Re: How to find files by text/subdirectories

[Morgan Fletcher]

Lance Hoffmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What is the easiest way to locates files (say HTML) by text in their
> documents?  

find ~/somedir -iname "*\.htm*" -exec grep -i "some text" {} \; -print

morgan
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Re: general protection !!! (kernel 2.0.36, updatedb)

[Paolo Pedaletti]

Ciao [EMAIL PROTECTED],

> if you're running a stable kernel, that means you have something wrong with
> your kernel, which can be due to bad hardware

Thank you for the answer.
Now I am back to 2.0.34, and it works fine. (mah! so it seems that it's not
the hardware)
Only for the 2.0.36 kernel I have that problem.
May be better if I recompile it or wait to install the 2.2.x

Bye

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Re: Where is emacs and vi command line editing set?

[Christopher R. Barry]

William Park <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Sun, 7 Feb 1999, Christopher R. Barry wrote:
> 
> > A long long time ago my root account mysteriously switched to using vi
> > command-line editing instead of the default emacs, and I've been too
> > lazy to get around to fixing it until now I guess. Where is this
> > behavior configured?

> Commands are
> set -o emacs
> set -o vi 
> Now, as far as where this is set... try to look into
> /etc/profile
> ~/.profile
> ~/.bash_profile
> ~/.bashrc
> To find other files, try
> man bash

I did look in these, but this is not where the behavior was set. It is
set globally via /etc/inputrc. Somehow, some application inserted a
local ~/.inputrc in root's account that set vi editing. I'd like to
know which application did this, as it ticks me off to have things
like this going on behind my back.

Christopher

[drepper@cygnus.com: FTP site for crypt code]

[Marcus Brinkmann]

On Sat, Feb 06, 1999 at 12:41:38PM -0500, Roland McGrath wrote:

> Do you think you might be able to help with this?

Personally, I can't. I have no net acess but through my phone line, and only
little ftp space on my homepage.

Maybe someone from the Debian community can help the gcc people here?

Thanks,
Marcus

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> handle large numbers of requests.  We can't upload it to the usual
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Re: using dpkg

[Mitch Blevins]

In foo.debian-user, you wrote:
> 
> >> 
> >> my version of dpkg is:
> >> 1.4.0.23.2
> >
> >Hmmm... same version as me.
> >
> >I wonder if your status file is fubarred.
> >Can you read it? "less /var/lib/dpkg/status"
> >
> >You should have a backup copy of it at /var/lib/dpkg/status-old
> >that can be used to replace status if it is corrupted.
> >
> >Also, make sure you don't have a hung process accessing it somewhere.
> >"ps auwx |grep dpkg"
> >
> >-Mitch
> >
> first of all, ps auwx |grep dpkg says:
> root   189  0.0  1.1  856  352  1  s  14:59 0:00 grep dpkg
> 
> I replaced status with status-old and got the same results.
> 
> Is it possible my libc6 is buggered?

You have exhausted by long-distance problem-solving skills.
Does someone else on the list have experience with libc6/dpkg buggery?

-Mitch

xfonts-75dpi

[Evan Van Dyke]

After installing the Xfonts-75dpi and the xfonts-100dpi packages,
I've been getting errors on running mkfontdir.
The tail end of running mkfontdir in
  /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi
is at the end of the message...  does anyone have an idea how to
get mkfontdir to process these fonts?

--Evan Van Dyke



mkfontdir: unable to process font ./helvr08.pcf, skipping
mkfontdir: unable to process font ./helvr18.pcf, skipping
mkfontdir: unable to process font ./helvr12.pcf, skipping
mkfontdir: unable to process font ./helvr24.pcf, skipping
mkfontdir: unable to process font ./helvr10.pcf, skipping
mkfontdir: unable to process font ./helvr14.pcf, skipping
mkfontdir: unable to process font ./timi08.pcf, skipping
mkfontdir: unable to process font ./timi18.pcf, skipping
mkfontdir: unable to process font ./timi14.pcf, skipping
mkfontdir: unable to process font ./timi12.pcf, skipping
mkfontdir: unable to process font ./timi24.pcf, skipping
mkfontdir: unable to process font ./timi10.pcf, skipping
mkfontdir: unable to process font ./timb12.pcf, skipping
mkfontdir: unable to process font ./timb24.pcf, skipping
mkfontdir: unable to process font ./term14.pcf, skipping
mkfontdir: unable to process font ./timb10.pcf, skipping
mkfontdir: unable to process font ./timb14.pcf, skipping
mkfontdir: unable to process font ./timb08.pcf, skipping
mkfontdir: unable to process font ./timb18.pcf, skipping
mkfontdir: unable to process font ./timr12.pcf, skipping
mkfontdir: unable to process font ./timr24.pcf, skipping
mkfontdir: unable to process font ./timr10.pcf, skipping
mkfontdir: unable to process font ./timr14.pcf, skipping
mkfontdir: unable to process font ./timr08.pcf, skipping
mkfontdir: unable to process font ./timr18.pcf, skipping
mkfontdir: unable to process font ./ncenb08.pcf, skipping
mkfontdir: unable to process font ./ncenb18.pcf, skipping
mkfontdir: unable to process font ./ncenb24.pcf, skipping
mkfontdir: unable to process font ./ncenb12.pcf, skipping
mkfontdir: unable to process font ./ncenb10.pcf, skipping
mkfontdir: unable to process font ./ncenb14.pcf, skipping
mkfontdir: unable to process font ./nceni14.pcf, skipping
mkfontdir: unable to process font ./nceni12.pcf, skipping
mkfontdir: unable to process font ./nceni24.pcf, skipping
mkfontdir: unable to process font ./nceni10.pcf, skipping
mkfontdir: unable to process font ./nceni08.pcf, skipping
mkfontdir: unable to process font ./nceni18.pcf, skipping
mkfontdir: unable to process font ./symb12.pcf, skipping
mkfontdir: unable to process font ./symb24.pcf, skipping
mkfontdir: unable to process font ./symb10.pcf, skipping
mkfontdir: unable to process font ./symb14.pcf, skipping
mkfontdir: unable to process font ./symb08.pcf, skipping
mkfontdir: unable to process font ./symb18.pcf, skipping
mkfontdir: unable to process font ./ncenr08.pcf, skipping
mkfontdir: unable to process font ./ncenr18.pcf, skipping
mkfontdir: unable to process font ./ncenr12.pcf, skipping
mkfontdir: unable to process font ./ncenr24.pcf, skipping
mkfontdir: unable to process font ./ncenr10.pcf, skipping
mkfontdir: unable to process font ./ncenr14.pcf, skipping
mkfontdir: unable to process font ./ncenbi14.pcf, skipping
mkfontdir: unable to process font ./ncenbi12.pcf, skipping
mkfontdir: unable to process font ./ncenbi24.pcf, skipping
mkfontdir: unable to process font ./ncenbi10.pcf, skipping
mkfontdir: unable to process font ./ncenbi08.pcf, skipping
mkfontdir: unable to process font ./ncenbi18.pcf, skipping
dogbert:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi# 

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A downright wierd Netscape problem

[Curt Daugaard]

When trying to open certain documents in Netscape--for example, the
Printing-HOWTO at sunsite.unc--the document is not displayed right
away but starts to download.  When it's done a dialog box appears with
this message:

   Netscape: subprocess diagnostics(stdout/stderr)

   Vim: Warning: Output is not to a terminal
   [24; 1H [0;10mVim: Error reading input, exiting...
   Vim: Finished.
   [24;1H
   Vim: Warning:Input is not from a terminal

I have no idea what brought this on.  Does anyone else?  I'd be grateful
to anyone who can give me a clue.

Thanks.

Curt Daugaard
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Re: Bug in free?

[Mark Phillips]

> free -tos 300 >free.log
> 
> I never get any output while it works fine to the screen.
> 
> Does this work for anyone else?

I tried it on my machine with the same result.

Cheers,

Mark.


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Re: using dpkg

[rod peters]

>> 
>> my version of dpkg is:
>> 1.4.0.23.2
>
>Hmmm... same version as me.
>
>I wonder if your status file is fubarred.
>Can you read it? "less /var/lib/dpkg/status"
>
>You should have a backup copy of it at /var/lib/dpkg/status-old
>that can be used to replace status if it is corrupted.
>
>Also, make sure you don't have a hung process accessing it somewhere.
>"ps auwx |grep dpkg"
>
>-Mitch
>
first of all, ps auwx |grep dpkg says:
root   189  0.0  1.1  856  352  1  s  14:59 0:00 grep dpkg

I replaced status with status-old and got the same results.

Is it possible my libc6 is buggered?

rod.

Re: Bug in free?

[Mark Wagnon]

George Bonser wrote:
> 
> On my system the following command does not work:
> 
> free -tos 300 >free.log
> 
> I never get any output while it works fine to the screen.
> 
> Does this work for anyone else?

I tried it and no go. I left off the -s 300 and it worked. What is the
delay supposed to accomplish? Also, is that 300 seconds? If so did you
leave it alone for 5 minutes? I'll try and report my experience.
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RE:

[Ted Harding]

On 05-Feb-99 Pawel Zawisza wrote:
> is there a way to run debian (ie. v 1.3) on a 386sx system with ONLY
> 2megz of ram?  If no then what other linux version would you recommend
> for this system?
> thanx,
> Pawel

It is probably impossible to run any Linux with only 2MB RAM -- maybe just
possible to get a flicker of basic activity, but since the kernel, once
in memory, will take up at least most of that you won't have much room
for anything else.

4MB RAM can support a reasonable amount of activity if X is not used.
If you want to use X, you should have at least 8MB (it will just about
run in 4MB but will be impossibly slow).

Hope this helps,
Ted.

PS the above does not apply to "ultra-compact" Linuxes which can fit on
a 1.44MB floppy, but these are so limited you probably won't want to use
them.


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Date: 07-Feb-99   Time: 20:23:24
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Parallel printer no longer found

[Curt Daugaard]

After upgrading to the 2.2.1 kernel on a Slink system my old NEC P6 printer
is no longer found at boot or in /proc/devices.  The boot messages reads

lp: driver loaded but no devices found

I'm using modules (parport and parport_pc) for printer support, which I
also used successfully under a 2.1 series kernel.  I've tried the measures
outlined in Documentation/parport.txt, but no luck.

Can anyone help me figure out what I'm missing?

Thanks


Curt Daugaard
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dselect/apt: Error 550: not a plain file?

[Ed Cogburn]

I'm using the dselect/apt/dpkg combo to download and install new
packages in potato from ftp.us.debian.org.  My system is already
slink/potato, from earlier downloads from potato.  Yesterday I
tried to download a large number of packages.  Some were
sucessfully downloaded, but a large number of packages were not
downloaded because dselect/apt said they were "not a plain file".
I tried again today, but with identical results.  So does anybody
know what's causing this?  Is the problem with us.debian.org?  Has
anybody else using us.debian.org seen this?

TIA
-- 
Ed C.

Re: Dual Boot Woes

[Tom Pfeifer]

I don't know how you're booting, but hda2 must be your extended
partition, which doesn't show up in cfdisk's main screen. It does (or
should) if you choose  Print - Table from the cfdisk menu. You'll see a
type 0x05 or type 0x0F listed under ID for the 2nd partition. Linux
fdisk will also show the extended partition.

Tom

Rob Mahurin wrote:

> Here's an idea.  I have winNT on hda1 and linux begins on hda5 and spills
> over to hdb* -- entirely logical partitions, not a bootable primary among
> them.  lilo appears to have installed itself on hda2, which does not show up
> in cfdisk or any other such utility.  Also, cfdisk et al. do not show any
> partitions as being bootable or active or whatever.  Net result:  my system
> boots to lilo but did not interfere with my existing NT installation.
> 
> I don't know why this works and haven't found a decent explanation, but it
> does.  Attached is my lilo.conf.  If anybody knows why my system boots, I
> would appreciate an explanation; at any rate, I hope it helps.
> 
> Rob
>

Re: Where is emacs and vi command line editing set?

[William Park]

On Sun, 7 Feb 1999, Christopher R. Barry wrote:

> A long long time ago my root account mysteriously switched to using vi
> command-line editing instead of the default emacs, and I've been too
> lazy to get around to fixing it until now I guess. Where is this
> behavior configured?
> 
> Christopher
> 
> 
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Commands are
set -o emacs
set -o vi   
Now, as far as where this is set... try to look into
/etc/profile
~/.profile
~/.bash_profile
~/.bashrc
To find other files, try
man bash

Re: [apache-ssl] Suexec under Debian apache-ssl, was: how do I use UID setting?

[Ben Laurie]

Chris Evans wrote:
> Is there anything that suexec does if invoked from with a shell that
> would reassure me it's compiled right?  O.K. I guess not!  Anything
> I can do to quiz apache-ssl about its configuration and whether it's
> HTTPD_ROOT is where I think it is (from the apach-dev headers in
> /usr/include/apache-1.3)?

httpsd -V

Cheers,

Ben.

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who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the
first group; there was less competition there."
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Re: [apache-ssl] Suexec under Debian apache-ssl, was: how do I use UID setting?

[Chris Evans]

On 7 Feb 99, at 18:26, Ben Laurie wrote:

> Chris Evans wrote:
> > httpd.h:#define SUEXEC_BIN  HTTPD_ROOT "/sbin/suexec"
> > 
> > That has "HTTPD_ROOT" which isn't in the apache suexec html
> > documentation but seems to point me to /sbin as the debian
> > location for suexec. So I put it there, chown root, chmod 4711 and
> > restart apache-ssl.
> > 
> > It _DOESN'T_ print a line saying it's using suexec there or
> > anywhere else.
> > 
> > I call a file with owner and group chris (UID=1000 = the minimum I
> > set in suexec.h) within the directory tree of apache-ssl, not setuid,
> > nor setgid, directory not writable by anyone else.
> 
> You are not the first to be foxed by this. In fact the construct above
> prepends HTTPD_ROOT to /sbin/suexec, so the place you want to put it is
> in sbin/suexec under HTTPD__ROOT (which is defined somewhere else in the
> headers).
> 

Thanks Ben,

So I moved suexec to /usr/local/apache/sbin/

Still no evidence that either apache-ssl (or apache if I try that) are 
finding it there if they put up that reassuring message about using 
it as they are loaded.  Still no joy in it doing what I'd want but not 
sure I really understand the user directory issue nor really how 
suexec is invoked.

Is there anything that suexec does if invoked from with a shell that 
would reassure me it's compiled right?  O.K. I guess not!  Anything 
I can do to quiz apache-ssl about its configuration and whether it's 
HTTPD_ROOT is where I think it is (from the apach-dev headers in 
/usr/include/apache-1.3)?

I can't see anything the debian changelog about this.

TIA,

Chris

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Re: using dpkg

[rod peters]

-Original Message-
From: Mitch Blevins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: rod peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sunday, February 07, 1999 12:45 PM
Subject: Re: using dpkg


>rod peters wrote:
>> okay, here's what I get.
>> 
>> ls -l /var/lib/dpkg/status
>> --comes back as:
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 423826 jan 31 16:01 (don't ask)
>> /var/lib/dpkg/status
>> 
>> whoami; dpkg -i 
>> --comes back as:
>> root
>> dpkg: failed to open package info file
>> '/var/lib/status' for reading: no such file or directory
>  ^
>
>Are you sure this isn't /var/lib/dpkg/status?
>Also, which version of dpkg do you have?
>(you can get this with "dpkg --status dpkg |egrep '^Version:'" )
>
>-Mitch
>

yes, I meant to type /var/lib/dpkg/status

my version of dpkg is:
1.4.0.23.2

Re: using dpkg

[rod peters]

okay, here's what I get.

ls -l /var/lib/dpkg/status
--comes back as:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 423826 jan 31 16:01 (don't ask)
/var/lib/dpkg/status

whoami; dpkg -i 
--comes back as:
root
dpkg: failed to open package info file
'/var/lib/status' for reading: no such file or directory

(sorry about the last message, I made a mistake)
-Original Message-
From: rod peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: debian 
Date: Sunday, February 07, 1999 12:20 PM
Subject: Re: using dpkg


>
>-Original Message-
>From: Mitch Blevins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Sunday, February 07, 1999 11:26 AM
>Subject: Re: using dpkg
>
>
>>Hi Rod,
>>
>>Cat you send the output of the following commands?
>>
>>[bash]$ ls -l /var/lib/dpkg/status
>>-rw-r--r--   1 root root   668800 Feb  7 02:19
/var/lib/dpkg/status
>>
>>[bash]$ whoami; dpkg -i 
>>mblevin
>>dpkg: `ldconfig' not found on PATH.
>>dpkg: `start-stop-daemon' not found on PATH.
>>dpkg: `install-info' not found on PATH.
>>dpkg: `update-rc.d' not found on PATH.
>>dpkg: 4 expected program(s) not found on PATH.
>>NB: root's PATH should usually contain /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin and
>/sbin.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>-Mitch
>>
>>In foo.debian-user, you wrote:
>>> I have been logged in as root.
>>>
>>> Now what?
>>>
>>> -Original Message-
>>> From: M.C. Vernon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>> To: Rod Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org 
>>> Date: Sunday, February 07, 1999 2:24 AM
>>> Subject: Re: using dpkg
>>>
>>>
>>> >
>>> >> When I try to use dpkg -i (filename.deb)
>>> >> I always get something like this:
>>> >> cannot open /var/lib/dpkg/status
>>> >
>>> >You need to run dpkg -i as root.
>>
>>-
>>DO YOU DEBIAN?
>>Get your free Operating System at http://www.debian.org
>>
>
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Re: How to find files by text/subdirectories

[Ole J. Tetlie]

*-Lance Hoffmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| What is the easiest way to locates files (say HTML) by text in their
| documents?  4DOS ffind is essentially what I am trying to do.  Is there
| a way to pipe 'find'?  Or do I need to use gawk?
| When I tried using gawk it would not allow me to search multiple
| directories.  I find never used
| gawk before so I probably didn't know what I was doing.  I would prefer
| to 'find' somehow but I am
| not sure how to search for text using it.  Any suggestions?

Hm. Do you mean something like:

find . -name '*.html' | xargs grep 'mytext'

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Re: using dpkg

[rod peters]

-Original Message-
From: Mitch Blevins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sunday, February 07, 1999 11:26 AM
Subject: Re: using dpkg


>Hi Rod,
>
>Cat you send the output of the following commands?
>
>[bash]$ ls -l /var/lib/dpkg/status
>-rw-r--r--   1 root root   668800 Feb  7 02:19 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>
>[bash]$ whoami; dpkg -i 
>mblevin
>dpkg: `ldconfig' not found on PATH.
>dpkg: `start-stop-daemon' not found on PATH.
>dpkg: `install-info' not found on PATH.
>dpkg: `update-rc.d' not found on PATH.
>dpkg: 4 expected program(s) not found on PATH.
>NB: root's PATH should usually contain /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin and
/sbin.
>
>Thanks,
>-Mitch
>
>In foo.debian-user, you wrote:
>> I have been logged in as root.
>>
>> Now what?
>>
>> -Original Message-
>> From: M.C. Vernon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> To: Rod Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org 
>> Date: Sunday, February 07, 1999 2:24 AM
>> Subject: Re: using dpkg
>>
>>
>> >
>> >> When I try to use dpkg -i (filename.deb)
>> >> I always get something like this:
>> >> cannot open /var/lib/dpkg/status
>> >
>> >You need to run dpkg -i as root.
>
>-
>DO YOU DEBIAN?
>Get your free Operating System at http://www.debian.org
>

Re: XFree86 Support for Muliheaded boxes

[Chris Frost]

Reply-To: 
Ah, thanks; next time I'll remember to check the faq.
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How to find files by text/subdirectories

[Lance Hoffmeyer]

What is the easiest way to locates files (say HTML) by text in their
documents?  4DOS ffind is essentially what I am trying to do.  Is there
a way to pipe 'find'?  Or do I need to use gawk?
When I tried using gawk it would not allow me to search multiple
directories.  I find never used
gawk before so I probably didn't know what I was doing.  I would prefer
to 'find' somehow but I am
not sure how to search for text using it.  Any suggestions?

Lance

Re: XFree86 Support for Muliheaded boxes

[David Stern]

On Sun, 07 Feb 1999 13:11:03 CST, Chris Frost wrote:

> I have a Matrox Mill II and am thinking of buying a Matrox G200 to add to
> my box so that I could use two monitors on the same machine. Does XFree86
> support this yet? I've seen talk of it for AccelX, but not really any for
> XFree.

  Answers to Frequently Asked Questions about XFree86
  http://x.physics.usyd.edu.au/FAQ/index.html#TwoCards
  ---
  Q.A15- Can I use more than one video card in the same machine with
  XFree86?

  Although it is technically possible to use multiple PCI-based SVGA
  cards in the same machine, none of the servers currently support
  this. 

  The VGA16 and Mono servers are both capable of running both a VGA
  compatible card and a non-VGA compatible monochrome card in the
  same machine. 

  For XFree86-4.0 we are working on true multi head support. 
  

However, if you don't want to wait and you don't have the $150 to spend 
on Accelerated X, you might try Metro-X Enhanced Server Set 4.3, which 
offers mult-head support for Matrox cards, as long as only one is a 
Mystique, for $39, in .tgz or .rpm formats.

  http://www.metrolink.com/metrox/ess.html

-- 
David
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Re: suspicious connections

[Mitch Blevins]

In foo.debian-user, you wrote:
> I have a stand-alone machine, with dialup ppp connection (using diald).  I
> think someone was trying to hack me today, and I'd like advice on how to find
> out whether they succeded, and what to do about it.  I'd also appreciate
> suggestions on the easiest way to prevent, or at least monitor, such activity
> in the future.

You can get the iplogger package, which will log every tcp connection made
to your machine.  The lsof package is also useful for finding out if a
service is running on a port on your own machine.  I believe lsof is
kernel version dependent, so you may have to expirement some

example:
[bash]$ lsof -i :22
COMMAND   PID USER   FD   TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF INODE NAME
sshd32211 root6u  inet 0x0149ac0c  0t0   TCP *:ssh (LISTEN)

Also, if you are paranoid, I would suggest getting the tripwire package.
This will monitor your system for changed system files.

-Mitch

Re: X-windows not working anymore...

[Gary L. Hennigan]

"Damir J. Naden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

| Hi Pete Harlan; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote:
| > > Question.  I recently upgraded my kernel from 2.0.36(I think) to 2.2.1. 
| > > I am running slink(frozen) and now, my x-windows doesn't work.  If I
| > 
| > This happened to me, and .xsession-errors now says
| > 
| > /etc/X11/Xsession: line 47: syntax error near unexpected token `default)'
| > 
| > The bit of /etc/X11/Xsessions that reads
| > 
| >   case $1 in
| >   failsafe)
| > if grep -q ^allow-failsafe $optionfile; then
| >   if [ -x /usr/bin/X11/xterm ]; then
| > exec xterm -geometry +1+1
| >   else
| > echo "Xsession: unable to launch failsafe X session: xterm not
| >   found."
| > exit
| >   fi
| > fi
| >   default)
| > ;;
| > 
| > perhaps should have a ;; on the line before the "default)" line.
| > (Haven't tried this myself yet.)
| > 
| > Good luck,
| > 
| > --
| > Pete Harlan
| > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| 
| I have just commented out the offending 'default)' line and it worked for
| me. Does anyone know if this is a bad thing to do? I thought it was there
| just as a comment sort of thing

In this case it won't hurt anything since the "default)" doesn't do
anything. However, the correct solution is to put the ";;" in there.

Gary

XFree86 Support for Muliheaded boxes

[Chris Frost]

Reply-To: 
I have a Matrox Mill II and am thinking of buying a Matrox G200 to add to
my box so that I could use two monitors on the same machine. Does XFree86
support this yet? I've seen talk of it for AccelX, but not really any for
XFree.

tia,
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Re: Install to disk w/school's NT present??

[David Stern]

On Sun, 07 Feb 1999 10:09:53 PST, David Stern wrote:

> Linux fdisk has another oddity: you can flag multiple partitions 
> active.  Don't ask me why.  What will happen if you do this is the 
> active partition will boot.

Of course I meant to say: ".. the *first* active partition will boot."
-- 
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fvwm2 menu not working

[M.C. Vernon]

Dear all,

I use E, but one of my system's users uses fvwm2, and is
complaining that the menu isn't working properly. Sure enough, the menu
shows an option to exit fvwm2, and nothing else. I have menu installed,
and the various config files in /etc/X11/fvwm2 seem to be there, but a
decent menu is not being generated. Any ideas?

Thanks,

Matthew

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Re: X-windows not working anymore...

[Damir J. Naden]

Hi Pete Harlan; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote:
> > Question.  I recently upgraded my kernel from 2.0.36(I think) to 2.2.1. 
> > I am running slink(frozen) and now, my x-windows doesn't work.  If I
> 
> This happened to me, and .xsession-errors now says
> 
> /etc/X11/Xsession: line 47: syntax error near unexpected token `default)'
> 
> The bit of /etc/X11/Xsessions that reads
> 
>   case $1 in
>   failsafe)
> if grep -q ^allow-failsafe $optionfile; then
>   if [ -x /usr/bin/X11/xterm ]; then
> exec xterm -geometry +1+1
>   else
> echo "Xsession: unable to launch failsafe X session: xterm not
>   found."
> exit
>   fi
> fi
>   default)
> ;;
> 
> perhaps should have a ;; on the line before the "default)" line.
> (Haven't tried this myself yet.)
> 
> Good luck,
> 
> --
> Pete Harlan
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]

I have just commented out the offending 'default)' line and it worked for
me. Does anyone know if this is a bad thing to do? I thought it was there
just as a comment sort of thing

damir

Re: where exactly is qt1.42. I cant seem to find it. NFM

[MallarJ]

In a message dated 2/7/99 2:52:54 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:

> Your email was formatted such that pine doesn't like it. However, I did
>  read the subject. qt1.42 is in potato (a.k.a. unstable).
>  

and in the non-free dirs, I believe..

Re: Will frozen work with 2.0.36 ?

[Remco van de Meent]

Gary L. Hennigan wrote:
> | Above asks it all ...  will I have failings with that, or must I upgrade to
> | 2.1.xx?
> | 
> | Sorry if it's been asked before.
> 
> Debian frozen/slink is based on 2.0.34 but provides packages for both
> 2.0.35 and 2.0.36, so, yes it will work with 2.0.36.

The current bootfloppies from slink are based on kernel 2.0.36, which is
also the one that gets installed by default.

But indeed, with some minor upgraded, a Debian slink system will run
2.1.x/2.2.x kernels without any problems.


bye,
 -Remco

Re: Install to disk w/school's NT present??

[David Stern]

On Sun, 07 Feb 1999 02:12:39 PST, Kenward wrote:

> Odd thing in the setup.  WinNT was placed in as hda1, with a small DOS
> logical following (hda4? IIRC).  I partitioned the rest of the disk into 5
> logicals inc. swap.  (Where are hda2 and 3?)

1-4 are primary, 5 and higher are logical.  Linux fdisk allows you to 
define logical partitions without having first having defined an 
extended partition (a type of primary partition) to contain the logical 
partitions.  This is dubious, but usually works.  DOS fdisk enforces 
explicitly pre-defining extended partitions before logicals are 
created.  If you use linux fdisk to create logicals, just remember to 
create an extended first.

Another distinction is that DOS fdisk allows writing non-sequential 
partition numbers (hda1 hda4), while Linux fdisk enforces sequential 
numbering (hda1, hda2) when writing.  So, that (hda1, hda4) you have 
was obviously created with DOS fdisk, because linux fdisk would've 
written it as (hda1, hda2).  This is important because partition 
numbers "slide down" when a lower numbered one of the same type 
(primary or logical) is deleted when using Linux fdisk.  I've heard the 
latest commercial Partition Magic software supports partition 
renumbering.

Linux fdisk has another oddity: you can flag multiple partitions 
active.  Don't ask me why.  What will happen if you do this is the 
active partition will boot.

The four primary partition limit is a limitation of PC design.  ide 
drives allow up to 63 partitions to be created, scsi drives up to15.

> I wanted to control the boot with LILO instead of a boot floppy.
> 
> On installation was told LILO won't work on a logical, and should it be
> placed on hda2?   I said yes.  Also yes to Linux being default.

hda2 is the root ( "/" ) partition, presumably.  This is typical.

An important note is that lilo only boots from primary partitions.  
There is a commercial boot loader, System Commander, that overcomes 
this limitation, but lilo does not claim to support that:

/usr/doc/lilo/Manual.txt.gz---
It _can't_ be stored at any of the following locations:
[..]
- boot sector of a logical partition in an extended partition.* 
[..]
*LILO can be forced to put the boot sector on such a partition by using 
 the  -b  option or the BOOT variable. However, only few programs that 
 operate as master boot records support booting from a logical 
 partition.
-

So, if you want a multi-partition linux, you might have something like 
this:
hda1  nt
hda2  linux  /
hda3  extended
hda5  linux swap
hda6  linux /var
hda7  linux /home
hda8  linux /usr
You could also just put everything on "/" plus swap.

> On reboot, set up LILO with WinNT as first in the lilo.conf list.  Works
> perfectly.
>
> Where is hda2???  is this the MBR?  Is this an iffy proposition w.r.t.
> stability?

MBR (master boot record) is the boot record for hda (the whole drive).  
One advantage of installing lilo on /dev/hda2 in the above example is 
that you can change which os boots by just changing the "active" 
partition, which is easy from linux or dos fdisk (even a dos boot 
floppy with dos fdisk.)  This is a very flexible setup for situations 
where multi-booting is desired.

/usr/doc/lilo/Manual.txt.gz is terse and gangly, but a definitive 
resource.
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Re: Will frozen work with 2.0.36 ?

[Gary L. Hennigan]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| Above asks it all ...  will I have failings with that, or must I upgrade to
| 2.1.xx?
| 
| Sorry if it's been asked before.

Debian frozen/slink is based on 2.0.34 but provides packages for both
2.0.35 and 2.0.36, so, yes it will work with 2.0.36. 

Most things in frozen/slink also work with 2.1.xx kernels (I'm running
it as I type) but Debian won't be completely 2.1.xx ready until, at
the earliest, the next release, currently called potato.

Gary

suspicious connections

[David S. Zelinsky]

I have a stand-alone machine, with dialup ppp connection (using diald).  I
think someone was trying to hack me today, and I'd like advice on how to find
out whether they succeded, and what to do about it.  I'd also appreciate
suggestions on the easiest way to prevent, or at least monitor, such activity
in the future.

Here's what I saw.  I noticed something when diald was keeping the link up
unexpectedly.  I found the following in the diald packet queue:

ttl 14, 1 - 164.58.201.227/257 => 207.244.200.40/257 (tcp state ([0,0] 0,0))
ttl 104, 17 - 164.58.201.227/28800 => 207.244.200.40/28800 (tcp state ([0,0] 
0,0))

The destination address (207.244.200.40) was me.  Running host on the source
address produced:

  Name: line-1.Duncan.dialup.onenet.net
  Address: 164.58.201.227

which is totally unfamiliar to me.

I looked in /etc/services for tcp port 257, but there was no listing.  Is
there an allowed use for that port?

I also thought it odd that both source and destination ports were the same,
and that a host had apparently initiated a connection to my machine on a
non-well-known port.

Is there any way to tell if these connections really succeded, and if so what
they did?  I looked in various files in /var/log, but didn't see anything
unusual.  The only security service I'm running is courtney, though I've never
quite figured out what it looks for, or where it reports what it finds.

Thanks for any help.

--
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Re: Newbie problem: can't reach an ftp site

[John Hasler]

I wrote:
> Most likely he needs to fix his /etc/hosts.
  ^^

That should read "/etc/resolv.conf", of course.  Not enough coffee, I guess.
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Install Help! No CD, No make, no /usr/src/linux

[Van Piercy]

Hi,

Newbie that I am, I must be missing something fundamental in my growing
install frustration--but I have no idea what.  I've  been trying to fully
install Debian Linux for the past two weeks on a 5x86, 8 RAM, VESA local bus
machine.  Linux sets up nice on the machine, but I can't configure anything
or access any packages: no "man", no "make", no "usr/src/linux", no CD
support (for obvious reasons I've had to put the sound card, mouse, and
modem configs completely out of mind for the time being).

First I tried a floppy install that worked fine except that "make" wasn't
recognized by the system, "tar zxpvf linux-2.0.34.tar.gz" would not unpack
the 2.0.34 kernel from /usr/src, and "mount -t iso9660 /dev/aztcd0 /cdrom",
while making an effort to load the CD-ROM driver, came back always with the
message that the kernel did not recognize /dev/aztcd as a "block device",
suggesting "insmod?".  I tried editing /etc/fstab, trying alternately to
insert "/dev/hdc" and "/dev/aztcd0" lines, as well as then trying "mknod
/dev/aztcd0 b 29 0" at the Linux prompt as suggested in the AZTECH DRIVER
section of the CD-ROM HOWTO (thank god my old proprietary AZTECH CDA 268-01A
has a Linux driver written for it), but Linux just returns the prompt.

I can load a DOS command.com floppy and load the AZTECH CD-ROM driver,
thereby reading my newly delivered Debian 2.0 binary i386 CD.  I can then
boot.bat from the CD, but during the install I am requested to insert the
DRIVERS *floppy*!  When I do, the installation program reverts back to the
video color menu after grinding on the floppy drive for five seconds.  I
finally managed to re-install from the floppies, getting asked by the
install program what commands I'd like to insert for the CD-ROM driver, I
tried "aztcd=0x320", and while the system gave it a whirl, the installation
of the CD driver failed.  Maybe I'll try "aztcd=0x340" next--is there any
way to know the CD-ROM's I/O address?  The device driver line that AZTECH
loads for DOS's config.sys reads, "device=c:\sgcd268.sys /P:634 /M:S
/D:AZTCD268".  And that works most fine...in DOS.

Please someone give me some suggestions here.  TIA.

Van Piercy ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Bloomington, IN
USA

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Will frozen work with 2.0.36 ?

[kaynjay]

Above asks it all ...  will I have failings with that, or must I upgrade to
2.1.xx?

Sorry if it's been asked before.

Kenward
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Re: how do I use UID setting?

[JLM]

suexec can be a bear, as it tends toward security (and
away from convenience).  This is a good thing, but
depending on your needs, cgiwrap may be another
candidate for you.

Re: Dual Boot Woes

[Rob Mahurin]

On Sun, Feb 07, 1999 at 07:52:34AM -0500, Tom Pfeifer wrote:
> Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > 
> > This isn't the best solution. You should set boot to your linux partition,
> > then set your linux partition active in fdisk. This is much more flexible
> > if you need to reinstall Windows later, because to get LILO back you just
> > change your active partition (even Windows' fdisk will let you do that).
> > 
>  
> 
> I agree in principle, but in this case he has Linux on his second disk
> (hdb1), and the Win9X MBR doesn't allow active partitions on a slave
> disk - he would have no way to get to Linux (other than a boot floppy or
> loadlin). If he wants to use Lilo, it has to be in the MBR to provide
> access to Linux on the 2nd disk.
> 

Here's an idea.  I have winNT on hda1 and linux begins on hda5 and spills
over to hdb* -- entirely logical partitions, not a bootable primary among
them.  lilo appears to have installed itself on hda2, which does not show up
in cfdisk or any other such utility.  Also, cfdisk et al. do not show any
partitions as being bootable or active or whatever.  Net result:  my system
boots to lilo but did not interfere with my existing NT installation.

I don't know why this works and haven't found a decent explanation, but it
does.  Attached is my lilo.conf.  If anybody knows why my system boots, I
would appreciate an explanation; at any rate, I hope it helps.

Rob

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boot=/dev/hda2
root=/dev/hda5
install=/boot/boot.b
map=/boot/map
vga=9
prompt
delay=50
timeout=50
read-only

image=/vmlinuz
label=Linux
image=/boot/vmlinuz.noether
label=NoNetLinux

other=/dev/hda1
label=WinNT

Re: Creating Deb Packages

[Gregory T. Norris]

Take a look at the Debian New Maintainers Guide, which is available at
http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/.

On Sun, Feb 07, 1999 at 10:33:20AM -0600, Sean P. Mason wrote:
> Could someone help me out with creating deb packages?  I can't seem to
> find the procedure anywhere. . .

Suexec under Debian apache-ssl, was: how do I use UID setting?

[Chris Evans]

To debian-user, debian-isp and apache-ssl as I think answers may 
be ssl and debian specific.

On 7 Feb 99, at 10:01, Gerard MacNeil, having pointed me to 
suexec and continuing a correspondence that has been running 
with others' support on debian-user and debian-isp wrote:  

> 
> Ah, gcc.  That's why I like Makefiles.  

Don't understand!

> 
> I checked suexec.c and found the line 
> #include "ap_config.h"

Interestingly, that's definitely not in mine.  All the includes are to 
standard C headers and the one to suexec.h.

> 
> Without getting into C-proramming and all that, you can take this entry to
> mean that "suexec.c" and "suexec.h" MUST be in the same directory as
> "ap_config.h".  I did it, compiled no problem.  You probably need
> apache_ssl-dev to get "ap_config.h".
> 

Taking me to the edge of my very old C knowledge but yes!...

So I got the apache-dev and libc6-dev packages matching my slink 
libc6, installed them with dpkg and hey presto the compile worked. 
Then I had to work out where apache-ssl expects to find suexec if 
it's going to use it.  That's more tricky.  In httpd.h in 
/usr/include/apache-1.3 I find:

httpd.h:#define SUEXEC_BIN  HTTPD_ROOT "/sbin/suexec"

That has "HTTPD_ROOT" which isn't in the apache suexec html 
documentation but seems to point me to /sbin as the debian 
location for suexec. So I put it there, chown root, chmod 4711 and 
restart apache-ssl.

It _DOESN'T_ print a line saying it's using suexec there or 
anywhere else.

I call a file with owner and group chris (UID=1000 = the minimum I 
set in suexec.h) within the directory tree of apache-ssl, not setuid, 
nor setgid, directory not writable by anyone else.  

I get:
> Forbidden
> 
> You don't have permission to access /cgi-bin/cp on this server.
and error.log shows the same and the suexec log I specified in 
suexec.h isn't created.

So I'm not invoking suexec using apache-ssl on my server.  
Anyone know where I'm going wrong?!

Platform is i386 Debian Hamm, libc6 & libc6-dev updated to slink 
as I'm using sendmail 8.9.1 which forced that.  Apache-ssl is out of 
hamm.  Server running standalone (of course) with four virtual 
hosts, IP based, two http, two https.

TIA,


Chris


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Re: Newbie problem: can't reach an ftp site

[John Hasler]

Tom Perkins wrote:
> I recently loaded Linux onto my PC (Pentium II) and configured PPP
> correctly.  I am able to connect to my ISP successfully, but I cannot reach
> any ftp site (e.g. ftp.us.debian.org).  The error message I receive is
> 'Unable to locate host'.  I know the site exists because I can reach it via
> ftp from another UNIX machine.

Peter writes:
> Sounds like your DNS is not setup correctly.
> install the bind package and run bindconfig.

He shouldn't need to do that.  Desktop workstations rarely need bind.  Most
likely he needs to fix his /etc/hosts.  Put your nameservers ("DNS
servers") in it like this:

nameserver 123.456.789.123
nameserver 234.567.890.234

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Re: Tracking changes made by installation of software

[John Hasler]

MallarJ writes:
> dpkg works fine, except in two cases.

> 1) if you don't use dpkg (some things still come in gzipped packages)

Use alien (or debhelper, if you prefer "real" packages).

> 2) If installation scripts run after dpkg completes do more changes.

File bug reports.  No package should ever overwrite your changes without
permission.

Now, if you want to track changes made outside the packaging system, it's
a different matter.
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apt-get and lockfile errors:xconvers

[edderd]

I'm concerned that I may have made my system unstable by mixing stable
with frozen packages. Please see below. 

I've begun to upgrade my system in order to use the ax25-utils with
2.0.36. I've been running Debian 2.0 but recently decided to add some
Frozen packages from the HAM RADIO packages. I've installed the Frozen
ax25-utils, and some of the other ham packages. I successfully
compiled 2.0.36. WHen I run apt-get install xconverse, for example I
get errors about not being able to remove a lockfile in
update-menus. (see below). I also have an ldconfig  warning about a
missing library. Afterwards, it claims to have installed ok. 

These are alarming to me since I am concerned about having made my
system unstable. Will fully upgrading to Frozen via apt-get upgrade
fix these problems? 

Zep:/home/ed# apt-get install xconvers
Updating package status cache...done
Checking system integrity...ok
The following extra packages will be installed:
  lesstifg
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  xconvers
1 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 307 not upgraded.
Need to get 577k of archives. After unpacking 186k will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Get http://http.us.debian.org frozen/main xconvers [14.1k]
Get http://http.us.debian.org frozen/main lesstifg [563k]
Fetched 577k in 3m13s (2988b/s)
(Reading database ... 44059 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace lesstifg 1:0.83-7 (using lesstifg_0.86.9-2.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement lesstifg ...
Selecting previously deselected package xconvers.
Unpacking xconvers (from xconvers_0.4-5.deb) ...
Setting up lesstifg (0.86.9-2) ...
ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libglib.so (No such file or directory), s
ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libgdk.so (No such file or directory), sk
ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libgtk.so (No such file or directory), sk

Setting up xconvers (0.4-5) ...
Update-menus: waiting for dpkg to finish (forking to background)
Update-menus: (checking /var/lib/dpkg/lock)

Update-menus: waiting for dpkg to finish (forking to background)
Update-menus: (checking /var/lib/dpkg/lock)
Zep:/home/ed# mv: /var/lib/pdmenu//pdmenurc_auto.new: No such file or directory
Update-menus: Cannot remove lockfile /var/run/update-menus.pid

Zep:/home/ed# 

Note that it claims to have installed correctly: 
Zep:/home/ed# dpkg -s xconvers
Package: xconvers
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: hamradio
Installed-Size: 47
Maintainer: Joop Stakenborg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Version: 0.4-5
Depends: lesstifg (>= 1:0.85.2), libc6 (>= 2.0.7u), xlib6g (>= 3.3-5) 

Thanx, 

Ed
NL7FU

Creating Deb Packages

[Sean P. Mason]

Could someone help me out with creating deb packages?  I can't seem to
find the procedure anywhere. . .

Thanks!

--- Sean Mason

RE: general protection !!! (kernel 2.0.36, updatedb)

[pat]

On 06-Feb-99, Paolo Pedaletti took time to write :
> Hello,
> this is what happen when I run updatedb (always! after some time) (kernel
> 2.0.36)
> 
> general protection: 

<..>
 
> Anyone with the same problem?
> 
> Should I worry? ;-)

yes you should, if you're not running a development kernel (2.1.x)
if you're running a stable kernel, that means you have something wrong with
your kernel, which can be due to bad hardware

is it crashing only when running updatedb or in other cases.

give more details on your setup (hard & software), and try to read
/usr/src/linux/README which shows at the bottom how to 'debug' things like
that.

good luck

Ps: own personal experience: i had a problem on a box with a totally stable
kernel and it was crashing badly at least once per day, *apparently* due to
apache.
in fact everything returned back to normal when i put only 16Mb of memory
instead of more, it was definitively a motherbios problem.

Patrick

/\//\/\/\\/\/\//\/\\/\/\\/\\/\//\/\\/\//\/\\/\//\/\\/\//\/\\
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Re: Newbie problem - can't reach an ftp site

[Ole J. Tetlie]

*-Tom Perkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| I recently loaded Linux onto my PC (Pentium II) and configured PPP
| correctly.  I am able to connect to my ISP successfully, but I cannot reach
| any ftp site (e.g. ftp.us.debian.org).  The error message I receive is
| 'Unable to locate host'.  I know the site exists because I can reach it via
| ftp from another UNIX machine.  Is there some setting I must tweak?

Find the IP address of your ISPs nameserver and put a line like

nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

in /etc/resolv.conf (with the x'es replaced by the IP address).

-- 
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(Erd\H{o}s Pál)
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netscape proxy configuration

[ivan]

Hello all,

I have finally stirred myself enough to install Netscape but now I find
I cannot use it :(

When I try to enter manual proxy configuration info
(http://proxy.vianet.net.au, port 80) Netscape tells me FTP proxy host
"http://proxy.vianet.net.au"; is unknown. This happens for all proxy
settings.

Any ideas ?

TIA

Ivan.

linuxconf experiences?

[Stefan Gundel]

Hello, dear Debian users,

I consider installing linuxconf on my hamm system in order to facilitate
administration. Has anybody out there already got some experience with
linuxconf?

-- Stefan Gundel

[Fwd: HELP FOR A POOR FRENCH STUDENT WHICH TRY TO INSTALL LINUX]

[THIBAULT GROISIL]

--- Begin Message ---
First I'd like to tell you that I'm a french student who use a "minitel" so 
I apologize for the bad page setting and for
 all the english mistakes I could make ;
 because I use a "minitel" please d'ont
send me joined files with E-mail : I wouldn't be able to read them !

So I tried to install Debian/m68k GNU/Linux 2.0 (with Penguin-1.5) on my 
LC475 (
12MB RAM, 250MB internal HD, 8x external
 CDROM and System 7.5.1 installed). I tried to follow the instructions 
describedin the file Debian/m68k 2>0 installation
, so I format my HD with 1MacOS partition, 1AUX/Root&USR slice 0 (54568kB), 
1A/UX Swap slice 1 (18432kB), 1A/UX Autorecovery (3072kB), and 1Free A/UX 
slice 3 (6
0MB) with the "Installation SC Apple FU1
-7.3.5" application.
First I launched Penguin prefs as demanded and the installation began... and
 stopped : <> (SCSI : 1 
host)then I put in the command line of Penguin : <> (with 
no spacebut the -, the minitel don't have this symbol!) and I reboot Penguin
 : <> ; Y tried to put the swap on the
 swap partion but it displayed then <> (with max scsi luns=0 too).So what's 
the problem ??I thank you for helping me.I have to notice that the file 
base2-0>tgz is missing (i forgot to load it on the net!) but i don't see why
 it could crash the installation here ; the 2 filesresd1440.bin and 
drv1440.bin couldn't be
 out on a floppy disk because theis size
 exceeds 1440kB (exactly 1474560B)

Thank you.
Thibault.
at [EMAIL PROTECTED]

--- End Message ---

Re: where exactly is qt1.42. I cant seem to find it.

[Stef Hoesli Wiederwald]

On Sat, Feb 06, 1999 at 06:56:46PM -0800, rod peters wrote:
> where exactly is qt1.42. I cant seem to find it.

debian/dists/potato/non-free/binary-i386/libs/qt1g_1.42-1.deb

Re: please help! recovery from e2fsck

[Nils Rennebarth]

On Sun, Feb 07, 1999 at 10:24:25AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> If computers get viruses, this seems to be leprosy.
> typing  mc for midnight commander in x windows brought the system 
> crashing down to an automatic reboot;
> Lilo did reboot this time but in the last 24hrs has given:
> 
> error loading linux
> error 0x01
> 
> #and also later:
> 
> crc error
> 
> Is this a hard drive cable error?
> 
> typing 
> elm 
> 
> brought:
> 
> State Panic in State.c:159: in_state_fsck
>  Bad Magic Number
> segmentation 
> fault
> 
> now from tty1 I'm unable to M-f2 change to tty2:
> 
> Unable to change tty /dev/tty2: Read-only file system
> 
> 
> 
> 
> I'm contemplating a complete reinstall. 
This could be everything from a bad cache to CPU, RAM or a faulty harddrive.

I suspect RAM or cache though. If the system has worked flawlessly for a
while until now (a month or more) maybe the processor cooler failed, the CPU
is getting to hot and get random failures, so check the fan.

Nils

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| Quotes from the net:  L> Linus Torvalds, W> Winfried Truemper   |
| L>this is the special easter release of linux, more mundanely called 1.3.84 |
| W>Umh, oh. What do you mean by "special easter release"?. Will it quit  |
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Re: how do I use UID setting?

[Nils Rennebarth]

On Sun, Feb 07, 1999 at 01:19:22PM -, Chris Evans wrote:
> documentation.  So I edited suexec.h and ran cc suexec.c -o 
> suexec and I got:
> 
> www:/usr/doc/apache-ssl# gcc suexec.c -o suexec
> suexec.c:72: sys/param.h: No such file or directory
> suexec.c:73: stdlib.h: No such file or directory
> suexec.c:74: unistd.h: No such file or directory
> suexec.c:75: sys/types.h: No such file or directory
> suexec.c:76: stdio.h: No such file or directory
> suexec.c:78: string.h: No such file or directory
> suexec.c:79: pwd.h: No such file or directory
> suexec.c:80: grp.h: No such file or directory
> suexec.c:81: time.h: No such file or directory
> suexec.c:82: sys/stat.h: No such file or directory
Install libc6-dev

It's needed for all compiles that use the C Library (are there any that
don't?). You will need apache-dev too probably.

> Can you or anyone else point me to the right location to raid for 
> this headers using ftp?
Please use the debian packages.

Nils

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| L>this is the special easter release of linux, more mundanely called 1.3.84 |
| W>Umh, oh. What do you mean by "special easter release"?. Will it quit  |
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Re: how do I use UID setting?

[Chris Evans]

Thanks very much to Gerard and several others who are helping out 
my newbie fumblings on this thread.  I'm clearer now about setuid 
and might end up taking the suidperl route but for now I'm pursuing 
apache's own suexec:

On 7 Feb 99, at 7:50, Gerard MacNeil wrote:

> If I got this right this time, you want 'suexec'.  This functionality
> allows the default user (nobody in your case) to run a process as a
> different user (ie. chris).  The write privileges are then for 'chris'
> The Apache docs tell you how to use it.


Yes, spot on, trust me not to have reread the obvious bit of apache 
documentation.  So I edited suexec.h and ran cc suexec.c -o 
suexec and I got:

www:/usr/doc/apache-ssl# gcc suexec.c -o suexec
suexec.c:72: sys/param.h: No such file or directory
suexec.c:73: stdlib.h: No such file or directory
suexec.c:74: unistd.h: No such file or directory
suexec.c:75: sys/types.h: No such file or directory
suexec.c:76: stdio.h: No such file or directory
suexec.c:78: string.h: No such file or directory
suexec.c:79: pwd.h: No such file or directory
suexec.c:80: grp.h: No such file or directory
suexec.c:81: time.h: No such file or directory
suexec.c:82: sys/stat.h: No such file or directory

locate confirms these header files are not on my system (to date 
I've not compiled anything).  I can't use dselect to find them as I 
upgraded sendmail to the slink 8.9.1 version which required I 
updated libc and that's left dselect with a catch22 in that some 
package insists on a particular level of libc (if I remember rightly).

Can you or anyone else point me to the right location to raid for 
this headers using ftp?

TIA,


Chris

PSYCTC: Psychotherapy, Psychology, Psychiatry, Counselling
   and Therapeutic Communities; practice, research, 
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Re: Newbie problem: can't reach an ftp site

[Peter Iannarelli]

Hello Tom:

Sounds like your DNS is not setup correctly.
install the bind package and run bindconfig.

Peter


Tom Perkins wrote:
> 
> I recently loaded Linux onto my PC (Pentium II) and configured PPP
> correctly.  I am able to connect to my ISP successfully, but I cannot reach
> any ftp site (e.g. ftp.us.debian.org).  The error message I receive is
> 'Unable to locate host'.  I know the site exists because I can reach it via
> ftp from another UNIX machine.  Is there some setting I must tweak?
> 
> Any help greatly appreciated.
> 
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Newbie problem - can't reach an ftp site

[Tom Perkins]

I recently loaded Linux onto my PC (Pentium II) and configured PPP
correctly.  I am able to connect to my ISP successfully, but I cannot reach
any ftp site (e.g. ftp.us.debian.org).  The error message I receive is
'Unable to locate host'.  I know the site exists because I can reach it via
ftp from another UNIX machine.  Is there some setting I must tweak?

Any help greatly appreciated.

Re: Dual Boot Woes

[Tom Pfeifer]

Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> 
> This isn't the best solution. You should set boot to your linux partition,
> then set your linux partition active in fdisk. This is much more flexible
> if you need to reinstall Windows later, because to get LILO back you just
> change your active partition (even Windows' fdisk will let you do that).
> 
 

I agree in principle, but in this case he has Linux on his second disk
(hdb1), and the Win9X MBR doesn't allow active partitions on a slave
disk - he would have no way to get to Linux (other than a boot floppy or
loadlin). If he wants to use Lilo, it has to be in the MBR to provide
access to Linux on the 2nd disk.

Tom

Newbie problem: can't reach an ftp site

[Tom Perkins]

I recently loaded Linux onto my PC (Pentium II) and configured PPP
correctly.  I am able to connect to my ISP successfully, but I cannot reach
any ftp site (e.g. ftp.us.debian.org).  The error message I receive is
'Unable to locate host'.  I know the site exists because I can reach it via
ftp from another UNIX machine.  Is there some setting I must tweak?

Any help greatly appreciated.

Re: Which text editor is compatible with crxvt?

[Shao Zhang]

On Sun, 7 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> On Sun, 7 Feb 1999, Yi-ping Chang wrote:
> 
> There is nothing wrong with vi for big-5 compatibility.  I have found
> you have to be clever how  you place your mouse to get the input ok.
> 
> The other thing was to open crxvt first but not to open xcin with the 
> crxvt window but to do a 
> ctrl-z bg 
> and then 
> xcin 
> in the original xterm
> window.  

Sorry, I tried your method, but it doesn't work. It is still
displaying the hexcal code. Probably, I misunderstood the line: ctrl-z bg.
Do you mean to stop the job, and re-fork it to the background??

Anyway, I remembered that there is a setting we can set in vi to
enable the 8-bit mode. But I cannot find the exact name after going thru
the man page. Just like the difference between more & less, with more we
can view the chinese, and with less we cannot.

I am now using xa+xcin with emacs-mule. It works very well. But I
would like to get the most efficient vi working as well.

Thx.

shao.

 
> Judging by the HOWTO there are many woes for input. I got it going with
> 
> xcin -in1 phonetic.tab 
> 
> for chu yin and roman input 
> 
> crxvt works well with lynx , lynx will need no special configuration;
> point it straight at your favorite page with big-5
> 
> best regards from 
> angus claydon
> > 
> Hello, guys: > 
> > I would like to know which text editor is compatible with big-5 Chinese
> > text.  I have "xcin" and "crxvt" installed in my linux box.  Because my
> > favorite editor is vi, I tried to open a Chinese document with that in
> > crxvt terminal, but what I found is some thing like \056\378\053.
> > It didn't turn these special characters into Chinese but just print
> > their code.  So if somebody can help me out on this, I will really
> > appreciate it.  Thanks in advance.
> > 
> > Yi-ping Chang
> > 
> > 
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> > 
> 
> 
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Re: how do I use UID setting?

[Jiri Baum]

Chris Evans:
 
> 1 -rwsr-xr-x 1 chris root 59 359 Feb 6 22:47 cp
> 
> Here's the program:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
...

Shell scripts can't be suid.


Use sudo, or arrange it some other way.

Jiri
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Re: X-windows not working anymore...

[Pete Harlan]

> Question.  I recently upgraded my kernel from 2.0.36(I think) to 2.2.1. 
> I am running slink(frozen) and now, my x-windows doesn't work.  If I

This happened to me, and .xsession-errors now says

/etc/X11/Xsession: line 47: syntax error near unexpected token `default)'

The bit of /etc/X11/Xsessions that reads

  case $1 in
  failsafe)
if grep -q ^allow-failsafe $optionfile; then
  if [ -x /usr/bin/X11/xterm ]; then
exec xterm -geometry +1+1
  else
echo "Xsession: unable to launch failsafe X session: xterm not
  found."
exit
  fi
fi
  default)
;;

perhaps should have a ;; on the line before the "default)" line.
(Haven't tried this myself yet.)

Good luck,

--
Pete Harlan
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Re: Mailman not doing his work: smail won't deliver anything

[Anthony Campbell]

On 06 Feb 1999q, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> I have smail set up on my laptop. Neither internal nor external mail is
> sent. In /var/log/smail/logfile I find the reason for Xdefer is:
> 
>   router inet_hosts: BIND server failure: Connection refused
> 
> Also:
>   Xfail:  reaspm: transport local: failed to open output file: 
>   Permission denied
> 
> The internal messages are sitting there in /var/spool/smail/input but runq,
> etc. doesn't make them go.
> 
> I seem to remember something of the sort when I set up my desktop about a
> year ago but I can't remember the solution!
> 
> I've checked hostname, hosts, resolv.conf, and the permissions and
> ownership on /var/spool/mail, /var/spool/smail, and everything else I can
> think of. As far as I can see they are identical on both machines.  Can
> anyone suggest where the problem may lie?
> 
> Anthony
> 

Well, as no one offered any solution to this, I thought I'd post it myself,
having found where the problem lay: I had an incorrect hostname in
/etc/smail/config.  (Well, surely I can't be the only one???)

Anthony


-- 
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]  http://www.achc.demon.co.uk

"The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on..."   - Edward Fitzgerald (Rubaiat of Omar Khayyam)

Re: Help with smbfs?

[Jiri Baum]

> Eliezer Figueroa hat gesagt: // Eliezer Figueroa wrote:
> 
> > I want to use a debian box to open a share in a win95 machine. Someone
> > told me that in order to open shares I do not need samba, that I only
> > need smbfs.

Frank Barknecht:
> I think you need at least the SMB client software called smbclient.  It
> is included in the debian package for samba.

I don't think you *need* smbclient, smbmount ought to be sufficient (and
comes in the smbfs package), but it's probably a good idea to install samba
at least for testing.

smb-nat may also be useful; while it claims to be a tool for checking out
security, in fact what it does is find out all it can about things, some of
which is very useful info that'll come in handy.


You need to have the the smbfs filesystem in the kernel (module or
compiled-in). You can check that by looking at /proc/filesystems

When everything is ready, you issue the smbmount command. Remember that its
options go at the *end*, not the beginning like in everything else.


You may find that directory listings are incomplete. I haven't solved the
problem yet, but I'm told that recompiling the linux kernel with the W95
bug workaround enabled will do the trick, or else I'll need to get service
packs from MS.


HTH

Jiri
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Re: Adding foreign keys

[Heikki Vatiainen]

Dave Swegen wrote:
> I will have to start writing the occasional document in swedish in the near
> future (with a bit of luck), but since I have a UK keyboard I don't really
> want to switch to a swedish layout. I would prefer to use  or
> somesuch to assign the extra 6 chars needed to the current layout. Does
> anyone know how to do this for both X and VCs? Any info would be much
> appreciated.

I have changed my keyboard mapping a bit so maybe I can help. 
What I did was I remapped keys asdfer so that when
I press Atl-Gr with them I get {}[]()\ respectively. As a
result, when I write code I can keep my left hand at its normal
position and hit Alt-Gr with my righ thumb to get all the
different parentheses plus backslash.

This is what my .Xmodmap looks like:

keysym a = a A braceleft
keysym s = s S braceright

keysym d = d D bracketleft
keysym f = f F bracketright

keysym e = e E parenleft
keysym r = r R parenright

keysym aring = slash
keysym space = space space backslash

The Finnish/Swedish keyboard also has aring (å) which I mapped 
to slash (/).

For VCs, here's a snippet from my /etc/kbd/default.map.gz
[cut]
keycode  30 = a   
altgr   keycode  30 = braceleft
[cut]

The names for characters with diacritics in X seem to correspond
to HTML entities, so you might want to check out
http://strindberg.ling.uu.se/call/chars.html to find out the 
keysym names to put in .Xmodmap.

Another way to remap your keyboard is using the xkeycaps program 
which is available as a Debian package.

I hope this helps.

> Cheers
>   Dave

// Heikki
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Heikki Vatiainen  * [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tampere University of Technology  * Tampere, Finland

Re: how do I use UID setting?

[Chris Evans]

On 6 Feb 99, at 21:40, Gerard MacNeil wrote:

> On Sat, 6 Feb 1999, Chris Evans wrote:
> 
> > 1 -rwsr-xr-x 1 chris root 59 359 Feb 6 22:47 cp
> 
> This line means any user can execute the program 'cp'   

Yes, I didn't mean to leave it that way.

> 
> > The whoami reports "nobody" not "chris" (is that what you'd expect 
> > gurus?), the cp, which is what I want, reports insufficient 
> > permissions to create the files in the copy.  
> 
> OK. So the Apache process is running as user 'nobody' (mine runs as
> www-data as per the Debian distribution).

> You want 'nobody' to 'cp' a file to a directory.  Does 'nobody' have
> permissions to write a file in the directory in question?  The
> observations about 'chris' are not relevant. Set the permissions of the
> directory so 'nobody' can write to it. 

I _knew_ I shouldn't have called that program "cp"!  Sorry, it made 
things very unclear.

The crucial things I want are:

1) for the default user of apache-ssl, currently nobody to be able to 
execute this program, /var/www/secure-cgi-bin/cp, (I've achieved 
this much!)

2) for the execution of that program to use its owner's (chris's) UID 
and hence its owner's (chris's) permissions

3) which should give it write permission in the /var/www/root/ 
directory tree (something I don't want any old apache execution to 
have as a sort of basic protection of that tree in case I foul up and 
leave other holes)

I have _NOT_ achieved 2) and/or 3) as far as I can see.

> Do a 'su nobody -c cp SOURCE_FILE THE_DIR' as root to test. You may have
> to use the full PATH to the 'cp' command.
 
> If you check the documentation on Security, you will see that it is
> recommended that Apache process run as an abstract psudeo-user like
> 'www-data' (Debian install default).  You spec the user in
> /etc/apache/httpd.conf and you only have to make sure that the user
> exists.  It helps keep things straight.

> It also defines precisely how the files have been written to the
> directory.  'www-data' should be denied all logins.  All files
> written with owner 'www-data' are therefore written by the Web
> Server (except for a security breach). You know where they came
> from. You can check your Web Stats to verify the URL was in fact
> hit. Besides, 'nobody' gets used for a bunch of other things. 

I really don't think I have changed the default user for apache-ssl, 
maybe I have.  I take the logic of this and approve and will make 
the change but I still wouldn't want to give www-data write 
permission in its own root (or cgi-bin) directory structures.  That 
sounds to me like creating an unnecessary layer of openness. 

The situation is that I host some pages someone else designs.  He 
has ftp and I've arranged that he can ftp his pages into a small 
partition.  Since ftp is essentially insecure to snooping and replay I 
accept that partition is insecure and can live with that.  What I want 
is to get him then to validate himself in with name & password in 
an https (apache-ssl) session (i.e. essentially non-snoopable, non-
replayable) so he can then initiate a copy into the httpd root 
structure (otherwise I'll keep having to do it for him which is going 
to frustrate both of us).

I thought that the "setuid" byte was the way to do this, to get a 
program to use its owner's UID and permissions rather than those 
of the (lower permissions) apache user.  Clearly I'm wrong or doing 
something wrong.  

Does that make things any clearer?  Can anyone help? 

TIA


Chris




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RE: apt-get update failing

[Jason Gunthorpe]

On Sun, 7 Feb 1999, Adam Heath wrote:

> > On Fri, 5 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > 
> > > Yup.  I've removed the Packages.gz files and had mirror reget them several
> > > times.  I also tried right from the ftp site ...
> > 
> > Are you -sure- you have the right version?
> > 
> 
> Hehe.  I logged in to irc, and noticed that talon was having this exact same
> prob.  He said he got this error after upgrading to libc6 2.1-1.  Downgrading
> to 2.0.7.19981211-2 fixed it.

Oh really? That means the C++ iostreams don't work right with 2.1!!!

Jason

Re: NFS file locking (was: broken apt-get)

[Miquel van Smoorenburg]

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Will Lowe  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> There is something you have to do to setup working NFS file locking under
>> slink, or 2.2 or something but I don't know what it is :<
>
>Any idea where I'd start to look?  Debian doesn't seem to have a lockd...

You don't need a seperate lockd, It's part of the 2.2.x kernels. You
do need special kernel nfs and mount daemons, and for those there
is no debian package yet (though there might be one in the "experimental"
directory).

You can get those at

ftp://ftp.yggdrasil.com/private/hjl/
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/devel/gcc/

This is all in the kernel Documentation/Changes file.

Mike.
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Re: How to Add User to Group?

[Art Lemasters]

It says, "oracle: oracle dba"

We learn something every day.  Thanks, Ole!  It did not fix
my problem here, but it indicates that the problem might well be
revealed in the oracle script, "oratab.sh"  I'll have a look at that
and find out.  ...did also notice that the group column in the first
oracle directory (mounted on another drive) is "500" all the way down.
I'll check that out, too.

And by the way, I'm addressing this to the list, because I'm sure
the Oracle install is focused toward the Red Hat distro., and Debian
might be just a bit different in some part of the install.  We'll know
soon enough whether or not Oracle leans too much toward Red Hat ease.

Art

On Sun, Feb 07, 1999 at 10:28:39AM +0100, Ole J. Tetlie wrote:
> *-Art Lemasters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> |
> |  No.  It still didn't work for me.  Oracle is still reporting that
> | it hasn't been done.  Thanks, anyway.  Maybe it's something wrong with
> | the Oracle oratab.sh script?
> 
> What does 'groups oracle' say?
> 
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Re: possible apt-get problem?

[kaynjay]

Sorry, forgot to mention that the upgrade was from hamm to frozen.

Kenward
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Re: perl script

[Miquel van Smoorenburg]

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Hamish Moffatt  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[about CRLF at the end of a line]
>vim has always hidden these characters, AFAIK. nvi doesn't.

vim -b file

:%!col -b

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Re: using dpkg

[rod peters]

I have been logged in as root.

Now what?

-Original Message-
From: M.C. Vernon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Rod Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org 
Date: Sunday, February 07, 1999 2:24 AM
Subject: Re: using dpkg


>
>> When I try to use dpkg -i (filename.deb)
>> I always get something like this:
>> cannot open /var/lib/dpkg/status
>
>You need to run dpkg -i as root.
>
>Matthew
>
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Re: Install to disk w/school's NT present??

[kaynjay]

I want to thank Kent and David for their help and suggestions about putting
Debian on a lab computer at school.  

Ghost is used at the school.  Wipes out everything, as noted in the above
posts to me.  However, I worked hard to establish a relationship with the
tech doing the work, and he said he'd be glad to create an image of the hd
after I got things set up.  Pretty nice guy.  Don't know if Ghost will
handle Linux, of course, but hey ... he was willing.  (I think I even piqued
his interest in Linux, FWIW!)


I still have a question about the setup.


Odd thing in the setup.  WinNT was placed in as hda1, with a small DOS
logical following (hda4? IIRC).  I partitioned the rest of the disk into 5
logicals inc. swap.  (Where are hda2 and 3?)

I wanted to control the boot with LILO instead of a boot floppy.

On installation was told LILO won't work on a logical, and should it be
placed on hda2?   I said yes.  Also yes to Linux being default.

On reboot, set up LILO with WinNT as first in the lilo.conf list.  Works
perfectly.

Where is hda2???  is this the MBR?  Is this an iffy proposition w.r.t.
stability?

Kenward
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Re: how do I use UID setting?

[Miquel van Smoorenburg]

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Chris Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>However, when I execute this program after su nobody the copy 
>reports it doesn't have the permissions to do the create side of the 
>copy built in.  Here's the listing:
>
>1 -rwsr-xr-x 1 chris root 59 359 Feb 6 22:47 cp
>
>Here's the program:
>
>#!/bin/sh

Simple - setuid shell scripts are not supported under Linux because
we have learned from history that it is impossible to create a
secure shell script.

Rewrite your script in perl (and make sure you have "suidperl" on
your system). Perl has a special safe mechanism for setuid scripts.

Mike.
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source-debs of qmail 1.03?

[Mike Gerber]

hi folks!

i was searching for source-debs (debian packages) of qmail 1.03 
but i only found the 1.01 and 1.02 ones. is there a 1.03 package?

thanx in advance!

Re: using dpkg

[M.C. Vernon]

> When I try to use dpkg -i (filename.deb)  
> I always get something like this:
> cannot open /var/lib/dpkg/status

You need to run dpkg -i as root.
 
Matthew

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Re: off topic - Assembler using GCC

[Jiri Baum]

ivan:
> INT 10h is the video BIOS - I want to set the video mode directly.
> 
> By using INT 10h I don't have to learn and programme the card registers -
> the BIOS takes care of this.
> 
> Why is the video bios not available from protected mode ?

It's trying to protect one program from another; and if you mess with the
BIOS, you'll completely bypass the protection.

For example, how would the kernel know what to do with the screen when you
want to switch to another VT?

(Actually, I'm under the impression that the BIOS is not used at all after
bootup if finished; at least the GNU projects file claims so.)

> Does this mean that making superfast graphics (as in DOS "demo's") is out
> of the question ?

Well, vgagl claims to be fast, but I've no idea how fast is fast. (package
svgalibg1)

If it isn't fast enough for you, you'll have to write a kernel device
driver. (Actually, is BIOS accessible even from the kernel? I don't see why
it would be... so you might need to write a routine to access it, too.)


Jiri
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using dpkg

[Rod Peters]

When I try to use dpkg -i (filename.deb)  
I always get something like this:
cannot open /var/lib/dpkg/status

what am I doing wrong?
I have read the --help and the man
pages but it doesn't give me any clues.

thanx


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Re: Tracking changes made by installation of software

[Jiri Baum]

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> > > allows admins to prevent users from making incorrect modifications
> > > where they shouldn't be.

Jiri:
> >  Why aren't you setting permissions appropriately?
...
> This doesn't have anything to with my system, I'm just repoting on what
> tripwire does.  I don't have permission problems, but a sysadmin might -
> considering he might have several users with root priveledges - or users
> with enough access to change certain important files. 

OK.

I think that if you don't trust your fellow sysadmins you've got bigger
problems than config files, though. You shouldn't give ordinary users root
access (I can see how it might happen, but it shouldn't).

> >  Actually, a simple version shouldn't be difficult at all - if you
> >  start with the `find and diff' idea, but put a checksum next to each
> >  of the files, then you'll have a list of files added, files removed
> >  and files changed. For the changed files, you compare them with an
> >  archive version using diff again.
> >  
> 
> You're right, this isn't a major undertaking - just trying to prevent
> dupication of code that might already be in existence.  The find and diff
> idea is the exact approach I plan on using.

You can use md5 for checksums - I think I meant to say that, but obviously
didn't. While it's probably a bit of an overkill, it already exists.

Hmm, first pass at getting the list would be
find /etc -exec md5sum {} \;
because md5sum outputs the name of the file. You might want to make use of
xargs to avoid invoking md5sum all the time, but I've never tried that.

However, you *will* want to do something to keep track of softlinks. So I
guess write a perl script to take each argument, if it's an ordinary file
pass it to md5sum, if it's a softlink print it out.


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Re: Networking Debian and Win 95

[Jiri Baum]

Peter Ludwig:
> I am trying to setup IPX networking on my main system at home, and I have
> run into a few major problems.

I'm running a TCP/IP network over Ethernet between Debian and a Win95 box.

> 1) While my network card is detected and setup by ifconfig, it's address
> is not being used as the address for network traffic (i.e. squake seems
> to like 127.0.0.1 and I can't force it to use another IP address).

127.0.0.1 is a magic address which means `localhost'. This is used by
programs which want to contact the machine they're running on.

If you run ifconfig without parameters, you should find you have two
network adapters: one `Local Loopback' with the address 127.0.0.1 and one
`Ethernet' with whatever address you gave it.

If I run route without parameters, it tells me that packets destined for
127.0.0.1 go to the `lo' interface, while packets for `localnet' go to the
eth0 interface. I assume yours should be similar.

> 2) The secondary machine (a compaq running win95A) is unable to find my
> computer on the network even though SAMBA is setup (and apparantly
> running, i.e. it reports no error messages), I am also unable to even get
> a glimpse (over the network that is) of the Win 95 Machine. 

Can you ping it?

I assume you are using TCP/IP on the network. Is it installed on the Win95
machine? Is it set up as one of the protocols for file sharing?

> I have recompiled the kernal so many times (enabling different options
> which appear to be the correct ones), that I'm worried about the Hard
> disk surface in for the usr/src/linux tree :)

Fortunately, hard disk heads fly, so there shouldn't be any wear :-)

I've set up everything without recompiling the kernel, but it seems I will
have to do it after all to enable a Win95 bug workaround...


Jiri
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possible apt-get problem?

[kaynjay]

Having installed Debian successfully on a school computer, I decided to use
apt-get to upgrade the system.  Ran an update, then dist-upgrade (after
initial use of -s).  All went smoothly until the unpacking/setting up of
package "strace" where an "E: error returned by subprocess" message
appeared.  Things stopped. 

I knew that not all packages had been installed.  Ran "apt-get check" and
was told to run "dpkg --configure -a"  which I did.  A number of packages
were then set up.  I retried "apt-get dist-upgrade" after first using -s
(confirming that fewer packages would be installed).  All pretty much
proceded normally.

Only issue noted was ldconfig warning me that certain libs (libomniORB, and
others) were not symlinks.  

Does anyone know if I am reasonably safe?  What can I do to check things?

Kenward Vaughan

ps.  apt is wonderful!
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Re: Tracking installs

[Joey Hess]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In a message dated 2/6/99 7:41:50 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
> 
> > Yes you do.
> >  
> >  alien -i file.tgz
> >  
> 
> Now THERE'S a new concept - using alien on a tar/gzipped file?  Interesting...
> always thought alien just converted rpms to debs...

No, it can convert deb, rpms, slps, and tgzs into any of the other formats. 

Just make sure the tgz has a directory structure in it.

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Re: How to Add User to Group?

[Ole J. Tetlie]

*-Art Lemasters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
|  No.  It still didn't work for me.  Oracle is still reporting that
| it hasn't been done.  Thanks, anyway.  Maybe it's something wrong with
| the Oracle oratab.sh script?

What does 'groups oracle' say?

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Re: windowmanager does not start

[Ole J. Tetlie]

*-Stef Hoesli Wiederwald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| Since I updated my system using dftp, no windowmanager ist started
| when I startx.
| 
| Does anybody have an idea what the problem could be?

Some things to check:

Does /etc/X11/window-managers seem good? Incidentally, the first
line in mine is broken.

What happens if you try to run the first line in /etc/X11/window-managers
manually?

If you have a ~/.xinitrc; what happens if you try to run it manually?

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Re: gtk problems

[Ole J. Tetlie]

*-Darknight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| I downloaded 2 IRC Clients off the web to see if they were any better
| than the others i've tried.  The first one required gtk 1.1.8 i believe,
| so I blindly downloaded it from gtk.org.  This just caused more
| problems, so I uninstalled and reinstalled the GTK packages that came
| with hamm.  This did not fix the problem, so I downloaded the frozen GTK
| packages, which installed just fine, however I still get the following
| error.  This error is from the second IRC Client I downloaded, which
| requires only GTK 1.03.  Anyone with any idea how to eliminate this
| error who could help me I would be very greatful to.
| 
| checking for GTK - version >= 1.03... no
| could not run GTK test program, checking why...
| The test program failed to compile or link.  See the config.log for
| the exact error that occured.  This usually means GTK was incorrectly
| installed or that you have moved GTK since it was installed.  In the
| latter case, you may want to edit the gtk-config script:
| /usr/bin/gtk-config
| configure: error: Cannot find GTK: Is gtk-config in path?
| 
| gtk-config IS located in /usr/bin, and I'm not sure what it wants me to
| edit in the file.  Thank you,

You can only have one development version of libgtk installed.
This means that you'll have to chose between the stable 1.0.x
and the unstable 1.1.x. If you want to compile programs that
require 1.0 and others that require 1.1 you'll have to switch
by installing new -dev packages all the time.

You should also try to remove everything that the previous
installation may have put in /usr/local.

It will be easier to help if you post the result of executing:

dpkg -l 'libgtk*-dev' | grep ^.i

and also the last part of config.log (in the source directory where
you tried to compile).

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RE: apt-get update failing

[Adam Heath]

On Sat, 6 Feb 1999, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:

> 
> On Fri, 5 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> > Yup.  I've removed the Packages.gz files and had mirror reget them several
> > times.  I also tried right from the ftp site ...
> 
> Are you -sure- you have the right version?
> 

Hehe.  I logged in to irc, and noticed that talon was having this exact same
prob.  He said he got this error after upgrading to libc6 2.1-1.  Downgrading
to 2.0.7.19981211-2 fixed it.

Adam

Re: Where is emacs and vi command line editing set?

[Mitch Blevins]

In foo.debian-user, you wrote:
> A long long time ago my root account mysteriously switched to using vi
> command-line editing instead of the default emacs, and I've been too
> lazy to get around to fixing it until now I guess. Where is this
> behavior configured?
> 
> Christopher

Mine is set in ~/.inputrc with a line like...

set editing-mode vi

Where is emacs and vi command line editing set?

[Christopher R. Barry]

A long long time ago my root account mysteriously switched to using vi
command-line editing instead of the default emacs, and I've been too
lazy to get around to fixing it until now I guess. Where is this
behavior configured?

Christopher

Re: Wooooooo Hooooooooooo!!!!!!!

[Mitch Blevins]

In debian-user, you wrote:
> [snip poorly formatted message]

Please do not post messages in html format.  And also please
do not post lines over 76 columns wide.  It makes it difficult
for most folks on this list to read/respond to your messages.

Hope your next problem/solution goes as well for you as the last. :)

-Mitch

Re: svgalib

[Richard Harran]

ivan wrote:
> 
> I have now decided to use svgalib but already have run into trouble !
> 
I think you may need the svgalibg1-dev package.  The *-dev packages seem
to contain the header files and the static libraries required to
complile your own programs.  Note this packages depends on libc6-dev,
which you probably also don't have.  (also if your using Debian 1.3, Bo,
the package name is probably just svgalib-dev)

Hope that helps
Rich

> /* programme svgatest.c */
> 
> #include 
> #include "vga.h"
> 
> main()
> {
> 
> /* code */
> 
> }
> 
> #: gcc svgatest.c -O2 -lvga
> 
> Programme won't compile because
> a) Can't find vga.h
> b) Can't find vga library
> 
> Yet dselect claims svgalib is installed.  Do I need to install svgalib-bin ?
> 
> I have vga.h in the usr/src tree - is this where it should be ?
> 
> Where is the vga library that needs to be linked ?
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> Ivan.
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Re: Which text editor is compatible with crxvt?

[claydona]

On Sun, 7 Feb 1999, Yi-ping Chang wrote:

There is nothing wrong with vi for big-5 compatibility.  I have found
you have to be clever how  you place your mouse to get the input ok.

The other thing was to open crxvt first but not to open xcin with the 
crxvt window but to do a 
ctrl-z bg 
and then 
xcin 
in the original xterm
window.  

Judging by the HOWTO there are many woes for input. I got it going with

xcin -in1 phonetic.tab 

for chu yin and roman input 

crxvt works well with lynx , lynx will need no special configuration;
point it straight at your favorite page with big-5

best regards from 
angus claydon
> 
Hello, guys: > 
> I would like to know which text editor is compatible with big-5 Chinese
> text.  I have "xcin" and "crxvt" installed in my linux box.  Because my
> favorite editor is vi, I tried to open a Chinese document with that in
> crxvt terminal, but what I found is some thing like \056\378\053.
> It didn't turn these special characters into Chinese but just print
> their code.  So if somebody can help me out on this, I will really
> appreciate it.  Thanks in advance.
> 
> Yi-ping Chang
> 
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Wooooooo Hooooooooooo!!!!!!!

[rod peters]

Yes! Thank you.  That's probably the last directory I 
would have looked in.  Now I'm off to discover my next 
problem.
 
rod.

Re: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUGH!!!!!!!!!!

[Syrus Nemat-Nasser]

On Sat, 6 Feb 1999, rod peters wrote:

> I can't find qt1.42 anywhere.  What directory under potato is it in?  Is that 
> only a partial file name?  Is it in an archive file?  If I wasn't wearin' my 
> good socks I'd smack my computer up side the head with my wiffle bat.  I'm 
> gettin kinda desperate.  Please, help me out.  Just give me the last known 
> url for this file.  In the meantime, I will continue my endless search.

It's not in main due to the licence. It's in non-free. Try the libs
directory. You may also be interested in the doc and dev packages which
are both in non-free/devel for some reason.

Thanks. Syrus.

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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUGH!!!!!!!!!!

[rod peters]

I can't find qt1.42 anywhere.  What directory under 
potato is it in?  Is that only a partial file name?  Is it in an 
archive file?  If I wasn't wearin' my good socks I'd smack my computer up 
side the head with my wiffle bat.  I'm gettin kinda desperate.  
Please, help me out.  Just give me the last known url for this file.  
In the meantime, I will continue my endless search.
 
 

Re: where exactly is qt1.42. I cant seem to find it. NFM

[Syrus Nemat-Nasser]

Your email was formatted such that pine doesn't like it. However, I did
read the subject. qt1.42 is in potato (a.k.a. unstable).

Thanks. Syrus.

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Re: Quicktime player for Linux?

[Ryan Finnesey]

Did you find any info yet ?


Ryan,

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>Date: Sun, Jan 31, 1999, 5:49 PM
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> On Sun, Jan 31, 1999 at 06:36:01PM +0100, Daniel Elenius wrote:
>> Does anyone know of a Quicktime .MOV player for Linux?
>
> xanim
>
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How to use 2.2.x kernel's nfsd ?

[Steve Hsieh]

Is there a deb package which will replace the user-space rpc.nfsd and use
a 2.2.x kernel's nfsd support instead?

NFS file locking (was: broken apt-get)

[Will Lowe]

> There is something you have to do to setup working NFS file locking under
> slink, or 2.2 or something but I don't know what it is :<

Any idea where I'd start to look?  Debian doesn't seem to have a lockd...

Will


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Re: New User - Debian?

[Mike Carter]

Date sent:  Sat, 06 Feb 1999 17:35:39 +
From:   Allens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Debian-User list <>
Subject:Re: New User - Debian?

> Allens wrote:
> > 
> > Ed Cogburn wrote:
> > >
> > > Leonardo Bermudez wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi
> > > >
> > > > I'm still not a full new user because i still havn't stall any Linux
> > > > yet.
> > > >
> > > > I got a Debian CD version 1.3.1, i know that is old and current
> > > > version is 2.0.
> > > >
> > > > Before I download the 2.0 version and install it on my P350 PC, I
> > > > would like to know what other options with pros/cons do I have
> > > > beside Debian and RedHat?
> > > >
> > > > I'm just installing to learn and for curiosity, i had some
> > > > experience with sun workstations and solaris so i'm not afraid of
> > > > the unix enviroment, just to wipe my HD  (AGAIN )  :-) Regards
> > > >
> > > > Leo
> > > >
> > >
> > > A significent number of people would say that RedHat is
> > > 'easier'
> > > to install then Debian, but after the install, Debian is better.
> > > Debian has what I believe to be a better package management system
> > > (dselect/apt/dpkg) than RedHat, but the bottom line is it comes down
> > > to your preference.
> > > Why not get RedHat and Debian 2.0 on CD and try *both* of them
> > > and use the one you like better.  You can get very inexpensive
> > > CD's of both from places like http://www.cheapbytes.com.
> > 
> > Whose real address is http://www.polo.demon.co.uk/cheap.html
> > 
> > Peter Allen
> > 
I am a newbie but chose debian as it looks like being better in the 
future.  After installing debian I had a go at Redhat and came back to 
debian as each distribution is different ie., Redhat, slack, caldera, 
etcetra and I didn't want to learn another set of rules as I would have 
needed to do with Redhat.

Re: Mozilla Help!!! Wrap up

[Rod Person]

Just to let you guys know.
Never got Mozilla working, but qweb and gzilla did work, but both are 
slow on my machine. 486dx with 12 MB and 33.8 3com ext modem.
So know I'm looking for something with some speed to it -- if possible. 
I know netscape 4.0 ran under win95 with go results and speed so I may 
try that, but I fear it's will bloat the system.
I'm thinking of trying mosaic too. Hopefully all will go well in these 
trys.
thanks to all that helped and especially Syrus and Dave peace.



















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