Re: dosemu without dos being installed?

[stick]

> 
> Can dosemu be installed if DOS is not installed?
DOS does not have to be installed on the hard-drive for dosemu to be installed.
Some version of DOS must be available for dosemu to be able to "boot" thou

It does *not* have to be MS-DOS.  I've been running DR-DOS for years under
dosemu.  Caldera has OpenDOS (which is a descendant of DR-DOS via Novell DOS)
and there is a version called FreeDOS (fdos) that is included with the
latest versions of dosemu.

I've not worked with fdos much - I'm trying to cut down on my reliance on
*any* version of DOS - thou I have heard that lredir does not work with fdos.

That may have changed recently, I haven't checked.

The documentation that comes with dosemu has gotten much better in the past
few months, so I'd recommend that you install the latest dosemu*.deb and
spend an evening reading the docs - it will do wonders for your understanding
of how to get dosemu to boot.

As with any Linux/Debian package, there are many different ways in-which you
can configure dosemu.  It can access a DOS file-system on a partition of
your hard-drive, it can access floppies, it can access floppy disk images,
it can access hard-drive images, and with lredir it can access directories
in the Linux file-system.  All in all a very cool utility.

> 
> 
> Alan Davis
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 

Good Luck!
Chuck

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Re: X-windows/Trio64/16 bit colours

[Marcelo]

On Sat, 26 Jul 1997, Oleg Krivosheev wrote:

# > 
# > > > Please, is there someone here that has an Debian box, whith X-Windows
# > > > (Xfree 3.3) and an Trio 64 video card, runing whith 16 bit colours?
# > > 

Yes... 800x600 at 16bpp with the svga server (trident TGUI9440 1M) and
1024x768 at 16bpp with the S3 server (Hercules Terminator 64 Video
Trio 64V+ 2Mb).  But only got them working using the xf86config
program to create the XF86Config file (couldn't figure out how to
do the same with XF86Setup...).  WindowMaker and Enlightenment look
very nice now :)

Marcelo.


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Re: fetchmail problem?

[Lindsay Allen]

On Sun, 27 Jul 1997, Victor Torrico wrote:

> Lindsay Allen wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 27 Jul 1997, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > > > > Do you have an entry in /etc/inetd.conf like:-
> > > > > smtpstream  tcp nowait  root/usr/sbin/tcpd
> > /usr/sbin/in.smtpd
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > > After reading the previous response, I noticed that my /etc/inetd.conf
> > > did NOT have smtp defined.  Adding that also fixes the problem for me
> > > (without the need for the mda line).
> >
> > There is/was a rogue package in the system which obliterates inetd.conf in
> > the process of changing it.  This happened to me and I know of other
> > cases, but I have not been able to track down the cause.
> >
> > So have a look at your file - if it is but a few lines long you have the
> > same problem.  If indeed this is the case will you please send me a copy
> > before you fix it?
> >
> > Lindsay
> 
> There are 56 lines in my inetd.conf file.  The smtp line was inserted by the
> exim installation and reads as follows:
> 
> /snip/
> #:MAIL: Mail, news and uucp services.
> smtpstream  tcp nowait  mail/usr/sbin/exim exim -bs
> /snip/
> 
> Do I also need another smpt line entry in this file?  As an example:
> 
> smtpstream  tcp nowait  root/usr/sbin/tcpd  /usr/sbin/in.smtpd

My inetd.conf is 67 lines, but that is most likely because I have
installed other packages.

Not running exim here, but dpkg says of exim:-

 Description: Exim Mailer
  This MTA is rather easier to configure than smail or sendmail.
  It is a drop-in replacement for sendmail/mailq/rsmtp.
  Advanced features include the ability to reject connections from
  known spam sites, and an extremely efficient queue processing
  algorithm.

Exim replaces smail and in.smtp is only a link to smail, so your
inetd.conf is fine as it is. 


Lindsay

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xdm configuration

[David R. Kohel]

I chose not to start xdm at the initial configuration because my 
laptop has an unsupported (by XFree86) video card (Neomagic), and 
I needed to set up Xinside's (= Xi Graphics now) server.

Now I try to run xdm and it doesn't start.  I have a xdm-start 
line in my /etc/X11/config and on boot it reports that it is 
starting up xdm.  Manually `xdm start` or `xdm` do nothing. 
What else do I need to configure?

David


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Re: FAX?

[Mike]

Jason Costomiris wrote:
>On Fri, 25 Jul 1997, Paul Miller wrote:
>
>> I didn't see any how-to's on configuring Linux to send/receive fax..
>> where can I start?  -- programs, info, etc?
>
>Start by installing the efax package.

Or mgetty+sendfax. Efax will occupy the modem so that you can't have any
other dial-in except fax. Mgetty+sendfax allows you to receive data (login
or ppp auto detected) as well on the same modem. With a ZyXEL modem you can
even receive voice, data and fax!

I use mgetty+sendfax to answer the modem and efax to send. All this
software is on the RedHat 4.2 CD. (I know this is the debian list, but I am
actually running RedHat on most of my machines, sorry..)


Mike.


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Re: Host/nslookup, sendmail, bash

[Tessa Lau]

On Sunday, Steve Hsieh mumbled:
> I don't know the answer to this...but did you try removing your domain
> entry from your resolv.conf file to see if that made a difference (so that
> there are only nameserver lines and a search line)?

I don't have a domain entry in my resolv.conf:

search cs.washington.edu washington.edu edu
nameserver  128.95.1.4
order hosts, bind

Are there any other ideas?

--Tessa
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Host/nslookup, sendmail, bash

[Tessa Lau]

I'm having problems configuring sendmail to deliver mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've configured my domain as "cs.washington.edu", with a search path (in
resolv.conf) of cs.washington.edu, washington.edu, and edu.  However,
sendmail doesn't appear to try other entries in the search path because it
bounces the message with an error like "host cs.cs.washington.edu not
found."  How can I fix that?

Also, does anyone know why Debian makes nslookup a wrapper for host, and
how I can install a "real" version of nslookup?

One more question: bash 2.0 doesn't appear to understand a command line
which worked in bash 1.14:

% /bin/bash -c '((xli foo.gif); echo bar) &'
/bin/bash: -c: line 1: missing closing `)' for arithmetic expression
/bin/bash: -c: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `;'
/bin/bash: -c: line 1: `((xli foo.gif); echo bar) &'

A command like this is hardcoded into Netscape to launch an external image
viewer as a helper application.  Is this a bug in bash?

(Debian 1.3, haven't upgraded to 1.3.1 yet)

Thanks!
--Tessa
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newsx -- not with inn?

[Carl Fink]

According to dselect, newsx works only with cnews, not with inn (which
I'm running).  Is this correct?

I'd hate to go ahead and install it, just to uninstall it again after
reading the docs.

Thanks.
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Re: fetchmail problem?

[Bob Nielsen]

On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, Lindsay Allen wrote:

> 
> On Sun, 27 Jul 1997, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > > > Do you have an entry in /etc/inetd.conf like:-
> > > > smtpstream  tcp nowait  root/usr/sbin/tcpd  
> > > > /usr/sbin/in.smtpd
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > After reading the previous response, I noticed that my /etc/inetd.conf
> > did NOT have smtp defined.  Adding that also fixes the problem for me
> > (without the need for the mda line). 
> 
> There is/was a rogue package in the system which obliterates inetd.conf in
> the process of changing it.  This happened to me and I know of other
> cases, but I have not been able to track down the cause.
> 
> So have a look at your file - if it is but a few lines long you have the
> same problem.  If indeed this is the case will you please send me a copy
> before you fix it?

No, it was approx. 34 lines long, but the smtp line was missing (it's
there on my other computer, also running 3.1).

Bob


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Re: Can you talk to a enet device with just the hardware address?

[Carey Evans]

Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I have a (LexMark) black box print server I picked up surplus (cheap),
> and it has an ethernet interface, a serial interface (for a printer),
> and two parallel interfaces (for more printers).  It supports telnet,
> ping, etc.
> 
> It has the LAN hardware address printed on the back, but I don't know
> what TCP/IP address it might be set to.  I was wondering if there's
> any way to use the hardware address to talk to the box.  I assume
> there's not, but I thought it might be worth asking.

If this is that same as the one we've got, it actually works very
nicely.

The MarkNet box gets its IP address via the BOOTP procotol, so you'll
need to use bootpd (which you should have from netstd) or dhcpd.  I
think I found the Ethernet address printed on it was actually in a
different byte order, so run

# tcpdump port bootpc

before you turn it on and you should see it asking for an address.
Use the ethernet address from that in your bootptab file.

After assigning it an IP address that way, I was able to send
PostScript files through it to the attached Lexmark Optra R+ using
lpr.  If you want I can send you the bootptab entry I used.

(I think it's possible to use the hardware address on other OS's using
drivers from Lexmark.  tcpdump thinks it's using IPX.)

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Re: NSLOOKUP don't work

[Rob Browning]

Alex Yukhimets <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Before that, I would recommend to change 127.0.0.1 to the address of
> some different nameserver though. You shoud not run your own NS without
> real need.

Depends.  If you're running over a slow link, bind's DNS lookup
caching can help speed up network operations quite a bit.  Note that
you may want to set up forwarders in this case.

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inn upgrade kills innd!

[Carl Fink]

I tried tonight to upgrade various packages with my Debian 1.3.1
CD-ROM.  Mostly it went well, but innd now fails to load!  I purged
the package and reinstalled the original inn package, but they both 
fail with variations of this message:

Jul 26 23:54:06 carlf innd: /var/lib/news/history cant dbminit ME Math
argument out of domain of func

I've repeatedly run makehistory, which does nothing.

I'm assuming I've got a bad library somewhere, but in the typical
fashion of such programs *there's no way to tell where* unless one is
also a c programmer.  I am not.

What can I do to recover, short of wiping the partition and restoring
everything from my (complete but slow and awkward) backup?  Clearly
just restoring the news programs files won't help, since they've been
uninstalled and reinstalled already.

(Boy, I'm glad this isn't a server.)
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Re: Memory problems

[Franck LE GALL - STAGIAIRE A FT.BD/CNET/DTD/PIH]

->  I had problems too adding 2*16MB (32MB) and my solution was to
-> take out the two 16MB cards.
->  I set a little cron job to run memtest at 5 minutes, and every
-> time I got a disk problem (could'nt get a free inode, or smthg like) I
-> also got a memory error. 
->  It's now 4 days w/o any problems both in disk and memory, and w/o
-> my 32 MB too ;( 
->  I don't know if the problem is with memory physically corrupted or
-> some bad configuration in bios. 



Is it 60 ns EDO memory ?
Did you try to configure other access time in bios ?

Franck


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INFERNO & Debian?

[dada]

Hi

Today I read an article in a spanish programing magazine called
"Inferno: goodbye to Java" that impact me.

To people that don't know it, INFERNO is an S.O created by Bell Labs
(where work Dennish Ritchie) that mybe supose the "revolution in network
S.O." and kill Java supremacy. This system can work in "emulation mode"
or in "native mode"...sorry but this information isn't OK (it's the
first time that I hear notices about this system).


In that magazine I read that the S.O's support in "emulation mode" will
be: Windows NT,W95,Solaris,IRIX,HP-UX and *Red Hat Linux*. And I ask me,
what happen whith Debian?.

Thus, I like know what's the INFERNO status in Debian?


thanks


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Re: Host/nslookup, sendmail, bash

[Martin . Bialasinski]

On 27 Jul, Tessa Lau wrote:

> search cs.washington.edu washington.edu edu
> nameserver  128.95.1.4
> order hosts, bind
> 

Shouldn't the last line be in host.conf ?

Mine is reading:

order hosts,bind
multi on  

Ciao,
Martin


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Re: Sendmail broken (Debian 1.3)

[Magossa'nyi A'rpa'd]

On Sat, 26 Jul 1997, D. W. Wieboldt wrote:

> WARNING: local host name (shiloh_a) is not qualified; fix $j in config file
It is illegal to use '_' in hostnames, and newest dns servers are enforce
this limitation AFAIK. Use '-' instead.

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ICQ

[Travis Cole]

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-

I hope this is an appropriate posting for this list.

I have used the ICQ program from Mirabilis LTD http://www.mirabilis.com
In Windows 95 and I would love to be able to use this great software with
Linux.  But unfortunately as far as I know Mirabilis has no plans to make a
Linux
version available.  

We need to let our numbers be known and tell Mirabilis that we want a Linux
version.

If you want to help contact them.
go to http://www.mirabilis.com/contact2.html
there you will find several contact addresses.

Thanks.
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Re: Signal 11... Its Back

[Bob Clark]

You may want to look at http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/

Walter L. Preuninger II wrote:
> 
> I recently recieved my i-Connect Debian 1.3 cd (binary only), and
> recieved
> the signal 11 internal error in cc1.
> gcc is 2.7.2.1-8
> kernel source is 2.0.30
> 
> This happens on a P166 with 48M and a P100 with 16M.
> 
> Both of these systems compile kernels just fine under Debian 1.1.
> 
> Ideas?
> 
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Re: device access (specifically ttySx)

[Travis Cole]

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On 26-Jul-97 Paul Miller wrote:
>George Bonser wrote:
>> 
>> Onw way is to have those ports owned by certain groups.  You then
>> place
>> the users that you want to allow access into the group for that port.
>> 
>how do you do that?  mc won't make any changes.. should I just use
>chown/grp/mod?
>
>Paul
>

Try using chgrp to change the groups of the files, then edit your /etc/group
file to add your users to the group you need.  I can't remember the command to
add a new group (damn RedHat and those GUI tools)

You may just want to change your ttySx file to group dip and make the user you
want belong to that group also.

Hope this helps

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Re: Mail loop

[Tim Sailer]

In your email to me, Bob Nielsen, you wrote:
> 
> I tried sending mail to myself by smtp from another system.  It was
> received, but keeps trying to send to itself, until finally being rejected
> for excessive loops:

[clip]

> 
> ad infinitum (the last in the  string showed the mail being received
> from the remote system).  
> 
> Does anyone know what I am missing here?

an MX record? Does your MTA know that the machine you are sending
mail to is a local name to be delivered?

Tim

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nmh and mail spool permissions

[Kevin M. Bealer]

I installed the "nmh" program, and almost everything seems to work
now, except that the program "inc" hangs, or at least hangs around for
a while and then dies.

After looking at the "strace" I see it is trying to create lockfiles
in /var/spool/mail/ which is forbidden by the permission bits.  It
works fine if I make the permissions so that anyone can write to the
directory.  That is, anyone can delete/create anyone's mail file.

It seems like this should not be -- what is the correct permissions
for /var/spool/mail?

Thanks,

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Samba allows only one connection

[Michael Laing]

I installed Samba 1.9.16p11-3 with a default configuration but only one
client can see it at a time...

I get the message:
bind failed on port 139 socket_addr=0 (Address already in use)
in the smb logfile when I try to connect from the 2d client.

Is there something wrong with the default setup using inetd and tcpd?
I am running Debian 1.3.1.

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Re: Host/nslookup, sendmail, bash

[George Bonser]

First, check to see that your mail program is not adding the domain.

Second, assuming that you used a .mc file to build the sendmail.cf you
might try:

making sure that there is NO FEATURE(always_add_domain) statement

making sure there IS a FEATURE(nocanonfiy) statement.



On Sun, 27 Jul 1997, Steve Hsieh wrote:

> > I'm having problems configuring sendmail to deliver mail to [EMAIL 
> > PROTECTED]
> > I've configured my domain as "cs.washington.edu", with a search path (in
> > resolv.conf) of cs.washington.edu, washington.edu, and edu.  However,
> > sendmail doesn't appear to try other entries in the search path because it
> > bounces the message with an error like "host cs.cs.washington.edu not
> > found."  How can I fix that?


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Re: fetchmail problem?

[Tim Sailer]

In your email to me, Adrian Bridgett, you wrote:
> 
> On %M %N, Victor Torrico wrote
 ^

I bet you are using mutt out of hamm, right? This seems to be a bug..

Tim

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Re: fetchmail problem?

[Martin . Bialasinski]

On 27 Jul, Lindsay Allen wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 27 Jul 1997, Victor Torrico wrote:
> 
>> reading message 1 (2857 bytes)
>> fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed: Unknown error
>> 18446744073709551615
>> fetchmail: POP3> QUIT
>> fetchmail: POP3< -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
>> fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from milo.cfw.com:
>> Unknown error 18446744073709551615
>> fetchmail: normal termination, status 9
>> vtorrico$
> 
> The way I read it fetchmail is working fine as is your IPS's POP3
> daemon.  The problem is with SMTP at your end.
> 
> Do you have an entry in /etc/inetd.conf like:-
> smtpstream  tcp nowait  root/usr/sbin/tcpd  /usr/sbin/in.smtpd
> 
> What happens when you telnet to localhost 25?
> 
> Check that localhost resolves to 127.0.0.1.
> 
Hi,

I had the same problem. The solution was to enter -S localhost as a
additional option to fetchmail.

I can telnet localhost 25 fine and type in a mail manualy and I can
resolve localhost. So I don't know why this doesn't work without -S
localhost.

However, it works, so I am happy with it :-)

Ciao,
Martin


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Re: why kernel 2.0.29 in Debian 1.3.1?

[Richard L Shepherd]

On Fri, 25 Jul 1997, Kevin Traas wrote:

> > why Debian 1.3.1 includes kernel 2.0.29 and not 2.0.30 (that is in this
> > Debian 1.3.1 but don't is preselect the first time that I install the
> > system).?
> > 
> > Is there any problem whith 2.0.30 kernel?
> 
> Apparently, there was some of the 2.1.x code that was introduced into
> 2.0.30 that caused some problems  I've no idea what it was, maybe
> others can comment; however, it caused the Debian Powers-That-Be to elect
> to go with 2.0.29 as the default.  However, 2.0.30 is still included in the
> 1.3.x distribution.
> 
> I've been using 2.0.30 on several machines without difficulty 
> Therefore, I've never investigated further as to what problems were present
> in this newer version.
> 
> 2.0.31 is supposed to be available within days.  This is supposed to
> resolve the 2.0.30 problems.

Hmmm, I have 2 problems at present:

1. Cannot boot: originally got the 1FA: prompt.  Changed some settings in
the SCSI BIOS and then it worked (2.0.30 kernel).  I recompiled the kernel
one more time and from then on it always stops at "LI".  I can't fix this
one at all, even with 2.0.29.

2. With 2.0.30 I was witnessing a memory leak.  However back with 2.0.29
it seems to be OK (or at least the leak is much slower!).

So all-in-all 2.0.29 seems to be better.  I guess the boot problem is
lilo's rather than a specific kernel versionAny helpers here?

8<--->8
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Re: 2.1 Kernels

[Peter S Galbraith]

Alex Monaghan wrote:

> Does the 1.3.1 Debian release come with any of the 2.1 kernels and updated 
> compilers needed to compile them ?

Downloaded 2.1.X kernels trees from archive sites (http://www.linuxhq.com/).
Then check out /usr/src/linux/Documentation/Changes which tells you what
versions of what you need, and how to find out which you have.

2.1.45 said I needed:

- Kernel modules modutils-970104
- Gnu C  2.7.2.1
- Binutils   2.7.0.3
- Linux C Library5.4.17
- Dynamic Linker (ld.so) 1.8.5
- Linux C++ Library  2.7.2.1
- Procps 1.01
- SysVinit   2.69
- Mount  2.5p
- Net-tools  1.32-alpha
- Kbd0.91
 
>From Debian 1.3, I needed:

binutils_2.8.1-2.deb
libbfd2.8.1_2.8.1-2.deb
libc6_2.0.4-1.deb
mount_2.6g-2.deb

Actually, binutils_2.8.1-2.deb wasn't quite enough, so I followed
instructions to download and install the required version in the Changes 
file.

I successfully compiled many 2.1.X versions after this.

Good luck! 
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Re: Sendmail broken (Debian 1.3)

[D. W. Wieboldt]

Good suggestion.  I think it is indeed timing out for want of a good
lookup.  Have host name in /etc/hosts but that doesn't help.  Now howto
hack sendmail into submission!  Does anybody know the simple fix to the
.cf file to make it run?  Thanks all!

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On 26 Jul 1997, Graham Hughes wrote:

> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> 
> "D. W. Wieboldt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > I just built a new Debian 1.3 system from cdrom.  Lots of things are running
> > just fine, but somehow sendmail doesn't work.   I want sendmail on this one
> > so I can build a beeper gateway :-)  Does anybody have any clues about what
> > I should be looking for?
> 
> Aah.  OK, here's the deal.  Sendmail is not hanging.  It is trying to
> do a local DNS lookup.  Since you probably aren't connected to the
> 'net 24/7, it spends a couple of minutes timing out.
> 
> This happens to me a lot.  You have two options: put your hostname and
> IP address in /etc/hosts, or convince sendmail that it really doesn't
> need to do a DNS lookup.  The second I don't remember how to do, but I
> think you can manage it from the M4 stuff (which is good; .cf files
> are very very ugly).
> 
> LPRng does this too, I note, but it isn't nearly as easy to fix.
> - -- 
> Graham Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIME OK, PGP preferred
> 
> from stddisclaim import footer
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Re: fetchmail problem?

[Lindsay Allen]

On Sun, 27 Jul 1997, Bob Nielsen wrote:

[snip]

> > > Do you have an entry in /etc/inetd.conf like:-
> > > smtpstream  tcp nowait  root/usr/sbin/tcpd  /usr/sbin/in.smtpd

[snip]

> After reading the previous response, I noticed that my /etc/inetd.conf
> did NOT have smtp defined.  Adding that also fixes the problem for me
> (without the need for the mda line). 

There is/was a rogue package in the system which obliterates inetd.conf in
the process of changing it.  This happened to me and I know of other
cases, but I have not been able to track down the cause.

So have a look at your file - if it is but a few lines long you have the
same problem.  If indeed this is the case will you please send me a copy
before you fix it?

Lindsay

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Re: samba newbie help request

[Frank Sergeant]

> I've installed 1.3.1 on a machine at work. It's on a (physical) network
> with a bunch of Windows boxes running NT, Win95 and WFW3.x. I've added
...
> Samba from bo is installed (with no problems) on the Linux box.
> 
> What I'm looking for is the absolute minimum /etc/smb.conf that will
> allow me to share a directory, say /tmp, on the Linux box with the
> Windows box.
> 
> I've RTFM'd until I'm blue in the eyes, but I'm missing something. The

 I have not yet configured Samba on my new debian installation,
but here is the  /etc/smb.conf  file (minus many commented out
pieces) that I used successfully from
my previous (RedHat) installation to export a linux directory
( /dospub ) to a Windows 95 box.  I believe I had to add 'dos'
as a user and probably make 'dos' the owner of the /dospub
directory.

 I hope this helps get you started.

  -- Frank
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      /etc/smb.conf 
[global]
   printing = bsd
   printcap name = /etc/printcap
   load printers = yes
; Uncomment this if you want a guest account
;  guest account = pcguest
   guest account = dos 
   log file = /var/log/samba-log.%m
   lock directory = /var/lock/samba
   share modes = yes

[homes]
   comment = Home Directories
   browseable = no
   read only = no
   create mode = 0750

[printers]
   comment = All Printers
   browseable = no
   printable = yes
   public = no
   writable = no
   create mode = 0700

; A publicly accessible directory, but read only, except for people in
; the staff group
[public]
   comment = Public Stuff
   path = /home/samba
   public = yes
   writable = yes
   printable = no
   write list = @staff

[dos]
   comment = Dos public directory
   path = /dospub
   public = yes
   ;only guest = yes
   guest ok = yes
   writable = yes
   printable = no

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Re: Mailers

[Manoj Srivastava]

Hi,

I use Emacs VM for personal mail, and GNUS for mailing lists
 and newsgroups (using the mailagent system for filtering, separating,
 vacation, and simple remote command execution).

Works wonderfully for me.

manoj
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shutdown doesn't umount properly one of my partitions

[Dany Dionne]

Hi,
I have debian 1.3.1, kernel 2.0.30 and SysVinit 2.71-2
I have 3 partitiond:
hda1 --> swap 50 megs
hda2 --> root 1.1 gigs
hdc1 --> users 3.2 gigs

The partition hdc1 is never cleanly umount i.e. on every boot process, the
filesystem of hdc1 is checked and this took a lot of time... This appen
whatever i use to shutdown (reboot, shutdown -r, halt). However, the
filesystem of hdc1 appear to be correct, the forced check on the boot
process on hdc1 never found anything bad with the filesystem.

Anyone know how to fix the problem?
Thanks,
Dany Dionne
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Re: Host/nslookup, sendmail, bash

[Tessa Lau]

On Sunday, George Bonser mumbled:
> making sure that there is NO FEATURE(always_add_domain) statement
> making sure there IS a FEATURE(nocanonfiy) statement.

This worked, thanks!

--Tessa
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Re: Apache + CGI

[Glynn Clements]

Jakob Borg wrote:

> I got the impression that IncludesNOEXEC was the feature I needed and
> solved my problem. I (my users) can still use the #include virtual="" to
> user "legitimate" CGIs. Is that not so?

The mod_include documentation says this:

   include
  This command inserts the text of another document or file into
  the parsed file. Any included file is subject to the usual  
  access control. If the directory containing the parsed file has
  the Option IncludesNOEXEC set, and the including the document 
  would cause a program to be executed, then it will not be
  included; this prevents the execution of CGI scripts. Otherwise
  CGI scripts are invoked as normal using the complete URL given
  in the command, including any query string.   

This gives me the impression that you can't disable `exec' without
disabling `include='.

Try it and see.

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Re: Bugs in 1.3.1 Debian packages

[Jaldhar H. Vyas]

On Sun, 27 Jul 1997, Carl Fink wrote:

> I send a letter to this list earlier, complaining about a problem after
> upgrading inn.  I have now figured out the problem.
> 
> Consulting the inn FAQ, I find that the error I saw is caused by a
> corrupt history.dir file.  Theoretically running makehistory as I did
> should have cleared this, but it didn't.  In the end I had to delete
> history.dir and replace it with the "clean" one from the package.
> 
> Really, I don't think the inn package should corrupt history.dir, and
> would consider this a bug.
> 
> Another bug for the maintainer:  the new ppp package prevented me from
> running the pon script as non-root.  It happens that I knew how to fix
> this (chmod the pppd executable to make it runnably by mere mortals),
> but a beginner would be stumped.
> 
> And another:  upgrading the DOSEMU package not only replaced my
> /etc/dosemu/conf file, but *wiped it out*, forcing me to reconfigure
> from scratch.
> 
> I have good backups, but again someone else might have had the program
> rendered unusable.  I consider all three of these significant bugs.
> The first one wasted a full day of my time, not something I consider
> trivial.
> 
> Thanks for listening.

The inn, ppp, and dosemu maintainers may or may not be reading this list.
You are much better off bringing it directly to their attention by using
the Debian bug tracking system at http://www.debian.org/bugs.  The other
benefit of this is you can see if someone has reported these bugs already.

-- Jaldhar


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Re: compiling apache 1.2.1 - where is -lcrypt??

[Scott K. Ellis]

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-

On Sat, 26 Jul 1997, Amos Shapira wrote:

> I'm trying to build Apache 1.2.1 as a debian package based on
> the .diff.gz found in project/experimental, and the compilation
> process ("./debian/rules build" as root) bombs because the loader
> can't find a library for -lcrypt used when linking htpasswd.
> 
> Could someone please point me to the package which contains this
> library?  I'm outside the U.S. and can't find anything which
> mentions this in the non-US sites.

IIRC, libcrypt was seperated out of libc6, but is integral to libc5.  If
you're compiling for libc5, just remove the -lcrypt from the link command.

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"From:" Field in Mutt and (Ex)mh

[Stefan Baums]

Hi all,

I'm connected to the Internet by a PPP modem line, and depend on a POP3
host "stud.uni-goettingen.de" for getting my mail. So far, I handled my
mail with Netscape, which directly contacted this host for sending and
receiving my mail, so Smail configuration was really of no concern.

Now I would like to switch to another mailer with more features, such as
PGP support, filters for sorting my mail, you name it. So I told
Smailconfig I'm an Internet site "deepthought" (my computer's name) and
would like to use the aforementioned "stud.uni-goettingen.de" as
smarthost. I set up fetchmail to get my mail once on startup.

My problem lies in getting my mail system to put "From: Stefan Baums
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" at the top of my outgoing mail. ("sbaums"
is the name of my POP3 account.)

Now, Netscape (internal movemail for getting mail, "localhost" as SMTP
host for outgoing mail), Mail(to), XMailTool, and Pine work fine. (This
message was sent by Pine.) But Mutt and Exmh have "From: Stefan Baums
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>". ("stefan" is my user name at "deepthought".)

A perusal of Mutt and Exmh's documentation was unilluminating (to me). As
for Smail, I tried a line "from_field="From: Stefan Baums
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" in /etc/smail/config, but it had no
perceptible effect at all.

Any suggestions short of renaming my computer "stud.uni-goettingen.de"
(wouldn't that be problematic because this name exists already, anyway?)
and changing my username from "stefan" to "sbaums"?

Greetings,
Stefan

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Re: Host/nslookup, sendmail, bash

[Dima]

>>Tessa Lau wrote:
 >On Sunday, Steve Hsieh mumbled:
 >> I don't know the answer to this...but did you try removing your domain
 >> entry from your resolv.conf file to see if that made a difference (so that
 >> there are only nameserver lines and a search line)?
 >
 >I don't have a domain entry in my resolv.conf:
 >
 >search cs.washington.edu washington.edu edu
 >nameserver  128.95.1.4
 >order hosts, bind
 >
 >Are there any other ideas?

:-)  dpkg --purge sendmail; dpkg -i qmail_1.00-2.deb

(qmail is in project/experimental).

As for netscrape, IIRC netscape installer package fixes some of 
the problems.  It is in contrib; you have to place original
tar.gz from netscape into /tmp in order to install.
Alternative is to unpack it somewhere using
dpkg -x  , look at the contents and modify 
your netscrape setup accordingly.  Hopefully that'll cure it.

HTH
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/usr/bin/pon

[dada]

Hi due an mistake I delete the "/usr/bin/pon" file.

Please, could someone send me a copy of this file whith no modifications
(as is when you install Debian 1.3.1)?


Is there any way of recover an file deleted?...I think remember that
there is an utility to do something about.

bye and thanks.


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device access (specifically ttySx)

[Paul Miller]

how do I allow/deny access to device files (such as /dev/ttyS1)?


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Re: Sendmail broken (Debian 1.3)

[George Bonser]

> > 
> > This happens to me a lot.  You have two options: put your hostname and
> > IP address in /etc/hosts, or convince sendmail that it really doesn't
> > need to do a DNS lookup.  The second I don't remember how to do, but I
> > think you can manage it from the M4 stuff (which is good; .cf files
> > are very very ugly).

FEATURE(nodns)
FEATURE(nocanonify)


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educational software on Debian

[Mario Olimpio de Menezes]

Hi,

I'm looking for educational software for Linux, specially
for Debian, for children aging 8-14.
Does somebody know something?
The idea is to set a computer teaching linux lab for
children. 
I would like to do this with linux. Does somebody have
some experience with this? Any hints/points will be welcome!

thanks

[]s,
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Re: KDE install for Debian

[Joey Hess]

Miguel A. Figueroa wrote:
> Well first let me start by saying I love what I see so far (so much 
> that I am trying to figure out ways in contributing, ie Mirror 
> Site, codeing as soon as I learn more about Qt etc.). I have two 
> identical machines. One with Redhat linux and the other with Debian. 
> I downloaded the distributions for both systems and installed. The 
> RedHat system is running fine and dandy but the Debian system (at 
> least the kwm, kpanel etc) either freeze or completely die. Does 
> anyone else use the Debian version and got it to work? Is the deb 
> version kept as up to date as the RPMs? I realize that the maintainer 
> is doing these distributions on his/her own time but I can't get it 
> to stay up as long as the Redhat 4.1. (BTW, I loaded 1.3.1 Debian).

What versions of kde are you using on the debian and red hat machines?

I am the kde maintainer for debian, and I try to keep the package reasonably
up to date, though it's often a bit behind the rpm.

-- 
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ramdisks

[Paul Miller]

I was trying to make a boot disk and when I unmounted the ramdisk is
disappeared!  .. I have ramdisk support compiled as a module.. does it
have to be built in to work or is there another way to make a
boot/ramdisk?

_Paul


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Re: INFERNO & Debian?

[Shaleh]

I have experimented with the Inferno emulator on a Win95 machine.  As of
yet there are no native "compilers", everythong must be "compiled" in
the native OS.  It is still a little flaky from my experience.  No path,
things like that.  It is a little awkward moving around.  A neat play
toy though.  If it runs on Red hat it should run on any Linux.  The
alien package should let you install it, if it is an rpm.


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Re: X-windows/Trio64/16 bit colours

[Luke Bussanmas]

On Sat, 26 Jul 1997, Oleg Krivosheev wrote:

> 
> Hi there
> > 
> > Please, is there someone here that has an Debian box, whith X-Windows
> > (Xfree 3.3) and an Trio 64 video card, runing whith 16 bit colours?
> 
> yes, i am
> 
> works just fine in 16bpp, 1024x768.
> 
> > 
> > I ask becouse I have problems to work whith that configuration (in eight
> > bit colours I have not problem) :the resolution go down very much and
> > the screen flicker.
> 

I have had the same problem with my S3 Trio64V+.  The way I solved the
problem was to # out the lines that say what Ramdac and Chipset to use.
Hopefully, this will also fix your problems.



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xtacacs...

[A. M. Varon]

Hi,

I'm really sorry if this is off-topic...

I would like to configure xtacacsd-conf to allow only users at say, only
from 8:00 p.m. to 8:00 a.m. Anybody has done that? how?

We are running xtacacs(version 3.5) running on a Debian linux 2.0.30. The
router is a cisco 2511.

TIA,

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modem solution

[Chris Burgess]

Just a followup on the modem install:

I had problems configuring my modem (dynalink 1428VQH on COM3/ttyS2, a
dumb multiport modem), which was trying to share IRQ4 with COM1.

The problem was that it was /sort of/ working, but very slow to 
respond under minicom (about twenty seconds to ATDT) and dead under
pppd.

The solution (very simple, eventually) was to edit my 
/etc/rc.boot/0setserial file and manually configure the IRQ for 
ttyS2. I made it IRQ5, and the modem worked immediately. Instructions
were in the file.

This isn't news to an advanced user, but it was useful to know this
for me as a newby. Thanks very much to the people on this list and in
irc #debian (I know know irc has a function, too!) who helped me
through it. Cheers!

//cb
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Re: How do I recompile the kernel?

[Rob Browning]

David Densmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> How do I recompile the kernel?  Alternatively: Does anyone know a URL for
> some better instructions?

Install the kernel-package package, and then read
/usr/doc/kernel-package/README.gz.  This will give you a pretty
painless method to compile any kernel under Debian, and you'll end up
with a .deb file that you can use to install the kernel.  In addidion,
it makes sure that it puts everything (modules, symlinks, etc.) where
Debian expects to find them.

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Re: /etc/ppp/ip-up behavior

[Rob Browning]

"Oliver Elphick"  writes:

> In your script, simply say
> 
>  echo message >/dev/console

You could also try logger.  See "man logger".

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Re: fetchmail problem?

[Victor Torrico]

Lindsay Allen wrote:

> On Sun, 27 Jul 1997, Bob Nielsen wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> > > > Do you have an entry in /etc/inetd.conf like:-
> > > > smtpstream  tcp nowait  root/usr/sbin/tcpd
> /usr/sbin/in.smtpd
>
> [snip]
>
> > After reading the previous response, I noticed that my /etc/inetd.conf
> > did NOT have smtp defined.  Adding that also fixes the problem for me
> > (without the need for the mda line).
>
> There is/was a rogue package in the system which obliterates inetd.conf in
> the process of changing it.  This happened to me and I know of other
> cases, but I have not been able to track down the cause.
>
> So have a look at your file - if it is but a few lines long you have the
> same problem.  If indeed this is the case will you please send me a copy
> before you fix it?
>
> Lindsay

There are 56 lines in my inetd.conf file.  The smtp line was inserted by the
exim installation and reads as follows:

/snip/
#:MAIL: Mail, news and uucp services.
smtpstream  tcp nowait  mail/usr/sbin/exim exim -bs
/snip/

Do I also need another smpt line entry in this file?  As an example:

smtpstream  tcp nowait  root/usr/sbin/tcpd  /usr/sbin/in.smtpd



Victor


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Re: fetchmail problem?

[Bob Nielsen]

On Sun, 27 Jul 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> On 27 Jul, Lindsay Allen wrote:
> > 
> > On Sun, 27 Jul 1997, Victor Torrico wrote:
> > 
> >> reading message 1 (2857 bytes)
> >> fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed: Unknown error
> >> 18446744073709551615
> >> fetchmail: POP3> QUIT
> >> fetchmail: POP3< -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> >> fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from milo.cfw.com:
> >> Unknown error 18446744073709551615
> >> fetchmail: normal termination, status 9
> >> vtorrico$
> > 
> > The way I read it fetchmail is working fine as is your IPS's POP3
> > daemon.  The problem is with SMTP at your end.
> > 
> > Do you have an entry in /etc/inetd.conf like:-
> > smtpstream  tcp nowait  root/usr/sbin/tcpd  /usr/sbin/in.smtpd
> > 
> > What happens when you telnet to localhost 25?
> > 
> > Check that localhost resolves to 127.0.0.1.
> > 
> Hi,
> 
> I had the same problem. The solution was to enter -S localhost as a
> additional option to fetchmail.
> 
> I can telnet localhost 25 fine and type in a mail manualy and I can
> resolve localhost. So I don't know why this doesn't work without -S
> localhost.
> 
> However, it works, so I am happy with it :-)

I had a similar problem and was advised to add a mda entry to
.fetchmailrc, which works:

mda "formail -s procmail"

After reading the previous response, I noticed that my /etc/inetd.conf
did NOT have smtp defined.  Adding that also fixes the problem for me
(without the need for the mda line). 

Bob


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Re: Home directories

[Vadim Vygonets]

On Fri, 25 Jul 1997, Harald Helfgott wrote:

> How do I set the home directories to /usr/local instead of /home  ?

/usr/local is not the right place for home directories.  They just
don't belong in /usr.  But if you want to change the default location,
look into /etc/adduser.conf.

Vadik.

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Re: question on bo-updates: found on ldso security update

[Eloy A. Paris]

Todd Harper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

: I would say that bo-updates is a holding tank for packages intended 
: to become part of Debian-1.3.2 when it gets released.  Consider it 
: the "unstable" part of "stable" until the testing group gives those
: packages its blessing.  If you need/want any of those packages, you
: will have to install them with dpkg by hand.

Well, this bo-updates thing is definitely different to what has been
done with previous Debian stable versions (1.1 - Buzz and 1.2 - Rex).

In previous versions, each time packages were updated to solve
security problems or critical bugs, a "point" release was made.
For example, if package mount was updated from x.y-1 to x.y-2,
Debian was updated from 1.2.3 to 1.2.4. The new packages
were placed in rex-updates and there was two different trees: rex
which contained 1.2 and rex-fixed that contained 1.2 with the
updates applied, this is, it was a real 1.2.4.

I don't know why the approach seems to have changed with Bo. Anyone has
any ideas?

E.-

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Re: Mail loop

[Martin Schulze]

Bob Nielsen writes:

> >  .  What does smail -d 30 -bv [EMAIL PROTECTED] tell?
> 
> After doing the above, I get
> 
> [nielsen:nielsen]$ sudo smail -d 30 -bv [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> director user matched user nielsen
> nielsen ... deliverable
> 30 ... not deliverable: unknown user
> 
> 
> 
> That should have been -d30 not -d 30

Oh, err... every arguments from me re only a basis for interpretation.
The correct writing has to be double checked with the documentation.
:-)

Regards

Joey

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Re: fetchmail problem?

[Adrian Bridgett]

On %M %N, Victor Torrico wrote
> Hello all,

> Am using fetchmail to move mail from my ISP's POP3 server to my
> machine.   Cannot move POP3 mail, using fetchmail, from the ISP server
> to my client machine.  Here's the error message when executing the
> fetchmail command in an xterm either as a user or root:
> 

[snip -all seems fine]
> fetchmail: POP3< +OK 2857 octets
> reading message 1 (2857 bytes)
> fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed: Unknown error
> 18446744073709551615
> fetchmail: POP3> QUIT
> fetchmail: POP3< -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from milo.cfw.com:
> Unknown error 18446744073709551615
> fetchmail: normal termination, status 9
> vtorrico$

Have you made sure that "localhost" is allowed to post to your machine?
Also check that the recipient is qualified. In fact here is a bit of my
/etc/exim.conf file - it might not be right but at least it works :)

qualify_domain = wyvern
qualify_recipient = wyvern
local_domains = wyvern:localhost
 
and here is what I currently use in my .fetchmailrc (I call fetchmail
with no arguments). My POP3 name is "adrian.bridgett" and my local login
name is "apb25".

poll mail.zetnet.co.uk
 proto pop3
 user adrian.bridgett is [EMAIL PROTECTED] here
 password ***
# keep
 fetchall
 mda "exim -bm %s "
 
This posts directly to exim, and does not post to the local SMTP
connection. 

Adrian
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Re: Host/nslookup, sendmail, bash

[Bob Clark]

Tessa Lau wrote:
> 
---[ snip ]-
> 
> One more question: bash 2.0 doesn't appear to understand a command
> line
> which worked in bash 1.14:
> 
> % /bin/bash -c '((xli foo.gif); echo bar) &'
> /bin/bash: -c: line 1: missing closing `)' for arithmetic expression
> /bin/bash: -c: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `;'
> /bin/bash: -c: line 1: `((xli foo.gif); echo bar) &'
> 
> A command like this is hardcoded into Netscape to launch an external
> image
> viewer as a helper application.  Is this a bug in bash?

Yes it's a bash 2.0 bug.  It's fixed in bash 2.01 which
hasn't made its way into 1.3.1 but there's a working debian
package in master's incoming.

> 
> (Debian 1.3, haven't upgraded to 1.3.1 yet)
> 
> Thanks!
> --Tessa
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Re: X-windows/Trio64/16 bit colours

[Oleg Krivosheev]

Hi there
> 
> Please, is there someone here that has an Debian box, whith X-Windows
> (Xfree 3.3) and an Trio 64 video card, runing whith 16 bit colours?

yes, i am

works just fine in 16bpp, 1024x768.

> 
> I ask becouse I have problems to work whith that configuration (in eight
> bit colours I have not problem) :the resolution go down very much and
> the screen flicker.

looks like high resolution 16bpp asks for too much bandwidth.

> Whith this configuration, but using RedHat 4.2, I don't have this
> problems and the system go OK.

hmm...

i can send you my X config file.

OK


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Re: shutdown doesn't umount properly one of my partitions

[Michael Harnois]

Dany Dionne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Anyone know how to fix the problem?

When this happens, it means that some program still has a file open on 
the drive in question at the time the unmounting is supposed to take
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fetchmail problem?

[Victor Torrico]

Hello all,

 I'm completely green behind the ears when it comes to email setup.
Trying to get an exmh mail sytem established on my machine.

 I've installed the following debian GNU/Linux packages on an i586
machine:  exim, eximon, fetchmail, metamail, mime-support,  mh, and
exmh.  Only connected to internet via PPP to an ISP who uses POP3 for
mail.  Currently using Netscape Communicator for mail which works fine,
however, I'd like to switch to exmh.

 Have been able to get everything setup including mh using the info in
the great!! online mh book which I downloaded.  It's in HTML format and
covers mh, mh-e, xmh and exmh.  It's covered by the GNU license and
should definitely be added to the Debian distribution.  See
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/book/browhelp.htm

Am using fetchmail to move mail from my ISP's POP3 server to my
machine.   Cannot move POP3 mail, using fetchmail, from the ISP server
to my client machine.  Here's the error message when executing the
fetchmail command in an xterm either as a user or root:

vtorrico$ fetchmail -v -u vtorrico -a -p pop3 milo.cfw.com
Enter password for [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
fetchmail: 3.9.6 querying milo.cfw.com (protocol POP3) at Sun Jul 27
06:51:48 1997
fetchmail: POP3< +OK QUALCOMM Pop server derived from UCB (version
2.1.4-R3) at milo.cfw.com starting.
fetchmail: POP3> USER vtorrico
fetchmail: POP3< +OK Password required for vtorrico.
fetchmail: POP3> PASS *
fetchmail: POP3< +OK vtorrico has 14 message(s) (29276 octets).
fetchmail: selecting default folder
fetchmail: POP3> STAT
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 14 29276
fetchmail: 14 messages at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
fetchmail: POP3> RETR 1
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 2857 octets
reading message 1 (2857 bytes)
fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed: Unknown error
18446744073709551615
fetchmail: POP3> QUIT
fetchmail: POP3< -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from milo.cfw.com:
Unknown error 18446744073709551615
fetchmail: normal termination, status 9
vtorrico$

Please, if this can be solved, I should be up and running in exmh.

Victor



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Re: Bugs in 1.3.1 Debian packages

[Jaldhar H. Vyas]

On Sun, 27 Jul 1997, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:

> 
> the Debian bug tracking system at http://www.debian.org/bugs.  

Sorry that should be Bugs not bugs.  So http://www.debian.org/Bugs is the
correct URL.

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Re: device access (specifically ttySx)

[Ralph Winslow]

Paul Miller wrote:
> 
> George Bonser wrote:
> >
> > Onw way is to have those ports owned by certain groups.  You then
> > place
> > the users that you want to allow access into the group for that port.
> >
> how do you do that?  mc won't make any changes.. should I just use
> chown/grp/mod?

Try the attached (if you have perl on your system).
> 
> Paul
> 
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#!/usr/bin/perl
# chuser - move selected users to a selected new group
# rjw - 19970726

if($#ARGV < 0 || $ARGV[0] =~ /^-[hH?]/)
{ die "chuser: Usage: chuser \n"; };
if($<) { die "chuser: You must be root to run chuser\n"; };
$PWD = '/etc/passwd';
$PWDnew = $PWD.$$;
$GRP = '/etc/group';
$GRPnew = $GRP.$$;
foreach $grp (@ARGV)
{ open(GRP,$GRP) || die "chuser: can't rred $GRP: $!\n";
open(GRPnew,'>'.$GRPnew) || die "chuser: can't write $GRPnew: $!\n";
foreach $curgrp (@groups = )
{ if($Debug) { print $curgrp; };
print GRPnew $curgrp;
($grid,$x,$grno,$grname) = split(/:/,$curgrp);
if(/^$grp:/) { $sawGRP++; $grpnum = $grno; }
else { $grpno{$grno} = $grid; };
}; close(GRP);
if($sawGRP) { close(GRPnew); unlink($GRPnew); }
else { unlink($GRP) || die "chuser: unlink $GRP: $!\n";
for($grpidx = 10; $grpno{$grpidx}; ) { $grpidx += 10; };
print GRPnew "$grp:$grpidx:$grp Group\n";
close(GRPnew) || die "chuser: closeing GRPnew $GRPnew: $!\n";
$grpnum = $grpidx;
link($GRPnew,$GRP) || die "chuser: linking $GRP $GRPnew: $!\n";
unlink($GRPnew) || die "chuser: unlinking $GRPnew: $!\n";
};
open(PWD,$PWD) || die "chuser: can't read $PWD: $!\n";
open(PWDnew,'>'.$PWDnew) || die "chuser: can't write $PWDnew: $!\n";
foreach $usr (@users = )
{ if($usr =~ /^root:/) { print PWDnew $usr; next; };
if($usr =~ /^uucp:/) { print PWDnew $usr; next; };
($id,$x,$uidx,$grps,$name,$home,$shl) = split(/:/,$usr);
print $usr;
print "$id in|out for $grp? "; chop($reply = );
print PWDnew ($reply =~ /^[YyIi]/)?
  "$id:x:$uidx:$grps,$grpidx:$name:$home:$shl\n":$usr;
}; close(PWD) || die "Can't close $PWD: $!\n";
unlink($PWD) || die "Can't unlink $PWD: $!\n";
close(PWDnew) || die "Can't close $PWDnew: $!\n";
link($PWDnew,$PWD) || die "Can't link $PWDnew to $PWD: $!\n";
unlink($PWDnew) || die "Can't unlink $PWDnew: $!\n";
};

Re: exmh mail?

[mark powers]

: Francis Swasey wrote:
: 
: > If you choose to use mh, you need to run (Oh rats, brain
: > failure--begins
: > with the letter "f" and replaces the popclient program) to pull the
: > mail
: > from your ISP into your /var/spool/mail/USERID mailbox.  Once the mail
: > is
: > there, mh/exmh can read it into your personal space.
 
: Hello,
 
: Do you think it is the debian package "fetchmail" that you refer to
: above?
 
: Victor

Or fetchpop, which I don't believe is packaged in .deb form (yet?) but is 
quite nice anyhow. Fairly simple POP client (don't think it can do multiple 
POP boxes), but it runs as a daemon, and can use procmail directly for mail 
delivery. I start it up from my .xsession...

fftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/linux/system/mail/pop/fetchpop-1.9.tar.gz if memory 
serves. :)


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Re: Sendmail broken (Debian 1.3)

[Graham Hughes]

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-

"D. W. Wieboldt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I just built a new Debian 1.3 system from cdrom.  Lots of things are running
> just fine, but somehow sendmail doesn't work.   I want sendmail on this one
> so I can build a beeper gateway :-)  Does anybody have any clues about what
> I should be looking for?

Aah.  OK, here's the deal.  Sendmail is not hanging.  It is trying to
do a local DNS lookup.  Since you probably aren't connected to the
'net 24/7, it spends a couple of minutes timing out.

This happens to me a lot.  You have two options: put your hostname and
IP address in /etc/hosts, or convince sendmail that it really doesn't
need to do a DNS lookup.  The second I don't remember how to do, but I
think you can manage it from the M4 stuff (which is good; .cf files
are very very ugly).

LPRng does this too, I note, but it isn't nearly as easy to fix.
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from stddisclaim import footer
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Version: 2.6.3
Charset: noconv
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HZvRMwfRZIvsrgFsSKz6e0YgF2Djnslgx+FUn63+wF2YeUhL4oR6JW+cZC9B4KGh
ZTWZi/MMZxXRjhDiFFVYiTfVatxfAeox0cpkhZTLcl13p8c/DIf8bW1iUT4e3n1d
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2.1 Kernels

[Alex Monaghan]

Does the 1.3.1 Debian release come with any of the 2.1 kernels and updated 
compilers needed to compile them ?

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Re: Apache + CGI

[Jakob Borg]

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-

On Fri, 25 Jul 1997, Glynn Clements wrote:

> Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 14:26:23 +0100
> From: Glynn Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Jakob Borg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: "" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Apache + CGI
> 
> 
> Jakob Borg wrote:
> 
> > I want to enable the users of my webserver to use certain CGI-scripts
> > (provided by me) by using mod_include.
> > To do that, one would use the tag ,
> > but one could also use the .
> > That last possiblity is what I want to eliminate. One way would be to
> > remove /bin/sh, which is out of the question. Any other suggestions?
> 
> Re-write mod_include to provide extra `Options' directives, to
> complement `Includes' and `IncludesNOEXEC', or contact
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] suggesting that the feature be added.

I got the impression that IncludesNOEXEC was the feature I needed and
solved my problem. I (my users) can still use the #include virtual="" to
user "legitimate" CGIs. Is that not so?

> Glynn Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

==
* Jakob Borg
  E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: exmh mail?

[Victor Torrico]

Francis Swasey wrote:

> If you choose to use mh, you need to run (Oh rats, brain
> failure--begins
> with the letter "f" and replaces the popclient program) to pull the
> mail
> from your ISP into your /var/spool/mail/USERID mailbox.  Once the mail
> is
> there, mh/exmh can read it into your personal space.
>


Hello,

Do you think it is the debian package "fetchmail" that you refer to
above?

Victor


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Re: exmh mail?

[Francis Swasey]

On Sat, 26 Jul 1997, Victor Torrico wrote:

> Francis Swasey wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Do you think it is the debian package "fetchmail" that you refer to
> above?

Yes, fetchmail it is.

Frank


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exmh mail?

[Victor Torrico]

Hello All,

I'm using the debian package exmh.  Only connected to an ISP with pop3
mail using PPP.  Do not get incoming mail into the ~/Mail/inbox
directory.  Haven't tried outgoing mail.

Mail works fine using Netscape Communicator but I would like to switch
to exmh.

Read the docs but there's so much info there I didn't know where to
start, but then I'm easily confused. :)

Is there a mail setup to get mail going to the right places?

What must I configure to get exmh mail working?

Victor




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Re: "From:" Field in Mutt and (Ex)mh

[Stefan Baums]

On Jul 28, Alexander Koch wrote
> Quoting Stefan Baums ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > > You surely want to put something like
> > > my_hdr From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stefan Baums)
> > > in your ~/.muttrc - internally Mutt will do the "Name <>" change.
> > Nope. No effect. (I tried "localsite stud.uni-goettingen.de": no effect
> > either.)
> 
> I had to admit I can't really believe you... Sorry.
> Besides, localsites only affects "set localsignature=". Only.
> What're you doing there, it works like a charm here? Did you quit Mutt
> to reload the changes? :->
> 
> Maybe you want to do a "set edit_hdrs" and edit the From: manually, see if
> it goes through you mta unchanged.

Ahm... sorry. Now it works. (This message is sent by Mutt; nice prog.) I 
fiddled around a bit with .muttrc, tried to start Mutt from Rxvt and from 
Afterstep's Wharf, and now it's ok (from both Rxvt and Wharf). No idea why it 
didn't work at once.

Anyway, thanks a lot.

Greetings,
Stefan
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Re: X-windows/Trio64/16 bit colours

[Magossa'nyi A'rpa'd]

On Sat, 26 Jul 1997, Oleg Krivosheev wrote:

> > Please, is there someone here that has an Debian box, whith X-Windows
> > (Xfree 3.3) and an Trio 64 video card, runing whith 16 bit colours?
> 
> yes, i am
> 
> works just fine in 16bpp, 1024x768.
> 
> > 
> > I ask becouse I have problems to work whith that configuration (in eight
> > bit colours I have not problem) :the resolution go down very much and
> > the screen flicker.
> 
> looks like high resolution 16bpp asks for too much bandwidth.
Because the newer S3 servers limit the bandwith in 16bpp. There is a
constant in the server which can be increased. Unfortunately it is very
demanding to recompile the X server. Because that I've made a binary patch
to mine (very ugly thing to do, but for me it works). I can dig out how to
do that patch to your server, or send my binary and config file.
Warning: the XF86 people had a good reason to do that limitation. You can
burn out your ramdac with this patch, if you are unlucky enough.

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home directories

[Harald Helfgott]

My largest partition is at /usr/local. That's why.

--Harald


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Re: device access (specifically ttySx)

[George Bonser]

Onw way is to have those ports owned by certain groups.  You then place
the users that you want to allow access into the group for that port.


On Sat, 26 Jul 1997, Paul Miller wrote:

> how do I allow/deny access to device files (such as /dev/ttyS1)?
> 
> 
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Re: KDE install for Debian

[Marc Saric]

Joey Hess wrote:
> 
> Miguel A. Figueroa wrote:
> > least the kwm, kpanel etc) either freeze or completely die. Does

> What versions of kde are you using on the debian and red hat machines?
> 
> I am the kde maintainer for debian, and I try to keep the package
> reasonably
> up to date, though it's often a bit behind the rpm.
Well, after I have read that message from Miguel Figueroa, I´ve
downloaded the actual copy of the Debian-kde-packag, but it is the same
with my system. kfm, the panel and the window-manager freeze after a
very short time (especially when using context menus on the desktop).
I am using Debian 1.24 (from a Cheapbytes CD) on a P133 machine.

I am using the following archives:

libkde0_0_10_01-1_i386.deb
libgif2_2_3-1_i386.deb.gif
qt1_1_2-3.deb

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Re: X Windows

[Randy Stocking]

Are you sure it's X trying to access /dev/dsp and not your window
manager (e.g. FvwmAudio module)?

Regards,
Randy

Jason Gunthorpe writes:
> Hi,
> 
> Why does X windows try to open /dev/dsp when it loads? I don't have my
> sound module configured right so this causes a kernel message..
> 
> Also, during load it flashes something about Xauthority bad add command..
> This is a somewhat older XFree 3.3, it's a version or two behind what is
> in hamm now..
> 
> Thanks,
> Jason


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Bugs in 1.3.1 Debian packages

[Carl Fink]

I send a letter to this list earlier, complaining about a problem after
upgrading inn.  I have now figured out the problem.

Consulting the inn FAQ, I find that the error I saw is caused by a
corrupt history.dir file.  Theoretically running makehistory as I did
should have cleared this, but it didn't.  In the end I had to delete
history.dir and replace it with the "clean" one from the package.

Really, I don't think the inn package should corrupt history.dir, and
would consider this a bug.

Another bug for the maintainer:  the new ppp package prevented me from
running the pon script as non-root.  It happens that I knew how to fix
this (chmod the pppd executable to make it runnably by mere mortals),
but a beginner would be stumped.

And another:  upgrading the DOSEMU package not only replaced my
/etc/dosemu/conf file, but *wiped it out*, forcing me to reconfigure
from scratch.

I have good backups, but again someone else might have had the program
rendered unusable.  I consider all three of these significant bugs.
The first one wasted a full day of my time, not something I consider
trivial.

Thanks for listening.
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FAT32 support

[Shaleh]

What is the status of FAT32 support in Linux (Debian)??


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Buying CD writer - any suggestions

[David Oswald]

Hello all...

   I in the market for buying a CDROM writer for archival of data. At
this time Im thinking of buying a YAMAHA CDR400TX (which come with some
windows package called CD Pro). But this machine will be used on my
debian box - and obviously I need to know if it works well...

any comments appreciated.

PLEASE - Could all replies be sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (as well
as the user group)

Thanx in Advance - Dave ...


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Problems with the digest mailing & CC:Mail

[David Oswald]

Hello all ...

I read the digest version of this groups mailings through cc:Mail and
often I get too many messages within a digest mailing. CC:Mail will not
permit me to read the last few notes within a given digest. Does any
body else out there have this problem.

PLEASE - Could all replies to this message be sent to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (as well as the user group). As I may not be
able to read your reply/solution if it is near the bottom of a digest...

Thanx in Advance - Dave ...


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ftpd(netstd2.09-2): File permission defaults for ftp uploads?

[Jean Orloff]

This is an old problem I have suffered from since the beginning, but never
cared to talk about. Still it is annoying.

I'm running the ftp daemon that comes with netstd 2.09-2. The problem is that
independently of the client, a file uploaded on this server is not readable by
others. You have to issue a "chmod" which many windows client a reluctant to
do. This is very inconvenient for many things, like uplodaing web files.

The bestial solution might be to upgrade to wu-ftpd, but I would rather not.
Any workaround known?

Amities,

Jean Orloff
+   +   +   +   +   +   +   +   ++
+ Tel:(33)450.09.16.75 Fax:(33)450.27.94.95 http://lapphp0.in2p3.fr/~orloff/ +
+   +   +   +   +   +   +   +   ++
"The doctors X-rayed my head and found nothing."
Baseball great Dizzy Dean explaining how he felt after being hit on the head by
a ball in the 1934 World Series
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Re: Where is Netscape Communicator?

[Matt Kazmar]

On Fri, 25 Jul 1997, Pedro I. Sanchez wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to download the latest beta of Communicator (b6 I believe)
> but I can't find it in any of the ftp[12..].netscape.com sites (actually
> it seems I can't find any unix version at all!). Can anybody tell me
> where is it?
> 
> -- 
> Pedro I. Sanchez
> 

I found the version I'm using in 
ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/communicator/4.01/4.01b6/english/unix/other/

matt

 


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Mail loop

[Bob Nielsen]

I tried sending mail to myself by smtp from another system.  It was
received, but keeps trying to send to itself, until finally being rejected
for excessive loops:


Received: from nielsen(really [198.68.42.82]) by nielsen
via in.smtpd with esmtp
id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sun, 27 Jul 1997 12:12:03 -0700 (MST)
(Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #2 built 1996-Nov-26)
Received: from nielsen(really [198.68.42.82]) by nielsen
via in.smtpd with esmtp
id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sun, 27 Jul 1997 12:12:02 -0700 (MST)
(Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #2 built 1996-Nov-26)
Received: from nielsen(really [198.68.42.82]) by nielsen
via in.smtpd with esmtp
id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sun, 27 Jul 1997 12:12:01 -0700 (MST)
(Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #2 built 1996-Nov-26)
Received: from nielsen(really [198.68.42.82]) by nielsen
via in.smtpd with esmtp
id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sun, 27 Jul 1997 12:12:00 -0700 (MST)
(Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #2 built 1996-Nov-26)


ad infinitum (the last in the  string showed the mail being received
from the remote system).  

Does anyone know what I am missing here?

Bob


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Re: home directories

[Stuart Marshall]

Hi,

Just make /home a soft link to /usr/local/home.

as root: (with nobody logged in!)

copy /home to /usr/local/home:

cd /
tar cf - /home | ( cd /usr/local; tar xpf - )

check that it copied okay:

ls -l /usr/local/home

remove and relink:

rm -rf /home
ln -s /usr/local/home /home

that's all,
Stuart

-
-

Harald Helfgott wrote:

My largest partition is at /usr/local. That's why.

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Re: "From:" Field in Mutt and (Ex)mh

[Stefan Baums]

Alexander Koch wrote:

> You surely want to put something like
> 
> my_hdr From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stefan Baums)
> 
> in your ~/.muttrc - internally Mutt will do the "Name <>" change.

Nope. No effect. (I tried "localsite stud.uni-goettingen.de": no effect
either.)

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Universitaet Goettingen
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Re: X-windows/Trio64/16 bit colours

[dada]

Oleg Krivosheev wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Sat, 26 Jul 1997, Magossa'nyi A'rpa'd wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 26 Jul 1997, Oleg Krivosheev wrote:
> >
> > > > Please, is there someone here that has an Debian box, whith X-Windows
> > > > (Xfree 3.3) and an Trio 64 video card, runing whith 16 bit colours?
> > >
> > > yes, i am
> > >
> > > works just fine in 16bpp, 1024x768.
> > >
> > > >
> > > > I ask becouse I have problems to work whith that configuration (in eight
> > > > bit colours I have not problem) :the resolution go down very much and
> > > > the screen flicker.
> > >
> > > looks like high resolution 16bpp asks for too much bandwidth.
> > Because the newer S3 servers limit the bandwith in 16bpp. There is a
> > constant in the server which can be increased. Unfortunately it is very
> > demanding to recompile the X server. Because that I've made a binary patch
> > to mine (very ugly thing to do, but for me it works). I can dig out how to
> > do that patch to your server, or send my binary and config file.
> > Warning: the XF86 people had a good reason to do that limitation. You can
> > burn out your ramdac with this patch, if you are unlucky enough.
> 
> hmm...
> 
> The original claim was it works on the same hardware
> under RH 4.2. Or i misunderstood something?

it's the same machine...I don't change nothing.

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Re: educational software on Debian

[Carlo U. Segre]

On Fri, 25 Jul 1997, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
>   I'm looking for educational software for Linux, specially
> for Debian, for children aging 8-14.
>   Does somebody know something?
>   The idea is to set a computer teaching linux lab for
> children. 
>   I would like to do this with linux. Does somebody have
> some experience with this? Any hints/points will be welcome!
> 

The only thing I can think of right now is the ucblogo package.  As I
recall, the logo interpreter was supposed to be good for introducing
children to programming.  I have no experience with this package, however,
so I cannot tell you how complete it might be.

Cheers,

Carlo


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Re: FAT32 support

[Lawrence]

Shaleh wrote:
> 
> What is the status of FAT32 support in Linux (Debian)??

go to www.linuxhq.com and there is a patch for 2.0.29/30

Lawrence


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Re: fetchmail problem?

[Lindsay Allen]

On Sun, 27 Jul 1997, Victor Torrico wrote:

[snip]
> vtorrico$ fetchmail -v -u vtorrico -a -p pop3 milo.cfw.com
> Enter password for [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> fetchmail: 3.9.6 querying milo.cfw.com (protocol POP3) at Sun Jul 27
> 06:51:48 1997
> fetchmail: POP3< +OK QUALCOMM Pop server derived from UCB (version
> 2.1.4-R3) at milo.cfw.com starting.
> fetchmail: POP3> USER vtorrico
> fetchmail: POP3< +OK Password required for vtorrico.
> fetchmail: POP3> PASS *
> fetchmail: POP3< +OK vtorrico has 14 message(s) (29276 octets).
> fetchmail: selecting default folder
> fetchmail: POP3> STAT
> fetchmail: POP3< +OK 14 29276
> fetchmail: 14 messages at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> fetchmail: POP3> RETR 1
> fetchmail: POP3< +OK 2857 octets
> reading message 1 (2857 bytes)
> fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed: Unknown error
> 18446744073709551615
> fetchmail: POP3> QUIT
> fetchmail: POP3< -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from milo.cfw.com:
> Unknown error 18446744073709551615
> fetchmail: normal termination, status 9
> vtorrico$

The way I read it fetchmail is working fine as is your IPS's POP3
daemon.  The problem is with SMTP at your end.

Do you have an entry in /etc/inetd.conf like:-
smtpstream  tcp nowait  root/usr/sbin/tcpd  /usr/sbin/in.smtpd

What happens when you telnet to localhost 25?

Check that localhost resolves to 127.0.0.1.

HTH
Lindsay

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Re: dosemu without dos being installed?

[Randy Edwards]

On Sat, 26 Jul 1997, Alan Eugene Davis wrote:

> Can dosemu be installed if DOS is not installed?

   Yes.  I run with nothing but ext2 partitions on this machine and have
dosemu installed.  However, as I understand it (read: not sure 'cause I
haven't messed with it much), fdos' redirection of ext2 subdirs as DOS
drives doesn't work properly (a "real" DOS supposedly does).

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Re: X-capable mail reader

[mark powers]

Hi folks - couldn't find Stephen's original message in my folder, so pardon 
the indirect reply.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] sez:
: Stephen> Currently I'm using xmh and it's just not cutting the 200+ 
: Stephen> emails I see a day.  I like the MH features, I just need 
: Stephen> multiple inboxes, which it doesn't do :(

: I use Gnus, the Emacs mail/news reader.  It handles large amounts of 
: mail very nicely.

: Gnus can sort incoming mail into different folders (aka "groups"). 

Hi Stephen, I'm seeing an average of 200 to 300 mails a day myself - there are 
a few different ways to handle sorting and suchlike. GNUS has a lot of nice 
things about it, though I don't think it does any sorting functions for MH 
mail. (correct me if I'm mistaken here) Though, the nnmh method works quite 
well if you have an external mail sorting app (such as procmail). I haven't 
tried GNUS/nnmh with slocal, so I can't speak to that.

Exmh is worth looking into also. Besides having a prettier (tcl/tk based) 
interface than xmh it provides a lot of advanced features, including sorting 
mail into multiple inboxes on inc. (Look for inc styles "presort", "multidrop" 
or "presortmulti" under "Incorporate Mail" in the Preferences dialog.)

Other cool things about exmh: Easy handling of nested folders, good PGP and 
MIME support, RichText mail, X-Face support, scans for URI's in message body 
and  X-URL headers and launching a w3 browser accordingly, provides handy UI 
for MH pick and for searching all mails in all folders with Glimpse, etc.

Cheers,

 - Mark Powers - "living inside the system is like riding
through the countryside in a bus driven
by a maniac bent on suicide." - Thomas Pynchon



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lilo/boot disk

[Paul Miller]

How do I create my own boot disk?  The one that I created during the
installation doesn't have 2.0.30 nor my scsi parameters...  I tried
running lilo with 'boot=/dev/fd0' in the lilo.conf and it errored out..

-Paul


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Re: Host/nslookup, sendmail, bash

[Steve Hsieh]

> I'm having problems configuring sendmail to deliver mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I've configured my domain as "cs.washington.edu", with a search path (in
> resolv.conf) of cs.washington.edu, washington.edu, and edu.  However,
> sendmail doesn't appear to try other entries in the search path because it
> bounces the message with an error like "host cs.cs.washington.edu not
> found."  How can I fix that?

I don't know the answer to this...but did you try removing your domain
entry from your resolv.conf file to see if that made a difference (so that
there are only nameserver lines and a search line)?   On my system, those
two don't work too well together.  In the man page, it says they are
mutually exclusive, but then I read from someone else that they aren't on
linux.  In any case, having only a search line works for me.

> Also, does anyone know why Debian makes nslookup a wrapper for host, and
> how I can install a "real" version of nslookup?

The real nslookup is part of the 'bind' package.  


> One more question: bash 2.0 doesn't appear to understand a command line
> which worked in bash 1.14:
> 
> % /bin/bash -c '((xli foo.gif); echo bar) &'
> /bin/bash: -c: line 1: missing closing `)' for arithmetic expression
> /bin/bash: -c: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `;'
> /bin/bash: -c: line 1: `((xli foo.gif); echo bar) &'
> 
> A command like this is hardcoded into Netscape to launch an external image
> viewer as a helper application.  Is this a bug in bash?

Not being a bash user, I don't know the answer to this. If spaces between
parens shouldn't matter, then it is a bug...
Note that /bin/bash -c '( (xli foo.gif); echo bar) &'  *does* work!
^^^

Since this is hardcoded, the other thing you could do as a kluge is to
remove the inner parens as well and replace them with spaces.

Steve



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Re: Mail loop

[Martin Schulze]

Bob Nielsen writes:
> I tried sending mail to myself by smtp from another system.  It was
> received, but keeps trying to send to itself, until finally being rejected
> for excessive loops:

This excerpt doesn't show enough configuration:

 . How is your local system called?

 . Does Smail know that [EMAIL PROTECTED] should be
   delivered locally?
   Probably not.  Why?
   -> check out /etc/smail/config:hostname
   -> check out /etc/smail/config:more_hostnames
   -> check out /etc/smil/paths

 .  What does smail -d 30 -bv [EMAIL PROTECTED] tell?

Regards

Joey

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Re: The Gimp?

[Andreas Tille]

On Sat, 26 Jul 1997, Remco van de Meent wrote:

> Another option is to get the .tar.gz file from the source distribution and
> compile Gimp your self. I did, using just libc5 (with LinuxThreads
> installed).
I did so but without LinuxThreads installed. I hadn't any trouble so far.
It is possible that I would run in trouble because of the lack of
LinuxThreads?  What kind of program/package is LinuxThreads and why
could this be neccessary for "The Gimp".

Greetings 

Andreas.


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Re: Mail loop

[Bob Nielsen]

On Sun, 27 Jul 1997, Martin Schulze wrote:

> Bob Nielsen writes:
> > I tried sending mail to myself by smtp from another system.  It was
> > received, but keeps trying to send to itself, until finally being rejected
> > for excessive loops:
> 
> This excerpt doesn't show enough configuration:
> 
>  . How is your local system called?
> 
>  . Does Smail know that [EMAIL PROTECTED] should be
>delivered locally?
>Probably not.  Why?
>-> check out /etc/smail/config:hostname
>-> check out /etc/smail/config:more_hostnames
>-> check out /etc/smil/paths

Bingo!  I needed to run smailconfig, which created the /etc/smail/config
file (I had previously done this, but the file wasn't there when I 
checked). 

> 
>  .  What does smail -d 30 -bv [EMAIL PROTECTED] tell?

After doing the above, I get

[nielsen:nielsen]$ sudo smail -d 30 -bv [EMAIL PROTECTED]
director user matched user nielsen
nielsen ... deliverable
30 ... not deliverable: unknown user



That should have been -d30 not -d 30

All is well now.  Thanks.

Bob


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Tucson, AZ  AMPRnet:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: The Gimp?

[Remco van de Meent]

On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, Andreas Tille wrote:

 : On Sat, 26 Jul 1997, Remco van de Meent wrote:
 : 
 : > Another option is to get the .tar.gz file from the source distribution and
 : > compile Gimp your self. I did, using just libc5 (with LinuxThreads
 : > installed).
 : I did so but without LinuxThreads installed. I hadn't any trouble so far.

Maybe you installed pthreads instead?

 : It is possible that I would run in trouble because of the lack of
 : LinuxThreads?  What kind of program/package is LinuxThreads and why
 : could this be neccessary for "The Gimp".

LinuxThreads provides an almost kernel-level of threading.
I don't know if Gimp really needs it, but I saw it mentioned in the
configure-script.

Remco

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Re: home directories

[Clint Adams]

> My largest partition is at /usr/local. That's why.

Make /home a symbolic link to somewhere on that partition then.


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Re: Mail loop

[George Bonser]

Add nielsen.tus.primenet.com to your more_hostnames: line in
/etc/smail/config

more_hostnames=nielsen.tus.primenet.com




> Received: from nielsen(really [198.68.42.82]) by nielsen
>   via in.smtpd with esmtp
>   id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>   for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sun, 27 Jul 1997 12:12:00 -0700 (MST)
>   (Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #2 built 1996-Nov-26)
> 
> 
> ad infinitum (the last in the  string showed the mail being received
> from the remote system).  
> 
> Does anyone know what I am missing here?
> 
> Bob
> 
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Re: gzipped fonts..

[Civ Kevin F. Havener]

They were previously compressed (*.Z).  Now the XFree group uses the gnu 
compression tool (gzip/*.gz).  The compress algorithm has some 
copyright/distribution problems--gzip doesn't.  The choice is made by the 
XFree foundation, not debian, though it makes better sense for debian, too.

Yes this did cause some problems for my commercial X-server (AX 3.1).  I 
had to gunzip all the fonts in each directory, and since my debian system 
doesn't have the compress utility, I couldn't get any of the space back.  
Xi Graphics say they are working on a fix.

On Thu, 24 Jul 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Hello all!
> 
> I noticed that the majority of the X-windows fonts are gzipped.
> Has this always been the case?  I'd imagine that xfree86 supports
> this.. but, some of the other "commercial" X-window servers may
> not.  Should there be some configuration option during installation
> for choosing between gzipped and non-gzipped fonts?
> 
> Richard.. 
> 
> -
> Richard Dansereau
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> Electrical and Computer Engineering - University of Manitoba - Canada
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Re: newsx -- not with inn?

[Adrian Bridgett]

On %M %N, Carl Fink wrote
> According to dselect, newsx works only with cnews, not with inn (which
> I'm running).  Is this correct?

I have installed version 0.8 (not packaged) and the man page says:

   -c, --cnews
  Set to C News mode  as  opposed  to  INN.  Controls
  details regarding handling of spool and lock files.

   -i, --inn
  Set to INN mode as  opposed  to  C  News.  Controls
  details regarding handling of spool and lock files.
 
IIRC the maintainer of newsx (Christoph Lameter) said that he was
dropping the package. I'm willing to maintain it (in a month or so
because I'm busy ATM) - particularly if I use it. Currently I use
suck/rpost to receive/send news (about 200/5 articles a day respectively)
- does anyone know a faster way to do this?

Adrian
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