After upgrading to debian 2.0, pppd is no longer logging incoming ppp
connections to wtmp/utmp. I'm using the 'login' option for pppd, which is what
used to work. What has changed, and how can I get the old behaviour back?
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> what used to work. What has changed, and how can I get the old behaviour
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On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 07:55:35PM -0700, Seth R Arnold wrote:
> apt-apropos quake
Good idea. Does it exist yet? I can find no such command in slink...
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ges it depended upon, except those needed by other packages).
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kg --purge" for a _real_ ugly hack. It would
> be very important not to go "dpkg --purge --force-depends".
I thought about that, and yes it could be done. But I was hoping that it would
one day be implemented "properly" inside dpkg or apt. Just a feature for the
wishli
eally sick and tired
of things not working properly on RedHat (most recently, in RedHat 6.0, NFS
has scr*wed the pooch), and I'm desparately waiting for Debian's automated
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ut of accented
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Carroll Kong said:
> Hi guys. I normally did not have any problems with Linux, Windows 95,
> Windows NT with the Yamaha CDRW4260.
I have the same CDR. Don't put the jumper on. It works just fine under linux
without it.
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lem? Is it somehow related to the old NIS
server in debian 1.2? Is there a fix yet?
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ting around in the kernel which will cause
massive filesystem corruption on your UMSDOS partition if it is on a SCSI
device. Something to do with a kernel stack overflow somewhere. The UMSDOS
developer is trying to isolate the problem.
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I just got an alert about a linux security hole. The alert recommended using
lprng from ftp.debian.org:/debian/project/experimental
But, lprng is missing. Will it return?
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Lawrence Chim said:
> What is it?
A replacement for the bsd lpr. The bsd lpr suffers from a buffer overrun
security hole right now.
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Boris D. Beletsky said:
> Daniel> :0 * X-Mailing-List:
> :0
> * ^X-Mailing-List: *debian-user*
> debian-user
I use:
:0:
* ^TOdebian-user
lists/debian-users
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mount -t ext2 /path/to/file /mount/point
That should do it. No need for a ro file system, especially if you want to be
able to write things to it!
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disks. Your kernel stack will overflow, which means all kinds of
random, nasty things can happen.
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Scott Barker said:
> mount -t ext2 /path/to/file /mount/point
oops. That should be
mount -o loop -t ext2 /path/to/file /mount/point
And, don't forget to make sure that the loop devices have been created:
cd /dev
./MAKEDEV loop
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problem,
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o loop=/dev/loop2 -t ext2 /path/to/file /mount/point
That works too. My way (mount -o loop -t ext2 ...) make mount choose the first
available loop device. If you need to know which specific loop device is being
used, Dale's way is better.
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6) libg++ and libg++-dev conflicted with each other for some reason.
Re-running the installtion from dselect cleared up the problem.
Aside from the above problems (which I easily solved, but which a less
experienced user may have had trouble with), the upgrade went very well, and
I'm now a happ
Further info on my upgrade:
I just noticed that some daemons were not re-started during the upgrade,
notably cron. I believe lpr and ypbind were also not restarted.
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being 600). This makes it impossible for the remote sendmail to deliver the
mail (not sure exactly why -- the sendmail on the remote in this case is AIX's
sendmail). I had to restore my hacked version of elm (which is "fixed" for my
situation only).
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ns of folder %s!"),
cur_folder);
if (sleepmsg > 0)
sleep(sleepmsg);
}
+#if 0
}
+#endif
#if defined(BSD) && !defined(UTIMBUF)
utime_buffer[0] = buf.st_atime;
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. Forwarding by
definition occurs across (at least) two interfaces, so limiting it to one
interface using -W doesn't make sense. Also, don't forget that 'ping' won't
work :) (use traceroute or telnet).
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d this)
/sbin/ipfwadm -I -a deny -S localnet/24 netbios-ns -D domain -P
udp
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ve also got some patches (against debian's wu-ftpd and the beta above) that
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Lars Wirzenius said:
> Don't do that. Mail bombing is worse than junk mail.
But it's not a bomb. You're just helping the spammer along by showing him a
bunch of examples of other people's junk mail :) You're providing them a
service, and should charge for it :)
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Gerry Jensen said:
> What if the spammer faked his email address. You could be bombing a
> innocent person.
Ah! True enough. Guess it's best to just fire off a single warning to the
supposed offender, their postmaster, and the postmaster of their upstream site
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uff? It would be nice to upgrade
the base system, and still be able to run the old a.out X11 and tex stuff. I
like to upgrade a piece at a time, so that if something breaks, I'll have a
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uff? It would be nice to upgrade
the base system, and still be able to run the old a.out X11 and tex stuff. I
like to upgrade a piece at a time, so that if something breaks, I'll have a
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Does anyone know if the broken SMARTHOST in debian's sendmail has been fixed
in the 1.1 release? Or will I have to recompile it like for 8.6.12-8 in the
0.93R6 release?
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After upgrade my base packages to the 1.1ELF stuff, I see a file /etc/psdevtab
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y, overall, a very good job. Now, I'll start to upgrade things piece by
piece. Stay tuned for more progress reports :) I just hope that the new
sendmail has makemap and SMARTHOST fixed...
BTW, what's being done about the a.out libs? Will they be evolving, or are
they already at their fina
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sysklogd, and so far, I haven't seen any problems. Should I be expecting some?
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o-rwx /etc/ppp
So, users in group 'ppp' can fire up the ppp link.
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ime. This speeds up ps a big time and
> reduces the amount of 'stats' in the /dev/ directory on the following
> invokations of ps.
I guess it doesn't work, then. I've got a 12288 byte file full of zeros.
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I notice the Packages file for the unstable tree at ftp.debian.org is out of
date. I though it was updated automatically? Perhaps not...
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Richard Kettlewell said:
> Also, do someone know how to ask sendmail really not to make DNS queries?
> This is somewhat that starts up diald when one does not want, and it is
> really annoying.
In your m4 file, use the following options:
FEATURE(nodns)
FEATURE(nocanonify)
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with the trailing dot) probably isn't
necessary and may not even work.
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#x27;-' used in syslog.conf to prevent immediate flushing of the logs
doesn't work -- I end up with no logs at all.
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users to use ppp, with
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Scott Barker said:
> Well, I guess I have no explanation, then. But it's working for me. Perhaps I
> ran it as root once, and the other machines on the network all remember the
> address that was being arp'ed for?
Just noticed why it was working -- I had a wrapper prog
Craig Sanders said:
> On Thu, 16 May 1996, Scott Barker wrote:
> > The tty's owner gets changed when someone logs in. The owner of the
> > tty (who is the person logged in) can then execute pppd to start
> > ppp. No problem. This is the setup I use (mgetty and pppd) to
it as root once, and the other machines on the network all remember the
address that was being arp'ed for?
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logd. Except it doesn't.
I disagree. I was having the same problem, and removed the leading '-' from
the log file names in /etc/syslog.conf, and the problem went away. I suspect
this new feature of syslogd (the '-' meaning not to immediately flush the
files after each entry
n a debian system.
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I've noticed that, so far, I can virtually indiscriminately mix and match ELF
and a.out on a partially updated debian system. I'm now wanting to upgrade
X. Will I still be able to use a.out and ELF binaries under X?
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the following entry:
* * * * * rootatrun -d 0.5
Rather than what should have been added:
* * * * * rootatrun -d -l 0.5
I'm not terribly familiar with perl, so I don't know why the at.postinst
script didn't work.
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Is there a good reason that the kernel headers have been separated from the
kernel source? I think it is a very Bad Thing to separate the headers from the
kernel. The kernel is the heart of the whole system, and I don't think it's
wise to split it up.
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Either I'm blind, or the changelogs for debian packages are not part of the
packages. It would be nice if they were, so that when an upgrade takes place,
the user could see what has changed from one version to the next without
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source, but I totally fail to see why any kernel headers are included in the
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C libraries. It just doesn't make sense to me.
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, not very hard), but that's my 2cents worth.
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I'm not terribly familiar with perl, so I don't know why the at.postinst
> > script didn't work.
>
> This has been fixed in the most recent at package, I believe.
As of version 2.9a-11, it hasn't. The perl script seems to try and fix it, but
didn't quite manage to
primary site) as outstanding
which are over a year old! I can't imagine many of them are *actually* still
not solved after that long. Is anything done to periodically clean obsolete
bugs out of the list? (Yes, I am offering to be the bug-cleaner-outer, if
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> > ok. So what happens when I install the new cron, and /usr/bin/savelog isn't
> > in
> > it? Won't dpkg remove it, since /usr/bin/savelog has been removed from
> > /va
i /devel/ ncurses3.0-dev
-i /devel/ pmake
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[ (we have a
roblem with the ttyS*
drivers in the kernel. However, I don't know exactly where in the drivers the
problem is.
For now, I run 'pppd' without the 'connect' option once after a reboot. It
will fail, of course, but it puts the ttyS* device into the correct state, and
Since upgrading netstd to version 2.03-1, I'm getting the following error out
of traceroute:
traceroute: IP_HDRINCL: Protocol not available
Is this because I'm still running a 1.2.13 kernel? Is the above protocol
something new in 1.3.xx?
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in 1.3 (though I've submitted a reasonably
> clean fix for that, I understand if there isn't much interest in it.)
Interesting. I've had no problems at all with BIND...
Guess I may have to bite the bullet and use a development kernel if 2.x
doesn't come out real soon...
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not listed in the access methods of dpkg-1.2.6elf
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Rob Browning said:
> You have to install dpkg-ftp.
After much hunting, I found this in /debian/project/experimental
Now, to give it a try...
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Rob Leslie said:
> The newest sendmail packages have been compiled to use flock() file locking as
> recommended by the kernel notes.
But make sure to used *hashed* database files. If you use dbm files, you get
problems. The dbm library must have been compiled to use fcntl (or lockf).
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> trying to move the files from the other . . .
I found it on ftp.debian.org:/debian/project/experimental/dpkg-ftp*
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Any ideas why there is still a tin package in the 'contrib' dir, when there is
already one in buzz/binary/news?
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The Packages file for 'buzz' still references all packages to the 'unstable'
directory. Is this a bug?
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use compiled as a module. It
works just fine. When I start X, a module 'misc' is loaded, which seems to be
a pre-depend for the psaux module.
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e is a little program which comes with INN which can do this
(backends/rcompress.c). It can be altered to forward connections to any server
on any port. I've used it to forward NNTP connections past a firewall, using
tcp_wrapper in inetd to control access.
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Where on a CD does the install program on the install disks look for the
base1_1.tgz file? I'm going to be cutting a CD with 'buzz' and I want to make
sure I cut it in a useful form :)
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. This is the newest version of sendmail I've ever used though, so
perhaps I'm missing something somewhere?
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The simple solution to your problem is to put the 'noauto' option on your nfs
directory entry in /etc/fstab, and then put an explicit mount command (and
corresponding umount command) in the init.d/ppp script.
You could also setup amd, but that could be overkill for your situation.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but in the MST7MDT timezone, should we not be on MDT
now? On my slink machines, the time correctly adjusted last night, but on my
potato system, it did not. If I'm not mistaken, I'll file a bug report...
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x27;m going to check the buglist for cron and see if this is an already
known bug.
Something must be wrong with the latest version of glibc, because I didn't
have these problems with slink.
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Help me
d the same
> problem?
I just switched my timezone to America/Edmonton, which fixed the apparent
problem with the timezone, but cron is still an hour behind. I guess I might
as well reboot and see what happens...
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in Calgary and doesn't want any reference to Edmonton on
their computer, do like me and switch to Canada/Mountain (you have to live
here to understand the rivalry between our two cities :)
I'm off to file a bug report...
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e noticed, at least until it's
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