Re: Problem with telnetd ???
On Thu, 22 May 1997, Kevin Traas wrote: > When trying to telnet into a Debian GNU/Linux system I set up, I get the > following: > > sally# telnet ross > Trying x.y.z.193... > Connected to ross. > Escape character is '^]'. > > Connection closed by foreign host. > sally# Eloy Paris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> has already suggested that it might be a tcpd's security blocking access (/etc/hosts.deny has "ALL: PARANOID" which prevents access from machines whose in-addr.arpa reverse lookup doesn't match it's hostname). I agree - that is most likely the cause of the 'problem' -- "it's a feature, not a bug" :-). The solution he posted should fix that. > This system is pretty much a default installation. I don't > remember having done anything to refuse connections - at least not > intentionally. The only way for me to administrate this system is > remotely The system is locked in a tiny room about 30 miles away > from my office. IF you are connecting to this machine over the internet, then you shouldn't be using plain old telnet anywayyou never know who might be snooping on packets looking for passwords. there are two secure(*), encrypted alternatives: 1. install ssl-telnet on both machines. This replaces telnet and telnetd (it is still compatible with non-ssl versions, though) ssltelnet depends on the ssleay package. 2. install ssh on both machines. This is a replacement for rsh, rcp, and other 'r' programs. I much prefer this to ssltelnetin fact, i hardly use telnet at all these days (i only use ssltelnet to upgrade ssh on remote machines - ssh runs as a daemo, not out of inetd so upgrading the ssh package kills your current session. There are good reasons to run it like this so i'm not sure if this should be reported as a bug or not.) ssh depends on zlib1. I recommend installing BOTH packages. Both packages are subject to US export restrictions, so they are not available from the main debian ftp site. You can get them (and the ssleay package) from the debian-non-US site in Germany: ftp://os.inf.tu-dresden.de:/pub/debian-non-US/ There are several mirrors of this site. Look in the README.non-us file on ftp.debian.org for a list. While you're there, pick up a copy of PGP too. (*) even "secure" programs are compromisable if you use them carelessly. these are no magic panacea for security problems - they work best if you read the documentation and understand what they're doing, why they're doing it, and how they work. craig -- craig sanders networking consultant Available for casual or contract temporary autonomous zone system administration tasks. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Problem with telnetd ???
My main (debian) system is at an ISP and I dial-in and telnet to my system. Are there any telnet clients for windows that support ssl-telnetd ? Regarding PGP...what is everyone using, the International version or the US version ? Matthew > there are two secure(*), encrypted alternatives: > > 1. install ssl-telnet on both machines. This replaces telnet and telnetd > (it is still compatible with non-ssl versions, though) > > ssltelnet depends on the ssleay package. > > 2. install ssh on both machines. This is a replacement for rsh, rcp, and > other 'r' programs. I much prefer this to ssltelnetin fact, i > hardly use telnet at all these days (i only use ssltelnet to upgrade > ssh on remote machines - ssh runs as a daemo, not out of inetd so > upgrading the ssh package kills your current session. There are > good reasons to run it like this so i'm not sure if this should be > reported as a bug or not.) > > ssh depends on zlib1. > > I recommend installing BOTH packages. > > Both packages are subject to US export restrictions, so they are not > available from the main debian ftp site. You can get them (and the ssleay > package) from the debian-non-US site in Germany: > > ftp://os.inf.tu-dresden.de:/pub/debian-non-US/ > > There are several mirrors of this site. Look in the README.non-us file on > ftp.debian.org for a list. > > While you're there, pick up a copy of PGP too. > > (*) even "secure" programs are compromisable if you use them carelessly. > these are no magic panacea for security problems - they work best if you > read the documentation and understand what they're doing, why they're doing > it, and how they work. > > craig > > -- > craig sanders > networking consultant Available for casual or contract > temporary autonomous zone system administration tasks. > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: JPEG utilities
On Tue, 20 May 1997, joost witteveen wrote: > (cat filename.jpg|djpeg -v -targa>/dev/null) 2>&1|sed -n -e 's/Start > Of Frame.*://p' > > works for me, though probably there are more straigt forward ways! Thanks for this tip! i've modified it slightly and wrapped it in a shell script: --- cut here /usr/local/bin/jpegsize--- #! /bin/sh for i in "$@" ; do echo -n "$i: " (cat $i | djpeg -v -targa>/dev/null ) 2>&1 | \ sed -n -e 's/Start Of Frame.*://' -e 's/, components=.*//p' done --- cut here /usr/local/bin/jpegsize--- $ jpegsize ~cas/public_html/*.jpg /home/cas/public_html/craig01.jpg: width=351, height=373 /home/cas/public_html/craig02.jpg: width=493, height=373 -- craig sanders networking consultant Available for casual or contract temporary autonomous zone system administration tasks. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Problem with telnetd ???
On Thu, 22 May 1997, Matthew Tebbens wrote: > My main (debian) system is at an ISP and I dial-in and telnet to my > system. > > Are there any telnet clients for windows that support ssl-telnetd ? I believe that there is a windows version of ssl-telnet. I don't know where you can get it from - you can probably find it by searching yahoo or alta-vista... There is also a windows version of ssh - but it's not freeware. Only the unix version of ssh is free. See the docs for ssl-telnet and ssh for more information. > Regarding PGP...what is everyone using, the International version or > the US version ? I use the international version. I think that if you are in the US then you are required by law to use only the US versionRSA holds a patent of public key encryption in the US, so you are only allowed to use programs which are written to use their version. I am not an expert on US laws, so i'd advise reading the various PGP related FAQs for the real story. craig -- craig sanders networking consultant Available for casual or contract temporary autonomous zone system administration tasks. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Debian Security packages?
> Be happy to make them... what all is involved? Do I have to have permission > of the author or anything weird like that? Please point me in the direction > oif whatever I need to get started. I was about to complain about the lack of documentation about this, then I looked: http://www.debian.org/FAQ/debian-faq-6.html with a link to: http://www.debian.org/FAQ/debian-faq-12.html#DebianDocs HTH, Brandon - Brandon Mitchell E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/7877/home.html "We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds." --Linus Torvalds -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Midnight Commander
I've just installed Debian 1.2 on my Pentium 133 and everything is working presumably well except for Midnight Commander. When I try to run mc I receive a message: "mc: can't load library 'libgpm.so.1' " Does anyone know what's happening? My previous Debian release does not had this flaw! Thanks, Adalberto -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Midnight Commander
Hi Adalberto, You need to install the libgpm1 library. It is a seperate package in the 'Optional Misc' section using dselect. Rowan - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Rowan Deppeler System administrator Cybernex Networking http://www.cybernex.net.au vk3vw / vk3rcr - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - From: Adalberto da Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Friday, 23 May 1997 13:59 Subject: Midnight Commander >I've just installed Debian 1.2 on my Pentium 133 and everything is >working presumably well except for Midnight Commander. > > When I try to run mc I receive a message: > > "mc: can't load library 'libgpm.so.1' " > > Does anyone know what's happening? My previous Debian release does not >had this flaw! > > Thanks, > > Adalberto > > >-- >TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] . >Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Problem with telnetd ??? (fwd)
The "International" versions of PGP are illegal to use within the US, due to a patent on RSA. There are two alternatives. If you are *not* a commercial enitity you can use Viacrypt PGP. See their web page. If you use PGP for individual use, non-profit, etc., you can use the "US" version which differs from the "International" version mainly in that it is linked against RSAREF, which has been deemed legal for use in the United States. However, RSAREF is slower than the RSA implementations found outside the US, so that's why there's a different version. Of course, you could say to hell with it and use whichever version you like ... some people are pretty paranoid and only use the older versions, because they fear a trap door. I personally grabbed the International version (2.6.3i) from Norway and linked it against RSAREF from MIT. I haven't heard of any backdoors, and I trust PGP. There is a SSL telnet for Windows ... it's pretty poor, imho. It can be found at ftp.psy.uq.oz.au, along with other fun things. Datafellows has a trial SSH client for Windows ... it's very nice (I'm using it right now) Odds are, I'll buy it, or talk the company into buying it :) See "http://www.datafellows.com/f-secure"; for more info. Sorry for the grammar errors .. it's been a long day. Cheers -- Nathan Norman:Hostmaster CFNI:[EMAIL PROTECTED] finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key and other stuff Key fingerprint = CE 03 10 AF 32 81 18 58 9D 32 C2 AB 93 6D C4 72 -- On Thu, 22 May 1997, Matthew Tebbens wrote: :My main (debian) system is at an ISP and I dial-in and telnet to my :system. : :Are there any telnet clients for windows that support ssl-telnetd ? :Regarding PGP...what is everyone using, the International version or :the US version ? : :Matthew : :> there are two secure(*), encrypted alternatives: :> :> 1. install ssl-telnet on both machines. This replaces telnet and telnetd :> (it is still compatible with non-ssl versions, though) :> :> ssltelnet depends on the ssleay package. :> :> 2. install ssh on both machines. This is a replacement for rsh, rcp, and :> other 'r' programs. I much prefer this to ssltelnetin fact, i :> hardly use telnet at all these days (i only use ssltelnet to upgrade :> ssh on remote machines - ssh runs as a daemo, not out of inetd so :> upgrading the ssh package kills your current session. There are :> good reasons to run it like this so i'm not sure if this should be :> reported as a bug or not.) :> :> ssh depends on zlib1. :> :> I recommend installing BOTH packages. :> :> Both packages are subject to US export restrictions, so they are not :> available from the main debian ftp site. You can get them (and the ssleay :> package) from the debian-non-US site in Germany: :> :> ftp://os.inf.tu-dresden.de:/pub/debian-non-US/ :> :> There are several mirrors of this site. Look in the README.non-us file on :> ftp.debian.org for a list. :> :> While you're there, pick up a copy of PGP too. :> :> (*) even "secure" programs are compromisable if you use them carelessly. :> these are no magic panacea for security problems - they work best if you :> read the documentation and understand what they're doing, why they're doing :> it, and how they work. :> :> craig :> :> -- :> craig sanders :> networking consultant Available for casual or contract :> temporary autonomous zone system administration tasks. :> :> :> -- :> TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to :> [EMAIL PROTECTED] . :> Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . :> :> : : :-- :TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to :[EMAIL PROTECTED] . :Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . : -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Majordomo w/Smail ?
John Foster writes: [snip] > I'm not intending this to be a flame, but I think that we can all > lighten up a bit when it comes to replying to posts on this list. If > you read my post you'll see that I had read the docs - and they were > wrong. As were the scripts. Perhaps you are running a different > version of perl/majordomo/smail/Debian than I was. Entirely possible, BTW, I understand what you are going through. I have the same level of fustration when tackling a "new to me" package. The majordomo package (1.2) puts all the scripts and "non-specific" files in the right places. I only had to create/modify the "site-specific" information. > I wonder whether there is a co-ordinated effort to keep the > documentaion 'together' in the Debain Project? There are standards of > course, but how many times have you seen "This documentation was > incomplete when it was written, and is now completely out of date"? Due to the diverse nature of LINUX in general, I don't think that the DOC's will ever be 100% "complete and 'up to date'". And to add to the confusion, most users don't install 100% of all available packages. As an example, I have no need for TEX... therefore, there could be errors in the documentation that the experienced TEX user would know about, but an novice would get bit on. I would never find such an error since I don't use TEX. I don't read the messages on TEX since I don't use it. So, I would not be 'up to date' on issues of TEX and could be easily bit by it if I decided to install TEX. -- -= Sent by Debian 1.2 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK - member of ARRL [EMAIL PROTECTED] --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Where is Python: Makefile.pre
When I try to do makesetup Setup I get the following error message "can't read Makefile.pre: No such file or directory" I am trying to install pg95module.c as a module. Can somebody help, please? Johann. Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windsorlaan 19 Pietermaritzburg 3201 Suid Afrika (South Africa) Tel. Nr. 0331-46-1310 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Shadowconfig
Hi there ... just installed frozen, and I love it. I've been cleaning up my log files, config files, and generally poking around ... so I tried to enable shadow passwords. Here's what occured: endor:/etc # shadowconfig on grep: xdm: No such file or directory sed: can't read xdm: No such file or directory Please correct the error and rerun `/usr/sbin/shadowconfig on' Ok ... why does xdm have to be present? This server is a production web server ... 99.9 percent of the work is done via telnet/ssh. Actually most of the connections are www, ftp, etc. I guess what I'm saying is *I* don't particularly care about X on this machine ... it's not supporting dedicated users. If I understood X better I'd probably use it and export to an xterm, but for now I want shadow passwords :) I looked at the script and figured I could comment out the lines pertaining to xdm ... but I need some opinions. Is this a bad idea? (Admitting cluelessness pertaining to all things X) -- Nathan Norman:Hostmaster CFNI:[EMAIL PROTECTED] finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key and other stuff Key fingerprint = CE 03 10 AF 32 81 18 58 9D 32 C2 AB 93 6D C4 72 -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
ppp packet errors
I used to get excellent ppp transfers, but of late I get errors and the modem lights often cease activity for several seconds at a time. ppp version is 2.2.0f-23. ifconfig shows:- ppp0 Link encap:Point-Point Protocol inet addr:203.59.0.18 P-t-P:203.59.24.26 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING MTU:552 Metric:1 RX packets:27767 errors:524 dropped:524 overruns:0 TX packets:14018 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 The ethernet howto says to set a smaller window size but this is not an option in the ppp options file. LAP-M error correction protocol is being used so there should not be any errors, but the error rate sits on 1.5-2%. What size window is used in ppp? Any pointers welcomed. Lindsay =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lindsay Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Perth, Western Australia voice +61 9 316 2486modem +61 9 364-9832 32S, 116E http: Real soon now. debian linux =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Shadowconfig
I've already aubmitted a bug report on this - it shouldn't happen. There's been no reply from the maintainer as yet. At 01:03 AM 23/05/97 -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: >Hi there ... just installed frozen, and I love it. I've been cleaning >up my log files, config files, and generally poking around ... so I >tried to enable shadow passwords. Here's what occured: > > endor:/etc # shadowconfig on > grep: xdm: No such file or directory > sed: can't read xdm: No such file or directory > Please correct the error and rerun `/usr/sbin/shadowconfig on' > >Ok ... why does xdm have to be present? This server is a production web >server ... 99.9 percent of the work is done via telnet/ssh. Actually >most of the connections are www, ftp, etc. I guess what I'm saying is >*I* don't particularly care about X on this machine ... it's not >supporting dedicated users. If I understood X better I'd probably use >it and export to an xterm, but for now I want shadow passwords :) > >I looked at the script and figured I could comment out the lines >pertaining to xdm ... but I need some opinions. Is this a bad idea? > >(Admitting cluelessness pertaining to all things X) Regards -- Karl Ferguson, Tower Networking Pty LtdTel: +61-8-9456-[EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online ServicesFax: +61-8-9455-2776[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Midnight Commander
> "Rowan" == Rowan Deppeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Rowan> Hi Adalberto, You need to install the libgpm1 library. It Rowan> is a seperate package in the 'Optional Misc' section using Rowan> dselect. So, why doesn't `mc` require libgpm1? Someone should file a 'bug' on it, maybe. (man bug) -- Karl M. Hegbloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.inetarena.com/~karlheg Portland, OR USA Debian GNU 1.2 Linux 2.1.36 AMD K5 PR-133 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: failure notice
I'm using qpopper_2.2-4.deb and I have 2 strange problems: 1. When someone connects to it's port with MSIE 3.0 I have such line in my /var/log/messages: -ERR Unknown command: "auth" . I've searched RFC's about POP3 and really there is no such command but why MSIE tries to do it? Maybe something's wrong in my (or my clients) configuration? Anaway I don't want to have my log files biger then they should be. 2. Sometimes qpopper dosn't remove user.lock file and such user has no access to mail. I've noticed it in few days and it looks like 3-4 users in a day have such problems. What's going on? Any help will be greatly welcomed! Leszek Gerwatowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] Leszek Gerwatowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: IP-Accounting HOWTO?
On Thu, May 22, 1997 at 04:43:03PM +0200, Benedikt Eric Heinen wrote: > Hmm, I was looking towards something more specific, I just didn't know > yet, whether the kernel IP-Accounting was sufficient for my purposes; > which it unfortunately isn't... > > I'd need to get a finer split in traffic list, I'd need to get an > accounted list indicating each service and each new destination > separately. Is there a package to do that yet? > > I mean - if I understand it correctly, the only way to realize this, > would be to add "zillions" of IP-Accounting rules, one for each > service/destination combination, right? I believe so. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust[EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science & computer systems engineering.3rd year, RMIT. http://yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~moffatt (PGP key here) CPOM: [ ] 46% The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. --Bohr -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: sysklogd
As far as I know, this is "normal" behavior. There was apparently some sort of BadThing (TM) that occurred if syslogd did not pause on startup. I suppose if you reboot a lot it gets annoying ... At any rate I just hunted through the source code ... I found a flag KLOGD_START_DELAY in the Makefile, but it was commented out! And that string does not seem to appear in any of the *.[ch] files ... so I do not know the reason for this delay. -- Nathan Norman:Hostmaster CFNI:[EMAIL PROTECTED] finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key and other stuff Key fingerprint = CE 03 10 AF 32 81 18 58 9D 32 C2 AB 93 6D C4 72 -- On Fri, 23 May 1997, A.D.Y. Cheng wrote: :Hello, : :I have just upgraded my Debian 1.2 to frozen disturbution. So far, there :is no problem. However, when I reboot the machine, the machine stops for a :few seconds after launching sysklogd. It then launches klogd. :I do not understand what happenes as this never happens before. This :problem only occurs after I upgrade sysklogd to 1.3-15. : :Can someone help me on this problem. : :Yours :Anthony : : :-- :TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to :[EMAIL PROTECTED] . :Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . : -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: IP-Accounting HOWTO?
> : I'd need to get a finer split in traffic list, I'd need to get an > : accounted list indicating each service and each new destination > : separately. Is there a package to do that yet? > > Try net-acct. There's a debian package out there. Nice thing, but > produces hge amounts of data. > > It logs > > date / protocol / source_ip:port / dest_ip:port / packets / bytes / user > > for every packet travelling on the connected ethernet segment (putting > the interface in promiscous mode). You can exclude / include specific > networks / addresses. You can also include/exclude specific fields from being logged as well by modifying /etc/naccttab. For instance, on my system, I only log date, source_ip, dest_ip, and bytes going across my PPP link to my ISP. This keeps things down to a pretty reasonable level - the file is about 500K per day - which gets "emptied" each night by my custom report script. Later, Kevin Traas Systems Analyst Edmondson Roper CA http://www.eroper.bc.ca -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Weierd afterstep-1.0-3 problem
> On May 22, Kevin Hilman wrote > > > It installs with no complaints, but i can't run it. > > I can run it if I download and compile the source myself, but I'd like > > to get the .deb working to use on multiple machines. > > What is going on here? what file is missing here? > > The package seems to require ld-linux.so.2 (try "strings > afterstep"). I already reported that one to the maintainer. And (as you probably know) that means you need to install libc6 to get it working (and, ldso-1.9*). (The package needs to depend on libc6). -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/perl -sp0777i
Re: Weierd afterstep-1.0-3 problem
On May 23, joost witteveen wrote > > The package seems to require ld-linux.so.2 (try "strings > > afterstep"). I already reported that one to the maintainer. > > And (as you probably know) that means you need to install > libc6 to get it working (and, ldso-1.9*). (The package needs > to depend on libc6). That is _one_ solution. You could install the package and then grab the source-package and compile it yourself and install it over the first one. By Töns -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Latex to WinWord 6.0 :-(
On 23 May 1997, Kai Grossjohann wrote: > > Paulo Ramos writes: > > Paulo> Anyone know how to make this?? > > I've been thinking about this for a while now. A friend of mine has > to do this, poor him! I think the way to go is to produce RTF files. > For fairly simple LaTeX files it should be possible to write a > converter from the LaTeX input to RTF. If any of the power of TeX is > being used, though, you're bound to lose. In effect a converter needs > to be a full TeX interpreter for this to really work. There is a debian package called latex2rtf, it might be useful ;-) //Stefan --___ __w__ Stefan Eriksson kamnarsvagen 13:C108 226 46 LUND, tel: 046-393668 o.oMail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] _m__~__m__HomePage_http://www.ludat.lth.se/~dat93ser_ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
ftp install problem
hello world, i am currently trying to install debian linux. i edited ppp.chatscript and ppp.options_out after rtfming for some time, but it still doesn't work. i go into dselect, try to connect to ftp.debian.org and it gives me a bad name error. i figured that i probably need to connect to my server first, so i use pppd to do that, but it just spits a bunch of junk at me. help! i will supply any configuration/config info required to fix this. tia paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
wu-ftpd package weirdnesses
Hiya All, I'm new to Debian -- just installed -- and am trying to get things set up as I had them on my Slackware machine (approximately ;). Using dselect, I installed the wu-ftpd package (that's what came with Slackware, and I got the impression it was 'better' than the default Debian ftpd), and I've run into some problems/questions. . . . 1. The package didn't appear to do any setup -- no /home/ftp/ tree was ever installed. I created directories and am going to set permissions based on how it was in Slackware, but I wonder about the group and passwd files (how do I make them, since they're not exact copies of the ones in /etc). 2. Slackware's setup holds a /home/ftp/bin/ls which is about 4 times the size of its [Slackware's] /bin/ls. (I can't compare the Debian one right now, sorry.) The Debian package doesn't appear to have shipped with anything analogous (unless it's hidden somewhere I haven't looked, which is very possible). Can I just copy the one from Slackware? The kernel versions are quite different (Slackare = 1.2.13, Debian = 2.0.something) -- is it okay to use the old ls? Why is it so big -- statically linked, versus dynamically linked, libraries? And Does that make it okay to use Slackware's wu-ftpd's ls, despite the difference in kernel versions? 3. Finally, what's considered a 'bug' in a package? I think the Debian wu-ftpd package should prompt for where to put the ftp hierarchy of directories, and then put in the appropriate passwd, group, and ls files (as needed). Defaulting to /home, or wherever is 'correct' according to the Linux filesystem spec., would be nice. Do I just e-mail the package maintainer, or is there some Debian bug-reporting method I should be using? Thanks in advance, and I'm sorry if any of these questions or comments sound stupid. . . . Kendall -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
AfterStep 1.0 release ...
Has the AfterStep package been upgraded to the 1.0 release. If so, where can I get on the Debian ftp site?? Thanx. See ya round. -jOHN --- John Burwell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Transylvania University, Computer Science Division "The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn't exist. - Verbal Kent (The Usual Suspects) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ftp install problem
On Thu, 22 May 1997, Pavel Galynin wrote: > hello world, > > i am currently trying to install debian linux. i edited ppp.chatscript > and ppp.options_out after rtfming for some time, but it still doesn't > work. i go into dselect, try to connect to ftp.debian.org and it gives > me a bad name error. i figured that i probably need to connect to my > server first, so i use pppd to do that, but it just spits a bunch of > junk at me. help! i will supply any configuration/config info required > to fix this. > The junk it spit at you would be much more helpful at the moment ;-) I understand your frustration with having something that doesn't work, but before anyone can help you some critical information is required. Stuff like hardware configuration is always useful in these cases. Where your modem resides...things like that. Then the most important piece of information is a clear description of just what happened, including the error messages presented by the offending software. With this as a starting point there begins to be a glimmer of hope that we will figure out what the problem is. Waiting is, Dwarf -- _-_-_-_-_-_- _-_-_-_-_-_-_- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 656-9769 Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tallahassee, FL 32308 _-_-_-_-_-_- If you don't see what you want, just ask _-_-_-_-_-_-_- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ftp install problem
hello Dale Scheetz wrote: > > On Thu, 22 May 1997, Pavel Galynin wrote: > > > hello world, > > > > i am currently trying to install debian linux. i edited ppp.chatscript > > and ppp.options_out after rtfming for some time, but it still doesn't > > work. i go into dselect, try to connect to ftp.debian.org and it gives > > me a bad name error. i figured that i probably need to connect to my > > server first, so i use pppd to do that, but it just spits a bunch of > > junk at me. help! i will supply any configuration/config info required > > to fix this. > > > The junk it spit at you would be much more helpful at the moment ;-) Well, it was just a series of odd ascii characters. > > I understand your frustration with having something that doesn't work, but > before anyone can help you some critical information is required. Stuff > like hardware configuration is always useful in these cases. Where your > modem resides...things like that. Then the most important piece of > information is a clear description of just what happened, including the > error messages presented by the offending software. With this as a > starting point there begins to be a glimmer of hope that we will figure > out what the problem is. Pentium 200 Mhz, 2 x 3.1 GB WD hdds, 32 mb ram, 33.6 modem on com2. I edited the ppp files (i can send em if you need em) and tried to ftp with dselect without doing anything to connect to my isp, assming that dselect would spawn pppd and make it call. it didn't do this and instead said that it couldn't connect to ftp.debian.org (of course it couldn't, it wasn't connected!). then i tried to run pppd specifying /dev/modem and 115200 as speed because that's what i used in telix for dos (4 times baud rate of modem). it spit a lot of REAL junk out, or some language i don't understand, but i know of no language that has [EMAIL PROTECTED]&%^$ in it. I tried couple more times - to no avail. At this point i rebooted and sent a message to the list. paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
copying dpkg info to another machine?
Horrible subject, but what I would like to do is to install a set of files on one debian machine via dselect and find an easy way to install the exact same set on another machine. I know there has been a discussion about this in terms of using backup/restore commands, but I only want to do this very infrequently and was wondering if some twist on the following might work: Could you take some file (status?) from /var/lib/dpkg and edit it by hand and use a search and replace on the status line to change it from Status: install ok installed to something like Status: install ok not-installed and then put that file in /var/lib/dpkg/ on the other machine? Cheers, Colin. -- Colin R. Telmer, Institute of Intergovernmental Relations School of Policy Studies, Queen's University Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7L-3N6 (613)545-6000x4219 [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint = 09 E9 DA 66 9C EE 33 DC B8 3B 97 0E 01 BC EC 0B PGP Public Key at http://terrapin.econ.queensu.ca> -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ftp install problem
Ditto what Dale says re: the output from pppd ... are you actually running pppd by hand or using the debian pon script? I've found that the scripts work quite well for me ... I suppose it depends on your ISP. Also, even if you are connected via PPP, you still need to configure DNS resolution. That jumped out at me from your post ... have you ever tried to connect to an IP address rather than a hostname? -- Nathan Norman:Hostmaster CFNI:[EMAIL PROTECTED] finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key and other stuff Key fingerprint = CE 03 10 AF 32 81 18 58 9D 32 C2 AB 93 6D C4 72 -- On Thu, 22 May 1997, Pavel Galynin wrote: :hello world, : :i am currently trying to install debian linux. i edited ppp.chatscript :and ppp.options_out after rtfming for some time, but it still doesn't :work. i go into dselect, try to connect to ftp.debian.org and it gives :me a bad name error. i figured that i probably need to connect to my :server first, so i use pppd to do that, but it just spits a bunch of :junk at me. help! i will supply any configuration/config info required :to fix this. : :tia :paul : : :-- :TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to :[EMAIL PROTECTED] . :Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . : -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
netscape-beta: where should java40.jar be?
I have the netscape-beta package installed using communicator-v40b3-export.x86-unknown-linux2.0.tar.gz I thought I removed the netscape package before installing this but I may not have purged the netscape package. If I try to run a java applet I get the message that java40.jar is not on the CLASSPATH. The file java40.jar is in /usr/lib/netscape/java/classes with a symbolic link in /usr/lib/netscape. Right now /usr/local/lib/netscape exists but is completely empty. Netscape seems to be convinced that this should be the first part of my CLASSPATH. So, have I managed to get this "botched up beyond all recognition"? Is the best course to purge the netscape package and re-install the netscape-beta? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: wu-ftpd package weirdnesses
On Fri, 23 May 1997, Kendall P. Bullen wrote: :Hiya All, : :I'm new to Debian -- just installed -- and am trying to get things set :up as I had them on my Slackware machine (approximately ;). Using :dselect, I installed the wu-ftpd package (that's what came with :Slackware, and I got the impression it was 'better' than the default :Debian ftpd), and I've run into some problems/questions. . . . : :1. The package didn't appear to do any setup -- no /home/ftp/ tree was :ever installed. I created directories and am going to set permissions :based on how it was in Slackware, but I wonder about the group and :passwd files (how do I make them, since they're not exact copies of :the ones in /etc). The wu-ftpd man page has some excellent advice on these questions. : :2. Slackware's setup holds a /home/ftp/bin/ls which is about 4 times :the size of its [Slackware's] /bin/ls. (I can't compare the Debian :one right now, sorry.) The Debian package doesn't appear to have :shipped with anything analogous (unless it's hidden somewhere I :haven't looked, which is very possible). Can I just copy the one from :Slackware? The kernel versions are quite different (Slackare = :1.2.13, Debian = 2.0.something) -- is it okay to use the old ls? Why :is it so big -- statically linked, versus dynamically linked, :libraries? And Does that make it okay to use Slackware's wu-ftpd's :ls, despite the difference in kernel versions? Yes, the Slackware version is statically linked. If you look, the debian version puts copies of the required lib*.so files in the directory "lib". : :3. Finally, what's considered a 'bug' in a package? I think the :Debian wu-ftpd package should prompt for where to put the ftp :hierarchy of directories, and then put in the appropriate passwd, :group, and ls files (as needed). Defaulting to /home, or wherever is :'correct' according to the Linux filesystem spec., would be nice. Do :I just e-mail the package maintainer, or is there some Debian :bug-reporting method I should be using? : I'm trying to recall how wu-ftpd installed on my system ... I believe I was prompted about the anonymous account by the standard ftp package (in netstd). Regardless, you should edit the passwd and group files by hand, as you can avoid giving away more info then you want to that way. I'm at a loss to explain why your install didn't go so well ... did you install over Slackware? I hate to say "RTFM", but wu-ftpd comes with excellent documentation ... I've never had any problems with it to date. Hope some of this helps. -- Nathan Norman:Hostmaster CFNI:[EMAIL PROTECTED] finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key and other stuff Key fingerprint = CE 03 10 AF 32 81 18 58 9D 32 C2 AB 93 6D C4 72 -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ftp install problem
From: Pavel Galynin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Well, it was just a series of odd ascii characters. A lot of "}" characters in it, per chance? That would be a PPP packet that should have been directed to your modem, not the console. This indicates the wrong arguments to pppd. Just how did you connect? Give us all of the pppd arguments and configuration except for the phone number and your password. Mine look like this: /usr/sbin/pppd -d connect 'chat "" \ AT\&C1\&D2\&F2%G1%E0X4M0L0DT \ CONNECT "" ogin: word: ' \ /dev/cua2 defaultroute -detach This took some time to figure out, and you can probably start simpler. There's a good deal of modem configuration in there after the "AT" that isn't strictly necessary. This is my /etc/ppp/options file: connect /etc/ppp/ppp-connect /dev/cua1 115200 asyncmap 0 crtscts modem lcp-echo-interval 30 lcp-echo-failure 4 ipcp-restart 30 lcp-restart 30 mru 1096 mtu 1096 The mru and mtu setting for most people would be much smaller, like 296. > assming that dselect would spawn pppd and make it call. No, dselect does not start your network directly. If you want ppp to come up automaticaly on demand, first get it working, and then install "diald". For now, start ppp up by running "pppd", with "chat" arguments appropriate to dial and log in to your PPP host. Watch the output of /var/log/debug and /var/log/messages and you should be able to determine if PPP makes a connection. There may be some other details regarding host name resolution once you get the connection working. > then i tried to run pppd specifying /dev/modem Make sure /dev/modem actually is connected to your modem. You should be able to install the "minicom" program and use it something like telix. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: copying dpkg info to another machine?
> Could you take some file (status?) from /var/lib/dpkg and edit it by hand It's not nearly that nasty. Use dpkg --get-selections to output the list of selected packages, and use dpkg --set-selections to set it on the other machine. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ftp install problem
On Thu, 22 May 1997, Pavel Galynin wrote: > Pentium 200 Mhz, 2 x 3.1 GB WD hdds, 32 mb ram, 33.6 modem on com2. > I edited the ppp files (i can send em if you need em) and tried to ftp > with dselect without doing anything to connect to my isp, assming that > dselect would spawn pppd and make it call. it didn't do this and instead > said that it couldn't connect to ftp.debian.org (of course it couldn't, The ftp method for dselect has no way of knowing how you connect to an off site location. This could be done (and usually is) via an ethernet card, via slip, plip, ppp, or even wic interfaces. I guess that dselect could be made inteligent enough to ask you if you needed to make a net connection that wasn't already establised, but it doesn't do that at this point. > it wasn't connected!). then i tried to run pppd specifying /dev/modem > and 115200 as speed because that's what i used in telix for dos (4 times > baud rate of modem). it spit a lot of REAL junk out, or some language i > don't understand, but i know of no language that has [EMAIL PROTECTED]&%^$ in > it. I > tried couple more times - to no avail. At this point i rebooted and sent > a message to the list. > For starters /dev/modem (if it exists at all) is a link. You should specify the actual port being used. In this case that is /dev/ttyS1. Make sure that you have a call to chat in the script for doing the dial out to your isp, user name and password...that sort of thing, before passing off the connection to the ppp daemon. Luck, Dwarf -- _-_-_-_-_-_- _-_-_-_-_-_-_- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 656-9769 Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tallahassee, FL 32308 _-_-_-_-_-_- If you don't see what you want, just ask _-_-_-_-_-_-_- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Shadowconfig
> endor:/etc # shadowconfig on > grep: xdm: No such file or directory > sed: can't read xdm: No such file or directory > Please correct the error and rerun `/usr/sbin/shadowconfig on' I believe the correct shadow config should have an if [ -f xdm ] ie... if [ -f xdm ]; then if ! grep -q 'xdm-shadow' xdm ; then sed -e 's:/usr/bin/X11/xdm:/usr/bin/X11/xdm-shadow:' xdm > shadowxdm$$ mv shadowxdm$$ xdm chmod 755 xdm fi fi Let Guy know if this fixes it. Judging from the time it takes to respond to things, I get the impression he's very busy. HTH, Brandon - Brandon Mitchell E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/7877/home.html "We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds." --Linus Torvalds -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: HTML in email
>>>Brian White wrote: >> >I read my mail with pine. Occasionally I get mail from this list and >> >from others that has HTML markup embedded within it. What causes this? >> >> Netscape, for one. It sends mail/news as html by default (and of course i >t >> won't tell you that.) > >Actually, it's communicator 4.0 (beta) that does that. The older versions >of netscape don't. You can also turn this "feature" off from the preference >s >menu ... after someone's flamed you for sending html. After that you may notice that formatting toolbar's gone. I wonder if it's an oversight on Netscrape's part -- obviously, the right thing to do was to make text mode the default -- or a [pitiful] attempt at MS marketing strategies. :-) -- Dimitri -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Shadowconfig
I have to fix the NIS stuff in passwd. Then I'll release a new one with this fix also. Guy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Shadowconfig
This does indeed fix the problem. Thank you! I really appreciate this! -- Nathan Norman:Hostmaster CFNI:[EMAIL PROTECTED] finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key and other stuff Key fingerprint = CE 03 10 AF 32 81 18 58 9D 32 C2 AB 93 6D C4 72 -- On Fri, 23 May 1997, Brandon Mitchell wrote: :> endor:/etc # shadowconfig on :> grep: xdm: No such file or directory :> sed: can't read xdm: No such file or directory :> Please correct the error and rerun `/usr/sbin/shadowconfig on' : :I believe the correct shadow config should have an if [ -f xdm ] ie... : if [ -f xdm ]; then :if ! grep -q 'xdm-shadow' xdm ; then : sed -e 's:/usr/bin/X11/xdm:/usr/bin/X11/xdm-shadow:' xdm > shadowxdm$$ : mv shadowxdm$$ xdm : chmod 755 xdm :fi : fi : :Let Guy know if this fixes it. Judging from the time it takes to respond :to things, I get the impression he's very busy. : :HTH, :Brandon : :- :Brandon Mitchell E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Homepage: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/7877/home.html : :"We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds." : --Linus Torvalds : -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
signify keeps dying on me
Hi folks, Its a small thing, but its been bugging me for awhile now. I start signify with the following command: signify --fifo=$HOME/.signature & This allows me to at least get to the "compose" screen in pine. Oddly there is no sig presented, and signify then dies with the following error to the tty that I started it from. [1]+ Broken pipe signify --fifo=$HOME/.signature Any ideas what is going on? I really liked the software when it worked I'd hate to have to dump it. TIA Rich Morin [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: wu-ftpd package weirdnesses
On Fri, 23 May 1997, Nathan E Norman wrote: > The wu-ftpd man page has some excellent advice on these questions. Hmm, well I wasn't exactly looking for advice, but thanks for directing me to the man page. (blush) Anyway, I created the directories and gave them permissions as they had under Slackware. But I'll print out the man page so that I can see how well it conforms to wu-ftpd's recommendations. ;) > Yes, the Slackware version is statically linked. If you look, the > debian version puts copies of the required lib*.so files in the > directory "lib". Well, since it configures things so that anonymous has the run of the filesystem (a bad idea, IMNSHO), it wasn't obvious to me that the files I need are there. So if I want to set things up in a /home/ftp (chroot'd) type of way, would I need all the lib*.so files in order to run the dynamically-linked ls, or just certain ones? Or would you recommend just taking the old statically-linked ls, since it appears to work fine? > I'm trying to recall how wu-ftpd installed on my system ... I believe I > was prompted about the anonymous account by the standard ftp package (in > netstd). Regardless, you should edit the passwd and group files by > hand, as you can avoid giving away more info then you want to that way. Hmm, I don't recall being prompted for that, but since it doesn't appear to have made a separate ftp hierarchy and configured it for such, my comments still apply. Would I e-mail the package maintainer with comments like this, or what? > I'm at a loss to explain why your install didn't go so well ... did you > install over Slackware? Nope. A fresh install on a virgin hard drive. :) > I hate to say "RTFM", but wu-ftpd comes with excellent documentation ... > I've never had any problems with it to date. Thanks. I haven't had problems with wu-ftpd -- just with the Debian package thereof. (grin&shrug) Thanks, Kendall -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: wu-ftpd package weirdnesses
> > Thanks. I haven't had problems with wu-ftpd -- just with the Debian > package thereof. (grin&shrug) > > Thanks, > Kendall > Debian wu-ftpd package comes with /usr/sbin/addftpuser script which would do everything for you. Try it! Alex Y. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ftp install problem
At 7:15 AM 5/22/97, Pavel Galynin wrote: >hello world, > >i am currently trying to install debian linux. i edited ppp.chatscript >and ppp.options_out after rtfming for some time, but it still doesn't >work. i go into dselect, try to connect to ftp.debian.org and it gives >me a bad name error. i figured that i probably need to connect to my >server first, so i use pppd to do that, but it just spits a bunch of >junk at me. help! i will supply any configuration/config info required >to fix this. > >tia >paul Paul, What command line invocation of pppd are you using, and what is the file /var/log/ppp.log printing. This info will help greatly Ben White [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Latex to WinWord 6.0 :-(
Hello! :) On 23 May 1997, Kai Grossjohann wrote: > > Paulo Ramos writes: > Paulo> Anyone know how to make this?? Kai> But there are quite a few people who opt to use SGML because it is a > standard and thus has some amount of interchangeability. Also, it > allows you to do `semantic tagging' which is already possible with > LaTeX to some extent. > > I would be interested in any ideas anybody can contribute, too. There are some LaTeX <--> MS Word converter on CTAN (Comprehensive TeX Archive Network??? (I forgot what the acronym stands for exactly... :)) I haven't tried them myself, and some of them are old, so I don't know how well they work. I remember surfing some pages (was it the LaTeX or TeX FAQ?) comparing the pros and cons of some of those converters. I haven't tried them yet though, because I have been too obsessed with LaTeX. I don't know why; perhaps I have spent so much time learning LaTeX that I would have wasted all these months if I go back to MS Word. (I must have a weird mentality. :) One interesting (and encouraging) note is that Corel WordPerfect 7 comes with some utilities to do SGML. Haven't looked into it yet. :) Another note: I found the following paragraph in the Colophone of Programming Perl, 2nd Edition (the Camel book) : The inside layout was designed by Edie Freedman, Jennifer Niederst, and Nancy Priest. Text was prepared by Erik Ray in SGML using the DocBook 2.4 DTD. The print version of this book was created by translating the SGML source into a set of gtroff macros using a filter developed at ORA by Norman Walsh. Steve Talbott designed and wrote the underlying macro set on the basis of the GNU gtroff -gs macros; Lenny Meullner adapted them to SGML and implemented the book designed. The GNU groff text formatter version 1.09 was used to generate PostScript output. Before I read the above, I thought/hoped the book was typeset with LaTeX, but now I suppose there are other alternatives too. :) Interestingly, one of the Debian packages comes with DocBook 2.2.1 DTD: /usr/doc/sgmlspm/examples/docbook/docbook.dtd.gz :) Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-Ling[EMAIL PROTECTED] Civil Engineeringhttp://www.ualberta.ca/~foka/ University of Alberta, CanadaKeep smiling! *^_^* -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Latex to WinWord 6.0 :-(
> > One interesting (and encouraging) note is that Corel WordPerfect 7 comes > with some utilities to do SGML. Haven't looked into it yet. :) Has anyone used this feature? You have to supply your own dtd. Does the one used by the linuxdoc project work and if so, how do you set it up? Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ppp packet errors
On May 23, Lindsay Allen wrote > > > I used to get excellent ppp transfers, but of late I get errors and > the modem lights often cease activity for several seconds at a time. > ppp version is 2.2.0f-23. > > ifconfig shows:- > ppp0 Link encap:Point-Point Protocol > inet addr:203.59.0.18 P-t-P:203.59.24.26 Mask:255.255.255.0 > UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING MTU:552 Metric:1 > RX packets:27767 errors:524 dropped:524 overruns:0 > TX packets:14018 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 Do you have irqtune installed and configured to give your modem (serial port, actually) the first priority. I used to get a lot of errors like this before I discovered irqtune. It is in the hwtools package, btw. -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
