date:20001015

On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 01:41:30PM -0400 or thereabouts, Michael P. Soulier 
wrote:
 
 Not a problem. I want people to think my mail is coming from storm.ca, so
 this goes in my /etc/mail/sendmail.mc
 
 FEATURE(masquerade_envelope)dnl
 MASQUERADE_AS(storm.ca)dnl
 
 Rebuilding the file is a pain, but I just used /usr/sbin/sendmailconfig,
 and answered its questions. 
 
 Mike

Just my 2cents.  With exim you only edit /etc/email-addresses and that's it!
No rebuild necessary.  :-)

I'm just excited as I've managed to rewrite my mail addy with the same intent
that Mike rewrites his as @storm.ca.


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Re: Samba Win 2000

On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 05:50:15PM -0400 or thereabouts, Eileen Orbell wrote:
 I have tried and tried to get Windows 2000 to see my linux box through 
 Samba so I can share files etc.  But no matter what I tried I have no 
 success.  Is there anyone out there who knows how to do this?
 
 Thanks in advance :-)
 
 
 Eileen Orbell
 Software  Internet Applications
 Capitol College
 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Don't Fear the Penguin.
 

Hi Eileen.  My Win2k Pro can see my debian box and it's share thru Samba.  What
I did is first create a computer account in my NT domain for this Samba server
(acting as just an NT server) then adjust my /etc/smb.conf to what is suggested
in that online Oreilly Samba book.  Anyway here's my /etc/smb.conf:


;
; /etc/smb.conf
;
; Sample configuration file for the Samba suite for Debian GNU/Linux
;
; Please see the manual page for smb.conf for detailed description of
;   every parameter.
;

[global]
#   printing = bsd
#   printcap name = /etc/printcap
#   load printers = yes
#   guest account = nobody
   invalid users = root
   announce as = NT
   announce version = 4.2
#   domain login = yes
   password server = ntserver5dxb
   netbios name = linus

; security = user is always a good idea. This will require a Unix account
;   in this server for every user accessing the server.
   security = domain

; Change this for the workgroup your Samba server will part of
   workgroup = AL-TAYER

   server string = %h server (Samba %v)

; If you want Samba to log though syslog only then set the following
;   parameter to 'yes'. Please note that logging through syslog in
;   Samba is still experimental.
   syslog only = no

; We want Samba to log a minimum amount of information to syslog. Everything
;   should go to /var/log/{smb,nmb} instead. If you want to log through
;   syslog you should set the following parameter to something higher.
   syslog = 0;

; This socket options really speed up Samba under Linux, according to my
;   own tests.
   socket options = IPTOS_LOWDELAY TCP_NODELAY SO_SNDBUF=4096 SO_RCVBUF=4096

; Passwords are encrypted by default. This way the latest Windows 95 and NT
;   clients can connect to the Samba server with no problems.
   encrypt passwords = yes

; It's always a good idea to use a WINS server. If you want this server
;   to be the WINS server for your network change the following parameter
;   to yes. Otherwise leave it as no and specify your WINS server
;   below (note: only one Samba server can be the WINS server).
;   Read BROWSING.txt for more details.
   wins support = no

; If this server is not the WINS server then specify who is it and uncomment
;   next line.
;   wins server = 172.16.0.10
wins server = 10.1.2.10

; Please read BROWSING.txt and set the next four parameters according
;   to your network setup. There is no valid default so they are commented
;   out.
;   os level = 0
;   domain master = no
;   local master = no
;   preferred master = no

; What naming service and in what order should we use to resolve host names
;   to IP addresses
   name resolve order = lmhosts host wins bcast

; This will prevent nmbd to search for NetBIOS names through DNS.
   dns proxy = no

; Name mangling options

   preserve case = yes
   short preserve case = yes

; This boolean parameter controlls whether Samba attempts to sync. the Unix
;   password with the SMB password when the encrypted SMB password in the
;   /etc/samba/smbpasswd file is changed.
   unix password sync = false

; For Unix password sync. to work on a Debian GNU/Linux system, the following
;   parameters must be set (thanks to Augustin Luton
;   [EMAIL PROTECTED] for sending the correct chat script for
;   the passwd program in Debian Potato).
   passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
   passwd chat = *Enter\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n 
*Retype\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n .

; The following parameter is useful only if you have the linpopup package
;   installed. The samba maintainer and the linpopup maintainer are
;   working to ease installation and configuration of linpopup and samba.
;   message command = /bin/sh -c '/usr/bin/linpopup %f %m %s; rm %s' 

; The default maximum log file size is 5 MBytes. That's too big so this
;   next parameter sets it to 1 MByte. Currently, Samba rotates log
;   files (/var/log/{smb,nmb} in Debian) when these files reach 1000 KBytes.
;   A better solution would be to have Samba rotate the log file upon
;   reception of a signal, but for now on, we have to live with this.
   max log size = 1000


[homes]
   comment = Home Directories
   browseable = no

; By default, the home directories are exported read only. Change next
;   parameter to no if you want to be able to write to them.
   read only = no

; File creation mask is set to 0700 for security reasons. If you want to
;   create files with group=rw permissions, set next parameter to

Re: PPP and internet connectivity

2000-10-15 Thread John Hasler

Paul M. Foster writes:
 Does anyone have a clue what could be the matter?

Yes.  You told the installer that you are on a network and it created a
defaultroute that pppd won't override.  Edit /etc/init.d/network and
comment out the lines with GATEWAY in them.
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Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, Wisconsin

Re: socket question (beginner)

2000-10-15 Thread Eric G . Miller

#include netinet/in.h

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DNS problem found

2000-10-15 Thread Bruce Perens

I asked a day ago about a problem with my DNS. It turns out that
Two out of three of the DNS servers at my internet provider are delegating
my reverse DNS incorrectly, to the root name servers, the third is doing it
correctly.

Thanks

Bruce

machine hangs after buying new monitor

2000-10-15 Thread Krzys Majewski

OK quickly before it hangs again.. 
can't be sure they're related, but it only started hanging after I set
up the new monitor.. new monitor means new modelines etc., so I guess it
could have  something to do  with my ati  xpert 98 putting  out higher
bandwidth.. or not at all. It did hang three times with no X running
though: one  kernel panic  after rebooting from  the first  hang, then
it hung during  fsck, then it hung at the  login prompt after entering
runlevel 1.  It's hung about  six times in  the past two hours.  A few
days ago I  tinkered with the cpu  (put in a new fan)  but no problems
until  now. Also  I  reinstalled sendmail  last  night, and  installed
mutt. OK,  I have  no idea. Tried  rerunning lilo  (in case a  bit got
flipped in the  boot image) as well as another  kernel from floppy, no
go.  Any suggestions on how to debug this welcome. Not even sure 
which logs to look through and what for.. -chris

Re: Samba Win 2000 -- [homes]

2000-10-15 Thread Alvin Oga


hi ya 

stirring the pot again

btw there is a samba FAQ.www.samba.org...


On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, Rino Mardo wrote:

 On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 05:50:15PM -0400 or thereabouts, Eileen Orbell wrote:
  I have tried and tried to get Windows 2000 to see my linux box through 
  Samba so I can share files etc.  But no matter what I tried I have no 
  success.  Is there anyone out there who knows how to do this?
...
 
 Hi Eileen.  My Win2k Pro can see my debian box and it's share thru Samba.  
 What
 I did is first create a computer account in my NT domain for this Samba server
 (acting as just an NT server) then adjust my /etc/smb.conf to what is 
 suggested
 in that online Oreilly Samba book.  Anyway here's my /etc/smb.conf:
 
...

In my silly mind ( didnt try this experiment )...but i'd
say that your W2K machine will see the [homes] folder
but i'd hate to guess whats in it  since path=/home is not defined
in sambasimilarlyhate to see whats in the printers folder
since printcap was commented out too in the stanza just below [global]

- does that mean that without path specifiedtht
samba sets its default path to /  and is now writeable to
say /etc/passwd  since ro is turned off too...(ie that its writable )


have fun samba'ing...
alvin


 [homes]
comment = Home Directories
browseable = no
 
 ; By default, the home directories are exported read only. Change next
 ; parameter to no if you want to be able to write to them.
read only = no
 
 ; File creation mask is set to 0700 for security reasons. If you want to
 ; create files with group=rw permissions, set next parameter to 0775.
create mask = 0700
 
 ; Directory creation mask is set to 0700 for security reasons. If you want to
 ; create dirs. with group=rw permissions, set next parameter to 0775.
directory mask = 0700
 
 [printers]
comment = All Printers
browseable = no
path = /tmp
printable = yes
public = no
writable = no
create mode = 0700
 
 ; A sample share for sharing your CD-ROM with others.
 [cdrom]
comment = Samba server's CD-ROM
writable = no
locking = no
path = /cdrom
public = yes
 ;
 ; The next two parameters show how to auto-mount a CD-ROM when the
 ; cdrom share is accesed. For this to work /etc/fstab must contain
 ; an entry like this:
 ;
 ;   /dev/scd0   /cdrom  iso9660 defaults,noauto,ro,user   0 0
 ;
 ; The CD-ROM gets unmounted automatically after the connection to the
 ;
 ; If you don't want to use auto-mounting/unmounting make sure the CD
 ; is mounted on /cdrom
 ;
preexec = /bin/mount /cdrom
postexec = /bin/umount /cdrom
 
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gnupg, openssh post RSA patent/US encryption export laws

2000-10-15 Thread E. Jay Berkenbilt


[I'm not currently subscribed to this list, so please cc me on responses.]

After about September 20, the RSA patent has expired in the USA.
Also, earlier this year, the USA finally relaxed its export laws
concerning encryption software.  (There are still some places where
you can't export encryption, but it's not nearly as bad as it once
was.)

With this change, there have been a number of positive developments in
the open-source world.  For example, gnupg 1.0.3 now supports RSA.
Also, RedHat 7.0 includes stunnel, openssl, openssh, apache's mod_ssl,
an ssl-aware smbclient, and perhaps other software that uses the RSA
algorithm, and since 6.2, Kerberos, gnupg, and the 128-bit version of
Netscape have been included.

As far as I can tell, Debian has not moved any of these things out of
non-free/non-US even for the unstable distribution.  Are there plans
to do this?  If not, why not?  I'd be grateful if someone could shed
some light on this issue.

For what it's worth, I'm brand new to Debian (just trying it this
weekend for the first time) but I've been using Linux since 1992 and
UNIX in general since 1987, so I apologize if this has been discussed
already  I did search the October archives of this list before
posting...

Thanks

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Re: gnupg, openssh post RSA patent/US encryption export laws

2000-10-15 Thread brian moore

On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 01:16:34AM -0400, E. Jay Berkenbilt wrote:
 
 [I'm not currently subscribed to this list, so please cc me on responses.]
 
 After about September 20, the RSA patent has expired in the USA.
 Also, earlier this year, the USA finally relaxed its export laws
 concerning encryption software.  (There are still some places where
 you can't export encryption, but it's not nearly as bad as it once
 was.)

Actually, it's not much of a change legally.

Clinton signed an Executive Order.  This is not a change in law, just a
change in how the government will interpret the law until they see a
reason to change their mind.  (And because it's not a revocation of the
law, if/when they change their mind, any exports done during the current
reading of the law would be re-evaluated for their legal status.  So,
yes, what you're told is 'legal' today you can be convicted for
tomorrow.)

Crypto belongs in non-US until the US Government changes the law.

 With this change, there have been a number of positive developments in
 the open-source world.  For example, gnupg 1.0.3 now supports RSA.
 Also, RedHat 7.0 includes stunnel, openssl, openssh, apache's mod_ssl,
 an ssl-aware smbclient, and perhaps other software that uses the RSA
 algorithm, and since 6.2, Kerberos, gnupg, and the 128-bit version of
 Netscape have been included.
 
 As far as I can tell, Debian has not moved any of these things out of
 non-free/non-US even for the unstable distribution.  Are there plans
 to do this?  If not, why not?  I'd be grateful if someone could shed
 some light on this issue.

None of the above are in non-free, excepting Netscape, which won't be
moved until Netscape release source to it.  (Mozilla is partial source
to Netscape 6, but even that's not -full- source.)

The Netscape 4.75 debs are 128 bit.

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[OOT] Re: SPAM - [ERROR!!!] (TO ALL NEWSGROUP MEMBERS)

2000-10-15 Thread will trillich

On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 07:56:03PM -0500, Brad wrote:
 On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 07:17:25PM -0500, will trillich wrote:
  
  you will probably find that you need to broadcast an email message
  sooner or later, but please do it openly and in a straightforward
  manner. don't use bogus return addresses to keep people from finding
  a way to remove themselves frmo your email address list.
  
  always consider your recipient -- give them a means to opt out,
  always, always. don't be a spamming banshee that gathers enemies
  and ticks people off left  right. not good business.
 
 Better yet, have people opt-in instead of asking them to opt-out. I take
 a very dim view of any unsolicited commercial or bulk email, even if it
 does give an opportunity to opt out.
 
 Besides, half the spamfactories will sell the opt-out list to others as
 verified read by a human.

sad but true.

  i've got a service where [EMAIL PROTECTED] can sign up [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  -- but i send only ONE email to user2 to allow them to confirm or opt
  out, and THAT'S IT, until they confirm and join fully.
 
 Just out of curiousity, what happens if [EMAIL PROTECTED] tries to
 submit [EMAIL PROTECTED] after user1 did already? Or if [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 does it again and again and again?

only one 'sendto' email (unique database field) allowed. once it's
confirmed or denied, they get no more messages. (unless there's
another hole i left in there, and it's getting complicated...)

i think these puzzle-things are more likely to be purchased as gifts
(you spend money on others that you'd never consider spending on
yourself) so for me the cross-signup is a must...


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Re: sis6215c

2000-10-15 Thread USM Bish

This card is pretty commonly used in India.

AFAIK SuSE distros have the requisite drivers for it.

Please look up http://www.linux-india.org/sis/ 
for further details. This URL has the full installation
instructions and the links for downloading the driver.

Never used this driver myself. Cannot comment any
further.

HTH.

USM Bish

On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 07:33:30AM +0300, vivi wrote:
 I need this driver for linux because i don't have it... and i hope that
 you can help me
 mail me

Re: gnupg, openssh post RSA patent/US encryption export laws

2000-10-15 Thread Eric G . Miller

Hmm, not sure, but I thought there was actually a change in regulations.
If so, regulations have the force of law and are more difficult to
change (requires public notice and hearings).  Still, they can be
changed without a change in the enabling legislation.

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Re: lost connectivity to ISP

2000-10-15 Thread Erik Steffl

  try to figure out if the network works at all, use IP numberic
addresses only, for example this one: 192.48.96.9 (ftp.uu.net), if that
work you definitely have a problem with DNS and creating a valid
resolv.conf file should help (you ISP should give you the DNS servers
IPs)

erik

James Clawson wrote:
 
 When I upgraded from Slink to Potato I was no longer
 able to connect to my ISP: wvdial makes a
 connection(or so it seems) but I cannot run any net
 applications.  I went looking for my resolv.conf file
 to add the DNS of my ISP (this is how I made it work
 with Slink) and found the file did not exist; I made a
 file with the IP address-- but still no connectivity.
 In frustration I reinstalled Slink. Guess what -no
 connectivity, and no resolv.conf file. What to do? Am
 I stuck in an infinite loop?
 Jim Clawson
 
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Здравствуйте!
Прежде всего прошу прощения за то, что вторгаюсь в Ваше ЛИЧНОЕ ДЕЛОВОЕ
ПОСТРАНСТВО.
Но я не буду назойлив. Если Вам эта информация неинтересна, удалите ее, и я не
буду
Вас больше беспокоить. Одна просьба. Дочитайте все-таки мое послание до
конца, Вам
не помешает знать эту информацию. Я буду краток.
Три недели назад мне пришло подобное письмо, и я, наверное, подобно Вам,
хотел
удалить его, не читая, но к счастью не сделал этого. Теперь я хочу поделиться с
Вами
этой превосходной возможностью начать собственный бизнес в Интернет и
зарабатывать
от $2.500 до 3000$/мес. При этом от Вас потребуется только 3-4 часа времени в
день,
подключение к интернет и e-mail. Это не просмотр рекламы и не Интернет -
магазин.
И для этого НЕ НАДО бросать свою основную работу, и заявлять кому-то,
что Вы
занимаетесь этим бизнесом. Преимущества этой бизнес-программы:
1. Ваш заработок зависит только от Вас самих. Никаких ограничений - работаете
ровно
столько, сколько считаете нужным, зарабатываете пропорционально своим
усилиям,
причем деньги получаете непосредственно от клиентов, а не от
кидал-спонсоров.
Бизнес стабилен и не зависит от воли случая или спонсора.
2. Все Ваши расходы составляют только 5 - 20 USD. Это очень мало по
сравнению с
другими программами, в среднем они берут за вступление 50-100 у.е., а чем
больше
в начале приходится платить, тем больше возникает сомнений в
окупаемости
инвестиций.
3. Бизнес не требует от Вас прямого общения с людьми - Вы работаете
только
посредством Интернета.
4. Вы продаете продукт, производство, транспортировка и реклама которого Вам
ничего
не стоят.
5. Весь заработок, который Вы получите, является чистой прибылью.
6. Бизнес является легальным и не содержит предпосылок к какому-либо обману.
7. Это не какая-то финансовая пирамида. Доказываю:
Черты финансовой пирамиды:
- Большой вступительный взнос.
- Нет товара.
- Верхушка зарабатывает больше всех.
- Деньги платят за завербованных членов.
Черты предлагаемого предпринимательства:
- Нет никакого вступительного взноса
- Товаром является электронная информация.
- Нет никакой верхушки: если Вы пройдете 4 уровня и не будете
больше
рекламировать себя, то на этом Ваш бизнес остановится, так как программа
имеет
только 4 уровня.
- Вы никого не вербуете, Вы продаете информацию.
- Это совершенно легальный бизнес.
8. Если Вы стыдитесь этого бизнеса, не хотите оглашать свое имя и
причастность к
этому делу, боясь непонимания друзей и знакомых, можете совершенно
спокойно
оставаться инкогнито. Не говорите никому, если не хотите, пока не
заработаете
хотя бы первую тысячу $USD. Интернет дает Вам для работы поле
деятельности
величиною в целый мир, позволяя при этом не оглашать свое имя.
9. Вам не придется разрабатывать всю эту программу самому.

Чтобы быть оперативным и успешным в бизнесе, Вам нужно иметь:
1. свой Веб - кошелек. Как его открывать и пользоваться, смотрите
на
http://www.webmoney.ru. Там находится полное руководство по
использованию.
2. неплохо бы иметь 2-3 полезных программок, которые выискивают в
Интернете
электронные адреса, на которые будут посылаться рекламные письма.

Если Вы заинтересовались, то всю информацию (она существует на двух языках:
русском
и английском), я вышлю Вам в следующем письме. Не упустите это
предложение. Мой
адрес для получения всей необходимой информации: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

С огромным уважением и наилучшими пожеланиями, Dmitriy.

Re: Vim vs Elvis -- was Mutt's Editor

2000-10-15 Thread Damien

 what's this dependency thing listed for vim-rt? seems odd:
 
 recommended:
   vim
 suggested:
   exuberant-ctags
   or elvis
 
 eh? elvis?
 

vim-rt is basically all the vim support files. vim supports ctags, but it
doesn't include its own tags file generator. thus you need either a seperate
package (exuberant), or elvis (which includes its own)

ctags and quickfix editing (called cc error correction or something in elvis,
iirc) are the two best things that happened to software development ;o)

cheers

 damien


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apt-move problems

2000-10-15 Thread Lindsay Allen


Hello world,

I have a local mirror and am in the process of upgrading to woody.  One
problem is that apt-move wants to remove 80% of my mirror including all my
potato files.  Is this normal, or have I missed something?

Also, I need a copy of apt-move_4.1.9 if anyone can help.  


TIA
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Re: machine hangs after buying new monitor

2000-10-15 Thread Krzys Majewski

Bad news.. rebooted with a DOS 6.22 floppy, went for dinner,
came back: machine frozen, with message 
Divide overflow
on  the  console. This  is  a  2 month  old  Pentium  III 500E,  never
overclocked, never overheated  AFAIK. I did change the  cooler on it a
few days back  though, wonder if I broke something, and  if I did, why
it took three days to manifest itself.  Certainly the new cooler
seemed to work well (~34 C). Will try again with old
monitor, meanwhile any  suggestions welcome (e.g. how to  get a refund
for my broken Pentium if applicable)
-chris

Krzys Majewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 OK quickly before it hangs again.. 
 can't be sure they're related, but it only started hanging after I set
 up the new monitor.. new monitor means new modelines etc., so I guess it
 could have  something to do  with my ati  xpert 98 putting  out higher
 bandwidth.. or not at all. It did hang three times with no X running
 though: one  kernel panic  after rebooting from  the first  hang, then
 it hung during  fsck, then it hung at the  login prompt after entering
 runlevel 1.  It's hung about  six times in  the past two hours.  A few
 days ago I  tinkered with the cpu  (put in a new fan)  but no problems
 until  now. Also  I  reinstalled sendmail  last  night, and  installed
 mutt. OK,  I have  no idea. Tried  rerunning lilo  (in case a  bit got
 flipped in the  boot image) as well as another  kernel from floppy, no
 go.  Any suggestions on how to debug this welcome. Not even sure 
 which logs to look through and what for.. -chris

color 'ls' in frame buffer console

2000-10-15 Thread Jeremiah Hunter Savage

How do I get 'ls' to display color like xterm in the console (no X)? 
i.e. directories=blue, executables=green, links=light blue, 
devices=yellow. I am using the frame buffer.


Thanks,
Jeremiah

Thank you! (was:Symlinking /tmp to /var...)

2000-10-15 Thread Andreas Hetzmannseder

Andreas Hetzmannseder wrote:
 
 [...]
 
 Please can you show me a way to make sure that my /tmp-files will be
 going to /var? 
 
 [...]

Big thanks to all of you: Bruce  Sven  Ethan  Mike  ...
Sorry for my late reply. I was completely offline yesterday.

Cheers,
Andreas.

Re: Samba Win 2000 -- [homes]

On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 10:00:19PM -0700 or thereabouts, Alvin Oga wrote:
 
 In my silly mind ( didnt try this experiment )...but i'd
 say that your W2K machine will see the [homes] folder
 but i'd hate to guess whats in it  since path=/home is not defined
 in sambasimilarlyhate to see whats in the printers folder
 since printcap was commented out too in the stanza just below [global]
 
   - does that mean that without path specifiedtht
   samba sets its default path to /  and is now writeable to
   say /etc/passwd  since ro is turned off too...(ie that its writable )
 

yes. :-)

I'm the only one able to access my samba server (hint: ipchains) so no big deal
for me.


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Re: gnupg, openssh post RSA patent/US encryption export laws

On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 01:16:34AM -0400 or thereabouts, E. Jay Berkenbilt 
wrote:
 
 [I'm not currently subscribed to this list, so please cc me on responses.]
 
 After about September 20, the RSA patent has expired in the USA.
 Also, earlier this year, the USA finally relaxed its export laws
 concerning encryption software.  (There are still some places where
 you can't export encryption, but it's not nearly as bad as it once
 was.)
 
 With this change, there have been a number of positive developments in
 the open-source world.  For example, gnupg 1.0.3 now supports RSA.
 Also, RedHat 7.0 includes stunnel, openssl, openssh, apache's mod_ssl,
 an ssl-aware smbclient, and perhaps other software that uses the RSA
 algorithm, and since 6.2, Kerberos, gnupg, and the 128-bit version of
 Netscape have been included.
 
 As far as I can tell, Debian has not moved any of these things out of
 non-free/non-US even for the unstable distribution.  Are there plans
 to do this?  If not, why not?  I'd be grateful if someone could shed
 some light on this issue.
 
 For what it's worth, I'm brand new to Debian (just trying it this
 weekend for the first time) but I've been using Linux since 1992 and
 UNIX in general since 1987, so I apologize if this has been discussed
 already  I did search the October archives of this list before
 posting...
 
 Thanks
 
 --
 E. Jay Berkenbilt ([EMAIL PROTECTED])  |  http://www.ql.org/q/
 

There's now an ongoing vote among developers on what to do with non-free/non-US
software thus affecting the Social Contract.  Check the social contract after
this month.


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Re: MS and Corel

2000-10-15 Thread Dwight Johnson

On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, Nico De Ranter wrote:

 So no M$-Linux coming up :-) ?
 
Well, yes, actually. The deal includes an option for Corel to commit 20
programmers to make Microsoft's .Net initiative run on Linux. MS has three
years to exercise the option and the resulting code becomes the exclusive
property of Microsoft. Here's the most revealing article to appear on the
agreement to date (note additional draconian stuff):

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/business/001013/4679940.html

Dwight
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 On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 02:23:23PM -0700, George Bonser wrote:
  
  Well, since MS bought non-voting stock, I don't expect there to be a big
  problem. It isn't like MS is going to use its position to vote people onto
  the board of directors or anything.
  
  
  On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Dr. Orange wrote:
  
   
   This is probably more appropriate to devel but anyhow, any reaction on
   debian's part to MS buy of 25% of Corel?

Dwight
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eliminating package conflicts

2000-10-15 Thread john gennard

I run Potato.

This concerns qt and kde, but I may well encounter a similar problem
with other combinations.

I need to replace qt1g with libqtxxx  in order to upgrade part of kde.

If I use apt-get, I'm told the newer package depends on libqtxxx and
that this is 'not installable'.

I download libqtxxx and use dselect to install it. A conflict message
says it conflicts with qt1g and I can go no further.

Trying to uninstall qt1g with dselect marks all kde packages for
removal as they depend on it.

Turning to dpkg from the command line. This also fails as I expected,
but the error message refers to 'considering removing qt1g in favour
of libqtxxx - no! cannot remove qt1g (--auto-deconfig will help)'
I've read man dpkg, but do not see how I can proceed and 
am reluctant to try using an option I don't understand or trying to
'force'.

Clearly, I can uninstall all my kde packages, make the qt changes,
install the upgrades and reconfigure, but this seems a drastic way to
go.

 What do others do in such circumstances? Any advice or pointers
would be appreciated. 

John.

[steve@kinderscout.plus.com: Re: PHP joy at last!]

2000-10-15 Thread Steve Simons

- Forwarded message from Steve Simons [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
-

On Sat, 14 Oct 2000 18:31:49 William Jensen wrote:
 
 When I've installed things before, and there is no uninstall, I usually
 reinstall with 'make install' in one shell, then manually wack each
 file in another shell.  Not elegant but it might work.

Doh! Y didn't I think of that? :O/

It turns out that _everything_ is under /usr/local/apache, so I just 
capped that directory - easy as that!  Stop sniggering at the back - I 
know it's easy when you know! ;-)

Thanks for the tip Will, I promise I'll try to think for myself a little 

now ;-)



- End forwarded message -

Re: PHP joy at last!

2000-10-15 Thread Steve Simons

- Forwarded message from Steve Simons [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
-

Sorry about the dupe - wasn't paying attention.

On Sat, 14 Oct 2000 18:31:49 William Jensen wrote:
 
 When I've installed things before, and there is no uninstall, I usually
 reinstall with 'make install' in one shell, then manually wack each
 file in another shell.  Not elegant but it might work.

Doh! Y didn't I think of that? :O/

It turns out that _everything_ is under /usr/local/apache, so I just 
capped that directory - easy as that!  Stop sniggering at the back - I 
know it's easy when you know! ;-)

Thanks for the tip Will, I promise I'll try to think for myself a little 

now ;-)



- End forwarded message -

Re: going full duplex

2000-10-15 Thread Igor Mozetic

  The best is to buy a NIC that can autonegotiate with the switch (eg, Cisco
  and Intel EtherExpress Pro100).

 Will this really work?  I mean I know about the workaround for the Vortex 
 cards
 as we are also experiencing the same probs but I wonder if buying a Cisco or
 Intel NIC would really solve the problem without resorting to workarounds.

Well, this works for us (Cisco 2916 I think and on-board Intel EtherExpress 
Pro100).

-Igor Mozetic

Re: sis6215c

On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 12:00:38PM +0518 or thereabouts, USM Bish wrote:
 This card is pretty commonly used in India.
 
 AFAIK SuSE distros have the requisite drivers for it.
 
 Please look up http://www.linux-india.org/sis/ 
 for further details. This URL has the full installation
 instructions and the links for downloading the driver.
 
 Never used this driver myself. Cannot comment any
 further.
 
 HTH.
 
 USM Bish

I hate this SiS cards.  I had a SiS6326 and my X performs really slow.  Yeah I
did find the info on SuSe website on how to make it work with X but it stil is
slow.  I got hold of a Matrox MG200 AGP card and replaced my 6326 with it.
Been happy ever since.

my 2cents.

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Re: PPP and internet connectivity

2000-10-15 Thread Christian Lemer


For the moment, I also have a problem of missing route to the
gateway. I don't use PPP but PCMCIA network... with are somehow
similar because the network configuration is more dynamic.

But I don't have any /etc/init.d/network file at all... 

How should I do to generate one?

Chris.

John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Paul M. Foster writes:
  Does anyone have a clue what could be the matter?
 
 Yes.  You told the installer that you are on a network and it created a
 defaultroute that pppd won't override.  Edit /etc/init.d/network and
 comment out the lines with GATEWAY in them.
 -- 
 John Hasler
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Dancing Horse Hill
 Elmwood, Wisconsin

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Re;Re: which software for professional Mailling? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA

2000-10-15 Thread Storm Linux User

Yes
Oh by the way thanks for a great debian distrebution for mortals.
/dlh

Re: shared printers via LPRNG

2000-10-15 Thread Igor Mozetic


 Does anyone know what I've been doing wrong? I appreciate any help
 anyone might be able to offer!

I found configuring LPRng really painfull. I can offer you 
an extract from my /etc/printcap, which is shared by server 
and all clients (for easier maintenance):

lp|lj|lj6mp|HP LaserJet 6MP
:client
:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
lp|lj|lj6mp|HP LaserJet 6MP
:server
:oh=SERVER.SUB.DOMAIN
:if=/etc/magicfilter/lj6mp-filter
:lp=/dev/lp0
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/%P
:mx=0:sh:sf:pw=80:pl=72:px=1440
:af=/var/log/lp-acct
:lf=/var/log/lp-errs

However, in addition to this, I found it essential to uncomment
the following line in /etc/lpd.conf (ie, DON'T force localhost!):

force_localhost@

Good luck,
-Igor Mozetic

Re: Open Office binaries - problem running on Debian

2000-10-15 Thread Phillip Deackes

Fred Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 The problem exists because the multi-user installation does not
 install the 
 file program/resources/iso60501.res.  You can work around this:

Many thanks, Fred. This works and I can now run Open Office.
Unfortunately, as Colin points out in this thread, printing does not
work. Shame since I like the way they have done away with that
monstrosity of a desktop. It also allows me to use all my true-type
fonts and the screen rendewring of fonts is a lot better than Star
Office.

I wonder if there is there any way of using the print facility of Star
Office in Open Office . .

Cheers.


-- 
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Using Storm Linux

Compiling tulip.c kernel mod

2000-10-15 Thread Jason Whittle

I'm running a brand new install of potato, and I have a Linksys ethernet card 
that I'm trying to compile the driver for. The driver recommended on the 
Linksys support page that I compile the driver named tulip.c with the following 
command: 

gcc -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/net/inet -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes 
-O6 -c tulip.c `[ -f /usr/include/linux/modversions.h ]  echo -DMODVERSIONS` 

When I do so, gcc returns the following: 

tulip.c:139: linux/modversions.h: No such file or directory
tulip.c:161: pci-scan.h: No such file or directory
tulip.c:162: kern_compat.h: No such file or directory

I tried installing several likely-looking .debs, and managed to find one that 
included modversions.h, but in the wrong location. I tried copying and linking 
to the path specified in the gcc line, but that only introduces several dozen 
new missing header dependancies. Another odd thing is that when GNU/Linux is 
booting up, it mentions the source code for a 3Com driver. 

I can't find copies of pci-scan.h or kern_compat.h in any of the obvious (to 
me) packages on the three install disks. I'm not new to programming, but I am 
new to mucking about with the kernel. The documentation I could find on 
altering the kernel was for 2.0 without modules, so even very general help or a 
pointer in the right direction would be greatly appreciated. 

Cheers, 
Jason Whittle



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Re: color 'ls' in frame buffer console

2000-10-15 Thread Ethan Benson

On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 12:33:49AM -0700, Jeremiah Hunter Savage wrote:
 How do I get 'ls' to display color like xterm in the console (no X)? 
 i.e. directories=blue, executables=green, links=light blue, 
 devices=yellow. I am using the frame buffer.

add the following to your ~/.bashrc:

eval `dircolors`
alias ls='ls --color=auto'

-- 
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http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/


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Re: color 'ls' in frame buffer console

On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 02:28:14AM -0800 or thereabouts, Ethan Benson wrote:
 On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 12:33:49AM -0700, Jeremiah Hunter Savage wrote:
  How do I get 'ls' to display color like xterm in the console (no X)? 
  i.e. directories=blue, executables=green, links=light blue, 
  devices=yellow. I am using the frame buffer.
 
 add the following to your ~/.bashrc:
 
 eval `dircolors`
 alias ls='ls --color=auto'
 
 -- 
 Ethan Benson
 http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

it's already there in the stock ~/.bashrc install.  just unremarked 'em.


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What windows ssh client you use?

I'm using PuTTY from windows to ssh to my debian box but I find that it
disconnects my session after some idle time.

Is it a ssh setting (coz I can't find it) or it's my ssh client?


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Re: gnupg, openssh post RSA patent/US encryption export laws

2000-10-15 Thread Colin Watson

E. Jay Berkenbilt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[I'm not currently subscribed to this list, so please cc me on responses.]

Done.

After about September 20, the RSA patent has expired in the USA.
Also, earlier this year, the USA finally relaxed its export laws
concerning encryption software.  (There are still some places where
you can't export encryption, but it's not nearly as bad as it once
was.)

With this change, there have been a number of positive developments in
the open-source world.  For example, gnupg 1.0.3 now supports RSA.
Also, RedHat 7.0 includes stunnel, openssl, openssh, apache's mod_ssl,
an ssl-aware smbclient, and perhaps other software that uses the RSA
algorithm, and since 6.2, Kerberos, gnupg, and the 128-bit version of
Netscape have been included.

As far as I can tell, Debian has not moved any of these things out of
non-free/non-US even for the unstable distribution.

gnupg recently (1 October) included RSA and replaced the non-free
module. Netscape has had 128-bit encryption since 29 May, and that
version is in the stable release. ssh's RSA modules are still in
non-US/non-free as far as I know; a bug should probably be filed. Is it
much of a problem? I understood that there were equally good, if not
better, free alternatives ...

With respect to non-US, there has been some discussion about this, but
it's expired from my news server and I don't feel like going to look it
up. :) IIRC it wasn't quite clear what to do; is Debian happy with
registering all its encryption code, for instance (as I seem to remember
the new regulations require, but correct me if I'm wrong)? Also, I don't
know how much it would matter. The biggest problem with non-US is that
US developers can't work on it, which is certainly not good, but it
doesn't impact users directly as US and non-US users alike can download
from non-US.

Of course, the more that can be moved into main, the better. Have a look
through the debian-devel and debian-policy archives (possibly
debian-project too) from a few months ago at
URL:http://lists.debian.org/. debian-user tends mostly to be
question-and-answer, while discussion about work on Debian is more
likely to happen on the developer-oriented mailing lists.

For what it's worth, I'm brand new to Debian (just trying it this
weekend for the first time) but I've been using Linux since 1992 and
UNIX in general since 1987,

In that case, welcome to Debian!

-- 
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Re: gnupg, openssh post RSA patent/US encryption export laws

2000-10-15 Thread Colin Watson

Rino Mardo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There's now an ongoing vote among developers on what to do with
non-free/non-US software thus affecting the Social Contract.  Check the
social contract after this month.

A correction: the proposed General Resolution in question doesn't affect
non-US.

-- 
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Re: PPP and internet connectivity

2000-10-15 Thread kmself

On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 11:34:24AM +0200, Christian Lemer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 
wrote:
 John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 
  Paul M. Foster writes:
   Does anyone have a clue what could be the matter?
  
  Yes.  You told the installer that you are on a network and it created a
  defaultroute that pppd won't override.  Edit /etc/init.d/network and
  comment out the lines with GATEWAY in them.
  -- 
  John Hasler
  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Dancing Horse Hill
  Elmwood, Wisconsin

 For the moment, I also have a problem of missing route to the
 gateway. I don't use PPP but PCMCIA network... with are somehow
 similar because the network configuration is more dynamic.
 
 But I don't have any /etc/init.d/network file at all... 
 
 How should I do to generate one?

You need only *one* of /etc/init.d/network or /etc/init.d/networking,
and preferably the latter.  It's part of netbase.

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Re: What windows ssh client you use?

2000-10-15 Thread kmself

On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 03:21:37PM +0400, Rino Mardo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
 I'm using PuTTY from windows to ssh to my debian box but I find that it
 disconnects my session after some idle time.
 
 Is it a ssh setting (coz I can't find it) or it's my ssh client?

Could be either.  If it's a high-latency connection, you may be getting
a timeout, though I'm not sure where that's configured.

There are several java ssh clients which run inside Netscape (or IE)
which you might want to play with as well.  Try searching Google.

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apt-get bug?

2000-10-15 Thread Raymond Scholz

Hi!

Yesterday I did the usual (once a week) apt-get update  apt-get -u
upgrade and got the following output:

Hit http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com unstable/main Packages   
Hit http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com unstable/main Release 
Hit http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com ./ Packages   
Hit http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com ./ Release
Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Packages 
Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Release
Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/contrib Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/contrib Release
Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/non-free Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/non-free Release
Hit http://ftp.de.debian.org dists/proposed-updates/ Packages
Hit http://ftp.de.debian.org dists/proposed-updates/ Release
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages have been kept back
  cdrdao kernel-image-2.2.17 
The following packages will be upgraded
  base-config 
1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/72.2kB of archives. After unpacking 87.0kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 
100% [Scanning packages]Template does not contain a Template: line at /usr/lib/p
erl5/Debian/DebConf/Template.pm line 109, TEMPLATES chunk 42.
E: Sub-process /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt returned an error code (29)
E: Failure running script /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~#

What does it mean and how can I fix it?  Is the package broken or did
I break apt somehow?  I'm a Debianewbie, so having messed up apt may
be the cause.

Cheers,
  Ray
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Re: which software for professional Mailling? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA

2000-10-15 Thread Felix Hagemann

Dwight Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 What are 'immovables'?

Real estate, not well translated.

Bye,
Fx


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Re: alsa-base

2000-10-15 Thread Olivier Billet

Kevin C. Smith wrote:

 I attempted an apt-get install alsa-base, however this failed.
 Received the message stating that alsa-base_0.5.9c-8.deb is not available,

Maybe it's because you dont have woody in your /etc/apt/sources.list
I think woody provide alsa 0.5.9

Olivier.

Re: machine hangs after buying new monitor

2000-10-15 Thread Philipp Schulte

On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 09:49:11PM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: 

 OK quickly before it hangs again.. 
 can't be sure they're related, but it only started hanging after I set
 up the new monitor.. new monitor means new modelines etc., so I guess it
 could have  something to do  with my ati  xpert 98 putting  out higher
 bandwidth.. or not at all. It did hang three times with no X running

IMHO the worst thing that can happen if you change your monitor is
that the monitor itself might break and not display anything at
all. It is a passive device which is not able to influence the
Computer in any way.

 though: one  kernel panic  after rebooting from  the first  hang, then
 it hung during  fsck, then it hung at the  login prompt after entering
 runlevel 1.  It's hung about  six times in  the past two hours.  A few
 days ago I  tinkered with the cpu  (put in a new fan)  but no problems
 until  now. Also  I  reinstalled sendmail  last  night, and  installed
 mutt. OK,  I have  no idea. Tried  rerunning lilo  (in case a  bit got
 flipped in the  boot image) as well as another  kernel from floppy, no
 go.  Any suggestions on how to debug this welcome. Not even sure 
 which logs to look through and what for.. -chris

Check the following:
1. RAM
Look for the nice tool memtest86 (http://freshmeat.net;

2. HD
Use badblocks to check if you have got any

3. CPU-fan
Check if it does sit on the CPU perfectly, maybe there is a little
space in there and it gets too hot. Might very well be the reason.

HTH,
Phil

Re: color 'ls' in frame buffer console

2000-10-15 Thread Ville Harju

On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 03:20:05PM +0400, Rino Mardo wrote:
 On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 02:28:14AM -0800 or thereabouts, Ethan Benson wrote:
  On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 12:33:49AM -0700, Jeremiah Hunter Savage wrote:
   How do I get 'ls' to display color like xterm in the console (no X)? 
   i.e. directories=blue, executables=green, links=light blue, 
   devices=yellow. I am using the frame buffer.
  
  add the following to your ~/.bashrc:
  
  eval `dircolors`
  alias ls='ls --color=auto'
  
  -- 
  Ethan Benson
  http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
 
 it's already there in the stock ~/.bashrc install.  just unremarked 'em.
 
 
 You also have to include these lines in .bash_profile 
 
 
 if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
 source ~/.bashrc
 fi
 
 Ville Harju  ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: Compiling tulip.c kernel mod

2000-10-15 Thread Philipp Schulte

On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 03:16:11AM -0700, Jason Whittle wrote: 

 I'm running a brand new install of potato, and I have a Linksys ethernet card 
 that I'm trying to compile the driver for. The driver recommended on the 
 Linksys support page that I compile the driver named tulip.c with the 
 following command: 
 
 gcc -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/net/inet -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes 
 -O6 -c tulip.c `[ -f /usr/include/linux/modversions.h ]  echo 
 -DMODVERSIONS` 
 
 When I do so, gcc returns the following: 
 
 tulip.c:139: linux/modversions.h: No such file or directory
 tulip.c:161: pci-scan.h: No such file or directory
 tulip.c:162: kern_compat.h: No such file or directory

Have a look at http://www.scyld.com/network/tulip.html
There you can download the latest drivers, the files pci-scan.h,
kern_compat.h and a good instruction on how to build and use the
module.

Just remember: You have to load pci-scan and kern_compat *prior* to
loading tulip - the mailing list there is flooded with this question
;)
 
HTH,
Phil

Re: apt-get bug?

2000-10-15 Thread Philipp Schulte

On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 02:47:55PM +0200, Raymond Scholz wrote: 

 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
 Need to get 0B/72.2kB of archives. After unpacking 87.0kB will be used.
 Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 
 100% [Scanning packages]Template does not contain a Template: line at 
 /usr/lib/p
 erl5/Debian/DebConf/Template.pm line 109, TEMPLATES chunk 42.
 E: Sub-process /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt returned an error code (29)
 E: Failure running script /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt

I got the exact error, too. 
Phil

regarding the output of dpkg -l and what does it mean exactly

If one does:


dpkg -l '*telnet*'
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ NameVersion Description
+++-===-===-==
ii  libnet-telnet-perl  3.01-2  Script telnetable 
connections
pn  ssltelnet   none  (no description available)
ii  telnet  0.16-4  The telnet client.
pn  telnet-ssl  none  (no description available)
un  telnet98none  (no description available)
pn  telnetd none  (no description available)
pn  telnetd-ssl none  (no description available)



now this is fairly clear, ii presumably means install, installed whereas un 
means
uninstalled? and pn means it is purged not installed? does pn mean it was 
installed
previously and then removed. how are these short cryptic status indications 
related to
the stuff:

Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ NameVersion Description

Is this documented in detail, i.e. dpkg have  a detailed description
of its output formats?

-walter

error message after apt-get upgrade

apt-get upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages have been kept back
  navigator 
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
1 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 
Setting up sysklogd (1.3-33.1) ...
update-rc.d: /etc/init.d/sysklogd: file does not exist
dpkg: error processing sysklogd (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 sysklogd
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)



Seems clear. Apparently a file is missing. Anyone know why it is? or how to 
correct
it.

-walter

Re: alsa-base

2000-10-15 Thread Florian Friesdorf

On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 09:03:22PM -0500, Kevin C. Smith wrote:
 I attempted an apt-get install alsa-base, however this failed.
 Received the message stating that alsa-base_0.5.9c-8.deb is not available,
 which is true. It should be getting alsa-base_0.5.9d-1.deb.
 How to I fix this? Do I need to report it to someone?

I'm also using woody, and alsa-base_0.5.0d-1 came with the last apt-get upgrade.
Perhaps, an apt-get update helps.

-ff

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Re: xclients through ssh and docking in windowmaker

2000-10-15 Thread Florian Friesdorf

On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 10:24:41AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote:
 On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 12:54:05PM +0200, Florian Friesdorf wrote:
  Am I doing something wrong, or is this a windowmaker bug?
 
 As far as I can tell, it's a windowmaker bug.  Fortunately, you can edit the
 Application path and arguments by hand to make it work after putting it on
 the dock.

I tried that. Now the icon gets grayed out, the programs are started server
side, but nothing appears on my screen.
Executing the same command (ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/bin/X11/wmnet -W 
ippp0) in
a wterm is working fine.

regards
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Re: Netscape 4.75 with 128 bit encryption....with respect to apt-get upgrade versus apt-get install netscape



On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, Andreas Goesele wrote:

 Christopher W. Aiken writes:
 
   Add:
   deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free
   to your /etc/apt/sources.list and do an apt-get install netscape
   That should get you the 128bit 4.75 version.
 
I have just done the same and my version 4.73 has been upgraded via
the apt-get install netscape directive. Why didn't this happen when
one does apt-get upgrade? Is it because the version numbers are different?
I have had the sucurity site listed first in the source.list file.

-walter

Re: Win 95 like GUI

2000-10-15 Thread John Carline

Jatin Golani wrote:

 Hi all,

 i'm using Debian 2.2.havent been able to get a GUI
 that I like...also not sure about the fonts,etcso
 i need to test it with a GUI that I'm familiar
 withthe Win 95 GUI.I have once seen a linux
 box which had a GUI exactly like Win 95...i mean
 like exactly like it

Surely not exactly like it?

I don't think that's possible, because to the best of my knowledge no *nix /open
source programer has managed to *exactly* duplicate the this program has 
performed
an illegal operation feature of the Microgarbage desktop. ;-)

However if you can live without that feature, you can make several of them look
similar to Win95. Try fvwm95 and forget GNOME and KDE. You can still run most 
if not
all of the GNOME applications without the environment - KDE applications will
probably run also,  but since I don't use them I can't say for certain.


John



 ..was that GNOME or KDE?? and
 which Window Manager, themeplease let me
 knowalso where can i get the .deb modules for
 it.I've tried GNOME with Enlightenment, Sawmill
 (which is pretty nice but still not as good as WIn),
 IceWM (this is supposed to be like Win but not
 exactly), fvwm, qvwm, twmnot liked any in
 particular yet.which GUI are u using??? Please let
 me know dude so I can move onto better things in
 Linux.

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Re: Open Source Info.

2000-10-15 Thread J.H.M. Dassen $Ray$

On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 16:44:46 -0700, Dwight Johnson wrote:
 I would suggest that one of the links be www.linuxtoday.com. This is a
 comprehensive wire of all opensource news, articles and opinion as they
 are published and will make your presentation timely and up-to-date.

I disagree; IMO, there is no single comprehensive newswire for Open Source.
I regularly read linuxtoday.com, lwn.net, freshmeat.net, slashdot.org,
kuro5hin.org and technocrat.net, and while they certainly have
commonalities, all of them have something that makes them unique.

 Web sites:

http://www.linuxslides.com/ contains a number of presentations on Linux,
Open Source and related subjects which can be very helpful.

HTH,
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Re: alsa-base

2000-10-15 Thread Kevin C. Smith

On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 03:55:40PM +0200, Florian Friesdorf wrote:
 On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 09:03:22PM -0500, Kevin C. Smith wrote:
  I attempted an apt-get install alsa-base, however this failed.
  Received the message stating that alsa-base_0.5.9c-8.deb is not available,
  which is true. It should be getting alsa-base_0.5.9d-1.deb.
  How to I fix this? Do I need to report it to someone?
 
 I'm also using woody, and alsa-base_0.5.0d-1 came with the last apt-get 
 upgrade.
 Perhaps, an apt-get update helps.
 
 -ff
 
I am running Woody. Odd that yours upgraded, and mine does not with apt-get. 
I do have everything pointed to woody in the sources.list. Had a similar problem
again yesterday with another alsa related package. I've just downloaded the 
packages and dpkg -install(ed) them. Still currious as to why this would happen.

Sources.list
 deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian woody main contrib non-free
 deb ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US woody/non-US main contrib non-free

Kevin

Re: What windows ssh client you use?

2000-10-15 Thread Andy Bastien

There are those who would have you believe that kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
 On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 03:21:37PM +0400, Rino Mardo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 
 wrote:
  I'm using PuTTY from windows to ssh to my debian box but I find that it
  disconnects my session after some idle time.
  
  Is it a ssh setting (coz I can't find it) or it's my ssh client?
 
 Could be either.  If it's a high-latency connection, you may be getting
 a timeout, though I'm not sure where that's configured.
 
 There are several java ssh clients which run inside Netscape (or IE)
 which you might want to play with as well.  Try searching Google.
 


Another good (and free) client is the TTSSH extension to TeraTerm.

Reply: socket question (beginner)

2000-10-15 Thread Sven Gaerner

You shoud change you declaration from
 sockaddr_in s;
to
 struct sockaddr_in s;

Sven
 
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Jonathan int main( const int argc, const char * argv[] ) {
Jonathan sockaddr_in s; return 0; } ===
Jonathan Rankor:~/src/sockets$g++ stupid.cpp stupid.cpp: In
Jonathan function `int main(int, const char **)': stupid.cpp:6:
Jonathan `sockaddr_in' undeclared (first use this function)
Jonathan stupid.cpp:6: (Each undeclared identifier is reported
Jonathan only once...  stupid.cpp:6: parse error before `;'
Jonathan === - sockaddr_in s; + struct sockaddr_in s; ===
Jonathan Rankor:~/src/sockets$g++ stupid.cpp stupid.cpp: In
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wmaker

2000-10-15 Thread Lars M.

I´m new in the linuxworld and like to use wmaker. Is it possible to change
the color of the applications into the windows? I don´t like this grey. Or
should i use an other windowmanager for this?

cu, Lars

apt-get upgrade behaviour versus apt-get install package with respect to netscape,



On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, Walter Tautz wrote:

 
 
 On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, Andreas Goesele wrote:
 
  Christopher W. Aiken writes:
  
Add:
deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free
to your /etc/apt/sources.list and do an apt-get install netscape
That should get you the 128bit 4.75 version.
  
 I have just done the same and my version 4.73 has been upgraded via
 the apt-get install netscape directive. Why didn't this happen when
 one does apt-get upgrade? Is it because the version numbers are different?
 I have had the sucurity site listed first in the source.list file.
 
 -walter

Just to followup to my own post, I guess the following from the apt-get manpage 
explains why apt-get upgrade didn't install the latest netscape

New versions of  currently
  installed  packages that cannot be upgraded without
  changing the install status of another package will
  be left at their current version. An update must be
  performed first so that apt-get knows that new ver
  sions of packages are available.

however apt-get install netscape 

does overide this behaviour. I don't suppose there is a way to get a true
upgrade behaviour?

-walter

Re: wmaker

On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 04:57:02PM +0200, Lars M. wrote:
 I´m new in the linuxworld and like to use wmaker. Is it possible to change
 the color of the applications into the windows? I don´t like this grey. Or
 should i use an other windowmanager for this?

I don't have any wmaker-specific knowledge for you, but there are several
possibilities for this. 
Any X application, conforming to X protocols (which often does not include
KDE and Gnome apps) uses the X resources for such things. What that means is
that you can customize apps based on your $HOME/.Xdefaults file. For example:

! Xterm settings.
xterm*scrollBar: true
xterm*saveLines: 1000
xterm*foreground: peachpuff
xterm*background: black
xterm*vt100*geometry: 85x35
xterm*visualBell: true

These are my xterm settings. I prefer to use .Xdefaults because I can then
take this file to work and get the same settings on my HPUX workstation. I'm
not all that fond of Gnome and KDE changing all that because I like the way X
has set this stuff up with these simple text files, but that's me. 
If it's an X app you're customizing, there should be a corresponding
resource that you can set to change border colours like that. If not, you have
to use window-manager or desktop environment specific information. 

Mike

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Re: apt-get upgrade behaviour versus apt-get install package with respect to netscape,

On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 11:08:34AM -0400, Walter Tautz wrote:
 
 New versions of  currently
   installed  packages that cannot be upgraded without
   changing the install status of another package will
   be left at their current version. An update must be
   performed first so that apt-get knows that new ver
   sions of packages are available.

I'm not sure how to read that. During an upgrade, you almost always have
to change the install status of another package, so how does that work?

Mike

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Re: MS and Corel

2000-10-15 Thread John Carline

Dwight Johnson wrote:

 On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, Nico De Ranter wrote:

  So no M$-Linux coming up :-) ?

 Well, yes, actually. The deal includes an option for Corel to commit 20
 programmers to make Microsoft's .Net initiative run on Linux. MS has three
 years to exercise the option and the resulting code becomes the exclusive
 property of Microsoft. Here's the most revealing article to appear on the
 agreement to date (note additional draconian stuff):

 http://www.ottawacitizen.com/business/001013/4679940.html

 Dwight
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sarcasm on

Oh Wow!

Isn't this wonderful? A great company like Microsoft will be working to help 
improve
linux. I can hardly wait. I bet the first thing they invent is a wonderful way 
to
upgrade your system off the web. They'll probably call it something like MS-get 
and
then we'll be able to upgrade with commands like  MS-get install trash or 
MS-get
dist-upgrade. Gawwwd! I can hardly wait.

sarcasm almost off

The second thing that they'll do is hire more lawyers to protect their 
inventions.

sarcasm completely off

Will someone *please* drive a stake through that Bloodsucker heart.

John


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XFsetup

2000-10-15 Thread Eileen Orbell


Hi,

I am still trying to config xwindows.  I have a ATI 16mg video card which I 
labeled as generic, as PS2 mouse.  I downloaded the XF86_SVGA.  When I run 
startx I still get no mouse and error returned

FATAL SERVER ERROR
Cannot open mouse (No such file - directory)
What am I doing wrong?  This is really getting me down now (smile)

Thanks




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Re: apt-get upgrade behaviour versus apt-get install package with respect to netscape,



On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, Michael P. Soulier wrote:

 On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 11:08:34AM -0400, Walter Tautz wrote:
  
  New versions of  currently
installed  packages that cannot be upgraded without
changing the install status of another package will
be left at their current version. An update must be
performed first so that apt-get knows that new ver
sions of packages are available.
 
 I'm not sure how to read that. During an upgrade, you almost always have
 to change the install status of another package, so how does that work?
 
 Mike
 
Yes, I was confused too. I would like to have apt-get upgrade to 
UPGRADE every package on the system with the latest version...perhaps too 
draconian
a feature. I was confused particularly because I couldn't get the latest 
netscape-4.75
without doing apt-get install netscape only then did it get rid of the older 
version.
NOTE I of course have the security update site listed first in my sources file 
and
I ran update first. Just an observation. 

-walter

Re: XFsetup

On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 11:31:02AM -0400, Eileen Orbell wrote:
 Hi,
 
 I am still trying to config xwindows.  I have a ATI 16mg video card which I 
 labeled as generic, as PS2 mouse.  I downloaded the XF86_SVGA.  When I run 
 startx I still get no mouse and error returned
 FATAL SERVER ERROR
 Cannot open mouse (No such file - directory)
 What am I doing wrong?  This is really getting me down now (smile)

Do you have a /dev/psaux device file? That's what it will look for if you
tell it to use a PS2 mouse. Are you sure it's PS2?

The ATI is supported to my knowledge, so I'm not sure generic is the best
choice. As long as you're sure it's supported by the SVGA server. Plus, are
you using the SVGA server? You should have an /etc/X11/Xserver file that looks
something like this:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] msoulier]$ cat /etc/X11/Xserver
/usr/bin/X11/XF86_SVGA
Console

Mike

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Re: libc6 -- down to potato?

2000-10-15 Thread Andre Berger

Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 On 15-Oct-2000 Andre Berger wrote:
  Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
  
  On 14-Oct-2000 Andre Berger wrote:
   I made a mistake when I upgraded my xemacs21-nomule from the woody
   packages -- libc6 was replaced on my potato box. Am I damned to use
   woody forever? Seriously, I want the stable version!
  
  I have downgraded my libc6 with no problems.  Woody's libc6-dev has a
  problem
  in the header file tcp.h, I found out yesterday.
  
  --
  Andrew
  
  How did you do that? dpkg -i?
 
 Yes, I downloaded the libc6, libc6-dev, and locales packages from the Debian
 security updates page.  Those are the latest libc6 packages for Potato.

This broke my system. /sbin/ldconfig was removed, all packages were
about to be removed, and I had to use a backup copy to get back to the
previous state. Hmmm. There are packages with dependencies like g++,
libdb2 and a few others. Are they to be removed before?

-- Andre

Re: Compiling tulip.c kernel mod

2000-10-15 Thread Phil Brutsche

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 I'm running a brand new install of potato, and I have a Linksys
 ethernet card that I'm trying to compile the driver for. The driver
 recommended on the Linksys support page that I compile the driver
 named tulip.c with the following command:

[...]

If you're still using the kernel distributed with Debian, you can try the
files in the archive at http://tux.creighton.edu/~pbrutsch/driver.zip.  
It's a pkzip archive.

Copy the files
 * pci-scan.o
 * tulip.o
from the archive into /lib/modules/2.2.17/net/, run 'depmod -a', then
'modprobe tulip'.  You should be good to go after that.

In order to (IMO) comply with the GPL, I have the source at
http://tux.creighton.edu/~pbrutsch/netdrivers.tgz.

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Re: alsa-base

2000-10-15 Thread Kenward Vaughan

On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 09:48:28AM -0500, Kevin C. Smith wrote:
 On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 03:55:40PM +0200, Florian Friesdorf wrote:
...
  I'm also using woody, and alsa-base_0.5.0d-1 came with the last apt-get
upgrade.
  Perhaps, an apt-get update helps.
... 
 I am running Woody. Odd that yours upgraded, and mine does not with apt-get. 
 I do have everything pointed to woody in the sources.list. Had a similar 
problem
 again yesterday with another alsa related package. I've just downloaded the 
 packages and dpkg -install(ed) them. Still currious as to why this would 
happen.

Woody changes quite often.  Perhaps you were lucky and simply hit a time 
when things were shifting around.  I don't know how the lists/files get 
changed but do expect it's not instantaneous.

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Re: libc6 -- down to potato? [solved]

2000-10-15 Thread Andre Berger

Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 On 15-Oct-2000 Andre Berger wrote:
  Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
  
  On 14-Oct-2000 Andre Berger wrote:
   I made a mistake when I upgraded my xemacs21-nomule from the woody
   packages -- libc6 was replaced on my potato box. Am I damned to use
   woody forever? Seriously, I want the stable version!
  
  I have downgraded my libc6 with no problems.  Woody's libc6-dev has a
  problem
  in the header file tcp.h, I found out yesterday.
  
  --
  Andrew
  
  How did you do that? dpkg -i?
 
 Yes, I downloaded the libc6, libc6-dev, and locales packages from the Debian
 security updates page.  Those are the latest libc6 packages for Potato.
 
 --
 Andrew

I first messed up my system (I was left without ldconfig but had a
backup copy), then removed packages like g++, libstdc++2.10(-dev),
libsasl7, libldap2, and xemacs21 related packages, and was finally
able to install libdb2, libc6, libc6-dev, and locales successfully.

Thank you all.

-- Andre

Re: alsa-base

2000-10-15 Thread Florian Friesdorf

On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 09:48:28AM -0500, Kevin C. Smith wrote:
 On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 03:55:40PM +0200, Florian Friesdorf wrote:
  On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 09:03:22PM -0500, Kevin C. Smith wrote:
   I attempted an apt-get install alsa-base, however this failed.
   Received the message stating that alsa-base_0.5.9c-8.deb is not available,
   which is true. It should be getting alsa-base_0.5.9d-1.deb.
   How to I fix this? Do I need to report it to someone?
  
  I'm also using woody, and alsa-base_0.5.0d-1 came with the last apt-get 
  upgrade.

0.5.9d-1, of course.

  Perhaps, an apt-get update helps.
  
  -ff
  
 I am running Woody. Odd that yours upgraded, and mine does not with apt-get. 
 I do have everything pointed to woody in the sources.list. Had a similar 
 problem
 again yesterday with another alsa related package. I've just downloaded the 
 packages and dpkg -install(ed) them. Still currious as to why this would 
 happen.
 
 Sources.list
  deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian woody main contrib non-free
  deb ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US woody/non-US main contrib non-free

I'm in Germany.
my /etc/apt/sources.list:
  deb ftp://ftp.debian.cz/debian woody main contrib non-free
  deb ftp://ftp.debian.cz/debian dists/potato-proposed-updates/
  deb ftp://ftp.debian.cz/debian-non-US woody/non-US main contrib non-free

But this one seems to have problems today.

-ff

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Q: Best PPP dial-up console mail app?

2000-10-15 Thread Jonathan Gift

Hi,
I have a 56k dial up using pon and poff and was wondering which of the
console choices would allow me to fetch and dl mail? Also write off-line,
then log on and send. Mutt and Pine I have heard about. The ability to
filter into assorted folders (like for mailing lists) would be a necessity.
This for a single account.

Much thanks,

Jonathan

Help: Ghostview font error?

2000-10-15 Thread Jonathan Gift

Hi,

Ghostview, gv or gs, will not read any ps document. When opening one it
comes up with a font error msg. I looked at my XF86Config and found miscc,
75dpi, Type1 in my path. Any ideas?

Thanks,

Jonathan

Problems with libX11.so.6.

2000-10-15 Thread Daniel de los Reyes

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Subject: Problems with libX11.so.6.
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 09:53:05 +0200
From: Daniel de los Reyes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org

Hello

I am trying tu run a binary only application on a Potato finding the next
problem:

libX11.so.6.1 is correctly installed in /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6.1 and
libX11.so.6 is a symlink to it.
Besides /usr/X11R6/lib is included in /etc/ld.so.conf.

The problem is that all the binaries in the application linked against the
lib return the error can't load library libX11.so.6

this is the output of ldd

tramontana:~$ ldd /usr/ustation/ustation32
libm.so.5 = /lib/libm.so.5 (0x4000f000)
libdl.so.1 = /lib/libdl.so.1 (0x40018000)
libX11.so.6 = not found
libc.so.5 = /lib/libc.so.5 (0x4001b000)

However libX11.so.6 seems to be ok since other things find it:

tramontana:~$ ldd /usr/bin/xsendbut
libX11.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x4001b000)
libc.so.6 = /lib/libc.so.6 (0x400bc000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 = /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x4000)

Can anybody think of a reason why this is happening?
Anyway to sove it?

Thank you

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Re: Help: Ghostview font error?

2000-10-15 Thread Andre Berger

Jonathan Gift [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Ghostview, gv or gs, will not read any ps document. When opening one it
 comes up with a font error msg. I looked at my XF86Config and found miscc,
 75dpi, Type1 in my path. Any ideas?

Maybe the gsfonts package isn't installed?

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How to compile module to avoid unresolved symbols ??

2000-10-15 Thread Kenward Vaughan

Sorry for what may be a silly question, but I've struggled on and off with
getting my 3dfx module to insert correctly.  I keep getting unresolved
symbols on boot-up.  Yes, the device is defined in /dev with
ownership/permissions set as suggested in the docs. 

I assume that the problem involves its compilation from the package.  I've
always dl'd the .deb, unzipped it where it lay in /usr/src, and run the
script to make the package.  This is followed by its installation.

Is this wrong??  Should it be unzipped somewhere inside of /usr/src/linux
and compiled With the kernel?  Does a line for it show up when one uses make
menuconfig?  I don't recall ever seeing errors on compilation.  

Another thought is whether I should change something in the Makefile which
would make it compatible with my Athlon??? (obviously assuming something there 
would screw that up...)

Frustrated In Bakersfield,

Kenward

ps: insmod reports the following:

hpotter:/home/daddy# insmod 3dfx
Using /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/3dfx.o
/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/3dfx.o: unresolved symbol remap_page_range
/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/3dfx.o: unresolved symbol unregister_chrdev
/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/3dfx.o: unresolved symbol register_chrdev
/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/3dfx.o: unresolved symbol printk
hpotter:/home/daddy#
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Re: Help: Ghostview font error?

On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 06:20:22PM +0200, Jonathan Gift wrote:
 Hi,
 
 Ghostview, gv or gs, will not read any ps document. When opening one it
 comes up with a font error msg. I looked at my XF86Config and found miscc,
 75dpi, Type1 in my path. Any ideas?

Are you sure it's the X fonts that are missing? What's the error message?
gs fonts should be in 

/usr/lib/ghostscript/fonts

Do you have the 100dpi X fonts installed? Those are typically required,
are they not?

Mike

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Re: Q: Best PPP dial-up console mail app?

2000-10-15 Thread Tyrin Price

I use a combination of mutt, fetchmail and procmail.  Mutt for reading
and composing, fetchmail for pop retrieval and procmail for filtering.

When you compose and send mail in mutt while offline it still goes
into your smtp send queue.  Just issue the command to send queued mail
when you re-connect.  That command depends on what you are using for
smtp.
 

* Jonathan Gift [EMAIL PROTECTED] [15Oct00 18:18 +0200]:
 I have a 56k dial up using pon and poff and was wondering which of the
 console choices would allow me to fetch and dl mail? Also write off-line,
 then log on and send. Mutt and Pine I have heard about. The ability to
 filter into assorted folders (like for mailing lists) would be a necessity.

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PPP session not established correctly

2000-10-15 Thread Shaji N V



Hi,

I have a problem in establishing a PPP session with my ISP. The excerpts 
from the syslog is here:


Oct 15 12:36:43 localhost pppd[364]: pppd 2.3.11 started by user, uid 0
Oct 15 12:36:44 localhost chat[365]: abort on (BUSY)
Oct 15 12:36:44 localhost chat[365]: abort on (NO CARRIER)
Oct 15 12:36:44 localhost chat[365]: abort on (VOICE)
Oct 15 12:36:44 localhost chat[365]: abort on (NO DIALTONE)
Oct 15 12:36:44 localhost chat[365]: timeout set to 120 seconds
Oct 15 12:36:44 localhost chat[365]: send (ATDT2022508111^M)
Oct 15 12:36:44 localhost chat[365]: expect (ogin)
Oct 15 12:37:33 localhost chat[365]: ATDT2022508111^M^M
Oct 15 12:37:33 localhost chat[365]: CONNECT 48000 V42bis^M
Oct 15 12:37:43 localhost chat[365]: ^M
Oct 15 12:37:43 localhost chat[365]:
Oct 15 12:37:43 localhost last message repeated 23 times
Oct 15 12:38:03 localhost chat[365]: ** Ascend TNT1.LNHDC.MD.RCN.NET 
Terminal Server **^M

Oct 15 12:38:03 localhost chat[365]: ^M
Oct 15 12:38:03 localhost chat[365]: ^M
Oct 15 12:38:03 localhost chat[365]: Login
Oct 15 12:38:03 localhost chat[365]:  -- got it
Oct 15 12:38:03 localhost chat[365]: send (x^M)
Oct 15 12:38:03 localhost chat[365]: expect (word)
Oct 15 12:38:23 localhost chat[365]: : x^M
Oct 15 12:38:23 localhost chat[365]: Password
Oct 15 12:38:23 localhost chat[365]:  -- got it
Oct 15 12:38:23 localhost chat[365]: send (??)
Oct 15 12:38:23 localhost chat[365]: expect (1006)
Oct 15 12:38:43 localhost chat[365]: : ^M
Oct 15 12:38:53 localhost chat[365]: Entering PPP Session.^M
Oct 15 12:39:03 localhost chat[365]: IP address is 208.58.212.82^M
Oct 15 12:39:13 localhost chat[365]: MTU is 1006
Oct 15 12:39:13 localhost chat[365]:  -- got it
Oct 15 12:39:13 localhost chat[365]: send (^M)
Oct 15 12:39:13 localhost pppd[364]: Serial connection established.
Oct 15 12:39:23 localhost pppd[364]: Using interface ppp0
Oct 15 12:39:23 localhost pppd[364]: Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyS4
Oct 15 12:39:24 localhost pppd[364]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 asyncmap 0x0 
magic 0xc17ec9d3 pcomp accomp]

Oct 15 12:39:51 localhost last message repeated 9 times
Oct 15 12:39:54 localhost pppd[364]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
Oct 15 12:39:54 localhost pppd[364]: Connection terminated.
Oct 15 12:40:09 localhost pppd[364]: Terminating on signal 2.
Oct 15 12:40:09 localhost pppd[364]: Exit.


Thanks in advance for the help,
Shaji

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Re: How to compile module to avoid unresolved symbols ??

2000-10-15 Thread Steve Haslam

On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 09:33:38AM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote:
 I assume that the problem involves its compilation from the package.  I've
 always dl'd the .deb, unzipped it where it lay in /usr/src, and run the
 script to make the package.  This is followed by its installation.

That's right. You ought to be able to untar it anywhere, actually,
unless you're using kernel-package to build it, in which case it
*needs* to be in /usr/src/modules/device3dfx

 Is this wrong??  Should it be unzipped somewhere inside of /usr/src/linux
 and compiled With the kernel?  Does a line for it show up when one uses make
 menuconfig?  I don't recall ever seeing errors on compilation.  

No, it doesn't integrate with the kernel like that. (Unfortunately).

 Another thought is whether I should change something in the Makefile
 which would make it compatible with my Athlon??? (obviously assuming
 something there would screw that up...)

Well, not afaik, but mismatching your processor shouldn't cause the
link errors you're seeing anyway. (One would hope that the 3dfx source
code would use your CONFIG_MK7 setting if necessary, anyway).

 hpotter:/home/daddy# insmod 3dfx
 Using /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/3dfx.o
 /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/3dfx.o: unresolved symbol remap_page_range
 /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/3dfx.o: unresolved symbol unregister_chrdev
 /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/3dfx.o: unresolved symbol register_chrdev
 /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/3dfx.o: unresolved symbol printk
 hpotter:/home/daddy#

The main point to check is that you are actually compiling the module
against the headers used to build your kernel. Particularly, that
you're using the right linux/autoconf.h file, and hence getting the
right setting of CONFIG_MODVERSIONS...

So, from the device3dfx directory (where you run debian/buildpkg),
check like this (output is from my machine):

bash$ nm 3dfx.o | grep printk
 U printk_R1b7d4074
bash$ grep printk /proc/ksyms 
c0115f4c printk_R1b7d4074

Now, your address and version hash will likely be different BUT the
vital point is that the version hash (_R1b7d4074) must match in the
3dfx.o file and /proc/ksyms. If they don't match, this suggests you
compiled against the wrong kernel headers. Check your KSRC setting,
and check you did make clean and that a compile is really
happening. (You should see this sort of command:

gcc -O2 -m486 -fomit-frame-pointer -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ 
-I/home/steve/kernel/linux/include -pipe -fno-strength-reduce -malign-loops=2 
-malign-jumps=2 -malign-functions=2 -c -o 3dfx.o 3dfx_driver.c

during compilation. Note the -I flag pointing at the kernel headers.)

NB I am not really a kernel hacker, but I'm fairly sure this is a
suitable check to run.

HTH

SRH
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Re: Q: Best PPP dial-up console mail app?

2000-10-15 Thread Morten Bo Johansen

Jonathan Gift [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:

 Hi,
 I have a 56k dial up using pon and poff and was wondering which of the
 console choices would allow me to fetch and dl mail? Also write off-line,
 then log on and send. Mutt and Pine I have heard about. The ability to
 filter into assorted folders (like for mailing lists) would be a necessity.
 This for a single account.


Mailreader: A quick examination of the 973 mails I've received
on the debian-user list so far shows that 399 were composed by
Mutters so if you'd like to..hurler avec les loups, use mutt ;)

Filtering: Exim is already installed for you and set up to use
procmail as its local postman. All you need is a .procmailrc in
your home directory with rules on what folders you want to
filter your messages into.

How to go about that has been discussed on this list today.
Look at some of the previous threads.

Writing offline, logging on and sending: Can be accomplished in
more than one way; in addition to the answer you've already
received you can also configure your pppd setup to use demand
dialling (use pppconfig to set it up). Once you dispatch your
message from within Mutt, Pine whatever, a connection will be
established automatically and your message will fly off to its
destination.


Fetching mail: Use fetchmail. There is a GUI to facilitate the
configuration.



Good luck,


Morten

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Re: which software for professional Mailling?

2000-10-15 Thread Michael Steiner

 Matthias Mann wrote:
 
 HiYou!
 
 I like to work with big archives of mailadresses and need a program
 that is able to send SPAM and organize to let it be, that people they
 don´t like my SPAMS will get never a Mail of me again. And i could
 need a tool that can scan the web for mailadresses. Is there somthing
 like that on the 4CD set of Debian 2.2r0 potato?
 
 Thanx for every useful tip!
 

Please block him and don't answer his questions any more.

Michael

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Common Lisp

2000-10-15 Thread Parrish M Myers

Hi all,

I am interested in learning lisp... but what compiler do I pick?  There
seems to be a plethora of free compilers available:

Allegro CL
CLiCC
CLISP
CMUCL
ECoLisp
GCL
Poplog
jlisp
AKCL
LILY
RefLisp
WCL

+ a whole bunch of derived libraries and stuff.  Are any of these
better than the other?  Which one should I use if I am interested in
learning ANSI Common Lisp?

Thanks
:P

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Re: PPP session not established correctly

2000-10-15 Thread Dwight Johnson

On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, Shaji N V wrote:
 
 I have a problem in establishing a PPP session with my ISP. The excerpts 
 from the syslog is here:
 
 Oct 15 12:36:43 localhost pppd[364]: pppd 2.3.11 started by user, uid 0
 Oct 15 12:36:44 localhost chat[365]: abort on (BUSY)
 Oct 15 12:36:44 localhost chat[365]: abort on (NO CARRIER)
 Oct 15 12:36:44 localhost chat[365]: abort on (VOICE)
 Oct 15 12:36:44 localhost chat[365]: abort on (NO DIALTONE)
 Oct 15 12:36:44 localhost chat[365]: timeout set to 120 seconds
 Oct 15 12:36:44 localhost chat[365]: send (ATDT2022508111^M)
 Oct 15 12:36:44 localhost chat[365]: expect (ogin)
 Oct 15 12:37:33 localhost chat[365]: ATDT2022508111^M^M
 Oct 15 12:37:33 localhost chat[365]: CONNECT 48000 V42bis^M
 Oct 15 12:37:43 localhost chat[365]: ^M
 Oct 15 12:37:43 localhost chat[365]:
 Oct 15 12:37:43 localhost last message repeated 23 times
 Oct 15 12:38:03 localhost chat[365]: ** Ascend TNT1.LNHDC.MD.RCN.NET 
 Terminal Server **^M
 Oct 15 12:38:03 localhost chat[365]: ^M
 Oct 15 12:38:03 localhost chat[365]: ^M
 Oct 15 12:38:03 localhost chat[365]: Login
 Oct 15 12:38:03 localhost chat[365]:  -- got it
 Oct 15 12:38:03 localhost chat[365]: send (x^M)
 Oct 15 12:38:03 localhost chat[365]: expect (word)
 Oct 15 12:38:23 localhost chat[365]: : x^M
 Oct 15 12:38:23 localhost chat[365]: Password
 Oct 15 12:38:23 localhost chat[365]:  -- got it
 Oct 15 12:38:23 localhost chat[365]: send (??)
 Oct 15 12:38:23 localhost chat[365]: expect (1006)
 Oct 15 12:38:43 localhost chat[365]: : ^M
 Oct 15 12:38:53 localhost chat[365]: Entering PPP Session.^M
 Oct 15 12:39:03 localhost chat[365]: IP address is 208.58.212.82^M
 Oct 15 12:39:13 localhost chat[365]: MTU is 1006
 Oct 15 12:39:13 localhost chat[365]:  -- got it
 Oct 15 12:39:13 localhost chat[365]: send (^M)
 Oct 15 12:39:13 localhost pppd[364]: Serial connection established.
 Oct 15 12:39:23 localhost pppd[364]: Using interface ppp0
 Oct 15 12:39:23 localhost pppd[364]: Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyS4
 Oct 15 12:39:24 localhost pppd[364]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 asyncmap 0x0 
 magic 0xc17ec9d3 pcomp accomp]
 Oct 15 12:39:51 localhost last message repeated 9 times
 Oct 15 12:39:54 localhost pppd[364]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
 Oct 15 12:39:54 localhost pppd[364]: Connection terminated.
 Oct 15 12:40:09 localhost pppd[364]: Terminating on signal 2.
 Oct 15 12:40:09 localhost pppd[364]: Exit.

Your ISP is not responding to your configuration requests and is not
sending his own. It looks like your chat script is not set up correctly.
What program exactly are you using to make your connection? Is it pon,
wvdial or a homebrew bash script? Send the list the actual chat and ppp
options lists that you are using. Most ISPs are using PAP authentication,
but your chat session is sending the username and password. This method
went out of favor several years ago. Try making a manual connection using
minicom to learn the details of how your ISP authenticates and starts the
ppp session. See the PPP HOWTO for details of how to do this.

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Soundblaster AWE 64 installation and stuff

2000-10-15 Thread Jeff Hornsberger

First of all, please excuse if I seem frustrated, I'm at the pulling my
hair out stage! ;) I installed Potato and then upgraded everything (I
think) to Woody. I have been using RH for the last year before this
adventure started. I'm having a lot of trouble getting my sound card to
work. It is an ISA Soundblaster AWE 64 PnP. I tried to use my familiar
redhat tools and got sndconfig. This worked like a charm on redhat, but
no luck on Debian. I think I'm having trouble with my modules, but I
don't know what. When I boot up I get the message:

modprobe: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than
/lib/modules/2.2.17/modules.dep

I'm not sure what that means, I've read about other people who seemed to
fix it by doing a depmod -a, but that did nothing for me. I also tried
touching it, but that did nothing either. isapnp seemingly runs without
warnings, but when I try to insmod sb I get:

Using /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/sb.o
/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/sb.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters,
including invalid IO or IRQ parameters

In my /lib/modules/2.2.17/modules.dep I have:

/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/adlib_card.o:  /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/sound.o
\
/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/opl3.o
/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/awe_wave.o:/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/sound.o

/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/opl3.o:/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/sound.o

/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/sb.o:  /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/sound.o \
/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/uart401.o \
/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/soundcore.o
/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/sound.o:
/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/soundlow.o \
/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/soundcore.o
/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/soundcore.o:
/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/soundlow.o:
/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/uart401.o: /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/sound.o

In my /etc/modules.conf I have: (all this was put there by sndconfig,
but it looks right to me and I know the options being passed to sb are
right because those are the same I had on my last install)

alias sound-slot-0 sb
options sound dmabuf=1
options opl3 io=0x388
alias midi awe_wave
post-install awe_wave /bin/sfxload /etc/midi/GU11-ROM.SF2
options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330

My /usr/src/linux/.config sound sections looks like:

#
# Sound
#
CONFIG_SOUND=m
# CONFIG_SOUND_CS4281 is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_FUSION is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_EMU10K1 is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_ES1370 is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_ES1371 is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_MAESTRO is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_ICH is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_SONICVIBES is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_TRIDENT is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_MSNDCLAS is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_MSNDPIN is not set
CONFIG_SOUND_OSS=m
# CONFIG_SOUND_PAS is not set
CONFIG_SOUND_SB=m
# CONFIG_SOUND_GUS is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_MPU401 is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_PSS is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_MSS is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_SSCAPE is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_TRIX is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_VIA82CXXX is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_MAD16 is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_WAVEFRONT is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_CS4232 is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_OPL3SA2 is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_MAUI is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_SGALAXY is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_OPL3SA1 is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_SOFTOSS is not set
CONFIG_SOUND_YM3812=m
# CONFIG_SOUND_VMIDI is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_UART6850 is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_NM256 is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_YMPCI is not set

#
# Additional low level sound drivers
#
CONFIG_LOWLEVEL_SOUND=y
# CONFIG_ACI_MIXER is not set
# CONFIG_VIDEO_MSP3400 is not set
CONFIG_AWE32_SYNTH=m

I have probably gone overboard with the file info here, but I'm out of
ideas. Hoping someone has some. Does anyone actually have a SB AWE 64
ISA PnP card running under Potato or Woody? Thanks a lot. -Jeff

Re: apt-get upgrade behaviour versus apt-get install package with respect to netscape,

2000-10-15 Thread David Z Maze

Michael P Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
MPS On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 11:08:34AM -0400, Walter Tautz wrote:
 WT 
 WT New versions of currently installed packages that cannot be
 WT upgraded without changing the install status of another package
 WT will be left at their current version. An update must be
 WT performed first so that apt-get knows that new versions of
 WT packages are available.
MPS 
MPS I'm not sure how to read that. During an upgrade, you almost
MPS always have to change the install status of another package, so
MPS how does that work?

If package foo upgrades from version 0.0-1 to 0.0-2 without changing
dependencies, apt-get upgrade will go ahead and upgrade it.  If
package bar upgrades from version 0.1-3 to 0.2-1, but version 0.2-1
also has a dependency on libbaz1 which wasn't previously installed,
APT won't do the upgrade (because libbaz1 would change from purge to 
install).

apt-get dist-upgrade *will* go ahead and upgrade everything,
regardless of what the new dependency situation is.

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Re: Problems with libX11.so.6.

2000-10-15 Thread Brent Buchholz

On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 06:18:50PM +0200, Daniel de los Reyes wrote:
 
 Hello
 
 tramontana:~$ ldd /usr/ustation/ustation32
 libm.so.5 = /lib/libm.so.5 (0x4000f000)
 libdl.so.1 = /lib/libdl.so.1 (0x40018000)
 libX11.so.6 = not found
 libc.so.5 = /lib/libc.so.5 (0x4001b000)
 
 However libX11.so.6 seems to be ok since other things find it:
 
 tramontana:~$ ldd /usr/bin/xsendbut
 libX11.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x4001b000)
 libc.so.6 = /lib/libc.so.6 (0x400bc000)
 /lib/ld-linux.so.2 = /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x4000)
 
 Can anybody think of a reason why this is happening?
 Anyway to sove it?

Try installing the libc5 version of libX11.

apt-get install xlib6

Brent

Re: XFsetup

2000-10-15 Thread Eileen Orbell

As i said in my message I downloaded the XF86_SVGA, actually when I run 
startx it loads into xwindows but freezes up due the mouse error.  I no the 
diff between a serial PS2 mouse but this seems weird to me.  I even used:


ln -s /dev/psaux /dev/mouse to send any program looking for /dev/mouse to 
/dev/psaux


Still no luck!!

 At 11:33 AM 10/15/2000 -0400, you wrote:

On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 11:31:02AM -0400, Eileen Orbell wrote:
 Hi,

 I am still trying to config xwindows.  I have a ATI 16mg video card 
which I

 labeled as generic, as PS2 mouse.  I downloaded the XF86_SVGA.  When I run
 startx I still get no mouse and error returned
 FATAL SERVER ERROR
 Cannot open mouse (No such file - directory)
 What am I doing wrong?  This is really getting me down now (smile)

Do you have a /dev/psaux device file? That's what it will look for if you
tell it to use a PS2 mouse. Are you sure it's PS2?

The ATI is supported to my knowledge, so I'm not sure generic is the best
choice. As long as you're sure it's supported by the SVGA server. Plus, are
you using the SVGA server? You should have an /etc/X11/Xserver file that looks
something like this:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] msoulier]$ cat /etc/X11/Xserver
/usr/bin/X11/XF86_SVGA
Console

Mike

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Re: apt-get upgrade behaviour versus apt-get install package with respect to netscape,