Re: xmms and sound
Are you running esound? Try running it with esd as root. Second, make xmms use another plugin, try oss. Olivier Billet wrote: Hi all, i'm trying to make xmms make sound... so here's the problem: i'm able to hear sound from cdcd, from gcd or from wmcdplay for example (so i can play cd's), BUT i can't hear anything from xmms ! what's wrong ? (ok, i think it's the output plugin -- i do not have any libesdout.so in /lib -- but how do i do to work around ?) -- Michael J. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2250 Patterson #25 Eugene, OR 97405 (541)346-7562
Re: System security question
I don't like sunrpc hanging out at all exposed to the world. I get probed regularly on it. Block it out with /etc/hosts.deny the following way: PORTMAP : ALL I usually install ipchains on my box and then block out the ports I don't want exposed with: ipchains -F #remove all the rules, the default is alot of things that allow you to still operate the box from afar ipchains -A input -p TCP -s 0.0.0.0/0 -d 0.0.0.0/0 $portnumber -j REJECT #portnumber for sunrpc is 111, printer is 515. Use nmap to see what ports are open. Unfortunately, most security is just knowing what stuff does, so there's no substitute for being a good sysad. Look around. I usually check something I don't know what it is with a web search for exploit linux processname to see what's been reported on it. Martin Bishop wrote: Hi, Netstat shows the following services on my home machine: Active Internet connections (servers and established) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State tcp0 0 *:printer *:* LISTEN tcp0 0 *:dict *:* LISTEN tcp0 0 *:sunrpc*:* LISTEN tcp0 0 *:auth *:* LISTEN tcp0 0 *:smtp *:* LISTEN -- Organizing Linux users is like herding cats, only harder.
Re: OT - Virus?
I second this. I mean, come on, if you can read the script, you can tell at least a little of what it does, and it doesn't sound too good. I guess this is one of the voluntary email viruses--you have to run it. Tell the guy who sent it to you that he has to do a better job of social engineering next time, and then don't talk to him any more. Ethan Benson wrote: if i haven't made myself clear i believe your `detector' *IS* the trojan. never ever run unknown/untrusted binaries for which you do not have the source. *especially* as root. -- Organizing Linux users is like herding cats, only harder.
Re: Choppy sound - Woody, 2.4.0-test11 kernel, xmms esd
FWIW, Usually when the sound skips like that, there's a problem with the dma or irq setup on the board itself when you loaded the module. That's the angle that I would take. -- It's a shame that a family can be torn apart by something as simple as wild dogs.
Re: Banner server avoidence
Sure, /etc/hosts. Add something like the following: 127.0.0.1adserver.naughtybannerserver.com Alternatively, you could block out ads using ipchains: ipchains -A input -s adserver.naughtybannerserver.com -d 0.0.0.0/0 -j REJECT Or, you could use junkbuster to filter the traffic. --Mike Lee Elliott wrote: What happens with this particular package is that there's a local file linking IP addreses to urls, that is checked before looking for it on the net, rather like a local DNS. By linking ad/banner server urls to, say the local IP 127.0.0.1, the look-up fails and is abandoned with the result that you don't download anything from these servers i.e adverts etc :-) -- It's a shame that a family can be torn apart by something as simple as wild dogs.
Re: ssh as root
You can't connect to another box with ssh using the root account. It's a security feature. The default is to use your current username, which would be root in this instance. A way to get around this is with the -l option and then su on the remote box. So, #ssh -l user_name_to_login_as remotehost I don't use scp directly, but I use sftp, and it supports the -l option also. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm curious if this is a bug or a config option or am i smoking crack. I have 2 identical (more or less) potato systems, and wanted to scp a tar file to the other machine. the command was: # scp /tmp/filename.tar [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp I get ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host lost connection when i exit back out of the su, it connects fine. since i am not logging in as root i don't understand why it would(if it is) drop the connection. i checked the sshd_config and it looked ok ..i don't have identd running on either host, maybe SSH is telling the remote system what user i am? somehow i would think that would be bad if it was. or maybe my crackpipe needs cleaning .. any ideas?? thanks! nate ::: http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5:55pm up 88 days, 3:13, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.02, 0.00 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- It's a shame that a family can be torn apart by something as simple as wild dogs.
Re: Debian Apache package
What about the ScriptAlias option in httpd.conf, or am I missing the point? I believe you can put it in a virtual host, so that it looks like the following: VirtualHost www.virtualhost1.tld ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] DocumentRoot /home/virtualhost1/html ScriptAlias /home/virtualhost1/cgi-bin /VirtualHost Eirik Dentz wrote: I want to set up some basic virtual hosts inside my /home directory like this: /home/virtualhost1 /home/virtualhost2 I want to give each virtualhost its own cgi-bin. Based upon my understanding of suexec, its doc root would have to be set to /home in order for the cgi scripts to function properly. And that the doc root configuration for suexec must be set when it is compiled along with apache. The Debian apache package puts the cgi-bin in this directory: /usr/lib/cgi-bin I figure that the suexec doc root is probably set to this directory and that if I were to create cgi-bin directories inside my virtualhost directories the scripts within them would break. Now I should probably mention that I have compiled apache from source before on a Red hat web server for my employer. And I did it for the same reason (to change suexec's doc root) So I've been considering grabbing the source for apache and recompiling it on my debian system with the same layout, except for the aforementioned changes. Before I do that and possibly break my system, does anyone have any advice or suggestions? Or perhaps there is a very good reason why the apache .deb is set up this way that I'm totally missing? I'm also new to the debian mailing lists and wondered if it would be appropriate to send this sort of question to the package maintainer. Thanks in advance. eirik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- It's a shame that a family can be torn apart by something as simple as wild dogs.
Re: Secured FTP?
Use sftp--it's just a nice ftp frontend for scp that acts like a regular ftp client. I use it just about every day to put stuff on my webserver. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/non-us/sftp.html Peczoli Zoltan wrote: hi, Thanks, maybe it's just me but I don't see how to reach my goals using scp: 1. security (both passwords and data) - scp ok. 2. separate authentication (file transfer users have nothing to do with system users) 3. home jail (users cannot explore the file system but their own homes) (4. M$ non-operating systems should have client program) scp does the first one but what's with the three remaining ones? i was advised to user sftp, but the case is just like with scp. You can use scp, secure copy, included with openssh. It has the same syntax as rsh, but traffic is entrypted. Jason Suggestions? Bye: pocok -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- I was on a Boston to New York shuttle flight that gets stuck on the runway for 3 hours with no explanation. Worse, I'm sitting in front of three idiot consultants from Razorfish who spend the whole time talking loudly and incessantly. Remarkably, not one word of it resembled any productive activity in the slightest. 'So, I conducted a series of group discussion sessions to quantify how they establish their procedures.' 'But, Bianca, how did you formulate the framework for evaluating their paradigms?' My favorite line - Bianca is irate because a client asked her for some concrete bit of information: 'Can you believe that? Hello? I'm an Information Architect, not a Knowledge Engineer!' --dump() on slashdot
Re: Port 12345?
Try ippl. It logs connection attempts. logcheck is a tool that scans your log files every hour and mails you the results. It's noisy to start with, but you can add events to your logcheck.ignore file to cut down on the false alarms for routine traffic. Willy Lee wrote: How can I tell when I am being portscanned? Is there an appropriate selection of Debian packages for this? -- Michael J. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2250 Patterson #25 Eugene, OR 97405 (541)346-7562
Re: Port 12345?
Netbus Ganabus back door Netbus back door Netbus Picture back door. Check it out: http://www.snort.org/Database/portsearch.asp Svante Signell wrote: Anyone knows what port 12345TCP is used for and which OSes are vulnerable? (my guess is w9x) I'm getting portscanned every now and the on this specific port. Other (known) ports are 31337UDP Back Orifice, 20034 NetBus Pro etc. but which one is corresponding to 12345? Ports being attacked the last year (some more than once): 1TCP: tcpmux 79TCP: finger 119TCP: nntp 143TCP: imap2 161UDP: snmp 1524TCP: ingreslock 12345TCP: ?? 20034TCP: Netbus Pro 31337UDP: Back Orifice Note: I am on a dial-up connection. For you with fixed network access, how often do this happen, a few times a day? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- I was on a Boston to New York shuttle flight that gets stuck on the runway for 3 hours with no explanation. Worse, I'm sitting in front of three idiot consultants from Razorfish who spend the whole time talking loudly and incessantly. Remarkably, not one word of it resembled any productive activity in the slightest. 'So, I conducted a series of group discussion sessions to quantify how they establish their procedures.' 'But, Bianca, how did you formulate the framework for evaluating their paradigms?' My favorite line - Bianca is irate because a client asked her for some concrete bit of information: 'Can you believe that? Hello? I'm an Information Architect, not a Knowledge Engineer!' --dump() on slashdot
Re: How to set up ISA SCSI card.
Hi I have an AVA1505, which is similar. What you do is set the jumpers. The module you should use is the aha152x module. The problem with both of these cards is that they don't have on-board BIOS's and therefore do not auto-probe when the module is installed, so you have to set up the module manually. Try modprobe -a aha152x aha152x=ioport,irq,scsiidofcard,parity,reconnect For my card, the append line was 0x340,11,7,1,1. The IRQ and IOPORT are required, the others are extra. Good Luck --Mike Terry Hancock wrote: Briefly, does anyone know how to set up a jumpered ISA SCSI card properly? I have the I/O and IRQ settings on the card, but don't know where to put the information. -- Michael J. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2250 Patterson #25 Eugene, OR 97405 (541)346-7562
Re: setting gateway IP from command line
Check out route. The command should be something like route add default gw IPaddressofgateway (this is off the top of my head, so might not be 100% correct) You can see the current route by route or route -n to see it without the machine names resolved. Once you have that, edit /etc/network/interfaces to something like this: iface eth0 inet static address XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX netmask 255.255.255.0 network XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX broadcast XXX.XXX.XXX.255 gateway XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX ...and then do ifdown -a ; ifup -a to restart the interfaces. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sure this is a very basic question but I have zero experience with debian. I work at a computer shop and we installed debian on a pair of new machines for a customer. He needs to assign an IP and gateway to one of them and could not figure out how to do it so he brought the machines back to us and begged. We are basically a windows only house. I'm the only linux user and all of my experience is with mandrake and slackware. I've always used X in both and there is no X on this machine. I just need the command name and I can do it from there. Thanks all! Abe Jesus saves, Allah forgives, Chuthulu thinks you'd make a nice sandwich. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- I was on a Boston to New York shuttle flight that gets stuck on the runway for 3 hours with no explanation. Worse, I'm sitting in front of three idiot consultants from Razorfish who spend the whole time talking loudly and incessantly. Remarkably, not one word of it resembled any productive activity in the slightest. 'So, I conducted a series of group discussion sessions to quantify how they establish their procedures.' 'But, Bianca, how did you formulate the framework for evaluating their paradigms?' My favorite line - Bianca is irate because a client asked her for some concrete bit of information: 'Can you believe that? Hello? I'm an Information Architect, not a Knowledge Engineer!' --dump() on slashdot
Re: VALinux box - NT4 - Debian emergency!
I put disks in and out of boxen all the time. The trick is to label everything. That way, you don't erase the good stuff. Otherwise, have fun. Robert Guthrie wrote: On Friday 17 November 2000 04:57, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: A small complication as that we need to practise installing NT4 onto the new server as we have a completely new IT support department who don't Blasphemy! ;-) much experience in this area. I'd like to get the VALinux box, possibly take out the hard drive/s and put in a temporary hd, install NT4, then put back the Linux hard disks and reinstall lilo. I'm very inexperienced with lilo, mbrs etc. I'd be grateful for any comments on the feasibility and likely problems of the procedure I've outline above. I'm not going to try and tutuor you on MBR such (there are several good howtos available on the web and with any standard debian installation about dual-booting (search for windows, NT, etc...), which go into detail about how OS's boot. As for what you had in mind, sure, just pull out the drive(s), put in a new one, practice the dark rituals you need to, and then replace the temporary drive with the original(s). Nothing else has to be done if you didn't change the BIOS settings (the boot manager is located on the drive). NOTE: as with any OS, if you have multiple drives, they should all be re-instlalled in exactly the same way they were when you took them out, or your system won't boot. -- Did you know that if you play a Windows 2000 cd backwards, you will hear the voice of Satan? That's nothing! If you play it forward, it'll install Windows 2000. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- I was on a Boston to New York shuttle flight that gets stuck on the runway for 3 hours with no explanation. Worse, I'm sitting in front of three idiot consultants from Razorfish who spend the whole time talking loudly and incessantly. Remarkably, not one word of it resembled any productive activity in the slightest. 'So, I conducted a series of group discussion sessions to quantify how they establish their procedures.' 'But, Bianca, how did you formulate the framework for evaluating their paradigms?' My favorite line - Bianca is irate because a client asked her for some concrete bit of information: 'Can you believe that? Hello? I'm an Information Architect, not a Knowledge Engineer!' --dump() on slashdot
Re: Workstation and IP-Masquerading
I just set up a masquerade box at work in about 1.5 hours (from scratch) with Debian. Just make your box with two nics, configure one nic for your outside connection, configure the other for 192.168.0.1, and then install the ipmasq package. One of the questions the package asks you is if you want to start masquerading. Say yes. You might have to tweak the ipchains a little after that, but the minimum install works right out of the box. For the other boxes, give them ip's in the 192.168.0.XXX range, and tell them that 192.168.0.1 is their gateway. It was so easy, I was surprised. BTW, this is what I like about debian--all the default configurations are just where you want them to be. --Mike Robert Kasunic wrote: Hi, I have two PC's at home and would like to share my internet connection (DSL) between them. As I don't want a third computer here running all the time I was thinking to enable IP-Masquerading on one of them and build a firewall on it as well. It will be running Samba too. Nevertheless I'd like to continue using these PC's as Workstations. Does that seem to be a useful approach? I would really appreciate any opions or suggestions you might have. TIA. Robert -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Michael J. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2250 Patterson #25 Eugene, OR 97405 (541)346-7562
Re: servers running debian
I have, under my wing: 2 dual-cpu rackmount servers 2 firewalls 4 workstations 2 home PC's --all running Debian -- Michael J. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2250 Patterson #25 Eugene, OR 97405 (541)346-7562
Re: adaptec 1505 / potato
Since the AVA1505 does not have an on-board bios, you have to tell the module where it's at. Give the options at load time with modprobe -a aha152x aha152x=0x340,11,7(ioport,irq,scsihostid) or using modconf, give the options where prompted. Put an append statement in lilo when you've figured it out. You are using this card just for a scanner, right? It's not too overly sophistocated. --Mike Dominique Rousset wrote: I'm trying to configure an adaptec AVA1505 adaptec ISA SCSI card on a potato system. 1) default aha152x.o module included with 2.2.17-ide deb was generating unresolved symbols 2) after kernel compilation I've no more errors but a resource busy message. For the moment IRQ and IO adresses configured for the module are consistent with the jumpers on the board. /proc/interrupts doesn't report IRQ 11 as used and /proc/ioports doesn't report Ox340 as used. Maybe the solution is within bios setup but I dont'understand anything to PnP or IRQ managing within the bios setup. Any clue ? Thanks - | Dominique Rousset| Tel: +33 (0)5 59 92 31 71| | Imagerie Géophysique UMR 5831| Fax: +33 (0)5 59 92 31 86| | Univ. Pau et des Pays de l'Adour | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | BP 1115 - F-64013 Pau Cedex - France | - -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- I was on a Boston to New York shuttle flight that gets stuck on the runway for 3 hours with no explanation. Worse, I'm sitting in front of three idiot consultants from Razorfish who spend the whole time talking loudly and incessantly. Remarkably, not one word of it resembled any productive activity in the slightest. 'So, I conducted a series of group discussion sessions to quantify how they establish their procedures.' 'But, Bianca, how did you formulate the framework for evaluating their paradigms?' My favorite line - Bianca is irate because a client asked her for some concrete bit of information: 'Can you believe that? Hello? I'm an Information Architect, not a Knowledge Engineer!' --dump() on slashdot
Re: swisswatch
Install it, go to an xterm and run it with swisswatch. It makes a cute watch, reminiscent of the clocks at european train stations. If you check the man page, it tells you how to configure it from the command line. John-Mark wrote: does any one know what swiss watch is or doeshow to use it once installed.thanksjm -- I was on a Boston to New York shuttle flight that gets stuck on the runway for 3 hours with no explanation. Worse, I'm sitting in front of three idiot consultants from Razorfish who spend the whole time talking loudly and incessantly. Remarkably, not one word of it resembled any productive activity in the slightest. 'So, I conducted a series of group discussion sessions to quantify how they establish their procedures.' 'But, Bianca, how did you formulate the framework for evaluating their paradigms?' My favorite line - Bianca is irate because a client asked her for some concrete bit of information: 'Can you believe that? Hello? I'm an Information Architect, not a Knowledge Engineer!' --dump() on slashdot
Re: ssh is refusing connections
Did you by chance reinstall ssh on the machine you're connecting from or do anything to change its key? If something happenned to that box's key, then the box you're trying to connect to sees that that box has a different key and denies you from the get-go. It's for anti-IP-spoofing. Try ssh-ing from the server to your portable. If the key has changed, you will get an error message. Find out where ssh holds its key database (can't remember right off the top of my head) and kill off the entry for that machine. It should work then. --Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 09:21:34PM +0100, Andre Berger wrote: Aaron Brashears [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've been running my server for 89 days now, on potato for the whole time. It's been quite stable and happy for a while now. However, without an update to either the server or my portable machine, ssh began refusing connections all of a sudden. 'Garrison' is the machine's local name, as listed in my /etc/hosts. Here's what's happening: $ ssh garrison secure connection to garrison refused $ Earlier in the day, this worked fine. I then ssh'd over to a friend's server, and can ssh from there to my server. Any help or ideas? I had the same problem recently too, and it disapeared by installing a new sshd on my machine (1.2.3 2.x.x). Hope this helps -- Best Regards / Venlig Hilsen Rasmus Toftdahl Olesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://halfdan.dyndns.org -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- I was on a Boston to New York shuttle flight that gets stuck on the runway for 3 hours with no explanation. Worse, I'm sitting in front of three idiot consultants from Razorfish who spend the whole time talking loudly and incessantly. Remarkably, not one word of it resembled any productive activity in the slightest. 'So, I conducted a series of group discussion sessions to quantify how they establish their procedures.' 'But, Bianca, how did you formulate the framework for evaluating their paradigms?' My favorite line - Bianca is irate because a client asked her for some concrete bit of information: 'Can you believe that? Hello? I'm an Information Architect, not a Knowledge Engineer!' --dump() on slashdot
Re: IDS
Try aide http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/aide.html. Chris Mason wrote: I'm looking for recommendations for an Intrusion Detection system for my firewall. Preferably a debian package but not restricted to. -- Michael J. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2250 Patterson #25 Eugene, OR 97405 (541)346-7562
Re: 3com problem
The 3c59x module is built into the kernel, just configure your network and it will work. You do not have to load any modules. There should be a multiple-line entry when the box starts up and the NIC is identified. This system works so slick that I have 2 3c905's that I slap into a box just to simplify my life. Then I switch later to a different card if I want to. Do the basic stuff--partition the hd, select keyboard, initialize hd partitions, and then configure networking (yes, this is a little bit out of order.) After that, get the kernel and modules via ftp, then the base system via ftp. I have a T-1 right here in my office, and this has got to be the best system around. --Mike Piotr Chudykowski wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install the base system via ftp, but I can't because the drivers in the potato release doesn't have support for my NIC (3Com 905). What can I do - please help. Thanks. Pete. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- I was on a Boston to New York shuttle flight that gets stuck on the runway for 3 hours with no explanation. Worse, I'm sitting in front of three idiot consultants from Razorfish who spend the whole time talking loudly and incessantly. Remarkably, not one word of it resembled any productive activity in the slightest. 'So, I conducted a series of group discussion sessions to quantify how they establish their procedures.' 'But, Bianca, how did you formulate the framework for evaluating their paradigms?' My favorite line - Bianca is irate because a client asked her for some concrete bit of information: 'Can you believe that? Hello? I'm an Information Architect, not a Knowledge Engineer!' --dump() on slashdot.
Re: 3com problem
Which kernel prebuilt are you using? idepci has 3C95x support built in, or at least it works right off the boot disk with no problems. I don't need the kernel disk at all--just grab the kernel and modules right off the network. --Mike I was on a Boston to New York shuttle flight that gets stuck on the runway for 3 hours with no explanation. Worse, I'm sitting in front of three idiot consultants from Razorfish who spend the whole time talking loudly and incessantly. Remarkably, not one word of it resembled any productive activity in the slightest. 'So, I conducted a series of group discussion sessions to quantify how they establish their procedures.' 'But, Bianca, how did you formulate the framework for evaluating their paradigms?' My favorite line - Bianca is irate because a client asked her for some concrete bit of information: 'Can you believe that? Hello? I'm an Information Architect, not a Knowledge Engineer!' --dump() on slashdot
Re: replacement for ftp using ssh/scp?
sftp--it's basically a front-end to scp. It's pretty good. GFTP supposedly can use it as a plugin, but for some reason it hangs on me when the first file is done. Michael A. Miller wrote: Is there anything available that looks and acts like ftp, but will let me connect to hosts through ssh/scp? Mike -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- I was on a Boston to New York shuttle flight that gets stuck on the runway for 3 hours with no explanation. Worse, I'm sitting in front of three idiot consultants from Razorfish who spend the whole time talking loudly and incessantly. Remarkably, not one word of it resembled any productive activity in the slightest. 'So, I conducted a series of group discussion sessions to quantify how they establish their procedures.' 'But, Bianca, how did you formulate the framework for evaluating their paradigms?' My favorite line - Bianca is irate because a client asked her for some concrete bit of information: 'Can you believe that? Hello? I'm an Information Architect, not a Knowledge Engineer!' --dump() on slashdot
Re: libdb.so.3 missing
I ftp'ed libdb.so.3 from a working box, stuck it in the right place on the machine, and then did an upgrade. It's ugly, but effective, since there's an upgrade that overwrites the borrowed version completely. Thomas Halahan wrote: Andrew, I have had very similar problems. I upgraded to libc6 libc6_2.1.94-1, which caused certain programs (apache, gnome-apt) to not locale libdb.so.3. So I upgraded my libdb2 and this didn't help. As encouraged I upgraded to libc6_2.1.94-3 but I could not becuase it required libdb.so.3 which was missing. So I downdraded libc6 and my ldconfig dissapeard. I'm now in trouble - as I can't re-install ldso (the package with ldconfig). How did you reinstall ldconfig? Tom On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, Pollywog wrote: On 30-Sep-2000 P.J.Walsh wrote: dpkg is choking on some upgrades, showing libdb.so.3 missing... dpkg -S doesn't help. To what does it belong? It belongs to the libdb package but the problem is with libc6. I had to revert to the previous versions of libc6, libc6-dev, and locales. The new libc6 packages are buggy. Your ldconfig is probably missing after the libc6 upgrade. Mine just disappeared. -- Andrew -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Michael J. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2250 Patterson #25 Eugene, OR 97405 (541)346-7562
Re: libdb.so.3 missing
Ihad the same problem a couple of days ago--the hard party was that the library was missing, so I couldn't upgrade to a working version. It tried to preconfigure, and then perl tanked with the same error message that you got. What I did was ftp to another machine, grab /usr/lib/libdb.so.3, and move it to the right place on the broken box. Then I immediately did an upgrade and the problem fixed itself with the upgrade (the package in question got upgraded, overwriting the bad version. I think we need a bumper sticker that says Use Unstable Debian--live by the seat of your pants. P.J.Walsh wrote: dpkg is choking on some upgrades, showing libdb.so.3 missing... dpkg -S doesn't help. To what does it belong? -- Patrick Walsh Edmonton AB CA -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Michael J. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2250 Patterson #25 Eugene, OR 97405 (541)346-7562
problem with sftp in Gftp
I'm having problems using sftp and gftp. I can download one file, and then the system behaves like sftp doesn't send back a signal that it's done, so gftp says that the transfer is at 100%, but still in progress. I'm using woody (development debian) openssh 2.2.0p1, sftp 0.9.5, and gftp2.0.7b(the most current debian packages). It's one of the coolest systems that I use at work, and almost stuns my wee little brain with its potential, I just don't know which program is at fault. Has anybody else had similar effects? BTW, sftp works great from the command line, so that functions. I have ideas that it might just be somewhere with how the three talk to each other. Just something to chew on for awhile --Mike -- Michael J. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2250 Patterson #25 Eugene, OR 97405 (541)346-7562
Re: I'm afraid I've been cracked.
Try using aide--it checks your filesystem (checksums, inodes, timestamps, lots more) to make sure that nothing's been tampered, and mails you a daily report. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/admin/aide.html. It's good stuff, expecially on machines that are just sitting around with minimal input from you. It basically does all of what you did to check your system integrity, only on a larger scale. --Mike Steve Juranich wrote: On 28 Sep 2000, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: bash$ man debsums bash$ dpkg --search `which top` procps: /usr/bin/top bash$ debsums -s procps Any output could be a problem. Of course this assumes that the listed md5sums have not been tampered with. They are in /var/lib/dpkg/info. Okay, after poking around a good deal, here's the diagnosis: 1) Log files look okay, but that doesn't count for much. 2) md5sums for all of those things like top, ls, etc all check out. 3) No packages have .md5sums files in /var/lib/dpkg/info with modification dates any later than my original istallation (which was Sunday). Are script kiddies smart enough to modify this? If anybody did crack my box, it's not readily apparent that they did anything harmful. Nevertheless, the only open ports I'm going to have from here on out is ssh, and that will be configured to accept connections ONLY from my box in my office. Thanks for the help. Any further suggestions are very welcome, since I'm still very new to all of this security stuff. -- Stephen W. Juranich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Electrical Engineeringhttp://students.washington.edu/sjuranic University of Washingtonhttp://rcs.ee.washington.edu/ssli -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Michael J. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2250 Patterson #25 Eugene, OR 97405 (541)346-7562
Re: sawfish doesn't work
I think the default sweetpill theme for sawfish is missing from the sources. This means that you have no raise-lower buttons or even frames on the windows. Try using sawfish and then running the configuration tool. Change the appearance to microgui or anything else, and then close out all your current windows. The new ones should be OK. I've been installing about 5 workstations this week, and that's what I had to do with all of them. HTH --Mike Andrew D Dixon wrote: I upgraded again and sawfish still doesn't work. Any suggestions? thanks, Andy Mark Gordon wrote: Hi Everybody, I'm running Debian Potato and I just decided to try out Helix-Gnome. Everything was working great untill today when sawfish died on me. I did two things today that may have cause the problem. I updated and upgraded my system: apt-get update apt-get upgrade Yup, that would do it. ;-) Our Debian Potato sawfish was broken for a while late last week. It should be fixed now (apt-get update apt-get upgrade again, of course). -Mark Gordon __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Michael J. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2250 Patterson #25 Eugene, OR 97405 (541)346-7562
Re: Can gpm and X live in peace?
Sure, just set up x to use /dev/gpmdata as the mouse device, and X will use gpm to run the mouse. There's no conflict that way. It's also a little bit easier sometimes to configure the mouse in X if you've already got a working gpm. Steve Juranich wrote: I was able to trace down a problem with my mouse (it was dead) back to gpm. It seems that gpm was being a bully and wouldn't let X play with the mouse. To solve the problem, I just killed gpm. I don't use gpm all that much, so I doubt that I'll even miss it. However, it seems that both of them should be able to use the mouse at the same time. Could somebody plaase tell me how I can run gpm and X run at the same time? TIA -- Stephen W. Juranich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Electrical Engineeringhttp://students.washington.edu/sjuranic University of Washingtonhttp://rcs.ee.washington.edu/ssli -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Michael J. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2250 Patterson #25 Eugene, OR 97405 (541)346-7562
Re: ESS1868
Try sndconfig--it's pretty easy to do any sound card. I put my boss's 1688(?) on it with little to no effort. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/sound/sndconfig.html
Re: ESS1868
Lehel Bernadt wrote: I have an ESS1868 too, and it's working. I don't use isapnp, since I'm using the default card config. My sb options are the following: esstype=1868 io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=-1 To check these, just run the config program of the card from DOS. What looks strange to me is dma 1,3. Why two 8-bit dma channels ? I think the extra DMA is for the midi sequencer (mpu401?)
Re: deb packages not offered: lame xcdplay?
There was an intent to package (ITP) lame awhile ago--check out the debian developer list archives. Peter Jay Salzman wrote: dear all, there are a few packages i like to have, like lame and xcdplay. can't find any deb pkgs, though. i have no problem compiling a tarball, but i'd rather keep my dpkg database as complete as possible. does anyone know of a site that offers packages of these softwares or is compiling a tarball the only way to go? pete -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Netscape helper application configuration
Try staroffice with the %f (I think this passes the filename, but I might be way off in left field. Try also %s or %u) Also check out mswordview, this is what it's designed for. --Mike Stephen A. Witt wrote: I'm trying to figure out how to get Netscape to open up an application to view a Word document. I've edited the Applications category within the Navigator preferences to start StarOffice when a Word document is selected. StarOffice does start up, but it doesn't open the Word document. So, I'm thinking that I need to somehow provide the name of the file as a parameter to StarOffice when it is executed. This does in fact work if I execute StarOffice from the shell. Other than the obvious don't read any Word documents, because the authors must be lower forms of life, , does anyone have a clue as to how I can proceed with this? Thanks... -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: where's sshd?
http://www.debian.org/Packages/stable/non-us/ssh.html will trillich wrote: apt-get hasn't helped me get up-and-running with sshd at all... /etc/apt/sources.list == deb http://security.debian.org potato/updates main contrib non-free deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free no such package, nowhere, nohow. not even mentioned on debian.org. in all my search engine travails i've not found any debian-specific 'port's -- only RPM. and the one i got (2.1.1p4-2) wasn't complete: it referred to a 'functions' shell script that's not there (also in a non-debian /etc/rc.d/init.d directory structure)... what's the debian way of getting sshd running? -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dontUthink.com/ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Install of Applixware 5.0
I had to use mount -t iso9660 -o exec /dev/cdrom /cdrom The shell script won't execute because the cd filesystem is mounted noexec, making all the executables on the cd inoperable, so you have to give it the option to have these executable. It's somewhere in the applix install instructions, but in small print. --Mike b.j. halfkann wrote: Has anyone else installed applix 5.0 from CD ?? login as root start X open Xshell mount -r -t iso9600 /dev/[cdrom] /mnt/cdrom cd /mnt/cdrom ./setup ...that's all regards bernward -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: network printer problems
Sometimes, printers give the code that they are off-line (ran out of ink, someone physically took it off line), or the I'm OK and ready to do your bidding, master signal doesn't get recieved, so lpd thinks that the printer isn't working. You should be able to see this with lpc status, and a quick way to fix it is with lpc up all. Nick Cook wrote: I recently had a sudden ain't going to print problem (although not on a network), and I got around it by dropping into root and going to lpc. Then I issued the abort command, followed by start all. When I exited lpc, everything was back to normal. YMMV, though. I don't know why it happend (and yes, it fixed itself as mysteriously as it began...) - Nick [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Firewall Box
Check out the debian firewall list. It will tell all. Matt Kopishke wrote: Hi, I need to implement a firewall at work. It will be for the most part a pretty simple set up. I am going to set one of our Linux Boxes between the Router and the Switch. The Box has 3 NICs, one for the router side, one for the switch, and one for a backup cable connection. We have a block of IPs, and we will need to get to machines behind the firewall from the out side so I don't want to use ipmasq. What I plan on doing is just using ipchains to shutoff any unused ports, and strip the box of any questionable software (ie ssh instead of telnet). Has any one tried such a set up? And if they have could you pass on any pointers or things to watch out for? I also see there are a few packages out there to aid setup, how well do they work? Thanks, -Matt- ---+--+ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://www.flni.com| A long time ago, in a state far, far away... | Web Guru, Perl jocky, | OKLAHOMA!| Linux bum, etc... |http://www.waldotheatre.org | --Debian GNU/Linux-- | | ---+--+ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Another Poll
Here's a better url: http://www.justlinux.com/bin/poll/allpolls.pl And to think I thought nobody ever used slackware. Oh, well. Brooks R. Robinson wrote: Greetings, There is yet another Linux version poll at www.justlinux.com! Debian is sitting at 7%! Vote early and Vote often! Brooks -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: any luck with ES1869 sound card?
You have to recompile the kernel with sound enabled as a module (if you're using idepci kernel--the full-blown version might have it in already) and use the sb (soundblaster) module. A list of the modules I have working says : sb uart401 sound soundlow soundcore Use sndconfig to set it up--it's pretty easy, just pick a card and tell it what settings (irq, ioport, dma). After that, all the users you want to have access to sound you have to add to the audio group. Peter Fedichev wrote: Hello! have anyone ever managed to get sound working with ES1869 sound card? I've been using RedHat and gave up with it. Since recently I installed Debian 2.2 and got the same problem again. Do any of you know the way out or maybe there is a place somewhere to read about configuring a sound card in more details. Thanks in advance -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Help setting up my scanner??
There is a seperate section in the kernel configuration for generic scsi devices. You have to have that enabled for the scanner to work. After that, the device that you should use is /dev/sg0 (1st scsi generic device). Daly Gutierrez wrote: Hello all, I have an HP Scanjet 5p (SCSI) scanner hooked up to my Buslogic 958 (Mylex) SCSI card. The Hardware-HOW-TO states that both devices are Linux compatible... and they appear to be, to some extent. I have installed the SANE package and its documentation also says that the HP Scanjet 5p is supported. During boot-up, Linux properly detects my Buslogic SCSI card and the two devices connected to it: my 2.1 GB SCSI hard drive and my scanner! For that reason, I believe that SCSI support has been pre-compiled in the kernel (I may be wrong). Anyway, when I type scanimage -L to list the devices, there are NO devices shown. I've also tried find-scanner and I get a message like needing generic SCSI support. Do I not have this already? Any help would be appreciated !! -- Daly __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: DHCP client setup for @Home
Oh, no, dhcpd is the server software. That won't work at all, unless you are on contract with @home to provide this service:^) In fact, you might be handing out addresses to @home customers who wonder why it doesn't work. What they don't tell you about @home is that they use static ip addresses, they just make you get it with dhcp. If you have the information, you can just set it up normally and not dink around with all this dhcp junk. I think it's supposed to make it easier on tech support if they tell you all the addresses through dhcp. I've been running two boxen for about 4 months without a problem--all using static IP. If you have the work order that they gave you with the other goodies, you can look on it and it will have all the info you need, or if you have another working setup, you can look to see what the settings are. Then set up a normal network with /etc/network/interfaces and resolv.conf. Sven Burgener wrote: On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 11:30:13AM -0500, Phil Brutsche wrote: dhclient (that's the name of the executable in the dhcp-client package) is the best (imo) dhcp client for unix-type systems. That would explain why NetBSD, OpenBSD, and FreeBSD use dhclient in their bootup sequence when you select automatic interface configuration (or something like that). How about dhcpcd? **--**--** Package: dhcpcd Priority: optional Section: net Installed-Size: 102 Maintainer: Dennis Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Architecture: i386 Version: 1:1.3.17pl2-8 Replaces: dhcpcd-sv Depends: libc6 (= 2.1.2) Conflicts: dhcpcd-sv Filename: dists/stable/main/binary-i386/net/dhcpcd_1.3.17pl2-8.deb Size: 37178 MD5sum: c843acf777bf739206ccfca1769de412 Description: DHCP client for automatically configuring IPv4 networking This package contains both the 0.70 and 1.3.x version of dhcpcd and should work with any Linux kernel. **--**--** Thing is, I am having trouble with getting my cable connection working. I can use dhcpcd eth0 to get connected. I get an IP address, my default route gets set, and my /etc/resolv.conf is changed. So far so good, all *seems* well. Now, what I can do is ping the default gateway, but not the DHCP server. Also, I cannot resolve DNS names. Can anyone judge to say what *could* be the problem? Thing is exactly the same situation occurs under WinDos. (Them stupid support folks first told me to use WinDos instead of Linux - they don't support Linux!) Anyway, I am waiting for the cable company to respond / fix the problems. My guess is that their network is somewhat fsck'ed. You weren't doing anything wrong. pump simply doesn't work very well. Has anyone ever had any problems when using dhcpcd instead of dhclient? I never tried dhclient. Thanks Sven -- The program required me to install Windows 95 or better ... ... so I installed Linux. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: DHCP client setup for @Home
Yeah, there's that, but from all the inquiring I have done, that address is pretty much unchanging. The problem I've found with @home, at least in Eugene, OR, is that they use alot of mystique to describe what they do, like it's magic or something, when all they really do is pass packets and run DNS and mail servers, maybe occassionally probe you on port 119 to see if you're running a news server. Trust us, it's faster is about all the tech data you get around here. Maybe they aren't used to talking to people who actually do networking for a living. Oh, well, that's life. John Reinke wrote: Also, just because DHCP is used, doesn't mean that the IP address assigned to a MAC address WILL change, just don't assume it will never change, or things might be very broken when they do.
myodbc on remote machines?
Hi all, I'm having a problem connecting to a remote machine through myodbc and unixodbc. For some reason, It tries to use a socket on the local machine instead of the remote one. Is there something I'm just stupid about here? The frustrating part is that I can connect throught the mysql client with mysql -u username -p -h dbserver. Here's my odbc.ini entry: [dsnname] Trace = Off #Tracefile= stderr Driver = /usr/lib/libmyodbc.so DSN = dsnname HOST = dbserver SERVER = dbserver PORT = 3306 Here's my error message, and how the myodbc connect goes through the command-line sql monitor isql: #isql dnsname -v [unixODBC][TCX][MyODBC]Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (111) [ISQL]ERROR: Could not SQLConnect
Re: secure ftp
If you're working on a workstation with X, GFTP (the recent version) can use sftp for secure, guix ftp. Just make a connection with ssh to get the key, and then select the ssh protocol in GFTP. brian moore wrote: On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 05:41:46PM -0700, Tal Danzig wrote: Hello, On Mon, 4 Sep 2000 17:24:23 -0700, brian moore said: : On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 01:18:08PM -0700, Tal Danzig wrote: : Hi all, : : If you have ssh2 installed there is sftp2. : : If you have openssh installed, there is 'sftp', even available as a deb : of the same name. : That's good to know. So is openssh the equivalent of ssh2? And more importantly is it backwards compatible with the older version of ssh? Openssh currently supports both ssh1.5 and ssh2 protocols. So, yes, you can use it in place of ssh-nonfree and/or ssh2 (hence the name change with potato -- 'ssh' refers to openssh). The sftp2 that works with ssh2 is proprietary, as I recall. It only works with ssh2, which has that evil non-free license, so I've never looked seriously at it. -- Brian Moore | Of course vi is God's editor. Sysadmin, C/Perl Hacker | If He used Emacs, He'd still be waiting Usenet Vandal | for it to load on the seventh day. Netscum, Bane of Elves. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Potato or Woody
Woody is the development version Potato is the stable version, also called version 2.2. If you're looking for stability and reliability for a production machine (high-availability webserver), go for potato. If you want the bleeding edge, go for woody. Or, if you're completely insane, like me, you can use custom sources (like the helixcode stuff) as an addition to woody. Christopher W. Aiken wrote: Sorry if this is a repeat, I lost my phone connection just I mailed this off. I'm obviously a Debian newbie, although I've been using Linux and FreeBSD for several years as a home workstation. I see all of the code names Potato Woody mentioned in a lot of the discussions. Who is newer, Potato or Woody? How do I know which version that I just got in the mail? My official CD's indicate that I have Ver. 2.2_r0 uname -a displays: Linux Debian 2.2.17 #1 Sun Jun 25 09:24:41 EST 2000 i686 unknown -- --- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Preferred O/S: FreeBSD 4.0 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Is the 3COM 3C509B PCI (PCI PCI PCI __not__ ISA) supported?
The 3c59x module is built right into the stock kernel (at least for potato). You don't even have to load a module. As long as it is recognized, it should work. I just did an install yesterday on one, and I skipped all the configure modules stuff--just configured the network and I was off. Check ifconfig and cat /proc/interrupts to see it it's installed. Other than that, it's a sweet card. I dinked around for a whole day with a realtek and finally just swapped it for a 3c905b and life has been sweet ever since. --Mike Ray Percival wrote: I just use the Vortex module. I know the numbers are not right but it works very well vor me 3C9XXX is the model number I think will have to check when I get home to make sure. -- Original Message -- From: Chris Majewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 11:15:04 -0700 (PDT) I bought a 3c509b PCI thinking this would be the easiest and most reliable thing to get working.. bullshit. /proc/pci says: Bus 0, device 11, function 0: Ethernet controller: 3Com 3C905B 100bTX (rev 48). Medium devsel. IRQ 5. Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=10.Max Lat=10. I/O at 0xe800 [0xe801]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe900 [0xe900]. but compiling the 3c509 driver into the kernel (2.2.17) does nothing, and compiling it as a module yields init_module: device or resource busy for every possible irq setting, which is incidentally the same error message I get if I try, just for fun, to insert a driver module for a nonexistent device. In English: I can't get the 3c509 driver to recognize my 3c509b PCI. Is there another driver, or should I get a different card? (Please don't send me mail telling me how well your isapnp 3c509 works; mine does too.) thanks for any suggestions, chris -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: how to diagnose ethernet card?
tcpdump tells you the raw tcp messages, and is great for troubleshooting. Also, ping your net address ifconfig might be what you are looking for if you want to see if the interface is setup and running. Chris Majewski wrote: Given that my network is down, how can I check if my NIC works? In particular, if el3diag gives a successful-looking message and no errors, can I assume the NIC is OK? (My cable modem connection is foobar and I would like to at least trust my hardware) thanks chris -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: cable connection stopped working
BTW, I've hooked up several boxen to @home, and sometimes the modem needs to be turned off. That's my big troubleshooting step if I can't ping the outside.
Re: It's a small world....
Actually, I think we were talking about a celebrity death match between Steve Lamb and Dr. Laura. Don't ask how we got there. Anyway, glad to meet ya', Brian. --Mike Seth Cohn wrote: Tonight at the Eugene Linux user group meeting, not only were the regulars there, like myself and Mike Smith, but I had the pleasant experience of meeting Brian Moore, whom I had no idea was local. We had some laughs and all agreed once again that arguing with Steve Lamb was pointless... Pretty funny when you get together in person, and all you can do is talk about the time you spent in cyberspace and not even realize that a person in front of you IS the person from cyberspace. obDebian: all of our local power users are switching slowly to Debian all of the talk about the power of apt-get slowly sways them. obCool: our user group webmaster is hacking around with 404 errors. check out any NON-existent page on http://www.euglug.org like http://www.euglug.org/thispageisbad.html and enjoy the fun. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Is it just me or.......
I've got tons...about 450 since 1700 yesterday. I just culled them all. Christopher W. Aiken wrote: Is it just me or has every message posted to this Debain list been posted 3-4 times today? I've had 150+ emails and they were just duplicates of previous postings over and over !! -- --- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Preferred O/S: FreeBSD 4.0 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
.debs for LeoCAD
Hi all Pat Mahone put up some .deb's for LeoCAD at http://www.crosswinds.net/~sideways/fossa/ They're compiled for the helix version of GTK+, so they might work if you force them. Failing that, there's always the source code. LeoCAD is a cool CAD program for legos. The homepage is at http://leocad.gerf.org/. There are a couple of low-traffic mailing lists, too. I talked to Leonardo, and he said that he's doing more development in Linux nowadays, but he doesn't think that he has too many Linux users. I remember about 6 months ago, somebody mentioned LeoCAD, and I just didn't have the time to check it out. Well, it's all good now. Happy building! --Mike
Re: slow modem response
The problem is, the software is looking for the wrong interrupt. That's why the response is so slow. Look in /proc/pci for something that sounds like a modem. There should be something that tells you what the irq is. use setserial to change the irq setting that the software is looking for setserial -v /dev/ttyS0?? irq ?? or something to that effect (this is off the top of my head. Read the man page). With setserial, you can change alot of serial port settings, so it's a great tool. Once you get that running, start looking for a place to have setserial run on boot-up. Then you should be golden. About 3 years ago, I first started Linux when I was living in Germany, and it took about 6 months for me to figure out how to do this because I didn't have anybody that I could ask, and how can you find help online if you can't dial out? --Mike Debian Mail wrote: Hello Debian Users, D Ghost here. I am trying to get advice on a slow modem I have here. My modem is a best data 56k modem that said 'linux compatable' on the box (ha!) at any rate, I have it on ttyS3 and when I send commands to it (i.e- minicom) it has a very slow response. I can send it ATZ string and the modem seems to take 10 seconds or more to receive the string. Needless to say any dialup script I use will basically time out. Not sure if this is some type of serial problem between the modem and pc. Advice much aprriciated! D Ghost 'space ghost on neptune!' -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Michael J. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2250 Patterson #25 Eugene, OR 97405 (541)346-7562
Re: mysql-server?
Purge the package and reinstall it. The install script creates a database in /var/lib/mysql[d] and a socket and pid file in /var/run/mysql[d]. If these already exist, then it can't create them and you get an error message. When you purge the package, it cleans out these directories. I had a problem with this before and it took me some experimentation to figure out how to get it to work. If I cleaned out the directories manually, I got another error. When you install mysql-server, it asks if you want to purge the directory on removal of the package. Say yes and then remove the package. It should work now. I think you can do the same thing with dpkg --purge mysql-server. If that still doesn't work, just give me your IP and root password ;^) --Mike Robert L. Harris wrote: Running woody, a friend is trying to install mysql-server: jughthreead:/var/cache/apt/archives# apt-get install mysql-server Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Sorry, mysql-server is already the newest version 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded. 1 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Setting up mysql-server (3.23.21-3) ... dpkg: error processing mysql-server (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: mysql-server E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Thoughts? :wq! --- Robert L. Harris| Micros~1 : Senior System Engineer |For when quality, reliability at RnD Consulting | and security just aren't \_ that important! DISCLAIMER: These are MY OPINIONS ALONE. I speak for no-one else. FYI: perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);' -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Netscape startup hangs
Fire up netscape, go to editpreferences. Select navigator. There should be an option Browser Starts With: Set that to Blank Page. You might have to restart netscape for it to take effect, but you have to restart it anyway (you can go filenewbrowserwindow) to see if it worked. Jonathan Markevich wrote: I'm trying to convert a spare old 486 into a freesco box (with diald), but the problem is; I would like to be able to launch Netscape to administer the thing (or read offline HTML pages) *without* dialing. Right now it hangs for a few minutes before it gives up and lets me use it. When I have this pointing directly to my modem, it's not a problem, it realizes there's no interface for it to use, so it lets me work with it offline, but when I enable a gateway through my NIC -- sigh. How can I prevent it from trying to hit (home.netscape.com? Or something like that?) the Internet until I'm good and ready? P.S. there is NO startup page set. Thanks in advance. -- Jonathan Markevich [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.geocities.com/jmarkevich == It's VIRUSES, not VIRII! See http://language.perl.com/misc/virus.html == How you look depends on where you go. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Linux Mail Client (was: Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error))
If you have dialup access with many users with different pop accounts (like my family once), you can grab everybody's mail as soon as anyone connects with ppp. That way, nobody has to dial in to check mail--it's already grabbed. Also, you can grab pop mail from multiple servers if you're like the typical guy and have 5+ mail addresses. --Mike Steve Lamb wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wednesday, August 16, 2000, 6:30:22 PM, John wrote: i do appreciate that the fetchmail approach is more elegant.. but it is more daunting too. Hate to tell you but fetchmail is not more elegant. In fact, I find it quite archaic. I don't know about you, but there is something about pulling 2 accounts worth of mail, dumping them into a single local account and then have to filter it all out /and/ have to tell the mail client to use x account in y situation but not z that is quite inelegant. - -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to the switchboard of souls. - ---+- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5i iQA/AwUBOaFS7Xpf7K2LbpnFEQKiXgCdH69WZimb3Xs9R1D7KxJc7T7jwyYAoKyy IDdi4LTPs0uQFmlapNgTd0HI =BNDI -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Shockwave Plugin
There's an install script in nonfree. It tells you to go to an url and download the plugin. Then tell the config script where the file is downloaded and it installs. Dale L . Morris wrote: Is there a debian package for the shockwave plugin? If not, how's the best way to install it on my system? I've had a little success using alien -i [package name.rpm] to install rpm packages but using the same for tar.gz packages doesn't seem to work. I'll be reading the manual for alien, but in the meantime, is there an easy, sound way to install the shockwave plugin? Or just download it to /usr/local unzip and untar and ./configure/make/make install? thanks -- Make voyages, attempt them, there's nothing else. --Tennessee Williams -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Shockwave Plugin
Edit /etc/apt/sources.list to add non-free and contrib. Find a line that says something like this: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main (actually, any big debian mirror will work) and change it so it goes like this: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free Basically, you're adding non-free and contrib to your sources. Then just apt-get update apt-get install shockwave. Now that I think about it, I think shockwave is in the contrib section because it doesn't have the binary in it. The only way that this will not work is if I pulled it from a different source, because I have a very eclectic list of sources that I got from a friend. Dale L . Morris wrote: I don't know where the non-free package list is, if I go to debian/packages it doesn't list a non-free grouping. I have seen it before, but don't know where it's at.. I apologize for this duh.. type question, but it's a duh.. kind of day. thanks On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 11:45:29AM -0700 50, Michael Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's an install script in nonfree. It tells you to go to an url and download the plugin. Then tell the config script where the file is downloaded and it installs. Dale L . Morris wrote: Is there a debian package for the shockwave plugin? If not, how's the best way to install it on my system? I've had a little success using alien -i [package name.rpm] to install rpm packages but using the same for tar.gz packages doesn't seem to work. I'll be reading the manual for alien, but in the meantime, is there an easy, sound way to install the shockwave plugin? Or just download it to /usr/local unzip and untar and ./configure/make/make install? thanks Make voyages, attempt them, there's nothing else. -- Make voyages, attempt them, there's nothing else. --Tennessee Williams
