I updated my kernel to 2.2.12 from 2.0.36 about a month ago. why? Thanks for your help. Rajesh
Re: Mounting problems
On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, Bryan Scaringe wrote: : This is confusing the hell out of me: : : I want to allow a user, AND ONLY THAT USER, to mount CD's and floppys. : We'll call him 'bob'. I added 'bob' to the groups floppy and cdrom. : adduser bob floppy : adduser bob cdrom : : my mount points are: : /dev/fd0/mnt/fd0 vfat defaults,user,noauto 0 0 : /dev/fd1/mnt/fd1 vfat defaults,user,noauto 0 0 : /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdromiso9660 defaults,user,noauto 0 0 : /dev/cdrw /mnt/cdrw iso9660 defaults,user,noauto 0 0 : /dev/mcd/mnt/mcd iso9660 defaults,user,noauto 0 0 : /dev/zip/mnt/zip vfat defaults,user,noauto 0 0 This allows any user to mount the media. You might want add bob to /etc/sudoers so he can use `sudo mount' to mount the media instead. : and an ls -l of my /mnt directory shows: : dr-xr-x--- 2 root cdrom1024 May 18 21:51 cdrom/ : dr-xr-x--- 2 root cdrom1024 May 18 21:51 cdrw/ : dr-xr-x--- 2 root floppy 1024 May 18 21:51 fd0/ : dr-xr-x--- 2 root floppy 1024 May 18 21:51 fd1/ : dr-xr-x--- 2 root cdrom1024 Aug 16 21:07 mcd/ : dr-xr-x--- 2 root floppy 1024 May 18 21:51 zip/ : : Now, if 'bob' mounts the cdrom, /mnt/cdrom becomes: : dr-xr-xr-w 2 root root 1024 May 18 21:51 cdrom/ : : And now ANY user can see the contents of the CD!!! : : Why did the group and permissions change? The permissions of the mount point do not determine the permissions of the mounted media - in fact, the permissions of the mounted media root will supercede the permissions of the mount point. : How do I prevent other users from changing into that directory (/mnt/cdrom)? RTFM `man mount', pay close attention to the uid, gid, and umask options. Example: I mount a VFAT partition readable by only one user on my home machine: /dev/sdc3 /win vfat uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=027 This mount is automounted ... in your case you'd want something like this: /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=027 HTH, -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9)
Mail message-id uniqueness filter?
I have my debian system forwarding filtered mail to the Palm VII. I would like to have the filter discard duplicate messages. Does a meseage-ID filter implementation exist? ?Thanks ?Bruce
Re: Mailbox types: MBOX or MH
Bryan Scaringe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Could you tell me where you found this information? I spent a few hours looking for this stuff on the web and came up empty-handed. I'd like to read that entire section of the GNU docs. What I quoted is from the 'gnus' package docs. gnus is another mail/news reader/composer.
RE: Smail help needed from newbie
Abdul, I had a similar problem with exim. It complained about relaying mail when I tried to send mail through it using Outlook on a networked PC. I would recommend re-running exim.conf. Try selecting another option at the first question, server type. This took care of the problem for me. -paul -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Abdul Aziz Sent: Sunday, October 17, 1999 1:25 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Smail help needed from newbie Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote: How far does the mail get before it bounces? (does it get to your ISP's mail server?) It could be that your machine name is not a valid domain name, and therefore DNS confirmation fails. Thanks for the reply - it does not get to the ISP's mail server but stays in local machine, and gets bounced back to user who sent it. I did try exim but had exactly the same problem, so installed smail instead. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Hello World!
Hello everyone:
I am a very novice linux user. I don't want to be a nuisance if this
mailing list is not for novice users. So,
if(novice_users != usethismailinglist){
reply_with_aGET_the_hell_out_email;
}
else{
let_a_noviceKNOW_what_he_is_allowed_to_ask;
}
Thanks,
Quoc
problem with sound-module
It's driving my crazy. Why doesn't it work anymore? warande1124:/etc# modprobe sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=1 mpu_io=-1 /lib/modules/2.2.12/misc/sound.o: invalid parameter parm_io /lib/modules/2.2.12/misc/sound.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.12/misc/sound.o failed /lib/modules/2.2.12/misc/sound.o: insmod sb failed And more gravely: How do I solve it? -- % Michiel Meeuwissen % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.geocities.com/mihxil
need a linux book
Just a brief question. Do you guys think it is necessary to buy a debian specific book on linux or just a linux book in general? Do regular linux books cover topics like dselect? I live in a very small community and will need to buy online, so I can't browse. Thanks, Jeff
RE: problem with sound-module
Just fixed this one! It turns out, that during a routine apt-get upgrade, the packages kernel-source and kernel-headers were updated from 2.2.12-3 to 2.2.12-4. Since the module loading depends on the header files (I believe), and those had changed (slightly), I had to rebuild the kernel. All is better now. This is normally not a problem, when the kernel version changes (like 2.2.12 to 2.2.13), but can be a problem if the PACKAGE version changes (2.2.12-3 to 2.2.12-4). Hope this helps, Bryan On 17-Oct-99 Michiel Meeuwissen wrote: It's driving my crazy. Why doesn't it work anymore? warande1124:/etc# modprobe sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=1 mpu_io=-1 /lib/modules/2.2.12/misc/sound.o: invalid parameter parm_io /lib/modules/2.2.12/misc/sound.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.12/misc/sound.o failed /lib/modules/2.2.12/misc/sound.o: insmod sb failed And more gravely: How do I solve it? -- % Michiel Meeuwissen % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.geocities.com/mihxil -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
dselect
I am trying to install apache with dselect. I get an error message like this: ERROR: apacheconfig could not be run. It may be the wrong version, or perl may not be fully configured yet. Any insights? Thanks in advance, Quoc
Compiling and using c librarys (.a and .so)
How do I compile and use both static and dinamic libraries under linux? Any good tutorial on the subject? Thanx [EMAIL PROTECTED]
