Re: preferred way to build web sites?

[Rob Browning]

Dima <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> (I think if I have to do more html, I'll write a specialized cpp
> replacement ...)

You might want to consider m4.

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Re: GNUS and Mail

[Rob Browning]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl M. Hegbloom) writes:

>  This works for me in XEmacs 20.  I get my mail home using
> `fetchmail', which is configured with an "mua" line in its control
> file that has it run `formail -s procmail'.

I just let gnus do the splitting (no procmail necessary.  From my
.emacs file:


;;; Gnus setup


(setq nnmail-split-methods 'nnmail-split-fancy)
(setq nnmail-split-fancy
  '(| 
("Gnus-Warning" ".*" "duplicates")
("X-Mailing-List" "debian-announce" "debian-announcements")
("X-Mailing-List" "debian-devel-announce" "debian-announcements")
("X-Mailing-List" "debian-changes" "debian-changes")
("X-Mailing-List" "debian-devel-changes" "debian-changes")
("X-Mailing-List" "debian-bugs-dist" "debian-bugs")
("X-Mailing-List" "debian-user" "debian-user")
("X-Mailing-List" "debian-devel" "debian-devel")
("X-Mailing-List" "debian-private" "debian-private")
("Sender" "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" "executor")
("Sender" "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" "pioneer-users")
("Sender" "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" "accelerated-x-users")
("Resent-From" "[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
 "lesstif")
("X-Mailing-List" "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" "gtk")
"inbox"))

(setq browse-url-browser-function 'browse-url-netscape)
(setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "newshost.cc.utexas.edu"))
(setq gnus-asynchronous t)

(setq gnus-subscribe-newsgroup-method 'gnus-subscribe-zombies)
(setq gnus-check-new-newsgroups 'ask-server)
(setq gnus-save-newsrc-file nil)

(setq nnmail-crosspost nil)

;; So the server will accept me
(setq gnus-local-domain "cs.utexas.edu")

;; So the from field will be reasonable.
(setq gnus-user-from-line "Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>")
(setq user-mail-address "[EMAIL PROTECTED]")
(setq gnus-local-organization "The University of Texas at Austin")

(setq gnus-extract-address-components 'mail-extract-address-components)

(setq gnus-auto-select-next t)
(setq gnus-auto-select-same t)

(setq gnus-use-cross-reference 'all)
(setq gnus-auto-select-newsgroup nil)
(setq gnus-summary-check-current t)

(setq gnus-fetch-old-headers 'some)
(setq gnus-thread-hide-subtree t)
(setq gnus-thread-indent-level 2)

(setq gnus-build-sparse-threads 'some)
(setq gnus-keep-backlog 50)

;;; Score file stuff
(setq gnus-kill-killed t)  ;; so you can re-kill a set of articles

(add-hook 'gnus-group-mode-hook 'gnus-topic-mode)

(setq gnus-use-cache 'passive)

(setq gnus-secondary-select-methods 
  '((nnml "osiris" 
  (nnml-directory "~/Mail/Incoming")
  (nnml-active-file "~/Mail/Incoming/active")
  )))

(setq gnus-message-archive-method
  '(nnml "outgoing" 
 (nnml-directory 
"~/Mail/Outgoing") 
 (nnml-active-file "~/Mail/Outgoing/active")
 (nnml-get-new-mail nil)))

(setq gnus-message-archive-group 
  '((if (message-news-p)
"misc-news" 
  "misc-mail")))

(setq nnmail-delete-duplicates 'warn)
(setq nnmail-message-id-cache-length 3000)
(setq gnus-permanently-visible-groups "^nnml+")

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Re: CD Question

[Eloy A. Paris]

Uhhmmm... I haven't heard of anything like a remote CD-ROM. I've shared
my Linux box CD-ROM as a normal directory and never have had problems
with it. The section of my /etc/smb.conf that shares the CD-ROM is:

[cdrom]
   comment = Zeus's CD-ROM
   writable = no
   locking = no
   path = /cdrom

and I mount my CD-ROM with "mount /dev/scd0 /cdrom".

I hope this helps.

E.-

Mike Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

: I have a number of win95 systems using a linux box (with Samba) as a file 
: server. 

: What I'd like to do is install a CD-Rom on my linux box and use it from my
: various win95 systems. Although I can mount the CD-Rom as a read-only 
: filesystem, I can't mount it as a CD-Rom drive. (Do remote CD-Roms exist
: in Win95?) So if a program checks to make sure that it's reading off 
: a CD-Rom, it fails. (Presumably some sort of copy-protection scheme to 
: make sure people don't copy it to their hard drive) And I'm not even 
: going to guess if I can do this with multi-session disks

: Any ideas? 

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Re: Any chroot experts

[Nicolás Lichtmaier]

On Sat, 19 Jul 1997, Philippe Troin wrote:

> Beware of this. It's only 99% safe.
> The remaining 1%: the sockets and devices remain global.
> Ie as root in the playpin:
>   mknod /dev/hda b  
>   cat /dev/zero > dev/hda
> will wipe your hard disk...

 Or...

 mkdir /proc
 mount -tproc none /proc
 cd /proc/1/root

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Re: EFNet in debian circle

[Chad D. Zimmerman]

On Tue, 22 Jul 1997, Martin Schulze wrote:

> Hanno Wagner writes:
> 
> > > What about IRCNet? (*lol*)
> > 
> > If we are in the mood, there are some people in #Debian. But no bots - and
> > I think the people will go when there are bots...
> 
> Sometimes even no op...  *sigh*

Well, whoever wants to be oped in the channel let me know cuz I can add
you to User70 in the channel so he ops you.  Or you can contact Igor
Grobman and he can set you up in the EFNet bot.

Chad
 
> Regards
> 
>   Joey
> 
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Newbie question - help please

[cavin1]

>I just got my Debian GNU/Linix 1.3.1 CD, and am attempting to install,
>however I have run into a problem. I have a P100 machine with Warp and
>boot manager with Winbdoze3.1 and 95. I am installing Linus vi the
>dos/windoze partition. All gpes weel for a while, but every so often the
>system locks up ! This is usually during the partitioning phase of
>the install process, but that's likely a co-incidence as this is as far
>as I have got. I am stuck, can anyone help please ??? 

>G.D. (Des) Cavin
>IDM, Economy, Nova Scotia, B0M-1J0, Canada 
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Re: EFNet in debian circle

[Martin Schulze]

Hanno Wagner writes:

> > What about IRCNet? (*lol*)
> 
> If we are in the mood, there are some people in #Debian. But no bots - and
> I think the people will go when there are bots...

Sometimes even no op...  *sigh*

Regards

Joey

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Re: ntp ... sets my time an hour off

[Roderick Schertler]

On Mon, 21 Jul 1997 18:00:57 -0400, Paul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> 
> I installed xntp the other day and it sets my time an hour behind the
> actual time.. when I type 'date -R' is says my time zone is -0500
> which is correct (EST)...

I don't know the cause of your problem, but -0500 isn't correct for
Eastern time.  Since daylight savings is in effect now it should be
saying -0400 (and date -R does say that here, where I've also got xntp
running).

What is in your /etc/timezone file?

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FYI: new default behavior with XFree86 3.3 (was: Problem with X after upgrading to 1.3.1)

[Martin Weinberg]

After much hair pulling, I discovered that XFree86 *now* will look 
in the user's directory if the user is root for an XF86Config file.
>From XF86Config(5):

>   When an X server is started by  a  `root'  user,  it  will
>   first  search  for  an XF86Config file in that user's home
>   directory.


I don't understand the reason for the feature.  Anyway, I had a
non-functional template one there from a year ago and attempt to 
debug my recent upgrade using "startx" as root.  You can imagine 
the rest.

Hope this helps someone.



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Re: Installing from a pile of floppys

[tyc]

Luis Seidel Gsmez de Quero wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> I've just installed Debian 1.3.1 on a 386SL laptop and everything is Ok
> for the base system. But now I would like to install some big packages
> with big .deb files that don't fit in a single floppy. Is there some
> preferred procedure for doing this?
>  (I have some clues: use a MsDOS partition to install form and dump the
> files zipped in several floppies, use some PLIP or SLIP to link to
> another computer, but all of these sound a bit hard for me. I'm pretty
> sure that somebody else has faced this problem before. Any advice?

Sorry if I don't understand you.

If you can make a back up in another computer your can have resolved
this problem. Let's see:

you can make a pakages backup. Put selected pakages in one directory, as
"seguridad"  then make (in this directory):

  find . -print | cpio -ocv > /dev/fd0

This backup pakages to floppy.

To recover the back up make, in your current directory:
 
  cpio -icvd < /dev/fd0

and.yahoo...here is the pakages in your current directory.Now you
can install them.


> Thanks,

Sorry...this is spanish:

Gracias, de que? ...tambien soy español hombre...y ademas estudie en la
politecnica...mira tu por donde.

Espero haberte ayudado, aunque quizas no entendi bien la pregunta..me
avisas si no..ok?

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ntp ... sets my time an hour off

[Paul Miller]

I installed xntp the other day and it sets my time an hour behind the
actual time.. when I type 'date -R' is says my time zone is -0500 which
is correct (EST)...  does xntp have a different timezone setting or does
it not adjust for daylight savings time...help..

-Paul


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PPP solved :)

[Nathan E Norman]

Hey folks, just thought I'd say thanks for the help I did receive, from
Jens and Kevin in particular.  They gave me enough feedback on my config
files that I decided to look a little further for the problem ... and I
found one.  We have a PIX Firewall that is translating addresses - when
it was set up long ago someone put the 201-240 addresses into the pool!
They're never used, though, and were forgotten about, until I tried to
use 201-208 :)  I guess documentation is important.

At any rate, things work well now.  The setup was quite easy, apart from
the bug I mentioned a few minutes ago, and only the debugging was time
consuming.  Linux to the rescue again!

Chalking one up to user error, 

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Re: PPP

[Kevin Traas]

I've run into the same thing.  Using IP addresses vice-versa to the
suggestion in the options.ttyXX file works for me.  The options.ttyXX
suggestion is wrong - I just never got around to finding out whether this
has been reported as a bug  

Later,
Kevin Traas
Systems Analyst
Baan Business Systems

> # Example:
> # options.ttyS1   for com2 under DOS.
> #
> # Edit the following line so that the first IP address
> # mentioned is the ip address of the serial port while the second
> # is the IP address of your host
> 
> As far as I can tell, this is wrong?  Either that or something is really
> screwed up here.  When I tried this setup it didn't work.  When I listed
> the host first, and then the serial port, it did work.  I used IP
> addresses though, this was suggested in a README I found.  When I say it
> "worked" I mean that I could connect and communicate with any servers
> local to my LAN.  I haven't yet solved the original problem.
> 
> If someone can verify that the example given in the file is correct,
> could you email me with a sample configuration so I can see how it was
> intended to be set up?  I've shown a few people my configs and they seem
> to look ok.


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Re: PPP options.ttyXX comments incorrect

[Roderick Schertler]

On Mon, 21 Jul 1997 16:17:43 -0500 (CDT), Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
said:
> 
> # Edit the following line so that the first IP address
> # mentioned is the ip address of the serial port while the second
> # is the IP address of your host
> 
> As far as I can tell, this is wrong?  Either that or something is
> really screwed up here.  When I tried this setup it didn't work.  When
> I listed the host first, and then the serial port, it did work.

You're right, the comment has it backwards.  I've just put in a bug
report.

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Re: wyse60 terminal

[Remco van de Meent]

On Mon, 21 Jul 1997, Pilon wrote:

 : Is there someone using a Wyse60 terminal with Linux?, I set the TERM
 : enviroment variable to wy60 but some aplications report this error:
 : couldn't load tercap/terminfo entry, other aplication just doesn't run
 : proper.
 : 
You need to download a huge termcap file from sunsite.unc.edu, which has
support for the Wyse60.

Remco

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Re: Xfree86-3.3 and S3V

[KillMadDog]

In a message dated 97-07-21 17:29:27 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

>> A couple of months ago I convinced a friend
>> ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) to change over from slackware to debian;
>> and in turn convinced some other people to do the same.  He
>> was impressed (as I knew he would be) with debian until...
>> he upgraded to Xfree-3.3, now X no longer works.  He's got
>> an S3V card and I remember seeing other posts to this list
>> about similar problems.  The archives at ftp.debian.org
>> don't have July postings yet and I didn't find anything in
>> the June archive.
>> 
>> Would someone be so kind as to post (re-post?) some possible
>> solutions.  I thought a downgrade to 3.2 would do the trick
>> but it seems the 3.2 pakages are gone.  
>
>I have an S3Virge card and have XFree86 3.3 working fine, now.
>
>Two things to try:
>
>- Use the new svga server instead of the s3v server. 
>It works much better for me.
>- Give the existing XF86Config another name and rerun xf86setup.
>
>If it still doesn't work, look at the output of the xserver on the
>console and repost if there is something unusual in it.
>
>
>Joost
>
>

I agree, the svga server is much better with the Virge chipset then the s3v
server.
I just bought a video card with the virge chipset, I haven't had a chance to
try it on my own system yet.  (I can't get debian Linux to read from my @#$%
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PPP

[Nathan E Norman]

Ok, this is a debian specific question, I think ... the debian PPP
package comes with scripts and examples.  In the file
/etc/ppp/options.ttyXX, I find:

# If you need to set up multiple serial lines then copy
# this file to
# options. for each tty with a modem on it.
#
# The options.tty file will assign an IP address to each PPP connection
# as it comes up. They must all be distinct!
#
# Example:
# options.ttyS1 for com2 under DOS.
#
# Edit the following line so that the first IP address
# mentioned is the ip address of the serial port while the second
# is the IP address of your host

As far as I can tell, this is wrong?  Either that or something is really
screwed up here.  When I tried this setup it didn't work.  When I listed
the host first, and then the serial port, it did work.  I used IP
addresses though, this was suggested in a README I found.  When I say it
"worked" I mean that I could connect and communicate with any servers
local to my LAN.  I haven't yet solved the original problem.

If someone can verify that the example given in the file is correct,
could you email me with a sample configuration so I can see how it was
intended to be set up?  I've shown a few people my configs and they seem
to look ok.

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status of libc5 in unstable

[Joseph Skinner]

Hi 

I was wondering if there was any reason why libc5 in unstable is
at a lower revision level than in stable.

This sort of thing makes tracking the status of debian a real pain.

Joe.

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Re: Xfree86-3.3 and S3V

[Joost Kooij]

On Thu, 17 Jul 1997, Bob Clark wrote:

> A couple of months ago I convinced a friend
> ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) to change over from slackware to debian;
> and in turn convinced some other people to do the same.  He
> was impressed (as I knew he would be) with debian until...
> he upgraded to Xfree-3.3, now X no longer works.  He's got
> an S3V card and I remember seeing other posts to this list
> about similar problems.  The archives at ftp.debian.org
> don't have July postings yet and I didn't find anything in
> the June archive.
> 
> Would someone be so kind as to post (re-post?) some possible
> solutions.  I thought a downgrade to 3.2 would do the trick
> but it seems the 3.2 pakages are gone.  

I have an S3Virge card and have XFree86 3.3 working fine, now.

Two things to try:

- Use the new svga server instead of the s3v server. 
It works much better for me.
- Give the existing XF86Config another name and rerun xf86setup.

If it still doesn't work, look at the output of the xserver on the
console and repost if there is something unusual in it.


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wyse60 terminal

[Pilon]

Is there someone using a Wyse60 terminal with Linux?, I set the TERM
enviroment variable to wy60 but some aplications report this error:
couldn't load tercap/terminfo entry, other aplication just doesn't run
proper.


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Meet the Linpeople (Was: Re: EFNet in debian circle)

[Johnie Ingram]

"Chad" == Chad D Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Chad> We currently have Undernet , Linpeople and EFNet linked together
Chad> through Bots.  Giving people on one irc network access to help
Chad> from the other irc networks.

It occurs to me that an orientation might be helpful here.  Here is a
list of notable net personalities on the Debian and help channels, so
everyone will know who they are talking to.

Plus some help on getting a Linux IRC client set up is in the
LISC mini-HOWTO ("zmore /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/Online-Support.gz").
Basically, install either "ircii" or "bitchx-bin", in the net section.


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Debian Deities:

Che_Fox Ben Gertzfield
Culus   Jason Gunthorpe


Debian Developers:

borik   Borik Beletsky
Cevad   Dave Cook
Culus   Jason Gunthorpe
Elf Vadik V. Vygonets
igorIgor Grobman
james   James Troup
jim Jim Lynch
JoeyMartin Schulze
netgod  Johnie Ingram
nickNicholas Lichtmaier
vincent Vincent Renardias


Devoted Debian Users:

Adrenolin   Principal of #debian channel on undernet.
KyshPersonality: The Lovable, Lickable, Lapdragon (female).
rcw Robert C. Woodcock, Debian-Developer-in-training.
WildOne-Chad D. Zimmerman, Head of Debian Book Project

Debian Daemons:

dpkgFile area has full Debian mirror.
User68-70   Links #debian on undernet, linpeople, and efnet.


--- on channel #natter (irc.linpeople.org)

People of Note:

CromCyclades tech support (http://www.clyclades.com).
Flood   Author of ProFTPD daemon (http://www.proftpd.org).
FishheadPersonality: archnemesis of netgod.
Hyrlik  Head of Linpeople Quake Clan (http://lpc.linpeople.org).
liloIRC network founder.  Gender indeterminate (female?).
Whizard Computer Programmer, United States Geological Survey.
YodaAll-around funny guy (http://yoda.oaktree.net).

Plus 90 other regulars who answer questions and help with linux
setup.  For list and homepages see http://www.linpeople.org).


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Future Domain tmc-850/950 and Sanyo CDR-400I

[KillMadDog]

Future Domain tmc-850/950 and Sanyo CDR-400I
how do I get these to work?
they don't seem compatible w/ linux


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Re: netscape communicator error

[Johannes Martinez]

On Mon, 21 Jul 1997, Victor Torrico wrote:

> > Netscape error: no valid encryption policy file was found for this
> > english language version of communicator.  all encryption and decrytion
> > will be disabled.

read the readme that came with the package.  Can't say more cause
i'm not at my machine( no electricity :( )



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Re: FW: chmod u+s

[Nathan E Norman]

Debian wants users to be members of group "dip" in order to use pppd.
My /usr/sbin/pppd is owned by "root.dip", and is "-rwsr-xr--".

Hope this helps.

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On Mon, 21 Jul 1997, lpwang wrote:

:Hello all,
:I have a questions that I can not seem to find the answer to.  I have set up
:a linux box as a ppp server and a mail server.  I have installed smail and 
qpopper.  Both
:are working quite well.  I can finally use MS exchange client and Pegasus mail 
to get mail
:off my server.
:I do have one major problem.  I have been trying to set up a ppp server.  I 
have done it in the
:past using mgetty and AutoPPP.  Unfortunately, when I chmod u+s 
/usr/sbin/pppd, no error message
:is generated.  However, if I try and run it without being root, I get an error 
message.  Do I need to
:add a su or suid package to make it work.  Su works on my machine.  Is chmod 
broken or do I not
:know what I am doing?  (I probably don't know what I am doing)
:Another question.  Has any body used apsfilter, mgetty, diald as decribed by J 
Pollman (listed a a new link on LDP,
:A Home Server with Linux.  This set up would be perfect for my home network.  
I have static ip numbers.  Debian
:does this differently than Slackware and Redhat.
:Thanks.
:Lester
:
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FW: chmod u+s

[lpwang]

Hello all,
I have a questions that I can not seem to find the answer to.  I have set up
a linux box as a ppp server and a mail server.  I have installed smail and 
qpopper.  Both
are working quite well.  I can finally use MS exchange client and Pegasus mail 
to get mail
off my server.
I do have one major problem.  I have been trying to set up a ppp server.  I 
have done it in the
past using mgetty and AutoPPP.  Unfortunately, when I chmod u+s /usr/sbin/pppd, 
no error message
is generated.  However, if I try and run it without being root, I get an error 
message.  Do I need to
add a su or suid package to make it work.  Su works on my machine.  Is chmod 
broken or do I not
know what I am doing?  (I probably don't know what I am doing)
Another question.  Has any body used apsfilter, mgetty, diald as decribed by J 
Pollman (listed a a new link on LDP,
A Home Server with Linux.  This set up would be perfect for my home network.  I 
have static ip numbers.  Debian
does this differently than Slackware and Redhat.
Thanks.
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Re: Dialup PPP config

[Kevin Traas]

> I am setting up dialup ppp for employees, so we're using old stuff - a
> junk 486, an Equinox card from a defunct BBS, and 8 Prac PM288MT modems.
> I decided to use Linux rather than BSDI so I'd have a clue as how to set
> up the modems.

I've done the same on several occasions myself
 
> To my amazement, I can dialout from each modem, and I can dialin to each
> modem and perform a generic login (no ppp).  I was able to get Win95 to
> dialin and login as well with DUN ... *BUT*, I cannot then access hosts
> external to our network!  In other words, I can access www.midco.net,
> but not www.debian.org (the dial server is tesla.midco.net).  I can't
> imagine that this is a routing problem since I *can* access external
> servers from the dial server itself, although my router knowledge is
> slight.  I'd guess it's some proxyarp weirdness?
> 
> I'm not going to post config files here and such since I've burned
> enough bandwidth.  If anyone has an idea or a helpful URL, or doesn't
> mind getting some email about this, I'd appreciate it very much.

Unfortunately, without some additional info, I can't be of much help

You say you can ping from your dial-in clients to other systems on the same
LAN that your dial-in server (tesla) is connected to.  This indicates that
IP_Forwarding is enabled as required and routing is probably configured
properly.

How are you connected to hosts external to your network?  Via the Linux box
or another router?  Can all hosts/clients on your LAN access hosts external
to your network?  If so, then in this situation, I'd bet that the problem
is a routing configuration issue on your external router.  It doesn't have
a route configured to the subnet that your dial-in clients are using.

Another possibility is that the default route isn't configured properly on
your Linux box.  i.e. Can you access/ping hosts outside of your LAN from
your Linux box?

For more info, please provide the output from the following commands (while
a dial-in user is connected):

- `ifconfig`
- `route -n`

Later,

Kevin Traas
Systems Analyst
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Re: EFNet in debian circle

[Hanno Wagner]

Hi,

On July 21 1997, Alexander Koch wrote:

> What about IRCNet? (*lol*)

If we are in the mood, there are some people in #Debian. But no bots - and
I think the people will go when there are bots...

> What is a linpeople server?

try /server irc.linpeople.org

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Re: EFNet in debian circle

[Chad D. Zimmerman]

On 21 Jul 1997, Ben Gertzfield wrote:

> > "Chad" == Chad D Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> Chad> Just added another IRC network to the #debian channel net.
> 
> Chad> We currently have Undernet , Linpeople and EFNet linked
> Chad> together through Bots.  Giving people on one irc network
> Chad> access to help from the other irc networks.
> 
> Until about 3 days ago, I'd been sitting on the #Debian channel every
> day, all alone, on EFnet. But then a bunch of warez d00ds came and
> took it away.

right now, we have 3 debian people have bots there now.  One is an op,
gona up the channel linker too.  going to add some channel protection
support to the one bot to to keep it in debian user hands.  Right now 8
people in the channel.
 
> I don't know if we're going to get anything interesting off of EFNet's
> #Debian; I was there every day for about 7 months and had maybe 4
> people who weren't interested in warez or porn come by.

Most are on linpeople.org or undernet.org .. hate switching server so this
helps.

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Re: not a debian question

[Philippe Troin]

On Mon, 21 Jul 1997 09:46:42 MDT Lazar Fleysher ([EMAIL PROTECTED]
.gov) wrote:

> I have a pentium computer with a dual IDE controller, but BIOS can access
> only primary channel.
> 
>  Will Linux be able to 'see' both channels? (hope it is a yes...)

Yes. Of course :-)

> I have tried to install second HD on the primary channel and .  
> Hard drive from Western Digital is not recognized at all, but BIOS can
> find a Seagate one.  Nevertheless, when I turn on the computer BIOS says
> that the new HD did not pass POST, press F1 to continue and computer boots
> from my old Panasonic drive, but very slowly... After that if I warm
> reboot the computer, everything is fine.

Is the second HD configured as slave and the first configured as 
master.
It sometimes looks dumb to say this, but some HD come with three-way 
settings (alone, master, slave).

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Re: Unidentified subject!

[Philippe Troin]

On Mon, 21 Jul 1997 10:36:46 CDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> I was wondering if there was anyone working on putting enlightenment 
> into a deb 

There is someone working on it.

Phil.



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color xterm (again, *sigh*)

[Matthew C. Thompson]

sorry about another color-xterm question, but root seems to have all
colors in xterm (dir=blue,jpg=green, etc.) but my user (mattyt) only has
blue for dir and white for everything else.

???

matty


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Re: dselect skips the non-free distribution

[Philippe Troin]

On Sun, 20 Jul 1997 22:16:18 PDT Oz Dror ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

> I have just installed 1.3. dselect ignores selected packages from
> non-free. Is there a way to fix that?

You probably have some packages that cannot configure in the main 
distribution (or contrib). Try to resolve these problems (by doing a 
[C]onfigure or by removing them) before trying to re-do an [I]nstall.
Dselect wants to have all the packages in the main distribution 
configured ok before going to contrib and non-free...

Phil.



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Re: EFNet in debian circle

[Ben Gertzfield]

> "Chad" == Chad D Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Chad> Just added another IRC network to the #debian channel net.

Chad> We currently have Undernet , Linpeople and EFNet linked
Chad> together through Bots.  Giving people on one irc network
Chad> access to help from the other irc networks.

Until about 3 days ago, I'd been sitting on the #Debian channel every
day, all alone, on EFnet. But then a bunch of warez d00ds came and
took it away.

I don't know if we're going to get anything interesting off of EFNet's
#Debian; I was there every day for about 7 months and had maybe 4
people who weren't interested in warez or porn come by.

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EFNet in debian circle

[Chad D. Zimmerman]

Just added another IRC network to the #debian channel net.

We currently have Undernet , Linpeople and EFNet linked together through
Bots.  Giving people on one irc network access to help from the other irc
networks.

We are wanting to add other networks together for 1 giant botnet of irc
networks.  If you have a #Debian channel on an irc network not listed
above, email me and we will get a link up added.

Chad


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Re: qmail?

[Dima]

>>Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
... However, how can I tell the
 >Debian packaging system that I have an undebianized MTA? Many Debian
 >packages depend on a message transfer agent, and just removing smail
 >in favour of undebianized qmail will generate _lots_ of dependency
 >problems.

You can a) hit SHIFT+Q in dselect every time to override dependecies
or b) install a dummy package that provides MTA.  Search for messages
about equivs package in the list archive.


 >
 >All binary distributions of qmail must be authorized. The same goes to
 >modified source distributions. I am assuming that this is one reason
 >for the fact that qmail is in experimental rather than in non-free.

My impression was that it's in experimental because it has no license.
At least when I last visited the website it hadn't -- there only was
a page on how software should be free.  

 >None of my acquaintances and friends who use pirated MS software have
 >been arrested.

Just kidding.  
I assume debian is authorised to distribute a pre-compiled binary of
qmail.  As for modifications to the source, all I can see is a symlink
from /var/qmail/control to /etc/qmail.  In other words, I doubt that
qmail package violates Bernstein's copyright.

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Re: Suggestion to future debian releases

[Bruce Perens]

From: "Robert D. Hilliard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>  I think it would be better to try to reduce the size of the base
> system as much as possible.  Perhaps the base install script could ask
> the user if he wants to install ppp and networking programs, rather
> than automatically include them.

Yes, some folks, like the Space Shuttle, want a minimal system. Even they
commented that they installed an editor.

>  Several years ago, I installed a minimal Slackware installation on
> a < 10 mb partition, with the intent of making an emergency/repair
> tool.  Subsequently, I removed some files, and added a few others,
> resulting in 5535 kb on a 6170 kb partition.  I still keep this
> partition for emergency use.
> 
>  It would be very difficult to make such an installation with
> debian.

Perhaps, but our 1.44MB rescue disk does this well, and can be used on
a tiny hard disk partition with no problem. Just dd it over and it might
even be bootable without putting LILO on it.

Thanks

Bruce
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Re: LessTif

[Alex Yukhimets]

> On Mon, 21 Jul 1997, Alex Yukhimets wrote:
> 
> > > Is Lesstif usable now or is there another (fairly inexpensive
> > > solution)? 
> > 
> > I would not call it usable, it has basically of hacker's value.
> > The best Motif you can get for Linux is from MetroLink, but it is
> > fairly expensive. (Red Hat distributes the same version a bit
> > cheaper). Less expensive but still solid is from Xi Graphics.
> > The cheapest but still worth buying is Mootif from InfoMagic.
> > 
> 
> What do you mean, are the libraries of differnt qualities?

Yes. As you undrstand, these are different ports of OSF Motif to Linux.
There are some problems with that and different companies solve them
differently -- by both fixing the bugs and introducing new ones :)
The most solid approach to that have Metrolink - it is also Motif vendor
to many other unices. The approach of InfoMagic is "hacking" specific
problems (as far as I can guess) - but it still works.

Another difference is more or less clean Imake rules and the most drastic
difference in runtime environment (mwm).

> Oh, what about Star Office Motif. :-), that the cheapest.

I understand it is a joke.


Alex Y.

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Re: LessTif

[Shaya Potter]

On Mon, 21 Jul 1997, Alex Yukhimets wrote:

> > Is Lesstif usable now or is there another (fairly inexpensive
> > solution)? 
> 
> I would not call it usable, it has basically of hacker's value.
> The best Motif you can get for Linux is from MetroLink, but it is
> fairly expensive. (Red Hat distributes the same version a bit
> cheaper). Less expensive but still solid is from Xi Graphics.
> The cheapest but still worth buying is Mootif from InfoMagic.
> 

What do you mean, are the libraries of differnt qualities?
Oh, what about Star Office Motif. :-), that the cheapest.

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Re: netscape communicator error

[Anthony Fok]

Markus M. Schneider wrote:
> 
> > > Netscape error: no valid encryption policy file was found for this
> > > english language version of communicator.  all encryption and
> > decrytion
> > > will be disabled.
> 
> I copied the file "policyMoz40P1.jar" from the
> communicator-v401b6-export.x86-unknown-linux2.0.tar.gz file into my
> ~/.netscape/ directory.

I think there is a better way.  I had installed both 4.0b5 and 4.0b6, and
after upgrading to 4.0b6, I got the same error message about "no valid
policy file was found".  I then went and checked the
"~root/.netscape/policyMoz40P1.jar", but it seems that 4.0b6 doesn't even
have this file.  It now uses "/usr/local/netscape/moz40p3".  (BTW, you can
use "unzip -v /usr/local/netscape/moz40p3" to see what is in it.  ^_^)

No, you don't have to copy that file into your ~/.netscape/ either.
Rather, as recommended in README.install, set the environment variable
MOZILLA_HOME to /usr/local/netscape.  For convenience, you may leave
the main binary "netscape" in /usr/local/netscape, and use the following
script as /usr/local/bin/netscape:

#!/bin/bash
EXPORT MOZILLA_HOME=/usr/local/netscape
/usr/local/netscape/netscape

or, you may prefer

#!/bin/bash
MOZILLA_HOME=/usr/local/netscape /usr/local/netscape/netscape

(I am kind of new to shell programming, so I don't know which one is
better.  ^_^)  Anyway, after doing so, the error message about encryption 
went away.  ^_^

Anthony

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Re: Gcc errors while compiling 3com updated driver 3c59x.c

[Jens B. Jorgensen]

Andree Leidenfrost wrote:
> 
> Hi again,
> 
> you're welcome ;-)
> 
> However, thinking of it, why would you want to patch the kernel for a
> 3c590 card? The one in the machine which I use to write this mail works
> perfectly with right this card under the stock 2.0.30 Debian kernel
> package.
> 
> In case, there is something newer/better available for a newer better
> card: After having patched the kernel (and having checked ther e were no
> rejects) you usually can access any new feature via the various
> configuration methods. And the subsequent usual makes sgould give you a
> new kernel with the new feature.
> 
> I think (but am not sure) that kernel modules are not mere object files
> but that there is a wrapper that forms an interface between the kernel
> and the module.

My 3c590 card also works like a charm with a stock 2.0.30 kernel.

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Re: samba question

[Jens B. Jorgensen]

Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a linux box set as a ip-masq for two subnets that is
> working fine, as well as the ipxripd daemon, that forward my ipx packages
> from internal machines to external (yet in my LAN) Netware servers.
> I would like to allow my poor Win95 users to connect to a NT
> server so that they can use some resources from NT, that is, to retrieve
> some files in the Public directory.
> My smb.conf is bellow. What more should I do?
> 

Does IP-masq forward broadcasts? Windows Networking relies on network
broadcast to do name lookups. I've tried to do "windows networking"
through a firewall and cannot get it to work. (I tried socks5).

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CD Question

[Mike Patterson]

Whew... I've been asking a ton of questions lately. But still-- Here's another.


I have a number of win95 systems using a linux box (with Samba) as a file 
server. 

What I'd like to do is install a CD-Rom on my linux box and use it from my
various win95 systems. Although I can mount the CD-Rom as a read-only 
filesystem, I can't mount it as a CD-Rom drive. (Do remote CD-Roms exist
in Win95?) So if a program checks to make sure that it's reading off 
a CD-Rom, it fails. (Presumably some sort of copy-protection scheme to 
make sure people don't copy it to their hard drive) And I'm not even 
going to guess if I can do this with multi-session disks

Any ideas? 

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Re: LessTif

[Alex Yukhimets]

> Is Lesstif usable now or is there another (fairly inexpensive
> solution)? 

I would not call it usable, it has basically of hacker's value.
The best Motif you can get for Linux is from MetroLink, but it is
fairly expensive. (Red Hat distributes the same version a bit
cheaper). Less expensive but still solid is from Xi Graphics.
The cheapest but still worth buying is Mootif from InfoMagic.

Alex Y.

> And (yeah!!!) my Debian 1.3.1 CD's showed up today so I
> should be a Debian user as soon as my CD-ROM comes in.
> 
> P.S. Is there any problems with high speed (20x, 24x) IDE cd-roms?

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Re: kernel-package and loadlin

[Robert D. Hilliard]

 I use loadlin to boot linux, but I have never moved /boot to a
dos partition (I don't have umsdos support compiled in).  I have a
\loadlin directory in one of my Dos partitions.  This directory
contains several batch files to invoke loadlin for the appropriate
root partition (I have four Linux systems currently installed), using
the appropriate kernel.  When I compile (or install) a new kernel, I
cp /vmlinuz.xxx /dos/c/loadlin/vmlinux.exe (I have the conv=a option
for my dos partitions in /etc/fstab, so I need the .exe to prevent
newline mangling).  I then "mv /dos/c/loadlin/vmlinux.exe
/dos/c/loadlin/vmlinux.xxx" with xxx being any convenient identifier.

 I now have the following kernels in \loadlin:
vmlinuz.slk Distribution kernel idecd1 from Slackware 3.0
vmlinuz.sk2 Custom kernel 1.2.13 compiled from Slackware 3.0 6/22/96
vmlinuz.deb Distribution kernel 2.0.27 from Debian 1.2.0
vmlinuz Custom kernel 2.0.27 compiled from debian 1.2.0 1/19/96
vmlinuz.124 Rescue disk kernel 2.0.27 from Debian 1.2.4
vmlinuz.bo  Rescue disk kernel 2.0.30 (?) from 1.3 (frozen)
vmlinuz.510 Custom kernel 2.0.27 compiled from debian 1.2.4 5/10/97 (ps/2 mouse
vmlinuz.bo2 Custom kernel 2.0.30 compiled from bo (1.3) 5/23/97 (ps/2 mouse)
linux   Kernel for use in 0 floppy install - see ZF_INST.ALL

 No problem with links or file names with non-standard characters.

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LessTif

[Shaleh]

Is Lesstif usable now or is there another (fairly inexpensive
solution)?  And (yeah!!!) my Debian 1.3.1 CD's showed up today so I
should be a Debian user as soon as my CD-ROM comes in.

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Re: Suggestion to future debian releases

[Manoj Srivastava]

Hi,

There is such a tool in hamm (in package pkg-order). It may
 not be ready for prime time, but as no binary in the package modifies
 anything on the file system, it should not bedangerous to install.

manoj

ps: The following is the output on a hamm based system, using locales
and libc6; your mileage may vary.

__> pkg-revdeps '^man-db$'
man-db
  groff
libc5
  locales
libc6
  ldso
libg++27
  libc5
  libc5
  libdb1
libc5

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Re: netscape communicator error

[Paul Seelig]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul McDermott) writes:

> Hi folks, I installed the netscape communicator for linux, from netscape ftp 
> site. I unpacked it and ran the ns-install program.  Everything works 
> except when I start netscape I get the following error.
> 
> Netscape error: no valid encryption policy file was found for this 
> english language version of communicator.  all encryption and decrytion 
> will be disabled.
> 
Sometimes it helps reading the accompanying README:
bite-here-
General Communicator Notes:

  Starting with 4.01b6, we strongly suggest setting the MOZILLA_HOME
  environment variable to point to the Communicator installation
  directory.  Many Communicator components now look at $MOZILLA_HOME
  as a fallback or default mechanism in addition to the existing
  mechanisms from previous releases.

  tcsh, csh:
  setenv MOZILLA_HOME /path/to/communicator/install-directory

  sh, ksh:
  MOZILLA_HOME=/path/to/communicator/install-directory
  export MOZILLA_HOME
bite-here-
 
Cheers, P. *8^)
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Re: efax problem

[Jens B. Jorgensen]

Johann Spies wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 16 Jul 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
> > Johann Spies wrote:
> 
> > > I am using efax with a Zoltrix 14400 modem.  I have no problem with faxes
> > > sent from my machine, but the ones I received so far are all vertically
> > > compressed.  The width is ok but the height is about half what it should
> > > be.
> > >
> > > Is there a way to fix this?
> >
> > Most likely they're not "vertically compressed". Rather they are
> > simply Standard, rather than Fine, resolution. There's a program
> > included with efax to stretch them the way you expect to see them.
> 
> The only program I could see that should be able to do it, is efix,
> and I could not rectify the problem with that.  My "fax" script is
> configured to work with A4-format.
> 
> I just received a fax again and the dimensions of the printout is
> 140mm x 210mm in stead of 297mm x 210mm.  The "fax view" command shows
> that it is not just a printout-problem.  The image is like that.
> 
> If it is a configuration-problem, I would like to know how to fix it.

Yes, the image problem is that the aspect ratio is not 1x1. You get
half the number of "lines" in a standard resolution fax. All you need
to do is duplicate each line and it will look normal. There's a program
called g32pbm which comes in the mgetty-fax package which will do
this for you at the same time as converting a g3 file to pbm format.

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Dialup PPP config

[Nathan E Norman]

Sorry for the off-topic post, but I sense that someone here knows the
answer.  Feel free top reply via email only.

I am setting up dialup ppp for employees, so we're using old stuff - a
junk 486, an Equinox card from a defunct BBS, and 8 Prac PM288MT modems.
I decided to use Linux rather than BSDI so I'd have a clue as how to set
up the modems.

To my amazement, I can dialout from each modem, and I can dialin to each
modem and perform a generic login (no ppp).  I was able to get Win95 to
dialin and login as well with DUN ... *BUT*, I cannot then access hosts
external to our network!  In other words, I can access www.midco.net,
but not www.debian.org (the dial server is tesla.midco.net).  I can't
imagine that this is a routing problem since I *can* access external
servers from the dial server itself, although my router knowledge is
slight.  I'd guess it's some proxyarp weirdness?

I'm not going to post config files here and such since I've burned
enough bandwidth.  If anyone has an idea or a helpful URL, or doesn't
mind getting some email about this, I'd appreciate it very much.

TIA,

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kernel-package and loadlin

[Joey Hess]

I have use kernel-package to build custom kernels, and I have to use
loadlin to boot linux. I've moved my /boot directory onto my umsdos 
partition, so I can run loadlin on the vmlinuz-2.0.29 file kernel-package 
places there. However, since that filename is too long, in dos it's
something ugly like VMLIN~ZP.29, and it's hard to make loadlin automatically
use this filename. I wonder if any other people are in my situation, and
what solutions you've came up with. (I use symlinks that have to be fixed by
hand each time I upgrade.)

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Enlightenment WM

[Shaleh]

Who uses this WM and how well does it work?  I just read the owner's
page and buzz sheet but I want to hear it from the users.  Does it work
as fast/well/smoothly as fvwm, twm or some other WM manager?  I guess I
am asking for a general survey of who uses what and how well they like
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Problem with X after upgrading to 1.3.1

[Martin D. Weinberg]

Folks,

After upgrading a machine to 1.3.1 from 1.2, the
X11 mouse does not respond but moves rapidly to
the upper left corner and can only be moved around
the upper edge of the screen.

I did not change the XF86Config file after the
upgrade.  The old/initial pointing device was
/dev/psaux and protocol P/S2.

The mouse works fine under gpm (gpm -m /dev/psaux -t ps2).
I tried gpm -R and using /dev/gpmdata in the XF86Config but
get the same thing.  I also get the same thing with or
with gpm running.

Any ideas anybody?  I'm stuck.

--Martin


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Dept. of Physics and Astronomy   FAX:   (413) 545-2117/0648
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Re: netscape communicator error

[Alex Yukhimets]

> > > Netscape error: no valid encryption policy file was found for this
> > > english language version of communicator.  all encryption and
> > decrytion
> > > will be disabled.
> 
> I copied the file "policyMoz40P1.jar" from the
> communicator-v401b6-export.x86-unknown-linux2.0.tar.gz file into my
> ~/.netscape/ directory.
> 
> > Additionally, the libnullplugin.so file is
> > actually present in the path
> > /usr/local/netscape/plugins/libnullplugin.so but I
> > get the following error message:
> > 
> > vtorrico$ netscape
> > ERROR: File not found
> > Cant load plugin /usr/local/netscape/plugins/libnullplugin.so.
> > Ignored.
> 
> ldd /usr/local/netscape/plugins/libnullplugin.so
> gives
> libXm.so.1.2 => /usr/local/lib/libXm.so.1.2 (0x40006000)
> 
> This means it is dynamically linked against Motif1.2. You need Motif or
> install the lesstif Package to fix this.

Not at all. Just create a dummy (empty) file libXm.so.1.2 somewhere in
your library path (like /usr/local/lib, /usr/X11R6/lib/, etc).
This will be enough for the dummy (null) plugin.

Alex Y.

> 
> Hope this will help You,
> 
> Markus.
> 
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DWIM in bash?!

[Ross J. Reedstrom]

Just a quick note about some behavior that surprised me - take a look
at this transcript (cut&paste, not edited):

thermo# cd /usr/unclude
/usr/include
thermo# pwd
/usr/include
thermo# 
GNU bash, version 2.00.0(1)-release (i586-debian-linux)

So, when did bash pick up DWIM (Do What I Mean) mode? And are there any
possible hazards (perhaps with rm and an unintended close match?)

O.K., I found it - quoting from bash.1:

shopt [-pqsu] [-o] [optname ...]
...
cdspell If set, minor errors in the spelling  of  a
  directory component in a cd command will be
  corrected.   The  errors  checked  for  are
  transposed characters, a missing character,
  and one character too many.  If  a  correc-
  tion  is  found, the corrected file name is
  printed, and the  command  proceeds.   This
  option  is  enabled by default, but is only
  used by interactive shells.

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not a debian question

[Lazar Fleysher]

Hi people!

This is not a Debian question, but I thought someone might know

I have a pentium computer with a dual IDE controller, but BIOS can access
only primary channel.

 Will Linux be able to 'see' both channels? (hope it is a yes...)

And one more question.  

I have tried to install second HD on the primary channel and .  
Hard drive from Western Digital is not recognized at all, but BIOS can
find a Seagate one.  Nevertheless, when I turn on the computer BIOS says
that the new HD did not pass POST, press F1 to continue and computer boots
from my old Panasonic drive, but very slowly... After that if I warm
reboot the computer, everything is fine.
 
It is a bit inconvenient to wait for 3 min for an error message, slow boot
and then reboot  Quite a complicated boot sequence. ...
IDE controller supports PIO 0,1,2,3,4 ; BIOS supports Large Block
Addressing (LBA mode)

Did anyone have the same type of problem? Does anyone know what to do?
Maybe I have to change something in BIOS setup...
People how manufactured BIOS ( Award ) and IDE claim that it should
work.

Thanks to everybody

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Default mgetty behavior (to mgetty's maintainer)

[Eloy A. Paris]

Hi,

just I quick comment about the default behavior of mgetty:

the file /etc/mgetty/login.config has support for AutoPPP (for easy
Windows 95 dial-up access through Dial-up Networking) out of the
box. In this file this line is present:

/AutoPPP/ -a_ppp   /usr/sbin/pppd auth -chap +pap login debug kdebug 7

Well, I would suggest that the "debug" and "kdebug 7" options are removed
from the default /etc/mgetty/login.config file since this options
generate VERY VERY verbose output. My log files grew from a couple of
hundred KBytes to several MBytes in minutes.

I know it is a very easy fix to remove these options but the new user
will find this to be a problem.

Regards,

E.-

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Re: Multiple posts

[Shaleh]

Victor, do not take my post as a flame or a slam.  I was just making
sure that there were no list problems and posting a general question.


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Unidentified subject!

[Peter . Yarych . gandolph]

Hello fellow debians
 
I was wondering if there was anyone working on putting enlightenment into a deb
If there already is one... I apologize
Some how I must have missed it
anyone interested in looking at a very cool window manager check out 

http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~s2154962/enlightenment/ 

Later 
Peter

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Re: Multiple posts

[Victor Torrico]

Shaleh wrote:
> 
> Why are some peoples posts showing up two, three, and even four times?
> This is a high traffic group as it is.
> 

My posts were cockpit problems.  It should not happen again.  My apologies to
all.

Victor


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Re: netscape communicator error

[Victor Torrico]

Markus M. Schneider wrote:
> 
> > > Netscape error: no valid encryption policy file was found for this
> > > english language version of communicator.  all encryption and
> > decrytion
> > > will be disabled.
> 
> I copied the file "policyMoz40P1.jar" from the
> communicator-v401b6-export.x86-unknown-linux2.0.tar.gz file into my
> ~/.netscape/ directory.
> 

I finally wound up doing a chown from root to vtorrico on the file
/home/vtorrico/.netscape/policyMoz40P1.jar which seems to solve it for me.  Of
course I'm only using PPP through an ISP so permissions are not a big deal with
me.  All incoming networking stuff is disabled so no one should be able to mess
with my files.

Thanks for your information which put me on the right path.

Victor


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Re: netscape communicator error

[Victor Torrico]

Paul McDermott wrote:
> 
> Hi folks, I installed the netscape communicator for linux, from netscape ftp
> site. I unpacked it and ran the ns-install program.  Everything works
> except when I start netscape I get the following error.
> 
> Netscape error: no valid encryption policy file was found for this
> english language version of communicator.  all encryption and decrytion
> will be disabled.
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> Paul
> 

I finally wound up doing a chown from root to vtorrico on the file
/home/vtorrico/.netscape/policyMoz40P1.jar which seems to solve it for me.  Of
course I'm only using PPP through an ISP so permissions are not a big deal with
me.  All incoming networking stuff is disabled so no one should be able to mess
with my files.

Victor


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Re: Installing from a pile of floppys

[Rick Hawkins]

> I've just installed Debian 1.3.1 on a 386SL laptop and everything is Ok
> for the base system. But now I would like to install some big packages
> with big .deb files that don't fit in a single floppy. Is there some
> preferred procedure for doing this?
>  (I have some clues: use a MsDOS partition to install form and dump the
> files zipped in several floppies, use some PLIP or SLIP to link to
> another computer, but all of these sound a bit hard for me. I'm pretty
> sure that somebody else has faced this problem before. Any advice?

believe me, having done it both ways, it's easier to do from the msdos
partition if you can get the files there.  much easier :)

just put all of the .deb files in c:\, the root dos directory, while in
dos.

then from linux, 

mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /mount[assumming hda1 is the dos partion]
cd /mount
dpkg -i *deb


and you're in business

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Re: What if package size is bigger than a floppy can hold? (was Re: Suggestion to future debian releases)

[Rick Hawkins]

When i needed to do this, getting dpkg-split onto the system required
solving the floppy-split first . . . 

Anyway, i downloaded the package (perl if i recall), used "split" to
break it into 1.4m pieces, moved these floppy by floppy, then used "cat"
to put them back together.

split generates packages with sequential names:  mysplitAA, mysplitAB,
or somesuch, so "cat mysplit* > myslit.all" puts them back together in
the right order.

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Re: Netscape 3.01 off-line

[Brian White]

> I know that I've used Netscape 3.01 off-line before to read documents...
> now whenever I try to run it while not connected to my ISP, it simply
> hangs. One time it even locked out my other X apps.. I had to kill the
> server.

Sounds like the home page is trying to be loaded.  The hang-up is actually
in libc when it tries to look up the hostname to get the ip address.

If you wait a few minutes, it should time-out and netscape should then be
operational.

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Re: netscape-beta Package

[Brian White]

> I'm just curious what happened to the netscape-beta package.  I can't seem to
> find it tho it is listed in the search at www.debian.org.

I removed it because it doesn't work the the latest releases.  I have
a new package I'll upload as soon as I get a chance to test it.

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Multiple posts

[Shaleh]

Why are some peoples posts showing up two, three, and even four times? 
This is a high traffic group as it is.


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Re: Suggestion to future debian releases

[Robert D. Hilliard]

> I think we might support more default packages in a system installed
> from CD eventually

 I think it would be better to try to reduce the size of the base
system as much as possible.  Perhaps the base install script could ask
the user if he wants to install ppp and networking programs, rather
than automatically include them.

 Several years ago, I installed a minimal Slackware installation on
a < 10 mb partition, with the intent of making an emergency/repair
tool.  Subsequently, I removed some files, and added a few others,
resulting in 5535 kb on a 6170 kb partition.  I still keep this
partition for emergency use.

 It would be very difficult to make such an installation with
debian.

Bob


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Re: supported serial cards?

[Jens B. Jorgensen]

Lukas Eppler wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Does somebody know a good serial card with at least eight ports, which is
> simple to set up with Debian?
> 
> Thanks,

I've just set up a machine with the Comtrol Rocketport. The install
was fairly easy. The loadable module you get off the net (written by
Comtrol, I believe) works great once loaded but I had to tinker with
the makefile to get the symbols set right for the kernel. I did some
minimal testing and throughput looks pretty good. We have the PCI
version and it uses no IRQs. It has 8 ports (DB25) on a breakout box
which connects to the card with a 25 pin cable included with the box.

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Re: Suggestion to future debian releases

[Jason Costomiris]

On Mon, 21 Jul 1997, David M wrote:

> I have installed, using the rescue, drivers and base diskettes the Debian 
> Linux on my PC.  Nevertheless because the driver for my NIC (3C905-TX) is 
> not current as of 1.3 release, my networking is disabled (I have to get a 
> patch; that's a all new story... it's been giving me a headache to but 
> I'll get there eventually).

Get on a net-connected machine and get the updated 3c59x.c (pointer in the
ethernet howto).  Toss it on a floppy, and haul it to your box.  Recompile
using the kernel-package package.  Toss that on the floppy as well, if you
don't have it.

make-kpkg was nice and simple to use.  It was as simple as:

cd /usr/src/linux
make menuconfig (and configure the kernel the way I wanted)
make-kpkg clean
make-kpkg --zimage -revision custom.1.0
cd ..
dpkg -i 
sync;reboot

> I have noticed that there are lotza man pages in my basic setup but no 
> 'man' command to read them. :-)

You installed the manpages package, and presumably groff, but not the man
package?  You didn't choose to do that, so, go ahead and install it.

Jason Costomiris | Finger for PGP 2.6.2 Public Key
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My employers like me, but not| and genius.  We aim to erase that line"
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Re: apache and forms

[Jason Costomiris]

On Mon, 21 Jul 1997, Mikko Väkiparta wrote:

> Im trying to make www-registration system. I'd like to get it work this
> way:
> 1. I fill out the form
> 2. I press the submit-button and apache sends it via email to my mailbox
> 3. Apache says something and throw me on the downloadpage
> 
> I think I must use perl or CGI and I have tried everything, but I can't
> get it work. If someone can send me example files about sending forms
> via e-mail (both files, html and cgi or perl) and installation
> instructions, that makes me really happy.

CGI is not a language.  It is, as the name implies, and interface.  Now
that we're wildly off-topic, let's digress some more. :-)

perl is a language.  Here's a script.

#!/usr/bin/perl -Tw

$mail = '/usr/sbin/sendmail -t';
$recip = '[EMAIL PROTECTED]';
$dlpage = '/path/to/your/page.html';
use CGI;
$load = new CGI;
open(MAIL, "| $mail") or die "No $mail here\n";
print MAIL "To: $recip\n";
print MAIL "Subject: Download from $ENV{REMOTE_HOST}\n\n";
print MAIL "$load->param('name')\n";
print MAIL "$load->param('email')\n";
print MAIL "$load->param('comments')\n";
close(MAIL);
print $load->header;
open(H, $dlpage) or die "no $dlpage here.\n";
while (){ print; }
close(H);

Make sure you've installed a web server, perl, and the CGI modules. I
don't guarantee the above will work, since it's off the top of my head,
but I don't see any reason for it not to work.  Oh, name, email and
comments should be fields in your HTML form.  Enjoy.

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Re: netscape communicator error

[Markus M. Schneider]

> > Netscape error: no valid encryption policy file was found for this
> > english language version of communicator.  all encryption and
> decrytion
> > will be disabled.

I copied the file "policyMoz40P1.jar" from the
communicator-v401b6-export.x86-unknown-linux2.0.tar.gz file into my
~/.netscape/ directory.

> Additionally, the libnullplugin.so file is
> actually present in the path
> /usr/local/netscape/plugins/libnullplugin.so but I
> get the following error message:
> 
> vtorrico$ netscape
> ERROR: File not found
> Cant load plugin /usr/local/netscape/plugins/libnullplugin.so.
> Ignored.

ldd /usr/local/netscape/plugins/libnullplugin.so
gives
libXm.so.1.2 => /usr/local/lib/libXm.so.1.2 (0x40006000)

This means it is dynamically linked against Motif1.2. You need Motif or
install the lesstif Package to fix this.

Hope this will help You,

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Re: netscape communicator error

[Victor Torrico]

Paul McDermott wrote:
> 
> Hi folks, I installed the netscape communicator for linux, from netscape ftp
> site. I unpacked it and ran the ns-install program.  Everything works
> except when I start netscape I get the following error.
> 
> Netscape error: no valid encryption policy file was found for this
> english language version of communicator.  all encryption and decrytion
> will be disabled.
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> Paul
> 

I get the same message.  Additionally, I get an error message when executing
netscape: 

vtorrico$ netscape
ERROR: File not found
Cant load plugin /usr/local/netscape/plugins/libnullplugin.so. Ignored.

The file is actually present.

Help, please.

Victor


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Re: netscape communicator error

[Victor Torrico]

Paul McDermott wrote:
> 
> Hi folks, I installed the netscape communicator for linux, from netscape ftp
> site. I unpacked it and ran the ns-install program.  Everything works
> except when I start netscape I get the following error.
> 
> Netscape error: no valid encryption policy file was found for this
> english language version of communicator.  all encryption and decrytion
> will be disabled.
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> Paul
> 

I also get the same message.  Additionally, the libnullplugin.so file is
actually present in the path /usr/local/netscape/plugins/libnullplugin.so but I
get the following error message:


vtorrico$ netscape
ERROR: File not found
Cant load plugin /usr/local/netscape/plugins/libnullplugin.so. Ignored.

Thanks,

Victor


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Re: netscape communicator error

[Victor Torrico]

Paul McDermott wrote:
> 
> Hi folks, I installed the netscape communicator for linux, from netscape ftp
> site. I unpacked it and ran the ns-install program.  Everything works
> except when I start netscape I get the following error.
> 
> Netscape error: no valid encryption policy file was found for this
> english language version of communicator.  all encryption and decrytion
> will be disabled.
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> Paul
> 

I also get the same message.  Additionally, the libnullplugin.so file is
actually present in the path /usr/local/netscape/plugins/libnullplugin.so but I
get the following error message:


vtorrico$ netscape
ERROR: File not found
Cant load plugin /usr/local/netscape/plugins/libnullplugin.so. Ignored.

Thanks,

Victor


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Re: where is the kernel modules

[Lindsay Allen]

On Mon, 21 Jul 1997, Bruno O. M. Simoes wrote:

> Hello,
>   Where in debian ftp site can I get the kernel modules like "ip_alias.o".
> I'd search trough a lot of directories and didn't find it.
> Thanks
> Bruno
> 
> Bruno Simoes

Assuming that you did not install it, I think the only place you will find
it is in the drv1440.bin file.  Get your drv1440.bin floppy, mount it and
look in modules.tgz.  

Lindsay

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Re: where is the kernel modules

[Eloy A. Paris]

They should be in /lib/modules/.

E.-

Bruno O. M. Simoes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Hello,
:   Where in debian ftp site can I get the kernel modules like "ip_alias.o".
: I'd search trough a lot of directories and didn't find it.
: Thanks
: Bruno

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samba question

[Mario Olimpio de Menezes]

Hi,

I have a linux box set as a ip-masq for two subnets that is
working fine, as well as the ipxripd daemon, that forward my ipx packages
from internal machines to external (yet in my LAN) Netware servers.
I would like to allow my poor Win95 users to connect to a NT
server so that they can use some resources from NT, that is, to retrieve
some files in the Public directory.
My smb.conf is bellow. What more should I do?


-
[global]
   protocol = NT1 
 ;long filenames for win95
   mangle case = yes
  ;lower and upper letters
   mangled names = yes
   default case = lower
   case sensitive = no
   preserve case = yes
   short preserve case = yes
 
   printing = bsd
   printcap name = /etc/printcap
   lpq cache time = 0
   admin users = su
  ;su is allowed to do all !!!
   guest account = ftp
   load printers = yes
   invalid users = root
   workgroup = CURIANGO
   log file = /var/adm/samba-log
   lock directory = /var/lock/samba
   share modes = yes
   interfaces = 192.168.1.1/24 192.168.2.1/24  200.136.52.46/255.255.255.128
   security = share
   sync always = yes
   domain master = yes
   preferred master = yes
   os level = 34
 
---

The linux box is curiang (FQDN = curiango.ipen.br). A 
'smbclient -L curiango' brings me, among others, the following
lines:

.

This machine has a browse list:

Server   Comment
----
CURIANGO Samba 1.9.16p11
MICROTF1 MICRO 1 SALA DE MICRO
MICROTF2 Micro 2 Sala de Micro


This machine has a workgroup list:

WorkgroupMaster
----
IP-CURSOSMESTRE
REI  BRUNA
TF   TF4

...

Any help?

[]s,
   Mario O.de Menezes mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 | Nuclear and Energetic Research Institute - IPEN-CNEN/SP  BRAZIL | 
 | http://curiango.ipen.br/~mario  |
 "There will be a day when every PC on the world will be a"
   "host, not a 'MyComputer'!" - mom
 



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X Problems

[Kevin J Poorman]

Hi I just got a new video card (S3 86p805) and I would like to use X,
like I did with my old video card (clgd5428)

but after changing some small sections of my XF86Config file when I start
X the highest resoultion I can get is 640X480 and it is set off to the
right very very badly and  when I try to do a ctrl-alt-+ I go to a lower
resouloution instead of a higher one ... I think this has to do with my
timmings lines? so I was wondering if someone could send me some tryed
and true timings for 800X600 and 640X480 and 1024X768 that would work
with my hardware ... following is my XF86Config file

__
24
Section "Files"
   RgbPath"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
   FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled"
   FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
   FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
   FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
   FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
   FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
   FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
   FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
#   XNSLPATH   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/nls"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
EndSection

Section "Keyboard"
   Protocol"Standard"
   XkbRules"xfree86"
   XkbModel"pc101"
   XkbLayout   "us"
EndSection

Section "Pointer"
Protocol"MouseSystems"
Device  "/dev/gpmdata"

   BaudRate1200
EndSection

#new monitor setings...
Section "Monitor"
   Identifier  "Primary Monitor"
   VendorName  "NEC"
   ModelName   "JC-1535VMA"
   HorizSync   31-50
   VertRefresh 55-90
# 640x480 @ 72 Hz, 36.5 kHz hsync
# Modeline "640x480" 31.5   640  680  720  864   480  488  491  521
# 800x600 @ 72 Hz, 48.0 kHz hsync
Modeline "800x600" 50 800  856  976 1040   600  637  643  666
+hsync +vsync
# 1024x768 @ 70 Hz, 56.5 kHz hsync
Modeline "1024x768"751024 1048 1184 1328   768  771  777  806
-hsync -vsync
# 1024x768 @ 76 Hz, 62.5 kHz hsync
# Modeline "1024x768"851024 1032 1152 1360   768  784  787  823
EndSection

Section "Device"
   Identifier  "Primary Card"
   VendorName  "Unknown"
   BoardName   "Cirrus Logic GD542x"
#   Chipset "clgd5428"
#   ClockChip   "cirrus"
   ClockChip   "s3gendac"
   RamDac  "s3gendac"
# Device section for Cirrus Logic GD5420/2/4/6/8/9-based cards.

#MemBase 0x00e0
#   MemBase 0x0200
#   Option "linear"
# Use Option "no_bitblt" if you have graphics problems. If that fails
# try Option "noaccel".
# Refer to /usr/X11R6/lib/doc/README.cirrus.
# To allow linear addressing, uncomment the Option line and the
# address that the card maps the framebuffer to.


EndSection

Section "Screen"
   Driver  "Mono"
   Device  "Primary Card"
   Monitor "Primary Monitor"
   SubSection "Display"
  Depth1
  Modes"640x480" "320x240"
   EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
   Driver  "VGA16"
   Device  "Primary Card"
   Monitor "Primary Monitor"
   SubSection "Display"
  Depth4
  Modes"640x480" "320x240"
   EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
   Driver  "SVGA"
   Device  "Primary Card"
   Monitor "Primary Monitor"
   SubSection "Display"
  Depth8
  Modes"800x600" "640x480" "1024x768"
  Virtual   1024 768
   EndSubSection
   SubSection "Display"
  Depth15
  Modes"800x600" "320x240"
   EndSubSection
   SubSection "Display"
  Depth16
  Modes"800x600" "320x240"
#  MemBase 0x04e0
  Option "linear"
   EndSubSection
   SubSection "Display"
  Depth24
  Modes"800x600" "320x240"
   EndSubSection
   SubSection "Display"
  Depth32
  Modes"800x600" "320x240"
   EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
   Driver  "accel"
   Device  "Primary Card"
   Monitor "Primary Monitor"
   SubSection "Display"
  Depth8
  Modes"800x600" "640x480" "1024x768"
  Virtual   1024 768
   EndSubSection
   SubSection "Display"
  Depth15
  Modes"800x600" "320x240"
   EndSubSection
   SubSection "Display"
  Depth16
  Modes"800x600" "320x240"
#  MemBase 0x04e0
  Option "linear"
   EndSubSection
   SubSection "Display"
  Depth24
  Modes"800x600" "320x240"
   EndSubSection
   SubSection "Display"
  Depth32
  Modes"800x600" "320x240"
   EndSubSection
EndSection

__

Thanks in advance 

-Kevin


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Re: Reading news offline (Was: Using "suck" to transfer news....)

[W Paul Mills]

On 20 Jul 1997, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote:

> > "JC" == Jason Costomiris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> JC> innxmit is a part of the inn package.  However, it is almost
> JC> *never* directly invoked.  It usually gets called by nntpsend,
> JC> after it parses the nntpsend.ctl file.
> 
> Ok, I just follow the suck man page, but I must admit I haven't gotten
> it to work yet.  Suck transfers some articles from the server, and
> makes a batchfile for innxmit, but innxmit wants to read from
> /var/spool/news/out.going, which seems to be for articles headed the
> other way. (I have to work on that too, but first read, then post :)
> 
> Does anyone else use suck+inn to get news offline, in that case I
> would be happy if anyone could drop me a hint on how.  (If anyone uses
> something else to do that, I would be happy to hear about that as
> well... :)

suck brings info from your provider to a directory under /var/lib/suck
and creates a *batch* file in /var/lib/suck. innxmit is then started
something like this (from /usr/sbin/get-news.inn):

innxmit localhost /var/lib/suck/batch.provider.?

Do you get a batch file in /var/lib/suck?

Or a file called suck.restart? A file by this name generally
means it started to download articles, but has not finished. It
will not call innxmit until it gets all the articles it wanted
to get from your provider. Hint - go after only one newsgroup
initially, until you have things working.

Looking at the log and error files in /var/log/suck* and
/var/log/news/* may be of some value in finding out what is
going on.

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: W. Paul Mills  : Bill, I was there several years ago. :
: Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A. : Why would I want to go back tomorrow?:
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: [EMAIL PROTECTED]  :  :
: [EMAIL PROTECTED]  : Linux: Tomorrow's operating system,  :
: [EMAIL PROTECTED]  :here, today.  :
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apache and forms

[Mikko Väkiparta]

Im trying to make www-registration system. I'd like to get it work this
way:
1. I fill out the form
2. I press the submit-button and apache sends it via email to my mailbox
3. Apache says something and throw me on the downloadpage

I think I must use perl or CGI and I have tried everything, but I can't
get it work. If someone can send me example files about sending forms
via e-mail (both files, html and cgi or perl) and installation
instructions, that makes me really happy.

Mikko Väkiparta 
Ananda Communications Oy http://www.ananda.fi
puh. 040 - 515 9899  fax. (09) 3489 629
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where is the kernel modules

[Bruno O. M. Simoes]

Hello,
Where in debian ftp site can I get the kernel modules like "ip_alias.o".
I'd search trough a lot of directories and didn't find it.
Thanks
Bruno

Bruno Simoes


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Re: question...

[Andree Leidenfrost]

Hi Rafael,

you probably only have to configure the third serial port COM3 in 'DOS
language' or '/dev/ttyS2' for Linux.

To do this make sure the 'setserial'-package is installed. Then open the
file '/etc/rc.boot/0setserial' with your favourite editor. Goto the line
that says:

#${SETSERIAL} -b /dev/ttyS2 ${AUTO_IRQ} skip_test autoconfig
${STD_FLAGS}

and remove the comment sign '#'.

You might also want to set a higher interface speed. Consult the
setserial manpage with 'man setserial'

Execute the script - reboot or just type
'/etc/rc.boot/0setserial'. (Is there a reason why the latter
shouldn't work?)

That's it! The only thing you need is a decent terminal program like
'minicom' or 'seyon'.

Just a remark: In case you want to use the serial driver in the kernel
as a module it is important to use the standard values for io and irq.
And I'm not sure if this will work for COM3 and COM4 at all when using a
module. (Probably it does - anybody has more knowledge on this?)

Regards,

Andree
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Re: Gcc errors while compiling 3com updated driver 3c59x.c

[Andree Leidenfrost]

Hi again,

you're welcome ;-)

However, thinking of it, why would you want to patch the kernel for a
3c590 card? The one in the machine which I use to write this mail works
perfectly with right this card under the stock 2.0.30 Debian kernel
package.

In case, there is something newer/better available for a newer better
card: After having patched the kernel (and having checked ther e were no
rejects) you usually can access any new feature via the various
configuration methods. And the subsequent usual makes sgould give you a
new kernel with the new feature.

I think (but am not sure) that kernel modules are not mere object files
but that there is a wrapper that forms an interface between the kernel
and the module.

Regards,

Andree
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Unable to get virtual fonts to work

[Murray Gross]

I am unable to get virtual fonts and dvips to work--dvips and MakeTeXPK
are unable to find various files (even when I use the Bitstream Charter
fonts delivered with the package).  A search through Altavista turns up
nothing. Can you provide any information on what I may be doing wrong?

My configuration is strictly default, except for addition of a
TEXFONTS=/usr/lib/texmf/fonts//  environment variable. Psfonts.map looks
ok, and so do the other configuration files. Ordinary PS fonts seem to
work--it is the virtual fonts that fail. 

Note correct mailing address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

TIA for assistance, and apologies if you have seen this problem before
or it is in come piece of documentation I haven't yet seen. 



Murray Gross
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Re: mtools problem

[Heikki Vatiainen]

Correction:

I wrote:
>
> Try using mcopy and mdel like this:
> 
> mcopy a:'*' .
> mdel a:'*' .
  

This should be:

mdel a:'*'

Sorry, it's Monday and it sure feels like it...

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Re: Gcc errors while compiling #com updated driver 3c59x.c

[Bob Clark]

David M wrote:
> 
> Dear listmembers,
> 
> Thanks alot for your help.  The split command worked like a beauty!
> :-)
> 
> I installed gcc (+ the required package cpp and a few other suggests
> nad
> reccomends).
> 
> Now the problem is the following:
> 
> In the source code of the patched/updated driver it says at the end
> what
> command to use to compile the driver.  I typed it as it instructs you:
> 
> gcc -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O6 -c3c59x.c
> 
> I got the following error message:
> 
> gcc: unrecognized option `-c3c59x.c`
> gcc: No input files
> 
> Am I doing something wrong?

You need a space after "-c"; -c 3c59x.c

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netscape communicator error

[Paul McDermott]

Hi folks, I installed the netscape communicator for linux, from netscape ftp 
site. I unpacked it and ran the ns-install program.  Everything works 
except when I start netscape I get the following error.

Netscape error: no valid encryption policy file was found for this 
english language version of communicator.  all encryption and decrytion 
will be disabled.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Paul


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Re: mtools problem

[Heikki Vatiainen]

Try using mcopy and mdel like this:

mcopy a:'*' .
mdel a:'*' .

It looks like mtools need both the source and destination, a simple
"mcopy a:" is not enough. The single quotes let * pass all the way to
mtools programs which then do the file name expansion. 

Johnny Stevenson wrote:
>
> Hello,
> 
> After upgrading to Debian 1.3.1, I am now having a problem using some
> of the mtools operations.  The command 'mdir' works but 'mcopy a:' and
> 'mdel a:' produce the following error:
> 
> This command cannot operate on "." or ".."
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions, appart from mounting/unmounting the
> drive for each floppy (which is a bit of a pain as I still use alot of
> floppies to move info around).

// Heikki
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Re: Gcc errors while compiling 3com updated driver 3c59x.c

[David M]

Thank you Andrea! :-)

> put a blank between the option '-c' and the input file argument
> '3c59x.c'.

It did work with the space. :-) You see the source code has a carriage
return just at that point.  I assumed as all of the other arguments were
glued together this one would be too.  I did notice the man page and
corrected it just a while ago.  But thanks alot for your prompt reply! :)

I was very very happy to *finally* be able to get my Linux setup to 
compile things (after many diskettes back and forth).  I am disapointed 
though as I got the 3c59x.c file precompiled into 3c59x.o, copied it to 
the appropriate module directory, did the depmod -va, modprobe -v 3c59x, 
rmmod, modconf, rebooting, geez everything and the card still does not 
work! :-(  (the good news is I get heaps less errors at boot time!)

Am I *still* missing something???  Please help.

Thanks in advance.

Dave


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Re: Gcc errors while compiling #com updated driver 3c59x.c

[Andree Leidenfrost]

Hi David,

put a blank between the option '-c' and the input file argument
'3c59x.c'.

Regards,

Andree
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mtools problem

[Johnny Stevenson]

Hello,

After upgrading to Debian 1.3.1, I am now having a problem using some of
the mtools operations.  The command 'mdir' works but 'mcopy a:' and
'mdel a:' produce the following error:

This command cannot operate on "." or ".."

Does anyone have any suggestions, appart from mounting/unmounting the
drive for each floppy (which is a bit of a pain as I still use alot of
floppies to move info around).

Cheers for any asistance.
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Gcc errors while compiling #com updated driver 3c59x.c

[David M]

Dear listmembers,

Thanks alot for your help.  The split command worked like a beauty! :-)

I installed gcc (+ the required package cpp and a few other suggests nad 
reccomends).

Now the problem is the following:

In the source code of the patched/updated driver it says at the end what 
command to use to compile the driver.  I typed it as it instructs you:

gcc -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O6 -c3c59x.c

I got the following error message:

gcc: unrecognized option `-c3c59x.c`
gcc: No input files

Am I doing something wrong?  Is this because maybe different version of 
gcc are being used?  Please let me know if you know what the problem is 
and how to go about compiling this file.

Thanks again.

Dave


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Re: is there a atomic clock program for the internet?

[Shaya Potter]

On Mon, 21 Jul 1997, Paul Miller wrote:

> is there a atomic clock program for use with the internet?
> 

Their is the xntp3 package.

Shaya


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Re: Installing from a pile of floppys

[David M]

Hi there Luis,

> I've just installed Debian 1.3.1 on a 386SL laptop and everything is Ok
> for the base system. But now I would like to install some big packages
> with big .deb files that don't fit in a single floppy. Is there some
> preferred procedure for doing this?
>  (I have some clues: use a MsDOS partition to install form and dump the
> files zipped in several floppies, use some PLIP or SLIP to link to
> another computer, but all of these sound a bit hard for me. I'm pretty
> sure that somebody else has faced this problem before. Any advice?

I have just done the same (installed debian from floppies).  If you are 
luckier than me and your ethernet card is working than you can run 
'dselect' and choose one of 5 access methods to install debain packages.  
I suggest you use FTP.

At the prompt:

# dselect
Choose the [A]ccess method (I suggest FTP)

Then follow the instructions...

All the best,

Dave


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Installing from a pile of floppys

[Luis Seidel Gsmez de Quero]

Hello,  
I've just installed Debian 1.3.1 on a 386SL laptop and everything is Ok
for the base system. But now I would like to install some big packages
with big .deb files that don't fit in a single floppy. Is there some
preferred procedure for doing this?
 (I have some clues: use a MsDOS partition to install form and dump the
files zipped in several floppies, use some PLIP or SLIP to link to
another computer, but all of these sound a bit hard for me. I'm pretty
sure that somebody else has faced this problem before. Any advice?
Thanks,
Luis Seidel
Dpto. de Física Aplicada
E.T.S.I. Industriales
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid


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Re: Can anyone recomend a Debian package finder web page?

[Heikki Vatiainen]

There are three package finders that I know:

  o The one by me, http://sunsite.tut.fi/finder/
  o Larry and Joe's Debian Package Finder (has mirrors too)
http://larry.earthlight.co.nz/debian/finder.cgi
  o http://www.debian.org/packages.html

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Re: qmail?

[Martin Schulze]

On Jul 21, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote

> That's not the hard part. I had once installed qmail on my late
> Slackware system, so I know the procedure. However, how can I tell the
> Debian packaging system that I have an undebianized MTA? Many Debian
> packages depend on a message transfer agent, and just removing smail
> in favour of undebianized qmail will generate _lots_ of dependency
> problems.

Install a dummy package.  This is at least what I have done at home - 
I have a debianized system with many old packages.

Joey

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Re: qmail?

[Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho]

On Jul 21, Dima wrote
> >>Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
> 
>  >A related question: is there any chance of getting a Debianized
>  >distribution of qmail in the near future? A mere source could do.
> 
> You can use a non-debianized version: the only difference is that
> Debian already have qmail users and groups in /etc/passwd & /etc/group
> so you'll need to skip most of INSTALL.ids part of qmail setup.  
> And you'll need to write a startup script.

That's not the hard part. I had once installed qmail on my late
Slackware system, so I know the procedure. However, how can I tell the
Debian packaging system that I have an undebianized MTA? Many Debian
packages depend on a message transfer agent, and just removing smail
in favour of undebianized qmail will generate _lots_ of dependency
problems.

>  >I know that there is qmail in project/experimental (at least my mirror
>  >has it), but I'd rather not use alpha software -- and I think I would
>  >be violating Dan's copyright if I were to use the experimental
>  >package, wouldn't I?
> 
> I don't know about the copyright, or why using debianized qmail-1.0
> in experimental would be different from using non-debianized qmail-1.0
> wrt copy rites.

BTW, there's qmail 1.01. qmail-1.0 is old.

All binary distributions of qmail must be authorized. The same goes to
modified source distributions. I am assuming that this is one reason
for the fact that qmail is in experimental rather than in non-free.

>  I'm using it, and I've been using non-debianized qmail 
> before Christian packaged it, and they haven't arrested me (yet).  :)

None of my acquaintances and friends who use pirated MS software have
been arrested.


Antti-Juhani

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Re: Reading news offline

[Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho]

On Jul 20, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote
> > "JC" == Jason Costomiris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Ok, I just follow the suck man page, but I must admit I haven't gotten
> it to work yet.

No wonder. suck's manpage was a mess when I last looked at it about
a month ago.

>  Suck transfers some articles from the server, and
> makes a batchfile for innxmit, but innxmit wants to read from
> /var/spool/news/out.going, which seems to be for articles headed the
> other way. (I have to work on that too, but first read, then post :)

First of all, out.going should be correct. You see, you are not doing
it the orthodox INN way when using suck+innxmit. In normal operation,
INN spools outgoing news in out.going.  innxmit then reads out.going
when transmitting the news to another server.  Now, suck pretends that
the articles it gives to innxmit are from your server (hence
out.going) and innxmit thinks it is feeding some other server. In
reality, however, it is the other way around, but this arrangement
keeps innxmit happy.

If I remember correctly, however, there will one problem if you try to
feed your own server with innxmit -- I know that suck docs recommend
it, but then again, IMNSHO suck's documentation sucks. You'd have to
setup INN so that incoming NNTP from your box to your box would be
treated like a feed, not like a reader connection. The impact is that
you couldn't use NNTP to access your server without installing the
reference implementation of the protocol -- although if you are
planning to access the spool directly, this won't matter.

If you want to stick with INN+suck, try to feed using rnews -- see suck
manpage.

> Does anyone else use suck+inn to get news offline, in that case I
> would be happy if anyone could drop me a hint on how.  (If anyone uses
> something else to do that, I would be happy to hear about that as
> well... :)

Well, I used a fortnight to set up my offline news, mainly trying in
vain the other possibilities -- my current setup was easily set
up. INN was too heavy for my bittybox and the suck manpage -- Have I
not told you yet? -- sucks. I tried several combinations, but
eventually settled to Cnews with NewsX. Both are easier to configure
than their counterparts. IMHO, INNs place is in the backbones, it is
rather heavy for a leaf site like yours and mine.

The only problem is that NewsX doesn't have killfile capability in the
style of suck, but that is not a problem for me. I can use the killfile
capabilities in the reading agents, and a killfile in this end of a
phone line couldn't have done anything to lessen the impact of the recent
(current?) DoS attack on several international newsgroups.

You could also try Leafnode. I hear it is a zero-maintenance package.


Antti-Juhani


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Re: perl script

[Ronald van Loon]

In a message to me, Hamish Moffatt, you wrote:

|"On Thu, Jul 17, 1997 at 10:40:45PM -0700, Mike Schmitz wrote:
|"> I don't have pico, and usually use only vim. Vim showed no ^M's so I was 
|"> fairly satisfied that they did not exist. I started looking at the file
|"> in other editors on my system, ae & xedit, ae showed none, but xedit saw
|"> them big as life. Is vim now trying to be compatible with M$?!! I may
|"> have to find a new editor.
|"
|"Vim will ignore them, but leave them in when it saves.

True, but you can `:set notextmode' to remove them. The philosophy is to
leave the textfiles as they were, as much as possible.

>>> Ronald van Loon ([EMAIL PROTECTED])   
>>> <<<
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healthy bite from your dainty fingertips. My joy would be complete, dear, 
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