Re: Is xdm required?
On 4 Jun 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've already got the damn thing installed. I just don't want to be forced to activate it. X works just fine without it. Sorry, I'm confused. What do you mean by the statement that you don't want to be forced to activate it? Do you mean you'd like for your machine *not* to load xdm on startup? If that's the case, just comment out the appropriate line in /etc/X11/config. J. Goldman -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
gcc X: reprise
I could guess, but there are quite a few possibilities. The error message you recieve during compilation would be helpful. What does it say? Well, after untar the program I got an Imake file so I do a xmkmf -a and I get this: imake -DUseInstalled -I/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config make Makefiles make: Nothing to be done for `Makefiles'. make includes make: Nothing to be done for `includes'. make depend gccmakedep -- -I/usr/X11R6/include -Dlinux -D__i386__ -D_POSIX_SOURCE -D_BSD_SOURCE -D_SVID_SOURCE -DX_LOCALE -DFUNCPROTO=15 -DNARROWPROTO-- bdfresize.c charresize.c after I try with make and I get this: gcc -O2 -fno-strength-reduce -m486 -I/usr/X11R6/include -Dlinux -D__i386__ -D_POSIX_SOURCE -D_BSD_SOURCE -D_SVID_SOURCE -DX_LOCALE -DFUNCPROTO=15 -DNARROWPROTO -c bdfresize.c -o bdfresize.o gcc -O2 -fno-strength-reduce -m486 -I/usr/X11R6/include -Dlinux -D__i386__ -D_POSIX_SOURCE -D_BSD_SOURCE -D_SVID_SOURCE -DX_LOCALE -DFUNCPROTO=15 -DNARROWPROTO -c charresize.c -o charresize.o rm -f bdfresize gcc -o bdfresize -O2 -fno-strength-reduce -m486 -L/usr/X11R6/lib bdfresize.o charresize.o charresize.o: In function `countup_score': charresize.o(.text+0x779): undefined reference to `MIN' charresize.o(.text+0x786): undefined reference to `MAX' charresize.o(.text+0x792): undefined reference to `MIN' charresize.o(.text+0x79e): undefined reference to `MAX' make: *** [bdfresize] Error 1 I still believe that in the last command (gcc -o ...) some libraries (-l..) are missing ... -- Graziano Obertelli - aspirante palombaro E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lab's phone: (619) 534 9669 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Newbie
Hello Rick, 2. Any suggestions as to steps for getting X up and running? xf86config startx Amicalement, Sylvain. -- Sylvain Briole SysOp d'Happy Hour II BBS / Eclice B.B.S. * Lille | Nord | France * +33-3-20928359 EMail InterNet : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ou [EMAIL PROTECTED] NetMail FidoNet : 2:322/20 NetMail FrancoMedia : 101:176/114 -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Is xdm required?
On 4 Jun 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wrote: Is it possible to upgrade to 1.3 without installing xdm? Dwarf writes: Yes. Why do you ask? Because every X discussion I've seen here recently clearly presumes that xdm is being used, and because the last time I upgraded my 1.2 installation I was forced to create a dummy /etc/init.d/xdm to get the install to complete. Well, that makes the issue clearer. You can't install X without also installing xdm...it comes in xbase...but you are by no means forced to use it. Startx for instance is also provided and is a perfectly good way to start X. During the installation you will be asked if you want to boot with xdm and in a second question you will be asked if xdm should be used to start the xserver. If you answer no to both of these questions you will NOT be forced to use xdm. If this doesn't fix things for you, please feel free to ask more pointed questions. Luck, Dwarf -- _-_-_-_-_-_- _-_-_-_-_-_-_- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 656-9769 Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tallahassee, FL 32308 _-_-_-_-_-_- If you don't see what you want, just ask _-_-_-_-_-_-_- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
ftp only user account?
How can I set up a user account that can only ftp in, and is restricted to their home directory in a chroot environment? -- see shy jo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Solution to irqtune problems
This solved the problem. Thanks. On 4 Jun Martin Bialasinski wrote I have tracked down the cause of the problems which were reported about irqtune. Apparently hwtools does not contain the most recent version of irqtune. Using irqtune 0.5 will solve your problems. I have addressed the package maintainer about this. Two solutions: 1. Wait for the new hwtools package. 2. Get the irqtune 0.5 from the website. You don't have to recompile, just copy irqtune_mod.o and irqtune from the tar to /sbin . Then change the invocation of irqtune in /etc/rc.boot/hwtools from irqtune to /sbin/irqtune Regards, Curt C.L. Daugaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
smail inexistent host
hi all, I just installed Debian 1.3, and I used the suggested mailer, that is smail. It seems working fine until now, but for mail in which the hostname is wrong. Sometimes happens that I received mail to which I reply without even looking at the address. The problem is that smail kept the mail in the queue for 3 days (maybe more?) without even tell me anything!! No errors, no nothing! I just got them looking in the logfile! How can I get my mail back with error in such a case? I used the smailconfig script to configure it. I rely on a smart host to route my mail, and I received mail using popclient (I have a laptop ...). If you need I can send the config files ... graziano -- Graziano Obertelli - aspirante palombaro E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lab's phone: (619) 534 9669 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
inetd.conf corruption
Hello All: I recently upgraded some systems from 1.2 to 1.3 and I noticed that the inetd.conf entry for smbd was missing along with the comments at the top of the file. This has happened to all of the machines upgraded over the last few days. Could anyone pinpoint the package which is giving this problem? Is there any way to recover the proper inetd.conf (I know that a number of packages modify this file)? Thanks Carlo *** *Carlo U. Segre * * Department of Biological, Chemical and Physical Sciences * *Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL 60616 * * Voice: (312) 567-3498 FAX: (312) 567-3494* *[EMAIL PROTECTED]* *** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
SUMMARY: making 16bpp the default in X
The easiest thing to do is just to add this in your XF86Config in the section for your video card: DefaultColorDepth 16 I wish xf86config had this as an option. Here's an example: Section Screen Driver svga # Use Device Generic VGA for Standard VGA 320x200x256 #Device Generic VGA Device Chips Technologies CT65550 Monitor My Monitor DefaultColorDepth 16 Subsection Display Depth 8 # Omit the Modes line for the Generic VGA device Modes 800x600 640x480 ViewPort0 0 # Use Virtual 320 200 for Generic VGA EndSubsection Subsection Display Depth 16 Modes 800x600 640x480 ViewPort0 0 EndSubsection EndSection -douglas -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
neXtaw
I've installed neXtaw and the /etc/ld.so.conf is correctly configured. I'm not a programmer myself, but I used ldd to check dynamic libraries. However not all the programs used the new neXtaw. For example, xftp does but xbmbrowser and xterm do not. They do if I do LD_PRELOAD before hand. Also a lot of programs crash with neXtaw but not Xaw3d and Xaw. Is there a way to individually configure each program to use a certain library without using LD_PRELOAD. This is for configureing menus in Afterstep. BG -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
neXtaw
I've installed neXtaw and the /etc/ld.so.conf is correctly configured. I'm not a programmer myself, but I used ldd to check dynamic libraries. However not all the programs used the new neXtaw. For example, xftp does but xbmbrowser and xterm do not. They do if I do LD_PRELOAD before hand. Also a lot of programs crash with neXtaw but not Xaw3d and Xaw. Is there a way to individually configure each program to use a certain library without using LD_PRELOAD. This is for configureing menus in Afterstep. BG -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
trouble with mh
Hello, I normally use elm for my emailing needs, but I recently decided to upgrade to mh and exmh. I installed those packages and their dependencies on my debian 1.3 system. Everything seemed to install properly and looks fine but I can't seem to send a message. This is what happens: To: ken cc: Subject: Test number 4 This is a test of the mail system --ken What now? send post: problem initializing server; [BHST] premature end-of-file on socket send: message not delivered to anyone What now? quit whatnow: draft left on /home/ken/Mail/drafts/4 leisure:~ leisure:~ send -verbose -watch Use /home/ken/Mail/drafts/4? y -- Posting for All Recipients -- post: problem initializing server; [BHST] premature end-of-file on socket send: message not delivered to anyone I normally use elm on top of smail and this works great. The man page indicates that mh uses the installed mail transport system (smail), but it apparently uses it differntly than elm does. Here are the versions of the installed packages: leisure:~/Mail dpkg -l | grep smail ii smail 3.2-3 Electronic mail transport system. leisure:~/Mail dpkg -l | grep mh ii exmh1.6.9-4An X user interface for MH mail. ii mh 6.8.4-13 A set of electronic mail handling programs. ii mh-papers 6.8.3-1The MH papers: A set of document on/about MH leisure:~/Mail BTW, I am trying to read the mh-papers to see if this might shed some light. I'm currently having a little trouble compiling the documentation using teTex ;-) Any suggestions? --ken -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: inetd.conf corruption
In your email to me, Carlo U. Segre, you wrote: Hello All: I recently upgraded some systems from 1.2 to 1.3 and I noticed that the inetd.conf entry for smbd was missing along with the comments at the top of the file. This has happened to all of the machines upgraded over the last few days. Could anyone pinpoint the package which is giving this problem? Is there any way to recover the proper inetd.conf (I know that a number of packages modify this file)? If you have caught it within 24 hours, check /var/backups Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps Very Pete Townshendish. Who? Exactly. -- Anon ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Couple little things (bugs?)
On Jun 3, Jaakko Niemi wrote 2) xmkmf has diappeared from xbase-package. It is still in xbase3.2-3, but not in 3.2-6! Should this package be moved to X-files ? :) I couldn't find any information nor relevant docs. Where is changes-file from /usr/doc ? It was a 'development' program, so it's been moved to the xlib6-dev package. You will want to install this package if you're compiling programs that use X. Christian pgpThHvZAnrRT.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: When will Debian 1.3 be available?
On Jun 4, Joerg Friedrich wrote Hi! Debian 1.3 is announced on www.debian.org, but stable is still linked to rex on ftp. When will 1.3 be available? The Debian 1.3 symlink has been made on master, so it's just a matter of waiting for the mirrors to catch up now. Christian pgppjiy5Cm6CA.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: orphan packages?
On Fri, 25 Apr 1997, Kevin Traas wrote: I recently upgraded to bo and when I run dselect it shows some packages which are apparently non-existent. I selected modules-2.0.0-15 from the base listing and multimedia-2.1-3 and dselect ignores the selection. I checked the directory listings at ftp.debian.org and these packages do not seem to exist. Why does dselect show them as available (and know enough to not try to get them) I updated the packages list, but dselect still shows them. Is there a way to get dselect to agree with the Packages file? Same thing goes for Pine and Pico from non-free But Pine and Pico are on the ftp server. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AX.25:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: IConnect Corp Debian any good?
On Wed, 4 Jun 1997, Benedict Chong wrote: I bought infomagic's devel resource for the debian stuff and apparently it's broken. Which Month/Year developers resource do you have. I used the December 1996 with few problems. The base system installed fine. Had some troubles due to X-windows, but these were not unique to Infomagic. I also have the April 1997, but have not installed a complete system from it. Perhaps if you posted your problems, someone could tell you how to work them out. So I'm looking at getting something from iconnect (www.i-connect.net). Are their cdroms any good? Has anyone ordered from them? All I want is a basic debian linux system set up with X and PPP support so that I can download new stuff. Ben http://www.sound.net/~wpmills/ - : W. Paul Mills : Bill, I was there several years ago. : : Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A. : Why would I want to go back tomorrow?: : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Where were you! : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Linux: Tomorrow's operating system, : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] :here, today. : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : : : compuserve 70023,1750 : #define MY_TRUE_LOVE computer: -- http://homepage.midusa.net/~wpmills/ - -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Debian 1.3 Release FAQ - Preliminary
Ah, I have just over 150MB, this is not even all of the binaries and none of the source. [EMAIL PROTECTED] A real FAQ: how do I install Debian using FTP *and* PPP? Stress the fact that this means downloading 50-100 MB, depending on configuration. Good luck, Marcelo Magallon -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
U.S. Robotics modem question
I am having trouble getting debian to recognize my modem. First off, its NOT a WINMODEM. It is a 33.6 courier w/voice. It has plug-n-play built into it, however the jumpers are not set to that, they are set to com2. As a test, I have tried minicom, which says that it initialized the modem, however, an OKAY message did not occur, nor was I able to get the modem to dial up, so I therefore conclude that debian can not see it. I should note that the modem works...I'm using it right now in win95 to dial in. Does anyone use this modem successfully? If so, what kind of problems did you have? and how did you get around them? I have heard from someone that a utility called isapnptools handles some of the problems inheritant in PNP devices. Let me know if you have any ideas on this. Thanks, Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Is xdm required?
J. Goldman writes: Sorry, I'm confused. What do you mean by the statement that you don't want to be forced to activate it? Do you mean you'd like for your machine *not* to load xdm on startup? I suppose I should have said don't want to be tricked into activating it. I was concerned that upgrading xbase would result in xdm being silently activated because the maintainer assumed that no one could possibly not want it. If that's the case, just comment out the appropriate line in /etc/X11/config. After somehow recovering from the flashing screen catastrophe (I have no network, and my floppy drive just died). In any case, my fears have been put to rest. John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: frozen unstable distribution problems
Jim Pick said: I believe Bruce has some official CD images that would better to use for the frozen (now stable) distribution. I think it's a 2 disk set. If those are the images in the dist (or is it dists??) directory, the unstable one points at hamm, but hamm has lots of symbolic links back into bo. So, I had gotten a complete unstable image by taking everything from the dist(s)/unstable (symlink) directory and adding the bo tree to it so the symlinks would resolve. I guess what I really need to do at this point is just copy the pieces of the bo tree that are referenced by those symlinks -- just a little more coding. Thanks, Frank -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
re:Dead list?
Has this list died? I've received 0 messages all day and little more in the previous 2 days. What's happening here? Knowing little about list servers and their capabilities, is it possible to somehow automate a system to let you know what lists you are currently subscribed to? Something along the lines of sending a message to (say) [EMAIL PROTECTED] with list subscribed in the body, and it will send back a message saying debian-user, debian-announce, ... Or perhaps a web interface to it (syncing the lists between list and web server would be interesting). At least that way, you would know that you haven't been kicked off the list for whatever reason. Any other ideas? BTW: Mail is still steadily pouring in here. -- Todd HarperInitiating 'getting-us-the-hell-out-of-here' [EMAIL PROTECTED] maneuver. -- Lennier, B5 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Ricoh CDRW (CD-ReWritable) drive
Any debian package that support the Ricoh CDRW drive? Does Debian a stable platform to burn CDs? Lawrence, -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
master.debian.org
Any idea when master will be open for ftp again? -- Nathan Norman:Hostmaster CFNI:[EMAIL PROTECTED] finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key and other stuff Key fingerprint = CE 03 10 AF 32 81 18 58 9D 32 C2 AB 93 6D C4 72 -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry
I had the same warning when I used XF86_VGA16 server. The problem went away after I swiched to XF86_SVGA server. This was my case. I am not sure it will apply to your case. On Wed, 4 Jun 1997, David B. Teague wrote: On Wed, 4 Jun 1997, Rob Browning wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) writes: Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for default background Try netscape -install. Doesn't work here. Your friend probably just has a background patern that's eating up some of the colors on what I would guess is an 8-bit display. Netscape is a real color hog (among other things), so running it with -install will let it install its own colormap which will be used whenever netscape has the focus. I don't know about Bruce's friend's problem, but, mine is a completely vanilla install, unmodified, straight from Netscape, using the Debian install package. It is truly a _default_ install, it is indeed 8 bit, but I don't know how to change it to other than 8 bit. Please ask for what ever configuration files you m ight need to help me and I'll send by private mail, rather than eat mailing list bandwidth. --David - LINUX: the FREE 32 bit OS for [345]86 PC's available NOW! David B Teague | User interface copyrights software patents make [EMAIL PROTECTED] | programing a dangerous business. Ask me or [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: U.S. Robotics modem question
Edit /etc/rc.boot/0setserial to set the correct interrupt numbers for all of your serial ports. That should make the characters come back from your modem. 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 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: IConnect Corp Debian any good?
On Wed, 4 Jun 1997 21:23:43 -0500 (CDT), you wrote: %On Wed, 4 Jun 1997, Benedict Chong wrote: % % I bought infomagic's devel resource for the debian stuff and % apparently it's broken. % %Which Month/Year developers resource do you have. I used the %December 1996 with few problems. The base system installed fine. %Had some troubles due to X-windows, but these were not unique to %Infomagic. I also have the April 1997, but have not installed a %complete system from it. Perhaps if you posted your problems, %someone could tell you how to work them out. I have the december Infomagic stuff as well. I've installed Debian from it twice including X (for S3) not problems. Just wanted the latest and greatest... Anyway, I just checked out CheapBytes suggested by someone else. Their hot off the press is $35! That's expensive! I guess I'll stick to the Dec infomagic dev. resources and upgrade from there... Ben -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Dead list?
If the server is running Majordomo, send which as the text of an e-mail message to majordomo@server in question. You can also send help to get more info. --Brian Borg Todd Harper wrote: Has this list died? I've received 0 messages all day and little more in the previous 2 days. What's happening here? Knowing little about list servers and their capabilities, is it possible to somehow automate a system to let you know what lists you are currently subscribed to? Something along the lines of sending a message to (say) [EMAIL PROTECTED] with list subscribed in the body, and it will send back a message saying debian-user, debian-announce, ... Or perhaps a web interface to it (syncing the lists between list and web server would be interesting). At least that way, you would know that you haven't been kicked off the list for whatever reason. Any other ideas? BTW: Mail is still steadily pouring in here. -- Todd HarperInitiating 'getting-us-the-hell-out-of-here' [EMAIL PROTECTED] maneuver. -- Lennier, B5 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ssh for Debian?
Thanks folks, for all your help and pointers. I have the software that I needed. Gee, this list is great! George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: April Infomagic LDR Debian
Glenn asked: Does anyone know if Infomagic corrected the missing files for Debian on their April LDR? I complained about the missing files to InfoMagic and got the following reply: E.L. This set was mirrored on the basis of what the Debian Folks put on their site for a stable distribution. We didn't include any of the beta release. regards, henry m. pierce Now there is a short uninterested reply if ever I saw one. It is possible that it is true though. That's why I think it is a good idea that there will be official CD images. Maybe the Debian community should not forbid anyone to just mirror the ftp-site, but it would be nice if proven CD releases get an `official debian release' stamp or something like that. Obviously, InfoMagic is not going to get one. An even shorter and less interested reply (i.e., none) I got from the debian web master ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) however. I commented that on http://www.debian.org/vendors.html, there is a link to infomagic's december 1996 CD-ROM set, which actually leads you to a page about the April 1997 CD-ROM set, which misses a number of important files. Maybe it is a good idea to point this out on Debian's web pages, instead of hinting people to buy that CD-ROM set, _which will not work_ (but then again, maybe we don't care if they instead start using the Slackware or RedHat version on those CD-ROM's (if _these_ work...)). Eric Meijer -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 40 2472189 Eindhoven Univ. of Technology | tel. lab. +31 40 2475032 Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (TAK) | tel. fax+31 40 2455054 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: lpr: unable to get official name for local machine (fwd)
Brian K Servis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] WAIT A MINUTE..I just discovered something as I was checking the log files. ifconfig is making kerneld try to load some net-pf-4 and net-pf-5 module? What is this? I can't find any reference to it in the kernel-source. %root% date ; ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 Wed Jun 4 12:49:12 CDT 1997 [snippet of /var/log/daemon] Jun 4 12:49:12 servis modprobe: can't locate module net-pf-4 Jun 4 12:49:12 servis modprobe: can't locate module net-pf-5 This must be the root of the problem! Any pointers. Unfortunately this is unlikely. net-pf-4 and net-pf-5 are things like Appletalk and IPX, which you probably haven't compiled into your kernel. See `/etc/conf.modules'. I can't see what other problems there would be. Maybe someone else has experienced this and solved it? -- Carey Evans * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lies, damn lies, and computer documentation. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: IConnect Corp Debian any good?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Benedict Chong) writes: [snip] So I'm looking at getting something from iconnect (www.i-connect.net). Are their cdroms any good? Has anyone ordered from them? I got 1.2.5 from them. The first CD I got was bad (some files including disk images and Packages.gz were offset) but I was able to get it replaced without too much trouble. -- Carey Evans * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lies, damn lies, and computer documentation. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: neXtaw
I've installed neXtaw and the /etc/ld.so.conf is correctly configured. I'm
not a programmer myself, but I used ldd to check dynamic libraries.
However not all the programs used the new neXtaw. For example, xftp does
but xbmbrowser and xterm do not. They do if I do LD_PRELOAD before hand.
No they don't (or if xterm does, you'll have found a another *GOOD*
reason to delay the release of bo another few weeks/months).
xterm is setuid root, so if you were able to specify what libraries xterm
uses by simply setting LD_PRELOAD, you'd be able to write your own
Xaw (or libc or whatever) wich will then run as root. Not a very good
idea.
I don'
t know about xbmbrowser (don't seem to have it on my system), but
maybe something similar.
Also a lot of programs crash with neXtaw but not Xaw3d and Xaw. Is there a
way to individually configure each program to use a certain library
without using LD_PRELOAD.
Link them with the -rpath option, specifying the library you want it
to use.
This is for configureing menus in Afterstep.
(This part I don't understand).
--
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Re: IConnect Corp Debian any good?
LSL (www.lsl.com) has their Tri-Linux CD (Debian 1.3, Slackware 3.2 and Red Hat 4.2) for $2.98. I installed 1.2.5 from the previous version and found it to be pretty complete (stable and contrib, but not non-free). You probably can't beat the price. Bob On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Benedict Chong wrote: On Wed, 4 Jun 1997 21:23:43 -0500 (CDT), you wrote: %On Wed, 4 Jun 1997, Benedict Chong wrote: % % I bought infomagic's devel resource for the debian stuff and % apparently it's broken. % %Which Month/Year developers resource do you have. I used the %December 1996 with few problems. The base system installed fine. %Had some troubles due to X-windows, but these were not unique to %Infomagic. I also have the April 1997, but have not installed a %complete system from it. Perhaps if you posted your problems, %someone could tell you how to work them out. I have the december Infomagic stuff as well. I've installed Debian from it twice including X (for S3) not problems. Just wanted the latest and greatest... Anyway, I just checked out CheapBytes suggested by someone else. Their hot off the press is $35! That's expensive! I guess I'll stick to the Dec infomagic dev. resources and upgrade from there... Ben -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AX.25:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Problems (with ssh?)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hallo all, I've got a problem which I'm not able to solve myself. It looks rather strange to me. Situation: I'v got two computers (comp1 and comp2) and two accounts on both of them (acc1 and acc2). When I'm trying to connect via ssh from comp1:acc1 to comp2:acc1, all I get is only message buffer_get trying to get more bytes than in buffer. The same message I get when I'm trying comp1:acc1 - comp1:acc2. But when I try comp1:acc2 - anywhere, all is OK. The same applies to connection from comp2:any - comp1:any Connections via telnet are all OK. Can someone at least explain me why this strange problem occurs? Thanks in advance for any help, Petr Barta PGP key: http://orin.czech.net/pgp.key -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBM5Z5T9yOtOi8pSQtAQFEjwP9ED+aFQFYf/8jZ/r15GjHnA4c7tmnzxO7 8YLyjzqlos1mIgC6SLlM28MZ3ZT+3uLoZE+G3cBfmQhNFdd//dtRvHq+4rOGkVSP FzwGdQKPjy+sqlWgFv1FasPrqZseNb+lXEcaHoEc5mf9lqvfbWP2BQlPrz7n0Ss0 dyoyU5DlTz4= =ubXo -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Xfree86 3.3
Xfree86-3.3 is finally out! Source is already available from ftp2.xfree86.org Alex Y. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Dead list?
On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Brian N. Borg wrote: Has this list died? I've received 0 messages all day and little more in the previous 2 days. BTW: Mail is still steadily pouring in here. Mail does seem to be flowing, although I am a bit cautious due to some strange hang-ups at the primary listserver. Something along the lines of sending a message to (say) [EMAIL PROTECTED] with list subscribed in the body, and it will send back a message saying debian-user, debian-announce, ... Or perhaps a web interface to it (syncing the lists between list and web server would be interesting). Syncing the lists between two listservers is interesting, too... I've thought about how to implement such a tool. It's not easy to do so since the two listservers are running different mail transport agents and the primary is using a tricky hack to handle mail for lists.debian.org. If the server is running Majordomo, send which as the text of an e-mail message to majordomo@server in question. Unfortunately, the Debian lists are run using Smartlist, which doesn't offer the which function. Pete -- Pete Templin, Debian List Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
mgetty: odd request
Hi. Today I discovered that I can issue my modems an atv1 command and they will give me *LOTS* of usefull diagnostic information about the last connection. Now I would *really* love to log that information for each call to a file. Now I am sure that there must be a way to do this with mgetty but I don't know how. Does anyone have any pointers on how this could be accomplished? Adam. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Debian 1.2: where is locale?
Hi, I've asked this question a week ago already, but unfortunately neither my posting nor any answers appeared. Strange. In the docs I often read about a utility 'locale', but I can't find it anywhere. Everything that has to do with locale seems to work. Just this program is missing on my machine. Can anyone help me with that? Thanks, Andy. Andy Spiegl, PhD Student, Technical University, Muenchen, Germany E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.appl-math.tu-muenchen.de/~spiegl PGP fingerprint: B8 48 24 7B DB 96 6F 1C D9 6D 8E 6C DB C2 E7 E9 o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Problems upgrading to 1.3
I am having problems upgrading to Debian 1.3 with the latex-packages. I know that I have to purge the old packages and it works fine despite for the babel-package. I get the following error-message when i dpkg --purge --force-depends babel: mother# dpkg --purge --force-depends babel (Reading database ... 27160 files and directories currently installed.) Removing babel ... Purging configuration files for babel ... Building new format(s) without babel support using install-fmt-base(8) /var/lib/dpkg/info/babel.postrm: install-fmt-base: command not found dpkg: error processing babel (--purge): subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 127 Errors were encountered while processing: babel mother# ... So I cant proceed with the installation of the new packages :( Anyone knows help? Thanx, Gernot -- -- Gernot Bauer University of Linz [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: April Infomagic LDR Debian
Eric == E L Meijer \(Eric\) E.L. writes: Eric Glenn asked: Does anyone know if Infomagic corrected the missing files for Debian on their April LDR? Eric I complained about the missing files to InfoMagic and got Eric the following reply: Eric Eric E.L. Eric This set was mirrored on the basis of what the Debian Eric Folks put on their site for a stable distribution. We Eric didn't include any of the beta release. Eric regards, henry m. pierce Eric Eric Now there is a short uninterested reply if ever I saw one. Eric It is possible that it is true though. That's why I think Eric it is a good idea that there will be official CD images. Eric Maybe the Debian community should not forbid anyone to just Eric mirror the ftp-site, but it would be nice if proven CD Eric releases get an `official debian release' stamp or something Eric like that. Obviously, InfoMagic is not going to get one. Their reply also indicates they didn't try to install their product before shipping to the masses. That it pretty bad quality control. I guess it is time to change vendors. Thanks for the info! Glenn -- Glenn Amerine Inet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems AnalystVoice: (614)224-1336 Metropolitan Human Services Commission Fax: (614)224-6472 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Problems upgrading to 1.3
On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Gernot wrote: I am having problems upgrading to Debian 1.3 with the latex-packages. I know that I have to purge the old packages and it works fine despite for the babel-package. I get the following error-message when i dpkg --purge --force-depends babel: mother# dpkg --purge --force-depends babel (Reading database ... 27160 files and directories currently installed.) Removing babel ... Purging configuration files for babel ... Building new format(s) without babel support using install-fmt-base(8) /var/lib/dpkg/info/babel.postrm: install-fmt-base: command not found dpkg: error processing babel (--purge): subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 127 Errors were encountered while processing: babel I'm new to debian but it looks like postrm script is using install-fmt-base, which is in tex//mflib, tex//xypic packages, that you've alreday removed. The soluition might be to install them ^^^ and try to remove them tex without --force-depends or at least remove babel first. -- Gernot Bauer University of Linz [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . = === = |__ Alexander Stavitsky mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~stalex -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Cron setup
I know the basics of cron and its crontab file, but have a couple of questions about the specifics of how Debian implements cron. In other words, I've never seen cron divided with subdirs for daily, weekly, monthly, etc. I get the point of doing things daily or weekly, but I wonder what about the specific time to do these events.. The biggest difference in how Debian handles things wrt the subdirectories is the run-parts program. Check out the manpage for some more information on how it works. Basically, scripts in any language can be run routinely (daily, weekly, monthly) with only one crontab entry. This allows packages to add scripts without munging-up the crontab file. The only downside is that the system looses the ability to specify a time for a particular script to be run. The scripts in cron.* don't run magically. They are run by cron that checks /etc/crontab. Mine looks like: # /etc/crontab: system-wide crontab # Unlike any other crontab you don't have to run the `crontab' # command to install the new version when you edit this file. # This file also has a username field, that none of the other crontabs do. SHELL=/bin/sh PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin # m h dom mon dow user command 42 6* * * rootrun-parts /etc/cron.daily 47 6* * 7 rootrun-parts /etc/cron.weekly 52 61 * * rootrun-parts /etc/cron.monthly 30 10,15* * 1-5 root/etc/cron.coffee * * * * * rootatrun -d -l 0.5 This is pretty much an `ordinary' crontab file with an additional user field. Normal users have the `ordinary' crontab files like they exist on other unices. Personal preference: I like having the entries (and heading) separated by tabs - it keeps thing nice an orderly. Like this: # min hr dom mon dow usercommand 32 23 * * * rootrun-parts /etc/cron.daily 42 23 * * 7 rootrun-parts /etc/cron.weekly 52 23 1 * * rootrun-parts /etc/cron.monthly I'm at a point to where I want to run a mirror process to fire off daily at about 1:00 am local. Could someone outline the best way for me to implement this into Debian's cron setup? You can add your script to /etc/cron.daily and change the time these scripts are run from 6:42 am to 1:00 am, or you can add an extra item running your script. If you want your mirror updated at a particular time, you'll need to add an entry into /etc/crontab yourself. If having it run *approximately* the same time each day is close enough, then add you script to /etc/cdron.daily. -- Chuck Stickelman, Owner E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Practical Network DesignVoice: (419) 529-3841 9 Chambers Road FAX:(419) 529-3625 Mansfield, OH 44906-1302 USA -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Help! Weird console errors
Hi I have a mostly complete installation 1.2 about halfway to 1.3 but anyway.. I was routing around in /etc and I'm not sure what I did but suddenly it prints out the bell character (it appears as a small circle) instead of actually beeping, and it also prints out the tab character instead of tabbig. Anyone have any idea what could do this or how to fix this? Have you tried running 'reset' to see if it corrects the terminal's behavior? It's been known to solve all sorts of weird problems for me. (Like when you accidentally cat a binary file...) Thanks muchly, Nick Chuck -- Chuck Stickelman, Owner E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Practical Network DesignVoice: (419) 529-3841 9 Chambers Road FAX:(419) 529-3625 Mansfield, OH 44906-1302 USA -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Mirror delays.
It has been two days since the announcement of 1.3 but ftp.debian.org did not catch up yet. In fact, even Packages file in bo/binary-i386 is inconsistent with directory contents. What is going on up there? = === = |__ Alexander Stavitsky mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~stalex -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Mirror delays.
Alexander Stavitsky ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : It has been two days since the announcement of 1.3 but ftp.debian.org did : not catch up yet. In fact, even Packages file in bo/binary-i386 is : inconsistent with directory contents. What is going on up there? As far as I know, Debian 1.3 has not been officially announced yet by Bruce Perens. He sent a message to the list last Monday saying that they were uploading a new set of floppies and waiting for the mirros to catch up. I know the Web site says 1.3 is released but until I don't heard anything from the Project Manager I won't consider 1.3 as out. Regards, E.- -- Eloy A. Paris Information Technology Department Rockwell Automation de Venezuela Telephone: +58-2-9432311 Fax: +58-2-9430323 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: inetd.conf corruption
Carlo U. Segre writes: Hello All: I recently upgraded some systems from 1.2 to 1.3 and I noticed that the inetd.conf entry for smbd was missing along with the comments at the top of the file. This has happened to all of the machines upgraded over the last few days. Could anyone pinpoint the package which is giving this problem? It is cvs - and I thought it has been superceeded. Is there any way to recover the proper inetd.conf (I know that a number of packages modify this file)? I suggest to mirror host-a:/etc on host-b:/home/backup/host-a and vice versa. Regards Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / If you come from outside of Finland, you live in wrong country / / Featuring Debian GNU/Linux motd von irc.funet.fi / -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: making 16bpp the default in X
David B. Teague [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What's in your /etc/X11/Xserver file? If it's pointing to the vga16 server, then that's your problem since that server can only go up to 16 colors. One (crude) way to fix this is to reinstall the server you want to use. The postinst will ask you if you want to make it the default server. You should say yes. Otherwise you could just edit this file manually. -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: mgetty: odd request
The sample config files show how to do this. HooRAH! Thanks heaps, that did the trick. As far as I could tell the docs were a ... ah ... little 'sparse' but enough was there. Now I would *really* love to log that information for each call to a file. Now I am sure that there must be a way to do this with mgetty but I don't know how. If anyone else is wanting to know how to do this all you need to do is add these two lines to your /etc/mgetty.config file (customzed suitably) under the ports section (ie. you add it for each port): statistics-chat AT OK ATI2 OK statistics-file /tmp/statistics.ttyC0 Mgetty gets cooler every day :) 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://larry.earthlight.co.nz/ -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Ricoh CDRW (CD-ReWritable) drive
On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Lawrence Chim wrote: Any debian package that support the Ricoh CDRW drive? Does Debian a stable platform to burn CDs? I'm not sure about the Ricoh drive. I use a Philips CD2000 with no problems. Mkisofs is the tool for creating an ISO9660 image file that can be burned on a CD with cdwrite. These two programs are all that is needed to put a directory tree on CD. Mkisofs has just added bootable cds to its capabilities. You might check with the cdwrite maintainer and see what he can tell you. I believe the current maintainer is Steven Early [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Luck, Dwarf -- _-_-_-_-_-_- _-_-_-_-_-_-_- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 656-9769 Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tallahassee, FL 32308 _-_-_-_-_-_- If you don't see what you want, just ask _-_-_-_-_-_-_- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: master.debian.org
On Wed, 4 Jun 1997, Nathan E Norman wrote: Any idea when master will be open for ftp again? Mike N. just informed me that the inetd daemon had wandered of into booney land. The problem should be fixed by now. Thanks Mike! Luck, Dwarf -- _-_-_-_-_-_- _-_-_-_-_-_-_- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 656-9769 Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tallahassee, FL 32308 _-_-_-_-_-_- If you don't see what you want, just ask _-_-_-_-_-_-_- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Debian-talk defunct?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Dear Debianists: I just got a message returned from an attempt to send to the debian-talk list. (Relevant? extracts below) Is the list still operational, or did the lack of traffic lead to its demise? Sincerely, Max Hyre - --- Start of forwarded message --- Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 11:53:41 +1000 From: Mail Delivery Subsystem [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Returned mail: User unknown Auto-Submitted: auto-generated (failure) This is a MIME-encapsulated message - --LAA12985.865475621/lebunka.ion.com.au The original message was received at Thu, 5 Jun 1997 01:07:45 +1000 from relay3.smtp.psi.net [38.8.210.2] - The following addresses had permanent fatal errors - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (expanded from: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) - Transcript of session follows - ... while talking to mail.vv.com.au.: RCPT To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 550 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... User unknown 550 [EMAIL PROTECTED] User unknown [ apparently-irrelevant stuff elided ] - --- End of forwarded message --- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBM5bi5/Ja20+mce5pAQFIbwP8CsiLIYuLDc8orNxVGIQqEFAw7opCOuO5 YsMEbDYFHBp5GY1/cXPQL4wbSugqxzsHsU0UciF+XZiQMdtNuwTTgjofq57jRvFl n0wL5IVl1mfCsb9rOXNh4+/8y7amPDmdsgjlE0z0MMGPErgzNQ/+Pwedwg4nPNMr a3Rf5TIHwT4= =ae+W -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: *RFC* - Linux Router Project - Preliminary discussion
One of the people that responded to me has setup a mailing list. Thanks Jerry! Linux Router Project - to subscribe send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the message body put: subscribe The people responding to my initial query are very willing to get something going, and seem to have very good technical backgrounds for such a project. I already have a good base to start playing with on my own router. I may be able to make it available as early as this week-end. -- Elite MicroComputers 908-541-4214 http://www.psychosis.com/emc/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
PPP Compression: Useful or Useless?
Leonard Monk wrote: Another concentric client (Jay Hofacker, [EMAIL PROTECTED]) suggested removing the bwd_comp module, and this seems to work. I suppose there is some loss of performance by removing this compression device. If you have a suggestion for a better solution, please let me know. If you were getting dropped a few seconds after connecting, then it's likely that this compression protocol could not be negotiated anyway. Ergo your performance can't be considered to suffer. Note that compression protocols, while improving bandwidth, will always introduce some amount of latency since encoding/decoding takes compute time. Now don't everybody jump on me to tell me this amount of time will be unnoticeable. I wouldn't be surprised if it is effectively unmeasureable. The fact remains that it exists, and this is the point I'm trying to make. To continue, consider what kinds of things take a long time to download. That is to say, ask yourself what sort of data you are downloading that will take a lot of time. I assert that most of the time it'll be either a jpg or gif (WWW) or something which has been gzipped. Guess what: you're not going to get much compression of these suckers because they're already compressed. If you don't believe me then try some empirical tests yourself. This is because basically all lossless compression algorithms take advantage of repeating patterns and express these patterns with less bits. Once you've done this operation with a good compression algorithm, you've got data that's getting pretty close to random, and you'll be hard pressed to compress it further. Try gzipping a .gif file sometime and you'll see what I mean. The long and the short of it is that I don't believe there's a big bang to be gotten from compression over PPP for most people's usage patterns. That's why I don't bother with it. I appreciate all the help people are willing to give, especially on this mailing list. Still, I wonder if it is not becoming a critical problem for Linux that so many potential new users have such a hard time overcoming the miscellaneous obstacles to getting a good PPP conection. I don't believe there is an easy fix, especially when one has to deal with ISP's who are very uninformative. Yes, I believe it's a bigger problem than some Debian folks think it is. I get the feeling that many Debianers (those making packages, running ftp/web sites, you know the ones) seem to have this idea that most people are going to buy a Debian CD. I personally hold the belief that *most* people get Debian via ftp, which generally presupposed a PPP connection. I believe the trouble could be solved by writing a very intelligent Wizard-like (if I may use this M$ paradigm as a basis for comparison) program which would step by step go through. Such a program would actually need to *itself* dial the phone and scan/interpret what it was getting back. Such a program wouldn't be all that complex to create but would take some time. I'd like to do it myself but I can't commit the time. Maybe someone is working on such a thing? -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
rogers wave cable access....
Hi folks, I've ignored the cable access threads in the past because it didn't pertain to me. Now, I've been fortunate enough to have been selected for a free three month trial of rogers wave in my area (Internet access through our cable giant Rogers). I was wondering if anyone could let me know which packages I should be looking into to make it work under Debian. Any other canucks out there using the wave? As soon as the intallers from the cable company leave, re-boot from win95, and check that baby out, I can't wait.I hope they don't expect me to analyze their software too;-) TIA Rich Morin [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Netscape 3.01 128bit
For the record and mailing list archive; The 128bit versions of Netscape 3.01 and 3.01Gold do work with the currect Debian install package. Matthew -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: rogers wave cable access....
What kind of cable modems are they leasing to you? Zenith? LAN City? Or are they doing it some other way? If so, I can't provide much help :/ With either the Zenith or the LAN City product, the cable modem is actaully an ethernet switch/cable modem, and an ehternet card is installed into your PC. So, all you need to have are the drivers for the ethernet card (shouldn't be a big deal, Linux has a ton) and all the pertinent IP info. In my real (read day) job, I work for Midcontinent Media in Sioux Falls, SD. We are attempting to roll out cable access - we already have it active in a few test markets. It's going well ... people love the 1 Mbps access speeds, and they like the price. -- Nathan Norman:Hostmaster CFNI:[EMAIL PROTECTED] finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key and other stuff Key fingerprint = CE 03 10 AF 32 81 18 58 9D 32 C2 AB 93 6D C4 72 -- On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Richard Morin wrote: :Hi folks, :I've ignored the cable access threads in the past because it didn't :pertain to me. Now, I've been fortunate enough to have been selected for :a free three month trial of rogers wave in my area (Internet access :through our cable giant Rogers). I was wondering if anyone could let me :know which packages I should be looking into to make it work under Debian. :Any other canucks out there using the wave? : :As soon as the intallers from the cable company leave, re-boot from win95, :and check that baby out, I can't wait.I hope they don't expect me to :analyze their software too;-) : :TIA : :Rich Morin :[EMAIL PROTECTED] : : : :-- :TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to :[EMAIL PROTECTED] . :Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . : -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: rogers wave cable access....
You will probably have to figure how to authenticate yourself on the cable company's network, and how to get an IP address assigned to you if it is done dynamically. I have the RoadRunner cable modem service from Time-Warner, and they us DHCP to assign IPs and Kerberos to do authentication. -- --=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-===-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-- Ron Welch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone:(607)770-3701 Fax:(607)770-2056 Lockheed Martin Control Systems 600 Main St Johnson City, NY 13790-1888 --=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-===-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: IConnect Corp Debian any good?
-- From: Bob Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Benedict Chong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: W Paul Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED]; debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: IConnect Corp Debian any good? Date: Thursday, June 05, 1997 2:21 AM LSL (www.lsl.com) has their Tri-Linux CD (Debian 1.3, Slackware 3.2 and Red Hat 4.2) for $2.98. I installed 1.2.5 from the previous version and found it to be pretty complete (stable and contrib, but not non-free). You probably can't beat the price. We just started shipping this today ( 6-5-97) its a binary only version. We Plan on doing the Oficial Debian 1.3 when the iso images are released. -Dan We also have the best prices Red Hat, Slackware and Linux Related Books and CDs..see www.lsl.com -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: rogers wave cable access....
On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Richard Morin wrote: I've ignored the cable access threads in the past because it didn't pertain to me. Now, I've been fortunate enough to have been selected for a free three month trial of rogers wave in my area (Internet access through our cable giant Rogers). I was wondering if anyone could let me know which packages I should be looking into to make it work under Debian. Any other canucks out there using the wave? As soon as the intallers from the cable company leave, re-boot from win95, and check that baby out, I can't wait.I hope they don't expect me to analyze their software too;-) I don't know much about this, but I am in the same boat - I am travelling to Burlington to hook up a machine that runs off the Wave. So I thought I would describe what I thought needs to be done and then ask a few questions of my own. First, read the dhcpcd mini HOWTO and the documentation to it (I have yet to install this and look at the documentation other than the HOWTO). To be done(?): 1) Set up debian to use the ethernet card in your box just as you would if you were directly connected to the internet with a fixed ip address. This should be fairly straight forward depending on you ethernet card. 2) According to the HOWTO, you need to get winipcfg (or what ever it is called the probes the cable modem server for an ip address) to write out it's information to file using some switch (specifics listed in HOWTO). The HOWTO then goes on to instruct the user to boot to debian using loadlin. I don't do this this way and I assume that you can just use lilo as long as the partition where the winip output file is stored is accessible. 3) (vague) Use the dhcp client ( dhcpcd ) to parse the information from that file and ... done? I know this is quite vague but I am hoping to have others fill in the blanks. Anyway, the questions this raises are: 1) Can one get dhcpcd to probe the server itself? I thought that this software basically replicated the winipcfg program. 2) What ethernet driver should I use for a D-LINK 220? NE-2000? Cheers, Colin. PS. I will report my failure/success as I go and would be quite happy to contribute the either/both the dhcpcd documentation and the mini-HOWTO. -- Colin R. Telmer, Institute of Intergovernmental Relations School of Policy Studies, Queen's University Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7L-3N6 (613)545-6000x4219 [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint = 09 E9 DA 66 9C EE 33 DC B8 3B 97 0E 01 BC EC 0B PGP Public Key at URL:http://terrapin.econ.queensu.ca -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: rogers wave cable access....
One other thing I forgot to mention. I think you can also use alternative sofware such as bootp, but I am quite sure that Rogers Wave uses the dhcp protocol. Cheers. -- Colin R. Telmer, Institute of Intergovernmental Relations School of Policy Studies, Queen's University Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7L-3N6 (613)545-6000x4219 [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint = 09 E9 DA 66 9C EE 33 DC B8 3B 97 0E 01 BC EC 0B PGP Public Key at URL:http://terrapin.econ.queensu.ca -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Looking for New Maintainers
I am listed as the maintainer of the following packages in the distribution. These are available for other maintainers. I would especially welcome if someone who wants to become a debian developer would take a package or two. All packages have been done using debmake and should be easy to handle. Some of these packages have had others volunteering to take over the package in the past but they have not uploaded any new version and I am still listed as the maintainer in the packages file. If you want to take one of those you need to first try to contact the person listed. ncsaNCSA Webserver wwwoffleWeb Proxy for Offline Browsing defrag Peter Iannarelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] genromfsBootup File System bridge Bridging 2.0.X Kernels bridgex Bridging 2.1.X Kernels ppp Philip Hands [EMAIL PROTECTED] berolistEasy to handle List Server adbbs BBS Software eject Eject and Change CDs chosHelmut Geyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] boa Fast Webserver gpc GNU Pascal libgpc2 gpc-doc verse Daily Scriptural Verse freefontFonts for X bonnie Performance Test fdosFreeDos (probably obsolete since dosemu contains it now) sharefont Shareware Fonts upsdBdale Garbee [EMAIL PROTECTED] newsx News Retrieval ncompress Helmut Geyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] syslinuxBoot Loader for Debian Boot Floppies ircdPaul Haggart [EMAIL PROTECTED] fvwm95 Kenneth MacDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] pax David Frey [EMAIL PROTECTED] pashNC clone netdiag Philip Hands [EMAIL PROTECTED] floppybackupBackup to floppies zmailer Extremely efficient Mailer isite Web Search / Database Search engine xskat Helmut Geyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] bible-kjv Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] knfsKernel NFS tools poppassdRemote password change daemon for Eudora etc. transproxy Transparent Proxy Tools loadlin Boot Loader freetypeTrueType FontManager automount Helmut Geyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] planColin Telmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ftp only user account?
On Wed, 4 Jun 1997 19:45:15 -0400 , Joey Hess wrote: How can I set up a user account that can only ftp in, and is restricted to their home directory in a chroot environment? Add the user to /etc/passwd and put it in a group called 'ftponly' (or make up a name, but this is the easiest to remember). If the group doesn't exist, create it. The shell should be /bin/false. Add a line '/bin/false' to /etc/shells. Now, you have a user that can't log in. Try it. I might have forgotten something. Now, set up wu-ftpd as your ftp server if you haven't done so already. In /etc/ftpd/ftpaccess, add a line 'guestgroup ftponly'. Now you should be all set up, if my memory serves me correctly. 'Guest' users can do all normal ftp things, but wu-ftpd does a chroot to their home directory. They can't get anything that is not in their home directory (or mounted under it). Remco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: April Infomagic LDR Debian
So they didn't test it. I don't suppose a CD publisher who is distributing other folks' stuff would ever be able to--especially in the absence of a test suite. Their test should be to deliver a pre-press CD to Debian for confirmation. Don't change vendors, change procedures. If InfoMagic can't play by an allow-verification-of-master procedure with the agreement that they won't publish it if not approved (in a timely manner) by Debian... *then* change vendors. --emk Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 09:33:54 -0400 From: Glenn Amerine [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: E.L. Meijer \(Eric\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org (debian) Subject: Re: April Infomagic LDR Debian Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org Eric == E L Meijer \(Eric\) E.L. writes: Eric Glenn asked: Does anyone know if Infomagic corrected the missing files for Debian on their April LDR? Eric I complained about the missing files to InfoMagic and got Eric the following reply: Eric Eric E.L. Eric This set was mirrored on the basis of what the Debian Eric Folks put on their site for a stable distribution. We Eric didn't include any of the beta release. Eric regards, henry m. pierce Eric Eric Now there is a short uninterested reply if ever I saw one. Eric It is possible that it is true though. That's why I think Eric it is a good idea that there will be official CD images. Eric Maybe the Debian community should not forbid anyone to just Eric mirror the ftp-site, but it would be nice if proven CD Eric releases get an `official debian release' stamp or something Eric like that. Obviously, InfoMagic is not going to get one. Their reply also indicates they didn't try to install their product before shipping to the masses. That it pretty bad quality control. I guess it is time to change vendors. Thanks for the info! Glenn -- Glenn Amerine Inet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Analyst Voice: (614)224-1336 Metropolitan Human Services CommissionFax: (614)224-6472 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
YA newbie news setup question
I've been trying to get a news setup configured here and was wondering if someone could give a news newbie some pointers/direction. I want to get a news setup configured to pull news off from my ISP's news server (news.together.net) and to eventually put FidoNet mail into using a FidoNet-news converter ifmail. Because of these desires I believe I have to set up a regular server on my system (golgotha). So, I installed inn and innfeed, along with suck, but haven't been able to get things working. Would someone be so kind as to either dump a working copy of their inn.conf and hosts.nntp into a message or give me some guidance on how I should be setting things up? I've read the various man pages about the config files but with so many different configs and with me basically not having a clue, it gets tough as to know which is right and which needs tweaking. | Debian GNU/__ o Thanks in advance, | / / _ _ _ _ _ __ __ .| / /__ / / / \// //_// \ \/ / Randy| // /_/ /_/\/ /___/ /_/\_\ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | ...because lockups are for convicts... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Looking for New Maintainers
I am listed as the maintainer of the following packages in the distribution. These are available for other maintainers. I would especially welcome if someone who wants to become a debian developer would take a package or two. All packages have been done using debmake and should be easy to handle. There are two packages, which I'd like to take over from you - hopefully, you'll later still be able to help out occasionally... ...in case of need. eject Eject and Change CDs bonniePerformance Test From those packages you listed - these are two, that I both use(d), and that look like both a good exercise to learn package handling and of course they don't look like *too much* work... ;) The main reason for the package takeover would be to learn package handling, as I plan to build a few more packages later (among them a Roxen package, I just won't step forward to do that until I have some experience with doing that). A possible third module might be: knfs Kernel NFS tools But - I am not yet moving to the 2.1 kernel release, so kernel nfs is not yet an option for me... So, let's postpone that one. Some of these packages have had others volunteering to take over the package in the past but they have not uploaded any new version and I am still listed as the maintainer in the packages file. When I take over those packages, should I understand the above as to release a new version of the package fairly soon, only so the package maintainer gets changed (even if there are no real changes in the package)? If you would like me to take over those packages, please let me know. Benedikt signoff Hiroshima '45 Chernobyl '86 Windows '95 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Netscape 3.01 128bit
For the record and mailing list archive; The 128bit versions of Netscape 3.01 and 3.01Gold do work with the currect Debian install package. Would you happen to know if the latest beta (communicator-v40b5*) will work with the *.deb install shell? | Debian GNU/__ o Regards, | / / _ _ _ _ _ __ __ .| / /__ / / / \// //_// \ \/ / Randy| // /_/ /_/\/ /___/ /_/\_\ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | ...because lockups are for convicts... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: PPP Compression: Useful or Useless?
Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: First off, it was my impression that bsd_comp only affects ppp (TCP?) headers. It doesn't do any general data compression (so it wouldn't try to compress the jpg data in a packet, just the headers). I had heard that it is essentially always a win. Note that compression protocols, while improving bandwidth, will always introduce some amount of latency since encoding/decoding takes compute time. This really depends on how you define latency. Let's say I want to send a 1K TCP packet. Presumably, how fast the first byte gets to the other side is essentially irrelevant since the application waiting on the data can't do anything until it gets the entire packet (given the way TCP works). In that case, if you can spend a trivial amount of time compressing the packet (and you can with today's mostly idle CPUs) to some fraction of its original size, the whole packet will get transferred faster. Although the first byte through latency is higher, the packet latency can be *much* lower. Another more abstract example where the *effective* latency is dramatically reduced when compression is used is in the case of gzip compressed ssh connections and X. In a test letting ssh use gzip to compress all it's transfers cut a remote launch of xview across a ppp link to 1/3 of the non-compressed launch time. -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: April Infomagic LDR Debian
Edward == Edward McKnight [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Edward So they didn't test it. I don't suppose a CD publisher who Edward is distributing other folks' stuff would ever be able Edward to--especially in the absence of a test suite. Their test Edward should be to deliver a pre-press CD to Debian for Edward confirmation. Edward Don't change vendors, change procedures. If InfoMagic Edward can't play by an allow-verification-of-master procedure Edward with the agreement that they won't publish it if not Edward approved (in a timely manner) by Debian... *then* change Edward vendors. I'm not saying they should have or even could have ran each distribution through a test suite (even if they existed), nor am I saying they should have ran a test suite through all the packages contained in each distribution, which would be way too costly and time consuming. What I am saying however is that pressing disks without even seeing if an operating system is installable or not is poor quality control. Period. That would be like a programmer sending out a tarball without un-taring, configuring and compiling the actual files that are going to be sent out rather than making the assumption It builds from my source tree so it will build from the files I'm sending out. How long would it have taken an experienced Linux user to do a quick install of three different distributions just to make sure something major wasn't missing? Maybe a day at most? Glenn -- Glenn Amerine Inet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems AnalystVoice: (614)224-1336 Metropolitan Human Services Commission Fax: (614)224-6472 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Stupid Question: Striping Dos ^M From Texts
Somewhere in the dank recesses of my mind, I recall a utility that would strip the extra ^M's from a text file copied to a unix box. Well, it seems that Linux also considers these ^M's extranious, is there such a standard utility or do I have to dig even deeper to remember sed/awk/grep commands? :^ Curt- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: lpr: unable to get official name for local machine
For those of you following this here is an update. It appears to be some sort of name lookup failure. I can't figure it out. When I try and print with lpr it fails with the error given in the subject. This turns out is just an indicator of something else. I have a stand alone machine that I dial in to my isp and run slirp to emulate ppp. So, I have given my machine a bogus name of servis.snet. Before I upgraded to 1.3 I could ping, finger, telnet, etc to servis.snet. Now nothing seems to be able to figure out what servis.snet is. My conf files are: /etc/hostname servis /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost loopback servis.snet servis /etc/resolv.conf domain snet search snet ecn.purdue.edu nameserver 128.46.131.20 nameserver 128.46.131.20 nameserver 128.46.131.20 /etc/host.conf order hosts,bind multi on /etc/init.d/network ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 route add -net 127.0.0.0 I don't know if named should be running or not. If I start it with the default config it tries to reach 198.41.0.4 in /var/named/named.root and fails because I am not connected. If I start named when I have connected with ppp programs still do not resolve what servis.snet is and give hostname failures. When I issue 'hostname' it returns 'servis' but if I call host name with any commandline options it gives 'hostname: Unknown host' error. PLEASE HELP ME FIGURE THIS OUT, EVEN IF IT IS TRIVIAL! Thanks in advance, Brian -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Stupid Question: Striping Dos ^M From Texts
install the 'recode' package and use it like this : recode ibmpc:latin1 YourTextFile Bye, Alexandre On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Curt Howland wrote: Somewhere in the dank recesses of my mind, I recall a utility that would strip the extra ^M's from a text file copied to a unix box. Well, it seems that Linux also considers these ^M's extranious, is there such a standard utility or do I have to dig even deeper to remember sed/awk/grep commands? :^ Curt- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Solved: netscape problem
Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) writes I'd appreciate it if you would try it with -visual Pseudocolr -install and let me know what that does. There was a plethora of messages in my mail today. Between notes and suggestions from you guys (THANKS!) and some Reading of the Fine Manual, I find that the /etc/X11/Xserver (as it should be) made the XF86_VGA16, not the SVGA server, which apparetly caused the behavior I observed. In my old Slackware, I was using X11R5, with the vga255 server, but could not find any thing like that in the Debian 1.2 distribution. In looking, I discovered that I had not installed the SVGA server, (he said shamefacedly at being quite so NEWBIE) I installed the SVGA sserver, ran XF86Configure - and, thanks to the person who asked what was the default server in Xserver, I made SVGA the default server. THen VOILA - everything works! Brian Asks what I get with netscape -visual Pseudocolor -install I tried this _after_ moving to the SVGA server. With the SVGA server, it changes the color of the windows when the focus goes off the window, and I kinda like that. I'll test that with the VGA_16 server tonight and write you about that. --David - LINUX: the FREE 32 bit OS for [345]86 PC's available NOW! David B Teague | User interface copyrights software patents make [EMAIL PROTECTED] | programing a dangerous business. Ask me or [EMAIL PROTECTED] spy counter-intelligence wild porno sex gold bullion Soviet Bosnia clipper -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: rogers wave cable access....
Colin R. Telmer wrote:
On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Richard Morin wrote:
I've ignored the cable access threads in the past because it didn't
pertain to me. Now, I've been fortunate enough to have been selected for
a free three month trial of rogers wave in my area (Internet access
through our cable giant Rogers). I was wondering if anyone could let me
know which packages I should be looking into to make it work under Debian.
Any other canucks out there using the wave?
As soon as the intallers from the cable company leave, re-boot from win95,
and check that baby out, I can't wait.I hope they don't expect me to
analyze their software too;-)
I don't know much about this, but I am in the same boat - I am travelling
to Burlington to hook up a machine that runs off the Wave. So I thought I
would describe what I thought needs to be done and then ask a few
questions of my own.
First, read the dhcpcd mini HOWTO and the documentation to it (I have yet
to install this and look at the documentation other than the HOWTO).
To be done(?):
1) Set up debian to use the ethernet card in your box just as you would if
you were directly connected to the internet with a fixed ip address. This
should be fairly straight forward depending on you ethernet card.
2) According to the HOWTO, you need to get winipcfg (or what ever it is
called the probes the cable modem server for an ip address) to write out
it's information to file using some switch (specifics listed in HOWTO).
The HOWTO then goes on to instruct the user to boot to debian using
loadlin. I don't do this this way and I assume that you can just use lilo
as long as the partition where the winip output file is stored is
accessible.
3) (vague) Use the dhcp client ( dhcpcd ) to parse the information from
that file and ... done?
The process described in the mini-HOWTO /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/DHCP.gz
is a *kludge* which in no way actually uses DHCP. It also *is not*
guaranteed to work even. Suppose you gave up your lease on the IP
after you shut down Win95? Then copying the data that you got from
winipcfg would do you *no good*.
The proper thing to do is use dhcpcd. I have it at home. I haven't
tried it yet ('cause I don't have my server set up yet either).
I know this is quite vague but I am hoping to have others fill in the
blanks. Anyway, the questions this raises are:
1) Can one get dhcpcd to probe the server itself? I thought that this
software basically replicated the winipcfg program.
The only *way* for dhcpcd to get the info is to probe the server.
winipcfg does nothing but read values out of the Registry which have
been set by the Win95 DHCP client code.
2) What ethernet driver should I use for a D-LINK 220? NE-2000?
== zless /usr/doc/HOWTO/Ethernet-HOWTO.gz
indicates that the D-LINK 200 is supported. Perhaps the D-LINK 220
is compatible/also-supported. (Yes, it says the ne2000 driver is
used for that card.)
Anyway, the upshot of all this is that you should get the dhcpcd
package. *Ignore* the DHCP mini-HOWTO--there is nothing of value
in there for you.
--
Jens B. Jorgensen
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Re: gcc X: reprise
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Obi writes: I could guess, but there are quite a few possibilities. The error message you recieve during compilation would be helpful. What does it say? Well, after untar the program I got an Imake file so I do a xmkmf -a and I ge -t this: imake -DUseInstalled -I/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config make Makefiles make: Nothing to be done for `Makefiles'. make includes make: Nothing to be done for `includes'. make depend gccmakedep -- -I/usr/X11R6/include -Dlinux -D__i386__ -D_POSIX_SOURCE -D_BSD_SOURCE -D_SVID_SOURCE -DX_LOCALE -DFUNCPROTO=15 -DNARROWPROTO-- bdfresize.c charresize.c after I try with make and I get this: gcc -O2 -fno-strength-reduce -m486 -I/usr/X11R6/include -Dlinux -D__i386__ -D_POSIX_SOURCE -D_BSD_SOURCE -D_SVID_SOURCE -DX_LOCALE -DFUNCPROTO=15 -DNARROWPROTO -c bdfresize.c -o bdfresize.o gcc -O2 -fno-strength-reduce -m486 -I/usr/X11R6/include -Dlinux -D__i386__ -D_POSIX_SOURCE -D_BSD_SOURCE -D_SVID_SOURCE -DX_LOCALE -DFUNCPROTO=15 -DNARROWPROTO -c charresize.c -o charresize.o rm -f bdfresize gcc -o bdfresize -O2 -fno-strength-reduce -m486 -L/usr/X11R6/lib bdfresize.o charresize.o charresize.o: In function `countup_score': charresize.o(.text+0x779): undefined reference to `MIN' charresize.o(.text+0x786): undefined reference to `MAX' charresize.o(.text+0x792): undefined reference to `MIN' charresize.o(.text+0x79e): undefined reference to `MAX' I have not used thes macros for a while so I dont know about recent C standards but MIN and MAX used to be standard preprocessor macros. You can define them like this: #define MIN(x, y) ((x) (y) ? (x) : (y)) #define MAX(x, y) ((x) (y) ? (x) : (y)) Add this at top of charresize.c (or cc). If this helps it migtht be good to track down the REAL problem (this is more like a sympthom). HTH /Lars make: *** [bdfresize] Error 1 I still believe that in the last command (gcc -o ...) some libraries (-l..) are missing ... -- Graziano Obertelli - aspirante palombaro E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lab's phone: (619) 534 9669 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Newbie
On Wed, 4 Jun 1997, Rick Morrison wrote: Just installed Debian 1.3. Am a UNIX newbie as well as a Debian newbie. It's up and running but Great, a new user ! 1. Can't TELNET in to the system running it. Sez 'connection refused'. Can't even telnet into itself! TCP/IP is up and running as I can TELNET out. Can ping it, etc... try tcpdchk to check if your telnetd is available. You can also browse /etc/inetd.conf by hand and search for telnet /etc/host.deny should be empty on your default install. Or it contains something like ALL:PARANOID In that case try to comment it out. 2. Any suggestions as to steps for getting X up and running? install the packages xbase, xfnt*, a window manager (fvwm?, afterstep, ..), an X server for your video card (one of xserver-*, chose xserver-vga16 if you don't know which to chose). Hint : read the help page for dselect. You have to know that / performs a search through the 1000 packages. Then dselect will try to guide you. Try to be clever and tell us the results. You should be able to have it running without much difficulties. ( If the distribution is well done, and I hope it). At this point you probably have a minimal, ugly X (few colors, low res...). Get your video card and monitor handbook, run xf86config and (try to) answer the questions it asks. It will recommend you a server. If you don't have it already, install it. (xserver-svga in my case ). read /usr/doc/HOWTO/X.. Thanks ... sorry for the bandwith waste. The list is here exactly for that. Always try to get the answer in a FAQ, an HOWTO (in /usr/doc ) a manpage ( 'man name_of_prog' or 'man -k topic' ), on the web... But if you don't find by yourself probably someone else can help. Just ask. Rick Morrison Wayne State University -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: rogers wave cable access....
FWIW, there a new version of the DHCP mini-HOWTO at: http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/DHCPd I appears to have been updated on 5 March 1997. It no longer mentions winipcfg. P.S. Does anyone know about how this wave does authentication. Does it use Kerberos? -- --=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-===-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-- Ron Welch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone:(607)770-3701 Fax:(607)770-2056 Lockheed Martin Control Systems 600 Main St Johnson City, NY 13790-1888 --=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-===-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: trouble with mh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ken Lauffenburger writes: BTW, I am trying to read the mh-papers to see if this might shed some light. I'm currently having a little trouble compiling the documentation using teTex - ;-) The Makefiles that build thes docs use some script that deletes the output (.dvi) depending of the return of the latex command. I hacked that feature out of the makefile and the resulting .dvi was usefull (if not completly correct as i remeber). I blamed this on me not succesfully seting up the old debian tex pakages but it might help You to HTH /Lars Any suggestions? --ken -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Debian-talk defunct?
On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Max HYRE wrote: I just got a message returned from an attempt to send to the debian-talk list. (Relevant? extracts below) Is the list still operational, or did the lack of traffic lead to its demise? There hasn't been a debian-talk at least since I took over management of the lists. If there is sufficient reason to do so, I'll gladly recreate the list. - --- Start of forwarded message --- Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 11:53:41 +1000 From: Mail Delivery Subsystem [EMAIL PROTECTED] - The following addresses had permanent fatal errors - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (expanded from: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) - Transcript of session follows - ... while talking to mail.vv.com.au.: RCPT To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 550 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... User unknown 550 [EMAIL PROTECTED] User unknown These errors suggest that perhaps the message was not addressed to @lists.debian.org or that vv.com.au may have other configuration oddments. Any ideas? Pete -- Peter J. Templin, Jr. Client Services Analyst Computer Communication Services tel: (717) 524-1590 Bucknell University [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: rogers wave cable access....
On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Ron Welch wrote: FWIW, there a new version of the DHCP mini-HOWTO at: http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/DHCPd unfortunately that is the server (dhcpd), not the client (dhcpcd). After I take a stab at this, perhaps I'll try to write up a client mini-HOWTO. As for the kerbosos, I'll let you know after the weekend. Cheers, Colin. -- Colin R. Telmer, Institute of Intergovernmental Relations School of Policy Studies, Queen's University Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7L-3N6 (613)545-6000x4219 [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint = 09 E9 DA 66 9C EE 33 DC B8 3B 97 0E 01 BC EC 0B PGP Public Key at URL:http://terrapin.econ.queensu.ca -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Cron setup -- thanks/summary
Just a quick note of thanks to all who replied about the Debian cron setup. I was thrilled with the response and it's greatly appreciated. Rather than summarize, I'll just say that if anyone has any questions about the cron setup that Debian uses please do not hesitate to mail this newly educated cron guru :-) and I'll happily help out as much as I can. | Debian GNU/__ o Regards, | / / _ _ _ _ _ __ __ .| / /__ / / / \// //_// \ \/ / Randy| // /_/ /_/\/ /___/ /_/\_\ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | ...because lockups are for convicts... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: frozen unstable distribution problems
Jim Pick writes: I believe Bruce has some official CD images that would better to use for the frozen (now stable) distribution. I think it's a 2 disk set. Francis C. Swasey writes: If those are the images in the dist (or is it dists??) directory, the unstable one points at hamm, but hamm has lots of symbolic links back into bo. I realize that it would use more disk space, but I really think that the CD images should contain no links. John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ftp only user account?
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On Thu, 5 Jun 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 4 Jun 1997 19:45:15 -0400 , Joey Hess wrote:
How can I set up a user account that can only ftp in, and is restricted to
their home directory in a chroot environment?
Add the user to /etc/passwd and put it in a group called 'ftponly' (or make
up a name, but this is the easiest to remember). If the group doesn't
exist, create it. The shell should be /bin/false. Add a line '/bin/false'
to /etc/shells. Now, you have a user that can't log in. Try it. I might
have forgotten something.
Now, set up wu-ftpd as your ftp server if you haven't done so already. In
/etc/ftpd/ftpaccess, add a line 'guestgroup ftponly'.
Now you should be all set up.
No. The user won't be able to list directories. gzip on the fly,...
As root cd to his/her home directory, then
cp -a /home/ftp/{bin,lib,etc} .
to give the necessary binaries and shared libraries to do useful work.
if my memory serves me correctly. 'Guest'
users can do all normal ftp things, but wu-ftpd does a chroot to their
home directory. They can't get anything that is not in their home
directory (or mounted under it)
That's correct.
Nils
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Re: Couple little things (bugs?)
On Jun 3, Jaakko Niemi wrote 2) xmkmf has diappeared from xbase-package. It is still in xbase3.2-3, but not in 3.2-6! Should this package be moved to X-files ? :) I couldn't find any information nor relevant docs. Where is changes-file from /usr/doc ? It was a 'development' program, so it's been moved to the xlib6-dev package. You will want to install this package if you're compiling programs that use X. Christian Ahh. I just put a yellow post-it note on the side of my monitor and it reads: If something is missing, first check under your nose. Works fine now. Thanks! --j -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: gcc X: reprise
Thanks for the help. Now it works. graziano -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
unhosing my compiler
Oh geez... what have I done? I can't seem to figure out which library
is missing, but if I try to compile, e.g.:
#include stdio.h
int main() {
#ifdef __GNUC__
#ifdef __VERSION__
printf(%s\n, __VERSION__);
#else
printf(%s\n, 1);
#endif
#endif
exit(0);
}
I'll get:
/tmp/cca027141.o: In function `main':
/tmp/cca027141.o(.text+0xe): undefined reference to `_stdprintf'
And you can imagine it gets worse for something bigger! I figured I'd
hosed libc.a or similar? But it seems to be intact. I've reinstalled
the gcc from frozen to no avail I've also monkeyed with dselect
for an hour or so trying to figure out the glitch
(uninstalling/installing gcc, libc5-dev, libpthreads), but no luck.
Thoughts on unhosing my compiler very welcome...
This is a 1.2.x upgraded to frozen system. gcc 2.7.2.1-8. libc5.4.23.
Thanks
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g++ targetcompali - dos 8086 code?
Hello Is it posably (whit debian packages) to targetcompile C++ code for dos 8086 and 80286 targets? If not, is it posably under Linux at all? I prefere g++ or a g++ relative but if that is not possably anything goes (even commersial). If not again, is anyone runing an dos C++ compiler succesfully under DOSEMU? Or just know about a dos C++ compiler that can produce 8086 code and is more upp to date then the Borland Turbo C++ 3.0 TIA /Lars -- / / _/_ _/_ Lars Hallberg IT-konsult Micro++ /\_/\ / / www.micropp.se/lahwww.micropp.se / Micro++OOP C++ WWW-Design Utbildning LINUX FreeWare -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: g++ targetcompali - dos 8086 code?
If you get the GNU source you can build a cross-compiler, by specifying the right arguements to the configure script. I built a gcc that produced ELF binaries for Linux on a SprcStation that way... John Foster On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Lars Hallberg wrote: Hello Is it posably (whit debian packages) to targetcompile C++ code for dos 8086 and 80286 targets? If not, is it posably under Linux at all? I prefere g++ or a g++ relative but if that is not possably anything goes (even commersial). If not again, is anyone runing an dos C++ compiler succesfully under DOSEMU? Or just know about a dos C++ compiler that can produce 8086 code and is more upp to date then the Borland Turbo C++ 3.0 TIA /Lars -- / / _/_ _/_ Lars Hallberg IT-konsult Micro++ /\_/\ / / www.micropp.se/lahwww.micropp.se / Micro++OOP C++ WWW-Design Utbildning LINUX FreeWare -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Connecting terminals
How many terminals can I connect to my PC using the 4 standar serials ports?. Kevin As many as you have serial ports to connect them to. While Kevin a standard PC can support 4 serial ports, almost all only Kevin have two physical ports on the back of the PC. To get any Kevin more than that, you'll probably want a multi-port serial Kevin board. Linux supports quite a few different types; Kevin however, the only one I've used is the BB2016 from Boca. Kevin It's a 16-port board with RJ48 (10-conductor) connectors Kevin (others have RJ45 (8-conductor) or DB25 connectors). Kevin RJ48's and DB25's are best if you're thinking of connecting Kevin modems as well as standard terminals. Another way to connect a large number of terminals to a Linux box is to put an Ethernet NIC in the Linux box (if there isn't one already) and then connect a terminal server to the Ethernet. bin there, dun that using Digiboard PortServer II's. I wasn't all too happy with performance, though And the price is pretty outrageous compared to a Boca BB2016. Digiboard PS2 - 16 port = $2000 (Canadian) Boca BB2016 - 16 port = $300 Of course, for an extra $800 per 16, you can upgrade the PS2 to max of 64 ports But for about $800, I can buy el-cheapo used PC's, drop a BB2016 into them, install Linux, and spend less money than the PS2's If you ask me, the Boca boards are a good deal all around But, if you want to buy Digiboard PS2's, I've got two like new one's sitting right here that I'd really like to unload later, Kevin Traas Systems Analyst Edmondson Roper CA http://www.eroper.bc.ca -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
read news on/off line
Hi,
I'd like to thank all the people who have helped me setting up
the PPP connect this week. I've finally gotten to work :)
Now, I'd like to readnews online. Currently, I'm able to
use netscape to readnews. However, I'd like to use the rtin
instead which I currently have some problem with. My ISP
requires a my ISP-username/password before I can access the
news. I'd like to know how do I make rtin to send this info
to my ISP's new server?
Secondly, would some one please point me to the doc./pointers to
setup the Debian system to download the news onto my local drive
for later use? Thanks!
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A question
We use exim as our MTA. I've set envelope_to_remove = true at the beginning of exim.conf and I set envelope_to_add for the local delivery directives. This should delete any Envelope-to headers of received email and set it to the the envelope it came in on as it stores it locally (using the pipe transport). We use the Envelope-to: header with fetchmail to impliment a multidrop mailbox for our internal mail system. I've noticed though, that if mail is aliased or forwarded to another address which is local to exim, the Envelope-to header is not updated to reflect the new envelope recipient. Is there a way of doing this easily within exim? Except for this one thing, exim has been very easy to configure and has been able to be setup to do exactly what we've wanted. Thanks, Behan -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-613-224-7547 http://www.verisim.com/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Stupid Question: Striping Dos ^M From Texts
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], writes: Somewhere in the dank recesses of my mind, I recall a utility that would strip the extra ^M's from a text file copied to a unix box. Well, it seems that Linux also considers these ^M's extranious, is there such a standard utility or do I have to dig even deeper to remember sed/awk/grep commands? :^ In vi: :/g/^V^M$/s/// (where ^V means control-V) or, again in vi: :1,$s/.$// or, in ed or sed: 1,$s/.$// if you are sure that _every_ line ends with an unwanted character. It seems simpler than installing a special utility. I expect perl or awk would also offer entertaining solutions! If you copy from a mounted msdos filesystem, or ftp in ascii mode, you avoid the problem in the first place. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://homepages.enterprise.net/olly In case of connection troubles, try [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Stupid Question: Striping Dos ^M From Texts
On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Curt Howland wrote: Somewhere in the dank recesses of my mind, I recall a utility that would strip the extra ^M's from a text file copied to a unix box. Well, it seems that Linux also considers these ^M's extranious, is there such a standard utility or do I have to dig even deeper to remember sed/awk/grep commands? :^ The seesat5 package (a satellite tracking program) provides a little program called cr that will convert text files from DOS style carriage returns to Unix ones and back. Seesat5 needs the facility to incorporate DOS generated element files on the Linux file system without the extra ^M which causes problems for seesat5. Luck, Dwarf -- _-_-_-_-_-_- _-_-_-_-_-_-_- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 656-9769 Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tallahassee, FL 32308 _-_-_-_-_-_- If you don't see what you want, just ask _-_-_-_-_-_-_- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: lpr: unable to get official name for local machine (fwd)
To me it looks like nameserving doesn't quite work out-of-the-box in upcoming debian 1.3. I've upgraded a box to frozen and that broke a working bind configuration, I don't know how badly because I haven't really had the time to look into it. On fresh installations, nslookup can't find even localhost. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: lpr: unable to get official name for local machine (fwd)
For what it's worth, I upgraded from 1.2 to 1.3 about a week ago on a server that is authoritative for a few zones ... no problems at all. I realise this doesn't assist you in solving your immediate problem, but I'm not so sure that the Debian package is to blame.. -- Nathan Norman:Hostmaster CFNI:[EMAIL PROTECTED] finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key and other stuff Key fingerprint = CE 03 10 AF 32 81 18 58 9D 32 C2 AB 93 6D C4 72 -- On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, J.P.D. Kooij wrote: : :To me it looks like nameserving doesn't quite work out-of-the-box in :upcoming debian 1.3. : :I've upgraded a box to frozen and that broke a working bind :configuration, I don't know how badly because I haven't really had the :time to look into it. :On fresh installations, nslookup can't find even localhost. : : : :-- :TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to :[EMAIL PROTECTED] . :Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . : -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Stupid Question: Striping Dos ^M From Texts
tr -d '\r' dosfile unixfile removes all ^Ms, even if they are not at the end of the line where MSDOS seems to put them. tr(1) is small and fast. perl -p -i.bak -e 's/\r$//;' dosfile renames the dosfile dosfile.bak and writes the corrected output in dosfile. The $ anchors the search pattern to the end of the line. Omit the -i.bak if you don't want to save the old file. Cameron http://www.rahul.net/cameron/homepage.shtml -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
