Re: Why Debian?

[Marcus Brinkmann]

On Aug 07, George Bonser wrote:
> 
> I will say this to ANYONE.  Debian is the very BEST linux distribution
> once you get to know it.  I would not use any other.  The two things that
> is needs polish on are the package management interface (being worked on)
> and a nice default X setup with some GUI administrative tools. Are
> RedHat's admin tools free?  Can we just package them up as .deb's?

NoNoNoNoNoNo!

Debian will have its own ADMIN tool, and from the messages at
debian-admintool, this will be superior to any other tool out there
(perhaps).

At the moment, debian-admintool is silent, because all are in deep thought.

Marcus

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Re: man gives segmentation fault

[Falk Hueffner]

On Fri, 8 Aug 1997 05:50:27 +1000 (EST), you wrote:

>> > I am running Debian 1.3.1, and recently trying to run man gives a 
>> > segmentation fault when run as a normal user (but not when run as root):
>> > 
>> > % man man
>> > Segmentation fault
>> 
>> This happened to me too.  I did not try any of the diagnostics you describe.
>> I manually ftp'ed the man-db package and reinstalled it with dpkg -i.  
>> I dont know what caused the problem, but that fixed it.
>
>I had this problem, it occurred when I Ctl-C'd man while it was trying to
>update it various caches and indicies. I then strace'd man (while I was
>root), and noticed that after a certain cache file man failed. If you can
>find out which file it is, delete it. Man has been working fine for me,
>since then.

I had the same problem. It can be probably fixed easiest by running the
script from cron-monthly (or was it cron-weekly) that cleans up and
rebuilds the man database as root.

If it is really caused by Ctrl-c, somebody should probably file a bug
report against it. Maybe it can be fixed.


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disabling user mail

[Paul Miller]

I want all users in the 'mail' group to be able to send/recieve mail. 
So, for example, if someone sends a message to someone not in the group,
it will be returned as unknown.

-Paul


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Re: disabling user mail

[Martin Schulze]

> 
> I want all users in the 'mail' group to be able to send/recieve mail. 
> So, for example, if someone sends a message to someone not in the group,
> it will be returned as unknown.

Write your own local transport or try to work with procmail as
local delivery agent.

Joey

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Re: Modprobe error and kerneld question

[Shaleh]

> Don't get me wrong, but maybe you don't use the mount command the right
> way ?
> 
> To mount a CD-Rom you have to use something like mount -t iso9660
> /dev/hdb /cdrom
> 
> To mount a fat Partition mount -t fat /dev/hda6 /mnt

You are right to ask -- no offense taken.  My understanding is that by
setting fstab up correctly I do not need those commandline params.  Do
not quote me, but my fstab reads something like:

...
/dev/cdrom  /cdrom  iso9660 user,noauto
/dev/fd0/floppy msdos   conv=auto
...

I know that is not quite right but I do not have Internet access fully
setup yet.  When I compile the fs into the kernel these settings work,
when I make the fs's modules I have to insmod first.


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Re: Modprobe error and kerneld question

[Damir J. Naden]

Hi, everyone --

I am having the same problem as the original poster; my kerneld (yes, I
_do_ have _only_ auto enabled in /etc/conf.modules) doesn't want to
mount the floppy in msdos automagically. However, when I do (as root)
insmod /lib/modules/2.0.30/fs/fat.o ;followed by
insmod /lib/modules/2.0.30/fs/msdos.o I can mount the floppy using -t
msdos option. I have tried and can _not_ mount the floppy even after the
insmod ../fat.o is executed, if it isn't followed by insmod.../msdos.o
command. I have both fs types configured as modules, and I have done so
in 2.0.27 kernel (but I can't prove it anymore :-)) without problems I'm
having now.
Maybe this is a feature, that you _have_ to build the fat support right
in...
Just my 2 cents

DamirN


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Why Is PPP Restarting Cron?

[Paul Serice]

Every day, cron is restarted twice.  Once by the file that is
supposed to restart it and once by /etc/cron.daily/ppp.  Is this the
right behavior?

Paul Serice


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Running GIMP as a user

[Michael Stutz]

Certain X apps like GIMP only seem to like being run as root (in this case I
can run GIMP as a user but I cannot open any files, nor can I perform
editing tasks on a new one).

What is the reasoning behind this? Also, is there a way to change this so
that I can run this software as a user?

Thanks.


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Re: Basic networking setup

[Paul Wade]

I have 2 cards of that type, but what I did was boot dos from floppy and
then run the card setup utility to turn off pnp and set the ioport and irq
values. Then I ran modconf to install the ne module. They work fine that
way. I only use isapnp on devices that don't allow you to explicity set
the values. With win95, I do the same. I would be more comfortable with
pnp if there were only pnp cards installed in a system. Otherwise, you
have to be sure the pnp auto configurator knows what resources are
reserved by other hardware. I have a hand scanner and a speech recognizer
that are not detected by w95 or pnp. The cards are jumpered for DMA and
IRQ selection. A software test would have to know what is needed to
generate these signals in order to figure out which lines are selected.

On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Dominic Davidson wrote:

> I've been trying to set up a *very* simple network with two peers
> recently. This is my first exploration into ethernet related issues
> under Linux.
> 
> Before I get started properly, the FM's I have read are the NAG,
> NET-3-HOWTO and the Ethernet-HOWTO.
> 
> The cards I am using are two NE2000 clones, manufactured by Trust and
> with a RealTek chipset (according to Win95). They are PNP, but isapnp
> seems to work, as does modprobe ne. We are connecting via 10Base2 (the
> cable has been checked and is fine, and the fact that isapnp and
> modprobe don't fail suggests that the cards are OK. The ne2k diagnostic
> program finds the card too. The T pieces and terminators were brand new
> with the card).
> 
> On boot, the cards are assigned addresses by /etc/init.d/network (both
> are Debian 1.3 machines). This is what mine looks like, the other
> machine has one exactly the same save for the ip address being
> 192.168.0.2.
> 
> #!  /bin/sh
> ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
> route add -net 127.0.0.0
> IPADDR=192.168.0.1
> NETMASK=255.255.255.0
> NETWORK=192.168.0.0
> BROADCAST=192.168.0.255
> GATEWAY=
> ifconfig eth0 ${IPADDR} netmask ${NETMASK} broadcast ${BROADCAST}
> route add -net ${NETWORK}
> [ "${GATEWAY}" ] && route add default gw ${GATEWAY} metric 1
> 
> However, pinging 192.168.0.2 gives *no* error messages (such as 'no
> route to host), it just fails quietly.
> 
> I've tried playing around with arp stuff, routes and many other things,
> but still it fails. This list is my last resort before I take the cards
> back and resign myself to a net quake free life :). 
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Dom
> 
> -- 
> Dominic Davidson
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Video card info

[Shaleh]

I have a Diamond Stealth with an ET4000/W32p chipset.  Does anyone have
the X settings I need??  It was given to me and I can not find any
documentatiopn for it.  Is there some other way to get this info?? 
Thanks for all the help everyone has given me and the other Linux first
timers.  There is a big difference between helping maintain a server and
setting one up from scratch.


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Re: disabling user mail

[John F]

On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Martin Schulze wrote:

> > 
> > I want all users in the 'mail' group to be able to send/recieve mail. 
> > So, for example, if someone sends a message to someone not in the group,
> > it will be returned as unknown.
> 
> Write your own local transport or try to work with procmail as
> local delivery agent.
> 
>   Joey

Exim handles this sort of thing rather nicely.

John Foster


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Re: debian-user-digest Digest V97 #593

[Mikko Väkiparta]

Kiitoksia rekisteröinnistäsi

Voit käydä hakemassa Meeting Maker XP:n 30 päivän demoversion FCIS
palvelimeltamme, osoitteesta http://fcis.ananda.fi/login.
Käyttäjätunnus on mmdemo ja salasana on jh834g.

Tervetuloa!
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A few general Debian questions.

[Michael Stutz]

1. What's the current status of deity, the replacement for Debian's dselect?
Are there any documents available that I can find out more on it? I haven't
seen anything on debian.org about it.

2. Does anyone know at this point what the upgrade to 2.0 will be like --
like, will it require a complete reinstall or will there be an easy means to
upgrade your existing Debian system?

3. The debian-user mailing list is gated to Usenet as linux.debian.user, but
will subscribers see messages that are posted to that newsgroup?
Furthermore, should there be some mention of linux.debian.user in the Debian
faq? (I tried posting to the ng several times and failed; either my local
news setup is screwey, or posting to the newsgroup don't go to subscribers.
Either way, I think the faq should make mention of this so as not to confuse
future users.)


Thanks...


  Copyright (c) 1997 Michael Stutz; this information is
email stutz@dsl.org  free and may be reproduced under GNU GPL, and as long
 as this sentence remains; it comes with absolutely NO
 WARRANTY; for details see .


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colons (:) in package version numbers mucking up dselect?

[m*]

went to upgrade the packages on the trusty old 386 and after i got
the list of available packages dselect reported:

-

dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 13565
package `cdda2wav':
 empty value for version

update available list script returned error exit status 1.

-

afterward, selecting Select crashes dselect. 

changing the : in the version numbers for packages cdda2wav and
sharutils to a . fixed it.

thank you and have a nice day/night,

m* 

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Re: colons (:) in package version numbers mucking up dselect?

[Martin Schulze]

> 
> went to upgrade the packages on the trusty old 386 and after i got
> the list of available packages dselect reported:

This is a feature and you're Yafcot(*)

It's called epoch and you first have to upgrade your dpkg
before you read in the new Packages file... you didn't...

try dpkg --clear-avail an install an actual version of
dpkg.

* Yet another fool coming over this

Joey

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modprobe and kerneld: fixed?

[shaleh]

I moved isofs alias further up the conf.modules (before the char-major-10-130 
aliases to softdog).  Now mount works like it is supposed to.  Go fig.


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Re: Running GIMP as a user

[Will Lowe]

On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, Michael Stutz wrote:

> Certain X apps like GIMP only seem to like being run as root (in this case I
> can run GIMP as a user but I cannot open any files, nor can I perform
> editing tasks on a new one).
> 
> What is the reasoning behind this? Also, is there a way to change this so
> that I can run this software as a user?

I seem to recall having some trouble till I played around with the gimprc
files. I compiled the source tho rather than downloading the package.

Will

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signify

[Mohammad Rizal Othman]

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-


Does anybody know how to use signify with pine?  I've copied one example
as my .signify in my $HOME dir., but I'm clueless on how to make it work
with pine.

TIA.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-
Version: 2.6.3ia
Charset: noconv

iQCVAwUBM+qdrr/GcdV9lkiFAQGbYwQAm9YsZoz17GQVajfXEE7gDImbUEEB7xGJ
dY6AvPtfYTbA8NMV7esNI8hFW++hIibEfwiYmD2EjXCgTUuwQTmtZLTaMfv9BDvM
sKWoS7pFhEE31EiTd84kSKp+Pzy+OCSvzVIhTHiheIqOx5yINmN5PrlRGhSyTes4
/lylhc2YuB0=
=5F76
-END PGP SIGNATURE-


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sendmail v/s smail

[Gonzalo A. Diethelm]

Hello,

>From the discussions on this list (I still haven't got my Debian CD),
I gather smail is by default installed as the mail system for Debian;
even if this is not the case, I have the following question: I'm now
using (Slakware and) sendmail, and it works OK, though I'll be damned
if I ever understand the sendmail.cf file. Is smail any better? What
are the strengths and weaknesses of each package? Why would I switch
from sendmail to smail?

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Off-line news spool?

[Gonzalo A. Diethelm]

Hi,

A few months ago, I started looking into setting an off-line news spool
on my (Slakware) machine. I read all the documentation for INN, and I
think I finally understood how to use it (after a LONG while). In the
end, I never implemented the thing for lack of time.

Now that I'm switching to Debian, I may give it another try. And I've
been reading about leafnode, which (if I understand right) would serve
the same purpose as INN. Is this correct? If so, what are the
advantages of leafnode over INN? Is it any easier to set up and
maintain? Can I read and post off-line, and have leafnode send/receive
news the next time I connect to my ISP? Would I need any special
support or permissions with my ISP to use leafnode? Any pointers to
TFMs, FAQs, etc.? Thanks in advance.

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Re: Running GIMP as a user

[David Puryear]

Hi,

On 08-Aug-97 Will Lowe wrote:
 On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, Michael Stutz wrote:
 
 > Certain X apps like GIMP only seem to like being run as root (in this
 case I
 > can run GIMP as a user but I cannot open any files, nor can I perform
 > editing tasks on a new one).
 > 
 > What is the reasoning behind this? Also, is there a way to change this
 so
 > that I can run this software as a user?
 
 I seem to recall having some trouble till I played around with the gimprc
 files. I compiled the source tho rather than downloading the package.
 
Before you run new gimp-0.99.10, you should delete ~/.gimp which contain
gimprc in it. Make sure you don't have anything in ~/.gimp first.:)
When you run gimp for the first time as any user, gimp will create new ~/.gimp
with .gimprc in it. I'm running debian gimp-0.99.10 just fine.:)

Cheers,
David


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Sound Config

[PATRICK DAHIROC]

Hi

I have a Sound Blaster 16 card in my computer and as I was doing my
configuration, I came across these options with no help
Choice  Setting [Default]
Sound Blaster IRQ   7
I/O base for SB 220
Sound Blaster DMA   1
Sound Blaster 16 bit DMA5
MPU401 I/O base of SB 160
SB MPU401 IRQ   -1
Audio DMA buffer size   65536
Additional low-level driversNot Installed
I simply used the default settings that the system gave me. I'm not sure
what they are.  Could someone tell me what each of the choices are and how
I can find out what the right values in case that they don't correspond
with the default values.

Thanks
Patrick


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exim: doesn't work! can't send mail..

[Paul Miller]

I just installed the Debian package exim and it doesn't work!  In pine
when I try to send a message I get "421 STMP connection went away!"

Any ideas?  It worked perfectly w/ smail...

-Paul


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Video card

[Karsten Bolding]

Hi

Does anybody know if this card woks with XFree.

  Matrox MGA PowerDocEd 2MB PCI grafikkort

Karsten


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Re: bind

[Rob Browning]

Francois Gouget <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>  - Change the named.boot file depending on whether you are connected
> or not. When not connected don't use forwarders.

The solution I came up with was to have my /etc/ppp/ip-up and
/etc/ppp/ip-down scripts switch between two /etc/host.conf files (I
stripped all the comments and other fluff, and indented them for
readability).  This approach relies on /var/run being cleaned on
reboot to make sure that the machine doesn't hang for a while when it
restarts because bind's trying to figure out what's wrong:

/etc/ppp/ip-up

  /usr/local/sbin/dns-adjust connecting ppp

/etc/ppp/ip-down

  /usr/local/sbin/dns-adjust disconnecting ppp

/usr/local/sbin/dns-adjust

  if [ "$1" = connecting ]
  then
(cd /etc && ln -sf host.conf.connected host.conf)
(cd /etc && ln -sf resolv.conf.connected resolv.conf)
(umask 022 && touch /var/run/bind.ok)
/etc/init.d/bind reload   # in case it's already running
/etc/init.d/bind start
  else
(cd /etc && ln -sf host.conf.disconnected host.conf)
(cd /etc && ln -sf resolv.conf.disconnected resolv.conf)
rm -f /var/run/bind.ok
/etc/init.d/bind stop
  fi 

/etc/host.conf.connected

  order hosts,bind
  multi on

/etc/host.conf.disconnected

  order hosts
  multi on


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Re: Off-line news spool?

[Adam Shand]

>> Now that I'm switching to Debian, I may give it another try. And I've
>> been reading about leafnode, which (if I understand right) would serve
>> the same purpose as INN. Is this correct? 
>
>Actually, I might suggest newsx over leafnode. It provides a tiny nntpd
>(atually nnrpd) for readers to connect to.

Ohh... and here I was about to suggest nntpcache (unfortunately there is no
debian package for it but it's easy to compile and install).  We've been
using nntpcache here for about a year and are quite happy with it.  The
latest version (1.0.7.1) is also heaps nicer.

What's newsx like?  And how are you getting it to do UUCP?

Adam.

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inetd.tab/exim

[Paul Miller]

The exim package aparently doesn't add a line in the inetd.tab to load
exim.  What should I have in this file?


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please reply

[Remco van de Meent]

Hey


For some reason I don't get any messages from debian-user-mailinglist
anymore. I resubscribed, but didn't get a confirmation of the subscription.

If anyone gets this message, would you please reply, and cc to the list, so
the others know anyone replied ;)


Thanks

Remco

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exim: problems receiving mail

[Paul Miller]

Even since I installed the exim package I haven't been able to receive
mail.  Has anyone else installed the exim package and had this problem?

More importantly, is there a web page where I can read about exim?

-Paul


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Re: please reply

[Nico De Ranter]

> Hey
> 
> 
> For some reason I don't get any messages from debian-user-mailinglist
> anymore. I resubscribed, but didn't get a confirmation of the subscription.
> 
> If anyone gets this message, would you please reply, and cc to the list, so
> the others know anyone replied ;)

Yep got the message

> 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Remco
> 
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> 
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install problem: aic7xxx encountered spurious IRQ / aborting command due to timeout

[Dieter Rohlfing]

hi everybody,

my name is Dieter and I'm having problems to install the debian Linux
distribution.

My hardware:
- Mobo Shuttle HOT-419 (VLB with Opti chipset), AMD486/133, 32 MB RAM
- Adaptec AHA2842 (IRQ 11)
- ATI Graphics Turbo (Mach32 mit 2 MB VRAM)
- NE2000 compatiple card IRQ 15 IO 0x300
- IO card, 2x par (IRQ/IO as usual),
  4x ser (COM1-COM2 IRQ/IO as usual, 
  COM3 IRQ 10 IO as usual, COM4 IRQ 12 IO 0x2F0)

This hardware is successfully running Linux 1.2.13 (Slakware 2.3) since
2 years.

During the last 2 weeks I installed Caldera Open Linux Standard 1.1 and
Slakware 3.2
(both employ kernel 2.0.29) without any problems. That means: the
'all-purpose' boot
diskettes started Linux successfully.

Now I tried the debian distribution 1.2 (with kernel 2.0.27) I found on
my Infomagic
Linux Developer's Resource (6-CD-set inluding Slakware 3.2, RedHat 4.1).
I made the
RESCUE floppy with 'dd if=rsc1440.bin of=/dev/fd0H1440 bs=512' (tried it
with several diskettes and even with rsc1440r.bin) and got in every case
the following boot messages:

summary: aic7xxx detected and initialization messages
--> aic7xxx: encountered spurious interrupt

some other messages related to probing other hardware follows

--> scanning channel A for devices
--> aborting command due to timeout
--> pid 0, scsi 0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
--> test unit ready 00 00 00 00
--> kernel panic: scsi 0 BRKADRINT, error 0x1, seqaddr 0x0

I suspect, that the composition of the debian kernel is somewhat
different than those of
Caldera and Slakware, but I have no idea in what matter.

I hope, that some of the debian gurus can give me some help.

TIA and have a nice day.

Dieter


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ttestt

[Victor Torrico]

Kindly ignore this test.  I'm going nuts trying to get mail working right.


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Proposal and questions about chemistry Debian packages

[Frits Daalmans]

Hello all,

I have some questions regarding Debian's attitude towards scientific
programs.


First an introduction:

In the Computational Chemistry mailing-list (listserv is 
[EMAIL PROTECTED], archived at ccl.osc.edu and
http://ccl.osc.edu/chemistry.html)
there are lately more and more questions about the availability of
quantum chemical software under Linux.
This seems to be impeded by the current lack of trust in the current 
versions of gcc and g77 for heavy computational work.
I know work is progressing rapidly on these programs but am too stupid
to really help out significantly in this area (I tried).

Also, there was a large discussion on this mailinglist about object-
oriented (or more general: "modern") programming and the problem of
legacy Fortran code ("Dinosaur" programs). 

The legacy code is often commercial (or QCPE), and mostly *very* large
(hundreds of thousands of lines of Fortran), very complex, and overgrown
with creeping featurism and obsolete or even redundant bits of code.
An example:
In one program which I hesitate to name, I found 3 diagonalization 
algorithms doing the same thing (only 2 were used, the third apparently
forgotten) and 3 complete periodical tables of the elements 
(in exactly the same format).

I see the problem as this: good programs for Q.C. are available, but
commercial and/or very difficult to debug and extend. Most of them
are written in Fortran 77, with bits in Fortran IV even, and they are
not often well documented.
In my opinion, these factors limit the usability of quantum chemistry
programs by the free software community (both users and programmers).
It might be good if source-available Q.C. programs (preferably not
completely in Fortran, but that is my prejudice) were available for the
low-priced Linux workstations as, say, Debian packages! In many countries 
research in Q.C. is slowed down because programs and (large) workstations 
are too expensive.

I am a PhD student in something that could be described as comp.chem,
and have recently obtained a new program for molecular modelling. It was
produced under the GPL and (very well) written in C (IMHO).

Now my questions are these:
- there is no section for chemistry or quantum chemistry yet in the
Debian distribution. Do you think there would be anyone besides me who
would like to have one? To start collecting the freeware programmature
floating around on the 'net to an interoperating suite of quantum
chemistry, modelling, and data conversion programs for both students
and professionals in chemistry.

- If I contact the author of this 'moldy' program, Keith Refson, and
ask his permission to compile and package it for Linux (only i386 for
now), in which Debian mailinglists must I discuss this proposal to get
it accepted?

Thank you for reading all this, and I hope GNU, Debian and Linux will
continue to flourish in the future!

PS: I have seen the debian-bugs database. I can fully understand if your
response is: "the Debian team has about 11000 other tasks at hand now", 
and in that case I'll search out a bugreport that I can solve instead.

Greetings,

Frits Daalmans
Conformational Analysis
Gorlaeus Laboratoria
Leiden, The Netherlands
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[DPKG] Integrity checking?

[Magossa'nyi A'rpa'd]

Hi!

Is dpkg can do integrity checking based on the MD5 hashes it uses?
Our machine has been cracked, and we want to know which binaries have been
compromised.
It is rather urgent.

Actually I'm not sure yet if we have been cracked :)
A lamer administrator has made a passwordless account, and it had became
known. But we have lot of measures against cracking, and beleive that none
of the exploits they have tried had work.

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Re: install problem: aic7xxx encountered spurious IRQ / aborting command due to timeout

[Paul Seelig]

On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Dieter Rohlfing wrote:

> Now I tried the debian distribution 1.2 (with kernel 2.0.27) I found
> on my Infomagic Linux Developer's Resource (6-CD-set inluding
> Slakware 3.2, RedHat 4.1).
>
I'd suggest getting a more recent Debian release based on the official
CD set because the InfoMagic LDR is usually pretty broken in regard of
Debian. There is a very good Debian-1.3.1 2-CD-ROM set available in
Germany from the Lehmanns bookstore for a mere 19,80 DM. Check out
"http://www.jfl.de/linux/preis/debian.html"; for more information.
There is BTW a new German Debian mailing list for which you can find
subscription information on the aforementioned URL as well.

   Cheers, P. *8^)
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RE: Debian-Desktop

[Alec Clews]

>
>My major interest in the -Desktop and Diety projects is the provision for
>user-friendly "basic installs" ... so that the average non-linux user can

Sounds what a lot of us are after.

>migrate to debian in a way that doesn't require them to understand unix as
>a guru .  Has there been any effort to begin
>compiling profiles (and putting together decent,  basic package

See the post by Lindsay Allen,

>configurations)?  Is diety not far enough along for this to be practical?  

Deity profiles may well be just want we want, however the release date
is not until 1Q98


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Re: RAID5 controller

[Jean Pierre LeJacq]

On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, Markus Diesmann wrote:

> However I have to warn you.
> There is currently no support of the rpc.lockd daemon
> under linux.
> 
> So using a Linux system as a file server for SUN and SGIs
> will bring you into trouble.
> file locking is expected in some later kernel versions which
> are not stable yet.

Would this explain the NFS problems I'm having serving SUN machines?

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Motorola Bit Surfer Pro and BONDING

[Peter Iannarelli]

For those of you who are using Motorola Bit Surfer Pros for ISDN internet 
access and
have been unsucessful in getting Bonding to work. I have got it working. 
Following is
a description of what I've got and what I did.

My internet gateway is a 100Mhz 486 running Debian 1.3.1 with the 2.0.30 
kernel. 
I did custom compile my kernel and activated the ISDN options. (all of them). I 
am
using an external Bitsurfer Pro and dialing into a Livingstone Portmaster 
digital
modem bank. The Livingstone is configured for PAP and two channels have been
enabled under my user ID.

Modem setup:

I set the modem as follows with the AT command set. (I am using an NI-1 network)

AT%A2=95 -- set modem to negotiate bonding
[EMAIL PROTECTED]  -- set modem to support 2 B channels

NOTE don't forget to set you SPIDs and TEI and all that stuff.

My /etc/ppp.chatscript looks like this:

ABORTBUSY
ABORT"NO CARRIER"
ABORTVOICE
ABORT"NO DIALTONE"
""ATD###&###  --> where ### are the phone numbers
CONNECT''  <-- this is not a double quote but two single quotes

My /etc/ppp.options_out looks like this:

defaultroute /dev/ttyS1 115200 persist name ?   --> your account name

My /etc/ppp/pap.secrets looks like this:

# OUTBOUND connections

# Here you should add your userid password to connect to your providers via
# pap. The * means that the password is to be used for ANY host you connect
# to. Thus you do not have to worry about the foreign machine name. Just
# replace password with your password.
# If you have different providers with different passwords then you better
# remove the following line.

?*   PPP   --> where ? is my user ID and P is my 
password

In my /etc/ppp/options file I changed only one thing

domain 

Observations:

This is not a great solution due to the fact that the system does not have 
control
over the respective channels. It would be nice if we could access the respective
channels as separate ttys (ie ttyI1 and ttyI2). In that manner we could 
function 
as a gateway/bridge to two separate ISDN locations. I am of the understanding 
that the ICN product functions in this manner. If someone knows how I may 
acquire one of these modems It would be greatly appreciated. Based on what
I have read about the ICN 2B and 4B product and Debian, it is a much better fit.


Thanks


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Re: RAID5 controller

[Jean Pierre LeJacq]

On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, Dave Cinege wrote:

> On Thu, 7 Aug 1997 11:23:13 -0700, Kevin Traas wrote:
> 
> > >can anyone recommend a couple of tried and true RAID5 controllers
> >>i could price out?
> >
> >I've used the Mylex DAC960 PCI (3 and 5 channel).  Very happy with them -
> >but pricy.  However, I've never used these under Linux, only SCO Unix and
> 
> They don't work under linux, and also they are very slow performers, from 
> the comparisons I've seen.
> 
> The best RAID HBAs you can get are DPT. They work 100% under linux and I'd 
> be happy to sell you one...

I've been using the DPT controller with Debian but only for RAID 1.
I've had no trouble except for the e2fsprog bug.  The RAID
functionality is implemented in hardware and appears as a normal disk
to Debian.  The only downside I've seen is that DPT's configuration
software is not available for Linux.

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RE: Debian-Desktop

[Lindsay Allen]

In my practise run the other day I noted that I had to use my dselect
skills to deselect all except required packages.  Then I exited dselect
and ran dpkg --set-selections before running dselect again.

I also noted that the --set-selections acted only on those packages
specified in the file.  It left all other packages strictly alone.

Seems to me that the above problems would be solved if we had a script
(sed/awk) which would run through /var/lib/dpkg/status (using
the output of --set-selections as input) as follows:-

pseudo code
for each package
  if it is "required", leave it alone
  else if it is referenced in the input file
 select or deselect it accordingly
  else deselect it
done

If the installation script were to run this prior to running dselect the
novice would just pass over the "select" entry and proceed to "install".

Can anyone come up with a suitable script?  The two types of entries I saw
in my first run were like this:-

adduser install
flexdeinstall

but it is quite possible that more types might show up as we progress down
this track.

Lindsay
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Re: RAID5 controller

[Markus Diesmann]

I am not sure what problems you actually had,
but I think so.

I heard that people are working on kernel support for
proper file locking.
Unfortunately we do not have the knowledge and resources
to help them.
We have found an acceptable indermediate solution, where
main file serving is done by a Linux system and mail 
directories are provided by an SGI Indy.

Markus Diesmann
Neurobiology & Biophysics
Freiburg
Germany


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Re: Modprobe error and kerneld question

[David Wright]

On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, Shaleh wrote:
> Do not quote me, but my fstab reads something like:
> 
> ...
> /dev/cdrom  /cdrom  iso9660 user,noauto

If /dev/cdrom is a link to /dev/hdX you may find that umount won't work
properly. Mount will follow the link and mount the right device, but put
the real name in /etc/mtab. Umount will then complain that the mount point
/cdrom doesn't match the device in mtab and fstab.

Glad you got conf.modules to insmod correctly.
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Re: Modprobe error and kerneld question

[Frits Daalmans]

>On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, Shaleh wrote:
>> Do not quote me, but my fstab reads something like:
>> 
>> ...
>> /dev/cdrom  /cdrom  iso9660 user,noauto
>
>If /dev/cdrom is a link to /dev/hdX you may find that umount won't work
>properly. Mount will follow the link and mount the right device, but put
>the real name in /etc/mtab. Umount will then complain that the mount point
>/cdrom doesn't match the device in mtab and fstab.
>
>Glad you got conf.modules to insmod correctly.
>--
Is /dev/cdrom a symlink or a hard link?
or: would it work if /dev/cdrom was a hard link??
Sorry, I don't have the source of mount handy right now.

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Re: Proposal and questions about chemistry Debian packages

[Mario Olimpio de Menezes]

On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Frits Daalmans wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I have some questions regarding Debian's attitude towards scientific
> programs.

[...]

> Now my questions are these:
> - there is no section for chemistry or quantum chemistry yet in the
> Debian distribution. Do you think there would be anyone besides me who
> would like to have one? To start collecting the freeware programmature
> floating around on the 'net to an interoperating suite of quantum
> chemistry, modelling, and data conversion programs for both students
> and professionals in chemistry.


I think that the section should be for scientific programs in
general. 
Could be, if this is the case, split in analysis and laboratory
programs.  For analysis we already have some good packages (octave,
scilab, ...) but for laboratory data acquisition almost nothing except
Linux Lab project. I have some interest in data acquisition programs for
Linux, such as a program named Maestro for multichannel cards (Ortec).


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Where is qcrack and staroffice.deb packages

[Paul]

Hi folks, I want qcrack and staroffice packages any help would be muchly
appreciated.  I can't find them anywhere.  I thought that staroffice was
available over in europe.  Thanks in advance.
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Re: sendmail v/s smail

[Jason Costomiris]

On Thu, Aug 07, 1997 at 11:48:37PM -0400, Gonzalo A. Diethelm wrote:
: >From the discussions on this list (I still haven't got my Debian CD),
: I gather smail is by default installed as the mail system for Debian;
: even if this is not the case, I have the following question: I'm now
: using (Slakware and) sendmail, and it works OK, though I'll be damned
: if I ever understand the sendmail.cf file. Is smail any better? What
: are the strengths and weaknesses of each package? Why would I switch
: from sendmail to smail?

Sendmail:

1) Easy to configure.  No need to try to understand what the S3 ruleset
does.  You just make your set of m4 macros, which is very straightforward.
Once you do that, you're one command (m4 ../m4/cf.m4 myfile.mc > sendmail.cf)
from a working sendmail.cf.

2) Difficult to configure.  Uh, didn't I just say it was easy?  Yeah, I did.
However, toss in anti-relay protection, and spam refusal rules (via check_*)
and it gets a lot more complex.  You still only have to add the stuff to
your set of m4 macros and build once.

3) Security problem.  Sendmail runs as root.  Many exploits have been
uncovered over time.  However, 90% of those problems are fixed by not
using /bin/sh as the "program mailer".  Use /usr/sbin/smrsh.  smrsh won't
run a program unless it's been declared as a delivery agent, or you
have made a link to it in the "magic" smrsh directory (/usr/lib/sm.bin).

Smail:

1) Very easy to configure.  You can practically teach monkeys to do it.

2) Very inflexible with respect to SMTP relaying.  You can run "Blackmail"
in front of smail, but it seems kinda kludgy to me.  Allegedly a yet to 
come version of smail fixes this.  I'm not holding my breath.

Qmail:

1) Very easy to configure.  I've seen monkeys who can configure it.

2) Very flexible.  With most anything, really.

I'd say that Qmail is the best choice for first-timers.  Unless you want
to be raped as a spam relay, or want to tackle the sendmail config, which
isn't really all that bad, go for Qmail.

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Re: Where is qcrack and staroffice.deb packages

[Paul]

try this again.

On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Paul wrote:

> Hi folks, I want qcrack and staroffice packages any help would be muchly
> appreciated.  I can't find them anywhere.  I thought that staroffice was
> available over in europe.  Thanks in advance.
> Paul
> 
> 
> 


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Re: install problem: aic7xxx encountered spurious IRQ / aborting command due to timeout

[Dieter Rohlfing]

Hello Paul,

thanks for your quick answer.

I've already ordered Debian 1.3.1 at JFL in Berlin.

I hope to have more luck with the more recent version.

Have a nice day!

Dieter


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Re: sendmail v/s smail

[Bruno O. M. Simoes]

>smail should be your choice if you are serving <100 users with average
>mail volumes.  The upcomming version of smail will be a bit faster and
>handle more users.
>
>The configurations are MUCH easier but you need to get all sendmail
>thought out of your head.  If you are going to be smtp ONLY, you might
>consider exim. 

Don't forget to consider qmail. It still doesn't have in a debian package
(it's in implementation), but seems to be a good choice. Take a look at
www.qmail.org.
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Re: RAID5 controller

[Jean Pierre LeJacq]

On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Markus Diesmann wrote:

> I heard that people are working on kernel support for
> proper file locking.
> Unfortunately we do not have the knowledge and resources
> to help them.
> We have found an acceptable indermediate solution, where
> main file serving is done by a Linux system and mail 
> directories are provided by an SGI Indy.

Thanks Markus for the update.

It does sound like this could be the issue.  I have no problems
serving read-only file systems.  On read-write file systems the Sun
boxes seem to misinterpert the modes, permissions, and types of the
files.

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Re: Looking for Talk - HOWTO

[Frank Barknecht]

Mike Schmitz hat gesagt: // Mike Schmitz wrote:

> Rewrite your hosts file from /etc/ppp/ip-up, keeping the same name as
> is set in hostname. Here is an example:
>
   I have tried this now, but used an example from
the Dynamic-IP-Hacks-mini-HOWTO like another user
here suggested. Basically it is the same script as
your example.  To test this setup I rlogged in to
a SUN in my university and tried to "talk" me. But
again I only could see the message in my xconsole:

in.talkd[1583]: connect from sun.foo.bar.de 

without getting a talk request in xterm. And yes: mesg is y.  In my
/etc/hosts now is the official ip-address and an offical DNS-name.
The SUN in my university is permanently connected to the internet.
SUN and I even share the same domain name now. Still I cannot talk
to me!?


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disk activities on a notebook..

[David Puryear]

Hi all,

Does anyone know what is accessing the hard drive every 3 or four seconds? 
I'm using debian 1.3.1 with 2.0.29 on a laptop, so I trying to make the battery
last as long as possible. But with constant accessing of the disk when I'm
just typing is draining the battery way too fast.:( Hope someone has idea as to
how to change this behavior.

Any hint as to how to find out would be appreciated, thanks,

David


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More on....disk activities on a notebook..

[David Puryear]

Hi,

I just noticed that this happens only when running X.

Thanks,
David

On 08-Aug-97 David Puryear wrote:
   
 Does anyone know what is accessing the hard drive every 3 or four seconds?
 I'm using debian 1.3.1 with 2.0.29 on a laptop, so I trying to make the
 battery
 last as long as possible. But with constant accessing of the disk when I'm
 just typing is draining the battery way too fast.:( Hope someone has idea
 as to
 how to change this behavior.
 
 Any hint as to how to find out would be appreciated, thanks,
 
 


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Re: RAID5 controller

[Dave Cinege]

On Fri, 8 Aug 1997 07:34:41 -0400 (EDT), Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote:
>
>I've been using the DPT controller with Debian but only for RAID 1.
>I've had no trouble except for the e2fsprog bug.  The RAID
>functionality is implemented in hardware and appears as a normal disk
>to Debian.  

I should also mention it appears to be a normal disk to ANY OS that DPT 
supports. On my RAID 0 array I boot OpenDOS, NT(or should I say have booted 
for this one : >), OS/2, and Linux using OS/2's bootmanager.

>The only downside I've seen is that DPT's configuration
>software is not available for Linux.

Not YET. According to Mike Neuffer (eata driver author) "(storage manager) 
is work in progress"

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Re: Modprobe error and kerneld question

[Shaleh]

It works now.  I ran a depmod -a and reorganized my conf.modules.  The
kerneld/module docs all say they are going to be removed -- so I had no
where to turn for info.  The only two problems left are my
char-major-10-130 (which is an alias to softdog, whatever that is) and I
can not load binfmt_java as a module by kerneld.  When I try to run a
compiled class file I get a kernel error saying could not find
binfmt--310.  I have all my errors going to tty6 otherwise I would have
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Re: Proposal and questions about chemistry Debian packages

[Peter S Galbraith]

Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote:

>   I think that the section should be for scientific programs in
> general. 

Yes, with GIS packages included: 

 - Vis5d -> available in Red Hat I think.
 - grass
 - ...

Peter


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Re: Modprobe error and kerneld question

[Nathan E Norman]

Softdog is the software implemetation of the watchdog, I believe.  If
you're not using that then you probably don't need to alias ..

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On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Shaleh wrote:

:It works now.  I ran a depmod -a and reorganized my conf.modules.  The
:kerneld/module docs all say they are going to be removed -- so I had no
:where to turn for info.  The only two problems left are my
:char-major-10-130 (which is an alias to softdog, whatever that is) and I
:can not load binfmt_java as a module by kerneld.  When I try to run a
:compiled class file I get a kernel error saying could not find
:binfmt--310.  I have all my errors going to tty6 otherwise I would have
:noticed the errors for the fs problem I was having.
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Re: Use Joystick to reboot.

[Nils Rennebarth]

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On Thu, 7 Aug 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>On  7 Aug, Brian K Servis wrote:
>> activity.  I still could move the pointer though.  My only solution at
>> the time was to push the reset button.  If I had had a joystick driver
>> active I could have started a clean shutdown which would have saved me
>> some work when the system came back up with all kinds of disk errors
>> due to the cold reboot.
>> 
>Me too. It happens, if I switch runlevels running X. The keyboard is
>locked. No switching to a VC possible, Alt + strg + Backspace didn't
>work either.
This happens for me too. (I solved it then by grabbing together the
characters for
  shutdown -r now 
from all running xterms and pasted them in a root shell. Then never tried
to change runlevels running X)

I'm glad someone else sees this problem.

Is this a bug in:
  xserver-s3
  xbase
  sysvinit
  somewhere else?

Nils

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Re: Where is qcrack and staroffice.deb packages

[Bob Nielsen]

On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Paul wrote:

> try this again.
> 
> On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Paul wrote:
> 
> > Hi folks, I want qcrack and staroffice packages any help would be muchly
> > appreciated.  I can't find them anywhere.  I thought that staroffice was
> > available over in europe.  Thanks in advance.
> > Paul

You can get StarOffice-3.1 from ftp.gwdg.de in the directory
/pub/linux/staroffice.  It is NOT a Debian package, however.  It is easy
to install, but carefully read the installation instructions.

Bob


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File impossible to delete

[Peter S Galbraith]

Somehow, I got a corrupted file on my system:

 bash-2.00# ls -l /root/Mail/
 total 269488144
 c---r- 8240 8224 8224  32,  48 Aug  2  1995 drafts

I can't delete it!

 bash-2.00# chown root drafts 
 chown: drafts: Operation not permitted

 bash-2.00# rm -f drafts 
 rm: drafts: Operation not permitted

What can I do to get rid of it?

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Re: Sound Config

[Will Lowe]

On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, PATRICK DAHIROC wrote:

> I have a Sound Blaster 16 card in my computer and as I was doing my
> configuration, I came across these options with no help

Um,  simplest thing to do is (assuming you have win95 or dos or os/2
or something besides linux on your machine) boot to you're other os,
write down the settings and then use the same ones in linux. 

It depends,  tho,  because in a system with a pnp bios,  they'll be set by
the bios,  in which case the above will work.  In a system without a pnp
bios,  you'll need to install isapnp tools to config it right.

Then again, if you have a *really old* SB16,  it might not be
pnp-compatible,  in which case you'll have to fuggle around with the
jumpers on the card.


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S/Linux

[Eric Waldman]

Any info available on when debian for the SPARCstations will be
available.  I use debian
on all of my pentiums, 486's, and 386's.  I have a sparcstation 1 and
Sparc classic and
would like to stick with debian.

Thanks

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File impossible to delete

[Peter S Galbraith]

I just wrote:

> Somehow, I got a corrupted file on my system:
> 
>  bash-2.00# ls -l /root/Mail/
>  total 269488144
>  c---r- 8240 8224 8224  32,  48 Aug  2  1995 drafts
> 
> I can't delete it!

I just booted the rescue disk and ran `e2fsck -f' on the partition.
After it fixed lots of stuff, including /root/Mail/drafts and files in
/dev,  I thought I'd be okay.

After rebooting the file was still there, and still undeletable.
What's worse, I looked at /dev and found unsavory things:

c---r-   1 1157612589115, 100 Oct  4  1997 MAKEDEV
c---r-   1 8224 12320 32,  32 Feb 11  1987 beep
c---r-   1 8224 8224  10,  48 Aug  2  1995 watchdog

I can't delete those either, in order to restore them using dpkg.

I'd really appreciate ideas here.  Sound drastic to wipe out
my root partition and start over, but...  If I were to do that, could
I do:

 -  dpkg --get-selections > ~/selections
 -  wipe out /
 -  reboot with rescue disk
 -  mount /home
 -  dpkg --set-selections < ~/selections

 ?
Are dependencies handled correctly if things aren't installed in the right
order? 
Or must I first install a base Debian system?  

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[Eric Waldman]

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Re: colons (:) in package version numbers mucking up dselect?

[m*]

Pawel Wiecek wrote:
> 
> Upgrade dpkg to newer version by hand before upgrading other packages.
> The colon delimits epoch and version number - and epochs were added in some
> newer version of dpkg/dselect (around Debian 1.1 or 1.2).
> 

oh okay. my mistake.

Yafcot:atj(*),

mark

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Re: Threads information, book recommendation.

[Oleg Krivosheev]

Hi,

On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, Thomas Baetzler wrote:

> Date: Thu, 07 Aug 1997 11:45:36 +0200 (MET DST)
> From: Thomas Baetzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "David B. Teague" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Threads information, book recommendation.
> Resent-Date: Thu, 07 Aug 1997 09:52:14 +
> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Resent-cc: recipient list not shown: ;
> 
> David B. Teague wrote:
> :Would someone please recommend a book on threads programming?
> 
> Norton, Scott J., "Threadtime - The Multithreaded Programming Guide", 
> Prentice Hall 1996, ISBN 0-13-190067-6
> 

David Butenhof book is just out

something like "Programming with POSIX threads"

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Re: Motorola Bit Surfer Pro and BONDING (Ignore if not interested in ISDN/PPP/Linux)

[Jens B. Jorgensen]

Peter Iannarelli wrote:
> 
> For those of you who are using Motorola Bit Surfer Pros for ISDN internet 
> access and
> have been unsucessful in getting Bonding to work. I have got it working. 
> Following is
> a description of what I've got and what I did.
> 
> My internet gateway is a 100Mhz 486 running Debian 1.3.1 with the 2.0.30 
> kernel.
> I did custom compile my kernel and activated the ISDN options. (all of them). 
> I am
> using an external Bitsurfer Pro and dialing into a Livingstone Portmaster 
> digital
> modem bank. The Livingstone is configured for PAP and two channels have been
> enabled under my user ID.
> 
> Modem setup:
> 
> I set the modem as follows with the AT command set. (I am using an NI-1 
> network)
> 
> AT%A2=95 -- set modem to negotiate bonding
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]  -- set modem to support 2 B channels
> 
> NOTE don't forget to set you SPIDs and TEI and all that stuff.
> 
> My /etc/ppp.chatscript looks like this:
> 
> ABORTBUSY
> ABORT"NO CARRIER"
> ABORTVOICE
> ABORT"NO DIALTONE"
> ""ATD###&###  --> where ### are the phone numbers
> CONNECT''  <-- this is not a double quote but two single quotes
> 
> My /etc/ppp.options_out looks like this:
> 
> defaultroute /dev/ttyS1 115200 persist name ?   --> your account name
> 
> My /etc/ppp/pap.secrets looks like this:
> 
> # OUTBOUND connections
> 
> # Here you should add your userid password to connect to your providers via
> # pap. The * means that the password is to be used for ANY host you connect
> # to. Thus you do not have to worry about the foreign machine name. Just
> # replace password with your password.
> # If you have different providers with different passwords then you better
> # remove the following line.
> 
> ?*   PPP   --> where ? is my user ID and P is my 
> password
> 
> In my /etc/ppp/options file I changed only one thing
> 
> domain 
> 
> Observations:
> 
> This is not a great solution due to the fact that the system does not have 
> control
> over the respective channels. It would be nice if we could access the 
> respective
> channels as separate ttys (ie ttyI1 and ttyI2). In that manner we could 
> function
> as a gateway/bridge to two separate ISDN locations. I am of the understanding
> that the ICN product functions in this manner. If someone knows how I may
> acquire one of these modems It would be greatly appreciated. Based on what
> I have read about the ICN 2B and 4B product and Debian, it is a much better 
> fit.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Peter Iannarelli

The ZyXEL OMNI TA128U supports PPP/MP and supports Bandwidth ON Demand.
It allows you to specify criteria to control when the TA will auto-
magically bring up or drop the second connection. There are six 
parameters as follows (I'll just refer to them a P1-P6, although they
are set using AT commands): P1) Add-threshold for BOD. If the
line utility is higher than this threshold for Add-persist time
interval, PPP/MP will add another B-channel connection, range is
0-255 in units of Kbps; P2) Add-persist time minutes, range 0-63 in
units of minutes; P3) Add-persist time seconds, range 0-63 in units
of seconds; P4) Sub-threshold for BOD. If the line utility is lower
than this threshold for Sub-persist time interval, PPP/MP will drop
one of the B-channels, range 0-255 in units of Kbps; P5) Sub-persist
minutes, range 0-63 in units of minutes; P6) Sub-persist seconds,
range 0-63 in units of seconds.

This unit was a snap to get working. I added *nothing* to the kernel
and use the stock pppd. NOTE WELL: That said, I current use only one
B-channel and have not enabled PPP/MP. I'd be happy to test how these
things work for you, but our ISDN line has only one B-channel (oh yes,
you can get line with only one B-channel, at least from Ameritech--we
wanted to save a few bucks) and what's more our account with our 
provider only allows us one channel.

I should also mention that the ZyXEL also has *two* async ports and you
can in fact make simultaneous, independent ISDN calls on the ports.
The second port will only do 115.2kbps while the first port will
do 460. There are also limitations on the protocols supported on the
second port but nothing that would really be limiting. If you want to
know more, let me know.

And finally, no, I'm not associated or affiliated with ZyXEL, I just
really think this is a nice product. As to the price, we picked it up
under a promotion direct from ZyXEL for $300. (And if this wasn't made
obvious before, this is an *external* adapter. I don't know if there
is an internal version.)

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Re: Basic networking setup

[Nils Rennebarth]

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On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Dominic Davidson wrote:
>The cards I am using are two NE2000 clones, manufactured by Trust and
>with a RealTek chipset (according to Win95). They are PNP, but isapnp
>seems to work, as does modprobe ne.
??? you need to give the io for modprobe ne to succeed. probably
by
   options ne io=0x280
or similar in /etc/conf.modules. The io port is never autoprobed with
the ne driver.

your network setup looks right.

What does:
 ifconfig
 route -n
 cat /proc/interrupts
 cat /proc/ioports
say?

Nils

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Driver installation problems

[David_Neuer]

Here's the situation:

I am a web developer.  I have a PowerMac 8500 at home, on which I do most of my
development.  My ISP is a pain to deal with regarding CGI scripts and stuff, so
I decided to set up an intranet at home to do my development on.  I got a used
Packard Bell 486 machine with a floppy drive, and put an SMC Ethernet card in
it.

I was able after a huge hassle to install the base Debian distribution on the
PC.  However, because I had downloaded the image files on my Mac, I couldn't
mount them; I had had to transfer them on a PC disk to the PC and run rawrite on
them there.  Consequently, I had to use the 1.2 Mb driver and rescue images
(because the mac couldn't write the larger files to the PC formatted disks
thanks to the space that the formatting takes up).

During the Linux installation, I got the the driver installation phase.  I was
unable to install drivers for either my Logitech Bus Mouse, or my Ethernet card,
due to dependencies in those drivers to object files that the installer
apparently couldn't find (misc.o for the mouse, something like 8303.o for the
Ethernet card).

I realize that I could get the Kernel sources and recompile them; however, the
source files for the kernal (not to mention the gcc binary .deb package) are too
big to transfer via floppy, and (obviously) I can't transfer the files via
Ethernet.

What are my options for getting this working?  I have a 14.4 modem installed in
the PC, but there is no modem entry in /dev.  I don't have a CD ROM (nor do I
have money right now to purchase the Debian CD).  Until I get the Ethernet
working, this setup is pretty much useless to me.


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undump, unexec

[Alex Yukhimets]

Hi.

Some time ago someone (Mark ?) suggested to use unexec ability of emacs
to create executables from the core files. Could someone please explain
how I can do that. Is it a function of emacs and should be invoked within
emacs or this is independent binary product of emacs source tree?
Is there any way to get it without downloading emacs source?

Thank you.

Alex Y.
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Re: undump, unexec

[Oleg Krivosheev]

On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Alex Yukhimets wrote:

> Date: Fri, 08 Aug 1997 12:40:46 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Alex Yukhimets <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: debian-user@lists.DEBIAN.org
> Subject: undump, unexec
> Resent-Date: Fri, 08 Aug 1997 16:40:37 +
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> 
> Hi.
> 
> Some time ago someone (Mark ?) suggested to use unexec ability of emacs
> to create executables from the core files. Could someone please explain
> how I can do that. Is it a function of emacs and should be invoked within
> emacs or this is independent binary product of emacs source tree?
> Is there any way to get it without downloading emacs source?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Alex Y.
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ET4000

[Shaleh]

I have an ET4000/W32p, does anyone have the X specs for this card??  If
it helps it is a Diamond Stealth card.


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Re: sendmail v/s smail

[Marcus Brinkmann]

On Aug 08, Jason Costomiris wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 07, 1997 at 11:48:37PM -0400, Gonzalo A. Diethelm wrote:
> : >From the discussions on this list (I still haven't got my Debian CD),
> : I gather smail is by default installed as the mail system for Debian;
> : even if this is not the case, I have the following question: I'm now
> : using (Slakware and) sendmail, and it works OK, though I'll be damned
> : if I ever understand the sendmail.cf file. Is smail any better? What
> : are the strengths and weaknesses of each package? Why would I switch
> : from sendmail to smail?
> 
> Smail:
> 
> 1) Very easy to configure.  You can practically teach monkeys to do it.
> 
> Qmail:
> 
> 1) Very easy to configure.  I've seen monkeys who can configure it.

:-)) ROTFL

Serious:
smail installs with a nice setup: choose 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 or 5, answer a few
questions, and go with it. Runs out of the box. Needs no monkey to configure
it.

Marcus

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Re: Wrong "From:" name

[Marcus Brinkmann]

On Aug 07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On  7 Aug, Victor Torrico wrote:
> > 
> > What must be changed and in which programs to make "From:" read
> > properly?
> > 
> Hi,
> 
> I don't know how to do headerrewriting in smail. I simply specify a
> from header in my mailprogramm.
> 
> If this is not suitable to you, then you could dig through smail
> documentation about this issue.

from_field="From: @"

does the trick, but it is not recommended by me. Set the From: part in your
mailer.

Marcus

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Re: Off-line news spool?

[Marcus Brinkmann]

On Aug 08, Adam Shand wrote:
> >> Now that I'm switching to Debian, I may give it another try. And I've
> >> been reading about leafnode, which (if I understand right) would serve
> >> the same purpose as INN. Is this correct? 
> >
> >Actually, I might suggest newsx over leafnode. It provides a tiny nntpd
> >(atually nnrpd) for readers to connect to.
> 
> Ohh... and here I was about to suggest nntpcache (unfortunately there is no
> debian package for it but it's easy to compile and install).  We've been
> using nntpcache here for about a year and are quite happy with it.  The
> latest version (1.0.7.1) is also heaps nicer.
> 
> What's newsx like?  And how are you getting it to do UUCP?

Nh, I also read the INN manual, gave up after a SHORT while, and
installed leafnode. Took me two minutes, and it worked (out of the box)
It gets the news requested within the next time it is started.

Marcus

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Re: Proposal and questions about chemistry Debian packages

[Marcus Brinkmann]

Hello Frits!

I don't know anything about quantum chem. at all. But I understand, that you
want to become a Debian maintainer of chemical packages.

First, you have to install, read and understand the debian-policy. It is a
seperate debian package. Then you have to learn, how to build a debian
package. Then you subscribe to debian-devel (warning: lot of traffic), and
post the list of packages you want to build. Then everyone will say: "Hey,
good, please do so" and that's it. You need to PGP sign your package, so get
the pgp package from a non-us mirror.

There are other tasks to be done, for example you need access to debian
master for uploading your package. Feel free to ask at debian-devel, if you
have problems.

On Aug 08, Frits Daalmans wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I have some questions regarding Debian's attitude towards scientific
> programs.

Debian aims to be a complete and wonderful linux distribution. scientific
programs are fine. In fact, there is no policy saying: we only need this or
that.

[lot of stuff snipped]

> I am a PhD student in something that could be described as comp.chem,
> and have recently obtained a new program for molecular modelling. It was
> produced under the GPL and (very well) written in C (IMHO).
> 
> Now my questions are these:
> - there is no section for chemistry or quantum chemistry yet in the
> Debian distribution. Do you think there would be anyone besides me who
> would like to have one? To start collecting the freeware programmature
> floating around on the 'net to an interoperating suite of quantum
> chemistry, modelling, and data conversion programs for both students
> and professionals in chemistry.

Build you package and create a section "scientific" or so.

> - If I contact the author of this 'moldy' program, Keith Refson, and
> ask his permission to compile and package it for Linux (only i386 for
> now), in which Debian mailinglists must I discuss this proposal to get
> it accepted?

Ask the author to choose a license like the GPL, the Artistic license or
other.

> PS: I have seen the debian-bugs database. I can fully understand if your
> response is: "the Debian team has about 11000 other tasks at hand now", 
> and in that case I'll search out a bugreport that I can solve instead.

You misunderstand: You will be member of the Debian team, and will try to
resolve your own bug reports :-). BTW: actually, the number of open bugs is
far below 11000. Every bug, open or closed, has a uniq number.

Marcus,
expecting the first chemical package soon.

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Problem with exim and fetchmail.

[Rob Browning]

I just switched over from sendmail to exim on one of my machines, and
I was having a problem getting my mail from any other machine via
fetchmail.  If I put fetchmail in verbose mode I can see that exim is
rejecting the SMTP command because there's no domain name:

fetchmail: SMTP> RCPT TO:
fetchmail: SMTP< 501 : recipient address must contain a domain

but it's fetchmail that's trying to send the mail locally to 
with no domain.  I feel sure I've overlooked something simple.  Any
help/(RTFM pointer) would be appreciated.

$ fetchmail -u rlb -a mailbox.cs.utexas.edu
Enter password for [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
fetchmail: 4 messages (4 seen) at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
reading message 1 of 4 (488 header bytes) fetchmail: SMTP listener doesn't like 
recipient address `rlb'
fetchmail: can't even send to calling user!
fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from mailbox.cs.utexas.edu: 
Unknown error 18446744073709551615
fetchmail: terminated with signal 2

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Re: Proposal and questions about chemistry Debian packages

[Stephen P. Ryan]

--- Frits Daalmans wrote:
...have recently obtained a new program for molecular modelling. It was
produced under the GPL and (very well) written in C (IMHO).
...

- If I contact the author of this 'moldy' program, Keith Refson, and
ask his permission to compile and package it for Linux (only i386 for
now), in which Debian mailinglists must I discuss this proposal to get
it accepted?
--- end of quote ---

It appears that others have taken up your other question(s), but not this one,
so I'll take a crack at it.

Probably the best source of information on this subject is at
http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/debian-faq-14.html
which answers the question, "How can I become a Debian software developer?" 
Since Debian is a volunteer effort, the packages included in Debian are mostly
the ones that somebody wanted badly enough to go ahead and package them.  If
this 'moldy' program is the one you were referring to as being under GPL, there
will be no problem - your package will probably go into the main distribution. 
Otherwise, the program may have to go into either contrib or non-free,
depending on how it has been released.

In any case, the official policy is that "development of Debian is open to all,
and new users with the right skills and/or willingness to learn are needed...",
so I would encourage you to go ahead and get started on making a package.  

I'm not in chemistry myself, so I don't know if this program will do it, but it
might be just the right thing to convince my father to try Debian - I know he's
been trying out molecular modeling programs for teaching purposes for a while,
and if the software was free, that would help a lot towards getting the
tightwads in charge of his university's budget to approve it :-)

Stephen Ryan Debian GNU/Linux 1.3.1
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Re: Video card

[Stephen P. Ryan]

--- Karsten Bolding wrote:
Hi

Does anybody know if this card woks with XFree.

  Matrox MGA PowerDocEd 2MB PCI grafikkort
--- end of quote ---
Yes, it should.  That's a Matrox Millenium PowerDoc Edition, which is supported
by the SVGA server in XFree86 3.3

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Re: ET4000

[Syrus Nemat-Nasser]

On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Shaleh wrote:

> I have an ET4000/W32p, does anyone have the X specs for this card??  If
> it helps it is a Diamond Stealth card.

Hi.  You must have a Diamond Stealth 32.  Have you searched through the
XFREE86 documentation for info about your card?  I used to have one, but
the XFREE support for it was not good at that time, and I upgraded to a
Stealth 64 (about 1.5 years ago).  However, there may be support now.  The
W32 readme file suggests that you try the SVGA server (at least as of
XFREE 3.3).  Have you checked to see if the Stealth 32 is in the card
database?

Syrus.

P.S. I only buy Matrox cards at present.

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Re: ET4000

[Shaleh]

I did not pay for it ;-)  There is support for it in the svga server.  I
was unsure that the cards listed in the X docs were the right cards.  I
wsa wondering if maybe someone out there knew the settings for it or
could point me towards somewhere to find it.  I try diamond's web site
but it was impossible to find anything.  Wish I had the money for a
matrox.


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urgent: I need all steps to setup an ppp server

[crontab]

Hi...I need urgently all posible information about how to setup and ppp
server.

Could some one teach me step by step?


thanks to all.


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Re: File impossible to delete

[Colin R. Telmer]

On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Peter S Galbraith wrote:

> Somehow, I got a corrupted file on my system:
> 
>  bash-2.00# ls -l /root/Mail/
>  total 269488144
>  c---r- 8240 8224 8224  32,  48 Aug  2  1995 drafts
> 
> I can't delete it!
> 
>  bash-2.00# chown root drafts 
>  chown: drafts: Operation not permitted
> 
>  bash-2.00# rm -f drafts 
>  rm: drafts: Operation not permitted
> 
> What can I do to get rid of it?

As root can you chmod 700 drafts and then try rm -f drafts?

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Re: urgent: I need all steps to setup an ppp server

[Tim Sailer]

In your email to me, [EMAIL PROTECTED], you wrote:
> 
> Hi...I need urgently all posible information about how to setup and ppp
> server.
> 
> Could some one teach me step by step?

A good start can be found on my ISP page... http://www.buoy.com/isp

look at the mgetty part or the portslave part.

Tim

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Re: File impossible to delete

[Scott K. Ellis]

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-

On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Peter S Galbraith wrote:

> > Somehow, I got a corrupted file on my system:
> > 
> >  bash-2.00# ls -l /root/Mail/
> >  total 269488144
> >  c---r- 8240 8224 8224  32,  48 Aug  2  1995 drafts
> > 
> > I can't delete it!
> 
> I just booted the rescue disk and ran `e2fsck -f' on the partition.
> After it fixed lots of stuff, including /root/Mail/drafts and files in
> /dev,  I thought I'd be okay.
> 
> After rebooting the file was still there, and still undeletable.
> What's worse, I looked at /dev and found unsavory things:
> 
> c---r-   1 1157612589115, 100 Oct  4  1997 MAKEDEV
> c---r-   1 8224 12320 32,  32 Feb 11  1987 beep
> c---r-   1 8224 8224  10,  48 Aug  2  1995 watchdog
> 
> I can't delete those either, in order to restore them using dpkg.

Check out chattr, they may have the immutable (+i) bit set.  Remove it and
you may be able to delete them.

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Version: 2.6.3a
Charset: noconv

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RR6HpHOi3UhVU519Ic1+DQ3hsKDRpOeV6t1R1k6WruFkOePI6Sah3+me/nvCIK79
iDnffgPw6finSYvH7rPZ98H1kmXbwbvB4xAl/ij6XwpBBCFU/btNi+Xm4CfC+woD
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Re: File impossible to delete

[Clint Adams]

> On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> 
> > Somehow, I got a corrupted file on my system:
> > 
> >  bash-2.00# ls -l /root/Mail/
> >  total 269488144
> >  c---r- 8240 8224 8224  32,  48 Aug  2  1995 drafts
> > 
> > I can't delete it!

You're going to need to use debugfs to get rid of it.  For a temporary fix you
can move it to /tmp.


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Re: File impossible to delete

[Peter S Galbraith]

"Colin R. Telmer" wrote:

> As root can you chmod 700 drafts and then try rm -f drafts?

I've tried stuff like

 bash-2.00# chmod 666 drafts
 chmod: drafts: Operation not permitted

 bash-2.00# touch drafts2; chmod 777 drafts2; mv drafts2 drafts ; rm drafts
 mv: cannot move `drafts2' to `drafts': Operation not permitted
 rm: drafts: Operation not permitted

 bash-2.00# mv drafts /tmp
 mv: cannot move `drafts' to `/tmp/drafts': Operation not permitted

 bash-2.00# chattr -i drafts
 chattr 1.10, 24-Apr-97 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
 chattr: No such device while reading flags on drafts


 bash-2.00# cat > debugfs-cmd
 kill_file /root/Mail/drafts
 ^D
 
 bash-2.00# debugfs -f ./debugfs-cmd /dev/sda3
 debugfs: kill_file /root/Mail/drafts
 Kill file by inode 14930
 538976304 Illegal block number passed to ext2fs_unmark_block_bitmap #538976304 
for block bitmap for /dev/sda3
 807411744 Illegal block number passed to ext2fs_unmark_block_bitmap #807411744 
for block bitmap for /dev/sda3
 538976288 Illegal block number passed to ext2fs_unmark_block_bitmap #538976288 
for block bitmap for /dev/sda3
 170926112 Illegal block number passed to ext2fs_unmark_block_bitmap #170926112 
for block bitmap for /dev/sda3
 1953067607 Illegal block number passed to ext2fs_unmark_block_bitmap 
#1953067607 for block bitmap for /dev/sda3
 540701541 Illegal block number passed to ext2fs_unmark_block_bitmap #540701541 
for block bitmap for /dev/sda3
 538976288 Illegal block number passed to ext2fs_unmark_block_bitmap #538976288 
for block bitmap for /dev/sda3
 538976304 Illegal block number passed to ext2fs_unmark_block_bitmap #538976304 
for block bitmap for /dev/sda3
 807411744 Illegal block number passed to ext2fs_unmark_block_bitmap #807411744 
for block bitmap for /dev/sda3
 538976288 Illegal block number passed to ext2fs_unmark_block_bitmap #538976288 
for block bitmap for /dev/sda3
 540024864 Illegal block number passed to ext2fs_unmark_block_bitmap #540024864 
for block bitmap for /dev/sda3
 538976288 Illegal block number passed to ext2fs_unmark_block_bitmap #538976288 
for block bitmap for /dev/sda3
 538980384 Illegal block number passed to ext2fs_unmark_block_bitmap #538980384 
for block bitmap for /dev/sda3
 538976288 Illegal block number passed to ext2fs_unmark_block_bitmap #538976288 
for block bitmap for /dev/sda3
 538976304 Illegal block number passed to ext2fs_unmark_block_bitmap #538976304 
for block bitmap for /dev/sda3
 
 ext2fs_write_inode_bitmap: Attempt to write to filesystem opened read-only 
 ext2fs_write_block_bitmap: Attempt to write to filesystem opened read-only 
 ext2fs_close: Attempt to write to filesystem opened read-only 

Nothing works!
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Re: Proposal and questions about chemistry Debian packages

[Ciccio]

> > I think that the section should be for scientific programs in
> > general. 
> 
> Yes, with GIS packages included: 
> 
>  - Vis5d -> available in Red Hat I think.
>  - grass

grass is huge and seems not to be maintained anymore (anybody
willing to bring 100M source to our century?) Also, almost no
any/Linux support, at least limitations with X at 24bit, etc.

Not a GIS, but nice: gmt

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Re: Installed perl-tk-400.202-2; now perl-tk is broken

[Rob Browning]

Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I can get the new pacakge to build, but it segfaults at "use
> Tk;" every time.  I've sort of convinced myself it might be a problem
> with the mixed (libc5/libc6) X package, but it's a guess...

Turned out that a new release (just today) of perl that was linked
against libc6 solved the problem.  I'll be uploading a functional
version of perl-tk for unstable shortly.  Should appear on a mirror
near you in a day or so.

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Re: urgent: I need all steps to setup an ppp server

[Kevin Traas]

 >Hi...I need urgently all posible information about how to setup and ppp
>server.

Check out the Howto's.  Specifically, PPP-Howto.

You can find these on your system under /usr/doc/HOWTO (if you have the
linux-doc package installed).

-Or-

You can find these on the web at:  http://www.li.org/Resources/HOWTO/

Good luck!!!

Later,

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Systems Analyst  Langley, BC, Canada
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Re: ET4000

[Syrus Nemat-Nasser]

On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Shaleh wrote:

> I did not pay for it ;-)  There is support for it in the svga server.  I
> was unsure that the cards listed in the X docs were the right cards.  I
> wsa wondering if maybe someone out there knew the settings for it or
> could point me towards somewhere to find it.  I try diamond's web site
> but it was impossible to find anything.  Wish I had the money for a
> matrox.

Understood.  I'm not sure, but if you run the xf86config script, you may
find the Diamond Stealth 32 listed in the catalog of supported cards.  You
could also try posting to comp.os.linux.hardware which would get your
question to a much larger audience.  If you are using a multisync monitor,
you would probably not be risking damage by simply trying to run the
card--however, you should do this at your own risk, of course.

Syrus.

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Re: Proposal and questions about chemistry Debian packages

[Peter S Galbraith]

Ciccio wrote:

> > >   I think that the section should be for scientific programs in
> > > general. 
> > 
> > Yes, with GIS packages included: 
> > 
> >  - Vis5d -> available in Red Hat I think.
> >  - grass
> 
> grass is huge and seems not to be maintained anymore (anybody
> willing to bring 100M source to our century?) Also, almost no
> any/Linux support, at least limitations with X at 24bit, etc.

I've never tried grass, only heard about it.
I'm about to test out Grassland, a commercial front-end to grass.
The version I have is for Win95/NT, but they (LAS Inc) is supported
to be releasing a Linux version this year.  Not free software :-(
 
> Not a GIS, but nice: gmt

Seems to me there's a Linux version of that too.  Be nice to have a 
.deb for it!
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Re: File impossible to delete

[Rob Browning]

Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I've tried stuff like

What kernel version are you running?

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Re: [DPKG] Integrity checking?

[Philippe Troin]

On Fri, 08 Aug 1997 09:15:06 BST "Magossa'nyi A'rpa'd" 
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

> Is dpkg can do integrity checking based on the MD5 hashes it uses?
> Our machine has been cracked, and we want to know which binaries have been
> compromised.

There are per-package md5 sums to check the integrity of the .deb you download, 
but not per-file sums.
What you can do is 
dpkg -iGROB 
like:
dpkg -iGROB /cdrom/bo/binary-i386
dpkg -iGROB /cdrom/contrib/binary-i386
etc...

This will reinstall all currently installed packages. This will have the side 
effect of reconfiguring everything...
If course, you'll have to check for
1) binaries in /usr/local
2) other binaries.

I'd suggest:
 o Removing ALL setuid bits in your system 
find / -perm +6000 | xargs chmod ug-s
 or chmod -R ug-s /
   (This might leave your system unusable except for root)
 o Check for all device files and remove the ones which are not in /dev
find / -name /dev -prune -o ( -type b -o -type c ) -print | xargs rm
Look for permissions for /dev/* and eventually fix them...
 o Do the dpkg -iGROB thing, which will resume correct setuidness.

This should give you a fairly secure system.
Disclaimer: Of course, this is just my advice, and you might destroy your 
system doing this...

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Re: File impossible to delete

[Peter S Galbraith]

Rob Browning wrote:

> What kernel version are you running?

The pre-release to 2.0.31, but I have 2.0.30 on hand.
The mess might have occurred when I tried 2.1.X kernels to get my IDE PD-CD
to work, which is why I'm currently using 2.0.31-pre-release.

Peter


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Re: ET4000

[Shaleh]

The card is in the list.  I was looking for RAMDAC info, clock settings,
and any special switches people set in their XF86Config file.  Thanks
for the newsgroup suggestion -- maybe I'll try that if noone here has
any suggestions. (Okay I like you Debian people better).


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Re: File impossible to delete

[Rob Browning]

Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> The pre-release to 2.0.31, but I have 2.0.30 on hand.
> The mess might have occurred when I tried 2.1.X kernels to get my IDE PD-CD
> to work, which is why I'm currently using 2.0.31-pre-release.

The kernels in the recent 2.1.4X past had serious ext2 filesystem bugs
which caused some problems on my drives before I backed off.  That's
why I asked.  In my case, e2fsck was able to fix everything, but of
course I had to run it *after* I reverted to an older kernel.

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Re: File impossible to delete

[Peter S Galbraith]

This is one for the books!

Clint Adams wrote:

> > On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> > 
> > > Somehow, I got a corrupted file on my system:
> > > 
> > >  bash-2.00# ls -l /root/Mail/
> > >  total 269488144
> > >  c---r- 8240 8224 8224  32,  48 Aug  2  1995 drafts
> > > 
> > > I can't delete it!
> 
> You're going to need to use debugfs to get rid of it.

This worked (with /dev/sda3 mounted as the root filesystem):

 debugfs -w -R "rm /root/Mail/drafts" /dev/sda3

Thanks everybody!
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Re: File impossible to delete

[Brandon Mitchell]

>  ext2fs_close: Attempt to write to filesystem opened read-only 

Have you confirmed that the partition is mounted read write?  Try to make 
another file in the same direcotry.  Otherwise, I'd saylesystem is 
extremely corrupted and you probably need to recreate that filesystem and 
reinstall the base system.  You will probably want to use dpkg get/set 
selections to restore with.

Brandon


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xautolock not working for me

[James D. Freels]

I just discovered that xautolock is no longer working for me.  I
immediately get an segmentation fault when executed.  I suspect this
started to occur when I upgraded to 1.3.1 from 1.3.0 using the newer
version of Xfree86_3.3.  Can anyone else confirm this before I file a
bug report?

I also tried compiling from source and received the same segmentation
error from the locally compiled version.

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