I've screwed my net access
Hi listers, I'm having some major probs and I was hoping someone could help me. diald no longer works, same for fetchmail, and other net things Trying to connect via telnet localhost 25 fails with some output about a refusal to connect. If I try the machine name of joanrich, I get an error from in.smtpd about joanrich!=joanrich.durhamnews.net. My named must be screwed.Can anyone point me in the right direction. I think it might have something to do with my hosts.deny and that parnoid entry. Rich M [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian Linux
I am interested in creating a bastion server using Linux on a spare 386 25 mhz 32 bit machine. I want to learn how to set up firewalls. I will be doing this in my house. I will be using Linux to run the software required to download files from the internet, access files from my NT server remotely. I am a student of the internet. Thank you. Bob Rourke
Term
Hi, I have a problem with term. I downloaded it and installed it, and at first it would not work, because I didn't have libc4, so I downloaded and installed it. It installed fine, but it said it couldn't find lib. Then when I tried running term, it say Term version: 2.3.5, then just stops and halts my computer. Anyone know what might be wrong? Thanks, Pete Poff---AKA---BlackJack Personal E-Mail Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kyron E-Mail Address:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Kyron address: telnet.cyberconinc.com 4000
List mail was delayed
The mailing lists were stalled for a few hours, apparently due to some gateway work at Novare (but I'm not sure). Mark at Novare is working on the problem as I write this. I transplanted a qmail queue to Pixar so that it would get delivered while the problem was being resolved. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3
Lexmark Printer
Anyone using a Lexmark printer with Debian ? Specificly an Optra E ? I can't get Debian to print anything...are there any web pages or documents I can look at. I read all the man pages but it didn't help. Maybe someone can post the steps I would go through to get it working. Thanks, Matthew
Re: Term
Pete, I think we de-supported term a while back. I think it was after SlIRP (the SLIP emulator) came out. The point was that a large number of applications had to be term-ified, and if you used SlIRP instead, your system just acted as if it had a slip connection and nothing on your side had to change. I'm not aware of how to find the server-side version of SlIRP, but if you can't find it I'm sure someone on debian-user will help. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3
xdm : always reply login incorrect
I just installed Debian Linux 1.2 from Infomagic Pack. I have a problem I can't fix, maybe you will help me : When I start Linux, xdm starts with the graphic banner login but I can't log in from it : it always replies login incorrect. I have then to log in text mode and to enter startx... Do you have any idea ? Mathieu.
Re: LARRY ELLISON
On Tue, 11 Mar 1997, trio wrote: On Tue, 11 Mar 1997, James W. Lynch wrote: - Received message begins Here - The most brilliant mind has his website: http://www.concentric.net/~Cclm WARNING: An attempt to access this site killed netscape, so be careful. This may be a trojan horse and surely hasn't anything to do with Debian that can be determined from the subject or contents of this message. I tried the page with Netscape from my NT box and found a sarcastic (i think it was :) shrine to Larry Ellison. (My personal review: i thought it was slighlty amusing, but not really worth the download.) I agree it has nothing to do with Debian or any other Linux and should be ignored. But i don't think it's dangerous (unless you actually LIKE pompous CEO's :). ... universero trio... [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tio.net/~trio Learn and use The International Language Esperanto! - If we are still talking about LARRY ELLISON's page ... I have a question for all of you guys. How is it that possible that a html finds out my browser's name and version and my OS version and he knowa that I am in XWindows and my XWindows version ... as you can see on the LARRY ELLISON 's page ... If some of you got the html (or whatever) script or cgi or whatever is that determines those things, I would like that you send it to me. Thanks. [1;5;41m Bye, Roby (ROOT, SUPERVISOR) [m [1;6;42m SysAdm LCJDAP [m [1;6;44m PAPIU Highschool Network Manager [m Motto: [1;6;36m Harmony is all that matters ![m Phone/Modem: 40-64-432002
Re: Adaptec 2940 UW
From: Jason Gunthorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] If I recall the rescue disk is simply a msdos disk with a custom boot loader? Meaning mount the disk and copy your kernel image to it. It is an msdos filesystem, and the kernel is in the file linux. The root filesystem is a gzip-compressed Minix RAM disk in the file root.bin . You might have to run the shell script rdev.sh (also on the disk), but I'm not sure. You can edit special command-line flags into syslinux.cfg for convenience. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3
Re: xdm : always reply login incorrect
It sounds like a key-mapping problem. Some of the more X-knowledgable will no doubt tell us how to fix that. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3
Intresting problem (and diald WARNING)
Hello
First a smal warning about diald: If Your etc/diald.ip-up script for some
reason is 'hanging', then will diald keep the link up (this is probably
documented behavior, but I was suprised anyway...). I noticed this
becose my ip-up script was 'hanging' on a pipe to /dev/xconsole. I got
diald work as expected by making /etc/diald.ip-up just bakgrund another
shellscript (doing all the 'real' work). Sadly, that do bring up other
problems... This is the script i do background from /etc/diald.ip-up:
/etc/diald.fetch-up --
#!/bin/bash
#
# Fetch and send mail
#
# Run by diald.ip_up when diald have conected to internet
# Got 30 sec to complete before killed by diald.fetch-kill!
#
echo -e `date`: Running /etc/diald.fetch-up\\r /dev/tty8
echo -e `date`: Running /etc/diald.fetch-up\\r /dev/xconsole
echo `date`: fetchmail run from diald.fetch-up /root/mail-log
#
# Stopp fetchmail if alredy runing (probably a bug).
#
/usr/local/bin/fetchmail --quit -f /root/.fetchmailrc -L /root/mail-log
#
# Starta fetchmail in deamon mode and send qued mail.
#
/usr/local/bin/fetchmail -f /root/.fetchmailrc -b 10 -L /root/mail-log -d 600
-t 300
runq
-- end /etc/diald.fetch-up
Some subprces of this script is hanging, probably the subproces
started by the line:
echo -e `date`: Running /etc/diald.fetch-up\\r /dev/xconsole
I suspect this line becose the problem do have something to do with
/dev/xconsole as it only hangs when the xconsole loging is broken.
I don't know what's braeking the xconsole but it happen in the first
day of system uptime (and is OK after a reboot). I do suspect the
cron.daily scripts. More intresting is the side-efects of this
process hanging on xconsole. For some reason cron-jobs starts to
hang when this process hangs. I can't login as root when this happens
but ther's no problems in using existing root-shells. User login is
OK to. If I kill the proces hanging on xconsole all cronjobs do finish
and the system is back at normal (exept xconsole who is still broke).
If I don't kill it the cronjobs keep piling up until the system load
craches the mashine :(
I do work-around this problem by leting /etc/diald.ip-up also
background this script:
-- /etc/diald.fetch-kill -
#!/bin/bash
#
# Kill ev. 'hangin' diald.fetch-up
# * DO NOT USE WITH ISDN CONECTION WITHOUT PRECOTION **
#
# Started by diald.ip_up when diald have conected to internet
#
# Give diald.fetch-up 30 secs to complete
#
sleep 30
#
# Then kill any remaining diald.fetch-up *twice*!
#
kill `ps -x | grep diald.fetch-up | gawk -- {print \\\$1}`
sleep 1
kill `ps -x | grep diald.fetch-up | gawk -- {print \\\$1}`
sleep 2
#
# Mean kill any diald.fetch-up *stil* remaining!
#
kill -9 `ps -x | grep diald.fetch-up | gawk -- {print \\\$1}`
sleep 1
kill -9 `ps -x | grep diald.fetch-up | gawk -- {print \\\$1}`
#
# Hope this is enuf. Don't dear kill anymore as diald might have a new
# *real* conection comming up soon... If You use ISDN it is probably
# far to lait already
#
end /etc/diald.fetch-kill ---
This is (so far) keeping my system from craching :) but it is an
ugly work-around. I can live with an broken xconsole but I still
want to know wats realy is wrong with my system. Do You have any
ide:
o Why is xconsole broke? lsattr /dev/xconsole (when it's broke) give:
lsattr 1.06, 7-Oct-96 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
lsattr: Invalid argument While reading flags on /dev/xconsole
(dont know what it gives when xconsole is working, and I don't
want to reboot as I am trying to find out if this 'fix' can keep
my system up for a 'long' time).
o Why is root login broken when an proces is hanging on the broken
xconsole and why is cronjobs hanging at this time?
o Any sugestions on what to read or what to investigate on my system
is welcome.
All the cron.daily script on the machine is as installed by Debian
(the standard script has some find ... rm lines commented out whit a
referens to a security hole. The other scripts do find ... rm call.
Any reason to worry? Where can I read about this security hole?)
I do know this is unexact questions but it is the best I can do. I
had this problem with Debian 1.1 kernnel 2.0.0 and I upgraded to
Debiann 1.2.6 and kernel 2.0.27 in hope it was an 2.0.0 related
problem but the problem did not go away... I use the prebuilt Debian
'install' kernels (no kernel compile). All the cron.daily script on
the machine is as instaled by Debian (the standard script has some
find - rm lines comented out whit a referens to a security hole.
The other scripts do find - rm call. Any reason to worry? Where
can I read about this security hole?)
This problem has become more 'intresting' and less 'frustrating' as
I don't need to do bad reboots avery day any more
Ask if You need to know anything more.
Sorry for my poor english and TIA /Lars
--
/ / _/_ _/_ Lars Hallberg
Re: LARRY ELLISON
- If we are still talking about LARRY ELLISON's page ... I have a question for all of you guys. How is it that possible that a html finds out my browser's name and version and my OS version and he knowa that I am in XWindows and my XWindows version ... as you can see on the LARRY ELLISON 's page ... If some of you got the html (or whatever) script or cgi or whatever is that determines those things, I would like that you send it to me. Thanks. Annoying isn't it? Browsers can do a lot of things like this apparently, a fact which their makers arn't advertising. Profiling = big money I guess. Anyway, I just read an article in comp.os.linux.announce describing a progrom JUNKBLOCKER or something with JUNK in it that will block a lot o this kind o stuf, filter ads (saving you download time), etc. I thought you might be interested. I like six eggs when starting on a journey. Fried - not poached. And mind you don't break 'em. I won't eat a broken egg. -- Thorin Oakenshield
X installation problems
Debians, Thank you in advance from a newbie. Any help in installing X would be appreciated, especially regarding o booting to a login screen o configuring the mouse for left-handed use I have been trying to install Debian 1.2 from theInfoMagick Dec 1996 6cd set using dpkg on aDell Dimension XPS133c withNumber Nine FX Motion 771 graphics accelerator and Trinitron D1526TX-HS Ultrascan monitor and PS/2 3-button mouse dpkg did not complete installation the first time, and would not allow reinstallation, configuration, removal, or purging because it was already installed or in a bad state. I finally used dpkg --force-dependencies to purge xbase and reinstall it. After running xf86config, I could run startx to begin an X session but the screen was unusable. After copying (and editting) XF86Config from my slackware installation, I was able to run startx and use the windows. After hand-editting /etc/inittab, and /etc/rc4.d/S99xdm, xdm is started as a deamon at boot. Unfortunately, though xdm remains running (as seen by ps -ax), no login screen is presented. I have read /usr/doc/HOWTO/HOWTO-X11R6 and man [xdm xinit startx ...] but have been unable to find any way to cause or inhibit presentation of a login screen when xdm starts. My understanding is that when xdm starts, it runs the setup script and then presents a login screen to all hosts that access it. What configuration do I need so that debian boots to a login screen? What configuration (change to XF86Config) is needed to reverse the button assignment (left-handed instead of right-handed use)? Ideally, I would like the following run level assignments 0 - shutdown 1 - single user 4 - multi user (no xdm daemon) 5 - multi user (xdm login screen) 6 - restart Newbie, -- Robert Meier FANUC Robotics North America, Inc. Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: 1-810-377-7469 Fax: 1-810-377-7363
Re: Using a proxy server...
On Tue, 11 Mar 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Can anybody please point me in the right direction (hints, docs, links, etc.) as to how I could tell my Linux box to use a Proxy server for outbound connections (http *AND* ftp). They just put a Proxy server on the ftp protocol, and my ncftp stopped working. What kind of proxy server? TIS? Socks? If it's TIS then NCFTP will not easially work with it, if it's Socks, you'll have to find some way to socksify ncftp. Jason
Re: Adaptec 2940 UW
On Tue, 11 Mar 1997, Bernd Kreimeier wrote: I simply tried creating a 2.0.0 kernel image and pasting it with dd on the Debian rescue disk, attempting to replace the kernel image while leaving the root image intact. IIRC 350K is the size limit for the kernel image. My attempts failed, the disk did not load at all. So it breaks down to: what am I doing wrong, how can a Debian base rescue disk be modified by replacing the kernel image? If I recall the rescue disk is simply a msdos disk with a custom boot loader? Meaning mount the disk and copy your kernel image to it. If that fails, download root.bin and loadlin then use from a dos floppy/partion/whatever: loadlin mykernel initrd=root.bin root=/dev/ram and it will boot the rescue disk from a ram disk. Jason
List of changes...
Hi all, Is there a list of changes from 1.2.5 to 1.2.7? I just got my tri-Linux CD and it is based on 1.2.5. I have installed 1.2.7 from ftp.debian.org but the installation didn't go smoothly. I want to start from scratch from the CD to get an idea of the best way to install the various packages and then once I understand the nuances, get the latest 1.2.7 differences from the ftp site. If there were a list of all the differences, it would make my life a little easier... Thanks, Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Applied Digital Access, Inc. San Diego, CA 92121
Re: Term
I use slirp, and all you need is to find the source, sorry I don't have it anymore, and compile it. You then run it as a user proccess as the last thing in your connect script, and tada you have a slirp or PPP connection. I have used it with both Trumpet Winsock and Linux PPP without a problem. Shaya On Tue, 11 Mar 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: Pete, I think we de-supported term a while back. I think it was after SlIRP (the SLIP emulator) came out. The point was that a large number of applications had to be term-ified, and if you used SlIRP instead, your system just acted as if it had a slip connection and nothing on your side had to change. I'm not aware of how to find the server-side version of SlIRP, but if you can't find it I'm sure someone on debian-user will help. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3
Ignore this [test]
test. -- Syrus Nemat-Nasser [EMAIL PROTECTED]UCSD Physics Dept.
TeTeX for Debian
Just a quick word of thanks and congratulations to Christoph Martin for his porting Thomas Esser's TeTeX to Debian. One word: superb. It was the one thing I missed from my pre-Debian days. Thanks also to Craig Sanders for his purge install script! It did the trick. Alain. -- Alain Nadeau[EMAIL PROTECTED] Medieval Studies Institute, University of Fribourg, Switzerland http://www.unifr.ch/iem/welcome.html
Re: LARRY ELLISON
James W. Lynch wrote: - Received message begins Here - The most brilliant mind has his website: http://www.concentric.net/~Cclm WARNING: An attempt to access this site killed netscape, so be careful. This may be a trojan horse and surely hasn't anything to do with Debian that can be determined from the subject or contents of this message. Jim. Well, it certainly happened to me... I'm not particularly proud, but it certainly killed Netscape, and my whole X session with it. Alain. -- Alain Nadeau[EMAIL PROTECTED] Medieval Studies Institute, University of Fribourg, Switzerland http://www.unifr.ch/iem/welcome.html
Re: LARRY ELLISON
On Tue, 11 Mar 1997, James W. Lynch wrote: - Received message begins Here - The most brilliant mind has his website: http://www.concentric.net/~Cclm WARNING: An attempt to access this site killed netscape, so be careful. This may be a trojan horse and surely hasn't anything to do with Debian that can be determined from the subject or contents of this message. Jim. - No ... I checked it out and it works ... there's no trojan horse :) Jim Lynch, System Engineer, SGI/Cray Research, Inc. / ARS: K4GVO Federal Business Systems, Phone: (770) 631-2254, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Suite 270, 200 Westpark Drive, Peachtree City, GA 30269 [1;5;41m Bye, Roby (ROOT, SUPERVISOR) [m [1;6;42m SysAdm LCJDAP [m [1;6;44m PAPIU Highschool Network Manager [m Motto: [1;6;36m Harmony is all that matters ![m Phone/Modem: 40-64-432002
Re: LARRY ELLISON
Find out your browser's name and version and your OS version from an CGI script is simple : you just have to print some variables from a shell script. For exemple, try this script : essai.cgi | #!/bin/sh | echo Content-type: text/plain | echo | echo CGI/1.0 test script report: | echo | echo argc is $#. argv is $*. | echo | echo SERVER_SOFTWARE = $SERVER_SOFTWARE | echo SERVER_NAME = $SERVER_NAME | echo GATEWAY_INTERFACE = $GATEWAY_INTERFACE | echo SERVER_PROTOCOL = $SERVER_PROTOCOL | echo SERVER_PORT = $SERVER_PORT | echo REQUEST_METHOD = $REQUEST_METHOD | echo HTTP_ACCEPT = $HTTP_ACCEPT | echo PATH_INFO = $PATH_INFO | echo PATH_TRANSLATED = $PATH_TRANSLATED | echo SCRIPT_NAME = $SCRIPT_NAME | echo QUERY_STRING = $QUERY_STRING | echo REMOTE_HOST = $REMOTE_HOST | echo REMOTE_ADDR = $REMOTE_ADDR | echo REMOTE_USER = $REMOTE_USER | echo CONTENT_TYPE = $CONTENT_TYPE | echo CONTENT_LENGTH = $CONTENT_LENGTH The web is not anonymous. You can try something like http://www.anonymizer.com/open.html if you want to surf hidden. Mathieu.
Re: List of changes...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Lever) writes: Is there a list of changes from 1.2.5 to 1.2.7? ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/stable/ChangeLog Guy
Ethernet
I have some ethernet cards that came with a used machine. I don't know what they are (which type of ethernet) how can I get them running under debian linux? I also have some ethenet cards that I know what they are Novel NE2000 compatible, how can I get those running under Linux? they came with dos drivers? Also, If I have 1 ethernet card on a Dos machine running Novel can it talk to a Linux machine running ethernet? how? Also, If I was to purchase the red hat cd rom would the stuff on it be compatible with debian linux or does it take a debian os to run debian stguff and red to run red hat? Thanks.
Re: zsh vs bash
Here are two ways I know of: 1) echo set editing-mode vi ~root/.inputrc 2) exec bash -o vi --Bob James W. Lynch wrote: - Received message begins Here - This subject brings up a question I've had for a long time. Bash appears to be the shell that I get when I log in as root or do an su command. I'm from the old school and perfer vi editing of commands, but I have yet to be able to make bash use vi as root. I've set EDITOR and FCEDIT. I've set editing-mode vi. I can't seem to get root to use anything but emacs editing mode. Is this a diabolical plot by the Linux developers to force emacs on the world? 8^) Bash works as expected, described and designed when I'm a normal user. Can I do it? How? Thanks, Jim. Jim Lynch, System Engineer, SGI/Cray Research, Inc. / ARS: K4GVO Federal Business Systems, Phone: (770) 631-2254, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Suite 270, 200 Westpark Drive, Peachtree City, GA 30269
Re: Ethernet
On Tue, 11 Mar 1997, MR DAVID C STEIN wrote: I have some ethernet cards that came with a used machine. I don't know what they are (which type of ethernet) how can I get them running under debian linux? I also have some ethenet cards that I know what they are Novel NE2000 compatible, how can I get those running under Linux? they came with dos drivers? Also, If I have 1 ethernet card on a Dos machine running Novel can it talk to a Linux machine running ethernet? how? Also, If I was to purchase the red hat cd rom would the stuff on it be compatible with debian linux or does it take a debian os to run debian stguff and red to run red hat? Thanks. Well as for the redhat - debian question, if U run debian, U purchase a debian cd.. thats the logic I would use but hey who am I to compare my logic with others... U may notice that Debian packages end in .deb, where as redhat end in .rpm or sumfin like that... Those are my thoughts anyway... -- Silicon Graphics and Sun Worksation Giveaway Check out -- http://www.squirrel.com.au For more information. Living is just a state of mind... The Lord Bhaal...
Re: I've screwed my net access
On Tue, 11 Mar 1997, Richard Morin wrote: Hi listers, I'm having some major probs and I was hoping someone could help me. diald no longer works, same for fetchmail, and other net things Trying to connect via telnet localhost 25 fails with some output about a refusal to connect. If I try the machine name of joanrich, I get an error from in.smtpd about joanrich!=joanrich.durhamnews.net. My named must be screwed.Can anyone point me in the right direction. I think it might have something to do with my hosts.deny and that parnoid entry. Rich M [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is your inetd running? if not type inetd as root... -- Silicon Graphics and Sun Worksation Giveaway Check out -- http://www.squirrel.com.au For more information. Living is just a state of mind... The Lord Bhaal...
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Re: rsh don' t work?!?
I want to use rsh, but I found: $ rsh localhost ls Permission denied. What I must change (for example in hosts.allow) to run it? Add your hostname to the file /etc/hosts.equiv and this will work. -- Michel Beland [EMAIL PROTECTED] professionnel de recherchetel: (514)369-5223 fax: (514)369-3880 CERCA (CEntre de Recherche en Calcul Applique) 5160, boul. Decarie, bureau 400(423), Montreal (Quebec), Canada, H3X 2H9
rx vs regex.. Which one?
There are two regex packages... and there seems to be regex support in libc5... which one should I use? Nicolás Lichtmaier.- | From Buenos Aires, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Argentina!
Re: LARRY ELLISON
On Mar 03, 1997 at 02:51:48AM +0100, Mathieu LEGRAND wrote: Find out your browser's name and version and your OS version from an CGI script is simple : you just have to print some variables from a shell script. For exemple, try this script : essai.cgi | #!/bin/sh | echo Content-type: text/plain | echo Okay, but how about this one. I'm on hamishpc.rising.com.au, accessing a web page (http://www.silcom.com/~tonkin/pointless/), but I'm IP masquerading via silly.rising.com.au, which isn't really called that at all because I'm on via my ISP who's given my a dynamic IP, so I'm really dialin-a1-30.melbourne.internex.net.au or similar, and then I've via proxy cache proxy1.mel.connect.com.au, but that page still knows I'm from hamishpc! I do CGI but can't see how they do this one. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Melbourne, Australia. Student, computer science computer systems engineering. 3rd year, RMIT. http://yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~moffatt CPOM: [ ] 40% PGP key available from web page above.
Re: xdm : always reply login incorrect
On Wed, 12 Mar 1997 01:38:45 +0100 Mathieu LEGRAND ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I just installed Debian Linux 1.2 from Infomagic Pack. I have a problem I can't fix, maybe you will help me : When I start Linux, xdm starts with the graphic banner login but I can't log in from it : it always replies login incorrect. I have then to log in text mode and to enter startx... Do you have any idea ? You wouldn't have installed the shadow passwords package, would you ? If it's not the problem, as Bruce pointed out, it could be a key mapping problem... Form your name and your email address (salut, bienvenue au club), I suppose you have a French keyboard. You must run xmodmap when xdm starts... Some questions: 1) How is the mapping when you log on the console and then startx ? 2) How is the mapping under xdm (you can type the characters when asked Login: and see what you get) ? 3) Did you take special provisions during the install for a French keyboard ? Which ones ? Phil.
Re: maximum mount count
Can you just 'touch /fastboot' to ignore that? On Tue, 11 Mar 1997, Martin Stromberg wrote: Hi, I need to reboot my PC once or twice a day. Lately, I had a boot message displaying '/dev/hda3 has reached the maximum mount count. Checked forced' I found no option to deselect this mount count check in the mount man pages. Does anybody knows ? If it's an ext2 file system then you are looking for tune2fs -i 0. Regards, JP L Ho-hum, MartinS
Re: maximum mount count
On Tue, 11 Mar 1997 23:12:44 PST Thought ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Can you just 'touch /fastboot' to ignore that? This will work only once, the boot process removes this file... Phil.
Chmod
What does chmodding a directory u+s do? And why is /floppy chmod g+s?
Re: Intresting problem (and diald WARNING)
On Tue, 11 Mar 1997 23:04:04 +0100 Lars Hallberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: First a smal warning about diald: If Your etc/diald.ip-up script for some reason is 'hanging', then will diald keep the link up (this is probably documented behavior, but I was suprised anyway...). I noticed this becose my ip-up script was 'hanging' on a pipe to /dev/xconsole. I got diald work as expected by making /etc/diald.ip-up just bakgrund another shellscript (doing all the 'real' work). Yes, diald 0.14 wait until the completion of ip-up to coonsider initialization ok. The latest version 0.16-1 backgrounds the ip-up... Some subprces of this script is hanging, probably the subproces started by the line: echo -e `date`: Running /etc/diald.fetch-up\\r /dev/xconsole Yes, /dev/xconsole is a FIFO (aka a named pipe). It is normally read by a xconsole process started by xdm, but if this process isn't running, the FIFO fills up... When a FIFO is full, any process write()ing to it hangs, until someone reads it and makes room... The FIFO is written by syslogd (if you've got the standard distributed /etc/syslogd.conf), and almost every message that goes to the /var/log logfiles also gets dumped there. You can also read it by cat /dev/xconsole... Note that once it's emptied up, it's empty (redoing the same cat will just show nothing). I suspect this line becose the problem do have something to do with /dev/xconsole as it only hangs when the xconsole loging is broken. I don't know what's braeking the xconsole but it happen in the first day of system uptime (and is OK after a reboot). Yes, because after a reboot the FIFO is empty. It fills quickly after a few hours of uptime. More intresting is the side-efects of this process hanging on xconsole. For some reason cron-jobs starts to hang when this process hangs. I can't login as root when this happens but ther's no problems in using existing root-shells. User login is OK to. If I kill the proces hanging on xconsole all cronjobs do finish and the system is back at normal (exept xconsole who is still broke). If I don't kill it the cronjobs keep piling up until the system load craches the mashine :( Let me take my teacher's hat (actually while digging out this, I learnt some stuff too). Only one process at a time can write to a FIFO. If a process already has a writing file descriptor on a FIFO, an other process willing to open the FIFO in write mode will hang in open(). So what happens is that: 1) The FIFO is full 2) Your echo commands have the FIFO opened write, but the write() hangs because the FIFO is full. 3) Syslogd tries to write something to the FIFO and hangs in open(). Strangely enough :-), a root login will get logged by syslogd. Cron jobs start and end times get logged by syslogd (they don't actually appear in the log file because of the syslogd configuration, but cron calls syslogd). And as syslog is hung, the calling process are also hung (login, cron, etc...). Your whole system seems to be broken because of this little innocent sneaky echo to a FIFO ! Note that syslogd is clever enough to know when the pipe is full. Once opened (assuming it doesn't hang on open()), it does a non-waiting write(), which returns 0 characters written when the FIFO is full, and syslogd doesn't get hung. Your problem is a one because syslogd hangs in open(), where it doesn't expect. I do work-around this problem by leting /etc/diald.ip-up also background this script: [snip] IMHO, this is ugly. Try using the logger program. It's a shell interface to syslog. It will do all the hard work for you, will nicely deal with /etc/xconsole, and you'll also get your stuff in the system log files in addition to /dev/xconsole. Read (1)logger. o Why is xconsole broke? lsattr /dev/xconsole (when it's broke) give: lsattr 1.06, 7-Oct-96 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 lsattr: Invalid argument While reading flags on /dev/xconsole I don't know why lsattr returns this error message. Actually, it fail on any special file... Maybe this is intended... Any ext2 specialist around here ? As lsattr is only useful for regular files, it makes sense to return an error on a special file. I hope I was clear enough. This is rather hairy... Phil.
Re: Chmod
On Tue, 11 Mar 1997 23:33:32 PST Thought ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: What does chmodding a directory u+s do? And why is /floppy chmod g+s? A setuid directory means nothing currently. A setgid directory means that any file created in this directory will take the group ownership of the directory (assuming you mounted the ext2 fs with the default options, see (8)mount for the gory details). Why is /floppy g+s ? Good question ! Phil.
Re: Using a proxy server...
Jason Gunthorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] What kind of proxy server? TIS? Socks? If it's TIS then NCFTP will not easially work with it, if it's Socks, you'll have to find some way to socksify ncftp. If it's one where you do (e.g.) USER [EMAIL PROTECTED], PASS [EMAIL PROTECTED], I have a patch (or hack) to make it work. I don't need it anymore, but I'll send it to anyone who wants it so you can try it out. -- Carey Evans * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux and Linux-like systems such as UNIX(R) and FreeBSD... - Yggdrasil Computing, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: rx vs regex.. Which one?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 12 Mar 1997, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote: There are two regex packages... and there seems to be regex support in libc5... which one should I use? The one in libc5 allowed Debian fileutils and textutils to be much smaller. See the debian/rules file of these packages for details. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: latin1 iQCVAgUBMyaBkSqK7IlOjMLFAQGxxQP9HjlBQGmXEYsQfBuOCvtA+7xqe2qpiaWv bOglVQIZTSN8jVB5q9b12kVG1y0JnXRvhv+E86rk3pfxBmQLnURI6X/23hprav0k yB1J6/CfIi6nhvMi43t9xE63h1RPSqb+VP4qc/ZXUlbuxLDbgl+gdClIJU/qqx9I fCCXNrdHHZ8= =wppc -END PGP SIGNATURE- Santiago Vila [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: TeTeX for Debian
Christoph Martin wrote: Alain Nadeau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just a quick word of thanks and congratulations to Christoph Martin for his porting Thomas Esser's TeTeX to Debian. One word: superb. It was the one thing I missed from my pre-Debian days. Thanks also to Craig Sanders for his purge install script! It did the trick. Ups... Did I miss this script? Where did he send it? I'm just trying to get upgrade smoother. Could you send it to me? Thanks, Christoph Well, perhaps I overstated what I meant. There was a bit of a confusion right after the package was released as to what the correct install procedure was, ie: purge the old TeX/LaTeX first, and only then install TeTeX. Craig just posted the following as being a correct way of doing it: dpkg --purge --force-depends amslatex amstex babel bibtex dvipsk kpathsea kpathsea-dev latex latex2e-doc ltxmisc ltxtool makeindex mfbasfnt mfdcfnt mflib mfnfss ps2pk psnfss texbin texi2html texinfo texlib texpsfnt textmf xdvik Then use dpkg or dselect to install the tetex packages. (assuming you have a mirror of debian mounted at /debian:) cd /debian dpkg -i bo/binary/tex/tetex-base_0.4pl6-2.deb bo/binary/tex/tetex-bin_0.4pl6-4.deb bo/binary/tex/tetex-dev_0.4pl6-4.deb bo/binary/tex/tetex-doc_0.4pl6-1.deb bo/binary/tex/tetex-extra_0.4pl6-2.deb I called it a script (perhaps wrongly), maybe procedure would have been more to the point. In any event, it had made clear to me (not a dpkg scholar) how to smoothly get the thing done. Thanks again for TeTeX, Alain. -- Alain Nadeau[EMAIL PROTECTED] Medieval Studies Institute, University of Fribourg, Switzerland http://www.unifr.ch/iem/welcome.html
Re: TeTeX for Debian
On Wed, 12 Mar 1997, Alain Nadeau wrote: Christoph Martin wrote: Alain Nadeau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: dpkg --purge --force-depends amslatex amstex babel bibtex dvipsk kpathsea kpathsea-dev latex latex2e-doc ltxmisc ltxtool makeindex mfbasfnt mfdcfnt mflib mfnfss ps2pk psnfss texbin texi2html texinfo texlib texpsfnt textmf xdvik should i have some trouble using tetex with any of my latex files, that is, is the change suitably smoth? any known problem? what is missing, if any, regarding latex packages (they are many !) ? []s, Mario O.de Menezes mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Nuclear and Energetic Research Institute - IPEN-CNEN/SP BRAZIL | | http://curiango.ipen.br/~mario | There will be a day when every PC on the world will be a host, not a 'MyComputer'! - myself!
Re: LARRY ELLISON
On Tue, 11 Mar 1997, Britton wrote: Annoying isn't it? Browsers can do a lot of things like this apparently, a fact which their makers arn't advertising. Profiling = big money I Of course their makers are advertising! They say that it conforms to the CGI 1.0 specifications. Now what that is, is up to you to find out. And it's not hard, Yahoo has every link you need. Ignorance is no excuse. Would any of you mind telling a clueless person like myself, who this Larry Ellison is? And what is so special about this page? There was mostly links to itself... I didn't run that Java program though.. // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37]
Re: TeTeX for Debian
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: Well, perhaps I overstated what I meant. There was a bit of a confusion right after the package was released as to what the correct install procedure was, ie: purge the old TeX/LaTeX first, and only then install TeTeX. Craig just posted the following as being a correct way of doing it: Ok I saw this one. I'm just in the process of releasing a new version of the packages which search for old packages and give a hint like this in it. But... this procedure does not allways work. If dpkg deinstalls mflib and/or xypic before latex, deinstallation of latex will fail because install-fmt-base is missing. So you have to do in two steps as supposed in my preinst script. dpkg --purge --force-depends amslatex amstex babel bibtex dvipsk kpathsea kpathsea-dev latex latex2e-doc ltxmisc ltxtool makeindex mfbasfnt mfdcfnt mflib mfnfss ps2pk psnfss texbin texi2html texinfo texlib texpsfnt textmf xdvik
How to reconfigure packages
Hello Debianusers, the question I thought about: Is there another way to configure .deb packages without purging/ reinstalling them? E.g. I get new printer and like to configure the apsfilter package without removing it. TIA -- Peter -- -- Peter Weiss, Sonnenstraße 17, D-26123 Oldenburg, Tel: 0441/ 81058 http://www.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de:/~weissp -- -- Slow has got 4 letters so has calm; speed has got 5 letters so has death -- --
Re: Can't nfs mount Debian box
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi... I'm having trouble nfs mounting a Debian box from other machines... 'ps -aux' indicates rpc.portmap, update, nfsiod (4 instances), kerneld, inetd, bootpd, rpc.nfsd, rpc.mount, rpc.ugidd. Other processes seem to be working well (apache, netscape, in.telnetd, bash, emacs)... Still a variety of machines (linux, NeXT, Sparc) can't mount correctly configured /etc/exports (i.e. '/ trusty(rw,no_root_squash)... What can I do to ferret out this problem? Any immediate clues as to what's going on? TIA I don't know if I can help but here's an attempt. I have about 30 Debian systems some SGIs and a few Suns at work with NFS running well. When you edit your /etc/exports file on a Linux system you need to tell rpc.nfsd and rpc.mountd to re-read it. You do this by sending them a HUP signal. I use this command: killall -HUP rpc.nfsd rpc.mountd Rebooting should work too but is much slower. If this doesn't work, carefully check your /etc/exports file while reading the exports man page to be sure it's correct. Good luck...
Re: How to reconfigure packages
In your email to me, Peter Weiss, you wrote: Hello Debianusers, the question I thought about: Is there another way to configure .deb packages without purging/ reinstalling them? E.g. I get new printer and like to configure the apsfilter package without removing it. Go to /var/lib/dpkg/info, and find the postinst scripts. For your apsfilter, you would run apsfilter.postinst to get it reconfigured. Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps You may be right, I may be crazy Billy Joel ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.**
Cannot get full speed download on ppp
Hi, I don't what i have done to my system. Recently i found that my download speed from our server at most can give me 2.6k byte/s ftp. After an ftp session, ifconfig tells me that ppp0 has 'n' rx errors and 'n' dropped where n can be 5, 6 or 7 etc ( the bigger the file download the larger n is. During downloading, i carefully looked at the modem RD lamp. I saw it flashing all the time and when i hear hard disk access, the RD lamp then stops for a part of a second and continues. It appears to me that when there is disk access the system will miss some data pumping in from the modem. I used to be able to get 3.1K bytes/s downloading compressed file. There have been a few changes to my system: 1. a few debian packages update (but i cannot remember what). 2. an upgrade of video adapter from et4000 to S3 pci adapter. Current system running: debian 1.1 with some package update ( libc5.4 ). kernel 2.0.27 amd586 133Mhz with 16M ram 1G /dev/hda and 345M /dev/hdc (secondary ide channel master ) - this has not been changed for many months. Could anybody shed some light on my problem? Cheers. Paul
Re: mh problem
On Mon, 10 Mar 1997, Steve wrote: This sounds like what I want to do. My system is refusing SMTP connections, although not because of load. I tried adding the mta: sendmail line to my ~/.mh_profile, and I also tried a servers: line with the name of my mail server. No change with either option. What am I supposed to do? I wasn't sure about the mta option, but I figured that the servers line would work. Is the ~/.mh_profile file ignored or do I have these options in the wrong place? ~/.mh_profile is the wrong place. The mta: sendmail option would go in the config file that is used when MH is compiled. The servers: line would go in the mtstailor file -- I'm not sure where this file goes on a debian system (unfortunately, I don't have debian installed right now). BTW, I'm running sendmail (with only the -q option) instead of smail, if that makes a difference. That doesn't make any difference. Frank
X crashes when switching from VC
Hi all, Occasionally when I switch from a VC back to X(alt-f7) and try and use the mouse immediately X crashes and exits. If I don't use the mouse for a couple of seconds it does not crash. I am running xdm but have had it happen when just starting X using xinit. I am running gpm on the VC's. The error message when it crashes is: Fatal server error: Cannot open mouse (Device or resource busy) xdm error (pid 226): Server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly: 1 Gpm is started with the distributed init.d/gpm script and my /etc/gpm.conf file has the following lines in it. device=/dev/psaux responsiveness= type=ps2 append= The pointer section of XF86Config is: Section Pointer ProtocolPS/2 Device /dev/mouse Emulate3Buttons Emulate3Timeout100 EndSection /dev/mouse is a soft link to /dev/psaux 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root5 Jan 11 16:54 mouse - psaux My graphics card is a Diamond Stealth 64 with a S3 Trio64 chip and 2M Dram running in 8bit 1280x1024 mode(which by the way I can't even get Win95 to do!). I know that if I don't use the mouse right away it won't crash but I don't think that should be the solution. Any helpful hints ideas on what is going on? Thanks, Brian Servis Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://widget.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis
Where is modutils? bind syntax error
Hello, I'm installing a new Debian server downloading the latest versions from unstable. Everything was ok except for two problems: 1. modules version 2.1.23-1 depends on modutils. Where is modutils? I couldn't find it. 2. While setting up bind version 4.9.5-1 I get the following error: Setting up bind (4.9.5-1) ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/bind.postinst: line 120: syntax error near unexpected token `done' dpkg: error processing bind (--install): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 There seems to be a done instead of something like echo done. I changed this but I got an error then on line 125 so I decided to stop looking into it. Has this been fixed in another version? Thank you, Pedro I. Sanchez
Re: xdm : always reply login incorrect
On Wed, 12 Mar 1997, Mathieu LEGRAND wrote: I just installed Debian Linux 1.2 from Infomagic Pack. I have a problem I can't fix, maybe you will help me : When I start Linux, xdm starts with the graphic banner login but I can't log in from it : it always replies login incorrect. I have then to log in text mode and to enter startx... Do you have any idea ? This is a long shot compared to the other responses, but; I once had the same problem because my password was more than 8 characters.
Re: Where is modutils? bind syntax error
In a previous message Lawrence Chim said: These are the files in modules_2.1.23-1.deb. It seems that all binaries and manpages are missing. modules_2.1.23-1 is a dummy package used when upgrading from modules to the newer modutils. Unfortunately modutils has not been installed yet. Wichert. Pedro I. Sanchez wrote: Hello, I'm installing a new Debian server downloading the latest versions from unstable. Everything was ok except for two problems: 1. modules version 2.1.23-1 depends on modutils. Where is modutils? I couldn't find it. 2. While setting up bind version 4.9.5-1 I get the following error: Setting up bind (4.9.5-1) ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/bind.postinst: line 120: syntax error near unexpected token `done' dpkg: error processing bind (--install): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 There seems to be a done instead of something like echo done. I changed this but I got an error then on line 125 so I decided to stop looking into it. Has this been fixed in another version? Thank you, Pedro I. Sanchez
Strange network problems
Greetings to the list. I have installed the latest version of debian on a pentium 166 system 64 meg of ram. I installed to a second hard disk on the unit with win95 on the 1st disk. I have no problems with the win95 boot and usage. I have an etherlink 3Com PCI card installed. This is the problem: If I telnet out or ftp out I wait long periods of time for the username to be excepted then the passwd. From there it is the same for ls or any other command. For example. System www2.deltastar.nb.ca is the system with the new debian release on it and www.deltastar.nb.ca is the my main system with debian 1.2 on it. BTW both systems have the same hardware as in system and ethernet cards. I telnet or ftp over to www.deltastar.nb.ca and it takes forever to login and do anything. If I login into the www2 system from www it is real fast and know problems. Every ftp or telnet site I try from www2 takes forever to get into and get anything done. One other strange thing is when I telnet or ftp from the www2 system to www system I tried pinging back at the same time I was logging in. When I do that the www2 system can get onto www fine real fast. I was thinking this could be related to DNS and the install of a caching only name server on the www2.deltastar.nb.ca system but I am not sure. Both system have valid ip's and valid DNS lookup. Any help on this would sure be apreciated. Brian Freeze Deltastar Communications Ltd RR#2 Belleisle Cr. New Brunswick, CA E0G 1E0 Voice (506) 485-2541 Fax (506) 485-2129
Re: TeTeX for Debian
On Wed, 12 Mar 1997, Christoph S.H. Martin wrote: I haven't ever seen anybody mention what to do if you have Lyx installed. Will TeTex replace everything that lyx requires? Or maybe lyx users won't notice and don't need the improvement in the TeTex packaging? ...RickM...
Re: TeTeX for Debian
Rick Macdonald writes: On Wed, 12 Mar 1997, Christoph S.H. Martin wrote: I haven't ever seen anybody mention what to do if you have Lyx installed. Will TeTex replace everything that lyx requires? Or maybe lyx users won't notice and don't need the improvement in the TeTex packaging? lyx needs to be relinked with tetex-dev (libkpathsea.a) to run with tetex. The current lyx won't find the tex files within tetex. I submitted a bug report on lyx because of this. Christoph
latex and times fonts
Hi, Somebody knows why when I write a latex french report with babel, it s impossible for me to obtain the accents if I use the times fonts? Thanks a lot Patrice LE LOUREC
Re: zsh vs bash
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (James W. Lynch) writes: This subject brings up a question I've had for a long time. Bash appears to be the shell that I get when I log in as root or do an su command. I'm from the old school and prefer vi editing of commands, but I have yet to be able to make bash use vi as root. I've set EDITOR and FCEDIT. I've set editing-mode vi. I can't seem to get root to use anything but emacs editing mode. Is this a diabolical plot by the Linux developers to force emacs on the world? 8^) Bash works as expected, described and designed when I'm a normal user. Can I do it? How? I use vi as a root, and vi editing mode, but in zsh. Yes my root shell is zsh. Now days when zsh runs autoconf configure scripts I am even thinking to put it for /bin/sh instead of bash... heard that zsh developers do that. P.S. As a normal user I use xemacs, but of course in viper mode :-) -- Tomislav Vujec [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion...
Re: Lexmark Printer
We need a lot more info to figure out what's wrong! I've got an Optra R+ which works beautifully with Debian. The problem is much more likely to be with your setup of lpr/lprng, apsfilter/magicfilter, etc. Can you give some more details? Specifically, do you have it attached to a parallel printer port or do you have the network card in it? Which flavor print daemon do you use? Any extra filtering? And what happens if you do something like ls /dev/lp1 (as root)? The Printing-HOWTO file (/usr/doc/HOWTO/Printing-HOWTO.gz) should give you enough info to get started debugging your setup, and I'll be glad to compare settings on the lexmark control panel. Good luck! --Norris -- Norris Preyer (541) 962-3310 (office) Physics Program (541) 962-3873 (fax) Eastern Oregon State College[EMAIL PROTECTED] La Grande, OR 97850http://140.211.64.20/npreyer.html
Re: X crashes when switching from VC
I have noticed almost the same behaviour. When I change from a VC back to X and right after that use the accelerator keys (Alt-Left, Alt-Right) to change between virtual desktops I usually get thrown back to a VC. Though not always the same VC I changed to X from. I have this gut feeling that it still tries to change VCs even though it should be running under X, but I'm only guessing here. As far as I remember X has never chrashed. I also won't get thrown back to VC if I _move_ the mouse. After I move the mouse the accelerator keys work just fine. I use Matrox Mill. 4MB with 24bit 1280x1024 and SVGA server version 3.2A. The exactly same things happened with the 3.2 server too. My mouse is a cheap 3-button logitech model in ttyS0 (COM1) and I use gpm. Brian K Servis wrote: Occasionally when I switch from a VC back to X(alt-f7) and try and use the mouse immediately X crashes and exits. If I don't use the mouse for a couple of seconds it does not crash. I am running xdm but have had it happen when just starting X using xinit. I am running gpm on the VC's. The error message when it crashes is: Fatal server error: Cannot open mouse (Device or resource busy) I'm sorry I have no explanation or solution but I think we have something in common going on. // Heikki -- Heikki Vatiainen * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tampere University of Technology * Tampere, Finland
Re: Cannot get full speed download on ppp
I don't what i have done to my system. Recently i found that my download speed from our server at most can give me 2.6k byte/s ftp. You should try two things: 1) Use hdparm to optimize the performance of your disks. I recomend the '-u' option to unmask the IRQ for data transfers. Be careful with this, as it (supposedly) has been known not to work on some systems and causes severe data corruption. 2) Use irqtune to give the serial port the highest priority. I used to be able to get 3.1K bytes/s downloading compressed file. I really don't know why you used to be able to get this performance, but no longer (unless you just happened to hit a really busy time of day, and your ISP couldn't get data fast enough). My 386-40, with an old 8250 uart and external 28.8 modem, can get thru-put of 2.8ish for transfers. This generates about 6000 interupts per second, and pretty much pushes the limits of the old hardware (a newer 16550 uart would help by greatly reducing the number of interupts). I'm slightly confused by your situation, because you really should have no problems with a p-133 and internal modem or 16550 uart on the serial port. Anyway, try it, and if it helps Good luck, -- - John Larkin - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://aij.st.hmc.edu/~jlarkin
Can't get NFS with ugidd working
Hi, I'm using NFS here at home to share stuff with a room-mate, and we're both using different uid's and gid's onthe systems, but the same names. So I thought: ugidd. I enabled it in /etc/init.d/netstd_nfs, editted /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny, and have added 'map_daemon' to the export-lines. But I still get numbers or 'nobody' and 'nosuchgroup' or something like that. I don't get it. Isn't this the way I should get this working? Maarten _ | Maarten Boekhold, Faculty of Electrical Engineering TU Delft, NL| |[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -
Re: Can someon help me configuring X?
On Mon, 10 Mar 1997, Barbara Cel wrote: I'm tired of 4th day of configuring debian (what a bitchy system, friends are advising me to buy Red Hat) and I still haven't X-windows configured. I've been instaling this few times from the very beginning I too have been frustrated a couple of times, so I can understand what you are going through. First of all the fact that your X is not configured has nothing to do with the distributions ( at least not between RH and Debian, corrections are in order). Secondly you could try asking the comp.os.linux.x group (or something to that effect). The group deals with a lot of X-windows problems. Thirdly try running the xf86config as root and check the resulting file. Fourthly try to find out if anyone has the same combination of monitor and video card or just the video card and see if you can use it as a first step. and i had lots of strange error messages (i'm using S3 64 V+ card and I installed X server for this card). After configuring with xf86config the most intriguing errors were: no screens installed How do you start X, and this could be due to incorrect frequencies for your monitor. and (this I have now) PEX extension module not loaded Check the FreeX86 FAQ questions about why the PXE module is not loaded. I think you need a section that loads this module. This is not critical for now. XIE extension module not loaded there are more of this and when I'll be running linux next time i'll copy it all. Now I changed to DOS (win95) which partition I have no idea how to mount - I tried to set it as /dev/hdc without reason, nevermind. If someone will help me with X i'll be greatful...! That may be the time you read the HOWTOS and FAQ and man pages. Or consider asking your friends about 'mount'. Someone with a better and rclearer answer concerning mount?? // D.J. Mashao, [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Re: zsh vs bash
I set my system shell to zsh as well, and replaced all the /bin/bash in /etc/passwd to /usr/bin/zsh, but when I tried to move /bin/sh to point to /usr/bin/zsh, all of the /etc/init.d/* scripts blew up. Most of their scripting is done in bash format, so unless you want to either make zsh bash-compatible before running the scripts, or you want to rewrite every script made for bash, I'd just leave /bin/sh pointing to /usr/bin/bash (I moved my /bin/bash to /usr/bin/bash just for consistancy...) Just a newbie's opinion :) On 12 Mar 1997, Tomislav Vujec wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James W. Lynch) writes: This subject brings up a question I've had for a long time. Bash appears to be the shell that I get when I log in as root or do an su command. I'm from the old school and prefer vi editing of commands, but I have yet to be able to make bash use vi as root. I've set EDITOR and FCEDIT. I've set editing-mode vi. I can't seem to get root to use anything but emacs editing mode. Is this a diabolical plot by the Linux developers to force emacs on the world? 8^) Bash works as expected, described and designed when I'm a normal user. Can I do it? How? I use vi as a root, and vi editing mode, but in zsh. Yes my root shell is zsh. Now days when zsh runs autoconf configure scripts I am even thinking to put it for /bin/sh instead of bash... heard that zsh developers do that. P.S. As a normal user I use xemacs, but of course in viper mode :-) -- Tomislav Vujec [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion...
samba
Hi I tried install new samba package ver. 1.9.16p11-2 and this exit with error, because this pack. is depend on libpam0 library. Can anyone tell me, where I can found this lib? thx peter
Troubles with blt debian package
I'd been using BLT for a while when I noticed that there was a debian blt package. So, I installed it only to find that it does not include a blt_wish binary. In addition, in interacts badly with my earlier installed blt_wish, resulting in core dumps. After purging the debian package, I'm back to my old installation. Has anybody used debianized blt successfully and if so, can you tell me how to access it from tcl scripts? I am a tcl novice - is there something I should know about to access the blt library from scripts? Or should I report the lack of a blt_wish as a feature request? Mike
Re: TeTeX for Debian
Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: should i have some trouble using tetex with any of my latex files, that is, is the change suitably smoth? any known problem? what is missing, if any, regarding latex packages (they are many !) ? []s, Mario O.de Menezes mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Nuclear and Energetic Research Institute - IPEN-CNEN/SP BRAZIL | Mario, I can only describe how it went in my particular case. If by latex files you mean text files you wrote in LaTeX, then of course there is no problem whatsoever. If you mean additional macros, styles etc. that you have added by hand to your installation, then you will have to check out whether they are included in teTeX (it includes A LOT, much more than the old standard Debian LaTeX). How (and where) one adds additional macros etc to teTeX is explained in TETEX_FAQ (a must-read, as always, as well as TETEX_doc.dvi). Learning the ins and outs of the texconfig interface is also recommanded. Nothing up to now is missing. The change was very smooth indeed. The FAQ also explains how to subscribe to the tetex mailing list, which I recommend strongly. Don't hesitate to write directly if you need more details, Alain. -- Alain Nadeau[EMAIL PROTECTED] Medieval Studies Institute, University of Fribourg, Switzerland http://www.unifr.ch/iem/welcome.html
1.1 - 1.2
Well, I upgraded, from 1.1 to 1.2 (Cheap Bytes CDROM). I did the base first, and that worked fine. The rest, however, did not go quite so well. Tcsh refused to upgrade: I'll figure out what's wrong there one of these days. I'm fairly sure I did not mark maelstrom for removal, but it's just a game. I'm certain, however, that I did *not* mark popclient for removal. I restored it from tape. My customized mail crontab was replaced, though I answered N to all requests for permission to alter configuration files. I suppose I'd better look through all the crontabs to see what else changed. Smail choked on a checkpaths command in the stock directors file. I suppose I should report that as a smail bug. The first time I tried to use most in an xterm, I was told Terminal not powerful enough for SLang. SLang is undocumented. I restored most from tape. John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI
was: I screwed my net access
Afternoon listers, Well it seems I have a little more information now to present in the hopes someone can point me in the right direction. Someone (the message in in windows right now...sorry) asked me if rpcinfo -p gave any info. Well here is what it says. rpcinfo: can't contact portmapper: RPC. Remote system error -Network is unreachable. Someone else asked me if inetd was running, and it appears to be so by looking at the output from top, and ps -aux. I've also noticed an error which tells me that /proc filesysytem is not mounted. I'm looking for the package to re-install on another vt right now, I hope this will cure this little prob. (Yup, I used less on one of the files, didn't read about the zero filesize of these files till the damage was done) two lashes with a wet lart. Man, I've made a mess of things this time. I actually had diald up and running for two whole days, then I re-booted to M$ to put some files on disk for someone, that oughta teach me...lol! The strangest thing in all of this, is that I can, now at least, connect with minicom and start pppd manually, which is fine, but I can't get my mail with fetchmail. It seems that the remote system is querying my machine for some reason, and my smtp port is not listening. ftp works, nntp works, telnet (which I'm using now to write this from pine on my providers machine) Take pity on me, I've spent way too much time reading to be objective about this anymore Rich M [EMAIL PROTECTED]
/bin/sh != /bin/bash ? [was Re: zsh vs bash]
I set my system shell to zsh as well, and replaced all the /bin/bash in /etc/passwd to /usr/bin/zsh, but when I tried to move /bin/sh to point to /usr/bin/zsh, all of the /etc/init.d/* scripts blew up. If those scripts actually require bash then why isn't the first line #!/bin/bash? Is this a bug, or is it written in stone that /bin/sh and /bin/bash are equivalent?
Re: /bin/sh != /bin/bash ? [was Re: zsh vs bash]
On Wed, 12 Mar 1997, Steve wrote: I set my system shell to zsh as well, and replaced all the /bin/bash in /etc/passwd to /usr/bin/zsh, but when I tried to move /bin/sh to point to /usr/bin/zsh, all of the /etc/init.d/* scripts blew up. If those scripts actually require bash then why isn't the first line #!/bin/bash? Is this a bug, or is it written in stone that /bin/sh and /bin/bash are equivalent? /bin/sh and /bin/bash are not equivalent. bash is a superset of sh functionality. bash behaves differently depending on whether it is invoked as sh or as bash (at least the new version 2 does). bash when invoked as /bin/sh is more posix compliant. when invoked as /bin/bash, all the bash enhancements are available. e.g. /usr/sbin/dwww-doc-index from the dwww package doesn't work at all if the first line is '#! /bin/sh', but works correctly if the first line is '#! /bin/bash'. (reminds me, i should submit this as a bug report. nope, no need...it's already reported as bug #7267 with a patch to fix it) craig
acct package, a bug?
There seems to be a bug in the ac command that comes with the acct package. Either that or it seems to work in an unusual way... either way help would be appreciated :) We do solely time bases accounting and up until now we were using a version of ac from sunsite (I think it was a long time ago). When I went to change over to the debian version that comes with acct I noticed that it skipped days. [11:16am] phoenix(larry) ac.new -d -f /var/adm/addtold/wtmp.2 Mar 5 total 220.88 Mar 7 total 426.77 Mar 8 total0.02 [11:17am] phoenix(larry) ac.old -d -w /var/adm/addtold/wtmp.2 Mar 5 total 220.30 Mar 6 total 234.17 Mar 7 total 190.16 Mar 8 total 0.02 This would not be a happy thing for time charging. While reading the man page I noticed the -a command and this doesn't seem to help, nor does the -z command make Mar 6 show up (there are heaps on login's on Mar 6 when you use last). However when I run it with the --complain switch it complains lots with lines like (about 40 lines worth): /var/adm/addtold/wtmp.2:69: problem: missing login record for `ttyC12' /var/adm/addtold/wtmp.2:364: problem: missing login record for `ttyC10' All I can think of is that somehow the way that we rotate the wtmp file is corrupting it somehow, yet it works perfectly with the old ac we were using and with debian last! Thoughts/insites/help would be much appreciated. Thanks, Adam. - Earthlight Communications Limited P.O. Box 5301 Adam Shand (fax) +64 3 477 5463 Dunedin, New Zealand Systems Manager(voice) +64 3 479 0303 http://www.earthlight.co.nz/larry/
Re: Can't nfs mount Debian box
David M. Cooke wrote: When you edit your /etc/exports file on a Linux system you need to tell rpc.nfsd and rpc.mountd to re-read it. You do this by sending them a HUP signal. I use this command: killall -HUP rpc.nfsd rpc.mountd Rebooting should work too but is much slower. If this doesn't work, carefully check your /etc/exports file while reading the exports man page to be sure it's correct. You can also try: /etc/init.d/netstd_nfs reload much more Debian's way ;-) Bye. -- Eric Delaunay | La guerre justifie l'existence des militaires. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | En les supprimant. Henri Jeanson (1900-1970)
Re: acct package, a bug?
In your email to me, Adam Shand, you wrote: However when I run it with the --complain switch it complains lots with lines like (about 40 lines worth): /var/adm/addtold/wtmp.2:69: problem: missing login record for `ttyC12' /var/adm/addtold/wtmp.2:364: problem: missing login record for `ttyC10' All I can think of is that somehow the way that we rotate the wtmp file is corrupting it somehow, yet it works perfectly with the old ac we were using and with debian last! You are using Cyclades boards? I believe (in a FAQ somewhere) that the device names can only be 2 chars, like ttyC0. If you go over C9, you'll have to use Ca, Cb, etc. Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps Don't hang on, nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky. Kansas - Dust in the Wind ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.**
Re: Login Incorrect with xdm...
Just to thank you all and to tell you were right : my keyboard was not well configured. My AltGr key on my french keyboard doesn't work. Therefore, this is a bug of the Debian distribution ;-). Does someone know how to fix this bug ? Mathieu.
need help; Netscape 3.01; bus error
This version of Netscape which I have installed recently works very bad. I am getting this error very often. Will be thankfull for any advice. Eugene Sevinian Cosmic Ray Division Yerevan Phisics Institute Alikhanian's Brothers str.2 375036 Yerevan 36 Armenia URL: http://www.yerphi.am/crd/prs/sevinian.html Phone: 374-2-352041 (YerPhI), 374-2-344873 (aprt.) Fax: 374-2-350030
Re: acct package, a bug?
/var/adm/addtold/wtmp.2:69: problem: missing login record for `ttyC12' /var/adm/addtold/wtmp.2:364: problem: missing login record for `ttyC10' All I can think of is that somehow the way that we rotate the wtmp file is corrupting it somehow, yet it works perfectly with the old ac we were using and with debian last! You are using Cyclades boards? I believe (in a FAQ somewhere) that the device names can only be 2 chars, like ttyC0. If you go over C9, you'll have to use Ca, Cb, etc. Yes we are using Cyclades cards. This rings a vague bell from linuxisp about a year ago but why would this affect the new ac and not the old? And why would it cause an error like days missing? Any ideas? Thanks, Adam. - Earthlight Communications Limited P.O. Box 5301 Adam Shand (fax) +64 3 477 5463 Dunedin, New Zealand Systems Manager(voice) +64 3 479 0303 http://www.earthlight.co.nz/larry/
Re: LARRY ELLISON
On Mar 03, 1997 at 02:51:48AM +0100, Mathieu LEGRAND wrote: Find out your browser's name and version and your OS version from an CGI script is simple : you just have to print some variables from a shell script. For exemple, try this script : essai.cgi | #!/bin/sh | echo Content-type: text/plain | echo Okay, but how about this one. I'm on hamishpc.rising.com.au, accessing a web page (http://www.silcom.com/~tonkin/pointless/), but I'm IP masquerading via silly.rising.com.au, which isn't really called that at all because I'm on via my ISP who's given my a dynamic IP, so I'm really dialin-a1-30.melbourne.internex.net.au or similar, and then I've via proxy cache proxy1.mel.connect.com.au, but that page still knows I'm from hamishpc! I do CGI but can't see how they do this one. Maybe finger. It seems you can CGI for the OS and if it's *nix run finger, or just run finger and see what happens. Check out www.digicrime.com, they have all kinds of interesting things there. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Melbourne, Australia. Student, computer science computer systems engineering. 3rd year, RMIT. http://yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~moffatt CPOM: [ ] 40% PGP key available from web page above. Later Time is the best teacher, unfortunately it kills all of it's students Rob MacWilliams [EMAIL PROTECTED] N9NPU
Second Hard Disk
Hi, before I changed over to linux, I was MS-DOS and had two hardrives installed. They both worked fine. When I changed i didn't install the second hard drive and now I need to. How can I. I tryed to find some docs but couldn't. Also after I do, how to get to that hard disk? Thanks, Pete Poff---AKA---BlackJack Personal E-Mail Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kyron E-Mail Address:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Kyron address: telnet.cyberconinc.com 4000
