One More Time

[Robert Smith]

Here is my problem:

1. I can not install Linux on any of my machine's
hard drives because of different reasons, but there
are no hardware problems with my machines hard
drives, RAM, procesesors, etc.

2. I want to install Linux on a Syquest EzFlyer 135,
which is supposed to be supported, but when I use the
rescue disk it only shows my hard drive.

3. I know very, very little about Linux.

4. Please, no suggestions about using the ASH shell
or buying another machine.

Thank you for your time.
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Re: Beeping the Speaker

[Roderick Schertler]

On Sat, 21 Feb 1998 11:08:17 +1300 (NZDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Beattie) 
said:
> 
> My only problem is that echoing the \a twice runs them together to
> sound like one... I would like a double beep, so i used `runq;runq'
> to get a suitable pause in between beeps... If anyone has a better
> idea :)

perl >/dev/tty1 -we '$| = 1;
print "\a";
select undef, undef, undef, 0.25;
print "\a"'

The 0.25 indicates a pause of 0.25 seconds.

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Re: Fetchmail & Smail Problems

[Marcus Brinkmann]

On Wed, Feb 25, 1998 at 02:50:06AM +, Deniz Dogan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> > Welcome in the club, you are using smail 3.2.0.100-x, don't you?
> 
> No. 3.2.0.92-3. I`m using bo.

Oh. It would have been soo easy to downgrade ;)
 
> After trying some configurations with smailconfig I managed to sent
> mail.

Good.

> But ftechmail still doesn`t work, It`s a general problem I think, as I
> wrote
> in my previous post telneting to the localhost doesn`t work also.
> Connection
> is refused. Any ideas?

This is really strange. Sorry, I'm no expert here...
 
> > looks ok. You can try to give fetchmail the dma option and use procmail. I
> 
> I tried that: (procmail 3.10.4-2)
> 
> $fetchmail -v -k -m "/usr/bin/procmail"
> 
> It worked but elm (2.4pl25ME+31-5) complained that the folder is
> corrupted. Man
> page says:
> 
>If running suid root or  with  root  privileges,  procmail
>will  be able to perform as a functionally enhanced, back­
>wards compatible mail delivery agent.
> 
> Isn`t it possible to run as a non-root user?

It has already the correct permissions, at least here:
flora$ ls -l 'which procmail'
-rwsr-sr-x   1 root mail56224 Jan 31 20:45 /usr/bin/procmail*

I have "/usr/bin/procmail -f-" as option to fetchmail, perhaps this helps?
 
> Is there any other options to use as MDA? Preferably, how can I solve
> `connection
> refuse` problem?

Sorry, don't know. Try to look hard at the various files in /etc, as
/etc/hosts*, /etc/resolv.conf etc...

Marcus

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mgetty voice/fax/data

[Paul Miller]

Did anyone respond to my email?  I lost a days worth of messages from this
list.

I have a SupraFAXModem 288i v.34 (33.6kbs) and I'm wondering how to   
configure mgetty to distinguish voice/fax/date calls and use caller id. 

>From looking at the mgetty logs, mgetty sends "AT+FAA=1" to my modem after
the init_chat initialization strings.. +FAA=1 is 'Adaptive Answering' for
class 2 fax modems, which distinguishes between fax and data.  There is
another type of answering called 'Silent Answer Plus' (AT+FAA=4 for class
2) that also determines voice.  What is the deference between silent
answer and adaptive?  Does mgetty support silent answer?  And how can I   
send the +FAA=4 command to my modem instead of +FAA=1?
   
For caller id, what format does mgetty expect it to be in?  My modem
supports 'readable format' (#CID=1) and 'ascii printable characters in
hex' (#CID=2).  Also, how do I tell mgetty to use caller id and look at
the dialin.config file?

Finally, how can I monitor what mgetty is doing?  I want smbclient to send
a message with the caller id strings to another machine when a voice call
is detected. 

Anyone have experiance with this type of setup?  If so, I'd like to hear
from you (please also include your modem type).

Thanks
-Paul



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Re: X Windows 16-bit

[Bill Leach]

Two things... first, are use sure that you have to recompile?  I thought
that this was just a change to the fvwm2 config files.  Second, is that
I can move windows between virtual screens by dragging the window so
that it overlaps both and then switch to the destination and finish
'pulling' the window to where I want it to be.  I did not change the
default fvwm2 configuration and certainly did not recompile.

> The behaviour has changed upstream. The only way to reenable this is
> to change this is the code and recompile. I also wanted to do this,
> but never got enough time for this. I had the patch somewhere, but
> can't find it at the moment.
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Re: Binary Directorys

[Michael Beattie]

On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Oliver Elphick wrote:

> Michael Beattie wrote:
>   >
>   >Is there any significant difference between /bin|/sbin and
>   >/usr/bin|/usr/sbin ??? I am just interested as to why there are two bin
>   >and sbin directorys.
> 
> Stuff in /usr may not be present when the machine first boots - if /usr is
> a separate partition.  Programs in /bin and /sbin are needed in single user
> mode when /usr is not mounted.
> 
> 

Thought that might be the case

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Re: Using Debian Linux for Dumb Terminals

[Jeff Noxon]

On Tue, Feb 24, 1998 at 06:17:28PM -0800, Jeff Alami wrote:
> Are there any information resources I can look at which will show
> instructions on setting up a multiport serial card with dumb terminals
> for Linux?

All you really need to know is the name of the device.  On the Cyclades
card, it's /dev/ttyC0..ttyC7 in the case of my 8-port card.  A standard
serial port would be /dev/ttyS0 (equivalent to COM1: in DOS).  Add an
entry to /etc/inittab for each terminal device, run "init q", and you're
basically done.

Depending on what card you have and how the terminals are wired up,
you may have to deal with issues like hardware flow control.  The getty
man page can help with that.  In general it shouldn't be a problem to
run terminals without hardware flow control.

What kind of terminals are you using, by the way?  I assume you have
something standard like a VT100 clone.

Jeff


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Re: One More Time

[Jeff Noxon]

On Tue, Feb 24, 1998 at 07:00:28PM -0800, Robert Smith wrote:
> Here is my problem:
> 
> 1. I can not install Linux on any of my machine's
> hard drives because of different reasons, but there
> are no hardware problems with my machines hard
> drives, RAM, procesesors, etc.
> 2. I want to install Linux on a Syquest EzFlyer 135,
> which is supposed to be supported, but when I use the
> rescue disk it only shows my hard drive.

Is this a SCSI device or is it connected to the parallel port or what?
A _detailed_ description of your hardware might help.  If the EzFlyer
is connected to a SCSI card, what make/model is the card, and does it
have a BIOS, and if so, is it enabled?

> 3. I know very, very little about Linux.

We're here to help.

Jeff


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Re: Using Debian Linux for Dumb Terminals

[Jeff Alami]

Jeff Noxon wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 24, 1998 at 06:17:28PM -0800, Jeff Alami wrote:
> > Are there any information resources I can look at which will show
> > instructions on setting up a multiport serial card with dumb terminals
> > for Linux?
>
> All you really need to know is the name of the device.  On the Cyclades
> card, it's /dev/ttyC0..ttyC7 in the case of my 8-port card.  A standard
> serial port would be /dev/ttyS0 (equivalent to COM1: in DOS).  Add an
> entry to /etc/inittab for each terminal device, run "init q", and you're
> basically done.
>
> Depending on what card you have and how the terminals are wired up,
> you may have to deal with issues like hardware flow control.  The getty
> man page can help with that.  In general it shouldn't be a problem to
> run terminals without hardware flow control.
>
> What kind of terminals are you using, by the way?  I assume you have
> something standard like a VT100 clone.

Thanks for the information! So I know I can get Linux working. They are
actually just simple VT100 clones, made by Data General a million years
ago. We used to connect them to a Data General minicomputer system
running VMS and TransSoft Business BASIC. We are currently using SCO
UNIX because it also has TransSoft Business BASIC; but now that there
are Business BASIC interpreters for Linux, I don't need SCO anymore.

I am also having a look at the Serial-HOWTO; I didn't know it was so
easy!

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Re: One More Time

[aqy6633]

> 2. I want to install Linux on a Syquest EzFlyer 135,
> which is supposed to be supported, but when I use the
> rescue disk it only shows my hard drive.

Please be more specific about your hardware. What kind og EzFlyer you
have? (SCSI, IDE, parallel port), what kind of hard drive (IDE, SCSI),
SCSI adapter, IDE controller.

Alex Y.

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Re: Matrox Millenium II again

[Lee Bradshaw]

Hi,

I had problems with the Millenium II driver from XSuSE.  The backspace
key worked at the bash prompt, but not in vim.  I use a version I
downloaded from xfree86.  I untarred it to a temp directory and copied
the new XF86_SVGA file to /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA after moving the
old version.  The CTRL-mouse button menus don't work properly, and I
sometimes get garbage in the far right column on an xterm.

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Re: Matrox Millenium II again

[Ben Pfaff]

   I had problems with the Millenium II driver from XSuSE.  The backspace
   key worked at the bash prompt, but not in vim.  I use a version I
   downloaded from xfree86.  I untarred it to a temp directory and copied
   the new XF86_SVGA file to /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA after moving the
   old version.  The CTRL-mouse button menus don't work properly, and I
   sometimes get garbage in the far right column on an xterm.

You need to set up XKB properly for XSuSE.  There should be some sort
of error message about this when you run startx.  The fix is basically
making a link to a directory.  After you do this, everything will work
properly.  It worked for me!


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Re: Beeping the Speaker

[Michael Beattie]

On 24 Feb 1998, Roderick Schertler wrote:

> On Sat, 21 Feb 1998 11:08:17 +1300 (NZDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael 
> Beattie) said:
> > 
> > My only problem is that echoing the \a twice runs them together to
> > sound like one... I would like a double beep, so i used `runq;runq'
> > to get a suitable pause in between beeps... If anyone has a better
> > idea :)
> 
> perl >/dev/tty1 -we '$| = 1;
>   print "\a";
>   select undef, undef, undef, 0.25;
>   print "\a"'
> 
> The 0.25 indicates a pause of 0.25 seconds.
> 

Excellent... works perfectly :) Thanks.


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Re: Fetchmail & Smail Problems

[Michael Beattie]

On 24 Feb 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote:

> Deniz Dogan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > fetchmail: SMTP connect to (null) failed
> 
> Add "smtphost localhost" to your .fetchmailrc
> 
> And als oadd localhost to the hostnames in /etc/smail/config 
> 

I had the same problem, and this solved it quickly... here's what Deniz
means:

---~/.fetchmailrc
poll [ISP_mailhost] proto POP3
user [ISP_userid] with password [ISP_pass] is [LOCAL_userid] here
smtphost localhost<- here
---=end=-

---/etc/smail/config-
[snip]
visible_name=mybox.com
-domains
hostnames=mybox.com:localhost  < and here

max_load_ave=5
smtp_accept_max=20
[snip]
---=end=-

Hope that work for you

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SyJET driver

[iquest]

Hi,

  I've finally connected and mounted the SyJET onto my Linux box.
  Everything seems to work fine.  However, I noticed that the SyJET
  mount point would sometime 'magically' change itself from 'rw' to
  'readonly' mode.  I suspect that when the drive went into idle
  for a long time and it spinned itself down which would cause this
  mode changed from 'rw' -> 'readonly'.

  Secondly,  I've written some files onto this SyJET after I mounted
  it as vfat/fat.  However, when I tried to read it from Windows/NT,
  I got error saying that the files from this SyJET have some error!

  If anyone could help me out on this problems,  please drop an email.
  Thanks!

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Re: Matrox Millenium II again

[Lee Bradshaw]

"Ben Pfaff wrote:"
>I had problems with the Millenium II driver from XSuSE.  The backspace
>key worked at the bash prompt, but not in vim.  I use a version I
>downloaded from xfree86.  I untarred it to a temp directory and copied
>the new XF86_SVGA file to /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA after moving the
>old version.  The CTRL-mouse button menus don't work properly, and I
>sometimes get garbage in the far right column on an xterm.
> 
> You need to set up XKB properly for XSuSE.  There should be some sort
> of error message about this when you run startx.  The fix is basically
> making a link to a directory.  After you do this, everything will work
> properly.  It worked for me!

Thanks Ben,

I had XkbDisable in my XF86Config file.  It seems like this would avoid
XKB problems, but maybe I'm wrong.  Do you have this option commented in
your config?  I'll try it again when I get a chance.

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Re: smail Solution for Dynamic IP's

[maor]

Hi Art,

I'd like to see your solution and also your headers.  Could you post a
copy of your headers for those of us reading the digest version of the
mailing list?  Or just reply to this mail?  I guess your message will
eventually show up in the archive, but it wasn't there yet.

Thanks
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Re: SyJET driver

[aqy6633]

Hi.

You might need to feedle with options in your SCSI adapter BIOS.
(like "enable motor spin-up", play with "map removable as fixed", etc).

What scsi adapter are you using? It always a good idea to get more up
to date driver.

Alex Y.
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Re: BGP

[Manoj Srivastava]

Hi,
>>"Stephen" == Stephen Zedalis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Stephen> On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Scott Ellis wrote:
>> Nope.  You need to sign a licence to distribute it at all
>> (including in non-free) and Debian isn't willing to sign the
>> licence (and you can't just have "someone else" sign the licence
>> and then upload it to non-free).

Stephen> Hmm... Isn't it for things like this that the Debian board
Stephen> was created? And if the license is free, why don't they want
Stephen> to sign it?

How can you say the licence is free? It seems abaout as
 restricitve as they can get without getting commercial. (free is not
 for no cost in this context)

Stephen> The current bo distribution has several packages
Stephen> of software that is just as dubious in licensing and of
Stephen> possibly less usefulness.  merit-radius is just such an
Stephen> example.  As far as I know it is commercial-ware put out by
Stephen> Merit.

If this is the case, this is a major bug in the distribution. 

Stephen> This is starting to smack of the same problems that
Stephen> the various BSD flavors have, ie. a particular committee
Stephen> slowly making decisions "for the public good" but seemingly
Stephen> out of touch with users needs.

Well, since this committee is doing all the work, and you know
 what they are getting paid for it, I think they have a right, don't
 you? (the committee in question is the set of people who work on
 Debian, and public good has nothing to do with it) 

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POP

[Johan Berglund]

I´m sorry but this might not be a Debian-specific question,
but I don´t know where to ask it and you out there on the list seems
to be nice people ;-)

I have a Linux box at home serving a couple of windows 95/NT
clients with SMB resources, telnet and POP mail.
I also have a dialout modem for connecting to the internet
using IP masquerading and diald to give the 95/NT clients
the ability to go out on the net.

There are different users on the win clients and therefor different
E-mail accounts out on the internet and I would like to have my
Linux box fetch ALL the users E-mail by using POP3 to the
different E-mail servers out on the net. Then I want to 
pickup the waiting mail from the Linux box to the clients
with POP3 again.

I´d like it to check for and get E-mails each time I manualy
connects or when the diald connects. I also want it to connect
on regular basis IF no connect has occured for a while.

I don´t know if this is possible but I have heard a romour...


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Re: APC UPS'es

[Gerardo Lamastra]

Well, we use a Linux powered server which is tied to the APC SmartUPS 1000
and everything works right.
I think you should not have any problem to configure the UPS; the
genpowerd daemon is used, with the following command line:

/sbin/genpowerd /dev/ttyS1 apc-advanced

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IMAP quirk

[Dale Harrison]

I've got IMAP4 (imap4-4.1) installed and it seems to work well.. I'm using
Netscape 4 as the mail client, I can retrieve/send mail fine. WHat I can't
do it delete messages.

It moves them into the trash folder, then barfs that it could not delete the
source file [the actual message I assume]

So it's a case of having all the messages still in the INBOX, and a copy of
the semi-deleted ones in TRASH.

Is this an IMAP or a Netscape problem? Is it a problem? Am I overlooking
something hideously simple?

D.


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Dvorak keybindings in X

[Adam Shand]

Hey,

A question on behalf of a friend.  We have the dvorak key bindings working
fine in console mode but can't get them to work under X.

Can anyone point me in the right direction to get this to work under X as
well?

Thanks,

Adam.


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re: wwwcount from hamm

[Adam Shand]

> I called the cgi script like that:   (Debian hamm / Apache) 
>Does NOT work !!
> 
> BUT:
> http://my.ip.addrr/cgi-bin/wwwcount.cgi?df=counter.dat";> 
> WORKS fine
> 
> Can anybody tell me what i did wrong 

i'm guessing but you may have hit the 'anti-counter terrorism' mechanism.
the counter program will only allow certain ip#'s to use it to stop people
all over the web using your counter program without your consent.

the counter may use the url it is called from to determine who is
requesting to use it.

or i could be wildly wrong.

adam.

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Re: Speak-Freely Problems

[Adam Shand]

I am able to get speak-freely version 6.1b-2 to work fine on a mixed
bo/hamm system.  I can't explain your problem but the debian package works
fine for me with a standard soundblaster 16 (ie. definately not a
full-duplex card).

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> AFAIK the standard version of speak-freely is compiled with the "DUPLEX"
> option, so it works only with the fully duplex capable hardware<->driver.
> AFAIK most of the drivers available in OSS-Free included into Linux system 
> do not support the full duplex.
> Get the source version of speek-freely package, set the
> DUPLEX= -HALF_DUPLEX 
> in the Makefile, and rebuild the package.
> 
>   Wojtek Zabolotny
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> 
> On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Luke Bussanmas wrote:
> 
> > I am unable to get Speak-Freely to work on my system.  The sfspeaker
> > program outputs:
> > 
> > opening audio output device: Device or resource busy
> > 
> > Repeated several dozen times after attempting to communicate with an echo
> > server.  I realize this means that /dev/audio is still being controlled by
> > another program, however I don't see a way to fix the problem.
> > 
> > I can also easliy do cat /dev/audio > temp.au; cat temp.au > /dev/audio;
> > and hear what I spoke into the microphone.
> > 
> > TIA
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APC UPS

[adavis]

I have a small APC BackUPS Pro working with debian linux.  The genpower
debian package is really easy to get working for that unit. 

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Re: Port Scanning

[Adam Shand]

> > Is there anything out there to stop people from port scanning my system ?
> > I had someone last night scan my system from port 1 to 50,000 !
> 
> Firewalling or tcp_wrappers configured the right way.

tcp-wrappers will not stop you from being scanned.  even if the port is
wrapped it will still show up as an open port to a scan.  you also can't
wrap udp services.

if you are paranoid enough that this is an issue i suggest you break out
a firewall book and ipfwadm and decide who exactly you want to be able to
talk to what on your box.

> There is nmap in hamm that does the port scanning.

there is also strobe that comes with the netdiag package... it's very
good.

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Swap disk size

[Clement]

When I set a swap partition of 256MB, in fact anything > 128MB, and
install Linux, Linux reset it to 128MB.   Is 128MB the limit of swap
disk for Linux?   Software like dnews says 256MB swap disk is
recommended.

Regards,

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Sound

[Wojciech Zukowski]

I have a sound card Aztech SGBXII...i've compiled new kernel with
sound support built-in (no module). when i was trying to compile
this as a module i can't stard sound. alltime messages no such device
(but i've had module sound loaded). with sound built-in kernel al is 
good..but i can't play mp3, mid,mod..only wave,au.
i was trying with all packages from bo/sound..and only splay,bplay and
saytime i can use. and i haven't any ideas how to do it,and what i'm dooing
baI have a sound card Aztech SGBXII...i've compiled new kernel with
sound support built-in (no module). when i was trying to compile
this as a module i can't stard sound. alltime messages no such device
(but i've had module sound loaded). with sound built-in kernel al is 
good..but i can't play mp3, mid,mod..only wave,au.
i was trying with all packages from bo/sound..and only splay,bplay and
saytime i can use. and i haven't any ideas how to do it,and what i'm doing
badd

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Re: Swap disk size

[Craig Sanders]

On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Clement wrote:

> When I set a swap partition of 256MB, in fact anything > 128MB,
> and install Linux, Linux reset it to 128MB.  Is 128MB the limit of
> swap disk for Linux?  Software like dnews says 256MB swap disk is
> recommended.

swap partitions are limited to 128MB each.  You can have up to 16 of
them.

if dnews is really going to use all that swap, spread the swap
partitions across multiple drives to improve performance. don't put swap
on the same drive as your news spool or performance will suffer.

for maximum performance, you want something like:

- system/boot drive - OS & kernel, maybe a swap partition

- one or more swap drives (optional)small and fast is best.  

- one or more news spool drives.  use raid if you have more than one 
drive.

- i don't know how dnews works, but if it's anything like inn you'll
  want to keep its history file on a separate drive from the main
  news spoolor just rely on raid to spread the disk i/o load.

with the price of memory these days, you may find it's better value for
your money to just get 256MB or 512MB of ram than to dedicate a drive to
swapping.  News is something that really benefits from memory...

craig

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Server Questions [mildly offtopic]

[Nathan E Norman]

We are looking at purchasing a new server to add to our stable, and I'm
looking for some feedback/opinions/experience with news and/or SMP
systems with Debian Linux.  Private email is welcomed, since this isn't
really list material (sorry)

What I'm looking for is this:  If you're running SMP, does it work well?
Problems?  Hints?  Same with news ... does a specific version of INN do
the trick?  Any special kernel configs?  You get the idea.

Oh, and before I forget ... I heard there is a company providing phone
support for Debian Linux.  If this is true, who is it?  What are the
rates?  I work for a corporation that is becoming comfortable with the
idea of Linux, but wants tech support available.  I'd rather run Debian
than RedHat/Caldera, so please help!

TIA!!  

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Re: Modem Problems....

[Nathan E Norman]

On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Timothy M. Hospedales wrote:

: Is there a neat utility to display what things are using what IRQs?
: 
: Thanks,
: Timothy

cat /proc/interrupts

: 
: > Sounds like you have an IRQ conflict. Read the 'dmesg' output and see
: > exactly what interrupt the serial port is on, and make sure it's not
: > the same interrupt as another card.
: >
: 
: 
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Re: 'LaTeX' mode in xemacs

[Paul Huygen]

Paul Rightley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> When I edit
> a LaTeX file on this RedHat machine with xemacs, I get a LaTeX
> menu when I right-click. Also, xemacs has  'command' and 'LaTeX'
> pull-down menus in this situation. On my hamm machine [..], I get no
> such menu when editing a LaTeX file.  How do
> I go about changing this?

The features that you refer to are supplied by the auctex package. It
is a good idea to install that package.

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security problem (tcp/ip)

[Benoit Joly]

hi,
i found that everyone on our hubs can get my ftp, and pop3 password so
easy with a sniffer.
can i do something against that, because now i dont trust tcpip transfert,
it send all my user name and password in ascii code.
wow!!

thanks

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Re: Port Scanning

[Pure Energy]

On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Ian Eure wrote:

> You might want to look at Abacus Sentry- you can get it from www.psionic.com
> 
> matthew tebbens wrote:
> 
> > Is there anything out there to stop people from port scanning my system ?
> > I had someone last night scan my system from port 1 to 50,000 !
> >
> > I heard that there is a portscand out there somewhere, if so where ?


I downloaded, went over the README, configured, ran make, *and* did a few
quick tests of the Abacus Sentry program tonight in 10 minutes. It's easy
to setup and works great. 

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Re: new hamm nmh breaks header rewriting, isp becomes irate

[David Stern]

On Sun, 22 Feb 1998 17:43:39 EST, wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Stern) writes:

> The most likely explanation is that nmh has started adding Sender:
> lines; this is in general a good thing - we just need to be careful to 
> take them out or rewrite them nicely on the way out.  It may be that
> some machines are rejecting your mail for having sender lines with two 
> @ signs in them.  In that case, a kludge to fix it is to change the
> line that adds the sender stuff to:
> insert_header="Sender: \
> ${if def:ident_sender \
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]@$visible_name}}
>
> This, combined with the remove_header line above, should get things
> back to the way they were.

This idea sound effective, but I had problems getting smail to take 
this, probably because I'm not putting it in the correct place -- where 
exactly does this go?

> Hmm... Sender headers really shouldn't be rewritten like this if they
> already exist... Perhaps something like:
> from_field="From: \
> ${if def:ident_sender \
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] \
> {$sender${if def:sender_name: ($sender_name)}}}
>
> in /etc/smail/config and then nothing dealing with Sender: headers in
> the transports file (neither adding or removing) would be better.

This sounds more artful, and I think I sort of got this to work (it's 
as good as it was before, at least -- more on this in a second).  
There's a double quote missing from the end.  Thanks, Daniel.

> You may also want to ensure that the visible_name used is something
> other than "localhost", which is what it appears to be set to.
> Unfortunately, the only way I've found to do that (without having a
> name registered with .dyn.ml.org) is to rewrite /etc/smail/config each 
> time ip-up is called.  (There's one way of doing that on my webpage
> http://www.math.jhu.edu/~martind/mybox.html - after I wrote that page
> I figured out a cleaner method using m4)

I thought I only needed that set visible_hostname to my dynamically 
assigned IPA if I needed to be able to be contacted directly there.  I 
see one potential conflict with setting my visible_hostname to my 
dynamically assigned IPA, and that would be depending on how smart my 
smarthost is, bounced mails, as sometimes occur for reasons other than 
my Sender: line, may be bounced to my isp after I disconnect, and right 
now, that would be a bad thing.  I know that the visible_hostname, 
mx[1-4].u.washington.edu, set by allowing the default "set at runtime" 
works for mail delivery, because I've tried it, but the dynamically 
assigned IPA I'd get would be much different (something like 
cs_student_XXX.washington.edu), and I'm afraid to test that, because my 
isp is irate with me right now.  What exactly do the RFC's say about 
this?

> (One of these days I'm just going to get fed up and write a mailer
> designed for dialup systems which need to rewrite headers on the way
> out and may well have no consistent name - the wonders of free
> software that I won't have to start from scratch...)

I don't know why there aren't provisions made for this in the 
traditional MTA's, because dialup networking is probably one of the 
most common types of internet connections now.  This should be standard.

I really appreciate your help.  It'd have taken me eons to figure this 
out alone.  Thanks, Daniel.
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Re: Matrox Millenium II again

[Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131]

>> I think Xinside Accelerated X 4.1 supports the Matrox Series. I thikn it is
>> overall better than XFree86 since most of the drivers are optimized for the
>> specific cards. 

As far as I know the Millenium II also works with MetroX, and yet again it is
not free but it is a good package, and very easy to set up and get running. 
For more information check out the RedHat's site (www.redhat.com) as I can't
remember the metrox web address.

Regards

Graham
 
>> check it out youreself  www.xinside.com
>> 
>> The package doesn't come free though. It cost $100 but I think it is well
>> worth it.
>> 
>> > 
>> > Hello Debian-users,
>> > 
>> > I have installed Debian Linux 1.3.1 (from InfoMagic CD-set dated 
>> > Aug 97). Next I would like to have XFree86 running, but with my
>> > Matrox Millenium II I have faced some problems (I have Nokia 447Xpro 
>> > terminal with line frequency range from 30 to 96 kHz and refresh 
>> > frequency range from 50 to 150 Hz). I have made extensive search for 
>> > help through newsgroups and several Linux links. It seems that in this
>> > mailing list there have been discussions about Millenium II as well. 
>> > But it seems to me that there are various ways to deal with this
>> > problem and as a new Linux user I am a bit confused. XSuSE servers 
>> > have been mentioned, on the other hand somebody says that only latest 
>> > version of XFree86 is needed from XFree86 ftp site (they should have 
>> > experimental version that supports Millenium II). 
>> > 
>> > I have tried XSuSE-server. I strictly followed the instructions in their
>> > web-page under "Installation of the XSuSE-X-Server", ie. I downloaded the
>> > relevant *.tgz files (both the server and xf86config) and untarred them as
>> > instructed. Then I run xf86config. If I then run XF86Setup, while
>> > selecting card I get an error message. Matrox Millenium II is on the
>> > list, but apparently cannot be selected. 
>> > 
>> > I would be extremely happy if somebody could write down short step by 
>> > step instructions for the XFree86 installation with Matrox Millenium II,
>> > either with XSuSE-server or some other valid way.
>> > 
>> > Best regards,
>> > 
>> > Antti
>> > 
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Re: Port Scanning

[Chi Wong]

I think you could design a perl script or some kind of script for that if a
icmp/udp/tcp is being done to your system at x amount of time you could use
ipfwadm to block it. ipfwadm is a very powerful tool. I used to be port
scanned daily and icmp attack, use ipfwadm to block it. 

> 
> 
> > > Is there anything out there to stop people from port scanning my system ?
> > > I had someone last night scan my system from port 1 to 50,000 !
> > 
> > Firewalling or tcp_wrappers configured the right way.
> 
> tcp-wrappers will not stop you from being scanned.  even if the port is
> wrapped it will still show up as an open port to a scan.  you also can't
> wrap udp services.
> 
> if you are paranoid enough that this is an issue i suggest you break out
> a firewall book and ipfwadm and decide who exactly you want to be able to
> talk to what on your box.
> 
> > There is nmap in hamm that does the port scanning.
> 
> there is also strobe that comes with the netdiag package... it's very
> good.
> 
> adam.
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Re: Port Scanning

[Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131]

>> I think you could design a perl script or some kind of script for that if a
>> icmp/udp/tcp is being done to your system at x amount of time you could use
>> ipfwadm to block it. ipfwadm is a very powerful tool. I used to be port
>> scanned daily and icmp attack, use ipfwadm to block it. 
>> 
>> > 
>> > 
>> > > > Is there anything out there to stop people from port scanning my
system ?
>> > > > I had someone last night scan my system from port 1 to 50,000 !
>> > > 
>> > > Firewalling or tcp_wrappers configured the right way.

Just a quick question regarding port scanning, how do you tell that you have
been scanned
I assume it shows up in the log files.

Alos if you decide to implement a firewall then you might want to check out TIS
at www.tis.com (if i remember correctly) as the do a free firewall toolkit, you
may also want to check out the socks package as well.

Regards

Graham
>> > 
>> > tcp-wrappers will not stop you from being scanned.  even if the port is
>> > wrapped it will still show up as an open port to a scan.  you also can't
>> > wrap udp services.
>> > 
>> > if you are paranoid enough that this is an issue i suggest you break out
>> > a firewall book and ipfwadm and decide who exactly you want to be able to
>> > talk to what on your box.
>> > 
>> > > There is nmap in hamm that does the port scanning.
>> > 
>> > there is also strobe that comes with the netdiag package... it's very
>> > good.
>> > 
>> > adam.
>> > 
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Re: How to track hard drive seeks?(more info/questions)

[Carey Evans]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

> strace -p  -f   didn't trap the bdflush process.

bdflush() is a system call, not a program.  See the bdflush man page,
and /usr/src/linux/fs/buffer.c.

I thought bdflush() only wrote dirty file system buffers, so another
process (or kernel task) must be dirtying them.  Try dropping into
single-user mode ("telinit 1") and starting and stopping individualy
programs (with "/etc/init.d/foo start" and "... stop") and seeing
whether the disk is used.

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Re: POP

[Carey Evans]

"Johan Berglund" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> There are different users on the win clients and therefor different
> E-mail accounts out on the internet and I would like to have my
> Linux box fetch ALL the users E-mail by using POP3 to the
> different E-mail servers out on the net. Then I want to 
> pickup the waiting mail from the Linux box to the clients
> with POP3 again.

You can use something like qpopper to be the POP3 server on the Linux
box.  Then use fetchmail to download the email with a .fetchmailrc
like this:

poll foo.example.com protocol pop3:
user c.evans there with password guessagain is carey here;
poll bar.example.com protocol pop3:
user fido there with password ruff is heyyou here;

I'm doing something very similar to this at work, where a script runs
hourly to dial up, upload and download mail, and hang up again.

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Re: security problem (tcp/ip)

[Carey Evans]

Benoit Joly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>   i found that everyone on our hubs can get my ftp, and pop3 password so
> easy with a sniffer.
> can i do something against that, because now i dont trust tcpip transfert,
> it send all my user name and password in ascii code.

Get ssh from a Debian non-US mirror.  This will solve most of your
problems.  For pop3, you can forward it over ssh, or use something
with APOP authentication if the content of your email isn't sensitive.

You can also plant fake emails and see who's reading them by the
rumors that start to spread...

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Re: Port Scanning

[Adam Shand]

> Just a quick question regarding port scanning, how do you tell that you have
> been scanned
> I assume it shows up in the log files.

not necessarily.  if you are running tcplogd (from the iplogger package)
then you get a line like below for every tcp (this does NOT get ucp or
icmp packets) connection to your host:

Feb 25 01:12:01 badger tcplogd: 
smtp connection attempt from nowhere.org

tcpwrappers will also log connections to services and attempt to ident the
user at the host the request came from (though ident requests are easily
forged).

Feb 22 12:19:50 badger wu-ftpd[5222]: 
connect from [EMAIL PROTECTED]

the only *real* way to enable firewalling in your kernel and write a
firewall using ipfwadm.  the key for logging is a line like this at the
end of your allow list:

ipfwadm -I -a deny -S $ANYWHERE -D $HOST -o

where $ANYWHERE = 0.0.0.0/0 and $HOST = your ip

with this setup you can log basically any connection, and in fact if you
want to can even log traffic that was broadcast on the same segment but
wasn't actually for you (so you can watch for people sending RFC1918
addresses).

> Alos if you decide to implement a firewall then you might want to check
> out TIS at www.tis.com (if i remember correctly) as the do a free
> firewall toolkit, you may also want to check out the socks package as
> well. 

the tis stuff and socks isn't really for protecting a host, they are for
protecting a network behind a host which is acting as a
router/gateway/proxy.

adam.

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Re: Port Scanning

[Martin Bialasinski]

Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Just a quick question regarding port scanning, how do you tell that you have
> been scanned
> I assume it shows up in the log files.

The package courtney can do this monitoring. It will report to syslog and
also mail root about an incident.
Also xinetd (and maybe inetd as well, don't know) can report any
connection made to the system.

Ciao,
Martin


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Re: 'LaTeX' mode in xemacs

[Martin Bialasinski]

Paul Huygen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Paul Rightley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > When I edit
> > a LaTeX file on this RedHat machine with xemacs, I get a LaTeX
> > menu when I right-click. Also, xemacs has  'command' and 'LaTeX'
> > pull-down menus in this situation. On my hamm machine [..], I get no
> > such menu when editing a LaTeX file.  How do
> > I go about changing this?
> 
> The features that you refer to are supplied by the auctex package. It
> is a good idea to install that package.

This shouldn't be necessary for xemacs. From the auctex package:

 Currently XEmacs ships with its own AUC TeX, so this package should only
 be used with GNU/Emacs. (I.e. you don't need to install it if your site
 has only XEmacs installed.)  

But I don't do any TeX yet, so I can't help any further.

Ciao,
Martin


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Re: Fetchmail & Smail Problems

[Martin Bialasinski]

Deniz Dogan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> But ftechmail still doesn`t work, It`s a general problem I think, as I
> wrote in my previous post telneting to the localhost doesn`t work also.
> Connection is refused. Any ideas?

Comment out any rule in /etc/hosts.deny and try again. If this works, then
reenable one rule at a time to find the problem.

Ciao,
Martin


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Re: lean indexed navigation tool for system help

[Martin Bialasinski]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Stern) writes:

> My only idea was that something like that might be possible using a 
> search engine (ht-dig), a web-server (apache), and a browser (Lynx or 
> Netscape) setup with mime-types for the various doc formats and 
> locations.  However, he would like a leaner, ready-made utility.
> 
> Do any of you less mortals know of anything that would fit this 
> description?

Yes. man2html, info2www, dwww and dhelp. All of them are debian packages.

Check them out.

Ciao,
Martin


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Re: X Windows 16-bit

[Martin Bialasinski]

Bill Leach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Two things... first, are use sure that you have to recompile?  I thought
> that this was just a change to the fvwm2 config files.  

This change was made upstream between 2.0.45 and 2.0.46. And it is not a
config option,so yes, you have to recompile the fvwm2 package. No big
thing. Just get the debian sources, apply the patch and do "debian/rules
binary".

 You can drag windows between screens if you enable the option, which will
flip screens if you move the mouse to the screenborder. But I like the
old way better.

If you want the behaviour that the screen automaticly flips if you move a
window halfway out of the current screen and that it shouldn't flip when
you just move the mouse to the border of the screen, then you have to
recompile. 

> Second, is that I can move windows between virtual screens by dragging
> the window so that it overlaps both and then switch to the destination
> and finish 'pulling' the window to where I want it to be.  I did not
> change the default fvwm2 configuration and certainly did not recompile.

This is possible, but annoying. This behaviour was always possible
IIRC. You can also use the pager to move windows between screens by
dragging them with the second mousebutton..

Ciao,
Martin


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Re: Speak-Freely Problems

[Martin Bialasinski]

Adam Shand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> fine for me with a standard soundblaster 16 (ie. definately not a
> full-duplex card).

The soundblaster 16 _is_ a full-duplex card. Mabe you mean that the driver
for it is not full-duplex capable?

Ciao,
Martin


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Re: security problem (tcp/ip)

[Martin Schulze]

On Wed, Feb 25, 1998 at 03:28:26AM -0500, Benoit Joly wrote:
> hi,
>   i found that everyone on our hubs can get my ftp, and pop3 password so
> easy with a sniffer.
> can i do something against that, because now i dont trust tcpip transfert,
> it send all my user name and password in ascii code.
> wow!!

Use ssh, stelnet and sftp instead.  And well,  don't use pop.  Or
use switches instead of hubs.

Regards,

Joey

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IMAP4-4.1 Broken

[Dale Harrison]

Can someone else out there in Debianland confirm this?

IMAP4-4.1 won't delete messages. It might be a new feature or something, but
as there was no dox with it, it's hard to tell.

I downgraded to IMAP4-4 and everything's hunky dory.

Bug? Feature? 

D.


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Re: Using Debian Linux for Dumb Terminals

[Damon Muller]

G'day,

First day on the list, first posting :)

>Are there any information resources I can look at which will show
>instructions on setting up a multiport serial card with dumb terminals
>for
>Linux?

We have a 16-port BocaBoard, and there is a very handly little HOWTO for
setting up this little bit of hardware. Needs the Kernel to be recompiled,
but it's pretty easy, and I got it up and working in no time.

It's called the boca-Mini-HOWTO from memory

damon



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Re: Speak-Freely Problems

[Adam Shand]

> > fine for me with a standard soundblaster 16 (ie. definately not a
> > full-duplex card).
> 
> The soundblaster 16 _is_ a full-duplex card. Mabe you mean that the driver
> for it is not full-duplex capable?

err, what?  since when?  this is a two plus year old, standard sb16 card,
i'm pretty sure it's not full-duplex.

i've played with iphone under windows and it required full duplex sound
cards and i was under the impression that they were something new(ish).

am i grossly mistaken here?

adam.



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Re: APC UPS'es

[Kevin Cheek]

Robert Moody <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Hi there,
> 
> I am just trying to find out a quikly if the APC UPS is compatible with
> Linux. I am not to sure and I don't want to purchase the wrong one for a
> client.

I would recommend also taking a look at Best Power's products
http://www.bestpower.com/

I have 2 APC SmartUPS and 1 Best Fortress in my office attached to
Linux systems (I also have an APC SmartUPS and a Compaq UPS attached
to Novell servers). I recommend the Best UPS over the APC because Best
supports Linux while APC doesn't support Linux and keeps their
signalling specs proprietary. Best provides free software for a wide
variety of OS's including Linux and provides cable specs in their
manuals. With APC, I've had to deal with some cabling & software
gussing games (it's not really difficult to get them to work, though).
With Best, I got source code for supported software for Linux. The
Best Fortress has a much nicer display panel than the APC SmartUPS.

I like to support hardware manufacturers who support Linux, and I
think that Best Power makes excellent products. There may be other UPS
manufacturers that support Linux, but Best is the only one I know
about.

-Kevin

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Re: Speak-Freely Problems

[Hamish Moffatt]

On Wed, Feb 25, 1998 at 03:32:07AM -0900, Adam Shand wrote:
> > > fine for me with a standard soundblaster 16 (ie. definately not a
> > > full-duplex card).
> > 
> > The soundblaster 16 _is_ a full-duplex card. Mabe you mean that the driver
> > for it is not full-duplex capable?
> 
> err, what?  since when?  this is a two plus year old, standard sb16 card,
> i'm pretty sure it's not full-duplex.
> 
> i've played with iphone under windows and it required full duplex sound
> cards and i was under the impression that they were something new(ish).
> 
> am i grossly mistaken here?

Yes I think so. Full duplex drivers have only been made available
fairly recently, but the card itself is full duplex. It has two DMA
channels for this reason (one for recording, one for playback).


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Re: Speak-Freely Problems

[Ulisses Alonso Camaro]

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Hi all!

On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Adam Shand wrote:

> > > fine for me with a standard soundblaster 16 (ie. definately not a
> > > full-duplex card).
> > 
> > The soundblaster 16 _is_ a full-duplex card. Mabe you mean that the driver
> > for it is not full-duplex capable?
> 
> err, what?  since when?  this is a two plus year old, standard sb16 card,
> i'm pretty sure it's not full-duplex.


Even Sounblaster AWE64 Gold _is not_ 16bit full duplex, I think they get 
full duplex with 8bit, also I think that not at 44khz(20khz)


Regards,

Ulisses

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Sendmail...

[Chris]

Hi, I was wondering if any sendmail guru's can help with this one


I have a gateway machine where all the incoming mail to the network
arrives.  This machine has some local users (so their mail should stay on
the gateway), but also must forward any other mail on to another internal
server for distribution (note that the gateway doesn't know whether a
particular address is for a valid user on the internal mail server, it
should just forward on any mail that it can't match itself).

The questiong is how can I set this up?  Unfortunately I am fairly
unfamiliar with the in's and out's of sendmail, so any simple
explainations would be great :)

Thanks alot,



Chris


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cross-compiling from LInux to SCO with Oracle 7.3.2.2.0

[Ulisses Alonso Camaro]

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Hi all

I'm trying to know if it is possible and how I can cross-compile from Linux
to SCO using Oracle 7.3.2.2 Production Release for SCO Unix wich I run 
successfully with the iBCS module...

If I succesfully achive it, I will make a mini-HOWTO to the community, I
think I will be very useful to students as I

I have read the gcc info pages about cross-compiling, and I think that I need:

+ GAS, the GNU assembler compiled with --target=sco option
+ GNU binutils compiled with --target=sco option
+ GCC with --target=sco option
+ libc static libraries for sco
+ include files for sco
+ Also info pages says that some systems needs some "start files" as
'crt0.o' (or something like this) in order to compile, 
Does SCO needs also this?

- --> XOR   <--
This SCO executables:
/bin/idar (archiver)
/bin/idas (assembler)
/bin/idld (linker)
/lib/idcpp (preprocessor)
/lib/idcomp (compiler)
  
and the questions are:

What of the above commented components I can get from the Free Software
Foundation or in L/GPL license? Where I can get them? Precompiled binaries?
If not possible, Can I obtain them from another source?

My System: Debian GNU/Linux 1.3.1 with 2.0.32 kernel, libc6(glibc2) 
and libc5 compatibility, 32Mb RAM, iBCS ver. 971113

Also I'm not sure if Oracle I downloaded it has all the components needed
for compiling:

+ There is no 'proc' "compiler" and the Makefiles provided in the demos
uses it... ¿? If it is not longer provided in evaluation copies does
previous 'proc' compilers work? What does exactly I need?
If I get proc from previous versions, does I will need libc.a/includes from SCO?
+ Does it includes an static version of libc? (libs listed below)
+ Does I can use Linux's static version of libc (libc.a)
+ libc6(glibc2) header files for Linux are suitable for SCO?
  (http://www.pauck.de/marco/ suggests it making minimal modifications)
+ Does I have all the necessary include files for Oracle? (also listed below)
+ Are previous evaluation copies of Oracle avaliable somewhere?

Does anybody tried with Linux+iBCS+ UnixWare apps (like Oracle)?

And of course, the most important, Am I crazy?

Please send me your comments and suggestions to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Thanks in advance,

Ulisses


Info about the Oracle version I run: 

- - downloaded from
ftp://www.oracle.com/pub/www/wgserver/SCO/7.3.2.2.0/large/o7wsint.tar.Z

- - wich the following static libraries (archives):

./lib/libcommon.a   
./lib/libcore.a
./lib/libcore3.a
./lib/libcox.a
./lib/libcv6.a
./lib/libdruid11.a
./lib/libepc.a
./lib/libepcfe.a
./lib/libepcpt.a
./lib/libgeneric.a
./lib/libhh2.a
./lib/libhhc2.a
./lib/libhhm2.a
./lib/libidl.a
./lib/libknlde.a
./lib/libknlopt.a
./lib/libmlx.a
./lib/libmmcm.a
./lib/libc3v6.a
./lib/libmmiw.a
./lib/lib.a
./lib/libmmoi.a
./lib/libmmos.a
./lib/libmmov.a
./lib/libmmutil.a
./lib/libncr.a
./lib/libnlsrtl.a
./lib/libnlsrtl3.a
./lib/liboacore2.a
./lib/libpkg.a
./lib/libpls.a
./lib/libros.a
./lib/libros21db.a
./lib/libros21etc.a
./lib/libros21ndb.a
./lib/libsem.a
./lib/libslax.a
./lib/libserver.a
./lib/libsql.a
./lib/libsqlnet.a
./lib/libsqlplus.a
./lib/libsvrmgr.a
./lib/libsvrmgrm.a
./lib/libsyn.a
./lib/libtk21c.a
./lib/libtk21etc.a
./lib/libtk21m.a
./lib/libtk21etm.a
./lib/libtk21nqap.a
./lib/libut.a
./lib/libxa.a
./lib/libapps.a
./lib/libclient.a
./lib/libsvrmgrl.a
./lib/libcog.a
./network/lib/libntis.a
./network/lib/libnttcp.a
./network/lib/libnttli.a
./network/lib/libtcl.a
./network/lib/libtnsapi.a
./ows/lib/libndwa.a
./ows/lib/libndwb.a
./ows/lib/libndwd.a
./ows/lib/libndwg.a
./ows/lib/libndwr.a
./ows/lib/libndws.a
./ows/lib/libndww.a
./ows/lib/libndw1.a
./rdbms/lib/libexp.a
./rdbms/lib/libimp.a
./rdbms/lib/libknlopt.a
./rdbms/lib/libstublm.a

- -and the following includes:

./network/demo/tftpdef.h
./network/demo/cmd.h
./network/public/tnsapi.h
./otrace/public/epc.h
./rdbms/demo/cdemo6.h
./rdbms/public/ocikpr.h
./rdbms/public/oratypes.h
./rdbms/public/xa.h
./rdbms/public/ociapr.h
./rdbms/public/ocidem.h
./rdbms/public/ocidfn.h


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Re: Matrox Millenium II again

[Ben Pfaff]

   > You need to set up XKB properly for XSuSE.  There should be some sort
   > of error message about this when you run startx.  The fix is basically
   > making a link to a directory.  After you do this, everything will work
   > properly.  It worked for me!

   Thanks Ben,

   I had XkbDisable in my XF86Config file.  It seems like this would avoid
   XKB problems, but maybe I'm wrong.  Do you have this option commented in
   your config?  I'll try it again when I get a chance.

It seems like this would avoid it to me too.  Well, in that case,
maybe you should try XKb :-)


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Re: Fetchmail & Smail Problems

[Daniel Martin at cush]

Martin Bialasinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Deniz Dogan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > But ftechmail still doesn`t work, It`s a general problem I think, as I
> > wrote in my previous post telneting to the localhost doesn`t work also.
> > Connection is refused. Any ideas?
> 
> Comment out any rule in /etc/hosts.deny and try again. If this works, then
> reenable one rule at a time to find the problem.

This won't fix the problem, as a connection refused error won't be
given if something is being blocked by tcp wrappers - the connection
will still be accepted, but then dropped.

Two ideas:

- Your inetd may not be running; check if you can telnet to localhost
on any port (try especially 7, 9, 13 and 23).  If you always get
connection refused, there may be a problem with /etc/init.d/netbase -
at the top of /etc/init.d/netbase it checks for the existence of a
certain file (/usr/sbin/rpc.portmap); make certain you have that file.
If you don't, but do have /usr/sbin/portmap, then change the top of
/etc/init.d/netbase to check for the file you do have.

- Your inetd may be running but may not be set up to hand things off to
smail.  Check if there's a line in /etc/inetd.conf that says:
smtp  stream  tcp   nowait  root/usr/sbin/tcpd  /usr/sbin/in.smtpd 
and make certain it's not commented out - as I recall, the bo smail
package updated /etc/inetd.conf in a not-recommended manner, and that
may have broken during package install.


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Re: mgetty voice/fax/data

[Daniel Martin at cush]

Well, I don't do anything like this yet (my modem isn't fancy enough), 
but here's how I read the mgetty info pages:

Paul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> For caller id, what format does mgetty expect it to be in?  My modem
> supports 'readable format' (#CID=1) and 'ascii printable characters in
> hex' (#CID=2).  Also, how do I tell mgetty to use caller id and look at
> the dialin.config file?

Looking at the mgetty info pages, I'd guess that the readable format
is your best bet; mgetty will use caller ID automatically if your
modem supports it and if there's anything in the /etc/dialin.config
file.  Also, the docs warn that you need to have mgetty connect only
after the second ring, as that's when caller ID information is often
sent.  (I think this might be modem-specific)

> Finally, how can I monitor what mgetty is doing?  I want smbclient to send
> a message with the caller id strings to another machine when a voice call
> is detected. 

Monitor the mgetty logs (/var/log/mgetty/mg_ttyxx) - another option is 
to figure out what mgetty sends to syslog, and set up a fifo to catch
that.  For example, adding:
*.* |/etc/mgetty/syslog.fifo
to /etc/syslog.conf, then doing
mkfifo /etc/mgetty/syslog.fifo
and then having some program read lines out of /etc/mgetty/syslog.fifo 
will allow that program to see anything that gets logged (by any
program) to the syslog.  You'll probably want to narrow down the *.*
to what you actually need once you figure out what class and severity
of the relevant mgetty messages are.


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Re: Modem Problems....

[Bob Hilliard]

cat /proc/interrupts
bob

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Re: aha2920, "no disk found"

[Peter S Galbraith]

Just to confirm that the aic7xxx docs *are* correct, this is from the 
AIC FAQ:

* The AHA-2920 appears to be a Future Domain controller (Adaptec bought
  out Future Domain) and is not supported under the AIC7xxx driver.

> > >What makes you think aic7xxx supports your controller?
> > 
> > The hardware FAQ
> > 
> > http://sunsite.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO-7.html:
> > 
> > "7.1 Supported
> > [..]
> > Adaptec AHA 2920
> > .. "
> 
> It does NOT say that the 2920 is supported by the aic7xxx driver (it 
> only says that it's supported).  If you use the wrong driver, it's not 
> going to work.
> 
> Someone already wrote and said they did a dejagnus search and found 
> that this was a Future Domain chipset.


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Re: Can't install samba_1.9.18p2-1.deb (the one in hamm)

[Eloy A. Paris]

Remco Blaakmeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

: No, ksmbfs is an old name for smbfs. samba contains the smbclient program
: and the samba server. smbfs contains the smbmount and smbumount programs.

Correct. ksmbfs must be removed from Hamm before 2.0. smbfs replaces
ksmbfs and it contains only two binaries: smbmount and smbumount.
Package smbfs works for kernels < 2.1.70. For later kernels package
smbfsx must be used instead.

: The existance of the smbmount.8.gz file is a bug in the samba package.

Right, and it has been fixed in samba-1.9.18p3-1.

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How do you re-create the status file dselect uses?

[Jon A. Bakken]

I accidentally deleted the status file that dselect uses to determine what is
installed on my machine.  I managed to recover using one of the numerous
backups of the status file that dselect keeps when it updates software. By
issuing several dpkg commands, I think I got back a status file that correctly
reflects what is on my system.

My questions are: Is it possible to generate this status file from scratch
somehow?  Can this status file be checked to see if it really reflects what is
on the system?

I couldn't figure it out.  It looks like it should be possible - the software
is still there as well as numerous debian files in the dpkg info directory as
well as other places.  My accident could have well have deleted the status
file backups as well (they all start with status*) and then I would have been
stuck.

Thanks,
Jon Bakken

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A simple problem with dselect ...

[Nebu John Mathai]

I was just wondering how I would go about removing a single package from
my Debian machine.

I tried to remove a package and under "Select..." selected to remove the
package. Then I went to "Remove..." and dselect removed almost every
package I had installed since the beginning (including the one I had asked
it for).

I know I'm doing something stupid ... I just don't know what it is.


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Re: 'LaTeX' mode in xemacs

[Norris Preyer]

Paul Rightley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Sorry if this is not specifically Debian related (but this seems
> to be a wholely polite mail-list - a rarity lately).  I have an
> up-to-date hamm installation.  I sometimes work on a RedHat machine
> (through an 'X-terminal' Sun running Sparc linux).  When I edit
> a LaTeX file on this RedHat machine with xemacs, I get a LaTeX
> menu when I right-click. Also, xemacs has  'command' and 'LaTeX'
> pull-down menus in this situation. On my hamm machine (in my office
> and at home), I get no such menu when editing a LaTeX file.  How do
> I go about changing this?
> 
> (I tend to use debian as a turn-key system and still am not a big
> fan of 'info'.)
> 
> Thanks for any assistance,
> 
> Paul Rightley

While the auctex package is part of xemacs, it is not automatically
invoked.  Try putting this in your .emacs:

;;; 
;;; AucTeX stuff
;;;
(require 'tex-site)
(setq-default TeX-master nil) ; Query for master file
(setq TeX-parse-self t)   ; Enable parse on load
(setq TeX-auto-save t); Enable parse on save
(setq outline-minor-mode-prefix "\C-c\C-o")
;(setq TeX-auto-private "/home/npreyer/auto/")
(setq TeX-auto-global "/usr/lib/xemacs/site-lisp/auctex/auto/")
(setq font-lock-maximum-decoration t)
(require 'font-latex)

I'm also using the auto-save package, but I've commented out that line
above (you probably will want to change the "npreyer" up there to
something more appropriate).  You may not want such fancy font
coloring, but I like it.

You really do need to Read The Fine Info page about installing auctex,
however, to learn how to make it scan your latex packages for
environments, commands, etc., to make it even more useful.

HTH,
Norris

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dpkg-buildpackage

[Jens Christian Lisner]

Hi!

I've got a problem with building Packages with dpkg-builpackage. I
thought it should be possible to rebuild Packages from their sources who
were extracted from *.orig.tar.gz with dpkg-source -x. But instead 
dpkg returned

vampira:[xldlas-0.85] # dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc
no utmp entry available, using value of LOGNAME ("jenne") at
/usr/lib/dpkg/controllib.pl line 16.
no utmp entry available, using value of LOGNAME ("jenne") at
/usr/lib/dpkg/controllib.pl line 16.
parsechangelog/debian: error: unable to open substvars file
debian/substvars: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
dpkg-buildpackage: unable to determine source package

What is debian/substvars, and why is it not there?
My intention was to rebuild the package after modifying the sources.

Jens


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Re: IMAP quirk

[Bill Leach]

Dale;

I can't help you with imap as I don't use (and have never used) it. 
However, this does sound like a 'permissions' problem.  Understand again
that I don't _know_ that this is relevent when using imap but you need a
netscape mail directory in your home directory with permissions like:
drwx--S---   5 1024 Feb 23 21:12 nsmail
(where "" is your local login name of course)
In this directory all files and directories are chown . and
the ".xyz.summary" files are rw,r,r.  The directories are drwx,rs,rx. 
In the subdirectories, the subdirectories (if any) and the "summary"
files are the same as above.  The actual mail files are rw for owner
only (regardless of where they are located).

Since imap _might_ keep the may file on the remote host when there the
problem could be that there is a write permission problem either with
the file/directories on the remote machine or a machine permission
problem.


Dale Harrison wrote:
> 
> I've got IMAP4 (imap4-4.1) installed and it seems to work well.. I'm using
> Netscape 4 as the mail client, I can retrieve/send mail fine. WHat I can't
> do it delete messages.
> 
> It moves them into the trash folder, then barfs that it could not delete the
> source file [the actual message I assume]
> 
> So it's a case of having all the messages still in the INBOX, and a copy of
> the semi-deleted ones in TRASH.
> 
> Is this an IMAP or a Netscape problem? Is it a problem? Am I overlooking
> something hideously simple?
> 
> D.
> 
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Re: Sendmail...

[Jens Ritter]

Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Hi, I was wondering if any sendmail guru's can help with this one
> 
> 
> I have a gateway machine where all the incoming mail to the network
> arrives.  This machine has some local users (so their mail should stay on
> the gateway), but also must forward any other mail on to another internal
> server for distribution (note that the gateway doesn't know whether a
> particular address is for a valid user on the internal mail server, it
> should just forward on any mail that it can't match itself).

The difficulty is to define, what "it can´t match itself" means.

If it means your first machine is mx host for blub.com and the mail is
directed to the second machine bla.blub.com, everything should happen
automatically via smtp (if you didn´t forbid mail relaying). 

if all mail is directed to blub.com and only some addresses
(eg. [EMAIL PROTECTED] is local, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is for the second), then
intense reading of Costales et.al. "Sendmail" (O`Reilly) is to be
done: You will have to change the rules in such a way, that different
Mail Delivery Agents are choosen based on the first part of the
address (foo or bar), and not on the domain part as usual.   
This can involve writing cryptic rulesets, see sendmail.cf.

Maybe you can use some of the features of the new m4 configuration
pattern.

HTH,

Jens

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Re: Cyrix 586/100

[Richard B. Talley]

Matthew Vernon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes this day 24 Feb 98:

> Can anyone tell me if this processor is compatible with debian, and if
> any special installation procedures will be required?
from installing debian
ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/stable/disks-i386/current/install.html

Cyrix CPUs and Floppy Disk Errors

Many users of Cyrix CPUs have had to disable the cache in their systems
during installation, because the floppy disk has errors if they do not. If
you have to do this, be sure to re-enable your cache when you are finished
with installation, as the system runs much slower with the cache disabled. 

We don't think this is necessarily the fault of the Cyrix CPU. It may be
something that Linux can work around. We'll continue to look into the
problem. For the technically curious, we suspect a problem with the cache
being invalid after a switch from 16-bit to 32-bit code. 

Richard B. Talley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

"Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on a Web 
page appears to
be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little 
chance of reading
a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another 
network."
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HELP: XLOCK unlocks during the night.

[Alexander Kushnirenko]

Hi,

I got strange behaviour of xlock after recent updates of hamm.  I lock the 
terminal in the night, everything looks fine, there is a password prompt and 
screensaver running.  But when I come back in the morning screen is unlocked.
Also for some reason the list of authorised nodes, which I setup with xhost 
command is cleared.

It happend lately when I updated a whole bunch of packages in "hamm".  Has 
anyone experienced that? Any comments suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Thank you,
Sasha.

Information about relevant (perhaps) packages:

+++-===-==-
ii  xlockmore   4.07-1 Lock X11 display until password is entered.
ii  xbase   3.3.1-2Local clients and configuration required by 
ii  fvwm2   2.0.46-BETA-2  F(?) Virtual Window Manager, version 2.



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Knowledge Base Applications

[Jeffrey Velez]

Could anyone tell me if there is a good Knowledge Base Application for
Linux?

Knowledge Base for Help Desk Personal that consist of technical notes on
Microsoft, Novell and other Company.

_
.__.   ___  ___
|  |   .__. .__..__. .__. .__. \  \/  /
|  |   |  | |   \   |  | |  | |  |  \  \  /  /
|  |   |  | |  |\ \ |  | |  | |  |   \  \/  /
|  |__.|  | |  | \ \|  | |  |_|  |  /  /\  \
|__|__.|__| |__|  \| |___| /__/   \__\
* DEBIAN GNU/Linux *





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Re: A simple problem with dselect ...

[Richard B. Talley]

Nebu John Mathai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes this day 25 Feb 98:

> I tried to remove a package and under "Select..." selected to remove the
> package. Then I went to "Remove..." and dselect removed almost every
> package I had installed since the beginning (including the one I had
> asked it for).
> 
> I know I'm doing something stupid ... I just don't know what it is.

It's not your  stupidity but the computer's, or rather its lack of 
a sense of context for your request.

The remove command removes all selected programs.

The install command installs all selected programs AND removes programs 
currently installed that have been deselected by the user.

Therefore to remove *one* package only, deselect that one package and 
choose *install*. This makes sense but only if you think like a computer.

Regards,

Richard B. Talley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

"Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on a Web 
page appears to
be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little 
chance of reading
a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another 
network."
-Tim Berners-Lee in Technology Review, July 1996 
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Re: security problem (tcp/ip)

[Jens Ritter]

Benoit Joly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> hi,
>   i found that everyone on our hubs can get my ftp, and pop3 password so
> easy with a sniffer.
> can i do something against that, because now i dont trust tcpip transfert,
> it send all my user name and password in ascii code.
> wow!!

I don´t know if there´s a free IMAP server flaoting around which
supports SSL.

HTH,

Jens
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Re: A simple problem with dselect ...

[Steve Mayer]

Richard,

  You can do a 'dpkg --purge 

Steve Mayer
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Richard B. Talley wrote:
> 
> Nebu John Mathai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes this day 25 Feb 98:
> 
> > I tried to remove a package and under "Select..." selected to remove the
> > package. Then I went to "Remove..." and dselect removed almost every
> > package I had installed since the beginning (including the one I had
> > asked it for).
> >
> > I know I'm doing something stupid ... I just don't know what it is.
> 
> It's not your  stupidity but the computer's, or rather its lack of
> a sense of context for your request.
> 
> The remove command removes all selected programs.
> 
> The install command installs all selected programs AND removes programs
> currently installed that have been deselected by the user.
> 
> Therefore to remove *one* package only, deselect that one package and
> choose *install*. This makes sense but only if you think like a computer.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Richard B. Talley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> "Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on a Web 
> page appears to
> be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little 
> chance of reading
> a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another 
> network."
> -Tim Berners-Lee in Technology Review, July 1996
> quoted at 'Best Viewed With Any Browser' http://www.anybrowser.org/campaign/
> 
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IP Filtering/Firewall (kernel modules) help!

[matthew tebbens]

To just filter packets for my own machine I would have to add ?:

Network firewalls
IP: forwarding/gatewaying ??
IP: firewalling

Is forwarding/gatewaying required for filtering packets ?
Is forwarding/gatewaying required for masquerading ?

Can someone be more specific on the definitions for:

Network firewalls
IP: forwarding/gatewaying
IP: firewalling
IP: masquerading
IP: ipautofw masq support
IP: ICMP masquerading
IP: transparent proxy support (EXPERIMENTAL)
IP: always defragment
IP: accounting


Thanks,
Matthew


Listed below is the Kernel Networking section.
--
Networking
Network firewalls
Network aliasing
TCP/IP networking
IP: forwarding/gatewaying
IP: multicasting
IP: syn cookies
IP: rst cookies
IP: firewalling
IP: firewall packet logging
IP: masquerading
Protocol-specific masquerading support will be built as modules.
IP: ipautofw masq support
IP: ICMP masquerading
IP: transparent proxy support (EXPERIMENTAL)
IP: always defragment
IP: accounting
IP: optimize as router not host
IP: tunneling
IP: multicast routing (EXPERIMENTAL)
IP: aliasing support
(it is safe to leave these untouched)
IP: PC/TCP compatibility mode
IP: Reverse ARP
IP: Disable Path MTU Discovery (normally enabled)
IP: Drop source routed frames
IP: Allow large windows (not recommended if <16Mb of memory)
---
The IPX protocol
Appletalk DDP
Amateur Radio AX.25 Level 2
Bridging (EXPERIMENTAL)
Kernel/User network link driver 


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Re: Speak-Freely Problems

[Luke Bussanmas]

> I am able to get speak-freely version 6.1b-2 to work fine on a mixed
> bo/hamm system.  I can't explain your problem but the debian package works
> fine for me with a standard soundblaster 16 (ie. definately not a
> full-duplex card).

If its 16-bit doesn't that mean 2 channels consisting of 8-bits each
The kernel code may not be full-duplex but I thought the card was

Thanks, I do now get audio through speak-freely.  However, it seems to
break up or repeat the beginning several times from the corona echo
server.  How do I fix that problem?

TIA


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Re: problems while updating packages with dpkg

[Adrian Bridgett]

On Tue, Feb 24, 1998 at 04:37:01AM +0100, José LuisGarcía Pacheco wrote:
> Hello,
> Sometime ago I got the Debian GNU/Linux 1.1.4.Sept96 release. Working
> with it, I managed to set up my little system at home.(I was very proud
> of myself ;-)).
> Two months ago, I borrowed from some friends the Debian 1.3.1. release.
> Eagerly :-) I began updating packages, installing this, purging that,...
> 
> In the middle of the fun, it ocurred to me that it could be interesting
> to have the new dpkg package(s) on my system. So I installed
> dpkg1.4.0.8.deb, dpkg_cross_0.1.deb, dpkg -dev_1.4 and dpkg_ftp_1.9.8,
> well the dpkg-related packages appearing in my new distribution.
>  
> A few days ago, I ran 'dpkg -l' and I got a message reading something
> like 'problems while parsing /var/lib/dpkg/available'. I realized that
> this database was corrupted!. Lots of package info lines were repeated
> even twice or more times. I tried to restore it (by hand) and finally I
> achieved to leave it "operative" (that means I can do dpkg -l, -s,
> -iGOEB, --purge,... ) but there are still repeated lines (that someday I
> will have to delete). 
> The question is : is there somebody out there with an idea of what
> happened in my sistem?. Could it happen again and under what
> circunstances?.

Maybe a corrupted Packages file was installed?

If it is only available that got messed up, then it shouldn't be too bad.
Every day I do:

dpkg --update-avail Packages
dpkg --merge-avail Non-Free
dpkg --merge-avail Contrib
dpkg --merge-avail Non-US

(Non-Free etc are the Packages.gz files (uncompressed) from the non-free
section). The first line replaces available with the Packages file, the
other three lines add the other packages in.

PS: Please only post to one mailing list - debian-user is the right one in
this case.

Adrian

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Re: IP Filtering/Firewall (kernel modules) help!

[Jean Pierre LeJacq]

Take a look at the Firewall-HOWTO.  It does a very good job of
explaining the basics.

-- 
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On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, matthew tebbens wrote:

> 
> To just filter packets for my own machine I would have to add ?:
> 
>   Network firewalls
>   IP: forwarding/gatewaying ??
>   IP: firewalling
> 
> Is forwarding/gatewaying required for filtering packets ?
> Is forwarding/gatewaying required for masquerading ?
> 
> Can someone be more specific on the definitions for:
> 
>   Network firewalls
>   IP: forwarding/gatewaying
>   IP: firewalling
>   IP: masquerading
>   IP: ipautofw masq support
>   IP: ICMP masquerading
>   IP: transparent proxy support (EXPERIMENTAL)
>   IP: always defragment
>   IP: accounting
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Matthew
> 
> 
> Listed below is the Kernel Networking section.
> --
> Networking
>   Network firewalls
>   Network aliasing
>   TCP/IP networking
>   IP: forwarding/gatewaying
>   IP: multicasting
>   IP: syn cookies
>   IP: rst cookies
>   IP: firewalling
>   IP: firewall packet logging
>   IP: masquerading
> Protocol-specific masquerading support will be built as modules.
>   IP: ipautofw masq support
>   IP: ICMP masquerading
>   IP: transparent proxy support (EXPERIMENTAL)
>   IP: always defragment
>   IP: accounting
>   IP: optimize as router not host
>   IP: tunneling
>   IP: multicast routing (EXPERIMENTAL)
>   IP: aliasing support
> (it is safe to leave these untouched)
>   IP: PC/TCP compatibility mode
>   IP: Reverse ARP
>   IP: Disable Path MTU Discovery (normally enabled)
>   IP: Drop source routed frames
>   IP: Allow large windows (not recommended if <16Mb of memory)
>   ---
>   The IPX protocol
>   Appletalk DDP
>   Amateur Radio AX.25 Level 2
>   Bridging (EXPERIMENTAL)
>   Kernel/User network link driver 
> 
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Re: Dvorak keybindings in X

[Keith Beattie]

Adam Shand wrote:
> 
> A question on behalf of a friend.  We have the dvorak key bindings working
> fine in console mode but can't get them to work under X.

How did you do that?

> 
> Can anyone point me in the right direction to get this to work under X as
> well?
> 

One way is to use xmodmap, there's lots of info here:
http://www.ccsi.com/~mbrooks/dvorak/unix.html

Keith


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X Windows problems

[Mario Olimpio de Menezes]

Hi,

I having some problem in configuring X to work properly
with my video card. It's a Diamond Stealth 2500 (Alliance AT24 chip).
The screen is stretched vertically so I can't reach the bottom;
the fonts are distorteds, it's a ugly view.
I can switch resolutions up to 800x600 (for some strange reason
I can't use 1024x768 now. I did can with my old VLB 486 Diamond SpeedStar)
Is there some limitations on XFree with this card?
Is there some likely error I'm doing that somebody already know 
by experience?
Any other hint?

Besides this, X is extremely slow, as I would using a ISA card!


Details:

Debian 1.3.1
VXPro+-USB-Ultr Motherboard (Intel chipset) 
Award Modular V.451PG Release 07/07/1997 Bios
Intel Pentium 150MHz - 64MB EDO RAM
Diamond Stealth Video 2500 (Alliance AT24) PCI Card 2MB DRAM

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Re: dpkg-buildpackage

[Manoj Srivastava]

Hi,

From /usr/doc/kernel-package/Problems.gz (not that one would
 think of looking there, but this has been seen while building
 kernels)


  g) dpkg-gencontrol fails if LC_ALL is set to de_DE.  Actually, I can't
  really confirm this works for anything except en_US. This is true as of
  dpkg/dpkg-dev 1.4.0.19. The error actually reported seems to be
  either that debian/substvars file can not be found, or that the
  changelog file is empty (eben when the file is not empty). 

  The work around seems to be to set the LC_ALL to en_US while
  building. This should be fixed soon. 


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Re: A simple problem with dselect ...

[Richard B. Talley]

Richard B. Talley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes this day 25 Feb 98:


> The install command installs all selected programs AND removes programs
> currently installed that have been deselected by the user.
> 
> Therefore to remove *one* package only, deselect that one package and
> choose *install*. This makes sense but only if you think like a computer.
> 
Sorry folks. I got this all WRONG.

The install command only skips deselected packages.

I don't know what happened to the original posters dselect (it removed 
everything) but install does NOT remove pkgs marked for removal. You must 
use the remove command. Perhaps his dselect is corrupt in some fashion?
Perhaps he mis-understands how to select/deselect in dselect?

Richard B. Talley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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Re: lean indexed navigation tool for system help

[David Stern]

On 25 Feb 1998 11:52:11 +0100, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Stern) writes:
> 
> > My only idea was that something like that might be possible using a 
> > search engine (ht-dig), a web-server (apache), and a browser (Lynx or 
> > Netscape) setup with mime-types for the various doc formats and 
> > locations.  However, he would like a leaner, ready-made utility.
> > 
> > Do any of you less mortals know of anything that would fit this 
> > description?
> 
> Yes. man2html, info2www, dwww and dhelp. All of them are debian packages.
> 
> Check them out.

I never knew dwww and dhelp existed.  Thanks! :-)

p.s.: I'm working on my headers again.
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Frame Grabber memory access (off topic)

[Mario Olimpio de Menezes]

Hi,

I know this is off topic, but I haven't access to news to post
to comp.os.linux.*
So, if somebody can help me, please!
I writing a little program to operate a frame grabber board 
(it's a Targa+ 32 - 1MB - ISA). So far, I can access the board's register
trough the i/o macros (outb, inb, etc) without problems.
Now, I would like to access the board's memory. The Targa hardware
tech. manual says that the "Targa+ memory appears within the hosts memory
space." and the base address for the VRAM (Targa+) is determined from 
a specified field.
I'm not a expert in this kind of programming and I'm lost with
this. I had tried several kinds of pointers addressing/indirections, 
mmap'ing the memory using the manual info for determine the start address
but I didn't succeed. 
Some help? Please!
If somebody can help me, I can send more details, like
some lines of code, etc.

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Re: A simple problem with dselect ...

[David Wright]

On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Nebu John Mathai wrote:

> I tried to remove a package and under "Select..." selected to remove the
> package. Then I went to "Remove..." and dselect removed almost every
> package I had installed since the beginning (including the one I had asked
> it for).
> 
> I know I'm doing something stupid ... I just don't know what it is.

Is it possible that you accidently pressed - or _ when one of the top few 
lines was highlighted: All Packages, or Up To Date Installed Packages etc.
This should have a pretty dramatic effect!

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IBM Token Ring Card [does not work]

[dg]

Hello all !

I' trying to configure a IBM Token Ring card with Debian GNU/Linux.

I have built the kernel with Token Ring support, and have the IBM Tropix
driver built as a module. Now look whats happening, when I try to use the
card.

- root session transscript follows -
[kermit:/root] insmod ibmtr
ibmtr.c: v1.3.57 8/7/94 Peter De Schrijver and Mark Swanson 
modified 10/3/94 DW Morris, modified at VIA, ECP, France 
(3/9/95 F Farid and P Andre, 9/7/95 PA and 2/20/95 ML/PA/YD) 
tr0: ISA adapter found using irq 9, PIOaddr  a20, 16K shared RAM. 
tr0: Hardware address : 08:00:5A:AA:BF:55 
tr0: Initial interrupt : shared RAM located at 000D02D4. 
tr0: Adapter initialized and opened. 

[kermit:/root] ifconfig tr0 192.234.10.55 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 
192.234.10.255

[kermit:/root] ifconfig
loLink encap:Local Loopback  
  inet addr:127.0.0.1  Bcast:127.255.255.255  Mask:255.0.0.0
  UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:3584  Metric:1
  RX packets:60 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
  TX packets:60 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
eth0  Link encap:10Mbps Ethernet  HWaddr 00:80:29:E6:AC:B2
  inet addr:131.234.10.53  Bcast:131.234.10.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
  UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
  RX packets:188 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
  TX packets:70 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
  Interrupt:5 Base address:0x340 
tr0   Link encap:16/4 Mbps TR  HWaddr 08:00:5A:AA:BF:55
  inet addr:192.234.10.55  Bcast:192.234.10.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
  UP BROADCAST RUNNING  MTU:2000  Metric:1
  RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
  TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
  Interrupt:9 Base address:0xa20 

[kermit:/root] route add -net tok

[kermit:/root] route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface
eth *   255.255.255.0   U 0  01 eth0
tok *   255.255.255.0   U 0  01 tr0
localnet*   255.0.0.0   U 0  00 lo

[kermit:/root] ping 192.234.10.10
tr0: Unknown command 02 in arb
tr0: Arrg. Transmitter busy for more than 50 msec. Donald resets adapter, but 
resetting 
the IBM tokenring adapter takes a long time. It might not even help when the 
ring is very busy, so we just wait a little longer and hope for the best. 

[... and so on ... nothing happens only this message is repeated ...]

 end of session transscript --

I have tested two cards (one 8 bit ISA and one 16 bit ISA) and none works. 
The 16 bit card works fine in an other PC with SCO Unix.

I'm not a real unix hacker, so could please anyone tell what I should do
next ???

Tnx in advance!

Bye

Daniel

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error in fdisk/cfdisk? (part 2)

[Helmut Leinfellner]

Hi! Thanks for your help!

  Bob> What is your current status?  Is anything already installed on

Bob> this disk?  If not, all partitions should be removed and recreated.

Not really, I can delete everything on the disk again.

  Bob> If some things are installed that need to be saved, it would be

Bob> advisable to back them up, and start over.  If you want to try to

Bob> repair this instead of replacing it, please send me a copy of the

Bob> partition tables from fdisk (including the disk geometry data that

Bob> fdisk prints at the top of the partition table) _and_ from DOS fdisk,

 Bob> noting which partitions have files installed on them.

Here's a little more detail:

At startup the BIOS recognizes the size of the first drive on the primary
controller correctly (519 MB), the second drive is a CD-ROM, and the first
drive on the second primary controller is another hard-disk, the one with
the 4-fold partition. BIOS does NOT recognizes the size correctly. It says
82 MB, really it is 4.3 GB ! It has 14848 Cylinders, 9 heads, 63 sectors.

I already did as you suggested and cleared the partition table, rewrote it,
but the effect was the same.
DOS FDISK doesn't even recognize the size of the whole disk (4.3 GB) it
says 283 MB !

DOS FDISK gets confused about the CDROM and the 4th partition. Its output is:
Partition   Status  TypeName   MB System Percentage
   1Non-DOS64  23%   # used (Linux swap)
   2   ANon-DOS  1200 100%   # used (Linux native)
D: 3Pri-DOS Chip 2000  CD01   100%   # empty
E: 4Pri-DOS Test  847 FAT16   100%   # empty

You see, it recognizes the sizes of the partitions correctly, but it thinks
the CDROM is the third partition and gets confused about the drive letters
D: and E: !

Here's more info:
BIOS:
=
User   Size Precomp LANDZ   SECTORS   MODE
82  148489   65535  14847 63  NORMAL
82524  255   0  14847 63  LBA
82   7424   18   65535  14847 63  LARGE


I'm running LILO. Maybe DOS FDISK is confused because Lilo rewrote the MBR ?

Here's what cfdisk prints:
==
#  Type 1st Sec  LastSec Offset Length  Filysystem TypeFlags
1  Primary0   130976  63   130977   Linux Swap  (82)   None (00)
2  Primary   130977  2588354   0  2457378   Linux (83) Boot (80)
3  Primary  2588355  6684362   0  4096008   DOS FAT 16 (big) (06)  None (00)
4  Primary  6684363  8418815   0  1734453   DOS FAT 16 (big) (06)  None (00)

Here's what fdisk prints:
=
   Boot  Begin  Start  End   Blocks  Id  System
/dev/hdc1 63   63   13097665457  82  Linux Swap
/dev/hdc2   * 130977   130977  2588354  1228689  83  Linux native
/dev/hdc32322431  2588355  6684362  2048004   6  DOS 16-bit >=32M
/dev/hdc46386687  6684363  8418815  867226+   6  DOS 16-bit >=32M

There's the errors (I guess): 2588355 - 2322431 = 265924
  6684363 - 6386687 = 297676

(v)erify gives:
Warning: partition 2 overlays partition 3.
 partition 3 overlays partition 4.
 60 unallocated sectors.

(x)perts, then (u) and (p)rint gives:
Nr  AF  Hd  Sec  Cyl  Hd  Sec  Cyl  Start   SizeID
 1  00   1   108   63  23063130914  82
 2  80   0   1231  8   63  1023  130977  2457378  83
 3  00   8  63   1023  8   63  1023 2588355  4096008  06
 4  00   8  63   1023  8   63  1023  6684363  1734453  06



Many many thanks for your help ! Helmut



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Re: Sendmail...

[Miquel van Smoorenburg]

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Hi, I was wondering if any sendmail guru's can help with this one
>
>
>I have a gateway machine where all the incoming mail to the network
>arrives.  This machine has some local users (so their mail should stay on
>the gateway), but also must forward any other mail on to another internal
>server for distribution (note that the gateway doesn't know whether a
>particular address is for a valid user on the internal mail server, it
>should just forward on any mail that it can't match itself).

In /etc/mail/sendmail.mc:

define(`LUSER_RELAY', `internalhost.company.com')

Then re-run "sendmailconfig". That will relay mail for all users not on
the local machine to an internal gateway.

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Re: root access and dselect | ftp

[David Stern]

On 22 Feb 1998 20:04:41 +1300, Carey Evans wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Stern) writes:
> 
> > What I'm trying to do is make my ppp connection as secure as possible, 
> > and one of the first things I realized is that whenever I'm running 
> > dselect, I'm root, and that I might be connected to the internet for 
> > long enough such that my ip address could be attacked, and I know there 
> > are different types of attacks, and my assumption was that if I'm 
> > running as root, then it would conceivably be possible to get root 
> > access.
> 
> You're not "connected to the net running as root."

Why not?  I'm root.  I'm running ftp on the net.

> Your computer is connected to the net, making all the services in
> /etc/inetd.conf and provided by other daemons that are started in
> /etc/init.d available to the rest of the Internet.  Make sure you
> comment out services in /etc/inetd.conf that you don't need, set up
> /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny appropriately, maybe set up IP
> firewalling, and restrict access to all other services (e.g. for
> Samba, with "bind interfaces only = true").  Too many of these
> services (IMHO) run as root.

The home LAN is still a little ways off, but I thought most system 
services needed to be run as root.  I have pretty restrictive 
/etc/hosts.* and ipfwadm setup as well as firewalling compiled into the 
kernel.  Services are attacted through the ports directly, I think, so 
I've tried to make that safe.

> The other way for someone to access your computer is by the programs
> you run to access Internet services.  For example, if you select a
> link to a Postscript file and look at it using a viewer that allows
> file operations, it could try to append the line below to your
> /etc/passwd:
> 
> carrot::0:0:/:/bin/sh
>
> This is a simple example of why you shouldn't browse the web (or run 
> unknown programs) as root.  (Another reason is that if something goes
> wrong, "rm -rf /" does less damage as a user.)

This is why I was asking about dselect | ftp, because if I'm root, and 
I'm running ftp via dselect, then isn't this exactly what you're 
telling me not to do?

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Re: Perms on LPRng

[Torsten Hilbrich]

Peter Paluch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Hello everybody,
> 
> 
> I have problem with LPRng - as normal user I can't remove my print jobs
> even if they were sent by myself. I can do it only as root. Here is what
> is says when I try to remove some job (printing ext2.ps):
> 
> knm:~$ lprm
> Printer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 
> checking '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
>   checking perms '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
>   no permissions '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> 
> Is it just a matter of directory permissions? Have a look at this
> listing, it shows perms of /var/spool/lpd:
> 
> knm:~# ls -al /var/spool/lpd
> drwx--S---   3 lp   lp   1024 Feb 22 15:50 .
> drwxr-xr-x  17 root root 1024 Jan 16 23:39 ..
> drwx--S---   2 lp   lp   1024 Feb 22 16:25 hplj6l
> -rw---   1 lp   lp  0 Feb 22 15:50 lpd.lock.knm
> -rw---   1 lp   lp  4 Feb 22 16:19 lpd.lock.knm.printer
> 
> What am I doing wrong?

I have lprn 3.2.1-1 installed and my permission in /var/spool/lpd are
different:

~/tmp$ ls -l /var/spool/lpd
total 9
drwxrwsr-x   7 lp   lp   1024 Feb 10 20:56 ./
drwxr-xr-x  17 root root 1024 Sep 21 11:23 ../
drwxrwxr-x   2 root lp   2048 Feb 25 10:32 hplj5l/
drwxrwsr-x   2 lp   lp   1024 Mar 25  1997 lp/
-rw---   1 lp   lp  4 Feb 25 09:04 lpd.lock.marvin.printer
drwxrwxr-x   2 root lp   1024 Feb 22 09:19 stc600/
drwxrwxr-x   2 root lp   1024 Feb 22 09:27 stc600-high/
drwxrwxr-x   2 root lp   1024 Feb 10 20:59 test/

Use 

chmod 2775 /var/spool/lpd /var/spool/lpd/hplj6l

to correct this.

The g+s on the directory means, that files created in this directory
should inheritent its permission.  This is obviously missing in your
(packages) setup.

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Re: fetchmail quit after upgrading smail

[Peter Paluch]

Hello friends,
==

> I decided to tackle my fetchmail/smail upgrde today. I am running
> a hamm system but had put smail on hold because it messed up fetchmail. I
> have searched the debian user mailing list arhive and tried the various
> suggetions with no luck.

I was awaiting answers for this problem. I did solve it, but I don't
think it is the best way to get on with that pesky problem...

It seems that smail tries to check whether the sender really exists. And
the smail tries to connect to some DNS server to look up the IP of the
sender's server. This is a problem when your computer is not registered
in any of DNS and/or if you are not connected to Internet while
processing mail. It just can't connect and check the address of the
sender, and therefore it fails.

I had to install and run named server and I registered my own domain for
myself... That made the problem go away. As I needed DNS from various
reasons, it is good for me to have, but it is probably just wasting the
energy and space if you do not run a server.

As I say, I don't treat this as a good thing how to handle smail's
behavior.

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xfstt

[Fulgham, Brent/SCO]

Has anyone used xfstt on a regular basis?  I've gotten Netscape to work
using TT fonts, now I'd like to get other X applications to work and I
want to know what other's experiences are.

Any comments?
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2.0.32 kernel a problem?

[Will Lowe]

I'm experiencing weird lockups on my linux box which has run very stable
for almost a year now.  I've traced it down to one or two things:

2.0.32 kernel -- after I updated I've noticed the crashes
X (S3_V) -- always a possibility
xntpd -- again,  the problems began shortly after I installed this
cpu overheating -- thought this was the problem,  but with the cover off
the machine the cpu is cool to the touch while running. 

Any suggestions?

Will


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Re: mgetty voice/fax/data

[Paul Miller]

On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Daniel Martin at cush wrote:

> Well, I don't do anything like this yet (my modem isn't fancy enough), 
> but here's how I read the mgetty info pages:
> 
> Paul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > For caller id, what format does mgetty expect it to be in?  My modem
> > supports 'readable format' (#CID=1) and 'ascii printable characters in
> > hex' (#CID=2).  Also, how do I tell mgetty to use caller id and look at
> > the dialin.config file?
> 
> Looking at the mgetty info pages, I'd guess that the readable format
> is your best bet; mgetty will use caller ID automatically if your
> modem supports it and if there's anything in the /etc/dialin.config

/etc/dialin.config or /etc/mgetty/dialin.config (Debian package)?  A
default file is in /etc/mgetty, but mgetty seems to ignore it and aways
answer the phone..  I have "!all" on the last line.

> file.  Also, the docs warn that you need to have mgetty connect only
> after the second ring, as that's when caller ID information is often
> sent.  (I think this might be modem-specific)

No, caller id is handled by the phone company.  They send the information
between the first and second ring.

> > Finally, how can I monitor what mgetty is doing?  I want smbclient to send
> > a message with the caller id strings to another machine when a voice call
> > is detected. 
> 
> Monitor the mgetty logs (/var/log/mgetty/mg_ttyxx) - another option is 
> to figure out what mgetty sends to syslog, and set up a fifo to catch
> that.  For example, adding:
> *.*   |/etc/mgetty/syslog.fifo
> to /etc/syslog.conf, then doing
> mkfifo /etc/mgetty/syslog.fifo
> and then having some program read lines out of /etc/mgetty/syslog.fifo 
> will allow that program to see anything that gets logged (by any
> program) to the syslog.  You'll probably want to narrow down the *.*
> to what you actually need once you figure out what class and severity
> of the relevant mgetty messages are.

The problem with that method is that I'd need to have a high level of
debugging for mgetty to even show the modem responces (caller id info,
etc)..   Several months ago, someone told me another way, but I lost the
message..

Thanks
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SVGALib and Matrox Mill II

[D. Hageman]

SVGALib doesn't natively recognize my Matrox card and because of this ... I
can't get the full performace out of SVGALib when playing games like Quake,
Quake2, etc ...

Is there a new version of SVGALib I can get ... or ... does someone have a
configuration file we can use to control my Mill II?

Thanx for my help.

~ D


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Re: A simple problem with dselect ...

[Martin Bialasinski]

"Richard B. Talley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Nebu John Mathai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes this day 25 Feb 98:
> 
> > I tried to remove a package and under "Select..." selected to remove the
> > package. Then I went to "Remove..." and dselect removed almost every
> > package I had installed since the beginning (including the one I had
> > asked it for).
> > 
> > I know I'm doing something stupid ... I just don't know what it is.
> 
> It's not your  stupidity but the computer's, or rather its lack of 
> a sense of context for your request.
> 
> The remove command removes all selected programs.
> 
> The install command installs all selected programs AND removes programs 
> currently installed that have been deselected by the user.
> 
> Therefore to remove *one* package only, deselect that one package and 
> choose *install*. This makes sense but only if you think like a computer.

This is completely wrong.

Dselect can only change the desired status of a package to:

desired status   keystroke in dselect's "select" point 
--   -
install +
remove  -
purge [1]   _ (underscore)
hold  [2]   =

[1] remove also the config files
[2] usefull when  you want to assure that dselect won't alter the
status automaticly (like this is done if you do "update" in dselect and a
package is a "required" package for example).

When you exit the "select" stage, you can do:

1. "install" -> dselect calls dpkg, which will install all files which
have the desired status "install"

2. "configure" -> dselect calls dpkg, which will configure all packages
  of the status unconfigured (due to a dependency problem
  in a prior run of install for example)

3. "remove" -> dselect calls dpkg, which will remove/purge all packages
   which have the desired status of remove/purge

So if dpkg starts to remove all packages you have installed, they have
been marked with "remove" or "purge".

As someone said before, you most likely pressed - or _ on one of the
"headers" like "up to date packages".

Ciao,
Martin


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module configuration

[Daniel L. Grindstaff]

Hi

I am installing Debian from the Boot disc number 15.  I am following the
installation instructions from the Boot magazine and am stuck at
selecting the correct modules.

There are several categories to go through...'block, cdrom,
ls...etc.'...and under each one there are more subchoices.

The installation program 'detects modules' before the user is presented
with the subcategories (i.e. 'linear, raido, xd' under 'block') and a
minus sign indicates 'not installed' while a plus sign indicates
installed.

My question are these:

1.  What is the program doing when it 'detects installed modules'?  Is
it looking at my actual hardware?

2.  If it is not, and I am to install modules for all my known
components...where may I find a guide or explanation to what these terms
(ie.  block, raido, etc.) MEAn or REFER TO...and then...which are most
likely to apply to my particular components?

I have already looked through the FAQ and FAQ-O-Matic and have not found
anything this specific or addressing my problem.

Thanks very much.

Dan Grindstaff




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Re: Using Debian Linux for Dumb Terminals

[Jeff Alami]

---Damon Muller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Are there any information resources I can look at which will show
> >instructions on setting up a multiport serial card with dumb
terminals
> >for
> >Linux?
> 
> We have a 16-port BocaBoard, and there is a very handly little HOWTO
for
> setting up this little bit of hardware. Needs the Kernel to be
recompiled,
> but it's pretty easy, and I got it up and working in no time.
> 
> It's called the boca-Mini-HOWTO from memory
> 
Thanks for the help. I have an 8-port Equinox Megaport 8CS--we
currently use it for SCO UNIX. Equinox has Linux drivers for their
SuperSerial boards, but apparently those boards are different. I
believe the Megaport is just a dumb 16550A UART board. How can I set
that up?

Jeff Alami
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