Re: hide the commabd executed from ps,who

2000-05-17 Thread w trillich
to hide the args of your command, there are several tricks
aside from the 'overhaul the kernel' approach--

1) write a script to do the deed & supply the args, and call it
   as your command; then your command-line will only be the script name.
   set (restrict) permissions as needed on the script file.

2) use variables (not very secure) or aliases (even less secure):
   % set cmd='mysql -umyself -ptryagain db'
   ...
   % $cmd

3) if the command has a dotfile option (as in ~/.mysqlrc) then put
   your sensitive stuff there and restrict privileges on that file.

... there are probably other ways as well, each with its own
pitfalls. tinker around, scan the manpages, see what you come 
up with.

problem is, linux/unix was designed with information sharing--not
information barricaded in a subterranean hermetically-sealed vault--as
a primary goal. unfortunately it's a bit against our nature, just
yet, to be open as linux is. ("*my* user list! mine! mine!")

maybe someday...

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PCI 128...

2000-05-17 Thread David Henningsson
Okay, so I continue to try to get my PCI128 working.
I ran make menuconfig (kernel 2.2.14) and this time, i checked OSS. And then a 
lot of new options appeared, and I checked my old card (SB16). And after a 
reboot, cat /dev/sndstat started working and I could send midifiles to my synth 
using the SB16 midi port.

However, cat /dev/sndstat only tells me about my SB16 card and nothing about 
the PCI 128 (which I - through lspci - found out was a 1370 and not a 1371, 
which was what I guessed). 
The PCI 128 seems not to be a part of OSS, but some kernel stuff. But if 
playmidi uses OSS and my PCI 128 doesn't, how do I use the PCI 128 midi port?

Btw playmidi begins by telling my synth to turn itself into GM mode, which it 
really shouldn't. 

/ David  



RE: Samba

2000-05-17 Thread Jay Kelly
Anybody have an idea?

-Original Message-
From: Olaf Meeuwissen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 10:23 PM
To: Jay Kelly
Subject: Re: Samba


Jay Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> When I Run the command "nmblookup -B SERVER __SAMBA__". I get Sending
> queries to 0.0.0.0 . How do I change it to point back to me server?

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Re: Samba Setup

2000-05-17 Thread Rob
Hi Jay,


Well, to install nmap do `apt-get install nmap`

Might as well get it, it as a good tool.

But from that lynx error it sounds like there is something
wrong with SWAT. 

What version of Debian are you using?

Perhaps `apt-get remove samba` then `apt-get update` then
`apt-get install samba` will help, there is a possibility
that there was a bug in a samba package built at one
time... this will make sure you are installing the newest
version of samba for your Debian version...



Rob


On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 01:02:07PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote:
> Ok, When I run lynx localhost:901 I get errorAlert! Unexpected network read
> error; connection aborted. Alert! Unable to access document.
> 
> And if I try nmap I get command not found.
> So what do you think I need to do?



Re: Debian vs Red Hat??? I need info.

2000-05-17 Thread Steve Lamb
On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 08:44:38PM -0700, David Lynn wrote:
> I agree - dpkg and apt are great compared to rpm's.  However, that's all
> assuming that there are debian packages out there that are up to date
> (which they're generally not).  But this seems to be the only major
> drawback I've found to Debian.

I don't find this to be true.  If you need the latest bleeding edge
program, go with the unstable tree which has historically proven to be more
stable than Red Hat Releases.

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ispell-question

2000-05-17 Thread Johann Spies
Is there a way to remove a word from a ispell-hash file?  I was so far
unable to find something in the documentation about it.

All I could find was how to remove a word from a word list that exists
in the hash file, but I want to do it the other way round.


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problems with iptables

2000-05-17 Thread pollywog
I am using kernel 2.3.99-pre8 and when I try to start iptables, I get an 
error about not being able to start 'filter' and I got the following from my 
logs:

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
May 17 05:08:17 lilypad insmod: 
/lib/modules/2.3.99-pre8/ipv4/iptable_filter.o: insmod iptable_filter failed
May 17 05:08:17 lilypad insmod: /lib/modules/2.3.99-pre8/ipv4/iptable_nat.o: 
insmod iptable_nat failed

Any ideas what is wrong?

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Configuration

2000-05-17 Thread Jay Kelly
Hello All,
Im working on getting Samba to run and I came across:

To ensure that the server is run as a daemon whenever the machine is
started, and to ensure that it runs as root so that it can serve multiple
clients, you will need to modify the system startup files. Wherever
appropriate (for example, in /etc/rc), insert the following line,
substituting port number, log file location, configuration file location and
debug level as desired:


/usr/local/samba/bin/smbd -D -l /var/adm/smblogs/log -s
/usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf


Where should I place this new line at? What file do I add to or do I create
a new file. Im confused...
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Jay



Re: ip traffic control

2000-05-17 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
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> 
> Hi !
> 
> Is there a tool which can handle the maximum limit of kilobites
> what a user can use ? I want to restrict the usage of bandwith for
> every people. Example the online editor could use the bandwith
> upto 20kb-s but the secretary only could use 3 kbits maximum. So
> she could start to download the big avis and mp3-s but couldn't eat
> all of the bandwith with 5 simoultanous download.
> Thanks,
> Ago

HI Ago,
   You can use Traffic Shaper (kernel option and package) but pay
attention
on how to set it since it has some limitation on how to manage bandwith.
I read document long time ago and i remember it can handle from 9.600
bps to
256Kbps per each connectiontake a look if it's your situation

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Re: Debian vs Red Hat??? I need info.

2000-05-17 Thread Craig Sanders
On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 10:43:20PM -0400, Chris Wagner wrote:
> At 07:29 PM 5/16/00 -0400, Jeremy Hansen wrote:
> >Autoinstall (Red Hat's kickstart)
> > This is also something fairly important.  We need this as we do a
> > lot of mass installs.
>
> For mass installs, just make a standard issue CD, boot from that CD,
> and copy over the OS.  Or you could even make a disk image and dd it
> onto the hard drive.  That assumes you have the same hard drive in all
> the machines.  You can turn a 20GB drive into a 10GB drive. :) But
> even if you have 4 or 5 different hard drives in your organization,
> using disk images will still save you tons of time.

even better, you can make a tar.gz image of your "standard install",
stick it on an nfs server and then create a boot floppy with nfs
support.  

when building a new box, boot with the floppy, partition the disk
(scriptable using sfdisk), mount the nfs drive, untar the archive, and
then run a script which customises whatever needs to be customised (e.g.
hostname, IP address, etc). then run lilo to make it bootable from the
hard disk.

alternatively, put it on a CD-ROM and make that CD bootable - just
insert the CD and reboot for a fully-automated install. say 10 meg or so
for boot kernel & utilities, leaves you up to around 640MB of compressed
tar.gz containing your standard install file-system image.


btw, this tar.gz idea is how the debian base system is installed on a
machine in the first place. the only significant difference is that
you're installing your own tar.gz system image rather than the standard
base.tar.gz.

automating debian installs is pretty easy - IF you have a good
understanding of how debian works.

craig

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Re: Debian vs Red Hat??? I need info.

2000-05-17 Thread Craig Sanders
On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 08:44:18PM -0700, David Lynn wrote:
> I agree - dpkg and apt are great compared to rpm's.  However, that's
> all assuming that there are debian packages out there that are up to
> date (which they're generally not).  But this seems to be the only
> major drawback I've found to Debian.

depends if you use stable or unstable.

if you use stable, then many packages will be old versions.

if you use unstable, then most packages will be the latest up-to-date
versions.

craig

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R: Rename Workgroup,etc.

2000-05-17 Thread marco frattola
see man 5 smb.conf

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> -Messaggio originale-
> Da: ktb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Inviato: martedì 16 maggio 2000 23.01
> A: Debian-User-Mailing-List
> Oggetto: Re: Rename Workgroup,etc.
> 
> 
> Jay Kelly wrote:
> > 
> > Where do I change my computer Name
> 
> In /etc/hostname
> 
> There is a program 'hostname' you can use but if I remember right to
> make it stick you need to sometimes change the file.
> 
> >, Workgroup 
> 
> Try "apropos group"  there are several programs listed such as
> "groupadd" to add a group and "groupmod" to modify a group.  
> Look at the
> man pages for those programs and see which works for you.
> 
> and how do I rename the Samba
> > Server?
> 
> Samba? I don't know.  
> hth,
> kent
> 
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Re: PCI 128...

2000-05-17 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
Once upon a time, I heard David Henningsson say

> Okay, so I continue to try to get my PCI128 working.
> I ran make menuconfig (kernel 2.2.14) and this time, i checked OSS. And then 
> a lot of new options appeared, and I checked my old card (SB16). And after a 
> reboot, cat /dev/sndstat started working and I could send midifiles to my 
> synth using the SB16 midi port.
Interesting!

> 
> However, cat /dev/sndstat only tells me about my SB16 card and nothing about 
> the PCI 128 (which I - through lspci - found out was a 1370 and not a 1371, 
> which was what I guessed). 
> The PCI 128 seems not to be a part of OSS, but some kernel stuff. But if 
> playmidi uses OSS and my PCI 128 doesn't, how do I use the PCI 128 midi port?
> 
apt-get install timidity, I use it with ESS Maestro chip.

Chanop

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virtual news server

2000-05-17 Thread Philippe MICHEL
Hello,

I have configured a Debian Linux server, to make IP-masquerating for a
private network. This Debian box has also a second network card with an
official IP, and connected to ADSL. Everythink works well.

But we have a news-server (DNews) in the private network, and I heard
about the possibility of configuring the Linux box so that
news-quering/delievering on the Linux box comes in fact on the
news-server of the private network.

Does anybody know how to do this ??

thanks,

Philippe

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Re: virtual news server

2000-05-17 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> But we have a news-server (DNews) in the private network, and I heard
> about the possibility of configuring the Linux box so that
> news-quering/delievering on the Linux box comes in fact on the
> news-server of the private network.
> 
it seems to me, that this is the most FAQ regarding masquerading. :)
last time we had this question two days ago.
look at the ipmasqadm man page and at the mailing list archives for more
info.

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Re: hide the commabd executed from ps,who

2000-05-17 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> 1) write a script to do the deed & supply the args, and call it
>as your command; then your command-line will only be the script name.
>set (restrict) permissions as needed on the script file.
> 
huuh? does this make sense? the script will eventually call/exec the main
program, which will have the password in clear text on it's command line, 
too.

> 2) use variables (not very secure) or aliases (even less secure):
>% set cmd='mysql -umyself -ptryagain db'
>...
>% $cmd
> 
same for this. this is expanded by the shell, so ps shows all sensitive
data.

> 3) if the command has a dotfile option (as in ~/.mysqlrc) then put
>your sensitive stuff there and restrict privileges on that file.
> 
that's the way to go. unfortunately, not all programs offer this feature.

note: there is a way for the called prgram to clobber it's own command
line. so the program would read it's parameters and then destroy them. the
few milliseconds, until it has done so, the command line would
be readable, of course.
however, this method requires changing the source of the target program.

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Re: hypenation in tetex

2000-05-17 Thread Radim Gelner
I may be wrong, bu it seems to me, that there are no russian
hyphenation patterns in /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen. Rather
they are stored in /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/ruhyphen. From there
you must select one, depending on the encoding you use and copy it to
hyphen/ruhyphen.tex.

Regards

Radim

On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 08:47:33PM +0200, Igor Mozetic wrote:
> 
> How does one change hypenation in potato tetex ??  I've run
> texconfig and changed the /etc/texmf/language.dat - no effect.  When
> I run Latex I still get the original hypenation:
> 
> This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.1) (avt.tex LaTeX2e
> <1998/12/01> patch level 1 Babel  and hyphenation patterns
> for american, french, german, ngerman, n ohyphenation, loaded.
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls Document Class: article
> 1999/01/07 v1.4a Standard LaTeX document class
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/size12.clo))
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/inputenc.sty beta test version
> (koi8-r.def)) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/babel/babel.sty
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/babel/russianb.ldf
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/babel/babel.def)
> 
> Package babel Warning: No hyphenation patterns were loaded for
> (babel)the language `Russian' (babel)
> I will use the patterns loaded for \language=0 instead.
> 
> -Igor Mozetic



Sendmail

2000-05-17 Thread Oliver Schoenknecht
Hi there,

and first off thanks to anyone who has helped me with this cron job-
thing showing the refused connects...

Now I am planning to build the new version of sendmail on our 
Debian 2.1-system (Kernel : 2.2.15 running) here but stumble over 
the points four and six of the INSTALL-file : Which .mc-file fits my 
environment best ? I have wiped away the old version of sendmail 
by the way. Point six is - as you may know - "install config.cf as 
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf and install the sendmail-binary" - how do I do 
this ?

Any help is - as always - appreciated very well ! Thanks in advance !

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Re: mmap- what is it?

2000-05-17 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> ** Must have working mmap.  
> 
> I never had this problem with this machine, so I suspect my mmap got lost 
> somehow.
> 
mmap is no program, but a system function. if you use a stable kernel and
a working libc, then you have this for sure.
so there are two possibilities:
1) the configure script is broken somehow
2) you lost some include files (/usr/include/unistd.h or
   /usr/include/sys/mman.h says the mmap man page)

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Doublesided printing using apsfilter

2000-05-17 Thread Radim Gelner
I'm probably not asking on the right list, but anyway: I've installed
the apsfilter and everything works fine except of one thing. The
filter prints automatically doublesided on our LJ 4000N, which is
nothing wrong about, just that the second side is shifted several
centimenters to the right and the rightmost part of the text is even
out of the paper. I have not find a way ti change this. Maybe there
must be some PCL sequence sent before the print, I do not know. Does
anyone experience a similar problem?

Radim



Re: Jserv segfault on Debian

2000-05-17 Thread Robert Varga


I use it without a problem. I use the following packages:

jserv: 1.1-2
ibm-jdk1.1-installer: 1.1.8-3 (with the latest version of IBM JDK 1.1.8
(there was no segfault problem at our machines with versions after 1999
october))

we are also using gnujsp with it without any major problems.

Regards,

Robert Varga


On Tue, 16 May 2000, Ferenc Kiraly wrote:

>   Hi!
> 
> Has anyone got Jserv running on Debian? I installed all the
> required packages for Jserv, but when I run it it immediately
> segfaults. Any ideas?
> 
>   feri.
> 
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Re: bashrc

2000-05-17 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> > -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-
> > Their is five errers in this sentance.
> 
> Took me a while to find the fifth, then my brain briefly rebelled.
>
the error could be, that there are only four (orthographical) 
errors. but as it says, that there are five errors, which is correct, we
have only four errors. so we again have five ... *completely perplex*

i have the impression, that this has something to do with a thing, which 
my math teacher called "russels antinomy".

or did i miss the point? could someone enlighten me?

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NIS+? Alternatives?

2000-05-17 Thread Michael Janssen \(CS/MATH stud.\)

Some of you probably have seem me asking about this in #debian: 

I'm trying to setup NIS+ on Debian.. I have a number of machines which
I would like to use NIS+ for authentication and also for autofs
mapping..  Has anyone actually succeeded in using NIS+ with Debian? 

I've currently taken nis-utils.tar.gz from ftp.kernel.org and hacked
into it a bit.   It's half-working.. it asks for the password twice on
login, and autofs doesn't see the auto_master table on NIS+..

Also, if NIS+ is just plainly out of the question, are there any good
alternatives to NIS+?  Keep in mind that it should provide security
like NIS+ (column & row permissions), and work with sun and linux
clients..  

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Re: updating magicfilter

2000-05-17 Thread Tom Pfeifer
At the risk of telling you something you already know, keep in mind that
while there may not be a magicfilter (I've never tried apsfilter) that
matches your exact printer by model #, there may still be one that
works. For example I have an Epson SC 660 and use the SC 600 filters. At
work I have a Cannon inkjet with a similar situation. Both printers work
very well in Linux using magicfilter.

This page may help you determine what you need to do for any given
printer. It helped me:

http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/printer_list.cgi

Tom


John Anderson wrote:
> 
> Is there anyway to update he print filter selections in magicfilter to
> support more and newer printer models.  If there is a way to update
> magicfilter, what kind of filter can I add (from which program)?
> 
> I tried switching to apsfilter, but found it harder to setup than
> magicfilter.  Especially trying to setup multiple printers on one
> computer.
> 
> 
> John Kerr Anderson
> Debian GNU/Linux 2.1
> 
>



Re: Debian vs Red Hat??? I need info.

2000-05-17 Thread Johann Spies
On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 11:24:50PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
> On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 08:44:38PM -0700, David Lynn wrote:
> > I agree - dpkg and apt are great compared to rpm's.  However, that's all
> > assuming that there are debian packages out there that are up to date
> > (which they're generally not).  But this seems to be the only major
> > drawback I've found to Debian.
> 
> I don't find this to be true.  If you need the latest bleeding edge
> program, go with the unstable tree which has historically proven to be more
> stable than Red Hat Releases.

I can not comment on the stability, but it is not always the case that
unstable has the "latest bleeding edge" programs.  I am using wxpython
(or python-wxwin in Debian language) and while version 2.1.15 has been
in used by a lot developers for a few weeks, the unstable version
of Debian is still 2.1.11.  In the past I had to install rpm-packages
to get my hands on newer versions.

I am not blaming the Debian developer. He has helped me in the past to
try and eliminate some problems with the package.  I know that Debian
development comes from volunteers and if I had some more time and
knowledge on this subject I would like to help with the development.

Johann.
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Re: Samba

2000-05-17 Thread Rob
Do you have the 'interfaces=x.x.x.x/xx' set correctly in
your /etc/samba/smb.conf ?

Be sure that you have an interface that can access
the IP address/netmask you substitute for x.x.x.x/xx
..



   Rob
( Namodn )


On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 10:22:09PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote:
> Anybody have an idea?
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Olaf Meeuwissen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 10:23 PM
> To: Jay Kelly
> Subject: Re: Samba
> 
> 
> Jay Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > When I Run the command "nmblookup -B SERVER __SAMBA__". I get Sending
> > queries to 0.0.0.0 . How do I change it to point back to me server?
> 
> Don't know, ask [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
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Re: xntp

2000-05-17 Thread Michel Verdier
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit :

| john writes:
| > After installing xntp3 and xntp3-doc packages, I find the docs far too
| > complex to fully understand, and the program aims for far greater
| > accuracy than I need.
| 
| Michel Verdier writes:
| > I felt like yourself :)
| 
| Try chrony.  The debian package works with dialup straight out of the box.

Hum, my English is quite poor : I was meaning "long time ago I felt
confused with all these docs, but now all is well and synchronized :)"

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Re: Debian vs Red Hat??? I need info.

2000-05-17 Thread Michel Verdier
Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit :

| On Wed, 17 May 2000, Matthew Dalton wrote:
| > I beleive it is possible to install a Debian system, configure/customise
| > it, and then repackage the deb packages using the customised files on
| > the system instead of the original default ones, using some provided
| > tools.
| > 
| > Can anyone confirm this? I have not tried it myself, but I vaguely
| > remember reading it somewhere in the Slink documentation.
| 
| You are thinking of "dpkg-repack", it should also be possible to add and
| remove files to/from the customized package.

And to complete the trip, it is easy to build a debian packages repository, 
with dpkg-scanpackages, containing those customized packages. APT can then
install them through local net.

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Re: Debian vs Red Hat??? I need info.

2000-05-17 Thread tps
On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 05:28:54PM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote:
> On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 10:43:20PM -0400, Chris Wagner wrote:
> > At 07:29 PM 5/16/00 -0400, Jeremy Hansen wrote:
> > >Autoinstall (Red Hat's kickstart)
> > > This is also something fairly important.  We need this as we do a
> > > lot of mass installs.
> >
> > For mass installs, just make a standard issue CD, boot from that CD,
> > and copy over the OS.  Or you could even make a disk image and dd it
> > onto the hard drive.  That assumes you have the same hard drive in all
> > the machines.  You can turn a 20GB drive into a 10GB drive. :) But
> > even if you have 4 or 5 different hard drives in your organization,
> > using disk images will still save you tons of time.
> 
> even better, you can make a tar.gz image of your "standard install",
> stick it on an nfs server and then create a boot floppy with nfs
> support.  
> 
> when building a new box, boot with the floppy, partition the disk
> (scriptable using sfdisk), mount the nfs drive, untar the archive, and
> then run a script which customises whatever needs to be customised (e.g.
> hostname, IP address, etc). then run lilo to make it bootable from the
> hard disk.

This is what I did at BNL for maintaining the 'black wall' of 150 VALinux
boxes. I built 1 box like I wanted, and made a tarball of it and put it
out on a NFS server. Then I created a kernel with nfsroot and bootp
support. As long as I know the MAC of the NIC in the maachine, you can
boot, get all the network stuff assigned by the bootp server, and 
it nfs mounts a small root partition with a hacked up rcS script.
This script partitions the disk using sfdisk, formats the partitions,
mounts them, then nfs mounts the old image, untars it, then fiddles 
with the config files, runs lilo, and reboots. On the 350MB install,
this takes about 5 minutes for the whole procedure. Now, with the
bootp kernel, we never have to touch the machines again. If we
update the image, we run a command on each box via ssh that copies the
bootp kernel over the normal one, runs lilo, and reboots, and the
whole thing runs by itself. We only have to touch the machine 1 time,
to get it to boot off the floppy for the initial install.

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Help: my /var/log/lastlog's as big as Canarsie!

2000-05-17 Thread montefin
Hi,

Has anyone else encountered this situation?

I was looking at my /var/log directory and this popped out at me

-rw-rw-r--   1 root utmp   18692964 May 17 04:19 lastlog

I'm still tweaking a recent upgrade from Slink to Potato, so I guess I
do a lot of su - logins, but still isn't that an enormous file for its
purpose?

'man lastlog' does have a cautionary statement about wide gaps in uid
#'s slowing down the time it takes for lastlog to print to screen when a
user logs in.

And, as a consequence of having qmail installed I do have huge gaps in
uid's because Debian requires the 7 qmail uid's to be 64010 to 64016.
Could this have any bearing on the huge size of the log file?

Also, I did an 'apt-get dist-upgrade' earlier in the day and got broken
'libpam0g-0.72-7', 'libpam-modules-0.72-7' and 'libpam-runtime-0.72-7'
packages. Later I did a successful 'apt-get upgrade' on those 3 packages
which were by then upgraded to version '0.72-8'. I do know the libpam
upgrades affected files related to '/var/log/lastlog' such as 'login'
and 'passwd'. Could that have any bearing on its huge size? 

Even so, is there some command I can issue to flush the log so I can
keep it in proportion? Or will some regular process eventually reduce
the size of /var/log/lastlog and free up that disk space?

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

montefin



RES: debian.org.br registered

2000-05-17 Thread Marcio Rezende
Ok,

Are there some intentions for new registration like some kind of public
forum or non-profit purpose, refined and free distribuition?!

I hope indeed there are no "status" or special power reason for this
atitude!

By this way, congratulations. I cheer you, let's enjoy it.

If you are in the other hand... screw you, debian is 100% suck free!

Regards,
Márcio Rezende


-Mensagem original-
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Enviada em: terça-feira, 16 de maio de 2000 09:58
Para: debian-devel@lists.debian.org;
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Assunto: debian.org.br registered


Hello, I just wanted to announce that I've registered the
domain debian.org.br in Brazil to protect it somehow. There is
a Free Software Comitee working here to spread the word and since
only truly stablished organizations are able to register under
.org.br I asked them to register debian.org.br. I've set
www.debian.org.br and ftp.debian.org.br to point to our local
official primary mirror of the project.

Any comments on this?

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Re: RES: debian.org.br registered

2000-05-17 Thread Peter Good
Hehe, maybe it's so if Network Solutions decides it wants debian.org
back for itself(going by a recent issue on slashdot), then we've all got
something to fall back on.

Pete.


Marcio Rezende wrote:
> 
> Ok,
> 
> Are there some intentions for new registration like some kind of public
> forum or non-profit purpose, refined and free distribuition?!
> 
> I hope indeed there are no "status" or special power reason for this
> atitude!
> 
> By this way, congratulations. I cheer you, let's enjoy it.
> 
> If you are in the other hand... screw you, debian is 100% suck free!
> 

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Re: RES: debian.org.br registered

2000-05-17 Thread Eduardo Marcel Macan
On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 09:23:05AM -0300, Marcio Rezende wrote:
> Ok,
> 
> Are there some intentions for new registration like some kind of public
> forum or non-profit purpose, refined and free distribuition?!

Nope, This domain was initially registered and assigned to debian.org ,
if we start a consistent group to develop in Brazil we may use it,
just like debian.org.jp does. Why not? Unfortunately this group does
not exist (yet).

> I hope indeed there are no "status" or special power reason for this
> atitude!

Well, the only status reason behind this is that I am a debian
 developer, indeed the only brazilian one nowadays and I feel that I am
doing the best thing for debian by taking care of debian.org.br, 
unfortunately I could not do the same to debian.com.br on time.
Take a look at it.

> By this way, congratulations. I cheer you, let's enjoy it.

Yeah! Thank you! :)
> 
> If you are in the other hand... screw you, debian is 100% suck free!

Yeah, you know, I've been using and contributing to debian (in
one way or another) since early 1997, and using only free software since 1994.
I don't think I suck at all :)
 
> Regards,
> Márcio Rezende

Mas porque estamos falando em alemão?

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Re: Debian vs Red Hat??? I need info.

2000-05-17 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Chris Wagner wrote:
> RPM is a piece of crap compared to dpkg, and now we have apt (advanced
> package tool).

Can we please not be so negative about rpm? I'll agree that dpkg is
better (and of course I'm completely not biased here :), but rpm
is not a piece of crap.

Wichert.

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Re: Debian vs Red Hat??? I need info.

2000-05-17 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 08:44:15AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote:
> > I don't find this to be true.  If you need the latest bleeding edge
> > program, go with the unstable tree which has historically proven to be more
> > stable than Red Hat Releases.

> (or python-wxwin in Debian language) and while version 2.1.15 has been
> in used by a lot developers for a few weeks, the unstable version
> of Debian is still 2.1.11.  In the past I had to install rpm-packages
> to get my hands on newer versions.

Noe my use of the word "need" instead of the word "want."  Most people who
run Linux want the latest version for pretty much no other reason than the
bragging rights.  OTOH, most people who run linux rarely /need/ the latest
version.  The only time I've personally seen someone /need/ the latest version
of a program where the matter of a few weeks was not acceptable was when the
FS code in FreeBSD had a massive bug in it that caused the kernel to panic on
an ISP's main FTP server.  They /needed/ the latest snapshot to see if it
fixed their problem.

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Re: Debian vs Red Hat??? I need info.

2000-05-17 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 02:55:33PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Can we please not be so negative about rpm? I'll agree that dpkg is
> better (and of course I'm completely not biased here :), but rpm
> is not a piece of crap.

OK, in the light of trying to say something positive about rpm might I
suggest to henceforth call it a "piece of manure" so at least people might
think it is worthwhile in helping something grow... like having a growing
respect for apt?  :)

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Lost E-mail

2000-05-17 Thread Christopher Clark
Usually I pick up my e-mail by a cron job (Slink, sendmail) but I happend to be
on-line doing something and I noticed 3 e-mails coming in. There are notes in
the log files but the messages have gone missing.   I do export
/var/spool/mail.  Nothing in /var/spool/mail or mqueue Anybody have any ideas
what could have gone wrong? NFS problem?

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Re: Debian vs Red Hat??? I need info.

2000-05-17 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 06:17:14AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
> On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 02:55:33PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> > Can we please not be so negative about rpm? I'll agree that dpkg is
> > better (and of course I'm completely not biased here :), but rpm
> > is not a piece of crap.
> 
> OK, in the light of trying to say something positive about rpm might I
> suggest to henceforth call it a "piece of manure" so at least people might
> think it is worthwhile in helping something grow... like having a growing
> respect for apt?  :)

ROFL  

that would make a nice .sig if it weren't so long ;-)  its quite true
too, i had to go though a session with rpm after switching to debian
and boy did it cause alot of swearing ;-)   my respect for apt/dpkg
certianly grew quite a bit.  i then blew away that redhat based dist
from my powerpc and installed potato...

seriously though i think Wichert is just asking that we be a bit more
professional when expressing our dislike for rpm, i suppose it is
better if we don't look too much like raving lunatics (sp?) (even if
we are :P)

afterall its going to take alot of `professionalism' to get that silly
LSB to stop `standardizing' on things like rpm...

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pine

2000-05-17 Thread Chris Mason
i'd like to use pine as I know it a little, but I downloaded the pine source
deb and the .diff file, but I have no idea what to do with them. Any help?

Chris Mason
Box 340, The Valley, Anguilla, British West Indies
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USA Fax (561) 382-7771
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Find out more about NetConcepts
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Re: Debian vs Red Hat??? I need info.

2000-05-17 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 05:35:20AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> that would make a nice .sig if it weren't so long ;-)

What?  It is under 4 lines long.  ;)


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Re: Help: my /var/log/lastlog's as big as Canarsie!

2000-05-17 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
montefin  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Has anyone else encountered this situation?

Yes, almost everyone.

>I was looking at my /var/log directory and this popped out at me
>-rw-rw-r--   1 root utmp   18692964 May 17 04:19 lastlog
>
>I'm still tweaking a recent upgrade from Slink to Potato, so I guess I
>do a lot of su - logins, but still isn't that an enormous file for its
>purpose?

No. Do a "du /var/log/lastlog" - you'll see that it's just a few K.

>'man lastlog' does have a cautionary statement about wide gaps in uid
>#'s slowing down the time it takes for lastlog to print to screen when a
>user logs in.

That isn't quite what the manual page says, the manpage is confusing
and incomplete though.

>And, as a consequence of having qmail installed I do have huge gaps in
>uid's because Debian requires the 7 qmail uid's to be 64010 to 64016.
>Could this have any bearing on the huge size of the log file?

It isn't huge - it just has enormous holes in it. And holes do not
take up real disk space. This is a feature of Unix called "sparse files".

>Even so, is there some command I can issue to flush the log so I can
>keep it in proportion? Or will some regular process eventually reduce
>the size of /var/log/lastlog and free up that disk space?

Not needed. Try the "du /var/log/lastlog" command to see how much
space it _actually_ uses and be amazed ;)

Someone should fix/update the manpage though:

- mention that the effect under CAVEATS only happens when lastlog
  is called without -u
- explain how the lastlog file works, and why it appears to be
  bigger than it is. Or just point to lastlog(5) which should then
  ofcourse be written

Mike.



Transfer data between two comps without network

2000-05-17 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
Welcome,
my problem is that I have to transfer large amount of data (20~50 Gigs)
daily.
And it can't be done via network due to  'secret' nature of that data.
I considered IDE disk put in hot-swap bay, but I found that's not the
best way to do that:
i got system on scsi disc, compiled ide-disk support as module
and when I want to remove ide-disc i unmount it, rmmod the module
then swap the discs, modprobe ide-disk, mount it.
That scheme works ... but sometimes it fails.. and when it fails I have
to reboot the system to be able to mount ide disc. that situation
is unacceptable.

Does anyone have any suggestions on this?
 (data should be moved via some physical way, not using network as that's
 what bossess fear the most, zip drives could be nice, but they
B are too small, streamers seems to be to slow )

 regards,
 Dariush Pietrzak




Re: pine

2000-05-17 Thread Aaron Solochek
have you installed the debs?  if not, do so with dpkg -i whatever.deb.
That will create a directory in /usr/local/src called `pine` I believe.
In that directory there is a readme or something which takes you step by
step though installing it.

-Aaron Solochek
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On Wed, 17 May 2000, Chris Mason wrote:

> i'd like to use pine as I know it a little, but I downloaded the pine source
> deb and the .diff file, but I have no idea what to do with them. Any help?
> 
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> USA Fax (561) 382-7771
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RE: Transfer data between two comps without network

2000-05-17 Thread Ben Simpson
what about a Sony AIT tape drive.  Kind of expensive.  Not sure about the
linux support.
We have two of them and they are great and fast.

Ben MCSE, CNA

-Original Message-
From: Dariush Pietrzak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2000 9:38 AM
To: debian-isp@lists.debian.org
Cc: debian-isp@lists.debian.org; debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Transfer data between two comps without network


Welcome,
my problem is that I have to transfer large amount of data (20~50 Gigs)
daily.
And it can't be done via network due to  'secret' nature of that data.
I considered IDE disk put in hot-swap bay, but I found that's not the
best way to do that:
i got system on scsi disc, compiled ide-disk support as module
and when I want to remove ide-disc i unmount it, rmmod the module
then swap the discs, modprobe ide-disk, mount it.
That scheme works ... but sometimes it fails.. and when it fails I have
to reboot the system to be able to mount ide disc. that situation
is unacceptable.

Does anyone have any suggestions on this?
 (data should be moved via some physical way, not using network as that's
 what bossess fear the most, zip drives could be nice, but they
B are too small, streamers seems to be to slow )

 regards,
 Dariush Pietrzak



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Re: man --> info?

2000-05-17 Thread Richard Klinda
Hoi Gregory, ALL!

  Gregory> Why are man pages abandoned for info?  Info requires emacs
  Gregory> knowledge to navigate, and are text only.

Check out pinfo (in doc section), it's a terminal based info-browser
and it has a very intuitive interface.

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RE: Help with the /etc/init.d/network

2000-05-17 Thread A. Scott White
Ethan:
> to the original poster, reply & change subject != new message
> ...
> the former screws up threading in mailing list archives and in
> MUAs such as mutt.  please always create a new message and paste
> the list address in instead of using reply as a shortcut, or if
> you post often create an alias/address book entry for the list
> address.  thank you.

I always new I was being watched.

Pardon my ignorance. I had no idea that any mechanism for tracking threads
existed other than the subject line. I'll keep that in mind.

Incidentally, how exactly does thread tracking work? I assume there is a
header of some kind. Maybe I'll hack it out. Interesting.

Well, you learn something new everyday (especially when you don't know
much).

Thanks.


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RE: Wanted a free library for computational geometry

2000-05-17 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
My calculus instructor showed me a simply fabulous program that I think 
may
be linux driven, called "Net Math", I think.  I think it originated out of a
Texas university.  I don't know how much computational geometry it has, but
it looked like fun (assuming you think math is fun, I'm with Barbie when she
said, "Math is hard").  BTW, I wrote a C program for searching for a pair of
closest points using a divide and conquer kind of thing for a class last
fall.  You are more than welcome to it (if you don't mind my ugly code).

Brooks

> -Original Message-
> From: Daniele Cruciani [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 1:20 PM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Wanted a free library for computational geometry
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm going to write some programs of computational geometry, so i
> need a library (probably a set of libs) for data type and
> algorithms. AFAIK there are 2 library that could hit my need:
> LEDA (http://www.mpi-sb.mpg.de/LEDA/) for data type and CGAL
> (http://www.cs.ruu.nl/CGAL/) for algorithms.
> But no one of that are GPLed.
>
> I think I can use glib in place of LEDA, but it's not enought for me
> so i need to link agaist something other.
> I've no starting point at all for replacement of CGAL.
>
>
> Any suggestion?
>
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Q: about networking

2000-05-17 Thread Katerina Tsarouchas
Does anyone know where I can obtain a documentation on how to setup
network on
the Potato System?

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Apache + PHP3 + MySQL = big mess

2000-05-17 Thread Oliver Hingst
Hello,
I am using Debian "Potato" and I use Apache, PHP3 and every modules
containing "php3" and "mysql" and MySQL server and client.
I am going through a tutorial on DevShed (http://www.devshed.com) on
creating a web database.  I have checked that PHP3 has been installed
and runs properly.  No problems there.  I checked the MySQL
configuration and set-up the relevant users and permissions.  No
problems there, either.  I then had a look at my httpd.conf file, to see
what modules were being loaded.  I saw that the libphp3.so and a
mod_auth_mysql.so are uncommented.  I then wrote this PHP3 script:


 Web Database Sample Index
  

   
   Data from mytable
   ";
   while ($r = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
 $name = $r["name"];
 $phone = $r["phone"];
 echo "$name, $phone";
 }
   echo "";
 } else {
   echo "No data.";
  }
   mysql_free_result($result);
   ?>

 Add new entry



Running this script gives me this error:
Fatal error: Call to unsupported or undefined function mysql_connect()
in /var/www/example/index.php3 on line 8

What am I missing ?

Oliver



Re: man --> info?

2000-05-17 Thread Fabrizio Polacco
On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 06:50:43AM -0500, Gregory Guthrie wrote:
> Why are man pages abandoned for info?

Only FSF do that. Debian _requires_ manpages for all.

 
> Info requires emacs knowledge to navigate, and are text only. Man at least 
> has xman viewer.

ever tryed   man -X??
if it's too little, try   man -TX100 


> Is there any option? Have man pages been html'ed for Debian? I have seen 
> some INternet sites with man pages online..

Newer groff has a html device which will improve in next version 1.16,
not yet released.

man -Thtmlwill produce it already.
redirect it to a file and read that page from your preferred browser.
man source has a not-yet-enabled option -H that does that.

Things are moving. Do you wanna help?


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Re: Rename Workgroup,etc.

2000-05-17 Thread Jay Barbee
On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 03:34:44PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote:
> Where do I change my computer Name, Workgroup and how do I rename the Samba
> Server?

Samba gets its computer name from /etc/hostname, which is also your "computer 
name".  Workgroup is changed in /etc/smb.conf (or /etc/samba/smb.conf).

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Re: Help with the /etc/init.d/network

2000-05-17 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 09:14:17AM -0500, A. Scott White wrote:
> Ethan:
> > to the original poster, reply & change subject != new message
> > ...
> > the former screws up threading in mailing list archives and in
> > MUAs such as mutt.  please always create a new message and paste
> > the list address in instead of using reply as a shortcut, or if
> > you post often create an alias/address book entry for the list
> > address.  thank you.
> 
> I always new I was being watched.

:>

> Pardon my ignorance. I had no idea that any mechanism for tracking threads
> existed other than the subject line. I'll keep that in mind.
> 
> Incidentally, how exactly does thread tracking work? I assume there is a
> header of some kind. Maybe I'll hack it out. Interesting.

most non-broken mailers include a reference header, i see you use MS
Worm+Virus Develop... er Outlook. i am quite impressed they actually
bothered to implement this feature correctly...

here is the appropriate header in your message:

-- In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
^^

that is known as the message id, its essentially
@hostname in my case my fake hostname since im on a
masqeraded network but thats irrelevant the point is its a reasonably
unique string that identifies the message.  

the other pet peeve of thread lovers is broken clients who don't
include that header in which case the thread gets broken...

> Well, you learn something new everyday (especially when you don't know
> much).
> 
> Thanks.

np.

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Re: Q: about networking

2000-05-17 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> Does anyone know where I can obtain a documentation on how to setup
> network on the Potato System?
> 
yes - everybody who tracked this list for two days relalized the keyword:
HOW-TOs
they are located in /usr/doc/HOWTO/ (package doc-linux-text).
start at Networking-Overview-HOWTO, further look at NET*, IP-*.
there you'll mostly find references to other sources on the net, if you
need more info.

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XF86, maxima, gnome binaries

2000-05-17 Thread Alberto Meroni

Hello to everybody, I have some small question.
First
1) I have a Trident card with a mono monitor. If I run XF86_VGA16 I 
can use 640x480 but with the XF86_SVGA I can run only 640x400, 640x480
gives an image out of the monitor area, no xvidtune worked to solve the
problem. Can someone help me ? My monitor can do 31.46 kHz with 50-70 Hz
vertical frequency.
2) Has someone got maxima (gnu maxima) compiled ? I could not have it 
compiled with gcl source package ? Phreaphs someone has a slink binary 
out there ?
3) Is there a place where I can get gnome application in binary form for slink
(guppi, numexp and so on)? 
I did not tell but I am working with slink and a 2.2.14 kernel.
I would like to finish saying that I use Linux from version 0.97 (SLS release,
MCC and so on) I have tried most of the release (RH, suse, Mandrake,
slackware...) but the best is debian (no holy war please I only find great
the update mechanism). The only missing thing is a centralized administration
tool. Great work !!! Keep it like that!!
Alberto Meroni



Re: Transfer data between two comps without network

2000-05-17 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
I highly recommend you check out the Ecra VXA-1. Check out www.ecrix.com. I've 
got one
on order right now. It's also Linux certified (I forget who does that Linux 
hardware
certification thingy but they did it). The specs were more than enough to get 
me. They
have a special offer right now for first-time US buyers (sorry Dariush). Here's 
the
excerpt from my VXAdata newsletter:

SPECIAL OFFER FOR FIRST-TIME U.S. BUYERS

Now you can evaluate the VXA drive -completely- free for
30 days. And, if you decide to keep it, get big savings.
Internal Kit, only $399, External Kit, only $499. Offer
good only in the US, until May 31, by going to:
  http://www.ecrix.com/eval

I'm thinking of finally getting a nice tape drive for home.

Dariush Pietrzak wrote:

> Welcome,
> my problem is that I have to transfer large amount of data (20~50 Gigs)
> daily.
> And it can't be done via network due to  'secret' nature of that data.
> I considered IDE disk put in hot-swap bay, but I found that's not the
> best way to do that:
> i got system on scsi disc, compiled ide-disk support as module
> and when I want to remove ide-disc i unmount it, rmmod the module
> then swap the discs, modprobe ide-disk, mount it.
> That scheme works ... but sometimes it fails.. and when it fails I have
> to reboot the system to be able to mount ide disc. that situation
> is unacceptable.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions on this?
>  (data should be moved via some physical way, not using network as that's
>  what bossess fear the most, zip drives could be nice, but they
> B are too small, streamers seems to be to slow )
>
>  regards,
>  Dariush Pietrzak
>
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Socket Error

2000-05-17 Thread Jay Kelly
After looking at the smb.log I noticed a error:

[2000/05/17 07:37:48, 1] smbd/sever.c:main(628) smbd version 2.0.5a started.
[2000/05/17 07:37:48, 1] smbd/files.c:file_init(216) file_init: Information
only: requested 1 open files, 1014 are available.
[2000/05/17 07:37:49, 0] lib/unit_sock.c:open_socket_in(886) bind failed on
port 139 socket_addr=0.0.0.0 (address already in use)

What do I need to do to fix this?

Thanks again for all you help guys.



Re: bashrc

2000-05-17 Thread Justin Megawarne
On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 11:29:58AM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> > > -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-
> > > Their is five errers in this sentance.
> > 
> > Took me a while to find the fifth, then my brain briefly rebelled.
> >
> the error could be, that there are only four (orthographical) 
> errors. but as it says, that there are five errors, which is correct, we
> have only four errors. so we again have five ... *completely perplex*
> 
> i have the impression, that this has something to do with a thing, which 
> my math teacher called "russels antinomy".
> 
> or did i miss the point? could someone enlighten me?
> 
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> --
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As far as I can see, that appears to be the fifth error ... the fact that
there is only four errors =)

Bit of a bitch ... how did that come into the thread anyway? =P
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Re: Transfer data between two comps without network

2000-05-17 Thread Dave Brookshire
|  Welcome,
|  my problem is that I have to transfer large amount of data (20~50 Gigs)
|  daily.
|  And it can't be done via network due to  'secret' nature of that data.

Umm...how about encrypting it prior to sending it across the network.
I've used schemes such as piping data across an SSH process to achieve
this without having to encrypt the files on disk.  In fact, that's how our
Amanda backup installation backs up all of our remote production servers.

Another thought, go out and buy yourself a couple of Lucent/Wavelan
ORINOCO Gold wireless ethernet cards.  They'll do 128-bit encryption
between the two cards.

Just my $.02.

Dave

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Vice President of Information Technology
Magnet Interactive Group, Inc.

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+1 (202) 471-5807 fax



|  I considered IDE disk put in hot-swap bay, but I found that's not the
|  best way to do that:
|  i got system on scsi disc, compiled ide-disk support as module
|  and when I want to remove ide-disc i unmount it, rmmod the module
|  then swap the discs, modprobe ide-disk, mount it.
|  That scheme works ... but sometimes it fails.. and when it fails I have
|  to reboot the system to be able to mount ide disc. that situation
|  is unacceptable.
|  
|  Does anyone have any suggestions on this?
|   (data should be moved via some physical way, not using network as that's
|   what bossess fear the most, zip drives could be nice, but they
|  B are too small, streamers seems to be to slow )



Re: man --> info?

2000-05-17 Thread Gregory Guthrie

At 05:19 PM 05/17/2000 +0300, Fabrizio Polacco wrote:

On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 06:50:43AM -0500, Gregory Guthrie wrote:
> Why are man pages abandoned for info?

Only FSF do that. Debian _requires_ manpages for all.

-- but many man pages say "not maintained, use info."

so it is not just formatting them, but getting the relevant info.

BUGS
   The  GNU  folks,  in  general, abhor man pages, and create
   info documents instead.  The maintainer of tar falls  into
   this  category.   This  man  page is neither complete, nor
   current, and was included in the Debian Linux packaging of
   tar  entirely  to reduce the frequency with which the lack
   of a man page gets reported as a bug in our defect  track­
   ing system.

   If  you really want to understand tar, then you should run
   info and read the tar info pages, or use the info mode  in
   emacs.


Dr. Gregory Guthrie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (515)472-1125Fax: -1103
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   College of Science and Technology
   Maharishi University of Management
  (Maharishi International University 1971-1995)
http://www.mum.edu/cs_dept




Re: man --> info?

2000-05-17 Thread Gregory Guthrie

At 09:27 PM 05/16/2000 +0200, Richard Klinda wrote:

Hoi Gregory, ALL!

  Gregory> Why are man pages abandoned for info?  Info requires emacs
  Gregory> knowledge to navigate, and are text only.

Check out pinfo (in doc section), it's a terminal based info-browser
and it has a very intuitive interface.

-- Thanks a lot; but:

alpha{root}.135: man pinfo
No manual entry for pinfo
alpha{root}.136: apt-get install pinfo
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package pinfo


??

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russell's antimony, was RE: bashrc

2000-05-17 Thread Dominic Blythe



> From: Justin Megawarne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

> 
> On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 11:29:58AM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> > > > -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-
> > > > Their is five errers in this sentance.
> > > 
> > > Took me a while to find the fifth, then my brain briefly rebelled.
> > >
> > the error could be, that there are only four (orthographical) 
> > errors. but as it says, that there are five errors, which 
> is correct, we
> > have only four errors. so we again have five ... 
> *completely perplex*
> > 
> > i have the impression, that this has something to do with a 
> thing, which 
> > my math teacher called "russels antinomy".
> > 
> > or did i miss the point? could someone enlighten me?
> > 
> > -- 
> > Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please!
> > --
> > If Windows is the answer, I want the problems back!
> 
> As far as I can see, that appears to be the fifth error ... 
> the fact that
> there is only four errors =)
> 
> Bit of a bitch ... how did that come into the thread anyway? =P
> -- 

yeah, but:

if the fifth error is that there are only four errors, 
then there aren't only four errors, there are five.

so the fifth error isn't an error, because there are five errors.

and if the fifth error isn't an error, then there are only four errors.

but if the fifth error is that there are only four errors, 
then there aren't only four errors, there are five.

so the fifth error isn't an error, because there are five errors.

and if the fifth error isn't an error, then there are only four errors.

but if the fifth error is that there are only four errors, 
then there aren't only four errors, there are five.

so the fifth error isn't an error, because there are five errors.

and if the fifth error isn't an error, then there are only four errors.

etc etc etc etc etc


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until I discovered
Debian GNU/Linux. 



Re: Apache + PHP3 + MySQL = big mess

2000-05-17 Thread Dustin Whitney
You are probably missing the php3-mysql package.  I
had similar problems with getting imap to work until I
installed the php3-imap package.  Give that a shot

Dustin

--- Oliver Hingst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Hello,
> I am using Debian "Potato" and I use Apache, PHP3
> and every modules
> containing "php3" and "mysql" and MySQL server and
> client.
> I am going through a tutorial on DevShed
> (http://www.devshed.com) on
> creating a web database.  I have checked that PHP3
> has been installed
> and runs properly.  No problems there.  I checked
> the MySQL
> configuration and set-up the relevant users and
> permissions.  No
> problems there, either.  I then had a look at my
> httpd.conf file, to see
> what modules were being loaded.  I saw that the
> libphp3.so and a
> mod_auth_mysql.so are uncommented.  I then wrote
> this PHP3 script:
> 
> 
>  Web Database Sample Index
>   
> 
>
>Data from mytable
>  mysql_connect("localhost", "webuser", "");
>  $query = "SELECT name, phone FROM mytable";
>  $result = mysql_db_query("example", $query); 
> 
>  if ($result) {
>echo "Found these entries in the
> database:";
>while ($r = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
>  $name = $r["name"];
>  $phone = $r["phone"];
>  echo "$name, $phone";
>  }
>echo "";
>  } else {
>echo "No data.";
>   }
>mysql_free_result($result);
>?>
> 
>  Add new entry
> 
> 
> 
> Running this script gives me this error:
> Fatal error: Call to unsupported or undefined
> function mysql_connect()
> in /var/www/example/index.php3 on line 8
> 
> What am I missing ?
> 
> Oliver
> 
> 
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Re: GRACIAS SI ES POSIBLE!!! (translation)

2000-05-17 Thread Bolan Timothy Lewis Meek
Here is a translation for you anglophones:
> Estimados Amiggoos
Esteemed friends
> Soy un usuario fiel de Linux y me gustria Recibir una
I am a faithful user of Linux, and it would please me
to receive a
> camiseta de Regalo si es posible. yo vivo en
T-shirt as a gift if it possible.  I live in
> Cali-Colombia
> Calle 2c # 65b25   b/ El Refugio
[No translation necessary, as this is an address.]
> Gracias..
[Thanks...]
> Att: Freddy Andres Mera
Freddy, es posible obtener mejor respuesta si eras
un usuario fiel de Debian...  ;-)
(Freddy, it is possible to obtain a better response if
you are a faithful user of Debian.)



Re: Apache + PHP3 + MySQL = big mess

2000-05-17 Thread John Pearson
On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 03:16:20PM +0100, Oliver Hingst wrote
> Hello,
> I am using Debian "Potato" and I use Apache, PHP3 and every modules
> containing "php3" and "mysql" and MySQL server and client.
> I am going through a tutorial on DevShed (http://www.devshed.com) on
> creating a web database.  I have checked that PHP3 has been installed
> and runs properly.  No problems there.  I checked the MySQL
> configuration and set-up the relevant users and permissions.  No
> problems there, either.  I then had a look at my httpd.conf file, to see
> what modules were being loaded.  I saw that the libphp3.so and a
> mod_auth_mysql.so are uncommented.  I then wrote this PHP3 script:
> 

You need the php3, mysql-server and php3-mysql packages, which
from what you say are probably installed.

Most likely, you didn't check that the line
extension=mysql.so

appears in /etc/php3/{apache,cgi}/php3.ini

HTH,


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Re: Transfer data between two comps without network

2000-05-17 Thread matthschulz
How far are the machines apart?

If not to far, what about a dedicated connection between them?

Matth

On Wed, 17 May 2000, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
> I highly recommend you check out the Ecra VXA-1. Check out www.ecrix.com. 
> I've got one
> on order right now. It's also Linux certified (I forget who does that Linux 
> hardware
> certification thingy but they did it). The specs were more than enough to get 
> me. They
> have a special offer right now for first-time US buyers (sorry Dariush). 
> Here's the
> excerpt from my VXAdata newsletter:
> 
> SPECIAL OFFER FOR FIRST-TIME U.S. BUYERS
> 
> Now you can evaluate the VXA drive -completely- free for
> 30 days. And, if you decide to keep it, get big savings.
> Internal Kit, only $399, External Kit, only $499. Offer
> good only in the US, until May 31, by going to:
>   http://www.ecrix.com/eval
> 
> I'm thinking of finally getting a nice tape drive for home.
> 
> Dariush Pietrzak wrote:
> 
> > Welcome,
> > my problem is that I have to transfer large amount of data (20~50 Gigs)
> > daily.
> > And it can't be done via network due to  'secret' nature of that data.
> > I considered IDE disk put in hot-swap bay, but I found that's not the
> > best way to do that:
> > i got system on scsi disc, compiled ide-disk support as module
> > and when I want to remove ide-disc i unmount it, rmmod the module
> > then swap the discs, modprobe ide-disk, mount it.
> > That scheme works ... but sometimes it fails.. and when it fails I have
> > to reboot the system to be able to mount ide disc. that situation
> > is unacceptable.
> >
> > Does anyone have any suggestions on this?
> >  (data should be moved via some physical way, not using network as that's
> >  what bossess fear the most, zip drives could be nice, but they
> > B are too small, streamers seems to be to slow )
> >
> >  regards,
> >  Dariush Pietrzak
> >
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Re: grep with actual date ?

2000-05-17 Thread brian moore
On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 01:41:00PM +0100, Oliver Schoenknecht wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I am planning to do a daily system check with refused connects by 
> placing them in a cron job. So far, so good. But - and that's the 
> problem - does anyone know how to tell the "grep"-command to 
> filter just the refused connects of today and not all those which are 
> two weeks old ? This should happen each day frequently so any 
> help would be appreciated very well...

I use a homebrew toy for such things.  (Swatch liked to mailbomb me for
each 'interesting' line in the logs, and I didn't see any other log
thingies I liked.)

See http://www.cmc.net/~bem/isp/watcher, which is sort of cool because
not only is its own man page (gotta love perl), it's also PGP
clearsigned.   (Okay, so I was bored.)

Basically, I run it out of cron, and it mails me 'interesting' (or
'unknown', since unknown may be something I -should- be watching but
never saw before) items from the logs.

It probably needs work -- there are things I wish it could do, but it
does do 99.999% of what I need, so it's pretty low priority for me to
futz with.  If you wanna mess with it, it's GPL.. as long as you share,
I don't care what you do with it. :)

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Re: xntp

2000-05-17 Thread Richard Klinda
Hoi John!

  John> I wish to keep time synchronised by using my ISP's
  John> timeserver. This box is a stand-alone one, and I connect using
  John> a modem.

  John> After installing xntp3 and xntp3-doc packages, I find the docs
  John> far too complex to fully understand, and the program aims for
  John> far greater accuracy than I need.

Check out rdate.  With one (two?) simple command, you can adjust your
clock.

My /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/time_adjust script:

#!/bin/sh
su root -c "rdate -a makosteszta.sote.hu > /dev/tty9"
su root -c "hwclock --systohc"

# (The value of readjustment each time echoed on tty9.)

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Re: PCI 128...

2000-05-17 Thread Armin Wegner
Hi David,

you do not need OSS. Use 1370, only



Hmm... what gives with that mail??

2000-05-17 Thread Marek Habersack
Hi *,

  Take a look at the message below. I have just received it from the
debian-user list. There would be nothing strange in it if not for the fact
that the person who posted it (apparently from the wcom.com domain as seen
in the full logs) appears to have an address [EMAIL PROTECTED] - that
is in _my_ domain :)). The problem is that neither no bolan or
debian.vip.net.pl exist! Our mailer is not an open relay, the user posted it
from the wcom.com domain (see the attached full logs).
  I wonder whether the other people on the list received posts from
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

regards,

marek


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Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 15:27:11 +
From: Bolan Timothy Lewis Meek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: GRACIAS SI ES POSIBLE!!! (translation)
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
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Here is a translation for you anglophones:
> Estimados Amiggoos
Esteemed friends
> Soy un usuario fiel de Linux y me gustria Recibir una
I am a faithful user of Linux, and it would please me
to receive a
> camiseta de Regalo si es posible. yo vivo en
T-shirt as a gift if it possible.  I live in
> Cali-Colombia
> Calle 2c # 65b25   b/ El Refugio
[No translation necessary, as this is an address.]
> Gracias..
[Thanks...]
> Att: Freddy Andres Mera
Freddy, es posible obtener mejor respuesta si eras
un usuario fiel de Debian...  ;-)
(Freddy, it is possible to obtain a better response if
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Re: Help: my /var/log/lastlog's as big as Canarsie!

2000-05-17 Thread montefin
Holy Canarsie, Miquel!

You are absolutely right, 'du /var/log/lastlog' does show the file to be
miniscule. Whew!

Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> 
> montefin  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Has anyone else encountered this situation?
> 
> Yes, almost everyone.
>

I wonder how come no one in #linux knew about it? Too bad no one in
#debian ever speaks (at least to me), surely they would have known?
 
>
> >I was looking at my /var/log directory and this popped out at me
> >-rw-rw-r--   1 root utmp   18692964 May 17 04:19 lastlog
> > 
> No. Do a "du /var/log/lastlog" - you'll see that it's just a few K.
>

I loaf this country! Where else can 18692964 of anything equal 12000?
And /var/log/faillog isn't 1536408 either, it's just 7000. And Alan
Greenspan is worried about inflation? Hah!
 
> 
> That isn't quite what the manual page says, the manpage is confusing
> and incomplete though.
>

Right again, Miquel! The man page says exactly

"CAVEATS
   Large gaps in uid numbers will cause  the  lastlog  program  to 
run
   longer  with  no  output  to  the  screen (i.e. if mmdf=800 and
last
   uid=170, program will appear to hang as it processes uid
171-799)."

Hm, kinda sounds like

> >'man lastlog' does have a cautionary statement about wide gaps in uid
> >#'s slowing down the time it takes for lastlog to print to screen when a
> >user logs in.

> 
> This is a feature of Unix called "sparse files".
>

This is a feature? Now I am amazed ;)

> 
> Someone should fix/update the manpage though:
> 
> - explain how the lastlog file works, 
> 

Mike, please sir, just how does the lastlog file work? 

Actually, maybe the manual page should be left just they way it is so we
can direct newbies like me to it on Halloween.

Anyway, I feel much better now...I think. Er...lemme go reread the 'du'
manual page, and maybe the 'ls' manual page, too.

Kudos, Miquel, and thanks bud,

montefin



Re: man --> info?

2000-05-17 Thread Frank Mehnert
On Wed, 17 May 2000, Gregory Guthrie wrote:
> At 09:27 PM 05/16/2000 +0200, Richard Klinda wrote:
> >Hoi Gregory, ALL!
> >
> >   Gregory> Why are man pages abandoned for info?  Info requires emacs
> >   Gregory> knowledge to navigate, and are text only.
> >
> >Check out pinfo (in doc section), it's a terminal based info-browser
> >and it has a very intuitive interface.
> -- Thanks a lot; but:
> 
> alpha{root}.135: man pinfo
> No manual entry for pinfo
> alpha{root}.136: apt-get install pinfo
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> E: Couldn't find package pinfo

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Program for both win98/dos and Linux

2000-05-17 Thread David Henningsson
Since I'm going to use both win98 and Linux for a while, it would be nice
to have programs working in both OS's, that is, they share the same data,
on perhaps a FAT16 partition.

I have a program for fidonet - mypoint works under Linux' DOS-emulator. 
Word 97 and Staroffice/Linux seems to work well, the little I've tested so
far.

I don't have two mail programs who work well, any ideas? This is what I
miss the most right now.
The same goes for ICQ, would be nice to have a common database of message
history, and maybe IRC.

There is no risk of both programs doing things at the same time, as I
either boot one OS or the other.

/ David






Re: hide the commabd executed from ps,who

2000-05-17 Thread 50191914


On Tue, 16 May 2000, Ethan Benson wrote:

> On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 09:29:55PM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote:
> > On Tue, 16 May 2000 11:56:07 PDT, "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" writes:
> > >On 16-May-2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >> How can I hide the commond I am executing so that people can't see
> > >> it from ps,or who?For example,if i use mysql by typing mysql -u myname -p
> > >> passsword ..people can see my password...So it would be good if I can
> > >> hide what i am doing from other user...espcially for some program which 
> > >> I can specify my password in command line...
> > >
> > >don't put your password on the commandline.  Even if ps does not show it, 
> > >it
> > >will appear in /proc.
> > 
> > So the real question is: how can you manage so that not everything in /proc
> > is world-readable (is that?s possible by design)?
> > 
> 
> that is just the way it is, there is no way to change that in the
> standard kernel.  i say standard kernel because there is a security
> patch which adds several security options to the kernel config, such
> as non-executable stack (which does no good) and tighter permissions
> on /proc.  i think the way it works is instead of those files being
> world readable they are mode 440/550 instead of 444/555, and you can
> specify the group as a /proc mount option.  this way you could allow
> all members of the wheel group to see all processes but everyone else
> can only see processes they own not any others.  
> 
> this proc patch has been proposed to be installed in the standard
> kernel but has always been rejected, i am not sure why it may very
> well break things.  i think that this should be mount option for proc
> personally, if you don't need/want it mount proc normally, otherwise
> mount it with -o secure,group=wheel or something.
> 
> -- 
> Ethan Benson
> http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
> 
But for example,what if I want to write a shell script which will login
to the remote server automatically?e.g..for some cgi...etc...




My Debian box is unstable- Why?

2000-05-17 Thread Eric Hagglund
Now that I've got your attention, here's the problem
I'm having. Whenever I attempt to run x11amp more than
once in a single session, it refuses to reopen a
second instance of the application. I have also seen
it die when opening another application concurrently.
When I try to restart then run x11amp from the command
line, I get at least 15 repetitions of the following
error:

Unable to open the audio device
Unable to reset audio device



As I write this my load monitor is completely in the
red and top is telling me that Netscape is using 98%
of my cpu.

I'm running Debian (potato)using a 2.0.36 kernel on a
standalone (Pentium Pro) workstation with 40mb of RAM.

Does anybody know what's going on here? Any
suggestions as to where to look?

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Re: PCI 128...

2000-05-17 Thread David Henningsson
>you do not need OSS. Use 1370, only

If that goes for midi too, why isn't the midi working? The documentation
says (about midi) 'no ioctls supported'. What does that mean? (That alsa is
the only option?)

/ David



Re: My Debian box is unstable- Why?

2000-05-17 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> Whenever I attempt to run x11amp more than
> once in a single session, it refuses to reopen a
> second instance of the application.
many devices (including the audio devices) can be opened only once at a
time. so the second x11amp hangs waiting for the audio device to free up.
 
> I have also seen it die when opening another application concurrently.
this kind of an unprecise problem description ...
however - x11amp is quite old. try xmms. it's the same, but under a new
name.

> When I try to restart then run x11amp from the command
> line, I get at least 15 repetitions of the following
> error:
> 
> Unable to open the audio device
> Unable to reset audio device
> 
probably resulting from the first point ...

> As I write this my load monitor is completely in the
> red and top is telling me that Netscape is using 98%
> of my cpu.
> 
netscape? that's nothing new ...
kill - restart - feel fine. *g*

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Re: My Debian box is unstable- Why?

2000-05-17 Thread Ron Rademaker
First of all I would like to say your kernel is qoute ols, my
suggestion: compile a new one!
Second (more towards your problem) is why you can't open more than 1
x11amp application, my guess is that when you open one, it takes your
soundcard (simply because it needs it to function...), when you open a
seconds (by the way: Why do you want to???!), it finds out the resource is
already taken (thank you x11amp programmers for saying it and not for
waiting or it, this in regard to deadlocks), because it's taken it says
you can'tuse it (nothing special to me).
I guess that's your problem, a bit more to the point: Your soundcard can't
be shared OR linux can't share your soundcard.

Ron Rademaker


On Wed, 17 May 2000, Eric Hagglund wrote:

> Now that I've got your attention, here's the problem
> I'm having. Whenever I attempt to run x11amp more than
> once in a single session, it refuses to reopen a
> second instance of the application. I have also seen
> it die when opening another application concurrently.
> When I try to restart then run x11amp from the command
> line, I get at least 15 repetitions of the following
> error:
> 
> Unable to open the audio device
> Unable to reset audio device
> 
> 
> 
> As I write this my load monitor is completely in the
> red and top is telling me that Netscape is using 98%
> of my cpu.
> 
> I'm running Debian (potato)using a 2.0.36 kernel on a
> standalone (Pentium Pro) workstation with 40mb of RAM.
> 
> Does anybody know what's going on here? Any
> suggestions as to where to look?
> 
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Re: Hmm... what gives with that mail??

2000-05-17 Thread brian moore
On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 06:33:04PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote:
> Hi *,
> 
>   Take a look at the message below. I have just received it from the
> debian-user list. There would be nothing strange in it if not for the fact
> that the person who posted it (apparently from the wcom.com domain as seen
> in the full logs) appears to have an address [EMAIL PROTECTED] - that
> is in _my_ domain :)). The problem is that neither no bolan or
> debian.vip.net.pl exist! Our mailer is not an open relay, the user posted it
> from the wcom.com domain (see the attached full logs).
>   I wonder whether the other people on the list received posts from
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]

They would if they had a host named 'debain.YOUR.DOMAIN.COM'.

Sendmail (and probably other smtp servers) tries to canonify names in
headers.  This is a semi-helpful process, but it usually is correct to
do.  (See RFC1123, section 5.2.18, which mandates using fqdn's which is
why sendmail, trying to be nice, tries to fix partial names it sees.)

Sites without a machine named 'debain.whatever.com' (ie 'nslookup
debian' fails) will leave it as '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'.

Even more obvious of the same thing is people who send mail as just
'username' which gets canonified as [EMAIL PROTECTED] by each
recipient.  (Spammers do this reasonably often judging from how often
our users complain about it.)

Looks like the original sender needs to fix their mail setup to use the
fqdn.

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Looking for a backup tool...

2000-05-17 Thread David Grill Watson
Does anyone know of a program that will give you a list of files changed 
since a certain date?  It would be extremely useful for backups, because you 
could just back up files that were changed since your last backup...

I suppose I could write something like this in Perl, but if anyone knows of 
such a program, I'd like to know.

-DGW



Re: Looking for a backup tool...

2000-05-17 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> Does anyone know of a program that will give you a list of files changed 
> since a certain date?  It would be extremely useful for backups, because you 
> could just back up files that were changed since your last backup...
> 
find should do the job.

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Re: xntp

2000-05-17 Thread Timothy C. Phan
Hi ,

  How do I find out a good/valid server to rdate the time?
  Thanks!

Richard Klinda wrote:
> 
> Hoi John!
> 
>   John> I wish to keep time synchronised by using my ISP's
>   John> timeserver. This box is a stand-alone one, and I connect using
>   John> a modem.
> 
>   John> After installing xntp3 and xntp3-doc packages, I find the docs
>   John> far too complex to fully understand, and the program aims for
>   John> far greater accuracy than I need.
> 
> Check out rdate.  With one (two?) simple command, you can adjust your
> clock.
> 
> My /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/time_adjust script:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> su root -c "rdate -a makosteszta.sote.hu > /dev/tty9"
> su root -c "hwclock --systohc"
> 
> # (The value of readjustment each time echoed on tty9.)
> 
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Re: Looking for a backup tool...

2000-05-17 Thread Gary Hennigan
Oswald Buddenhagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> > Does anyone know of a program that will give you a list of files changed 
> > since a certain date?  It would be extremely useful for backups,
> > because you could just back up files that were changed since your
> > last backup... 
> > 
> find should do the job.

Better yet, there are quite a few backup utilities that do this type
of thing for you automatically. I use afbackup and like it very much,
although it's a client/server system so a bit tough to set up. GNU Tar
can do this automatically as well using its "--incremental"
argument. I'm sure there are at least a couple more available
pre-packaged as *.deb files that I'm missing. Go to 

http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages

and search for "backup" in frozen or stable.

Gary



Re: Hmm... what gives with that mail??

2000-05-17 Thread Marek Habersack
** On May 17, brian moore scribbled:
> On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 06:33:04PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote:
> > Hi *,
> > 
> >   Take a look at the message below. I have just received it from the
> > debian-user list. There would be nothing strange in it if not for the fact
> > that the person who posted it (apparently from the wcom.com domain as seen
> > in the full logs) appears to have an address [EMAIL PROTECTED] - that
> > is in _my_ domain :)). The problem is that neither no bolan or
> > debian.vip.net.pl exist! Our mailer is not an open relay, the user posted it
> > from the wcom.com domain (see the attached full logs).
> >   I wonder whether the other people on the list received posts from
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> They would if they had a host named 'debain.YOUR.DOMAIN.COM'.
The thing is I _don't_ have debian.VIP.NET.PL and still I got the message
with such address.

> Sendmail (and probably other smtp servers) tries to canonify names in
> headers.  This is a semi-helpful process, but it usually is correct to
> do.  (See RFC1123, section 5.2.18, which mandates using fqdn's which is
> why sendmail, trying to be nice, tries to fix partial names it sees.)
I use postfix and I suppose it does the same. In the situation where the
lookup fails I suppose postfix appended my domain name even though the host
with such derived name doesn't exist.

> Sites without a machine named 'debain.whatever.com' (ie 'nslookup
> debian' fails) will leave it as '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'.
Not what happened here...

> Even more obvious of the same thing is people who send mail as just
> 'username' which gets canonified as [EMAIL PROTECTED] by each
> recipient.  (Spammers do this reasonably often judging from how often
> our users complain about it.)
The original poster apparently used Exim, which does canonicalize local user
names, unless it is misconfigured.

> Looks like the original sender needs to fix their mail setup to use the
> fqdn.
he, or one of the several relays that lie between him and the outer world...

marek


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x-server for ATI Rage Fury?

2000-05-17 Thread Ned Harkey


Dear Debian,
I just purchased and installed Debian and there are no x-servers listed
that are compatible with my Rage Fury 32Mb AGP video card. Is it possible
to install the compatible x-server from another distribution into debian?
If so, how would I go about doing this?
Sincerely,
Ned
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mailagent configuration problems

2000-05-17 Thread Tony
Hi,

I've been fighting with mailagent to get it configured. I follow the clear 
instructions in the man-page, and get on to testing.

Having set up my .forward as told, I get this sort of entry in the file which 
takes "error" output from the filter (~/.bak in the setup)

00/05/17 17:22:49 filter[6363]: reading mail
00/05/17 17:22:49 filter[6363]: got mail (875 bytes)
00/05/17 17:30:12 filter[6393]: reading mail
00/05/17 17:30:12 filter[6393]: got mail (875 bytes)
00/05/17 17:30:14 filter[6396]: reading mail
00/05/17 17:30:14 filter[6396]: got mail (1545 bytes)

and I get no trace of anything in the logfile, even with verboseness set to 
20. Even more worryingly, I can't find the mails that have been "read" 
anywhere.

Another possible symptom - If I run mailagent with -f and point it to my unix 
mail directory, I get "insecure configuration" and what looks like a hang.

All suggestions gatefully received,

Tony




Re: Looking for a backup tool...

2000-05-17 Thread Gregory Guthrie

At 01:33 PM 05/17/2000 -0400, David Grill Watson wrote:

Does anyone know of a program that will give you a list of files changed
since a certain date?  It would be extremely useful for backups, because you
could just back up files that were changed since your last backup...



-- find place -newer file_of_desired_date


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Re: hide the commabd executed from ps,who

2000-05-17 Thread 50191914


On Wed, 17 May 2000, w trillich wrote:

> to hide the args of your command, there are several tricks
> aside from the 'overhaul the kernel' approach--
> 
> 1) write a script to do the deed & supply the args, and call it
>as your command; then your command-line will only be the script name.
>set (restrict) permissions as needed on the script file.
>
I don't think it will work...in ps it will still show the executable
follwed by the argument that thhe shell script executed... 
> 2) use variables (not very secure) or aliases (even less secure):
>% set cmd='mysql -umyself -ptryagain db'
>...
>% $cmd
I hanv't tried cmd...but if I use alias the actuall command will be
shown in "ps" too...
> 
> 3) if the command has a dotfile option (as in ~/.mysqlrc) then put
>your sensitive stuff there and restrict privileges on that file.
>
this one i havn't tried yet... 
> ... there are probably other ways as well, each with its own
> pitfalls. tinker around, scan the manpages, see what you come 
> up with.
> 
> problem is, linux/unix was designed with information sharing--not
> information barricaded in a subterranean hermetically-sealed vault--as
> a primary goal. unfortunately it's a bit against our nature, just
> yet, to be open as linux is. ("*my* user list! mine! mine!")
> 
> maybe someday...
>
...seem the thing won't show is just the binnary code of the
executable
so I need to modify the source code and put my password inside the code
and compile it



dpkg status history...how much is too much?

2000-05-17 Thread montefin
In the spirit of "Ignorance is the path to wisdom" please bear with me.

Discovering the ambiguities in certain file size accountings under
Unix/Linux (re: earlier post where du and ls gave vastly different
results for both /var/log/lastlog and /var/log/faillog) led me to
inspect /var more closely.

There seemed to be no ambiguity in the following:

# du -h /var/lib/dpkg
5.0M/var/lib/dpkg/info
1.0k/var/lib/dpkg/updates
56k /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives
5.0k/var/lib/dpkg/methods/disk/www
8.0k/var/lib/dpkg/methods/disk
2.0k/var/lib/dpkg/methods/floppy
1.0k/var/lib/dpkg/methods/mnt
2.0k/var/lib/dpkg/methods/multicd
2.0k/var/lib/dpkg/methods/mountable
1.0k/var/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp
17k /var/lib/dpkg/methods
15M /var/lib/dpkg

I am currently using apt-get and dpkg extensively to build and maintain
a workable Potato distro on a box with a smallish HDD (814 Mb). That 15M
in /var/lib/dpkg seemed chunky to me.

So I did du -k /var/lib/dpkg and got:

total 10762
drwxr-xr-x6 root   root 1024 May 17 07:40 .
drwxr-xr-x   27 root   root 1024 May  7 17:51 ..
drwxr-xr-x2 root   root 1024 May 15 22:12 alternatives
-rw-r--r--1 root   root  3518844 May 17 03:04 available
-rw-r--r--1 root   root  3518844 May 17 03:03 available-old
-rw-r--r--1 root   root8 May 17 02:47 cmethopt
-rw-r--r--1 root   root 2128 May 17 03:02 diversions
-rw-r--r--1 root   root 2020 May 17 03:02 diversions-old
drwxr-xr-x2 root   root65536 May 17 03:03 info
-rw-r-1 root   root0 May 17 03:03 lock
-rw-rw1 root   root0 May 17 02:47 methlock
drwxr-xr-x8 root   root 1024 Apr  5 02:36 methods
-rw-r--r--1 root   root 1129 Apr 13 06:19 predep-package
-rw-r--r--1 root   root   870741 May 17 03:04 status
-rw-r--r--1 root   root   870740 May 17 03:03 status-old
-rw-r--r--1 root   root   870741 May 17 03:04 status.yesterday.0
-rw-r--r--1 root   root   207236 May 15 23:59
status.yesterday.1.gz
-rw-r--r--1 root   root   206679 May 14 01:42
status.yesterday.2.gz
-rw-r--r--1 root   root   205638 May 13 20:57
status.yesterday.3.gz
-rw-r--r--1 root   root   205079 May  7 17:53
status.yesterday.4.gz
-rw-r--r--1 root   root   204288 May  7 01:03
status.yesterday.5.gz
-rw-r--r--1 root   root   203151 May  5 13:18
status.yesterday.6.gz
drwxr-xr-x2 root   root 1024 May 17 03:04 updates

Does dpkg need all that status history? And if not, must I monitor it
myself, or does dpkg have a self-cleansing method that is somehow not
being invoked here?

This may seem a small problem to some, but it grows in inverse
proportion to the size of ones hard disk.

I use 'apt-get clean' regularly to keep the overhead down, but I haven't
found, or knew that I'd found, anything similar in the dpkg manual page.

I hesitate to write a cron job to trim these status files on new
processes I'm still in the early stages of learning.

Thanks for whatever guidance you can give, and for your patience. 

montefin



Finding a package name?

2000-05-17 Thread Robert L. Harris

How do you find a packagename that's pretty long?

{0}:iggy:/root>dpkg -l | grep ^r   
rc  xfonts-biznet-iso-8859- 3.0.0-6 75 dpi BIZNET ISO-8859-2 
fonts for X servers.

The package name is too long, and gets truncated, so I can't purge it.

Robert



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Re: Lost E-mail

2000-05-17 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 02:25:57PM +0100, Christopher Clark wrote:

> Usually I pick up my e-mail by a cron job (Slink, sendmail) but I happend to 
> be
> on-line doing something and I noticed 3 e-mails coming in. There are notes in
> the log files but the messages have gone missing.   I do export
> /var/spool/mail.  Nothing in /var/spool/mail or mqueue Anybody have any ideas

Well, where do the log files say the messages went?  It's entirely
possible that you lost the messages to NFS, but it's hard to say based
on the information you've given.

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Re: Transfer data between two comps without network

2000-05-17 Thread Russell Coker
>|  my problem is that I have to transfer large amount of data (20~50 Gigs)
>|  daily.
>|  And it can't be done via network due to  'secret' nature of that data.
>
>Umm...how about encrypting it prior to sending it across the network.
>I've used schemes such as piping data across an SSH process to achieve
>this without having to encrypt the files on disk.  In fact, that's how our
>Amanda backup installation backs up all of our remote production servers.

That should work, and if the client and server machines are fast enough (say
PentiumIII-700) and it's switched full-duplex 100baseT then it should be
possible to do the transfer in 1-2 hours.

Of course if you have to transfer 50G of data between machines daily then
you probably have some type of design problem anyway.

>Another thought, go out and buy yourself a couple of Lucent/Wavelan
>ORINOCO Gold wireless ethernet cards.  They'll do 128-bit encryption
>between the two cards.

Isn't Wavelan 2Mb == 256KB?  This means 20 to 50 hours transfer time per day.
This makes it unworkable.

Also Wavelan emulates regular Ethernet, so the usual IP spoofing tricks will
work.  If the data is too secret for regular Ethernet then Wavelan is no good.


Russell Coker



Re: Transfer data between two comps without network

2000-05-17 Thread Graeme Mathieson
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Hi,

Dariush Pietrzak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> my problem is that I have to transfer large amount of data (20~50 Gigs)
> daily.
> And it can't be done via network due to  'secret' nature of that data.

It's a lot of data to be shifting back and forth.  Maybe you should try
to convince your bosses that end-to-end encryption over a networked
medium (even if it's a private network) is safe enough.

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Re: Help with the /etc/init.d/network

2000-05-17 Thread Graeme Mathieson
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Hi,

"A. Scott White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Incidentally, how exactly does thread tracking work? I assume there is a
> header of some kind. Maybe I'll hack it out. Interesting.

The In-Reply-To: header field has the message-id of the article you're
replying to.  Also, some mail readers insert a References: header which
has the message-id of previous articles too.

- -- 
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KDE2 in tree or not?

2000-05-17 Thread Bart Szyszka
Hello,

I'm very confused about KDE2's stance within the Debian tree? One set
of people say that it'll definitely be included in there (if so, when?), while
another set insist that it won't because of the licensing issues. Can anyone
provide a definite answer (with proof? A link to a web site with info on that?)?

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Re: mailagent configuration problems

2000-05-17 Thread John Hasler
Tony writes:
> Another possible symptom - If I run mailagent with -f and point it to my
> unix mail directory, I get "insecure configuration" and what looks like a
> hang.

I assume that what you mean is that you point it at one of the files in
your mail directory.  What are the permissions on that file?
-- 
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, Wisconsin



Maxima on debian

2000-05-17 Thread Boris Veytsman
> Date: 17 May 2000 16:35:04 -
> From: Alberto Meroni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> 2) Has someone got maxima (gnu maxima) compiled ? I could not have it 
> compiled with gcl source package ? Phreaphs someone has a slink binary 
> out there ?


I did. It is a little bit tricky, but doable. I compiled it for
potato, so you probably need to compile it yourself for slink

You need to compile gcl first. The problem is, gcl configure uses
emacs in batch mode to determine its directories. however, Debian's
emacs, unlike the regular one produces some diagnostics even with
-batch switch. Because of this, configure gets confused, and
everything goes awry.

Do the following:

1. Unpack the gcl distro in the fresh directory

2. Look at the configure script and find all emacs calls in
it. Substitute them by the values of emacs dirs in your system.

E.g. for me it was the following:

2270,2271c2270,2271
< EMACS_SITE_LISP=unknown
< EMACS_SITE_LISP=`emacs -q -batch -l conftest.el 2>&1 `
---
> EMACS_SITE_LISP=/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp
> # EMACS_SITE_LISP=`emacs -q -batch -l conftest.el 2>&1 `
2289,2290c2289,2290
< EMACS_DEFAULT_EL=`emacs -q -batch -l conftest.el 2>&1 `
< if  test -f "${EMACS_DEFAULT_EL}"  ; then true;else
2312,2318c2312,2318
< INFO_DIR=`emacs -q -batch -l conftest.el 2>&1 `
< if  test -f "${INFO_DIR}dir"  ; then true;else
< if test -f /usr/info/dir ; then
<   INFO_DIR=/usr/info/
< else true;
< fi
< fi
---
> #INFO_DIR=`emacs -q -batch -l conftest.el 2>&1 `
> #if  test -f "${INFO_DIR}dir"  ; then true;else
> #if test -f /usr/info/dir ; then
>   INFO_DIR=/usr/local/info/
> #else true;
> #fi
> #fi

3. Then follow READMEs in gcl and maxima distributions.

-- 
Good luck

-Boris
http://www.plmsc.psu.edu/~boris/



Mirroring

2000-05-17 Thread nt
Is there any tool, which could mirror ftp and local 
directories in both
direction?

Thanks,
Tamas



Motif now Open source (fwd)

2000-05-17 Thread Bruce Sass
This seems appropriate to the KDE in Debain question,
and the OpenMotif license thing is bound to come up...

-- Forwarded message --
Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 15:21:26 -0600 (MDT)
From: Anthony Fok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Motif now Open source

On Tue, 16 May 2000, Bruce Sass wrote:
> On Tue, 16 May 2000, Iain O'Cain wrote:
> 
> Section 2 of http://www.opengroup.org/openmotif/license/ begins by
> stating that the terms of the license only apply when OpenMotif is used
> with "Open Source" (their definition, from sec.1) operating systems...
> 
> > This certainly seems to me to be in the spirit of many other Open Source
> > licenses.
> 
> Ya.  I'm not sure how this is different than the GPL not wanting to get
> itself bundled with what it considers "non-free" (isn't that the reason
> KDE is not in Debian?).

No and No.

It is close to the spirit of a Open Source license, but not quite there.

  8. License Must Not Be Specific to a Product.

  The rights attached to the program must not depend on the program's
  being part of a particular software distribution. If the program is
  extracted from that distribution and used or distributed within the
  terms of the program's license, all parties to whom the program is
  redistributed should have the same rights as those that are granted in
  conjunction with the original software distribution.

A similar case is the program "remind" or "reminder".  I think it is
licensed under the GNU GPL with the exception that it CANNOT be compiled
or used on any Microsoft operating systems.  With this exception clause,
"reminder" is no longer "free" by the "Debian Free Software Guidelines"
nor "Open-Source" by the Open Source Definition.  You may find "reminder"
packaged for Debian, in the "non-free" section, and I suppose Open Motif
would go in there too.

In the case of KDE and Debian: It is not a problem of bundling; it is a
problem of compiling and linking software with incompatible licenses that
it would become illegal to distribute KDE v1.x that was linked with qt1.x.
I know most other distributions went ahead and packaged KDE v1.x anyway,
but the consensus by Debian developers was to play it safe---we could be
sued by one or two authors who wrote a GPL'ed software that got included
in KDE without their knowledge, and then sue everyone for violating the
GPL by linking to qt, yada yada yada.
Besides, Debian must uphold the principles of Free Software.  :-)

The new QPL in qt2.x solves a large part of the problem.  Nonetheless, it
is still incompatible with GPL, and requires the authors of the original
non-KDEized GPL software to add a clause to allow the GPL source to be
linked with qt2.x.  Some people have already done that, but it is far from
complete.  Last time I checked the discussion, it seems that some KDE
people didn't consider it a problem at all (now that's a problem), and was
somewhat lazy and often neglected to contact the upstream authors of such
GPL software to add such a clause.  There was also some complaints as to
why QPL wasn't made GPL-compatible, as it would have saved all these
hassles.

Anyway, Debian do plan to package KDE2 when it is released, provided the
originally GPL code that was included in KDE2 that are linked with
qt2.x all have the "Yes, you may link my GPL code with qt2.x" included.
It's only a matter of time and getting everyone to cooperate.  It will
happen eventually.

Anthony

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Re: Hmm... what gives with that mail??

2000-05-17 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 07:59:01PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] canonicalised to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I use postfix and I suppose it does the same. In the situation where the

It does.

> lookup fails I suppose postfix appended my domain name even though the host
> with such derived name doesn't exist.

It's a straight textual substitution.  Look at the trivial-rewrite
manual page for details.  One thing you can do about things like this is
to reject unresolvable sender domains (perhaps accepting them from local
hosts if you do canonnicalisation or anything for them).

> > Even more obvious of the same thing is people who send mail as just
> > 'username' which gets canonified as [EMAIL PROTECTED] by each
> > recipient.  (Spammers do this reasonably often judging from how often
> > our users complain about it.)

> The original poster apparently used Exim, which does canonicalize local user
> names, unless it is misconfigured.

Given that his host was called "debian" I strongly suspect that that's
all he's got for a hostname.

> > Looks like the original sender needs to fix their mail setup to use the
> > fqdn.

> he, or one of the several relays that lie between him and the outer world...

Most of those relays appear to be the same box.  

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