modperl is gone? -- SOLVED
i was fully prepared to whine about being in the dark on how the hell can you find the package to download when you just know about one missing file? well, i solved it myself, so thought i'd share the process... (i'll get to whine later about something else, i'm sure.) i'd changed some stuff in the config files for apache, so i wanted to reload the settings: # apachectl graceful it whined about troubles, and suggested i try: # apachectl configtest Syntax error on line 100 of /etc/apache/httpd.conf: Cannot load /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_perl.so into server: /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_perl.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory WHAT? modperl is gone? how can apache even RUN without modperl? aaugh! that's like a face without a skull! or a skull without a brain! or a brain without a mind! or a mind without a purpose! so i tried # apt-get --reinstall install modperl # apt-get --reinstall install mod_perl # apt-get --reinstall install mod-perl but it didn't find any of those. (i was shooting in the dark, can you tell?) AHA. here's how you find out what the bloomin' package names are... # dpkg -S modperl dpkg: *modperl* not found. damn. seemed reasonable, but there are other permutations possible. here i try mod-perl with a hyphen: # dpkg -S mod-perl libapache-mod-perl: /usr/share/doc/libapache-mod-perl/README.gz libapache-mod-perl: /usr/share/doc/libapache-mod-perl/examples/CVS/Template [snip] the mother lode! let's try one more permutation, just for giggles--this time mod_perl with an underscore: # dpkg -S mod_perl libapache-mod-perl: /usr/share/man/man3/cgi_to_mod_perl.3pm.gz libapache-mod-perl: /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux/mod_perl_method_handlers.pod libapache-mod-perl: /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux/mod_perl.pod [snip] the father lode! so now i know to ask for libapache-mod-perl... # apt-get install libapache-mod-perl Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libhtml-parser-perl libmime-base64-perl liburi-perl libwww-perl The following NEW packages will be installed: libapache-mod-perl libhtml-parser-perl libmime-base64-perl liburi-perl libwww-perl 0 packages upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/1056kB of archives. After unpacking 2971kB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y Selecting previously deselected package libmime-base64-perl. (Reading database ... 36058 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking libmime-base64-perl (from .../libmime-base64-perl_2.11-2_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package liburi-perl. Unpacking liburi-perl (from .../liburi-perl_1.04-2_all.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package libhtml-parser-perl. Unpacking libhtml-parser-perl (from .../libhtml-parser-perl_3.02-3_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package libwww-perl. Unpacking libwww-perl (from .../libwww-perl_5.47-1_all.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package libapache-mod-perl. Unpacking libapache-mod-perl (from .../libapache-mod-perl_1.21.2309-1_i386.deb) ... Setting up libmime-base64-perl (2.11-2) ... Setting up liburi-perl (1.04-2) ... Setting up libhtml-parser-perl (3.02-3) ... Setting up libwww-perl (5.47-1) ... Setting up libapache-mod-perl (1.21.2309-1) ... so it also set-up other items that i needed, as well (just like it says in the docs!) all of which i'd already downloaded. i know that no downloading was necessary because it confirms that you really wanna download before doing so, and it said Need to get 0B/1056kB of archives. After unpacking 2971kB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y so i confirmed that i wanted to install, though no downloading was needed. very cool. that's how i got past the hurdle of missing crucial components. -- now i just gotta figure out where the apache settings are that are keeping all my cgi's from working.
Re: Trying to run one process as root, how?
On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 04:32:31PM -0500, Bryan Walton wrote: Greetings to the list, I have a situation where I need to run one program as root, through an x terminal, while my x windows session is being run as non-root. When I open up an x terminal in this environment, become superuser, and then execute the program, the program fails with the following message: Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server Error: Can't open display: :0.0 Bring up xterm, ssh -l root localhost No need to muck around with xhost or magic cookies or anything else. Robin
Re: Problem with telnetd
What are your firewall and/or /etc/hosts.allow | /etc/hosts.deny settings? Telnet is an insecure protocol and should generally not be used. SSH is the preferred alternative these days. The Security HOWTO also mentions a secure telnet replacement using SSL. On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 11:33:12AM +0200, Vicente Torres wrote: When I telnet my machine from another box, I get following message bash-2.02$ telnet mymachine Trying XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX... Connected to mymachine. Escape character is '^]'. telnetd: getpty: Permission denied . Connection closed by foreign host. bash-2.02$ SSH works well. I think it was after upgrading to woody when I started to get this problem. any idea? -- .'/,-Y ~-. Vicente Torres Carot l.Y ^. Universidad Politécnica de Valencia /\ __ Doh! Departamento de Ingeniería Electrónica i___/ \ Ctra. Nazaret-Oliva, s/n | / \ o ! 46730 Grau de Gandia (Valencia) l ] o !__./ SPAIN \ _ _\.___./~\ X \/ \___./ Tel.: (96)2849300 ( \ ___. _..--~~ ~`-. FAX: (96)2849309 ` Z,-- /\ __. ( / __) I don't apologize. I'm sorry, but that's \ l /-~~ / just the way I am. -- Homer Simpson -- Y \ / ## | x__.^ -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com What part of Gestalt don't you understand? http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ PGP fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0
Re: /usr/doc/ vs /usr/share/doc/
w == w trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: w after getting apt-get upgrade all clean (not that there isn't w a hangnail now and then) i noticed that i've got lots of stuff w in /usr/share/doc now. much of it looks just like the stuff w i've already got under /usr/doc. w is the /usr/share/doc stuff significant? should it replace the w /usr/doc items? can i obliterate it? /usr/doc == OLD /usr/share/doc == NEW however, at the moment, both are used, so don't delete either! (/usr/doc should contain a symlink into /usr/share/doc for each directory, so minimal space is wasted.) -- Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: mount ownership problem (newbie, maybe)
Hello Thanks for your reply (this goes to Oswald, too) It seems that I know so little, that my question was beside the point. :) Please, let me have another go: 1) I want only root to be able to mount anything but floppies. I removed user from the list of mount options for the cd drives in /etc/fstab. 2) I want only users that belong to the group cdrom to have access to cds at all, if and when any are mounted under /mnt/cdrom and /mnt/burner. Other users shouldn't even be able to determine if there is a cd mounted. I set the permissions on the mountpoints like this: dr-xr-x--- root cdrom ... and checked that /dev/scd* belong to the cdrom group as well. 3) If a mounted cd is pure ISO9660, I don't care about permissions _under_ the mountpoints, because a unauthorized user couldn't even cd to them. If it has rockridge extensions, these should apply. This is where I'm stumped - as soon as I mount a drive, the mountpoints permissions are reset to dr-xr-xr-x root root ... and everyone who can login remotely may browse an ISO cd at will! If asked a friend about this, who's generally more Linux educated than me and he just said who cares, noone's ever thought about this. So maybe I'm not making much sense to you -sorry. Christian -Original Message- From: Ron Rademaker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 14, 2000 9:51 AM To: Christian Pernegger Cc: Debian user list; recipient list not shown: ; Subject: Re: mount ownership problem (newbie, maybe) I'm not sure but I think a chmod on /dev/scd0 will work... But as far as I know every user was always allowed to read a mounted cdrom, I never had a permission denied... Ron Rademaker On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Christian Pernegger wrote: Hello I created the following mountpoint directories under /mnt name(user/group)device (user/group) floppy (root/floppy) /dev/fd0(root/floppy) cdrom (root/cdrom)/dev/scd0 (root/cdrom) burner (root/cdrom)/dev/scd1 (root/cdrom) Now if I want to mount the cd rom: # su ... # mount /mnt/cdrom That works fine. The only problem is, after that the /mnt/cdrom dir's ownerships will be (root/root) and thus inaccessible by members of the cdrom group. If I unmount it, everything is back to normal... How do I allow a group to access a mountpoint when the device is mounted? Christian
How to set initial wd in gnome-terminal? (newbie)
On the console, everything is fine - when I log in as root, I start in the /root directory. When I log in as a user I start in ~username/. However, any gnome-terminals I open under X drop me to /root regardless of login. Of course, since I mostly use a standard user, the first command always is cd ~. Maybe I could put the command in a .somethingorother file, but shouldn't this be standard behaviour? Tell me, what did I break? :( Thanks a lot Christian
network oddity
Hello, I have a slink box which has been running great. It was up for over 45 days without a hitch. The box does ipmasq-ing (among other tasks) for my lan, but when it is booted, it won't respond to a ping, telnet, ftp, or http request until I make a network connection _from_ that box (eg. ping another box on the lan, or make a PPP connection to my ISP). Anyone else had this happen? TIA. -- David Karlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Debian GNU/Linux
One Lp, problem solved! But where do parms go?
I posted a question here a while ago asking how to configure the system to use only one of three LP ports that I have. (on potato) I found out the answer, and it's not what anyone else mentioned. I had to give parport_pc the following module argument: io=0x378 I had to then give lp the following module argument: parport1,none,none This was figured out by running modinfo -p on lp.o and parport_pc.o (I also figure how how to configure my sb module that way!) Now I have a question...where are the module parameters given to modconf stored. They are NOT in /etc/modules as the comments there seem to indicate. Does modconf actually modify the module binary? Or is there another configuration file someplace? = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Send online invitations with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com
Freexdsl internet
Has anybody tried this from a Linux box? What do you think? Any ideas, any forseen catch? http://www.freexdsl.com
Re: 2 newbie questions
On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 10:30:07AM -0400, Peter Solinsky wrote: I have a boca-research modem which is PNP compatable but debian can't detect it. Do I need to manually set the jumpers for and open COM and IRQ for it to be recognized? Try http://www.grapevine.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html and make sure you modem is on the good list. 2nd: I am having trouble getting xwindows to work properly. When I run xf86config and set the card for SVGA, my monitor blanks and I get nothing, the main problem is I cannot get linux to reboot without entering xwin at startup which means my screen blanks at startup and I can't rerun config w/o wiping everything and starting over. CNTROL - ALT - BACKSPACE will kill xwindows and get you back to the command line (usually). You probably have xdm, which is a package which launches Xwindows automatically on bootup. If you don't have a good X setup, then it can be a hassle. Once you get X working if you want to use xdm that's fine. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux
VPN question
What is the easiest way to create a VPN between two Linux machines, one that will work even when my system is using shadow passwords. thanks -- Andrew
Re: problems with apt-get upgrade slink - potato
Try again in a little while. This sometimes happens. Make sure to run apt-get update again first. On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 09:36:12AM -0500, Gregory Guthrie wrote: I tried to do a slink-potato upgrade, I put the potato debian site in /etc/apt/sources.list, and let go with atp-get update-- works fine... apt-get dist-upgrade -- problems... but, (see below) it looks like I get only a few fiels, adn many many errors which seem server related. Suggestions? Gregory Guthrie -- Script started on Thu Apr 13 20:13:21 2000 csgrg.root(501) csgrg.root(502) apt-get dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... 0% Reading Package Lists... 100% Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... 0% Building Dependency Tree... 0% Building Dependency Tree... 50% Building Dependency Tree... 50% Building Dependency Tree... Done Calculating Upgrade... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: timezones libmd5-perl perl libpam0g-util perl-suid libsnmp3.6 netstd The following NEW packages will be installed: libncurses5 traceroute perl-5.004-base libwrap0 libpam-modules perl-5.004 perl-5.005 ruptime liburi-perl libpam-runtime rusers rsh-server java-common perl-5.004-suid tcpd rdate cfingerd perl-5.004-doc tftp finger libstdc++2.10 icmpinfo rwho bootpc rdist ftp rwall perl-5.005-base rwhod fping libsnmp4.1 tcl8.2 tk8.2 rsh-client debconf libreadline4 nfs-common pidentd liblockfile1 169 packages upgraded, 39 newly installed, 7 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 62.4MB/63.2MB of archives. After unpacking 58.2MB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 0% [Waiting for file] Get:1 http://http.us.debian.org potato/main libc6-dev 2.1.3-8 [2092kB] 0% [1 libc6-dev 1142/2092kB 0%] ... 3% [1 libc6-dev 2088942/2092kB 99%] 11.5kB/s 1h27m51s 3% [Working] 11.5kB/s 1h27m50s Err http://http.us.debian.org potato/main libc6 2.1.3-8 400 Bad Request Err http://http.us.debian.org potato/main libpam0g 0.72-7 Bad header line Err http://http.us.debian.org potato/main snmp 4.1.1-2 The http server sent an invalid reply header Get:2 http://http.us.debian.org potato/main ncurses-base 5.0-6 [80.7kB] 3% [2 ncurses-base 0/80.7kB 0%] 11.5kB/s 1h27m50s Err http://http.us.debian.org potato/main libncurses4 4.2-9 400 Bad Request Err http://http.us.debian.org potato/main netbase 3.18-2 Bad header line Get:3 http://http.us.debian.org potato/main libwrap0 7.6-4 [52.8kB] 3% [3 libwrap0 0/52.8kB 0%] 9941B/s 1h41m3s ... 3% [3 libwrap0 47836/52.8kB 90%] 9963B/s 1h40m45s 3% [Working] 9963B/s 1h40m44s Err http://http.us.debian.org potato/main tcpd 7.6-4 501 Method Not Implemented Dr. Gregory Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] (515)472-1125Fax: -1103 Computer Science Department College of Science and Technology Maharishi University of Management (Maharishi International University 1971-1995) http://www.mum.edu/cs_dept -- ¶ One·should·only·use·the·ASCII·characterset·when·compos » ing·email·messages.
Re: Proper environment settings`
On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 08:04:29PM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: Can someone give me the best route to change the PATH variable when inside an xsession. Changing such things as .bashrc and .profile etc don't seem like the answer to me? Both for root and users. change the global .profile: /etc/profile Actually, for individual users, ~/.bashrc is the perfect place. Just source it in your ~/.xsession. if [ -f $HOME/.bashrc ]; then source $HOME/.bashrc fi -- ¶ One·should·only·use·the·ASCII·characterset·when·compos » ing·email·messages.
Re: postgresql 7 (woody) broken - downgraded to frozen
On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 01:34:01PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: The upgrade to postgresql 7 is broken rather horribly in several places -- postinstall does not work, this has been noted as a bug on the tracking system, though the posted fix (changed flags to dbinst) only addresses part of the problem. The bug is now outstanding for over two weeks. I recall Mr. Elphick reporting a week or so ago that users should stick with the 6.5.3 postgresql for a while as the 7.0 version had some serious issues. You know the saying about *.0 version... I've resolved the issue on my own system by reverting to the following frozen packages: ecpg_6.5.3-18.deb libpgperl_6.5.3-18.deb libpgsql2_6.5.3-18.deb libpgsql_6.3.2-16.1.deb libpgtcl_6.5.3-18.deb postgresql-client_6.5.3-18.deb postgresql-contrib_6.5.3-18.deb postgresql-dev_6.5.3-18.deb postgresql-doc_6.5.3-18.deb postgresql-pl_6.5.3-18.deb postgresql-test_6.5.3-18.deb postgresql_6.5.3-18.deb ...downloaded and installed with dpkg -i --force-downgrade *.deb ...works -- Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) What part of Gestalt don't you understand? http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Key fingerprint = F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- ¶ One·should·only·use·the·ASCII·characterset·when·compos » ing·email·messages.
Re: newbie question: problem with libpng2
On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 02:23:07PM -0700, Sunil Pandey wrote: I am trying to install libpng2 1.0.5-1 on my machine. However when I do: dpkg --install libpng2_1.0.5-1.deb it tells me that libpng2 depends on libz1 and that libz1 is not installed. However, according to the debian site, libpng2 depends on zlib1g which I have already installed on my system. How do I get thru this.. Sunil File a bug report if there isn't one already. That dependency should be fixed. -- ¶ One·should·only·use·the·ASCII·characterset·when·compos » ing·email·messages.
Re: One Lp, problem solved! But where do parms go?
On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 05:08:06PM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: I posted a question here a while ago asking how to configure the system to use only one of three LP ports that I have. (on potato) I found out the answer, and it's not what anyone else mentioned. I had to give parport_pc the following module argument: io=0x378 I had to then give lp the following module argument: parport1,none,none This was figured out by running modinfo -p on lp.o and parport_pc.o (I also figure how how to configure my sb module that way!) Now I have a question...where are the module parameters given to modconf stored. They are NOT in /etc/modules as the comments there seem to indicate. Does modconf actually modify the module binary? Or is there another configuration file someplace? Check out /etc/modutils/aliases Only edit the files there, then run update-modules, which will create a modified /etc/modules.conf for you (which is the file actually read by insmod and friends). -- ¶ One·should·only·use·the·ASCII·characterset·when·compos » ing·email·messages.
Re: dselect
On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 03:43:37PM +0200, admar wrote: Hello. I'm using Debian potato on my laptop at school where I have a fast and free internet connection. At another computer at home, I'm using Debian slink. I would like to put potato on that computer to, but that one has no fast free connection. That computer uses some packages not installed my laptop. I would like to be able to download and not install those packages on my laptop, then use apt-move to put them on the ftp of my laptop and upgrade the other computer. It would also be nice if those packages were automatically updated on my laptop every time I update the installed packages on my laptop. Does anyone know a solution? apt-zip ? -- Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com What part of Gestalt don't you understand? http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ PGP fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0
mouse
I'm installing corel linux on yet another machine, this time for a web server, and from the start the mouse did not work. It's a standard two button mouse, com1 interface, works under windows, so why would corel not initialize this mouse? How do I install the mouse? Thanks Chris Mason Box 340, The Valley, Anguilla, British West Indies Tel: 264 497 5670 Fax: 264 497 8463 USA Fax (561) 382-7771 Take a virtual tour of the island http://net.ai/ The Anguilla Guide Find out more about NetConcepts www.netconcepts.ai bwz*mq
Re: mouse
On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 10:09:32PM -0400, Chris Mason wrote: I'm installing corel linux on yet another machine, this time for a web server, and from the start the mouse did not work. It's a standard two button mouse, com1 interface, works under windows, so why would corel not initialize this mouse? How do I install the mouse? Thanks Never heard of a standard two-button mouse. You'll need to be a little more specific. When you say com1 I'm guessing you mean the serial interface /dev/ttyS0. So, try that as the device for starters. Then, you may need to use something like the Bus Mouse or Logitech Mouse driver. If you have XF86Setup installed or (Xmseconfig for just mouse properties) try playing around with different settings until you find one that works (you'll want to enable Emulate 3 button mouse). If you still can't get it to work, please specify the exact type of mouse and the interface it connects to (guessing serial port). -- ¶ One·should·only·use·the·ASCII·characterset·when·compos » ing·email·messages.
installation
I am attempting to install Debian on my machine, only during the normal boot, it hangs up. The last line is NCR53c406: no available ports found I am not new to Linux, but am to Debian, and I have several friends who run Debian, and they are stumped. My machine is an AMD Athlon 600 with 128 RAM, ASUS K7M mboard, 20 GB IBM HDD. Any help or insight would be appreciated :-) Thanks a lot! Josh
problems with apt-get upgrade slink - potato
I tried to do a slink-potato upgrade, I put the potato debian site in /etc/apt/sources.list, and let go with atp-get update -- works fine... apt-get dist-upgrade -- problems... Each time I would only get a few files, but after 15-20 tries, I seem to have almost everything; almost.. But it still seems stuck, some help please? apt-get suggests: --fix-missing but then reports that this is an invalid option. Gregory Guthrie -- csgrg.root(518) apt-get dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Calculating Upgrade... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: timezones libmd5-perl perl libpam0g-util perl-suid libsnmp3.6 netstd The following NEW packages will be installed: libncurses5 traceroute perl-5.004-base libwrap0 libpam-modules perl-5.004 perl-5.005 ruptime liburi-perl libpam-runtime rusers rsh-server java-common perl-5.004-suid tcpd rdate cfingerd perl-5.004-doc tftp finger libstdc++2.10 icmpinfo rwho bootpc rdist ftp rwall perl-5.005-base rwhod fping libsnmp4.1 tcl8.2 tk8.2 rsh-client debconf libreadline4 nfs-common pidentd liblockfile1 169 packages upgraded, 39 newly installed, 7 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 15.9kB/63.2MB of archives. After unpacking 58.2MB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Err http://http.us.debian.org potato/main talk 0.10-6 404 Not Found Failed to fetch http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/net/talk_0.10-6.deb 404 Not Found E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe try with --fix-missing? Dr. Gregory Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] (515)472-1125 Fax: -1103 Computer Science Department College of Science and Technology Maharishi University of Management (Maharishi International University 1971-1995) http://www.mum.edu/cs_dept
Re: problems with apt-get upgrade slink - potato
atp-get update-- works fine... apt-get dist-upgrade -- problems... Each time I would only get a few files, but after 15-20 tries, I seem to have almost everything; almost.. Run update again if that fails find out if you are behind one of those defective HTTP proxies :| Jason
Re: Proper environment settings`
On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 12:20:31PM -0500, Dan Myers wrote:
Hiya,
Can someone give me the best route to change the PATH variable when inside an
xsession. Changing such things as .bashrc and .profile etc don't seem like
the
answer to me? Both for root and users.
basically your using {x,w}dm and finding that your ~/.profile and
friends are being ignored. this is due to these display managers
being broken (IMO) by not reading any of the user's environment (or
even /etc/profile) when setting up the session. the solution assuming
your bash is not broken (some older potato versions were) is changing
the first line of /etc/X11/Xsession from #! /bin/bash to
#! /bin/bash --login
this will solve the problem so long as the user uses bash unfortunatly
not for other shells.
TIA
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Re: need info for confused ISP
Wasn't there some statistics in the last few days about isp downtime in Germany? I think it was a link on Linuxtoday Andrew On Sat, 15 Apr 2000, Pollywog wrote: On 14-Apr-2000 20:36:53 Vitux wrote: Well over a year ago, I saw somewhere on the net that there was an experiment comparing the hacker-seurity of a linux-server to a windohs. That was when I started getting into Linux: everyone was invited to try to break the servers. NT was killed in 2 days, I believe. Linux was never. Probably not much use to you, but quite a little snickersnicker story... I did mention this to them today, since I remember this too. In one of their e-mails, one of their tech support people told me that one of her/his friends did a similar experiment and the friend's machine was taken down in a few minutes. It seems now that they do understand that this happens because the server is not properly configured, not because Linux has inherent security holes. thanks -- Andrew -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: install help with a SCSI CDROM on a 486
ummm... does it say something like no pci bios found in the bootup messages? I had a compaq 486 that had scsi and net built in and never could get linux to run on it. Compaq had done something funny with the pci bios. It was located above normal accessable memory. There was a tool to relocate the pci bios down to where it was supposed to go (available for download from compaq). This was back in the deb 1.1 or 1.2 days (just after the switch to elf). The it says something that no pci found as well is correct since it only has ISA, the SCSI card is not builtin but was a bought Adaptec. The program is called movepci you need to load movepci.sys with DOS prior to loading Linux. A common problem also with Netware since this patch was originally for it. I really don't think that this is the problem since the SCSI card is a typical ISA card(i.e. IRQ 10, mem add 0x140, SCSI adapter#7). The problem is that Linux doesn't find on autoprobe and you must pass the parameters to it. The problem is that I cannot find a straight definitive answer on where this is done. This is starting to remind me of trying to get an honest answer out of a politician.
Re: need info for confused ISP
We e-mailed back and forth a few times and it came out that what they meant was that they don't know anything about Linux and that trying to run it would be a security risk because they don't know how to configure it. -- Andrew On 15-Apr-2000 03:05:35 George Bonser wrote: Well, then, tell them to try Solaris. It works on Intel Hardware. The fist thing I would ask them, though, is for them to document exactly what security holes they are talking about. Then ask them why Linux is so often used as a firewall to protect NT from the internet.
perl-base package of wrong version?
When I do dpkg -l 'perl*' I get the following (abbreviated): Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name VersionDescription +++-==-==- pn perl none (no description available) pn perl-5.004 none (no description available) pn perl-5.004-bas none (no description available) pn perl-5.004-deb none (no description available) pn perl-5.004-doc none (no description available) pn perl-5.004-sui none (no description available) ii perl-5.005 5.005.03-4 Larry Wall's Practical Extracting and Report ii perl-5.005-bas 5.005.03-4 The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister pn perl-5.005-deb none (no description available) ii perl-5.005-doc 5.005.03-4 Man pages and pod docs for Perl ii perl-5.005-sui 5.005.03-4 Runs setuid Perl scripts. pn perl-5.005-thr none (no description available) ii perl-base 5.004.05-1 Fake package assuring that one of the -base I also just did apt-get update perl-base prior to this. I'm a little confused why perl-base is 5.004 instead of 5.005. Initially I thought it was an obsolete package, replaced by the perl-5.005.base one, but if I do a dpkg --purge perl-base it won't let me, saying this package is essential. Can anyone enlighten me on what's going on? Thanks. Confusedly yours, -- Maciej Kalisiak | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~mac [McQ] PGP-finger|www; (0x39AC36F5) 9F BB 9E 11 F0 1E 5D 20 0B 31 3D 37 47 D0 67 C7 GE/CS d- s++:+ a- C++(+++) ULAI++ P+++ L+++ E+++ W++ N- o? K? !w--- O- M- V-- PS PE+ Y+ PGP+ t+ 5 !X-- R+ tv-- b+ DI+ G+ e+++(*) h--- r+++ y?
/dev/mem and /dev/kmem
Hey, I wasn't ever able to change resolutions during my x session (unless I was in root), so I just gave up after a while. I downloaded snes9x recently, though, and it gives me warns me that: /dev/mem: permission denied. I've already added myself to the kmem group, so I don't know what else to do (besides changing permisions, but I wasn't sure if that would be a good idea). What can I do? Thanks, Cameron Matheson
Linux Network Problem.
Dear sir, Good morning. I'm a Debian Linux new user and currently I'm facing some problem with my network connection. I followed the instruction from Linux installation help, (resc1440.bin,root.bin,base2_1.tgz,loadlin.exe,install).i'd use the files (above) to install in my PC (Pentium II) and type install , then step by step to configure the Linux. After install , the network is unreachable. May i know what is the problem and how to set up my network for the PC so that my PC(Linux) can connect to the other server (UNIX). I'm using utp cable and 3com network card. Besides, I cannot use the 'man' help in Linux after i had installed the Linux in my PC. What is the file need to be copied or executed so that I can use 'man' command in Linux environment. Thank you for help. Linux User. __ Do You Yahoo!? Send online invitations with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com
Re: network oddity
On Sat, Apr 15, 2000 at 12:06:01AM +, Jim Breton wrote: On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 06:31:02PM -0600, David Karlin wrote: Hello, I have a slink box which has been running great. It was up for over 45 days without a hitch. The box does ipmasq-ing (among other tasks) for my lan, but when it is booted, it won't respond to a ping, telnet, ftp, or http request until I make a network connection _from_ that box (eg. ping another box on the lan, or make a PPP connection to my ISP). Anyone else had this happen? I've never had that happen... but I wonder if it might be a module that is being loaded on-demand by the box, in which case the box can't know that it's needed until one of the local processes needs that module. When you boot the machine, run lsmod and take a look at what modules are loaded before the networking starts to work. Then perform some network operations and run lsmod again. Are the lists different? I ran lsmod before and after. No change. :-/ -- David Karlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Debian GNU/Linux
Re: need info for confused ISP
On 15-Apr-2000 04:26:22 George Bonser wrote: Why would you go with an NT ISP in the first place? I sure hope they don't have your credit card number :-o Using NT doesn't make them crooks (just stupid?), but if they have credit card numbers on one of the machines that runs a program that has one of those MS backdoor passwords, those credit card numbers are not safe. -- Andrew
Re: need info for confused ISP
On 15-Apr-2000 04:26:22 George Bonser wrote: On Sat, 15 Apr 2000, Pollywog wrote: We e-mailed back and forth a few times and it came out that what they meant was that they don't know anything about Linux and that trying to run it would be a security risk because they don't know how to configure it. Point out that NT is a security risk even if you KNOW how to configure it :) Because the source is closed, there could be any number of :backdoors and potential exploits that only Microsoft and the bad guys know about. You probably read about the backdoor in some MS products, a password that some MS employees put in the software, which allows those people to access servers and steal data from them. Why would you go with an NT ISP in the first place? I sure hope they don't have your credit card number :-o No, I didn't. They contacted me after reading a reply of mine to a question asked on a mailing list. They should have e-mailed the original poster but they e-mailed me instead. I did not have them host my domain precisely because they are an NT ISP, but I did not tell them so until today. -- Andrew
Re: Linux Network Problem.
On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 09:41:05PM -0700, Chen WC wrote: Dear sir, They are a few madams on this mailing list as well (your mail got forwared to debian-user@lists.debian.org, if you couldn't tell.). Good morning. I'm a Debian Linux new user and currently I'm facing some problem with my network connection. I followed the instruction from Linux installation help, (resc1440.bin,root.bin,base2_1.tgz,loadlin.exe,install).i'd use the files (above) to install in my PC (Pentium II) and type install , then step by step to configure the Linux. After install , the network is unreachable. May i know what is the problem and how to set up my network for the PC so that my PC(Linux) can connect to the other server (UNIX). I'm using utp cable and 3com network card. Can you be a little more specific about which 3com card? Do you know if it's an ISA or PCI card. Some of the newer 3com cards require a driver that you must download separately from 3com. I'm guessing you got the base system installed, but you didn't configure a network install (otherwise your network would be configured already!). If you have an older 3com card, it may be you'll need to find the driver that works for it and then specify some settings like IO and IRQ. Please respond to the list *only* with the exact model of your 3com card, then someone can direct you appropriately. Besides, I cannot use the 'man' help in Linux after i had installed the Linux in my PC. What is the file need to be copied or executed so that I can use 'man' command in Linux environment. Thank you for help. You do not have a fully functioning system yet. Well, it functions, but only the bare minimum of software is installed. So, you don't have the mandb package yet, and, hence, can't use 'man'. The boot floppy install is a two-part process. First you install the base system, then you reboot, select the packages (or tasks) you want to install, and then install and configure them. -- ¶ One·should·only·use·the·ASCII·characterset·when·compos » ing·email·messages.
