Re: how to use the X chooser?
On Mon, 30 Jun 1997 15:41:22 -0400 , Joey Hess wrote: > I'm trying to set up a machine as an xterm, so I want it to run the chooser > on bootup and then xdm... the Xaccess file seems to indicate that if you > make it contain just this line, it'll work: > > * CHOOSER BROADCAST > > But if I make that change, xdm still just comes up and I don't see the > chooser. What do I need to do to get the chooser to come up? Do you mean that you are running xdm on the supposed-to-be xterm? You shouldn't do that in your case. The only things you need are: - xdm with the above config on the computer that is supposed to run the programs (the server) - an X server on the computer with the display So if you want to set up an X treminal, have it run something like /usr/bin/X11/X -indirect or /usr/bin/X11/X -query at boot time. The first line tries to get the chooser from the server, the second directly opens a connection to the server. Do 'man Xserver' for more options you might like. Remco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: How to change default font
On Sun, 29 Jun 1997 18:45:48 -0500 , Gary L. Dolan wrote: > I just dl'ed 1.3, and the default font on bootup needs to be changed. I barely > recall that when I installed 1.2, there was a config question about the fonts, > but I have no idea how or where to make the change in 1.3. The setfont program is what you want if you only want to change the font. It is in the kbd package. BTW, have you run Slackware before? I do remember Slackware asking me to choose a font, but I can't remember a question about fonts in Debian. But if you want a nice way to also change the resolution and/or the refresh rate of your text screen, take a look at the svgatextmode package. SVGATextMode can change it to whatever your videocard and monitor support using X-like modelines. My text screen is 116x51 at 65.8 Hz right now. This looks very cool. Talking about this, I have a question about the kbd package. When I ran Slackware, I could choose from a lot of nice and/or weird fonts. I miss those in Debian. I really liked the 'T' font. Currently I am using it, but only because I took it out of Slackware's keytbls.tgz. Remco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: [Q] How to create a FTP only account.. for...
Please do not Cc: to my e-mail address. I will only get the same message twice. On Sun, 29 Jun 1997 15:50:25 -0400 (EDT) , System Account wrote: > > Ok this is what i have setup right now > >***/etc/passwd*** > miller:passwd:5000:5000:Miller:/ftp/./web/miller:/bin/true > > the /bin/true is in /etc/shells This seems to be good at first sight. >***/etc/group*** > webusers:*:109: > miller::5000: > > should this be webusers:*:109:miller and all other users? Yes, it should. Or you would have to add a 'guestgroup' entry in ftpaccess for each web user. > now i made a /home/ftp/webusers dir > drwxr-xr-x 3 root webusers 1024 Jun 29 14:50 web > > and then /home/ftp/webusers/miller dir > drwxr-xr-x 2 miller webusers 1024 Jun 29 14:50 miller And this would be miller's home directory? Then you should change the home directory in /etc/passwd from /ftp/./web/miller to /home/ftp/webusers/miller. About the permissions: I would make each directory like /home/ftp/webusers/miller like this: drwxr-x--x 2 miller miller 1024 Jun 29 14:50 miller This way only the user himself (and root) would be able to read his home directory. If his web pages are stored in $HOME/pub_html or something like that, this directory should be like: drwxr-xr-x 2 miller miller 1024 Jun 29 14:5 pub_html The home directory should have execute permission for all users or nobody would be able to view the web pages. Read permission is not necessary, because the www server already knows the name of the pub_html dir. >***/etc/ftpd/ftpaccess*** > #added > guestgroup webusers > guestgroupmiller If all users are in the 'webusers' group, you only need the entry for that group. This means you have one file less to maintain if you add or remove a user. > Now after doing this i try to ftp in: > > >ftp timberwolf.provision.net > Connected to timberwolf.provision.net. > 220 timberwolf FTP server (Version wu-2.4(14) Wed Jan 8 21:17:19 MET 1997) > ready. > Name (timberwolf.provision.net:adren): miller > 331 Password required for miller. > Password: > 550 Can't set guest privileges. > Login failed. > Remote system type is UNIX. > Using binary mode to transfer files. > ftp> bye > 221 Goodbye. > > > I do not want users logging in with a group login. Each user > should have thier own login and passwd. Because of this i don't see a > reason for the group. I have read the manpages for ftpaccess and i'm still > not sure why this isn't working. Is there something i'm over looking as > the error 550 Can't set guest privileges. leads me to believe that i'm > close? The only reason for the group is that you don;t have to add each user's personal group to the ftpaccess file. If you want to do that, fine. Drop the webusers group and put a 'guestgroup ' line in ftpaccess for each web user. > Also if i remove guestgroup miller (or both) from the ftpaccess file it > does log me in but cann't find a home directory: > > 331 Password required for miller. > Password: > 230-No directory! Logging in with home=/ > 230 User miller logged in. This looks like a message you would get if your home directory doesn't exist. Are you sure that /ftp/web/miller exists or is this an error in /etc/passwd? Remco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: [Q] How to create a FTP only account.. for...
> > Hi all Hi > regarding this subject... I have used /bin/true for ftp-only > accounts but i need to go one step farther. I have a /home/webusers > directory where i have user accounts who with web space only. Right now > they ftp in and put there html files there. But the thing is they still > have access to the rest of the machine. So.. > > How can i have /home/webusers setup as a root dir (chroot > environment)? Set up wu-ftpd as your ftp server. Then put all users into one group. This doesn't need to be the only group they are in. Call this group 'ftponly' just to be obvious. Then edit the ftpaccess file and place a line guestgroup ftponly in it. Then put files like bin/ls, etc/passwd and etc/group into their home directories just as if they were the home directory for an anonymous ftp account. If you forget this they won't be able to do 'ls'. Now you should be all set up. Don't forget to read the right man pages so you understand what I am talking about (ftpaccess has its own page). > Also i'm not sure if i want then all grouped together in one > group? Can anyone explain pros/cons for this? I have no idea about really bad or really good things, but if they have a umask 002 like in a standard Debian system, their primary group should not be ftponly and their files should not be group-owned by this group. A pro is of course that the thing with wu-ftpd actually works if they are in one group. Remco -- Jean-Luc Picard: To baldly go where no man has gone before. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Multiple kernels & /System.map
On Fri, 20 Jun 1997 15:36:17 -0700 , Stephen Zander wrote: > > Is there some way to pass an alternate name from /System.map (or > /boot/System.map) to the kernel at boot? I'm mucking with a > custom kernel but want to leave the 2.0.30 image safely intact. > I've setup lilo.confto recognise /vmlinuz.2.0.30 as a valid > kernel but can't figure out how to seperate the system.map files AFAIK, the System.map file is read by klogd only. You can pass an option to klogd to specify which System.map it should use. Look at the comments in your /etc/init.d/syslogd for an example of this. Remco -- Jean-Luc Picard: To baldly go where no man has gone before. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Elvis problems in X (was: Re: No Termcap)
On Mon, 16 Jun 1997 21:22:55 +0200 (MET DST) , Santiago Vila Doncel wrote: > > Debian uses ncurses instead of termcap, which is considered "obsolete". > Just replacing -ltermcap by -lncurses will do the trick. I have a question about elvis, rxvt and termcap. I think the Debian package of elvis still needs termcap. If I start elvis on a console (/dev/tty[1-9]), everything is normal. Problems arise only in X. If I run elvis in an xterm, nothing is wrong. But if I use rxvt instead of xterm, I get a blank 'screen' (within the rxvt) and I know ':q' works, so vi is started and it works. Only the output is wrong. If I run elvis as editor from knews, using the resource: Knews.editCommand: elvis -G x11 +%i %s I get a window with the title 'stderr', a message 'termcap needs up' and a button 'ok'. Knews then says the editor exited abnormally. Does anybody have the same experience or am I the only one with this problem? BTW, the only reason I have for running rxvt is the color support that is default. Does anyone know an easy way to get color support in the xterm that comes with the Debian installation of X? Remco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ftp only user account?
On Wed, 4 Jun 1997 19:45:15 -0400 , Joey Hess wrote: > How can I set up a user account that can only ftp in, and is restricted to > their home directory in a chroot environment? Add the user to /etc/passwd and put it in a group called 'ftponly' (or make up a name, but this is the easiest to remember). If the group doesn't exist, create it. The shell should be /bin/false. Add a line '/bin/false' to /etc/shells. Now, you have a user that can't log in. Try it. I might have forgotten something. Now, set up wu-ftpd as your ftp server if you haven't done so already. In /etc/ftpd/ftpaccess, add a line 'guestgroup ftponly'. Now you should be all set up, if my memory serves me correctly. 'Guest' users can do all normal ftp things, but wu-ftpd does a chroot to their home directory. They can't get anything that is not in their home directory (or mounted under it). Remco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Help me to build a fileserver!!!
On Tue, 03 Jun 1997 13:36:03 PDT , Eliezer Figueroa Puello wrote: > I heard that Linux can to use the IPX protocol. I think that maybe I > can to configure Linux to emulate a novell network server and then > configure the windows 95 computers as novell network clients. I'm > writing this letter because I want to know how to configure Linux as a > novell server or any other server that windows 95 has client for. If > that is not possible I will appreciate if you email me telling that is > not possible. I will also thank any other suggest of how to use Linux as > a fileserver for windows 95 computers. The only think I do not want to > hear is that I have to open a UNIX shell in the windows computers in > order to have access to Linux server. You could try to set up a Novell emulator under Linux but setting up Samba is much easier. Just install Samba on the Linux machine and instal the 'Client for Microsoft Networks' on the Win95 machine. Also install the tcp/ip protocol in Win95 and you are all setup. You now only need to configure the server and you are ready. Note that this works both ways. Win95 also has a server and there is a Samba client for Linux. > If you help me to learn how to configure the fileserver with Linux > then I will write a howto under the terms of GNU to help others newbies > like me to that. You don't need to. There already is a SMB-HOWTO and Samba comes with some examples. Remco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: 2 ethernet cards and loadlin
On 03 Jun 97 16:40:49 -0500 , Chris Brown wrote: > > I am trying to get my machine to use 2 3c509 ethernet cards > booting from loadlin. Looking at the loadlin docs I think the > command line should be: > > "loadlin vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 ether=10,300,eth0 ether=11,310,eth1 ro" > > eth0 is fine but I don't get eth1 at all. There isn't even a reference to it > in /var/log/messages. Where did I go wrong? Are you sure that the driver is compiled into the kernel? If you are loading the driver as a module, you'll have to take another approach. Edit /etc/conf.modules and see if these three lines are there: alias eth0 3c509 alias eth1 3c509 options 3c509 io=300,310 I am not sure this is entirely correct since I am using two different network cards, but this is definately the way to do it if the driver is a module and not a compiled-in driver. If you use kerneld to autoload the modules that are needed, you might need to assign an IP number to the card using ifconfig to get the module to be loaded. You can edit /etc/init.d/network so that it configures the IP numbers etc. for both cards. Remco -- You know you've landed gear-up when it takes full power to taxi. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: bind output in /var/adm/debug
On Tue, 27 May 1997 03:30:24 -0700 (PDT) , Douglas L Stewart wrote: > I'm seeing a lot of warnings in /var/adm/debug because NS and MX records > are pointing to CNAME's. Is this not allowed? If it's not, could someone > point me to a reference that says that it's not, so I can point it out to > the ISP that's got things set up this way. I have installed the Debian 'bind' package, so I'll refer to this. In /usr/doc/bind are at least three documents that say this is not allowed: manual.txt.gz Name Server Operations Guide for BIND rfc1033.txt.gz RFC1033 rfc1034.txt.gz RFC1034 Do a text search on 'CNAME' and you'll find it. Remco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: fixes for delgroup
On Wed, 14 May 1997, George Bonser wrote: > I fixed a couple of things in /usr/sbin/delgroup (but did not save the > file first so I could make a diff). The changes are minor and at the top > of the file. > > was: > > if [ -f /etc/gtmp]; > > changed to: > > if [-f /etc/gtmp]; then You're right here, the original has a syntax error. > Was: > > $GID='id -g mail' > > changed to > > GID=$(id -d mail) > > (which really makes no sense unless the author wants to pick a "safe" > GID. but I did not look into it any deeper ... the script appears to run > now). This indeed doesn't make any sense. I think it must be GID=$(id -g $1) This way $GID becomes the GID of the group youare deleting. It is only used for checking if there are any references to this GID in /etc/passwd. This might occur if you are deleting a group and the user with the same name hasn't been deleted. Remco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
