date:20000629

hello.

i have an ethernet card attatched to a DSL modem.

i'll provide more hardware details, if requested, but for now i'm just wondering
if there's a quick way to setting-up the dynammic ip-addressing. (preferrably:
without having to go through the "DynIP howto" in order to get a net-connection,
though it is very neat that a person can learn about networking by installing
this system.)


i've already tried to install debian, and need to re-check to see if there are
any "tulip" ethernet-card drives available in the standard distribution, but
figured i'd send this question for now. (hopefully to get encouraged about
giving it another shot)


thank you.


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Re: apt-get sources.list error

2000-06-29 Thread Corey Popelier

You need a separate line in sources.list for non-US, usually of the
format:
/debian-non-US potato/non-US main contrib non-free

Cheers,
 Corey Popelier
 http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas
 Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Russ Pitman wrote:

>   In /etc/apt/sources.list I have,
> 
>   deb ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free non-US
> 
>   Running apt-get update gives the following,
> 
> --start here
> 
> Hit ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org potato/non-free Packages
> Hit ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org potato/non-free Release
> Get:1 ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org potato/non-US Packages
> Err ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org potato/non-US Packages
>   Unable to fetch file, server said
> '/debian/dists/potato/non-US/binary-i386/Packages.gz: No such file or
> directory  '
> Get:2 ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org potato/non-US Release
> Ign ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org potato/non-US Release
> Failed to fetch
> ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/non-US/binary-i386/Packages
>   Unable to fetch file, server said
> '/debian/dists/potato/non-US/binary-i386/Packages.gz: No such file or
> directory  '
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> W: Couldn't stat source package list 'ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org potato/non-US
> Packages'
> (/var/state/apt/lists/ftp.ca.debian.org_debian_dists_potato_non-US_binary-i386_Packages)
> - stat (2 No such file or directory)
> 
> --end here---
> 
>   Tried local mirror and got similiar results. Could someone advise a
> correct URL line to access the non-US directories.
>   
>   Thanks,
> -- 
> 
> 
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re: Postfix Help + Dynamic-IP

hello.

joachim wrote:

> What about poor guys who don't have a valid hostname (dynamic IP)


try http://www.ods.org : "The Open Domain Service" 


( yourname.ods.org )


a UNIX binary and a PERL script are available for logging onto the ODS service.


[ maybe it would help for the main Debain distribution to include the binary?
and maybe some collaboration with the ODS folks. a to-do item, there?]


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Re: 2.1 or 2.2 help - correction

2000-06-29 Thread Robert Waldner

On Thu, 29 Jun 2000 01:09:59 -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> My question is:
>  Should I Install 2.1 and upgrade the packages waiting until 2.2 become 
>stable; or install potato and upgrade for the 2.2 stable version when it 
>be released? 

I´ve installed potato yesterday and have yet to run into a real problem
(ok, I haven´t configured X yet ;-), but I´d suggest going right for potato
if you´re installing from scratch. The new features would be worth some
problems and the more people are helping to test the sooner it´ll get the
"stable" release ;-) .

just my 2 cents,
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Re: enlightenment themes?

2000-06-29 Thread Tom Dominico

On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 09:57:01PM -0600, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> 
> 
>   I've found 2 themes for enlightenment in debian packages.  I'm looking 
> for any more I can apt-install.  Anyone know if there are any more in 
> .deb formats?
> 
> Robert

Robert,

Just head over to e.themes.org, and find the themes you like.  Download
them, and put them in ~/.enlightenment/themes.  Then, restart
Enlightenment (use the left-click menu).  Now, you can choose your new
themes from the middle-click menu.  It's really pretty simple...  I
wouldn't worry about apt-getting that sort of thing (if you even can).
There is supposed to be a tool that will automatically update your
themes, but last time I checked, it was in the alpha stages.  Can't
recall what it was called, sorry...

Tom

Re: apt-get sources.list error

2000-06-29 Thread russ @ tasman . net . au

On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 01:09:31PM +0800, Corey Popelier wrote:
> You need a separate line in sources.list for non-US, usually of the
> format:
> /debian-non-US potato/non-US main contrib non-free
> 
> Cheers,
>  Corey Popelier
>  http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas
>  Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Russ Pitman wrote:
> 
> > In /etc/apt/sources.list I have,
> > 
> >   deb ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free non-US
> > 
> > -- 
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> > 
> 
SHHh-- No wonder it didn,t go.. Works fine now Thanks a lot.
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hello.

is dselect the only way to install a *.deb file?


thank you.

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Re: *.deb files : installation

2000-06-29 Thread Colin Watson

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>is dselect the only way to install a *.deb file?

dpkg -i

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Re: need help with ip-forwarding

2000-06-29 Thread Lee Revell

Ipchains alone won't do portforwarding.  You need ipmasqadm as well.  I 
know it's braindead but that's how it is, hopefully in 2.4 there will be a 
unified interface to all those nifty ip forwarding features.


HTH,

Lee

At 12:53 AM 6/29/2000, Nick wrote:

this is my situation:

i have a linux box running 2.1, 2.2.15 with a dhcp service and ipmasq 
through ipchains


i wanna setup a webserver inside the network and have the http port 
forwarded through my firewall.


if i have ipchains i just need ipportfw right?  but dselect insists that i 
install ipmasq too?


how can i do this another way, or is this the only way???

outside ip - linux box (need to forward IP traffic for port 80) -- 
webserver (192.168.1.10)


thankx in advance
-nick

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Re: Help me mount Chorus/Mix partision on linux

On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 10:42:23PM -0500, Joe piman Wreschnig wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 08:36:04PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 29, 1999 at 04:57:01AM +0400, Valera wrote:
> > 
> > >  May i mount drive with operating system "Chorus/mix" on linux ?
> > 
> > I have no idea what "Chorus/mix" is.  Please provide additional
> > information and/or context.
> 
> It's, like he said, an operating system. CHORUS/MiX is the CHORUS operating
> system developed for communication technologies (phone, etc), MiX varient,
> meaning it's based on UNIX SysVr4. Now, it might use the standard UNIX SysV
> filesystem, which I think Linux supports. You might try that. I don't use
> CHORUS myself (Nor SysVr4), so I'm not sure.

It appears (offline mail) that Valera's using a BSD variant OS anyway.

Isn't Mix what Knuth used as his hypothetical OS in TAOP?

> (BTW, a search for "chorus/mix operating system" on google returns a *lot*
> of information, including the FAQ for comp.os.chorus. Don't be afraid of
> looking around a bit.)

Huh?  What's google?

;-P

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Re: Help me mount Chorus/Mix partision on linux

On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 09:39:17AM +0400, Valera wrote:
> Hello ,
> 
> Thursday, June 29, 2000, 7:36:04 AM, you wrote:
> 
> kinc> On Tue, Jun 29, 1999 at 04:57:01AM +0400, Valera wrote:
> kinc> 
>  Thanks, it for some trial program :)
> kinc> Please fix your system clock.
> 
> >> Hello,
> >> 
> >>  May i mount drive with operating system "Chorus/mix" on linux ?
> 
> kinc> I have no idea what "Chorus/mix" is.  Please provide additional
> kinc> information and/or context.
> 
> if use telnet then:
> 
> 4.3 BSD UNIX (xa00) (ttyp0)
  
It appears you are using a BSD Unix system, not Linux.  If so, you
are better off posting your problem to an appropriate BSD list, not
debian-user.

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Re: netscape 4.73 & su -

On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 12:22:42PM +0200, Marc O. Sandlus wrote:
> Christophe TROESTLER wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a strange experience on my box.  Here it goes: suppose you have
> > two accounts "prem" and "sec".  Do
> >
> 
> ...
> 
> > everything is fine.  If somebody know why this happens and a
> > workaround, I will be glad to hear them.
> 
> Hi Christophe,
> 
> Yes, I experience the same. In fact, "netscape" is just a wrapper script
> which tries to connect to a running netscape instance, and if it exists,
> just opens a new window.  Unfortunately, this wrapper script doesn't
> seem to distinguish between different user's instances of netscape.

This sound suspiciously familiar from RedHat and related systems, but
not Debian AFAIK.  The commonality is that the wrapper looks for an
existing Netscape instance on the same display.  Drives me *buggy* when
I'm logged in to multiple systems and I want to launch (or *have* to
launch) a Netscape session on a remote system, say, to use help files on
some fscking broken proprietary database install instructions

Don't recall having the problem with Debian though.

> Try netscape --no-remote to disable this behaviour.

I'll try to remember this myself.

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Re: Boot kernel in order to test hardware?

On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 06:29:15PM +0300, M. Tavasti wrote:
> "I. Tura" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > Due to the fact that I don't know if the hardware still runs well, is it a
> > good idea to run a floppy kernel ten times consecutively, for example, to
> > take an initial (or decent) idea of the health of the hardware? 
> 
> Maybe that's not telling you much, but how about booting it up with
> some floppy-linux, and running badblocks? 

I missed the initial post.

For hardware testing, it depends on what (you think) is wrong with the
hardware (that is -- what is wrong, *or* what you suspect).

If you want to know if the system will boot, try booting it.

For memory, there are a number of memory testers out there, try
searching Freshmeat.

For disk, badblocks.  The destructive "write" test should be reasonably
thorough, and it's always viscerally satisfying to me to know that I'm
running a destructive test

For CPU -- build a kernel.  I've been known to get a system I know is
flaky, but that I don't know *how* it's flaky, and run an infinite loop
of kernel builds for a day or so.  Figure that's as good a smoke test as
anything:

   while :; do make bzimage; done

...though if you've got a smokin' hot system, you may want to build
something larger.  The KDE build was a fun one for me.  You can also use
the -j (jobs) option to "make" to run multiple processes simultaneously.

Of course, if you really want to stress a system, try the following
magic phrase:

   Rent's due, you're going to be fired tomorrow, girlfriend ran off
   with your best buddy, dog got hit by a truck, and the IRS is knocking
   at your door.

...if it can take that, it can take anything.

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Re: Help me mount Chorus/Mix partision on linux

2000-06-29 Thread Joe \"piman\" Wreschnig

On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 11:56:30PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 10:42:23PM -0500, Joe piman Wreschnig wrote:
> 
> It appears (offline mail) that Valera's using a BSD variant OS anyway.
> 
> Isn't Mix what Knuth used as his hypothetical OS in TAOP?

The subtle difference between MiX and MIX :) The MIX 1009 (and the
upcoming MMIX 2009) are in The Art of Computer Prgramming. MiX probably
stands for other things, but placed after CHORUS implies the MiX varient.

> > (BTW, a search for "chorus/mix operating system" on google returns a *lot*
> > of information, including the FAQ for comp.os.chorus. Don't be afraid of
> > looking around a bit.)
> 
> Huh?  What's google?

http://www.google.com, one of the better search engines. Among other things,
it caches pages in case of link rot, runs 2000 (soon 4000) linux computers,
and (best of all) has no banner ads :)

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Re: Firewall

2000-06-29 Thread Marc Dubrowski

If it can help, here is the scheme of our network. There are of course three
NICS on the packet filter.


Network 193.x.x.0/30 

(= 193.x.x.0/24 for the internet, static routing table setup by
our ISP: the rest of the world knows that the trafic must pass through x.x.x.2
to reach our network)


  gateway x.x.x.1 (don't know the other IP 
of the 
 |router )
+-+
| x.x.x.2 |
Packet filter---|=|
|   x.x.x.9  |   x.x.x.33 |
|   (Gateway)|(Gateway)   |
+-+
   / |
  /  |
 /   |
/|
Subnet 1:x.x.x.8/29/ |   Subnet 
2:x.x.x.32/27
  /  |
+-+  |
|   Bastion Host: |  |
|   x.x.x.10(BH out)  |  |  
+---+
|   x.x.x.11(BH in)   |  |--| Server1 
(x.x.x.34)|
+-+  |  
+---+
 |
 |
 |  
+---+
 |--| server2 
(x.x.x.43)|
 |  
+---+
 |
 |  
+---+
 |--| server3 
(x.x.x.44)|
 |  
+---+
 |
 |
 |
   
+-+
   |   x.x.x.42 (gateway to private 
net) |
   
|=|
   | 192.168.x.1 (Private Gateways) 
 |
   | 172.16.x.1  (Private Gateways) 
 |
   
+-+


Of course, every machine in subnet x.x.x.0/30 has a netmask of 255.255.255.252;
every machine in subnet x.x.x.8/29 has a netmask of 255.255.255.248;
every machine in subnet x.x.x.32/27 has a netmask of 255.255.255.224.

There are no possible contacts through hubs or cables except the packet-filter.
The packet filter is configured to route the IP packets (of course :-)

The routing table of the packet filter is (it's OpenBSD, but the principle is
the same)

DestinationGatewayFlags Refs UseMtu  Interface
defaultx.x.x.1UGS 0  9300794   1500  de0
127/8  127.0.0.1  UGRS00  32972  lo0
127.0.0.1  127.0.0.1  UH  2   97  32972  lo0
172.16/16  x.x.x.51   UGS 0   80   1500  de2
192.168/16 x.x.x.51   UGS 0   124529   1500  de2
x.x.x.0/30 link#1 UC  00   1500  de0
x.x.x.8/29 link#2 UC  00   1500  de1
x.x.x.32/27link#3 UC  00   1500  de2
  
I'm not sure that arp could manage to proxy three differents subnets, but with
two, there are no problems at all:

Let's say the subnet 2 (x.x.x.8) is still in x.x.x.0/24 for the net: all I have
to do is to publish the MAC address of the router for all IPs inside x.x.x.8.
All the machines in subnet x.x.x.8 would know thy are in that subnet, and their
gateway would be x.x.x.9.

(in fact, I think linux's arp can manage to proxy complete subnets, which Obsd
can't: it need to be checked)

By the way, asking your ISP to change his routing tables once the disgn of your
network is made would be a beter solution.



Marc Dubrowski  
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K.B.I.N.I.R.Sc.N.B. 
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corel linux cable hookup

2000-06-29 Thread Eric Hall





    I have 
just purchased a cable modem from comcast out of Indiana.They have no idea of 
how to install it so I can run linux as my OS on the internet.How do I go about 
hooking upto the internet using a cable modem.They have a lan 
card.

Compiling a new kernel and dselect problems

2000-06-29 Thread Luca De Giorgi


Hi,
I'm a new entry in the worderful Debian world.
Previously i'd used Red Hat 6.x ad Mandrake but i thought i' was time to 
make a jump in the real Linux world and started using a potato release

Well, my problem arise when i want to build a custom kernel the Debian-way.
When i built it i found a .deb package ready to install. I dpkg -i the 
kernel image.
My system warns me that there is a kernel image with the same name 
installed yet (my version has a revision of my own) but i proceed.
All goes well but whe i try to install a new package using dselect, in 
the Install session, dselect tells me he wants to upgrade my custom 
kernel with the standard kernel having the same name kernel so i've to 
interrupt the installation of my packages.


Can somebody tell me ho to solve this problem ? Can i build the custom 
kernel with a different name (not only the revision name) ?


Thanks in advance

Luca De Giorgi

Confused Descriptions and Dependencies

2000-06-29 Thread Meme Engineer

   The descriptions *and* dependencies need very badly to be to be cleaned up. 
I can't make head or tails of these:

   <--->

   http://www.debian.org/Packages/frozen/libs/libvx1.22.html [libvx1.22 1.22-1]

   "V - a C++ GUI Framework (Athena)."
   "This version is based on the Athena widget set."

   http://www.debian.org/Packages/frozen/devel/libvx-dev.html [libvx-dev 1.22-1]

   "V - a C++ GUI Framework (Motif development files)."
   "This version is based on the Motif widget set."

   http://www.debian.org/Packages/frozen/devel/libvx-dbg.html [libvx-dbg 1.22-1]

   "V - a C++ GUI Framework (Motif library debugging files)."
   "This version is based on the Athena widget set."

   <--->

   These descriptions (and the dependencies, not shown here) are so fucked up 
that I just deleted the whole mess. Geez 





- Live Long In Liberty
- The Meme Engineer

Re: Postgresql 7.02 and Debian

2000-06-29 Thread Stefan Nobis

Bill Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> 2% [2 potato/main 4344/821kB 0%] [1 unstable/main 27145/380kB 7%]
> Err ftp://ftp.debian.org potato/main Packages
>   Data socket timed out

apt could not get the new list from the server so you can't do
anything with apt for this server. First get a *complete* list
("apt-get update" with no errors) and then everything else works fine.

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Re: wu-ftpd (2000-06-23 security-fixed frozen version) constantly crashes

2000-06-29 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs

On Wed, 28 Jun 2000 14:56:39 -0500, Lee Revell wrote:

>> my wu-ftpd is constantly crashing. :-(
[...]
>Use ProFTPD.  It has a MUCH better security record, is fast,

That's true, but it *also* has its security leaks.

>lightweight, and configuration is a breeze if you have ever configured
>Apache.  I made the switch several months ago and would never go back.

I'm already running a server with ProFTPD, so I know it already. ProFTPD 
surely has its advantages over WU-FTPD, but I don't consider them that 
important that I absolutely *have* to switch.

Anyway, I don't want to start a discussion on which is the best FTP server. 
It's just not my thing to evade problems as soon as I face them. Instead I'd 
like to cure them.

So, is there anyone who can help me stopping these crashes?

Thanks,

Ralf

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Connection terminated after 481.1 minutes

2000-06-29 Thread Antonio Rodriguez

Can someone help me fix this annoying feature? No matter at what time I
connect, after 481.1 minutes I get disconnected. Is it the script, or is
it the AT&T server? Here is my plog:
Jun 29 05:46:17 debian pppd[241]: Modem hangup
Jun 29 05:46:17 debian pppd[241]: Script /etc/ppp/ip-down started (pid
384)
Jun 29 05:46:17 debian pppd[241]: Connection terminated.
Jun 29 05:46:17 debian pppd[241]: Connect time 481.1 minutes.
Jun 29 05:46:17 debian pppd[241]: Sent 8673069 bytes, received 72974652
bytes.
Jun 29 05:46:18 debian pppd[241]: Waiting for 1 child processes...
Jun 29 05:46:18 debian pppd[241]:   script /etc/ppp/ip-down, pid 384
Jun 29 05:46:18 debian pppd[241]: Script /etc/ppp/ip-down finished (pid
384), status = 0x0
Jun 29 05:46:18 debian pppd[241]: Exit.

Thanks,
Antonio.

Re: Connection terminated after 481.1 minutes

2000-06-29 Thread dyer

Antonio Rodriguez wrote:

> Can someone help me fix this annoying feature? No matter at what time I
> connect, after 481.1 minutes I get disconnected. Is it the script, or is
> it the AT&T server? Here is my plog:
> Jun 29 05:46:17 debian pppd[241]: Modem hangup
> Jun 29 05:46:17 debian pppd[241]: Script /etc/ppp/ip-down started (pid
> 384)
> Jun 29 05:46:17 debian pppd[241]: Connection terminated.
> Jun 29 05:46:17 debian pppd[241]: Connect time 481.1 minutes.
> Jun 29 05:46:17 debian pppd[241]: Sent 8673069 bytes, received 72974652
> bytes.
> Jun 29 05:46:18 debian pppd[241]: Waiting for 1 child processes...
> Jun 29 05:46:18 debian pppd[241]:   script /etc/ppp/ip-down, pid 384
> Jun 29 05:46:18 debian pppd[241]: Script /etc/ppp/ip-down finished (pid
> 384), status = 0x0
> Jun 29 05:46:18 debian pppd[241]: Exit.
>

I've had ISP's before with the 'feature' of disconnecting you after a certain 
amount
of time. Since the time is very close to 8 hours, (nice round number) I suspect 
that
to be the case.

dyer

Which PGP?

2000-06-29 Thread Wilson Yau

A quick question:

Could anyone please (from your experience) suggest to me the best PGP
plug-ins for mail clients like Netscape (both on Linux & Windows),
outlook & outlook express?

Many thanks.

Wilson

Cheap printer?

2000-06-29 Thread Vicente Torres


I have recently bought an EPSON Stylus color 480
for my home use.

It was a surprise for me to note that this printer has 
no button to push and everything must be controlled from
Windows (including changing or installing the ink cartridge!).

So, I must return it and buy another printer.
Wich one would you recommend to me?
It must be cheap; I do not want to use color on my printings
and it must work fine with linux.

Thanks


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truetype fonts and xfree86 4

2000-06-29 Thread Vincent Murphy

 i installed the pre-compiled xfree86 4 binaries from ftp.xfree86.org on
a woody system, and have a

   Load "freetype"

line in my /etc/X11/XF86Setup.  it all works perfectly except xlsfonts
doesn't load Truetype fonts, and so i can't use them in gimp/netscape
etc either.

 what do i have to do to get truetype fonts working?  i presume i have
to put a directory in XF86Config (maybe another FontPath?), have the
fonts in the directory, and do something to create some sort of index.

 (please cc me privately as well as the list, i'm just reading the archives
this week.)

regards,
-vincent

.

Re: apt-get & kernel question

2000-06-29 Thread Ian Stuart

Dean wrote:
> 
> Hi Eric:
>  Thanks for the reply. I checked and there is no ppp.o
> in /lib/modules/2.2.15/net, but there is in my old
> kernel at /lib/modules/2.0.36/net. Can I just
> copy that to my 2.2.15 file? Or do I need to
> make up a module?  Dean
You need to make a module (and tell the kernel to use it, etc..)

New kernel time ;-)

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xterm cannot execute xterm

2000-06-29 Thread Roy John Little

Dear list:
While upgrading my glib-gtk libraries, I tried to first uninstall the
originals using dselect.  When I realized that my whole x-windows system
was being uninstalled, I did a ^C.  What I notice now is that xterm, the
window I use for most of my work, will not execute x-type commands: xterm,
xvidtune, xlock, xdvi, etc.  If I call up a Bash window, using the Debian
menu, this has no trouble with respect to executing x-commands.  What
could have gone wrong?

Thank you,
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Dept. Chem.
Universidad de los Andes
Merida, Venezuela

Re: Postfix troubles

2000-06-29 Thread Mark Brown

On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 01:19:06AM -0400, S.Salman Ahmed wrote:

> But then how come sending email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] sends it correctly
> to my local user account ? Why should [EMAIL PROTECTED] be treated/relayed
> any differently than [EMAIL PROTECTED] ?

Postfix does alias database rewrites at the local delivery stage.  What
is happening is that Postfix sees "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and tries to deliver
it locally.  If the account is just an account (as for your user
account) all is well.  If the account is an alias then Postfix replaces
the destination address with the address or addresses on the right hand
side of the alias and starts delivering them.  The problem is that your
aliases have no domain part so Postfix puts a default in but isn't
configured to deliver this default locally.

What are the values of mydestination, myorigin, myhostname and mydomain?  
What is the output of "hostname"?

A quick hack that should work around the problem would be to change your 
alias database to have right hand sides in [EMAIL PROTECTED] form.

> But if I remove the relayhost line from /etc/main.cf, how will I be able
> to send email to any other internet users e.g. this list, etc. ?

Removing the relayhost won't help at all.  By the time Postfix looks at
the relayhost it has already decided to try to deliver the mail
remotely.

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quick directory question

2000-06-29 Thread Andrew Kae


Hello,

I am trying to list all the directories in a directory and put it into a 
file.


So far I have :
$ ls -all -F | grep /$ | awk '{print $8}'
./
../
.netscape/
mail/

which almost gives me what i want but i need to get rid of that / at the 
end, can someone help me out?


If anyone has an easier way, can you let me know?

Thanks



PS. I feel a little embarrased asking such a simple question but o well =)

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RE: quick directory question

2000-06-29 Thread Wesley A. Wannemacher

you could use find:

find ./ type d > some.file

Wes


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To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: quick directory question


Hello,

I am trying to list all the directories in a directory and put it into a
file.

So far I have :
$ ls -all -F | grep /$ | awk '{print $8}'
./
../
.netscape/
mail/

which almost gives me what i want but i need to get rid of that / at the
end, can someone help me out?

If anyone has an easier way, can you let me know?

Thanks



PS. I feel a little embarrased asking such a simple question but o well =)

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Re: quick directory question

2000-06-29 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans

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Well, to answer your first question, remove '-F' from the options list to
ls.

Regarding your second question, do a 'find . -type d'.  Read the man page
for find.

HTH,
noah

On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Andrew Kae wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to list all the directories in a directory and put it into a 
> file.
> 
> So far I have :
> $ ls -all -F | grep /$ | awk '{print $8}'
> ./
> ../
> .netscape/
> mail/
> 
> which almost gives me what i want but i need to get rid of that / at the 
> end, can someone help me out?
> 
> If anyone has an easier way, can you let me know?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> 
> PS. I feel a little embarrased asking such a simple question but o well =)
> 
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wallpaper/background

2000-06-29 Thread Timothy C. Phan

hi,

  I've recently install a lot of themes for the WindowMaker
  and really enjoy.  I'm wondering if the wallpaper images
  can also be installed in the console/tty (non-XWindow) 
  mode?

---
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Re: problems with "options" in modules.conf

2000-06-29 Thread Oreste Salerno

On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 07:11:00PM +0100, David Wright wrote:

> then my reaction would be to put an
> extra printk or two into the kernel source and see what it's actually
> doing.
> 
> 2.2.10 has:
> 
>   MOD_INC_USE_COUNT;
>   printk("ide-cd: will ignore %s\n", ignore);   <-
>   while ((drive = ide_scan_devices (ide_cdrom, ide_cdrom_driver.name, NULL, 
> failed++)) != NULL) {
> /* skip drives that we were told to ignore */
> if (ignore != NULL)
>   printk("ide-cd: checking drive %s\n", drive->name);   <-
>   if (strstr(ignore, drive->name)) {
> printk("ide-cd: ignoring drive %s\n", drive->name);
> continue;
>   }

2.2.15 code is the same as the 2.2.10, as what regards this part. Adding
these extra printk showed me that the string ignore is composed only by the
first word, even if actually there are more than one. i.e if i put:

options ignore='aa hdb hdc'
it will just appear:
ide-cd: will ignore aa

I tried to find where does ignore come from and I found that it's determined
by a function called MODULE_PARM(), which does not belong to ide-cd.c so I
think the problem does not belong to the ide-cd module. But I couldn't do
anything more 'cause my programming knowhow is very limited. anyway, thanks
again for your hints.
Bye!

Re: Postgresql 7.02 and Debian

2000-06-29 Thread jpb

Bill Barnes wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the quick responses!
> 
> >
> >If you built postgresql on your own, you may find it easier in the long
> >run to build the 7.0.2 debian packages from source, especially if you're
> >planning on running it on more than one machine.
> 
> Sounds like the right thing to do.
> 
> >Briefly:
> >1) add deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib
> >non-free
> >   to your /etc/apt/sources.list
> 
> Here's the modified file:
[ snip ok sources.list]

> >2) apt-get update
> Here's the log:
> kgb10:/tmp# apt-get update
[ snip ]
> http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/non-free/source/Sources
>   Connection timed out

Try apt-get update again.  It looks like you had network congestion when
you tried before. Or you can just use ftp and go to ftp.us.debian.org
and manually grab the postgresql source files (the .diff.gz, .dsc &
.orig.tar.gz) and use dbuild to extract them.

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Re: quick directory question

2000-06-29 Thread Andrew Kae


Hello again

A co-worker just helped me out and I think i found a quicker solution.  I 
noticed "find" can take some time.


It's just:
ls -all | grep "^d" | awk '{print $8}'

Thanks again

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Re: Compiling a new kernel and dselect problems

2000-06-29 Thread Bob Nielsen

On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 10:28:12AM +0200, Luca De Giorgi wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm a new entry in the worderful Debian world.
> Previously i'd used Red Hat 6.x ad Mandrake but i thought i' was time to 
> make a jump in the real Linux world and started using a potato release
> Well, my problem arise when i want to build a custom kernel the Debian-way.
> When i built it i found a .deb package ready to install. I dpkg -i the 
> kernel image.
> My system warns me that there is a kernel image with the same name 
> installed yet (my version has a revision of my own) but i proceed.
> All goes well but whe i try to install a new package using dselect, in 
> the Install session, dselect tells me he wants to upgrade my custom 
> kernel with the standard kernel having the same name kernel so i've to 
> interrupt the installation of my packages.
> 
> Can somebody tell me ho to solve this problem ? Can i build the custom 
> kernel with a different name (not only the revision name) ?

What is happening is that Debian has a version of the same kernel with
a revision number higher than what you are using for your custom
kernel.  To prevent an "upgrade", you need to specify an epoch on the
make-kpkg command line, such as:

make-kpkg --revision=3:custom.1.0 kernel_image

This is discussed in /usr/share/doc/kernel-package/README.gz.


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Problem setting up Dialin PPP server

2000-06-29 Thread Nagarjuna G.

After setting up the ppp server, when I try to connect to the server
ppp starts and immediately stops with the following error: peer refused to
authenticate.  Any clues?

Jun 29 20:10:32 hbcse pppd[31618]: rcvd [LCP EchoReq id=0x0 magic=0x1d8b13a]
Jun 29 20:10:32 hbcse pppd[31618]: sent [LCP EchoRep id=0x0 magic=0x2afb0af]
Jun 29 20:10:32 hbcse pppd[31618]: rcvd [LCP TermReq id=0x3 "peer refused to
authenticate"]
Jun 29 20:10:32 hbcse pppd[31618]: LCP terminated by peer (peer refused to
authenticate)
Jun 29 20:10:32 hbcse pppd[31618]: sent [LCP TermAck id=0x3]
Jun 29 20:10:33 hbcse pppd[31618]: Modem hangup
Jun 29 20:10:33 hbcse pppd[31618]: Connection terminated.
Jun 29 20:10:34 hbcse pppd[31618]: Exit.
Jun 29 20:12:00 hbcse /USR/SBIN/CRON[316


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Re: dynamic IP addressing

2000-06-29 Thread Esko Lehtonen

"S. Champ" wrote:
> 
> hello.
> 
> i have an ethernet card attatched to a DSL modem.
>
> i'll provide more hardware details, if requested, but for now i'm just 
> wondering
> if there's a quick way to setting-up the dynammic ip-addressing. (preferrably:
> without having to go through the "DynIP howto" in order to get a 
> net-connection,
> though it is very neat that a person can learn about networking by installing
> this system.)
> 
> i've already tried to install debian, and need to re-check to see if there are
> any "tulip" ethernet-card drives available in the standard distribution, but
> figured i'd send this question for now. (hopefully to get encouraged about
> giving it another shot)

See Ethernet-HOWTO if you have problems with your card.

When you have got your ethernet card ok, then take a look at this:

http://www.oswg.org/oswg-nightly/DHCP.html

You need to get dhcpcd client software working. If you don't already
have it, download the debian package. (You need it because you want to
get that dynamic ip from server). When you have the software, working
ethernet card and the document, rest is very simple.

First read the document. Make sure your ethernet card is working, then
install the software and reboot. You may need to change some
configuration options, but everything is hopefully explained in the
document. 

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BACK PAIN

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Re: logrotate

2000-06-29 Thread Sven Burgener

On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 06:33:57PM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote:

> Read the debian policy document.  Debian has additional crontabs
> (apart from user crontabs and the root crontab) in
> /etc/cron.{d,daily,weekly,monthly} 
> The logrotate thing is (not surprising) in /etc/cron.daily/logrotate.

Thanks for the infos!
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Debian Installation -Simplest method

I want to install debian 2.2. Is there a simple way to
install the system using a couple of floppies and a
network connection. For e.g. I can install FreeBSD
with 2 floppies and a network connection (the floppies
contain the network card drivers, basic boot kernel, a
dhcp client, etc.). There must be a way to do this in
debian without having to download 12 floppies worth of
data or 650MB iso image (and wait for 5 days for a CD
to arrive; this is the easiest). Any
recommendations/advice? :)

Thanks.

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Re: free books on C in Unix and X programming using Athena widget

2000-06-29 Thread David Z Maze

a  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
a> Do you know any web site that has free books on C programming in
a> Linix and X programming using Athena widget?

I'd recommend against using the so-called Athena Widget Kit; it looks
ugly and it's hard to program in.  Many Linux developers these days
use the GIMP Toolkit, Gtk+, for GUI programming; details on it can be
found at http://www.gtk.org/.

If you really want to use Xt and Xaw, documentation for them is
included (in *roff and Postscript form) in the X source tarball (in
xc/docs/hardcopy, IIRC).

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Re: Debian Installation -Simplest method

2000-06-29 Thread Derek Wueppelmann

> I want to install debian 2.2. Is there a simple way to
> install the system using a couple of floppies and a
> network connection. For e.g. I can install FreeBSD
> with 2 floppies and a network connection (the floppies
> contain the network card drivers, basic boot kernel, a
> dhcp client, etc.). There must be a way to do this in
> debian without having to download 12 floppies worth of
> data or 650MB iso image (and wait for 5 days for a CD
> to arrive; this is the easiest). Any
> recommendations/advice? :)

Unfortunately, I think the only way to install using a network connection
and not waiting for a CD to arrive is to grab all the disks and install it
that way. I would also be very interested in an alternative way, but as of
yet have not found one.
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Re: quick directory question

2000-06-29 Thread Michalowski Thierry

Hi,
your find is taking long time because find is recursive.
Add -prune to the list of its arguments and you will probably get what you want 
:-)
HTH

Andrew Kae wrote:

> Hello again
>
> A co-worker just helped me out and I think i found a quicker solution.  I
> noticed "find" can take some time.
>
> It's just:
> ls -all | grep "^d" | awk '{print $8}'
>
> Thanks again
> 
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Pb installing Debian 2.1

2000-06-29 Thread Benoit NOSS

Hello,
In the installation process of the Debian 2.1 distribution, I missed an
important step : I did something wrong and I could not choose an
installation profile. I have a base system working. Can I use dselect
with an option or something equivalent to install with a profile or do I
have to install the rest of my system package by package with deselect?
Thank you in advance

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Re: Debian Installation -Simplest method

2000-06-29 Thread brian moore

On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 08:53:51AM -0700, Dinesh Nadarajah wrote:
> I want to install debian 2.2. Is there a simple way to
> install the system using a couple of floppies and a
> network connection. For e.g. I can install FreeBSD
> with 2 floppies and a network connection (the floppies
> contain the network card drivers, basic boot kernel, a
> dhcp client, etc.). There must be a way to do this in
> debian without having to download 12 floppies worth of
> data or 650MB iso image (and wait for 5 days for a CD
> to arrive; this is the easiest). Any
> recommendations/advice? :)

Yes.  See the 'compact' install disks.  Basically, you grab the rescue
disk and the root disk (ignore the 'drivers').  Boot from the rescue,
give it the root when it asks, and tell it you want to get the drivers
and base system from the network.

Two floppies.

I don't think it includes a DHCP client, though, so you may need to note
your assigned IP number and such instead of relying on DHCP to assign
that.

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Re: dictd cannot access localhost

2000-06-29 Thread Maciej Kalisiak

On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 07:04:10AM -0400, Valdemir Melechco Carvalho wrote:
> Even if I restart dictd, it still doesn't work - it dies quickly, really 
> weird. It seens to be a dictd problem, I've already tried slink, potato
> and woody dictd versions but it's all the same...

Check your /var/log/{messages,syslog,...} for any relevant info on why it's
exiting/crashing.  There's bound to be some info.  You also might want to do
"ldd `which dictd`" to see whether all the required libraries are there.

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rpm2deb

hello.


does anyone have a URL for rpm2deb ?



thank you.


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Re: rpm2deb

2000-06-29 Thread Sven Burgener

On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 09:34:08AM -0700, S. Champ wrote:

> does anyone have a URL for rpm2deb ?

Why not use alien for this?

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RE: xterm cannot execute xterm

2000-06-29 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry


On 29-Jun-2000 Roy John Little wrote:
> Dear list:
> While upgrading my glib-gtk libraries, I tried to first uninstall the
> originals using dselect.  When I realized that my whole x-windows system
> was being uninstalled, I did a ^C.  What I notice now is that xterm, the
> window I use for most of my work, will not execute x-type commands: xterm,
> xvidtune, xlock, xdvi, etc.  If I call up a Bash window, using the Debian
> menu, this has no trouble with respect to executing x-commands.  What
> could have gone wrong?
> 

possibly the path is not getting set when you launch the xterm.  echo $PATH and
see if the X bins are in there.

RE: wallpaper/background

2000-06-29 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry

On 29-Jun-2000 Timothy C. Phan wrote:
> hi,
> 
>   I've recently install a lot of themes for the WindowMaker
>   and really enjoy.  I'm wondering if the wallpaper images
>   can also be installed in the console/tty (non-XWindow) 
>   mode?
> 

no, sorry.  console does not work that way.  GGI has succeeded here a bit, but
it requires heavy mods to practically all of the console subsystem.

Re: rpm2deb

2000-06-29 Thread Christopher Splinter

* "S. Champ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> does anyone have a URL for rpm2deb ?

Use alien.

Helix sawfish and minimizing

2000-06-29 Thread Stuart Ballard

Has anyone else noticed that it's impossible to minimize just one window
if others have the same title? I frequently have lots of terminal
windows up and if I try to minimize one, they all disappear.

I'm using up-to-the-second helix GNOME on woody - so I guess I should
technically take it up with helix. Just wondering if anyone else has
been seeing the same thing, though...

Thanks,
Stuart.

GDM don't load keyboard map.

2000-06-29 Thread Paulo J. da Silva e Silva

Hi,

I am running potato+last minute helix gnome.

The gdm login screen seems not configured to handle foreign
keyboards. Although I have a valid /etc/X11/Xmodmap for my Brazilian keyboard
(abnt2), gdm don't load till the beginning of a gnome session.

To solve this I have add a line to /etc/gdm/Init/Default that looks like

/usr/X11/bin/xmodmap /etc/X11/Xmodmap

Shouldn't gdm read the default keyboard map to make it available to the login
window?

Take care,

Paulo

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Re: problems with "options" in modules.conf

2000-06-29 Thread David Wright

Quoting Oreste Salerno ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> 
> 2.2.15 code is the same as the 2.2.10, as what regards this part. Adding
> these extra printk showed me that the string ignore is composed only by the
> first word, even if actually there are more than one. i.e if i put:
> 
> options ignore='aa hdb hdc'
> it will just appear:
> ide-cd: will ignore aa
> 
> I tried to find where does ignore come from and I found that it's determined
> by a function called MODULE_PARM(), which does not belong to ide-cd.c so I
> think the problem does not belong to the ide-cd module. But I couldn't do
> anything more 'cause my programming knowhow is very limited. anyway, thanks
> again for your hints.

In which case, I would try the effect of
a) playing with the quotation marks, i.e. try " " instead of ' '
b) playing with the separator, i.e. try hdb,hdc hdb-hdc or even hdbhdc.
   strstr() only looks for the first occurrence of a substring,
   and has no concept of separators.

Cheers,

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...error: "only 1024-char blocks implemented"...?

2000-06-29 Thread Jeff Gordon

I'm trying to install a little utility program suite, that extracts
information from Paradox database tables.

All goes well when I run 'pxcsvdump' to stdout -- but when I try:

  pxcsvdump my_file.db > my_file.txt
  
...linux produces an error like so:

 'll_rw error: only 1024-char blocks implemented'
 
I've been in touch with the programmer of 'pxcsvdump'; he doesn't quite
know what to make of it, and says mine is the first report of this sort
he's received.

Any ideas what's up with this, and how I might go about fixing it?

Thanks kindly,

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autofs and nis

2000-06-29 Thread Suresh Kumar. R

Hi,

How do we know that the auto.master and other autofs files are available
on the client machine via nis ? What I mean is , on a client machine
we can check for the availability of  the passwd files by typing 
ypcat passwd. What is auto*.* equivalent. Should we do anything on the
nis server to make them(autofs files) shareable via nis ?

Pl sent a cc of your reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] also.

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...error: "only 1024-char blocks implemented"...?

2000-06-29 Thread Jeff Gordon

I'm trying to install a little utility program suite, that extracts
information from Paradox database tables.

All goes well when I run 'pxcsvdump' to stdout -- but when I try:

  pxcsvdump my_file.db > my_file.txt
  
...linux produces an error like so:

 'll_rw error: only 1024-char blocks implemented'
 
I've been in touch with the programmer of 'pxcsvdump'; he doesn't quite
know what to make of it, and says mine is the first report of this sort
he's received.

Any ideas what's up with this, and how I might go about fixing it?

Thanks kindly,

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Re: terminal programming

2000-06-29 Thread Riku Saikkonen

Atila Nemet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Are there some good texts (tutorials, faqs, anything?) on web about
>how to write terminal independent programs? I need to a make a very

See /usr/share/doc/libncurses5-dev/ncurses-intro.html on your Debian
system (in the package libncurses5-dev, which you need for compiling
applications that use this library). Ncurses is the standard library
for text-mode terminal control.

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Problems installing Netscape

2000-06-29 Thread Nitebirdz


I just installed Debian for the first time.  It is Debian 2.1 slink.  When
I try to install Netscape via apt-get I get the following error message:

Setting up netscape4 (4.0-15) ...

ERROR: The Netscape archive must be in /tmp, owned by root,
   and under a name matching one of the following:
 communicator*-v4*.x86-*-linux*glibc*.tar*
 navigator*-v4*.x86-*-linux*glibc*.tar*

   Archive files can be found on ftp.netscape.com and its mirrors.

dpkg: error processing netscape4 (--install):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 netscape4


It happens with both netscap3 and netscape4.  Any suggestions?



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telnet vs ^Z

2000-06-29 Thread Will Trillich

i've got linux in the basement, cranking and serving
like a dream. to administer, i'm upstairs and i get
in via telnet on my local 192.168.*.* intranet.

on the console (linux keyboard/mouse/monitor) i can
use ^Z to suspend a foreground job, just like in the
documentation.

but ^Z seems to be ignored when i get in via telnet
even tho stty shows 'susp = ^Z'.

now in know that tcsh has command-line settings that
can override stty items, such as '^W = werase' but
there's nothing i can see (perhaps i'm blind) that
would alter ^Z for suspend.

what's interfering?

% bindkey | grep Z
"^Z"   ->  tty-sigtsusp
"^[^Z" -> run-fg-editor

% stty -a
speed 9600 baud; rows 32; columns 132; line = 0;
intr = ^C; quit = ^\; erase = ^D; eol = ; eol2 = ;
start = ^Q; stop = ^S; susp = ^Z; rprnt = ^R;
werase = ^W; lnext = ^V; flush = ^O; min = 1; time = 0;
-parenb -parodd cs8 -hupcl -cstopb cread -clocal -crtscts
-ignbrk -brkint -ignpar -parmrk -inpck -istrip -inlcr
-igncr icrnl ixon -ixoff -iuclc -ixany -imaxbel
opost -olcuc -ocrnl onlcr -onocr -onlret -ofill
-ofdel nl0 cr0 tab0 bs0 vt0 ff0
isig icanon iexten echo echoe echok -echonl -noflsh
-xcase -tostop -echoprt echoctl echoke

% printenv
REMOTEHOST=jonathon
TERM=vt220
HZ=100
HOME=/home/will
SHELL=/usr/bin/tcsh
PATH=/usr/lib/postgresql/bin/:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
USER=will
LOGNAME=will
MAIL=/var/spool/mail/will
LANG=C
HUSHLOGIN=FALSE
HOSTTYPE=i386-linux
VENDOR=intel
OSTYPE=linux
MACHTYPE=i386
SHLVL=1
PWD=/var/www/agf
GROUP=serensoft
HOST=server
EDITOR=vi
HOSTNAME=server
HISTSIZE=1000
HISTFILESIZE=1000
LESS=-M-Q-s
LESSEDIT=%E ?lt+%lt. %f
LESSOPEN=| lesspipe %s
VISUAL=vi
LESSCHARSET=latin1
PAGER=less

Re: Problems installing Netscape

2000-06-29 Thread Gary Hennigan

Nitebirdz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I just installed Debian for the first time.  It is Debian 2.1 slink.  When
> I try to install Netscape via apt-get I get the following error message:
> 
> Setting up netscape4 (4.0-15) ...
> 
> ERROR: The Netscape archive must be in /tmp, owned by root,
>and under a name matching one of the following:
>  communicator*-v4*.x86-*-linux*glibc*.tar*
>  navigator*-v4*.x86-*-linux*glibc*.tar*
> 
>Archive files can be found on ftp.netscape.com and its mirrors.
> 
> dpkg: error processing netscape4 (--install):
>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  netscape4

The package in slink is a virtual package, meaning it doesn't actually
contain any netscape programs, it just knows where to install
them. You must manually download the *.tar.gz file from
ftp.netscape.com and make sure you get a version with a file name that
matches the pattern you got above, eg.,

communicator*-v4*.x86-*-linux*glibc*.tar*

Once you download the file from netscape simply copy it to /tmp and
rerun the installation via apt-get.

Gary

Password Comlexity

2000-06-29 Thread Sajjad Haider

Hello, 

I am a graduate student, just started working on the area of computer security. 
Few months ago, when I used Debian OS, I remembered when you create a new 
account and enter password for it, the kernel warns you if it categorize the 
password as simple. 
I want to learn about the procedure with which the kernel decides that whether 
a particular password string is complex or simple.

Thanks in advance
Sajjad


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RE: Password Comlexity

2000-06-29 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry


On 29-Jun-2000 Sajjad Haider wrote:
> Hello, 
> 
> I am a graduate student, just started working on the area of computer
> security. Few months ago, when I used Debian OS, I remembered when you create
> a new account and enter password for it, the kernel warns you if it
> categorize the password as simple. 
> I want to learn about the procedure with which the kernel decides that
> whether a particular password string is complex or simple.
> 

all chars and less than 6 characters
a word in the dictionary is also commonly tested.

In PAM there is a cracklib module which checks passwords constantly, you should
look there as well.

Re: Postfix troubles

2000-06-29 Thread Mark Brown

On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 10:25:25AM -0400, S.Salman Ahmed wrote:

> I'll give that a try to see if that fixes the problem. Is there a
> problem with my myorigin/mydestination variables above ?

That looks reasonable, but according to the bounce you posted earlier on
mail is actually being given a domain part of phoenix.phoenix.  Try
adding that to mydestination and see where that gets you.

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Re: Filtering Email in Pine

2000-06-29 Thread Nitebirdz

On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Philippe wrote:

> Hi Adam,
> 
> it takes just seconds to filter mail in Pine. From main menu, type S for
> setup. Then R for rules. Then F for filter. Then A for add. Give the rule
> a nickname by replacing the "no value set" in the menu. Put the Debian
> user list address on the "Cc:" line. At the bottom, choose the Folder you
> want it moved to. Exit. You're half-way done! Repeat to set another rule
> for which "From:" is the Debian address while "Cc:" is unspecified. That's
> it.
> 
> pine is great. I've never used mutt. What's good about it?
> 

It may be a rhetorical question, but just in case... some people like the
fact that mutt automatically shows all the messages in threads news-style,
which makes it a lot easier to read messages from the mailing lists.  I
found a workaround to do something similar in pine though by sorting the
messages according to the subject line and the date, so that all messages
on the same topic are bundled together.  I also like pine better.  ;-)

I got another question for you though.  How do you select say all messages
in a certain folder in pine?  Or perhaps from message 1 to message 45, in
order to save them, delete them... whatever.  

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Re: Password Comlexity

2000-06-29 Thread Ben Collins

On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 11:37:15AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> 
> On 29-Jun-2000 Sajjad Haider wrote:
> > Hello, 
> > 
> > I am a graduate student, just started working on the area of computer
> > security. Few months ago, when I used Debian OS, I remembered when you 
> > create
> > a new account and enter password for it, the kernel warns you if it
> > categorize the password as simple. 
> > I want to learn about the procedure with which the kernel decides that
> > whether a particular password string is complex or simple.
> > 
> 
> all chars and less than 6 characters
> a word in the dictionary is also commonly tested.
> 
> In PAM there is a cracklib module which checks passwords constantly, you 
> should
> look there as well.

Plus, it's not really the "kernel" that does this, it's the passwd program
(and whatever modules it uses). Currently in potato, pam_unix.so has some
simple sanity checks for simple passwords. They include:

palindromes - words that read the same backward and forwards, like busub
min length check
repition, like "badbad"

and a few others. You can look at the source for it in libpam. As Shaleh
pointed out, cracklib has some extra strength checking, including a
password history (so ppl can't keep using the same two passwords
alternately) and dictionary matching.

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FTP server and security

2000-06-29 Thread Jay Kelly

Hello Group,
I want to enable my potato box as a ftp server, I have removed proftpd
and installed ftpd. I remember when install debian I said no to
start the FTP server. Where do I enable this to start the server at
boot time? Also is it true the enabling the ftp server will open
up my server for attacks? How much security will be lost doing this?
I want to enable anonymous login so I link my web to the ftp server.
I read the man pages anf there is very little on setting this up.
Thanks Guys for all your help.
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Re: Cheap printer?

2000-06-29 Thread Anthony Campbell

On 29 Jun 2000, Vicente Torres wrote:
> 
> I have recently bought an EPSON Stylus color 480
> for my home use.
> 
> It was a surprise for me to note that this printer has 
> no button to push and everything must be controlled from
> Windows (including changing or installing the ink cartridge!).
> 
> So, I must return it and buy another printer.
> Wich one would you recommend to me?
> It must be cheap; I do not want to use color on my printings
> and it must work fine with linux.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> 

I'm using a Brother HL1040 laser printer which works very well with
Linux. I think this has now been replaced with a different model but it
should be much the same. It's a straight-through printer, which I find
is a big advantage.

Be careful, however; there are some cheaper Brother printers that are
Windows only.

Anthony

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Re: Cheap printer?

2000-06-29 Thread Harald Thingelstad

On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Vicente Torres wrote:
...
> So, I must return it and buy another printer.
> Wich one would you recommend to me?
> It must be cheap; I do not want to use color on my printings
> and it must work fine with linux.
> 
> Thanks
> 

First: What kind of a cheap printer do you want?
The inkjet printers are known to be cheap to buy, but they charge a leg
and an arm for the ink. 
Some manufacturers are known to sell their printers with a net *loss*,
earning their money on ink alone. Let's say you have to change the
cartridges twice a year, for keeping them from drying out alone, and I
guess you have paid the printer over again in two years!

Nope, if you're not interested in colors, buy a laser. The cartridges are
perhaps even more expensive, but they last many times longer.

You can, of course, get refiller ink for both types, and this makes inkjet
printers look a little brighter. Be sure to find a place where you
actually can *buy* this sort of stuff, as I'm sure original ink pays the
shops better and the printer manufacturers shun no means of telling you
unoriginal ink might destroy your printer. ("Fat chance!", in many cases.)
Anyway.
Buy the next cheapest you can get, the absolute cheapest ones tend to be
money out your window.

Second:
What type of printer?
Check the compatibility lists. 
This means, the "Hardware HOWTO" in your HOWTO archive. If you don't have
any, install the necessary package(s).

Harald

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an ardent will and here I am, poor fool, just as far behind as ever. 
No more advanced than before.
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Re: netscape 4.73 & fortify (potato)

2000-06-29 Thread Brad

On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 09:02:45AM -0600, Gary Hennigan wrote:
> JudiElaine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[SNIP]
> > 
> > Anyone have any recommendations as to forcing the fortify,
> > downgrading netscape, or waiting for fortify to be upgraded?
> 
[SNIP]
> 
> I believe that due to the "relaxation" of US export control on
> cryptographic technology fortify will not be supporting any of the
> Netscape 4.73 or greater products.
> 
> Personally I downloaded the 4.73 *.tar.gz navigator file directly from
> Netscape, with strong encryption built in, and installed it in
> /usr/local.

If you're ambitious and have a few hundred free megs, you can do as i
did and replace the .nif files from the debian sources with those from
the Netscape 128-bit tarballs (4 total, one each for navigator and
communicator libc5 and 6. Just get the ones you'll use), and recompile
it for yourself. Except for those .nif files, everything is the same
between the two except for some directory layout changes.

You might want to edit the debian/installer file and change all
occurances of "for LIBC in 5 6;do" to "for LIBC in 6;do" so that you
won't waste time building libc5 versions (or, do the same to kill libc6
if you use libc5). There's probably a similar change for nav/comm, but
as i keep both installed (just in case i need to fill out a mailto form)
i haven't bothered looking into that one.

The main advantages of this are that it keeps things managed with the
Debian package system, and you get some of the Debian helper scripts.

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problem with cdrom

2000-06-29 Thread ANGELADURAND




hi,
Can you help me?  My CD-ROM on the CPU seems to stop 
working, I put my CD in the drive and it doesn't seen to know it's there. lights 
flash but no response.  It use to start automatically but not 
anymore.  Went into the Device Management, says it's working but still I 
get no response from it.
Please help.

RE: Cheap printer?

2000-06-29 Thread Bill Barnes

FWIW
Got into a tangle on another mailing list regarding inks, but here goes 
anyway.

I buy Amazon inks for my Epson Stylus 800 and had no problems until I tried 
bulk ink and refilling cartridges.  Print quality went south and is recovering 
with a return to new cartridges, but still not up to snuff.

Ditto for a friend of mine with a Canon.

Bill Barnes

>= Original Message From Harald Thingelstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> =
>On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Vicente Torres wrote:
>...
>> So, I must return it and buy another printer.
>> Wich one would you recommend to me?
>> It must be cheap; I do not want to use color on my printings
>> and it must work fine with linux.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>
>First: What kind of a cheap printer do you want?
>The inkjet printers are known to be cheap to buy, but they charge a leg
>and an arm for the ink.
>Some manufacturers are known to sell their printers with a net *loss*,
>earning their money on ink alone. Let's say you have to change the
>cartridges twice a year, for keeping them from drying out alone, and I
>guess you have paid the printer over again in two years!
>
>Nope, if you're not interested in colors, buy a laser. The cartridges are
>perhaps even more expensive, but they last many times longer.
>
>You can, of course, get refiller ink for both types, and this makes inkjet
>printers look a little brighter. Be sure to find a place where you
>actually can *buy* this sort of stuff, as I'm sure original ink pays the
>shops better and the printer manufacturers shun no means of telling you
>unoriginal ink might destroy your printer. ("Fat chance!", in many cases.)
>Anyway.
>Buy the next cheapest you can get, the absolute cheapest ones tend to be
>money out your window.
>
>Second:
>What type of printer?
>Check the compatibility lists.
>This means, the "Hardware HOWTO" in your HOWTO archive. If you don't have
>any, install the necessary package(s).
>
>Harald
>
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>an ardent will and here I am, poor fool, just as far behind as ever.
>No more advanced than before.
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>
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Re: Cheap printer?

2000-06-29 Thread Harald Thingelstad

On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Harald Thingelstad wrote:

> On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Vicente Torres wrote:
> ...
> > So, I must return it and buy another printer.
> > Wich one would you recommend to me?
> > It must be cheap; I do not want to use color on my printings
> > and it must work fine with linux.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> 
> What type of printer?
> Check the compatibility lists. 
> This means, the "Hardware HOWTO" in your HOWTO archive. If you don't have
> any, install the necessary package(s).

Forgot something:
Many laser printers can emulate standard Epson or HP printers, which
may be just fine. Check for the emulated printers in your Hardware HOWTO.

Harald

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an ardent will and here I am, poor fool, just as far behind as ever. 
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Re: Cheap printer?

2000-06-29 Thread Jeff Noxon

There is no such thing as a cheap inkjet printer IMHO.  They all cost a
fortune to operate.  They work on the razor blade principle -- they give
away the handle and expect to make money on the blades.

I would personally suggest a used laser printer.  I see HP laserjets at
garage sales all the time (although I am sure the situation may be very
different where you are.)  Toner costs a LOT less than ink.

Regards

Jeff

On 29 Jun 2000, Vicente Torres wrote:
> 
> I have recently bought an EPSON Stylus color 480
> for my home use.
> 
> It was a surprise for me to note that this printer has 
> no button to push and everything must be controlled from
> Windows (including changing or installing the ink cartridge!).
> 
> So, I must return it and buy another printer.
> Wich one would you recommend to me?
> It must be cheap; I do not want to use color on my printings
> and it must work fine with linux.

Debian and Webmin

Has anyone tried managing Debian systems with Webmin
(www.webmin.com)? It is a browser based system admin.
tool for multiple OSs.

Can anyone recommend a good book to understand Linux
(esp. Debian and RedHat) administration (including
network admin).

Thanks.

-Dinesh

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How to get dependencies also ...

I want to install a software package but I don't want
to download each of it's dependencies and install them
one by one. For e.g. if I wanted to install fvwm2,
then is there a command like:

apt-get -install fvwm2

which will download not only fvwm2 but also all of
it's dependencies and install them (after informing me
of those dependencies)?

Also, how do I browse through the contents of a *.deb
package? (dpkg -I *.deb ???).

Thanks.

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Re: Cheap printer?

2000-06-29 Thread Ron Farrer

Harald Thingelstad ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

> First: What kind of a cheap printer do you want?
> The inkjet printers are known to be cheap to buy, but they charge a leg
> and an arm for the ink. 
> Some manufacturers are known to sell their printers with a net *loss*,
> earning their money on ink alone. Let's say you have to change the
> cartridges twice a year, for keeping them from drying out alone, and I
> guess you have paid the printer over again in two years!

I've had pretty good luck with an Epson Stylus Color 900. It's not too
expensive and provides the best printout I've seen from anything short
of a >$1000 printer. With the gimp-print gs driver (stp) you can use
almost all of the printers features (360, 720, and 1440DPI works!) and 
it comes VERY close to rivialing the Epson Win/Mac driver.  

> You can, of course, get refiller ink for both types, and this makes inkjet
> printers look a little brighter. Be sure to find a place where you
> actually can *buy* this sort of stuff, as I'm sure original ink pays the
> shops better and the printer manufacturers shun no means of telling you
> unoriginal ink might destroy your printer. ("Fat chance!", in many cases.)
> Anyway.

I buy refill kits from nujet in Texas (USA). I can get a black refill
kit from them for the same price as the back cartridge and you can
refill the cartridge 10 times! 

#include 

Before I had an ESC Pro and had to finally replace it because it was
going through ink like there is no tomorrow. After I got the ESC900
hooked up I couldn't believe how fast it was (12PPM black), how little
ink it uses, and what good quality it prints at. Of course YMMV, but
I now deal with two ESC900's and they are both excellent printers.  

HTH,

Ron 
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Re: Debian and Webmin

2000-06-29 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)

On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 12:58:54 -0700, Dinesh Nadarajah wrote:
> Has anyone tried managing Debian systems with Webmin (www.webmin.com)? It
> is a browser based system admin. tool for multiple OSs.

Webmin is a nice tool. Back in April, Jaldhar H. Vyas was working on
packages to include it in Debian. Jaldhar, do you have any news on those?

Ray
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Re: Filtering Email in Pine

2000-06-29 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans

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On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Nitebirdz wrote:

> I got another question for you though.  How do you select say all messages
> in a certain folder in pine?  Or perhaps from message 1 to message 45, in
> order to save them, delete them... whatever.  
> 

Use the semicolon (;) to mark messages.  Hitting ; willl bring up a list
of selection criteria to use in marking the messages.  You can select by
numbers, dates, text matching, status, etc.  You'll notice an 'X' in the
leftmost column of the index screen next to each of the items that
matched.  Then hit the 'a' key to perform as action such as delete, reply,
pipe, etc.

There might be a special config option you need in order to turn this
feature on.  If it doesn't work for you, let me know and I'll check my
config for a special setting.  IMO the biggest problem with pine is that
UW wants it to be really dumbed down for the novice users so they turn
most features off by default.  Maybe it'd be a good idea for our
unofficial Pine maintainer to create a better default pine.conf.

HTH,
noah

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Re: Debian and Webmin

2000-06-29 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas

On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote:

> Webmin is a nice tool. Back in April, Jaldhar H. Vyas was working on
> packages to include it in Debian. Jaldhar, do you have any news on those?

Yes, I am happy to report that my packages have not destroyed anyones
systems :-) and as there is a newer version out, I'll be uploading it to
unstable this weekend.

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Re: Filtering Email in Pine

2000-06-29 Thread Stuart Ballard

"Noah L. Meyerhans" wrote:
> 
> There might be a special config option you need in order to turn this
> feature on.  If it doesn't work for you, let me know and I'll check my
> config for a special setting.  IMO the biggest problem with pine is that
> UW wants it to be really dumbed down for the novice users so they turn
> most features off by default.  Maybe it'd be a good idea for our
> unofficial Pine maintainer to create a better default pine.conf.

First act for any (advanced) pine user should be to go into the config
and turn on just about every enable-*-command flag. It's been a long
time since I used pine (these days I have a graphical workstation ;) -
plus I try to keep my vrms output as small as possible) but you should
certainly turn on everything interesting-looking in the config before
you start :)

Stuart.

Re: Filtering Email in Pine

2000-06-29 Thread Ernest Johanson

To be able to select messages and perform commands on them choose the
enable-aggregate-command-set option in the config section.

Ernest Johanson
Web Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary


On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Nitebirdz wrote:

> Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 14:17:17 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Nitebirdz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Philippe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: adam.edgar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Filtering Email in Pine
> 
> On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Philippe wrote:
> 
> > Hi Adam,
> > 
> > it takes just seconds to filter mail in Pine. From main menu, type S for
> > setup. Then R for rules. Then F for filter. Then A for add. Give the rule
> > a nickname by replacing the "no value set" in the menu. Put the Debian
> > user list address on the "Cc:" line. At the bottom, choose the Folder you
> > want it moved to. Exit. You're half-way done! Repeat to set another rule
> > for which "From:" is the Debian address while "Cc:" is unspecified. That's
> > it.
> > 
> > pine is great. I've never used mutt. What's good about it?
> > 
> 
> It may be a rhetorical question, but just in case... some people like the
> fact that mutt automatically shows all the messages in threads news-style,
> which makes it a lot easier to read messages from the mailing lists.  I
> found a workaround to do something similar in pine though by sorting the
> messages according to the subject line and the date, so that all messages
> on the same topic are bundled together.  I also like pine better.  ;-)
> 
> I got another question for you though.  How do you select say all messages
> in a certain folder in pine?  Or perhaps from message 1 to message 45, in
> order to save them, delete them... whatever.  
> 
> 
> - 
> Nitebirdz
> http://www.linuxnovice.org
> Tips, articles, news, links...
>

Re: Debian and Webmin

2000-06-29 Thread John Foster

Dinesh Nadarajah wrote:
> 
> Has anyone tried managing Debian systems with Webmin
> (www.webmin.com)? It is a browser based system admin.
> tool for multiple OSs.
> 
> Can anyone recommend a good book to understand Linux
> (esp. Debian and RedHat) administration (including
> network admin).
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -Dinesh
=
I started using Webmin on a Debian bo system a couple of years ago. It
is quite helpful for persons who are newbies to use for administering
systems where they are somewhat reluctant to get down and dirty with
Linux. I usually install it on every Linux system that I sell with
Debian Installed.
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Re: How to get dependencies also ...

2000-06-29 Thread Robert Waldner

On Thu, 29 Jun 2000 13:01:41 PDT, Dinesh Nadarajah writes:
>I want to install a software package but I don't want
>to download each of it's dependencies and install them
>one by one. For e.g. if I wanted to install fvwm2,
>then is there a command like:
>
>apt-get -install fvwm2
>
>which will download not only fvwm2 but also all of
>it's dependencies and install them (after informing me
>of those dependencies)?

apt-get install fvwm2

(without the "-")

hth,
&rw
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Re: Problems installing Netscape

2000-06-29 Thread Nitebirdz

On 29 Jun 2000, Gary Hennigan wrote:

> Nitebirdz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I just installed Debian for the first time.  It is Debian 2.1 slink.  When
> > I try to install Netscape via apt-get I get the following error message:
> > 
> > Setting up netscape4 (4.0-15) ...
> > 
> > ERROR: The Netscape archive must be in /tmp, owned by root,
> >and under a name matching one of the following:
> >  communicator*-v4*.x86-*-linux*glibc*.tar*
> >  navigator*-v4*.x86-*-linux*glibc*.tar*
> > 
> >Archive files can be found on ftp.netscape.com and its mirrors.
> > 
> > dpkg: error processing netscape4 (--install):
> >  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> > Errors were encountered while processing:
> >  netscape4
> 
> The package in slink is a virtual package, meaning it doesn't actually
> contain any netscape programs, it just knows where to install
> them. You must manually download the *.tar.gz file from
> ftp.netscape.com and make sure you get a version with a file name that
> matches the pattern you got above, eg.,
> 
> communicator*-v4*.x86-*-linux*glibc*.tar*
> 
> Once you download the file from netscape simply copy it to /tmp and
> rerun the installation via apt-get.
> 
> Gary
> 

That did it!  Thanks a lot, Gary!

Just one more little question, since I'm new to Debian.  How can I notice
which packages are virtual and which other are not?  


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Re: telnet vs ^Z

2000-06-29 Thread Will Trillich

On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 11:51:35AM -0700, Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo wrote:
> Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > i've got linux in the basement, cranking and serving
> > like a dream. to administer, i'm upstairs and i get
> > in via telnet on my local 192.168.*.* intranet.
> > 
> > on the console (linux keyboard/mouse/monitor) i can
> > use ^Z to suspend a foreground job, just like in the
> > documentation.
> > 
> > but ^Z seems to be ignored when i get in via telnet
> > even tho stty shows 'susp = ^Z'.
> > 
> > now in know that tcsh has command-line settings that
> > can override stty items, such as '^W = werase' but
> > there's nothing i can see (perhaps i'm blind) that
> > would alter ^Z for suspend.
> > 
> > what's interfering?
> 
> telnet is. Before connecting, telnet is likely setting the signal
> handler for SIGSTOP to SIG_IGN so that it can pass the suspend
> character (^Z) to the romte connection. To suspend telnet, hit th
> escape character (^] by default) and type z (enter).

whoops. i didn't include enough info.

i'm not trying to suspend my local telnet session
(which i'm running from my mac os box). i'm trying
to suspend, say, the remote 'vi' or 'mutt' session.
my telnet does send every keystroke (except for
mac-specific command-key combos) to linux.

when i type control-Z in full-screen environment
such as vi or mutt, i see my telnet display blank
and then reappear in a fraction of a second
(kinda like ^L in vi, but ^L does a full redraw
so fast you often don't even see the blink).

..

so when i telnet in from remote, how do i get
^Z to suspend the local linux process?

Re: Manipulating file content

2000-06-29 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld

Bolan Meek wrote:

> > this one is for all the regexp, shell, and editing-experts...
> 
> How about us perl hackers, hunh?!  Got sumpin' g'inst us, buddy!?

Of course not!  How could I?!  :)

> Well, you could use regexp in sed, or use an awk script, but if
> I had only 3x3 matrices to transform, in text, I'd
> perl -e 'for ($i=0;$i<3;++$i){<>;@entry = split ',';print
> "$i[0],$i[1],$i[2]\n";}'
> with a file directed into it, and stdout redirected to a file.

This ..., well ..., it doesn't work.  At first I thought that you meant
@entry[x] in your last line, but that doesn't help either.  I always get
3 pairs of commas without the values.  Besides, the way I read the code,
it doesn't do anything usefull, because a line with values seperated by
commas, will become exactly the same line.  But then again, I don't know
anything about Perl, so this is just guessing.

> Matrixes with unpredetermined columns or rows become slightly
> trickier, but only by 1) keeping track of the length/breadth, and
> 2) nesting another loop.

What about matrixes with a different number of columns and rows (e.g.
4x3 or 123x234)?

MfG Viktor
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how to start gnome

2000-06-29 Thread Nick


i loaded gnome a long time ago and forgot how to start it

i have tried
gnome-sessionand not luck

RE: dynamic IP addressing

2000-06-29 Thread Brooks R. Robinson

Greetings,
Check out http://www.dyndns.org!  They provide dynamic DNS service free 
of
charge.  I recommend a the ddup-client from http://www.ddup.org.  It's
really easy to use, just set it up as a cron job.

Brooks


> > hello.
> >
> > i have an ethernet card attatched to a DSL modem.
> >
> > i'll provide more hardware details, if requested, but for now
> i'm just wondering
> > if there's a quick way to setting-up the dynammic
> ip-addressing. (preferrably:
> > without having to go through the "DynIP howto" in order to get
> a net-connection,
> > though it is very neat that a person can learn about networking
> by installing
> > this system.)
> >
> > i've already tried to install debian, and need to re-check to
> see if there are
> > any "tulip" ethernet-card drives available in the standard
> distribution, but
> > figured i'd send this question for now. (hopefully to get
> encouraged about
> > giving it another shot)

Ugly console font

After I installed Debian 2.2 (potato), I found that
the system was using VGA type fonts instead of the
standard terminal fonts (not X windows). How can I get
rid of this? There are more than 25 lines on the
screen and some applications (like man) scroll only
the last 25 (very annoying).

Thanks.

-Dinesh

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Re: Filtering Email in Pine

2000-06-29 Thread Mark Brown

On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 04:01:37PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote:

> config for a special setting.  IMO the biggest problem with pine is that

Aside from the licensing?  :-)

> UW wants it to be really dumbed down for the novice users so they turn
> most features off by default.  Maybe it'd be a good idea for our

That's a perfectly reasonable decision for the target audience.  It's
very easy for people who don't know what their doing to seriously
misconfigure a mail client.

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