napster won't work after new 2.2.15 kernel

[jerry j jaskierny]

napster was working fine under my 2.2.14 kernel.  but then i compiled the new 
2.2.15 kernel with ip masq and firewalling capabilities, which i previously did 
not have.  now, i can't download anything.  can someone give me a hand?  
thanks.  jer


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how to talk to MySQL using PERL

[Sibuyas]

hi !

   i was just wondering what package do i need so that PERL can talk to MySQL


thanks,
Sib

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Re: entering non-ASCII characters in xemacs

[Christopher Mosley]

On 9 May 2000, Brian May wrote:

> Ok, I would have thought this would be easy, but how. eg how do I
> enter latan characters with accents, such as ?, ?, etc, with a
> standard US type keyboard?
> 
> Cutting and pasting from netscape works fine, but not quite what I had
> in mind ;-).
> 
> I get the impression that this requires the mule version of xemacs,
> which I have installed, but I can only see several input methods for
> Japanese. Does this mean Japanese and ASCII characters are the only
> characters sets directly supported by Debian? Surely not.
> 
> So what am I missing/confused about/forgetting/loosing?
> -- 
> Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> 
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> 


The character that is displayed depends on the character set that
is being used. To enter a character in emacs not mapped to a key use
Control q and the octal number of that character. 

  cmos

Re: Procmail question-

[brian moore]

On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 02:39:47PM -0800, Adam Shand wrote:
> 
> > Well there is a problem with this rule, it searches the entire email for
> > VBS.  All i want it to search for is the attachment of a file name with
> > the extension of .vbs Okay can this be done?  Im sure it can, just i can
> > not find any info on how to make it do this.  Can someone purdy please
> > help me :)
> 
> procmail doesn't understand mime so there is no way to tell it "delete
> attachments which end with .vbs".  however what you can do is use a rule
> like the below one.  we've been using this rule since the virus came out and
> it's been working pretty well (caught almost 500 copies of it).

true.  procmail ain't ideal for this, but it's the best tool around
without loading perl on every MIME'd mail.

> :0
> * < 5
> {
> 
> :0 B:
> * .*(name=.*\.vbs|[EMAIL PROTECTED]).*
> /share/etc/ILOVEYOU
> }

I find this one is a bit safer (though slightly more complex) -- note
that your filter will match your mail as well as this one.

:0
*^Content-type: (multipart/mixed|application/octet-stream)
{
:0 B
*^Content-Disposition: (attachment|inline);
*filename=".*\.(vbs|wsf)"
{
   :0 fbw
   |/usr/bin/sed -e 's/\([nN][aA][mM][eE]=".*\.[vV][bB][sS]\)"/\1.txt"/' \
 -e 's/\([nN][aA][mM][eE]=".*\.[wW][sS][fF]\)"/\1.txt"/'

}
}

This will rename 'foo.vbs' to 'foo.vbs.txt', which breaks the
auto-execution.  It's relatively lightweight, so you can leave it in
(sadly, I still pick up a couple of happy99's a day still).

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[tony.de_furia@cgi.ca: Re: Network KDE Printing and Application Printing]

[John Bagdanoff]

- Forwarded message from Tony De Furia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -

Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 13:32:21 -0400
From: Tony De Furia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Organization: CGI 
X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.14-storm i586)
X-Accept-Language: en
To: John Bagdanoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Network KDE Printing and Application Printing




Here is my Printcap


lp|Generic dot-matrix printer entry:\
:lp=/dev/lp1
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
:df=/etc/filter.ps:\
:tf=/etc/filter.pcl:\
:af=/var/log/lp-acct:\
:lf=/var/log/lp-errs:\
:pl#66:\
:pw#80:\
:pc#150:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:

Networked LJ5|dj|deskjet:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/remote:\
:rm=142.182.55.180:\
:rp=text:\
:lp=/dev/null:\
:sh:
--
How do I tell if I  have Potato or Slink?

I'm trying to print from Netscape & Adobe applications.

The printer is a networked printer HP Laserjet 5SiMX.

It has a jetdirect card and I beleive it has an LP Daemon running
as I am able to print to it using TCP/IP printing in NT 4.0


If you need more info., let me know.

Tony.



John Bagdanoff wrote:


the experts (not me :)) here can help you, include more specific

> info, such as:
>
> /etc/printcap file
>
> potato or slink
>
> what command you are invoking to print
>
> what apps you are trying to print from.
>
> What kind of printer you are printing to.
>
> John
>
> On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 05:41:22AM -0400, Tony De Furia wrote:
> > Having installed Debian Linux on my system at work,
> > I'm interested in getting printouts.
> >
> > I've read the HOWTO's for printing but have not had success so far.
> >
> > I've modified my printcap file but when I go to check the queue, there's
> > nothing there.
> >
> > I also had a friend mention that there is a difference in printing from
> > the KDE
> > interface and an application.  Namely he could print from  KDE  but not
> > from Netscape Mail or
> > Adobe and the like.
> >
> > Could someone point me in the right direction on this as I haven't been
> > able to find anything
> > outlining the difference and how to configure linus so that network
> > printing will work in both
> > senarios.
> >
> > Tony De Furia.
> >
> >
> > --
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Re: icecast

[ktb]

A quick search at --

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

shows that the client and server exist for frozen and unstable but not
for stable.  
hth,
kent


[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> Anyone have any debs for icecast for slink (still... current stable :-)
> 
> I'll install via source if needed but I do like to stick with debs. Thanx
> 
> -Rob

entering non-ASCII characters in xemacs21

[Brian May]

Ok, I would have thought this would be easy, but how. eg how do I
enter latan characters with accents, such as é, ö, etc, with a
standard US type keyboard?

Cutting and pasting from netscape works fine, but not quite what I had
in mind ;-).

I get the impression that this requires the mule version of xemacs,
which I have installed, but I can only see several input methods for
Japanese. Does this mean Japanese and ASCII characters are the only
characters sets directly supported by Debian? Surely not.

So what am I missing/confused about/forgetting/loosing?
-- 
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OT: ODBC driver recomendation

[Felipe Alvarez Harnecker]

Hi,

I need an ODBC driver for debian to talk to an M$ SQL Server trough
Perl DBI->DBD:ODBC 

Can you recommend one of those things??

Thanks.

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How to optimize for speedy calcs?

[Brendel, Rob]

Hi -

I've recently installed Debian 2.1 on my desktop machine (Pentium Pro 200,
64 MB RAM, 64 MB swap), dual-booting with WinNT.  I made the switch to use
Scilab under Linux for the easy linking to Fortran object files.  (Showing
my age...)

One problem:  My Scilab code runs about half as fast in Linux as it does in
WinNT.  This is for identical Scilab-only code (no linking) on the identical
machine.  How can I speed things up?  In both OS's I installed binaries for
Pentium machines, but compiling from source is an option for the Linux port
of Scilab.  Would that make any difference?

Scilab is an X11 application; I'm using fvwm2, which I understand is pretty
light.

Any tips or pointers to helpful info would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Rob Brendel

Re: Procmail question-

[Adam Shand]

> Well there is a problem with this rule, it searches the entire email for
> VBS.  All i want it to search for is the attachment of a file name with
> the extension of .vbs Okay can this be done?  Im sure it can, just i can
> not find any info on how to make it do this.  Can someone purdy please
> help me :)

procmail doesn't understand mime so there is no way to tell it "delete
attachments which end with .vbs".  however what you can do is use a rule
like the below one.  we've been using this rule since the virus came out and
it's been working pretty well (caught almost 500 copies of it).


PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
LOGFILE=/share/etc/procmail.log

:0:
* ^Subject: ILOVEYOU
/share/etc/ILOVEYOU

:0:
* .*name=.*\.vbs.*
/share/etc/ILOVEYOU

:0
* < 5
{

:0 B:
* .*(name=.*\.vbs|[EMAIL PROTECTED]).*
/share/etc/ILOVEYOU
}


if you make /share/etc/ILOVEYOU a directory procmail will deliver each
message to a seperate file in that directory.  the "< 5" means that for
messages which fail the above header check it only scans the first 50k of
the body for matching text.

adam.

Re: Unzipping utility

[Cory T. Echols]

On 05/08, Cameron Matheson wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> I used to have an unzipping utility (for .zip files) called unzip that I
> got from cnet.com.  I couldn't find it anymore, so I was wondering if
> anyone knew where I could get it.
> 
> Thanks
> Cameron Matheson
> 

InfoZIP's unzip and zip utilities for PKZIP style compressed files
are available as debian packages.

Do an "apt-get install unzip" and "apt-get install zip" to install
them.  zip is in section "utils" but for some reason unzip is in
"non-free/utils"

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cd

[Chris Mason]

Is there anywhere I can download a complete I386 set of files for potato?

Chris Mason
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Tel: 264 497 5670 Fax: 264 497 8463
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Re: Unzipping utility

[Marcin Kurc]

apt-get install unzip

On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 04:18:00PM -0600, Cameron Matheson wrote: 
> Hey,
> 
> I used to have an unzipping utility (for .zip files) called unzip that I
> got from cnet.com.  I couldn't find it anymore, so I was wondering if
> anyone knew where I could get it.
> 
> Thanks
> Cameron Matheson
> 

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Unzipping utility

[Cameron Matheson]

Hey,

I used to have an unzipping utility (for .zip files) called unzip that I
got from cnet.com.  I couldn't find it anymore, so I was wondering if
anyone knew where I could get it.

Thanks
Cameron Matheson

Setup

[Noel Hunter]

When I insert the floppy disk that comes with the zip drive into the drive
"A" and do a A:\setup in windows, the message is "Unable to find the setup
instructions".

re: cable modem

[massa confusa]

Hi Sven,

Thanks for responding to my question, I do appreciate it.  I have tried
what you suggested and this is what I got:

>>I installed dhcpcd and it appears to start on startup.
>Is it really up? A "ps x|grep dhcpcd" will do for that.

When I did that it said:
183  1   S  0:00 grep dhcpcd
When I did it again it said nothing.

>Looks like your card has been identified, but has simply not been given
>any IP yet.
>In that case try "killall dhcpcd; dhcpcd eth0".

When I did that it said:
no process killed

The reason I thought dhcpcd was up is because on startup it says:
Starting DHCP client daemon:  dhcpcd

and on shutdown it says:
Stopping DHCP client daemon:  dhcpcd

One thing I noticed was that the man pages mentions two files that are
supposed to exist with DHCP that I dont have:

/etc/dhcpc/host-eth0
/var/run/dhcpcd-cashe.eth0

Do you have any more ideas?

Thanks again,
Mary

Re: Anybody running Wordperfect 8 on potato?

[Jonathan Markevich]

On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 01:18:25PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote:

> > > I had Wordperfect running without problem on my Slink system.
> > > However, since I upgraded partially to potato, Wordperfect segfaults.
> > > I have tried reinstalling the slink xpm4.7, but without any solution
> > > to my problem.
> > > 
> > I don't know what's wrong; we have WP8 on slink (w/ xlib6, xpm4.7),
> > potato, and woody. Maybe you should re-install WP?
>  
> I have tried that already :(
> 
> Thanks anyhow.

Have you tried installing xpm4g?  I have it working here...

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over all the fruits of the earth.  When one has tasted it, he knows what the
angels eat.  It was not a Southern watermelon that Eve took; we know it because
she repented.
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Re: efm window manager

[Gary Hennigan]

"Joseph de los Santos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am trying to install efm and I was wondering if the required package libz 
> by efm is the same as libzvt (the zterm widjet?) or libzephr? or maybe it's 
> something else? I can't find the exact libz package itself on the debian ftp 
> site. My next question is the package gdbm that is required also by efm, I 
> have searched gdbm and I came up with lots of
> contents release.which one should I choose? libgdbmg1-dev? or python-gdbm? 
> or both? or maybe none of the above?

I don't know anything about efm, but libz is a compression library
and, oddly enough, can be find in the zlib1 Debian package.

Gary

RE: efm window manager

[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry]

On 08-May-2000 Joseph de los Santos wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to install efm and I was wondering if the required package libz 
> by efm is the same as libzvt (the zterm widjet?) or libzephr? or maybe it's 
> something else? I can't find the exact libz package itself on the debian ftp 
> site. My next question is the package gdbm that is required also by efm, I 
> have searched gdbm and I came up with lots of
> contents release.which one should I choose? libgdbmg1-dev? or python-gdbm? 
> or both? or maybe none of the above?
> 

zlib is what you want.  python gdbm is for the python language, use the
libgdbm?? packages.

Be aware that efm WILL become part of E, so if you don't use E don't get used
to using efm.

efm window manager

[Joseph de los Santos]

Hello,

I am trying to install efm and I was wondering if the required package libz 
by efm is the same as libzvt (the zterm widjet?) or libzephr? or maybe it's 
something else? I can't find the exact libz package itself on the debian ftp 
site. My next question is the package gdbm that is required also by efm, I 
have searched gdbm and I came up with lots of
contents release.which one should I choose? libgdbmg1-dev? or python-gdbm? 
or both? or maybe none of the above?


Any insight would be helpful.

Thank you.

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boa logging

[r3ck]

Is there a way to tell boa not to log local connections?  I
use boa & dwww quite heavily to browse local documentation and
access_log gets filled with this stuff.  I'd still like to log
external connections but it seems that it's both or nothing.

Re: ICQ

[Christophe TROESTLER]

On Mon, 08 May 2000, Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> Can anyone recommend an ICQ app? I heard KICQ lacks a lot of feature
> and won't let you create new accounts.

I personally use gnomeicu (http://gnomeicu.gdev.net/) which is well
featured but I heard some people like ICQnix
(http://icqnix.linuxave.net/) whose look is closer to the Windows
client.

ChriS

Re: ICQ

[Pollywog]

On 08-May-2000 20:11:28 Ron Farrer wrote:
> Daniel Burrows ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> 
>> Can anyone recommend an ICQ app? I heard KICQ lacks a lot of
>> feature and
>> won't let you create new accounts.
> 
> gnomeicu works fine here. There is also licq which uses the *gulp*
> QT libs. 

You can get the gtk-licq plugin from http://gtk.licq.org if you don't
want to use the QT stuff.

--
Andrew

RE: ICQ

[Pollywog]

On 08-May-2000 20:54:16 Daniel Burrows wrote:
> 
> Can anyone recommend an ICQ app? I heard KICQ lacks a lot of
> feature and
> won't let you create new accounts.

Licq is great  http://www.licq.org

--
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Re: Procmail question-

[Oswald Buddenhagen]

> Well there is a problem with this rule, it searches the entire email for
> VBS.  All i want it to search for is the attachment of a file name with the
> extension of .vbs  Okay can this be done?   Im sure it can, just i can not
> find any info on how to make it do this.  Can someone purdy please help me
> :)
> 
afaik, procmail is not able to understand mime (the format, in
which attachements are sent).
you would have to pipe your mails through a script, which uses some
mime-tools (eg, mime-construct, which also has a mimedecode).
i didn't try anything in that direction, so this is only an idea.

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Re: how to remove portma and rpc statd?

[Oswald Buddenhagen]

> When I do top, two programs show up which I want to remove.
> These programs are: portmap and rpc_statd.
portmap ist started from /etc/rcS.d/S??portmap - just remove the link.
i don't know about the other daemon. it's possibly in the nfs-packages,
which you should un-install.

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Re: #filename#

[Sebastian Canagaratna]

I found that I could remove it with rm \#*

Sebastian Canagaratna
Departmentof Chemistry
Ohio NOrthern University
Ada, OH 45810

> On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 03:35:55PM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
> > I created a C file with gcc, then I tried to remove it, but what it
> > shows is
> > #primo.c#  HPdesktop   kernel-2.13  log.002
> > AdobeFnt.lst   communicator  game.001  lilo.ps  nsmail
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
> > My questions:
> > 1.What does it mean, #file#?
> 




> 
> > 2. How do I remove it?
> 






> 
> 
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> 

upgrade broken

[Chris Mason]

I am using CorelLinux 1.0 and I tried using dselect to upgrade to unstable.
After all the packages were downloaded, and install started, there were a
lot fo errors somehting like "such and such is not owned by root".
I rebooted and not I get a login prompt but no password prmopt. I can't ssh
into the box and it's not on the network.
Short of trashing the installation what can I do?

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Tel: 264 497 5670 Fax: 264 497 8463
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Re: ICQ

[Mike Werner]

On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 08:54:16PM +, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> 
> Can anyone recommend an ICQ app? I heard KICQ lacks a lot of feature and
> won't let you create new accounts.

I'm using Everybuddy - since I have accounts with ICQ, AIM, *and* Yahoo
Messenger, Everybuddy let's me do all of 'em from one app.  It's under
quite heavy development.  I'm using the version from Woody, and the only
negative quirk I've found is that sometimes it won't start right.  I have
to kill it and restart it.  But once I've done that it works quite nicely.
I'm not sure if it can create new accounts or not - take a look at:
http://www.everybuddy.com
for all the details.
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ICQ# 12934898 |  "As far from Redmond as possible!"
'91 GS500E|
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Re: #filename#

[Mike Werner]

On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 03:35:55PM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
> I created a C file with gcc, then I tried to remove it, but what it
> shows is
> #primo.c#  HPdesktop   kernel-2.13  log.002
> AdobeFnt.lst   communicator  game.001  lilo.ps  nsmail
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
> My questions:
> 1.What does it mean, #file#?

That's most likely an Emacs/XEmacs auto-save file.  Usually they are
automatically removed when Emacs/XEmacs exits or when the file is
manually saved.  But sometimes they stick around and must be manually
removed.

> 2. How do I remove it?

rm #*# has always done it for me.
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Re: ICQ

[Ron Farrer]

Daniel Burrows ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

> Can anyone recommend an ICQ app? I heard KICQ lacks a lot of feature and
> won't let you create new accounts.

gnomeicu works fine here. There is also licq which uses the *gulp* QT libs. 
:( 


HTH,

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ICQ

[Daniel Burrows]

Can anyone recommend an ICQ app? I heard KICQ lacks a lot of feature and
won't let you create new accounts.


Thanks.

CADD program

[Fish Smith]

Can anyone recommend a good computer aided drafting
and deisign program for X?

Furthermore, i am attempting to make a script to log
in to a machine automatically by having a file with a
user name and null password and using it with a <
redirector for standard input. But neither getty nor
login will accept stdin redirection and I can't find
the source for login in the source tree of the debian
ftp.  What's up?

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bsd can't see disk (and neither can linux)

[hawk47]

After about a year and a half, suddenly my maxtor 8.4G drive
is unusable by both freebsd and linux.  I have a small linux
partition on the first partition/slice, windows 3.1 for the
kids on the second, and freebsd on the third.  The FreeBSD is
3.4, while the linux is about a two years out of date debian
with ufs support.

For several months, the bsd bootloader has been unable to remember
that it should boot from the third rather than the first, and
had to be manually told to boot from the third on every boot.

Linux continued to work during that period.

Suddenly, freebsd can no longer boot at all.  It fails to find the
slice when attempting to switch the root device.  Booting from
the installation disks returns the message that no disk was found when
I try to mount/partition.

Linux has a similar behavior, but doesn't pause long enough for me
to see the messages :(  I get a kernel panic during boot, which seems
to be for failing to find the device it is trying to mount.  It
has the same response when lilo is told to boot single user.

The bottom line on the behavior is that windows works normally,
and that the bootloaders for both *nices are able to read the disk
but that both *nices are unable to find the hard drive at mount
time.

I've rechecked and reconnected the cables a couple of times.

Any ideas?  And if all else fails, is there a dos or windows
program that can read a UFS partition?

NsoOthing critical is on the machine--except, of course, my completed
tax return.  For the first time in over ten years I was ready on
the regular deadline, and had to file an extension.   (OK, a
couple of other critical things, but they're backed up in multiple
places.  )

rick, perplexed

#filename#

[Antonio Rodriguez]

I created a C file with gcc, then I tried to remove it, but what it
shows is
#primo.c#  HPdesktop   kernel-2.13  log.002
AdobeFnt.lst   communicator  game.001  lilo.ps  nsmail
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
My questions:
1.What does it mean, #file#?
2. How do I remove it?
Thanks,
Antonio.

Re: MySQL vs user www-data

[w trillich]

Christian Hammers wrote:
> > > On Sun, May 07, 2000 at 09:48:00PM -0500, w trillich wrote:
> > 'course, my DBILog routine in apache is still broke, after the
> > reinstall.
> You deinstalled libdbd-mysql-perl, if I remember correctly.

good eye. i probably forgot to include the reinstall in my post.

# dpkg -l libdbd\*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name  VersionDescription
+++-=-==-=
ii  libdbd-csv-perl   0.1022-1   perl DBD::CSV - DBI driver for CSV files
ii  libdbd-mysql-perl 1.2202-4   mySQL database interface for Perl
ii  libdbd-pg-perl0.93-2 a PostgreSQL interface for Perl 5
using DBI.


okay. i do have mysql working _via cgi/perlrun_; but the DBILog facility
handler gizmo is still dying. i'm on the scent, tho--

select * from [mysql.]user ; shows that www-data does
have select/insert/update/delete permissions; besides 'user'
only the 'db' table contains records (for the test set, i see).


from httpd.conf (my only apache conf file, these days):
PerlInitHandler Stonehenge::DBILog

i output debug stuff to a log file:
[Mon May  8 13:54:22 2000] null: DBI->connect failed: 
Access denied for user: '@localhost' to database 'will' 
at /usr/local/lib/site_perl/Stonehenge/DBILog.pm line 87
DSN=dbi:mysql:will; DB_AUTH=www-data

in Stonehenge/DBILog.pm (line 87, where it panics):
my $dbh = DBI->connect($DSN, $DB_AUTH, "", { RaiseError => 1 });

note that "user: '@localhost'" doesn't have a username?
is it ignoring $DB_AUTH on the connect for some reason...?

why i tryied my cgi script as www-data it breaks with the same
problem; but the other authorized usernames work fine.

aha. i tried
% mysql -u www-data
ERROR 1045: Access denied for user: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' (Using
password: YES)
% mysql -u www-data -p
Enter password: [empty password]
Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 255 to server version: 3.22.32-log

Type 'help' for help.

mysql> show databases ;
+---+
| Database  |
+---+
| mysql |
| mysql-new |
| test  |
+---+
4 rows in set (0.00 sec)

mysql> \u test
Database changed
mysql> \u mysql
ERROR 1044: Access denied for user: '@localhost' to database 'mysql'
mysql> Bye
% mysql
Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 256 to server version: 3.22.32-log

Type 'help' for help.

mysql> \u mysql
Database changed
mysql> select * from user where user='www-data';
[edited for readability]
Host%
Userwww-data
Password
Select_priv Y
Insert_priv Y
Update_priv Y
Delete_priv Y
Create_priv n
Drop_priv   n
Reload_priv n
Shutdown_priv   n
Process_privn
File_priv   n
Grant_priv  n
References_priv n
Index_priv  n
Alter_priv  n

1 row in set (0.00 sec)

mysql> Bye

how do i find the catch? what permission is missing?
(and why does it report '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' vs '@localhost'?)


--


[plus, in /var/log/apache/errors.log i still get
[Mon May  8 13:58:01 2000] [error] [Mon May  8 13:58:01 2000] null:
Can't locate object method "log" via package "Apache" at
/usr/local/lib/site_perl/Stonehenge/DBILog.pm line 95.

which refers to the perl code
package Stonehenge::DBILog;
...
sub handler { my $r = shift;
...
$r->log->error("dbi: $@");  # <== boom
...
}
]

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Re: cable modem

[Sven Burgener]

Hi all

>I am a newbie with a newly installed slink.  I am trying to get online
>(Cable Modem - Road Runner) but not having much luck.

Have set up one, too, just not Road Runner. First had some
incompatibility problem with "dhclient", so I ended up using "dhcpcd".

>I installed dhcpcd and it appears to start on startup.

Is it really up? A "ps x|grep dhcpcd" will do for that.

>eth0   Linkencap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:CC:25:68:A0:CC:25:68:A0
>   unspec addr:[NONE SET] Bcast:[NONE SET] Mask:[NONE SET]

Looks like your card has been identified, but has simply not been given
any IP yet.
In that case try "killall dhcpcd; dhcpcd eth0".
Whilst doing that, I suggest you "tail -f /var/log/messages" on a
different terminal. That should be fairly informative.

>dmesg gives alternating:
>
>eth0:  Changing PNIC configuration to half-duplex, CSR6 0042
>eth0:  Changing PNIC configuration to half-duplex, CSR6  0186

Dunno whether that's a problem...? Doesn't sound like it, anyway.

Tell me if this helped...

HTH
Sven

Re: Choosing Packages?

[John Stevenson]

One way to emulate the 'initial install' package group selection is to find and
install packages that have the 'task-' name, such as task-debian-devel.  This 
will
bring up a dependancy list of things that are useful if you want to develop 
debian
packages.

In case you dont know, use the / key to enter a search. keyword, then the \ key 
to
continue the search for the same task- name.

Johnny.

Geopoliticus wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have a few questions about dselect.  Because I am just learning Debian I
> would like to have the option of installing a set of default packages on my
> system.  I was given this option on first boot of the system after running
> the installation.  But because I installed from disks, I wanted the network
> up and running on my computer so that I could install the packages using
> dselect.  Now that I have already forgone that first chance to install a
> set of initial packages, I can't seem to figure out how to get the inital
> install screen back.  Does anyone have an idea how to do this?  I'm sure
> it's simple!
>
> Thanks!
>
> Michael
>
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Mozilla on Potato M14

[Jaye Inabnit ke6sls]

Hello all,

I used dselect to pull down Mozilla browser and EVERYTHING it recommend I get.
The install was great and it runs fine on my KDE.

Question, has anyone been able to get M14 build to log into hotmail.com?? If
so, how did you get it to work.

Thanks


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[Off-topic] Joliet multisession

[Vicente Torres]

I am trying to burn multisession CDs to use them
under windows.

When using mkisofs, wich options do I have to use?

-J ? Is it enought? mkisofs help says the -R option is
necessary to burn multisession.

-R ? Will the resulting CD be readable under windows?

-R -J? This is the posibility I have tried and some
cd-readers can read the CD and others do not.

Thank you


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Re: fvwm2

[ktb]

ktb wrote:
> 
> Create a directory ".fvwm2" in your home directory, if you don't have
> one.  In that directory create the file "background.color" put in the
> color you want for example mine is "DarkSlateGray4"  Make sure you have
> a line in your ".fvwm2rc" file that looks like this --
> 
> Read .fvwm2/init.hook
  

Sorry, disregard this.  If your using the default .fvwm2rc file it will
read the 'background.color' file.  The 'init.hook' file is for putting
xterms and such in that you want loaded when you start.
  
> 
> Read the man page for fvwm2.  Also look through your default .fvwm2rc
> file for information.
> hth,
> kent
> 
> Daniel Burrows wrote:
> >
> > How do I set a default colour to the this window manager so that its the
> > same every time I log on?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
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Re: audio devices in Debian

[ktb]

Anssi Alhonen wrote:
> 
> 
> I noticed yesterday when I was trying to get my soundcard
> workingin potatoe that there are no sound devices like
> /dev/dsp and /dev/audio!
> Why?, should it be like this or have I screwed up my Linux
> box(I don't remeber that I would have deleted those
> files..)?
> How can I get those devices, is there program or script? Or
> should I create them manually(aarghh! :)
> 

You haven't screwed anything up.  Look at the manpage for "MAKEDEV"

cd to the /dev directory and --

./MAKEDEV -v audio

hth,
kent

Re: fvwm2

[ktb]

Create a directory ".fvwm2" in your home directory, if you don't have
one.  In that directory create the file "background.color" put in the
color you want for example mine is "DarkSlateGray4"  Make sure you have
a line in your ".fvwm2rc" file that looks like this --

Read .fvwm2/init.hook

Read the man page for fvwm2.  Also look through your default .fvwm2rc
file for information.
hth,
kent


Daniel Burrows wrote:
> 
> How do I set a default colour to the this window manager so that its the
> same every time I log on?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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Re: audio devices in Debian

[Greg Baker]

> I noticed yesterday when I was trying to get my soundcard
> workingin potatoe that there are no sound devices like
> /dev/dsp and /dev/audio!

They *should* be there.  Try running MAKEDEV (which creates the standard
set of device files).

Greg

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audio devices in Debian

[Anssi Alhonen]

 
I noticed yesterday when I was trying to get my soundcard
workingin potatoe that there are no sound devices like
/dev/dsp and /dev/audio!
Why?, should it be like this or have I screwed up my Linux
box(I don't remeber that I would have deleted those
files..)?
How can I get those devices, is there program or script? Or
should I create them manually(aarghh! :) 


 A.Alhonen

Procmail question-

[Tom Warfield]

yes i know procmail has its own list, but i cant get there system to respond
to my request to subscribe.  here is my question:

Right now i have the following rule in my procmailrc:
:0 BD:
* VBS
/this/directory

Well there is a problem with this rule, it searches the entire email for
VBS.  All i want it to search for is the attachment of a file name with the
extension of .vbs  Okay can this be done?   Im sure it can, just i can not
find any info on how to make it do this.  Can someone purdy please help me
:)

Thank you,

Tom W.

Re: fvwm2

[brian moore]

On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 06:21:33PM +, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> 
> How do I set a default colour to the this window manager so that its the
> same every time I log on?

In potato/woody (perhaps slink), see the man page for 'setup-background'

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Re: Problem moving /usr to new partition

[Anthony Campbell]

On 08 May 2000, John Pearson wrote:
> On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 05:03:16PM +0800, Lindsay Allen wrote
> > 
> > 
> > No.  If I make a file ee and eee is a hardlink to it, I get this:
> > 
> > elm:$ cp -la ee* /tmp
> > cp: cannot create link `/tmp/ee': Invalid cross-device link
> > cp: cannot create link `/tmp/eee': Invalid cross-device link
> > elm:$ ll ee*
> > -rw-rw-r--2 allenallen 902 Mar 23 19:49 ee
> > -rw-rw-r-
> > 
> > If I use "cp -a ee* /tmp" it creates two separate files.
> > 
> > I ran into this when copying my hard drive to a new, bigger one.
> > 
> 
> Use 
> elm:$ find . | afio -p /tmp
> 
> It's the only way I've found that seems to do the right
> thing, every time.  I've used it many time to move trees
> from one filesystem to another, and it's yet to bite
> me.
> 

I recently used cpio -pdmv (posted on this list some time ago).

Everything worked perfectly.

Anthony


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Procmail question-

[Tom Warfield]

okay yes i know procmail has its own list, but i cant get there system to
respond to my request to subscribe.  here is my question:

Right now i have the following rule in my procmailrc:
:0 BD:
* VBS
/this/directory

Well there is a problem with this rule, it searches the entire email for
VBS.  All i want it to search for is the attachment of a file name with the
extension of .vbs  Okay can this be done?   Im sure it can, just i can not
find any info on how to make it do this.  Can someone purdy please help me
:)

Thank you,

Tom W.

fvwm2

[Daniel Burrows]

How do I set a default colour to the this window manager so that its the
same every time I log on?


Thanks.

Potato: KMail stoped printing

[Matthew W. Roberts]

I've just recently done `apt-get dist-upgrade' to update my home system
from slink to potato.  I also changed the sources file to get the
potato KDE debs.  Once all was said and done, KMail stopped printing.
Everything else seems to print fine.  KMail gives no error message and
`lpq' says nothing.

Thanks,

--
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Re: man pages!!

[Mark Brown]

On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 08:57:32AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> Mark Brown wrote:

> > If you're using Slink with some Potato packages installed the best thing
> > to do is probably to upgrade to the Potato version of man-db which
> > changes /etc/manpath.config appropriately.

> It depends on potato's libc6, so that's not ideal.

If you've got man pages in /usr/share it's probably because you've
already done a partial upgrade and have potato's libc6 alreay (certainly
in this case where dpkg and apt seem to have been upgraded).

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Re: X color depth

[Brian J. Stults]

Umum Wijoyo wrote:
> 
> Hello...
> 
> How can I set my X color depth to be more than 8 bpp (say... like 16 or
> 24)?
> 
You can also specify color depth when starting X with something like
"startx -- -bpp 24".  You could then create an alias.  Hard-coding it in
XF86Config, as suggested previously, is probably best, though.

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Exim filter for attachments ?

[Jarosław Tabor]

Hello!

Does someone know, how to create filter which can fail or freeze 
messages with '*.exe', '*.vbs'  ? 

JT.

cable modem

[massa confusa]

Hi,

I am a newbie with a newly installed slink.  I am trying to get online
(Cable Modem - Road Runner) but not having much luck.

I installed dhcpcd and it appears to start on startup.

I installed a tulip card during installation.

ifconfig gives me this:

eth0   Linkencap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:CC:25:68:A0:CC:25:68:A0
   unspec addr:[NONE SET] Bcast:[NONE SET] Mask:[NONE SET]

dmesg gives alternating:

eth0:  Changing PNIC configuration to half-duplex, CSR6 0042
eth0:  Changing PNIC configuration to half-duplex, CSR6  0186

Can someone please tell me what I have done wrong or what I need to try to
fix this?  Everything else seems to be working fine.

Thanks,
Mary

Re: Network KDE Printing and Application Printing

[John Bagdanoff]

Tony

Before the experts (not me :)) here can help you, include more specific
info, such as:

/etc/printcap file 

potato or slink

what command you are invoking to print

what apps you are trying to print from.

What kind of printer you are printing to.


John

On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 05:41:22AM -0400, Tony De Furia wrote:
> Having installed Debian Linux on my system at work,
> I'm interested in getting printouts.
> 
> I've read the HOWTO's for printing but have not had success so far.
> 
> I've modified my printcap file but when I go to check the queue, there's
> nothing there.
> 
> I also had a friend mention that there is a difference in printing from
> the KDE
> interface and an application.  Namely he could print from  KDE  but not
> from Netscape Mail or
> Adobe and the like.
> 
> Could someone point me in the right direction on this as I haven't been
> able to find anything
> outlining the difference and how to configure linus so that network
> printing will work in both
> senarios.
> 
> Tony De Furia.
> 
> 
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> 

AdLib ASB 64 4D IDE doesn't work

[Armin Wegner]

Hi,

I can't get my soundcard to work.
I've got an i386 with 40 Mhz and 8 MB ram running potato.
The SCSI harddisk, the SCSI cdrom and the floppy drives are connected
to the Adaptec 1542 CF (dma = 5, irq = 11, io = 0x330-0x333).
There is no other controller (so there are no seriel ports and no parallel
ports).
The soundcard is an AdLib ASB 64 4D IDE with the Crystal CS4232-KQ chip set.
It's a plug'n'play card.
Must I use isapnp? To what values must I set dma, irq and io for which   
device?
What values are to be speciefied for modprobe when loading cs4232?
modinfo -p cs4232 says that I have to set io, irq, dma, dma2, mpuio, mpuirq,
synthio, synthirq. What value is right, if I don't want to use the mpu401?
I've tried some values: 0x534, 0x220 or 0x388 for io, 5 for irq, 1 for dma,
0 for dma2.
I cat some wav files to /dev/dsp and /dev/audio, but received noise.
I've even tried alsa. alsaconf detects the card as the only plug'n'play card 
and then the computer hangs. I've been forced to make an hard reset.

Armin

imp (horde) doesn't work

[Debian Mail]

I installed horde and imp. Both exited during execution of the
postinst script while configuring the MySQL server. So I went trough
the script and made the necessary stuff myself. Now I made a softlink
to /usr/share/horde/imp/ in my public_html folder. When I try to
access this, I get:


   Warning: Failed opening '/etc/horde/prepend.php3' for inclusion in
   /home/users/stef/public_html/imp/index.php3 on line 1
   Warning: Failed opening '/etc/imp/defaults.php3' for inclusion in
   /home/users/stef/public_html/imp/index.php3 on line 12
   Fatal error: Call to unsupported or undefined function page_open() in
   /home/users/stef/public_html/imp/index.php3 on line 17


Any idea what could be wrong?

Stef

Re: php3 supporting MySQL

[Viktor Rosenfeld]

Gergely Madarasz wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 8 May 2000, Umum Wijoyo wrote:
> 
> > Hello again...
> >
> > I've installed these following .deb packages:
> >
> > - apache --> works fine!
> > - MySQL  --> works fine!
> > - PHP3   --> why can't it support MySQL?
> >
> > Can anybody help me with this?
> 
> install php3-mysql and add the following line to php3.ini:
> extension=mysql.so

Or, if you just need mysql functionality for one particular script put

dl(mysql.so);

in the script.

(You still have to install php3-mysql, though.)

MfG Viktor
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Re: Vfat and space in file name

[Viktor Rosenfeld]

Ethan Benson wrote:
> 
> On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 01:06:59PM +0200, kent nyberg wrote:
> > Write the name in " ", so that My Documents is "My Documents"
> 
> or ls -l My\ Documents

or try ls -l My if your shell has filename expansion and the
filename is unique.

> spaces in filenames is lame...

Absolutely!

MfG Viktor
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Re: Networking - Linux gateway to internet for Mac

[Vitux]

John Gould wrote:
> 
> Hi Marshal,
>I'm not much help on questions 1 or 3 but take a look at the
> book 'Linux Firewalls' published by New Riders. Tells you everything you
> need to know on setting up a Linux Firewall. Also see the Firewall HOWTO.
> 
> HTH JohnG
> 
> 32865e97b5342e762ab140e00f3da23b - Just 'Debian'
> 
> On 6 May 2000, Marshal Wong wrote:
> 
> > Hello Everyone!
> >
> > I have a couple of questions.  (Of course I have a few questions.  Why else
> > would I be posting. :) )
> >
> > 1.  I'm networking together a iMac and my Linux box for a local
> > network.  I've managed to get the two computers talking to each
> > other now with netatalk and macgate.  I don't know how well they
> > are talking to each other, but at least file sharing is
> > happening.  What I'd like to do is to set the network up so that
> > the Mac can use the linux box as a gateway to the internet.  We
> > only have one phone line for the computer and the iMac doesn't
> > have a phone out jack, so I can't daisy chain the modems
> > together.  I'm a complete newbie at networking, so if someone
> > could give me a run down on more or less what to do, or what
> > manuals to read, I'd greatly appreciate it.
> >
> > 2.  Along the same lines, I'd like to harden the machine against the
> > outside world a bit.  I know I probably should put up a firewall,
> > but have no clue as to where to start.  Again any hints would be
> > great.
> >
> > 3.  A bit off topic, but has anyone had any expriences installing
> > GNU/Linux on IBM Aptivas?  Any show stoppers that I might have to know
> > about?  I have to install GNU/Linux onto a professors computer
> > Monday, and was just wondering how much patience to take along.  :)
> >
> > I think that's it for now.  Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Marshal
> >
> >
> > --
There's a net-howto out there (-reading it myself!). I suppose
there would be a firewall-howto as well.
A search on AltaVista usually yields useful stuff (to me ;-)
or try this: www.linuxdoc.org/howto/
The only thing that can be weird about Aptivas is they're a
bit touchy with the ram. Never heard of any trouble regarding
Linux-inst.
Good Luck!
Vitux

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Debian GNU/Linux
Micro$loth-free Zone

weird nfs mount problem

[Philip Lehman]

I posted this before but didn't get a reply. Let me give it another
try and attempt to elaborate a bit more since I fail to solve this on
my own and I have no idea where to even look for the cause.

On a potato machine acting as a NFS client, I can't mount any NFS
volumes. The mount process just hangs and I have to kill it. While I
was looking around for the cause, I noticed some error messages that
show up in syslog when lockd is launched form /etc/init.d/nfs-common.
This is what happens every time I restart nfs-common:

May 8 16:55:30 minerva kernel: lockd_up: no pid, 2 users??
May 8 16:55:30 minerva kernel: SIG: sigpending lied
May 8 16:55:39 minerva /sbin/rpc.statd[9045]: Caught signal 15 [...]
# restarting
May 8 16:56:36 minerva kernel: lockd_up: no pid, 3 users??
May 8 16:56:36 minerva kernel: SIG: sigpending lied

...and so forth. The user count increases by one every time I restart
the daemon. When I stop nfs-common and try do to an NFS mount, the
mount process still hangs and the volume isn't mounted, but the server
claims the mount succeeded and if I run `showmount servername` the
client shows up in the list.

I browsed the man pages and docs related to NFS and didn't notice
anything obvious. I have to bad feeling that the information given
here is pretty chaotic, but I don't know how to track this down. On
another client running and the very same nfs package everything is
fine, so I assume this is not a problem on the server side.

This stuff used to "just work" when I installed nfs-common, put the
server volumes in /etc/fstab and added the client to the server's
/etc/hosts.allow. But not on this particular client.

I will gladly provide more information if neccessary, it's just that I
don't know where to search. TIA

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Re: watch dvi files

[Colin Watson]

Santiago Vila Doncel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>maths wrote:
>> without X11, how to watch dvi file?
>
>dvisvga (previously called "tmview").

And if you haven't got SVGA either, but just a text terminal, dvi2tty
and catdvi (each in their own packages) each make reasonable stabs at
it, though running them over my dissertation produces mildly ugly
output.

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Re: pcmcia - network

[Gary Hennigan]

Robert Fendt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> i am running debian linux 2.1 (kernel 2.0.38) on a laptop with a 3com 3c589D
> ethernet card (pcmcia).
> there are scripts
> 
> A) /etc/init.d/pcmcia (starting pcmcia services)
> B) /etc/init.d/network (containing loopback & nic config, ip adresses etc..,
> starting the network)
> C) /etc/pcmcia/network (i don't know what it does ;=( )
> 
> problem:
> at boottime, script A is being executed AFTER script B. this results in the
> network being "unreachable" or eth0 being "unknown" when script A tries to
> assign the ip-adress or the netmask to eth0.
> after i login and run "ifconfig", i only get information about the
> loopback-device. i can then run script B manually. afterwards i get info also
> about eth0 and can run ftp's, telnet's, pings etc... between it and another
> machine.
> 
> question:
> how can i manage the proper sequence of execution of A and B (and
> maybe C ???) so that my network can run even if noone is logged in
> on my laptop 

This machine's only connection to a network is via PCMCIA? If so then
somewhere during the installation you made a mistake or there's a
problem with the installation program. On a PCMCIA-only network
machine /etc/init.d/network should just set up the local loopback
device "lo". It should probably just contain the two lines:

ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
route add -net 127.0.0.0

and that's it. Nothing about eth0 since that is "owned" by the PCMCIA
software.

All the network setup for PCMCIA-only machines is done by the scripts
in /etc/pcmcia. This means that /etc/pcmcia/network performs the
functions usually found in /etc/init.d/network on non-PCMCIA-networked
machines. These scripts are executed by the cardmgr when a card it
recognizes is plugged into a PCMCIA slot, this includes a card
detection during boot for cards already plugged in at that time. If
eth0 is not being created by the PCMCIA startup then cardmgr may not
recognize your card. After booting try unplugging your network PCMCIA
card and plugging it back in. You might try reading the PCMCIA
HOWTO. If something goes wrong when I plug my network PCMIA card in I
get a high tone and then a low tone to indicate a failure. If
everything's alright I hear two equal high tones.

Good luck,
Gary

Re: write protect floppy forever!?

[Markus Stausberg]

On 8 May 00, at 4:57, Kenneth Scharf wrote:

(...)
> then pop'ed the source diskette out and replaced it
(...)
> This works fine, but if in the first move the floppy
> was write protected the second command fails with
> "write only file system". 
(...)

Hi Ken,

there is some floppy controller hardware out there
which fails to inform the kernel when the floppy
was changed.
On the debian distro is a utility called "fdflush"
(in its own .deb i believe) which fakes the "fl has
changed" message to the kernel.
So 1. change floppies
 2. call fdflush

I had similar problems, this works fine for me.

regards, Markus


 
 
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RE: X color depth

[Dominic Blythe]

NB: i set my riva128 to 24bpp with XF86Setup, and the card couldn't do it so
X wouldn't start, so I couldn't re-run XF86Setup to change it. I had to edit
xf86Config by hand (the geek method). Boy did it feel gd. ;-)

> -Original Message-
> From: John Carline [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 08 May 2000 16:07
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: X color depth
> 
> 
> Umum Wijoyo wrote:
> 
> > Hello...
> >
> > How can I set my X color depth to be more than 8 bpp 
> (say... like 16 or
> > 24)?
> 
> Run XF86Setup (the XFree86 recommended method), or run 
> xf86config (the old method),
> or edit your XF86Config file by hand (the geek method) and 
> select the screen size and
> depth you want.
> 
> John
> 
> >
> >
> > Does this have anything to do with my video card config? (I 
> think I've set
> > up my S3 Savage 3D card correctly...)
> >
> > When we were still using RedHat 6.2, we had no problem: our 
> X display was
> > fascinating! It even looked better than Windows (shudder)! ;-p
> 
> Anything RedHat can do, Debian can do better. ;-)
> 
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mysql ok, apache ok, but mysql+apache BROKEN!

[w trillich]

this started out as quite on-topic (as a result of adhering
to advice from debian-user on zapping my 'mysql' package set).
sorry if it's drifted a bit... if so, please redirect me to
the proper authorities/list. thanks!

okay. i reinstalled mysql (it was working, but with
'mysql-shared' which is apparently not a debian package,
it *seemed* a prudent thing to do.) i wish i'd left it alone.

i'm using apache with randall schwartz's Stonehenge::DBILog
module to INSERT (sql) http requests into a MYSQL database.

rather, i WAS, until the apt-get --purge and apt-get install.

from /var/log/apache/errors.log:
[Mon May  8 01:11:06 2000] [error] [Mon May  8 01:11:06 2000] null:
Can't locate object method "log" via package "Apache" at
/usr/local/lib/site_perl/Stonehenge/DBILog.pm line 95.

statement at line 95 is the $r->log->error() line:
if ($@) {
open LOG,">>/etc/apache/LOG"; print LOG "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"; 
close LOG;
$r->log->error("dbi: $@");
}

so it's implying that a perl module is broken, since $r is from
sub handler { my $r = shift; ...
just as mentioned in 'perldoc Apache' under 'client request params'.

my own debug kludge (see code above) to /etc/apache/LOG results in:

[Mon May  8 01:15:27 2000] null: DBI->connect failed: Access denied
for user: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' (Using password: YES) at
/usr/local/lib/site_perl/Stonehenge/DBILog.pm line 87

line 87 is the connect, with $DB_USER=='www-data' and $DB_PSWD=='':

eval {
my $dbh =
DBI->connect($DSN, $DB_USER, $DB_PSWD, { RaiseError => 1 });
my $sth = $dbh->prepare_cached($INSERT);
$sth->execute(@data);
$dbh->disconnect;
};

so the error looks like a simple password/user access snag; 
yet i set up 'www-data' thus:

grant select,insert,update,delete on *.* to 'www-data';

(select * from user confirms nn permissions for www-data,
with host set at '%' and no password; table mysql.tables_priv is empty.)

# dpkg -l \*mysql\* | grep ^i
ii  libdbd-mysql-perl  1.2202-4mySQL database interface for Perl
ii  libmysqlclient63.22.30-2   mysql database client library
in  mysql-bench3.22.32-2   (no description available)
ii  mysql-client   3.22.32-1   mysql database client binaries
ii  mysql-doc  3.22.32-1   mysql database documentation
ii  mysql-manual   0.95-2  Unofficial MySQL 3.20 Documentation
ii  mysql-server   3.22.32-1   mysql database server binaries

sure would like to know what broke this DBILog routine. (it was
fine before the apt-smash on mysql. i've tried apt-get --reinstall
too, on the above-listed packages, and it's still broke.)

potato/frozen (kernel still 2.0.36)
mysql server 3.22.32-log
$DBI::VERSION = "1.13"
$DBD::mysql::VERSION = '2.0402'

i'm quite at a loss. is this an access problem (username/passwd) or
was a perl module scrambled? i'd love a recommendation on how to
track this down... help?

i could switch to postgresql for this if it'd adhere to the standard
type_info routines, but...

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Their is five errers in this sentance.

Re: X color depth

[John Carline]

Umum Wijoyo wrote:

> Hello...
>
> How can I set my X color depth to be more than 8 bpp (say... like 16 or
> 24)?

Run XF86Setup (the XFree86 recommended method), or run xf86config (the old 
method),
or edit your XF86Config file by hand (the geek method) and select the screen 
size and
depth you want.

John

>
>
> Does this have anything to do with my video card config? (I think I've set
> up my S3 Savage 3D card correctly...)
>
> When we were still using RedHat 6.2, we had no problem: our X display was
> fascinating! It even looked better than Windows (shudder)! ;-p

Anything RedHat can do, Debian can do better. ;-)

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Re: Which LINUX

[Keith G. Murphy]

w trillich wrote:
> 
[cut]
> 
> if you want to compare various different versions, you can try
> what i did: go to http://www.linuxmall.org and order their megapak,

That's www.linuxmall.com.
 ^^^

Re: Problem moving /usr to new partition

[Nathan E Norman]

On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 05:03:16PM +0800, Lindsay Allen wrote:
> 
> 
> No.  If I make a file ee and eee is a hardlink to it, I get this:
> 
> elm:$ cp -la ee* /tmp
> cp: cannot create link `/tmp/ee': Invalid cross-device link
> cp: cannot create link `/tmp/eee': Invalid cross-device link
> elm:$ ll ee*
> -rw-rw-r--2 allenallen 902 Mar 23 19:49 ee
> -rw-rw-r-
> 
> If I use "cp -a ee* /tmp" it creates two separate files.

So don't use cp.  Instead, do it the UNIX way (use a few small tools
...)

create a filesystem on target partition

mount target partition somewhere (/mnt is a good choice :)

cd to dir to move (eg cd /usr)

run this command (as root):

  find . -print | cpio -padm /mnt

/mnt now contains an exact copy of /usr

umount /mnt

go to single user mode (init 1), cd /, rm -r usr/*, mount targetdev
/usr, edit /etc/fstab to taste, go multiuser (init 2).

Works every time.  cpio does hard links, soft links, device files ...

Cheers,

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Emacs

[Timothy C. Phan]

Hi,

  I'd like to know where should I install my site specific
  lisp and site-start.el on the Debian/Potato box?

  TIA!

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Network KDE Printing and Application Printing

[Tony De Furia]

Having installed Debian Linux on my system at work,
I'm interested in getting printouts.

I've read the HOWTO's for printing but have not had success so far.

I've modified my printcap file but when I go to check the queue, there's
nothing there.

I also had a friend mention that there is a difference in printing from
the KDE
interface and an application.  Namely he could print from  KDE  but not
from Netscape Mail or
Adobe and the like.

Could someone point me in the right direction on this as I haven't been
able to find anything
outlining the difference and how to configure linus so that network
printing will work in both
senarios.

Tony De Furia.

Re: dd and Playstation CDs

[Frank Barknecht]

Greg Baker hat gesagt: // Greg Baker wrote:

> Can anyone tell me how to use dd to make an image of a Playstation game?

You'd better use cdrdao:

Get the source of cdrdao.
Look into the directory contrib.
Make the psxcopy tools.

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how to remove portma and rpc statd?

[John F. Davis]

Hello


When I do top, two programs show up which I want to remove.
These programs are: portmap and rpc_statd.
I don't run NIS or NFS, so I think it would be in my best 
interest to remove these Items.  How do I do so?

I think I have my kernel configured so they aren't being used.

John

Re: security hole in PAM?

[Ben Collins]

All known vulnerabilities in PAM are resolved in Potato/Woody.

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Re: write protect floppy forever!?

[John Pearson]

On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 04:57:01AM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote
> I wanted to copy a floppy (as an image).  So I
> inserted a floppy in /dev/fd0 and used dd if=/dev/fd0
> of=./temp
> then pop'ed the source diskette out and replaced it
> with a blank and used dd if=./temp of=/dev/fd0
> (while root of course :->)
> 
> This works fine, but if in the first move the floppy
> was write protected the second command fails with
> "write only file system".  I couldn't again write to
> /dev/fd0 without rebooting.  Loging out as root and
> loging in again as root won't help.  There must be a
> way to tell /dev/fd0 to read the damn write protect
> switch again
> 

If your kernel has floppy support compiled as a module,
you can 
# rmmod floppy
and next time the floppy module is loaded everything is
fine.

The floppy driver is a bit flaky (not many people rely
on it heavily, I guess), and compiling it as a module
is a Good Thing, IMO.


John P.
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Re: man pages!!

[Peter S Galbraith]

Mark Brown wrote:

> If you're using Slink with some Potato packages installed the best thing
> to do is probably to upgrade to the Potato version of man-db which
> changes /etc/manpath.config appropriately.

It depends on potato's libc6, so that's not ideal.

Re: Problem moving /usr to new partition

[John Pearson]

On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 05:03:16PM +0800, Lindsay Allen wrote
> 
> 
> No.  If I make a file ee and eee is a hardlink to it, I get this:
> 
> elm:$ cp -la ee* /tmp
> cp: cannot create link `/tmp/ee': Invalid cross-device link
> cp: cannot create link `/tmp/eee': Invalid cross-device link
> elm:$ ll ee*
> -rw-rw-r--2 allenallen 902 Mar 23 19:49 ee
> -rw-rw-r-
> 
> If I use "cp -a ee* /tmp" it creates two separate files.
> 
> I ran into this when copying my hard drive to a new, bigger one.
> 

Use 
elm:$ find . | afio -p /tmp

It's the only way I've found that seems to do the right
thing, every time.  I've used it many time to move trees
from one filesystem to another, and it's yet to bite
me.


John P.
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Re: dd and Playstation CDs

[Ben Collins]

On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 01:03:48AM -0700, Greg Baker wrote:
> Can anyone tell me how to use dd to make an image of a Playstation game?
> 
> I keep getting this (several different games):
>   # dd if=/dev/scd0 of=out.dd
>   dd: /dev/scd0: Input/output error
>   36+0 records in
>   36+0 records out
> I take it I have to skip some blocks in there, but which ones?

You'll need to use the cdrdoa package/program.

However, because of special "things" on the hub of psx game CD's, you wont
be able to use them in your playstation. There is a wealth of hacker
resources on the web regarding this, and how to get around it...I'm not
codoning your actions, but look around :)

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Re: dd and Playstation CDs

[Robert L. Harris]

I have a 3yr old who LOVES cds.  He has destroyed more cds than I have
and I have a hobby of getting AOL giveaways and nuking them...  They make
great coasters and frisbees.

At any rate, you can get what's known as a "modchip" so you can backup
your own games (keep the originals in a safe or such location) and play
the backups.  Gettting the chip is easy, but installing it can be very
hard as you can destroy your PSX if you're not careful.  I had to find
someone who could install it for me.

Robert

Thus spake David Wright ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):

> Quoting Greg Baker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > Can anyone tell me how to use dd to make an image of a Playstation game?
> > 
> > I keep getting this (several different games):
> >   # dd if=/dev/scd0 of=out.dd
> >   dd: /dev/scd0: Input/output error
> >   36+0 records in
> >   36+0 records out
> > I take it I have to skip some blocks in there, but which ones?
> 
> I'm only passing on what I have read somewhere, so this may be wrong.
> 
> The errors are deliberate and are part of the copy-protection scheme.
> If you manage to skip the errors and write an error-free disc, the
> playstation will reject it as a counterfeit.
> 
> So you'd have to copy the disc at a lower level. This makes sure that
> only organised criminals can afford to make copies, not Johnny next door.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
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Re: Privilege to write in W98/95 partition

[Touloumtzis, Michael]

On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 02:00:02AM -0300, MaRZ Serviços & Sistemas wrote:
> How can I write in vfat/msdos partitions using a normal login (without su or
> root privileges)?
> Do I need configure some special privileges to get it?

Mount the partition with the uuid option.  The specified user will own
all of the files in the vfat partition.  See "man 8 mount".  You need
root privileges to do the mount or edit /etc/fstab to add this option,
but won't need special privileges after that.

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Re: dd and Playstation CDs

[kent nyberg]

Playstation cd's contains audio tracks.
You cant do a 'dd' on audio tracks.

Re: dd and Playstation CDs

[David Wright]

Quoting Greg Baker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Can anyone tell me how to use dd to make an image of a Playstation game?
> 
> I keep getting this (several different games):
>   # dd if=/dev/scd0 of=out.dd
>   dd: /dev/scd0: Input/output error
>   36+0 records in
>   36+0 records out
> I take it I have to skip some blocks in there, but which ones?

I'm only passing on what I have read somewhere, so this may be wrong.

The errors are deliberate and are part of the copy-protection scheme.
If you manage to skip the errors and write an error-free disc, the
playstation will reject it as a counterfeit.

So you'd have to copy the disc at a lower level. This makes sure that
only organised criminals can afford to make copies, not Johnny next door.

Cheers,

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Re: write protect floppy forever!?

[David Wright]

Quoting Kenneth Scharf ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> I wanted to copy a floppy (as an image).  So I
> inserted a floppy in /dev/fd0 and used dd if=/dev/fd0
> of=./temp
> then pop'ed the source diskette out and replaced it
> with a blank and used dd if=./temp of=/dev/fd0
> (while root of course :->)
> 
> This works fine, but if in the first move the floppy
> was write protected the second command fails with
> "write only file system".  I couldn't again write to
> /dev/fd0 without rebooting.  Loging out as root and
> loging in again as root won't help.  There must be a
> way to tell /dev/fd0 to read the damn write protect
> switch again

I've certainly got (I know not how) into a situation where the kernel
was convinced all floppies were write-protected even when they weren't.
I now have the floppy driver compiled as a module, but am still waiting
for this bug to strike again.

Cheers,

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Re: Problem moving /usr to new partition

[David Wright]

Quoting Larry Elmore ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> I've got potato installed on a 1.5GB partition, and have another hard drive
> with an available 2GB partition (type 82 Linux, formatted ext2fs) on to
> which I want to move /usr. I copied the contents of /usr on to the new
> partition, then edited /etc/fstab, moved the original /usr to /usr-old and
> created a new /usr. When I rebooted, most everything seemed to work, but I
> noticed a handful of error messages scrolling by. The only one I had time to
> read was that /usr/bin/aumix couldn't be found (because it's called when the
> sound module is loaded into the kernel (to turn the volume on my SB16 down
> to 50%), but /usr hadn't been mounted yet.

Hm, I'm not sure why it would have worked before. My modules load
before /usr is mounted as you can see in this snippet:

 opl3sa ad1848/cs4248 codec driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996
 Checking all file systems...
 Parallelizing fsck version 1.12 (9-Jul-98)
 /dev/sda3: clean, 50931/153600 files, 512638/613966 blocks
 /dev/sda4: clean, 11560/395264 files, 1385686/1577457 blocks
 Mounting local file systems...
 /dev/sda3 on /usr type ext2 (rw)

> I couldn't find it or any of the
> other failures to load something from /usr in any of the log files in
> /var/log, so I'm not sure what's missing. _Most_ things seem to work
> properly, but a few things fail miserably (for example, 'man' tells me it
> can't setuid properly and aborts). I commented out the line in /etc/fstab
> and moved contents of /usr-old back to /usr and everything works properly
> now.
> 
> My question is: what else do I need to do to move /usr onto a new partition
> and have Linux boot properly? I re-read the HOWTOs and can't find any
> mention of anything other than what I tried. Help!

At risk of starting a religious discussion, I've been very happy with

cd /usr
ls -lR > /path-to/old-listing
mount /dev/XXX /mnt
find -xdev | cpio -damp /mnt(-vdamp if you want to watch)
cd /mnt
ls -lR > /path-to/new-listing

You don't have to do the listings, but I did, and ran them through a
python filter to blank out the modification dates on directories.
I then ran diff -u on the resulting output and the only differences
were the bigger directories on the source as they had once contained
more entries. Finally I checked that the hard linked /usr/X11R6/bin
and /usr/bin/X11/ had the same inode number.

If you do all this with /, you also have to prune any mounted
filesystems from old-listing as I don't know how to make -xdev apply
to ls. However, it coped with all the stuff in /dev such as pipes
and sockets, and also links broken or otherwise.

Take care with /etc/fstab. There was a recent example on this list where
someone had overlooked the fact that its lines are obeyed in sequence.

Cheers,

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write protect floppy forever!?

[Kenneth Scharf]

I wanted to copy a floppy (as an image).  So I
inserted a floppy in /dev/fd0 and used dd if=/dev/fd0
of=./temp
then pop'ed the source diskette out and replaced it
with a blank and used dd if=./temp of=/dev/fd0
(while root of course :->)

This works fine, but if in the first move the floppy
was write protected the second command fails with
"write only file system".  I couldn't again write to
/dev/fd0 without rebooting.  Loging out as root and
loging in again as root won't help.  There must be a
way to tell /dev/fd0 to read the damn write protect
switch again

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I: Networking - Linux gateway to internet for Mac

[marco frattola]

> -Messaggio originale-
> Da: marco frattola 
> Inviato: lunedì 8 maggio 2000 11.08
> A: 'Marshal Wong'

beware .. your return address doesn't seem to work ..

> Oggetto: R: Networking - Linux gateway to internet for Mac
 
> > 3.  A bit off topic, but has anyone had any expriences installing
> > GNU/Linux on IBM Aptivas?  Any show stoppers that I might 
> > have to know
> > about?  I have to install GNU/Linux onto a professors computer
> > Monday, and was just wondering how much patience to take 
> > along.  :)
>  
> i installed debian on 3 old aptivas, so i don't know if this 
> can help you.
> i remember no problem whatsoever .. they're still running.
> 
> 
> Marco Frattola (S3 - Sviluppo Software e Sistemi) - 
> Cubecom S.p.A.
> Via de Marini,1 3 piano Torre WTC
> 16149 GENOVA
> tel. 010 6591184
> 

Re: Anybody running Wordperfect 8 on potato?

[Johann Spies]

On Sun, May 07, 2000 at 07:49:45AM +0200, Andre Berger wrote:
> > I had Wordperfect running without problem on my Slink system.
> > However, since I upgraded partially to potato, Wordperfect segfaults.
> > I have tried reinstalling the slink xpm4.7, but without any solution
> > to my problem.
> > 
> > Is there any hope that one day when potato is officially out and I
> > have the new CD's and I do an apt-get dist upgrade that Wordperfect will
> > be running again?
> > 
> > Johann
> 
> I don't know what's wrong; we have WP8 on slink (w/ xlib6, xpm4.7),
> potato, and woody. Maybe you should re-install WP?
 
I have tried that already :(

Thanks anyhow.

Johann

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Re: Anybody running Wordperfect 8 on potato?

[Johann Spies]

On Sun, May 07, 2000 at 06:49:54PM -0400, Joe Bouchard wrote:

> I have the free download version working on a potato box.  I don't use
> that box much, and I don't remember the details.  I do remember it
> worked fine the first time without incident.  If you want, I can go to
> that box and get the list of packages installed.

I would appreciate that please.

Johann
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Re: Vfat and space in file name

[Ethan Benson]

On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 01:06:59PM +0200, kent nyberg wrote:
> Write the name in " ", so that My Documents is "My Documents"

or ls -l My\ Documents

spaces in filenames is lame...

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Re: watch dvi files

[Santiago Vila Doncel]

maths wrote:
> without X11, how to watch dvi file?

dvisvga (previously called "tmview").

Re: Vfat and space in file name

[kent nyberg]

Write the name in " ", so that My Documents is "My Documents"

On Mon, 8 May 2000, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:

> What do you have to use to access something like "My Documents" in a
> mounted partition? I can see it, but if I, say, type in "ls /mnt/drC/My
> Documents" it tells me not such file or directory. Is there any dumb
> symbol for space that I am missing? Thanx.
> 
> 
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watch dvi files

[maths]

hello everybody

without X11, how to watch dvi file?

many thanks!

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Vfat and space in file name

[Antonio Rodriguez]

What do you have to use to access something like "My Documents" in a
mounted partition? I can see it, but if I, say, type in "ls /mnt/drC/My
Documents" it tells me not such file or directory. Is there any dumb
symbol for space that I am missing? Thanx.

pcmcia - network

[Robert Fendt]

hi folks,

i am running debian linux 2.1 (kernel 2.0.38) on a laptop with a 3com 3c589D
ethernet card (pcmcia).
there are scripts

A) /etc/init.d/pcmcia (starting pcmcia services)
B) /etc/init.d/network (containing loopback & nic config, ip adresses etc..,
starting the network)
C) /etc/pcmcia/network (i don't know what it does ;=( )

problem:
at boottime, script A is being executed AFTER script B. this results in the
network being "unreachable" or eth0 being "unknown" when script A tries to
assign the ip-adress or the netmask to eth0.
after i login and run "ifconfig", i only get information about the
loopback-device. i can then run script B manually. afterwards i get info also
about eth0 and can run ftp's, telnet's, pings etc... between it and another
machine.

question:
how can i manage the proper sequence of execution of A and B (and maybe C ???)
so that my network can run even if noone is logged in on my laptop

thanx
rob


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[*]sound card

[maths]

hello everybody 

my sound card is Creative PCI 128 digital, some times ago, i
had post some question about it. and people told me to use
a newer kernel, so i update the kernel from 2.0.38 to 2.2.14.

question 1. i shall use Creative es1371 or the OSS one?

question 2. i had complie it as a module, what i shall add
to the conf.module? alias what is what, and options what what
what...

many thanks!

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Re: Dumb; help! I removed a mounted floppy

[Colin Watson]

Eric Worden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>'kill -9' (or 'kill -s KILL' for the mnemonic-dependent) does not work.  
>
>I have a UNIX book that says in a footnote, "...kill may not always
>work...for instance, if the process invoked a device driver that is stuck
>waiting for a response from the device.  In that case the signal will wait
>indefinitely for recognition with no indication of what is happening."
>(Abrams, Paul W. and Bruce R. Larson, _UNIX for the Impatient, 2nd ed_, p.
>32)  This sounds like my situation all right.  
>
>One kind soul has so far sent me an alternate suggestion which I will try
>after some sleep.  It if comes to a reboot (dread!), anything to watch out
>for?  Thanks.  -Eric Worden

I suspect that your program is indeed stuck in the D state (the "blocked
on input/output" situation you describe above is indicated by a D in the
process table - ps or whatever - though often you see it temporarily and
it doesn't do any harm). In that case there's probably not a lot you can
do. The kernel panic is a little worrying, but if you're seeing no other
symptoms (and can still mount and unmount filesystems, which is usually
the first casualty) then you can probably just ignore it and go on as
normal.

You shouldn't have any problems next time you reboot, unless mounting
and unmounting has broken in which case you might have to wait for it to
do a fsck.

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Re: php3 supporting MySQL

[Gergely Madarasz]

On Mon, 8 May 2000, Umum Wijoyo wrote:

> Hello again...
> 
> I've installed these following .deb packages:
> 
> - apache --> works fine!
> - MySQL  --> works fine!
> - PHP3   --> why can't it support MySQL?
> 
> Can anybody help me with this?

install php3-mysql and add the following line to php3.ini:
extension=mysql.so

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Re: su

[Ethan Benson]

On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 10:42:28AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote:
> On Sun, May 07, 2000 at 06:28:01PM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> > > Does the 'su' command expire after a certain time? If it doesn't how do
> > > you 'go-back' to a normal user?
> > > 
> > "exit"
> > or just -
> 
> That is why I use sudo rather than su.

the problem with using sudo this way (i assume you just allow your
acount to use `ALL' programs as root?) is you no longer need the root
password anymore, your account passwd is as good as root's so if your
account is broken into its automatic root for the intruder once he
discovers your sudo privileges.  now if he got in without having
figured out your password and you did not specify NOPASSWD for
everything in suders you might be safe, for awhile anyway...   

i prefer to keep it so if my account is broken my system is still
reletivly secure (ie they still have the formidable task of finding a
root hole the old fasioned way instead of just sudo bash), thus i
don't grant much extra privilege to my own account.

> Johann
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> Tel/Faks 021-876-2337 Sel/Cell 082-255-2388
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Re: security hole in PAM?

[Ethan Benson]

On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 03:28:23PM +0700, Umum Wijoyo wrote:
> Hello again...
> 
> I've noticed that Debian frozen/potato has already used the PAM security
> scheme...

it uses PAM as its authentication system, all the main authenticating
utilities, /bin/login /bin/su et al use PAM to authenticate the user.

> I also heard somewhere that PAM has a security hole? Using a so-called
> slam.sh script, some Red Hat distros have become vulnerable...
> Is this also a problem with the Debian distro?
> Should I, or should I not remove PAM?

you cannot remove pam, not without breaking/removing /bin/login
/bin/su and everything else ;-)  not what you want.

as to the security bug it was not in pam itself but rather in one
specific modules, pam_console, the bug was really in a suid binary
that is a helper for pam_console, here it the basic details:

/usr/bin/consolehelper is a suid program, it accepts the argument of a
path to another utility say /bin/shutdown.  I don't remember the exact
details of how it does its checks, but what you could do was this:

compile a pam `module' with the following source:

[...]
system("/bin/sh");

then create a pam configuration file in /tmp calling that fake
module.  you then ran /usr/bin/consolehelper ../../../../../../../pamslam.conf

it would read the fake config file in /tmp and load the fake pam
module we created, executing /bin/sh -- as root -- blamo r00t shell!

console-helper allows the admin to define arbitary binaries that can
be run as root based on custom authentication conf files in /etc/pam.d
the problem is these config files are specified as an argument to the
suid /usr/bin/consolehelper and it allowed you to specify bogus things
like ../../../../../../etc/pam.d/r00tshell.  AFAIK there is no other
standard program that allows this kind of manipulation.  (/bin/login
and /bin/su hard code there pam service name so you cannot ask it to
`be something else') 

now the good news:  Debian does not use nor include this evil module
in potato ;-)  we are NOT vulnerable to that bug as we don't even have
the rootsh^H^H^H^H^H^Hconsolehelper

> (Some security scheme... if it only turns out that it itself is a weak
> spot)

that can happen, but in this case `pam' is not a monolithic system,
its merely a set of modules and libraries, you can write creative
programs that use pam in creative ways but if you get too creative
like pam_console you get problems.  things like /bin/login and /bin/su
use pam in much more sane ways then console-helper does. 

[note: i am not certain this is the vulnerablity you are referring to
as your were not very specific, but the console-helper exploit was
called `pamslam']

> Thanks!
> 
> Urip Hudiono
> --
> Bandung, Indonesia
> 
> PS: Thanks for all ur suggestions on my previous questions. Will try them
> out!
> 
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