Re: CNAME records (was: Re: dynamic DNS within a non-dynamic domain)
On Mon, 09 Mar 1998 20:23:06 CST, Rich Puhek wrote: The MX record (Mail eXchange) is on your DNS server. It's what points incoming mail for username@foo.bar to the appropriate machine to handle the mail. What's worked for me is the following: mail IN A 10.0.20.1 INMX 10 mail It's probably not quite kosher (also note that these are my internal DNS numbers), but it does work. I also have an 'A' record for 'debian' (the name of our box, real imaginative) pointing to 10.0.20.1. Thanks. I get the jist of what's going on here. Further, I see Remco, who initiated this thread, has a static ip, and perhaps a semi-permanent net connection, so running his own DNS is perhaps feasible. I, OTOH, am running a dialup networking connection, and running my own DNS would not be practical (or so I've been told). This canonifying of hostnames sounded exactly like what was going on, so I read RFC-821.2 and this is entirely consistent with what seems to be happening: Once the transmission channel is established, the SMTP-sender sends a MAIL command indicating the sender of the mail. If the SMTP-receiver can accept mail it responds with an OK reply. The SMTP-sender then sends a RCPT command identifying a recipient of the mail. If the SMTP-receiver can accept mail for that recipient it responds with an OK reply; if not, it responds with a reply rejecting that recipient (but not the whole mail transaction). However, this led me to wonder how I was able to send mail with bo for so long without problems. Initially, I thought my configuration must have changed, but recently I've realized that implementation of the latest anti-spam MTA features across the 'net roughly coincided with my hamm upgrade, thus it may not be my configuration that changed -- I'm not sure. At least this narrows the problem down to C_NAME lookup at my SMTP server send-time. Now all I have to figure out is how to alleviate that. -- David Stern -- http://weber.u.washington.edu/~kotsya [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Pine From: address
I am using pine (from the debian distribution), and I would like to know how to set the return address (instead of the standard You have to recompile perl and enable the ALLOW_CHANGING_FROM #define. Its all in the docs. Download the source from www.washington.edu/pine. It'd be great if Debian's pine was compiled with this. You still have to add 'From' to the user-changeable fields in pine's setup, so a 'From' dialog does not show up unless you want to. IMHO its safe enough. // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37] -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Pine From: address
On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Jonas Bofjall wrote: You have to recompile perl and enable the ALLOW_CHANGING_FROM #define. Its all in the docs. Download the source from www.washington.edu/pine. It'd be great if Debian's pine was compiled with this. You still have to add 'From' to the user-changeable fields in pine's setup, so a 'From' dialog does not show up unless you want to. IMHO its safe enough. // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37] For those watching this thread, I solved the problem quite simply, by editing .pinerc and changing the following: 108c108 customized-hdrs= --- customized-hdrs=From: Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] This work fine with the standard debian package of pine. Chris -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
XISP and Debian
Hi, All. I'm having a spot of difficulty getting xisp to work... Can anyone who has successfully got this package working give me a few pointers as to what files to configure etc. ? I have read the documentation over and over, and I do consider myself to be an advanced user, but this darned thing just ain't going! Running Debian Hamm, and Bleeding-edge kernel 2.1.89. My PPP connection IS working, as I can set it up manually (i.e. Minicom---start pppd---on the internet). But I'd love to get xisp working, as it looks MUCH more impressive to other people than slogging it out with minicom! Thanks in advance! rgds. -- Kevin Cave. A Scotsman living in London, but may move to Japan. Registered Linux User #64441 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED](work) [EMAIL PROTECTED](home) -- -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: [OFF-TOPIC] less with built-in grep ?
In debian-user, Ben Pfaff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With the example above, I suppose I could write some kind of macro, opening shell output, but it gets much more interesting when I am looking at program | less and I do not want to execute program again, and I also want to be able to go back to un-grepped output without executing program again. You can type |grep xxx | less, and this will open a sub-less with the grep output in it. To get back to the ungrepped file, just quit from the sub-less. Yes, only now the program isn't finished yet, and I want to do a 'F' (makes less act like tail -f) command. This is not just some fun feature I want to have to look at, it comes in useful when you're looking at, say, a syslog, or program output. I have a window with my syslog, and I want to only see lines corresponding to a certain regexp. I don't know how to do that. No, the regexp is not something I could use /etc/syslog.conf for. No dreaming. Anyway, modifying syslog.conf just for a few minutes is just terrible, and would only work for syslog in any case. In addition, if the less selected the lines for me, I would be able to quit that and see the context. In effect, I want to put an egrep filter in less, with a regexp that could be modified without restarting less or re-reading file. Hmmm ... there might be some specialized real-time log monitor which would let me do that ? I think I'll be forwarding this to markn, less author. Should be rather simple, and ... is there anyone else that thinks it might be useful ? -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Windows 95 and Debian
Bruce Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can someone please tell me how to connect my newly loaded Linux machine to my small LAN in my apartment? I am running two Windows 95 machines as well. You want to use TCP/IP. Choose a private network to use (basically 192.168.favourite number.xxx) and assign numbers to your machines. I could have used 192.168.42.1, 192.168.42.2 and 192.168.42.3. Edit /etc/init.d/network on Linux, and use the Network control panel under Win95 to assign the address manually. Bind Microsoft Networking to TCP/IP. Install Samba on Linux. You should be able to ping your systems from each other, e.g. `ping 192.168.42.2' to see if the network is going. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always. -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
subscription problem
i have originally subscribed to the digest list and now,i'm receiving the non-digest version,could someone point me how to correct that ?? -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
XF86Config
At the first point of starting Xwindows the Screen like Linux (Bebian ) Login Passward at first time it look big size and I change the resolution by cntl+ alt+ + the resolution become smaller again Cntl+ alt+ + the resolution become more smaller if I repeat again it will become more big. who can I fixed the resoltion of Xwindows at begining? down you will find my XF86Config. === # ** # Refer to the XF86Config(4/5) man page for details about the format of # this file. # ** # ** # Files section. This allows default font and rgb paths to be set # ** Section Files RgbPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/ # For OSs that support Dynamically loaded modules, ModulePath can be # used to set a search path for the modules. This is currently supported # for Linux ELF, FreeBSD 2.x and NetBSD 1.x. The default path is shown # here. #ModulePath /usr/X11R6/lib/modules EndSection # ** # Module section -- this is an optional section which is used to specify # which dynamically loadable modules to load. Dynamically loadable # modules are currently supported only for Linux ELF, FreeBSD 2.x # and NetBSD 1.x. Currently, dynamically loadable modules are used # only for some extended input (XInput) device drivers. # ** # # Section Module # # This loads the module for the Joystick driver # # Load xf86Jstk.so # # EndSection # ** # Server flags section. # ** Section ServerFlags # Uncomment this to cause a core dump at the spot where a signal is # received. This may leave the console in an unusable state, but may # provide a better stack trace in the core dump to aid in debugging #NoTrapSignals # Uncomment this to disable the CrtlAltBS server abort sequence # This allows clients to receive this key event. #DontZap # Uncomment this to disable the CrtlAltKP_+/KP_- mode switching # sequences. This allows clients to receive these key events. #DontZoom # Uncomment this to disable tuning with the xvidtune client. With # it the client can still run and fetch card and monitor attributes, # but it will not be allowed to change them. If it tries it will # receive a protocol error. # DisableVidModeExtension # Uncomment this to enable the use of a non-local xvidtune client. # AllowNonLocalXvidtune # Uncomment this to disable dynamically modifying the input device # (mouse and keyboard) settings. # DisableModInDev # Uncomment this to enable the use of a non-local client to # change the keyboard or mouse settings (currently only xset). # AllowNonLocalModInDev EndSection # ** # Input devices # ** # ** # Keyboard section # ** Section Keyboard ProtocolStandard # when using XQUEUE, comment out the above line, and uncomment the # following line #Protocol Xqueue AutoRepeat 500 5 # Let the server do the NumLock processing. This should only be required # when using pre-R6 clients #ServerNumLock # Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1)) #Xleds 1 2 3 # To set the LeftAlt to Meta, RightAlt key to ModeShift, # RightCtl key to Compose, and ScrollLock key to ModeLock: #LeftAlt Meta #RightAltModeShift #RightCtlCompose #ScrollLock ModeLock # To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable. XkbDisable # To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the # lines below (which are the defaults). For example, for a non-U.S. # keyboard, you will probably want to use: #XkbModelpc102 # If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use: #XkbModelmicrosoft # # Then to change the language, change the Layout setting. # For example, a
Netscape and bpp changes
I installed Netscape while running X at 32 bpp. Now, when I change to 24 bpp by altering /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers and restarting xdm, Netscape has problems. Opening pages with Java in them makes Netscape crash with a bus error. Also, the icons become monochromatic (sometimes black, sometimes red, etc. Can anyone sugggest a solution? Thanks, John Paul -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Cursors in X
When I edit files in X pressing the cursor keys outputs weird characters. How do I fix this?? Kechie -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: XF86Config
Abou Anber wrote: At the first point of starting Xwindows the Screen like Linux (Bebian ) Login Passward at first time it look big size and I change the resolution by cntl+ alt+ + the resolution become smaller again Cntl+ alt+ + the resolution become more smaller if I repeat again it will become more big. who can I fixed the resoltion of Xwindows at begining? Simply change the order of the resolutions in theses lines: Modes 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 -- The first (in this case 640x480) will be used at startup cu Florian Attenberger -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: subscription problem
On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Alain Toussaint wrote: i have originally subscribed to the digest list and now,i'm receiving the non-digest version,could someone point me how to correct that ?? Me too. -- Until we extend the circle of our compassion to all living things, we will not ourselves find peace -Albert Schweitzer Richard G. Roberto -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
X at higher resolutions, and embedding lower resolutions
How do you enable X to run at say 16 bpp? I know you can tell X to run at 16bpp by running X as: X -bpp 16 But how do you make sure that everytime I log on it goes to this resolution automatically? Also, I have some applications which run only in 8bpp mode, and I HATE having to restart X each time I need to run these apps. Is there a way I can run my default X session in 16 bpp, but still run these 8bpp apps? thanx... -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Free TrueType Fonts?
Hi, Does anybody know where can I find free (Debian Free, not just $0) TrueType fonts? It's for an upcoming Debian package... Marcelo -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: X at higher resolutions, and embedding lower resolutions
edit /etc/X11/XF86zConfig (on a hamm system) or /etc/XF86Config (on a bo system) and add the following line in the Screen section (the sae section that lists which monitor, vid card, and resolutions and server all in one) DefaultColorDepth 16 it really does helpI can't stand 8 bit color I love running X in 1024x768 32bpp :) -Steve Maximiano C. Francisco III wrote: How do you enable X to run at say 16 bpp? I know you can tell X to run at 16bpp by running X as: X -bpp 16 But how do you make sure that everytime I log on it goes to this resolution automatically? Also, I have some applications which run only in 8bpp mode, and I HATE having to restart X each time I need to run these apps. Is there a way I can run my default X session in 16 bpp, but still run these 8bpp apps? thanx... -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: X at higher resolutions, and embedding lower resolutions
When using xdm, put a line in /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers like my last line: # $XConsortium: Xserv.ws.cpp,v 1.3 93/09/28 14:30:30 gildea Exp $ # # Xservers file, workstation prototype # # This file should contain entries to start the servers on the # local machine; # X servers are automatically added to this file by the Debian # xbase and xserver configuration scripts. :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X -bpp 16 This will always run xdm with 16 bits. I don't know how to run lower depth only apps at a higher depth. John Paul -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: XF86Config
Abou Anber wrote: At the first point of starting Xwindows the Screen like Linux (Bebian ) Login Passward at first time it look big size and I change the resolution by cntl+ alt+ + the resolution become smaller again Cntl+ alt+ + the resolution become more smaller if I repeat again it will become more big. who can I fixed the resoltion of Xwindows at begining? down you will find my XF86Config. This is the section that you have to change: # ** # Graphics device section # ** # Any number of graphics device sections may be present # Standard VGA Device: Section Device Identifier Generic VGA VendorName Unknown BoardName Unknown Chipset generic #VideoRam 256 #Clocks 25.2 28.3 EndSection # Sample Device for accelerated server: # Section Device #Identifier Actix GE32+ 2MB #VendorName Actix #BoardName GE32+ #Ramdac ATT20C490 #Dacspeed 110 #Option dac_8_bit #Clocks 25.0 28.0 40.0 0.0 50.0 77.0 36.0 45.0 #Clocks 130.0 120.0 80.0 31.0 110.0 65.0 75.0 94.0 # EndSection # Sample Device for Hercules mono card: # Section Device #Identifier Hercules mono # EndSection # Device configured by xf86config: Section Device Identifier STB Velocity 128 VendorName STB BoardName Velocity 128 #VideoRam4096 # Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate EndSection # ** # Screen sections # ** # The Colour SVGA server Section Screen Driver svga # Use Device Generic VGA for Standard VGA 320x200x256 #Device Generic VGA Device STB Velocity 128 Monitor Gateway 2000 Subsection Display Depth 8 # Omit the Modes line for the Generic VGA device Modes 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 ViewPort0 0 Virtual 1024 768 # Use Virtual 320 200 for Generic VGA EndSubsection Subsection Display Depth 16 Modes 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 ViewPort0 0 EndSubsection Subsection Display Depth 24 Modes 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 ViewPort0 0 EndSubsection Subsection Display Depth 32 Modes 640x480 800x600 1024x768 ViewPort0 0 EndSubsection EndSection # The 16-color VGA server Section Screen Driver vga16 Device Generic VGA Monitor Gateway 2000 Subsection Display Modes 640x480 800x600 ViewPort0 0 Virtual 800 600 EndSubsection EndSection # The Mono server Section Screen Driver vga2 Device Generic VGA Monitor Gateway 2000 Subsection Display Modes 640x480 800x600 ViewPort0 0 Virtual 800 600 EndSubsection EndSection # The accelerated servers (S3, Mach32, Mach8, 8514, P9000, AGX, W32, Mach64) Section Screen Driver accel Device STB Velocity 128 Monitor Gateway 2000 Subsection Display Depth 8 Modes 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 ViewPort0 0 EndSubsection Subsection Display Depth 16 Modes 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 ViewPort0 0 EndSubsection Subsection Display Depth 24 Modes 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 ViewPort0 0 EndSubsection Subsection Display Depth 32 Modes 640x480 800x600 1024x768 ViewPort0 0 EndSubsection EndSection = Hi all, In reviewing your XF86Config file I wonder what you are asking. What is the default resolution that you desire to set your screen to? On my system, I have made the default to be 1024x768 with a virtual screen of 1152 x 900 pixels. When you press Ctrl Alt + keys the X Window System will cycle through the various modes and eventualy recycle back to the beginning. If you want a higher resolution as the default for your system change the section: Section Screen Driver svga # Use Device Generic VGA for Standard VGA 320x200x256 #Device Generic VGA Device STB Velocity 128 Monitor Gateway 2000 Subsection Display Depth 8 # Omit the Modes line for the Generic VGA device Modes 640x480
Re: subscription problem
Richard G. Roberto wrote: On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Alain Toussaint wrote: i have originally subscribed to the digest list and now,i'm receiving the non-digest version,could someone point me how to correct that ?? Me too. Me three. -- SEGV NT 6 is out and its name is Linux: http://www.cgocable.net/~mlepage/ http://www.debian.org/ -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RE: possible network attack question
It is possible that you have a problem with a network card on the same segment that your machine is on (It could be the card in your machine too.) You really need to do an ethernet sniff to find out if the giant frames are all from the same ethernet address or if they are from different addresses. If they are all the same address replace the card with that address. If they are from different hardware addresses try replacing the card in your machine. If that doesn't sole the problem you need to look deeper into the network - cables, hubs, routers. Since you indicated the errors are increasing in frequency I suspect a bad network card will be found somewhere on your network (if it hasn't failed totally by now). While it may be considered normal by some people to receive giant ethernet packets, it is usually a sign of a problem somewhere. The only reason I can see someone saying it is normal is that it does not occur with enough frequency to justify spending time to track the problem down. Good luck, Pat Ouellette Assistant Computer Engineer Engineering College Computing The University of Toledo Toledo, Ohio 43606 USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- From: G. Kapetanios Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 1998 5:23 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject:possible network attack question Hi, In the last few weeks I have been receiving the following message in syslog with increasing frequency Mar 10 22:19:46 garfield kernel: eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers, status 7fffceff! I have been told that this is normal and should not worry me. However, as the frequency has increased dramatically, I was wondering aboutwhat it actually is and secondly whether it could be some sort of attack from the net. I have the iplogger package and it reports nothing suspicious. Could it be something that iplogger is not designed to notice ? Any help would be appreacited as this is really buffling me Thanks George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: CNAME records (was: Re: dynamic DNS within a non-dynamic domain)
On 9 Mar 1998, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: : Note that AFAIK all SMTP mailers (well, sendmail at least) will rewrite the : addresses in the mail headers. That includes rewriting a CNAME pointer to : the canonical name it points to. : So even if you send out mail with the CNAME in the From: header field, : the recipient mailer will rewrite it.. no way around it. Well I get Remco Blaakmeer's mail as being From: .. [EMAIL PROTECTED]. So it's going from his Smail system, to debian.org's Qmail and my ZMailer. And none of them change the address. Sendmail indeed does, but there are quite a few other MTA's out there, and at least these three tend not to do it allways. : The correct way to solve this is to not use CNAMEs but to just set : up an extra A + MX record. Or perhaps just an MX record if all you're : using it for is mail. Ack. bye, Remco -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: smail (again..... sheesh..)
On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Soenke Lange wrote: : No, I'm just telling them that the mail originated in my isp's domain. : The HELO supposedly tells them who I am. : : Yes! ... HELO/EHLO your.domain.org : then smail (with some switches on) will test if the name and the IP# of the : originating host correspond, else smail will not accept mail from this : host. Other MTA will differ .. but with this method most spams will not find : the way to you... : Still there are lots of misconfigured Mail server, but if more and more : people using smail or some other strong spam protection, they will convert : there configs (imho). Well, OK, you might call them misconfigured. But read this quote from rfc1985: [...] there is no documented stipulation for checking the authenticity of the remote host name, as given in the HELO or EHLO command. I cannot find any pointers in more or less official documents stateing that HELO/EHLO *should* be followed by the same argument as the reverse DNS-lookup tells. Do you agree? So why should Smail block any mail coming from mailhosts not correctly announcing their hostname in the smtp-greeting ? Certainly, a lot of spam could be blocked this way, but on the other hand, lots of 'legal' mail get lost too :( bye, Remco -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: X at higher resolutions, and embedding lower resolutions
Maximiano C. Francisco III [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How do you enable X to run at say 16 bpp? I know you can tell X to run at 16bpp by running X as: X -bpp 16 But how do you make sure that everytime I log on it goes to this resolution automatically? Also, I have some applications which run only in 8bpp mode, and I HATE having to restart X each time I need to run these apps. Is there a way I can run my default X session in 16 bpp, but still run these 8bpp apps? thanx... Well, you can set the default color depth in XF86Config as someone else mentioned. As for running certain apps at different resolutions, I don't believe that's possible; however, it is possible to run two X servers at once (on different virtual consoles), each with a different number of bits per pixel. (you can then switch between the two with Ctrl-Alt-F?, where ? is usually 7 or 8) If you're using startx, and start up one server with: startx -- -bpp 16 # Or just with startx if you've made 16bpp default You can start up another with: startx -- :1 -bpp 8 Then, the 16bpp server will start on (probably) VT7, and the 8bpp one will then start on VT8. One thing to watch is that you need to run startx from a text console, not an xterm. (Unless in /etc/X11/Xserver you've said that anybody can start up X). If you use xdm, you can change the last few lines of /etc/X11/Xservers to be: :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X -bpp 16 vt07 :1 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X -bpp 8 vt08 In xdm you need to specify explicitly the virtual terminal the server starts on because xdm will start both servers at once, and they'll end up fighting over the first available terminal. Once you've started both servers, you can switch from one to the other as easily as you can change text consoles. Not quite what you wanted, but workable. -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Smail/Sendmail Question
Hi! mfrattola localhost mail deliver locally don't rewrite header mfrattola LAN mail deliver thru eth0 don't rewrite header mfrattola internet mail deliver thru ppp0 rewrite header This is possible by a) defining mailers, and modifying sendmail.cf to add a inexpensive smtp mailer (copy the smtp mailers and call them lsmtp et akk b) look at ruleset 1 and prevent rewrites for the LAN, while allowing rewrites for external addresses I wrote such m4s. I don't think they're perfect, but they work !-) I offer to share em. shall I send em to the list? Regards Rainer --- KeyID=58341901 fingerprint=A5 57 04 B3 69 88 A1 FB 78 1D B5 64 E0 BF 72 EB -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Ensoniq sound problems
Mine works great. I have PNP-aware BIOS which initializes the card so I simply looked at what the settings ended up to be in Win95 and used these. Ossama Othman wrote: Hi, Has anyone ever been able to configure their Ensoniq Soundscape (yes, it is fairly old) card to work on Linux? I can't seem to get anything out of my sound card. Basically I've been trying to use isapnp to initialize my card, otherwise I would have to initialize it from DOS (ugh). Here is my /etc/isapnp.conf file: (ISOLATE) (IDENTIFY *) (CONFIGURE ENS3081/ (LD 0 (IO 0 (BASE 0x330)) (INT 0 (IRQ 9 (MODE +E))) (ACT Y))) I removed my cards serial number from the above for this e-mail. In addition, I compiled the Ensoniq Soundscape module with the same settings. Normally I get some sort of clicking from my spreakers when my sound card is initialized from DOS but I get no such response when initializing in Linux. Do I need MPU401, too? -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
strange msg got when running dselect
I was trying to install rsync trough dselect, and I got this one Unpacking rsync (from .../net/rsync_1.6.2-1.deb) ... dl_boot: mmap of /dev/zero failed! dpkg-deb: subprocess gzip -dc returned error exit status 13 dpkg: error processing debian/stable/binary-i386/net/rsync_1.6.2-1.deb (--install): subprocess dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile returned error exit status 2 I'm really wondering what it means. Nicolas -- mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (32-2) 333 55 55 Fax: (32-2) 333 55 56 personal mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] personal fax: (32-2) 502 76 41 -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Pine From: address
You can change headers in pine configuration menu start pine go to setup, configure. After that find (using W) customized-hdrs You can set any header you want for example From: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and so on... Hope this helps ZORO On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Jonas Bofjall wrote: I am using pine (from the debian distribution), and I would like to know how to set the return address (instead of the standard You have to recompile perl and enable the ALLOW_CHANGING_FROM #define. Its all in the docs. Download the source from www.washington.edu/pine. It'd be great if Debian's pine was compiled with this. You still have to add 'From' to the user-changeable fields in pine's setup, so a 'From' dialog does not show up unless you want to. IMHO its safe enough. // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37] -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: X at higher resolutions, and embedding lower resolutions
I heard that XFree86 3.3.2 has default color depth options during setup. Carroll Kong On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Stephen Carpenter wrote: edit /etc/X11/XF86zConfig (on a hamm system) or /etc/XF86Config (on a bo system) and add the following line in the Screen section (the sae section that lists which monitor, vid card, and resolutions and server all in one) DefaultColorDepth 16 it really does helpI can't stand 8 bit color I love running X in 1024x768 32bpp :) -Steve Maximiano C. Francisco III wrote: How do you enable X to run at say 16 bpp? I know you can tell X to run at 16bpp by running X as: X -bpp 16 But how do you make sure that everytime I log on it goes to this resolution automatically? Also, I have some applications which run only in 8bpp mode, and I HATE having to restart X each time I need to run these apps. Is there a way I can run my default X session in 16 bpp, but still run these 8bpp apps? thanx... -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: tape backup regiment
If you want to do a full backup each night the cron job is a snap, just 'dump 0f /dev/tape-device'. As to the restore disk this is something I've wanted to set up for a while. I haven't made it a priority though because I know I can restore by hand. This shouldn't be too hard though: there's a package which creates the boot disk and the main thing you need to do is get 'restore' on the boot disk. Alternatively, you could use tar. Things get more complicated when you consider that if there's a disk crash you'll have to handle the partitioning a file system creation. This would take some pretty fancy logic. Ultimately this is probably not something which can be done perfectly. I think your best bet is to put all the utilities onto the boot disk and assume you'll have to walk the customer through a restore. Better yet, perhaps you could get a boot disk set up which would run a getty and allow you to log in over a modem and do the restore yourself, simply telling the customer when to swap in tapes? Rob Goodwin wrote: I would like to set up a fail-safe backup system for a linux box that i am putting together for a client of mine. Ideally the client will just have to make sure there is a new tape in there every other day and a cron will take care of backing up the entire 2G drive to tape sometime when everyone else is sleeping. In the event of a drive crash I would like to have some kind of a boot disk handy such that once the drive is replaced they can run a script to fdisk/format/restore from tape. Has anyone heard of or done something like this? how? any suggestions on tape hardware? thanks, rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
PPP Configuration: Getting Hooked Up to my ISP
HELP: Configuring PPP on a Basic Debian Linux 1.3.1 System - ABSTRACT: The simplest of cnfigurations, a standalone Linux system with an external modem going across a regular phone line to a well-behaved ISP cannot get dial-up capability. Hdw: Pentium 133MHz system (w/ Cyrix 686-type CPU) Logicode External 56K modem on /dev/cua1 (COM2) (mouse on 1st serial port /dev/ttyS0 (COM1), no other serial devices on (COM3 or COM4)) Normal config: Adaptec SCSI adapter, SCSI drives, SOHO Ethernet card, S3/Verge generic graphics card, ... Sw: OS: Debian 1.3.1 (secondary os, Windows 95 for connectivity) Services: JPS Net (dial-in Internet Service Provider) attributes: 56K modem support with X2 or 56flex enforces PAP (Password Authentication Protocol) well documented technical settings on their webpage such as DNS numbers, dial-in numbers, etc Problem: Cannot get pppd(8) configured correctly. The physical connection works fine. Steps: 1. Verified kernel support for ppp 2. Matched device /etc/cua1 with the correct serial port. 3. Verified physical connection between modem and serial port. 4. Used Kermit to manually test the connection (The document PPP-HOWTO is very good about successfully passing through each step successfully. Unfortunately, it is heavily biased towards BSD style Linuxes; Debian happens to be ATT Sys5 style.) Here is where I start to break down. I experimented with ezPPP, the PPP-HOWTO and help from archived individuals. I'm may be in a tangle with unnecessary config files or misconfigured files. CONFIGURATION FILES: -- /etc/ppp/options # /etc/ppp/options # # Prevent pppd from forking into the background #-detach debug /dev/ttyS1 # If you are using a STATIC IP number, edit the 0.0.0.0 part of the # following line to your static IP number. # 0.0.0.0: # # use the modem control lines 38400 -- I tried using 56800 but pppd didn't like that modem # use uucp style locks to ensure exclusive access to the serial device lock # use hardware flow control crtscts connect /etc/ppp/ppp-connect # create a default route for this connection in the routing table defaultroute # do NOT set up any escaped control sequences asyncmap 0 # use a maximum transmission packet size of 552 bytes # mtu 552 # use a maximum receive packet size of 552 bytes # mru 552 # # force pppd to use your ISP username as your 'host name' during the # authentication process # technically 'user' is bettern than 'name' but ppp understands both # and 'name' works for CHAP as well. # name fred -- my ISP username here # # If you need to force PAP or CHAP authentication on the server, # uncomment the appropriate one of the following lines. #+chap #+pap # # If you are using ENCRYPTED secrets in the /etc/ppp/pap-secrets # file, then uncomment the following line. #+papcrypt -- /etc/resolv.conf domain jps.net search jps.net nameserver 206.170.168.35 nameserver 208.25.63.252 -- /etc/ppp/pp-connect #!/bin/sh /usr/sbin/chat -v -t 60 -f /etc/ppp/ppp-chat -- /etc/ppp/ppp-chat ABORT BUSY ABORT NO CARRIER ATF\r OK ATD2C1\r OK ATD423-0023\r ogin: fred\r sword: mywilma\r -- /etc/ppp/pap-secrets # This is a pap-secrets file to be used with the AUTO_PPP function of mgetty # mgetty-0.99 is preconfigured to startup pppd with the login option which # will cause pppd to consult /etc/passwd after a user has passed this file # Dont be disturbed therfore by the fact that this file defines logins with # any password for users. /etc/passwd will catch passwd mismatches. # # This file should block ALL users that should not be able to do AUTO_PPP! # AUTO_PPP bypasses the usual login program so its necessary to list all # system userids with regular passwords here! # # ATTENTION: The definitions here can allow users to login without a # password if you dont use the login option of pppd! # The /etc/ppp/options file installed has the login option enabled # INBOUND connections # Every regular user can use PPP and has to use passwords from /etc/passwd * os # UserIDs that cannot use PPP at all. Check your /etc/passwd and add any # other accounts that should not be able to use pppd! #guest os * - master os * - #root os * - support os * - stats os * - # OUTBOUND connections # Here you should add your userid password to connect to your providers via # pap. The * means that the password is to be used for ANY host you connect # to. Thus you do not have to worry about the foreign machine name. Just # replace password with your password. # If you have different providers with different passwords then you better # remove the following line. os * password fred* mywilma
Re: My laptop keeps crashing
Have you tried disabling APM? This kills me every time on my GW Solo 2100. I have to disable it during booting otherwise the machine will crash. You may be able to compile support into the kernel which would be the preferable solution. This doesn't work for me because apparently the BIOS implementation does something it isn't supposed to. Charles Blair wrote: I have installed debian on an IBM Thinkpad (model 310ED--- this seems to be a little-used model, I'm beginning to understand why). I used the CD's that came with Dale Scheetz's DEBIAN LINUX USER'S GUIDE. Most of the system worked as I expected. However, I have recently been experiencing crashes, screens going black, and other strange behavior. The most recent crash came while I was using emacs (not from X). Suddenly the screen filled with a bunch of stuff I don't understand. I hope somebody can explain what the excerpts below might mean, and what I should do about it. (pid: 1 process nr: 1 stackpage = 002ad000 ) Unable to handle kernel paging request at (bunch of zeroes) current - tss.cr3 = 00c5000 %cr3 = 00cc5000 (then the word STACK followed by a bunch of 8-digit numbers) kpde = 0 Oops: 0003 CPU: 0 EIP: 0010 [ 0010a31b ] EEFLAGS: 00010246 (bunch more junk) Process init (pid: 178, process nr: 4, stackpage 00fab00) The machine was printing, every 30 seconds or so polling: [EMAIL PROTECTED] when I turned it off. I think lp0 refers to the parallel port, but I don't have a printer or anything else attached there. I have been experiencing difficulty using kermit and trying to get X to work, but neither of these had been tried during the session involving the most recent crash, so I suspect the problem may be elsewhere. Thanks very much for any help. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Pine From: address
On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Jonas Bofjall wrote: You have to recompile perl and enable the ALLOW_CHANGING_FROM #define. pine (typo) Its all in the docs. Download the source from www.washington.edu/pine. Or, better, ftp://Debian mirror/debian/non-free/source/pine_* It'd be great if Debian's pine was compiled with this. It is. You'll see the change about 30% of the way down pine_3.96L-2.diff in the Debian source files. Unfortunately, you'll also find -DDEBUG deleted at about the 40% mark. It's worth recompiling just to restore that feature. You still have to add 'From' to the user-changeable fields in pine's setup, so a 'From' dialog does not show up unless you want to. IMHO its safe enough. Cheers, -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +44 1908 653 739 fax: +44 1908 655 151 -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: How do you e2defrag?
On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Mark Phillips wrote: /dev/hda1: 37745/208896 files (6.0% non-contiguous), 733081/833584 blocks Does this mean that 6 percent of the files are fragmented, or that 6 percent of my total disk space is fragmented? I presume this means my disk is not too bad? I don't know the answer to the first queston, but I suppose that 6% non-continuous refers to the files. The answer to the second question is yes :-) See ya, Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] That's Internet! -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Apache modules and Debian
On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Robert Joyal wrote: gcc -shared -I/usr/include/apache -I/usr/include/postgresql -o mod_auth_pg95.so mod_auth_pg95.c -L/usr/lib/postgresql/lib -lpgsql but ld could not find lpgsql. I then tried compiling with -lpq and the mod_auth_pg95.so file was created, Sorry, my mistake, it is -lpq indeed :) but would not load into the server using LoadModule. I recieved this message: Error loading /usr/lib/apache/modules/mod_auth_pg95.so: File not found. Syntax error on line 89 of /etc/apache/httpd.conf: Cannot load /usr/lib/apache/modules/mod_auth_pg95.so: File not found. The above paths reflect those on my debian system, and I did check the module name in the source. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated, and I'll gladly return the favor if I ever rise out of the newbie quagmire. Hmm... you are using apache1.3, right ? And are you sure that /usr/lib/apache/modules/mod_auth_pg95.so is there ? And you have LoadModule module_name filename in your httpd.conf, not the other way round? Greg -- Madarasz Gergely [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's practically impossible to look at a penguin and feel angry. Egy pingvinre gyakorlatilag lehetetlen haragosan nezni. HuLUG: http://www.cab.u-szeged.hu/local/linux/ -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Old curses month program under hamm?
Does anyone use the old curses-based month calendar program (last version was 8.7, I think) posted years ago to comp.sources.unix? I successfully compiled and ran it using the -traditional gcc flag under bo, but since upgrading to hamm the program is occasionally crashing, and now I can't get the source code to compile without errors. (I'm not much of a C programmer.) (Any pointers to strategies for tweaking old traditional C source code to Gnu-compatible would also be helpful.) -- David Sewell * [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Hidden harmony is Dep't of Geosciences, Univ. of Arizona | better than manifest. WWW: http://packrat.aml.arizona.edu/~dsew/| --Heraclitus -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: APM HD Powerdown
Use the hdparm package, which can instruct your drive to spin itself down at a specified timeout (if the drive supports it). Jonas Bofjall wrote: I would like my IDE disks (I'd very much appciate a general solution too which can be used on SCSI systems) to spin down when unmounted. Mounting them would cause them to spin up again. Is this possible and how? thanks // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37] -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
smail error
Hi, I getting the following error when sending e-mail, mainly if not using pine: |- Message log follows: -| Xfail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] reason: (ERR144) transport uux: child returned status EX_OSFILE (72) |- Failed addresses follow: -| [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... transport uux: child returned status EX_OSFILE (72) |- Message text follows: | Can somebody help me, please? 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 -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
mirrors
Hi, Is it possible to use non-standard mirrors with dselect-ftp method? Is possible, how? The mirors in my country has no stable directory, binary-all/ binary-i386/ ... are in /debian/ and dselect complains that there is no stable directory. Thanks, Deniz Dogan -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Avatar Shark
Hi - I've been looking into getting some external storage for my Thinkpad 560 and I was wondering if there are Linux drivers available for the PCMCIA version of the drive (I know there's parallel port support). Additionally, does anyone have opinions about this drive or others like it? I'm interested in it mainly because it seems much smaller/lighter and more durable than its competitors. Thanks, - Justin -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RE: possible network attack question
George, [humor mode on] To do a network sniff one must procure a very long piece of network cable. Using you left hand raise the cable to your face just below you nose (about mustache height). Now inhale with extreme vigor. [humor mode off] The only product I've ever user for sniffing is from a company called Network General. The product is named Sniffer. If has a bunch of features to view packets (and capture them) off the network without anyone knowing. A really neat product for computer / network engineers - almost a must have. You can accomplish your goal by finding a package that detects the error and can display the devices physical network address (MAC address in networking terms). I haven't looked in Linux for such tools - maybe in the network utilities area (someone help me out here). Hopefully someone will come to the rescue with a package. I will look for a package and let you know when I find one. If you have a spare network card you can always try the low tech approach - replace the card in a machine and wait for about 2 or 3 times the normal error period. If the errors go away you can take the card out and shoot it. The problem with this approach is the time to replace the card, wait for the error and repeat the process until the problem is found. Pat -- From: G. Kapetanios Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 1998 11:32 AM To: Patrick Ouellette Subject:RE: possible network attack question Thanks very much for your help. One quick question (two). Is there a way to find out if my card has the problem apart from an ethrnet sniff?. SEcondly how do I go about doing the sniff ? sorry for the inconvenience , Thanks George -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
mirrors dselect ftp method
Hi, Is it possible to use non-standard mirrors with dselect-ftp method? Is possible, how? The mirors in my country has no stable directory, binary-all/ binary-i386/ ... are in /debian/ and dselect complains that there is no stable directory. Thanks, Deniz Dogan -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Getting NetBIOS Names
Kevin, Funny you should mention this. I looked at this problem--let me phrase it as 'how do I find the NetBIOS name of a machine give its IP'--and didn't get to the solution. However, here's what I found. The NetBT protocol for looking up names uses the same packet format as DNS, but uses different commands and of course uses a different port. The 'Status' command asks a node to report what 'names' it claims to have (which make be group names or node names). I wrote a piece of code to make this request but got stuck because machines wouldn't report their name unless I already knew it and stuck it in the right place in the protocol. Later, however, I discovered that NT and win95 has a program nbtstat.exe which is able to do this. Now all that remains is to sniff the packet and find out what's in there and then add this to my c++ code. If you'd like the code let me know. Kevin Traas wrote: I'm working on a custom PERL script here to do some reporting on Internet usage, etc. However, I'm running into a minor problem. I can monitor Internet usage by IP address; however, we're using DHCP here and IP addresses might change for the systems on my internal net. The other issue is that a report full of IP addresses isn't as easy to read as one that could have the NetBIOS names in their place. A real drastic solution I have to this is to use PERL to access the WINS database stored on my NT Server to map IP's and NetBIOS names, but I'm thinking that there's *got* to be an easier way. If you have any suggestions or clues or know of any docs, faqs, howtos that might help me out, please let me know. Much appreciated. Kevin Traas -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Smail/Sendmail Question
Hi! mfrattola localhost mail deliver locally don't rewrite header mfrattola LAN mail deliver thru eth0 don't rewrite header mfrattola internet mail deliver thru ppp0 rewrite header This is possible by a) defining mailers, and modifying sendmail.cf to add a inexpensive smtp mailer (copy the smtp mailers and call them lsmtp et akk b) look at ruleset 1 and prevent rewrites for the LAN, while allowing rewrites for external addresses I wrote such m4s. I don't think they're perfect, but they work !-) I offer to share em. shall I send em to the list? I would like them if possible, as this is exactly what I am still trying to get working 100%, you can always email them to me directly if you would prefer. Would Qmail be any better at doing this type of thing. Or how easy is it to translate sendmail m4 config file to smail or qmail configs. Regards Graham Regards Rainer --- KeyID=58341901 fingerprint=A5 57 04 B3 69 88 A1 FB 78 1D B5 64 E0 BF 72 EB -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: sendmail local delivery problem
You haven't provided enough information. When you say 'local mail' what does that mean? Please provide examples, including machine names, domain names, etc. M K Pai wrote: We are running a LAN. E-mail clients are Win95 Eudora. Mail Server is a Linux box running sendmail 8.8.8. We have a server in USA from where external mail is routed to our linux box. The problem is that even local mail is being routed to the USA server and then coming to the respective mailbox, whereas it should be delivered locally instead of going to the USA server. Please help. Thank you in advance. M. K. Pai [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rajesh Mittal [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Mon
I'm playing with mon as a packaged alternative to nocol, and I have 2 questions: 1) Is df.pm debianized? 2) Is tcp_scan part of a debian package yet? Both of these are used by mon.. Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is? -- Frank Scully ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.** -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Free TrueType Fonts?
-K Kevin Poorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ewigin.home.ml.org Do the Free-Ride free-ride.home.ml.org On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: Hi, Does anybody know where can I find free (Debian Free, not just $0) TrueType fonts? It's for an upcoming Debian package... Actualy look on the microsoft web site they have some and links to some that are actuly public domain, Microsoft says there for web pages and so forth but they work great with gimp (Not shure you would want to package Microcrap stuff but oh well. Marcelo -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Windows 95 and Debian
Bruce Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can someone please tell me how to connect my newly loaded Linux machine to my small LAN in my apartment? I am running two Windows 95 machines as well. I believe I selected the IPX/SPX option when I set it up. Actually, if possible, can someone tell me how to map either drive system on to the other? It is easier to add tcp/ip support on your Win boxes. There´s a range of addresses (192.?.?.?) which you can choose for local installations, i.e. without official approvement for this addresses. Sorry, I don´t know them without digging in Howtos and RFC´s (Internet Standard Documentation). Using IPX? Using TCP/IP? Using samba. From the type of question (map drive from Win95 to a linux Linux drive) I deduce you are not very familiar with a unix OS. Please take the time to get a unix primer from your nearest library and read something about the file and directory philosophy of Unix. As these OSes are quite different you might want to learn what the difference is. Please do not take this as an offence if I´m wrong (English is not my first language). Thanks, Jens --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key ID: 2048/E451C639 Jens Ritter Key fingerprint: 5F 3D 43 1E 24 1E CC 48 1E 05 93 3A A7 10 73 37 -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Free TrueType Fonts?
On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Ender Wigin wrote: Does anybody know where can I find free (Debian Free, not just $0) TrueType fonts? It's for an upcoming Debian package... Actualy look on the microsoft web site they have some and links to some that are actuly public domain, Microsoft says there for web pages and so forth but they work great with gimp (Not shure you would want to package Microcrap stuff but oh well. Saw those. The license is... surprise, surprise... non DFSG complaint. Marcelo -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Recommend an ODBC-compliant database for Linux?
I currently have an application running on WinNT/MS SQL Server and I'd like to port it to Debian. NT has been a huge hassle. The app is essentially a daemon that receives diagnostic transactions on a point-of-sale network, processes them, and puts them in a database. It handles about 30-40 tps peak, but sits idle most of the time. The hardware it runs on is a P5-133 with 96MB of memory, a BusLogic BT-946C, and a Seagate Cheetah 9GB. End users access the data with Microsoft Access, via ODBC. I just evaluated Raima's Velocis Server 2.0. I'm sending it back because the ODBC driver is buggy and SLOW. Common ODBC operations take 10-20 times as long as SQL server takes. Does anyone have experience with anything else? I.e., Empress, others? What's out there? I really need some ideas. Thanks, Jeff -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: XF86Config
When Abou Anber wrote, I replied: Arrange your Modeline lines in the order you prefer: Modeline 800x600 801280 1296 1512 1568 1024 1025 1037 1165 Interlace Modeline 640x480 ... Modeline 1280x1024 ... or whatever - make the one you like best the first entry, the one you like next best after the first, etc. HTH snip = many thanks Abou Anber -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- - Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mary bought a pair of skates upon the ice to frisk now wasn't that a crazy way her sweet young *? -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: smail (again..... sheesh..)
On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Soenke Lange wrote: : Well, OK, you might call them misconfigured. But read this quote from : rfc1985: [...] there is no documented stipulation for checking the : authenticity of the remote host name, as given in the HELO or EHLO command. : : I cannot find any pointers in more or less official documents stateing that : HELO/EHLO *should* be followed by the same argument as the reverse : DNS-lookup tells. Do you agree? : : So why should Smail block any mail coming from mailhosts not correctly : announcing their hostname in the smtp-greeting ? Certainly, a lot of spam : could be blocked this way, but on the other hand, lots of 'legal' mail get : lost too :( : Ok .. your right .. but why cant the mailer announced his legal name ... Maybe not every MTA has options to turn it on; it's possible the `/bin/hostname' (possibly lots of MTA's depend on that name) gives another hostname as the reverse nameserverlookup does. : I'm still searching in the rfc .. there was something like : If you choose to not use the canonical name in HELO, you cannot insist that : mailers accept mails from you ... as I remember ... maybe it read something : different, but thats whats in the moment came in my mind. I had a look in the RFC database, but couldn't find anything. If you can find it, I'd like to hear :) : don't take me wrong ... : this feature is off by default in debian version of smail : Soenke OK, that's the way it should be IMHO. : ps as for debian .. smail should be as open as possible ... : but that's not the way the upstream version of smail will go :-( Maybe the authors of Smail can be convinced not to do thing not common on the Internet, which even might violate the RFC's? bye, Remco -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: installing debian problem
what is a image file? The meaning of an image file depends on the context. In the context of installing debian it means a file that is a bit by bit copy of another file. This is needed bacuase OSs tend to add headers and other signs for varuios files. For example, DOS will add the ^Z character to mark the end of a text file. in the inital boot medium, i use loadlin to boot install from a dos system. i used the command:- loadlin linux root=dev/ram initrd=root.bin but i got a error message of:- not a image file please enter name of kernel image file followed by optional commmand line parametersf for linux the linux file i got was from the debian ftp site. (normal linux file) A more usual syntax is /dev/ram insraed of dev/ram but it seems that dev/ram is working for you. As to the image file, I can't tell exactly. In this context it probably means that loadlin does not recognize your linux file to be one of the files and formats it expects. Try to see if the size of your linux file matches *exactly* the size of the file on the ftp site. also i'm using win95 also. if i install debian, can i keep it use it too? will it affect it in anyway. i have set aside a empty partition of 1 gb free for debian. is it enough? how do u create a swap partition? from the same partition? i spent 3 days working on this i still can't get it to work. The 1G partition is more then enough. You could keep your WIN95 and run either Linux or WIN95. The creation of the swap partition should be easy once you can boot into Linux and start the installation process. P.S do anyone of u know if red hat or debian can be bought in southeast asia(singapore)? I beleive that both Red Hat and Debian could be bought in syngapore. Try to look at their www home pages. In any case, one can always mail order them, should be less then $20, mostly for shipping. I hope it helps. -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Installing with LS-120 drive
It seems that I did not understand what is the problem. I thought you can't *start* the installation process because the machine has no normal floppy drive. Reading your reply made me thought that the problem is that the installation process does not run becuase the default kernel could not get loaded. Where this problem is due to the special floppy drive. Well, if I got it correctly this time then a possible solution might be to get the installation process to start using a custom kernel. Where the custom kernel will not look for the fd, because it was compiled without any fd support. In any case, I am thinking of ways to make /dev/hdb the root partition. Sorry it has taken me so long to get back to this... The big problem with the machine we are installing Debian on is the fact that it does not have a normal floppy drive. I have not looked into using the LS-120 as the root partition, but I will try it one of these days. Paul I have persuaded a co-worker to install Debian on his machine. However, he has a LS-120 drive (essentially a 120MB capacity floppy) and no normal floppy drive. I wrote a resc1440.bin (from hamm/main/disks-i386/current) for him since rawrite2 will not work (apparently) with these disk drives. The problem is when it comes to install the kernel and modules on the HDD, the system cannot mount the floppy drive. I am trying to install Debian on /dev/hdb (an IDE drive), and /dev/hda has a NT installation. Any ideas how to overcome this? Perhaps by copying resc1440.bin from this LS drive to the HD, toghether with loadlin; And running loadlin to boot into Linux ? -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
glibc2 (libc6) and an extended character set.
I heard that glibc2 (libc6) supports an extended character set. Is it correct ? Where (www.where) can I learn more about this support ? Thank you. -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Mon
On Wed, 11 Mar 1998 14:59:48 -0500 (EST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Sailer) said: 1) Is df.pm debianized? Nope, and it's my fault. I posted my intent to package it to debian-devel, found that the module has a copyright which accidentally prohibits anybody from distributing it at all, then forgot to contact the author about the copyright! I'll write him right now, I hope he gets back in time for me to get the package into hamm before the freeze. 2) Is tcp_scan part of a debian package yet? This is reputed to come with SATAN. I don't think there's a package of SATAN or of just tcp_scan available. I haven't looked into packaging it. The only monitors which require it are telnet.monitor and tcp.monitor, BTW. Alternately, one can probably use netcat to do what tcp_scan does, at least for the simple uses mon puts it to. I might find out what the those tcp_scan args to and supply nc-based variants. -- Roderick Schertler [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
dselect mystification (fwd)
This message didn't make it to the list first time so I'm trying again. Henry Hollenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm in the middle of upgrade from 1.3.1 to hamm upgrade and was trying to upgrade the packages in dists/unstable/main using dselect. I have already run the autoup.sh script. I am confused about where I am in dselect...some sort of package dependency issue and I can't seem to exit my keystroke cycle. %% dselect - recursive package listing mark:+/=/- verbose:... EIOM Pri Section PackageDescription *** Std devel libreadline2 lit up *** Opt libstk40 *** Opt oldlibs libreadline2 GNU readline and history libr libreadline2-dev installed; install (was: install). Standardlit-up libreadline2-dev depends on libreadline2 (= 2.1-2) interrelationships affecting libreadline2-dev %% Ok, I've tried the enter key and the + keydoesn't seem to like those, it just keeps cycling me thru help...any idea what I'm supposed to do at this point? Thanks Henry Hollenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
