Re: ypbind

[Ben Collins]

On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 02:54:26PM -0800, Beavis wrote:
> what is ypbind
> 
> my xconsole keeps saying that it times out:
> 
> Mar 24 .. spy ypbind[259]: broadcast:RPC: Timed out.
> 
> what does that mean and how do i either fix it or get rid of it.

Uninstall the nis package.

Ben

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Re: Squid ACLs does not work

[sgaerner]

Yes, I ran /etc/init.d/squid restart to reload the config file and the
/etc/ban_domains.squid is readable to all, so this should no be a problem.

Sven

On 24-Mar-2000 John Pearson wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 11:13:42PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I have some problems with squid and its ACLs.
>> 
>> I'm using Debian 2.2 with Kernel 2.2.13 and squid 2.2STABLE5.
>> My ACL section in /etc/squid.conf looks like the following.
>> 
>> acl all src 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0
>> acl manager proto cache_object
>> acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/255.255.255.255
>> acl SSL_ports port 443 563
>> acl Safe_ports port 80 21 443 563 70 210 1025-65535
>> acl purge method PURGE
>> acl CONNECT method CONNECT
>> acl BanDomains dstdomain "/etc/ban_domains.squid"
>> acl localdomain srcdomain localdomain.own
>> :
>> http_access allow localdomain
>> http_access deny BanDomains
>> http_access allow manager localhost
>> http_access deny manager
>> http_access allow purge localhost
>> http_access deny purge
>> http_access deny !Safe_ports
>> http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports
>> 
>> And the file /etc/ban_domains.squid looks like...
>> netscape.com
>> microsoft.com
>> msdn.com
>> realnetworks.com
>> 
>> But when I try connect to www.microsoft.com the proxy rersolves the hostname
>> and connects. (My browser is configured to use the proxy, of course...).
>> 
>> Does anyone have an idea where I made a mistake?
>> 
> 
> I'm assuming that squid's "file" ACLs work; I've never used them myself.
> 
> Is /etc/ban_domains.squid readable by the user which Squid is running
> as?  Have you done /etc/init.d/squid reload since adding those
> domains to the file?
> 
> 
> John P.
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ypbind

[Beavis]

what is ypbind
 
my xconsole keeps saying that it times 
out:
 
Mar 24 .. spy ypbind[259]: broadcast:RPC: Timed 
out.
 
what does that mean and how do i either fix it or 
get rid of it.
 
just asking,  
beavis

Re: C++

[Antonio Rodriguez]

You can also check the following site
http://www.BruceEckel.com/
which has great and very complete books about C++ and Java, downloadable in 
different
formats: html, pdf, word, etc.
Enjoy it

Bart Friederichs wrote:

> Never knew this was so easy to find..
>
> http://www.gnacademy.org/uu-gna/text/cc/chapters.html
>
> Bart
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Re: (not)lame batch job

[Hans]

Thanks for the tip. I'll check it out. --Hans

>
>I'm using cdenc 
>
>- snip ---
>#!/usr/bin/perl
>#
># Creation of whole mp3 Suite of one CD
>#
># Version 0.3.5 of 06.07.1999 by Stephan Skrodzki
># 
> snip -
>
>with little changes with lame or gogo.
>a very easy way to create *.mp3 from complete CD with playlist and html
>index.
>
>lucky day
>Peter
>
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problem with latest X release

[Britton]

With the latest frozen software, I get 

Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'

when I try to run X.  Is this a known problem?  Anyone have an idea what
I should try first?  Thanks.

Britton Kerin

Re: mutt and Turkish

[Patrick]

I've been searching about in www.mutt,org and can't find any reference
to what I should ser charset to.

Does anyome know where I can find out what the Turkish character set is
and do I need to make any other changes to my system for it to work in
mutt?

On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 11:48:03AM +0900, ChangMin Oh wrote:
> Maybe you need to open your .muttrc, and edit "set charset=~~".
> 
> - Original Message - 
> From: "Patrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Debian User" 
> Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2000 6:36 PM
> Subject: mutt and Turkish
> 
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Does anyone know of instructions in ENGLISH on how to make Turkish fonts
> > display in mutt? All I can find are things in Turkish that I just
> > don't have enough grasp of the language to understand.
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RE: XF86Setup & apt-get

[Ross Boylan]

You need to get a server for your card for XFree to work.

XF86Setup additionally requires the vanilla vga (svga?) server to run, but
you can avoid this by using the console based configuration (XF86config--not
the configuration file, but a script).

It may be a bug that the configuration depends on a package which is not
listed in the dependencies.

There are probably other pieces as well.  I used dselected, and started with
the task-* stuff under X.  However, I deleted some of the things it takes
in; there's no point in getting servers for cards you don't have.

> -Original Message-
> From: Michael Zielinski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, March 24, 2000 7:05 AM
> To: Debian User
> Subject: XF86Setup & apt-get
>
>
> I set my sources.list to:
>
> http://www.debian.org/~vincent/ xfree-update main
>
> I did an apt-get update then apt-get upgrade.  Everything went fine
> until I tried to run XF86Setup, this wasn't installed.  I then did an
> apt-get update XF86Setup and then an apt-get install XF86Setup.  Once
> again everything appeared fine.
>
> I then ran XF86Setup, when I got to the configuring the card the bottom
> of the screen stated: "*** The selected server is not installed!
> Please abort, install SVGA server as /usr/X11R6/XF86_SVGA and run this
> program again ***"
>
> What should I apt-get now...XF86_SVGA?  I browsed ~vincent and did not
> see an entry for XF86_SVGA.  I understand the overall concept of
> apt-get (used to upgrade your system based on your sources.list), but I
> don't fully understand the details of the how it works.  For example,
> my previous apt-get for XF86Setup does not appear to be in ~vincent
> listing either, but it obviously is.  If someone could assist me in
> understanding how apt-get works/finds what it is looking for once it
> gets to ~vincent I'd appreciate it.
>
> Also is there a way to apt-get the all the X files instead of having to
> retrieve bits and pieces at a time?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
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Re: Moving /home to new Parition

[Brian Lavender]

First mount your new home partition under a different mount point.

# mkdir /mnt/home
# mount /dev/hda12 /mnt/home
# cd /home
# find . -xdev | cpio -pm /mnt/home
# mv /home /oldhome

Edit your fstab so that it mounts hda12 as home ie

/dev/hda12 /home ext2 defaults 0 2

# init 6

This will reboot, and if all works, your new home should be under
/dev/hda12

Now you can safely remove /oldhome

# rm -rf /oldhome

brian

On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 11:51:25AM -0800, Dzuy M. Nguyen wrote:
> I mounted a new partition /hda12 and use the /home as the mountpoint.
> When I go:
> 
> mount /dev/hda12 /home
> 
> I end up with an empty directory.  How do I move the current contents 
> of my /home directory into the new mountpoint /home on /dev/hda12?
> 
> thanks.

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Re: Two monitors (dual heads) on a single box?

[Colin Watson]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter S Galbraith) wrote:
>John Stevenson wrote:
>> I know that it is possible, not exactly sure how though.  I
>> know that if you look into the framebuffer stuff of XFree, then
>> it talks about having dual monitors for the same desktop.
> 
>> Sorry I cant be of much help, but the XFree docs should have
>> something.  Have a look at www.xfree.org
>
>Thanks.  Might work with XFree V4.0, but then perhaps only with
>Matrox cards.  Docs aren't very clear on that.  The commercial X
>servers only ambiguous docs on their web sites concerning this
>issue.  

If that fails, then I'm told that GGI can have good results (at least on
certain kernels ...). http://www.ggi-project.org/, or the libggi2
package.

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Re: network

[Patrick]

On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 12:38:14PM -0800, Beavis wrote:
> how do i reconfigure my network
> change my ip, dns, gateway, etc.
> 
> thankx
Edit the following files in /etc/
resolv.conf
hosts
networks
/etc/init.d/network

All should work easily.  No need to reboot like Windows.
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Re: network

[Ben Collins]

On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 12:38:14PM -0800, Beavis wrote:
> how do i reconfigure my network
> change my ip, dns, gateway, etc.

depending on your Debian version:

slink (or upgraded slink to potato):
  edit /etc/init.d/network

pure potato:
  edit /etc/network/interfaces


For any of them, edit /etc/resolv.conf to change your dns setting.

Also note, that if you change you IP, also edit /etc/hosts to that it
reflects the new IP address.

Ben

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Re: dns changing

[Patrick]

If you mean to change dns servers, just edit /etc/resplv.conf and then
restart bind.

On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 12:32:29PM -0800, Beavis wrote:
> how do i change the dns?

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Re: dns changing

[Antonio Fiol Bonnín]

/etc/resolv.conf

On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Beavis wrote:

> how do i change the dns?
> 

network

[Beavis]

how do i reconfigure my network
change my ip, dns, gateway, etc.
 
thankx

RE: Can't unzip kernel 2.2.14

[C. Falconer]

Or the other possibility is that lynx has saved the sources as 
linux-2.2.14.tar.gz and has ungzipped it without renaming it (or the 
opposit - called it linux-2.2.14.tar and its really a tar.gz file)

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Subject:Re: Can't unzip kernel 2.2.14

On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 10:13:32AM -0700, Matheson wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I keep downloading the kernel source (2.2.14) off of kernel.org (slink
> doesn't have the new kernel in it's package list), but I can't ever
> unzip it.  I've tried downloading it with lynx about five times, but
> when I try to save it, it gives me an end-request i/o error.  I've saved
> it to a couple different places on my hard-disk, so I know it's not all
> bad, but when I go to unzip the kernel, gzip gives me an stdin error:
> unexpected EOF.

Sounds like you don't really have the entire file downloaded. You should
really use an ftp client such as ncftp and lftp, which can resume
incomplete downloads.

Ben

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dns changing

[Beavis]

how do i change the dns?

Re: Which version of PGP?

[Ben Collins]

On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 12:13:55PM -0800, Percival wrote:
> I am curious to see which version of PGP people are using.  Debian is known 
> as an open-source 'only' distribution, and I'm curious to see what people 
> think about this whole patent issue.  There are curerently 3 versions of PGP 
> in potato - international, us, and internation version 5.  Are there other 
> considerations you take into account when choosing which to use?

GNUPG is the prefered OpenPGP compliant program that we use. It is not
encumbered by patents.

Ben

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Re: Limiting user access in ftp, ssh, samba, etc... 'passwords'

[Ben Collins]

On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 12:11:59PM -0800, Percival wrote:
> I run a domain and host websites for myself and some friends.  I am trying to 
> learn all about linux/system administration/security and I want to run a 
> responsible host as I have 24/7 Internet through a DSL.  I try to run a 
> secure box.
> 
> I want to have easy freedom in limiting user access.  I have killed telnetd, 
> and only sshd.  I want to allow some users access through ssh, some through 
> ftpd, and some through samba.  How can I turn off user access through ssh, 
> but keep their account, and allow them access through ftp?  Can I allow users 
> access to shares through samba, and allow them to ftp in, but not ssh or 
> telnet?
> 
> Basically, I want the default for each service to be no access, and then add 
> users to services indepently - each service allowing access on it own.
> 
> Does this make sense?  Is there an authentication package out there to deal 
> with this?

You'll want to look at pam_listfile.so. Since each of the services you
talked about supports PAM, you can use that to configure access. The docs
for this are in the libpam-doc.

Ben

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Re: Limiting user access in ftp, ssh, samba, etc... 'passwords'

[Antonio Fiol Bonnín]

> I want to have easy freedom in limiting user access.  I have killed
> telnetd, and only sshd.  I want to allow some users access through ssh,
> some through ftpd, and some through samba.  How can I turn off user
> access through ssh, but keep their account, and allow them access
> through ftp?  Can I allow users access to shares through samba, and
> allow them to ftp in, but not ssh or telnet? 

Just a note there:

I imagine that if you install and make your users use ssh, it's because
you do not want the passwords of the users to be visible through the net,
isn't it?

Other than that, you propose the use of ftp, which uses non-ciphered
communication. Well, all the passwords that were not visible with ssh are
now visible with ftp.

> Basically, I want the default for each service to be no access, and then
> add users to services indepently - each service allowing access on it
> own. 

I don't know how to do it. Sorry.

> Does this make sense?  Is there an authentication package out there to
> deal with this? 

Maybe, but you'll have to wait to some more complete response.

Antonio

Re: C++

[Bart Friederichs]

Never knew this was so easy to find..

http://www.gnacademy.org/uu-gna/text/cc/chapters.html

Bart

Re: C++

[Bart Friederichs]

> http://webstore.ansi.org/
Hmm, looks like a store, I don't wanna buy a book. Just some online info. It
is the gaps in my memory that must be filled.

Bart

Which version of PGP?

[Percival]

I am curious to see which version of PGP people are using.  Debian is known as 
an open-source 'only' distribution, and I'm curious to see what people think 
about this whole patent issue.  There are curerently 3 versions of PGP in 
potato - international, us, and internation version 5.  Are there other 
considerations you take into account when choosing which to use?

-Percival

Limiting user access in ftp, ssh, samba, etc... 'passwords'

[Percival]

I run a domain and host websites for myself and some friends.  I am trying to 
learn all about linux/system administration/security and I want to run a 
responsible host as I have 24/7 Internet through a DSL.  I try to run a secure 
box.

I want to have easy freedom in limiting user access.  I have killed telnetd, 
and only sshd.  I want to allow some users access through ssh, some through 
ftpd, and some through samba.  How can I turn off user access through ssh, but 
keep their account, and allow them access through ftp?  Can I allow users 
access to shares through samba, and allow them to ftp in, but not ssh or telnet?

Basically, I want the default for each service to be no access, and then add 
users to services indepently - each service allowing access on it own.

Does this make sense?  Is there an authentication package out there to deal 
with this?

-Percival

Re: ntpdate

[Charon]

Do an apt-get install ntp and it will install the ntp daemon.. it also
prompts you to enter as many locations as you would like .. then it will
boot ntpd for you automatically at bootup.. it's painless :)

Oh yeah, apt-get rules ;)



On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Dzuy M. Nguyen wrote:

> How do I ad a ntpdate line to my rc.local boot script?  I want it to 
> synchronize my clock everytime I boots.  I usually type:
> 
> ntpdate 140.142.16.34
> 
> at the root prompt.  I can't figure out how to put it into the startup 
> script.
> 
> thanks.
> 

Re: ntpdate

[Patrick]

On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 11:56:54AM -0800, Dzuy M. Nguyen wrote:
> How do I ad a ntpdate line to my rc.local boot script?  I want it to 
> synchronize my clock everytime I boots.  I usually type:
> 
> ntpdate 140.142.16.34

Just read the instructions in /etc/init.d/ntpdate and it will work out
of the box.

Alternatively, install xntp3?
> 
> at the root prompt.  I can't figure out how to put it into the startup 
> script.
> 
> thanks.

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Re: Moving /home to new Parition

[Antonio Fiol Bonnín]

Assuming you have a /mnt/tmp directory, you can do:

mount /dev/hda12 /mnt/tmp
cp -dpR /home/* /mnt/tmp

Then you check that everything is on the right place, and that I have not
given you the wrong cp command (verify symlinks for example). Check also
that each file belongs to the right user and has the right permissions.

Then you can:

umount /mnt/tmp

If you are sure that everything is OK (do it at your own risk):
WARNING: It will ERASE *forever* your _old_ home directory.

rm -rf /home/*

And finally

mount /dev/hda12 /home

And you should be done :)



Missing things to do: Update your /etc/fstab file to make it include the
line for mounting /dev/hda12 into /home with the right parameters for
checking and so on.

Good luck!

Antonio

On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Dzuy M. Nguyen wrote:

> I mounted a new partition /hda12 and use the /home as the mountpoint.
> When I go:
> 
> mount /dev/hda12 /home
> 
> I end up with an empty directory.  How do I move the current contents 
> of my /home directory into the new mountpoint /home on /dev/hda12?
> 
> thanks.
> 

Re: C++

[Oleg Krivosheev]

On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Bart Friederichs wrote:

> Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 12:08:22 -0800
> From: Bart Friederichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Debian userlist 
> Subject: C++
> Resent-Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 20:05:22 +
> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Resent-cc: recipient list not shown: ;
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am writing a C++ program and I really need info on how to overload
> operators (especially + and <<) and info on streams. Does anybody know a URL
> where this kind of info can be found?

http://webstore.ansi.org/

> 
> TIA
> Bart
> 

OK

Re: Moving /home to new Parition

[Andrew Sullivan]

On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 11:51:25AM -0800, Dzuy M. Nguyen wrote:
> I mounted a new partition /hda12 and use the /home as the mountpoint.
> When I go:
> 
> mount /dev/hda12 /home
> 
> I end up with an empty directory.  How do I move the current contents 
> of my /home directory into the new mountpoint /home on /dev/hda12?

mount /dev/hda12 /mnt
cp -ra /home/* /mnt
umount /mnt
mv /home /oldhome  [paranoia setting = high]
[edit /etc/fstab to get /dev/hda12 to mount as /home]
mount -a

Should get you what you want.

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C++

[Bart Friederichs]

Hi,

I am writing a C++ program and I really need info on how to overload
operators (especially + and <<) and info on streams. Does anybody know a URL
where this kind of info can be found?

TIA
Bart

ntpdate

[Dzuy M. Nguyen]

How do I ad a ntpdate line to my rc.local boot 
script?  I want it to 
synchronize my clock everytime I boots.  I 
usually type:
 
ntpdate 140.142.16.34
 
at the root prompt.  I can't figure out how to 
put it into the startup 
script.
 
thanks.

Moving /home to new Parition

[Dzuy M. Nguyen]

I mounted a new partition /hda12 and use the /home 
as the mountpoint.
When I go:
 
mount /dev/hda12 /home
 
I end up with an empty directory.  How do I 
move the current contents 
of my /home directory into the new mountpoint /home 
on /dev/hda12?
 
thanks.

Re: 2 networks

[Hecubus]

On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Allan M. Wind wrote:

> On 2000-03-24 05:40:37, The_Phantom 74 wrote:
> > I KNOW OF A PRODUCT ...

> All caps spam, it can't get much worse.

How is it spam when he was just answering the question?

Or are you simply too ready to jump to conclusions?


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Re: ...no Masquerade...?

[Jeff Gordon]

On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 01:51:19PM -0500, Andrew Sullivan wrote:

> 2.Also, consider using kernel-package.  

> If you can do Prolog and Perl, you can compile a kernel.  The code for
> masquerading is in the kernel, but it needs to be turned on, so you will
> need to compile a kernel for yourself.

(Very cool, very helpful, Andrew; thanks kindly. :-)
-- 

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  is to love one another, using whatever means are available to serve."

Re: ...no Masquerade...?

[Jeff Gordon]

On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 01:46:19PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote:

> Most likely you are trying to use the old ipfwadm stuff and you need to
> use ipchains. Either way, "modprobe ipchains" should get you there.

Hmm; well, 'ipchains' answers to its name but 'modprobe ipchains' says
it knows of no such module.  Then 'ipmasq' answers to -its- name but
says "IP Masquerading has not been enabled in the kernel." So looks
like a future of kernel-hacking may be ahead...?

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  is to love one another, using whatever means are available to serve."

PPP starts sending every other packet....

[Joe Emenaker]

I recently upgraded my Linux box that connects my house to the net. and
I also upgraded the machine on the other end of the PPP connection, too (the
one on the "internet" side).

Something really wierd occurs, though. After a few minutes of heavy usage,
the throughput will drop to almost zero. Stuff still goes through... but,
instead of being at the 128K of the ISDN modem, I'll be getting something
like 0.01K or so.

The most telling clue I've found so far is that, when I try to ping some
internet from the linux box at home, every OTHER packet comes back: 0, 2, 4,
6, 8. Every now and then, I'll get two adjacent ones, like: 0, 2, 3, 5, 7...
but that's pretty rare.

When this happens, all I have to do is a "poff" and then a "pon" and
everything is well again, for a few minutes, anyway.

The home machine is running kernel 2.2.13 and PPP 2.3.10, while the other
end of the PPP connection is using kernel 2.2.14 and PPP 2.3.5 (from
'stable').

Has anyone seen behavior like this before? If so, has anyone figured out how
to prevent it?

- Joe

Re: Can't unzip kernel 2.2.14

[spectral]

Hi,

> I keep downloading the kernel source (2.2.14) off of kernel.org (slink
> doesn't have the new kernel in it's package list), but I can't ever
> unzip it.  I've tried downloading it with lynx about five times, but
> when I try to save it, it gives me an end-request i/o error.  I've saved
> it to a couple different places on my hard-disk, so I know it's not all
> bad, but when I go to unzip the kernel, gzip gives me an stdin error:
> unexpected EOF.

I think lynx uses /tmp as temporary storage. I experienced incomplete
downloads when my /tmp partition was too small :-) 
Maybe this is also your problem.

/Jonas

Re: ...no Masquerade...?

[Ben Collins]

On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 01:45:30PM -0500, Jeff Gordon wrote:
> Hi --
> 
> (I'm very much a newbie, though I've just gone through a month-long
> trial-by-trashed-partitions to get here. :-)
> 
> Potato tells me IP Masquerading was not included in the kernel, a fact
> which now has my brother (he's fiftysomething; I'm fifty) from being
> able to reach the 'Net.
> 
> Should we be thinking Masquerading is coming later?  Or is there a
> "piece" we should be looking for?  Or (eek) do I already need to learn
> how to roll my own kernels...?  (I 'speak' Prolog and Perl, not C.)

Most likely you are trying to use the old ipfwadm stuff and you need to
use ipchains. Either way, "modprobe ipchains" should get you there.

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Re: Two monitors (dual heads) on a single box?

[Peter S Galbraith]

John Stevenson wrote:

> I know that it is possible, not exactly sure how though.  I
> know that if you look into the framebuffer stuff of XFree, then
> it talks about having dual monitors for the same desktop.
 
> Sorry I cant be of much help, but the XFree docs should have
> something.  Have a look at www.xfree.org

Thanks.  Might work with XFree V4.0, but then perhaps only with
Matrox cards.  Docs aren't very clear on that.  The commercial X
servers only ambiguous docs on their web sites concerning this
issue.  

Peter

Re: XF86Setup & apt-get

[Bob Nielsen]

apt-get install xserver-svga

On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 07:05:04AM -0800, Michael Zielinski wrote:
> I set my sources.list to:
> 
> http://www.debian.org/~vincent/ xfree-update main
> 
> I did an apt-get update then apt-get upgrade.  Everything went fine
> until I tried to run XF86Setup, this wasn't installed.  I then did an
> apt-get update XF86Setup and then an apt-get install XF86Setup.  Once
> again everything appeared fine.
> 
> I then ran XF86Setup, when I got to the configuring the card the bottom
> of the screen stated: "*** The selected server is not installed! 
> Please abort, install SVGA server as /usr/X11R6/XF86_SVGA and run this
> program again ***"
> 
> What should I apt-get now...XF86_SVGA?  I browsed ~vincent and did not
> see an entry for XF86_SVGA.  I understand the overall concept of
> apt-get (used to upgrade your system based on your sources.list), but I
> don't fully understand the details of the how it works.  For example,
> my previous apt-get for XF86Setup does not appear to be in ~vincent
> listing either, but it obviously is.  If someone could assist me in
> understanding how apt-get works/finds what it is looking for once it
> gets to ~vincent I'd appreciate it.
> 

XF86_SVGA and XF86Setup are names of executable binaries.  
They are contained in packages named xserver-svga and xf86setup,
respectively.

> Also is there a way to apt-get the all the X files instead of having to
> retrieve bits and pieces at a time?

You can use dselect or aptitude to do this.

-- 
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...no Masquerade...?

[Jeff Gordon]

Hi --

(I'm very much a newbie, though I've just gone through a month-long
trial-by-trashed-partitions to get here. :-)

Potato tells me IP Masquerading was not included in the kernel, a fact
which now has my brother (he's fiftysomething; I'm fifty) from being
able to reach the 'Net.

Should we be thinking Masquerading is coming later?  Or is there a
"piece" we should be looking for?  Or (eek) do I already need to learn
how to roll my own kernels...?  (I 'speak' Prolog and Perl, not C.)

-- 

 -- Jeff --   

 "There's nothing left in the world to prove.  All that's worth doing
  is to love one another, using whatever means are available to serve."

Re: AccelStar Permedia II AGP

[Jason Christensen]

On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Brian wrote:

> Has anyone successfully installed this card?
> 

Not specifically this card, but another permedia2 based card, the Diamond
FireGL 1000 Pro. AGP, 8M RAM.

> I'm using Slink 2.1r4. I see the card on the list here:
> 
> http://www.xfree86.org/cardlist.html
> 
> "AccelStar Permedia II AGP . XF86_3DLabs"
> 
> Although, I cannot get it setup using XF86Setup or xf86config. The card 
> isn't listed and the server isn't listed.
> 
> Any advice?
> 

Any card based upon the permedia2 from 3dlabs should use the 3dlabs X
server as mentioned at the above URL. As for using XF86Setup or
xf86config, try another listed card based upon the permedia2. The
definition for the Diamond card MIGHT work for you. You might also have to
build a custom config file for X.

Good luck!

Jason

-
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] something must be done about them.
www.jasonchristensen.net - Alfred North Whitehead

Re: How to do a clean Potato install?

[Aaron Solochek]

I don't know about the cd, but I had to make a couple of boot disks, a
rescue, boot image, and three driver disks, and the potato install
process used dhcp to configure my network, and did everything else over
the net, it was great.

-Aaron Solochek
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Christian Pernegger wrote:
> 
> Hello everyone!
> 
> I haven't been subscribed to this list for a long time (and I didn't post a
> lot even then because I was new to Linux at the same time...)
> 
> Anyway, here I am. I've had surprisingly much success with setting up my Slink
> box, but the included X-Free doesn't support my new Matrox, SMP doesn't run
> all that smoothly...
> 
> Question is, how do I best go about doing a clean install of Potato if I want
> to boot from the (2.1r4) CD and need the dhcpcd package to connect to the net?
> (Download quantities are no problem at all.)
> 
> Best whishes
> 
> Christian
> 
> --
> Unsubscribe?  mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: Debian Perl Modules

[Brian Lavender]

I just downloaded perl 5.6.0 which was released yesterday, and I did 
a 

$ ./configure.gnu --prefix=/usr/local

and it looks if all is well. I ran dselect, and it looks as if it still
works.  I also checked to make sure that my original perl 5.005_03 is
still in /usr/bin and it looks as if it is there too. So, all looks good,
and it appears that I can successfully maintain two different versions
of perl, on that supports my debian, and one that I can use to implement
bleeding edge features.

brian

On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 08:51:53AM -0800, Brian Lavender wrote:
> I still have a question regarding the debian perl modules. It appears that
> dpkg and apt have perl modules. If I went in and replace perl with a newer
> version from source, I would have to rebuild those modules. If I look at
> my libraries of my Potatoe installation I see some Debian perl modules.
> You see there is a DebianNet.pm and a Debian directory. Did these perl
> modules come out of the dpkg and apt debian packages? I am thinking
> about replacing the perl with my source version. If I want to do that
> and have it replace the debian version, I am going to have to make sure
> that those modules exist. Where would I get these debian perl modules? I
> don't see them on CPAN or in the debian source tree. Of course maybe I
> did not look thoroughly.
> 
> I think I do see a point where I could install a new version of perl in
> /usr/local and have that version co-exist with the perl supporting my
> Debian system.
> 
> $ ls -F /usr/lib/perl5
> 
> 5.004/
> 5.005/
> 5.00503/
> Bundle/
> Data/
> Date/
> Debian/
> DebianNet.pm
> Dpkg/
> File/
> HTML/
> HTTP/
> I18N/
> LWP/
> LWP.pm
> Mail/
> Net/
> SGMLS/
> SGMLS.pm
> Text/
> Time/
> URI/
> URI.pm
> WWW/
> auto/
> dialog.pl
> i386-linux/
> lwpcook.pod
> sgmlspl-specs/
> site_perl/
> 
> 
> $ ls -F /usr/lib/perl5/Debian
> 
> DebConf/
> DpkgFtp.pm
> 
> $ ls -F /usr/lib/perl5/Dpkg
> 
> Archive/
> Package/
> 
> On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 01:40:36PM +1030, John Pearson wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 10:10:00AM -0800, Brian Lavender wrote
> > > I was taking a look at the perl modules on my debian system, and I 
> > > noticed that there are a couple of Debian perl modules. In fact I 
> > > once built a newer version of perl on my debian system, and I noticed
> > > that apt, and I believe dpkg stopped working. 
> > > 
> > > My Question:
> > > Is it possible to build a new version of perl on my debian system and 
> > > install these perl modules? Say I have slink I want to upgrade perl to
> > > the latest. Can I add in these perl modules, and where would I get the
> > > source to add them?
> > > 
> > 
> > Slink perl uses a different layout for /usr/lib/perl5 to
> > that used for later perls; it changed for Potato, I'm guessing
> > to allow multiple perl versions to co-exist; slink perl has 
> > directories like
> > /usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux/5.004/auto/
> > /usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux/5.004/CORE/
> > and so on, whereas perl5 from potato uses
> > /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux/auto/
> > 
> > I seem to recall that both layouts differ from the
> > default specified in the perl distribution.
> > 
> > As a result, slink packages that insert files in /usr/lib/perl5
> > are not compatible with later perl packages.
> > 
> > Your options appear to be:
> >  - Stick to slink perl & related packages;
> >  - Build the version of perl that you want, but ensure that
> >it uses the 'slink' directory conventions; you may also
> >have to rebuild perl-dependent packages if the changes to
> >perl break them in other ways;
> >  - Upgrade to potato (or at least, upgrade perl & related packages)
> >and be happy with the perl versions that provides;
> >  - Upgrade at least perl & related packages to potato and 
> >then build the perl of your choosing using the potato
> >conventions or installing into /usr/local/, without replacing 
> >the potato perl that other packages rely on.
> > 
> > If you haven't actually replaced the slink version of perl
> > (i.e., you simply installed the new perl alongside of the old
> > one, either in /usr/local/ or replacing /usr/bin/perl) then
> > you may be able to have the two coexist peacefully by renaming
> > your new perl binary to (e.g.) 'perl-local' and (if necessary)
> > replacing /usr/bin/perl by hand from the slink package; it 
> > depends if your new perl clobbered files from the slink perl.
> > 
> > HTH,
> > 
> > 
> > John P.
> > -- 
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > "Oh - I - you know - my job is to fear everything." - Bill Gates in Denmark
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Unsubscribe?  mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
> 
> -- 
> Brian Lavender
> http://www.brie.com/brian/
> 
> 
> -- 
> Unsubscribe?  mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

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How to do a clean Potato install?

[Christian Pernegger]

Hello everyone!

I haven't been subscribed to this list for a long time (and I didn't post a
lot even then because I was new to Linux at the same time...)

Anyway, here I am. I've had surprisingly much success with setting up my Slink
box, but the included X-Free doesn't support my new Matrox, SMP doesn't run
all that smoothly...

Question is, how do I best go about doing a clean install of Potato if I want
to boot from the (2.1r4) CD and need the dhcpcd package to connect to the net?
(Download quantities are no problem at all.)

Best whishes

Christian

Re: apt-get complaining about dependencies, and other upgrade issues

[Jeronimo Pellegrini]

In case I want to upgrade to potato, are the same recommendations for
upgrading to slink valid? Like, not upgrading from X, but from text
mode...

And... Anything else?

Thanks a lot!
j.

-- 
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Institute of Computing - Unicamp - Brazil
http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~jeronimo
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Re: apt-get complaining about dependencies, and other upgrade issues

[Jeronimo Pellegrini]

:: On Fri, 24 Mar 2000 15:20:59 +0100 (CET), Ron Rademaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
said:


What did you mean by "go to the main/base and later to the main/lib"?
If you meant subdirectories, there was none in
/var/cache/apt/archives.

Anyway, I did what you said a few times, but even though bluefish was
upgraded and is working (well, it only crashed when I called
weblint)... dpkg still complains about:


dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libstdc++2.10-dev:
 libstdc++2.10-dev depends on g++ (>= 2.91.58); however:
  Package g++ is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing libstdc++2.10-dev (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured


Errors were encountered while processing:
 gcc_1%3a2.95.2-7_i386.deb
 g++
 g77
 gobjc
 libstdc++2.10-dev


(?)


Maybe upgrading to potato from the state it is now could be a good idea (?)

J.

> apt downloads all your deb packages in /var/cache/apt/archives, so I just
> went there, to the main/base section and did: dpkg -i
> --force-depend-versions,conflict * (in other words install everything and
> don't worry about version depencies or conflicts (conflict are for perl
> 5.004 to 5.005), it still gives errors but just ignore them. Then go to
> the main/lib and do the same, then do a dpkg -a --configure, then a
> apt-get upgrade, if there are still errors repeat the first steps again
> till it works, if it doesn't allow you to go any further install any
> packages that apt complains about manually with dpkg -i  (apt has
> already downloaded it for you).

> Ron

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Re: Which MTA to use?

[Joe Block]

Damon Muller wrote:
> 
> Quoth Brooks R. Robinson,
> >   I am looking at changing an in-house e-mail system from an ugly
> >   combination of outsourced collection/forwarding and JSMail on an
> >   NT server to linux.  We have an ADSL line coming in, and I can
> >   handle all of the DNS and network stuff through the firewall,
> >   but I drop the ball at mail.  We have about 100 clients using
> >   Microsoft Outlook, but our legacy address format is
> >   [EMAIL PROTECTED]  I can't change the address format, and
> >   I'd like to leave POP3 in place.  Which MTA is the best given my
> >   limitation?
> 
> You might find that qmail and vpopmail might do the trick. qmail is
> secure enough to have running on a firewall machine, and easy enough to
> set up. The only problem is it isn't (DFSG) free (but it is free beer
> free). vpopmail is GPL'd, and allows you to have virtual users, which do
> not need local machine accounts. It also has a nice HTML interface, and
> there is an imap server (courier-imap) which works well with it.
> 
> qmail is packaged (a source package) in non-free, and vpopmail can be
> found at http://www.inter7.com/vpopmail (I think).

Postfix is also very secure.  And in my opinion, much easier to
configure than qmail.

And before anyone bashes me, I ran qmail for a couple of years with
multiple virtual domains, and postfix is a lot easier to configure.

jpb
-- 
Joe Block <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CREOL System Administrator

Social graces are the packet headers of everyday life.

Re: How to blank screen?

[Colin Watson]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong) wrote:
>> "Ron" == Ron Rademaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> What do you mean... blank the screen?  Do you mean that after a
>> while the screen just goes blank? If that's so see the setterm M
>> (as in RTFM) and check the -blank option.
>
>That's exactly what I'm looking for.  Thanks.

Unfortunately the setterm man page is rather useless at the moment. :(
See http://bugs.debian.org/29112 for a suggested replacement.

-- 
Colin Watson   [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Can't unzip kernel 2.2.14

[Ben Collins]

On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 10:13:32AM -0700, Matheson wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> I keep downloading the kernel source (2.2.14) off of kernel.org (slink
> doesn't have the new kernel in it's package list), but I can't ever
> unzip it.  I've tried downloading it with lynx about five times, but
> when I try to save it, it gives me an end-request i/o error.  I've saved
> it to a couple different places on my hard-disk, so I know it's not all
> bad, but when I go to unzip the kernel, gzip gives me an stdin error:
> unexpected EOF.

Sounds like you don't really have the entire file downloaded. You should
really use an ftp client such as ncftp and lftp, which can resume
incomplete downloads.

Ben

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Can't unzip kernel 2.2.14

[Matheson]

Hey,

I keep downloading the kernel source (2.2.14) off of kernel.org (slink
doesn't have the new kernel in it's package list), but I can't ever
unzip it.  I've tried downloading it with lynx about five times, but
when I try to save it, it gives me an end-request i/o error.  I've saved
it to a couple different places on my hard-disk, so I know it's not all
bad, but when I go to unzip the kernel, gzip gives me an stdin error:
unexpected EOF.

What can I do?

Re: apt-get complaining about dependencies, and other upgrade issues

[Ron Rademaker]

I know the upgrading process to potato can be a real pain in the ass, but
I think it's worth it.

Ron

On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote:

> :: On Fri, 24 Mar 2000 16:11:40 +0100 (CET), Ron Rademaker <[EMAIL 
> PROTECTED]> said:
> 
> > Why afraid of upgrading? Potato works fine with me... not stable yet okay,
> > but also not unstable!
> 
> Well... I'm not exactly afraid of potato... I'm afraid of the
> upgrading process! I've had a few problems using apt-get (bad luck, I
> think...)
> 
> J.
> 
> > You could try downgrading and upgrading, but I think you'll encounter
> > libc6 and perl problems...
> 
> > Ron
> 
> 
> -- 
> Jeronimo Pellegrini
> Institute of Computing - Unicamp - Brazil
> http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~jeronimo
> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 

Re: Debian Perl Modules

[Brian Lavender]

I still have a question regarding the debian perl modules. It appears that
dpkg and apt have perl modules. If I went in and replace perl with a newer
version from source, I would have to rebuild those modules. If I look at
my libraries of my Potatoe installation I see some Debian perl modules.
You see there is a DebianNet.pm and a Debian directory. Did these perl
modules come out of the dpkg and apt debian packages? I am thinking
about replacing the perl with my source version. If I want to do that
and have it replace the debian version, I am going to have to make sure
that those modules exist. Where would I get these debian perl modules? I
don't see them on CPAN or in the debian source tree. Of course maybe I
did not look thoroughly.

I think I do see a point where I could install a new version of perl in
/usr/local and have that version co-exist with the perl supporting my
Debian system.

$ ls -F /usr/lib/perl5

5.004/
5.005/
5.00503/
Bundle/
Data/
Date/
Debian/
DebianNet.pm
Dpkg/
File/
HTML/
HTTP/
I18N/
LWP/
LWP.pm
Mail/
Net/
SGMLS/
SGMLS.pm
Text/
Time/
URI/
URI.pm
WWW/
auto/
dialog.pl
i386-linux/
lwpcook.pod
sgmlspl-specs/
site_perl/


$ ls -F /usr/lib/perl5/Debian

DebConf/
DpkgFtp.pm

$ ls -F /usr/lib/perl5/Dpkg

Archive/
Package/

On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 01:40:36PM +1030, John Pearson wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 10:10:00AM -0800, Brian Lavender wrote
> > I was taking a look at the perl modules on my debian system, and I 
> > noticed that there are a couple of Debian perl modules. In fact I 
> > once built a newer version of perl on my debian system, and I noticed
> > that apt, and I believe dpkg stopped working. 
> > 
> > My Question:
> > Is it possible to build a new version of perl on my debian system and 
> > install these perl modules? Say I have slink I want to upgrade perl to
> > the latest. Can I add in these perl modules, and where would I get the
> > source to add them?
> > 
> 
> Slink perl uses a different layout for /usr/lib/perl5 to
> that used for later perls; it changed for Potato, I'm guessing
> to allow multiple perl versions to co-exist; slink perl has 
> directories like
> /usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux/5.004/auto/
> /usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux/5.004/CORE/
> and so on, whereas perl5 from potato uses
> /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux/auto/
> 
> I seem to recall that both layouts differ from the
> default specified in the perl distribution.
> 
> As a result, slink packages that insert files in /usr/lib/perl5
> are not compatible with later perl packages.
> 
> Your options appear to be:
>  - Stick to slink perl & related packages;
>  - Build the version of perl that you want, but ensure that
>it uses the 'slink' directory conventions; you may also
>have to rebuild perl-dependent packages if the changes to
>perl break them in other ways;
>  - Upgrade to potato (or at least, upgrade perl & related packages)
>and be happy with the perl versions that provides;
>  - Upgrade at least perl & related packages to potato and 
>then build the perl of your choosing using the potato
>conventions or installing into /usr/local/, without replacing 
>the potato perl that other packages rely on.
> 
> If you haven't actually replaced the slink version of perl
> (i.e., you simply installed the new perl alongside of the old
> one, either in /usr/local/ or replacing /usr/bin/perl) then
> you may be able to have the two coexist peacefully by renaming
> your new perl binary to (e.g.) 'perl-local' and (if necessary)
> replacing /usr/bin/perl by hand from the slink package; it 
> depends if your new perl clobbered files from the slink perl.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> 
> John P.
> -- 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> "Oh - I - you know - my job is to fear everything." - Bill Gates in Denmark
> 
> 
> -- 
> Unsubscribe?  mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

-- 
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http://www.brie.com/brian/

Re: apt-get complaining about dependencies, and other upgrade issues

[Jeronimo Pellegrini]

:: On Fri, 24 Mar 2000 16:11:40 +0100 (CET), Ron Rademaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
said:

> Why afraid of upgrading? Potato works fine with me... not stable yet okay,
> but also not unstable!

Well... I'm not exactly afraid of potato... I'm afraid of the
upgrading process! I've had a few problems using apt-get (bad luck, I
think...)

J.

> You could try downgrading and upgrading, but I think you'll encounter
> libc6 and perl problems...

> Ron


-- 
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Institute of Computing - Unicamp - Brazil
http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~jeronimo
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Re: "Neighbour table overflow" in potato boot-up

[brian moore]

On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 09:55:55AM -0600, Alberto Brealey G. wrote:
> 
> i did a not-so-fresh install of potato last week (first installed base slink
> cause i have a bootable cdrom, then upgraded it to potato and installed the
> other packages). the machine worked fine in the office for a couple of days,
> then i moved it to another building, and the first time i tried to boot it
> up, it hangs with 'Neighbour table overflow' messages just before starting
> inetd (after klogd i believe).

As I recall, the above error message is cause by having no loopback
device.

> by the way, the box -when it was working- took a long time to start up
> inetd. i think i remember a message in the mailing list telling someone this
> was because the llopbak wasn't being initialized. is this it? any other
> ideas?

Don't know about a slow inetd startup: but it is the reason for the
'neighbour table overflow'.  Boot single user and fix
/etc/network/interfaces (the new and proper way) or /etc/init.d/network
for the old way.

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Two monitors (dual heads) on a single box?

[Peter S Galbraith]

Is it possible to run two monitors using two video cards on one
box?

If so, I presume you run two XServers (one for each).  How do you
switch input focus (mouse and keyboard) from one to the other?

(Video cards are a Diamond Viper V550 16 MB and an older Matrox
Millenium 2MB; both run on the SVGA XFree driver)

Thanks,
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"Neighbour table overflow" in potato boot-up

[Alberto Brealey G.]

i did a not-so-fresh install of potato last week (first installed base slink
cause i have a bootable cdrom, then upgraded it to potato and installed the
other packages). the machine worked fine in the office for a couple of days,
then i moved it to another building, and the first time i tried to boot it
up, it hangs with 'Neighbour table overflow' messages just before starting
inetd (after klogd i believe).

by the way, the box -when it was working- took a long time to start up
inetd. i think i remember a message in the mailing list telling someone this
was because the llopbak wasn't being initialized. is this it? any other
ideas?

TIA

Alberto Brealey
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Re: XF86Setup & apt-get

[Ron Rademaker]

There is a way to take them all at once: it's called dselect...

Ron

On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Michael Zielinski wrote:

> I set my sources.list to:
> 
> http://www.debian.org/~vincent/ xfree-update main
> 
> I did an apt-get update then apt-get upgrade.  Everything went fine
> until I tried to run XF86Setup, this wasn't installed.  I then did an
> apt-get update XF86Setup and then an apt-get install XF86Setup.  Once
> again everything appeared fine.
> 
> I then ran XF86Setup, when I got to the configuring the card the bottom
> of the screen stated: "*** The selected server is not installed! 
> Please abort, install SVGA server as /usr/X11R6/XF86_SVGA and run this
> program again ***"
> 
> What should I apt-get now...XF86_SVGA?  I browsed ~vincent and did not
> see an entry for XF86_SVGA.  I understand the overall concept of
> apt-get (used to upgrade your system based on your sources.list), but I
> don't fully understand the details of the how it works.  For example,
> my previous apt-get for XF86Setup does not appear to be in ~vincent
> listing either, but it obviously is.  If someone could assist me in
> understanding how apt-get works/finds what it is looking for once it
> gets to ~vincent I'd appreciate it.
> 
> Also is there a way to apt-get the all the X files instead of having to
> retrieve bits and pieces at a time?
> 
> Thanks,
> Mike
> 
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Re: Similar problem as in Re: messed up terminal

[Antonio Fiol Bonnín]

I suggest that you try the following instead of "reset":

just type
cat
ESCc (Esc key, then C key (no shift, no caps-lock)
Ctrl-D

You should hit RETURN after the first two lines.

It worked for me some times that reset did not work. I did not try the
other methods you state.

Antonio

On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Daniel Reuter wrote:

> Hello there,
> 
> On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> > On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Evan Moore wrote: 
> > > after reading a binary file sometimes the terminal gets all messed up and
> > > everything is displayed in symbols. I'm sure everyone has done this a few
> > > times. How can I get my terminal back to normal? Thanks a lot
> > 
> > fist press ^c (just to flush the input buffer)
> > then run "reset"
> 
> Concerning a similar problem I encountered a very strange behaviour.
> When in text mode I have no problem with my console. But when I run X
> (from the stable distri), and then switch back to console (either by
> killing my X-Session or by switching to a different VT), the screen is
> completely messed up with strange symbols. The problem is, that the normal
> mode CAN NOT BE RESTORED neither with "reset" nor with "tset" nor with
> "clear" nor with "kbd_mode". The only way to get out of that odd situation
> is to shutdown and reboot. I read somewhere in the X-documentation, that
> this problem is due to some combinations of motherboard and graphics-card
> and that it can probably be solved by using the "runx-script" in the
> svga-lib-package. So I unpacked the svgalib-deb in /tmp, and looked at it,
> but found no file, which resembled some kind of runx-script. 
> Does anybody know a solution to that problem, or where to find that
> ominous runx-script?
> 
> Regards,
> Daniel 
> 
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Similar problem as in Re: messed up terminal

[Daniel Reuter]

Hello there,

On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Evan Moore wrote: 
> > after reading a binary file sometimes the terminal gets all messed up and
> > everything is displayed in symbols. I'm sure everyone has done this a few
> > times. How can I get my terminal back to normal? Thanks a lot
> 
> fist press ^c (just to flush the input buffer)
> then run "reset"

Concerning a similar problem I encountered a very strange behaviour.
When in text mode I have no problem with my console. But when I run X
(from the stable distri), and then switch back to console (either by
killing my X-Session or by switching to a different VT), the screen is
completely messed up with strange symbols. The problem is, that the normal
mode CAN NOT BE RESTORED neither with "reset" nor with "tset" nor with
"clear" nor with "kbd_mode". The only way to get out of that odd situation
is to shutdown and reboot. I read somewhere in the X-documentation, that
this problem is due to some combinations of motherboard and graphics-card
and that it can probably be solved by using the "runx-script" in the
svga-lib-package. So I unpacked the svgalib-deb in /tmp, and looked at it,
but found no file, which resembled some kind of runx-script. 
Does anybody know a solution to that problem, or where to find that
ominous runx-script?

Regards,
Daniel 

XF86Setup & apt-get

[Michael Zielinski]

I set my sources.list to:

http://www.debian.org/~vincent/ xfree-update main

I did an apt-get update then apt-get upgrade.  Everything went fine
until I tried to run XF86Setup, this wasn't installed.  I then did an
apt-get update XF86Setup and then an apt-get install XF86Setup.  Once
again everything appeared fine.

I then ran XF86Setup, when I got to the configuring the card the bottom
of the screen stated: "*** The selected server is not installed! 
Please abort, install SVGA server as /usr/X11R6/XF86_SVGA and run this
program again ***"

What should I apt-get now...XF86_SVGA?  I browsed ~vincent and did not
see an entry for XF86_SVGA.  I understand the overall concept of
apt-get (used to upgrade your system based on your sources.list), but I
don't fully understand the details of the how it works.  For example,
my previous apt-get for XF86Setup does not appear to be in ~vincent
listing either, but it obviously is.  If someone could assist me in
understanding how apt-get works/finds what it is looking for once it
gets to ~vincent I'd appreciate it.

Also is there a way to apt-get the all the X files instead of having to
retrieve bits and pieces at a time?

Thanks,
Mike

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Re: can't load a library...

[Ben Collins]

On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 08:28:30AM -0600, rich wrote:
> Howdy all,
> 
> I'm trying to install a program that relies on libXt.so.6 and
> libX11.so.6. Whenever I try to run it I get the message, 'can't load
> libXt.so.6'
> 
> I've done dpkg -S for both of these and see that xlib6g provides both.
> I've got this installed, so can anyone tell me what the problem could
> be?

is /usr/X11R6/lib is /etc/ld.so.conf? If not, add it on it's own line,
then rerun ldconfig (all as root).

Ben

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can't load a library...

[rich]

Howdy all,

I'm trying to install a program that relies on libXt.so.6 and
libX11.so.6. Whenever I try to run it I get the message, 'can't load
libXt.so.6'

I've done dpkg -S for both of these and see that xlib6g provides both.
I've got this installed, so can anyone tell me what the problem could
be?

thanks in advance,

rich

Re: How to blank screen?

[Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong]

> "Ron" == Ron Rademaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> What do you mean... blank the screen?  Do you mean that after a
> while the screen just goes blank? If that's so see the setterm M
> (as in RTFM) and check the -blank option.

That's exactly what I'm looking for.  Thanks.

> Ron

> On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong wrote:

>> How do you blank the screen, as in a screensaver.  It was
>> working before, bul all of a sudden, it doesn't and I don't
>> know why.  Being that this is Linux, I figure there must be a
>> way to fix this without rebooting, which I have a sneaking
>> suspicion might solve the problem.  So if anyone could lead me
>> in the right direction, I'll go RTFM.  Thanks.
>> 
>> Marshal
>> 
>> 
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Re: apt-get complaining about dependencies, and other upgrade issues

[Ron Rademaker]

I'll just answer you first question and I think that'll solve your second
as well. I had a similar problem and I fixed, quite brute force I must say
but all works fine now.



apt downloads all your deb packages in /var/cache/apt/archives, so I just
went there, to the main/base section and did: dpkg -i
--force-depend-versions,conflict * (in other words install everything and
don't worry about version depencies or conflicts (conflict are for perl
5.004 to 5.005), it still gives errors but just ignore them. Then go to
the main/lib and do the same, then do a dpkg -a --configure, then a
apt-get upgrade, if there are still errors repeat the first steps again
till it works, if it doesn't allow you to go any further install any
packages that apt complains about manually with dpkg -i  (apt has
already downloaded it for you).

Ron

On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote:

> 
> Hello;
> 
> 
> I have 2 problems... I'm currently running slink, and:
> 
> 1) I wanted to upgrade bluefish. But I wnted the version which comes
>with potato. So I thought, "Well, if apt-get handles dependencies
>correctly, I just have to add frozen to my mirrors list, and it'll
>get whatever packages are needed. If it asks me for a huge set of
>packges, then it would probably mean I'd better upgrade to potato
>first." I know it's probably not a good idea, but it sounded so
>reasonable... Anyway... I did it, and apt-get told me just a few
>packages would be messed with:
> 
> > socrates:~# apt-get install bluefish
> > Reading Package Lists... Done
> > Building Dependency Tree... Done
> > The following extra packages will be installed:
> >   libgtk1.2 gdk-imlib1 g++ g77 libstdc++2.10 cpp gcc zlib1g xlib6g 
> > imlib-base libc6-dev gobjc
> >   libstdc++2.10-dev libc6 binutils ldso 
> > The following packages will be REMOVED:
> >   timezones libstdc++2.9-dev egcc checker 
> > The following NEW packages will be installed:
> >   libstdc++2.10 libstdc++2.10-dev 
> > 15 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 4 to remove and 693 not upgraded.
> > Need to get 11.9MB of archives. After unpacking 6888kB will be freed.
> > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 
> 
> But then, after downloading, it complained about some dependencies -
> this is what I get when I run the installation again
> (dpkg --configure --pending tells me sort of the same thing):
> 
> > Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
> >   libgtk1.2: Depends: gconv-modules but it is not installable
> >  Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1) but 2.0.7.19981211-6 is installed
> >  Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.2) but 2.0.7.19981211-6 is installed
> >   g77: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.2) but 2.0.7.19981211-6 is installed
> >Depends: gcc (>= 1:2.95.2-4) but 2.7.2.3-7 is installed
> >   libstdc++2.10: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.2) but 2.0.7.19981211-6 is installed
> >   cpp: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.2) but 2.0.7.19981211-6 is installed
> >   gcc: Depends: cpp (< 2.7.2.4) but 1:2.95.2-7 is installed
> >   xlib6g: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.2) but 2.0.7.19981211-6 is installed
> >   gobjc: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.2) but 2.0.7.19981211-6 is installed
> >  Depends: gcc (>= 1:2.95.2-4) but 2.7.2.3-7 is installed
> >   binutils: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.2) but 2.0.7.19981211-6 is installed
> > E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or 
> > specify a solution).
> 
> 
> And after that, Netscape stopped working:
> 
> > socrates Temp$ /usr/lib/netscape/netscape: error in loading shared libraries
> > /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6: undefined symbol: __rawmemchr
> 
> Did I do a too big mess?
> 
> Anyway, I don't know exactly what to do now... I do want to upgrade to
> potato, but I'm not sure if I should do it - which brings us to the
> second point:
> 
> 2) Since the version of XFree86 which comes with slink doesn't support
>my video card - S3 Trio 3D/2X (Diamond Speedstar A55) - I decided
>to upgrade right after installation. But as far as I remember,
>potato also uses an old version of it... So I just downloaded the
>files and installed them without using dpkg at all (and well, it
>solved my problem!). So... dpkg thinks I have the old version. And
>I tried an apt-get upgrade, and it told me it'd download X.
> 
>So... Would it be safe to upgrade to potato and then just do that X
>upgrade again? And may there be any other problems when upgrading?
> 
> 
> Thanks a lot... I have 2 huge books that don't usually help much, and
> I've done some searches in the web before attempting things, but I'm
> swamped, and also... Local telephone calls are charged per minute in
> Brazil, so I try not to stay too much time online. (I'd have to do the
> upgrades between 00:00 and 6:00 am, when calls are much cheaper)
> 
> 
> J.
> 
> 
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> Institute of Computing - Unicamp - Brazil
> http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~jeronimo
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Re: How to blank screen?

[Ron Rademaker]

What do you mean... blank the screen?
Do you mean that after a while the screen just goes blank? If that's so
see the setterm M (as in RTFM) and check the -blank option.

Ron

On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong wrote:

> How do you blank the screen, as in a screensaver.  It was working
> before, bul all of a sudden, it doesn't and I don't know why.  Being
> that this is Linux, I figure there must be a way to fix this without
> rebooting, which I have a sneaking suspicion might solve the problem.
> So if anyone could lead me in the right direction, I'll go RTFM.
> Thanks.
> 
> Marshal
> 
> 
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How to blank screen?

[Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong]

How do you blank the screen, as in a screensaver.  It was working
before, bul all of a sudden, it doesn't and I don't know why.  Being
that this is Linux, I figure there must be a way to fix this without
rebooting, which I have a sneaking suspicion might solve the problem.
So if anyone could lead me in the right direction, I'll go RTFM.
Thanks.

Marshal

apt-get complaining about dependencies, and other upgrade issues

[Jeronimo Pellegrini]

Hello;


I have 2 problems... I'm currently running slink, and:

1) I wanted to upgrade bluefish. But I wnted the version which comes
   with potato. So I thought, "Well, if apt-get handles dependencies
   correctly, I just have to add frozen to my mirrors list, and it'll
   get whatever packages are needed. If it asks me for a huge set of
   packges, then it would probably mean I'd better upgrade to potato
   first." I know it's probably not a good idea, but it sounded so
   reasonable... Anyway... I did it, and apt-get told me just a few
   packages would be messed with:

> socrates:~# apt-get install bluefish
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> The following extra packages will be installed:
>   libgtk1.2 gdk-imlib1 g++ g77 libstdc++2.10 cpp gcc zlib1g xlib6g imlib-base 
> libc6-dev gobjc
>   libstdc++2.10-dev libc6 binutils ldso 
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>   timezones libstdc++2.9-dev egcc checker 
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   libstdc++2.10 libstdc++2.10-dev 
> 15 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 4 to remove and 693 not upgraded.
> Need to get 11.9MB of archives. After unpacking 6888kB will be freed.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 

But then, after downloading, it complained about some dependencies -
this is what I get when I run the installation again
(dpkg --configure --pending tells me sort of the same thing):

> Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
>   libgtk1.2: Depends: gconv-modules but it is not installable
>  Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1) but 2.0.7.19981211-6 is installed
>  Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.2) but 2.0.7.19981211-6 is installed
>   g77: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.2) but 2.0.7.19981211-6 is installed
>Depends: gcc (>= 1:2.95.2-4) but 2.7.2.3-7 is installed
>   libstdc++2.10: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.2) but 2.0.7.19981211-6 is installed
>   cpp: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.2) but 2.0.7.19981211-6 is installed
>   gcc: Depends: cpp (< 2.7.2.4) but 1:2.95.2-7 is installed
>   xlib6g: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.2) but 2.0.7.19981211-6 is installed
>   gobjc: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.2) but 2.0.7.19981211-6 is installed
>  Depends: gcc (>= 1:2.95.2-4) but 2.7.2.3-7 is installed
>   binutils: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.2) but 2.0.7.19981211-6 is installed
> E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify 
> a solution).


And after that, Netscape stopped working:

> socrates Temp$ /usr/lib/netscape/netscape: error in loading shared libraries
> /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6: undefined symbol: __rawmemchr

Did I do a too big mess?

Anyway, I don't know exactly what to do now... I do want to upgrade to
potato, but I'm not sure if I should do it - which brings us to the
second point:

2) Since the version of XFree86 which comes with slink doesn't support
   my video card - S3 Trio 3D/2X (Diamond Speedstar A55) - I decided
   to upgrade right after installation. But as far as I remember,
   potato also uses an old version of it... So I just downloaded the
   files and installed them without using dpkg at all (and well, it
   solved my problem!). So... dpkg thinks I have the old version. And
   I tried an apt-get upgrade, and it told me it'd download X.

   So... Would it be safe to upgrade to potato and then just do that X
   upgrade again? And may there be any other problems when upgrading?


Thanks a lot... I have 2 huge books that don't usually help much, and
I've done some searches in the web before attempting things, but I'm
swamped, and also... Local telephone calls are charged per minute in
Brazil, so I try not to stay too much time online. (I'd have to do the
upgrades between 00:00 and 6:00 am, when calls are much cheaper)


J.


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Re: Sudden memory usage.

[ktb]

Maybe ps aux would use less memory than Top -- I don't really know just a
thought.  My other thought is Netscape.  I've had a similar situation happen
while using the browser.  Not much to go on here.
hth,
kent


- Original Message -
From: Levi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2000 11:38 PM
Subject: Sudden memory usage.


> Tonight, while running nothing out of the ordinary, there was a sudden
> increase in hard drive activity. Really suspicous, I hopped over to tty8
> where I keep a copy of top running for just this sort of occasion. Top was
> set to display my usual luser account's procceses, so I couldn't see what
> was using *all* (real and virtual) my memory. I attempted to chang top's
> display to show all users, but at that point there wasn't even enough free
> memory to do that. I was finally forced to use crt-alt-del to reboot my
> box. After rebooting I spent half an hour probing through /var/log/* but
> didn't find hide nor hair of the culprit. Has anyone else ever had this
> happen and if so, where you able to assertain the cause.
>
> Thanks in advance
> -Levi
>
> P.S. I'm running "woody", updated somtime last week.
>
> P.P.S Please CC in any replies, thanks.
>
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Re: Routing

[Oswald Buddenhagen]

> Behind the debian box is a small network with 15 pcs running different OSes 
> 
>   How can setup routing and forward rules to go to the outside world with 
> eth0 ip adress 
>   (i know that it is ip-masquerading and ip-forwarding but i have 
> troubles and maybe want somebody to tell me the procedure)
> 
did you read the IP-Masquerading-howto?
if you still have problems, then ask a bit more concretely. at which point
do you fail?

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Routing

[Denis J. Cirulis]

Hello ! 

I hav such a situation : 

radio link backbone connected to my Debian box with two NICs 
eth0 is radio link card with the real ip adress 
eth1 is 3com509 with ip adress of 10.0.0.1

Behind the debian box is a small network with 15 pcs running different OSes 

How can setup routing and forward rules to go to the outside world with 
eth0 ip adress 
(i know that it is ip-masquerading and ip-forwarding but i have 
troubles and maybe want somebody to tell me the procedure)

Thanks a lot.
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Re: Oh no, not another AWE64 question

[Frank Barknecht]

brian moore hat gesagt: // brian moore wrote:

> > So my next step was to try ALSA drivers.. I've successfully installed
> > these before when I ran slackware. I believed I followed the instructions
> > accurately.. anyhow, here is some info..
> 
> No idea.. I see no reason to use ALSA with this card.  AWE64's are as
> common as dirt and well supported by OSSfree.

One reason is: ALSA supports the full duplex mode in AWE64 cards while OSS-free 
doesn't (at least the last time I checked)

bye
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Re: Oh no, not another AWE64 question

[Frank Barknecht]

brian moore hat gesagt: // brian moore wrote:

> > So my next step was to try ALSA drivers.. I've successfully installed
> > these before when I ran slackware. I believed I followed the instructions
> > accurately.. anyhow, here is some info..
> 
> No idea.. I see no reason to use ALSA with this card.  AWE64's are as
> common as dirt and well supported by OSSfree.

One reason is: ALSA supports the full duplex mode in AWE64 cards while OSS-free 
doesn't (at least the last time I checked)

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Re: Oh no, not another AWE64 question

[Frank Barknecht]

Charon hat gesagt: // Charon wrote:

> So my next step was to try ALSA drivers.. 

Good. ALSA rocks! I am using an AWE64 with ALSA here, so maybe I can be of
help. 

But first a question: What ALSA version are you using? Some things
(module options etc.) changed between 0.4 and 0.5, so this is important
to know.

Second question: Did you use the ALSA Plug'n'Play method or do you use a
 /etc/isapnp.conf file with the isapnp-tool?

Third and most important question: I'd like to see your module options
for alsa (in /etc/modules.conf or /etc/modutils/alsa). Could you post
them here, please.

The right module configuration is crucial for ALSA to work and it is _the_
hottest topic on the alsa-user mailing list.

> I've successfully installed
> these before when I ran slackware. I believed I followed the instructions
> accurately.. anyhow, here is some info..
> 
> underworld:/home/charon# lsmod
> Module  Size  Used by
> fat30304   1  (autoclean) [vfat]
> snd-card-sb16   4976   0  (unused)
> snd-mpu401-uart 3300   0  [snd-card-sb16]
> snd-rawmidi11352   0  [snd-mpu401-uart]
> snd-seq-device  3788   0  [snd-rawmidi]
> isapnp 27156   0  [snd-card-sb16]
> snd-opl32628   0  [snd-card-sb16]
> snd-sb16-csp   17332   0  [snd-card-sb16]
> snd-sb16-dsp   18472   0  [snd-card-sb16 snd-sb16-csp]
> snd-pcm36696   0  [snd-sb16-dsp]
> snd-timer  10688   0  [snd-opl3 snd-pcm]
> snd-hwdep   3756   0  [snd-opl3 snd-sb16-csp]
> snd-mixer  29552   0  [snd-sb16-csp snd-sb16-dsp]
> snd44684   1  [snd-card-sb16 snd-mpu401-uart
> snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-opl3 snd-sb16-csp snd-sb16-dsp snd-pcm
> snd-timer snd-hwdep snd-mixer]
> this is after a modprobe snd-card-sb16 as instructed in the alsa install
> howto ..

I am using the module snd-card-sbawe for the AWE64. Strange thing is: You
seem to not have loaded any OSS compatibility modules from ALSA. I have
this after I do a mpg123 some.mp3:

  snd-pcm-oss16744   0 (autoclean)
  snd-pcm-plugin 12840   0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss]
  snd-mixer-oss   4244   0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss]
  snd-card-sbawe  4012   0 (autoclean)
  snd-sb16-csp   15124   0 (autoclean) [snd-card-sbawe]
  snd-sb16-dsp   15304   0 (autoclean) [snd-card-sbawe snd-sb16-csp]
  snd-pcm28600   0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin 
snd-sb16-dsp]
  snd-mixer  22608   0 (autoclean) [snd-mixer-oss snd-sb16-csp 
snd-sb16-dsp]
  snd-opl31988   0 (autoclean) [snd-card-sbawe]
  snd-hwdep   2604   0 (autoclean) [snd-sb16-csp snd-opl3]
  snd-timer   8032   0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm snd-opl3]
  snd-mpu401-uart 2212   0 (autoclean) [snd-card-sbawe]
  snd-rawmidi 8920   0 (autoclean) [snd-mpu401-uart]
  snd-seq-device  3392   0 (autoclean) [snd-card-sbawe snd-rawmidi]
  snd34572   1 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin 
snd-mixer-oss snd-card-sbawe snd-sb16-csp snd-sb16-dsp snd-pcm snd-mixer 
snd-opl3 snd-hwdep snd-timer snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device]
  soundcore   2372   4 (autoclean) [snd]
  
You see the snd-pcm-oss and snd-mixer-oss? They are responsible for sound in
OSS applications like xmms. Normally you configure this in
/etc/modules.conf (or /etc/modutils/alsa + "do an update-modules as root" for 
Debian)
For alsa-0.5 make sure you have the following lines there:

alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss

[plus all the other stuff of course]

> underworld:/home/charon# cat /proc/asound/cards
> 0 [card1  ]: SB16 - Sound Blaster 16
>  Sound Blaster 16 at 0x220, irq 5, dma 1&5

This looks OK. 

> underworld:/home/charon# amixer set Master 15
> Group 'Master',0
>   Capabilities: volume
>   Channels: Front-Left Front-Right
>   Limits: min = 0, max = 31
>   Front-Left: 15 [48%] [on] [---]
>   Front-Right: 15 [48%] [on] [---]
> 
> Playing a cd in grip works though.. 
> 
> Trying to play an mp3 using xmms gives me an error telling me 3 things,
> the most significantly being that my sound isn't configured properly. I am
> at a loss, and am uncertain how to proceed. I would very much appreciate
> it if some kind soul could offer some assistance.. 

I think this has to do with the missing OSS compatibility.

One more test you could do is to try some ALSA native sound tools like aplay.

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Re: problem with dpkg

[Ron Rademaker]

Looks like some kind of perl module is missing, I ran dpkg -S Long.pm on
my system and it said it was in perl-5.005. I suggest you download this
package manually and install it manually with dpkg (dpkg -i ), if
that doesn't work, try the force options in dpkg to install perl-5.005 (eg
--force-depend-version, --force-conflicts) that should do the trick.

Ron

On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Lorincze, Tamas (GEL,NonGE,MSX) wrote:

> 
> In the middle of the installation process the dpkg-preconfigure utility gave
> an error message that it didn't find Getopt/Long.pm . When I checked I found
> out that not only this file, but the whole directory was missing. Do you
> know which package contains these? And why were these not installed with the
> base if dpkg need them? 
> Now I'm stuck with a 30% ready system with almost nothing installed no make,
> no gcc, mc etc.)
> Btw, I'm using Debian potato.
> 
> Any suggestions? please CC the reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Thanks.
> 
> Regards
> -Tamas
> 
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problem with dpkg

[Lorincze, Tamas \(GEL,NonGE,MSX\)]

In the middle of the installation process the dpkg-preconfigure utility gave
an error message that it didn't find Getopt/Long.pm . When I checked I found
out that not only this file, but the whole directory was missing. Do you
know which package contains these? And why were these not installed with the
base if dpkg need them? 
Now I'm stuck with a 30% ready system with almost nothing installed no make,
no gcc, mc etc.)
Btw, I'm using Debian potato.

Any suggestions? please CC the reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks.

Regards
-Tamas

Re: smb2www config?

[Oswald Buddenhagen]

> after installing and successfully using smb2www (on Patato) without any
> configuration, the company i work for changed the ip addresses. 
> Since then, i still can use smbclient to connect to these ... windoses,
> but using smb2ww it is only possible now to connect to my own samba
> server. Something has miscofigured, i guess, but i can't find out how to
> re-configure smb2www. 
> Any suggestion?
> 
somewhere must be a file named smb2www.conf. find it and search for
"masterbrowser". it may be wrong after the ip-change ...

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ppp-problem

[Andzo]

The ppp-daemon dies!

 Hello all, I have little ppp-problem here!
 
 When I launch wvdial it dials to ISP and starts ppp-
daemon, but after few 
 seconds wvdial gives message "pppd has died" or something 
like that and the 
 connection hangs up and wvdial try's to redial. 
My /var/log/ppp.log looks like
 this:

 Mar 23 22:52:33 debian pppd[759]: pppd 2.3.5 started by 
root, uid 0
 Mar 23 22:52:52 debian pppd[759]: Serial connection 
established.
 Mar 23 22:52:53 debian pppd[759]: Using interface ppp1
 Mar 23 22:52:53 debian pppd[759]: Connect: ppp1 <--
> /dev/ttyS2
 Mar 23 22:52:53 debian pppd[759]: Warning - secret 
file /etc/ppp/pap-secrets
 has world and/or group access
 Mar 23 22:53:26 debian pppd[759]: Hangup (SIGHUP)
 Mar 23 22:53:26 debian pppd[759]: Modem hangup
 Mar 23 22:53:26 debian pppd[759]: Connection terminated.
 Mar 23 22:53:27 debian pppd[759]: Exit.
 Mar 23 22:56:04 debian pppd[806]: pppd 2.3.5 started by 
root, uid 0
 Mar 23 22:57:05 debian pppd[806]: Connect script failed
 Mar 23 22:57:06 debian pppd[806]: Exit.
 Mar 23 22:57:30 debian pppd[825]: pppd 2.3.5 started by 
root, uid 0
 Mar 23 22:57:51 debian pppd[825]: Terminating on signal 15.
 Mar 23 22:57:51 debian chat[826]: SIGTERM
 Mar 23 22:57:51 debian pppd[825]: Connect script failed
 Mar 23 22:57:52 debian pppd[825]: Exit.
 
  What is the connect script?
  What is the warning about pap-secrets?
  My /etc/ppp/options, resolv.conf, chatscript and chap-
secrets should be
  allright (built with quickppp-program) and my ppp-on too. 
Are there any 
  other files I should also edit?
  I newbie for this kind of stuff, please help me! 
  
  BTW Plese forgive my bad english :-)

 
  Anssi Alhonen

suscribe

[Anssi J. Alhonen]

I wanna join!

Re:Re: esound, lesstif, debian issues

[Lepus]

Hello.

>   I didn't see your original post, however I've used the ALSA
> sound drivers and Gnome no problem. Just a bit fiddly getting the driver
> configure to work. Don't know about your Fractint and motif problem though
> - sorry.
Well, the problem isn't running or configuring the driver - ALSA and
esound work pretty fine. But I cannot install Gnome, because many packages
depend on esound0, and I have esound-alsa0 installed. The weird thing is,
that esound-alsa0 provides esound0, but still, this doesn't seem to bother
these "defective" packages. Is it a dpkg bug, or can something be wrong
with the available packages file?
And does anyone have an idea how I could overcome this problem?

Daniel Szabo

Re: Looking for some online Linux graphics (ps, jpeg, src for gimp, etc).

[Ioa Petra]

I am not sure where you got your information about finding posters on the
internet in jpeg format, but I think you are going to find that a rather
difficult find. First of all you don't print posters from JPEG files. That
format is strictly meant to be viewed onscreen. The type of optimization
it uses to trick your eyes into seeing a picture does not work very well
in print. Expecially poster sized prints.

Which brings up the next issue, the typical 4 color process, print quality
file is going to be somewhere in the neighborhood of 80 to 150 megabytes
depending on your printer's specificiations. I don't think I would even
-try- to load a file that large in Gimp, let alone the fact that it can't
even handle the four color format, CMYK.

Print is a very tricky business where sometimes just a 3 or 4 percentile
error in one of your color channels will throw the whole thing off and
give it a noticeable cast. So getting prints done involves tweaking
colors, sending them to a proofer, getting the proofs back, making more
tweaks, ect... Expecially if you have never color corrected for print
before.

Of course, maybe I am reading too much into this. Maybe you arn't looking
for massive glossy full color prints. You should just be aware that if
that is what you were thinking of, such things are going to cost a little
money if you want them to look good. Unless you have a very experienced
graphic artist amongst you. I'd be willing to give you a hand, but I don't
think that my company would be excited about me running off proofs of
Linux posters on the kodak Approval. Each run costs something like 10
bucks :)


.:.
Ioa Aqualine Petra'ka

Re: 2 networks

[Paul Huygen]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Allan M. Wind) wrote:

>> I KNOW OF A PRODUCT ...
>
>All caps spam, it can't get much worse.

I doubt whether the message Mr. Wind referred to was spam. It seems to
me that it is an answer to a question
that someboby asked one or two days before. The "all caps" might be
just an accident.


Paul Huygen

Re: Bash, Keys, Potato

[Branden Robinson]

On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 06:17:21PM -0300, Rodrigo Castro wrote:
>   I started with no .inputrc, no /etc/profile, no /etc/inputrc
> and even so I had problems with letter E (upcase only). Any idea? Even
> with no setup, no config files, I get no success. I upgraded my
> libreadline4 today and it didn't work either. 

Hmm, since you are from brazil you might not be used a key layout 100%
identical to a North American keyboard.

You may have fallen victim to Yann Dirson's 100%-bug-free console-data
package.

Install the "kbd" package, and from the console (not X), use the "showkey"
command to determine what scan code is being generated by the E key.  If
none, you either have a hardware problem or a kernel problem.  Otherwise,
your console keymap is messed up and you should file a bug against the
console-data package.

Don't feel bad; Yann Dirson has the default keymap set to some French thing
-- this affects every Debian user in the world, and most of the world isn't
France.  I guess some people take the figurative expression "lingua franca"
too literally.  :)

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Description: PGP signature

Looking for some online Linux graphics (ps, jpeg, src for gimp, etc).

[Shaul Karl]

My local LUG is setting up a booth in a trade show about Linux.
Can you point me to some URLs from which we will be able to print posters to 
put on the walls of the booth? I was told to look for postscript files, jpeg, 
files that can be given to gimp and the like.
We are looking for Linux related stuff in general, not necessarily a specific 
distro, although we will not roll out a specific distro stuff or mentioning 
some distros together. We will also consider staff that mentions commercial 
companies as long as their names and specific product is not the major theme.
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Re: 2 networks

[Allan M. Wind]

On 2000-03-24 05:40:37, The_Phantom 74 wrote:

> I KNOW OF A PRODUCT ...

All caps spam, it can't get much worse.

Btw, does anyone know of a list of know spammers with enough physical
details to avoid buying anything from them - company name, domain
name, phone number etc.  I, for one, don't mind spending non-trivial
amount of time to ensure that I (or anyone that I can influence) don't
support them, ever.


/Allan
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Re: 2 networks

[The_Phantom 74]

I KNOW OF A PRODUCT THAT USES A LAZER (NEEDS LINE OF SIGHT) THAT CAN GO THE 
DISTANCE AND YOU CAN CHOSE 10 OR 10/100MB/S IF YOU ARE INTERESTED REPLY WITH 
SUBJECT LAZER AND I WILL DIG UP THE DETAILS FOR YOU...




Original Message Follows
From: Onno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,  Evan Moore 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: 2 networks
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 09:52:48 +0100

Dear George,

Would you be so kind to send me more info on your statement?

Sincerely.

Onno

At 10:25 PM 3/22/00 -0800, George Bonser wrote:
>
>For two months T1 payment you can get wireless at T1 speed that will work
>over that distance with no problem.
>
>
>
>On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Evan Moore wrote:
>
>> currently i have 2 networks, in 2 seperate buildings within 1000m. Both
>> networks have an internet connection(A T1 and a fractional T1); however, 
I

>> have lost the budjet for one of the internet connections. Is there a way
>> to create a point to point link between the network, that is low cost, 
and

>> has no monthly lease charge? Can 2 isdn modems directly dial eachother?
>>
>> Evan Moore



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Sudden memory usage.

[Levi]

Tonight, while running nothing out of the ordinary, there was a sudden
increase in hard drive activity. Really suspicous, I hopped over to tty8
where I keep a copy of top running for just this sort of occasion. Top was
set to display my usual luser account's procceses, so I couldn't see what
was using *all* (real and virtual) my memory. I attempted to chang top's
display to show all users, but at that point there wasn't even enough free
memory to do that. I was finally forced to use crt-alt-del to reboot my
box. After rebooting I spent half an hour probing through /var/log/* but
didn't find hide nor hair of the culprit. Has anyone else ever had this
happen and if so, where you able to assertain the cause.

Thanks in advance
-Levi

P.S. I'm running "woody", updated somtime last week.

P.P.S Please CC in any replies, thanks.

Re: glibc-compat ???

[Steve Greenland]

On 23-Mar-00, 18:08 (CST), Andor Dirner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
> On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Robert Varga wrote:
> > 
> > The other one it breaks is Oracle 8.0, and one needs to convert Redhat
> > compatibility libraries to be able install it, and a patch from Oracle.
> > 

FWIW, I'm running Oracle 8i (SQL*Plus reports v 8.1.5) with the latest
patches (as of a month ago) on a potato box with no obvious problems, I
don't have any compatibility libs installed.

steve
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Re: Security_announce

[Colin Watson]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Vail) wrote:
>I have been trying to subscribe to the security_announce...and for some
>reason it has not been letting me subscribe to the security_announce.  I
>tried like 3 or 4 times...is there something about the subscription
>process for security_announce being broken or something?

It's security-announce - the punctuation is important. If you're using
the web interface at the moment, try the closer-to-the-metal way: send
an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the
subject line 'subscribe' (without the quotes) and that should work.

If you still can't get it, then perhaps a brief mail to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] would be in order (though I'm sure they're busy
people).

>Whoever reply to this email -- please CC it to me ;-)

No problem.

HTH,

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.fmt files

[Sridhar M.A.]

Hi,

I saw your message regarding the missing fmt files under slink. I too
faced the same problem last week and it took me a day or two to
relaize that this was the y2k problem. I have a slow connection and
downloading the new updates is a problem. I got around the problem
in this way.

1. Logged in as root.
2. Changed the date with the date command. Set the year to some 199x.
3. Ran texconfig.

I had all the fmt files in /var/lib/texmf/web2c.

HTH,

sridhar

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Re: resetting dselect

[Colin Watson]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nick Barron) wrote:
>- Original Message -
>From: David Z. Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: 
>Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 7:55 PM
>Subject: Re: resetting dselect
>
>> Beavis  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Beavis> ok, well lets just say this: what if the packages are in the
>> Beavis> upacked (not set up); install (was: install) state.
>>
>> Then you should probably configure them, either using 'dpkg
>> --configure --pending' from the command line or using dselect's
>> "Configure" option.
>
>what if i don't want to conf. them?

So then purge them. Why do you want unpacked but unconfigured packages
on your system, anyway? Grab the source if you just want to look at the
things.

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Security_announce

[Tim Vail]

I have been trying to subscribe to the security_announce...and for some
reason it has not been letting me subscribe to the security_announce.  I
tried like 3 or 4 times...is there something about the subscription
process for security_announce being broken or something?  In order to
rule out the possibility of my already being on the list -- I sent an
unsubscription request -- it told me that it couldn't find my name on
the list.  Any ideas?  I reply immediately and it is usually within 2 or
3 minutes of starting the process, and I haven't had problem with
replying with netscape with any other list.  Could mine being on the
security list have anything to do with it?

Whoever reply to this email -- please CC it to me ;-)

Tim Vail

Re: glibc-compat and upgrading from Slink to Potato using dselect's FTP method.

[Taupter]

Hello all


I'm near from upgrading my Slink to Potato using dselect's FTP, but I'm
afraid if it can drive my system _really_ bad (broken).
I tried it six months ago, and the result was a reinstalling Slink from
CDs.

Did anyone try this way? Worked fine?


Taupter

Re: Squid ACLs does not work

[John Pearson]

On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 11:13:42PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
> Hi,
> 
> I have some problems with squid and its ACLs.
> 
> I'm using Debian 2.2 with Kernel 2.2.13 and squid 2.2STABLE5.
> My ACL section in /etc/squid.conf looks like the following.
> 
> acl all src 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0
> acl manager proto cache_object
> acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/255.255.255.255
> acl SSL_ports port 443 563
> acl Safe_ports port 80 21 443 563 70 210 1025-65535
> acl purge method PURGE
> acl CONNECT method CONNECT
> acl BanDomains dstdomain "/etc/ban_domains.squid"
> acl localdomain srcdomain localdomain.own
> :
> http_access allow localdomain
> http_access deny BanDomains
> http_access allow manager localhost
> http_access deny manager
> http_access allow purge localhost
> http_access deny purge
> http_access deny !Safe_ports
> http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports
> 
> And the file /etc/ban_domains.squid looks like...
> netscape.com
> microsoft.com
> msdn.com
> realnetworks.com
> 
> But when I try connect to www.microsoft.com the proxy rersolves the hostname
> and connects. (My browser is configured to use the proxy, of course...).
> 
> Does anyone have an idea where I made a mistake?
> 

I'm assuming that squid's "file" ACLs work; I've never used them myself.

Is /etc/ban_domains.squid readable by the user which Squid is running
as?  Have you done /etc/init.d/squid reload since adding those
domains to the file?


John P.
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X problem with rotated text?

[Carl Fink]

Just wondering:  is there a known issue with rotated text in XFree86
3.3.6-6?  I've been printing some name tents with WordPerfect 8, and
everything worked normally until I had rotated text on the screen. 
Then suddenly XF86_SVGA (not xwp) was taking 90% of processor time,
and the system slowed to a crawl.  Now, this could certainly be
WordPerfect overloading the X server with thousands of requests, but
I'm wondering if anyone has seen this with other programs.
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Re: files within library files

[Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong]

> "Mark" == Mark Bathie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Hey all,

> Is there some way I can find out... given a file how do I know
> what library file contains this file

> e.g. which library file/debain package would contain the file
> "as86"

> Is there a search page to cater for such a request ?

http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages

> cheers,

> mb


>  

Re: files within library files

[Andrei Ivanov]

The search engine on Debian site (online packages), second query box, that
allows to search for files within packages.
I think its bin86, or smthg like that.
Andrew

> Is there some way I can find out... given a file how do I know what
> library file contains this file
> 
> e.g. which library file/debain package would contain the file "as86"
> 
> Is there a search page to cater for such a request ?
> 
> cheers,
> 
> mb
> 
> 
> 

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files within library files

[Mark Bathie]

Hey all,
Is there some way I can find out... given a file how do I know
what library file contains this file
e.g. which library file/debain package would contain the file "as86"
Is there a search page to cater for such a request ?
cheers,
mb

 

Re: Which MTA to use?

[Damon Muller]

Quoth Brooks R. Robinson, 
>   I am looking at changing an in-house e-mail system from an ugly
>   combination of outsourced collection/forwarding and JSMail on an
>   NT server to linux.  We have an ADSL line coming in, and I can
>   handle all of the DNS and network stuff through the firewall,
>   but I drop the ball at mail.  We have about 100 clients using
>   Microsoft Outlook, but our legacy address format is
>   [EMAIL PROTECTED]  I can't change the address format, and
>   I'd like to leave POP3 in place.  Which MTA is the best given my
>   limitation?

You might find that qmail and vpopmail might do the trick. qmail is
secure enough to have running on a firewall machine, and easy enough to
set up. The only problem is it isn't (DFSG) free (but it is free beer
free). vpopmail is GPL'd, and allows you to have virtual users, which do
not need local machine accounts. It also has a nice HTML interface, and
there is an imap server (courier-imap) which works well with it.

qmail is packaged (a source package) in non-free, and vpopmail can be
found at http://www.inter7.com/vpopmail (I think).

cheers,

damon

-- 
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* Criminologist /  It's a sense of irony
* Webmeister   /  disguised as one.
* Linux Geek  / - Bruce Sterling 

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trouble with ppp connection using pon

[Lee Malatesta]

I'm having trouble connecting to my internet provider with storm linux
(rain which is slink).

Neither the PAP and CHAP options of pppconfig will get pon to work
correctly.  I'm currently attempting to use the chat option with
slightly better results.  I can connect, but the connection times out
within seconds.  Here is what /var/log/ppp.log says:

Mar 23 16:36:51 storm pppd[474]: pppd 2.3.5 started by root, uid 0
Mar 23 16:36:52 storm chat[475]: abort on (BUSY)
Mar 23 16:36:52 storm chat[475]: abort on (NO CARRIER)
Mar 23 16:36:52 storm chat[475]: abort on (VOICE)
Mar 23 16:36:52 storm chat[475]: abort on (NO DIALTONE)
Mar 23 16:36:52 storm chat[475]: abort on (NO ANSWER)
Mar 23 16:36:52 storm chat[475]: send (ATZ^M)
Mar 23 16:36:52 storm chat[475]: expect (OK)
Mar 23 16:36:52 storm chat[475]: ATZ^M^M
Mar 23 16:36:52 storm chat[475]: OK
Mar 23 16:36:52 storm chat[475]:  -- got it 
Mar 23 16:36:52 storm chat[475]: send (ATDT6210526^M)
Mar 23 16:36:52 storm chat[475]: expect (CONNECT)
Mar 23 16:36:52 storm chat[475]: ^M
Mar 23 16:37:18 storm chat[475]: ATDT6210526^M^M
Mar 23 16:37:18 storm chat[475]: CONNECT
Mar 23 16:37:18 storm chat[475]:  -- got it 
Mar 23 16:37:18 storm chat[475]: send (^M)
Mar 23 16:37:18 storm chat[475]: expect (ogin:)
Mar 23 16:37:18 storm chat[475]:  49333/ARQ/V90/LAPM/V42BIS^M
Mar 23 16:37:19 storm chat[475]: ^M
Mar 23 16:37:19 storm chat[475]: 
Mar 23 16:37:19 storm last message repeated 23 times
Mar 23 16:37:19 storm chat[475]: UQKT2 tnt1.cincinnati3.oh.da.uu.net^M
Mar 23 16:37:19 storm chat[475]: ^M
Mar 23 16:37:19 storm chat[475]: ^M
Mar 23 16:37:19 storm chat[475]: Login:
Mar 23 16:37:19 storm chat[475]:  -- got it 
Mar 23 16:37:19 storm chat[475]: send (??)
Mar 23 16:37:20 storm chat[475]: expect (ssword:)
Mar 23 16:37:20 storm chat[475]:  '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'^M
Mar 23 16:37:20 storm chat[475]: Password:
Mar 23 16:37:20 storm chat[475]:  -- got it 
Mar 23 16:37:20 storm chat[475]: send (??)
Mar 23 16:37:21 storm chat[475]: send (\d)
Mar 23 16:37:22 storm pppd[474]: Serial connection established.
Mar 23 16:37:23 storm pppd[474]: Using interface ppp0
Mar 23 16:37:23 storm pppd[474]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS2
Mar 23 16:37:23 storm pppd[474]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 
  ]
Mar 23 16:37:50 storm last message repeated 9 times
Mar 23 16:37:53 storm pppd[474]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
Mar 23 16:37:53 storm pppd[474]: Connection terminated.
Mar 23 16:37:53 storm pppd[474]: Hangup (SIGHUP)
Mar 23 16:37:53 storm pppd[474]: Exit.

Does anyone have any ideas about what I should do next?  I'm clueless.

Thanks much.

-l