Re: HELP !!!

[Al1]

 

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samedi 3 janvier 1998 22:39Objet : HELP 
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Please help me I'm a new user of 
Debian 1.31 and i can't finish the installation !!
When I reach "Dselect" 
and i choose the CD-ROM to install the package I press OK and after I always 
got the same message: "Insert the CD-ROM and enter the block device 
name [] " and I can't go further. I've tried many things but nothing 
happen and more when I press on ^C to abort nothing change I've no more 
solution than reboot the machine but I can't modify "Dselect" as 
user and I install again Linux...I'll be very happy to go further, so please 
send me an sos. Thank's to everybody to help me in my beginning in the LINUX 
and DEBIAN world.
 
AL1
 
Thanks to all for you friendly 
support, the good solution was /dev/scd0 for me, because I've an SCSI 
cd-rom. So this problem is resolved but I' m not saved... when I quit 
"Dselect" after configuring it and install all the softwares 
selected in the package, I just can see the prompt but no way to reach 
"afterstep" or X-windows. Even Xdm is unavalaible ...May be I've 
forgotten something...I'm sure 
Thanks again
 
AL1

Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux

[wnpp]

Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux
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1.  General Questions

1.1.  Before reading this document

You should have read the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ
.

1.2.  Purpose of this document

This document is intended to identify areas that need your
contributions. It provides information that hopefully changes quite
often, so it supplements the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ.

1.3.  Getting newer versions of this document

Newer versions of this document will be available via FTP and HTTP:

  o  

  o  

  o  

1.4.  Feedback

Please send additions, corrections, suggestions and wishes to the WNPP
maintainer [EMAIL PROTECTED]  Please mention to which version of this
document your comments refer.

Try to change the subject of your mail to reflect the packages you're
talking about, it makes it easier for to sort out all "Re: Work-
Needing and Prospective Packages" emails. A suggested subject line
reads "WNPP: removing foopackage" or "WNPP: working on barpackage".
Thanks.

2.  Recent Changes

2.1.  Since version 1.64 1997/12/29

  o  Craig Sanders  has adopted procps.

  o  Richard Braakman  has adopted ftplib.

  o  Kai Henningsen  has adopted adbbs.

  o  Gergely Madarasz  has adopted htdig.

  o  Douglas Bates  has adopted xspread.

  o  Adrian Bridgett  has adopted
   tkdiff and uploaded pppload.

  o  Stuart Lamble  is working on
   modula-3.

  o  Karl M. Hegbloom  has
   adopted suidmanager.

  o  The pgcc compiler is obsolete and no longer listed as orphaned.

3.  Orphaned packages

(An orphaned package is a package that has no current maintainer.)

Please inform [EMAIL PROTECTED] via e-mail:

  o  when you find that you need to orphan a package

  o  when you believe that the following list is incomplete

  o  when you would like to maintain one of these packages.

Emilio Lopes [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  ratfor77 (old source format)

  o  ftnchek

Tom Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  majordomo

Andreas Jellinghaus [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  kde

  o  giflib

Dominik Kubla

  o  vgrind

Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  blt

Helmut Geyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  auctex

  o  ghostview

  o  lacheck (libc5)

  o  libc5

  o  libc5-altdbg

  o  libc5-altdev

  o  libc6.1

  o  libc6.1-dbg

  o  libc6.1-dev

  o  libc6.1-pic

  o  libproc-dev

  o  xproc

  o  xxgdb

Orn E. Hansen :

  o  xega

  o  xmailtool

Yves Arrouye [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  compress-package

  o  ppd-adobe-common, ppd-adobe-extra, ppd-adobe-misc, ppd-gs

  o  psptools

Dominik Kubla [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  arpd

  o  csh

Brian C. White [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  zyxel

Raul D. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  j1 (in old source format)

  o  sam

Michael Nonweiler [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

Jim Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  mh-papers

  o  term

Doug Geiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  apsfilter

Erick Branderhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  mathpad

  o  mfbasfnt

  o  wenglish

Christian Linhart [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  xarchie

  o  bibindex

Stuart Lamble [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  fsp

Guy R. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  dld (do we still need this ?)

Patrick J Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  mailpgp

Robert Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  motifnls

Tom Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  file-rc

David Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  tcl74

  o  tcl75

  o  tk40

  o  tk41

Philippe Troin [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  tclx74

  o  tclx75

  o  tix40

Michael Fletcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  javalex

  o  java-cup

  o  rsynth

Karl Sackett [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  courtney

  o  freelip

  o  groupkit

  o  imgstar

  o  lee

  o  objpak

  o  pgapack

  o  premail

  o  saoimage

  o  snns

  o  tcs

  o  wily

  o  xbattle

  o  xephem-smotif

Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  hyperlatex

  o  latex2rtf

Herbert Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  gettyps

Others:

  o  rc

  o  xcompat (should we drop it ?)

  o  libc4 (a.out compatibility)

4.  Packages needing a new maintainer

Please inform [EMAIL PROTECTED] via e-mail:

  o  when you find that you'd like to discontinue maintaining a package

Please inform [EMAIL PROTECTED] and the mainatiner of the package:

  o  when you would like to maintain one of the packages.

Sven Rudolph [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  seyon

  o  lpr

Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  adpkg

  o  autofs

  o  berolist

  o  bonnie

  o  bridge/bridgex (Bridging Tools for Kernel 2.0.X/2.1.X)

  o  chris-cust

  o  debsums

  o  def

fetchmail fails with smtp error

[Robert D. Hilliard]

 On my hamm system, fetchmail fails with the following message:

bob:vc-2:bob>fetchmail
fetchmail: 29 messages at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
reading message 1 (4310 bytes) ..fetchmail: SMTP connect to (null)
failed
fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from
post.metrolink.net

 I have installed fetchmail_4.3.4-1.deb, ppp_2.3.2-2.deb, a
custom-compiled 2.0.32 kernel, and bash_2.01-5.deb.

 My .fetchmailrc file is:
poll post.metrolink.net proto pop3 user hilliard password  smtp localhost

 I have used this .fetchmailrc file in bo for at least six months
with no difficulties.  (The man page in hamm lists "smtphost" instead
of "smtp"; I tried this without effect.)

 Has anyone encountered this?  Does anyone know what is wrong?

Bob


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Re: some problems

[Martin Bialasinski]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Volker Bauer) writes:

> 2)ISDN - I have a creatix 16.0 card. I wonder how can I load the HiSax
> driver? With modconf just the telesdriver seems loadable ( what does
> this mean:teles is old. use HiSax instead? Does this mean Debian uses
> automaically HiSax instead or that it's up to me to install better
> HiSaX???) 

It means that the telesmodule is not maintained any more. The HiSax Module
also has support for the teles card. You have to recompile your kernel with
HiSax support. So get a kernel-source package from a debian mirror. 

> However I tried to built the telesmodul in the kernel but the system
> refuses to load it with irq 15, and I don't know how to change the
> irq.(command line doesn't worked either. Under Win95 the setting is okay
> with irq 2.) I have downloaded the HiSax doku, but still wonder how it
> works. I miss the "hisax.o" on my system, but where can I get it?
> (Isdn4kutils installed)
> 
Aah, so you have a kernelsource but didn't select Hisax and the Hisax
telesmodule. Just do this. 

Then: add "hisax" to /etc/modules and edit /etc/conf.modules. Insert a line
like: options hisax  type=15 protocol=2 io=0x100 irq=10 

Consider README.HiSax in the kernelsource to find out about the appropriate
settings for your card.

You could also check the newsgroup de.alt.comm.isdn4linux for help. Read
before posting, please.

Ciao,
Martin


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Re: I need help, part 2.

[Martin Bialasinski]

Pierre DUPUIS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Hi everyone,
> Here is my situation :
> I have a working X server. I haven't got xtoolplaces, i have dl
> Ne3.04Gold for Linux Os..
> 

> I want't to conect myself on the internet
> I don't know how to do.
> Simple situation, simple question !
> Simple aswer ?
> 
Let's assume you have a modem not a LAN connection or ISDN.

Get xisp from ftp://134.95.210.54/pub and try it out.

If you have problems, come back and give us as much info as possible
(e.g. if you have a terminal login or PAP-Authentication and so on). 
Add debug to /etc/options.xisp and give us the lines from /var/log/ppp.log
and /var/log/messages

Ciao,
Martin


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Re: PPP ??? #@$#

[Peter Mutsaers]

>> On Sun, 4 Jan 1998 20:57:02 -0600, Butch Kemper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> said:

>> I have encountered a strange problem with dialing out on PPP, and it is
>> really bugging me now.
>> 
>> I have got a slightly adnormal server running. This is what it
>> looks like.
>> 
>> I have got a local network running on and arcnet card whos
>> address is 192.168.0.1, This works I and doesn't seem to stop
>> working. I also have a hacked DNS server for my dial-up users
>> which gets shut off when I go online.
>> 
>> The problem is I can connect to my server and everything looks 100%
>> except for the fact I can't do anything on the Internet.
>> 
>> When I have connected and type in ifconfig this is what I am given :
>> 
>> loLink encap:Local Loopback
>> inet addr:127.0.0.1  Bcast:127.255.255.255  Mask:255.0.0.0
>> UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:3584  Metric:1
>> RX packets:52 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
>> TX packets:52 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
>> 
>> arc0  Link encap:1.5Mbps ARCnet  HWaddr 50
>> inet addr:192.168.0.1  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>> IPX/Ethernet 802.3 addr:0123:0050
>> UP BROADCAST RUNNING  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>> RX packets:140 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
>> TX packets:218 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
>> Interrupt:5 Base address:0x260 Memory:d1000-d17ff
>> 
>> ppp0  Link encap:Point-Point Protocol
>> inet addr:196.25.198.23  P-t-P:196.25.198.2  Mask:255.255.255.0
>> UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>> RX packets:11 errors:1 dropped:1 overruns:0
>> TX packets:37 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
>> 
>> This looks normal except for the ppp errors in which there is only one.

I have the same (see my message on this list about pppd after
upgrading it). I think it is a problem with the new pppd. I also see
errors and drops on pppd.

Probably you have only one because you're reaching some server: first
a DNS request is sent. The reply is interpreted as an error and is
dropped. You DNS client is still waiting for the reply (until
timeout).

Try to send ping to an address (numeric) instead. Then you'll see the
errors/dropped numbers go up 1/s probably (like me).

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Re: Epson Stylus 400

[Anthony Fok]

On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Peter S Galbraith wrote:

> Anthony Fok wrote:
> > On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Dana M. Epp wrote:
> > > Can anyone tell me if the Epson 400 Color Stylus can work under Linux.
> > Sorry, you are out of luck.  As far as I know, the EPSON Stylus COLOR 400
> > is a Windows-only printer.
> 
> Are you sure?  A search through usenet yields this:

[snip]  (Instructions for using Ghostscript with EPSON Stylus COLOR
printers, esp. for SC500, SC600 & SC800).

> I got a 400 for Christmas and will be trying soon on Linux...

I'm pretty sure, but you might like to ask for a second opinion.  I've got
an EPSON Stylus COLOR 500 here, and it works great.  SC600 and SC800 work
with Ghostscript 5.x too.  AFAIK, the SC400 is one of those "Designed for
Windows" printer.  It doesn't work with the Macintosh either.  However,
don't quote me on this.  :)  Try a second opinion.  :)

Anthony

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[no subject]

[dave mallery]

hi

could someone explain where i can find an explanation for the fields
in /etc/ppp.options_out?

thanx

dave

ps: a nice linux article in current Sky & Telescope



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Smail config for a ppp box

[didier Belot]

hello everybody!

I'm afraid that's not the first time this question is coming,
sorry for that (and for my poor english)

-Speaking of Debian 1.3 and Smail 3.2.3-

Well, using the debian.config script from installation, I have the following 
files:

/etc/smail/config:

visible_name=avo.fr
-domains
hostnames=seth.avo.fr:avo.fr


/etc/smail/routers
smart_host:
  driver=smarthost, transport=smtp;
  path=mail.avo.fr

That OK for the From: and Reply-To: fields, wich are correctly filled, and for 
most of the mail I send
But How can I mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? (avo.fr is my ISP Domain Name)

Here is what smail answer to me when I try:

|- Message log follows: -| 
no valid recipients were found for this message
|- Failed addresses follow: -| 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ... unknown user
|- Message text follows: |
Received: by seth.avo.fr 
id m0xpKp8-0002CdC 
(Debian Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #2); Mon, 5 Jan 1998 23:16:42 +0100 (CET)
From: didier Belot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: test 2
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
X-Mailer: KMail [version 0.4.3]
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 23:16:18 +0100
MIME-Version: 1.0
Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

If somebody can help me, thank

Didier

PS: I've printed and tried to understand about 80 pages of smail documentation,
that don't seem to adress such (too simple ?) problems... :-(


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Hitachi

[cx6x86]

Can you install debian linux on a Hitachi 166t MX ? it's a 166 MMX system 
with a TFT display


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diskless workstation?

[Rob]

I have a spare 486 that I would like to utilise in some form for debian.
Unfortunatly, it has no hard disc, although it does have a network card.
The rest of the network consists of an NT4 server, two W95 workstations,
and another debain (hamm) box, which currently talks to the others via
basic TCP/IP services (ftp etc), and samba.

Is there a simple way of creating a boot floppy that will get enough off
the ground to load the rest of linux off one or other of the other systems
(presumably the other debian box!)  or do I have to scrounge another hard
disc..

Thanks in advance,

Rob




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Re: German CHIP Extra Magazine with GNI/Debian 1.3.1 CD-ROM

[Cleto Pescia]

Oops, sorry for the stupid typo in the subject... GNU is not GNI 

Cleto


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German CHIP Extra Magazine with GNI/Debian 1.3.1 CD-ROM

[Cleto Pescia]

Hello,

I've just picked up a copy of the latest issue of the German magazine
CHIP Extra (Issue 1/98), which comes with a CD-ROM containing Debian 1.3.1
and the Beta version of StarOffice 4.0 for Linux (They call it "stable",
but I could not check that -- at least not yet).
I usually don't read CHIP, but this issue is IMHO very well done, with a
lot of useful info for both novices and experts. The overall impression is
very good. Subjects covered range from "Why Linux?" to "Linux as a
Mail, News and Proxy Server" -- everything from a Debian
perspective, of course. 
Highly recommended to German-speaking Debians or would-be Debians.
The cost is DM 19.80. Some information, although mostly in German, can be
found at www.chip.de

Cleto

P.S.: I have *no* connection of *any* kind with the publishers / editors
of CHIP. On the contrary, I steer clear of that publication because of the
generally poor-quality and mostly Windows-oriented contents.


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Re: scsi problems, ncr53x8xx and 2+ devices resets bus

[Craig Sanders]

Gerard, here's an update on that problem i was having a few weeks ago
with my ancient SOYO brand revision 1 NCR 53c810 card.

On Fri, 19 Dec 1997, Gerard Roudier wrote:

> Here are 2 driver messages from your report and what they let me think:
> 
> > Dec 19 12:24:24 siva kernel: ncr53c810-0:0: ERROR (a0:0) (47-67-80) (8/33) 
> > @ script (628:0f00). 
> > Dec 19 12:24:24 siva kernel: ncr53c810-0: script cmd = 6040 
> 
> DSTAT= 0xa0 -> bit 0x20 means PCI BUS fault condition detected.
> DCMD/DBC = 0x0f00  CLEAR ACK (current SCRIPTS instruction)
> DSP points to 0x6040   MOVE WHEN MSG_IN  (nextSCRIPTS instruction)
> 
> The weird thing is that I did'nt find such a sequence of SCSI
> SCRIPTS instructions in the source. Such a sequence exists but with
> instructions in reverse order. The offset in the script (628) is near
> the SCSI reselection step, probably near the read of the IDENTIFY
> message.
>
> Even if your problem seems to be triggered by SCSI device
> configuration and/or load, the above lets me think that it is a
> real PCI bus problem.  You are using a very old 810 chip (rev. 1)
> on a recent system.  I donnot have access to any errata of so old
> chips, but my guess is that they probably suffer of bunches. Using
> such a old 810 chip with a recent host bridge is IMO not a very safe
> configuration.
>
> [...deleted...]
>
> I would be very interested in the result with a recent 810 chip
> version (>=0x12). (In case of you could borrow one).

I bought an ASUS SC-200 card, and it is working perfectly.  No errors,
no problems, just a perfectly working scsi system :-).

  Bus  0, device   8, function  0:
SCSI storage controller: NCR 53c810 (rev 18).
  Medium devsel.  IRQ 15.  Master Capable.  Latency=64.  Min Gnt=8.Max 
Lat=64.
  I/O at 0x6100.
  Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe080.



thanks for your help. it would never have occurred to me that an old PCI
card might be incompatible with a new PCI motherboard.


craig

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Re: setup help....

[Daniel Martin at cush]

Gregory Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I am new to debian, 
Congratulations.
> and have a few questions.
> 
> 1) boot reports SCSI: no device found (WD7000 SCSI Card).
> 
>   -- It is right(!), I have no scsi, and no scsi module in my /etc/modules.
>   -- Why does it try to find one? is this OK??

The standard kernel is compiled with SCSI support compiled in - this
means that it can work on machines that, for example, have only SCSI
drives (anything used to access the rootfs really shouldn't be a
module).  Seeing the error message is fine and normal, so long as you
don't in fact have a SCSI card.  If it really bothers you, you can
build yourself a new kernel - see the HOWTO and instructions elsewhere 
about that.

> 2) I find no man(1) command, and all the /usr/man/* pages are compressed,
> is some further installation step needed?

Being compressed is fine; to get the man command, you need to install
man-db.  Last I checked, though, mandb had a bug that caused it to
fail if the perl package wasn't installed before it (the post-install
script uses the perl module Getopt::Long, which isn't one of the
default perl things installed by the base set)

> 3) At boot I get a mesage:
>lp: no device found
> 
>I have teh standard parallel port..

Hmmm... This is a bit problematic.  Unfotunately, I can't help you.

> 4) I loaded from CDROM, and at boot it recognizes it;
>hdc: FX001DE, ATAPI CDROM Driver
> 
>How do I mount it?
>I tried mount -t isofs -f /dev/hdc0 /cdrom
> 
> and lots of variations, (-t msdos, hdc1, hdc, ...),
> the mount doesn't complain, but does not make the device useable.

Have you tried:
   mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /cdrom
With CDs, you don't use a digit after the device name because they
don't have a partition table the way hard drives do.  Make certain to
unmount (via the 'umount' command) any incorrect mount entries (which
you can see by just doing 'mount') first.  Also, be sure to unmount
your CD before using dselect.  (see next question)

> 5) How do I modify the initial setup, e.g. further devices, 
>do I re-run the recovery disk? or run "dselect"?

I assume you mean the bit in the install where you could select
various kernel modules to load at boottime.  (nice text menus with
devices grouped by category, etc.) - use dselect to install the
package modconf, and then use 'modconf'.
 
> 6) How do I switch from a tty like interface to something... reasonable?

I assume by 'reasonable' you mean graphical.  You configure and
install X; this is not always something for the faint of heart, though 
it is much, much easier than it used to be.  Actually, this could take 
several messages all by itself.  Let me go off and think about the
"one true way" to get X up and running on a Debian system - I did mine 
in a sligtly odd way that may not be for everyone, and I don't
remember all the details besides that.

In the mean time, you might want to install pdmenu and mc - two very
nice text-based programs that let you do something other than type
commands at the prompt.
 
> 7) I see the FAQs on the CDROM, but they are not properly named, (although
> the trans.tbl knows this..), so I suspect they are there to be installed; how?

If you look at them from a Linux box, you will see the proper names
:).  The reason you don't see the long names from Dos or Win95/NT is
this:
1) the iso9660 standard, which defines how data CDs are to be put
together, specifies that filenames shall be in the 8.3 format that Dos 
uses (i.e. eight letter of name, three letters of extension) (although 
I think it allows for version numbers; anyone know more?).  This means 
that every file on a CD must have a unique DOS-style name.
Fortunately, the standard also allows for extensions.
2) the Unix world uses something known as "Rock ridge" extensions -
these allow for things like owner names, permissions, and long names.
The file trans.tbl is part of these extensions.
3) Win95 (and probably WinNT) use extensions known as "Joliet" to put
long names on CDs - this scheme is based very closely on the way Win95 
fits long filenames on top of non-CD DOS filesystems.  (This scheme is 
sometimes called 'vfat')

Linux can, with some coaxing, read the long names on Joliet CDs.
Presumably there's some utility that allows one to examine Rock-Ridge
CDs under Win95, but I don't know about it.

However, even without understanding the _extensions_ that another
operating system has put on top of the iso9660 standard, any machine
that understands the base standard can still see the short DOS names
and so you can still do most of what you want with the CD.  (and so,
for example, you can read the FAQs from Win95 even if their names look
weird)

> 8) is there an archive of this mailing list?

The debian www mirror sites (http://www.debian.org/ and others) have
archives - look for a link under the "Support" page.
(Or just go to http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/)  The search
engine on the archives should be working 

Re: PLEASE, postmaster@debian.org, are you there?

[Dr. Andreas Wehler - Wuppertal]

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Re: Energy Star screensaver?

[Philipp Frauenfelder]

> I believe that my video card and monitor are capable of powering down
> the monitor through software; is there any way to get Debian to make
> this happen?  I would like both text and X11 to be able to do this...
> Any help would be appreciated.

This is more or less true for all (Intel?)-Linux systems capable of DPMS.
For text mode (simply execute at bootup):
  echo -n "Setting DPMS for text console: "
  setterm -blank 5 -powersave on  # dpms on
  echo -en "\033[9;8]"# suspend after 10 min
  echo -en "\033[14;10]"  # off after 30 min
  echo "done."

And for X11 (in /etc/X11/XF86Config):
Section "Device"
Identifier  "Videokarte"
VendorName  "Matrox"
BoardName   "Millennium"
ChipSet "mga2064w"
VideoRam4096
Option  "power_saver"
EndSection
[snip]
Section "Screen"
Driver  "svga"
Device  "Videokarte"
Monitor "Bildschirm"
DefaultColorDepth 16

BlankTime   5
StandbyTime 8
SuspendTime 10
OffTime 15

Subsection "Display"
[snip]

As you can see this is for a Matrox Millennium, the monitor is a Belinea 
10 70 50 (DPMS capable). The settings in the Section "screen": Blank-,
Standby-, Suspend- and OffTime have defaults like the 'setterm' for the
text mode. The XF86Config is well documentated, the 'setterm' is not. I
read in the news that you have to read the source of 
'drivers/char/vesa_blank.c' in the kernel tree in order to get these codes.

For me those work well an the screen is activated trough key press or mouse
mouvement (gpm on the console).

> --Bill.

cu

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setup help....

[Gregory Guthrie]

I am new to debian, 

and have a few questions.

1) boot reports SCSI: no device found (WD7000 SCSI Card).

  -- It is right(!), I have no scsi, and no scsi module in my /etc/modules.
  -- Why does it try to find one? is this OK??

2) I find no man(1) command, and all the /usr/man/* pages are compressed,
is some further installation step needed?

3) At boot I get a mesage:
   lp: no device found

   I have teh standard parallel port..

4) I loaded from CDROM, and at boot it recognizes it;
   hdc: FX001DE, ATAPI CDROM Driver

   How do I mount it?
   I tried mount -t isofs -f /dev/hdc0 /cdrom

and lots of variations, (-t msdos, hdc1, hdc, ...),
the mount doesn't complain, but does not make the device useable.

5) How do I modify the initial setup, e.g. further devices, 
   do I re-run the recovery disk? or run "dselect"?

6) How do I switch from a tty like interface to something... reasonable?

7) I see the FAQs on the CDROM, but they are not properly named, (although
the trans.tbl knows this..), so I suspect they are there to be installed; how?

8) is there an archive of this mailing list?
 
Thanks! I'm soure these are probably FAQ's, but I didn't (yet) find the
relevant information.

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dselect thru SOCKS4 firewall

[Stephen P. Serafin]

I have not found a way to use dselect through a socks 4.2beta server.
Can anyone help me get it working?

I do have dftp_3.2-1 working through the firewall.  If I cannot get
dselect to work directly is it possible to:
  use dftp to get the new Packages files
  use dselect to choose which packages to upgrade/install
  use dftp to download and install selected packages.

To get dftp to work I had to install unstable software to my 1.3.1
installation:
  libsocks4_4.3.beta2-3
  socks-clients_4.3.beta2-3
  dftp_3.2-1
I also installed:
  dpkg_1.4.0.19
  dpkg-ftp_1.4.0.19
There are a few other packages these are dependent on too but they
are obviated by the dpkg command.

Additionally I had to:
  set up /etc/socks.conf
  set the SOCKS_NS and SOCKS_SERVER environment variables
  and make a symbolic link from ftp to rftp

It is quite nice to have dftp working so updating currently installed
packages is easy.  I would still like to have dselect working so
installing new packages can be easy.

TIA,

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Re: deb package format

[Joey Hess]

Timothy M. Hospedales wrote:
> I noticed the same thing too. I can't find the SANE scanner driver or
> Enlightenment Binaries and afew other things that I forget in.deb Only
> RPM. :(.. Whenever I try to install/debianize with Alien, it says
> /usr/bin/checkbash: tempfile: command not found
> /usr/bin/checkbash: $TMP: ambiguous redirect
> and stops.. The RPM package doesn't work either.
> Any ideas on how to fix those errors?

Upgrade to debianutils version 1.6.

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I need help, part 2.

[Pierre DUPUIS]

Hi everyone,
Here is my situation :
I have a working X server. I haven't got xtoolplaces, i have dl
Ne3.04Gold for Linux Os..

I want't to conect myself on the internet
I don't know how to do.
Simple situation, simple question !
Simple aswer ?

Please help me :)
Thanx

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Energy Star screensaver?

[William R Ward]

I believe that my video card and monitor are capable of powering down
the monitor through software; is there any way to get Debian to make
this happen?  I would like both text and X11 to be able to do this...
Any help would be appreciated.

--Bill.

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Re: deb package format

[Timothy M. Hospedales]

I noticed the same thing too. I can't find the SANE scanner driver or
Enlightenment Binaries and afew other things that I forget in.deb Only
RPM. :(.. Whenever I try to install/debianize with Alien, it says
/usr/bin/checkbash: tempfile: command not found
/usr/bin/checkbash: $TMP: ambiguous redirect
and stops.. The RPM package doesn't work either.
Any ideas on how to fix those errors?

Timothy


John Spence wrote:

> I've been on a few software sites lately where the owner of the site is a
> software author.  There seems to be a growing trend for linux package
> developers to provide packages in tarball and rpm format.

> The two sites I have in mind are the Tkrat (a mail client for X) and Rhide
> (Turbo C like environment for GCC) author's sites.
>
> Both sites had versions of their latest packages in rpm format. Is there,
> or should there be an effort to Debianize packages and provide the authors
> with a .deb package to make available on their sites?
>
> I know that 'alien' can install rpm files and in fact I did use alien to
> install both of the packages I mentioned.  This might not be common
> knowledge to people who are making the dreaded "which dist should I use?"
> decision.
>
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some problems

[Volker Bauer]

Hi,

since about two weeks (christmas holidays) I spent day to day to get my
Debian system ready. I reached a point were my xserver works quite well,
running KDE to my satisfaction, but I still encounter some heavy
problems which I am unable to solve.

1) My printer (canon,bjc800) doesn't work. I tried magicfilter as well
as apsfilter (not installed the same time) but no chance, it doesn't
print just a single letter - any suggestions would be cordially
welcomed. :)

2)ISDN - I have a creatix 16.0 card. I wonder how can I load the HiSax
driver? With modconf just the telesdriver seems loadable ( what does
this mean:teles is old. use HiSax instead? Does this mean Debian uses
automaically HiSax instead or that it's up to me to install better
HiSaX???) 
However I tried to built the telesmodul in the kernel but the system
refuses to load it with irq 15, and I don't know how to change the
irq.(command line doesn't worked either. Under Win95 the setting is okay
with irq 2.) I have downloaded the HiSax doku, but still wonder how it
works. I miss the "hisax.o" on my system, but where can I get it?
(Isdn4kutils installed)

Sorry, sounds probably a bit confusing, but I have no idea how to start
to fix it. I have read several manuals etc, but still don't find the
next step...

Thanks a lot in advance for any suggestions

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Re: Thanks -- Was: Grey Screen After Starting XF86

[Keith Beattie]

Krio wrote:
> 
> I got Linux of the Boot magazine CD and since I had read about it here and
> there I decided to try it.  It looks great but it takes a while to get the

Might you (or others on the list) tell me where you heard/read about
the Boot Magazine CD/Article?  I'd like to see what kind of response
it generated...

Thanks,
Keith


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Re: Sendmail patch?

[Miquel van Smoorenburg]

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Er, off topic, but I know I saw a patch on this list at one point for
>sendmail, I believe it was called is_mx or something like that.  It
>made sendmail capable of discovering whether its host was a valid MX
>relay for a domain (useful for blocking unauthorised relaying, eh). At
>any rate, now I can't find it.

http://miquels.www.cistron.nl/nospam/

Hasn't been updated for 8.8.8 yet though (don't know if that is nessecary).
Hopefully sendmail 8.9.x will have something like this built in.

Mike.
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deb package format

[John Spence]

I've been on a few software sites lately where the owner of the site is a
software author.  There seems to be a growing trend for linux package
developers to provide packages in tarball and rpm format.

The two sites I have in mind are the Tkrat (a mail client for X) and Rhide
(Turbo C like environment for GCC) author's sites.

Both sites had versions of their latest packages in rpm format. Is there,
or should there be an effort to Debianize packages and provide the authors
with a .deb package to make available on their sites?

I know that 'alien' can install rpm files and in fact I did use alien to
install both of the packages I mentioned.  This might not be common
knowledge to people who are making the dreaded "which dist should I use?"
decision. 

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strftime() produces segmentation fault

[Noel Yap]

Not strictly Debian, but I *am* a Debian user so

I am trying to ACeDB
.  However, both
the text and graphical programs (tace and xace, respectively) produce a
segmentation fault when trying to reinitialize the database.  gdb just
says:

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x40085dde in strftime ()

I am running all the latest from unstable.  I suspect that there might
be a libc5/libc6 conflict somewhere, but have no idea how to resolve
it.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Noel
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setting up debian on a gateway network

[Aaron Brick]

Hello all.

I'm trying to get this Debian machine onto my office network. I can ping
localhost but no-one else. The problem is b/c the network is a dumb gateway one,
where one machine (not the Debian one) handles all the TCP/IP traffic for all
the others via a single line to the net. Anyway, if any of you have ideas as to
what I might do in this situation, please let me know. Following are the outputs
of ifconfig and netstat, I thought they might help diagnose this.

Thanks.

Aaron Brick.


loLink encap:Local Loopback  
  inet addr:127.0.0.1  Bcast:127.255.255.255  Mask:255.0.0.0
  UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:3584  Metric:1
  RX packets:10608 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
  TX packets:10608 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0

eth0  Link encap:10Mbps Ethernet  HWaddr 48:54:E8:28:DC:EE
  inet addr:202.1.2.167  Bcast:202.1.2.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
  UP BROADCAST RUNNING PROMISC MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
  RX packets:0 errors:127844 dropped:0 overruns:0
  TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
  Interrupt:10 Base address:0xf780 


Active Internet connections (w/o servers)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address   Foreign Address State  
udp0  0 localhost:ntp   *:* 
udp0  0 elk.asia-net.com:ntp*:* 
Active UNIX domain sockets (w/o servers)
Proto RefCnt Flags   Type   State I-Node Path
unix  2  [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 1003   
unix  2  [ ] STREAM   1033   /dev/log
unix  2  [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 1073   
unix  2  [ ] STREAM   1074   /dev/log
unix  2  [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 1164   
unix  2  [ ] STREAM   1165   /dev/log
unix  1  [ ] STREAM   1253   
unix  2  [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 1497   
unix  2  [ ] STREAM   1498   /dev/log
unix  2  [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 1597   
unix  2  [ ] STREAM   1598   /dev/log
unix  2  [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 3603   
unix  2  [ ] STREAM   3604   /dev/log
Active IPX sockets
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address  Foreign AddressState


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Sendmail patch?

[Nathan E Norman]

Er, off topic, but I know I saw a patch on this list at one point for
sendmail, I believe it was called is_mx or something like that.  It
made sendmail capable of discovering whether its host was a valid MX
relay for a domain (useful for blocking unauthorised relaying, eh). At
any rate, now I can't find it.

Is this patch part of the Debian sendmail package by now?  If not,
anyone know where I can find it?

TIA,

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Re: Epson Stylus 400

[Peter S Galbraith]

Anthony Fok wrote:

> On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Dana M. Epp wrote:
> 
> > Can anyone tell me if the Epson 400 Color Stylus can work under Linux.
>
> Sorry, you are out of luck.  As far as I know, the EPSON Stylus COLOR 400
> is a Windows-only printer.

Are you sure?  A search through usenet yields this:

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> Hello,
> I want to know that: what device I must use with Ghostscript to print on my
> Eps.st.color 400?
> I use the epson9high, epson and escp2 device; but it doesn't work.
> Thanks
> 
> P.S : sorry with my bad english, but I'm french.

You need at least Ghostscript 3.something (3.53, I think).  I recommend
either 4.03 or 5.03 (I've not tested the latter thoroughly, but it seems
more reliable than 5.00 and 5.01 were).  With the 5.0x releases, you've
got a choice of the uniprint and stcolor drivers, though the stcolor
driver is *NOT* included in the RPM-installable binaries I've seen.  :-( 
I've mostly used stcolor.

The key points, once you've got the correct version of Ghostscript
installed with the correct drivers, are:

- Use the stcolor or uniprint driver.  I'll assume stcolor, since that's
  what I use and I'm more familiar with it.  The following may not apply
  directly with uniprint.
- You *MUST* use the -dSoftWeave option to print at above 360x360 dpi, or
  you'll get endless form feeds rather than printouts.
- When printing color, you'll almost certainly want to include the
  stcolor.ps file (e.g., 'ghostscript {various options} stcolor.ps
  myfile.ps').  This is included with the standard distribution, and sets
  up Ghostscript's color mapping functions.  Without it, you'll get very
  dark and over-saturated colors, and the printer will guzzle ink
  cartridges.
- For best results with color, experiment with the dithering options.  In
  my experience, fscmyk and hscmyk are about equally good, overall, and
  the others aren't as good on most files, though fsrgb is pretty good on
  some files.
- To get more than really basic functionality, you'll pretty well need to
  read the documentation.  The stcolor driver is well documented, though
  if you're new to color inkjet printing with Ghostscript, it may take a
  couple of read-throughs to get more than a basic understanding of the
  topic.

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Re: UPS

[John Lines]

> 
> While the UPS-HOWTO is very informative, I was  also looking for a 
> Linux oriented consumer review of UPS models and features, some Linux 
> user's web pages with a little more up to date info than the Aug 1994 
> date shown in one part of the HOWTO, as well as a survey of first hand 
> experiences with different UPS brands and models by Linux users.
> -- 

I use apcd (version 0.5) which I pulled off sunsite (or tsx11 ?) on my network
monitoring machine. It talks to an APC SmartUPS and keeps track of battery
levels etc. As far as I know it is not available as a Debian package but
when I looked (some time ago) it was the only 'smart mode' UPS monitor available
for Linux. (and the APC UPS - which I inherited from another project)


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Re: Alternatives to NIS?

[John Lines]

John Goerzen wrote:
> 
> At my location, we are dealing with a large Unix network composed of
> machines from multiple vendors -- Debian, RedHat, Sun, DEC, etc.  We are
> moving largely in the direction of Debian and some of the legacy systems
> will be dropped within a few years anyway (due to Y2K nonconformity).
> 
> We have approximately 2500 users that can pick any of a few dozen machines
> to log in to.  Currently, we use NIS to propogate passwd information
> (login, password, UID, etc.)  I am aware that NIS is widely considered to
> be insecure.  I am wondering what alternatives Debian might support that
> would provide a more secure solution than NIS.


I recommend you investigate Kerberos - (I am non-US so I use
http://www.pdc.kth.se/kth-krb/ as a starting URL) Note that Kerberos does
not seem to be available as a Debian package yet. Many Unix distributions
(US versions) include Kerberos and it is written into the security related
internet standards such as GSSAPI.


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Re: pppd -- Sorry - this system lacks PPP kernel support

[Nathan E Norman]

On Sun, 4 Jan 1998, Robert D. Hilliard wrote:

: Greg Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: >
: > Ok, now it says "System Lacks PPP Kernel Support.
: 
: Hi Greg!
: 
: Make sure that /dev/modem is a link to ttyS1, and not ttys1.
:   ^  ^
: Whatever ttys1 is, if it is pointed to by /dev/modem, or if it is
: mentioned directly in /etc/ppp/options, pppd will give the message:
: 
:   Sorry - this system lacks PPP kernel support
: 
: This sounds like a bug to me.  Does anyone here understand why pppd
: would give such a deceptive error message?

Sure.  It's not deceptive, it's just not very clear :)  When you try to
use the PPP line discipline on /dev/ttys1, which is a console, it does
not work.  Why?  Because the kernel does not understand how to make a
console use PPP (there is no kernel support for PPP _on_that_device_).
The kernel _does_ know about PPP on serial ports [1], and /dev/ttyS1
refers to a serial port ...

[1] Assuming, of course, that you've got a kernel with PPP support, or
have loaded the PPP module, etc.

: Kirk Hilliard
: (using my Dad's account since ghoti.com is still down)

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Re: [postgres] libpgperl: Pg.so: undefined symbol: PQconnectdb

[Oliver Elphick]

grin wrote:
  >I tried to use libpg_perl the first time, installed libpgperl, libpgsql,
  >postgresql-dev.
  >
  >When tried to run the test.pl, I got the following error message:
  >==
  >perl: error in loading shared libraries
  >/usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux/5.004/auto/Pg/Pg.so: undefined symbol:
  >PQconnectdb
  >==

There was a problem in the build of libpgperl.  Try loading release 
libpgperl_6.2.1-7 which will be on master shortly (currently being
uploaded to chiark).


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Re: pppd -- Sorry - this system lacks PPP kernel support

[bn711]

On  4 Jan, Robert D. Hilliard wrote:
> 
> This sounds like a bug to me.  Does anyone here understand why pppd
> would give such a deceptive error message?
> 
> Kirk Hilliard
> (using my Dad's account since ghoti.com is still down)

I got this message when I first compiled PPP as a kernel module.  Since
ppp.o depends on slhc.o and bsdcomp.o, if module dependencies aren't
set up correctly, modprobe will refuse to load it.

The best way to find out is simply to do "modprobe ppp" as root... if
it fails, then try editing /etc/conf.modules and uncommenting this line:

#depfile=/lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.dep

It says not to do this... but it made my modules work and I've never
had any problems since.

Cheers

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nxterm and font size

[Pere Camps]

Hi!

If I want to use nxterm with a bigger point size than the default,
what do I have to change/touch/add? 

TIA!

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Re: HELP !!!

[Franck LE GALL - STAGIAIRE A FT.BD/CNET/DTD/PIH]

-> J'ai eu le m^eme probl'eme,
-> 
-> la solution est assez simple par rapport aux montagnes que l'on peut
-> s'en faire :
-> 
-> Sous linux les lecteurs (CDROM, Disque dur, Disquette) sont d'esign'e par
-> des devices de la forme /dev/xxx.
-> 
-> Le device de ton CDROM doit ^etre /dev/hdb/  (si ce n'est pas le bon, tu
-> regarde le nom du device qui t'es donn'ee au moment ou tu installe ton
-> lecteur de CDROM).
-> 

Plus precisemment, les peripheriques IDE sont denommes par /dev/hdx ou x vaut

IDE Primaire maitre: a
IDE Primaire esclave: b
IDE Secondaire maitre: c
IDE Secondaire esclave: d

Donc si ton CDROM est en maitre sur le deuxiemem bus IDE, tu le trouveras 
sous /dev/hdc

Amicalement
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   _/_/_/  _/  _/   _/
  _/_/ _/ _/  _/_/_/   _/
 _/_/  _/_/  _/   _/
_/_/_/_/  _/_/  _/_/_/_/ _/

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Re: HELP !!!

[Pierre DUPUIS]

 

Al1 wrote:
 SUBSCRIBE Please
help me I'm a new user of Debian 1.31 and i can't finish the installation
!!When
I reach "Dselect" and i choose the CD-ROM to install the package I press
OK and after I always got the same message: "Insert the CD-ROM and enter
the block device name [] " and I can't go further. I've tried many things
but nothing happen and more when I press on ^C to abort nothing change
I've no more solution than reboot the machine but I can't modify "Dselect"
as user and I install again Linux...I'll be very happy to go further, so
please send me an sos. Thank's to everybody to help me in my beginning
in the LINUX and DEBIAN world. AL1
 
J'ai eu le même probléme,

la solution est assez simple par rapport aux montagnes que l'on peut
s'en faire :

Sous linux les lecteurs (CDROM, Disque dur, Disquette) sont désigné
par des devices de la forme /dev/xxx.

Le device de ton CDROM doit être /dev/hdb/  (si ce n'est
pas le bon, tu regarde le nom du device qui t'es donnée au moment
ou tu installe ton lecteur de CDROM).

Il faut dire que Dream n'est pas trés explicite !
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Re: Yet Another libc5->libc6 question..

[Wiria A Kusuma]

Yes Remco is right, I have not tried it thou.., give it a try... and
good luck

kusuma

Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Wiria A Kusuma wrote:
> 
> > ok, I do it this way, after the ldso_1.9.6-2.deb, I do
> > dpkg -i libc5_5.4.38-0.1.deb, of couse it is complaining about libc6,
> > just ignore it, and leave it unconfigure..., then do a dpkg for
> > libc6_2.0.6-2.deb, I am sure you will be able to do it this time, then
> > you can go back to dpkg -i libc5_5.4.38-0.1.deb, this time it will
> > install smoothly, then it will ask you to reboot your system if I
> > remember correctly..
> 
> I think it is better to do libc5 and libc6 on one line, after ldso has
> been installed:
> 
> dpkg -i libc5_5.4.38-0.1.deb libc6_2.0.6-2.deb
> 
> This doesn't complain about the dependancy problem, AFAIK.
> 
> Remco
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Re: Yet Another libc5->libc6 question..

[Remco Blaakmeer]

On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Wiria A Kusuma wrote:

> ok, I do it this way, after the ldso_1.9.6-2.deb, I do 
> dpkg -i libc5_5.4.38-0.1.deb, of couse it is complaining about libc6,
> just ignore it, and leave it unconfigure..., then do a dpkg for
> libc6_2.0.6-2.deb, I am sure you will be able to do it this time, then
> you can go back to dpkg -i libc5_5.4.38-0.1.deb, this time it will
> install smoothly, then it will ask you to reboot your system if I
> remember correctly..

I think it is better to do libc5 and libc6 on one line, after ldso has
been installed:

dpkg -i libc5_5.4.38-0.1.deb libc6_2.0.6-2.deb

This doesn't complain about the dependancy problem, AFAIK.

Remco


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Re: samba trouble - security = user/share

[Hamish Moffatt]

On Mon, Jan 05, 1998 at 06:54:59AM -0500, Paul Miller wrote:
> No.. It prompts for the password either way.  Only when security = share
> the password is accepted.  Encrypted passwords were inabled in both
> security settings, so there can't be a problem with /etc/smbpasswd.

Hmmm. I have nothing specified; it defaults to security = share I think.
Win95 remembers the password correctly and reconnects properly.

> Is there a way to have win95 prompt for the user name also for each share? 
> Currently the only way to login as a user is to map the home directory,
> all other shares have to be public... 

Not that I know of.


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SEGMENTATION FAULT

[Faiz ul Haque Zeya]

Hello,

All the Xprograms (my own or  source) compiled  on my system (gcc) exits
immediately showing  Segmentaion  fault when run . They however get compiled
and linked without showinig any error  . Any help .


Thanks
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Re: samba trouble - security = user/share

[Paul Miller]

On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 04, 1998 at 11:42:56PM -0500, Paul Miller wrote:
> > I'm having trouble with the 'security = user' option.  When set, the Win95
> > computers can't browse or login - permission denied.  When it is set to
> > share, everything works fine.  Anyone have this problem before?
> > 
> > I'm using Samba 1.9.18alpha14 with encrypted passwords enabled.
> 
> Yeah, I have sambades on my bo system here, which has the encrypted
> support (predecessor to the current samba in hamm).
> 
> With security = share, it asks NT users again for the password,
> even if it's the same as their login password. With security = user,
> it asks the 95 users. So I can't win either way. I think it will
> let me in with security = user though, after double checking the
> password. Maybe it is remembering your password incorrectly?
> Not sure what you can do about it though.

No.. It prompts for the password either way.  Only when security = share
the password is accepted.  Encrypted passwords were inabled in both
security settings, so there can't be a problem with /etc/smbpasswd.

Is there a way to have win95 prompt for the user name also for each share? 
Currently the only way to login as a user is to map the home directory,
all other shares have to be public... 

Thanks
Paul


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Re: xvidtune

[Mirek Kwasniak]

> When I run xvidtune, it works for the time being.  When I exit X then
> launch X again it's back to what it was before I ran xvidtune.  How can
> I get xvidtune to save the changes it makes?

Run as:
xvidtune >/tmp/my.settings
To save your setting do: `show'  &  `quit' and extract mode line from
/tmp/my.settings to /etc/X11/XF86Config.

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login problems

[Franck LE GALL - STAGIAIRE A FT.BD/CNET/DTD/PIH]

Hi,
I got Debian 1.3.1 installed from hamm and I had a problem at the end of the 
install. Now, all works fine, except for the prompt login: as soon as I start
my computer, root is logged on and I can't exit from it. I created a user 
account but it doesn't change anything.

Thanks for help
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Re: Mail problems

[John Boggon]

On 4 Jan 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote:

> "John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > The new drive is divided into 4 partitions. one is unused, one is mounted
> > under /var, the next is mounted under /usr and the last is swap.
> > 
> > ERR Error locking your mailbox.
> > 
> > And the following error in my /var/log/mail.log file
> > 
> > Jan  4 13:51:13 dragon cucipop[1346]: Error opening john's mailbox
> > 
> > Mail in my box is not deleted after I pick it up with the result that I end
> > up with multiple copies of the same message.
> > 
> > My guess is it's something to do with permissions.
> > 
> So what are the permissions of /usr, /var and /tmp ? ls -ld /usr /var /tmp
> Also show us your /etc/fstab , please.
> 
> Ciao,
>   Martin
OK.. Here's fstab

#
/dev/hda1   /   ext2defaults0   1
/dev/hdc4   noneswapsw  0   0
/dev/hda2   noneswapsw  0   0
/dev/hdc2   /usrext2defaults0   1
/dev/hdc3   /varext2defaults0   1
/dev/hdc1   /var/lib/dpkg   ext2defaults0   1
/dev/hdb/cdrom  iso9660 ro  0   1
proc/proc   procdefaults0   0

Here's permissions on /var and /usr
drwxr-xr-x  17 root root 1024 Jan  1 21:56 usr/
drwxr-xr-x  14 root root 1024 Nov  9 23:45 var/

Permissions on /var
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 1024 Jan  5 06:46 backups/
drwxr-xr-x  14 man  root 1024 Jan  4 06:49 catman/
drwxr-xr-x  16 root root 1024 Jan  4 20:53 lib/
drwxr-sr-x   3 root staff1024 Nov  4 07:28 local/
drwxr-xr-t   3 root root 1024 Jan  5 17:04 lock/
drwxr-sr-x   8 root adm  3072 Jan  5 16:58 log/
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root12288 Jan  3 17:30 lost+found/
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 1024 Nov 27 21:57 named/
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root 1024 Jan  5 17:06 run/
drwxr-xr-x  16 root root 1024 Jan  4 20:53 spool/
drwxr-xr-t   4 root root 1024 Jan  5 06:42 tmp/
drwxr-xr-x   4 root www-data 1024 Dec 31 13:27 www/

Permissions on spool
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 1024 Jan 10  1997 anacron/
drwxr-sr-x   2 root www-data 1024 Apr  8  1997 apache/
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 1024 Aug 13 09:35 bwnfs/
drwxr-xr-x   5 root root 1024 Jan  4 20:53 cron/
drwxr-xr-x   2 www-data www-data 2048 Jan  5 06:42 dwww/
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root 1024 Jan  4 20:31 fax/
drwxr-xr-x   4 lp   lp   1024 Nov  4 08:00 lpd/
drwxr-xr-x   2 mail mail 1024 Jan  5 17:40 mail/
drwxr-sr-x  24 news news 1024 Jan  1 23:44 news/
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 1024 Aug 13 09:35 pcnfs/
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 1024 Aug 13 09:35 rwho/
drwxr-sr-x   6 mail root 1024 Jan  5 06:46 smail/
drwxr-xr-x   5 root root 1024 Nov  4 08:03 texmf/
drwxr-sr-x   3 mail root 1024 Jan  4 20:53 uumaps/

Permissions on mail.
-rw-r-   1 john mail   233515 Jan  5 17:59 john
-rw-r-   1 root mail0 Jan  3 19:44 root
-rw-r-   1 zzjboggo mail63608 Jan  5 06:48 zzjboggo

I'm using fetchmail to retrieve mail from my server and cucipop to send it
to my windows machine on my local network. My local mda is smail.




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Re: samba trouble - security = user/share

[Hamish Moffatt]

On Sun, Jan 04, 1998 at 11:42:56PM -0500, Paul Miller wrote:
> I'm having trouble with the 'security = user' option.  When set, the Win95
> computers can't browse or login - permission denied.  When it is set to
> share, everything works fine.  Anyone have this problem before?
> 
> I'm using Samba 1.9.18alpha14 with encrypted passwords enabled.

Yeah, I have sambades on my bo system here, which has the encrypted
support (predecessor to the current samba in hamm).

With security = share, it asks NT users again for the password,
even if it's the same as their login password. With security = user,
it asks the 95 users. So I can't win either way. I think it will
let me in with security = user though, after double checking the
password. Maybe it is remembering your password incorrectly?
Not sure what you can do about it though.


Hamish
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Re: reading HOWTO files

[John Spence]

Sun, 4 Jan 1998 18:59:43 -0500,  [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Catouch) wrote:

>I have had great success, so far installing and configuring my Debian system. 
>However, I cannot access the HOWTO files.  They are in /usr/doc/HOWTO and are
>gz.  How can I read them?  Thank you.

If you intalled the Midnight commander filemanager program (mc) then
all you have to do is browse to the HOWTO directory, highlight the gz
file and press Enter.


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Re: Cut to the chase.

[Wiria A Kusuma]

I think it will be better off if you donate the money to debian instead,
just spit out your problem in this list and I am sure you will get the
answer in no time. 

good luck
kusuma

Greg Cox wrote:
> 
> Need some help installing debian correctly.
> 
> If anyone out there is a pro and wouldn't mind spending about twenty minutes 
> on the phone with me this afternoon, I would be glad to eat the long distance.
> 
> Please email me you phone number.
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Re: Yet Another libc5->libc6 question..

[Wiria A Kusuma]

ok, I do it this way, after the ldso_1.9.6-2.deb, I do 
dpkg -i libc5_5.4.38-0.1.deb, of couse it is complaining about libc6,
just ignore it, and leave it unconfigure..., then do a dpkg for
libc6_2.0.6-2.deb, I am sure you will be able to do it this time, then
you can go back to dpkg -i libc5_5.4.38-0.1.deb, this time it will
install smoothly, then it will ask you to reboot your system if I
remember correctly..

good luck
kusuma

Damir J. Naden wrote:
> 
> Hi, everyone --
> 
> I have spent last hour going thru the mailing list archives and still
> came out empty-handed:
> I have installed a base system froma the current base disks from hamm
> which point to the current bo disks. Those include libc5_5.4.33-6
> library. Next step was to try and upgrade to ldso_1.9.6-2.deb. No
> problem. Trying to upgrade to libc6_2.0.6-2.deb - with no success: it
> conflicts with any libc5 package less or equal to libc5_5.4.33-7. So, I
> downloaded libc5_5.4.38-0.1.deb from hamm/oldlibs, but dpkg-deb --info
> cmd tells me that this package depends on libc6_2.0.6.
> I use dpkg manually, no dselect as I'm more familiar with dpkg...Dpkg is
> from the current bo disks for i386 dist.
> So, which is the right order of upgrading?
> BTW, I downgraded to libc5_5.4.33-3 from Scott Ellis's ftp site in an
> attempt to make libc6 not conflicting with it - no success.
> 
> TIA
> Damir
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Re: reading HOWTO files

[Dave Thayer]

On Sun, 4 Jan 1998, Catouch wrote:

> Date: Sun, 4 Jan 1998 18:59:43 -0500
> From: Catouch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: reading HOWTO files
> Newsgroups: linux.debian.user
> Resent-Date: 4 Jan 1998 23:49:21 -
> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Resent-cc: recipient list not shown: ;
> 
> 
> I have had great success, so far installing and configuring my Debian system. 
> However, I cannot access the HOWTO files.  They are in /usr/doc/HOWTO and are
> gz.  How can I read them?  Thank you.
> 
Lynx knows how to deal with gzipped text files, and allows convenient
selection of files to brows. Try the command ``lynx /usr/doc'' sometime.

Dave Thayer
Denver, Colorado USA
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HELP: Network is unreachable

[Albert Hurd]

I am very new to Deian, just installed 1.3.1, and am trying to connect to
the Net (I am a single user). My ISP provider (Sprint Canada) uses PAP, but
I succeeded in getting EzPPP to connect following the instr. in the
paackage. After connection is made, I try 

  ping 142.104.7.11 (an address known to me)
and get
  ping: sendto: Network is unreachable

Same with ftp and lynx. With
   
  Ping www.sprint.ca (my ISP)
I get
 ping: unknown host

The settings in EzPPPlook ok, as do the entries in /etc/hosts,
/etc/resolv.conf, as specified by Dale Sheetz manual. Could anyone help a
frustrated newbie. Thanks very much.

Albert Hurd 


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Re: Cut to the chase.

[Wiria A Kusuma]

I think it will be better off if you donate the money to debian instead,
just spit out your problem in this list and I am sure you will get the
answer in no time. 

good luck
kusuma


Greg Cox wrote:
> 
> Need some help installing debian correctly.
> 
> If anyone out there is a pro and wouldn't mind spending about twenty minutes 
> on the phone with me this afternoon, I would be glad to eat the long distance.
> 
> Please email me you phone number.
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Re: Yet Another libc5->libc6 question..

[Wiria A Kusuma]

ok, I do it this way, after the ldso_1.9.6-2.deb, I do 
dpkg -i libc5_5.4.38-0.1.deb, of couse it is complaining about libc6,
just ignore it, and leave it unconfigure..., then do a dpkg for
libc6_2.0.6-2.deb, I am sure you will be able to do it this time, then
you can go back to dpkg -i libc5_5.4.38-0.1.deb, this time it will
install smoothly, then it will ask you to reboot your system if I
remember correctly..

good luck
kusuma


Damir J. Naden wrote:
> 
> Hi, everyone --
> 
> I have spent last hour going thru the mailing list archives and still
> came out empty-handed:
> I have installed a base system froma the current base disks from hamm
> which point to the current bo disks. Those include libc5_5.4.33-6
> library. Next step was to try and upgrade to ldso_1.9.6-2.deb. No
> problem. Trying to upgrade to libc6_2.0.6-2.deb - with no success: it
> conflicts with any libc5 package less or equal to libc5_5.4.33-7. So, I
> downloaded libc5_5.4.38-0.1.deb from hamm/oldlibs, but dpkg-deb --info
> cmd tells me that this package depends on libc6_2.0.6.
> I use dpkg manually, no dselect as I'm more familiar with dpkg...Dpkg is
> from the current bo disks for i386 dist.
> So, which is the right order of upgrading?
> BTW, I downgraded to libc5_5.4.33-3 from Scott Ellis's ftp site in an
> attempt to make libc6 not conflicting with it - no success.
> 
> TIA
> Damir
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samba/nmbd wins error

[Paul Miller]

Can someone help me out with this missing IP address.. error?  I don't
know what I need to change or do..

/var/log/nmb:

01/04/1998 23:54:35 netbios nameserver version 1.9.18alpha14 started
Copyright Andrew Tridgell 1994-1997
initialise_wins: Missing IP address when parsing line 3D ILLUSION#00 884233969 
255.255.255.255 c4R
initialise_wins: Missing IP address when parsing line 3D ILLUSION#1e 884233969 
255.255.255.255 c4R
initialise_wins: Missing IP address when parsing line 3D ILLUSION#1b 884233969 
192.168.100.2 44R
01/04/1998 23:54:35 become_domain_master_browser_wins: attempting to become 
domain master browser on workgroup 3D ILLUSION, subnet UNICAST_SUBNET.
become_domain_master_browser_wins: querying WINS server at IP 192.168.100.2 for 
domain master browser name 3D ILLUSION<1b> on workgroup 3D ILLUSION

 * Samba server 3DILLUSION is now a domain master browser for workgroup 3D 
ILLUSION on subnet UNICAST_SUBNET *

become_domain_master_browser_bcast: At time 01/04/1998 23:54:35 attempting to 
become domain master browser on workgroup 3D ILLUSION on subnet 192.168.100.2
become_domain_master_browser_bcast: querying subnet 192.168.100.2 for domain 
master browser on workgroup 3D ILLUSION

 * Samba server 3DILLUSION is now a domain master browser for workgroup 3D 
ILLUSION on subnet 192.168.100.2 *


*   Samba name server 3DILLUSION is now a local master browser for 
workgroup 3D ILLUSION on subnet 192.168.100.2 *


Thanks

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samba trouble - security = user/share

[Paul Miller]

I'm having trouble with the 'security = user' option.  When set, the Win95
computers can't browse or login - permission denied.  When it is set to
share, everything works fine.  Anyone have this problem before?

I'm using Samba 1.9.18alpha14 with encrypted passwords enabled.

Thanks

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Re: Real world temperature inputs?

[Tim Sailer]

Stan Brown wrote:
> 
>   Is anyone aware of any temperature and or humidity sensor boars that
>   hev Linux drivers, preferably debianized?
> 
>   I have just moved into a new house, and would like to measure some
>   values.

I'm interested in this too. I am trying to develop a diskless system
using Linux for Met monitoring stations.

Tim

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Re: Linux article in Sunworl

[Hamish Moffatt]

One other thing I like about Debian, a non-technical thing, is
that development is open. Sure, Redhat is all free, but there's
still a vendor. With Debian, you can be part of the vendor.

On Sun, Jan 04, 1998 at 10:02:54PM +, Timothy Hospedales wrote:
>   One thing mentioned in the article was that Linux [supposedly] didn't
> scale easily, and hence was not very good for enterprise level stuff. Yet,
> I seem to remember reading in either the linux or debian FAQ that it scaled
> very well to multiple pentium processors.. What's the real scene with
> its scalability?

Don't know, can't afford multiple Pentiums to find out :-)
And nobody supports the OpenPIC multiprocessing that Cyrix and AMD support.

One other issue of scaling is things like directory services.
It sounds like NIS/NIS+/NYS/YP is a bit troublesome on Debian.
Then there are other directories like LDAP which WindowsNT is supposed
to have in 5.0 I think ("Active Directory"). Commercial vendors get
excited about these because their big commercial customers are
getting excited about them. I wonder how important these technologies
really are long term. Linux depends on someone (or some company)
getting excited enough to implement it. A company like Caldera
might do it, but Caldera have already shown that they won't
release all their new code as GPL (Caldera's distributions have
support for Netware NDS and hence Netware 4 which ncpfs does not).



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Real world temperature inputs?

[Stan Brown]

Is anyone aware of any temperature and or humidity sensor boars that
hev Linux drivers, preferably debianized?

I have just moved into a new house, and would like to measure some
values.

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Re: EQL - all traffic is via ppp1

[Lindsay Allen]

Hi Kevin,

I worked it out yesterday.  My mistake was in not deleting the pppx
entries from the routing table.  Perfectly obvious in hindsight, but I do
wish that people writing documents would give more examples. 

The closest I have come to a Portmaster is looking one up in the price
list on Saturday.  Guess I will stick with Linux.  I guess they have to be
configured and that your IPS has not done it correctly.  Maybe the list
will come good.

I do need some expert advice in one area.  The school Linux box (P133) 
does everything at the moment and has a single modem link to the outside. 
Now, if I go to dual modems (or even three), is the box going to be able
to keep up when servicing three 33K modems and doing DNS lookups and
running apache, squid, etc all at the same time?

It would clearly be better to have smart card to service the modems but
they seems to be around $A900.  Another possibility is to use a spare
486/33 to handle the modems but, as we have only one IP address, that box
would have to have it and the Linux box would then be masqueraded behind
it (or use redir.)  It starts to seem really messy.

Getting back to eql, I thought of writing up a mini HOWTO on the subject,
but then I have zero experience with Livinston boxes or of using it with
SLiRP.  I would also like to hear of any experience with the situation
mentioned in the docs where he suggests a cron entry that runs every
minute of every hour to keep the thing up.

Lindsay
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On Sat, 3 Jan 1998, Kevin Traas wrote:

> >> > I have a fairly urgent need for load balancing two modems, but eql just
> >> > does not work for me.  All the bits are in place but all traffic goes
> via
> >> > ppp1.
> >> >
> >> You must make sure that the hardware at the other end of the connection
> >> will also support load balancing (i.e. it must be a linux box, a
> >> Livingston port master with both connections on sequential ports, or
> shell
> >> accounts running SLiRP).
> 
> 
> Hello Lindsay.  Just wanted to say that I've just begun "playing" with EQL
> as well.  I've been meaning to do this for the past year or so, but never
> got around to it...  Anyway, after a few hours, I do have everything working
> and everything is great - except for one thing.
> 
> While my end will send data out both ports just fine, I only get data back
> from my ISP on one of the ports (or the other).  It seems that I'll get data
> on one port (the first I brought up) for a random time and then it will
> switch over to the other / another port and data will come in from there for
> a while until it makes another change
> 
> My ISP has a Livingston PM3 (which is supposed to work with EQL), and it
> *does* seem to work - except for that one (and, unfortunately, very
> important) thing above.
> 
> With two modems, I get about 5KB/s via outgoing FTP, but I only get about
> 3KB/s via incoming FTP.  (Even with this problem, I get better performance
> than with just one modem because all packet ACK's will go out the "unused"
> port which allows the FTP data stream to continue uninterupted.)
> 
> Anyway, if you (or anyone) can help me out, or if I can help you out
> further, please let me know.  I'd be happy to share more details if
> requested.
> 
> Later,
> Kevin
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Re:PPP ??? #@$#

[Butch Kemper]

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I think you need to recompile the kernel with IP_FORWARDING enabled.

Butch

At 14:53 -0600 on 1/2/98, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


> I have encountered a strange problem with dialing out on PPP, and it is
>really bugging me now.
>
> I have got a slightly adnormal server running. This is what it looks like.
>
> I have got a local network running on and arcnet card whos address is
>192.168.0.1, This works I and doesn't seem to stop working. I also have a
>hacked DNS server for my dial-up users which gets shut off when I go
>online.
>
> The problem is I can connect to my server and everything looks 100%
>except for the fact I can't do anything on the Internet.
>
> When I have connected and type in ifconfig this is what I am given :
>
> loLink encap:Local Loopback
>   inet addr:127.0.0.1  Bcast:127.255.255.255  Mask:255.0.0.0
>   UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:3584  Metric:1
>   RX packets:52 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
>   TX packets:52 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
>
> arc0  Link encap:1.5Mbps ARCnet  HWaddr 50
>   inet addr:192.168.0.1  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>   IPX/Ethernet 802.3 addr:0123:0050
>   UP BROADCAST RUNNING  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>   RX packets:140 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
>   TX packets:218 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
>   Interrupt:5 Base address:0x260 Memory:d1000-d17ff
>
> ppp0  Link encap:Point-Point Protocol
>   inet addr:196.25.198.23  P-t-P:196.25.198.2  Mask:255.255.255.0
>   UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>   RX packets:11 errors:1 dropped:1 overruns:0
>   TX packets:37 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
>
> This looks normal except for the ppp errors in which there is only one.
>
> If I do a route -n this is what I am given :
>
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface
> 196.25.198.20.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH0  01 ppp0
> 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0   U 0  02 arc0
> 127.0.0.0   0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0   U 0  04 lo
> 0.0.0.0 196.25.198.20.0.0.0 UG0  01 ppp0
>
> This also looks right.
>
> Now for some init files...
>
> My /etc/init.d/network file :
>
> #!/bin/sh
> ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
> route add -net 127.0.0.0
> IPADDR=192.168.0.1
> NETMASK=255.255.255.0
> NETWORK=192.168.0.0
> BROADCAST=192.168.0.255
> GATEWAY=none
> ifconfig arc0 ${IPADDR} netmask ${NETMASK} broadcast ${BROADCAST}
> route add -net ${NETWORK}
> route add default gw ${GATEWAY} metric 1
>
> This as far as I can see is default unless something has changed without
>me noticing.
>
> My /etc/hosts file :
>
> 127.0.0.1 localhost
> 0.0.0.0   ptest
> 192.168.0.1   progtest.alt.za progtest
>
> My /etc/networks file :
>
> loopback  127.0.0.1
> localnet  0.0.0.0
> alt.za192.168.0.0
>
> If anyone can shead some light on this I would be very happy. This has
>been bugging me for the past two months.
>
> Thanks,
> Robert.
>
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pcmcia-cs 2.9.12-1

[Maurizio Marini]

Hi, people,

I have installed Debian 1.3 (stable dist) on my notebook 
Olivetti Echos P100E, with PCMCIA xircom Cem2 28.8

This pcmcia is not recognized by debian 1.3.
So i search for someting more recent on www.debian.org.

I downloaded pcmcia 2.9.12-1, that requires lib6c

I would know if same pcmcia-cs release less recent (i would not
install lib6c instead og lib5, i tried to do this without be able to do)
could recognize my card, supported by lib5c.

thnx in advance.


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[postgres] libpgperl: Pg.so: undefined symbol: PQconnectdb

[grin]

Hello,

I tried to use libpg_perl the first time, installed libpgperl, libpgsql,
postgresql-dev.

When tried to run the test.pl, I got the following error message:
==
perl: error in loading shared libraries
/usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux/5.004/auto/Pg/Pg.so: undefined symbol:
PQconnectdb
==

Seems that someone don't want to use libpq.so, but I don't know why. It
was already ldconfig'd, and ldconfig -v shows the directory up as used for
libraries...

Any ideas?

cya,
peter


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Re: pppd -- Sorry - this system lacks PPP kernel support

[john]

> Whatever ttys1 is, if it is pointed to by /dev/modem, or if it is
> mentioned directly in /etc/ppp/options, pppd will give the message:

>  Sorry - this system lacks PPP kernel support

> This sounds like a bug to me.  Does anyone here understand why pppd would
> give such a deceptive error message?

>From a quick galnce at the source, it looks like they test for ppp support
by trying to put the tty into the ppp discipline.  When this fails, they
assume it is due to lack of ppp support.  The tty does not seem to be
validated in any way.  I'd call it a bug.  Users find it very confusing.
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Re: Linux article in Sunworl

[Timothy Hospedales]

Incase any of ya'll care, in my inexperienced opinion. Debian is
definitely the best distribution. :). I tried Slackware, which as
mentioned, was very difficult to maintain and upgrade, eventually I gave
up. I tried RedHat which was easier, but wasn't quite as configurable. Then
I tried Debian Which has just been great, and i'm going to use it until
something better comes out!

One thing mentioned in the article was that Linux [supposedly] didn't
scale easily, and hence was not very good for enterprise level stuff. Yet,
I seem to remember reading in either the linux or debian FAQ that it scaled
very well to multiple pentium processors.. What's the real scene with
its scalability?

Timothy

>The other problem was that they'd compiled and installed mySQL
>themselves, and forgotten the & on the line in the script to load it,
>so it seemed to hang. Of course, Debian does all this for you, so no
>issue.
>
>I took the opportunity to bag Slackware. (They are NT and Solaris
>people anyway.) Slackware seems to be to me almost unmaintainable;
>removing software completely is difficult, worse than Windows possibly.
>Although it's possible that Solaris people are used to installing
>additional software from sources anyway, so it isn't an issue.


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Where is Pretty Good Privacy

[Richard Heestand]

I am reading the O'Reilly book "PGP: Pretty Good Privacy" by Simson 
Garfinkel and am wondering if there is a Debian distribution?  Or, must I 
download a version as discribed in appendix A and compile it myself?


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Re: reading HOWTO files

[Remco Blaakmeer]

On Sun, Jan 04, 1998 at 07:08:17PM -0500, Scott K. Ellis wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Jan 1998, Catouch wrote:
> 
> > I have had great success, so far installing and configuring my Debian 
> > system. 
> > However, I cannot access the HOWTO files.  They are in /usr/doc/HOWTO and 
> > are
> > gz.  How can I read them?  Thank you.
> 
> If you've installed less, the 'zless' command will view compressed files.
> Otherwise, 'zcat file.gz | more' will also work.  If you have the less
> from hamm installed, the lesspipe program provides a way to get less to
> view compressed files without intervention.

The easiest solution to this is indeed to set up the lesspipe program,
which is very simple. Just put something like

LESSOPEN='|/usr/bin/lesspipe %s'
export LESSOPEN

in your /etc/profile or ~/bash_profile. The file /usr/bin/lesspipe is
supplied by the less package. It contains this 'case' statement, which
shows what files you can view with it (besides, of course, plain text
files) and what it does with them before piping them into `less':

  # Decode file for less
  case "$1" in
*.arj|*.ARJ)
if [ -x /usr/bin/unarj ]; then unarj -v $1; else echo "No unarj 
available"; fi ;;

*.deb)
echo "$1:"; dpkg --info $1; /bin/echo -e '\n*** Contents:'; 
dpkg-deb --contents $1 ;;

*.gif|*.jpeg|*.jpg|*.pcd|*.png|*.tga|*.tiff|*.tif)
if [ -x /usr/X11R6/bin/identify ]; then /usr/X11R6/bin/identify $1;
else /bin/echo -e "No identify available\nInstall ImageMagick to 
browse images"; fi ;;

*.tar.gz|*.tgz|*.tar.Z)
tar tzvf $1 ;;

*.gz|*.Z|*.z)
gzip -dc $1 ;;

*.tar)
tar tvf $1 ;;

*.zip|*.ZIP)
if [ -x /usr/bin/unzip ]; then unzip -v $1; else echo "No unzip 
available"; fi ;;

esac ) 2>/dev/null


After you have set the LESSOPEN variable, commands like these actually
give you some readable information:
$ less some-package.deb
$ less *HOWTO.gz
$ less some-file.tar.gz

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Re: Linux article in Sunworl

[Hamish Moffatt]

On Sun, Jan 04, 1998 at 04:48:54PM -0800, George Bonser wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > Nice, although the "Linux is not Solaris" theme came through a bit strong.
> > Also, I don't remember there being a Pentium _II_ bug, as the article
> > mentioned. Caldera, Redhat and (ugh) Slackware all got a mention,
> > but Debian didn't, despite mention of the space shuttle.
> 
> I used the feedback form at the bottom of the article to "educate" the
> author.  You might find it interesting that Slackware has fallen from the
> #1 distribution in use to #3 judging solely from my non-professional
> impression from various newsgroup postings and other indicators. It
> appears that a lot of Slackware systems are being "upgraded" to other
> distributions including Red Hat, Debian, SUsE, and Caldera.  Not sure
> where Yggdrasil falls, it is very difficult to find clear evidance of
> Yggdrasil systems on the net. 

I did a spot of Linux consulting last week; customer (my ISP)
had a Slackware system that seemed to hang during boot. fscked correctly
etc, ran bash fine (with init=/bin/bash on the command line) but
none of the emergency, single or normal modes would come up.

There were two problems; /dev/console was gone. They'd added some start
up messages to the scripts (rc.S etc) to see how far it was getting
but none of them came out, so it looked like it didn't get that far.
But it was loading the modules, which is done right at the bottom of
Slackware's rc.S. Turns out you none of the messages can come out
without a /dev/console. Debian doesn't recreate this if it is missing
either; might be a nice touch.

The other problem was that they'd compiled and installed mySQL
themselves, and forgotten the & on the line in the script to load it,
so it seemed to hang. Of course, Debian does all this for you, so no
issue.

I took the opportunity to bag Slackware. (They are NT and Solaris
people anyway.) Slackware seems to be to me almost unmaintainable;
removing software completely is difficult, worse than Windows possibly.
Although it's possible that Solaris people are used to installing
additional software from sources anyway, so it isn't an issue.


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Re: Linux article in Sunworl

[Hamish Moffatt]

On Sun, Jan 04, 1998 at 02:40:12PM -0800, George Bonser wrote:
> A pretty nice article in Sunworld:
> http://www.sun.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1998/swol-01-linux.html

Nice, although the "Linux is not Solaris" theme came through a bit strong.
Also, I don't remember there being a Pentium _II_ bug, as the article
mentioned. Caldera, Redhat and (ugh) Slackware all got a mention,
but Debian didn't, despite mention of the space shuttle.

I thought it was funny that the article expanded the acronym GNU.
>From what I hear from the (very few) Solaris people I know, GNU is
the first thing you have to install after Solaris itself :-)


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Re: reading HOWTO files

[Tim Sailer]

Greg Norris wrote:
> 
> > I have had great success, so far installing and configuring my Debian 
> > system. 
> > However, I cannot access the HOWTO files.  They are in /usr/doc/HOWTO and 
> > are
> > gz.  How can I read them?  Thank you.
> 
> try "gzip -dc somefile.gz|less"

zless file.gz  is a lot less keystrokes! :)

Tim

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pppd -- Sorry - this system lacks PPP kernel support

[Robert D. Hilliard]

Greg Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Ok, now it says "System Lacks PPP Kernel Support.

Hi Greg!

Make sure that /dev/modem is a link to ttyS1, and not ttys1.
  ^  ^
Whatever ttys1 is, if it is pointed to by /dev/modem, or if it is
mentioned directly in /etc/ppp/options, pppd will give the message:

  Sorry - this system lacks PPP kernel support

This sounds like a bug to me.  Does anyone here understand why pppd
would give such a deceptive error message?

Kirk Hilliard
(using my Dad's account since ghoti.com is still down)


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