Re: best location for downloads?

[Eric G . Miller]

On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 09:22:30PM -0700, Dale Morris wrote:
> Hi,
> What's the best location for downloaded files? I've been putting them
> in my home directory but I just read the 'best' place is
> /usr/local/downloads whatd'ya'll think?  thanks

I know MS has this idea that files you download from the internet are
somehow special.  But, in the real world, isn't it better to arrange
your files by content and not whether you downloaded them from the
internet, intranet, floppy, cdrom, etc. ?  BTW, you should put the files
in your home directory /home/ unless they are intended for
system-wide consumption. Then /usr/local/doc would be appropriate for
documentation.  I get the impression your running as the root user,
since you're casually putting files in /usr/local.  That would be a
*very bad* thing. You might want to read about the File Hierarchy
Standard used by Debian (and many other Linux distros): 

http://www.pathname.com/fhs/


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What's the deal with the mouse?

[steph]

Howdy, All -

Have gpm running beautifully on the console, sucking supremely in X, and the 
configuration is as it should be, eg, i'ts a ps/2 mouse, needs to emulate 3 
buttonsand no particular weird parameters for it.

Ye, it's supported in the kernel. Yes, gpm is running. Yes, i'm getting mildly 
peeved, especially having found little fault w/ debian so far.

Could someone please help?

Thanks...

Alpha

Re: Internal routing

[Matthew Dalton]

> Kevin Cheng wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a problem regrading the debian linux (kernel 2.3) internal
> routing. I have 2 NICs installed on my machine, one to the local LAN
> and the other one to the internet. I should have all the things setup
> correctly, like ipconfig and route...
> I can ping the outside world and the local LAN computers from
> my machine while I can also ping the 2 NICs' IP in my machine from the
> local LAN's  computers. The strange thing is that I CANNOT ping the
> outside world from the local network. I have already ensure the
> ipforwarding is on. (set to 1)
> 
> I have no clue on this.
> Could anyone help me out on this? Thanx a lot.

It sounds like you need to setup your internal machines to use you
router machine (the one with 2 NICs) as their gateway.

If your internal machines are Linux, you can type:
# route add default gw router_machine_name
This only works if there's already a route in the route table to
router_machine_name (sounds like there is from your description).

If they're Windows, you can put the gateway IP in the network setup
somewhere.

Matthew

Re: Netscape 4.75 ??

[Michael P. Soulier]

On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 04:09:59PM -0400, Christopher W. Aiken wrote:

> Anyhow (there's always an anyhow) when I close Netscape it
> leaves process running so that I can not fire up another
> Netscape later on.  A ps -ax shows:

Netscape sucks. There are no good browsers right now. Wait for Mozilla to
mature and maybe we'll have one. In the meantime, this is something we have to
put up with. 

Mike

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"...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount
of nerd-like effort."  -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX

Re: sound in debian

[Michael P. Soulier]

On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 11:11:47AM -0400, Christopher Fonnesbeck wrote:
> I am having a hell of a time getting my SB sound card working in Debian
> (2.2). I have tried loading it as a module and in the kernel, but to no
> avail.  Modconf configures and installs the module without errors or
> conflicts, yet any audio application complains that there is no sound
> hardware available.  If I cat a soundfile to /dev/dsp, I get distorted
> noise.

What module are you using? I'm running a SB Live! Value card, and the
module from Creative Labs, and it works great on the same kernel.

Mike

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of nerd-like effort."  -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX

best location for downloads?

[Dale Morris]

Hi,
What's the best location for downloaded files? I've been putting them in
my home directory but I just read the 'best' place is
/usr/local/downloads
whatd'ya'll think?
thanks


-- 

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the societies in which they occur."
--Albert North Whitehead

Fw: Internal routing

[Kevin Cheng]

 
- Original Message - 
From: Kevin 
Cheng 
To: debian 
Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 12:21 PM
Subject: Internal routing

Hi,
 
I have a problem regrading the debian linux (kernel 
2.3) internal routing. I have 2 NICs installed on my machine, one to the local 
LAN and the other one to the internet. I should have all the things setup 
correctly, like ipconfig and route...
I can ping the outside world and the local LAN 
computers from my machine while I can also ping the 2 NICs' IP in my 
machine from the local LAN's  computers. The strange thing is that 
I CANNOT ping the outside world from the local network. I have 
already ensure the ipforwarding is on. (set to 1) 
 
I have no clue on this.
Could anyone help me out on this? Thanx a 
lot.
 
 
Kevin

Re: Fetchmail

[Michael P. Soulier]

On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 09:38:53AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have some problem with Fetchmail.
> 
> I have fetchmail with crond, to make POP , but some days ago I have this
> error:
> 
> 18 messages for pajarito at pajarito.com (1934931 octets).
> reading message 1 of 18 (13987 octets) fetchmail: socket error
> while fetching from pajarito.com
> fetchmail: Query status=2
> 
> I don´t know where is the problem , because Fetchmail and crond works
> correctly in my account...
> 
> Thanks...

Try running fetchmail -v, and look at the output for a more detailed error
message. 

Mike

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"...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount
of nerd-like effort."  -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX

Internal routing

[Kevin Cheng]

Hi,
 
I have a problem regrading the debian linux (kernel 
2.3) internal routing. I have 2 NICs installed on my machine, one to the local 
LAN and the other one to the internet. I should have all the things setup 
correctly, like ipconfig and route...
I can ping the outside world and the local LAN 
computers from my machine while I can also ping the 2 NICs' IP in my 
machine from the local LAN's  computers. The strange thing is that 
I CANNOT ping the outside world from the local network. I have 
already ensure the ipforwarding is on. (set to 1) 
 
I have no clue on this.
Could anyone help me out on this? Thanx a 
lot.
 
 
Kevin

Re: Question about upgrading to version 2.2

[Dean]

 Sorry that should have been
/etc/apt/source.list
hth Dean

Dean wrote:
> 
> Hi Peter:
>  I'd try removing them. try:
> apt-get remove (package)
> back up anything you need to save, then
> change /etc/source.list to an url that
> has potato ( e.g. http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable)
> then do a:
> apt-get update
> then:
> apt-get dist-upgrade
> once it finishes try:
> apt-get -i (package)
> for those you packages that
> didn't install the first time.
> check out the man or info file
> on apt-get to make sure I got the
> commands correct. that's:
> man apt-get
> or
> info apt-get
> hth
> Dean
> 
> Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote:
> >
> > It's that time again! My wife is out of town for a few days, so I can
> > sit down and make my annual attempt to install Debian Linux.
> >
> > I've been trying since 1997 to get Debian installed, so far without ever
> > getting it into such a state that I can actually use it. My latest
> > attempt resulted in a partial install of version 2.0, with a bunch of
> > "brokenly installed" packages, and no clear way of fixing them.
> >
> > My questions are these:
> >
> > 1) Can I perform an "upgrade" to 2.2, with broken packages in the
> > system? I really don't want to install from scratch, as I only have five
> > days available for this attempt, and it took two weeks to get the GUI
> > part working last time. That black and white console screen starts
> > getting old after a while...
> >
> > 2) Is there some "magic invocation" that can fix the broken packages, or
> > remove them prior to the upgrade?
> >
> > --
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Peter Hugosson-Miller
> > "In Windows 95, no one can hear you scream."
> >
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Re: Boot disk dilemma

[Matthew Dalton]

Daniel Whelan wrote:
> 
> OK folks...it looks like I've got myself a bit of a problem. Suffice to say,
> the libc.so.6 on one of my boxes got wiped out. Unfortunately, I'm nowhere
> near the box, and only have a semi-computer-literate "remote hands" at the
> location, without any boot disks (well, there was one, but it doesn't boot
> anymore). So, I figure the best solution is to make some sort of boot disk
> with just enough to boot up, mount the filesystem, and either copy libc.so.6
> from a floppy or download it from a machine. Then I could walk him through
> creating a floppy from a disk image, and all would be well. Any suggestions
> on this?

Do your remote hands have a dos/windows or linux machine nearby?

Use tomsrtbt - http://www.toms.net/rb/ (shouldn't be too hard for a
semi-computer-literate to use)
Boot with it, mount the filesystem.
Copy libc.so.6 from another machine onto floppies (might have to use
'split' and put it on multiple disks. Tomsrtbt has cat, tar and gzip, so
putting it back together shouldn't be a problem).
Copy libc.so.6 to the filesystem.

...and Bob's your uncle.

Matthew

Re: Question about upgrading to version 2.2

[Dean]

Hi Peter:
 I'd try removing them. try:
apt-get remove (package)
back up anything you need to save, then
change /etc/source.list to an url that
has potato ( e.g. http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable)
then do a:
apt-get update
then:
apt-get dist-upgrade
once it finishes try:
apt-get -i (package)
for those you packages that
didn't install the first time.
check out the man or info file
on apt-get to make sure I got the
commands correct. that's:
man apt-get 
or
info apt-get
hth 
Dean


Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote:
> 
> It's that time again! My wife is out of town for a few days, so I can
> sit down and make my annual attempt to install Debian Linux.
> 
> I've been trying since 1997 to get Debian installed, so far without ever
> getting it into such a state that I can actually use it. My latest
> attempt resulted in a partial install of version 2.0, with a bunch of
> "brokenly installed" packages, and no clear way of fixing them.
> 
> My questions are these:
> 
> 1) Can I perform an "upgrade" to 2.2, with broken packages in the
> system? I really don't want to install from scratch, as I only have five
> days available for this attempt, and it took two weeks to get the GUI
> part working last time. That black and white console screen starts
> getting old after a while...
> 
> 2) Is there some "magic invocation" that can fix the broken packages, or
> remove them prior to the upgrade?
> 
> --
> Best regards,
> 
> Peter Hugosson-Miller
> "In Windows 95, no one can hear you scream."
> 
> --
> Unsubscribe?  mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

home network question

[Andrew D Dixon]

Hi all,
I'm currently running potato on my desktop machine and I'd like to
configure it so that I can share it's ppp connection with my laptop over
an ethernet connection.  Anybody have any advice on how I should set
this up?

Thanks,
Andy

P.S. I've got a Netgear FA510c pcmcia ethernet card for my notebook that
doesn't seem to be detected.  Anybody have any luck with these?


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Re: Boot disk dilemma

[Hubert Chan]

"Daniel Whelan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> OK folks...it looks like I've got myself a bit of a problem. Suffice to say,
> the libc.so.6 on one of my boxes got wiped out. Unfortunately, I'm nowhere 
> near
> the box, and only have a semi-computer-literate "remote hands" at the 
> location,
> without any boot disks (well, there was one, but it doesn't boot anymore). So,
> I figure the best solution is to make some sort of boot disk with just enough
> to boot up, mount the filesystem, and either copy libc.so.6 from a floppy or
> download it from a machine. Then I could walk him through creating a floppy
> from a disk image, and all would be well. Any suggestions on this?

Well, I would say to just use the Debian install disks.  They should be
suitable for use as a rescue disk.  (I don't quite remember how to get at the
shell, but it's there somewhere.)  It's not the single-disk solution, but at
least you know it works.

Hubert.

Boot disk dilemma

[Daniel Whelan]

OK folks...it looks like I've got myself a bit of a problem. Suffice to say, 
the libc.so.6 on one of my boxes got wiped out. Unfortunately, I'm nowhere 
near the box, and only have a semi-computer-literate "remote hands" at the 
location, without any boot disks (well, there was one, but it doesn't boot 
anymore). So, I figure the best solution is to make some sort of boot disk 
with just enough to boot up, mount the filesystem, and either copy libc.so.6 
from a floppy or download it from a machine. Then I could walk him through 
creating a floppy from a disk image, and all would be well. Any suggestions 
on this?


Daniel
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anybody got a .sawfishrc?

[Bob Bernstein]

I have looked in vain for a *sample* .sawfishrc file. If anyone has one or
knows of where I can find one, could you please send it to me or clue me in?
It would be truly super if I could see one with a bit of explanatory stuff
also. 

I am a lispophobe; I get frightened at the thought of editing my .emacs
file!

(I guess since this is non-Debian-specific it would be better to keep replies
offlist.)

-- 
Bob Bernstein
at
Esmond, R.I., USA

Re: Packages held back?

[Bob Nielsen]

On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 09:41:50PM -0400, Christopher W. Aiken wrote:
> I did a "apt-get update" and an "apt-get upgrade" and
> I get the following message (I'm trying to get Helix-gnome):
> 
> The following packages have been kept back
>   gedit gnome-help gnome-utils gnumeric rep rep-gtk 
> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded.
> 
> Why are they "kept back" and how do I "get them back"?

They probably depend on packages which you have not installed. 
'apt-get dist-upgrade' will fetch the new dependencies as well as the
held-back packages.

-- 
Bob Nielsen, N7XY  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bainbridge Island, WA  http://www.oz.net/~nielsen
 

Packages held back?

[Christopher W. Aiken]

I did a "apt-get update" and an "apt-get upgrade" and
I get the following message (I'm trying to get Helix-gnome):

The following packages have been kept back
  gedit gnome-help gnome-utils gnumeric rep rep-gtk 
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded.

Why are they "kept back" and how do I "get them back"?

-- 
---   
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chris at cwaiken dot com,   www.cwaiken.com
Preferred O/S: Debian Linux 2.2

nis+ status?

[Stuart Marshall]

Reply-To: 
Hi Folks,

I would like to run some debian machines as nis+ clients.
Is this possible?  The NIS howto is old and unclear to me.

Thorsten Kukuk's suse website for nisplus

 http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/nisplus/index.html

indicates that some some additional tools and tweaking to the
pam system are needed.

I found /usr/lib/libnss_nisplus.so as part of the libc6-dev pkg
but don't know what else is needed.

Is anybody out there doing/working on this?

thanks,
Stuart

nis+ status?

[Stuart Marshall]

Hi Folks,

I would like to run some debian machines as nis+ clients.
Is this possible?  The NIS howto is old and unclear to me.

Thorsten Kukuk's suse website for nisplus 

 http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/nisplus/index.html

indicates that some some additional tools and tweaking to the
pam system are needed.  

I found /usr/lib/libnss_nisplus.so as part of the libc6-dev pkg
but don't know what else is needed.

Is anybody out there doing/working on this?

thanks,
Stuart

Re: Exim configuration on cable modem gateway

[Phil Brutsche]

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1

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

> I'd really like to get the system log summaries outside of a bounce
> message.  Ideally, I'd like the mail to get sent using the machine's
> external host name as the address in the outgoing SMTP envelope.  (And 
> I'd prefer not to set this explicitly, since I do get an IP address
> and a host name via DHCP.)  Failing this, I'd like to send mail out
> through my provider's mail server, and use some address as the SMTP
> sender.  Can Exim deal with this setup, and if so, how?  Would some
> other SMTP daemon be a better choice here?

I've had the same problem, and solved it with sender rewriting in
exim.  This is what I have at the end of /etc/exim.conf:



# This rewriting rule is particularly useful for dialup users who
# don't have their own domain, but could be useful for anyone.
# It looks up the real address of all local users in a file

[EMAIL PROTECTED]${lookup{$1}lsearch{/etc/email-addresses}\
{$value}fail} bcfrF

# End of Exim configuration file



The contents of /etc/email-addresses:

# This file contains email addresses to use for outgoing mail. Any local
# part not in here will be qualified by the system domain as normal.
#
# It should contain lines of the form:
#
#user: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
#otheruser: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
phil:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Here, "phil" is my username on the workstation "fury.brutsche.com" (notice
it's not resolvable).  The rewrite rule will replace
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" (which shows up in messages sent via pine) with
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]".  I've had no problems since making this change.

- -- 
- --
Phil Brutsche   [EMAIL PROTECTED]

GPG fingerprint: 9BF9 D84C 37D0 4FA7 1F2D  7E5E FD94 D264 50DE 1CFC
GPG key id: 50DE1CFC
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Re: [SLU] How a Debian/GNU is Storm?

[Mircea Luca]

"Helgi Örn" wrote:



> * Does Storm keep the same directory structure as Debian/GNU Linux?
yes
 
> * Am I running Debian/GNU when running Storm or just a cheap clone?

Debian + easier install + Specific Storm Administration packages
 
> * Where are the Storm Linux users? The mail list doesn't seem to be that
> active.

you're right here,it's not that active except for betatime.I would guess
there aren't so many problems or people just don't subscribe.

> * Where does Storm come from?
Vancouver.B.C. ,Canada
 
> Greetings,
> Helgi Örn
> 
> --
> 


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My waste of cyberspace=
http://deepblue.dyndns.org :-)

Exim configuration on cable modem gateway

[David Z. Maze]

I have a machine set up as an IP masquerading gateway, connecting
between an in-house 10base-T LAN and a cable modem.  On eth0, it has a 
host name of 'annular-fried-pastry' (sometimes known as 'donut'), and
an IP address of 192.168.1.1.  Its configuration on eth1 is returned
from the cable modem provider via DHCP.

Occasionally, outgoing mail gets sent (as much as anywhere else from
the 'logcheck' package).  A .forward file in my user's account
forwards mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]  This all seems to work well enough.

The problem is, some of the MIT mail hubs don't like my mail.  This
appears to be because the SMTP envelope lists the mail as coming from
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, which doesn't resolve.  The MIT mail hub
refuses the mail, so Exim on donut bounces it.  The bounce gets sent
to the mail's sender with an SMTP envelope sender of <>; the forward
chain pushes the bounce message to my MIT account.

I'd really like to get the system log summaries outside of a bounce
message.  Ideally, I'd like the mail to get sent using the machine's
external host name as the address in the outgoing SMTP envelope.  (And 
I'd prefer not to set this explicitly, since I do get an IP address
and a host name via DHCP.)  Failing this, I'd like to send mail out
through my provider's mail server, and use some address as the SMTP
sender.  Can Exim deal with this setup, and if so, how?  Would some
other SMTP daemon be a better choice here?

TIA,

-- 
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"Theoretical politics is interesting.  Politicking should be illegal."
-- Abra Mitchell

Re: kernel-image-2.2.17 overrides local kernel?

[Bob Nielsen]

See /usr/share/doc/kernel-package/README.gz.  

To make a long story short, you can use an epoch to compile your custom
version by doing something like:

make-kpkg --revision=3:custom.1.0 kernel_image

I suspect the reason for the epoch in the Debian package of
kernel-image-2.2.17 is to allow the final version to replace the pre-
version (which ordinarily doesn't appear in a Debian package, but this
was a special case because of problems with the 2.2.16 kernel).

Bob

On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 07:19:44PM -0400, Alessandro Ghigi wrote:
> The same happens to me since a few days. Before everything was ok, and my
> custom version was considered as newer by dselect.
> 
> I put it on hold, and this works fine, but I don't understand what's the
> reason. What is the "epoch"?
> 
> Thanks
> Alessandro
> 
> On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> 
> > > 
> > > So.  How can I convince apt-get to cleave only unto my customized kernel
> > > package, forever forsaking all others, as long as we both shall live?
> > > Is there any way other than rebuilding and reinstalling my kernel
> > > package with an even _higher_ epoch, in a veritable arms race of package
> > > version numbering?
> > > 
> > 
> > not sure why this is happening to you, but an easy solution is to set the
> > package on hold.  You can do this using dselect or on the command line with
> > echo "kernel-image-2.2.17 hold" |dpkg --set-selections.
> > 
> > 
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> > 
> 
> 
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RE: off topic - scsi partitions & swap & raid

[Christian Pernegger]

> -Original Message-
> From: Wesley Wannemacher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 11:07 PM
> To: William Jensen; debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: RE: off topic - scsi partitions & swap & raid
> 
> 
> Let me get this straight...
> Are you going to RAID two partitions on the same physical drive?
> Seems kinda absurd, RAID accomplishes one (or more) of two things:
> Fault-tolerance from hardware failure.
> Improve read/write performance, by spanning multiple physical disks.
> 
> By mirroring, striping, etc. two partitions on the same physical
> disk you are wasting your time. Unless it is purely for practice.

He might even damage his drive. It'd mean constant seeking, after all.


Christian 

RE: kernel-image-2.2.17 overrides local kernel?

[Alessandro Ghigi]

The same happens to me since a few days. Before everything was ok, and my
custom version was considered as newer by dselect.

I put it on hold, and this works fine, but I don't understand what's the
reason. What is the "epoch"?

Thanks
Alessandro

On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:

> > 
> > So.  How can I convince apt-get to cleave only unto my customized kernel
> > package, forever forsaking all others, as long as we both shall live?
> > Is there any way other than rebuilding and reinstalling my kernel
> > package with an even _higher_ epoch, in a veritable arms race of package
> > version numbering?
> > 
> 
> not sure why this is happening to you, but an easy solution is to set the
> package on hold.  You can do this using dselect or on the command line with
> echo "kernel-image-2.2.17 hold" |dpkg --set-selections.
> 
> 
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> 

Re: Install of VMware

[Nuhn Yobiznez]

Hi,

my suggestion is that you do what other helpful
souls have already said:
  uname -r (or a for the full listing)
to find which kernel you're running.
And then get online go to a prompt and type
  apt-get install kernel-source.2.2.XX
After that installs you should find
kernel-source.2.2.XX.tar.gz. in your /usr/src
directory.
Expand that w/ the command:
  tar -zxvf kernel-source.2.2.XX.tar.gz
(Remember to :
   ln -s /usr/src/kernel-source.2.2.XX /usr/src/linux)
After that run:
  vmware-config.pl
and answer any prompts w/ the default answers (if you
have changed them and can't remember
 the default answers, delete your vmware-distrib
directory and recreate it and re-install.)
  It should work for you after that!


--- "John C. Plummer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> Found in the archives that others have loaded
> vmware on Debian 2.2
> w/o too much difficulty.
> But I had one small problem trying with the install
> of the current
> release for Linux.  It did not
> find any prebuilt vmnet modules that worked and
> wanted to build one.
> When it asked for the
> headers location I gave it
> /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.2.12.
> It erred with a message that there might be a
> slight inconsistency
> between the current
> kernel and the source headers.  Its recommendation
> was to rebuild the
> kernel with those
> headers.  However, rebuilding kernels is a little
> out of my league right
> now.
> Using apt-get update and upgrade and trying
> again did not change the
> situation.  Any
> suggestions.  Should I supply a different location? 
> Should I download
> and supply a different
> library?  Thanks in advance for your support.  If
> you guys are ever near
> Johnstown, PA, the
> pizzas on us.
> jcp
> 
> 
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Re: Install of VMware

[Nuhn Yobiznez]

Hi,

my suggestion is that you do what other helpful
souls have already said:
  uname -r (or a for the full listing)
to find which kernel you're running.
And then get online go to a prompt and type
  apt-get install kernel-source.2.2.XX
After that installs you should find
kernel-source.2.2.XX.tar.gz. in your /usr/src
directory.
Expand that w/ the command:
  tar -zxvf kernel-source.2.2.XX.tar.gz
(Remember to :
   ln -s /usr/src/kernel-source.2.2.XX /usr/src/linux)
After that run:
  vmware-config.pl
and answer any prompts w/ the default answers (if you
have changed them and can't remember the default
answers, delete your vmware-distrib directory and
recreate it and re-install.)
  It should work for you after that!


--- "John C. Plummer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> Found in the archives that others have loaded
> vmware on Debian 2.2
> w/o too much difficulty.
> But I had one small problem trying with the install
> of the current
> release for Linux.  It did not
> find any prebuilt vmnet modules that worked and
> wanted to build one.
> When it asked for the
> headers location I gave it
> /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.2.12.
> It erred with a message that there might be a
> slight inconsistency
> between the current
> kernel and the source headers.  Its recommendation
> was to rebuild the
> kernel with those
> headers.  However, rebuilding kernels is a little
> out of my league right
> now.
> Using apt-get update and upgrade and trying
> again did not change the
> situation.  Any
> suggestions.  Should I supply a different location? 
> Should I download
> and supply a different
> library?  Thanks in advance for your support.  If
> you guys are ever near
> Johnstown, PA, the
> pizzas on us.
> jcp
> 
> 
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Re: irc server

[FUF]

Hosting an ircd for public use on a dialup machine is very inpractical..
however if you'd still like to give it a try you can obtain the ircu server
daemon from http://ircu.sourceforge.net

- Good luck


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To: 
Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 6:57 PM
Subject: irc server


> Hi,
>
> I'd like to have my own irc server. But could you tell me
> if it is possible when having dial-up connection to internet.
> If yes, please suggest me some good software.
> Thank you,
>
> QBA
>
>
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irc server

[QBA]

Hi,

I'd like to have my own irc server. But could you tell me
if it is possible when having dial-up connection to internet.
If yes, please suggest me some good software.
Thank you,

QBA

Re: Debian Menu with Sawfish (Helix)

[Kai Weber]

+ Joachim Trinkwitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> Well, I don't know if something was changed in the Helix packages
> since I switched from Helix to pure Debian Gnome last week, but before
> that the menu worked as it should. Maybe you should reinstall the
> `menu' Debian package.

Seems something changed. I don't know whether it was a mistake or
supposed to be so. There is a file /usr/share/sawfish/0.30.3/site-lisp
which activates the debian-menu in Sawfish's Root-Menu.

In 0.30.3-helix1 this file was included but with my actual helix7 it's
missing. (I do not know when it disappeard.)

I send in a bug-report to HelixCode.

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Re: About Nestcape 4.75

[Bob Nielsen]

You probably mean 'apt-get install communicator' or 'apt-get install
navigator'.  These packages are dummies which depend on the real
packages.

Bob

On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 12:06:40PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> I'm also pretty sure there _used_ to be a netscape package that
> installed everthing (or maybe it was just an installer package).
> You need communicator-smotif-475 or navigator-smotif-475
> 
> $ apt-get install communicator-smotif-475
> 
> Peter
> 
> Nate Bargmann wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 01:49:52PM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > deb http://security.debian.org/ potato/updates main contrib non-free
> > > > 
> > > > enabled me to upgrade from 4.72 to 4.75.
> > > 
> > > OK, I added this, ran 
> > >apt-get update ; apt-get dist-upgrade
> > > and it updated only netscape-base-4_1%3a4.75-2_i386.deb which is a tiny
> > > 37KB deb file. 
> > > 
> > > Did you actually get the full 4.75 installed?
> > 
> > I had the same thing happen.  I then ran dselect, did the update and select
> > menus and rather than selecting any packages, I noted that it had selected
> > NS to upgrade, went to the install option and the update worked fine,
> > along with the glibc update.
> > 
> > Dunno why the apt-get cammands didn't work...
> 
> 
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qt-designer compile failure

[Bill Barnes]

Hi All:

running 2.2 woody.

installed the new qt-designer package with apt-get and started tutorial.  
Looks great but having a problem running g++.

First venture into qt-designer and C++ but the instructions are clear and I 
have reviewed my procedures.  This is not bleeding-edge material or is it?

Here is the first test program from the tutorial.

#include 
#include "PizzaEntry.h"

int main( int argc, char* argv[] )
{
  QApplication app( argc, argv );

  PizzaEntry pizzaEntry;
  app.setMainWidget( &pizzaEntry );
  pizzaEntry.show();

  int ret = app.exec();
  return ret;
}

Did not find 'INSTALL' file but it seems clear that I will need an environment 
variable 'QTDIR'.

So here is the compile log before setting up that variable.

Script started on Thu Sep 21 15:20:52 2000
kgb10:/home/billb/DesignerApps# moc -o moc_PizzaEntry.cpp PizzaentrEntry.h
kgb10:/home/billb/DesignerApps# g++ _ -I /usr/lib/qt2/include Pizzaentry 
Entry.cpp PizzaEnb tryTest.cpp \
[1] 7735
bash: bsol: command not found
kgb10:/home/billb/DesignerApps# PizzaEntryTest.cpp: In function `int main(int, 
char **)':
PizzaEntryTest.cpp:8: `PizzaEntry' undeclared (first use this function)
PizzaEntryTest.cpp:8: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
PizzaEntryTest.cpp:8: for each function it appears in.)
PizzaEntryTest.cpp:8: parse error before `;'
PizzaEntryTest.cpp:9: `pizzaEntry' undeclared (first use this function)

[1]+  Exit 1  g++ -I /usr/lib/qt2/include PizzaEntry.cpp 
PizzaEntryTest.cpp
kgb10:/home/billb/DesignerApps# exit

Script done on Thu Sep 21 15:22:44 2000

Anyone have a fix for this problem?

Thanks
Bill Barnes

Re: Print to windows Printer?

[Pat Mahoney]

On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 01:15:43PM -0600, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> 
> Anyone have a quick and dirty on setting up a Potato box to print to 
> a windows based printer, or a cut-paste they can send me?

See
[http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/umnaintained/mini/Print2Win]

If that doesn't help, I have done it.  Ha, Ha, in my room, the windows box
sits in the corner as a print server and debian is on the desktop.

Well, the windows machine is on my roomate's desktop...  I just though that
was an amusing role reversal.

That HOWTO leaves out one important thing.  At least for me, I happen to
have gs drivers for the printer in question.  I first run my print jobs
through that and send the binary printer-ready data to the windows machine. 
Since I use linux to "render" the print jobs, Windows doesn't have to have
the postscript driver installed.  This is good for me since the windows
computer is my roomate's.

My scripts that do this are a bit kludgy, but they work, at least for this
partiular printer (Canon 6000).  If you want them, I will send them to you.

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> 

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lprng: remote printing

[Paul D. Smith]

I haven't been able to contact the lprng folks (my mail was never posted
to their mailing list, according to the archive, and I can't seem to
subscribe due to mail address issues), so maybe someone here has an idea.

I'm using Debian 2.2 + some woody, with lprng 3.6.24-2.

I have a bunch of networked printers available (no local printers).  So,
I created entries like this in /etc/printcap:

  6tp4s65hp:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:client

  6tp4s65hp-dup:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:client

  6tp4s65qms:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:client

(don't ask me, I didn't name 'em :).  If I print to one of these
printers using an extended printer name from the command line, like:

  $ lpr [EMAIL PROTECTED] somefile

it works great.

But if I just use "lpr somefile", the /etc/printcap entries (which, to
me, seem identical) don't work:

  $ lpr somefile
  Status Information:
   sending job '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   connecting to 'localhost', attempt 1
   connected to 'localhost'
   requesting printer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   job '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' transfer to [EMAIL PROTECTED] failed
error 'NONZERO RFC1179 ERROR CODE FROM SERVER' with ack 'ACK_FAIL'
sending str '^Bprinter to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   error msg: 'spool queue for '6tp4s65hp' does not exist on server 
llama.engeast.baynetworks.com'
   error msg: '   non-existent printer or you need to run 'checkpc -f''

It's always treating the printer as if it were local.  "checkpc" gives
no errors.

I know it's using /etc/printcap because if I switch the order of the
printers I get the new first one in the error message.  Also, I've tried
replacing the %P with the real printer name, using the rm/rp syntax
instead of lp, etc.

I've looked at the Printing HOWTO and the lprng HOWTO, and they both
give examples pretty much identical to mine, so I don't see what I'm
doing wrong!

Thoughts?

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Re: ripping audio CDs to soundcard

[Krzys Majewski]

Oswald Buddenhagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> this is not tested (no audio cd at hand ...), so it possibly does not 
> work [as expected]:
> cdda2wav -e -H -t1+ /dev/null
> the -H switch _might_ be the solution.
> or maybe -N? really no idea. just play around with it a bit.

Thanks, that helps. Still spinning the hdd though.. 
-chris

RE: kernel-image-2.2.17 overrides local kernel?

[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry]

> 
> So.  How can I convince apt-get to cleave only unto my customized kernel
> package, forever forsaking all others, as long as we both shall live?
> Is there any way other than rebuilding and reinstalling my kernel
> package with an even _higher_ epoch, in a veritable arms race of package
> version numbering?
> 

not sure why this is happening to you, but an easy solution is to set the
package on hold.  You can do this using dselect or on the command line with
echo "kernel-image-2.2.17 hold" |dpkg --set-selections.

kernel-image-2.2.17 overrides local kernel?

[Paul D. Smith]

So, I got with the program and used kernel-pkg to build my local copy of
2.2.17.  I followed the directions and named it with an extension of
"custom.1.0".

Now I do an "apt-get -s upgrade" (for woody) to see what's what, and it
wants to install and configure the Debian kernel-image-2.2.17 package
over mine.

I thought the above name would prevent this.  Is this an example of the
ever-mysterious "epoch"?  Brr, I got a shiver just typing it.

So.  How can I convince apt-get to cleave only unto my customized kernel
package, forever forsaking all others, as long as we both shall live?
Is there any way other than rebuilding and reinstalling my kernel
package with an even _higher_ epoch, in a veritable arms race of package
version numbering?

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RE: resolv.conf question

[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry]

> 
> anyway, i just removed pump from the system (interestingly, it didn't remove
> the script, so i removed that by hand).
> 

dpkg --purge, the file is a conffile, so --remove won't kill the file.

> i'll reboot to do a test, but is there another possible cause?
> 

pcmcia?

Re: Begone, vile emacs!

[Paul D. Smith]

%% Jonathan Markevich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

  >> It's probably "emacs19" or "emacs20", or one of the xemacs varieties.

  jm> Neither!  It's really strange.
 
  >> The simplest way to find out what package a particuler file belongs to
  >> is with dpkg -S; try something like:
  >> 
  >> $ dpkg -S bin/emacs

  jm> Not there either.

To the best of my knowledge, that means that you can just remove it.  If
no package knows about it, it's a "private file" on the system and you
can do whatever you want with it.

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Re: EPSON-EPL-5700L

[Vee-Eye]

Sie schrieben:
> hi,
> can you tell me how I must
> configure debian to use the the
> printer.
> If I use magicfilterconfig it doesnt work.
> Perhaps I have the wrong filter...?
> 
> Marc

Hi Marc!

Bad news, though. According to www.linuxprinting.org the EPL-5700L doesn't
work ("Known not to work").
But maybe there will be some better news in the future... (A driver is being
developed). Have a look at the database there.

MH



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RE: resolv.conf question

[Peter Jay Salzman]

i don't think i am (i use ppp):

# ps ax | grep -i pump
 1909 pts/0S  0:00 grep -i pump
# ps ax | grep -i dhcp
 1911 pts/0S  0:00 grep -i dhcp

there was a script for pump in rc2.d, but it's not linked in any of the
runlevels, and i greped for it in the scripts that are linked in rc2.d.

anyway, i just removed pump from the system (interestingly, it didn't remove
the script, so i removed that by hand).

i'll reboot to do a test, but is there another possible cause?

thanks!
pete

> On 21-Sep-2000 Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> > dear all,
> > 
> > i keep putting
> >   search ucdavis.edu
> > 
> > in my resolv.conf, but every time i boot up, the search directive
> > disappears!   is there any reason why debian is deleting that line from
> > resolv.conf?
> > 
> 
> you are running a dhcp client like pump probably.  dhcp overwrites the
> resolv.conf.
> 

Re: Configuration router / gateway use

[Stefan Bellon]

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
   will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 10:40:45AM +0200, Stefan Bellon wrote:

[snip]

> hmm. maybe
>   # apt-get install ipmasq
> and then after
>   # ifconfig
> shows your ports and connections are fat dumb and happy (alive and
> working)
>   # ipmasq
> ?

> just a thought...

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll have a look what it does.

In the meantime I've solved the problem by trial and error. I found
that it was the DNS which wasn't working. I use the inbuild DNS server
of the ISDN router, so I looked at its statistics and found addresses
like www.altavista.com.local.net and so on, i.e. local.net appended to
all addresses. So I realised why queries by host names didn't work
whereas the IP ones did (I hadn't realised that in my previous post).
Then I found that the entry "search local.net" in /etc/resolv.conf was
causing this behaviour. Since I removed it, it works.

But in the meantime somebody else told me that the "search local.net"
/should/ be present.

Could somebody please explain to me what this "search" option in
/etc/resolv.conf does?

Thanks in advance.

Greetings,

Stefan.

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 universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. (Bill Watterson)

RE: resolv.conf question

[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry]

On 21-Sep-2000 Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> dear all,
> 
> i keep putting
>   search ucdavis.edu
> 
> in my resolv.conf, but every time i boot up, the search directive
> disappears!   is there any reason why debian is deleting that line from
> resolv.conf?
> 

you are running a dhcp client like pump probably.  dhcp overwrites the
resolv.conf.

Can't make squid proxy requests to and from IIS

[Robert M. Maguire]

Let me explain in more detail, I am working with "YUCK" VB code for the
>product, Not my choice,, I have  NT 4.0 running IIS 4.0, also not my
choice.
>I put up a firewall using RedHat with IPChains and wanted to have the IIS
>box behind the firewall with SSL.  I installed squid on RedHat 6.1 and
>configured Squid-the last release, not the current. I was able to make the
>Http port 80, work through squid and ask for pages from the IIs box, no
>problem. I then added SSL to the IIS box and setup squid to except port 443
>to talk with IIS on 443 (SSL). When I typed http:// squid came back saying
>SSL Required and that I need the "s" in the http://. When I add the
>s"( https:// ) I can't connect and get a web page to show up. I wait for
the
>Browser, and it says "can't connect". I tried to telnet to the 443 port
from
>the firewall that is running squid to the IIs box, and I can. I have been
>looking for answers to this problem everywhere, It just doesn't seem to
work
>and I can't find any doc's on how squid should be configured for the type
of
>setup I am doing. I also have the acl SSL_ports port 443 563 already, it
>doen't seem to work. I have been hitting my head on this for weeks now.
>Below is a list of what I have running. If you have any ideas, let me know.
>
>Again thanks for the help
>
>Rob.
>
>
>Here is the Junk Box
>NT 4.0 SP5
>IIs 4.0
>SSL=128 (new verison)
>
>
>Here is My box
>RedHat 6.1
>IPChains firewall
>Squid latest ver. ( thought the newer version would make a difference.)
>SSH
>SSL
>Custom config.

resolv.conf question

[Peter Jay Salzman]

dear all,

i keep putting
search ucdavis.edu

in my resolv.conf, but every time i boot up, the search directive
disappears!   is there any reason why debian is deleting that line from
resolv.conf?

thanks!
pete

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Re: More X questions.....

[David Z. Maze]

Jason Hammerschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JH> RH uses an X Font Server, Debian doesn't (at least potato doesn't).

It does if you install the 'xfs' package.  (Though just installing the 
package doesn't automagically tweak your XF86Config to use it.)

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Re: apt-get tut

[Alberto Brealey]

On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 01:23:40PM -0600, Ray Percival wrote:
> How does one find out what packages are out there? 

try apt-cache search , man apt-cache

> I'm looking for helix code Gnome 1.2 in particular but would really like 

try

deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/distributions/debian unstable main

in your /etc/apt/sources.list (youre supposed to have woody, but i tried it
in potato and all went fine).

> general info. Also is X 4.x apt-getable and if not how do you do a .deb 

go to http://www.debian.org/~branden/ for info on X4 for debian. i installed
it because i wanted my dual-head matrox workin', everything went like a
charm, but YMMV.

good luck,

alberto

EPSON-EPL-5700L

[Marc Maute]

hi,
can you tell me how I must
configure debian to use the the
printer.
If I use magicfilterconfig it doesnt work.
Perhaps I have the wrong filter...?

Marc

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Re: Spammer by incompetence, RBL may be an option

[Cam Ellison]

On Thu, 21 Sep 2000 22:14:06 +0200, Robert Waldner wrote:

>They´re not sending their bounces via the list (now? don´t know, have
> deleted the mails).

Still coming, as of this morning (which helped me discover a bug in the
filter).  I am simply bouncing them back, now (he says hopefully).

Cam


Cam Ellison, Ph.D., R.Psych.

[EMAIL PROTECTED]  or [EMAIL PROTECTED]

>From the lovely Sunshine Coast, where it only SEEMS to rain.

Re: ripping audio CDs to soundcard

[Oswald Buddenhagen]

> I posted a question a while back about using the soundcard's D/A instead of
> the one in the CDROM drive. I've since tried cdparanoia and
> cdda2wav. They both work, but  they both spin the hard disk constantly
> when writing  an audio file, even  if the file isn't  being written to
> the hard disk. Anyone know why  they are doing this? What I would like
> is to  read the data from  the CD and  pipe it to my  soundcard's D/A,
> without the hard disk being involved. -chris
> 
this is not tested (no audio cd at hand ...), so it possibly does not 
work [as expected]:
cdda2wav -e -H -t1+ /dev/null
the -H switch _might_ be the solution.
or maybe -N? really no idea. just play around with it a bit.

regards

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Exim configuration

[Alberto Pereira]

Hi all,

I have a exim server and I want to create a vitua domain.
But i don't want to all users recive mail for both domains.
like this, i have the domains 
domain.com
virtua.com
and I want to user joe only recive mail from domain.com
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
and don't recive e-mail from virtua.com

And user maria, only recive mail form virtua.com
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
and don't recive e-mail from domain.com

If someone send a e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] it's return with error.

Someone can help me?

Thanks


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-- Debian, a melhor solucao!--

Netscape 4.75 ??

[Christopher W. Aiken]

I just upgraded my Netscape to 4.75 via the "apt-get install".
Took forever to download all the files on my 56K dialup.

What a great tool "apt-get" is !!!   Wow...

Anyhow (there's always an anyhow) when I close Netscape it
leaves process running so that I can not fire up another
Netscape later on.  A ps -ax shows:

622 ?   S   0:03 /usr/lib/netscape/475/communicator/communicator-smotif.real 
http://
664 ?   S   0:00 (dns helper)

This doesn't happen very often but it is a pain in the backside
to have to "ps -ax and kill -9 " every time I want to run Netscape.

Any clues?  BTW  this also happend on the 4.73 version

Running: Debian 2.2 

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Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA
chris at cwaiken dot com,   www.cwaiken.com
Preferred O/S: Debian Linux 2.2

Re: Spammer by incompetence, RBL may be an option

[Robert Waldner]

On Thu, 21 Sep 2000 14:46:46 CDT, will trillich writes:
>On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 04:21:42PM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote:
>> I sent a (friendly) message to the postmaster at my.netvigator.com 
>>  already, informing them of the problem and pointing out directions to 
>>  fix it. You may want to do the same.
>
>i did too. three weeks ago. and last week.
>
>as you can see, they're concerned about taking immediate action.
>
>not.

They´re not sending their bounces via the list (now? don´t know, have 
 deleted the mails). Fixed the problem for me via

/etc/mail/access:
208.167.231.173599 Thou art not considered worthy. Go away.

(using sendmail)

&rw
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/ Robert Waldner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Phone: +43 1 89933 0 Fax x533 \
\KPNQwest/AT tech staff| Diefenbachg. 35   A-1150 Wien / 

Re: pptpdconfig.pl

[Robert Waldner]

(sorry, haven´t got the rest of the thread, and it´s not yet showing up 
 in the archives, so forgive me if I´m stating the obvious, repeating 
 something, not getting the point etc pp ;)

>> On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 11:21:37PM -0500, will trillich wrote:
>> > trying to get VPN going, still, this time with pptpd--and the
>> > config script seems kaflooey--
>> > 
>> ># apt-get install pptpd

You may want to try pptp (no -d, though), you can get it from
 ftp://ftp.kpnqwest.at/pub/adsl/linux/ . It´s only for outgoing 
 connections, though, so YMMV. The two versions are for different
 types of some alcatel-adsl-modems, the "upstream" homepage is
 stated somewhere in the accompanying documentation.

hth,
&rw
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\KPNQwest/AT tech staff| Diefenbachg. 35   A-1150 Wien / 

Re: More X questions.....

[Jason Hammerschmidt]

If you copy a RedHat XF86Config file, remove the line
FontPath"unix/:-1"
and replace with
FontPath"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic:unscaled"
FontPath"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
FontPath"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
FontPath"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
FontPath"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
FontPath"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
FontPath"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"

RH uses an X Font Server, Debian doesn't (at least potato doesn't).  Other
than that there are no distro specific idism's.


Ray Percival wrote:

> Just switched from Red Hat I *will* get this to work in order to get the
> advantages of Debian. Thank you all for your help so far. I just had a
> thought I have copies of my X config files from RH setting around. Are
> these files distro specific? The only thing I'm having trouble with is X
> everything else is great *very* cool. Once again thanks.
> Ray
>
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Re: /etc/init.d/network v. /etc/network/*

[will trillich]

On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 06:26:47PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> Could someone set me straight on the distinction between
> /etc/init.d/network and the definition files under /etc/network:  
> interfaces, options, and spoof-protect.
> 
> We've got a balky server which doesn't like coming on-line (and
> occasionally likes going off) when it boots.  I suspect multiple network
> config upfsckage.
> 
> Docs I've been able to find are less than crystal on the distinction
> between these files.

what i've seen says that
/etc/init.d/* are SCRIPTS that are run when entering various
runlevels (rcS at startup, rc2 when entering runlevel 2...)
and
/etc/network/*
are the CONFIGURATION files for various network facilities.

% man interfaces
will tell you about the /etc/network/interfaces file.

Re: More X questions.....

[Jens P. Elsner]

Hi,

> Just switched from Red Hat I *will* get this to work in order to get the 
> advantages of Debian. Thank you all for your help so far. I just had a 
> thought I have copies of my X config files from RH setting around. Are these 
> files distro specific? The only thing I'm having trouble with is X everything 
> else is great *very* cool. Once again thanks. 
No, the X config file is not Distro specific. You just cant mix 3.X config 
files with 4.X . 

Just place your config file in /etc/X11 .

Jens

Re: Configuration router / gateway use

[will trillich]

On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 10:40:45AM +0200, Stefan Bellon wrote:
> vici:/etc/network# route
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface
> localnet*   255.255.255.0   U 0  00 eth0
> 127.0.0.0   *   255.0.0.0   U 0  00 lo
> default caesar.local.ne 0.0.0.0 UG1  00 eth0

hmm. maybe
# apt-get install ipmasq
and then after
# ifconfig
shows your ports and connections are fat dumb and happy (alive and working)
# ipmasq
?

just a thought...

Re: Message saying this lists's mailbox is full

[will trillich]

On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 01:46:02AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> my.netvigator.com has a moron with root password instead of a system
> administrator who knows how to configure an MTA (or replace it with
> one that does not suck) 
> 
> this has been going on for at least 2 or more weeks.  just add this
> to your .procmailrc and be done with it:
> 
> :0
> * ^From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> /dev/null

would this be an evil idea?
:0
* ^From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: apt-get tut

[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry]

On 21-Sep-2000 Ray Percival wrote:
> Does anyone know of a place with good apt-get info? That and a couple of
> questions. How does one find out what packages are out there? I'm looking for
> helix code Gnome 1.2 in particular but would really like general info. Also
> is X 4.x apt-getable and if not how do you do a .deb that is not. Thanks for
> your help.
> Ray
> 

X 4 is not officially packaged yet.  Doing so involves a significant change to
Debian.  It will appear though.

As for a apt-get tutorial, one is attached to this message. And as always, look
in /usr/share/doc/.

To find out what is available, the "best" way is to use either dselect or
console-apt.  Both of these give a console, curses based GUI.


apt.howto
Description: Binary data

Re: More X questions.....

[Peter Jay Salzman]

as with everything else, yes.

and no.


most of it should be distro independent, but off hand i can think of one
thing which may NOT be distro independent -- your FontPath directives.

i don't think there are others, but there might be.  also note that the
location of the file itself is distro dependent.

pete

On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Ray Percival wrote:

> Just switched from Red Hat I *will* get this to work in order to get the 
> advantages of Debian. Thank you all for your help so far. I just had a 
> thought I have copies of my X config files from RH setting around. Are these 
> files distro specific? The only thing I'm having trouble with is X everything 
> else is great *very* cool. Once again thanks. 
> Ray
> 
> 
> -- 
> Unsubscribe?  mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
> 
> 

Re: Spammer by incompetence, RBL may be an option

[will trillich]

On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 04:21:42PM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote:
> I sent a (friendly) message to the postmaster at my.netvigator.com 
>  already, informing them of the problem and pointing out directions to 
>  fix it. You may want to do the same.

i did too. three weeks ago. and last week.

as you can see, they're concerned about taking immediate action.

not.

Re: off topic - scsi partitions & swap & raid

[C. Falconer]

At 08:57 AM 9/21/00 -0400, you wrote:

>Now for:
>raid 0 (striping) min drives 2, reads and writes faster, no reduncancy.
>raid 1 min drives 3, 2/3 of your total disk space is available.  Fault
>tolerant.

You mean minimum 2 drives, don't you? And usable space is 1/2? I believe 
raid 1 is also known as mirroring.


Yup yup - sorry about that...  too much fudging on my part :)

To all the geeks of the list - If you want to go on and do something, learn 
something new then messing with raid is a good thing to do...  install 
bonnie and raidtools, and decide for yourself whats good and bad about raid.



--
Criggie

SmartList: problem subscribing

[Wade Parker]

I'm using Debian 2.2, Exim 3.1, procmail 3.13.1 and SmartList.

I've installed Smartlist using dselect.  I can create a list.  But I
cannot get anyone subscribed to the list or if I add an address
manually, Smartlist will not send out any messages to that person.

The only changes I've made to the configuration were:

Adding to my /etc/aliases
: "| /var/list/.bin/flist "
: "| /var/list/.bin/flist -request"

and setting in /var/list/.etc/rc.init

LOGABSTRACT = yes
VERBOSE = yes
LOGFILE = ../$default/log

When I test with exim -v -bt 
exim indicates the address is deliverable to the pipe program.

When I send in a subscription, exim's log indicates the message was
delivered to the pipe program.  But there is not entry in
/var/list//dist and there is no log.

I've also tried changing the pipe alias with:
"|/bin/bash exec /var/list/.bin/flist "
the mail-daemon returns the message stating:

A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
recipients. The following address(es) failed:

  [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
generated |/bin/bash exec /var/list/.bin/flist :
Child process of address_pipe transport returned 127 from command:
/bin/bash

The following text was generated during the delivery attempt:

-- |/bin/bash exec /var/list/.bin/flist  --

exec: exec: No such file or directory

I would appreciate any advise or suggests on how to fix this problem or
how to test flist.

 
Wade Parker

More X questions.....

[Ray Percival]

Just switched from Red Hat I *will* get this to work in order to get the 
advantages of Debian. Thank you all for your help so far. I just had a thought 
I have copies of my X config files from RH setting around. Are these files 
distro specific? The only thing I'm having trouble with is X everything else is 
great *very* cool. Once again thanks. 
Ray

apt-get tut

[Ray Percival]

Does anyone know of a place with good apt-get info? That and a couple of 
questions. How does one find out what packages are out there? I'm looking for 
helix code Gnome 1.2 in particular but would really like general info. Also is 
X 4.x apt-getable and if not how do you do a .deb that is not. Thanks for your 
help.
Ray

Print to windows Printer?

[Robert L. Harris]

Anyone have a quick and dirty on setting up a Potato box to print to 
a windows based printer, or a cut-paste they can send me?


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Re: exim howto newbie ?

[will trillich]

welcome to the EXIM corner of our little dungeon...

On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 10:00:27AM +1000, christo wrote:
> when i send mail to :-
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> all 3 receives them
> 
> nowif i send emails to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED], 
> userA and userB receives this email where they SHOULDNT

it took me an intense 9-hour day after weeks of poking and prodding
to figure this part out-- maybe i can spare you the same anguish...

i've got 14 domains here on my potato box, and this works well for me:

# mkdir /etc/exim

# cd !$

# cat > dom-one.com
user1 user1
userUno   userUno
userPrime userPrim
^D

# cat > dom-two.com
user2   user2
duo duo
pairpair
*   systemwonk
^D

# cat > dom-twoHMM.com
*   luckysoul
^D

# cat > dom-three.com
user3 user3
trois trois
tripletriple
dudethree dudethree
^D

# cat > DOMAINS
# *.domain.name   /etc/exim/
*.dom-one.com:dom-one.com
*.dom-uno.com:dom-one.com

dom-two.com:  dom-twoHMM.com
*.dom-two.com:dom-two.com

*.dom-three.com:  dom-three.com
^D

(i'm indenting for clarity, you understand... cut&paste
at your own risk... :)

the /etc/exim/DOMAINS file is a 'table-lookup' sheet relating incoming
email domains to their alias files. you can have several domains 'point'
to one file (see dom-uno and dom-one above) if you like.

in the example above, email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> would be
referred through the alias file /etc/exim/dom-twoHMM.com, where
email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> would instead wind up using the
/etc/exim/dom-two.com aliases: the first matches dom-two.com
exactly, the second would match *.dom-two.com instead. cool!
(and given the setup for dom-twoHMM.com, all messages wind up
going to 'luckysoul'.)

you can also make sure that you catch undelivered mail to certain
hosts this way: see '* systemwonk' in /etc/exim/dom-two.com above.


here's how you tell exim to use that table-lookup arrangement:

in /etc/exim.conf put

local_domains = 
localhost:*.main.domain.com:partial-lsearch;/etc/exim/DOMAINS

and then further down, in the DIRECTORS section BEFORE the /etc/aliases
rule--

# check aliases for virtual hosts --
#   virtual hostname->alias file mapping is in /etc/exim/DOMAINS
#   @->is in /etc/exim/ from DOMAINS
#   and global default aliases '*: someone' is possible in each
#   virtual host alias file, because we use 'search_type=lsearch*'

virtual_aliases:
driver = aliasfile
domains = "partial-lsearch;/etc/exim/DOMAINS"
file_transport = address_file
pipe_transport = address_pipe
file = /etc/exim/${domain_data}
search_type = "lsearch*"

(if you put this after the /etc/aliases file, then those will override the
domain-specific aliases. if that's what you want, then by all means do so.
configuration files are a pain to figure out, but there's a whole lotta
power in them thar files...)

i predict it'll take three hours of uninterrupted concentration on the
exim.conf possibilities before you grok the lsearch (or any search)
facility -- and once you do, look out!

CAVEAT -- this will get unweildy in a hurry if you have a large number
of users and/or a large number of domains. there are alternatives,
but once you figure out this part, you can probably figure out the
next steps...

/usr/share/doc/exim/exim-uucp.texinfo.gz
/usr/share/doc/exim/filter.txt.gz
/usr/share/doc/exim/README.UPDATING.gz
/usr/share/doc/exim/README.Y2K.gz
/usr/share/doc/exim/changelog.gz
/usr/share/doc/exim/example.conf.gz
/usr/share/doc/exim/mails.gz
/usr/share/doc/exim/spec.txt.gz
/usr/share/doc/exim/copyright
/usr/share/doc/exim/README.IPV6.gz
/usr/share/doc/exim/dbm.discuss.txt.gz
/usr/share/doc/exim/NewStuff.gz
/usr/share/doc/exim/README.gz
/usr/share/doc/exim/README.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/exim/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/exim/oview.txt.gz

/usr/share/man/man8/exim.8.gz

Re: Which netscape version works?

[Chanop Silpa-Anan]

Once upon a time, I heard John Reinke say

> There is a newer version - 4.75, which seems *slightly* less buggy for me.
> If you don't already have it, add the security line to your
> /etc/apt/sources.list file, and then run:
> 
> apt-get update; apt-get upgrade
> 
> and it will install the newer version, as well as any other security fixes
> you may need. I don't have the security line handy right now, but it is in
> other messages posted to the list today.

No, yoiu have to use either dselect or console-apt or manually apt-get
install to fetch netscape package unless you have either communicator 
or netscape package which are meta packages installed.

Chanop
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,.
| May Debian be with you ~~ [EMAIL PROTECTED]|
`'


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ripping audio CDs to soundcard

[Krzys Majewski]

I posted a question a while back about using the soundcard's D/A instead of
the one in the CDROM drive. I've since tried cdparanoia and
cdda2wav. They both work, but  they both spin the hard disk constantly
when writing  an audio file, even  if the file isn't  being written to
the hard disk. Anyone know why  they are doing this? What I would like
is to  read the data from  the CD and  pipe it to my  soundcard's D/A,
without the hard disk being involved. -chris

French Canadian in console mode

[Joel Dinel]

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How can I switch between US and French Canadian keyboard configuration
while in Command Line Interface (Eterm or pure console) ?

Or even better; how can I simply create the accents a la Windows
(ALT-something) ?

Thanks !



Joel Dinel
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xmcd question

[Peter Jay Salzman]

dear all,

when i start xmcd with an internet connection, after a few seconds, a pop-up
window appears and says "file save error".   i assume it's trying to save
the CDDB information.

the cd plays just fine, though.

i tried using strace to figure out what file it's trying to write to, with
no luck.  the "file save error" happens whether i'm a normal user or root.

any guesses as to why this is happening?

thanks!
pete

using apt-get to install unstable packages

[Jason Hammerschmidt]

Hi, I've installed potato but am looking to get my intel810 sound
chipset to work, this requires the latest version of ALSA, but the
ALSA that comes with potato isn't.

So, can I use apt-get to install from the unstable packages list that
contains a more recent version of ALSA?  Even though I'm running
potato/stable?

I've so far tried downloading the .deb's from woody and using dpkg but
it failed the install horribly, I believe I'm now at a half state of
woody ALSA and potato ALSA.  I've also tried compiling it by hand, and
after downloading all the tarballs,  and compiling the kernel (just to
get a version.h) it crapped out on something else (that I have no idea
about or the will to figure it out right now) and thought there's got to
be an easier way.

Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks in advance

Jason Hammerschmidt

Re: pptpdconfig.pl

[will trillich]

On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 08:42:20PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 11:21:37PM -0500, will trillich wrote:
> > trying to get VPN going, still, this time with pptpd--and the
> > config script seems kaflooey--
> > 
> > # apt-get install pptpd
> > 
> > # pptpdconfig.pl
> > /usr/sbin/pptpdconfig.pl: Permission denied.
> > # ls -l /usr/sbin/pptpdconfig.pl
> > -rw-r--r--1 root   root   1581 Feb 22  2000 /usr/sbin/pptpdconfig.pl
> > 
> > 

> not even root can execute the non-executable.  
> 
> file a bug against the package, and run chmod 755 /usr/sbin/pptpdconfig.pl 
> as root

agreed. but that's not the problem. (gotcha!)

as you know...

$ filename

entered like this, it's being run as a command, so it would need +x permissions.

$ perl filename

this way, perl reads the file and then runs the script therein, as long as it's
readable.  (a file doesn't need to be executable unless you're trying to run it
as a shell command.) 

perl can even run commands from STDIN, such as

$ perl < filename
$ cat filename | perl

so it only needs to be able to READ the file; execute permissions are for the
commands to be run directly from the shell. (saves us lazy folk from typing
a few keystrokes here and there.)

--

UNRESOLVED:

still, when i have perl run the file directly (no chmod +x needed there)
it still bombs with

> > # perl /usr/sbin/pptpdconfig.pl

or
# cat < /usr/sbin/pptpdconfig.pl | perl
if you must

> > Can't exec "pptpdconfig.pl": Permission denied at 
> > /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/IPC/Open3.pm line 188.
> > open2: exec of pptpdconfig.pl failed at 
> > /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/ConfModule.pm line 46
> > Use of uninitialized value at 
> > /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/ConfModule.pm line 303.
> > 
> > am i missing a piece? (i ran this as root, so it wouldn't appear to be
> > a normal user permissions snag...)

what's up with that?

apache doesn't find user

[Sommer Guenther -MLA-]

i'm using debian 2.2 (apache 1.3.9) 

i created with htpasswd a passwordfile and included it in httpd.conf 

httpd.conf:
...

AuthType Basic
AuthName "itnernal"
AuthUserFile /web/pass/klbg/user
require valid-user

---

after the update to debian 2.2 it doesn't work any more. i createt 
the user-file again under 2.2

i only get following error, but i'm not able to find something about it 
in the internet:

[Thu Sep 21 18:46:29 2000] [error] [client 192.168.60.42] richi: not 
a valid FDN: /funkspruch/dp/dienstplan.pdf

can someone help me???

thanx, guenther sommer.

austrian red cross, district klosterneuburg, lower austria.

more mySQL errors

[Account for Debian group mail]

For those who read my earlier posting about mySQL troubles, I am also
seeing the following error when trying to run the mysql_install_db script: 

/usr/sbin/mysqld: Can't create/write to file '/var/log/mysql.log'
(Errcode: 13)

However, this is what I have in the /var/log dir - as you can see the
mysql.err files are the same and have no problems. I've even tried
chmod'ing mysql.log to 777 with no success.

-rw-r--r--1 root root  984 Sep 21 10:47 mysql.err
-rw-rw-r--1 root mysql 637 Sep 21 06:25 mysql.err.1.gz
-rw-rw-r--1 root mysql  32 Sep 18 06:25 mysql.err.2.gz
-rw-rw-r--1 root mysql  32 Sep 17 06:25 mysql.err.3.gz
-rw-r--r--1 root root0 Sep 21 11:08 mysql.log
-rw-r--r--1 root root0 Sep 20 06:25 mysql.log.1
-rw-rw-r--1 root mysql  32 Sep 18 06:25 mysql.log.3.gz
-rw-rw-r--1 root mysql  32 Sep 17 06:25 mysql.log.4.gz
-rw-rw-r--1 root mysql  32 Sep 16 06:25 mysql.log.5.gz
kitty:/var/log#

Any suggestions?

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Re: Which netscape version works?

[John Reinke]

There is a newer version - 4.75, which seems *slightly* less buggy for me.
If you don't already have it, add the security line to your
/etc/apt/sources.list file, and then run:

apt-get update; apt-get upgrade

and it will install the newer version, as well as any other security fixes
you may need. I don't have the security line handy right now, but it is in
other messages posted to the list today.

Netscape crashes a lot - particularly from web pages containing java and
javascript - but that's probably what you need for your bank's web site.
Look at the email archive from earlier this month to see a discussion of
other web browsers, but none have all the features (good or bad) of
Netscape.

Good luck,
John

On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Krzys Majewski wrote:

> I know netscape  has its faults but  I really need it for  some of the
> sites  I use,  like my  bank. Otherwise  I'd be  using lynx,  really I
> would. OK now that that's settled.. 
> I've got navigator 4.74 right now  and it seems pretty buggy. A lot of
> sites just refuse  to work with it. What's the  best version out there
> for linux? (I don't need  the mail stuff etc., just standalone, though
> I'm willing to try the bloaty one if it's more stable) -chris
> 
> 
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Re: How do I remove/unload isapnp?

[Mark Schiltz]

On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I suspect that isapnp may be conflicting with the 5.9c ALSA drivers I'm 
> trying to load.  How do I configure the system so that I save my 
> configuration files, but isapnp doesn't run?

rename the file /etc/isapnp.conf to /etc/isapnp.conf.save:
example: mv /etc/isapnp.conf /etc/isapnp.conf.save

When you reboot isapnp will not find the config file and will not run. You may
also want to change or save your modules setup info. If you are using woody and
sndconfig, then rename the file /etc/modutils/sndconfig to
/etc/modutils/sndconfig.save and don't forget to run update-modules. I have
also found it is a good idea to reboot after changing sound modules. They may
load with no errors but the sound may not work properly until the reboot.

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python-visual and libgl1

[Charles Kaufman]

Hi
I have a .deb file of python-visual from Carnegie-Mellon U.
It depends on libgl1. I cannot find libgl1.
Does anyone have any experience with this?
Thanks.
Charles Kaufman
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Impresora Canon BJC-3000

[Manuel C. Arenaz Silva]

Hello,

I have tried to install a Canon BJC-3000 printer using
magicfilter1.2-35, the default slink packet, but none of the filters for
Canon printers worked.

umia:~# ls -l /etc/magicfilter/bj*
-rwxr-xr-x1 root root 4847 Nov 16  1999
/etc/magicfilter/bj10e-filter
-rwxr-xr-x1 root root 4848 Nov 16  1999
/etc/magicfilter/bj200-filter
-rwxr-xr-x1 root root 4920 Nov 16  1999
/etc/magicfilter/bj600-filter
-rwxr-xr-x1 root root 4914 Nov 16  1999
/etc/magicfilter/bj600_draft-filter
-rwxr-xr-x1 root root 4827 Nov 16  1999
/etc/magicfilter/bj610-filter
-rwxr-xr-x1 root root 4976 Nov 16  1999
/etc/magicfilter/bj800-filter
-rwxr-xr-x1 root root 4963 Nov 16  1999
/etc/magicfilter/bj800_draft-filter

The version magicfilter1.2-39 is available at www.debian.org,
nevertheless no new Canon printer filter is available in this packet.

How can I install this printer? Is there any other tool, apart from
magicfilter, for printer configuration?

Thaks in advance,

Manuel Arenaz


PD: The printer is correctly installed as it works under Windows'98.
Will a Canon BJC-3000 filter be available for Linux soon?

Re: About Nestcape 4.75

[Peter S Galbraith]

I'm also pretty sure there _used_ to be a netscape package that
installed everthing (or maybe it was just an installer package).
You need communicator-smotif-475 or navigator-smotif-475

$ apt-get install communicator-smotif-475

Peter

Nate Bargmann wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 01:49:52PM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote:
> > > 
> > > deb http://security.debian.org/ potato/updates main contrib non-free
> > > 
> > > enabled me to upgrade from 4.72 to 4.75.
> > 
> > OK, I added this, ran 
> >apt-get update ; apt-get dist-upgrade
> > and it updated only netscape-base-4_1%3a4.75-2_i386.deb which is a tiny
> > 37KB deb file. 
> > 
> > Did you actually get the full 4.75 installed?
> 
> I had the same thing happen.  I then ran dselect, did the update and select
> menus and rather than selecting any packages, I noted that it had selected
> NS to upgrade, went to the install option and the update worked fine,
> along with the glibc update.
> 
> Dunno why the apt-get cammands didn't work...

Re: junkbuster: how to pass through all cookies

[Oswald Buddenhagen]

> How do I tell junkbuster to leave cookies alone? I've tried 
> putting 
> 
> > *
> < *
> 
> in /etc/junkbuster/cookiefile, but I'm not convinced this works. 
> -chris
> 
a single * _should_ work for both directions. to verify it, enable cookie
warning in netscape and visit a page which will flood you with cookies
(try yahoo.com, or something).


look at my version of the junkbuster at
http://www.inf.tu-dresden.de/~ob6/sw/junkex.html


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Which netscape version works?

[Krzys Majewski]

I know netscape  has its faults but  I really need it for  some of the
sites  I use,  like my  bank. Otherwise  I'd be  using lynx,  really I
would. OK now that that's settled.. 
I've got navigator 4.74 right now  and it seems pretty buggy. A lot of
sites just refuse  to work with it. What's the  best version out there
for linux? (I don't need  the mail stuff etc., just standalone, though
I'm willing to try the bloaty one if it's more stable) -chris

Re: X launchbar?

[Steve Lamb]

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Thursday, September 21, 2000, 2:40:19 AM, Robin wrote:
> Do a google search for tkgoodstuff.  Requires TCL/TK.

> This neat toolbar is not in Potato :-(

Cool, thanks for the pointer.  :)

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Re: junkbuster: how to pass through all cookies

[Adam Scriven]

On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 08:39:35AM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote:
> How do I tell junkbuster to leave cookies alone? I've tried putting 
> 
> > *
> < *
> 
> in /etc/junkbuster/cookiefile, but I'm not convinced this works. 

I just have
*
in mine, and it seems to work OK

HTH
Adam

junkbuster: how to pass through all cookies

[Krzys Majewski]

How do I tell junkbuster to leave cookies alone? I've tried 
putting 

> *
< *

in /etc/junkbuster/cookiefile, but I'm not convinced this works. 
-chris

Fetchmail

[w-valbue]

Hi...

I have some problem with Fetchmail.

I have fetchmail with crond, to make POP , but some days ago I have this
error:

18 messages for pajarito at pajarito.com (1934931 octets).
reading message 1 of 18 (13987 octets) fetchmail: socket error
while fetching from pajarito.com
fetchmail: Query status=2

I don´t know where is the problem , because Fetchmail and crond works
correctly in my account...

Thanks...


p.d: Anybody knows alternative software like Fetchmail?Ex. for my
english...

Re: Help!! with modules

[Cam Ellison]

On Wed, 20 Sep 2000 18:40:57 -0500, Pat Mahoney wrote:

>On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 05:32:58AM +0800, Cam Ellison wrote:
>> For some reason, I cannot get the modules loaded (or so it seems) with
>> kernel 2.2.17.  I go through all the steps: make menuconfig make dep
>> make bzImage make modules make modules_install make bzlilo. 
> (snip)
>>  "Can't open dependencies file: /lib/modules/2.2.17/modules.dep (no
>> such file or directory)
>
>Try running depmod.  Also check out kernel-package.  It contains make-kpgk
>that compiles a kernel and puts it into a deb package.

I will have a go at both.  Further analysis indicates that the modules
are simply not being copied/written to /lib/modules/2.2.17.  That is,
there are only three that are: ppp_deflate.o, bsd_comp.o (in
/lib/../net), and zft-compressor.o (in /lib/.../misc).  There are no
other subdirectories, and modules.dep contains only those three.

Interestingly, the kernel source (i.e. in /usr/src/linux shows exactly
those three modules in /usr/src/linux/drivers/modules, and no others). 
If I attempt to insmod rtl8139.o, for example (I'm trying to set up a
home network), using /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/rtl8139.o, I get the
error message:  "couldn't find the kernel version the module was
compiled for".

Would it suffice to simply copy all the drivers to /lib/modules/2.2.17?

TIA

Cam


Cam Ellison, Ph.D., R.Psych.

[EMAIL PROTECTED]  or [EMAIL PROTECTED]

>From the lovely Sunshine Coast, where it only SEEMS to rain.



 

sound in debian

[Christopher Fonnesbeck]

I am having a hell of a time getting my SB sound card working in Debian
(2.2). I have tried loading it as a module and in the kernel, but to no
avail.  Modconf configures and installs the module without errors or
conflicts, yet any audio application complains that there is no sound
hardware available.  If I cat a soundfile to /dev/dsp, I get distorted
noise.

Here is my /dev/sndstat

fisher:/dev# more /dev/sndstat
S/Free:3.8s2++-971130
Load type: Driver loaded as a module
Kernel: Linux fisher 2.2.17 #1 Wed Sep 20 15:49:42 EDT 2000 i686
Config options: 0

Installed drivers: 

Card config: 

Audio devices:
0: Sound Blaster 16 (4.16)

Synth devices:

Midi devices:

Timers:
0: System clock

Mixers:
0: Sound Blaster


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Re: /lib/module/2.2.17/modules.dep

[Patrik Magnusson]

S&W Gilliland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I see at least four messages describing problems booting/installing 2.2
> - all seem to be related to the the subject, and no one has gotten a
> response yet.
> 
> Is it a secret, or can someone point us to something to read?
> 
> Thanks - Stewart.

Have you tried 'depmod -a'? I have 2.2.17 running, and that's
the only non-obvious thing I can remember doing.

/Patrik Magnusson

Re: FA310TX (tulip) and potato

[Gary Hennigan]

Evan DiBiase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Yes, this is the second comment I've heard to the effect of "the
> FA310TX is not worth the circuit board it's printed on." I've always
> had nothing but luck with them, and I don't particularly feel like
> purchasing a 3Com NIC and getting it shipped overnight, but that
> looks like it may be the only option.
> 
> Sadly, I've tried the latest drivers and encounter the same
> problems. ::sigh:: Looks like Outpost.com is going to get some more
> of my business tonight, unless I can get this thing to work...
> 
> Thanks for your advice, though, this isn't to say that I don't
> appreciate it :) I'd just rather not buy anything more right now :\

Well, just to offer a counterpoint, I've got 3 of these beauties. One
in a machine dual booting Win98/Debian potato and two in a PPro 200
system I use as a firewall/router/masq. One FA310TX in each system is
attached to a Netgear 8-port hub, and the second NIC in the PPro is
attached to a Cisco 675 DSL modem. I have had ZERO trouble with the
cards! Two of the cards I purchased over a year ago, and the second
card in the firewall I purchased at CompUSA a week ago. I was
expecting some trouble with the dual-NIC system but experienced
absolutely none. The second card was automatically detected by the
tulip module and I was off and running.

There's always a chance you got a bad card. Might call up their tech
support and see what they have to say.

Good luck,
Gary

Re: [SLU] How a Debian/GNU is Storm?

[Valerio Ferreira]

"Helgi Örn":
> 
> Yo Stormies, Debian's!
> 
> I'm a devoted Linux user, been experimenting with almost all of the most 
> common
> Linux distributions in several different versions. I am a great admirer of the
> Debian/GNU project and I have tried several times to configure and run
> Debian/GNU Linux 2.1 and 2.2, but without satisfying results. My default dist
> has  been SuSE for about a year now, but I always keep on running other dists
> for testing. At the moment I got Storm 2000 'Rain' installed to test it.

  Try to get the Hail release or visit www.stormix.com or
http://www.stormix.com/products/download/index_html
  This release is fantastic.

> I like it a lot so far, the installation (in text mode) was great except that 
> I
> did not have the possibility to install Lilo on the /boot partition which I
> would have wanted. And there are a few things that are not working:
> 


> * I've run pppconfig but when I run pon it says that no ppp is configured in
> the kernel, which is not true. So, I'm without Internet in Storm.

  In the Hail release you get Stormix Dialer so internet access is very
easy.

> 
> * No sound (I've got a Linux compatible Ess1371 card which is easily 
> configured
> in other dists)

  I have this sound card too, and it is working in Hail release, 
not so fine but works.


> But I still like Storm because; it's base is Debian/GNU and it got the KDE
> desktop. But what I would like to know is:
> 
> * Does Storm keep the same directory structure as Debian/GNU Linux?
> 
> * Am I running Debian/GNU when running Storm or just a cheap clone?
> 
> * Where are the Storm Linux users? The mail list doesn't seem to be that
> active.
> 
> * Where does Storm come from?
> 
> Greetings,
> Helgi Örn

   Storm linux is a based Debian 2.2 potato, easy to install and with
3 main especific programs.
   - Storm Dialer
   - SAS , Storm Administration System 2.0
   - Storm Package Manager

  Stormix come from Canada.

  Greetings,
  Valerio.

Perl

[Oliver Schoenknecht]

Hey everyone,

I did recently upgrade from Perl 5.00404 (Original debian 2.1-version)
to new 5.6 which I did compile by myself. Now I am either getting
Server Configuration Errors when accessing Perl-Scripts or error
messages related to @INC... e. g. "Can't locate neomail.conf in @INC (@INC 
contains: /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0/i686-linux /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i686-linux 
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl
/usr/local/apache/htdocs/kapa/neomail) at
/usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/neomail.pl line 31. "

Fact is that the paths are right, but how may I change the @INC (and
in which file) or how may I solve this error ?

Any help is appreciated very well :-) !

Thanks in advance !

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Re: junkbuster user-agent defaults to Mozilla 3.0 for Macintosh

[caffeine]

On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 04:06:30PM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote:
> What's with this silly junkbuster default
> 
> user-agent @
> 
> in /etc/junkbuster/config ? 
> 
> >From the manpage:
> 
> "In  Version 1.4  and later,  if user-agent  is set  to @  (at) these
> headers are sent  unchanged in cases where the  cookiefile specifies
> that  a cookie  would be  sent,  otherwise  only default  User-Agent
> header  is  sent.  That  default  is  Mozilla/3.0  (Netscape) with  an
> unremarkable Macintosh configuration." 
> 
> In other words, the user-agent  is mangled by junkbuster to be Mozilla
> 3.0 for Macintosh.  I noticed this when my friend  wanted to check her
> hotmail account on my linux box and hotmail complained about
> an old browser version (although it would probably also explain some
> problems I've had with other sites).

Setting the user-agent to "@" means that you can add hotmail.com and
hotmail.msn.com to your cookiefile, so that your user-agent can get sent
through unchanged.

> Shouldn't  this be debianized  to some  reasonable default  (like ".",
> which passes the user-agent string through unchanged), or am I missing
> something here?  -chris

With junkbuster making everybody look like they are running a Netscape 3 on a
Macintosh, nobody knows you are running Mozilla on a solaris box, or wget on a
Cray, or lynx on a hp300. You might argue that you couldn't care less if
people find out what exact browser you are using: if so, just disable the
User-Agent mangling completely. 

The are two main reasons you might want to use junkbuster:
1) reduce ads
2) privacy

If the reason you are running junkbuster is just "1", then you will probably
get annoyed by junkbuster killing cookies and telling the whole world you are
a Macintosh user. I know a lot of people use junkbuster for privacy though,
and I believe "@" as the User-Agent is still a good default.

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How to instal Xmysql on a debian system?

[Daniel Mashao]

How can I install Xmysql on a Debian system?

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Re: How to split up a mailbox

[Yannick Jestin]

Sergio Da Silva wrote:
[...]
> 2) How do I split up my mailbox into separate mails (debian-user-digest to x 
> single mail messages) ?

  Use formail. I use it to split the digest with these lines in my
~/.procmailrc:

:
*^(Resent-Sender|Resent-From|From): [EMAIL PROTECTED]
*^Subject:.*debian-(user|devel)-(digest|digest-digest) Digest.*
| formail +1 -ds >> debian

  formail belongs to the procmail package

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Re: Basic hostname question

[Keith G. Murphy]

Damon Muller wrote:
> 
> Quoth Anthony Campbell,
> > How are you supposed to form a hostname if you are not on a network but
> > just connect intermittently to an ISP?
> >
> > Unless you have a dotted quad name, some hosts reject emails.
> 
> Basically, you have to make your mails look from the outside like they
> are coming from your ISP.
> 
> How you do this depends a lot on the MTA that you are using. For qmail
> (which I use), it's merely a matter of setting the QMAILHOST and
> QMAILUSER environment variables before you send the email, which sets
> the envelope sender. I'm sure there are equally easy ways to do it using
> other MTAs, but I don't know what they are.

If you are using exim, set 'qualify_domain' in /etc/exim.conf.  If you
are still using smail, stick a domain in /etc/mailname.

Just use your ISP's domain name for these.

Re: How a Debian/GNU is Storm?

[Andrew D Dixon]

"Helgi Örn" wrote:

> * I've run pppconfig but when I run pon it says that no ppp is configured in
> the kernel, which is not true. So, I'm without Internet in Storm.
>

I installed the slink base system, which configured the ppp conection right off 
the
bat with no problems.  The potato base system would hang while installing the 
rescue
disk though.

>
> * No sound (I've got a Linux compatible Ess1371 card which is easily 
> configured
> in other dists)
>
> But I still like Storm because; it's base is Debian/GNU and it got the KDE
> desktop. But what I would like to know is:
>
> * Does Storm keep the same directory structure as Debian/GNU Linux?

I don't know for sure but what I've heard is that Storm is Debian with some gui 
tools
for install and system admin.

>
>
> * Am I running Debian/GNU when running Storm or just a cheap clone?
>
> * Where are the Storm Linux users? The mail list doesn't seem to be that
> active.

Switch to Debian.  The debian-user list is really great.

>
>
> * Where does Storm come from?
>
> Greetings,
> Helgi Örn
>
> --
>
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RE: Debian 2.2

[Anderson, Tim TL33E]

On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 08:36:23PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> Ask book store for replacement or use it as coffee coaster.

I've found that CDs unfortunately don't make good coasters.  Now I
have
a CD shaped stain on my table.  It's easier just to throw them out.
Though I have heard that microwaving them can be fun.

Just don't try snapping them in two.  I did once and was wearing an
eyepatch for the next 3 days.

tim