Re: [exim4debian] Re: Debian-exim - blech!
On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 09:48:43AM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: > "mail" is and always has been a standard system account: "mail" is also the account that owns the mail spool, hence all MUAs run sgid mail per policy. Running the MTA as mail as well would mean that the MTA's queue would have to belong to mail as well, giving MUAs read access to the MTA's queue, which is a significant security risk. This is the reason why we decided to run exim4 with a non-"mail" account. > Of course your argument applies equally to "Debian-exim" - it might be > assigned to a user; it's quite as likely as that "mail" might be so > assigned. I beg to differ here. It is quite more unlikely to re-use an account with a name _that_ ugly. > > Second, purging exim4 in such a situation could lead to all files > > belonging to that user to be deleted. > > Purging exim4 should not cause the deletion of the username I beg to differ again. > nor of files that exim4 did not install. So we shouldn't purge the mail queue and hints database? Since policy requires a purged package to vanish without leaving any trace of its installation, that would be a policy violation. Anyway, I am sick of this discussion. You didn't bring a single new argument into it. Please try to establish policy about package user names, or take the issue to the tech ctte. Until then, Debian-exim is bound to stay. Greetings Marc -- - Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | lose things."Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [exim4debian] Re: Debian-exim - blech!
On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 10:26:01PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: > On Fri, 2004-09-17 at 21:01, Marc Haber wrote: > > > I believe this was done because there is some Debian policy that a > > > weird user name must be created in this case. > > > > No, the weird account name was chosen in absense of a formal policy > > to minimize the chance of clashes with account names deliberately > > created by the local admin. > > I never did understand: what was the problem with "mail"? First, installing exim4 would probably re-use the account "mail" which might be assigned to a user. This might grant excessive rights to that user (for example, access rights to the mail queue). Second, purging exim4 in such a situation could lead to all files belonging to that user to be deleted. Greetings Marc -- ----- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | lose things."Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [exim4debian] Re: Debian-exim - blech!
On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 10:00:36AM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 07:55:48PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > ok, I know this has been brought up on the list, but I just want to vent my > > frustration at this fine distribution picking such a horrible username for > > exim4! > > > > Sheesh! I mean, the maintainers do a fine job otherwise, but I can't believe > > that this package is going into sarge this way. Please see the README.Debian-exim file included with the package, or on http://q.bofh.de/~mh/stuff/README.Debian-accountname. > > blech... > > > I believe this was done because there is some Debian policy that a > weird user name must be created in this case. No, the weird account name was chosen in absense of a formal policy to minimize the chance of clashes with account names deliberately created by the local admin. Greetings Marc -- ----- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | lose things."Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why Linux, Why Debian
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 14:58:38 +0100, Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Op vr 13-02-2004, om 00:09 schreef Manoj Srivastava:
>> 5) Are upgrades easy for the BSD OS's?
>
>They're both not really difficult, but they're certainly not as
>convenient. On Debian, it's just a matter of "apt{-get,itude} update &&
>apt{-get,itude} upgrade", which takes a few minutes; whereas the
>recommended way to do an upgrade on a BSD OS involves recompiling the
>entire system (at least, the "world"). That tends to take a long time (a
>matter of hours at least, even on recent systems).
... and it needs a complete toolchain present on the target system.
With Debian, it is perfectly possible to operate a server systems
without a compiler present. To do these things with a BSD, much more
effort is necessary.
Greetings
Marc
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Re: Hoax: Re: What up with www.debian.org ?
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 02:39:10 -0800, Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Christ, now I'm really getting scared: >chkrootkit reports: >Checking `lkm'... You have 4 process hidden for ps command >Warning: Possible LKM Trojan installed chkrootkit is well known to mis-report a non-existing LKM trojan on recent sid systems. Don't panic. bug #217278. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: man v. info
On Tue, 25 Dec 2001 17:24:26 +0100, Imre Vida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >As far as info is concerned, i fully agree with Karsten. >It doesn't work intuitively for me either; i just get >lost in the maze of links and 3 sentence pages >I hate it for this. Use pinfo. Feels like lynx. Much more intuitive. The default colors suck, though. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Re: 486 router is very slow
On Sun, 10 Jun 2001 01:52:41 +0200 (CEST), Leen Besselink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I set up a router with my old 486 computer. I have there potato witch kernel >> 2.4 installed. >> >try running 2.2 or 2.0 instead, that might help also. In a router, having 2.4 has a _very_ strong point called netfilter. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Kernel-Package, Kernel-Patches, lots of questions
Hi, kernel-package supports kernel patches, as I learned short time ago. But IMO, it lacks the documentation for this. If i understand correctly: - patches go into /usr/src/kernel-patches/$arch/$version/apply. - If "PATCH_THE_KERNEL" is set, patches are automatically applied on make-kpkg. But here are some questions: (1) How are patches handled that create new config options in the kernel config? When make-kpkg runs, kernel config usually is already finished - how am I supposed to activate the new options? (2) How can I choose which patches are to be applied? Are all patches applied without me having a chance to choose? (3) Can I see in the created .deb which patches have been applied? (4) Can patches be put elsewhere than in /usr/src/kernel-patches? (5) Where is the documentation about module-hooks mentioned in kernel-package(5)? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Re: firewall log message question
On Tue, 29 May 2001 19:37:47 -0500, will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > May 23 12:51:01 server kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth1 PROTO=1 > 192.168.1.62:3 208.33.90.85:13 L=56 S=0x00 I=30114 F=0x T=248 (#5) > May 23 12:51:05 server kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth1 PROTO=1 > 192.168.1.62:3 208.33.90.85:13 L=56 S=0x00 I=30125 F=0x T=248 (#5) > May 23 12:51:11 server kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth1 PROTO=1 > 192.168.1.62:3 208.33.90.85:13 L=56 S=0x00 I=30140 F=0x T=248 (#5) > May 23 12:51:23 server kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth1 PROTO=1 > 192.168.1.62:3 208.33.90.85:13 L=56 S=0x00 I=30167 F=0x T=248 (#5) Protocol 1 is ICMP, and ICMP does not have ports. The firewall code uses the place that it usually uses to print ports for IMCP type/code, so what we face here is an ICMP packet of type 3 code 13. ICMP 3/13 says "communication administratively prohibited" which means that an access that you tried has been denied by a firewall on the remote side, and you should probably let your local machine know about that to avoid running into timeouts. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Re: rtl8139 vs. 8139too (was Problems with 8139too...)
On Wed, 18 Apr 2001 13:38:42 +0200, Emil Pedersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >While more or less on the subject 8139, could someone please explain the >differenses between these, and what benefits one might have over the >other. I've used them both without trouble, but I asume there is a >reason why 8139too was written (it's newer right?) The rtl8139 driver has always been experimental. 8139too is the new driver which is only marked as experimental in the sources and not in the kernel konfig. 2.4 has 8139too only. See it as rtl8139 2.0. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Re: exim?
On Mon, 16 Apr 2001 22:01:27 +0600, "V.Suresh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Now, with exim, I run 'runq -v', and all exim says is a pid number, and exits. >How do I make exim more verbose, and I want to actually see the mail transfer >over my console. Help. exim -v -q Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Re: Problems with 8139too driver in kernel 2.4.2
On Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:06:23 +0200, Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >2.2.19 hat beide Treiber, und für 2.4.3 gibt es auf Sourceforge einen >noch neueren. Ich habe das Problem, dass eine ältere 8139-basierende >Karte zwar erkannt, aber nicht korrekt initialisiert wird (kein link >beat). Sorry, didn't mean to post that to the list. I need to wear a paper bag for some time. What I wrote is: 2.2.19 has both rtl8139 and 8139too, and sourceforge has a even later 8139too for 2.4.3 which fixes an initializing problem occuring on an older 8139-based card with the 8139 too from stock 2.4.3. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Re: sawfish on woody
On Fri, 13 Apr 2001 09:22:06 +0200, christophe barbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I've dist-upgraded a fresh potato box to woody. >Everything works fine. >But I can't install sawfish. >It seems to not be available. >I can't see it anymore in the available package at >http://packages.debian.org/testing/x11/. > >What's wrong ? There is currently neither sawfish nor sawmill in woody. I suspect that sawmill has been removed from sid because sawfish replaces sawmill, and sawfish didn't make it from sid to woody yet. I _suspect_ that installing sawmill's potato packages will probably work, and I even _suspect_ that it would be possible to put potato apt lines below the woody ones, causing apt to pull potato packages iff woody packages are not available _and_ to automagically update to the woody packages as soon as they get available. Greetings Marc -- ------ !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Re: Email embarrasment
On Thu, 12 Apr 2001 21:02:46 +0200, Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>It is an dialup system using exim as mta.
>
>I do not know where to look for the problem.
What do the exim logs /var/log/exim/{mainlog|rejectlog) say?
Most graphical clients deliver e-mail to the MTA via SMTP while
console mail clients use the command line api. My rough guess is that
localhost is missing from host_accept_relay in /etc/exim/exim.conf, so
that exim rejects the SMTP delivery. For this to remain undetected, it
is necessary that either the MUA doesn't deliver the error message to
the user or the user ignores it.
Greetings
Marc
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Re: Problems with 8139too driver in kernel 2.4.2
On Sun, 1 Apr 2001 10:49:27 +0200, Michael Meskes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 02:37:23PM -0300, Daniel Toffetti wrote: >> I have two cheap cards and it worked fine and straightforward for > >On my newer machines it worked well too. > >> me. The only problem I had was that I selected a wrong driver the first >> time, then I browsed the drivers diskette and found the right driver, which >> is already bundled with the kernel. >> Have you compared the sources of the drivers for 2.2.18 and 2.4.2 ?? > >Does not help since the driver is a complete rewrite. 2.2.19 hat beide Treiber, und für 2.4.3 gibt es auf Sourceforge einen noch neueren. Ich habe das Problem, dass eine ältere 8139-basierende Karte zwar erkannt, aber nicht korrekt initialisiert wird (kein link beat). Grüße Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Re: Progeny Debian 1.0 released
On Mon, 9 Apr 2001 11:13:42 -0500, Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >If you don't ever want announcements from Progeny on any subject posted to >any Debian mailing list ever again, speak up now. You desparately need to get your irony/tongue-in-cheek detector adjusted. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Re: PLEASE: standard package README file/orientation
On Thu, 24 Aug 2000 12:49:42 +1000, Anand Kumria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >README.Debian exists in the package(s) which have made substainial changes >to how the package operates. If it exists it contains important information >that the maintainer wanted you to read. However, Debian's apache comes configured to hide README files. Thus, http:///doc//README.Debian is hidden from anybody who happens to enjoy the web browser interface to /usr/doc. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Re: Installing packages without manpages and docs
On Thu, 3 Aug 2000 10:34:12 +1000 , "Kenrick, Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >IIRC Slink minimum install is circa 30 MB > >Would it be worth a try installing minimal Slink first, >then apt-get upgrade;apt-get dist-upgrade ? No. The man pages are in the packages themselves. Your approach wouldn't give any gain. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Installing packages without manpages and docs
Hi,
I am using Debian on a bunch of servers with a minimal install. The
barebone install is about 80 MB for potato and I'd like to reduce it
even more.
Is there any way to make apt-get stop installing packages' man pages
and documentation? I never actually tried that, but would symlinking
/usr[/share]/{doc|man|info} to /dev/null do the job without disabling
apt updates?
I have docs and man pages on my personal work station, and having them
multiple times is a waste of disk and backup space.
Has anybody actually done something like that?
Greetings
Marc
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Re: man --> info?
On Thu, 18 May 2000 09:29:11 -0500, you wrote: >I want to try it, but apt-get wants to re-install an entire server and >tools for me, I have a stable apache+jserv, and don't want to install >another http server. > >Any way to convince apt to just get the add-on tool? Have a look at the equivs package. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
/etc/ioctl.save?
Hi! I'd like to know what /etc/ioctl.save is and to which package it belongs. That file gets touched on every system boot and therefore needs special attention with the IDS. Any hints how to stop that behavior or what package to file a bug against? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Re: hacked?
On Thu, 27 Apr 2000 09:02:05 -0400 (EDT), you wrote: >On the other hand, I do not feel as strongly as other posters that telnet >needs to be disabled in order to have a secure machine. Strong passwords >will work just as well. I have an account on a large Solaris network >where telnet has been open for ages, and will continue to be. The passwd >program in *incredibly* anal about ensuring that all passwords are >complex. To my knowledge there has never been a significant security >breach on this network. You have been lucky. Even secure passwords can be sniffed, and telnet sessions already established can be hijacked. That way, the attacker doesn't even have to wait for your password to fly around. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Netscape menu fonts with X11?
Hi, my ancient notebook can only do 800x600 pixels. Netscape from potato uses large fonts for menu bar and dialog boxes, so that the preferences dialog doesn't fit on screen. How can I make netscape use smaller fonts? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Re: lm-sensors: can't access /proc file
On 04 Apr 2000 15:52:28 +0200, you wrote: >* "Marc" == Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I was missing sensors and w83781d. On the P5A, it now works. However, >> the temperature values are grossly off, reporting a "temp3" of 208.5 >> Centigrade... > >Same here. I think, temp3 is the connector for the temperature sensor >(TRPWR in the Manual). temp1 and temp2 seems realistic to me. > >For the p3b you need another module, probably one of the lm*, not >the w83781d. So, lm-sensors is mostly unuseable at the moment because the docs are lacking :-( Greetings Marc -- ------ !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Re: lm-sensors: can't access /proc file
On 01 Apr 2000 00:37:21 +0200, you wrote: >Do you have the modules loaded? On my computer (with a p5a-board too), >it was necessary to add the modules listed below to /etc/modules: > >i2c-proc >i2c-ali15x3 >i2c-dev >w83781d >sensors >smbus >i2c-core > >With this it works. I was missing sensors and w83781d. On the P5A, it now works. However, the temperature values are grossly off, reporting a "temp3" of 208.5 Centigrade... On the P3B-F, w83781d takes about two minutes to load and then temp2 and temp3 are deported as zero. temp1 seems to be the case temperature. What do I do to get sensible temperature readings? sensors-detect complains about missing /dev/i2c nodes - do I have to create them manually? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
lm-sensors: can't access /proc file
Hi! I am trying to get lm-sensors up and running on a system with Asus P5A mainboard, Debian potato and kernel 2.2.14. I am already using kernel-package and thus, I didn't need to recompile my kernel. I installed lm-sensors, libsensors0 and lm-sensors-source. I changed to my kernel top level directory and invoked "fakeroot make-kpkg modules_image". This built a .deb containing the modules that I installed. I then ran sensors-detect which found the i2c bus and seemed to have finished ok. But, when I invoke sensors itself, it tells me that it couldn't access /proc file, and I don't have /proc/sensors. Also, the /dev/i2c nodes the docs mention seem to be missing. What am I doing wrong? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Re: Setuid scripts with Apache?
On Wed, 08 Mar 2000 17:32:58 -0600, you wrote: >I have a perl CGI that calls a suidperl script that broke in the update to >slink. What is suppoed to happen is the CGI gets the data from the web page, >rigorously checks it for safeness and then system()'s a root suidperl script >to do the work. It used to work under potato, but now under slink, I get the >following error in my error.log: Can't do setuid Why don't you system() that perl script without the suid bit via sudo? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Re: March 9, 1999
On Thu, 09 Mar 2000 00:15:11 +0100, you wrote: >March 9, 1999 saw the birth of Slink. Where is my Potato? I want it on a >dish (oh sorry, disk that is...) --hans How many bugs did you report or fix in the last two weeks? I am pretty sure the developers are doing great work as usual. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Re: effect of having stable and unstable listed in sources.list
On Sat, 4 Dec 1999 16:16:24 -0500 (EST), you wrote: >I would not recomend mixing slink and potato sources. Early in the >potato development this was possible as slink and potato were not too >different and only a few files were updated. But now most files depend >in some way on libc6 v2.1 or perl5.005 and will cause major problems if >they are installed and you are not willing to upgrade yet. A bigger problem is that quite some potato packages depend on a later debhelper to be built on slink. Later debhelpers don't build on slink because they need Test.pm which isn't installed with slink. If there only were a debhelper > 2.0.51 for slink, running slink wouldn't be such a pain. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
building openssh on slink
Taking this over to debian-user since I don't think this discussion has a place on debian-devel. Subject fixed, too. Cc: to Markus, just in case you don't read debian-user ;-) On 08 Nov 1999 08:47:56 +0200, Markus Stenberg wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marc Haber) writes: >> On 03 Nov 1999 03:19:00 +, you wrote: >> >I've just uploaded OpenSSH, the binary package for which I've called >> >``ssh'' so it will replace the non-free version in due course. >> Good work, thanks. > >Agreed. I dislike the choice of package name, though - breaking all >existing installations at once isn't very neat way of doing things - even >with disclaimers. We had IDEA as default cipher[1], for example :P > >> |configure: error: *** libcrypto missing - please install first *** >> |make: *** [build-stamp] Error 1 >> |[EMAIL PROTECTED]/528]:~/devel/packages/openssh/openssh-1.2pre7$ >> >> torres is a slink system, and I can't seem to find libcrypto. It's >> neither in main nor non-US for either slink or potato and it also >> can't be found on www.hands.com. > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] »cat /etc/debian_version >potato >[EMAIL PROTECTED] »dpkg -S /usr/lib/libcrypto.so >libssl09-dev: /usr/lib/libcrypto.so >[EMAIL PROTECTED] » I see... However, building openssh on a slink system seems to be a major undertaking since the openssh package needs pam. I tried compiling libpam on slink, but failed. After pulling a bunch of packages that potato-pam needs though the compiler, I can't figure out the next problem. |gcc -O2 -I/mnt/main8/home/mh/devel/packages/libpam0g/pam-0.70/build-tree/Linux-PAM-0.70/include -D__NO_STRING_INLINES -DLINUX_PAM -Wall -I/mnt/main8/home/mh/devel/packages/libpam0g/pam-0.70/build-tree/Linux-PAM-0.70/include -fPIC -DPAM_DYNAMIC -c pam_userdb.c -o dynamic/pam_userdb.o |pam_userdb.c: In function `user_lookup': |pam_userdb.c:93: `DBM' undeclared (first use this function) |pam_userdb.c:93: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once |pam_userdb.c:93: for each function it appears in.) |pam_userdb.c:93: `dbm' undeclared (first use this function) |pam_userdb.c:93: warning: statement with no effect |pam_userdb.c:94: `datum' undeclared (first use this function) |pam_userdb.c:94: parse error before `key' |pam_userdb.c:97: warning: implicit declaration of function `dbm_open' |pam_userdb.c:105: `key' undeclared (first use this function) |pam_userdb.c:105: warning: implicit declaration of function `dbm_firstkey' |pam_userdb.c:105: warning: implicit declaration of function `dbm_nextkey' |pam_userdb.c:106: `data' undeclared (first use this function) |pam_userdb.c:106: warning: implicit declaration of function `dbm_fetch' |pam_userdb.c:129: warning: implicit declaration of function `dbm_close' |pam_userdb.c: In function `pam_sm_authenticate': |pam_userdb.c:179: warning: passing arg 3 of `pam_get_item' from incompatible pointer type |make[3]: *** [dynamic/pam_userdb.o] Error 1 Did anybody out there manage to successfully build an openssh package for slink? > Sue me - that's because some ssh clients/servers in non-Linux world >didn't support blowfish, and 3des is .. hm. untrustworthy, in my eyes. *shuffle* phew, TeraTerm ssh can do blowfish ;-) Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
How do I make a bootable debian rescue CD?
Hi! I'd like to have a bootable CD that contains a not-so-small Debian installation with most console utilities to repair a broken file system. It'd need to have raidtools, tar, cp, dd in full features versions. To make that disk, I'd probably generate a Debian installation on a spare disk that has everything I want and then convert the file system for CD generation. To run this, I would probably have to boot into a RAM disk and then mount the CD as /usr to have the programs available. Making things even more difficult: The CD recorder is not on a Linux system, but on a Windows box. Does Debian offer packages to generate a bootable ISO9660 Image that I then can write to a CD? Or do I have to do everything myself? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Re: Web access to /usr/doc?
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999 16:03:08 -0400, you wrote: >I'm simply saying that this is already implemented as >http://HOSTNAME/doc/PACKAGE I was not aware of the doc configuration in /etc/apache/srm.conf. And I didn't think when I answered your last e-mail [1]. I apologize. Greetings Ma "_that_ is embarrassing" rc [1] Yes, I usually _know_ that there is some difference between http://localhost/... and file://. -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Re: Web access to /usr/doc?
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999 13:04:23 -0400, you wrote: >Why not use http://localhost/doc/PACKAGE ? In my case, the web browser is running on my desktop machine which is a Windows machine not running any web server software. Even if it were a Debian box, /usr/doc needs only to be present on a single machine in the network: |[EMAIL PROTECTED]/507]:~$ du -s /usr/doc/ |55577 /usr/doc |[EMAIL PROTECTED]/508]:~$ This is a machine with almost no packages installed. I recon that on a typical box, /usr/doc is about 100 to 200 MB large. No need to have this on every local machine. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Re: Web access to /usr/doc?
On Wed, 15 Sep 1999 12:34:22 -0500, you wrote: >I wish dwww would just be fixed to not munge links for html docs. I'd agree with that one. And I think that dwww desparately needs a way to support /usr/local/doc for locally installed packages. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
vncserver and vnc-doc conflicting?
Hi! |[EMAIL PROTECTED]/507]:/usr/doc$ sudo apt-get install vnc-doc |Reading Package Lists... Done |Building Dependency Tree... Done |The following packages will be REMOVED: | vncserver |The following NEW packages will be installed: | vnc-doc |0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 5 not upgraded. |Need to get 0B/526kB of archives. After unpacking 588kB will be freed. |Do you want to continue? [Y/n] |[EMAIL PROTECTED]/508]:/usr/doc$ Any ideas why the documentation is set to conflict with the "real" package? vncserver doesn't seem to install documentation as comprehensive as vnc-doc contains. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Web access to /usr/doc?
Hi! Since dwww sometimes goofs in building URLs: Would this link: |[EMAIL PROTECTED]/503]:/var/www/usr$ ls -al | grep doc |lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root8 Sep 14 19:27 doc -> /usr/doc/ |[EMAIL PROTECTED]/504]:/var/www/usr$ introduce any security issues? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Re: smbumount doesn't
On Sat, 04 Sep 1999 20:04:18 -0500, you wrote: >Marc Haber wrote: >> On Thu, 2 Sep 1999 22:18:35 -, you wrote: >> >if rebooting the puter is a solution to samba problem then >> >perhaps a restart of samba is enough? >> >> Smbmount and samba are totally different things. >> >> Does umount /mountpoint work in that case? > >No, it responds with "device is busy". Same with "umount -f >". Du you still have file descriptors open in on that mountpoint? Greetings Marc -- ------ !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Re: smbumount doesn't
On Thu, 2 Sep 1999 22:18:35 -, you wrote: >if rebooting the puter is a solution to samba problem then >perhaps a restart of samba is enough? Smbmount and samba are totally different things. Does umount /mountpoint work in that case? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Re: teTeX and DWWW
On 25 Aug 1999 14:35:49 +0200, you wrote: >Does > >http://torres.gf1.internal/cgi-bin/dwww?type=file&location=/mnt/main8/usr/doc/texmf/tetex/teTeX-FAQ.gz > >work? Yes. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
teTeX and DWWW
Hi! When I use DWWW to access the teTeX-Documentation, I can get through fine to http://torres.gf1.internal/cgi-bin/dwww?type=file&location=/mnt/main8/usr/doc/texmf while torres.gf1.internal is my Debian box. However, none of the links on that page work (Example: http://torres.gf1.internal/cgi-bin/dwww?type=file&location=/mnt/main8/usr/doc/texmf/tetex/teTeX-FAQ gives "file not found", but teTeX-FAQ.gz clearly is there). What am I doing wrong? Any hints will be appreciated. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Files of Debian-Packages on the Web?
Hi! I know (of course!) that Debian packages can be downloaded from web and/or ftp servers as .deb files. But I'd like to be able to download documentation files without having to unpack a .deb file. For example, I'd like to give a friend access to /usr/doc/kernel-package/Rationale.gz that is part of kernel-package. Does the Debian project have a system with an open dwww installation? Are these ressources available on the web or do I have to e-mail that file (and possibly many others) to my friend? Any hints will be appreciated. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Re: apt with smbmount
On Thu, 19 Aug 1999 09:08:07 -0700, you wrote:
>I'm installing slink on a friend's old '486, with a CD rom which is
>smbmounted from a drive on his win98 box.
>I can access the .deb files okay, and can do 'dpkg -i file.deb', but
>'apt-get install ' is broken because the symlinks on the CD
>aren't followed.
>Is there any way to get apt-get to work on an smbmounted CD rom?
You need a recent apt (for example apt-0.3.6.1 which by no doubt is
outdated by now) and apt.conf:
|[EMAIL PROTECTED]/121]:~$ cat /etc/apt/apt.conf
|Acquire
|{
| CDRom
| {
| Mount "/mnt/cdrom";
| "/mnt/cdrom/"
| {
|Mount "smbmount //janeway/cdrom /mnt/cdrom -U user -P password";
|UMount "umount /mnt/cdrom";
| }
|}
|}
|
|[EMAIL PROTECTED]/122]:~$
The smbmount command line is for a 2.0.x style kernel, that line must
mount the cd-rom without doing and interactive things like asking for
a password.
Greetings
Marc
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Re: [Exim] Re: EXIM, Help stop relaying spam
On Wed, 4 Aug 1999 10:19:27 -0600 (MDT), you wrote: >Just as a side-note, it is a silly option anyway, isn't it? I've not used >it for anything useful... yet. I consider it a good option for a host that is secondary MX for a lot of domains. Saves its admin from maintaining a list of these domains. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Re: EXIM, Help stop relaying spam
On Wed, 4 Aug 1999 00:53:15 -0600 (MDT), you wrote: >If you have the "relay-domains-include-local-MX = true" in your >/etc/exim.conf file, this is true. It WILL relay for anyone who lists >your machine as an MX for their domain (real, or not). I think this was >the original question. This is either a bug in the program or in the documentation: |If the domain in a recipient address matches local_domains or | |relay_domains, or if relay_domains_include_local_mx is set and the domain | |has an MX record pointing to the local host, the address is always | |accepted (at least as far as this check is concerned - a subsequent | |verification check might fail it). This is the case of an incoming message | |to a local domain or an incoming relay to a permitted domain. |relay_domains_include_local_mx | |Type:boolean |Default: false | |This option permits any host to relay to any domain that has an MX record |pointing at the local host. It causes any domain with an MX record |pointing at the local host to be treated as if it were in relay_domains. |See host_accept_relay above. Warning: Turning on this option opens your | |server to the possibility of abuse in that anyone with access to a DNS | |zone can list your server in a secondary MX record as a backup for their | |domain without your permission. This is not a huge exposure because | |firstly, it requires the cooperation of a hostmaster to set up, and | |secondly, since their mail is passing through your server, they run the | |risk of your noticing and (for example) throwing all their mail away. |The relaying check happens whenever a message's recipient is received, that |is, immediately after a RCPT command. The first check is whether the address |would cause relaying at all: if its domain matches something in local_domains |then it is destined to be handled on the local host as a local address, and |relaying is not involved, unless the 'percent hack' is in use. In this case, |the local part is converted into a new address and that is then checked. | |When the relevant domain is not in local_domains, there is first a check for |legitimate incoming relaying, by seeing if it matches relay_domains, or, when |relay_domains_include_local_mx is set, if it is a domain with an MX record |pointing to the local host. If it does match, this is an acceptable incoming |relay, and it is permitted to proceed. The specification says at three different places that relay_domains_include_local_mx checks are only done on _recipient_ address. Thus, a message is only relayed if the local host has an MX record for the _recipient's_ domain and the spammer can only use the exim host as a relay to spam users in domains the spammer controls the DNS of. It will not relay _FOR_ anyone who lists the exim host as an MX for their domain; it will relay _TO_ anyone who lists the exim host as an MX for their domain. This is a siginificant difference. I am not in a position to test this at the moment, but _if_ exim doesn't behave as the docs say and as I interpreted, this is a severe bug and I've got to ask you why you didn't report it to Philip yet. This is crossposted to the exim-users mailing list for verification. Greetings Marc -- ------ !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Re: EXIM, Help stop relaying spam
On Tue, 3 Aug 1999 19:15:59 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: >On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Marc Haber wrote: >> Nope. If a spammer puts the host in his DNS, you are going to relay >> _TO_ him. So he can happily spam himself. > >Ok, maybe this has changed but I thought at one point Exim would take mail >in either direction from a host listing it as an MX. Philip would never incorporate an option that dangerous into his program. He knows what he is doing and he also knows what an open relay is. I don't have older versions of exim here so I can't look in older manuals though. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Re: EXIM, Help stop relaying spam
On Tue, 3 Aug 1999 08:22:23 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: >On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, David Warnock wrote: >> relay_domains_include_local_mx = true > >You can turn this off because a spammer can simply put you host in his DNS >makeing you an MX host and you will relay for him. Nope. If a spammer puts the host in his DNS, you are going to relay _TO_ him. So he can happily spam himself. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Re: apt source file semantics
On Sun, 25 Jul 1999 16:31:34 +1200, you wrote: >On Sat, Jul 24, 1999 at 10:14:00PM -0600, Eduardo Alvarez wrote: >> I have a small question: Precisely, what is the syntax to be used when >> addling a source in sources.list? Specifically Speaking, when do I stop >> using slashes and leave a space between folders? > >If you want a verbose description, try (if you haven't already): > >$ man sources.list > >The short answer is that it depends on what the type is (the first >word of the line, e.g. 'deb'). It's much better explained in the man >page than I can do (without basically repeating the man page). The man page is indeed hard to understand. What it is missing is examples that don't focus on network sources. The really interesting part is how to configure sources on local file systems. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Re: dhcp and dual-homed filtering host
On 08 Jul 1999 01:29:07 +0200, you wrote: >>>>>> "Jens" == Jens B Jorgensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jens> I have a similar setup. You just need to tell dhcpd which > Jens> ethernet interface you want to serve up IPs for. This can be > Jens> done by editing /etc/init.d/dhcpd. I don't have /etc/init.d/dhcpd. Contents.gz doesn't list this belonging to any package in slink. Instead, I have /etc/init.d/dhcp which I modified according to your hint. This seems to work, thanks >>Here's the changes I made: > >You should also be able to do this by putting > > IFACE=eth1 > >in /etc/dhcpc/config /etc/dhcpc/config belongs to dhcpcd, the client package. If this configuration file also affects a server running on the same system, this is a bug IMHO. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Re: Where is klogd instructed to dump the ring buffer into syslog?
On Mon, 05 Jul 1999 18:59:44 GMT, you wrote: >It looks like klogd on startup reads everything that is already in the >kernel ring buffer and dumps it off to syslog before going to its >normal operation mode. Okay, now a different question. I see that not all boot messages are written into syslog. I am missing, for example, fsck's output from the initial file system checks. Where are they going on Debian? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Re: Just my opinion
On Tue, 6 Jul 1999 09:25:22 +1000 , you wrote: >I have just been through this process having decided to switch over from >SuSE to debian. i must say that the install system is fine until dselect >with a multi CD set. The installation procedure clearly shows that Debian's roots are the Internet with everybody installing off an ftp mirror. My recommendation for installing slink: - Install base - skip dselect - install latest development apt - check in your cds with apt-cdrom - use apt-get from there. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Re: Where is klogd instructed to dump the ring buffer into syslog?
On Mon, 5 Jul 1999 15:25:44 +0100, you wrote: >Quoting Marc Haber ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >> On Sun, 4 Jul 1999 13:14:46 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: >> >On Sun, 4 Jul 1999, Marc Haber wrote: >> >> I am curious. Where do I find the code that does this on Debian? I >> >> grepped for klogd in /etc but did not find explicit code to do so. >> > >> >/etc/init.d/sysklogd >> >> I fail to see where there is data copied from klogd to syslog >> explicitly. Which line does it? > >Er, klogd does it. That's what klogd does (man klogd). I am well able to read manpages, thank you. Occasionally, I even do so. >What you've stumbled across in some other distribution >is the use of a one-shot (-o) emptying of the buffer to >an explicitly named file (-f filename) for some purpose. Today, I play a little bit with the SuSE box. It looks like klogd on startup reads everything that is already in the kernel ring buffer and dumps it off to syslog before going to its normal operation mode. This is not mentioned in the man page but is a Good Thing IMO. It could be possible that klogd doesn't care about messages that are already there when it comes up. But klogd is smart and does what I feel appropriate. SuSE prevents this from happening by using klogd -o to dump the information into a separate file. This is a Stupid Thing IMO. Case closed ;-) Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Re: Where is klogd instructed to dump the ring buffer into syslog?
On Sun, 4 Jul 1999 13:14:46 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: >On Sun, 4 Jul 1999, Marc Haber wrote: >> I am curious. Where do I find the code that does this on Debian? I >> grepped for klogd in /etc but did not find explicit code to do so. > >/etc/init.d/sysklogd I fail to see where there is data copied from klogd to syslog explicitly. Which line does it? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Where is klogd instructed to dump the ring buffer into syslog?
Hi! My Debian box seems to write the boot messages (that can be accessed by dmesg) to the syslog on boot-up. The SuSE box at work has code to dump this information to a file (/usr/sbin/klogd -f /var/log/boot.msg -o) in /sbin/init.d/boot. I am curious. Where do I find the code that does this on Debian? I grepped for klogd in /etc but did not find explicit code to do so. Debian has klogd 1.3-3 while SuSE has 1.3-0. Is this a new feature? Is it possible that the explicit "dump to file" code emties the buffers so that klogd can't log them any more when it is started as daemon later in the boot process? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Re: squid - why?
On Sun, 04 Jul 1999 08:18:25 -0500 (CDT), you wrote: >I chose to install Debian as web server which, after I brought the box up, >includes the proxy squid (and of course Apache). What I would like to know is >why I need squid running on this box which will be a normal web server with a >couple of million hits a months? Will normal users vivting our site benfit from >this, or can I remove squid? If you don't want to use the box as web proxy, you can safely remove squid. IMHO, this profile stuff is for the novice. I usually skip dselect altogether and use apt-get to install _exactly_ what I need. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
dhcp and dual-homed filtering host
Hi!
In a lab network, I have a dual homed Debian host that should act as a
packet filter between the external ("untrusted") and the internal
("trusted") interface. The untrusted network is on eth0; the trusted
network on eth1. The host should assign IP numbers on the trusted
network via DHCP while not doing so on the untrusted network.
The Package description for dhcp-1.0.2-0.1 says: "This package only
supports DHCP IP assignment on one interface." So, this is fine with
me.
I proceed to install dhcp and created an /etc/dhcpd.conf with only a
single subnet statement for the trusted network. When I try to start
the dhcp daemon, I get the error message "No subnet declaration for
eth0 (192.168.130.38)", the IP being the one of the external
interface.
When I add an empty subnet declaration ("subnet 192.168.131.0 netmask
255.255.255.0 {}") to /etc/dhcpd.conf, I get "The standard socket API
can only support hosts with a single network interface", which is
substantially different from the restriction the Package file
mentions.
Am I missing something? How can I get this dhcp into business?
Greetings
Marc
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Re: apt-get configuration for multi cd set
On Fri, 04 Jun 1999 14:22:54 +0200, you wrote: >How should I configure apt-get to use > >1) my 2 CD binary distribution >2) ftp.debian.org > >in this order? specifying file:/cd for the CD set seems inappropriate, because >there are 2 CDs, and it should tell me which one to insert, just like dselect >does, or go to ftp. > >Is this possible at all? I'd suggest installing a later apt (such as the potato version) and using its new feature "apt-cdrom". Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Re: apt's sources.list
On Sat, 29 May 1999 03:56:49 +1000, you wrote: >There are very comprehensive docs in /usr/doc/apt. I don't feel that |[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/doc/apt/examples > cat sources.list |# See sources.list(5) for more information |# Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file URIs |deb http://ftp1.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free |deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable non-US |[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/doc/apt/examples > is a comprehensive example for sources.list. sources.list(5) has not nearly enough examples and descriptions what examples do. >You need the latest apt >in potato though... |[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/doc/apt/examples > dpkg --list apt |Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge || Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed ||/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) |||/ NameVersionDescription |+++-===-==- |ii apt 0.3.6.1Advanced front-end for dpkg |[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/doc/apt/examples > Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Re: Lexmark is less than helpful : -
On Fri, 28 May 1999 15:53:23 -0400 (EDT), you wrote: >An effective (although not completely honest :) ) way to do it is: > >Instead of saying: > "I just bought your printer -- do you have linux drivers" > >Say: > "I'm thinking about buying your printer -- do you have linux drivers?" I routinely do this even if I don't dream about using that piece of hardware on a Linux system. Greetings Marc -- ------ !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Re: Lexmark is less than helpful :
On Fri, 28 May 1999 13:11:12 -0400, you wrote: >I had a conversation with a dealer, and he assured me >that Lexmark supports Linux... I am sure that Lexmark's PostScript printers work with Linux :-/ Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Re: apt's sources.list
On Thu, 27 May 1999 14:52:04 -0600 (MDT), you wrote: >On Thu, 27 May 1999, Brian Boonstra wrote: >> (1) Is the required format for such targets defined, exemplified, or >> documented anywhere? > >man sources.list ? There are several examples at the bottom and the exact >line syntax is given in the section title 'The deb type'. I have to agree with Brian. The examples given in the man page are mostly too obscure to be understood by newbies to apt. The docs should really be a little more verbose. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Re: A problem with POP3
On Tue, 25 May 1999 20:48:35 +0200 (CEST), you wrote: > The answers is: > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ... Relaying denied Which MTA are you running? Whatever package it is, it doesn't know that it is responsible for receiving mail for @atlas.uvigo.es. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Re: DHCP and debian
On Tue, 25 May 1999 09:11:37 -0500 (CDT), you wrote:
>What is the settting that allows you to set the hostname on the client? I
>run dhcpcd on my linux box on a Win network, and my dhcpc always sets my
>hostname to dhcpc1. Where is this seting you are talking about i've been
>trying to find it for weeks.
When I tried RedHat, it set the host name with the following
configuration done on the server:
|host darren
|{
| hardware ethernet 0:0:e8:df:07:78;
| fixed-address darren.gf1.internal;
| option host-name "darren";
|}
No special work necessary on the client. That's what really impressed
me.
Greetings
Marc
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Re: DHCP and debian
On Mon, 24 May 1999 14:14:12 -0500, you wrote: >I'm adding a debian workstation to our Windows network, and I'd like to use >our DHCP server to assign it's ip-address, DNS servers, netmask, etc. Is >this possible? That actually should be no problem at all. However, I did not try it yet. You might want to take a look into RedHat's init scripts that do DHCP. When I tried out RedHat a few weeks ago, I was impressed that RedHat not only accepted the IP number offered by DHCP but also did a reverse DNS lookup and set the host name to what was stored in the DNS. However, I was not able to actually understand these scripts. Doing stuff like that should be possible with Debian too. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Re: slink: Which directory am I supposed to install from?
On 18 May 1999 13:18:34 +0200, you wrote: >>> "MH" == Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >MH> However, the installed system dies with a kernel panic because it >MH> can't mount the root file system. I suppose that the other kernel >MH> (that is quite a few KB smaller than the one installed by the >MH> install system from /install) doesn't contain drivers for the NCR >MH> SCSI chip that my system has. > >Then you shouldn't have been able to install the base system at all, >as you wouldn't be able to access the disk, right? Nope. When I install a cdrom-less system from scratch, I usually put the disk into a working system and copy /install (or whatever files I need to install the base system) to a FAT partition, boot DOS and continue from there. >MH> How can I make the disks-i386-install-System install a kernel that >MH> actually works on my system? > >Try the other kernel (from /install) by booting it with boot.bat, >lodlin, whatever) and enter Linux root=/dev/sda1 (or whatever your >root partition is) and see if this works. Then compile your own >kernel. This will surely give me a working system. However, I am trying to clearly document the installation process and don't want to have people yelling at me for using the wrong installation procedure. Doing everything "by the book" is essential. Also, I'd like to save other people from having these difficulties. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
slink: Which directory am I supposed to install from?
Hi! On the official slink CD images, there are two different directories from which an install can be tried: /install with boot.bat /dists/slink/main/disks-i386/2.1.8-1999-02-22 with install.bat Both batch files seem to run installation systems that look alike. From trying a few weeks ago, I think that I remember that running /install/boot.bat yields a running system with kernel in /vmlinuz -> boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36. I needed to mount the CD to install the base system since /install doesn't contain the base*.bin files. Today, I tried installing from /dists/slink/main/disks-i386/2.1.8-1999-02-22/install.bat. Installation went through fine, the kernel is /vmlinuz -> boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36-scsimod. This time, all the install needed was in the 2.1.8-1999-02-22 directory without needing anything else. However, the installed system dies with a kernel panic because it can't mount the root file system. I suppose that the other kernel (that is quite a few KB smaller than the one installed by the install system from /install) doesn't contain drivers for the NCR SCSI chip that my system has. Which directory am I to install from? Why does the other directory exist? How can I make the disks-i386-install-System install a kernel that actually works on my system? Any hints will be appreciated. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Re: Exim and fetchmail
On Wed, 05 May 1999 17:45:09 -0400, you wrote: >I regard this as a bug in the installation procedure. Either >fetchmail should deliver to "user" (without the "@localhost") >or exim should be configured by default to accept such mail. See bug #36837. The installation script of exim tells you that you might want to add localhost to local_domains. A future release will include this advice in the docs, too. I am told that there are good reasons not to include localhosts in local_domains by default. As to delivering to "user": |[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mnt/main6/home/mh > telnet localhost 25 |Trying 127.0.0.1... |Connected to localhost. |Escape character is '^]'. |220 torres.gf1.internal ESMTP Exim 2.10 #1 Thu, 6 May 1999 10:23:30 +0200 |helo torres |250 torres.gf1.internal Hello mh at localhost [127.0.0.1] |mail from: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |250 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is syntactically correct |rcpt to: |501 : recipient address must contain a domain |quit |221 torres.gf1.internal closing connection |Connection closed by foreign host. |[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mnt/main6/home/mh > exim doesn't support this. Fetchmail can also be configured to deliver to other domains than @localhost using the smtpaddress directive. Greetings Marc -- ------ !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Re: Exim and fetchmail
On Wed, 05 May 1999 10:45:44 -0700, you wrote: >I am having a problem getting exim and fetchmail to work.I just >installed Slink.I used option #2 in the >eximconfig menu. when I try to send a message with mutt it only goes to >/var/spool/mail/jak3b. >when I try to use fetchmail I get this message: 1 message for jak3b at >postoffice.pacbell.netetc etc >reading message 1 of 1 .fetchmail: SMTP listener doesn't like recipient >address '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' You did not read what the exim configure script told you. You need to add localhost to local_domains in the exim config file. This must be about the most FAQ these days. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
apt-0.3.4: package list or status file could not be parsed or opened
Hi!
Since apt-0.3.4 now supports smbmounting cd-roms, I started a new
attempt to get apt-get running on my system. My Debian box is stowed
away in a closet and I access it via the network from a Windows box.
It would be quite comfortable to use apt-get with the official Debian
CDs inserted into my Windows box's CD-ROM drive.
apt.conf says:
|Acquire
|{
| Queue-Mode "access"; // host|access
| Retries "0";
|
| cdrom
| {
|Mount "/mnt/cdrom";
|
|// You need the trailing slash!
|"/mnt/cdrom/"
|{
| Mount "smbmount //janeway/cdrom /mnt/cdrom/ -U apt-guest -P
";
| UMount "umount /mnt/cdrom";
|}
| };
|};
Adding a cdrom to the apt-list:
|=>ROOT<[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/mh # apt-cdrom add
|Using CD-ROM mount point /mnt/cdrom/
|Unmounting CD-ROM
|Please insert a Disc in the drive and press enter
|Mounting CD-ROM
|Identifying.. [44a95765d1120c78f7bdd49ce4ab9e3e]
|Scanning Disc for index files.. Found 2 package index files.
|Found label 'Debian GNU/Linux slink (2.1) 2/4 main binary-i386 section 2,
contrib SAM19990306'
|This Disc is called 'Debian GNU_Linux slink (2.1) 2_4 main binary-i386 section
2, contrib SAM19990306'
|Reading Package Lists... Done
|Wrote 975 package records with 224 mismatched files.
|Alot of package entires were discarded, perhaps this CD is funny?
|Writing new source list
|Source List entries for this Disc are:
|deb "cdrom:Debian GNU_Linux slink (2.1) 2_4 main binary-i386 section 2,
contribSAM19990306/" slink contrib main
|=>ROOT<[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/mh #
Please note the "224 mismatched files".
The CD is not funny, it's made from the official images and works fine
when it is being locally mounted on a Debian box.
/etc/apt/sources.list seems to be built Ok:
|=>ROOT<[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mnt/cdrom # cat /etc/apt/sources.list
|# Use for a local mirror - remove the ftp1 http lines for the bits
|# your mirror contains.
|# deb file:/your/mirror/here/debian stable main contrib non-free
|# See sources.list(5) for more information, especial
|# Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file URIs
|
|
|
|deb "cdrom:Debian GNU_Linux slink (2.1) 2_4 main binary-i386 section 2,
contrib SAM19990306/" slink contrib main
|=>ROOT<[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mnt/cdrom #
However, installing packages fails:
|=>ROOT<[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/apt # apt-get install umich-ldap-docs
|Reading Package Lists... Error!
|E: Unable to parse package file
/var/state/apt/lists/Debian%20GNU%5fLinux%20slink%20(2.1)%202%5f4%20main%20binary-i386%20section%202,%20contrib%20SAM19990306_dists_slink_contrib_binary-i386_Packages
(1)
|E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
|=>ROOT<[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/apt #
The file with the lengthy name exists:
|=>ROOT<[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/mh # ls -l /var/state/apt/lists/
|total 727
|-rw-r--r-- 1 root root54241 May 5 20:20
Debian%20GNU%5fLinux%20slink%20(2.1)%202%5f4%20main%20binary-i386%20section%202,%20contrib%20SAM19990306_dists_slink_contrib_binary-i386_Packages
|-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 96 May 5 20:20
Debian%20GNU%5fLinux%20slink%20(2.1)%202%5f4%20main%20binary-i386%20section%202,%20contrib%20SAM19990306_dists_slink_contrib_binary-i386_Release
|-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 681934 May 5 20:20
Debian%20GNU%5fLinux%20slink%20(2.1)%202%5f4%20main%20binary-i386%20section%202,%20contrib%20SAM19990306_dists_slink_main_binary-i386_Packages
|-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 93 May 5 20:20
Debian%20GNU%5fLinux%20slink%20(2.1)%202%5f4%20main%20binary-i386%20section%202,%20contrib%20SAM19990306_dists_slink_main_binary-i386_Release
|drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 May 5 20:20 partial/
|=>ROOT<[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/mh #
Its contents looks fine, too:
|=>ROOT<[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/mh # head -n 10
/var/state/apt/lists/Debian%20GNU%5fLinux%20slink%20\(2.1\)%202%5f4%20main%20binary-i386%20section%202,%20contrib%20SAM19990306_dists_slink_contrib_binary-i386_Packages
|Package: apple2
|Version: 0.04-5
|Priority: optional
|Section: contrib/otherosfs
|Maintainer: Tom Lear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|Depends: libc6 (>= 2.0.7u), svgalibg1
|Architecture: i386
|Filename: dists/slink/contrib/binary-i386/otherosfs/apple2_0.04-5.deb
|Size: 146648
|MD5sum: 5ed318a84605eff27dcdd3af995f31d2
|=>ROOT<[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/mh #
What am I doing wrong? Can this have something to do with the
smbmount? But /var/state/apt is on a local drive and loading that file
from the CD worked fine.
Any hints will be appreciated.
Greetings
Marc
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Re: How to build socks5 for Debian?
On Tue, 04 May 1999 17:21:24 -0500, you wrote: >Marc Haber wrote: >> On Tue, 4 May 1999 15:04:25 -0400 (EDT), you wrote: >> Nope. Slink. > >Hmmm, are you sure then that you don't have the debian socks4 client package >installed >and you're getting the socks4 version of runsocks? Quite. |[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/mh > ls -l `which runsocks` |lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 May 4 13:55 /usr/local/bin/runsocks -> ../stow/socks5-v1.0r9/bin/runsocks* |[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/mh > >> Does DANTE have a runsocks equivalent? It has. It's called socksify. I have not been able, however to successfully use username/password authentication with DANTE. Greetings Marc -- ------ !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Re: How to build socks5 for Debian?
On Tue, 4 May 1999 15:04:25 -0400 (EDT), you wrote: >wrt no extant packages: >Read the license - not very nice... you might >take a peek at DANTE (free socks4/5 client/server) I surely will. >wrt it not working: >ah... you're on potato... Nope. Slink. >runsocks works fine on glibc-2.0(slink), but fails with >glibc-2.1(potato). I can't confirm that. >Note that you can use NEC socks to socksify, at compilation, >and it will run fine on potato, its just runsocks that fails. Does DANTE have a runsocks equivalent? I need to socksify some clients sometimes but not every time. Slamming runsocks in front of the command line seems strikingly convenient. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
How to build socks5 for Debian?
Hi! Highly astonished I discovered today that there is no Debian package that provides socks5-compatible clients. So I went out and built socks5-v1.0r9 from the NEC web site. Configuring, building and installing went fine. However, runsocks does not seem to work though: |[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mnt/main6/home/mh > runsocks telnet localhost 25 |Trying 127.0.0.1... |Segmentation fault |[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mnt/main6/home/mh > Did anybody successfully build the socks5 package on a Debian system? Any hints will be appreciated. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
boot.bat: invalid compressed format
Recently, I tried to do a quick-and-dirty slink install on a friend's machine. As I usually do, I copied the install directory to a FAT partition and invoked boot.bat from that directory. However, all I received was "Uncompressing Linux... invalid compressed format". My disks are fine, the same procedure works on different hardware. The box is an ancient P90 with Triton Chipset, 64 MB RAM and an Adaptec 1515 host adapter. Any ideas what might be happening here? Is this faulty hardware? The machine runs fine with Windows 98 and NT 4.0. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Re: Is ssh 2 incompatible with ssh 1?
On Fri, 23 Apr 1999 16:28:14 +0200, you wrote: >Work is being done to implement the version 2 protocol as free software >(GPLed); see http://www.net.lut.ac.uk/psst/ ; contributors to this project >are welcome. However, I have been told that lsh uses scheme which is not free in a Debian sense. Thus, lsh will not yield a "true free" version of ssh which is what the world _urgently_ needs. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Re: How do I change ppp window size in Debian?
On 10 Apr 1999 19:55:33 -0500, you wrote: >Fact is that most know less than this ISP did. Which is exactly what I intended to say. I apologize if I did not make myself clear on the first try. We don't live in an ideal world, unfortunately. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Re: How do I change ppp window size in Debian?
On 10 Apr 1999 12:19:59 -0500, you wrote: >Phillip Deackes writes: >> My ISP's support desk has emailed the following to me, though I am note >> sure how to do the same thing with Debian - the command he suggests does >> not work. > >And quotes: >> After bringing up your PPP connection, try adjusting the TCP window for >>that interface. If I remember correctly, on Redhat 5.2 (at least) you >> do that through an ifconfig option (ifconfig ppp0 window 8000?). > >> Try setting it to 8000. > >He doesn't remember correctly. The command is 'route', not 'ifconfig'. >Try 'route window 8000 ppp0'. And get a new ISP. These guys are losers. So you consider an ISP whose support staff doesn't remember obscure configuration options of an obscure open-source opererating system losers? I would be happy to have an ISP whose support staff even knows how to spell "TCP window" correctly. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Re: isdnctrl dialmode
On Sat, 03 Apr 1999 01:26:58 +0200, you wrote: >when I set 'isdnctrl dialmode' to 'manual', it says that my kernel don't >have/support this option. You need kernel 2.0.36 to have the dialmode option. >it's mainly to stop autodialing to the isp when I just want to connect to >my LAN and it's irritating. Remove the default route. Greetings Marc -- ------ !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Re: hamm to slink with upgrade
On Mon, 29 Mar 1999 12:23:56 GMT, you wrote: >I have my cdrom not on /cdrom, but on /mnt/cdrom. /etc/fstab shows >this. However, apt-cdrom tries to mount /cdrom and fails. /etc/apt/apt.conf: Acquire::cdrom::Mount "/mnt/cdrom"; fixes this. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Re: ISDN is still teasing
On Thu, 01 Apr 1999 09:07:18 +0200, you wrote: >/var/log/isdn.log: > >Apr 1 00:09:13 1999|+494833424117 |+491901011 |0| 0| >922918153| -1|O| 16| >0| 0|3.1|7|0|0.121|DM|0|-01| >Apr 1 00:11:10 1999|+494833424117 |+491901011 |0| 0| >922918270| -1|O| 16| >0| 0|3.1|7|0|0.121|DM|0|-01| >Apr 1 00:13:14 1999|+494833424117 |+491901011 |0| 0| >922918394| -1|O| 16| >0| 0|3.1|7|0|0.121|DM|0|-01| >Apr 1 00:16:45 1999|+494833424117 |+491901011 |0| 0| >922918605| -1|O| 16| >0| 0|3.1|7|0|0.121|DM|0|-01| >Apr 1 00:16:57 1999|+494833424117 |+491901011 |0| 0| >922918617| -1|O| 16| >0| 0|3.1|7|0|0.121|DM|0|-01| >Apr 1 00:17:05 1999|+494833424117 |+491901011 |0| 0| >922918625| -1|O| 16| >0| 0|3.1|7|0|0.121|DM|0|-01| If you want to dial in to T-Online, you have the wrong number. You are dialing 01901011 while you should be dialing 0191011. A zero too much can break a lot. >/var/log/isdn/isdnlog: > >isdnlog Version 3.00 loaded >(ISDN subsystem with ISDN_MAX_CHANNELS > 16 detected - 2 active channels, 3 >MSN/SI entries) >(Data versions: iprofd=0x04 net_cfg=0x05 /dev/isdninfo=0x01) >(HiSax driver detected) >Mar 31 23:59:26 tei 77 calling ? with ? HANGUP () >Mar 31 23:59:44 tei 77 calling ? with ? Time:Wed Mar 31 21:59:00 1999 >Mar 31 23:59:44 tei 77 calling ? with ? CONNECT >Apr 01 00:08:35 tei 77 calling ? with ? HANGUP (54 EH DM 6.53 0:08:51) () >Apr 01 00:09:12 * tei 123 calling +49 1901/011, Service 190 (DM 1,20/Minute) >with +49 >4833/424117, Wesselburen RING (Data) >Apr 01 00:09:20 tei 123 calling +49 1901/011, Service 190 (DM 1,20/Minute) >with +49 4833/424117, >Wesselburen Normal call clearing (User) >Apr 01 00:09:20 tei 123 calling +49 1901/011, Service 190 (DM 1,20/Minute) >with +49 4833/424117, >Wesselburen HANGUP This is the log of isdnlog only. What does the main syslog say? There are a few kernel and ipppd messages that are far more important for debugging. >(One thing that surprises me a bit is the DM 1.20/Minute - hopefully this is >not correct). You are dialing wrong. Are you aware of the isdn4linux mailing list? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Re: xntp3 on dialup - how?
On Wed, 31 Mar 1999 15:10:20 -0600 (CST), you wrote: >I have installed xntp3 (running slink). However, the daemon is stared from >init.d and I am not yet online. The log tells me that the network is not >available (what a surprise!;). xntp relies on the parent ntp servers being online. I use xntp to act as a master for the clients in the LAN and sync the master server on ip-up. |[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mnt/main6/home/mh > cat /etc/ntp.conf |# /etc/ntp.conf, configuration for xntpd | |driftfile /var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift |statsdir /var/log/ntpstats/ | |statistics loopstats peerstats clockstats |filegen loopstats file loopstats type day enable |filegen peerstats file peerstats type day enable |filegen clockstats file clockstats type day enable | |server 127.127.1.1 |fudge 127.127.1.1 stratum 0 | |[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mnt/main6/home/mh > |[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mnt/main6/home/mh > cat /etc/ppp/ip.d/nettime |#!/bin/bash | |case "$PPP_OPERATION" in | up) |/usr/sbin/netdate -v ntp.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de |sbin/clock -wu |;; | down) |;; |esac |[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mnt/main6/home/mh > This seems to work like a charm. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Re: hamm to slink with upgrade
On Mon, 29 Mar 1999 11:12:06 -0500, you wrote: >Marc Haber wrote: >> I have my cdrom not on /cdrom, but on /mnt/cdrom. /etc/fstab shows >> this. However, apt-cdrom tries to mount /cdrom and fails. >> > >Edit your /etc/fstab file so /dev/hdc (or whatever device your cdrom is) is >mounted >on /cdrom -- change the "/mnt/cdrom" to "/cdrom", then type: > >mkdir /cdrom >umount /mnt/cdrom (assuming you're already mounted on the cdrom . . if not > then >skip this line) >mount /cdrom Why is everybody today taking me for a bloody newbie? I have moved my cdrom mount point to /mnt _on_ _purpose_ because that's where mount points belong. Alone the assumption that I have IDE devices in my system could be taken as an insult. apt should get this flexibility built in. Greetings Marc -- ------ !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Re: sources.list for slink CDs?
On 29 Mar 1999 15:57:30 +0200, you wrote: >I used a self-burned official CD-set, using apt-get as documented in >the Release Notes, twiddling the CDs after the upgrade from the first >CD was done. I finally settled for the way pointed out by Jason, installing a current apt. I find it disturbing having to resort to unstable packages to do a clean install / update, but it seems to be this way with slink. We're not going to gain newbies with this, though. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Where to load ethernet modules?
Hi! I am currently converting from network drivers compiled into the kernel to kernel modules. Is there a recommended place to load the kernel modules during the boot process? The boxes in question are quite self-contained and don't need the network for booting. Any hints will be appreciated. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Re: hamm to slink with upgrade
On Mon, 29 Mar 1999 00:48:33 -0700 (MST), you wrote: >then run 'apt-get dist-upgrade -u' twice (or is it 3 times?) I had to run apt-get dis-upgrade -u numerous times (at least twenty times) with varying cd changes to upgrade my hamm test system to slink. Occasionally, even --fix-missing (?, don't remember :-( ) was necessary. Some packages (notably doc-linux-html, doc-linux-text and jail) couldn't be upgraded, I removed and immediately re-installed them with apt-get. I am finally at a point where apt-get dist-upgrade says "0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded" so I think the update is finished. How do I verify that I now actually havea slink system? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Re: hamm to slink with upgrade
On Mon, 29 Mar 1999 00:48:33 -0700 (MST), you wrote: >The final solution is to install APT 0.3 from potato and use it's built in >CD handling through apt-cdrom. Good work. I like it. >I have made a special source specifically >for this, > >deb http://www.debian.org/~jgg apt/ > >Which will contain the latest glibc 2.0 linked APT v3. Install whatever >APT you can, add the above to your sources.list (and maybe a temporary >file: uri for the first cdrom) and then do 'apt-get install apt'. www.debian.org is quite slow today, so I pulled apt_0.3.3.deb from the local potato mirror and installed it using dpkg. File sizes match, so I think it is the same deb. Right? >Next insert the first disc, run 'apt-cdrom add', then insert the second >disc and run 'apt-cdrom add' then run 'apt-get dist-upgrade -u' twice (or >is it 3 times?) I have my cdrom not on /cdrom, but on /mnt/cdrom. /etc/fstab shows this. However, apt-cdrom tries to mount /cdrom and fails. apt-cdrom does have a switch --cdrom which I used to point it towards /mnt/cdrom. This worked. However, after pulling in the disks, I found that apt-get tries to load the packages from /cdrom instead of /mnt/cdrom. --cdrom is not supported by apt-get and I believe that apt-cdrom should have recorded the nonstandard mount point in sources.list. Do I miss something here? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Re: sources.list for slink CDs?
On 28 Mar 1999 19:42:33 +0200, you wrote:
>Create a directory structure like on the CD (only the part until the
>Packages.gz file) for all the CDs ( on /mnt/cd1, /mnt/cd2 and /mnt/cd3
>) and copy the Packages.gz files to the proper locations.
>
>sources.list:
>
>deb file:/mnt/cd1/debian stable main
>deb file:/mnt/cd2/debian stable contrib
>
>etc.
>
>apt-get update
It is working as designed if apt-get update doesn't care about a
Packages.cd file but instead gets the Packages file, missing packages
from the other CD?
apt-get badly needs to be better documented. And it badly needs better
error messages ("E: Couldn't find package" is no good if it doesn't
tell the user where it looked before deciding it could not find it)
and a --verbose switch.
Greetings
Marc
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Re: Where is "/etc/rc.d/rc.local" on Debian?
On Sun, 28 Mar 1999 23:31:54 +0200 (CEST), you wrote: >Well, I hope that one day file-rc will be the default package because it's >really good. I use it without any problems, it's really great... I second this. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Re: Where is "/etc/rc.d/rc.local" on Debian?
On 28 Mar 1999 11:02:24 +0200, you wrote: >Besides, /etc/rc.boot has been deprecated and will disappear. How am I supposed to early load daemons (like scsidev which should be loaded before any disks are mounted)? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Re: Installing Slink
On Sat, 27 Mar 1999 21:28:51 -, you wrote: >On the other hand if you put the 2nd CD in >first then use "Install" in dselect it will tell you to put in whatever CD >is needed when it does the installation of the packages. Does apt-get do the same thing? How do I include a "home-made", non-standard CD with non-free and non-US? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
sources.list for slink CDs?
Hi! I trying to install a new system with slink. However, I do not seem to be able to construct a correct sources.list. I have two disks that have supposedly been made from the official distribution (i386 binary) and a third disk that contains non-free, non-US, gnome and some more goodies. How does my /etc/apt/sources.list have to look like for all packages being known to the system? Does apt-get prompt me to change disks before installing packages from a different disk? How is this being handled? Any hints will be appreciated. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Re: Please help RTL 8029
On Fri, 12 Mar 1999 13:19:32 +0100, you wrote: >I'M LOOking for drivers for that Eternet device for Linux Slackware >2.0.34. >Please help me - i don't know where i can find it. It's already in your kernel. The rtl8029 is NE2000 compatible. Later kernels have a ne2k-pci driver. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Re: apt-get and broken CD layouts
On Tue, 2 Mar 1999 09:22:43 +0100, you wrote: >First create /mnt/main and then mount there CD. And in mnt create links >dists, stable and frozen pointing to main. In /etc/apt/sources.list put this: > >deb file://localhost/mnt stable main > >This way everything should work as expected. This way, I'd basically create a directory tree that does look like a non-broken CD. I see, this might be the only way to get apt-get to work on that CD. Thanks for your comments. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
apt-get and broken CD layouts
Hi! When I was new to debian, I made a hamm CD that is severely broken in its directory structure. # ls /mnt/cdrom binary-i386 disks-i386 upgrade-i386 # ls /mnt/cdrom/binary-i386 Packages. Packages.gz devel hamradio net tex doc ... So, binary-i386 is complete. My /etc/apt/sources.list says deb file:/mnt/cdrom/binary-i386/ / apt-get update works, but (for example) apt-get install joe tries to install from /mnt/cdrom/binary-i386/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/editors/joe_2.8-10.deb which clearly does not exist. Which line do I need in sources.list for my broken cd? Any hints will be appreciated. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Re: ip-up question
On Sat, 20 Feb 1999 13:11:40 -0500 (EST), you wrote:
>Any script in /etc/ppp/ip-{up,down}.d is run when the link goes {up,down}. The
>file ip-{up,down} is also run (I think before the scripts in the
>ip-{up,down}.d).
Actually, /etc/ppp/ip-{up|down} are furnished by Debian and explicitly
include "run-parts ip-{up|down}.d".
Greetings
Marc
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Re: lilo
On Wed, 17 Feb 1999 08:33:36 -0800 (PST), you wrote: >When I installed FreeBSD I installed boot manager. So when I boot, I >can have chices F1 for DOS and F2 for FreeBSD. And F5 for second disk, >which is not working yet. > >Question: >How can I configure Lilo to boot Debian directly from HD? Will the >installation remove the boot manger I already have? Is there any way >that I configure my boot manager(boot easy) to boot Debian from HD >without installing Lilo? Well, Lilo can boot "foreign" OS's; I believe this is described in the lilo howto. I would recommend using XFDISK instead, it is available from http://home.pages.de/~f.painke/ and I sincerely hope that Florian has an English home page as well. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
start-stop-daemon and multiple exim daemons
Hi! I am running exim as two daemons. One is listening on port 25, the other does periodic queue runs only when I am online. The queue runner exim is killed off when I go offline. This is my start script: |=>ROOT<[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mnt/maindisk/home/mh # cat /etc/init.d/exim | |PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin |DAEMON=/usr/local/bin/exim |NAME=exim |PORT="25" |PARM="bd" # -oX $PORT is added on command line |DESC="exim on port $PORT" |DESC_QUEUE="exim queue-runner" |PARM_QUEUE="q2m" | |test -f $DAEMON || exit 0 | |set -e | |case "$1" in | start) |echo -n "Starting $DESC: " |start-stop-daemon --start --quiet \ |--pidfile /var/run/$NAME.$PORT.pid-$PARM \ |--exec $DAEMON -- -$PARM -oX $PORT |echo "$DESC." |;; | stop) |echo -n "Stopping $DESC: " |start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet \ |--pidfile /var/run/$NAME.$PORT.pid-$PARM |echo "$DESC." |start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet \ |--pidfile /var/run/$NAME.pid-$PARM_QUEUE |echo "$DESC_QUEUE." |;; | queue-start) |echo -n "Starting $DESC_QUEUE: " |start-stop-daemon --start --quiet \ |--pidfile /var/run/$NAME.pid-$PARM_QUEUE \ |--exec $DAEMON -- -$PARM_QUEUE |echo "$DESC_QUEUE." |;; | queue-stop) |echo -n "Stopping $DESC_QUEUE: " |start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet \ |--pidfile /var/run/$NAME.pid-$PARM_QUEUE |echo "$DESC_QUEUE." |;; The problem is when I execute exim stop and no queue-runner process is running. Since the pid file still exists, I get an error message |=>ROOT<[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mnt/maindisk/home/mh # /etc/init.d/exim stop |Stopping exim on port 25: exim on port 25. |start-stop-daemon: warning: failed to kill 3012: No such process |exim queue-runner. |=>ROOT<[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mnt/maindisk/home/mh # I believe this happens because the pid file is not deleted when the process exits. I don't understand why pid files are not deleted when the process stops. This seems to be current practice for most daemons (I checked with lpd, this does the same with its pid file). How can I make start-stop-daemon check for a process' existence before I trying to kill it? I'd really love to get rid of this error message. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Re: Entpacken von Dateien im .deb-Format
On Wed, 20 Jan 1999 10:28:25 -0800, you wrote: >"Preuss, Maik" wrote: >> Kann ich die Dateien im .deb Format auch in einer Windows-Oberfläche >> entpacken? Und wenn ja, wie? >> >I'm just curious as to wether there is a german? yes >language list we could >direct these kind of query's to. There is debian-user-de >or wether there is someone German >speaking who could translate? Maik wants to know whether he can unpack .deb files with Windows. Greetings Marc -- ------ !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
compiling mc: glib.h sought for at the wrong place
Hi! Hi! I am trying to compile mc-4.5.7 on Debian/Hamm 2.0. This is my first try in building a recent mc. |Configuration: | | Source code location: . | Compiler: gcc | Compiler flags: -g | File system:Midnight Commander Virtual File System | tarfs, mcfs, ftpfs, fish | Text mode screen manager: SLang with terminfo | Install console saver: yes | Text mode mouse library:xterm only | Debugger code: none | With subshell support: yes | X11 versions: | Internal editor:yes | Install path: /usr/local/stow/mc-4.5.7/bin, /usr/local/stow/mc-4.5.7/lib/mc make fails: |gcc -c -I.. -I/mnt/maindisk/home/mh/mc-4.5.7/intl -I./.. -I./../vfs -I./../sla |ng -I.. -DBINDIR=\""/usr/local/stow/mc-4.5.7/bin/"\" -DLIBDIR=\""/usr/local/stow |/mc-4.5.7/lib/mc/"\" -DICONDIR=\""/usr/local/stow/mc-4.5.7/share/pixmaps/mc/"\" | -DLOCALEDIR=\""/usr/local/stow/mc-4.5.7/share/locale/"\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -g v |fs.c |In file included from vfs.c:30: |/usr/include/glib.h:22: glibconfig.h: No such file or directory |make[1]: *** [vfs.o] Error 1 |make[1]: Leaving directory `/mnt/maindisk/home/mh/mc-4.5.7/vfs' |make: *** [all] Error 1 |[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/mh/mc-4.5.7 > glib is present in /usr/lib/glib/include/glibconfig.h and has been placed there by the Debian setup. I believe that configure doesn't properly catch this. I don't have a clue about the conventions where to place include files and would suggest changing configure/Makefile to include /usr/lib/glib/include into the include directories. Is that an mc or a Debian problem? Any idea how to get on the mc mailing list? Their search feature is "currently down" and they don't have a subscribe address on the web site. Mail send to mc-bugs last week has gone unanswered yet. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Re: Why not as a newsgroup?
On Mon, 11 Jan 1999 17:53:50 -0500, you wrote: > Newsgroups allow you to only download the subject lines of the >messages instead of have to download all messages whether you >would have read them or not. Well, Netscape 4.5 can obviously do it and there are more than one participant who reads Debian lists but with a Windows system (like I do since my desktop machine is running NT). One more disadvantage of mailing lists: They neither allow crossposting nor setting Followup-To: for warping discussions. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Re: SAMBA and shadowpasswd
On Thu, 14 Jan 1999 10:21:11 +0100, you wrote: >Does anybody have any experience with SAMBA and Shadowpassd? >I mean, my samba server deos not recognize passwords as soon >as a service is passwd protected and I believe it has something >to do with the shadowpasswd. It might have something to do with smbpasswd and/or encrypted passwords. Read encryption.txt from the doc directory. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Re: uninstalling smail when a self compiled MTA is present
On 06 Jan 1999 16:09:32 +0100, you wrote: >Install this exim-local package and deinstall the dummy smail one (or >apt will try to update it). Then activate your local MTA, and you are >done. After some initial confusion with making the new equivs working on my hamm system, your solution worked. Thanks. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
