Solved: Re: Dialin Problem: How to Transmit Whole E-mail Address as Username?
Thanks, Eric. It worked. The old ISP was supposed to use the same login and didn't do so after all. It works with the new ISP. ...and correction on my e-mail address in the original message. It's [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks to any others who tried to reply. Art Eric G. Miller wrote: On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 08:40:08PM -0600, Art Lemasters wrote: How can I transmit my whole e-mail address as my username for a dialin account login? Do the @ and dots in the domain name need to be escaped somehow? My ISP is transferring all dialin accounts to another ISP, thus the change from transmitting whole e-mail addresses instead of only usernames for logins. I am running unstable, pppd and pap. Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED], as I am not subscribed to debian-user until after the ISP switch. Thank you! No problem. Run pppconfig and change it. There's nothing special about the '@' and '.' characters in that context. -- Eric G. Miller egm2@jps.net
Dialin Problem: How to Transmit Whole E-mail Address as Username?
How can I transmit my whole e-mail address as my username for a dialin account login? Do the @ and dots in the domain name need to be escaped somehow? My ISP is transferring all dialin accounts to another ISP, thus the change from transmitting whole e-mail addresses instead of only usernames for logins. I am running unstable, pppd and pap. Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED], as I am not subscribed to debian-user until after the ISP switch. Thank you! Art
Solved: Re: Solved: Now X-Windows Problem: Re: /bin/sh: /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure: No such file or directory
The X-Windows problem is solved here, now (well, solved user-wise). I found the XFree86.0.log file in /var/log/ and had a look through it. It showed that cyrillic fonts were missing, so I installed cyrillic fonts and reloaded configs. It worked. In any case, if others are having the same problem, looking in the XFree86.0.log file might be a good way to start troubleshooting. IIRC, there was once a command for that. The old behavior for a failing xserver configuration was a return to a console. The present behavior for a failing xserver configuration might be a blank screen and failure to process keyboard input. Please CC any replies to this address. Thanks. Art Lemasters --- Alessandro Ghigi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I am using woody and I am having the same problem. Last Sunday I did an upgrade and got the new XFree 4. Since then quite a few things have been getting worse and worse. The worst is that since 2 days starting X makes the screen black and the machine locks-up. Actually I don't think the machine is locked, it is just unable to read the keyboard (and mouse). While I was looking sadly at the black screen, anacron started the usual updatedb and did it fine (as far as I can guess from the noise!). Other problems have been a) while using X, text is displayed well, but the characters I type are displayed too close to each other, so that it's impossible to read them. b) suspend to disk works only from time to time. Till now I have not succeded in fizing this. In case I can, I'll tell you. Thanks Alessandro From: Art Lemasters [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org X-Mailing-List: debian-user@lists.debian.org archive/latest/116938 X-Loop: debian-user@lists.debian.org Precedence: list Resent-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resent-Bcc: I solved the problem by reinstalling perl 5.6 via dpkg. Now there is another serious problem. When x-windows starts up via xdm, the screen goes blank and the whole machine locks-up. I had to use the rescue disk to mount the hard drive and stop xdm from starting to reboot, get into lynx and send this mail. *...can't find any error messages* or anything. This has been happening since last night's upgrade (woody). ...any ideas? Please reply to this address as I am still looking for an outside account that will handle the debian-user volume. Thanks. Art Lemasters --- Art Lemasters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running woody. Running dselect in apt access mode, none of the upgrade packages will install. I also tried running apt-get. The error message when trying to install is ~~ /bin/sh: /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure: No such file or directory E: Sub-process /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt returned an error code (127) E: Failure running script /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt ~ /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure *is* there and contains less than 127 lines How can I fix this system so that it will upgrade for the time being? Please reply to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for now, as I have no e-mail account that will handle the volume of debian-user, yet. Thanks! Art Lemasters __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Get organized for the holidays! http://calendar.yahoo.com/ = * We shall serve God, family and country, in that order, because without the one before it, each would perish. * __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Get organized for the holidays! http://calendar.yahoo.com/ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null = * We shall serve God, family and country, in that order, because without the one before it, each would perish. * __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Get organized for the holidays! http://calendar.yahoo.com/
/bin/sh: /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure: No such file or directory
I am running woody. Running dselect in apt access mode, none of the upgrade packages will install. I also tried running apt-get. The error message when trying to install is ~~ /bin/sh: /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure: No such file or directory E: Sub-process /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt returned an error code (127) E: Failure running script /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt ~ /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure *is* there and contains less than 127 lines How can I fix this system so that it will upgrade for the time being? Please reply to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for now, as I have no e-mail account that will handle the volume of debian-user, yet. Thanks! Art Lemasters __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Get organized for the holidays! http://calendar.yahoo.com/
Solved: Now X-Windows Problem: Re: /bin/sh: /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure: No such file or directory
I solved the problem by reinstalling perl 5.6 via dpkg. Now there is another serious problem. When x-windows starts up via xdm, the screen goes blank and the whole machine locks-up. I had to use the rescue disk to mount the hard drive and stop xdm from starting to reboot, get into lynx and send this mail. *...can't find any error messages* or anything. This has been happening since last night's upgrade (woody). ...any ideas? Please reply to this address as I am still looking for an outside account that will handle the debian-user volume. Thanks. Art Lemasters --- Art Lemasters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running woody. Running dselect in apt access mode, none of the upgrade packages will install. I also tried running apt-get. The error message when trying to install is ~~ /bin/sh: /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure: No such file or directory E: Sub-process /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt returned an error code (127) E: Failure running script /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt ~ /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure *is* there and contains less than 127 lines How can I fix this system so that it will upgrade for the time being? Please reply to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for now, as I have no e-mail account that will handle the volume of debian-user, yet. Thanks! Art Lemasters __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Get organized for the holidays! http://calendar.yahoo.com/ = * We shall serve God, family and country, in that order, because without the one before it, each would perish. * __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Get organized for the holidays! http://calendar.yahoo.com/
Re: Solved: Now X-Windows Problem: Re: /bin/sh: /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure: No such file or directory
I forgot how to list the startup information (errors, etc.) for X-Windows. ...anyone remember how to do this? ...might help with a solution. CC me with the answer, please. Thanks. Art Lemasters --- Alessandro Ghigi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I am using woody and I am having the same problem. Last Sunday I did an upgrade and got the new XFree 4. Since then quite a few things have been getting worse and worse. The worst is that since 2 days starting X makes the screen black and the machine locks-up. Actually I don't think the machine is locked, it is just unable to read the keyboard (and mouse). While I was looking sadly at the black screen, anacron started the usual updatedb and did it fine (as far as I can guess from the noise!). Other problems have been a) while using X, text is displayed well, but the characters I type are displayed too close to each other, so that it's impossible to read them. b) suspend to disk works only from time to time. Till now I have not succeded in fizing this. In case I can, I'll tell you. Thanks Alessandro From: Art Lemasters [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org X-Mailing-List: debian-user@lists.debian.org archive/latest/116938 X-Loop: debian-user@lists.debian.org Precedence: list Resent-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resent-Bcc: I solved the problem by reinstalling perl 5.6 via dpkg. Now there is another serious problem. When x-windows starts up via xdm, the screen goes blank and the whole machine locks-up. I had to use the rescue disk to mount the hard drive and stop xdm from starting to reboot, get into lynx and send this mail. *...can't find any error messages* or anything. This has been happening since last night's upgrade (woody). ...any ideas? Please reply to this address as I am still looking for an outside account that will handle the debian-user volume. Thanks. Art Lemasters --- Art Lemasters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running woody. Running dselect in apt access mode, none of the upgrade packages will install. I also tried running apt-get. The error message when trying to install is ~~ /bin/sh: /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure: No such file or directory E: Sub-process /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt returned an error code (127) E: Failure running script /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt ~ /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure *is* there and contains less than 127 lines How can I fix this system so that it will upgrade for the time being? Please reply to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for now, as I have no e-mail account that will handle the volume of debian-user, yet. Thanks! Art Lemasters __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Get organized for the holidays! http://calendar.yahoo.com/ = * We shall serve God, family and country, in that order, because without the one before it, each would perish. * __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Get organized for the holidays! http://calendar.yahoo.com/ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null = * We shall serve God, family and country, in that order, because without the one before it, each would perish. * __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Get organized for the holidays! http://calendar.yahoo.com/
Woody Serious ISP Problem
I am running woody with a new, complete install on a new drive. Every time I send mail to one particular listserver (Patriarchy list at EGroups), my modem is shut off. My logs show no intrusions or strange processes when this happens. I've been running Debian development versions for over four years. Please send replies to this address also, as I am not subscribed to the debian-user list right now. Thanks in advance! Art Lemasters = * We shall serve God, family and country, in that order, because without the one before it, each would perish. * __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Messenger - Talk while you surf! It's FREE. http://im.yahoo.com/
Re: Printing
On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 07:54:36PM +0100, Daniel Burrows wrote: Is there an app which helps configure your printer for you? I can't remember what its called. Please 'CC' me on a reply. magicfilter might be the one you are looking for. ghostscript is another one you should download and read the docs for. gimp-print is supposed to be wonderful for drivers, and the info to compile it is there. But I've looked through the docs for gimp-print (also the bin and sbin directories) for an hour and cannot find the command to start it (no man or /usr/doc info I can find either). ;-) Oh...and after you download magicfilter, if dpkg doesn't make you do it, run /usr/sbin/magicfilterconfig _Art Thanks. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Printing
On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 12:02:47PM -0600, Art Lemasters wrote: On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 07:54:36PM +0100, Daniel Burrows wrote: Is there an app which helps configure your printer for you? I can't remember what its called. Please 'CC' me on a reply. magicfilter might be the one you are looking for. ghostscript is another one you should download and read the docs for. gimp-print is supposed to be wonderful for drivers, and the info to compile it is there. But I've looked through the docs for gimp-print (also the bin and sbin directories) for an hour and cannot find the command to start it (no man or /usr/doc info I can find either). ;-) Ah, one has to print from the gimp, AFAIK, with the File, then Print selections from the menu to make it work. The gimp-print drivers are at http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ thanks to the one who gave us that URL yesterday. :-) Oh...and after you download magicfilter, if dpkg doesn't make you do it, run /usr/sbin/magicfilterconfig _Art Thanks. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
HP842C,HP932C,HP952C, Cannon 2100,3000,6000, Epson 740,860,895 Compatibility?
Have any of you successfully used the Hewlett-Packard 842C, 932C, 952C, Cannon 2100,3000,6000, or Epson 740,860,895 printers with Debian Linux, potato? All printers I've seen work with Windows, according to the documentation for them (while none say Windows only, as written in the hardware compatibility docs), and none have Linux compatibility info in their documentation. The printer chase appears to be a minefield of various popular models from each manufacturer--some of which work and others that don't. I've returned two printer models, so far, that weren't listed with any compatibility list, yet were said not to work at all (because manufacturers refused to give I/Os/escapes to developers) on obscure, Web-archived discussion lists. _Art
lp: driver loaded but no devices found
When I reboot and run dmesg, it says, lp: driver loaded but no devices found If I try to print from mutt, the error message says, jobs queued but cannot start daemon This happens on a potato system. What's the answer? Is it in a config file related to kmod? Art
Re: lp: driver loaded but no devices found
On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 06:37:57PM -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote: On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 05:23:56PM -0600, Art Lemasters wrote: When I reboot and run dmesg, it says, lp: driver loaded but no devices found If I try to print from mutt, the error message says, jobs queued but cannot start daemon This happens on a potato system. What's the answer? Is it in a config file related to kmod? Have you configured the parport_pc (io, irq, dma)? You may also want to fiddle with the BIOS configuration of the parport communication system. For instace, I have: options parport_pc io=0x378 irq=7 dma=5 in /etc/modutils/aliases (run update-modules after editing). Typical PC hardware will be similar, but you may need to consult you manuals or BIOS. I forgot to enable the parallel port in the BIOS setup! arghh! I feel stupid. ;-) But working my way around the newer file system changes for module loading needed to be done, and thank you very much for the info. It's worth doing too, for FS orientation, if nothing else. After returning the Lexmark Z11 (as a Lexmark rep. told me that the I/O for it is a trade secret), I bought the HP DeskJet 612C. Lo and behold, the Printing How-To holds much information on printer compatibility. Now, to compile the 2.2.15 kernel to see if the printer needs a driver. Thanks again, all of you, for all of the help on this. In the long run, the learning is what's important, and no info on Linux is extraneous. Art
Driver for Lexmark Z11 Printer?
Has anyone written a linux driver for the Lexmark Z11 printer? _Art
Languages Mutt or Console
Languages other than English mail to and show in mutt here just fine, but fonts for such languages are garbled when forwarded by mutt. ...any of you know which packages I should download to forward other language fonts from mutt in a VC (virtual console)? Art
Re: BEFORE YOU UPGRADE TO POTATO LOOK AT...
29Jan00, 02:45, Rocky Mountain Range Time I just now did an upgrade through dselect, apt, and chose the default in dselect (libc6). After the reboot, Netscape 4.7 worked fine--even with plugger reinstalled. Netscape accessed other sites well, too, so the 3c905tx driver is working here, too (in re. another post to debian-user). It is understandable that the package info for libc6-bin would confuse (where it says replaces libc6), but the default action (libc6) in dselect kept this server run (installation of libc6 and removal of libc6-bin) kept this system running. Art on Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 11:07:08AM -0500, paul wrote: BEFORE YOU UPGRADE TO POTATO LOOK AT ALL THREADS ON DEVEL PERTAINING TO LIBC6 PROBLEMS. Sorry about the all caps. ;-) but I believe its in order. There is currently a problem with the libc6 package that the maintainer is working on right now. Libc6 was incoporated into a different package (libc6-bin or something like), which now conflicts with and replaces libc6. Several threads on debian-devel explain the problem more fully. I would always reccomend thoroughly scanning debian-devel for upgrade issues before you apt-get dist-upgrade so you don't get bit. -ptw-
Re: BEFORE YOU UPGRADE TO POTATO LOOK AT...
On Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 02:34:49AM -0700, Art Lemasters wrote: It is understandable that the package info for libc6-bin would confuse (where it says replaces libc6), but the default action (libc6) in dselect kept this server run (installation of libc6 and removal of libc6-bin) kept this system running. But as the message above was being written in vi, in a vc, cron interrupted the vc with a warning message, messing up the message above and not allowing me to see it as it appears above. ;-) ...might have been just a new default configuration feature, though. Heh, heh, I'm not complaining. ;-) Art
Re: Majordomo Trouble
On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 07:35:32AM -0800, aphro wrote: what user/group is uid 30/group 31 ? majordomo usually pukes when trying to write to /var/log/majordomo so check permissions on that thats the only directory where i have recieved a similar error with (although it was kind enough to tell me the exact directory) The UID and GID there belong to majordom. Actually, shlock was complaing either about root directory permissions or majordomo $HOME (/var/lib/majordomo) permissions, from the looks of the error message received. Should any permissions in the /var/lib/majordomo directory be set to majordomo:majordomo, as they are supposed to be in the /var/lib/majordomo/lists directory? while your at it check the permissions of the wrapper script, if your concerned with security make sure it is chmod o-x, then adjust permissions accordingly so majordomo will work.(slight majordomo security issue, which by the maintainers is infact intentional so not likly it will get fixed) Ok, I'll try that. Is the wrapper script majordomo.pl, and should that be set to majordomo:majordomo or remain as root:root? Thanks for the reply, Nate. _Art alemas Potato is running here. After trying to subscribe a new alemas user to a list, majordomo told me alemas alemas alemas MAJORDOMO ABORT (mj_majordomo)!! alemas alemas shlock: '.' is not writable by UID 30 GID 31 alemas -- alemas alemas and of course, the user was not subscribed. ...anyone have an answer alemas to this one? The permissions do not seem to be syncing with the alemas documentation for majordomo here. alemas alemas Art alemas alemas alemas alemas alemas -- alemas Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null alemas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By:http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMPhttp://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 7:27am up 159 days, 19:34, 1 user, load average: 1.19, 1.14, 1.10
Re: Majordomo Trouble
I'll do that if no more reasonable solution is found, Bob. It's appearing to me that such is likely. Thank you for the reply and possible best solution. Art On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 10:31:28AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: I never could get the permissions configured correctly on the Debian package of majordomo and installed from the source tarball instead. Bob
Majordomo Trouble
Potato is running here. After trying to subscribe a new user to a list, majordomo told me MAJORDOMO ABORT (mj_majordomo)!! shlock: '.' is not writable by UID 30 GID 31 -- and of course, the user was not subscribed. ...anyone have an answer to this one? The permissions do not seem to be syncing with the documentation for majordomo here. Art
New Potato Netscape Bus Error
Netscape Communicator 4.7 (smotif) was running fine until I upgraded potato (one week since the last upgrade) tonight. Now, Communicator dies with a bus error before it appears. I don't know how to get more error message output for Netscape, because there is no documentation for it in either a manpage or in /usr/doc. Enlightenment is running for X Windows here. ...any ideas about what is causing this, and no Netscape is just fscked, so don't use it messages, please. ;-) It was running flawlessly here before this last upgrade attempt. _Art
GIMP Dying with File Saves
The GIMP program is dying here most times when file saves are attempted. I'm running GIMP 1.1 with Potato. Is anyone else having this problem? Art
Re: GIMP Dying - Error Messages
Here's what the .xsession-errors file said. - Message: Passed serialization test gimp: fatal error: file gimpdrawable.c: line 240 (gimp_drawable_gimage): assertion failed: (GIMP_IS_DRAWABLE (drawable)) gimp (pid:349): [E]xit, [H]alt, show [S]tack trace or [P]roceed: ** WARNING **: wire_read: unexpected EOF (plug-in crashed?) Message: Passed serialization test ** WARNING **: wire_read: unexpected EOF (plug-in crashed?) (incidentally, gimage already has a valid preview - 80x40) gimp: fatal error: file gimpdrawable.c: line 240 (gimp_drawable_gimage): assertion failed: (GIMP_IS_DRAWABLE (drawable)) gimp (pid:444): [E]xit, [H]alt, show [S]tack trace or [P]roceed: ** WARNING **: wire_read: unexpected EOF (plug-in crashed?) ** WARNING **: wire_read: unexpected EOF (plug-in crashed?) Message: Passed serialization test ** WARNING **: gdisplays_flush() called recursively. (incidentally, gimage already has a valid preview - 80x40) gimp: fatal error: file gimpdrawable.c: line 240 (gimp_drawable_gimage): assertion failed: (GIMP_IS_DRAWABLE (drawable)) gimp (pid:481): [E]xit, [H]alt, show [S]tack trace or [P]roceed: ** WARNING **: wire_read: unexpected EOF (plug-in crashed?) ** WARNING **: wire_read: unexpected EOF (plug-in crashed?) Message: Passed serialization test IMLIB ERROR: SHM can't get SHM Identifier for Shared Pixmap Wrapper Falling back on Shared XImages IMLIB ERROR: SHM can't get SHM Identifier for Shared XImage Falling back on XImages - End forwarded message -
Re: HTML WYSIWYG creator
Composer (an HTML editor) is WYSIWYG, and it comes with Netscape for Linux. Art On Fri, Dec 24, 1999 at 09:07:16PM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: Is there any HTML WYSIWYG creator for Xwindows under Linux, or something similar? I would like to be able to create web pages w/o needing to learn html. Thanks, Antonio. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: HTML WYSIWYG creator
...correction. That might only come with the whole Communicator package (instead of just Netscape). _Art On Fri, Dec 24, 1999 at 07:56:58PM -0700, Art Lemasters wrote: Composer (an HTML editor) is WYSIWYG, and it comes with Netscape for Linux. Art On Fri, Dec 24, 1999 at 09:07:16PM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: Is there any HTML WYSIWYG creator for Xwindows under Linux, or something similar?
Download Whole Directories from Apache?
I run an Apache Web server. How can I allow someone else to download a whole directory of HTML files from my site with just one command line? Is there a module, existing command, configuration or other Debian Linux program that will facilitate this? I am running Potato here, with kernel 2.2.13. Art
Re: Opera Beta for Linux Released!
And what are the great points about Opera? Is it distributed under a GPL? Art -- Fathers' Rights Network http://www.hky.com/frn/frnhome.html
Off Topic - Journalist Slams Linux
Dwight Silverman, who writes about high technology for the Houston Chronicle, (Denver Rocky Mountain News, 12-13-99) called Linux the geek fad du jour. He said quite a few negative and inaccurate things about Linux...seems to be on a crusade to increase MS profits at the expense of the reputation of Linux. Silverman said that he writes about mainstream computing, of which Linux is not a part. and went on with a few inaccuracies about the OS, including describing it as only being an inadequate workstation (nothing about its capabilities as a server). Well, there's the high tech news from the Denver Rocky Mountain News (and possibly the Houston Chronicle, since Silverman writes for it, too). ...makes me want to write about idiots who slam Linux in ignorance. I think I will. ...sorry I could not find the nasty column mentioned above on the Net. The about.com hits get in the way these days (on the Metacrawler), and the Rocky Mountains News archives are a pay-per-use service. It was in yesterday's (12-13-99) Mile Hightech section. Art
Fwd: FRN Fwd: Linux on RS6000 F40
Someone recently asked this list about whether or not Debian/GNU Linux can be run on the IBM RS6000, but I cannot find the original post. ...from a friend of a friend (below), and thanks to Albert (who is an excellent UNIX systems admin.). Now we know. Art - Forwarded message from Albert E. Whale [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Organization: ABS Computer Technology, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.9-19mdk i686) Art, Is this the info you were looking for? Jeff Gentry wrote: Alexei Kakhno ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : Who has experience in LINUX installation under RS6000 F40? Not sure, but according to a teleconference yesterday from IBM (on AIX4.3.3), Linux is officially supported now on RS/6000 43P-150, E50 and F50 models. Not sure how well that bodes for a F40 though. -- Jeff Gentry [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] You're one of those condescending UNIX users! Here's a nickel kid ... get yourself a real computer. -- Albert E. Whale [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.hky.com/aewhale.html -- Sr. Database, Internet and Unix Systems Consultant Pennsylvania Parenthood Initiative - It takes two people to become parents, the children need both of them! http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/4688/papi.htm Parents without Partners - Past President Co-Founder of The Purple Heart Foundation Fathers' Rights Network http://www.hky.com/frn/frnhome.html - End forwarded message -
Re: rs6000/7013
Here's an interesting note for you, Albert. James, I'm not sure Albert can answer your question, but he has worked with IBM AIX systems, and if I remember correctly, isn't the rs6000 a system that houses IBM AIX sometimes (and other times, that horrid other proprietary OS...VMS or whatever)? What do you think, Albert? Will Linux install on the rs6000? If it hasn't been done, yet, it would certainly be a good port for Linux and another good inroad to the corporate offices. _Art On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 02:44:18PM -0500, Lewis, James M. wrote: Does anyone know if an ibm rs6000/7013 is usable with debian? I tried to find it at linuxppc.org but it was not in the supported list and not in the unsupported list. The hardware howto is x86 only. Can anyone clue me in?? I know next to nothing about this box except that it is going to die at the end of the month. tia jim -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Gateway name servers IP addresses
Here they are. Art - From whois gateway.net|mailx -s ns [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Registrant: Gateway 2000, Inc. (GATEWAY16-DOM) [address and other impertinent info ommitted] Domain Name: GATEWAY.NET Record last updated on 04-Nov-1999. Record created on 23-Sep-1997. Database last updated on 7-Dec-1999 16:53:53 EST. Domain servers in listed order: DNS-03.NS.AOL.COM198.81.17.238 DNS-04.NS.AOL.COM205.188.157.238 - -
Re: Mailing list archives search always fails?
I have not even seen such a search engine. In the meantime, though, you might try searching the archive of your choice page by page. In Netscape you can use edit, then find, and in lynx you can use / (the foreslash, for search), then enter keywords. Art On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 12:10:35PM -0800, Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: Hello all, Has anyone else noticed that lately the mailing list archive search function always seems to fail? I've been getting the file not found error on every search, it seems. Thanks. Syrus. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Syrus Nemat-Nasser [EMAIL PROTECTED]UCSD Physics Dept.
Re: [OT] Re:
Try entering commands on the command line to start these programs. Enter the commands with a -v or -V following each command in order to get verbose error reporting. Maybe someone else on this list can offer perameters that give good error reports in many programs. Then send the error output to us so that we might be of more help. Art On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 02:51:09PM -0600, Brad wrote: On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 09:06:02AM +, Paul Keenan wrote: Jason Winters wrote: does anyone know why packages would install right, then when I try to run them nothing happens? Could you be any more vague ? i could! Why does it not work? -- finger for GPG public key. 29 Nov 1999 - new email address added to gpg key
Re: Quick X questions...
On Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 01:37:07PM -0500, Carmine Lucarelli wrote: Hi all. Couple of questions regarding XWindows in Debian. I installed and configured xfree86 on my system, and now it boots directly into xwindows instead of the console. What file can I modify so I boot into consoles and run X manually? Also, when I exit x, it brings me back to a graphical login prompt It appears that you are running xdm (instead of startx). Take a look at /etc/init.d/xdm. The scripts in /etc/init.d are run during boot. instead of the console! How can I change that behaviour? BTW, it's using the default window manager. Hope this makes sense... Instead of exiting x by pushing control-alt-backspace, try doing control-alt-F1, control-alt-F2, etc., to go to each of the virtual consoles. Art
Drivers for ASUS P5A-B???
Are there any drivers for the ASUS P5A-B in the kernel 2.2.12 (or elsewhere?)? The mainboard has the ALi 1542 AGPset and ALi 1543C chips on it. I did notice older chip numbers in the kernel config but was afraid to try those. BTW, I'm running an AMD K6 2/450 CPU on the board. I'm getting some PCI bus errors on boot, although everything seems to work fine (albeit seemingly slowly for such a board). I've searched news archives across the Net and found no good answers to this one, yet, although, no doubt, many are running this mainboard by now. Art
Re: Drivers for ASUS P5A-B???
Here are the relevant (and not so relevant but interesting) lines from a dmesg run, 'phro (and thanks for the reply). If there are any other relevant lines or files, I'll spew those, too. During the kernel config process, I found no driver clearly defined for this chipset (not ALi 15xx, but only 14xx drivers), so I installed a generic one. ...any ideas? - Detected 451041303 Hz processor. Calibrating delay loop... 901.12 BogoMIPS CPU: AMD AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor stepping 0c PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf0560 PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware PCI_IDE: unknown IDE controller on PCI bus 00 device 78, VID=10b9, DID=5229 PCI_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later PCI_IDE: simplex device: DMA disabled ide0: PCI_IDE Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS) PCI_IDE: simplex device: DMA disabled ide1: PCI_IDE Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS) - And BTW, you should see this thang compile a kernel! ...less than 10 minutes on a mainboard and processor that were dirt-cheep! Hoowee! :-) Art
Re: What do I REALLY need for Potato upgrade?
On Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 11:29:54PM -0600, David J. Kanter wrote: I'm in the process of going from Slink to Potato, but I've got a modem. I'm not going to download all the updated packages, but what should I get to get a relatively solid Potato build? Download all of the base packages for sure, and consider downloading all of the standard packages, for a start. Art
Re: don't make it a black box please
On Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 04:13:03PM -0600, Fethi Okyar wrote: [...] Will anybody hear this outcry out there? The reason I moved to Debian is cause I was thinking I would get more control as to what I would be installing on my machine and all the other configuration issues. I don't want SUPERCLEVER installation engines, I just want to know what is going on!! Try using dselect. Art
What Port Does Ping Use?
Which port number does ping use in Debian Linux? I searched /etc/services and /etc/inetd.conf but did not find any icmp port. Art
Re: What Port Does Ping Use?
On Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 07:22:28PM -0500, William T Wilson wrote: On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Art Lemasters wrote: Which port number does ping use in Debian Linux? It doesn't. Ping uses ICMP, which does not have ports. Thanks, William. I've learned. But I am trying to ping this machine through a Cisco 675 router/modem (yeah, still messing with this thing) from a remote server, so the problem is yet to be solved. I know that NAT can be done through the router/modem by entering commands involving port numbers. Other than that,... ? Art
Re: What Port Does Ping Use?
On Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 07:57:37PM -0500, William T Wilson wrote: If you are using single address NAT, it should just work. If you are using multi-address NAT, it will probably never work. Can you ping out from the Linux system to the rest of the world? Yes, I can ping out to the rest of the world. ...looking through the documentation for the device again to see if I can find something missed before, but doubtful... Art
Re: What Port Does Ping Use?
On Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 07:57:37PM -0500, William T Wilson wrote: If you are using single address NAT, it should just work. If you are using multi-address NAT, it will probably never work. Can you ping out from the Linux system to the rest of the world? Maybe the command syntax for the Cisco 675 will help. A nat entry is entered thusly: set nat entry add inside, private IP here port number outside IP here port number tcp -or whatever protocol at the end here example: set nat entry add 196.168.192.3 80 206.184.73.6 80 tcp (for a Web server, e.g.) Art
Re: What Port Does Ping Use?
On Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 09:10:09PM -0500, William T Wilson wrote: Just a question... why are you trying to do this? You can ping out so obviously you have connectivity. I want to make sure that the nameserver is answering remote servers on this hostname and IP. Sendmail is not recieving messages to this machine for any other name than the secondary domain name (e.g., domain.com but not machine.domain.com), even though sendmail.cw has been properly configured here. ...think it might have to do with how my ISP put the MX record in, possibly, and that the NS or sendmail on this machine is not resolving any domain. Hopefully, the experience of setting up DSL for an Internet server on a single IP will be successful enough so that I may write documentation for it, soon. Thanks for the info about ICMP earlier. Art
Thank You All! Re: What Port Does Ping Use?
Thanks to you all for the tips on ping (ICMP)! I don't understand it well enough but will be reading more about it. The problem here was solved (turned out to be a bind misconfig. that was not a syntactic error, thus hard to find with all the bind differences in doc. examples out there). DSL with one IP is running servers here, now, so the documentation will begin. ...need to add the other machines here. Thanks again, for all the help, and send any questions about NAT for DSL access (for the Cisco 675) with one public IP my way. I'll be at the regular job intensely for the next three or four days but will try to answer any such questions or collaborate to find solutions as soon as possible. Art
Re: slink--potato (or apt-get rules!)
On Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 09:59:47AM -0500, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: I used apt via dselect, too, and the upgrades have been smooth since slink with very few forced overwrites. IMO, the move from hamm to slink was much more difficult. Art Last night I decided I'd attempt to upgrade a simple slink base installation to potato, just to see how well it worked. I installed the base slink system and used apt via dselect to upgrade everything. I am truly amazed at how easy it was! Everything just worked. No reboots required. Man, I love Debian!
LINUX-GENERAL: How the Corporations See Linux
This is a bit off-topic but the sort of news that appears on the list from time to time. It's about an article in Computer Edge, a free weekly that's distributed in various offices of computer and network related corporations around Denver, Colorado, US. It is also dropped at newsstands around the Denver area, home of at least two large computer/networking corporate business parks that have been recieving much business that was formerly done in Silicon Valley (California) and Portland (Oregon). NORAD is also near here. In the article, Linux: Not Yet Corporate-Ready (Robin Hohman), the author wrote ...that Linux needs to grow in three key areas... ...scalability, security and applications. The author wrote that these are the areas that Linux needs to catch up to Windows NT and UNIX in before it will be accepted by corporations. The rest of the article went on to cite testimony from various networking experts as to Linux's shortcomings, showing a lack of knowledge in network systems and a willingness to defame it without such basic knowledge. There you have it--ignorance (and fear on the part of many MS experts is our worst enemy in some corporate circles. I've seen it firsthand while working contracts for businesses in the Denver Technology Center, i.e., new, complete images being reinstalled on NT servers at least once per week, other network operating systems of only 2 or 3 hundred workstations going down, on average, once per week... BTW, the same article cited another expert (Dr. Subo Guha) as saying that ISPs are looking at using Linux for Web hosting,... Well, ain't that some leading edge (or Computer Edge) news? I'm talking the very edge, man! Heh, heh,...bwahahahaha! It's time to attend some shows with Linux systems and conduct some surveys around Denver, isn't it? The Web address for the publication mentioned above is www.computoredge.com. Art
Re: LINUX-GENERAL: How the Corporations See Linux
BTW, I was referring to the Nov. 1 issue of the magazine. What bugged me the most was the author's declaration that Linux is ...more likely to be on someone's mind than on someone's server. The magazine is also distributed in San Diego. Art On Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 12:07:28AM -0700, Art Lemasters wrote: [...] on the list from time to time. It's about an article in Computer Edge, a free weekly that's distributed in various offices of computer and network related corporations around Denver, Colorado, US. It is also dropped at newsstands around [...]
Re: I worked it out :)
On Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 06:40:08PM +1100, Marc-Adrian Napoli wrote: [...] Is there anyway to specify that a log file is to be a daily-rotated one rather than a weekly-rotated one? [...] See man logrotate and /etc/logrotate.conf Use the directive, daily. Art
Another Crazy DNS Question... ;-)
How can I set up two completely different FQDNs (two totally different hostnames) on one box (e.g., my.domain.net alsomy.otherdomain.net) so that this machine accepts traffic on my.domain.net while appearing to be alsomy.otherdomain.net to anyone who accesses it via the webserver or mailserver? ;-) Do I need to run virtual hosting here? Will it work to point A records from each of those host names to the same, single IP address? Art
Re: Another Crazy DNS Question... ;-)
On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 01:09:32PM -0500, William T Wilson wrote: On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote: Yes, you can point A records from two domains to the same IP address. You can also use a CNAME record. I'm not sure when one approach would be preferred over the other. The answer is simple: Use A records for everything and forget about CNAMEs. :} I use a CNAME when a machine is supposed to have multiple names for the same purpose. For example, if your machine is www.foo.com and you also want it to be www.department.foo.com then use a CNAME. But if your machine is mail.foo.com and you also want it to be mail.bar.com then use an A record, because foo.com and bar.com are not the same entity. Does anyone here know how to do this with the most recent sendmail in potato (8.9.3) to receive mail for both domain.com and machine.domain.com, etc.? It does _not_ work to just run sendmailconfig and choose to receive mail for domains __ FQDNs--at least not on this box. It will only receive mail to one or the other. Art
IP---Domainname---OtherDomainname
How can I use one IP address and one domain name to exchange all kinds of server traffic for another domain name? IP-1stDomainname--2ndDomainname In other words, I have one IP address delegated to a domain (e.g., hidden.static.domain.name.net). I want all traffic (on the same box) to come and go from another domain (on the same box, e.g., mydomain.net). ...any ideas? Art
Re: IP---Domainname---OtherDomainname
To further simplify, I am stuck with a _public_ domain (a static one) delegated for a DSL connection. We'll call it static.domain.name.net. I want to exchange traffic for mymachine.domain.net (I own domain.net). There is only one IP address, and this is one potato box that is running bind. Art On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 11:45:57AM -0700, Art Lemasters wrote: How can I use one IP address and one domain name to exchange all kinds of server traffic for another domain name? IP-1stDomainname--2ndDomainname In other words, I have one IP address delegated to a domain (e.g., hidden.static.domain.name.net). I want all traffic (on the same box) to come and go from another domain (on the same box, e.g., mydomain.net). ...any ideas? Art
Re: enlightenment conflicts with enlightenment-theme?
On Mon, Nov 01, 1999 at 01:11:59PM -0600, Charles Lewis wrote: Is anyone else having conflict problems with enlightenment? Yes...and most likely the same problem. I am running potato and am upgrading with apt in dselect. To remedy the situation here, I have been selecting the desired enlightenment programs in the conflict screen and pressing shift-Q to force the install. It works all right here, for now. Art
Re: enlightenment conflicts with enlightenment-theme?
On Mon, Nov 01, 1999 at 07:24:21PM +, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: nope. i think the new version of e includes BrushedMetal theme as default, as well as dox and stuff. that's why they're conflicting packaged. I spoke too soon. :-) After upgrading again, the e-packages work as you said. Art apt-get install enlightenment enlightenment-theme-bluesteel works fine for me. --
Re: list problems?
Yes. Either the Debian listserver has a problem (although I've received posts from it...very few posts over the past day, though), or the rootservers are being reconfigured, or many users are having DNS problems, or there are telephone service line problems somewhere,... I'm running through a DSL line via US West here. Art
Re: 3com 3c905b
On Thu, Oct 28, 1999 at 06:25:54PM -0500, David Punsalan wrote: The installation program that comes with the debian base disks shows that 3c59X is for the 3c509 ...so I guess it's okay to use the driver for 3c59x. Those darned model numbers are confusing, aren't they? ;-) I'm running the same driver for my 3c905tx, though. The config for the 2.2.12 kernel said it was good for both the 3c59x series and the 3c90x series ethernet cards, IIRC. Art 3c59x, 3c9xx, something like that (I think it says both). It's in the custom kernel compile config. Someone here will correct me if I'm wrong. ;-)
Re: Will 2.2.13 be packaged for potato ?
On Thu, Oct 28, 1999 at 10:25:07AM +0200, Joop Stakenborg wrote: On Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 07:00:23PM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: Will 2.2.13 be part of potato ? I think so. The 2.2.13 sources are in the archive now. Guess the image will soon follow. You were right. It has arrived. ;-) 2.2.13-1 is there. Art Joop -- Joop Stakenborg PA4TU, ex-PA3ABA [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Amateur Radio Software Database http://radio.linux.org.au -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
dhcpcd, 2.2.12 Configs for It
The only way I've gotten dhcpcd to work with the Cisco 675 here is to do (after the long wait for booting) dhcpcd -r -R with the dhcpcd -r being the key difference from the documentation statement about it working with 2.2.x kernels? Maybe someone can help with further understanding of this. ...think maybe it has something to do with my other configs on this machine? Art
Re: Help Please, potato ne2000 install problem
On Thu, Oct 28, 1999 at 11:56:52AM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: 3) I would try the Ethernet HOWTO. I noticed that the metalab.unc.edu/LDP site (which is www.linuxdoc.org) is down tonight. You can also find the Ethernet How-To at http://www.linux.ncsu.edu/LinuxDocProject/HOWTO/Ethernet-HOWTO.html Art
Re: 3com 3c905b
On Thu, Oct 28, 1999 at 04:10:00PM -0400, Michael Hammonds wrote: what driver do I use to install a 3com 3c905B Network card 3c59x, 3c9xx, something like that (I think it says both). It's in the custom kernel compile config. Someone here will correct me if I'm wrong. ;-) Art
Re: potato boot hung at Starting printer spooler:
Thanks, Greg. Those were some great ideas (especially in re. boot sequences). I've just gotten DSL to work in the client mode and am working on getting it going in server modes. Setting up the DNS will be the tough part. ...haven't the slightest about how to write the bind configs or which NAT to use, but I'm searching for documentation on it. Art
potato boot hung at Starting printer spooler:
My potato system is stopping for a very long time at Starting printer spooler: then, after 15 minutes or so, 1999-10-25-18:05:08.036 Get_local_host: hostname 'heart' bad it spits out a few more lines, then hangs for half an hour or so at: Starting Samba daemons: nmbd then indefinitely at smbd Before this happened, I changed the bind config to forward only, and uncommented the /etc/named.conf line: query-source 53; I changed some /etc/init.d/network lines to give my Linux OS 10.0.0.3 and the gateway (Cisco 675 router/modem) 10.0.0.1. The ethernet card was configured to have 10.0.0.2 I also had changed the /etc/resolv.conf file to add my ISP's nameservers. ...anyone have any idea of what's happening here or how this can be fixed? I was not able to boot completely. Does this have something to do with bind? Art
Re: How do you start GNOME?
On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 04:50:57PM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote: Thanks. It seems I have TWM and need someting a little more user friendly. Enlightenment probably. I run enlightenment. In an Eterm (or xterm), try gnome-panel ...not sure, since I don't have the panel installed again, yet, but I think that's it. You can run it from a term or insert the line (above) just before the enlightenment start line in your .xsession file, if you are running xdm. Art
Re: trashing Netscape (was Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid Fast!)
On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 12:13:01AM -0500, Kent West wrote: I use Communicator, not just Navigator; perhaps that's the clue. The test that Daniel suggested crashed my Netscape. I've tried running with and without Java/Javascript. I can expect Netscape to crash at least once every time I sit down at the computer (two or three times a day for 1 to 3 hours a day). Come to think of it; this is on my home machine. My office machine doesn't have Netscape crashes near as often. Hmmm. ;-) I just tried that test and had no trouble with Netscape (latest Communicator 4.7 in potato, Cyrix PR200+, cheap, non-parity memory,...), although I've had trouble with every other version since the bo OS. The only time I've seen Netscape 4.7 crash is when it competed with a recent Mahjongg process (wife and kids play with it) for memory. ;-) Art
Re: Something wrong with potato modutils
On a most recent upgrade, I noticed that there was a question posed by the system on modutils, along with a prompt to say no or hit enter. ...sorry, but although I remember there was a notice about involved config files being replaced, I did not jot it down. I chose enter, to make the changes (to delete the obsolete config file(s)). Art On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 01:36:18AM -0700, George Bonser wrote: Well, I THINK it is modutils that is causing the problem. Two machines, both upgraded yesterday. Now neither one can properly depmod. All modules report unresolved symbols and refuse to load. NOTE this only affects kernel compiled after the upgrade so it could be a libc or ldso issue, not sure what changed in the past few days. Old kernels that were working before the upgrade still work. Kernels built after the upgrade are broken. George Bonser When someone annoys you, it takes 32 muscles to frown, but it only takes 4 muscles to extend your arm and smack them in the head. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Something wrong with potato modutils
/etc/modules.conf and /etc/modutils were replaced on this machine (potato) two days ago. /etc/modules.conf.old was made on the 19th (six days ago). Art
Re: Switch from static IP to DHCP
On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 01:55:54AM +0200, Wolfgang Bauer wrote: I have to switch from static ipadress to dhcp. I installed dhcp clientpackages but my system still uses the static ip adress. How do I properly remove this and which packages do I have to uninstall? See and edit the /etc/init.d./network file. Check your /etc/resolve.conf file if you ran your own DNS. Art Thanx, Gery -- - Gernot Bauer, University of Linz, Austria [EMAIL PROTECTED] - The answer is yes, me. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Switch from static IP to DHCP
On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 01:55:54AM +0200, Wolfgang Bauer wrote: I have to switch from static ipadress to dhcp. I installed dhcp clientpackages but my system still uses the static ip adress. How do I properly remove this and which packages do I have to uninstall? ...not sure whether you received my earlier reply, as there was no copy sent here. I suggested that you look at /etc/init.d/network and /etc/resolve.conf Art Thanx, Gery -- - Gernot Bauer, University of Linz, Austria [EMAIL PROTECTED] - The answer is yes, me. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: trashing Netscape (was Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid Fast!)
If you want to install Communicator 4.7, do it by installing the packages via dselect (or apt). Before you start it in any account on your machine, though, mv your bookmarks, rm -r /home/yourusername/.netscape, and reinstall your bookmarks.html. Maybe that will help. I run Netscape 4.7 (in potato) just fine on this old Cyrix PR200+, 430VXboard, 64MB RAM (non-parity),...well, even though this machine's an' old piece 'o crap. ;-) 4.7 runs better than any of the previous versions here. And BTW, there has been no clean install on this box since 1.3 (bo?). Art
Correction: Re: trashing Netscape (was Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid Fast!)
On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 11:17:00PM -0600, Art Lemasters wrote: If you want to install Communicator 4.7, do it by installing the packages via dselect (or apt). Before you start it in any account on your machine, though, mv your bookmarks, rm -r /home/yourusername/.netscape, and reinstall your bookmarks.html. To be more explicit (so your bookmarks will be saved), mv bookmarks.html a.safe.directory, like /home/yourusername (or cp -r bookmarks.html /home/yourusername) then start netscape in your account, then mv bookmarks.html /home/username/.netscape (which is created again, after you start Netscape in your account). Art -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: FTP and telnet
Look at /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny. Read the documentation (man pages, /usr/doc, everything) very thoroughly, because there are serious security risks involved with mistakes made at configuring FTP and telnet. BTW, proftpd and ssl telnet are the best way to go with those if you must run them, IMHO. Any input (or corrections) from others on this list would be welcome. Art On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 11:48:12PM -0700, Evan Burkitt wrote: I have just installed Debian 2.1 and need some advice on how to get FTP and telnet working. For ftp I can see that inetd runs in.ftpd when an ftp client attempts to connect, but the operation fails on the client side with Connection closed by remote host. On the server I have a user named ftp in nogroup, and a home directory for it; what else am I missing? I have the same problem with telnet: in.telnetd runs, then stops, and my telnet client reports disconnected by host. I'm new to Unix and trying to put together a system for learning purposes. I'm out of ideas on these two problems. Thanks. -eb- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
How to Access ttyS2 device?
How can I access a device through ttyS2 (serial line from mainboard 9 pin serial port) with telnet (or any way)? The device (that darned Cisco 675 router/modem, yet) has no documented IP address preset, and the MSWin info (I'm in Linux 2.2) says to simply open a term program and push the enter key two or three times with no mention of any host address. Will the MAC address help in any way? If nothing else, do any of you have any info on how to access ttyS2 in general? I've set setserial for that port. Art
Warning - ipmasq
I installed ipmasq and lost connectivity to the Internet with its default configuration. ...another lesson to read before I install. ;-) Art
Which IPs for Which Devices?
I have one Linux box (with DNS, etc.) connected to the Internet with a modem (PPP). I want to connect it with a router (routing PPP) via one ethernet card (eth0). Should all three devices (Linux system, ethercard and router) have the same IP address...two have private addresses and one public? ...which ones should have which IPs? All of the documentation I've found so far only addresses nets with a whole range of IP addresses, but I only have _one static IP_. Art
Re: Which IPs for Which Devices?
On Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 02:40:01PM -0400, Luc wrote: Art Lemasters wrote: I have one Linux box (with DNS, etc.) connected to the Internet with a modem (PPP). I want to connect it with a router (routing PPP) via one ethernet card (eth0). Should all three devices (Linux system, ethercard are you on a dedicated connection with a fixed ip? Yes. The IP is static, and the connection will be dedicated as soon as I get DSL up and running here. and router) have the same IP address...two have private addresses and one public? ...which ones should have which IPs? All of the documentation I've found so far only addresses nets with a whole range of IP addresses, but I only have _one static IP_. Art -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Lucas Liacopoulos e-Scape Information Systems Inc. 455 St-Antoine Ouest, #L100 Montreal, Quebec, H2Z 1J1 (514) 878-1084
How to Access 2nd Serial Port Cisco 675?
How can I access my Cisco 675 modem/router through the second serial interface? ...anyone have experience with the 675 or at least with access any device through the second serial port? Art
Re: Asking to delete downloaded debs
On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 06:24:50PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: I have two potato systems. On the one I most recently upgraded, running dselect with the apt method, I get asked Do you want to erase the downloaded .deb files (Y/n)? On the other system, I am not asked, but I would like to change that. I have been unable to find what configuration setting affects this. Can anyone point me to the correct place? I don't know anything about that, Bob, but if one package is not completely installed, that question will not appear. Could that be the case with what you are seeing? Art Bob -- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid Fast!
On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 08:17:25PM -0500, Paul Miller wrote: Its been a while since I've used the debs. I install netscape into /usr/local and get the same annoyances that Ian complains of. Maybe the netscape installer fixes things. Who knows? ...could be. I installed 4.61 with the debs, and it worked better than those before it. Now, I'm installing 4.7. Art -- Paul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Where do all the bits go when the computer is done with them? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: how do i NAT a legacy network ?
On Wed, Oct 13, 1999 at 01:23:00PM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: [...] BTW, what is ipchains? Is that the equivalent of ipfwadm? [...] http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/IPCHAINS-HOWTO.html Art
Re: dpkg procedure
On Mon, Oct 11, 1999 at 10:44:12PM -0700, bwarsing wrote: [...] feasible, but I am rather apprehensive as to what will happen after I complete the install. For example: If I do... dpkg -i nmap_2.12-3.deb ...from a users home directory will it install it and configure it properly, or will it install it into that directory? I have read the man If you install it as root, it will install and configure properly, in the proper directories. Your command syntax and argument are good. Be sure that the package dependencies are met, though (i.e., that other packages depended upon by nmap are installed first). Art pages regarding this, but have been unable to determine if I am going to make a mistake. Is there anyone who can outline just the basics of the procedure and perhaps some pitfalls to watch out for. Thanks. sincerely, bwarsing. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
nosuid option for '/'?
Do any of you see any potential problem with putting the 'nosuid' option for the '/' directory in /etc/fstab? I'm trying to follow a Linux security How-To, but am less encouraged to implement it after reading more about it (e.g., that it might be less secure to do so with perl-suid implemented, even though perl-suid has been removed from this sytem). And if nosuid is a good thing for this system, can it be implemented for the /home directories only, without doing it for the whole / directory? Art
Re: Hi Joey, I have I hope temporarily quit trying to use debian.
Seriously, Mike, bleeding edge hardware and software will be either more expensive or more difficult to install. I choose the slightly more difficult route to getting work done, because high market profile tools (like Bill's favorites) are too expensive and lacking in security for corporations to support. As for games on a personal system, on the other hand... Art, dimly reminiscing of having used his birdbrain and beak to peck the enter key repeatedly for a 1.0 install on older hardware... On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 04:57:28PM +0930, Mike Carter wrote: How long before debian becomes easier to install. I played with it for a year. Successful in many aspects but eventually I quit as I don't have enough programming knowledge to get it to run as well as I want it too. I have an intel i740 agp video card so I had to update to the driver.(the rest of the computer consists of an abit 440bx board 128meg sdram essolo sound card celeron 300 chip which has always run at 450 8.4 gig for windows and a 6.4 for linux +diamond 36x cdrom). No problems but then to get this and that to work I had to change my x system from whatever was in deb 2.1 to whatever was in potato and so on. I tried to use gnome but it kept changing to often add one bit and it all broke. So I used kde. Eventually when it broke with an x upgrade or glib2 whatever upgrade I quit. My sound card was the same. I had to fuck around for ages to get it to run. This I know is a problem for everyone moving over from windows to linux if not a programmer but it just got too hard for too long. So eventually though I didn't want too I installed Redhat 6.0. When I can get hold of a copy I will probably go to Mandrake 6.1. I wanted and still want to be a Debian user but the installation will have to get easier and I need the installation program lilo to see both drives and allow me to boot either easily. -I bought the 6.4 drive for linux. I probably appear like an absolute lame. So be it but I don't think I am. As soon as I installed debian I compiled a 2.1 kernel then a 2.2 etcetra. Could you make the rest of the programming team (the world if you like) aware of my concern that some of us newbies try real hard with debian before giving it away because it is just too hard. However I am still on the debian user mailing list, still hoping it will get easier and I can go back to debian. BTW the guys and gals in the debian team are overall doing a great job and I hope they don't quit. When installation gets easier I 'll be back. BTW your newsletter remains great. Hopefully you will use this note to spur the team on. cheers, Mike -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Hi Joey, I have I hope temporarily quit trying to use debian.
On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 02:11:41AM -0600, Art Lemasters wrote: Art, dimly reminiscing of having used his birdbrain and beak to peck the enter key repeatedly for a 1.0 install on older hardware... ...or maybe it was 1.2 (rex?). Anyway, my point was that installs have been fairly easy with older, somewhat standard hardware (e.g., Cyrix CPU, ancient Trident video card, etc.) and much more difficult with newer or nonstandard hardware (like the oddball SCSI controller I made a development kernel for). For new hardware and window managers, Win98 (with its reported nightmares with drivers when it was new) or NT somehow does not seem to be the answer. Art, who is trying to get a clue with his first C++ tutorials
satan - Anyone Else Using It?
While trying to run satan here, I received a _compilation_ error message. Have any of you tried satan in potato (as I have) and received the same message (or not)? Art
More: Re: crontab reports: ....
Allright, so what about the following? Do programs sometimes need to be unregistered as well? Is the following a security problem on my system? /etc/cron.daily/suidmanager: suidregister: /var/list/.bin/multigram registered but not installed suidregister: /usr/lib/emacs/19.34/i386-debian-linux/movemail registered but not installed Hmmm...will be reading-up on this suidregister stuff. Art On Sat, Oct 09, 1999 at 02:19:11AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: On 09-Oct-99 Bruno Van de Casteele wrote: [...] /etc/cron.daily/suidmanager: /usr/sbin/sendmail PERMISSION MISMATCH: was root.root 777 changed to root.root 4755 [...] It is less an error and more of a warning. It you want to setuid a program, use suidregister. [...]
How to Remove kernel-image-2.2.9 with Buggy Script?
When I try to remove an old kernel-image, the following error occurs. Can't return outside a subroutine at /var/lib/dpkg/info/kernel-image-2.2.9.postrm line 111 How can I efficiently remove it? ...tried dpkg --force- and that didn't do it. Art
Re: Smail rewrite From address
I once used smail (use sendmail now). If the From header rewrite problem is the same as it was, you can go to the www.debian.org site, follow the Documentation link, then follow the FAQ-O-MATIC link to find your answer. Yes, you can change a smail configs to rewrite the From header to get what you want. Art On Mon, Oct 11, 1999 at 07:20:26PM +0100, Steve George wrote: Hi, I currently use a Debian machine as my main machine at work but am having a problem with mail. The problem is that I need the from address to be [EMAIL PROTECTED] .com but smail keeps making the From address [EMAIL PROTECTED] Because we have a firewall (and for some other weird reasons) I am not allowed to use th subdomain part. So is there any way I can rewrite the From address on all outoing mail (or just the stuff from my account) so that it is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any pointers to info along these lines would be great - atm I've had to giveup mutt for Netscape mailer :-( Thanks, Steve -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Netscape and its cache
Netscape does not remove all cache through the browser preferences, as far as I've seen. Just do rm -r /home/yourusername/.netscape/cache (careful, and include /home/username/.netscape/cache in your path to avoid deleting other important directories!) then mkdir /home/yourusername/.netscape/cache to have an empty cache directory. to remove all existing netscape cache that persists on your drive. Art
...Bridging or Routing - Which With DSL?
I have a Cisco 675 modem/router on the way for the DSL line here. Should I run it as a bridging or routing (PPP) line? Or do any of you know of any concise documentation that would help me decide? Art
X Windows Security With 2nd Session
In order to run a second X Windows session, I was advised to add :1 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :1 vt8 -bpp 16 to the /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers file. What about security for the second vt session (local/ external Internet)? Should I add some lines to the /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config file--lines that begin with DisplayManager., as are for the :0 session? I'm not concerned about any local security threat (any in the subnet), but am concerned with any possible threat from outside the subnet (in this case, the Internet). ...running potato here, BTW. Art
Re: ...Bridging or Routing - Which With DSL?
Thanks William, but my access provider has given me the option of going either way, so the decision has yet to be made. I have been told that no tech. support will be offered with DSL from this provider. Thus, the question. Art On Fri, Oct 08, 1999 at 07:26:19PM -0400, William T Wilson wrote: On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, Art Lemasters wrote: I have a Cisco 675 modem/router on the way for the DSL line here. Should I run it as a bridging or routing (PPP) line? Or Ask your ISP. They should tell you how to configure it, the same time as they give you your IP address, DNS information, etc.
Re: potato broke X :(
...not sure, because I began running xdm for potato, but did you copy and config an .xinitrc to the user home directory X is running in? You might check the X docs on this. Art On Fri, Oct 08, 1999 at 07:56:47PM -0700, Ron Farrer wrote: David Coe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Well, as a starting point, try just this: 1) exit to be sure we start clean 2) login (as root or a normal user, doesn't really matter for this test, maybe even try both to see if there are differences). 3) at the shell prompt just type 'xinit' and watch to see what happens; it will either spew out a bunch of text and start an X window with a single xterm (from which you can 'exit'), or it will spew out a bunch of text and fail just like before. Let me know what it does, and what it spews. Okay, I logged in as root and typed 'xinit' and it went to vt7 and just sits there with a blank screen. Switching back to the vt that I started with, it has the error I previously posted about connection broken. TIA, Ron -- = = Ronald Burnett Farrer = = - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - - http://www.magnesium.net/~rbf/; - !! ! If you let Windows dominate, expect the worst: ! ! WORLD.SYS is corrupt, reboot UNIVERSE Y/n! !! ??? ? How could this [Y2K Bug] be a problem in a country ? ? where we have Intel and Microsoft? -- Al Gore ? ??? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: potato broke X :(
Sorry, but I did not know Xinit would work globally, and I stand corrected on that, but you do need to put your window manager entry into the Xinit or .xinitrc before it will start your window manager, unless something has changed on this recently (with slink or potato, if so?). Art On Sat, Oct 09, 1999 at 02:02:11AM +, David Coe wrote: Ron Farrer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] in your user directory: .xinitrc .xserverrc .xsession I could not find any of these files in my users home or /root!?! Is this part of the problem? No! They could be contributing to the problem if they were there, but their absence is quite normal. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: kernel-package 6.24 broken?
I wouldn't be sure the problem's with kernel-package either. The same sort of error messages came to me (when I made 2.1.132) when my system lacked a _package_ (program) that was needed to do the make. ...hope this helps, and maybe someone else will shed more light on this topic for us. Art On Fri, Oct 08, 1999 at 09:12:18PM -0500, Stephen R. Gore wrote: Just updated and upgraded this evening, and tried to make a kernel image: astra:/usr/src/kernels/kernel-source-2.2.12# make-kpkg --revision=custom. a.2 kernel_image /usr/share/kernel-package/rules:488: *** unterminated call to function `shell': missing `)'. Stop. astra:/usr/src/kernels/kernel-source-2.2.12# I'm not sure if the problem is with kernel-package, any ideas? -- Regards, Steve Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. Reboots are for kernel and hardware upgrades. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: qt2 trying to overwrite /usr/lib/libqimgio.so.0
I did dpkg --force-overwrite -i with qt2. Tell me which packages its libraries serve (so I can try those packages), and I'll let you know how they work. Art On Thu, Oct 07, 1999 at 04:04:13PM -0500, Charles Lewis wrote: Installing the qt2 package give the following error: dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/qt2_2.0.1-0.1_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/libqimgio.so.0', which is also in package qt1g I can't uninstall qt1g without uninstalling a host of kde applications due to dependencies, and there are a few apps that I can't install without installing qt2. Is the problem that qt2 is not quite ready for distribution yet? === Charles Lewis, Director of Administrative Computing Southwestern Adventist University, Keene, TX (817)556-4720 [EMAIL PROTECTED] FAX (360)397-7952 === -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Splitting debian-user (was Re: DO NOT UPGRADE TO POTATO...)
On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 05:16:59AM -0400, Ed Cogburn wrote: [...] I'm not strongly for or against. I could certainly live with another mailing list, but whatever we do, lets leave debian-devel to the developers. I agree, Ed. ...developers and future developers. :-) Hmmm. A new list called debian-unstable or even debian-test (which might be a little more appealing for Web surfers who see the list info) might not be a bad idea, though. Art
Security UID, GID?
One account on my system (e.g., one user in the /home directory) has had its group permission changed to from x to s without my doing so, a couple of times. For example, in the /home directory, one user directory permission looked thusly: drwxr-sr-x 16 user user 1024 Sep 29 18:00 user I did not manually chmod the permissions that way. What might have caused this, and what are the implications, anyone? Thanks for any leads on this, and yes, I have changed that group permission back to x each time this occured. Art
Best API for g++?
What's the best API (GUI) for writing/generating C/C++ code in Linux X Windows, in your opinions? I need some suggestions or recommendations from those of you who have used them. Also, what's the command and arguments for compiling hello world in Linux with g++ (just to get me started)? Art
Satan Bug?
--- heart:#satan syntax error at ./satan line 83, near (Might be a runaway multi-line string starting on line 78) Execution of ./satan aborted due to compilation errors. ...anyone know anything about this one? Art
Re: Satan Bug?
On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 02:00:58AM -0700, Seth R Arnold wrote: Art, check the bug servers -- there might be more information on this. It might not hurt though to post the surrounding ten lines or so, maybe it is something obvious. :) That was all, Seth, from running /usr/sbin/satan -v from a superuser. I'll see what I can find on my own, though, until someone else enlightens us. Thanks for the reply. Art On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 02:59:54AM -0600, Art Lemasters wrote: --- heart:#satan syntax error at ./satan line 83, near (Might be a runaway multi-line string starting on line 78) Execution of ./satan aborted due to compilation errors. ...anyone know anything about this one? Art -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Seth Arnold | http://www.willamette.edu/~sarnold/ Hate spam? See http://maps.vix.com/rbl/ for help Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread! -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: To the Debian Project, IMHO [long]
Those who want to build Debian Linux systems for simple users may do so. The tools to do so exist. Some systems could be built for such users, some to accomodate NT admins. and yet others for and by UNIX admins. BTW, I recently worked a contract for a corporation that uses nothing but NT servers and workstations. The machines were rebooted every two or three days, and complete images were installed to them once a week or more. Granted, though, the employees there were actually allowed to send and receive e-mail to their workstations via the Internet with no UNIX server to protect them! Art
