Re: Solucionado lo del dispositivo de audio
Hola, On dom, 12 dic 1999 00:15:16 José Miguel wrote: Tengo otro problema en Debian Slink 2,1 que tengo instalada, no puedo ejecutar Nestcape. Lo instale desde dselect con la opción de instalar desde un grupo de paquetes preestablecidos, eligiendo la opción que se podria traducir como usuario casero. Y instalo el Nestcape porque el fvwm95 lo lleva como navegador por defecto y sin embargo al pulsar el icono de Netscape no arranca, y llamandolo desde consola tampoco. He intentado buscar información en /usr/doc pero no entiendo nada de lo que me dice. Lo he instalado y desinstalado varias veces pero no hay forma. ¿Qué te aparece en el shell cuando lo tratas de ejecutar desde consola? Un saludo, JonN
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Netscape no arranca
Hola linuxeros: Ante todo gracias por contestar, como me pedisteis más datos ahi van. Estando en Xwindows en una xterm ejecuto /usr/lib/menu/netscape-base-4 y me devuelve 'permiso denegado'. Si hago un ls -al aparece -rw-r--r-- /usr/lib/menu/netscape-base-4 . Se me olvidaba lo ejecuto como root. Un saludo y gracias por vuestra paciencia.
Re: Problema con `df'.
El Fri, Dec 10, 1999, Jaime E. Villate... Cosme P. Cuevas wrote: /dev/hdc5 1,0G 906M 104M 90% /usr/lib /dev/hdc6 1,0G 906M 104M 90% /usr Pero esas dos particiones en realidad no son de igual tamaño, sino que la primera ocupa 600Mb aproximadamente y la segunda 1.1Gb. Pues debes tener algun error en la forma como montas las particiones. # fdisk -l /dev/hdc Disk /dev/hdc: 15 heads, 63 sectors, 8944 cylinders Units = cylinders of 945 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdc1 *1 217 102501 83 Linux native /dev/hdc2 218 8944 4123507+ 5 Extended /dev/hdc5 218 1517 614218+ 83 Linux native /dev/hdc6 1518 3901 1126408+ 83 Linux native /dev/hdc7 3902 4334 204561 83 Linux native /dev/hdc8 4335 4551 102501 82 Linux swap /dev/hdc9 4552 5093 256063+ 83 Linux native /dev/hdc105094 8402 1563471 83 Linux native /dev/hdc118403 8944 256063+ 83 Linux native $ cat /etc/fstab # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # fs mount point typeoptions dump pass /dev/hdc1 / ext2 defaults,errors=remount-ro0 1 /dev/hdc8 noneswap sw0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hdc5 /usr/libext2 defaults 0 2 /dev/hdc6 /usrext2 defaults 0 2 /dev/hdc7 /varext2 defaults 0 2 /dev/hdc9 /tmpext2 defaults 0 2 /dev/hdc10 /var/spool ext2 defaults 0 2 /dev/hdc11 /home ext2 defaults 0 2 /dev/fd0 /a auto defaults,noauto,noexec,nodev 0 0 /dev/cdrom /cd iso9660 defaults,ro,noauto,noexec,nodev 0 0 /dev/hda2 /dosvfat rw,noauto,noexec,nodev,uni_xlate 0 0 /dev/hdd1 /zipext2 rw,noauto,noexec,nodev0 0 $ cat /etc/mtab /dev/hdc1 / ext2 rw,errors=remount-ro 0 0 proc /proc proc rw 0 0 /dev/hdc5 /usr/lib ext2 rw 0 0 /dev/hdc6 /usr ext2 rw 0 0 /dev/hdc7 /var ext2 rw 0 0 /dev/hdc9 /tmp ext2 rw 0 0 /dev/hdc10 /var/spool ext2 rw 0 0 /dev/hdc11 /home ext2 rw 0 0 $ cat /proc/partitions major minor #blocks name 3 0 416304 hda 3 1 1 hda1 3 2 411232 hda2 3 5 5008 hda5 364 1073741823 hdb 22 04226040 hdc 22 1 102501 hdc1 22 2 1 hdc2 22 5 614218 hdc5 22 61126408 hdc6 22 7 204561 hdc7 22 8 102501 hdc8 22 9 256063 hdc9 22101563471 hdc10 2211 256063 hdc11 Gracias! O:-) Saludos. -- Cosme P. Cuevas --- Claves GnuPG/PGP disponibles. http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Lounge/8698/
Re: Netscape no arranca
José Miguel wrote: Hola linuxeros: Ante todo gracias por contestar, como me pedisteis más datos ahi van. Estando en Xwindows en una xterm ejecuto /usr/lib/menu/netscape-base-4 y me devuelve 'permiso denegado'. Si hago un ls -al aparece -rw-r--r-- /usr/lib/menu/netscape-base-4 . Se me olvidaba lo ejecuto como root. Un saludo y gracias por vuestra paciencia. Hola, Pues con razon no te parte. Ese no es el archivo que tienes que ejecutar. No me acuerdo del nombre de memoria, pero esta en /usr/X11/bin/. EL archivo que pones arriba es una libreria que usan todos los 'sabores' de productos netscape y no es ejecutable. Instalaste algun paquete de navigator o comunicator?... no se por que pero sospecho que no tienes instalado todo lo necesario para que funcione. Yo lo instale usando simplemente el dpkg y estos son los paquetes necesarios: libc6 ;obviamente libg++272 xlib6g ;obviamente tambien xpm4g dpkg-awk plugger ;solo sugerido, no indispensable netscape-base-4 netscape-base-45 navigator-base-45 netscape-java-45;recomendado pero no indispensable... si quieres ejecutar java... navigator-nethelp-45;sugerido navigator-smotif-45 ;aqui recien viene el ejecutable Seguramente ya tienes instalados varios de estos paquetes, sobre todo los de mas arriba, pero chequea si los tienes con dpkg -s nombredelpaquete. En particular yo no tenia libg++272. Esto si solo te interesa el navigator. Si quieres instalar el comunicator completo con toda la parafernalia, creo que puedes reemplazar navigator por comunicator en los paquetes que te nombre arriba. Tambien puedes instalar la version con librerias motif dinamicas. Para eso reemplaza smotif por dmotif y instala ademas el paquete metro-motif-lib, que es solo un instalador para un producto comercial que trae las librerias dinamicas... no tengo idea donde lo puedes encontrar. Y creo que eso es todo... espero haber ayudado. Felipe Sanchez
RE: Netscape no arranca
Hu bueno, es cierto que el comando adecuado no es ese, pero ademas tienes que modificar un archivo de configuracion para que el root tenga permiso para ejecutar netscape el archivo en cuestion es /etc/netscape4/options y tienes q añadirle la linea ALLOW_ROOT=yes y ya esta, el root ya tiene permiso :) - Original Message - From: Blu [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian en Espa~ol debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org Sent: Sunday, December 12, 1999 9:57 AM Subject: Re: Netscape no arranca José Miguel wrote: Hola linuxeros: Ante todo gracias por contestar, como me pedisteis más datos ahi van. Estando en Xwindows en una xterm ejecuto /usr/lib/menu/netscape-base-4 y me devuelve 'permiso denegado'. Si hago un ls -al aparece -rw-r--r-- /usr/lib/menu/netscape-base-4 . Se me olvidaba lo ejecuto como root. Un saludo y gracias por vuestra paciencia. Hola, Pues con razon no te parte. Ese no es el archivo que tienes que ejecutar. No me acuerdo del nombre de memoria, pero esta en /usr/X11/bin/. EL archivo que pones arriba es una libreria que usan todos los 'sabores' de productos netscape y no es ejecutable. Instalaste algun paquete de navigator o comunicator?... no se por que pero sospecho que no tienes instalado todo lo necesario para que funcione. Yo lo instale usando simplemente el dpkg y estos son los paquetes necesarios: libc6 ;obviamente libg++272 xlib6g ;obviamente tambien xpm4g dpkg-awk plugger ;solo sugerido, no indispensable netscape-base-4 netscape-base-45 navigator-base-45 netscape-java-45 ;recomendado pero no indispensable... si quieres ejecutar java... navigator-nethelp-45 ;sugerido navigator-smotif-45 ;aqui recien viene el ejecutable Seguramente ya tienes instalados varios de estos paquetes, sobre todo los de mas arriba, pero chequea si los tienes con dpkg -s nombredelpaquete. En particular yo no tenia libg++272. Esto si solo te interesa el navigator. Si quieres instalar el comunicator completo con toda la parafernalia, creo que puedes reemplazar navigator por comunicator en los paquetes que te nombre arriba. Tambien puedes instalar la version con librerias motif dinamicas. Para eso reemplaza smotif por dmotif y instala ademas el paquete metro-motif-lib, que es solo un instalador para un producto comercial que trae las librerias dinamicas... no tengo idea donde lo puedes encontrar. Y creo que eso es todo... espero haber ayudado. Felipe Sanchez -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
RE: Solucionado lo del dispositivo de audio
-Mensaje original- De: Jon Noble [EMAIL PROTECTED] Para: debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org Fecha: domingo 12 de diciembre de 1999 1:18 Asunto: Re: Solucionado lo del dispositivo de audio Hola, On dom, 12 dic 1999 00:15:16 José Miguel wrote: Tengo otro problema en Debian Slink 2,1 que tengo instalada, no puedo ejecutar Nestcape. Lo instale desde dselect con la opción de instalar desde un grupo de paquetes preestablecidos, eligiendo la opción que se podria traducir como usuario casero. Y instalo el Nestcape porque el fvwm95 lo lleva como navegador por defecto y sin embargo al pulsar el icono de Netscape no arranca, y llamandolo desde consola tampoco. He intentado buscar información en /usr/doc pero no entiendo nada de lo que me dice. Lo he instalado y desinstalado varias veces pero no hay forma. ¿Qué te aparece en el shell cuando lo tratas de ejecutar desde consola? Un saludo, JonN Lo ejecuto como root , y en el shell desde consola me aparece al ejecutar /usr/lib/menu/netscape-base-4 : permiso denegado. Haciendo un ls -al aparece: -rw-r--r-- root etc /usr/lib/menu/netscape-base-4 No se si deberia ejecutar este fichero. Un saludo y gracias -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Sigo sin arrancar Netscape
Hola linuxeros: Os agradezco vuestra ayuda, pero todavia no lo he conseguido. Como me habeis contestado varios os voy a explicar el problema desde el principio. 1) Instalo Debian Slink 2.1 con la opción de grupos de paquetes, elegi la opción de usurio casero o algo asi. Despues de arrancar las Xwindows con fvwm95, pinchaba en el icono de Netscape y no arranca, desde el menu Aps/Net/Nestcape tampoco arranca. Entonces intente instalar y desinstar Netscape varias veces, sin conseguir que arrancara. Ultimamente tras vuestras sujerencias he revisado el fichero /etc/netscape4/config y he descomentado la opción ALLOW_ROOT=yes como me habias indicado. Tambien he revisado los programas que tengo instalados que tienen relación con netscape de los cuales os envio un listado y tampoco a funcionado. nombre del paqueteversiónEIOM communicator4.06-2*** 4.07-1 4.5-1 dpkg-awk 0.7.1 libc6 2.0.7.19981 libg++2722.7.2.8-0.1 netscape-base 5 4.06-2 4.07-1 4.5-1 -java4.06-2 4.07-1 4.5-1 plugger2.2-1 xlib6g3.3.3.1-0 xpm4g 3.4j-0.6 Espero que con esta información me podais indicar los pasos a seguir. Un saludo y gracias.
Error iniciando nuevo kernel compilado
Hola a todos, el enviar este e-mail a la lista es para ver si me podeis ayudar con el error que me genera el pc al arrancar un nuevo kernel previamente compilado sin errores. Concretamente se trata de la versión 2.2.3, la cual como os comento se compila perfectamente pero al arrancar con la nueva imagen, después de la línea VFS:, me aparece un Kernel panic con el siguiente mensaje: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel; con la imagen anterior de un kernel 2.0.34 no tengo ningún problema y me hace INIT versión la que sea. Mi ordenador es un Pentium II 400 MHz y el actualizarme a un nuevo núcleo se debe al no poder configurar mi tarjeta gráfica -S3 Savage 3D- para iniciar XWindows. Os estaría muy agradecido de poder ayudarme con este problema. Gracias
Re: Error iniciando nuevo kernel compilado
On dom, dic 12, 1999 at 01:41:56 -, Miguel A. Abarca wrote: Mi ordenador es un Pentium II 400 MHz y el actualizarme a un nuevo núcleo se debe al no poder configurar mi tarjeta gráfica -S3 Savage 3D- para iniciar XWindows. Os estaría muy agradecido de poder ayudarme con este problema. Gracias Con XFree86 3.3.5 que lo puedes descargar de 'http://www.debian.org/~vincent' (sólo 62Mb :-?) tienes soporte para tu tarjeta, la número 523 (S3 Savage3D). Saludos. -- Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Webs: http://www.ctv.es/USERS/viguPersonal http://www.ctv.es/USERS/vigu/linux/ ViguLinux PGP public key: http://www.ctv.es/USERS/vigu/vigu.pubkey
RE: Solucionado lo del dispositivo de audio
Hola, On dom, 12 dic 1999 09:01:24 José Miguel Sisó Espitia wrote: Lo ejecuto como root , y en el shell desde consola me aparece al ejecutar /usr/lib/menu/netscape-base-4 : permiso denegado. Haciendo un ls -al aparece: -rw-r--r-- root etc /usr/lib/menu/netscape-base-4 No se si deberia ejecutar este fichero. Desde luego ese fichero (/usr/lib/menu/netscape-base-4) no es el ejecutable. El ejecutable de Netscape creo que está en /usr/X11R6/bin/netscape. Mira a ver. Un saludo, JonN
Re: Error iniciando nuevo kernel compilado
El domingo 12 de diciembre de 1999 a la(s) 13:41:56 -, Miguel A. Abarca contaba: me aparece un Kernel panic con el siguiente mensaje: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel; con la imagen anterior de un kernel 2.0.34 no tengo ningún problema y me hace INIT versión la que sea. Qué raro. El núcleo busca init en ciertos sitios, que aparecen al final de /usr/src/linux/init/main.c. Verifica a mano que init está en uno de ellos y si no aparece prueba a (re)instalar el paquete sysvinit. -- Just do it. David Serrano [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ctv.es/USERS/fserrano In love with TuX - Linux 2.2.13Linux Registered User #87069
nfsd en inetd.conf
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Utilidades para construir paquetes debian
Hola, Ademas de debdialog (muy bueno por cierto), que otras utilidades amigables existen para construir y mantener paquetes debian? Alguien sabe de alguna FAQ explicando como hacerse mantenedor de paquetes debian?? Gracias! JP (GPG key Available)
Offtopic: Trabajo fin de Bachillerato
Estoy haciendo un trabajo de fin de Bachillerato sobre Linux, que cuenta un 10% de la nota global de 1º y 2º de Bachillerato (que burrada!!), que a su vez es un 60% de la nota para entrar a la Universidad (el otro 40% es la nota de la Selectividad). Este trabajo he decidido hacerlo sobre Debian (una introduccion al uso de Linux Debian en casa), pero como tampoco domino mucho el tema (por eso es un trabajo de busqueda de informacion), estoy un poco perdido con lo que poner en el trabajo (mejor dicho, muy perdido). Por el momento, lo poco que tengo esta casi totalmente basado en el Linux Facil, sacado de LUCAS, y me gustaria que alguien pudiera recomendarme algun texto, a ser posible basado en Debian y en español o catalan, sobre algun tema del uso cuotidiano que se le puede dar a un ordenador en casa. Ahi va un esbozo de Indice: Introduccion ¿Que es linux? Caracteristicas Breve historia Como obtener linux. Distribuciones Fuentes de Informacion Instalacion Conceptos previos Crear los discos de instalacion Particionar el disco duro Programa de instalacion de Linux Debian (alguien podria decirme su nombre?) Reiniciando el ordenador (descripcion de la instalacion de paquetes con dselect) Primeros pasos??? XWindows (diferentes wm, aplicaciones mas comunes?) Administracion del sistema(añadir/quitar usuarios, passwds, arranque/parada, instalacion de paquetes, en caso de catastrofe...) Seguridad en Linux (shadow passwds, cuentas, invitados,su, sudo, logs,...) Internet y otras redes Estos ultimos 5 apartados aun estan muy verdes, por lo que no tengo indicado exactamente que contendran; se aceptan todo tipo de criticas, sugerencias, nuevos indices, proposiciones, dinero,... Muchas gracias por adelantado -- [..] Para él, un amor geométrico de la simetría y el orden era el sistema, un interés infatigable y febril por las más insignificantes facetas de la burocracia cotidiana era la laboriosidad, la indecisión calculada era la cautela, y la terquedad ciega en continuar por un camino erróneo era la determinación [..] __ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com
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Re: Solucionado lo del dispositivo de audio
On Sun, Dec 12, 1999 at 03:11:59PM +0100, Jon Noble wrote: Hola, On dom, 12 dic 1999 09:01:24 José Miguel Sisó Espitia wrote: Lo ejecuto como root , y en el shell desde consola me aparece al ejecutar /usr/lib/menu/netscape-base-4 : permiso denegado. Haciendo un ls -al aparece: -rw-r--r-- root etc /usr/lib/menu/netscape-base-4 No se si deberia ejecutar este fichero. Desde luego ese fichero (/usr/lib/menu/netscape-base-4) no es el ejecutable. El ejecutable de Netscape creo que está en /usr/X11R6/bin/netscape. Mira a ver. Concretamente: /usr/X11R6/bin/communicator-smotif-47 (45, segun tu versión). Hay un link en /etc/alternatives, por lo que netscape a secas también debería servir. Sobre el tema de ejecutarlo como root... hay alguna razón para esto? Adam Heath (el que hace los paquetes de Netscape) no lo recomienda por motivos de seguridad, y por eso está desactivado por defecto. Que instalación de Nescape tienes? Has instalado el instalador de tar.gzs o directamente los .debs tipo netscape-smotif-45, o parecidos? Para libc5 o glibc2? Supongo que los paquetes te advertirán de estas dependencias, pero no lo sé. Bueno, suerte. Jordi pgpG8kDGxoWe2.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Utilidades para construir paquetes debian
On Sat, Dec 11, 1999 at 11:07:35PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hola, Ademas de debdialog (muy bueno por cierto), que otras utilidades amigables existen para construir y mantener paquetes debian? debhelper y familia, y devscripts. Alguien sabe de alguna FAQ explicando como hacerse mantenedor de paquetes debian?? maint-guide, packaging-manual Jordi pgpDu3oZgBJJh.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Potato Boot Floopies In Swedish -- A Call For Translators (fwd)
Nils-Erik Svangård: De 7 som har svarat sa svarar bara 2/7 att ni ar battre an du. Sa jag kommer att gora om allt till du inom kort. Låter bra, jag hatar att bli kallad för ni. Jag är bara en person, och vill inte bli tilltalad i plural... -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/
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Ola desculpe a intromissao, mas por que nao usar EUA ?? Brasileiro (teclado padrão EUA) On qua, 08 dez 1999, Gleydson Mazioli da Silva wrote: Lalo Martins wrote: Sim :-) concordo que ``US'' fica estranho. Certo, eu coloquei como US para não ficar parado em uma só parte do desenvolvimento. Brasileiro (teclado padrão US) (teclado padrão internacional) Brazilian (US layout)-- usando o mapa de teclados br-latin1 (international layout) Gostei das duas :-) concordo que US fica mais estranho comparado a sua sugestão. O que vocês acham? Ou alguma abreviação que caiba na janela. Ou deixa não caber mesmo, assim eles consertam o bug ;-) :-) -- Srinath Mantripragada - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ numbers: 4171034 - 8414257 http://come.to/srinath http://pagina.de/srinath http://i.am/srinath Today's TagLine: Chip, impossivel comer um so... e horrivel!
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Re: the perils of software re-use
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Re: Re: porn, ads, custom filters for HTTP
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Re: SB PCI 128
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Re: sound blaster live
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I'm trying to recompile the 2.2.13 kernel with alsa. My custom kernel conflicts with alsa-modules-2.2.13, and I've tried the kernel-image-2.2.13_2.2.13-2.deb, but it also conflicts, ( 2.2.13-1). Is an old version of 2.2.13 available, or better yet, what do I need to do to be able to compile a kernel package that doesn't conflict with alsa modules? Thanks Mark Blunier
Re: Mail servers for large numbers of users
On Sun, Dec 12, 1999 at 05:11:54AM +0800, Ronald Tin wrote: How could I deliver mails to accounts that don't really exist? (I can't allocate 10 uids on a single machine, right?) I have only read the FAQ and anatomy for postfix Shall I play with the mailbox transport option for local delivery, or do I create local users with same uid (and disable their login) ? Do the 2nd solution really work? But still it doesn't seem very efficient to store 10 files in a single mail spool directory? ... The MTA won't give you any problems - they typically don't care about the password database. However, here's another reason why you don't want to But the MTA have to lookup the local user from the password database.. and mails are stored under owner's uid. That's the case for sendmail and exim at least. qmail can handle an unlimited number of users in an unlimited number of domains using the likes of vchkpw. Check out: http://www.qmail.org qmail is highly efficient and designed to be secure. It does have its quirks though -- William Burrow -- New Brunswick, Canada A 'box' is something that accomplishes a task -- you feed in input and out comes the output, just as God and Larry Wall intended. -- brian moore
Re: Debian 2.2
On Sat, Dec 11, 1999 at 12:34:33AM -0800, George Bonser was heard to state: Is Debian 2.2 (Potato) stable enough to use it? I have been using it for almost a year. The thing is that a package might cause problems from one day to the next. For what I have, everything is working fine except the latest kbd package. Wait a day or so and that should be fixed but something else might break in the meantime. I think one issue is that, if you need to do a long, manual download, it might be worth waiting. I have potato running on my machine at work, and do an apt-get ugrade about once a week, and it's always a large download. I think, if you are planning on doing it by modem, you're going to have to do it all over again in a few months when it eventually goes stable. It's a long (though not terribly painful) process to do more than once. I have a slink system, which various potato modules (like gnome, glibc, and a few other bits and pieces not available in slink), and appart from a few minor glitches (eg., every xterm, gnome-term, Eterm, etc. I open up from gnome/sawmill has it's current working directory as ~/.gnome-desktop), it works fine. If you only want a few key packages updated, and you're willing to risk a few minor problems, just update the stuff you need and see how you go. Just my $0.02 cheers, damon -- Damon Muller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) / It's not a sense of humor. * Criminologist / It's a sense of irony * Webmeister / disguised as one. * Linux Geek / - Bruce Sterling
Re: the perils of software re-use
On Sat, 11 Dec 1999 19:35:03 -0500 Joe Bouchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A friend of mine proposes this be marketed as a game. Call it Kanga-Doom. Urk! he says without noticing the domain he is emailing from. -- J C Lawrence Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --(*) Other: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --=| A man is as sane as he is dangerous to his environment |=--
Re: Netscape time == GMT (UTC)
mheyes == mheyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: mheyes The time and date are correct everywhere on my system, it mheyes seems, except for the time stamp Netscape (Commnicator mheyes 4.7) puts on my mail. The time stamp shows the time with a mheyes -0 appended to it. I think it should be -5. Any help mheyes appreciated! I assume you time zone is configured correctly? If not, then check by typing in tzconfig This works for me on slink. Otherwise, sorry, I can't help you. -- Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mail servers for large numbers of users
On Sat, Dec 11, 1999 at 06:27:58PM -0800, George Bonser wrote: On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, William Burrow wrote: qmail can handle an unlimited number of users in an unlimited number of domains using the likes of vchkpw. Check out: So can exim. The problem is not delivering email via smtp ... the problem is accessing it via IMAP. If you have 64K users, how do you set permissions so that one user can not deduce the path to another user's directory and potentially read their mail? Oops, missed the IMAP bit, was looking at POP3. Anyway, it sounds like some kind of problem with the IMAP server. Perhaps you can elaborate in private email the particular problem that an IMAP server has in this regard. Then it will become possible to search out a solution. The problem will be corrected soon with the raising of UIDs from 16 bits to 32 bits but until then, how do you make sure that each user can only access their own directory from anywhere on the planet if you have more users than UIDs? You design your server to separate the paths that users are permitted to access in a consistent, logical manner. The fact that a path exists to the user does not mean it maps directly to any shared path on the server. Think of virtual domains and web sites. UIDs are irrelevant. For reading email, I cannot see any reason to allow an external user to peruse the entire system directory structure. It doesn't make sense. Excuse my ignorance on how this service is implemented, but I can't see this being a problem in a properly designed system. -- William Burrow -- New Brunswick, Canada A 'box' is something that accomplishes a task -- you feed in input and out comes the output, just as God and Larry Wall intended. -- brian moore
Re: Slashdot clones
On Sun, Dec 12, 1999 at 12:48:49AM +, Randy Edwards wrote: I've got a project that needs a weblog with conversations, i.e. a Slashdot clone. Any particular reason you don't want to use slash? ( http://slashdot.org/code.shtml ) Speaking of weblogs, does anyone know what happened to memepool.com? The domain seems to have disappeared without a trace. -Kevin
Re: Debian 2.2
On Sun, Dec 12, 1999 at 02:02:52PM +1100, Damon Muller wrote: I think one issue is that, if you need to do a long, manual download, it might be worth waiting. I have potato running on my machine at work, and do an apt-get ugrade about once a week, and it's always a large download. I think, if you are planning on doing it by modem, you're going to have to do it all over again in a few months when it eventually goes stable. It's a long (though not terribly painful) process to do more than once. Is the upgrade like the install, full of annoying questions that stop the upgrade process until a response is entered? I find this aspect of Debian somewhat annoying. RedHat installs by asking questions before and after, but none during the install. Very quick feeling, as one does not have to monitor the process as it proceeds. ~/.gnome-desktop), it works fine. If you only want a few key packages updated, and you're willing to risk a few minor problems, just update the stuff you need and see how you go. I want to do the upgrade because of all the nifty packages available, that require new libraries. :( -- William Burrow -- New Brunswick, Canada A 'box' is something that accomplishes a task -- you feed in input and out comes the output, just as God and Larry Wall intended. -- brian moore
ntpdate[28516]: no server suitable for synchronization found
ntp hasn't seemed to work for me for a while. I figured maybe all the ntp servers I'd set it to use nolonger ran the ntp server or something. But I just pulled 99 servers off of a list at http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp/ (1st relavant hit on ntp on www.google.com). Out of all of those 99 servers, ntpdate did not find *one* that was acceptable ? I'm guessing the fact that ntpd doesn't seem to be doing any synchronizing is probably related. # ntpdate -v `cat clock.lst` 11 Dec 22:43:04 ntpdate[28516]: ntpdate 4.0.98f Sun Nov 21 00:35:29 MST 1999 (1) 11 Dec 22:43:28 ntpdate[28516]: no server suitable for synchronization found # wc -l clock.lst 99 clock.lst # head clock.lst 129.127.28.4 129.132.98.11 193.2.69.11 128.173.14.71 193.136.54.1 128.100.102.201 128.118.25.3 130.228.230.2 194.192.207.9 192.48.153.74 __ PGP fingerprint = 03 5B 9B A0 16 33 91 2F A5 77 BC EE 43 71 98 D4 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://www.op.net/~darxus Find the next largest prime, be famous: http://www.mersenne.org/prime.htm
Re: Debian 2.2
Damon wrote: I have a slink system, which various potato modules (like gnome, glibc, and a few other bits and pieces not available in slink) . . . I was under the impression that slink couldn't be reliably upgraded to glibc 2.1. Has that changed? I've been using potato for months with very few problems. (Two, to be exact.) Running apt-get upgrade once a week generally takes under an hour. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum http://dm.net
current status of potato?
I've got a friend who is interested in installing a Linux distro on his machine (probably a dual-boot with Win98, although he may decide to just get a different machine). At any rate, I'd seen some of the threads regarding the potato boot-floppies and am concerned about whether they actually work, and to what degree they are broken. He's definitely going to want to use X and to make it easier for him to keep up with the more recent packages I'll recommend potato (rather than slink) to him, assuming the installation disks are in a usable state. TIA. :)
dhcp
i just moved to a new place today where i no longer have a static ip, but will be given a dynamic ip. could somebody clue me in on what needs to be changed or where to look? -- dave wiard computer science [EMAIL PROTECTED]western washington university http://www.wcug.wwu.ed/~davew
Re: Mail servers for large numbers of users
On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, George Bonser wrote: NOT want to be able to type the path to another user's directory and see their mail (or they, mine). My mail folders need to be unreadable by any other user except me and the mail delivery program. That is why you integrate the proper security measures into your IMAP daemon - for instance you could have to chroot to the proper user directory so that it cannot access files ouside that area then have it run as not-root so it cannot chroot out. There are many other possible schemes that don't require uids, but they all need special code. Jason
Re: Mail servers for large numbers of users
On Sat, Dec 11, 1999 at 06:27:58PM -0800, George Bonser wrote: So can exim. The problem is not delivering email via smtp ... the problem is accessing it via IMAP. If you have 64K users, how do you set permissions so that one user can not deduce the path to another user's directory and potentially read their mail? Whew, I did some investigation on the issue. Looked at Courier-IMAP, an alternative IMAP server to the UW-IMAP server. It clearly explains in its documentation how you can setup thousands of virtual accounts without requiring any more than just *one* UID. Courier-IMAP has a link on the qmail web page, and seems to be written independent of any particular mailer, so long as Maildir format is supported (see safecat for adding Maildir format mailboxes to any mailer). In the meantime, the EASIEST method is to simply use more than one server for READING email and using something to auto-direct the user to the proper server to read their mail. The EASIEST method is to understand your IMAP server or get one that works properly. -- William Burrow -- New Brunswick, Canada A 'box' is something that accomplishes a task -- you feed in input and out comes the output, just as God and Larry Wall intended. -- brian moore
Re: Mail servers for large numbers of users
On Sat, Dec 11, 1999 at 07:21:49PM -0800, George Bonser wrote: On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, William Burrow wrote: You design your server to separate the paths that users are permitted to access in a consistent, logical manner. The fact that a path exists to the user does not mean it maps directly to any shared path on the server. Think of virtual domains and web sites. UIDs are irrelevant. For reading email, I cannot see any reason to allow an external user to peruse the entire system directory structure. It doesn't make sense. Excuse my ignorance on how this service is implemented, but I can't see this being a problem in a properly designed system. You can not equate http and imap in this manner. http serves files. You Why not. An email resides in a file. In a Maildir setup, exactly one message resides in one file. With Unix mailbox format, several messages exist in one file, big deal. can create a different path for each virtual domain. If I type in the full path for a different domain, I see a different site. Not a big deal. You can't get from http://www.virtualOne.com to http://www.virtualTwo.com from from http://www.virtualOne.com by typing paths (other than a link directly to virtualTwo's site). It is impossible. Same deal with IMAP servers. IMAP does not transfer mail to the user. It allows a remote user to access their mail on a local filesystem. That is the point of IMAP. You can check I am aware of the purpose of IMAP, I have not seen the implementation. The point is that other users on the system MUST be prevented from reading my mail files. This is done with ownership permissions on the directory. Do that with ONE UID. Courier-IMAP does this. All users must access their mail through IMAP. It makes sense. It works. It is the way it is done. You don't own that directory according to the database in the IMAP server, you aren't allowed to enter it. Your request is turned away for entering a bad path. Just like entering a path that doesn't exist for a particular virtual domain on a web server. Otherwise, I could log in as me but tell IMAP to use someone elses directory and read their mail. This is why it breaks when you have more users than you have bits to assign unique user ID's. You can't do this because the path you specify is not associated with your IMAP login ID. The database tells the server what is the acceptable base path. The path is logically constructed, so it is easy to tell apart illegal paths from legal paths. The scenario you present is all in your head. POP3 is no big deal, SMTP is no big deal. IMAP is a big deal because it is a direct read/write file access to a file that remains persistant on the server. Persistency is not a big deal, email can be made to persist on POP3 servers as well, it is just not often done (and seems to be often discouraged with small quotas). I am just a little bothered by statements that implementations of Internet services are broken and useless by design. Particularly when RTFM shows otherwise. I hope my outburst is not taken the wrong way. -- William Burrow -- New Brunswick, Canada A 'box' is something that accomplishes a task -- you feed in input and out comes the output, just as God and Larry Wall intended. -- brian moore
Re: dhcp kernel question
thanks.. but turned out i forgot to compile the kernel w/ ip_filter.. oops.. thanks though.. -jason When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity. -Einstein On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, aphro wrote: check your firewall .. that ipmasq package always blocks all incoming/outgoing packets on my machines i always remove it. dhcp may be starting up before ipmasq . nate On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, jason wrote: rohwed so i decided to re reinstall my box w/ potato.. i had run slink for about rohwed 9 months or so and wanted to play around.. etc etc - so i wiped the box rohwed and put a bare version of slink on .. then upgraded to potato via apt rohwed rohwed but when i download a new 2.2 kernel to compile my new kernel and get rohwed everything working.. my network does some weird stuff.. for whatever rohwed reason.. i can't get any traffic out.. dhcp still will grab an ip though? rohwed so does anybody have a clue what's going on here? thanks. rohwed rohwed rohwed rohwed -jason rohwed rohwed When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you rohwed sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity. rohwed -Einstein rohwed rohwed rohwed rohwed -- rohwed Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null rohwed [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By:http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMPhttp://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 2:49am up 113 days, 14:34, 2 users, load average: 1.60, 1.50, 1.46 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Alsa and 2.2.13
Did you try using alsa-source to compile a custom kernel module? Marshal From: Mark Blunier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Alsa and 2.2.13 Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 14:15:13 -0600 (CST) I'm trying to recompile the 2.2.13 kernel with alsa. My custom kernel conflicts with alsa-modules-2.2.13, and I've tried the kernel-image-2.2.13_2.2.13-2.deb, but it also conflicts, ( 2.2.13-1). Is an old version of 2.2.13 available, or better yet, what do I need to do to be able to compile a kernel package that doesn't conflict with alsa modules? Thanks Mark Blunier -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: dhcp
Install dhcpcd. I think that should be enough. Marshal From: Dave Wiard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: dhcp Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 20:19:23 -0800 (PST) i just moved to a new place today where i no longer have a static ip, but will be given a dynamic ip. could somebody clue me in on what needs to be changed or where to look? -- dave wiard computer science [EMAIL PROTECTED]western washington university http://www.wcug.wwu.ed/~davew -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: /root - /home/kmfahey; /usr/doc - /usr/share/doc
On Sat, Dec 11, 1999 at 03:08:33AM -0500, Kerne Fahey wrote I have two very vague general questions: 1) On my linux box (no other fleshblood users besides me; it's a laptop), I'm interested in emptying root's home directory, removing it, and making a symbolic link to my home directory, /home/kmfahey . This is for various aesthetic and convenience reasons, mostly so I'm not without my .*rc files when root, and so that 'cd' as root takes me to my home directory. Would this be a horrible mistake? (Would it be or create a security hole, or *really* confuse linux in some way?) This may not be such a great idea; various applications use files in your home directory (e.g., .forward, .ssh/) and some of these care about the owner and modes of the files they use, as a security measure. Using the same home directory for root as for a regular userID may interfere with mail delivery for one or both depending on your MTA, may result in ssh using the same secrets for both users (or not working at all for one or the other, or both). If you do this, make sure you stayt logged in as root when you do, and then verify that everything you need seems to be working. It's also a good idea to ensure that root's home directory is on the root partition, as it can make disaster recovery/maintenance less complicated. 2) On that same linux box, I'm interested in [carefully] moving the contents of /usr/doc to /usr/share/doc , then removing /usr/doc and creating a symlink in its place to /usr/share/doc . This, also, is for various aesthetic and convenience reasons, mostly because of the FHS, and because I'd really like dhelp_parse to shut up about files in /usr/doc every time I'm apt-getting something. Would .this. be a horrible mistake? That should be fine; assuming you don't already have a /usr/share/doc, then as root, # mv /usr/doc /usr/share/ # ln -s share/doc/ /usr/doc/ should do it. John P. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oh - I - you know - my job is to fear everything. - Bill Gates in Denmark
Re: Changing Enlightnment Netscape icons
Marshal Wong wrote: Right click in the icon box and choose this iconbox settings. Marshal - Ah-Hah! Thanks! -- AdVance-Computing Systems We sell fine quality servers and workstations. We specialize in multiprocessor units. We install Debian Linux at no extra charge! John Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 19460173
Re: Netscape time == GMT (UTC)
On 12/08/99 01:47PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The time and date are correct everywhere on my system, it seems, except for the time stamp Netscape (Commnicator 4.7) puts on my mail. The time stamp shows the time with a -0 appended to it. I think it should be -5. Any help appreciated! I have this problem too. Never did find out why. I installed the tar file from Netscape and everything was fine. I removed that and reintstalled the debs and the problem returned. Very strange and *very* annoying. That's pretty much a big reason why stopped using netscape for a mail client. I can't wait till Opera is released. I guess if you want to use Netscape, install the tar file from Netscape's ftp site. -- ) Mark Wagnon ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) ( Chula Vista, CA ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] (
Re: /etc/hosts.deny booby trap
On 12/11/99 06:54PM, Pollywog wrote: Try something like this: ALL:ALL : spawn (echo Attempt from %h %a to %d at `date` | tee -a /var/log/tcp.deny.log |mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]) I gave this a shot, but nothing happened. Apparently I don't have a spawn command on my machine. I have a spawn_console and a spawn_login, and neither have man pages. A search thru the debian packages didn't turn up anything other than the above mentioned files. I attempted to telnet into my box from my box if that makes a difference. Any ideas? TIA -- ) Mark Wagnon ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) ( Chula Vista, CA ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] (
VTs gone after X hang
I cannot get a virtual terminal on a slink machine following an X crash. Without a terminal I can only start X remotely now, and ctl-alt-F1 (etc.) crashes it again. slink: fairly stock installation (except for below) kernel-2.3.21 xserver: XF86_SVGA for 3dfx (recent version, downloaded from developer's site) (using rtl8139 driver, which was *supposeed* to be clean in this kernel, but it's been leaving some suspicious error messages in syslog.) The system has been rock solid before this. I don't think X has ever crashed before in this configuration. I'm leaving the system up in hope of gleaning more info. I'm not familiar with the virtual terminals, so any clues, opinions, or suggestions are appreciated. Marty Brundage
keyboard problems
Something has happened to my console keyboard. The keys are all screwed up. When I press 'q' I get 'a', I have to hold down the 'shif' key to get nubmers The keyboard is only screwed up in the console. It is fine in Xwindows. Anyone know how I can get my keyboard back? Lance
Re: current status of potato?
On 11/12/99 Nagilum wrote: I've got a friend who is interested in installing a Linux distro on his machine (probably a dual-boot with Win98, although he may decide to just get a different machine). At any rate, I'd seen some of the threads regarding the potato boot-floppies and am concerned about whether they actually work, and to what degree they are broken. He's definitely going to want to use X and to make it easier for him to keep up with the more recent packages I'll recommend potato (rather than slink) to him, assuming the installation disks are in a usable state. the boot floppies in the current unstable/i386/boot-floppies/ (something like that) dated Oct 20 or so, I have used twice now on two machines and they worked perfectly, they are just like the slink versions except for installing potato instead of slink base. I really don't know where this `boot floppies are broken' is coming from, all i have heard is they want boot floppies better then the slink versions (new features) and right now the potato versions are nothing new from the slink version... you will have to recompile or install a new kernel image however the one installed with the base system does not have support for devpts. but who uses stock kernels anyway :-) -- Ethan Benson To obtain my PGP key: http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/pgp/
ISDN in Italy
Anyone using Linux ISDN in Italy? Which TA do you have? Any known problems ? Pf -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx| http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/8999 Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.2.13 #1 Thu Oct 21 20:27:03 CEST 1999 i686 unknown
Re: ntpdate[28516]: no server suitable for synchronization found
On Sat, Dec 11, 1999 at 10:47:16PM -0500, Darxus wrote: ntp hasn't seemed to work for me for a while. I figured maybe all the ntp servers I'd set it to use nolonger ran the ntp server or something. But I just pulled 99 servers off of a list at http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp/ (1st relavant hit on ntp on www.google.com). Out of all of those 99 servers, ntpdate did not find *one* that was acceptable ? I'm guessing the fact that ntpd doesn't seem to be doing any synchronizing is probably related. # ntpdate -v `cat clock.lst` 11 Dec 22:43:04 ntpdate[28516]: ntpdate 4.0.98f Sun Nov 21 00:35:29 MST 1999 (1) 11 Dec 22:43:28 ntpdate[28516]: no server suitable for synchronization found # wc -l clock.lst 99 clock.lst # head clock.lst 129.127.28.4 129.132.98.11 193.2.69.11 128.173.14.71 193.136.54.1 128.100.102.201 128.118.25.3 130.228.230.2 194.192.207.9 192.48.153.74 Hi I used your short list as above: # ntpdate -v `cat /tmp/clock.lst` 12 Dec 10:55:42 ntpdate[1174]: ntpdate 4.0.98f Sun Nov 21 00:35:29 MST 1999 (1) 12 Dec 10:55:47 ntpdate[1174]: adjust time server 129.132.98.11 offset -0.000396 sec Maybe temporary network problem? Firewall is filtering? List off 99 servers is too long? Try ntpq, is it working? # ntpq -c pee 129.127.28.4 remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter == -orion.atnf.CSIR terss.hba.marin 2 u 439 1024 376 59.250 -1.223 15.270 +ntx.City.UniSA. tictoc.tip.CSIR 2 u 89 512 1774.0401.522 126.390 -pellew.ntu.edu. tictoc.tip.CSIR 2 u 291 512 377 87.540 -3.409 1.680 lux.levels.unis murgon.cs.mu.OZ 2 u 17 128 247 10.3000.906 2002.70 *murgon.cs.mu.OZ .GPS.1 u 343 512 377 19.0600.291 0.270 -tictoc.tip.CSIR .ATOM. 1 u 326 512 377 31.830 -2.705 0.750 +ncar.ucar.edu tick.usno.navy. 2 u 490 512 377 411.1200.931 2.090 norad.arc.nasa. 0.0.0.0 16 -- 102400.0000.000 16000.0 gpo.adelaide.ed earth.its.deaki 3 u 107 64 3541.5003.845 0.960 +ns.saard.netmurgon.cs.mu.OZ 2 u 80 64 3641.9402.247 0.780 +argos.eleceng.a murgon.cs.mu.OZ 2 u 216 256 3521.9400.989 251.460 augean.eleceng. 0.0.0.0 16 -- 102400.0000.000 16000.0 +gilja.itd.adela tictoc.tip.CSIR 2 u 142 512 3372.6101.306 12.480 xpioneer.magelli murgon.cs.mu.OZ 2 u 211 256 376 233.350 -78.396 50.870 +student.ntu.edu tictoc.tip.CSIR 2 u4 64 375 86.6901.109 13.020 Mirek
Safely removing /etc/init.d/boot.OLD and /etc/rc.boot/0setserial.pre-2.15 ?
I have /etc/init.d/boot.OLD and /etc/rc.boot/0setserial.pre-2.15. Can I safely remove them? Are files that dpkg -S reports that they are not found can be safely removed? [11:12:47 /tmp]$ dpkg -S /etc/init.d/boot.OLD dpkg: /etc/init.d/boot.OLD not found. [11:14:42 /tmp]$ dpkg -S /etc/rc.boot/0setserial.pre-2.15 dpkg: /etc/rc.boot/0setserial.pre-2.15 not found. [11:15:24 /tmp]$
Is this a bug of hwclock or did I misunderstood the man page?
I tried to adjust the system clock by [10:24:52 /tmp]# hwclock --hctosys [09:15:21 /tmp]# [09:15:27 /tmp]# hwclock --show Sun Dec 12 09:15:39 1999 -0.396524 seconds Which is no good because I have the hardware clock set to UTC while I want to use my local TZ. There for I issued [09:15:38 /tmp]# hwclock --hctosys --utc [11:15:48 /tmp]# which straitened the matter. However, hwclock man claims that if neither --utc nor --localtime are given on the command line it will use as the first defualt a string from /etc/adjtime. Yet the appropriate string on my system is set to UTC. [11:16:00 /tmp]# cat /etc/adjtime 11.974854 944901540 0.00 944901540 UTC [11:16:39 /tmp]# There for, it seems to me a hwclock bug. Am I right? BTW: The whole thing of using hwclock and localtime or UTC is rather confusing. Although it does not seem a simple matter because the hardware clock does not have a record to which of the 2 it is set + Linux does not want to interfere with with other OSs business I still wish there would be a more simple or elegant solution.
Digital cameras and Linux
Hi, I'm considering buying a digital camera or videocam, but am concerned about being able to download the JPEG images to Linux. Of course, the cameras come with a serial cable and software for downloading the images to Windows. Does anyone know if these cameras simply pass the JPEG data down the serial line, or is there some special camera-specific protocol they use (rendering it useless without special software)? In the former case, how would I capture the data coming down the serial line? Thanks for any information or advice, Neil.
Re: Mail servers for large numbers of users
On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, Ronald Tin wrote: I am about to build a (group of?) e-mail server for a large number of users... more than 65536. Using Debian of course. :) It should include SMTP and IMAP. Users do not need to have login accounts. Probably I will be using Potato. What should I start with? Are there good open sourced MTA and IMAP servers that do not operate on system password accounts? (so I don't have to create 6+ accounts) For now I will be trying to distribute the accounts on more than 1 server, set-up the DNS to have more than 1 MX, and forward the mails internally through SMTP for non-existent local users. Which MTA is good for this purpose? For ease of configuration I may be choosing exim, because this is what I have been using at home (it's the default MTA for Debian.. :) I see that exim can match user names with dbm/ldap lookups as well.. which may prove useful. What about qmail or postfix? Are there other precautions that I have to take care? Are there any other precautions? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Hi Ronald, I'm doing an SMTP / POP3 / Finger server that run on Linux M$ WinNT that support an unlimited number of users and that is not linked to system user accounts. It handle multiple domains, mailing lists, anti-spam, relay-checking, pop3 mailbox syncronization with external users POP3 accounts, SMTP mail exchanger overrides. It is written in C++ using gcc in Linux and Visual C++ in M$-Win and is full GPL license. This server is running in my Co. ( under NT ) from 6 months without give any problems to us. It works fine also on HPUX 9.x 10.x. I've implemented a file that contain all system dependent code to localize portability. I'm having a semaphore weird in Linux in which seems that if a task A creates tasks B C, C creates another task D, if B go to sleep on a semaphore and D release the semaphore, B don't wakeup. As soon as I've solved this problem I'll release the code ( say beta 0.1 ) on FreshMeat. Anyway if You 're interested I can make a snapshot for You. Cheers, Davide. -- Debian, the freedom in freedom.
Re: Digital cameras and Linux
On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Neil Booth wrote: I'm considering buying a digital camera or videocam, but am concerned about being able to download the JPEG images to Linux. Of course, the cameras come with a serial cable and software for downloading the images to Windows. Does anyone know if these cameras simply pass the JPEG data down the serial line, or is there some special camera-specific protocol they use (rendering it useless without special software)? In the former case, how would I capture the data coming down the serial line? As far as I know each camera (or family) of cameras will use its own proprietry protocol which covers fetching thumbnails, deleting photos etc. as well as just getting the JPEGs. However, GPhoto (www.gphoto.org) supports a fair number of cameras from different manufacuters, so I think most of them are pretty open about their specs. Personally I've got a Kodak DC210 which cost me about 400ukp about a year ago, and works very nicely; though it's probably equivalent feature-wise to about a 50 quid compact, and has come down at least 100 quid since then! But I think that's generally the deal with digital cameras. -- Matthew ( http://www.soup-kitchen.demon.co.uk/ )
Re: Why is Enlightenment slow?
Hi, You are correct in that every image used for a background or shape takes up memory that slows down E. The extras like the animations also take up memory so can slow it down. The default theme is quite large, or there are certainly smaller ones, so check out e.themes.org for lots of choices. I have 256MB of memory but find E a bit too chunky - looks great though. I've switched to icewm and sawmill. Steve On Sat, Dec 11, 1999 at 06:02:58PM -0600, David J. Kanter wrote: Enlightenment, for the most part, is fun for me. But its slowness compared to something like Sawmill drives me a little nuts. What is it about E that slows it down? Certain themes are faster than others, which leads me to think that the theme has something to do with it. But is there anything else? -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Humans have an innate tendency to attribute significance to anomalies and coincidences. -- John Allen Paulos, mathematics professor at Temple University -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Mail servers for large numbers of users
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Davide Libenzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm doing an SMTP / POP3 / Finger server that run on Linux M$ WinNT that support an unlimited number of users and that is not linked to system user accounts. It is written in C++ using gcc in Linux and Visual C++ in M$-Win and is full GPL license. That sounds great! I'm having a semaphore weird in Linux in which seems that if a task A creates tasks B C, C creates another task D, if B go to sleep on a semaphore and D release the semaphore, B don't wakeup. As soon as I've solved this problem I'll release the code ( say beta 0.1 ) on FreshMeat. Why? Remember what they say release early, release often. If you make an alpha release now, and put this clearly in the BUGS file, chances are someone will find the bug and solve if for you. That's what open source is all about. Leave a note here when you put it up on freshmeat Mike.
Re: services I don't need - turn them off?!?!?!
Hi, There are two ways to turn off services in inetd.conf and in the /etc/rc.d/*. As you've discovered you can turn off any service which is controlled by the super-server inetd by commenting it out and then restarting inetd e.g kill -HUP `cat /var/run/inetd.pid`. Servers which are not controlled by inetd are started through the configuration scripts. These are stored in /etc/rc.d/init.d and are executed at the runlevel the system is in: so for example if the system is in runlevel 3 then the scripts in /etc/rc.d/rc3.d are run. You can find out what runlevel your system is in currently with the command runlevel and can find the default level the system will switch into by inspecting /etc/inittab; so for example mine shows that level 3 is the standard level on my system: id:3:initdefault: So to stop a particular server starting you need to find the script that starts it in the right runlevel directory and remove the symlink. Shutdown to single user level and then come back up and the server should be no more. Hope this helps, Steve On Sat, Dec 11, 1999 at 04:09:24PM -0800, Lev Lvovsky wrote: Hello, for the sake of knowing how to do such thigns, I'd like to turn off some services that I feel comprimise my server security, and aren't being used. with portscan, this is what I get from a non-local host. 9 - discard 13 - daytime *21 - ftp *22 - ssh *23 - telnet *25 - smtp 37 - time 53 - domain 79 - finger *80 - www *110 - pop-3 111 - sunrpc 113 - auth 512 - exec 513 - login 514 - shell 515 - printer the ones with the *'s are the things I KNOW I need...I'm sure there are others that I need. the most annoying one is the sunrpc...i've tried renaming portmap, and restarting inetd, but it's still there. thanks for any help! -lev -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: WordPerfect 8 Floating Point Exception - Solved!
On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, you wrote: I ahve all of these xpm packages installed and my wp8 works just fine, so for simplicity, do what I do, grab everything with xpm in the name ii xpm-bin 3.4j-0.6 X Pixmap libraries - associated binaries ii xpm4-altdev 3.4j-0.6 X Pixmap libraries (for libc5) - development ii xpm4.7 3.4j-0.6 X Pixmap libraries (for libc5) - runtime ii xpm4g 3.4j-0.6 X Pixmap libraries (for libc6) - runtime ii xpm4g-dev 3.4j-0.6 X Pixmap libraries (for libc6) - development Well, I had it all, but it didn't work. I decided to remove all of the libc5 stuff, delete WP8, then reinstall libc5, xlib6, and xpm4 then wp8. It worked! My guess is I installed some of the libs, then wp8, then the rest of the libs, and something got munged. Either that or some apt-get update munged the libraries (it happened to my X fonts). Thanks so much everyone, you've all helped a lot!
INN 2.x packages for Debian?
Hello. I've been looking around for Debian packages of a recent version of INND, but I could only find the old 1.7 version. Even Potato has INND 1.7. :( Is it possible to find an INND 2.x package for Debian?
Re: Slashdot clones
Any particular reason you don't want to use slash? ( http://slashdot.org/code.shtml ) Actually, yes. It was the line of text on that page, something about you *will* have problems (or something to that effect) that sort of scared me. :-) -- Regards, | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux: superior operating . | http://www.golgotha.net | system tools for those Randy | | who know how to use them.
Re: Digital cameras and Linux
I've had 2. First a Kodak DC25 that worked well. I ended up using a combination of tools with a C proggy a gentleman wrote along time ago. It worked, but it wasn't pretty. I now have an Olympus. It's the second one. The first one died mysteriously (I think my son dropped it in the toilet). My wife was due with my second child any minute. I called them, told them it died and I needed it ASAP. They told me as soon as I gave them some sort of tracking # (I used USPS) they would ship me a new one. I had bought a D340-L refurbished off pricewatch. They were out of refurbished 340L's and out of 340L's all together. They sent me a brand spanking New D340-R. 1280x1024, etc and even has a 2x digital zoom. At any rate. I shipped out my old one that day, called them with a tracking #. 2days later I had my new one. I use gphoto (search on freshmeat) to download the pics in linux and it works great. I took some pictures to the Kodak place on a floppy and printed them on their color Laser printer. Then printed them on my HP882C (in windows unfortunately). Both are definitely photo quality and worthy of sending to family for christmas. The olympus with a 16Meg SmartMedia card ( ~ $40) holds 244 Pics at 640x480 and 73 at 1280x1024. I have an 8meg and 16Meg card. Fill one, swap it. Take the adapter (floppy or pcmcia) and plug it in and just copy to your computer. No I'm not getting commision or work for them. I am just VERY pleased with the quality and customer service. Robert Thus spake Neil Booth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi, I'm considering buying a digital camera or videocam, but am concerned about being able to download the JPEG images to Linux. Of course, the cameras come with a serial cable and software for downloading the images to Windows. Does anyone know if these cameras simply pass the JPEG data down the serial line, or is there some special camera-specific protocol they use (rendering it useless without special software)? In the former case, how would I capture the data coming down the serial line? Thanks for any information or advice, Neil. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null :wq! --- Robert L. Harris| Low quality in a product happens. Senior System Engineer |That doesn't mean it's right and at RnD Consulting.| and defintely doesn't mean it should \_ be accepted. Require quality. http://www.rnd-consulting.com/~nomad DISCLAIMER: These are MY OPINIONS ALONE. I speak for no-one else. FYI: perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'
Re: /etc/hosts.deny booby trap
On 12-Dec-1999 Mark Wagnon wrote: On 12/11/99 06:54PM, Pollywog wrote: Try something like this: ALL:ALL : spawn (echo Attempt from %h %a to %d at `date` | tee -a /var/log/tcp.deny.log |mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]) I gave this a shot, but nothing happened. Apparently I don't have a spawn command on my machine. I have a spawn_console and a spawn_login, and neither have man pages. I believe spawn is part of the bash shell. It seems to work for me. -- Andrew
Re: Modem does not work
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 11:33:23 -0800 (PST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, dyer wrote: I have bought (two day ago) a modem, it says (in the windows software) that it is a Motorols SM56 PCI, Speakerphone Modem and it is on COM4. That says it all. Speakerphone Modem = Winmodem. Take it back and get a real modem. -- Now I have an Supra 2260 PCI Modem Enumerator/Supra Max 56i Voice PCI (dual personality!?), but no luck ... :( It is an internal PCI modem, Windows says that it is on COM3, IRQ10, so it should be in /dev/ttyS3, but I only have two serial connections working, I think you bought another winmodem. To expand on the last response, I would go by the _general_ rule: PCI Modem = Winmodem PCI modem with the string `HCF' in the description under Windows = Winmodem PCI modem listed as `comm controller' in any BIOS verbosity might be a real modem. Currently, AFAIK, PCI serial support is in the unstable 2.3.x kernels, but there is a backport for a couple devices in 2.0.38 Uff, Mine says comm controller in the BIOS verbosity :) Where is the documentation for those kind of support? Thank you for all the help you already (and for the future help :) gave to me. At\'e breve Pedro Quaresma de Almeida Departamento de Matem\'atica, Faculdade de Ci\^encias e Tecnologia Universidade de Coimbra P-3000 COIMBRA, PORTUGAL e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] url: http://www.mat.uc.pt/~pedro/ phone: 351 39 791170
Re: Digital cameras and Linux
On 12-Dec-99 Matthew Bloch wrote: On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Neil Booth wrote: I'm considering buying a digital camera or videocam, but am concerned about being able to download the JPEG images to Linux. Of course, the cameras come with a serial cable and software for downloading the images to Windows. It is worth considering a camera that can record the JPEG file directly to a floppy disk -- either natively (the Sony Mavica was probably the earliest to do it this way) or using a bit of clip-on kit which you buy separately (an increasing number of makes offer this option). Then you don't have to worry about using software, cables or any other nonsense: you just put the floppy into the computer (anybody's computer ... ) and copy the files. Also, provided you have enough battery resources, you can go out for a long day with a pocket-full of floppies and come home with hundreds of photos: you don't have to buy several expensive memory modules to achieve the same effect. (The floppies used are in all cases -- as far as I know -- standard DOS-formatted floppies straight out of the box). Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 12-Dec-99 Time: 15:13:37 1673182 seconds left -- XFMail --
chroot()ing a user's login
I had read some docs which mentioned that on SysV, you can specify a * in the 7th field of the passwd file (thisis from memory, I may be off) and that user's login will then be chroot()ed to his home directory. I was hoping to find a similar functionality in Debian, so I tried the * in the 7th field and that didn't work. So then I grabbed the source for login (shadow package) and grepped the source for chroot. In libmisc/sub.c I found it, along with some commentary: /* * subsystem - change to subsystem root * * A subsystem login is indicated by the presense of a * as * the first character of the login shell. The given home * directory will be used as the root of a new filesystem which * the user is actually logged into. */ So, I tried changing a user's login shell to '*/bin/bash' to no avail. When I attempt to login, I am asked for the username.. and then I am asked for the password twice and booted out. I also tried replacing /bin/login with a re-compiled version from the (slink) source but the same thing happened. Anyone know how to get this to work?
Re: chroot()ing a user's login
On Sun, Dec 12, 1999 at 12:04:09PM -0500, Nagilum wrote: I had read some docs which mentioned that on SysV, you can specify a * in the 7th field of the passwd file (thisis from memory, I may be off) and that user's login will then be chroot()ed to his home directory. I was hoping to find a similar functionality in Debian, so I tried the * in the 7th field and that didn't work. So then I grabbed the source for login (shadow package) and grepped the source for chroot. In libmisc/sub.c I found it, along with some commentary: /* * subsystem - change to subsystem root * * A subsystem login is indicated by the presense of a * as * the first character of the login shell. The given home * directory will be used as the root of a new filesystem which * the user is actually logged into. */ So, I tried changing a user's login shell to '*/bin/bash' to no avail. When I attempt to login, I am asked for the username.. and then I am asked for the password twice and booted out. I also tried replacing /bin/login with a re-compiled version from the (slink) source but the same thing happened. The documentation specifies: 1) Once the user has logged in they are chrooted and asked to login via that password file _in the chrooted directory_. 2) The shell must be available in the chrooted env (as well as all needed bianries). So for this to work, you must have a complete working filesystem in each home directory (/home/foo/dev /home/foo/bin /home/foo/usr/bin /home/foo/etc ...). This is not usually what you want for normal users (I've pondered doing this for the auto builder, but haven't gotten around to it yet). -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED]' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: need help with modem
On Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 04:19:59PM +, Robert Helmer wrote: Jason, You can change the permissions on the device ( /dev/ttyS0 or whatever ) make it writable by the dialout group, and put the users who can use the modem in the dialout group. Some of us use the dip group instead of dialout. What's the difference? -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux (Slink)
Re: Alsa and 2.2.13
Mark Blunier hat gesagt: // Mark Blunier wrote: I'm trying to recompile the 2.2.13 kernel with alsa. My custom kernel conflicts with alsa-modules-2.2.13, and I've tried the kernel-image-2.2.13_2.2.13-2.deb, but it also conflicts, ( 2.2.13-1). Is an old version of 2.2.13 available, or better yet, what do I need to do to be able to compile a kernel package that doesn't conflict with alsa modules? Debian packages of alsa-modules depend on a specific revision number of your debian package of the kernel-image. You should just recompile the alsa modules when you recompile the kernel. If you're using make-kpkg (preferred), make sure that you use the same revision number for the kernel-image and the modules-image. -- ____ Frank Barknecht __ __ trip\ \ / /wire __ / __// __ /__/ __// // __ \ \/ / __ \\ ___\ / / / / / / / // // /\ \\ ___\\ \ /_/ /_/ /_/ /_//_// / \ \\_\\_\ /_/\_\
Re: Alsa and 2.2.13
On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Marshal Wong wrote: Did you try using alsa-source to compile a custom kernel module? I did this and couldn't get the modules to initialise, though the precompiled modules worked on the custom kernel. The build scripts in the alsa-source package for kernel-package also seemed to have a few problems finding the kernel source directory. Basically: Custom-compiled ALSA modules failed loading Pre-packaged ALSA modules succeeded on the custom kernel Marshal From: Mark Blunier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Alsa and 2.2.13 Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 14:15:13 -0600 (CST) I'm trying to recompile the 2.2.13 kernel with alsa. My custom kernel conflicts with alsa-modules-2.2.13, and I've tried the kernel-image-2.2.13_2.2.13-2.deb, but it also conflicts, ( 2.2.13-1). Is an old version of 2.2.13 available, or better yet, what do I need to do to be able to compile a kernel package that doesn't conflict with alsa modules?
Re: ntpdate[28516]: no server suitable for synchronization found
On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, Darxus wrote: ntp hasn't seemed to work for me for a while. I figured maybe all the ntp servers I'd set it to use nolonger ran the ntp server or something. But I just pulled 99 servers off of a list at http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp/ (1st relavant hit on ntp on www.google.com). Out of all of those 99 servers, ntpdate did not find *one* that was acceptable ? I'm guessing the fact that ntpd doesn't seem to be doing any synchronizing is probably related. I get this when my internet connection is saturated. :/
Re: linux.debian.user gatewayed no more?
Carel Fellinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately it seems I've to bridge at home:( Still hoping someone else would do it for the world to grab I've setup a mail2news on news.ctrlaltdel.ch To access this server you need a login and a password avaiable at http://www.ctrlaltdel.ch/newspass.html (it's in french...) -- Francois Deppierraz student http://www.ctrlaltdel.ch ICQ: 176 770 09
I have my own MTA, thank you very much
How do I convince Debian that I have my own MTA, thank you very much, and it shouldn't attempt to install one of its own choosing? Is there a way to permanently fulfill a dependency by hand without installing a package? I'm not interested in having to tell dselect, dpkg, or apt to ignore dependencies. I want to tell them that I have fulfilled a dependency via non-package means, and never be asked about that dependency again. -- -russ nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://russnelson.com Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | Government schools are so 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | bad that any rank amateur Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | +1 315 268 9201 FAX | can outdo them. Homeschool!
Re: need help with modem
On Sun, Dec 12, 1999 at 11:11:05AM -0500, Joe Bouchard wrote: On Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 04:19:59PM +, Robert Helmer wrote: You can change the permissions on the device ( /dev/ttyS0 or whatever ) make it writable by the dialout group, and put the users who can use the modem in the dialout group. Some of us use the dip group instead of dialout. What's the difference? dip used to be the program ages ago that you setup a SLIP or PPP dial up link with. SLIP fell into disuse and so did dip. I am supposing that you are still using some legacy group name related to the dip program. Makes no difference in the end. -- William Burrow -- New Brunswick, Canada A 'box' is something that accomplishes a task -- you feed in input and out comes the output, just as God and Larry Wall intended. -- brian moore
Re: I have my own MTA, thank you very much
On Sun, Dec 12, 1999 at 01:33:41PM -0500, Russell Nelson wrote: How do I convince Debian that I have my own MTA, thank you very much, and it shouldn't attempt to install one of its own choosing? Is there a way to permanently fulfill a dependency by hand without installing a package? I'm not interested in having to tell dselect, dpkg, or apt to ignore dependencies. I want to tell them that I have fulfilled a dependency via non-package means, and never be asked about that dependency again. Look at the equivs package. You need to produce a dummy package which is called or provides mail-transport-agent. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFShttp://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/
Re: ntpdate[28516]: no server suitable for synchronization found
On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Mirek Kwasniak wrote: I used your short list as above: # ntpdate -v `cat /tmp/clock.lst` 12 Dec 10:55:42 ntpdate[1174]: ntpdate 4.0.98f Sun Nov 21 00:35:29 MST 1999 (1) 12 Dec 10:55:47 ntpdate[1174]: adjust time server 129.132.98.11 offset -0.000396 sec Maybe temporary network problem? Firewall is filtering? List off 99 servers is too long? I do have firewalling set up, but I tried all of this after ipchains -F (disabling firewalling). I've tried it with fewer servers. Try ntpq, is it working? ntpq does work. Does ntpdate use (a) port(s) that ntpq doesn't, so maybe my ISP might have started blocking something ? __ PGP fingerprint = 03 5B 9B A0 16 33 91 2F A5 77 BC EE 43 71 98 D4 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://www.op.net/~darxus Find the next largest prime, be famous: http://www.mersenne.org/prime.htm
Re: I have my own MTA, thank you very much
On Sun, Dec 12, 1999 at 01:33:41PM -0500, Russell Nelson wrote: How do I convince Debian that I have my own MTA, thank you very much, and it shouldn't attempt to install one of its own choosing? Is there a way to permanently fulfill a dependency by hand without installing a package? I'm not interested in having to tell dselect, dpkg, or apt to ignore dependencies. I want to tell them that I have fulfilled a dependency via non-package means, and never be asked about that dependency again. Install the equivs package. -- William Burrow -- New Brunswick, Canada A 'box' is something that accomplishes a task -- you feed in input and out comes the output, just as God and Larry Wall intended. -- brian moore
SCSI difficulty
Trying to boot the rescue floppy (2.0) the kernel tries to load the Symbios 810A scsi driver and just loops with endless scsi host 0 abort (pid 7) timed out- resetting scsi bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0 followed by a timed out message. Had to get a rescue floppy with only adaptec support so it wouldn't try to load the ncr/symbios driver. My system only uses the scsi to access a Smart and Friendly CDR 2006 plus, not to boot from scsi. The kernel 2.3.31 does the same thing, but the kernel 2.2.12 and .13 both work ok. Not sure where to start looking. Thanks! -- Eddie Seymour, WB4MLE E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP KEYS D/H 0xB65DC61A RSA 0x935801A9
Where to find the mailink-list kernel messages archived wuth search
Thanks, PH -- Abraços,PH Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Information Technology Consultant Linux Solutions -- http://www.linuxsolutions.com.br Av. Presidente Vargas, 509/4o andar - 852-4564 - Rio de Janeiro - RJ - Brazil
Re: need help with modem
Joe Bouchard writes: Some of us use the dip group instead of dialout. What's the difference? dip is the group that pppd and the ppp files belong to. dialout is the group that the serial ports belong to. Membership in the dip group is sufficient to allow users to use ppp as long as the provider file mechanism recommended by the pppd authors and implemented by Debian is used. Your users must be members of dialout to use terminal programs such as minicom. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI
Re: /etc/hosts.deny booby trap
Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 12-Dec-1999 Mark Wagnon wrote: On 12/11/99 06:54PM, Pollywog wrote: ALL:ALL : spawn (echo Attempt from %h %a to %d at `date` | tee -a /var/log/tcp.deny.log |mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]) I gave this a shot, but nothing happened. Apparently I don't have a spawn command on my machine. I have a spawn_console and a spawn_login, and neither have man pages. I believe spawn is part of the bash shell. It seems to work for me. No, spawn is part of the syntax for the /etc/hosts.deny (and .allow) configuration file, which is used by the TCP wrappers library and the tcpd program. It's described in the hosts_options(5) manual page: # spawn shell_command # Execute, in a child process, the specified shell # command, after performing the %letter expansions ... There's also a twist, which connects the child process to the network connection (so if you run echo via twist, the text is sent to the other end of the connection). Also, please note that TCP wrappers logs both allowed and denied connections to syslog, so if you only want the stuff in a log, you don't need to execute special commands. You can set the log priority (info, notice, critical, etc.) via the severity option, also described on the hosts_options(5) manual page. -- -=- Rjs -=- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: initial boot problem, help request
Floyd Rodgers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: trying to initial load slink stable version sparc2 via floppies results in these messages. fatal error: cannot read file system error: bad or malformed address fatal error: cannot read file system fatal error: cannot read file system Please ask on debian-sparc. 2g disk set to address 1. Any ideas? No 'fraid not. Is there any place in Dallas to buy a CD version? No clue. Have you seen the registered distributors on the web site? -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]URL:http://www.onShore.com/
Problem forwarding X over ssh
Hi, I am having trouble getting X to forward across ssh from my debian box. I have the following settings in my /etc/ssh/sshd_config: X11Forwarding yes X11DisplayOffset 10 I have xauth installed (did that after getting an error about X forwarding upon connection). Right now, if I ssh to the machine, and attempt to run an X app...say xterm...it gives this error: _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 110 xterm Xt error: Can't open display: progression:10.0 I can telnet to the machine and set my DISPLAY and that works fine...but I want to use ssh. Any info anyone can provide would be appreciated. Thanks, Mark Santaniello
Message popup program
Hi, I am looking for a program to send all users on a linux network an x-windows message. Preferrably an utility that can be used to broadcast a messages to all systems at once. There is of course xmessage, but this is not really suited for the situation. Another possibility is linpopup, but I have to use samba for that, which is pretty stupid if you just worked m$ out of an office, by having all desktops run linux. What can I use? Wouter...
PPP...and boot problem
Hi, Im running win95 on harddisk 1 (primary ide master). it has 2 partitions, but used by windows. On harddisk 2 (secondary ide master), I have just installed linux. I can boot using the boot disk - however for some reason it takes about 10 minutes when it says "Loading linux..". I have installed LILO and because my BIOS just booted win, I assumed I have to change the default boot IDE drive. I changed it to harddisk 2 and I get: LI (it just says 'LI' and then pauses!) I have tried TAB, holding alt and ctrl, but nothing happens.. any ideas? Kieren J
apt-get dist-upgrade replacing self-built archives
Hi! How come that apt-get dist-upgrade upgrades packages that I have compiled myself (from the sources), although the version in the Debian archive is the same as the one I have compiled myself? -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/
Re: apt-get dist-upgrade replacing self-built archives
*- On 12 Dec, peter karlsson wrote about apt-get dist-upgrade replacing self-built archives Hi! How come that apt-get dist-upgrade upgrades packages that I have compiled myself (from the sources), although the version in the Debian archive is the same as the one I have compiled myself? Because the md5sum does not match that of the 'real' version. You should either put the package on hold in dselect(does dist-upgrade respect holds?). Or add an entry to the debian/changelog and increase the version number before you build the package. Not sure what is the best versioning scheme, maybe follow the NMU rules of adding a .X version to the last version. Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: Digital cameras and Linux
On 12-Dec-99 Matthew Bloch wrote: On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Neil Booth wrote: I'm considering buying a digital camera or videocam, but am concerned about being able to download the JPEG images to Linux. Of course, the cameras come with a serial cable and software for downloading the images to Windows. It is worth considering a camera that can record the JPEG file directly to a floppy disk -- either natively (the Sony Mavica was probably the earliest to do it this way) or using a bit of clip-on kit which you buy separately (an increasing number of makes offer this option). Then you don't have to worry about using software, cables or any other nonsense: you just put the floppy into the computer (anybody's computer ... ) and copy the files. Also, provided you have enough battery resources, you can go out for a long day with a pocket-full of floppies and come home with hundreds of photos: you don't have to buy several expensive memory modules to achieve the same effect. Good points, however it would only be fair to point out what I consider a significant drawback to digital cameras that use floppies as the storage medium--delay time between pictures. For those times where timing is critical (i.e. baby smiles, etc) it's very frustrating to not be able to take a picture because the camera is still busy writing to the floppy disk. Memory modules, while currently expensive, allow instantaneous recording of high quality pictures and will only get cheaper as time goes on. === Charles Lewis, Director of Administrative Computing Southwestern Adventist University, Keene, TX (817)556-4720 [EMAIL PROTECTED] FAX (360)397-7952 ===
Re: Digital cameras and Linux
(Ted Harding) wrote: It is worth considering a camera that can record the JPEG file directly to a floppy disk -- either natively (the Sony Mavica was probably the earliest to do it this way) or using a bit of clip-on kit which you snip (The floppies used are in all cases -- as far as I know -- standard DOS-formatted floppies straight out of the box). FWIW I have grabbed pics from a Mavica floppy with a Linux system. I mounted the floppy as a regular DOS type floppy and just grabbed the .jpg's like any other. The Mavica also creates a second file for every pic it makes - I don't remember the extension but that file has no use I've been able to figure out (probably something the camera uses internally). And the floppy that I had fed into the Mavica was a brand new never-used one straight out of the box. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | Where do you want to go today? ICQ# 12934898 | As far from Redmond as possible! '91 GS500E| Morgantown WV | Only dead fish go with the flow.
mirroring?
Does anyone know either of the following. 1)If there are potato cd-images around, and if so, where? 2)Where the documentation for setting up a debain mirror is? I want to be able to bring the entire distro home with me over christmas, where I will have a slow connection. I need to install on a few machines there. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]
JAVA 2.0 debs for slink? Anyone know where?
Hello, I was curious if anyone had a pointer to JAVA 2 deb packages for slink. As I suspect this will be a very big download, and I'm using a modem, I want to make sure I get the right stuff. I also heard there is an emacs-based JDE, which I also would like to get, if this is separate from the main package(s). Any links, information, caveats, good/bad experiences welcome. I'm hoping others have walked this path before... Many Thanks, John Miskinis __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Two hard discs
Hello, I am at present using the Microsoft Windows 98 OS. I have two hard discs. If I transfer everything to one hard disc and then format the empty disc, can I install the Debian System: i386 to this formatted hard disc without causing any problems to the Windows 98 OS? In other words can I use both systems on the computer? Having read through much of the material you have presented on you web site, I see that you caution anyone from installing your OS proceeding very system without making backups or without proceeding very delicately. You say I could lose everything on my hard disc. But that is may question. What if I put your system on the formatted hard disc. Will that cause problems anyway? I also have direct access to the internet via a cable company and am using Netscape Communicator and Microsoft Explorer 5.0. Am I overloading myself? The reason I am asking these questions is that I really like what I have read about the Debian System, but do not want to crash. I have already lost everything once and would not like to repeat that fiasco. Your help would be appreciated. Sincerely, Robert Thrall
