auth.log: su(to root) fails 1000 times /min?

1997-06-14 Thread joost witteveen

From my /var/adm/log.auth:

Jun 12 20:53:57 rulcmc su: (to root) joost on /dev/ttyp6
Jun 12 21:00:20 rulcmc su: (to root) joost on /dev/ttyp6
Jun 12 23:05:57 rulcmc su: FAILED SU (to root) joost on none
Jun 12 23:06:28 rulcmc last message repeated 552 times
Jun 12 23:07:29 rulcmc last message repeated 1069 times
Jun 12 23:08:30 rulcmc last message repeated 1165 times
[and so on, for hours]

Hell, I know I often misspell my root passwd, but 1165 times in 61
seconds? No, I'm sure I never did that.

Does anybody know what may cause this?

(joost is myself, and I'm quite sure nobody else who just cracked
my joost passwd would start attempting to su to root with thousands
different passwds: once somebody 's got joost, they've got root
without cracking the root passwd).

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Upgrading 1.2 - 1.3

1997-06-14 Thread Mark Phillips

Hi,

I followed the instructions for upgrading from Debian 1.2 to 1.3 and got
the following errors:

# dpkg --clear-avail
# dpkg -i ldso_*.deb
(Reading database ... 31923 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace ldso 1.8.5-1 (using ldso_1.8.10-2.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement ldso ...
Setting up ldso (1.8.10-2) ...
ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libc.so (No such file or
directory), skipping
ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libm.so (No such file or
directory), skipping
ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libpthreads.so (No such file or
directory), skipping
# dpkg -i libc5_*.deb
(Reading database ... 31924 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libc5 5.4.23-2 (using libc5_5.4.23-6.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libc5 ...
Setting up libc5 (5.4.23-6) ...
ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libc.so (No such file or
directory), skipping
ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libm.so (No such file or
directory), skipping
ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libpthreads.so (No such file or
directory), skipping

The strange thing is though, that these files and directories to
in fact exist.  Any explanations/solutions?


-

I continued on, using dselect.  When I had got up to the install stage,
dselect installed the first few packages, then came up with:

Running dpkg -iGROEB /root/store/debian/bo/binary-i386
find: /root/store/debian/bo/binary-i386/editors/emacs-czech_3.4-1.deb: No
such file or directory
find: /root/store/debian/bo/binary-i386/editors/jedsl_0.98.2-2.deb: No
such file or directory
find: /root/store/debian/bo/binary-i386/x11/gwm-doc_1.8c-6.deb: No such
file or directory
dpkg: subprocess find returned error exit status 1

installation script returned error exit status 1.
Press RETURN to continue.


Now at least I have an idea of what the problem is here.  The reason 
why it can't find these files is because they are not there.  I
deliberately excluded them when I mirrored debian
[exclude_patt=(emacspeak_|emacs-czech_|jedsl_)]
because I know I don't want these packages and I haven't got enough
room on my hard drive to mirror the whole bo distribution.  I thought
I was being very clever by only downloading packages I was actually
going to install.

Is it true that dselect can't handle missing files even if they're
not needed?  Any way to get around the problem.  Debian is so big
now that a solution needs to be found, other wise I will have
tremendous problems installing Debian.


Thanks in advance for your help,


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UK source for 1.3 cd?

1997-06-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
Is there any source in the UK that will sell the 1.3 cd in the near
future?  My phone bill can't stand downloading everything that's
changed!

Or are there any foreign companies that will post to the UK? 

Prices, please...
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leafnode problem

1997-06-14 Thread Ciccio
Hi,

Recently I installed leafnode and from then on there is no
way to connect with the news. Netscape complains about
a TCP/IP connection error and something like `no route to
host'. (pings succeed). I tried to uninstall but no change.
My relations to th ISP are somewhat dense, but I don't
believe that two different servers are not operating correctly
for 3 days. What could have happend?

TIA

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Re: hostid

1997-06-14 Thread Douglas L Stewart
On Fri, 13 Jun 1997, Tim Sailer wrote:

 I'll have to look at the source to see what it actually does. I have yet
 to see a dupe.

It's probably based off the MAC address, and therefore probably is unique.

-douglas


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file system tools for dos

1997-06-14 Thread BG Lim
I'm running a dos/linux system. I remember reading that there was a tool
for accessing the ext2fs from dos. Can anyone tell me where to get it?

BG


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Re: why does make-kpkg put vmlinux and vmlinuz in package?

1997-06-14 Thread Bruce Perens
From: Michael Alan Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 It would be interesting to see if there was a way one could use the
 compressed image for that, though.

Surprise! We don't need psdatabase any longer. From the ps man page:

   WCHAN
Name (if a valid kernel symbol table can be found) or
address  of  the  kernel  wait channel the process is
sleeping in.  For the  kernel  symbol  table  libproc
scans the following files:
$PS_SYSTEM_MAP
/boot/System.map-`uname -r`
/boot/System.map
/lib/modules/`uname -r`/System.map
/etc/psdatabase
/boot/psdatabase-`uname -r`
/boot/psdatabase,
/lib/modules/`uname -r`/psdatabase
So  usually  you  don't  have  to use psupdate if you
install the map link file from the kernel.

So, we can flush the uncompressed kernel and the psdatabase generation
from kernel-package.

Thanks

Bruce
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Unidentified subject!

1997-06-14 Thread lapreste
Thank you for the help, now with the two libs the compilation works fine, but
at the execution I have :

visu: can't resolve symbol '_IO_stdout_'
visu: can't resolve symbol '_IO_stdin_'

Aren't standard? Do you see what is missing now ?

   JT Lapreste'

---
 I have installed checker on debian 1.3 and it works fine, but if I try to
 link files with X librairies I encounter at my program compilation the
 following kind of messages :
 
 
 
 cd /home/jtl/esa/model2/
 make -fmkvisu -k 
 checkergcc -Wall -g -I/usr/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -I../libsx/src -c 
 RdStr.c -o RdStr.o
 checkergcc -Wall -g -I/usr/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -I../libsx/src -c 
 loc.c -o loc.o
 checkergcc -Wall -g -I/usr/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -I../libsx/src -c 
 camera.c -o camera.o
 checkergcc   visu.o intervisu.o RdStr.o point3d.o matrix.o binmoddrw.o 
 names.o binarymod.o hidden.o loc.o camera.o perm.o  -o visu 
 -L/usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw95 -L/usr/X11R6/lib  -L../libsx/src -lsx -lXaw95 -lXmu 
 -lXt -lX11 -lm  


I would add -lICE -lSM after -lX11

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Ethernet problem

1997-06-14 Thread Alejandro Acosta A.
I have been trying my linux reconize my ethernet card and it has been 
imposible, I did it at my house and evething is O.K, but at my job it has been 
imposible.
I have compiled my kernel many times with support for compatible NE2000 
and my linux doesn't get it. In addition I tried to compile with support for 
all supported ethernet card with linux 2.0.30 and nothing happened.
Thanks.

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where I can find uploaded packages?

1997-06-14 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
I get the message uploaded libc 5.4.33-3 (i386 source) from debian-chages.

Where libc_5.4.33-3 is located?

How can I download it?

Andrea Arcangeli
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Re: Ethernet problem

1997-06-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], writes:
   I have been trying my linux reconize my ethernet card and it has been i
  mposible, I did it at my house and evething is O.K, but at my job it has
   been imposible.
   I have compiled my kernel many times with support for compatible NE2000
   and my linux doesn't get it. In addition I tried to compile with suppor
  t for all supported ethernet card with linux 2.0.30 and nothing happened
 
More information, please.

1) Do any messages from the ne driver appear at boot time?
2) What happens when the rc scripts try to start up networking?
3) Do you know the interrupt number and I/O address to which the card is set?
4) Have you tried forcing these itno the driver at boot time, rather than
   relying on autoprobing?
5) Does the card work in DOS/Windows? (sorry)
6) If the card works and is recognised by the kernel, are the correct 
   modules loaded? (ne also needs 8390).
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Re: Is there a Debian 1.3 Unleashed available?

1997-06-14 Thread Bruce Perens
All of the cheap CD outlets will soon be selling the Official CD at
very good prices (lunch money, and I mean McDonalds). I'd suggest you
get the book separately from the CD.

Bruce
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Re: Unidentified subject!

1997-06-14 Thread Nils Rennebarth
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On Wed, 11 Jun 1997, Stephan Tassart wrote:
 dpkg -l latex babel
ii  latex 2e-7
ii  babel3.6-4
Please remove the old TeX packages and go with the debianized tetex, now in
debian-1.3

However you do not need to do this. The real fix (working with the old
packages too) is:

But, when I run latex2e on a 8-bit file (with characters such as é,
ö instead of \'e, \o), I got nothing (for the 8-bit characters). Is
it a misconfiguration from the Debian distribution or a problem which
comes from initex (and in that case, why having compiled a 7-bit
initex instead of a 8-bit?)
Neiter.

You forgot to say
  \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
in the LaTeX preample (between \documentclass{article} and
\begin{document})

Nils

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Re: Tape backup

1997-06-14 Thread Bruce Perens
I am using an iomega jaz removable disk cartridge for backup. I got
the scsi internal version for $299 with one disk. The disks aren't
cheap: $100 for 1GB, but they are fast and much more convenient than
tape and useful for much more than backup. Compare them to $40 for a
travan cartrige and there doesn't seem to be much reason to use tape
any longer unless you are going to DAT or 8mm with their multi-gigabyte
capacity. I've been testing Debian installs by installing the entire
system on the jaz cartrige. I also use them for sneakernet to carry
1GB from work to home and back.

Bruce
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Re: dnload using telnet ?

1997-06-14 Thread gvl
I saw several no answers.  But it really depends on your telnet CLIENT.  
When at work I use a telnet client under windows 95 that supports file 
RECEIVE with XMODEM, YMODEM, YMODEM-G, ZMODEM, and KERMIT.  It won't 
transmit files back though.  What's nice, is that it supports auto zmodem. 
 I just use the command 'sz filename' in the terminal and it starts 
sending.  This client sees the ZMODEM signature and starts receiving.

The client is called SimpTerm for win32 (I think it will also work under 
win 3.11 w/win32s) version 0.9.4 -- copyright 1993, 94, 95 Jianqing Hu.

Filename sptn3209.zip 120K.  I got it off of software.com.

On 13 Jun 97,  Salil Khamkar wrote regarding:
__ dnload using telnet ? __

 Hi ,
 Is it possible to dnload a file after telneting to a machine ?? Not thru
 a comm program but from the shell prompt . Bye Salil
 
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Re: Is there a Debian 1.3 Unleashed available?

1997-06-14 Thread Bob Nielsen
By the time the major book publishers come out with a book/CD combination,
Debian will be up to 1.4 or later, lead time

On 13 Jun 1997, Michael Shaw wrote:

 Anyone know if there is a Linux Unleashed book/CD available for Debian 1.3? 
  
 I'm trying to find a place to get a CD at a decent price, but so far the 
 really 
 cheap places(CheapBytes, Tri-Linux) seem to have problems with their cut.  I
 am now considering PHT or InfoMagic, but if I can get a book AND CD for about 
 the same price or a little more then I'll do that.
 
 Anyone got recommendations?
 
 TIA,
 
 
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Re: hostid

1997-06-14 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Tim Sailer wrote:
 
 In your email to me, Jens B. Jorgensen, you wrote:
 
  Franck LE GALL - STAGIAIRE A FT.BD/CNET/DTD/PIH wrote:
  
   These quation is not directly related to Debian but I dont know
   where to ask it. So please, don't be angry about it ...
  
   I would like to know what is the hostid of a computer. Where does
   it come from ?
 
  Linux doesn't have a hostid. Sun workstations have a hostid. It is a
  32-bit number which is guaranteed to be unique on a Sun and is contained
  in a EPROM on the mainboard. Sun uses this number for various things
  (like using it to create a licensing key when a license is for a
  single-use, single-machine piece of software).
 
 Umm
 
 llug:~ uname -a
 Linux llug 2.0.30 #2 Sun May 18 00:47:52 EDT 1997 i586 unknown
 llug:~ hostid
 0xc782f032
 llug:~
 

So there is a debian command for it! Well, it doesn't come from hardware
in linux and isn't guaranteed to be unique, which is what this number
was intended to do. I believe DCE needs some number like this.

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Mail broken :(

1997-06-14 Thread Tim O'Brien
My email system on my Linux box at work has broken. It just stopped a few
days ago. I've also noticed several runq zombies.

When ps is used repeatedly, I can see that there's one copy of runq going
with the same process number, and another that keeps restarting and
incrementing the process number. The modem lights look like the mail is
being sent, and I get no bounce messages of any sort. 

Any ideas what I might have screwed up this time? 

Thanks, 
Tim 


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SMAIL/smarthost/BIND error

1997-06-14 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
 I posted this on June 10, but have not had any response, so I'm 
trying again.  My ISP says we do not offer support for linux mail. 
I hope someone can give me a clue.  I'm getting tired of going into 
Windoze to send mail.

 I am running debian 1.2.4, and use smail ver 3.2-3. I have
configured it to use my ISP as a smart host.  /etc/smail/routers
includes the following:

smart_host:
driver=smarthost, transport=smtp;
path=post.metrolink.net

 This has worked fine for many months until May 31.  Since then
when I try to run the queue I get an error message similar to the
following:

bob:vc-1:bobmailq
m0wbSvY-000ZEXC From: bob  (in /var/spool/smail/input)
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 11:33:44 -0400 (EDT)
Args: -t -oem -f bob -oMP sendmail
bob:vc-1:bobrunq -v
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: autometric.com matched by smart_host:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: mc.seflin.net matched by smart_host:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: metrolink.net matched by smart_host:
routed [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] at
post.metrolink.net
routed [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] at
post.metrolink.net
routed [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] at
post.metrolink.net
transport smtp uses driver tcpsmtp
transport smtp: BIND server failure: : Connection timed out
write_log:Deferred TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ROUTER:smart_host
TRANSPORT:smtp ERROR:(ERR164) transport smtp: BIND server failure: :
Connection timed out
write_log:Deferred TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ROUTER:smart_host
TRANSPORT:smtp ERROR:(ERR164) transport smtp: BIND server failure: :
Connection timed out
write_log:Deferred TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ROUTER:smart_host TRANSPORT:smtp
ERROR:(ERR164) transport smtp: BIND server failure: : Connection timed out

 I now have to go into DOS/WIN3.1 and use Eudora to send mail, which
is unacceptable.

 Does anyone have any suggestions as to a possible cure for this?

 I have asked my ISP if he has made any recent changes, but don't
expect much satisfaction there.

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Tape backup

1997-06-14 Thread dgolpira
Can anyone recommend an affordible, external tape drive supported by
Linux / Debian?

Any word on Iomega or Sony's portable tape drives (using parallel port)?

Performance is an issue but price is more important.

Thanks.

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Updatedb with Cron Daemon

1997-06-14 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello,

this is my /etc/updatedb.conf :

# This file sets environment variables which are used by updatedb

# filesystems which are pruned from updatedb database
PRUNEFS=afs proc
export PRUNEFS
# paths which are pruned from updatedb database
PRUNEPATHS=/tmp /usr/tmp /var/tmp /m /home/e2od5/[NOQ]
export PRUNEPATHS
# netpaths which are added
NETPATHS=
export NETPATHS

This should mean that no files above /m would included when running
updatedb, shouldn't it? Especially not /m/ra which is one directory
in /m (all directories in /m are mounted filesystems, /m/ra is one
of some NFS filesystems).

Nevertheless root recives the following mail every day (because updatedb
is called inside cron.daily):

te: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 07:00:14 +0200 (CEST)
From: Cron Daemon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] run-parts /etc/cron.daily

find: /m/ra: Permission denied

What's the matter here? Including /m/ra explicitely in PRUNEPATH does
help nothing. 

Any recommendations?

Have a nice weekend everybody

   Andreas.


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3c905 problems with 1.3 (and 1.2.5)

1997-06-14 Thread Tim Bell
Hi,

I've got a brand new Pentium II from Gateway 2000, and the 3Com 905
ethernet card is not behaving.

I first tried to install Debian 1.3 with the floppies I'd made on a
net-connected machine. That went okay, but then it couldn't see the
network, so I couldn't do the rest of the install.

So I used a CD with Debian 1.2.5 on it to install a minimal system, and
it still couldn't see the network. So I got the latest 3c59x driver
from Donald Becker's ftp site (which is at
ftp://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/linux/drivers/vortex.html) and built a
new kernel (2.0.27) with that.

This worked, so I installed the 1.3 packages over the 1.2.5, compiled a
2.0.30 kernel (with the updated driver), and then the network went away
again with the reboot.

I've fiddled with PnP settings in the BIOS, checked IRQs and I/O
addresses, compiled the driver as a module and, nothing helps. There
are no messages on the logs indicating a problem, and ifconfig reports
that the card is up -- but nothing gets through.

So, I figured I'd go back to the 1.2.5 setup which had worked. This I
did, and it worked -- until I rebooted. So it seems I can get the
ethernet card to work once, right after installing 1.2.5 and compiling
a new kernel with the latest boomerang (3c90x) driver. After that, the
card won't talk. I can't figure out why...

If anyone has any tips or can help in any other way, I'd greatly
appreciate it.

Tim.
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Re: Help with in.pop3d

1997-06-14 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Benjamin T. White ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: the linux box with POP3 clients on macs networked to the linux box. I seem to 
: get every thing setup correctly but the remote POP clients give the error:
: 
: I said PASS
: 
: and the POP server said:
: 
: -ERR  cannot open mailbox /var/spool/mail/ben
: Permission denied.
: 
: in.pop3d seems to be running as root when it is invoked by inetd, so what 
: gives?  The mail boxes exist, the connnection is made but no mail is 
: delivered

I don't know about the standard in.pop3d daemon as I use qpopper but
this daemon changes the real user ID to that of the user checking mail
so I has no root priviledges.

Also, it is important to have write access to /var/spool/mail. To have this
this directory has to be set-gid mail:

drwxrwsr-x   3 root mail 2048 Jun 12 23:21 mail/

You should check the permissions of /var/spool/mail/ben and make
sure you are logging as ben when you telnet to port pop-3.

Good luck.

E.-

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Re: checkergcc

1997-06-14 Thread Alex Yukhimets
  (sorry to duplicate, I had forgotten to type in the subject.)
  
  Thank you for the help, now with the two libs the compilation works fine, 
  but
  at the execution I have :
  
  visu: can't resolve symbol '_IO_stdout_'
  visu: can't resolve symbol '_IO_stdin_'
  
  Aren't standard? Do you see what is missing now ?
 
 (I don't *think* I have the answer, but:)
 
 These errors also appear when running binaries that are statically
 linked against an old libc5 with recent X libraries. I _suspect_ the
 checker libs were compiled whith old libc stuff installed. However
 it should be easy to check this: upgrade to libc6, and install the
 libc6 checker.
 

I don't see how they could be linked statically (from the loader line).
Anyway, try 

ldd visu 

to see what shared libraries it is using.

 I can sortof understand you if you don't really want to do the above.
 If you still want to try it out, I can get you an account on my libc6
 machine, and you can test it out anyway.
 
 The other test for my theory is: download the checker source (from bo),
 and compile it yourself. Then install the pacakge you just created.
  

Before doing this I'd just try to compile with plain gcc...

Alex Y.

 
 
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Kernel Question...

1997-06-14 Thread Matthew Tebbens

I just re-compilied the kernel for my system. I used 'make menuconfig'.
Is kernel support for JAVA binaries included by default ?
I don't remember seeing it in menuconfig, and I don't see anything in
/usr/src/linux/.config that would suggest it was an option.

Matthew


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Re: Location of sc spreadsheet

1997-06-14 Thread Kevin M. Bealer
Brian White wrote:
Does anybody know if the sc spreadsheet is available for Debian?  I
cannot find it anywhere.

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Sorry this is so late, I am behind on reading, so ignore it if it isn't
helpful anymore, or you already found out.

I have sc here, installed from a package slsc I believe, which is a
slang-ified sc.


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More good humor

1997-06-14 Thread Chad D. Zimmerman

Just got a new humor item tonight.  This one is for all the programmers
out there.  Well , actually, it is for anyone that just plain wonders
about Microsoft products.

http://dabcc-www.nmsu.edu/~chad/links-humor.html  Click on the TOP SECRET
link.  You will then need to give me all your personal info, CC numbers
... address .. (kidding)

A couple asked if they could use the last humor item i sent out .. I'll
save ya the time  -- take what ya want.

Chad


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Help with in.pop3d

1997-06-14 Thread Benjamin T. White
Hello all,

I have a site running Debian 1.2.  I need to be able to access mailboxes on 
the linux box with POP3 clients on macs networked to the linux box.  I seem to 
get every thing setup correctly but the remote POP clients give the error:

I said PASS

and the POP server said:

-ERR  cannot open mailbox /var/spool/mail/ben
Permission denied.

in.pop3d seems to be running as root when it is invoked by inetd, so what 
gives?  The mail boxes exist, the connnection is made but no mail is 
delivered

Thanks in advance!

Ben





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Re: Rescue disk hurts my ethernet card

1997-06-14 Thread Jason Gunthorpe


On Thu, 12 Jun 1997, Lee Bradshaw wrote:

 I had a similar problem with tcpdump.  After I saw it referenced in a
 message here I decided to see what kind of info it would print out.  The
 info on my card (3C509) looked correct, but after running tcpdump, I
 couldn't connect to any other machines.  The light on my hub indicated
 the card wasn't alive.  Rebooting in win95 :^( and then back into debian
 fixed the problem.

While we are lamenting about the rescue disk nuking ethernet cards,
I had a DLink-250 that the rescue disk would disable (changed the EEPROM
somehow). I forget the exact details but I do know that during boot Linux 
can FRY (permantly harm) those DE-250 cards, it damages the eeprom in some
way that the setup programs will not rewrite it.

I forget what I did to fix it, I think I moved the base address.

Jason


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Re: 10BT cables and lightning

1997-06-14 Thread jghasler
Walter L. Preuninger II writes:
 Is there any method of protecting the cables  cards from lightning
 damage? Several pc's and a 16 port concentrator died recently due to a
 very close lightning strike.

Unplug everything and disconnect all long cables during thunderstorms.

John Hasler
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How can I restore Dselect's needed Perl modules?

1997-06-14 Thread Terrence Brannon
Somehow, the Perl modules that dselect needs got munged. I have
another Debian 1.2 machine Ethernetted/Internetted to this one that I
can ftp things from. Or of course I could ftp something from a debian
ftp site. But the question is, what should I get and if I have to use
dpkg instead of dselect, what command line should I use?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] /felix/brannon : dselect
Can't locate IO/Socket.pm in @INC at /usr/lib/perl5/Net/FTP.pm line 378.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/Net/FTP.pm line 378.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/setup line 7.

query/setup script returned error exit status 2.
Press RETURN to continue.

Can't locate IO/Socket.pm in @INC at /usr/lib/perl5/Net/FTP.pm line 378.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/Net/FTP.pm line 378.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/setup line 7.

query/setup script returned error exit status 2.
Press RETURN to continue.

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Re: NIS is broken in Debian 1.3!

1997-06-14 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
Jim Pick wrote:
 
   ~ ypmatch rover passwd
   rover:V/8DB9sycYRnM:1017:1017::/home/rover:/bin/bash
   ~ su rover
   su: user rover does not exist
 
  'su' doesn't work, but 'login' does.
 
 Ok, I tested it and the 'su' from shellutils-1.16-2 works,
 but the 'su' from shellutils-1.16-4 doesn't (from unstable).
 
 I filed a bug report.
 
 Cheers,
 
  - Jim
 
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 Did you resolve the problem?

 Cheers,

No, I haven't solved the problem. I tested the 'su' from
shellutils-1.16-2 and it didn't work for me. I believe the problem is a
mismatch between libc and the Debian NIS package. For me nothing works,
not only the system utilities like su and ls, but also my MTA (smail and
exim) which cannot see the users and aliases defined in the NIS maps.

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xemacs and tex

1997-06-14 Thread lapreste
Hello,

I was using xemacs in conjunction with Latex in debian 1.2.

I recently updated to 1.3 latex was replaced by Tetex distribution and xemacs
became 19.14.1.

I have the problem that the tex-modes.el lisp file is now aged of years,
and do not recognize the latex2e format and display no menu on the menu bar. 

Do you know if there is an adaptation of the equivalemt emacs file (which
do not work with xemacs) that is more recent? Or must I try to adapt it ?



Also, I work on a toshiba portable and when I have the toolbar visible 
(under xemacs), each time the cursor encounter an icon, I get an error message 
on the mini-buffer that begin by :
  can't instantiate image (probably cached): [xbm :mask-file  /usr/...

followed by the path of the mask (that exists) and some of the bytes of the 
mask.

Except this noise and garbage on the mini buffer all seem to work ok !

If you have any hint on what to do or who to ask I would be very pleased.

  thank you and sorry for disturbing with perhaps trivial questions.

   Jean Thierry Lapreste


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status of the new version of procps

1997-06-14 Thread Joseph Skinner
Hi

I noticed a number of days ago that the new version of procps (1.12-1)
had been uploaded to the master site.

Having checked ftp.debian.org today and finding that it is not there yet
I was wondering if there was some hold up.

Joe.

ps. I have been waiting for this update for a while as I am using the 2.1
series and would like to have free and top report memory used correctly :-)

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Re: Easy way to switch from RedHat to Debian?

1997-06-14 Thread Dima
Anthony Campbell wrote:
...
 I REALLY don't what to start a flame war : )  ...

then cancel your posting

... but I'd like to know why
 people would want to do this...

Because they want to.  People are free to switch from RH to 
Debian whenever they want (errm, not sure about the other way 
round though  ;-)

BTW I'm not happy with Christoph's wording in his c.o.l.d.s. 
post: how to _upgrade_ to Debian.   It sounded like a flamebait, 
and it's not Debian policy to say (imply) bad things about RH,
as Bruce says.




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Re: NIS is broken in Debian 1.3!

1997-06-14 Thread Jim Pick

  ~ ypmatch rover passwd
  rover:V/8DB9sycYRnM:1017:1017::/home/rover:/bin/bash
  ~ su rover
  su: user rover does not exist  

 'su' doesn't work, but 'login' does.

Ok, I tested it and the 'su' from shellutils-1.16-2 works,
but the 'su' from shellutils-1.16-4 doesn't (from unstable).

I filed a bug report.

Cheers,

 - Jim



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Re: Locales Problem?

1997-06-14 Thread Victor Torrico
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 On 12 Jun, Victor Torrico wrote:
 
  I tried putting LANG=en_US in my .bash_profile and still get LANG=us
  when I do an env. As you can tell I'm a unix/linux novice.  What am I
  overlooking?
 
 For a quick test (I assume you use bash), do
 
 export LANG=en_US
 
 You can then check if it works by
 
 perl -v
 
 Please do tell me if setting LANG solved your perl problems.
 
 Ciao,
 Martin

I did as you requested and still get the perl problem.  See the
following for my results:



vtorrico# export LANG=en_US
vtorrico# perl -v
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = en_US
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale (C).

This is perl, version 5.004

Copyright 1987-1997, Larry Wall

Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License
or the
GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5.0 source
kit.

vtorrico#


Cheers,


Victor


PS:  Perhaps it is due to using the latest version of Perl?  Is it
possible that the LC_ALL and LANG are compiled incorrectly into the
kernel?  I am using a recently compiled kernel 2.0.30.  I'm getting in
over my depth of knowledge here.


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Re: tar boo-boo...

1997-06-14 Thread Rob Browning
Jim Pick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Since it only wrote out a few files, does anyone know if there is a
 way to retrieve the files off the tape that weren't overwritten?

Hmm.  Given my previous experiences with tape drives, you may be out
of luck.  When you clobbered the old file, you wrote an end of tape
marker that the drive will probably refuse to move past (which is
normally an excellent behavior).

The only thing I can think is to try using mt seek to bytes past the
end of the tape, but I'd be surprised if the drive lets you.

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Re: Kernel Question...

1997-06-14 Thread Philippe Troin

On Thu, 12 Jun 1997 20:46:07 EDT Matthew Tebbens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]
.net) wrote:

 I just re-compilied the kernel for my system. I used 'make menuconfig'.
 Is kernel support for JAVA binaries included by default ?
 I don't remember seeing it in menuconfig, and I don't see anything in
 /usr/src/linux/.config that would suggest it was an option.

You have to enable the ask for alpha/incomplete drivers to be asked for java.
Don't forget to edit the locations for java and appletviewer in fs/.

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Re: xlockmore and shadow?

1997-06-14 Thread Hanno Wagner
Hi,

On Jun 13, Christian Hudon wrote

 Maybe check the permissions on your /etc/shadow file. It should be:
 
 -rw-r-   1 root shadow897 Apr  6 03:40 /etc/shadow

Well... mine was only readable for root and group was root,
so...

But now it works - thanks!

Ciao, Hanno
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Help configuring rlogin

1997-06-14 Thread Scott Smith


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Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 10:06:36 -0600 (MDT)
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Subject: Help configuring rlogind

I am trying to remote login between two linux boxes - but I don't think
that the server is set up properly (there is no rlogind in the services
file).  How do I go about configuring the server so that I can rlogin from
a remote host.  Scott :-}



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Re: Is there a Debian 1.3 Unleashed available?

1997-06-14 Thread Chad D. Zimmerman

I have yet to see any books on the market that do more than mention
Debian.  That is why I am working on the Debian Book Project.  I am still
in the begining stages now but I am hoping early next year .. or arround
the Debian 2.0 release to have the book published.

I have had offers from at least 4 peole as well that want to convert it
into other languages.  (5 total right now)

You can get more on the DBP at http://dabcc-www.nmsu.edu/~chad/Debian/

Chad



On 13 Jun 1997, Michael Shaw wrote:

 Anyone know if there is a Linux Unleashed book/CD available for Debian 1.3? 
  
 I'm trying to find a place to get a CD at a decent price, but so far the 
 really 
 cheap places(CheapBytes, Tri-Linux) seem to have problems with their cut.  I
 am now considering PHT or InfoMagic, but if I can get a book AND CD for about 
 the same price or a little more then I'll do that.
 
 Anyone got recommendations?
 
 TIA,
 
 
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Re: parallel port zip drive?

1997-06-14 Thread gvl

  Dave campbell's page is gone.  I've sent mail to one of the other 
developers asking how to get the latest driver.

On 10 Jun 97,  Albatross wrote regarding:
__ Re: parallel port zip drive? __

 Hi,
 
  Could anyone point me to information about using an Iomega parallel port
 (Not
  SCSI) zip drive? Is it possible in Linux?
 
 Pay attention the driver enclosed with kernel 2.0.xx it rather slow, it
 doesn't use all the features of the zip. Look at:
 http://www.cage.curtin.edu.au/~campbell/ for more info.
 
 Best regards.
Gerald V. Livingston II

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routing question

1997-06-14 Thread Pete Templin

Hi there,

I'm in the process of setting up a 486 sx/25 as a dialup router
(with one modem and one network card).  Unfortunately, the ISP can't seem
to get the external routing right yet, so my testing is being held up.

The question is this: I've compiled a lean, mean kernel with the
appropriate IP forwarding enabled (no firewalling or masquerading is being
used).  Will it route by default, or do I need to add a specific package
or other external software?

Here's the output of route:

Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway  Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface
cs10.mil.ptd.ne *255.255.255.255 UH0  02 ppp0
cs10.mil.ptd.ne *255.255.255.255 UH1  00 sl0
204.186.230.0   *255.255.255.0   U 0  0   35 eth0
127.0.0.0   *255.0.0.0   U 0  0   18 lo
default *0.0.0.0 U 0  0   87 ppp0
default *0.0.0.0 U 1  0   15 sl0

The modem is 204.186.27.145 (cs10-01.mil.ptd.net).  Our IP addresses (not
yet completely routed, but will be routed through the modem) are:
204.186.230.1, 204.186.230.2, 204.186.230.3 .  The first address is given
to the network card in the Linux dialup router, and the second address is
assigned to an NT server on the network, so once the external router to
the ISP recognizes the route, pinging 204.186.230.2 is a good test.

_Any_ advice would certainly be helpful!

Pete

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Re: routing question

1997-06-14 Thread Tim Sailer
In your email to me, Pete Templin, you wrote:
 
 
 Hi there,
 
   I'm in the process of setting up a 486 sx/25 as a dialup router
 (with one modem and one network card).  Unfortunately, the ISP can't seem
 to get the external routing right yet, so my testing is being held up.
 
   The question is this: I've compiled a lean, mean kernel with the
 appropriate IP forwarding enabled (no firewalling or masquerading is being
 used).  Will it route by default, or do I need to add a specific package
 or other external software?
 
   Here's the output of route:
 
 Kernel IP routing table
 Destination Gateway  Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface
 cs10.mil.ptd.ne *255.255.255.255 UH0  02 ppp0
 cs10.mil.ptd.ne *255.255.255.255 UH1  00 sl0
 204.186.230.0   *255.255.255.0   U 0  0   35 eth0
 127.0.0.0   *255.0.0.0   U 0  0   18 lo
 default *0.0.0.0 U 0  0   87 ppp0
 default *0.0.0.0 U 1  0   15 sl0
 
 The modem is 204.186.27.145 (cs10-01.mil.ptd.net).  Our IP addresses (not
 yet completely routed, but will be routed through the modem) are:
 204.186.230.1, 204.186.230.2, 204.186.230.3 .  The first address is given
 to the network card in the Linux dialup router, and the second address is
 assigned to an NT server on the network, so once the external router to
 the ISP recognizes the route, pinging 204.186.230.2 is a good test.

I take it that the sl0 is a dialup connection? You have to add a static
route (maybe) and proxyarp it (arp -s). The rest should be OK. The dialups
are the real pains since they have no MAC address to arp to.

Tim

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Re: How can I restore Dselect's needed Perl modules?

1997-06-14 Thread Kendall P. Bullen
On 13 Jun 1997, Terrence Brannon wrote:

 Somehow, the Perl modules that dselect needs got munged.

Yah, whassup wit' dat?  I had problems with dselect's 'install'
option, and with chat2.pl.  I copied a missing module from elsewhere,
re-ran dselect, tried to install something new, and ran into another
missing one module.  By adding in missing modules, I could've gotten
things working eventually, but it was getting ridiculous.  ;)

I suspect I somehow messed up something, so I reinstalled perl-base
and perl from 1.2.15.  Things *seem* okay now.

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Re: Rescue disk hurts my ethernet card

1997-06-14 Thread Jason Gunthorpe


On Thu, 12 Jun 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:

 The EEPROM getting scrambled is a result of drivers probing for devices
 on the bus that don't happen to be there, and hitting the network card
 instead. This happens more with the rescue disk than with a custom kernel
 because the rescue disk is built for every scsi and ethernet card we could
 fit in the kernel. If you can tell me about the I/O ports of your network
 card we can give you magic words to put on the boot command line for that
 device that reserve its ports and prevent other drivers from touching them.

Fraid the reserve boot command did not help this problem, it's EEProm IO
ports may not have been in the region I had the card set to or one of the
drivers may be ill behaved. I've long since gotten rid of it, now have a
RealTek PCI NE2k. 

I heard of two fried network cards, one was mine and one was a friends,
both D-Link DE-250's and both fried by booting the rescue disk. My other
De-250 just got disabled during linux's boot, had a bit of a time figuring
out why Linux didn't want to use my card till I figured it out.

Jason


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Re: checkergcc

1997-06-14 Thread joost witteveen
 (sorry to duplicate, I had forgotten to type in the subject.)
 
 Thank you for the help, now with the two libs the compilation works fine, but
 at the execution I have :
 
 visu: can't resolve symbol '_IO_stdout_'
 visu: can't resolve symbol '_IO_stdin_'
 
 Aren't standard? Do you see what is missing now ?

(I don't *think* I have the answer, but:)

These errors also appear when running binaries that are statically
linked against an old libc5 with recent X libraries. I _suspect_ the
checker libs were compiled whith old libc stuff installed. However
it should be easy to check this: upgrade to libc6, and install the
libc6 checker.

I can sortof understand you if you don't really want to do the above.
If you still want to try it out, I can get you an account on my libc6
machine, and you can test it out anyway.

The other test for my theory is: download the checker source (from bo),
and compile it yourself. Then install the pacakge you just created.
 


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Re: checkergcc

1997-06-14 Thread Ciccio
 I have installed checker on debian 1.3 and it works fine, but if I try to
 link files with X librairies I encounter at my program compilation the
 following kind of messages :
 
 
 
 cd /home/jtl/esa/model2/
 make -fmkvisu -k 
 checkergcc -Wall -g -I/usr/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -I../libsx/src -c 
 RdStr.c -o RdStr.o
 checkergcc -Wall -g -I/usr/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -I../libsx/src -c 
 loc.c -o loc.o
 checkergcc -Wall -g -I/usr/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -I../libsx/src -c 
 camera.c -o camera.o
 checkergcc   visu.o intervisu.o RdStr.o point3d.o matrix.o binmoddrw.o 
 names.o binarymod.o hidden.o loc.o camera.o perm.o  -o visu 
 -L/usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw95 -L/usr/X11R6/lib  -L../libsx/src -lsx -lXaw95 -lXmu 
 -lXt -lX11 -lm  
 /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6: undefined reference to `siglongjmp'
 /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6: undefined reference to `__sigjmp_save'
 /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6: undefined reference to `chmod'
 /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6: undefined reference to `accept'
 /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6: undefined reference to `umask'
 /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6: undefined reference to `rand'
 /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6: undefined reference to `signal'
 /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6: undefined reference to `listen'
 /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6: undefined reference to `srand'
 /usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw95.so: undefined reference to `__errno_location'
 /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6: undefined reference to `link'
 /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6: undefined reference to `mkdir'
 make: *** [visu] Error 1
 make: Target `all' not remade because of errors.
 
 Compilation exited abnormally with code 2 at Fri Jun 13 08:03:16
 --
 
 What did I miss? I found no hint in the info files. Must I link with a
 supplementary lib? With gcc the program visu compiles and works fine.
 
   thanks for help
  JT Lapreste'
 
You didn't miss anything. These messages go away, if you link explicitly
against libc. But this doesn't help. Maybe it would help to link also with
-g compiled X libs, but this is huge. The author told me he'll see what
he can do for the next release. BTW. Don't link in more things. I did and
got worse messages about inexisting memory faults.

HTH

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Re: 3c905 problems with 1.3 (and 1.2.5)

1997-06-14 Thread Tim Bell
Rick Macdonald wrote:
 
 On Fri, 13 Jun 1997, Tim Bell wrote:
 
  So, I figured I'd go back to the 1.2.5 setup which had worked. This I
  did, and it worked -- until I rebooted.
 
 I had similar problems once, but nothing to do with a network card.
 It turned out that lilo.conf wasn't pointed at the partition that I
 thought it was, so when I ran lilo and rebooted I wasn't getting the
 kernel that I thought I was.
 
 Others have done the same thing. Can you verify you're booting the
 intended kernel? You didn't say anything about how you were booting.

I'm booting with lilo (whichever version comes with 1.2.5 or 1.3) and
I have verified I'm booting what I think I'm booting. I've been fiddling
with different kernel configurations, so I've been checking kernel
compile dates and lilo configurations regularly.

The funny thing is that it will work with a kernel once, but never again.

Tim.
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can qmail be run from inetd

1997-06-14 Thread Joey Hess
I have a small system that has qmail installed, and doesn't get much mail,
so it's really a waste of memory to have the various qmail daemons running
all the time. Is there a way to set up qmail so it gets run from inetd?

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Re: NIS is broken in Debian 1.3!

1997-06-14 Thread Jim Pick

 Both the server and the client machines have libc5 version 5.4.23-4 and 
 libc6 version 2.0.3-4. Let me give you an example of what's happening on
 the client machine:
 
 ~ ypmatch rover passwd
 rover:V/8DB9sycYRnM:1017:1017::/home/rover:/bin/bash
 ~ su rover
 su: user rover does not exist  
 
 However, the /etc/passwd file in the client machine ends with the line
 +:: Shouldn't this work?
 
 So, the NIS binding process is ok, but all system utilities (like su,
 ls, passwd, etc.) in the client machine are unable to see the NIS maps.


I just discovered I'm having the same problem here.

'su' doesn't work, but 'login' does.

Hmm.  This is probably a bug in su (or libc).

Did you resolve the problem?

Cheers,

 - Jim



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Running boa using inetd

1997-06-14 Thread Luis Francisco Gonzalez
Hi,
following the recent thread about dwww, I decided to try it out. I installed
boa as a web server but was trying as someone suggested in that thread, to
run it through inetd. The idea is that I want to disallow all non-local
connections to the http server. Unfortunately I have deleted those messages
and don't remeber if there contained any details on how to do this. The
mailing list archives do not contain them yet either.

So the question is, how do I get this to work. Boa complains that there is
some other process listening to the port and exits with an error. Alternatively
is there some other way of having a small server that can only be accesed
from the local host or may be a small selected list of hosts?

Thanks in advance,
Luis.
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Re: Locales Problem?

1997-06-14 Thread W Paul Mills
On Thu, 12 Jun 1997, Victor Torrico wrote:

 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  
  On 12 Jun, Victor Torrico wrote:
  
   I tried putting LANG=en_US in my .bash_profile and still get LANG=us
   when I do an env. As you can tell I'm a unix/linux novice.  What am I
   overlooking?
  
  For a quick test (I assume you use bash), do
  
  export LANG=en_US
  
  You can then check if it works by
  
  perl -v
  
  Please do tell me if setting LANG solved your perl problems.
  
  Ciao,
  Martin
 
 I did as you requested and still get the perl problem.  See the
 following for my results:
 
 
 
 vtorrico# export LANG=en_US
 vtorrico# perl -v
 perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
 perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
 LC_ALL = (unset),
 LANG = en_US
 are supported and installed on your system.
 perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale (C).
 
 This is perl, version 5.004
 
 Copyright 1987-1997, Larry Wall
 
 Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License
 or the
 GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5.0 source
 kit.
 
 vtorrico#
 
 
 Cheers,
 
 
 Victor
 
 
 PS:  Perhaps it is due to using the latest version of Perl?  Is it
 possible that the LC_ALL and LANG are compiled incorrectly into the
 kernel?  I am using a recently compiled kernel 2.0.30.  I'm getting in
 over my depth of knowledge here.


This all seems to have something to do with libc and a wg15-locale
package. Do you have anything in /usr/share/locale. Most seem to 
start having this problem if they install StarOffice which has you
set LANG=us. It really does not seem to hurt anything other than
all the trash it puts on your screen when perl programs are run.
As more programs depend on these features, it may become more of an
issue.

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Re: Easy way to switch from RedHat to Debian?

1997-06-14 Thread Shaya Potter

There is no real easy way.  However, if you have enough disk space, you
can make a new partition, or use an old one, install debian on it, and
migrate all your config date to the debian side.  YOu can then wipe
redhat, and install all the packages you need from debian.

Shaya

On 12 Jun 1997, Michael Shaw wrote:

 Hello,
 
 I'm planning to convert my home systems to Debian Linux from RedHat and was
 wondering if there was anyone out there who had performed this task before?
 
 I'm currently running RedHat 4.0 and want to install Debian 1.3.  I'm
 wondering if there is a better way to do this cutover then nuking the root
 disk and starting over from scratch?
 
 TIA,
 
 Mike
 
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FWD: Debian Linux prob

1997-06-14 Thread Joey Hess
Perhaps some other developer is better-suited to deal with this than I, who
don't even have a CD drive. :-)

-Forwarded message from Myopsis [EMAIL PROTECTED]-

Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 14:07:55 -0400
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Myopsis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Debian Linux prob
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Hey, i hear you're maintaining the Debian distribution of Linux
Well, I just wanted to report to you that when I got a Linux CD (TRI-LINUX)
and tried installing debian (1.2.8), I couldn't get it to find my CDROM
drive, so i just went on to Slackware, which I've been staying with.  I
don't know how common this problem is, but I thought you should know so
that you could have a chance to correct it.  

  Later!!

——me   (A.K.A.  Myopsis)


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XPilot-package and sound

1997-06-14 Thread Marc Saric
Hi,

I don´t know if the maintainer of the Xpilot-package is reading this
mailing-list, but if so, he/she might be able to answer my little
question:

After trying to get the sound-thingy running with XPilot, I failes to do
so, and I´m asking myself if there is sound-support at all compiled into
the Debian-version of Xpilot.

Otherwise someone might give me a hint (or are you playing Quake all the
time :-))

Thanks in advance!

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Re: debian-user-digest problems

1997-06-14 Thread David Pfitzner
 ANy idea HOW MANY dashes it takes in a row to split the message for your
 mail reader?  Many programs put two or three to designate the .sig

The digest separator is 28 dashes.
Anything over that seems to cause a problem.
It probably has to start at the start of a line, too.


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BIG NetScape Bug!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 (fwd)

1997-06-14 Thread George Bonser

Better take this SERIOUSLY folks, it is a VERY big bug ... major security
hole.  It allows a server to see EVERYTHING on the client filesystem.


George Bonser
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Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 21:06:45 -0500
From: Francisco Benavides [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: BIG NetScape Bug1

Hi, 

A HUGE flaw was uncovered in the new NetScape, for more details:

http://cnnfn.com/digitaljam/9706/12/netscape_pkg/

Bye/Francisco :)


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Re: debian-user-digest problems

1997-06-14 Thread George Bonser

 (So can everyone stop using rows of dashes!! :-)
 
 -- David Pfitzner 
 
 

ANy idea HOW MANY dashes it takes in a row to split the message for your
mail reader?  Many programs put two or three to designate the .sig


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Re: Help with in.pop3d

1997-06-14 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Thursday 12 June 97, at 22 h 40, the keyboard of Benjamin T. White 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 in.pop3d seems to be running as root when it is invoked by inetd, so what 
 gives?  The mail boxes exist, the connnection is made but no mail is 
 delivered

Anyway, I seriously suggest you use qpopper instead. There is at least 
one very good reason: last time I checked, in.pop3d didn't log the 
erroneous passwords, so a cracker could use it to try typical passwords 
(even if you have shadow).

Package: qpopper
Status: install ok installed
Priority: extra
Section: mail
Installed-Size: 110
Maintainer: Miquel van Smoorenburg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Version: 2.2-4
Depends: libc5 (= 5.4.0-0), libgdbm1
Description: Enhanced Post Office Protocol server (POP3).
 This is The Qualcomm enhanced version of the Post Office Protocol Daemon
 (POP3 daemon), based on the latest BSD version. The QualComm popper has
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[Off-Topic] Making FLI's

1997-06-14 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Hi, sorry for posting this here, but since xanim supports FLI's, I hope
somebody here knows the answer. Does anybody here know if there's a Linux
program for making FLI's? In the Povray homepage I found a reference to a
DOS program (DTA was it?) but I'd like to stick to Linux.

TIA, and apologies again,

Marcelo Magallon


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Re: tar boo-boo...

1997-06-14 Thread Jim Pick
 Jim Pick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 
  Since it only wrote out a few files, does anyone know if there is a
  way to retrieve the files off the tape that weren't overwritten?
 
 Hmm.  Given my previous experiences with tape drives, you may be out
 of luck.  When you clobbered the old file, you wrote an end of tape
 marker that the drive will probably refuse to move past (which is
 normally an excellent behavior).
 
 The only thing I can think is to try using mt seek to bytes past the
 end of the tape, but I'd be surprised if the drive lets you.

It wouldn't let me - I found an easier solution.  I had previously used
the system where the old disk was going (a Win95 only system, for now) 
with the nfsroot package, so I just used that boot floppy, and I was 
able to mount the partition, and copy all of the files via NFS.

Thanks for the help, guys...  :-)

Cheers,

 - Jim






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Re: Master.debian.org

1997-06-14 Thread Bruce Perens
Yes, master is down at the moment. Mike will bring it back as soon as he can.

Bruce
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Re: frequently paused modem connection

1997-06-14 Thread Shaya Potter
On Wed, 11 Jun 1997, Eugene Sevinian wrote:

 I use USR14400 modem and it works fine with mgetty. The only bad thing
 which I noticed so far are the short pauses (~1-5 sec) during the
 sessions. Unfortunatly, to say the least of it, the quality of telephone
 lines is not very good. However I would like to know if there are some 
 other (soft) reasons  which can explain such a behavior.
 
 Many thanks in advance for any idea.

I remember reading a month or 2 ago, that USR was having this kind of
problem with their modems.  If I remember correctly, their is a simple
switch that you send to the modem that should fix it.  Check their home
page, or contact their techincal support, for more info.

HTH,

Shaya


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why does make-kpkg put vmlinux and vmlinuz in package?

1997-06-14 Thread Joey Hess
If I use make-kpkg -r=box.1.0 kernel_image to make a custom kernel
package, I see it includes:

-rw-r--r-- root/root327834 1997-06-13 17:15 boot/vmlinuz-2.0.30
-rw-r--r-- root/root816421 1997-06-13 17:15 boot/vmlinux-2.0.30

Why include both files? Is there any way to turn that off and just include
the vmlinuz file? I'm operating on a low-disk-space system, and I need to
save every MB I can.

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Re: hostid

1997-06-14 Thread Tim Sailer
In your email to me, Jens B. Jorgensen, you wrote:
  
  llug:~ uname -a
  Linux llug 2.0.30 #2 Sun May 18 00:47:52 EDT 1997 i586 unknown
  llug:~ hostid
  0xc782f032
  llug:~
  
 
 So there is a debian command for it! Well, it doesn't come from hardware
 in linux and isn't guaranteed to be unique, which is what this number
 was intended to do. I believe DCE needs some number like this.

I'll have to look at the source to see what it actually does. I have yet
to see a dupe.

Tim

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Is there a Debian 1.3 Unleashed available?

1997-06-14 Thread Michael Shaw
Anyone know if there is a Linux Unleashed book/CD available for Debian 1.3?  
I'm trying to find a place to get a CD at a decent price, but so far the really 
cheap places(CheapBytes, Tri-Linux) seem to have problems with their cut.  I
am now considering PHT or InfoMagic, but if I can get a book AND CD for about 
the same price or a little more then I'll do that.

Anyone got recommendations?

TIA,


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Re: Running boa using inetd

1997-06-14 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Fri, 13 Jun 1997, Luis Francisco Gonzalez wrote:

 So the question is, how do I get this to work. Boa complains that there is
 some other process listening to the port and exits with an error. 
 Alternatively
 is there some other way of having a small server that can only be accesed
 from the local host or may be a small selected list of hosts?

This is easily handled with the WN server.  There is a
daemon, wn, that works with inetd and a stand-alone daemon,
swn.  Access can be restricted to specific hosts on a
directory by directory basis.

I recently released the latest wn package, wn-1.17.11_1, to
the unstable distribution.

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checkergcc

1997-06-14 Thread lapreste
(sorry to duplicate, I had forgotten to type in the subject.)

Thank you for the help, now with the two libs the compilation works fine, but
at the execution I have :

visu: can't resolve symbol '_IO_stdout_'
visu: can't resolve symbol '_IO_stdin_'

Aren't standard? Do you see what is missing now ?

   JT Lapreste'

---
 I have installed checker on debian 1.3 and it works fine, but if I try to
 link files with X librairies I encounter at my program compilation the
 following kind of messages :
 
 
 
 cd /home/jtl/esa/model2/
 make -fmkvisu -k 
 checkergcc -Wall -g -I/usr/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -I../libsx/src -c 
 RdStr.c -o RdStr.o
 checkergcc -Wall -g -I/usr/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -I../libsx/src -c 
 loc.c -o loc.o
 checkergcc -Wall -g -I/usr/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -I../libsx/src -c 
 camera.c -o camera.o
 checkergcc   visu.o intervisu.o RdStr.o point3d.o matrix.o binmoddrw.o 
 names.o binarymod.o hidden.o loc.o camera.o perm.o  -o visu 
 -L/usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw95 -L/usr/X11R6/lib  -L../libsx/src -lsx -lXaw95 -lXmu 
 -lXt -lX11 -lm  


I would add -lICE -lSM after -lX11

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Re: checkergcc

1997-06-14 Thread Alex Yukhimets
 I have installed checker on debian 1.3 and it works fine, but if I try to
 link files with X librairies I encounter at my program compilation the
 following kind of messages :
 
 
 
 cd /home/jtl/esa/model2/
 make -fmkvisu -k 
 checkergcc -Wall -g -I/usr/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -I../libsx/src -c 
 RdStr.c -o RdStr.o
 checkergcc -Wall -g -I/usr/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -I../libsx/src -c 
 loc.c -o loc.o
 checkergcc -Wall -g -I/usr/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -I../libsx/src -c 
 camera.c -o camera.o
 checkergcc   visu.o intervisu.o RdStr.o point3d.o matrix.o binmoddrw.o 
 names.o binarymod.o hidden.o loc.o camera.o perm.o  -o visu 
 -L/usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw95 -L/usr/X11R6/lib  -L../libsx/src -lsx -lXaw95 -lXmu 
 -lXt -lX11 -lm  

I would add -lICE -lSM after -lX11

Alex Y.

 /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6: undefined reference to `siglongjmp'
 /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6: undefined reference to `__sigjmp_save'
 /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6: undefined reference to `chmod'
 /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6: undefined reference to `accept'
 /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6: undefined reference to `umask'
 /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6: undefined reference to `rand'
 /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6: undefined reference to `signal'
 /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6: undefined reference to `listen'
 /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6: undefined reference to `srand'
 /usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw95.so: undefined reference to `__errno_location'
 /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6: undefined reference to `link'
 /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6: undefined reference to `mkdir'
 make: *** [visu] Error 1
 make: Target `all' not remade because of errors.
 
 Compilation exited abnormally with code 2 at Fri Jun 13 08:03:16
 --
 
 What did I miss? I found no hint in the info files. Must I link with a
 supplementary lib? With gcc the program visu compiles and works fine.
 
   thanks for help
  JT Lapreste'

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Re: why does make-kpkg put vmlinux and vmlinuz in package?

1997-06-14 Thread Bruce Perens
The uncompressed one was used to make psdatabase. I don't know if it is
still needed.

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Re: xlockmore and shadow?

1997-06-14 Thread Christian Hudon
On Jun 13, Hanno Wagner wrote
 Hi,
 I have now upgraded my normal passwd-system to shadow. It
 works perfectly - but xlock won't run anymore. It tells me
 following:
 
 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ xlock
 xlock: it looks like you have shadow passwording.
 Contact your administrator.
 
 
 Well... I asked the package maintainer (it is the last
 version of xlockmore I am using Version 4.02-1). And I
 verified the group and s+bit of xlock:
 
 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ ls -l `which xlock`
 -rwxr-sr-x   1 root shadow 462824 Apr 25 01:53 /usr/bin/X11/xlock
 

Hmm. That's kinda odd.

Maybe check the permissions on your /etc/shadow file. It should be:

-rw-r-   1 root shadow897 Apr  6 03:40 /etc/shadow

  Christian


pgppPP5Rg3357.pgp
Description: PGP signature


netbase, update-rc.d

1997-06-14 Thread J. LILLIBRIDGE
I tried installing netbase 2.13-1, and recieved this error:

Setting up netbase (2.13-1) ...
/usr/sbin/update-rc.d: line 109: syntax error: unexpected end of file
dpkg: error processing netbase (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 netbase

I tried re-installing update 1.2-1, thinking it might help.  It didn't.
What should I do?

thanks,
joe


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Re: Easy way to switch from RedHat to Debian?

1997-06-14 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 13 Jun 1997, Paul Seelig wrote:

 In article tW1_d.0.lw2.Vy5ep@debian,
   [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Shaw) writes:
  
  I'm planning to convert my home systems to Debian Linux from RedHat and was
  wondering if there was anyone out there who had performed this task before?
  
 Christoph Lameter posted a small receipt on how to convert a Redhat
 system without any reboot into a Debian system.  He obviously already
 has aquired some experience doing this! ;-) Search via Deja News for
 his name in comp.os.linux.development.system and/or for the thread
 Re: rpm vs. dpkg ( + How to upgrade to Debian). What the heck, i
 just found it and will reproduce the relevant portions of it here:
 
 
I REALLY don't what to start a flame war : ) but I'd like to know why
people would want to do this. I've looked briefly at Debian and it seems
quite attractive, but I'm using RH at the moment and it works pretty
well, so if it ain't broke...

I'd be interested to hear comments from people with experience of both
systems.

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Firewalls

1997-06-14 Thread dgolpira
Anyone running a debian-based firewall out there?

Does anyone have any experience with the TIS firewall toolkit package
for Debian?  How about setting up firewalling in the kernel?

What are the pros and cons of each method for building a Linux firewall?

Thanks.

Dave
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Re: why does make-kpkg put vmlinux and vmlinuz in package?

1997-06-14 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) writes:
 The uncompressed one was used to make psdatabase. I don't know if it is
 still needed.

The installation process deletes the uncompressed image.

It would be interesting to see if there was a way one could use the
compressed image for that, though.

Mike.


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Re: why does make-kpkg put vmlinux and vmlinuz in package?

1997-06-14 Thread Joey Hess
Michael Alan Dorman:
  The uncompressed one was used to make psdatabase. I don't know if it is
  still needed.
 
 The installation process deletes the uncompressed image.
 
 It would be interesting to see if there was a way one could use the
 compressed image for that, though.

Would it somehow be possible to extract the psdatabase info from the kernel
image while the package was being made, instead of ig the postinst?

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Unresolved symbols with ibmtr_cs PCMCIA module

1997-06-14 Thread Stephen Zander

Further in my attempts to setup up a Thinkpad 760CD...

When attempting to load the ibmtr_cs.o mdules under the standard
2.0.30 kernel, I get the folliowing unresolved symbols.

netif_rx_R9117ffb8
dev_alloc_skb_R24e337ab
dev_kfree_skb_R7a61ae71
dev_tint_Rcc72f6b2
unregister_netdev_Re5a9d51a
register_netdev_R70caa700
tr_setup_R787bcf6f
tr_type_trans_Rf1130552

Should I load another module to resolve these or is there
something else I'm missing?


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ack, never mind

1997-06-14 Thread J. LILLIBRIDGE
Sorry, I figured it out.  Just needed to upgrade dpkg.

joe


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Re: hostid

1997-06-14 Thread Joey Hess
Tim Sailer:
 I'll have to look at the source to see what it actually does. I have yet
 to see a dupe.

Accordint to the man page, it's based on IP address.

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Re: Mail broken :(

1997-06-14 Thread Joey Hess
Tim O'Brien:
 My email system on my Linux box at work has broken. It just stopped a few
 days ago. I've also noticed several runq zombies.
 
 When ps is used repeatedly, I can see that there's one copy of runq going
 with the same process number, and another that keeps restarting and
 incrementing the process number. The modem lights look like the mail is
 being sent, and I get no bounce messages of any sort. 
 
 Any ideas what I might have screwed up this time? 

I used sendmail for about 10 months, until I switched to qmail at the
beginning of this month. My mail server is a moderatly busy one, and I always 
had from 2 to 5 runq zombies. Sometimes more. I never did get an explination 
of why they were zombieing, but it didn't seem to cause any real difficulties 
with my mail server.

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xemacs and tex

1997-06-14 Thread Norris Preyer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
  Hello,
  
  I was using xemacs in conjunction with Latex in debian 1.2.
  
  I recently updated to 1.3 latex was replaced by Tetex distribution and xemacs
  became 19.14.1.
  
  I have the problem that the tex-modes.el lisp file is now aged of years,
  and do not recognize the latex2e format and display no menu on the menu bar. 
  
  Do you know if there is an adaptation of the equivalemt emacs file (which
  do not work with xemacs) that is more recent? Or must I try to adapt it ?
  
  [snip] 
  
 Jean Thierry Lapreste
  
 
Xemacs comes with a pretty recent auctex that recognized latex2e just
fine.  Did you separately install auctex?  Try removing your
tex-init.el and see what happens by default.  I'm running Xemacs
19.15p5 (compiled myself, since the debian package crashes on my
machine), and tex.el starts:

;;; tex.el --- Support for TeX documents.

;; Maintainer: Per Abrahamsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
;; Version: 9.7l
;; Keywords: wp
;; X-URL: http://sunsite.auc.dk/auctex

Hmm, I don't actually have tex-modes.el anywhere on my machine.  I
think you need a more recent auctex.  I can e-mail you more details if
needed.

--Norris

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Re: kernel with apm/pcmcia for 1.3 install

1997-06-14 Thread Stephen Zander
Niels wrote:
 BootPart:
   http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/gvollant/bootpart.htm
 
 More instructions:
   http://ledoux.arbld.unimelb.edu.au/~agoon/windows/dualboot.html
 
 to save AltaVista the hits :-)

Thanks for the info... NT's boot manager now handles linux

Now I just need to set up ppp so I can do an FTP
install.  Is this documented somewhere??


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Re: hostid

1997-06-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], writes:
  Joey Hess writes:
   Accordint to the man page, it's based on IP address.
  
  And this is supposed to make it unique?  Somehow I suspect that mine is not
  the only machine with IP 192.168.1.
 
RTFM?! The man page says that hostid is _normally_ set to resemble the 
host's internet address; it can be set by the superuser to any value.

From the point of view of a vendor wanting to secure a software licence,
it's not much good!
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Re: hostid

1997-06-14 Thread jghasler
Joey Hess writes:
 Accordint to the man page, it's based on IP address.

And this is supposed to make it unique?  Somehow I suspect that mine is not
the only machine with IP 192.168.1.

/home/john hostid -v
Hostid is 8323328 (0x7f0100)

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Re: text mode 3270 emulator?

1997-06-14 Thread Jeff Noxon
  There's 'tn3270', but it's not packaged for Debian. I looked at it a while
  ago but it required the NetKit source to compile...
 [...]
 
 I have it working now... There is the tn3270-510.tar.gz package
 at sunsite with an a.out tn3270 binary that works when 
 termcap-compat is installed.

I managed to get it compiled with libc5/ncurses using Debian 1.3.  It
is nothing more than a gross hack, but it works for me.  If anyone would
like the binary or hacked sources, please let me know.  I'll consider
packaging it if there is enough demand.

Jeff


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Re: xemacs and tex

1997-06-14 Thread Anthony Fok
Hello!  :)

On Fri, 13 Jun 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I recently updated to 1.3 latex was replaced by Tetex distribution and
 xemacs became 19.14.1. 
 I have the problem that the tex-modes.el lisp file is now aged of years,
 and do not recognize the latex2e format and display no menu on the menu
 bar.
 Do you know if there is an adaptation of the equivalemt emacs file (which
 do not work with xemacs) that is more recent? Or must I try to adapt it ?

Is XEmacs 19.15 in Debian 1.3?  I am using the unstable distribution and
it comes with XEmacs 19.15.  AUC TeX is included with 19.15, but I am not
sure about 19.14.  Try the command

locate auctex

and see if you find the AUCTeX files with XEmacs.  I found a bunch of them
in '/usr/lib/xemacs-19.15/lisp/auctex'.

However, I had the same problem as yours when I first used XEmacs.  For
some reason, it loaded the old TeX mode by default.  I had to add the
'50tex-site.el' file in '/etc/xemacs/site-start-19.d' to make it load AUC
TeX by default.  Try the following:

  # cd /usr/xemacs/site-start-19.d
  # ln -s /usr/lib/xemacs-19.15/lisp/auctex/tex-site.el 50tex-site.el

(Of course, in your case, you would probably use
'/usr/lib/xemacs-19.14/lisp/auctex/tex-site.el' instead.  :)

Since I know little about Emacs, it took me a while to figure out how to
do it.  It wasn't until I found the file
'/etc/emacs/site-start.d/50tex-site.el' from GNU Emacs that I found out I
could do the same with XEmacs to make AUC TeX work in XEmacs also.  :)

 If you have any hint on what to do or who to ask I would be very pleased.
   thank you and sorry for disturbing with perhaps trivial questions.

Hey, this is not a trivial question!  :)  I had that very same problem and
it took me quite a while to figure out what was going on.  :)  So don't
apologize, because this is what this list is all about!  :)

Anthony

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Re: read news on/off line

1997-06-14 Thread Alexandre Lebrun

On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Timothy Phan wrote:

...
   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!
 
Try leafnode, there is a debian package in section news.
Alexandre

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Re: SMAIL/smarthost/BIND error

1997-06-14 Thread Al Youngwerth
Just something to try...

post.metrolink.net does not have a dns MX record. I don't think smail
should give you an error if your smarthost doesn't have an MX record but it
might. Try changing you smarthost to metrolink.net (it resolves to
post.metrolink.net) and see if it helps.

I assume your name resolution is working just fine (you can ping
post.metrolink.net from your linux box. If not, get that working first
(start at your /etc/resolv.conf).

Hope this helps,

Al Youngwerth
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

  I posted this on June 10, but have not had any response, so I'm 
 trying again.  My ISP says we do not offer support for linux mail. 
 I hope someone can give me a clue.  I'm getting tired of going into 
 Windoze to send mail.
 
  I am running debian 1.2.4, and use smail ver 3.2-3. I have
 configured it to use my ISP as a smart host.  /etc/smail/routers
 includes the following:
 
 smart_host:
 driver=smarthost, transport=smtp;
 path=post.metrolink.net
 
  This has worked fine for many months until May 31.  Since then
 when I try to run the queue I get an error message similar to the
 following:
 
 bob:vc-1:bobmailq
 m0wbSvY-000ZEXC From: bob  (in /var/spool/smail/input)
 Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 11:33:44 -0400 (EDT)
 Args: -t -oem -f bob -oMP sendmail
 bob:vc-1:bobrunq -v
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: autometric.com matched by smart_host:
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: mc.seflin.net matched by smart_host:
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: metrolink.net matched by smart_host:
 routed [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] at
 post.metrolink.net
 routed [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] at
 post.metrolink.net
 routed [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] at
 post.metrolink.net
 transport smtp uses driver tcpsmtp
 transport smtp: BIND server failure: : Connection timed out
 write_log:Deferred TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ROUTER:smart_host
 TRANSPORT:smtp ERROR:(ERR164) transport smtp: BIND server failure: :
 Connection timed out
 write_log:Deferred TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ROUTER:smart_host
 TRANSPORT:smtp ERROR:(ERR164) transport smtp: BIND server failure: :
 Connection timed out
 write_log:Deferred TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ROUTER:smart_host
TRANSPORT:smtp
 ERROR:(ERR164) transport smtp: BIND server failure: : Connection timed
out
 
  I now have to go into DOS/WIN3.1 and use Eudora to send mail, which
 is unacceptable.
 
  Does anyone have any suggestions as to a possible cure for this?
 
  I have asked my ISP if he has made any recent changes, but don't
 expect much satisfaction there.
 
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Re: hostid

1997-06-14 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
What package is it in?

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xlockmore and shadow?

1997-06-14 Thread Hanno Wagner
Hi,
I have now upgraded my normal passwd-system to shadow. It
works perfectly - but xlock won't run anymore. It tells me
following:


[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ xlock
xlock: it looks like you have shadow passwording.
Contact your administrator.


Well... I asked the package maintainer (it is the last
version of xlockmore I am using Version 4.02-1). And I
verified the group and s+bit of xlock:


[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ ls -l `which xlock`
-rwxr-sr-x   1 root shadow 462824 Apr 25 01:53 /usr/bin/X11/xlock


So, this seems to be fine.
But why doesn't accept it the shadow-passwds?

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Re: Locales Problem?

1997-06-14 Thread Victor Torrico
W Paul Mills wrote:
 
 This all seems to have something to do with libc and a wg15-locale
 package. Do you have anything in /usr/share/locale. Most seem to
 start having this problem if they install StarOffice which has you
 set LANG=us. It really does not seem to hurt anything other than
 all the trash it puts on your screen when perl programs are run.
 As more programs depend on these features, it may become more of an
 issue.
 

Bingo!  You hit the nail on the head.  It all seems to have started
since I installed StarOffice.


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Here is what is in /usr/share/locale:

vtorrico# cd /usr/share/locale
locale# dir
da_DK en_GB fr_CA kl_GL pl_PL
deen_IE fr_CH kopt
de_AT en_US fr_FR locale.alias  pt_PT
de_BE esfr_LU lt_LT ro_RO
de_CH es_ES gr_GR lv_LV ru_RU
de_DE et_EE hr_HR nlsl_SI
de_LU fi_FI hu_HU nl_BE sv
enfo_FO is_IS nl_NL sv_FI
en_CA frit_IT no_NO sv_SE
en_DK fr_BE iw_IL pl
locale# 

***

Here is what is in /usr/lib/X11/locale:

vtorrico# cd /usr/lib/X11/locale
locale# dir
C iso8859-3 iso8859-8 koth_TH.TACTIS
compose.dir   iso8859-4 iso8859-9 koi8-rzh
en_US.utf iso8859-5 jalocale.alias  zh_TW
iso8859-1 iso8859-6 ja.JISlocale.dir
iso8859-2 iso8859-7 ja.SJIS   tbl_data
locale#

***

Thanks so much to the many guys and dolls who replyed to this thread. 
Your help is much appreciated.

Victor


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Re: netbase, update-rc.d

1997-06-14 Thread joost witteveen
 I tried installing netbase 2.13-1, and recieved this error:
 
 Setting up netbase (2.13-1) ...
 /usr/sbin/update-rc.d: line 109: syntax error: unexpected end of file
 dpkg: error processing netbase (--configure):
  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
 Errors were encountered while processing:
  netbase
 
 I tried re-installing update 1.2-1, thinking it might help.  It didn't.
 What should I do?

update-rc.d isn't from update, it's from dpkg:

$ dpkg -S /usr/sbin/update-rc.d
dpkg: /usr/sbin/update-rc.d

So, could you upgrade your dpkg to the one in bo, 1.4.0.8? That will
_probably_ fix it.


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Help NT4.0 - Linux Printing fails

1997-06-14 Thread Oz Dror
I have linux (debian 1.2.8 Kernel 2.0.30) machine as server (192.168.0.1)
and NT4.0 workstation as client (192.168.0.3)

I setup the NT machine to print using lpd (port 192.168.0.1:lp4)
lp4 is my linux printer (HP660c). The NT machine uses its own driver
for the printer.  

When I tried to print a test page. On the NT machine queue I see
the message printing (but nothing happens on the Linux side)

when I type netstat -t
I get
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address   Foreign Address State  
tcp5  0 Linux.Domain:printerNT.Domain:printer   TIME_WAIT

Clearly the NT machine and linux communicate about the printing, but nothing
happens.

When I run WIndows95 on the NT machine I can uses the printer.

I have a different NT machine 192.168.0.2 that can print into the the Linux
machine with the same setup as the the first machine.

The first NT machine is a desktop using the Ethernet card DECchip 21041

the second NT machine is a laptop using NE2000 compatible PCMCIA card.

Any help will be appreciated in debugging this problem.

Thanks

Oz Dror

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Re: 3c905 problems with 1.3 (and 1.2.5)

1997-06-14 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Fri, 13 Jun 1997, Tim Bell wrote:

 So, I figured I'd go back to the 1.2.5 setup which had worked. This I
 did, and it worked -- until I rebooted.

I had similar problems once, but nothing to do with a network card.
It turned out that lilo.conf wasn't pointed at the partition that I
thought it was, so when I ran lilo and rebooted I wasn't getting the
kernel that I thought I was.

Others have done the same thing. Can you verify you're booting the
intended kernel? You didn't say anything about how you were booting.

...RickM...


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checkergcc

1997-06-14 Thread lapreste
I have installed checker on debian 1.3 and it works fine, but if I try to
link files with X librairies I encounter at my program compilation the
following kind of messages :



cd /home/jtl/esa/model2/
make -fmkvisu -k 
checkergcc -Wall -g -I/usr/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -I../libsx/src -c 
RdStr.c -o RdStr.o
checkergcc -Wall -g -I/usr/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -I../libsx/src -c loc.c 
-o loc.o
checkergcc -Wall -g -I/usr/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -I../libsx/src -c 
camera.c -o camera.o
checkergcc   visu.o intervisu.o RdStr.o point3d.o matrix.o binmoddrw.o names.o 
binarymod.o hidden.o loc.o camera.o perm.o  -o visu -L/usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw95 
-L/usr/X11R6/lib  -L../libsx/src -lsx -lXaw95 -lXmu -lXt -lX11 -lm  
/usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6: undefined reference to `siglongjmp'
/usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6: undefined reference to `__sigjmp_save'
/usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6: undefined reference to `chmod'
/usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6: undefined reference to `accept'
/usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6: undefined reference to `umask'
/usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6: undefined reference to `rand'
/usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6: undefined reference to `signal'
/usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6: undefined reference to `listen'
/usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6: undefined reference to `srand'
/usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw95.so: undefined reference to `__errno_location'
/usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6: undefined reference to `link'
/usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6: undefined reference to `mkdir'
make: *** [visu] Error 1
make: Target `all' not remade because of errors.

Compilation exited abnormally with code 2 at Fri Jun 13 08:03:16
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What did I miss? I found no hint in the info files. Must I link with a
supplementary lib? With gcc the program visu compiles and works fine.

  thanks for help
 JT Lapreste'


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Re: Easy way to switch from RedHat to Debian?

1997-06-14 Thread Bruce Perens
From: Anthony Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 I REALLY don't what to start a flame war : ) but I'd like to know why
 people would want to do this [switch from Red Hat to Debian] I've looked
 briefly at Debian and it seems quite attractive, but I'm using RH at the
 moment and it works pretty well, so if it ain't broke...

It's not really Debian's policy to say bad things about Red Hat. The
people there are nice, they throw good parties, their system isn't bad.

Bruce Perens
Debian Project Leader
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Re: libXt.so.6

1997-06-14 Thread Shaya Potter

It's still an aout file, therefore you need the xcompat package for the
aout libs.

HTH,

Shaya

On Wed, 11 Jun 1997, dpk wrote:

 I have had problems with multple programs finding 'libXt.so.6'.  I am
 hoping to stop giving up on packages/software because of this and actually
 solve the problem.  My recent confrontation was when I installed
 mpeg_play.  These is the errors I get:
 
 mpeg_play: can't load library '/usr/lib/libXt.so.6'
 Unknown error
 mpeg_play: can't load library '/lib/libXt.so.6'
 Unknown error
 mpeg_play: can't find library 'libXt.so.6'
 
 This library does exist, however it is in /usr/X11R6/lib. I am running
 Debian 1.2.6 and have added /usr/X11R6/lib to my /etc/ld.so.conf and ran
 ldconfig. I have tried making a symbolic link to it from /usr/lib and /lib
 to see if that would fix the problem however no such luck.  I find this to
 be odd, because netscape and sirc ( a perl irc client ) have been the only
 NON-debian installs.  And I don't have any unconfigured or error-ing
 packages I figure it *should* work being basically a totally debian
 box.  I have tried to set paths ( I use tcsh ) and have had no such luck.
 Anyone know a fix for this problem?
 
 Thanks,
 Dennis
  
 
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Master.debian.org

1997-06-14 Thread Nathan E Norman
master.debian.org down?? I can't even ping it!

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