making nvidia drivers
I have a NVIDIA GeForce3, and the nv driver doesn't work very well. I want to compile the nvidia driver from the sources, but I don't know how to do it. I have installed nvidia-kernel-source and nvidia-glx-source, but I don't know how to make the .deb packages to install. What commands do I issue to do this? Thanks -- This was the most unkindest cut of all. -- William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar The fashion wears out more apparel than the man. -- William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: making nvidia drivers
Gavrila wrote: John F. wrote: I have a NVIDIA GeForce3, and the nv driver doesn't work very well. I want to compile the nvidia driver from the sources, but I don't know how to do it. I have installed nvidia-kernel-source and nvidia-glx-source, but I don't know how to make the .deb packages to install. What commands do I issue to do this? Thanks I don't really think you need to have a .deb pkg to do that since you're 'patching' the kernel. However enter Nvidia_kernel dir and type 'make install', then go to Nvidia_glx and do the same. Then you have to edit the XFREE config file as stated in the nividia installation guide on nvidia site. Regards I went to the nvidia_kernel dir and typed 'make install', but it said *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop. The nvidia_kernel dir is under /usr/src/modules. I have made a .deb file from /usr/src/modules for some alsa-modules, but I can't remember how to do it. Any ideas? Thanks -- This was the most unkindest cut of all. -- William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar The fashion wears out more apparel than the man. -- William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: making nvidia drivers
I looked at that, but the part with make-kpkg modules_image seems like it is starting to compile a new kernel. I don't know, but most of the questions I was being asked made no sense to me, I'm still kinda a newbie after a year and a half in Linux. I don't know what I'm supposed to do. Thanks Alan Chandler wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 16 Mar 2003 4:38 pm, John F. wrote: I have a NVIDIA GeForce3, and the nv driver doesn't work very well. I want to compile the nvidia driver from the sources, but I don't know how to do it. I have installed nvidia-kernel-source and nvidia-glx-source, but I don't know how to make the .deb packages to install. What commands do I issue to do this? Thanks How about following the instructions in /usr/share/doc/nvidia-kernel-src/README.Debian.gz - -- Alan Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+dMQFuFHxcV2FFoIRAmUFAJ4uLF14OYTmIRjzUmPkCZMt2kUoNwCfaSeP AvwoGfujOHpTGFAxB+QQZ7w= =PXQL -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- This was the most unkindest cut of all. -- William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar The fashion wears out more apparel than the man. -- William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: making nvidia drivers
I did this up throught the debian/rules binary_modules command, where I got the following error: nv.c:22: linux/modversions.h: No such file or directory make[1]: *** [nv.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel-1.0.2880/NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-2880' make: *** [build-stamp] Error 2 How do I fix this error? Thanks Mpiktas wrote: I went to the nvidia_kernel dir and typed 'make install', but it said *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop. The nvidia_kernel dir is under /usr/src/modules. I have made a .deb file from /usr/src/modules for some alsa-modules, but I can't remember how to do it. Any ideas? Thanks First of all read documentation in /usr/share/doc/nvidia-glx-src and /usr/share/doc/nvidia-kernel-src If you want to make .deb package you must do in command line export KVERS=your-kernel-version export KSRC=the-place-where-your-kernel-headers-are cd /usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel-blah-blah/ debian/rules binary_modules then cd /usr/src/nvidia-glx-blah-blah dpkg-buildpackage then cd /usr/src/ and dpkg -i *.deb Then change XF86Config appropriately and voila. But read the documentation first, it is not long, but very helpful:) And browse the list archives. Mpiktas -- This was the most unkindest cut of all. -- William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar The fashion wears out more apparel than the man. -- William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
nvidia follow-up and new question
Okay, I got the driver to work through some secret methods (downloading a tar file and compiling), but now I need to know how to change the PAM settings, because when I try to run something like tuxracer, I get the following: Error: Could not open /dev/nvidiactl because the permissions are too resticitive. Please see the FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS section of /usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/README for steps to correct. The README file from the driver said to modify /etc/security/console.perms of /etc/logindevperms, but I can't find either. How do I change the permissions for these? Thanks -- You are a bundle of energy, always on the go. You are dishonest, but never to the point of hurting a friend. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
message from cron
I am getting about 60 or so messages a day from the cron daemon. I would like to stop them coming, but I don't know how. I would think if I disabled the netnews server, but it doesn't show up as being enabled with ksysv, so I don't know what to do. A complete copy of one of the messages is below: Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cron Daemon) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] test -x /usr/bin/rnews rnews -U X-Cron-Env: SHELL=/bin/sh X-Cron-Env: PATH=/usr/lib/news/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin X-Cron-Env: HOME=/var/spool/news X-Cron-Env: LOGNAME=news Hostname does not resolve or 'domain' in inn.conf is missing Thanks -- Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. -- Mark Twain Q: What's yellow, and equivalent to the Axiom of Choice? A: Zorn's Lemon. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What disks are what?
I am downloading the Debian disk sets (using jigdo), and I am wondering: What is on each of the (seven or eight?) disks? I would rather not download the source disk, as my connection is rather slow and it will take me long enough to download all this. Can somebody tell me what is on each disk, and how they are organized? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
IP's
I would like to tell my firewall to deny all connections from any IP address. What would I put as the IP to be blocked? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
quake/RTCW firewall rules
Hello I was trying to run a RTCW(quake 3) server behind my firewall last night. I setup the firewall iptable rules to forware udp packets of 27690(from memory) to my server. My friend and I were able to play but he said his connection was very poor. I have a 768/128K dsl line and I realize my upstream connection is not that great but I figured we should have been able to play ok. Also, I tried to run just a dedicated server and he said the connection was equally as bad. I have p3 1.2Ghz 512Meg machine. My firewall is a p1 200Mhz and it does nothing but serve as a firewall. Any idea what would be the problem? Do I have to configure the firewall for tcp ports as well? JD -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
resize partitions using parted
Hello Anybody ever try to resize partitions using parted? Did it work ok? I have a box which was setup with one large root partition and no /boot partition. It was just supposed to be a test install, but it has grown into a working box and I would rather fix it to use multiple partitions than re-install it at this point. Also, I see there is a tool called resize2fs, but I don't think that is what I want to use becuase I want to go from 1 partition to multiple partitions. Furthermore, I want to insert a /boot partition into the beginning of the disk. JD -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
shared memory and dynamic pointers
Hello Does anybody know if there is a open source library which provides dynmic memory in conjunction with shared memory allocated using shmget/shmat? I want to allocate some shared memory and then later dynamically create some buffers also in shared memory. It seems that I will have to have an ID and a shmget/shmat for each time I want to create a buffer. Is there some library which allocates a big shared memory buffer and then handles dynamic allocations from that buffer so these smaller buffers can also be shared between processes? One more thing, the processes are seperate processes and not forked child/parent processes. Also, what is the deal with shm_open and mmap? I think these are the posix equivalent (Or, is that BSD?) to SVR4 shmget and shmat. On my box, I have a man page for mmap which refers to shm_open, but I don't have the man page for shm_open. I have the include files for shm_open and mmap. JD -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: route goes on reboot ?
Patrick Hsieh wrote: Hello David Smead [EMAIL PROTECTED], BTW, if I have multiple routing table, where can I define so that it will work upon reboot? To set 'special' routing instructions use the 'up', 'down', 'pre-uo' and 'post-down' options in /etc/networks/interfaces. I've found them very useful to set up strange routing between two firewalls each with 3 nics, so as to allow privilged access to a server farm, and to make a simulation of a IP tunnel across a WAN link. see man 5 interfaces Hope this helps John P Foster http://www.golden-orb.com On Wed, 1 May 2002 21:59:25 -0700 (PDT) David Smead [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Put the info in /etc/network/interfaces. Mine looks like: auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.8.30 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 192.168.8.0 broadcast 192.168.8.255 gateway 192.168.8.254 Technically you don't need all the fields but I put them all in as a reminder. -- Sincerely, David Smead http://www.amplepower.com. On Thu, 2 May 2002, Kapil Khosla wrote: Hi, In my current configuration , I have to do an ifconfig eth0 IP addr and route commands everytime I reboot. The problem is on reboot, all these settings vanish and I have to give these commands again. I sort of know that these have to be put in some /etc/rc** but am not sure which file do I have to put these files and if they should be put early in the booting procedure or in the last will do. Thanks Kapil -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: vchkpw debian help request
Justin, For what it's worth we use qmail as per apt-get install qmail-source and vpopmail 4.10.9 from inter7 with no problems. I cant recall what I did, but there is an option to build a debian-compatible version of vpopmail either at inter7's site or in the .configure script. John P Foster justin cunningham wrote: Hi, here is a long thread [sorry] between me and ken at inter7.com. I'm trying to get the debian qmail working but I don't think I have vchkpw working properly with vpopmail. I can send mail ok but on receiving I believe the trouble is vchkpw is not working with vpopmail to authenticate passwords for test users. Ken suggests I compile the new version from source but that's just not the debian way so... if anyone can give advice on this I'm eager to listen. Best, Justin -Original Message- From: Ken Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 11:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [vchkpw] vchkpw help request Wow. Too much for me to read through and debug for ya! Sorry. I would go with a source code installation. Sounds like the debian maintainer made changes to the base code so it will take a code review for him to make those same changes in the latest stable/development releases. Ken On Tuesday 23 April 2002 12:48 pm, you wrote: Hi ken, thanks for the reply. I believe the trouble is with vchkpw authenticating passwords. I can send from an account but can't receive mail-- I get [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sorry, no mailbox here by that name. vpopmail (#5.1.1). I'll go over the vchkpw config again at inter7.com/vpopmail/install and will hopefully have it figured out. ps aux shows this line. 'qmaild2198 0.0 0.0 1376 576 ?SApr21 0:00 /usr/bin/tcpserver -l hostname -u 64011 -g 65534 -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb' while I tried tcpserver -l 'myhostname' but tcpserver gave me back the help menu. what is the syntax for changing the tcpserver hostname to myhostname? I already edited qmail and vpopmail in /etc/init.d I chown vpopmail.vchkpw /var/lib/vpopmail/domains Lastly: I see three of these in /etc 'inetd.conf.qmail-preinst.24432' I assume I can safely remove the two older ones and perhaps any old subsequent ones after qmail restarts? Thanks much! Justin Ps: if you think I've gone off track anywhere-- which doc do you recommend I re-read. I emailed the deb package maintainer about the new vpopmail and he said the packaging was completely different and wouldn't get to building it for a while. Debian has equivs to make dummy deb packages though I've yet to fool around with it. In one of the docs you mention a debian specific .so linking error. In my experience this was only present on an install with the almost stable woody or debian 3.0 version-- might be worth mentioning? -Original Message- From: Ken Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 9:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [vchkpw] vchkpw help request Those debian packages are very old. You might want to install from source code instead and get the latest versions. Ken Jones On Monday 22 April 2002 12:40 pm, justin cunningham wrote: Hello, I'm having trouble with a vpopmail qmail functionality and am hoping someone here can help me out. This is a debian packaged install built by a co-worker who compiled the debs for the server from which I'm emailing you so it's not a compile config error. The server is debian stable. Currently I can vadd domain and test users, establish connection from mua to mail.domain.com but can't access nor authenticate pop3. All debs installed properly. autorespond_1.0.0-1_i386.deb courier-imap_0.31-vauth.1_i386.deb ezmlm-idx_0.53-4_i386.deb libmysqlclient6_3.22.30-4.deb libvpopmail-dev_4.9.9-1_i386.deb libvpopmail-freecdb_4.9.9-1_i386.deb libvpopmail-lmysql_4.9.9-1_i386.deb libvpopmail-mysql_4.9.9-1_i386.deb libvpopmail1_4.9.9-1_i386.deb qmail_1.03-17_i386.deb qmailadmin_0.45-1_i386.deb ucspi-tcp_0.84-1_i386.deb vpopmail-bin_4.9.9-1_i386.deb vpopmail-doc_4.9.9-1_all.deb Created the me file manually; made it mail.mydomain.com, edited /etc/hosts to show 127.x localhost hostname 208.x mail.mydomain.com mail added -l 'hostname' to /etc/init.d/vpopmail qmail -- identical to my mailserver added '#pop3 stream tcp nowait root /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup qmail-popup hostname.mydomain.com /var/lib/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir' to /etc/init.d.conf.' this shouldn't matter since it's commented out but added anyway. There are three of these in /etc 'inetd.conf.qmail-preinst.24432' I thought that was a pid but didn't see it in ps aux. -must be from restarting qmail and vpopmail a few times. Tried telling tcpserver -l not to resolve dns and replace 'hostname' with 'hostname' but it didn't accept syntax shown in man tcpserver. I looked online and this option is really for servers that are also running named so it shouldn't
Re: xemacs on debian = horked
Hello Does the new emacs support tabbed windows? I really like that about xemacs. I got used to it on ultraedit in windows. If you don't know about tabbed windows, its where the windows have their file name displayed on a little tab at the top of the window. You can easily switch files by clicking the tab. JD Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED]@softhome.net on 04/06/2002 09:23:53 PM To:debian-user@lists.debian.org cc: Subject:Re: xemacs on debian = horked On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 12:01:52PM -0800, David Wright wrote: Xemacs (xemacs21-21.4.6-7) on Debian appears to be completely horked. There are tons of bug reports going back over 2-1/2 years, many without so much as an initial reply from the maintainer. Many appear to cover very simple but very annoying issues. What's going on? Is this package orphaned? A Linux distrubtion without a working xemacs is not a serious Linux distribution. I'd offer to help but there is no way I'm learing lisp. I just need a decent multimode text editor that has both a nice GUI AND a text console interface. Are there any alternatives out there? If you really want to get away from XEmacs, give GNU Emacs21 a try. It has most of the features that XEmacs does, including font-lock on consoles, and graphics in buffers. Plus a toolbar if you really want it. -rob -- I did not vote for the Australian government. C.DTF Description: Binary data
Use of dpkg --get-selections and --set-selections
Hi all, We have a situaution where we want to ensure that a server has a certain list of packages installed. It can have extra packages, but it _must_ have the list we specify on it. Can I use dpkg -get-selections a.file and then edit it to only include the install and deinstall lines for the critical packages on machine number 1, then on the other machine run dpkg --set-selections a.file ? Or does the input to --set-selections have to be a complete list of all packages that should be on the machine? I can't try this out in case I blow away the machine we need to duplicate off - the other machine we have to duplicate to is a long way away and hasnt been built yet... Thanks, John P Foster http://www.golden-orb.com/ -- I do not support the Australian Government's Policies on Refugees and Mandatory Detention. The Mandatory Detention of Refugees is an Obscenity and is profoundly un-Australian . This is MY opinion and not that of my company. I wish more Australians would stand up about this. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Openssh protocol 2 for potato - rather urgent help needed
Hi all! Has anyone any idea where I can find debs for potato for Recent versions of OpenSSH? I need non-broken protocol 2 but still be able to support protocol 1. Building OpenSSH3.1p1 from source requires an upgrade of OpenSSL. If I replace the OpenSSL in Potato with version 0.9.6c (from openssl.org)v will it break stuff using the version in Potato? This is rather urgent, I've ppl screaming at me. John P Foster -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: Is .RTF an Open Standard?
Dave Sherohman wrote: On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 10:23:34AM -0600, Kent West wrote: I'm trying to educate some users on the dangers of proprietary file formats. But to make sure I've got my facts right, I need to ask: Is the Rich Text Format (.rtf) an open standard? (In other words, can I say something like Use an open standard format, like .RTF? Or do I need to say Use a less proprietary format like .RTF? I would prefer to say the first one.) I understand it was developed by Microsoft, but is it owned by Microsoft? Do I understand that there are actually two different .RTF formats? My understanding is that there is an official RTF spec which is owned by Microsoft, but available to everyone, and a real RTF spec which essentially boils down to however the current version of Word feels like doing things. I would definitely consider RTF to be less proprietary rather than open. OTOH, RTF is substantially better than doc simply be virtue of not being able to host viruses/worms/trojans. I though RTF was actually an IBM invention, and was a response to Adobe's PostScript. I could well be wrong though. I seem to recall that RTF existed in IBM in 1992 anyway. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: vim help file Error detected while processing BufRead Auto Commands for*.gz solved
Hello Yes that helped. Thanks. I deleted all au comands for gzip's in my /etc/vim/vimrc file. JD Seneca Cunningham [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 03/22/2002 03:34:14 PM To:debian-user@lists.debian.org cc: Subject:Re: vim help file Error detected while processing BufRead Auto Commands for*.gz John F Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the latest vim. When I try to issue the :help command I get the following error: Error detected while processing BufRead Auto commands for *.gz: E21: Cannot make changes, 'modifiable' is off E434: Can't find tag pattern Hit ENTER or type command to continue What gives? This issue came up on monday night (EST). vim has changed. http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/debian-user-200203/msg03259.htm l Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
vim help file Error detected while processing BufRead Auto Commands for *.gz
Hello Debian Unstable intel I have the latest vim. When I try to issue the :help command I get the following error: Error detected while processing BufRead Auto commands for *.gz: E21: Cannot make changes, 'modifiable' is off E434: Can't find tag pattern Hit ENTER or type command to continue What gives? JD
Introduction to Debian Packaging Paper
Hello I wrote a Introduction to Debian Packaging Paper (html) for my local linux users group. Nothing fancy, but its a quick intro to the packaging on debian. How to use apt, dpkg, dselect, and even how to build a package - quick summary of new maintainers guide. I would like comments on correctness and general readability. If at all possible, I would also like to release the document to the debian document database and IBM's developer works web page. Any help would be appreciated. See attached document. John F. Davis (See attached file: debian-package-talk.html)Title: Debian Concepts Debian Concepts last mod: 3/14/02 Author: John F. Davis Forward This document is written for a talk at TriLug's March 2002 meeting. It is intended to introduce Debian Packaging to Linux users. Assumptions This document assumes the reader understands how to install computer programs on a Windows computer and/or a RedHat Linux system. Introduction Debian Linux is popular because of its sophisticated packaging system. This system allows users to add and remove software applications from the Linux file-system with ease. Users of RedHat are most probably familiar with its packaging method which uses RPM's. Debian's RPM equivalent is a DEB. This document explains the Debian packaging system in four steps. The first step is to introduce Debian's concept of a software package. Second, I explain which files and directories are used by the Debian packaging system. Third, I explain how to install and maintain packages. Fourth, I give a quick method intro to building a package. Debian Package Files This section introduces the Debian package concept. After reading this section, you will know the answers to the following questions: Does Debian use RPM's What is a Debian package called How does a DEB compare to a RPM Does Debian use RPM's? The quick answer is no. Debian does not use RPM's. RPM's are clumsy and not as powerful nor safe as a Debian Package file. The longer answer is that Debian can use RPM's but it is not its preferred packaging method. Debian uses files similar to RPM's called DEB's. What is a deb file? Deb files (or packages) are single files which end in ".deb". They contain a collection of files, directories and scripts which are performed during installation and removal. Different scripts can be set to execute at various points in the installation of a deb. Deb files contain a wealth of information besides files, directories, and scripts. For instance, every deb file contains the following information: name, version, description, contents, pre-requisites and, Scripts. How does a deb file compare to a RPM? Users of RedHat should see a close similarity between a deb file and a RedHat RPM. Both ".deb"s and ".RPM"s are single files which contain multiple files and scripts. They also contain version information, prerequisite packages, Debian Packaging Files and Directories This section covers the files and directories used by the Debian packaging system. While reading this section, you will learn answers to the following questions? Where do you get DEB's? Which file determines where DEB's are obtained? How do you install via net, cd-rom, or floppy? Where is the packaging database stored? /etc/apt/apt.conf The /etc/apt/apt.conf doesn't exist any more. In its place is a Debian conf tool. /var/cache/apt/archives storage area for retrieved package files. /etc/apt/sources.list servers to use for apt. Note, you use this file to determine if you are using stable, testing or unstable. Apt will install the latest version it finds. So, its not uncommon to have stable and unstable entries in this file. By default, apt will install the latest version, but you can specifically install a different version. ie. install wine from stable even though the rest of your system in unstable. Sources for packages Debian can install packages from the file-system (ie. a file on your Linux file-system), mounted cdroms, or via the net. Debian Packaging Tools This section tells how to use the packaging tools to manipulate debs. Some of the questions it attempts to answer are: How to install and remove packages. How to get new packages. How to determine which package owns a particular file. Common Tools Debian has many tools for packaging and I don't know them all. I've tried to document the tools which are more commonly used in this section. In other words, these are the tools which I use on a daily basis. apt-get APT package handling utility -- command-line interface" The basic command line tool to get and install packages. Also used to upgrade and update a system. Also allows complete system upgrades to new releases. Its considered
quake3, i810 sound, and debian unstable
Hello I am trying to get quake3 working with my sound card. As it is now, my soundcard kinda works. I can play mp3's if they are recorded at 44KHz and I can also play some games with sound (eg. heroes3). When I play games or mp3's which are not recorded at 44KHz, the sound will play real fast and sound like Alvin and the Chipmunks. The quake readme says that it requires a /dev/dsp device and a OSS compatible sound card. I have some OSS sound options in my kernel, and I do have a /dev/dsp device. If its not possible to get quake3 to work with sound card, I would at least like to configure the sound so that it can play mp3's which are not recorded at 44 KHz. If I have the sound modules loaded (shown below) when i start quake, quake will display a message about sound being muted and then crash when I start and a single player match. If I don't load the sound modules below, quake will not display any sound info when starting and I can play single player matches - but without sound. Is this the expected behavior or have I misconfigured something? Below is my environmet and settings. Environment: Pentium III Linux 2.4.7 kernel Debian Unstable - latest update MSI motherboard with i810 built-in sound chipset lsmod shows: Module Size Used by i810_audio 13520 0 mpu401 18832 0 (unused) sound 56096 0 [mpu401] soundcore 4080 4 [i810_audio sound] ac97_codec 8608 0 [i810_audio] lspci -v shows (snipped to show only multimedia entry) 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 2445 (rev 02) Subsystem: Micro-star International Co Ltd: Unknown device 3370 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11 I/O ports at bc00 [size=256] I/O ports at c000 [size=64] cat /proc/pci shows (snipped to show only multimedia entry) Bus 0, device 31, function 5: Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA(M) AC'97 Audio (rev 2). IRQ 11. I/O at 0xbc00 [0xbcff]. I/O at 0xc000 [0xc03f]. When I built my kernel, I included as modules these options: M Ensoniq AudioPCI (ES1370) M Creative Ensoniq AudioPCI 97 (ES1371) M OSS sound modules M Ensoniq SoundScape support M 100% Sound Blaster compatibles (SB16/32/64, ESS, Jazz16) support It doesn't appear that the Ensoniq or soundblaster modules are loading. I don't know if I should use them or not. Also, lspci and cat /proc/pci gives different titles for the sound chipset (the irq and ioport settings are the same though). I don't know if I have the correct modules for this device. I read that I am supposed to use the ES1371 driver. John
Voodoo5, unstable, X11 v.4, etc with more info
Hello I am trying to run Quake3 on my debian Sid x86 computer. When I try to run quake, it starts then says : ...loading libGL.so: Initializing OpenGL display ...setting mode 3: 640 480 Using XFree86-VidModeExtension Version 2.1 XF86DGA Mouse (Version 2.0) initialized XFree86-VidModeExtension Activated at 640x480 Using 4/4/4 Color bits, 16 depth, 0 stencil display. gd error (glide): Can't find or access Banshee/V3 board gd error (glide): grSstSelect: non-existent SSTReceived signal 11, exiting... I have a Voodoo5. John
Voodoo5, unstable, X11 v.4, and gl apps
Hello I am trying to get quake3 arena working with debian. So far, I have all the GL related stuff installed but I can't get quake3 to work and all my rendering seems to be in software. In my XF86Config-4 file, I have the glx and dri modules loaded. I have the tdfx and glide drivers installed. Section Module Loaddbe # Double buffer extension # initialisation of the XFree86-DGA extension within that module. SubSection extmod # Optionomit xfree86-dga # don't initialise the DGA # extension EndSubSection # This loads the Type1 and FreeType font modules Loadtype1 Loadfreetype Loadglx Loaddri EndSection Section Device Identifier My_Voodoo_5 Driver tdfx EndSection Section Device Identifier My Voodoo 5 glide Driver glide Option dpms on Option GlideDevice 0 EndSection Section DRI Mode 0666 EndSection Section Screen Identifier Screen 1 Device My_Voodoo_5 Monitor My Monitor DefaultDepth 16 Subsection Display Depth 16 Modes 1280x1024 1024x768 800x600 640x480 ViewPort 0 0 EndSubsection EndSection However when I run glxinfo, I get : [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/games/quake3$ glxinfo name of display: :0.0 WARNING: This Mesa Library includes the Glide driver but you have not defined the MESA_GLX_FX env. var. (check the README.3DFX file for more information). you can disable this message with a 'export MESA_GLX_FX=disable'. display: :0 screen: 0 direct rendering: Yes server glx vendor string: Brian Paul server glx version string: 1.3 Mesa 3.4.2 When I run glxgears, I get : [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/games/quake3$ glxgears WARNING: This Mesa Library includes the Glide driver but you have not defined the MESA_GLX_FX env. var. (check the README.3DFX file for more information). you can disable this message with a 'export MESA_GLX_FX=disable'. If I try to fix that by defining MESA_GLX_FX I get an error: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/games/quake3$ export MESA_GLX_FX=fullscreen [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/games/quake3$ glxgears gd error (glide): Can't find or access Banshee/V3 board gd error (glide): grSstSelect: non-existent SSTSegmentation fault Lastly, if I run quake3, It flashes the screen, stops and then gives a similar error: - Client Initialization - - Initializing Renderer --- - Client Initialization Complete - - R_Init - ...loading libGL.so: Initializing OpenGL display ...setting mode 3: 640 480 Using XFree86-VidModeExtension Version 2.1 XF86DGA Mouse (Version 2.0) initialized XFree86-VidModeExtension Activated at 640x480 Using 4/4/4 Color bits, 16 depth, 0 stencil display. gd error (glide): Can't find or access Banshee/V3 board gd error (glide): grSstSelect: non-existent SSTReceived signal 11, exiting... For what its worth, I tried to apt-get install as much as possible. So, I installed mesa3-glide2 but I don't think that works for voodoo5 so I installed the glide3 source and installed it. At least I think I installed it. But it didn't seem to help things. Any help is appreciated. John
X window app config questions
Hello I have recently upgraded to Debian unstable/2.4.7/XFree 4.1. As a result, I have some simple questions. 1. In Xemacs my alt-key doesn't work as the Meta-key (M). I only have a 101 key keyboard and I don't have a windows key on it. 2. In xterms, and konsole, my home and end keys do not work. They only print a ~ key when pressed. I notice this with either kde or blackbox. I don't have the problem when I use a eterm. 3. Sometimes xemacs will lock up. I think it is when I am using freeamp to play audio. I have disabled the sound server in KDE, but xemacs still tries to make beep sound. I'll get a message saying it can't open the /dev/dsp. I think when both apps are trying to play a sound, it causes xemacs to lock up. Besides not listening to music while I code, is there something I can do to prevent xemacs from locking up? Clueless in NC John
how to configure a socks client?
Hello I am behind a socks firewall and I need to be able to get past it. I put the following line in my /etc/socks.conf file: sockd @socks.domain.com 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 direct 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 Where domain.com is changed to protect the innocent. I tested the configuration by trying to do a ssh and a rtelnet to a host outside the firewall. Neither worked. I'm not sure the ssh client will work anyway, but the rtelent should have worked. For what it matters, I can apt-get using proxy.domain.com and I can use socks.domain.com with windows clients ok. John -- We host web sites: http://www.skink.net buy my stuff: http://cgi6.ebay.com/aw-cgi/ebayISAPI.dll?ViewListedItemsLinkButtons[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: can't ssh into box anymore
On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 08:21:56PM +0100, Norman Schmidt wrote: Hi! Did you try to login as root? Nope. This is forbidden by default. You should not change this, but make sure you can su to root after logging in as known user. Correct. I was logged in as a normal user. Check your /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny files if there is any restriction for the client you want to log in from. I looked there. Nothing was there. John John F. Davis schrieb: Hello I tried to connect to the box from a machine which I have never used as a client before. It failed also. John On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 12:05:59PM -0800, Robert L. Yelvington wrote: what is the specific message you are getting when you ssh in?Hi when you restarted sshd it probably generated a new host key, right? my guess is that you need to delete the old host key in your ~/.ssh/known_hosts file...perhaps...just a guess. robt John F. Davis wrote: Hello I did a apt-get upgrade which restarted ssh and now I can't ssh into my box anymore. I keep getting a invalid password response. I can however login to the box via the console with the same password. What gives? -- We host web sites: http://www.skink.net buy my stuff: http://cgi6.ebay.com/aw-cgi/ebayISAPI.dll?ViewListedItemsLinkButtons[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- We host web sites: http://www.skink.net buy my stuff: http://cgi6.ebay.com/aw-cgi/ebayISAPI.dll?ViewListedItemsLinkButtons[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- Norman Schmidt Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg cand.chem. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- We host web sites: http://www.skink.net buy my stuff: http://cgi6.ebay.com/aw-cgi/ebayISAPI.dll?ViewListedItemsLinkButtons[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: can't ssh into box anymore
On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 03:34:27PM -0500, David B. Harris wrote: To quote John F. Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED], # Hello # # I tried to connect to the box from a machine which I have never # used as a client before. It failed also. Please be more specific with your problem. What versions of SSH are on each machine? What operating systems are on each machine? Include any relevant configuration files as attachments(so long as they're not huge). Ok. I'll try that. P.S.: I'm betting you're trying to log in as root. If this is the case, then you must un-comment the PermitRootLogin yes line in /etc/ssh/sshd_config . Nope. I was trying to login as a normal user. David Barclay Harris, Clan Barclay Aut agere, aut mori. (Either action, or death.) -- We host web sites: http://www.skink.net buy my stuff: http://cgi6.ebay.com/aw-cgi/ebayISAPI.dll?ViewListedItemsLinkButtons[EMAIL PROTECTED]
can't ssh into box anymore
Hello I did a apt-get upgrade which restarted ssh and now I can't ssh into my box anymore. I keep getting a invalid password response. I can however login to the box via the console with the same password. What gives? -- We host web sites: http://www.skink.net buy my stuff: http://cgi6.ebay.com/aw-cgi/ebayISAPI.dll?ViewListedItemsLinkButtons[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: can't ssh into box anymore
Hello I tried to connect to the box from a machine which I have never used as a client before. It failed also. John On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 12:05:59PM -0800, Robert L. Yelvington wrote: what is the specific message you are getting when you ssh in? when you restarted sshd it probably generated a new host key, right? my guess is that you need to delete the old host key in your ~/.ssh/known_hosts file...perhaps...just a guess. robt John F. Davis wrote: Hello I did a apt-get upgrade which restarted ssh and now I can't ssh into my box anymore. I keep getting a invalid password response. I can however login to the box via the console with the same password. What gives? -- We host web sites: http://www.skink.net buy my stuff: http://cgi6.ebay.com/aw-cgi/ebayISAPI.dll?ViewListedItemsLinkButtons[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- We host web sites: http://www.skink.net buy my stuff: http://cgi6.ebay.com/aw-cgi/ebayISAPI.dll?ViewListedItemsLinkButtons[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SCSI
What is the minimum connector distance for scsi II? Here is why I ask. I have a internal scsi ribbon cable for connecting two units. I really want to connect three scsi units to it. Instead of buying a expensive scsi cable, I bought a cheap plastic ribbon cable connector which I would like to use as a third connection for this cable. I also have access to a cable connector tool. i.e. a tool which connects connectors to ribbon cables. I just want to make sure that don't connect the connectors to close together. John
Re: Java JSP Tomcat
Hello For what its worth, I got Tomcat to run with Debian Sparc using blackdown 1.2.2. If you are interested, I can give you some more info. I did it awhile back (with lots of help from the debian-sparc mailing list), so, it can be done. John On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 11:19:41PM -0500, Gregory Guthrie wrote: Why does Debian provide (only) GnuJsp, Tomcat is the standard reference implementation now. Is it easy to change to use Tomcat? Should I just do it, or wait, is anything coming? I want the standard JSP directory structures, and a guaranteed standard implementation. Thanks, Gregory Guthrie Dr. Gregory Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] (641)472-1125Fax: -1103 Computer Science Department School of Computing and Information Science Maharishi University of Management (Maharishi International University 1971-1995) http://www.mum.edu/cs_dept -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- We host web sites: http://www.skink.net buy my stuff: http://cgi6.ebay.com/aw-cgi/ebayISAPI.dll?ViewListedItemsLinkButtons[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing kernel sources
On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 06:15:24PM -0600, Ray Percival wrote: Does anyone out there have a step by step to install kernel sources on 2.2. Thanks very much o uname -a, to determine which kernel version you are currently running. o apt-get install kernel-source-2.x.x, where x.x is determined by uname -a. Or, you could just install the latest if you wish. o do like the other message replies said about creating the link to /usr/src/linux I'm not sure you need a deb-src line in your /etc/apt/sources file or not. (Is the kernel source package really considered a source deb?) If the apt-get fails, then you need to add the following line as a minimum to /etc/apt/sources: deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ potato main John -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- We host web sites: http://www.skink.net buy my stuff: http://cgi6.ebay.com/aw-cgi/ebayISAPI.dll?ViewListedItemsLinkButtons[EMAIL PROTECTED]
applets and apache
System Info: Debian Potato Apache 1.3.9 Hello I am having trouble with applets and html. I want to put all my java applet class files in a directory. Here is some html which is supposed to display an applet: OBJECT CLASSID=java:Foo.class CODEBASE=ClassDir/ CODETYPE=application/java WIDTH=400 HEIGHT=80 /OBJECT However, I can not get the applet to display if I put the class file in the /var/www/ClassDir. I can get the applet to display if I put the class file in the /var/www/ directory. What gives? John
Re: applets and apache
Hello Thomas, I can su www-data and then change direcotry to /var/www/ClassDir. Then I can do a cat Foo.class and see the contents. Is this what you mean? John On Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 04:40:59PM +0200, Thomas Guettler wrote: try su www-data and check if this user can access the java-classes On Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 09:37:16AM -0500, John F. Davis wrote: System Info: Debian Potato Apache 1.3.9 Hello I am having trouble with applets and html. I want to put all my java applet class files in a directory. Here is some html which is supposed to display an applet: OBJECT CLASSID=java:Foo.class CODEBASE=ClassDir/ CODETYPE=application/java WIDTH=400 HEIGHT=80 /OBJECT However, I can not get the applet to display if I put the class file in the /var/www/ClassDir. I can get the applet to display if I put the class file in the /var/www/ directory. What gives? John -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Thomas Guettler [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.interface-business.de
what is apxs in jserv documentation?
Hello The installation instructions for Jserv mention something called apxs. What is apxs? John
is the potato apache built using dso?
Hello I am interested in testing jserv. The installation instructions say you do not need to rebuild apache if it was built with DSO support. Is the potato apache deb built using DSO? How can I tell if it supports DSO? John
jserv package
Hello Is there a debian package for jserv? I have apache installed and I want to install jserv without downloading the tar file as described on servletcentral.com. John
/var/log/wmtmp
Hello I have a huge /var/log/wmtmp file and I need to delete it in order to get some free disk space. Can I just delete the file? Is there a way to clear it correctly? John
scsi disk question: u2w vs. uw
Hello This is not a Debian linux question per se, but I know someone on this list will know for sure. Can you mix scsi disks on a Adaptec 2930u2 adapter and not have the slower disk slow down the faster one? I.e, I have a computer which currently has a u2w disk with a u2w card and I want to know if I will get a performance hit if I add a regular uw disk to the same scsi channel. The card does not have two channels, so if I add the second disk it has to be on the same channel as the original disk. JOhn
how to remove portma and rpc statd?
Hello When I do top, two programs show up which I want to remove. These programs are: portmap and rpc_statd. I don't run NIS or NFS, so I think it would be in my best interest to remove these Items. How do I do so? I think I have my kernel configured so they aren't being used. John
majordomo
Hello Which debian list is the best group for talking about majordomo? John
Re: placing /etc under RCS control
On Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 01:42:59PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hey all. In order to better manage configuration changes, I have decided to place /etc/ under control of RCS. Naturally, doing this means that write access is removed from most files and 'co -l' is needed in order to edit them. I have placed the /etc directory on my local workstation under RCS control and noticed no problems, but before I do that on my remote server I would like some input from the community. Have I overlooked anything? Does anything in /etc really need write permissions? I have seen the Id fields in most files in /etc/. Can RCS be made to read these fields? If so, how? What about recursively placing all subdirs of /etc under RCS control? Input is appreciated. Thanks in advance! noah Noah, This is not quite what you want, but it may serve the same purpose. Its a shell script/perl script which backs up files. use it like this: backitup /etc/passwd and it will create a file called /etc/passwd.241201. The numbers stand for the year, month, day and rev number. ie. if you backitup again today, it will create a /etc/passwd.241202 file. Perodically, you can scrub all files which have this form of extension. You can also condense the two scripts into one. Enjoy John perl /usr/bin/backitup.pl $1 backitup.pl Description: Perl program
Re: slrn+NNTP help
I'm having the darn hardest time to get the 'slrn' to use NNTP to access a news server: it always insists for some reason on reading news from a non-existent local spool! It does this despite me giving --nntp flag, -h SERVER, setting NNTPSERVER in the environment, etc. I've done pretty much all I don't know if this will help, but I had to set the read active flag to true. Otherwise, I never got any groups from my isp. The set active flag is in the .slrnrc file. John
pseudo-image
Hello I want to use pseudo image to make a cd image of debian i386. I tried using the binary-i386-1.lst file from one url, but it didn't seem to be correct and pseudo-image didn't get pulled correctly. There were way to many missing files. Now, I'm trying again. However, I'm looking at: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/2.2.9-2000-03-30/ and I don't see a file list. Where do I get the latest file list?
Re: Limiting user access in ftp, ssh, samba, etc... 'passwords'
On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 12:42:24PM -0600, Matthew W. Roberts wrote: as far as i have been able to find, there is no suitable, secure, replacement for ftp (why!?!?!) Are you familiar with scp? I use putty's pscp for scp transfers between windows and linux. You ought to try it. It rocks.
empty .ssh directory
Hello Is it normal to have your .ssh direcotry in your home directory to be empty? I have been using ssh for some time now and all of a sudden all my .ssh directories are empty. I'm wondering if I have been hacked. To continue my tale of woe, My /var/syslog file was emptied of all old entries and this was entered at the top of the file. Mar 17 06:27:23 suit syslogd 1.3-3#31: restart. Lastly, I have this process in my ps auwx output. If I kill it, it comes back. I have no idea what it is. Could it be normal? For what it matters , I run xdm. root 216 0.0 1.9 2240 1256 ? S Mar 10 0:00 -:0 John
i'm trying to install and build the apache source using apt-get
Hello I can not install the apache source using the command: apt-get -b source apache I get the following error: In file included from mod_rewrite.c:92: mod_rewrite.h:129: ndbm.h: No such file or directory make[5]: *** [mod_rewrite.so] Error 1 make[4]: *** [all] Error 1 make[3]: *** [subdirs] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/apache-1.3.3/apache-1.3.3/src' make[2]: *** [build-std] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/apache-1.3.3/apache-1.3.3' make[1]: *** [build] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/apache-1.3.3/apache-1.3.3' make: *** [build] Error 2 Build command 'cd apache-1.3.3 dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc' failed. Other Facts: slink distro apt-get upgrade/dist-upgrade/update have all been done. sparc processor apt-get install debhelper has been done. ndbm.h is on my computer. Its in the /usr/include/db1 directory. I added: export INCLUDE=/usr/include/db1 to my environment. eg.: mrfan:~/apache-1.3.3# set | grep INCLUDE INCLUDE=/usr/include/db1 John Davis
Re: disabling user mail
On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Martin Schulze wrote: I want all users in the 'mail' group to be able to send/recieve mail. So, for example, if someone sends a message to someone not in the group, it will be returned as unknown. Write your own local transport or try to work with procmail as local delivery agent. Joey Exim handles this sort of thing rather nicely. John Foster -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Debian-Lite : The Project
On Mon, 4 Aug 1997, David M wrote: Also users can backup a certain working state of their sytems into a packaging configuration file wich could then be used to reinstall (add, delete, etc) to that particular configuration. This is a great idea! Mind you, the only times I've had to do a complete re-install with Debian were after a security scare where I couldn't tell what may/maynot have been modified, or after a massive hardware upgrade. But for the purposes of say, building a new server that replicates an existing one I think this could be very handy. Couldn't dpkg generate a list of existing installed packages? Then a simple script could take that list and run dpkg -i on them. John -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ICQ
On Wed, 30 Jul 1997, Travis Cole wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 31-Jul-97 Christopher Jason Morrone wrote: I'd like an app that will announce to a central server that I'm online (or maybe distributed servers that communicate with each other for better stability), and that my client can check to see if my friends are logged in, where they're logged in, etc. cut In any event, there should be an RFC, and the source should be free. And if it isn't written soon ICQ will take over the world. :) This is also exactly what I would like. Just a way to find out when and where my freinds are logged in so I can send them a message they will see imediatly, and the ability to chat and possibly send files to them. This would also have to be a multiplatform system. I would love to have this as in a free and open form but now the only option I can see is ICQ or AOL's AIM and right now AIM is the only one working for more than Windows. If I were a programer (which I am trying to learn, but not even close yet) I would try to get something like this started. But alas I do not yet poses the technical skills necessary. Possibly there is someone who does and is interested. I really think something like this would happen and I have a lot of ideas about it. Please let me know if you wan't to talk more. Could such a thing be based on how RIP works? ie participating providers broadcast every 5 minutes idents of participating clients, and this propagates to other participating servers. I'm sure there would be a way of coding the information so that it 1) has some sort of security 2) is conservative of bandwidth usage 3) protects the privacy of those who don't want to be involved Such a scheme could also solve a major problem many face when it comes to trying to track down the source of a security scare. This would obviously have to be very tightly controlled. Consider a set of servers that keep track of master databases of participating users. Each email address would map to a code like byte.byte.byte.255.byte.byte.byte.255 The first set of bytes would identify a network or a host, so it would be from 1-4 bytes long. The second set would uniquely identify the user (and would be of varying length according to the size of the provider). Now suppose [EMAIL PROTECTED] wants to know if [EMAIL PROTECTED] is logged on. jim makes a request of his provider, which asks one of the masters for the code relating to bob. the masters flag that when bob is online it will tell the server at some.domain. When bob loggs in, the server at there.com tells the masters that 123.234.23.255.123.234.12.6.255 is online. When bob loggs off there.com tells the masters that 123.234.23.255.123.234.12.6.255 is offline. The server at some.domain knows that if the masters report that 123.234.23.255.123.234.12.6.255 it will tell jim. If jim loggs off the masters will be told by the server at there.com that jim (234.123.45.67.255.1.2.3.4.5.255) is offline, and it will cancel any pending notification to jim that bob is online. Multiple notifications could be pooled into a single IP packet, so 1 packet could contain say 70-80 messages. The4 masters could update to each other the maps from user names to codes every 30 minutes. Each providers server would be responsible for their clients codes (shades of DNS). the providers could run message packets every 5 minutes. There would be all sorts of issues relating to who pays for what, but if the end users are paying $1/month for the service, then it should cover the data costs at the very least. Your thoughts? John Foster -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: adduser and quota
adduser will execute adduser.local if it finds it on the path. Put local stuff in there. See the adduser man page. On Fri, 18 Jul 1997, Paul Miller wrote: I was right! In order for quota to work, the new user *MUST* have existing file(s) on the file system. I'm using Debian 1.3.1 and I'm soon going to upgrade to the unstable version of Debian, containing adduser 3.4. I know adduser 3.2 does not touch the mail file, does adduser 3.4? If not.. can someone help me with the perl script? Here is what I want to add: touch /var/spool/mail/$new_name chmod 0600 /var/spool/mail/$new_name If this isn't in adduser 3.4, can someone else add it please? Thanks -Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: NSLOOKUP don't work
On Mon, 14 Jul 1997, Tony Koehn wrote: Thomas, My /etc/hosts file does have 127.0.0.1 localhost in it. My /etc/host.conf has order hosts,bind in it. Tony snip Tony Koehn wrote: :After getting debian installed I tried to do a nslookup and I get this :message: : :*** Can't find server name for address 127.0.0.1: Non-existent host.domain :*** Default servers are not available. : :What did I do wrong? See wether there's a line 127.0.0.1 localhost in /etc/hosts. See wether /etc/host.conf has order hosts,bind or order bind,hosts in it. The first one will query /etc/hosts before going to the nameserver configured in /etc/resolv.conf, while the other will do it in the reverse order. Check that you are primary-ing the localhost in /var/named/named.local and named.boot. see the DNS HOWTO. John Foster -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
