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Can't do setuid
I need the ability to run my dialing script as root since the script makes hostname, domainname, and /etc/resolv changes. It appears that Debian Linux does not have setuid capability. Is this a feature that I can turn on through a configuration file? Do all Linux distributions (Slackware, Redhat, etc) have this restriction? Which distributions allow suid? Where does the restriction take place (the kernel or an executable file)? Suid programs work on Sun Unix, but it don't seem to work here: -rws--x--x 1 root users1413 Oct 8 14:18 dial-att dial-att Can't do setuid At present I have to su to root in order to dial. This is an inconvenience and will not work for other user accounts. I am aware of the programs available that perform the equivalent of setuid but the issue here is why isn't the setuid function implemented (apparantly)? Jim -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Getty ports - dumb question
Bill Roman wrote: They're running on your virtual consoles. Try holding down the left Alt key and pressing function keys. Log in on each virtual console. Pretty slick, eh? I used this feature a lot when I had only 4 MB of RAM, as that's not enough to run X in (unless you like watching the disk light a lot). Now I usually just open all the xterms I need. Thanks to everynody that responded. I wish I would have known about this feature when I was trying to get X to run. Now that I have X running, multiple xterms do indeed do the job. Jim
Worldnet.att.net via Linux PPP Connection
My ISP is worldnet.att.net. They use a PPP connection protocol developed by Shiva. I'm not sure whether it uses PAP or CHAP. I normally access using the windows 95 dialer by filling in the Username and Password fields. There is no logon / dialing script. Is anybody successfully connecting to Worldnet with Linux? How do I configure pppd to emulate the Windows 95 dialer protocol? Jim
Getty ports - dumb question
I did a ps and found these getty ports running: 186 2 S 0:00 /sbin/getty 9600 tty2 187 3 S 0:00 /sbin/getty 9600 tty3 188 4 S 0:00 /sbin/getty 9600 tty4 189 5 S 0:00 /sbin/getty 9600 tty5 190 6 S 0:00 /sbin/getty 9600 tty6 I only have 2 serial ports ttyS0 and ttyS1. Should these getty ports be running? How are these ports accessed? Are they physical RS-232 ports? Jim
Re: A couple of Problems
Vadik Vygonets wrote: On Sat, 7 Sep 1996, Jim Worthington wrote: It looks as if my /etc/X11/Xsession file is not being read. After several hours of floundering, I got xdm working. xdm was not running, I believe because some of the xdm startup files including /etc/X11/Xsession were not executable. One of the files in the /etc/X11/xdm directory was missing. I've found that if there is an installation problem, that merely rerunning dpkg -i on the .deb package won't necessarily resolve the problem even if no error messages are reported on the second try. I've found that the bad install must first be removed before trying a reinstall. This has been the cause of most the installation problems that I have encountered. Oh I forgot... it must be called from xdm or xinit. All the output of this file must go to ~/.xsession-errors, so try to echo some debug info from /etc/X11/Xsession and look wether it's in the file. I tried echoing messages from the /etc/X11/Xsession file. I found that this file only gets invoked from xdm. It does not get invoked from xstart or xinit. Since /etc/X11/Xmodmap is called from /etc/X11/Xsession, it also would not be invoked from xinit. I prefer using xinit over xdm since I use several different windows managers. I ended up putting the statement xmodmap .Xmodmap in my .xinitrc file. I don't care for the long script provided in the system xinitrc file. It is actually a link to the /etc/X11/Xsession file. I don't include the script in my .xinitrc file since it makes maintenance of my desktop difficult. I like to use the save desktop module thats provided with fvwm2-95. If the script is present, I have to do a lot of editing. It would be nice if both the system xinitrc and the ~/.xinitrc could be called. The system file for the scripts and the .xinitrc for the desktop. The system file, however is not invoked if the user's file is present. Thanks for the help, Jim
A couple of Problems
I'm having the following problems, any suggestions woulg be greatly appreciated. Jim (1) Netscape 3.0B7 - non debian The backspace key doesn't work. Is this a setup problem? I'm using TCSH shell (2) xdm - Debian 1.1.0 release The Debian login window appears, After a correct login it tries to do something (a few horizontal bars across the root window) and then the login window re-appears. Same process repeats resulting in an endless loop. An incorrect login produces a red incorrect login message as it should. Any Ideas? startx works fine.
Re: A couple of Problems
Vadik Vygonets wrote: On Sat, 7 Sep 1996, Jim Worthington wrote: (1) Netscape 3.0B7 - non debian The backspace key doesn't work. Is this a setup problem? Put the following line in your /etc/X11/Xmodmap: keycode 22 = BackSpace Vad. I tried adding the line to /etc/X11/Xmodmap -- It didn't work. I also tried creating ~/.Xmodmap and ~/.xmodmaprc files with the same data. These did not work either. I tried typing xmodmap -e keycode 22 = BackSpace This worked for the session. I suppose I could put it in the .cshrc file but something is still broken. It looks as if my /etc/X11/Xsession file is not being read. Where does this get called from? I suspect that whatever is causing this problem is also responsible for my xdm problem. /etc/X11/config also looks OK. Jim
I got fvwm-95 but can't get it to compile under Debian 1.1
I got fvwm-95 but I can't get it to compile under Debian 1.1: It's complaining about a missing file: xpm.h and a missing library: Xpm Is there a debian package for this xpm stuff? Where do I Look? Where do I install it? (if not Debian) Has anybody got fvwm-95 to compile? What did you have to do to make it run? Thanks, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED]
WABI
What is the present status of WABI for Linux? How well does it perform? Thanks, Jim
fvwm-95 - Making progress, but not there yet
I got rid of the xpm errors by installing xpm4.7-dev-3.4g-5.deb. fvwm95 compiled producing only one error: It's complaining about a missing rplay library Where can this package be found? I do not have operational sound under Linux. (I don't really care right now -- thats a lower priority issue) I tried running fvwm95 but it crashed on startup producing no messages. Is it likely that the missing rplay library is the cause? Jim
Re: WABI
borik the Boris Yati Beletsky wrote: On Wed, 4 Sep 1996, Brian C. White wrote: |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: WABI | | What is the present status of WABI for Linux? | |I've built wine package for debian and update it occasionally. i am sorry just interested , where can i get this pkg? thks for u're time borik I stumbled across a newsgroup called linux.dev.wabi. I didn't see any mention of wine, but I did get the impression that Sun wabi software was being recompiled for Linux. At the time I thought that it was strange that Sun would release their source code but perhaps they were looking for beta testers. It was late, I'm not really sure what I saw, but I thought that there were pointers to a Sun site, presumably to get the source code. Jim
What is fvwm-95 and where can it be found
What is fvwm-95 and where can it be found? From the name, it sounds like it might emulate the Windows95 four button window format. Is this the case? Where is fvwm-95 located and what is it's developmental status. I prefer the windows 95 window format over most of the X manager formats that I have tried. I particularly like the dedicated exit button. I'm currently running fvwm-2. Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /etc/passwd migration between systems
Gilbert Ramirez Jr. wrote: As Jim Worthington said: Has anybody successfully been able to run crack on Debian Linux 1.1? Randy Gobbel and I are looking at Crack right now on Linux (kernel 2.0.12). If you make FCRYPT equal to null in Sources/Makefile, and possibly remove references to FCRYPT, you can successfully compile and run Crack. To me it seems like the Makefile is configure to either use fcrypt or UFC, but not a standard crypt. This is because most standard crypts are SLOW. But the Linux crypt is very fast. Change the Makefile like so: FCRYPT= Gilbert, I've tried UFC CRYPT in addition to FCRYPT with equally un-successful results. The use of standard crypt makes sense as you suggest, however, I believe that the crypt which is distributed with Debian 1.1 is broken, or at least incompatable with the standard Unix crypt algorithm. Whether this is a bug or a security enhancement is unknown. I do know that when I tried to copy my /etc/passwd file from a Sun system to Debian 1.1, the passwords would not decrypt correctly on login. Since the passwd file that I'm trying to test is not native to Debian Linux, the native Debian crypt algorithm won't be much use in it's incompatible state. I do get some warning messages when crack is invoked. Perhaps this is related to why it won't run: Any Ideas? bytesex.c: In function `main': bytesex.c:19: warning: left shift count = width of type crack-pwc.c: In function `TryManyUsers': crack-pwc.c:556: warning: passing arg 2 of `strcpy' makes pointer from integer without a cast crack-pwc.c: In function `TryOneUser': crack-pwc.c:598: warning: passing arg 1 of `strcmp' makes pointer from integer without a cast crack-pwc.c: In function `main': crack-pwc.c:1094: warning: passing arg 1 of `strcmp' makes pointer from integer without a cast The version of crack that I am using is 4.1f. I thought that somebody on this list made reference to version 4.5 about a week ago. Do you know what the most recent version is and where it can be obtained? Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED]
/etc/passwd migration between systems
I tried copying the /etc/passwd file from a Sun workstation to a Linux machine in order to create common user accounts. Linux, however would not decrypt the Sun passwords when correctly entered. Thei technique works fine between Solaris and Sun Unix. Does Linux use a different encryption algorithm than Sun? (obviously it is different) Is there any Sun compatability login software for Linux that would allow me to use a common password database between the two systems? Jim
Re: /etc/passwd migration between systems
Bruce Perens wrote: This must be a bug. Bruce Can anybody verify this? Also I get the following message when trying to run crack ver 4.1: Crack v4.1f: The Password Cracker, (c) Alec D.E. Muffett, 1992 Version of crypt() being used internally is not compatible with standard. Has anybody successfully been able to run crack on Debian Linux 1.1? Jim
Re: OS/2 HPFS File System - Is this a Bug? + a note for the list maintainers
Martin Str|mberg wrote: Hello. [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I'm running OS/2 Warp with HPFS on several of my drives. I noticed that Linux 1.1 fdisk reveals two different file system identifiers for HPFS partitions: /dev/sda5 id 7 OS/2 HPFS /dev/hda2 id 17 Unknown Has anybody else observed the two different identifers for HPFS filesystems? Is this a Bug? Linux produces some error messages when mounting the id 17 filesystem but it everything seems to work ok. I didn't observe any error messages when mounting the id 7 filesystem which also works fine. Yes. I have this behaviour in my system as well, although in my case it's a FAT partition. I have two primary ones on my first hard disk, so one is always hidden (for DOZ and OS/2). When I check out the partion types with fdisk under Linux I see that the partition that is considered hidden has id 16 in contrast to the one that isn't hidden, id 6. Then if I make the hidden one unhidden (and the other one hidden) the ids have changed places. How about that, MartinS I think that you've hit the nail on the head! I'm running 3 primary partitions (Win95, OS/2, OS/2 Boot Manager) and 2 extended partitions (Linux, Linux Swap). I believe that OS/2 Boot manager automatically makes the unselected primary partition hidden. The last invoked primary partition is left in the un-hidden state. I just booted up OS/2 using Boot Manager to make the OS/2 partition unhidden. I then booted Linux also via OS/2 Boot Manager. Fdisk reported: /dev/hda1 id 16 Unknown (previously reported as id 6) /dev/hda2 id 7 OS/2 HPFS The OS/2 partition is now being reported correctly and the Win95 FAT partition is being reported as Unknown. Now, What is the solution to the problem? Do we indeed have 2 new partition types: id 16 Dos FAT (hidden) id 17 OS/2 HPFS (hidden) Or is it possible that Linux fdisk is mis-reading a partition table bit that serves some other purpose than (id)? OS/2 makes reference to partitions that are bootable and startable. How are these attributes dealt with under Linux? Jim
Re: OS/2 HPFS File System - Is this a Bug?
Shaya Potter wrote: On Tue, 13 Aug 1996, Jim Worthington wrote: I'm running OS/2 Warp with HPFS on several of my drives. I noticed that Linux 1.1 fdisk reveals two different file system identifiers for these HPFS partitions: /dev/sda5 id 7 OS/2 HPFS /dev/hda2 id 17 Unknown This a little bit of a guess, (I have never used os/2 and linux on the same machine, and I never got os/2 to run right either) but I am think that /dev/hda2 might be your os/2 boot manager partition. Are you using it? If you are, and linux's fdisk says it only 1 or 2 MB large, then I would just remove it from your /etc/mtab and /etc/fstab files. I am using OS/2 Boot Manager to select between Windows 95, OS/2 Warp and Linux. The boot manager partition has it's own unique identifier and is being identified correctly. The HPFS partitions in question are in the 120 to 300 meg range. I checked the SCSI drive on a second machine and the OS/2 Warp (version 3) partition has a 17 id. Do you think that IBM created a new partition type with the release of Warp (OS/2 version 3.0x)? Jim
Re: Soundblaster 32 pnp kills ethernet card
Alastair Gregory wrote: A while back I attempted to install a SB AWE32 PnP sound card, with absolutely no success. It didn't appear to affect any of my other cards, but it didn't work. It didn't work under Win95 either, and Creative Labs' support was worse than useless. I exchanged it - the replacement didn't work any better. I returned it and bought another SB-compatible PnP card for about 40% less. It installed effortlessly under Win95. The card works fine under windowd 95 -- almost -- I can't kill the on board ide port. I don't need another cdrom port and it consumes interrupt 10. I can kill it with win95's device manager but pnp brings it back every time that I reboot. Any recommendations for a Linux compatable sound card? I'd like wavetable and full duplex capabilities. Jim
Re: OS/2 HPFS File System - Is this a Bug?
Daniel Lynes wrote: On Tue, 13 Aug 1996 00:42:13 -0400, Jim Worthington wrote: /dev/sda5 id 7 OS/2 HPFS /dev/hda2 id 17 Unknown The Unknown partition type (id 17) was created by OS/2 Warp fdisk during the installation process. It is also a primary partition. I haven't experienced this myself, so this would lead me to believe one of the following: /dev/hda2 is: 1. A primary partition (rather than an extended logical.) 2. Is using HPFS386 (do you have Warp, or Warp Connect installed?) The ID17 partition is a primary partition - Why would this matter? I did make the observation, however, that the primary HPFS partition's id = 17 and the extended HPFS partition's id = 7. I'm running OS/2 3.0x (Warp) with a few fixes added. Jim[EMAIL PROTECTED]
OS/2 HPFS File System - Is this a Bug?
I'm running OS/2 Warp with HPFS on several of my drives. I noticed that Linux 1.1 fdisk reveals two different file system identifiers for these HPFS partitions: /dev/sda5 id 7 OS/2 HPFS /dev/hda2 id 17 Unknown The Unknown partition type (id 17) was created by OS/2 Warp fdisk during the installation process. It is also a primary partition. The HPFS partition type (id 7) was created by OS/2 Warp after installation. Note that this is an extended partition. Has anybody else observed the two different identifers for HPFS filesystems? Is this a Bug? Linux produces some error messages when mounting the id 17 filesystem but it everything seems to work ok. I didn't observe any error messages when mounting the id 7 filesystem which also works fine. OS/2 Warp doesn't complain at all.
Soundblaster 32 pnp kills ethernet card
I have a SoundBlaster 32 pnp audio card. When this card is installed, my 3Com 3C509B ethernet card is not recognized by Linux at boot time. The 3C509B is also a pnp device, but pnp is turned off and the card is manually configured. There aren't any interrupt or I/O conflicts that I can identify. I tried changing both of these settings on the 3COM card. It made no difference. Any ideas as to what's going on? What is the current level of pnp support by Linux? Any work arounds? Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do I get GATEWAY2000 PS/2 mouse to work or The Case of The Missing Modules)
Mike Taylor wrote: On Thu, 8 Aug 1996, Mark Edward Johnston wrote: I have installed Linux (Debian 1.1) on a friend's computer, but can't get X to work as it complains about not being able to find the mouse. The system is a Gateway 2000 DX2/66 with Cirrus Logic 5434 and what seems to be a PS/2 mouse. I have linked /dev/mouse - /dev/psmouse (- /dev/psaux) and set Protocol and Device in XF86Config to PS/2 and /dev/mouse respectively. Any help would be appreciated, Mark Johnston ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PS: Does anybody know if PS/2 mouse support is in the default kernel in Debian 1.1.3 ?? Is this a valid question ? The debian 1.1.x kernel as distributed supports the PS/2 mouse as a Module. The only problem is that the binary distribution does not contain a complete set of modules. I got the required module by compiling the kernel using the existing debian configuration file. This generated a full set of modules. I manually added the missing module to my configurating and the mouse started working. NOW The Greater Question for the Debian package maintainers is: Why isn't a complete set of modules distributed with the binaries? I've seen the same PS/2 mouse question over and over again. It's a very simple problem to solve, but a pain in the butt for someone that's never compiled a kernel. MY SUGGESTION: Add a complete set of modules to the distribution package. Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: help getting X and openwin to work?
I really prefer running openwin, so I created the directory /usr/openwin and copied all the stuff from my Slackware system over to there (bin, lib, etc.) I can get openwin to start, display the As a Sun workstation user, I also prefer running openwin. I was under the impression that this product was owned by Sun and not available for other platforms but I heard that some Linux distributions provided it (Redhat). I've looked on the internet for openwin, but could never find anything. Where can I find a version that will run under Debian? - something that is easily transportable. Can we expect to see a Debian distribution of openwin anytime soon? Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED]
