At 12:54 PM 9/16/98 -0000, you wrote:
>debian-user-digest Digest Volume 98 : Issue 956
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>Today's Topics:
> Adaptec AIC-7890 and kernel 2.1.121 [ Max <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ]
> Re: Apple diskettes OK [ Blazej Sawionek <[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]
> Re: ACK! Help me restore my console! [ Ulisses Alonso Camaro <[EMAIL
> PROTECTED] ]
> Re: Is there a .deb version of netsc [ Blazej Sawionek <[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]
> watchdog & UPS [ Pere Camps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ]
> RE: GTKICQ [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ]
> Re: passwd oddity [ Michael Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ]
> pine & debian v1.3 [ Pere Camps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ]
> FTP oddity [ Blazej Sawionek <[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]
> Re: passwd oddity [ "E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)" <[EMAIL
> PROTECTED] ]
> Re: passwd oddity [ Blazej Sawionek <[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]
> Re: GTKICQ [ Martin Bialasinski <[EMAIL
> PROTECTED] ]
> Re: watchdog & UPS [ Ulisses Alonso Camaro <[EMAIL
> PROTECTED] ]
> Powersave / clock / crontabs [ Felix Chang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ]
> undump or unexec under Linux 2.0/2.1 [ Ulisses Alonso Camaro <[EMAIL
> PROTECTED] ]
> Re: q: Web/Mail Server [ Oliver Thuns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ]
> THANKS: is this possible with emacs? [ Ulisses Alonso Camaro <[EMAIL
> PROTECTED] ]
> PLIP-howto? [ Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]
> program to do avi->mpeg [ Mario Olimpio de Menezes <[EMAIL
> PROTECTED] ]
> Re: xconsole doesn't tell me anythin [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jack Kern) ]
> Installation from Win95-Fat32 HD par [ Jan Krupa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ]
> Debian 2.0: pon works, diald gets PA [ Ken Westerback <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ]
>Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 02:38:45 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Max <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>Subject: Adaptec AIC-7890 and kernel 2.1.121
>Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>Has anyone been able to get the latest development kernel (2.1.121)
>working with an Adaptec AIC-7890 SCSI controller? I compiled the
>kernel with AIC-7xxx support built in, but it refuses to recognize the
>SCSI interface at boot time. I'm currently running 2.0.34 with the
>AIC-7xxx patches, but I need the development kernel for some other
>features. Kind of suprising that it doesn't work given that all the
>patches were supposed to have been implemented...
>
>Thanks for any help,
> Max
>Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 11:49:16 +0200
>From: Blazej Sawionek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>Subject: Re: Apple diskettes OK
>Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>I got what I needed - THANKS!
>
>> Get the hfsutils package.
>xhfs has done its job!
>
>> Mac double-density disks (800K or so) ...
>> IBM floppy controllers physically *cannot* read
>Fortunately it was a 1,44M, anyway: thanks.
>
>Blazej
>Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 11:56:10 +0200 (CEST)
>From: Ulisses Alonso Camaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Ian Eure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>cc: TheKman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, debian-user@lists.debian.org
>Subject: Re: ACK! Help me restore my console!
>Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>Hi!
>
>[...]
>> I have X running on the console (login to another box, ssh over to the
>> borken one, screen, startx, detatch) - I just can't get the text vtys
>> back to normal. Tried running a SVGALib program. No dice. The only
>> thing that works is X.
>
>
>I suffered the same problems one time (a week ago) with the S3 virge
>server
>
>regards,
>
> Ulisses
>
>Oracle and Informix will be ported to Linux!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?980717.whorlinux.htm
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>Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 12:18:50 +0200
>From: Blazej Sawionek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Debian Mailing List <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
>Subject: Re: Is there a .deb version of netscape?
>Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>> There are .deb's of the 4.5b1 prerelease. Get them from
>> http://master.debian.org/~doogie/netscape/ I'd say.
>> -Remco
>Sorry, for not knowing that, but who is who there:
>
>communicator4-dmotif_..16-Jul-1998 17:32 4.1M
>communicator4-smotif_..16-Jul-1998 17:31 4.9M
>movemail_4.50-0pr1.0...16-Jul-1998 17:32 8k
>netscape4-base_4.50-0..16-Jul-1998 17:30 1.3M
>
>I suspect, that I can install `movemail' and `netscape', but I should
>know what to choose out from communicators.
>
>BTW: anybody knows about any mirrors close to me (Warsaw - Poland)? My
>current transfer from master.debian.org is about 100B/s.
>
>Blazej
>Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 12:40:21 +0200 (CEST)
>From: Pere Camps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Debian User's List <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
>Subject: watchdog & UPS
>Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>Hi!
>
> Anybody know a good (cheap too!) UPS that can also work as a UPS
>for debian?
>
> I guess 400W would do it. It's only a K6 and a 15" monitor.
>
> TIA!
>
>Salutacions, Pere ---- __o Ultima Ratio Regum
> 2:343/108.91 ----- _`\<;_ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 06:56:11 -0400 (AST)
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: Phillip Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>Subject: RE: GTKICQ
>Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> I don't understand how much of these configuration things are supposed
>to work, but I got the impression that it didn't configure itself properly for
>our debian system and is still for the authors? redhat system. So I simply went
>thru the files in gtkicq-xx/support/.deps and replaced all the occurances of
>"i386-redhat-linux" with "i486-linux". (Which is what the difference in the
>header directory is on my machine - you can check and make sure its the same on
>yours). After that it all compiles fine.
>
>good luck,
>timothy
>
>On 16-Sep-98 Phillip Neumann wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> I need urgently be able to use ICQ. I think gtkicq is the better choice,
>> isnit ?
>> So i donwload gtkicq version 0.53.
>> I have done /autogen.sh --prefix=/usr and it went ok.
>> Now when making `make' linux said:
>> bla, bla
>> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/filsin/temp/gtkicq-0.53/support'
>> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/filsin/temp/gtkicq-0.53/support'
>> make[2]: *** No rule to make target
>> /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.7.2.3/include/stddef.h', needed by
>> `long-options.lo'. Stop.
>> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/filsin/temp/gtkicq-0.53/support'
>> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
>> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/filsin/temp/gtkicq-0.53'
>> make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> why is gtkicq saing something about redhat ??
>> HOw should i succsessful compile it ?
>
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>Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 22:45:09 +1200 (NZST)
>From: Michael Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>cc: debian <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
>Subject: Re: passwd oddity
>Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I administer a number of machines which have the same superuser
>> password. Some of them are PC's running debian. Some of the PC users
>> are quite able to administer their own machines. So I added extra root
>> accounts. In /etc/passwd this looks like
>>
>> root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
>> superdanny:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
>>
>> The problem is the following: some day Danny wants to change his
>> `superdanny' passwd and he types:
>>
>> $ su superdanny
>> Password:<his passwd>
>> # passwd
>>
>> Then two things happen that I don't like:
>> 1) He isn't asked for the old password,
>> 2) the password of root is changed, not that of superdanny
>>
>> Now I wonder: once logged in as `superdanny', is there a way for the
>> system to know that, despite uid being 0, this is superdanny, and not
>> root; and if there is a way, would the two points above classify as bugs?
>>
>
>I dont know about anyone else, but in my mind, two users with the same UID
>is a Bad Thing (tm). As for the different username... `echo $USER` or
>`whoami` dont know if either would work.. but anyway..
>
> Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
>
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> It works fine except when I am in Windows.
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> Debian GNU/Linux.... Ooohh You are missing out!
>Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 13:03:31 +0200 (CEST)
>From: Pere Camps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Debian User's List <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
>cc: Pine Discussion Forum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: pine & debian v1.3
>Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>Hi!
>
> I'm running pine 3.96 and debian 1.3.latest with smail.
>
> Sometimes when I send messages from pine it tells me:
>
> [Sending mail | 100% |]
>
> But the program is blocked and it takes anything from 2 minutes to
>10 to unblock. If i run mailq, the message I just sent is in the queue.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> TIA!
>
>Salutacions, Pere ---- __o Ultima Ratio Regum
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>Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 13:04:18 +0200
>From: Blazej Sawionek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>Subject: FTP oddity
>Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>I have two hosts, running bo and hamm respectively.
>I can't ftp (telnet either) from hamm to bo.
>The session goes as:
>$ ftp bo
>Connected to bo.my.domain.name
>421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection
>ftp>
>...
>
>If I ping from hamm it sees bo.
>
>Additionally I _can_ ftp from hamm to any place in the world and i
>also can ftp to bo from different hosts (all to which I have access).
>
>I can ftp from bo to hamm, but when I try to put long files it just
>hangs after having transmitted approx. 2MB.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Blazej
>Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 13:15:33 +0200 (MET DST)
>From: "E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: debian-user@lists.debian.org (debian)
>Subject: Re: passwd oddity
>Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Content-Type: text
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>>
>> On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote:
>>
>> > Hi everyone,
>> >
>> > I administer a number of machines which have the same superuser
>> > password. Some of them are PC's running debian. Some of the PC users
>> > are quite able to administer their own machines. So I added extra root
>> > accounts. In /etc/passwd this looks like
>> >
>> > root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
>> > superdanny:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
>> >
>> > The problem is the following: some day Danny wants to change his
>> > `superdanny' passwd and he types:
>> >
>> > $ su superdanny
>> > Password:<his passwd>
>> > # passwd
>> >
>> > Then two things happen that I don't like:
>> > 1) He isn't asked for the old password,
>> > 2) the password of root is changed, not that of superdanny
>> >
>> > Now I wonder: once logged in as `superdanny', is there a way for the
>> > system to know that, despite uid being 0, this is superdanny, and not
>> > root; and if there is a way, would the two points above classify as bugs?
>> >
>>
>> I dont know about anyone else, but in my mind, two users with the same UID
>> is a Bad Thing (tm). As for the different username... `echo $USER` or
>> `whoami` dont know if either would work.. but anyway..
>
>Usually yes. This is the only situation in which I use it. Different
>people can gain root access with their own passwd while a general root
>passwd still exists. Maybe I should look into a setup using sudo or
>something similar.
>
>Eric
>
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>Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 13:12:07 +0200
>From: Blazej Sawionek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Michael Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>CC: "E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> debian <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
>Subject: Re: passwd oddity
>Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>> I dont know about anyone else, but in my mind, two users with the same UID
>> is a Bad Thing (tm). As for the different username... `echo $USER` or
>> `whoami` dont know if either would work.. but anyway..
>
>I used it under Solaris, and it was quite a Good Thing.
>
>The root account was reserved for _real_problems_, and all the
>administrators could use their own root-usernames and change passwords
>(eg. in case one of them realised his password was discovered) without
>having to inform the other ones - good security measure.
>
>Blazej
>Date: 16 Sep 1998 13:08:10 +0200
>From: Martin Bialasinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Debian Userslist <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
>Subject: Re: GTKICQ
>Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
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>>> "PN" == Phillip Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>PN> I need urgently be able to use ICQ. I think gtkicq is the better choice,
>PN> isnit ?
>
>Better than what?
>
>I made a Debian package for gicq, but I have problems contacting the
>upstream authors to clearify some issues before I release them.
>
>Check ftp://134.95.210.54/pub/debian -> gicq and libicq
>
>You can try these pre-release versions.
>
>Ciao,
> Martin
>Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 13:55:55 +0200 (CEST)
>From: Ulisses Alonso Camaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Pere Camps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>cc: Debian User's List <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
>Subject: Re: watchdog & UPS
>Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>Hello!
>
>On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Pere Camps wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> Anybody know a good (cheap too!) UPS that can also work as a UPS
>> for debian?
>>
>> I guess 400W would do it. It's only a K6 and a 15" monitor.
>
>I would like to suggest you to buy a BestPower UPS
>because they provide full specifications and source code of the utilities
>
>There is a reseller in catalonia, even I think still isn't listed in
>www.bestpower.com try contact via email If you don't find the reseller in
>catalogs
>
>
>Adeu!
>
> Ulisses
>
>Oracle and Informix will be ported to Linux!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?980717.whorlinux.htm
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>Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 11:56:27 +0000
>From: Felix Chang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Debian User List <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
>Subject: Powersave / clock / crontabs
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>Hello,
>
>I have been using debian for quite a long time now and have recently
>upgraded
>to hamm. I must say that it is quite an improvement over 1.3.
>
>My question is not so much debian related but the problem is as follows.
>I want to keep my computer on all day to receive faxes and voice
>messages
>with mgetty-voice. I also want to save power by enabling all powersave
>stuff in the BIOS (asus tx97e mainboard, no atx) . What happens is that
>
>- no cron jobs are being run at all
>- the clock is in powersave mode as well, i.e. runs very slowly
> which makes my syslogs quite unreliable.
>
>(I actually wrote a crontab to update the clock -due to the powersave
>mode-
>only to find out no cronjobs were being run)
>
>Is this something I have to live with or is there a solution?
>
>(With anacron I'll have to reboot, don't I? And the clock keeps being
>slow)
>
>Felix Chang
>
>
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>
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>Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 13:59:44 +0200 (CEST)
>From: Ulisses Alonso Camaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>Subject: undump or unexec under Linux 2.0/2.1?
>Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>
>Hi all
>
>
>Looking in the execellent perl book "Programming in Perl" from O'really i
>found that in some Unix systems there are undump/unexec wich seems to use
>core dumps to re-rerun programs... at the point it died...
>
>Any comment will be greatly appreciated,
>
> regards
>
> Ulisses
>
>Oracle and Informix will be ported to Linux!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?980717.whorlinux.htm
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>Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 13:16:20 +0100
>From: Oliver Thuns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "NewsList: Debian Digest" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>,
> deans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: q: Web/Mail Server
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>>1. Should I move to Apache, even if I don't need that much power?
>> Would it be best because everyone else is running Apache and I
>> can get better support?
>
>Do you need better support? I don't think you need Apache, but it could
>be wrong to install it.
>
>>2. Before I place this online, is there any suggestions anyone would
>> make that would help secure the box before placing it online?
>> Are there any specific packages I should not have installed?
>
>Only install what you need.
>
>> I should let you know, I will have it behind a Cisco 765 ADSL
>> Router with Firewall/Packet Filtering, I plan to filter
>> everything coming in out and I will only allow port 80 that is
>> coming in for the Server's IP address.
>
>This should be very secure, but I'm no expert.
>
>>3. Lastly, I would also like to use it as a Mail Server. Should
>> I just use Sendmail? or is there another package that would
>> be easier to use and manage?
>
>Do you know sendmail. If you don't, use another MTA. I think Exim or
>qmail (avail. as source package) are good choices. I don't know Smail.
>Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 14:04:18 +0200 (CEST)
>From: Ulisses Alonso Camaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>Subject: THANKS: is this possible with emacs?
>Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
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>
>I would like to thanks the massive posting suggesting me the available
>options
>
>Thanks!
>
>Oracle and Informix will be ported to Linux!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?980717.whorlinux.htm
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>Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 13:23:27 +0200 (SAST)
>From: Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Debian-poslys <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
>Subject: PLIP-howto?
>Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
>
>Some time ago on this list there was reference to a PLIP -mini-howto with
>information on how to connect two linux machines through a parallel cable.
>
>After upgrading to Debian 2.0 it no longer in /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini.
>
>Does anybody know which other documentation is available on the subject or
>what happened to PLIP-howto?
>
>Johann
>
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> "Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses
> surrounding us, let us also lay aside every weight,
> and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us
> run with endurance the race that is set before us."
> Hebrews 12:1
>Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 09:16:42 -0300 (EST)
>From: Mario Olimpio de Menezes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Debian User List <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
>Subject: program to do avi->mpeg
>Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>
>Hi,
>
> I couldn't find a program to do avi->mpeg transformation. Is there
>such program? A command line one should be better!
> Thanks
>[]s,
>Mario O.de Menezes | "Many are the plans in a man's heart, but
>IPEN-CNEN/SP | is the Lord's purpose that prevails" Prov. 19.21
>"Then you'll know the truth, and the truth will set you free" John 8.32
>'Then you'll know the code, and the code will set you free' Linux
>Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 09:27:31 -0300
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jack Kern)
>To: Debian Users' List <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
>Subject: Re: xconsole doesn't tell me anything
>Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>
>On Tue, Sep 15, 1998 at 02:38:12PM -0500, Eric Jensen wrote:
>> I don't understand this problem at all. I remember back when I ran bo
>> that the xconsole started automatically when I started X and it reported
>> things like remote logins and stuff. Now, it doesn't start automatically
>> (which is fine, but I thought it should since there is a "run-xconsole"
>> line in my /etc/X11/config) and when I do start it, it doesn't tell me
>> anything. It just sits there.
>
>Probably, '"run-xconsole" line in my /etc/X11/config' merely allows one
>to run "xconsole" in an X session.
>
>Note in /etc/syslog.conf:
>
> # The named pipe /dev/xconsole is for the `xconsole' utility. To use it,
> # you must invoke `xconsole' with the `-file' option:
> #
> # $ xconsole -file /dev/xconsole [...]
> #
>
>Automatically? Run "xconsole -file /dev/xconsole" from ~/.xinitrc or
>some other X Window startup routine.
>
>--
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jack Kern Yarmouth, Nova Scotia Debian GNU/Linux
>Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 14:26:46 +0200
>From: Jan Krupa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>Subject: Installation from Win95-Fat32 HD partition?
>Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>It is possible to install debian2.0 from Win95 (Fat32) HD partition?
>If so, could someone explain how to do it?
>I have not found information in "The
>
>Can I after having installed the base system from 5 floppies
>just on the other console 'mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /win95' ?
>
>Which module have I to install from the base system to
>be able to mount Win95-Fat32 partition ?
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>Jan Krupa
>Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 12:51:46 +0000
>From: Ken Westerback <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>Subject: Debian 2.0: pon works, diald gets PAP authentication failure
>Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
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>
>I have a working ppp connection, using PAP, available through pon or
>wmppp as evidenced by the console messages:
>
>Sep 16 08:38:26 pinky pppd[577]: pppd 2.3.5 started by krw, uid 1000
>Sep 16 08:38:27 pinky chat[578]: abort on (BUSY)
>Sep 16 08:38:27 pinky chat[578]: abort on (NO CARRIER)
>Sep 16 08:38:27 pinky chat[578]: abort on (VOICE)
>Sep 16 08:38:27 pinky chat[578]: abort on (NO DIALTONE)
>Sep 16 08:38:27 pinky chat[578]: abort on (NO ANSWER)
>Sep 16 08:38:27 pinky chat[578]: send (ATZ^M)
>Sep 16 08:38:27 pinky chat[578]: expect (OK)
>Sep 16 08:38:28 pinky chat[578]: ATZ^M^M
>Sep 16 08:38:28 pinky chat[578]: OK
>Sep 16 08:38:28 pinky chat[578]: -- got it
>Sep 16 08:38:28 pinky chat[578]: send (ATDT359-0062^M)
>Sep 16 08:38:28 pinky chat[578]: expect (CONNECT)
>Sep 16 08:38:28 pinky chat[578]: ^M
>Sep 16 08:38:54 pinky chat[578]: ATDT359-0062^M^M
>Sep 16 08:38:54 pinky chat[578]: CONNECT
>Sep 16 08:38:54 pinky chat[578]: -- got it
>Sep 16 08:38:54 pinky chat[578]: send (\d)
>Sep 16 08:38:55 pinky pppd[577]: Serial connection established.
>Sep 16 08:38:56 pinky pppd[577]: Using interface ppp0
>Sep 16 08:38:56 pinky pppd[577]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS1
>Sep 16 08:38:56 pinky pppd[577]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0>
><magic 0xffff0221> <pcomp> <accomp>]
>Sep 16 08:38:59 pinky pppd[577]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0>
><magic 0xffff0221> <pcomp> <accomp>]
>Sep 16 08:38:59 pinky pppd[577]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0xc2 <mru 1500>
><asyncmap 0x0> <auth pap> <magic 0x80ff283a> <pcomp> <accomp>]
>Sep 16 08:38:59 pinky pppd[577]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0xc2 <mru 1500>
><asyncmap 0x0> <auth pap> <magic 0x80ff283a> <pcomp> <accomp>]
>Sep 16 08:38:59 pinky pppd[577]: rcvd [LCP ConfAck id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0>
><magic 0xffff0221> <pcomp> <accomp>]
>Sep 16 08:38:59 pinky pppd[577]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x0
>magic=0xffff0221]
>Sep 16 08:38:59 pinky pppd[577]: sent [PAP AuthReq id=0x1 user="***"
>password="***"]
>Sep 16 08:39:02 pinky pppd[577]: sent [PAP AuthReq id=0x2 user="***"
>password="***"]
>Sep 16 08:39:03 pinky pppd[577]: rcvd [PAP AuthAck id=0x2 "upap:
>authenticated"]
>Sep 16 08:39:03 pinky pppd[577]: Remote message: upap: authenticated
>Sep 16 08:39:03 pinky pppd[577]: sent [IPCP ConfReq id=0x1 <addr
>0.0.0.0> <compress VJ 0f 01>]
>Sep 16 08:39:03 pinky pppd[577]: rcvd [IPCP ConfReq id=0x6b <addr
>209.135.79.125> <compress VJ 0f 01>]
>Sep 16 08:39:03 pinky pppd[577]: sent [IPCP ConfAck id=0x6b <addr
>209.135.79.125> <compress VJ 0f 01>]
>Sep 16 08:39:03 pinky pppd[577]: rcvd [IPCP ConfNak id=0x1 <addr
>209.135.79.9>]
>Sep 16 08:39:03 pinky pppd[577]: sent [IPCP ConfReq id=0x2 <addr
>209.135.79.9> <compress VJ 0f 01>]
>Sep 16 08:39:03 pinky pppd[577]: rcvd [IPCP ConfAck id=0x2 <addr
>209.135.79.9> <compress VJ 0f 01>]
>Sep 16 08:39:03 pinky pppd[577]: local IP address 209.135.79.9
>Sep 16 08:39:03 pinky pppd[577]: remote IP address 209.135.79.125
>
>When I try to enable diald by filling out the diald.options files as
>follows:
>
>fifo /etc/diald/diald.ctl
>mode ppp
>connect "/usr/sbin/chat -f /etc/chatscripts/provider"
>device /dev/ttyS1
>speed 115200
>modem
>lock
>crtscts
>local 127.0.0.2
>remote 127.0.0.3
>dynamic
>defaultroute
>pppd-options asyncmap 0
>include /etc/diald/standard.filter
>
>and running diald from the command line I get a PAP authentication
>error:
>
>Sep 16 08:36:40 pinky diald[527]: Running connect (pid = 534).
>Sep 16 08:37:07 pinky diald[527]: Running pppd (pid = 535).
>Sep 16 08:37:07 pinky diald[535]: Running pppd: /usr/sbin/pppd -detach
>modem crtscts mtu 1500 mru 1500 asyncmap 0
>Sep 16 08:37:07 pinky pppd[535]: pppd 2.3.5 started by root, uid 0
>Sep 16 08:37:07 pinky pppd[535]: Using interface ppp0
>Sep 16 08:37:07 pinky pppd[535]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS1Sep 16
>08:37:13 pinky pppd[535]: PAP authentication failure for
>Sep 16 08:37:14 pinky pppd[535]: Connection terminated.
>Sep 16 08:37:14 pinky pppd[535]: Hangup (SIGHUP)
>Sep 16 08:37:14 pinky pppd[535]: Exit.
>
>Can anyone tell me what the problem might be?
>
>My /etc/chatscripts/provider looks like:
>
>ABORT BUSY
>ABORT "NO CARRIER"
>ABORT VOICE
>ABORT "NO DIALTONE"
>ABORT "NO ANSWER"
>"" ATZ
>OK ATDT359-0062
>CONNECT \d\c
>
>
>---- Ken
>
