Re: ^c broken in latest potato

2000-01-09 Thread Ben Collins
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Re: Problem with Boot Floppy and libncurses

2000-01-07 Thread Ben Collins
. ldd /lib/libncurses.so.4 Check what libraries it needs. Most likely you are missing one of those. -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL

Re: /etc/securetty and login failure logging

2000-01-03 Thread Ben Collins
should get around to fixing it soon. -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'

Re: /bin/sh and ash, bash

2000-01-02 Thread Ben Collins
for the package woning them to the affect that it needs to have #!/bin/bash for the interpreter. -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: rdate fails Y2K?

2000-01-01 Thread Ben Collins
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Re: FW: Infiltration by Y2K hoodlums

1999-12-29 Thread Ben Collins
for this list email, do I suspect most of them aren't really concerned about it. As far as authentication of the senders, that is what PGP is for. For Windows users, just get a good virus detector. -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins

Re: Really no sponsor out there?

1999-12-28 Thread Ben Collins
. -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED]' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'

Re: where is `gc.h' needed for compiling gcc?

1999-12-27 Thread Ben Collins
binary. Now in src/libobjc/gc.c, it can't find gc.h and gc_typed.h, which are not included with the gcc source. Where can I find them? Package is libgc5-dev -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage

Re: Packages.gz

1999-12-23 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 09:50:54AM -0500, Jonathan D . Proulx wrote: How do I generate a Packages.gz file for a local distribution directory? dpkg-scanpackages which is from the dpkg-dev package. -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins

Re: libc6-dev versus libncurses4-dev

1999-12-23 Thread Ben Collins
? Even the --force-depends option of dpkg brought no solution. Can anybody give me a hint? Install both at once if you are using dpkg (dpkg -i foo.deb bar.deb ...). Or better yet, continue to use apt-get. -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins

Re: error in loading shared libraries

1999-12-19 Thread Ben Collins
is not missing. Ldd will say missing when a library is not there. Your problem is elsewhere. File a bug on jed, most likely it is simply a problem with the compilation, and/or dependencies. -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins

Re: Allowing weak passwords

1999-12-17 Thread Ben Collins
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Re: PAM and Others Problem

1999-12-13 Thread Ben Collins
? -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED]' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'

Re: Openssh 1.2pre17-1 broken?

1999-12-13 Thread Ben Collins
of the service, and most programs use the same name that would be found it /etc/services for their program. In the case of sshd it should be ssh. -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux

Re: chroot()ing a user's login

1999-12-12 Thread Ben Collins
/bin /home/foo/usr/bin /home/foo/etc ...). This is not usually what you want for normal users (I've pondered doing this for the auto builder, but haven't gotten around to it yet). -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins

Re: su authentication failure

1999-12-08 Thread Ben Collins
would su be acting this way??? I used to have version 980403-0.3 installed, and I did not have this problem. Edit /etc/pam.d/su and add nullok to the end of the line that has auth required pam_unix.so -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins

Re: Can't install gnome-apt? Also zipping .deb file on Win98

1999-12-08 Thread Ben Collins
compressed already. They contain two gzip compressed files (one for the control data and one for the actual package files). So there is no way to really zip them down any further. -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic

Re: init not working

1999-12-04 Thread Ben Collins
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Re: Missing libs.

1999-12-02 Thread Ben Collins
/libraries compiled with each. -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED]' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'

Re: Missing libs.

1999-12-02 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Dec 01, 1999 at 08:47:53PM -0700, Robert L. Harris wrote: Ok, Any way to find a fix for this? Unforunately, it means recompiling with the right gcc :( -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage

Re: tcl7.6-dev tcl8.0-dev packages

1999-12-02 Thread Ben Collins
it would help if you showed us the errors from your attempts to compile tcl applications. -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Adding a lot of users in a single operation.

1999-12-02 Thread Ben Collins
be protected if it contains unen- crypted passwords. SEE ALSO passwd(1), useradd(8), newusers(8) AUTHOR Julianne Frances Haugh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic

Re: compile with -lshadow

1999-12-01 Thread Ben Collins
. -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED]' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'

Re: startx?

1999-12-01 Thread Ben Collins
Then you should be able to execute it. You can add this path to your /etc/profile (or just ~/.profile). -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL

Re: Silo problem (SPARC potato)

1999-11-29 Thread Ben Collins
. -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED]' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'

Re: egcs?

1999-11-27 Thread Ben Collins
is from the egcs line. Basically to answere you question, the default compilers _are_ egcs. -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Packages for compiling programs?

1999-11-27 Thread Ben Collins
package. -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED]' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'

Re: a.out system ???

1999-11-27 Thread Ben Collins
. -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED]' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'

Re: /etc/syslog/conf

1999-11-22 Thread Ben Collins
syslog.deb This will make sure that the new syslog.conf gets installed. -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED]' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'

Re: instalation

1999-11-20 Thread Ben Collins
. -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED]' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'

Re: Debian SPARC

1999-11-18 Thread Ben Collins
and should correct that. -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED]' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'

Re: Cross-compiling on Debian systems?

1999-11-18 Thread Ben Collins
and libc6-dev packages. This will install them into /usr/sparc-linux/{include,lib} for the cross-compile. -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL

Re: Cross-compiling on Debian systems?

1999-11-18 Thread Ben Collins
are somewhat irrelevant to compilation -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED]' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'

Re: Encounter with Satan

1999-11-17 Thread Ben Collins
integrity...ok E: Couldn't find package satan Is this related to the non-US thing? BTW, my machine is a SunClassic running slink. It's a potato package. -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage

Re: Upgrade from slink to potato causes things to stop working

1999-11-17 Thread Ben Collins
RedHat works, is like comparing Church and Government. They are two different things, and have two different philosophies. Ben -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL

Re: Debian SPARC

1999-11-17 Thread Ben Collins
. -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED]' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'

Re: Debian SPARC

1999-11-17 Thread Ben Collins
console. Since this is a problem we need to address before release, can you be specific to the problems you are having? -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Cross-compiling on Debian systems?

1999-11-17 Thread Ben Collins
in debian/ to sparc). -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED]' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'

Re: Stupid dselect/dpkg question

1999-11-16 Thread Ben Collins
:) -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED]' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'

Re: suidmanager

1999-11-12 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 04:34:22PM +0200, Martin Fluch wrote: On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Marek Habersack wrote: Speaking of suidregister... I find it annoying that it resets the settings I have modified by hand - for example I want the screen utility to be Report it as a bug (wishlist items)

Re: DON'T FORGET TO RESTART EXIM ?

1999-11-12 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 10:49:05PM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: DON'T FORGET TO RESTART EXIM. Does exim run as a daemon on a desktop machines ? [22:31:15 /tmp]$ ps axf | grep exim 5533 ttyp3S 0:00 | \_ grep exim [22:43:38 /tmp]$ Generally it runs from

Re: Drowing in libc differences...

1999-11-09 Thread Ben Collins
On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 10:05:42PM -0500, Andrew Pollack wrote: I've been working with the debian distribution for a bit now, and have almost completed removed NT from my environment (hooray!) --but suddenly run into a difficult problem. I have a vendor application that is certified on

Re: Sparc Potato

1999-11-06 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, Nov 06, 1999 at 03:07:06PM +0100, Sven Esbjerg wrote: Hi Does anyone know what the status of Sparc Potato is? I tried to install it last night but it ended up in a conflict between the kernel version (2.2.1) and libc6 which needed at least kernel 2.2.7. The latter kernel was not

Re: Sources of linux documentation

1999-11-05 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Nov 05, 1999 at 03:50:55AM +, Chris Schleifer wrote: Now you can compile the file debian-tutorial.tex by using latex. In my linux box the compiling process stops because the file html.sty is not installed. Where can this file by obtained from? Is it available in any

Re: Sources of linux documentation

1999-11-05 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Nov 05, 1999 at 03:50:55AM +, Chris Schleifer wrote: Now you can compile the file debian-tutorial.tex by using latex. In my linux box the compiling process stops because the file html.sty is not installed. Where can this file by obtained from? Is it available in any

Re: how to compile packages optimized for Pentium or Pentium-II?

1999-11-05 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Nov 05, 1999 at 09:57:07AM -0600, Brian Boonstra wrote: Ingo wrote: On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 05:08:04PM +0100, Robert Varga wrote: How can I recompile the packages so that they be optimized for running on Pentium or Pentium-II or else? Does that mean that gcc normally is NOT

Re: Where in the debian's gcc is defined the FLT_MAX constant?

1999-11-04 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 01:25:22PM +0100, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: Hi All, I'm just trying to compile the snns program, which uses the MAXFLOAT constant. The maxfloat is defined in the /usr/include/math.h as: #define MAXFLOAT FLT_MAX However the FLT_MAX is not defined at all...

Re: dselect hangs

1999-11-03 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 02:23:51PM -0500, Brian Stults wrote: Dselect is hanging when I do an update. I get the following: Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Merging Available information Replacing available packages info, using /var/cache/apt/available. And

Re: dselect hangs

1999-11-03 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 05:46:33PM -0500, Brian Stults wrote: Ben Collins wrote: On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 02:23:51PM -0500, Brian Stults wrote: Dselect is hanging when I do an update. I get the following: Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Merging

Re: Serious Warning? [SECURITY] New versions of lpr released

1999-10-30 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, Oct 30, 1999 at 09:03:00AM -0700, Pann McCuaig wrote: What's this serious warning business all about? Why should the lpr package care what kernel source package I have installed? (2.0.36 FYI), but I might well want to install lpr with _NO_ kernel source files installed.

Re: passwd

1999-10-25 Thread Ben Collins
On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 09:35:23PM +0200, Vincent Deffontaines wrote: I just found out something I find freak on my debian 2.1 system My root password used to be panoramix2021... Today by mistake I typed panoramix, and got in!!! how comes? is that normal? I dont find it normal actually

Re: Help!!! - Potato upgrade using dselect trashed computer...

1999-10-24 Thread Ben Collins
On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 08:30:23AM -0700, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: Ben, Out of despration, I tried the lines below instead of the ones you gave me. Lines you had me use: auth required pam_unix_auth.so account required pam_unix_acct.so password required

Re: Help!!! - Potato upgrade using dselect trashed computer...

1999-10-23 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 12:19:48AM -0700, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: What is going on? Please help me recover my system. I currently have a single login as root where I was running dselect. I am afraid to log off because I don't want to be locked out permanently. Can you attach all of the

Re: Help!!! - Potato upgrade using dselect trashed computer...

1999-10-23 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 08:51:47AM -0700, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: Ok Ben, here they are. One other thing to note: During the install I had a message with modutils stating that The form: Patch[fs]=/lib/modules/2.2.10 was replaced with the form: Patch[fs]=/lib/modules/2.2.10/fs I

Re: Help!!! - Potato upgrade using dselect trashed computer...

1999-10-23 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 11:44:27AM -0700, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: Ok, I modified the file as you show below. Did you notice that there was a file named other.dpkg-dist that had the following in it? Not sure if this is important or not. auth required pam_unix.so account

Re: dpkg problem

1999-10-22 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 04:43:48PM -0700, Rik Burt wrote: Unfortunately I cannot do anything in dpkg other than get the help listings. All I get is the segmentation faults. Ok, two choices: 1) Open up /var/lib/dpkg/status, and find the package entries for libc6 and dpkg, then give the full

Re: Where is nologin file?

1999-10-22 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 01:01:08AM -0400, Milan Kliska wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a nologin file which gets removed with rmnologin script. Is that just a dummy file or what? I just want root to be able to login to this specific computer. I couldn't find any information about this file, or

Re: dpkg problem

1999-10-21 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 03:57:19PM -0700, Rik Burt wrote: In moving from slink to potato I have managed to break dpkg. Whenever I run dselect or try to 'force' in dpkg I get a segmentation fault. I believe I have exhausted every man page and all documentation on my system. Does anyone

Re: MD5/bigcrypt passwords with potato

1999-10-20 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 08:32:27PM -0600, Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote: I did this on RedHat months ago, and how do I do it in potato? I want passwords longer than 8 chars, whether it be MD5 or bigcrypt or whatever, I don't care how (although I'd like to be able to preserve other people's

Re: dselect

1999-10-17 Thread Ben Collins
On Sun, Oct 17, 1999 at 11:18:35AM -0700, Quoc Nguyen wrote: I am trying to install apache with dselect. I get an error message like this: ERROR: apacheconfig could not be run. It may be the wrong version, or perl may not be fully configured yet. Any insights? as root: chmod +x

Re: dpkg-repack 1.0 bug?

1999-10-15 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 01:11:52AM -, Pollywog wrote: dpkg-repack: Errors were encountered in processing. dpkg-repack: The package may not unpack correctly. Is this a bug? It certainly is not a feature. I assume you are doing this in your home directory. It's caused by the directories

Re: I screwed up w/ shadow passwords

1999-10-15 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 02:06:05AM -0700, Martin Waller wrote: Hello, I have on old 486 on which I installed debian (slink) (any excuse), but forgot my root password. So I went in and edited /etc/passwords, where there were 'x's fro the password fields. Then I changed the root password

Re: libpam0g package bug ?

1999-10-14 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Oct 13, 1999 at 05:53:34PM -0700, aphro wrote: Is it just me or is there something wrong with t his picture: Unpacking replacement libpam0g ... dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libpam0g: libpam0g depends on libpam0g-util (= 0.65-0.9); however: Package

Re: filenames beginning with -

1999-10-10 Thread Ben Collins
On Sun, Oct 10, 1999 at 03:40:41PM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote: Apparently about an hour ago something made a few files in my homedir that began with -, and now I can't read them and can't remove them: 15:30 ~ $ ls total 80 -rw--- 1 alphengl alphengl 226 Oct 10 14:30 -011405

Re: crontab reports: ....

1999-10-09 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, Oct 09, 1999 at 11:54:41AM -0500, Dave Baker wrote: /etc/cron.daily/suidmanager: /usr/sbin/sendmail PERMISSION MISMATCH: was root.root 777 changed to root.root 4755 this may sound stupid... but was does this error message means? This means that suidmanager found a

Re: NIS and groups

1999-10-07 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Oct 07, 1999 at 10:46:14PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all, I ever wondered why I didn't success in adding users to group floppy on our network, until I saw in the Makefile that for security reasons GIDs less than 100 are not included in the NIS distribution. How can I

Re: Sun classic

1999-10-06 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 12:26:11PM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: Ben Collins wrote: IMO, the Debian install is a lot simpler. As I said Debian supports what the kernel supports, which is any sun4c, sun4m, and sun4d (we also support sun4u, ultrasparc, with the proper kernel). SPARC Classic

Re: Sun classic

1999-10-05 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 07:11:33AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: Ben Collins wrote: After booting the rescue disk, the install is pretty much the same as an i386 install. I'm quite familiar with Slackware Linux; is there any difference in the installation procedures between Slackware

Re: Sun classic

1999-10-05 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 07:12:44AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: BTW, why would anyone install the Debian on Suns if the machines come with Solaris right out the boxes? The only reason I'm asking about Debian on Sun is that I think it's an interesting alternative since the Classic where I have an

Re: Sun sparc: no media install? [Re: Sun classic]

1999-10-05 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 09:50:37AM +0200, J Horacio MG wrote: BTW, why would anyone install the Debian on Suns if the machines come with Solaris right out the boxes? The only reason I'm asking about Debian on Sun is that I think it's an interesting alternative since the Classic where I

Re: cu or tip for /dev/ttySx access?

1999-10-03 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 04:36:07PM -0700, Clint Dimick wrote: Is there a package which contains either of these utilities? I wish to connect to a device which is attached via a null-modem cable to my ttyS0 port. Thanks, Not those programs specifically, but I think you will find minicom a

Re: upgrading pppd to 2.3.10 (kernel reports 2.3.7)

1999-10-03 Thread Ben Collins
On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 05:41:17PM -0400, Arcady Genkin wrote: Hi all: I've compiled and installed pppd-2.3.10. Before that I had 2.3.5, that came with Slink, but I uninstalled it. Why do I see the following in my logs: Oct 3 17:34:32 main kernel: CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of

Re: Sun goes fully open source!

1999-10-02 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 01:07:18AM +0100, John Gay wrote: First, IBM, HP, Sun etc . . . join in supporting Linux, Then Apple starts releasing portions of Mac OS, and now . . . Sorry, but this is far from fully open source. If you fix bugs, you are required by the license to report the

Re: ppp refusing connections due to pam

1999-10-02 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 08:39:20AM +0800, Lindsay Allen wrote: Hello Ben, You are quite correct - as usual. It turns out that my caller simply got her name or password wrong. Ahem! It would happen on the first call when I saw UNIX_pam in the logs. Sorry to bother you over this. No

Re: Sun goes fully open source!

1999-10-02 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 04:02:46AM +0100, John Gay wrote: download and run Solaris on my own system, make as many modifications as I like, as long as I don't re-distribute the changes. Sun is only trying to protect it's Not being able to distribute your changes, is not free speech. It's

Re: ppp refusing connections due to pam

1999-10-01 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 10:42:54PM +0800, Lindsay Allen wrote: Hi, I used apt yesterday to upgrade some packages including some libpam packages and now an incoming ppp connection fails with entries like this in the log: Oct 1 21:17:08 elm PAM_unix[25488]: check pass; user unknown Oct

Re: why no package status feature for dpkg?

1999-10-01 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 11:38:22AM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote: On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 11:31:25PM -0400, Russell Nelson wrote: Why does dpkg not have a way to check the cksum's of the package's contents. I deleted a bunch of man pages, and now I find myself having to write perl scripts to

Re: can't make 'su -'

1999-10-01 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 08:05:32PM +0200, erasmo perez wrote: hi *, i made a mistake changing the owner for all the /bin subdirectory (i changed it for the user1 instead of root) and now i can't log as user1 neither i can make su - logged as user2. when i type 'su -' i get the message:

Re: why no package status feature for dpkg?

1999-10-01 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 03:15:30PM -0400, Russell Nelson wrote: Ben Collins writes: Umm, how about installing debsums and read the manpage. Because it's too late? Sounds like I should have had debsums installed from the beginning. Umm, wrong, most packages come with md5sum, please read

Re: Environment Variable weirdness

1999-09-30 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 08:39:48PM -0400, Salman Ahmed wrote: (1) Running Debian 2.1, I noticed sth odd about a couple of environment variables (I am running XFree-3.3.3.1-2). First of all : HOSTTYPE=i386-linux Compilation was for i386 so it would run on more than just pentiums.

Re: Environment Variable weirdness

1999-09-30 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 08:54:11PM -0400, Salman Ahmed wrote: Ben == Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ben Compilation was for i386 so it would run on more than just Ben pentiums. You mean for the initial install off of the CDs (or whatever) ? No I mean when the actual binaries

Re: Security UID, GID?

1999-09-30 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 08:20:39PM -0600, Art Lemasters wrote: One account on my system (e.g., one user in the /home directory) has had its group permission changed to from x to s without my doing so, a couple of times. For example, in the /home directory, one user directory permission

Re: Sun classic

1999-09-30 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 12:35:40PM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: Hi, I'm interested in installing Debian Linux on a Sun Classic. Any pointers will be appreciated. Thanks in advance, Oki There is an install text in /debian/dists/slink/main/disks-sparc. Most likely you will want to download the

Re: su username w/o password in potato

1999-09-30 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 11:13:59AM +0200, Remco van de Meent wrote: Hi, With the 'old' secure-su package, one could su to a user without a password, when set up in /etc/suauth . I was using this quite a lot :) However, with the new PAMified packages, I cannot replicate this

Re: Potato NIS Vs PAM problems

1999-09-30 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 03:18:26PM +0100, Paul M Sargent wrote: I have, what I expect is, a simple problem. I'm trying to set my Potato box to use NIS to do the lookup for /etc/passwd. I have the +:: line at the bottom of my passwd file, and all the yp tools work fine (e.g. 'ypmatch

Re: Potato NIS Vs PAM problems

1999-09-30 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 03:42:14PM +0100, Paul M Sargent wrote: On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 10:23:04AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: Have you tried adding nis to the /etc/nsswitch.conf fields? Note, than the pam_unix.so modules (being that they use standard libc calls for use lookups) recognizes

Re: Potato NIS Vs PAM problems

1999-09-30 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 04:07:01PM +0100, Paul M Sargent wrote: That's incorrect, you can login with a password locally because it then acts like a normal UNIX login. You HAVE to add nis to the nsswitch.conf fields in order to use _any_ programs with NIS. This is not a PAM issue. OK, now

Re: Potato NIS Vs PAM problems

1999-09-30 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 05:44:03PM +0100, Paul M Sargent wrote: On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 12:27:38PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: Ok, I misunderstood what you were trying to explain. The no password login is an issue with the pam_unix.so (I though you were saying you couldn't login at all

Re: What packages are installed?

1999-09-29 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 02:37:08PM +, Jose L Gomez Dans wrote: Hi! I suppose this is a *very* basic question, but is there an easy way to find out what packages are installed? I mean, I can go through /var/lib/dpkg/available and figure it out. However, if it's a very popular

Re: LiLO and Multi distributions

1999-09-28 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 10:19:38PM +0100, Joao Pissarro wrote: Hello all, I have isntalled two distributions of Linux (Reh Hat 6 and Debian 2.1) on two hard disks, just like the following: hda1: Win98 hda3: Debian hdc5: Red Hat I have the joined lilo.conf file, and when I run lilo I

Re: suidregister problem with apt-get upgrade

1999-09-27 Thread Ben Collins
On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 09:42:03AM -0500, Tomislav Renic wrote: Here's a problem for you guys... I tried apt-get update; upgrade this morning on a potato system, and when it came time to install the libc6 package, it exited with an error, telling me that the error came from the postinst

Re: null password

1999-09-27 Thread Ben Collins
On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 02:17:13PM -0400, Bob C. Ruddy wrote: I am setting up an old SparIPC to run debian linux. The main function of this machine to provide ppp login service. I have a user 'ppp' that I need to be able to login without a password. The authentication is then done with pap.

Re: Remote Login

1999-09-25 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 08:04:13AM -0700, j way wrote: Hi, login from ttyS1 is rejected while the same username password are accepted on the main console. Is there some further permission required to enable? Thanks for any help, John. Well, you can't login as root on ttyS1 unless you add

Re: su without password using libpam

1999-09-18 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 09:44:58AM +0200, Andreas Kurth wrote: Ben Collins wrote: Ok correction on this. In the /etc/security/su.allow just put root (who they are allowed to su to). and the add this line: ### auth sufficient pam_listfile.so onerr=fail sense=allow

Re: telnetd-ssl

1999-09-18 Thread Ben Collins
Connection closed by foreign host. Ben Collins: Also could you check the version of the login package you have installed, I have another person who is having problems after upgrading to the latest potato version (19990827-#). dpkg -s says: Version: 980403-0.3.2 Ok, just wanted to make

Re: telnetd-ssl

1999-09-17 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 04:02:40PM +0200, J.H.M. Dassen Ray wrote: On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 15:59:57 +0200, peter karlsson wrote: telnetd: /dev/ttyp2: Permission denied Looks like the permissions on your ttyp devices are wrong; they should look like this: crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty

Re: su without password using libpam

1999-09-17 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 06:29:02PM +0200, Andreas Kurth wrote: Hi, one of the latest potato changes was setting up login and su to use pam-support. Configuration of login and su has now to be done editing the /etc/pam.d/ files. On my privat machine I am used to let trusted users (myself

Re: su without password using libpam

1999-09-17 Thread Ben Collins
Package: libpam-modules Version: 0.69-6 Severity: normal On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 09:12:27PM +0200, Andreas Kurth wrote: Ben Collins wrote: Or you can add this to your /etc/pam.d/su file after the rootok module: ### auth sufficient pam_listfile.so onerr=fail sense=allow

Re: su without password using libpam

1999-09-17 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 11:57:59AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: Package: libpam-modules Version: 0.69-6 Severity: normal On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 09:12:27PM +0200, Andreas Kurth wrote: Ben Collins wrote: Or you can add this to your /etc/pam.d/su file after the rootok module

Re: Linux checks only 8 chars of the password...

1999-09-16 Thread Ben Collins
On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 05:17:43PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote: * Ben Collins said: login-password. I use a much longer password and would like my system to check everything of it. Is there a flag I can set that the whole password is verified? Just take a look at the /etc

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