date:19991029

RE: starting named

1999-10-29 Thread Pollywog


On 28-Oct-99 Luis Gustavo Madrigal Salazar wrote:
> where is the script to start tha named?(if exists one)
> 
> 

It should be /etc/init.d/bind if you installed a Debian package of BIND.

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Re: Sun goes fully open source!

1999-10-29 Thread Oki DZ

Ed Cogburn wrote:
> They won't release SO source under GPL, they have their own "version"
> called the Sun Community License.  From a few comments I've heard
> elsewhere, its not free in the freedom sense.  

SO now is basically Sun's product; so the company needs to make sure
that any developments made into the product would still be conforming to
Sun's "specification". I think it's understandable. Take a look at Sun's
JDK; nobody is allowed to change Java spec without permission from Sun,
but I
believe that anybody can freely _implement_ the spec anyway he/she
wants.

>Look at Netscape's
> Mozilla and the Mozilla Public Lincense.  If Netscape couldn't generate
> a lot of interest and energy for Mozilla, what makes you think Sun can
> get the attention of the free software community?

If Sun Community License lacks the appeal, why don't you ask Sun to
release SO's source under GPL? At least, the codes for Linux (strip all
the supporting codes for any other platforms except for Linux).

What's so ugly about SCL? If the freedom you mean is the freedom to
tweak SO anyway you want and still label it "SO", how would you know
that
the product, in the long run, would still be compatible with the SO
that's backed by Sun? 

I think even if Sun is willing to release SO codes under GPL, Sun would
need to create somekind of "SO Specification"; which has to be free,
money wise. 

> Disclaimer:  I am aware that Mozilla isn't 'dead', its progressing
> slowly, but its clear Netscape didn't get the reaction it wanted from
> the programmers of the free software world.

If the programmers of the free software world are not interested to
develop Mozilla, well, I believe that Netscape never listens to what
they
say (or, the programmers might have never said anything to Netscape).

Oki

Re: is debian eating my memory?

1999-10-29 Thread Peter Ross

On 28-Oct-1999, Jacob Schmude  wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I've got 32 mb in this p166 mmx system. The problem is that I have
> 32mb and at the shell prompt, 31mb is used up when I type free. Is
> debian really eating all that memory or is it something else?? There's
> dos/win on this pc too so I'm wondering if the tech person didn't
> enable shadow ram or something?
> 

Whenever you access a file, linux tries to keep that file in memory.
Hence your memory is full of data from the disk that is placed in the
file cache/buffers.  Of course if a program needs memory the first thing
thrown out of memory is the file cache.

Pete

RE: is debian eating my memory?

1999-10-29 Thread Bryan Scaringe

Sounds about right.  If you have 32Mb of ram, and your
apps are only using, say 10Mb, Linux is smart enough
to use the free memory as disk-cache, rather than have it
going to waste.  As soon as this disk-cache memory is needed
by some other application, Linux will free it.

Bryan

 
On 28-Oct-99 Jacob Schmude  Hello
> 
> I've got 32 mb in this p166 mmx system. The problem is that I have 32mb and
> at the shell prompt, 31mb is used up when I type free. Is debian really
> eating all that memory or is it something else?? There's dos/win on this pc
> too so I'm wondering if the tech person didn't enable shadow ram or
> something?
> 
> 
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Re: 3com 3c905b

1999-10-29 Thread Art Lemasters

On Thu, Oct 28, 1999 at 06:25:54PM -0500, David Punsalan wrote:
> The installation program that comes with the debian base disks shows that
> 3c59X is for the 3c509 ...so I guess it's okay to use the driver for
> 3c59x.

 Those darned model numbers are confusing, aren't they?  ;-)
I'm running the same driver for my 3c905tx, though.  The config
for the 2.2.12 kernel said it was good for both the 3c59x series
and the 3c90x series ethernet cards, IIRC.

Art

> 
> > 3c59x, 3c9xx, something like that (I think it says both).  It's
> > in the custom kernel compile config.  Someone here will correct
> > me if I'm wrong.  ;-)
> >

Re: Utilities for keeping time sync for a machine behind a firewall ?

1999-10-29 Thread Greg Wooledge

Shaul Karl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

> I am behind a firewall.
> What utilities are there that will let me keep the time synchronized with 
> another machine on the Internet ?

Ouch.  Your best bet would be to ask your firewall administrator to
synchronize the firewall with NTP, and then to synchronize your machine
to the firewall.

If, as is often the case, your firewall admin is too boneheaded (or has
his/her hands tied by management), then you're out of luck.  Maybe some
other machine inside the firewall could be used as a time source.

If time synchronization is really important (e.g., if you want to sync
a server, not just your desktop box), then you might be able to put
pressure on the firewall admins from above by presenting a business
case for implementing time synchronization on the server.  Or if you
can actually get a (*gasp*) budget, then you might be able to invest in
a radio clock, GPS or similar hardware to bypass the firewall.

I think the Usenet group for all of this is comp.protocols.time.ntp.

Paul McHale ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

> I added the following command to my root crontab (type: crontab -e):
> 
> 1  0   * * *   /usr/sbin/rdate ntp2.usno.navy.mil >> $HOME/tmp/out 2>&1

Which is great if you can *talk to* ntp2.usno.navy.mil.

Patrick Kirk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

> xntp3 is excellent.  Just type apt-get install xntp3 and it will take you
> through configuration.  If you need a server, try salmon.math.tcd.ie and
> sundial.columbia.edu

Which is great if you can *talk to* salmon.math.tcd.ie or 

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Re: Unidentified subject!

1999-10-29 Thread Greg Wooledge

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

> I own a Compaq Qvision videocard

That's unfortunate.

> and I would like to know which accelerated server I can use, so I can get a 
> bet colordepth than 8 bit and a better resolution than 640x480 (my monitor 
> can handle that).

You actually got the VGA16 X server to work?  I couldn't even get *that*!

I was stuck with a Compaq QVision 1280 video card at work for a while.
I ended up buying the Xi Graphics Accelerated X Server, which worked
for me.  It's a bit expensive, though (US $100), and it's quite non-free
(in the free speech, DFSG sense); you'd be better off buying a better
graphics card if that's at all possible -- you'd not only save money,
but you'd get better performance.

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Re: managing multiple ISPs

1999-10-29 Thread Phil Brutsche

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...

> I am currently in the process of evaluating a new ISP. The problem I am
> having is with the nameserver settings in /etc/resolv.conf.

Ok.

> Currently there are two entries in /etc/resolv.conf for my present ISP
> (Interlog).
> 
> Should I just add the nameserver entries for the new ISP to this
> /etc/resolv.conf file ? Will it take longer for hostnames to be resolved
> since there are now 4 entries in the /etc/resolv.conf but only two of them
> are "valid" depending on which ISP I am connecting to/from ??

it shouldn't take any longer, but there is a program on Freshmeat
(http://freshmeat.net if you don't know what it is) called DNRD that does
exactly what you're looking for.

> On a related note: I am using XEmacs+VM as my mail reader. Is there any
> emacs package to handle multiple email profiles ?

> I need to switch between different smtp servers

Simple: be your own SMTP server.  I've been doing for a year (with my ISP,
and, now that I've moved on-campus to the university, right now) with no
ill effects.  You don't necessariy need to set it up to deliver mail to
your machine, just to deliver to other machines.

> different POP login IDs, and user/reply-to addresses and was wondering
> if either XEmacs or VM can somehow handle this for me ?

I haven't a clue is VM can do that (I don't use VM), but the latest Pine
certainly does.  Pine, however, isn't an option for some people.

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Re: managing multiple ISPs

1999-10-29 Thread John Hasler

Salman Ahmed writes:
> Should I just add the nameserver entries for the new ISP to this
> /etc/resolv.conf file ? Will it take longer for hostnames to be resolved
> since there are now 4 entries in the /etc/resolv.conf but only two of
> them are "valid" depending on which ISP I am connecting to/from ??

Just leave your resolv.conf as it is while you evaluate the new ISP.  Only
the first nameserver that works will be used, and the resolver won't pay
any attention to any after the first three in any case.

> I am wondering if there are other people who have had to keep two (or
> more ISPs) and what other things they have had to configure, setup,
> etc. for the different ISPs ??

The pppconfig in potato will set up scripts that arrange for the proper
nameservers to be used with each ISP.
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Firewall hinders access for IRC

1999-10-29 Thread zdrysdal

Hi

What needs to be done to allow my windows MIRC software to connect to the
internet.  I can access the Web via our debian proxy server via port
3128...but i am not too sure how to set up Mirc.  I take it i have to have
a connection straight to the firewall as apposed to the proxy server?  Will
there be any security issues ie. will a mad IRC'er be able to gain access
to my network through my careless connection?

thanx

YourDomain setup

1999-10-29 Thread Daniel Yang





I just set up my apache web server. I am 
thinking if I could register my own domain name and connect my web server to 
Internet, that would be nice. What do I need to  do to make it happen? I have only one computer and some one 
told me that I need at least two to be qualified for domain name registration. 
Your suggestions?
Thanks
Daniel

RE: YourDomain setup

1999-10-29 Thread Pollywog

On 29-Oct-99 Daniel Yang wrote:
> I just set up my apache web server. I am thinking if I could register my own
> domain name and connect my web server to Internet, that would be nice. What
> do I need to  do to make it happen? I have only one computer and some one
> told me that I need at least two to be qualified for domain name
> registration. Your suggestions?

You can use the free service at http://soa.granitecanyon.com for your primary
and secondary DNS.  Or get a friend to do secondary for you and you do your
own primary if you have a static IP address and are connected 24/7.

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RE: YourDomain setup

1999-10-29 Thread Paul McHale




You 
don't need more than one computer for domain name registration.  As 
cyber-#$#$# have shown, you don't need any computer to register a domain.  
If you are going to run your own DNS server, you may want to have a backup 
server or secondary server.  When I registered mine, I went to http://www.networksolutions.com/ to 
see if the domain I wanted was available.  If it is, register it.  
Call your ISP for information about their DNS servers with IP numbers.  
This will save you money when registering.  If you register without ISP 
information, the cost is higher.
 
Next 
call your ISP and ask him to make entries in his DNS tables to point to the 
static IP of your web server.  I would recommend arranging this with your 
ISP ahead of time so they can give you any pointers you may 
need.
 
-paul

  -Original Message-From: Daniel Yang 
  [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Thursday, October 28, 
  1999 10:14 PMTo: debian-user@lists.debian.orgSubject: 
  YourDomain setup
  I just set up my apache web server. I am 
  thinking if I could register my own domain name and connect my web server to 
  Internet, that would be nice. What do I need to  do to make it happen? I have only one computer and some one 
  told me that I need at least two to be qualified for domain name registration. 
  Your suggestions?
  Thanks
  Daniel

Re: installation disaster (well maybe not complete disaster) (fwd)

1999-10-29 Thread Dean

 Hi David, One quick question, If hda1 was win98 & you where 
planning to boot to win98, why did you initialize this partition?
On the install I think you should only initialize the various
linux partitions & leave your win & other os's alone. Dean



David Punsalan wrote:
> 
> Dear Debian Group,
> 
> I am a "newbie" trying to install Linux on my AMDK6-2 350Mhz 92MB RAM 6GB
> HD Win 98 PC.
> 
> Progress to date:
> - partitioned HD: hda1- ~ 2GB - Win98 Partition
>   hda2- ~ 72MB - Swap Drive Partition
>   hda3- ~ 3.3 GB - Linux Native Partition
> - initialized and activated swap drive (hda2)
> - initialized, activated and mounted hda3 to /target
> - initialized, activated and mounted hda1 to /target/usr
> - Completely installed base system from floppy disks: resc1440.bin,
> drv1440.bin, base1440-1...7.bin (extracts base2_1.tgz) (I retrieved files
> from ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/slink/main/disks-i386/)
> 
> settings:
> - installed numberous modules (some failed to install: e.g. - misc/psaux,
> misc/ PS-2 mouse)
> Settings for 'Making Linux bootable from hard drive' -
> - Do you want to install boot record? - NO
> - Do you want to to boot linux as default? - NO
> made boot disk
> 
> comments:
> The above installation was successfully completed after numerous previous
> attempts.  It is believed that 1st set of floppy disks were somehow
> corrupt (Evidence - file size of some .bin files didn't match up with what
> I saw at the ftp site) So I carefully made new ones and they worked.
> 
> Installation system FAILED to make boot disk UNLESS I answered 'NO' to
> 'Do you want to install boot record?'
> I would at least think that it should allow me to make to floppy disk if I
> answered YES to 'install boot record' and 'NO' to 'boot linux as default'.
> 
> Problem(s):
> 1. System boots to Linux as default despite answering 'NO' to both 'boot'
> questions.
> 
> 2.  In booting Linux - my AntiVirus program detects a virus.  I am able to
> continue booting but it says virus will be left on hard disk if I
> continue to boot.
> 
> 3. Can't establish PPP connection.  Error message complains about
> '/etc/ppp/peers/provider' and '/dev/modem.'
> 
> 4. If I try running 'dselect' now, all options (A) Accept, (I) etc...
> refuse to run.
> 
> So I'm stuck b/c I can't run Win98 since the boot disk for Win98 doesn't
> actually install necessary drivers to run it (it just loads and runs
> command.com and you get a:\ prompt).  Typing 'win' and c:\ prompt doesn't
> do anything.
> 
> I can't install any Debian packages since I can't establish a 'PPP'
> connection.
> 
> Pls. respond if you can tell me what to do.
> 
> At the very least - I would like to me able to boot to Win98 as default
> again.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> David
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apt-get not updating

1999-10-29 Thread Paul McHale

Looking at the debian security page, I see the cron utility has been upgrade
to fix a security problem.  This was in august.  When I run "apt-get update"
it appears to run correctly.  When I run "apt-get dist-upgrade", nothing
happens.

Here is the /etc/apt/sources.list file:

deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US

Should I have other paths?

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how to make Packages file and set sources.list for misc. downloaded .deb files

1999-10-29 Thread Daniel Barclay


I want to do something that should be simple, but apparently isn't.

I have a local collection of miscellaneous .deb files.  I want to be
able to use apt-get on then.

It is quite unclear how the various pieces of the system (the directory
name, the sources.list entry, the dpkg-scanpackages command arguments,
etc.) fit together.

(Besides being is out of sync with the software, the documentation (at
least in slink (apt version 0.3.10slink11) ) is missing some crucial 
information).  I can't figure out how various tools expect to be run.)


Can someone tell me exactly what I need to do to generates a Packages.gz
file and set up apt's source.list file to work with a local collection 
of miscellaneous Debian package files?


I want to know how to make this work in general, but here's the current
situation:

- I have used mirror to get KDE Debian package files from 
  ftp://ftp.varesearch.com/pub/mirrors/kde/stable/1.1.2/distribution/deb

- that FTP directory contains:
  slink/
  slink/i386/
  slink/i386/Packages.gz
  slink/i386/*.deb

- that pre-built Packages.gz file contains Filename entries like
  "Filename: /i386/qt1g-doc_1.44-6_all.deb".


- Mirroring that FTP directory to a similarly-named local directory 

  /usr/local/src/mirror/other/kde/mirror/stable/1.1.2/distribution/deb

  yielded a Packages.gz file at

  
/usr/local/src/mirror/other/kde/mirror/stable/1.1.2/distribution/deb/slink/i386/Packages.gz

  and *.deb files in the same directory, such as

  
/usr/local/src/mirror/other/kde/mirror/stable/1.1.2/distribution/deb/slink/i386/kdesupport0g-dev_1.1.2-19990906-1.0_i386.deb



Is it true that that directory hierarchy cannot be used by apt?

(It seems that apt always inserts "dists" when processing an entry
in sources.list.  However, man sources.list says absolutely nothing
about inserting "dists", and one example seemingly contradicts that:

   deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian dists/stable-updates

Also, it seems that apt always appends its own architecture suffix 
("binary-i386").)



So what exactly must I do to use apt?

It seems that I must structure my directories to include 
".../dists/.../binary-i386" in the pathname.  Is that correct?



To have "dists" and "binary-i386" in the directory pathname, I
copied my directory

  .../kde/mirror/stable/1.1.2/distribution/deb/slink/i386/

to 

  .../kde/mirror/stable/1.1.2/dists/binary-i386/


With a sources.list entry of 

  deb file:/root/mirror/other/kde/mirror/stable/1.1.2/ . .

that seemed to work with apt-get.




However, when I tried to install a package (with either "apt-get install 
xxx" or using dselect), I got this error:

  Err file:/root/mirror/other/kde/mirror/stable/1.1.2/ ./. kdebase-doc 
4:1.1.2-19990906-1
File not found
  Failed to fetch 
file:/root/mirror/other/kde/mirror/stable/1.1.2//i386/kdebase-doc_1.1.2-19990906-1_all.deb
File not found


That makes some sense.  Evidently, apt uses file names from the Filename 
entries in the Packages.gz file, and they listed a directory of /i386,
(and didn't list dists/ or binary-i386).



So how do I name the directory so that apt can find the Packages.gz file
(e.g, containing "dists" and ending in "binary-386"), AND so that apt
can find the *.deb files (ending with i386)?

Is there some directory pathname that will work with that pre-built 
Packages.gz file, or is it screwed up to start with?



Well, never mind the pre-built Packages.gz file; I want to know how to
create it myself (for when I assemble a miscellaneous collection of *.deb
files).


Before generating a Packages.gz file I think I need to know what the
requirements are on the directory pathname.  

None of the documentation seems to address that.  Will any directory
pathname containing ".../dists/..." and ending in ".../binary-i386/"
be usuable, or are there further restrictions?


My copied directory seemed to work before, so I kept it, and deleted
the copied original packages file

  .../kde/mirror/stable/1.1.2/dists/binary-i386/Package.gz


I do know about dpkg-scanpackages.  (There's not anything else I
should be using, is there?)

Okay, so which directory do I want to specify to dpkg-scanpackages?

"man dpkg-scanpackages" says:

 binarydir is the name of the binary tree to  process  (for
   example,  contrib/binary-i386).   It  is best to make this
   relative to the root of the Debian archive, because  every
   Filename  field  in  the new Packages file will start with
   this string.

First of all, which directory do I want to specify?

Do I want to specify just the bottom directory 
.../kde/mirror/stable/1.1.2/dists/binary-i386 or might I want 
.../kde/mirror/stable/1.1.2/dists (or possibly 
.../kde/mirror/stable/1.1.2)?


Second, how exactly do I want to specify the directory?  

Specifically, which directory counts as the "root of the Debian 
archive"?  For a Debian directory like

   /root/mirror/debian/dists/slink/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/...

accessed by a sources.list

Re: Netscape memory hoarding

1999-10-29 Thread Daniel Barclay



> From: Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> 
> Daniel Barclay wrote:
...
> > Oh yeah, another thing:  In non-Java 90% CPU mode, I could quit,
> > but the netscape process would keep running, using 90% CPU.
> > I didn't seem to be only temporary (e.g., to update the history
> > or bookmarks files or something).
> 
> I get exactly the same problem fairly frequently, resulting in a reboot
> as the only way to free the memory that I know of.

Didn't killing the process (e.g., "killall -9 netscape") work? 
(That always has for me.)


Daniel

Re: Installing Linux (RedHat) on NT 4.0

1999-10-29 Thread David J. Kanter

Just use the program bootpart for NT; you'll be up and running in about 5
minutes.

On Thu, Oct 28, 1999 at 03:26:08PM +1000, Wallentin, Henrik wrote:
> Hi all!
> 
> I know this has been brought up a couple of times, but I would really be
> happy if any of you could help me with this.
> 
> Last week a had a really good URL for how to set up Linux on a machine which
> already has NT on it.
> The URL was www.li.org/Resources/LDP/sg/sg.html, and if you take a look now
> it has disappeared.
> 
> I've seen a couples of MINI HOWTOs but those aren't as good as the above
> was!
> 
> Any suggestions are welcomed!
> 
> Cheers,
> Henrik
> 
> 
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Re: Unidentified subject!

1999-10-29 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU

On Thu, 28 Oct, 1999 à 02:42:18PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I own a Compaq Qvision videocard and I would like to know which accelerated 
> server I can use, so I can get a bet colordepth than 8 bit and a better 
> resolution than 640x480 (my monitor can handle that).
> 
> I always boot my kernel from a floppy (because somehow lilo isn't installed 
> correctly, gives a 1AF: (anybody know how I can solve that??)) and I would 
> like to know how I can give boot parameters, I need to be able to send boot 
> parameters to get my extern SCSI CD-rom working. I'm using the 2.2.10 kernel 
> and Debian 2.1
> 
Yes : hit 1 and you'll get lilo (wich is installed in /dev/hda1). This is the 
prompt of mbr.

BTW does *anybody* still use mbr ? I think it's time to remove the recommends 
dependency of
lilo to mbr or at least to change it to suggest...

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Re: managing multiple ISPs

1999-10-29 Thread John Hasler

Salman Ahmed writes:
> /usr/bin/pon: line 2:  1890 Segmentation fault /usr/sbin/pppd call 
> ${1:-provider}
> Exit 139

You should file a bug against ppp.
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RE: just curious about Debian vs Redhat

1999-10-29 Thread aphro

i would suggest the ami megaraid controller, it works good, is cheap,
supports onboard cache and has decent drivers in both 2.0 and 2.2  i hear
that mylex makes some damn good drivers for linux too ..but from what i've
read their stuff is real high end and prob $$$

nate

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On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Adam Greene wrote:

> I have to set up a RAID 5 Tower and I want to run Linux (it's a dual Xeon,
> Intel GX computer) and I was wondering which company currently offered RAID
> 5 solutions with source code drivers (or included in the latest stable
> kernel).
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: aphro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: October 27, 1999 3:16 PM
> To: William T Wilson
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: just curious about Debian vs Redhat
> 
> 
> On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, William T Wilson wrote:
> 
> > DPT raid controller drivers, I know, are distributed in source form.  I
> > cannot think of any reason they would work with a RedHat kernel and not a
> > Debian kernel, as RedHat doesn't (AFAIK) currently modify the kernel.
> 
> well,
> 
> http://www.dpt.com/techsup/sr5drv.htm#LINUX
> 
> they got boot and root disks for redhat 5.2/6.0, and binary modules
> (dpt_i2o.o dpt_i2o_smp.o) ..i havent checked their other
> controllers(yet) just those caught my attention when a friend of mine said
> he was having problems with that DPT card under redhat.
> 
> > Even if you do use a binary driver, it ought to work with any kernel of
> > the version range it was designed to work with, RedHat or otherwise.
> 
> it should, but it doesn't always.  my recent install of vmware (the
> latest) had modules for my kernel version but they failed to
> load.  luckily the program was able to successfully compile modules and
> load em.  and it also is bad because take the DPT raid drivers for linux
> 2.2.5.  chances are not that great that it will work on 2.2.10 ..2.2.13
> ..it may be possible, but not nearly as good as having the source to
> recompile for another kernel rev.
> 
> > I don't agree here either.  Someone has to adopt glibc first.  If no one
> > adopts it, no one will work the bugs out and it will never be ready for
> > use.
> 
> it just seemed they adopted it WAY in advance of anyone else, be it debian
> or slackware (or suse?? i dont remember) and it caused me a lot of
> trouble, just my opinon though.
> 
> > RedHat always maintains the current and previous major version of their
> > release, at least for security and major bugfixes.  If you aren't ready to
> > move up to the new version, just use the previous one.
> 
> my problems was more related to 3rd party stuff that people developed
> around the new libc. (same with glibc2.1) mostly with binary
> distributions.  i try to compile most everything but some stuff just won't
> compile and using a binary is the last resort option...
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Re: installation disaster (well maybe not complete disaster) (fwd)

1999-10-29 Thread aphro

to be able to boot win98 as 'default' again try running the command fdisk
/mbr 

you should install a boot record on the partition where linux installed if
you wish to boot off of it(either directly or indirectly via some boot
manager like lilo, system commander nt boot manager etc) you don't need
this if you boot off a boot disk(not reccomended, booting from floppy is
DAMN SLOW) or you use loadlin (much faster!! although not as 'clean' as a
boot from the partition itself, as there may be a DOS TSR or 2 in there..)

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> Dear Debian Group,
> 
> I am a "newbie" trying to install Linux on my AMDK6-2 350Mhz 92MB RAM 6GB
> HD Win 98 PC.
> 
> Progress to date:
> - partitioned HD: hda1- ~ 2GB - Win98 Partition
> hda2- ~ 72MB - Swap Drive Partition
> hda3- ~ 3.3 GB - Linux Native Partition
> - initialized and activated swap drive (hda2)
> - initialized, activated and mounted hda3 to /target
> - initialized, activated and mounted hda1 to /target/usr
> - Completely installed base system from floppy disks: resc1440.bin,
> drv1440.bin, base1440-1...7.bin (extracts base2_1.tgz) (I retrieved files
> from ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/slink/main/disks-i386/)
> 
> settings: 
> - installed numberous modules (some failed to install: e.g. - misc/psaux, 
> misc/ PS-2 mouse)
> Settings for 'Making Linux bootable from hard drive' - 
> - Do you want to install boot record? - NO
> - Do you want to to boot linux as default? - NO
> made boot disk 
> 
> comments:  
> The above installation was successfully completed after numerous previous
> attempts.  It is believed that 1st set of floppy disks were somehow
> corrupt (Evidence - file size of some .bin files didn't match up with what
> I saw at the ftp site) So I carefully made new ones and they worked.  
> 
> Installation system FAILED to make boot disk UNLESS I answered 'NO' to
> 'Do you want to install boot record?'  
> I would at least think that it should allow me to make to floppy disk if I
> answered YES to 'install boot record' and 'NO' to 'boot linux as default'.
> 
> 
> Problem(s):
> 1. System boots to Linux as default despite answering 'NO' to both 'boot'
> questions.
> 
> 2.  In booting Linux - my AntiVirus program detects a virus.  I am able to
> continue booting but it says virus will be left on hard disk if I
> continue to boot.
> 
> 3. Can't establish PPP connection.  Error message complains about
> '/etc/ppp/peers/provider' and '/dev/modem.'
> 
> 4. If I try running 'dselect' now, all options (A) Accept, (I) etc...
> refuse to run.
> 
> 
> So I'm stuck b/c I can't run Win98 since the boot disk for Win98 doesn't
> actually install necessary drivers to run it (it just loads and runs
> command.com and you get a:\ prompt).  Typing 'win' and c:\ prompt doesn't
> do anything.
> 
> I can't install any Debian packages since I can't establish a 'PPP'
> connection.
> 
> Pls. respond if you can tell me what to do.
> 
> At the very least - I would like to me able to boot to Win98 as default
> again.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> David
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Re: ipchains

1999-10-29 Thread aphro

you can't compile ip forwarding into the kernel in 2.2.x, you gotta enable
it manually by 

echo "1" >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward

that should allow you to add forwarding rules, you may not be able to to
ipmasq unless you got all the right kernel configs set.


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> A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
> 
> > I am running 2.2.12 kernel with ipforwarding compiled into the kernel.
> > I want to masq 192.168.1.0/24 but when I used ipchains command:
> > 
> > /sbin/ipchains -A forward -j MASQ -s 192.168.1.0/24
> > 
> > it returned: no chain by that name.
> > why? what is the problem?
> 
> Did you compile in IP masquerading as well?  IP forwarding only makes the
> system a router, not a router+NAT.
> 
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Re: 3com 3c905b

1999-10-29 Thread aphro

try the 3c509 driver

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On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Michael Hammonds wrote:

> what driver do I use to install a 3com 3c905B Network card
> 
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Re: 3com 3c905b

1999-10-29 Thread aphro

doh! i read that wrong

sorry
 :)

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On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Michael Hammonds wrote:

> what driver do I use to install a 3com 3c905B Network card
> 
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Re: Quake2 and Banshee

1999-10-29 Thread aphro

read the README from quake2.

you prob want something like this:

quake2 +set vid_ref gl

or

quake2 +set vid_ref gl +gl_driver 

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On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Tadas wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have Voodoo Banshee video card. How can I run QuakeII in GL mode? I 
> downloaded QuakeII 3.20 and installed drivers from www.3dfxgamers.com for 
> my card. So, how can I run this game in GL mode?
> 
> Bye,
> 
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Re: telnetd timeout setting

1999-10-29 Thread aphro

what do you mean time out ? is it a tcp time out where the client loses
connection to the host?  is it a timeout during user authentication? is a
timeout for auto logout due to idling ?

be more specific!!

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> 
> 
> 
> Ok, I've RTFM, man page, /usr/doc/telenet, and I've looked through many of
> the files in /etc
> 
> Can someone tell me where I can find the "timeout" setting for telnet? I
> want to set it so I can
> leave myself logged into my box at home for hours on end while I'm at
> work.it currently seems
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Re: 270Mb xdm.log file and keeps growing :(

1999-10-29 Thread aphro


i know this isnt a real fix but you could make xdm.log a pointer to
/dev/null (link it) so the log messages go to hell and never come back ..

saves space..at least right?


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On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Alexander Kushnirenko wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Just noticed that my xdm.log file is filled with lines like:
> 
> X internal error: trying to rotate odd-sized pixmap.
> 
> and the file is already about 270 Mb and it's keep growing :(
> 
> This problem was mentioned on this list (may 1999):
> http://debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-9905/msg00162.html
> 
> Unfortunately it seems there were no solution mentioned.
> 
> Any ideas?
> Sasha.
> 
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Re: is debian eating my memory?

1999-10-29 Thread aphro

pay attention to what the memory is being used for.

take this for example:

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 total   used   free sharedbuffers cached
Mem:253224 250956   2268  79044  72144  77588
-/+ buffers/cache: 101224 152000
Swap:   267108268 266840

there are over 100megs in buffers there ..i only have 2megs free..but its
not a big deal.  don't worry about it, unless your close to running o ut
of swap.  that is a good sign you don't have enough memory.

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On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Jacob Schmude  Hello
> 
> I've got 32 mb in this p166 mmx system. The problem is that I have 32mb and 
> at the shell prompt, 31mb is used up when I type free. Is debian really 
> eating all that memory or is it something else?? There's dos/win on this pc 
> too so I'm wondering if the tech person didn't enable shadow ram or something?
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Re: managing multiple ISPs

1999-10-29 Thread aphro

you can add the other ips, i think you can have a max of 4.

but unless the isps are controlling access to their DNS (most don't for
normal queries) there's no need to add the other ips if your just using as
a temp measure.

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On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Salman Ahmed wrote:

> 
> I am currently in the process of evaluating a new ISP. The problem I am
> having is with the nameserver settings in /etc/resolv.conf.
> 
> Currently there are two entries in /etc/resolv.conf for my present ISP
> (Interlog).
> 
> Should I just add the nameserver entries for the new ISP to this
> /etc/resolv.conf file ? Will it take longer for hostnames to be resolved
> since there are now 4 entries in the /etc/resolv.conf but only two of them
> are "valid" depending on which ISP I am connecting to/from ??
> 
> I am wondering if there are other people who have had to keep two (or more
> ISPs) and what other things they have had to configure, setup, etc. for the
> different ISPs ??
> 
> On a related note: I am using XEmacs+VM as my mail reader. Is there any
> emacs package to handle multiple email profiles ? I need to switch between
> different smtp servers, different POP login IDs, and user/reply-to
> addresses and was wondering if either XEmacs or VM can somehow handle this
> for me ?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> PS : What does the following message from /var/log/syslog mean:
> 
>   Remote message: upap: authenticated
>   
> 
> What is upap ?? I thought the only authentication methods were PAP and CHAP
> for dialup ppp connections.
> 
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Re: YourDomain setup

1999-10-29 Thread aphro

you need someone to host the domain, you can host it, even on a dialup,
although i wouldn't reccomend it.  then you can have the domain point to
your ip..and off you go ..don't need 2 computers..i run an isp and for
almost a year we had about 40 domains with only 1 machine :)

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On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Daniel Yang wrote:

> I just set up my apache web server. I am thinking if I could register my own 
> domain name and connect my web server to Internet, that would be nice. What 
> do I need to  do to make it happen? I have only one computer and some one 
> told me that I need at least two to be qualified for domain name 
> registration. Your suggestions?
> Thanks
> Daniel
> 
>

fvwm: Am I missing something or is it a bug ?

1999-10-29 Thread Shaul Karl

Package: fvwm
Version: 2.2.2-3
Severity: wishlist

[06:48:47 shaul]$ cat .xsession-errors 
[FVWM][Read]: <> file '.fvwm2rc' not found in $HOME or /etc/X11/fvwm
[FVWM][Read]:  trying to read system rc file
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm/update.warn: line 8: unexpected EOF while looking for 
matching `''
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm/update.warn: line 13: syntax error: unexpected end of 
file
[06:49:46 shaul]$ cat -n /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm/update.warn
 1  #!/bin/sh
 2
 3  if [ -d "$HOME/.fvwm2" -a ! -e "$HOME/.fvwm2/.nowarn" ]
 4  then
 5   FvwmCommand 'Module FvwmForm OldFvwm2Dir'
 6  elif [ ! -d "$HOME/.fvwm" -a ! -e '$HOME/.fvwm.nowarn" ]
 7  then
 8   FvwmCommand 'Module FvwmForm NoFvwmDir'
 9  fi
10
11  # Just for good measure
12  exit 0

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unknown

Versions of the packages fvwm depends on:
ii  libc6   2.1.2-6GNU C Library: Shared libraries and timezone
ii  libstdc++2.10   2.95.2-1   The GNU stdc++ library
ii  rplay   3.3.2-1A feature-rich network audio system.
ii  xlib6g  3.3.5-1shared libraries required by X clients
ii  xpm4g   3.4k-3 the X PixMap library
^^^ (Provides virtual package libxpm4)

Just a Question

1999-10-29 Thread Mason




Hello,
I have recently installed the Super Disk onto my 
computer.  Recently, I have gone to download items onto it and it hasn't 
been and option in the files that I can download into.  So I wnt to the "My 
Computer" icon on my screen and it isn't in there anymore.  It is still in 
my Windows Explorer, but I can't access it anymore.  I have repeatedly 
downloaded the driver onto to my computer just for it to tell me that it already 
exists.  I download it anyway just to get the icon where I can download 
info onto it.  If U could please tell me what the problem is or simply that 
it isn't a problem with the Super Disk so I can find someone who knows more 
about computers thanI do to make it accessible for me.  Thanks a lot if U 
have the answer for me!

Re: 3com 3c905b

1999-10-29 Thread Robert Waldner

On Thu, 28 Oct 1999 18:21:49 MDT, Art Lemasters writes:
> Those darned model numbers are confusing, aren't they?  ;-)
>I'm running the same driver for my 3c905tx, though.  The config
>for the 2.2.12 kernel said it was good for both the 3c59x series
>and the 3c90x series ethernet cards, IIRC.

the driver will work with the 3x509b, just use the disk that comes with the 
card and disable plug'n pray if you don't want to mess around with isapnp...

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Re: Just a Question

1999-10-29 Thread Matthew Dalton

Well, now I've seen it all... never mind newbie questions about Debian,
but newbie questions about Windows? On a Linux mailing list?

Not to mention the liberal use of the word 'download' :/

Where do these people even get the debian-user mailing list email
address from?

> Mason wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> I have recently installed the Super Disk onto my computer.  Recently,
> I have gone to download items onto it and it hasn't been and option in
> the files that I can download into.  So I wnt to the "My Computer"
> icon on my screen and it isn't in there anymore.  It is still in my
> Windows Explorer, but I can't access it anymore.  I have repeatedly
> downloaded the driver onto to my computer just for it to tell me that
> it already exists.  I download it anyway just to get the icon where I
> can download info onto it.  If U could please tell me what the problem
> is or simply that it isn't a problem with the Super Disk so I can find
> someone who knows more about computers thanI do to make it accessible
> for me.  Thanks a lot if U have the answer for me!

Smaller icons for Gnome?

1999-10-29 Thread Dylan Thurston

I just recently got a new Twinhead Powerslim laptop and installed Debian
on it.  Works great so far--I haven't bothered to get the sound working yet,
but there was no problem with anything else.  I'm especially happy that I
got it without Windows installed.

But the laptop only has a 12" 800x600 screen, and the default Gnome setup
takes a really inordinate amount of that, mostly due to the large icons.
This is helped by making the panel a hidden corner panel, but smaller
icons would be better.  How can I change Gnome to use smaller icons?

(I'm using up-to-the-minute potato.)

Thanks in advance,
Dylan Thurston

Re: managing multiple ISPs

1999-10-29 Thread Eric G . Miller

On Thu, Oct 28, 1999 at 10:38:11PM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> Salman Ahmed writes:
> > /usr/bin/pon: line 2:  1890 Segmentation fault /usr/sbin/pppd call 
> > ${1:-provider}
> > Exit 139
> 
> You should file a bug against ppp.
 
  Before filing a bug, make sure one of the two ISP configurations is
  named "provider".  Otherwise the proper command is 
  'pon '.  It may simply be, he named both configs
  according to ISP names.
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RE: Debian Linux vs BSD

1999-10-29 Thread Onno

You have a healthy attitude in trying other OS's.
Linux is good but there are OS's that suit some people
better in a particular setup. I never tried BSD because
I don't have the time to fully test such an install.

But hey, let us all know what your findings are,
maybe its an eye opener, maybe its a disappointment...
We would like to know ;-)

About ProFTP, the only thing I know is that OpenBSD
is VERY security aware and it wouldn't surprise me that
they hacked it quite a bit around before they even
packaged it...

Good luck,

Onno

At 01:30 PM 10/28/99 -0400, Paul McHale wrote:

Onno,

Thanks for the links.  Pretty awesome.  Doesn't appear there is a clear cut
advantage of BSD over Debian Linux.  It does appear to be a great
alternative.  Maybe I will install it later to see if it is as much fun as
Linux.  At this point Linux is a key internet server for me so I can't use
that PC.

It looks pretty nice with the exception of the differences between command
operations.  I.e. killall.  I am not saying either one does it correctly,
simply they are different.

There is one question.  They announce openBSD ships with a secure version of
ProFTP.  The version appears to be older than the bug version(s).  Is there
something inherently different about BSD that it was not affected by the bug
?

thanks again,

-paul

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To: Paul McHale
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Subject: Re: Debian Linux vs BSD

>Anyone know any differences between FreeBSD and (debian) Linux?  I
currently
>am using debian and am pretty happy with it.  My ISP uses FreeBSD.  The
>Linux newsletter mentioned the super secure version of BSD called OpenBSD.
>Has anyone worked with either of these ?  Are they comparable to Debian ?

In order:

http://www.daemonnews.org/199909/freebsd.html

http://slashdot.org/askslashdot/99/10/17/2317202.shtml

http://slashdot.org/search.pl?topic=bsd

Let me know what you think of it,

Regards,

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Re: Firewall hinders access for IRC

1999-10-29 Thread Onno


At 01:56 PM 10/29/99 +1300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hi

What needs to be done to allow my windows MIRC software to connect to the
internet.  I can access the Web via our debian proxy server via port
3128...but i am not too sure how to set up Mirc.  I take it i have to have
a connection straight to the firewall as apposed to the proxy server?  Will
there be any security issues ie. will a mad IRC'er be able to gain access
to my network through my careless connection?

thanx


What is your setup???

If you compiled IP-MASQ into the kernel, you could enable IP
forwarding and load de ip_masq_irc module. Be sure
to check your security though (ipchains).

Onno

Do I have a virus?

1999-10-29 Thread David Punsalan


A friend of mine (not me...I'm just writing this e-mail for him - yeah,
that's it) decided to remove debian from my...uh...I mean his PC and he's
tried several things to make lilo go away so he can go back to his normal 
win98 life: 

1. typed 'fdisk /mbr' at both c:\ and c:\windows\command
2. completely erased linux native and swap partitions

Yet...after restarting the computer...low and behold - lilo kicks in,
and proceeds to attempt to boot debian.

Could there be a virus here?

I'd really appreciate a reply.

Thanks.

- David

Re: 3com 3c905b

1999-10-29 Thread F.P. Groeneveld

Michael Hammonds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: what driver do I use to install a 3com 3c905B Network card

Download the latest version of 3c59xx - works better than the 3c90x ones,
for me.

Cheers,

   Derk

ld problem

1999-10-29 Thread Liu Chung Him

Dear All,

I comply a problem which need libX11 . The gcc command line is :
gcc -L/usr/X11/lib -L/usr/X11R/lib -lX11 -lXexr -lXmu -lXt -lVi -o Scan
Scan.c

However, there is some error :
/usr/bin/ld:cannot find -lX11
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [Scan] Error 1

I have checked that there is libX11.so.6 under /usr/X11R6/lib.

What is the problem ??? How to solve this ???

Thank you !

Wilson

Re: ld problem

1999-10-29 Thread Martin Fluch

On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Liu Chung Him wrote:

> I comply a problem which need libX11 . The gcc command line is :
> gcc -L/usr/X11/lib -L/usr/X11R/lib -lX11 -lXexr -lXmu -lXt -lVi -o Scan
> Scan.c
> 
> However, there is some error :
> /usr/bin/ld:cannot find -lX11
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make: *** [Scan] Error 1
> 
> I have checked that there is libX11.so.6 under /usr/X11R6/lib.

Have you installed the developer package (lib6g-dev)?

Martin

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Re: ld problem

1999-10-29 Thread Ingo Reimann

On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 04:25:52PM +0800, Liu Chung Him wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> I comply a problem which need libX11 . The gcc command line is :
> gcc -L/usr/X11/lib -L/usr/X11R/lib -lX11 -lXexr -lXmu -lXt -lVi -o Scan
> Scan.c
>
Hmm, is this only a misspelling for that mail?

what do you think about:
> gcc -L/usr/X11/lib -L/usr/X11R/lib -lX11 -lXexr -lXmu -lXt -lVi -o Scan
^   ^
 gcc -L/usr/X11/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11 -lXext -lXmu -lXt -lVi -o Scan
   ^^

> However, there is some error :
> /usr/bin/ld:cannot find -lX11
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make: *** [Scan] Error 1
> 
> I have checked that there is libX11.so.6 under /usr/X11R6/lib.
  ^
 

> What is the problem ??? How to solve this ???
>
try that, and the -dev library as it has been suggested

Ingo

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Re: Do I have a virus?

1999-10-29 Thread David Punsalan


By the way - are there any known Linux Boot Viruses out there?
symptom: lilo won't go away.

it's phenomenal.  I've completely gotten rid of linux (to my knowledge)
off the hard drive - and lilo STILL shows up!
Where is it coming from?!?!



> A friend of mine (not me...I'm just writing this e-mail for him - yeah,
> that's it) decided to remove debian from my...uh...I mean his PC and he's
> tried several things to make lilo go away so he can go back to his normal 
> win98 life: 
> 
> 1. typed 'fdisk /mbr' at both c:\ and c:\windows\command
> 2. completely erased linux native and swap partitions
> 
> Yet...after restarting the computer...low and behold - lilo kicks in,
> and proceeds to attempt to boot debian.
> 
> Could there be a virus here?
> 
> I'd really appreciate a reply.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> - David
> 
> 
> 
>

samba questions

1999-10-29 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER

Hi all,

After reading 1/2 ton of doc, I don't have answers.

I'd like to know if its possible to:

* setup 2 printers on my server (one //, the other serial)
  and use them remotely from W$, without special trick
  to switch from one to the other
  
* Use them also from a Linux station, without changing 
  /etc/printcap on it, each time I want to print on a
  different printer
  
Thanks in advance,
JY  
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 You've been Berkeley'ed!

Upgrading perl problem

1999-10-29 Thread David J. Kanter

I would like to install/upgrade the fvwmconf package but cannot because of
an apt-get error regarding the perl package. What should I do?

When downloading fvwmconf, several perl packages are also downloaded. During
the configuration state, the error I get is this:

E: This installation run will require temporarily removing the essential
package perl-base due to a Conflicts/Pre-Depends loop. This is often bad,
but if you really want to do it, activate the APT::Force-LoopBreak option.
E: Internal Error, Could not early remove perl-base

What should I do? Is it a good thing that this stopped me, or should I
override this? And if so, how do I override this?

Thanks.
-- 
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Debian 2.1

Need a runlevel editor! (console ofcourse)

1999-10-29 Thread Onno


I can't find one on the net...

Can somebody help me?

Regards,

Onno

Wvdial and non-root access

1999-10-29 Thread David J. Kanter

Only root is able to use wvdial, even though I thought wvdial has been set
up for use by non-root users.

When I, as user david, type wvdial, I get an error that david cannot have
access to /dev/ttyS1. That's better than before, when david couldn't access
the wvdial.conf file.

david has been added to both the dip and dialout groups. Any idea why root
still is only able to use wvdial?
-- 
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Kernel-Panic : freeing cache, WAS K6-3 / E+gnome

1999-10-29 Thread Ingo Reimann


ok, things changed

the machine ran stable over night, doing nothing but setiathome. Getting
back to the office, i started 

apt-get update && apt-get upgrade

and suffenly the system stopped:

 Kernel panic: Freeing swap cache page

kern.log says:

Oct 29 11:03:01 convert kernel: VM: read_swap_page: page already in page
cache!
Oct 29 11:03:01 convert kernel: Kernel panic: Freeing swap cache page

What does this mean? What can i do?

I have this K6-3 400 on an an Asus XP55T2P4 mainboard with 128MB and an
additional Tag-ram to cache everything. Should i disable the on board cache?

any help would be phantastic!

Thanks,

Ingo


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Re: Do I have a virus?

1999-10-29 Thread Aaron Solochek

Rerun the win98 installation program.  That will overwrite the mbr, and kill 
lilo.
It won't mess with your "normal life" win98 setttings either, except for maybe 
a few
very small things.

-Aaron Solochek
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David Punsalan wrote:

> By the way - are there any known Linux Boot Viruses out there?
> symptom: lilo won't go away.
>
> it's phenomenal.  I've completely gotten rid of linux (to my knowledge)
> off the hard drive - and lilo STILL shows up!
> Where is it coming from?!?!
>
> > A friend of mine (not me...I'm just writing this e-mail for him - yeah,
> > that's it) decided to remove debian from my...uh...I mean his PC and he's
> > tried several things to make lilo go away so he can go back to his normal
> > win98 life:
> >
> > 1. typed 'fdisk /mbr' at both c:\ and c:\windows\command
> > 2. completely erased linux native and swap partitions
> >
> > Yet...after restarting the computer...low and behold - lilo kicks in,
> > and proceeds to attempt to boot debian.
> >
> > Could there be a virus here?
> >
> > I'd really appreciate a reply.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > - David
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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Re: Need a runlevel editor! (console ofcourse)

1999-10-29 Thread Onno


Yes...

At 03:59 AM 10/29/99 -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:


On 29/10/99 Onno wrote:


I can't find one on the net...

Can somebody help me?


do you mean do manage the /etc/rc?.d symlinks?



Best Regards,
Ethan Benson
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Re: Do I have a virus?

1999-10-29 Thread Nico De Ranter


If you ever need to remove Linux from a friend's PC again :-), run "lilo -u"
before removing the linux partition.  That should uninstall lilo from the mbr.

Nico


On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, David Punsalan wrote:

> 
> A friend of mine (not me...I'm just writing this e-mail for him - yeah,
> that's it) decided to remove debian from my...uh...I mean his PC and he's
> tried several things to make lilo go away so he can go back to his normal 
> win98 life: 
> 
> 1. typed 'fdisk /mbr' at both c:\ and c:\windows\command
> 2. completely erased linux native and swap partitions
> 
> Yet...after restarting the computer...low and behold - lilo kicks in,
> and proceeds to attempt to boot debian.
> 
> Could there be a virus here?
> 
> I'd really appreciate a reply.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> - David
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> 


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Re: Wvdial and non-root access

1999-10-29 Thread Dave Baker


> Only root is able to use wvdial, even though I thought wvdial has been set
> up for use by non-root users.

was wvdial set up for this by yourself, or by the wvdial install program?
 
> When I, as user david, type wvdial, I get an error that david cannot have
> access to /dev/ttyS1. That's better than before, when david couldn't access
> the wvdial.conf file.

My solution to this is to restrict the access to the wvdial executable and
make it suid.  This isn't technically the safest way of doing it but I'd
rather have a simple solution I can keep track of, rather than a
complicated solution that I can't.

I also have a suid wrapper to 'kill

Re: apt-get not updating

1999-10-29 Thread Dave Baker

On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Paul McHale wrote:

> Looking at the debian security page, I see the cron utility has been upgrade
> to fix a security problem.  This was in august.  When I run "apt-get update"
> it appears to run correctly.  When I run "apt-get dist-upgrade", nothing
> happens.
> 
> Here is the /etc/apt/sources.list file:
> 
> deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
> deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US
> 
> Should I have other paths?
> 

deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian dists/proposed-updates/


-dave


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windowmaker and gnome

1999-10-29 Thread T.V.Gnanasekaran

hello,
I want to use windowmaker with gnome panel.
can anybody share their configs with me?
I would like to use gnone panel for all my buttons and windowmaker as
windowmanager instead of enlightenment.

-gnana

Re: Calling in on my server

1999-10-29 Thread John Pearson

On Thu, Oct 28, 1999 at 07:55:49AM -0700, aphro wrote
> read this
> 
> http://members.bellatlantic.net/~mrdennis/mgetty.html
> 
> i didn't use it to make my PPP server (i wish i knew about it and i
> wouldof)  the only way i can get mgetty/auto_ppp to work is
> 
> 1) without authentication([EMAIL PROTECTED]@$@) and it auto assigns an ip
> 2) with authentication and it seems the client has to specify the
> IP.  auto assignment worked fine in win98se, but failed in nt and
> win95osr2.5.
> 
> for those that may know how to FIX my problem, this is my config for
> mgetty:
> 
> /AutoPPP/ -a_ppp   /usr/sbin/pppd auth login debug crtscts modem
> ms-dns 208.222.179.31 lock proxyarp 216.128.8.22:216.128.8.254
> 
> if i remove the auth and login, auto assignment works fine in win95osr2
> and nt (and 98se) -- and it lets any user login doesn't matter waht
> login/pass is used, if auth and login is there  ..auto assignment of an IP
> doesnt appear to work for nt4/win95osr2.
> 

What does your /etc/ppp/pap-secrets look like?  Remeber to conceal any
passwords if you post or mail it.


John P.
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Re: "Cuenta pelas" para Internet

1999-10-29 Thread Anthony Campbell

On 29 Oct 1999, Rafael Martn Candial wrote:
> Hola, hasta ahora me he conectado a Internet desde Windows, pero he conseguido
> configurar mi modem en Linux y he descubierto que todo funciona mejor y es mas
> estable (era de suponer). He decidido navegar desde Linux pero hecho en falta
> una utilidad que tenia en Windows:
>   Un programa que contabilice las llamadas que he hecho Internet y que me
> indique a cuanto asciende cada llamada
> Si alguien conoce alg?n programa similar para  Linux le agradecer?a que me
> indicara cual es. 
> 
> Muchas gracias.
> 


He's looking for a program that keeps track of the calls he's made and
how much they cost. I don't know of one but perhaps someone does?

Anthony

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Re: Need a runlevel editor! (console ofcourse)

1999-10-29 Thread Ethan Benson


On 29/10/99 Onno wrote:


Yes...

At 03:59 AM 10/29/99 -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:


On 29/10/99 Onno wrote:


I can't find one on the net...

Can somebody help me?


do you mean do manage the /etc/rc?.d symlinks?


I asked about this earlier too, the answer was `mv' :-)

redhat has 2 console runlevel editors chkconfig and ntsysv, the 
latter is ncurses based...


they are not too bad except for one serious problem (IMO) they 
require that the initscripts have a header with description info and 
what the default runlevels it should be started or stopped at, if the 
script lacks this header they just pretend it does not exist...


if it was not for that I would probably get the source code and fix 
the /etc/rc.d -> /etc/rc?.d paths and see if they worked on debian 
but I am not enough of a programmer to try and fix that description 
header stuff and I don't want to fix every damn initscript I have...


chkconfig works sorta like so:

# chkconfig --levels 2345 giverootd off

redhat's tools are a wee bit buggy though, they do not always do what 
you expect them too, ntsysv is worse about this.  the main flaw 
though is that header thing.


I was thinking about writing a script to make management of runlevels 
easier but I have been overcome with laziness^W^W^Wdistracted with 
other things etc etc...


not to start any flamewars but using mv to manage multiple runlevels 
is pretty archaic...




Best Regards,
Ethan Benson
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Re: "Cuenta pelas" para Internet

1999-10-29 Thread Jonathan McDowell


On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 11:51:20AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> On 29 Oct 1999, Rafael Martn Candial wrote:
> > Hola, hasta ahora me he conectado a Internet desde Windows, pero he
> > conseguido configurar mi modem en Linux y he descubierto que todo
> > funciona mejor y es mas estable (era de suponer). He decidido
> > navegar desde Linux pero hecho en falta una utilidad que tenia en
> > Windows: Un programa que contabilice las llamadas que he hecho
> > Internet y que me indique a cuanto asciende cada llamada  Si
> > alguien conoce alg?n programa similar para  Linux le agradecer?a que
> > me indicara cual es. 
> > 
> > Muchas gracias.
> > 
> He's looking for a program that keeps track of the calls he's made and
> how much they cost. I don't know of one but perhaps someone does?

pppcosts (http://www.isjm.com/tst/pppcosts.htm)
Has cost files for various countries already.
pppctl (http://www.earth.li/projectpurple/progs/pppctl.html)
By me. :) Very ropey, no cost files yet so the data for
BT (in UK) is hard coded in. Next version will have costing
files though.
pppsum (http://pppsum.lncb.com.br/)
No idea, haven't looked at it. Found it on freshmeat.

J.

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Bash Aliases problem

1999-10-29 Thread prabhakar chaganti

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Be sure to reply to that address.

Hi everyone:

I am trying to set up some aliases for frequently used commands. I have tried 
adding them to ~/.bashrc and /etc/profile and /etc/bashrc,but have not had any 
luck in getting bash to recognize the aliases.Would there be any reason at all 
that my ~/.bashrc would not get read by bash. After making the changes, I have 
tried both logging out and logging back in, and sourcing the .bashrc file to 
try to get bash to see the aliases. I checked to see if there is any syntax 
error by trying out each alias from the commandline. All of them seem to work. 
Does anyone have any ideas as to what I am doing wrong here??

Thanks
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Re: Do I have a virus?

1999-10-29 Thread Martyn Pearce



| > A friend of mine (not me...I'm just writing this e-mail for him - yeah,
| > that's it) decided to remove debian from my...uh...I mean his PC and he's
| > tried several things to make lilo go away so he can go back to his normal 
| > win98 life: 
| > 
| > 1. typed 'fdisk /mbr' at both c:\ and c:\windows\command

Curious that fdisk didn't do it.  Might be worth checking the BIOS
settings --- some M/Bs have a "virus protection" mechanism that, when
enabled, prevents anything writing to the first sector of the hard disk.

Mx.

boot sequence

1999-10-29 Thread Lyno Sullivan

I seek info showing the sequence that Debian uses when starting its devices.

What URL's have such a list?

If I had gotten my machine to boot and completed the install, where would I
look to study (and perhaps modify) the boot sequence?

RE: Bash Aliases problem

1999-10-29 Thread Pollywog


On 29-Oct-99 prabhakar chaganti wrote:
> This message was sent from Geocrawler.com by "prabhakar chaganti"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Be sure to reply to that address.
> 
> Hi everyone:
> 
> I am trying to set up some aliases for frequently used commands. I have
> tried adding them to ~/.bashrc and /etc/profile and /etc/bashrc,but have not
> had any luck in getting bash to recognize the aliases.Would there be any
> reason at all that my ~/.bashrc would not get read by bash. After making the
> changes, I have tried both logging out and logging back in, and sourcing the
> .bashrc file to try to get bash to see the aliases. I checked to see if
> there is any syntax error by trying out each alias from the comma
> ndline. All of them seem to work. Does anyone have any ideas as to what I am
> doing wrong here??

~/.bashrc is for non-login shells.  Have you tried adding them to ~/.profile
or ~/.bash_profile ?

I put my aliases in ~/.bashrc BUT I have in my ~/.bash_profile the line:

source $HOME/.bashrc

This is so that when I use a non-login shell or a login shell, my aliases will
still be read.  .bashrc takes care of the non-login shells, whereas if I am on
a login shell, .bash_profile will source the .bashrc file.

I don't know if that is *the right way*, but that is how I do it.

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> 
> 
>  
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Re: Need a runlevel editor! (console ofcourse)

1999-10-29 Thread Martin Fluch

On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Ethan Benson wrote:

> On 29/10/99 Onno wrote:
> 
> >Yes...
> >
> >At 03:59 AM 10/29/99 -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> >
> >>On 29/10/99 Onno wrote:
> >>
> >>>I can't find one on the net...
> >>>
> >>>Can somebody help me?
> >>
> >>do you mean do manage the /etc/rc?.d symlinks?
> 
> I asked about this earlier too, the answer was `mv' :-)

Ther is a script called update-rc.d ...

Martin

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Re: Do I have a virus?

1999-10-29 Thread Nico De Ranter

On 29 Oct 1999, Martyn Pearce wrote:

> 
> 
> | > A friend of mine (not me...I'm just writing this e-mail for him - yeah,
> | > that's it) decided to remove debian from my...uh...I mean his PC and he's
> | > tried several things to make lilo go away so he can go back to his normal 
> | > win98 life: 
> | > 
> | > 1. typed 'fdisk /mbr' at both c:\ and c:\windows\command
> 
> Curious that fdisk didn't do it.  Might be worth checking the BIOS
> settings --- some M/Bs have a "virus protection" mechanism that, when
> enabled, prevents anything writing to the first sector of the hard disk.

Nope, I've had the same problem.  Can it be that lilo changes something in the 
bootable partition and not only in the mbr?  In that case fdisk /mbr won't be 
able
to help.

Nico

> 
> Mx.
> 
> 
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Re: Need a runlevel editor! (console ofcourse)

1999-10-29 Thread Ethan Benson


On 29/10/99 Martin Fluch wrote:


Ther is a script called update-rc.d ...


no this is not what we are looking for, update-rc.d only works if 
there is no symlinks at all for a given script, so to use it to 
change a runlevel you must first rm all the symlinks then use 
update-rc.d to recreate them in the configuration you want, not that 
much more convenient then using mv...




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Re: Kernel-Panic : freeing cache, WAS K6-3 / E+gnome

1999-10-29 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans

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On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Ingo Reimann wrote:

>  Kernel panic: Freeing swap cache page
> 
> kern.log says:
> 
> Oct 29 11:03:01 convert kernel: VM: read_swap_page: page already in page
> cache!
> Oct 29 11:03:01 convert kernel: Kernel panic: Freeing swap cache page
> 
> What does this mean? What can i do?

Well, the kernel hackers will probably tell me that this is insane and
that it could never possibly make a difference, but I swear it worked for
me before when I had similar problems!  Destroy and re-create your swap
partitions.  Remember to run swapoff on them before you delete them.
Maybe you don't actually need to delete the partitions; mkswap might be
enough.  But anyway, re-create the swap partition and run swapon...see
what happens.

I can't imagine why it would work.  I don't think it should.  But a couple
years ago I ran into major stability problems and got similar messages to
when you found in kern.log.  Re-creating the swap partition fixed
everything.  I have no idea what inspired me to try that, but...

HTH,
noah

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Re: managing multiple ISPs

1999-10-29 Thread John Hasler

Eric G . Miller writes:
> Before filing a bug, make sure one of the two ISP configurations is named
> "provider".

That would not cause a segfault.  If it did it would still be a bug.
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Re: boot sequence

1999-10-29 Thread Martin Fluch

On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Lyno Sullivan wrote:

> I seek info showing the sequence that Debian uses when starting its devices.
> 
> What URL's have such a list?

file:/usr/doc/debian/FAQ/index.html

especially

file:/usr/doc/debian/FAQ/debian-faq-12.html#ss12.5

> If I had gotten my machine to boot and completed the install, where would I
> look to study (and perhaps modify) the boot sequence?

Martin

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Re: Kernel-Panic : freeing cache, WAS K6-3 / E+gnome

1999-10-29 Thread Ingo Reimann

On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 09:03:55AM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote:
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> On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Ingo Reimann wrote:
> 
> >  Kernel panic: Freeing swap cache page
> > 
> > kern.log says:
> > 
> > Oct 29 11:03:01 convert kernel: VM: read_swap_page: page already in page
> > cache!
> > Oct 29 11:03:01 convert kernel: Kernel panic: Freeing swap cache page
> > 
> > What does this mean? What can i do?
> 
> Well, the kernel hackers will probably tell me that this is insane and
> that it could never possibly make a difference, but I swear it worked for
> me before when I had similar problems!  Destroy and re-create your swap
> partitions.  Remember to run swapoff on them before you delete them.
> Maybe you don't actually need to delete the partitions; mkswap might be
> enough.  But anyway, re-create the swap partition and run swapon...see
> what happens.
> 
> I can't imagine why it would work.  I don't think it should.  But a couple
> years ago I ran into major stability problems and got similar messages to
> when you found in kern.log.  Re-creating the swap partition fixed
> everything.  I have no idea what inspired me to try that, but...
> 
> HTH,
> noah
>
Thanks for you help, noah! I just did it and as you can see. NOW the system
works. How long? We will see! Hope, this was the problem.
I also decreased the core voltage for the CPU to 2.2V. Together it should
help. *sigh*

Ingo


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debian-user@lists.debian.org

1999-10-29 Thread Ingo Reimann

On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 03:16:24PM +0200, HCI wrote:

kewl, what kind of language is that?

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RE: Kernel-Panic : freeing cache, WAS K6-3 / E+gnome

1999-10-29 Thread Ingles, Raymond

> From: Noah L. Meyerhans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Ingo Reimann wrote:
[...]
> >  Kernel panic: Freeing swap cache page
[...]
> Well, the kernel hackers will probably tell me that this is insane and
> that it could never possibly make a difference... Destroy and re-create 
> your swap partitions.

 Well, yes, it *could* make a difference. If you had a new bad sector in
the swap partition (i.e. a spot that went physically bad on the disk) then
you'd need to recreate the swap partition. That could cause the symptoms
reported.

 Next step, use the latest kernel. Bugs are found and fixed all the time,
and maybe you have some hardware that triggers a bug.

 If that doesn't work, check all your hardware. Make sure cables are
plugged in right, cards are seated firmly. If you have more than one memory
card (SIMM or DIMM or whatever) try using only one at a time, see if the
memory's going bad. If all else fails, try slowing down the clock speed of
the CPU, then swapping the CPU for a known good one. Etc., etc. Eventually
you'll find the problem.

 Sincerely,

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Re: Do I have a virus?

1999-10-29 Thread Martyn Pearce



Nico De Ranter writes:
| Nope, I've had the same problem.  Can it be that lilo changes
| something in the bootable partition and not only in the mbr?  In that
| case fdisk /mbr won't be able to help.

lilo certainly can be installed at the beginnng of an ext2 partition.
However, I've discounted this because fdisk /mbr should remove any code
causing the jump to any other partition.

Long Shot --- have you checked the bootable flags with (preferably
linux) fdisk?  The boot code that DOS fdisk installs may well observe
these, and if set to an old Linux partition, might attempt to jump
there, causing a lilo boot.

Mx.

Re: samba questions

1999-10-29 Thread John Forest

Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> After reading 1/2 ton of doc, I don't have answers.
> 
> I'd like to know if its possible to:
> 
> * setup 2 printers on my server (one //, the other serial)
>   and use them remotely from W$, without special trick
>   to switch from one to the other
>   
> * Use them also from a Linux station, without changing 
>   /etc/printcap on it, each time I want to print on a
>   different printer
>   

I recently read the same 1/2 ton.  In the end I decided to do nothing.
Which is the right thing.
Thanks to the debian-way, it is all set up to work automagically.

I only have one printer.  It works under Linux with magicfilter.  
The printcap entry is lp (no kidding).  You can add another for the
serial one. (lps ?)

With the default samba/smb.conf file, this printer showed up as a 
'share' on the W98 explorer.  At that point I installed, on W98 the right
driver for my printer, using the drivers provided by W98.  (It's an HP).
Magicfilter sees that it is PCL and happily prints whatever I give it from
W98.

In summary; do nothing, samba scans your printcap file and the printers will
show up on W98, then install them under W98.
YMMV

John.

Re: boot sequence

1999-10-29 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER

On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 07:57:38AM -0500, Lyno Sullivan wrote:
> I seek info showing the sequence that Debian uses when starting its devices.
> 
> What URL's have such a list?
> 
> If I had gotten my machine to boot and completed the install, where would I
> look to study (and perhaps modify) the boot sequence?

First, read all the docs in /usr/doc/sysvinit :)

JY
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Re: Multiple accesses to /dev/dsp

1999-10-29 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger

Speakfreely is a free internet telephony program.

http://www.speakfreely.org/

On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 01:12:59PM +0200, Ookhoi wrote:
> Hi Dwayne C . Litzenberger,
> 
> > would take CPU time, but I'd like to be able to play a RealAudio stream,
> > while hearing the superfluous sounds of KDE, while talking to a friend via
> > SpeakFreely. 
> 
> What is SpeakFreely, and where do you get it? I'm interested in
> text2speech and speech recognition. Is it similar? Thank you!
> 
>   Ookhoi
> 

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Re: Do I have a virus?

1999-10-29 Thread aphro

try bootin form a boot disk and hittin sys a: c:

and fdisk /mbr again (from boot disk)

nate

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On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, David Punsalan wrote:

> 
> A friend of mine (not me...I'm just writing this e-mail for him - yeah,
> that's it) decided to remove debian from my...uh...I mean his PC and he's
> tried several things to make lilo go away so he can go back to his normal 
> win98 life: 
> 
> 1. typed 'fdisk /mbr' at both c:\ and c:\windows\command
> 2. completely erased linux native and swap partitions
> 
> Yet...after restarting the computer...low and behold - lilo kicks in,
> and proceeds to attempt to boot debian.
> 
> Could there be a virus here?
> 
> I'd really appreciate a reply.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> - David
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Re: ld problem

1999-10-29 Thread aphro

the program may not know where to look

try this:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/X11R6/bin:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
(for bash^^)
setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/X11R6/bin:LD_LIBRARY_PATH
(for everything else? ^^)

and make again.


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On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Liu Chung Him wrote:

> Dear All,
> 
> I comply a problem which need libX11 . The gcc command line is :
> gcc -L/usr/X11/lib -L/usr/X11R/lib -lX11 -lXexr -lXmu -lXt -lVi -o Scan
> Scan.c
> 
> However, there is some error :
> /usr/bin/ld:cannot find -lX11
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make: *** [Scan] Error 1
> 
> I have checked that there is libX11.so.6 under /usr/X11R6/lib.
> 
> What is the problem ??? How to solve this ???
> 
> Thank you !
> 
> Wilson
> 
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Re: Do I have a virus?

1999-10-29 Thread aphro

i have never heard of a linux virus, don't think one exists.. there are
worms, backdoors, exploits ..but virus?? nh.

you should take this as a sign, drop win* and use linux :)

(saw you had probs with debian, maybe try something else first? debian is
hardly for beginners)

nate

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On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, David Punsalan wrote:

> 
> By the way - are there any known Linux Boot Viruses out there?
> symptom: lilo won't go away.
> 
> it's phenomenal.  I've completely gotten rid of linux (to my knowledge)
> off the hard drive - and lilo STILL shows up!
> Where is it coming from?!?!
> 
> 
> 
> > A friend of mine (not me...I'm just writing this e-mail for him - yeah,
> > that's it) decided to remove debian from my...uh...I mean his PC and he's
> > tried several things to make lilo go away so he can go back to his normal 
> > win98 life: 
> > 
> > 1. typed 'fdisk /mbr' at both c:\ and c:\windows\command
> > 2. completely erased linux native and swap partitions
> > 
> > Yet...after restarting the computer...low and behold - lilo kicks in,
> > and proceeds to attempt to boot debian.
> > 
> > Could there be a virus here?
> > 
> > I'd really appreciate a reply.
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > - David
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
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Re: samba questions

1999-10-29 Thread aphro

samba is not a print server.

once you set the proper entries in printcap and get lpd to work with them,
you just add links to the printer's spool path in samba's config. its real
easy, getting printing working on the other hand is not, took me a while
to get mine working(i never printed for 3 years! doh)

nate

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On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> After reading 1/2 ton of doc, I don't have answers.
> 
> I'd like to know if its possible to:
> 
> * setup 2 printers on my server (one //, the other serial)
>   and use them remotely from W$, without special trick
>   to switch from one to the other
>   
> * Use them also from a Linux station, without changing 
>   /etc/printcap on it, each time I want to print on a
>   different printer
>   
> Thanks in advance,
> JY  
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Re: Kernel-Panic : freeing cache, WAS K6-3 / E+gnome

1999-10-29 Thread aphro

you run out of memory ??

how much swap you have? should have 256MB for 128MB ram.

looks like you ran outta memory

could be wrong though

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On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Ingo Reimann wrote:

> 
> ok, things changed
> 
> the machine ran stable over night, doing nothing but setiathome. Getting
> back to the office, i started 
> 
> apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
> 
> and suffenly the system stopped:
> 
>  Kernel panic: Freeing swap cache page
> 
> kern.log says:
> 
> Oct 29 11:03:01 convert kernel: VM: read_swap_page: page already in page
> cache!
> Oct 29 11:03:01 convert kernel: Kernel panic: Freeing swap cache page
> 
> What does this mean? What can i do?
> 
> I have this K6-3 400 on an an Asus XP55T2P4 mainboard with 128MB and an
> additional Tag-ram to cache everything. Should i disable the on board cache?
> 
> any help would be phantastic!
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ingo
> 
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Re: Calling in on my server

1999-10-29 Thread aphro

this is the only relavent line in pap-secrets (the rest are commented out)

*   wpp-22  ""  *

(nothing is sensored in that^^^)

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On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, John Pearson wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 28, 1999 at 07:55:49AM -0700, aphro wrote
> > read this
> > 
> > http://members.bellatlantic.net/~mrdennis/mgetty.html
> > 
> > i didn't use it to make my PPP server (i wish i knew about it and i
> > wouldof)  the only way i can get mgetty/auto_ppp to work is
> > 
> > 1) without authentication([EMAIL PROTECTED]@$@) and it auto assigns an ip
> > 2) with authentication and it seems the client has to specify the
> > IP.  auto assignment worked fine in win98se, but failed in nt and
> > win95osr2.5.
> > 
> > for those that may know how to FIX my problem, this is my config for
> > mgetty:
> > 
> > /AutoPPP/ -a_ppp   /usr/sbin/pppd auth login debug crtscts modem
> > ms-dns 208.222.179.31 lock proxyarp 216.128.8.22:216.128.8.254
> > 
> > if i remove the auth and login, auto assignment works fine in win95osr2
> > and nt (and 98se) -- and it lets any user login doesn't matter waht
> > login/pass is used, if auth and login is there  ..auto assignment of an IP
> > doesnt appear to work for nt4/win95osr2.
> > 
> 
> What does your /etc/ppp/pap-secrets look like?  Remeber to conceal any
> passwords if you post or mail it.
> 
> 
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1999-10-29 Thread Tomasz Wegrzanowski

On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 03:16:00PM +0200, Ingo Reimann wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 03:16:24PM +0200, HCI wrote:
> 
> kewl, what kind of language is that?
> 
> Ingo
> 
> 
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> > 'QP2#+~&3Cv.%u-n'd9o2#+~.;4CPAH?z(S0]CD.
> > 
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> > %~.M&f>P$u(c%X0b,25008U%w+H$aE-MAIL&a'}.E}'AE\(-&(,0SUPER SALESMAN.
> > 
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Netscape vs. ie

1999-10-29 Thread aphro

there was a few mails passed, i dont remember who all sent em but one of
the guys said that MS was well known to "fix" bugs and the same bugs come
back to haunt em (security bugs i.e. serious bugs, no pun intended)

heres an example, a new ie5 security problem! (oct 28 1999)

http://www.securityfocus.com/templates/archive.pike?list=1&date=1999-10-22&[EMAIL
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I quote ..

"Folks,

It seems that after applying the IFRAME ExecCommand patch from MS9-042,
IE 5.0 is again vulnerable to Georgi Guninski's cross-frame bugs.  You
can visit his page at  to test.  I
tested this on 2 NTW 4.0 SP5 machines with IE 5.0 and all released
fixes.  Georgi also confirmed his test machine is vulnerable again after
this patch."

i don't mean to spark a flame war just thought it was good timing that
this bugtraq posting came out.

nate

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1999-10-29 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER

On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 03:16:00PM +0200, Ingo Reimann wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 03:16:24PM +0200, HCI wrote:
> 
> kewl, what kind of language is that?
> 
> Ingo

Seems to be korean.

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portmap on debian

1999-10-29 Thread rizan

hi,

I just couldn't figure out how to stop portmap from running on my debian
box everytime it reboots. I am very sure it is not controlled by any TCP
wrappers and i have checked it's
runlevel directory but I couldn't find portmapbtw, it's running on
run level 2

please help.

thankz
rizan

how do i stop vrfy for Cubic Circle POP

1999-10-29 Thread rizan

hi I would like to stop vrfy option on my POP for security reasons.
Could somone advice me how?

thankz

startx

1999-10-29 Thread raymond ferrari

o.k. I finally got my XF86Config file built and want to startx. During
the xf86config setup...I used S3V for my chipset...I was told to use the
XF86_S3Vserver which would be in /usr/X11R6/bin...I tried to  use startx
after my config setup and the following message comes up:
x: execution of /usr/bin/X11/XF86_S3V failed.
_x11 TransSocketUnixConnect:Can't Connect:errno=2
giving up
xinit:nosuch file or directory(errno2)
unable to connect to server
xinit:no such process(errno3):server error

I think I may know my problem but am not sure how to rectify it. I think
I have to install the server package???(X33S3V.tgz)??? along with other
files???I'm not exactly sure how to go about this, however I have some
books which talk about  running preinst.sh, unpacking files
from/usr/X11R6, etc. etc. etc. Do I need to make all the links between
files? During my SuperProbe, the following came up:
First video: SuperVGA
chipset: S3 Virge(PCI-Probed)
memory:2048KB
RAMDAC:Generic 8 bit pseudo-color DAC (with 6-bit wide lookup tables(or
in 6-bit mode)).
Thanks for the help>Ray Ferrari

bootdisk for bi celeron bp6 ata 66 controller.

1999-10-29 Thread Sven LUTHER

Hello, ...

Does anyone have a debian rescue disk with a kernel supporting the ata66
controller of the bp6 bi celeron motherboard ?

or know of another way to install debian on an empty ata66 harddisk attached
on said controller ?

Appart from putting the harddisk on the ATA33 controller naturally.

Friendly,

Sven LUTHER

Re: Smaller icons for Gnome?

1999-10-29 Thread Herbert Ho

hehe.  try the quicklaunch applet. there's a deb for it, so do your
apt-get:

apt-get install quicklaunch-applet

hope that helps.


Herbert

On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Dylan Thurston wrote:

> I just recently got a new Twinhead Powerslim laptop and installed Debian
> on it.  Works great so far--I haven't bothered to get the sound working yet,
> but there was no problem with anything else.  I'm especially happy that I
> got it without Windows installed.
> 
> But the laptop only has a 12" 800x600 screen, and the default Gnome setup
> takes a really inordinate amount of that, mostly due to the large icons.
> This is helped by making the panel a hidden corner panel, but smaller
> icons would be better.  How can I change Gnome to use smaller icons?
> 
> (I'm using up-to-the-minute potato.)
> 
> Thanks in advance,
>   Dylan Thurston
> 
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Re: portmap on debian

1999-10-29 Thread Charles Lewis

I asked a similar question a while back without a response. I think it is
part of netbase, and I didn't want to remove netbase because I need
telnetd,ftpd,etc. I can tell you how we solved the problem, but I don't know
if it is the best way.

We just added the line 'exit 0' to the beginning of /etc/init.d/portmap

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> hi,
>
> I just couldn't figure out how to stop portmap from running on my debian
> box everytime it reboots. I am very sure it is not controlled by any TCP
> wrappers and i have checked it's
> runlevel directory but I couldn't find portmapbtw, it's running on
> run level 2
>
> please help.
>
> thankz
> rizan
>
>
>
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Re: portmap on debian

1999-10-29 Thread aphro

its part of netbase, easiest way to disable it i think is to just 

mv /sbin/portmap /sbin/portmap-DISABLED

since there are still some important things in netbase it seems.  either
that or firewall port 111.

or both

you can never be too paranoid.

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On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, rizan wrote:

> hi,
> 
> I just couldn't figure out how to stop portmap from running on my debian
> box everytime it reboots. I am very sure it is not controlled by any TCP
> wrappers and i have checked it's
> runlevel directory but I couldn't find portmapbtw, it's running on
> run level 2
> 
> please help.
> 
> thankz
> rizan
> 
> 
> 
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Re: startx

1999-10-29 Thread aphro

run

startx >& X.log 

and post the full  output of the log (cat X.log)

what you gave isn't enough information (for me at least)

nate

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On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, raymond ferrari wrote:

> o.k. I finally got my XF86Config file built and want to startx. During
> the xf86config setup...I used S3V for my chipset...I was told to use the
> XF86_S3Vserver which would be in /usr/X11R6/bin...I tried to  use startx
> after my config setup and the following message comes up:
> x: execution of /usr/bin/X11/XF86_S3V failed.
> _x11 TransSocketUnixConnect:Can't Connect:errno=2
> giving up
> xinit:nosuch file or directory(errno2)
> unable to connect to server
> xinit:no such process(errno3):server error
> 
> I think I may know my problem but am not sure how to rectify it. I think
> I have to install the server package???(X33S3V.tgz)??? along with other
> files???I'm not exactly sure how to go about this, however I have some
> books which talk about  running preinst.sh, unpacking files
> from/usr/X11R6, etc. etc. etc. Do I need to make all the links between
> files? During my SuperProbe, the following came up:
> First video: SuperVGA
> chipset: S3 Virge(PCI-Probed)
> memory:2048KB
> RAMDAC:Generic 8 bit pseudo-color DAC (with 6-bit wide lookup tables(or
> in 6-bit mode)).
> Thanks for the help>Ray Ferrari
> 
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Re: bootdisk for bi celeron bp6 ata 66 controller.

1999-10-29 Thread aphro

the ata66 controller is only supported by a 3rd party kernel patch.  some
people say it works, others say it doesn't ..

i have a BP6 myself, the thing is unstable as hell in SMP (fine in UP),
but i use SCSI only no IDE.

nate

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On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Sven LUTHER wrote:

> Hello, ...
> 
> Does anyone have a debian rescue disk with a kernel supporting the ata66
> controller of the bp6 bi celeron motherboard ?
> 
> or know of another way to install debian on an empty ata66 harddisk attached
> on said controller ?
> 
> Appart from putting the harddisk on the ATA33 controller naturally.
> 
> Friendly,
> 
> Sven LUTHER
> 
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Booting up and security

1999-10-29 Thread Patrick Kirk

Hi all,

Having made the move to potato and 2.2.13, my server is now a source of joy.
One small question...to get things to start I've been adding then to
/etc/init.d/network along the lines of...

echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
ipchains -P forward DENY
ipchains -A forward -s 10.0.0.0/255.255.255.0 -j MASQ
ifconfig eth1 10.0.0.25 netmask 255.255.255.9 broadcast 10.0.0.255
route add -net 10.0.0.0 dev eth1
fetchmail -d 300

Is there a better way to start a second NIC, IP masquarading and fetchmail.

Does this look like a secure setup?

Many thanks,

Patrick

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kick-boxing instead"

Re: portmap on debian

1999-10-29 Thread Onno


Strange, why not the normal way???

mv /etc/rc2.d/S18portmap /etc/rc2.d/K35portmap

Is this wrong or something ???

Regards,

Onno

At 08:34 AM 10/29/99 -0700, aphro wrote:

its part of netbase, easiest way to disable it i think is to just

mv /sbin/portmap /sbin/portmap-DISABLED

since there are still some important things in netbase it seems.  either
that or firewall port 111.

or both

you can never be too paranoid.

nate

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On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, rizan wrote:

> hi,
>
> I just couldn't figure out how to stop portmap from running on my debian
> box everytime it reboots. I am very sure it is not controlled by any TCP
> wrappers and i have checked it's
> runlevel directory but I couldn't find portmapbtw, it's running on
> run level 2
>
> please help.
>
> thankz
> rizan
>
>
>
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Re: Booting up and security

1999-10-29 Thread Onno


At 04:44 PM 10/29/99 +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote:

Having made the move to potato and 2.2.13, my server is now a source of joy.
One small question...to get things to start I've been adding then to
/etc/init.d/network along the lines of...

echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
ipchains -P forward DENY
ipchains -A forward -s 10.0.0.0/255.255.255.0 -j MASQ
ifconfig eth1 10.0.0.25 netmask 255.255.255.9 broadcast 10.0.0.255

 ^
Typo? Should be 0?


route add -net 10.0.0.0 dev eth1


Doesn't ifconfig add this?


fetchmail -d 300

Is there a better way to start a second NIC, IP masquarading and fetchmail.

Does this look like a secure setup?


Depends on the rest of your system ;-)

Onno

Re: Booting up and security

1999-10-29 Thread Phil Brutsche

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...

> Having made the move to potato and 2.2.13, my server is now a source of joy.
> One small question...to get things to start I've been adding then to
> /etc/init.d/network along the lines of...
> 
> echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward

Move this to the end.  As it is now, there is a small window between
forwarding being enabled and people getting what they're not supposed to.

> ipchains -P forward DENY
> ipchains -A forward -s 10.0.0.0/255.255.255.0 -j MASQ
> ifconfig eth1 10.0.0.25 netmask 255.255.255.9 broadcast 10.0.0.255
> route add -net 10.0.0.0 dev eth1

This isn't needed with a 2.2 kernel - it's done automatically when
'ifconfig' is run.

> fetchmail -d 300
> 
> Is there a better way to start a second NIC, IP masquarading and fetchmail.

I've hacked up a set of shell scripts that make setting up additional NICs
easy (I think so, at least).  Let me know if you want it - total size of
the tarball would be less than 1k.

> Does this look like a secure setup?

For the most part - as part of IP masq, you also have firewalling in the
kernel.  I suggest you make use of it.

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