Re: Haunted PPP daemon.....

[Martin Bialasinski]

>> "RK" == Ryan Kirkpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

RK> lcp debug messages I think I figured it out. DO NOT specify the
RK> authentication method to use. Simply set in ppp options the username that

If you used "+pap" or "require-pap", then you demended the other side
to authenticate itself with pap. Usually they don't agree and hang up.
Similiar thing with chap.

See "man pppd"

Ciao,
Martin

Re: weird problems with RedHat+debian

[Joey Hess]

zhaoway wrote:
> The Trird Q is:
> I share the /home among debian and redhat, the same user I am under both
> systems: zhaoway. same directory. But I wanna different windowmanager. How
> can I achieve this? Right now, I test [ -f /etc/HOSTNAME ] to decide
> whether .xinitrc is under debian or under redhat. Any other solutions?

If /etc/debian_version exists, its a debian system. So:

if [ -e /etc/debian_version ]; then
wmaker
else
fvwm2
fi

-- 
see shy jo

What has changed in Debian regarding interpreting Windows 98 partition time stamps? [dsb]

[Daniel Barclay]

What has changed between Debian 1.3 and Debian 2.0 in the interpretation of
file time stamp on (directly) mounted Windows partitions?


I just noticed that my old Debian 1.3 system and my new Debian 2.0 system 
report different file timestamps for files on my Windows 98 partition.

Neither Debian system reports the correct time.

Debian 2.0 is off by my times zone's offset from GMT.  That sounds like
Debian 2.0 is treating the time stamps as GMT times and translating to
my local time zone for display.

Debian 1.3 is off by one hour (it displays a time one hour earlier than
the actual time the Windows file was created).  That sounds like a 
daylight savings time problem, except that its a file I just created today
to test things, and I didn't noticed any incorrect system times from Windows 
98, Debian 1.3, or Debian 2.0 before or after the daylight savings time
change a week ago.



(I created a directory on Windows 98.  Windows reported the file creation 
(modification?) time as 12:11pm.  Windows also reported the current time 
as around 12:11.  

I shut down Windows 98 and rebooted into the BIOS to check the time.  The
BIOS reported the time as being around 12:11pm.


When I rebooted into Debian 1.3 (kernel 2.0.34) and listed the directory
on the Windows partition, it reported a file timestamp of 11:11 pm (one hour 
early).  Debian 1.3 reported the current time correctly (around 12:14 by then).


When I rebooted into Debian 2.0 (prebuilt 2.0.34 kernel) and listed the
directory again, it reported a time of 7:11 am (five hours early).
(Debian 2.0 also reported the current time correctly.))



Apparently, Debian 2.0 is interpreting file times on my Windows partition
as GMT times, and then adjusting them to my EST time zone.  

Did something change in Debian 2.0?  Did I misconfigure something?
Does Windows 98 work differently?  (I formatted the Windows partition 
as a FAT filesystem, not as FAT32.)


Generally, what's causing the time difference, and where can I find 
information on fixing it?


(I also noticed a difference in the end-of-line translation in Windows text 
files seen from the different versions of Debian.  Is the configuration of 
that related to time interpretation?)



Thanks,

Daniel

Pb with the xmysqladmin package

[Eric Jacoboni]

Hi,

My xmysqladmin package (0.4.4-1) doesn't work : i can't connect to the
server :(

The program complains about a mysql.server shell script which is
missing.

All the other stuff seems to be working (xmysql, msql, etc.) : i can
create a database, tables...

How to create this mysql.server script ?

Thanks,
-- 
---
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le bizarre » (M. Audiard)
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Re: Security problem

[Christian Hudon]

On Tuesday, October 27, Lukas Eppler wrote
> 
> I have [dists/hamm/main dists/hamm/contrib dists/hamm/non-free] in my
> selection in dselect. is there a directory to mention to have the security
> updates quicker than a week, without going slink/unstable?

The best thing to do is to subscribe to debian-security-announce and follow 
the instructions contained in the alerts that we send to this list.

The directory where packages meant for stable are stored is
dists/proposed-updates, but it's not a good idea to install on your machine
every package that lands there, at least not for a production machine. 
Basically, packages tagged for 'stable' are moved automatically from
Incoming to proposed-updates, without any testing. Then, if the package
fixes a security hole, some basic testing is done, the advisory is written
up and posted to debian-security-announce. More in-depth testing is then
done on all packages in proposed-updates, and every couple of weeks the
packages in that directory are either moved to stable or rejected,
depending on the results of the tests.

Hopefully that helped clarify our update process for stable. If anything
still isn't clear, don't hesitate to ask.

Thanks,

  Christian
  Debian Security



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Re: Haunted PPP daemon.....

[john]

Ryan Kirkpatrick writes:
> They never specified what authentication protocal to be used (chap or
> pap), while I was.

You need to understand that ppp is a peer to peer protocol.  There is no
server and no client: it works exactly the same way whether you are a user
dialing in or an ISP.  When you specify an authentication protocol you are
telling pppd to demand that the other end authenticate to you using that
protocol.  That's how an ISP goes about requiring you to use PAP.  He, of
course, will not authenticate to you.
-- 
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI

Re: Trying to NFS mount Linux from Solaris 2.6

[tko]

George Bonser writes:
> On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Bruce Jackson wrote:
> 
> > The Solaris box is getting an access denied.  According to the Linux
> > logs, it is specifically denying the Solaris box.  The kernel is
> > 2.0.35.  Both automounting and manual mounting don`t work.  I even
> > changed the exports file to have no_root_squash.  Seems mighty strange.
> 
> Ok, which linux log is showing the denial. Are you running mountd/nfsd
> under tcp wrappers? Do you have the Solaris host allowed in
> /etc/hosts.allow?

Good point, George! Can he telnet both ways? (solaris -> linux & linux ->
solaris) I beleive a problem in the /etc/hosts.* files would show up using a
known service like telnet or ftp.

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Re: please help with netscape and sound

[Ionutz Borcoman]

Thanks , but it is not working :(

Can this be a problem of Netscape 4.5 ? Can you tell me please the hole
settings:
description
mime type
suffix
for au files. Maybe I've done something dumb here also.

TIA,

Ionutz

Thomas Lakofski wrote:
> 
> set netscape to use 'play %s' in the 'helper applications' section of the
> preferences.  'play' is in the 'sox' package.
> 
> this isn't the only answer, just the first off the top of my head.
>

Re: Problems switching to debian

[Zack Brown]

On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote:

> 
> > 1) printing is completely dead. It's as though I didn't have a printer.
> > Nothing I do has any affect on it. This has nothing to do with any changes I
> > made to my system. It's dead from the moment I install.
> > 
> > I have a WinBook XL (which runs linux great in general by the way) and a
> > DeskJet 500, as well as a parallel port iomega zip drive.
> > 
> > I don't think it's the zip drive, because I tried installing from scratch
> > without it, and it didn't help.
> > 
> > The only unusual thing I can think of is that when I got the printer cable,
> > I needed one with pins sticking out of both ends (instead of with one male
> > and one female connector) because that's just the way the ports are
> > built. The salesperson was surprised at this, but I figure the cord plugs in
> > so that can't be the problem.
> > 
> > I've recompiled both a 2.0.34 and a 2.1.126 kernel several times, with no
> > luck. I've looked through the Printing HOWTO, and just generally poked
> > around in /etc with no luck. I'm desperate.
> 
> Have you tried running magicfilter? Is the lpr daemon running?

I don't have magicfilter, but even catting to the /dev/lp? files don't work.
But I do have the daemon running: ps aux includes this line:

lp   13914  0.0  0.9  1556   868  ?  S20:29   0:00 lpd MAIN

Zack

> HTH,
> 
> Matthew
> 
> 
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> 
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Re: Delete key changed its behavior

[Ionutz Borcoman]

Thanks, this works OK. I have the usual behavior (I hope :) now:
1. "backspace" deletes the character from the left of the prompt
2. "delete" deletes the character from the right of the prompt
For this I've added to the /etc/X11/Xmodmap the line
keycode 0x16=BackSpace
Is this the right way ? Can somebody tell me where should I look for the
package that changed the default behavior ?

TIA,

Ionutz

Thomas Lakofski wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Ionutz Borcoman wrote:
> 
> > After installing some packages from Debain-JP, my delete and backspace
> > keys changed their behavior under X. Now they delete the character in
> > front of the prompt. Even Netscape behaves like this. Can somebody
> > please tell me where should I make the changes ?
> 
> xmodmap should do what you want
> use xkeycaps to find out the right codes for xmodmap.
> put an xmodmap command in your .xsession or better still in
> /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0 (if you're using xdm).

Total absence of Ethernet iff dLinux

[Peter \(Troff\) Petroff]

Hi,
please excuse the ignorance of a Linux newbie, still learning.
please excuse the desperation, I haven't a damn clue what to do.
please help!

Short story: my Ethernet card appears but doesn't work under dLinux.

Confusing evidence: One computer, three hard drives. dLinux sits on
/dev/hdc1; Microsoft Windows98 on /dev/hda1. Precisely the same hardware with
NO hard configuration changes, but the Ethernet card functions *flawlessly*
under uWin.

This was tested in that my box is set to 192.0.0.1, there's thin 
Ethernet to
my housemate's uWin95 PentiumII at 192.0.0.2. The second machine uses my
machine's printer, hard drives and modem (masquerading using Deerfield's
Wingate) with no problems whatsoever. My plan was to do all my Linux
work/study and still let my housemate print/surf/fileshare and throw off the
shackles of the MicroTyranny.

It's an AMD-K6, 64MB RAM; very vanilla Hamm release (just off the single
binary-i386). The installed and apparently working driver is for NE*000
(NE2000) (installed under uWin as a generic NE2000). The installation of both
the driver and the network specifics was a very vanilla Debian Hamm
installation, through the menus.

*   On boot and checkable with dmesg, the NE drivers detect the card at the
appropriate IO and IRQ, reporting the correct Ethernet hardware address.
*   I can ping localhost and 192.0.0.1 no problems. When I try to ping
192.0.0.2, or try to ping FROM 192.0.0.2 TO 192.0.0.1, the result is just
timeouts / 100% packet loss.
*   ifconfig reports two (or three) devices: loopback lo0, (ppp ppp0) and
Ethernet (eth0). Each of them report the correctly assigned IP. Any operations
through localhost and ppp work flawlessly...
*   Trying to ping from 192.0.0.1 to 192.0.0.2, then an ifconfig notes a 
bizarre
peculiarity - zero transmitted packets. But a whole bunch of dropped packets.

I've gone through howtos, instructional web pages and an experienced 
Linux
user I know... no dice. I'm seriously so out of clues.

Please forgive my Linux newbieness (it's so humbling):

a) what specifically does "dropped" packet mean?
b) Can ANYBODY help me? Please pretty please pretty please? Please feel free
to mail with any suggestions...

-- 
Peter Petroff, IT Support for Lifestyle Support Services (LSS),
Queensland Synod, the Uniting Church of Australia
(and Undergraduate Information Technology student at QUT)
Opinions expressed are the author's and not those of the LSS.
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zip disk

[Debian-User]

I am pretty sure I installed iomega parellel support to my kernel when i built 
the last one
And why my system boots i see some iomega stuff fly by but when this is what 
happens when i try to 
use it.:
mount -t vfat /dev/sda4 /zip
mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/sda4 as a block device
   (maybe `insmod driver'?

i have tried sda1-4 and just sda not sure what the problem is.  Am i typing the 
right dev for this?
Is there anything anyone can tell me that i am doing wrong?  Thanks you

Re: Print Postscript in draft-mode on Canpn BJ200, today!

[Zack Brown]

> Hello,
> 
> I have spent some time in the ghostscript source trying to make my BJ200e
> print Postscript in draft-mode. Anyone who uses the BJ200 knows it can be a
> real ink-hog when priniting some documents, and most of the printing I do can
> be done in draft mode.

You might try the effect of, for example, putting
{0.5 mul 0.5 add} settransfer
at or near the top of the PS file.
This should map all colours from 0 (black) to 1 (white) into the
range 0.5 to 1 instead. Or experiment with other numbers.

Zack

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> 
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Re: unresolved symbol errors

[Max]

You (Michael Beattie) wrote:
> Give `modprobe xfs` a go...

It says there aren't any dependencies.

Max

> On Fri, 30 Oct 1998, Max wrote:
> > I'm trying to compile a program (Arla) that creates a module called
> > xfs.o.  When I try to load that module with insmod, I get the
> > following:
> > 
> > xfs.o: unresolved symbol mod_use_count_
> > xfs.o: unresolved symbol inode_setattr
> > xfs.o: unresolved symbol register_symtab_from
> > xfs.o: unresolved symbol current_set
> > xfs.o: unresolved symbol clear_inode
> > xfs.o: unresolved symbol kmalloc
> > xfs.o: unresolved symbol unregister_chrdev
> > xfs.o: unresolved symbol register_chrdev
> > xfs.o: unresolved symbol namei
> > xfs.o: unresolved symbol verify_area
> > xfs.o: unresolved symbol read_exec
> > xfs.o: unresolved symbol apic_reg
> > xfs.o: unresolved symbol sys_call_table
> > xfs.o: unresolved symbol __get_free_pages
> > xfs.o: unresolved symbol open_namei
> > xfs.o: unresolved symbol unregister_filesystem
> > xfs.o: unresolved symbol iput
> > xfs.o: unresolved symbol update_vm_cache
> > xfs.o: unresolved symbol lnamei
> > xfs.o: unresolved symbol generic_file_mmap
> > xfs.o: unresolved symbol panic
> > xfs.o: unresolved symbol down_failed
> > xfs.o: unresolved symbol generic_file_read
> > xfs.o: unresolved symbol __iget
> > xfs.o: unresolved symbol register_filesystem
> > xfs.o: unresolved symbol free_pages
> > xfs.o: unresolved symbol invalidate_inode_pages
> > xfs.o: unresolved symbol up_wakeup
> > xfs.o: unresolved symbol interruptible_sleep_on
> > xfs.o: unresolved symbol kfree
> > xfs.o: unresolved symbol wake_up
> > xfs.o: unresolved symbol printk
> > 
> > I'm running kernel 2.1.121 though the system was originally set up for
> > 2.0.33.  Is there some library that I'm missing?  Everything compiles
> > fine, so I don't understand why I'm getting these errors.
> > 
> > Thanks for any help,
> > Max

Re: whois default

[Max]

You (wb2oyc) wrote:
> You could edit the named.ca file.

As in /etc/named.ca?  That file doesn't currently exist and I couldn't
find any references to it in the named man pages (but then I don't see
what named has to do with whois).  Could you explain?

Thanks,
Max

Re: zip disk

[mwb]

On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Debian-User wrote:

> I am pretty sure I installed iomega parellel support to my kernel when i 
> built the last one
> And why my system boots i see some iomega stuff fly by but when this is what 
> happens when i try to 
> use it.:
> mount -t vfat /dev/sda4 /zip
> mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/sda4 as a block device
>(maybe `insmod driver'?
> 
Have you loaded the modules?  I use:
insmod scsi_mod
insmod sd_mod
insmod ppa ppa_base=0x378 ppa_speed_hig=1 ppa_speed_low=6 ppa_nyble=0

Mark
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

UPS systems and Debian/Linux?

[Chris R. Martin]

I am looking to get a couple UPS units to protect my (2) Debian 2.0/Linux
boxes. I don't need a lot of running time; I just want to be able to
shutdown in case of a short power outage. I need a unit with uses a serial
port to communicate its status, but statistics, etc are not needed. Also, I
don't have a large budget for this.

I am looking in the 200-300 VA range, or if it's cheaper to buy one
"bigger" one, in the 600-700 VA range.

Thanks for any advice,
Chris

Re: zip disk

[Richard Sevenich]

I have the (older?) version in which the line printer and zip reluctantly
share the parallel port - both as modules. The system wakes up with the
printer owning the port. To use the zip, I must
"rmmod lp"
"insmod ppa"
To get the printer functionality back I must similarly
"rmmod ppa"
"insmod lp"
I don't think this is necessary in the 2.1.xxx kernels - is that so, anyone?
Regards, Richard

Re: UPS systems and Debian/Linux?

[Brandon Mitchell]

Someone else was wondering the same thing:

http://slashdot.org/askslashdot/980721/097233.shtml

Personally, I have a best patriot pro for my system, and it works good.
It has saved me from lots of little power problems (same circuit breaker
as my sterio and two garage door openers) and one 30 sec power failure so
far.

Checkout www.pricewatch.com and www.pricescan.com for cheap mail order
prices.

On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Chris R. Martin wrote:

> I am looking to get a couple UPS units to protect my (2) Debian 2.0/Linux
> boxes. I don't need a lot of running time; I just want to be able to
> shutdown in case of a short power outage. I need a unit with uses a serial
> port to communicate its status, but statistics, etc are not needed. Also, I
> don't have a large budget for this.

Enjoy,
Brandon

P.S.: 
$uptime
 10:46pm  up 70 days,  3:05,  9 users,  load average: 1.06, 1.10, 1.04

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Isapnp

[Andrew Ivanov]

Evening all.
Does anyone have experience in installing a PnP modem for Linux?
If you do, please contact me, I am having some problems.
Thank you,
Andrew

Re: exim and bad Sender: header

[Carl Johnson]

Lee Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Sun, Nov 01, 1998 at 10:18:15AM -0800, Carl Johnson wrote:
> > I ended up with the following fetchmail messages:
> > reading message 1 of 31 (1088 header bytes) .fetchmail: SMTP error: 501 
> > <@kira.peak.org> : colon expected after route
> > fetchmail: SMTP error: 501  : sender address must contain a domain
> > fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from kira.peak.org
> 
> I had a similar problem with messages bounced from non-existent
> accounts. The automatic reply from the server is from <>, I guess to
> prevent loops. Upgrading to fetchmail in slink (Version: 4.6.4-1) solved
> my problem.

I just installed it, so hopefully it will fix my problem also.  Thanks
for the response.
-- 
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icewm & backgrounds

[Steve Lamb]

Anyone have a clue on how to set IceWM's background to be centered and
not tile?

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Re: Trying to NFS mount Linux from Solaris 2.6

[Bruce Jackson]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> Bruce Jackson writes:
> > George Bonser wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Bruce Jackson wrote:
> > >
> > > > rpc.mountd and rpc.nfsd are running.  What is the lockd bug?  Looked on
> > > > deja news and didn`t see a solution.  Not trying to do it at the same
> > > > time now, maybe in the future.
> > >
> > > Solaris complains that it can not lock files over NFS. Seems that
> > > there is not a good lockd in Linux that Solaris will accept until the more
> > > recent 2.1.12x kernels.
> > >
> > > What error is the solaris box giving?
> > >
> > > George Bonser
> > >
> > > The Linux "We're never going out of business" sale at an FTP site near 
> > > you!
> >
> > The Solaris box is getting an access denied.  According to the Linux
> > logs, it is specifically denying the Solaris box.  The kernel is
> > 2.0.35.  Both automounting and manual mounting don`t work.  I even
> > changed the exports file to have no_root_squash.  Seems mighty strange.
> 
> I've read this thread with interest since I just finished fixing the very same
> problem on my home network. Look at the proper format for the /etc/exports
> file (man 5 exports). The Linux version is syntaxically different. After I
> straightened out my server's /etc/exports file, the server still would not
> let the client connect (permission denied). So I stopped/started the NFS
> daemons on the Linux server (/etc/init.d/netstd_nfs stop/start), and lo and
> behold - all is good in the Linux world.
> 
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I goofed on /etc/exports

Thanks for all help

--
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Linux:  because reboots are for hardware upgrades

GGI include files

[Vladimir Popov]

Hi,

I installed libggi1 and libggi-dev and trying to compile a native GGI program.
Info in libggi-dev says that in has all necessary include files to compile but
compiling stops with message "can't find file ggi/libggi.h". Did I miss
something?

best regards
Vladimir


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Re: icewm & backgrounds

[Peter Granroth]

"Steve Lamb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Anyone have a clue on how to set IceWM's background to be centered and
> not tile?
> 

xv -root -quit -rmode 5 -black backgroundcolour imagefile &

(the defult backgroundcolour is black)

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Slightly off topic: FUD ??

[G. Crimp]

I've just been reading an interesting article by Eric S. Raymond (_The
Cathedral and the Bazaar_,
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar).  In it he is
commenting on what he believes to be an authentic internal M$ document
talking about the challenge presented by the open source movement.

Anyway, my question for the list is, "does anyone know what FUD is".  I have
recently seen this acronym floating around in relation to how big companies
like micromush are going to combat against the growing threat posed by open
source.  These references are always saying stuff like normal FUD tactics
won't work.

I feel like I'm missing just a little bit of the flavour of these articles,
so if anyone can enlighten me I'd be really FUDing happy :).

BTW, the article I said I was reading is at

http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/halloween.html

TIA,

Gerald

Re: icewm & backgrounds

[Steve Lamb]

On 02 Nov 1998 06:20:24 +0100, Peter Granroth wrote:

>"Steve Lamb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Anyone have a clue on how to set IceWM's background to be centered and
>> not tile?

>xv -root -quit -rmode 5 -black backgroundcolour imagefile &

I was looking for an internal since one can set the background color and
image with the preferences file.

DesktopBackgroundColor="rgb:00/00/00"
#DesktopBackgroundImage="/misc/morpheus/t55/Yuki.gif"


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Re: Slightly off topic: FUD ??

[Steve Lamb]

On Sun, 1 Nov 1998 21:22:58 -0800, G. Crimp wrote:

>Anyway, my question for the list is, "does anyone know what FUD is".  I have
>recently seen this acronym floating around in relation to how big companies
>like micromush are going to combat against the growing threat posed by open
>source.  These references are always saying stuff like normal FUD tactics
>won't work.

FUD stands for "Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt."
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RE: Slightly off topic: FUD ??

[Shaleh]

Fear Uncertainty and Doubt --> FUD

It is a term for rumors and what not that are meant to throw people of the
track.

Re: Standard kernel for IP Masquerading?

[Thomas Adams]

At 13:32 Uhr + 31.10.1998, Ian Lynagh wrote:

>>I would like to setup IP Masquerading on my Debian 2.0
>>box. I would like to know if the default kernel is
>>built with the correct settings of if I have to go and
>>install all the development stuff for rebuilding my
>>own kernel.
>
>You will need to compile your own kernel (you should do anyway).

Are you sure? I'm running IP masquerading and didn't compile a new kernel.
My uname -a says: "Linux cat 2.0.34 #2 Thu Jul 9 10:57:48 EST 1998 i386
unknown" which is the default kernel.

Re: UPS systems and Debian/Linux?

[Mitch Blevins]

Chris R. Martin wrote:
> I am looking to get a couple UPS units to protect my (2) Debian 2.0/Linux
> boxes. I don't need a lot of running time; I just want to be able to
> shutdown in case of a short power outage. I need a unit with uses a serial
> port to communicate its status, but statistics, etc are not needed. Also, I
> don't have a large budget for this.
> 
> I am looking in the 200-300 VA range, or if it's cheaper to buy one
> "bigger" one, in the 600-700 VA range.

 I have several machines using Best Patriot UPS's.  They are cheap
 and reliable.  I'm actually planning on packaging bpowerd soon
 to automate the shutdown (already use it on my Redhat).  If you're
 interested in this package, drop me a line and I'll notify you
 when/where to get it.

 -Mitch
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Re: PPP Connection and local networ

[Michael Beattie]

On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote:

> Hi Debian users,
> I setup my PPP connection, but I'm in trouble with my ethernet local
> network. How I can route the packages correctly. When I'm using PPP I can't 
> use the network and vice-versa.
> Also, I setuped the network and when I telnet to one computer I can
> login and when telneting to the other the telnet freeze in the part:;
> Escape character is ^]
> Best regards,   Paulo Henrique


I have my route table set up as follows:

Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse
Iface
localhost   *   255.255.255.255 UH0  03 lo
*   255.255.255.0   U 0  03 eth0


That enables me to use my network, and when I use ppp, I give the
defaultroute option so that my external requests go out my ppp connection.

You could adjust your /usr/bin/pon and poff if you have a network gateway,
so that they remove the default route, and add it again when you are done.

if not, this is how you can setup the above:

/etc/init.d/network-
#!  /bin/sh
ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
route add -host 127.0.0.1 lo

IPADDR=[your Network IP address here] e.g. 192.168.0.1
NETMASK=[your networks NETMASK]255.255.255.0
NETWORK=[your network] 192.168.0.0
BROADCAST=[your networks BROADCAST]192.168.0.255
#GATEWAY=[not needed]  192.168.0.1

ifconfig eth0 ${IPADDR} netmask ${NETMASK} broadcast ${BROADCAST} up
route add -net ${NETWORK} netmask ${NETMASK} eth0
#[ "${GATEWAY}" ] && route add default gw ${GATEWAY} metric 1
--

I have commented out the gateway configuration, to that no default route
is created.

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linux crash when RAM > 128MB

[Oz Dror]

Hi
I have hust installed debian 2.0 on new P-II machine.
MB ASUS P2B-S (with aic7890)
I have 2 SDRAMS 128MB each.

When I try to boot linux with more then 128M linux crashes.

Is this a hardware or software problem.

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Re: Strange? error with slink ISDN

[Rene Hogendoorn]

> "Torsten" == Torsten Hilbrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Torsten> On: 30 Oct 1998 10:21:35 +0100 Rene Hogendoorn writes:
>>  I am trying to get ISDN working on my new system. While I had
>> a working configuration on my old system, I am now stupified by
>> an error while trying to dial out, i.e. after "isdnctrl dial
>> ippp0", I get
>> 
>> isdn_ppp_bind: Can't find usable ippp device ippp0: Resource
>> temporarily unavailable

Torsten> Execute the following code:

Torsten> cd /dev for i in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6; do ./MAKEDEV ippp$i; done

Torsten> ippp7 will not work due a bug in the MAKEDEV script.

In fact /dev/isdnctrl is missing as well (It is a link to /dev/isdnctrl0).
I removed all the isdn devices and remade them with ./MAKEDEV isdn-io.
This does not resolve the problem, though.

Torsten> I just sent a mail to Paul Slootman regarding this
Torsten> problem.

Torsten>Torsten

I did some further investigation; in fact, ipppd is running, but it did not
open the ippp0 device. At initialisation, I get

ippp0: Operation not supported by device
ippp0: Operation not supported by device

I get the same if I do cat > /dev/ippp0.
Somehow, the device does not accept an "open". I am still figuring out how
to enable code in isdn.o and hisax.o.

Torsten> -- Unsubscribe?  mail -s unsubscribe
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Re: Slightly off topic: FUD ??

[Manoj Srivastava]

Hi, 
>>"G" == G Crimp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

 G> Anyway, my question for the list is, "does anyone know what FUD
 G> is".  I have recently seen this acronym floating around in
 G> relation to how big companies like micromush are going to combat
 G> against the growing threat posed by open source.  These references
 G> are always saying stuff like normal FUD tactics won't work.

FUD: /fuhd/ /n./  Defined by Gene Amdahl after he left IBM to
   found his own company: "FUD is the fear, uncertainty, and doubt
   that IBM sales people instill in the minds of potential customers
   who might be considering [Amdahl] products."  The idea, of course,
   was to persuade them to go with safe IBM gear rather than with
   competitors' equipment.  This implicit coercion was traditionally
   accomplished by promising that Good Things would happen to people
   who stuck with IBM, but Dark Shadows loomed over the future of
   competitors' equipment or software.  See {IBM}.


IBM: /I-B-M/  Inferior But Marketable; It's Better
   Manually; Insidious Black Magic; It's Been Malfunctioning;
   Incontinent Bowel Movement; and a near-{infinite} number of even
   less complimentary expansions, including `International Business
   Machines'.  See {TLA}.  These abbreviations illustrate the
   considerable antipathy most hackers have long felt toward the
   `industry leader' (see {fear and loathing}).

   What galls hackers about most IBM machines above the PC level isn't
   so much that they are underpowered and overpriced (though that does
   count against them), but that the designs are incredibly archaic,
   {crufty}, and {elephantine} ... and you can't *fix* them
   -- source code is locked up tight, and programming tools are
   expensive, hard to find, and bletcherous to use once you've found
   them.  With the release of the Unix-based RIOS family this may have
   begun to change -- but then, we thought that when the PC-RT came
   out, too.

   In the spirit of universal peace and brotherhood, this lexicon now
   includes a number of entries attributed to `IBM'; these derive from
   some rampantly unofficial jargon lists circulated within IBM's own
   beleaguered hacker underground.

TLA: /T-L-A/ /n./  [Three-Letter Acronym] 1. Self-describing
   abbreviation for a species with which computing terminology is
   infested.  2. Any confusing acronym.  Examples include MCA, FTP,
   SNA, CPU, MMU, SCCS, DMU, FPU, NNTP, TLA.  People who like this
   looser usage argue that not all TLAs have three letters, just as
   not all four-letter words have four letters.  One also hears of
   `ETLA' (Extended Three-Letter Acronym, pronounced /ee tee el
   ay/) being used to describe four-letter acronyms.  The term
   `SFLA' (Stupid Four-Letter Acronym) has also been reported.  See
   also {YABA}.

   The self-effacing phrase "TDM TLA" (Too Damn Many...) is
   often used to bemoan the plethora of TLAs in use.  In 1989, a
   random of the journalistic persuasion asked hacker Paul Boutin
   "What do you think will be the biggest problem in computing in
   the 90s?"  Paul's straight-faced response: "There are only
   17,000 three-letter acronyms." (To be exact, there are 26^3
   = 17,576.)



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Re: about latex and tables

[King Lee]

Hello, 

I'm not a Latex expert, but I think the current  versions of 
Latex (known as Latex2e) should have a package called longtable
or supertab that may do what you want. See the Latex Companion
for more documentation.  There is also a TeX newsgroup.


Hope this helps
King lee


On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Ionutz Borcoman wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have a table that is too big (too long) to fit on one page. Can LaTeX
> break this table by itself ? How ? I was forced to split the table in 2
> parts, but I would like a more intelligent solution (my table fitted in
> 2 pages, so it wasn't so hard to split by hand. But what do I do when
> the table should take several pages ?)
> 

Re: Stuck with M$ Exchange.

[Leandro GFC Dutra]

Shawn D'Alimonte wrote:
> 
> Exchange servers, at least where I work, support POP, IMAP and a
> web/Javascript based interface that looks kinda like Outlook.
> 
> For POP try your exchange server as the server with Domain/UserName as the
> login.
> 

Thank you a lot!  Using Netscape Messenger already, now I need to get
my permanent machine (the former one is gone) so that I can happily
linux away again!


Leandro Dutra
Amdocs Brasil

Re: top vs. ps?

[E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)]

> 
> Hi.  I have Debian 2.0, 2.0.34 running
> with xdm and fvwm2.  When I display
> processes with top, two xdm's appear to be
> running with different pid's.  However,
> displaying with ps shows only one.  
> 
> Is there an explanation for this?

Ps does not show all processes by default.  Try `ps -ax' and read the
man page on ps.

HTH,
Eric

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ISDN

[Peter Berlau]

Hi,
Ich habe Debian 2.0 hamm von den Lehmann-Disketten installiert
und bekomme die Isdn-Konfiguration einfach nicht geregelt:
1. Die Verbindung steht, lt Ausgaben (eingeschaltetes Debug)
in /var/log/syslog und
in /var/log/messages
steht die Verbindung, das Passwort wird akzeptiert, die Protokolle
werden ausgetauscht die Kompression ist in Ordnung und dann, :-(
wartet meine Verbindung auf Port 53 auf einkommende Anfragen
(ca. 1 Minute; nichts tut sich, also hängt mein Rechner auf[local
hangup-normal termination])
probiert habe ich mit den Verbindungen über:
1.1. ping
1.2. fetchmail
1.3 lynx
bei allen Verbindungen fragt meine Seite beim Provider nach den
Kosten, was wohl auch funktioniert
Kann mir bitte jemand helfen, ich weiß wirklich alleine nicht mehr
weiter.

DANKE
   Peter
Grüße,
   Peter

SCSII-CD-Brenner, bitte um Empfehlungen

[Peter Berlau]

Hi,
ich möchte mir gerne einen CD-Brenner kaufen und natürlich unter
Linux(Debian 2.0) CDs brennen(Audio- und Data-CDs)
ich besitze einen Adaptec 2940 AU-Controller
Soyo 5 EH board 128 MB RAM 2x 4.1 GB (IBM) und ein 2x SCSI-
CD-ROM (geht da auch direct copy von diesem zu dem künftigen
CD-Brenner)?

Da ich meine ISDN-Verbindung noch nicht im Griff habe hier noch
Fragen:
kann ich unter Dos: e.g. mir  .deb Pakete ziehen, diese auf Dos-
formatierte Zip-Drives ablegen und die Pakete dann mit Linux
dselect, bzw. dpkg sauber in mein System integrieren?
DANKE FÜR EURE HILFE


Grüße,
   Peter

Re: Netscape4.5

[Morgan Collett]

Ralph Winslow wrote:
> 
> I've installed Netscape4.5 (nice job on the installer, guys)
> but I can't seem to use it to send mail because it insists on
> cryto-signing it and I don't have any certificates.  Could
> some kind soul tell me how to turn this feature off?  I've
> been through Mail and News preferences but can't seem to find
> this.  TIA
> --

Try clicking on the Security button and then "Messenger" on the list on
the left...

It should display all the options for signing / encrypting email.

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(t)csh and the "if" statement

[Clemens Heuberger]

I want to run the shell-script

#!/bin/csh
if ($?EDITOR) echo "Setting EDITOR"

the result is as follows:

then: then/endif not found. 

what was not my intention.

Any help? (I have to use csh instead of bash since I have to install  some
software package with twenty csh-Shell-scripts, which I do not want to
rewrite all ...)

Thanks.

Clemens Heuberger


Clemens Heuberger - Institut fuer Mathematik C, Technische Universitaet Graz
Steyrergasse 30/III, A-8010 Graz, Austria. Tel: +43 316 873-7133, Fax: -4507
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Re: postgres and php => error?

[Remco van de Meent]

On Fri, Oct 30, 1998 at 01:24:03PM -0500, Shaleh wrote:

 : The following is from my postgres log (log level set to three)
 : 
 : usr/lib/postgresql/bin/postmaster: BackendStartup: pid 353 user www-data db 
wea
 : ther socket 5
 : /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/postmaster child[0]: 
execv(/usr/lib/postgresql/bin/postg
 : res, -p, -d3, -P5, user=, password=, -v 65536, weather, )
 : FindBackend: found "/usr/lib/postgresql/bin/postgres" using argv[0]
 : Usage: /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/postgres [-B nbufs] [-d lvl] ] [-f plantype]  
   
 : [-v protocol] [  -o filename]
 : [-P portno] [-t tracetype] [-x opttype] [-bCEiLFNopQSs] [dbname]

Not regarding the actual errors in the commandline, I'd like to notice that
postgresql doesn't like "www-data" as a user. It's the dash causing
problems.

Try using another username when calling the database system.


bye,
 -Remco

RE: No Next

[Moore, Paul]

>From:  Imran Geriskovan[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Hi,
>
>I've installed Debian several times on several machines but got stuck with a
>problem on one machine.
>
>Problem is as follows:
>
>I follow all the steps that dinstall suggest me (i.e. Initialize a Linux
>Partion, Install device drivers, Conf Network, install etc..). 
>When it comes to "Install Base System" dinstall ask me the path of
>"base2_0.tgz", I provide it, then it works a while (seems like installation
>in
>progress). But after then it drops back to dinstall menu with
>"Next: Install Base system" highlighted. No other "Next" s available.
>
>I manually select "Configure Base System". But at this time it says that
>"You have to install Base System to configure." :(
>
>Again I choose "Install Base System" but same thing happens.
>
>At the end I give up and reboot the machine with a boot floopy for the same
>partition. It boots and mounts /. However it ends up with blank screen with
>a prompt "#"!. Nothing else.
>
>Issuing "ls" displays the directories and files. (bin, usr, home, dev..)
>Seems like files are installed. But no configuration is done. (Not a
>surprise.
>Huh..)
>
>Any ideas?

I had almost this exact problem on a machine with no CD. I had
downloaded the minimal set of files from the Debian FTP site onto the
machine's hard disk in a DOS (Windows 95) partition, and installed from
that. I got exactly the same symptoms as you.

I couldn't fix this, no matter what I tried.

However, when I got hold of a CD shared across the network and
transferred the same files from the CD (FWIW, it was the CheapBytes
Debian 2.0 Binary CD), the install worked fine. I have NO IDEA what the
difference was...

Whether this is relevant to you, I'm not sure...

Paul.

Sml-nj requires libc6 , will this have problems with libc5?

[Kenneth F. Ryder III]

Hi

A while ago I wrote about setting up ML on my system. I am running 1.3.1
and have libc5 installed (ver 5.4.33-3).  In trying to install sml-nj, dpkg
tells me that I need libc6 (>=2.0.7u). Will I have problems if I install
libc6?  Will this conflict with libc5, will it over write it?  How will
this affect my programs in C and C++? is there a stable version of libc6
that I can use? Will it work with 1.3.1?  Where can I get libc6?  Is there
a way to get Sml-nj to work properly without libc6, using libc5?

Thank you for your time and thoughts.

Ken

Debian GNU/Linux question

[cyberjackz]

Will a AMD K6-2/266 3D Now Chip work with this product??

Re: Strange? error with slink ISDN - Solved

[Rene Hogendoorn]

I just read about bug #28769; /dev/ippp0 - /dev/ippp6 are created with the
wrong minor device numbers. This is solved in the new makedev_2.3.1-5 in
Incoming. Note that /dev/isdnctrl still needs to be linked to /dev/isdnctrl0
in order for isdnutils to work.

Thanks to Torsten Hilbrich to point out the error in makedev.

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Help on qpopper

[Wilson Tuma]

Hi

How do I can figure qpopper so that I can send  a bulletin to all members of
my network with just a single posting.

Thanks

Wilson

help on firewall

[Wilson Tuma]

Hi

How do I use ipfwadm to prevent  all the users of my local network from
doing ftp and telnet to my mail server while allowing only  two other
systems the same network from beign able to telnet or ftp to the mail
server.

Thanks

Wilson

Help on Sendmail

[Wilson Tuma]

Hi

I just installed sendmail on my linux  mail server.  The problems is it only
accepts mail for my domain name (i.e local mail).  My domain name name is
douala1.com and my mail server is m1.douala1.com

How do I configure it so that it accepts all mail for delivery


Thanks

Re: Emacs command line option

[Richard E. Hawkins Esq.]

daniel worte,


> One reason some people are disgusted with emacs is the changes that RMS
> and company puts in emacs files. Everytime a new version comes up it seems
> to break some old code that used to work. 

that and it's use to force the True Faith of GNU down our throats.  
Remember lignux?

Emacs has gotten nearly to the point of an msfsoft product; if it 
wasn't for the failure to crash regularly, I'd be suspicious.  It hogs 
resources, has regular and incomprehensible changes that break 
compatibility with itself, and tries to change established standards by 
fiat . . . 


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Re: SCSI problem, can't instal Debian

[Rob Collins]

On Sat, 31 Oct 1998, Reagan Doose wrote:

> I am trying to install Debian 2.0 from a Bootable, SCSI CD.  I have a Dell
> Dimension XPS H266 computer with an Adaptec 2940UW SCSI adapter and a 2GB UW
> hard drive.
> 
> All starts off well, I get the boot prompt, and the system looks like it is
> coming up, then I get this:
> 
> (scsi0:-1:-1:-1) Bad scbptr 16 during SELTO.
> (scsi0:-1:-1:-1) Referenced SCB 225 not valid during SELTO.
> SCSISEQ = 0x5a SEQADDR = 0xh SSTATO = 0x15 SSTAT1 = 0x8a
> 
> This is repeated forever.
> 
> This problem did not occur two days ago when I installed RedHat 4.2, so I
> don't think it is a hardware problem.

You're supposed to boot with this lilo append option:
aic7xxx=extended,no_reset
So, from the lilo prompt, you type that  -- once in, edit /etc/lilo.conf,
and add that as an append option (like 'append="aic7xxx=..."'  -- read the
lilo man), and rerun lilo.  

For some reason, this only keeps my hard drive from resetting the bus
about 1 in three tries, though, so if that works for you please write me.
:)


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RE: Kernel rebuild

[Moore, Paul]

>From:  Waif W. Urchin[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>Grr...
>
>Alright, still trying to recompile my kernel after doing an initial
>install from floppy.

While I'm not particularly able to help with your problem, I'd guess
that you don't actually need to recompile the kernel. So maybe you can
avoid the stress...

I can't think of a reason why you'd need a new kernel to fix a PPP
dialup problem. It's certainly not impossible, but I'd try other avenues
first. Maybe post the PPP log to the list, as someone else suggested...

Paul

XEmacs C/Java mode configuration

[Thomas Apel]

When I write C/Java Code in XEmacs the braces are always indented like
this:

if (x)
  {
x = 0;
  }

But I want it to look like this:

if (x)
{
  x = 0;
}

How can I change this? I think I searched the whole options menu but
didn't find anything. Are there any docs where I could have read about
this?

BTW, how can I indent a selected area? Is there something like block
indent?

TIA,
Thomas

Re: offix

[H C Pumphrey]

I know I'm following up my own post here, but no-one else did

On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, H C Pumphrey wrote:

> Just a small one: I tried installing the offix suite several times from my
> Debian 2.0 CD. It never worked, presumably because of bug #27078:( libdnd1
> does not run ldconfig in the postinst!). None of the offix commands
> appeared except for offix-editor and that didn't work, producing an error
> along the lines of "I can't work because libdnd isn't installed properly. 
> 
> Is there a hack, kludge or other work-around which will install the offix
> suite? (Preferably one that doesn't involve installing a large percentage
> of slink!) 

The answer comes from parsing the one-line bug description and realising
that if "libdnd1  does not run ldconfig in the postinst" then you just
have to do it yourself:

prompt# dpkg --install libdnd..deb
prompt# ldconfig

*then* install all the other offix stuff.
 
Keep draggin' and droppin...

Hugh

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Re: linux crash when RAM > 128MB

[stephen . p . ryan]

On  1 Nov, Oz Dror wrote:
> Hi
> I have hust installed debian 2.0 on new P-II machine.
> MB ASUS P2B-S (with aic7890)
> I have 2 SDRAMS 128MB each.
> 
> When I try to boot linux with more then 128M linux crashes.
> 
> Is this a hardware or software problem.
> 
> -Oz

My guess is hardware.  I have 256M and it works fine.  One other thing
to try, first, though:  I'm assuming that you have the proper
append="mem=256M" line in your lilo.conf.  Try setting that to 255M
instead.  Some boards "borrow" a little bit of RAM and it makes Linux
very unhappy to not have all the ram it thinks it has.  I've seen a
couple of people suggest setting the mem= line to a little bit lower to
compensate for this.

You might also try swapping the DIMMS(?) to see if that changes
anything.

HTH,
-- 
Stephen Ryan   Debian GNU/Linux
Mathematics graduate student, Dartmouth College

Re: Help on qpopper

[Marc Haber]

On Mon, 2 Nov 1998 13:31:04 +0100, you wrote:
>How do I can figure qpopper so that I can send  a bulletin to all members of
>my network with just a single posting.

This is not a popper problem. You need to make an alias for your
network members. Look at /etc/aliases.

Greetings
Marc

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Re: Help on qpopper

[Nathan E Norman]

On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Wilson Tuma wrote:

 : 
 : Hi
 : 
 : How do I can figure qpopper so that I can send  a bulletin to all members of
 : my network with just a single posting.

RTFM the qpopper man page and keep a weather eye for "Bulletins".

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dpkg/apt-get madness

[Helge Hafting]

I tried "apt-get dist-upgrade" in order to upgrade to slink.
Yes, I know slink is "unstable" so I might get some trouble.

Packages were downloaded and processing started, then the trouble began:  
I noticed that "startx" disappeared!  
Ok, this is probably temporary, I thought.  The new xserver package was
not yet configured.  Then apt-get ended with an error. I tried re-running
"apt-get  dist-upgrade" and "dpkg --configure -a" several times, and the
problem seemed to be with the emacs20 package.  It could not be
configured, any attempt ends in "memory errors" or "subprocess returned an
error"

I wanted X back, so I decided to get rid of emacs instead.  I don't use it
much anyway.  "dpkg -r " removed everything except from
emacs20:
"The package is in a very bad inconsistent state - reinstall it before
removing"

Now this is a message even microsoft couldn't done better...
I can't install emacs20 because that doesn't work.  It fails
without giving me any clues.  Removing it is impossible also, only this
stupid idea that I should install it first.
"dpkg --purge emacs20" has the same problems as "dpkg -r emacs20" The root
partition is 95% full, I don't get any "no
space left" messages but wonder if this may be a problem anyway.

I would like to get rid of this emacs20 nonsense so 
the x-server and a few other remaining packages can be configured. any
ideas to what I should do now?

Helge Hafting

Re: how do I extract a 2.6 gigabyte .tar.gz file ?

[W. Paul Mills]

Darxus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Well... I would say I've had substantial success.
> 
> Cygnus gnu win32 gzip/tar was able to extract my 2.6 gigabyte .tar.gz, and
> all the filenames seemed to be intact in windows' long filename format.
> But when I booted back to Linux, and attempted to copy the files over to
> my current home directory, I noticed that all the filenames were the 8.3
> version -- long filenames were not working on my fat32 partition.  None of
> them are now.  I *know* this used to work.  Any idea why it isn't now ?

Do you have the vfat module loaded or compiled in your kernel.
Do you specify type vfat when mounting. If you are using type auto
it does not always mount as vfat.

> I can get my filenames intact (I think) by booting back to windows, and
> using the cygnus stuff to re tar & gzip the stuff I extracted from my
> 2.6gb file, but I would really like to get my long filename support back.
> 
> BTW:  The Cygnus gnu win32 thing is an implementation of the unix api
> under win32 (or something like that) -- basically, it'll let you compile
> & run unix stuff under windows 95/NT.  gcc is capable of recompiling
> itself with this thing.  And it comes with a bunch of unix utilities, and
> the bash shell.  I'm still not used to running a bash shell in win95... 
> oh, and you can find all of this at (of course) http://www.cygnus.com. 

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Re: XEmacs C/Java mode configuration

[Michael Stone]

Quoting Thomas Apel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> BTW, how can I indent a selected area? Is there something like block
> indent?

M-x indent-region

Mike Stone

Re: Help on Sendmail

[Michael E. Touloumtzis]

Wilson Tuma wrote:
> 
> I just installed sendmail on my linux  mail server.  The problems is it only
> accepts mail for my domain name (i.e local mail).  My domain name name is
> douala1.com and my mail server is m1.douala1.com
> 
> How do I configure it so that it accepts all mail for delivery
> 

Run "/usr/sbin/smailconfig --force" and identify your mail server as the
smarthost.

-- 
Michael E. Touloumtzis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) CA-Westwood 781-251-5687

Re: Debian GNU/Linux question

[Havoc Pennington]

On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, cyberjackz wrote:
> Will a AMD K6-2/266 3D Now Chip work with this product??
> 

Yes, it should.

(Debian isn't a product tho in the traditional sense, it's a totally free
volunteer effort.  So you might as well try it and see if it works.) 

Havoc

Re: Help on qpopper

[Miquel van Smoorenburg]

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Wilson Tuma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>How do I can figure qpopper so that I can send  a bulletin to all members of
>my network with just a single posting.

Read the docs in /usr/doc/qpopper/

Mike.
-- 
... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking 
zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs. 
  -- Robert Firth

mozilla

[Richard Harran.]

I've been following the thread on Netscape, and someone said that the
Debian package version might be available from today.

The nearest thing I could find was mozilla in slink, but this required
some libs from slink, which in turn require some others, etc, and my
installed system is from hamm.  

Should I install these now on my system, and if so will this cause any
problems (eg as I need to update libc6)?

Or is there a version of netscape coming for hamm libraries.

BTW, is it worth upgrading to slink, or is this considered unstable.

Apologies if any of these are stupid questions.

Rich

Re: dpkg/apt-get madness

[E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)]

> 
> I tried "apt-get dist-upgrade" in order to upgrade to slink.
> Yes, I know slink is "unstable" so I might get some trouble.
> 
> Packages were downloaded and processing started, then the trouble began:  
> I noticed that "startx" disappeared!  

I seemed to remember that the X11 maintainer specifically mailed to this
list that the slink X packages were severely broken and only to be used
by brave peoply meaning to help with the debugging process.

> Ok, this is probably temporary, I thought.  The new xserver package was
> not yet configured.  Then apt-get ended with an error. I tried re-running
> "apt-get  dist-upgrade" and "dpkg --configure -a" several times, and the
> problem seemed to be with the emacs20 package.  It could not be
> configured, any attempt ends in "memory errors" or "subprocess returned an
> error"

I also had lots of trouble with the emacs20 package on hamm.  Some
people suggested to remove the `tm' package.  This worked on certain
systems, but on other systems there was no `tm' present at all.  I got
this sorted out after installing emacs19, after which I could remove and
reinstall emacs20.  I suppose the emacsen system needs to get rid of its
sharp edges.

> I wanted X back, so I decided to get rid of emacs instead.  I don't use it
> much anyway.  "dpkg -r " removed everything except from
> emacs20:
> "The package is in a very bad inconsistent state - reinstall it before
> removing"

I believe that dpkg needs a --force-purge switch, to remove severely
broken packages.  Why doesn't it have one?

HTH,
Eric

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Re: XEmacs C/Java mode configuration

[Jean Pierre LeJacq]

On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Thomas Apel wrote:

> When I write C/Java Code in XEmacs the braces are always indented like
> this:
> 
> if (x)
>   {
> x = 0;
>   }
> 
> But I want it to look like this:
> 
> if (x)
> {
>   x = 0;
> }
> 
> How can I change this? I think I searched the whole options menu but
> didn't find anything. Are there any docs where I could have read about
> this?

Take a look at the info page for xemacs/cc-mode.  all is explained
there.

-- 
Jean Pierre

Re: XEmacs C/Java mode configuration

[Havoc Pennington]

On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Thomas Apel wrote:
> if (x)
> {
>   x = 0;
> }
> 
> How can I change this? I think I searched the whole options menu but
> didn't find anything. Are there any docs where I could have read about
> this?
>

M-x info m xemacs RET
 
should be helpful. (well, I don't use XEmacs, but this would work in plain
Emacs...)

Plain Emacs has a section called "Changing Indentation Style," which
includes this:

`M-x c-set-style  STYLE '
 Select predefined indentation style STYLE.  Type `?' when entering
 STYLE to see a list of supported styles; to find out what a style
 looks like, select it and reindent some C code.

`C-c C-o SYMBOL  OFFSET '
 Set the indentation offset for syntactic symbol SYMBOL
 (`c-set-offset').  The second argument OFFSET specifies the new
 indentation offset.


Havoc

Re: Problems switching to debian

[Jim Crumley]

> 
> 1) printing is completely dead. It's as though I didn't have a printer.
> Nothing I do has any affect on it. This has nothing to do with any changes I
> made to my system. It's dead from the moment I install.
> 
> I have a WinBook XL (which runs linux great in general by the way) and a
> DeskJet 500, as well as a parallel port iomega zip drive.
> 
> I don't think it's the zip drive, because I tried installing from scratch
> without it, and it didn't help.
> 
> The only unusual thing I can think of is that when I got the printer cable,
> I needed one with pins sticking out of both ends (instead of with one male
> and one female connector) because that's just the way the ports are
> built. The salesperson was surprised at this, but I figure the cord plugs in
> so that can't be the problem.
> 
> I've recompiled both a 2.0.34 and a 2.1.126 kernel several times, with no
> luck. I've looked through the Printing HOWTO, and just generally poked
> around in /etc with no luck. I'm desperate.
> 

Have you looked at the modules that you have installed?

I had a similar problem when I started using Debian, and it
turned out that a module I didn't even need (PLIP ?) was grabbing
the parallel port. Look at the output of lsmod ( and send it to the
list) and see if anything seems extraneous.  If there are modules
you think you might not need, remove them one by one using rmmod. As
you remove each extraneous module, also remove and then reinstall 
(using insmod) the printing module (lp, I think).  Watch for
any error messages.

You could also try taking a look at the output of dmesg |more  and see
if there are any messages mentioning a module grabbing the parallel
port (lp?). 

If it turns out that it is a module problem, edit /etc/modules
to reflect the modules you need. I am not sure how the parallel
port Zip drive will work with parallel printing, though I am
sure someone on this list knows.

-- 
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Re: mozilla

[J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)]

On Mon, Nov 02, 1998 at 04:05:44PM +, Richard Harran. wrote:
> The nearest thing I could find was mozilla in slink, but this required
> some libs from slink, which in turn require some others, etc, and my
> installed system is from hamm.  
> 
> Should I install these now on my system, and if so will this cause any
> problems (eg as I need to update libc6)?

Don't bother. Currently mozilla doesn't even work on my system (on which the
binary package was built); most likely there's a problem hidden deep in one
of our library packages, possibly libc.

> BTW, is it worth upgrading to slink, or is this considered unstable.

Slink is now officially frozen, which more or less amounts to "beta".

HTH,
Ray
-- 
Obsig: developing a new sig

Re: dpkg/apt-get madness

[Nikolai Andreyevich Luzan]

On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote:

> > Packages were downloaded and processing started, then the trouble began:  
> > I noticed that "startx" disappeared!  
> 
> I seemed to remember that the X11 maintainer specifically mailed to this
> list that the slink X packages were severely broken and only to be used
> by brave peoply meaning to help with the debugging process.
That phase of the 3.3.2.3a-6 release of X is over and the next one is 
into testing (available only from the package maintainers website though).
The problem here is that xbase has been split into a trillion and one
little packages, good idea...bad timing although I hasten to add that
is what one gets for using an unstable dist, anyway you'll probably
want to install all the packages in the README.Debian file in
/usr/doc/xbase . then some more. I only found out how broken it
all was until I instaled slink on another guys machine the other night
:)

Nikolai

tcpdump (suid) not halted normally

[Indra Dermawan]

Hi, I'm a newbie in Linux.
I've a problem with tcpdump.  I set it suid. When I run it as a user (not
root), it can't stop normally. When it stopped, it gave message like this:
linux socket : operation not permitted.
Help me please..

Thanks
--indra--

Re: postgres and php => error?

[Shaleh]

> 
> Not regarding the actual errors in the commandline, I'd like to notice that
> postgresql doesn't like "www-data" as a user. It's the dash causing
> problems.
> 
> Try using another username when calling the database system.

Actually it turns out I was using the wrong syntax in pg_connect.  I was
supplying a user and password, however php was next sending it on to the
server.  The folks on php3's list pointed me to the correct syntax.

Re: SCSI problem, can't instal Debian

[Kenneth Scharf]

On Sat, 31 Oct 1998, Reagan Doose wrote:

> I am trying to install Debian 2.0 from a Bootable, SCSI CD.  I have a
Dell
> Dimension XPS H266 computer with an Adaptec 2940UW SCSI adapter and a
2GB UW
> hard drive.
> 
> All starts off well, I get the boot prompt, and the system looks like
it is
> coming up, then I get this:
> 
> (scsi0:-1:-1:-1) Bad scbptr 16 during SELTO.
> (scsi0:-1:-1:-1) Referenced SCB 225 not valid during SELTO.
> SCSISEQ = 0x5a SEQADDR = 0xh SSTATO = 0x15 SSTAT1 = 0x8a
> 
> This is repeated forever.
> 
> This problem did not occur two days ago when I installed RedHat 4.2,
so I
> don't think it is a hardware problem.

I have a computer with an adaptec 2840 controler, and had the same
problems.  The only way I was able to get the SCSI on line was to
install a custom kernel with support for ONLY the adaptec controller
built in.  Trouble is that the stock kernel supports MANY different
kinds of scsi controllers and probes for the one you have.  This
probing screws up some adaptec models into FUBAR.  Also you MUST
enable the bios on the scsi card or linux won't be able to use it.  I
ended up puting an IDE cd rom in the computer to load a base system,
then re-built the kernel.  Now I can use the scsi cd.  If you have a
second computer, or have access to another debian system you can
replace the stock kernel on the boot floppy with one having only the
adaptec (or what ever) driver.

In my case adding lilo parameters did not help.
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Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

Re: SCSI problem, can't instal Debian

[Rob Collins]

Just fyi, I think I finally did fix my SCSI problem (had a 1 in 3 chance
of booting without the infinite reset errors).  The problem was that I
have a device that was incorrectly set to UW instead of U (40 max trans
rate, instead of 20).  The old aic7xxx driver I had in RH4 somehow didn't
have a problem with this, it would simply renegotiate transfers to the
correct speed... I changed the setting in my adaptec card, rebooted with
the aic7xxx=extended,no_reset flag, and all's well.

--
quiet rob
---
"Just keep telling yourself you are immortal"  --Albert Hofmann

On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Kenneth Scharf wrote:

> 
> 
> On Sat, 31 Oct 1998, Reagan Doose wrote:
> 
> > I am trying to install Debian 2.0 from a Bootable, SCSI CD.  I have a
> Dell
> > Dimension XPS H266 computer with an Adaptec 2940UW SCSI adapter and a
> 2GB UW
> > hard drive.
> > 
> > All starts off well, I get the boot prompt, and the system looks like
> it is
> > coming up, then I get this:
> > 
> > (scsi0:-1:-1:-1) Bad scbptr 16 during SELTO.
> > (scsi0:-1:-1:-1) Referenced SCB 225 not valid during SELTO.
> > SCSISEQ = 0x5a SEQADDR = 0xh SSTATO = 0x15 SSTAT1 = 0x8a
> > 
> > This is repeated forever.
> > 
> > This problem did not occur two days ago when I installed RedHat 4.2,
> so I
> > don't think it is a hardware problem.
> 
> I have a computer with an adaptec 2840 controler, and had the same
> problems.  The only way I was able to get the SCSI on line was to
> install a custom kernel with support for ONLY the adaptec controller
> built in.  Trouble is that the stock kernel supports MANY different
> kinds of scsi controllers and probes for the one you have.  This
> probing screws up some adaptec models into FUBAR.  Also you MUST
> enable the bios on the scsi card or linux won't be able to use it.  I
> ended up puting an IDE cd rom in the computer to load a base system,
> then re-built the kernel.  Now I can use the scsi cd.  If you have a
> second computer, or have access to another debian system you can
> replace the stock kernel on the boot floppy with one having only the
> adaptec (or what ever) driver.
> 
> In my case adding lilo parameters did not help.
> _
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> Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
> 
> 
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Netscape, Locale 'C', Bus errors...

[Mike Nachlinger]

Hi All,

I've upgraded librarys & locale to support Gimp & Sane.
Since upgrading Netscape dies with the following messages to
the xterm window, (Gimp & Sane work properly);

Perhaps the $XNLSPATH enviorment varible is not set correctly?
Netscape: locale `C' not supported.

The Netscape license window opens, clicking on accept creates
a bus error and drops me back to a shell prompt.

The Vitural console messages after death are;

Locale not supported by xlib
Locale not supported by C library

What library versions and locale should I be using to run 
Netscape 4.5, Gimp 1.02, Sane 0.74 successfully?

Thanks!


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Re: Debian GNU/Linux question

[tony mollica]

cyberjackz wrote:
> 
> Will a AMD K6-2/266 3D Now Chip work with this product??
> 
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I'm using an AMD K6-2/266 on an Iwill p55xb2 motherboard
with no problems at all.  Installs the system and re-compiles 
the kernel just fine.


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Kernel Log

[Account for Debian group mail]

For some reason the kernel logging turns off part way through the boot up
process.  Anyone know how keep the kernel logging on?

Thanks,

Ken Rea

Re: unresolved symbol errors (SOLVED)

[Max]

Turns out that an upgrade to the latest version of Arla fixed
the symbol errors.  That's the benefit (?) of using alpha software.

Max

Re: auto-indenting-formatting with a vi?

[Keith Beattie]

Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote:
> 
> rick, who'd be happy as a clam in a bucket of beer if he had a classic
> vi that would handle multiple buffers and color & indent his programs

Being an Emacs fan myself, I believe what you asking for is an
oxymoron. :)

I don't use vim (obviously) but using one of the vi-modes in Emacs may
be a good choice for you.  Type `M-x viper-mode' and it is rather self
explanatory.

HTH,
ksb

Re: .Xresources?

[Ole J. Tetlie]

[EMAIL PROTECTED]
|
| Ole J. Tetlie said
| > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| > |
| > | In general, how does one find out about what resources an X app 
understands
| > | if its not listed in the man page?
| > 
| > I don't know about gEdit specifically, but you can try a program called
| > editres.
| > 
| 
| Editres will list the reasources an application uses but it doesn't list
| the possible values that reasource can have.  Where does one easily find
| that?

I'm afraid there's no particularly easy way. Here are some heuristics:

1. Check the manpage
2. Use what you know from other programs
3. Check the source :-)

Some generally useful stuff:

geometry: 100x100+0-0
Search for GEOMETRY SPECIFICATIONS in man X.

names, titles and such: free form strings

colours: see /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb.txt

switches: true/false on/off or something similar (see manpage)

In the end, it's always up to the program to parse the resource
strings and this means that there will never be universal rules.

-- 
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Problems booting linux :(

[M.C. Vernon]

Dear all,

A friend of mine used to have working hamm system. He upgraded his
processor memory, and then the sound and video card to a
Videologic Apocalypse 5D Sonic Accelerator card (sound and video card)
this has the PowerVR PCx2 3D processor
ET6100 chip (2D) and
ESS audio chipset

The system now does not boot, and both the normal and tecra floppies get
as far as:
md driver 0.35 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8

and then freeze :(

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Matthew

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Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society
Selwyn College Computer Support
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http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/
http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/

GIMP plugins

[M.C. Vernon]

Dear all,

I want some plugins :).

a) are any debian packages?
b) if not, where will the gimp debian package look for them?
c) having installed a plugin, how do I use it (i.e. invoke the plugin)

Thanks,

Matthew


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http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/

Problems with network card IRQ conflicting.

[Mrpeabody]

I recently installed a scsi drive on my computer to that I could make it
dual-boot debian and windows NT, but my debian network card refuses to
work now after I installed the scsi drive.  The network card says its
IRQ is blocked or used by another device.  Being the Scsi controller is
all that I installed I asume it is this.  I would like linux just to
ignore my scsi drive becuase I have its own ide drive for it.  Is their
anyway I can tell linux to ignore my scsi drive, or is their some other
way to make it work?  What is worse yet is that windows NT doesn't have
any trouble with the network card so that means I've been stuck with
straight NT ever since.
-jeff

Re: Problems with network card IRQ conflicting.

[Nathan E Norman]

On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Mrpeabody wrote:

 : I recently installed a scsi drive on my computer to that I could make it
 : dual-boot debian and windows NT, but my debian network card refuses to
 : work now after I installed the scsi drive.  The network card says its
 : IRQ is blocked or used by another device.  Being the Scsi controller is
 : all that I installed I asume it is this.  I would like linux just to
 : ignore my scsi drive becuase I have its own ide drive for it.  Is their
 : anyway I can tell linux to ignore my scsi drive, or is their some other
 : way to make it work?  What is worse yet is that windows NT doesn't have
 : any trouble with the network card so that means I've been stuck with
 : straight NT ever since.
 : -jeff

Both PCI cards, right?  And an Adaptec SCSI card I'll wager.

Pull out the NIC, and boot.  Shutdown, insert the NIC, and boot.  The
BIOS should assign a different IRQ to the NIC.

I had this exact problem recently with a 2940 and a Netgear FA-310TX.

--
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Re: rawrite2 & NT

[Jeff Katcher]

Greg Vence wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> It appears that rawrite2 doesn't work with NT.  Is there one that does?
> I didn't see it going 0-1-0-1-... on side.  Is there something I'm
> missing?

No, I had the same results - EXCEPT that my disks worked PERFECTLY.  I
don't know why NT dosn't show the 0-1-0-1-... on side, but it Works
Fine.

 
> I'm not sure if I can find a Win95 box.  But would it work there?
> 
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No Admintool for debian?

[Joerg Friedrich]

Hi!

Is there nobody who cares that Debian has no admin-tool like other big
distributions have (RedHat or SuSe, btw I do NOT want to start a
discussion about the useability of YaST or anything like that !!!)

I'm very impressed by the features of linuxconf. But the Package in
projekts/experimental destroys my /etc/init.d scripts and is out of date.
There is a new upstream-release.

Unfortunatly I'm not able to build a NMU because don't understand how to
use the debian-packaging tools (yet). But I want to help to make a stable
package of linuxconf. i.e. extensive testing :-)

The only problem is to reach the maintainer.

IMHO Debian should have a easy-to-use but secure admintool. In my opinion
linuxconf is a very good one and we should have it in next release
(potato :-))

P.S. Maybe someone can tell me how use the debian-packaging tools.



BTW. Discussion about an Admintool for Debian should take place in the
Debian-Admintool-List. Please check where your replies go to!!!

P.P.S.: Sorry for my (bad) English.

-- 
Heute ist nicht alle Tage, ich komme wieder, keine Frage!!!

   Joerg

Strange Netscape font problem, '=?

[Immanuel Yap]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 > Hi all,
 > 
 > I have a really strange font problem in Netscape. Some apostrophes(')
 > appear as question marks(?).  This problem as been around since bo and
 > since Netscape 4.0 or so, I can't remember exactly.  When I look at the
 > source it shows question marks as well.  The funny thing is that some
 > of the apostrophes so up fine while other don't.  Has anyone else seen
 > this?  What should I look for? My fonts are set as Helvetica(Adobe) for
 > variable width and Courier(Adobe) for fixed width.  I have tried other
 > fonts including True Type ones and it doesn't help. 

I believe this is caused by a broken editor, e.g. Microsoft Word with
`Smart Quotes' enabled, that produces non-standard HTML.  IOW, there's 
really nothing you can do to fix this short of writing to the author
and asking them to fix their code.

Noel

/etc/X11/config analog in slink?

[Alexander Kushnirenko]

Hi,

What is the analog of /etc/X11/config in slink?  I'm missing it...  And 
/etc/init.d/xdm no longer refer to it to define whether to to start XDM or 
not...

Am I missing something?

Thank you,
Sasha.

biff and comsat don't work

[Max]

I'm having a tough time getting biff to work properly.  I have the
following line in my /etc/services:

biff512/udp comsat

and the following section in my /etc/xinetd.conf:

service comsat
{
socket_type = dgram
protocol= udp
wait= yes
user= root
server  = /usr/sbin/in.comsat
}

But I still cannot get biff to work even with "biff y"!  I tried
playing around with the MAIL and mail variables, but that didn't help
either.  All I want biff to do is to display the first 3 or so lines
of a new message as soon as it arrives.  Is there something else I
need to do?  The only error in the logfile that I can find is:

Nov  2 12:35:43 chinook xinetd[27596]: bind failed (Address already in use). 
service = netbios-ns

But netbios-ns is on a different port than comsat, so I don't see how
this should make a difference.

Thanks for any help,
Max

Re: rawrite2 & NT

[Nathan E Norman]

On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Jeff Katcher wrote:

 : 
 : 
 : Greg Vence wrote:
 : > 
 : > Hello,
 : > 
 : > It appears that rawrite2 doesn't work with NT.  Is there one that does?
 : > I didn't see it going 0-1-0-1-... on side.  Is there something I'm
 : > missing?
 : 
 : No, I had the same results - EXCEPT that my disks worked PERFECTLY.  I
 : don't know why NT dosn't show the 0-1-0-1-... on side, but it Works
 : Fine.

Perhaps because the NT Command Prompt is running in a window, and it's
too lazy to update the 0 and 1 each time?

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Re: biff and comsat don't work

[Thomas Lakofski]

If you use sendmail, put the following in your sendmail.mc:

FEATURE(local_procmail, /usr/bin/procmail)dnl
define(`LOCAL_MAILER_ARGS', `procmail -Y -d $u')dnl

If you don't use sendmail, I don't know where to make the config change,
but you want to pass procmail the arguments above. $u is... uh, I'm not
sure -- but if you use sendmail it'll work.

-Thomas (who's never used an MTA other than sendmail, because all the
others complain about his domain name violating an RFC.)


On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Max wrote:

> From: Max <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 12:36:26 -0800 (PST)
> Subject: biff and comsat don't work
> 
> I'm having a tough time getting biff to work properly.  I have the
> following line in my /etc/services:
> 
> biff512/udp comsat
> 
> and the following section in my /etc/xinetd.conf:
> 
> service comsat
> {
> socket_type = dgram
> protocol= udp
> wait= yes
> user= root
> server  = /usr/sbin/in.comsat
> }
> 
> But I still cannot get biff to work even with "biff y"!  I tried
> playing around with the MAIL and mail variables, but that didn't help
> either.  All I want biff to do is to display the first 3 or so lines
> of a new message as soon as it arrives.  Is there something else I
> need to do?  The only error in the logfile that I can find is:
> 
> Nov  2 12:35:43 chinook xinetd[27596]: bind failed (Address already in use). 
> service = netbios-ns
> 
> But netbios-ns is on a different port than comsat, so I don't see how
> this should make a difference.
> 
> Thanks for any help,
> Max
> 
> 
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Re: Smail configurationg (wrong from)

[shaul]

There are instructions for configuring smail to rewrite your From field, in
the Debian FAQOMATIC (Courtesy of Daniel Gross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ):



>   Hi Debian users,
>   I'm using smail as my MTA and I have a problem:
>   when sending a mail the from is jaca.cos.ufrj.br and not cos.ufrj.br as 
> desired. I used smailconfig, selected the third option and put the server 
> machine name (rio.cos.ufrj.br) and the from as desired cos.ufrj.br.
>   Then I tried other mail and the problem persist.
>   Have I to restart some service?
>   Have a nice day,Paulo Henrique
> 

Re: mgetty prevents calls

[shaul]

I believe that your problem is that your ppp configuration uses /dev/modem, 
and mgetty uses /dev/ttyS0.
My suggestion for you is to get rid of the /dev/modem stuff, as it is causing 
problems with locking the devie (the modem). See mgetty's documentation for 
more details.
Simply using /dev/ttyS0 (assuming this is where your modem is), instead of 
/dev/modem, might solved your problem.

> This is the first time I have used the list so I hope I don't make a
> major faux paux.
> 
> I have mgetty 1.1.14-2 on a 2.0 box and am having a strange problem.
> With the mgetty statement commented out in the inittab, ppp will dail
> out and connect just fine.  With the mgetty statement not commented out
> ppp fails as per the script below:
> 
> Oct 22 16:08:27 fashion pppd[18300]: pppd 2.3.5 started by root, uid 0
> Oct 22 16:08:28 fashion chat[18301]: abort on (BUSY)
> Oct 22 16:08:28 fashion chat[18301]: abort on (NO CARRIER)
> Oct 22 16:08:28 fashion chat[18301]: abort on (VOICE)
> Oct 22 16:08:28 fashion chat[18301]: abort on (NO DIALTONE)
> Oct 22 16:08:28 fashion chat[18301]: send (ATDT2523698^M)
> Oct 22 16:08:28 fashion chat[18301]: expect (ogin)
> Oct 22 16:08:47 fashion chat[18301]: ATDT2523698^M^M
> Oct 22 16:08:47 fashion chat[18301]: CONNECT 38400^M
> Oct 22 16:08:49 fashion chat[18301]: ^M
> Oct 22 16:08:49 fashion chat[18301]: ^M
> Oct 22 16:08:49 fashion chat[18301]: login
> Oct 22 16:08:49 fashion chat[18301]:  -- got it
> Oct 22 16:08:49 fashion chat[18301]: send (Pxxx^M)
> Oct 22 16:08:49 fashion chat[18301]: expect (word)
> Oct 22 16:08:49 fashion chat[18301]: : Pxxx^M
> Oct 22 16:08:49 fashion chat[18301]: Password
> Oct 22 16:08:49 fashion chat[18301]:  -- got it
> Oct 22 16:08:49 fashion chat[18301]: send (??)
> Oct 22 16:08:50 fashion pppd[18300]: Serial connection established.
> Oct 22 16:08:51 fashion pppd[18300]: Using interface ppp0
> Oct 22 16:08:51 fashion pppd[18300]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/modem
> Oct 22 16:08:54 fashion pppd[18300]: Cannot determine ethernet address
> for proxy ARP
> Oct 22 16:08:54 fashion pppd[18300]: local  IP address 207.170.232.137
> Oct 22 16:08:54 fashion pppd[18300]: remote IP address 207.170.232.4
> Oct 22 16:12:50 fashion pppd[18300]: Terminating on signal 15.
> Oct 22 16:12:50 fashion pppd[18300]: Connection terminated.
> Oct 22 16:12:50 fashion pppd[18300]: Hangup (SIGHUP)
> Oct 22 16:12:50 fashion pppd[18300]: Exit.
> 
> The lines in the inittab I have used are:
> T0:23:respawn:/sbin/mgetty ttyS0
> and
> S0:23:respawn:/sbin/mgetty ttyS0
> and some varitations of the above.
> 
> Can anyone help me figure out what is going on?  I'm assuming I have a
> mgetty problem and not a ppp problem, but I've been wrong before.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Dennis Runolfson
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Re: Help on Sendmail

[Thomas Lakofski]

On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Michael E. Touloumtzis wrote:

> Wilson Tuma wrote:
> > 
> > I just installed sendmail on my linux  mail server.  The problems is it only
> > accepts mail for my domain name (i.e local mail).  My domain name name is
> > douala1.com and my mail server is m1.douala1.com
> > 
> > How do I configure it so that it accepts all mail for delivery
> > 
> 
> Run "/usr/sbin/smailconfig --force" and identify your mail server as the
> smarthost.

I think the question was about sendmail -- to add domains accepted by
sendmail add them to the file /etc/mail/sendmail.cw and then run
'sendmailconfig'.

-t


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Re: rawrite2 & NT

[Greg Vence]

Nathan E Norman wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Jeff Katcher wrote:
>  :
>  : Greg Vence wrote:
>  : > It appears that rawrite2 doesn't work with NT.  Is there one that does?
>  : > I didn't see it going 0-1-0-1-... on side.  Is there something I'm
>  : > missing?
>  :
>  : No, I had the same results - EXCEPT that my disks worked PERFECTLY.  I
>  : don't know why NT dosn't show the 0-1-0-1-... on side, but it Works
>  : Fine.
> 
> Perhaps because the NT Command Prompt is running in a window, and it's
> too lazy to update the 0 and 1 each time?
> 

I'd believe lazy. :)  Actually, it seems that the (user) error was that
the disks needed to be freshly formated.  Anyway, that potential server
wasn't supported by any of the Linux vendors.  Compaq doesn't even
support it and this box is <3 yo.

L8r -- Greg.

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Re: biff and comsat don't work

[Heikki Vatiainen]

I suspect the reason for this is that you have a daemon which listens 
to netbios-ns port already running when you (re)start your (x)inetd. 
The culprit in question is probably nmbd which is part of samba 
distribution.

Does the problem go away if you do these things?
  1. first shut down your (x)inetd
  2. execute /etc/init.d/samba stop
  3. start (x)inetd

Doing things in this order should kill nmbd and make it release the 
netbios-ns port.

Max <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> The only error in the logfile that I can find is:
> 
> Nov  2 12:35:43 chinook xinetd[27596]: bind failed (Address already in use). 
> service = netbios-ns
> 
> But netbios-ns is on a different port than comsat, so I don't see how
> this should make a difference.
> 

// Heikki
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Tampere University of Technology  * Tampere, Finland

Re: SCSII-CD-Brenner, bitte um Empfehlungen

[Peter Berlau]

Date sent:  Mon, 2 Nov 1998 10:47:07 +0100 (MET)
From:   Lars Steinke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Peter Berlau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject:Re: SCSII-CD-Brenner, bitte um Empfehlungen

> On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Peter Berlau wrote:
>
Hi Lars,
ich wußte nicht das ich englisch schreiben muß, könnte ich zur
Not aber; wenn es auch sicher einige ??? in die Gesichter der
Leser zaubern wird bis der Sinn des von mir geschriebenen
zu "erahnen ist"   ;-)

> > Hi,
> > ich möchte mir gerne einen CD-Brenner kaufen und natürlich unter
> > Linux(Debian 2.0) CDs brennen(Audio- und Data-CDs)
>
> Die Debian-Liste ist in Englisch gehalten, da nun mal Deutsch keine
> Weltsparche ist :-)...
ok
>
> Hmm, wir benutzen den Yamaha Brenner mit 4xW, 2xRW und 6xR (leider hab
> ich die Typenbezeichung gerade net parat...). Ausserdem habe ich auch
> schon erfolgreich den Phillips 2600 unter LinUX benutzt.
> Schau doch einfach in die Tests und kauf dann einen Brenner mit 14 Tagen
> R"uckgaberecht zum Testen...
>
> Was das SCSI CD-ROM angeht sollte die Direkt-Kopie funktionieren, aber wer
> kann das schon sicher sagen :-) ?
>
> > kann ich unter Dos: e.g. mir  .deb Pakete ziehen, diese auf Dos-
> > formatierte Zip-Drives ablegen und die Pakete dann mit Linux
> > dselect, bzw. dpkg sauber in mein System integrieren?
>
> Klar, mit dpkg -i paket.deb installierst Du die Teile...
> Vorher das Zip mounten, z.B. mount /dev/hda4 /mount !
Das freut mich besonders, jetzt habe ich dann keinen Grund
mehr noch ein anderes System zu suchen, denn mailen kann ich
auch unter Dos und wenn so umständlich finde ich den Weg übers
Zip-Drive nicht, DANKE für den Tip hierzu


I'm sorry I had'nt recognize that I have to write in english to this list
but in future i know i have to do, ...
CYa

Grüße,
   Peter

help! I have a strange problem with Netscape

[ivan]

Hello! I have the following problem: I've installed Debian 2.0 on my 
machine and I'm trying now to install Netscape 4.06. At first 
Netscape couldn't find some libraries. Now everything is OK with the 
libraries but when I try to start it in X-Term it says: "Segmentation 
fault." Please help me!

Ivan Mandadjiev
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ICQ: 9380016

Re: help! I have a strange problem with Netscape

[Ben Collins]

You need to install the latest libc5 and libc5-compat libraries for
Netscape to work properly, either that or get the Netscape 4.5 that is
linked with glibc(2).


Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
UnixGroup Admin - NASA LaRC

On Tue, 3 Nov 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Hello! I have the following problem: I've installed Debian 2.0 on my 
> machine and I'm trying now to install Netscape 4.06. At first 
> Netscape couldn't find some libraries. Now everything is OK with the 
> libraries but when I try to start it in X-Term it says: "Segmentation 
> fault." Please help me!
> 
> Ivan Mandadjiev
> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> ICQ: 9380016
> 
> 
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