forwarding all mail except root

[Max]

I'm running smail and I would like to configure it to automatically
forward all incoming mail to a different host.  Should be easy enough
with an MX record, right?  Well, the catch is that I want all mail
sent to root to be deposited into a local mailbox in /var/spool/mail
and everything else to be forwarded.  Has anyone done something like
this before?  Any clues?

Thanks,
 Max

need help: [was: Problems with autogen.sh (glib and gtk+)]

[Phillip Neumann]

Corey Miller wrote:

>
> aclocal: configure.in: 173: macro `AM_PATH_GLIB' not found in library
>
> Then it stops with the following error:
>
> ./configure: line 581: syntax error near unexpected token
> `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE($PACKAGE,'
> ./configure: line 581: `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE($PACKAGE, $VERSION, no-define)'
>
>

Hello, try editing your autoge.sh file, and change:

#aclocal $ACLOCAL_FLAGS

to:

aclocal -I /opt/gnome/share/aclocal $ACLOCAL_FLAGS

I have troubles with compiling gtk+ too.

gtkobject.c: In function `gtk_object_class_add_signals':
gtkobject.c:335: warning: implicit declaration of function `g_renew'
gtkobject.c:335: parse error before `guint'
make[2]: *** [gtkobject.lo] Error 1

What am i doing wrong ??

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remote

[Phillip Neumann]

Hello,




How can i access my X programs from another computer? I can telnet to
me. Can i with telnet? how? Do i need to call from a UNIX maschine too?



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Re: X PHYSICAL WINDOW 2 BIG!

[Jack Kern]

On Wed, Sep 23, 1998 at 11:22:13AM -0700, BOB'S MAIL wrote:
> I Installed X with a Trio S3 card.  I answer the 'xf86config' query "NO" I
> DO NOT WANT the physical window larger than the screen, BUT IT ALWAYS IS.
> The mouse brings it over, but it makes things difficult.
> 
[...]
> How to do get the X window to fit the screen.

In /etc/X11/XF86Config edit the "Virtual" line in the "Screen Sections"
under the name of the server that you are using.  For example, change the
"Virtual 800 600" to "Virtual 640 480" if you are using Modes "640x480" :

# ***
# Screen sections
# **

# The Mono server

Section "Screen"
Driver  "vga2"
Device  "CirrusAVGA"
Monitor "TTX"
Subsection "Display"
Modes   "640x480"
ViewPort0 0
Virtual 640 480
#Virtual 800 600
EndSubsection


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Re: Problems mounting CD.

[dsb3]

On Wed, 23 Sep 1998, Familien Bolding wrote:

>I have problems mounting my CD.
>
>Here is a snip of the boot process:
>

[... snip ...]

>
>When I the try: mount /cdrom with proper settings in /etc/fstab after a
>while I get

[... snip ...]

>And after 10-15 minutes the mount process core-dumps.
>
>Karsten
>

what are the proper settings which you are using?

- dave


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Re: ISDN question

[Jens B. Jorgensen]

Greg Vence wrote:

> G. Kapetanios wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > I have the ooportunity to have an ISDN line instead of modem at my home. I
> > was wondering whether having an ISDN connection is straighforward with
> > debian ? there is a package in hamm called isdnutils. However,
> > what I found on the net was a FAQ (rather old) for a package called
> > isdn4linux. Are these the same ? Any ideas about a good external terminal
> > adpter ? Any other manuals around ?
> > Thanks very much for any help
> > George
> >
> It appears that the most popular configuration is to use ISDN routers on
> a network.  This removes the need to work with an ISDN device and look
> at it as another Network address.  I'm looking at the NetGear product
> for economy.  Others seem to like Ascend, but they're significantly
> more.
>
> I have a SpellCaster card that I'm going to replace with a router...  It
> is a little flakey.  (I use it in Win95 & linux).
>
> Of cousre USA ISDN != Other ISDN...

I've been using an external Zyxel Omni TA 128U for two years now and it's 
performed
flawlessly (in a business environment) day-in and day-out. I use diald to dial
on-demand and just tell the TA to do Sync-to-async conversion, then the regular 
pppd
does the rest.

--
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Re: No menu in wmaker

[Marcelo E. Magallon]

On Wed, Sep 23, 1998 at 02:56:26AM -0500, Cristov Russell wrote:

> I asked about not having any menu items in wmaker a couple of days ago and
> might have a little more information.  I have verified that menu is
> installed and when I check the .xsession-errors file it mentions a problem
> with menu-hook.

What's the problem? BTW, update-menus should not be run on ~/.xsession.


Marcelo

Re: Redirect printer output to email?

[Marcelo E. Magallon]

On Wed, Sep 23, 1998 at 09:58:35AM -0500, Kent West wrote:
> This isn't specifically Debian-related, but if I can get this done it'll be
> a major score on campus for Linux in general and Debian specifically.
> 
> Can I print from a Win95 box to a Debian queue and route that output to an
> email message as well as to a printer?

Easy. Use lprng. It can daisychain filters. Read stdin, pass the data to
stdout and at the same time pass the relevant data to a pine to mail. Use
the second filter to talk to samba to get the file printed.

BTW, sounds really interesting.

Marcelo

Re: kernel compile failure

[Ralph Winslow]

When Kathy Miles wrote, I replied:

You need the as86 assembler.  Use dpkg or dselect to install the bin68
package.
> 
> I'm trying to compile 2.0.34 so that I can get my sound to work. I'm using
> a Creative Labs sound blaster IRQ 9 DMA 3 and 7 and I/O base 220. To my
> knowledge there are no conflicts with hardware. The kernel compile failed
> with the following message
> as86 -0 -a -o bbootsect.o bbootsect.s
> make[2]: as86: Command not found
> make[2]: *** [bbootsect.o] Error 127
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.34/arch/i386/boot'
> make[1]: *** [bzImage] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.34'
> make: *** [build] Error 2
> 
> Does this mean more to someone else than it does to me? (clueless look)
> 
> Kathy A Miles
> For an out of this world experience, visit earthspace.net!
> 
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Re: Are there any Disk Managers compatible with Linux?

[Bob Nielsen]

Mark,

I ran Linux for several months using a drive with Ontrack Disk Manager
with no problems (I used the MS-DOS config.sys menu feature with loadlin
instead of lilo, although I understand there is a way to configure lilo so
that it is compatible with Disk Manager).  

See the Large-Disk mini-HOWTO  (ftp://ftp./pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini/Large-Disk)
for further information.

Bob

On Wed, 23 Sep 1998, The Foxes wrote:

> To Whom It May Concern 
> 
>  I am a newcomer to Linux and looking forward to using it, 
> but my Western Digital 2.1 GB Hard Drive requires the 
> Ontrack Disk Manager to run properly (my CMOS only 
> handles hard drives up to 528 MB).  Is there a disk manager 
> that will run under Linux?  Any assistance on this matter will 
> be greatly appreciated!!  Thanks so much. 
> 
>  Sincerely, 
>Mark Fox 
> 
> 
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Re: Are there any Disk Managers compatible with Linux?

[Brandon Mitchell]

On Wed, 23 Sep 1998, The Foxes wrote:

>  I am a newcomer to Linux and looking forward to using it, 
> but my Western Digital 2.1 GB Hard Drive requires the 
> Ontrack Disk Manager to run properly (my CMOS only 
> handles hard drives up to 528 MB).  Is there a disk manager 
> that will run under Linux?  Any assistance on this matter will 
> be greatly appreciated!!  Thanks so much. 

While linux doesn't need Ontrack installed to use your disk (it bypasses
the cmos), it will work perfectly fine if you need to keep it installed
for another os.  No drivers should be needed.  (This is from experience a
long time ago with another WD harddrive.)

Good luck,
Brandon

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Dijkstra probably hates me (Linus Torvalds, in kernel/sched.c)

kernel compile failure

[Kathy Miles]

I'm trying to compile 2.0.34 so that I can get my sound to work. I'm using
a Creative Labs sound blaster IRQ 9 DMA 3 and 7 and I/O base 220. To my
knowledge there are no conflicts with hardware. The kernel compile failed
with the following message 
as86 -0 -a -o bbootsect.o bbootsect.s
make[2]: as86: Command not found
make[2]: *** [bbootsect.o] Error 127
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.34/arch/i386/boot'
make[1]: *** [bzImage] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.34'
make: *** [build] Error 2

Does this mean more to someone else than it does to me? (clueless look)

Kathy A Miles
For an out of this world experience, visit earthspace.net!

Sound drivers, kernel modules etc...

[Person, Rod]

Hey Again,

Since my plunge into the world of Linux, I have put aside the minor
things to get the necessary working. Now it is time for the fluff...

My sound does not work!

What kernel modules need to be installed for sound?
Where do I get the drivers? I have a soundblaster 16. I have seen
drivers for SB AWE, but nothing for mine? 

Just wanting a little noise.

Rod.

"What to do know? I'm hiding all my flesh!" - Uzeda

Are there any Disk Managers compatible with Linux?

[The Foxes]

To Whom It May Concern 

 I am a newcomer to Linux and looking forward to using it, 
but my Western Digital 2.1 GB Hard Drive requires the 
Ontrack Disk Manager to run properly (my CMOS only 
handles hard drives up to 528 MB).  Is there a disk manager 
that will run under Linux?  Any assistance on this matter will 
be greatly appreciated!!  Thanks so much. 

 Sincerely, 
   Mark Fox 

Re: ISDN question

[Martin Bialasinski]

>> "GK" == G Kapetanios <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

GK> I have the ooportunity to have an ISDN line instead of modem at my home. I
GK> was wondering whether having an ISDN connection is straighforward with
GK> debian ? 
Quite easy.

GK> there is a package in hamm called isdnutils. However, 
GK> what I found on the net was a FAQ (rather old) for a package called
GK> isdn4linux. Are these the same ? 

Basically yes.

GK> Any ideas about a good external terminal
GK> adpter ? Any other manuals around ? 

isdn4linux and isdnutils are only needed for isdncards. If you buy a
externel terminal adapter, you use it like a modem. You just tell them
to use SyncPPP with a AT command. The Elsa TQV TAs are quite good.

Ciao,
Martin

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"The less you know about computers the more you want Micro$oft!"
  See! They do get some things right!

SAMBA

[Florian Attenberger]

HI,

MY win95  clients access a samba server, that connects them to the
internet via dialup, too.
The linux-box is dialing unnecessarily when win95 is trying to get
information about servers around. Which port do i have to forbid???
More important (because I can find out the TCP/IP port):

How can i forbid forwarding/masquerading for a specific TCP/IP port

(kernel 2.0.35)

thanx

florian attenberger

Unidentified subject!

[Default Debian Reader]

Today when i did apt-get -f upgrade i got this error:
(Reading database ... 42214 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libc6-dev 2.0.7t-1 (using libc6-dev_2.0.7u-1.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libc6-dev ...
dpkg: error processing libc6-dev_2.0.7u-1.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/include/linux', which is also in package
modutils
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 libc6-dev_2.0.7u-1.deb
E: Sub-process returned an error code
 Does anyone know why i got such an error?  Also yesterday i believe i got
an error when trying to upgrade modutils something about the .deb not
being a regular file or it was corrupt.  Please help(tm).
Thanks alot.

Installation

[Menno Scholten]

Hello there,
I have a major problem with the installation of Debian. I already have 
Windows as OS but I wanted to have Linux as well. So I downloaded the basic 
files for installation. My harddisk has already 2 partitions, so I tried to 
install it on D:\. Next I executed the installation program. Everything went as 
planned, except that I don't now how to partion D:\ again so that I can use one 
partition as swap disk (my first question).I solved this problem by not using a 
swap disk at all ( I have 32 MB of RAM). But I sure like to use a swap disk. 

Anyway here is my major problem:
the installation program asks me for resc1440.bin wich is at my C:\ 
directory. How do I tell the installation program that it is there? It first was 
stored at D:\ but after mounting Linux on it all the files were erased ( this 
was no suprise I knew this would happen, so I made backups ).
I haven't got any ideas any more, I tried everything I know. Copying 
resc1440.bin to A:\ is no sollution because it doesn't fit on a HD-disk, and 
this problem also occurs with Base 2 0. I've also tried telling Debian that it 
was at hda2 but it didn't work.
The last problem (for now) is the boot-disk.
The program format's a regular HD-disk but at the end it says that the disk 
is write-protected. The porblem is that the disk is NOT write protected. This 
problem occurs with all my disks.
If hope you can help me because I'm really desperate ( I almost threw my PC 
out of the window).
Menno Scholten.
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RE: Problems mounting CD.

[Walter L. Preuninger II]

> I have problems mounting my CD.

I had the same problems with a ASUS 440LX motherboard. I also tried to
connect the CD-ROM to the secondary IDE channel, as a master device.

After moving the CD-ROM drive to hdb, everything is just fine.

Of course, I don't have 2 disk drives, just 2 processors ;)

Walter L. Preuninger II

PCMCIA card manager reports a problem with high memory

[Norbert A'Campo]

Hello all!

I've just upgraded my Linux Debian 2.0 box to kernel 2.0.35 and PCMCIA-cs 
3.0.5. And now I have the following message at boot time:
  Sep 23 22:20:58 klep kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x03ff: excluding 
0x220-0x22f 0x260-0x267 0x300-0x307 0x378-0x37f 0x388-0x38f 0x398-0x39f
  Sep 23 22:20:58 klep kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
  Sep 23 22:20:58 klep kernel: cs: warning: no high memory space available!
 ^^^
  Sep 23 22:20:58 klep kernel: cs: memory probe 0x0d-0x0d: clean.

Once I even got this:
  Sep 23 21:57:15 klep kernel: Uhhuh. NMI received. Dazed and confused, but 
trying to continue
  Sep 23 21:57:15 klep kernel: You probably have a hardware problem with your 
RAM chips or a
  Sep 23 21:57:15 klep kernel: power saving mode enabled.

I have Pentium MMX 266 with 128 RAM (with append="mem=128m" in lilo.conf) and 
everything used to work fine with kernel 2.0.34 and pcmcia-cs 3.0.0. The 
messages were the same, but there was no warning message. Is it a known 
problem? What is NMI, after all?

Thanks a lot in advance for any help! I'm sorry if this is a FAQ.

  Norbert A'Campo

Re: ip acct and devel. kernel

[Max]

You (Stephen J. Carpenter) wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 23, 1998 at 11:15:26AM -0700, Max wrote:
> > You (Stephen J. Carpenter) wrote:
> > > On Tue, Sep 22, 1998 at 08:55:15PM -0700, Max wrote:
> > > > Is there something special I need to do to be able to use IP
> > > > accounting with the development kernel (2.1.121)?  /proc/net/ip_acct
> > > > doesn't exist and programs such as ipacset and ipfwadm complain about
> > > > it.  What's going on?  Do I need to enable IP firewalling in the
> > > > kernel?  If so, that option is greyed out and I have no idea how to
> > > > ungrey it so that I can enable it.
> > > 
> > > ipfwadm doesn't work. 2.1.x kernels (later than 98 I think...I am not 
> > > sure 
> > > since when) use a completely differnt way of working. 
> > > 
> > > The new command is ipchains and is completely differnt...
> > > for a quick and easy cheat... there is ipfwadm-wrapper
> > > heres the manpage snippit:
> > > DESCRIPTION
> > >Ipfwadm-wrapper emulates the behaviour of ipfwadm. You can
> > >use this wrapper to use your old  ipfwadm  firewall  rules
> > >with ipchains. See ipfwadm(8) for more details.
> > >  
> > > both are found on my debian system as part of netbase
> > 
> > Thanks for your help, but it looks like I still need to enable IP
> > firewalling in the kernel because I get the following message with
> > ipfwadm-wrapper:
> > 
> > Generic IP Firewall Chains not in this kernel
> > 
> > ipchains -L reports:
> > 
> > ipchains: cannot open file `/proc/net/ip_fwnames'
> > 
> > The question is how to enable firewalls when that option is greyed out
> > in the kernel configuration menu.  Any clues?
> 
> hmm is IP forwardign on? firewalling is kinda useless without
> forwarding...somtimes another option turns it on...hmmm

Actually, the problem was that there was another option called
"Network firewalls" that has to be turned on BEFORE firewalling can be
turned on with another option.  Kind of confusing if you ask me, but
that's the way it is.  Still, it doesn't look like wmnet can use the
new /proc filesystem format.

Max

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Re: chown for the floppy group

[servis]

*- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about "Re: chown for the floppy group "
| > You can also add a line to /etc/fstab for /dev/fd0  with options to
| > set to user access without mounting the disk.  That way anyone may
| > mount a floppy.
| > -
| 
| Can you be more specific ? That is, what line can be added to /etc/fstab to 
| achieve it ?
| 

# device mount point  fs   options  dump  fsck order
/dev/fd0  /floppy autonoauto,user,rw  0   0

See the fstab man page for all the options available.

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Yikes: gimprc turned into a setuid fifo

[Michael Stutz]

I recently upgraded to hamm and added the gimp package, version 1.0.0-1.

Today, the third time I ran it, GIMP reported that there was an error in
reading the .gimprc file, so I took a look at it. It's gone:

pr-S-wx--x 6425 6425 64250 May  6  1983 .gimp

What's going on here? Is this a bug in GIMP or is my hard drive about to die?

(Before this I used a .99x copy of gimp that I'd downloaded off gimp.org, and
although I deleted the binary, some of it might still be sitting around in
/usr/local/.)

Re: chown for the floppy group

[shaul]

> You can also add a line to /etc/fstab for /dev/fd0  with options to
> set to user access without mounting the disk.  That way anyone may
> mount a floppy.
> -

Can you be more specific ? That is, what line can be added to /etc/fstab to 
achieve it ?

Re: touchpad driver?

[Jens Ritter]

"D'jinnie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Ok, it hurts me to say this - but it seems like Win95 actually has one
> advantage over Linux: it has nifty touchpad driver where you can configure
> a scroll zone, how light your touch is, etc. Has anyone worked on anything
> similar in Linux? 

I heard there is support for some pads for gimp and/or X.

Maybe you want to ask the gimp people.

Jens

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Re: kernel 2.1.xx

[Bob Nielsen]

You can make your own Debian package by getting the kernel source and
using make-kpkg, which is in the kernel-package package.  

Bob

On Wed, 23 Sep 1998, Marco Machmer wrote:

> hy there,
> 
> can i get a debian package with the new kernel 2.1.xx for my
> debian 2.0 system.
> 
> marco
> 
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> 
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> 
> 
> 
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Re: Getting Netscape Running

[Peter Granroth]

On Wed, Sep 23, 1998 at 01:27:59PM -0400, MJ Watson shared with us the 
following words of wisdom:
> Having just installed 2.0 at home, my next project is to
> get Netscape up and running.  I'm assuming that some form
> of Xwindowing is required.  If so, startx blows off with
> numerous errors (sorry, I'm not at home, so don't have
> the errors at hadn:  Basically, xinitrc can't be found,
> and a series of "can't connect" errors occur).

have you run XF86Setup?

> 
> Also, in looking at Netscape's ftp site, there is more
> than one version for linux:  mklinux, linux20_glibc2, linux12.
> Is there a FAQ anywhere for how to choose and build Netscape?
> 

get communicator 4.06 from

ftp.netscape.com:/pub/communicator/4.06/shipping/english/unix/linux20

and get the one you want of base_install, standalone or professional_edition
put the tar ball in /tmp and make sure it's owned by root.root. Then install the
netscape4 installer deb package which then will unpack and install the netscape
tar ball that you previously put in /tmp. if you install the installer from 
dselect
it will also install whatever other packages you need (if you install it from 
the 
command line, it might complain about needed packages missing and you will have 
to
install those by hand).

HTH
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Re: ISDN question

[Greg Vence]

G. Kapetanios wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I have the ooportunity to have an ISDN line instead of modem at my home. I
> was wondering whether having an ISDN connection is straighforward with
> debian ? there is a package in hamm called isdnutils. However,
> what I found on the net was a FAQ (rather old) for a package called
> isdn4linux. Are these the same ? Any ideas about a good external terminal
> adpter ? Any other manuals around ?
> Thanks very much for any help
> George
> 
It appears that the most popular configuration is to use ISDN routers on
a network.  This removes the need to work with an ISDN device and look
at it as another Network address.  I'm looking at the NetGear product
for economy.  Others seem to like Ascend, but they're significantly
more.

I have a SpellCaster card that I'm going to replace with a router...  It
is a little flakey.  (I use it in Win95 & linux).

Of cousre USA ISDN != Other ISDN...

Enjoy -- Greg.
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ISDN question

[G. Kapetanios]

Hi, 
I have the ooportunity to have an ISDN line instead of modem at my home. I
was wondering whether having an ISDN connection is straighforward with
debian ? there is a package in hamm called isdnutils. However, 
what I found on the net was a FAQ (rather old) for a package called
isdn4linux. Are these the same ? Any ideas about a good external terminal
adpter ? Any other manuals around ? 
Thanks very much for any help
George 


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Ramdisk issue fixed - now it's a LILO problem

[Chris Vaughn]

After installing Debian GNU/Linux 2.0, configuring and
rebooting the system, I get a stream of scrolling LI's

LI
LI
LI
LI
LI

and so on...

According to the LILO documentation this means that the second stage
boot loader is loaded but has failed to execute.  At first I thought
it might be an issue with a large disk, but my root partition is
<500MB and the first partition on the disk.

I have tried reinstalling/reconfiguring LILO with no success.
The system is a Compaq Proliant with a 2GB SCSI disk.

Can anyone provide me with more information on how to fix this
problem?

Thanks,

-- Chris

Re: Keyboard Policy

[Branden Robinson]

On Wed, Sep 23, 1998 at 01:02:18PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote:

> That is all for me. The policy is not understandable for non-experts
> and the system is not working as it should.
>
> Could anybody guess what is wrong on my system or translate the policy
> from this expert slang? Thank you.

There is extensive documentation regarding the xterm keyboard situation in
the file /usr/doc/xbase/README.Debian.

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Description: PGP signature

Problems mounting CD.

[Familien Bolding]

I have problems mounting my CD.

Here is a snip of the boot process:

ide: i82371 PIIX (Triton) on PCI bus 0 function 9
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xe000-0xe007
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xe008-0xe00f
hda: FUJITSU MPA3026ATU, 2503MB w/0kB Cache, CHS=635/128/63, DMA
hdb: FUJITSU MPA3026ATU, 2503MB w/0kB Cache, CHS=635/128/63, DMA
hdc: Pioneer CD-ROM ATAPI Model DR-A24X 0101, ATAPI CDROM drive
ide2: ports already in use, skipping probe
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15

When I the try: mount /cdrom with proper settings in /etc/fstab after a
while I get
hdc: irq timeout: status=0x51
hdc: irq timeout: error=0x60
hdc: irq timeout: status=0x50
hdc: irq timeout: status=0x50
hdc: irq timeout: status=0x50
hdc: ATAPI reset complete
hdc: irq timeout: status=0x50
hdc: irq timeout: status=0x50
hdc: irq timeout: status=0x50
hdc: irq timeout: status=0x50
hdc: ATAPI reset complete
hdc: irq timeout: status=0x50
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00, sector 0
.
.
.
And after 10-15 minutes the mount process core-dumps.

Karsten

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Re: Syncing local SW depot to remote one

[Torsten Hilbrich]

On: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 16:13:36 +0900 (JST) Joe Marchak writes:
> 
> Hi,
> I have a disk with the debian distributions on it which I would like
> to automatically update from an ftp site.  Is there a good way to do
> this?

I use the mirror program (main/net section) for keeping my home page
in sync with a local directory.  It works in both direction.  Here is
my config file for the put direction:

package=webspace
comment="Mein persönlicher Webspace bei IN-Berlin"
site=stargate.in-berlin.de
remote_dir=/user/myrkr/public_html
local_dir=/home/torsten/public_html
remote_user=myrkr
remote_password=
get_file=false
verbose=true


Torsten

Re: mp3 player

[Torsten Hilbrich]

On: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 22:09:46 -0700 (PDT) Oz Dror writes:
> 
> What is the MIME type for mp3
> what lines to add to .mailcap and .mime.types

My apaches mime.types tells:

audio/mpeg  mpga mp2 mp3

The line in .mailcap should be similiar to this one (installed by the
xanim package):

video/mpeg; xanim +q %s; description="MPEG Video Format"; test=test "$DISPLAY" 
!= ""

Torsten

Re: ip acct and devel. kernel

[Stephen J. Carpenter]

On Wed, Sep 23, 1998 at 11:15:26AM -0700, Max wrote:
> You (Stephen J. Carpenter) wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 22, 1998 at 08:55:15PM -0700, Max wrote:
> > > Is there something special I need to do to be able to use IP
> > > accounting with the development kernel (2.1.121)?  /proc/net/ip_acct
> > > doesn't exist and programs such as ipacset and ipfwadm complain about
> > > it.  What's going on?  Do I need to enable IP firewalling in the
> > > kernel?  If so, that option is greyed out and I have no idea how to
> > > ungrey it so that I can enable it.
> > 
> > ipfwadm doesn't work. 2.1.x kernels (later than 98 I think...I am not sure 
> > since when) use a completely differnt way of working. 
> > 
> > The new command is ipchains and is completely differnt...
> > for a quick and easy cheat... there is ipfwadm-wrapper
> > heres the manpage snippit:
> > DESCRIPTION
> >Ipfwadm-wrapper emulates the behaviour of ipfwadm. You can
> >use this wrapper to use your old  ipfwadm  firewall  rules
> >with ipchains. See ipfwadm(8) for more details.
> >  
> > both are found on my debian system as part of netbase
> 
> Thanks for your help, but it looks like I still need to enable IP
> firewalling in the kernel because I get the following message with
> ipfwadm-wrapper:
> 
> Generic IP Firewall Chains not in this kernel
> 
> ipchains -L reports:
> 
> ipchains: cannot open file `/proc/net/ip_fwnames'
> 
> The question is how to enable firewalls when that option is greyed out
> in the kernel configuration menu.  Any clues?


hmm is IP forwardign on? firewalling is kinda useless without
forwarding...somtimes another option turns it on...hmmm

I dunno I am using 2.1.120...havn't tried 2.1.121 yet...

-Steve

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X PHYSICAL WINDOW 2 BIG!

[BOB'S MAIL]

I Installed X with a Trio S3 card.  I answer the 'xf86config' query "NO" I
DO NOT WANT the physical window larger than the screen, BUT IT ALWAYS IS.
The mouse brings it over, but it makes things difficult.

I did SuperProbe and entered the return for chip set in 'xv86config' .  I
cannot find the book on the Sceptre 14" monitor.

How to do get the X window to fit the screen.

TIA,

Bob Barth
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Re: ip acct and devel. kernel

[Max]

You (Stephen J. Carpenter) wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 22, 1998 at 08:55:15PM -0700, Max wrote:
> > Is there something special I need to do to be able to use IP
> > accounting with the development kernel (2.1.121)?  /proc/net/ip_acct
> > doesn't exist and programs such as ipacset and ipfwadm complain about
> > it.  What's going on?  Do I need to enable IP firewalling in the
> > kernel?  If so, that option is greyed out and I have no idea how to
> > ungrey it so that I can enable it.
> 
> ipfwadm doesn't work. 2.1.x kernels (later than 98 I think...I am not sure 
> since when) use a completely differnt way of working. 
> 
> The new command is ipchains and is completely differnt...
> for a quick and easy cheat... there is ipfwadm-wrapper
> heres the manpage snippit:
> DESCRIPTION
>Ipfwadm-wrapper emulates the behaviour of ipfwadm. You can
>use this wrapper to use your old  ipfwadm  firewall  rules
>with ipchains. See ipfwadm(8) for more details.
>  
> both are found on my debian system as part of netbase

Thanks for your help, but it looks like I still need to enable IP
firewalling in the kernel because I get the following message with
ipfwadm-wrapper:

Generic IP Firewall Chains not in this kernel

ipchains -L reports:

ipchains: cannot open file `/proc/net/ip_fwnames'

The question is how to enable firewalls when that option is greyed out
in the kernel configuration menu.  Any clues?

Thanks,
Max

Re: pppd on leased line

[john]

> I am trying to set up pppd on async serial line (2x USR Courier
> configured to do a leased line).

> I didn't find in docs/manuals anything about that and I have little
> problems.  does anyone some experience with it?

Once you have the modems configured it should be just like making a pppd
connection with a null modem, except that you will not want to give pppd
the 'local' option.  What problems are you having?  I can send you a sample
options.ttySX file if you wish.
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Speed improvements in the new ipmasq package

[Manoj Srivastava]

Package: ipmasq
Version: 3.1.3

Hi,

As the /etc/ipmasq/rules/*.def show, I used to have rules like
# local interface, local machines, going anywhere is valid
$IPFWADM -I -a accept -V `ipofif $int` -S `ipofif $int`/`nmofif $int` -D 
0.0.0.0/0

The problem comes when you have a largish number of rules,
 like I do. I prefer to close down all access to my machine on the
 internet side, and only allow packets in on selected ports from known
 sources. This makes for a large number of rules, and the effect of
 making two or three calls to ipofif and nmofif per rule was
 significantly bogging down the time taken to set up the wall.

Add to the fact that the ipmasq script is supposed to be run
 on every dialup (and I have diald, this means every few minutes,
 maybe).

Since we do not need to call the ipofif more than once per
 session, certainly not a couple of times every rule, this slowdown is
 preventable. I have come up with a method of only calling the ipofif
 and nmofif once per if per session. I suggest that this be made the
 default for the debian ipmasq package.

I came up with this A01interfaces.rul (I propose this become
 the installed standard), which gathers the interface data, and stores
 the IP and the NM of the interfaces (using eval) once and for
 all. Also submitted here is an example excerpt from one of my .rul
 file showing how this can be used (I'll be willing to give modified
 version of all the *.def files if needed).

Note how eval is used to pass the IP and NM information for
 the interfaces to the other rules.

==
#!/bin/sh

# find interface names
EXTERNAL=`default-if`
INTERNAL=`enumerate-if | grep -v lo`

if [ -n "$EXTERNAL" ]; then
for ext in $EXTERNAL; do
INTERNAL=`echo $INTERNAL | sed -e s/$ext//`
done
fi

# set up the ip and netmasq of all the interfaces
if [ -n "$EXTERNAL" ]; then
for ext in $EXTERNAL; do
IPOFIF=$(ipofif $ext)
NMOFIF=$(nmofif $ext)
eval "IPOFIF_$ext=$IPOFIF"
eval "NMOFIF_$ext=$NMOFIF"
echo "Getting addresses for external $ext: IP=$IPOFIF NM=$NMOFIF"
done
fi


if [ -n "$INTERNAL" ]; then
for int in $INTERNAL; do
IPOFIF=$(ipofif $int)
NMOFIF=$(nmofif $int)
eval "IPOFIF_$int=$IPOFIF"
eval "NMOFIF_$int=$NMOFIF"
echo "Getting addresses for internal $int: IP=$IPOFIF NM=$NMOFIF"
done
fi
==

I30internal.rul excerpt (the real file is looong, and also,
dissemination os a security breach ;-)

==
if [ -n "$INTERNAL" ]; then
 for int in $INTERNAL; do
  ext='';
  eval "IPOFIF_INT=\$IPOFIF_$int"
  eval "NMOFIF_INT=\$NMOFIF_$int"
  echo "I30internal  rules $IPFWADM int=$int";
  case $MASQMETHOD in
ipfwadm)
 # local interface, local machines, going anywhere is valid
 $IPFWADM -I -a accept -V $IPOFIF_INT -S $IPOFIF_INT/$NMOFIF_INT -D 
0.0.0.0/0

[SNIP]

 if [ -n "$EXTERNAL" ]; then
   for ext in $EXTERNAL; do
echo "I30internal rules $IPFWADM int=$int ext=$ext"
eval "IPOFIF_EXT=\$IPOFIF_$ext"
eval "NMOFIF_EXT=\$NMOFIF_$ext"
# remote interface, claiming to be local machines, IP
# spoofing, get lost 
$IPFWADM -I -a deny -V $IPOFIF_EXT -S $IPOFIF_INT/$NMOFIF_INT -D 
0.0.0.0/0 -o

[SNIP]

  done
 fi
 ;;
   ipchains)
 # local interface, local machines, going anywhere is valid
 $IPCHAINS -A input -j ACCEPT -i $int -s $IPOFIF_INT/$NMOFIF_INT 
 if [  -n "$EXTERNAL"  ]; then
   for ext in "$EXTERNAL" ; do
 echo "I30internal rules $IPFWADM int=$int ext=$ext"
 eval "IPOFIF_EXT=\$IPOFIF_$ext"
 eval "NMOFIF_EXT=\$NMOFIF_$ext"
 # remote interface, claiming to be local machines, IP
 # spoofing, get lost 
 $IPCHAINS -A input -j DENY -i $ext -s $IPOFIF_INT/$NMOFIF_INT -o

[SNIP]

 done
   fi
   ;;
   esac
 done
fi
==


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Debian Release: slink
Kernel Version: Linux tiamat 2.0.35 #1 Fri Jul 17 13:07:56 CDT 1998 i486 unknown

Versions of the packages ipmasq depends on:
ii  netbase 3.11-1 Basic TCP/IP networking binaries

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kernel 2.1.xx

[Marco Machmer]

hy there,

can i get a debian package with the new kernel 2.1.xx for my
debian 2.0 system.

marco

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Process Killer

[Tim Buller]

I'm looking for a script (shell or perl, pref.) that can be run out of
cron periodically to kill processes (spf. netscape) that are running under
a UID of a user who is not logged in. Netscape does not die if folks log
out without killing it in one of our labs. Just wondering if anyone has
such a thing handy...

Tim


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Getting Netscape Running

[MJ Watson]

Having just installed 2.0 at home, my next project is to
get Netscape up and running.  I'm assuming that some form
of Xwindowing is required.  If so, startx blows off with
numerous errors (sorry, I'm not at home, so don't have
the errors at hadn:  Basically, xinitrc can't be found,
and a series of "can't connect" errors occur).

Also, in looking at Netscape's ftp site, there is more
than one version for linux:  mklinux, linux20_glibc2, linux12.
Is there a FAQ anywhere for how to choose and build Netscape?

Thanks,
Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

INN pgpverify?

[Nathan E Norman]

I _had_ pgpverify working with INN 1.7.2.  Now, suddenly, it doesn't
work anymore :)  I'm not at all sure this is Debian's fault (I don't
recall a new INN package being installed), but I wondered if anyone else
was having luck (good or bad) with Debian INN and pgpverify ...

Back to my attempts to unbreak it!  (I still haven't managed to get INN
1.7.2+insync to compile :(  It breaks when I say DO to perl support)

TIA

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Re: Logoff & clearscreen

[Ed Cogburn]

Michael Beattie wrote:
> 
> On 22 Sep 1998, Ruud de Bruin wrote:
> 
> > I want to issue a "clearscreen" in or after a logout command so that the
> > next login is on a blank screen. How can I accomplish this?
> >
> > regards, Ruud.
> 
> trap clear EXIT
> 
> in .bash_profile
> 


FYI, the mingetty getty will do a clearscreen automatically.


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PS/2 Pointing Device Setup

[Dirk Melchers]

Hi,

I just got Debian with X running on my Notebook PC, and now I'm trying to
get my pointing device working.  It is supposed to run on the PS/2 port, as
my bios determines if the built in pointing device is used as PS/2 or the
external port.  How do I set up the PS/2 mouse to be on /dev/mouse, as
currently my serial mouse port is mapped to that location, so I have to
externally connect one.

Thanks,

Dirk

Re: chown for the floppy group

[Ed Cogburn]

Mark Panzer wrote:
> 
> Kenneth Scharf wrote:
> >
> > You can also add a line to /etc/fstab for /dev/fd0  with options to
> > set to user access without mounting the disk.  That way anyone may
> > mount a floppy.
> > -
> Well, I suppose I better RTFM some more.  However, I did a chgrp floppy
> /floppy, all is fine and dandy without any floppy mounted.  However,
> when I mount a floppy as root the root group once again owns the /floppy
> directory which means I cannot write to it when I'm logged in as a


This is normal.  The default uid/gid (as mount understands them) is
used when mounting.  The uid/gid of the mount dir, when nothing is
mounted there, is meaningless.  You need to pass a uid/gid option when
mounting that sets the user and group id's of the mounted filesystem. 
For example:

/dev/hda1  /dosc  vfat  defaults,umask=002,uid=0,gid=35  0  0

This sets the files in my dos partition to be owned by root and the
'dos' group (look in /etc/group; it might already be there).  The
umask=2 allows read/write access for members of group 35 (dos).


> standard user.  I also have this problem when I try to mount my vfat
> win95 partiton.  Another question when I try to mount a vfat partition I
> get the errors:
> Unable to load NLS charset cp437(nls_437)
> Unable to load NLS charset iso8859-1(nls_iso8859_1)


Do you have a codepage and NLS ISO  selected in the filesystems
section of the kernel config?  I have the following selected as modules
when building the kernel (all in the filesystem's section):

Native language support (this must be selected to see the other options
below)
DOS FAT fs support
MSDOS fs support
VFAT (windows-95) fs support
Codepage 437
NLS ISO 8859-1


> but I can still read and write to the disk (as root), I'm guessing I did
> something wrong when I recently compiled the kernel with kpkg.
> 
> > >
> > > I noticed when I'm logged in as a normal user (not root) I cannot
> > write
> > > to the floppy drive.  I checked out the permissions, I'm in the floppy
> > > group but /floppy belongs to root and is of the group root.  While I
> > was
> > > root user I tried to
> > >
> > > chown .floppy /floppy
> > >
> > > but it says, root is not a member of the group floppy.
> >
> > Which is probably true. :)
> > What about this:
> >
> > # chgrp floppy /floppy
> >
> > _
> > DO YOU YAHOO!?
> > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
> >
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Re: Communications with Psion handheld computers/diaries?

[Phillip Deackes]

Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does anyone know whether backup-software exists in linux enabling a
> linux
> box to communicate with a Psion Siena?

Yes - you need an app called p3nfs - I have it as an rpm back from when
I had a RedHat system, but I know it is available as a Debian package.
Basically once installed, you can mount your Psion just like you can any
other disk etc.. Very neat to see all your Psion stuff on your Linux
box!

Not sure if these web pages still exist, but try:

http://wol.ra.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/psion/psion.html

http://info.bris.ac.uk/~lwmdcg/Psion/

The first is a guide to getting the Psion to link with a Linux box so
that would be *very* useful!

Note that my experiences have been with the Series 3 and 3a - I have
never used a Siena so it may be different.

Good luck!


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security problem

[count zero]

i run on my debian 2  the telnet daemon:
i want the a particoular user named tonon  couldn't login to my pc by net
but only by console ..
he isn't root 

what files i need to edit?
i try to edit login.access and here it is as i configure it but it doesn't
work
any suggestion? thanks 



# $Id: login.access,v 1.2 1996/09/10 02:45:04 marekm Exp $
#
# Login access control table.
# 
# When someone logs in, the table is scanned for the first entry that
# matches the (user, host) combination, or, in case of non-networked
# logins, the first entry that matches the (user, tty) combination.  The
# permissions field of that table entry determines whether the login will 
# be accepted or refused.
# 
# Format of the login access control table is three fields separated by a
# ":" character:
# 
#   permission : users : origins
# 
# The first field should be a "+" (access granted) or "-" (access denied)
# character. 
#
# The second field should be a list of one or more login names, group
# names, or ALL (always matches). A pattern of the form [EMAIL PROTECTED] is
# matched when the login name matches the "user" part, and when the
# "host" part matches the local machine name.
#
# The third field should be a list of one or more tty names (for
# non-networked logins), host names, domain names (begin with "."), host
# addresses, internet network numbers (end with "."), ALL (always
# matches) or LOCAL (matches any string that does not contain a "."
# character).
#
# If you run NIS you can use @netgroupname in host or user patterns; this
# even works for @usergroup@@hostgroup patterns. Weird.
#
# The EXCEPT operator makes it possible to write very compact rules.
#
# The group file is searched only when a name does not match that of the
# logged-in user. Only groups are matched in which users are explicitly
# listed: the program does not look at a user's primary group id value.
#
##
# 
# Disallow console logins to all but a few accounts.
#
#-:ALL EXCEPT wheel shutdown sync:console
#
# Disallow non-local logins to privileged accounts (group wheel).
#
#-:wheel:ALL EXCEPT LOCAL .win.tue.nl
#
# Some accounts are not allowed to login from anywhere:
#
#-:wsbscaro wsbsecr wsbspac wsbsym wscosor wstaiwde:ALL
#
# All other accounts are allowed to login from anywhere.
#
-:tonon:ALL EXCEPT LOCAL

Re: newbie help(3): no isolatin with debian-less???

[Ole J. Tetlie]

*-Bruno Boettcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| hello,
| 
| me again
| 
| is it normal that standard debinized less isn't able to cope with isolatin
| texts? How does it come? or do i have installed the wrong package?

It is. Just
> export LESSCHARSET=latin1
and all is well. You would probably put it in .bashrc and/or .bash_profile
so you don't have to type it every time you start a new shell.

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Re: Compiling the dpkg source package..

[Marcus Brinkmann]

On Tue, Sep 22, 1998 at 04:40:13PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Sep 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> 
> > dpkg-source -x foo_version.dsc
> > cd foo_version
> > debian/rules binary  or   dpkg-buildpackage -b -us -uc
> > 
> > Marcus
> 
> Thanks - I appreciate it. :)   The output of dpkg-buildpackage even showed
> how to call aclocal to get things started, and tell me that I gnu gettext,
> which I didn't have was needed. 

Ah, yes, this reminds me of a problem that we all would like a solution for.
Currently, Debian has no source dependency, this means, there is no way dpkg
can tell you that you need gettext and so on.

In a later source format, we'll most certainly implement this...

Marcus

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Re: Reading BIOS values under Linux

[Ulisses Alonso Camaro]

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Hi

On Wed, 23 Sep 1998, Timm Gleason wrote:

> I am trying to write a check script so that I may assure that the proper
> amount of RAM has been initialized in lilo.conf. Is there a way that one can
> read installed memory values from the motherboard BIOS so that I can compare
> them to the initialized values?

I think there is an utility in ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux capable to
play with most usual BIOS

try with a mirror of this archive, there are alot... and
look in the system or admin directories...

I hope this helps

regards,

Ulisses

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Re: Redirect printer output to email?

[servis]

*- Kent West wrote about "Redirect printer output to email?"
[cool use of technology, snipped]
| 
| I figure Linux is powerful enough to do what I asked above. I've just about
| gotten samba figured out enough to allow the Win95 box to print to it; what
| I need to know is how to route that printed info to a mail message. We can
| then email the message to our campus security beepers (this mechanism is
| already in place).

It depends on the format of the print information that the Win95
machine is sending to the printer.  If it thinks it is sending
the data to a specific printer type it will send the info in the printer
language, say PCL or something.  This would be useless to a text based
email program.  If on the other hand Win95 thinks it is attached to a
generic/text based printer then it should work fine(Assuming the
info to print is just plain text). The input fileter(if=) in the
printcap definition on the server of the printer will just have to grab
a copy of the stdin before it passes it to the printer on stdout and
then call the paging program with that data.

Something like the following, don't take my word on it. I am not a
great shell programmer.

#!/bin/sh
# the script called by 'if' in the printcap for the samba printer
# 
# assume input to filter is plain text

# copy stdin to tmp file
cat - > /tmp/pager.$$

# feed to pager email
mailx -s "Page Message" [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /tmp/pager.$$

# pass stdin through ascii to ps converter and then 
# let ghostscript create a printer file to pass on to the 
# printer.
a2ps [options] /tmp/pager.$$ | ghostscript -s -sDEVICE=printername \
-sOUTPUTFILE=- -

rm /tmp/pager.$$
# end


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Re: ip acct and devel. kernel

[Hamish Moffatt]

On Tue, Sep 22, 1998 at 08:55:15PM -0700, Max wrote:
> Is there something special I need to do to be able to use IP
> accounting with the development kernel (2.1.121)?  /proc/net/ip_acct
> doesn't exist and programs such as ipacset and ipfwadm complain about
> it.  What's going on?  Do I need to enable IP firewalling in the
> kernel?  If so, that option is greyed out and I have no idea how to
> ungrey it so that I can enable it.

The ipac home page says

  Linux 2.1.x:

   ipac does not yet work with development (2.1.x) kernels, since the
   firewall and thus ip accounting concept changed completely. There are
   plans to port it to 2.1.x, but this may still take some time.


Hamish (ipac maintainer for Debian)
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Ramdisk won't go away?

[Chris Vaughn]

I've just installed Debian 2.0 on a Compaq Proliant.  Everything seems
to be in order, except for the fact that every time the system is
booted, I get the screen displaying "This is the Debian Rescue disk..."
followed by the "boot:" prompt.

This screen comes up despite the fact that I am booting directly from the
hard disk.  If I type "linux root=/dev/sda1", the system comes up
fine.

How do I get the system to boot this way automatically?  I'm sure this
must be simple, but I've tried checking the FAQ and DejaNews with no
success.

Thanks,

-- Chris

newbie help(3): no isolatin with debian-less???

[Bruno Boettcher]

hello,

me again

is it normal that standard debinized less isn't able to cope with isolatin
texts? How does it come? or do i have installed the wrong package?
 
ciao
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newbie help(2): ghost changes my hostname??!!

[Bruno Boettcher]

i have written:
- when the bandwith on our ethernet sinks due mainly to a very slick
M$-proggy, my brand new debian system looses its system name (at least i
noticed this every time the network was out for several minutes...) the
name beeing replaced by a '-f'

that's quite annoying since it also affects my rights to the display (after
that impossible to open a new X-app...), what can i do against it? (su'ing
and resetting the system name isn't very interesting...) 

wanted to correct that one: since the guy with his nuisance-proggy went home, i
notice that the hostname change occurs even without ethernet-blocking. i
can't isolate exactly what induces the hostname change, but in roots crontab
there#s nothing i do not lauchn progs, that change the name... so what's
happening?


 
ciao
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Re: pppd on leased line

[Zilvinas Valinskas]

There is a mini Leased Line Howto @ http://www.linuxhq.com/HOWTO/
on how to make a modem in leased line mode and configure pppd 
goodluck

At 10:27 1998.09.23 -0500, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
>Could you be more specific about your problems? What are you using to start 
>pppd, just
>pppd or pon, etc. How far do you get? Could you post debug output from pppd? 
>(Add
>'debug' to pppd options and collect messages from /var/log/ppp.log.)
>
>Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am trying to set up pppd on async serial line (2x USR Courier configured
>> to do a leased line).
>>
>> I didn't find in docs/manuals anything about that and I have little
>> problems.
>> does anyone some experience with it?
>>
>> Thanks.
>> --
>>  Matus "fantomas" Uhlar, sysadmin at NETLAB+ Kosice, Slovakia
>>  BIC coord for *.sk; admin of netlab.irc.sk; co-admin of irc.felk.cvut.cz
>>
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Re: pppd on leased line

[Jens B. Jorgensen]

Could you be more specific about your problems? What are you using to start 
pppd, just
pppd or pon, etc. How far do you get? Could you post debug output from pppd? 
(Add
'debug' to pppd options and collect messages from /var/log/ppp.log.)

Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am trying to set up pppd on async serial line (2x USR Courier configured
> to do a leased line).
>
> I didn't find in docs/manuals anything about that and I have little
> problems.
> does anyone some experience with it?
>
> Thanks.
> --
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>  BIC coord for *.sk; admin of netlab.irc.sk; co-admin of irc.felk.cvut.cz
>
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Reading BIOS values under Linux

[Timm Gleason]

I am trying to write a check script so that I may assure that the proper
amount of RAM has been initialized in lilo.conf. Is there a way that one can
read installed memory values from the motherboard BIOS so that I can compare
them to the initialized values?

Timm Gleason

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Re: qpopper and cucipop

[Jens B. Jorgensen]

I'm not sure you can tell qpopper to run on a port other than 110 and even if 
you did
this would probably cause you problems since most clients don't allow you to 
specify a
port for your pop server. One possibility would be to use ip aliasing to add 
another
IP and have qpopper bind to the other address. This would require you to modify 
the
source code though. Perhaps there's an easier way around your problem. Why 
can't you
run smail/sendmail/exim/qmail?

Oliver Thuns wrote:

> Hello!
>
> Is it possible to install qpopper AND cucipop? cucipop should be the
> default pop3 server and qpopper should listen to another port for
> receiving emails (xtnd xmit).

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Re: Java and Linux

[Bruno Boettcher]

> I'm doing some java development in linux and I was wondering if anyone
> had some good tools to suggest.  I have tried xemacs with jde, but I
> wasn't impressed (xemacs is blotted and slow).  I've been using plain
depends on the machine... ;)

> old fte ever since.  I've heard that kaffe is suppose to be good, but
never used fte, but it seems to have a good press and kaffe until you
don't really need the advanced features of java nor the full GUI-stuff,
it's ok.

i am using vim + plain sun(blackdown)JDK for normal development and
netbeans if i have to prototype a graphical frontend to something
 
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Redirect printer output to email?

[Kent West]

This isn't specifically Debian-related, but if I can get this done it'll be
a major score on campus for Linux in general and Debian specifically.

Can I print from a Win95 box to a Debian queue and route that output to an
email message as well as to a printer?

For those who are interested, here's the background:
Whenever a campus phone is used to dial 911, a signal goes to the city's
911 dispatch office. A signal also goes to a local Win95 box on campus
running specialized 911 software. This software logs the incident, prints a
hardcopy, and is supposed to send an alpha page to our campus security
cops. Problem is that the 911 software and our paging company can't seem to
communicate with each other. The 911 software people blame the paging
company, and the paging company blame the 911 software. (I think the 911
software is to blame; there's no way to customize the data going across the
modem to account for different handshaking methods, etc).

Although Win95/NT printers can be redirected to a text file, there's no way
to pre-assign a name to that text file. So everytime a 911 call comes in,
someone has to go to the Win95 box and tell it to save the file as
"911.txt" or something similar. Of course, this defeats the entire idea of
automation.

I figure Linux is powerful enough to do what I asked above. I've just about
gotten samba figured out enough to allow the Win95 box to print to it; what
I need to know is how to route that printed info to a mail message. We can
then email the message to our campus security beepers (this mechanism is
already in place).

Thanks!


Kent West, Technology Support
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Re: Install probs; base1 panic

[Kent West]

At 02:27 AM 9/23/1998 +, you wrote:
>May be I should desribe the problem of linux-installation exactly.
>
>  I already had the floppys needed for installation such as
resc1440.bin,drv1440.bin,base14-1.bin ... and base14-5.bin. 
>
>  First ,I put the  resc1440.bin into driver A and boot the system, it
worked and prompted me for boot-methods and parameters choosing. there were
four methods ,I selected 'floppy0' ,put into drive A with 'base14-1'.bin
and pressed the return-key.
>  The mechine sent me message 'Kernal panic :VFS: Unable to mount root fs
on 02:00' finaly.
>
>Maybe you can tell me that which boot-method and floppy being used is
correct.
>Thanks!

Yes, if you got to the point where it prompted you for boot methods, etc,
you're doing fine. 'floppy0' is the first floppy (A:), so that's okay also.
It sounds like the base14-1.bin floppy is bad. I'd try a different disk,
and 'rawrite2' it again with the base14-1.bin image. You might even want to
download that image again; it may be that the image itself was bad instead
of the floppy (but I doubt it, or rawrite2 would have choked).


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nfsd bug in debian?

[Ulisses Alonso Camaro]

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I have not recieved any notification from the debian security mailing
list... but I would like someone confirm this

Thanks in advance,

Ulisses

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Java and Linux

[Mrpeabody]

I'm doing some java development in linux and I was wondering if anyone
had some good tools to suggest.  I have tried xemacs with jde, but I
wasn't impressed (xemacs is blotted and slow).  I've been using plain
old fte ever since.  I've heard that kaffe is suppose to be good, but
they don't have the bugs ironed out yet I guess.
-jeff

Once again: bo->hamm and wtmp

[Erik Bunn]

Having just updated two computers from bo to hamm, I've run into the
same problem Eric Fain described on this list a while back. It seems
I'm not the only one with this problem, so finding the solution may
prove useful for future updaters..

I used the apt upgrade and followed the upgrade instructions to
the letter, reboots and all; /var/log/wtmp and /var/run/utmp were
recreated and their rights are correct, and all software has been
updated (I checked that they use libc6). Still, when logging on from
the network (through ssh - I don't permit any other connection),
who, finger, last, et al. don't show anything. The wtmp file is
not updated, and its length remains zero. The utmp file seems to
work.

On a hunch, I ran xterm (libc6), and `who` showed the user running
xterm. Does this help isolate the problem at all? I updated my zsh
and compiled the latest ssh, but these don't seem to affect anything.

Ideas? Feel free to throw suggestions my way.

Thanks;
//erik


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Re: xemacs

[Jean Pierre LeJacq]

On Wed, 23 Sep 1998, Mikael W Asp wrote:

> Xemacs is usually not a problem to me, but now I don't have a clue.
> Every time I try to use html-mode it says in the modeline (HTML Font)
> but when push tab so indent the line I get this message:
> 
> External entity html not fount
>   Public identifier -//IETF//DTD HTML//EN
> 
> and then the modeline says (HTML [html] Font).

Xemacs is usnig the SGML mode which requires the SGML catalog.  Check
the info page to make sure you have this configured properly.

-- 
Jean Pierre

re: Logoff & clear screen

[Mike Barton]

On 22 Sep 1998, Ruud de Bruin wrote:

> I want to issue a "clearscreen" in or after a logout command so that
the
> next login is on a blank screen. How can I accomplish this?
>
Terry Carney wrote:
>>
>>If you are using bash then create a file named '.bash_logout', if one
>>dowsn't exist, and add the single command 'clear' .

You can also add:
trap clear 0
at the top of /etc/profile
This will clear the console screen irrespective of which VT that's in
use or who's using it. It's just a single entry in one file.

Mike

xemacs

[Mikael W Asp]

Hi there!

Xemacs is usually not a problem to me, but now I don't have a clue.
Every time I try to use html-mode it says in the modeline (HTML Font)
but when push tab so indent the line I get this message:

External entity html not fount
  Public identifier -//IETF//DTD HTML//EN

and then the modeline says (HTML [html] Font).

I'm not sure this is the right mailing list but I have no problem in
other dists.

Regards

\Mikael

Re: ip acct and devel. kernel

[Stephen J. Carpenter]

On Tue, Sep 22, 1998 at 08:55:15PM -0700, Max wrote:
> Is there something special I need to do to be able to use IP
> accounting with the development kernel (2.1.121)?  /proc/net/ip_acct
> doesn't exist and programs such as ipacset and ipfwadm complain about
> it.  What's going on?  Do I need to enable IP firewalling in the
> kernel?  If so, that option is greyed out and I have no idea how to
> ungrey it so that I can enable it.

ipfwadm doesn't work. 2.1.x kernels (later than 98 I think...I am not sure 
since when) use a completely differnt way of working. 

The new command is ipchains and is completely differnt...
for a quick and easy cheat... there is ipfwadm-wrapper
heres the manpage snippit:
DESCRIPTION
   Ipfwadm-wrapper emulates the behaviour of ipfwadm. You can
   use this wrapper to use your old  ipfwadm  firewall  rules
   with ipchains. See ipfwadm(8) for more details.
 
both are found on my debian system as part of netbase

-Steve
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Re: Network debian with win 98

[Stephen J. Carpenter]

On Mon, Sep 21, 1998 at 11:41:25PM -0400, Collin Rose wrote:
> I cannot network my win98 and linux machine. I put linux on the 98 machine
> to check the net connection. It works fine. Any ideas on this?
> I cannot even ping the other computer. I do have TCP/IP installed on the 98
> system.

Ok...
if installing linux on the "98 machine" works fine then it sounds like 
your network is properly wired...

You installed TCP/IP on the 98 machine...did you configure it? 
WHat IP adresses and Subnet masks did you use?

Do you have tcpdump on the linux machine? If you can't ,ake sense of the
tcpdump output then just post it and im sure someone can tell you what it
means. Just run tcpdump and start the 98 machine trying to ping.

if you don't get ANY output form tcpdump then you can be 99.9% sure it is
a hardware/wiring problem. If you see ICMP echo requests (pings)
then you probably have a software misconfiguration on one or the other
(check the subnet masks ;) )

just for a reference heres what I use for IPs

IPs: 10.0.0.* 
subnet mask: 255.255.255.0 

-Steve
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Re: newbie help....

[Martin Bialasinski]

>> "BB" == Bruno Boettcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

BB> - first of all i want my favourite mailreader back: pine. 
BB> the problem is, that the version for thesrc and diffs is 3.96 and i want
BB> to sue as before 4.03...

BB> now when i try to build pine by hand i get the following message: 
BB> 05:34:36 yoda:~/tmp/pine4.03$ build slx
BB> Cannot stat debian/rules

BB> i am quite clueless about this message. what shall i do to get a
BB> working copy? How hard is it to make  a debian package out of it?

First get the debian pine sources. They are on your local debian
mirror in project/experimental. You need the .diff.gz, .dsc and
.orig.tar.gz files. Better use a ftp client for this, not
netscape. Netscape uncompressed the diff.gz file when I did this,
causeing trouble for the next steps.

(install the dpkg-dev debian package)
Now create the pine source tree: dpkg-source -x pine*.dsc
Cd into the sourcedir: cd pine-4.04
Create the deb packages: debian/rules binary
Install the package: cd ..; dpkg -i pine*.deb pilot*.deb pico*.deb

Ciao,
Martin

Re: Logoff & clearscreen

[Michael Beattie]

>  Ruud> I want to issue a "clearscreen" in or after a logout command so
>  Ruud> that the next login is on a blank screen. How can I accomplish
>  Ruud> this?
> 
>  # tput clear  > /tmp/issue
>  # cat /etc/issue >> /tmp/issue
>  # mv  /tmp/issue/etc/issue
> 
>   So now you don't have to chase down each and every user and
>  put a clear in each and every shell rc file.
> 
>   Works like a charm.

although it hides the startup messages.. a small flaw, I have my 
'trap clear EXIT'
in /etc/profile

Works like a charm :)

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newbie help....

[Bruno Boettcher]

hello,
just switched to debian anmd run into some problems...

- first of all i want my favourite mailreader back: pine. 
the problem is, that the version for thesrc and diffs is 3.96 and i want
to sue as before 4.03...

now when i try to build pine by hand i get the following message: 
05:34:36 yoda:~/tmp/pine4.03$ build slx
Cannot stat debian/rules

i am quite clueless about this message. what shall i do to get a
working copy? How hard is it to make  a debian package out of it?

- then i use dselect to install or remove packages, i use a nearby mirror
and wanted to include the non-US part, but:
getting: dists/stable/non-US/binary-i386/pgp-us_2.6.3a-4.deb (283332)
dists/stable/non-US/binary-i386/pgp-i_2.6.3a-4.deb: No such file or
directory.

the path is wrong i have set the path to
dists/stable/main dists/stable/non-free dists/stable/contrib
/pub/mirror/non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/hamm

the last one since the stable link in non-US pointed on bo and not hamm
(which i have...)

and BTW when retrieving the Package listings, dselect get's it right:
Login as anonymous...
Setting transfer mode to binary...
Cd to `/debian'...
Checking dists/stable/main/binary-i386...
Checking dists/stable/non-free/binary-i386...
Checking dists/stable/contrib/binary-i386...
Checking /pub/mirror/non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/hamm/binary-i386...
Closing ftp connection...
Getting Packages files...(stop with ^C)
etc. without a prob...

so how get it right?

- when the bandwith on our ethernet sinks due mainly to a very slick
M$-proggy, my brand new debian system looses its system name (at least i
noticed this every time the network was out for several minutes...) the
name beeing replaced by a '-f'

that's quite annoying since it also affects my rights to the display (after
that impossible to open a new X-app...), what can i do against it? (su'ing
and resetting the system name isn't very interesting...) 

- i just got from Conrad Electronics a DCF-77 module that can be attached
to serial port of my computer, there even was a software delivered for it
but for DOS... serail number on it is WT-102S Radio controlled clock is
there any software for GNU/Linux debian to make a ntp-server with such a
thingy?

thanks for any help
 
ciao bboett
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Re: Is the 8Mb ATI expert 98 AGP 2x graphics card supported ?

[Toby Bouzane]

I use the ATI 8meg ALL-IN-WONDER AGP video card with Debian Linux and
it works fine.  Has the Rage Pro chip.  Hope This answeres your question.

Re: Software RAID ? Was: [Re: backup using hard disk - any ideas]

[Helge Hafting]

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 09/22/98 
   at 12:51 PM, Guido Bozzetto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

>On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrote:
>> 
>> Why not isolate the data you want to backup in you file system so you
>> can setup raid on the second spindle.  As an example:
>> /usr under Debian is fairly static, so don't include it in any raid
>> solution.  /home on the other hand has lots of stuff you do want to
>> preserve, So create a partition on a second or third drive that's the
>> same size as /home and setup raid to have the two mirror each-other.

>This is a software or hardware mirror ? If it's a software RAID how can I
>realize it ?

RAID can be done in hardware or software.  Software is cheaper, just get
an extra drive and install the md packages.  

Helge Hafting

Re: Is the 8Mb ATI expert 98 AGP 2x graphics card supported ?

[M.C. Vernon]

On Wed, 23 Sep 1998, G. Kapetanios wrote:

> The subject says it all. Is this card supported by Linux ?
> If not what can be done ? 
> Any suggestions are very welcome

George,

I asked this very recently, and was told it is - using the Mach64
server. I've yet to try it though.

HTH,

Matthew

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Is the 8Mb ATI expert 98 AGP 2x graphics card supported ?

[G. Kapetanios]

Hi all, 

The subject says it all. Is this card supported by Linux ?
If not what can be done ? 
Any suggestions are very welcome
TIA
George 


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Re: fs type iso9660 not supported by kernel

[Frank Barknecht]

Frank Barknecht hat gesagt: // Frank Barknecht wrote:

> 
> 1) By hand:
>  As root give the command:
>  $ modprobe iso9660
> 
> 2) Automatically at boot time:
>  put a line in /etc/modules with:
> iso9660
Oops, make that: iso9660 --> isofs.

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pppd on leased line

[fantomas]

Hello,

I am trying to set up pppd on async serial line (2x USR Courier configured
to do a leased line).

I didn't find in docs/manuals anything about that and I have little
problems.
does anyone some experience with it?

Thanks.
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Re: fs type iso9660 not supported by kernel

[Frank Barknecht]

me hat gesagt: // me wrote:

>   I installed Debian 2.0 from a bootable cd. Everythinng went fine until
> I rebooted
> and began deselect. I received the message "fs type iso9660 not
> supported by kernal.
> I did not see any option to enable NLS or anything that mention iso9660
> file system.
> What do I need to do. If you can help please give detailed info.
>   Thanks

iso9660 is the filesystem type used by many CD-ROMs. So the message you got
means that the kernel cannot read this type. The standard debian kernels
all come with iso9660 support as a loadable module.

To load and enable the iso support there are some ways:

1) By hand:
 As root give the command:
 $ modprobe iso9660

2) Automatically at boot time:
 put a line in /etc/modules with:
iso9660

3) Automatically with the help of the kernel daemon kerneld:
 Start kerneld with a line in /etc/modules:
auto
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Re: Keyboard Policy

[jdassen]

[Note: mailing list change]

On Wed, Sep 23, 1998 at 01:02:18PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
> After upgrading from 1.3 to 2.0 my system decided to ignore <-- in an
> xterm, netscape, but work on the console, emacs, etc.

Do you have Xkb enabled? The implementation of the keyboard policy for X
only works for Xkb.

>   `<--' generates KB_Backspace in X.
> 
>   `Delete' generates KB_Delete in X.
> 
> KB_Backspace, what is this?

An X keyboard event name (or something like it); check with "xev".

> That is all for me. The policy is not understandable for non-experts 

While it would be nice if it were, this isn't exactly a requirement; it is
meant for the developers who have to implement it.

> and the system is not working as it should.

This may be a result of not switching to updated configuration files as
supplied by the maintainer; I'd look into xbase's configuration files, and
in /etc/X11/XF86Config (which may have "XKbdDisable" in it).

Ray
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Keyboard Policy

[Rainer Dorsch]

After upgrading from 1.3 to 2.0 my system decided to ignore <-- in an xterm, 
netscape, but work on the console, emacs, etc.

Since I have seen this better on other systems, I though I should read the 
keyboard policy, to find out what is wrong. I found a section in the 
debian-policy package. Great!

Let's see what it says:

The following list explains how the different programs should be set up to 
achieve this:

  `<--' generates KB_Backspace in X.

  `Delete' generates KB_Delete in X.

KB_Backspace, what is this? Where is this done? I want to check if this is done 
on my system. Why can't you write


   `<--' generates KB_Backspace in X (archived by the entry XXX in file 
YYY).

Ok. Let's try to figure out with xkeycaps, what is bound to <--. Ah, it is 
Delete!!! Then change is to KB_Backspace. There is no KB_Backspace:-( Then try 
simply Backspace! This does not change anything!

That is all for me. The policy is not understandable for non-experts and the 
system is not working as it should.

Could anybody guess what is wrong on my system or translate the policy from 
this expert slang? Thank you.

Re: Logoff & clearscreen

[Manoj Srivastava]

Hi,
>>"Ruud" == Ruud de Bruin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

 Ruud> I want to issue a "clearscreen" in or after a logout command so
 Ruud> that the next login is on a blank screen. How can I accomplish
 Ruud> this?

 # tput clear  > /tmp/issue
 # cat /etc/issue >> /tmp/issue
 # mv  /tmp/issue/etc/issue

So now you don't have to chase down each and every user and
 put a clear in each and every shell rc file.

Works like a charm.

manoj
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Re: Fixkeys Mini Howto

[jdassen]

[Robert, this could be the basis for a FAQ entry: "How do I resize a Linux
partition?"]

On Wed, Sep 23, 1998 at 04:42:33AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
> Hans wrote:
> > Guesss it's time for me to install debian, anyone know an easy way to
> > resize an ext2 partition so I can add another one??
> 
> You can't yet resize an ext2 partition.

False. You can if you really want to.
There's an ext2 resizer available as part of the commercial "Partition
magic" product (http://www.partitionmagic.com/) for Windows. The code was
written by a developer of ext2 (Ted T'so) and will be released under the GPL
in the future. See http://slashdot.org/articles/98/09/22/2153256.shtml .

HTH,
Ray
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No menu in wmaker

[Cristov Russell]

I asked about not having any menu items in wmaker a couple of days ago and
might have a little more information.  I have verified that menu is
installed and when I check the .xsession-errors file it mentions a problem
with menu-hook.

I have not tried a different window manager since I am unsure how to do this
from within X or how to specify a different one before X starts.  Still very
new to Linux (but reading up as fast as I can).Any ideas?
Thanks.

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Re: Modem recommendation

[Harald Weidner]

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
G. Kapetanios <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>I am switching from ethernet to modem (end of school days) and I would be
>grateful about suggestion for a good external modem that works well under
>Debian
>2.0. 

I bought the 3com USR Message Faxmodem some weeks ago and cannot
complain. It supports 56K transfer with the X2 and V.90 standards,
and all the usual standards for 33K and below. It can receive faxes
and answer voice calls without the computer being turned on.

The only disadvantage is the missing K56flex standard. So, if your
provider supports this as the only 56K mode, then you should buy
another modem.

Harald
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Re: installing debian from more than 1 CD?

[J.H.M.Dassen]

[Courtesy copy of Usenet posting]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I would like to install some non-free and contrib Debian 2.0 packages. I
>have main, non-free and contrib on three different CDs.
>
>I select a package from contrib that depends on another package on
>non-free, dselect does not find that package because it's on the other CD.

The way I've handled this was:
- select the "mounted filesystem" access method in dselect, and quit
  dselect.
- make dpkg aware of existence of the packages on all CDs:
  do "dpkg --clear-avail" and run "zcat Packages.gz | dpkg --merge-avail"
  with the Packages.gz from each CD.
- select the packages in dselect
- let dselect install: the CD with main first, then the non-free, then the
  contrib CD. (Packages in main don't depend on ones in contrib or non-free;
  packages in non-free don't generally depend on ones in contrib; contrib
  ones depend on ones in non-free).

But perhaps someone on debian-user@lists.debian.org can come up with an
easier solution.

HTH,
Ray
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qpopper and cucipop

[Oliver Thuns]

Hello!

Is it possible to install qpopper AND cucipop? cucipop should be the
default pop3 server and qpopper should listen to another port for
receiving emails (xtnd xmit).

exim:rejectlog

[Bubulac Angela Tatiana]

hello,
could someone tell me about the refused relay 
messages from the rejectlog file? What does this mean?
In what condition these messages occurs?
In the attachment you have my exim.conf and rejectlog files.
TIA.
Bubulac A. Tatiana

IDE/ATAPI CDROM module

[Remo Badii]

According to the documentation (CDROM-HOWTO, Kernel-HOWTO,etc.),
it is sufficient to select (with Yes) the kernel compilation options
BLK_DEV_IDE, BLK_DEV_IDECD, and ISO9660_FS to have support for an
IDE/ATAPI CDROM drive. I did, and the boot message says "can't find
cdrom module": indeed, since no specific module has been selected, there
is no file.o in /lib/modules/2.0.34/cdrom.
I have a Teac CD-44E which is swappable with a floppy drive in an IBM
Thikpad 760 CD. The closest drive in the documentation list is a Teac
55, for which cdrom.h is the correct module, in addition with sbpcd.
Is it necessary to select at least one type of module for compilation in
order to have the generic module cdrom.o? The documentaiton says NO.
By the way, it does not hurt to select them all and leave the system d
its choice. However, since I hardly ever have the CD drive in the PC and
since the boot message comes up in any case, I'd like to find out what
is what.
Thank you.
Remo
 
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Re: HELP!

[Ole J. Tetlie]

*-Nick Perkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| Firstly, how can I have a dual boot option where it asks me what I would
| like to boot?

I have no idea if this can be done from the menu, but you can easily
do it by hand. If your other OS is on /dev/hda1, add
other=/dev/hda1
label=some_name

to /etc/lilo.conf.

You may also want to add a line like "delay=30".

Remember to run lilo before you reboot.

| Secondly, is there a way I can use my ISP's existing pop/stmp accounts to
| send receive mail for the moment (the box isn't permanently connect to the
| net yet)

Yup. You can use fetchmail to get mail from your ISP to your
localhost, and the MTA (exim/smail/sendmail/...) can queue your
outgoing mail and send it via your ISP when you go online.

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Communications with Psion handheld computers/diaries?

[Johann Spies]

Does anyone know whether backup-software exists in linux enabling a linux
box to communicate with a Psion Siena?

Johann

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Re: using a proxy server

[Guoqiang Dai]

David Karlin wrote:
> 
> Kent,
> I doubt if that is the problem...I can ping winbox by name.
> Thanks anyhow,
> David
> 

Normally icmp packet (ping) won't go through a proxy server. If you
really need this feature, you may look into winroute
(http://www.winroute.com), that is something like ipmasquerading in
linux with proxy feature. If you just want to test proxy, then you can
try it in a browser such as lynx.

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ip acct and devel. kernel

[Max]

Is there something special I need to do to be able to use IP
accounting with the development kernel (2.1.121)?  /proc/net/ip_acct
doesn't exist and programs such as ipacset and ipfwadm complain about
it.  What's going on?  Do I need to enable IP firewalling in the
kernel?  If so, that option is greyed out and I have no idea how to
ungrey it so that I can enable it.

Thanks for any help,
Max

Re: Network debian with win 98

[dsb3]

On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, Collin Rose wrote:

>I cannot network my win98 and linux machine. I put linux on the 98 machine
>to check the net connection. It works fine. Any ideas on this?
>I cannot even ping the other computer. I do have TCP/IP installed on the 98
>system.

can you give a brief description of how your network is configured in both
linux and wind98?  my first guess is that you've got wind98 either
misconfigured or not configured at all.

-dave

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Re: slink PPP Problem? - SOLVED. Thanks again, Shaleh!

[Art Lemasters]

I tried the insmod command as shaleh suggested,
and it worked.  Then I checked the FTP site, and sure
enough, the new modutils package (v. 121-4) is there.

Thanks, Shaleh, and thanks to all others who
responded.

Art

Network debian with win 98

[Collin Rose]

I cannot network my win98 and linux machine. I put linux on the 98 machine
to check the net connection. It works fine. Any ideas on this?
I cannot even ping the other computer. I do have TCP/IP installed on the 98
system.

Re: Real3D StarFighter video card

[Richard Heller]

Thanks a lot!  I was about || that close to calling XiG and ordering their
stuff.  If I had more free time during the day I would've called already.
I've never heard of that web site before, but they just saved me $100 so
into the bookmarks file they go!

Thanks,
Rich


On Tue, 22 Sep 1998, Christopher Barry wrote:

> Rich,
> 
> I haven't checked my mail since Saturday, so I apologise for this coming
> late, but just recently today a free binary i740 server was announced on
> slashdot.org. Hope you haven't ordered any Xi Graphics CDs yet :)
> 
> Christopher
> 
> 
> Richard Heller wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have a Real3D StarFighter AGP video card, which is based on the Intel
> > i740 chipset.  Unfortunately this chipset is currently unsupported by
> > XFree86, at least it is according to their FAQ.  The only place I've seen
> > that offers an X server for this chipset is XiG.  The problem is that
> > they want $100 for it.  That just seems a bit much for something that I
> > was expecting to be free.  My question is, does anyone know of any other
> > place to get an X server for the i740 chipset?  Or should I just bite the
> > bullet and pay the money?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Rich
> > 
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Re: chown for the floppy group

[Mark Panzer]

Kenneth Scharf wrote:
> 
> You can also add a line to /etc/fstab for /dev/fd0  with options to
> set to user access without mounting the disk.  That way anyone may
> mount a floppy.
> -
Well, I suppose I better RTFM some more.  However, I did a chgrp floppy
/floppy, all is fine and dandy without any floppy mounted.  However,
when I mount a floppy as root the root group once again owns the /floppy
directory which means I cannot write to it when I'm logged in as a
standard user.  I also have this problem when I try to mount my vfat
win95 partiton.  Another question when I try to mount a vfat partition I
get the errors:
Unable to load NLS charset cp437(nls_437)
Unable to load NLS charset iso8859-1(nls_iso8859_1)

but I can still read and write to the disk (as root), I'm guessing I did
something wrong when I recently compiled the kernel with kpkg.

> >
> > I noticed when I'm logged in as a normal user (not root) I cannot
> write
> > to the floppy drive.  I checked out the permissions, I'm in the floppy
> > group but /floppy belongs to root and is of the group root.  While I
> was
> > root user I tried to
> >
> > chown .floppy /floppy
> >
> > but it says, root is not a member of the group floppy.
> 
> Which is probably true. :)
> What about this:
> 
> # chgrp floppy /floppy
> 
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