Re: pgp question

[Martin Fluch]

On Sat, 11 Sep 1999, Peter Palfrader aka Weasel wrote:

> I'm a bit puzzled about the validy of keys that pgp (6.5.1) tells me.

I don't trust pgp 6.5.1.
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Re: Please, reply

[Martin Fluch]

On Sat, 11 Sep 1999, Juli-Manel Merino Vidal wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I think that I've configured at last exim.
> Please, if you can read this email, reply :)
> 
> Many thanks.
> 

Here we go... :-)
Martin

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Re: permissions for /tmp

[Rob Mahurin]

On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 06:59:12PM -0400, Marshal Wong wrote:
> 
> Could somebody send me the long listing of the root directory?  I need 
> the proper permissions for /tmp since I fiddled around with it, and
> now all the permissions are wrong.  Thanks!
> 
> Marshal
> 

There was a discussion about this a couple days ago ... /tmp should be
chmod 1777 chown root.root.

Rob

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Re: ppp & serial device problem: please advise

[Michael Phillips]

> Michael, please ensure you are not running a WinModem (ie, one that relies
> on the CPU to do all the work..) I have heard there is coming support for
> those less fortunate modems, but... 
No, it is a Rockwell chipset, PCI, 56K internal modem.  I have a relatively
solid foundation in the hardware area, so I would never be inclined to
purchase such an--indeed--"unfortunate" modem. :)

> Can you use seyon or minicom to dial to your ISP?
I have yet to try them; I shall and let you (collectively) know.

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Re: rexecd disappeared after update.

[Rob Mahurin]

On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 09:45:37AM -0400, Steve Rothanburg wrote:
> Anybody know where I can find in.rexecd? I just ran dselect this morning
> and after the 8megs of updates rexecd is gone. It didn't get split off
> to a separate package did it? I'm running Potato with a 2.2.10 kernel.
> 

I think that rexec is now considered evil for security reasons and ssh
is the recommended replacement.  

Rob

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Re: ppp & serial device problem: please advise

[Seth R Arnold]

Michael, please ensure you are not running a WinModem (ie, one that relies
on the CPU to do all the work..) I have heard there is coming support for
those less fortunate modems, but... 

Can you use seyon or minicom to dial to your ISP?

On Sat, Sep 11, 1999 at 06:12:25PM -0400, Michael Phillips wrote:
> I've been ransacking the FAQs and list archives, but cannot find any
> information on this problem specifically.  I'm using kernel 2.0 from the CD,
> and I installed the system on my Windows box, using a 3.5" floppy to boot.
> That's most likely irrelevant, so I'll cut to the chase: I'm having PPP
> problems, and I think I have it narrowed down to the fact that my serial
> ports are screwed up.  More specifically, that the system isn't recognizing
> my serial port which would be COM2 under DOS.  I disabled COM2 in the BIOS
> of my Asus P2B-F motherboard so that Win98 would work with my Rockwell 56K
> modem; could this be the cause that the device is not recognized?  I played
> around with setting up devices and using pppd manually with a daunting
> command-line string, but it's not working for me.  The bottom line: I think
> the whole problem is because Linux isn't recognizing my modem at all, or the
> port on which it operates.  How can I set that up so that it will recognize
> my modem as a valid port?  I'm a newbie, so if the question is one which can
> be answered with the ever-concise RTFM, please point me in the direction of
> the FM which would be most beneficial to read.  Any replies are greatly
> appreciated.
> 
> Michael Phillips
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> 
> 
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Re: status of automated install

[Seth R Arnold]

Scott, check the debian-devel archives. There is a fellow working on an
automated install program, but no one seemed to want it -- so it won't be in
potato, and I would be suprised if it goes into potato+1 too. All the same,
he says he uses it regularly, and enjoys it.

It was in the last two weeks or so that I saw this. It was likely in a
thread related to a recent review which suggested debian needed a better
install program.

I think such a beast would be neat to have. :)

On Sat, Sep 11, 1999 at 04:03:57PM -0600, Scott Barker wrote:
> Some time ago, I saw a note on the mailing list about work progressing on
> automated installs of Debian. I was just wondering how far along it is. I've
> got about 150 workstations that run linux, and right now I have to use RedHat
> because RedHat has an automated install. But I'm getting really sick and tired
> of things not working properly on RedHat (most recently, in RedHat 6.0, NFS
> has scr*wed the pooch), and I'm desparately waiting for Debian's automated
> install so I can switch...
> 
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ppp & serial device problem: please advise

[Michael Phillips]

I've been ransacking the FAQs and list archives, but cannot find any
information on this problem specifically.  I'm using kernel 2.0 from the CD,
and I installed the system on my Windows box, using a 3.5" floppy to boot.
That's most likely irrelevant, so I'll cut to the chase: I'm having PPP
problems, and I think I have it narrowed down to the fact that my serial
ports are screwed up.  More specifically, that the system isn't recognizing
my serial port which would be COM2 under DOS.  I disabled COM2 in the BIOS
of my Asus P2B-F motherboard so that Win98 would work with my Rockwell 56K
modem; could this be the cause that the device is not recognized?  I played
around with setting up devices and using pppd manually with a daunting
command-line string, but it's not working for me.  The bottom line: I think
the whole problem is because Linux isn't recognizing my modem at all, or the
port on which it operates.  How can I set that up so that it will recognize
my modem as a valid port?  I'm a newbie, so if the question is one which can
be answered with the ever-concise RTFM, please point me in the direction of
the FM which would be most beneficial to read.  Any replies are greatly
appreciated.

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Re: pgp question

[Peter Palfrader aka Weasel]

On Sat, Sep 11, 1999 at 10:08:09PM -, Pollywog wrote:
> You exchanged passphrases??  I don't think you should do that.
> Your passphrase is for your own use when you encrypt or sign something.

oops, fingerprints  :)

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video permissions

[Jim]

I just installed Quake and Quake2 on my Linux machine.  They run fine in X
of course, and I can get the SVGALIB (console) versions to run ok too as
long as I run them as root or suid root.

However, I'm wondering if there's some kinda of special device file that I
could just allow myself write permissions for, which would allow me to run
the game without root permissions?  I'm looking for something similar in
concept to the "audio" group which can write to /dev/audio and /dev/dsp,
except something for video... like a /dev/video or something.  I didn't
see anything in /dev/ that looks like it would do it though.

Is it possible?

Re: is identd gone?

[Seth R Arnold]

On Sat, Sep 11, 1999 at 04:51:03PM -0400, William T Wilson wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Sep 1999, Seth R Arnold wrote:
> 
> > Which you want, I don't know. (I thought inetd handled identd too, but
> > my inetd.conf file shows that it runs identd directly -- and it
> > DOESN'T USE TCPWRAPPERS. Is *this* right?)
> 
> I'm not sure why it is, but that's the correct setup.  inetd doesn't
> handle ident requests directly.  The naming here is extremely annoying,
> isn't it. :}

Very annoying. :) Thanks for the tip.

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RE: pgp question

[Pollywog]

On 11-Sep-99 Peter Palfrader aka Weasel wrote:
> I'm a fairly new pgp user and hope that the gurus here can bring some
> light into my dark.
> 
> I'm a bit puzzled about the validy of keys that pgp (6.5.1) tells me.
> 
> Here's what I have:
>   KeyID  Trust Validity  User ID
>   0x...  marginal  complete  Dillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> cultimate Peter Palfrader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> I signed Dillo's key after we'd exchanged passphrases and since I
> trust my own signature ultimately Dillo's key is completely
> valid. I usually trust dillo to do a good job when certifying
> signatures.

You exchanged passphrases??  I don't think you should do that.
Your passphrase is for your own use when you encrypt or sign something.

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status of automated install

[Scott Barker]

Some time ago, I saw a note on the mailing list about work progressing on
automated installs of Debian. I was just wondering how far along it is. I've
got about 150 workstations that run linux, and right now I have to use RedHat
because RedHat has an automated install. But I'm getting really sick and tired
of things not working properly on RedHat (most recently, in RedHat 6.0, NFS
has scr*wed the pooch), and I'm desparately waiting for Debian's automated
install so I can switch...

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Re: ftp not working

[Eric G . Miller]

On Sat, Sep 11, 1999 at 01:15:51PM -0700, Miguel Wooding SF Ten.Union wrote:
> Now, how do I make it so that lynx or emacs or lftp or wget also use
> this passive mode?  I only seem to be able to make it work in the
> regular client.  Is there a system setting that all of these would
> look at to use passive mode?
> 
> Thanks again.
> 
> --Miguel

  I don't know about a global setting. Anyone?

Connect two computers

[Luis Moura]

Hi

I have just connect two computers with windows 98 with a 
RJ45 inverted cable, trought it's network boards.
How do I configure the windows 98 network in order each one 
see each other ?

Thanks

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pgp question

[Peter Palfrader aka Weasel]

I'm a fairly new pgp user and hope that the gurus here can bring some
light into my dark.

I'm a bit puzzled about the validy of keys that pgp (6.5.1) tells me.

Here's what I have:
  KeyID  Trust Validity  User ID
  0x...  marginal  complete  Dillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
cultimate Peter Palfrader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

I signed Dillo's key after we'd exchanged passphrases and since I
trust my own signature ultimately Dillo's key is completely
valid. I usually trust dillo to do a good job when certifying
signatures.

Now there's a third user name Konrad which I've never met in person
but Dillo knows him.

  KeyID Trust Validity  User ID
  0x... untrusted marginal  Konrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
c   marginal Dillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
  complete  Konrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
c   marginal Dillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
  complete  Konrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
c   marginal Dillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Now the first two lines look quite good. I marginally trust Dillo who
signed Konrad's key so Konrad's key is marginally valid.

However what puzzles me is why on earch are the two other user id's on
Konrad's key completely valid.

Perhaps you can help me?


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stopping monkeybusiness with portmap and rpc

[Pollywog]

I just found this in my log:

Sep 11 21:39:49 lilypad portmap[3551]: connect from 155.230.90.29 to dump():
request from unauthorized host
Sep 11 21:39:54 lilypad tcplogd: sunrpc connection attempt from
job.kyungpook.ac.kr [155.230.90.29]
Sep 11 21:39:54 lilypad tcplogd: sunrpc connection attempt from
job.kyungpook.ac.kr [155.230.90.29]

How can I make sure I have these things disabled?  I do not use NFS and
don't even have it installed.

thanks

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Please, reply

[Juli-Manel Merino Vidal]

Hi all,

I think that I've configured at last exim.
Please, if you can read this email, reply :)

Many thanks.
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Thinkpad 560, got debian 2.1 up, need to replace XF86 to get 800X600 ???

[John Miskinis]

Hello,

Yesterday I got the distribution up, after coping the CD #1 over
to my C: in Win95, and copying the files in each "binary-all" that
ral, replacing the 0K ones in "binary-i386" to satisfy install.  I
was underway, and did not see the post about the "dselect" overrides,
but my strategy worked.

I have read many pages about XFree86, and the Thinkpad 560, but
I can't get 800x600.  I suspect that I must upgrade to a LATER
XF86.  I even built the "set_DSTN_size" program, but when I run
it, it mentions a note that it doesn't work on 3.3.2A (I think).
I think the XF86 that I have up from the CD is 3.3.2.3a.

Does it make sense for me to try to go right to 3.3.5 ??

Again this is a 800x600, dual scan 560.

Also, I have never been able to use the CTRL-ALT-PLUS_ON_KEYPAD
and CTRL-ALT-MINUS_ON_KEYPAD as even on Win95 I can't get the
numeric keypad keys to work.  (They are overlayed on the regular
keyboard, (U=4, I=5, O=6, etc).

Anyway, if I should avoid upgrading to 3.3.5, or I am missing
something, I would appreciate any information.

Thanks,

John
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Re: undelete for partition tables?

[Jaldhar H. Vyas]

On Sat, 11 Sep 1999, Tom Pfeifer wrote:

> Deleting partitions with DOS fdisk (and most partitioning programs)
> doesn't touch anything except the partition table itself. So all data in
> those partitions and the file system structure itself should be
> untouched - unless other steps were taken besides just deleting the
> partition. 
> 

As soon as I heard what happened, I told my colleague to turn the computer
off and not mes with anything till I had asked here.

[...]

> If you need a hand, get the Ranish Partition Manager and run this
> command from a DOS prompt: (type part /? for snytax)
> 
> part -d 1 -p -r > part1.txt   (for the first  drive)
> part -d 2 -p -r > part2.txt   (for the second drive, if any)  
> 
> Post the contents of the text file(s) here, and also any information you
> have about where the partitions were located on the drive. I, or
> someone, will see what we can do from there.

Ok here it is:
--BEGIN
Ranish Partition Manager   Version 2.38 Beta 1.8 July 21, 1999

HD 1 (128) 17,201M [  2,330 cyls x 240 heads x 63 sects =  35,229,600 sects ]

Problems   FileStarting Ending  Partition
  # Type Row   System Type Cyl Head SectCyl Head Sect  Size [KB]

   0  MBR   Master Boot Record001  001  0 
   1  Pri   Unused002  2,260  239   63 17,093,159 
!  2  Pri 4 Linux ext2fs  2,26101  2,330   14   63522,112 

Partition table details:

ProblemsStarting   Ending Starting   Number of  Ending
  # Type R FSCyl Head Sct  Cyl Head Sctsector sectors  sector

   0  MBR   FF  0   0  1  0   0  1   0   1   0
   1  Pri   00  0   0  2  2,260 239 63   1  34,186,319  34,186,319
!  2  Pri 4 83  2,261   0  1  2,330  14 63  34,186,320   1,044,225  35,230,544

 Problems with partition 2:

   Partition addresses are out of range

Partition records exactly as they appear in MBR (EMBR):

   Starting  EndingStarting   Number of
#  HD  FSCyl Head SectCyl Head Sect  sector sectors
(0,0,1):
1  00  00  000  000   0   0
2  00  00  000  000   0   0
3  00  00  000  000   0   0
4  00  83  1,023   63   63  1,023   63   63  34,186,320   1,044,225


Detailed information about each partition:


--- Partition 2 ---
Type: Linux ext2fs   CHS=(2261,0,1)  522,112 k  1,044,225 sectors

Print info function is not available for this file system.

--END--

Unfortunately I don't remember exactly which raw devices mapped to which
partitions when I set up this computer (and my colleague may have moved
them around anyway) but putting our heads together we think the layout was
something like this:

fstype  size (MB) location (not sure)
/ ext2   512  /dev/hda7
/usr  ext2  4096  /dev/hda8
/home ext2  2048  /dev/hda9
/var  ext2  2048  /dev/hda10
swap  swap   512  /dev/hda4

The first and second primary partitions were the DOS ones he created and
may have had logical drives in them, he isn't sure.

Thanks for your help, we really appreciate it.

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blackbox, plus a few..

[tf]

Hey guys,

I finally got apt-get going--thanks.  I can't remember,exactly, but is there a 
dpkg  --fix  --broken  that I can use to insure that I 
have a "full" installation?  I've got some of netscape 4.6, I think, but not 
enough to make it run (can run Mozilla fine under 
blackbox).  The more I study dselect, the more confused I get.

blackbox stuff:  how do you add menu items?  a background color?  how changing 
the default video mode and color depth? (by 
hand)  right now I use startx blackbox to get going...

an x-term is in the existing  blackbox menu, but it won't accept any input.  
How may I get wterm going (just read a post 'bout it 
and it sounds good)

last but not least... phewy on exim.  I'm a beginner.  is smail any easier to 
configure? Right now I have the mutt-exim-fetchmail 
combo.  I visited some web document about exim and fetchmail, but lost the url. 
 I just got the smail deb.

once I get mail, and netscape, I'll have no more reason to borrow a computer!

Thanks



-tf

Re: Pulled /home from / to New File Sys

[William T Wilson]

On Sat, 11 Sep 1999, Nathan E Norman wrote:

>  : What does cp get wrong? I havmoved entire systems using cp with no
>  : problems yet.
> 
> device files (tar blows on those too).  I don't think cp gets files with
> "holes" right either (but I could be wrong).

cp does have problems with sparse files (with holes), and hard links also.
GNU tar should handle both of those cases correctly.  (So should cpio,
let's not fight over that! :} )

Re: is identd gone?

[William T Wilson]

On Sat, 11 Sep 1999, Seth R Arnold wrote:

> Which you want, I don't know. (I thought inetd handled identd too, but
> my inetd.conf file shows that it runs identd directly -- and it
> DOESN'T USE TCPWRAPPERS. Is *this* right?)

I'm not sure why it is, but that's the correct setup.  inetd doesn't
handle ident requests directly.  The naming here is extremely annoying,
isn't it. :}

Re: Console screen blanking time ?

[Bob Nielsen]

setterm -blank [0-60]

(blanking time in minutes, 0=never)

Bob

On Sat, Sep 11, 1999 at 11:31:29AM -0400, Paul McHale wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Does anyone know how to change/disable the console screen blanking time when
> in text mode ?
> 
> 
> thanks,
> 
> paul
> 
> 
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RE: Help with exim -> Message frozen (fwd) ?

[George Bonser]

On 11-Sep-99 Colin Telmer wrote:
> I recently moved from smail to exim and have occasionally been sent the
> following note (below). I don't really know what it means (other than the
> obvious:)) nor how to fix it. Can anyone shed some light on this problem?


Add localhost to the local_domains option in /etc/exim.conf


> 
> -- 
> Colin Telmer, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
> 
> 
> 
> -- Forwarded message --
> Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 20:23:01 -0400
> From: Mail Delivery System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Message frozen
> 
> Message 11OwJY-0001rh-00 has been frozen. The sender is
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
> 
> The following address(es) have yet to be delivered:
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Re: ftp not working

[Miguel Wooding SF Ten.Union]

Now, how do I make it so that lynx or emacs or lftp or wget also use
this passive mode?  I only seem to be able to make it work in the
regular client.  Is there a system setting that all of these would
look at to use passive mode?

Thanks again.

--Miguel

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miguel Wooding SF Ten.Union) writes:

> "Eric G . Miller"  writes:
> 
> >   Another person on this list was having a similar problem with his/her
> >   own machine.  If you're using the regular ftp client, you might try
> >   these steps first.
> > 
> >   ftp> open 
> >   ftp> username: 
> >   ftp> password: 
> >   Then:
> >   ftp> debug
> >   ftp> passive
> >   
> >   Seems the ftp client doesn't necessarily default to passive mode,
> >   though many set-ups, with firewalls or such, only work in passive
> >   mode.  That may be all you need to do.
> 
> 
> Thanks.  That seems to work fine.  Now I'll look into what "passive
> mode" means.
> 
> --Miguel

wierd 'su' error message

[Seth R Arnold]

Hey guys -- I just did a 'su' on my computer to get to root from user, and I
got this following error message:

$ su
Password: 
shell-init: could not get current directory:
[0306]:841729ßßß:
 No such file or directory

Those betas there continue for 39 lines. I trimmed it a bit.

Now, I am pretty sure that the user account was sitting a directory that got
deleted, but .. this is wierd. :)

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Re: is identd gone?

[Seth R Arnold]

On Sat, Sep 11, 1999 at 07:01:11PM -, Pollywog wrote:
> I just discovered that identd seems to be gone from my system (potato) and
> it is also commented out in /etc/inetd.conf
> 
> Is this a problem?

Andrew, most people would feel this is a security feature rather than a
problem. identd allows people to see usernames, which is partway to having a
username/password pair. If you need it, you can install it via
apt-get install midentd
-or-
apt-get install oidentd.

(here is their one-line description:
oidentd - Replacement ident daemon
midentd - identd replacement with masquerading support.
)

Which you want, I don't know. (I thought inetd handled identd too, but my
inetd.conf file shows that it runs identd directly -- and it DOESN'T USE
TCPWRAPPERS. Is *this* right?)

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Re: Reading Word format files?

[Johann Spies]

On Sat, 11 Sep 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote:

> I'm running the stock abiword 0.7.4-1 Debian package on potato and it
> shows the following "open file as" options:
> 
> automatically detected, .abw, .rtf, .doc
> 
> Save as does not show .doc as an option, however, so it will not write
> doc files, but reads them fine.  

I found a debian package of abiword on their home page. After downloading
and installing it as well as installing abi-fonts from potato (which
conflicted with abiword 0.7.4-1) I can also now read .doc files.

Thanks for the information. Now I don't have to start Wordperfect or
Staroffice if I want to read a .doc file.

Johann.


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Re: ftp not working

[Miguel Wooding SF Ten.Union]

"Eric G . Miller"  writes:

>   Another person on this list was having a similar problem with his/her
>   own machine.  If you're using the regular ftp client, you might try
>   these steps first.
> 
>   ftp> open 
>   ftp> username: 
>   ftp> password: 
>   Then:
>   ftp> debug
>   ftp> passive
>   
>   Seems the ftp client doesn't necessarily default to passive mode,
>   though many set-ups, with firewalls or such, only work in passive
>   mode.  That may be all you need to do.


Thanks.  That seems to work fine.  Now I'll look into what "passive
mode" means.

--Miguel

Re: Pulled /home from / to New File Sys

[Nathan E Norman]

On Sat, 11 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 : On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 06:24:44PM -0400, William T Wilson wrote:
 : > Note that when moving filesystems it is best to use either tar or cpio.
 : > cp will get things subtly wrong much of the time.
 : What does cp get wrong? I havmoved entire systems using cp with no
 : problems yet.

device files (tar blows on those too).  I don't think cp gets files with
"holes" right either (but I could be wrong).

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ppp and kernel 2.2.12

[Levi]

I seem to have a problem involving ppp and the new kernel. I've got ppp
set up and it works just fine with kernel 2.0.34, but I can never seem to
get connected with kernel 2.2.12. I've read the kernel docs and they say
2.2.12 requires pppd 2.3.8 or better, but I've got 2.3.9 intsalled, so i
don't know what the problem is. Thanks in advance for any help I get.

-Levi

Re: Pulled /home from / to New File Sys

[robbie]

On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 06:24:44PM -0400, William T Wilson wrote:
> Note that when moving filesystems it is best to use either tar or cpio.
> cp will get things subtly wrong much of the time.
What does cp get wrong? I havmoved entire systems using cp with no
problems yet.
> 
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Re: Deciphering strace output [WAS: Sudden Emacs Error]

[Mark Wagnon]

Nevermind. I rebooted and it works okay now. 

Sorry for taking up bandwidth.
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is identd gone?

[Pollywog]

I just discovered that identd seems to be gone from my system (potato) and
it is also commented out in /etc/inetd.conf

Is this a problem?


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Debian to be too late released

[andreas palsson]

Hello..

I saw on the Kernel Mailing List that there's a feature freeze now, and
a possible kernel 2.4 by the end of the year.
Nice news.

My questions is, if Debian 2.2 is released before this date, will there
be a kernel-and-depending-tools-update a few weeks after the relase of
kernel 2.4?

I am certainly one of those who would like to see that.
Any one else who agrees/disagrees?

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Latest Potato Midnite Commander broken

[wb4mle]

The last 3 days potato upgrades seem to have a bad MC build. Get
malloc and realloc errors trying to boot it. The "stable" build of mc
will run, but the mouse doesn't work. The last 3 releases of aumix
don't work with the mouse also. Mouse seems fine even with Netscape so
I do not think it is broken.
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non-free

[Lawrence Walton]

Is non-free broken?
The potato/non-packages.gz file appears to be empty.
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Re: ftp not working

[Eric G . Miller]

  Another person on this list was having a similar problem with his/her
  own machine.  If you're using the regular ftp client, you might try
  these steps first.

  ftp> open 
  ftp> username: 
  ftp> password: 
  Then:
  ftp> debug
  ftp> passive
  
  Seems the ftp client doesn't necessarily default to passive mode,
  though many set-ups, with firewalls or such, only work in passive
  mode.  That may be all you need to do.

Deciphering strace output [WAS: Sudden Emacs Error]

[Mark Wagnon]

Okay, I ran across strace, and I invoked it like so:

  strace -o emacs.err emacs

and I got a binch of `stuff' that I have no idea how to decipher.
Does anyone know what this means? Here's the last bit of the
error file:

---snip---

sigreturn() = ? (mask now [])
ioctl(5, FIONREAD, [64])= 0
read(5, "\26\304\231\0\31\0\300\2\31\0\300"..., 64) = 64
gettimeofday({937072212, 769611}, NULL) = 0
select(6, [5], [], [], {5, 0})  = 1 (in [5], left {5, 0})
gettimeofday({937072212, 770391}, NULL) = 0
ioctl(5, FIONREAD, [32])= 0
read(5, "\26\0\235\0\27\0\300\2\27\0\300\2"..., 32) = 32
--- SIGILL (Illegal Instruction) ---
sigaction(SIGILL, {SIG_DFL}, {0x8094210, [], SA_RESTART}) = 0
getpgrp()   = 16645
ioctl(0, TIOCGPGRP, [16644])= 0
sigaction(SIGIO, {SIG_IGN}, {0x809b5e0, [], SA_RESTART}) = 0
sigprocmask(SIG_UNBLOCK, [ILL], [ILL])  = 0
getpid()= 16645
kill(16645, SIGILL) = 0
--- SIGILL (Illegal Instruction) ---
+++ killed by SIGILL +++

---snip---

Any ideas? Should I try to remove and re-install emacs? Also, I
seem to have both emacs19 and emacs20 on my system. Is that
normal? If so, I've never noticed before, but that seems odd.

tia
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Console screen blanking time ?

[Paul McHale]

Hi,

Does anyone know how to change/disable the console screen blanking time when
in text mode ?


thanks,

paul



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ftp not working

[Miguel Wooding SF Ten.Union]

I am running debian slink, and once upon a time I believe that I was
able to transfer files via ftp but, alas, no longer.  Unfortunately, I
don't recall what changed (it was a while ago, and I didn't deal with
it right away), so now I'm trying to debug the situation from where I
am now.

I dial in to a shell account on a SunOS computer and connect to the
net via dip + cslip. I'm able to use telnet and I can access files
using http, but I can't use ftp.  (The existence of alternative ways
of moving files around is why I never got around to dealing with this
before.)

When I start ftp, I'm able to open a connection to the remote site
just fine and I appear to be able to cd, but when I try to ls or get
or put any file, it just hangs and nothing is transferred.  I am able
to login (both to a site where I have an account and to anonymous
sites like metalab or ftp.debian.org), and I get the login messages,
but I can't transfer files or get a directory listing.  I put an
example at the bottom of this message, but I fear it's not
particularly informative.

I'm not sure where to start trying to debug this problem.  "RTFM" is a
welcome response provided you tell me where in what FM to R.  Or else
if someone could tell me what to look at to try to find out the source
of the problem, I'd be very appreciative.  Undoubtedly more
information is needed to find the source of the problem, but I'm not
sure what information to provide.  If it matters, I'm using 2.0.36
kernel that I compiled on this Pentium Pro box; the problem also
existed when I was using the stock slink 2.0.36 kernel.

Thanks very much for your assistance.

--Miguel

Sample ftp session:

$ ftp -v 
ftp> open thecity.sfsu.edu
Connected to thecity.sfsu.edu.
220 thecity.sfsu.edu FTP server (Version wu-2.4.2-academ[BETA-18](1) Thu Aug 13 
12:11:37 PDT 1998) ready.
Name (thecity.sfsu.edu:maw): mwooding
331 Password required for mwooding.
Password:
230 User mwooding logged in.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
ftp> get test
local: test remote: test
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for test (288 bytes).

 [ I hit ^C here. ]

receive aborted
waiting for remote to finish abort
226 Transfer complete.
225 ABOR command successful.
ftp>  put local.test
local: local.test remote: local.test
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for local.test.

[ ^C again ]

send aborted
waiting for remote to finish abort
226 Transfer complete.
ftp>  ls
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls.

[ and yet again ]

receive aborted
waiting for remote to finish abort
226 Transfer complete.
225 ABOR command successful.
ftp> cd bin
250 CWD command successful.
ftp>  bye
221 Goodbye.

Slink and 2.3.xx (fwd)

[ferret]

Just on a whim I tried out the kernel PNP support in Linux 2.3.16 in hopes
of getting my opti931 sound card working with ALSA. I'm currently stuck
with 4front's OSS due to having a drive on the tertiary IDE chain (Kernel
support for the 931 hoses that interface at least with my system)

Anyway.. Turns out both packet filtering and PPP are in another complete
rewrite. AND the ALSA can't initialise my card even with kernel PNP or
isapnp going. But I was curious. Has anyone on this list been keeping up
with the development kernels and has gotten any one of these working?

-- Ferret no baka

Re: undelete for partition tables?

[Tom Pfeifer]

Deleting partitions with DOS fdisk (and most partitioning programs)
doesn't touch anything except the partition table itself. So all data in
those partitions and the file system structure itself should be
untouched - unless other steps were taken besides just deleting the
partition. 

Bringing the partitions back is a matter of filling the previous values
back in so that they are the same as they were previously. In many cases
the previous values can be deduced from the remaining partitions. The
user's knowledge of approximately where they were located also helps.

Fixing the partition table can be done with either a disk editor, or
with a partitioning program that doesn't wipe out the boot sector when
it creates a partition. Win9X or DOS fdisk should NOT be used for this. 

Linux fdisk could do it, but the freeware Ranish Partition Manager is
also excellent for this particular job, and it may be more convenient on
that machine since, of course, Linux has been deleted. You can find it
here:

http://www.users.intercom.com/~ranish/part/

If you need a hand, get the Ranish Partition Manager and run this
command from a DOS prompt: (type part /? for snytax)

part -d 1 -p -r > part1.txt   (for the first  drive)
part -d 2 -p -r > part2.txt   (for the second drive, if any)

Post the contents of the text file(s) here, and also any information you
have about where the partitions were located on the drive. I, or
someone, will see what we can do from there.

Tom

"Jaldhar H. Vyas" wrote:
> 
> Ok an interesting case here.  I have a colleague who is at the let's say
> "Just knows enough to be dangerous" level of linux knowledge.  He wanted
> to install Win98 on an unused part of his drive on a machine I had set up
> Debian on.  To make a long story short, he has ended up deleting his linux
> partitions with DOS FDISK.  I am hoping that deleting partitions means
> removing entries in some data structure and not actually deleting data
> from the disk.  If this is the case, is there any utility, dos or linux,
> free or commercial that will enable us to restore this information?  There
> is important data on this machine and naturally, he did not make a backup
> prior to beginning. :(
> 
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undelete for partition tables?

[Jaldhar H. Vyas]

Ok an interesting case here.  I have a colleague who is at the let's say
"Just knows enough to be dangerous" level of linux knowledge.  He wanted
to install Win98 on an unused part of his drive on a machine I had set up
Debian on.  To make a long story short, he has ended up deleting his linux
partitions with DOS FDISK.  I am hoping that deleting partitions means
removing entries in some data structure and not actually deleting data
from the disk.  If this is the case, is there any utility, dos or linux,
free or commercial that will enable us to restore this information?  There
is important data on this machine and naturally, he did not make a backup
prior to beginning. :(

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[no subject]

[michael ottaway]

I am looking to install Debian GNU/Linux on a computer I am about to finish 
building. I was wondering about hardware issues I may encounter. The two 
concerns of mine are the video card:Matrox G400 and the hard drive which is 
Western Digital Expert. This HD is UDMA66 and the motherboard is a Tyan 
1598s. This board supports the UDMA66 through bios. Will I have any problem 
using Debian with this hardware? I have limited experience with SuSE 6.1 
but I very much want to use Debian for philosophic reasons.


Do you feel that there would be a need or desire for children's software? I 
am currently go to school and have completed an associates degree in Child 
Development. Though I may major in computers before I am done. I have an 
interest to try to development children's Ed software for Linux.


Thanks

Michael Ottaway
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Re: installing

[John Carline]

Soul Existance wrote:

> Hey, hey, first time user, long time admirer... I got your
> newest version of debian, and it wants me to partition my
> hdd... i have a win98 sys, and i partitioned 3.6gig just for
> linux. is it going to mess up my dos partition by
> partitioning to linux native and swap the 3.5 to the sizes i
> need? i have way too much stuff on my 10gig partition to
> just dump it. All help is appreciated. «§Öùl»

Welcome to the wonderful world of the penquin.

If your drive is already partitioned, you shouldn't have a
problem. Go ahead and creat your linux native and swap in the
empty partition. If your're really concerned about makeing a
mistake and screwing up your disk boot section, don't use lilo
(although it works great) until you feel comfortable. Select
"boot  from floppy" rather that "boot from hard dirve" during
the installation. You can always change it later.

John

P.S. you're better off sending email to this list as text.
Many users use mail agents that don't recognize mime.

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Re: How do you LOW FORMAT a hard drive

[William T Wilson]

On Sat, 11 Sep 1999, Patrik Magnusson wrote:

> > I need to Low Format a hard drive - I have a drive that has at some stage
> Some BIOSes lets you do this.

But you shouldn't ever low level format a hard drive.  It isn't necessary
any more since the 80's.  If you have a drive (ESPECIALLY an IDE drive)
that can't simply be repartitioned with fdisk and formatted normally it's
probably ruined.

Re: OpenGL in Linux

[Rev. DeFiLEZ]

Ok i haven't set it up in slink but i have in slakware and potato
go to idsoftware's quake 3 site (its in my dselect but i guess that just potato
) they will piont you in the right direction when you look fer q3 for linux
uncompress it and run make ... very easy and its a 1/2 second compile
and modprode it (file is 3dfx.o)

now only is sblive's install (errr bin) supported SMP i would be a happy camper.

[EMAIL PROTECTED]


On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 03:46:25AM -0300, Taupter wrote:
> > Mesa is an implemaentation of OpenGL
> 
> Talking about this, did anyone configure OpenGL/X to use hardware
> acceleration (Voodoo) on Slink? I would love to know the "mojo" and set
> up my system.
> 
> 
> Taupter
> 
> 
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Re: How do you LOW FORMAT a hard drive

[Patrik Magnusson]

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Derek Alexander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I need to Low Format a hard drive - I have a drive that has at some stage
Some BIOSes lets you do this.

/Patrik 

Re: Reading Word format files?

[Bob Nielsen]

I'm running the stock abiword 0.7.4-1 Debian package on potato and it
shows the following "open file as" options:

automatically detected, .abw, .rtf, .doc

Save as does not show .doc as an option, however, so it will not write
doc files, but reads them fine.  

Bob


On Sat, Sep 11, 1999 at 09:30:04AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> 
> > Abiword (at least the version in potato) seems to handle this just fine 
> > (also .rtf).
> 
> In reaction to this message I have downloaded the potato source and
> compiled it (after having some problems with bugs in the source package)
> but it does not read .doc files.  It also does not give msword as one of
> the options under the "save as" menu.  Only .abw, .rtf, .txt and .html are
> supported.  A few tries to load .doc files all failed.
> 
> Johann.
> 
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modules, kmod, printing, and tape backup

[Colin Telmer]

I recently upgraded from kernel 2.0.35 to 2.2.10 and am having difficulty
getting modules loaded on the fly by kmod. I have easily got sound to work
by creating the following file:

-telmer:/etc/modutils/sound
alias char-major-14 sb
post-install sb /sbin/modprobe "-k" "adlib_card"
options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330
options adlib_card io=0x388
options sound dmabuf=1
---

However, I have not had any such luck getting my printer and tape drive to
work (which both ran flawlessly under 2.0.35 using modules and kerneld).
For my printer I have

-telmer:/etc/modutils/printing
options parport_pc io=0x378 irq=7
options lp parport=0
--

but lsmod always reports 

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/modutils# lsmod 
Module  Size  Used by
parport_probe   2980   0  (autoclean)
parport_pc  5624   1  (autoclean)
lp  4480   0  (autoclean) (unused)
parport 6852   1  (autoclean) [parport_probe parport_pc lp]
ide-cd 22484   1  (autoclean)
cdrom  13240   0  (autoclean) [ide-cd]
vfat   11196   1  (autoclean)
fat25120   1  (autoclean) [vfat]

and lpq reports 

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/modutils# lpq
waiting for lp to become ready (offline ?)
Rank   Owner  Job  Files Total Size
1stroot   4printing  55 bytes

Can anyone point me to where I am going wrong?

As for my tape drive that runs using tob and afio, running tob loads ftape
but not zftape:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/modutils# lsmod
Module  Size  Used by
ftape  90688   0  (autoclean) (unused)
parport_probe   2980   0  (autoclean)
parport_pc  5624   1  (autoclean)
lp  4480   0  (autoclean) (unused)
parport 6852   1  (autoclean) [parport_probe parport_pc lp]
ide-cd 22484   1  (autoclean)
cdrom  13240   0  (autoclean) [ide-cd]
vfat   11196   1  (autoclean)
fat25120   1  (autoclean) [vfat]

Does anyone know how to tell kmod to preload zftape before ftape (if that
is the problem - if not what is?)?

Any help would be gratefully appreciated. Cheers, Colin.


-- 
Colin Telmer, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Help with exim -> Message frozen (fwd) ?

[Colin Telmer]

I recently moved from smail to exim and have occasionally been sent the
following note (below). I don't really know what it means (other than the
obvious:)) nor how to fix it. Can anyone shed some light on this problem?

-- 
Colin Telmer, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada



-- Forwarded message --
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 20:23:01 -0400
From: Mail Delivery System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Message frozen

Message 11OwJY-0001rh-00 has been frozen. The sender is <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.

The following address(es) have yet to be delivered:
  [EMAIL PROTECTED]: remote host address is the local host

Re: scsi help

[Jocke]

On Sat, Sep 11, 1999 at 01:22:25PM +0200, Leonardo wrote:
> 
> 
> Jocke wrote:
> > 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Just plugged in a Adaptec 2904 to use with my scanner.
> > Recompiled 2.3.16
> > <*> SCSI support
> > <*> SCSI generic support
> > <*> Adaptec AIC7xxx support


Hmm some more info. Did some changes and compiled Adaptec
as module instead.

Now my bootup finds 1 scsi host

scsi : 1 host.
scsi : detected total.

But I have no idea whatsoever what to do next.
my /proc/scsi/scsi file says Attached devices: none

find-scanner -v give a long list of

find-scanner: checking /dev/scanner... failed to open
find-scanner: checking /dev/sg0... failed to open
find-scanner: checking /dev/sg1... failed to open
.
.
.
find-scanner: checking /dev/sgy... failed to open
find-scanner: checking /dev/sgz... failed to open
find-scanner: done

Loading aic7xxx.o with modprobe says
/lib/modules/2.3.16/scsi/aic7xxx.o: init_module: Device or resource busy

Could anyone help me out here ? Or give me some pointers to
what to read and in what order.
My goal is ofcourse to be able to scan.
xsane seems like a nice program when I try to start it it just
says xsane: no device available


Best regards
Joakim

Re: scsi help

[Leonardo]

Jocke wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Just plugged in a Adaptec 2904 to use with my scanner.
> Recompiled 2.3.16
> <*> SCSI support
> <*> SCSI generic support
> <*> Adaptec AIC7xxx support
> 
If you are using the isa card which comes with some scanners,
probably you have to do something like this:

/sbin/insmod aha152x aha152x=0x340
/sbin/insmod sg

(I don't know if you'll have to use the same module)

I compiled the driver as a module because it is easy to remove it
to completely reset card, rescan scsi bus, etc, in case you forgot
to power on your scanner.

For the scanner, look at SANE (as already suggested)

HTH
L. Bocchi

Re: IPX, 2.2, and collisons [was: 2.2.* on slink]

[Mirek Kwasniak]

On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 12:52:22PM -0500, Richard E. Hawkins wrote:
> mario mentioned,
> 
> 
> > IPX also has a bug that prevents me to use 2.2. with my slink. I'm using
> > 2.0.38 on the machine that needs IPX support and 2.2 in the rest.
> 
> In that case, i'm not going to worry about the problem that's stopping me 
> from booting with 2.2 :)
> 
> But can someone tell me what causes IPX collisons?  I get lots of 
> 
> Sep 10 12:49:53 hawkins kernel: IPX: Network number collision 24899 
> Sep 10 12:49:53 hawkins kernel: eth0 802.3 and eth0 802.2 
> 
> messages.  Is this me, or is there something wrong on the network?  [Our tech 
> support *barely* tolerates me using linux, so i can't ask them]

Colisions generated by misconfigurated W'95 stations that have settings
frame->auto.

Mirek

Re: Using apt with downloaded files

[Mirek Kwasniak]

On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 03:45:40PM -0500, David Kanter wrote:

> I'd like to download a directory-worth of files using a T1 line and a Zip
> disk, then bring that disk to my Linux box at home. How should I set up
> apt to read the mounted Zip disk (/dev/hdd4)? I'm more concerned with
> setting up the apt configuration file.

Hi, read /usr/doc/apt/offline.html.

Mirek

HELP, HELP, HELP!! (with mail)

[Juli-Manel Merino Vidal]

Hi,

first of all, don't reply to the list because I don't
have this address
subscribed... Please, reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED],
that's the address I am able
to read now :(

Let me explain my mail layout:
My smarthost is smtp.mail.yahoo.com, my username there
is 'jmmv84', and my
address there is <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. My incoming mail
server (pop3) is 
mail.fnmail.com and my address there is
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Also, I use 
mail.com to redirect my incoming mail to fnmail.com,
so my address in mail.com
is <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; that is the address that I'm
always using.
YEAH, that's confusing :)

Now, I'll explain my mail layout in linux:
My username in linux is 'juli' (I don't want to create
another user as jmmv84!)
and I'm using fetchmail to retrive mail (that works
fine). Also, I'm using
sendmail to retrive the mail (I've also installed
exim, but without luck).
After somebody said me that was better using an
smarthost I was sending mail
directly, but now, I want to set up the smarthost.
I've purged sendmail and
installed it again to start with a 'clean setup'. I
just accept all the default
values, except I set up the smarthost to
'smtp.mail.yahoo.com'. After this 
changes I was using pine, but I've changed it to mutt
(because it's free :).
SO, big changes in the configuration and I'm getting
crazy :!

Now, the problems (explain me either exim or sendmail
(the one you prefer), 
because I'll install that will allow me doing below
things):
- I have to masquerade all the address. The smarthost
should know that I'm 
  jmmv84 (not juli, and I don't want to create an
account in linux for jmmv84)
  and the reply address must be [EMAIL PROTECTED] (I've
already set up in mutt two 
  header lines with From: and Reply-To: set properly).
  I don't know nothing about aliases, but I think that
I need to use them... :(
  What do I have to do to be able to send mail ?
- Local mail deliver works fine. But when I send a
mail out of the box, 
  sendmail returns me an error. I can't be identified
by the smarthost...
- I can't use my isp's pop3 and smtp servers because
they are used by my father,
  so I had to search for free servers, that I have
now. I'm thinking using the
  Yahoo's pop3 server instead of fnmail.com, but yahoo
provides a limit about
  3 mb's and I'm subscribed to several lists...
- I'm using procmail & fetchmail to retive the mail
(not really a problem, 
  just info).

Setting up the mail with Messenger or Kmail is really
easier that with sendmail,
but I want to do the things properly and as best as
possible. Also, I prefer
console programs... mouse is too slow...

REALLY, MANY THANKS!

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Re: scsi help

[Seth R Arnold]

On Sat, Sep 11, 1999 at 12:15:49AM +0200, Jocke wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Just plugged in a Adaptec 2904 to use with my scanner.
> Recompiled 2.3.16 
> <*> SCSI support
> <*> SCSI generic support
> <*> Adaptec AIC7xxx support
> 
> What now?!
> 
> No idea what to do next :(
> 
> Is there any newbie guide to using scsi or something similar to get
> me started.
> 
> My boot message doesn't find any scsi devices at all
> csi : 0 hosts.
> scsi : detected total.

Joakim, you will need a program such as SANE to use your scanner, though it
will require your card being properly setup and configured -- that I can't
help you with. But, i can suggest SANE. :)

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Re: Sharing package caches

[Mirek Kwasniak]

On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 04:57:25PM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> I've got a couple machine here that I want to have share their lists of
> available packages and downloaded package binaries.  To this end, I've had
> one of them share its /var/cache/apt directory and NFS mounted it on the
> other.
> 
> Unfortunately, this doesn't quite work.  When I update the list of available
> packages on one machine, the other one doesn't see the update.
> 
> Based on the apt-cache man page, I suspect that the missing piece may be in
> /var/log/dpkg, but I would expect sharing that directory would confuse the
> two boxes regarding who has what installed.  (They are not intended to have
> the same sets of installed packages, I just don't care to be redownloading
> files that overlap between the two.)

I think you can share /var/cache/apt and /var/state/apt directories. After
running 

  apt-get update

on one machine you should start

  apt-get check

on second. Some hints you can find in /usr/doc/apt/offline.html.

Mirek

scsi help

[Jocke]

Hi all,

Just plugged in a Adaptec 2904 to use with my scanner.
Recompiled 2.3.16 
<*> SCSI support
<*> SCSI generic support
<*> Adaptec AIC7xxx support

What now?!

No idea what to do next :(

Is there any newbie guide to using scsi or something similar to get
me started.

My boot message doesn't find any scsi devices at all
csi : 0 hosts.
scsi : detected total.


Any help would be much appreciated.

/Joakim

Re: ppp and kernel 2.2.12

[John Hasler]

Levi writes:
> I seem to have a problem involving ppp and the new Levi kernel.

Mark Buda writes:
> There is a small group of people who are reporting weird problems like
> this in linux-kernel.

I have a problem with kernels 2.2.10, 2.2.11, and 2.2.12 sending empty LCP
packets.  It occurs with pppd 2.3.7, 2.3.8, and 2.3.9.  kernel 2.0.36 works
fine.
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Re: exim dying on slink

[John Pearson]

On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 12:00:45PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
> 
> I've recently installed a system with Slink, and set it up as
> a mail hub for our domain.  We also run a type of mailing list
> from another box, which our mail hub acts as a smarthost for.
> 
> However, when the mailing list sends out email (anywhere from
> 1-2 thousand at once), after a number of successful deliveries,
> the mail hub stops accepting connections on port 25.
> 
> In order to send any more, I have to kill -HUP inetd.
> 
> Here's the smtp line in /etc/inetd.conf:
> smtp  stream  tcp nowait  mail/usr/sbin/exim exim -bs
> 
> 
> Anybody know what I can do to correct this problem,  other than 
> slowing down how fast the mailing list sends out email?
> 

Probably, inetd is limitting the rate at which smtpd sessions
are initiated; by default, inetd only allows 40 connections to
a service per minute.

Your options appear to be:
 1.  Raise the limit imposed by inetd, by editing the line for exim
 to read, e.g., 
smtp  stream  tcp nowait.200  mail/usr/sbin/exim exim -bs
 2.  Persuade your mailing list software to use batched smtp so that
 several (all?) deliveries may be requested on a single connection,
 3.  Limit the rate at which your mailing list software connects to port
 25,
 4.  Run exim as a stand-alone daemon, which then allows you to control
 smtp service based on the number of concurrent sessions or the system
 load average, rather than on the rate at which connections are made.

Personally I prefer number 4, possibly combined with 2 or 3.

To run exim 'stand-alone' comment out the line near the top of
/etc/init.d/exim that reads
exit 0
and then run 
/etc/init.d/exim start
as root.

On my systems, I also change the options that exim is run with from
"-bd -q30m" to just "-bd", as the queue is already run periodically
from cron.

To control smtp connections when exim runs stand-alone, look at the
following exim configuration options:
  smtp_accept_max
  smtp_connect_backlog
  smtp_load_reserve

You may also want to look at the queue_smtp directive, which may 
improve the efficiency with which mail is actually delivered to
remote hosts.


John P.
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Re: power-shut-off... again

[John Pearson]

I'd suggest that you check in your BIOS after exiting
Windows 95 but before booting into Linux, and verify
that APM is as you left it; another user found that
W95 was altering his BIOS settings to reflect control
panel settings, with the result that he got unexpected
power-off's in Linux.

On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 08:57:51AM +0300, virtanen wrote
> 
> Managed to get this damn machine working with debian quite long time. 
> Even managed to get network working (ethernet). 
> 
> '1) Suddently again, while editing a picture using SO 5.1  the power went
> off. 
> 
> 2) While trying to boot again it gave the normal messages like 'not
> cleanly unmounted, check forced' etc. Then again sudden shut-off. This
> happened three times while trying to boot. The fourth time worked and it
> managed to check the partitions... Now it has been working again. 
> 
> 3)
> There isn't any overclocked CPU or anything like that. 
> As far as I know this thing has never happened with this machine with
> windows.
> I put most bios settings as defaults. APM disabled as well as all shadow
> ram settings disabled. Power-button override disabled. 
> 
> Still don't know, where the problem is. Just waiting for the next
> shut-off...
> 
> In my opinion it (shit) happens, when there is some large swapping going
> on. 
> The machine has got atx-boxand automatic shut-off of the power, when
> shutting down windows.
> 

John P.
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Re: Connecting to another X Server with WDM

[John Pearson]

On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 03:55:39PM +1000, Brian May wrote
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write:
> >I recently talked the guys at work into letting me install debian on my
> >computer there. It's a pretty crappy PC (P100 with 40M of RAM and a 1M
> >VGA Card), but I mainly use it for netscape and connecing to an NT
> >Terminal Server with Citrix (yuck!).
> >
> >Anyway, I'm obviously running a local X Server on my machine, which I
> >log into using WDM. Sometimes, however, I want to connect to one of the
> >other Sun boxen and run X off them, which I figure I should be able to
> >do (like an X Terminal).
> >
> >My question is, how? With the X Terminals we have, there is a chooser
> >app to select the system to log into. I've read the WDM docs, and I
> >can't seem to find a setting to let me choose my machine or another on
> >the local network.
> 
> if you just want to do it once off, run X like this:
> 
> X -query hostname
> 
> or
> 
> X -indirect localhost
> 
> for a menu
> 

You may find that wdm doesn't "do" XDMCP (it didn't ladt time I looked), 
in which case the last of these won't work unless you also install xdm.

If you have a good, large monitor you can also use Xnest and run a
remote session in a window, without logging off from your own machine; 
this requires no special privileges at either end.  I have a button on 
my gnome panel that runs the command:
 Xnest -geometry 800x600 -indirect huiac.localnet :2
You would, of course, substitute a more appropriate hostname for
huiac.localnet (and choose different screen numbers if you want to run
several instances simultaneously).

> >Does anyone know how I might do this, of have suggestions as to where I
> >could look? I'd be prepared to change back to XDM, or even GDM, if it
> >can't be done in WDM.
> 
> I have a script to put in /etc/init.d/X that will automatically
> restart X as required, in my diskless boot package. Please
> ask for further details.
> 

I run a script out of /etc/inittab that displays a chooser menu of available
hosts for login; this is simple and works, but requires XDM both to generate 
the chooser menu and to login.

All of these solutions require that your other box be configured to
respond to XDMCP queries from your machine.


John P.
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potato non-free package file not found?

[lexchive]

Im sure I missed something, somewhere... do i have to choose another server to
connect to? were the non-free archive moved to non-free.debian.org or whatever
finally? Sorry but its quite hard to leave for a week and find this.
Fortunately I was able to get the lists from a slow server.

Here's what I get on ftp.debian.org:

 ftp> ls debian/dists/unstable/non-free/binary-i386
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls.
total 34
drwxrwsr-x  28 ftp  ftp  1024 Sep 10 21:39 .
drwxrwsr-x   8 ftp  ftp  1024 Jan 17  1999 ..
-rw-r--r--  12 ftp  ftp 0 Sep 10 19:56 Packages
-rw-r--r--   1 ftp  ftp20 Sep 10 20:26 Packages.gz
-rw-rw-r--   1 ftp  ftp99 Nov  8  1998 Release

Confusing...

-Lex

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Re: Reading Word format files?

[Johann Spies]

On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote:

> Abiword (at least the version in potato) seems to handle this just fine 
> (also .rtf).

In reaction to this message I have downloaded the potato source and
compiled it (after having some problems with bugs in the source package)
but it does not read .doc files.  It also does not give msword as one of
the options under the "save as" menu.  Only .abw, .rtf, .txt and .html are
supported.  A few tries to load .doc files all failed.

Johann.

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RE: ucd snmp

[Brad]

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On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:

> Avoid fakeroot.  It does bad things.

How's that?


[curious]

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Re: Transparent PNGs?

[Brad]

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On Sat, 11 Sep 1999, Brian May wrote:

> Are transparent PNGs possible? or is this only possible with GIF?

Technically, yes. You can have GIF-style transparency, or you can have up
to 254 (IIRC) levels of transpareny by using an alpha channel.

Unfortunately, most web browsers don't yet support PNG transparency
correctly, if at all...


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Transparent PNGs?

[Brian May]

Are transparent PNGs possible? or is this only possible with GIF?

The reason I ask, is that I am having problems saving a PNG file
in GIMP with the background transparent, and would rather not
use the non-free GIF format.

Thanks in advance,
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Sudden Emacs Error

[Mark Wagnon]

Hi all,

Since I've re-installed slink a couple weeks back, I've been
using emacs without incident. Tonight I was writing a LaTeX
document and running latex, xdvi, and dvips from its command
shell. I took a break, and when I resumed my editing, emacs
mysteriously bailed. I then tried to run it from an rxvt, and it
belched the following:

  Fatal error (4).Illegal Instruction

I'm able to run it from the console. I performed an upgrade with
apt-get today which replaced several on my KDE packages. I don't
know what else I may have done to change my system's operation.

Does anyone have any ideas as to what the problem could be, or
pointers on tracking down what my system is doing before emacs
crashes?

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Re: DHCPcd problems - No valid Server response

[Bryan Scaringe]

Have you tried running dhcpcd-sv rather than dhcpcd?

Bryan



On 18-Aug-99 Buter wrote:
> Used wrong email-address. Please respond to 
>  
>  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> Renald
> 
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I'm at the end of my wit here... I can't get my Linux box (running
>> slink)
>> to communicate with the DHCP server at my office.
>> 
>> Windows 95 no problem.
>> 
>> Static IP under Linux used to be no problem.
>> 
>> (I updated to kernel 2.2.10 and to the dhcpcd 1.3.x package)
>> 
>> Sigh
>> 
>> Renald
> 
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Re: installing

[Seth R Arnold]

All in all, the thing does exactly what you want it to do. :) The debian
bootdisks REALLY impressed me, and I have been using Linux for over five
(six years?) now... :)

On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 08:58:58PM -0600, Soul Existance wrote:
> Hey, hey,
> 
> first time user, long time admirer... I got your newest version of debian,
> and it wants me to partition my hdd... i have a win98 sys, and i partitioned
> 3.6gig just for linux. is it going to mess up my dos partition by
> partitioning to linux native and swap the 3.5 to the sizes i need? i have
> way too much stuff on my 10gig partition to just dump it.
> 
> All help is appreciated.
> 
> «§Öùl»



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installing

[Soul Existance]

Hey, 
hey, 
 
first 
time user, long time admirer... I got your newest version of debian, and it 
wants me to partition my hdd... i have a win98 sys, and i partitioned 3.6gig 
just for linux. is it going to mess up my dos partition by partitioning to linux 
native and swap the 3.5 to the sizes i need? i have way too much stuff on my 
10gig partition to just dump it. 
 
All 
help is appreciated. 
 
«§Öùl»

Re: xterm/rxvt screen clearing / restoration

[Brad]

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On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Benjamin Low wrote:

> I'm running Debian 2.1, and have an annoying problem with xterm and rxvt
> where often the screen fails to be restored properly after running
> vi/vim/elvis/less/anything else which ordinarily restores the terminal
> screen after exiting.
>
> When I say 'fails to be restored', it's kind of like the current input
> line is moved up the window, mixed in with the previous shell output.

I've noticed the same thing.

More info: When using vi, the cursor begins at (or just below) the last
screen-line used for any insertion-deletion command, unless that command
was undone with U or that command was done on the first line, or a few
other random circumstances.

> I'm guessing this is a termcap issue - I don't know much about
> termcap/terminfo stuff, but from the terminfo man page I see there's a
> restore_cursor capability, amongst others. I've tried setting my TERM
> variable to variations of xterm, xterm-debian, rxvt, etc, but without
> success. 

Possibly vi/less/etc are messing the variable this uses?

> Any suggestions?

Sorry... i have no idea how to fix it.


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Re: SB16PnP doesn't work

[Brad]

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On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Gustavo Gonzalez wrote:

> I turned to Debian recently. I installed Debian 2.1 (slink) with the
> stable kernel 2.0.36 (and I didn't upgrade it to 2.2.x) and it works
> fine to my purposes (math computations and multivariate analysis). I
> installed my printer and configured my internet connection by modem
> via kppp (KDE) wiithout problems.

Congrats!

> However I cannot get sound from my sound card. I have a typical
> Creative SB16 PnP. I tried isapnptools to suitable configure it
> without success. I though about disabling the BIOS PnP option , but I
> prefer to send this query to the group befor acting. Would someone
> help me please? Ay ideas?

Good first step, using isapnptools. However, you also need to recompile
your kernel, since the default Debian kernels don't have any sound
options. i presume this is to avoid taking so much space for something so
unnecessary to getting the system basically working--note that, unlike
printers, each soundcard chipset requires its own drivers to work
properly; unlike ethernet, which may be necessary to finish the install,
sound isn't necessary.

Check the archives  for information
on which modules are required for a SB16PnP and various methods of
inserting them.


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[bam@snoopy.apana.org.au: Re: Connecting to another X Server with WDM]

[Brian May]

Sorry, I meant to post this to the mailing list.

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On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 07:32:45AM -0400, Norris Preyer wrote:
> Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > I have a script to put in /etc/init.d/X that will automatically
> > restart X as required, in my diskless boot package. Please
> > ask for further details.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > [2  ]
> 
> I'm very interested in this too--could you post to the newsgroup,
> please?

Ok. In /etc/inittab, I have the line:

7:23:respawn:/etc/init.d/X vt7 -group_x

(where group_x is replaced by the appropriate parameter by M4, eg
indirect localhost).

The /etc/init.d/X file is attached.

Comments welcome. The only possibly strange part is that
the script delays for 5mins if there isn't a valid XF86Config
file, this prevents inetd from complaining that the service
is restarting too frequently.
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#!/bin/sh
# /etc/init.d/X: start or stop the X display manager

set -e

PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin
DAEMON=/usr/bin/X11/X
PARAMS="$*"
LOG=/var/log/X.log

exec > $LOG 2>&1

test -x $DAEMON || exit 0

  if head -1 /etc/X11/Xserver 2> /dev/null | grep -q Xsun; then
# the Xsun X servers do not use XF86Config
CHECK_LOCAL_XSERVER=
  else
CHECK_LOCAL_XSERVER=yes
  fi

if [ "$CHECK_LOCAL_XSERVER" ]; then
  problem=yes
  echo -n "Checking for valid XFree86 server configuration..."
  if [ -e /etc/X11/XF86Config ]; then
if [ -x /usr/sbin/parse-xf86config ]; then
  if parse-xf86config --quiet --nowarning --noadvisory 
/etc/X11/XF86Config; then
problem=
  else
echo "error in configuration file."
  fi
else
  echo "unable to check."
fi
  else
echo "file not found."
  fi
  if [ "$problem" ]; then
echo "Not starting X display manager."
echo "Pausing for five minutes."
sleep 300
exit 1
  else
echo "done."
  fi
fi
echo "Starting X server: X"
$DAEMON $PARAMS

exit 0


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Re: ALSA is miserable. (Help?)

[Jonathan Markevich]

You're a GENIUS!  Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.  I can't
say this solved all of my problems, but it gave me the following vital
hints:

0. That there was actually module code!!!
1. the FTP site!!!
2. That there was documentation better than was provided with Slink (the
mini-HOWTO was the golden key)
3. The order of compilation
4. The modprobe and amixer statements helped.

After that, I needed to:

1. Rip out Slink's pathetic ALSA "support"
2. Install kernel headers
3. Get 3.0.pre4 as recommended by the HOWTO (NOT anything else!!!)
4. Manually destroy all of the old libraries installed by other versions
5. Compile, install as root, run amixer and alsactl!

 this is quite a bit of work, but even more off my mind.  I would have
a tough time repeating this or recommending Debian to others just because of
this.

Once again, thanks INFINITELY, you helped a great deal.

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Accordion, n.:
A bagpipe with pleats.

strange ethernet problem

[Hamish Moffatt]

Not really a Debian problem I confess. I have a strange problem with
ethernet between my notebook PC (which has an NE2000-clone PCMCIA ethernet
card) and my desktop (Realtek 8029 NE2K-PCI card).

Transfers when both ends are running Linux seem just fine.
Transfers when the notebook is running Windows are absolutely awful --
most of them never complete due to timeouts. HTTP or FTP, doesn't matter
(it shouldn't). Yet transfers to another linux box here, on the same
ethernet, to the notebook under Windows are just fine. It too has 
an NE2K-PCI.


Any thoughts? It's most distressing.


Hamish
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Re: ide disks > 8.4gb

[Jim]

May as well get my 2 cents in on this thread, since I JUST got my Maxtor
17.2 GB disk working.

Asus P/I P55T2P4 mobo, iP133 CPU.

Linux Kernel 2.0.38, LILO v 0.21.

It was really difficult until I set the BIOS to "Normal" and NOT to LBA.
Both modes saw only 8.4 GB of disk, but different numbers of cylinders. 
 The Normal mode got it right according to the label on the disk itself.  
Also when I set it to LBA I was not able to boot off the bootable
partition.  Setting it to normal fixed that.

So, in short, I set the BIOS to Normal (which still only detected 8.4 GB)
and then followed the Hard Disk Upgrade HOW-TO suggestions wrt using a
floppy while transitioning between the two drives.  I don't think I would
have had a >1024 cylinder problem with this drive since LILO didn't give
me any warnings (and it's supposed to warn you if your bios can't boot
from >1024, according to /usr/doc/lilo/Manual.txt.gz) but just to be on
the safe side I set up a 15 MB /boot partition anyway on /dev/hda1 and
made /dev/hda2 my root ("/") partition.

Works great.

mtu/mru 296 most unhealthy!

[Hamish Moffatt]

I was just reading a recent thread on debian-user which suggested
changing the PPP mtu/mru to 296 for better performance. I did this,
and well I wouldn't call this an improvement! The local end of the link
is running linux 2.0.34 and I think it's going to crash any minute now:

In the syslog:

Sep 11 11:49:09 silly last message repeated 150 times
Sep 11 11:49:09 silly kernel: k on freelist at 01136808 isn't free.
Sep 11 11:49:09 silly kernel: Problem: block on freelist at 01136808 isn't free.
Sep 11 11:49:33 silly last message repeated 154 times

Trying to run things gives various versions of the above plus
the occasional socket: no more data space, plus once "no more processes".

Time to upgrade the kernel -- will this go away?
I also use BSD compression on the link.

Hamish
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Re: ide disks > 8.4gb

[Alexis Maldonado]

Hello!

On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 09:14:46PM +0200, Christian Hammers wrote:
> Hello
> 
> 
> > Not true, two weeks ago I temporarily set up slink on WD 13GB. What you need
> > to know is the final cylinder. In my case, I partition it with windows 
> > first,
> > tha box come with windows. So I know the final cylinder, ie 1581. In
> > slink-fdisk, I use x then c to set cylinder to 1581.
> > 
> > BTW, I used LBA mode in BIOS.
> 
> LBA?  Quote from the /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/Large-IDE.gz :
>   If the BIOS converts the 24-bit (c,h,s) to LBA and feeds that to a
>   controller that understands LBA, then again 7.875 GB is addressable.
>   Not enough for all disks, but still an improvement.
> 
> Will 13GB work in LBA mode ?

I have a WD Expert 27.3 GB using LBA mode. I have a Tyan Tsunami
motherboard, and a Promise UltraDMA/66 controller. Debian Slink worked fine
once I patched a kernel for the Promise controller. It also detected the
whole capacity using the standard onboard controller and LBA mode. I am
using kernel 2.2.12.

Good Luck,

Alexis Maldonado
Disenos y Montajes S.A.


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RE: ucd snmp

[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry]

Avoid fakeroot.  It does bad things.  Use sudo.

dpkg-buildpackage -rsudo

Re: ucd snmp

[David Engel]

On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 03:27:19PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> to upgrade our prodution servers to potato (and libc 2.1).  In the
> potato pkg list libucdsnmp3.6 depends on libc6 >=2.1; am I screwed?  (I
> admit to not investigating fully whether libucdsnmp3.6 needs libc 2.1

That dependency is auto-generated.  If you build with libc6 2.0, you'll
get a dependency on plain libc6.

> # Remove execute bit from MIBS.
> chmod -x debian/tmp/usr/share/snmp/mibs/*
> dh_movefiles
> dh_movefiles: I was asked to move files from debian/tmp to debian/tmp.
> make: *** [install-stamp] Error 1
> 
> I'm not a maintainer and admittedly pretty stupid about how to build
> debian packages "correctly" - I used "fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage -B -uc"
> 
> Any ideas?  I guess dh_movefiles is part of debhelper?

You need a 2.0.x version of debhelper.  You should be able to install
the potato version on a slink system without any problems.

David
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Help! mgetty & ppp won't play together

[Bob Billson]

Good evening all... I'm trying to set up a friend's slink box do allow a
dial-up ppp login.  pppd doesnt' want to cooperate.  I'm going nuts
to figure what I overlooked.

I'm trying to use mgetty's AutoPPP feature.  I have the AutoPPP line
uncommented in /etc/mgetty/login.config.  I can log in, but ppp won't start.
It complains:

/usr/sbin/pppd: The remote system is required to authenticate itself but I
/usr/sbin/pppd: couldn't find any secret (password) which would let it use an 
IP address.

If I comment out the /AutoPPP/ line in /etc/mgetty/login.config, I can log
as that user but ppp isn't running.

Here are the relevant config files:

/etc/ppp/options  (owned: root.root   permissions: 644)

asyncmap 0
netmask 255.255.255.0
proxyarp
idle 300
mru 1500
auth <---I've tried both with and without this line


/etc/ppp/options.ttyS1 (owned: root.root  permissions: 644)
--
192.168.128.1:192.168.128.17


/etc/pap-secrets (owned: root.root  permissions: 600)  (editted slightly)

# INBOUND connections

# Every regular user can use PPP and has to use passwords from /etc/passwd
#*  molec3  ""  *
richmolec3  ""  *<--the only user allowed to run ppp

# UserIDs that cannot use PPP at all. Check your /etc/passwd and add any
# other accounts that should not be able to use pppd!
guest   molec3  "*" -
master  molec3  "*" -
rootmolec3  "*" -
support molec3  "*" -
stats   molec3  "*" -

^^
Is this column supposed to be the local machine name?  I can't find it
documented anywhere.

I heard that sometimes AutoPPP doesn't work right and if you remove the
/etc/ppp/pap-secrets file altogether, it works.  I tried doing that.  ppp
continues complaining about not finding any secret (password).

Does someone see what I am overlooking?  Thanks for the help.

 bob
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Re: ppp and kernel 2.2.12

[Mark Buda]

> "Levi" == Levi  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Levi> I seem to have a problem involving ppp and the new
Levi> kernel. I've got ppp set up and it works just fine with
Levi> kernel 2.0.34, but I can never seem to get connected with
Levi> kernel 2.2.12.

There is a small group of people who are reporting weird problems like
this in linux-kernel. The common factors seems to be things that
involve tty devices (serial, IrDA) that work in 2.0.x but not in
2.2.12. Problems have been reported with PalmPilots, a digital camera,
PPP, and some kind of wand thing with a serial interface.

The clearest example of the problem (because it doesn't involve any
fancy protocol) is the original message
(<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) which described
characters being dropped, duplicated, and swapped.

There don't seem to be any good leads on a solution yet.
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