Anonymous ftp times incorrect?

[Colin Telmer]

One of the machines I help maintain is running kernel 2.0.33 with 2 PII400
processors and an adaptec scsi card (debian machine with a bunch of RedHat
stuff installed on it - I can't control the owner:)). The machine
regularly crashes and I have been trying to help track down the problem
with no avail. The one strange thing that I have run across is the
anonymous ftp sessions seem to add EST to an EST clock. User ftps don't.
Does anyone have any idea why this is? Any help is gratefully appreciated.

Cheers, Colin.

--
Colin Telmer, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada



-- Forwarded message --
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 11:56:46 -0400
From: Chris Telmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Telmer, Colin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: clock

The only weird thing I still detect is that the anonymous
ftp server still stamps the wrong time on?

For instance (from /var/log/messages)



Aug 11 11:08:07 bertha ftpd[626]: FTP LOGIN FROM SAVAGE.WHARTON.UPENN.EDU 
[165.123.8.41], telmerc
Aug 11 11:13:31 bertha ftpd[626]: FTP session closed
Aug 11 11:16:16 bertha PAM_pwdb[693]: (su) session opened for user root by 
telmerc(uid=0)
Aug 11 15:23:06 bertha ftpd[744]: ANONYMOUS FTP LOGIN FROM zeppo.dresdnerkb.com 
[193.132.164.134], mozilla@
Aug 11 15:23:08 bertha ftpd[744]: FTP session closed
Aug 11 11:25:26 bertha PAM_pwdb[761]: (login) session opened for user yarona by 
(uid=0)
Aug 11 11:25:26 bertha PAM_pwdb[761]: LOGIN ON ttyp1 BY yarona FROM 
SAVAGE.WHARTON.UPENN.EDU
Aug 11 11:36:07 bertha PAM_pwdb[693]: (su) session closed for user root
Aug 11 11:37:00 bertha PAM_pwdb[861]: 1 authentication failure; 
telmerc(uid=20792) -> root for su service
Aug 11 11:37:03 bertha PAM_pwdb[862]: (su) session opened for user root by 
telmerc(uid=0)

===

Here, you can see me come in from SAVAGE at 11:08, which is correct, but not by 
anonymous ftp.  Some other guy, zeppo, comes in anonymously, and it dates it
in the future.   Same thing is recorded in /var/log/xferlog

===

Tue Aug 11 11:11:59 1998 1 SAVAGE.WHARTON.UPENN.EDU 8287 
/home/yarona/Tknoannote/welfeff1NA.m b _ o r telmerc ftp 0 *
Tue Aug 11 11:11:59 1998 1 SAVAGE.WHARTON.UPENN.EDU 4409 
/home/yarona/Tknoannote/welfeff2.m b _ o r telmerc ftp 0 *
Tue Aug 11 15:23:08 1998 1 zeppo.dresdnerkb.com 68096 /dist/web/fx98.xls b _ o 
a mozilla@ ftp 0 *
Tue Aug 11 15:51:22 1998 1 bertha.gsia.cmu.edu 141954 /dist/web/pp11_98.ps b _ 
o a mozilla@ ftp 0 *

==

Here, you can see that I grabbed a file (the last entry) via anonymous ftp (in 
/var/log/messages this is
confirmed), which also got stamped 4 hours in the future?

...CT

Re: Nuking damned scrambled consoles.

[Liran Zvibel]

On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Christopher Barry wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Every now and then I do a little goof-up that scrambles a virtual
> console and I'm sure we all do sometimes but lately I've been doing a
> little programming and if I accidentally gib a string argument then it
> corrupts the console every single time so I quickly run out of all 6
> consoles and am forced to reboot.
> 
> Now, there has GOT to be a way to recover a scrambled console, right?

Right. Try typing reset.

Liran.
---
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Re: checking 8 bit clean on ppp

[Martin Bialasinski]

>> "RH" == Richard E Hawkins Esq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

RH> I almost have this laptop connected by ppp to the debian machine on my 
RH> desk, but not quite.

[...]

RH> It now has a serial connection, and the host machine knows that 
RH> it's logged in [i checked :) ]

RH> Aug 11 15:26:39 hawkins pppd[775]: Using interface ppp0
RH> Aug 11 15:26:39 hawkins pppd[775]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS1
RH> Aug 11 15:26:39 hawkins pppd[775]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1  
 c 0x5557>  ]
RH> Aug 11 15:27:06 hawkins last message repeated 9 times
RH> Aug 11 15:27:09 hawkins pppd[775]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
RH> Aug 11 15:27:09 hawkins pppd[775]: Connection terminated.
RH> Aug 11 15:27:09 hawkins pppd[775]: Receive serial link is not 8-bit clean:
RH> Aug 11 15:27:09 hawkins pppd[775]: Problem: all had bit 7 set to 0
RH> Aug 11 15:27:10 hawkins pppd[775]: Exit.

RH> huh?  This is an 8 bit clean connection.  so how to i test it myself to 
RH> have something to show the telecommunications folks?  Or could my modem
RH> be sending 7 bits?  It's a compaq pcmia modem in an ibm thinkpad.

This message means something else.

You have logged into a terminal. Now chat exits and pppd starts. Then
it send LCP requests to establish a ppp connection. Since the is no
pppd running on the other side of the link, your side doesn't get an
answer.

You have to start pppd before exiting the chatscript.

Most likely you will have to specify some parameter. As I have never
done such a thing (only dial ins right into a waiting pppd, no
terminal login), I can only point you towards /usr/doc/ppp and man
pppd.

But you get the picture about the reason of this error I hope.

Maybe you would have to choose some other item from the menu? What
does the helpdesk about the procedure of dial in? They most likely
only know windows, but the menuchoices are the same regardless of the
OS.

Good luck,
Martin

-- 
from a 1996 Microshit ad campaign:
"The less you know about computers the more you want Micro$oft!"
  See! They do get some things right!

Re: Which Video Card?

[Keith]

[Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...]
> ah
> you use the mystiqe too?
> great, so there is support
> i have it set for vga
Are you running Debian? What version of Xwindows are you running? I am
running 6.3, I think. 
> which of course works... but i dont exactly like 320x240, 16 colors
> hm..
> i have a problem
> i want to get back into the setup for xwindows
> now, remember i am new and i don't know much about anything
> okay
> in the directory /usr/sbin...
> xbase-configure?

To use the Matrox Mystique you need to be running the SVGA server.
There is a site dedicated to setting up Matrox cards for Linux. I don;t
remember the url, just search for it on Infoseek. To configure xwindows
use XF86Config or for a text setup use xf86config. The xf86config is 
better sometimes because you can see exactly what you putting in for your
settings.

> well
> i run that and i get an error message, something to do with xserver, that
> does not allow me to go into setup!
> ah
> h
> 
> oh
> what exactly are all the packages to have xwindows to work?
> this is just a first time thing, so i am not dual booting on that machine,
> and there is nothing for the interent for any network
> i have used nt and have been able to set up a proxy on this, but eventually
> i will be dual booting here to be able to do it the linux way
>  how exactly should i get xwindwos to just work, and to work looking really
> cool like i have seen at various pages
> www.rasterman.com or something? that and some nice windows manager themes
> whatever
> oh that reminds me
> how does xwindows work?
> is it true that there are various guis available for it?
> i have seen some that supposedly look like windows 95
> what would be the coolest looking one
> where i can have 1024x768x65536, and some nice looking icons (i saw one
> where there are these eyes that follow you to the right of your screen)
>

I use AfterStep.
 
> k
> thanks for the help
> what is better, debian or slackware
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Keith Vance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Rick Smorawski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Debian User List
> 
> Date: Tuesday, August 11, 1998 5:36 PM
> Subject: Re: Which Video Card?
> 
> 
> >Rick Smorawski wrote:
> >>
> >> I am buying a new pc, and have the choice between 2 cards.
> >>
> >> 1. Real3d Starfighter i740 based video card w/ 8megs ram
> >> 3. and S3 based video card w/ 4megs ram.
> >>
> >> both are AGP
> >>
> >> I know there is currently no i740 server available.  My question is,
> >> should I go for the card w/ the more memory, or one that is already has
> >> x-server support?
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >> Rick
> >>
> >> --
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> /dev/null
> >I would get the S3 because S3 is well documented and a popular card for
> >Linux. Although I like my Matrox Mystique.
> >--
> >Thanks,
> >Keith
> >http://www.naples.net/~nfn11988/linux
> >Debian GNU/Linux
> >
> >
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> >
> 
> 
> 


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Thanks,
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Re: Debian at work

[Manoj Srivastava]

Hi,
>>"George" == George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

 George> I want to thank all of the developers for making 2.0 such a
 George> solid release.  It was a big job to convert to libc6 yet not
 George> break people's existing private libc5 development work.

 George> THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU. For a job well done.

No, thank YOU, and all the other folks sending in such
 encouragement. Mail like this is why I started working for the
 free software community. A few words of encouragement like this make
 it all worthwhile.

manoj
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 are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is
 generally understood.  Indeed, the world is ruled by little
 else. John Maynard Keyes
Manoj Srivastava  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
Key C7261095 fingerprint = CB D9 F4 12 68 07 E4 05  CC 2D 27 12 1D F5 E8 6E

Re: checking 8 bit clean on ppp

[Jens B. Jorgensen]

Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote:

> I almost have this laptop connected by ppp to the debian machine on my
> desk, but not quite.
>
> >From /var/log/ppp.log:
>
> Aug 11 15:26:30 hawkins chat[776]:  Iowa State University 
> Telecommun
> ications ENET server 9^M
> Aug 11 15:26:30 hawkins chat[776]: ^M
> Aug 11 15:26:30 hawkins chat[776]: ^M
> Aug 11 15:26:30 hawkins chat[776]:  1. Telnet host 11. 
> set 8
> -bit clean mode  ^M
> Aug 11 15:26:30 hawkins chat[776]: ^M
> Aug 11 15:26:30 hawkins chat[776]:  2. ISUA: Project Vincent access12. 
> unset
>  8-bit clean mode^M
> Aug 11 15:26:30 hawkins chat[776]: ^M
> Aug 11 15:26:30 hawkins chat[776]:  3. ISUM: Older Vincent MIPS
>^M
> Aug 11 15:26:30 hawkins chat[776]: ^M
> Aug 11 15:26:30 hawkins chat[776]:
>^M
> . [lots of these]
>
> Aug 11 15:26:30 hawkins chat[776]: 10. log out
>^M
> Aug 11 15:26:30 hawkins chat[776]: ^M
> Aug 11 15:26:30 hawkins chat[776]: Enter number of selection or use arrow 
> keys:
> Aug 11 15:26:30 hawkins chat[776]:  -- got it
> Aug 11 15:26:30 hawkins chat[776]: send (??)
> Aug 11 15:26:31 hawkins chat[776]: expect (continue...)
> Aug 11 15:26:31 hawkins chat[776]:  11^M
>
> This allegedly sent an "11", which is the command to set 8 bit clean
>
> Aug 11 15:26:31 hawkins chat[776]: press  to continue...
> Aug 11 15:26:31 hawkins chat[776]:  -- got it
> Aug 11 15:26:31 hawkins chat[776]: send (??)
> Aug 11 15:26:33 hawkins chat[776]: expect (keys:)
> Aug 11 15:26:33 hawkins chat[776]:  ^M
>
>[the menu again]
>
> Aug 11 15:26:33 hawkins chat[776]: Enter number of selection or use arrow 
> keys:
> Aug 11 15:26:33 hawkins chat[776]:  -- got it
> Aug 11 15:26:33 hawkins chat[776]: send (??)
> Aug 11 15:26:34 hawkins chat[776]: expect (host...)
> Aug 11 15:26:34 hawkins chat[776]:  1^M
>
>   [It now knows that I want a telnet host]
>
> Aug 11 15:26:34 hawkins chat[776]: Telnet host...
> Aug 11 15:26:34 hawkins chat[776]:  -- got it
> Aug 11 15:26:34 hawkins chat[776]: send (??)
> Aug 11 15:26:35 hawkins chat[776]: expect (ogin:)
> Aug 11 15:26:35 hawkins chat[776]:  eyry.econ^M
> Aug 11 15:26:36 hawkins chat[776]: Xyplex -010- ^GSession 1 to EYRY.ECON 
> establi
> shed^M
> Aug 11 15:26:36 hawkins chat[776]: Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 
> eyry.econ.iastate.edu^M
> Aug 11 15:26:36 hawkins chat[776]: ^M
> Aug 11 15:26:36 hawkins chat[776]: eyry login:
> Aug 11 15:26:36 hawkins chat[776]:  -- got it
>
> Aug 11 15:26:36 hawkins chat[776]: send (??)
> Aug 11 15:26:37 hawkins chat[776]: expect (ssword:)
> Aug 11 15:26:37 hawkins chat[776]:  hawkppp^M
> Aug 11 15:26:37 hawkins chat[776]: Password:
> Aug 11 15:26:37 hawkins chat[776]:  -- got it
> Aug 11 15:26:37 hawkins chat[776]: send (??)
> Aug 11 15:26:37 hawkins chat[776]: send (\d)
> Aug 11 15:26:38 hawkins pppd[775]: Serial connection established.
>
>It now has a serial connection, and the host machine knows that
>   it's logged in [i checked :) ]
>
> Aug 11 15:26:39 hawkins pppd[775]: Using interface ppp0
> Aug 11 15:26:39 hawkins pppd[775]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS1
> Aug 11 15:26:39 hawkins pppd[775]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1  
>  c 0x5557>  ]
> Aug 11 15:27:06 hawkins last message repeated 9 times
> Aug 11 15:27:09 hawkins pppd[775]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
> Aug 11 15:27:09 hawkins pppd[775]: Connection terminated.
> Aug 11 15:27:09 hawkins pppd[775]: Receive serial link is not 8-bit clean:
> Aug 11 15:27:09 hawkins pppd[775]: Problem: all had bit 7 set to 0
> Aug 11 15:27:10 hawkins pppd[775]: Exit.
>
>
> huh?  This is an 8 bit clean connection.  so how to i test it myself to
> have something to show the telecommunications folks?  Or could my modem
> be sending 7 bits?  It's a compaq pcmia modem in an ibm thinkpad.
>
> any help would be appreciated.

Most likely the problem is simply that ppp hasn't started--the shell is 
probably just
echoing back the LCP config requests. Try going through the chat procedure by 
hand and
see if you get PPP packets after you ultimately login to the Linux box.
--
Jens B. Jorgensen
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

checking 8 bit clean on ppp

[Richard E. Hawkins Esq.]

I almost have this laptop connected by ppp to the debian machine on my 
desk, but not quite.

>From /var/log/ppp.log:

Aug 11 15:26:30 hawkins chat[776]:  Iowa State University Telecommun
ications ENET server 9^M
Aug 11 15:26:30 hawkins chat[776]: ^M
Aug 11 15:26:30 hawkins chat[776]: ^M
Aug 11 15:26:30 hawkins chat[776]:  1. Telnet host 11. set 8
-bit clean mode  ^M
Aug 11 15:26:30 hawkins chat[776]: ^M
Aug 11 15:26:30 hawkins chat[776]:  2. ISUA: Project Vincent access12. unset
 8-bit clean mode^M
Aug 11 15:26:30 hawkins chat[776]: ^M
Aug 11 15:26:30 hawkins chat[776]:  3. ISUM: Older Vincent MIPS 
   ^M
Aug 11 15:26:30 hawkins chat[776]: ^M
Aug 11 15:26:30 hawkins chat[776]:  
   ^M
... [lots of these]

Aug 11 15:26:30 hawkins chat[776]: 10. log out  
   ^M
Aug 11 15:26:30 hawkins chat[776]: ^M
Aug 11 15:26:30 hawkins chat[776]: Enter number of selection or use arrow keys:
Aug 11 15:26:30 hawkins chat[776]:  -- got it 
Aug 11 15:26:30 hawkins chat[776]: send (??)
Aug 11 15:26:31 hawkins chat[776]: expect (continue...)
Aug 11 15:26:31 hawkins chat[776]:  11^M


This allegedly sent an "11", which is the command to set 8 bit clean

Aug 11 15:26:31 hawkins chat[776]: press  to continue...
Aug 11 15:26:31 hawkins chat[776]:  -- got it 
Aug 11 15:26:31 hawkins chat[776]: send (??)
Aug 11 15:26:33 hawkins chat[776]: expect (keys:)
Aug 11 15:26:33 hawkins chat[776]:  ^M

   [the menu again]

Aug 11 15:26:33 hawkins chat[776]: Enter number of selection or use arrow keys:
Aug 11 15:26:33 hawkins chat[776]:  -- got it 
Aug 11 15:26:33 hawkins chat[776]: send (??)
Aug 11 15:26:34 hawkins chat[776]: expect (host...)
Aug 11 15:26:34 hawkins chat[776]:  1^M

  [It now knows that I want a telnet host]

Aug 11 15:26:34 hawkins chat[776]: Telnet host...
Aug 11 15:26:34 hawkins chat[776]:  -- got it 
Aug 11 15:26:34 hawkins chat[776]: send (??)
Aug 11 15:26:35 hawkins chat[776]: expect (ogin:)
Aug 11 15:26:35 hawkins chat[776]:  eyry.econ^M
Aug 11 15:26:36 hawkins chat[776]: Xyplex -010- ^GSession 1 to EYRY.ECON establi
shed^M
Aug 11 15:26:36 hawkins chat[776]: Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 eyry.econ.iastate.edu^M
Aug 11 15:26:36 hawkins chat[776]: ^M
Aug 11 15:26:36 hawkins chat[776]: eyry login:
Aug 11 15:26:36 hawkins chat[776]:  -- got it 

Aug 11 15:26:36 hawkins chat[776]: send (??)
Aug 11 15:26:37 hawkins chat[776]: expect (ssword:)
Aug 11 15:26:37 hawkins chat[776]:  hawkppp^M
Aug 11 15:26:37 hawkins chat[776]: Password:
Aug 11 15:26:37 hawkins chat[776]:  -- got it 
Aug 11 15:26:37 hawkins chat[776]: send (??)
Aug 11 15:26:37 hawkins chat[776]: send (\d)
Aug 11 15:26:38 hawkins pppd[775]: Serial connection established.

   It now has a serial connection, and the host machine knows that 
  it's logged in [i checked :) ]

Aug 11 15:26:39 hawkins pppd[775]: Using interface ppp0
Aug 11 15:26:39 hawkins pppd[775]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS1
Aug 11 15:26:39 hawkins pppd[775]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1]
Aug 11 15:27:06 hawkins last message repeated 9 times
Aug 11 15:27:09 hawkins pppd[775]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
Aug 11 15:27:09 hawkins pppd[775]: Connection terminated.
Aug 11 15:27:09 hawkins pppd[775]: Receive serial link is not 8-bit clean:
Aug 11 15:27:09 hawkins pppd[775]: Problem: all had bit 7 set to 0
Aug 11 15:27:10 hawkins pppd[775]: Exit.

 
huh?  This is an 8 bit clean connection.  so how to i test it myself to 
have something to show the telecommunications folks?  Or could my modem
be sending 7 bits?  It's a compaq pcmia modem in an ibm thinkpad.

any help would be appreciated.

rick

dump and restore problems

[Lee Bradshaw]

Hi,

I'm trying to test dump and restore, and I've been having problems with
restore. I'm using a buslogin 930 controller and an HP DDS3 tape drive.
Here are some examples of my restore problems:

freefall ~ $ sudo restore -x -v -f /dev/st0 lee/wav.old/clint.wav
Verify tape and initialize maps
Tape block size is 1
Dump   date: Tue Aug 11 09:14:25 1998
Dumped from: the epoch
Level 0 dump of /home on freefall:/dev/sda5
Label: none
Extract directories from tape
Initialize symbol table.
bad name to addentry ./lee/wav.old
abort? [yn] y
dump core? [yn] n

but if I do an interactive restore I can see the file:

freefall ~ $ sudo restore -i -v -f /dev/st0
Verify tape and initialize maps
Tape block size is 1
Dump   date: Tue Aug 11 09:14:25 1998
Dumped from: the epoch
Level 0 dump of /home on freefall:/dev/sda5
Label: none
Extract directories from tape
Initialize symbol table.
restore > cd lee/wav.old
restore > ls clint.wav
309253 clint.wav
restore > add clint.wav
bad name to addentry ./lee/wav.old
abort? [yn] y
dump core? [yn] n

If I select the directory instead it works ok in the case:

freefall ~ $ sudo restore -i -v -f /dev/st0
Verify tape and initialize maps
Tape block size is 1
Dump   date: Tue Aug 11 09:14:25 1998
Dumped from: the epoch
Level 0 dump of /home on freefall:/dev/sda5
Label: none
Extract directories from tape
Initialize symbol table.
restore > cd lee
restore > add wav.old
tore > ls
./lee:
  4097  ./
 2  ../
  .
  .
  .
309249 *wav.old/
174081  work/

When I successfully extract the directory, the files have the correct
permissions but the directories are owned by root.

In other tests, selecting directories has failed with the bad name/abort
message. The software is beta, is anyone using it successfully? Would
anyone recommend BRU2000 or any of the other linux compatible commercial
backup programs.

-- 
Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred)
Alantro Communications   [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Nuking damned scrambled consoles.

[john]

Shaleh writes:
> Try typing the word "reset" -- yes it will come out looking like
> gibberish but type it anyway and hit return.  This USUALLY works.

In some cases you may need to type control-j instead of return.
-- 
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI

Re: new version of X giving problems

[Richard E. Hawkins Esq.]

Jens wrote,

> Did you check /var/log/xdm-errors? Sounds like what happens when my
> mouse isn't detected.


I just looked, and haven't found a mouse problem.  after a normal startup, it 
ran for a couple of hours, then suddenly stopped working and spewed the
following:  

Fatal server error:
Hung in ApmSync()


When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send
the full server output, not just the last messages

_X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
xdm error (pid 5295): Server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly: 1


additional attempts to launch yield:
Fatal server error:
Hung in ApmSync()



Due to the way xdm crashes (the blink-thing), i have to telnet in to kill xdm 
. . .

rick


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Re: nasty...

[Christopher Barry]

Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> 

[...]

> creating sd will create all the way up to sdp.

Yes, but it won't create past /dev/sd15. The last time I installed
Debian I had put 16 partitions on my brand new 9.1GB SCSI disk and then
found I only had sda devices numbered up to 15. I read the manpage for
/dev/MAKEDEV and found it pretty useless as well for this problem. They
really should tell you how to do things like this, or at least have a
more intuitive way (i.e. /dev/MAKEDEV /dev/sda16). Heh heh, some very
interesting things happen when you try cp on a disk device (after trying
everything else I tried copying sda15 to sda16 thinking it would just
copy the tiny little file... very strange what starts to happen).

Fortunately though it's not life-or-death that I have 16 partitions so I
was able to just cfdisk 1 away and move on.
 
> Hamish (about to play russian roulette by rebooting)
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Re: Which Video Card?

[Keith Vance]

Rick Smorawski wrote:
> 
> I am buying a new pc, and have the choice between 2 cards.
> 
> 1. Real3d Starfighter i740 based video card w/ 8megs ram
> 3. and S3 based video card w/ 4megs ram.
> 
> both are AGP
> 
> I know there is currently no i740 server available.  My question is,
> should I go for the card w/ the more memory, or one that is already has
> x-server support?
> 
> Thanks
> Rick
> 
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I would get the S3 because S3 is well documented and a popular card for
Linux. Although I like my Matrox Mystique.
-- 
Thanks,
Keith
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Debian GNU/Linux

Re: new version of X giving problems

[Jens B. Jorgensen]

Did you check /var/log/xdm-errors? Sounds like what happens when my mouse isn't
detected.

Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote:

> upon returning from vacation yesterday, I let the system upgrade itself to
> stable (from frozen).
>
> X immediately began causing problems.  Without the usual request for
> permission to stop X, the sreen went into the repeated-blink mode.
>
> I've had to stop the auto-start of xdm.  After a couple of hours, it
> spontaneously fails with an "agmphandler()  failed"or some such message (i'll
> write it down after it happens again).  After this, any subsequent attempt to
> use xdm or startx fails.
>
> any ideas?
> rick
>
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Re: HELP with Sound Card

[Marcus Brinkmann]

Hello,

On Tue, Aug 11, 1998 at 04:51:04PM +0530, XRDLAB wrote:
> I am currently running Debian bo and wanted to compile sound support.  
> 
> My sound card is Aztech Galaxy (claims to be compatible
> with SoundBlaster 16, non pnp).

Didn't you read the documentation? There is no SB 16 compatible card on the
market. Either you have an original SB, or you don't and the card ships with
crappy software drivers that try to achieve SB compatibility under DOS and
windows (well, there is an exception for 8 bit cards, so if you have one,
you may have luck).

So, you can't blindly activating options in the driver and hope that it
works.

Read the Sound-HOWTO and the Readmes under /usr/src/linux/driver/sound
carefully, be sure to have full name of your sound card at hand, and then
answer the config options very very carefully, following the various
documentations on another console.

Come back if you still encounter problems, ,but be sure to provide us with
more information about the type of your card (there are many Aztech Galaxy
cards),

Marcus


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Re: Xwrapper & Netscape problems

[servis]

*- Jeremiah Cornelius wrote about "Xwrapper & Netscape problems"
| 
| I just installed Debian 2.0 on my new Dual PentiumPro box.
| 
| IMHO, It's got some real plusses, and some definite minuses as cmpared
| to RH 5.x...
| 
| My real problem right now, is that X seems to have installed itself
| without Xwrapper, and only root can launch X!  I don't want to setuid
| the xserver, and I can't find a .deb for the wrapper.
| 

The binary /usr/bin/X11/X is a wrapper built by the debian team.  It
executes the X server, in my case XF86_S3, suid root and then returns
to user space.  This executable looks at the file /etc/X11/Xserver to
determine who can run X.  Look at that file and change accordingly.

% less /etc/X11/Xserver
/usr/bin/X11/XF86_S3
Console

The first line in this file is the full pathname of the default X server.
The second line shows who is allowed to run the X server:
RootOnly
Console  (anyone whose controlling tty is on the console)
Anybody


| Also, the Netscape .deb packages from contrib seem very broken. They
| will not install, complaining that original .tgz files must be named
| specifically, located in /tmp, and owned by root. I suppose I could
| get the originals from NS, but that sort of defeats the purpose of
| maintaining a package system.  
| 

This is how it is supposed to be you can install several different
versions of communicator with one deb package file.  Just put the tgz
communicator file in /tmp and make sure it is owned by root.root and
'dpkg -i netscape*'.  The installer will extract the tgz to a temp
directory and run the netscape installer and put all the files in the
correct place and keep track of it all.  If you want to remove it then
it removes all the files that netscape installed.  Very slick if you
ask me.



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RE: Xwrapper & Netscape problems

[Patrick Ouellette]

I'd try reinstalling X, then getting the Netscape installer
deb package (there used to be one, you have to grab netscape
off a Netscape site then install the .deb).

You can reinstall packages by having the .deb file available
(in the current working directory, or append the path to the
file name) then using dpkg -i .

My guess is you will need to reinstall xbase and your xserver.


Pat

Re: sendmail help please

[Adam Shand]

> thank you very much for trying to help out.  I must be really dumb, but
> your suggestions do not seem to work for me.  Here is the output of my
> sendmailconfig after I added the lines you suggest: 

 welcome to sendmail hell. 

> FEATURE(nodns) is no-op.

hmm, okay i haven't actually used this for a year or so... i checked my
old config files and this used to work, but i guess it doesn't anymore.

> Use ServiceSwitchFile (/etc/service.switch if your OS does not provide
> its own) instead. 

so i'd do this.  i noticed that in your nsswitch file you had a line like
this:

hosts:  files dns

you might need to change this to:

hosts:  files

because you never want it to try to use dns.  however since you really do
want it to do dns when you are connected to the net and have access to a
nameserver.  if you use the top version and make sure that your smarthost
is listed in your hosts file then you should be okay.  it's been a long
time since i set this up and i normally did it with uucp so you didn't
have to worry as much about this stuff.

one other point is that if you just list a smart host it probably will try
and deliver to that immediately.  there is a sendmail.mc option which will
make it automatically dump stuff into the queue, and then you can do
something like in your /etc/ppp/ip-up file:

/usr/sbin/sendmail -q

which will force the queue to be run as soon as your ppp connection comes
up.

> I might be doing some errors with back and forward single quotes ???

i'm pretty sure that's not an issue.

> I am appending my current sendmail.mc, my nsswitch.conf, my hosts and my
> resolv.conf

other then the things above, it mostly looked okay.  your .mc file was
very simple.  i've attached the one i use on my servers for you too look
at if you like... it's not at all the same situation but i thought it
might be useful or interesting.

one other thing is that i notice that you are using the nullclient option.
when you are using the nullclient macro i believe it disables a lot of the
other features.  i would suggest getting rid of the nullclient option and
using the smarthost option as well.

also as a general rule you should list all you the defines before you list
the FEATURE stuff.  the reason is that the defines sometimes modify
variables which the FEATURE's use.

adam.


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Re: Xwrapper & Netscape problems

[Mario Olimpio de Menezes]

On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Jeremiah Cornelius wrote:

> 
[...]
> 
> My real problem right now, is that X seems to have installed itself
> without Xwrapper, and only root can launch X!  I don't want to setuid
> the xserver, and I can't find a .deb for the wrapper.

did you install X with dselect or using dpkg?

> 
> Also, the Netscape .deb packages from contrib seem very broken. They
> will not install, complaining that original .tgz files must be named
> specifically, located in /tmp, and owned by root. I suppose I could
> get the originals from NS, but that sort of defeats the purpose of
> maintaining a package system.  

netscape binaries aren't included in the official Debian CD. This isn't a
bug, but a feature. You must get them from Netscape. The .deb is a
installer. It sets the proper location of libraries, environment
variables and allow the deinstalation in an easy way.

I just installed one new version of communicator today using this way; it
works very well.  Put the .tgz file in the /tmp directory, get the
installer (.deb) for your version (n3 ou n4) and go on.


[]s,
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IPEN-CNEN/SP   | is the Lord's purpose that prevails" Prov. 19.21
"Then you'll know the truth, and the truth will set you free" John 8.32
'Then you'll know the code, and the code will set you free' Linux

new version of X giving problems

[Richard E. Hawkins Esq.]

upon returning from vacation yesterday, I let the system upgrade itself to 
stable (from frozen).

X immediately began causing problems.  Without the usual request for 
permission to stop X, the sreen went into the repeated-blink mode.

I've had to stop the auto-start of xdm.  After a couple of hours, it 
spontaneously fails with an "agmphandler()  failed"or some such message (i'll 
write it down after it happens again).  After this, any subsequent attempt to 
use xdm or startx fails.

any ideas?
rick

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Re: Xwrapper & Netscape problems

[Stephen J. Carpenter]

On Tue, Aug 11, 1998 at 01:26:12PM -0700, Jeremiah Cornelius wrote:
> 
> I just installed Debian 2.0 on my new Dual PentiumPro box.
> 
> IMHO, It's got some real plusses, and some definite minuses as cmpared
> to RH 5.x...
> 
> My real problem right now, is that X seems to have installed itself
> without Xwrapper, and only root can launch X!  I don't want to setuid
> the xserver, and I can't find a .deb for the wrapper.

AFAIK there is no deb for "the wrapper" butmy system seems to use 
a wrapper script (my xserver isn't SUID) 

You installed xbase? and the proper xserver? what versions? is this from
2.0 or unstable?

> Also, the Netscape .deb packages from contrib seem very broken. They
> will not install, complaining that original .tgz files must be named
> specifically, located in /tmp, and owned by root. I suppose I could
> get the originals from NS, but that sort of defeats the purpose of
> maintaining a package system.  

The netscape .deb is an installer (we are not allowed to actually
put netscape into a package for install and distribute it)
you need to get the netscape originals and place them in /tmp
THEN use the netscape .deb to install...it will take the files
from /tmp and install it debian "properly"

> I used alien to convert RedHat's Netscape 4 .rpm's to .deb.  These
> installed with dpkg, but do not function.  

yea alien isn't perfect...there can be problems

-Steve

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Xwrapper & Netscape problems

[Jeremiah Cornelius]

I just installed Debian 2.0 on my new Dual PentiumPro box.

IMHO, It's got some real plusses, and some definite minuses as cmpared
to RH 5.x...

My real problem right now, is that X seems to have installed itself
without Xwrapper, and only root can launch X!  I don't want to setuid
the xserver, and I can't find a .deb for the wrapper.

Also, the Netscape .deb packages from contrib seem very broken. They
will not install, complaining that original .tgz files must be named
specifically, located in /tmp, and owned by root. I suppose I could
get the originals from NS, but that sort of defeats the purpose of
maintaining a package system.  

I used alien to convert RedHat's Netscape 4 .rpm's to .deb.  These
installed with dpkg, but do not function.  The executable exits,
reporting it will not allow execution as root (!).  Is this related to
missing Xwrapper?  I have su'd as a regular user (as non root cannot
launch X) and Netscape barfs, unable to copy files to the home
directory ("* not found").

All in all, I was interested in the technical superiority touted for
the new Debian (particularly the management of legacy libs), and have
been inclined towards a more "GNUishly blessed OS.  I hope someone can
help here, otherwise I slink back to RedHat...

Thanks,




==
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Re: Turn off Console Screen Blanking

[Martin Bialasinski]

>> "JB" == Jay Barbee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

JB> How do you shutoff the console's screen blank?
JB> I would like to be able to just boot up and not have the console blank out.

The command is setterm -blank 0

Just create a file in /etc/rc.boot

#!/bin/sh

setterm -blank 0

and chmod 755 it.

Ciao,
Martin

Re: ATX and "shutdown -h"

[Robert J. Alexander]

Lee Bradshaw wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> What do I need to do to get "shutdown -h" to turn off my computer? It
> has an ATX power supply and win95 shutdown turned everything off so I
> know it's possible.
> 
> Here is a snippet from my latest 2.0.34 kernel .config file:
> 
>   CONFIG_APM=y
>   # CONFIG_APM_IGNORE_USER_SUSPEND is not set
>   # CONFIG_APM_DO_ENABLE is not set
>   # CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE is not set
>   # CONFIG_APM_DISPLAY_BLANK is not set
>   CONFIG_APM_POWER_OFF=y
>   # CONFIG_APM_IGNORE_MULTIPLE_SUSPEND is not set
> 
> --
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> 
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Lee,
I have the same kernel (2.0.34) with the same options and my IBM
Thinkpad 760XL powers off.

Could it be that you are not using the kernel compiled with these
options ??

I personally like to use the following sequence:

cd /usr/src/linux
make [x|menu]config
make-kpkg --zimage --version myhost.1 kernel_image
dpkg -i ../kernel-image-2.0.34_myhost.1_i386.deb
shutdown -r -t0 now

make-kpkg comes from the kernel-package debian package (section misc).
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Via Sciangai, 53 - 00144 Rome, Italy

Re: xsession vs xinitrc

[Robert J. Alexander]

BG Lim wrote:
> 
> Which is the better one to use with starting X, either with startx or xdm?
> 
> BG
> 
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FWIW,
I used to start X with XDM which is much more powerful but one day I
moved my hard disk on a different system and XDM got me into some
problems since the XF86Config files where uncompatible.

I have now taken the habit of starting X with a startx in my users
~/.bash_profile but not for root ...
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Re: Mouse Fatality in X-Windows

[Robert J. Alexander]

Midgley John wrote:
> 
> Hi all
> 
> I'm just getting started with Linux, and I've had several goes at
> installing the Debian 2.0 distribution. I'm getting tanatalisingly close
> to a working X-Windows installation - much video card clicking and
> flashing - but it objects to a line in the XF86Config file which says
> '/dev/mouse'.

use /dev/psaux in your XF86Config or make /dev/mouse a symlink to it:

ln -sf /dev/psaux /dev/mouse

you can double check what we say by issuing dmesg | less and seeing a
line (around the 15th) which says:
PS/2 auxiliary pointing device detected -- driver installed.
(or "dmesg | grep aux" if you are lazy).
Cheers Bob
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Re: Nuking damned scrambled consoles.

[Richard E. Hawkins Esq.]

> Also, if there are any vim users reading this what does ^x ^s do? I
> sometimes accidentally type this when I mean to save a file (bad habit
> from using ae), and this seems to lock up vim pretty hard.


^S generally is a command to stopp sending . . . try ^Q if this freezes 
things.  

rick

Turn off Console Screen Blanking

[Jay Barbee]

Hello All,

How do you shutoff the console's screen blank?
I would like to be able to just boot up and not have the console blank out.

Thanks for your help in advance!
--Jay Barbee

Re: Play sound with xmailbox

[Gary L. Hennigan]

Guido Bozzetto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| I'm trying to use the sound playing without success.
| How I can play a sound when arrive e new message ?
| I've tried with:
| 
| .Xresources:
| *xmailbox*mailsndfile:  /usr/doc/xmailbox/examples/dingdong.au
| *xmailbox*mailsndcomm:  /usr/bin/play %s
| 
| but I'm hearing only the internal speaker bip.

I think your ~/.Xresources file is incorrect. Try:

xmailbox*mailSndFile:   /usr/doc/xmailbox/examples/dingdong.au
xmailbox*mailSndComm:   cat %s > /dev/audio

The above works fine on my machine.

Don't forget, after you edit your ~/.Xresources file you either have
to logout and back in or use "xrdb ~/.Xresources".

Gary

Re: Nuking damned scrambled consoles.

[Martin Bialasinski]

>> "CB" == Christopher Barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

[answered by Shaleh]

CB> Also, if there are any vim users reading this what does ^x ^s do? I
CB> sometimes accidentally type this when I mean to save a file (bad habit
CB> from using ae), and this seems to lock up vim pretty hard.

I don't use vim either. I rather use xemacs. Sometimes I use joe at
the console. Used to C-x C-s to save files I somtimes type that in and 
joe freezes as well.

It is C-s that causes this (Maybe *S*top or something).

C-q will bring it back to live.

Ciao,
Martin
 

Re: kermel make overrwites symbolic link, confusing lilo

[Gary L. Hennigan]

"Richard E. Hawkins Esq." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

| I don't think I've seen this one before . . .
| 
| I have /boot mounted on the first partition, a single cylinder.
| /vmlinux is a symbolic link to /boot/vmlinux-2.0.33.  Rather than
| following the link, "make  zImage zlilo" is placing a vmlinuz in /,
| undoing the old link, and crossing the 1023 cylinder boundry.  I'm
| pretty sure that this didn't used to happen, since I didn't used to
| have a problem :) 

I can't really help with this specifically, but I'd definately
recommend that if you're building your own kernels under Debian you
learn to use the make-kpkg utility (it's part of the kernel-package
package in the "misc" section under dselect). It's very easy to use
and it's the Debian Way (TM) to create and install your own custom
kernels. It basically creates a kernel-image*.deb file that you
install just like you do with the official Debian kernel-image*.deb
files. It puts things in their correct place and offers to run lilo
for you. Might be a good idea to look into it!

Quick steps:

1) Unpack the kernel source (either in the form of a Debian
kernel-source package or raw kernel source)

2) Go into the directory where the source was unpacked, e.g.,
/usr/src/linux.

3) Do one of "make config", or "make menuconfig", or "make xconfig"

4) Build the kernel package with make-kpkg (which compiles everything
for you, no "make zImage" & "make modules" required)
make-kpkg --revision mykernel.1 --zimage kernel_image

5) cd ..

6) dpkg -i kernel-image-2.0.35_mykernel.1_i386.deb

You're done!

Gary

Re: Debian New User

[Robert Wilderspin]

On 11 Aug 98 02:14:52 GMT, in linux.debian.user [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:

>I just recently installed the debian version of linux and now I have a few
>question...
>
>1. I downloaded a few extra packaged from the debian www site, now; I use a
>dual system (linux on one HD, Win95 on another). When i d/l the files they
>had the extension of .Deb and I placed them on floppy. Next started linux
>and ran dselect and tried to add the new packages and I could not do it
>cause there needed to be some sort of package list for the file/files.
>Anyone know what I am takling over here. if pls help.

Sure thing.  If you didn't know, dselect is a front-end to a program
to dpkg, and you can use that directly to install, remove, configure
packages directly (as opposed to working on a collection of packages,
requiring a package list).

Use "dpkg -i filename.deb" to install the package of your choice from
the floppy.

By the way, you can avoid floppies altogether by mounting your Win95
partition under Linux.  If your Win95 partition is /dev/hda1 and you
want to mount it at /mnt/windows, type this:

"mount /dev/hda1 -t vfat /mnt/windows"

If you have vfat compiled into your kernel, then you can access those
downloaded .debs directly.  Try "man mount" and "man dpkg" to find out
more about these two programs.

>2. What packages and programs are needed to dial up to isp and log onto the
>i-net. And any tips on setting up a modem?

Take a look at the "wvdial" package - very handy.  You'll need PPP
installed and configured as well, but it would help if you had a try
first and told us how far you've got.

Good luck!


Rob Wilderspin
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reboots are the only chance I get to sleep..."
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Re: Nuking damned scrambled consoles.

[Nathan E Norman]

On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Christopher Barry wrote:

 : Hi,
 : 
 : Every now and then I do a little goof-up that scrambles a virtual
 : console and I'm sure we all do sometimes but lately I've been doing a
 : little programming and if I accidentally gib a string argument then it
 : corrupts the console every single time so I quickly run out of all 6
 : consoles and am forced to reboot.

Try the 'reset' command.  You won't be able to read it, but it'll work
(usually).

 : Now, there has GOT to be a way to recover a scrambled console, right?
 : Why isn't there protection for this in the first place? I don't see why
 : this would ever be desired behavior, unless this property is somehow
 : essential for 'correctness'?

Well, ppp uses a "scrambled" console to set up the link, so it is
desired behavior (though not in your case!)  Remember, UNIX doesn't do
much to protect you from yourself.

 : Also, if there are any vim users reading this what does ^x ^s do? I
 : sometimes accidentally type this when I mean to save a file (bad habit
 : from using ae), and this seems to lock up vim pretty hard.

I don't use vim, but I'm pretty sure that ^s and ^q are software flow
control characters ... ^s means "stop sending" and ^q means "start
sending".  If you type a ^s and the screen quits "working", type ^q and
all should be well again.

(I always thought these two characters did the reverse, but I guess my
memory is poor).

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Sound Cards (again)

[Mark Panzer]

I know the subject of soundcards comes up all to often, but I was
wondering if the users on this group could recommend a good quality card
for around $30.  I would also like to use this card in Win 95 for games
like Fighters Anthology and others.  I currently have the 2.0.34 sources
for the kernel installed.  I also remeber hearing some users complain
about a problem with iso9660 support.  Thanks for your help again.

Mark Panzer

Re: Nuking damned scrambled consoles.

[Shaleh]

Try typing the word "reset" -- yes it will come out looking like
gibberish but type it anyway and hit return.  This USUALLY works.  I am
known for letting grep go through binary files.  Has the same effect as
you describe.  Also try ^o^u or ^u^o (I forget the sequence).  This
seems to help when nothing else does.

I use vim, but never tried the control sequence you gave.  Sorry.

Nuking damned scrambled consoles.

[Christopher Barry]

Hi,

Every now and then I do a little goof-up that scrambles a virtual
console and I'm sure we all do sometimes but lately I've been doing a
little programming and if I accidentally gib a string argument then it
corrupts the console every single time so I quickly run out of all 6
consoles and am forced to reboot.

Now, there has GOT to be a way to recover a scrambled console, right?
Why isn't there protection for this in the first place? I don't see why
this would ever be desired behavior, unless this property is somehow
essential for 'correctness'?

Anyways, any help appreciated.

Also, if there are any vim users reading this what does ^x ^s do? I
sometimes accidentally type this when I mean to save a file (bad habit
from using ae), and this seems to lock up vim pretty hard.

Chris

multiple CDROM installation

[Richard L. Grabbe]

I am new to LINUX...sorry...

I have searched for 3 days to find detailed instructions

and no docs or faq's went far enough, if at all...

at install I entered mcdx=0x310,9,0x360,11,0x390,10

I have sence edited mcdx.h with the address,irq's

however the document didn't say how to get the header

incorporated into the build...

all three drives are mitsumi(fx001)...

at the present all I have is the first one active...




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ATX and "shutdown -h"

[Lee Bradshaw]

Hi,

What do I need to do to get "shutdown -h" to turn off my computer? It
has an ATX power supply and win95 shutdown turned everything off so I
know it's possible.

Here is a snippet from my latest 2.0.34 kernel .config file:

  CONFIG_APM=y
  # CONFIG_APM_IGNORE_USER_SUSPEND is not set
  # CONFIG_APM_DO_ENABLE is not set
  # CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE is not set
  # CONFIG_APM_DISPLAY_BLANK is not set
  CONFIG_APM_POWER_OFF=y
  # CONFIG_APM_IGNORE_MULTIPLE_SUSPEND is not set


-- 
Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred)
Alantro Communications   [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: multiple PPP

[Jens B. Jorgensen]

Eugene Sevinian wrote:

> Hi Debians,
> I am running w95 at home , and recently I tried to configure
> multiple ppp connection from that machine to different Linux boxes in
> different domains. As I understand there is no chance to configure network
> parameters in w95 depending on connection (Am I right?).

Actually, you can. But of course it's better to set this up automagically.

> Is there any way
> to assign hostname, DNS server from linux side?

hostname no. IP address, DNS servers (two), WINS servers (two) yes. You set 
these as
pppd options. The IP address will be set with the : 
option, DNS
with 'ms-dns X.X.X.X', and WINS with 'ms-wins X.X.X.X'. Had you read the pppd 
man page
you would have discovered this.

--
Jens B. Jorgensen
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Xserver: a bug or a feature ?

[Torsten Hilbrich]

On: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 12:51:42 +0200 Max Lawson writes:
> 
> There's sthg strange w/ the Xserver config. Some applications need
> to connect to the Xserver. The connection get refused till I add the
> box/host name to the xhost list!

If you are talking about the xhost feature implemented on user side by
the xhost command this is normal and the first stage of security to
protect your xserver.

You can read more about access control in the manual pages of the
xhost and the xauth command.

Torsten

Re: Apache Problem

[Torsten Hilbrich]

On: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 00:14:10 +0800 (PHT) Richard L Alhama writes:

> apacheconfig errors:
> 
> httpd: cannot determine local hostname
> Use ServerName to set it manually
> 
> /usr/sbin/apachectl graceful:http could not be started
> 
>  other info ---
> /etc/hosts
> 127.0.0.1 etok etok.etik.com.ph

The solution is quite simple, put the fqdn first, i.e. the line should read:

127.0.0.1 etok.etik.com.ph etok 

You can check the result by using "hostname -f" (or hostname --fqdn).

Torsten

Re: Windows95 programs and X-Windows

[Shaleh]

Rolando Manchado wrote:
> 
> Can Windows95 programs run on X-Windows?

The easy answer is no.  Different binaries, libraries, Operating Sytems,
etc.

HOWEVER there is a project called WINE.  This is a project to allow
WinOS apps to on X.  It is both an emulator for the binaries and a
re-write of the M$ libs.  Some things work, many things don't.  Give it
a shot.  Seems to work best if you install the apps from withing
Windows, then reboot and run them with WINE.

[Q] Writing Debian CDs with Windows software

[Arifi Koseoglu]

Hello everyone,

I hope this is not a FAQ.

I downloaded the Debian CD images, and unsuccessfully tried to write
them to CDs using the following applications:

HP SureStore cd writer software
Adaptec EZ CD-Writer

Although I changed the .raw extensions to .iso, the software listed
above did not recognize them as ISO9660 CD images and attempted to 
just copy the file to the CD, which is of course useless.

The MD5 checksums of the files are correct.

I will appreciate very much if anyone here could shed some light
on the problem.

Thanks in advance,
Arifi Koseoglu
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MySQL Any Opinions on Value as learning tool?

[Allan Bart]

Hi,

I am looking to use my debian machine as a learning platform, so i am
looking to create a small projectr that would use a database system. I
read about MySQL and thought it would be interesting. so my question
is has anyone used it and reliable a system is it for real world
application?

Allan


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Re: Debian New User

[Ed Cogburn]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> I just recently installed the debian version of linux and now I have a few
> question...
> 
> 1. I downloaded a few extra packaged from the debian www site, now; I use a
> dual system (linux on one HD, Win95 on another). When i d/l the files they
> had the extension of .Deb and I placed them on floppy. Next started linux
> and ran dselect and tried to add the new packages and I could not do it
> cause there needed to be some sort of package list for the file/files.
> Anyone know what I am takling over here. if pls help.


First, use dpkg to install those packages you got; something like 'dpkg
-i packagename.deb'.  However, once you get internet access working on
your Linux system, use 'dselect' or 'apt' to automaticly download files
from ftp.debian.org for example, instead of manually doing it.
I suggest getting the latest versions of dpkg,dselect, and apt from
either the hamm (Debian 2.0) and slink (next version of Debian, 2.1). 
Then use the 'apt' access method in dselect and put something like 

deb http://ftp1.us.debian.org/debian hamm main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp1.us.debian.org/debian slink main contrib non-free

in your /etc/apt/sources.list.
Once you've got this working, keeping your system up to date is trivial
(well, once you get used to using dselect, anyway).


> 2. What packages and programs are needed to dial up to isp and log onto the
> i-net. And any tips on setting up a modem?


pppconfig make this relatively easy, it worked for me.

 
> 3. Any help on these issues would be appreciated. Thanks Brian
> 
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Re: First time Linux user.

[Ed Cogburn]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 10 Aug 1998, GamerZ wrote:
> 
> > okay
> > this is hopefully my last question for today
> > the simple alphabet of DOS no longer exists
> > it was extremely simple (which haha confused even some)
> > linux uses a single tree supposedly, and has to mount devices to this tree
> > every bootup, i believe
> > what would be the paths to all of the standard DOS drives:
> 
> The information in the file /etc/fstab (or something) has mounting
> information about the disk drives/partitions. Normally one would mount
> different partitions as standard directories in the standard file system.
> For example, / (the root directory) might be on hda6 (last partition on
> the 1st drive, perhaps d: in dos parlance). hdb1 might be mounted as /usr,
> hdb2 might be /var or whatever. hda1 might hold windows95 and be mounted
> as /win95 or something. How you actually organise all this (especially as
> you seem to have lots of harddrives) is beyond me, although others may
> give you considerations. It's OK (although not ideal) to have the entire
> thing on one partition, it's probably easier this way at least at first.
> You'll want lots of room for /usr though, that's where all the program
> files go.
> 
> My system has two harddrives, and the arrangement looks something like:
> 
> device size  filesystem  mount point  contents
> hda1 (400Mb)'vfat'/win95win95, oddly enough
> hda5 (~32Mb) linux swapN/A  swap space/virtual memory
> hda6 (~370Mb) ext2/ /, /home/ajt (my user directory)
> and everything that's not
> elsewhere
> hdb1 (100Mb)ext2  this ones's going to be / when I clean out hda
> hdb2 (32Mb) linux swap  N/A swap space
> hdb3 (100Mb)ext2/varstuff that gets changed by
> programs often
> hdb4 (>1000Mb)  ext2/usrprograms/applications etc.
> 
> This probably isn't ideal, either.
> 
> Unix accesses devices as files, that's what the /dev/fd0 was in my mount
> example. here are the normal device files for the devices you wanted
> 
> > a: (floppy)
> /dev/fd0
> > b: (other floppy)
> /dev/fd1
> > c: (primary master)
> /dev/hda1
> > d:(prim. slav.)
> /dev/hdb1
> > e:(sec. mas.)
> /dev/hdc1
> > f: (sec. slav.)
> /dev/hdd1
> 
> > where would the cdrom be, and where would the actual os be stored, like what
> > are the most common directories...
> 
> cdrom depends on the make of your cdrom, mine's /dev/sbpcd1 (sound
> blaster). I created a directory /cdrom and mount it there.
> 
> I've already covered some of the directories in my mounting example, but
> here are the other usual ones:
> 
> /bin (system binaries, things like ls etc)
> /home (All the user directories are subdirectories of /home)
> /root (except for the superuser who resides here)
> /etc  ( configuration files)
> /usr  (lots of stuff, including /usr/sbin (administration programs)
> /usr/bin (application programs)
> /usr/doc (documentation)
> /var (stuff that changes often, like news spools/ mail etc. )
> 
> It's a bit daunting, but it has a certain warped logic and arcane elegance
> to it.
> 
> 
> Andrew Tarr
> 


FWIW.  Just to give an example of a simpler setup (in fstab):

#
/dev/hda1   /dosc   vfat   ;Win95+FAT32
/dev/hda2   noneswap   ;Linux swap
partition
/dev/hda3   /   ext2   ;Linux root
partition
/dev/hdb/cdrom  iso9660;ATAPI (IDE)
CDROM


I mount my Win95 partition under the dir '/dosc'.  You can choose
whatever name you want for this.

Since my CDROM is an ATAPI type, I access it as if it were a IDE hard
drive, i.e. /dev/hd?.

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Re: Troubles: x11amp, eplus, searching libs, SLab.........

[Ed Cogburn]

phillip Neumann wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I discover that when i want to here some music with x11amp, i must boot
> my system with the "default" kernel image. I cannot play any mp3 with
> x11amp when i boot using my custom image.
> In the kenrel options of sound i have:
> Sound card support (Module)
> SB support
> /dev/dsp and /dev/audio support
> MIDI interface support
> FM synthesizer support
> IO, IRQ, DMA stuff (not default)
> i have try to enable "Additional low level driver" and "ACI mixer", but
> nothing.


Did you also compile the modules for your custom kernel and install
them?  Did you compile module support into the kernel?  What does
'insmod sound' say?

 
> The same go for ePLus. When i want to execute ePlus, i must be using the
> default image kernel too. when using my custom kernel eplus said:
> "Shared Memory Error: Function not implemented"


Don't know what eplus is, sorry.

 
> I have kernel 2.0.34., maybe sould i upgrade to a newer one??
> 
> I'm looking to the lib "libsrgp.so.1". I think is could be somthing to
> do with SVGAlib, is there a quick way to know what package sould i
> install to get libX.X.X ??


The easiest way for me is to run dselect and do a search.  Once on the
selection screen, type '/' and type in 'srgp'. That should take you to
the first package related to srgp.  Use '\' to continue the search.  The
combo of '/' and '\' will take you to every package with 'srgp' in its
name.


> Someone recommend me Slab. the description sounds great, but i canot use
> it. It said:
> 
> " ./mixslab
> Application initialization failed: Can't find a usable init.tcl in the
> following directories:
> /usr/local/tcl/lib/tcl8.0 /temporal/slab/lib/tcl8.0
> /temporal/tcl8.0b1/library /temporal/slab/library
> 
> This probably means that Tcl wasn't installed properly.
> "
> 
> I know i have TCL8.0 installed. find said me its in /usr/lib. What sould
> i do? i tyr to put the tcl path in the path.


Does slab allow configuration of paths?  For tcl8.0, init.tcl is in
/usr/lib/tcl8.0/init.tcl.  Use 'dpkg -S init.tcl' to verify.  I'm
assuming slab isn't provided as a deb package (couldn't find it in
dselect), so maybe slab needs to be recompiled with different
parameters, like looking for tcl stuff in usr/lib/tcl8.0/.  If you
installed the debian version of tcl8.0, then I think the problem is with
slab.


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Re: Compiler Issues

[Jason Gunthorpe]

On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Daniel Mashao wrote:

> I know we are going thru' compiler changes etc. I am trying to install any
> C++ compiler whether egcs or gcc. I installed all relevant files as far as
> I know and as far as the dpkg did not complain about missing packages. But
> when I compile a .cc file it gives the following output:
> 
> com5 % gcc ff.cc
> In file included from ff.cc:1:
> /usr/include/g++/iostream.h:91: parse error before `__extension__'
> /usr/include/g++/iostream.h:208: parse error before `__extension__'
> 
> Anybody knows what is wrong. 

gcc can't compile c++ programs, try g++

Jason

Re: Dselect & script

[David B. Teague]

On Mon, 10 Aug 1998, Cristov Russell wrote:

> From: Cristov Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Dselect & script
> 
> Recently I read somewhere (possibly on this list) that there is a way
> to capture what was done during dselect using something like
> /.../script but they did not go into much detail.  Could someone
> explain to me how to do this?

Cristov 

If you have script on your system, you can make a "transcript" file of
all that goes to the screen during execution of any program. The default
file name is 'typescript' and you can name the file on the command line.

>From the man page for script:

 Script makes a typescript of everything printed on your terminal. 
 It is useful for students who need a hardcopy record of an
 interactive session as proof of an assignment, as the typescript
 file can be printed out later with lpr(1). 

I have also wished I had kept a record of what happens, particularly
when i upgraded from 1.3 to Hamm, when I got a bad Perl package due to
an ugly line and bad luck. 

Hope this helps.

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Re: 2.0.34 error: Freelist block not free

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!  I posted this problem some time ago and received no
replies as of yet.  I thought it might be worth another try.  Can
anyone provide insight as to what may be causing this kernel error?
(e.g. hardware, kernel-ware, ppp-ware?)

> Greetings!  I just upgraded this machine to Debian 2.0 a few days ago.
> The kernel (2.0.34) was untouched and had been running smoothly for
> months.  This machine runs diald/pppd/IP masquerade as a corporate
> gateway to the Internet.  Over the weekend, The following errors
> started showing up:
> 
> -
> Aug 1 17:03:01 debian kernel: Problem: block on freelist at 0174d610
> isn't free.  
> Aug 1 18:01:53 debian last message repeated 6 times
> -
> Of course, this "problem" resulted in all sorts of processes being
> randomly killed.

Thanks!

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Re: Problems with Libc6 upgrade?

[Ed Cogburn]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I'm about to received Debian 2.0, and I was
> wondering what effect upgrade will have on programs
> that I currently use.  Besides the usual GNU
> programs, I also have WordPerfect, Maple, and etc.
> 
> Will these programs work with Libc6, or are there
> patches that I have to download?
> 
> I've seen that there were several programs that have
> libc6-related updates, but I never read that ALL of
> the program should be updated.  Are they?
> 
> Thanks,
> -Nikita
> 
> --
> Even God cannot change the past.
>  -- Joseph Stalin


Any program that comes with Debian will come on the 2.0 cdrom already
built for libc6.  The only problem is the stuff you've installed
yourself (i.e. whats in /usr/local).  If you have the source just
recompile.  For commercial, binary-only stuff you can install libc5 in
addition to libc6, so older progs can still be used.  The libc5 package
in the 'oldlibs' section of the 2.0 distribution, has been modified so
it can coexist with libc6.  So first upgrade your system, and then
install libc5 (from 'oldlibs').


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Re: Debian at work

[Paul Miller]

George Bonser wrote:
> 
> Debian's ability for remote installaion and upgrade without needing X,
> without needing access to the console or CD-ROM, and without having to
> manually FTP a load of packages along with its dependancy checking at
> package selection time made the difference.
> 
I just wanted to add (vent about RedHat really), that RedHat does have
an easy way to upgrade. The RedHat network I maintain at school was just
upgraded to 5.1 from 5.0 and the guy had to download each package
individually and manually install them.

This makes me so much happier that I use Debian at home. God Bless
dselect, even if it is harder to use than RedHat's package manager.

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Re: xsession vs xinitrc

[Will Lowe]

> Which is the better one to use with starting X, either with startx or xdm?

you don't really have a choice ... startx (and xinit) use .xinitrc,  and
xdm uses .xsession.

One simple trick is to make one of those files and make the other a
symlink to it.
Will


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Re: GNOMEish Window Manager

[Will Lowe]

> WindowMaker is another one I use sometimes, but when apps are iconised,
> they sit behind the panel, which is annoying. 
I just have the clip collect them all ...

eventually the gnome panel should be able to act as a dock/clip,  but it
isn't done yet.
Will


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Re: linux probs

[Will Lowe]

> i went overboard with dselect and threw everything in there
Oops. ... :)

> now nothing runs
> system halts at startup
What's it say?

> what would be a quick and easy way to just delete some files that i don't
> need?
Well,  I would try making a boot disk (the rescue disk should help you do
this) and booting it.  Then do "dpkg -l" to list the stuff you've got
installed and pick some packages you want to get rid of.  Then you can
"dpkg --purge " for each package you're uninstalling.

> i am reading some basic dos to linux faqs so i should be able to do it
> myself but any help from you linux gurus would be appreciated
You can just delete the files by booting the rescue disk,  mounting your
linux drive (probably on /mnt or /target) and then deleting them with
"rm",  but this'll confuse dpkg if you delete the wrong stuff.

Will


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samba problems

[Hamish Moffatt]

I've been running sambades on a bo box which I upgraded to hamm this evening.
The box provides file & printing services to two Win95 boxes and an NT box,
hence the need for encryption.

On hamm, I created the smbpasswd file with mksmbpasswd and set passwords
for the users. Previously I had no "security =" set, which defaults to
share-level, I believe. The 95 boxes would remember their passwords
and reconnect shares without prompting (desirable), while the NT box
would need to be reminded once on login then would get everything else
ok (acceptable).

Now with samba in hamm, NT requires the password re-entered for every
share, and actually doesn't bother to prompt me when trying to use
the printer, and just says it can't print. So I changed
to "security = user", which makes NT happy as punch (never checks
my password with me now, because it is the same as my NT login password).

However, now 95 users have to supply their network password once,
which is undesirable. Once entered it seems happy enough, but I would
prefer that those users didn't have to enter a password.

Any suggestions for a solution?


thanks,
hamish
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Help: Xserver errors

[Dinesh Nadarajah]

I am currently running Debian 2.0 and during the setup I had
succesfully setup the Xserver for my Matrox Millenium II video card
(using XF86Setup and it successfully starts the server and provides a
screen for me to run the video timing program and save the
configuration file). When I run startx from the shell I get an error
stating that the color depth was incorrect. I have tried all the
available color depths and I know for a fact that 32 bpp works because
I've run RH 5.1 on the same machine. Here is the error message:

- error message -

.
.
.
(**) ET4000W32: Graphics device ID:"Primary Card"
(**) ET4000W32: Minitor ID:"Primary Monitor"
(**) FontPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled, ..."
(**) ET4000W32: Unsupported color depth (32)

*** None of the configured devices were detected. ***

Fatal server error:
no screens found

.
.
.

_X11TransSocketUNIXConnect:Can't connect:errno=111
giving up.
xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server
xinit: No such process (errno 3): server error.

- end of error message -

Any help/suggestions would be great.

Thanks in advance,

Dinesh



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Dselect & script

[Liam Healy]

Try the "mountable" option in dselect (see package dpkg-mountable).
It keeps a transcript (in /var somewhere?  check the docs).  Also
don't be confused: each of the options (CD-ROM, mounted, mountable,
nfs, etc.) is like a separate program and only bears vague relation to
the location of the Debian packages and how they're to be accessed.
The mountable option can do mounted file systems, CD-ROMs, etc., and
in my opinion, it's a whole lot better because it does not go through
EVERY package every time you load something.  Also, it loaded from
non-free and contrib directories off my hard disk, where the "mounted"
option would not.


> "Cristov" == Cristov Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Cristov> Hello everyone.
Cristov> Recently I read somewhere (possibly on this list) that there is a 
way
Cristov> to capture what was done during dselect using something like
Cristov> /.../script but they did not go into much detail.  Could someone
Cristov> explain to me how to do this?

Play sound with xmailbox

[Guido Bozzetto]

I'm trying to use the sound playing without success.
How I can play a sound when arrive e new message ?
I've tried with:

.Xresources:
*xmailbox*mailsndfile:  /usr/doc/xmailbox/examples/dingdong.au
*xmailbox*mailsndcomm:  /usr/bin/play %s

but I'm hearing only the internal speaker bip.

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Re: First time Linux user.

[Martin Bialasinski]

>> "REHE" == Richard E Hawkins Esq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:


REHE> dir takes three letters to accomplish "ls".  Never trust a
REHE> command that can't be typed in two letters . . .

mkdir and rmdir ? I always wondered about them.

To the original poster: There is a DOS/Windows to Linux HowTo which
pretty good explains some differences in concepts and commands. YOu
have filepermissions now :-)

www.linux.org has a link to it.

Ciao,
Martin

Re: resolv.conf, PPP and multiple providers

[servis]

*- Damon Muller wrote about "resolv.conf, PPP and multiple providers"
| 
| However, anyone have any hints on how to set up the resolv.conf file
| when you have multiple ISPs? I guess I could have an ip-up script modify
| it when it dials each ISP, but that's a bit of a pain.
| 

That is about the only way to do it.  Read
/usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/Dynamic-IP-Hacks.gz.  It is a little out of date
but it has some good ideas.  Another file to modify is /etc/hosts.

-- 
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 because by that time you will be a mile away and have their shoes." 
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multiple PPP

[Eugene Sevinian]

Hi Debians, 
I am running w95 at home , and recently I tried to configure
multiple ppp connection from that machine to different Linux boxes in
different domains. As I understand there is no chance to configure network
parameters in w95 depending on connection (Am I right?).  Is there any way
to assign hostname, DNS server from linux side at the? 

TIA,

Eugene Sevinian


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Phone: 374-2-344873

Re: help w/ virtual domains and linux

[Kevin Conover]

note right at the beginning: I use linux at home but I use solaris at
work.  I do something similar at work so this may help, but ... ;-)

On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Shaleh wrote:

> I am in the process of moving from BSDi to Debian at work.  We typically
> have from 5 to 25 domains on a web server.  I know how to config apache,
> sendmail, etc.  However the ifconfig statements that work on BSDi do not
> in Linux -- in fact it hoses up the networking completely and I reboot
> to reset it.

why do you need ifconfig at all?  For apache virtual domains you just need
virtual hosts and then all of the virtual domains can be cnames.  Are your
virtual domains cnames or do they all have their own IP address?  Apache
1.1.x needed ip-based virtual hosts, but 1.2.x and above don't.  I use
qmail so I don't know what sendmail needs, sorry.

> Currently on BSDi we do this in a rc.local script:
> 
> for i in `cat /etc/servers`
> do
>   ifconfig $interface $domain alias
>   route add -host $domain 127.0.0.1
> done

you are using "for i" but don't have $i in your script.  So is this just
repeatedly telling ifconfig the same thing over and over?  Why?  What is
this supposed to do in BSDi?  Or is this a typo?  Just curious.

> This makes all the domains in /etc/servers, which is just a bunch of
> lines like:
> foo.com
> bar.com
> get aliased to the interface.

so "for i" is supposed to be $interface or $domain?

> The same script on the linux box blows up and sets the IP address to the
> last domain, not the machine's actual one.  The route is also hosed and
> no amount of ifconfig or route statement's put it back.  (At least none
> I know).

When are $interface and $domain getting set and to what?  There's
obviously more to the script, I'd need to see that too.  That's my best
guess so far.

> Please tell me the correct way to do this.  We currently have a
> addvserver script which creates the new directories, groups, and users
> needed then it sets up the ifconfig entries and starts the apache
> daemon.  I would like to use this script.

If you don't mind I might want to take a look at your addvserver script.
I'm just starting to open up this service (virtual apache hosts) to
departments at work and it's currently a PITA.

> P.S. anyone know how to set the password in a command line?  like
> adduser --password foo bar, thus a login of bar w/ a password of foo. 
> We can also do this in BSDi, w/ its adduser command.

this allows anyone logged in to the machine to do a ps -ef |grep adduser
(or ps auxwww) to see the user name and password.  If you don't allow any
users to log in then this probably isn't too bad, but...  I believe that
the adduser included with linux has an option for a broken password, which
will create the account with a disabled password.  You can then set up a
simple expect script to set passwords in batches (if that's what you are
using this for).  Beyond that I don't know of an easy way.

HTH, good luck

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Re: Compiler Issues

[jdassen]

On Tue, Aug 11, 1998 at 11:52:05AM +0200, Daniel Mashao wrote:
> I know we are going thru' compiler changes etc. I am trying to install any
> C++ compiler whether egcs or gcc. I installed all relevant files as far as
> I know and as far as the dpkg did not complain about missing packages. But
> when I compile a .cc file it gives the following output:
> 
> com5 % gcc ff.cc

/usr/doc/{gcc,g++}/README tells you to use "g++" or "c++", not "gcc" to
compile C++ programs.

HTH,
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nasty...

[Hamish Moffatt]

I just removed some of the old buzz/rex packages, base, timezone, bdflush.
I did it in dselect, and apt quite happily obliged.

After that, I had neither timezone NOR timezones installed (don't know why),
and removing base removed /usr/local (a symlink luckily, I've been bitten
before), most of /dev, etc. Not nice at all. Surely there is something
we can do to prevent this? I'm not unannoyed.

Also /dev/MAKEDEV has a group `tty', but running "/dev/MAKEDEV tty"
will only create /dev/tty, and not the rest (tty1..tty8). /dev/MAKEDEV
will not make /dev/console, and finally MAKEDEV is inconsistent;
asking for hd will create only hdaN and hdbN (not hdcN or hddN), while
creating sd will create all the way up to sdp.


Hamish (about to play russian roulette by rebooting)
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HELP with Sound Card

[XRDLAB]

I am currently running Debian bo and wanted to compile sound support.  

My sound card is Aztech Galaxy (claims to be compatible
with SoundBlaster 16, non pnp). The card works fine under dos with the
following settings:

SB 16io=0x220, irq=10, dma=1
MPU-401  io=0x330, irq=2

In the kernel (2.0.30) compile options I selected
 
   SoundBlaster support yes 
   MPU-401 support  yes
   /dev/dsp and /dev/audio  yes
   MIDI interface support   yes
   FM synthesizer support   yes

under the Sound options (with the same adresses as under dos).

Evrything compiles neatly and I can even boot the system with the new
kernel. But sound module cannot be loaded. During boot up I get a
message

   /lib/modules/2.0.30/misc/sound.o:  unresolved symbol DMAbuf_init
   /lib/modules/2.0.30/misc/sound.o:  unresolved symbol audio_init

I could not get the answer for the above problem. Can somebody help me
on this matter?

Thanks,

sridhar

xdm starts local server

[Hamish Moffatt]

I just upgraded a bo machine to hamm from the official CDs;
/etc/X11/config says

# This file contains configuration flags for the X Window System.
# For a description of the meanings of the flags, see
# /usr/doc/X11/README.Debian

no-run-xconsole
obey-nologin
allow-user-resources
allow-user-modmap
allow-user-xsession
allow-failsafe
start-xdm
no-xdm-start-server

However, xdm still starts a local server. Also, if I "startx" as a user,
it doesn't run the window manager (I have no ~/.xsession or ~/.xinitrc),
although it does if I login through xdm.

Suggestions?

thanks,
hamish
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Opinions on SQL Databases

[Allan Bart]

Hi,

I am just getting my system up to snuff and i think it would be a good
time to really learn sql. What are your linux favorites and why?

Allan



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Re: xsession vs xinitrc

[David Z. Maze]

BG Lim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
BL> Which is the better one to use with starting X, either with startx
BL> or xdm?

startx uses .xinitrc; xdm uses .xsession.

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Windows95 programs and X-Windows

[Rolando Manchado]

Can Windows95 programs run on X-Windows?

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Re: samba problems

[peloy]

Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> However, now 95 users have to supply their network password once,
> which is undesirable. Once entered it seems happy enough, but I would
> prefer that those users didn't have to enter a password.
> 
> Any suggestions for a solution?

And what about setting the password for those users in /etc/smbpasswd
to be blank? Does that work?

I have just checked smb.conf's man page and it looks like you have to
add:

null passwords=yes

to the global section of your smb.conf, as this parameter defaults to
"no".

Good luck!

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[2] Troubles: x11amp, eplus,

[phillip Neumann]

Hi, im still getting troubles with x11amp (and eplus...)
[i can only play mp3 when booting with the typycal kernel, the one that 
comes with kernel-image2.0.34.deb...]




>I guess it isn´t a PnP card. S...

Well in fact it is a PnP. I had to do all this stuff with isapnp. I've 
got a Sound Blaster AWE64, and im not so sure if i configure it 
correctly (i guess not, thats why im having this problems...)

> Does cat file>.au > /dev/audio work?

It works great..



> What about playing wav´s (bplay)?
Well i could not install bplay (i give up), but wav's plays good with 
xwave.


>As root try "insmod sound trace_init=1", post output
linux said the same as when putting insmod sound, that is, nothing...


>Is there something of interest in /var/log/* ?
Nop.


>What gives cat /dev/sndstat ?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] / --> cat /dev/sndstat 

Sound Driver:3.5.4-960630 (Mon Aug 10 11:57:08 CLT 1998 root,
Linux Proton 2.0.34 #2 Sun Jun 21 17:34:16 EST 1998 i586 unknown)
Kernel: Linux Proton 2.0.34 #9 Mon Aug 10 11:58:13 CLT 1998 i586
Config options: 0

Installed drivers: 
Type 1: OPL-2/OPL-3 FM
Type 2: Sound Blaster
Type 7: SB MPU-401

Card config: 
Sound Blaster at 0x260 irq 10 drq 3,7
(SB MPU-401 irq 1 drq 0)
OPL-2/OPL-3 FM at 0x388 drq 0

Audio devices:
0: Sound Blaster 16 (4.16)

Synth devices:
0: Yamaha OPL-3

Midi devices:

Timers:
0: System clock

Mixers:
0: Sound Blaster






Thanks, danke and gracias
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help

[Rick Balnionis]

Not sure wether or not you'd be able to help
I have a buslogic flashpoint scsiII card and all i seem to get up now is
bios not inialised , try numerous things to sort out the problem , do
you have any idea .
Would be very grateful , Thanks
Rick

IMAP via PPP

[Michael Stenner]

OK, I have a rather specific goal in mind when setting up my mail.  My mail 
arrives at work.  I read and send mail from both work and home.  

I know that I can (with pine, for example) manipulate and read mail from
home via IMAP.  Unfortunately, this is slow and ends up re-downloading
mail messages or folder repeatedly.

I can also have mail downloaded to home and stored there.  
Unfortunately, this "disconnects" the two work environments:  if I read
and delete 300 mail messages (as debian-user easily provides) on one
system, I have to specifically (and personally) do the same to the other
system.

I would like a hybrid situation.  I would like to mirror my work folders
(collections, to use pine's word) at home and have my home machine
"sycronize" the two systems on demand.  That is, if I delete or move a
message on one system, have it preform the corresponding action on the
other.

Any ideas?  Please cc to me personally (I subscribe to this list, but
I"m about 2000 messages behind... short vacations.. whew).  

-Michael

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multiple PPP

[Eugene Sevinian]

Hi Debians, 
I am running w95 at home , and recently I tried to configure
multiple ppp connection from that machine to different Linux boxes in
different domains. As I understand there is no chance to configure network
parameters in w95 depending on connection (Am I right?).  Is there any way
to assign hostname, DNS server from linux side? 

TIA,

Eugene Sevinian


CRD, YerPhI, 375036, Armenia
URL: http://crdlx5.yerphi.am/prs/sevinian.html
Phone: 374-2-344873

Re: Troubles: x11amp, eplus, searching libs, SLab.........

[Jens Ritter]

phillip Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I discover that when i want to here some music with x11amp, i must boot 
> my system with the "default" kernel image. I cannot play any mp3 with 
> x11amp when i boot using my custom image.
> In the kenrel options of sound i have:
>   Sound card support (Module)
>   SB support
>   /dev/dsp and /dev/audio support
>   MIDI interface support
>   FM synthesizer support
>   IO, IRQ, DMA stuff (not default)
> i have try to enable "Additional low level driver" and "ACI mixer", but 
> nothing.

I guess it isn´t a PnP card. S...

What gives cat /dev/sndstat ?

As root try "insmod sound trace_init=1", post output.  Does cat .au > /dev/audio work?  What about playing wav´s (bplay)? Is
there something of interest in /var/log/* ?

Grimaldi

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slow blinking light on ZIP when disk inserted

[Richard E. Hawkins Esq.]

augh.  I think my zip died.  It gets found, but when I put a disk in, after 
the series of fast blinks of the orange light, it begings a slow blink (about 
1.5s cycle), which never stops.  this happens whether plugged in or not.  
however, it doesn't click, and i've tried this on a handful of disks, which 
stil work on other drives.

Is there any hope? or am i zipless?  Is there any way I can get it fixed other 
then sending to Iomega (no way that I'm going to trust them again . . .)

rick

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Re: Problems with Libc6 upgrade?

[Jens Ritter]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

>   that I currently use.  Besides the usual GNU
>   programs, I also have WordPerfect, Maple, and etc.
> 
>   Will these programs work with Libc6, or are there
>   patches that I have to download?

Debian 2.0 is libc5 compatible.
They run without patches.

Jens
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Re: Mouse Fatality in X-Windows

[Jens Ritter]

Midgley John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> As an aside, if I retrieve the whole Debian thing as a .raw file, to an
> NT machine, how can I write it to a CD? (I have a CD Writer, obviously!)

If you you retrieved the CD Images for Debian 2.0 from somewhere, just
burn them to a CD using WinOnCD (or some other burning software). 

HTH,

Jens
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Re: Hard drive sriping

[Jens Ritter]

john mcpeek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Hi all,
>   I have an old 486 I am using to learn Linux (unix) on. I had a 250 Meg
> drive in it but it didn't have enough room for all the stuff I wanted. I
> put an old 240 Meg drive that was just laying around in it, but I don't
> know how to set them up to work as one drive. I saw something about
> drive striping and I installed the leaner drive module. I need to know
> how I should format the drives and how to make it think two drives are
> really one.

Install mdutils, see man mdtab

HTH,

Jens
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kermel make overrwites symbolic link, confusing lilo

[Richard E. Hawkins Esq.]

I don't think I've seen this one before . . .

I have /boot mounted on the first partition, a single cylinder.  /vmlinux is a 
symbolic link to /boot/vmlinux-2.0.33.  Rather than following the link, "make 
zImage zlilo" is placing a vmlinuz in /, undoing the old link, and crossing 
the 1023 cylinder boundry.  I'm pretty sure that this didn't used to happen, 
since I didn't used to have a problem :)


rick

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Re: help w/ virtual domains and linux

[Shaleh]

I always use for i .. -- bad habit.  i should have been domain.

The passwords are all of the type login: webmasterfoo, password
fooretsambew.  They are temporary passwords for internal use before we
give them to the customers.  They then change them to whatever they
want.  So it is not a security issue.

All domains have their own IPs and are configed in DNS.  I honestly do
not know enough about this to discuss pro/con.  I am fairly sure that
things we are doing are wrong.  However it has been passed down thru the
sysadms who have worked here and would required re-doing many many
servers to change.

I am looking into this to find a "best" way.  I believe that apache's
virtual domains is merely a piece of the pie.

Re: apt - priorities?

[Rainer Clasen]

Hi!

B. Bell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> 2) Track everything in unstable, but only try to upgrade a package if 
>  a) the user requests to have the package upgraded
>  b) another package depends on the new version

I use this workaround:

Usually I have unstable commented out in sources.list. If I want to install
a single package from slink re-add it to sourcec.list, run "apt-get update
&& apt-get install " remove it from sources.list and rerun "apt-get
update".

It's not perfect, since new packages from slink are listed as orphaned, but
I can live with it.



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Re: Hard drive sriping

[Rainer Clasen]

Hi!

john mcpeek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> know how to set them up to work as one drive. I saw something about
> drive striping and I installed the leaner drive module. I need to know
> how I should format the drives and how to make it think two drives are
> really one.

It's explained in the Software-RAID mini-HowTo. Maybe you'd also want to
take a look at the Root-RAID-HOWTO.



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Re: xsession vs xinitrc

[Ed Cogburn]

BG Lim wrote:
> 
> Which is the better one to use with starting X, either with startx or xdm?
> 
> BG
> 


Its not so much that one is better than another, rather they do things
differently.  xdm is run during system boot so that users never see a
command line, they get a graphical (X) login screen.  startx is not run
during bootup, so you are taken to the console command line at the end
of the boot process.  startx is usually explicity run by the user at
anytime they want to run X.  They can then exit X and still be able to
run X at a later time by running startx again.


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Re: dselect "parse" error in HAMM release

[Craig Slusher]

Thanks Torsten,

You're correct about dates and FTP. I used ftp to get the files to my local 
Windows NT
server. Then I tried to ftp from NT to my new linux box. The parse error was 
due to
the file dates on the NT box (day of transfer).

My solution was to modify the DpkgFtp.pm file by remarking the date check as 
follows;

#}elsif ($yearOrTime = ~ / [0-9]{4}/) {
#$hours = 0; $minutes = 0;
#$year = $yearOrTime - 1900;
#}else {
#die "Cannot parse year-or-time";

After this, all ran fine.

Cheers...


Torsten Hilbrich wrote:

> On: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 00:39:01 -0500 Craig Slusher writes:
> >
> > I'm new to the LINUX world and need some help solving this problem.
> > When I run dselect, and update, I get the message;
> >
> > Checking for Packages file... FTP ERROR - Cannot parse
> > yeeaar-or-time at
> > /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DpkgFtp.pm line 168.
> >
>
> I just look into the code.  This error message means, that the result
> of the "ls -l" command is not recognizable (parsable) by the perl
> script.  You should login manually into the ftp server you use for
> dselect and execute the "ls -l" command (on my local ftp server I
> get):
>
> drwxr-xr-x   2 torsten  users2048 Jul 23 11:10 bin
> drwxr-xr-x   4 torsten  users1024 Feb 18 13:03 cvs
> -rw-r--r--   1 torsten  users 112 Jul 27 21:09 debian-fetch
> -rw-r--r--   1 torsten  users  74 Jul 26 17:40 debian-fetch~
> drwxr-xr-x   2 torsten  users1024 Apr 23 09:34 emacs
> -rw-r--r--   1 torsten  users   10589 Jul 29 21:28 fetch
>   
>
> If it doesn't look like this usual long directory listing you are in
> trouble.
>
> The  indicates the part of the output the perl code uses for
> determining the file time.
>
> Torsten
>
> BTW: What ftp server do you use for downloading?  I assume it's not a
> unix system.  Unfortunately, the output of the ls command is in no way
> standardized by the rfc.
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Compiler Issues

[Daniel Mashao]

I know we are going thru' compiler changes etc. I am trying to install any
C++ compiler whether egcs or gcc. I installed all relevant files as far as
I know and as far as the dpkg did not complain about missing packages. But
when I compile a .cc file it gives the following output:

com5 % gcc ff.cc
In file included from ff.cc:1:
/usr/include/g++/iostream.h:91: parse error before `__extension__'
/usr/include/g++/iostream.h:208: parse error before `__extension__'

Anybody knows what is wrong. 


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xsession vs xinitrc

[BG Lim]

Which is the better one to use with starting X, either with startx or xdm?

BG

Re: sendmail help please

[Adam Shand]

> Now when i issue a "mail bob" command, where bob is my local user,
> whether I am connected or not I do not get any mail in my local mailbox. 
>
> Aug 11 10:18:22 deb760xl sendmail[2008]: KAA02006: to=root, ctladdr=root
> (0/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=nullclient,
> relay=9.87.2.151, stat=Deferred: Name server: 9.87.2.151: host name
> lookup failure

sendmail is trying to do a dns lookup, and since it fails the mail sits in
the queue, until the queue is run (normally every 10 minutes by default on
my debian box) and it *can* complete the dns lookup.

you have a couple options.  the best one, imho, would be to define a
smarthost and configure sendmail to work without dns.  you can do this by
adding these two lines to your /etc/mail/sendmail.mc file and then running
/usr/sbin/sendmailconfig.

define(`SMART_HOST',`esmtp:upstream.mail.server.com')dnl
FEATURE(`nodns')dnl

instead of using the smarthost option you can also do it with mailertable
with a line like this in your sendmail.mc:

FEATURE(`mailertable',`hash -o /etc/mail/mailertable')dnl

and then making the first line of your mailertable file (don't forget to
run makemap!):

.   esmtp:upstream.mail.server.com.

either will work fine.

i hope this helps,

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Re: Mouse Fatality in X-Windows

[Robert Ramiega]

On Tue, Aug 11, 1998 at 10:16:42AM +0100, Midgley John wrote:
> 
> flashing - but it objects to a line in the XF86Config file which says
> '/dev/mouse'.
> 
> I have a Compaq Deskpro with a mini-din-type mouse socket; W95 reports
> it as a PS/2 Port Mouse. So my question is - what should the line read?
> Not ttySanything? I've read the README.mouse document, but that seems
> more interested in protocols than devices; it keeps saying something
> like '/dev/xxx, where xxx is the name of the device'. But what *is* the
> name?
 If it's ps/2 type mouse You should probably use /dev/psaux (you might need to
compile support for this in kernel). /dev/mouse in normal circumstances is a
symlink to correct /dev entry (in my case /dev/mouse points to /dev/ttyS0)
issue:
cd /dev
rm mouse
ln -s psauxx mosue
 And try to boot X

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Mouse Fatality in X-Windows

[Midgley John]

Hi all

I'm just getting started with Linux, and I've had several goes at
installing the Debian 2.0 distribution. I'm getting tanatalisingly close
to a working X-Windows installation - much video card clicking and
flashing - but it objects to a line in the XF86Config file which says
'/dev/mouse'.

I have a Compaq Deskpro with a mini-din-type mouse socket; W95 reports
it as a PS/2 Port Mouse. So my question is - what should the line read?
Not ttySanything? I've read the README.mouse document, but that seems
more interested in protocols than devices; it keeps saying something
like '/dev/xxx, where xxx is the name of the device'. But what *is* the
name?

As an aside, if I retrieve the whole Debian thing as a .raw file, to an
NT machine, how can I write it to a CD? (I have a CD Writer, obviously!)

Many thanks

John Midgley

sendmail help please

[Robert J. Alexander]

I have the follwoing setup on my IBM Thinkpad running Debian slink:

when I am in the office I have sendmail configured to route all mail to
my permanently connected 9.87.2.151 machine.

when I am disconnected (with only my 127.0.0.1) I would only need to be
able to send mail to my local users (for instance the anacron package
requires this).

Now when i issue a "mail bob" command, where bob is my local user,
whether I am connected or not I do not get any mail in my local mailbox.

Thank you for any help .. here are some data which might help.

I am not running bind on my machine. Have an /etc/nsswitch which points
to files first

[EMAIL PROTECTED] > cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1   localhost deb760xl.italy.ibm.com
9.87.2.242  300pl
9.87.2.151  pan pan.ncrome.romesc.ibm.com
9.87.251.63 diraix  diraix-rm.italy.ibm.com
9.87.248.54 rja rja.italy.ibm.com


[EMAIL PROTECTED] > dpkg -s sendmail
Package: sendmail
Status: install ok installed
Priority: extra
Section: mail
Installed-Size: 1356
Maintainer: Richard Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Version: 8.9.1-4

[EMAIL PROTECTED] > sudo tail /var/log/mail.info
Aug 11 10:18:22 deb760xl sendmail[2006]: KAA02006: from=root, size=33,
class=0, pri=30033, nrcpts=1,
msgid=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Aug 11 10:18:22 deb760xl sendmail[2008]: KAA02006: to=root, ctladdr=root
(0/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=nullclient,
relay=9.87.2.151, stat=Deferred: Name server: 9.87.2.151: host name
lookup failure
Aug 11 10:30:15 deb760xl sendmail[223]: KAA00223: from=bob, size=39,
class=0, pri=30039, nrcpts=1,
msgid=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Aug 11 10:30:18 deb760xl sendmail[225]: KAA00223: to=bob, ctladdr=bob
(1000/1000), delay=00:00:03, xdelay=00:00:02, mailer=nullclient,
relay=9.87.2.151, stat=Host unknown (Name server: 9.87.2.151: host not
found)
Aug 11 10:30:18 deb760xl sendmail[225]: KAA00223: KAA00225: DSN: Host
unknown (Name server: 9.87.2.151: host not found)
Aug 11 10:30:18 deb760xl sendmail[225]: KAA00225: to=bob,
delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=nullclient, relay=9.87.2.151,
stat=Host unknown (Name server: 9.87.2.151: host not found)
Aug 11 10:30:18 deb760xl sendmail[225]: KAA00225: KAB00225: return to
sender: Host unknown (Name server: 9.87.2.151: host not found)
Aug 11 10:30:18 deb760xl sendmail[225]: KAB00225: to=postmaster,
delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=nullclient, relay=9.87.2.151,
stat=Host unknown (Name server: 9.87.2.151: host not found)
Aug 11 10:30:18 deb760xl sendmail[225]: KAA00225: Losing qfKAA00225:
savemail panic
Aug 11 10:30:18 deb760xl sendmail[225]: KAA00225: SYSERR(bob): savemail:
cannot save rejected email anywhere: No such file or directory

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Re: No Backspace in X

[Peter Allgeyer]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: Hamish Moffatt said
: I had this same problem, even after upgrading to 2.0.
: However, I was able to get it to work.  I don't remember *exactly* what
: I had to change, but I *do* remember which parts of what files needed
: review.  Check /etc/inputrc and /etc/X11/Xresources:

I think it was /etc/inputrc. Installing an new version of bash did
it for me.

Ciao ...
... PIT ...

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Re: Latex Postscript

[Johann Spies]

On Mon, 10 Aug 1998, C.J.LAWSON wrote:

>   Does anyone know of any program/method to convert M$ PowerPoint
> slides to decent ps or eps files
> 

I do not know M$ Powerpoint but Wordperfect's Presentations has an export
facility that can create .eps files.  

If you can export Powerpoint's figures to .tif, .gif, .pcx format or
something like that you can convert it using Imagemagick, xpaint or XV to
.eps or .ps -files.

Johann

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Re: emacs 20 wont install after upgrading...

[Daniel Mashao]

On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Keith wrote:

> I recently upgraded to Debian 2.0 and I can't get emacs 20 to install.
> Here is the error message I get:
> 
> Cannot open load file: debian-rundir
> emacs-install: /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/emacsen-common 
> emacs20 failed at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-install line 26.
> dpkg: error processing emacs20 (--install):
>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 29
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  emacs20
> 
> -- Thanks, Keith MCNE
I struggled with that so much. I finally succeeded with emacs19. Notice
what it does to your .emacs file. You should remove it as you experiment
with installing emacs20. 

Sorry this is not so much of a help but I just wanted you to know that you
are not alone.

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Re: First time Linux user.

[AJT60]

On Mon, 10 Aug 1998, GamerZ wrote:

> okay
> this is hopefully my last question for today
> the simple alphabet of DOS no longer exists
> it was extremely simple (which haha confused even some)
> linux uses a single tree supposedly, and has to mount devices to this tree
> every bootup, i believe
> what would be the paths to all of the standard DOS drives:

The information in the file /etc/fstab (or something) has mounting
information about the disk drives/partitions. Normally one would mount
different partitions as standard directories in the standard file system.
For example, / (the root directory) might be on hda6 (last partition on
the 1st drive, perhaps d: in dos parlance). hdb1 might be mounted as /usr,
hdb2 might be /var or whatever. hda1 might hold windows95 and be mounted
as /win95 or something. How you actually organise all this (especially as
you seem to have lots of harddrives) is beyond me, although others may
give you considerations. It's OK (although not ideal) to have the entire
thing on one partition, it's probably easier this way at least at first. 
You'll want lots of room for /usr though, that's where all the program
files go. 

My system has two harddrives, and the arrangement looks something like:

device size  filesystem  mount point  contents
hda1 (400Mb)'vfat'/win95win95, oddly enough
hda5 (~32Mb) linux swapN/A  swap space/virtual memory
hda6 (~370Mb) ext2/ /, /home/ajt (my user directory) 
and everything that's not
elsewhere
hdb1 (100Mb)ext2  this ones's going to be / when I clean out hda
hdb2 (32Mb) linux swap  N/A swap space
hdb3 (100Mb)ext2/varstuff that gets changed by
programs often
hdb4 (>1000Mb)  ext2/usrprograms/applications etc. 

This probably isn't ideal, either. 

Unix accesses devices as files, that's what the /dev/fd0 was in my mount
example. here are the normal device files for the devices you wanted

> a: (floppy)
/dev/fd0
> b: (other floppy)
/dev/fd1
> c: (primary master)
/dev/hda1
> d:(prim. slav.)
/dev/hdb1
> e:(sec. mas.)
/dev/hdc1
> f: (sec. slav.)
/dev/hdd1 


> where would the cdrom be, and where would the actual os be stored, like what
> are the most common directories...

cdrom depends on the make of your cdrom, mine's /dev/sbpcd1 (sound
blaster). I created a directory /cdrom and mount it there. 

I've already covered some of the directories in my mounting example, but
here are the other usual ones:

/bin (system binaries, things like ls etc)
/home (All the user directories are subdirectories of /home)
/root (except for the superuser who resides here)
/etc  ( configuration files)
/usr  (lots of stuff, including /usr/sbin (administration programs)
/usr/bin (application programs)
/usr/doc (documentation)
/var (stuff that changes often, like news spools/ mail etc. )

It's a bit daunting, but it has a certain warped logic and arcane elegance
to it. 


Andrew Tarr

"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate"

Re: help w/ virtual domains and linux

[Shaleh]

Harald Schueler wrote:
> 
> Am Tue, 11 Aug 1998 schrieb Shaleh:
> 
> > Currently on BSDi we do this in a rc.local script:
> >
> > for i in `cat /etc/servers`
> > do
> > ifconfig $interface $domain alias
> > route add -host $domain 127.0.0.1
> > done
> 
> I use:
> 
> i=0
> for ALIAS in $IPALIASES
> do
> ifconfig eth0:${i} ${ALIAS} netmask ${NETMASK} broadcast ${BROADCAST}
> route add -host ${ALIAS} dev eth0:${i}
> i=$[$i+1]
> done

Thanks Harold, that makes sense, I will try it at work.  Why do I need
the eth0:X part?  Why does linux use a :? notation?  I have not seen
that on either Suns or BSDi (my other two unices).

Re: help w/ virtual domains and linux

[Harald Schueler]

Am Tue, 11 Aug 1998 schrieb Shaleh:

> Currently on BSDi we do this in a rc.local script:
> 
> for i in `cat /etc/servers`
> do
> ifconfig $interface $domain alias
> route add -host $domain 127.0.0.1
> done

I use:

i=0
for ALIAS in $IPALIASES
do
ifconfig eth0:${i} ${ALIAS} netmask ${NETMASK} broadcast ${BROADCAST}
route add -host ${ALIAS} dev eth0:${i}
i=$[$i+1]
done

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Dselect & script

[Cristov Russell]

Hello everyone.

Recently I read somewhere (possibly on this list) that there is a way
to capture what was done during dselect using something like
/.../script but they did not go into much detail.  Could someone
explain to me how to do this?

TIA

Cristov Russell
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Re: First time Linux user.

[Akop Pogosian]

GamerZ wrote:
> 
> Hi there, this is my first message to this list.
> I have been using computers for close to 5 years now, and have since
> expanded my knowledge about computers, yet mainly involving DOS and Windows.

> 1) Where would be a good site for information regarding Linux, perhaps a
> site maintained by the creator of Linux, Linus Torvalds.
> 2) Where would be a good place to get information regarding the use of
> Linux. (As I have yet to find the equivalent to the DOS cd and dir command.)


http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP should be your buddy if you do
not have a good linux book.

KDEadmin.deb

[Z.P. Dylejko]

why isn't there a kdeadmin.deb package for KDE 1.0?