wishlist Item ( autodial / bandwidth on demand)

[Dimitri]

Here is the thought. 

A linux box can be set to autodial a ppp connection.
How about a linux box being able to dialup a primary ppp connection (
analog modem) and if another connection is initiated and the utilization of
the primary ppp link is greater than some throughput it fires up a
secondary ppp connection ( ISDN in my case)

I am not sure if this can be accomplished with existing linux
tools/utilities... and I am not sure if ISP cooperation is needed for
something like this to work.
It probably sounds like another flavor of multilink PPP which DOES need ISP
cooperation , so it probably won't happen :)

Any ideas/thoughts on the subject are welcome :)


Dimitri P.

Re: installation problem

[Michael B. Taylor]

I have seen circumstances where cfdisk (used by the install program)
would fail, but fdisk would succeed.  Try going to the console and typing
'fdisk'.

Mike


On Tue, Oct 27, 1998 at 12:19:52PM -0800, Artin Nebel Rebekale wrote:
> while installing hamm to my thinkpad laptop i had this odd problem.
> I've already checked the linux/laptop resource pages and they had no 
> solution for this.  Basically i get to the screen to partition the 
> drive, /dev/hda is the only drive i have (and therefore the only one 
> available) but when i choose ok, it just takes me back to the menu. 
> i've tried all the different rescue disks and this same thing 
> happens.  i switched to console 2 and was able to successfully mount 
> the drive and look through it, so the drive does work.  anyone have 
> any ideas?

Re: SATAN

[A. M. Varon]

On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, Mike Holliday wrote:

> I'm having a slight problem installing Satan..when I go to the reconfig
> script..I'm not sure of the command I've used  "sh
> /my/satan/directory/reconfig.sh But it's not moving or showing that it
> is working.

Forget satan.  I managed to compile it... but a PITA. Use nessus
(www.nessus.org) instead, much better.

regards,

== == Andre M. Varon  Lasaltech Incorporated
== == Technical Head  Fax-Tel: (034)435-0836
== = ==
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Re: lynx colours

[Mike Schmitz]

On Tue, Oct 27, 1998 at 05:06:03PM +, Dave Swegen wrote:
> Is there anyone out there who could enlighten me on the topic of colours
> in lynx? IMHO the default colours are dreadful (dark-blue on black,
> anyone?). I have rtfm, but to little avail. This is something that has
> been bugging me for ages, and I would like to sort it out once and for
> all.

In lynx.cfg I changed blue to brightblue and red to brightred.  That made
it readable for me anyway.

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Re: how do I extract a 2.6 gigabyte .tar.gz file ?

[Darxus]

On 27 Oct 1998, Gary L. Hennigan wrote:

> Yikes! 

Yup :)

> I missed your original post. That's what I get for replying to you via
> someone else's reply and not reading the subject closely enough. Duh?
> 
> Where on earth did you store this file? I could've sworn the ext2fs
> had a 2GB/file limit on it? Certainly all the file utilities do. It

fat32 filesystem.

> has to do with the file pointers being 32-bit signed integers. Nothing
> that uses a libc call is going to be able to read beyond 2^31 bits
> (which is exactly 2GB) on a 80x86 based system, e.g.
> Pentium/PentiumII/386/486 based systems.

I figured it would be something very much like that.  Any chance of, say,
changing a variable definition from 32 bit signed to 64 bit signed, and
recompiling libc ?

> | You might think that it would sit there chewing on the file for a bit
> | before it got to some point beyond what it could deal with.  Nope.  Didn't
> | even start -- failed to even open the file up.
> 
> No, compressed files have to be read entirely before being
> uncompressed. Or at least that's a requirement of most compression
> schemes. Don't recall the exact reason though. Something about storing 
> the keys at the end of the file?

Well, I think more than that, the assignment of the pointer to the file
probably failed, before it even got to *try* to find the end of the file.

> | Any more ideas ?  :)
> 
> Only thing I can think of is getting access to a 64-bit machine,
> decompressing the file there, tarring the contents off to tape and
> then restoring them on your machine. Or at least putting them into
> sub-2GB chunks before taking them back.

Hmm, not very likely, unfortunately.  And even if I could get access to
one, it would be quite a bear to transfer the files back & forth

> You might have some luck under Windows, though I have a deep suspicion
> that you'll get the same results?

That's what I'm guessing, but I still haven't gotten to try it.  Made a
brief attempt, but my hardware was not as cooperative as I'd hoped, so
I'll be trying again later.

Any chance I can split this thing into like, 2 pieces, and be able to
access half of it ?

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Re: xf86setup_3.3.2.3a-6

[Ionutz Borcoman]

Jeff Noxon wrote:
> 
> I managed to get things running, but not with x86setup.  I had to tweak
> a lot of stuff by hand and I had to keep going back to find yet another
> X package...
> 

Where can I find this warning message ? 

Also related: how do I know if a ftp site is good for upgrading from ?
It happened for many times that the site I was trying to upgrade from to
have a broken distribution (differences between the real files and the
contents from Packages files).

TIA,

Ionutz

Re: /etc/host.deny and co

[Daniel Martin]

Linh Dang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Thank you very much!
> 
> Another question if you don't mind?
> 
> Someone mentionned ipfwadm. What do you think about it, how does it
> compare
> to tcpwrapper? Does one has to recompile the kernel to use ipfwadm ?

Yes, your kernel has to be compiled to support ipfwadm; no, I don't
know whether or not the default Debian kernel is.

The basic difference is where they operate.  tcpwrappers operates at
the socket level; it gets invoked after a network connection has been
made but before that connection is passed off to the actual program
that does telnet logins, or accepts mail, or ...

ipfwadm puts its blocks in at the kernel level, so that packets trying 
to establish network connections you don't want never make it
through to the kernel logic that would establish a connection.
ipfwadm is most useful when your box is acting as a router, and you
wish to protect machines on one side of the network from machines on
the other side.  But it can also be useful in your case.

As for which is "more secure" - ipfwadm is certainly the one to use
for the ultra-paranoid.  It is possible that a SYN-flood type DOS
attack (an attack where some malicious person tries to initiate as
many connections as possible in rapid succession - the idea isn't to
break in, but just to bog down your machine and so make your life
miserable) could get through on a tcpwrapper-protected machine and be
blocked on an ipfwadm-secured machine.  However, since you are leaving
port 80 (http connections) open anyway, the attacker would just have
to target that port in their SYN flood.  Also, in my case my machine
is just connected through a phone line, and so packets of any kind can 
only reach my machine comparatively slowly.

tcpwrappers provides for more extensive logging of what's going on in
my experience; I have this silly idea that some day I'm going to get
to file a CERT report because some hacker who'd hacked their way
across many systems wound up in my logs.  Hasn't happened yet, but you
never know...

By the way, that hosts.deny line I use is now:
ALL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : rfc931 : spawn ((echo %c %a contacting %d; 
/bin/netstat --inet -n; traceroute -p 31434 %a) 2>&1 | mail root)

The "echo" and dumping to a file in /tmp were earlier debugging
features I meant to change but had never gotten around to.

timezones

[David S. Zelinsky]

Since I dual boot with Win95, I have my hardware clock set to local time.
I don't use Win95 much any more (read: my wife now uses Linux :), so I figure
I might as well change over to UTC, so Linux will handle daylight/standard
time correctly (I hope).

How do I make that change?  I can't find any documentation on this.

--
David Zelinsky
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Australia: Debian CD Retail Re-sellers wanted.

[Tyson Dowd]

Hi,

I'm looking for Debian-friendly people in Australia who would be
interested in re-selling Debian CDs in a retail outlet.
I usually do mail/internet-order Debian CDs (at http://tyse.net),
but people often find it easier to pick them up from a store (they are
often in a rush).

I'm looking for people in cities or large regional centres other
than Melbourne (I already have an outlet in Melbourne).
You need to have a retail front and useful opening hours, and be in a
reasonably central location.  Internet Cafes or software stores would
be excellent choices, but almost any kind of retail store should
be able to do the trick.

Debian CDs will be provided on consignment, you will be listed as
an outlet on the web page.  People who are in a rush to pick
up a CD will be referred to your location.  I'm not asking for
any money up front -- and you will be able to make a percentage on
the CDs, and pay me for those you sell -- if they don't sell you
just have to send them back.

This is nothing fancy -- the CDs are simply burned Debian CDs
with the latest stable distribution on them, or occasionally snapshots
or beta-releases.  If interest continues to rise, I may do some
pressed CDs and printed materials at some point as well.
You aren't expected to provide installation or technical support
(though you can if you like).

I'm doing this because it seems to sell more Debian CDs, which is good
for me, you, and Debian.  If you are interested, let me know where you
are and what kind of store you are running.

-- 
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin

Tyson Dowd   <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>   http://tyse.net

[Fwd: [Fwd: irq timeouts and ide resets]]

[marvin stodolsky]

The following is  liable to be relevant to newer motherboards newer
powersave BIOSs--- Begin Message ---
Thanks Marvin,

I went into the Power Management settings and disabled them all and
sure enough problems have disappeared.  Now if I could just get it to make
coffee in the morning...

Thanks again!

Ben

> > Good Morning,
> > 
> > Has anyone ever encountered an error like this?
> > 
> > hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
> > ide0: reset: success
> > 
> On a Compaq 486 laptop, that type of message appeared under Linux
> until I went into the Setup (at power on) and disabled the Option like:
>   "the drive go to sleep after n minutes without use" 
> Perhaps there is an energy spacer option enabled in your setup BIOS?
> There are kernel build options affecting this, but I have no experience
> with them yet.  Let us know when you work this out.
> 
> MarvS
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Re: how do I extract a 2.6 gigabyte .tar.gz file ?

[Michael Stone]

Quoting Darxus ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Any chance I can split this thing into like, 2 pieces, and be able to
> access half of it ?

First half--no problem; second half--no go. Did you try
  

Fwd: irq timeouts and ide resets

[iodine]

I am having this problem on a IDE MODE4 1gb disk running on a 486 PCI
motherboard.. WIll investigate tonight.. if changing some settings to OFF
will fix it.. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.. Been bugging me..

-Original Message-
From: George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: marvin stodolsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: debian_user 
Date: Wednesday, 28 October 1998 14:42
Subject: Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: irq timeouts and ide resets]]


>On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, marvin stodolsky wrote:
>
>> The following is  liable to be relevant to newer motherboards newer
>> powersave BIOSs
>
>Note: These errors are common on UDMA disks even without any powersaver
>features enabled.
>
>
>
>George Bonser
>
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Fw: [Fwd: [Fwd: irq timeouts and ide resets]]

[iodine]

Thanks to all.. this may fix what I have problems with..

-Original Message-
From: George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: marvin stodolsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: debian_user 
Date: Wednesday, 28 October 1998 14:42
Subject: Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: irq timeouts and ide resets]]


>On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, marvin stodolsky wrote:
>
>> The following is  liable to be relevant to newer motherboards newer
>> powersave BIOSs
>
>Note: These errors are common on UDMA disks even without any powersaver
>features enabled.
>
>
>
>George Bonser
>
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Re: Voodoo 2

[Michael Beattie]

On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, Alvaro Reguly wrote:

> Hello ..
> 
> I've set up q2 and installed libglide2_2.4-3.deb but i can't get my 
> monster II to work .. q2 works only in 320xsomething in 
> +vid_ref soft not vid_ref gl.
> 
> I've read  somewhere that i need to run q2 with a script called 
> quake2.3dfxgl or something like that, but i can't find this script.
> 
> any hint ?

If I have a good memory, glide does not yet support voodoo2. Although I
may not.. You'd have to check the glide homepage. I dont know the URL
offhand.


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hosting

[zhongming]

i want bulte some independent www and email server on one
windowsNT4.0 machine.
anyone can tell me how?
thank you 

fanzhongming

Re: lynx colours

[mwb]

On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, Dave Swegen wrote:

> Is there anyone out there who could enlighten me on the topic of colours
> in lynx? IMHO the default colours are dreadful (dark-blue on black,
> anyone?). I have rtfm, but to little avail. This is something that has
> been bugging me for ages, and I would like to sort it out once and for
> all.
> 
Here's how I've changed my /etc/lynx.conf to contain.  I haven't figured
out what color 3 does.

COLOR:0:black:white
COLOR:1:blue:white
COLOR:2:yellow:blue
COLOR:3:green:white
COLOR:4:brightmagenta:white
COLOR:5:brightblue:white
COLOR:6:brightred:white
COLOR:7:magenta:cyan
#
#0 - Normal text
#1 - Link
#2 - The Info bar at bottom of page
#4 - Bold text
#5 - Bold link
#6 - Current Link
#7 - Searched item
# white seems to be a bit gray
#

Mark

Alt keycodes..

[Michael Beattie]

Is there an equivalent way to use the alt keycodes to enter
highascii?? I remember in windows, Alt- would display lovely
characters... It's more a matter of intertest than anything else. 

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Re: Linux on 4Mb

[G. Crimp]

On Tue, Oct 27, 1998 at 11:49:08AM +0100, Bostjan JERKO wrote:
> Is it possible to install Linux on machine with 4 Mb and of course it should 
> work.
> 
> Bostjan
> 

Don't know about Debian 2.0, but I installed Debian 1.3 on a 486sx
25MHz with 5 MB of RAM and a ~110MB harddrive.  I had about 16MB of memory
after using about 12MB of the harddrive for a swap partition.  And swap it
did, especially when running X.  With a fairly minimal install that included
X-Window I used about 60MB of the harddrive.  When I added the kernel
sources and a graphical card game, about another 15 MB of disk space were
eaten up.

It worked, but couldn't do much with it except play cards :)

Ta,

Gerald

Getting cmucl hemlock to work.

[Christopher Barry]

I grabbed all of the cmucl packages, and the Lisp is working okay but I
can't invoke the hemlock editor no matter how many times I do (ed) or
run cmuclconfig to set up the loading. After running a generic Debian
installation of the packages, what am I supposed to do to get hemlock or
any of the X stuff working?

Also, is this "hemlock" really the best way, or is XEmacs better?

Christopher

Re: My mail doesn't work at all :((((((((((((((( (fwd)

[M.C. Vernon]

On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, George Bonser wrote:

> On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote:
> 
> > 
> > > 
> > > I just installed Exim on a new system. The fix is this:
> > > 
> > > sender_host_accept_relay=127.0.0.1
> > 
> > This still doesn't work :((
> > 
> 
> Ok, then you are getting a new error in the rejectlog, what is this one?

err, no actually. /var/log/exim contains only one rejectlog - and that is
.9.gz and contains three lines:

1998-10-20 02:55:17 refuesed relay (host reject) to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>from
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> H=localhost  [127.0.0.1] http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/
http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/
http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/

Re: My mail doesn't work at all :((((((((((((((( (fwd)

[Steve Lamb]

On Wed, 28 Oct 1998 00:08:18 -0800 (PST), George Bonser wrote:

>On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote:

>> > > > sender_host_accept_relay=127.0.0.1

>Ok then use this:

>sender_host_accept_relay=127.0.0.1:cus.cam.ac.uk

If one is using IPs don't you want to use:

sender_net_accept_relay=127.0.0.1/32

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Re: how do I extract a 2.6 gigabyte .tar.gz file ?

[Andreas Neukoetter]

Hi,


>They are both lovely suggestions, unfortunately the problem is a bit more
>substantial.  The 1st thing I tried was "tar -zxvf home.tgz", and a couple
>of the things I tried soon after that were cat and less.  Neither of which
>read any of it -- less is the only thing that did anything useful, which
>was saying "Cannot seek to that file position" which made me think "hmm,
>did I hear something about stuff not being able to seek past 2gb??"

>You might think that it would sit there chewing on the file for a bit
>before it got to some point beyond what it could deal with.  Nope.  Didn't
>even start -- failed to even open the file up.

>Any more ideas ?  :)

Try to patch your gzip/cat/less (for whatever you have the source).
The kernel definitly can handle files up to 4gig.
i think some "old" tools use "long int" for the filepos ... which gets you into
trouble
when trying to use the high/sign-bit (2 gig => 2^31, 4 gig => 2^32).

i would be more specific ... but i'm at work and only got this f...ing
N(o)T(hanx) Machine :(

i think you should watch out for seek and lseek (or something similar).

btw: please don't mind my "bad english" ... ;)

ciao
Anti

Re: quake 2 on debian

[Frank Barknecht]

Vincent Murphy hat gesagt: // Vincent Murphy wrote:

> exactly what packages will i need?
> i got all the quake2 packages from slink/non-free/binary-i386/quake*
> and hamm/non-free/binary-i386/libglide*.
> what else will i need which is not on the hamm cd?
> i'm getting all the extra stuff i need in college and bringing it home on
> sneakernet :)

quake2_3.19a-1.deb depends on: 
ldso, libc6, svgalibg1 | xlib6g, perl
   BTW: You could get this info yourself with 
   $ dpkg --info quake2_3.19a-1.deb

Other than that you will only need the game "Quake2" from id software wich 
is not available as a debian package ;)

You only need libglide if you have a Voodoo card. If you get no mouse
support in quake, stop gpm before playing:
   $ gpm -k 
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Re: Voodoo 2

[Frank Barknecht]

Alvaro Reguly hat gesagt: // Alvaro Reguly wrote:

> I've set up q2 and installed libglide2_2.4-3.deb but i can't get my 
> monster II to work .. q2 works only in 320xsomething in 
> +vid_ref soft not vid_ref gl.
> 
> I've read  somewhere that i need to run q2 with a script called 
> quake2.3dfxgl or something like that, but i can't find this script.

Maybe someone in 3dfx's linux newsgroup could help you. It's at
news://news.3dfx.com/3dfx.glide.linux
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Re: how do I extract a 2.6 gigabyte .tar.gz file ?

[Keith Beattie]

Darxus wrote:
> > 
> > Where on earth did you store this file? I could've sworn the ext2fs
> > had a 2GB/file limit on it? Certainly all the file utilities do. It
> 
> fat32 filesystem.
[snip]
> Well, I think more than that, the assignment of the pointer to the file
> probably failed, before it even got to *try* to find the end of the file.
> 

Hang on a second here, if the file exceeds the size limit of the file
system, how did it get there in the first place?  If nothing in libc
can grok it, what created it?

Something is amiss here.  What I understand you to be saying is
something like this: "I built a desk in my garage that I want to give
it to a friend but I can't get it out of my garage because it is
bigger than my garage!"

Are you sure the size is truly over 2 Gigs?

How about "od" or writing your own C or perl "cat" program to see
where they fail?

Keith

md driver problem

[Rodrigo Moya]

Hi all!

I've been trying to install Linux (Suse, Debian, RedHat...) in a Pentium MMX
200 with 3 hard disks and a cdrom, but with either distribution, the boot-up
process hangs up in the same place (never mind whether started from DOS boot
disk, Linux boot disk, cdrom...). This is the output I get:


hda: Maxtor 90432D3, 4121MB w/256 cache, CHS=8374/16/63
hdb: SAMSUNG WINNER-3 WN32543A(2.5GB), 2423MB w/109kB cache,
CHS=4924/16/63
hdc: ST3290A, 249MB w/64kB cache, CHS=1001/15/34
hdd: MATSHITA CR-585, ATAPI CDROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1ft,0x3f6 on irq14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177, 0x376 on irq 15
no cont in shutdown
floppy0: FDC access conflict
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
trying to lock fdc while usage count = 0
floppy0: no floppy controllers found
md driver 0.35 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8

Of course I've got a floppy disk controller. I've tried disabling it but the
results are the same. I would appreciate any help because now I've been
trying to install linux in this computer for almost six months and in the
meanwhile I have to use linux on a 386.

Please help me

Regards

Re: md driver problem

[Peter Iannarelli]

hello Rodrigo:

I've never seen problems with a floppy before. Thats a good one.

Try booting a DOS floppy if you can to see what happens.

Try resetting the CMOS to the manufacturers defaults. You may also
try removing the two hard drives on your second IDE chain for the install.
You can reconnect and initialize them once your up and running.

First - check your physical connections. You never know, something may
have shaken loose.

Assuming the FD controller is on the motherboard, you may want to
go to the manufacturer web site as see if there is a firmware update



Peter.



Rodrigo Moya wrote:

> Hi all!
>
> I've been trying to install Linux (Suse, Debian, RedHat...) in a Pentium MMX
> 200 with 3 hard disks and a cdrom, but with either distribution, the boot-up
> process hangs up in the same place (never mind whether started from DOS boot
> disk, Linux boot disk, cdrom...). This is the output I get:
>
> 
> hda: Maxtor 90432D3, 4121MB w/256 cache, CHS=8374/16/63
> hdb: SAMSUNG WINNER-3 WN32543A(2.5GB), 2423MB w/109kB cache,
> CHS=4924/16/63
> hdc: ST3290A, 249MB w/64kB cache, CHS=1001/15/34
> hdd: MATSHITA CR-585, ATAPI CDROM drive
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1ft,0x3f6 on irq14
> ide1 at 0x170-0x177, 0x376 on irq 15
> no cont in shutdown
> floppy0: FDC access conflict
> Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
> trying to lock fdc while usage count = 0
> floppy0: no floppy controllers found
> md driver 0.35 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8
>
> Of course I've got a floppy disk controller. I've tried disabling it but the
> results are the same. I would appreciate any help because now I've been
> trying to install linux in this computer for almost six months and in the
> meanwhile I have to use linux on a 386.
>
> Please help me
>
> Regards
>
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FW: md driver problem

[Andreas Loosen]

Hi, Peter,

It doesn't seen to be a floppy problem but the md-driver seems to hang.

Ciao
Andreas Loosen


> -Original Message-
> From: Peter Iannarelli [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 1998 11:28 AM
> To: Rodrigo Moya
> Cc: Debian User List
> Subject: Re: md driver problem
>
>
> hello Rodrigo:
>
> I've never seen problems with a floppy before. Thats a good one.
>
> Try booting a DOS floppy if you can to see what happens.
>
> Try resetting the CMOS to the manufacturers defaults. You may also
> try removing the two hard drives on your second IDE chain for the install.
> You can reconnect and initialize them once your up and running.
>
> First - check your physical connections. You never know, something may
> have shaken loose.
>
> Assuming the FD controller is on the motherboard, you may want to
> go to the manufacturer web site as see if there is a firmware update
>
>
>
> Peter.
>
>
>
> Rodrigo Moya wrote:
>
> > Hi all!
> >
> > I've been trying to install Linux (Suse, Debian, RedHat...) in
> a Pentium MMX
> > 200 with 3 hard disks and a cdrom, but with either
> distribution, the boot-up
> > process hangs up in the same place (never mind whether started
> from DOS boot
> > disk, Linux boot disk, cdrom...). This is the output I get:
> >
> > 
> > hda: Maxtor 90432D3, 4121MB w/256 cache, CHS=8374/16/63
> > hdb: SAMSUNG WINNER-3 WN32543A(2.5GB), 2423MB w/109kB cache,
> > CHS=4924/16/63
> > hdc: ST3290A, 249MB w/64kB cache, CHS=1001/15/34
> > hdd: MATSHITA CR-585, ATAPI CDROM drive
> > ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1ft,0x3f6 on irq14
> > ide1 at 0x170-0x177, 0x376 on irq 15
> > no cont in shutdown
> > floppy0: FDC access conflict
> > Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
> > trying to lock fdc while usage count = 0
> > floppy0: no floppy controllers found
> > md driver 0.35 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8
> >
> > Of course I've got a floppy disk controller. I've tried
> disabling it but the
> > results are the same. I would appreciate any help because now I've been
> > trying to install linux in this computer for almost six months
> and in the
> > meanwhile I have to use linux on a 386.
> >
> > Please help me
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > --
> > Unsubscribe?  mail -s unsubscribe
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Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: irq timeouts and ide resets]]

[schulte]

According to George Bonser:
> 
> On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, marvin stodolsky wrote:
> 
> > The following is  liable to be relevant to newer motherboards newer
> > powersave BIOSs
> 
> Note: These errors are common on UDMA disks even without any powersaver
> features enabled.

I had these errors with two Seagate disks (850 MB, 2.3 GB) when they shared
the _same_ IDE channel (/dev/hda, /dev/hdb). When the 2.3 GB disk was moved
to the other channel (/dev/hdc) as _master_, the problem disappeared 
completely. The second disk tolerates an IDE CD-ROM as slave. 
(Kernel 2.0.36pre15, AMD K6-233, Soyo 5TF (?) Triton board).

kws

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Re: FW: md driver problem

[Peter Iannarelli]

Hay all:

I think md is for the ramdisk.
how much memory is available ?

Peter


Andreas Loosen wrote:

> Hi, Peter,
>
> It doesn't seen to be a floppy problem but the md-driver seems to hang.
>
> Ciao
> Andreas Loosen
>
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Peter Iannarelli [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 1998 11:28 AM
> > To: Rodrigo Moya
> > Cc: Debian User List
> > Subject: Re: md driver problem
> >
> >
> > hello Rodrigo:
> >
> > I've never seen problems with a floppy before. Thats a good one.
> >
> > Try booting a DOS floppy if you can to see what happens.
> >
> > Try resetting the CMOS to the manufacturers defaults. You may also
> > try removing the two hard drives on your second IDE chain for the install.
> > You can reconnect and initialize them once your up and running.
> >
> > First - check your physical connections. You never know, something may
> > have shaken loose.
> >
> > Assuming the FD controller is on the motherboard, you may want to
> > go to the manufacturer web site as see if there is a firmware update
> >
> >
> >
> > Peter.
> >
> >
> >
> > Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all!
> > >
> > > I've been trying to install Linux (Suse, Debian, RedHat...) in
> > a Pentium MMX
> > > 200 with 3 hard disks and a cdrom, but with either
> > distribution, the boot-up
> > > process hangs up in the same place (never mind whether started
> > from DOS boot
> > > disk, Linux boot disk, cdrom...). This is the output I get:
> > >
> > > 
> > > hda: Maxtor 90432D3, 4121MB w/256 cache, CHS=8374/16/63
> > > hdb: SAMSUNG WINNER-3 WN32543A(2.5GB), 2423MB w/109kB cache,
> > > CHS=4924/16/63
> > > hdc: ST3290A, 249MB w/64kB cache, CHS=1001/15/34
> > > hdd: MATSHITA CR-585, ATAPI CDROM drive
> > > ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1ft,0x3f6 on irq14
> > > ide1 at 0x170-0x177, 0x376 on irq 15
> > > no cont in shutdown
> > > floppy0: FDC access conflict
> > > Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
> > > trying to lock fdc while usage count = 0
> > > floppy0: no floppy controllers found
> > > md driver 0.35 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8
> > >
> > > Of course I've got a floppy disk controller. I've tried
> > disabling it but the
> > > results are the same. I would appreciate any help because now I've been
> > > trying to install linux in this computer for almost six months
> > and in the
> > > meanwhile I have to use linux on a 386.
> > >
> > > Please help me
> > >
> > > Regards
> > >
> > > --
> > > Unsubscribe?  mail -s unsubscribe
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
> >
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Re: md driver problem

[Rodrigo Moya]

>Try booting a DOS floppy if you can to see what happens.
I've been using all this time Windows on this computer, and the floppy works
perfectly well. Usually, I start the installation process by booting with a
DOS disk, and then executing boot.bat from the cd.

>Try resetting the CMOS to the manufacturers defaults. You may also
>try removing the two hard drives on your second IDE chain for the install.
>You can reconnect and initialize them once your up and running.
Well, now I've got four disks, but before I had only one and the CD and the
results were worst, since the installation process used to stop after
detecting the disks.

>Assuming the FD controller is on the motherboard, you may want to
>go to the manufacturer web site as see if there is a firmware update
What do you mean by firmware update?

Thanks very much

Re: md driver problem

[Rodrigo Moya]

>It doesn't seen to be a floppy problem but the md-driver seems to hang.
Sorry for me being stupid, but what exactly is the MD-driver?

Thanks very much

Re: FW: md driver problem

[Rodrigo Moya]

>I think md is for the ramdisk.
>how much memory is available ?
I've got 64MB of memory

Thanks

mutt won't send mail?

[Victor Torrico]

Hello,

I recently installed mutt_0.94.14-2.deb.

Everything works OK except sending Mail.

I get the following error message when I send mail:

"Error sending message, child exited 127 ()."

All help appreciated.

Best regards,

Victor

Re: FW: md driver problem

[Peter Iannarelli]

Rodrigo

You certainly have lots of RAM.
Disconnect  the two HDs on the 2nd IDE chain and try again.

Check the manufacturers WEB site for firmware updates.

Peter


Rodrigo Moya wrote:

> >I think md is for the ramdisk.
> >how much memory is available ?
> I've got 64MB of memory
>
> Thanks
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RE: md driver problem

[Andreas Loosen]

The Multiple-Device-Driver for HD-Mirroring and Striping

Ciao
Andreas Loosen
 

> -Original Message-
> From: Rodrigo Moya [mailto:Moya_Rodrigo/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 1998 11:45 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: md driver problem
> 
> 
> >It doesn't seen to be a floppy problem but the md-driver seems to hang.
> Sorry for me being stupid, but what exactly is the MD-driver?
> 
> Thanks very much
> 
> 

Re: md driver problem

[Rodrigo Moya]

>The Multiple-Device-Driver for HD-Mirroring and Striping
So, what does this mean? What should I change in the BIOS or wherever?

Re: mutt won't send mail?

[James Dietrich]

On Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 05:57:53AM -0500, Victor Torrico wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I recently installed mutt_0.94.14-2.deb.
> 
> Everything works OK except sending Mail.
> 
> I get the following error message when I send mail:
> 
> "Error sending message, child exited 127 ()."
> 
> All help appreciated.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Victor
> 
> 
> -- 
> Unsubscribe?  mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
> 
> 

I really don't like adding a "me too", but it does this for me, as well.

I might add that sending mail with the 'mail' command (at the command line)
works just fine, so it's not a problem with the MTA.

TIA

James

Re: md driver problem

[Peter Iannarelli]

Hi

Some time back I had a problem with a mother board running linux.
Specifically, the kernel was not seeing the PS/2 mouse. The manufacturer
(tyan) had a new firmware version for that motherboard on their site.
I applied it an low and behold, the PS/2 mouse started working.

The BIOS/CMOS settings  tells the kernel what hardware is present
and its attributes. This could be the problem. I don't know.

Another approach is to resolving the problem you have is to simplify
and identify. Remove all hardware which is not necessary to boot.
Reconnect the equipment, one-by-one. When the problem returns,
you know what the problem is.

Peter


Rodrigo Moya wrote:

> >The Multiple-Device-Driver for HD-Mirroring and Striping
> So, what does this mean? What should I change in the BIOS or wherever?
>
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Re: FW: md driver problem

[Pierre Blanchet]

> 
> Hi, Peter,
> 
> It doesn't seen to be a floppy problem but the md-driver seems to hang.
> 
> Ciao
> Andreas Loosen
> 

I think it's not an md problem but rather the next driver to be loaded 
in the 
kernel that used to be WD-7000 SCSI card driver. It take sometimes a long time 
(2-3mins) before it realize there's no WD-7000.
If waiting a few minutes does not help, try to put Linux reserve=0x350
in order to tell the driver not to probe this adress (this might be one of the 
following:
0x0300, 0x0308, 0x0310, 0x0318, 0x0320, 0x0328, 0x0330, 0x0338,
0x0340, 0x0348, 0x0350, 0x0358, 0x0360, 0x0368, 0x0370, 0x0378,
0x0380, 0x0388, 0x0390, 0x0398, 0x03a0, 0x03a8, 0x03b0, 0x03b8,
0x03c0, 0x03c8, 0x03d0, 0x03d8, 0x03e0, 0x03e8, 0x03f0, 0x03f8
, sorry don't know exactly what's the good one)

Pierre Blanchet.
> 
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Peter Iannarelli [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 1998 11:28 AM
> > To: Rodrigo Moya
> > Cc: Debian User List
> > Subject: Re: md driver problem
> >
> >
> > hello Rodrigo:
> >
> > I've never seen problems with a floppy before. Thats a good one.
> >
> > Try booting a DOS floppy if you can to see what happens.
> >
> > Try resetting the CMOS to the manufacturers defaults. You may also
> > try removing the two hard drives on your second IDE chain for the install.
> > You can reconnect and initialize them once your up and running.
> >
> > First - check your physical connections. You never know, something may
> > have shaken loose.
> >
> > Assuming the FD controller is on the motherboard, you may want to
> > go to the manufacturer web site as see if there is a firmware update
> >
> >
> >
> > Peter.
> >
> >
> >
> > Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all!
> > >
> > > I've been trying to install Linux (Suse, Debian, RedHat...) in
> > a Pentium MMX
> > > 200 with 3 hard disks and a cdrom, but with either
> > distribution, the boot-up
> > > process hangs up in the same place (never mind whether started
> > from DOS boot
> > > disk, Linux boot disk, cdrom...). This is the output I get:
> > >
> > > 
> > > hda: Maxtor 90432D3, 4121MB w/256 cache, CHS=8374/16/63
> > > hdb: SAMSUNG WINNER-3 WN32543A(2.5GB), 2423MB w/109kB cache,
> > > CHS=4924/16/63
> > > hdc: ST3290A, 249MB w/64kB cache, CHS=1001/15/34
> > > hdd: MATSHITA CR-585, ATAPI CDROM drive
> > > ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1ft,0x3f6 on irq14
> > > ide1 at 0x170-0x177, 0x376 on irq 15
> > > no cont in shutdown
> > > floppy0: FDC access conflict
> > > Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
> > > trying to lock fdc while usage count = 0
> > > floppy0: no floppy controllers found
> > > md driver 0.35 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8
> > >
> > > Of course I've got a floppy disk controller. I've tried
> > disabling it but the
> > > results are the same. I would appreciate any help because now I've been
> > > trying to install linux in this computer for almost six months
> > and in the
> > > meanwhile I have to use linux on a 386.
> > >
> > > Please help me
> > >
> > > Regards
> > >

RE: [SuSE Linux] "bitmap" to outline postscript

[Ted Harding]

On 19-Oct-98 I wrote:
> Does anyone know of a package that can take a "bitmapped"
> black-and-white image and produce PostScript "outline" code which would
> draw the equivalent?

I am most obliged to everyone who responded to the above request.

Several people suggested Corel Draw or other commercial software (which
does not as yet, it seems, run under LInux). However, I donot propose to
go down such roads as yet.

Special thanks to Karl Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, joint creator of
GNU fontutils, for drawing my attention to this (which seems made for the
job).

In its original (1992) form, however, this does not compile easily
(i.e. for me not at all) under Linux. I am therefore also grateful
to Oliver Corff, [EMAIL PROTECTED], for his work in changing
it so that it does compile more easily. However, this is for RedHat-5.1,
and it still did not compile on my SuSE-5.1. This may have been a glibc
problem. Anyway, with a few changes I was able to get Oliver's version to
compile. Details are as follows:

Get Oliver's version (gnu fontutils-0.6 for Linux) from
  http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~corff/fontutils/*

Untar. If necessary, change GNUmakefile.in to reflect your basic X
directories (you will probably find that the default /usr/X11R6/lib/X11,
/usr/X11R6/include and /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults need no change).

Also (and you probably will need to make this change) in two places
in GNUmakefile.in replace /usr/local/tex.local by wherever your TeX texmf
tree is. Namely, at line 30 I changed
  texmf_prefix = /usr/local/tex.local
to
  texmf_prefix = /usr/lib/teTeX/texmf"
and at line 59 I changed
  default_tfm_path = /usr/local/tex.local/fonts//:.
to
  default_tfm_path = /usr/lib/teTeX/texmf/fonts//:.

Finally (and this is where the possible glibc issue arises), in the file
lib/fmod.c at and around line 53, I removed everything to do with the line
  extern int isnan(),finite();
The reason is that math.h, already included, defines these as macros and
the compiler treats the above occurrences as cpp macro calls, with
unwanted results.

After these changes were made, I got a clean compilation. Now I only need
to find out how to really use the fontutils!

Best wishes to all,
Ted.


E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 28-Oct-98   Time: 12:37:22

Re: My mail doesn't work at all :((((((((((((((( (fwd)

[M.C. Vernon]

On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, George Bonser wrote:

> On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote:
> 
> > > > > sender_host_accept_relay=127.0.0.1
> 
> Ok then use this:
> 
> sender_host_accept_relay=127.0.0.1:cus.cam.ac.uk
> 
> OR
> 
> local_domains=cus.cam.ac.uk
> 
> IF
> 
> ALL mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] is to be delivered on this very
> machine.

Which it isn't - that's a very old log (but the only one on my system. I
tried Steve's suggestion of 

sender_host_accept_relay=127.0.0.1/32
 
and then 
/etc/init.d/netbase stop
/etc/init.d/netbase start (this starts the inetd daemon which includes
exim)

But still no joy - nothing in /var/log/exim/reject.log (the file doesn't
exist), and I get  a bounced message:

This message was created automatically my mail delivery software.

A message that you sent could not be delivered to all of its recipients.
The following address(es) failed:

  [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
SMTP error from remote mailer after end of data:
host taurus.cus.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.48]:
550 rejected:
cannot route to sender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Sorry to keep on, but this is begginning to really bug me :(

Matthew


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PostScript <-> Acrobat

[Nuno Carvalho]

Hi,

 Is there any package which convert postscript format for acrobat !?

 Thanks.

 Best regards,
   Nuno Carvalho

?
   Nuno Emanuel F. Carvalho
 Dep. Informatics Engineering
University of Coimbra

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?

Re: PostScript <-> Acrobat

[Michael Stone]

Quoting Nuno Carvalho ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>  Is there any package which convert postscript format for acrobat !?

gs-alladin will do it, and contains a ps2pdf script to automate the
process.

Mike Stone

Re: PostScript <-> Acrobat

[E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)]

> 
> Hi,
> 
>  Is there any package which convert postscript format for acrobat !?

Yes.  It is called `ps2pdf' and it is included in the gs-aladdin debian
package from the non-free section.

HTH,
Eric

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Re: conflicts in Debian Distributions

[Kenneth Scharf]

Hello,

Antti-Juhani wrote on debian-user:
> On Mon, Oct 26, 1998 at 11:05:42AM -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote:
...
> > I would agree however, that a good description of each package would
> > help you decide what to install.
> 
> Please tell me, what you would consider a good description!  Feel free
> to pick some packages and rewrite their descriptions; you can post the
> results here (or to debian-devel, if you prefer) for public scrutiny.

I can't speak for Kenneth, but one thing I find is that there are
very little comparative descriptions (or else I haven't found them).

This makes it a bit hard to decide, say, which news transport I want.
Each of them says basically "this is a better news transport program,
replaces c-news". But which one should I get for my system? (Home
computer, regularly dials into two ISPs, doesn't feed anyone.)


Is that roughly what you were complaining about?
===
Exactly.  The descriptions are not really that bad, but not good
enough for a new user to pick what he needs.  I thought that the
debian website had a better package list with a searchable database,
which is the tool that the new user could really use.  Also when I try
to install some package obtained by ftp (using dpkg -i) and it
complains of a missing lib or other file I need to know what package
provides the missing file(s).





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Re: PostScript <-> Acrobat

[Nuno Carvalho]

On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Michael Stone wrote:

> Quoting Nuno Carvalho ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> >  Is there any package which convert postscript format for acrobat !?
> 
> gs-alladin will do it, and contains a ps2pdf script to automate the
> process.

 Thanks. :)) I will try it ! :

 Best regards,
   Nuno Carvalho

Re: how do I extract a 2.6 gigabyte .tar.gz

[Kenneth Scharf]

Where on earth did you store this file? I could've sworn the ext2fs
had a 2GB/file limit on it? Certainly all the file utilities do. It
has to do with the file pointers being 32-bit signed integers. Nothing
that uses a libc call is going to be able to read beyond 2^31 bits
(which is exactly 2GB) on a 80x86 based system, e.g.
Pentium/PentiumII/386/486 based systems.

==
Does this mean that there is a 2gb limit on any individual file, or
that the ENTIRE file system can't be larger than 2gb.  If the latter
than does that mean that a linux disk partition can't be larger than
2GB in size?  My '/' partition is 4gb large.  Am I throwing away the
last 2gb?

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extended 2 limits

[E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)]

> 
> 
> 
> Where on earth did you store this file? I could've sworn the ext2fs
> had a 2GB/file limit on it? Certainly all the file utilities do. It
> has to do with the file pointers being 32-bit signed integers. Nothing
> that uses a libc call is going to be able to read beyond 2^31 bits
> (which is exactly 2GB) on a 80x86 based system, e.g.
> Pentium/PentiumII/386/486 based systems.
> 
> ==
> Does this mean that there is a 2gb limit on any individual file, or
> that the ENTIRE file system can't be larger than 2gb.  If the latter
> than does that mean that a linux disk partition can't be larger than
> 2GB in size?  My '/' partition is 4gb large.  Am I throwing away the
> last 2gb?

>From http://www.redhat.com:8080/HyperNews/get/fs/ext2intro.html:

Minix FS  Ext FS  Ext2 FS  Xia FS
Max FS size  64 MB 2 GB4 TB 2 GB
  Max file size  64 MB 2 GB2 GB 64 MB
  Max file name  16/30 c   255 c   255 c248 c
3 times support  NoNo  Yes  Yes
 Extensible  NoNo  Yes  No
Var. block size  NoNo  Yes  No
 Maintained  Yes   No  Yes  ?

So, partitions can be upto 4 TB, files upto 2 GB.

HTH,
Eric

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Printing to a Novell network printer

[Clovis Sena]

Hi all,

so is that possible? How can I print to Novell network printer, where i
put the queues?

NOTE: I work in a environment that includes Win95+dos6.22 as clients,
Win NT and Novell 3.12 as servers ( running a mix of database+ intranet
nad internet access + mail(most uses outlooks/messenger) )   ; so I
would like to introduce Linux as a option as server ( files + web
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Re: how do I extract a 2.6 gigabyte .tar.gz file ?

[Hamish Moffatt]

On Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 12:53:53AM -0800, Keith Beattie wrote:
> Darxus wrote:
> > > 
> > > Where on earth did you store this file? I could've sworn the ext2fs
> > > had a 2GB/file limit on it? Certainly all the file utilities do. It
> > 
> > fat32 filesystem.

> Hang on a second here, if the file exceeds the size limit of the file
> system, how did it get there in the first place?  If nothing in libc
> can grok it, what created it?

Perhaps it's still ON the fat32 file system.

Mind you, it's a bit of a worry we are being outdone by Windows.
A 2Gb limit is almost unreasonable these days; I have some 400-500Mb
MPEG video files here, so a 2Gb one isn't out of the question,
especially with DVD.


Hamish
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Configuring a mail client II

[Clovis Sena]

Hi everybody,

I am sending this again cause I did not any good answers!!Sorry for
that.


I did install debin with Xwindows, and am trying to configure a mail
client
that can access a acount other than my server machine, say a preexistent 
mail acount that i've been using prior using Linux. I tried a client XMH
e XMAILTOOL.

If this is not the best clients, please tell me one that be easy to
use/configure 
( remenber that to end users it's the most important...) 

The best is if I could configure several mail accounts in this same
client ( if the user has [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] and
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ) with diferents users/servers ? Is
it possible???

Now the easy: How can i manage ( include/exclude )the users accounts in
smail??? I tryied to configure it, but something dont work ok, cause it
finished configuring without i have configured any user email account ??
any ideas???  must i edit some file and insert this informations by
myself?

NOTE: I work in a environment that includes Win95+dos6.22 as clients,
Win NT and Novell 3.12 as servers ( running a mix of database+ intranet
and internet access + mail(most uses outlooks/messenger) )   ; so I
would like to introduce Linux as a option as server ( files + web
services) and as workstation ( that needs access all of these resources.
)

Its driving me crasy! So it's why I need helP :>).

I apreciate any help that you could give me!!!

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Re: FW: md driver problem

[Nathan E Norman]

On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Peter Iannarelli wrote:

 : Hay all:
 : 
 : I think md is for the ramdisk.

No, md is "Multiple Device Driver".  Usually it's the NEXT driver that's
hanging, and that's almost always a SCSI driver.

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Using debian as a file server

[Clovis Sena]

Hi all, 

what do I need to make a win95 to see and uses my Debian as a file
server A print server is also available?? how can I configure all of
it??

Any help is wellcome!!!Thanks.Clovis Sena.



NOTE: I work in a environment that includes Win95+dos6.22 as clients,
Win NT and Novell 3.12 as servers ( running a mix of database+ intranet
and internet access + mail(most uses outlooks/messenger) )   ; so I
would like to introduce Linux as a option as server ( files + web
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Re: Using debian as a file server

[servis]

*- Clovis Sena wrote about "Using debian as a file server"
| Hi all, 
| 
| what do I need to make a win95 to see and uses my Debian as a file
| server A print server is also available?? how can I configure all of
| it??
| 
| Any help is wellcome!!!Thanks.Clovis Sena.
| 
| 
| 
| NOTE: I work in a environment that includes Win95+dos6.22 as clients,
| Win NT and Novell 3.12 as servers ( running a mix of database+ intranet
| and internet access + mail(most uses outlooks/messenger) )   ; so I
| would like to introduce Linux as a option as server ( files + web
| services) as workstation ( that needs access to all of these resources.)
| Its driving me crasy! So that's why I need helP :>).

Install the samba package.  Then read the docs in /usr/doc/samba there
are more than enough documents in there.  You also should look at
/usr/doc/HOWTO/SMB-HOWTO.gz, and of course the samba man page and all
the man pages that it refers too.  There is also a great web site with
lots of mirrors at http://samba.anu.edu.au/samba/.

If you are running hamm then install the samba package from slink as it
is the latest stable release from the samba team(1.9.18p10).

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mutt won't send mail

[Tad R. Thurston]

Sirs,

I had the same problem with mutt (child exiting, error 127()) and found
that it was trying to call /usr/bin/sendmail instead of /usr/sbin/sendmail.
I believe this has now been patched, but a logical link from 
/usr/bin/sendmail to the one in /usr/sbin works for me for the present
version.
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Re: exim filters and/or procmail

[Lee Bradshaw]

On Mon, Oct 26, 1998 at 08:33:19PM -0800, George Bonser wrote:
> BTW your mail is probably in smail's input queue. Try running smail -v -q

Thanks, that worked. I switched to smail temporarily and then back to exim.

I use fetchmail to get some of my mail. exim got the first few messages,
but now it refuses the next message in the queue. Is there a way to
get exim to accept this message? I didn't see this mentioned in the
fetchmail section of the FAQ. I'll switch back to smail again so I can
get clean out my POP queue.

Message with strange address that exim is rejecting:

  fetchmail: POP3> RETR 1
  fetchmail: POP3< +OK 2249 octets
  reading message 1 of 72 (2249 bytes)
  fetchmail: SMTP< 220 freefall ESMTP Exim 1.92 #1 Wed, 28 Oct 1998 08:19:38 
-0500
  fetchmail: SMTP> EHLO freefall
  fetchmail: SMTP< 250-freefall Hello freefall [192.168.1.7]
  fetchmail: SMTP< 250-SIZE
  fetchmail: SMTP< 250-PIPELINING
  fetchmail: SMTP< 250 HELP
  fetchmail: forwarding to freefall
  fetchmail: SMTP> MAIL FROM:<@pop.mindspring.com> SIZE=2249
  fetchmail: SMTP< 501 <@pop.mindspring.com> : colon expected after route
  fetchmail: SMTP error: 501 <@pop.mindspring.com> : colon expected after route
  fetchmail: SMTP> MAIL FROM: SIZE=2249
  fetchmail: SMTP< 501  : sender address must contain a domain
  fetchmail: SMTP error: 501  : sender address must contain a domain
  fetchmail: POP3> QUIT
  fetchmail: POP3< This message was created automatically by mail delivery 
software.
  fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from pop.mindspring.com
  fetchmail: SMTP> QUIT
  fetchmail: SMTP< 221 freefall closing connection
  fetchmail: normal termination, status 10

After switching to smail and retreiving the message, I noticed that
was generated by exim at work. (I fixed the .forward file that was
causing this message.) Here is the message in the smail input queue
after retreiving it with smail:

!mail
!8 8
!-oem
!-f
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
!-oMs
!freefall
!-oMa
!192.168.1.7
!-oMr
!esmtp
!-oMP
!smail
!<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Status: R
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for  (single-drop); Wed, 28 Oct 1998 08:51:46 EST
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On Tue, Oct 27, 1998 at 07:53:08AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> # Exim filter
> if error_message then finish endif
> 
> if $h_X-Mailing-List: contains debian-user or
>$h_X-Mailing-List: contains debian-changes 
> then 
>save /home/servis/Mail/debian 
> endif
> 
> if $h_X-Mailing-List: contains debian-devel 
> then 
>save /home/servis/Mail/debian-devel 
> endif

Thanks, that's a good starting point. I'll try it when I get exim working
again.

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wmaker icons

[Tim \(the Unslept\) Sailer]

I somehow/somewhere/sometime lost my wmaker-* xpm, png and tif files... I guess
across an upgrade somehow. Can someone tarball them up from their system
and send them to me? I'll put them in a private dir. I really liked some of
then... besides, now my wmaker has blank tiles instead of nice color pics
:)

Tim

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Unidentified subject!

[Darxus]

From: Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> Quoting Darxus ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > Any chance I can split this thing into like, 2 pieces, and be able to
> > access half of it ?
> 
> First half--no problem; second half--no go. Did you try
>  
> Try to patch your gzip/cat/less (for whatever you have the source).

hey, I'm running Debian, I can get all source :)

But would I need to patch gzip/tar/cat/less, or would it be libc I'd be
patching ?  I'm guessing libc... and how much of a bear is that to
recompile ?  

> The kernel definitly can handle files up to 4gig.
> i think some "old" tools use "long int" for the filepos ... which gets
> you into trouble
> when trying to use the high/sign-bit (2 gig => 2^31, 4 gig => 2^32).

Is it safe to just use an unsigned long (is the +/- bit being used ?) ?

Wait... is there a signed integer type larger than a signed long ?

--

From: Keith Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> Hang on a second here, if the file exceeds the size limit of the file
> system, how did it get there in the first place?  If nothing in libc
> can grok it, what created it?

I created it on a fat32 filesystem with a command similar to:
tar -zcvf /mnt/c/home.tgz /home

with a fat32 filesystem mounted at /mnt/c

> Something is amiss here.  What I understand you to be saying is
> something like this: "I built a desk in my garage that I want to give
> it to a friend but I can't get it out of my garage because it is
> bigger than my garage!"

Yeah, something like that.  Aparently tar/gz don't have a problem
continuing to append to files as they go over 2gb, as long as they were
less when the file was originally opened (in this case, 0).

> Are you sure the size is truly over 2 Gigs?

ls -l
total 2699568
-rwxrwxr-x   1 root root   735435 Oct 10 19:14 etc.tgz
-rwxrwxr-x   1 root root 293212 Oct 10 21:10 home.tgz
-rwxrwxr-x   1 root root 96898501 Oct 10 19:43 old.tgz
-rwxrwxr-x   1 root root20829 Oct 10 19:14 root.tgz

> How about "od" or writing your own C or perl "cat" program to see
> where they fail?

od home.tgz
000

I'm not familiar w/ od, but I'm guessing that output means it wasn't all
that successful...

I'm pretty confident I know where it's failing -- I have recollections of
code segments, it's just been a while since I've seen them.  I'm guessing
it's where it originally tries to open the file.
 
--

From: Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> Perhaps it's still ON the fat32 file system.

Yup, I had tried copying it back to my ext2 filesystem, and it ended up
iwth a file size of 0.


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Re: dselect can't download Packages.gz

[Paul Quinn]

Thanks for the offer Peter, but this isn't a newbie issue for me. I've been 
using debian for 2 years and never encountered this problem before. For a 
temporary workaround I downloaded the entire stable debian distro and am using 
dselect via the 'mounted' method. But this is impracticle and static, which is 
why I need to get dselect going via 'ftp'. 
Is there any settings or script I can edit for dselect? Any way to force it to 
download the Packages which dselect itself knows is there? Any fix for dselect 
(or is it dpkg-ftp's fault)?

Paul Quinn


>>> Peter Iannarelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 10/27 3:22 PM >>>
Hi Paul:

Try ftp.debian.org.

Assuming your the Corel in Ottawa.
I'm going to be in Ottawa on Sunday. If all else fails
I can burn a CD for you. Let me know.

Peter


Paul Quinn wrote:

> Here's what I get from dselect using the ftp method:
>
> Enter ftp site [ftp.us.debian.org]:
>
> Use passive mode [y]:
>
> Enter username [anonymous]:
>
> If you are using anonymous ftp to retrieve files, enter your email
> address for use as a password.  Otherwise enter your password,
> or "?" if you want dpkg-ftp to prompt you each time.
>
> Enter password [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 
>
> Enter debian directory [/debian]:
> Go through an authenticated FTP proxy [n]:
>
> Note: order here is important.  Package files are scanned in order so
> later distributions will override earlier ones.
>
> So put stable before unstable.
>
> Enter space seperated list of distributions to get
> [dists/stable/main dists/stable/non-free dists/stable/contrib]:
>
> Enter directory to download binary package files to
> (relative to /var/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/)
> [debian]:
>
> Using FTP to check directories...(stop with ^C)
>
> Connecting to ftp.us.debian.org...
> Login as anonymous...
> Setting transfer mode to binary...
> Cd to `/debian'...
> Checking dists/stable/main/binary-i386...
> Checking dists/stable/non-free/binary-i386...
> Checking dists/stable/contrib/binary-i386...
> Closing ftp connection...
>
> Now when I Update...:
>
> Getting Packages files...(stop with ^C)
>
> Connecting to ftp.us.debian.org...
> Login as anonymous...
> Setting transfer mode to binary...
> Cd to `/debian'...
>
> Checking for Packages file... Couldn't find Packages.gz in
> dists/stable/main/binary-i386 or dists/stable/main; ignoring.
>
> Checking for Packages file... Couldn't find Packages.gz in
> dists/stable/non-free/binary-i386 or dists/stable/non-free; ignoring.
>
> Checking for Packages file... Couldn't find Packages.gz in
> dists/stable/contrib/binary-i386 or dists/stable/contrib; ignoring.
>
> Any Ideas?
> Paul
>
> >Hay Paul:
> >
> >We maintain a debian mirror over here. I just checked everything and all 
> >looks fine.
> >When your specifying your distribution root, you should use /pub/debian.
> >Everything is relative from that point forward. ie dists/stable/main ...
> >
> >Peter
> >
> >
> >
> >Paul Quinn wrote:
> >
> >> Hello Peter,
> >> I've tried several debian sites: ftp.debian.org   ftp.us.debian.org   
> >> debian.crosslink.net
> >> They all produce the same results... This has to be a dselect or dpkg-ftp 
> >> problem, but I don't know where to go from >there.
> >>
> >> Paul
> >>
> >> >>> Peter Iannarelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 10/27 11:07 AM >>>
> >> Hi Paul:
> >>
> >> That not very good. From what are you installing ?
> >>
> >> Peter
> >>
> >> Paul Quinn wrote:
> >>
> >> > I'm trying to use dselect with the ftp method for accessing debian 
> >> > packages. I use a correct site and dist names (the >Access step complete 
> >> > successfully), but the Update step fails to retrieve the Packages.gz 
> >> > files. It complains that it can't >find Packages or Packages.gz in any 
> >> > of the main/non-free/contrib trees, which I and the Access step both 
> >> > verified are >there.
> >> > Any help to this?
> >> >
> >> > Paul Quinn
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > Unsubscribe?  mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
> >
>
>   
>
> Subject: Re: dselect can't download Packages.gz
> Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 12:14:49 -0500
> From: Peter Iannarelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Organization: GenX Internet Laboratories Inc.
> To: Paul Quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Hay Paul:
>
> We maintain a debian mirror over here. I just checked everything and all 
> looks fine.
> When your specifying your distribution root, you should use /pub/debian.
> Everything is relative from that point forward. ie dists/stable/main ...
>
> Peter
>
> Paul Quinn wrote:
>
> > Hello Peter,
> > I've tried several debian sites: ftp.debian.org   ftp.us.debian.org   
> > debian.crosslink.net
> > They all produce the same results... This has to be a dselect or dpkg-ftp 
> > problem, but I don't know where to go from there.
> >
> > Paul
> >
> > >>> Peter Iannarelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 10/27 11:07 AM >>>
> > Hi Paul:
> >
> > That not very good. From what are you installing ?
> >
> > Peter
> >
> > Pa

Re: Using debian as a file server

[Kent West]

Clovis Sena wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> what do I need to make a win95 to see and uses my Debian as a file
> server A print server is also available?? how can I configure all of
> it??
> 
> Any help is wellcome!!!Thanks.Clovis Sena.
> 
> NOTE: I work in a environment that includes Win95+dos6.22 as clients,
> Win NT and Novell 3.12 as servers ( running a mix of database+ intranet
> and internet access + mail(most uses outlooks/messenger) )   ; so I
> would like to introduce Linux as a option as server ( files + web
> services) as workstation ( that needs access to all of these resources.)
> Its driving me crasy! So that's why I need helP :>).

I'm sure others will give you better answers. Basically you need Samba
running on your Linux box. This will allow it to look like an NT server
to Win95/98/NT boxes. I'm too new at Linux to be of much help, but
here's what I know.

Install Samba (run dselect and search [the / key] for Samba). After it's
installed, the configuration is done in /etc/smb.conf. Here's an
excellent snippit from a posting by Fredrik Ax a month or two ago:

> If you use "security = share" no user/password information at all is
> needed to access the public shares on the machine. But if you like to
> restrict the access you will have to do it for each and every share in
> /etc/smb.conf
> 
> shares example:
> 
> [publicro]
>   comment = Public read only
>   browseable = yes
>   read only = yes
>   public = yes
>   path = /public_readable_path
> 
> [publicrw]
>   comment = Read/write for all
>   browseable = yes
>   writable = yes
>   public = yes
>   path = /public_writable_path
> 
> [studentfolder]
>   comment = Read/write for user student
>   browseable = yes
>   writable = yes
>   public = no
>   path = /student_path
>   valid users = student
> 

In addition to these configurations, there's something about creating a
password file for Samba. Some of the documentation is wrong in Samba's
docs. AFAIK, the only way to generate the password file is to use the
smbpasswd command. It works something like "smbpasswd john_doe_user";
this asks you for a password for John Doe User. Note this password is a
different password than his login password, although you can set it to
the same thing. In other words, you can specify the same password for
both login and samba, but when he changes one, he doesn't change the
other automatically.

Assuming your Linux box is named dangermouse, and using the snippet
above, you can then go to a Win95 box and map a drive to
\\dangermouse\publicro.

Hope this at least gets you going in the right direction.

Re: clearing screen after logout & login screen

[stick]

jim r said
> How do I clear the screen after logout? so...instead of walking up on 
> the remnants of the X server terminating and a login prompt, all that 
> shows on the screen is the login prompt... what script is it? 
> 
Personally, I don't like the shell-specific solutions.  As system 
administer I like having this sort of configuration as simple as possible.
I equate this as meaning one or fewer places - if you implement the
bash_logout solutions then you'll have to implement the equivalent
solution for [t]csh, and what about zsh and rsh and ...

> For that matter, how can I change the login prompt itself?both lines 
> (Debian GNU/Linux (name) ttyX and login: )?
> 
Do it all in /etc/issue*.  (There are version's of getty that automatically
clear teh screen, but that doesn't address the changing the text, so you
still end-up editing/maintaining these files.)

I setup /etc/issue* like such:

lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root9 Oct 27 22:45 issue -> issue.pnd
-rw-rw-r--   1 root root   25 Apr 26  1998 issue.dpkg-orig
-rw-rw-r--   1 root root 1403 Sep 15 00:02 issue.linux
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   11 Sep 28 23:19 issue.net -> issue.linux
-rw-rw-r--   1 root root 2290 Oct 28 01:14 issue.pnd

Any editing can be done off-line and to change the file all I have to
do remove and recreate the appropriate sym-link.

I've played around a bit with various files, here's one that uses several
ANSI features including Characterset change, color, bold and blink attributes,
and most of the variables supported by getty: System Name(\s), OS Release
Number(\r), Machine Architecture(\m), OS vesion and Build Date(\v),
Nodename(\n), TTY Line Name(\l), Domainname(\o), Line's Baud Rate(\b),
Date(\d), Time(\t), Number of Users(\u).  (I ommitted \U...)

The ESCapes have been changed to '^['...

Copyright 1998 Charles A. Stickelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
This file is covered by version 2 (or any later version) of the GPL.
^[[H ^[[J ^[(U ^[[31;40;1m
^[[1;1H
^[[2;1H? ^[[2;80H?
^[[3;1H
^[[4;1H? ^[[4;80H?
^[[5;1H
^[[6;1H? ^[[6;40H? ^[[6;80H?
^[[7;1H? ^[[7;40H? ^[[7;80H?
^[[8;1H? ^[[8;40H? ^[[8;80H?
^[[9;1H? ^[[9;40H? ^[[9;80H?
^[[10;1H
^[[11;1H? ^[[11;40H? ^[[11;80H?
^[[12;1H? ^[[12;40H? ^[[12;80H?
^[[13;1H? ^[[13;40H? ^[[13;80H?
^[[14;1H? ^[[14;40H? ^[[14;80H?
^[[15;1H
^[[16;1H? ^[[16;80H?
^[[17;1H? ^[[17;80H?
^[[18;1H? ^[[18;80H?
^[[19;1H
^[[20;1H? ^[[20;40H? ^[[20;80H?
^[[21;1H? ^[[21;40H? ^[[21;80H?
^[[22;1H
^[[23;1H? ^[[23;40H? ^[[23;80H?
^[[24;1H
^[[2;22H^[[32;1;5mWELCOME^[[0;1;37m
^[[2;30Hto ^[[36mDebian GNU/\s Release^[[37m: ^[[33m2.0^[[37m
^[[4;3HBrought to you by:
^[[6;3H^[[36mSoftware In The Public Interest^[[37m
^[[7;3HP.O. Box 70152
^[[8;3HPt. Richmond, CA 94807-0152 USA
^[[9;3H
^[[6;42H^[[36mFree Software Foundation^[[37m
^[[7;42H59 Temple Place - Suite 330
^[[8;42HBoston, MA 02111-1307 USA
^[[9;42H+1-617-542-5942
^[[11;3H^[[36mOpen Software Developers Worldwide^[[37m
^[[12;3HThe world owes a giant "Thank You!"
^[[13;3Hto Linus Torvalds et. al. for their
^[[14;3HHUGE investment of time and energy!
^[[11;42H^[[36mPractical Network Design^[[37m
^[[12;42H9 Chambers Road
^[[13;42HMansfield, OH 44906-1301 USA
^[[14;42H+1-419-529-3841
^[[16;3HSystem Information:
^[[17;3H^[[36m\s Kernel Version^[[37m:^[[33m \r^[[37m-^[[33m\m
^[[18;3H^[[36mBuild Info^[[37m:^[[33m \v
^[[20;3H^[[36mSystem Name^[[37m:^[[33m \n
^[[20;42H^[[36mTerminal^[[37m:^[[33m \l
^[[21;3H^[[36mDomain Name^[[37m:^[[33m \o
^[[21;42H^[[36mLine Speed^[[37m:^[[33m \b
^[[23;3H^[[36mDate/Time^[[37m:^[[33m \d \t
^[[23;42H^[[37m^[[36mCurrent Users^[[37m:^[[33m \u
^[[24;80H^[[0m

It's been said that this is a bit over the top...too much late-night time
on my hands...maybe I should try sleep...na...

Chuck

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How do you make the X Icons, Fonts, Everything bigger

[Joe Smith]

Whenever I run Windows in 1024x768 mode, I get decent 
quality fonts and icons in terms of size.

how can i run x in the same mode with much larger fonts
and icons?




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How to check for new packages at debian.org ??

[Andreas Neukoetter]

Hello,

is there it tool which allows me to check for new packages at debian.org ??

i simply want to get a list of _all_ packages that are newer than the ones on
the last (official) cd.

i've got a very fast connection at work so it would be very easy to update my
"mirror" (at home).
(it's not a real mirror ... it's just an archive of _all_ packages ...)

since i've got to use N(o)T(hanx) at work i can't use a simple script :8

any ideas ???

kind regards / mit freundlichen gruessen
Andreas Neukoetter

Re: How to check for new packages at debian.org ??

[Nikolai Andreyevich Luzan]

On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Andreas Neukoetter wrote:

> is there it tool which allows me to check for new packages at debian.org ??
> i simply want to get a list of _all_ packages that are newer than the ones on
> the last (official) cd.
> i've got a very fast connection at work so it would be very easy to update my
> "mirror" (at home).
> (it's not a real mirror ... it's just an archive of _all_ packages ...)
> since i've got to use N(o)T(hanx) at work i can't use a simple script :8
> any ideas ???
apt-get update :) if you point it at the right place apt will get the
list of current packages for you, my /etc/apt/sources.list file looks
like this:

deb http://ftp.questnet.net.au/debian unstable main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.questnet.net.au/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.questnet.net.au/debian-non-US stable/binary-i386/
deb http://ftp.questnet.net.au/debian-non-US unstable/binary-i386/

but it cam be just as easily pointed at any mirror you want :) 

Nikolai

lost mail

[chadi]

Hi !
  due to a power failure i lost some email from this list.  id very much like 
it if someone can send in all messages regarding that question on sample 
/etc/hosts.deny & co. config ... denying all telnet & ftp access.
  thanks,
Chad

guilemots (<<) from a US AT keyboard

[Richard E. Hawkins Esq.]

Help!

On the one hand, if anyone needs mail-merge, I now  have a working 
patch to lyx that does it.

On the other, I need to use european quotes (guillemots (sp)), those << 
and >>, as delimiters.  How in the world do i enter them from a US 
keyboard.

To make it more fun, it's an AT keyboard--one alt on the left, control 
where it belongs, and capslock in the lower right.  No extra compose 
key or windows key.

Can I use xmodmap to make shift-alt-< and > do this?

rick

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Re: lost mail

[Stephen A. Witt]

On Thu, 29 Oct 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Hi !
>   due to a power failure i lost some email from this list.  id very much like 
> it if someone can send in all messages regarding that question on sample 
> /etc/hosts.deny & co. config ... denying all telnet & ftp access.
>   thanks,
> Chad
> 

Are you aware that all messages from this list are archived at the Debian
web sites, such as  ?  Might I
suggest that you go there and pickup any messages that you may have missed
or that are of interest to you.  There is a pretty good search facility at
the bottom of the page.  This list is busy enough without repeating mail.

RE: conflicts in Debian Distributions

[Person, Rod]

This morning I was rebuilding my system and I selected perl and
perl-base. And a got a strange conflict dependency error. It said:

perl (version numbers from hamm stable) depends on perl-base.
perl-base conflicts with perl

I don't understand that one. But it would not install them.

Rod Person

"Humanity is the biggest cancer ever to be seen!"
-Alx Hellid 
 Contempt

> --
> From: Jiri Baum[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 1998 2:17 PM
> To:   Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho; [EMAIL PROTECTED];
> debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject:  Re: conflicts in Debian Distributions
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Antti-Juhani wrote on debian-user:
> > On Mon, Oct 26, 1998 at 11:05:42AM -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote:
> ...
> > > I would agree however, that a good description of each package
> would
> > > help you decide what to install.
> > 
> > Please tell me, what you would consider a good description!  Feel
> free
> > to pick some packages and rewrite their descriptions; you can post
> the
> > results here (or to debian-devel, if you prefer) for public
> scrutiny.
> 
> I can't speak for Kenneth, but one thing I find is that there are
> very little comparative descriptions (or else I haven't found them).
> 
> This makes it a bit hard to decide, say, which news transport I want.
> Each of them says basically "this is a better news transport program,
> replaces c-news". But which one should I get for my system? (Home
> computer, regularly dials into two ISPs, doesn't feed anyone.)
> 
> 
> Is that roughly what you were complaining about?
> 
> Jiri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 

wmaker 0.20.2

[Mike Wood]

Is this package broken?  This morning I did a apt-get upgrade and
now wdm and wmaker no longer work.  Is anybody else seeing this problem?
I can provide more info upon request.

mike...

Re: how do I extract a 2.6 gigabyte .tar.gz file ?

[Rainer Clasen]

Hi!

Darxus ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > | Any more ideas ?  :)
> > 
> > Only thing I can think of is getting access to a 64-bit machine,
> > decompressing the file there, tarring the contents off to tape and
> > then restoring them on your machine. Or at least putting them into
> > sub-2GB chunks before taking them back.

I don't know how to get it there, but you might be able to read it from a
raw device (/dev/hdd /dev/nst0 ...)

Maybe this works: Since you have it on fat32: defragment this file, find
where it is located and use dd if=/dev/hd?? skip=XX count=YY | zcat | tar...




Rainer

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Re: conflicts in Debian Distributions

[Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho]

Please, if you are cc:-ing me, only cc my reply-to address.

On Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 11:46:32AM -0500, Person, Rod wrote:
> This morning I was rebuilding my system and I selected perl and
> perl-base. And a got a strange conflict dependency error. It said:
> 
> perl (version numbers from hamm stable) depends on perl-base.
> perl-base conflicts with perl
> 
> I don't understand that one. But it would not install them.

Perl-base has a versioned conflict to perl, ie it conflicts only with
sufficiently old perl.  So, your perl is too old for perl-base.

Can you tell me which versions of perl and perl-base you have selected
and which versions you have installed?  How were you trying to install
the new ones, with dselect or by hand, or with apt?



Antti-Juhani
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**

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Trust the FAQ.

Re: wmaker 0.20.2

[Marcelo E. Magallon]

On Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 08:50:02AM -0800, Mike Wood wrote:

>   Is this package broken?  This morning I did a apt-get upgrade and
> now wdm and wmaker no longer work.  Is anybody else seeing this problem?
> I can provide more info upon request.

Yes. I totally screwed up this time. I can reupload libwraster1 or recompile
wdm. I have done the later. The new package is available from 

http://master.debian.org/~mmagallo/pacakges/wdm/

That should solve the problem.


Marcelo

Re: wmaker icons

[Marcelo E. Magallon]

On Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 11:02:33AM -0500, Tim the Unslept Sailer wrote:

> I somehow/somewhere/sometime lost my wmaker-* xpm, png and tif files... I 
> guess
> across an upgrade somehow. Can someone tarball them up from their system
> and send them to me? I'll put them in a private dir. I really liked some of
> then... besides, now my wmaker has blank tiles instead of nice color pics
> :)

Another one of my screw ups this week. wmaker-data moved the icons from
/usr/X11R6/include/X11/pixmaps/ to /usr/share/icons; I thought about that,
but I did only half the thinking :-( Update your IconPath in
~/GNUstep/Defaults/WindowMaker to include this path.

Moral: don't package things half asleep. Do it either completely awake or
completely asleep. :-)

I'm really sorry, 


Marcelo

smail statistics

[Pere Camps]

Hi!

Anybody know of a log file parser for smail that shows some nice
statistics that can be put on the web?

Something like analog for apache, but for smail.

Thanks!

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Re: how do I extract a 2.6 gigabyte .tar.gz file ?

[Kenneth Scharf]

Perhaps it's still ON the fat32 file system.

Mind you, it's a bit of a worry we are being outdone by Windows.
A 2Gb limit is almost unreasonable these days; I have some 400-500Mb
MPEG video files here, so a 2Gb one isn't out of the question,
especially with DVD.


-
Pehaps it's time for the ex3fs?  Hmmm, might look at the source for
ex2fs (and all utilities) for file pointers and change the type to
long int (64 bit int anyway).  Probably not as simple as that, but it
sure needs to be done.  

I wonder what happens now if I try to create a tar image over 2gb (on
my tape drive, that is).  Probably will work since the image is never
really a file as long as it stays on the tape.



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web mail

[Pere Camps]

Hi!

Does anybody know of a program I can install on my system that
will give my users web mail capabilites? 

Something like hotmail but without slowness and ads.

TIA!

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Re: My mail doesn't work at all :((((((((((((((( (fwd)

[M.C. Vernon]

On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, George Bonser wrote:

> On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote:
> 
> > A message that you sent could not be delivered to all of its recipients.
> > The following address(es) failed:
> > 
> >   [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> > SMTP error from remote mailer after end of data:
> > host taurus.cus.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.48]:
> > 550 rejected:
> > cannot route to sender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > 
> > Sorry to keep on, but this is begginning to really bug me :(
> 
> 
> Oh, it looks like you configured the system for local mail only. This
> means that it can not send mail to any sites except localhost. Rerun
> eximconfig with the --force option and tell it you are an internet site or
> a site with a smarthost and give it your ISP's or campus' mailhost as the
> smarthost.

Nope - I've just run eximconf again, and said I'm an internet site. No joy
(BTW - this was how it was set up originally) - exactly the same errors :(

Matthew

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Corrupted links in rcXXX.d in Debian2.0

[MarioGiammarco]

Hello to everyone,

I have corrupted by mistake links in /etc/rcXXX.d.

How can I reconstruct the right links to reflect my actual setup?

Thank You in advance for your replies

Mario Giammarco 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: colors in text-mode

[Adrian Bridgett]

On Tue, Oct 27, 1998 at 12:30:56PM -0800, jim r wrote:
> Once more the newbie asks a question:
> 
> I was wonderinghow might I get the login prompt to use some colors? 
> nothing fancy...just the text in a color other than white.

Use something gross like this in /etc/issue (but leave issue.net without the
hackery):

This is \n running Debian \s. Linux kernel is 
\r.
It is \t on \d and you are logging in on \l.

I think "man 5 termcap" lists those funky numbers.

NB: The whole prompt is in bold (aka bright colours).

Adrian

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Re: web mail

[m*]

On Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 05:31:30PM +, Pere Camps wrote:
.Hi!
.
.   Does anybody know of a program I can install on my system that
.will give my users web mail capabilites? 
.

you hit the nail on the head when you said Webmail!

see http://www.woanders.de/~wastl/webmail/

i haven't installed this yet but it looks nice, is written in perl,
has MIME support, and has language options for English, German, Italian 
and Swedish.

pretty cool.

freshmeat.net probably has other solutions as well.

thx,

m*

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Mirrors

[Stephen A. Witt]

I'm mirroring the binary-i386 portion of the Debian distribution on a
machine at work because my company (actually huge corporate entity) has a
firewall, naturally.  Moreover, this firewall has some very non-standard
proxies that I have not been able to get to work with the apt method of
dselect.  My mirror machine has a modem and that gives me normal access to
the Internet (though very slow), but at least I have a machine within the
company intranet that has a Debian distribution that I can use to support
my other machines.

My question has to do with the naming of directories in the Debian
distribution.  I've been mirroring 'stable' now for a while --
main/binary-all, main/binary-i386, contrib/binary-all,
contrib/binary-i386, and non-free/binary-all, non-free/binary-i386.  Now I
decided to start mirroring 'unstable', with the same portions of the
distribution as above.  But I'm running into problems because 'stable' and
'unstable' are soft links to 'hamm' and 'slink' I guess and in
unstable/main/binary-all/ there are links to
hamm/main/binary-all/ instead of to
stable/main/binary-all/.  When mirror tries to link the files
it fails on my system because I don't have a hamm directory, only stable.  
So this seems to mean that I must not use 'stable' and 'unstable', but
'hamm' and 'slink'.

So I guess if I want to mirror only part of the distribution (binary-all
and binary-i386) I need to manually add the soft links between the code
name of the distribution (e.g. slink) and the canonical name of the
distribution (e.g. unstable).  I was trying to stay away from the code
names and use only the canonical names.  Is this right?

Re: web mail

[Martin Bialasinski]

>> "PC" == Pere Camps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

PC> Does anybody know of a program I can install on my system that
PC> will give my users web mail capabilites? 

www.atdot.org

I wanted to try it myself, but didn't find the time to do it.

Ciao,
Martin

Problems with Networks

[Paul \"Baloo\" Johnson]

Ok, Ive tried and tried looking through all the support stuff on the
Debian site, but I just can't figure out how to get my Intel EtherExpress
PRO/10+ Adapter to work.  Intels site wasn't informative, either...
Please help!

Baloo
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mirrors

[Gary L. Hennigan]

"Stephen A. Witt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| I'm mirroring the binary-i386 portion of the Debian distribution on a
| machine at work because my company (actually huge corporate entity) has a
| firewall, naturally.  Moreover, this firewall has some very non-standard
| proxies that I have not been able to get to work with the apt method of
| dselect.  My mirror machine has a modem and that gives me normal access to
| the Internet (though very slow), but at least I have a machine within the
| company intranet that has a Debian distribution that I can use to support
| my other machines.
|
| My question has to do with the naming of directories in the Debian
| distribution.  I've been mirroring 'stable' now for a while --
| main/binary-all, main/binary-i386, contrib/binary-all,
| contrib/binary-i386, and non-free/binary-all, non-free/binary-i386.  Now I
| decided to start mirroring 'unstable', with the same portions of the
| distribution as above.  But I'm running into problems because 'stable' and
| 'unstable' are soft links to 'hamm' and 'slink' I guess and in
| unstable/main/binary-all/ there are links to
| hamm/main/binary-all/ instead of to
| stable/main/binary-all/.  When mirror tries to link the files
| it fails on my system because I don't have a hamm directory, only stable.
| So this seems to mean that I must not use 'stable' and 'unstable', but
| 'hamm' and 'slink'.
|
| So I guess if I want to mirror only part of the distribution (binary-all
| and binary-i386) I need to manually add the soft links between the code
| name of the distribution (e.g. slink) and the canonical name of the
| distribution (e.g. unstable).  I was trying to stay away from the code
| names and use only the canonical names.  Is this right?

I'm only mirroring hamm, but I think the best way to do it is to copy
the structure on the Debian ftp site. They have stable and unstable as
soft links to hamm and slink, respectively. So what I do is:

% ls -l /debian/dists
drwxr-xr-x   6 glhenni  user   512 Oct 22 01:52 hamm/
drwxr-xr-x   2 glhenni  user   512 Oct 22 13:35 slink/
lrwxr-xr-x   1 glhenni  user 4 Sep 24 13:31 stable -> hamm/
lrwxr-xr-x   1 glhenni  user 5 Sep 21 14:49 unstable -> slink/

and I actually mirror the named directory, in this case "hamm". I
manually created the "stable" and "unstable" soft links so that
dselect and apt would work properly. Note, again, that even though I
have a "slink/unstable" pair I'm not really mirroring them, yet. So
the relevant part of my mirror config file looks like:

package=Debian-hamm
  passive_ftp=0
  remote_dir=/debian/dists/hamm
  local_dir=/debian/dists/hamm
  exclude_patt=.*\/binary-alpha\/.*|&
   .*\/binary-m68k\/.*|&
   .*\/binary-powerpc\/.*|&
   .*\/binary-sparc\/.*|&
   .*\/disks-alpha\/.*|&
   .*\/disks-m68k\/.*|&
   .*\/disks-sparc\/.*|&
   .*\/source\/.*

Of course having to manually create the soft links isn't exactly
elegant but that's the price I pay for not mirroring the entire Debian 
site.

Gary

FW: mail failed, returning to sender

[Mario Bertrand]

I debian users,

Can anybody give me a explanation for that returned email? If you get my email,
of course :-), I will try direct smtp instead of smail.

Thanks

-FW: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>-

Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 13:07:58 -0500 (EST)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: mbert
Subject: mail failed, returning to sender

|- Failed addresses follow: -|
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... transport smtp: 550
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... we do not relay
|- Message text follows: |
Received: by localhost
via smail from stdin
id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Debian Smail3.2.0.101)
for ; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 13:07:51 -0500 (EST) 
Content-Length: 17
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2 [p0] on Linux
X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 13:07:51 -0500 (EST)
From: Mario Bertrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[body not included]


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Envoyé par Xfmail, le 28-Oct-98 à 13:47:19
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apropos in man corrupted ! - howto fix ?

[Geoffrey L. Brimhall]

At some point, my apropos has gotten corrupted so that it never returns
anything.

I've tried un-installing man-db, and re-installing it, but it apropos still
does not work.

Though I'm not sure if this has anything to do with it, when I issue 'catman' as
super-user, I get the following error:

catman: cannot read database /var/catman/index.bt: No such file or directory
catman: unable to update /usr/man
catman: cannot read database /var/catman/local/index.bt: No such file or
directory
catman: unable to update /usr/local/man
catman: cannot read database /var/catman/X11R6/index.bt: No such file or
directory
catman: unable to update /usr/X11R6/man

At one point I had suspected that maybe a slink upgrade which I did caused the
corruption, so I have downgraded to installing the man-db that came with hamm.

Re: Problems with Networks

[Lee Bradshaw]

On Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 12:24:23PM -0600, Paul Baloo Johnson wrote:
> Ok, Ive tried and tried looking through all the support stuff on the
> Debian site, but I just can't figure out how to get my Intel EtherExpress
> PRO/10+ Adapter to work.  Intels site wasn't informative, either...
> Please help!
> 
> Baloo
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Did you compile the driver as a module or into the kernel? You might
need to turn on experimental support for this card.

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Re: **IMPORTANT** Slink sendmail and libdb2

[John Goerzen]

Remco van de Meent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Tue, Oct 27, 1998 at 08:35:35AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
> 
>  : Would it be possible for the sendmailconfig to update these databases? 
>  : It wouldn't be that hard, I think.  Also, how about updating the defailts
>  : so that they are stored in /etc/mail instead of /etc?
> 
> They default to /etc/mail, except for aliases.db, which should be in /etc
> (Debian Policy, 4.5).

I know what policy says, but this is not how it works.  mailertable,
etc. are in /etc and not /etc/mail.

> Because of the different db-structures you can use (hash, btree, etc.), I'd
> say don't let an automatic install program update those databases. It should
> even be able to process customized sendmail.cf's in order to work without
> failure. I personally wouldn't want any program changing those databases
> itself...

It's a pain to manually have to run a long makemap command each time
something is updated.  There has GOT to be a better way...



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Re: lprng and disabling network printer

[Rene Hojbjerg Larsen]

Pere Camps wrote:
>   How do you disable the 'printer' port for remote connections if
> you're using lprng?

Edit /etc/lpd.perms so it has a couple of lines saying sth. like this

# reject all connections from remote machines
ACCEPT SERVICE=X HOST=localhost
REJECT SERVICE=X

and make sure that you have no other `SERVICE=X' lines in that file.
Also, these lines should appear before the `DEFAULT' line.  Now you can do
a `/etc/init.d/lprng reload', and remote connections will be blocked.
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Re: FW: mail failed, returning to sender

[Samuel Tardieu]

> "Mario" == Mario Bertrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Mario> I debian users, Can anybody give me a explanation for that
Mario> returned email? If you get my email, of course :-), I will try
Mario> direct smtp instead of smail.

There's a good chance that the problem doesn't come from you, but from 
the targeted email address.

  Sam

PS/ no need to copy debian-french when you write in english :)
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Netscape and gunzip

[Armin Joellenbeck]

Hello,

I'm missing in Netscape the feature to gunzip downloaded files on the fly.
I'm sure to have seen this in non-Debian installations. How it could be setup.

Armin Joellenbeck 

Re: modem connection speed

[Manoj Srivastava]

Hi,
>>"Michael" == Michael Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

 Michael> If you are using chat, pass it the '-v' option.

I am passing the -v option to chat, and indeed, I am also
 using W2S95=47 (I have a rockwell chip modem). plog does not have
 that, but /var/log/ppp.log does indeed have the strings from chat.

What I need to do is set up the following REPORT lines in the
 chat script: 

/usr/sbin/chat $DEBUG -r/var/log/dspeed \
TIMEOUT 55 \
REPORT CONNECT \
REPORT CARRIER \
REPORT PROTOCOL \
REPORT COMPRESSION \
ABORT "NO CARRIER" \
ABORT BUSY \
ABORT "NO DIAL TONE" \
ABORT ERROR \
'' ATDT$phone CONNECT  \c

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Re: mutt won't send mail

[Victor Torrico]

Quoting Tad R. Thurston ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Sirs,
> 
> I had the same problem with mutt (child exiting, error 127()) and found
> that it was trying to call /usr/bin/sendmail instead of /usr/sbin/sendmail.
> I believe this has now been patched, but a logical link from 
> /usr/bin/sendmail to the one in /usr/sbin works for me for the present
> version.

I made the link you suggested and this fixed the problem.

Thanks,

Victor

HP_Deskjet890

[Knutte Bergstrom]

Need help.

I am not get my printer to print
lpr.log says "cannot execv /etc/magicfilter/dj550c-filter

if i remove from /etc/printcap the line
"if=/etc/magicfilter/"
the printer works, but with a blank printout

there is no communication problem !!
so far i now the dj550c-filter is the right filter to use

anyone who has an idea ?

using kernel 2.1.125

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Re: Printing to a Novell network printer

[Sergey V Kovalyov]

One option is to install Novell-nfs on the Netware server. It includes
lpd. At least that what we do at NYU to enable Windows, Mac and Unix to
print. 

Sergey.

On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Clovis Sena wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> so is that possible? How can I print to Novell network printer, where i
> put the queues?
> 
> NOTE: I work in a environment that includes Win95+dos6.22 as clients,
> Win NT and Novell 3.12 as servers ( running a mix of database+ intranet
> nad internet access + mail(most uses outlooks/messenger) )   ; so I
> would like to introduce Linux as a option as server ( files + web
> services) as workstation ( that needs access all of these resources. Its
> driving me crasy! So I need helP :>).

Debian Questions

[wtopa]

Would someone knowledgeable in debian'ese answer a couple of
questions.

1. The debian policy manual Section 3.4 System Run Levels talks about
symbolic links in the /etc/rcn.d directories.  All of my rc[0-S].d
directories are empty.  Upateprc.d man page says updates those same
directories.  It doesn't do that on my slink setup.  Am i reading this
all wrong?

2. As I have decided to use qmail as my MTA, I am having problems
installing, from slink or stable, any MUA's or procmail.  I had a
problem with the slink version of mutt so compiled and installed my
own.  Now I want to instal procmail but, of course, it won't install
because it needs an MTA and doesn't know about qmail.  I can't seem to
find any info as to how to force an install and ignore dependicies.
Have I missed something here also?

Thanks for any pointers you may know about.

Wayne

  
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Re: mutt won't send mail?

[wtopa]

I had the same problem as well. I thought I had done something wrong
with my qmail setup ( I had. forgot to install maildirsmtp) but that
didn't fix it.  I them compiled up mutt-0.93.2.tar.gz and installed
it.  That fixed the problem for me.  Might the -94xxx.deb possibly be 
bad?



Subject: Re: mutt won't send mail?
Date: Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 06:43:24AM -0500

In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> 
> On Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 05:57:53AM -0500, Victor Torrico wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I recently installed mutt_0.94.14-2.deb.
> > 
> > Everything works OK except sending Mail.
> > 
> > I get the following error message when I send mail:
> > 
> > "Error sending message, child exited 127 ()."
> > 
> > All help appreciated.
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > 
> > Victor
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Unsubscribe?  mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
> > 
> > 
> 
> I really don't like adding a "me too", but it does this for me, as well.
> 
> I might add that sending mail with the 'mail' command (at the command line)
> works just fine, so it's not a problem with the MTA.
> 
> TIA
> 
> James
> 
> 
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Re: **IMPORTANT** Slink sendmail and libdb2

[Richard A Nelson]

Sendmail slowly is moving everything to /etc/mail - but they haven't hit
all the databases yet.

I can update the features for Debian, and move the default files from
/etc/ to /etc/mail/

Without parsing /etc/mail/sendmail.mc, I can't tell what type of
encoding is used for the databases, so I don't think I can do the
makemaps automagically ;-{

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On 28 Oct 1998, John Goerzen wrote:

> Date: 28 Oct 1998 13:02:19 -0600
> From: John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Remco van de Meent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: **IMPORTANT** Slink sendmail and libdb2
> Resent-Date: 28 Oct 1998 19:02:26 -
> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Resent-cc: recipient list not shown: ;
> 
> Remco van de Meent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, Oct 27, 1998 at 08:35:35AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
> >
> >  : Would it be possible for the sendmailconfig to update these databases? 
> >  : It wouldn't be that hard, I think.  Also, how about updating the defailts
> >  : so that they are stored in /etc/mail instead of /etc?
> >
> > They default to /etc/mail, except for aliases.db, which should be in /etc
> > (Debian Policy, 4.5).
> 
> I know what policy says, but this is not how it works.  mailertable,
> etc. are in /etc and not /etc/mail.
> 
> > Because of the different db-structures you can use (hash, btree, etc.), I'd
> > say don't let an automatic install program update those databases. It should
> > even be able to process customized sendmail.cf's in order to work without
> > failure. I personally wouldn't want any program changing those databases
> > itself...
> 
> It's a pain to manually have to run a long makemap command each time
> something is updated.  There has GOT to be a better way...
> 
> 
> 
> 

Re: Debian Questions

[Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho]

On Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 03:30:28PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> because it needs an MTA and doesn't know about qmail.

Use the qmail-src package available at a mirror of the non-free
section near you.



Antti-Juhani
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