Re: Autostarting Apache and MySQL

[kmself]

On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 11:23:49PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am trying to get Debian automatically to start, 1) MySQL and 2) 
> Apache 
> 
> According to the FAQs, rc.local does not work and I am supposed to  
> develop some scripts in /etc/init.d which take the arguments start', 
> `stop',  `reload', `restart' or `force-reload'  

> First of all, all I want to do is to start these automatically upon
> boot up.  I  do not care about the stop, reload, restart, or
> force-reload and would  prefer not to deal with them unless Debian
> insists. 

> Secondly, precisely what language do I use.  Eg:  will the following, 
> for  Apache work: 

>  
> #!/bin/bash 
> /usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl start 
>  

> If this language will not work, what will?  And can I omit this reload 
> and  other items about which I do not care. 
> Also, of course, precisely what language do I need for MySQL? 
> I understand that Debian automatically begins on run level 2.  Do I 
> need to  worry about other runlevels?   

Duncan:

If you install both these programs from Debian packages, the rc*.d init
scripts will be configured for you automatically, and the services will
start up on boot.  You'll also be able to start, stop, reload, or
restart them with:

# /etc/init.d/myservice start|stop|reload|restart

...syntax.

If this doesn't suit your fancy, take a look at /etc/init.d/skeleton and
modify it to suit your needs (copy it, *then* modify it).

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Re: temporary allowing telnet to use x-windows

[kmself]

On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 03:56:00AM +, john smith wrote:
> I would like to know how to temporarily allow a telnet session (bec. we're 
> only on an intranet) to display the x-window. for example, a user telnets to 
> the server using windows then he wants his x-window to display temporarily 
> there..when he tries to startx, the x-server does not allow him to connect. 
> how can this be accomplished easily?

Lets try this:

  o User is on one machine in local network
  o Wants to connect to a second machine.

I'm going to call these 10.1.0.1 and 10.1.0.2, respectively.

User is 10.1.0.1, which is running an X session on display 0, and wants
to telnet to 10.1.0.2, run an X client from 10.1.0.2 to 10.1.0.1.

Do:

   telnet 10.1.0.2
   (log in)
   $ export DISPLAY=10.1.0.1:0
   $ xlogo & 

...xlogo should appear on user's *local* (10.1.0.1) display.

...if I've misunderstood your post, please clarify your question.



One possible other interpretation is that you are trying to telnet
*from* 10.1.0.1 to 10.1.0.2, and want to start an X session *on the
remote host* (note that this ordinarily isn't viewable to the user).
Generally, the file /etc/X11/Xserver disallows non-root users from
initiating an X session unless they're sitting at the console.  See this
file for further information (its about a dozen lines).

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Talent Contest

[John Brooks]

To Whom this is i am advertising a Talent Contest throught out hawkes bay
could you help

upgrade to potato; tetex-bin depends

[Charles Kaufman]

I have just tried to upgrade from stable to frozen.
I did apt-get update, which worked except for one timed-out file.
I did it again to get that file.
I then did 'apt-get --fix-broken --show-upgraded dist-upgrade'.
That seemed to go ok but stopped without asking very many
configuration questions, and reporting 47 out of (about) 150
packages not installed.
I  repeated the above command but it reported the same thing.
I then installed some of the 47, with dpkg, and that
seemed to go normally. I then tried apt-get -f install
and that reports Reading Package Lists ... Done
 Building Dependency Tree ... Done
 Correcting Dependencies 
and goes and goes and goes, using 99% cpu, for 5 or 10 or 20
minutes, which is as long as I've let it go before aborting it.

I've installed most of the 47, but am stuck on
tetex-bin. 'dpkg -i tetex-bin' reports 'tetex-bin depends on libz1,
which is not installed'. I can't find libz1, but tetex-bin's
depends, in the package archive, does include zlib1g.

Should I let apt-get run as long as it wants?
Is there a libz1?
Am I done for?

Thanks
Charles Kaufman
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(Please reply directly as I am not a subscriber.)

httpd broke in woody?

[Robert L. Harris]

I did a distupgrade a day or ago and today noticed my httpd was down.  
Here's what's in my error.log


{0}:lh:/var/adm/apache>cat error.log
[Tue Aug  8 21:58:06 2000] [notice] Apache/1.3.12 (Unix) Debian/GNU configured 
-- resuming normal operations
[Tue Aug  8 21:58:06 2000] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: 
/usr/lib/apache/suexec)


Help?


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temporary allowing telnet to use x-windows

[john smith]

I would like to know how to temporarily allow a telnet session (bec. we're 
only on an intranet) to display the x-window. for example, a user telnets to 
the server using windows then he wants his x-window to display temporarily 
there..when he tries to startx, the x-server does not allow him to connect. 
how can this be accomplished easily?


thanks.

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Autostarting Apache and MySQL

[dckinder]

I am trying to get Debian automatically to start, 1) MySQL and 2) Apache

According to the FAQs, rc.local does not work and I am supposed to  develop some scripts in /etc/init.d which take the arguments start', `stop',  `reload', `restart' or `force-reload' 
First of all, all I want to do is to start these automatically upon boot up.  I  do not care about the stop, reload, restart, or force-reload and would  prefer not to deal with them unless Debian insists.
Secondly, precisely what language do I use.  Eg:  will the following, for  Apache work:


#!/bin/bash

/usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl start


If this language will not work, what will?  And can I omit this reload and  other items about which I do not care.
Also, of course, precisely what language do I need for MySQL?
I understand that Debian automatically begins on run level 2.  Do I need to  worry about other runlevels?  

Thanks in advance.


Regards,

Duncan C. Kinder
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Re: Can't mount CD-ROM

[Dale Morris]

I forgot to include a copy of my fstab file, here it is as an
attachment...

On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 08:02:08PM -0700 3, Dale Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:

> After a recent install via ftp of debian potato, I find I am unable to
> mount my cdrom drive. I have run dmesg | less and it returns:
> 
> hdc: WDC WD153BA, 14669MB w/2048kB Cache, CHS=29805/16/63
> hdb: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM drive, 120kB Cache
> Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.09
> Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
> 
> So I am assuming that means the kernel is properly configured and is
> recognizing the the cdrom drive. I have made a symlink:
> ln -s /dev/hdb/ cdrom
> and I have checked and there is a directory mount point of /dev/cdrom.
> When I issue the command as root: [mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/cdrom
> /cdrom] I receive the following error:
> 
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom,
>or too many mounted file systems
> 
> I have also done chmod 777 for /dev/hdb and /dev/cdrom--I'm not sure if
> this is the right thing to do here or not, irregardless, it hasn't
> helped. I'm outta things to do, anyone got any suggestions at this
> point? Oh, I know the drive works too, because I was using it before the
> install..
> thanks
> dale
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# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
#

/dev/hdc1   /   ext2defaults,errors=remount-ro  0   
1
/dev/hdc8   noneswapsw  0   0
proc/proc   procdefaults0   0
/dev/fd0/floppy autodefaults,user,noauto0   0
/dev/cdrom  /cdrom  iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto 0   0
/dev/hdc5 /usr ext2 rw  0   2
/dev/hdc6 /home ext2 rw 0   2
/dev/hdc7 /var ext2 rw  0   2

Ensoniq Soundscape Vivo90

[Joe Gaetano]

I have a ensoniq soundscape vivo90 (ISA) in this
debian 2.2 machine and I can not get it to work.. Can
somebody point me to some resources where I might get
info? I have previously used RedHat on this machine
and the card was automatically detected and setup with
sndconfig.. thanks in advance.  -Joe

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RE: Alien to .tar.gz

[Andrew McRobert]

cheers

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-Original Message-
From: Mike Werner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2000 11:15 AM
To: Debian-Users (E-mail)
Subject: Re: Alien to .tar.gz


Andrew McRobert wrote:
> hi
>
> Does anyone know the syntax to use 'alien' to convert from rpm to .tar.gz.
> The man page says this can be done, but doesn't say how ... the closest
> thing listed is "alien -t [file]" which produces [file].tgz ...

.tgz == .tar.gz
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Re: Alien to .tar.gz

[Mike Werner]

Andrew McRobert wrote:
> hi
> 
> Does anyone know the syntax to use 'alien' to convert from rpm to .tar.gz.
> The man page says this can be done, but doesn't say how ... the closest
> thing listed is "alien -t [file]" which produces [file].tgz ...

.tgz == .tar.gz
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Re: Alien to .tar.gz

[Ben Collins]

On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 11:10:47AM +0800, Andrew McRobert wrote:
> hi
> 
> Does anyone know the syntax to use 'alien' to convert from rpm to .tar.gz.
> The man page says this can be done, but doesn't say how ... the closest
> thing listed is "alien -t [file]" which produces [file].tgz ...

.tgz and .tar.gz are the same thing (a gzip compressed tar archive)

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Alien to .tar.gz

[Andrew McRobert]

hi

Does anyone know the syntax to use 'alien' to convert from rpm to .tar.gz.
The man page says this can be done, but doesn't say how ... the closest
thing listed is "alien -t [file]" which produces [file].tgz ...

tks
Andrew

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Can't mount CD-ROM

[Dale Morris]

After a recent install via ftp of debian potato, I find I am unable to
mount my cdrom drive. I have run dmesg | less and it returns:

hdc: WDC WD153BA, 14669MB w/2048kB Cache, CHS=29805/16/63
hdb: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM drive, 120kB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.09
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M

So I am assuming that means the kernel is properly configured and is
recognizing the the cdrom drive. I have made a symlink:
ln -s /dev/hdb/ cdrom
and I have checked and there is a directory mount point of /dev/cdrom.
When I issue the command as root: [mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/cdrom
/cdrom] I receive the following error:

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom,
   or too many mounted file systems

I have also done chmod 777 for /dev/hdb and /dev/cdrom--I'm not sure if
this is the right thing to do here or not, irregardless, it hasn't
helped. I'm outta things to do, anyone got any suggestions at this
point? Oh, I know the drive works too, because I was using it before the
install..
thanks
dale
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Re: CD-RW

[Rogerio Brito]

On Jun 25 2000, Willi Dyck wrote:
> If I recompile my kernel with SCSI Emulation for IDE devices, will
> then my ATAPI CD-ROM still work??

Yes, but you'll access it like a SCSI CD-ROM. :-)

> > Hope this helps, Roger...
> It helped ;-)

Glad to be of help. :-)


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qmail (was: Re: Using verp with Debian's smartlist package)

[Rogerio Brito]

On Aug 08 2000, Shane Wegner wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 11:40:35PM -0300, Rogerio Brito wrote:
> > On Aug 07 2000, Shane Wegner wrote:
> > > Has anyone successfully gotten this to work?
> > 
> > Must you use sendmail? Would you be willing to use qmail? If
> > so, then qmail supports VERPs outta the box with its fast
> > mailing list manager, ezmlm (and its add-on, ezmlm-idx). I'd
> > recommend using them for both kick some major arse! :-)
> 
> Well unless I am getting some significant features, I'd rather not learn a
> whole new mail system.  I use some sendmail features which other mailers may
> not have such as login authentication for relaying and TLS encrypted
> sessions.  These are even new for sendmail.  Besides, can't it support VERP
> using the username+data construct anyway?


I'm having some health problems and I can't see what I'm
typing very well. So, please excuse any typos that I make...
:-(


Well, what exactly do you need TLS for? For SMTP or for POP or
for both?  Anyway, I can't see any problems with your needs
and qmail (e.g., authentication before relaying). They are
reasonably simple to implement and I guess that if you already
installed sendmail, that you won't have problems experimenting
qmail. You might even setup a guinea pig box to see how it
feels...

Let me give you a pointer: go to www.qmail.org and search the
(huge) page for the strings you're looking for. And for TLS,
I'd recommend using sslwrap or stunnel. I assume that you
already have a certificate generated for your connections. A
visit to http://cr.yp.to/qmail.html will also be useful, I
think.

I hope this helps.

Great site you have, BTW. :-)


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Printer Setup - Netscape etc. & SMB

[Andrew McRobert]

hi

I've been running Samba on a Debian box here for a while now, and using
smblient & smbprint. What I'd like to know is if there's a way to configure
Gnome so that applications like Netscape & file editors print to a networked
printer through some kind of smbprint wrapper. In other words, if I hit the
"Print" button in Netscape it prints automatically to a Windows printer
(hanging off the PDC).

thanks
Andrew

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Re: Exim mail is frozen

[Adam Scriven]

At 09:48 2000/08/09 +0900, you wrote:
I retreived some mail using fetchmail, which worked fine. At the time, I 
used root to generate my "/var/spool/mail/USER" file. This caused some 
120+ email to be "bounced". I couldn't get any mail to my USER. These mail 
got stuck in /var/spool/exim/input. I chown the USER file and I could get 
mail.  But I can't get them unstuck from this folder. The exim doc's don't 
mention how to get them unstuck? Any suggestions?


If the mail IS set as frozen, the docs do tell how to do it:
CD to the /var/spool/exim/msglog directory (I believe that's the one), and 
run exim -Mt *

That should thaw any message that's pending.

It's buried (as are billions of other useful gems that I haven't been able 
to dig up yet) in the docs on the website that I found ( 
http://www.exim.org ).  There is also a way to determine the status of 
message, but I forget the command I'm afraid.


HTH.
Adam
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Re: netscape bookmarks in both win and linux

[Eric G . Miller]

On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 11:24:27PM +0200, Jonas Moberg wrote:
> Btw, when I checked my fstab I couldn't quite figure out what some
> fields did. I couldn't find any info on what the last two fields,
> "" and "" was for. "" was set to '0' on all entrys
> and "" was set to '1' on /, '22' on "/usr" and '0' on the rest
> (swap, proc and my windows- partitions). Anyone feel free to enlighten
> me on those? =)

Those are for when fsck should check the partition. Always put '0' for
non-ext2 partitions. Infos are in "man 5 fstab".

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Fwd: Re: maildir & imap [SOLVED]

[Eric Gillespie, Jr.]

This wasn't sent to the list, so i'm forwarding it in case
someone else finds it useful.

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On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 08:06:58AM -0500, Eric Gillespie, Jr. wrote:
> Does yours look something like this?

Exactly the same. I just removed all other modules from courier-imap and now
it works. Thanks a lot.

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Re: update-alternatives -- changing preferences

[Eric G . Miller]

On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 06:28:34AM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> Not quite, I think.
> 
> The above will add "emacs" into the list of available alternatives for
> "editor".  By what divers black majik a particular application is chosen
> I'm not sure.
> 
> In my current case, I want to specify an editor (vim) and a window
> manager (windowmaker)
>
 
> 
> ...what is the "correct" way to have "wmaker" be "Current 'best'
> version"?

The window manager part is easy, since there's a configuration setup
for it:

$ update-alternatives --config x-window-manager

Then select the appropriate default from the registered window-managers.

Aha, there's also one for "editor":

$ update-alternatives --config editor

However, it seems not all window-managers and editors are "installed"
into the alternatives.  I don't have sawfish (mmm, helix-code people!).

I think emacs has it's own "alternative" since there are several
flavors, and it's not really an editor anyway (in the sense of
/usr/bin/editor).

See "update-alternatives --config emacs" for multiple emacs installs.

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Exim mail is frozen

[Jack Morgan]

I retreived some mail using fetchmail, which worked fine. At the time, I used 
root to generate my "/var/spool/mail/USER" file. This caused some 120+ email to 
be "bounced". I couldn't get any mail to my USER. These mail got stuck in 
/var/spool/exim/input. I chown the USER file and I could get mail.  But I can't 
get them unstuck from this folder. The exim doc's don't mention how to get them 
unstuck? Any suggestions?

Thanks

Re: Uh oh! I ruined my kernel!

[kmself]

On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 03:57:18PM -0600, Cameron Matheson wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> I did a complete system upgrade yesterday (nothing in my computer is
> the same as it was anymore), so I was recompiling the kernel, and I
> guess I configured something wrong, cause now my computer won't
> boot-up.  _I'm not concerned about fixing it,_ I just want to start
> over, but I can't seem to reinstall debian, because when I boot off
> the 2.1 CD, and I hit 'enter' to boot, it loads the bad kernel image
> off my hard drive, instead of the one on the CD.  I read the help (by
> pressing F1-F4), and it said something about typing 'default' and then
> hitting enter, but then it just tells me that their is no kernel image
> 'default'.  Just wondering how I can load the CD's kernel image.

Investigate the boot-prompt HOWTO if you want, or just go ahead and boot
"rescue".  You can switch to the second virtual console, get a shell,
and proceed to fix up your system.  One standard trick is to mount your
hard disk someplace and chroot into it to fix up the system.

If you saved your old kernel image, you should be able to just point
LILO at it and boot it.


It's usually a good idea to leave stanzas for known-good kernels in
/etc/lilo.conf.

Remember to re-run lilo to commit the changes to your boot record.

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Re: Unable to load atd.

[Russ Pitman]

Thanks Karsten,
I was trying to run it thru the script, never gave the -d
flag a thought. Everything in damn spool dir was owned by postfix and the 
/atjobs had 700 perms.

BTW does the -d flag work on everything.I have assumed that wasn't the case.

Live and learn TVM.

On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 01:32:16AM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 02:43:59PM +1000, Russ Pitman wrote:
> > Running woody with 2.2.15 kernel, system updated today.
> > 
>> 
> What messages do you see in /var/log/messages and/or /var/log/daemon?
> 
Nothing in either

> Try running atd in debug mode (-d switch) and watching what happens.

That fixed it!
> 
> > I tried installing the binaries from slink,same problem. Recompilled
> > the kernel, nada.  
> 
> Should have absolutely nothing to do with this.  Start with the simple
> stuff -- missing directory or bad permissions.
> 
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Re: dwww errors

[Jean-Philippe Guérard]

Le 2000-08-04 21:44:03 +0200, Neilen Marais écrivait :
> For instance, on the debian document menu, a number of choices result
> in not found messages, or other arb errors. If I manually browse the
> same location in netscape useing file:///whatever (by looking at the
> URL dwww generates) things usually go dandy.
> 
> Sometimes I get errors like:
> Access denied.
> 
> dwww will not allow you to read file
> /usr/share/doc/gnome-users-guide-en/html/index.html 

html is not a folder, but a symlink outside /usr/share/doc.

This file is in fact in :

/usr/share/gnome/help/users-guide/C/index.html

For safety reasons, as it is supposed to be available over the network
(via your webserver), dwww will not give access to data outside
/usr/doc & /usr/share/doc (+ the man & info paths).

General purpose documents are supposed to be located in
/usr/share/doc.

To sum it up, this is a bug in gnome-users-guide-en, not in dwww.
dwww will not give you access to documents outside the official
documentation directories.

> Going to the page manually works fine.
> 
> futhermore, my HTML documentation index is empty.

This list should probably be removed. I guess it is not used anymore.

Hope it helps.

-- 
Jean-Philippe Guérard

Re: netscape bookmarks in both win and linux

[Robert Norris]

> I couldn't seem to find any netscape-roaming-howto and since I don't know
> what ldap does I'm left in the blue here.. =)

You don't need an LDAP server, you can use mod_roaming with Apache instead, we
use it at work and its great :)

Regards,
Rob.


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Re: netscape security hole

[Phil Brutsche]

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...

> On NPR's Morning Edition they described a security hole in Netscape
> versions 4.73 and earlier that allows 'infection' by access to
> 'nasty' web sites. It is said to put your hard drive at risk some
> way.
> 
> I assume this is a Windows problem, BUT does anybody know what this
> hole is and whether Linux is susceptible? (Probably only the user's
> files would be at risk at worst.)

Yes, Linux is vulnerable.  The 'virus' in question is a Java applet what
exploits bugs in Netscape's Java implementation.

The 'virus' implements a web server on port 8080, giving anyone who
bothers to look ro access to all mounted file systems.

The solution:
 * Stick yourself behind a firewall, preferably one that does NAT (aka IP
   Masquerading).
   - or -
 * Don't use java on Netscape.

-- 
--
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"There are two things that are infinite; Human stupidity and the
universe. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstien

Re: some questions

[Jean-Philippe Guérard]

Le 2000-08-02 11:28:52 +0300, Tzafrir Cohen écrivait :
> 1. When using a network adapter whose driver is compiled as a module -
> where does this module get loaded?
> I currently added a simple modprobe line to /etc/init.d/networking , but
> there has to be a better way. On RedHat loading this module is done by the
> ifup script.

During the boot sequence, they are loaded by /etc/init.d/modutils, which is
started during the single user mode.

To configure this, use modconf.

>From modconf, load your module with the correct parameters (if any).
Modconf will save the modules parameters, and ensure it is loaded
every time your systems is started.

(To be precise, the module name will be added to /etc/modules,
 the parameters will be saved to /etc/modutils/module-name,
 and update-modules will be used to rebuild the /etc/modules.conf
 file).

> 4. manipulating rc?.d
> On RedHat there's a simple program called chkconfig for simple
> manipulations of the symlinks in the rc?.d directories. It gets its
> default values from some lines in the init.d scrip itself and has --add
> and --remove . The update-rc.d seems to be only useful for package
> installation and package removal.
> I can always change those symlinks manually, but this can be a bit
> erro-prone.

You can use the file-rc package . It will replace the multiple rc?.d
directories and symlinks by a single file you can edit with a text
editor ( /etc/runlevel.conf ).

> 5. Single-user mode loads a whole bunch of stuff that are not really
> needed.
> What is the recomended way to load "failsafe" defaults? Using a floppy?

Maybe you need to remove some packages you do not use ? Looking at what
is launched in single user mode here, I do not really see a lot of unwanted
stuff.

Hope it helps.

-- 
Jean-Philippe Guérard

RE: info on CUPS

[Federico Silva]

I'll take a look, thanks :)

-f.


> -Original Message-
> From: Brian May [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: miércoles 9 de agosto de 2000 0:01
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: info on CUPS
> 
> 
> > "Federico" == Federico Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> Federico> Hello everybody, I've been thinking in CUPS lately so
> Federico> maybe i'll try.
> 
> There was a thread on CUPS recently on debian-devel 
> 
> Have a look in the archives at
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0007/thrd2.html#00735
> -- 
> Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> 
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Re: info on CUPS

[Brian May]

> "Federico" == Federico Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Federico> Hello everybody, I've been thinking in CUPS lately so
Federico> maybe i'll try.

There was a thread on CUPS recently on debian-devel 

Have a look in the archives at
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0007/thrd2.html#00735
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Re: apache-newby: permissions?

[Gerardo Mauricio Sarria]

You have to put in your srm.conf:

AddHandler cgi-script .cgi

And, in your access.conf (in the directory where you'll put your cgi's):

Options ExecCGI ...



On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Johann Spies wrote:

> I have succeeded in setting up apache on my single computer and get
> netscape and lynx to communicate with it.
> 
> My next problem is that I do not know how to configure apache to allow
> me as user to execute .cgi-scripts from the server.
> 
> When I try it I get the following error message:
> 
>   Forbidden
> 
>You don't have permission to access /cgi-bin/sql-ledger/admin.cgi
>on
>this server.
> 
> I want to try out php3 which I have never used before.  I get a
> similar message when I try to access
> http://localhost/usr/doc/php3/html.
> 
> My /etc/apache/access.conf contains 
> 
> 
> 
> Options All
> AllowOverride None
> order allow,deny
> allow from all
> 
> 
> AllowOverride None
> Options All
> 
> 
> 
> Options All
> AllowOverride None
> order deny,allow
> deny from all
> allow from localhost
> 
> 
> 
> Options Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
> AllowOverride None
> 
> 
> 
> order allow,deny
> deny from all
> 
> ---
> And permissions on /var/www looks like this:
> 
> drwxrwxr-x   5 root www-data 1024 Aug  8 21:52 www/
> 
> I work as user jhspies and I have added jhspies to group www-data.
> 
> What else can I do rectify the situation?
> 
> Johann
> 
> 
> 

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Re: Problem with procmail

[Moritz Schulte]

On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 12:01:23AM +0200, Robert Kasunic wrote:

> I filter this list by using procmail. It works quite well, except
> for the fact that every mail gets into the folder twice.

without procmail, you get every mail only once?
could you post you .procmailrc?

  moritz
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Re: apache-newby: permissions?

[staf]

On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Johann Spies wrote:

> My next problem is that I do not know how to configure apache to allow
> me as user to execute .cgi-scripts from the server.
>
> When I try it I get the following error message:
>
>   Forbidden
>
>You don't have permission to access /cgi-bin/sql-ledger/admin.cgi
>on
>this server.

Is "admin.cgi" executable for www-data (apache runs as www-data on
debian ) ? Try a chmod 755 on your cgi script, perhaps this solve the
problem.

regards,

--
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Problem with procmail

[Robert Kasunic]

Hi all,

I filter this list by using procmail. It works quite well, except for the fact 
that every mail gets into the folder twice.

Any suggestions?

TIA
Robert


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[Robert Kasunic]

Hi all,

I filter this list by using procmail. It works quite well, except for the fact 
that every mail gets into the folder twice.

Any suggestions?

TIA
Robert


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Uh oh! I ruined my kernel!

[Cameron Matheson]

Hey,

I did a complete system upgrade yesterday (nothing in my computer is the
same as it was anymore), so I was recompiling the kernel, and I guess I
configured something wrong, cause now my computer won't boot-up.  _I'm
not concerned about fixing it,_ I just want to start over, but I can't
seem to reinstall debian, because when I boot off the 2.1 CD, and I hit
'enter' to boot, it loads the bad kernel image off my hard drive,
instead of the one on the CD.  I read the help (by pressing F1-F4), and
it said something about typing 'default' and then hitting enter, but
then it just tells me that their is no kernel image 'default'.  Just
wondering how I can load the CD's kernel image.

Thanks,
Cameron Matheson

netscape security hole

[David Teague]

On NPR's Morning Edition they described a security hole in Netscape
versions 4.73 and earlier that allows 'infection' by access to
'nasty' web sites. It is said to put your hard drive at risk some
way.

I assume this is a Windows problem, BUT does anybody know what this
hole is and whether Linux is susceptible? (Probably only the user's
files would be at risk at worst.)

--David
David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely,
 useful, technically accurate, and friendly.
 (I hope this is all of the above.)

Linux support for PlexWriter 12/10/32A?

[David Teague]

Hi

Is the Plextor PlexWriter 12/10/32A supported by Linux? This is a
fairly new unit that uses Sanyo's BURN-Proof (Buffer UnderRun Proof)
fault-tolerant technology. 

The review I read is in PC Mag, which is almost exclusively Windows
and the drive is not described as SCSI, so I assume it is IDE.

The review says this drive remedies the generation of pretty
coasters problem by halting the write when the internal buffer is
empty, then waits for the buffer to refill, then finds last frame
written and resumes. This is said to allow Win machines to browse
without killing a cd burn.

If you don't know whether it is supported, is there a similar device
that is known to work under Linux, so we might safely infer support? 

Or ... how can I find out short of buying one and trying it? ;)

--David
David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely,
 useful, technically accurate, and friendly.
 (I hope this is all of the above.)

apache-newby: permissions?

[Johann Spies]

I have succeeded in setting up apache on my single computer and get
netscape and lynx to communicate with it.

My next problem is that I do not know how to configure apache to allow
me as user to execute .cgi-scripts from the server.

When I try it I get the following error message:

  Forbidden

   You don't have permission to access /cgi-bin/sql-ledger/admin.cgi
   on
   this server.

I want to try out php3 which I have never used before.  I get a
similar message when I try to access
http://localhost/usr/doc/php3/html.

My /etc/apache/access.conf contains 



Options All
AllowOverride None
order allow,deny
allow from all


AllowOverride None
Options All



Options All
AllowOverride None
order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from localhost



Options Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
AllowOverride None



order allow,deny
deny from all

---
And permissions on /var/www looks like this:

drwxrwxr-x   5 root www-data 1024 Aug  8 21:52 www/

I work as user jhspies and I have added jhspies to group www-data.

What else can I do rectify the situation?

Johann


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  and cannot obtain; ye fight and war, yet ye have not, 
  because ye ask not."James 4:2 

Re: netscape bookmarks in both win and linux

[Jonas Moberg]

> If you got more than one computer you can use Netscape-roaming.
> Install openldap, look at netscape-roaming-howto
> and you can use your netscape-profile everywhere.

I couldn't seem to find any netscape-roaming-howto and since I don't know
what ldap does I'm left in the blue here.. =)

Re: netscape bookmarks in both win and linux

[Jonas Moberg]

> If you got more than one computer you can use Netscape-roaming.
> Install openldap, look at netscape-roaming-howto
> and you can use your netscape-profile everywhere.

I couldn't seem to find any netscape-roaming-howto and since I don't know
what ldap does I'm left in the blue here.. =)

Re: netscape bookmarks in both win and linux

[Jonas Moberg]

> If you got more than one computer you can use Netscape-roaming.
> Install openldap, look at netscape-roaming-howto
> and you can use your netscape-profile everywhere.

I couldn't seem to find any netscape-roaming-howto and since I don't know
what ldap does I'm left in the blue here.. =)

Re: netscape bookmarks in both win and linux

[Jonas Moberg]

> I can help!
> FSTab settings (manual, no Linuxconf on this machine) for a vfat formatted 
> 15GB partition, with MP3's and stuff on it.  One main user system 
> (uid=1000), with a users group (gid=100).
> 
> /dev/hdb1   /mnt/SharedMediavfat 
> rw,uid=1000,gid=100,setgid=100,u
> mask=0020   2

Thanks! Found it all in the man-page of mount later also :). 

Thou this didn't solve the issue of netscape overwriting the bookmarks.html
link with a copy. It only does it when you try to change the bookmarks thou..

Btw, when I checked my fstab I couldn't quite figure out what some fields
did. I couldn't find any info on what the last two fields, "" and 
"" was for. "" was set to '0' on all entrys and "" was set
to '1' on /, '22' on "/usr" and '0' on the rest (swap, proc and my windows-
partitions). Anyone feel free to enlighten me on those? =)

Re: netscape bookmarks in both win and linux

[Jonas Moberg]

> i had a similar problem and my solution was:
> 
> http://www.klomp.org/mod_roaming/#download
> 
> if you have access to a webserver running apache or know someone who does
> you can have em install that module and use the roaming features of
> netscape. keep the same bookmarks/preferences/everything accross tens of
> computers no matter where you are.  i can't live without it now.

Thnx! I had a look at it and it seems nice.. Thou I currently don't have
access to any apache-server, hopefully I will in the future thou and then
I'll try to remember this.. ;-)

adding to inetd

[Jonas Moberg]

How do I add a field in inetd for ssh and proftp? and should I even be
doing this? My thought was to be able to use /etc/hosts.deny for all 
applications, and perhaps portsentry or equal in the future when I get the
time to check it out. Any drawbacks of putting all services in inetd?

Re: Applixware 5 on Debian slink, potato or woody?

[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Stefan Bellon wrote:

sbello >Now I'd like to know whether anybody has experience with the later
sbello >Applixware 5 on Debian systems. Does it install without problems?

installs flawlessly, runs like crap though. for some reason it takes about
5 minutes to load on a p3-500 128MB. tries to load some font server?? or
something i dunno i gave up on it, feels worse then corel office, which
annoys me when it wont load while mp3s are playing and crashes like mad.

sbello >I know that it's against the Debian GNU philosophy, but if there's no
sbello >other application suite with the same features, then I think it's still
sbello >better than using PowerPoint (that soft of application is the one I'm
sbello >looking for at most) the other operating system.

i liked applixware 4 more, staroffice feels good compared to applixware5
and corel!

nate

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Re: update-alternatives -- changing preferences

[Ian Zimmerman]

> "Karsten" == kmself   writes:

Dave> The easy way would be
Dave> 
Dave> update-alternatives --config x-window-manager
Dave> 
Dave> and select wmaker from the list to be your default.

Karsten> For those who are interested, the following script (run in
Karsten> /etc/alternatives) will list all manually configured
Karsten> alternative links:

Beware!  This does _not_ quite work as expected.  It will update the
'master' link but not the 'slave' links (e. g. I bet "man editor" on
your system will still display the nvi manpage).  This is just a bug
in update-alternatives IMHO, and I reported it as such after
discussing these issues on the list some months ago, and I enclosed an
ugly perl hack that serves as a temporary replacement for me.

-- 
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In his own soul a man bears the source
from which he draws all his sorrows and his joys.
Sophocles.

Re: Using verp with Debian's smartlist package

[Shane Wegner]

On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 11:40:35PM -0300, Rogerio Brito wrote:
> On Aug 07 2000, Shane Wegner wrote:
> > Has anyone successfully gotten this to work?
> 
>   Must you use sendmail? Would you be willing to use qmail? If
>   so, then qmail supports VERPs outta the box with its fast
>   mailing list manager, ezmlm (and its add-on, ezmlm-idx). I'd
>   recommend using them for both kick some major arse! :-)

Well unless I am getting some significant features, I'd rather not learn a
whole new mail system.  I use some sendmail features which other mailers may
not have such as login authentication for relaying and TLS encrypted
sessions.  These are even new for sendmail.  Besides, can't it support VERP
using the username+data construct anyway?

Shane

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Re: update-alternatives -- changing preferences

[kmself]

On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 11:06:57AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> kmself@ix.netcom.com said:
> > The above will add "emacs" into the list of available alternatives
> > for "editor".  By what divers black majik a particular application
> > is chosen I'm not sure.
> 
> Despite the claim at the top of --display's output, "auto" appears to
> be an action rather than a state.  When you execute
> `update-alternatives --auto `, the highest priority option is
> assigned to the link (in the case of a tie, the first item listed with
> the highest priority is chosen, IIRC).
> 
> However, this automatic selection can be overridden with
> `update-alternatives --config ` to force a specific option - yet
> it continues to claim "status is auto."
> 
> > ...what is the "correct" way to have "wmaker" be "Current 'best'
> > version"?
> 
> The easy way would be
> 
> update-alternatives --config x-window-manager
> 
> and select wmaker from the list to be your default.

For those who are interested, the following script (run in
/etc/alternatives) will list all manually configured alternative links:


#!/bin/bash
cd /etc/alternatives
for file in *; 
do 
if update-alternatives --display $file | grep manual 1>/dev/null
then update-alternatives --display $file; echo
fi
done 


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Re: SB AWE64 PnP installation on slink 2.2.12

[Hans]

This is the ISA SB64AWE, I suppose, so did you do the isapnp setup routine
(pnpdump, editing /etc/isapnp.conf, running isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf)?

The two modules that should be loaded are sound and sb. 
Use modprobe -a sound and modprobe -a sb io=0x0220, irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5
mpu_io=0x330 to insert those.

Good luck. Contact me if you still have problems.

Hans


At 09:18 AM 8/8/00 -0400, William Smith wrote:
>I've been trying to get my SoundBlaster AWE64 PnP card to work with slink
>2.2.12.
>
>I've tried following "Linux Kernel HOWTO", "Linux Sound HOWTO:
>Installation", "Sound Blaster AWE32/64 HOWTO" but without much luck.
>
>I've rebuilt the kernel okay with OSS and with sound as a loadable module
>and then done make modules okay but when I try to install the sound module
>using  "insmod sound"  I get a collection of unresolved symbols :
>
>/lib/modules/2.2.12/misc/sound.o: unresolved symbol
>sound_preinit_lowlevel_drivers
>/lib/modules/2.2.12/misc/sound.o: unresolved symbol unregister_sound_dsp
>/lib/modules/2.2.12/misc/sound.o: unresolved symbol
>sound_unload_lowlevel_drivers
>/lib/modules/2.2.12/misc/sound.o: unresolved symbol unregister_sound_midi
>/lib/modules/2.2.12/misc/sound.o: unresolved symbol register_sound_dsp
>/lib/modules/2.2.12/misc/sound.o: unresolved symbol register_sound_mixer
>/lib/modules/2.2.12/misc/sound.o: unresolved symbol unregister_sound_mixer
>/lib/modules/2.2.12/misc/sound.o: unresolved symbol unregister_sound_special
>/lib/modules/2.2.12/misc/sound.o: unresolved symbol register_sound_special
>/lib/modules/2.2.12/misc/sound.o: unresolved symbol
>sound_init_lowlevel_drivers
>/lib/modules/2.2.12/misc/sound.o: unresolved symbol register_sound_midi
>
>Any clues?
>
>Bill
>
>
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Re: [OFFTOPIC] BIOS Password defeat

[Hans]

Any good PC-engineer will know a universal password which will unlock the
bios. It's a 4-letter code, which works on most bioses. I had the same
problem once, but I forgot to note down the code, stupid me. I had a friend
who worked in a PC-shop who told me they had this problem at least once a
week, where a customer would come in with a PC with a locked bios. They
used this common password and voila another satisfied customer who left
with his wallet slightly thinner ;-)  Repair time, 1 minute!

Hans

At 03:24 PM 8/8/00 +0200, Daniel Reuter wrote:
>Hello there,
>
>I found a pretty nice 486 PCI-motherboard in the bulk waste last week,
>which I would like to use as secondary computer with debian. The board is
>working, but unfortunately, it was setup in a way that you can only boot
>from harddisk, and shadow RAM was enabled. So I tried to change the
>settings, but the preliminary user has installed a Setup-Password, so that
>I can't access the BIOS. I know, that there are ways to get around this,
>but I don't know how to do it in this special case. 
>So does anybody know where to find the necessary information? Is there a
>tool for Linux or DOS to access and change BIOS-settings (I could plugin
>the harddisk from another computer and try to boot into Linux or use the
>small DOS-partition I have on this disk). Or is there some kind of cheat
>password, which will always work? 
>The BIOS is a Phoenix version 4.04.
>
>Regards,
>Daniel
>
>
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Applixware 5 on Debian slink, potato or woody?

[Stefan Bellon]

Hi all!

A friend of mine runs Applixware 4.4.1 on his Debian system (mixture of
potato and woody). But he says that it's quite buggy and looks
outdated. But otherwise it performs quite well. For the installation he
took the RPMs and alienated them to deb packages. Then he make a link
from /opt to /usr/local before installing them with dpkg.

Now I'd like to know whether anybody has experience with the later
Applixware 5 on Debian systems. Does it install without problems?

I know that it's against the Debian GNU philosophy, but if there's no
other application suite with the same features, then I think it's still
better than using PowerPoint (that soft of application is the one I'm
looking for at most) the other operating system.

TIA.

Greetings,

Stefan.

-- 
 Stefan Bellon *  * 

 I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the
 universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. (Bill Watterson)

slightly-off: parport split-box

[A. Demarteau \(linux rules!\)]

hi,
does anyone know if there's an electronicly working box for hanging two
printers on one paralel-port which is supported by linux?
thanx,

---
Andor Demarteau
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RE: [OFFTOPIC] BIOS Password defeat

[Jason Quigley]

Another alternative: Just remove the battery that keeps the CMOS charged.

I assume that if you're going to install Debian anew, that you won't care about 
losing it's settings.


Cheers,
Jason.

--On Tuesday, August 8, 2000 21:31 +0300 Lehel Bernadt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:




On 08-Aug-2000 Daniel Reuter wrote:

Hello there,

I found a pretty nice 486 PCI-motherboard in the bulk waste last week,
which I would like to use as secondary computer with debian. The board is
working, but unfortunately, it was setup in a way that you can only boot
from harddisk, and shadow RAM was enabled. So I tried to change the
settings, but the preliminary user has installed a Setup-Password, so that
I can't access the BIOS. I know, that there are ways to get around this,
but I don't know how to do it in this special case.
So does anybody know where to find the necessary information? Is there a
tool for Linux or DOS to access and change BIOS-settings (I could plugin
the harddisk from another computer and try to boot into Linux or use the
small DOS-partition I have on this disk). Or is there some kind of cheat
password, which will always work?
The BIOS is a Phoenix version 4.04.


You could write a little program or use dos debug to wipe out the cmos data
at port 0x70 index, 0x71 data. (Containing something like:
for (i=0; i<0x80; i++) {
outp(0x70, i); outp(0x71, 0);
} )
In fact, it's only necessary to alter the checksum, and the bios should reset
to the defaults.


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info on CUPS

[Federico Silva]

Hello everybody,
I've been thinking in CUPS lately
so maybe i'll try.

What are the pros and cons if any ?

Any info o story regarding this subject would be
of great help.

Thanks in advance.

-f.

Re: Lilo Problem

[Francesco Bochicchio]

On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 10:42:04AM +0200, Dirk Allard wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just installed the latest slink cd image on my machine (worked ok). Trying 
> to install lilo it wouldn't work, because the boot disk has over 1024 
> cylinders. Unfortunately the floppy is not working, so I cannot boot through 
> a boot floppy. Is there any way to install an acutal lilo after booting with 
> the debian install cd? One addition: before this I had grub as boot loader 
> (mandrake Linux).
>
Check out the previous thread named 'lilo problems' in this mailing list.
You might find useful answers. 
In summary :
- to use lilo with > 1024(1023) cyl, you need to run 'lilo -L' or insert the 
  option 'lba32' in your lilo.conf
- You might have to remove the existing boot record with 'lilo -u' or 'lilo -U',
  then create a new boot record with 'mkboot -installkernel', then run lilo.
  If so, you have to patch the script /sbin/mkboot, wich does not work if you
  have more than 1024 cyl.

Ciao
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Re: 3c90x woes

[Peter S Galbraith]

"F.P. Groeneveld" wrote:

> Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> : # /etc/init.d/network
> : SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such device
> : SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable
> 
> I _think_ this is just the new networking code in the newer kernel. Old
> syntax ifconfig/routing commands generate these, I seem to recall. Anypne?

No, the /etc/init.d/network script works fine when the 3c59x
modules is loaded instead.

Peter

Re: 3c90x woes

[Peter S Galbraith]

"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote:

> On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> 
> Galbra >So I decided to try the 3c90x driver from 3Com, but it doesn't
> Galbra >work for me.  I compiled a module and get this when I load it:
> 
> i always have statically compiled the driver into my kernel i dont know if
> that makes a difference, 

I could try that.
>  what kind of chip is on your card? i have tested
> it with both 3C905B and 3C905C with complete success(the 3com driver)

It's the 3C905C TXM.

Peter

Re: 2.2 iso

[staf]

> Is there somebody who can tell me how I can put the iso-image of the
> debian 2.2-pre3 on a cdr with nero 5.0 (if it's possible).
> I try to do it but there were nothing on the cd (sorry I don't have
> cdrecord).

You can always download the Windows version of cdrecord, there is a link
to the windows version at http://cdimage.debian.org . 

I've created my debian cdroms with cdrecord on a M$ Windows system... the
click-drag-&-drop software was too difficult to use :-)

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Solved: update-alternatives -- changing preferences

[kmself]

On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 11:06:57AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> kmself@ix.netcom.com said:
> > The above will add "emacs" into the list of available alternatives for
> > "editor".  By what divers black majik a particular application is chosen
> > I'm not sure.
> 
> Despite the claim at the top of --display's output, "auto" appears to be an
> action rather than a state.  When you execute `update-alternatives --auto
> `, the highest priority option is assigned to the link (in the case of
> a tie, the first item listed with the highest priority is chosen, IIRC).
> 
> However, this automatic selection can be overridden with `update-alternatives
> --config ` to force a specific option - yet it continues to claim
> "status is auto."
> 
> > ...what is the "correct" way to have "wmaker" be "Current 'best'
> > version"?
> 
> The easy way would be
> 
> update-alternatives --config x-window-manager
> 
> and select wmaker from the list to be your default.

THANK you, Dave!  That's exactly what I was looking for.


That's the option which the manpage, in its verbosity, fails to make
clear.  Ok, there is a paragraph buried at the end of the "DESCRIPTION"
section, but it's a bit buried.

Examples here would be very useful.


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Re: 3c90x woes

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On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Peter S Galbraith wrote:

Galbra >So I decided to try the 3c90x driver from 3Com, but it doesn't
Galbra >work for me.  I compiled a module and get this when I load it:

i always have statically compiled the driver into my kernel i dont know if
that makes a difference, what kind of chip is on your card? i have tested
it with both 3C905B and 3C905C with complete success(the 3com driver)

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Re: netscape bookmarks in both win and linux

[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

i had a similar problem and my solution was:

http://www.klomp.org/mod_roaming/#download

if you have access to a webserver running apache or know someone who does
you can have em install that module and use the roaming features of
netscape. keep the same bookmarks/preferences/everything accross tens of
computers no matter where you are.  i can't live without it now.

nate

On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Jonas Moberg wrote:

jonas >I intend to use my netscape bookmark.htm from my windows-partition for 
jonas >linux as well. So I made a soft-link from my windows-netscape 
bookmark.htm 
jonas >to ~/.netscape/bookmarks.html. Works fine, except for one thing.. 
Netscape sometimes replaces the link with a copy. Why?
jonas >
jonas >This solution also makes it impossible to add bookmarks from linux as 
jonas >the mounted windows-partition of course belongs to root. What's a easy 
jonas >(and safe) way to solve this?
jonas >
jonas >
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RE: [OFFTOPIC] BIOS Password defeat

[Lehel Bernadt]

On 08-Aug-2000 Daniel Reuter wrote:
> Hello there,
> 
> I found a pretty nice 486 PCI-motherboard in the bulk waste last week,
> which I would like to use as secondary computer with debian. The board is
> working, but unfortunately, it was setup in a way that you can only boot
> from harddisk, and shadow RAM was enabled. So I tried to change the
> settings, but the preliminary user has installed a Setup-Password, so that
> I can't access the BIOS. I know, that there are ways to get around this,
> but I don't know how to do it in this special case. 
> So does anybody know where to find the necessary information? Is there a
> tool for Linux or DOS to access and change BIOS-settings (I could plugin
> the harddisk from another computer and try to boot into Linux or use the
> small DOS-partition I have on this disk). Or is there some kind of cheat
> password, which will always work? 
> The BIOS is a Phoenix version 4.04.

You could write a little program or use dos debug to wipe out the cmos data
at port 0x70 index, 0x71 data. (Containing something like:
for (i=0; i<0x80; i++) {
outp(0x70, i); outp(0x71, 0);
} )
In fact, it's only necessary to alter the checksum, and the bios should reset
to the defaults.

Re: 3c90x woes

[F.P. Groeneveld]

Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

: # /etc/init.d/network
: SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such device
: SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable

I _think_ this is just the new networking code in the newer kernel. Old
syntax ifconfig/routing commands generate these, I seem to recall. Anypne?

Cheers,

   Derk

hosts_access

[mattyt]

Hello, all,

I'm in the process of setting up a 2.2 server for my work.  It will be running
SAMBA & lrpng for all local clients, and IMP/proftp for external (& internal)
clients.

I've read the hosts_access manpage, and mostly understand it, but am missing a
few key points and I don't know where to find dox that will explain it for me.

Basically, the people here want to be able to have write access to the public
SAMBA shares so they can drag and drop files on their Win98 clients onto the
/home/ftp/pub directory.  They will also (obviously) need IMP access both
internally and externally.

The server isn't fully in place yet as we're waiting on installation of our DSL
link, but I'd like to have it ready by then.  I have already put ALL: ALL in
/etc/hosts.deny and ALL: 10.0.1. in /etc/hosts.allow.  I also want people to be
able to get their mail through IMP externally, and I want to allow anonymous ftp
access externally (but *not* user login ftp access externally).  I also don't
want people to be able to use IMAP clients other than a secure web browser so
that passwords aren't passed in the clear.

Can anyone give me some hints as to dox to read, or entries for /etc/hosts.allow
to accomplish this?

Many thanks in advance :)

Cheers...

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Re: HP OpenMail on Debian (M$ Exchange alternative)

[Kent West]

Phil Brutsche wrote:
> 
> A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
> 
> > hi
> >
> > I was wondering if anyone has had any experience in getting HP's OpenMail
> > working on a Debian box?
> 
> I've had a little.
> 
> > One of the features of OpenMail is that it can serve as an alternative
> > to M$oft's Exchange Server software, and allows calendar sharing etc.
> > between employees in an enterprise.
> 
> It has most of the functionality.

We started to play with OpenMail here; I never could get it to
work on Debian, so a co-worker with RedHat tried. After some
difficulty, he called an OpenMail rep (I don't have details), who
informed my co-worker that the shared calendering doesn't yet
work. That's the only reason we were interested, so we gave up on
it. This rep said that MS has been less than forthright in
providing the information to HP necessary to get calendaring to
work. Now mind you, this info is second hand.

On a related note, several co-workers came back from a Win2000
week-long class last week, taught by a 3rd-party (e.g.
non-Microsoft) organization; the instructor basically said that
Outlook (or maybe just calendaring; I don't remember) on
Macintosh connecting to an Exchange server tends to cause a lot
of problems, which then locks the Windows users out of their
calendars until the Exchange server is rebooted. He said the
problem was in the Macintosh Exchange client, and that the
Exchange programmers at MS don't seem to get along with the
Macintosh programmers at MS, which is a large part of the
problem. I would not expect HPOpenMail to be any better. Of
course, this info is third hand, and my not be applicable if
you're not interested in cross-platform solutions with the big
three (Windows, Mac, Unix/Linux).

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Re: KDE2 error loading libkofficeui

[Kent West]

Moritz Schulte wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 10:47:19AM -0500, Kent West wrote:
> 
> > I've just installed KDE2 and KOffice from
> > "http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/evolution/distributions/Debian
> > ./".
> 
> are you sure? ;)
> 
> moritz

Oops; copy/pasted wrong line:

"ftp://kde.tdyc.com/pub/kde/ potato kde2 contrib"

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Re: netscape bookmarks in both win and linux

[Adam Scriven]

At 12:40 2000/08/08 -0400, you wrote:
It's possible to mount your Windows partition with all the files set with 
whatever ownership/permissions you want.  You can put the settings in 
/etc/fstab, but I can't find the appropriate settings in fstab's 
manpages..  I think you can do it in Linuxconf though, though I haven't 
tried Linuxconf under Debian yet.


I can help!
FSTab settings (manual, no Linuxconf on this machine) for a vfat formatted 
15GB partition, with MP3's and stuff on it.  One main user system 
(uid=1000), with a users group (gid=100).


/dev/hdb1   /mnt/SharedMediavfat 
rw,uid=1000,gid=100,setgid=100,u

mask=0020   2

HTH.
Adam
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Re: KDE2 error loading libkofficeui

[Moritz Schulte]

On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 10:47:19AM -0500, Kent West wrote:

> I've just installed KDE2 and KOffice from
> "http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/evolution/distributions/Debian
> ./".

are you sure? ;)

moritz
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Re: netscape bookmarks in both win and linux

[Thomas J. Hamman]

On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 12:18:11PM +0200, Jonas Moberg wrote:
> I intend to use my netscape bookmark.htm from my windows-partition for 
> linux as well. So I made a soft-link from my windows-netscape bookmark.htm 
> to ~/.netscape/bookmarks.html. Works fine, except for one thing.. Netscape 
> sometimes replaces the link with a copy. Why?
> 
> This solution also makes it impossible to add bookmarks from linux as 
> the mounted windows-partition of course belongs to root. What's a easy 
> (and safe) way to solve this?
 
It's possible to mount your Windows partition with all the files set
with whatever ownership/permissions you want.  You can put the settings
in /etc/fstab, but I can't find the appropriate settings in fstab's
manpages..  I think you can do it in Linuxconf though, though I haven't
tried Linuxconf under Debian yet.

Tom

Re: Wdm

[Thomas J. Hamman]

On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 10:22:23AM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> I  tried to install Wdm.
> While in it's setup, it asked me something about a lock, which xdm was
> using. Well, I think I give up of installing it, and pressed  + C.
> Yesterday, when I booted the box, there was a screen with a penguin, and I
> could not use the keyboard anymore(just the mouse).
> Three questions:
> 1) Why does stupid newbies keep messing with things that they don't
> understand? (Answer: because they're stupid).

Because they want to learn, and messing with things is the only way.
The stupid newbies are the ones who _don't_ mess with things and get
themselves interesting situations. :)

> 2) (no kidding) Is there any way to boot linux step-by-step, just like the
> F8 key in DOS? So I would skip the Wdm initialization.
> 3) If the answer to 2) is no, how could I recover my installation (don't
> wanna use rescue.bin).
 
I don't know about "step-by-step", but one thing you can try is booting
into single-user mode by typing "linux 1" at the Lilo prompt.  Log in
with your root password and uninstall the offending package.

(I would have suggested using "linux 2", but I think when I tried that
after I installed Debian I discovered that would end up running xdm and
switching to xdm's runlevel anyway.)

Thus, I don't really know if that'll work, but it gives you something to
try until someone more knowledgable than I gives you a better solution.

Oh yeah, BTW... did you try ctrl-alt-f2 to switch to a virtual console?

Tom

Re: Compiling Galeon?

[Thomas J. Hamman]

On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 03:04:51AM +0200, Moritz Schulte wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 07:17:09PM -0400, Thomas J. Hamman wrote:
> 
> [...]
> > /usr/local/src/galeon-0.7.1/src/main.c:54: undefined reference to
> > `glade_gnome_init'
> [...]
> 
> > I figured maybe I didn't have a gnome or glade devel library installed,
> > but I checked and can't find anything appropriate that I don't already
> > have installed. 
> 
> i'm not sure... i've all this GNOME stuff compiled by myself.. do you
> need/have these?
> 
> Package: libglade0-dev
> Package: libglade-gnome0-dev

Yes, I have both of those installed. :/

Tom

Re: Frame buffer devices on unconventional monitor

[ferret]

Renato,

Have you checked out xi87.com for information? I have an IBM 9504
workstation display, and found a lot of info about it on their site.
They also custom-BIOS video cards which initialise into the proper
settings for your monitor, if you want to go that route.

I recall having a lot of trouble converting the supplied XF86 modeline
into an fbdev modeline. I was also not able to get modeline2fb to produce
a working modeline for my monitor. If gentlebeing Mahoney's supplied fb
mode works for you, though, write up a little boot-time script to have fb
set the video mode. On my Potato systems I would put the script in
/etc/init.d/setfbdev.sh for startup with priority 07, so your display is
viewable BEFORE the root fs gets checked.

Oh, after boot you will want to log in on the first console and run 'fbset
-a ' because the above script only has one active VC to work
with. AFAIK there is no way on i386 to set the VC default.
If you want to play with the 2.3-series or 2.4.0 test kernels (-test4
seems to be the last stable one on my systems), then you should be able to
add your custom mode into the fbdev driver's mode table and boot the
kernel straight into it.

On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Pat Mahoney wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 09:12:50PM -0300, Renato Carmo wrote:
> > 
> > Hi there!
> > 
> > I use an adapted HP A2094-B  monitor (an old 19'' monitor intended for
> > HP workstations)  which I adapted  to use in  a PC running  Linux (the
> > only way I can afford a 19'' monitor ...  ;).  
> > 
> > After getting the synch timings from  HP and making the cabling, I got
> > it to work fine with XFree86.  
> > 
> > However  the monitor  has one  single synchronization  frequency (tech
> > data goes at the end of this mail) and allows no use of text mode. 
> > 
> > When  I first  heard about  frame buffer  devices, it  sounded  as the
> > answer to my prayers ...
> > 
> > However, I tried to use fbset according to the instructions and got no 
> > satisfactory results.  
> > 
> > I would be really grateful if anyone could shed some light on this ... 
> > 
> 
> Do you have fb support in the kernel?
> 
> > 
> > 
> > Tech info follows:
> > 
> > --
> > Video board: onboard SiS 530, 8Mb of the main memory as video memory. 
> > Motherboard: ASUS P5S-B rev 1.02, with a K6-500MHz and 128Mb of RAM.  
> > 
> > Monitor technical data (from HP Service Notes pp. 8-3, 8-4) is:
> > 
> ># Product Number: HP A2094B
> ># Exchange Part Nymber: 2090-0315
> ># Hemisphere: Southern
> ># Size: 19'', 1280x1024 pixels
> ># Refresh Rate: 72Hz
> ># 
> ># Cables: 98700-61603 BNC to BNC
> ># C2300-60005 9 pin to RGB
> ># 
> ># Video:
> ># Pixel rate: 135MHz
> ># Pixel period: 7.4047ns
> ># Horizontal display: 1280 pixels
> ># Vertical display: 1024 pixels
> ># 
> ># Horizontal:
> ># Horizontal frequency: 78.125 KHz
> ># Horizontal period: 12.800 microseconds (1H)
> ># Horizontal front porch: 0.474 microseconds (H-FP)
> ># Horizontal sync pulse width: 1.422 microseconds (H-SYNC)
> ># Horizontal back porch: 1.422 microseconds (H-BP)
> ># Horizontal blanking: 3.318 microseconds (H-BL)
> ># Horizontal display time: 9.482 microseconds (H-DISP)
> ># 
> ># Vertical:
> ># Fields per frame: 1
> ># Field fraquency: 72.005 Hz
> ># Field period: 13.888 ms (1 V) (1085 lines)
> ># Vertical front porch: 38.40 microseconds (V-FR) (3H)
> ># Vertical sync pulse width: 38.40 microseconds (V-SYNC) (3H)
> ># Vertical back porch: 704.0 microseconds (V-BP) (55H)
> ># Vertical blanking: 780.8 microseconds (V-BL) (61H)
> ># Vertical display time: 13.107 ms (V-DISP) (1024H)
> > 
> > 
> > Modeline (calculated manually) which works with XFree86:
> > 
> >Modeline "1280x1024"   134.9931280 1344 1536 17281024 1027 1030 
> > 1085
> > 
> > According to  the instructions in  Documentation/fb/framebuffer.txt, I
> > calculated: 
> > 
> >Modeline "1280x1024"   134.9931280 1344 1536 17281024 1027 1030 
> > 1085
> >  DCF  HR   SH1  SH2  HFL VR   SV1  SV2  
> > VFL
> > 
> > 
> >   - pixclock: pixel clock in ps (pico seconds): 100 / DCF = 
> > 7407.79151512
> >   - left_margin: time from sync to picture: HFL - SH2 = 192
> >   - right_margin: time from picture to sync:SH1 - HR  = 64
> >   - upper_margin: time from sync to picture:VFL - SV2 = 55
> >   - lower_margin: time from picture to sync:SV1 - VR  = 3
> >   - hsync_len: length of horizontal sync:   SH2 - SH1 = 192
> >   - vsync_len: length of vertical sync: SV2 - SV1 = 3
> 
> 
> Do you have modeline2fb utility?  I believe it is in same package as
> fbset.  When I run it on your modelin

Re: update-alternatives -- changing preferences

[Dave Sherohman]

kmself@ix.netcom.com said:
> The above will add "emacs" into the list of available alternatives for
> "editor".  By what divers black majik a particular application is chosen
> I'm not sure.

Despite the claim at the top of --display's output, "auto" appears to be an
action rather than a state.  When you execute `update-alternatives --auto
`, the highest priority option is assigned to the link (in the case of
a tie, the first item listed with the highest priority is chosen, IIRC).

However, this automatic selection can be overridden with `update-alternatives
--config ` to force a specific option - yet it continues to claim
"status is auto."

> ...what is the "correct" way to have "wmaker" be "Current 'best'
> version"?

The easy way would be

update-alternatives --config x-window-manager

and select wmaker from the list to be your default.

The not so easy way would be

update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/x-window-manager x-window-manager
/usr/X11R6/bin/wmaker 1000 --slave /usr/bin/x-window-manager.1.gz
x-window-manager.1.gz /usr/X11R6/man/man1/wmaker.1x.gz
update-alternatives --auto x-window-manager

I suspect that the primary difference between the two is that the second way,
despite being "more correct" is subject to being overridden if you install a
new package which lists itself at a higher priority (so you have to set your
preferred option to a ridiculously high priority to prevent that).  Using
--config is recognized as having been configured manually, so it won't be
overridden.

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Re: SB AWE64 PnP installation on slink 2.2.12

[Kent West]

William Smith wrote:
> 
> I've been trying to get my SoundBlaster AWE64 PnP card to work with slink
> 2.2.12.
> 
> I've tried following "Linux Kernel HOWTO", "Linux Sound HOWTO:
> Installation", "Sound Blaster AWE32/64 HOWTO" but without much luck.
> 
> I've rebuilt the kernel okay with OSS and with sound as a loadable module
> and then done make modules okay but when I try to install the sound module
> using  "insmod sound"  I get a collection of unresolved symbols :
> 
> /lib/modules/2.2.12/misc/sound.o: unresolved symbol
> sound_preinit_lowlevel_drivers
> /lib/modules/2.2.12/misc/sound.o: unresolved symbol unregister_sound_dsp
> /lib/modules/2.2.12/misc/sound.o: unresolved symbol
> sound_unload_lowlevel_drivers
> /lib/modules/2.2.12/misc/sound.o: unresolved symbol unregister_sound_midi
> /lib/modules/2.2.12/misc/sound.o: unresolved symbol register_sound_dsp
> /lib/modules/2.2.12/misc/sound.o: unresolved symbol register_sound_mixer
> /lib/modules/2.2.12/misc/sound.o: unresolved symbol unregister_sound_mixer
> /lib/modules/2.2.12/misc/sound.o: unresolved symbol unregister_sound_special
> /lib/modules/2.2.12/misc/sound.o: unresolved symbol register_sound_special
> /lib/modules/2.2.12/misc/sound.o: unresolved symbol
> sound_init_lowlevel_drivers
> /lib/modules/2.2.12/misc/sound.o: unresolved symbol register_sound_midi
> 
> Any clues?
> 
> Bill
>
Try "modprobe sound" instead of "insmod sound". modprobe loads any
modules that the sound module is dependent on, whereas insmod only loads
the specified module.

Also, are you sure it's supposed to be "sound" and not "sb"?

Re: IP in IP tunneling question

[Robert Waldner]

There are several ways of achieving this goal; L2TP, PPTP, GRE, ...

I´d suggest L2TP because there´s a quite good client out for this 
 , at least most Cisco-Routers support 
 it, and it´s overhead is rather small.

PPTP is also an option, it´s in use here in .at-land because the 
 local telco serves it´s ADSL-service with it, so we resellers have
 to use it also with our clients.
 

If you want encryption also, you may want to have a look in something 
 like IPSec.

HTH,
&rw

On Tue, 08 Aug 2000 17:33:02 +0200, Viktor Rosenfeld writes:
>So, I'm looking for the following solution.  I dial in with the Telekom
>and get a dynamic IP address.  I *somehow* [1] inform the router at work
>that I have a new IP address immediatelly afterwards.  When the router
>at work receives a packet for my static LAN IP address, he wraps it in a
>packet with my dynamic DSL IP address and sends it away.  The Telekom
>will send it to me, and I use something like NAT to get it on my home
>machine.  And in the other direction I reverse the process.

KDE2 error loading libkofficeui

[Kent West]

I've just installed KDE2 and KOffice from
"http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/evolution/distributions/Debian ./".
When I try to run kword I get the following error:

kword: error in loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libkofficeui.so.1:
undefined symbol: update__7KAction

Any one have any suggestions?

Thanks!

RE: checking whether a package is installed

[Christian Pernegger]

> -Original Message-
> From: Aaron Maxwell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2000 7:33 AM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: checking whether a package is installed
> 
> 
> Is there a quick, elegant way to check if a particular package is
> installed?

Try

# dpkg -s name_of_package

Thats what I use

Christian

Re: IP in IP tunneling question

[Ben Collins]

> 
> Long text, short question: Is something like this possible?  I know,
> that the 2.2 kernel supports IP-in-IP, but I don't know, where to start
> reading.  Also, has anybody done this already?  Any idea, how [1] could
> be solved?
> 

You may also want to check into a VPN solution, since it allows you to
authenticate the tunnel (and most VPN servers support some sort of dynamic
IP mapping). This should give you a more secure auth to your tunneled
network (prevent someone from getting your IP and using it to tunnel
before you get a chance to change that on the remote side).

Ben

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Re: /etc/security/ files don't seem to be consulted

[Ben Collins]

On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 02:03:13PM +0100, David Wright wrote:
> 
> Fiddling with access.conf (at home) and /etc/login.defs to try, say,
> allowing a user only su access (no logging in) did not work. (The
> timestamps above are from a machine in my office.)
> 

You'll notice by reading these files that they are configuration files for
PAM modules. You'll need to edit files in /etc/pam.d/ to enable them for
certain services (su, login, ssh, xdm, etc...).

Ben

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Re: 3c90x woes

[Peter S Galbraith]

The 3c59x module works for me, but I keep getting errors like
this logged: 
 eth0: Transmit error, Tx status register 82

So I decided to try the 3c90x driver from 3Com, but it doesn't
work for me.  I compiled a module and get this when I load it:

# insmod 3c90x
Using /lib/modules/2.2.15/net/3c90x.o

# tail -1 /var/log/messages
3Com 3c90x Version 1.0.0i 1999 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

# lsmod | grep 3c
3c90x  22636   0  (unused)

# /etc/init.d/network
SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such device
SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable


Note the `unused' bit in lsmod output.  Anyone have ideas on
what's wrong?

So, I'm back with 3c59x :

# rmmod 3c90x
# modprobe 3c59x
# /etc/init.d/network
# lsmod | grep 3c
3c59x  18336   1 
# ifconfig eth0
eth0  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:01:03:1E:1F:E9  
  inet addr:142.130.48.235  Bcast:142.130.48.255  Mask:255.255.252.0
  UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
  RX packets:585 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:1 frame:0
  TX packets:38 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
  collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 
  Interrupt:11 Base address:0xdc00 

:-(

Peter


[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> I have goten your card to work succesfully i have a compile 2.2.15 version wh
> at i had  to do i believe is edit teh compile_UP file :
> 
> /
> gcc -c 3c90x.c -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fomit-frame-pointer \
> -fno-strength-reduce -pipe -m486 -malign-loops=2 \
> -malign-jumps=2 -malign-functions=2 -DCPU=486 \
> -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include
> 
> then i did a ./compile_UP  and it made a 3c90x.o file i copied that into
> lib/modules/2.2.15/net
> and i made a file inside one of the moduls.conf files i cant remeber but you 
> can test
> your install by insmod 3c509x.o ithinki had some module option problems too.

IP in IP tunneling question

[Viktor Rosenfeld]

Hello list,

I have a question regarding IP in IP tunneling.  The situation is the
following: My employer has given me a static IP address in the LAN. 
However, since I am working at home and in need of a broadband connect,
we want to go with T-DSL by the German company Telekom.  The problem is,
that the Telekom will terminate my DSL connection every 24 hours.  I can
dial in immediatelly afterwards, but since T-DSL hands out the IP
addresses dynamically, I will have a new IP address, and the old one
will no longer be valid.

So, I'm looking for the following solution.  I dial in with the Telekom
and get a dynamic IP address.  I *somehow* [1] inform the router at work
that I have a new IP address immediatelly afterwards.  When the router
at work receives a packet for my static LAN IP address, he wraps it in a
packet with my dynamic DSL IP address and sends it away.  The Telekom
will send it to me, and I use something like NAT to get it on my home
machine.  And in the other direction I reverse the process.

Long text, short question: Is something like this possible?  I know,
that the 2.2 kernel supports IP-in-IP, but I don't know, where to start
reading.  Also, has anybody done this already?  Any idea, how [1] could
be solved?

TIA, Viktor
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Re: HP OpenMail on Debian (M$ Exchange alternative)

[Phil Brutsche]

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...

> hi
> 
> I was wondering if anyone has had any experience in getting HP's OpenMail
> working on a Debian box?

I've had a little.

> One of the features of OpenMail is that it can serve as an alternative
> to M$oft's Exchange Server software, and allows calendar sharing etc.
> between employees in an enterprise.

It has most of the functionality.

> The evaluation version on HP's site links to a bunch of RPMs (for RedHat
> 6.0) ... and I seem to recall some discussion on this list that has
> suggested that trying to install RPMs under Debian will create a bit of a
> mess ...??

Using alien to convert the .rpms to .debs won't work - the binaries will
all segfault.  Try converting them to .tar.gzs, and extracting the
binaries under /opt, then find and run the 'ominstall' (or something like
that) script.

Two tips:
 * Read through the postings on the OpenMail web message board on
   http://www.ice.hp.com.  There have been postings from Debian users
   trying to do the same thing your are.
 * DO NOT RUN OUT OF INODES.  Make sure /proc/sys/fs/inode-max is set very
   high.  Bad things will happen if you don't...

> if anyone has got this working, especially if they have installation
> instructions for Debian or a port ... I'd be most grateful!

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Re: Help for pppd with Link Control Options..

[Antonio Rodriguez]

May be we should start demanding from all Redhaters a written compromise to 
switch to
Debian 

"O. Suresh" wrote:

> Hai,
>I am using pppd program for connecting two hosts, which are belongs two
> different networks. Both hosts are using Redhat 5.2 . My ppp configuration
> file is as follows:
>
> /etc/ppp/options.ttyS0
>
> crtsts
> mru 1500
> mtu 1500
> modem
> 172.20.0.1:172.19.0.1
> -pap
> -chap
> persist
> -detach
> pap-timeout 0
> lcp-echo-interval 2
> lcap-echo-failure  18000
>
>   By using this options I can able to transfer files from source
> to destination host. I did not know about pap-timeout option.I am
> connected those hosts via  modems. My problem is when link goes down
> or modem reseted then pppd just ignorning the connection instead or
> retrying for connection. When fire pppd once agian it is trying for
> connection and getting connected.
>
>   How do I overcome this situation, my requestion is when link
> goes down or modem reseted pppd must automatticaly fire without
> user interaction.
>
> Any good ideas or suggestions are requested.
>
> Help me...
> 
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Help for pppd with Link Control Options..

[O. Suresh]

Hai,
  I am using pppd program for connecting two hosts, which are belongs two 
different networks. Both hosts are using Redhat 5.2 . My ppp configuration 
file is as follows:


/etc/ppp/options.ttyS0

crtsts
mru 1500
mtu 1500
modem
172.20.0.1:172.19.0.1
-pap
-chap
persist
-detach
pap-timeout 0
lcp-echo-interval 2
lcap-echo-failure  18000

 By using this options I can able to transfer files from source
to destination host. I did not know about pap-timeout option.I am
connected those hosts via  modems. My problem is when link goes down
or modem reseted then pppd just ignorning the connection instead or
retrying for connection. When fire pppd once agian it is trying for
connection and getting connected.

 How do I overcome this situation, my requestion is when link
goes down or modem reseted pppd must automatticaly fire without
user interaction.

Any good ideas or suggestions are requested.

Help me...

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Help for pppd with Link Control Options..

[O. Suresh]

Hai,
  I am using pppd program for connecting two hosts, which are belongs two 
different networks. Both hosts are using Redhat 5.2 . My ppp configuration 
file is as follows:


/etc/ppp/options.ttyS0

crtsts
mru 1500
mtu 1500
modem
172.20.0.1:172.19.0.1
-pap
-chap
persist
-detach
pap-timeout 0
lcp-echo-interval 2
lcap-echo-failure  18000

 By using this options I can able to transfer files from source
to destination host. I did not know about pap-timeout option.I am
connected those hosts via  modems. My problem is when link goes down
or modem reseted then pppd just ignorning the connection instead or
retrying for connection. When fire pppd once agian it is trying for
connection and getting connected.

 How do I overcome this situation, my requestion is when link
goes down or modem reseted pppd must automatticaly fire without
user interaction.

Any good ideas or suggestions are requested.

Help me...

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Re: 2.2 iso

[Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira]

http://www.lsl.com.au sells it.
Quoting Olivier Soares ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Hi,
> 
> Is there somebody who can tell me how I can put the iso-image of the
> debian 2.2-pre3 on a cdr with nero 5.0 (if it's possible).
> I try to do it but there were nothing on the cd (sorry I don't have
> cdrecord).
> 
> Thanks for all,
> Oliver
> 
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Re: CD-RW

[Peter S Galbraith]

Willi Dyck wrote:

> If I recompile my kernel with SCSI Emulation for IDE devices,
> will then my ATAPI CD-ROM still work??

Yes.  It will probably be remapped to a SCSI device name, such as
/dev/sr0 or /dev/sr1

If some software doesn't like the SCSI emulation for the CDROM,
you may tell the kernel to not do SCSI emulation on it.
I run SCSI emulation as a module and load it for one device by
passing an option to the kernel in my lilo configuration:

append="hdd=ide-scsi"

Peter

Re: Diamond Viper V550 Video Card

[Peter S Galbraith]

"william Elling" wrote:

> If anyone can help me I was wondering if anyone could help me with figuring 
> out how to install my diamond viper v550 video card for Linux
> Redhat 6.1. 

1- This is a Debian GNU/Linux mailing list, so you should ask a
   RedHat mailing list for help installing on Redhat 6.1.

2- The Diamond Viper V550 is supported by XFree86 by their SVGA
   server (XF86_SVGA).  That's the one you need to install, but I
   can't tell you how to do that under RedHat because I don't use
   RedHat (I use Debian!).

Peter

Re: soundcard

[jbardin]

i have seen wholesale version of the emu10k chip that runs a sblive for
sale around 50 bux. you dont get the fancy box and the free software
thats all. and the chipset is teh same so it looks the same in linux.begin:vcard 
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Re: [OFFTOPIC] BIOS Password defeat

[David Wright]

Quoting Daniel Reuter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Hello there,
> 
> I found a pretty nice 486 PCI-motherboard in the bulk waste last week,
> which I would like to use as secondary computer with debian. The board is
> working, but unfortunately, it was setup in a way that you can only boot
> from harddisk, and shadow RAM was enabled. So I tried to change the
> settings, but the preliminary user has installed a Setup-Password, so that
> I can't access the BIOS. I know, that there are ways to get around this,
> but I don't know how to do it in this special case. 
> So does anybody know where to find the necessary information? Is there a
> tool for Linux or DOS to access and change BIOS-settings (I could plugin
> the harddisk from another computer and try to boot into Linux or use the
> small DOS-partition I have on this disk). Or is there some kind of cheat
> password, which will always work? 
> The BIOS is a Phoenix version 4.04.

Usually there's a jumper which you add, power on, off again, and
remove. The problem is finding it. You might be able to find out
the mobo type from http://www.ping.be/bios particularly if there's
a number displayed when you boot, like

(C) American Megatrends Inc.,
40-0101-021291-0010-060691-OPWBSX-F

(This particular board clearly marks which one with
1-2: CLEAR CMOS 2-3: NORMAL)

Disconnecting the battery will work, though you lose the entire CMOS
setup. But I suppose the defaults ought to work.

Cheers,

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Re: [OFFTOPIC] BIOS Password defeat

[Andre Berger]

Daniel Reuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Hello there,
> 
> I found a pretty nice 486 PCI-motherboard in the bulk waste last week,
> which I would like to use as secondary computer with debian. The board is
> working, but unfortunately, it was setup in a way that you can only boot
> from harddisk, and shadow RAM was enabled. So I tried to change the
> settings, but the preliminary user has installed a Setup-Password, so that
> I can't access the BIOS. I know, that there are ways to get around this,
> but I don't know how to do it in this special case. 
> So does anybody know where to find the necessary information? Is there a
> tool for Linux or DOS to access and change BIOS-settings (I could plugin
> the harddisk from another computer and try to boot into Linux or use the
> small DOS-partition I have on this disk). Or is there some kind of cheat
> password, which will always work? 
> The BIOS is a Phoenix version 4.04.

There may be more elegant ways, but you always could pull out the
CMOS-Battery, wait 20 minutes and put it in again. Be careful it may
be soldered.

Andre

Re: update-alternatives -- changing preferences

[kmself]

On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 11:36:12PM -0300, Rogerio Brito wrote:
> On Aug 07 2000, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> > Can someone give me an example or two for how to change perferences
> > under /etc/alternatives using update-alternatives?
> 
>   Ok. To make a system work correctly, you'd do:
> 
>   apt-get update
>   apt-get -y install emacs20 :-)
>   update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/editor editor /usr/bin/emacs 1000
> 
>   To break your system, you'd do something like:
> 
>   update-alternatives --remove editor /usr/bin/emacs
> 
>   :-)
> 
> > Pointers?
> 
>   Seriously now, is that what you were asking for?

Not quite, I think.

The above will add "emacs" into the list of available alternatives for
"editor".  By what divers black majik a particular application is chosen
I'm not sure.

In my current case, I want to specify an editor (vim) and a window
manager (windowmaker)

x-window-manager - status is auto.
 link currently points to /usr/bin/X11/fvwm2
/usr/bin/X11/twm - priority 40
 slave x-window-manager.1.gz: /usr/X11R6/man/man1/twm.1x.gz
/usr/bin/X11/fvwm2 - priority 50
 slave x-window-manager.1.gz: /usr/X11R6/man/man1/fvwm2.1.gz
/usr/bin/kde - priority 10
/usr/bin/X11/vtwm - priority 40
 slave x-window-manager.1.gz: /usr/X11R6/man/man1/vtwm.1x.gz
/usr/X11R6/bin/wmaker - priority 50
 slave x-window-manager.1.gz: /usr/X11R6/man/man1/wmaker.1x.gz
/usr/bin/enlightenment - priority 50
 slave x-window-manager.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/enlightenment.1.gz
/usr/bin/sawmill - priority 20
/usr/bin/blackbox - priority 50
 slave x-window-manager.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/blackbox.1.gz
Current `best' version is /usr/bin/X11/fvwm2.

...what is the "correct" way to have "wmaker" be "Current 'best'
version"?

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Re: [OFFTOPIC] BIOS Password defeat

[Ethan Pierce]

Danel, Try unplugging the unit, and removing the battery.  When you pop it back 
in, it should reset the defaults for the motherboard BIOS settings.

>>> Daniel Reuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 08/08/00 09:25AM >>>
Hello there,

I found a pretty nice 486 PCI-motherboard in the bulk waste last week,
which I would like to use as secondary computer with debian. The board is
working, but unfortunately, it was setup in a way that you can only boot
from harddisk, and shadow RAM was enabled. So I tried to change the
settings, but the preliminary user has installed a Setup-Password, so that
I can't access the BIOS. I know, that there are ways to get around this,
but I don't know how to do it in this special case. 
So does anybody know where to find the necessary information? Is there a
tool for Linux or DOS to access and change BIOS-settings (I could plugin
the harddisk from another computer and try to boot into Linux or use the
small DOS-partition I have on this disk). Or is there some kind of cheat
password, which will always work? 
The BIOS is a Phoenix version 4.04.

Regards,
Daniel


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[OFFTOPIC] BIOS Password defeat

[Daniel Reuter]

Hello there,

I found a pretty nice 486 PCI-motherboard in the bulk waste last week,
which I would like to use as secondary computer with debian. The board is
working, but unfortunately, it was setup in a way that you can only boot
from harddisk, and shadow RAM was enabled. So I tried to change the
settings, but the preliminary user has installed a Setup-Password, so that
I can't access the BIOS. I know, that there are ways to get around this,
but I don't know how to do it in this special case. 
So does anybody know where to find the necessary information? Is there a
tool for Linux or DOS to access and change BIOS-settings (I could plugin
the harddisk from another computer and try to boot into Linux or use the
small DOS-partition I have on this disk). Or is there some kind of cheat
password, which will always work? 
The BIOS is a Phoenix version 4.04.

Regards,
Daniel

SB AWE64 PnP installation on slink 2.2.12

[William Smith]

I've been trying to get my SoundBlaster AWE64 PnP card to work with slink
2.2.12.

I've tried following "Linux Kernel HOWTO", "Linux Sound HOWTO:
Installation", "Sound Blaster AWE32/64 HOWTO" but without much luck.

I've rebuilt the kernel okay with OSS and with sound as a loadable module
and then done make modules okay but when I try to install the sound module
using  "insmod sound"  I get a collection of unresolved symbols :

/lib/modules/2.2.12/misc/sound.o: unresolved symbol
sound_preinit_lowlevel_drivers
/lib/modules/2.2.12/misc/sound.o: unresolved symbol unregister_sound_dsp
/lib/modules/2.2.12/misc/sound.o: unresolved symbol
sound_unload_lowlevel_drivers
/lib/modules/2.2.12/misc/sound.o: unresolved symbol unregister_sound_midi
/lib/modules/2.2.12/misc/sound.o: unresolved symbol register_sound_dsp
/lib/modules/2.2.12/misc/sound.o: unresolved symbol register_sound_mixer
/lib/modules/2.2.12/misc/sound.o: unresolved symbol unregister_sound_mixer
/lib/modules/2.2.12/misc/sound.o: unresolved symbol unregister_sound_special
/lib/modules/2.2.12/misc/sound.o: unresolved symbol register_sound_special
/lib/modules/2.2.12/misc/sound.o: unresolved symbol
sound_init_lowlevel_drivers
/lib/modules/2.2.12/misc/sound.o: unresolved symbol register_sound_midi

Any clues?

Bill

Wdm

[romeu]

I  tried to install Wdm.
While in it's setup, it asked me something about a lock, which xdm was
using. Well, I think I give up of installing it, and pressed  + C.
Yesterday, when I booted the box, there was a screen with a penguin, and I
could not use the keyboard anymore(just the mouse).
Three questions:
1) Why does stupid newbies keep messing with things that they don't
understand? (Answer: because they're stupid).
2) (no kidding) Is there any way to boot linux step-by-step, just like the
F8 key in DOS? So I would skip the Wdm initialization.
3) If the answer to 2) is no, how could I recover my installation (don't
wanna use rescue.bin).

Thanks


Gaúcho

Re: CD-RW

[Willi Dyck]

Rogerio Brito wrote:

> On Jun 25 2000, Willi Dyck wrote:
> > does somebody know if the Philips PCRW804 works under Linux?
>
> Is it an ATAPI CDRW? If yes, then almost probably it *will*
> work with Linux. I've been using my HP9200i (got it only a few
> weeks before the HP9300 came out -- g) and it works
> perfectly under Linux. I mean, I only use Linux and it works
> like a charm.

>
> Yes it is an ATAPI CDRW. Thanx for the advice.

>
> You will probably have to recompile your kernel with SCSI
> Emulation for IDE devices to make your new drive useable under
> Linux.
>

If I recompile my kernel with SCSI Emulation for IDE devices, will then my ATAPI
CD-ROM still work??

>
> Hope this helps, Roger...
> It helped ;-)
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Re: maildir & imap

[Eric Gillespie, Jr.]

On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 02:53:11PM -0700,
Dr. Michael Meskes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > ~$ telnet localhost 143
> > 
> > Enter these commands:
> > A1 LOGIN name pass
> > A1 STATUS INBOX (unseen)
> 
> Now that helped me a bit. After typing my password I get 
> 
> Connection closed by foreign host.

Sounds like an authentication problem. Here's my /etc/pam.d/imap:

auth required   pam_unix_auth.so
account  required   pam_unix_acct.so
password required   pam_unix_passwd.so
session  required   pam_unix_session.so

Does yours look something like this?

If this isn't the problem, then you have me stumped. Sorry.

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/etc/security/ files don't seem to be consulted

[David Wright]

The contents of /etc/security/* look interesting for people who want
to limit when, where and how users can login. However, on my system
ls -lu reports

-rw-r--r--  1 root   root 2138 Jul 25 17:10 /etc/security/access.conf
-rw-r--r--  1 root   root 2145 Jul 25 17:10 /etc/security/group.conf
-rw-r--r--  1 root   root 1356 Jul 25 17:10 /etc/security/limits.conf
-rw-r--r--  1 root   root 2858 Aug  8 10:35 /etc/security/pam_env.conf
-rw-r--r--  1 root   root 2489 Jul 27 18:58 /etc/security/time.conf

where Jul 25 17:10 is about the time I built the system, Jul 27 18:58 is
the last time I booted, and Aug  8 10:35 is when I tried logging on to
another VC just to check that this file *is* read occasionally.

Fiddling with access.conf (at home) and /etc/login.defs to try, say,
allowing a user only su access (no logging in) did not work. (The
timestamps above are from a machine in my office.)

Cheers,

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