Re: Canon BJC-1000 problem

[loki]

On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 07:40:17AM -0500, John Hasler wrote:

> > lpr: connect: Connection refused jobs queued, but cannot start daemon.
> 
> Looks like an unrelated problem.

I agree, and I've been having the same problems.  Well technically a
friend rather than me, but it's an odd problem.  I eventually
wondered if it was a BIOS problem, and found that the BIOS had the
parallel port set to an odd mode.. SPP or EPP is okay, but I think
bi-directional modes cause problems.  Setting it to a simpler value
seemed to partially solve the problem (or maybe just change the
error message ;)

I think the first thing to check is whether or not your kernel is
actually recognising the parallel port: check for an /proc/parport,
and more specifically what it says in /proc/parport/0/hardware.

> > I wonder if apsfilter, lprng, or CUPS would be better
> 
> Lprng is not a replacement for magicfiler.  It replaces lpr.  I'm
> using it.

Ditto.

> Could someone who knows about printers help Willy?  It isn't my area.  I
> just spoke up because I have a BJC-1000.

I'd love help with this problem too.. though my friend has a
BJC-2000SP, but that's also supposed to be compatible with the
bjc600 for filter purposes.



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Re: [OT] History: GNUStep vs. Gnome

[Ross Boylan]

At 02:02 PM 9/26/2000, Daniel Reuter wrote:

NeXTStep was the operating system on the NeXTstation, one of the most
beautiful and technically well-designed computers that was ever built!
(IMHO). Unfortunately, NeXT has been swallowed by Apple, and they ceased
development of their OS. Instead, their work was incorporated into the
OpenStep project.


Actually, things are much better than this. NeXTStep is the basis of the 
Next Mac OS, aka OS X.  Apple acquired NeXT to get the OS, and they seem to 
be set to use it.  Since their OS is based on NeXT, and their CEO was the 
CEO of NeXT (Steve Jobs), perhaps one should say NeXT swallowed Apple.


Also, OpenStep predates Apple's acquisition of NeXT by many years.  The 
idea was to have a NeXTStep like environment on a variety of platforms (HP, 
Sun, etc.).  Like NeXT itself, I hadn't noticed a lot of signs of life from 
it, but I wasn't looking too hard.


I liked the NeXT too.  I've even been considering getting a Mac when they 
release the new system.  I'm just so aggravated by the PC 
architecture.  It's very frustrating to find you just can't add hardware 
because you're out of interrupts.  I'm not sure the Mac is better on that 
score, though.  And I know both platforms have various newer (and 
older--SCSI) solutions to the problem.


But of course, now I have Debian!


This is not just a desktop environment, but also incorporates the
OpenStep specifications for a whole object oriented programming
environment, and GNUstep tries to clone the features and even enhance it.
I think GNUstep has very interesting basic concepts (quite different from
the other two desktop environments).
Regards,
Daniel

Re: Sshd2 group restriction

[Ethan Benson]

On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 12:59:06AM -0400, Dr. Orange wrote:
> 
> Is there a way to set sshd2 to only accept logins from users in a specific
> group?

AllowGroups foo bar

in /etc/ssh/sshd_config

note that only works for primary groups, so if you use the private
group scheme that won't do any good for you.  

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Re: Sshd2 group restriction

[Dr. Orange]

So if I have a group called turkeys it would be:

AllowGroups turkeys

And that will reject logins from anyone not belonging to that group?
Concerning "private groups" does any distro apart from RH use private
groups. Maybe I'm mistaking the term. I use debian 2.2. 

Thanks :))

-S-

Re: Sshd2 group restriction

[Ethan Benson]

On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 03:07:34AM -0400, Dr. Orange wrote:
> 
> So if I have a group called turkeys it would be:
> 
> AllowGroups turkeys
> 
> And that will reject logins from anyone not belonging to that group?

no that would only ALLOW logins from users whose primary group is
turkeys, to deny users in that group use DenyGroups instead.

> Concerning "private groups" does any distro apart from RH use private
> groups. Maybe I'm mistaking the term. I use debian 2.2. 

debian uses it by default as well.  use id -gn to see what primary
group you are.  

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Re: traceroute & ping fail

[John L . Fjellstad]

On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 04:04:36PM -0500, William Jensen wrote:
> An update to myself...in case others are having this problem:
> 
> I added the following rule to my script:
> 
> $IPT -A INPUT -p icmp --icmp-type 0 -j ACCEPT
> 
> My understanding is now the box will accpet 'echo replies' that I would 
> generate
> by 'ping debian.org'.  I then went to another pc on the net and tried to ping
> my own box and it still just drops the packets. (which I want)  Can anyone see
> anything wrong with what I've done?

I don't think 'echo reply' is --icmp-type 0.  Do a /sbin/ipchains -h icmp.
To get icmp replies, enable pong:
/sbin/ipchains -A input -p icmp --icmp-type pong -j ACCEPT 
(not sure what the numerical value for pong is)

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Re: Sshd2 group restriction

[Dr. Orange]

AllowGroups doesn't seem to be supported in sshd2. 

-S-

more ipppd/ISDN problems

[Wolfram Kruschel]

Thanks for the hint, he doesn't complain about a missing pap-secrets any
more, although he says 'unknown comman in ipppd.ippp0: -> name <-'. 
But know i have the next problem: i get the message that
"isdn_ppp_bind: Can't find a (free) connection to the ipppd daemon" .
How could i fix this? Thanks for the help + hints, Wolf

Michael Steiner wrote:
> 
> in /etc/isdn/ipppd.ippp0
> in Section AUTHENTICATION
> is a variable called "name"
> the name given there has to be equal to the name given in
> /etc/ppp/pap-secrets or /etc/ppp/chap-secrets
> 
> Michael
> 
> --
> Michael Steiner, Minorgasse 35, A-1140 Vienna, Austria
> 
> Wolfram Kruschel wrote:
> >
> > Hi!
> > I'm trying to configure my ISDN-Card with Debian 2.2 . I didn't have any
> > problems until I tried to dial the first time. /var/log/messages tells
> > me that "ipppd:no pap/chap-secrets defined for this user" although
> > pap-secrets exists. Everything else looks fine. May be somebody could
> > help me to fix this. Thanks a lot, Wolf

Re: which java packages to install?

[Bernd Worsch]

Hi there!

Still trying to start that java searchengine provided with
my perl-cd-bookshelf:-(

There were suggestions of the script beeing buggy, but i don't
think so. Another idea was setting $CLASSPATH (which was not
set), but 
 a) Setting it to /usr/share/kaffe (Klasses.jar, comm.jar ..) didn't help
 b) Kaffe docu states it does not need any envvars to run

Any suggestions? (errors below, script attached)
Thanx Bernd

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./run_me.sh: [: argument expected
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: /
at java.lang.Throwable.(Throwable.java:38)
at java.lang.Error.(Error.java:21)
at java.lang.LinkageError.(LinkageError.java:21)
at java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError.(NoClassDefFoundError.java:21)

 


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#!/bin/sh
# run_me.sh
#runs Innotech's search server with a configuration file in
#/tmp/netresults
# run_me.sh tempdir
#will run the server with a configuration file in
#tempdir/netresults

# Find the Java interpreter
if [ $JRE"X" = "X" ]
then
if [ \( ! `which jre`"X" = "X" \) -a \( ! -d `which jre` \) -a -x `which jre` ]
then
	JRE=`which jre`
elif [ \( ! `which java`"X" = "X" \) -a \( ! -d `which java` \) -a -x `which java` ]
then
	JRE=`which java`
else
	echo "There is no Java interpreter in your executable search path.  Please"
	echo "make sure you have an interpreter (such as \"jre\" or \"java\") installed."
	echo "Then make sure that the executable is in your path, or set the JRE"
	echo "environment variable to point to it."
	exit 1
fi
elif [ ! -x $JRE ]
then
echo "You have set the JRE environment variable, but the file it points to"
echo "is not an executable.  Please unset the variable, or verify that it"
echo "points to your executable Java interpreter."
exit 1
fi

if [ ! \( $1"X" = "X" -o -d "$1" \) ]
then
echo "Usage:"
echo "$0"
echo "   will run the server with a configuration file in"
echo "   /tmp/netresults"
echo "$0 tempdir"
echo "   will run the server with a configuration file in"
echo "   tempdir/netresults"
exit 2
fi

# The first parameter, if specified, should be the temporary
# directory.

if [ $1"X" = "X" ]
then
tempdir="/tmp"
else
tempdir=$1
fi

# If the NetResults directory has been created, we check for the
# HTTP-based configuration file.

if [ -d $tempdir"/netresults" ]
then

# If the HTTP-based configuration file doesn't exist, create it.

if [ ! -f $tempdir"/netresults/http-nr.cfg" -a -f $tempdir"/netresults/Server.cfg" ]
then
	sed "s/^\(NO_RESULT_URL.*STRING \)[^ ]*/\1http:\/\/localhost:6016\/noResults.html/; s/^\(TEMP_HTML_URL.*STRING \)[^ ]*/\1http:\/\/localhost:6016\//" < $tempdir"/netresults/Server.cfg" > $tempdir"/netresults/http-nr.cfg"

	# Run the server with the HTTP config file.

	cd netresults
	$JRE -cp . -mx16m -ms8m itm.nr.serve.NRServer +prop=$tempdir"/netresults/http-nr.cfg"

else
	# Run the server with the default file.

	cd netresults
	$JRE -cp . -mx16m -ms8m itm.nr.serve.NRServer	
fi

else
# Run the server with the default file.

cd netresults
$JRE -cp . -mx16m -ms8m itm.nr.serve.NRServer
fi

Re: Sshd2 group restriction

[Ethan Benson]

On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 04:45:07AM -0400, Dr. Orange wrote:
> 
> AllowGroups doesn't seem to be supported in sshd2. 

hmm, ok, then look into pam_access its configured in
/etc/security/access.conf you should be able to do what you want
there.

ive only done a little bit with pam_access its a bit fickle if your
not used to the file format but should work this.

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Ati Rage Furo Pro 128

[stefan goeman]

Hello,

I installed Debian GNU/Linux (potato). All went well except for the 
setup of my X environement. 

I have a Ati Rage Furo Pro 128 graphics card. 
(ASIC Type: Rage 128 Pro
ASIC ID: 5046
Bus type: AGP
Mem Size: 16 Mb  SDR SGRAM 1:1 /SDRAM)

I have the impression this is not supported by Xfree86-3.3.6?
Anybody any idea how I should install this card under Xfree86-3.3.6
 
Or should I try to install Xfree86-4.0 or Xfree86-4.0.1 ?
If so, can I find some debain packages somewhere?


Greetings,

Stefan

  
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maximum file number

[芦田克美]

Hi,all

I will manage about 100,000,000 files in near future.
How many files does one directory has?

I am afraid of the performance,and please teach me
good idea for the problem.

Katsumi.

PAGE_OFFSET_RAW undeclared

[chris-x]

Hello there,

sometimes things get worse while screwing around ... 

I'm using Debian 2.2 which was updated from 2.0 by hand 
according to the hints in Documentation/Changes. It serves as 
File/Printserver and Internet-Gateway.

- Kernel 2.2.4 is working well, 2.2.17 fails to boot with "VFS: 
unable to mount root fs" . Maybe someone has a hint, but the 
worst thing is this:

-  I tried to install a 100MBit-Card with the RTL8139-chip on it. The 
source finally compiled, but
"insmod rtl8139" results in
/lib/modules/2.2.4/net/rtl8139.o: unresolved symbol 
pci_drv_unregister
/lib/modules/2.2.4/net/rtl8139.o: unresolved symbol pci_drv_register

Maybe some aditional software isnt't installed ... anyway, it's not 
possible to compile anything anymore now. Whatever happened in 
the meantime, the error-message while compiling is:

/usr/include/asm/pgtable.h: In function `get_pgd_slow':
In file included from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/vmalloc.h:7,
 from /usr/include/asm/io.h:101,
 from pci-scan.c:65:
/usr/include/asm/pgtable.h:409: `PAGE_OFFSET_RAW' undeclared 
(first use this function)
/usr/include/asm/pgtable.h:409: (Each undeclared identifier is reported 
only once
/usr/include/asm/pgtable.h:409: for each function it appears in.)
/usr/include/asm/pgtable.h: In function `pte_alloc_kernel':
/usr/include/asm/pgtable.h:498: `PAGE_OFFSET_RAW' undeclared 
(first use this function)
/usr/include/asm/pgtable.h: In function `pte_alloc':
/usr/include/asm/pgtable.h:516: `PAGE_OFFSET_RAW' undeclared 
(first use this function)
/usr/include/asm/io.h: In function `virt_to_phys':
In file included from pci-scan.c:65:
/usr/include/asm/io.h:112: `PAGE_OFFSET_RAW' undeclared (first use 
this function)
/usr/include/asm/io.h: In function `phys_to_virt':
/usr/include/asm/io.h:117: `PAGE_OFFSET_RAW' undeclared (first use 
this function)
/usr/include/asm/io.h: In function `check_signature':
/usr/include/asm/io.h:175: `PAGE_OFFSET_RAW' undeclared (first use 
this function)

The files /usr/include/asm/page_offset.h and page.h exist and seem to 
define PAGE_OFFSET_RAW.

I would be very happy if someone told me how to get things to compile 
again.

Chris

Network crash, please help

[Prestel]

Can anybody help with network problem,
I've got a laptop with a Psion Gold Card Netglobal 56K+10/100Mb cardbus
card, 2.2.17 kernel,debian 2.2, PCMCIA 3.1.20. At bootup everything is OK,
the network is up and I can ping my server, FTP, telnet... all seems fine.

But network fails and hangs with error "eth0: Transmit timeout using MII
device, Tx status 0003" when I log onto XDM on the server. I can also get it
to give the same error if I "ping -fn" the server from my laptop.

The server is a duron 600, debian 2.2 with a D-Link DFE 530tx NIC, newest
via-rhine driver installed.

I've tried to test if its a server problem by "ping -fn" my laptop from the
server, laptop was running win98 at the time and everything was rock solid.
No errors are reported on the server.

I've tried IRC, comp.linux.networking, PCMCIA group on sourceforge, www
searches,  everything for a little help, but to no avail I realise this is
not a normal network problem but if anybody can help Please, Please, Please
do

Thanks
Derm.

Re: Sshd2 group restriction

[Dr. Orange]

Hehehe, it doesn't respect pam either. I think the problem is the use of
ssh2 rather than OpenSSH that does seem to work with PAM. I have yet to
decide whether to change to it, but in any case I'm not going to do it
right away and I just needed those restrictions for today. I can't believe
ssh2 doesn't support AllowGroups or similar. 

Thanks for the help (u too Jaume) :))

-S-

Re: Sshd2 group restriction

[Ethan Benson]

On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 06:42:22AM -0400, Dr. Orange wrote:
> 
> Hehehe, it doesn't respect pam either. I think the problem is the use of
> ssh2 rather than OpenSSH that does seem to work with PAM. I have yet to
> decide whether to change to it, but in any case I'm not going to do it
> right away and I just needed those restrictions for today. I can't believe
> ssh2 doesn't support AllowGroups or similar. 

oh your using the non-free version?  why? install the ssh deb from
woody, its OpenSSH 2 it supports pam and is much better. 

> Thanks for the help (u too Jaume) :))

no problem

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Debian and compaq presario

[Olivier Billet]

Hi everybody,

I've well installed --well, more or less : I just set the X server, some
config files correctly-- Debian 2.2 on my Compaq Presario 1200 laptop,
but I still have a problem:

Is there somwhere someone that has successfully installed the so famous
Lucent Winmodem correctly on the same compaq presario?

Because I've  heard on linuxmodem.org  some people claim they've
installed their lt-winmodem correctly.
Thanks in advance.

PS: for people that plan to buy a laptop, try to buy one with a screen
that can do more than 800x600...

debian-keyring + gpg 'keyring' option

[Christian Pernegger]

Hi list!

I added 'keyring /usr/share/keyrings/debian-keyring.gpg'
to my ~/.gnupg/options file, but interestingly this does not
work.

gpg tries to create a temporary file in /usr/share/keyrings/
when mutt verifies a signature. (That fails.)

Of course I can import the keyring but then it'd be rather
pointless to put it in /usr/share/, wouldn't it?

How do you use the debian-keyring?

Thanks,

Christian

Openssh errors

[Dr. Orange]

Argh, i tried to switch to openssh, but now I can neither install or
remove it: 
Preparing to replace ssh 1.2.26-1.2 (using
.../ssh_1%3a1.2.3-9_i386.deb) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/ssh.prerm: /etc/init.d/ssh: No such file or directory
dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/prerm: /etc/init.d/ssh: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/ssh_1%3a1.2.3-9_i386.deb
(--unpack):
 subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
You already have a host key in /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key.

You should read the documentation and then configure /etc/ssh/ssh_config
and /etc/ssh/sshd_config to your sites needs and preferences.
update-rc.d: /etc/init.d/ssh: file does not exist
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/ssh_1%3a1.2.3-9_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Re: Openssh errors

[Ben Collins]

On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 07:59:47AM -0400, Dr. Orange wrote:
> 
> Argh, i tried to switch to openssh, but now I can neither install or
> remove it: 
> Preparing to replace ssh 1.2.26-1.2 (using
> .../ssh_1%3a1.2.3-9_i386.deb) ...
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/ssh.prerm: /etc/init.d/ssh: No such file or directory
> dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
> dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
> /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/prerm: /etc/init.d/ssh: No such file or directory
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/ssh_1%3a1.2.3-9_i386.deb
> (--unpack):
>  subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
> You already have a host key in /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key.
> 
> You should read the documentation and then configure /etc/ssh/ssh_config
> and /etc/ssh/sshd_config to your sites needs and preferences.
> update-rc.d: /etc/init.d/ssh: file does not exist
> dpkg: error while cleaning up:
>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> 
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  /var/cache/apt/archives/ssh_1%3a1.2.3-9_i386.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Uh, are you missing /bin/sh? If so, I suggest adding a symlink from
/bin/sh to /bin/bash.

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Re: debian-keyring + gpg 'keyring' option

[Ethan Benson]

On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 01:58:19PM +0200, Christian Pernegger wrote:
> Hi list!
> 
> I added 'keyring /usr/share/keyrings/debian-keyring.gpg'
> to my ~/.gnupg/options file, but interestingly this does not
> work.
> 
> gpg tries to create a temporary file in /usr/share/keyrings/
> when mutt verifies a signature. (That fails.)
> 
> Of course I can import the keyring but then it'd be rather
> pointless to put it in /usr/share/, wouldn't it?
> 
> How do you use the debian-keyring?

just like you did, but i have it listed first, and my personal
keyrings in ~/.gnupg listed last.

this works fine for me.

# keyrings
keyring /usr/share/keyrings/debian-keyring.gpg
keyring pubring.gpg
secret-keyring secring.gpg

gpg when downloading a key from the keyserver will add it to the last
keyring listed, if that is /usr/share... then it will fail obviously.
(unless your being naughty and running around as root all the time ;-))

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Re: Openssh errors

[Ethan Benson]

On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 07:59:47AM -0400, Dr. Orange wrote:
> 
> Argh, i tried to switch to openssh, but now I can neither install or
> remove it: 
> Preparing to replace ssh 1.2.26-1.2 (using
> .../ssh_1%3a1.2.3-9_i386.deb) ...
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/ssh.prerm: /etc/init.d/ssh: No such file or directory
> dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
> dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
> /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/prerm: /etc/init.d/ssh: No such file or directory
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/ssh_1%3a1.2.3-9_i386.deb
> (--unpack):
>  subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
> You already have a host key in /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key.
> 
> You should read the documentation and then configure /etc/ssh/ssh_config
> and /etc/ssh/sshd_config to your sites needs and preferences.
> update-rc.d: /etc/init.d/ssh: file does not exist
> dpkg: error while cleaning up:
>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> 
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  /var/cache/apt/archives/ssh_1%3a1.2.3-9_i386.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

strange, for some reason your /etc/init.d/ssh file got deleted before
it was supposed to.. i think you can get around this by doing the
following:

echo exit 0 > /etc/init.d/ssh
chmod 755 /etc/init.d/ssh

then try the install again.

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Re: Extended descriptions of non-free/non-US packages.

[Matthew Tuck]

"J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" wrote:

> Personally, I think this would clutter the package descriptions to little
> benefit. A much more appropriate place IMO is /usr/share//copyright.

The whole benefit of this proposal is so that you can know this
information BEFORE you decide to install the package, since it
determines whether I install the package.

- if it is patent encumbered, I want to know if it applies to me before
downloading
- if it is non-free, I want to know whether I consider the license
acceptable before downloading
- etc. etc.

However, even if it is not done, it would still be useful to have this
specific information in /usr/share/doc or wherever.  In particular, this
information being readily available would likely prevent people asking
specifically why X was in non-free, etc.

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Re: debian-keyring + gpg 'keyring' option

[Henrique M Holschuh]

On Mon, 02 Oct 2000, Christian Pernegger wrote:
> gpg tries to create a temporary file in /usr/share/keyrings/
> when mutt verifies a signature. (That fails.)

Yes, gpg is funny like that :-) No concept of cleaning up lockfiles to avoid
stupid deadlocks, no concept of timing out sockets (thus deadlocking in some
cases) and no concept of /tmp being the right place for temporary files.
Bleargh, I really wish I had something better than gpg to do all the key
management.

I suggest you write a script to freshen up gpg's key database. I'll attach
mine, but be advised that it is quite rough and you'll probably want to
clean it up.

This has the good advantage of fetching new copies of ALL keys it can find.
One actually must do this if he is not sure he'll receive any eventual
revogation certificates from the key onwers first hand :-( gpg really,
really, really needs some kind of --refresh-keyring function, as outdated
keys are a security concern.

> Of course I can import the keyring but then it'd be rather
> pointless to put it in /usr/share/, wouldn't it?

Why? It's readonly data, it belongs in /usr/share. gpg is broken, not
debian-keyring.

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  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh
#!/bin/sh
## GNUPG Maintenance script
##

###
### User-defined parameters
###

## Read-Only keyrings
ROKEYRINGS="/usr/share/keyrings/debian-keyring.gpg /usr/share/keyrings/debian-keyring.pgp"

## Keyserver list
#KEYSERVERS="keyring.debian.org wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net wwwkeys.us.pgp.net"
KEYSERVERS="wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net wwwkeys.us.pgp.net"

PROG=`basename $0`



set +e

if test -x /usr/bin/time; then
	TIMECMD=/usr/bin/time
else
	TIMECMD=
fi

runupdate() {
	# Does an update run
	gpg --batch --list-keys --fast-list | grep ^pub\  | awk '{ print $2 }' | sed s/^.*\\/// | xargs -r ${TIMECMD} gpg -q --batch --lock-multiple --recv-key $@
}

## First, update public ring from any readonly keyrings

echo ${PROG}: Updating RW keyring from RO keyrings...
echo ${PROG}: Keyrings: ${ROKEYRINGS}

${TIMECMD} gpg --batch --quiet --fast-import ${ROKEYRINGS}

echo

## Now, refresh key data from dynamic sources

echo ${PROG}: Requesting fresh key data from public keyservers...

for i in ${KEYSERVERS} ; do 
	echo ${PROG}: Keyserver ${i}...
	runupdate --keyserver ${i}
	echo
done

## Now, rebuild database

echo ${PROG}: Rebuilding trust database...
gpg --batch --quiet --update-trustdb

echo ${PROG}: DONE.


pgpUh6C7BqI99.pgp
Description: PGP signature

Re: Openssh errors

[Dr. Orange]

Correct, I was just about to email the solution. I had an ssh2 file there
so I renamed it, and it worked, hehe. 
Sorry for the panic :P

-S-


On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Ethan Benson wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 07:59:47AM -0400, Dr. Orange wrote:
> > 
> > Argh, i tried to switch to openssh, but now I can neither install or
> > remove it: 
> > Preparing to replace ssh 1.2.26-1.2 (using
> > .../ssh_1%3a1.2.3-9_i386.deb) ...
> > /var/lib/dpkg/info/ssh.prerm: /etc/init.d/ssh: No such file or directory
> > dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
> > dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
> > /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/prerm: /etc/init.d/ssh: No such file or directory
> > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/ssh_1%3a1.2.3-9_i386.deb
> > (--unpack):
> >  subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
> > You already have a host key in /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key.
> > 
> > You should read the documentation and then configure /etc/ssh/ssh_config
> > and /etc/ssh/sshd_config to your sites needs and preferences.
> > update-rc.d: /etc/init.d/ssh: file does not exist
> > dpkg: error while cleaning up:
> >  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> > 
> > Errors were encountered while processing:
> >  /var/cache/apt/archives/ssh_1%3a1.2.3-9_i386.deb
> > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> 
> strange, for some reason your /etc/init.d/ssh file got deleted before
> it was supposed to.. i think you can get around this by doing the
> following:
> 
> echo exit 0 > /etc/init.d/ssh
> chmod 755 /etc/init.d/ssh
> 
> then try the install again.
> 
> -- 
> Ethan Benson
> http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
> 

R: informazioni

[marco frattola]

Michele, you have to use english if you want to be understood
 
let me translate your question:
 
'can you please tell me where can i buy your cd in italy? thank you'
 
let me try to answer: if you go to www.debian.org 
there's a list of
companies selling debian cds. i don't know if there's any from italy.
you can buy them whereever you want and have them mailed to you
 

Marco Frattola (Pianificazione processi) -
Cubecom S.p.A.
Via de Marini,1 3 piano Torre WTC
16149 GENOVA
tel. 010 6591184


 

-Messaggio originale-
Da: Michele Savastano [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Inviato: sabato 30 settembre 2000 18.13
A: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Oggetto: informazioni


Potete dirmi per piacere dove posso acquistaare in Italia i Vs. CD.
Grazie Michele Savastano

Ati Rage Furo Pro 128

[stefan goeman]

Hello,

I installed Debian GNU/Linux (potato). All went well except for the 
setup of my X environement. 

I have a Ati Rage Furo Pro 128 graphics card. 
(ASIC Type: Rage 128 Pro
ASIC ID: 5046
Bus type: AGP
Mem Size: 16 Mb  SDR SGRAM 1:1 /SDRAM)

I have the impression this is not supported by Xfree86-3.3.6?
Anybody any idea how I should install this card under Xfree86-3.3.6
 
Or should I try to install Xfree86-4.0 or Xfree86-4.0.1 ?
If so, can I find some debain packages somewhere?


Greetings,

Stefan

  
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What happened to X server web page?

[Dale Amon]

Does anyone know what happened to the X server 
page on www.debian.org?
http://www.debian.org/~branden/ is claimed to not
exist anymore!

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Re: NFS stability and file ownership problem

[G.Angely]

Did you receive any advice? (I read your mail about a month later)

About ownership problem: did you install on the client machine the ugidd
deamon (provided by the ugidd package).
This happens to work when you specify the option "map_daemon" for the
related exported files/dirs.
Maybe it will help for the option you use (map_NIS).

G. Angely

Re: Need advice on Postscript/PCL printer

[Nicola Bernardelli]

Ooops,
I forgot to ask both of you: 

1) how much RAM do your respective printers have?
2) what Postscript version do they support? woud Postscript2 lack
   features that are supposed to be supported for currently-common
   Postscript docs/tools?

Thanks a lot,
Nicola

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X-Strike-Force page?...

[Max Lock]

 Anyone know what's happened to the X strike force page?

 http://www.debian.org/~branden/

 -Cheers Max.

Two Newbie X Questions

[Cantoni, Mike]

I am using the Black Box window manager and have two questions:

1)  How would I specify which window manager starts by default?

2)  How do I specify an image for X to display?

Thank you for any help!

Michael Cantoni

RE: Two Newbie X Questions

[George Wright]

I am using the Black Box window manager and have two questions:

1)  How would I specify which window manager starts by default?

Right now your /etc/alternatives/x-window manager is probably sym-linked to 
/usr/bin/something-er-other/ice-window-manager.  Change this link to point
to
/usr/bin/blackbox.

2)  How do I specify an image for X to display?

Background, theme?

Thank you for any help!

Michael Cantoni


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FW: Two Newbie X Questions

[Cantoni, Mike]

> I am using the Black Box window manager and have two questions:
> 
> 1)  How would I specify which window manager starts by default?
> 
> 2)  How do I specify an image for X to display?
> 
> Thank you for any help!
> 
> Michael Cantoni

strange things with netatalk

[Christoph Baumann]

Hi!

I maintain a server in an apple network. Since I upgraded to potato
strange things happen. The problem is that the connection to the apple
share file server (netatalk) gets "unexpectedly" lost when opening certain
files (most probably M$-Word files). This does only happen on the iMac in
the network. I checked it with a Performa PPC and I could open the
mentioned files. As this problem showed up just after the upgrade it may
be possible that it's a problem with netatalk or just coincidence.
Has anybody had similar problems?

Christoph

Please CC to me as I am not subscribed to this list.

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Konsole session switching...

[Steve Lamb]

Does anyone know if there is a way to switch between sessions in Konsole
with the keyboard?

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Re: What happened to X server web page?

[Colin Watson]

Dale Amon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Does anyone know what happened to the X server 
>page on www.debian.org?
>http://www.debian.org/~branden/ is claimed to not
>exist anymore!

va.debian.org (== www) had a hardware failure, and the admins are
currently working on getting things back.
http://samosa.debian.org/~branden/ has XFree86 4.0phase2 packages.

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Re: debian: mail spool directory ???

[Colin Watson]

"John L . Fjellstad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 10:21:19PM -0500, will trillich wrote:
>> why the change? i dunno. as long as the symbolic link is there
>> you should be fat-dumb-and-happy still, like me. (not necessarily
>> in that order.)
>
>The filesysten hierarchy standard specifies that the user mailbox
>should be in /var/mail. 

But Debian policy currently states that user mailboxes should be in
/var/spool/mail, hence the symlink. There is a current proposal to
change this to /var/mail which seemed to be generally acceptable, but at
the moment it's stalled somewhere in the policy process.

See http://bugs.debian.org/42052>.

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modem woes

[Michael P. Soulier]

Hey people. A friend of mine is having trouble with her internal modem on 
a Toshiba Laptop. The modem is apparently a Toshiba V.90 on COM 2, and 
hardware compatability should be fine. 
Whenever she tries an app to use it, kppp, minicom, it reports that it 
cannot initialize the modem. I'm having her check out initialization strings 
now, but as my modem worked perfectly on the first try, I don't know much 
about this. Some help would be appreciated. 

Thanks,

Mike

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Can shell-script be setuid ?

[Alex V. Toropov]

Can I make a shell script setuid ?
I'v try to do this but it seams that it runs under 
user's id who fired that script (not  under root's as I wish)
When I make a real C program it works as I expect, but 
script doesn't. 
Can anyone explain me where I'm wrong

the script is file starting with
#!/bin/sh

And containing commands like echo with redirection to files in 
"root-only-writable" directory.

TIA Alex

nfs kernel server

[Philipp Lehman]

After installing the nfs kernel server, syslogd is flodded with
messages like this one:

rpc.mountd: dump request from 192.168.1.1 
last message repeated 31 times
last message repeated 61 times
last message repeated 61 times

192.168.1.1 is the host running the nfs kernel server. What does
"dump request" mean and how can I fix this? The server seems to
work most of the time but would reject mount requests
occasionally. I'm at a loss here, how do you debug this beast?
Any hints appreciated.

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Re: printing to a windows printer

[Philipp Lehman]

On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, David Erdman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>i have done this in suse, and redhat but am thus far unsuccessful.
>I need to print to an HP722C (win printer) that is hooked up to windows 98 on 
>an internal lan.  looking at logs 
>
>Oct  1 19:31:11 ganymede pnm2ppa[1192]: No pages printed!
>Oct  1 19:31:12 ganymede lpd[1195]: cannot execv 
>/var/lib/apsfilter/bin/ppa720-a4-auto-mono-300
>Oct  1 19:31:12 ganymede lpd[1194]: lp: job could not be printed 
>(cfA012ganymede)
>Oct  1 19:31:24 ganymede lpd[1197]: cannot execv 
>/var/lib/apsfilter/bin/ppa720-a4-auto-mono-300
>Oct  1 19:31:24 ganymede lpd[1196]: lp: job could not be printed 
>(cfA010ganymede)
>Oct  1 19:52:57 ganymede lpd[1347]: cannot execv 
>/var/lib/apsfilter/bin/ppa720-a4-auto-mono-300
>Oct  1 19:52:57 ganymede lpd[1346]: lp: job could not be printed 
>(cfA013ganymede)

Your input filter script seems to be causing problems, printcap
looks ok to me.

>I configured with both printtool, and magicfilter.
>i have also installed pn2pm (or whatever the hell it is)
>my printcap is as follows
>##PRINTTOOL3## SMB ppa 600x600 letter {} {HP DeskJet 720} ppa720b1 {}
>lp:\
>   :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
>   :mx#0:\
>   :sh:\
>   :if=/var/spool/lpd/lp/filter:\
>   :af=/var/spool/lpd/lp/acct:\
>   :lp=/dev/null:
^

Not recommended. AFAIK lpd will *lock* /dev/null. You'd better
create a trash bin dedicated to lpd, eg /dev/lpnull or whatever.

-- 
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Re: debian: dos2unix and unix2dos utilities.

[Philipp Lehman]

On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Brendan J Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>Are there any dos2unix and unix2dos command line utilities in any of the
>debian pacages ???
>I've done an "apt-cache search ..." but can't find anything suitable.

There is another one called "flip".

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Re: debian: dos2unix and unix2dos utilities.

[Nico De Ranter]

These should be in the sysutils package.

ape:/var/lib/dpkg/info# dpkg -L sysutils
/.
/usr
/usr/bin
/usr/bin/bogomips
/usr/bin/procinfo
/usr/bin/lsdev
/usr/bin/fromdos
/usr/bin/todos
/usr/bin/dos2unix
/usr/bin/unix2dos
/usr/doc
/usr/doc/sysutils
/usr/doc/sysutils/copyright
/usr/doc/sysutils/changelog.gz
/usr/man
/usr/man/man1
/usr/man/man1/memtest.1.gz
/usr/man/man1/fromdos.1.gz
/usr/man/man1/todos.1.gz
/usr/man/man1/sysutils.1.gz
/usr/man/man1/bogomips.1.gz
/usr/man/man1/dos2unix.1.gz
/usr/man/man1/unix2dos.1.gz
/usr/man/man8
/usr/man/man8/lsdev.8.gz
/usr/man/man8/procinfo.8.gz
/usr/sbin
/usr/sbin/memtest


Nico

On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 10:48:23AM +1100, Brendan J Simon wrote:
> Are there any dos2unix and unix2dos command line utilities in any of the
> debian pacages ???
> I've done an "apt-cache search ..." but can't find anything suitable.
> 
> Thanks,
> Brendan Simon.
> 
> 
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Can not allocate colormap

[Johann Spies]

I get the following message when I run gvim or gv (maybe other
applications also) on gnome (slink version):

Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for "gray71"
Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for "AntiqueWhite3"
Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for "AntiqueWhite2"
Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for "AntiqueWhite4"
Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for "gray78"
Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for "gray85"
Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for "#D3B5B5"

I am using gnome (slink version) and have a the colordepth in my
XF86Config is 16.

I have a S3 Trio graphics card.

How can I correct the situation?

Johann
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Re: printing to a windows printer

[David Erdman]

sorry, i am pretty new in linuxi understand the lock part (i think), but 
how would someone create a trash bin dedicated to lpd?
should I just comment the /dev/null out then?



On Mon, 02 Oct 2000, Philipp Lehman wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, David Erdman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >i have done this in suse, and redhat but am thus far unsuccessful.
> >I need to print to an HP722C (win printer) that is hooked up to windows 98
> > on an internal lan.  looking at logs
> >
> >Oct  1 19:31:11 ganymede pnm2ppa[1192]: No pages printed!
> >Oct  1 19:31:12 ganymede lpd[1195]: cannot execv
> >/var/lib/apsfilter/bin/ppa720-a4-auto-mono-300
> >Oct  1 19:31:12 ganymede lpd[1194]: lp: job could not be printed
> >(cfA012ganymede)
> >Oct  1 19:31:24 ganymede lpd[1197]: cannot execv
> >/var/lib/apsfilter/bin/ppa720-a4-auto-mono-300
> >Oct  1 19:31:24 ganymede lpd[1196]: lp: job could not be printed
> >(cfA010ganymede)
> >Oct  1 19:52:57 ganymede lpd[1347]: cannot execv
> >/var/lib/apsfilter/bin/ppa720-a4-auto-mono-300
> >Oct  1 19:52:57 ganymede lpd[1346]: lp: job could not be printed
> >(cfA013ganymede)
>
> Your input filter script seems to be causing problems, printcap
> looks ok to me.
>
> >I configured with both printtool, and magicfilter.
> >i have also installed pn2pm (or whatever the hell it is)
> >my printcap is as follows
> >##PRINTTOOL3## SMB ppa 600x600 letter {} {HP DeskJet 720} ppa720b1 {}
> >lp:\
> >
> > :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
> > :mx#0:\
> > :sh:\
> > :if=/var/spool/lpd/lp/filter:\
> > :af=/var/spool/lpd/lp/acct:\
> > :lp=/dev/null:
>
>   ^
>
> Not recommended. AFAIK lpd will *lock* /dev/null. You'd better
> create a trash bin dedicated to lpd, eg /dev/lpnull or whatever.

Re: Can shell-script be setuid ?

[Michael P. Soulier]

On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 06:22:45PM +0400, Alex V. Toropov wrote:
> Can I make a shell script setuid ?

No. It's disabled in the kernel for security reasons. Binaries only. 

Mike

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Re: Can not allocate colormap

[Michael P. Soulier]

On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 04:43:59PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote:
> I get the following message when I run gvim or gv (maybe other
> applications also) on gnome (slink version):
> 
> Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for "gray71"
> Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for "AntiqueWhite3"
> Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for "AntiqueWhite2"
> Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for "AntiqueWhite4"
> Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for "gray78"
> Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for "gray85"
> Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for "#D3B5B5"
> 
> I am using gnome (slink version) and have a the colordepth in my
> XF86Config is 16.
> 
> I have a S3 Trio graphics card.
> 
> How can I correct the situation?

files=`ps aux | grep netscape | grep -v grep`
for i in $files
do
kill -9 $i
done

Or start netscape with the -install option. ;-)

Mike

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Debian 2.2 CDs

[Umum Wijoyo]

Hi!

Would like to ask how I can make a copy of Debian 2.2 CDs?
Can I just download the iso files from a Debian ftp server, 
and burn them to a CD? Would I need the boot floppies, or 
will the CDs be bootable? Are there any manuals on these 
stupid questions of mine...??? ;-p

TIA

Umum Wijoyo

Re: Debian 2.2 CDs

[tjm]

Hello:

Go to http://cdimage.debian.org

for more information.


Umum Wijoyo wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> Would like to ask how I can make a copy of Debian 2.2 CDs?
> Can I just download the iso files from a Debian ftp server,
> and burn them to a CD? Would I need the boot floppies, or
> will the CDs be bootable? Are there any manuals on these
> stupid questions of mine...??? ;-p
> 
> TIA
> 
> Umum Wijoyo
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Problems installing X

[David A. Rogers]

I had problems installing X, and as I am new to Debian - though not Linux,
I'd like to know if it was something I did or whether the Debian setup is
not right.

I previously installed 2.2 from a 2 CD set.  Then I ran XF86Setup.  When I
chose the Diamond V770 (TNT2) from the hardware list, it told me I needed
to get the svga driver.  So, using apt-cache -search I found the
xserver-svga deb.  I then ran apt-get -install xserver-svga.

This time XF86Setup went to completion and I thought I had a winner.
Unfortunately, when it tried to connect to the server I got multiple errors of
this sort: X11TransSocketUNIXConnet.  My guess was that the server had not
really been installed or the setup was pointing to the wrong server.

I tried to get apt-get to tell me what it had installed when I ran apt-get
-install xserver-svga, but I couldn't figure out how to do that from the man
pages.

I finally got things working by running xf86Config (which told me it was
changing something in /etc/X11/xserver (I think thats the right file).  Is
that file a Debian thing?  I seem to recall that Redhat and Mandrake used a
soft link for something similar.

After that X would run but I found X keyboard errors when exiting X.  Running
XF86Setup again and making sure the keyboard stuff was modified fixed that
problem also.

So now I have a working X situation, but I want to know:  Should apt-get or
XF86Setup have modified that /etc/whatever file?  Was I supposed to know to
change it?  If so, where is that documented?


Thanks.  You all have already been a wonderful resource.

dar

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RE: new Debian user, problem with internal modem

[Anderson, Tim TL33E]

>It's marked "Telepath for Windows with X2 technology."
 > Could it be one of those modems that work only with Windows?

Umm.. yeah, could be :-)  I think the site to try is
www.winmodem.org   (or similar, cant remember
exactly)


>By the way, I using Debian 2.1 from Cheapbytes.

Get 2.2 (otherwise known as potato).   Maybe get a new (external)
modem while you're at it.


tim

Re: X-Strike-Force page?...

[Mark Brown]

On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 02:06:49PM +0100, Max Lock wrote:

>  Anyone know what's happened to the X strike force page?

>  http://www.debian.org/~branden/

Our web server had a disk failure, meaning www.debian.org has
temporarily been pointed at another machine.  The user web pages weren't
part of that move.

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Re: Help with System Crashes

[kmself]

On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 05:31:36PM +0200, Martin Pfeilsticker ([EMAIL 
PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I have a strange problem with one of my PCs:
> It crashes for no obvious reasons, at least one time a day.
> The system is completly frozen, ie no ping, no Magic-Key, no CTRL-AL-DEL,
> only a HARD-Reset is working. Logfiles in /var/log show nothing
> unusal.
> 
> Since this computer is acting as my ADSL-Gateway and as a file-, mail-,
> and news-server, I am a little bit anoyed
> 
> The System is an AMD-K6-2/500 with 192 MB Memory on a MS-5169 motherboard.
> HD is 15 GB Maxtor 31536H2 as hda, and a ATAPI 48X CD-ROM drive as hdc.
> 
> eth0 ( to Intranet) indentifies as VIA VT3043 Rhine,
> eth1 ( to DSL-modem) is a NetGear FA310 (tulip chipset),
> replacing a 3com  3c905B. 
> 
> Software is a fresh installed Debian 2.2, with a custom build Kernel
> ( no SCSI), rp-pppoe 2.3 (  same problem with 2.2),  running sendmail, inn,
> squid, bind8.
> 
> Can anybody give me any tips or hints what can I do ?

Check your system logs.  Look for logs modified shortly before the
crash.  Booting single-user following crash may help preserve
timestamps.

Read /usr/src/linux/REPORTING-BUGS

There are known incmpatibilities with several recent 2.2.x kernels and
various drivers.  REPORTING-BUGS identifies most pertinant data.  I've
attached a script for automating data collection.  It requires ksymoops
somewhere on your path.  You may want to tweak it for your own
preferences.  You can (and probably should) provide additional
information after the report is generated.

Check your hardware.  Bad memory, disks, and CPU are frequent culprits.
Get a memory tester, run badblocks, or try some long compiles and look
for signal-11 errors.


#  kernel-bug-report: Reporting bugs automated script

#!/bin/bash

# Kernel bug report generator script
# Script generated from prior bug report form by Karsten M. Self
# $Revision: 1.3 $ $Date: 2000/05/13 07:48:36 $ $Author: root $

PATH=/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin

# 
# [Some of this is taken from Frohwalt Egerer's original linux-kernel FAQ]
# 
#  What follows is a suggested procedure for reporting Linux bugs. You
# aren't obliged to use the bug reporting format, it is provided as a guide
# to the kind of information that can be useful to developers - no more.
# 
#  If the failure includes an "OOPS:" type message in your log or on
# screen please read "Documentation/oops-tracing.txt" before posting your
# bug report. This explains what you should do with the "Oops" information
# to make it useful to the recipient.
# 
#   Send the output the maintainer of the kernel area that seems to
# be involved with the problem. Don't worry too much about getting the
# wrong person. If you are unsure send it to the person responsible for the
# code relevant to what you were doing. If it occurs repeatably try and
# describe how to recreate it. That is worth even more than the oops itself.
# The list of maintainers is in the MAINTAINERS file in this directory.
# 
#   If you are totally stumped as to whom to send the report, send it to
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] (For more information on the linux-kernel
# mailing list see http://www.tux.org/lkml/).
# 
# This is a suggested format for a bug report sent to the Linux kernel mailing 
# list. Having a standardized bug report form makes it easier  for you not to 
# overlook things, and easier for the developers to find the pieces of 
# information they're really interested in. Don't feel you have to follow it.
# 
#First run the ver_linux script included as scripts/ver_linux or
# at ftp://ftp.sai.msu.su/pub/Linux/ver_linux> It checks out
# the version of some important subsystems.  Run it with the command
# "sh scripts/ver_linux"
# 
# Use that information to fill in all fields of the bug report form, and
# post it to the mailing list with a subject of "PROBLEM: " for easy identification by the developers
# 

# indent by one tabstop
function tabout () { sed -e '/^/s// /'; }

kversion=$( uname -r )
dmesg=dmesg
dmesg="cat /var/log/kern.log"   # for debugging only
oops_number=$( $dmesg | grep Oops | tail -1 | sed -e '/^.*:/s///' )
oops_module=$( $dmesg | grep EIP | tail -1 | sed -e '/^.*:/s///' )

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Re: Subject: ATA-100, UDMA100, LILO

[Vincent_Gaines]

__
Disabling the "VIA" controller does not change the letter assignment to the
promise controller. It remains "hde, hdf, hdg,hdh".
Therefore there is no way to
a.) Install using udma66 diskettes
b.) Install a new kernel with ATA-100 patches
c.)  Disable the udma66 controller
d.) Boot the systemwith the now "hda,hdb,hdc,hdd"  using the promise
controller.

My install is now complete but I had to use a "dummy" drive to install lilo
on the "target"  drive. Contrary to what the manual says my ATAPI CDROM is
bootable even though it is on the promise controller now.








Yes, the better way to do this is to go into your BIOS and disable the
motherboard'
s IDE controller. That's the only way the Promise IDE controller can have
hda.

Vincent Gaines wrote:

> Subject:   ATA-100, UDMA100, LILO
>
> I recently built a computer using the ASUS A7V motherboard, AMD 800, and
> an "IBM Deskstar  DTLA-307030 30GB UA100" hard drive. I wanted to
> install Debian GNU/Linux on my hard drive (it uses the Promise ATA-100
> controller).
>
> 1) Upon reading the Debian Mail archives I surmised that the ATA-100 was
> not supported by the
> UDMA66 diskette install option from the ftp archiives. ( I also tried
> it!)
>
> 2) I installed using the UDMA66 diskettes and CDROM binaries from linux
> labs using my via udma66 controller ( I was later to find out to my
> dismay that the system uses hda, hdb, hdc, and hdd for the via
> controller and hde, hdf, hdg, and hdh for the promise ATA-100
> controller).
>
> 3) I applied the patches from www.linux-ide.org to a linux-2.4.0-test6
> kernel source from www.kernel.org and compiled my "new" kernel.
>
> 4.)  When I booted on my custom kernel to my dismay I saw all devices
> operable however, my promise ATA-100 contoller was using hde. As far as
> I know there is no way to change this so.
>
> 5.) I hoped I could simply edit my lilo.conf file run liloconfig and
> voila!.No way! Since device
> hde did not exist at that time ( I was using hda, hdb) this coiuld not
> be.
>
> 6.) After many hours of strife ( and realizing that linux-2.4.0-test6
> has the drivers in it for ATA-100) I decided to install a 2 GB maxtor on
> hda, put the custom kernel on it, and now Debian sees my hda, hdb
> (CDROM) and hde.
>
> 7.) I will now have to adjust my lilo.conf to boot windows 98 (hde1).
>
> There must be a better way to do this, someone please tell me .
>
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Trying to setup Xwindows on the i810 chipset

[Rogelio E. Castillo Haro]

I've been followed the instructions for install the i810 driver on my
Debian potato, but I need to know where I need to put the X link to
XFCom_i810?

Regards!

Rogelio

Re: Mutt Address book

[kmself]

On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 11:01:03PM -0400, Harry Henry Gebel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 
wrote:

<...>

> Mutt has alias completion, so if you had an alias "associates" you could
> type "assco" and then TAB and it would fill it in (or give you a menu for
> multiple addresses. If you hit TAB on a empty "To:" line it will give you a
> menu with all of your aliases. I think there is a command to automatically
> add an alias to .muttrc, but I like to keep my aliases in order so I don't
> know what that command is.

'a'

I tend to run a sort on my mutt address list (which I keep in a seperate
file from .muttrc) periodically.

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Re: Mutt Address book

[Harry Henry Gebel]

On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 08:51:56AM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> > Mutt has alias completion, so if you had an alias "associates" you could
> > type "assco" and then TAB and it would fill it in (or give you a menu for
> > multiple addresses. If you hit TAB on a empty "To:" line it will give you a
> > menu with all of your aliases. I think there is a command to automatically
> > add an alias to .muttrc, but I like to keep my aliases in order so I don't
> > know what that command is.
> 
> 'a'
> 
> I tend to run a sort on my mutt address list (which I keep in a seperate
> file from .muttrc) periodically.
> 

Unfortunately, that only works if you are keeping them in alphabetical
order or some other order that the computer can easily deduce. I keep them
in order by category, how long I have known the person (if it's a person),
and whether I have ever met them face-to-face.

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Re: Trying to setup Xwindows on the i810 chipset

[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

i setup 12 machines with i810

for machines that did not have X support for X out of the box i just
replaced the XF86_SVGA binary.  however on potato there is X support for
i810 but you need the kernel driver which i dont think comes with potato
..the first time i seutp 810 on potato it took many hours to find a
working driver/X server combo. the source for the kernel driver is part of
the X336 source distribution and you can get it from www.xfree86.org, run
a search for 'agpgart' there are many different agpgarts but from what i
found only that one worked(that particular version). i can provide you
witht he source of agpgart as well i have it somewhere still... 

or you can use the X server and driver from intel which it seems like
thats what you have there, in that case(if it were me) i'd just backup the
existing XF86_SVGA and replace it, since that is what the XFCom_i810
driver is just a hacked XF86_SVGA. the link is /etc/X11/X

nate

On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Rogelio E. Castillo Haro wrote:

rcasti >I've been followed the instructions for install the i810 driver on my
rcasti >Debian potato, but I need to know where I need to put the X link to
rcasti >XFCom_i810?
rcasti >
rcasti >Regards!
rcasti >
rcasti >Rogelio
rcasti >
rcasti >
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Re: How does the mailing-list->usenet gateway work?

[kmself]

muc.lists.debian.user appears to be current.

On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 05:47:53PM -0500, Jeff Howie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I was informed that the linux.debian.user group has actually been
> discontinued for quite some time. Apparantly it's still being kept
> alive by Deja, but you won't see it anywhere else.
> 
> On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 03:07:15PM -0700, Joe Emenaker wrote:
> > Stuff sent to the mailing list shows up on linux.debian.user. 
> > 
> > My question is, does stuff posted to linux.debian.user go to the mailing 
> > list? In fact, I tried posting to the newsgroup and it didn't even show up 
> > on the newsgroup itself? Does the newsgroup support posting?
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web-based mail

[Umum Wijoyo]

Hi!

I'd like to provide a web-based mail service for my users.
Are there any Debian packages for that? What abt its 
security (I mean, when a user enters his/her password)?

OK! TIA

Umum Wijoyo
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Re: Mutt Address book

[will trillich]

On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 12:11:43PM -0400, Harry Henry Gebel wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 08:51:56AM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> > > Mutt has alias completion, so if you had an alias "associates" you could
> > > type "assco" and then TAB and it would fill it in (or give you a menu for
> > > multiple addresses. If you hit TAB on a empty "To:" line it will give you 
> > > a
> > > menu with all of your aliases. I think there is a command to automatically
> > > add an alias to .muttrc, but I like to keep my aliases in order so I don't
> > > know what that command is.
> > 
> > 'a'
> > 
> > I tend to run a sort on my mutt address list (which I keep in a seperate
> > file from .muttrc) periodically.
> > 
> 
> Unfortunately, that only works if you are keeping them in alphabetical
> order or some other order that the computer can easily deduce. I keep them
> in order by category, how long I have known the person (if it's a person),
> and whether I have ever met them face-to-face.

sure would be nice, then, to have multiple alias files, eh?

Unlike other mailers, Mutt doesn't require aliases to be defined
in a special file. The alias command can appear anywhere
in a configuration file, as long as this file is sourced.
Consequently, you can have multiple alias files, or you can have
all aliases defined in your muttrc.

On the other hand, the create-alias function can use only one
file, the one pointed to by the $alias_file variable (which is
~/.muttrc by default). This file is not special either, in the
sense that Mutt will happily append aliases to any file, but in
order for the new aliases to take effect you need to explicitly
source this file too.

For example: 

source /usr/local/share/Mutt.aliases
source ~/.mail_aliases
set alias_file=~/.mail_aliases

from /usr/share/doc/mutt/html/manual-3.html


so your quickie 'a' key will only append to one file (which seems
sensible until something better rears its head) but you can have
several, and sort'm however you like.

Internet Stations

[Rogelio E. Castillo Haro]

Hi!

I'm just opening an Internet/coffe business. I'll have only linux
stations with a Debian Server as the link to internet.

I need an application to control the time and fee for the customers,
someone know about one to try or buy, or made it?
And something have been resolve the linux - browser to work fine with
some mail.chats with java?

Regards

Rogelio E. Castillo

Re: Need advice on Postscript/PCL printer

[Hubert Chan]

Nicola Bernardelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Thanks a lot for replying,
> 
> I'll check out what equivalents/evolutions have the Brother HL-730 and

I don't know if I'd recommend the HL-730.  The construction isn't the greatest
(I broke part of the output tray), it is meant to be a Windows printer (though
the Ghostscript guys made a filter for it), and it seems to run out of toner
rather quickly (at least compared to my old IBM laser printer, which we never
had to replace the toner in the over 5 years that we had it).  The only reason
I bought it was it was cheap (read: "on sale"), and seemed to work OK.

> the HP LaserJet 6MP, I'll also investigate more on the Lexmark
> warranty and characteristic... but frankly speaking I'm seriously
> turning towards the 1200dpi Epson, crossed fingers for it not to break
> (to soon) and for the Epson service to be correct.
> 
> Nicola
> (Below I'm just thinking aloud, just in case anybody has anything to add.)
> 
> 
> So Ghostscript (I'll check its docs and the ones of apsfilter) does
> _not_ translate to PCL, I see, kind of gdi at last :-(
> But it's not gdi, could it be worse, may that imply need of more RAM
> on the printer?

Ghostscript _does_ (or rather _can_, depending on the command-line args)
translate to PCL, but AFAIK uses just the bitmap printing part of PCL (someone
better correct me quickly if I'm wrong about that).

For myself, I found that for text documents, 2MB was fine at 600dpi.  I
survived with 512KB at 300dpi.  Usually, printers support some sort of
compression, so you don't quite need as much RAM as you would think.

About your other e-mail: I have 2MB of RAM on my printer.  It doesn't support
PostScript, so I filter using Ghostscript (well, actually apsfilter, which uses
Ghostscript).

HTH

Hubert

RE: Dual NIC Problem

[Kimsey-Hickman, Brian]

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Behalf Of Christen Welch
Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2000 1:52 AM
To: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org'
Subject: Re: Dual NIC Problem


On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 09:05:30AM -0400,
Kimsey-Hickman, Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

>> Well it sure didn't take to long to reach the limit of my knowledge. 

>Heh, this is my first real crack at helping anyone, so I know how you feel.
>I hope I can help you solve this. If not, feel free to call me at all hours
>of the night to chew me out :)

Heck, I'm just happy to have someone to bounce ideas off of.  You won't get
any crankiness from me.


>> I could not find anything that had the a telnet 127.0.0.1 110
>> line.  Sorry, I am a new user.

>Sorry, I meant just run that at the prompt. That should take you into
>your own mail server, should you have one running. The point of this being,
>if you have telnetd running, and can't telnet in to the default port, maybe
>you could telnet into another port.

Okay, I tried that and got an error "Unable to connect to remote host:
Connection Refused"
When I built this machine I did not use any of the simple installation
setups like for a Server, Workstation or Scientific Workstation.  I selected
advanced and all I selected was telnet, ifconfig and tcpdump.  So, unless
mail services are selected and installed by default this machines probably
would not have them.  Basically, all I want this machine to do is to monitor
a network segment while I telnet into from another segment to take a look.
I could go ahead and install mail services for diagnostic purposes I don't
have a problem with that.
 
>> now.  Both are purely experimental at this point.  I did check the hosts
>> file at it does have the machine name and IP number.  When I said I could
>> ping I meant I can the IP address not the device name.

> Here's where my understanding of the whole network stuff fades away :)
> Are you trying to ping /dev/eth0?

> Can you give me the output of netstat -rn on all of the systems?

The dual NIC machine

Destination Gateway Genmask Flags  Mss  Window   irtt
Iface
172.30.4.0  0.0.0.0 255.255.254.0   U   0   0
0   eth0
172.30.6.0  0.0.0.0 255.255.254.0   U   0   0
0   eth1
0.0.0.0 172.30.6.2  0.0.0.0 UG  0   0
0   eth1
0.0.0.0 172.30.4.2  0.0.0.0 UG  0   0
0   etho


The machine I am trying to telnet from

Destination Gateway Genmask Flags  Mss  Window   irtt
Iface
172.30.4.0  0.0.0.0 255.255.254.0   U   0   0
0   eth0
0.0.0.0 172.30.4.2  0.0.0.0 UG  0   0
0   etho



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Re: Can shell-script be setuid ?

[William T Wilson]

On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Alex V. Toropov wrote:

> Can I make a shell script setuid ?

No.  Linux doesn't support this since it is insecure.  It works with perl
scripts only, because Perl does some extra checks and explicit handling to
make it work.

To get a setuid shell script you have to write a C wrapper program for it
or let the user execute it with sudo.

RE: Dual NIC Problem

[Kimsey-Hickman, Brian]

Thanks, for the advice.  However I did notice that I do not have
/etc/init.d/networks file.  I have a /etc/init.d/networking file.  I noticed
this when I first started looking but thought that the file names might have
been changed between Debian 2.1 and 2.2.  Do you know, or anyone for that
matter, if that is the case?  Or do I have a botched installation?

Thanks,

Brian

 
-Original Message-
From: Krafthefer, Kevin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, September 29, 2000 11:59 AM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Re: Dual NIC Problem


Brian,

I've grappled with multiple nics a few times, most of the time successfully
but not always. Without being able to 
pin-point your problem from here, I offer this advice:

potentially useful commands:
o  netstat
o  ifconfig

potentially useful files:
o  /etc/init.d/networks (basically, this is where your network configuration
is set):
o  /etc/networks
o  /etc/inet.d

potentially useful books:
o  Linux Network Administrators Guide, second edition is out (O'Reilly)

potentially useful words:
o  stick to ip addresses until you get you basic network functionality
working, then add a name server on a debian box 
(not NT, microsoft's implementation of dns is limited and a bit unstable [go
figure]); get O'Reilly's dns/bind book for 
name server configuration
o  you can bind multiple ip addresses to one nic, this can eliminate
possibilities of hardware conflicts between the nics 
but exposes you to security issues

Good luck and stick with it. It will eventually work.
Krafty

Re: maximum file number

[Colin Watson]

"=?iso-2022-jp?B?GyRCMDJFRDluSH4bKEI=?=" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I will manage about 100,000,000 files in near future.
>How many files does one directory has?
>
>I am afraid of the performance,

You should be. The ext2 filesystem searches directories linearly, so
performance on a directory containing 100 million files will be utterly
abysmal.

>and please teach me good idea for the problem.

If you split it up into several levels it might be feasible. Otherwise,
consider looking at a filesystem like ext3 or reiserfs (I'm not sure if
even they can handle directories that large, though).

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Re: web-based mail

[brian moore]

On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 12:07:27AM +0700, Umum Wijoyo wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I'd like to provide a web-based mail service for my users.
> Are there any Debian packages for that? What abt its 
> security (I mean, when a user enters his/her password)?

apt-get install apache-ssl imp

With apache-ssl, your password won't be sniffed (well, it may between
the web server and the mail server, but for most people if that's a
problem you're already screwed).

Re: web-based mail

[Dan Hutchinson]

Would you run the mail server and apache-ssl server on the same computer?
 Would this cause any security problems?

Dan

 brian moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 12:07:27AM +0700, Umum Wijoyo wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > I'd like to provide a web-based mail service for my users.
> > Are there any Debian packages for that? What abt its 
> > security (I mean, when a user enters his/her password)?
> 
> apt-get install apache-ssl imp
> 
> With apache-ssl, your password won't be sniffed (well, it may between
> the web server and the mail server, but for most people if that's a
> problem you're already screwed).
> 
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stty, xterm, solaris

[Kevin Krafthefer]

Hello,

This is probably more of a solaris question than a debian one but I'm
certain that some fellow debian users have encountered this same
problem:

When telneting (from a debian box ;^)   ) into a solaris box with a ksh
defaulted account, I lose usage of my backspace and arrow keys. I've
found that I can fix my backspace key with the command "stty erase ^?"
but I haven't been able to fix my arrow keys.

Is there a way setting my arrow keys via stty?
Is there a better approach to this that doesn't involve having to use
stty?

Krafty

Re: mounting /home?

[USM Bish]

It depends on whether your  /home dir is an independent
partition, or it is under root dir ("/").

1. If seperate partition:

a) Just ensure that you do not re-initialise this part-
   ition during re-installation.  Just  mount it as  an
   "existing partition" without re-initialisation.
   
b) Your fstab need not be tinkered any further, except
   for adding floppy, cd-rom, DOS partitions etc.

2. If /home is under "/" (root partition):

a) Though it is strongly advised  that you should  re-
   initialise / and /usr, you may not be in a position
   to do so since contents of /home will be lost.There
   maybe other dirs under / which you want to preserve.
   Just do a rm -rf on the directories that need to be  
   re- written and re-install over the old thing with-
   out re-initialising  or formatting  the "/"  (root) 
   partition.
   
b) I have successfully re-installed even seperate dis-
   tros by above technique.I just delete the following
   dirs and re-install:
   
   /bin, /boot, /dev, /lib, /lost+found, /proc, /root,
   /sbin, /tmp, /var
   
   [I know it is a bad idea not to seperate things like
   /lib, /var etc. in separate partitions,  but my home
   comp has four OSs and I do not have much luxuries on 
   this score]
 
   Normally I move my /root dir (rather than delete) so
   that my dot files and other  configurations of  root 
   can be re-used. I also save copies of important /etc
   files like  profile,  fstab,  wvdial.conf etc before
   doing a re-installation.
 
   My /usr is a seperate partition.  I always  store my
   /usr/local subdir in another partition before  doing
   a re-initialisation/ format of /usr,  and  copy this
   back later. 


 HTH
 
 
 USM Bish
 
 
On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 02:13:08PM -0700, Dale Morris wrote:
> This is probably embarassingly simple, but I'd better ask.. I'm thinking
> of doing a reinstall of 2.2 and would like to use my existing /home
> directory. That will allow me to keep lots of existing info. I tried
> this once before w/ Redhat but it didn't work right after the reinstall.
> Do I just do a regular install *not* mounting the /home partition? After
> the install, how do I get the /home partion mounted? Can I just copy my
> /etc/fstab file and /home will mount automatically?
> thanks
> 

Re: debian: dos2unix and unix2dos utilities.

[USM Bish]

Solution 1:
~~
   By all probabilities you have it installed on our system
   already.  In case you have a  standard workstation model
   installed both  dos2unix and unix2dos  should be in your
   /usr/bin dir.
   
Solution 2:
~~
   In case not, check if you have recode installed (Should
   be there by default installation).In which case add the
   following lines to your /etc/profile, or .profile,  and  
   you have the same commands available to you:

   
  
   alias unix2dos='recode lat1..ibmpc'
   alias dos2unix='recode ibmpc..lat1'
   
   ---
   
Solution 3:
~~
   Usually for most Linux users, it is dos2unix, which is
   the main problem.  DOS edit, and few other editors can
   read  unix text files and puts in an  ASCII 13  during
   saving, and the unix2dos functions therefore more of a
   conceived requirement than otherwise.  This little two 
   liner bash  script using the  "tr" programs will  do a 
   dos2unix text file conversion.

   Note: Save as d2u and do a "chmod +x d2u" and place it
   along default path (e.g. /usr/local/bin) for use.
    
 
   #!/bin/bash 
   [ -z $1 ] && 
   { echo "d2u - converts DOS text to Unix."; echo \ 
 "Syntax: d2u (dosfile) unixfile"; exit } 

   cat $1|tr -d '\015' 

    

Solution 4:
~~
   Use a dedicated program.  Willing to mail you  source
   tarball as PMO (Personal Mail Only)
   
ciao

USM Bish

On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 10:48:23AM +1100, Brendan J Simon wrote:
> Are there any dos2unix and unix2dos command line utilities in any of the
> debian pacages ???
> I've done an "apt-cache search ..." but can't find anything suitable.
> 
> Thanks,
> Brendan Simon.

Re: Konsole session switching...

[USM Bish]

I don't know about switching between sessions, but you can
switch between 6 consoles using Alt-F1 through Alt-F6 on 
the same machine on console.

HTH

USM Bish

On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 06:44:41AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
> Does anyone know if there is a way to switch between sessions in Konsole
> with the keyboard?
> 
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>  ICQ: 5107343  | main connection to the switchboard of souls.
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Re: User privelidges

[USM Bish]

There is a program called  "xusermount" somewhere on
the net (don't remember where). Got it by going thru
lycos over a  year ago. No .deb available.  Maybe on
freshmeat, give that a try as well.

Can mail it as an att (PMO).

HTH

USM Bish


On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 09:26:38PM -0700, ObeseWhale wrote:
> How  can I let users run X and mount drives?  Thanks in advance.
> 
> Matt "ObeseWhale" Grinshpun
> 

Re: firewall (fwd)

[Matthew Sackman]

On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 11:51:50AM -0700, George Bonser wrote:
> > This isn't necessarily the case.  It certainly appears to vary by
> > region.  They don't do it here (Denver, Colorado).  Perhaps this is
> > because DSL is so easily available :}
> 
> One interesting thing that many providers are doing is not allowing any
> VPN traffic. If you want to "telecommute" and work from home, your company
> is going to have to buy you a commercial VPN capable account. The
> reasoning from the ISP standpoint is that the pricing on home accounts is
> very low. They are designed for private personal use. If you want to put
> these accounts into commercial service (they view a company offering
> employees a VPN connection into the company net for purposes of performing
> work to be commercial use) then you are going to need to buy a commercial
> account (or, rather, your EMPLOYER will need to purchase the account).
> 
> Individual home internet accounts are a "loss leader" for most ISP's. They
> don't make beans from them and make their real money offering services to
> business. In that light, I really can't blame them. 
> 

Over here in the UK, the ISP is free and the telecommunications network is
what charges. ISPs here make money from the cost of phone calls to them (flat
rate options are only just becomming available) or from advertising (they
do nasty things like try to set the homepage of your browser to their own
site). Neither the communication people nor the ISPs want you to use up too
much of their bandwidth and so ADSL or cable modems or ISDN in reality are 
not feasible options for us. Thus we're limited to 56K modems.

Apart from echo requests, I don't think the ISPs do anything in terms of
scanning here: we get lines dropped after 2 hours, but they never complain
about running servers: I run web servers and games servers on my box, and 
have never had a complaint. Examining the syslog shows nothing weird either.

> It is going to get much more difficult as time goes by to find a basic
> home account that will let you do much more than act as a basic client.
>
As always, you get what you pay for. However, I do think it is a bit much
for an ISP to scan their clients - it's using up bandwidth, and afterall, most
windows users don't even realise that their NetBIOS port (139) is open, and
in most cases their personal pooy web server is also running in the
background. Are non windows users being penalised just because they are more
likely to know what they are doing and to make use of these technologies?
Are the ISPs really trying to lobby microsoft into having printer and network
sharing turned off by default and to remove the pws?

Matthew

 
> 
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Re: Debian and compaq presario

[Francesco Bochicchio]

On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 01:29:21PM +0200, Olivier Billet wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> I've well installed --well, more or less : I just set the X server, some
> config files correctly-- Debian 2.2 on my Compaq Presario 1200 laptop,
> but I still have a problem:
> 
> Is there somwhere someone that has successfully installed the so famous
> Lucent Winmodem correctly on the same compaq presario?
>
Uhm ... close. I have a Compaq presario 1610, and I managed to make the
ltmodem work with kernel 2.2.13. If you don'tf find a closer match, feel
free to e-mail me and I'll give you the details.

N.B : if you dig in the archives of this mailing list (and debian-user too), 
you'll find a  couple of threads on the 'ltmodem' subject, with some useful 
info.

 
Ciao.
-- 
FB

Trying to get .menu directory to work

[Bryan Walton]

Greetings,
I have been playing around with the menu program and have a question 
for everybody.  I can make my own menu items and all works well when I place 
those items in /etc/menu.  Create the entry, put in /etc/menu and then 
update-menus (as both user and as root).  Things show up fine.  However, if I 
take that menu entry and put it in my .menu directory in /home/walton/ and then 
run update-menus as user, the menu item doesn't show up.  I was under the 
impression that entries in the .menu directory were supposed to override system 
wide menu items (at least for that user).  I can't get it to work though.  Any 
suggestions?

Thanks,
Bryan Walton

Re: Debian and compaq presario

[ESTEBAN P OSSES ANGUITA]

On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Olivier Billet wrote:

> Hi everybody,
> 
> I've well installed --well, more or less : I just set the X server, some
> config files correctly-- Debian 2.2 on my Compaq Presario 1200 laptop,
> but I still have a problem:
> 
> Is there somwhere someone that has successfully installed the so famous
> Lucent Winmodem correctly on the same compaq presario?
> 
> Because I've  heard on linuxmodem.org  some people claim they've
> installed their lt-winmodem correctly.
> Thanks in advance.

i've done it ... the problem is in the kernel, 2.2.17 in debian 2.2 ...
but the driver was compiled using kernel 2.2.12.

you need to compile an older version ... AFAIK, it works from 2.2.12 to 
2.2.14 ... i'm not sure if it works with a newer version, but i 
couldn't make it work with 2.2.17

bye

> 
> PS: for people that plan to buy a laptop, try to buy one with a screen
> that can do more than 800x600...
> 
> 
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Re: mounting /home?

[Dale Morris]

Thanks for the reply. I've got /home mounted on a separate partition so
I'll just do it as you suggest in "1.a)" below. What I want to do is get
back to a potato version of debian. I did an [apt-get upgrade] with the
helix-gnome website in my sources.conf file and it changed *lots* of
stuff. Everything seems to be working fine, but I'm uncomfortable with
security in the unstable version.

USM Bish ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> It depends on whether your  /home dir is an independent
> partition, or it is under root dir ("/").
> 
> 1. If seperate partition:
> 
> a) Just ensure that you do not re-initialise this part-
>ition during re-installation.  Just  mount it as  an
>"existing partition" without re-initialisation.
>
> b) Your fstab need not be tinkered any further, except
>for adding floppy, cd-rom, DOS partitions etc.
> 
> 2. If /home is under "/" (root partition):
> 
> a) Though it is strongly advised  that you should  re-
>initialise / and /usr, you may not be in a position
>to do so since contents of /home will be lost.There
>maybe other dirs under / which you want to preserve.
>Just do a rm -rf on the directories that need to be  
>re- written and re-install over the old thing with-
>out re-initialising  or formatting  the "/"  (root) 
>partition.
>
> b) I have successfully re-installed even seperate dis-
>tros by above technique.I just delete the following
>dirs and re-install:
>
>/bin, /boot, /dev, /lib, /lost+found, /proc, /root,
>/sbin, /tmp, /var
>
>[I know it is a bad idea not to seperate things like
>/lib, /var etc. in separate partitions,  but my home
>comp has four OSs and I do not have much luxuries on 
>this score]
>  
>Normally I move my /root dir (rather than delete) so
>that my dot files and other  configurations of  root 
>can be re-used. I also save copies of important /etc
>files like  profile,  fstab,  wvdial.conf etc before
>doing a re-installation.
>  
>My /usr is a seperate partition.  I always  store my
>/usr/local subdir in another partition before  doing
>a re-initialisation/ format of /usr,  and  copy this
>back later. 
> 
> 
>  HTH
>  
>  
>  USM Bish
>  
>  
> On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 02:13:08PM -0700, Dale Morris wrote:
> > This is probably embarassingly simple, but I'd better ask.. I'm thinking
> > of doing a reinstall of 2.2 and would like to use my existing /home
> > directory. That will allow me to keep lots of existing info. I tried
> > this once before w/ Redhat but it didn't work right after the reinstall.
> > Do I just do a regular install *not* mounting the /home partition? After
> > the install, how do I get the /home partion mounted? Can I just copy my
> > /etc/fstab file and /home will mount automatically?
> > thanks
> > 
> 
> 

-- 

"The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck
the societies in which they occur."
--Albert North Whitehead

Re: Konsole session switching...

[Steve Lamb]

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> I don't know about switching between sessions, but you can
> switch between 6 consoles using Alt-F1 through Alt-F6 on
> the same machine on console.

Konsole, with a K, as in KDE's terminal emulator.  Thanks for the attempt
though, I do appreciate it.  :)

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Re: Debian and compaq presario

[Daniel E. Baumann]

On Mon, 02 Oct 2000, Francesco Bochicchio wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 01:29:21PM +0200, Olivier Billet wrote:
> > Hi everybody,
> > 
> > I've well installed --well, more or less : I just set the X server, some
> > config files correctly-- Debian 2.2 on my Compaq Presario 1200 laptop,
> > but I still have a problem:
> > 
> > Is there somwhere someone that has successfully installed the so famous
> > Lucent Winmodem correctly on the same compaq presario?
> >
> Uhm ... close. I have a Compaq presario 1610, and I managed to make the
> ltmodem work with kernel 2.2.13. If you don'tf find a closer match, feel
> free to e-mail me and I'll give you the details.
> 
> N.B : if you dig in the archives of this mailing list (and debian-user too), 
> you'll find a  couple of threads on the 'ltmodem' subject, with some useful 
> info.
> 
>  
> Ciao.
> -- 
> FB
> 
> 
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The lucent winmodem driver will not work with a kernel newer then 2.2.14. you
can try and use an old ppp module with a newer kernel, but I could never get
this to work for me.

Dan

Daniel E. Baumann
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred)
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Re: maximum file number

[Chris Gray]

On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 07:02:22PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> "=?iso-2022-jp?B?GyRCMDJFRDluSH4bKEI=?=" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I will manage about 100,000,000 files in near future.
> >How many files does one directory has?
> >
> >I am afraid of the performance,
> 
> You should be. The ext2 filesystem searches directories linearly, so
> performance on a directory containing 100 million files will be utterly
> abysmal.
> 
> >and please teach me good idea for the problem.
> 
> If you split it up into several levels it might be feasible. Otherwise,
> consider looking at a filesystem like ext3 or reiserfs (I'm not sure if
> even they can handle directories that large, though).

Since ext3 is based on ext2, the info you just gave (linear directory
searches) pretty much rules it out.  Reiserfs with its balanced tree
algorithms would be better in this case.

Cheers,
Chris

(who only feels like his ~/ directory has 1e8 files in it.)

-- 
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

Re: Dual NIC Problem

[Bob Nielsen]

This did change in 2.2.  /etc/init.d/networking has replaced
/etc/init.d/networks, although a normal upgrade will still use the old
one (i.e., the symlinks to /etc/rc*.d aren't created if /etc/init.d/networks
exists). 

On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 01:49:52PM -0400, Kimsey-Hickman, Brian wrote:
> 
> Thanks, for the advice.  However I did notice that I do not have
> /etc/init.d/networks file.  I have a /etc/init.d/networking file.  I noticed
> this when I first started looking but thought that the file names might have
> been changed between Debian 2.1 and 2.2.  Do you know, or anyone for that
> matter, if that is the case?  Or do I have a botched installation?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Brian
> 
>  
> -Original Message-
> From: Krafthefer, Kevin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, September 29, 2000 11:59 AM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: Re: Dual NIC Problem
> 
> 
> Brian,
> 
> I've grappled with multiple nics a few times, most of the time successfully
> but not always. Without being able to 
> pin-point your problem from here, I offer this advice:
> 
> potentially useful commands:
> o  netstat
> o  ifconfig
> 
> potentially useful files:
> o  /etc/init.d/networks (basically, this is where your network configuration
> is set):
> o  /etc/networks
> o  /etc/inet.d
> 
> potentially useful books:
> o  Linux Network Administrators Guide, second edition is out (O'Reilly)
> 
> potentially useful words:
> o  stick to ip addresses until you get you basic network functionality
> working, then add a name server on a debian box 
> (not NT, microsoft's implementation of dns is limited and a bit unstable [go
> figure]); get O'Reilly's dns/bind book for 
> name server configuration
> o  you can bind multiple ip addresses to one nic, this can eliminate
> possibilities of hardware conflicts between the nics 
> but exposes you to security issues
> 
> Good luck and stick with it. It will eventually work.
> Krafty
> 
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ps2pdf and LaTeX's seminar style

[Douglas Bates]

I am using Debian Linux 2.2 (potato).  I also have access to systems running
2.3 (woody) if that would help.

I have created a presentation in LaTeX using the seminar style.  I use
landscape orientation for the slides.  The room where I want to give
the presentation has a computer running Windows with Acrobat Reader
available.  I would like to convert the slides to PDF and use the
full-screen feature of Acrobat to display them.

My difficulty is that ps2pdf does not follow the papersize hints.  The
resultant PDF file is rotated 90 degrees when I try to view it.

Has anyone been successful at producing PDF from landscape slides done
with the seminar style?

Please cc: me on any replies.  I am too far behind on messages to this
list to ever hope to catch up.

RE: Internet Stations

[Anderson, Tim TL33E]

>Hi!

>I'm just opening an Internet/coffe business. I'll have only linux
>stations with a Debian Server as the link to internet.

>I need an application to control the time and fee for the
customers,
>someone know about one to try or buy, or made it?
>And something have been resolve the linux - browser to work fine
with
>some mail.chats with java?

I heard that KDE 2.0 has a pretty decent browser - haven't tried it
yet myself - anyone?

tim

RE: maximum file number

[Anderson, Tim TL33E]

>I will manage about 100,000,000 files in near future.
>How many files does one directory has?
>
>I am afraid of the performance,

Do you really need to store Files as such?  What kind of data are
you keeping?   Maybe you could use a good database server instead - a
filesystem isn't really going to handle numbers like that very well at all.

tim

ISDN-Configuration

[Wolfram Kruschel]

Hi!
I've been trying to connect to my ISP with my ISDN-Card for a while now,
but I keep on running into problems. So my question: is there anybody
out there who could give my some help/hints, where e.g. I could find
docs on how to set up ISDN under Debian 2.2? I looked through all the
mans and howtos but I just can't get it to work. Thanks a lot. 
Wolf

Need CPAN Perl mods help

[John Foster]

I have Akopia Interchange running on a Debian Potato system. I recently
attempted to upgrade to the most recent Bundle::InterChange mod from
CPAN. The results were that in so doing I was instructed by 'cpan' to
remove the existing perl mods (debianized) from the system as they
represented duplicate links. The instructions were to 'make install
UNINST=1' I have no idea what to do with these instructions. I did
however determine that my perl system is screwed up as InterChange
4.5.6-beta does not work any longer. I have been searching for some time
for a way to get the necessary modules in a .deb format that Interchange
will recognize. Any tips, or assistance will be appreciated. Thanks!
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We sell fine quality servers and workstations.
We specialize in multiprocessor units. 
We install Debian Linux at no extra charge!

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pricmail recipe to detect fetchmailed addrs?

[will trillich]

(fetchmailed? i decree it to be a verb today.)

i've got some old addresses
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
and i use fetchmail to yank email from those into my active
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
account.

i'd like to phase out the older accounts...

what kind of procmail recipe do i need to figure out
the actual destination address of an email, so i can
gently inform senders that i've got a new address?

this doesn't quite get it--


:0 hc
* [EMAIL PROTECTED]/(pinncomp|speedex)
{
OLD=$MATCH

# track who got reminded
:0 hwc:old_addrs.lock
| egrep '^Date:|^From:' >> to_$OLD

# remind about new address
:0 c
* ! ^X-Loop: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* ^TO_ \/[a-zA-Z0-9]+@(pinncomp|speedex)
| (formail -r -I"Precedence: junk" -A"X-Loop: [EMAIL PROTECTED]" ; \
echo "You sent email to an old email address '$MATCH';" ; \
echo "It's been forwarded to the new address '[EMAIL 
PROTECTED]'." ; \
echo "Please use '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' in the future. Thanks." ) 
| $SENDMAIL -t
}

one isp adds a X-RCPT-TO header, but the other doesn't...

suggestions solicited.

Re: Need CPAN Perl mods help

[will trillich]

On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 03:17:10PM -0500, John Foster wrote:
> I have Akopia Interchange running on a Debian Potato system. I recently
> attempted to upgrade to the most recent Bundle::InterChange mod from
> CPAN. The results were that in so doing I was instructed by 'cpan' to
> remove the existing perl mods (debianized) from the system as they
> represented duplicate links. The instructions were to 'make install
> UNINST=1' I have no idea what to do with these instructions. I did
> however determine that my perl system is screwed up as InterChange
> 4.5.6-beta does not work any longer. I have been searching for some time
> for a way to get the necessary modules in a .deb format that Interchange
> will recognize. Any tips, or assistance will be appreciated. Thanks!

i've been wondering the same thing.

so i broke down and read the manual. i hate that.

% man CPAN

FAQ

I installed a new version of module X but CPAN keeps saying,
I have the old version installed

Most probably you do have the old version installed.

This can happen if a module installs itself into
a different directory in the @INC path than it was
previously installed. This is not really a CPAN.pm
problem, you would have the same problem when installing
the module manually. The easiest way to prevent this
behaviour is to add the argument UNINST=1 to the make
install call, and that is why many people add this
argument permanently by configuring

o conf make_install_arg UNINST=1

i'm pretty sure it's talking about issuing a command at the
'CPAN shell' prompt there. that's not a bullet, by the way:

> o conf make_install_arg UNINST=1

actually consists of

 'conf' 'make_install_arg' 'UNINST=1'

which certainly had me going there for a while.

(one thing that has me going every time there's an upgrade
to cpan itself, is, i do the recommended two-step to get
and reload it, but the next three or four times i start
cpan it says the same thing over again. after about four
upgrade attempts, all is hunky/dory. fuy.)

...

still, the question remains:

is there a debian-approved override for cpan download/installs?

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MX300

[ObeseWhale]

Do any of you have a Diamond Monster Sound MX300 or other au8830-based sound
card working in Potato?  I tried doing make install on the latest public
release from linux.aureal.com and I get an error...   Error 1 in particular.

Matt "ObeseWhale" Grinshpun

Site Director: The Darker Sector
www.3dactionplanet.com/darksector

Coming soon...
Hyperleap - An opensource Quake 3 mod from Team Corrosive

RE: web-based mail

[Brooks R. Robinson]

You wouldn't have to.  Actually, IMP can be configured to access/read/use
any IMAP or POP based server located anywhere.  For example, I have IMP
configured on a box so that I could go to any web browser connected to the
internet (anywhere), http to my IMP site, and read mail any mail from
locally hosted mail to mail on other servers anywhere.  All you need is a
username and password (for the e-mail system being contacted), and the
machine name of the mail server.  It's totally cool for people with multiple
e-mail accounts.

Brooks

> -Original Message-
> From: Dan Hutchinson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, October 02, 2000 1:19 PM
> To: brian moore
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: web-based mail
>
>
> Would you run the mail server and apache-ssl server on the same computer?
>  Would this cause any security problems?
>
> Dan
>
>  brian moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 12:07:27AM +0700, Umum Wijoyo wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > I'd like to provide a web-based mail service for my users.
> > > Are there any Debian packages for that? What abt its
> > > security (I mean, when a user enters his/her password)?
> >
> > apt-get install apache-ssl imp
> >
> > With apache-ssl, your password won't be sniffed (well, it may between
> > the web server and the mail server, but for most people if that's a
> > problem you're already screwed).
> >
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Re: printing to a windows printer

[Stephan Hachinger]

Hello!

Don't know how to create the trash bin either (because I'm also quite new to
Linux) but I suggest to you to use apsfilter instead of magicfilter. The
newest versions have a *very* good setup script or program or whatever, you
only have to insert the server and printer name and it will be ok... I only
don't know if these new versions are already packaged into .debs, I'm using
a generic tar.gz. Indeed, it seems to me like apsfilter was once installed
on your system and the config is still from that time, but the
apsfilter-scripts are missing. So, a reinstall and reconfigure of apsfilter
should help.


- Original Message -
From: "David Erdman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Philipp Lehman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: 
Sent: Monday, October 02, 2000 4:47 PM
Subject: Re: printing to a windows printer


> sorry, i am pretty new in linuxi understand the lock part (i think),
but
> how would someone create a trash bin dedicated to lpd?
> should I just comment the /dev/null out then?
>
>
>
> On Mon, 02 Oct 2000, Philipp Lehman wrote:
> > On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, David Erdman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >i have done this in suse, and redhat but am thus far unsuccessful.
> > >I need to print to an HP722C (win printer) that is hooked up to windows
98
> > > on an internal lan.  looking at logs
> > >
> > >Oct  1 19:31:11 ganymede pnm2ppa[1192]: No pages printed!
> > >Oct  1 19:31:12 ganymede lpd[1195]: cannot execv
> > >/var/lib/apsfilter/bin/ppa720-a4-auto-mono-300
> > >Oct  1 19:31:12 ganymede lpd[1194]: lp: job could not be printed
> > >(cfA012ganymede)
> > >Oct  1 19:31:24 ganymede lpd[1197]: cannot execv
> > >/var/lib/apsfilter/bin/ppa720-a4-auto-mono-300
> > >Oct  1 19:31:24 ganymede lpd[1196]: lp: job could not be printed
> > >(cfA010ganymede)
> > >Oct  1 19:52:57 ganymede lpd[1347]: cannot execv
> > >/var/lib/apsfilter/bin/ppa720-a4-auto-mono-300
> > >Oct  1 19:52:57 ganymede lpd[1346]: lp: job could not be printed
> > >(cfA013ganymede)
> >
> > Your input filter script seems to be causing problems, printcap
> > looks ok to me.
> >
> > >I configured with both printtool, and magicfilter.
> > >i have also installed pn2pm (or whatever the hell it is)
> > >my printcap is as follows
> > >##PRINTTOOL3## SMB ppa 600x600 letter {} {HP DeskJet 720} ppa720b1 {}
> > >lp:\
> > >
> > > :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
> > > :mx#0:\
> > > :sh:\
> > > :if=/var/spool/lpd/lp/filter:\
> > > :af=/var/spool/lpd/lp/acct:\
> > > :lp=/dev/null:
> >
> > ^
> >
> > Not recommended. AFAIK lpd will *lock* /dev/null. You'd better
> > create a trash bin dedicated to lpd, eg /dev/lpnull or whatever.
>
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Samba and permissions

[Alec Smith]

I'm noticing that Samba 2.0.7 is creating files on my server owned by
root.alec or root.foo instead of the permissions of the user who owns the
home directory. Is there a way to get it creating files with the right
permissions, such as alec.alec or foo.foo depending on the user?

Relevant portions of my smb.conf are below.

Thanks,
Alec


# Samba config file created using SWAT
# Date: 2000/10/02 16:34:02

# Global parameters
[global]
workgroup = SHADOWSTAR
netbios name = TWEETY
server string = Samba %v
encrypt passwords = Yes
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
max log size = 50
announce version = 4.0
socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
domain logons = Yes
os level = 128
preferred master = Yes
domain master = Yes
dns proxy = No
wins support = Yes
admin users = alec
hosts allow = 
hosts deny = 
level2 oplocks = Yes
follow symlinks = No

[homes]
comment = Home Directories
writeable = Yes
security mask = 0744
force security mode = 00
directory security mask = 0755
force directory security mode = 00
browseable = No

Re: Internet Stations

[Rogelio E. Castillo Haro]

Yes, I've heard about it, it's named Conquer or Conqueror, or something like
that...but, since a discussion I heard about the License of KDE I'd prefer 
don't use
it, and try only GPL programs...
Thanks Tim.

And about an accounting system for time and money?

Rogelio E. Castillo

"Anderson, Tim TL33E" wrote:

> >Hi!
>
> >I'm just opening an Internet/coffe business. I'll have only linux
> >stations with a Debian Server as the link to internet.
>
> >I need an application to control the time and fee for the
> customers,
> >someone know about one to try or buy, or made it?
> >And something have been resolve the linux - browser to work fine
> with
> >some mail.chats with java?
>
> I heard that KDE 2.0 has a pretty decent browser - haven't tried it
> yet myself - anyone?
>
> tim
>
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RE: maximum file number

[Frodo Baggins]

Anderson, TimTL33E scripsit:
>
>   >I will manage about 100,000,000 files in near future.
>   >How many files does one directory has?
>   >
>   >I am afraid of the performance,
>
>   Do you really need to store Files as such?  What kind of data are
>you keeping?   Maybe you could use a good database server instead - a
>filesystem isn't really going to handle numbers like that very well at all.


Also because IIRC block size is by default 4096bytes. With this
value, 10^8 files will need _at_least_ some 400Gb, without counting
superblock(s), reserved blocks, directories and so on... It seem to me
that this is a h..l of a disk, and overall an h..l of a
partition... I wouldn't like to have to wait for fdisk to scan it
after a power failure... :))  Moreover,  you'll also need 10^8
i-nodes I can't remember, but it seems to me that there will not be
so many i-nodes, even with a 400Gb HD (by the way,
there exist such huge disks for PCs?).  

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procmail recipe to detect fetchmailed addrs?

[will trillich]

i meant, procmail. it only FEELs like prickmail.

anybody got some pointers here?

On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 03:28:10PM -0500, will trillich wrote:
> (fetchmailed? i decree it to be a verb today.)
> 
> i've got some old addresses
>   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> and i use fetchmail to yank email from those into my active
>   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> account.
> 
> i'd like to phase out the older accounts...
> 
> what kind of procmail recipe do i need to figure out
> the actual destination address of an email, so i can
> gently inform senders that i've got a new address?
> 
> this doesn't quite get it--
> 
> 
> :0 hc
> * [EMAIL PROTECTED]/(pinncomp|speedex)
> {
>   OLD=$MATCH
> 
>   # track who got reminded
>   :0 hwc:old_addrs.lock
>   | egrep '^Date:|^From:' >> to_$OLD
> 
>   # remind about new address
>   :0 c
>   * ! ^X-Loop: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>   * ^TO_ \/[a-zA-Z0-9]+@(pinncomp|speedex)
>   | (formail -r -I"Precedence: junk" -A"X-Loop: [EMAIL PROTECTED]" ; \
>   echo "You sent email to an old email address '$MATCH';" ; \
>   echo "It's been forwarded to the new address '[EMAIL 
> PROTECTED]'." ; \
>   echo "Please use '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' in the future. Thanks." ) 
> | $SENDMAIL -t
> }
> 
> one isp adds a X-RCPT-TO header, but the other doesn't...
> 
> suggestions solicited.

Re: Internet Stations

[Pat Mahoney]

On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 04:10:29PM -0500, Rogelio E. Castillo Haro wrote:
> Yes, I've heard about it, it's named Conquer or Conqueror, or something
> like that...but, since a discussion I heard about the License of KDE I'd
> prefer don't use it, and try only GPL programs... Thanks Tim.

It's Konqueror; it's in kdebase; the license issue has been cleared up.
(kde's always been gpl'd.  The issue was with its linking with formerly
gpl-incompatible libqt)

[snip]

I kinda like skipstone (yet another mozembed or whatever it's called gtk+
based webbrowser), though I just got it yesterday.

Konqueror is pretty good I think.  My laptop is too slow to give a good
answer.  Not that skipstone seems to go any faster...

> >
> > tim
> 

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