Re: Steps to Sound

[Atukunda Martin]

Yes,
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 10:22:09PM -0600, John Galt wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >> Martin wrote:
> >> Hi everyone,
> >>
> >> I'd like to set up sound on my debian system. It is one of those IBM
> >> 300GL machines that come with (I think) an onboard sound card.
> >> Funny though is that the KDE CD player kscd plays fine when I insert a
> >> music CD into the drive.
> >> I added sound in my /etc/modules file but this doesn't seem to work.
> >
> >first thing is to determine EXACTLY what kind of soundchip
> >is on your soundcard. rip open the system and take a look.
>
> 
> Easier way to find out PCI cards: lspci

lspci gives:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# lspc
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C691 [Apollo PRO] (rev c4)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C598 [Apollo MVP3 AGP]
00:02.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C596 ISA [Apollo PRO] (rev 12)
00:02.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586 IDE [Apollo] (rev 06)
00:02.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586B USB (rev 08)
00:02.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3050 (rev 20)
00:0e.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RT8029(AS)
00:0f.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RT8139 (rev 10)
00:12.0 Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology: Unknown device 1988 (rev 
10)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. Savage 4 (rev 04)
fot2:~# 

I guess it is the second last listed device '00:12.0 Multimedia ... '

 >if its a PCI soundcard you may be able to cheat by downloading
> >the demo of the commercial OSS and install it, it may auto
> >detect the card and show you what it is, then you can use
> >OSS or you can ditch it and keep the info it gave you.

Where do I get the demo of the commercial OSS that nate suggests I try?

> >maybe it will be supported..maybe not..who knows...
> >
> >nate
> >
> >
> >
> 
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> 
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Re: documentation rant

[Alvin Oga]

hi ya

yes and no on the out of date howto...

if there's particular problem you are trying to solve...

i find it 10x easier to use google for those keywords
and go thru the mailing lists... if there is one for
those particular issues

c ya
alvin
( and yes...the autofs-HOWTO is out of date tooo...but...

my latest toy
http://LSEC.linux-consulting.com ... ids, vulnerabilities, scanning ...
- use the "grep search" mechanism...

On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Matthew Dalton wrote:

> "Michael P. Soulier" wrote:
> > 
> 
> Are you talking about one or two HOWTOs in particular? Which ones? Could
> it be that these HOWTOs are distribution-specific?
> 

Re: Steps to Sound

[Atukunda Martin]

> > I'd like to set up sound on my debian system. It is one of those IBM
> > 300GL machines that come with (I think) an onboard sound card.
> 
> first thing is to determine EXACTLY what kind of soundchip
> is on your soundcard. rip open the system and take a look.

Yes the Audio Adapter is PCI. I saw a chip with ESS written on top of it,
and a quick check at the ibm website say's that the adapter should be PCI.
Ok I guess :)

> if its a PCI soundcard you may be able to cheat by downloading
> the demo of the commercial OSS and install it, it may auto
> detect the card and show you what it is, then you can use
> OSS or you can ditch it and keep the info it gave you.

Where do I get the demo of the commercial OSS?

Martin

Re: Steps to Sound

[John Galt]

On Wed, 25 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I'd like to set up sound on my debian system. It is one of those IBM
>> 300GL machines that come with (I think) an onboard sound card.
>> Funny though is that the KDE CD player kscd plays fine when I insert a
>> music CD into the drive.
>> I added sound in my /etc/modules file but this doesn't seem to work.
>
>first thing is to determine EXACTLY what kind of soundchip
>is on your soundcard. rip open the system and take a look.
>if its a PCI soundcard you may be able to cheat by downloading
>the demo of the commercial OSS and install it, it may auto
>detect the card and show you what it is, then you can use
>OSS or you can ditch it and keep the info it gave you.

Easier way to find out PCI cards: lspci

>maybe it will be supported..maybe not..who knows...
>
>nate
>
>
>

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Re: documentation rant

[Matthew Dalton]

"Michael P. Soulier" wrote:
> 

Are you talking about one or two HOWTOs in particular? Which ones? Could
it be that these HOWTOs are distribution-specific?

Re: Using dhcp on a home cable connection

[Mircea Luca]

Brendan O'Connor wrote:
> 
>  Looking further, I found out that my cable isp does not offer persistent 
> hostnames.  I checked what the hostname is under windows, and it's 
> 'NAME.mn.rr.comDEST' which doesn't seem to mean anything (nor work with 
> linux...)  Any suggestions at all would be very helpful!  Thanks!
> --

Well NAME should be the hostname linux wants.The rest is just part ofthe
subdomain_name .Try giving that.It may be possbile(altough not likely)
that no hostname is required in which case just comment that line with
hostname in /etc/network/interfaces.

RE: debian install (CD mount problem)

[Artem Litvinovich]

I'm pretty sure it exists. I got the same error when manually trying to
mount /dev/hdc and /dev/cdrom (same devs) at the console.

//Artem

-Original Message-
From: Renai LeMay [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 12:13 AM
To: Artem Litvinovich
Subject: Re: debian install


the debian install should automatically mount it, all you have to do is keep
on clicking return at the prompts :)

are you sure that /dev/cdrom exists?

On Thursday 26 April 2001 13:59, Artem Litvinovich wrote:
> The mount error message on the console says something about "invalid
> arguement" when trying to mount /dev/cdrom /instmnt -o ro.
>
> I assume the CD is good if it boots and lets me create/initialize
> partitians and the mount the root. Am I wrong?
>
> //Artem
>
> -Original Message-
> From: DvB [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 11:31 PM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: debian install
>
> Artem Litvinovich wrote:
> >On installing debian...
> >
> >Since I cant get easy access to any floppies, I burned an image of a
> > debian 2.2r2 cd (only the fist cd, for now). I booted from the CD and
> > created the necessary partitians. Mounted root on one of them. Here I
run
> > into a problem...
> >The next step is to install the kernel, I select "install from CD" and
>
> after
>
> >being prompted to insert the DEBIAN CD, a message pops up that says
"could
> >not mount the CD" or something to that effect. What to do? Any way I can
> >avoid floppies?
> >
> >Thanks, in advance, for your help.
> >//Artem
>
> Sounds to me like you burned the wrong CD... I could be wrong though.
>
>
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Re: Getting package from "testing" for potato

[csj]

On Wednesday 25 April 2001 18:15, Harry Henry Gebel wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 04:15:09PM +1000, Mark wrote:
> > I can't seem to figure out what the build-depends are.  I tried
> > doing "apt-cache show hotplug", but it can't find it because I
> > only have deb-src pointing to testing.  (The rest is pointing to
> > stable and Adrian Bunk's stuff).
>
> Use the command
>
> apt-get build-dep hotplug
>
> to fulfill hotplugs's build dependencies. Sometimes this will give
> you an error that it can't find one (or more) of the packages
> needed to fill the build dependancies; if this is the case build
> them from source first (using `apt-get build-dep` and `fakeroot
> apt-get -b source`).

Cool. When did this feature get into apt-get? Debian's the closest 
thing to compiling heaven. I better start reading the man page again.

Re: debian install

[Joost van der Lugt]

Artem Litvinovich wrote:
> 
> The mount error message on the console says something about "invalid
> arguement" when trying to mount /dev/cdrom /instmnt -o ro.
> 
> I assume the CD is good if it boots and lets me create/initialize partitians
> and the mount the root. Am I wrong?
> 
> //Artem
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: DvB [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 11:31 PM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: debian install
> 
> Artem Litvinovich wrote:
> 
> >On installing debian...
> >
> >Since I cant get easy access to any floppies, I burned an image of a debian
> >2.2r2 cd (only the fist cd, for now). I booted from the CD and created the
> >necessary partitians. Mounted root on one of them. Here I run into a
> >problem...
> >The next step is to install the kernel, I select "install from CD" and
> after
> >being prompted to insert the DEBIAN CD, a message pops up that says "could
> >not mount the CD" or something to that effect. What to do? Any way I can
> >avoid floppies?
> >
> >Thanks, in advance, for your help.
> >//Artem
> >
> >
> Sounds to me like you burned the wrong CD... I could be wrong though.

Corrupted image could be a reason, also I've had similar issues for
instance when booting from cdrom2 (hdd), however I seem to recall it
really wants to use cdrom1(hdc) for the next steps, so I received a
similar error. CDRW's (rewritable cd's) can sometimes raise issues too.

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Re: [PLUG] using Xfig with LaTeX

[Jaiwant Mulik]

>From xfig, export your fig as "encapsulated postscript" this will give you
a .eps (say myfig.eps) file then you can:

before your \begin{document} use \usepackage{graphics}

\begin{figure}
\rotatebox{90}{\scalebox{0.5}{\includegraphics{myfig.eps}}}
\caption{blah blah}
\label{myfig}
\end{figure}

Notice the scaling factor (0.5), if you need it and the
rotation factor (i forget it is is clock on anti-clockwise).


On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, MaD dUCK wrote:

> beating around my thesis, i am trying several methods of including
> Xfig drawings in LaTeX. currently, i am using fig2dev to create .eps
> file, which I \psfig into the document. nevertheless, while the result
> is fine, mpage seems unable to handle the documents and corrupts the
> .ps file right around the included picture (which is rotated 90
> degrees by mpage). furthermore, latex2html can't extract a single of
> these pictures and just reports errors, leaving .png files of zero
> length everywhere.
>
> so i am interested to hear how you guys embed .fig files in latex with
> the ability to scale them to a certain width. and yes, it should be a
> batch process to be run from Makefile.
>
> thanks,
>
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documentation rant

[Michael P. Soulier]

I am so sick of spending hours crawling over HOWTOs from LinuxDoc just to
find out that the documentation is wrong! Worse, tons of people know it's
wrong, and no one, not the document maintainer, or anyone who's already gone
through the process of finding out it's wrong, has bothered to update the
incorrect document! This is _the_ #1 discouraging element in Linux today! I'm
sorry, but I can't know everything, and I need good HOWTOs to get through some
tasks. If there are coders reading this who haven't bothered to update docs
lately, please take the time! I hate it too, but it helps so many people. 


I'm going to bed now. *sigh*

Mike

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Re: [PLUG] using Xfig with LaTeX

[Jaiwant Mulik]

>From xfig, export your fig as "encapsulated postscript" this will give you
a .eps (say myfig.eps) file then you can:

before your \begin{document} use \usepackage{graphics}

\begin{figure}
\rotatebox{90}{\scalebox{0.5}{\includegraphics{myfig.eps}}}
\caption{blah blah}
\label{myfig}
\end{figure}

Notice the scaling factor (0.5), if you need it and the
rotation factor (i forget it is is clock on anti-clockwise).


On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, MaD dUCK wrote:

> beating around my thesis, i am trying several methods of including
> Xfig drawings in LaTeX. currently, i am using fig2dev to create .eps
> file, which I \psfig into the document. nevertheless, while the result
> is fine, mpage seems unable to handle the documents and corrupts the
> .ps file right around the included picture (which is rotated 90
> degrees by mpage). furthermore, latex2html can't extract a single of
> these pictures and just reports errors, leaving .png files of zero
> length everywhere.
>
> so i am interested to hear how you guys embed .fig files in latex with
> the ability to scale them to a certain width. and yes, it should be a
> batch process to be run from Makefile.
>
> thanks,
>
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RE: debian install

[Artem Litvinovich]

The mount error message on the console says something about "invalid
arguement" when trying to mount /dev/cdrom /instmnt -o ro.

I assume the CD is good if it boots and lets me create/initialize partitians
and the mount the root. Am I wrong?

//Artem

-Original Message-
From: DvB [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 11:31 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: debian install


Artem Litvinovich wrote:

>On installing debian...
>
>Since I cant get easy access to any floppies, I burned an image of a debian
>2.2r2 cd (only the fist cd, for now). I booted from the CD and created the
>necessary partitians. Mounted root on one of them. Here I run into a
>problem...
>The next step is to install the kernel, I select "install from CD" and
after
>being prompted to insert the DEBIAN CD, a message pops up that says "could
>not mount the CD" or something to that effect. What to do? Any way I can
>avoid floppies?
>
>Thanks, in advance, for your help.
>//Artem
>
>
Sounds to me like you burned the wrong CD... I could be wrong though.



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using Xfig with LaTeX

[MaD dUCK]

beating around my thesis, i am trying several methods of including
Xfig drawings in LaTeX. currently, i am using fig2dev to create .eps
file, which I \psfig into the document. nevertheless, while the result
is fine, mpage seems unable to handle the documents and corrupts the
.ps file right around the included picture (which is rotated 90
degrees by mpage). furthermore, latex2html can't extract a single of
these pictures and just reports errors, leaving .png files of zero
length everywhere.

so i am interested to hear how you guys embed .fig files in latex with
the ability to scale them to a certain width. and yes, it should be a
batch process to be run from Makefile.

thanks,

martin;  (greetings from the heart of the sun.)
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dpkg -S inadequacies

[Michael P. Soulier]

Hey people. Does anyone know if there are any plans to fix this?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] msoulier]$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/X11/mkfontdir
dpkg: /usr/bin/X11/mkfontdir not found.

This is the one thing that rpm does better, IMHO. I could do an rpm -qf
and a file. It didn't matter if the path was absolute, relative, a symlink,
whatever. It found the package. dpkg -S seems easily confused. 

Cheers,

Mike

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mkttfdir

[Michael P. Soulier]

Ok, the FDU-HowTo says to use ttmkdir, but all that's packaged with Debian
is mkttfdir in the fttools package. That doesn't seem to be all that
impressive though, as any version I use from stable to unstable merely
segfaults. 
Has anyone been able to update their fonts.dir files on true types? 

ala http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/FDU/x-4x.html

My wife is running XFree86 4.0.2 and we're trying to get truetypes working
for her. Major pains thus far. 

I take it that ttmkdir isn't packaged in anywhere? Is anyone using
truetypes with XFree 4.0.x?

Help?

Much appreciated.

Mike

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Re: glibc compatibility

[Ben Collins]

On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 06:20:02PM -0700, David Steinberg wrote:
> 
> Hi debian-user readers,
> 
> Something I've been wondering for a while, and now I really need to
> know: how do glibc versions relate?
> 
> I'm running testing, which I believe is based on glibc2.2.  Is this
> backwards compatible with glibc2.1?  If a program says it requires 2.1,
> should I expect that it will work?

Yes. Glibc is backward compatible. However, and app compiled against
glibc 2.2.2 will not run on glibc 2.1.3 (and sometimes not even on
2.2.1).

> More generally, if I have multiple libc versions installed, how does the
> system know which one it should be calling from any given app?   (I 
> realize that this is probably a fairly big question; a pointer to a web
> reference would be appreciated if its easier than answering.)

You cannot have more than one libc.so.6 installed at any given time.
Fortunately, you don't need to, because of the backward compatibility.

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Re: Steps to Sound

[aphro]

> Hi everyone,
> 
> I'd like to set up sound on my debian system. It is one of those IBM
> 300GL machines that come with (I think) an onboard sound card.
> Funny though is that the KDE CD player kscd plays fine when I insert a
> music CD into the drive.
> I added sound in my /etc/modules file but this doesn't seem to work.

first thing is to determine EXACTLY what kind of soundchip
is on your soundcard. rip open the system and take a look.
if its a PCI soundcard you may be able to cheat by downloading
the demo of the commercial OSS and install it, it may auto
detect the card and show you what it is, then you can use
OSS or you can ditch it and keep the info it gave you.

maybe it will be supported..maybe not..who knows...

nate

Creating an encrypted root filesystem.

[Stefan Srdic]

I'm running kernel 2.4.3 on patato with Helix Gnome 1.2 (want to move to
Helix Gnome 1.4 but there server is always busy).

Anyway, I've recently compile the Encrypted LoopBack Module from :

http://lwn.net/2001/0419/a/filecrypto.php3

and was wundering if it was possible to use it to encrypt my root
partition which is formated as ReiserFS?

The readme includes instructions on *creating* encrypted partitions and
filesystems but does not specify if it is possible to manipulate an
existing filesystem.

Does anybody have any insight?

Thanks

Stef

Re: VMware

[aphro]

> VMware works fine under root but for some reason refuses to work under
> another user.  It keeps on insisting that it doesn't have permission
> even though every file - windows.cfg, windows.dsk, windows.log,
> windows.nvram has definitely been set rwx.  The path is also
> undoubtedly correct.  

check the permissions of the directory as well. ive been
using vmware under debian ever since their first public
beta about 2 years ago and it has always worked flawlessly.
i am most impressed by it. i think it is the only app i use
on a regular basis that  has never crashed.

nate

Re: make xfs serve windows true type fonts?

[Eric Boo]

Hi,

What's the difference between adding the path to xfs-xtt's config and adding it 
to /etc/X11/XF86Config-4?

Does running xfs-xtt give a better look?

Re: debian install

[DvB]

Artem Litvinovich wrote:


On installing debian...

Since I cant get easy access to any floppies, I burned an image of a debian
2.2r2 cd (only the fist cd, for now). I booted from the CD and created the
necessary partitians. Mounted root on one of them. Here I run into a
problem...
The next step is to install the kernel, I select "install from CD" and after
being prompted to insert the DEBIAN CD, a message pops up that says "could
not mount the CD" or something to that effect. What to do? Any way I can
avoid floppies?

Thanks, in advance, for your help.
//Artem



Sounds to me like you burned the wrong CD... I could be wrong though.

Re: Samsung ML-4500 Printer

[hammack]

Keith, I have just received from Qlitech one of their systems that comes
with a Samsun ML 4600 Laser printer.  Qlitech factory installed Debian.
They wouldn't have installed the printer unless Samsun supported Linux.  The
best I can do here is pass the buck to the Samsun site.   That is
www.samsungprinter.com.  I hope this helps.   John
- Original Message -
From: "Keith Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "debian-user-request" 
Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2001 10:47 PM
Subject: Samsung ML-4500 Printer


> Hello,
>
> I just bought a samsung ML 4500 printer.
>
> The driver on www.linuxprinting.org requires a patch to ghostscript 5.5.
>
> Has anyone been sucessfull at getting this printer to work?
>
> Were could I get the headers for ghostscript? I do not see them in stable
or testing.
>
> I am using woody, cups and the foomatic print system from
linuxprinting.org.
>
> Can anyone help?
>
> Thanks
>
> Keith
>
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debian install

[Artem Litvinovich]

On installing debian...

Since I cant get easy access to any floppies, I burned an image of a debian
2.2r2 cd (only the fist cd, for now). I booted from the CD and created the
necessary partitians. Mounted root on one of them. Here I run into a
problem...
The next step is to install the kernel, I select "install from CD" and after
being prompted to insert the DEBIAN CD, a message pops up that says "could
not mount the CD" or something to that effect. What to do? Any way I can
avoid floppies?

Thanks, in advance, for your help.
//Artem

Anonymizer.com SSH Tunnel service

[Justin Miller]

Has anyone had any success setting up Anonymizer.com's SSH Tunnel
product with Linux?

http://www.anonymizer.com/docs/faqs/sshfaq.shtml

It uses SSH1 to build a secure tunnel between you and their servers and
all of your internet traffic goes through them, thus the 'secure
tunnel.'

I am sure it can be done I just do not know how to set it up and and
help would be extremely helpful.

Thanks in Advance,
Justin Miller

Re: make xfs serve windows true type fonts?

[Wenzhuo Zhang]

On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 12:38:29AM +0200, Daniel de los Reyes wrote:
> So how can I make xfs serve all those true type fonts I have avaliable
> for windoxe. Is there a HOWTO or something avaliable I can read?
> I've managed to get wine running but apps look quite ugly without those ttfs.

check the "XFree86 Font Deuglification HOWTO" or


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Re: Static and Dynamic NAT

[Wenzhuo Zhang]

On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 12:14:14PM -0600, Bill Fowler wrote:
> I setting up a linux system to be a router and want to do static and dynamic
> NAT with a pool of public IPs (as opposed to masquerading with one IP).  I'm
> using 2.2.18 kernel.  If someone could point me in the right direction I
> would appreciate it.
> 
IP-Masq is just a form of dynamic NAT. To do static NAT in 2.2.x
kernel, use the advanced-routing kernel features and the user space
tools iproute2 . Debian has the
iproute package in cd2.

apt-get install iproute

> Thanks,
> 
> Bill Fowler
> Mesa Networks
> 
> 
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VMware

[Elfert]

VMware works fine under root but for some reason 
refuses to work under another user.  It keeps on insisting that it doesn't 
have permission even though every file - windows.cfg, windows.dsk, windows.log, 
windows.nvram has definitely been set rwx.  The path is also undoubtedly 
correct.  
 
VMware does not yet, for some reason, certify or 
support Debian/Progeny as a host Linux Dist.so I have been reluctant to approach 
them yet even though our VMware is bought and paid for.  I love VMware and 
want to get it working properly so if anyone has any idea what might be going on 
their help would be greatly appreciated.
 
Thanks,
Hans Elfert

Re: How to download a package?

[Dean]

- Original Message - 
From: "Dean" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Karsten M. Self" 
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 9:37 PM
Subject: Re: How to download a package?


> >> I have also wondered on downloading as root, does this
> >> leave us open security wise?   Dean
> 
> >Note recent discussion on trimming quotations in responses and using
> >postfix response.
> 
> My apologizes for improper e-etiquette. For me, it's easier to read 
> only the reply and then scroll if I need to be refreshed, but I can see
> where it might be confusing.
> 
> >Not significantly.  However, minimizing activities run as root tends to
> >reduce your security exposure.  If you do download live payload and
> >accidentally run it as root, you're in more danger than if you run it as
> >an unprivileged user.  Running "advanced" file transfer utilities --
> >browsers, GUI FTP utilities, etc., may leave you open to automated
> >content handling, most of which confers a low benefit for the potential
> >risks involved.
> 
> >root user is a powerful tool.  It's best used only when needed.
> 
> Agreed, however in order to run apt-get one needs to be root user,
> so my question was in regards to vulnerability during the retrieval of
> deb's during an apt-get install or upgrade or whatever. Specifically 
> if while downloading, can we be probed and perhaps be open to 
> hostile programs while we are apt-getting as root?   Dean
>  
> 
> >Cheers.
> 
> >-- 
> >Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/
>  >What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand?   There is no K5 cabal
>   >http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
> 
> >- Original Message - 
> >From: "Karsten M. Self" 
> >To: 
> >Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 5:10 PM
> >Subject: Re: How to download a package?
> 
> 
> 

Re: Snarled console after X 4.0.2 runs.

[Robb Kidd]

Hall Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>* Robb Kidd ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010425 17:27]:
>>  X snarls the F1 - F5 text consoles, but runs fine itself. 
>> Killing the X server does not unsnarl them.
>>  I noticed the many messages about disabling the framebuffer
>> (CONFIG_FB) and recompiling the kernel, but I do not see that 
>> config entry in "make menuconfig" (or less'ing about in the 
>> generated .config file). 
>>  Do I add this line? Have I misread and should be recompiling 
>> XFree86?

> Disabling framebuffer is the only only way I've been able to "solve"
> this. Like you mention, I've seen other people post about the 
> problem, but no solutions.

My confusion comes from the absense of the CONFIG_FB entry in the
.config file generated by a "make menuconfig" on a 2.4.2 kernel source. 
How do I disable the framebuffer if this line is missing?  (While I've
ventured into the Great Beyond of Kernel Compiling, I still need a
travel guide from time to time and prefer to camp at sites with running
water.)

SSH-1.2.3-9.3 Building from source package.

[Emerson Farrugia]

I'm trying to build ssh-1.2.3-9.3 from a souce package on a Potato
box. (Reasons for using source package are optimization, control over
./configure flags, etc). The box is to be used for server applications,
and does not have X or GNOME libraries, which the build process is looking
for.  ./debian/rules works but ./debian/rules binary fails. I've attempted
to modify debian/rules to not build the Perl TK and GNOME ssh-askpass
components, but the build process still fails when not finding them. I was
told to remove the gnome-ssh-askpass and ptk-ssh-askpass entries from
debian/control but this results in "I have no packages to build" errors
when I try to ./debian/rules binary. Any advice on building ssh-1.2.3-9.3
without the GNOME and Perl TK components would be greatly appreciated.

Sorry if I'm sending this to the wrong list.

-Emerson Farrugia

Re: frame buffer nvidia

[Vinh Truong]

* Desfas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010425 15:06]:
> 
> 1- How can i set resolution in lilo.conf ?? It ever starts with
> 640x480, and i cannot change it.

i use the riva fb on debian at home.  i use grub instead of lilo but the
config should be similar.  to get the fb to the resolution i want, i
added this line to my grub menu:  video=riva:[EMAIL PROTECTED]  try adding
this to your lilo entry with append.  it might work.

also, try using fbset.  there is a deb for it at least in unstable.  it
comes with a file called fb.modes that will list some available modes.
it allows you to change the resolution on the fly.

hth
vinh

Re: gcc 3.0, namespace, and such (fwd)

[Rick Macdonald]

On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Robert Kerr wrote:

> Jean-Baptiste,
> Thanks for your response.  Do you happen to know if objects compiled with
> 3.0 can successfully link against libraries created with 2.95.x?

No, they can not.

...RickM...

Re: Using dhcp on a home cable connection

[Brendan O'Connor]

 Looking further, I found out that my cable isp does not offer persistent 
hostnames.  I checked what the hostname is under windows, and it's 
'NAME.mn.rr.comDEST' which doesn't seem to mean anything (nor work with 
linux...)  Any suggestions at all would be very helpful!  Thanks!
--

On Mon, 23 Apr 2001 20:54:23  
 Mircea Luca wrote:
>Brendan O'Connor wrote:
>> 
>> I have my ethernet card detected and working (using tulip.o, and etherconf 
>> from Progeny), connected to a cable modem, but the internet isn't working at 
>> all.
>> 
>
>
>
>> # The ethernet interface, configured by etherconf
>> iface eth0 inet dhcp
>> hostname progeny
>> 
>
>Most providers wil request a specific hostname in theabove line.progeny
>for sure
>will not work,so you either comment out that line or replace progeny 
>with the proper hostname given to you by your ISP.
>I use dhcpc and I have in /etc/dhcpc/config a line
>
>OPTIONS='-h "cr123456"'
>
>In /etc/network interfaces for eth0 all I have is
>
>iface eth0 inet dhcp
>
>I guess it's a bit different for dhcpc but this is the idea.
>


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Re: ifhp does not do HP LaserJet II

[Bob Nielsen]

It's been several years since I have used either, but I don't recall
there being much functional difference between a Laserjet and a
Laserjet II. I would recommend that he install magicfilter and choose
laserjet.

Bob

On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 05:02:29PM -0700, Robert Cymbala wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Package ``ifhp'' "is a general purpose filter for HP LaserJet III, IV
> and V series printers."
> 
> What to do for an HP II?  Below is original question from a friend...
> I'll be sure to send John links to posted answer(s).   THANK YOU...
> 
> 
> "Robert, Do you have a link to a linux driver for an HP LaserJet II
> printer?  I've read HOWTO's until I'm cross-eyed.
> 
> "I sent a query to HP.  They responded with 'We write no drivers for
> Linux', followed by a full page of disclaimers on why they are not
> responsible for all this information and why I can't sue them for this
> remarkable revelation.  :)) Tnx.  -John Way"

Re: realplayer in stable

[Bud Rogers]

On Wednesday 25 April 2001 18:25, Jim McCloskey wrote:

> I downloaded the RPM version of rp8, used alien to convert it, and
> installed it with dpkg. All seems fine.

Do you see any noticeable improvement over rp7?  I use 7 to catch some 
college classes as streaming video.  rp7 seems to lose its way occasionally.  
I have to stop and restart it to get things back in sync.

-- 
Bud Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>   http://www.sirinet.net/~budr
All things in moderation.  And not too much moderation either.

glibc compatibility

[David Steinberg]

Hi debian-user readers,

Something I've been wondering for a while, and now I really need to
know: how do glibc versions relate?

I'm running testing, which I believe is based on glibc2.2.  Is this
backwards compatible with glibc2.1?  If a program says it requires 2.1,
should I expect that it will work?

If not, is there anything I can do?  I notice that there is a libc5
package, to support older apps built against libc 5.  Does anything
similar exist for minor versions?

More generally, if I have multiple libc versions installed, how does the
system know which one it should be calling from any given app?   (I 
realize that this is probably a fairly big question; a pointer to a web
reference would be appreciated if its easier than answering.)

Thanks very much for your help.

--
David Steinberg
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Fuxnored - Was: debian newbie "tip-of-the-day" signature script

[Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier]

On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, will trillich wrote:

> > I'll just dump sufficiently fuxnored posts -- too much work to get my
> > mind around them.  All are advised.
> 
> fuxnored is another term for another time. (it'll have to be -- i
> just now encountered it for the first time myself, and am
> enjoying it far too much to be believed.)

This is the first time I've seen it written, though I think
that I've heard it once or twice at a LUG meeting.

Did a quick Google search, and a check of the Jargon File, no dice.
Karsten should submit it to ESR for inclusion in the Jargon File...
(Credit where credit is due, and all that...)

Take care,

Zonker
--
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http://www.ZonkerBooks.net/ -=- ICQ: 43599611
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Friends help you move. Real friends help you move bodies.

Re: dpkg: Update failures

[Yang Shouxun]

Anthony Fok wrote:


Actually, not to /etc/environment, but to /etc/apt/apt.conf.
For example, I used to use this:

Acquire::http::proxy "http://nocache.srv.ualberta.ca:8080/";;

Please let me know if that solves your problem.


Thanks for the info. More information can be found in apt.conf manpage. 
I should consult the manpages before asking.  The manpage says that the 
environmental setting of http_proxy will override the apt.conf setting.


I don't know the result. I didn't try it again, because the previously 
mentioned problem resulted in an unusable system: some libraries were 
left unconfigurable and dpkg unusable and x-windows could not be 
started.  All I have to do is to reinstall the whole system.  I'm afraid 
upgrading may throw me into the same situation again.


I think it would be helpful if one has the option of testing before 
actually install or remove a package.  The dpkg sometimes unpacks 
packages before finding out that the dependency requirement cannot be 
met. That seems to be the cause of my problem.


Best!

Re: debian newbie "tip-of-the-day" signature script

[Alan Shutko]

ktb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> The opposite is called "Jeopardy email," replying before the answer:)

I always liked "monkey quoting".  I don't know why, but I like it.

-- 
Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors!
This is an unauthorized cybernetic announcement.

Re: GUI Email program

[Michael A. Miller]

> "Ross" == Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I took a look at evolution, but when the 2nd thing I tried
> to do (set up a weekly appointment that didn't start today)
> didn't work I decided it still needed some work.

Back in the 1900s, it was said that no application was
feature-complete until you could read email with it (someone's
law - don't remember who's).  It looks like the 21 century
corollary is that no application is complete until the email
portion also functions as a calendar tool.  :-)

Re: gcc 3.0, namespace, and such (fwd)

[Robert Kerr]

Jean-Baptiste,
Thanks for your response.  Do you happen to know if objects compiled with
3.0 can successfully link against libraries created with 2.95.x?

thanks



-- Forwarded message --
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 01:33:13 +0200
From: Debian User Jean-Baptiste Note <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Debian List 
Subject: Re: gcc 3.0, namespace, and such

I'm far from being an expert, but :
1- yes you can safely install gcc v3 (and g++ v3 and so on) alongside
the 2.9X
you call it only by appending -3.0 to its name.
2- I have some syntactic problems with g++ v3 as far as dereferencing
functionsis concerned. Hell, i'm
really not an expert, but something like &(SomeClass::function) that
used to work for me in 2.9X must
be replaced by &SomeClass::function in the new version.



-- 
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Remember the... the... uhh.
**
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rdist

[Renai LeMay]

>I noticed on the Debian site there's a kit available to (apparently) roll
>your own CD images by using rdist to maintain local copies, which you can
>then use to lay out both a cd install image and network archive from which
>you can do a network install and incremental package update.

Can someone point me to a page detailing this? Someone sent me an email 
asking about this, but I can't find it on the debian site.

thanks,

Renai

ifhp does not do HP LaserJet II

[Robert Cymbala]

Hello,

Package ``ifhp'' "is a general purpose filter for HP LaserJet III, IV
and V series printers."

What to do for an HP II?  Below is original question from a friend...
I'll be sure to send John links to posted answer(s).   THANK YOU...


"Robert, Do you have a link to a linux driver for an HP LaserJet II
printer?  I've read HOWTO's until I'm cross-eyed.

"I sent a query to HP.  They responded with 'We write no drivers for
Linux', followed by a full page of disclaimers on why they are not
responsible for all this information and why I can't sue them for this
remarkable revelation.  :)) Tnx.  -John Way"

Re: removing packages

[will trillich]

On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 04:12:33PM -0500, Brian Smith wrote:
> I mistakenly told the potatoe install routine to install everything on
> the 3 cd's I have, and I ran out of disk space (only have 1Gb).  I want
> to remove packages, do I use apt-remove or something like that ? I tried
> that and got an error due to a full hard disk, is there some manual
> process I will have to use to remove packages and physically delete
> them?

use "apt-get remove " (apt-get is poorly named, for
this reason, just so you know t'ain't my fault) like so:

apt-get remove kde gnome apache

and if you're determined to free up space, try

apt-get --remove postgresql mysql emacs vim

which also takes a stab at zapping config files as well.

> I'm thinking about a fresh install as a last resort.

if you're just now getting up to speed (not been frobbing with
settings for a few months, for example) then a fresh install
should be No Big Deal.

-- 
DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #17 from Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Why is TELNET considered spawn of Satan? Because every keystroke
sent by you, is transmitted -- clear as a bell -- across the
ether. Anyone can sniff your network packets and see what you're
typing -- passwords, love letters, cold fusion blueprints...
It's as secure as shouting from the rooftops. Everyone can see!

Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...

annoying Dependency/conflict resolution screen in dselect

[Jorge Santos]

Whenever I exit the Select section of dselect normally I get an screen
telling me that some packages suggest some others (that btw are
already installed) and I can't seem to get rid of it.  Any clues on
why might this be happening (I just upgraded to woody).

jorge santos

Re: debian newbie "tip-of-the-day" signature script

[ktb]

On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 06:10:30PM -0500, will trillich wrote:
 
>   always put your reply AFTER the paragraph or sentence you're
>   responding to.
> 
>   that's called "postfix" notation, boys and girls. it's good
>   manners, and shows you're willing to put some effort in being
>   understood.
> 

The opposite is called "Jeopardy email," replying before the answer:)
kent

-- 
 From seeing and seeing the seeing has become so exhausted
 First line of "The Panther" - R. M. Rilke

xserver-xfree86 4.0.2-13 + gdm 2.0-0.beta4.15 kills keyboard!

[Brian May]

Hello,

I installed xserver-xfree86. The first few times the postinst died
with an return of 10. As I was debugging the problem (running it over
5 times), it suddenly worked perfectly, so I can't really file the bug
report... It seemed to come from debconf though (as far as I could
tell anyway).

Anyway, back on topic, I tested X out with gdm from
unstable. Everything worked fine. I could not log in, probably because
of the Helix stuff still installed.

I purged all Helix stuff, including some extra packages (gdm,
logrotate, hence heimdal-kdc and mailman. ooops. Good thing for
backups! Still not sure why one of my apt-get remove --purge
 wanted to remove logrotate though).

I reinstalled gdm, and now mouse, display work fine, but my keyboard
dies. I haven't worked out how to change console or login with the
mouse ;-), so effectively the console has crashed (locally).

Logging in remotely works, where I killed the server. I started gdm
again, and the same problem reoccured.  Replugging the keyboard
connector does not help (I guess I have to stop X first).

Running startx works fine (Except for sawfish not being installed).
So I guess the problem must be gdm's fault:
ii  gdm2.0-0.beta4.15 GNOME Display Manager

Anyone else noticed the same problem? I find it surprising that
upgrading from Helix code works, but installing from scratch doesn't.
-- 
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: realplayer in stable

[Jim McCloskey]

Thanks to all of those who helped sort this out. I checked the bug
report log and found that a bug had been filed (by Joey Hess) against
the installer package for realplayer 8 (this was the debconf problem).

There was also a reply from the maintainer saying that he planned to
put a fixed version into proposed-updates. That doesn't seem to have
happened yet.

So at present there is no installer package for either rp7 or rp8 in
potato (despite the fact that the packages database at debian.org says
that rp7 is available).

I downloaded the RPM version of rp8, used alien to convert it, and
installed it with dpkg. All seems fine.

My thanks to all who helped,

Jim

Re: release info

[Daniel Freedman]

On Wed, Apr 25, 2001, Artem Litvinovich wrote:
> Anyone have ideas on when a stable release incorporating the 2.4 kernel will
> be available? (woody i think)
> 
> ...pardon the newbieness, just decided on potato over RH7.1
> //Artem

Artem,

Welcome aboard!  You can run the 2.4 kernel on potato, though I have
no personal experience doing so.  For instructions, see the featured
link on the main debian.org webpage.  As far as release of woody, I
recall a recent message (on debian-dev I think) that gave from an
optomistic November 2001 timeframe to a pessimistic March 2002
timeframe, IIRC.  For more info, search archives (lists.debian.org) on
debian-dev mailing list.

Hope this helps and take care,

Daniel


-- 
Daniel A. Freedman
Laboratory for Atomic and Solid State Physics
Department of Physics
Cornell University

Re: SSH faking auth loop : what does it mean?

[Ethan Benson]

On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 12:45:57PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> 
> Note that 'administrator' is the default WinNT admin account.
> 
> Anyone seeing such probes -- are there known SSH vulnerabilities with
> NT?

i remember seeing something about a ssh vulnerablilty on NT, i didn't
pay much attention since NT holes are rather boring (though sometimes
funny).  

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/


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Re: Debian install with a softwareraid.

[Peter Durieux]

Hi Alvin.

Thnx 4 info, but I have already found the software raid howto.

anyway, realy thnx.

grtz Peter

On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Alvin Oga wrote:

> Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 15:09:16 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Peter Durieux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Debian install with a softwareraid.
> 
> 
> hi peter
> 
> check "root-raid howto"  and software-raid howto
> 
> http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Root-RAID-HOWTO.html
> http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html
> 
> nothing special about bootflops...
>   - it either boots your existing raid system...
>   - it can install linux..
>   - neither is "software raid dependent" per se
>   - dont think anybody has a floppy that boots
> into or creates a root-raid setup
> 
> have fun raiding
> alvin
> http://www.Linux-Consulting.com/Raid
> http://Lsec.Linux-Consulting.com ... ids, monitoring, auditing stuff ...
> 
> On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Peter Durieux wrote:
> 
> > Hi all.
> > 
> > I have to install a debian box with softwareraid
> > The problem is that also my root filsystem have to be on the raid
> > Has someone exprience with this or where can I find those bootflops 4
> > software raid or any documentation how to fix this
> > 
> > Thanx in advance.
> > 
> > grtz Peter Durieux
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
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> > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > 
> 
> 

after dpkg-buildpackage

[Stephen E. Hargrove]

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i just did a dpkg-buildpackage on a tar.gz i downloaded.  it appears to
have worked.  my question is, what do i do now to get everything pulled
into a .deb file or get the stuff installed?

if there's a document online explaining all of this, just show me the way.

thanks!
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Re: The Perfect Debian / Personal Computer

[Debian User Jean-Baptiste Note]

Hell, I mean, all ne2k-pci that I had worked really well.
They were based on realtek chipsets.
BUT is your ethernet card a 100Mbps, RTL8139 one ?
That one gave me real pain.
>From what I could see on the various mailing lists regarding the subject,
I'm far from being alone in that case, and I mailed someone (I cant be
more precise, I lost the mail) that replied he had dropped altogether.
So did I after 3 weeks of painful efforts.

-- 
I'm an occurence of the I love GNU virus.
Please help me spread.

Re: debian newbie "tip-of-the-day" signature script

[will trillich]

On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 02:43:25PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 02:45:01PM -0500, will trillich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 
> wrote:
> > when i quote an email in a reply, i scroll down until i get to
> > the not-so-pertinent part, and in vim i do
> > 
> > dG
> > 
> > to obliterate everything "from here to end-of-file".
> 
> This is as it should be.
> 
> Also...postfix responses, ensuring quotes are attributed accurately,
> snipping extraneous content.

let me translate for the native-english speakers, what mr. self
(whose native tongue is "barb") means to say here:

when you email a reply to a question such as

what is the meaning of life, the universe and everything?

you should of course quote the relevant part of the email in
your response, so that everyone -- including the asker who's
possibly forgotten his original question within moments of
posting it -- will know what you're replying to:

> what is the meaning of life, the universe, and
> everything?

most email programs do this automatically when you initiate a
"reply" and the rest allow you to do it with a click or a
keystroke.

karsten, with his "postfix" vocabulary, is NOT talking about
a software package in this case -- here, he correctly means
"put your bloomin' answer AFTER the question you're
addressing." such as

> what is the meaning of life, the universe, and
> everything?
42, of course. (duh!)

see, now that makes perfect sense.

after all, it makes no sense to answer a question before it's
asked, right? so DO NOT PREFIX QUOTED EMAIL with your reply.
don't be a goober. prefixing a question with the answer is
bad manners.

42.
> what is the meaning of life, the universe, and
> everything?

42 what? hello? is this thing on?

always put your reply AFTER the paragraph or sentence you're
responding to.

that's called "postfix" notation, boys and girls. it's good
manners, and shows you're willing to put some effort in being
understood.

> I'll just dump sufficiently fuxnored posts -- too much work to get my
> mind around them.  All are advised.

fuxnored is another term for another time. (it'll have to be -- i
just now encountered it for the first time myself, and am
enjoying it far too much to be believed.)


-- 
DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #1 from Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Looking to use your Debian machine as a FIREWALL? No problem!
Try "apt-get install ipmasq"... After you've got your
/etc/network/interfaces file set up properly, ipmasq will
save you lots of work, setting up firewall and routing
tables automatically.

Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...

Re: GUI Email program

[Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira]

Hi,
try sylpheed. It is simple and works!
Em Wed, 25 Apr 2001 15:56:45 -0700, Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu:

> I tried Balsa, but it crashed all the time.  
> 
> I took a look at evolution, but when the 2nd thing I tried to do (set
> up a weekly appointment that didn't start today) didn't work I decided
> it still needed some work.
> 
> I use mutt, but I wouldn't call it a GUI client.  I think it has
> scoring, though I haven't tried to make it work.
> 
> Since mutt is based on the file system, groups with lots of mail tend
> to overwhelm it--opening, closing, and sorting the boxes gets
> sluggish.  I've been meaning to luck into something with a real
> database store, but for now I've just been cutting large mail files in
> two and compressing the early part.  I have a script that does this,
> if anyone is interested.  It does things like locking the box,
> automatically finding a message boundary, naming things nicely, ...
> 
> 
> -- 
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Re: debian newbie "tip-of-the-day" signature script

[will trillich]

On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 05:22:57PM -0500, ktb wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 02:45:01PM -0500, will trillich wrote:
>  
> 
> > when i quote an email in a reply, i scroll down until i get to
> > the not-so-pertinent part, and in vim i do
> > 
> > dG
> > 
> 
> When you do this how do you append your sig?  Seems you would snip that
> also.
> kent

yes, but nobody's supposed to be listening that closely.

in vim you can scroll down the quoted stuff to where you want to
start your reply, then do

c}Here's what I think of your tripe...

to change "from here to end-of-paragraph" (which is the same as
"from here to the next blank line") or, as kmself said,

d}

and then insert (or append, if you're that kind) away.

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How do you DISABLE A NETWORK SERVICE? There are several ways
network services are made available: for inetd items, modify
/etc/inetd.conf and then "/etc/init.d/inetd restart". For
independently-running daemons, try "/etc/init.d/ stop"
(or to permanently zap them, "apt-get --purge remove ").

Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...

Re: GUI Email program

[Ross Boylan]

I tried Balsa, but it crashed all the time.  

I took a look at evolution, but when the 2nd thing I tried to do (set
up a weekly appointment that didn't start today) didn't work I decided
it still needed some work.

I use mutt, but I wouldn't call it a GUI client.  I think it has
scoring, though I haven't tried to make it work.

Since mutt is based on the file system, groups with lots of mail tend
to overwhelm it--opening, closing, and sorting the boxes gets
sluggish.  I've been meaning to luck into something with a real
database store, but for now I've just been cutting large mail files in
two and compressing the early part.  I have a script that does this,
if anyone is interested.  It does things like locking the box,
automatically finding a message boundary, naming things nicely, ...

Steps to Sound

[Atukunda Martin]

Hi everyone,

I'd like to set up sound on my debian system. It is one of those IBM 300GL
machines that come with (I think) an onboard sound card.
Funny though is that the KDE CD player kscd plays fine when I insert a music
CD into the drive.
I added sound in my /etc/modules file but this doesn't seem to work.

I've decided to try it from scratch. What are the things that I should first
know before attempting to set up the sound? Is there HOWTO or any
documentation (debain specific probably) of some sort that I have'nt got 
to yet that might help me here? 

What are the steps I must follow in order to get it all functional?

Thanx in advance.
-- 
Martin

Re: Simple Linux Dbase4 database application?

[Ross Boylan]

Perl has some modules that can read xbase format files.  Python might as well.  
Of course, this is not the same as a complete application

Another thing you might try is running dbase under xdos or wine.

On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 08:20:07PM -0700, Abner Gershon wrote:
> Is there a simple open source Linux database program
> available that can access Dbase IV file types. I have
> many Dbase IV files with personal and scientific
> information such as a CD library, address file,
> medical information, 35mm slide catalog which I now
> access via Lotus Approach.

release info

[Artem Litvinovich]

Anyone have ideas on when a stable release incorporating the 2.4 kernel will
be available? (woody i think)

...pardon the newbieness, just decided on potato over RH7.1
//Artem

Re: Status of Ximian GNOME + debian

[Ross Boylan]

Ximian's site now says they support potato, and that woody support
will be forthcoming.  The old paths (using unstable) don't seem to
exist there anymore.

Re: Using dhcp on a home cable connection

[Brendan O'Connor]

 Alright, thanks for the help!
--

On Mon, 23 Apr 2001 20:54:23  
 Mircea Luca wrote:
>Brendan O'Connor wrote:
>> 
>> I have my ethernet card detected and working (using tulip.o, and etherconf 
>> from Progeny), connected to a cable modem, but the internet isn't working at 
>> all.
>> 
>
>
>
>> # The ethernet interface, configured by etherconf
>> iface eth0 inet dhcp
>> hostname progeny
>> 
>
>Most providers wil request a specific hostname in theabove line.progeny
>for sure
>will not work,so you either comment out that line or replace progeny 
>with the proper hostname given to you by your ISP.
>I use dhcpc and I have in /etc/dhcpc/config a line
>
>OPTIONS='-h "cr123456"'
>
>In /etc/network interfaces for eth0 all I have is
>
>iface eth0 inet dhcp
>
>I guess it's a bit different for dhcpc but this is the idea.
>


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Re: debian newbie "tip-of-the-day" signature script

[Karsten M. Self]

on Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 05:22:57PM -0500, ktb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 02:45:01PM -0500, will trillich wrote:
>  
> 
> > when i quote an email in a reply, i scroll down until i get to
> > the not-so-pertinent part, and in vim i do
> > 
> > dG
> > 
> 
> When you do this how do you append your sig?  Seems you would snip that
> also.
> kent

d}

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Re: cron: nth of month?

[Karsten M. Self]

on Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 04:53:46PM -0500, Bud Rogers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> "Karsten M. Self"  writes:
> > I've got a job I'd like to run once a month, on a set day of the week,
> > say, the first Sunday of the month.  Suggestions as to how to do this
> > with cron?
> 
> Could you wrap the job in a shell scrip? Run the script from cron every 
> Sunday.  Have the script check if the date is within the first seven days of 
> the month.  If so run the job, else exit quietly.  Not very elegant, but it 
> would get the job done.

If you'll refer to my original post you'll see that this was one option
I'd considered.

In my case, I decided that the simplest heuristic was, at the start of
the period in question, to schedule a job for the desired weekday (a
time specification allowed under GNU at), for some time later in the day
than the likely execution time of the cron job.  

Note that there is no guarantee of scheduling under cron or at, and
under anomolous circumstances (very high system load, downtime, etc.),
jobs may not run when scheduled, or complete within a reasonable time.
I'd selected a roughly 1.5 hour difference to provide some measure of
leeway.

Hence, my crontab recipie to execute a job on the first sunday of the
month is:

  1 1 1 * * echo 'command -args' | at 1:35 sunday

...or 

At one minute past midnight on the first of the month, schedule the
following job for the first following 1:35 am that occurs on a
Sunday, via the 'at' scheduler.  

Even if the current day _is_ Sunday, it
isn't yet 1:35 am, so the job will run at this time.

For tasks scheduled for other weeks of the month, you'd select:

  Week  Day
    ---
 1   1
 2   8
 3  15
 4  21
 5  29
  
Yes, there are other ways of doing this, however, the method shown 

  - Works.
  - Works correctly.
  - Is immediately apparent within the crontab.
  - Relies on existing logic for proper determination of date, time, and
weekday.
  - Doesn't require independent implementation of checks for date, time,
and weekday, subject to error and nonstandard implementation.

Cheers.

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Re: PostgreSQL 7.1RC3 packages, including potato

[Oliver Elphick]

Johann Spies wrote:
  >On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 05:40:40PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote:
  >> Packages of PostgreSQL 7.1RC3 have been uploaded to experimental (I think
  >> they're still in incoming).  These have been built for unstable.
  >> 
  >> The same packages are available at
  >> 
  >> http://www.debian.org/~elphick/postgresql
  >
  >Oliver,
  >
  >I tried to download 7.1 today and got the following error (using lynx):

7.1 is now available in unstable (7.1rekease-2 has just been uploaded).

I will probably have a potato version in a couple of days.


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make xfs serve windows true type fonts?

[Daniel de los Reyes]

So how can I make xfs serve all those true type fonts I have avaliable
for windoxe. Is there a HOWTO or something avaliable I can read?
I've managed to get wine running but apps look quite ugly without those ttfs.
-- 
__
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S2-Selling Soluciones
Valencia Spain
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: debian newbie "tip-of-the-day" signature script

[ktb]

On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 02:45:01PM -0500, will trillich wrote:
 

> when i quote an email in a reply, i scroll down until i get to
> the not-so-pertinent part, and in vim i do
> 
>   dG
> 

When you do this how do you append your sig?  Seems you would snip that
also.
kent

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Re: need help configuring hosts.deny

[Brandon High]

On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 09:44:00AM +0200, Sebastiaan wrote:
> 
> I have reason to belive that my computer is used as a relay host for
> spam. Walking through the logs, I found one ip number which has no ip
> name, but it connects the computer every hour or so and sends some mail.

Try doing this in /etc/postfix/main.cf:
smtpd_helo_required = yes
smtpd_helo_restrictions = permit_mynetworks, reject_invalid_hostname
smtpd_sender_restrictions = reject_unknown_sender_domain, reject_non_fqdn_sender

Basically, if the IP for the advertised hostname doesn't match the DNS
return, deny. Deny if a HELO or EHLO wasn't sent. Deny any made up domain
names. Deny if there is no address associated with the IP, or the domain is
not fully quallified.

You might also want to do:
maps_rbl_domains = blackholes.mail-abuse.org dialups.mail-abuse.org 
relays.mail-abuse.org
smtpd_client_restrictions = hash:/etc/postfix/access, reject_maps_rbl

-B

-- 
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Re: ALSA problems in Debian/unstable

[Gerd Arlitt]

Hi,

at a first glance your lsmod-list looks quite ok.

Have you tried to run a mixer e.g. "gmix" in Gnome ?  It happened to me before
that all sliders were set to zero and of course ..no sound ! :-)

-- Gerd


Stefan Deibel wrote:

> Hi,
> After upgrading to Debian/unstable I want to get sound with ALSA. I install
> alsa-source and compiled the alsa-driver for Soundblaster 128 PCI (Ensoni1
> 1371) it using kernel 2.4.3. After installation lsmod shows
>
> snd-seq-midi4816   0  (autoclean) (unused)
> snd-seq-oss30400   0  (unused)
> snd-seq-midi-event  3520   0  [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss]
> snd-seq47360   0  [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss
> snd-seq-midi-event]
> snd-pcm-oss20176   0  (unused)
> snd-pcm-plugin 15920   0  [snd-pcm-oss]
> snd-mixer-oss   5216   0  [snd-pcm-oss]
> snd-card-ens13712384   1
> snd-ens137113264   0  [snd-card-ens1371]
> snd-pcm38912   1  [snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin snd-ens1371]
> snd-timer  11040   0  [snd-seq snd-pcm]
> snd-ac97-codec 27104   0  [snd-ens1371]
> snd-rawmidi12128   0  [snd-seq-midi snd-ens1371]
> snd-seq-device  4528   0  [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq
> snd-rawmidi]snd-mixer  30576   0  [snd-mixer-oss snd-ens1371
> snd-ac97-codec]
> snd45264   4  [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss
> snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin snd-mixer-oss
> snd-card-ens1371 snd-ens1371 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-ac97-codec snd-rawmidi
> snd-seq-device snd-mixer]
> soundcore   4112   7  [snd]
>
> This seems to be all right for me but I don't get any sound with aplay.
> I also installed the alsaplayer and alsaplayer-alsa packages. But when I
> call alsaplayer from within Gnome's menu
> nothing happens. Starting alsaplayer from the terminal yields
>
> AlsaPlayer 0.99.33-pre2
> (C) 1999 Andy Lo A Foe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and others, see
> AUTHORS file for details
>
> and nothing happens.
> Does anyone have ideas what is missing?
>
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>
> Tel. +49(6131) 937390
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Re: forgot manufacturer name of serial ethernet devices

[Karsten M. Self]

on Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 05:58:45PM -0400, Lewis, James M. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 
wrote:
> 
> 
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Robert L. Yelvington [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 5:59 PM
> > To: debian-isp
> > Cc: Debian Users
> > Subject: forgot manufacturer name of serial ethernet devices
> > 
> > 
> > a couple of months ago i read an article in some trade rag about a
> > serial device that was networkable via ethernet?  forgot the 
> > name of the
> > product and the company, imagine that!  basically, it's a serial hub
> > with an ethernet port.
> > 
> > if anyone knows what i am talking about would you mind passing along a
> > URL, a name, something?
> > 
> > AND
> > 
> > if anyone is using a device like this...whatcha think?

Weasel.

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Re: How to download a package?

[Karsten M. Self]

on Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 04:42:47PM -0500, Dean ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> - Original Message -
> From: "will trillich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: 
> Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 12:36 PM
> Subject: Re: How to download a package?
> 
> 
> > On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 09:54:42AM -0400, - wrote:
> > > This may seem like a stupid question but how do you download a Debian
> > > package?
> > > (Yes, I'm a really low level newbie)
> > >  My hangup concerns these preliminaries before performing a
> > > download.
> > >
> > >  1.   Should all downloads be done by  root user or can any user do it?
> > >
> > >  2.   What directory should be set as the active directory in the
> > > command line?

> I have also wondered on downloading as root, does this
> leave us open security wise?   Dean

Note recent discussion on trimming quotations in responses and using
postfix response.

Not significantly.  However, minimizing activities run as root tends to
reduce your security exposure.  If you do download live payload and
accidentally run it as root, you're in more danger than if you run it as
an unprivileged user.  Running "advanced" file transfer utilities --
browsers, GUI FTP utilities, etc., may leave you open to automated
content handling, most of which confers a low benefit for the potential
risks involved.

root user is a powerful tool.  It's best used only when needed.

Cheers.

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Re: Debian install with a softwareraid.

[Alvin Oga]

hi peter

check "root-raid howto"  and software-raid howto

http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Root-RAID-HOWTO.html
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html

nothing special about bootflops...
- it either boots your existing raid system...
- it can install linux..
- neither is "software raid dependent" per se
- dont think anybody has a floppy that boots
  into or creates a root-raid setup

have fun raiding
alvin
http://www.Linux-Consulting.com/Raid
http://Lsec.Linux-Consulting.com ... ids, monitoring, auditing stuff ...

On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Peter Durieux wrote:

> Hi all.
> 
> I have to install a debian box with softwareraid
> The problem is that also my root filsystem have to be on the raid
> Has someone exprience with this or where can I find those bootflops 4
> software raid or any documentation how to fix this
> 
> Thanx in advance.
> 
> grtz Peter Durieux
> 
> 
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Re: ALSA problems in Debian/unstable

[jdls]

Hi,

Did you by any chance forget to unmute your card?  if I'm not mistaken the
alsa-drivers are muted by default and you need something to unmute them. try
gamix to do that. apt-get install gamix then run gamix to do that.

Hope this helps,

Joseph

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Re: cron: nth of month?

[Alvin Oga]

hi ya

you can run the script 7 times ( 7 entries in crontab )
and if its not sunday, the script can exit.

at least no wrapper is needed...

and there's probably "gazaillion" other ways to skin this cat

c ya
alvin

On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Bud Rogers wrote:

> "Karsten M. Self"  writes:
> > I've got a job I'd like to run once a month, on a set day of the week,
> > say, the first Sunday of the month.  Suggestions as to how to do this
> > with cron?
> 
> Could you wrap the job in a shell scrip? Run the script from cron every 
> Sunday.  Have the script check if the date is within the first seven days of 
> the month.  If so run the job, else exit quietly.  Not very elegant, but it 
> would get the job done.
> 
> -- 
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> All things in moderation.  And not too much moderation either.
> 
> 
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RE: forgot manufacturer name of serial ethernet devices

[Lewis, James M.]

> -Original Message-
> From: Robert L. Yelvington [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 5:59 PM
> To: debian-isp
> Cc: Debian Users
> Subject: forgot manufacturer name of serial ethernet devices
> 
> 
> a couple of months ago i read an article in some trade rag about a
> serial device that was networkable via ethernet?  forgot the 
> name of the
> product and the company, imagine that!  basically, it's a serial hub
> with an ethernet port.
> 
> if anyone knows what i am talking about would you mind passing along a
> URL, a name, something?
> 
> AND
> 
> if anyone is using a device like this...whatcha think?
>
These things are generally called terminal servers.  With different
features they get different names like "device servers" or whatever.
Two companies that make these things are Digi International and Lantronix.
We use Emulex terminal servers but they are getting out of the business.
Most folks that provide these things have similar products.  They are
most differentiated by number of ports and protocols offered.

Most are relatively inexpensive (200->1800USD) depending on the features.
They work and fit a need.  For what I use them for, almost any one will
do.  Pick based on software features you need and then number of ports.
Programming to talk to them is like talking to another *nix computer.
They provide services and you connect on known sockets...

hth
jim

> kind regards,
> rob
> 
> 
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Re: HOWTO? Fix a term that has "space junk"

[will trillich]

Simon Law wrote:
> 
> Better than that.  For an instant fix, just make the terminal display
> Ctrl-O.  The easiest way is to type run 'echo Ctrl-V Ctrl-O' which will
> make the terminal reset itself.

true -- but one keystroke (f1) is very attractive.

what i do, myself, is incorporate ^O into my command prompt
(another newbietip, by the way) like this

export PS1='[EMAIL PROTECTED]: \w$ '

> Simon
> 
> On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, will trillich wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 11:32:30PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote:
> > > Quoting will trillich([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > > > On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 10:51:11AM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote:
> > > > > it clears the screen if you type   reset  but
> > > > >
> > > > > I do it so often I added this to my .inputrc file
> > > > > # Reset terminal on F1
> > > > > "\033[[A": "reset\C-M"
> > > > >
> > > > > So now a F1 does it.
> > > >
> > > > cool! mind if i add that to my newbie tips? :)
> > > >
> > >  Go ahead, thats what its for.  :)
> >
> > well okay then:
> >
> > --
> > DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #30 from Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > Are you seeing GIBBERISH after viewing a binary file on your
> > console (or in an xterm/rxvt window)? Add this to your ~/.inputrc
> > file:
> >   "\033[[A": "reset\C-M"
> > Now when you need a quick tty reset, just press F1 at the command
> > prompt. Try "info rluserman" for more options.
> >
> > Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...
> >
> >
> > --
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Re: postgres user

[Oliver Elphick]

Blake Barnett wrote:
  >Call me crazy, but I can't seem to get into the database anymore.  The
  >postgres user didn't have a password before and it won't accept a blank
  >password anymore.  The postgres user was the only user and so there's no way
  >to get in to modify him.  Am I just being dense here?  Is there a problem
  >with the package?  If it's not a package issue I'll post to the Debian
  >lists.. 


Check the README files!

The default access policy is now:

  local   all password
  hostall   127.0.0.1  255.0.0.0  ident sameuser

(in /etc/postgresql/pg_hba.conf)

In other words, connections through a Unix socket need a password;
TCP/IP connections through localhost allow you to log on without a 
password as the postgresql user whose name is the same as your login.

Set and export PGHOST=localhost to take advantage of this.

The reason for the change is to improve the default security of PostgreSQL.

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  through him that loved us."Romans 8:37 

Re: cron: nth of month?

[Bud Rogers]

"Karsten M. Self"  writes:
> I've got a job I'd like to run once a month, on a set day of the week,
> say, the first Sunday of the month.  Suggestions as to how to do this
> with cron?

Could you wrap the job in a shell scrip? Run the script from cron every 
Sunday.  Have the script check if the date is within the first seven days of 
the month.  If so run the job, else exit quietly.  Not very elegant, but it 
would get the job done.

-- 
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All things in moderation.  And not too much moderation either.

Re: cron: nth of month?

[Alan Shutko]

"Karsten M. Self"  writes:

> I've got a job I'd like to run once a month, on a set day of the week,
> say, the first Sunday of the month.  Suggestions as to how to do this
> with cron?

http://www.netsys.com/sunmgr/1996-12/msg00142.html

I don't think there's any way to do it with cron

-- 
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If the shoe fits, it's ugly.

Re: installing latest version of Lyx...

[Robin Gerard]

On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 03:41:03PM +0300, Hannu Virtanen wrote:
> on 'Potato'
> 
> There is one guy, who has made unofficial 'deb'  package of the current
> version of Lyx.

Put in your sources.list

deb http://nicolaxx.free.fr/pub/supertux supatux/
there is lyx_1.1.6fix1-2_i386.deb
You can try too 

deb http://nicolaxx.free.fr/pub/supertux base/
deb http://nicolaxx.free.fr/pub/supertux noyaunux/

it is the work of Nicolas Boos (debian-french).
hope this help.
-- 
Gerard

Re: debian newbie "tip-of-the-day" signature script

[Karsten M. Self]

on Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 02:45:01PM -0500, will trillich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 
wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 10:12:34PM -0400, Mark Hurley wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 12:24:01AM -0500, will trillich wrote:
> > > -- 
> > > DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP:
> > > What's a "manpage"? It's the documentation you get when you enter
> > > "man SOMETHING" such as "man ps" or "man bash" or "man apt-setup".
> > > 
> > > ...from [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > 
> > I think this is a great idea where everyone is going.  One thought,
> > can we surround the tip or for that matter all "comments" in a tag?
> 
> > 
> > DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP:
> > ...
> > ...
> > 
> > 
> > So I can automatically strip it out when I reply? Would save me from
> > having to delete even more from a message.  On another tangent, could
> > everyone do me a favor and surround any signature with   .
> 
> when i quote an email in a reply, i scroll down until i get to
> the not-so-pertinent part, and in vim i do
> 
>   dG
> 
> to obliterate everything "from here to end-of-file".

This is as it should be.

Also...postfix responses, ensuring quotes are attributed accurately,
snipping extraneous content.

I'll just dump sufficiently fuxnored posts -- too much work to get my
mind around them.  All are advised.

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Re: How to download a package?

[Dean]

I have also wondered on downloading as root, does this
leave us open security wise?   Dean

- Original Message -
From: "will trillich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 12:36 PM
Subject: Re: How to download a package?


> On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 09:54:42AM -0400, - wrote:
> > This may seem like a stupid question but how do you download a Debian
> > package?
> > (Yes, I'm a really low level newbie)
> >  My hangup concerns these preliminaries before performing a
> > download.
> >
> >  1.   Should all downloads be done by  root user or can any user do it?
> >
> >  2.   What directory should be set as the active directory in the
> > command line?
>
> To just install new things that come from the debian team, just
> use the wonderful "apt-get" command (when logged in as user root)--
>
> apt-get install postgresql apache-perl ipmasq vim-rt
>
> all of which depends on having /etc/apt/sources.list set up
> properly, which you can do easily using
>
> apt-setup
>
> if you've got it (try "apt-get install base-config" if you
> don't).
>
> For more, see my intro at
>
> http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/apt-get-intro.html
>
> > Am I tilting at windmills?
>
> Could be. I can't answer that one, sorry. :)
>
> --
> DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #16 from Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Why are *.rpm (RED HAT PACKAGES) considered spawn of Satan?
> Because the Debian package system is a lot more sophisticated
> than the one Red Hat uses; lots more inter-dependency information
> is built in to a *.deb package. If you bypass that with an *.rpm
> file, you're taking chances with your system. Try to "apt-get
> install " packages if possible. (Also check out the
> "alien" package if you must.)
>
> Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...
>
>
> --
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Re: PostgreSQL 7.1RC3 packages, including potato

[Johann Spies]

On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 05:40:40PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> Packages of PostgreSQL 7.1RC3 have been uploaded to experimental (I think
> they're still in incoming).  These have been built for unstable.
> 
> The same packages are available at
> 
> http://www.debian.org/~elphick/postgresql

Oliver,

I tried to download 7.1 today and got the following error (using lynx):

---
The requested URL
   /~elphick//postgresql/pg7.1/postgresql_7.1rc4.orig.tar.gz was not
   found on this server.
--
> At this URL you can also find versions built for potato.

I could only found 6.5-versinos built for potato or did I miss
something?

Regards.
Johann
-- 
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 "Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors 
  through him that loved us."Romans 8:37 

Re: Snarled console after X 4.0.2 runs.

[Hall Stevenson]

* Robb Kidd ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010425 17:27]:
>   X snarls the F1 - F5 text consoles, but runs fine itself. Killing the X
> server does not unsnarl them.



> I noticed the many messages about disabling the framebuffer
> (CONFIG_FB) and recompiling the kernel, but I do not see that config
> entry in "make menuconfig" (or less'ing about in the generated .config
> file). Do I add this line? Have I misread and should be recompiling
> XFree86?

Disabling framebuffer is the only only way I've been able to "solve"
this. Like you mention, I've seen other people post about the problem,
but no solutions.

I've got a Matrox G400 video card. I have the problem with the Matrox fb
driver in the kernel, the plain VGA driver, I've tried Matrox's modules,
and kernels up to 2.4.2. I did not have the problem with 2.2.xx, nor
have I tried it with kernel 2.4.3-acXX.

Regards
Hall

Re: cron: nth of month?

[Carl Johnson]

"Karsten M. Self"  writes:

> I've got a job I'd like to run once a month, on a set day of the week,
> say, the first Sunday of the month.  Suggestions as to how to do this
> with cron?
> 
I haven't any better ideas about cron, but you may want to look into
using remind.  It is in a package of the same name in non-free.  You
would just need to run it daily in cron, and let it handle matching
the desired dates to run your commands.

-- 
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Re: Documentation for total beginners

[Dave Sherohman]

On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 03:08:45PM -0500, will trillich wrote:
> in /usr/share/vim/vim56/filetype.vim i found the line
> au 
> BufNewFile,BufReadsnd.\d\+,.letter,.letter.\d\+,.followup,.article,.article.\d\+,pico.\d\+,mutt-*-\d\+,ae\d\+.txt
>  set ft=mail
>
> the part that works for new mutt email is
>
>   mutt-*-\d\+
>
> but we need to add a pattern to match filenames like
>
>   /tmp/muttlEoKra
>   /tmp/muttDSveKd
>
> what's the syntax for these vim patterns? (-*- looks like glob,
> but then we have \d for digit (i presume) and \+ for... well, i
> don't know.)

Looks like a bastard child of regexes and shell globs.  I suspect that you
could probably match both styles of mutt filename in a single expression with
something along the lines of

mutt-\?*-\?\d\+

but it would probably be easier to just add a new pattern of

mutt\d\+


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Re: FRÅGA?!?!

[Peter Schüller]

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> Snälla,jag behöver hjälp med Debian,jag har försökt i 5 timmar att
> installera det,jag har läst allt...När jag kommer till Partition Hard disk
> i installationen kommer jag inte längre,jag gjorde en Linux partition i
> Partition Magic 6.0 men det funkar helt enkelt inte... Kan ni inte snääälla
> skicka en manuall på svenska om hur man ska göra med partitionerna osv. Ska
> dom vara primary eller logical??? tex...

Tja, vad ar problemet specifikt? Det minimala du kan gora ar bara att skapa 
en ext2fs-partition och en swap-partition (under installation). Om du vill 
anvanda particion magic for att krympa partitioner och gora plats sa gor det, 
men jag foreslar att du skapar linux-partitionerna under installationen med 
hjalp av cfdisk.


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removing packages

[Brian Smith]

I mistakenly told the potatoe install routine to install everything on
the 3 cd's I have, and I ran out of disk space (only have 1Gb).  I want
to remove packages, do I use apt-remove or something like that ? I tried
that and got an error due to a full hard disk, is there some manual
process I will have to use to remove packages and physically delete
them?

I'm thinking about a fresh install as a last resort.

TIA,
Brian

Re: debian newbie "tip-of-the-day" signature script

[will trillich]

Dave Sherohman wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 05:29:48PM -0500, will trillich wrote:
> > one thing's for sure -- adding "tip-of-the-moment" to your email
> > sure boosts the likelihood that newbies pay attention to what you
> > say! (which means now i must be more careful about the details,
> > such as how the mac beats debian all to hell. wait, is that the
> > other way around? hold on, now. ah, this is it: it's windows.
> > bill gates is the savior of humanity. that's it. yeah.)
> 
> Speaking of which...  I noticed your 'to find out what ports are open
> on your machine, use nmap' tip.  Shouldn't that be 'to find out what
> ports are open on your machine, use netstat -a | grep LISTEN'?

(hey, we all gotta learn sometime.)

i'll append that shortly. thanks!

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Snarled console after X 4.0.2 runs.

[Robb Kidd]

X snarls the F1 - F5 text consoles, but runs fine itself. Killing the X
server does not unsnarl them.
I apologize for bringing up this routine question. I've seen several
posts about this in the archives and still cannot solve this problem. 
All this RTFM'ing has made my eyes water and I seem to not be R'ing the
correct F'ing M's.
I've got Woody running nicely on the 2.4.2 kernel otherwise and am
trying to add XFree86 4.0.2 with an AGP 8MB Number Nine Ticket-2-Ride
video card. (server-i128)  I noticed the many messages about disabling
the framebuffer (CONFIG_FB) and recompiling the kernel, but I do not see
that config entry in "make menuconfig" (or less'ing about in the
generated .config file).  Do I add this line? Have I misread and should
be recompiling XFree86?

Loss of Mouse in Xterm

[Dale Morris]

When I first log into Xwindows, I can use the mouse in
Midnight Commander to select files. After I've been logged
in for a while, perhaps even an hour, I no longer can use my
mouse.
Originally I thought this was a problem of not having GPM
installed, so I installed it, but it doesn't make any
difference.

I also notice this behavior with slrn and vim, even though I
have mouse enabled settings on.

any suggestions?


thanks)

Re: HOWTO? Fix a term that has "space junk"

[Simon Law]

Better than that.  For an instant fix, just make the terminal display
Ctrl-O.  The easiest way is to type run 'echo Ctrl-V Ctrl-O' which will
make the terminal reset itself.

Simon

On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, will trillich wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 11:32:30PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote:
> > Quoting will trillich([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > > On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 10:51:11AM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote:
> > > > it clears the screen if you type   reset  but
> > > > 
> > > > I do it so often I added this to my .inputrc file
> > > > # Reset terminal on F1
> > > > "\033[[A": "reset\C-M"
> > > > 
> > > > So now a F1 does it.
> > > 
> > > cool! mind if i add that to my newbie tips? :)
> > > 
> >  Go ahead, thats what its for.  :)
> 
> well okay then:
> 
> -- 
> DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #30 from Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Are you seeing GIBBERISH after viewing a binary file on your
> console (or in an xterm/rxvt window)? Add this to your ~/.inputrc
> file:
>   "\033[[A": "reset\C-M"
> Now when you need a quick tty reset, just press F1 at the command
> prompt. Try "info rluserman" for more options.
> 
> Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...
> 
> 
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> 

Re: Getting package from "testing" for potato

[Brandon High]

> apt-get build-dep hotplug

I think that the build-dep command is supported by apt-get on potato.

You may have to look at the *.dsc file and manually install the
build-depends.

-B

-- 
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"I can't die yet! I don't own enough things!" - Bender

ALSA problems in Debian/unstable

[Stefan Deibel]

Hi,
After upgrading to Debian/unstable I want to get sound with ALSA. I install
alsa-source and compiled the alsa-driver for Soundblaster 128 PCI (Ensoni1
1371) it using kernel 2.4.3. After installation lsmod shows

snd-seq-midi4816   0  (autoclean) (unused)
snd-seq-oss30400   0  (unused)
snd-seq-midi-event  3520   0  [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss]
snd-seq47360   0  [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss
snd-seq-midi-event]
snd-pcm-oss20176   0  (unused)
snd-pcm-plugin 15920   0  [snd-pcm-oss]
snd-mixer-oss   5216   0  [snd-pcm-oss]
snd-card-ens13712384   1 
snd-ens137113264   0  [snd-card-ens1371]
snd-pcm38912   1  [snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin snd-ens1371]
snd-timer  11040   0  [snd-seq snd-pcm]
snd-ac97-codec 27104   0  [snd-ens1371]
snd-rawmidi12128   0  [snd-seq-midi snd-ens1371]
snd-seq-device  4528   0  [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq
snd-rawmidi]snd-mixer  30576   0  [snd-mixer-oss snd-ens1371
snd-ac97-codec]
snd45264   4  [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss
snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin snd-mixer-oss
snd-card-ens1371 snd-ens1371 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-ac97-codec snd-rawmidi
snd-seq-device snd-mixer]
soundcore   4112   7  [snd]

This seems to be all right for me but I don't get any sound with aplay. 
I also installed the alsaplayer and alsaplayer-alsa packages. But when I
call alsaplayer from within Gnome's menu
nothing happens. Starting alsaplayer from the terminal yields

AlsaPlayer 0.99.33-pre2
(C) 1999 Andy Lo A Foe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and others, see
AUTHORS file for details

and nothing happens. 
Does anyone have ideas what is missing?

-- 
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Tel. +49(6131) 937390

Re: creating a password file other than /etc/passwd

[Kelly Corbin]

That works great.  Thanks.

Kelly

Nate Amsden wrote:


Kelly Corbin wrote:


I'm working on some custom PAM authentication routines and need to
create a password file similar to /etc/passwd.  Anybody know of any
utilities to do this?  Every one I've looked at only uses /etc/passwd.
I simply need another file in the same username:encrypted_passwd format.
  Ideas?



check out 'htpasswd' part of the apache-common package.

nate

Re: Realplayer in stable

[JC Portlock]

I'm running potato and had the same question.after wondering what to do 
with the rp7 installer since the only version available was rp8.

I searched freshmeat for RealPlayer, was linked to the RP's main site, and 
downloaded rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs1.bin from there.  I changed the perms to 
make it executable and voila.  It installed itself.  Almost too easy, but 
both Netscape and Konqueror now handle the streams seamlessly.

May not be the *debian* way, but if you want RealPlayer as I did, well, you 
do what you gotta do.

On Wednesday 25 April 2001 10:20 am, Jim McCloskey wrote:
> |> 1. the version (7) of realplayer was unsupported by real player.  To get
> |> the rpm required by the realplayer deb, you had to figure out the url of
> |> where to download the rpm from real because it was no longer available
> |> on their website.
>
> Except that realplayer version 8 seems to have been available at least
> for a brief period in stable, since that's the version that's
> installed (I just checked) on my other machine:
>
> Package: realplayer
> Status: install ok installed
> Priority: optional
> Section: contrib/net
> Installed-Size: 144
> Maintainer: Brian Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Version: 8.0.1
> Replaces: rvplayer
> Provides: rvplayer
> Depends: debconf (>= 0.2.0), xlib6g | xlibs, libc6, cpio
> Suggests: netscape
> Conflicts: rvplayer
> Description: Real Player (installer)
>
> And from the changelog:
>
> realplayer (8.0.1) stable unstable; urgency=medium
>
>   * I'm adopting this package (no wnpp was filed).
>   * taggart's patch (Closes: #60426, #83038, #83227 #85823)
>   * Changed dependencies for XF4 (Closes: #82988)
>   * New version for potato (Closes: #74741, #81566)
>   * Also (Closes: #74326, #64456, #76487, #79638, #46401)
>   * Why not.. added menu hint (Closes: #82332)
>   * Removed dh_suidregister
>
>  -- Brian Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  Thu, 22 Feb 2001 20:11:38 -1000
>
> This is on a pure potato (2.2r3) system.
>
> Weird,
>
> J

-- 
73,

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and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

Re: Documentation for total beginners

[will trillich]

On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 09:45:00PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
> Matthew Dalton wrote:
> > If you use vim with mutt, but also use it for other things and you don't
> > want it to wrap to 72 characters for those other things, put something
> > like this in your .muttrc
> > 
> >   set editor = "vim -c 'set tw=72'"
> 
> A cleaner method is this, in your .vimrc:
> 
> autocmd FileType mail set textwidth=72

that usually works pretty well because mutt has some patterns it
looks for in the filenames... when starting a new message using
mutt, it goes into /tmp/mutt--

BUT when "RESUMING" an outgoing message that you postponed in mutt
(postpone via "q" and then "y" to save message for later; resume
via "R") the temp filename is /tmp/mutt which doesn't
match the same pattern. all i have to do is :set ft=mail to get
my highlighting and textwidth settings, but where's the pattern
specified for ft=mail?

aha!

in /usr/share/vim/vim56/filetype.vim i found the line
au BufNewFile,BufRead 
snd.\d\+,.letter,.letter.\d\+,.followup,.article,.article.\d\+,pico.\d\+,mutt-*-\d\+,ae\d\+.txt
 set ft=mail

the part that works for new mutt email is

mutt-*-\d\+

but we need to add a pattern to match filenames like

/tmp/muttlEoKra
/tmp/muttDSveKd

what's the syntax for these vim patterns? (-*- looks like glob,
but then we have \d for digit (i presume) and \+ for... well, i
don't know.)

-- 
DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #14 from Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
What's a RUNLEVEL? It's simply a big-time setting group;
runlevel 2 might have a full-blown web server plus X running,
and runlevel 3 might be ssh-only, for secure logins. Check
/etc/inittab (and /etc/rc.d/*) for details on how
yours are set up. And try "man runlevel".

Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...

frame buffer nvidia

[Desfas]

I have a TNT2.
I have 2 problems with fb nvidia:

1- How can i set resolution in lilo.conf ?? It ever starts with
640x480, and i cannot change it.

2- I can run X with fbdev only with 8bpp. When i use 16bpp it crashes.

Is there anybody who use nvidia fb ?? Could i have your lilo.conf and
XF86Config ?


plz reply to my email.
thanks a lot. 


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forgot manufacturer name of serial ethernet devices

[Robert L. Yelvington]

a couple of months ago i read an article in some trade rag about a
serial device that was networkable via ethernet?  forgot the name of the
product and the company, imagine that!  basically, it's a serial hub
with an ethernet port.

if anyone knows what i am talking about would you mind passing along a
URL, a name, something?

AND

if anyone is using a device like this...whatcha think?

kind regards,
rob