Re: Logcheck Question

[nate]

> uc-snmp.*61.221.73.226

er try

ucd-snmp.*61.221.73.226

put that on a blank line in logcheck.ignore

next time logcheck runs it should ignore it

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Re: Install from binary -1 iso cd [OT]

[Paul Mackinney]

ben declaimed:
> On Sunday 23 June 2002 07:36 pm, Todd Benson wrote:
> > Hi,
> > My install is bogging down when I get to the package selection phaseI
> > choose CDROM as my source, and then a brief message flashes 'kernel does
> > not support ISO9960 file system' - perhaps I don't remember the ISO number
> > right, but that's the idea. I downloaded the iso file  using jigdo. Any
> > help is greatly appreciated!
> > Todd
> 
> it's iso9660. are you booting from the cd? have you mounted the cd? is it a 
> scsi device? give us more details. the more you can elaborate in the 
> definition of the problem, the better the help you'll get. i've never used 
> jigdo. do you have a base system installed, i.e. can you boot into debian 
> already?
> 
> ben
A tangential question:

Suppose I'm booted, but not from the CD, and I _do_ have access to my
CD, and the Woody 1 CD is mount (e.g., /dev/hdc -> /cdrom)

How can I start the Woody install script without rebooting?

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Re: Logcheck Question

[nate]

> Hello List :
>
> I got some log report by logcheck, when i was installed MRTG into my
> site.
>
> Jun 24 10:30:01 axanet ucd-snmp[378]: Connection from 61.221.73.226  Jun
> 24 10:35:02 axanet ucd-snmp[378]: Connection from 61.221.73.226  Jun 24
> 10:35:02 axanet ucd-snmp[378]: Connection from 61.221.73.226  Jun 24
> 10:40:01 axanet ucd-snmp[378]: Connection from 61.221.73.226  Jun 24
> 10:40:01 axanet ucd-snmp[378]: Connection from 61.221.73.226  Jun 24
> 10:45:02 axanet ucd-snmp[378]: Connection from 61.221.73.226
>
> Later,i modify "logcheck.ignore" ...i mark keyword "in.qpopper"
>
> #in.qpopper.*: connect from
>
> BUTits NOT Working..i still got log report that MRTG issue


i am not sure what your trying to accomplish.  if your trying
to filter out the ucd-snmp stuff try this:

uc-snmp.*61.221.73.226

qpopper is a POP3 server and has nothing to do with MRTG or SNMP ...


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Re: backup all the changes I made to the "virgin debian system"

[Dan Jacobson]

Thanks Brian for the CVS tips.  But even if I were to go that route I
must still locate all the files except for in /home that I have
changed from the virgin debian system.

One interesting was is to check my .emacs ".backups", as I use
backup-dir.el, then use, you know,

#oh, this would miss them if there was only one copy, say from not
#using emacs and using ed instead
set -eu
o=/d/a_debian_dumb_root_backup$$
ls /{usr,root,etc,var}/.backups|
sed '/^\//d;s#\(.*\)!!!\(.*\)!\.~[0-9]\+~$#/\2/\1#;s#!#/#g;/\//!d'|uniq|
while read f;do test -f $f && echo $f; done|
cpio -o > $o &&
bzip2 $o

but I was thinking there might be a way say using checksums/dates from the
dpkg catalog of the files that were installed originally or something.  
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junkbuster blocklist 2-year old "update"

[Dan Jacobson]

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted to comp.os.linux.misc as well.

What's the point of /usr/share/doc/junkbuster/examples/cron.*.sample
on say debian when the http://www.waldherr.org/blocklist etc. files
are like two years old?

Where does one get fresh blocklists from?
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Re: sound card question

[Geoff Ludwiczak]

Anyways.. I heard from some other people that certain sound cards are able to
play more than one audio stream at the same time in Linux without the sound
daemons.  It seems a lot easier without one.  I tried putting in a sound
blaster live (emu10k1) before and playing more than one sound worked.
However, the emu10k1 has a rather strange bug with the volume being really
high (you can hear this incredibly annoying static).  I've noticed this in
another unix-like operating system, but in Windows, it works fine.  Anyways,
that's beside the point.  What other sound cards can do this or is there some
other alternative?

Thanks

On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 10:16:38PM -0500, Jeremy Turner wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-06-23 at 21:18, John Smith wrote:
> > Right now, I'm using a creative vibra sb16, and it's working fine.  However,
> > I can't have more than one sound playing without getting a device or 
> > resource
> > busy error.  So I'm wondering, what can I do to be able to play more than 
> > one
> > sound at the same time (without esd or other sound daemons).  I know in
> > Windows, it works fine when playing more than one sound.  Why doesn't it in
> > Linux?
> 
> If I understand it right, you need to use the sound daemons (esd, alsa,
> etc) for multiple sounds playing on one sound device.  The sound daemons
> accomplish that task.  The sound daemon is the only program accessing
> the sound device, which allows multiple sound programs to play through
> it to the device.
> 
> Windows probably does something similar on the back end.
> 
> Jeremy
> 
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Re: Freebsd from debian

[Osamu Aoki]

On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 05:32:17AM +0200, Rox de Gabba wrote:
> I'm trying to install freebsd on vmware on my woody system. I can't figure 
> out which one of the mkfs.* tools would be able to make a freebsd filesystem 
> on a seperate disk. Can anyone tell me how to make a freebsd partition on 
> linux?

Are not looking for "fdisk" or "cfdisk"?

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xmms segfaults

[Michal Zachar]

hello all

Running xmms ver 1.2.7 shows error on xconsole:
Init failed //Common/rmacore.so.6.2: cannot open shared object file:No
such file or directory.
Then xmms loads but trying to play exits with segfault message.

What stumps me is that dpkg -S rmacore*, or search for content of
packages on debian site does not turn up with any results. 

At moment I'm dist-upgrading and not all packages are yet upgraded
thoe all important are and there is no conflict or dependency problem
reported.

Anyone come up with same behavour and found solution? Where is rmacore.so
packaged? Didnt found any bugreport against xmms of this nature

TIA Michael


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Re: How stable is dual head, twin view feature ?

[tvn1981]

> - Nvidia GF2 - couldn't get the Nvidia binary drivers even to run, let
> alone try it with Xinerama.

I got it working, it just crashes and freezes X too much that I have 
to stop using it.

> - Matrox G550 - smoothest setup and nicest 2D. 3D performance somewhere
> between sucky and non-existent. Dual-head had no problems at all.

After hearing many great success with this card, I decided to get 
the Matrox G400 32MB.  I probably will need later help in configuring it.

> - Radeon 7500 - good 2D, fast 3D. Dual-head took a lot of tinkering
>  with the XF86Config-4 file to get working under X4.2, but it seems
>  stable now it's set up right.
> 
> If you want a copy of my XF86Config file to help you set up your
>  Radeon, mail me off list and I'd be glad to help.
> 

I sold this card (7000 VE) to get the Matrox400 :(  Many of my friends also say
they have no success in getting this card to work. 



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Freebsd from debian

[Rox de Gabba]

I'm trying to install freebsd on vmware on my woody system. I can't figure 
out which one of the mkfs.* tools would be able to make a freebsd filesystem 
on a seperate disk. Can anyone tell me how to make a freebsd partition on 
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Re: sound card question

[Jeremy Turner]

On Sun, 2002-06-23 at 21:18, John Smith wrote:
> Right now, I'm using a creative vibra sb16, and it's working fine.  However,
> I can't have more than one sound playing without getting a device or resource
> busy error.  So I'm wondering, what can I do to be able to play more than one
> sound at the same time (without esd or other sound daemons).  I know in
> Windows, it works fine when playing more than one sound.  Why doesn't it in
> Linux?

If I understand it right, you need to use the sound daemons (esd, alsa,
etc) for multiple sounds playing on one sound device.  The sound daemons
accomplish that task.  The sound daemon is the only program accessing
the sound device, which allows multiple sound programs to play through
it to the device.

Windows probably does something similar on the back end.

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Re: allowing telnet for only a few users?

[Eric G. Miller]

On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 09:28:32PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Eric G. Miller wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 10:38:08PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> > > Does anyone know how to set up telnetd so only a couple of users can use
> > > telnet to log in, and the rest must use some other, more secure method,
> > > such as ssh? I have a few secure guest accounts that I want to allow
> > > telnet for, while disabling it for everyone who can get to a shell.
> > 
> > Looks like pam_listfiles can do this...
> 
> That's exactly what I was looking for, but it seems that there is no way
> to make pam differentiate between login by telnet, and logins at the
> console, and other uses of /bin/login. Rats.

I haven't looked into it, but there are examples for ftpd.  So, does it
not work for telnetd?  That is, have a rule like:

telnetd   auth required pam_listfiles.so\
  onerr=fail item=user sense=allow file=/etc/telnetusers

Or is telnet not PAM aware outside of login??  I'm no PAM expert...

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Logcheck Question

[axacheng]

Hello List :

I got some log report by logcheck, when i was installed MRTG into my site.

Jun 24 10:30:01 axanet ucd-snmp[378]: Connection from 61.221.73.226 
Jun 24 10:35:02 axanet ucd-snmp[378]: Connection from 61.221.73.226 
Jun 24 10:35:02 axanet ucd-snmp[378]: Connection from 61.221.73.226 
Jun 24 10:40:01 axanet ucd-snmp[378]: Connection from 61.221.73.226 
Jun 24 10:40:01 axanet ucd-snmp[378]: Connection from 61.221.73.226 
Jun 24 10:45:02 axanet ucd-snmp[378]: Connection from 61.221.73.226 

Later,i modify "logcheck.ignore" ...i mark keyword "in.qpopper"

#in.qpopper.*: connect from

BUTits NOT Working..i still got log report that MRTG issue

Any help appriciated!  @_@


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Re: allowing telnet for only a few users?

[Joey Hess]

Kent West wrote:
> How about using something like:
> 
> in.telnetd: ALL: checkscript
> 
> with "checkscript" being a script that checks "%c" for [EMAIL PROTECTED], and 
> if 
> the check fails to match your user, the user is booted off.

I ended up with something similar, I used in.telnetd -L and wrote my own
telnetlogin program that runs the real one if it likes the username.

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Re: Install from binary -1 iso cd

[ben]

On Sunday 23 June 2002 07:36 pm, Todd Benson wrote:
> Hi,
> My install is bogging down when I get to the package selection phaseI
> choose CDROM as my source, and then a brief message flashes 'kernel does
> not support ISO9960 file system' - perhaps I don't remember the ISO number
> right, but that's the idea. I downloaded the iso file  using jigdo. Any
> help is greatly appreciated!
> Todd

it's iso9660. are you booting from the cd? have you mounted the cd? is it a 
scsi device? give us more details. the more you can elaborate in the 
definition of the problem, the better the help you'll get. i've never used 
jigdo. do you have a base system installed, i.e. can you boot into debian 
already?

ben


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Install from binary -1 iso cd

[Todd Benson]

Hi,
My install is bogging down when I get to the 
package selection phaseI choose CDROM as my source, and then a brief message 
flashes 'kernel does not support ISO9960 file system' - perhaps I don't remember 
the ISO number right, but that's the idea. I downloaded the iso file  using 
jigdo.
Any help is greatly appreciated!
Todd
 

Re: exim doesn't deliver to maildirs

[Paul Mackinney]

Christian Schoenebeck declaimed:
> > I've been trying to switch from mbox to maildir, but exim won't deliver
> > to my maildirs. Here's the relevant section of my exim.conf:
> 
> I replaced the local_delivery section by:
> 
>   local_delivery:
> driver = appendfile
> create_directory = true
> directory_mode = 700
> directory = ${home}/Maildir
> group = mail
> mode = 0660
> envelope_to_add = true
> return_path_add = true
> maildir_format
> 
> That works for me. I also found a nice perl script which converts old mbox -> 
> Maildir. Let me know if you need it.
Well this doesn't hurt at any rate, the old system of having the primary
deliver go to 

file = /var/spool/mail/${localpart}

was also working. The mbox or Maildir specified in the local_delivery
transport of exim.conf gets the mail. The problem is that my .forward
file won't file mail to Maildirs, just mboxes. A stripped down example
is:

   # Exim filter
   if error_message then
finish
   endif
   
   if $h_Subject contains "mailtest" then
   seen save $home/Maildir/test/
   else
   save $home/Maildir/inbox
   endif
   finish
   # end .forward

According to the comments in exim.conf:TRANSPORTS CONFIGURATION, it's
the address_directory transport that handles addresses generated by
.forward files. Could you send me that section?

TIA,

Paul
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Re: Why does the base-config package depend on aptitude

[Viktor Rosenfeld]

Colin Watson wrote:

> If you don't like it, you can always remove base-config; most people
> won't need it after the initial installation.

Thanks.  Of course, if I had paid more attention, I'd known this, as it
says so right in apt-cache show base-config.

I'm an idiot.  Thanks for being gentle with me.  :)

Cheers,
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[OT] Debian based web hosting (e.g. Dreamhost)

[Bill Moseley]

This is a bit OT, so feel free to reply directly instead of on-list.

Anyone know anything about Debian web hosting companies?  Dreamhost.com is
one host that I know of that offers the features I'm looking for.

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sound card question

[John Smith]

Right now, I'm using a creative vibra sb16, and it's working fine.  However,
I can't have more than one sound playing without getting a device or resource
busy error.  So I'm wondering, what can I do to be able to play more than one
sound at the same time (without esd or other sound daemons).  I know in
Windows, it works fine when playing more than one sound.  Why doesn't it in
Linux?

Thanks


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Re: allowing telnet for only a few users?

[Kent West]

Joey Hess wrote:


Eric G. Miller wrote:
 


On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 10:38:08PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
   


Does anyone know how to set up telnetd so only a couple of users can use
telnet to log in, and the rest must use some other, more secure method,
such as ssh? I have a few secure guest accounts that I want to allow
telnet for, while disabling it for everyone who can get to a shell.
 


Looks like pam_listfiles can do this...
   



That's exactly what I was looking for, but it seems that there is no way
to make pam differentiate between login by telnet, and logins at the
console, and other uses of /bin/login. Rats.

 


How about using something like:

in.telnetd: ALL: checkscript

with "checkscript" being a script that checks "%c" for [EMAIL PROTECTED], and if 
the check fails to match your user, the user is booted off.


Of course, this is with just a quick look at "man hosts_access", and 
with minimal understanding of the whole tcp wrappers stuff, so I may be 
suggesting apples based on an orange understanding.


Kent



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Re: allowing telnet for only a few users?

[Joey Hess]

Eric G. Miller wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 10:38:08PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> > Does anyone know how to set up telnetd so only a couple of users can use
> > telnet to log in, and the rest must use some other, more secure method,
> > such as ssh? I have a few secure guest accounts that I want to allow
> > telnet for, while disabling it for everyone who can get to a shell.
> 
> Looks like pam_listfiles can do this...

That's exactly what I was looking for, but it seems that there is no way
to make pam differentiate between login by telnet, and logins at the
console, and other uses of /bin/login. Rats.

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Re: How stable is dual head, twin view feature ?

[Derek Gladding]

On Saturday 22 June 2002 03:42 pm, tvn1981 wrote:
> Hello
>
> I have a Woody system (kerne 2.4.18) with XFree86 Version 4.1.0.1.  I
> also have a Radeon 7000ve with twinview, and an Nvidia gforce2 quadro
> with twinview.
>
> However, I just can't get dual monitor run well on this system. For
> the Radeon card, the twinview feature doesn't work at all,  I was
> told that it doesn't even work w/ this Radeon card even with XFree
> 4.2.x.
>
> The Nvidia card, using the latest nvidia's driver, works!  But the
> problem is X freezes so often, the whole computer just froze, I have
> to physically reboot.
>
> I like the dual monitor setting so really want to know if there's any
> setting that make this work on my system.
>
> So just wondering if it's just me that has problems with twinview
> stuff ?  Or is there any other settings that you would recommend -
> how well is Matrox G400 or Agp+PCI settings ?  they run well ?
>
>
> thanks

My experience with various "newer" cards under Linux is as follows:

- Nvidia GF2 - couldn't get the Nvidia binary drivers even to run, let
alone try it with Xinerama.

- Matrox G550 - smoothest setup and nicest 2D. 3D performance somewhere
between sucky and non-existent. Dual-head had no problems at all.

- Radeon 7500 - good 2D, fast 3D. Dual-head took a lot of tinkering
 with the XF86Config-4 file to get working under X4.2, but it seems
 stable now it's set up right.

If you want a copy of my XF86Config file to help you set up your
 Radeon, mail me off list and I'd be glad to help.

- Derek

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Re: SCSI emulation

[Peter De Wachter]

On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 08:45:57PM -0400, Reid Gilman wrote:
> Where in the kernel configuration menu would SCSI emulation be, I can't
> seem to find it.

It's somewhere between the IDE options, but it only appears if you've
enabled "SCSI support" and "SCSI generic support" in the SCSI menu.
It's rather confusing...

Mvg,
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Install to HDD only system?

[Barry Michels]




I have a Fujitsu Point 510 with only the internal 
hard drive.  How would I write a bootloader to the harddrive on another 
system with network drivers so I could get debian installed?
 
Thanks, 
Barry

SCSI emulation

[Reid Gilman]

Where in the kernel configuration menu would SCSI emulation be, I can't seem to find it.








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Re: Why does the base-config package depend on aptitude

[Colin Watson]

On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 01:37:58AM +0200, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote:
> $ apt-cache show base-config
> ...
> Depends: ..., aptitude

base-config in unstable offers users the chance to use aptitude instead
of dselect, and it would be unreasonably confusing if it then broke when
aptitude turned out not to be installed.

If you don't like it, you can always remove base-config; most people
won't need it after the initial installation.

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Why does the base-config package depend on aptitude

[Viktor Rosenfeld]

Hi there,

$ apt-cache show base-config
...
Depends: ..., aptitude

WTF?

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Seagate Travan questions

[Brian]

I am using a Seagate Travan 10 GB uncompressed tape drive to backup a
file server, (on the same machine).  Does anyone have problems with this
drive and/or the driver?  Sometimes it will return with an I/O error and
a tape is in the drive.  Another time it will work fine.  Or it may say
the resource is busy even though no processes are using it.  Also,
sometimes I try to stop the backup process because it is not doing
anything and the process won't die.  I read that sometimes if a driver
gets an I/O error then the process can't be killed and only rebooting
the machine will get rid of the process.  Is this untrue about not able
to kill a process?  What about the tape drive though?  It does seem to
respond better after a reboot.  Has anyone had trouble with this drive
or driver?

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Re: my guess as to where to put the dialup iptables rules

[Dan Jacobson]

> "m" == marshal  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

m> One thing that you could do, since you've installed iptables, is setup
m> all the chains manually.  Then run (as root)

m> /etc/init.d/iptables save active

m> And if you always want them to be the same

m> /etc/init.d/iptables save inactive.

m> This will save the chains so that they start up everytime that you
m> boot the computer and turn off the computer (respectively.).  Of
m> course, that's if you have the /etc/rc?.d/ directories setup for it.

m> Look at /etc/default/iptables for more info.

Yes, and that's where he says not to use that "state saving" way, an
instead use a more traditional rc file approach that i feel is cleaner
too.  there he tosses about several alternatives, from which I guessed
/etc/network/if-pre-up.d/... as according to ls -lt it indeed gets
read at boot. 

m> Good Luck.

indeed.  We will see at next boot.  Maybe I will lock myself out of
the keyboard, to y'all's relief.

> "Dan" == Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Dan> Regarding Rusty's Really Quick Guide To Packet Filtering
Dan> /usr/share/doc/iptables/html/packet-filtering-HOWTO.html#toc5
Dan> where are we supposed to put that?
Dan> /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/somefile I suppose.

Dan> If you tell me to put it in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d I will tell you
Dan> that it only needs to be run once...
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noffle user must be "news"

[Dan Jacobson]

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted to news.software.readers as well.

Noffle: I don't think I've met any command like it, one must run it as
user "news" or else you either can't display any info
$ noffle -l
Cannot open /var/spool/noffle/lock/global (Permission denied)
Could not get write lock

or using root you will get permission problems later.
And these are well known problems.
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Re: dns setup with domain name

[Donald R. Spoon]

Mike Egglestone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


Hi,
I wondering if I can setup a dns server on my home network
even though I don't have a registered domain name?
Is this possible?

I guess all I would need to do is install bind or something?
Any help would be appreciated!!

Thanks
Mike


Yes.  I did that here a 2-3 years ago.  I found the "DNS HOWTO" at: 
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/DNS-HOWTO.html to be quite helpful.  It 
provided a good tutorial as well as a reasonable guide to setting it up. 
 It shows quite a few "newbie mistakes" or "gotchas" in setting up the 
appropriate config files.  The version of the HOWTO I used was older 
than the current version, so YMMV.  I really havn't looked at the 
current version of the HOWTO, but it appears to have been revised fairly 
recently & probably is "up-to-date".


Cheers,
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Re: automatic poweroff

[Patrick Wiseman]

On Sun, 23 Jun 2002, Patrick M wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 04:55:34PM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
> > On Sun, 23 Jun 2002, Patrick M wrote:

[...]

> > Are you saying that pressing and briefly holding the power button
> > _doesn't_ initiate a shutdown?
> 
> Yes, I'm saying that pressing the power button for a short moment has
> no visible effect on the machine / os. Keeping it pressed for a
> certain moment (>4sec?) powers down the machine instantly.

In other words, it's not shutting down cleanly, so it's not actually doing
'/sbin/init 0'.

> > Does 'ls /proc/acpi' show all the appropriate files?
> > 
> > Here's what I see:
> > 
> > ac_adapter  battery  dsdt   gpe   processor  thermal
> > alarm   button   event  info  sleep
> > 
> > (Some of those are directories.)
> 
> Heres what I get:
> 
> $ ls /proc/acpi/
> alarm  button  dsdt  event  gpe  info  processor  sleep
> 
> Could it be that I'm missing a single script which would be called
> once all processes are stopped? Do you have a /etc/acpi/poweroff.sh
> script?

No, I have the very same powerbtn.sh as you, and it's called when I
initiate the power-button 'event'.

At this point, I'm not sure what to suggest.  I don't remember (this has
been going on for a while :) whether you indicated what kind of machine
we're talking about.  Is there a BIOS setting not set?  You _do_ have an
ACPI-compliant BIOS?  I know, I'm just grasping at straws at this point.

Sorry,

Patrick

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Re: package lists or status file unreadable

[Geordie Birch]

said Christian Schoenebeck (on 2002-06-23),

> > Reading Package Lists... Error!
> > E: Problem parsing dependency Depends
> > E: Error occured while processing rio500 (NewVersion1)
> > E: Problem with MergeList
>
> Try
>
>   dselect --update

I tried 'dselect update' with the same results as before.

I managed to fix whatever the problem was by changing my apt
sources, running 'apt-get update', which worked fine.  I then changed the
apt sources back, and ran apt-get update again.

Thanks,

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Re: automatic poweroff

[Patrick M]

Yes, acpid is running.
Still, good call! ;)
Thanks,

PM, 22

On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 02:35:52PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote:
> * Patrick M ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020622 22:00]:
> > My machine wont power off when shut down from Linux. Yet, it will do
> > so properly when shut done from Windows.
> > 
> > I tried 2 things:
> > 
> > 1- I insmoded APM module, ran apmd, and gave "apm=on" parameter to
> > the kernel.
> > 
> > 2- I compiled a new kernel with ACPI enabled.
> > 
> > None of them work. I went through the list archives and asked the
> > folks on #debian irc channel. My motherboard is an Asus CUV4x (fully
> > ACPI compliant).
> > 
> > You guys have any ideas?
> 
> Well, I read through the rest of the thread so far and didn't see any
> mention of it, so maybe it's something as simple as 
> 
> # apt-get install acpid
> 
> ?
> 
> good times,
> Vineet
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Re: automatic poweroff

[Patrick M]

Patrick,

On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 04:55:34PM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Jun 2002, Patrick M wrote:
> 
> > > > 2- I compiled a new kernel with ACPI enabled.
> > > 
> > > What happens, when you press the Power button for a short time? Do you
> > > see kernel messages then?
> > 
> > With full ACPI support, pressing the power button for a short time
> > doesnt give me any kernel message. But could that event be handled
> > differently by the scripts located in /etc/acpi/ ?
> 
> [...]
> 
> > $ cat /etc/acpi/powerbtn.sh 
> > #!/bin/sh
> > # /etc/acpi/poweroff.sh
> > # Initiates a shutdown when the power putton has been
> > # pressed.
> > /sbin/init 0
> 
> Are you saying that pressing and briefly holding the power button
> _doesn't_ initiate a shutdown?

Yes, I'm saying that pressing the power button for a short moment has
no visible effect on the machine / os. Keeping it pressed for a
certain moment (>4sec?) powers down the machine instantly.

> 
> Does 'ls /proc/acpi' show all the appropriate files?
> 
> Here's what I see:
> 
> ac_adapter  battery  dsdt   gpe   processor  thermal
> alarm   button   event  info  sleep
> 
> (Some of those are directories.)

Heres what I get:

$ ls /proc/acpi/
alarm  button  dsdt  event  gpe  info  processor  sleep

Could it be that I'm missing a single script which would be called
once all processes are stopped? Do you have a /etc/acpi/poweroff.sh
script?

Thanks again,



PM, 22


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Re: man or info?

[W. Paul Mills]

Good discussion! Learned something!

Thanks,
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Need tips tricks on installing & configureing onshore-timesheet

[John Foster]

I just installed onshore timesheet to my Debian woody server. It seemed
to go OK but as there is no debconf templates for the install I am not
sure whether it is set up correctly. What I have done so far is:
Installed using dselect.
added Include /etc/apache/onshore-timesheet.conf  to my httpd.conf file
added 
"
Options SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
AllowOverride All
"
to httpd.conf as instructed at installation

restarted the apache server
tried http://www.myservername/onshore-timesheet/index.html
results presented with secure login
attempted to login with admin with password admin which failed

I do not have a clue where to go from hereAny ideas are appreciated.

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Re: `which` and infinite recursion

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* Bob Proulx ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020623 14:19]:
> You were using /bin/ash not /bin/sh.  I know nothing about ash, please

Well, you're not going to find the "real" /bin/sh Free anywhere, so
that's about as close as it gets.

> educate me.  Is ash ever a possible /bin/sh?  Does ash claim POSIX
> shell syntax compliance?

Yes, ash is POSIX compliant, and debconf asks if you would like ash to
be installed as /bin/sh when you install it.

good times,
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Re: automatic poweroff

[Vineet Kumar]

* Patrick M ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020622 22:00]:
> My machine wont power off when shut down from Linux. Yet, it will do
> so properly when shut done from Windows.
> 
> I tried 2 things:
> 
> 1- I insmoded APM module, ran apmd, and gave "apm=on" parameter to
> the kernel.
> 
> 2- I compiled a new kernel with ACPI enabled.
> 
> None of them work. I went through the list archives and asked the
> folks on #debian irc channel. My motherboard is an Asus CUV4x (fully
> ACPI compliant).
> 
> You guys have any ideas?

Well, I read through the rest of the thread so far and didn't see any
mention of it, so maybe it's something as simple as 

# apt-get install acpid

?

good times,
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Re: `which` and infinite recursion

[John Hasler]

Bob writes:
> Is ash ever a possible /bin/sh?

Yes.  Scripts that start with #! /bin/sh and fail when /bin/sh points to ash
are broken.

> Does ash claim POSIX shell syntax compliance?

ash is about as POSIX as it gets.
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Re: `which` and infinite recursion

[Bob Proulx]

> > I would probably file a bug against which that it should use #!/bin/sh
> > instead of #!/bin/bash.
> 
> Ah, that would be a bad idea unless it's also rewritten:
> 
>   $ ash /usr/bin/which gcc
>   enable: not found
>   -p: not found
>   gcc is /usr/bin/gcc
> 
> ('enable' and 'type -p' are bashisms.)

But of course.  But that does not mean that #!/bin/bash is the best
thing to start off system scripts with either.

You were using /bin/ash not /bin/sh.  I know nothing about ash, please
educate me.  Is ash ever a possible /bin/sh?  Does ash claim POSIX
shell syntax compliance?

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Re: hdd change

[Eric G. Miller]

On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 01:26:15PM -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Patrick M wrote:
> 
> > Is there a reason for using 'tar' instead of 'cp'?
> 
> It preserves ownership and symbolic links, for one thing (or 2).

The GNU cp command does those... "cp -a".  Other "cp" variants
maybe don't...

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Re: package lists or status file unreadable

[Christian Schoenebeck]

> Reading Package Lists... Error!
> E: Problem parsing dependency Depends
> E: Error occured while processing rio500 (NewVersion1)
> E: Problem with MergeList

Try

dselect --update

Regards,

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Re: automatic poweroff

[Patrick Wiseman]

On Sun, 23 Jun 2002, Patrick M wrote:

> > > 2- I compiled a new kernel with ACPI enabled.
> > 
> > What happens, when you press the Power button for a short time? Do you
> > see kernel messages then?
> 
> With full ACPI support, pressing the power button for a short time
> doesnt give me any kernel message. But could that event be handled
> differently by the scripts located in /etc/acpi/ ?

[...]

> $ cat /etc/acpi/powerbtn.sh 
> #!/bin/sh
> # /etc/acpi/poweroff.sh
> # Initiates a shutdown when the power putton has been
> # pressed.
> /sbin/init 0

Are you saying that pressing and briefly holding the power button
_doesn't_ initiate a shutdown?

Does 'ls /proc/acpi' show all the appropriate files?

Here's what I see:

ac_adapter  battery  dsdt   gpe   processor  thermal
alarm   button   event  info  sleep

(Some of those are directories.)

Patrick

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Re: automatic poweroff

[Patrick M]

Eduard,

On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 08:41:41AM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> #include 
> Patrick M wrote on Sun Jun 23, 2002 um 01:00:36AM:
> 
> > I tried 2 things:
> 
> First: when you use ACPI kernel, enable ACPI in BIOS. When you use APM
> kernel, enable APM.

I tried both seperatly.

> 
> > 1- I insmoded APM module, ran apmd, and gave "apm=on" parameter to
> > the kernel.
> 
> You may have one of those weird boards that need the
> CONFIG_APM_REAL_MODE_POWER_OFF switch in the kernel setup.

As suggested also by 'Neal', I just tried it... unsuccesfully...

> 
> > 2- I compiled a new kernel with ACPI enabled.
> 
> What happens, when you press the Power button for a short time? Do you
> see kernel messages then?

With full ACPI support, pressing the power button for a short time doesnt give 
me any kernel message. But could that event be handled differently by the 
scripts located in /etc/acpi/ ?

Once again, here they are:

$ cat /etc/acpi/events/powerbtn
#...
event=button[ /]power
action=/etc/acpi/powerbtn.sh

$ cat /etc/acpi/powerbtn.sh 
#!/bin/sh
# /etc/acpi/poweroff.sh
# Initiates a shutdown when the power putton has been
# pressed.
/sbin/init 0

The file /etc/acpi/poweroff.sh doesnt exist...

We're getting there, I can feel it!! :)
Thanks again for your help,


PM, 22

> 
> Gruss/Regards,
> Eduard. 
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Toshiba Tecra 8000

[Klaus Rechert]

Hi


can anyone tell me which apm/acpi features work on my tecra 8000.

i tried it with all kernel features selected, but sometimes i had kernel-panic.


thanks

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Re: How stable is dual head... Matrox G400

[Paul Mackinney]

Sean 'Shaleh' Perry declaimed:
> >> 
> >> I use a dual head matrox card every day.
> >> 
> > I use a Matrox G400 AGP, works great with the blackbox window manager 
> > which I have to plug with Sean on the thread. I run the CVS build of 
> > blackbox, running a seperate server on each display which I like better 
> > than xinerama since my displays aren't a matched set.
> > 
> 
> thanks
> 
> > 
> > Gotchas:
> > - Took me a long time to get it running, solution was to download and
> >   install the drivers from the Matrox website. There are very good
> >   dual-head XF86Config-4 examples out there.
> > 
> 
> I am using a single dual head card with the stock drivers in Debian.
> 
Very interesting. My second display never showed other than solid
black under X without the Matrox drivers. For future archive searchers, 
the name of the package I downloaded from Matrox is

mgadrivers-2.0.tgz

Which installed the files

/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/mga_drv.o
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/mga_hal_drv.o

I also checked out Matrox's Linux version of MGA Power Desk 1.0 b8,
which is a gui tool for setting up your displays. It defaults to
enabling Xinerama and had some bugs (swapped my displays left-to-right)
and limitations (sets both displays to same resolution). But for beta
software it wasn't bad, and it did create a dual-head XF86Config-4 file 
with examples of useful settings that ran both heads. 

Someone starting with this tool could probably get things working to
their satifsaction with a modest amount of editing. Very nice to see
Matrox working on this.

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Re: SCSI emulation with GRUB

[Neal]

On Sun, 2002-06-23 at 15:46, Max Moritz Sievers wrote:
> Hello,
> I want to emulate SCSI for my IDE-CD-burner.
> I compiled Linux with SCSI support for CD-ROMs and generic devices an I 
> enabled SCSI emulation.
> I read that I have to add
> »append="hdx=ide-scsi hdy=ide-scsi"«
> to  /etc/lilo.conf  in »Start Lilo global Section«.
> But I use GRUB so I edited my /boot/grub/menu.lst in this way:
> »kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.20 root=/dev/hdc5 append="hda=ide-scsi 
> hdb=ide-scsi"« (in one line)
> But after rebooting I have no (real) SCSI emulation:
> bert:~#cat /var/log/kern.log
> Jun 23 21:17:50 bert kernel: hda: PLEXTOR CD-R PX-W4012A, ATAPI CDROM drive
> Jun 23 21:17:50 bert kernel: hdb: _NEC DV-5800B, ATAPI CDROM drive
> Jun 23 21:17:50 bert kernel: hda: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 4096kB Cache
> Jun 23 21:17:50 bert kernel: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.11
> Jun 23 21:17:50 bert kernel: hdb: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache
> Jun 23 21:17:50 bert kernel: scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE 
> ATAPI devices
> Jun 23 21:17:50 bert kernel: scsi : 1 host.
> Jun 23 21:17:50 bert kernel: scsi : detected total.
> 
> How can I enable SCSI emulation with GRUB?
> 
Max,
Neither append nor quotes are not used with grub.  Just use hdx=ide-scsi
after root=/dev/hdx.
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Re: eepic.sty amssymb.sty?

[Luiz Gadelha Jr.]

Are you using woody?

Jerome BENOIT wrote:


Strange I have them
and I have installed the same package.

Anyhow you can download them from a CTAN site:

http://tex.loria.fr/index.html


Luiz Gadelha Jr. wrote:


Hi,

I can't find the files eepic.sty and amssymb.sty in my system
I have installed tetex-base, tetex-bin and tetex-extra packages,
in previous installations of Debian this seemed enough for me.
Can anyone point me to the set of packages I should install?

Thanks in advance,

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Re: dns setup with domain name

[Matthew Sackman]

On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 12:40:18PM -0700, Mike Egglestone wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I wondering if I can setup a dns server on my home network
> even though I don't have a registered domain name?
> Is this possible?
> 
> I guess all I would need to do is install bind or something?
> Any help would be appreciated!!

Yes, just because you don't have a domain name doesn't mean that you
can't set up a DNS system for your home network. I've done this, a lot
of people have. I even worked with company intranets where they're
working on 'illegal' domain names but as it's internal only, it doesn't
matter.

BIND doesn't care less whether you own the domain name or not. Just so
long as it's not going to come across another DNS server that thinks
someone else other than you owns it. For that reason it's a good idea
(TM) to use an illegal domain name internally (i.e. without a valid
extension, so not a .com .co.uk .info .biz etc etc. I just use 'namkas'
here and bind really doesn't mind).

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Re: makepasswd: naive question

[Matthew Sackman]

> Tom Zych wrote:
> > Jerome BENOIT wrote:
> >
> >
> >>We can generate encrypted passwords with `makepasswd',
> >>but how can we decrypt them ?
> >
> > You can't. It's a one-way trapdoor function. Wouldn't be much point
> > in using it otherwise.
> >
> I guess that I missed something:
> I want to protect some ZiP floppy with passwords generated by makepassd,
> and maintain a list of ZiP encrypted passwords as root:
> I guess that I have to decrypt the passwords to use them
> in view to unprotect my ZiP floppies.
> Can we do that ?

Well yes. That kind of encryption has to use a symmetric encryption
algorithm (ie one that can be undone!). There are kernel patches
available to encrypt filesystems. I'm sure that there are otherways of
doing this too.

makepasswd simply generates memorable random passwords. For a normal
useraccount, what happens is that the password is taken, repeated a
number of times, and then an md5sum is taken and stored in /etc/shadow.

When you enter your password to log in, the password is repeated and the
md5sum found and then the two are compared. The point is that
(theoretically) there is no way of going from the md5sum back to the
password. Therefore you can distribute your /etc/shadow file and be
happy that no one can use an algorithm to go from the md5sum back to
your password. Of course, brute force solutions exist! ;-)

For encryption, the password acts as a key which works with the
algoritm employed (tripleDES, blowfish, SHA1, RSA, etc etc) to either
encrypt or decrypt the data as required. Think of it as the algorithm is
the filing cabinet and your password is the key to the filing cabinet:
only with the key can you get inside and read the data.

As for how to actually do this, I've no idea! I am aware that there are
kernel patches available, and some dists have the default kernels with
the patches compiled in. Debian does not so you will need to role your
own kernel (a good idea anyway). There's most likely a HOWTO available,
so find it with google and read! :-)

Good luck

Matthew

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Re: dns setup with domain name

[martin f krafft]

also sprach Mike Egglestone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.06.23.2140 +0200]:
> I wondering if I can setup a dns server on my home network
> even though I don't have a registered domain name?
> Is this possible?

yes. use something like egglestone.home as the domain name. you could
use egglestone.com, but be aware it's taken and you won't be able to
communicate with these domain names if you use it at home. you are
hardly going to break things for others in setting up DNS for
yourself.

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SCSI emulation with GRUB

[Max Moritz Sievers]

Hello,
I want to emulate SCSI for my IDE-CD-burner.
I compiled Linux with SCSI support for CD-ROMs and generic devices an I 
enabled SCSI emulation.
I read that I have to add
»append="hdx=ide-scsi hdy=ide-scsi"«
to  /etc/lilo.conf  in »Start Lilo global Section«.
But I use GRUB so I edited my /boot/grub/menu.lst in this way:
»kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.20 root=/dev/hdc5 append="hda=ide-scsi 
hdb=ide-scsi"« (in one line)
But after rebooting I have no (real) SCSI emulation:
bert:~#cat /var/log/kern.log
Jun 23 21:17:50 bert kernel: hda: PLEXTOR CD-R PX-W4012A, ATAPI CDROM drive
Jun 23 21:17:50 bert kernel: hdb: _NEC DV-5800B, ATAPI CDROM drive
Jun 23 21:17:50 bert kernel: hda: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 4096kB Cache
Jun 23 21:17:50 bert kernel: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.11
Jun 23 21:17:50 bert kernel: hdb: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache
Jun 23 21:17:50 bert kernel: scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE 
ATAPI devices
Jun 23 21:17:50 bert kernel: scsi : 1 host.
Jun 23 21:17:50 bert kernel: scsi : detected total.

How can I enable SCSI emulation with GRUB?

With regards,
Max Moritz Sievers


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Re: eepic.sty amssymb.sty?

[Jerome BENOIT]

Strange I have them
and I have installed the same package.

Anyhow you can download them from a CTAN site:

http://tex.loria.fr/index.html


Luiz Gadelha Jr. wrote:

Hi,

I can't find the files eepic.sty and amssymb.sty in my system
I have installed tetex-base, tetex-bin and tetex-extra packages,
in previous installations of Debian this seemed enough for me.
Can anyone point me to the set of packages I should install?

Thanks in advance,

Luiz Gadelha Jr.


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dns setup with domain name

[Mike Egglestone]

Hi,
I wondering if I can setup a dns server on my home network
even though I don't have a registered domain name?
Is this possible?

I guess all I would need to do is install bind or something?
Any help would be appreciated!!

Thanks
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eepic.sty amssymb.sty?

[Luiz Gadelha Jr.]

Hi,

I can't find the files eepic.sty and amssymb.sty in my system
I have installed tetex-base, tetex-bin and tetex-extra packages,
in previous installations of Debian this seemed enough for me.
Can anyone point me to the set of packages I should install?

Thanks in advance,

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upgrade to woody failed; debconf can't configure [was: Re: Help?]

[Jerome Acks Jr]

On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 03:10:06PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip]
> 
> Setting up debconf (1.0.32) ...
> 
> perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
> 
> perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
> 
>   LANGUAGE = "C",
> 
>   LC_ALL = (unset),
> 
>   LANG = "en_US"
> 
> are supported and installed on your system.
> 
> perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
After fixing debconf problem, you can fix the above by:
apt-get install localeconf
dpkg-reconfigure locales

> 
> Can't locate Debconf/Db.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
   ^---^
   This directory/file should be in /usr/share/perl5. 
Check contents of /usr/share/perl5 to verify that the files are indeed
missing. If they are missing, try forcing a reinstall of debconf. 
   
> /usr/local/lib/perl/5.6.1 /usr/local/share/perl/5.6.1 /usr/lib/perl5
> /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.6.1 /usr/share/perl/5.6.1
> /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at /usr/share/debconf/transition_db.pl line 5.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/debconf/transition_db.pl
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Re: automatic poweroff

[Neal]

On Sun, 2002-06-23 at 13:03, Mark Lanett wrote:
> Try apm=on,power_off=1
> 
> ~mark
> 
> - Original Message - 
> From: "Osamu Aoki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "debian-user" 
> Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2002 10:13 PM
> Subject: Re: automatic poweroff
> 
> 
> > 
> > On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 01:00:36AM -0400, Patrick M wrote:
> > > My machine wont power off when shut down from Linux. Yet, it will do
> > > so properly when shut done from Windows.
> > > 
> > > I tried 2 things:
> > > 
> > > 1- I insmoded APM module, ran apmd, and gave "apm=on" parameter to
> > > the kernel.
> 

I just got mine working moments ago.  My Abit KT7 motherboard is fussy.
Under "General Setup":
Power Management Support = y
ACPI support = n
Advanced Power Management BIOS support = y
Use real mode bios call to power off = y

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Re: KDE3 link?

[Helgi Örn]

On Sun, 2002-06-23 at 17:36, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote:
> 
> See http://calc.cx/kde.txt. Haven't tried that out yet.
> 
Thank's. I'll see if I dare take the step...:-)

Cheers,
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Re: man or info?

[Osamu Aoki]

On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 03:04:42AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 02:45:39PM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> > Osamu Aoki writes:
> > > Another one is information on "libc".  "apropos libc" does not offer good
> > > pointer to "libc" in manual page.
> > 
> > File a bug.
> 
> On what? Do you mean that there should be some kind of summary man page
> for libc pointing to more useful sources of information? (Actually, the
> man pages for each individual libc function tend to be useful enough.)

I was initially thinking manual page similar to the one I see for PERL.

NAME
   perl - Practical Extraction and Report Language

SYNOPSIS
   perl [ -sTuU ] [ -hv ] [ -V[:configvar] ]
...
   For ease of access, the Perl manual has been split up into
   several sections:

   perlPerl overview (this section)
   perlfaq Perl frequently asked questions
...

Manual page in section 3 is good if you need details but there is no
simple overview.  Most GNU novice like me will not be aware of all the
POSIX and GNU extension function names. 

I understand now that libc6/glibc is too big to do this but simple man
page asking to read info may be nice thing for libc,libc6, and glibc.
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Re: automatic poweroff

[Patrick M]

Indeed, I had not compiled ACPI support with _all_ ACPI options. I
therefore compiled a new kernel with all options selected.

I now notice that:

- Hitting the power button for less than 4 secs wont do anything.
- Hitting the power button for more than 4 secs will poweroff the
machine immediately (poor fs of mine! ;-)
- 'poweroff -p' doesnt poweroff the machine, but gives me, as the last
line on my screen: "hwsleep-0178 [02] Acpi_enter_sleep_state: Entering
S5". At that moment, ctrl-alt-delete wont respond.


Here are the two files in /etc/acpi directory:

===
$ cat /etc/acpi/events/powerbtn 
# /etc/acpid/events/powerbtn
# This is called when the user presses the power button and calls
# /etc/acpid/powerbtn.sh for further processing.

# Optionally you can specify the placeholder %e. It will pass
# through the whole kernel event message to the program you've
# specified.

# We need to react on "button power.*" and "button/power.*" because
# of kernel changes.

event=button[ /]power
action=/etc/acpi/powerbtn.sh
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /etc/acpi/events/powerbtn 
===


===
$ cat /etc/acpi/powerbtn.sh 
#!/bin/sh
# /etc/acpi/poweroff.sh
# Initiates a shutdown when the power putton has been
# pressed.

/sbin/init 0
===


Thanks again for your help.


PM, 22

On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 11:41:33AM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Jun 2002, Patrick M wrote:
> 
> > My machine wont power off when shut down from Linux. Yet, it will do
> > so properly when shut done from Windows.
> 
> [...]
> 
> > 2- I compiled a new kernel with ACPI enabled.
> 
> You need to compile the kernel with _all_ ACPI options enabled (I only say
> that because I neglected to do that the first time and thought I'd
> enabled ACPI :) and then you need to install acpid which provides some
> utilities which actually talk ACPI with the kernel.
> 
> I now, after exiting X gracefully, just hit the power switch and power
> down cleanly.
> 
> Patrick
> 
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Re: poppassd

[martin f krafft]

also sprach Micah Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.10.0127 +0100]:
> Potato has 1.2-14 as its latest for poppasswd... I agree that
> v1.8-ceti would be a better solution, especially considering the
> security issues you cited. What does it take to get this version into
> the security updates? A bug filed?

i've been forced to ignore this for a long time, but now that i look
back: the newest poppassd is 1.8.1-1 in woody. can someone tell me if
this now supports PAM straight through? does anyone know what happens
if PAM uses libcrack and decides to refuse a password because it's
a dictionary word?

thanks,

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Re: SIIG SCSI Card

[Greg C. Madden]

On Sat, 2002-06-22 at 19:37, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I just recenctly purchased a SIIG Fast SCSI Pro (PCI) card.  It claims it has
> Linux support, in the manual and on SIIG's website.  Apparently either 
> Advansys
> or Initio chipsets are used in these cards.  Trying to install the kernel
> module for either of these SCSI chipsets has been unsuccessful.
> 
> Is there any particular paramter I should be entering along with the
> installation of the module?  So far any parameters seem to result in an error.
> 
> Is it possible that the plain vanilla kernel (2.4.17-K6II) may not actually be
> set up with either of these relevant modules linked into the kernel, therefore
> requiring me to do a kernel configure & compile?

Browse '/lib/modules/2.4.17-K6II/kernel/drivers/scsi' & have a look at
what modules are available. The SIIG cards have various (meaningless)
numbers on them, and the web site is't mush help, that said the SIIG
AP-40 (UW) uses the advansys module.
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Re: :plugger" Plug In for Galeon?

[Harold Bibik]

On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 12:20:20PM -0400, stan wrote something like this:

> I was tyring to look at a site refernced from Slashdot, that needs a
> quicktime plugin. I'm using Galeon, so I folowed the "download plugin"
> link. Yhis took me to this site: 
> 
> http://fredrik.hubbe.net/plugger.html
> 
> I downloaded the tar file & rna make install as root, but, when I wnet to
> the test page it still claimed to have no plugin for quicktime.
> 
> How should I make this work with mt "testing" system? Or is there a better
> Debian way to deal with quicktime?

Plugger is just a wrapper that calls other programs to handle the
multimedia stuff...so you'll need to have a working version of Xanim
or mplayer or one of the others installed to have plugger working.

The problem is that there is no Linux program to view quicktime
movies...due to Apple licensing, etc...

I have come across something called OpenQuicktime, but know nothing
about it

http://openquicktime.sourceforge.net/


I've used and am using Crossover Plugin which lets you install
windows versions of the Quicktime viewer, RealPlayer and Windows
Media Player (and a lot more). It uses Wine to fool the windows stuff
into thinking it's actually running under Windows. It's very easy to
install.  The Crossover Plugin  you will need to purchase though 
there is a demo version available at:

http://www.codeweavers.com

I'm not sure that's "the debian" way but it allows me to view the odd
quicktime or windows media file under linux.



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Re: automatic poweroff

[Patrick M]

Tried it, didnt work.
Thanks for your help!

PM, 22

On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 10:03:26AM -0700, Mark Lanett wrote:
> Try apm=on,power_off=1
> 
> ~mark
> 
> - Original Message - 
> From: "Osamu Aoki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "debian-user" 
> Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2002 10:13 PM
> Subject: Re: automatic poweroff
> 
> 
> > 
> > On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 01:00:36AM -0400, Patrick M wrote:
> > > My machine wont power off when shut down from Linux. Yet, it will do
> > > so properly when shut done from Windows.
> > > 
> > > I tried 2 things:
> > > 
> > > 1- I insmoded APM module, ran apmd, and gave "apm=on" parameter to
> > > the kernel.
> 
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Re: CD writing for non root users

[Damian Sweeney]

Reid Gilman wrote:

Whenever I try to start an X program from an xterm it always says 
"connection refused to :0.0" anyone know why? 


I presume you're trying to run these programs as root?  In that case 
your problem is that the ~/.Xauthority file of the user you logged in as 
has the magic for launching X clients.  A quick workaround if you are 
the only root user on your system is to link root's .Xauthority file to 
yours.


[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ln -s /home/username/.Xauthority /root/.Xauthority

hth,

Damian.


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Re: automatic poweroff

[Mark Lanett]

Try apm=on,power_off=1

~mark

- Original Message - 
From: "Osamu Aoki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "debian-user" 
Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2002 10:13 PM
Subject: Re: automatic poweroff


> 
> On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 01:00:36AM -0400, Patrick M wrote:
> > My machine wont power off when shut down from Linux. Yet, it will do
> > so properly when shut done from Windows.
> > 
> > I tried 2 things:
> > 
> > 1- I insmoded APM module, ran apmd, and gave "apm=on" parameter to
> > the kernel.


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Re: CD writing for non root users

[Reid Gilman]

Whenever I try to start an X program from an xterm it always says "connection refused to :0.0" anyone know why?




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Re: CD writing for non root users

[Josef Oswald]

Balazs Javor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Hi,
>
> What's the best/recommended way to be able to write CDs
> without requiring to be root?

Xcdroast lets you burn CD as user 
http://www.xcdroast.org/
there is also a deb-package too 

>
> Many thanks for your help in advance!
> best regards,
> Balazs

 
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Re: ghost scsi ?

[Patrick Wiseman]

On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. wrote:

> I don't have any scsi on the machine. Why is linux still looking for a
> scsi card.

Is SCSI support enabled in your kernel?  Unless you've built your own, I'd
bet it's in the default kernel.

Patrick

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:pluger" Plug In for Galeon?

[stan]

I was tyring to look at a site refernced from Slashdot, that needs a
quicktime plugin. I'm using Galeon, so I folowed the "download plugin"
link. Yhis took me to this site: 

http://fredrik.hubbe.net/plugger.html

I downloaded the tar file & rna make install as root, but, when I wnet to
the test page it still claimed to have no plugin for quicktime.

How should I make this work with mt "testing" system? Or is there a better
Debian way to deal with quicktime?


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Re: Sound Blaster Live Problems

[Reid Gilman]

I tried that but it still gives me the same error (init_module: no such device).



On Sun, 2002-06-23 at 11:53, Sebastiaan wrote:

High,

On 23 Jun 2002, Reid Gilman wrote:

> I'm having trouble setting up my Sound Blaster Live card.  I have kernel
> 2.4.18 and it is compiled with sound as a module.  I load the soundcore
> module and then when I try to load the emu10k1 module it says
> "init_module: no such device."  I'm not sure why this happens.  Any
> advice?
>
have you also loaded the sound.o and ac97_codec.o too? Everything should
go automatically with 'modprobe emu10k1' in stead of insmodding every
module induvidially.

emu10k152416   1
ac97_codec  9344   0 [emu10k1]
sound  52716   0 [emu10k1]
soundcore   3556   7 [emu10k1 sound]

Greetz,
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Re: How stable is dual head, twin view feature ?

[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry]

>> 
>> I use a dual head matrox card every day.
>> 
> I use a Matrox G400 AGP, works great with the blackbox window manager 
> which I have to plug with Sean on the thread. I run the CVS build of 
> blackbox, running a seperate server on each display which I like better 
> than xinerama since my displays aren't a matched set.
> 

thanks

> 
> Gotchas:
> - Took me a long time to get it running, solution was to download and
>   install the drivers from the Matrox website. There are very good
>   dual-head XF86Config-4 examples out there.
> 

I am using a single dual head card with the stock drivers in Debian.


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Re: Sound Blaster Live Problems

[Sebastiaan]

High,

On 23 Jun 2002, Reid Gilman wrote:

> I'm having trouble setting up my Sound Blaster Live card.  I have kernel
> 2.4.18 and it is compiled with sound as a module.  I load the soundcore
> module and then when I try to load the emu10k1 module it says
> "init_module: no such device."  I'm not sure why this happens.  Any
> advice?
>
have you also loaded the sound.o and ac97_codec.o too? Everything should
go automatically with 'modprobe emu10k1' in stead of insmodding every
module induvidially.

emu10k152416   1
ac97_codec  9344   0 [emu10k1]
sound  52716   0 [emu10k1]
soundcore   3556   7 [emu10k1 sound]

Greetz,
Sebastiaan




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Re: makepasswd: naive question

[Osamu Aoki]

On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 05:52:50PM +0300, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
> I want to protect some ZiP floppy with passwords generated by
> makepassd, and maintain a list of ZiP encrypted passwords as root: I
> guess that I have to decrypt the passwords to use them in view to
> unprotect my ZiP floppies.  Can we do that ?

I assume you are talking protecting file contents in removable media
such as IOmega ZIP DRIVE and FLOPPY disk by encryption.

Yes.  Several ways to do it.

1.  Use encrypted file system. (I never done it)
2.  Use "gpg".  (Package: "gnupg" GNU privacy guard, stong encryption)
3.  Use "zip".  (Package: "zip" Archiver for .zip files, weak encryption)
4.  Use "rot13". (Package: "bsdgames". super weak but no password.)
...

$ gpg -c /mnt/zip/outfile
...
$ zip -e file /mnt/zip/zipfile

Nice thing about rot13 is you do not need to remember password.  But any
one with slight clue can read it.


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Sound Blaster Live Problems

[Reid Gilman]

I'm having trouble setting up my Sound Blaster Live card.  I have kernel 2.4.18 and it is compiled with sound as a module.  I load the soundcore module and then when I try to load the emu10k1 module it says "init_module: no such device."  I'm not sure why this happens.  Any advice? 

Re: automatic poweroff

[Patrick Wiseman]

On Sun, 23 Jun 2002, Patrick M wrote:

> My machine wont power off when shut down from Linux. Yet, it will do
> so properly when shut done from Windows.

[...]

> 2- I compiled a new kernel with ACPI enabled.

You need to compile the kernel with _all_ ACPI options enabled (I only say
that because I neglected to do that the first time and thought I'd
enabled ACPI :) and then you need to install acpid which provides some
utilities which actually talk ACPI with the kernel.

I now, after exiting X gracefully, just hit the power switch and power
down cleanly.

Patrick

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Re: hdd change

[Patrick Wiseman]

On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Patrick M wrote:

> Is there a reason for using 'tar' instead of 'cp'?

It preserves ownership and symbolic links, for one thing (or 2).

Patrick

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Re: KDE3 link?

[Viktor Rosenfeld]

Hi,

Helgi Örn wrote:

> I would like to upgrade to KDE3 in Woody, is there some link to KDE3
> Debian packages which is usable with apt-get?

See http://calc.cx/kde.txt. Haven't tried that out yet.

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Re: CD writing for non root users

[Carlos Sousa]

On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 17:04:16 +0200 Balazs Javor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> What's the best/recommended way to be able to write CDs
> without requiring to be root?

The only way I've managed to do that was to set cdrecord up to run
setuid root. Giving users access to the raw device is not really an
option...

The cdrecord and xcdroast documentation explain this reasonably well.

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CD writing for non root users

[Balazs Javor]

Hi,

What's the best/recommended way to be able to write CDs
without requiring to be root?

Many thanks for your help in advance!
best regards,
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[Fwd: Re: makepasswd: naive question]

[Jerome BENOIT]

 Original Message 
Subject: Re: makepasswd: naive question
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 11:00:15 -0400
From: Tom Zych <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> I want to protect some ZiP floppy with passwords generated by makepassd,
> and maintain a list of ZiP encrypted passwords as root:
> I guess that I have to decrypt the passwords to use them
> in view to unprotect my ZiP floppies.

>It sounds like you're talking about zip archive format, like in the
>"zip" program, and not the Zip disks by Iomega, right?

I am sorry for the confussion:
I am dealing with Zip disks by Iomega




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Re: Group

[Carlos Sousa]

On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 16:58:03 +0200 Jimmy Vil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> If i add a user to a group in /etc/group, what shall i do to make my 
> changes work?
> I don´t think a have to reboot every time i change that file... :-)
> 
> / Jimmy

Logout and login again, no need to reboot.

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Group

[Jimmy Vilén]

Hi!

If i add a user to a group in /etc/group, what shall i do to make my 
changes work?

I don´t think a have to reboot every time i change that file... :-)

/ Jimmy




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Re: makepasswd: naive question

[Jerome BENOIT]

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Subject: Re: makepasswd: naive question
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 15:55:38 +0300
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Tom Zych wrote:
> Jerome BENOIT wrote:
>
>
>>We can generate encrypted passwords with `makepasswd',
>>but how can we decrypt them ?
>
> You can't. It's a one-way trapdoor function. Wouldn't be much point
> in using it otherwise.
>
I guess that I missed something:
I want to protect some ZiP floppy with passwords generated by makepassd,
and maintain a list of ZiP encrypted passwords as root:
I guess that I have to decrypt the passwords to use them
in view to unprotect my ZiP floppies.
Can we do that ?


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Re: hdd change

[Scott Henson]

On Sat, 2002-06-22 at 15:33, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> #include 
> csj wrote on Sun Jun 23, 2002 um 01:55:52AM:
> 
> > It doesn't. Grub can be installed from another disk, after which you
> > just need to edit {Temporary_mountpoint}/boot/grub/menu.lst. You can
> 
> Well, as far as I know, Grub also relies on block maps to load its
> second stage, exactly as Lilo does. Right? Then it would also fail to
> load when you swap the disks.
> 

Put it on a floppy.

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Re: Question: Sound recording from radio station

[Scott Henson]

On Sun, 2002-06-23 at 00:19, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote:
> Scott Henson wrote:
> 
> > Im not sure, but I dont think ext3 nor reiserfs suffer from this
> > affliction.  So you might try an upgrade to ext3.  This would fix your
> > file limitation problem.  Anyone wanna tell me Im wrong?
> 
> As I said, this is an ext3 file system, exported via NFS.  Maybe it's
> the architecture limiting the file size, of it's NFS.

I just tested my box.  It was able to do a 2.4 gig file.  I think it was
the nfs server that is doing it to you.  If you could do this on a ext3
partition with out nfs in between I think it would be able to record the
larger file.  Also I think(Though this time I may really be wrong) that
nfs v4 does not have the file size limitation.  Sorry for not reading
your original post clearly.  

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Re: exim, auth, pam, solutions

[Mike Mimic]

Hi!

> | But it doesn't work with Pegasus Mail.
> 
> Install 'tcpflow' and watch what is sent through the
> socket. You can pipe it through 'base64-decode' to
see
> what it sends as the user/password.

I have solved the problem. I have Norton AntiVirus set
and so username wasn't correct. And it's 1,2 LOGIN
format
(at least for Pegasus). For PLAIN I don't know.


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Re: exim, auth, pam, solutions

[Mike Mimic]

Hi!

> Originally I tried adding mail to the shadow group,
> but that didn't work, so I took mail back out of
> shadow, and chown root:mail /etc/shadow. This
worked.

But won't that broke the use of "shadow" group? Than
programs which use that won't be able to read it.


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Re: Console Login/Auth ~= GDM/KDM Login/Auth

[Randolph S. Kahle]

Mark,

Thank you for the reply.

I have studied the files in /etc/pam.d and I am not sure I can figure
out what is wrong.

Here are the files:

login
-
auth   requisite  pam_securetty.so
auth   requisite  pam_nologin.so
auth   required   pam_env.so
auth   required   pam_unix.so nullok
accountrequired   pam_unix.so
sessionrequired   pam_unix.so
sessionoptional   pam_lastlog.so
sessionoptional   pam_motd.so
sessionoptional   pam_mail.so standard noenv
password   required   pam_unix.so nullok obscure min=4 max=8 md5
-

kde
-
#%PAM-1.0

auth   required pam_nologin.so
auth   required pam_unix.so shadow nullok
auth   required pam_env.so
accountrequired pam_unix.so
sessionrequired pam_unix.so
sessionrequired pam_limits.so

password   required pam_unix.so nullok obscure min=4 max=8 md5
-

gdm
-
#%PAM-1.0
auth required   pam_nologin.so
auth required   pam_env.so
auth required   pam_unix_auth.so
account  required   pam_unix_acct.so
password required   pam_unix_passwd.so shadow md5
session  required   pam_unix_session.so
session  required   pam_limits.so
-




On Sat, 2002-06-22 at 17:40, Mark Roach wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-06-22 at 15:28, Randolph S. Kahle wrote:
> > I have just installed Woody from CDROM images. I can log on via the
> > console as root and as a normal user. All is fine.
> > 
> > When I run GDM (or the KDE login manager), when I enter a valid user and
> > password, it rejects it.
> > 
> > Why are these operating differently?
> > 
> > Am I going through different authentication modules? If so, how do I get
> > GDM to use the right authentication mechanism?
> 
> check /etc/pam.d/gdm if it is different than /etc/pam.d/login then that
> is a good place to start.
> 
> 
> -Mark
> 
> 
> 
> > 
> > Randy
> > 
> > 
> > 
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gnus: reading debian lists by NNTP want to reply by mail

[Dan Jacobson]

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted to gnu.emacs.gnus as well.

In gnus Info it says:
`gnus-mailing-list-groups'
 If your news server offers groups that are really mailing lists
 gatewayed to the NNTP server, you can read those groups without
 problems, but you can't post/followup to them without some
 difficulty.  One solution is to add a `to-address' to the group
 parameters (*note Group Parameters::).  An easier thing to do is
 set the `gnus-mailing-list-groups' to a regexp that matches the
 groups that really are mailing lists.  Then, at least, followups
 to the mailing lists will work most of the time.  Posting to these
 groups (`a') is still a pain, though.

1. what is the (`a') all about?  Oh, I see, when one hits "a".
2. so I set gnus-mailing-list-groups to match and now it just replies to the 
sender.
3. OK, So, I must go, for each debian group I'm subscribed to, into
the special group parameters editor, and make them by hand into their
mailing list addresses.  Then I suppose I also have to go into the
group parameters and set how I want my From address to look, as I
prefer a different From address when I reply to a mail group
vs. replying to one person.  I must do this over and over by hand for
each debian group.

$ noffle -l|grep debian
gmane.linux.debian.user news.gmane.org over
linux.debian.user news.sinica.edu.tw full
linux.debian.user.chinese.big5 news.sinica.edu.tw full ...

I suppose all my sed skill are for naught and I can save my
$ noffle -l|sed -n '/^linux\./{;s/^linux\.//;s/ 
.*//;s/\./-/g;s/$/@lists.debian.org/p;}'
debian-user@lists.debian.org
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ...
for mom.

No, I don't suppose there is a way for me, when in a group that
matches /^linux/ or /^gmane/ to do my various regexp substitution
schemes that come up with the correct mailing address of the group, so
that when I hit a or f or F it does the right thing.

Another approach is for me to use my above regexp to generate a whole
group parameters blob for many groups that I could somehow paste into
my .newsrc.eld ... yuck.

Anyways, why with the million features do I always need to use the
ones that aren't there.
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Re: Kernel install error?

[Scott Henson]

On Fri, 2002-06-21 at 17:40, curtis wrote:
> I just compiled and installed a kernel and then after it made changes to 
> lilo.conf, I typed lilo and got the following error:
> 
> Warning: Int 0x13 function 8 0x48 returned different head/sector 
> geometries for BIOS drive 0x80
> 
> Doing a Google search I only found one entry specific to this, but the 
> server it was on stated that they were sorry but that particular entry 
> was being moved to a different server and was presently unavailable.
> 
> Anybody know what this means?

This is a lilo error that has been popping up a lot lately.  It
basically telling you that its using two different bios calls to
determine something and they are returning different values.  A lilo
developer came on the list a month or two ago to say that this warning
really wasnt anything to worry about.  So basically you can ignore
this.  I personally use grub, and I love it and would recomend switching
to it anyway, but YMMV.  

> 
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Re: my guess as to where to put the dialup iptables rules

[marshal]

One thing that you could do, since you've installed iptables, is setup
all the chains manually.  Then run (as root)

/etc/init.d/iptables save active

And if you always want them to be the same

/etc/init.d/iptables save inactive.

This will save the chains so that they start up everytime that you
boot the computer and turn off the computer (respectively.).  Of
course, that's if you have the /etc/rc?.d/ directories setup for it.

Look at /etc/defaults/iptables for more info.

Good Luck.

Marshal

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Dan> Regarding Rusty's Really Quick Guide To Packet Filtering
Dan> /usr/share/doc/iptables/html/packet-filtering-HOWTO.html#toc5
Dan> where are we supposed to put that?
Dan> /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/somefile I suppose.

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Re: automatic poweroff

[Christian Schoenebeck]

> It's not SMP. I have a single Pentium III (Coppermine).
> 
> As for the switch, i'm not sure what you mean... If you're referring
> to some bios option, i would guess that theyre all right cause it
> works on windows...
> 
> Any other ideas?

Make sure SMP support isn't enabled, else poweroff won't work.


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Re: About GNOME Setting and XMMS Sound

[Jord Swart]

> 1. Yesterday, I got a nice Theme installed with GNOME 
> (forgot what's the name, I only remember it was a blue 
> colored theme), but today, I can't found those Themes in 
> GNOME Control Center anymore.
Try to find the GTK engines. Your theme might be listed there.
> 
> 2. XMMS Sound, yesterday, when I play a song in XMMS, it's 
> just play it very nicely. I don't have to do anything. While 
> now, I need to make the output plugin goes to libesd and 
> then start esd manually. The modules I load is still the 
> same as yesterday, only i810_audio and ofcourse soundcore 
> and ac97_codec.
I think, I'm not sure since I mostly use KDE, that you can start the
soundserver automatically when Gnome starts. You will probably be able
to find these settings in the Gnome control pael

> I really don't want to do some reinstalling again ;-)
You shouldn't need to. There is always a way to fix a linux system :-)

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Re: makepasswd: naive question

[Tom Zych]

Jerome BENOIT wrote:

> We can generate encrypted passwords with `makepasswd',
> but how can we decrypt them ?

You can't. It's a one-way trapdoor function. Wouldn't be much point
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makepasswd: naive question

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hello all!

We can generate encrypted passwords with `makepasswd',
but how can we decrypt them ?

Thanks in advance,
Jerome BENOIT

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Re: exim, auth, pam, solutions

[Mike Mimic]

Hi!

--- Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I have temporary set it to world readable and now
> > AUTH
> 
> H!  That defeats the point of shadow passwords!

TEMPORARY!!! :-) Just for debuging process.


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