Unidentified subject!

[Christian Dysthe]

> 
> 
> 

running Exim from inetd- question

[Pollywog]

I am running Exim from inetd now.

I have a question.  When I change exim.conf now, I don't need to restart
inetd, correct?


thanks

--
Andrew

Re: Kernel-2.2.1 and Routing

[Steffen Evers]

If you get the error message 'SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument' at boot time:
That comes from the command 'route add -net 127.0.0.0' or something
similar normally placed in /etc/init.d/network.
You can just remove this line as routing to interfaces are done
automatically by the 2.2.x kernels. For more details see the networking
section in CHANGES ( http://www.linuxhq.com/change21.html )).

It took me a while to find this out. :-)

Bye,
  Steffen

Updating the system - Debian newbie needs help

[Carley, Jason \(Australia\)]

Hi guys,

I am considering switching over from SuSE 6.1 to Debian. I guess I am an
average linux user but I am not really familiar with Debian's way of doing
things. I am concerned to understand the process that I will need to go
through to update things like my XFree installation to 3.3.3 as I have a
RivaTNT card. As well as general packages before I make the jump across.

I have been reading up on all of the packages and install tools but I don't
really "get" it yet. Could someone please send me a brief run through on how
to get the system up-to-date and how to keep it there.

Thanks,

Jason.

Re: StarOffice help

[Carl Fink]

[This message has also been posted.]
On Wed, 30 Jun 1999 14:03:53 GMT Karl-Heinz Zimmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
>Am 29.06.1999, 20:04:28, schrieb Brian Schramm:
>
>> I have tried the real host name and localhost name both
>> connected to the internet and not.  It just cannot log into
>> the server.
>
>Please try '127.0.0.1' instead of 'localhost'=20
>and tell us if it works...  :-)

On my box, SO5.1 wouldn't recognize my local caching proxy as
"localhost" until I installed bind as a caching-only nameserver. 
Apparently StarOffice doesn't read the hosts file.
-- 
Carl Fink   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy." 
-Martin Luther on Copernicus' theory that the Earth orbits the sun

redirecting ports

[Nate]

Hi folks

I don't want to have to run any services on my firewall.  I have on IP address 
and I receive dns from the tzo services (like dhis except you get your
own domain and it's $$).  

I want to be able to run all my servers on an internal private IP.

Thus, I want to redirect ports 25, 443, and 6667 to my internal private
IP of 192.168.1.x.

I have experimented with redir and it keeps getting access failures.

What am I doing wrong, or what is the best solution for this?

Thanks.

NatePuri
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Boot Floppy

[G. Crimp]

On Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 07:07:32PM -0300, The FreeStuff Web Ring wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> A friend of mine is trying to install Debian 2.1 from the 4 CD Set onto
> a computer that doesn't enable booting from a CD Rom.  Can you tell me
> how to make a boot floppy please?
> Much appreciated!

Hello Nova Scotia !

The following assumes that your friend is running DOS or Windows of
some flavour and can access his CD drive.  I've outlined the procedure for
making rescue floppy below.  The Debian rescue floppy is what boots the
computer into the install routine.  Its also nice to have around if you hose
your system so badly that you can't reboot.

However, if your friend already has an OS on the computer and can
access the CD, there may be am easier way to boot.  There is a DOS batch
script on the CD that you can run from a DOS prompt that reboots the
computer with Linux.  The batch script is called boot.bat and it in the
install directory of CD.  Let's say that his CD is D: under DOS/Win:

C\>: d:
D\>: cd \install
D\install\>: boot.bat

and you should be off to the races.

To make a rescue floppy from DOS, you use the rawrite2.exe
programme.  Simply copying the images won't work -- you must use rawrite. 
Also, you may have to be in true DOS mode rather than just a DOS prompt in a
window.  I gather some people have trouble doing this from a window prompt. 

Before you use rawrite2.exe, you have to choose which image file you
are going to use.  If you are installing to a desktop computer with a 3.5"
high density floppy, you probably want to use resc1440.bin.  rawrite2.exe
and the floppy images are in
\dists\stable\main\disks-i386\current.  See section 5.3 of
the document install.txt (or install.html with a web browser) to decide if
resc1440.bin is appropriate for you.

To use rawrite:
C\>: d:
D\>: cd \dists\stable\main\disks-i386\current
D\dists\stable\main\disks-i386\current>: rawrite2 -f  -d 

This information is free and without warranty.  Your friend really
should read the README.* files in the root directory of the CD as well as
the install.txt file noted above.

Good luck.

-xrm option to X apps

[G. Crimp]

Just wondering if anyone knows what the -xrm option does for apps
that run in X.  man X gives a little blurb, but it is not very clear.  I've
tried a couple of experiments like:

xterm -xrm title=foobar

but it doesn't seem to work.  The is no discussion in man X about the syntax
of expression in -xrm  so I don't know if the above is correct. 


Anyone have knowledge of this curious little command attribute ?

Re: -xrm option to X apps

[Brian Servis]

*- On 30 Jun, G. Crimp wrote about "-xrm option to X apps"
>   Just wondering if anyone knows what the -xrm option does for apps
> that run in X.  man X gives a little blurb, but it is not very clear.  I've
> tried a couple of experiments like:
> 
>   xterm -xrm title=foobar
> 
> but it doesn't seem to work.  The is no discussion in man X about the syntax
> of expression in -xrm  so I don't know if the above is correct. 
> 
> 
>   Anyone have knowledge of this curious little command attribute ?
> 

It is used to set resources on the commandline.  An example, xterm can
have a resource of 

XTerm*cursorColor:  green

in your Xresources file.  You can use the -xrm to override this on the
command line like,

xterm -xrm "*cursorColor:red"

Now xterm can use the -cr command line switch for the cursorcolor but
there are resources that do not have a command line equivalent, I
didn't feel like digging through the man page.

-- 
Brian 
-
Mechanical Engineering  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Purdue University   http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis
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Need help installing Pine

[Larry Huffman]

After two years of using Red Hat, I've turned my attention to Debian
(Slink), and am learning my way around the packaging system, apt, and
dpkg.

I'm now trying to install Pine. (This message, BTW, is coming from my
shell account at my ISP, hence it being from Pine.) I've tried to install
both of the following sets of source packages, using the same steps
(listed below), receiving the same error message (also provided below):

sources:

pine_4.10-0.dsc
pine_4.10-0.diff.gz
pine_4.10.orig.tar.gz

pine_3.96M-2.dsc
pine_3.96M-2.diff.gz
pine_3.96M.orig.tar.gz

steps taken:

dpkg-source -x pine_v.dsc
cd pine
debian/rules binary (as root)

error message received:

test -f pine/pine.c -a -f debian/rules
debian/rules binaryPine
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/pine/pine-v'
test -f pine/pine.c -a -f debian/rules
test root = "`whoami`"
rm -rf debian/tmp
install -d debian/tmp/DEBIAN debian/tmp/usr/lib/menu
cd debian/tmp && install -d usr/bin usr/man/man1 usr/doc/pine
cd debian && install -m 755 postinst postrm tmp/DEBIAN
cd debian && install -m 644 menu.pine tmp/usr/lib/menu/pine
install bin/pine debian/tmp/usr/bin
install: bin/pine: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [binaryPine] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/pine/pine-3.96M'
make: *** [binary-arch] Error 2


I searched the archives for this list but couldn't find anything; I
thought I saw something posted about this earlier this month.

Thanks in advance for any help. Debian's great thus far.

--

Larry

Re: [LINUX] How to change the boot logo

[Wayne Topa]

Subject: Re: [LINUX] How to change the boot logo
Date: Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 08:24:17PM +0200

In reply to:Sami Dalouche

Quoting Sami Dalouche([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> On Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 09:12:49AM +0200, Nico De Ranter wrote:
> > 
> > Howdy,
> > 
> > I just recompiled my kernel so that I now get a nice penguin logo
> > when I boot :-).  Is there any way I can change this logo? (I'd like
> > to add some details about my system next to it, kind of like a SUN
> > when it boots)
> 
> I tried to get a penguin logo but it doesn't work on my 2.2.X kernel :
> I have an ATI Xpert Play and I've said yes to mach64 support and when
> booting, a few seconds after Lilo, I get a black screen with some 
>  weird stars and Linux don't want to boot.
> 
> Which card have you ?

Did you read *all* the Docs.

I have this in my lilo.conf
Image= /boot/Slink-2.2.10
  label  = Slink2.2.10
  Root   = /dev/hdb2
  VGA= 0x317 <  This does it, for me anyway.
  append  = "hdd=cdrom lp=parport0 parport=0x378,none"


HTH, YMMV, HAND

-- 
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twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
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Re: Updating the system - Debian newbie needs help

[Peter Ross]

On 01-Jul-1999, Carley, Jason Australia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> I am considering switching over from SuSE 6.1 to Debian. I guess I am an
> average linux user but I am not really familiar with Debian's way of doing
> things. I am concerned to understand the process that I will need to go
> through to update things like my XFree installation to 3.3.3 as I have a
> RivaTNT card. As well as general packages before I make the jump across.
> 
> I have been reading up on all of the packages and install tools but I don't
> really "get" it yet. Could someone please send me a brief run through on how
> to get the system up-to-date and how to keep it there.
> 

To install debian I can only recommend that you read the release notes.

http://www.au.debian.org/releases/slink/i386/install

The most convenient way to upgrade packages using debian is to use the
utility apt.  Once you have dselect installed choose apt as your access
method.

I have attached my /etc/apt/sources.list file.

It attempts to install it packages from the cdrom distribution first.
However if a newer version of the package is available at
ftp.monash.edu.au (my local mirror) it will get the package from there
and so on.

The final two lines are for Xfree86 3.3.3.1 and gnome 1.0
These are not officially supported Debian packages, but show the power
of apt to select the most recent version of a package available.

Cheers,
Pete.
# Use for a local mirror - remove the ftp1 http lines for the bits
# your mirror contains.
# deb file:/your/mirror/here/debian stable main contrib non-free
# See sources.list(5) for more information, especial
# Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file URIs

# The slink CD's
#deb file://cdwriter/debian stable main contrib non-free non-US
#deb file://mnt/princess/root/cdrom/debian stable main contrib non-free non-US
#deb file://mnt/dogbert/root/cdrom/debian stable main contrib non-free non-US
deb "cdrom:'Debian 2.1r2 Disk 1'/" debian/dists/frozen/contrib/binary-i386/
deb "cdrom:'Debian 2.1r2 Disk 1'/" debian/dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/
deb "cdrom:'Debian 2.1r2 Disk 1'/" debian/dists/frozen/non-US/binary-i386/
deb "cdrom:'Debian 2.1r2 Disk 1'/" debian/dists/frozen/non-free/binary-i386/
deb "cdrom:'Debian 2.1r2 Disk 2'/" debian/dists/frozen/contrib/binary-i386/
deb "cdrom:'Debian 2.1r2 Disk 2'/" debian/dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/
deb "cdrom:'Debian 2.1r2 Disk 2'/" debian/dists/frozen/non-US/binary-i386/
deb "cdrom:'Debian 2.1r2 Disk 2'/" debian/dists/frozen/non-free/binary-i386/
deb "cdrom:Debian 2.1r2 Disk 5/" debian/dists/frozen/contrib/binary-i386/
deb "cdrom:Debian 2.1r2 Disk 5/" debian/dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/
deb "cdrom:Debian 2.1r2 Disk 5/" debian/dists/frozen/non-US/binary-i386/
deb "cdrom:Debian 2.1r2 Disk 5/" debian/dists/frozen/non-free/binary-i386/

# The stable dist at monash
deb http://ftp.monash.edu.au/pub/linux/distributions/debian stable main
deb http://ftp.monash.edu.au/pub/linux/distributions/debian stable contrib
deb http://ftp.monash.edu.au/pub/linux/distributions/debian stable non-free
deb http://ftp.monash.edu.au/pub/linux/distributions/debian-non-US stable non-US

# upgraded X and apt
deb http://ftp.netgod.net/ x/

# gnome 1.0
deb ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/gnome/gnome-1.0/debian slink main

Re: New drive

[Didi Damian]

"Ghost" is a drive imaging software. What it does, it copies your disk or 
partition
byte for byte, formatting it on-the-fly. It works with ext2 filesystem, the 
only 
limitation is that, compared to the other filesystems, it won't resize the 
image, meaning 
that you can't take a partition created on a ,let's say, 1G and drop it to a 2G 
partition.
It works very well, I use it at work almost every day but I never tried it with 
ext2.

In theory it should work fine, but you would most likely need to boot from a 
floppy
to reinstall LILO.

YMMV and be prepared for an alternate method, like the fine one one suggested 
in the
previous post in case this doesn't work.

Nils Rennebarth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 12:51:50PM +0200, Rudy Broersma wrote:
> > At the moment I have a 810 MB harddisk in my Linux box. I'm going to replace
> > it with a 12 GB Bigfoot. Can I just 'copy' the partitions? (Using ghost). Or
> > do I need to reinstall Linux (hate that. When I reinstall something I always
> > think of Windows)
> You should not 'copy the partitions'. Don't know what ghost is, but I doubt
> it supports the ext2 filesystem.
> 
> Instead put the new disk together with the old one in your computer, say on
> the secondary controller, boot from the old one, partition the new, make a
> few filesystems, mount them and use tar to transfer the system. Now take out
> the old one, move the new one to the primary controller, boot from a floppy,
> using the root= option pointing to the root partition on the new disk.
> Now run lilo again and that's it. May sound complicated, but it isn't
> really.
> 
> Nils
> 
> --
> Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time.
> To be specific the "Plug" almost always works.--unknown source



-- 
D.Damian

Re: /usr/include/linux and /usr/include/asm?

[Jonathan Guthrie]

On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Evan Van Dyke wrote:

> *SNIP*
> > However, I expect I'm the only one who thinks that's the proper
> > approach so, how's this for a solution: Give the /usr/include/asm and
> > /usr/include/linux directories up as lost causes.  Instead, define new
> > directories. Say /usr/include/kernel-asm and /usr/include/kernel-linux.
> > Make THEM symlinks to the appropriate directories in the kernel source
> > tree.  I would do this on my own computer, but I don't really get any
> > benefit from it unless everyone else, particularly those who develop
> > modules and whatnot, decides to use the same convention.

> > Therefore, we then attempt to convince people to actually use those
> > directories instead of /usr/include/asm and /usr/include/linux for the
> > good reasons that we've discussed.

> If you havn't read the letter by Linux Torvalds that was referred to under
> this thread within the last few days, I suggest that you do so.

I read it.  In fact, the message that you quote was primarily in response
to that message.  I UNDERSTAND the problem.  I solved similar problems
back 15 years ago when I first started debugging clibs.  It's the solution
that I find lacking. Too bad you didn't quote the part of my message that
was really important: Making my life tougher because it's easier for me to
deal with it than Joe Random Luser is NOT AN ACCEPTABLE SOLUTION!  Yes, I
can deal with it Joe Random Luser, but I shouldn't have to.

> The obvious choice seems to be /usr/src/linux/include/linux  and
> /usr/src/linux/include/asmas that is where most people store their
> kernel source.  Why clutter up /usr/include more with kernel-specific
> headers?  The entire point is that the /usr/include/* headers should be
> kernel-independant after all.

Why is that the point?  If that's the point, it's a damn stupid one.
Look, header files go under /usr/include and /usr/local/include.  Since
the header files that are kernel specific aren't local to the system, they
should be accessible under /usr/include.  I should be able to refer to
them like that.  THAT is what is obvious to me.

Why clutter up /usr/include with directories containing kernel-specific
headers?  Well, why clutter it up with omniORB and ggi and php3?  Because
/usr/include and the directories underneath are where header files GO,
aren't they?  Having two sets of files with identical names and nearly
identical contents just galls me.  What do I care what kernel the glibc
maintainer built libc.so.6 on?  Why should I keep those files around?

The real issue is one that I talked about in my original message:
idempotence. While I agree that libc has to know about the kernel calls so
that it can wrap them in C-standard functions, it is apparent that glibc,
at least, knows far more about the internals of the kernel than is good
for it.  It is essential that a given version of glibc be able to run on
newer kernel versions and on patched kernels.  That requires careful
design and some foresight, which appears to be lacking in this case.

Let's take an example or two from the message from Linus Torvalds:

The use of the NR_OPEN constant.  The kernel (apparently---I just skimmed
over it) uses NR_OPEN to set how many file handles any given task must
have.  That is, it allocates an array of NR_OPEN "struct file *" for each
task that is forked.  (The code is in kernel/fork.c, if you have a mind.)

Why does glibc refer to this constant anywhere?  The number of files that
the kernel allows to be opened doesn't necessarily have anything to do
with the number of files glibc allows you to open.  I suppose that glibc
might put an array of size NR_OPEN in order to hold the file handles, but
that's dumb.  The ISO C standard says that the constant that defines the
maximum number of open files is FOPEN_MAX, and it is far smarter to put
your file handle in the FILE struct and declare your FILE array to be of
size FOPEN_MAX.

#define FOPEN_MAX to be the same as NR_OPEN?  Use the same sigset_t for
both glibc and the Linux kernel?  Yes, you COULD do that, but those things
don't necessarily have anything to do with each other, and it is poor
practice to use the same abstraction to refer to unrelated things even if
they happen to be the same at some point.  libc abstractions, what most
programs use, are NEVER required to be the same as the kernel
abstractions.

While I agree that you can work around the problem by requiring that
/usr/include/asm and /usr/include/linux be the contents of the directories
/usr/src/linux/include/asm and /usr/src/linux/include/linux on the system
used by the builder of the glibc and by requiring that the kernel source
must ALWAYS be in /usr/src/linux, but that is not the correct solution.

That is a massive kluge needed because people can't seem to be bothered to
do things correctly.  The correct solution is to eliminate those instances
where constants are used for purposes that they have no business being
used for.  It's like defining the FO

Re: HELP: /dev/mixer and SB PCI64V

[Didi Damian]

I have a 1371 with potato/kernel 2.2.10  and it worked fine from the beginning. 
i have a 
/dev/mixer and a /dev/mixer1. Unfortunately, about the only thing I can help 
you with
is my dmesg which shows the codec to be present. I don't know much about sound 
in linux
but I know that in Windoze no codec=no sound. Maybe somebody can pick up from 
here and
help you.

es1371: version v0.11 time 17:57:34 Jun 18 1999
es1371: found adapter at io 0x1400 irq 11
es1371: features: joystick 0x0
es1371: codec vendor CRY revision 3
es1371: codec features Headphone out 18bit DAC 18bit ADC
es1371: stereo enhancement: no 3D stereo enhancement

Steffen Evers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello !
> I've tried to get my SB PCI64V (es1371) running under Debian 2.1 and
> Kernel 2.2.10 and it won't work !
> It looks like that the kernel finds the card and everything seems to be
> ok, but it doesn't make any sound.
> At boot time I get the following:
> es1371: version v0.11 time 23:03:47 Jun 30 1999
> es1371: found adapter at io 0xb800 irq 12
> es1371: features: joystick 0x200
> es1371: codec vendor TRA revision 3
> es1371: codec features none
> es1371: stereo enhancement: no 3D stereo enhancement
> 
> I was wondering if I need to use a mixer, but I don't have a /dev/mixer
> or something similiar and /dev/MAKEDEV doesn't know how to make such a
> device.
> 
> And sox 12.15 doesn't work either:
> 'sox bla.wav  -t ossdsp -w -s /dev/dsp' gives me the error message:
> sox: Invalid audio buffer size 0
> 
> Is there anyone who could help me ?
> 
> CU Steffen
> 
> 
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> 

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postgresql errors after upgrade

[Pollywog]

Every time Postgresql gets upgraded, I get these errors:

On 01-Jul-99 Cron Daemon wrote:
> Connection to database 'template1' failed.
> connectDB() -- connect() failed: Connection refused
> Is the postmaster running at 'localhost' and accepting connections on Unix
> socket '5432'?

Ouch!!  What can I do to fix this, other than uninstalling postgresql?

thanks

--
Andrew

Re: postgresql errors after upgrade

[Oliver Elphick]

Pollywog wrote:
  >Every time Postgresql gets upgraded, I get these errors:
  >
  >On 01-Jul-99 Cron Daemon wrote:
  >> Connection to database 'template1' failed.
  >> connectDB() -- connect() failed: Connection refused
  >> Is the postmaster running at 'localhost' and accepting connections on Unix
  >> socket '5432'?
  >
  >Ouch!!  What can I do to fix this, other than uninstalling postgresql?
 
You may have to start up the postmaster yourself (there are problems with
su from pam-apps):

  /etc/init.d/postgresql start

If that doesn't work, you will need to give more information.

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  have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with
  our weaknesses, but we have one who was tempted in
  every way, just as we are-yet was without sin."   
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Re: I/O error on /dev/dsp and /dev/audio

[Jens Ritter]

Does cat /dev/sndstat work?

Check if sound is compiled in or loaded when a sound request happens
(check logs). 

Jens

"G. Crimp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Hi,
> 
>   I can't write to either /dev/audio or /dev/dsp, even as root.  The
> permissions on both are crw-rw.  I discovered when trying to set up
> RealAudio for a Linux broadcast.  When I tried to cat a file to either of
> these devices I get "cat: write error: Input/output error".

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Re: postgresql errors after upgrade

[Pollywog]

On 01-Jul-99 Oliver Elphick wrote:
> You may have to start up the postmaster yourself (there are problems with
> su from pam-apps):
> 
>   /etc/init.d/postgresql start
> 
> If that doesn't work, you will need to give more information.

I forgot to mention:

/etc#/etc/init.d/postgresql start
/usr/lib/postgresql/bin/postgresql-startup: line 64: unexpected EOF while
looking for matching ``'

I will purge postgresql and then reinstall it.  That is what I have done in
the past to fix the problem.

thanks

--
Andrew

X modeline conversions

[Matthew Gregan]

Hi everyone.

I'm trying to work out a good modeline for X for 1152x864. The reason I'm doing 
this is because I was installing some new drivers for my video card under 
Windows and discovered that my monitor can do 1152x864 at an acceptable refresh 
rate...

I've got the figures from Windows, but I only vaguely understand how they 
relate to the X modelines, and I can't figure out how to convert them over. 
Hopefully someone with more experience can point me in the right direction...

Under Windows, this is the info I have about the mode:
Pixel clock: 112320kHz

Horizontal:
Frequency: 70kHz
Front porch: 64 pixels
Sync: 128 pixels
Back porch: 256 pixels
Negative sync polarity

Vertical:
Frequency: 78Hz
Front porch: 1 line
Sync: 3 lines
Back porch: 2 lines
Negative sync polarity

I've tried reading through ESR's XF86 video timings howto, but it wasn't really 
helpful to my problem. From what I understand, the front/back porch is the time 
of the rise and fall of the signal, but I don't know how to relate the numbers 
I have back to anything useful for X.

I've found a modeline already existing in the XF86 config which is very close 
to what I want (1152x864 at 78Hz, but it's 70.8kHz horizontal frequency is just 
too much for my monitor to handle).

If anybody can help, or point me in the right direction, I would be very happy. 
Thanks. :-)

Oh, those Windows figures are from the Matrox monitor customization utility, if 
that matters...
-- 
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Solaris binaries

[Hamish Moffatt]

Is there any support for running Solaris/x86 binaries on linux i386?
I haven't had any luck searching the web.

thanks
Hamish
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Re: port redirection

[Nate]

On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 09:30:11AM +0200, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote:
> On Thu, 01 Jul 1999 04:23:15 +0200 (CEST), Tamas TEVESZ wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Nate wrote:
> >
> > > I would like to redirect some ports to an internal machine on 
> > > a private IP.  What is the best way to do this?
> >
> >ipportfw ?
> 
> Just to confirm: What you are suggesting is correct.
> 
> I use statements like
> 
>   ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L $EXT_IP pop-3 -R $INT_IP pop-3

ipmasqadm is a potato thingy.  I'm still doing slink.  Do you know how 
I can accomplish this with slink and kernel 2.0.36?  I'm still
trying stuff out with ipfwadm.  Does this sound feasible?


> to redirect ports to internal machines.
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Problems changing colour depth.

[Revenant]

I dlded and installed the newer version of the i740 drivers, and I've
now got the screen running in 1024 x 768 mode okay (yay!) but it won't
use a colour depth of greater than 8.  I've tried running startx with
the -bpp option and it still came up in 8-bit mode.  

Any thoughts?

Thanx.

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Re: X11: Zoom not working since upgrade to slink

[John Pearson]

On Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 12:29:28PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote
> On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, John Pearson wrote:
> 
> > It may be worth checking in /var/log/xdm.log to verify that you *really do*
> > have more than one video mode available.  I have a NEC Multisync 2A upstairs
> > that claims to do 31.5 & 35.15KHz; on some versions of XFree I've had to
> > specify the horizontal ranges as "31.5,35.1-35.2" to get 800x600, on others
> > "31.5,35.15" works.
> 
> Thank you John.  At the back of my monitor I have 31.5/35.2/35.5 indicated
> as the horizontal ranges.  /var/log/xdm-errors indeed reported that there
> is only one mode - the others rejected because the frequency is not
> correct.
> 
> After changing my /etc/XF86Config to 31.5-35.2, 35.5 (it was 31.5, 35.2,
> 35.5) I have more than one mode again.  But I do not know whether that may
> damage my monitor, so I put the original back again for the time being.
> 
> Can I safely change 31.5, 35.2, 35.5 to 31.5-35.2, 35.5?
> 

I would, instead, change it to "31.5,35.1-35.2,35.5".  Your monitor should
be OK with that, but it won't like anything very far from the fixed
frequencies it supports.

Something like that works for me.  My understanding is that the "actual"
scan frequency is 35.15625 (36MHz dot clock / 1024 dots per row), which is
35.2 to 3 sig. figs.  I believe that all that's happening is that some
xserver versions check a result calculated to 3 sig. figs. (which matches
35.2), and some use 4 or more (which doesn't).  If you look in xdm.log it
will tell you why it doesn't like it, which should include the actual
horizontal scan frequency required.  Any range that includes that rate
should work; it's up to you to be happy that it will work for you.

Bear in mind that the accuracy of unstabilised, untrimmed quartz crystal
oscillators is only between about 0.1% and 1% anyway (waves hands), so in
practice the monitor has to have a little leeway built in.

In summary, my understanding is that it's programming the exact same scan
rate (it is derived from one of the 'standard' clocks (36MHz / 1024 dpl for
'standard' 800x600 mode), so it won't change unless you also change the
number of dots per line in the mode definition), but that the new server is
applying a more stringent test to your monitor, whose specs simply don't
have enough significant figures to pass.  Nonetheless, if it worked before
it should work now.


John P.
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Re: "Quick" boot from floppy?

[John Pearson]

On Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 10:42:29AM -0500, John Foster wrote
> Rick Macdonald wrote:
> > 
> > I've always used lilo, but I installed slink on a friends PC and for now
> > he's using a boot floppy (to not interfere with his NT).
> > 
> > It boots the whole kernel from the floppy.
> > 
> > I thought there was a way to set up a boot floppy that somehow knows to
> > switch to the harddrive partition and boot the kernel found there. Like,
> > installing lilo on a floppy instead of the kernel itself.
> > 
> > Am I dreaming, or how is this done? I couldn't find this in the various
> > docs that I checked.
> > 

If you mean, can you use the MBR from a floppy to boot a kernel that lives
on the hard disk, yes.  Just edit lilo.conf to change the line that probably
says
boot=/dev/hda1
to
boot=/dev/fd0
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Re: postgresql errors after upgrade

[Jim Foltz]

Check line 64 of /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/postgresql-startup.

echo link it to /bin/true and run '/etc/init.d/postgresql start'
  ^
  Here


There is a mis-matched quote mark. Change the first ` to a ' and the
postmaster should start.

On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 04:26:07AM -, Pollywog wrote:
> Every time Postgresql gets upgraded, I get these errors:
> 
> On 01-Jul-99 Cron Daemon wrote:
> > Connection to database 'template1' failed.
> > connectDB() -- connect() failed: Connection refused
> > Is the postmaster running at 'localhost' and accepting connections on Unix
> > socket '5432'?
> 
> Ouch!!  What can I do to fix this, other than uninstalling postgresql?
> 
> thanks
> 
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Re: Problems with new hardware

[Ray]

On Fri, Jun 25, 1999 at 10:02:28PM -0700, Karen Hanson wrote:
> 
> Anyhow, what happens is that Netscape crashes a lot, and Mozilla crashes 
> too.  Sometimes the crash is severe enough to kill the X server, and 
> sometimes the system hangs completely.
> 
> Of every 10 crashes, 7 are just Netscape or Mozilla, 2 are the X server, and 
> 1 is a complete system hang.
> 
> I am running the Debian kernal that was on the CDs.  When I try to make a 
> new kernal, I can't get X to start at all.
> 
> I am looking for pointers as to log files that might indicate the problem.  
> It is possible that I have not set everything up exactly right for the 
> motherboard and CPU  chip.  I am using an IWILL XA100P motherboard with an 
> AMD K6-3 400 CPU, with 256MB RAM.

Nice setup!  What video card are you using?  What Xserver?  Did you install
the netscape that came on the Debian cds or did you download it from
somewhere else?

In the mean time, you might want to make sure your video card isn't sharing
it's irq with any other devices.  

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Re: Problems with new hardware

[Ray]

On Sat, Jun 26, 1999 at 11:09:51AM -0500, Andrei Ivanov wrote:
> 
> When you replace something like motherboard in the system, you have to
> recompile th ekernel for it. 

Why would you have to do that?  I could see if maybe you already had a
customized kernel with, for example, pentium optimization set, and then you
downgraded to a 386 but the kernel that comes on the Debian CDs is pretty
generic.

FWIW I use the same machine to compile kernels for 10-12 different debian
boxes and about the only thing I change is the sound related stuff.


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"Unable to load interpreter"

[Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe]

Hi

What does the message in the subject mean ? Well i know what it means
but what interpreter is the system trying to load and in wich situations
does this happens.

Thanks
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Re: "Unable to load interpreter"

[Nils Rennebarth]

On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 12:08:34PM +0100, Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe wrote:
> What does the message in the subject mean ? Well i know what it means
> but what interpreter is the system trying to load and in wich situations
> does this happens.
Isn't that the message you get when trying to execute an a.out binary on a
system where only ELF works?

Nils

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Samba and mount

[Sebastian Canagaratna]

 I am using slink and kernel 2.2.1. When trying to smbmount
 a drive from an NT maching, I get the error message:
 SMBFS: need mount version 6
 mount error: Invalid argument.

 I am using the same command in another linux box with slink
 and kernel 2.0.34 and there is no problem.

 mount -V for both machines gives 2-9g. I find it difficult to
 believe that slink would have version 2-9.g if version 6 is
 available. Am I misinterpreting the error message? Where
 do I get the latest version of mount? Will it create other problems?

 Thanks

 Sebastian Canagaratna
 Department of Chemistry
 Ohio Northern University
 Ada, OH 45810

Re: X modeline conversions

[Brian Servis]

*- On  1 Jul, Matthew Gregan wrote about "X modeline conversions"
> Hi everyone.
> 
> I'm trying to work out a good modeline for X for 1152x864. The reason I'm 
> doing this is because I was installing some new drivers for my video card 
> under Windows and discovered that my monitor can do 1152x864 at an acceptable 
> refresh rate...
> 
> I've got the figures from Windows, but I only vaguely understand how they 
> relate to the X modelines, and I can't figure out how to convert them over. 
> Hopefully someone with more experience can point me in the right direction...
> 
> Under Windows, this is the info I have about the mode:
> Pixel clock: 112320kHz
> 
> Horizontal:
> Frequency: 70kHz
> Front porch: 64 pixels
> Sync: 128 pixels
> Back porch: 256 pixels
> Negative sync polarity
> 
> Vertical:
> Frequency: 78Hz
> Front porch: 1 line
> Sync: 3 lines
> Back porch: 2 lines
> Negative sync polarity
> 
> I've tried reading through ESR's XF86 video timings howto, but it wasn't 
> really helpful to my problem. From what I understand, the front/back porch is 
> the time of the rise and fall of the signal, but I don't know how to relate 
> the numbers I have back to anything useful for X.
> 
> I've found a modeline already existing in the XF86 config which is very close 
> to what I want (1152x864 at 78Hz, but it's 70.8kHz horizontal frequency is 
> just too much for my monitor to handle).
> 
> If anybody can help, or point me in the right direction, I would be very 
> happy. Thanks. :-)
> 
> Oh, those Windows figures are from the Matrox monitor customization utility, 
> if that matters...

You can give Colas' XFree Modeline Generator at
http://www.inria.fr/cgi-bin/nph-colas-modelines a try.  It will give you
a whole range of modelines.  You could also us xvidtune to fine tune a
mode that is close to what you want.

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Re: Samba and mount

[Mirek Kwasniak]

On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 04:53:25AM -0400, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote:
>  I am using slink and kernel 2.2.1. When trying to smbmount
>  a drive from an NT maching, I get the error message:
>  SMBFS: need mount version 6
>  mount error: Invalid argument.
> 
>  I am using the same command in another linux box with slink
>  and kernel 2.0.34 and there is no problem.
> 
>  mount -V for both machines gives 2-9g. I find it difficult to
>  believe that slink would have version 2-9.g if version 6 is
>  available. Am I misinterpreting the error message? Where
>  do I get the latest version of mount? Will it create other problems?

For kernel 2.2.x you need smbmount-2.1.x:

  smbmount-2.1.x '\\host\service' [password] -c 'mount mount-dir' 

Mirek

Re: Samba and mount

[Brian Servis]

*- On  1 Jul, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote about "Samba and mount"
>  I am using slink and kernel 2.2.1. When trying to smbmount
>  a drive from an NT maching, I get the error message:
>  SMBFS: need mount version 6
>  mount error: Invalid argument.
> 
>  I am using the same command in another linux box with slink
>  and kernel 2.0.34 and there is no problem.
> 
>  mount -V for both machines gives 2-9g. I find it difficult to
>  believe that slink would have version 2-9.g if version 6 is
>  available. Am I misinterpreting the error message? Where
>  do I get the latest version of mount? Will it create other problems?
> 

You need to install the smbfx package for use with the 2.2.x kernels. 
Then the syntax has(for now) changed for the worse with the smbmount
that is used with the 2.2.x kernels. Then see the man page for 
smbmount-2.1.x after you have installed smbfsx.  If you are dual
booting between 2.0.x and 2.2.x kernels then you might want to look at 
http://www.wittsend.com/mhw/smbmount.html which is mentioned in the
Changes file in the 2.2.x kernel docs.

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Re: Samba and mount

[Lawrence Walton]

On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 04:53:25AM -0400, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote:
>  I am using slink and kernel 2.2.1. When trying to smbmount
>  a drive from an NT maching, I get the error message:
>  SMBFS: need mount version 6
>  mount error: Invalid argument.
> 
>  I am using the same command in another linux box with slink
>  and kernel 2.0.34 and there is no problem.
> 
>  mount -V for both machines gives 2-9g. I find it difficult to
>  believe that slink would have version 2-9.g if version 6 is
>  available. Am I misinterpreting the error message? Where
>  do I get the latest version of mount? Will it create other problems?
> 
>  Thanks
> 
>  Sebastian Canagaratna
>  Department of Chemistry
>  Ohio Northern University
>  Ada, OH 45810
> 
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You have the new 2.x.x SAMBA installed, look for the new smbmount 
"smbmount-2.2.x"
The comandline has changed also try "smbmount-2.2.x //yourmachine/yourmount -c 
'mount /winnt' -U username"
This is not a documented as well as I would like. :> 
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Cron spawns...

[Ares]

When I got to work this morning, unlocking my X screen took an enormous
amount of time, and the rest of the system was incredibly sluggish. Top
revealed several copies of cron and a couple of copies of smbd running,
and they pretty much had 100% of the CPU time split between them. Has
anyone seen this before, and if so, how did you cure it?

Incidentally, I'm running a pure slink system.

Thanks,

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Re: port redirection

[Ralf G. R. Bergs]

On Thu, 01 Jul 1999 01:46:56 -0700, Nate wrote:

>> I use statements like
>> 
>>   ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L $EXT_IP pop-3 -R $INT_IP pop-3
>
>ipmasqadm is a potato thingy.  I'm still doing slink.  Do you know how 

Ooops. Sorry. Can't you just upgrade the necessary packages Debian 2.1 level?

>I can accomplish this with slink and kernel 2.0.36?  I'm still
>trying stuff out with ipfwadm.  Does this sound feasible?

To the best of my knowledge port forwarding wasn't available in stock 2.0.x 
kernels. There MIGHT however be a patch to provide port forwarding, but I 
don't know whether it really exists.


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Re: port redirection

[thomas lakofski]

i'm missing the original message, but 'rinetd' might help in what you're
looking for.  works for me.

On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote:

> 
> >> I use statements like
> >> 
> >>   ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L $EXT_IP pop-3 -R $INT_IP pop-3
> >
> >ipmasqadm is a potato thingy.  I'm still doing slink.  Do you know how 
> 
> Ooops. Sorry. Can't you just upgrade the necessary packages Debian 2.1 level?
> 
> >I can accomplish this with slink and kernel 2.0.36?  I'm still
> >trying stuff out with ipfwadm.  Does this sound feasible?
> 
> To the best of my knowledge port forwarding wasn't available in stock 2.0.x 
> kernels. There MIGHT however be a patch to provide port forwarding, but I 
> don't know whether it really exists.
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Re: port redirection

[Dan Everton]

On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote:
> On Thu, 01 Jul 1999 01:46:56 -0700, Nate wrote:
> 
> >> I use statements like
> >> 
> >>   ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L $EXT_IP pop-3 -R $INT_IP pop-3
> >
> >ipmasqadm is a potato thingy.  I'm still doing slink.  Do you know how 
> 
> Ooops. Sorry. Can't you just upgrade the necessary packages Debian 2.1 level?
> 
> >I can accomplish this with slink and kernel 2.0.36?  I'm still
> >trying stuff out with ipfwadm.  Does this sound feasible?
> 
> To the best of my knowledge port forwarding wasn't available in stock 2.0.x 
> kernels. There MIGHT however be a patch to provide port forwarding, but I 
> don't know whether it really exists.

There is a patch available. You can find it here
http://www.ox.compsoc.org.uk/~steve/portforwarding.html

I think it's packaged somewhere in the Debian distribution... *checks
package listing* yes it is. You can find it here:
http://www.debian.org/Packages/stable/net/ipportfw.html

Hope that helps

Dan

Re: StarOffice help

[Brian Schramm]

OK, how do I make sure that my bind is installed as caching-only name server?  

Thanks 

Brian

On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Carl Fink wrote:
> [This message has also been posted.]
> On Wed, 30 Jun 1999 14:03:53 GMT Karl-Heinz Zimmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> wrote:
> >Am 29.06.1999, 20:04:28, schrieb Brian Schramm:
> >
> >> I have tried the real host name and localhost name both
> >> connected to the internet and not.  It just cannot log into
> >> the server.
> >
> >Please try '127.0.0.1' instead of 'localhost'=20
> >and tell us if it works...  :-)
> 
> On my box, SO5.1 wouldn't recognize my local caching proxy as
> "localhost" until I installed bind as a caching-only nameserver. 
> Apparently StarOffice doesn't read the hosts file.
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Unmapped keystrokes?

[Chris]

I've just noticed this problem recently...  It seems that a number of
keystrokes fail to do anything.  In emacs or Jed, ^W, ^K, ^F, and probably a
number of others do nothing, or at least don't do what they're supposed to
do.  ^X, ^S and ^C all seem to work, though.  Does anyone have any idea what
might be wrong?  I have a tough time interpreting keymap files, so I don't
know if something is missing or not.  These keystrokes have worked for three
months, and I can't recall upgrading for at least three weeks, so I haven't
a clue what might have caused this.  Any help would be much obliged.

Thanks,

-Chris

Re: new hard drive install

[David Wright]

Quoting charles kaufman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> 
> 
> On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Brad wrote:
> >> > Yes it really says FAT 12

... which you presumably don't have. (Actually I just saw my
very first FAT12 partition yesterday when I was mending someone's
disk geometry settings. It was 9MB in size, which I'd guess might
be too small for FAT16.) So it's picking up garbage.

> > 
> > What does Linux "fdisk -l" show?
> 
> Here it is. The segmentation fault at the end is 
> part of the output.(not encouraging)
> The disk is not all partitioned.
> 
> fdisk -l
> 
> The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 1027. This is 
> larger than 1024 and may cause problems with
> 1)software that runs at boot time (e.g. LILO)
> 2)booting and partitioning software from other OS's (e.g. 
> DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
> 
> Disk /dev/hda: 255 Heads 63 Sectors 1027 Cylinders
> Units =Cylinders of 16065*512 bytes
> 
> Device   Boot Begin Start End  Blocks  Id   System
> /dev/hda1  *11 64   51408+  6  DOS 16 bit>=32M
> /dev/hda2  *   65   65192 1028160  83  Linux native
> /dev/hda3 193  193205  104422+ 82  Linux swap
> Segmentation fault.

Doesn't that raise the question as to how you partitioned the disk
in the first place? Presumably that didn't segfault or you wouldn't
have been able to write the partition table at all.

Did you use a different program, in which case what does it say
and does it agree with the above? Or did you use the same program
in which case it's a bit worrying that a program can write a
partition table which it itself can't then read.

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Help identify motherboard (486)

[Arcady Genkin]

Hi all:

I've inherited a i486 DX4 from a friend, that's supposed to run at
100MHz. However the computer seems very slow. There's no documentation 
to the motherboard, and I'm afraid I'm running it with "Turbo" turned
off, and I don't know which pins are responsible for "Turbo" (they are 
only marked numerically). Neither can I connect internal speaker.

The motherboard has a Socket 3, ALI M1429 A1 chipset, American
Megatrends AMIBIOS with inscription "486DX ISA BIOS", 7 ISA slots, 8
slots for 39-pin RAM. The only marking on the board itself is "PAT 48
AV - 1.10". It came with an IDE controller card with no identification 
on it; it supports up to 2 IDE devices + floppy, and has chips with
markings "UMC UM82C865F" on it.

It looks like it was bouhg in 1994 or around that time. I'd appreciate 
any pointers as to where to look for its specs. I'm also interested to 
know whether there have been any BIOS updates, and BIOS manual too,
because I've never had a 486 before... I intend to use it as a
firewall.

TIA!
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firewalls for dummies?

[Stuart Marshall]

Hi,

I am planning to setup a firewall for a public network containing 
two class C subnets.  The machine is a potato box running 2.1.10
compiled with the appropriate firewall stuff turned on.  I have 
studied the various HOWTO's (ipchains, firewall, ...) but I think
I am missing something.  My preliminary tests have failed.  I would
really like to get an example of a similar setup from someone that
knows better.

The current network looks like:
  X.Y.(116 or 12).xxx
 upstream router -- switched_hub  local_machine_a
 X.Y.116.254   ||\___ local_machine_b
 X.Y.12.254 (alias) switched_hub  
   ||
  


I would like it to look like:


 upstream router -- firewall -- switched_hub  local_machine_a
 X.Y.116.254   ||\___ local_machine_b
 X.Y.12.254 (alias) switched_hub  
   ||
  

The local machines have addresses in the ranges X.Y.116.3-252 and
X.Y.12.3-252 most of which are unused.  There are ~100 used between
the two subnets.  These are suns, macs, win98/nt pc's, and a few
linux machines.  The local net machines are set up like:

IPADDR=X.Y.12.16
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=X.Y.12.0
BROADCAST=X.Y.12.255
GATEWAY=X.Y.12.254

The one test so far was set up as:

 upstream router -- firewall -- switched_hub  local_machine_a
 X.Y.116.254^  ^
 X.Y.12.254 (alias) |  |
|  |
eth0 = X.Y.12.2 |  |_ eth1 = X.Y.12.242

Here local_machine_a was configured as:

IPADDR=X.Y.12.107
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=X.Y.12.0
BROADCAST=X.Y.12.255
GATEWAY=X.Y.12.242

I put a "1" into /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward and set the chain
policies all to ACCEPT hoping to create a simple pass-through system.
No bytes would go from the inside to the outside or the other way round.
It seems like I don't understand the routing system.  Do I need to turn
on "arp" for the interfaces (like "ifconfig eth0 arp").  Also, how is
the upstream router supposed to know about the addresses behind the wall?

Can anyone point me at a source of examples of this sort.  Almost every
example I have seen to date is for a private network using the 192.168.x.x
series addresses.  It seems problematic that my upstream router has
addresses on my subnet (I think it is one interface with an extra aliased
address).

It seems like this is a common situation.  I want to insert a firewall
in a public network where there is currently a single wire (fiber really). 
It should be very similar at most university departments.

Thanks for listening, any advice is appreciated and naturally I can
provide more info,

Stuart

Re: new hard drive install

[David Wright]

Quoting Brad ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, David Wright wrote:
> 
> > Yes. When you copy a kernel (e.g. I copy /boot/vmlinuz to
> > c:\loadlin\zimage for loadlin to boot from dos) you need to rdev it.

  ^^^

> > Typerdev kernel-imageto see what it's set to and
> > rdev kernel-image /dev/hda2to set it. This saves having to tell it
> > where root is every time you boot it.
> 
> Not necessary. Recently i repartitioned my HD, moved Linux from hda2 to
> hda1. Never had any trouble after i restored my filesystem from backups
> and reran lilo (after editing lilo.conf and fstab)



Loadlin is not lilo.

The "Yes" was answering the question as put, which was IIRC "Does the
kernel have a place in which it remembers its root device". (But this was
before it was revealed that there were far more serious error messages
than a kernel panic.)

Cheers,

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Re: Help identify motherboard (486)

[Matthias Murra]

>It looks like it was bouhg in 1994 or around that time. I'd appreciate 
>any pointers as to where to look for its specs. I'm also interested to 
>know whether there have been any BIOS updates, and BIOS manual too,
>because I've never had a 486 before...

You might want to try this site

  http://ping4.ping.be/bios/

for finding information, and the c't-BIOS utility could also help you in
determining exactly what type of motherboard you have, so that you
can have a look at the manufacturer's web site, although there may not
be any BIOS updates, manuals etc. available for a motherboard this old.

Greets,
Matt

Re: Problems with new hardware

[Andy Spiegl]

> > I am looking for pointers as to log files that might indicate the problem.  
> > It is possible that I have not set everything up exactly right for the 
> > motherboard and CPU  chip.  I am using an IWILL XA100P motherboard with an 
> > AMD K6-3 400 CPU, with 256MB RAM.
I've got a similar machine.  (Epox MB instead of IWILL)
And I can't keep my box alove longer than 2-3 days.
It just stops completely.  Not even the magic SysRQ keys work. :-(
I tried to analyze the hardware parts that might be causing this,
but so far I had no luck.  This morning I took out the TV-card (Hauppauge)
to see whether that's the bad guy, but who knows...

> Nice setup!  What video card are you using?
I've got a Diamond Viper 550 AGP.

> What Xserver?
SVGA

> In the mean time, you might want to make sure your video card isn't sharing
> it's irq with any other devices.
Hm, why is that?!?  I've got all my PCI/ISA slots filled up, so that
some PCI cards have to share IRQs.  And my AGP card is always sharing
it's interrupt with the first PCI slot, which holds the network card.

I would be very surprised to hear that Linux doesn't like shared IRQs?!?

Thanks a lot,
 Andy.

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Re: Help identify motherboard (486)

[David Wright]

Quoting Arcady Genkin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Hi all:
> 
> I've inherited a i486 DX4 from a friend, that's supposed to run at
> 100MHz. However the computer seems very slow. There's no documentation 
> to the motherboard, and I'm afraid I'm running it with "Turbo" turned
> off, and I don't know which pins are responsible for "Turbo" (they are 
> only marked numerically). Neither can I connect internal speaker.

Well I can't help with IDing the mobo, but to check if the turbo
is turned off, here are a couple of typical Bogomips:

486DX  33MHz 16 bogomips
486DX2 66MHz 26 bogomips

so you ought to get more than that if it's on, and a lot less if off.

Cheers,

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XF86Setup problem

[IN]

Hi,

I've recently totally reinstalled potato, installing first slink
development environment and then upgrading to potato,
Since then I can't use XF86Setup to change the settings, if I try to
change keyboard layout or apply changes, the screen goes black with green
stripes for a second and then just goes back to background x gray colour,
i can move mouse but I get no windows again and have to kill it.

I've tried changing to older version of XF86Setup and also tried doing a
completely clean installation in exactly same way but same problem occurs.
Has anyone had similar problem and if so what could cause it. I had potato
installed before and this didn't occur, just not sure why does it happen
now :o(

Thanks,

I.N.

Re: port redirection

[ferret]

There is a patch I've used to 2.0.36, and you want to use the ipportfw
package in slink. The patch is included with the documentation, and I
think the 2.0.35 patch worked for me.

I'm completely running 2.2.10/2.3.x now, and haven't had a chance (or a
need anymore) to run port forwarding.

On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote:

> On Thu, 01 Jul 1999 01:46:56 -0700, Nate wrote:
> 
> >> I use statements like
> >> 
> >>   ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L $EXT_IP pop-3 -R $INT_IP pop-3
> >
> >ipmasqadm is a potato thingy.  I'm still doing slink.  Do you know how 
> 
> Ooops. Sorry. Can't you just upgrade the necessary packages Debian 2.1 level?
> 
> >I can accomplish this with slink and kernel 2.0.36?  I'm still
> >trying stuff out with ipfwadm.  Does this sound feasible?
> 
> To the best of my knowledge port forwarding wasn't available in stock 2.0.x 
> kernels. There MIGHT however be a patch to provide port forwarding, but I 
> don't know whether it really exists.
> 
> 
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Help with Knews and EX/VI Terminal

[Ray Schultz]

Hello all,

I'm running 2.1 and KNews in ICEWM

When I go to post a new article or post a follow-up I get:

Ex/VI: Vi's stand input and output must be a terminal.

How do I set knews to use VI as a terminal?

TIA,
-=Ray 
---
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There is no security on this earth.  There is only opportunity.
-- General Douglas MacArthur

Re: new hard drive install

[charles kaufman]

On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, David Wright wrote:

 >> > Yes it really says FAT 12
> 
> ... which you presumably don't have. (Actually I just saw my

Certainly not due to anything I did (on purpose, that is).

> very first FAT12 partition yesterday when I was mending someone's
> disk geometry settings. It was 9MB in size, which I'd guess might
> be too small for FAT16.) So it's picking up garbage.
> 
 
> > fdisk -l

> > Disk /dev/hda: 255 Heads 63 Sectors 1027 Cylinders
> > Units =Cylinders of 16065*512 bytes
> > 
> > Device   Boot Begin Start End  Blocks  Id   System
> > /dev/hda1  *11 64   51408+  6  DOS 16 bit>=32M
> > /dev/hda2  *   65   65192 1028160  83  Linux native
> > /dev/hda3 193  193205  104422+ 82  Linux swap
> > Segmentation fault.
> 
> Doesn't that raise the question as to how you partitioned the disk
> in the first place? Presumably that didn't segfault or you wouldn't
> have been able to write the partition table at all.

It was the same program-linux fdisk.

> 
> Did you use a different program, in which case what does it say
> and does it agree with the above? Or did you use the same program
> in which case it's a bit worrying that a program can write a
> partition table which it itself can't then read.

It looks like I should repartition the disc and try again.
It just seemed so close to working.
And the error message is so clear.
Oh well.
Thanks again for the help.

Chuck Kaufman

RE: Help with Knews and EX/VI Terminal

[Ray Schultz]

Never Mind,

I found the answer on www.deja.com

You have to edit the Knews file in
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/appdefaults

thanks anyway,


On 01-Jul-99 Ray Schultz wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I'm running 2.1 and KNews in ICEWM
> 
> When I go to post a new article or post a follow-up I get:
> 
> Ex/VI: Vi's stand input and output must be a terminal.
> 
> How do I set knews to use VI as a terminal?
> 

ARP difficulties with 2.2.x kernels and slink

[David Wright]

I've done what I suspect many have, which is to build a 2.2.x kernel
on top of slink, making the minimal changes outlined below. I have no
problems except with the one machine at work that is connected to the
ethernet and has a modem. If this machine runs 2.0.36 (all my others
run 2.2.10), PPP between home and work works; if it runs 2.2.10,
there's some sort of ARP failure (and the mask is wrong, lines marked ^).

At work 2.0.36 (I've removed the packet/collision/memory lines)

eth0  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:A0:24:B8:63:B5
  inet addr:888.888.92.23  Bcast:888.888.93.255  Mask:255.255.254.0
  UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
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
ppp0  Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
  inet addr:888.888.92.23  P-t-P:888.888.92.28  Mask:255.255.254.0
  UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING  MTU:1500  Metric:1
888.888.92.28   0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH0  01 ppp0
888.888.92.00.0.0.0 255.255.254.0   U 0  0   70 eth0
127.0.0.0   0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0   U 0  01 lo
0.0.0.0 888.888.92.10.0.0.0 UG1  0  143 eth0
? (888.888.92.1) at 08:00:02:07:04:66 [ether] on eth0
? (888.888.92.21) at 00:60:97:51:31:05 [ether] on eth0
? (888.888.92.26) at 00:A0:24:93:4D:8E [ether] on eth0
? (888.888.92.29) at 00:10:4B:46:4B:C2 [ether] on eth0
? (888.888.92.28) at 00:A0:24:B8:63:B5 [ether] PERM PUP on eth0

At work 2.2.10

eth0  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:A0:24:B8:63:B5
  inet addr:888.888.92.23  Bcast:888.888.93.255  Mask:255.255.254.0
  UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
loLink encap:Local Loopback
  inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
  UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:3924  Metric:1
ppp0  Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
  inet addr:888.888.92.23  P-t-P:888.888.92.28  Mask:255.255.255.255
  /^\
  UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
/^\
888.888.92.28   0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH0  00 ppp0
888.888.92.00.0.0.0 255.255.254.0   U 0  00 eth0
0.0.0.0 888.888.92.10.0.0.0 UG1  00 eth0
? (888.888.92.1) at 08:00:02:07:04:66 [ether] on eth0
? (888.888.92.26) at 00:A0:24:93:4D:8E [ether] on eth0
? (888.888.92.28) at * PERM PUP on eth0
/^\

The machine at home has a similarly strange ifconfig for ppp0, but
that doesn't stop it working on the internet. But I haven't tested
whether the laptop can work through its ethernet link.

At home 2.2.10

eth0  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:10:4B:45:46:E2
  inet addr:888.888.92.28  Bcast:888.888.93.255  Mask:255.255.254.0
  UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
eth0:1Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:10:4B:45:46:E2
  inet addr:777.777.197.254  Bcast:777.777.197.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
  UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
loLink encap:Local Loopback
  inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
  UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:3924  Metric:1
ppp0  Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
  inet addr:888.888.92.28  P-t-P:888.888.92.23  Mask:255.255.255.255
  UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
888.888.92.23   0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH0  00 ppp0
777.777.197.0   0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0   U 0  00 eth0
0.0.0.0 888.888.92.23   0.0.0.0 UG0  00 ppp0
? (888.888.92.23) at * PERM PUP on eth0

I've read www.debian.org/releases/2.1/running-kernel-2.2
and installed www.debian.org/~rcw/2.2/netbase/netbase_3.12-2_i386.deb
but am not using the other things like dhcp, pcmcia, isdn, bootpc,
diald.

I've removed the redundant route commands from /etc/init.d/network.
At home, I delete the redundant route to the .92 network that
2.2.x makes, and resolv.conf is filled/emptied by ip-up/down.

I've noticed that /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward is set to 1 in 2.0.36
and 0 in 2.2.10 by default so I changed it to 1 but with no effect.

What have I missed?

Cheers,

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Disclaimer:   These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify
official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.

RerightCond

[Patrick Billings]

Linux slakware 
2.0.35
 
When I used this in the httpd.conf it worked fine for 
something.host.com but when I change the directory from /www to /home/www/ and 
the domain from .com to .net the reright stopped working, I changed com to net 
and /www/ to /home/www/ but still did not work. 
 

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.[^.]+\.host\.com$
RewriteRule ^(.+) %{HTTP_HOST}$1 [C]
RewriteRule ^www\.([^.]+)\.host\.com(.*) /www/$1$2
However for host.net/somename works fine with this 
RewriteRule /~([^/]+)/?(.*) /$1/$2 [R]
can anyone figure this out?
 
Patrick

RE: Problems changing colour depth.

[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry]

On 01-Jul-99 Revenant wrote:
> I dlded and installed the newer version of the i740 drivers, and I've
> now got the screen running in 1024 x 768 mode okay (yay!) but it won't
> use a colour depth of greater than 8.  I've tried running startx with
> the -bpp option and it still came up in 8-bit mode.  
> 

in the Screens section, where ity talks about the vid card and resolutions add:

DefaultColorDepth 16

or 24 or what ever.

Section "Screen"
   Driver  "Accel"
   Device  "G200"
   Monitor "Mine"
   DefaultColorDepth 32
   BlankTime   0
   SuspendTime 0
   OffTime 0
   SubSection "Display"
  Depth8
  Modes"1280x1024"
  ViewPort 0 0
   EndSubSection
   SubSection "Display"
  Depth15
  Modes"1280x1024"
   EndSubSection
   SubSection "Display"
  Depth16
  Modes"1280x1024"
  ViewPort 0 0
   EndSubSection
   SubSection "Display"
  Depth24
  Modes"1280x1024"
  ViewPort 0 0
   EndSubSection
   SubSection "Display"
  Depth32
  Modes"1280x1024"
  ViewPort 0 0
   EndSubSection
EndSection

Re: Help identify motherboard (486)

[Arcady Genkin]

Matthias Murra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> >It looks like it was bouhg in 1994 or around that time. I'd appreciate 
> >any pointers as to where to look for its specs. I'm also interested to 
> >know whether there have been any BIOS updates, and BIOS manual too,
> >because I've never had a 486 before...
> 
> You might want to try this site
> 
>   http://ping4.ping.be/bios/

Thanks a lot, I determined the motherboard manufacturer -- TMC (Taiwan 
MYCOMP), and apparently the m/b model is PAT 48AV. Unfortunately, none 
of the 486 m/b's are listed on the company's website...

> for finding information, and the c't-BIOS utility could also help you in
> determining exactly what type of motherboard you have, so that you
> can have a look at the manufacturer's web site, although there may not
> be any BIOS updates, manuals etc. available for a motherboard this old.

Well, at least I know what I'm looking for... Thanks again.

-- 
Arcady Genkin
"... without money one gets nothing in this world, not even a certificate
of eternal blessedness in the other world..." (S. Kierkegaard)

Wine x slink

[Valdemir Melechco Carvalho]

Is there a more recent (>981018) wine slink package? If so, where I could
find it?
Thanks in advance.
Valdemir

Re: HELP: /dev/mixer and SB PCI64V

[Steffen Evers]

Steffen Evers wrote:
> 
> Hello !
> I've tried to get my SB PCI64V (es1371) running under Debian 2.1 and
> Kernel 2.2.10 and it won't work !
> It looks like that the kernel finds the card and everything seems to be
> ok, but it doesn't make any sound.
> At boot time I get the following:
> 
> I was wondering if I need to use a mixer, but I don't have a /dev/mixer
> or something similiar and /dev/MAKEDEV doesn't know how to make such a
> device.
> 
> And sox 12.15 doesn't work either:
> 'sox bla.wav  -t ossdsp -w -s /dev/dsp' gives me the error message:
> sox: Invalid audio buffer size 0
Solved it by myself. 
I had to use /dev/MAKEDEV audio not mixer.
The next time I keep in mind: RTFMP.

Everything is running ! Even the joystick !!!

Bye, Steffen

screen saver control

[Jianming YOU]

Hi, experts,

I was trying to find the configuration file which control the screen
saver under X. For example, I'd like to change the timeout from ~8sec to 
5 sec, remove certain screen saver pattern. I understand that "xset s ..."
gives some control on the timeout. However I want to know where the 
system wide control is.

Help is very much appreciated.

-- 
Jianming YOU
Carnegie Mellon University
MS 221, E781, Fermilab, x4128 http://fn781a.fnal.gov/~youj

security leak in ppp.log file

[Carel Fellinger]

Sorry for reposting this question, but somehow my posts to the newsgroup
never make it to the list and many posting of others seam to miss too:(,
so please reply by email too. thanks


Hai,

for starters: the longer I have Debian GNU/Linux the happier I get,
  and the more often I find what I need in the docs,
  but not this one:(

Recently my IPS changed from chat to PAP, and now I find my password
in the ppp.log file. I know that file has restricted access rights,
but I prefer to have no passwords lying around, besides Debian ships
with an X configuration where the console messages are routed to an
xterm on the XDM login screen, so there they are for everyone to read!
Previously I used chat scripts only (no PAP authentication once logged
into my IPS), and in there you have flags (\q) to suppress listing of
the password in the ppp.log files. How to achief this with PAP or CHAP?

---

I got this one reply of Eric G. Miller suggesting to use pppconfig and
have the password and userid in the pap-secrets file. Unfortunately that
was no cure, as that was exactly what I already had done:(.

the ppp.log file reads something like:

Jun 27 13:30:21 vvs pppd[16672]: Using interface ppp0
Jun 27 13:30:21 vvs pppd[16672]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS1
...
Jun 27 13:30:43 vvs chat[16672]: send (\d)
Jun 27 13:30:44 vvs pppd[16671]: Serial connection established.
Jun 27 13:30:45 vvs pppd[16671]: Using interface ppp0
Jun 27 13:30:45 vvs pppd[16671]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS1
Jun 27 13:30:45 vvs pppd[16671]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x2  ]
Jun 27 13:30:46 vvs pppd[16671]: rcvd [LCP ConfAck id=0x2  ]
Jun 27 13:30:46 vvs pppd[16671]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x28]
Jun 27 13:30:46 vvs pppd[16671]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x28]
Jun 27 13:30:46 vvs pppd[16671]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x0 magic=0x1b9a3fac]
Jun 27 13:30:46 vvs pppd[16671]: sent [PAP AuthReq id=0x1 user="my-user-id" 
password="my-password"]
Jun 27 13:30:49 vvs pppd[16671]: sent [PAP AuthReq id=0x2 user="my-user-id" 
password="my-password"]

and there they are, so what did I do wrong? how to prevent this?
just ran pppconfig, selected PAP protocol and kept all the default awnsers.
by the way, I'm still running (mainly) ham (Debian 2.0)

-- 
groetjes, carel


-- 
groetjes, carel

FW: Cron run-parts --report /etc/cron.monthly

[J Horacio MG]

Cron sent me this error, what does it mean? ... all I can think of is
that the machine has spent a few days being switched off before cron
started running, so that may have caused havoc since in
/etc/cron.monthly/acct there's the line:

echo "Login accounting for the month ended `date`:" >
/var/log/wtmp.report

And today is 1st of month, not End of month.

TIA

- Forwarded message from Cron Daemon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cron Daemon)
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> run-parts --report /etc/cron.monthly
X-Cron-Env: 
X-Cron-Env: 
X-Cron-Env: 
X-Cron-Env: 
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:52:05 +0200

/etc/cron.monthly/acct:
ac: Possible overflow of time_t!  Can't continue.

- End forwarded message -

-- 
Horacio
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Valencia - ESPAÑA

Connection to localhost:25 refused

[Alisdair McDiarmid]

I've just upgraded to potato fully, with exim 3.02, and now I
can't connect to port 25 on localhost:

[root:~] # telnet localhost 25
Trying 127.0.0.1...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused

Obviously, fetchmail now doesn't work, and I can't receive mail
via SMTP either. I've checked /etc/exim.conf for anything obvious
but I can't see anything blocking connections.

Can anyone help me please?
-- 
alisdair mcdiarmid   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[your home may be at risk if you do not keep up repayments on
 your loan. any and all advice given is strictly confidential]

Tcp Wrappers

[TEJAL V DESAI]

I'm trying to install Tcp Wrappers on Sun Netra 1125 running on Solaris
2.6. I downloaded the file tcp_wrappers_7.6.tar.gz file from the web. I
gzipped and untared this file. I want to use ftp services. So, I tried
to edit Makefile.
  I uncommented the following 2 lines

SysV.4 Solaris 2.x OSF AIX
REAL_DAEMON_DIR=/usr/sbin

Then I saved this file and ran following command

make System-Name (ie sunos5)

This gave an error message as under

make: Fatal error in reader: Makefil, line 47 : Unexpected end of line
seen.

Can you please tell me what causes this error message? Once I compile
this makefile, I can edit inetd.conf file.

Thanks in advance
Tejal Desai
Sprint IPDSS - Planning and Engineering
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Re: Help identify motherboard (486)

[Arcady Genkin]

Revenant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I know it's obvious, but I have to ask: Does the BIOS tell you on
> bootup?

It says 486DX-AC-WBu-25/33/40/50-L3-ZZ in the top line of the screen,
it also prints:

"32MHz CPU Clock" just below the BIOS box where it lists all the
system info. If my CPU is DX4, does it mean that it multiplies 32Mhz
by 4?

> > Thanks a lot, I determined the motherboard manufacturer -- TMC (Taiwan
> > MYCOMP), and apparently the m/b model is PAT 48AV. Unfortunately, none
> > of the 486 m/b's are listed on the company's website...

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isdnutils: vboxgetty to mail?

[Stephan A Suerken]

Hi,
 
 obviously, isdnutil's vboxgetty isn't supporting direct mailing of
the incoming messages to user(s). However, that is what I'd like to
have (skipping "vbox") -- is there any nice solution for this around?

Thanks,

Stephan
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Autolocking of virtual consoles

[Stephan A Suerken]

Hi,

 I would like to have an autolock mechanism for all virtual consoles
(and all users), i.e., similar to autologout, but running something
like vlock on the user rather than logging him out.

 Though this seems to be a rather reasonable feature, there does not
seem to be an easy way to implement it.

 If I am mistaken or someone has some good solution, I'd be glad to
hear about it...

Thx,

Stephan
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RE: Connection to localhost:25 refused

[Pollywog]

On 01-Jul-99 Alisdair McDiarmid wrote:
> I've just upgraded to potato fully, with exim 3.02, and now I
> can't connect to port 25 on localhost:
> 
> [root:~] # telnet localhost 25
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
> 
> Obviously, fetchmail now doesn't work, and I can't receive mail
> via SMTP either. I've checked /etc/exim.conf for anything obvious
> but I can't see anything blocking connections.
> 
> Can anyone help me please?

Several of us had the same problem with this Exim version. 
There is a patch for it, but I am now running Exim from inetd and that fixed
the problem for me.

--
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CD Changer setup

[Rick Salvador]

Hi,

I have a NEC CDR-4300a 4disk cd changer drive, and I would like to have
a way that I could access the 4 disks remotely through the FTPD. Is this
possible? How Do I mount disks 2-4? and how can I have the FTP server
change disks?


Thanks

Rick

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Re: security leak in ppp.log file

[Jens B. Jorgensen]

These log messages show up because somewhere you've specified the 'debug' 
option. Just get rid of this option.

Carel Fellinger wrote:

> 
> Sorry for reposting this question, but somehow my posts to the newsgroup
> never make it to the list and many posting of others seam to miss too:(,
> so please reply by email too. thanks
> 
>
> Hai,
>
> for starters: the longer I have Debian GNU/Linux the happier I get,
>   and the more often I find what I need in the docs,
>   but not this one:(
>
> Recently my IPS changed from chat to PAP, and now I find my password
> in the ppp.log file. I know that file has restricted access rights,
> but I prefer to have no passwords lying around, besides Debian ships
> with an X configuration where the console messages are routed to an
> xterm on the XDM login screen, so there they are for everyone to read!
> Previously I used chat scripts only (no PAP authentication once logged
> into my IPS), and in there you have flags (\q) to suppress listing of
> the password in the ppp.log files. How to achief this with PAP or CHAP?
>
> ---
>
> I got this one reply of Eric G. Miller suggesting to use pppconfig and
> have the password and userid in the pap-secrets file. Unfortunately that
> was no cure, as that was exactly what I already had done:(.
>
> the ppp.log file reads something like:
>
> Jun 27 13:30:21 vvs pppd[16672]: Using interface ppp0
> Jun 27 13:30:21 vvs pppd[16672]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS1
> ...
> Jun 27 13:30:43 vvs chat[16672]: send (\d)
> Jun 27 13:30:44 vvs pppd[16671]: Serial connection established.
> Jun 27 13:30:45 vvs pppd[16671]: Using interface ppp0
> Jun 27 13:30:45 vvs pppd[16671]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS1
> Jun 27 13:30:45 vvs pppd[16671]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x2  
> ]
> Jun 27 13:30:46 vvs pppd[16671]: rcvd [LCP ConfAck id=0x2  
> ]
> Jun 27 13:30:46 vvs pppd[16671]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x28   0x682cc4e0>  ]
> Jun 27 13:30:46 vvs pppd[16671]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x28   0x682cc4e0>  ]
> Jun 27 13:30:46 vvs pppd[16671]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x0 magic=0x1b9a3fac]
> Jun 27 13:30:46 vvs pppd[16671]: sent [PAP AuthReq id=0x1 user="my-user-id" 
> password="my-password"]
> Jun 27 13:30:49 vvs pppd[16671]: sent [PAP AuthReq id=0x2 user="my-user-id" 
> password="my-password"]
>
> and there they are, so what did I do wrong? how to prevent this?
> just ran pppconfig, selected PAP protocol and kept all the default awnsers.
> by the way, I'm still running (mainly) ham (Debian 2.0)
>
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>
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TAR.GZ

[Cuno Sonnemans]

Hi,

I've downloaded GUILGNL0.GZ (WP8 language module).
Now I want to try to extract it.
I've tried, tar -xzvf .., and gunzip  .
In both cases I got the message: not a gzip format.
How is this possible and what is the way to extract GUILGNL0.GZ !!!

HTH

Cuno Sonnemans

RE: TAR.GZ

[Pollywog]

On 01-Jul-99 Cuno Sonnemans wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've downloaded GUILGNL0.GZ (WP8 language module).
> Now I want to try to extract it.
> I've tried, tar -xzvf .., and gunzip  .
> In both cases I got the message: not a gzip format.
> How is this possible and what is the way to extract GUILGNL0.GZ !!!
> 
> HTH

Are you certain you really competed the download?

--
Andrew

Re: Help identify motherboard (486)

[Bradley Bell]

On 1 Jul 1999, Arcady Genkin wrote:
> It says 486DX-AC-WBu-25/33/40/50-L3-ZZ in the top line of the screen,
> it also prints:
> 
> "32MHz CPU Clock" just below the BIOS box where it lists all the
> system info. If my CPU is DX4, does it mean that it multiplies 32Mhz
> by 4?

no.  DX4 means it is capable of tripling the clock speed.
According to my hazy memory: there is usually one set of jumpers on the
motherboard to determine clock speed (25, 33, 40, or 50 MHz) then there's
another set of jumpers that determines whether that speed is multiplied by
1, 2, or 3.  if you have a DX, you multiply by 1.  if you have a DX2, you
multiply by 2, and if you hava a DX4, you multiply by 3.

-Brad

Re: TAR.GZ

[Brian Servis]

*- On  1 Jul, Cuno Sonnemans wrote about "TAR.GZ"
> Hi,
> 
> I've downloaded GUILGNL0.GZ (WP8 language module).
> Now I want to try to extract it.
> I've tried, tar -xzvf .., and gunzip  .
> In both cases I got the message: not a gzip format.
> How is this possible and what is the way to extract GUILGNL0.GZ !!!
> 

Try using the 'file' program to identify it.  If it is a gz file you
should get something like,

% file GUILGNL0.GZ
GUILGNL0.GZ: gzip compressed data, deflated, last modified: Sun Apr 11 00:20:57 
1999, max compression, os: Unix

If it is a tar,

% file GUILGNL0.GZ
GUILGNL0.GZ: GNU tar archive

Perhaps the file got uncompressed when you downloaded it but the file
extension was left on. Or if you ftp'd it did you use binary mode?  If
ftp was not in binary mode during the download and instead in ascii mode
then the file is destroyed and you will have to get it again.

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Re: TAR.GZ

[Noah L. Meyerhans]

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On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Cuno Sonnemans wrote:

> I've downloaded GUILGNL0.GZ (WP8 language module).
> Now I want to try to extract it.
> I've tried, tar -xzvf .., and gunzip  .
> In both cases I got the message: not a gzip format.
> How is this possible and what is the way to extract GUILGNL0.GZ !!!

You downloaded it with Netscape, didn't you?  Netscape un-gzipped the file
without telling you.  Try 'tar xvf' on it; it's just a regular tar file.

noah

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Re: TAR.GZ

[Gary L. Hennigan]

Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 01-Jul-99 Cuno Sonnemans wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I've downloaded GUILGNL0.GZ (WP8 language module).
> > Now I want to try to extract it.
> > I've tried, tar -xzvf .., and gunzip  .
> > In both cases I got the message: not a gzip format.
> > How is this possible and what is the way to extract GUILGNL0.GZ !!!
> > 
> > HTH
> 
> Are you certain you really competed the download?

And set binary mode before the transfer? Doesn't usually matter on
Unix->Unix transfers, but it can make a difference if the remote isn't 
a Unix system. Also, it's possible that the file got corrupted during
the download. Again, not something that happens often, but it does
happen.

Gary

klogd uses excessive cycles

[Peter Iannarelli]

Hello:

I running potato with a 2.2.10 SMP kernel.
I boot my system klogd used 99% of the CPU
as reported by top.

What could I be doing wrong ? ( thats loaded )

Peter


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Re: "Quick" boot from floppy?

[Sami Dalouche]

lilo -b /dev/fd0 installs lilo on a floppy.

On Tue, Jun 29, 1999 at 02:44:04PM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote:
> 
> I've always used lilo, but I installed slink on a friends PC and for now
> he's using a boot floppy (to not interfere with his NT).
> 
> It boots the whole kernel from the floppy.
> 
> I thought there was a way to set up a boot floppy that somehow knows to
> switch to the harddrive partition and boot the kernel found there. Like,
> installing lilo on a floppy instead of the kernel itself.
> 
> Am I dreaming, or how is this done? I couldn't find this in the various
> docs that I checked.
> 
> ...RickM...
> 
> 
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Re: security leak in ppp.log file

[John Hasler]

> and there they are, so what did I do wrong?

Nothing.  A bug in pppd causes it to put the password in the log when using
PAP even if you put a '\q' in front of it.  Later versions of pppd fix this
by adding the 'hide-password' option.  Edit /etc/ppp/peers/provider and
delete the 'debug' option.
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proftpd ?

[tjm]

Hi.  I installed proftpd and used one of the 
default configuration scripts for anonymous
login access.  I can login to the ftp server
on the lan, but from the outside (work), the
only message I get is "Connected to (server ip)".
No prompts appear for username or password and
the session attempt is locked up, that is, if
the attempt was from a linux box, I need to 
specifically kill the process. Same with attempts
from w95 and nt. 

The syslog shows a connection is made, and then
the ftp session is immediately closed.  I've
been through all the documentation, but I'm 
obviously overlooking something.

The default Debian installation ftp server does
allow the logins so I'm almost sure it's the 
proftpd configuration and not something else.
proftpd behaves the same whether standalone or
inetd configured.

Any suggestions, or can someone supply a simple
anonymous config to compare mine to?

thanks, (and still looking over the docs)
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Re: new hard drive install

[Brad]

On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, charles kaufman wrote:

> 
> Hi 
> > Not necessary. Recently i repartitioned my HD, moved Linux from hda2 to
> > hda1. Never had any trouble after i restored my filesystem from backups
> > and reran lilo (after editing lilo.conf and fstab)
> 
> I did almost that. Instead of restoring from backups I had the old and 
> the new hard drives mounted at the same time and used cpio.
> Did you have to tell the kernel where the new swap partition was?

i had two hard drives, but the one i was repartitioning had the entire
Linux installation on it at the time. So i tar-gzipped everything to the
other drive (which fortunately had the space), popped in my old hamm
installation floppy, repartitioned, used zcat and star off the
floppy--fortunately i had tarred / into a separate tarball from /usr and
other unessential stuff, because that tarball was the only one star
managed to handle! i then resolved to make a new boot disk for myself one
of these days ;)

Didn't have to tell the kernel that either... i used the "initialize swap
partition" option on the installation floppy when i was repartitioning,
then just changed fstab.

hanging when using linload

[Sander Balkenende]

Hi,

When starting (or trying to start) linux with linload from my dos partition,
it hangs after some mesages about scsi (no scsi devices present on my
computer). I coppied vmlinuz.36blahblah to my dos partition.

below is the dos-batch file shown I use to start linload with parameters.

linux.bat:
smartdrv /C
c:\loadlin\loadlin.exe c:\loadlin\vmlinuz -v vga=-1 root=/dev/hdb1

what can be wrong?

thanks, Sander

Problem with installer - please help

[Carley, Jason \(Australia\)]

Hi again. Well I have decided to take the "debian challenge" and install 2.1

The only problem is when I boot up and select my media, modules etc from the
bootable CDROM:

I go to install lilo and am told that there is a problem with my hard disk
size.  This is not true as there are less than 1027 cylinders and SuSE 6.1
and Redhat both had no trouble installing from it. Then I planned to use a
floppy to get running and sort out lilo later. I was consistently told that
the installer was unable to make a boot floppy. No other dist has ever had
any trouble with this.

What am I doing wrong?  Could this be related to one of the modules I am
loading?  Please help

Re: Connection to localhost:25 refused

[Alexander Stavitsky]

On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 08:00:23PM -, Pollywog wrote:
> 
> On 01-Jul-99 Alisdair McDiarmid wrote:
> > I've just upgraded to potato fully, with exim 3.02, and now I
> > can't connect to port 25 on localhost:
> > 
> > [root:~] # telnet localhost 25
> > Trying 127.0.0.1...
> > telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
> > 
> > Obviously, fetchmail now doesn't work, and I can't receive mail
> > via SMTP either. I've checked /etc/exim.conf for anything obvious
> > but I can't see anything blocking connections.
> > 
> > Can anyone help me please?
> 
> Several of us had the same problem with this Exim version. 
> There is a patch for it, but I am now running Exim from inetd and that fixed
> the problem for me.

If you  have upgraded from pre-3.00 exim  postinst script will disable
smtp entry in /etc/inetd.conf. If you are running exim from inetd
you should execute "eximconfig -i" after installation to reenable smtp
service in inetd. This ONLY applies if you are not running exim as daemon.
There was another problem with exim running as daemon. Check old messages
on this list for more info.

> 
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> 
> 
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Re: I/O error on /dev/dsp and /dev/audio

[G. Crimp]

On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 08:20:01AM +0200, Jens Ritter wrote:
> 
> Does cat /dev/sndstat work?
> 
> Check if sound is compiled in or loaded when a sound request happens
> (check logs). 
> 
> Jens

Ah ha.  The kernel log reports the following:

kernel: Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error?

I don't doubt that when I was configuring isapnp I made a mistake.  Can you
give me any more help with this.  I have read the sound HOWTO and the isapnp
docs, but when it comes to reading the pnpdump file I find it pretty
bewildering.  As I mentioned in my initial post, the fact that I had this
working on a Deb 1,3 system was more good luck than anything else.  The
pnpdump output often says to choose only one of a selection, but I am never
sure which one to choose, nor in fact which of several lines constitute a
single choice.  Here is the output from cat /dev/sndstat:

--- cat /dev/sndstat -
Sound Driver:3.5.4-960630 (Tue Mar 23 11:47:08 PST 1999 root,
Linux humble 2.0.34 #1 Sun Mar 21 10:18:45 PST 1999 i586 unknown)
Kernel: Linux humble 2.0.34 #1 Tue Mar 23 11:48:33 PST 1999 i586
Config options: 0

Installed drivers: 
Type 1: OPL-2/OPL-3 FM
Type 5: Roland MPU-401
Type 8: 6860 UART Midi
Type 2: Sound Blaster
Type 7: SB MPU-401

Card config: 
Sound Blaster at 0x220 irq 5 drq 0,1
Roland MPU-401 at 0x330 irq 12 drq 0
6860 UART Midi irq 11 drq 0
(SB MPU-401 at 0x800 irq 5 drq 0)
OPL-2/OPL-3 FM at 0x388 drq 0

Audio devices:
0: ESS ES1688 AudioDrive (rev 11) 

Synth devices:
0: Yamaha OPL-3

Midi devices:
0: MPU-401 0.0  Midi interface #1
1: 6850 UART

Timers:
0: System clock

Mixers:
0: Sound Blaster
-- end cat /dev/sndstat --

Thanks,

Gerald

> 
> "G. Crimp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I can't write to either /dev/audio or /dev/dsp, even as root.  The
> > permissions on both are crw-rw.  I discovered when trying to set up
> > RealAudio for a Linux broadcast.  When I tried to cat a file to either of
> > these devices I get "cat: write error: Input/output error".
> 

Networking help

[Robert Rati]

I have been having problems getting my Debian box to talk to my internal
network at all, and I'm stumped as to why.  None of the how-to's have
helped at all.  The configuration should be working and I know the ether
card works because I've used it before.  I can ping my box from itself,
but I can't ping any machine on the network, and no machine can ping mine.
Route gives this:
Destination GatewayGenmask Flags   MSS Window  irtt Iface
10.0.3.0*  255.255.255.0   U 0 0  0 eth0

default 10.0.3.1   0.0.0.0 UG0 0  0 eth0

When I do an ifconfig I get this:
eth0  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:40:05:2F:1D:D5
  inet addr:10.0.3.11  Bcast:10.0.3.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
  UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
  RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
  TX packets:0 errors:22 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
  collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
  Interrupt:10 Base address:0x240

loLink encap:Local Loopback
  inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
  UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1
  RX packets:88 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
  TX packets:88 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
  collisions:0 txqueuelen:0

Here's my /etc/init.d/network:
#! /bin/sh
ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
#route add -net 127.0.0.0
IPADDR=10.0.3.11
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=10.0.3.0
BROADCAST=10.0.3.255
GATEWAY=10.0.3.1
ifconfig eth0 ${IPADDR} netmask ${NETMASK} broadcast ${BROADCAST}
#route add -net ${NETWORK}
[ "${GATEWAY}" ] && route add default gw ${GATEWAY} metric 1 

I'm running kernel 2.2.10.  I've noticed that there are no RX packets for
my ether card, but I'm not sure if that means anything or not.  Can anyone
give me some things to try or some info that could lead to a better
diagnosis?  strace is cryptic, but it appears to be trying to ping the
correct ip addresses.  Any help would be MUCH appreciated.  TIA.

Rob

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Re: Problems changing colour depth.

[G. Crimp]

On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 07:50:58PM +1000, Revenant wrote:
> I dlded and installed the newer version of the i740 drivers, and I've
> now got the screen running in 1024 x 768 mode okay (yay!) but it won't
> use a colour depth of greater than 8.  I've tried running startx with
> the -bpp option and it still came up in 8-bit mode.  
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> Thanx.
> 

What command line did you use ?

Re: TAR.GZ

[G. Crimp]

On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 10:56:04PM +0200, Cuno Sonnemans wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've downloaded GUILGNL0.GZ (WP8 language module).
> Now I want to try to extract it.
> I've tried, tar -xzvf .., and gunzip  .
> In both cases I got the message: not a gzip format.
> How is this possible and what is the way to extract GUILGNL0.GZ !!!
> 
> HTH
> 
> Cuno Sonnemans

Hi,
tar zxvvf worked for me on WP 8 language modules.  Maybe the file
was corrupted on download.  I've heard that some browser will do tranlations
on a file when downloading.  If you downloaded use and ftp client, were you
in binary mode ?

Try doing:
$ file GUILGNL0.GZ

and see if it says that it is gzip compressed data.

Gerald

Re: Help identify motherboard (486)

[Arcady Genkin]

Bradley Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On 1 Jul 1999, Arcady Genkin wrote:
> > It says 486DX-AC-WBu-25/33/40/50-L3-ZZ in the top line of the screen,
> > it also prints:
> > 
> > "32MHz CPU Clock" just below the BIOS box where it lists all the
> > system info. If my CPU is DX4, does it mean that it multiplies 32Mhz
> > by 4?
> 
> no.  DX4 means it is capable of tripling the clock speed.
> According to my hazy memory: there is usually one set of jumpers on the
> motherboard to determine clock speed (25, 33, 40, or 50 MHz) then there's
> another set of jumpers that determines whether that speed is multiplied by
> 1, 2, or 3.  if you have a DX, you multiply by 1.  if you have a DX2, you
> multiply by 2, and if you hava a DX4, you multiply by 3.

This makes sense. It's supposed to be 100Mhz, so 32 x 3 makes sense.

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dpkg hosed after crash

[Mike Schmitz]

A while back, my system crashed, but I was able to bring up a crippled
system that I can limp along with.  I lost mostly just data, and what
programs I lost, I have been able to replace by reinstalling them.  One
that is becoming a sore spot, though, is dpkg.  Whie it is able, mostly,
to install other programs, when I try to upgrade it, it gives me this
error:

mschmitz:~# dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/dpkg_1.4.1.3_i386.deb
(Reading database ... 42321 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace dpkg 1.4.1.1 (using
.../archives/dpkg_1.4.1.3_i386.deb) ...install-info: failed to lock dir
for editing! No such file or directory
dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 2
dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
install-info: failed to lock dir for editing! No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/dpkg_1.4.1.3_i386.deb
(--install):
 subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/dpkg_1.4.1.3_i386.deb


ps. please cc to me, as I am no longer on this list

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Re: Digest off-line?

[Hanno Wagner]

Hi,

Raghavendra Bhat schrieb am 30. Juni 1999:

> The digest is not being mailed. The digest admin's attention is drawn to
> this.  What is up ??


*sigh* due to an overflow from murphy, the headerfile wasn't written
correctly - I just fixed it.

Sorry for the problems :-(

Ciao, Hanno
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Re: New drive

[Stephan A Suerken]

Nils Rennebarth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> You should not 'copy the partitions'. Don't know what ghost is, but I doubt
> it supports the ext2 filesystem.

 With GNU cp, copying whole partitions is ok via "cp -a", so tar
is not needed (if one can mount both partitions simultaneously).

 There is also a mini HOWTO to this subject called

/usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/Hard-Disk-Upgrade.*

Stephan
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Re: running Exim from inetd- question

[Stephan A Suerken]

Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I am running Exim from inetd now.
> 
> I have a question.  When I change exim.conf now, I don't need to restart
> inetd, correct?

 Yes. inetd starts exim, which then runs with the new exim conf.

 If you manually change /etc/inetd.conf, you need to restart inetd, but
you'd better change it via 'update-inetd', which will take care about
this.

Stephan
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Re: Updating the system - Debian newbie needs help

[Stephan A Suerken]

Peter Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> --Dxnq1zWXvFF0Q93v
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> 
> On 01-Jul-1999, Carley, Jason Australia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> > 
> > I am considering switching over from SuSE 6.1 to Debian. I guess I am an

 Ok, but I hope you don't misunderstand that you can't upgrade your SuSE system
directly with Debian, but have to install it from scratch, renewing or
manually updating the configuration.
 Secondly, the recommended way for staying in touch with the latest stable
version is rather like (exchange with your next debian mirror)

---/etc/apt/sources.list
# Next online mirror
deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free non-US
# Proposed updates
deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian dists/proposed-updates/
---

 Using other sources means not having a stable debian version.

Stephan
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Re: redirecting ports

[Pann McCuaig]

On Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 06:47:59PM -0700, Nate wrote:

> I don't want to have to run any services on my firewall. I have on IP
> address and I receive dns from the tzo services (like dhis except you
> get your own domain and it's $$).
>
> I want to be able to run all my servers on an internal private IP.
>
> Thus, I want to redirect ports 25, 443, and 6667 to my internal
> private IP of 192.168.1.x.
>
> I have experimented with redir and it keeps getting access failures.
>
> What am I doing wrong, or what is the best solution for this?

After some problems with redir I installed rinetd and it's been very
solid.

Luck,
Pann
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