Re: Nis refusing logins

1998-02-13 Thread William R. Ward
Pedro Quaresma de Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 I have instaled  nis_3.1.deb (with libc6) but I am having problems
 with the non-local users.
 
 I have the following entry in /etc/passwd
 
   +piupiu:*:0:0::/home/merlin/msky:/bin/bash
 
 but when the user piupiu try to login
 
   Debian GNU/Linux 1.3 hilbert.mat.uc.pt
 
   hilbert login: piupiu
   Password: 
   Login incorrect
 
 What is the problem (and the solution)?
 
 I have set the ypdomain correctly, ypwhich finds the correct machine,
 ypcat passwd | grep piupiu finds the correct user, but...

The entry in your /etc/passwd is overriding the yp entry.  Your
/etc/passwd '+' entry should not have the user information, just
+::0:0::: - then all users in the passwd map will be included.

Get a copy of Managing NIS and NFS from O'Reilly.

--Bill.

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lynx with a proxy

1998-02-13 Thread Chris

I was wondering if anyone would know how to set up lynx to use a proxy
server??  The standard lynx package doesn't seem to support it.
 
Chris
 
 


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Re: limiting user access

1998-02-13 Thread Anthony Towns

(sent to both debian-user and debian-policy, please be careful with
replies)

Nathan E Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, Paul Miller wrote:
 : hmm... how would that stop users from running programs they copied onto my
 : server? 
 Mount the /home partition noexec.  In fact, make sure any user writable
 partition is mounted noexec.  If your users can copy files to /usr, then
 you've got a fairly big problem.

But what about /var? /var/tmp should be world writable (albeit sticky)
according to the FSSTND, but at least a couple of packages use /var
for executable files, notably dpkg (/var/lib/dpkg/info/*), and the
distributed-net client (/var/lib/distributed-net/distributed-net).

(a couple of programs also mistakenly mark data files as executable:
/var/qmail/users/assign (qmail) and /tmp/vi.recover/vi.[something]
(nvi))

In any case, this solution would work fine if you're able to separate
/var and /var/lib, making /var noexec, and ensuring there are no user
writable directories withing /var/lib.

Is it worth considering a policy change that no system executables
should be placed withing /var?

BTW, if /var was noexec, it remains possible to have something like
/var/lib/distributed-net/distributed-net - /usr/bin/distributed-net,
and still be able to cd /var/lib/distributed-net; ./distributed-net,
which, I believe should solve that packages concern that it's .ini
file must be `argv[0]'.ini.

 Note that this doesn't keep the user from running shell scripts, or perl
 scripts, or any other interpreted scripts, unless you limit access to
 interpreters (including shells). 

(and note that in most cases they could just as easily run the
interpretor and type the program in themselves anyway. Certainly, I've
done the same on one of the uni accounts I use. If you don't want
users to run scripts (why?), you'll need to get rid of their access to
the interpretors, presumably by running in a chroot environment...)

 Of course, you could mount the /home
 directory read-only, but that limits its utility.

And the /tmp and /var/tmp directories as well. Which kinda limits
their utility too.
 
Cheers,
aj

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Re: lynx with a proxy

1998-02-13 Thread Luke Chao
 I was wondering if anyone would know how to set up lynx to use a proxy
 server??  The standard lynx package doesn't seem to support it.

Try something like:

export http_proxy=http://localhost:8000;

Note the case.  This works for many browsers, not only Lynx.

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Re: lynx with a proxy

1998-02-13 Thread Anthony Towns

Luke Chao [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
  I was wondering if anyone would know how to set up lynx to use a proxy
  server??  The standard lynx package doesn't seem to support it.
 Try something like:
 export http_proxy=http://localhost:8000;
  ^
export http_proxy=http://localhost:8000/;
export ftp_proxy=http://localhost:8000/;

will let you do most of your stuff (with localhost:8000 replaced by
your proxy-host and the appropriate port number).

You can also use

export https_proxy=http://localhost:8000/;

to, iirc, get some support for https:// urls, if your proxy supports
them, even if Lynx doesn't.

(replace 'export' with 'setenv' if you're using csh or tcsh instead of
sh, ksh or bash)

Cheers,
aj

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Re: lynx with a proxy

1998-02-13 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Luke Chao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

: Try something like:
:
: export http_proxy=http://localhost:8000;

Or you can put that in lynx's global configuration file
(/etc/lynx.cfg). Edit that file and search for  proxy .

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Re: Home dir Permissions

1998-02-13 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On 12 Feb 1998, William R. Ward wrote:

 One comment about permissions: Web files do *NOT* have to be world
 readable.  They just have to be readable by the web server.  If you
 set up a user and group for your web server (I use www for both) you
 can get by with just having the files be group-readable by the
 webserver's group (and not all the other users on the system).

I missed the beginning of this thread, but why forbid local users from
viewing files that you let any user outside of your system view?  Most
people I know concerned with security in their directories remove the read
permissions on directories so anyone can get to the file, but only if they
know the name.  Note, this isn't a high level of security, just another
thing to do.  I don't see any reason to add users to more groups.

Brandon

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Re: Debian on laptops; recommended?

1998-02-13 Thread Sen Nagata
at some point around 12 Feb 1998 12:58:39 -0600
Mike Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] mentioned:

  Anselm == Anselm Lingnau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
  The current boot disks won't allow you to install over
  PCMCIA ethernet or off a PCMCIA SCSI bus, AFAIK, but this
  seems to be worked on.
 
 I've done several installations on laptops with a PCMCIA ethernet
 card.  If you copy the pcmcia-cs and pcmcia-modules packages to
 the laptop (with a floppy), you can install them with dpkg and do
 the rest with dselect and ftp.  Should work for a pcmcia scsi
 adapter as well.

i did not find pcmcia-modules to be necessary in my case (may be
i was lucky as far as the hardware i have).  i ftp-ed the pcmcia-cs package
to a dos floppy and copied it to a fresh install of debian 1.3.x
and did a 'dpkg -i'.  this allowed me to use dselect w/ ftp.

if people are interested in a few more details, i have something at:

  http://www.htp.org/~sen/debian/hu2/install.html

of course, it's only for one particular laptop (dec hinote ultra2)...YMMV

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Re: Question re: splitting files

1998-02-13 Thread William R. Ward
Charles Briscoe-Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott McDermott) wrote:
 I just tar as multi-volumes, set volume size appropriately to fit on a
 disk.
 
 Do you even need to set the size?  I find this works pretty well:
 
 % tar cvMf /dev/fd0 *
 
 and at the other end:
 
 % tar xvMf /dev/fd0
 
 Apart from when a disk goes bad (obviously), I've never had any trouble
 with this.

Stick a 'z' in the tar options to get gzip (fewer floppies!)

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msql 2.0.3-1 (source i386 all) uploaded into experimental

1998-02-13 Thread Martin Schulze
Good night folks,

some of you were waiting for a mSQL 2.x package for a long time.  I'm
sorry that it took so long for me to package it.  This beast of
software is not easy to maintain.  As you can see by looking at the
diff.gz file I've spent a lot of time packaging, improving and
correcting it.

I have to admit that I haven't finished.  Most of the manpages need to
be corrected to reflect msql 2.x and not 1.x.  I need some help here.
If someone is using mSQL 2.x please get in touch with me and re-work
the manpages.  I'm too short at time at the moment to do it myself.

I have just uploaded this package to our main server.  It'll be moved
into experimental as I'd like to give you a chance to test it first.
Please give it a try.

You'll find it on my own server, too.  Just in case it doesn't find
its way out of the incoming directory.
ftp://ftp.infodrom.north.de/pub/people/joey/debian/*msql*_2.0.3-1*.deb,

There will be some more msql2 packages uploaded within the next days.
gorgo will give php-msql a try and I'm thinking about Msqlperl at
least.

Format: 1.5
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 02:17:37 +0100
Source: msql
Binary: msql libmsql2 msql-doc msqld w3-msql
Architecture: source i386 all
Version: 2.0.3-1
Distribution: experimental
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Description: 
 libmsql2   - MiniSQL library [libc6]
 msql   - MiniSQL clients
 msql-doc   - Docuentation for mSQL
 msqld  - MiniSQL engine
 w3-msql- Integration of mSQL and the World Wide Web
Changes: 
 msql (2.0.3-1) experimental; urgency=low
 .
   * New upstream version
   * Patched scripts/make-target to be quiet / work non-intaractive
   * Added PROGNAME to all binaries to link them against libmsql
   * Added two now packages w3-msql and msql-doc
   * Added two menu entries
   * Compiled library with -D_REENTRANT
   * Added -g to CFLAGS
   * Modified msqladmin so it accepts commands from root, too.
   * Adjusted killer test
   * Removed ldconfig from postrm (lintian)
   * Library isn't installed with executable bit (lintian)
   * Moved msqladmin(8) into correct directory (lintian)
   * Wrote and added msqlconfig(8) manpage (lintian)
   * Wrote and added msql.conf(5) manpage
   * Re-invented -i and -r options for msqldump
   * Re-invented -d and -t switches for msqldump
Files: 
 12a306098bd47f1cec128f3f3ce6455f 646 non-free optional msql_2.0.3-1.dsc
 55e4f4ed9d3751a55f07f323ec8c7984 950595 non-free optional 
msql_2.0.3.orig.tar.gz
 77a2bb183a5c7f58d3b99eaea3b4c313 202381 non-free optional msql_2.0.3-1.diff.gz
 ba4ef14e4584e1431a1a826e494cb2b6 94782 non-free optional 
libmsql2_2.0.3-1_i386.deb
 d4556b799ff92baf3924b34184c8b408 78350 non-free optional msqld_2.0.3-1_i386.deb
 5b322873e7f6e808fde6fa2d7e2aa2fe 35634 non-free optional msql_2.0.3-1_i386.deb
 ca8074fb22a076177e32c525a6c37c3e 116706 non-free optional 
w3-msql_2.0.3-1_i386.deb
 e42f9a1d93944f84c54e8608cbe30c60 831760 non-free optional 
msql-doc_2.0.3-1_all.deb

Regards,

Joey

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trimming wtmp

1998-02-13 Thread Scott McDermott
How do I delete older sections of wtmp? I wouldn't mind leaving it there
to gather size but it's getting very large and eating up alot of space.
If it were a text file it would be easy to keep it at a certain size but
it seems to have some sort of binary format with which I'm not familiar.

Does anyone know how I can go about keeping its size manageable? Say,
keep only the last month's worth of data? Without of course zeroing it
every month...I'd like it to always have a month of logs to inspect...

Thanks,

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Re: printing .pdf files

1998-02-13 Thread Carl Fink
 On Thu, Feb 12, 1998 at 01:15:06AM -0800, Matt Thompson wrote:
 
 I find that printing from Acroread produces some postscript that ghostscript
 doesn't like.  This may be a bug in either package, I don't know.

I've seen this also.
 
 In any case, ghostscripts starting at about 4.0 (I think) can print pdf
 files natively.  Skip the acroread step, and just ghostscript it directly. 
 (I'm not sure magicfilter can handle this on its own though!)

How does one print a pdf from ghostscript?  The docs for the package,
like the great majority of free software, seem to be written as a
memory aid for the programmer who created it and are nearly
incomprehensible to mere users like me.
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HELP! w/ dump restore

1998-02-13 Thread rir
Where can I find source for dump+restore?
 
I have dump_0.3-14.deb and have hit
a problem where the master/slave protocol is
is botched.

I'd like to try a newer version before
giving up.

It it may be simpler to build dump from source
than to work with the version packed for hamm.

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Help w/ telnet[d]

1998-02-13 Thread rir
This is with several Debian 1.3.x machines.

I'm trying to make telnet transparent.
That is:  I want to pass local environment
variables to the remote machine, I want to
login automatically, and I want to launch
a process on remote.

Telnet is giving me difficulties, I thought
the man page was clear, but I can't even
get an automatic login.

Any help, or alternate solutions appreciated.


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Re: Compute Farm

1998-02-13 Thread Marcelo E . Magallón
On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Tim Sailer wrote:

 The powers-that-be around here have almost decided to scrap Slowaris x86
 for the 200 machine PPro compouter farm, and go with Linux... I need to
 convince them to use Debian and not RH. They want to be able to
 configure 1 machine and mirror the setup to each machine in the farm,
 without having to go to each of the remaining 199 and configure it by
 hand. Someone told them that RH made this easy, and no other dist could
 do it!

Other people have given some excellent advice already. I may be doing
something like this in the near future, in a much smaller scale (20+2 node
farm aiming at 4+ Gflop/s).

Reading the documentation, bootp seems like a good option for network
configuration detailts, but, as Craig Sanders pointed out, not a very
dependable one. In a more fixed  situation, it seems better to
statically configure the machines using smart scripts... 

I don't know if this is what you are up to, but you may want to check out
Beowulf's home page (shows up in Yahoo! rather easily). It's RH based, but
I don't see anything there that's Red Hat specific. There are a couple of
kernel patches and and bunch of rpm's. I recall there's PVM and MPP. Drake
Diedrich has already packaged PVM and dqs. If I ever get the time, I'd
like to try to make a Debian version of the requiered packages.


Marcelo

PS: What I'm still pondering is exactly how RH does this easy. Last time
I poked at RH, it didn't had anything to automate this kind of task. 

PPS: Since neither RH nor Debian actually have anything built-in for this
task, Debian is still a better choice: several times ppl in the
developer's list have expressed interest in further developing Deity into
this direction. I know this doesn't buy you anything right now, but it may
be worth mentioning.


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NIS popassd

1998-02-13 Thread Gabriel Millerd
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How do I get NIS to work with /etc/shadow? I got it working just find out
of the box for /etc/passwd... ypinit doesn't make that map.

Also does anyone have pwauth.h? poppassd wont work with shadow. I cannot
find this header (pw_encrypt) anywhere (redhat, slackware, etc.)

cc -c -O2  -DHAS_SHADOW poppassd.c
poppassd.c:137: shadow/pwauth.h: No such file or directory
make: *** [poppassd.o] Error 1

lines 137  138
char *pw_encrypt (char *, char *);   /* To permit long shadow passwords*/
#define crypt pw_encrypt /* for short passwords as well.*/


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Re: less clears screen after exiting

1998-02-13 Thread Kirk Hilliard
Tomihisa Welsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] complained that:
   Ever since I installed debian 1.3.1, less will unwantingly clear
 the screen when after viewing a document (within an xterm).  I can get rid
 of this problem with the -X option (disables termcap before and after
 calling less) however this option also disables my arrowkeys.  Any ideas?

and G John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] replied:
 
 My hamm distribution doesn't do it, in xterm nor rxvt.
 I don't know if its my .bashrc thats different or hamm vs. stable.

Really?  It's not hamm since I am running an up to date unstable
system and I have the same behavior that Tomihisa describes.  Are you
doing anything unusual in your .bashrc?

This situation should be figured out and either fixed (so that the
arrow keys work with ``less -X'') or a work-around put on the
auto-faq.

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FSSTND with Permissions?

1998-02-13 Thread Art Lemasters
 Where on the Web can we find an example of the latest
FSSTND (if this is still the standard) with permissions
shown?  As you may see from the header on this message,
each time my LINUX system is up, more damage is possible.
Some of my previous posts on this have not even made it to
the list.

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Re: printing .pdf files

1998-02-13 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, Carl Fink wrote:

  On Thu, Feb 12, 1998 at 01:15:06AM -0800, Matt Thompson wrote:
  
  I find that printing from Acroread produces some postscript that ghostscript
  doesn't like.  This may be a bug in either package, I don't know.
 
 I've seen this also.
  
  In any case, ghostscripts starting at about 4.0 (I think) can print pdf
  files natively.  Skip the acroread step, and just ghostscript it directly. 
  (I'm not sure magicfilter can handle this on its own though!)
 
 How does one print a pdf from ghostscript?  The docs for the package,
 like the great majority of free software, seem to be written as a
 memory aid for the programmer who created it and are nearly
 incomprehensible to mere users like me.

Use pdf2ps, included in the gs-aladdin package.

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Re: Home dir Permissions

1998-02-13 Thread William R. Ward
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 On 12 Feb 1998, William R. Ward wrote:
 One comment about permissions: Web files do *NOT* have to be world
 readable.  They just have to be readable by the web server.  If you
 set up a user and group for your web server (I use www for both) you
 can get by with just having the files be group-readable by the
 webserver's group (and not all the other users on the system).

 I missed the beginning of this thread, but why forbid local users from
 viewing files that you let any user outside of your system view?  Most
 people I know concerned with security in their directories remove the read
 permissions on directories so anyone can get to the file, but only if they
 know the name.  Note, this isn't a high level of security, just another
 thing to do.  I don't see any reason to add users to more groups.

You might have a .htaccess file that limits access to a smaller group
of people.  I do this in my own web pages - I have a subdirectory with
limited access so I have to enter a password to get at the documents
there.  That directory is mode 750 with the group being www - and
other users are *not* in the group www (that's the whole point).

--Bill.

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Re: msql 2.0.3-1 (source i386 all) uploaded into experimental

1998-02-13 Thread Gergely Madarasz
On Fri, 13 Feb 1998, Martin Schulze wrote:

 I have just uploaded this package to our main server.  It'll be moved
 into experimental as I'd like to give you a chance to test it first.
 Please give it a try.

 There will be some more msql2 packages uploaded within the next days.
 gorgo will give php-msql a try and I'm thinking about Msqlperl at
 least.

I have already uploaded php3-msql which contains a php3 module for msql.

The other php3 packages, php3 with the main apache module and the cgi,
php3-pgsql, php3-mysql for other database connectivity, and php3-gd for
libgd support are also in incoming. If you want to use the php3 apache
module, you'd better get the latest mime-support, I have forgot to add the
dependency to php3, it'll be added in the next upload ;) And of course
you'll need apache 1.3b3 for the module to work.

Greg

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Running fetchmail in ip-up

1998-02-13 Thread R. Chris Ross

I would like to run fetchmail in my ip-up to pick up mail from a
couple of different places.  Would it be best to run it via su so that it
is run using my account?  Is there a better way?  All of the accounts have
different user names.  Not my choice.


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Spreading Linux..... new PPP problem :(.

1998-02-13 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
Hi,
I'm helping a friend setup debian on his computer; he uses the same
ISP as me, so I set it up just like mine.
It didn't work immediately (It just disconnected shortly after connect),
so I added +chap to the options file to make sure it was using the
CHAP auth that the server wanted.
Now when I start pppd, it says. Peer Authentication Required, but no
authentication files accessible. - I presume this means that the problem
is that it couldn't / cant find or access the chap-secrets file that
I made.
The chap-secrets is in /etc/ppp, and I chmod'ed it to 777 just incase,
but it still does the same stuff.

I'm sure its something really silly that i'm missing.
Any ideas what it could be?


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timezones 2.0.7pre1-1 is broken

1998-02-13 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
 When I updated my hamm system tonight from my local mirror,
timezones was updated to 2.0.7pre1-1.  It removed the setting GMT=
from wherever it belongs in hamm. (It was in /etc/init.d/boot
pre-hamm, but I haven't looked for it before now that /etc/init.d/boot
is no longer used.  I inserted GMT= near the top of
/etc/init.d/hwclock.sh, and it works, but that probably isn't the
correct place.  Where should it be?  

 When I run the date command, I get the following:

 Thu Feb 12 22:40:27 /etc/localtime 1998

There is no file /etc/localtime, which I suppose should contain my
time zone, which tzconfig says (correctly) is EST5EDT.

 dpkg -L shows that timezones includes the directory
/usr/doc/timezones, but no files in that directory.  A listing of this
directory shows: 

bob:vc-2:bobls /usr/doc/timezones
BUGS.gz  NOTES.gz
ChangeLog.gz PROJECTS.gz
ChangeLog.linuxthreads.gzREADME.Xfree3.2.linuxthreads.gz
ChangeLog.localedata.gz  README.crypt.gz
Changes.linuxthreads.gz  README.gz
FAQ.Debian.gzREADME.linuxthreads.gz
FAQ.gz   README.localedata.gz
INSTALL.gz   changelog.Debian.gz
NEWS.gz  copyright

 Many of these files, but not all, are related to glibc, and none
seem related to timezones.

 Are these known problems with this version of timezones, or
should I file a bug report?

Bob


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Missing .so files

1998-02-13 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
 Before I upgrade from bo to hamm, ldconfig showed three
warnings.  This situation has been inherited by my hamm system.  The
ldconfig message is:

bob:vc-2:bobldconfig
ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/i486-linuxaout/libvga.so.1 (No
such file
or directory), skipping
ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libf2c_i2.so.2 (No such file or
directory), skipping
ldconfig: warning: can't open /lib/libtermcap.so.2 (No such file or
directory),
skipping

 The first of these _is_ nonexistent; the other two are symlinks
pointing to nonexistent files /usr/lib/libf2c_i2.so.2.1 and
/lib/libtermcap.so.2.0.8 respectively.

 I would like to get rid of this warning from ldconfig.  Are there
packages I can remove or install so as to satisfy ldconfig?  dpkg -S
can't locate the package these files come from.

Bob


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Re: Hamm upgrade woes

1998-02-13 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, you wrote: 
  Many packages didn't install, and some could not be removed
 (timezone, wg15-locale, etc).  I manually 
 removed the packages the script didn't, then ran autoup.sh again,

 What version of autoup.sh did you use?  The most recent is
v0.19.  The problems you describe are similar to ones that we
encountered prior to about v0.14.

 Did you run script to record the session, or did you note the
exact error messages?  It would be helpful to have this information.

 By manually removing the files that it failed to remove, and
rerunning the script, you appear to have completed the script
successfully.  If all the packages that the script lists for removal
have been removed,  and all the package that the script lists for
installation have been installed, your system should be stable, and 
the balance of the upgrade can be handled by dselect. 

Eventually, the script completed, and I was ready to upgrade
 via dselect using ftp.  More problems ensued.  I'm being told that
 packages I want are not found, even though the option to update
 available packages worked.  Can someone give me specific paths to
 specify in dselect for ftp upgrade?  

 The directory structure for hamm is different from that used
earlier. The paths for dselect are dists/unstable/main/binary-i386,
dists/unstable/non-free/binary-i386, and dists/unstable/contrib/binary-i386.

I want to convert my system to Hamm, but I can't complete, and
 I'm afraid to shutdown or reboot for fear it may not come back up.
 Are there packages that run under Bo that won't under Hamm?
 (xloadimage, etc?).  Which libraries must I have to run X-windows,
 gimp, etc, and which libraries must NOT be loaded to avoid
 conflicts?

 I suggest you let dselect update its package list using the paths
mentioned above, enter the select phase and resolve any conflicts it
shows, then let it install everything it has marked for installation.
I recommend that you wait until after this step to select any more
packages.  It will probably be necessary to make several passes
(usually 2 or 3, but sometimes half a dozen) through the install -
configure cycle to satisfy dependencies.  If you use the dpkg-mountable
option (highly recommended if you have a local mirror), it will
probably show some predepends that must be resolved manually before
it starts the actual installation.  With the dpkg-mountable option, it
is necessary to run the update phase after each install phase.

 After this, you should have the necessary run time libraries
installed.  The descriptions in dselect or in /var/lib/dpkg/available
list the libraries that are required for the various packages. In
general, dselect will take care of those for you.  I see that several
people have told you about dpkg -l to get a list of packages installed
on your system.

Have fun,

Bob


 


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Counting....

1998-02-13 Thread Chris

I appologise if this is off the topic, but I am trying to put together a
method for printer accounting on our debian linux server.

What I need at the moment is to find a way to count the number of pages in
a postscript document.  Does anyone know an easy way to do this (or better
yet a program that does this?)

Thanks,

Chris


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Re: Running fetchmail in ip-up

1998-02-13 Thread Alex Yukhimets
   I would like to run fetchmail in my ip-up to pick up mail from a
 couple of different places.  Would it be best to run it via su so that it
 is run using my account?  Is there a better way?  All of the accounts have
 different user names.  Not my choice.

Hi.
If my memory doesn't fail me, fetchmail can be configured to poll mail
from different hosts with specified remote user id AND local user id to
deliver to for each host seperately.

Alex Y.

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Re: lynx with a proxy

1998-02-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Feb 13, 1998 at 10:56:19AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
 export https_proxy=http://localhost:8000/;
 
 to, iirc, get some support for https:// urls, if your proxy supports
 them, even if Lynx doesn't.

Interesting idea; loses some of the security though.

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EXIM, failure to load as daemon

1998-02-13 Thread Ian Perry
Firstly, thanks for all the help in setting up fetchmail.  It appears to at
least try to work, except...

I have installed EXIM, and when it is invoked as a daemon, I get the error
message in /var/log/exim/paniclog
Failed to get user name for uid 0

The configuration appeared to run OK.

Is there a setting that I am missing, or have I missed something in setup ?

Thanks in advance

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Re: Home dir Permissions

1998-02-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Feb 12, 1998 at 08:28:18PM -0500, Brandon Mitchell wrote:
 On 12 Feb 1998, William R. Ward wrote:
  One comment about permissions: Web files do *NOT* have to be world
  readable.  They just have to be readable by the web server.  If you
  set up a user and group for your web server (I use www for both) you
  can get by with just having the files be group-readable by the
  webserver's group (and not all the other users on the system).
 
 I missed the beginning of this thread, but why forbid local users from
 viewing files that you let any user outside of your system view?  Most

External users may not be able to view the files if some sort
of authentication has been used; local users get past that.


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RE: FSSTND with Permissions?

1998-02-13 Thread Stephen Carpenter
To answer one question
the FSSTND is now outdated.
The current standard doc is the
Filesystem Hierarchy Standard -- Version 2.0
Dated Oct. 26 , 1997
also known as the FHS
I don't know where to get it...
I found it somewhere a coupla months back
goto altavista and do asearch on the filename fhs.ps
it shoul dhave some hits (once ya have a filename you can usually pull
up alot of pages with the file you wantlittle trick I learned back
when I used Win95 and used to look
for Warezcourse now that im running linux...I have no need to do
that anymore)
As I remember it even says on the offcial website (wherever that is)
Here i sthe FSSTND the old version . Stop Using it
-Steve

 Where on the Web can we find an example of the latest
FSSTND (if this is still the standard) with permissions
shown?  As you may see from the header on this message,
each time my LINUX system is up, more damage is possible.
Some of my previous posts on this have not even made it to
the list.

Art Lemasters


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Re: timezones 2.0.7pre1-1 is broken

1998-02-13 Thread Steve Hsieh
Try rerunning /usr/sbin/tzconfig ; when I run that the /etc/localtime gets
fixed.  (Seems to occur if you remove the timezone package from bo after
installing timezones in hamm)



On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, Robert D. Hilliard wrote:

  When I updated my hamm system tonight from my local mirror,
 timezones was updated to 2.0.7pre1-1.  It removed the setting GMT=
 from wherever it belongs in hamm. (It was in /etc/init.d/boot
 pre-hamm, but I haven't looked for it before now that /etc/init.d/boot
 is no longer used.  I inserted GMT= near the top of
 /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh, and it works, but that probably isn't the
 correct place.  Where should it be?  
 
  When I run the date command, I get the following:
 
  Thu Feb 12 22:40:27 /etc/localtime 1998
 
 There is no file /etc/localtime, which I suppose should contain my
 time zone, which tzconfig says (correctly) is EST5EDT.
 
  dpkg -L shows that timezones includes the directory
 /usr/doc/timezones, but no files in that directory.  A listing of this
 directory shows: 
 
 bob:vc-2:bobls /usr/doc/timezones
 BUGS.gz  NOTES.gz
 ChangeLog.gz PROJECTS.gz
 ChangeLog.linuxthreads.gzREADME.Xfree3.2.linuxthreads.gz
 ChangeLog.localedata.gz  README.crypt.gz
 Changes.linuxthreads.gz  README.gz
 FAQ.Debian.gzREADME.linuxthreads.gz
 FAQ.gz   README.localedata.gz
 INSTALL.gz   changelog.Debian.gz
 NEWS.gz  copyright
 
  Many of these files, but not all, are related to glibc, and none
 seem related to timezones.
 
  Are these known problems with this version of timezones, or
 should I file a bug report?
 
 Bob
 
 
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Re: Running fetchmail in ip-up

1998-02-13 Thread john
R. Chris Ross writes:
 I would like to run fetchmail in my ip-up to pick up mail from a couple
 of different places.  Would it be best to run it via su so that it is run
 using my account?  Is there a better way?

I run it as postman, and put mailagent in postman's .forward to
distribute the mail.
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Now FHS, Was RE: FSSTND with Permissions?

1998-02-13 Thread Art Lemasters
  I ran Filesystem Hierarchy Standard -- Version 2.0 as a 
phrase, on the Metacrawler and received one hit to

Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/

by Daniel Quinlan, of course.  From noting certain aspects of some
of the other questions to this user list, I thought it might be a
good reference for others to use (if practices have not been revised
much since it was published) while lessening traffic.  Thanks for the
essential keywords and the correction on the file system standard,
Steve.  And thanks for any corrections to this post, mentors, if I
am off-track.  Now, to search for a large cache of information on
general, applied permissions.

Art Lemasters


On 12 Feb 98 at 0:29, Stephen Carpenter wrote:
 To answer one question
 the FSSTND is now outdated.
 The current standard doc is the
 Filesystem Hierarchy Standard -- Version 2.0
 Dated Oct. 26 , 1997
 also known as the FHS
 I don't know where to get it...
 I found it somewhere a coupla months back
 goto altavista and do asearch on the filename fhs.ps
 it shoul dhave some hits (once ya have a filename you can usually pull
 up alot of pages with the file you wantlittle trick I learned back
 when I used Win95 and used to look
 for Warezcourse now that im running linux...I have no need to do
 that anymore)
 As I remember it even says on the offcial website (wherever that is)
 Here i sthe FSSTND the old version . Stop Using it
 -Steve
 
  Where on the Web can we find an example of the latest
 FSSTND (if this is still the standard) with permissions
 shown?  As you may see from the header on this message,
 each time my LINUX system is up, more damage is possible.
 Some of my previous posts on this have not even made it to
 the list.
 
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Re: How do I use slrn?

1998-02-13 Thread Johann Spies
Hallo John, 

On Fri, 13 Feb 1998, you wrote:

 On Thu, Feb 12, 1998 at 06:31:41PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote:
 
  When I run slrn --spool, I get a screen with one row:
  
  --  U  20  comp.os.linux.announce
 
 OK. Try pressing S for subscribe with the comp.os.linux.announce line
 highlighted.
 
 then press enter to see if you have any messages to read.
 
 If that doesn't work highlight comp.os.linux.announce again and press
   Escape  1  return
 
 If you have any messages that should let you see them read or unread.

Thank you for your reply.  I am still experiencing problems and will be
gratefull if you can advise me.

What you suggested did not work for some reason.

 Today, when I ran slrn --spool, I got a screen with one row:
 
--  U  0  comp.os.linux.announce

Pressing S removed the U

When I pressed 
   Escape 1 return
I got the message at the bottom line: 
   comp.os.linux.announce: Read how many? (default: 20)
When I press enter then, I get the message
   No unread articles found.

I then deleted all the subdirectories in /var/spool and did a slrnpull
again.  That did not change the behaviour of the program.

Here is the last part of the logfile:

02/13/1998 08:41:48 slrnpull started.
02/13/1998 08:41:48 Reading /var/spool/slrnpull/slrnpull.conf
02/13/1998 08:41:48 Connecting to host news.saix.co.za ...
...
02/13/1998 08:41:53 Fetching articles for comp.os.linux.announce.
02/13/1998 08:41:55 comp.os.linux.announce: Retrieving articles 1-8753.
02/13/1998 08:41:55 comp.os.linux.announce: 23 articles available.
02/13/1998 08:41:55 comp.os.linux.announce: Only retrieving last 20 articles.
...
02/13/1998 08:44:10 comp.os.linux.announce: 20/20 (0 killed), Time:
00:02:17, BPS: 677
02/13/1998 08:44:10 A total of 92796 bytes received, 496 bytes sent in 142 
seconds.

dir /var/spool/srlnpull/comp/os/linux/announce produces

8734  8736  8738  8740  8742  8744  8746  8748  8750  8752
8735  8737  8739  8741  8743  8745  8747  8749  8751  8753

There must be then at least 20 unread articles available.  What am I doing
wrong?

Thank you for your patience.

Johann

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Broken Mail

1998-02-13 Thread John Boggon
Hi all,

I have a rather urgent problem I need some help with. Yesterday I had to
move my /var directory from it's own partition to the same partition as /.
No Problem, I'll use tar to preserve file permissions and links I thought.

It all went ok except for the mail. My local mail is now broken. I'm using
exim as my local mda and It's not delivering mail at all. The
/var/log/exim/mainlog shows the following errors

1998-02-13 13:53:00 0y38rI-00077A-00 == [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] T=local_delivery defer (-30): Retry time not yet
reached
1998-02-13 13:53:00 0y37Nj-00071c-00 == [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] T=local_delivery defer (-30): Retry time not yet
reached
1998-02-13 13:53:00 0y37IW-00071T-00 == [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] T=local_delivery defer (-30): Retry time not yet
reached
These messages happen every time cron runs exim -q.
My windows machine normally connects to Linux to collect mail but since this
happened I'm getting error opening messages in syslog.

/var/log/exim/paniclog is empty.

I originally thought it was something to do with file permissions on the
/var/spool/mail files or the mail directory itself but nothing I do has any
effect.

Can someone please post the permissions for their /var/spool/mail directory
and the files contained in it ?... And if anyone has had this problem before
and manged to solve it, some help would really be appreciated.

Which base package is responsible for setting up mail ?. If all else fails
can I reinstall this package ?.

My system is running hamm.

Please help me, I'm stuck using windows mail until I get this fixed.

John.


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a few problems following a crash

1998-02-13 Thread Ken Lauffenburger
Hello,

My hamm system crashed the other day when the processor fan died.

I didn't observe any unusual output during the fsck on the subsequent
reboot--just a few inodes that were fixed and a few insignificant files
(all mail messages) were placed in /lost+found.

But now xdm doesn't come up, and I get a slew of the following messages
when I do a dmesg listing:


attempt to access beyond end of device
08:03: rw=0, want=2147460425, limit=405504
attempt to access beyond end of device
08:03: rw=0, want=2147460427, limit=405504
attempt to access beyond end of device
08:03: rw=0, want=2147460425, limit=405504
.
.
.
attempt to access beyond end of device
08:03: rw=0, want=2147460427, limit=405504


Seems like something similar was posted to this list a while back,
but I can't remember what the problem or solution was.

My /var/log/xdm-errors file looks like:

xdm error (pid 188): server /usr/X11R6/bin/X cannot be executed
xdm error (pid 180): Server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly: 1
xdm error (pid 190): server /usr/X11R6/bin/X cannot be executed
xdm error (pid 180): Server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly: 1
xdm error (pid 192): server /usr/X11R6/bin/X cannot be executed
_X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2
xdm error (pid 180): Server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly: 1
xdm error (pid 194): server /usr/X11R6/bin/X cannot be executed
_X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2
xdm error (pid 180): Server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly: 1
xdm error (pid 196): server /usr/X11R6/bin/X cannot be executed
_X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2
xdm error (pid 180): Server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly: 1
xdm error (pid 198): server /usr/X11R6/bin/X cannot be executed
_X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2
xdm error (pid 180): Server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly: 1
xdm error (pid 200): server /usr/X11R6/bin/X cannot be executed
_X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2
xdm error (pid 180): Server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly: 1
xdm error (pid 204): server /usr/X11R6/bin/X cannot be executed
xdm error (pid 180): server unexpectedly died
xdm error (pid 180): Server for display :0 can't be started, session disabled

Any suggestions would be well appreciated.  Thanks.

--ken

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Re: NCPFS seems broken on 2.1 kernels...

1998-02-13 Thread Kevin Cave
Roy C Bixler wrote:

 On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, Kevin Cave wrote:
  I've now tried 2.1.86, and it still has the same problem. I can use
  slist to see the
  various Netware servers, but I can't mount the volumes, or send print
  files to 'em.

 Yes, this is a problem.  The only fix I know of right now is to get the
 ncpfs-2.1.1.tar.gz file, compile with libc5 and use it.  Elroy Paris did
 some work to get ncpfs-2.0.11 to compile with libc6 and perhaps he knows
 more about the status of ncpfs-2.1.1?

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 Thanks Roy, that will be helpfull! Now the only thing I need to figure
out, is how to
compile using libc5, from a hamm system! (Time to read the HOWTO's I
think!)

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Re: limiting user access

1998-02-13 Thread Joey Hess
Anthony Towns wrote:
 according to the FSSTND, but at least a couple of packages use /var
 for executable files, notably dpkg (/var/lib/dpkg/info/*), and the
 distributed-net client (/var/lib/distributed-net/distributed-net).
 
 BTW, if /var was noexec, it remains possible to have something like
 /var/lib/distributed-net/distributed-net - /usr/bin/distributed-net,
 and still be able to cd /var/lib/distributed-net; ./distributed-net,

This is currently exactly how /var/lib/distributed-net/distributed-net is
set up, so I don't know what you're worrying about.

/var/lib/dpkg/info/* is a stickier problem..

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problems trying to compile qt example from tutorial

1998-02-13 Thread Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella

Hi,

I installed qt1g-dev (and qt1g) in my system, but when I try to compile
the first example from the tutorial, I get the message:

g++ hello.C   -o hello
hello.C:9: qapp.h: No such file or directory
hello.C:10: qpushbt.h: No such file or directory
make: *** [hello] Error 1

Wasn't the installation supposed to set the include paths for me, or I
really have to do it by hand?

Well, after I tryed to include by hand, I found that the libg++272-dev
was not installed. Should not the libqtg1-dev depend on it?

Anyway, I installed libg++272-dev, and now I get these messages, with
the -I to include qt by hand. What am I missing?

$ g++ -I/usr/X11R6/include/qt hello.C -o hello
/tmp/cca045561.o: In function `main':
/tmp/cca045561.o(.text+0x17): undefined reference to 
`QApplication::QApplication(int , char **)'
/tmp/cca045561.o(.text+0x2f): undefined reference to 
`QPushButton::QPushButton(char const *, QWidget *, char const *)'
/tmp/cca045561.o(.text+0x42): undefined reference to `QPushButton::resize(int, 
int)'
/tmp/cca045561.o(.text+0x55): undefined reference to 
`QApplication::setMainWidget(QWidget *)'
/tmp/cca045561.o(.text+0x64): undefined reference to `QWidget::show(void)'
/tmp/cca045561.o(.text+0x70): undefined reference to `QApplication::exec(void)'
/tmp/cca045561.o(.text+0x91): undefined reference to 
`QApplication::~QApplication(void)'
/tmp/cca045561.o: In function `QPushButton::~QPushButton(void)':
/tmp/cca045561.o(.text+0xce): undefined reference to `QPushButton::QPaintDevice 
virtual table'
/tmp/cca045561.o(.text+0xd5): undefined reference to `QPushButton virtual table'
/tmp/cca045561.o(.text+0xdc): undefined reference to `QButton::~QButton(void)'
/tmp/cca045561.o: In function `QArrayTchar::detach(void)':
/tmp/cca045561.o(.text+0x129): undefined reference to `QGArray::detach(void)'
/tmp/cca045561.o: In function `QArrayTchar::~QArrayT(void)':
/tmp/cca045561.o(.text+0x155): undefined reference to `QGArray::~QGArray(void)'
/tmp/cca045561.o(.rodata+0x2c): undefined reference to `QGArray::newData(void)'
/tmp/cca045561.o(.rodata+0x34): undefined reference to 
`QGArray::deleteData(QGArray::array_data *)'
/tmp/cca045561.o(.rodata+0x54): undefined reference to `QGArray::newData(void)'
/tmp/cca045561.o(.rodata+0x5c): undefined reference to 
`QGArray::deleteData(QGArray::array_data *)'
$ 

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Re: limiting user access

1998-02-13 Thread Carey Evans
(Back to just debian-user; no discussions of policy in my message.)

Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au writes:

 But what about /var? /var/tmp should be world writable (albeit sticky)
 according to the FSSTND, but at least a couple of packages use /var
 for executable files, notably dpkg (/var/lib/dpkg/info/*), and the
 distributed-net client (/var/lib/distributed-net/distributed-net).

Put /var/tmp on a different partition than /var (and /tmp on a
different partition than /).  This also stops them from keeping huge
files in /var/tmp where the news spool, mail spool and logs are.  You
probably want to run something like tmpreaper to keep it clean too.
Look out for anyone usinh email to keep big files.

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Re: trimming wtmp

1998-02-13 Thread Carey Evans
Scott McDermott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Does anyone know how I can go about keeping its size manageable? Say,
 keep only the last month's worth of data? Without of course zeroing it
 every month...I'd like it to always have a month of logs to inspect...

This should be done automatically every month by
/etc/cron.monthly/standard.  If this isn't happening (for instance,
because your PC isn't switched on early in the morning when this
happens) you should look at installing anacron.

You could run that file immediately anyway.

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Re: Incredibly huge /var/log/lastlog

1998-02-13 Thread Carey Evans
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miquel van Smoorenburg) writes:

 Probably the struct lastlog is a bit bigger, but remember these files
 are mostly empty. The file is probably not taking 18 MB on disk --
 try a du lastlog to see how many bytes it is really taking.

You can also use the -s option to ls, which can be more convenient.
And lastlog does seem pretty sparse:

% ls -ls lastlog messages
   6 -rw-r--r--   1 root root   292292 Feb 13 16:55 lastlog
 201 -rw-r-   1 root adm204740 Feb 13 17:33 messages

That's 6K versus 201K, when the first file should be half as big again.

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Re: trimming wtmp

1998-02-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Scott McDermott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Does anyone know how I can go about keeping its size manageable? Say,
 keep only the last month's worth of data? Without of course zeroing it
 every month...I'd like it to always have a month of logs to inspect...

This is already done that way. Check /etc/cron.monthly where wtmp is
rotated.

Ciao,   
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Re: Spreading Linux..... new PPP problem :(.

1998-02-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Timothy M. Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 The chap-secrets is in /etc/ppp, and I chmod'ed it to 777 just incase,
 but it still does the same stuff.

pppd is paranoid about its secret files. They have to have 600 permissions.

Ciao,
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Re: Spreading Linux..... new PPP problem :(.

1998-02-13 Thread Carey Evans
Timothy M. Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 I'm helping a friend setup debian on his computer; he uses the same
 ISP as me, so I set it up just like mine.
 It didn't work immediately (It just disconnected shortly after connect),
 so I added +chap to the options file to make sure it was using the
 CHAP auth that the server wanted.

This isn't what +chap means... you're saying that the ISP has to
provide a password to *you*.

Put debug in /etc/ppp.options_out, and check /var/log/syslog to see
what gets logged.

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Re: Missing .so files

1998-02-13 Thread Kevin cave
Robert D. Hilliard wrote:

  Before I upgrade from bo to hamm, ldconfig showed three
 warnings.  This situation has been inherited by my hamm system.  The
 ldconfig message is:

 bob:vc-2:bobldconfig
 ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/i486-linuxaout/libvga.so.1 (No
 such file
 or directory), skipping
 ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libf2c_i2.so.2 (No such file or
 directory), skipping
 ldconfig: warning: can't open /lib/libtermcap.so.2 (No such file or
 directory),
 skipping

  The first of these _is_ nonexistent; the other two are symlinks
 pointing to nonexistent files /usr/lib/libf2c_i2.so.2.1 and
 /lib/libtermcap.so.2.0.8 respectively.

  I would like to get rid of this warning from ldconfig.  Are there
 packages I can remove or install so as to satisfy ldconfig?  dpkg -S
 can't locate the package these files come from.

 Bob

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Sorry about the garbled format, Robert! Here's another try...

MISSING FILELOCATION/PACKAGE NAME
--  -

usr/lib/libf2c_i2.a devel/f2c
usr/lib/libf2c_i2.so.2.1devel/f2c

usr/i486-linuxlibc1/lib/libvga.so   oldlibs/svgalib1-altdev
usr/lib/libc5-compat/libvga.so.1
oldlibs/svgalib-dummy1,oldlibs/svgalib1
usr/lib/libc5-compat/libvga.so.1.2.11   oldlibs/svgalib-dummy1
usr/lib/libc5-compat/libvga.so.1.2.13   oldlibs/svgalib1
usr/lib/libvga.so
graphics/svgalibg1-dev,libs/svgalib-dummyg1
usr/lib/libvga.so.1
libs/svgalibg1,libs/svgalib-dummyg1
usr/lib/libvga.so.1.2.11libs/svgalib-dummyg1
usr/lib/libvga.so.1.2.13libs/svgalibg1

lib/libtermcap.so.2.0.8 admin/termcap-compat

Hope this helps!

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Fatal server error

1998-02-13 Thread K.Y.Lo
Hi

I have installed Debian 1.3.1.r6 with X-windows package.

install xbase,xlib6,xfntbase, xserver-svga into harddisc. done
and set up xf86config. it went bummer.

Fatal server error:
No valid modes found.

what does that mean?  it is something missing the X package?

mine is 486DX4 with 16mb and Tseng3000/1MB.

Thank you 
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eth0: error

1998-02-13 Thread K.Y.Lo
Hi, I have installed Debian 1.3.1.r6 completely. Setting up the network
as I know about DNS, IP number etc..  i find it was hard to setup eth0
but it has an error. 

Installing module SMC-Ultra.

Loading device 'eth0'

smc-ultra.c: No SMC Ultra card (i/o=0x280).
/lib/modules/2.0.29/net/smc-ultra.0: init_module: Device or resource
busy.

Executing module post-install script 'cdromsymlink'.
script: -ultra
-ultra: not found.

Executing shell_smc_ultra failed.

That where i start to install Debian 1.3.1 with ethernet support.
I have SMC EtherEZ network card and have no cdrom(dont need it).

thank you
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afterstep config file in /tmp

1998-02-13 Thread Gilbert Laycock
Recently we have started having a problem with temporary files created 
by afterstep and then not deleted.

What happens is that a user starts afterstep and it creates a
/tmp/steprc file, containing their current setup. The permissions
are set according to the user's umask. Sometimes, when the user leaves 
afterstep this temporary file is not removed, so when the next
afterstep user comes along it will try to use the temporary file in
preference to their own setup. Worse, if the first user's umask was
such that the next user does not have read permission, afterstep will
fail to start.

For other users, this does not happen. And once upon a time it didn't
happen for anybody.

Does anybody have any idea what causes the steprc not to be deleted
for some users? I suspect something in the personal setup files (this
is a student lab, and once somebody gets a nice looking setup it tends 
to be copied around), but since I am not an afterstep user I haven't
been able to spot anything untoward in the .steprc files concerned. 

The afterstep man page and FAQ do not mention the use of this
temporary file at all.
 
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Re: Compute Farm

1998-02-13 Thread Jerzy Kakol
Hi all,

Except cfengine there is another hopefully better because debian specific 
solution I discovered recently installing hamm. I mean 

# dpkg --root=/another_machine_root_dir deb_file

Think about the great possibilities it gives! Let's assume

# mkdir /var/lib/dpkg/DebianFarm
# for i in $FarmMachineNames ; do {
mkdir /var/lib/dpkg/DebianFarm/$i; 
mount -t nfs $i:/ /var/lib/dpkg/$i
 }; done

Then we can at any time do:

# for i in $FarmMachineNames ; do 
 dpkg --install --root=/var/lib/dpkg/DebianFarm/$i deb_package;
 done

Of course it doesn't eliminate cfengine because such scripts may serve 
only for instalation purposes. But installing the full system takes at 
least an hour counting from the first dselect start. In this particular 
case it allows to save 200 hours. 

BTW, it appears to be neccessary to have a possibility of using dselect 
to choose packages and resolve all conflicts/dependencies and then export 
package names IN PROPER ORDER (this is probably one of hamm's bugs) to a 
file which could be an argument for the script proposed above. Is it 
possible?

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Re: Missing .so files

1998-02-13 Thread Kevin cave
Robert D. Hilliard wrote:

  Before I upgrade from bo to hamm, ldconfig showed three
 warnings.  This situation has been inherited by my hamm system.  The
 ldconfig message is:

 bob:vc-2:bobldconfig
 ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/i486-linuxaout/libvga.so.1 (No
 such file
 or directory), skipping
 ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libf2c_i2.so.2 (No such file or
 directory), skipping
 ldconfig: warning: can't open /lib/libtermcap.so.2 (No such file or
 directory),
 skipping

  The first of these _is_ nonexistent; the other two are symlinks
 pointing to nonexistent files /usr/lib/libf2c_i2.so.2.1 and
 /lib/libtermcap.so.2.0.8 respectively.

  I would like to get rid of this warning from ldconfig.  Are there
 packages I can remove or install so as to satisfy ldconfig?  dpkg -S
 can't locate the package these files come from.


Hi Robert, You'll find these files in the following packages under
unstable (hamm):MISSING FILE
LOCATION/PACKAGE NAME
--
-

usr/lib/libf2c_i2.a  devel/f2c
usr/lib/libf2c_i2.so.2.1devel/f2c

usr/i486-linuxlibc1/lib/libvga.so
oldlibs/svgalib1-altdev
usr/lib/libc5-compat/libvga.so.1
oldlibs/svgalib-dummy1,oldlibs/svgalib1
usr/lib/libc5-compat/libvga.so.1.2.11   oldlibs/svgalib-dummy1

usr/lib/libc5-compat/libvga.so.1.2.13   oldlibs/svgalib1
usr/lib/libvga.so
graphics/svgalibg1-dev,libs/svgalib-dummyg1
usr/lib/libvga.so.1
libs/svgalibg1,libs/svgalib-dummyg1
usr/lib/libvga.so.1.2.11
libs/svgalib-dummyg1
usr/lib/libvga.so.1.2.13   libs/svgalibg1

lib/libtermcap.so.2.0.8
admin/termcap-compat

Hope this helps!

rgds.

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xscreensaver 2.15-3: couldn't get password...

1998-02-13 Thread Christophe Broult

Hi,

I'm running hamm and I'm using dselect with the ftp method to update
my system regularly.  A couple of days or so, there was an update of
xscreensaver and since then I get the following errors:

xscreensaver: couldn't get password of broult
xscreensaver: couldn't get password of root
xscreensaver: locking is disabled (error getting password).

Have I done something wrong or is it a know problem? This was working
before that update.

Thank you,

Chris


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Re: pine/spell checking

1998-02-13 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Paul Miller wrote:

 Is there a good spell checker for pine? - One that works all the time and
 gives possible choices?
 
ispell does. 

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can't access /dev/fd0

1998-02-13 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes

Hi,

Yesterday I was surprised with a new problem. When trying to
access the floppy (I always did it), with mdir as well as with mount, I
got the following message from dmesg: 

floppy0: Unable to allocate DMA memory

With little knowledge about this problem, I did an rmmod in some
modules not being used at the moment and got the floppy accessible again.
Today the problem was back, and there isn't modules to rmmod now!
What can be done to solve it?
Shouldn't the kernel be smart enough to preserve some memory
to DMA (I guess my IDE can't address memory above 16Mb)?
I'm using almost stable (bo) version:

kernel 2.0.30, with ip_masq, three 3Com590 NIC cards, 32Mb RAM, Adaptec
1542 (ISA), 2.1GB SCSI HD, 1.44Mb 3.5in floppy, Atapi IDE CDROM. 


Thanks,

[]s,
Mario O.de MenezesMany are the plans in a man's heart, but
IPEN-CNEN/SP is the Lord's purpose that prevails
http://curiango.ipen.br/~mario Prov. 19.21


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cc:Mail - any equivalents???

1998-02-13 Thread Kevin cave
Does anybody know if there is some bit of magic out there that allows me
to read my cc:Mail account from my Debian hamm system at work?

I've tried using WINE to run Lotus cc:Mail, and it almost works, but just
doesn't open the inbox window - obviously WINE needs a bit more
code crunching done to it

Eventually, I want to do away with the horrible NT4 partition sitting next
to my Linux one, but I can't justify this to the Boss until I can have the same
email/ccmail/etc functionality as does the Windoze NT setup.
I'm almost there!

So if any of you Linuxarians (Linuxnauts? Penquinfreaks? never mind ;)   )
out there know of something to do this, it would save me having to either
wait until WINE becomes stable enough to run cc:mail,
or I'll have to - heaven forbid - reboot my machine into NT4 (shudder)
all the time.

Regards to you all.

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Re: printing .pdf files

1998-02-13 Thread Avery Pennarun
On Thu, Feb 12, 1998 at 09:06:27PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote:

  In any case, ghostscripts starting at about 4.0 (I think) can print pdf
  files natively.  Skip the acroread step, and just ghostscript it directly. 
  (I'm not sure magicfilter can handle this on its own though!)
 
 How does one print a pdf from ghostscript?  The docs for the package,
 like the great majority of free software, seem to be written as a
 memory aid for the programmer who created it and are nearly
 incomprehensible to mere users like me.

Well, IMHO it's not so much the documentation as the command-line options
themselves that suck.  Sorry, but defining ridiculous postscript variables
just to change the output filename(!) is insane.

Anyway, you print .pdf files in exactly the same way as you print PS files,
except that the files themselves have a different format, which is why I
wasn't sure magicfilter could handle it.  Someone posted a message here
saying that it can -- well, good!

In that case, if you have magicfilter installed, just do:

lpr file.pdf

The obvious solution sometimes works :)

Lacking that, you can render it using the ghostscript command line:

gs -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=bjc600 -sOutputFile=/tmp/file.bj \
file.pdf -c quit

Then send the file to /dev/lp1, or lpr it, or whatever you do.

By the way, anyone who wants to tell me why that command shouldn't be 

gs -D bjc600 file.pdf /tmp/file.bj

should feel free to do so in private e-mail.  Flames accepted as long as you
have a good point :)

Have fun,

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Re: timezones 2.0.7pre1-1 is broken

1998-02-13 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Robert D. Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 When I updated my hamm system tonight from my local mirror,
timezones was updated to 2.0.7pre1-1.  It removed the setting GMT=
from wherever it belongs in hamm.

That wasn't timezones, that was sysvinit.

(It was in /etc/init.d/boot
pre-hamm, but I haven't looked for it before now that /etc/init.d/boot
is no longer used.

/etc/init.d/boot is broken up in a bunch of independant scripts in /etc/rcS.d/

I inserted GMT= near the top of
/etc/init.d/hwclock.sh, and it works, but that probably isn't the
correct place.  Where should it be?  

/etc/default/rcS. It even has a manpage rcS(5) !


 When I run the date command, I get the following:

 Thu Feb 12 22:40:27 /etc/localtime 1998

There is no file /etc/localtime, which I suppose should contain my
time zone, which tzconfig says (correctly) is EST5EDT.

 dpkg -L shows that timezones includes the directory
/usr/doc/timezones, but no files in that directory.  A listing of this
directory shows: 

That's /usr/share/zoneinfo. You can run `tzconfig' to setup your
local timezone. (It should have been run automatically - and it has
in my setup).

Mike.
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Re: limiting user access

1998-02-13 Thread Anthony Towns

Carey Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 Put /var/tmp on a different partition than /var (and /tmp on a
 different partition than /).  This also stops them from keeping huge
 files in /var/tmp where the news spool, mail spool and logs are.

Of course, if you're being this paranoid, you should probably be using
disk quotas anyway, which ameliorate most of the problems associated
with sharing system and user data.

One tip (which I haven't tried, so can't comment on its
effectiveness), is to make the soft limit something small, and the
hard limit something large, then rely on the grace period to ensure
that anyone who does play with big files gets rid of them quickly. For
/tmp and /var/tmp, a 24 hour grace period would probably be
reasonable.

Only if you're being fascist, of course.

Cheers,
aj

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Re: Fatal server error

1998-02-13 Thread Oliver Elphick
K.Y.Lo wrote:
  Hi
  
  I have installed Debian 1.3.1.r6 with X-windows package.
  
  install xbase,xlib6,xfntbase, xserver-svga into harddisc. done
  and set up xf86config. it went bummer.
  
  Fatal server error:
  No valid modes found.
  
  what does that mean?  it is something missing the X package?

It means that your /etc/X11/XF86Config file does not contain any modes
that the X server can use.

A modes line (in section Screen) looks like this
  Modes1280x1024 1152x864 1024x768 800x600 640x480 
640x400 480x300 400x300 320x240 320x200

It gives the screen sizes, in pixels, in their preferred order.  A mode
line is only valid if there exists a combination of monitor and device that
can produce the screen bandwidth necessary to drive the screen at at least
one of the sizes given on the mode line.

It sounds as if you need to run XF86Setup, which should get your X 
properly configured for you.  

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Re: Running fetchmail in ip-up

1998-02-13 Thread servis
On 12 Feb, Alex Yukhimets wrote:
  I would like to run fetchmail in my ip-up to pick up mail from a
 couple of different places.  Would it be best to run it via su so that it
 is run using my account?  Is there a better way?  All of the accounts have
 different user names.  Not my choice.
 
 Hi.
 If my memory doesn't fail me, fetchmail can be configured to poll mail
 from different hosts with specified remote user id AND local user id to
 deliver to for each host seperately.
 
 Alex Y.
 

When run from ip-up it is run as root.  So in /root/.fetchmailrc put
something like this for each server(isp).

poll server1 timeout 60:
user isp1_login there has password isp1_password is local_login 
here
fetchall

poll server2 timeout 60:
user isp2_login there has password isp2_password is local_login 
here
fetchall

etc.

Then fetchmail will pass it off to your local smail/sendmail for
delivery to the local user, local_login.  Fetchmail adds additional
headers to the mails, pretty slick.

If you use smail for local smtp then configure it as if you are a
internet host even if you dial-up.

This setup works great for me.

Good luck,

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Re: NCPFS seems broken on 2.1 kernels...

1998-02-13 Thread Kevin cave
Roy C Bixler wrote:

 On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, Kevin Cave wrote:
  I've now tried 2.1.86, and it still has the same problem. I can use
  slist to see the
  various Netware servers, but I can't mount the volumes, or send print
  files to 'em.

 Yes, this is a problem.  The only fix I know of right now is to get the
 ncpfs-2.1.1.tar.gz file, compile with libc5 and use it.  Elroy Paris did
 some work to get ncpfs-2.0.11 to compile with libc6 and perhaps he knows
 more about the status of ncpfs-2.1.1?


Roy, I can't seem to locate ncpfs-2.1.1.tar.gz anywhere...

Anyone know where exactly this can be found?

rgds.


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spam mail or mail relay

1998-02-13 Thread Wiria A Kusuma
Hello.., I would like to ask what are the terms spam mail and mail
relay? are they the same thing? how does it work and how to prevent
them?, or may be you can point me to the right direction where I can
find more info about it... 

thanks in advance
kusuma


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A better backup (was: Re: Question re: splitting files)

1998-02-13 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (William R. Ward) writes:

 Charles Briscoe-Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
  % tar xvMf /dev/fd0
  
  Apart from when a disk goes bad (obviously), I've never had any trouble
  with this.
 
 Stick a 'z' in the tar options to get gzip (fewer floppies!)
 
 --Bill.

Well, this would be fine if tar would accept both the z and M options
at the same time; unfortunately, it won't. (at least the version of
tar in bo won't)

Also, a one-bit error can ruin all files recorded after the error -
not a great idea.  I really am surprised that there's no standard
backup method for debian that:
1) backs up across multiple volumes
2) provides checksums for each file, and
3) allows compression on a file-by-file basis (i.e. allows creation of 
an uncompressed archive of compressed files, which is less susceptible 
to corruption than a compressed archive of uncompressed files)


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Re: spam mail or mail relay

1998-02-13 Thread Martin Schulze
On Sat, Feb 14, 1998 at 09:03:34AM +0700, Wiria A Kusuma wrote:
 Hello.., I would like to ask what are the terms spam mail and mail
 relay? are they the same thing? how does it work and how to prevent
 them?, or may be you can point me to the right direction where I can
 find more info about it... 

They're not equal.

 . Relayed Mail is delivered through an innocent system that accepts
   such mail.  It is delivered to senders outside of the local area
   (including MX hosting c).  Modern MTA's doesn't allow this
   anymore.  Our server lists.debian.org does only accept mail for
   its own domain, not for others, no relaynig allowed.

 . Spam is mainly UCE (unsolicited commercial email (sp?)).  That's
   mail sent to you and a hundred of others that all didn't want
   to receive them.  Some of the known Spammers may be blocked
   by MAPS RBL (Mail Abuse Prevention System, see http://maps.vix.com/).
   We're doing this on our server lists.debian.org.

Regards,

Joey

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Re: spam mail or mail relay

1998-02-13 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Fri, 13 Feb 1998, Martin Schulze wrote:

 On Sat, Feb 14, 1998 at 09:03:34AM +0700, Wiria A Kusuma wrote:
  Hello.., I would like to ask what are the terms spam mail and mail
  relay? are they the same thing? how does it work and how to prevent
  them?, or may be you can point me to the right direction where I can
  find more info about it... 
 
 They're not equal.
 
  . Relayed Mail is delivered through an innocent system that accepts
such mail.  It is delivered to senders outside of the local area
(including MX hosting c).  Modern MTA's doesn't allow this
anymore.  Our server lists.debian.org does only accept mail for
its own domain, not for others, no relaynig allowed.
Thanks for the explanation. Now I would like to know how do I stop mail
relaying in smail. I heard some people say smail is the biggest culprit
and I need to get something like exim or sendmail.

Is smail that insecure? And how can I know I am secure?
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Re: eth0: error

1998-02-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
K.Y.Lo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Installing module SMC-Ultra.
 
 Loading device 'eth0'
 
 smc-ultra.c: No SMC Ultra card (i/o=0x280).
 /lib/modules/2.0.29/net/smc-ultra.0: init_module: Device or resource
 busy.

Did you set the card to io 280 using it's dos setupdisk? (Also check, that
the IRQ and Mem Settings are OK with that programm).

And disable shadow memory in your bios. You also may have an entry
Non-Cachable Block. Set it according to the Mem entry of your card.

Ciao,
Martin
 


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Re: can't access /dev/fd0

1998-02-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Mario Olimpio de Menezes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 floppy0: Unable to allocate DMA memory
 
   With little knowledge about this problem, I did an rmmod in some
 modules not being used at the moment and got the floppy accessible again.
   Today the problem was back, and there isn't modules to rmmod now!
   What can be done to solve it?
   Shouldn't the kernel be smart enough to preserve some memory
 to DMA (I guess my IDE can't address memory above 16Mb)?
   I'm using almost stable (bo) version:
 
 kernel 2.0.30, with ip_masq, three 3Com590 NIC cards, 32Mb RAM, Adaptec
 1542 (ISA), 2.1GB SCSI HD, 1.44Mb 3.5in floppy, Atapi IDE CDROM. 

2.0.30 has some ugly problems with memory. Upgrade to 2.0.33.

Ciao,
Martin


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Hard drive block

1998-02-13 Thread tko
How does one tell the IDE driver to use block read/writes whenever possible? I
ran into a situation where I was playing a wave file in the background and I
had to check a directory on that same drive. As soon as I invoked dir, the
sound went down the tubes and I noticed the excessive access of the hard drive
by the wave player program.

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Re: problems trying to compile qt example from tutorial

1998-02-13 Thread Scott Ellis
You're missing -lqt so that the library actually gets linked.

On Fri, 13 Feb 1998, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote:

 I installed qt1g-dev (and qt1g) in my system, but when I try to compile
 the first example from the tutorial, I get the message:
 
 g++ hello.C   -o hello
 hello.C:9: qapp.h: No such file or directory
 hello.C:10: qpushbt.h: No such file or directory
 make: *** [hello] Error 1
 
 Wasn't the installation supposed to set the include paths for me, or I
 really have to do it by hand?
 
 Well, after I tryed to include by hand, I found that the libg++272-dev
 was not installed. Should not the libqtg1-dev depend on it?
 
 Anyway, I installed libg++272-dev, and now I get these messages, with
 the -I to include qt by hand. What am I missing?
 
 $ g++ -I/usr/X11R6/include/qt hello.C -o hello
 /tmp/cca045561.o: In function `main':
 /tmp/cca045561.o(.text+0x17): undefined reference to 
 `QApplication::QApplication(int , char **)'
 /tmp/cca045561.o(.text+0x2f): undefined reference to 
 `QPushButton::QPushButton(char const *, QWidget *, char const *)'
 /tmp/cca045561.o(.text+0x42): undefined reference to 
 `QPushButton::resize(int, int)'
 /tmp/cca045561.o(.text+0x55): undefined reference to 
 `QApplication::setMainWidget(QWidget *)'
 /tmp/cca045561.o(.text+0x64): undefined reference to `QWidget::show(void)'
 /tmp/cca045561.o(.text+0x70): undefined reference to 
 `QApplication::exec(void)'
 /tmp/cca045561.o(.text+0x91): undefined reference to 
 `QApplication::~QApplication(void)'
 /tmp/cca045561.o: In function `QPushButton::~QPushButton(void)':
 /tmp/cca045561.o(.text+0xce): undefined reference to 
 `QPushButton::QPaintDevice virtual table'
 /tmp/cca045561.o(.text+0xd5): undefined reference to `QPushButton virtual 
 table'
 /tmp/cca045561.o(.text+0xdc): undefined reference to `QButton::~QButton(void)'
 /tmp/cca045561.o: In function `QArrayTchar::detach(void)':
 /tmp/cca045561.o(.text+0x129): undefined reference to `QGArray::detach(void)'
 /tmp/cca045561.o: In function `QArrayTchar::~QArrayT(void)':
 /tmp/cca045561.o(.text+0x155): undefined reference to 
 `QGArray::~QGArray(void)'
 /tmp/cca045561.o(.rodata+0x2c): undefined reference to 
 `QGArray::newData(void)'
 /tmp/cca045561.o(.rodata+0x34): undefined reference to 
 `QGArray::deleteData(QGArray::array_data *)'
 /tmp/cca045561.o(.rodata+0x54): undefined reference to 
 `QGArray::newData(void)'
 /tmp/cca045561.o(.rodata+0x5c): undefined reference to 
 `QGArray::deleteData(QGArray::array_data *)'
 $ 

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Fw: Plse stop your mail server process!

1998-02-13 Thread Russ Cook
I have been trying to upgrade from Bo to Hamm via ftp, as many of you are
now aware from my previous post Hamm upgrade woes.  Thanks for all the
replies and advice.  Still working on it.

Apparently one of the packages I downloaded is not properly installed or
configured, or maybe isn't even present.  It looks like Cron is trying to
start faxrunq, can't find it, then tries to email root on my machine
(p90.mydomain) to tell me about it.  Unfortunately, I haven't configured my
email under Linux yet - I use OS/2 and Win95 for mail still.  These
messages are finding their way to my ISP, who can't deliver them and
apparently thinks it spam.  My machine is shutdown right now, and I'll
examine my cron tables when I boot up this evening.

What a pain for an ignorant slob like me!  :)

Thanks again for help and advice.

Russ

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WSR-88D Operational Support Facility
(405)366-6520 x4237
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 To: Russell Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: Plse stop your mail server process!
 Date: Thursday, February 12, 1998 8:42 PM
 
 From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Feb 12 14:56:39 1998
 Received: from p90.mydomain ([EMAIL PROTECTED] [209.54.8.7]) by
ns2.icon.net (8.8.8/Solstice (tm) Internet Mail Server (tm)) with ESMTP id
OAA10013 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Thu, 12 Feb 1998 14:56:36 -0600
 Received: from p90.mydomain by p90.mydomain
with bsmtp id m0y35R5-000IeMC
   (Debian Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #2); Thu, 12 Feb 1998 14:40:43 -0600 (CST)
 Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 14:40:43 -0600 (CST)
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: mail failed, returning to sender
 Reference: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Status: RO
 
 |- Failed addresses follow:
-|
  [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... transport smtp: 571 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... We don't
accept junk mail. GET LOST SPAMMER!!
 |- Message text follows:
|
 Received: by p90.mydomain
   id m0y35QO-000IeLC
   (Debian Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #2); Thu, 12 Feb 1998 14:40:00 -0600 (CST)
 Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 14:40:00 -0600 (CST)
 From: root (Cron Daemon)
 To: root
 Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] faxrunq
 X-Cron-Env: SHELL=/bin/sh
 X-Cron-Env:
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
 X-Cron-Env: HOME=/root
 X-Cron-Env: LOGNAME=root
 
 /bin/sh: faxrunq: command not found
 
 From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Feb 12 15:35:58 1998
 Received: from p90.mydomain ([EMAIL PROTECTED] [209.54.8.7]) by
ns2.icon.net (8.8.8/Solstice (tm) Internet Mail Server (tm)) with ESMTP id
PAA11085 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Thu, 12 Feb 1998 15:35:56 -0600
 Received: from p90.mydomain by p90.mydomain
with bsmtp id m0y3639-000IeMC
   (Debian Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #2); Thu, 12 Feb 1998 15:20:03 -0600 (CST)
 Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 15:20:03 -0600 (CST)
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: mail failed, returning to sender
 Reference: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Status: O
 
 |- Failed addresses follow:
-|
  [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... transport smtp: 571 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... We don't
accept junk mail. GET LOST SPAMMER!!
 |- Message text follows:
|
 Received: by p90.mydomain
   id m0y3636-000IeLC
   (Debian Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #2); Thu, 12 Feb 1998 15:20:00 -0600 (CST)
 Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 15:20:00 -0600 (CST)
 From: root (Cron Daemon)
 To: root
 Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] faxrunq
 X-Cron-Env: SHELL=/bin/sh
 X-Cron-Env:
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
 X-Cron-Env: HOME=/root
 X-Cron-Env: LOGNAME=root
 
 /bin/sh: faxrunq: command not found
 
 From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Feb 12 15:55:58 1998
 Received: from p90.mydomain ([EMAIL PROTECTED] [209.54.8.7]) by
ns2.icon.net (8.8.8/Solstice (tm) Internet Mail Server (tm)) with ESMTP id
PAA11540 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Thu, 12 Feb 1998 15:55:57 -0600
 Received: from p90.mydomain by p90.mydomain
with bsmtp id m0y36MV-000IeMC
   (Debian Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #2); Thu, 12 Feb 1998 15:40:03 -0600 (CST)
 Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 15:40:03 -0600 (CST)
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: mail failed, returning to sender
 Reference: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Status: O
 
 |- Failed addresses follow:
-|
  [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... transport smtp: 571 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... We don't
accept junk mail. GET LOST SPAMMER!!
 |- Message text follows:
|
 Received: by p90.mydomain
   id m0y36MS-000IeLC
   (Debian Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #2); Thu, 12 Feb 1998 15:40:00 -0600 (CST)
 Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 15:40:00 -0600 (CST)
 From: root 

Re: NCPFS seems broken on 2.1 kernels...

1998-02-13 Thread Roy C Bixler
On Fri, 13 Feb 1998, Kevin cave wrote:
 Roy, I can't seem to locate ncpfs-2.1.1.tar.gz anywhere...

Try 'ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/ncpfs'  Maybe the confusion is that
the file end in .tgz instead of .tar.gz ...

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device /dev/eth0 is missing

1998-02-13 Thread Björn Hillebrand
Hello!

I have a problem with Debian 1.3.1.
I want to use Debian in a network but I don´t find any devices for my
Winbond PCI 32 Bit Ethernet card. In a magazine I found an article which
explains how to configure the network ( Chip Extra - Linux ) and they
use the device eth0 via ifconfig. The problem is i don´t have this
devivce.

Do i have to install a special package ?

Thanks!



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Re: Compute Farm

1998-02-13 Thread Behan Webster
Marcelo E. Magallón wrote:
 
 PPS: Since neither RH nor Debian actually have anything built-in for this
 task, Debian is still a better choice: several times ppl in the
 developer's list have expressed interest in further developing Deity into
 this direction. I know this doesn't buy you anything right now, but it may
 be worth mentioning.
 

Plans have existed from the beginning to allow deity to work at
administering several machine concurently.  However, for complexity
reasons, that part of the design was left on hold until a later revision
of Deity.

We are working towards a 1.0 version of deity.  I wouldn't expect
multi-machine capability until 3.0 or so.

Behan

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BASH question

1998-02-13 Thread Fulgham, Brent/SCO
Can anyone tell me why I can't generate working Bash scripts?

For example, I want to create a short script called print so that I
can do some formatted printing:

#!/bin/sh
# Print -- formatted printer tool to get a 5-space margin and a
header/footer
pr -o 5 $1 | lpr

When I try to run this script (chmod +x) I get error messages indicating
errors when the script is executed.  There are two flavors:

1)  /bin/bash : No such file name
2)  /bin/bash : Invalid file or directorypr --where part of the error
message includes the last few characters of each line in the shell
script.

I suspect an environmental variable is at fault, however my other
scripts (installed during my hamm install) work fine (the one's I didn't
write), plus scripts that I have edited seem to work in some cases, but
not in others.

This error occurs in virtual terminal mode and in login and non-login
x-windows.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
-Brent


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Re: spam mail or mail relay

1998-02-13 Thread Wiria A Kusuma
thanks for everything.., short and clear explanation. 

Martin Schulze wrote:

 They're not equal.
 
  . Relayed Mail is delivered through an innocent system that accepts
such mail.  It is delivered to senders outside of the local area
(including MX hosting c).  Modern MTA's doesn't allow this
anymore.  Our server lists.debian.org does only accept mail for
its own domain, not for others, no relaynig allowed.
 
  . Spam is mainly UCE (unsolicited commercial email (sp?)).  That's
mail sent to you and a hundred of others that all didn't want
to receive them.  Some of the known Spammers may be blocked
by MAPS RBL (Mail Abuse Prevention System, see http://maps.vix.com/).
We're doing this on our server lists.debian.org.
 
 Regards,
 
 Joey
 
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Re: How do I use slrn? (fwd)

1998-02-13 Thread Johann Spies
Hallo John,

 I think this must be a file permissions problem. Everything you have done
 seems to be correct so compare the permissions of your directories with
 these settings from my setup.

You are correct. I discovered that I can run slrn as root and it works,
but not as a user.  That must be a permission problem somewhere.  

Here are my permissions as compared to yours.  (I had to change some of
them becaused I fiddled with it earlier):


drwxr-sr-x   5 news news 1024 Feb 12 17:51 slrnpull/

 ls -l /var/spool
 drwxr-sr-x   5 news news 1024 Feb 13 16:55 slrnpull
 

drwxr-xr-x   2 news news 1024 Feb 13 11:21 data/
-rw-r--r--   1 root news   176351 Feb 13 11:21 log
drwxr-x--x   3 news news 1024 Feb 13 08:41 news/
drwxrwxrwx   3 news news 1024 Jan 24 09:14 out.going/
-rw-r--r--   1 root news 1438 Feb 12 17:51 slrnpull.conf
-rw-r--r--   1 news news 1472 Mar  4  1997 slrnpull.conf~

 drwxr-xr-x   2 news news 1024 Feb 13 17:03 data
 -rw-r--r--   1 root news   535753 Feb 13 17:03 log
 drwxr-xr-x   5 news news 1024 Feb 13 13:51 news
 drwxrwxrwx   3 news news 1024 Feb  8 15:02 out.going
 -rw-r--r--   1 root news  194 Feb 13 16:55 score
 -rw-r--r--   1 root news  442 Feb 13 16:54 slrnpull.conf

drwxr-x--x   3 jhspies  js   1024 Feb 13 08:41 comp/

 drwxr-xr-x   6 root root 1024 Feb  2 10:19 aus
 drwxr-xr-x  10 root root 1024 Feb  3 04:54 comp
 drwxr-xr-x   3 root root 1024 Feb  2 10:19 news

Thanks for your trouble.

It least I can read it now although it is as root.

Johann

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Re: device /dev/eth0 is missing

1998-02-13 Thread joost witteveen
In an attempt to save the world from disaster, Bj?rn Hillebrand wrote:
[Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...]
 Hello!
 
 I have a problem with Debian 1.3.1.
 I want to use Debian in a network but I don_t find any devices for my
 Winbond PCI 32 Bit Ethernet card. In a magazine I found an article which
 explains how to configure the network ( Chip Extra - Linux ) and they
 use the device eth0 via ifconfig. The problem is i don_t have this
 devivce.
 
 Do i have to install a special package ?

No, just (from /etc/init.d/network) :

/sbin/ifconfig eth0 ${IPADDR} netmask ${NETMASK} broadcast ${BROADCAST}


Note, that the installscripts should have done this already for you.

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Re: spam mail or mail relay

1998-02-13 Thread joost witteveen
In an attempt to save the world from disaster, Wiria A Kusuma wrote:
[Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...]
 thanks for everything.., short and clear explanation. 
 
 Martin Schulze wrote:
 
  They're not equal.
  
   . Relayed Mail is delivered through an innocent system that accepts
 such mail.  It is delivered to senders outside of the local area
 (including MX hosting c).  Modern MTA's doesn't allow this
 anymore.  Our server lists.debian.org does only accept mail for
 its own domain, not for others, no relaynig allowed.
  
   . Spam is mainly UCE (unsolicited commercial email (sp?)).  That's
 mail sent to you and a hundred of others that all didn't want
 to receive them.  Some of the known Spammers may be blocked
 by MAPS RBL (Mail Abuse Prevention System, see http://maps.vix.com/).
 We're doing this on our server lists.debian.org.

Also see the following debian package (hamm only, I think). You'll need
to do some configuring before it works, but it is actually quite easy:

$ dpkg -s spamdb
Package: spamdb
Maintainer: Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[..]
Description: Fully automated building and maintaining of a Blacklist
 This package retrieves well-known blacklists from the Net and builds a
 database of spam sites. The blacklist is automatically updated every week.
 .
 The Spam blacklist can then be used by mailers to reject spam. The package
 includes scripts to convert it's database to a format usable by specific
 mail transport agents.
 .
 This version is highly modular and extensible
 .
 This package will *NOT* reconfigure mailers to use the spamdb.  There are
 far too many possible ways of doing it that I feel it should be a local
 sysadmin policy decision.  Whichever way you choose to do it, spamdb can
 support it.

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Re: zip drive

1998-02-13 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Thu, Feb 12, 1998 at 01:35:10PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
 I'm running Linux 2.1.x and haven't been able to get my zip drive
 to work in ages (parallel port one). It should be as simple as installing
 parport, parport_pc, then ppa, shouldn't it? parport_pc always tells
 me device/resource busy on insertion; inserting ppa seems
 to just sit there ...
 
 Any hints? I have zip only on the port; I don't want to use a printer
 as well.

I use these in /etc/conf.modules and it all works fine (except today when I
couldn't figure out why the ppa module wouldn't load - then I noticed that I
had left the Zip drive downstairs in a bag!)

alias scsi_hostadapter ppa
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
options parport_pc io=0x378 irq=7

Adrian

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Re: fetchmail smail

1998-02-13 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Thu, Feb 12, 1998 at 06:12:43PM +0100, Ole J.Tetlie wrote:
 [Please CC replies]

 Hi,

 I've tried to set up fetchmail to get mail from my university-account and
 deliver it locally to smail on port 25. Telnetting to port 25 goes well.
When
 I run 'fetchmail -v' however; the following happens:

[snip]

 reading message 1 of 42 (1536 header bytes)
 fetchmail: SMTP connect to apollo failed: Connection refused

 apollo is my local computer. I believe my .fetchmailrc is correct. Has
anyone
 got a clue?

I had this problem with exim a while ago. IIRC the problem was that exim
didn't like the mail as it came from an unknown computer (or maybe it was
that fetchmail wasn't filling in some headers fully). Try telling smail
that it accepts posts from apollo and localhost.  Alternatively try
telling fetchmail to send the email to smail like this (this is for exim):

poll mail.zetnet.co.uk
 proto pop3
 user adrian.bridgett is bridgett here
 password X
 fetchall
 mda exim -bm %s 





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Re: Hard drive block

1998-02-13 Thread Jaakko Niemi
 How does one tell the IDE driver to use block read/writes whenever possible? 
 I
 ran into a situation where I was playing a wave file in the background and I
 had to check a directory on that same drive. As soon as I invoked dir, the
 sound went down the tubes and I noticed the excessive access of the hard 
 drive
 by the wave player program.

 hdparm.

 Description: Tune hard disk parameters for high performance.
 Shell utility to access/tune ioctl features of the
 linux hard disk and (E)IDE drivers for kernel 1.1.65+.
 Primary use is for enabling irq-unmasking and IDE multiplemode.


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Re: spam mail or mail relay

1998-02-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Daniel Mashao [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Thanks for the explanation. Now I would like to know how do I stop mail
 relaying in smail. I heard some people say smail is the biggest culprit
 and I need to get something like exim or sendmail.
 
 Is smail that insecure? And how can I know I am secure?

Smail 3.2.100 in hamm does this. It does it that good, that you should
only use it on permanently connected hosts for now.

Mailrelay is no really a problem for dialup hosts anyway.

To test it, enter your host as the smtp host in your mailsetup and send a
mail to some address outside this smtphost.

The smtp-host should not consider the computer you are running this
mailprogramm on, as part of its localnet, so dialin to a different ISP.

If you try to send this mail, you should get an error from the smtp-server
(we do not relay or such).

If you decide to go for the smail from hamm, backup your
/etc/aliases. It got wiped out on my host because I run smailconfig in
post-inst (I believe). 

Ciao,
Martin


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Re: A better backup (was: Re: Question re: splitting files)

1998-02-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Daniel Martin at cush) writes:

 Also, a one-bit error can ruin all files recorded after the error -
 not a great idea.  I really am surprised that there's no standard
 backup method for debian that:
 1) backs up across multiple volumes
 2) provides checksums for each file, and
 3) allows compression on a file-by-file basis (i.e. allows creation of 
 an uncompressed archive of compressed files, which is less susceptible 
 to corruption than a compressed archive of uncompressed files)

If it is about reliable a reliable floppy net, not about using as few
floppys as possible, then this article from c.o.l.a may be interesting:

---

Ras is a program that adds m extra files to a set of n files, such that the
contents of the n original files can, in most cases, be regenerated from any
n of the n+m original files and extra files. The extra files will all be
about 0.4 percent larger then the largest of the original files.

It can be used, for example, to store 10 floppy-disks worth of data on 15
floppies in such a way that the data can be recovered from *any 10* of 
the 15 floppies.  I use it to transport large files split over multiple
floppies in a manner resilient to the corruption of a few of the floppies.

More details at http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/nc/


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ppp again, help please (hamm)

1998-02-13 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.

ok, i'm bravely going to try ppp again.  I got it working with help under bo.  
I have to initiate the session without a prompt from the machine, so i believe 
that my script simply waited for CONNECT, and terminated.

But I've tried upgrading to the newer version, hoping to use pppd.  However, 
the scripts have changed, as have the locations, and the bo scripts are not 
updated.

So, I need to dial, wait for connect, and then start the session from my end.  
It looks like I have to provide the name of my script.  what file should this 
be, and can it otherwise be the same script as before?

rick

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Re: Missing .so files

1998-02-13 Thread Adam Klein
On Fri, Feb 13, 1998 at 01:58:45AM +, Robert D. Hilliard wrote:
  Before I upgrade from bo to hamm, ldconfig showed three
 warnings.  This situation has been inherited by my hamm system.  The
 ldconfig message is:
 
 bob:vc-2:bobldconfig
 ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/i486-linuxaout/libvga.so.1 (No
 such file
 or directory), skipping
 ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libf2c_i2.so.2 (No such file or
 directory), skipping
 ldconfig: warning: can't open /lib/libtermcap.so.2 (No such file or
 directory),
 skipping
 
  The first of these _is_ nonexistent; the other two are symlinks
 pointing to nonexistent files /usr/lib/libf2c_i2.so.2.1 and
 /lib/libtermcap.so.2.0.8 respectively.
 
  I would like to get rid of this warning from ldconfig.  Are there
 packages I can remove or install so as to satisfy ldconfig?  dpkg -S
 can't locate the package these files come from.
 
 Bob

You can just delete the dangling symlinks and run ldconfig again.

Adam Klein


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Re: wanted packages

1998-02-13 Thread Adam Klein
On Thu, Feb 12, 1998 at 02:22:27PM -0800, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote:
 Oliver Elphick writes:
 
  Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote:
  
  Is there any address where we can send our wishes to debian packages
  we would like to see created? Is there any address to consult for
  programs that can't (for any reason) have a .deb package?
  
  For instance, I would like to have .debs of...
 
  Don't forget to look at hamm (unstable) and at the non-us mirror sites,
  before you conclude that a package does not exist.
 
  I know there are hylafax packages in unstable, and the ssl stuff will
  have to be on the non-us site.
 
 Some of you have told me the absolute same thing about
 hylafax... and... yes, you're right: hylafax was added after my last
 download of Contents-i386 (about a month old), so I did not have it
 listed. I made a new download, and there it is.
 
 As for ssl and apache-ssl, I downloaded the Contents-i386 from
 germany, and found nothing.
 
 Am I missing something? Is it present, but not listed? How am I
 supposed to know about the packages that do not exist in the US
 mirror?
 
 I think that the ideal would be to have the Packages section of the
 www pages a subsection called non-us or something, where this
 packages would be listed...

The non-us packages can be found at nonus.debian.org:/debian-non-US.

Adam Klein


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Re: ppp again, help please (hamm)

1998-02-13 Thread Shaleh
In Hamm, the scripts are in /etc/ppp/provider and /etc/chatscripts. 
Once in there they are just like the old bo scripts.  The update should
have taken your old info and used it.  BTW there is a howto for debian
in the works on www.debian.org/cgi-bin/fom.  There is a ppp section.


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Re: wanted packages

1998-02-13 Thread Adam Shand

  Am I missing something? Is it present, but not listed? How am I
  supposed to know about the packages that do not exist in the US
  mirror?

You can use on of the Debian Package Finders.  My favorite (because I
helped write it) is:

http://larry.earthlight.co.nz/debian/

Adam.

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Re: BASH question

1998-02-13 Thread Ben Pfaff
   Can anyone tell me why I can't generate working Bash scripts?

   Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I suggest that you uuencode one of the non-working scripts and mail it
to the list.  It could be that some funny characters slipped in and
they're confusing bash.


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Re: Spreading Linux..... new PPP problem :(.

1998-02-13 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
Yes, we use the same dialup number and everything. Our ISP only authenticates
with CHAP, so we have to use this chap-secrets thing.
The chap secrets, now mode 600, in /etc/ppp has - Hisusername * Hispassword -
in it, just like mine.

The PPP.log says:
Feb 13 14:32:35 sexmajik pppd[174]: Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyS1
Feb 13 14:32:35 sexmajik pppd[174]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 mru 1500
asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x86b70234 pcomp accomp]
Feb 13 14:32:36 sexmajik pppd[174]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x5d asyncmap
0xa auth chap md5 magic 0x3442bd5 pcomp  0b 04 07 00]
Feb 13 14:32:36 sexmajik pppd[174]: sent [LCP ConfRej id=0x5d auth chap md5
 0b 04 07 00]
Feb 13 14:32:36 sexmajik pppd[174]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x5e asyncmap
0xa auth chap md5 magic 0x3442bd5 pcomp]
Feb 13 14:32:36 sexmajik pppd[174]: sent [LCP ConfRej id=0x5e auth chap md5]

Feb 13 14:32:36 sexmajik pppd[174]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x5f asyncmap
0xa auth chap md5 magic 0x3442bd5 pcomp]
Feb 13 14:32:36 sexmajik pppd[174]: sent [LCP ConfRej id=0x5f auth chap md5]

Feb 13 14:32:36 sexmajik pppd[174]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x60 asyncmap
0xa auth chap md5 magic 0x3442bd5 pcomp]
Feb 13 14:32:36 sexmajik pppd[174]: sent [LCP ConfRej id=0x60 auth chap md5]

Feb 13 14:32:37 sexmajik pppd[174]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x61 asyncmap
0xa auth chap md5 magic 0x3442bd5 pcomp]
Feb 13 14:32:37 sexmajik pppd[174]: sent [LCP ConfRej id=0x61 auth chap md5]

Feb 13 14:32:37 sexmajik pppd[174]: Hangup (SIGHUP)
Feb 13 14:32:37 sexmajik pppd[174]: Modem hangup
Feb 13 14:32:37 sexmajik pppd[174]: Connection terminated.
Feb 13 14:32:37 sexmajik pppd[174]: Exit.

I don't know much about this, but it looks as if the server is sending Config
Requests, and his computer is Rejecting them.
This may be related to what I asked about first, when it said it couldn't find
the authentication files.

Any ideas?
Thanks alot!
Timothy

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  I'm helping a friend setup debian on his computer; he uses the same ISP
  as me, so I set it up just like mine...

 Does he dial the same number you do?  Some isp's use different arrangements
 on different servers.

  ...so I added +chap to the options file to make sure it was using the
  CHAP auth that the server wanted.

 That isn't what +chap does.  +chap tells pppd to demand that the server
 authenticate itself to you using chap.  It won't do so, of course.  Take
 the +chap out.  The server will ask for chap authentication and pppd will
 know what to do.

  ...it couldn't / cant find or access the chap-secrets file that I made.

 That is a bit puzzling.

  The chap-secrets is in /etc/ppp, and I chmod'ed it to 777 just incase,
  but it still does the same stuff.

 Chmod it back.  pppd runs suid root.

  I'm sure its something really silly that i'm missing.  Any ideas what it
  could be?

 Send me copies of the files and I will try to help you.
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Re: On the fly compression with ext2

1998-02-13 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Adam Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

  There is a Debian package called e2compr including a kernel patch and
  an update chattr.
 
 But for some reason, the patch isn't included.

I just recheck it and you are true.  The patch is part of the source
package and I thought it would be part of the binary package too.

I have the following URL about e2compr:

http://netspace.net.au/~reiter/e2compr.html

I didn't visited this address since May, 23 1997 and don't know if it
is still valid.

BTW: Did someone tried the current version of e2compr.  I tried 0.3.1
 long ago and sometimes got strange message from the kernel driver
 (fortunately without any error/crashing).  But for the sake of a
 stable system I removed it because of these messages.

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llug.sep.bnl.gov mirror

1998-02-13 Thread Tim Sailer
NOTICE:
  Starting Monday, 16-Feb, there will be no source for debian packages
included in the mirror. I have completely ran out of disk space between
the incoming stuff and the 2 full distributions. I am working on getting
another drive for this system, but, since it serves no real purpose
besides the ftp/nfs/http/fsp for Debian, I can't convince the people
with the money to come up with more for another drive. Please bear with
me as I work this out.

Tim

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Re: A better backup (was: Re: Question re: splitting files)

1998-02-13 Thread Adam Klein
On Fri, Feb 13, 1998 at 08:25:01AM -0500, Daniel Martin at cush wrote:
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William R. Ward) writes:
 
  Charles Briscoe-Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
   % tar xvMf /dev/fd0
   
   Apart from when a disk goes bad (obviously), I've never had any trouble
   with this.
  
  Stick a 'z' in the tar options to get gzip (fewer floppies!)
  
  --Bill.
 
 Well, this would be fine if tar would accept both the z and M options
 at the same time; unfortunately, it won't. (at least the version of
 tar in bo won't)
 
 Also, a one-bit error can ruin all files recorded after the error -
 not a great idea.  I really am surprised that there's no standard
 backup method for debian that:
 1) backs up across multiple volumes
 2) provides checksums for each file, and
 3) allows compression on a file-by-file basis (i.e. allows creation of 
 an uncompressed archive of compressed files, which is less susceptible 
 to corruption than a compressed archive of uncompressed files)

Take a look at the 'afio' package.

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Re: Spreading Linux..... new PPP problem :(.

1998-02-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Timothy M. Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Feb 13 14:32:37 sexmajik pppd[174]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x61 asyncmap
 0xa auth chap md5 magic 0x3442bd5 pcomp]
 Feb 13 14:32:37 sexmajik pppd[174]: sent [LCP ConfRej id=0x61 auth chap md5]
 I don't know much about this, but it looks as if the server is sending Config
 Requests, and his computer is Rejecting them.

You are right. Do you also use the same options for pppd? Maybe he has
-chap somewhere.

Ciao,
Martin

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Symbolic links and FTP

1998-02-13 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Hello all:

Can anyone tell me how to properly create
a link from the anonymous ftp/pub directory
to another directory located on the same or
on a different file system.

thanks in advance.


Peter





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Re: Symbolic links and FTP

1998-02-13 Thread Ben Pfaff
   Can anyone tell me how to properly create
   a link from the anonymous ftp/pub directory
   to another directory located on the same or
   on a different file system.

You can't create symbolic links out of the anonftp directory, at least
not working ones.  This is because the daemon runs chrooted to
/home/ftp.  See chroot(2,8) for details.

You can, however, create hard links to files on the same filesystem
(but not on other filesystems).  Use ln(1) or cp -l to do this. 


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Re: Symbolic links and FTP

1998-02-13 Thread Roberto Magana
On 13 Feb 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote:

Can anyone tell me how to properly create
a link from the anonymous ftp/pub directory
to another directory located on the same or
on a different file system.
 
 You can't create symbolic links out of the anonftp directory, at least
 not working ones.  This is because the daemon runs chrooted to
 /home/ftp.  See chroot(2,8) for details.
 
 You can, however, create hard links to files on the same filesystem
 (but not on other filesystems).  Use ln(1) or cp -l to do this. 
 
If you ran out of space in /home/ftp, you may mount a partition in the
appopiate place, eg mount /dev/hdan /home/ftp/pub/debian/hamm


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