Re: Novell-Internet question
On Wed, 31 Jul 1996, Michael Meskes wrote: Gerry Jensen writes: This is a problem for your NT machine, not the Linux machine. If you have a valid Internet IP address for the Linux machine, then the NT machine needs to be set up to act as a router for the rest of your LAN and then the Linux machine would be on the Internet. Or, if you don't have a valid IP address for the Linux machine, then you need to set up the NT machine to act as a firewall and a proxy server. I'm not familiar at all with NT to know what software is available or included with that OS to do either of these. So it doesn't matter whether it's a Novell net or anything else? Correct. A Novell (IPX) network and a TCP/IP network can co-exist on the same physical network. Gerry
RE: help setting up X and openwin
Last night I posted a request for help finishing the setup of X11R6, and getting Openwin to work. I want to sincerely thank the people who sent me email (you know who you are). The system is at home, so I cannot implement the fixes that you people reccommended until tonight. But I wanted to let you know how much I appreciate the help. Assuming all goes well with these fixes, I am going to be VERY happy with my new Debian Linux system, and finally be able to start getting some cockpit time! From an excited new Debian user... also known as [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Key fingerprint = D6 A7 D7 8C 92 CB 42 FD 60 D5 62 1C D7 B9 EA 8E Ken Gaugler N6OSK Hybrid Networks, Inc. Cupertino, Calif. URL: www.hybrid.com (home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: users.aimnet.com/~keng) The life of a Repo Man is ALWAYS INTENSE...
Re: Samba and alternatives for Linux network printing
On Wed, 31 Jul 1996, Rick Macdonald wrote: I could run a 50-foot (15-metre) parallel cable from the Linux box to the room where the notebook is located. Then, the printer would be on the Linux box running Samba. I don't know what the limit is for parallel cable lengths though. I think it is 15 feet (~5 meters) for parallel. To go the distance you would need a parallel repeater or you could go serial with a drop in throughput. The HPLJII does not resovle device contention on its ports however, so you have to configure it for one port or the other (you can't have some jobs comming in on serial and others on parallel and have the printer switch automatically). To stick with parallel on the printer end you could use a serial-to-parallel converter (cost ~$60 (US)). This plus an auto parallel switch (cost ~$60 (US)) should do the trick and serial cable is cheap. The throughput would be limited to 19200 bits/second however. To get parallel throughput (23 BYTES/second) you would have to buy more expensive cable and a line extender (a.k.a. repeater)(cost ~$90 (US)). The external ethernet lpd servers start at around $250 (US). The throughput is 10 million bits/second to the server (shared across all devices on the segment), but from the server to the printer it is a regular parallel connection. Ethernet is probably the most flexible in terms or wiring the system as well. _ Don Gaffney (http://www.emba.uvm.edu/~gaffney) Engineering, Mathematics Business Administration Computer Facility University of Vermont - 237 Votey Building - Burlington, VT 05405 (802) 656-8490 - Fax: (802) 656-8802
Re: color ls
I have the same problem. I to have upgraded some packages, but I can't remember which ones. I will try to look at my list and try to remember which ones I did just before I noticed it. Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Something has happened to stop ls giving color output. I used to be able to just run: eval `dircolors` and ls would work in color - even without specifying the --color option. (And no, ls was not aliased) Now it seems I need to type ls --color to get color? What is the problem? I've changed a number of things of late - moved from tcsh to bash (but same thing happens in both shells), and upgraded a number of packages. So I don't know what has caused the change. Any ideas anyone? Mark Phillips. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: color ls
On Thu, 1 Aug 1996, Michael Meskes wrote: color-ls was removed here when I installed fileutils-3.13-1. Strange. On my site it wasn't. Michael same here. i installed fileutils-3.12-4. the color-ls package still remains and wasn't removed /-\ | Robert Adrenolin MacQuarrie | |[EMAIL PROTECTED] | |=| | ProvisioNet Distributions at New Jersey Branch | | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | \-/
Problems with Maling List
Sorry all, I know this is not directly Debian-Linux related, but it does seem the best place to turn to. I keep getting thrown off the list because off 'excessive bounces'. This seems odd. For if I subscribe my address: [EMAIL PROTECTED], I receive the correct confirmation: You have added to the subscriber list of: debian-user@lists.debian.org the following mail address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Next, after some time comes a message: Your mail address [EMAIL PROTECTED] has been removed from the debian-user@lists.debian.org mailinglist. It generated an excessive amount of bounced mails. Quoting my bounce as follows: Hi. This is the qmail-send program at vega.netg.se. I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 194.109.6.11 does not like recipient. Remote host said: 553 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... No such host Note that my domain name has changed from 'avondel' to 'acondel'! Same thing has happened twice now, I really have no clue as to what goes on. I do not generate those messages, and other lists work well! Hope it's not my ignorance. I did send a message to the postmaster, but got no reply. Maybe the list maintainer is out here? Thanks a lot, and sorry to have been off-topick! Erik van der Meulen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: color ls
I will add that `--color' is equivalent to `--color=yes', which is probably not what you want. If you make any aliases, use `--color=tty'. You don't want nasty escape codes if it's not a tty. Try `ls --color | less' to see what I mean. And fileutils does have a bug with regards to color-ls. It should conflict and replace with it so that it will be removed automatically. I'll file a report. Guy
Re: help getting X and openwin to work?
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jim Worthington [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I really prefer running openwin, so I created the directory /usr/openwin and copied all the stuff from my Slackware system over to there (bin, lib, etc.) I can get openwin to start, display the As a Sun workstation user, I also prefer running openwin. I was under the impression that this product was owned by Sun and not available for other platforms but I heard that some Linux distributions provided it (Redhat). A long story ... OpenLook is a user interface specification, looking like what Sun offered years ago (pre-X11 times) as SunView. XView is an implementation of the SunView API (with enhancements) and looks very much like OpenLook. In order to say that it looks like OpenLook you need a licence from Sun, this seems to cost money. XView is available under a BSD-style licence. The XView distribution includes the library and some client programs, the most advanced are texttool and cmdtool. OpenWindows is the whole toolset as offered by Sun. This includes XView and more client programs (filetool, some calender and others). It isn't freely available. (Mistakes are mine ...) I've looked on the internet for openwin, but could never find anything. You should have looked for XView, since OpenWindows isn't freely available. Where can I find a version that will run under Debian? On ftp.debian.org, but you have to wait some days. I will upload xview including the XView-included client programs next week. Sven -- Sven Rudolph [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; WWW : http://www.sax.de/~sr1/
Re: color ls
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Oh yes, it was aliased to do that. Just start the dircolors (the old one from the color-ls package, that is) from the shell and you'll see. I like to see that the standard ls is now colorized. But I wonder why the old one isn't removed automatically? Is there a reason for this? dpkg -L color-ls leaves me with: /. /usr /usr/bin /usr/bin/color-ls /usr/man /usr/man/man1 /usr/man/man1/color-ls.1 /usr/doc /usr/doc/copyright /usr/doc/copyright/color-ls /usr/doc/color-ls /usr/doc/color-ls/color-ls.log /usr/doc/color-ls/color-ls.README /etc /etc/DIR_COLORS Michael -- Michael Meskes |_ __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | / ___// / // / / __ \___ __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | \__ \/ /_ / // /_/ /_/ / _ \/ ___/ ___/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]| ___/ / __/ /__ __/\__, / __/ / (__ ) Use Debian Linux!| //_/ /_/ //\___/_/ //
Re: color ls
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Erick, is there a way that you can persuade/hack dircolors to do what the old one did? Or put a note in the package to ease transition? Not only that. Shouldn't we add /etc/DIR_COLORS into fileutils? Michael -- Michael Meskes |_ __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | / ___// / // / / __ \___ __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | \__ \/ /_ / // /_/ /_/ / _ \/ ___/ ___/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]| ___/ / __/ /__ __/\__, / __/ / (__ ) Use Debian Linux!| //_/ /_/ //\___/_/ //
Re: help getting X and openwin to work?
I really prefer running openwin, so I created the directory /usr/openwin and copied all the stuff from my Slackware system over to there (bin, lib, etc.) I can get openwin to start, display the As a Sun workstation user, I also prefer running openwin. I was under the impression that this product was owned by Sun and not available for other platforms but I heard that some Linux distributions provided it (Redhat). I've looked on the internet for openwin, but could never find anything. Where can I find a version that will run under Debian? - something that is easily transportable. Can we expect to see a Debian distribution of openwin anytime soon? First, correct if I am wrong, Bruce, but the xview toolkit does not currently have a maintainer and therefore no Debian packages as of yet. (I have been thinking about since I have used xview for several years, but I have been swamp to give it what is due) Second, Openwin is a desktop environment. The OpenLook (tm) window manager is olwm or olvwm. With the last release of xview (3.2p1) you roughly get the WM and shelltool. ...Bill,
Re: color ls
Dirk Oh yes, it was aliased to do that. Just start the dircolors (the old Dirk one from the color-ls package, that is) from the shell and you'll Dirk see. Michael I like to see that the standard ls is now colorized. But I wonder Michael why the old one isn't removed automatically? Is there a reason for Michael this? color-ls was removed here when I installed fileutils-3.13-1. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ dpkg -l color-ls fileutils Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ NameVersionDescription +++-===-==- pn color-lsnone (no description available) ii fileutils 3.13-2 GNU file management utilities. -- Dirk Eddelbuttel http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd
Sicherheitsluecke bei rlogin auf Linux [LSF Update#11: Vulnerability of rlogin] (fwd)
FYI : Here's what we got from CERT a few minutes ago. - -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Linux Security FAQ Update rlogin Vulnerability Tue Jul 30 17:51:57 EDT 1996 Copyright (C) 1995 Alexander O. Yuriev ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) CIS Laboratories TEMPLE UNIVERSITY U.S.A. = This is an official update of the Linux security FAQ, and it is supposed to be signed by one of the following PGP keys: pub 1024/9ED505C5 1995/12/06 Jeffrey A. Uphoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jeffrey A. Uphoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1024/EFE347AD 1995/02/17 Olaf Kirch [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1024/ADF3EE95 1995/06/08 Linux Security FAQ Primary Key Alexander O. Yuriev Unless you are able to verify at least one of signatures, please be very careful when following instructions. Linux Security WWW: http://bach.cis.temple.edu/linux/linux-security linux-security linux-alert mailing list archives: ftp://linux.nrao.edu/pub/linux/security/list-archive = ABSTRACT A vulnerability exists in the rlogin program of NetKitB-0.6 This vulnerability affects several widely used Linux distributions, including RedHat Linux 2.0, 2.1 and derived systems including Caldera Network Desktop, Slackware 3.0 and others. This vulnerability is not limited to Linux or any other free UNIX systems. Both the information about this vulnerability and methods of its expolit were made available on the Internet. RISK ASSESMENT Local and remote users could gain super-user priviledges DISTRIBUTION FIXES Red Hat Commercial Linux Red Hat Linux version 2.0 and 2.1 contains vulnerable program unless NetKit-B-0.06-7.i386.rpm was installed. In order to fix the vulnerability install NetKit-B-0.06-7 rpm available from ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/old-releases/redhat-2.1/i386/updates/RPMS/NetKit-B-0.06-7.i386.rpm ftp://bach.cis.temple.edu/pub/Linux/security/DISTRIBUTION-FIXES/RedHat-2.1/NetKit-B-0.06-7.i386.rpm ftp://tarsier.cv.nrao.edu/pub/linux/security/DISTRIBUTION-FIXES/RedHat-2.1/NetKit-B-0.06-7.i386.rpm Please verify the MD5 signature of the RPM prior to installing it. 601c3f6137a6fb15ae61a6b817395040 NetKit-B-0.06-7.i386.rpm Red Hat Linux version 3.0.3 (Picasso) does not contain vulnerable rlogin program. Caldera Network Desktop Version 1 of CND contains the vulnerable program unless NetKit-B-0.06-4c1.i386.rpm was installed. This RPM is available from ftp://ftp.caldera.com/pub/cnd-1.0/updates/NetKit-B-0.06-4c1.i386.rpm ftp://bach.cis.temple.edu/pub/Linux/Security/DISTRIBUTION-FIXES/CND/NetKit-B-0.06-4c1.i386.rpm ftp://tarsier.cv.nrao.edu/pub/linux/security/DISTRIBUTION-FIXES/CND/NetKit-B-0.06-4c1.i386.rpm Please verify the MD5 signature of RPM prior to installing it. aeb2da201477cd3280fdc09836395c35 NetKit-B-0.06-4c1.i386.rpm Version 1 of CND upgraded to RedHat Linux 3.0.3 (Picasso) does not contain a vulnerable program. Debian Debian Project did not either confirm or deny the vulnerability of Debian/GNU Linux 1.1. Debian/GNU Linux systems may be vulnerable if NetKit-B-0.6 is installed. Until the official fix-kit is available for Debian/GNU Linux, system administrators of Debian systems are advised to follow guidelines under Other Linux Distributions section. Slackware The Slackware Linux distribution Version 3.0 is confirmed to be vulnerable unless a NetKit newer than NetKit-B-0.6 is installed. Until the official fix-kit is available for Slackware 3.0, the system administrators are advised to follow the guidelines under Other Linux Distributions section. Yggdrasil Yggdrasil Computing's Plug Play Linux
Re: LILO and W95
Hi Nathan -- You said: - 95 will not 'recognize' LILO, and boots right into 95. If you installed win95 *after* you installed lilo) you have win95's mbr. To boot Linux now you can either install LILO as the boot manager, with advice from Randy Jones, or you can retain win95 as the boot manager, but allow yourself a back door to get to Linux: There are several ways to do this: -- set BootMulti=1 in the [options] section of MSDOS.SYS Then, next time you boot, just after you see the signal Starting Windows 95, hit the 'F8' key. This puts you into a menu mode, from which you can choose DOS (either 7.0 or your previous DOS) and then from there you can execute the LOADLIN.EXE command. For example, C:\BIN\LOADLIN.EXE /vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb2 ro boots a linux system that has its root on hdb2. -- set BootWin=0 in your MSDOS.SYS file which will automatically bring up DOS 6.22. Then run LOADLIN from there (from an AUTOEXEC.BAT file if you like). -- create a batch file containing the single line give above, then, on the win95 desktop, create a shortcut to the batch file, and type in the name of the batch file for the command line. Then right click on it, select Properties, select the Program tab, and the Advanced button. Check the MS-DOS mode check box and click OK. Now Linux is just two clicks away. Cheers, Susan Kleinmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: help getting X and openwin to work?
Linux openwin logo, but before the screen turns blue, the X-server exits with the message lwm: can't find library 'libolg.so.3' [.. snap ..] This is a shared library and for libraries to be found you have to run ldconfig as root after moving or installing libraries. Also make sure /usr/openwin/lib is mentioned in /etc/ldconfig. Another option is to add /usr/openwin/lib to LD_LIBRARY_PATH using export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/openwin/lib if you use bash, or setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH /usr/openwin/lib if you use tcsh or csh. Wichert.
Re: color ls
I like to see that the standard ls is now colorized. But I wonder why the old one isn't removed automatically? Is there a reason for this? Some monitors make text unreadable (cheap laptops for example) when you use colors. Maybe a postinst-script could ask if color-ls should be the new default, move ls to ls-normal and make ls a link to color-ls. Wichert.
Wingate/IPFWADM
I would like to make my Linux box appear to the network like a gateway, sort of like Wingate running on a 95 box. I've tried IPFWADM and had no success. Any ideas? Here's the general scenario. 192.168.0.9 is the linux box, named CURLEY 192.168.0.3 is a win95 box named CADZILLA 192.168.0.4 is a win95 box named BLOO After Linux connects, a route for my isp's gateway is added in as the default gateway. At this point PPP works on the Linux box to the internet. IPFWADM is started using ipfwadm -F -m -a accept -S 192.168.0.3/24 -D 0.0.0.0 The 95 boxes are set up in the TCP/IP setup to use 192.168.0.9 (curley) as a gateway. On the 95 box, when I try to telnet to another known good host on the 'net, I get a connection failed: timed out message. At this point, I think I'm more than a little confused. Anyone ever gotten ipfwadm to work? If so, do you have any idea what I'm doing wrong? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Tim - I am Pentium of Borg. Division is futile. You will be APPROXIMATED! - Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: color ls
Wichert Akkerman writes: I like to see that the standard ls is now colorized. But I wonder why the old one isn't removed automatically? Is there a reason for this? Some monitors make text unreadable (cheap laptops for example) when you use colors. Maybe a postinst-script could ask if color-ls should be the new default, move ls to ls-normal and make ls a link to color-ls. I do not understand the problem. If you're monitor doesn't like the colors why don't you simply not call dircolors? Then the new ls doesn't have colors at all. Michael -- Michael Meskes |_ __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | / ___// / // / / __ \___ __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | \__ \/ /_ / // /_/ /_/ / _ \/ ___/ ___/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]| ___/ / __/ /__ __/\__, / __/ / (__ ) Use Debian Linux!| //_/ /_/ //\___/_/ //
LILO boot problem (still!)
After trying everything everyone suggested a couple of weeks ago I gave up and
went on vacation. I've been back all week but now I have to deal with it.
My problem is this: when booting from the hard disk I get LI from LILO and
nothing else. I thought that this problem was caused by the fact that I was
using a large drive in a machine with an old BIOS.
Assuming that the problem was the large drive, the obvious suggestion that the
LILO documentation (and several of you) made was to use the LINEAR option. That
didn't seem to help.
So I found the LILO documentation (which btw is excellent!). It pointed me into
running lilo with the following options:
lilo -v -v -v -t
which produced the following output:
LILO version 17, Copyright 1992-1995 Werner Almesberger
Reading boot sector from /dev/hda1
Device 0x0300: BIOS drive 0x80, 64 heads, 527 cylinders,
63 sectors. Partition offset: 0 sectors.
Merging with /boot/boot.b
Device 0x0301: BIOS drive 0x80, 64 heads, 527 cylinders,
63 sectors. Partition offset: 63 sectors.
Secondary loader: 7 sectors.
Device 0x0301: BIOS drive 0x80, 64 heads, 527 cylinders,
63 sectors. Partition offset: 63 sectors.
Boot image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.0.0
Device 0x0301: BIOS drive 0x80, 64 heads, 527 cylinders,
63 sectors. Partition offset: 63 sectors.
Setup length is 9 sectors.
Mapped 1008 sectors.
Added Linux *
dev=0xc0,hd=1,cyl=67,sct=85
ro root=301
Map file size: 8192 bytes.
I read further into the LILO technical documentation and it said the following
about the LILO letters printing during startup:
The boot sector is loaded by the ROM-BIOS at address 0x07C00. It moves
itself to address 0x9A000, sets up the stack (growing downwards from
0x9B000 to 0x9A200), loads the secondary boot loader at address
0x9B000 and transfers control to it. It displays an ``L'' after moving
itself and an ``I'' before starting the secondary boot loader. If a read
error occurs when loading the secondary boot loader, a two-digit hex code
is displayed after the ``L''. This results in an endless stream of error
codes if the problem is permanent. Displaying these error codes is disabled
if the build-time option {NO1STDIAG} is set.
...
...
...
The secondary boot loader displays an ``L'' after being started and an ``O''
after loading the descriptor table and the default command line. Before
loading the descriptor table, it checks, whether it has been loaded at the
correct location and displays a question mark if it hasn't. If the
descriptor table has an incorrect checksum, a minus sign is displayed.
So my impression is that LILO is failing either during the load of the
secondary boot loader or starting the secondary boot loader. In case it was the
later (assuming a corrupted secondary boot loader) I downloaded a new lilo and
installed (twice) with the same results.
So now I am assuming that the problem occurs during the loading of the
secondary loader. But why? /dev/hda1 is the first partition on the drive and is
only 200MB. It can't be crossing the 1024 sector limit. Why is lilo showing
BIOS drive 0x80 as having 64 heads, 527 cylinders and 63 heads (this calculates
out to the about the actual drive size using 512-byte sector size)? Is this the
problem? The BIOS is actually set up as type 47 (user) with 16 heads, 2111
Cylinders and 63 sectors.
Any hints on where to go from here would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Al Youngwerth
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Re: color ls
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Michael I like to see that the standard ls is now colorized. But I wonder Michael why the old one isn't removed automatically? Is there a reason for Michael this? color-ls was removed here when I installed fileutils-3.13-1. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ dpkg -l color-ls fileutils Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ NameVersionDescription +++-===-==- pn color-lsnone (no description available) ii fileutils 3.13-2 GNU file management utilities. Strange. On my site it wasn't. Michael -- Michael Meskes |_ __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | / ___// / // / / __ \___ __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | \__ \/ /_ / // /_/ /_/ / _ \/ ___/ ___/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]| ___/ / __/ /__ __/\__, / __/ / (__ ) Use Debian Linux!| //_/ /_/ //\___/_/ //
help getting X and openwin to work?
I had no luck getting X to run on my first installation of Debian 1.1 from the Gold cd from I-connect. So I completely re-loaded the distribution, taking extra care to resolve the dependency conflicts. When I got to the configure packages section, I noticed in the error message dpkg - Configure returned error exit status 1 that there were still a couple of things not installed right. So I went back and fixed that, and everything configured fine except the X server setup. After fixing a problem with the mouse in XF86Config, I got X up and running fairly well. I think it is giving me fvwm as the default window manager, and the middle mouse button doesn't work right ( the menu flashes a lot and I cannot select anything on that menu). I really prefer running openwin, so I created the directory /usr/openwin and copied all the stuff from my Slackware system over to there (bin, lib, etc.) I can get openwin to start, display the Linux openwin logo, but before the screen turns blue, the X-server exits with the message lwm: can't find library 'libolg.so.3' That library exists in the openwin/lib hierarchy, so I think there must be a link missing somewhere, possibly between /usr/X11/lib and somewhere. Do you know anything about this, or can I give you any more information to help me solve this? Thanks!! --- Ken Gaugler URL:http://users.aimnet.com/~keng The life of a Repo Man is ALWAYS INTENSE...
XFree86 3.1.2[DE]
I am using a Mach 64 card (ATI Winboost, as far as I can tell) that seems to hang when I run the XF86_Mach64 server. From various postings to this list I gather that there is hope I will be able to run it successfully with the XFree86 3.1.2E Mach64 server. My understanding is that the currently available Debian X11R6 packages are from XFree86 3.1.2 and to upgrade I will need first to install the 3.1.2D distribution from ftp.xfree86.org then to install the upgrade files for 3.1.2E. Can anyone confirm this? I would prefer an unnecessary upgrade. -- Douglas Bates[EMAIL PROTECTED] Statistics Department608/262-2598 University of Wisconsin - Madisonhttp://www.stat.wisc.edu/~bates/
PPP not in kernel?
I've now recompiled the kernel, and I answered yes to PPP support in 'make config'. I've also installed the PPP package. Anyway, when I now try to use pppd, I get an error message saying that PPP is not supported in the kernel. What's wrong with my setup?
Re: LyX
I can't find the default format file! What am I missing? I've played with TeX a little in the past (went through the online TeXBook), but I've never used LaTeX before. LaTeX package was broken. Is fixed in version 2e-7. You need mflib 1.0-8 as well. Erick
Power management and sleep
Collegues I installed Debian/Linux 1.1 on a Intel Endeavour P133 system. When I leave the system for a while, the screen blacks out and the system seems to be sleeping, I guess the APM function. -=The green led on the box blinks instead of normal behaviour.- This sleeping is desirable, but not during long computations when it also sleeps and stops the system. Any pointers ? Thanks in advance. Pieter Vankeerberghen Pieter Vankeerberghen tel: +00 32 2 477 43 29 Fabi/ChemoAc, Vrije Universiteit Brusselfax: +00 32 2 477 47 35 Laarbeeklaan 103, 1090 Brussels, Belgiumemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: color ls
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Robert same here. i installed fileutils-3.12-4. the color-ls package still
^^
Robert remains and wasn't removed
Sure, 3.12-4 is not 3.13-{1,2}. Try a newer version of fileutils.
Sorry Dirk but
147) dpkg -s fileutils
Package: fileutils
Essential: yes
Status: install ok installed
Priority: required
Section: base
Maintainer: Erick Branderhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Version: 3.13-2
^^
Replaces: color-ls
Pre-Depends: libc5 (= 5.2.18-9)
Description: GNU file management utilities.
The utilities: chgrp chmod chown cp dd df dir dircolors du install ln
ls mkdir mkfifo mknod mv rm rmdir sync touch vdir.
Michael
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How can I submit packages to be included in the distribution?
We needed to produce some .deb packages when our site began utilizing debian. We would like to offer them to the public, but we cannot find a way to submit them anywhere. Could someone please tell us what to do? The documentation on how to submit packages or become an official maintainer are in total disarray right now. Here is a list of packages available from ftp.fuller.edu/Linux/debian today: mgetty-0.99-1.deb Adds PPP autodetect to mgetty. ppp-2.2.0fx-1.i386.deb Adds Remote configuration ability for DNS information for dialin Win95 and WinNT users. apache-1.1.1-1.deb Upgraded Apache Package with proxy Cache support etc. verse-0.12.deb Daily Inspiration through a verse from the King James Bible Planned .deb package from our site (Please tell us if this is anywhere already available!) We are running a full Campus Setup here and we will produce the following packages for our setup: - Harvester Caching Daemon - SmartList ListServer with Full Sendmail integration - procmail with Full Sendmail Integration - fwtk Firewall Toolkit - hylafax Fax Receive and Send with Sendmail Integration - sac System Accounting tools - strobe,tcpspray Probe other systems - ircd IRC Daemon - 3270 Telnet - Hytelnet
Re: LILO and W95
On Thu, 1 Aug 1996, nathan work wrote: ok, i just loaded linux after w95 for the first time. i know very little about linux or unix for that matter and i'm having a real problem - 95 will not 'recognize' LILO, and boots right into 95. i didn't have this problem with 3.1. what i need is for someone to be gracious enough to take me by the hand and show me how to overcome this (to keep w95 from controling what's booted). please email me if you'd like: What I have done is similar to what Susan suggest in using LOADLIN, but I have setup a menuitem in config.sys to handle it. The line I use in the config.sys file is: shell=c:\loadlin.exe c:\vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6 ro This assumes my root file system is on hda6. This way when I boot I have the option presented to me. It is very much like LILO, but is all done through DOS/WIN95 utilities (when I started using linux, I was more comfortable doing it this way). --- Kenny Wickstrom | gnu - a new generation in s/w devel/support [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux - a much improved Un*x clone (847)740-4008 | Debian - a Linux distribution setting the #include std-disclaimer |standard for future distributions
Re: More info on PPP problem
At 23:07 01.08.96 -0500, you wrote: Regarding your PPP problem: I just finished fighting something similar. I think what's happening is that the 'chat' section is not getting started. To test it, use the following command (but insert your info in the right places) pppd -connect 'chat -v ATDT5551212 CONNECT ogin: yerlogin word: yerpassword' /dev/cua1 38400 debug modem noipdefault netmask 255.0.0.0 I'll try it. But I think the problem has something to do with modules, since I get an error message saying that modprobe can't find ppp0.
Re: More info on PPP problem
At 13:35 02.08.96 +1000, you wrote: Berntsen wrote: When I boot I get the following on my screen: PPP: version 2.2.0 (dynamic channel allocation) TCP compression code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California PPP Dynamic channel allocation code copyright 1995 Caldera, Inc PPP line discipline registered ... ... Starting base network deamons: rpc.portmap inetd When I start 'ppp-on', it starts pppd, but pppd doesn't do anything. The lights on my modem flashes, but it doesn't dial. It seems as if the ppp is loaded, and I have set up the files /etc/ppp/options /etc/ppp/chatscript It's just that it doesn't dial. What's wrong? It seems that you didn't set the ATDTphone no in your chatscript file. Yes, I did. I found out even more. modprobe probes for ppp0, which is set as: alias ppp0 ppp alias ppp1 ppp in the etc/conf.modules So it seems as if kerneld think that ppp is a module or something (?) Well, I think the ppp is loaded, but not as a module, so how should I fix it?
Re: dosemu
On Tue, 30 Jul 1996, Mike Schmitz wrote: A while back I remember a question about dosemu not being able to boot from a floppy with a message like Not a good day to die. I did not save, and cannot recall the answer. I would appreciate it highly if someone who did save it, would re-post it. Sure, infact I had wrote a message much like a few others with this problem. Off hand I can't replicate the error message (for fear of losing my connection, a serial thing if you know what I mean), but it had something to do with not recognizing my floppy parameters. However, the hdimage did work, though the problem wasn't fixed, I was able to boot up the dosemu, just not from the floppy drive. :(. travis
Re: Sicherheitsluecke bei rlogin auf Linux [LSF Update#11: Vulnerability of rlogin] (fwd)
... A vulnerability exists in the rlogin program of NetKitB-0.6 This vulnerability affects several widely used Linux distributions, including RedHat Linux 2.0, 2.1 and derived systems including Caldera Network Desktop, Slackware 3.0 and others. ... Local and remote users could gain super-user priviledges ... Debian Debian Project did not either confirm or deny the vulnerability of Debian/GNU Linux 1.1. Debian/GNU Linux systems may be vulnerable if NetKit-B-0.6 is installed. Until the official fix-kit is available for Debian/GNU Linux, system administrators of Debian systems are advised to follow guidelines under Other Linux Distributions section. Anyone have any more comments about this? There is no package called NetKit that I know of, I'm just curious if the developers have anything to say? Thanks, Steve --- Disgusted by politicians and their government? Check out: http://www.HarryBrowne96.org/
More info on PPP problem
When I boot I get the following on my screen: PPP: version 2.2.0 (dynamic channel allocation) TCP compression code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California PPP Dynamic channel allocation code copyright 1995 Caldera, Inc PPP line discipline registered ... ... Starting base network deamons: rpc.portmap inetd When I start 'ppp-on', it starts pppd, but pppd doesn't do anything. The lights on my modem flashes, but it doesn't dial. It seems as if the ppp is loaded, and I have set up the files /etc/ppp/options /etc/ppp/chatscript It's just that it doesn't dial. What's wrong?
Re: XFree86 3.1.2[DE]
This is just to correct a typo on my earlier message. I wrote: Doug Can anyone confirm this? I would prefer an unnecessary Doug upgrade. That last sentence doesn't make sense unless I have suddenly acquired masochistic tendencies. I meant to write I would prefer to avoid an unnecessary upgrade.
LyX
I just tried using Lyx for the first time tonight, and I get the following result in the controlling terminal when I try to run LaTeX from the File Menu: I can't find the default format file! What am I missing? I've played with TeX a little in the past (went through the online TeXBook), but I've never used LaTeX before. Steve.
RE: more info on PPP problem
I just finished fighting something similar. I think what's happening is that the 'chat' section is not getting started. To test it, use the following command (but insert your info in the right places) pppd -connect 'chat -v ATDT5551212 CONNECT ogin: yerlogin word: yerpassword' /dev/cua1 38400 debug modem noipdefault netmask 255.0.0.0 Use /dev/cua0 for COM1, /dev/cua1 for COM2. Replace 5551212 with your ISP's phone#, and change it to ATm0DT if you want the modem not to raise cain when it connects (mine's loud as heck!) When it's done, and looks connected, issue route add default gw 123.123.123.123 Replace 123.123.123.123 with your ISP's gateway address. If you don't know it, they can give it to you. This should work for diagnostic purposes, but sure is a pain to do each time. I set up some scripts to do it all for me, works ok. Let me know if this helps, if something needs clarification, let me know. Good luck! Tim BTW, let me know if it works on your system.. - I am Pentium of Borg. Division is futile. You will be APPROXIMATED! - Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Wingate/IPFWADM
Hi Tim -- I have succeeded in making ipfw going by doing 2 things: 1. Set up ipfw in the kernel. To do this, I set these networking options (all other networking options were not set, i.e., their value=n). --- CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y CONFIG_NET=y CONFIG_FIREWALL=y CONFIG_NET_ALIAS=y CONFIG_INET=y CONFIG_IP_FORWARD=y CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL=y CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE=y CONFIG_IP_ALWAYS_DEFRAG=y CONFIG_IP_ALIAS=m CONFIG_IP_NOSR=y CONFIG_SKB_LARGE=y CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y CONFIG_DUMMY=m CONFIG_PPP=m CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET=y CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_3COM=y CONFIG_EL3=m --- I suspect I didn't have to set all of them, particularly CONFIG_NET_ALIAS, but setting it doesn't seem to hurt much. 2. I have a line like yours in my /etc/ppp/ip-up script. Mine says: ipfwadm -F -a masquerade -P all -S 192.168.0.2/24 -D 0.0.0.0/0 where 192.168.0.2 is the IP address of my husband's Windows machine. I suspect the differences between your line and mine don't matter very much. Other than that, all I had to do was to set up the appropriate databases on the Windows machine. Then it just worked. If this is any help, let me (really, the list) know. I think a lot of people are wondering how to do this. Good luck, Susan Kleinmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Ipfwadm
This message is in reply to the one just posted by Susan Kleinmann: I tried something similar to what you said, but I could not get it to work. What did work for me was what Bernd Eckenfels mentioned earlier (Thanks, Bernd). Essentially, ipfwadm -F -a masq -S 192.168.0.0/29 -D 0/0 Which will masquerade host 192.168.0.1-192.168.0.7 I tried it and it worked. As we type, I'm looking in the man pages still trying to gain a better understanding (seeing as I'm a bit of a Linux newbee). Just one more thang... I know ping wont work through this, but is there something I can do to make FTP operational from all the other machines besides the Linux box? Thanks, I hope this helps everyone else out as much as it did me. Tim - I am Pentium of Borg. Division is futile. You will be APPROXIMATED! - Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Wingate/IPFWADM
192.168.0.9 is the linux box, named CURLEY 192.168.0.3 is a win95 box named CADZILLA 192.168.0.4 is a win95 box named BLOO ipfwadm -F -m -a accept -S 192.168.0.3/24 -D 0.0.0.0 You can manage this with two commands (one for each host): ipfwadm -F -a masq -S 192.168.0.3 -D 0/0 ipfwadm -F -a masq -S 192.168.0.4 -D 0/0 or: ipfwadm -F -a masq -S 192.168.0.0/29 -D 0/0 (will masquerade host 192.168.0.1-192.168.0.7) You can look at the Rules with ipfwadm -F -ln The -m Option is ONLY used to display the active connections, NOT for setting a masquerade connection. The Default Destination must be given with a /0 netmask, or masquerading will only be used if you try to connect to the HOST 0.0.0.0. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],ka.sub.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/A2C51749 [EMAIL PROTECTED] +4972573817 *plush* (OO) If privacy is outlawed only Outlaws have privacy
Re: LILO and W95
Dear Nathan: I currently run Win95 and DEBIAN GNU/Linux 1.1 using the following lilo.conf: prompt boot=/dev/hda delay=5 image=/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hda2 vga=ask other=/dev/hda1 label=win95 table=/dev/hda The DOS partition is on hda1 , Linux on hda2 , swap is hda3. After the installation of linux do not reboot. Using the ae editor edit the lilo.conf file which can be found in /etc. After editing lilo.conf run lilo. Best regards, Fritz
Re: LILO and W95
nathan work writes: ok, i just loaded linux after w95 for the first time. i know very little about linux or unix for that matter and i'm having a real problem - 95 will not 'recognize' LILO, and boots right into 95. i didn't have this problem with 3.1. what i need is for someone to be gracious enough to take me by the hand and show me how to overcome this (to keep w95 from controling what's booted). please email me if you'd like: There is a mini HOWTO about this problem: Linux+Win95. As a short explanation. Boot your machine under Linux (I hope you have a bootdisk) and edit /etc/lilo.conf accordingly. Then run lilo. Et voila. Here's my lilo.conf # Start LILO global section boot = /dev/hda compact# faster, but won't work on all systems. delay = 50 vga=extended ramdisk = 0 # paranoia setting # End LILO global section # Linux bootable partition config begins image = /vmlinuz root = /dev/hda2 label = linux # Linux bootable partition config ends # WIN95 bootable partition config begins other = /dev/hda1 label = win95 loader = /boot/any_d.b # WIN95 bootable partition config ends Michael -- Michael Meskes |_ __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | / ___// / // / / __ \___ __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | \__ \/ /_ / // /_/ /_/ / _ \/ ___/ ___/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]| ___/ / __/ /__ __/\__, / __/ / (__ ) Use Debian Linux!| //_/ /_/ //\___/_/ //
Re: LILO and W95
Dear Nathan: I currently run Win95 and DEBIAN GNU/Linux 1.1 using the following lilo.conf: prompt boot=/dev/hda delay=5 image=/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hda2 vga=ask other=/dev/hda1 label=win95 table=/dev/hda The DOS partition is on hda1 , Linux on hda2 , swap is hda3. After the installation of linux do not reboot. Using the ae editor edit the lilo.conf file which can be found in /etc. After editing lilo.conf run lilo. Best regards, Fritz
Re: LyX
Steven Tonnesen writes: I just tried using Lyx for the first time tonight, and I get the following result in the controlling terminal when I try to run LaTeX from the File Menu: I can't find the default format file! What am I missing? I've played with TeX a little in the past (went through the online TeXBook), but I've never used LaTeX before. Maybe you should try to run Latex manually to get a better error message. But I doubt it. I would recommend you re-install the latex packages. Michael -- Michael Meskes |_ __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | / ___// / // / / __ \___ __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | \__ \/ /_ / // /_/ /_/ / _ \/ ___/ ___/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]| ___/ / __/ /__ __/\__, / __/ / (__ ) Use Debian Linux!| //_/ /_/ //\___/_/ //
Re: Proxy ftp (socks)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] : [debian - ftp method - socks / proxy ftp site - perl script...] Maybe you can socksify perl?? After a bit of study, that was the solution I was looking for. I've got perl and will try it this afternoon (uk time). By the way, there seem to be a project to develop a proxy version of the Perl socket package (in the list of perl modules). That could also be a solution (see on the perl web). Anyway, it would be nice to have a proxy ftp method in dselect in addition to the ftp method (you can't just replace ftp...). You need it to install the system, gcc and co, so even before being able to compile a socks version of perl (chicken and eggs ?). I will keep you informed of my progress... Thanks for the help... Jean
Re: Power management and sleep
Hi Pieter -- You asked: ... sleeping is desirable, but not during long computations when it also sleeps and stops the system. Any pointers ? You could try either or both of these: a) check out your CMOS setup. Perhaps it is initiating a sleeping mode you hadn't intended. b) turn off APM in the kernel. Good luck, Susan Kleinmann
Re: X and mouse
Hi Robert -- i'm haveing trouble configureing my mouse for use in the xf86config. i have a logitech 2 button mouse. in the boot process it saz foud PS/2 mouse but nothing more. i have in the xf86config file: Section Pointer Protocal PS/2 Device /dev/mouse What do you get when you execute ls -l /dev/mouse Does the link point to the I/O port which is connected to your mouse? Susan Kleinmann
Re: LyX
Steven Tonnesen wrote: I just tried using Lyx for the first time tonight, and I get the following result in the controlling terminal when I try to run LaTeX from the File Menu: I can't find the default format file! What am I missing? I've played with TeX a little in the past (went through the online TeXBook), but I've never used LaTeX before. Steve. I had the same problem a few days ago. If you are using latex version latex-2e-4 (you can check issuing the command: dpgk -l latex\*) get latex-2e-7 and mflib-1.0-8 from rex/binary-all/tex . -- Marek Marek Duszynski Tel : +44 (0)171 589 5111 extn. 57040 PG Mech-Eng.Fax : +44 (0)171 823 8845 Imperial College email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Exhibition Road London SW7 2BX UK
50% Performance lose
I have recently upgraded to Debian 1.1 from 0.93R6 and have noticed a big performance drop when using the f2c program to run FORTRAN programs. Here are the numbers: 24 secs execution time when compiled and run under 0.93R6. 30 secs execution time when compiled under 0.93R6 and run under 1.1 36 secs execution time when compiled and run under 1.1 I'm not sure about version numbers but the shared library version number for 0.93R6 is 0.11, and for Debian 1.1 the version number is 2.1. Obviously 0.93R6 is aout and 1.1 is elf but i don't know if this is relevant. There is no performance loss with C programs. Any suggestions welcome.
Xarchie package somewhere?
Hi! I'm looking for a xarchie package. Does someone have one out there? I might create one, if not. Cheers Chris -- _,, Christian Schwarz / o \__ [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] ! ___; \ /PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC 22 BA \\\__/ ! http://www.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/ \ / -.-.,---,-,-..---,-,-.,.-.- DIE ENTE BLEIBT DRAUSSEN!
Re: XFree86 3.1.2[DE]
Hi! My understanding is that the currently available Debian X11R6 packages are from XFree86 3.1.2 and to upgrade I will need first to install the 3.1.2D distribution from ftp.xfree86.org then to install the upgrade files for 3.1.2E. Can anyone confirm this? I would prefer an unnecessary upgrade. I use an ATI Win Turbo with Mach 64 Chip (I think). Therefore I needed XFree86 3.1.2E (release D is expired). This is what I did and it might also work for you: 1. Install Debian as usual, with all X stuff and the Mach64 Server. 2. Install the XFree86 3.1.2E Mach64 Server Binary (this is only the /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_Mach64 file!) over the old server. Using the new server with the old libs/binaries works fine. I think it is the best way to first install the old server and then overwrite it, so debian thinks that the depencies are correct. Otherwise it will complain about not having a X server installed. Cheers, Chris -- _,, Christian Schwarz / o \__ [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] ! ___; \ /PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC 22 BA \\\__/ ! http://www.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/ \ / -.-.,---,-,-..---,-,-.,.-.- DIE ENTE BLEIBT DRAUSSEN!
Re: X and mouse
On Thu, 1 Aug 1996, Adrenolin wrote: hiya all i'm haveing trouble configureing my mouse for use in the xf86config. i have a logitech 2 button mouse. in the boot process it saz foud PS/2 mouse but nothing more. i have in the xf86config file: Section Pointer Protocal PS/2 Device /dev/mouse how can i set this correctly and/or check where/what the Device should be. i use startx and use the fvwm window manager. it comes up but no control over the mouse. Are you sure this is a PS/2 mouse? Does it have the cylindrical connector or the trapazoidal 9 pin DIN? I'm not sure why the kernel says it found a PS mouse, but it sounds like you want the serial protocal. Luck, Dwarf -- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 877-0257 Flexible Software Fax: NONE Black Creek Critters e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you don't see what you want, just ask --
Re: Xarchie package somewhere?
Christian Schwarz writes: I'm looking for a xarchie package. Does someone have one out there? I might create one, if not. It's in non-free. Michael -- Michael Meskes |_ __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | / ___// / // / / __ \___ __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | \__ \/ /_ / // /_/ /_/ / _ \/ ___/ ___/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]| ___/ / __/ /__ __/\__, / __/ / (__ ) Use Debian Linux!| //_/ /_/ //\___/_/ //
Re: PPP not in kernel?
On Fri, 2 Aug 1996, Berntsen wrote: I've now recompiled the kernel, and I answered yes to PPP support in 'make config'. I've also installed the PPP package. Anyway, when I now try to use pppd, I get an error message saying that PPP is not supported in the kernel. What's wrong with my setup? As far as I know, PPP must still be compiled as a module, not built-in. Try M instead of Y for your response. It should work then. Luck, Dwarf -- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 877-0257 Flexible Software Fax: NONE Black Creek Critters e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you don't see what you want, just ask --
Re: color ls
Robert same here. i installed fileutils-3.12-4. the color-ls package still
^^
Robert remains and wasn't removed
Dirk Sure, 3.12-4 is not 3.13-{1,2}. Try a newer version of fileutils.
Michael Sorry Dirk but
I never said that _you_ were using 3.12. Robert said he did, and I was only
pointing out that wasn't the right one to begin with.
--
Dirk Eddelbuttel http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd
Re: LILO and W95
What I have done is similar to what Susan suggest in using LOADLIN, but I have setup a menuitem in config.sys to handle it. The line I use in the config.sys file is: shell=c:\loadlin.exe c:\vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6 ro This assumes my root file system is on hda6. This way when I boot I have the option presented to me. It is very much like LILO, but is all done through DOS/WIN95 utilities (when I started using linux, I was more comfortable doing it this way). --- Kenny Wickstrom | gnu - a new generation in s/w devel/support [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux - a much improved Un*x clone (847)740-4008 | Debian - a Linux distribution setting the #include std-disclaimer |standard for future distributions In my case, I started out (several years back) using LILO to dual-boot DOS or Linux. But, I actually have found now that the Loadlin option not only is more convenient for Win-95, but actually makes more sense on a PC. The only problem is that Loadlin has some memory limitations. But, if you use the Menu-config.sys thing with DOS, then booting bare with the Loadlin option works great. -- /--\ | James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. | Phone: (423)576-8645 | | L | | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | FAX:(423)574-9172 | H | I | | Research Reactors Division | Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | F | N | | P. O. Box 2008 | Reactor Technology | I | U | | Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6392 | world's best neutrons! | R | X | |--| | out the 10Base-T, through the router, down the T1, over the | | leased line, off the bridge, past the firewall...nothing but Net | \--/
Re: Xarchie package somewhere?
I'm looking for a xarchie package. Does someone have one out there? I might create one, if not. xarchie is in non-free part of the archive. Not on cdrom. Erick
Re: More info on PPP problem
On Fri, 2 Aug 1996, Berntsen wrote: When I boot I get the following on my screen: PPP: version 2.2.0 (dynamic channel allocation) TCP compression code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California PPP Dynamic channel allocation code copyright 1995 Caldera, Inc PPP line discipline registered ... ... Starting base network deamons: rpc.portmap inetd When I start 'ppp-on', it starts pppd, but pppd doesn't do anything. The lights on my modem flashes, but it doesn't dial. It seems as if the ppp is loaded, and I have set up the files /etc/ppp/options /etc/ppp/chatscript It's just that it doesn't dial. What's wrong? I might help if we could see those two scripts :-) Dwarf -- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 877-0257 Flexible Software Fax: NONE Black Creek Critters e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you don't see what you want, just ask --
unreliable service of I-Connect
Hi All, I want to let you know how bad the service of the Debian/Linux Distributor is. I include a copy of our correspondence with I-Connect. Bye, Sonja 24-Jun-96 Dear I-Connect, We would like to order a CD-ROM of the Debian/Linux 1.1 Distribution for our laboratory at Hadassah Medical School, Dept. of Physiology, Jerusalem, Israel. Can you please inform aus about: - total price incl. shippment - method of payment - time to delivery Thank you very much in advance. Regards, Markus Diesmann Hi Markus Diesmann; On 24-Jun-96 you wrote: - total price incl. shippment $25.00 % 0.85 + $10.00 = 31.25 - 1.25 = 30.00 - method of payment Money order, Visa, MC. - time to delivery Will ship in 24 hours from receipt of order. Thank you very much in advance. Al Lo Davar. Sincerely Yours, (Sent on 06/25/96, 05:27:11 by XF-Mail) Simon Shapiro i-Connect.Net, a Division of iConnect Corp. Director of Technology 13455 SW Allen Blvd., Suite 140 Beaverton OR 97008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: 503.677.2900, Emergency: 503.441.1681 Jerusalem, 26.6.96 Dear I-Connect, hereby I order 1 CD-ROM of Debian/Linux 1.1 for total price incl. shippment (as you mentioned): $25.00 % 0.85 + $10.00 = 31.25 - 1.25 = 30.00$ Please charge my Mastercard # XXX expiring XXX Thanks in advance, Sonja - Dr. Sonja Gruen Dept. of Physiology Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School P.O.Box 12272 Jersualem, 91120 Tel: 00972-2-758384 Fax: 00972-2-439736 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Shalom Sonja. Nishlah od hashavua. Sincerely Yours, (Sent on 06/26/96, 03:52:19 by XF-Mail) Simon Shapiro i-Connect.Net, a Division of iConnect Corp. Director of Technology 13455 SW Allen Blvd., Suite 140 Beaverton OR 97008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: 503.677.2900, Emergency: 503.441.1681 12-Jul-96 you wrote: Hi Simon Sapiro, I ordered 3 weeks (!!!) ago one CD-ROM of Debian/Linux 1.1, and you replied to ship it immediately. However, I wonder that it takes that long. Please, sent a note, when I should expect to get it. Bye, Sonja - Dr. Sonja Gruen Dept. of Physiology Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School P.O.Box 12272 Jersualem, 91120 Tel: 00972-2-758384 Fax: 00972-2-439736 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Sorry for the delay. It all started with bad Linux kernel and then a huge backlog. We will process your order today or tomorrow. Thanx for your patience. Sincerely Yours, (Sent on 07/11/96, 12:06:34 by XF-Mail) Simon Shapiro i-Connect.Net, a Division of iConnect Corp. Director of Technology 14355 SW Allen Blvd., Suite 140 Beaverton OR 97008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: 503.677.2900, Emergency: 503.441.1681 Jerusalem, 2nd of August, 1996 Mr Simon Shapiro, it is unbeliveable, that you do not manage to send me the CD-ROMS (Debian/Linux 1.1) I ordered 5 weeks ago. I even reminded you 2 weeks ago, but nothing happened yet. It is very bad style of you, especially if you see how well organized the (public domain) debian products are distributed and discussed. I will inform the debian user group about that. If I will not receive the CD within the next week, I will cancel my order. Regards, Sonja Gruen
Debian-1.1.3
Hi all, I noticed 1.1.3 up on the master debian ftp site. Where is the doc that states the changes from 1.1.2? As far as I see it, its just a link back to the Debian-1.1-fixed (just like 1.1.2 had) Jim === Jim Gerace Senior Systems Engineer email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.kasinet.com
Re: Ipfwadm
Hi, Just one more thang... I know ping wont work through this, but is there something I can do to make FTP operational from all the other machines besides the Linux box? you can eighter use passive FTP from the PC (Netscape does this for example), or you need to load the ip_masq_ftp module. (With depmod ip_masq_ftp, or by inserting a line into /etc/modules and reboot). Greetings Bernd
Re: How can I submit packages to be included in the distribution?
On 2 Aug 1996, Christoph Lameter wrote: Planned .deb package from our site (Please tell us if this is anywhere already available!) We are running a full Campus Setup here and we will produce the following packages for our setup: - Harvester Caching Daemon Look at Squid instead - an old version can be found in rex/unstable. It's a few version behind. - procmailwith Full Sendmail Integration Isn't this part of buzz/stable? - hylafax Fax Receive and Send with Sendmail Integration You could also use efax which is part of buzz. Someone is working on qfax (multi-user extensions to efax). I've also been working on a few packages myself: - analogWWW stats program - apache + php + webcounter Apache with several additional modules I'm hoping to do the following: - merit radius - nocol Network monitoring package - ldap - gated (for internal use - Gated have strict redistribution policies!) Dermot -- Dermot BradleyEmail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communications Director Tel: 01232 560552 Genesis Project Ltd Fax: 01232 560553 Belfast Derry, Northern Ireland WWW: http://www.gpl.net/
Re: LILO and W95
Hi, other = /dev/hda1 label = win95 loader = /boot/any_d.b AFAIK any_d.b is used to swap C: and d: drive. If you OS is on the first drive you need to run chain.b instead. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],ka.sub.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/A2C51749 [EMAIL PROTECTED] +4972573817 *plush* (OO) If privacy is outlawed only Outlaws have privacy
dpkg-ftp or installing via FTP
Hi guys, I grabbed and installed dpkg-ftp. But I see no mention of any ftp usage when I run dpkg --help. Is there supposed to be a separate binary called dpkg-ftp? Because I can't find any... I'm trying to download the latest Debian distribution via FTP, but I've had problems both with ncftp and with dftp. I was hoping dpkg-ftp would be a better solution... Another suggestion was to mirror debian. How much space is required to mirror? Can a mirror be partial? Lastly, once I've gotten all that's required from FTP, is dselect a good method to use for performing the install? Thanks, Ricardo
Re: XFree86 3.1.2[DE]
On Fri, 2 Aug 1996, Christian Schwarz wrote: 2. Install the XFree86 3.1.2E Mach64 Server Binary (this is only the /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_Mach64 file!) over the old server. Using the new server with the old libs/binaries works fine. I think it is the best way to first install the old server and then overwrite it, so debian thinks that the depencies are correct. Otherwise it will complain about not having a X server installed. A better way would be to install the new server somewhere in /usr/local. Then edit the file /etc/X11/Xserver so it refers to the new server. It's best to install local software in /usr/local and not in /usr. I'm not sure, but you may need to install the package termcap-compat for the XFree beta servers to work. Guy
Re: How can I submit packages to be included in the distribution?
On Fri, 2 Aug 1996, Dermot Bradley wrote:
On 2 Aug 1996, Christoph Lameter wrote:
Planned .deb package from our site (Please tell us if this is anywhere
already available!) We are running a full Campus Setup here and we will
produce the following packages for our setup:
- Harvester Caching Daemon
Look at Squid instead - an old version can be found in rex/unstable. It's
a few version behind.
Never heard of Squid. Speedwise I have seen no other software that could
compete with Harvester.
- procmail with Full Sendmail Integration
Isn't this part of buzz/stable?
Yes but its not set up as the local mailer. Sendmail uses deliver under
Debian as far as I can see.
- hylafax Fax Receive and Send with Sendmail Integration
You could also use efax which is part of buzz. Someone is working on qfax
(multi-user extensions to efax).
I need an integration with Sendmail and the ability to control the time
period and where those faxes are sent.
I've also been working on a few packages myself:
- analog WWW stats program
- apache + php + webcounter Apache with several additional modules
There are webcounter cgi-bin thingies that we are using on our site.
The most important stuff for you will probably be the apache source code.
I'd really like to see someone maintaining it and keeping it current.
I'm hoping to do the following:
- merit radius
- nocol Network monitoring package
- ldap
- gated (for internal use - Gated have strict
redistribution policies!)
I know. Perhaps you can just publish the patches and have debian.rules do
an automatic ftp from the gated site?
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Re: How can I submit packages to be included in the distribution?
On Fri, 2 Aug 1996, Christoph Lameter wrote: On Fri, 2 Aug 1996, Dermot Bradley wrote: Look at Squid instead - an old version can be found in rex/unstable. It's a few version behind. Never heard of Squid. Speedwise I have seen no other software that could compete with Harvester. Squid started out as patches for Harvest whenever its (free) development stopped. However squid now has more functionally than Harvest cached - in the same way as Apache started from NCSA's httpd. Have a look at http://www.nlanr.net I've also been working on a few packages myself: - analogWWW stats program - apache + php + webcounter Apache with several additional modules There are webcounter cgi-bin thingies that we are using on our site. I'm using the webcounter module as it's neater. The most important stuff for you will probably be the apache source code. I'd really like to see someone maintaining it and keeping it current. Creating a debian package of apache1.1.1 is simple - I just used the debian.* files out of the old package as a basis. That's when I started added extras like the webcounter... - gated (for internal use - Gated have strict redistribution policies!) I know. Perhaps you can just publish the patches and have debian.rules do an automatic ftp from the gated site? Can do. I haven't started on it yet - hopefully within the next week. A few header files gated needs seem to be missing (like /usr/include/netinet/ip_var.h) and I believe that libc5.3.x should have them so I may need to upgrade parts of my system to unstable. Dermot -- Dermot BradleyEmail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communications Director Tel: 01232 560552 Genesis Project Ltd Fax: 01232 560553 Belfast Derry, Northern Ireland WWW: http://www.gpl.net/
jave applets don't work in netscape 3.0b5a
i have two hosts, a and b, running debian 1.1. in a that i upgraded from debian 0.93, java works fine in netscape 3.0b5a. in b where debian 1.1 was installed from scratch, java applets don't work. not even the java console shows up. there are no error messages. i suspect that the problem is with X, since java works if i'm on a and start netscape remotely on b and doesn't work if i'm on b and start java remotely on a. any idea what might be going wrong? in a X runs in 16 bit mode and in b in 24 bit mode, but i have also tried 16 bit mode in b. ldd output is: lohi:~% ldd `which netscape` libXt.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6.0 libSM.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6.0 libICE.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6.0 libXmu.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6.0 libXpm.so.4 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4.7 libXext.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6.0 libX11.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6.0 libdl.so.1 = /lib/libdl.so.1.7.14 libc.so.5 = /lib/libc.so.5.2.18 -- juha
mail-delivery-agents?
The current way I manage my e-mail involves using popclient to get incoming e-mail from my ISP (mail.polaris.net) to dwarf's incoming mail folder on my machine (dwarf.polaris.net), outgoing mail is handled by Pine using SMTP. I would like to try some other mail readers like elm and emacs but none of these seem to be able to do SMTP and so require the presence of a mail-delivery-agent. I know I have heard pro and con discussions about smail vs sendmail but am still confused. Also I hear hints that qmail (?) will soon be a Debian package. I am a complete idiot when it comes to mail systems, so please be simple and clear in your answer ;-) What do I need to understand to install and use any of the available packages? If I am going to go to the trouble of learning to install a mail-delivery-agent I will want to be able to filter mail to various mail-folders based on the source of that mail. If that is not available in the mail-delivery-agent, then point me to a package that will work with the target mail-delivery-agent. Thanks in advance for any help, Dwarf -- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 877-0257 Flexible Software Fax: NONE Black Creek Critters e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you don't see what you want, just ask --
Re: dpkg-ftp or installing via FTP
On Fri, 2 Aug 1996, Ricardo Kleemann wrote: Hi guys, I grabbed and installed dpkg-ftp. But I see no mention of any ftp usage when I run dpkg --help. Is there supposed to be a separate binary called dpkg-ftp? Because I can't find any... No dpkg-ftp provides a 'ftp' method for dselect. Install dpkg-ftp, start dselect and go in the 'Access' screen. You'll see a new installation method called 'ftp'... Christian
problems with talk and ytalk
I'm not sure if this is a bug or not so I'm not reporting it as one yet. 1. Both ytalk and talk work talking on the same machine. 2. Neither ytalk nor talk will talk to other machines. 3. talk just sits (no talk request is transmitted), ytalk prints an find_daemon: recv() failed Connection refused sendit: recv() failed Connection refused sendit: recv() failed Connection refused 4. mesg has been set to `y', so that's not it. 5. I can receive talk requests from other machines, but cannot accept them. 6. The machines I am trying to talk to are an OSF/1 2.1 machine, a Solaris 2.4 machine, and a Linux box running RedHat 3.0. The RedHat box also has the same problem. Either I'm clueless or something is wrong with Linux talk. I'm aware of the various flavors of talk, but ytalk should be able to talk to most of them. Actually, Linux `talk' should be able to talk to all common flavors of talk. Dan -- Daniel Quinlan Member of the League for Programming Freedom [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: unreliable service of I-Connect
I want to let you know how bad the service of the Debian/Linux Distributor is. I include a copy of our correspondence with I-Connect. ... Sorry for the delay. It all started with bad Linux kernel and then a huge backlog. We will process your order today or tomorrow. I, too, had some frustrating interaction with I-Connect, but Simon explained the situation with the bad kernel or whatever, and when he finally told me that it was being shipped I received it in a timely fashion. Perhaps that you are in Jerusalem and he is in Oregon is a factor. --- Disgusted by politicians and their government? http://www.HarryBrowne96.org/
LILO vs LOADLIN (was Re: LILO and W95)
Hi The DOS+LOADLIN solution is in my opinion a very practical and safe one. I read much safer than LILO somewhere and some time ago, but I cannot recall why nor if it has changed with the last versions of LILO for which horror histories abound. Anybody knows? There is however at least one situation that none of LILO or SYSLINUX can cope with: The Compaq boxes with a PCI SCSI and or Ethernet card on board. The problem is that Linux cannot address the PCI services on them (Ref: Linus Torvald). This is the case, at least, for the Compaq Deskpro and the high end XL series. There was a page on the WWW for Linux on these last. But...DOS+LOADLIN can cope with it: Compaq provides a DOS driver (luckily Novell Netware has the same problem as Linux :) called MOVEPCI which re-addresses PCI services and exits. Then one can load via MS-DOS LOADLIN. A CONFIG.SYS on top of MS-DOS 5.0 that worked for me is: - Cut here DEVICE=\MOVEPCI.SYS SHEL=\LOADLIN \vmlinuz root=/dev/sda6 ro - Cut here This and all the variants you can imagine like(take them alone or combined) LOADLIN from AUTOEXEC, within a menuitem (DOS 6.xx), many different kernels and/or root on different partitions, with the kernel image on HD or FD (yes, two moderatly large kernels + LOADLIN + MOVEPCI...fit in one FD!) and you can of course pass old the boot parameters you one in a line or (if too long for DOS) in a file. And if in a floppy is readable/transportable from/to any DOS machine around (the same good point of Syslinux used on Debian). I think LOADLIN is a good (and versatile) choice. I prefer it to LILO unless somebody can show me a good reason to not. P.S. Yes, I know that with Syslinux you can fit 3 kernels on one floppy + a tiny editor (I have DOS screen editor of size=4096 bytes!) __ Reply Separator _ Subject: Re: LILO and W95 Author: debian-user@lists.debian.org at cclink Date:02.08.96 07:26 On Thu, 1 Aug 1996, nathan work wrote: ok, i just loaded linux after w95 for the first time. i know very little about linux or unix for that matter and i'm having a real problem - 95 will not 'recognize' LILO, and boots right into 95. i didn't have this problem with 3.1. what i need is for someone to be gracious enough to take me by the hand and show me how to overcome this (to keep w95 from controling what's booted). please email me if you'd like: What I have done is similar to what Susan suggest in using LOADLIN, but I have setup a menuitem in config.sys to handle it. The line I use in the config.sys file is: shell=c:\loadlin.exe c:\vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6 ro This assumes my root file system is on hda6. This way when I boot I have the option presented to me. It is very much like LILO, but is all done through DOS/WIN95 utilities (when I started using linux, I was more comfortable doing it this way). --- Kenny Wickstrom | gnu - a new generation in s/w devel/support [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux - a much improved Un*x clone (847)740-4008 | Debian - a Linux distribution setting the #include std-disclaimer |standard for future distributions
